Informazione
SOROS, L'INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP E LE MINIERE DI TREPCA
Sull'argomento si veda anche la illuminante analisi di Diana Johnstone:
'Globalist Thinktank Conceived Excuse for Today's NATO Assault on
Mitrovica'
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/Johnstone/howitis.htm
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http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j081600.html
Behind the Headlines
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
August 16, 2000
WHY KOSOVO? FOLLOW THE MONEY!
When the Kosovo war broke out, and the "Allies" took up the cause of
that Albanian
terrorist gang known as the Kosovo Liberation Army, Antiwar.com received
a lot of
email from baffled readers who wondered: "Why Kosovo?" Here was an
impoverished
and isolated country in a notoriously unstable region of the world,
without any strategic
or military value to the US, the conquest of which could only add to our
burdens.
Virtually none of my correspondents believed the official explanation –
that the
Milosevic regime was slaughtering tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians
in the
province, and was determined to "cleanse" Kosovo so that it would be
ethnically Serb.
Since the inhabitants of Kosovo were then more than 90 percent
Albanians, this would
have meant the complete depopulation of the province – a policy that
made absolutely
no economic or political sense. The supposedly "humanitarian" motives of
the
NATO-crats were a fraud from the very beginning, it was clear, and in
any case their
fraudulence was proved after the war when UN forensic experts went in
and
recovered and identified a little over 2,000 bodies (including Serbs).
But this only
deepened the mystery, and the question went unanswered: why Kosovo, of
all places,
the closest thing to a Third World country in all of Europe? Over a year
after the
"humanitarians" bombed Belgrade and reduced much of Yugoslavia to
rubble, the
answer is beginning to take shape. . . .
THE $5 BILLION DOOR PRIZE
Yesterday 900 British, Danish, and French troops moved in to take over
the Trepca
complex of mines in the northern city of Mitrovice – and were met with
determined
resistance by hundreds of mine workers. Hurling rocks, sticks, and
stones, and wielding
the tools of their trade as weapons, Serbs downed four Brits, shouting
their defiance at
this escalation of NATO's war on the last Serbs left in Kosovo. For the
Trepca mining
complex is an ancient treasure, mined by the Greeks, the Romans, the
Turks, and is the
richest source of lead and zinc in Europe. There is enough lignite
deposits in those
mines to last for the next 13 centuries. The capacity of Trepca's
refineries ranks third
worldwide. The now-deposed mine director reported that "in the last
three years we
have mined 2,538,124 tons of lead and zinc crude ore and produced
286,502 tons of
lead and zinc and 139,789 tons of pure lead, zinc, cadmium, silver and
gold." We don't
need to ask why this action was taken: we have only to note Trepca's
estimated value –
over $5 billion. What else do we need to know?
ENVIRONMENTALLY CORRECT LIES
Naturally, they couldn't just go in there, and grab Kosovo's crown
jewels, without
coming up with a politically correct rationale. Leave it to "Unmik," the
acronymic
tyranny set up by the NATO-crats to administer their conquered province,
to come up
with the most transparent lie imaginable – albeit one that, in its sheer
ludicrousness, will
appeal to such enthusiasts of the Kosovo war as the German Greens and
their even
flakier American counterparts. According to a report from MSNBC, French
spokesman Colonel Henry Aussavy solemnly declared: "We've noted a
significant
increase in the level of lead in the air, which was dangerous for the
people of Mitrovica
and for KFOR (NATO-led) troops. We had to react."
THE ARROGANCE OF POWER
Let's see if I get this straight: after a year and some months of
organized ethnic
cleansing by the Kosovar Albanians against the defeated Serbs – as NATO
not only
stood by but actively aided the KLA's campaign for a Serb-free Kosovo –
Unmik
finally decides to react: not, mind you, to the murder, rape, and
pillaging of Kosovo's
embattled Serb communities, but to the alleged threat of air pollution.
Do these people
even care if anyone believes their lies? I don't think so. Real power
means that your lies
don't even have to be convincing. It means further humiliating your
victims – in the
process of beating them to the ground and robbing them blind – by
constructing the
flimsiest of pretexts, the more absurd the better.
DUBIOUS DIAGNOSIS
While the UN bureaucrats insisted that air samples indicated levels of
pollution 200
times above World Health Organization standards, the Serbs counter that
their
measurements indicate ".12 milligrams of lead per cubic metre (permitted
level .15
mg), .019 mg of zinc (permitted level .4 mg), copper .004 mg (permitted
level .01 mg),
iron .002 mg (permitted level .2 mg), etc." As to the medical rationale
for this brazen act
of thievery, doctors from the local hospital were more than skeptical
about the veracity
of the NATO-crats' diagnosis. Dr. Radoslav Jankovic wryly observed that
"we
haven't had a patient with a toxicology problem for years. Today only
soldiers and
Unmik police officers suffer problems of lead in the blood."
THE MONEY TRAIL
Are you beginning to see the answer to "why Kosovo?" A $5 billion prize
– but who
gets to claim it? Trepca was state-owned under Yugoslav suzerainty, but
now it will be
"privatized" and sold off to Western investors. In this context, it is
important to realize
just whom we are talking about. . . .
THE SOROS CONNECTION
When George Soros invested $150 million in the region – most of it
backed up by
fail-safe US government guarantees – he declared that this was not
strictly a
humanitarian effort. While known for his philanthropy, Soros said that
in the case of his
Balkan investments he would be guided by the concept of "tough love" and
insisted that
the new enterprise must be "driven purely by profit." With $100 million
of the US
taxpayers' money in his pocket, Soros and his gang are swooping down on
the
prostrate body of the Serbian nation like vultures feeding on the liver
of Prometheus –
the Titan of Greek mythology who stole fire from the depths of the earth
and gave it to
mankind. The Titans, a subterranean race, were the first miners, who
taught their
metal-smelting techniques to mortal men and were punished for the sin of
such
extravagant gift-giving, were obliterated by the gods of Olympus. Our
own Olympians
seem determined to visit a similar fate on the Serbs – who, for their
part, seem to be
guilty only of getting between George Soros and $5 billion.
JOHNSTONE'S PREDICTION
That the NATO-crats dare to invoke such a pathetic pretext for their
plundering is
not exactly astonishing. These people are moral monsters, after all, who
would have
reduced Belgrade to a smoking ruin if they hadn't been too afraid of the
political
consequences – and they may do so yet. What is truly astonishing is that
all this was
predicted, down to the details, back in February by Diana Johnstone, in
a remarkably
prescient article on Emperors-Clothes.com, in which she foretold not
only the
expropriation of the Trepca complex, but also exposed Soros as the
source of the
scheme. Analyzing two key documents – a November 1999 International
Crisis Group
(ICG) paper on the Trepca mining complex, and a February 2000 article in
the Toronto
Star by ICG consultant Susan Blaustein – Johnstone saw it all coming,
and with such
stunning accuracy that one can hardly believe that her piece wasn't
written yesterday.
What is especially revealing is the role of the International Crisis
Group in fomenting
the takeover of Trepca – and the role of Soros as the ICG's main
sugar-daddy. In its
report, the ICG drools at the prospect of having such a rich prize fall
into its
benefactor's hands. As Johnstone relates:
"In the 'game-plan of measures' recommended by the ICG, UNMIK is advised
to
instruct a 'Zvecan environmental assessment team' to report on the
status of the
equipment and thereupon 'advise as to what measures must be taken'...
Environmental hazards are to be the pretext to shut down Zvecan and
deprive the last
Serbs in Kosovo of their livelihood. Meanwhile, 'Stari Trg, one of the
richest mines in
Europe, must be potentially profitable again and should be a priority
for donors
interested in setting Kosovo on its feet.'"
PHILANTHROPY FOR FUN – AND PROFIT
Chief among these "donors" is none other than Soros, who now expects to
be paid
back for his "philanthropy" – with interest. Trepca can be profitable
again, but the
question is: for whom. Trepca seems to have fallen into Soros's lap – or
was it pushed
there? Another interesting aspect of this whole affair is that the
seizure of the Trepca
complex by NATO forces is part of the Sorosian "business strategy"
designed to
forestall and ultimately nullify the claims of two European companies
derived from
contracts signed with the Serbs. As the ICG report puts it:
"In July 1999, shortly after the conquest of Kosovo, one Jean-Pierre
Rozan showed
up claiming that 2.8% ownership of Trepca belonged to the Paris-based
SCMM, of
which he was a director. Rozan's claim was based on an agreement with
Belgrade, in
which SCMM took over Jugobanka's subsidiary in Kosovo as a result of
Belgrade's
default.
SOROSIAN ETHNIC CLEANSING
The ICG derides the Société Commerciale de Métaux et de Minéraux (SCMM)
claim as being without foundation on the somewhat questionable grounds
that the
French government is giving it no backing. But just in case this is not
enough, they
throw another factor into their argument that Rozan's claim must be
summarily
dismissed. This being Kosovo, there is an ethnic angle in all this,
underscored by the
ICG report,
"Some Kosovar Albanians, always ready to believe in a conspiracy however
unlikely,
are prepared to perceive SCMM as part of a wider Franco-Serbian
understanding,
which incorporates French KFOR acquiescence in the partition of
Mitrovicë, French
economic interests in Trepca, and even the appointment of Dr Bernard
Kouchner
himself as head of UNMIK and Special Representative of the UN
Secretary-General.
The recent award of a GSM telecommunications concession, regardless of
the
transparency of the process, to French company Alcatel, has fueled the
suspicions of
such conspiracy-theorists."
OUR CONSPIRACY THEORIES, AND THEIRS
Soros and his hired hands have an inherent hostility to "conspiracy
theorists," quite
naturally, but that doesn't stop them from placing the blame for
everything that goes
wrong in the Balkans on Slobodan Milosevic
"To other veteran observers of the Balkans, however, the involvement of
SCMM looks
like a Miloševic-style attempt to create a diversion (including by
encouraging exactly
that Balkan and Kosovar propensity for conspiracy-identification
outlined above),
and confuse the thinking of international officials charged with working
out the
problem. By putting this and other claims to due process of arbitration,
and meanwhile
getting on with what needs to be done, the problem can be neatly
sidestepped. "
ARREST THAT MAN!
How's that for a conspiracy theory? SCMM's claims are all part of a plot
by
Milosevic to "create a diversion." How convenient for Soros & Company
that their
chief competitors turn out to be enemy agents. Now that the NATO-crats
have
definitively settled the question of the ownership of the Trepca mines
by force of arms,
the next logical step is to lock up Monsieur Rozan and be done with it.
In any case, it is
clear that the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo will be carried out in the
mines, if the ICG has
anything to say about it. The author of the ICG report notes with some
irritation that:
"The UNMIK regional office in Mitrovica meanwhile occupies the Jugobanka
building
and continues to display Jugobanka insignia in the very meeting room to
which
Kosovars are invited to discuss Trepca – some report that they feel
uneasy in such
surroundings. Rozan, as 'owner' of Jugobanka and the building, is
demanding rent,
which UNMIK has refused to pay."
OUR ORWELLIAN AGE
Who cares about property rights when those poor sensitive souls, the
Kosovars,
reportedly feel "uncomfortable" in close proximity to anything Serbian,
even a
company logo. The ICG is basically making the argument that the ethnic
cleansing of
Kosovo must be completed: not only churches and other historical
monuments must be
destroyed – and there is hardly a Serbian church left standing in Kosovo
– but everything
Serbian must go. The ICG describes itself as a "private, multinational"
organization
devoted to strengthening the capacity of the international community to
anticipate,
understand and act to contain and prevent conflict." In our Orwellian
age this means a
government-connected tool of corporate plunderers devoted to
anticipating the profits
to be made from military conflict, and acting to furthering the
interests of war profiteers.
THE GREEK CLAIM
Another company, the Greek firm of Mytineleos, has a claim through
contracts with
Yugoslav companies to market Trepca's lead and zinc, and this claim is
going to be "a
harder problem than SCMM for UNMIK" as the ICG report admits. With close
ties to
the Greek government, and a sterling international track record for
solidity and
performance, Mytineleos can make a strong case. The report also somewhat
reluctantly notes that
"UNMIK cannot simply ignore claims which may be genuine, and the UN
legal
advisers in New York have concluded that the rights of claimants like
Mytilineos must
go to adjudication. The question arises as to which court. So far that
is left in
abeyance, as is the nature of the legal proceedings themselves. If all
other decisions
are left to depend upon the resolution of this issue, it could be many
years before
Trepca starts working again."
A PROBLEM NEATLY SOLVED
The military occupation of Trepca solves Soros's two major problems by
arrogating
de facto ownership of the mines to "the international community"
embodied by Unmik –
and deftly sidelines the French and the Greeks. Never mind the legal
technicalities, and
the risks of adjudication: just go in there and grab it! This is how the
much-vaunted
"Third Way" between socialism and capitalism, touted by the Clintonians
and their
British Laborite first cousins, works in practice. First, you invade a
country; then you
strip it of its assets, and sell them off to your politically connected
friends, such as Soros
– this is called "privatization," but there is nothing "private" about
it. The source of
Soros's Balkan coup is government power: the armed fist of the State,
and not the
invisible hand of the market. As the declared enemy of laissez-faire
capitalism, which
he rails against in several unbearably pretentious books, Soros
practices what he
preaches: using NATO and the UN as his instruments, he profits from the
plundering of
a proud nation – while his bought-and-paid-for shills rationalize the
schemes of this
modern Visigoth in the name of "humanitarianism" and "multiculturalism."
It kind of makes you want to puke, doesn't it?
A QUESTION NEATLY ANSWERED
For years, Soros funded the American Committee to Save Bosnia, the
Balkan Action
Council, and a plethora of other groups devoted to persuading US policy
makers that
nothing less than American military intervention in the region could
save the Kosovar
Albanians from "genocide." Soros himself spoke out on the issue, and
chided the West
for "appeasing" the Serbs. Now comes the payoff. Trepca is his, or will
be shortly. So
we have finally come up with the answer to the question that has been
haunting us for
over a year: why Kosovo? The answer consists of two words: George Soros.
All you
would-be tycoons out there, take heed: If you want to know what
investment strategy
to follow in era of the Third Way, then Soros has certainly set the
example.
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Letters
The Guardian (London)
UNITED KINGDOM
Wednesday August 16, 2000
The
first casualty of war.
•It's interesting that Nato seems so concerned about stopping a
Serb-run mine (one of the few enterprises in Kosovo that employs its
dwindling Serb population) from polluting the atmosphere in Kosovo
(Serbs turn on British troops, August 15), but had no problems with
poisoning the entire Balkans by bombing chemical plants and oil
refineries (releasing tons of chemical toxins such as ethylene
dichloride, cynanide, and heavy metals into the atmosphere, ground, and
the Danube river); and using depleted but still radioactive uranium
ammunition and cluster bombs. The issue for Nato isn't about air
pollution - it's about stealing the massive Trepca mining complex for
western capitalists like George Soros.
Dr Michael Pravica
Las Vegas, USA
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Sull'argomento si veda anche la illuminante analisi di Diana Johnstone:
'Globalist Thinktank Conceived Excuse for Today's NATO Assault on
Mitrovica'
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/Johnstone/howitis.htm
---
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j081600.html
Behind the Headlines
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
August 16, 2000
WHY KOSOVO? FOLLOW THE MONEY!
When the Kosovo war broke out, and the "Allies" took up the cause of
that Albanian
terrorist gang known as the Kosovo Liberation Army, Antiwar.com received
a lot of
email from baffled readers who wondered: "Why Kosovo?" Here was an
impoverished
and isolated country in a notoriously unstable region of the world,
without any strategic
or military value to the US, the conquest of which could only add to our
burdens.
Virtually none of my correspondents believed the official explanation –
that the
Milosevic regime was slaughtering tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians
in the
province, and was determined to "cleanse" Kosovo so that it would be
ethnically Serb.
Since the inhabitants of Kosovo were then more than 90 percent
Albanians, this would
have meant the complete depopulation of the province – a policy that
made absolutely
no economic or political sense. The supposedly "humanitarian" motives of
the
NATO-crats were a fraud from the very beginning, it was clear, and in
any case their
fraudulence was proved after the war when UN forensic experts went in
and
recovered and identified a little over 2,000 bodies (including Serbs).
But this only
deepened the mystery, and the question went unanswered: why Kosovo, of
all places,
the closest thing to a Third World country in all of Europe? Over a year
after the
"humanitarians" bombed Belgrade and reduced much of Yugoslavia to
rubble, the
answer is beginning to take shape. . . .
THE $5 BILLION DOOR PRIZE
Yesterday 900 British, Danish, and French troops moved in to take over
the Trepca
complex of mines in the northern city of Mitrovice – and were met with
determined
resistance by hundreds of mine workers. Hurling rocks, sticks, and
stones, and wielding
the tools of their trade as weapons, Serbs downed four Brits, shouting
their defiance at
this escalation of NATO's war on the last Serbs left in Kosovo. For the
Trepca mining
complex is an ancient treasure, mined by the Greeks, the Romans, the
Turks, and is the
richest source of lead and zinc in Europe. There is enough lignite
deposits in those
mines to last for the next 13 centuries. The capacity of Trepca's
refineries ranks third
worldwide. The now-deposed mine director reported that "in the last
three years we
have mined 2,538,124 tons of lead and zinc crude ore and produced
286,502 tons of
lead and zinc and 139,789 tons of pure lead, zinc, cadmium, silver and
gold." We don't
need to ask why this action was taken: we have only to note Trepca's
estimated value –
over $5 billion. What else do we need to know?
ENVIRONMENTALLY CORRECT LIES
Naturally, they couldn't just go in there, and grab Kosovo's crown
jewels, without
coming up with a politically correct rationale. Leave it to "Unmik," the
acronymic
tyranny set up by the NATO-crats to administer their conquered province,
to come up
with the most transparent lie imaginable – albeit one that, in its sheer
ludicrousness, will
appeal to such enthusiasts of the Kosovo war as the German Greens and
their even
flakier American counterparts. According to a report from MSNBC, French
spokesman Colonel Henry Aussavy solemnly declared: "We've noted a
significant
increase in the level of lead in the air, which was dangerous for the
people of Mitrovica
and for KFOR (NATO-led) troops. We had to react."
THE ARROGANCE OF POWER
Let's see if I get this straight: after a year and some months of
organized ethnic
cleansing by the Kosovar Albanians against the defeated Serbs – as NATO
not only
stood by but actively aided the KLA's campaign for a Serb-free Kosovo –
Unmik
finally decides to react: not, mind you, to the murder, rape, and
pillaging of Kosovo's
embattled Serb communities, but to the alleged threat of air pollution.
Do these people
even care if anyone believes their lies? I don't think so. Real power
means that your lies
don't even have to be convincing. It means further humiliating your
victims – in the
process of beating them to the ground and robbing them blind – by
constructing the
flimsiest of pretexts, the more absurd the better.
DUBIOUS DIAGNOSIS
While the UN bureaucrats insisted that air samples indicated levels of
pollution 200
times above World Health Organization standards, the Serbs counter that
their
measurements indicate ".12 milligrams of lead per cubic metre (permitted
level .15
mg), .019 mg of zinc (permitted level .4 mg), copper .004 mg (permitted
level .01 mg),
iron .002 mg (permitted level .2 mg), etc." As to the medical rationale
for this brazen act
of thievery, doctors from the local hospital were more than skeptical
about the veracity
of the NATO-crats' diagnosis. Dr. Radoslav Jankovic wryly observed that
"we
haven't had a patient with a toxicology problem for years. Today only
soldiers and
Unmik police officers suffer problems of lead in the blood."
THE MONEY TRAIL
Are you beginning to see the answer to "why Kosovo?" A $5 billion prize
– but who
gets to claim it? Trepca was state-owned under Yugoslav suzerainty, but
now it will be
"privatized" and sold off to Western investors. In this context, it is
important to realize
just whom we are talking about. . . .
THE SOROS CONNECTION
When George Soros invested $150 million in the region – most of it
backed up by
fail-safe US government guarantees – he declared that this was not
strictly a
humanitarian effort. While known for his philanthropy, Soros said that
in the case of his
Balkan investments he would be guided by the concept of "tough love" and
insisted that
the new enterprise must be "driven purely by profit." With $100 million
of the US
taxpayers' money in his pocket, Soros and his gang are swooping down on
the
prostrate body of the Serbian nation like vultures feeding on the liver
of Prometheus –
the Titan of Greek mythology who stole fire from the depths of the earth
and gave it to
mankind. The Titans, a subterranean race, were the first miners, who
taught their
metal-smelting techniques to mortal men and were punished for the sin of
such
extravagant gift-giving, were obliterated by the gods of Olympus. Our
own Olympians
seem determined to visit a similar fate on the Serbs – who, for their
part, seem to be
guilty only of getting between George Soros and $5 billion.
JOHNSTONE'S PREDICTION
That the NATO-crats dare to invoke such a pathetic pretext for their
plundering is
not exactly astonishing. These people are moral monsters, after all, who
would have
reduced Belgrade to a smoking ruin if they hadn't been too afraid of the
political
consequences – and they may do so yet. What is truly astonishing is that
all this was
predicted, down to the details, back in February by Diana Johnstone, in
a remarkably
prescient article on Emperors-Clothes.com, in which she foretold not
only the
expropriation of the Trepca complex, but also exposed Soros as the
source of the
scheme. Analyzing two key documents – a November 1999 International
Crisis Group
(ICG) paper on the Trepca mining complex, and a February 2000 article in
the Toronto
Star by ICG consultant Susan Blaustein – Johnstone saw it all coming,
and with such
stunning accuracy that one can hardly believe that her piece wasn't
written yesterday.
What is especially revealing is the role of the International Crisis
Group in fomenting
the takeover of Trepca – and the role of Soros as the ICG's main
sugar-daddy. In its
report, the ICG drools at the prospect of having such a rich prize fall
into its
benefactor's hands. As Johnstone relates:
"In the 'game-plan of measures' recommended by the ICG, UNMIK is advised
to
instruct a 'Zvecan environmental assessment team' to report on the
status of the
equipment and thereupon 'advise as to what measures must be taken'...
Environmental hazards are to be the pretext to shut down Zvecan and
deprive the last
Serbs in Kosovo of their livelihood. Meanwhile, 'Stari Trg, one of the
richest mines in
Europe, must be potentially profitable again and should be a priority
for donors
interested in setting Kosovo on its feet.'"
PHILANTHROPY FOR FUN – AND PROFIT
Chief among these "donors" is none other than Soros, who now expects to
be paid
back for his "philanthropy" – with interest. Trepca can be profitable
again, but the
question is: for whom. Trepca seems to have fallen into Soros's lap – or
was it pushed
there? Another interesting aspect of this whole affair is that the
seizure of the Trepca
complex by NATO forces is part of the Sorosian "business strategy"
designed to
forestall and ultimately nullify the claims of two European companies
derived from
contracts signed with the Serbs. As the ICG report puts it:
"In July 1999, shortly after the conquest of Kosovo, one Jean-Pierre
Rozan showed
up claiming that 2.8% ownership of Trepca belonged to the Paris-based
SCMM, of
which he was a director. Rozan's claim was based on an agreement with
Belgrade, in
which SCMM took over Jugobanka's subsidiary in Kosovo as a result of
Belgrade's
default.
SOROSIAN ETHNIC CLEANSING
The ICG derides the Société Commerciale de Métaux et de Minéraux (SCMM)
claim as being without foundation on the somewhat questionable grounds
that the
French government is giving it no backing. But just in case this is not
enough, they
throw another factor into their argument that Rozan's claim must be
summarily
dismissed. This being Kosovo, there is an ethnic angle in all this,
underscored by the
ICG report,
"Some Kosovar Albanians, always ready to believe in a conspiracy however
unlikely,
are prepared to perceive SCMM as part of a wider Franco-Serbian
understanding,
which incorporates French KFOR acquiescence in the partition of
Mitrovicë, French
economic interests in Trepca, and even the appointment of Dr Bernard
Kouchner
himself as head of UNMIK and Special Representative of the UN
Secretary-General.
The recent award of a GSM telecommunications concession, regardless of
the
transparency of the process, to French company Alcatel, has fueled the
suspicions of
such conspiracy-theorists."
OUR CONSPIRACY THEORIES, AND THEIRS
Soros and his hired hands have an inherent hostility to "conspiracy
theorists," quite
naturally, but that doesn't stop them from placing the blame for
everything that goes
wrong in the Balkans on Slobodan Milosevic
"To other veteran observers of the Balkans, however, the involvement of
SCMM looks
like a Miloševic-style attempt to create a diversion (including by
encouraging exactly
that Balkan and Kosovar propensity for conspiracy-identification
outlined above),
and confuse the thinking of international officials charged with working
out the
problem. By putting this and other claims to due process of arbitration,
and meanwhile
getting on with what needs to be done, the problem can be neatly
sidestepped. "
ARREST THAT MAN!
How's that for a conspiracy theory? SCMM's claims are all part of a plot
by
Milosevic to "create a diversion." How convenient for Soros & Company
that their
chief competitors turn out to be enemy agents. Now that the NATO-crats
have
definitively settled the question of the ownership of the Trepca mines
by force of arms,
the next logical step is to lock up Monsieur Rozan and be done with it.
In any case, it is
clear that the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo will be carried out in the
mines, if the ICG has
anything to say about it. The author of the ICG report notes with some
irritation that:
"The UNMIK regional office in Mitrovica meanwhile occupies the Jugobanka
building
and continues to display Jugobanka insignia in the very meeting room to
which
Kosovars are invited to discuss Trepca – some report that they feel
uneasy in such
surroundings. Rozan, as 'owner' of Jugobanka and the building, is
demanding rent,
which UNMIK has refused to pay."
OUR ORWELLIAN AGE
Who cares about property rights when those poor sensitive souls, the
Kosovars,
reportedly feel "uncomfortable" in close proximity to anything Serbian,
even a
company logo. The ICG is basically making the argument that the ethnic
cleansing of
Kosovo must be completed: not only churches and other historical
monuments must be
destroyed – and there is hardly a Serbian church left standing in Kosovo
– but everything
Serbian must go. The ICG describes itself as a "private, multinational"
organization
devoted to strengthening the capacity of the international community to
anticipate,
understand and act to contain and prevent conflict." In our Orwellian
age this means a
government-connected tool of corporate plunderers devoted to
anticipating the profits
to be made from military conflict, and acting to furthering the
interests of war profiteers.
THE GREEK CLAIM
Another company, the Greek firm of Mytineleos, has a claim through
contracts with
Yugoslav companies to market Trepca's lead and zinc, and this claim is
going to be "a
harder problem than SCMM for UNMIK" as the ICG report admits. With close
ties to
the Greek government, and a sterling international track record for
solidity and
performance, Mytineleos can make a strong case. The report also somewhat
reluctantly notes that
"UNMIK cannot simply ignore claims which may be genuine, and the UN
legal
advisers in New York have concluded that the rights of claimants like
Mytilineos must
go to adjudication. The question arises as to which court. So far that
is left in
abeyance, as is the nature of the legal proceedings themselves. If all
other decisions
are left to depend upon the resolution of this issue, it could be many
years before
Trepca starts working again."
A PROBLEM NEATLY SOLVED
The military occupation of Trepca solves Soros's two major problems by
arrogating
de facto ownership of the mines to "the international community"
embodied by Unmik –
and deftly sidelines the French and the Greeks. Never mind the legal
technicalities, and
the risks of adjudication: just go in there and grab it! This is how the
much-vaunted
"Third Way" between socialism and capitalism, touted by the Clintonians
and their
British Laborite first cousins, works in practice. First, you invade a
country; then you
strip it of its assets, and sell them off to your politically connected
friends, such as Soros
– this is called "privatization," but there is nothing "private" about
it. The source of
Soros's Balkan coup is government power: the armed fist of the State,
and not the
invisible hand of the market. As the declared enemy of laissez-faire
capitalism, which
he rails against in several unbearably pretentious books, Soros
practices what he
preaches: using NATO and the UN as his instruments, he profits from the
plundering of
a proud nation – while his bought-and-paid-for shills rationalize the
schemes of this
modern Visigoth in the name of "humanitarianism" and "multiculturalism."
It kind of makes you want to puke, doesn't it?
A QUESTION NEATLY ANSWERED
For years, Soros funded the American Committee to Save Bosnia, the
Balkan Action
Council, and a plethora of other groups devoted to persuading US policy
makers that
nothing less than American military intervention in the region could
save the Kosovar
Albanians from "genocide." Soros himself spoke out on the issue, and
chided the West
for "appeasing" the Serbs. Now comes the payoff. Trepca is his, or will
be shortly. So
we have finally come up with the answer to the question that has been
haunting us for
over a year: why Kosovo? The answer consists of two words: George Soros.
All you
would-be tycoons out there, take heed: If you want to know what
investment strategy
to follow in era of the Third Way, then Soros has certainly set the
example.
---
Letters
The Guardian (London)
UNITED KINGDOM
Wednesday August 16, 2000
The
first casualty of war.
•It's interesting that Nato seems so concerned about stopping a
Serb-run mine (one of the few enterprises in Kosovo that employs its
dwindling Serb population) from polluting the atmosphere in Kosovo
(Serbs turn on British troops, August 15), but had no problems with
poisoning the entire Balkans by bombing chemical plants and oil
refineries (releasing tons of chemical toxins such as ethylene
dichloride, cynanide, and heavy metals into the atmosphere, ground, and
the Danube river); and using depleted but still radioactive uranium
ammunition and cluster bombs. The issue for Nato isn't about air
pollution - it's about stealing the massive Trepca mining complex for
western capitalists like George Soros.
Dr Michael Pravica
Las Vegas, USA
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DAL DOCUMENTO UFFICIALE DEL SOROSIANO "INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP"
SULLA STRATEGIA DA SEGUIRE PER SOTTRARRE ALLA JUGOSLAVIA IL COMPLESSO
METALLURGICO DI TREPCA:
Excerpts from -
"International Crisis Group's" thnk-tank instructions on How the West
Should
Take the Trepca Mine Complex In Serbia/Kosovo
International Crisis Group
http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/
[See at end of excerpts identity of ICG]
"Trepca: Making Sense of the Labyrinth"
26 November 1999
------
p.2
After nearly three years of economic sanctions instituted as punishment
for
its role in the Bosnian war, Belgrade was looking for ways to acquire
large
injections of cash. Exploiting Trepca seemed a likely option. In
February
1995, new management was installed, and a 'program of revitalization'
was
undertaken. The new team claimed that by the end of 1996 all the
production
plants were back into operation, ore excavation had increased, modern
mining
equipment had been purchased from Sweden, and all the lead and zinc
mines in
Serbia and Montenegro had been brought under the management of the
Trepca
company. Again according to Serbian official sources, in 1996 Trepca had
exported $100 million of products, making it the largest exporting
company in
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.6 Belgrade even planned to bring
mineral concentrates from the Bosnian Serb controlled mine in
Srebrenica,
site of the notorious massacre by Serb forces in July 1995.
------
p.3
The problems of Trepca are many and complex. They include its alleged
liabilities, the question who really owns it and who has been profiting
from
it, the deteriorating condition of its antiquated machinery, its
anachronistically oversized workforce, the scant field of prospective
investors, the disastrous environmental impact of the Zvecan smelter,
and
internal Kosovo politics. Even so, it is critical that at least some
aspects
of the Trepca issue be addressed immediately and not await the
resolution of
the entire nexus of problems. Most urgently, because of its importance
to
Belgrade, Trepca figures centrally in the unresolved security situation
in
Mitrovicë/a and in its current status as a divided city. At least some
of the
talk of a partition of Kosovo arises from the knowledge that control of
Trepca makes a vast difference to the territory's economic prospects.
Reports
of Serbian police in and around Zvecan, of Serb looting, rumours even of
Albanian prisoners being held there - all point to a need for immediate
international action.
------
p.3
It is also urgent that the people of Kosovo begin to see signs of
progress
towards some sort of economic normality. The return to work of even a
few
hundred Kosovar miners would represent, for all Kosovars, the reclaiming
of
their patrimony.
------
p.4
The Structure of the Trepca Conglomerate From Mine to Factory
As already noted, Trepca is a conglomerate which includes not only its
three
key components - Stari Trg9 mine, Zvecan smelter and the Mitrovicë/a
industrial complex - but a total of 41 installations, including some
outside
Kosovo. Trepca encompasses four distinct processes: extraction,
flotation,
smelting, and downstream processing, as well as other production and
marketing units. The Stari Trg mine east of Mitrovicë/a was, in 1989,
responsible for 40-50% of the mining production. Other mines in Kosovo -
Hajvali/Ajvalija, Novo Bërdë/Novo Brdo, Kishnicë/Kisnica, and
Badoc/Badovac -
accounted for roughly another 30% of Trepca's production. Two more
mining
facilities, at Crnac and Belo Brdo, are in the Serb-held areas north of
Mitrovicë/a, while three other mines are outside of Kosovo - these five
mines
are estimated to account for an estimated 20% of Trepca's total mining
extraction.
The minerals taken from Stari Trg are fed into the flotation facility on
the
Stari Trg premises, whereas the minerals extracted from Kosovo's other
four
mines undergo flotation at the Badoc/Badovac plant and those taken from
Crnac
and Belo Brdo are processed in Leposaviq/c. The resulting lead
concentrates
from all these flotation facilities, in addition to that coming from the
mines outside of Kosovo, used to be smelted at Zvecan.
The lead, zinc, silver, gold, cadmium and bismuth then go to such
downstream
facilities as the battery factories in Mitrovicë/a and Pejë/Pec, the
FAMIPA
factory in Prizren, and a hunting munitions factory in
Skënderaj/Srbica.
Hydrogen sulphide from Zvecan is processed in Mitrovicë/a's industrial
chemical plant, and the zinc and cadmium, after being processed in
Mitrovicë/a, are then sent to Gjilan/Gnjiljane for further industrial
processing.
The Environmental Concerns at Zvecan
The Trepca conglomerate has had a long history of environmental
problems.
During the 1980s a Trepca plant that produced agricultural chemicals was
blamed for producing fertilizers with such high super phosphate strength
that
livestock died after grazing on treated land. The worst pollution comes
from
the smelter in Zvecan, just a few kilometres northwest of Mitrovicë/a.
The
river Ibar runs past the smelter, before flowing through the city of
Mitrovicë/a and then into the Gazivoda Lake and so into Serbia proper.
Sulphur dioxide as a by-product of the metallurgical process is released
into
the air. With little or no investment in the plant over the last ten
years
the equipment has not been updated to meet increasingly stringent modern
standards.11 Some Kosovar experts also fear that current smelting
practices
as run by the Serbs are environmentally worse than those of ten years
ago.
They suspect that ore concentrates coming from as far away as Colombia
contain far higher levels of mercury and arsenic than is allowed by
international standards.12 Both Kosovar and international officials
stress
the importance of an in-depth and technically competent environmental
assessment of this outdated and run-down plant.
------
p. 13
Serbia
More serious repercussions could occur in Serbia. None of the opposition
leaders in Serbia has ever tolerated the idea of an independent Kosovo.
On
the contrary Serbian politicians compete to be 'most Serb' over Kosovo.
A key
issue over the next few months will be not only the developments in the
relationship between Montenegro and Serbia but the possibility of
elections
in Serbia itself. The question arises as to what effect firm UNMIK
action on
Trepca would do to the chances of the opposition to weaken or topple the
Milosevic regime. Making no bold moves leaves the festering wound of
Mitrovicë/a to be exploited by Milosevic in claiming his ability to
maintain
a key economic foothold in Kosovo. Should UNMIK assume the
administration of
Trepca and take the Zvecan smelter out of Belgrade's hands all Serb
politicians would have to react. Milosevic would continue to foster the
notion of the great US-EU conspiracy against the Serbs. Vojislav Seselj
would
likely take a stronger line and issue violent threats as he has done on
many
occasions. Opposition leaders like Djindjic and Draskovic would also
likely
deplore the international community's action. However they could exploit
the
argument that the 'loss' was due to the pariah status of
Milosevic himself, so that once again Serbia has lost assets due to his
presence in office. So provided action were taken before any elections
in
Serbia it need not upset, and might contribute to, any strategy for
unseating
Milosevic.
------
p.14
An initial assessment of Stari Trg has already been made: the priority
now
must be to produce a game-plan of measures whether easy and quick or
depending on major investment of money and time, and vigorous attempts
made
to interest donors - Trepca featured as a separate issue neither in the
World
Bank's twin recent reports on Kosovo reconstruction 43 nor at the 17
November
donors' conference in Brussels. Yet Stari Trg, one of the richest mines
in
Europe, must be potentially profitable again and should be a priority
for
donors interested in setting Kosovo on its feet.
------
p.15
Simply handing Trepca over to the Kosovars is ruled out by the shortage
of
modern skills available locally, the need for internationally-verifiable
standards to avoid corruption, and the sheer scale of damage and
degradation
at the various installations. But the people of Kosovo must be included
in
the process. An energetic approach should be taken during the assessment
and
start-up period in attempting to define a consensus amongst the Kosovars
-
meaning the Albanian parties and the Serb professional workforce, since
the
Albanians will not treat with the Belgrade-appointed management of the
combine.
------
p.15
The social impact of the reduced workforce would need to be balanced
against
the need for competitively based private investment
------
p.15
The workforce and management of all Trepca facilities should be selected
on a
merit basis only. Kosovars - living in Kosovo, regardless of ethnicity -
should have preference to work at any Trepca facility.44 But no one with
ties
to the Belgrade regime should be considered.
Finally, looking beyond Kosovo's boundaries, it would be better to have
accomplished the first key steps of this approach before a Serbian
election
campaign in order that the perception of 'who lost Kosovo' falls on the
rightful culprit, Slobodan Milosevic, and to avoid the perception that
a
new, with luck more progressive government, can be accused of 'losing
Trepca'.
------
p.16
Recommendations
UNMIK should as a priority build up the staff capacity to assert total
control over Trepca in accordance with the terms of its stewardship of
Kosovo, take over the installations and announce a modest programme of
action
for a 'pre-donor phase' of rehabilitation.
------
p.16
A court of adjudication should be nominated for claims, in the knowledge
that
this court will probably act very slowly, so that the situation on the
ground
will either have to stagnate, or else develop independently of it. The
above
programme should begin before elections in Serbia.
http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/
The International Crisis Group (ICG) is a private, multinational
organisation
committed to strengthening the capacity of the international community
to
understand and respond to impending crises.
ICG's approach is grounded in field research. Teams of political
analysts
based on the ground in countries at risk of crisis, gather information
from a
wide range of sources, assess local conditions and produce regular
analytical reports containing practical recommendations targeted at key
international decision-takers.
The next step is advocacy.
ICG reports are distributed widely to officials in foreign ministries
and
international organisations and made available to the general public via
the
organisation's internet site, located at www.crisisweb.org. The
organisation
works closely with governments and the press to highlight key issues
identified in the field and to stimulate discussion of potential policy
responses. The ICG Board - which includes prominent figures from the
fields
of politics, diplomacy, business and the media - is also involved in
helping
to bring ICG reports and recommendations to the attention of senior
policy-makers around the world.
The ICG Board is chaired by former US Senate Majority Leader George
Mitchell,
who recently brokered the "Good Friday" Peace Agreement in Northern
Ireland.
ICG is headquartered in Brussels with a U.S. branch in Washington DC.
The organisation currently operates field projects in seven countries
world
wide: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, the Federal Republic
of
Yugoslavia, Algeria, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
ICG raises funds from the European Union, governments, charitable
foundations, companies and individual donors. The following governments
currently have funding agreements with ICG: Austria, Belgium, Canada,
Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway,
the
Republic of China (Taiwan), Sweden, Switzerland and the United States.
Private sector donors include the Blaustein Foundation, the Fares
Foundation,
the Hewlett Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Open
Society
Institute, the Smith Richardson Foundation and the U.S. Institute of
Peace.
November 1999
Board of Trustees November 1999
George Soros Chairman, Open Society Institute
Senator George J. Mitchell, Chairman Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Morton Abramowitz Former US Assistant Secretary of State
Hon Gareth Evans QC, ICG President Former Foreign Minister of Australia
Gianfranco Dell'Alba Member of the European Parliament
Oscar Arias Sanchez Former President of Costa Rica; Nobel Peace Prize,
1987
Ersin Arioglu Chairman, Yapi Merkezi, Turkey
Christoph Bertram Director, Science and Policy Foundation
Alan Blinken Former US Ambassador to Belgium
Maria Livanos Cattaui Secretary-General, International Chamber of
Commerce
Mong Joon Chung Member of the Korean National Assembly
Alain Destexhe ICG President Emeritus, Member of the Belgian Senate.
Mou-Shih Ding Senior Advisor to the President, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Mark Eyskens Former Prime Minister of Belgium
Issam M Fares Chairman, Wedge International
Malcolm Fraser Former Prime Minister of Australia
HRH El-Hassan bin Talal Prince of Jordan Website:
http://www.princehassan.gov.jo
Marianne Heiberg Special Advisor to Director-General of UNESCO
Max Jakobson Former Ambassador of Finland to the UN
Elliott F. Kulick Chairman, Pegasus International
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman Novelist and journalist
Allan J MacEachen Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
Graça Machel Vice Chair, ICG Former Minister of Education, Mozambique
Nobuo Matsunaga President, Japan Institute for International Affairs
Barbara McDougall Former Secretary of State for External Affairs, Canada
Matthew McHugh Counsellor to the President, The World Bank
Miklós Németh Vice President, European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development; Former Prime Minister of Hungary
Olara Otunnu President, International Peace Academy; Former Foreign
Minister
of Uganda
Wayne Owens President, Center for Middle East Peace and Economic
Cooperation
Shimon Peres Former Prime Minister, Israel; Nobel Prize, 1994
David de Pury Chairman, de Pury Pictet Turettini & Co. Ltd.; Former
Swiss
Trade Ambassador
Cyril Ramaphosa Deputy Executive Chairman, New Africa Investments Ltd.,
South Africa
Michel Rocard Former Prime Minister of France
Christian Schwarz-Schilling Member of Bundestag; Former Minister of Post
and
Telecommunications, Germany
William Shawcross Journalist and author
Michael Sohlman Executive Director, Nobel Foundation, Sweden
Stephen Solarz Vice Chair, ICG Former US Congressman
Pär Stenbäck President, Finnish Red Cross; Former Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Finland
Thorvald Stoltenberg Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway
William O Taylor Chairman, Globe Newspapers Co.,USA
Leo Tindemans Former Prime Minister of Belgium
Ed Turner Former Executive Vice President, Turner Broadcasting Inc., USA
Eduard van Thijn Former Minister of the Interior, The Netherlands;
Former
Mayor of Amsterdam
Simone Veil Former President of the European Parliament; Former Minister
for
Health, France
Shirley Williams Member of the House of Lords; Former Secretary of State
for
Education and Science, United Kingdom
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SULLA STRATEGIA DA SEGUIRE PER SOTTRARRE ALLA JUGOSLAVIA IL COMPLESSO
METALLURGICO DI TREPCA:
Excerpts from -
"International Crisis Group's" thnk-tank instructions on How the West
Should
Take the Trepca Mine Complex In Serbia/Kosovo
International Crisis Group
http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/
[See at end of excerpts identity of ICG]
"Trepca: Making Sense of the Labyrinth"
26 November 1999
------
p.2
After nearly three years of economic sanctions instituted as punishment
for
its role in the Bosnian war, Belgrade was looking for ways to acquire
large
injections of cash. Exploiting Trepca seemed a likely option. In
February
1995, new management was installed, and a 'program of revitalization'
was
undertaken. The new team claimed that by the end of 1996 all the
production
plants were back into operation, ore excavation had increased, modern
mining
equipment had been purchased from Sweden, and all the lead and zinc
mines in
Serbia and Montenegro had been brought under the management of the
Trepca
company. Again according to Serbian official sources, in 1996 Trepca had
exported $100 million of products, making it the largest exporting
company in
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.6 Belgrade even planned to bring
mineral concentrates from the Bosnian Serb controlled mine in
Srebrenica,
site of the notorious massacre by Serb forces in July 1995.
------
p.3
The problems of Trepca are many and complex. They include its alleged
liabilities, the question who really owns it and who has been profiting
from
it, the deteriorating condition of its antiquated machinery, its
anachronistically oversized workforce, the scant field of prospective
investors, the disastrous environmental impact of the Zvecan smelter,
and
internal Kosovo politics. Even so, it is critical that at least some
aspects
of the Trepca issue be addressed immediately and not await the
resolution of
the entire nexus of problems. Most urgently, because of its importance
to
Belgrade, Trepca figures centrally in the unresolved security situation
in
Mitrovicë/a and in its current status as a divided city. At least some
of the
talk of a partition of Kosovo arises from the knowledge that control of
Trepca makes a vast difference to the territory's economic prospects.
Reports
of Serbian police in and around Zvecan, of Serb looting, rumours even of
Albanian prisoners being held there - all point to a need for immediate
international action.
------
p.3
It is also urgent that the people of Kosovo begin to see signs of
progress
towards some sort of economic normality. The return to work of even a
few
hundred Kosovar miners would represent, for all Kosovars, the reclaiming
of
their patrimony.
------
p.4
The Structure of the Trepca Conglomerate From Mine to Factory
As already noted, Trepca is a conglomerate which includes not only its
three
key components - Stari Trg9 mine, Zvecan smelter and the Mitrovicë/a
industrial complex - but a total of 41 installations, including some
outside
Kosovo. Trepca encompasses four distinct processes: extraction,
flotation,
smelting, and downstream processing, as well as other production and
marketing units. The Stari Trg mine east of Mitrovicë/a was, in 1989,
responsible for 40-50% of the mining production. Other mines in Kosovo -
Hajvali/Ajvalija, Novo Bërdë/Novo Brdo, Kishnicë/Kisnica, and
Badoc/Badovac -
accounted for roughly another 30% of Trepca's production. Two more
mining
facilities, at Crnac and Belo Brdo, are in the Serb-held areas north of
Mitrovicë/a, while three other mines are outside of Kosovo - these five
mines
are estimated to account for an estimated 20% of Trepca's total mining
extraction.
The minerals taken from Stari Trg are fed into the flotation facility on
the
Stari Trg premises, whereas the minerals extracted from Kosovo's other
four
mines undergo flotation at the Badoc/Badovac plant and those taken from
Crnac
and Belo Brdo are processed in Leposaviq/c. The resulting lead
concentrates
from all these flotation facilities, in addition to that coming from the
mines outside of Kosovo, used to be smelted at Zvecan.
The lead, zinc, silver, gold, cadmium and bismuth then go to such
downstream
facilities as the battery factories in Mitrovicë/a and Pejë/Pec, the
FAMIPA
factory in Prizren, and a hunting munitions factory in
Skënderaj/Srbica.
Hydrogen sulphide from Zvecan is processed in Mitrovicë/a's industrial
chemical plant, and the zinc and cadmium, after being processed in
Mitrovicë/a, are then sent to Gjilan/Gnjiljane for further industrial
processing.
The Environmental Concerns at Zvecan
The Trepca conglomerate has had a long history of environmental
problems.
During the 1980s a Trepca plant that produced agricultural chemicals was
blamed for producing fertilizers with such high super phosphate strength
that
livestock died after grazing on treated land. The worst pollution comes
from
the smelter in Zvecan, just a few kilometres northwest of Mitrovicë/a.
The
river Ibar runs past the smelter, before flowing through the city of
Mitrovicë/a and then into the Gazivoda Lake and so into Serbia proper.
Sulphur dioxide as a by-product of the metallurgical process is released
into
the air. With little or no investment in the plant over the last ten
years
the equipment has not been updated to meet increasingly stringent modern
standards.11 Some Kosovar experts also fear that current smelting
practices
as run by the Serbs are environmentally worse than those of ten years
ago.
They suspect that ore concentrates coming from as far away as Colombia
contain far higher levels of mercury and arsenic than is allowed by
international standards.12 Both Kosovar and international officials
stress
the importance of an in-depth and technically competent environmental
assessment of this outdated and run-down plant.
------
p. 13
Serbia
More serious repercussions could occur in Serbia. None of the opposition
leaders in Serbia has ever tolerated the idea of an independent Kosovo.
On
the contrary Serbian politicians compete to be 'most Serb' over Kosovo.
A key
issue over the next few months will be not only the developments in the
relationship between Montenegro and Serbia but the possibility of
elections
in Serbia itself. The question arises as to what effect firm UNMIK
action on
Trepca would do to the chances of the opposition to weaken or topple the
Milosevic regime. Making no bold moves leaves the festering wound of
Mitrovicë/a to be exploited by Milosevic in claiming his ability to
maintain
a key economic foothold in Kosovo. Should UNMIK assume the
administration of
Trepca and take the Zvecan smelter out of Belgrade's hands all Serb
politicians would have to react. Milosevic would continue to foster the
notion of the great US-EU conspiracy against the Serbs. Vojislav Seselj
would
likely take a stronger line and issue violent threats as he has done on
many
occasions. Opposition leaders like Djindjic and Draskovic would also
likely
deplore the international community's action. However they could exploit
the
argument that the 'loss' was due to the pariah status of
Milosevic himself, so that once again Serbia has lost assets due to his
presence in office. So provided action were taken before any elections
in
Serbia it need not upset, and might contribute to, any strategy for
unseating
Milosevic.
------
p.14
An initial assessment of Stari Trg has already been made: the priority
now
must be to produce a game-plan of measures whether easy and quick or
depending on major investment of money and time, and vigorous attempts
made
to interest donors - Trepca featured as a separate issue neither in the
World
Bank's twin recent reports on Kosovo reconstruction 43 nor at the 17
November
donors' conference in Brussels. Yet Stari Trg, one of the richest mines
in
Europe, must be potentially profitable again and should be a priority
for
donors interested in setting Kosovo on its feet.
------
p.15
Simply handing Trepca over to the Kosovars is ruled out by the shortage
of
modern skills available locally, the need for internationally-verifiable
standards to avoid corruption, and the sheer scale of damage and
degradation
at the various installations. But the people of Kosovo must be included
in
the process. An energetic approach should be taken during the assessment
and
start-up period in attempting to define a consensus amongst the Kosovars
-
meaning the Albanian parties and the Serb professional workforce, since
the
Albanians will not treat with the Belgrade-appointed management of the
combine.
------
p.15
The social impact of the reduced workforce would need to be balanced
against
the need for competitively based private investment
------
p.15
The workforce and management of all Trepca facilities should be selected
on a
merit basis only. Kosovars - living in Kosovo, regardless of ethnicity -
should have preference to work at any Trepca facility.44 But no one with
ties
to the Belgrade regime should be considered.
Finally, looking beyond Kosovo's boundaries, it would be better to have
accomplished the first key steps of this approach before a Serbian
election
campaign in order that the perception of 'who lost Kosovo' falls on the
rightful culprit, Slobodan Milosevic, and to avoid the perception that
a
new, with luck more progressive government, can be accused of 'losing
Trepca'.
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p.16
Recommendations
UNMIK should as a priority build up the staff capacity to assert total
control over Trepca in accordance with the terms of its stewardship of
Kosovo, take over the installations and announce a modest programme of
action
for a 'pre-donor phase' of rehabilitation.
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p.16
A court of adjudication should be nominated for claims, in the knowledge
that
this court will probably act very slowly, so that the situation on the
ground
will either have to stagnate, or else develop independently of it. The
above
programme should begin before elections in Serbia.
http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/
The International Crisis Group (ICG) is a private, multinational
organisation
committed to strengthening the capacity of the international community
to
understand and respond to impending crises.
ICG's approach is grounded in field research. Teams of political
analysts
based on the ground in countries at risk of crisis, gather information
from a
wide range of sources, assess local conditions and produce regular
analytical reports containing practical recommendations targeted at key
international decision-takers.
The next step is advocacy.
ICG reports are distributed widely to officials in foreign ministries
and
international organisations and made available to the general public via
the
organisation's internet site, located at www.crisisweb.org. The
organisation
works closely with governments and the press to highlight key issues
identified in the field and to stimulate discussion of potential policy
responses. The ICG Board - which includes prominent figures from the
fields
of politics, diplomacy, business and the media - is also involved in
helping
to bring ICG reports and recommendations to the attention of senior
policy-makers around the world.
The ICG Board is chaired by former US Senate Majority Leader George
Mitchell,
who recently brokered the "Good Friday" Peace Agreement in Northern
Ireland.
ICG is headquartered in Brussels with a U.S. branch in Washington DC.
The organisation currently operates field projects in seven countries
world
wide: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, the Federal Republic
of
Yugoslavia, Algeria, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
ICG raises funds from the European Union, governments, charitable
foundations, companies and individual donors. The following governments
currently have funding agreements with ICG: Austria, Belgium, Canada,
Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway,
the
Republic of China (Taiwan), Sweden, Switzerland and the United States.
Private sector donors include the Blaustein Foundation, the Fares
Foundation,
the Hewlett Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Open
Society
Institute, the Smith Richardson Foundation and the U.S. Institute of
Peace.
November 1999
Board of Trustees November 1999
George Soros Chairman, Open Society Institute
Senator George J. Mitchell, Chairman Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Morton Abramowitz Former US Assistant Secretary of State
Hon Gareth Evans QC, ICG President Former Foreign Minister of Australia
Gianfranco Dell'Alba Member of the European Parliament
Oscar Arias Sanchez Former President of Costa Rica; Nobel Peace Prize,
1987
Ersin Arioglu Chairman, Yapi Merkezi, Turkey
Christoph Bertram Director, Science and Policy Foundation
Alan Blinken Former US Ambassador to Belgium
Maria Livanos Cattaui Secretary-General, International Chamber of
Commerce
Mong Joon Chung Member of the Korean National Assembly
Alain Destexhe ICG President Emeritus, Member of the Belgian Senate.
Mou-Shih Ding Senior Advisor to the President, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Mark Eyskens Former Prime Minister of Belgium
Issam M Fares Chairman, Wedge International
Malcolm Fraser Former Prime Minister of Australia
HRH El-Hassan bin Talal Prince of Jordan Website:
http://www.princehassan.gov.jo
Marianne Heiberg Special Advisor to Director-General of UNESCO
Max Jakobson Former Ambassador of Finland to the UN
Elliott F. Kulick Chairman, Pegasus International
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman Novelist and journalist
Allan J MacEachen Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
Graça Machel Vice Chair, ICG Former Minister of Education, Mozambique
Nobuo Matsunaga President, Japan Institute for International Affairs
Barbara McDougall Former Secretary of State for External Affairs, Canada
Matthew McHugh Counsellor to the President, The World Bank
Miklós Németh Vice President, European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development; Former Prime Minister of Hungary
Olara Otunnu President, International Peace Academy; Former Foreign
Minister
of Uganda
Wayne Owens President, Center for Middle East Peace and Economic
Cooperation
Shimon Peres Former Prime Minister, Israel; Nobel Prize, 1994
David de Pury Chairman, de Pury Pictet Turettini & Co. Ltd.; Former
Swiss
Trade Ambassador
Cyril Ramaphosa Deputy Executive Chairman, New Africa Investments Ltd.,
South Africa
Michel Rocard Former Prime Minister of France
Christian Schwarz-Schilling Member of Bundestag; Former Minister of Post
and
Telecommunications, Germany
William Shawcross Journalist and author
Michael Sohlman Executive Director, Nobel Foundation, Sweden
Stephen Solarz Vice Chair, ICG Former US Congressman
Pär Stenbäck President, Finnish Red Cross; Former Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Finland
Thorvald Stoltenberg Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway
William O Taylor Chairman, Globe Newspapers Co.,USA
Leo Tindemans Former Prime Minister of Belgium
Ed Turner Former Executive Vice President, Turner Broadcasting Inc., USA
Eduard van Thijn Former Minister of the Interior, The Netherlands;
Former
Mayor of Amsterdam
Simone Veil Former President of the European Parliament; Former Minister
for
Health, France
Shirley Williams Member of the House of Lords; Former Secretary of State
for
Education and Science, United Kingdom
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ANCORA SULLA OCCUPAZIONE DEL COMPLESSO DI TREPCA
E GLI ENORMI INTERESSI CHE CI SONO DIETRO
La NATO, nota organizzazione di soccorso umanitario, dopo avere
devastato
il petrolchimico di Pancevo e cosparso di DU mezzi Balcani, ha ora
deciso
di impegnarsi per la salubrita' dell'aria: con questa scusa ridicola ha
infatti chiuso e preso possesso del complesso metallurgico di Trepca,
comprese le preziose miniere, occupando anche tutta l'area nord di
Kosovska Mitrovica, l'unica della zona ancora non ripulita etnicamente
dai
terroristi dell'UCK (alleati della NATO).
Tutte cose previste e dette gia' dall'inizio del conflitto per il
Kosovo,
conflitto che niente ha mai avuto a che vedere con presunti diritti
delle
minoranze. Attraverso la albanizzazione totale dell'area la NATO mira a
ricostruire lo status quo del nazifascismo (Grande Albania)
appoggiandosi
sul nazionalismo locale, come ha gia' fatto con tutte le altre
secessioni
e come si appresta a fare con il Montenegro; e contestualmente
mira a stabilirsi permanentemente al centro del Balcani prendendo pieno
possesso delle ricchezze jugoslave dell'area.
-------------------------
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Aug. 24, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
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Kosovo
NATO TROOPS SEIZE MINING COMPLEX
By Sara Flounders
Claiming they were concerned about controlling air
pollution, some 3,000 NATO soldiers stormed a lead smelting
plant in Zvecan at 4:30 in the morning of Aug. 14. The plant
was the only functioning industry in the vast Trepca mining
complex in northern Kosovo, a few miles from the city of
Mitrovica.
At 6:30 a.m., in a further attack that had nothing to do
with air pollution, NATO soldiers closed down and
confiscated the equipment of Zvecan's Radio S--the only
station that dared to report information critical of NATO.
The northern part of Mitrovica is the only remaining multi-
ethnic part of Kosovo. Thousands of Serbs, Romani people,
Slavic Muslims, other nationalities and peoples of mixed
backgrounds have been driven out of other areas by Kosovo
Liberation Army thugs and vigilante groups. Many have fled
to the north side of the Iber river.
There, with the local Serbian population, they have resisted
more than a year of KLA attacks in an economically
devastated region.
The surprise attack by NATO shut down the only radio station
and the main source of employment for the local population.
The mines, with their smelting, refining and power centers,
once constituted one of Yugoslavia's leading export
industries and a main source of hard currency. It was the
major source of jobs in the region.
Defending the pre-dawn attack, Bernard Kouchner, the head of
the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), said, "As a
doctor and chief administrator of Kosovo I would be derelict
if I allowed a threat to the health of children and pregnant
women to continue for one more day." UNMIK is the police
force set up by NATO to administer Kosovo.
Kouchner has never had a word of criticism for the
environmental havoc NATO created throughout the entire
region with the use of depleted uranium weapons, the bombing
of chemical plants and the use of cluster bombs.
If you find it hard to accept that NATO is suddenly
concerned with pollution, it's worth looking for what is
really at stake.
'MOST VALUABLE PIECE OF REAL ESTATE'
On July 8, 1998, New York Times reporter Chrisopher Hedges
wrote, "The sprawling state-owned Trepca mining complex is
the most valuable piece of real estate in the Balkans."
Hedges described glittering veins of lead, cadmium, zinc,
gold and silver.
The Stari Trg mine is ringed with smelting plants, 17 metal
treatment sites, warehouses, freight yards, railroad lines,
a power plant and the country's largest battery plant. It is
the richest lead and zinc mine in Europe. There are also 17
billion tons of coal.
It was George Soros, the multi-billionaire financier, who
wrote Kouchner's script.
Paris-based journalist Diana Johnstone, in a Feb. 28 report,
described a policy paper by the International Crisis Group.
This is a think tank set up by Soros to provide guidance in
the NATO-led reshaping of the Balkans.
The think tank publicly called on Kouch ner to take over the
management of Trepca and to use the pretext of environmental
hazards to shut the Zvecan smelter down.
The Soros group stressed that the takeover should happen
before new elections in Yugoslavia so that the opposition
could blame Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for the
loss of Trepca. The elections are now six weeks away.
At the time this proposal was made there was no pollution--
the lead smelter was not even in operation. It was closed
for several months after the NATO bombing.
Production in this state-owned industry started again only
two months ago, at great sacrifice and expense. The hard
currency it could have earned was desperately needed to
rebuild Yugoslavia's ravaged economy.
SKIMMING THE PROFITS
With the seizure of the smelting plant in Zvenca, NATO will
control the entire Trepca complex.
Proving once again that NATO is the military arm to insure
primarily U.S. corporate control, the first move after
seizing the complex was to turn it over to a consortium of
private mining companies. This consortium--ITT Kosovo Ltd.--
is a joint venture of U.S., French and Swedish companies.
The most interesting partner in this deal to control Trepca
is the U.S. company Morrison Knudsen International. On July
7 Morrison Knudsen merged with Raytheon Engineers and
Constructors, a major military contractor that makes Patriot
missiles and radar equipment for the Pentagon.
This is an enormously lucrative deal. ITT Kosovo Ltd. will
administer Trepca, appoint executives and a board of
directors, develop the investment strategy and skim the
greatest profits from every possible deal.
Those in the Albanian population who hold illusions that
control by these corporations will mean the return of the
thousands of well-paid, secure jobs with benefits that
existed before the war should read the plans multi-
billionaire Soros has in store.
Once NATO has control of the whole industrial complex,
according to the International Crisis Group, foreign
investors will develop a very modern, highly profitable
facility with a small workforce.
In this outright theft of an industry that was built by the
efforts of all the peoples of Yugoslavia, Soros's think tank
recommends that the management and administration be made up
of foreign executives "in order to prevent corruption"!
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Sempre di Sarah Flounders, gia' nel 1998 un articolo spiegava tutta la
problematica delle miniere:
"Kosovo: la guerra e' per le miniere"
KOSOVO: "THE WAR IS ABOUT THE MINES"
http://www.marx2001.org/crj/DOCS/flou_mines.html
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TREPCA - PHONE NUMBERS
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
On August 14th NATO forces swooped down into the Zvecan smelter in
Kosovo
and seized the last remaining bit of Yugoslav government owned property
- the
Trepca mining complex. This action directly violates UN Security
Council
Resolution 1244 which concluded the war and reafirmed Yugoslav
sovereignty
over the province. Workers were greeted with a shower of tear-gas and
rubber
bullets as they went to work on Monday. Since then Kosovska Mitrovica's
workers have been holding daily protests in front the plant, while a
dozen
members of the plants management are still refusing to leave the offices
of
the smelter. It now appears that the US-backed administrator of Kosovo,
Bernard Kouchner (who rules by decree) has decided to hand over these
Yugoslav state properties to a Western mining consortium ITT Kosovo
consisting of:
- the Washington Group (a big US DOD and DOE contractor, created through
the
merger of Morisson Knudsen International and Raytheon Engineering and
Construction Corp.),
- Boliden Ltd. (a Canadian firm that's been involved in some major
environmental disasters and whose Swedish subsidiary Boliden-Contech is
directly involved in the project), and
- TEC-Ingenierie (a French mining firm).
This is your chance to prevent the militaristic takeover of a
critical
lifeline for Kosovo's embattled ethnic-communities like the Serbs, Roma,
Muslim Slavs, Montenegrins, Turks, Goranies, Egyptians, and non-KLA
supporting Albanians, who have suffered greatly since the NATO
occupation of
the province a year ago. With 300,000 already ethnically cleansed from
Kosovo, and the remainder of the provinces minorities living in
ethnic-ghettoes ringed with barbed wire and subjected to almost daily
terrorist attacks, the NATO occupation has rendered the alliances claims
of
"humanitarian intervention" ring hollow. It is now evident that what
was
really at stake was NATO's survival, as well as Kosovo's mineral wealth
and
strategic importance. The largest concentration of minerals in Europe
not in
the hands of Western multinationals was in Kosovo! This is changed with
NATO's commando raid on the Zvecan smelter...Please contact the
following
firms to voice your outrage at this undemocratic, militaristic, and
imperialistic act:
WASHINGTON GROUP
Corporate Headquarters
Tel: (208) 386-5000
BOLIDEN LTD.
Toronto Headquarters
Tel: (416) 216-2272
Boliden-Contech (Swedish subsidiary directly involved in the project)
Tel: (011) 46 8 610 1500 [ask for Stefan Kekel]
TEC INGENIERIE
Tel: (011) 33 1 30 66 27 50
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Url for this article is www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/inthewee.htm
Trepca Takeover:By the Script
by Jared Israel (8-17-00)
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
In the wee hours of the morning, Monday, August 14, KFOR (that is NATO
forces
in Kosovo) swept into Northern Mitrovica and seized the lead smelting
plant,
part of the fabulously valuable Trepca mining complex.
The excuse given: pollution.
Oh pollution, how hast we suffered in thy good name. Or words to that
effect.
Here's what the 'AP' said, as reported by Richard Hugus in a sharp news
analysis last night:
"Hundreds of NATO-led peacekeeping troops wearing surgical masks against
toxic smoke swept into a Serb-run metal smelting complex." ('Boston
Globe'
August 15, 2000) (1)
Denouncing the takeover as theft, the Yugoslav government quoted the
mine's
managers saying that the "dark satanic mills" stuff was hypocritical
fiction.
The Yugoslav news agency, 'Tanjug', reported:
"According to these [recent test] results, there was .12 milligrams of
lead
per cubic metre (permitted level .15 mg), .019 mg of zinc (permitted
level .4
mg), copper .004 mg (permitted level .01 mg), iron .002 mg (permitted
level
.2 mg), etc.
'"If UNMIK experts are concerned for the children and pregnant women in
Kosovska Mitrovica, they should take care of the waste gases from their
own
heavy-duty vehicles that throng our roads at all hours and poison the
people', the statement said." (2)
What is truly amazing is, in a report posted on Emperor's Clothes Feb.
28,
1999, Diana Johnstone noted that the ICG, an international think tank
that
does some of the thinking for NATO, proposed that the Internationals
seize
the smelter using an environmental excuse - proposed this all months
ago.
'''UNMIK [said the ICG report] and KFOR should implement a rapid and
categorical takeover of the Trepca complex, including the immediate
total
shutdown of the environmentally hazardous facilities at Zvecan'.
''In the 'game-plan of measures' recommended by the ICG, UNMIK is
advised to
instruct a 'Zvecan environmental assessment team' to report on the
status of
the equipment and thereupon 'advise as to what measures must be
taken'...
Environmental hazards are to be the pretext to shut down Zvecan and
deprive
the last Serbs in Kosovo of their livelihood.'' (3)
We have posted the actual ICG report as well at the end of Diana's
analysis
so you can see how the plan for using environmental arguments as a cover
for
theft was originally formulated.
It's unusual for an analyst to discover a document like the ICG report
and
based on this document make a prediction and have it come so completely
true.
Unusual and in this case more than a little horrifying.
But in fact Diana Johnstone didn't just hit one home run here, she hit
two.
She cited a second piece of advice in the ICG report. Some advice about
the
Yugoslav elections. Here's what she wrote:
'''The ICG urges UNMIK to hurry up with the game plan for taking over
the
valuable mining complex before Serbian elections so that a new
government
more to the West's liking cannot be accused of 'losing Trepca'. All
Serbian
leaders, including opposition leaders, the ICG observes, will have to
protest
when UNMIK takes over Trepca and the Zvecan smelter. 'However they could
exploit the argument that the `loss' was due to the pariah status of
Milosevic himself, so that once again Serbia has lost assets due to his
presence in office. So provided action were taken before any elections
in
Serbia it need not upset, and might contribute to, any strategy for
unseating
Milosevic.'''
And low and behold, this prediction of Diana Johnstone's has come true
as
well. Because there are indeed elections scheduled soon in Yugoslavia.
In
those elections, the pro-US 'democratic' opposition (most notably Zoran
Djindjic) has more or less lined up behind a politician little known
outside
Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica of the Democratic Party of Serbia. The
'democratic' opposition is notable for having been promised $100,000,00
by
the US Senate last July, a lot of which has been delivered. (Working for
the
US is the best job in Yugoslavia.) (4)
In a chilling echo of the ICG report, Kostunica has, sure enough, issued
a
statement accusing Milosevich of losing (indeed, of 'trading away'!) the
Trepca mines. Here's the statement. I have restrained myself and only
made a
couple of comments.
KOSTUNICA WRITES: "The game over the "Trepca" complex, whose lead
smelter in
Zvecan has been taken over by the international administration in
Kosovo-Metohija, continues. Instead of the promised 50 German marks,
Unmik
representatives are offering the employees 1,250 dinars as an advance,
in
brand new, unused banknotes. Unmik also possesses lists of all the
employees".
KOSTUNICA CONTINUES: "Therefore, one can rightly ask how Unmik managed
to
come by dinars, and also brand new ones? [Emperors-clothes note: NATO is
the
military arm of the richest Empire in history. Now how could it POSSIBLY
get
hold of a few thousand dinars? Like Du-uh.] How did it obtain the lists
of
employees? [Emperors-clothes note: ditto with the list of employees.
That one
wouldn't even cost Kouchner money.] How is it that Unmik, whose head
Bernard
Kouchner last year introduced the German mark as the only legal tender,
is
now paying in dinars? [One more Emperor's Clothes note: didn't the
Yugo's
grab some guys last year smuggling brand new counterfeit dinars from the
Bosnian Serb 'entity' into Serbia? Weren't they supposed to be agents of
Dodik, a collaborator NATO installed in the Bosnian Serb 'entity'?]
KOSTUNICA ASKS: "Could it be that the Milosevic regime has once again
concluded a secret deal and sold 'Trepca'"?
I ASK: Could it just be that the ICG is stranger than fiction?
"Cut! It's a take! Print it!"
Further reading...
(1) 'Hollywood Invades Kosovo: The NATO Trepca Takeover'
by Richard Hugus at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/hugus/surgical.htm
(2) 'Management Denounced UN Pollution Claims Prior to Seizure of Trepca
Smelter' at www.emperors-clothes.com/news/yugoslav.htm
(3) 'Pro-NATO Thinktank Thought-up Excuse for Grabbing Trepca Smelter
Plant'
at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/Johnstone/howitis.htm
(4) The July 29th Senate hearings on how to help bring 'democracy' to
Serbia
are amazing. They reveal first and foremost the disease which has
possessed
the USA: Empire. The assumption that the US has the right to meddle
infuses
every paragraph of the transcript of testimony and the casual intimacy
with
which these US officials discuss their domination of the leaders of the
Yugoslav 'democratic' opposition is a marvel. 'July 29th Senate Hearings
on
Bringing 'democracy' to Serbia' at
www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/hearin.htm
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
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MEDIA CENTRE
August 16, 2000
DIVISON OF SPOILS
The takeover of Trepca, Thermal electric power plant "Kosovo B", the
mine,
telephone system..., all create the impression that in Kosovo and
Metohija
the division of spoils, estimated at over ten billion dollars, is
taking
place The true reasons for the 79-day bombing are becoming
increasingly
clear after the signing and enforcement of the "Early House
Declaration",
says Milenko Radic commenting on the KFOR takeover of "Trepca" mining
and
smelter complex.
Organized by the Washington Institute for Peace, a meeting of crucial
importance for the Kosovo Serbs took place in Early House Virginia from
July
21 to 23, 2000. The meeting was attended by 26 representatives of the
Albanian community (including Hashim Taci, Ibrahim Rugova, Redzep Cosja,
Edita Tahiri, Mahmut Bakali, Kacusa Jasari, Ljuljeta Pulja, ...) and 16
"representatives of the Serbian community in Kosovo and Metohija "
(bishop
Artemije, father Sava Janjic, Rada Trajkovic, Randjel Nojkic...). At the
end
of the meeting they, "in the name of the Serbian community in Kosovo and
Metohija" signed a DECLARATION, which actually supplements and amends
the UN
SC Resolution 1244.
Regardless of the fact that the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija believe
that
not even the minimum conditions have been fulfilled for their
participation
in the coming elections, this Declaration, singed in their name by the
"representatives of the Serbs" obliges them to respect the legality of
the
elections and their results. At the same time, it authorizes Bernard
Kouchner to use his own discretion in selecting the Serbs to be
appointed
members of municipal councils. Having been given this agreement,
Kouchner
has already scheduled "democratic elections" for October 28, 2000 which
are
already legal for the "representatives of the Serbs", especially since
those
among them Kouchner intends to appoint to future municipal councils in
Kosovo are already known.
With a view to preventing the influence of (imported) radio and TV
programs,
"representatives of the Serbs" authorized Kouchner to undertake the
measures
to prevent that. A few days after the signing, on august 13, Kouchner
closed the single Serbian language radio station in Zvecan which
re-broadcast Radio Belgrade programs.
With this Declaration the "Serbian representatives" asked the KFOR and
UNMIK to close the border towards Serbia, i.e. demanded "more efficient
control of entry" into Kosovo and Metohija.
With this Declaration "the representatives of the Serbs" insist on
urgent
disbanding of all parallel structures of power and security. In addition
they demand from the KFOR and UNMIK to engage in coordinated action to
affirm the authorities in all parts of Kosovo and Metohija, implying the
opposition to the influence of Yugoslavia. If what bishop Artemije says
is
true, namely that he went to the U.S.A. with the patriarchs blessing and
that he did report to him upon his return, it remains unclear why the
fifth
church's instruction has not abolished, requesting "prayer for those in
power". Starting from the Declaration whereby the above-mentioned
"representatives of the Serbs" amended the UN SC Resolution, Bernard
Kouchner, on August 13, assisted by a few hundred armed soldiers,
occupied
Trepca, invoking "health protection from over-pollution". This actually
marks the start of taking the northern parts of Kosovo and Metohija away
from Serbs.
This Declaration, in addition to other requests, instructs the KFOR and
UNMIK to disband all unauthorized security forces operating in Kosovo,
but
are not from Kosovo. Judging by numerous statements of the "Serbian
representatives" one gets the impression that the unauthorized operators
in
this sense are the Serbian security units.
The takeover of Trepca, Thermal electric power plant "Kosovo B", the
mine,
telephone system..., all create the impression that in Kosovo and
Metohija
the division of spoils, estimated at over ten billion dollars, is
taking
place The true reasons for the 79-day bombing are becoming
increasingly
clear after the signing and enforcement of the "Early House
Declaration".
(The author is president of the Fund for the Development of Democracy.)
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UN to start lengthy repairs of Kosovo mine complex
By Sean Maguire
MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 14 (Reuters) - The United Nations said on
Monday
it would take one to three years of repairs before Kosovo's dilapidated
Trepca mine complex could produce commercially viable quantities of
metals.
NATO-led peacekeepers seized control of Serb-held parts of the Trepca
group
on Monday for the U.N., which runs Kosovo as a de facto protectorate, to
enable it to shut down the Zvecan smelter which it said was polluting
the air
with lead fumes.
But the seizure of Zvecan, part of the Trepca group, has also finally
given
the U.N. control of the entire complex and allowed it to hire a
consortium of
mining companies to begin a revamp of the mining and metallurgy industry
in
northern Kosovo.
"Now we can get to work to bring Trepca back to life, and back to the
people
of Kosovo," said the head of the Kosovo U.N. mission, Bernard Kouchner.
Some $16 million of aid money from the EU, United States, France, Italy,
Holland and Sweden will pay for the work of ITT Kosovo Consortium Ltd, a
joint venture of TEC-Ingenierie of France, Sweden's Boliden
Contech<BOL.ST>
and Morrison Knudsen International<MK.N> of the United States.
Trepca comprises 14 mines yielding lead, zinc, gold and silver, plus
nine
flotation plants, two metallurgy plants and 14 factories. All facilities
are
in very poor repair, with many of them almost derelict.
An earlier U.N.-commissioned study judged that parts of the mining
complex
could be made safe and economically viable with sufficient investment
and
Italian engineers have already done emergency work to prevent one of the
larger mines from flooding.
The ITT Kosovo consortium will assess what facilities can be rescued and
what
needs to be done to restart production. But Bernard Salome, Kouchner's
chief
economic adviser, warned it might be as much as three years before
significant output appeared.
OUTPUT FORECASTS EXAGGERATED
Trepca's once prodigious output of lead, as much as 90,000 tonnes
annually
before the break-up of Yugoslavia, has dwindled to almost nothing over
the
last decade, with production halting when NATO's 78-day bombing campaign
starting in March 1999.
Serbs fled most of Kosovo when NATO troops entered and they became
victims of
revenge attacks by ethnic Albanians but clung on in the northern
Mitrovica
area around Zvecan.
With Belgrade eager for the hard currency to be made from selling lead
in
Europe, Serb managers restarted production in June. But local mining
experts
said the Zvecan plant had been running at below 10 percent capacity.
"The average capacity utilisation in lead metallurgy and refinery has
been
below 10 percent, more precisely it stood at around 6.0 percent since
the
beginning of the year," Desimir Petkovic, a former Trepca manager, told
Reuters.
In February, the head of the Trepca mining and smelting complex, Novak
Bijelic, was quoted by official Yugoslav news agency as saying Trepca
would
produce 46,500 tonnes of lead, 25,000 tonnes of silver and 100 kilograms
of
gold this year.
But international traders, who spoke under condition of anonymity due to
various international financial sanctions, said there was no way the
smelter
could have achieved that goal.
"It's wishful thinking. They would need between 70,000 and 100,000
tonnes of
concentrate depending on the quality of the ore. There is no chance they
could have obtained it without us knowing it," one trader told Reuters.
In 1998, the year before Belgrade let slip its grip on its rebellious
ethnic
Albanian-dominated Kosovo province, Trepca produced some 40,000 tonnes
of
lead.
(with additional reporting by Gordana Filipovic in Belgrade)
11:18 08-14-00
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FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
YUGOSLAVIA PROTESTS WITH U.N. OVER KFOR'S STORMING OF TREPCA
NEW YORK, Aug 15 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's U.N. ambassador has
lodged
a strongly worded protests with the U.N. Security Council over Monday's
storming of the Trepca mining complex in Serbian (Yugoslav)
KosovoMetohija
by the international force KFor.
Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic wrote to Council President Agam
Hasmy demanding an urgent session of the body over the outrage, and
asked
that the letter be circulated as an official document.
The letter says (official translation):
"I have been instructed by my Government to lodge the strongest
protest on its behalf and to request an urgent meeting of the Security
Council at the armed attack on, and the usurpation of, the RMHK "Trepca"
Shareholding Corporation by the Kosovo Force (KFOR).
"In the night between 13 and 14 August 2000, massive KFOR
forces
carried out an unprovoked brutal attack on "Trepca" near Kosovska
Mitrovica
and occupied it. In doing so, they violated the KFOR mandate and
Security
Council resolution 1244 (1999) of 10 June 1999 in the most flagrant way
so
far.
"KFOR used armed force against peaceful employees and
management
of "Trepca" and the official state representatives, as well as the
peaceful
Serbian population in that part of the Province. Even though the basic
task
of UNMIK and KFOR under Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) is to
guarantee physical and property security of residents, and to provide a
secure environment in the Province, by this attack they have openly
aligned
themselves before the eyes of the entire world public with ethnic
Albanian
separatists and terrorists.
"The attack on, and the occupation of, "Trepca" by KFOR
constitutes the most drastic violation of their mandate and the
provisions
of the Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) so far. This is a unique
case of forces acting under a mandate of the United Nations being
massively
engaged against a peaceful population for the protection of which they
have
been dispatched by the Security Council and accepted by the Government
of
my country. The goals of the demonstration of the armed force of KFOR
are
very clear indeed: the intimidation and expulsion of the Serbian
population, continuation of the ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other
nonAlbanians and an illegal usurpation of "Trepca" and of national,
economic and natural resources.
"The alleged concern of Bernard Kouchner for the protection of
the
environment is yet another cynical and transparent attempt to hoodwink
the
world public opinion and the Security Council, which confirms that the
KFOR
action is completely unfounded and represents the most flagrant and
brazen
violation of the decisions of the Security Council and the norms of the
international law in general. Behind the deception are those who are
responsible for the aggression on my country last year, for the loss of
thousands of human lives, for the humanitarian, economic and
environmental
catastrophe, as well as for the escalation of terrorism and separatism
in
South East Europe and in other parts of the world. They are those who
sowed
over 30,000 bombs with depleted uranium all over Kosovo and Metohija
during
the 3month aerial bombardment the consequences of which are
unforeseeable.
"The action of KFOR and UNMIK is without a precedent and
constitutes an attempt to abuse and manipulate the Security Council.
This
is a blow to the inviolability of property rights and attempt to occupy
natural and economic assets of a sovereign country illegally and by
force.
"Bearing in mind the gravity of the situation and the
consequences
that may arise from such acts, the Government of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia demands energetically that the Security Council condemn the
takeover of "Trepca" and to bring a decision to return the situation
into
the status quo ante so as to enable "Trepca" and its employees to
continue
normal work. The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia wishes to point out
that it will not recognize the consequences of this violent act nor the
situations that have arisen on the basis of the acts of KFOR and UNMIK.
"Alongside the armed action against "Trepca", KFOR has carried
out
vandal raids against the only remaining organs in the Serbian language
in
Kosovo and Metohija, Radio "S" at Zvecan and the newspaper "Jedinstvo"
in
Pristina. Their offices and equipment have been smashed and destroyed
while
brute force has been used against journalists and other personnel. The
vandal suppression of the Serbianlangauge media with the use of armed
military force continues an unprecedented act and is part of the
extended
collaboration of KFOR and UNMIK with ethnic Albanian separatists and
terrorists on the realization of the concept of ethnic cleansing.
"The aforementioned is a clear confirmation that the overall
activity of UNMIK and KFOR serves the goals that are in full contrast to
Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and that they are conducive to
the
further exacerbation of the situation with the unforeseeable
consequences.
The Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia expects therefore
from
the Security Council to take, without further delay, concrete and
energetic
measures to finally put under control the activities of its
representatives
and to end their policy of fait accompli that threatens peace and
stability
in the region. It is only in this way that it will be possible to stop a
further erosion of the authority of the United Nations and pave the way
to
a peaceful political solution as provided for by Security Council
resolution 1244 (1999).
"I should be grateful if you would have the present letter
circulated as a document of the Security Council."
YUGOSLAVIA ASKS U.N. AGENCIES TO CONDEMN KFOR'S TREPCA SEIZURE
GENEVA, Aug 16 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia will not recognise any
action
by the U.N. force KFor or the U.N. mission UNMIK in Kosovo Metohija that
runs counter to U.N. Resolution 1244, according to Yugoslavia's U.N.
mission chief in Geneva on Wednesday.
Ambassador Branko Brankovic wrote to this effect to the heads
of
U.N. agencies based in the Swiss capital, in connection with KFor's
storming on Monday of the Trepca lead smelter in the U.N.run
KosovoMetohija
province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia.
Letters were sent to Under Secretary General Vladimir
Petrovsky,
High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata, High Commissioner for Human
Rights Mary Robinson, and Balkan human rights rapporteur Jiri
Dienstbier,
asking that they resolutely condemn the outrage.
Brankovic said that UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner and KFor
surpass
themselves with their practically daily flagrant violations of
Resolution
1244.
According to Brankovic, the storming of the lead smelter at
Zvecan
is one of the most dangerous moves taken by Kouchner so far, which might
have farreaching consequences for the entire situation and the
normalisation process in the province.
It was clear that the chief reason for KFor's violent storming
of
the Zvecan plant was plunder, ethnic cleansing and an attempt to prevent
KosovoMetohija voting in upcoming Yugoslav federal and Serbian local
elections, Brankovic said.
He added that this kind of behaviour by Kouchner was in
flagrant
violation of the fundamental principles of the U.N. Charter and of the
sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia.
This behaviour was the height of hypocrisy on the part of
Bernard
Kouchner, designed to justify last year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia,
Brankovic said.
NATO SUCKS PROFIT OUT OF KOSOVOMETOHIJA, SERBIAN MINISTER AVERS
KRAGUJEVAC, Yugoslavia, Aug 15 (Tanjug) Monday's storming of
the
Trepca smelter at Zvecan, KosovoMetohija, by the U.N. mission (UNMIK) is
NATO's way of encouraging ethnic Albanian extremists and intimidating
Serbs, according to a Serbian minister on Tuesday.
The operation gas clearly exposed a plan for ethnically
cleansing
this U.N.administered Serbian (Yugoslav) province of its Serbs and
Montenegrins for economic reasons, among others, Minister of Energy and
Mining Slobodan Tomovic told TANJUG.
What they are really after is KosovoMetohija's mineral
resources,
Tomovic said.
The "peacekeepers" of UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner have
demonstrated arrogance and force, as well as their intention to conquer
KosovoMetohija, completely flouting agreements and documents they have
themselves signed, he added.
"The West preaches democracy and inviolability of private
property, and all the while its troops seize at arms facilities such as
Trepca, the Obilic thermoelectric power plant, Telecom, and the Pristina
factory of shock absorbers", he said.
TREPCA EXECUTIVES STRONGLY CONDEMN KFOR'S STORMING OF MINING
COMPLEX
BELGRADE, Aug 15 (Tanjug) The shareholdersowners of the Trepca
industrial complex on Tuesday strongly condemned Monday's seizure of the
Zvecan lead smelter by the international force KFor and the U.N.
civilian
mission UNMIK.
A statement released from Trepca's Board of Governors in
Belgrade
condemned also the seizure of the office building in Zvecan, mines in
the
Leposavic area and other facilities.
At its session chaired by Board President Milos Milosavljevic,
the
Board of Governors said it would immediately take all legal and other
steps
to protect the property rights and all other rights of the shareholders.
The body dismissed allegations that Trepca had been sold away
by
the state and the management, and instructed the executives to seek
legal
redress for slander injurious to the reputation of Trepca.
Neither the Trepca general manager nor the Board president have
ever discussed the matter of ownership with KFor or UNMIK, since the
shareholders' property rights in Trepca are indisputable, the statement
said.
Environmental hazards pleaded in justification of the takeover
are
nothing but an excuse to mask the real motives behind the outrage, as
evident from the simultaneous seizure of four Trepca mines at Leposavic,
which pose no threat to the environment.
The Board of Governors instructed Trepca General Manager Novak
Bijelic to work out a production plan which should provide employment
and a
source of income for the employees in the present circumstances.
KOSOVOMETOHIJA OFFICIAL AVERS KFOR WAGES SERB INTIMIDATION
CAMPAIGN
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia, Aug 15 (Tanjug) Monday's storming
of
the Trepca lead smelter at Zvecan, KosovoMetohija, by the international
force KFor was designed to intimidate the local Serbs, according to a
local
government official on Tuesday.
Zdravko Trajkovic, chief administrator of the Kosovska
Mitrovica
District, said the operation demonstrated KFor's bias in favour of
ethnic
Albanian terrorists and was part of an effort to drive Serbs out of this
U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav) province.
"The brutality and cruelty demonstrated by KFor and UNMIK
members
in dealing with Trepca's workers and the population of Zvecan serve the
purpose of intimidating the people and expelling Serbs from north
KosovoMetohija.
"This falls in with the plans of ethnic Albanian terrorist
leader
Hashim Thaqi", Trajkovic told TANJUG.
The Serbian people are embittered and indignant also at ethnic
Albanians' vandalising of headstones at the Serbian cemetery in the
south,
ethnic Albanianhelp part of ethnically divided Kosovska Mitrovica, he
went
on to say.
What gives special rise to concern at this time, according to
him,
is "the violent arrogance demonstrated by KFor troops," who showed they
do
not shy from the darkest methods in dealing with Serbs and Montenegrins
in
KosovoMetohija.
The people in the Kosovska Mitrovica District, primarily in the
towns of Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvecan, remain determined to defend and
protect these lands, he said, adding that the latest outrage has only
given
them new strength to endure.
RUSSIA BLASTS KFOR'S STORMING OF KOSOVOMETOHIJA'S TREPCA
SMELTER
MOSCOW, Aug 15 (Tanjug) Russia on Tuesday voiced deep concern
over Monday's storming of the Trepca smelter at Zvecan, Kosovo Metohija,
by
the international force KFor and the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK, which
it
saw as a property seizure bid.
The foreign ministry issued a statement to say that U.N.
mission
officials' justification of the takeover by allegations of air pollution
from the lead smelting plant's fumes could not stand up under
criticisism.
Even if there were an environmental threat, which Trepca's
laboratory findings refute, it would still not justify KFor's use of
force,
which was nothing short of an effort to seize assets that do not belong
to
it, the statement said.
UNMIK and its chief, the U.N. secretary general's special envoy
Bernard Kouchner, have again proven their impotence to solve problems,
where they exist, through political dialogue, it added.
The document further said that the U.N. mission's arrogant
seizure
of Trepca was obviously politically motivated and undertaken without the
consent of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia as the owner of the company
in
the eyes of the law.
The ministry called for refraining from any new steps that
might
additionally aggravate the volatile and dangerous situation in that
U.N.administered Serbian province.
YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE - KFOR SEIZES TREPCA AND CARRIES ON AGGRESSION
BELGRADE, Aug 14 (Tanjug) Monday's predawn storming by KFor of
the Trepca lead smelter in Zvecan, KosovoMetohija, is nothing but
continued
aggression by new and dangerous methods, according to Yugoslav and
KosovoMetohija government bodies on Monday.
The Yugoslav committee liaising with the U.N. mission (UNMIK)
and
the KosovoMetohija Provisional Executive Council issued a statement to
say
the latest outrage continued a practice of seizing industrial facilities
in
that U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav) province, begun with the coming of the
international force KFor and UNMIK in June 1999.
"Sacking of Serbs from their jobs and scenarios such as
poisonings
that attack only one ethnic community have been used several times
before
by the forces that have been given the mandate to secure law and order
in
KosovoMetohija.
"It was precisely this kind of behaviour that has created the
present chaos in the electric power industry, postal services,
Jugopetrol
oil company and others, and the result has been ethnic cleansing and a
genocide.
"Circulating of untrue reports about environmental pollution
only
screen an intention to seize this economic giant, in whose vicinity
miners,
engineers, smelters and their families have lived for a generation, and
they certainly care more about their own health and environment than
KFor
and UNMIK ever could.
"But what we have here is pressure and intimidation, designed
to
ethnically cleanse the area, as has been done with the rest of
KosovoMetohija, which they have been practising for 13 months in plain
view
of the international community and the United Nations.
"Instead of securing equality for all, KFor and UNMIK keep
tensions permanently alive and sow uncertainty among the Serbs and other
nonAlbanians, preventing the people from living normal lives.
"Operation of the international mission from positions of force
has no foundation in U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244.
"The Yugoslav Committee and the KosovoMetohija Provisional
Executive Council therefore demand that equal conditions be created for
all
people, that they be given safety, economic security, the right to work,
to
education, health protection, culture and information.
"Since they have not created conditions, in line with their
mandate and Resolution 1244, for the workers of Trepca, Serbian language
Radio S and other institutions to work unhampered, without fear of
violence, the presence of Kfor and UNMIK has lost all meaning and their
departure from KosovoMetohija is inevitable", the statement said.
SERB SERIOUSLY INJURED IN KFOR'S STORMING OF ZVECAN SMELTER
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 14 (Tanjug) A Serb was gravely injured
when international force KFor troops stormed the Trepca smelter in
Zvecan
in U.N.run KosovoMetohija before dawn on Monday.
Five other civilians and four Kfor troops were also injured in
clashes which broke out between the people in Zvecan near the Serbian
(Yugoslav) province's chief city of Pristina and the Kfor troops.
The seriously injured Serb, Igor Stefanovic, aged 27, a worker
at
the plant which worked as part of the Trepca industrial complex, had to
be
hospitalized in nearby Kosovska Mitrovica with a rubber bullet wound to
the
head.
Tanjug learns that some 30 workers, technicians and engineers
who
had barricaded themselves in the office building at the time of the
helicoptersupported KFor operation, left the building in the afternoon.
KFOR ARRESTS AND ORDERS TREPCA MANAGER OUT OF KOSOVOMETOHIJA
RASKA, Aug 14 (Tanjug) The Trepca general manager vowed on
Monday
that, despite the international force KFor's pre dawn storming of
Trepca's
Zvecan lead smelter, Trepca would never give up on its plants in Zvecan
or
anywhere else in KosovoMetohija.
Novak Bijelic, who was late on Sunday arrested by KFor police
without an explanation and then ordered out of KosovoMetohija, was
speaking
for TANJUG in the Serbian town of Raska, outside that U.N.run province
of
the Yugoslav republic of Serbia.
"Fascist occupiers did the same thing in 1941", said Bijelic,
who
was arrested at 8 p.m. local time (1800 GMT) and held for hours before
being thrown out of KosovoMetohija without an explanation.
"The UNMIK (U.N. mission) police chief told me the notorious
criminal Bernard Kouchner had ordered that I must leave the territory of
KosovoMetohija at once and must not even try to come back", Bijelic
said.
Bijelic was born in KosovoMetohija and has lived most of his
adult
life there.
"Fascists expelled me and my parents from Metohija in 1941,
when I
was just a toddler", he added.
According to Bijelic, Trepca's 16 industrial plants in
KosovoMetohija have been destroyed on Kouchner's orders.
As a case in point, he quoted the torching of the zinc
processing
plant in the south, ethnic Albanianpopulated part of ethnically divided
Kosovska Mitrovica.
The flooding of coal mines which had operated as part of the
Serbian electric power company in KosovoMetohija has deprived of their
jobs
many ethnic Albanians too.
"In November 1999, Trepca officially requested UNMIK to pay
indemnity for the damage done to the company's facilities in
KosovoMetohija
in the amount of 192 million dollars", Bijelic said.
This amount has now been greatly augmented and is still
pending,
he added.
He stressed the workers are refusing all invitations to go back
to
work, because this morning's fascist seizure was designed to destroy the
facility and expel Serbs from their ancestral homes in Kosovska
Mitrovica
and Zvecan.
"This is indisputably the aim of Bernard Kouchner", Bijelic
said.
U.N. ENVOY KOUCHNER CARES MORE FOR FACTORY THAN FOR SICK
CHILDREN
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 14 (Tanjug) U.N. mission (UNMIK) chief
Bernard Kouchner's justification of Monday's storming of the Trepca lead
smelter in KosovoMetohija's Zvecan town with environmental reasons has
stunned the people in nearby Kosovska Mitrovica.
The indignant people see the explanation, offered in writing on
Monday, as the height of shamelessness and hypocrisy on the part of the
strutting French doctor who boasts of his socalled humanism.
In the statement, Kouchner alleged that air in Zvecan was
polluted
with lead and that as a doctor and KosovoMetohija's chief administrator
he
would be a criminal if he allowed the threat to the health of the
children
and pregnant women to persist.
After Monday's predawn Zvecan storming operation by the
international force KFor, in which the smelting plant was seized, it is
clear that the allegation was a handy story circulated to justify the
plunder of property and natural resources of the province.
Kouchner never raised his voice when NATO bombs murdered
children
throughout Yugoslavia in last year's aggression more than 80 children
were
killed in the air strikes.
He supported the use of bombs with depleted uranium charges
against KosovoMetohija, which are now causing grave health problems to
KFor
troops.
He never stirred when NATO dropped on KosovoMetohija cluster
bombs
which have killed or maimed 110 children between June 1999 and April
2000.
The good doctor Kouchner was silent also when NATO bombs
demolished hospitals and denied medical assistance to 120,000 pregnant
women and at least as many newborn babies.
And now, he feels morally justified to claim that the seizure
of a
factory at arms was legitimate!
U.N. ENVOYS KOUCHNER AND ORTUNO JUSTIFY TREPCA SEIZURE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 14 (Tanjug) Top officials of the
international force Kfor and the U.N. mission UNMIK in Serbian
(Yugoslav)
KosovoMetohija on Monday pleaded environmental reasons for the predawn
storming of the lead smelting plant in Zvecan.
KFor Commander Juan Ortuno of Spain and UNMIK chief Bernard
Kouchner were speaking at a news conference in ethnically divided
Kosovska
Mitrovica, in its south, ethnic Albanian part.
Ortuno said the Zvecan lead smelter, located not far from that
U.N.run province's chief city of Pristina, and the adjacent Trepca
facilities had been seized by KFor troops, commanded by French General
JeanLouis Soublet, commander of Kfor Sector North.
The operation involved troops from France, Great Britain,
Belgium,
Denmark, Ireland and Pakistan and UNMIK police.
According to Ortuno, Kfor only helped UNMIK police take over
the
smelter, and the number of troops in Zvecan and at Trepca would soon be
reduced to the lowest possible level.
The reasons alleged for the smelter takeover were high levels
of
lead and sulphur dioxide in the air, although Trepca's figures published
last week and information from the Kosovska Mitrovica city hospital
denied
the claim.
Kouchner, for his part, tried with empty rhetoric about care
for
the health of the local population and KFor troops to hide the true aim
of
the operation, which was to plunder private property and natural
resources
of the province.
Kouchner's statement that the smelting plant's management would
be
placed in the hands of a 30member team of engineers and administrators
already well versed in Trepca's affairs shows that the operation was a
deliberate and premeditated plunder campaign.
Kouchner said an agreement would be signed with an
international
consortium which would help administer the Trepca mining complex,
appoint
executives and a Board of Directors from all local communities, but did
not
elaborate.
As for Sunday's arrest and expulsion from the province of
Trepca
Director Novak Bijelic, Kouchner claimed he had taken the decision on
the
strength of U.N. Resolution 1244, Article 2, explaining that Bijelic
would
not be allowed back for three months.
GERMAN MEDIA REPORT ON KFOR'S STORMING OF KOSOVOMETOHIJA'S ZVECAN
BERLIN, Aug 14 (Tanjug) Germany's state news agency DPA and
television reported early on Monday that the international force KFor
stormed and shut down the Zvecan smelter in the Serbian (Yugoslav)
KosovoMetohija province.
Although the report is bare of any comment, the motives behind
the
operation by the U.N. mission UNMIK and Kfor can be clearly discerned.
The German media quote as the reason for the closure lead
pollution and environmental hazards, while saying also that Western
companies will take over the management of the plant.
DPA quoted UNMIK as saying that a contract has been signed with
a
consortium of international mining companies, comprising a German and a
French company, to administer the complex in future.
The report said nothing, however, about the Zvecan smelter
being
the last Serboperated facility of the Trepca complex, and that plans for
the takeover had been in the making long since.
BRITISH PAPER - KFOR'S ZVECAN SMELTER SEIZURE IS PART OF WIDER PLAN
LONDON, Aug 14 (Tanjug) Monday's predawn storming by
international force Kfor troops of the Trepca lead smelter in Zvecan,
KosovoMetohija, was part of a wider plan, according to reports in London
on
Monday.
Reports indicate that the takeover was part of a strategy of
the
U.N. administration of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's KosovoMetohija
province to seize control of the province's predominantly Serbpopulated
north.
The takeover was prepared two weeks ago and was even announced
by
London's Guardian newspaper in its Monday edition.
The newspaper says ethnic Albanians in KosovoMetohija have long
been asking that Kfor and the U.N. administration occupy the north,
Serbpopulated part of ethnically divided Kosovska Mitrovica, and the
international forces are now apparently acting on the demands.
Radio BBC says that the takeover of the plant was only an
excuse
for concentrating Kfor troops in north Kosovska Mitrovica, preparatory
to
taking control of north KosovoMetohija. The recent ban of
Serbianlanguage
Radio S was part of this plan.
British media report that tensions are running high in north
Kosovska Mitrovica, and it is uncertain how the situation will develop.
>SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA KFOR'S TREPCA SEIZURE VIOLATES
>U.N. RESOLUTION - YUGOSLAV MINISTER BELGRADE, Aug 14 (Tanjug) - Monday's
>storming of the Trepca lead smelting plant in Zvecan, Kosovo-Metohija, by the
>international force KFor was in flagrant violation of U.N. Resolution 1244,
>according to Yugoslavia's information minister on Monday. "The resolution does
>not authorise KFor or UNMIK (U.N. civilian mission) to carry out acts of
>occupation," Information Minister Goran Matic told TANJUG. Kfor's attack,
>carried out on UNMIK's orders, "was the same kind of act of occupation as that
>carried out by German Nazis during the Second World War, when they wrested
>Trepca away from the French", Matic added. This was further evidence of
>non-implementation of U.N. Resolution 1244 or any other standards or norms of
>international law, and of the flouting of the country's economic system, he
>stressed. The operation, involving some 3,000 armed KFor troops with
>helicopter support and launched against 250 Trepca employees has no precedent
>in history and hardly does credit to the troops, for the most part from Great
>Britain, France, Italy and Pakistan, he said. "This is another proof of the
>system of occupation emplaced by KFor in (the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's
>U.N.-administered province of) Kosovo-Metohija", he added. He went on to
>refute as groundless the allegation circulated by some media that the reason
>for the seizure was environmental protection, because the Trepca lead smelting
>plant in Zvecan was polluting the environment. He said the operation was
>nothing short of text-book plunder and highway robbery. "Tens of thousands of
>kilos of depleted uranium dropped on Kosovo-Metohija by NATO in its aggression
>last year do not seem to bother either KFor or UNMIK", he said. The armed
>storming of Trepca must not be tolerated by the United Nations, which has the
>duty to exercise its mechanisms to make KFor and UNMIK and their
>administrators conform to their mandate and to the U.N. standards and respect
>Resolution 1244, Matic said. He went on to comment on the storming, smashing
>up and seizure of Serbian-language Radio S broadcasting out of Zvecan. The
>Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), he said, which
>"cares" so much about the freedom of the media and free speech in Yugoslavia,
>has shut down the only radio station in Kosovo-Metohija broadcasting in
>Serbian, alleging licence problems. "We shall return there and Trepca will
>work and produce again, because it belongs to the people of this country and
>to the workers who have helped build it and have worked in it", he vowed,
>saying that factories cannot be taken at arms. He went on to say this was the
>first time in history that anybody has stormed with helicopter support a
>factory with unarmed workers in it, and used the operation to promote their
>doctrine. He hoped that diplomats of Yugoslavia and other countries that have
>had a principled approach to these matters would act in the United Nations to
>find an answer to the question of KFor's storming of Trepca.
>
>KFOR TROOPS SEIZE KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S ZVECAN LEAD SMELTER Zvecan, Serbia, Aug 14
>(tanjug) - Around 3,000 international force kfor troops with helicopter
>support at dawn on monday seized the lead smelter in zvecan near divided
>Kosovska Mitrovica in the serbian U.N.-Run Kosovo-Metohija province. Some 250
>serb workers at the plant, which is part of the trepca industrial complex,
>offered spunky though unsuccessful resistance to the storm-troops. The strong
>Kfor detail, comprising french, italian, british and pakistani troops, used
>force against the workers, some of whom they tied and took away. One of the
>workers was seriously injured, according to tanjug's sources. Trepca general
>manager Novak Bijelic, who was away from Kosovo-Metohija at the time of the
>seizure of zvecan, was prevented by the international forces from re-entering
>the province early monday. Also early on monday, at 6.30 A.M. Local time (0430
>gmt), pakistani kfor troops seized serbian-language radio s, broadcasting out
>of zvecan, and took away some of the equipment. Kfor tanks and armoured
>vehicles blocked the Zvecan-Kosovska Mitrovica arterial road.
>
>KFOR TROOPS STORM KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S ZVECAN, BEAT SERBS Zvecan, aug 14 (tanjug)
>- International force Kfor troops' storming of the zvecan lead smelting plant
>in kosovo- metohija early monday morning was followed by a violent clash
>between local residents and british Kfor troops. The baton-wielding british
>troops, who patrol this serb-populated town in serbian U.N.-Run
>Kosovo-Metohija demonstrating brute force, injured several citizens of zvecan,
>a small industrial town not far from the province's chief city of pristina. At
>dawn on monday, the french kfor battalion, supported by british, belgian,
>danish, pakistani and italian troops, stormed the Zvecan plant which works as
>part of the Trepca mining, chemical and metallurgical complex, and where the
>third shift was on duty. As part of the planned seizure operation, about 150
>british troops stormed trepca's hotel in zvecan, breaking down the main door,
>tied up the employees they found on duty and placed the hotel under UNMIK
>police guard. The Kosovska Mitrovca-Zvecan road is blocked to traffic.
>
>KFOR STORMS KOSOVO-METOHIJA ZVECAN TOWN, SMASHES UP SERB RADIO ZVECAN, Serbia,
>Aug 14 (Tanjug) - Radio S, the only radio broadcasting in the Serbian language
>out of Zvecan in U.N.-run Kosovo-Metohija province, has been practically
>smashed up and put out of commission, according to its editor-in-chief on
>Monday. Before dawn on Monday, the international force KFor stormed the town
>of Zvecan, not far from the Serbian (Yugoslav) province's chief city of
>Pristina, and seized the Trepca lead smelting plant, smashing up the radio
>station in the process. "The way the operation was carried out was far worse
>and arrogant than the behaviour of the Nazis when they seized Trepca in 1941,"
>Radio S Editor-in-Chief Radovan Gligovic told TANJUG. Gligovic said Radio S
>was broken into by more than 50 Jordanian KFor special troops at 6:35 a.m.
>(0435 GMT) local time. "In the face of their loaded and cocked rifles, we had
>to evacuate the premises, because our lives were in dire jeopardy", he said.
>According to him, the Jordanian troops thoroughly smashed the station, putting
>both the high-voltage and the low-voltage equipment out of commission, and
>taking away a vital part of the transmitter. He added that other
>privately-owned radio stations in the Kosovska Mitrovica area, broadcasting
>music for the most part, were spared. Most radio stations in Kosovo-Metohija
>are controlled by the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) and solely re-broadcast
>programmes that promote NATO, such as Deutsche Welle, the Voice of America and
>Radio Free Europe. Radio S has been destroyed because it broadcast its own
>news programmes and was the only media house in the area that carried news
>from Yugoslavia and its republic of Serbia.
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E GLI ENORMI INTERESSI CHE CI SONO DIETRO
La NATO, nota organizzazione di soccorso umanitario, dopo avere
devastato
il petrolchimico di Pancevo e cosparso di DU mezzi Balcani, ha ora
deciso
di impegnarsi per la salubrita' dell'aria: con questa scusa ridicola ha
infatti chiuso e preso possesso del complesso metallurgico di Trepca,
comprese le preziose miniere, occupando anche tutta l'area nord di
Kosovska Mitrovica, l'unica della zona ancora non ripulita etnicamente
dai
terroristi dell'UCK (alleati della NATO).
Tutte cose previste e dette gia' dall'inizio del conflitto per il
Kosovo,
conflitto che niente ha mai avuto a che vedere con presunti diritti
delle
minoranze. Attraverso la albanizzazione totale dell'area la NATO mira a
ricostruire lo status quo del nazifascismo (Grande Albania)
appoggiandosi
sul nazionalismo locale, come ha gia' fatto con tutte le altre
secessioni
e come si appresta a fare con il Montenegro; e contestualmente
mira a stabilirsi permanentemente al centro del Balcani prendendo pieno
possesso delle ricchezze jugoslave dell'area.
-------------------------
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Aug. 24, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
-------------------------
Kosovo
NATO TROOPS SEIZE MINING COMPLEX
By Sara Flounders
Claiming they were concerned about controlling air
pollution, some 3,000 NATO soldiers stormed a lead smelting
plant in Zvecan at 4:30 in the morning of Aug. 14. The plant
was the only functioning industry in the vast Trepca mining
complex in northern Kosovo, a few miles from the city of
Mitrovica.
At 6:30 a.m., in a further attack that had nothing to do
with air pollution, NATO soldiers closed down and
confiscated the equipment of Zvecan's Radio S--the only
station that dared to report information critical of NATO.
The northern part of Mitrovica is the only remaining multi-
ethnic part of Kosovo. Thousands of Serbs, Romani people,
Slavic Muslims, other nationalities and peoples of mixed
backgrounds have been driven out of other areas by Kosovo
Liberation Army thugs and vigilante groups. Many have fled
to the north side of the Iber river.
There, with the local Serbian population, they have resisted
more than a year of KLA attacks in an economically
devastated region.
The surprise attack by NATO shut down the only radio station
and the main source of employment for the local population.
The mines, with their smelting, refining and power centers,
once constituted one of Yugoslavia's leading export
industries and a main source of hard currency. It was the
major source of jobs in the region.
Defending the pre-dawn attack, Bernard Kouchner, the head of
the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), said, "As a
doctor and chief administrator of Kosovo I would be derelict
if I allowed a threat to the health of children and pregnant
women to continue for one more day." UNMIK is the police
force set up by NATO to administer Kosovo.
Kouchner has never had a word of criticism for the
environmental havoc NATO created throughout the entire
region with the use of depleted uranium weapons, the bombing
of chemical plants and the use of cluster bombs.
If you find it hard to accept that NATO is suddenly
concerned with pollution, it's worth looking for what is
really at stake.
'MOST VALUABLE PIECE OF REAL ESTATE'
On July 8, 1998, New York Times reporter Chrisopher Hedges
wrote, "The sprawling state-owned Trepca mining complex is
the most valuable piece of real estate in the Balkans."
Hedges described glittering veins of lead, cadmium, zinc,
gold and silver.
The Stari Trg mine is ringed with smelting plants, 17 metal
treatment sites, warehouses, freight yards, railroad lines,
a power plant and the country's largest battery plant. It is
the richest lead and zinc mine in Europe. There are also 17
billion tons of coal.
It was George Soros, the multi-billionaire financier, who
wrote Kouchner's script.
Paris-based journalist Diana Johnstone, in a Feb. 28 report,
described a policy paper by the International Crisis Group.
This is a think tank set up by Soros to provide guidance in
the NATO-led reshaping of the Balkans.
The think tank publicly called on Kouch ner to take over the
management of Trepca and to use the pretext of environmental
hazards to shut the Zvecan smelter down.
The Soros group stressed that the takeover should happen
before new elections in Yugoslavia so that the opposition
could blame Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for the
loss of Trepca. The elections are now six weeks away.
At the time this proposal was made there was no pollution--
the lead smelter was not even in operation. It was closed
for several months after the NATO bombing.
Production in this state-owned industry started again only
two months ago, at great sacrifice and expense. The hard
currency it could have earned was desperately needed to
rebuild Yugoslavia's ravaged economy.
SKIMMING THE PROFITS
With the seizure of the smelting plant in Zvenca, NATO will
control the entire Trepca complex.
Proving once again that NATO is the military arm to insure
primarily U.S. corporate control, the first move after
seizing the complex was to turn it over to a consortium of
private mining companies. This consortium--ITT Kosovo Ltd.--
is a joint venture of U.S., French and Swedish companies.
The most interesting partner in this deal to control Trepca
is the U.S. company Morrison Knudsen International. On July
7 Morrison Knudsen merged with Raytheon Engineers and
Constructors, a major military contractor that makes Patriot
missiles and radar equipment for the Pentagon.
This is an enormously lucrative deal. ITT Kosovo Ltd. will
administer Trepca, appoint executives and a board of
directors, develop the investment strategy and skim the
greatest profits from every possible deal.
Those in the Albanian population who hold illusions that
control by these corporations will mean the return of the
thousands of well-paid, secure jobs with benefits that
existed before the war should read the plans multi-
billionaire Soros has in store.
Once NATO has control of the whole industrial complex,
according to the International Crisis Group, foreign
investors will develop a very modern, highly profitable
facility with a small workforce.
In this outright theft of an industry that was built by the
efforts of all the peoples of Yugoslavia, Soros's think tank
recommends that the management and administration be made up
of foreign executives "in order to prevent corruption"!
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Sempre di Sarah Flounders, gia' nel 1998 un articolo spiegava tutta la
problematica delle miniere:
"Kosovo: la guerra e' per le miniere"
KOSOVO: "THE WAR IS ABOUT THE MINES"
http://www.marx2001.org/crj/DOCS/flou_mines.html
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TREPCA - PHONE NUMBERS
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
On August 14th NATO forces swooped down into the Zvecan smelter in
Kosovo
and seized the last remaining bit of Yugoslav government owned property
- the
Trepca mining complex. This action directly violates UN Security
Council
Resolution 1244 which concluded the war and reafirmed Yugoslav
sovereignty
over the province. Workers were greeted with a shower of tear-gas and
rubber
bullets as they went to work on Monday. Since then Kosovska Mitrovica's
workers have been holding daily protests in front the plant, while a
dozen
members of the plants management are still refusing to leave the offices
of
the smelter. It now appears that the US-backed administrator of Kosovo,
Bernard Kouchner (who rules by decree) has decided to hand over these
Yugoslav state properties to a Western mining consortium ITT Kosovo
consisting of:
- the Washington Group (a big US DOD and DOE contractor, created through
the
merger of Morisson Knudsen International and Raytheon Engineering and
Construction Corp.),
- Boliden Ltd. (a Canadian firm that's been involved in some major
environmental disasters and whose Swedish subsidiary Boliden-Contech is
directly involved in the project), and
- TEC-Ingenierie (a French mining firm).
This is your chance to prevent the militaristic takeover of a
critical
lifeline for Kosovo's embattled ethnic-communities like the Serbs, Roma,
Muslim Slavs, Montenegrins, Turks, Goranies, Egyptians, and non-KLA
supporting Albanians, who have suffered greatly since the NATO
occupation of
the province a year ago. With 300,000 already ethnically cleansed from
Kosovo, and the remainder of the provinces minorities living in
ethnic-ghettoes ringed with barbed wire and subjected to almost daily
terrorist attacks, the NATO occupation has rendered the alliances claims
of
"humanitarian intervention" ring hollow. It is now evident that what
was
really at stake was NATO's survival, as well as Kosovo's mineral wealth
and
strategic importance. The largest concentration of minerals in Europe
not in
the hands of Western multinationals was in Kosovo! This is changed with
NATO's commando raid on the Zvecan smelter...Please contact the
following
firms to voice your outrage at this undemocratic, militaristic, and
imperialistic act:
WASHINGTON GROUP
Corporate Headquarters
Tel: (208) 386-5000
BOLIDEN LTD.
Toronto Headquarters
Tel: (416) 216-2272
Boliden-Contech (Swedish subsidiary directly involved in the project)
Tel: (011) 46 8 610 1500 [ask for Stefan Kekel]
TEC INGENIERIE
Tel: (011) 33 1 30 66 27 50
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Url for this article is www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/inthewee.htm
Trepca Takeover:By the Script
by Jared Israel (8-17-00)
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
In the wee hours of the morning, Monday, August 14, KFOR (that is NATO
forces
in Kosovo) swept into Northern Mitrovica and seized the lead smelting
plant,
part of the fabulously valuable Trepca mining complex.
The excuse given: pollution.
Oh pollution, how hast we suffered in thy good name. Or words to that
effect.
Here's what the 'AP' said, as reported by Richard Hugus in a sharp news
analysis last night:
"Hundreds of NATO-led peacekeeping troops wearing surgical masks against
toxic smoke swept into a Serb-run metal smelting complex." ('Boston
Globe'
August 15, 2000) (1)
Denouncing the takeover as theft, the Yugoslav government quoted the
mine's
managers saying that the "dark satanic mills" stuff was hypocritical
fiction.
The Yugoslav news agency, 'Tanjug', reported:
"According to these [recent test] results, there was .12 milligrams of
lead
per cubic metre (permitted level .15 mg), .019 mg of zinc (permitted
level .4
mg), copper .004 mg (permitted level .01 mg), iron .002 mg (permitted
level
.2 mg), etc.
'"If UNMIK experts are concerned for the children and pregnant women in
Kosovska Mitrovica, they should take care of the waste gases from their
own
heavy-duty vehicles that throng our roads at all hours and poison the
people', the statement said." (2)
What is truly amazing is, in a report posted on Emperor's Clothes Feb.
28,
1999, Diana Johnstone noted that the ICG, an international think tank
that
does some of the thinking for NATO, proposed that the Internationals
seize
the smelter using an environmental excuse - proposed this all months
ago.
'''UNMIK [said the ICG report] and KFOR should implement a rapid and
categorical takeover of the Trepca complex, including the immediate
total
shutdown of the environmentally hazardous facilities at Zvecan'.
''In the 'game-plan of measures' recommended by the ICG, UNMIK is
advised to
instruct a 'Zvecan environmental assessment team' to report on the
status of
the equipment and thereupon 'advise as to what measures must be
taken'...
Environmental hazards are to be the pretext to shut down Zvecan and
deprive
the last Serbs in Kosovo of their livelihood.'' (3)
We have posted the actual ICG report as well at the end of Diana's
analysis
so you can see how the plan for using environmental arguments as a cover
for
theft was originally formulated.
It's unusual for an analyst to discover a document like the ICG report
and
based on this document make a prediction and have it come so completely
true.
Unusual and in this case more than a little horrifying.
But in fact Diana Johnstone didn't just hit one home run here, she hit
two.
She cited a second piece of advice in the ICG report. Some advice about
the
Yugoslav elections. Here's what she wrote:
'''The ICG urges UNMIK to hurry up with the game plan for taking over
the
valuable mining complex before Serbian elections so that a new
government
more to the West's liking cannot be accused of 'losing Trepca'. All
Serbian
leaders, including opposition leaders, the ICG observes, will have to
protest
when UNMIK takes over Trepca and the Zvecan smelter. 'However they could
exploit the argument that the `loss' was due to the pariah status of
Milosevic himself, so that once again Serbia has lost assets due to his
presence in office. So provided action were taken before any elections
in
Serbia it need not upset, and might contribute to, any strategy for
unseating
Milosevic.'''
And low and behold, this prediction of Diana Johnstone's has come true
as
well. Because there are indeed elections scheduled soon in Yugoslavia.
In
those elections, the pro-US 'democratic' opposition (most notably Zoran
Djindjic) has more or less lined up behind a politician little known
outside
Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica of the Democratic Party of Serbia. The
'democratic' opposition is notable for having been promised $100,000,00
by
the US Senate last July, a lot of which has been delivered. (Working for
the
US is the best job in Yugoslavia.) (4)
In a chilling echo of the ICG report, Kostunica has, sure enough, issued
a
statement accusing Milosevich of losing (indeed, of 'trading away'!) the
Trepca mines. Here's the statement. I have restrained myself and only
made a
couple of comments.
KOSTUNICA WRITES: "The game over the "Trepca" complex, whose lead
smelter in
Zvecan has been taken over by the international administration in
Kosovo-Metohija, continues. Instead of the promised 50 German marks,
Unmik
representatives are offering the employees 1,250 dinars as an advance,
in
brand new, unused banknotes. Unmik also possesses lists of all the
employees".
KOSTUNICA CONTINUES: "Therefore, one can rightly ask how Unmik managed
to
come by dinars, and also brand new ones? [Emperors-clothes note: NATO is
the
military arm of the richest Empire in history. Now how could it POSSIBLY
get
hold of a few thousand dinars? Like Du-uh.] How did it obtain the lists
of
employees? [Emperors-clothes note: ditto with the list of employees.
That one
wouldn't even cost Kouchner money.] How is it that Unmik, whose head
Bernard
Kouchner last year introduced the German mark as the only legal tender,
is
now paying in dinars? [One more Emperor's Clothes note: didn't the
Yugo's
grab some guys last year smuggling brand new counterfeit dinars from the
Bosnian Serb 'entity' into Serbia? Weren't they supposed to be agents of
Dodik, a collaborator NATO installed in the Bosnian Serb 'entity'?]
KOSTUNICA ASKS: "Could it be that the Milosevic regime has once again
concluded a secret deal and sold 'Trepca'"?
I ASK: Could it just be that the ICG is stranger than fiction?
"Cut! It's a take! Print it!"
Further reading...
(1) 'Hollywood Invades Kosovo: The NATO Trepca Takeover'
by Richard Hugus at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/hugus/surgical.htm
(2) 'Management Denounced UN Pollution Claims Prior to Seizure of Trepca
Smelter' at www.emperors-clothes.com/news/yugoslav.htm
(3) 'Pro-NATO Thinktank Thought-up Excuse for Grabbing Trepca Smelter
Plant'
at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/Johnstone/howitis.htm
(4) The July 29th Senate hearings on how to help bring 'democracy' to
Serbia
are amazing. They reveal first and foremost the disease which has
possessed
the USA: Empire. The assumption that the US has the right to meddle
infuses
every paragraph of the transcript of testimony and the casual intimacy
with
which these US officials discuss their domination of the leaders of the
Yugoslav 'democratic' opposition is a marvel. 'July 29th Senate Hearings
on
Bringing 'democracy' to Serbia' at
www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/hearin.htm
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
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MEDIA CENTRE
August 16, 2000
DIVISON OF SPOILS
The takeover of Trepca, Thermal electric power plant "Kosovo B", the
mine,
telephone system..., all create the impression that in Kosovo and
Metohija
the division of spoils, estimated at over ten billion dollars, is
taking
place The true reasons for the 79-day bombing are becoming
increasingly
clear after the signing and enforcement of the "Early House
Declaration",
says Milenko Radic commenting on the KFOR takeover of "Trepca" mining
and
smelter complex.
Organized by the Washington Institute for Peace, a meeting of crucial
importance for the Kosovo Serbs took place in Early House Virginia from
July
21 to 23, 2000. The meeting was attended by 26 representatives of the
Albanian community (including Hashim Taci, Ibrahim Rugova, Redzep Cosja,
Edita Tahiri, Mahmut Bakali, Kacusa Jasari, Ljuljeta Pulja, ...) and 16
"representatives of the Serbian community in Kosovo and Metohija "
(bishop
Artemije, father Sava Janjic, Rada Trajkovic, Randjel Nojkic...). At the
end
of the meeting they, "in the name of the Serbian community in Kosovo and
Metohija" signed a DECLARATION, which actually supplements and amends
the UN
SC Resolution 1244.
Regardless of the fact that the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija believe
that
not even the minimum conditions have been fulfilled for their
participation
in the coming elections, this Declaration, singed in their name by the
"representatives of the Serbs" obliges them to respect the legality of
the
elections and their results. At the same time, it authorizes Bernard
Kouchner to use his own discretion in selecting the Serbs to be
appointed
members of municipal councils. Having been given this agreement,
Kouchner
has already scheduled "democratic elections" for October 28, 2000 which
are
already legal for the "representatives of the Serbs", especially since
those
among them Kouchner intends to appoint to future municipal councils in
Kosovo are already known.
With a view to preventing the influence of (imported) radio and TV
programs,
"representatives of the Serbs" authorized Kouchner to undertake the
measures
to prevent that. A few days after the signing, on august 13, Kouchner
closed the single Serbian language radio station in Zvecan which
re-broadcast Radio Belgrade programs.
With this Declaration the "Serbian representatives" asked the KFOR and
UNMIK to close the border towards Serbia, i.e. demanded "more efficient
control of entry" into Kosovo and Metohija.
With this Declaration "the representatives of the Serbs" insist on
urgent
disbanding of all parallel structures of power and security. In addition
they demand from the KFOR and UNMIK to engage in coordinated action to
affirm the authorities in all parts of Kosovo and Metohija, implying the
opposition to the influence of Yugoslavia. If what bishop Artemije says
is
true, namely that he went to the U.S.A. with the patriarchs blessing and
that he did report to him upon his return, it remains unclear why the
fifth
church's instruction has not abolished, requesting "prayer for those in
power". Starting from the Declaration whereby the above-mentioned
"representatives of the Serbs" amended the UN SC Resolution, Bernard
Kouchner, on August 13, assisted by a few hundred armed soldiers,
occupied
Trepca, invoking "health protection from over-pollution". This actually
marks the start of taking the northern parts of Kosovo and Metohija away
from Serbs.
This Declaration, in addition to other requests, instructs the KFOR and
UNMIK to disband all unauthorized security forces operating in Kosovo,
but
are not from Kosovo. Judging by numerous statements of the "Serbian
representatives" one gets the impression that the unauthorized operators
in
this sense are the Serbian security units.
The takeover of Trepca, Thermal electric power plant "Kosovo B", the
mine,
telephone system..., all create the impression that in Kosovo and
Metohija
the division of spoils, estimated at over ten billion dollars, is
taking
place The true reasons for the 79-day bombing are becoming
increasingly
clear after the signing and enforcement of the "Early House
Declaration".
(The author is president of the Fund for the Development of Democracy.)
---
UN to start lengthy repairs of Kosovo mine complex
By Sean Maguire
MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 14 (Reuters) - The United Nations said on
Monday
it would take one to three years of repairs before Kosovo's dilapidated
Trepca mine complex could produce commercially viable quantities of
metals.
NATO-led peacekeepers seized control of Serb-held parts of the Trepca
group
on Monday for the U.N., which runs Kosovo as a de facto protectorate, to
enable it to shut down the Zvecan smelter which it said was polluting
the air
with lead fumes.
But the seizure of Zvecan, part of the Trepca group, has also finally
given
the U.N. control of the entire complex and allowed it to hire a
consortium of
mining companies to begin a revamp of the mining and metallurgy industry
in
northern Kosovo.
"Now we can get to work to bring Trepca back to life, and back to the
people
of Kosovo," said the head of the Kosovo U.N. mission, Bernard Kouchner.
Some $16 million of aid money from the EU, United States, France, Italy,
Holland and Sweden will pay for the work of ITT Kosovo Consortium Ltd, a
joint venture of TEC-Ingenierie of France, Sweden's Boliden
Contech<BOL.ST>
and Morrison Knudsen International<MK.N> of the United States.
Trepca comprises 14 mines yielding lead, zinc, gold and silver, plus
nine
flotation plants, two metallurgy plants and 14 factories. All facilities
are
in very poor repair, with many of them almost derelict.
An earlier U.N.-commissioned study judged that parts of the mining
complex
could be made safe and economically viable with sufficient investment
and
Italian engineers have already done emergency work to prevent one of the
larger mines from flooding.
The ITT Kosovo consortium will assess what facilities can be rescued and
what
needs to be done to restart production. But Bernard Salome, Kouchner's
chief
economic adviser, warned it might be as much as three years before
significant output appeared.
OUTPUT FORECASTS EXAGGERATED
Trepca's once prodigious output of lead, as much as 90,000 tonnes
annually
before the break-up of Yugoslavia, has dwindled to almost nothing over
the
last decade, with production halting when NATO's 78-day bombing campaign
starting in March 1999.
Serbs fled most of Kosovo when NATO troops entered and they became
victims of
revenge attacks by ethnic Albanians but clung on in the northern
Mitrovica
area around Zvecan.
With Belgrade eager for the hard currency to be made from selling lead
in
Europe, Serb managers restarted production in June. But local mining
experts
said the Zvecan plant had been running at below 10 percent capacity.
"The average capacity utilisation in lead metallurgy and refinery has
been
below 10 percent, more precisely it stood at around 6.0 percent since
the
beginning of the year," Desimir Petkovic, a former Trepca manager, told
Reuters.
In February, the head of the Trepca mining and smelting complex, Novak
Bijelic, was quoted by official Yugoslav news agency as saying Trepca
would
produce 46,500 tonnes of lead, 25,000 tonnes of silver and 100 kilograms
of
gold this year.
But international traders, who spoke under condition of anonymity due to
various international financial sanctions, said there was no way the
smelter
could have achieved that goal.
"It's wishful thinking. They would need between 70,000 and 100,000
tonnes of
concentrate depending on the quality of the ore. There is no chance they
could have obtained it without us knowing it," one trader told Reuters.
In 1998, the year before Belgrade let slip its grip on its rebellious
ethnic
Albanian-dominated Kosovo province, Trepca produced some 40,000 tonnes
of
lead.
(with additional reporting by Gordana Filipovic in Belgrade)
11:18 08-14-00
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FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
YUGOSLAVIA PROTESTS WITH U.N. OVER KFOR'S STORMING OF TREPCA
NEW YORK, Aug 15 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's U.N. ambassador has
lodged
a strongly worded protests with the U.N. Security Council over Monday's
storming of the Trepca mining complex in Serbian (Yugoslav)
KosovoMetohija
by the international force KFor.
Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic wrote to Council President Agam
Hasmy demanding an urgent session of the body over the outrage, and
asked
that the letter be circulated as an official document.
The letter says (official translation):
"I have been instructed by my Government to lodge the strongest
protest on its behalf and to request an urgent meeting of the Security
Council at the armed attack on, and the usurpation of, the RMHK "Trepca"
Shareholding Corporation by the Kosovo Force (KFOR).
"In the night between 13 and 14 August 2000, massive KFOR
forces
carried out an unprovoked brutal attack on "Trepca" near Kosovska
Mitrovica
and occupied it. In doing so, they violated the KFOR mandate and
Security
Council resolution 1244 (1999) of 10 June 1999 in the most flagrant way
so
far.
"KFOR used armed force against peaceful employees and
management
of "Trepca" and the official state representatives, as well as the
peaceful
Serbian population in that part of the Province. Even though the basic
task
of UNMIK and KFOR under Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) is to
guarantee physical and property security of residents, and to provide a
secure environment in the Province, by this attack they have openly
aligned
themselves before the eyes of the entire world public with ethnic
Albanian
separatists and terrorists.
"The attack on, and the occupation of, "Trepca" by KFOR
constitutes the most drastic violation of their mandate and the
provisions
of the Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) so far. This is a unique
case of forces acting under a mandate of the United Nations being
massively
engaged against a peaceful population for the protection of which they
have
been dispatched by the Security Council and accepted by the Government
of
my country. The goals of the demonstration of the armed force of KFOR
are
very clear indeed: the intimidation and expulsion of the Serbian
population, continuation of the ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other
nonAlbanians and an illegal usurpation of "Trepca" and of national,
economic and natural resources.
"The alleged concern of Bernard Kouchner for the protection of
the
environment is yet another cynical and transparent attempt to hoodwink
the
world public opinion and the Security Council, which confirms that the
KFOR
action is completely unfounded and represents the most flagrant and
brazen
violation of the decisions of the Security Council and the norms of the
international law in general. Behind the deception are those who are
responsible for the aggression on my country last year, for the loss of
thousands of human lives, for the humanitarian, economic and
environmental
catastrophe, as well as for the escalation of terrorism and separatism
in
South East Europe and in other parts of the world. They are those who
sowed
over 30,000 bombs with depleted uranium all over Kosovo and Metohija
during
the 3month aerial bombardment the consequences of which are
unforeseeable.
"The action of KFOR and UNMIK is without a precedent and
constitutes an attempt to abuse and manipulate the Security Council.
This
is a blow to the inviolability of property rights and attempt to occupy
natural and economic assets of a sovereign country illegally and by
force.
"Bearing in mind the gravity of the situation and the
consequences
that may arise from such acts, the Government of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia demands energetically that the Security Council condemn the
takeover of "Trepca" and to bring a decision to return the situation
into
the status quo ante so as to enable "Trepca" and its employees to
continue
normal work. The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia wishes to point out
that it will not recognize the consequences of this violent act nor the
situations that have arisen on the basis of the acts of KFOR and UNMIK.
"Alongside the armed action against "Trepca", KFOR has carried
out
vandal raids against the only remaining organs in the Serbian language
in
Kosovo and Metohija, Radio "S" at Zvecan and the newspaper "Jedinstvo"
in
Pristina. Their offices and equipment have been smashed and destroyed
while
brute force has been used against journalists and other personnel. The
vandal suppression of the Serbianlangauge media with the use of armed
military force continues an unprecedented act and is part of the
extended
collaboration of KFOR and UNMIK with ethnic Albanian separatists and
terrorists on the realization of the concept of ethnic cleansing.
"The aforementioned is a clear confirmation that the overall
activity of UNMIK and KFOR serves the goals that are in full contrast to
Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and that they are conducive to
the
further exacerbation of the situation with the unforeseeable
consequences.
The Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia expects therefore
from
the Security Council to take, without further delay, concrete and
energetic
measures to finally put under control the activities of its
representatives
and to end their policy of fait accompli that threatens peace and
stability
in the region. It is only in this way that it will be possible to stop a
further erosion of the authority of the United Nations and pave the way
to
a peaceful political solution as provided for by Security Council
resolution 1244 (1999).
"I should be grateful if you would have the present letter
circulated as a document of the Security Council."
YUGOSLAVIA ASKS U.N. AGENCIES TO CONDEMN KFOR'S TREPCA SEIZURE
GENEVA, Aug 16 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia will not recognise any
action
by the U.N. force KFor or the U.N. mission UNMIK in Kosovo Metohija that
runs counter to U.N. Resolution 1244, according to Yugoslavia's U.N.
mission chief in Geneva on Wednesday.
Ambassador Branko Brankovic wrote to this effect to the heads
of
U.N. agencies based in the Swiss capital, in connection with KFor's
storming on Monday of the Trepca lead smelter in the U.N.run
KosovoMetohija
province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia.
Letters were sent to Under Secretary General Vladimir
Petrovsky,
High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata, High Commissioner for Human
Rights Mary Robinson, and Balkan human rights rapporteur Jiri
Dienstbier,
asking that they resolutely condemn the outrage.
Brankovic said that UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner and KFor
surpass
themselves with their practically daily flagrant violations of
Resolution
1244.
According to Brankovic, the storming of the lead smelter at
Zvecan
is one of the most dangerous moves taken by Kouchner so far, which might
have farreaching consequences for the entire situation and the
normalisation process in the province.
It was clear that the chief reason for KFor's violent storming
of
the Zvecan plant was plunder, ethnic cleansing and an attempt to prevent
KosovoMetohija voting in upcoming Yugoslav federal and Serbian local
elections, Brankovic said.
He added that this kind of behaviour by Kouchner was in
flagrant
violation of the fundamental principles of the U.N. Charter and of the
sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia.
This behaviour was the height of hypocrisy on the part of
Bernard
Kouchner, designed to justify last year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia,
Brankovic said.
NATO SUCKS PROFIT OUT OF KOSOVOMETOHIJA, SERBIAN MINISTER AVERS
KRAGUJEVAC, Yugoslavia, Aug 15 (Tanjug) Monday's storming of
the
Trepca smelter at Zvecan, KosovoMetohija, by the U.N. mission (UNMIK) is
NATO's way of encouraging ethnic Albanian extremists and intimidating
Serbs, according to a Serbian minister on Tuesday.
The operation gas clearly exposed a plan for ethnically
cleansing
this U.N.administered Serbian (Yugoslav) province of its Serbs and
Montenegrins for economic reasons, among others, Minister of Energy and
Mining Slobodan Tomovic told TANJUG.
What they are really after is KosovoMetohija's mineral
resources,
Tomovic said.
The "peacekeepers" of UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner have
demonstrated arrogance and force, as well as their intention to conquer
KosovoMetohija, completely flouting agreements and documents they have
themselves signed, he added.
"The West preaches democracy and inviolability of private
property, and all the while its troops seize at arms facilities such as
Trepca, the Obilic thermoelectric power plant, Telecom, and the Pristina
factory of shock absorbers", he said.
TREPCA EXECUTIVES STRONGLY CONDEMN KFOR'S STORMING OF MINING
COMPLEX
BELGRADE, Aug 15 (Tanjug) The shareholdersowners of the Trepca
industrial complex on Tuesday strongly condemned Monday's seizure of the
Zvecan lead smelter by the international force KFor and the U.N.
civilian
mission UNMIK.
A statement released from Trepca's Board of Governors in
Belgrade
condemned also the seizure of the office building in Zvecan, mines in
the
Leposavic area and other facilities.
At its session chaired by Board President Milos Milosavljevic,
the
Board of Governors said it would immediately take all legal and other
steps
to protect the property rights and all other rights of the shareholders.
The body dismissed allegations that Trepca had been sold away
by
the state and the management, and instructed the executives to seek
legal
redress for slander injurious to the reputation of Trepca.
Neither the Trepca general manager nor the Board president have
ever discussed the matter of ownership with KFor or UNMIK, since the
shareholders' property rights in Trepca are indisputable, the statement
said.
Environmental hazards pleaded in justification of the takeover
are
nothing but an excuse to mask the real motives behind the outrage, as
evident from the simultaneous seizure of four Trepca mines at Leposavic,
which pose no threat to the environment.
The Board of Governors instructed Trepca General Manager Novak
Bijelic to work out a production plan which should provide employment
and a
source of income for the employees in the present circumstances.
KOSOVOMETOHIJA OFFICIAL AVERS KFOR WAGES SERB INTIMIDATION
CAMPAIGN
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia, Aug 15 (Tanjug) Monday's storming
of
the Trepca lead smelter at Zvecan, KosovoMetohija, by the international
force KFor was designed to intimidate the local Serbs, according to a
local
government official on Tuesday.
Zdravko Trajkovic, chief administrator of the Kosovska
Mitrovica
District, said the operation demonstrated KFor's bias in favour of
ethnic
Albanian terrorists and was part of an effort to drive Serbs out of this
U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav) province.
"The brutality and cruelty demonstrated by KFor and UNMIK
members
in dealing with Trepca's workers and the population of Zvecan serve the
purpose of intimidating the people and expelling Serbs from north
KosovoMetohija.
"This falls in with the plans of ethnic Albanian terrorist
leader
Hashim Thaqi", Trajkovic told TANJUG.
The Serbian people are embittered and indignant also at ethnic
Albanians' vandalising of headstones at the Serbian cemetery in the
south,
ethnic Albanianhelp part of ethnically divided Kosovska Mitrovica, he
went
on to say.
What gives special rise to concern at this time, according to
him,
is "the violent arrogance demonstrated by KFor troops," who showed they
do
not shy from the darkest methods in dealing with Serbs and Montenegrins
in
KosovoMetohija.
The people in the Kosovska Mitrovica District, primarily in the
towns of Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvecan, remain determined to defend and
protect these lands, he said, adding that the latest outrage has only
given
them new strength to endure.
RUSSIA BLASTS KFOR'S STORMING OF KOSOVOMETOHIJA'S TREPCA
SMELTER
MOSCOW, Aug 15 (Tanjug) Russia on Tuesday voiced deep concern
over Monday's storming of the Trepca smelter at Zvecan, Kosovo Metohija,
by
the international force KFor and the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK, which
it
saw as a property seizure bid.
The foreign ministry issued a statement to say that U.N.
mission
officials' justification of the takeover by allegations of air pollution
from the lead smelting plant's fumes could not stand up under
criticisism.
Even if there were an environmental threat, which Trepca's
laboratory findings refute, it would still not justify KFor's use of
force,
which was nothing short of an effort to seize assets that do not belong
to
it, the statement said.
UNMIK and its chief, the U.N. secretary general's special envoy
Bernard Kouchner, have again proven their impotence to solve problems,
where they exist, through political dialogue, it added.
The document further said that the U.N. mission's arrogant
seizure
of Trepca was obviously politically motivated and undertaken without the
consent of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia as the owner of the company
in
the eyes of the law.
The ministry called for refraining from any new steps that
might
additionally aggravate the volatile and dangerous situation in that
U.N.administered Serbian province.
YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE - KFOR SEIZES TREPCA AND CARRIES ON AGGRESSION
BELGRADE, Aug 14 (Tanjug) Monday's predawn storming by KFor of
the Trepca lead smelter in Zvecan, KosovoMetohija, is nothing but
continued
aggression by new and dangerous methods, according to Yugoslav and
KosovoMetohija government bodies on Monday.
The Yugoslav committee liaising with the U.N. mission (UNMIK)
and
the KosovoMetohija Provisional Executive Council issued a statement to
say
the latest outrage continued a practice of seizing industrial facilities
in
that U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav) province, begun with the coming of the
international force KFor and UNMIK in June 1999.
"Sacking of Serbs from their jobs and scenarios such as
poisonings
that attack only one ethnic community have been used several times
before
by the forces that have been given the mandate to secure law and order
in
KosovoMetohija.
"It was precisely this kind of behaviour that has created the
present chaos in the electric power industry, postal services,
Jugopetrol
oil company and others, and the result has been ethnic cleansing and a
genocide.
"Circulating of untrue reports about environmental pollution
only
screen an intention to seize this economic giant, in whose vicinity
miners,
engineers, smelters and their families have lived for a generation, and
they certainly care more about their own health and environment than
KFor
and UNMIK ever could.
"But what we have here is pressure and intimidation, designed
to
ethnically cleanse the area, as has been done with the rest of
KosovoMetohija, which they have been practising for 13 months in plain
view
of the international community and the United Nations.
"Instead of securing equality for all, KFor and UNMIK keep
tensions permanently alive and sow uncertainty among the Serbs and other
nonAlbanians, preventing the people from living normal lives.
"Operation of the international mission from positions of force
has no foundation in U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244.
"The Yugoslav Committee and the KosovoMetohija Provisional
Executive Council therefore demand that equal conditions be created for
all
people, that they be given safety, economic security, the right to work,
to
education, health protection, culture and information.
"Since they have not created conditions, in line with their
mandate and Resolution 1244, for the workers of Trepca, Serbian language
Radio S and other institutions to work unhampered, without fear of
violence, the presence of Kfor and UNMIK has lost all meaning and their
departure from KosovoMetohija is inevitable", the statement said.
SERB SERIOUSLY INJURED IN KFOR'S STORMING OF ZVECAN SMELTER
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 14 (Tanjug) A Serb was gravely injured
when international force KFor troops stormed the Trepca smelter in
Zvecan
in U.N.run KosovoMetohija before dawn on Monday.
Five other civilians and four Kfor troops were also injured in
clashes which broke out between the people in Zvecan near the Serbian
(Yugoslav) province's chief city of Pristina and the Kfor troops.
The seriously injured Serb, Igor Stefanovic, aged 27, a worker
at
the plant which worked as part of the Trepca industrial complex, had to
be
hospitalized in nearby Kosovska Mitrovica with a rubber bullet wound to
the
head.
Tanjug learns that some 30 workers, technicians and engineers
who
had barricaded themselves in the office building at the time of the
helicoptersupported KFor operation, left the building in the afternoon.
KFOR ARRESTS AND ORDERS TREPCA MANAGER OUT OF KOSOVOMETOHIJA
RASKA, Aug 14 (Tanjug) The Trepca general manager vowed on
Monday
that, despite the international force KFor's pre dawn storming of
Trepca's
Zvecan lead smelter, Trepca would never give up on its plants in Zvecan
or
anywhere else in KosovoMetohija.
Novak Bijelic, who was late on Sunday arrested by KFor police
without an explanation and then ordered out of KosovoMetohija, was
speaking
for TANJUG in the Serbian town of Raska, outside that U.N.run province
of
the Yugoslav republic of Serbia.
"Fascist occupiers did the same thing in 1941", said Bijelic,
who
was arrested at 8 p.m. local time (1800 GMT) and held for hours before
being thrown out of KosovoMetohija without an explanation.
"The UNMIK (U.N. mission) police chief told me the notorious
criminal Bernard Kouchner had ordered that I must leave the territory of
KosovoMetohija at once and must not even try to come back", Bijelic
said.
Bijelic was born in KosovoMetohija and has lived most of his
adult
life there.
"Fascists expelled me and my parents from Metohija in 1941,
when I
was just a toddler", he added.
According to Bijelic, Trepca's 16 industrial plants in
KosovoMetohija have been destroyed on Kouchner's orders.
As a case in point, he quoted the torching of the zinc
processing
plant in the south, ethnic Albanianpopulated part of ethnically divided
Kosovska Mitrovica.
The flooding of coal mines which had operated as part of the
Serbian electric power company in KosovoMetohija has deprived of their
jobs
many ethnic Albanians too.
"In November 1999, Trepca officially requested UNMIK to pay
indemnity for the damage done to the company's facilities in
KosovoMetohija
in the amount of 192 million dollars", Bijelic said.
This amount has now been greatly augmented and is still
pending,
he added.
He stressed the workers are refusing all invitations to go back
to
work, because this morning's fascist seizure was designed to destroy the
facility and expel Serbs from their ancestral homes in Kosovska
Mitrovica
and Zvecan.
"This is indisputably the aim of Bernard Kouchner", Bijelic
said.
U.N. ENVOY KOUCHNER CARES MORE FOR FACTORY THAN FOR SICK
CHILDREN
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 14 (Tanjug) U.N. mission (UNMIK) chief
Bernard Kouchner's justification of Monday's storming of the Trepca lead
smelter in KosovoMetohija's Zvecan town with environmental reasons has
stunned the people in nearby Kosovska Mitrovica.
The indignant people see the explanation, offered in writing on
Monday, as the height of shamelessness and hypocrisy on the part of the
strutting French doctor who boasts of his socalled humanism.
In the statement, Kouchner alleged that air in Zvecan was
polluted
with lead and that as a doctor and KosovoMetohija's chief administrator
he
would be a criminal if he allowed the threat to the health of the
children
and pregnant women to persist.
After Monday's predawn Zvecan storming operation by the
international force KFor, in which the smelting plant was seized, it is
clear that the allegation was a handy story circulated to justify the
plunder of property and natural resources of the province.
Kouchner never raised his voice when NATO bombs murdered
children
throughout Yugoslavia in last year's aggression more than 80 children
were
killed in the air strikes.
He supported the use of bombs with depleted uranium charges
against KosovoMetohija, which are now causing grave health problems to
KFor
troops.
He never stirred when NATO dropped on KosovoMetohija cluster
bombs
which have killed or maimed 110 children between June 1999 and April
2000.
The good doctor Kouchner was silent also when NATO bombs
demolished hospitals and denied medical assistance to 120,000 pregnant
women and at least as many newborn babies.
And now, he feels morally justified to claim that the seizure
of a
factory at arms was legitimate!
U.N. ENVOYS KOUCHNER AND ORTUNO JUSTIFY TREPCA SEIZURE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 14 (Tanjug) Top officials of the
international force Kfor and the U.N. mission UNMIK in Serbian
(Yugoslav)
KosovoMetohija on Monday pleaded environmental reasons for the predawn
storming of the lead smelting plant in Zvecan.
KFor Commander Juan Ortuno of Spain and UNMIK chief Bernard
Kouchner were speaking at a news conference in ethnically divided
Kosovska
Mitrovica, in its south, ethnic Albanian part.
Ortuno said the Zvecan lead smelter, located not far from that
U.N.run province's chief city of Pristina, and the adjacent Trepca
facilities had been seized by KFor troops, commanded by French General
JeanLouis Soublet, commander of Kfor Sector North.
The operation involved troops from France, Great Britain,
Belgium,
Denmark, Ireland and Pakistan and UNMIK police.
According to Ortuno, Kfor only helped UNMIK police take over
the
smelter, and the number of troops in Zvecan and at Trepca would soon be
reduced to the lowest possible level.
The reasons alleged for the smelter takeover were high levels
of
lead and sulphur dioxide in the air, although Trepca's figures published
last week and information from the Kosovska Mitrovica city hospital
denied
the claim.
Kouchner, for his part, tried with empty rhetoric about care
for
the health of the local population and KFor troops to hide the true aim
of
the operation, which was to plunder private property and natural
resources
of the province.
Kouchner's statement that the smelting plant's management would
be
placed in the hands of a 30member team of engineers and administrators
already well versed in Trepca's affairs shows that the operation was a
deliberate and premeditated plunder campaign.
Kouchner said an agreement would be signed with an
international
consortium which would help administer the Trepca mining complex,
appoint
executives and a Board of Directors from all local communities, but did
not
elaborate.
As for Sunday's arrest and expulsion from the province of
Trepca
Director Novak Bijelic, Kouchner claimed he had taken the decision on
the
strength of U.N. Resolution 1244, Article 2, explaining that Bijelic
would
not be allowed back for three months.
GERMAN MEDIA REPORT ON KFOR'S STORMING OF KOSOVOMETOHIJA'S ZVECAN
BERLIN, Aug 14 (Tanjug) Germany's state news agency DPA and
television reported early on Monday that the international force KFor
stormed and shut down the Zvecan smelter in the Serbian (Yugoslav)
KosovoMetohija province.
Although the report is bare of any comment, the motives behind
the
operation by the U.N. mission UNMIK and Kfor can be clearly discerned.
The German media quote as the reason for the closure lead
pollution and environmental hazards, while saying also that Western
companies will take over the management of the plant.
DPA quoted UNMIK as saying that a contract has been signed with
a
consortium of international mining companies, comprising a German and a
French company, to administer the complex in future.
The report said nothing, however, about the Zvecan smelter
being
the last Serboperated facility of the Trepca complex, and that plans for
the takeover had been in the making long since.
BRITISH PAPER - KFOR'S ZVECAN SMELTER SEIZURE IS PART OF WIDER PLAN
LONDON, Aug 14 (Tanjug) Monday's predawn storming by
international force Kfor troops of the Trepca lead smelter in Zvecan,
KosovoMetohija, was part of a wider plan, according to reports in London
on
Monday.
Reports indicate that the takeover was part of a strategy of
the
U.N. administration of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's KosovoMetohija
province to seize control of the province's predominantly Serbpopulated
north.
The takeover was prepared two weeks ago and was even announced
by
London's Guardian newspaper in its Monday edition.
The newspaper says ethnic Albanians in KosovoMetohija have long
been asking that Kfor and the U.N. administration occupy the north,
Serbpopulated part of ethnically divided Kosovska Mitrovica, and the
international forces are now apparently acting on the demands.
Radio BBC says that the takeover of the plant was only an
excuse
for concentrating Kfor troops in north Kosovska Mitrovica, preparatory
to
taking control of north KosovoMetohija. The recent ban of
Serbianlanguage
Radio S was part of this plan.
British media report that tensions are running high in north
Kosovska Mitrovica, and it is uncertain how the situation will develop.
>SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA KFOR'S TREPCA SEIZURE VIOLATES
>U.N. RESOLUTION - YUGOSLAV MINISTER BELGRADE, Aug 14 (Tanjug) - Monday's
>storming of the Trepca lead smelting plant in Zvecan, Kosovo-Metohija, by the
>international force KFor was in flagrant violation of U.N. Resolution 1244,
>according to Yugoslavia's information minister on Monday. "The resolution does
>not authorise KFor or UNMIK (U.N. civilian mission) to carry out acts of
>occupation," Information Minister Goran Matic told TANJUG. Kfor's attack,
>carried out on UNMIK's orders, "was the same kind of act of occupation as that
>carried out by German Nazis during the Second World War, when they wrested
>Trepca away from the French", Matic added. This was further evidence of
>non-implementation of U.N. Resolution 1244 or any other standards or norms of
>international law, and of the flouting of the country's economic system, he
>stressed. The operation, involving some 3,000 armed KFor troops with
>helicopter support and launched against 250 Trepca employees has no precedent
>in history and hardly does credit to the troops, for the most part from Great
>Britain, France, Italy and Pakistan, he said. "This is another proof of the
>system of occupation emplaced by KFor in (the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's
>U.N.-administered province of) Kosovo-Metohija", he added. He went on to
>refute as groundless the allegation circulated by some media that the reason
>for the seizure was environmental protection, because the Trepca lead smelting
>plant in Zvecan was polluting the environment. He said the operation was
>nothing short of text-book plunder and highway robbery. "Tens of thousands of
>kilos of depleted uranium dropped on Kosovo-Metohija by NATO in its aggression
>last year do not seem to bother either KFor or UNMIK", he said. The armed
>storming of Trepca must not be tolerated by the United Nations, which has the
>duty to exercise its mechanisms to make KFor and UNMIK and their
>administrators conform to their mandate and to the U.N. standards and respect
>Resolution 1244, Matic said. He went on to comment on the storming, smashing
>up and seizure of Serbian-language Radio S broadcasting out of Zvecan. The
>Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), he said, which
>"cares" so much about the freedom of the media and free speech in Yugoslavia,
>has shut down the only radio station in Kosovo-Metohija broadcasting in
>Serbian, alleging licence problems. "We shall return there and Trepca will
>work and produce again, because it belongs to the people of this country and
>to the workers who have helped build it and have worked in it", he vowed,
>saying that factories cannot be taken at arms. He went on to say this was the
>first time in history that anybody has stormed with helicopter support a
>factory with unarmed workers in it, and used the operation to promote their
>doctrine. He hoped that diplomats of Yugoslavia and other countries that have
>had a principled approach to these matters would act in the United Nations to
>find an answer to the question of KFor's storming of Trepca.
>
>KFOR TROOPS SEIZE KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S ZVECAN LEAD SMELTER Zvecan, Serbia, Aug 14
>(tanjug) - Around 3,000 international force kfor troops with helicopter
>support at dawn on monday seized the lead smelter in zvecan near divided
>Kosovska Mitrovica in the serbian U.N.-Run Kosovo-Metohija province. Some 250
>serb workers at the plant, which is part of the trepca industrial complex,
>offered spunky though unsuccessful resistance to the storm-troops. The strong
>Kfor detail, comprising french, italian, british and pakistani troops, used
>force against the workers, some of whom they tied and took away. One of the
>workers was seriously injured, according to tanjug's sources. Trepca general
>manager Novak Bijelic, who was away from Kosovo-Metohija at the time of the
>seizure of zvecan, was prevented by the international forces from re-entering
>the province early monday. Also early on monday, at 6.30 A.M. Local time (0430
>gmt), pakistani kfor troops seized serbian-language radio s, broadcasting out
>of zvecan, and took away some of the equipment. Kfor tanks and armoured
>vehicles blocked the Zvecan-Kosovska Mitrovica arterial road.
>
>KFOR TROOPS STORM KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S ZVECAN, BEAT SERBS Zvecan, aug 14 (tanjug)
>- International force Kfor troops' storming of the zvecan lead smelting plant
>in kosovo- metohija early monday morning was followed by a violent clash
>between local residents and british Kfor troops. The baton-wielding british
>troops, who patrol this serb-populated town in serbian U.N.-Run
>Kosovo-Metohija demonstrating brute force, injured several citizens of zvecan,
>a small industrial town not far from the province's chief city of pristina. At
>dawn on monday, the french kfor battalion, supported by british, belgian,
>danish, pakistani and italian troops, stormed the Zvecan plant which works as
>part of the Trepca mining, chemical and metallurgical complex, and where the
>third shift was on duty. As part of the planned seizure operation, about 150
>british troops stormed trepca's hotel in zvecan, breaking down the main door,
>tied up the employees they found on duty and placed the hotel under UNMIK
>police guard. The Kosovska Mitrovca-Zvecan road is blocked to traffic.
>
>KFOR STORMS KOSOVO-METOHIJA ZVECAN TOWN, SMASHES UP SERB RADIO ZVECAN, Serbia,
>Aug 14 (Tanjug) - Radio S, the only radio broadcasting in the Serbian language
>out of Zvecan in U.N.-run Kosovo-Metohija province, has been practically
>smashed up and put out of commission, according to its editor-in-chief on
>Monday. Before dawn on Monday, the international force KFor stormed the town
>of Zvecan, not far from the Serbian (Yugoslav) province's chief city of
>Pristina, and seized the Trepca lead smelting plant, smashing up the radio
>station in the process. "The way the operation was carried out was far worse
>and arrogant than the behaviour of the Nazis when they seized Trepca in 1941,"
>Radio S Editor-in-Chief Radovan Gligovic told TANJUG. Gligovic said Radio S
>was broken into by more than 50 Jordanian KFor special troops at 6:35 a.m.
>(0435 GMT) local time. "In the face of their loaded and cocked rifles, we had
>to evacuate the premises, because our lives were in dire jeopardy", he said.
>According to him, the Jordanian troops thoroughly smashed the station, putting
>both the high-voltage and the low-voltage equipment out of commission, and
>taking away a vital part of the transmitter. He added that other
>privately-owned radio stations in the Kosovska Mitrovica area, broadcasting
>music for the most part, were spared. Most radio stations in Kosovo-Metohija
>are controlled by the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) and solely re-broadcast
>programmes that promote NATO, such as Deutsche Welle, the Voice of America and
>Radio Free Europe. Radio S has been destroyed because it broadcast its own
>news programmes and was the only media house in the area that carried news
>from Yugoslavia and its republic of Serbia.
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ALTRE NOTIZIE DAL FRONTE DEL KOSMET
ALLEGATO: TESTO INTEGRALE DELLA RISOLUZIONE 1244
(anche detta "carta del gabinetto di Kouchner")
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IL TERRORISTA THACI AL RICEVIMENTO DELLA
CONVENTION DEMOCRATICA DI LOS ANGELES
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-8-3.html
Thugs of the World Unite, Part III: Thaci Attends
Democratic Party Convention, Kisses Albright - update Aug. 15, 2000
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 - Hashim Thaci, the Kosovo Albanian
terrorist-in-chief and (thus)
Madeleine Albright’s good pal, attended a gala luncheon on Monday (Aug.
14) at the Democratic
Party convention in Los Angeles. A TiM source who was also there said
that when Albright and
Bill Clinton showed up, “before they spoke, Thaci went up to Albright,
had a brief talk, and then
they kissed twice on the cheeks.”
Thaci’s star rose at the Rambouillet talks in February 1999 where he got
chummy with Albright,
and at the age of 29, became the top Kosovo Albanian negotiator. By
that stage, this unsavory
character had been already wanted for murder of a policeman in Kosovo,
among his other crimes
(see "Wither Dayton, Sprout New War?").
Also see “Thugs of the World Unite, Part II - S99-117, "Peace" 11 -
Special TiM GW Bulletins
(July 1, 1999), and "Thugs of the World Unite!" (Part I) - TiM GW
Bulletin 98/6-7 (6/26/98).
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L'ECOLOGISTA KFOR DISTRUGGE I BOSCHI IN KOSMET
(E SPIANA LE COLLINE PER COSTRUIRE LE BASI STATUNITENSI)
KFOR SETS FIRE TO FOREST IN SERBIAN KOSOVOMETOHIJA PROVINCE
GNJILANE, Serbia, Aug 16 (Tanjug) International force Kfor
troops
fired flares late on Tuesday, setting fire to a forest in the east of
the
U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav) KosovoMetohija province, according to reports
on
Wednesday.
According to amateur radio operators, KFor started a fire in
the
forest outside the village of Izvor in the Novo Brdo municipality, which
the local population eventually managed to put under control.
Radio operators report also that, a few days ago, ethnic Albanian
extremists launched an intimidation attack on the hamlet of Perici in
the
Gnjilane municipality, and on the neighbouring village of Labljane in
the
Novo Brdo municipality.
Two days ago, the ethnic Albanians repeated the attack on the
villages,
from the direction of the neighbouring ethnic Albanian villages of
Zegovce
and Vrbice.
Neither Kfor nor the U.N. mission UNMIK took any action except
to
caution the people in Izvor not to leave their homes or graze their
cattle
between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. because of army exercises near that
Serbpopulated
village.
This kind of behaviour on the part of the international forces
only causes fear and anxiety among the remaining Serbs in this part of
KosovoMetohija.
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L'ESERCITO JUGOSLAVO ACCUSATO DI AVER OPERATO IN JUGOSLAVIA !!!
YUGOSLAV ARMY DENIES INFRINGING BUFFER ZONE IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
BEOGRAD, Aug 15 (Tanjug) A Yugoslav Army spokesman on Tuesday
denied a U.S. paper's report that the Army had provoked an incident on
July
28 by infringing a buffer zone along the boundary of the Serbian
(Yugoslav)
U.N.ruled KosovoMetohija province.
The allegation that the Yugoslav army entered the buffer zone
has
been published in Stars and Stripes Magazine of the U.S. army.
"It is not true that Yugoslav Army troops entered the zone",
Radisic told the national news agency Tanjug.
"The Yugoslav Army consistently respects provisions of U.N.
Resolution
1244 and the MilitaryTechnical Accord, as different from (the
international
force) KFor, whose troops daily deliberately violate these documents in
biased support of ethnic Albanians.
"Meanwhile, the international force daily demonstrates its
impotence to implement the job it has undertaken in KosovoMetohija",
Radisic stressed.
He went on to say that the magazine's story had been picked up
by
some international and domestic news agencies.
He explained that the boundary zone in the southern Serbian
Presevo municipality was entered by local police troops in the line of
duty, and that they had the right to do so under the relevant U.N.
resolution and the Kumanovo MilitaryTechnical Accord.
"The information carried by the U.S. magazine was clearly an
attempt on the part of Kfor to justify its illplanned and arrogant
operation of buzzing with helicopters our police, who had to give up the
task in hand because their lives were in danger", he said.
This is the true reason why Kfor chose to publish the report in
Stars and Stripes Magazine, rather than at their command in Kosovo
Metohija's city of Pristina, Radisic added.
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LA RUSSIA CRITICA LE ELEZIONI-FARSA INDETTE DALL'UCKFOR PER IL 28
OTTOBRE
RUSSIA REITERATES OPPOSITION TO U.N.CALLED KOSOVOMETOHIJA POLLS
MOSCOW, Aug 15 (Tanjug) There are no basic conditions for
U.N.planned local elections in KosovoMetohija to be truly free, fair and
democratic and conform to U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244,
according
to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.
The Ministry issued a statement to say the insistence on
holding
the polls this year at all costs, even without Serb and ethnic Turk
participation, undermines efforts for making that U.N.run Serbian
(Yugoslav) province truly democratic and multiethnic.
This policy can only result in legalizing institutions of the
disbanded ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which are
continuing their illegal activities, this time in the guise of the
Kosovo
Protection Corps, the statement said.
Russia has on several occasions said it could hardly support
such
elections this year, although it does not oppose their holding in
principle.
By calling the elections, U.N. mission (UNMIK) chief Bernard
Kouchner has both flouted Russia's views and assumed the burden of
responsibility for the political consequences they might have for the
future of the region, the statement said.
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BASTONATA UNA COPPIA SERBA
ETHNIC ALBANIAN GANG STABS SERB COUPLE
KOSOVSKA KAMENICA, Aug 14 (Tanjug) An ethnic Albanian gang
stabbed an elderly Serb couple from a KosovoMetohija village on Sunday,
according to a local civil rights protection body on Monday.
Husband and wife Milutin and Taska Bogdanovic of the mountain
village of Kriljevo in the Kosovska Kamenica municipality in the east of
the U.N.administered Serbian (Yugoslav) province were attacked at around
11
p.m. local time.
The Committee for Protection and Civil Rights in Kosovska
Kamenica
said the woman, Taska Bogdanovic, sustained serious injuries to her
back,
while her husband received stab wounds to the abdomen. Both had to be
hospitalised.
They were set upon by three ethnic Albanian criminals stealing
cattle from the couple's stable.
The incident has been brought to the attention of the Russian
international force KFor battalion.
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IMPUNITO IL TERRORISMO PAN-ALBANESE
U.N. PEACEKEEPERS TOLERATE ETHNIC ALBANIAN CRIMES
OBILIC, Aug 14 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian attacks on Serbs in
Obilic in U.N.ruled KosovoMetohija have become everyday occurrences
ignored
by the socalled international peacekeepers, amateur radio operators
report
from KosovoMetohija on Monday.
Late on Sunday, a highpower grenade razed the home of a Serb,
Miodrag Vukobratovic, aged 40. Vukobratovic and his neighbour Branka
Odalovic, aged 60, were injured in the incident, but their lives are not
in
danger.
At around 9:30 p.m. local time (1730 GMT) on Saturday, ethnic
Albanian extremists stoned the Obilic office of the Reconstruction
Directorate, causing substantial damage.
In the Vitina area on Sunday, an ethnic Albanian gang tried to
abduct husband and wife Dragan and Violeta Brankovic, Serbs from the
village of Stubla, near Vitina, in the southeast of the U.N.ruled
Serbian
(Yugoslav) province.
The couple was returning by car from a visit to an ethnic
Albanian
Roman Catholic friend, when a car with five ethnic Albanians of
threatening
disposition blocked their way.
The Albanians ordered them out of the car, breaking the
windows,
but the Serbs managed to escape and reach the nearest international
force
Kfor checkpoint at the village of Grncar, where the assailants gave up
the
chase.
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CENSURATI I MEZZI DI INFORMAZIONE SERBO-KOSOVARI
>OSCE DENIES KOSOVO-METOHIJA SERBS RIGHT TO INFORMATION - OFFICIAL KOSOVSKA
>MITROVICA, Serbia, Aug 13 (Tanjug) - A Kosovo-Metohija Provisional Executive
>Council official on Sunday expressed profound indignation at the Organisation
>for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ordering a local
>Serbian-language radio closed. OSCE transitional media commissioner Simon
>Haffelack has issued a closure order to the Serbian-language Radio S,
>broadcasting out of Zvecan, over a licence problem. "I express the most
>profound indignation at the brutal and flagrant denial of the right to work to
>Serbian-language media in Kosovo-Metohija", the Council's Secretary for
>Information Milorad Vujovic told TANJUG. Before the closure of Radio S, the
>Serbian-language Jedinstvo newspaper was expelled from the Press Hall in
>Kosovo-Metohija's chief city of Pristina, and Pristina Radio and Television
>was shut down, Vujovic said. This is another unacceptable move giving
>ultimatums to electronic media to stop work, according to Vujovic, who is also
>vice chairman of the information sub-committee of the Yugoslav committee
>liaising with the U.N. Kosovo-Metohija mission (UNMIK). "This denies the right
>to information to the Serb community, which is already daily exposed to brazen
>pressure and persecution at the hands of ethnic Albanian terrorists", he said.
>He went on to add that "Mr Haffelack alone knows by what criteria he was
>motivated in taking this drastic measure".
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DUE SERBI RAPITI
>KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM TWO SERB YOUTHS ABDUCTED IN EAST
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA KOSOVSKA KAMENICA, Serbia, Aug 13 (Tanjug) - Two Serb youths
>were abducted in an ethnic Albanian village in the east of U.N.-ruled
>Kosovo-Metohija on Saturday, the Kosovska Kamenica Protection and Human Rights
>Committee and amateur radio operators said on Sunday. The two, Goran Stankovic
>(aged 19) from the village of Domorovce near Kosovska Kamenica and his cousin
>Zoran Tomic (26), disappeared from a petrol station in the ethnic Albanian
>village of Odanovce, where they had tried to buy petrol for their tractor. On
>receiving the report of their disappearance on Saturday, about 500 Serbs from
>Domorovce and the neighbouring village of Korminjane blocked the local
>Domorovce-Ogoste road in protest. The blockade is continuing, and the Serbian
>National Assembly for Kosovska Kamenica held an emergency meeting on Sunday,
>demanding that the international force KFor and the U.N. mission UNMIK take
>firm action to trace the missing, amateur radio operators said. The U.S. and
>Russian KFor battalions, deployed in the area, have been asked to trace and
>effect the release of the abducted Serbs and to prosecute the kidnappers, the
>reports said. Early on Sunday, Russian and U.S. KFor troops searching for the
>missing Serbs blocked the Gnjilane-Bujanovac and Kosovska Kamenica- Bujanovac
>roads at the locality of Bela Zemlja, where they have a checkpoint. Families
>of the missing Serbs and KFor troops late on Saturday interviewed Avni Mornia
>of Odanovce, the ethnic Albanian owner of the petrol station where the youths
>and their tractor were last seen. However, the petrol station workers were not
>willing to cooperate with KFor investigators, the Protection and Human Rights
>Committee in Kosovska Kamenica said.
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VANDALI NEL CIMITERO ORTODOSSO
>SERB CEMETERY IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA VANDALISED KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia, Aug
>13 (Tanjug) - Serbs from north Kosovska Mitrovica who, escorted by
>international force KFor troops, visited the Serb cemetery in the south,
>ethnic Albanian part of the divided city on Sunday, found more than 500
>headstones smashed. Indignant at the vandalism by ethnic Albanian extremists,
>the Serbs strongly protested with KFor for not keeping its promise to protect
>the cemetery in the south part of the U.N.-run city, where there have been no
>Serbs since KFor's deployment last summer. Sunday's visit to the cemetery in
>the south part of Kosovska Mitrovica by Serbs from the north part of the city
>in the Serbian (Yugoslav) U.N.-administered Kosovo-Metohija province was the
>first since June 17, when 200 headstones were found smashed.
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ALLEGATO: TESTO INTEGRALE DELLA RISOLUZIONE 1244
S/RES/1244 (1999)
10 June 1999
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RESOLUTION 1244 (1999)
Adopted by the Security Council at its 4011th meeting,
on 10 June 1999
The Security Council,
Bearing in mind the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United
Nations, and the primary responsibility of the Security Council for the
maintenance of international peace and security,
Recalling its resolutions 1160 (1998) of 31 March 1998, 1199 (1998) of
23
September 1998, 1203 (1998) of 24 October 1998 and 1239 (1999) of 14 May
1999,
Regretting that there has not been full compliance with the requirements
of
these resolutions,
Determined to resolve the grave humanitarian situation in Kosovo,
Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, and to provide for the safe and free return of
all
refugees and displaced persons to their homes,
Condemning all acts of violence against the Kosovo population as well as
all
terrorist acts by any party,
Recalling the statement made by the Secretary-General on 9 April 1999,
expressing concern at the humanitarian tragedy taking place in Kosovo,
Reaffirming the right of all refugees and displaced persons to return to
their homes in safety,
Recalling the jurisdiction and the mandate of the International Tribunal
for
the Former Yugoslavia,
Welcoming the general principles on a political solution to the Kosovo
crisis
adopted on 6 May 1999 (S/1999/516, annex 1 to this resolution) and
welcoming
also the acceptance by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of the
principles
set forth in points 1 to 9 of the paper presented in Belgrade on 2 June
1999
(S/1999/649, annex 2 to this resolution), and the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia's agreement to that paper,
Reaffirming 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,
Reaffirming the call in previous resolutions for substantial autonomy
and
meaningful self-administration for Kosovo,
Determining that the situation in the region continues to constitute a
threat
to international peace and security,
Determined to ensure the safety and security of international personnel
and
the implementation by all concerned of their responsibilities under the
present resolution, and acting for these purposes under Chapter VII of
the
Charter of the United Nations,
1. Decides that a political solution to the Kosovo crisis shall be based
on
the general principles in annex 1 and as further elaborated in the
principles
and other required elements in annex 2;
2. Welcomes the acceptance by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of the
principles and other required elements referred to in paragraph 1 above,
and
demands the full cooperation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in
their
rapid implementation;
3. Demands in particular that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia put an
immediate and verifiable end to violence and repression in Kosovo, and
begin
and complete verifiable phased withdrawal from Kosovo of all military,
police
and paramilitary forces according to a rapid timetable, with which the
deployment of the international security presence in Kosovo will be
synchronized;
4. Confirms that after the withdrawal an agreed number of Yugoslav and
Serb
military and police personnel will be permitted to return to Kosovo to
perform the functions in accordance with annex 2;
5. Decides on the deployment in Kosovo, under United Nations auspices,
of
international civil and security presences, with appropriate equipment
and
personnel as required, and welcomes the agreement of the Federal
Republic of
Yugoslavia to such presences;
6. Requests the Secretary-General to appoint, in consultation with the
Security Council, a Special Representative to control the implementation
of
the international civil presence, and further requests the
Secretary-General
to instruct his Special Representative to coordinate closely with the
international security presence to ensure that both presences operate
towards
the same goals and in a mutually supportive manner;
7. Authorizes Member States and relevant international organizations to
establish the international security presence in Kosovo as set out in
point 4
of annex 2 with all necessary means to fulfil its responsibilities under
paragraph 9 below;
8. Affirms the need for the rapid early deployment of effective
international
civil and security presences to Kosovo, and demands that the parties
cooperate fully in their deployment;
9. Decides that the responsibilities of the international security
presence
to be deployed and acting in Kosovo will include:
(a) Deterring renewed hostilities, maintaining and where necessary
enforcing
a ceasefire, and ensuring the withdrawal and preventing the return into
Kosovo of Federal and Republic military, police and paramilitary forces,
except as provided in point 6 of annex 2;
(b) Demilitarizing the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and other armed
Kosovo
Albanian groups as required in paragraph 15 below;
(c) Establishing a secure environment in which refugees and displaced
persons
can return home in safety, the international civil presence can operate,
a
transitional administration can be established, and humanitarian aid can
be
delivered;
(d) Ensuring public safety and order until the international civil
presence
can take responsibility for this task;
(e) Supervising demining until the international civil presence can, as
appropriate, take over responsibility for this task;
(f) Supporting, as appropriate, and coordinating closely with the work
of the
international civil presence;
(g) Conducting border monitoring duties as required;
(h) Ensuring the protection and freedom of movement of itself, the
international civil presence, and other international organizations;
10. Authorizes the Secretary-General, with the assistance of relevant
international organizations, to establish an international civil
presence in
Kosovo in order to provide an interim administration for Kosovo under
which
the people of Kosovo can enjoy substantial autonomy within the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, and which will provide transitional
administration
while establishing and overseeing the development of provisional
democratic
self-governing institutions to ensure conditions for a peaceful and
normal
life for all inhabitants of Kosovo;
11. Decides that the main responsibilities of the international civil
presence will include:
(a) Promoting the establishment, pending a final settlement, of
substantial
autonomy and self-government in Kosovo, taking full account of annex 2
and of
the Rambouillet accords (S/1999/648);
(b) Performing basic civilian administrative functions where and as long
as
required;
(c) Organizing and overseeing the development of provisional
institutions for
democratic and autonomous self-government pending a political
settlement,
including the holding of elections;
(d) Transferring, as these institutions are established, its
administrative
responsibilities while overseeing and supporting the consolidation of
Kosovo's local provisional institutions and other peace-building
activities;
(e) Facilitating a political process designed to determine Kosovo's
future
status, taking into account the Rambouillet accords (S/1999/648);
(f) In a final stage, overseeing the transfer of authority from Kosovo's
provisional institutions to institutions established under a political
settlement;
(g) Supporting the reconstruction of key infrastructure and other
economic
reconstruction;
(h) Supporting, in coordination with international humanitarian
organizations, humanitarian and disaster relief aid;
(i) Maintaining civil law and order, including establishing local police
forces and meanwhile through the deployment of international police
personnel
to serve in Kosovo;
(j) Protecting and promoting human rights;
(k) Assuring the safe and unimpeded return of all refugees and displaced
persons to their homes in Kosovo;
12. Emphasizes the need for coordinated humanitarian relief operations,
and
for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to allow unimpeded access to
Kosovo by
humanitarian aid organizations and to cooperate with such organizations
so as
to ensure the fast and effective delivery of international aid;
13. Encourages all Member States and international organizations to
contribute to economic and social reconstruction as well as to the safe
return of refugees and displaced persons, and emphasizes in this context
the
importance of convening an international donors' conference,
particularly for
the purposes set out in paragraph 11 (g) above, at the earliest possible
date;
14. Demands full cooperation by all concerned, including the
international
security presence, with the International Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia;
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;
16. Decides that the prohibitions imposed by paragraph 8 of resolution
1160
(1998) shall not apply to arms and related matériel for the use of the
international civil and security presences;
17. Welcomes the work in hand in the European Union and other
international
organizations to develop a comprehensive approach to the economic
development
and stabilization of the region affected by the Kosovo crisis, including
the
implementation of a Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe with broad
international participation in order to further the promotion of
democracy,
economic prosperity, stability and regional cooperation;
18. Demands that all States in the region cooperate fully in the
implementation of all aspects of this resolution;
19. Decides that the international civil and security presences are
established for an initial period of 12 months, to continue thereafter
unless
the Security Council decides otherwise;
20. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council at regular
intervals on the implementation of this resolution, including reports
from
the leaderships of the international civil and security presences, the
first
reports to be submitted within 30 days of the adoption of this
resolution;
21. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.
Annex 1
Statement by the Chairman on the conclusion of the meeting
of the G-8 Foreign Ministers held at the Petersberg Centre
on 6 May 1999
The G-8 Foreign Ministers adopted the following general principles on
the
political solution to the Kosovo crisis:
- Immediate and verifiable end of violence and repression in Kosovo;
- Withdrawal from Kosovo of military, police and paramilitary forces;
- Deployment in Kosovo of effective international civil and security
presences, endorsed and adopted by the United Nations, capable of
guaranteeing the achievement of the common objectives;
- Establishment of an interim administration for Kosovo to be decided by
the
Security Council of the United Nations to ensure conditions for a
peaceful
and normal life for all inhabitants in Kosovo;
- The safe and free return of all refugees and displaced persons and
unimpeded access to Kosovo by humanitarian aid organizations;
- A political process towards the establishment of an interim political
framework agreement providing for a substantial self-government for
Kosovo,
taking full account of the Rambouillet accords and the principles of
sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
and the other countries of the region, and the demilitarization of the
KLA;
- Comprehensive approach to the economic development and stabilization
of the
crisis region.
Annex 2
Agreement should be reached on the following principles to move towards
a
resolution of the Kosovo crisis:
1. An immediate and verifiable end of violence and repression in Kosovo.
2. Verifiable withdrawal from Kosovo of all military, police and
paramilitary
forces according to a rapid timetable.
3. Deployment in Kosovo under United Nations auspices of effective
international civil and security presences, acting as may be decided
under
Chapter VII of the Charter, capable of guaranteeing the achievement of
common
objectives.
4. The international security presence with substantial North Atlantic
Treaty
Organization participation must be deployed under unified command and
control
and authorized to establish a safe environment for all people in Kosovo
and
to facilitate the safe return to their homes of all displaced persons
and
refugees.
5. Establishment of an interim administration for Kosovo as a part of
the
international civil presence under which the people of Kosovo can enjoy
substantial autonomy within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to be
decided
by the Security Council of the United Nations. The interim
administration to
provide transitional administration while establishing and overseeing
the
development of provisional democratic self-governing institutions to
ensure
conditions for a peaceful and normal life for all inhabitants in Kosovo.
6. After withdrawal, an agreed number of Yugoslav and Serbian personnel
will
be permitted to return to perform the following functions:
- Liaison with the international civil mission and the international
security
presence;
- Marking/clearing minefields;
- Maintaining a presence at Serb patrimonial sites;
- Maintaining a presence at key border crossings.
7. Safe and free return of all refugees and displaced persons under the
supervision of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees and unimpeded access to Kosovo by humanitarian aid
organizations.
8. A political process towards the establishment of an interim political
framework agreement providing for substantial self-government for
Kosovo,
taking full account of the Rambouillet accords and the principles of
sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
and the other countries of the region, and the demilitarization of UCK.
Negotiations between the parties for a settlement should not delay or
disrupt
the establishment of democratic self-governing institutions.
9. A comprehensive approach to the economic development and
stabilization of
the crisis region. This will include the implementation of a stability
pact
for South-Eastern Europe with broad international participation in order
to
further promotion of democracy, economic prosperity, stability and
regional
cooperation.
10. Suspension of military activity will require acceptance of the
principles
set forth above in addition to agreement to other, previously
identified,
required elements, which are specified in the footnote below.1 A
military-technical agreement will then be rapidly concluded that would,
among
other things, specify additional modalities, including the roles and
functions of Yugoslav/Serb personnel in Kosovo:
Withdrawal
- Procedures for withdrawals, including the phased, detailed schedule
and
delineation of a buffer area in Serbia beyond which forces will be
withdrawn;
Returning personnel
- Equipment associated with returning personnel;
- Terms of reference for their functional responsibilities;
- Timetable for their return;
- Delineation of their geographical areas of operation;
- Rules governing their relationship to the international security
presence
and the international civil mission.
Notes
1 Other required elements:
- A rapid and precise timetable for withdrawals, meaning, e.g., seven
days to
complete withdrawal and air defence weapons withdrawn outside a 25
kilometre
mutual safety zone within 48 hours;
- Return of personnel for the four functions specified above will be
under
the supervision of the international security presence and will be
limited to
a small agreed number (hundreds, not thousands);
- Suspension of military activity will occur after the beginning of
verifiable withdrawals;
- The discussion and achievement of a military-technical agreement shall
not
extend the previously determined time for completion of withdrawals.
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ALLEGATO: TESTO INTEGRALE DELLA RISOLUZIONE 1244
(anche detta "carta del gabinetto di Kouchner")
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IL TERRORISTA THACI AL RICEVIMENTO DELLA
CONVENTION DEMOCRATICA DI LOS ANGELES
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-8-3.html
Thugs of the World Unite, Part III: Thaci Attends
Democratic Party Convention, Kisses Albright - update Aug. 15, 2000
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 - Hashim Thaci, the Kosovo Albanian
terrorist-in-chief and (thus)
Madeleine Albright’s good pal, attended a gala luncheon on Monday (Aug.
14) at the Democratic
Party convention in Los Angeles. A TiM source who was also there said
that when Albright and
Bill Clinton showed up, “before they spoke, Thaci went up to Albright,
had a brief talk, and then
they kissed twice on the cheeks.”
Thaci’s star rose at the Rambouillet talks in February 1999 where he got
chummy with Albright,
and at the age of 29, became the top Kosovo Albanian negotiator. By
that stage, this unsavory
character had been already wanted for murder of a policeman in Kosovo,
among his other crimes
(see "Wither Dayton, Sprout New War?").
Also see “Thugs of the World Unite, Part II - S99-117, "Peace" 11 -
Special TiM GW Bulletins
(July 1, 1999), and "Thugs of the World Unite!" (Part I) - TiM GW
Bulletin 98/6-7 (6/26/98).
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L'ECOLOGISTA KFOR DISTRUGGE I BOSCHI IN KOSMET
(E SPIANA LE COLLINE PER COSTRUIRE LE BASI STATUNITENSI)
KFOR SETS FIRE TO FOREST IN SERBIAN KOSOVOMETOHIJA PROVINCE
GNJILANE, Serbia, Aug 16 (Tanjug) International force Kfor
troops
fired flares late on Tuesday, setting fire to a forest in the east of
the
U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav) KosovoMetohija province, according to reports
on
Wednesday.
According to amateur radio operators, KFor started a fire in
the
forest outside the village of Izvor in the Novo Brdo municipality, which
the local population eventually managed to put under control.
Radio operators report also that, a few days ago, ethnic Albanian
extremists launched an intimidation attack on the hamlet of Perici in
the
Gnjilane municipality, and on the neighbouring village of Labljane in
the
Novo Brdo municipality.
Two days ago, the ethnic Albanians repeated the attack on the
villages,
from the direction of the neighbouring ethnic Albanian villages of
Zegovce
and Vrbice.
Neither Kfor nor the U.N. mission UNMIK took any action except
to
caution the people in Izvor not to leave their homes or graze their
cattle
between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. because of army exercises near that
Serbpopulated
village.
This kind of behaviour on the part of the international forces
only causes fear and anxiety among the remaining Serbs in this part of
KosovoMetohija.
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L'ESERCITO JUGOSLAVO ACCUSATO DI AVER OPERATO IN JUGOSLAVIA !!!
YUGOSLAV ARMY DENIES INFRINGING BUFFER ZONE IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
BEOGRAD, Aug 15 (Tanjug) A Yugoslav Army spokesman on Tuesday
denied a U.S. paper's report that the Army had provoked an incident on
July
28 by infringing a buffer zone along the boundary of the Serbian
(Yugoslav)
U.N.ruled KosovoMetohija province.
The allegation that the Yugoslav army entered the buffer zone
has
been published in Stars and Stripes Magazine of the U.S. army.
"It is not true that Yugoslav Army troops entered the zone",
Radisic told the national news agency Tanjug.
"The Yugoslav Army consistently respects provisions of U.N.
Resolution
1244 and the MilitaryTechnical Accord, as different from (the
international
force) KFor, whose troops daily deliberately violate these documents in
biased support of ethnic Albanians.
"Meanwhile, the international force daily demonstrates its
impotence to implement the job it has undertaken in KosovoMetohija",
Radisic stressed.
He went on to say that the magazine's story had been picked up
by
some international and domestic news agencies.
He explained that the boundary zone in the southern Serbian
Presevo municipality was entered by local police troops in the line of
duty, and that they had the right to do so under the relevant U.N.
resolution and the Kumanovo MilitaryTechnical Accord.
"The information carried by the U.S. magazine was clearly an
attempt on the part of Kfor to justify its illplanned and arrogant
operation of buzzing with helicopters our police, who had to give up the
task in hand because their lives were in danger", he said.
This is the true reason why Kfor chose to publish the report in
Stars and Stripes Magazine, rather than at their command in Kosovo
Metohija's city of Pristina, Radisic added.
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LA RUSSIA CRITICA LE ELEZIONI-FARSA INDETTE DALL'UCKFOR PER IL 28
OTTOBRE
RUSSIA REITERATES OPPOSITION TO U.N.CALLED KOSOVOMETOHIJA POLLS
MOSCOW, Aug 15 (Tanjug) There are no basic conditions for
U.N.planned local elections in KosovoMetohija to be truly free, fair and
democratic and conform to U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244,
according
to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.
The Ministry issued a statement to say the insistence on
holding
the polls this year at all costs, even without Serb and ethnic Turk
participation, undermines efforts for making that U.N.run Serbian
(Yugoslav) province truly democratic and multiethnic.
This policy can only result in legalizing institutions of the
disbanded ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which are
continuing their illegal activities, this time in the guise of the
Kosovo
Protection Corps, the statement said.
Russia has on several occasions said it could hardly support
such
elections this year, although it does not oppose their holding in
principle.
By calling the elections, U.N. mission (UNMIK) chief Bernard
Kouchner has both flouted Russia's views and assumed the burden of
responsibility for the political consequences they might have for the
future of the region, the statement said.
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BASTONATA UNA COPPIA SERBA
ETHNIC ALBANIAN GANG STABS SERB COUPLE
KOSOVSKA KAMENICA, Aug 14 (Tanjug) An ethnic Albanian gang
stabbed an elderly Serb couple from a KosovoMetohija village on Sunday,
according to a local civil rights protection body on Monday.
Husband and wife Milutin and Taska Bogdanovic of the mountain
village of Kriljevo in the Kosovska Kamenica municipality in the east of
the U.N.administered Serbian (Yugoslav) province were attacked at around
11
p.m. local time.
The Committee for Protection and Civil Rights in Kosovska
Kamenica
said the woman, Taska Bogdanovic, sustained serious injuries to her
back,
while her husband received stab wounds to the abdomen. Both had to be
hospitalised.
They were set upon by three ethnic Albanian criminals stealing
cattle from the couple's stable.
The incident has been brought to the attention of the Russian
international force KFor battalion.
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IMPUNITO IL TERRORISMO PAN-ALBANESE
U.N. PEACEKEEPERS TOLERATE ETHNIC ALBANIAN CRIMES
OBILIC, Aug 14 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian attacks on Serbs in
Obilic in U.N.ruled KosovoMetohija have become everyday occurrences
ignored
by the socalled international peacekeepers, amateur radio operators
report
from KosovoMetohija on Monday.
Late on Sunday, a highpower grenade razed the home of a Serb,
Miodrag Vukobratovic, aged 40. Vukobratovic and his neighbour Branka
Odalovic, aged 60, were injured in the incident, but their lives are not
in
danger.
At around 9:30 p.m. local time (1730 GMT) on Saturday, ethnic
Albanian extremists stoned the Obilic office of the Reconstruction
Directorate, causing substantial damage.
In the Vitina area on Sunday, an ethnic Albanian gang tried to
abduct husband and wife Dragan and Violeta Brankovic, Serbs from the
village of Stubla, near Vitina, in the southeast of the U.N.ruled
Serbian
(Yugoslav) province.
The couple was returning by car from a visit to an ethnic
Albanian
Roman Catholic friend, when a car with five ethnic Albanians of
threatening
disposition blocked their way.
The Albanians ordered them out of the car, breaking the
windows,
but the Serbs managed to escape and reach the nearest international
force
Kfor checkpoint at the village of Grncar, where the assailants gave up
the
chase.
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CENSURATI I MEZZI DI INFORMAZIONE SERBO-KOSOVARI
>OSCE DENIES KOSOVO-METOHIJA SERBS RIGHT TO INFORMATION - OFFICIAL KOSOVSKA
>MITROVICA, Serbia, Aug 13 (Tanjug) - A Kosovo-Metohija Provisional Executive
>Council official on Sunday expressed profound indignation at the Organisation
>for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ordering a local
>Serbian-language radio closed. OSCE transitional media commissioner Simon
>Haffelack has issued a closure order to the Serbian-language Radio S,
>broadcasting out of Zvecan, over a licence problem. "I express the most
>profound indignation at the brutal and flagrant denial of the right to work to
>Serbian-language media in Kosovo-Metohija", the Council's Secretary for
>Information Milorad Vujovic told TANJUG. Before the closure of Radio S, the
>Serbian-language Jedinstvo newspaper was expelled from the Press Hall in
>Kosovo-Metohija's chief city of Pristina, and Pristina Radio and Television
>was shut down, Vujovic said. This is another unacceptable move giving
>ultimatums to electronic media to stop work, according to Vujovic, who is also
>vice chairman of the information sub-committee of the Yugoslav committee
>liaising with the U.N. Kosovo-Metohija mission (UNMIK). "This denies the right
>to information to the Serb community, which is already daily exposed to brazen
>pressure and persecution at the hands of ethnic Albanian terrorists", he said.
>He went on to add that "Mr Haffelack alone knows by what criteria he was
>motivated in taking this drastic measure".
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DUE SERBI RAPITI
>KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM TWO SERB YOUTHS ABDUCTED IN EAST
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA KOSOVSKA KAMENICA, Serbia, Aug 13 (Tanjug) - Two Serb youths
>were abducted in an ethnic Albanian village in the east of U.N.-ruled
>Kosovo-Metohija on Saturday, the Kosovska Kamenica Protection and Human Rights
>Committee and amateur radio operators said on Sunday. The two, Goran Stankovic
>(aged 19) from the village of Domorovce near Kosovska Kamenica and his cousin
>Zoran Tomic (26), disappeared from a petrol station in the ethnic Albanian
>village of Odanovce, where they had tried to buy petrol for their tractor. On
>receiving the report of their disappearance on Saturday, about 500 Serbs from
>Domorovce and the neighbouring village of Korminjane blocked the local
>Domorovce-Ogoste road in protest. The blockade is continuing, and the Serbian
>National Assembly for Kosovska Kamenica held an emergency meeting on Sunday,
>demanding that the international force KFor and the U.N. mission UNMIK take
>firm action to trace the missing, amateur radio operators said. The U.S. and
>Russian KFor battalions, deployed in the area, have been asked to trace and
>effect the release of the abducted Serbs and to prosecute the kidnappers, the
>reports said. Early on Sunday, Russian and U.S. KFor troops searching for the
>missing Serbs blocked the Gnjilane-Bujanovac and Kosovska Kamenica- Bujanovac
>roads at the locality of Bela Zemlja, where they have a checkpoint. Families
>of the missing Serbs and KFor troops late on Saturday interviewed Avni Mornia
>of Odanovce, the ethnic Albanian owner of the petrol station where the youths
>and their tractor were last seen. However, the petrol station workers were not
>willing to cooperate with KFor investigators, the Protection and Human Rights
>Committee in Kosovska Kamenica said.
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VANDALI NEL CIMITERO ORTODOSSO
>SERB CEMETERY IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA VANDALISED KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia, Aug
>13 (Tanjug) - Serbs from north Kosovska Mitrovica who, escorted by
>international force KFor troops, visited the Serb cemetery in the south,
>ethnic Albanian part of the divided city on Sunday, found more than 500
>headstones smashed. Indignant at the vandalism by ethnic Albanian extremists,
>the Serbs strongly protested with KFor for not keeping its promise to protect
>the cemetery in the south part of the U.N.-run city, where there have been no
>Serbs since KFor's deployment last summer. Sunday's visit to the cemetery in
>the south part of Kosovska Mitrovica by Serbs from the north part of the city
>in the Serbian (Yugoslav) U.N.-administered Kosovo-Metohija province was the
>first since June 17, when 200 headstones were found smashed.
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ALLEGATO: TESTO INTEGRALE DELLA RISOLUZIONE 1244
S/RES/1244 (1999)
10 June 1999
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RESOLUTION 1244 (1999)
Adopted by the Security Council at its 4011th meeting,
on 10 June 1999
The Security Council,
Bearing in mind the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United
Nations, and the primary responsibility of the Security Council for the
maintenance of international peace and security,
Recalling its resolutions 1160 (1998) of 31 March 1998, 1199 (1998) of
23
September 1998, 1203 (1998) of 24 October 1998 and 1239 (1999) of 14 May
1999,
Regretting that there has not been full compliance with the requirements
of
these resolutions,
Determined to resolve the grave humanitarian situation in Kosovo,
Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, and to provide for the safe and free return of
all
refugees and displaced persons to their homes,
Condemning all acts of violence against the Kosovo population as well as
all
terrorist acts by any party,
Recalling the statement made by the Secretary-General on 9 April 1999,
expressing concern at the humanitarian tragedy taking place in Kosovo,
Reaffirming the right of all refugees and displaced persons to return to
their homes in safety,
Recalling the jurisdiction and the mandate of the International Tribunal
for
the Former Yugoslavia,
Welcoming the general principles on a political solution to the Kosovo
crisis
adopted on 6 May 1999 (S/1999/516, annex 1 to this resolution) and
welcoming
also the acceptance by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of the
principles
set forth in points 1 to 9 of the paper presented in Belgrade on 2 June
1999
(S/1999/649, annex 2 to this resolution), and the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia's agreement to that paper,
Reaffirming 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,
Reaffirming the call in previous resolutions for substantial autonomy
and
meaningful self-administration for Kosovo,
Determining that the situation in the region continues to constitute a
threat
to international peace and security,
Determined to ensure the safety and security of international personnel
and
the implementation by all concerned of their responsibilities under the
present resolution, and acting for these purposes under Chapter VII of
the
Charter of the United Nations,
1. Decides that a political solution to the Kosovo crisis shall be based
on
the general principles in annex 1 and as further elaborated in the
principles
and other required elements in annex 2;
2. Welcomes the acceptance by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of the
principles and other required elements referred to in paragraph 1 above,
and
demands the full cooperation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in
their
rapid implementation;
3. Demands in particular that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia put an
immediate and verifiable end to violence and repression in Kosovo, and
begin
and complete verifiable phased withdrawal from Kosovo of all military,
police
and paramilitary forces according to a rapid timetable, with which the
deployment of the international security presence in Kosovo will be
synchronized;
4. Confirms that after the withdrawal an agreed number of Yugoslav and
Serb
military and police personnel will be permitted to return to Kosovo to
perform the functions in accordance with annex 2;
5. Decides on the deployment in Kosovo, under United Nations auspices,
of
international civil and security presences, with appropriate equipment
and
personnel as required, and welcomes the agreement of the Federal
Republic of
Yugoslavia to such presences;
6. Requests the Secretary-General to appoint, in consultation with the
Security Council, a Special Representative to control the implementation
of
the international civil presence, and further requests the
Secretary-General
to instruct his Special Representative to coordinate closely with the
international security presence to ensure that both presences operate
towards
the same goals and in a mutually supportive manner;
7. Authorizes Member States and relevant international organizations to
establish the international security presence in Kosovo as set out in
point 4
of annex 2 with all necessary means to fulfil its responsibilities under
paragraph 9 below;
8. Affirms the need for the rapid early deployment of effective
international
civil and security presences to Kosovo, and demands that the parties
cooperate fully in their deployment;
9. Decides that the responsibilities of the international security
presence
to be deployed and acting in Kosovo will include:
(a) Deterring renewed hostilities, maintaining and where necessary
enforcing
a ceasefire, and ensuring the withdrawal and preventing the return into
Kosovo of Federal and Republic military, police and paramilitary forces,
except as provided in point 6 of annex 2;
(b) Demilitarizing the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and other armed
Kosovo
Albanian groups as required in paragraph 15 below;
(c) Establishing a secure environment in which refugees and displaced
persons
can return home in safety, the international civil presence can operate,
a
transitional administration can be established, and humanitarian aid can
be
delivered;
(d) Ensuring public safety and order until the international civil
presence
can take responsibility for this task;
(e) Supervising demining until the international civil presence can, as
appropriate, take over responsibility for this task;
(f) Supporting, as appropriate, and coordinating closely with the work
of the
international civil presence;
(g) Conducting border monitoring duties as required;
(h) Ensuring the protection and freedom of movement of itself, the
international civil presence, and other international organizations;
10. Authorizes the Secretary-General, with the assistance of relevant
international organizations, to establish an international civil
presence in
Kosovo in order to provide an interim administration for Kosovo under
which
the people of Kosovo can enjoy substantial autonomy within the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, and which will provide transitional
administration
while establishing and overseeing the development of provisional
democratic
self-governing institutions to ensure conditions for a peaceful and
normal
life for all inhabitants of Kosovo;
11. Decides that the main responsibilities of the international civil
presence will include:
(a) Promoting the establishment, pending a final settlement, of
substantial
autonomy and self-government in Kosovo, taking full account of annex 2
and of
the Rambouillet accords (S/1999/648);
(b) Performing basic civilian administrative functions where and as long
as
required;
(c) Organizing and overseeing the development of provisional
institutions for
democratic and autonomous self-government pending a political
settlement,
including the holding of elections;
(d) Transferring, as these institutions are established, its
administrative
responsibilities while overseeing and supporting the consolidation of
Kosovo's local provisional institutions and other peace-building
activities;
(e) Facilitating a political process designed to determine Kosovo's
future
status, taking into account the Rambouillet accords (S/1999/648);
(f) In a final stage, overseeing the transfer of authority from Kosovo's
provisional institutions to institutions established under a political
settlement;
(g) Supporting the reconstruction of key infrastructure and other
economic
reconstruction;
(h) Supporting, in coordination with international humanitarian
organizations, humanitarian and disaster relief aid;
(i) Maintaining civil law and order, including establishing local police
forces and meanwhile through the deployment of international police
personnel
to serve in Kosovo;
(j) Protecting and promoting human rights;
(k) Assuring the safe and unimpeded return of all refugees and displaced
persons to their homes in Kosovo;
12. Emphasizes the need for coordinated humanitarian relief operations,
and
for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to allow unimpeded access to
Kosovo by
humanitarian aid organizations and to cooperate with such organizations
so as
to ensure the fast and effective delivery of international aid;
13. Encourages all Member States and international organizations to
contribute to economic and social reconstruction as well as to the safe
return of refugees and displaced persons, and emphasizes in this context
the
importance of convening an international donors' conference,
particularly for
the purposes set out in paragraph 11 (g) above, at the earliest possible
date;
14. Demands full cooperation by all concerned, including the
international
security presence, with the International Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia;
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;
16. Decides that the prohibitions imposed by paragraph 8 of resolution
1160
(1998) shall not apply to arms and related matériel for the use of the
international civil and security presences;
17. Welcomes the work in hand in the European Union and other
international
organizations to develop a comprehensive approach to the economic
development
and stabilization of the region affected by the Kosovo crisis, including
the
implementation of a Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe with broad
international participation in order to further the promotion of
democracy,
economic prosperity, stability and regional cooperation;
18. Demands that all States in the region cooperate fully in the
implementation of all aspects of this resolution;
19. Decides that the international civil and security presences are
established for an initial period of 12 months, to continue thereafter
unless
the Security Council decides otherwise;
20. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council at regular
intervals on the implementation of this resolution, including reports
from
the leaderships of the international civil and security presences, the
first
reports to be submitted within 30 days of the adoption of this
resolution;
21. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.
Annex 1
Statement by the Chairman on the conclusion of the meeting
of the G-8 Foreign Ministers held at the Petersberg Centre
on 6 May 1999
The G-8 Foreign Ministers adopted the following general principles on
the
political solution to the Kosovo crisis:
- Immediate and verifiable end of violence and repression in Kosovo;
- Withdrawal from Kosovo of military, police and paramilitary forces;
- Deployment in Kosovo of effective international civil and security
presences, endorsed and adopted by the United Nations, capable of
guaranteeing the achievement of the common objectives;
- Establishment of an interim administration for Kosovo to be decided by
the
Security Council of the United Nations to ensure conditions for a
peaceful
and normal life for all inhabitants in Kosovo;
- The safe and free return of all refugees and displaced persons and
unimpeded access to Kosovo by humanitarian aid organizations;
- A political process towards the establishment of an interim political
framework agreement providing for a substantial self-government for
Kosovo,
taking full account of the Rambouillet accords and the principles of
sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
and the other countries of the region, and the demilitarization of the
KLA;
- Comprehensive approach to the economic development and stabilization
of the
crisis region.
Annex 2
Agreement should be reached on the following principles to move towards
a
resolution of the Kosovo crisis:
1. An immediate and verifiable end of violence and repression in Kosovo.
2. Verifiable withdrawal from Kosovo of all military, police and
paramilitary
forces according to a rapid timetable.
3. Deployment in Kosovo under United Nations auspices of effective
international civil and security presences, acting as may be decided
under
Chapter VII of the Charter, capable of guaranteeing the achievement of
common
objectives.
4. The international security presence with substantial North Atlantic
Treaty
Organization participation must be deployed under unified command and
control
and authorized to establish a safe environment for all people in Kosovo
and
to facilitate the safe return to their homes of all displaced persons
and
refugees.
5. Establishment of an interim administration for Kosovo as a part of
the
international civil presence under which the people of Kosovo can enjoy
substantial autonomy within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to be
decided
by the Security Council of the United Nations. The interim
administration to
provide transitional administration while establishing and overseeing
the
development of provisional democratic self-governing institutions to
ensure
conditions for a peaceful and normal life for all inhabitants in Kosovo.
6. After withdrawal, an agreed number of Yugoslav and Serbian personnel
will
be permitted to return to perform the following functions:
- Liaison with the international civil mission and the international
security
presence;
- Marking/clearing minefields;
- Maintaining a presence at Serb patrimonial sites;
- Maintaining a presence at key border crossings.
7. Safe and free return of all refugees and displaced persons under the
supervision of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees and unimpeded access to Kosovo by humanitarian aid
organizations.
8. A political process towards the establishment of an interim political
framework agreement providing for substantial self-government for
Kosovo,
taking full account of the Rambouillet accords and the principles of
sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
and the other countries of the region, and the demilitarization of UCK.
Negotiations between the parties for a settlement should not delay or
disrupt
the establishment of democratic self-governing institutions.
9. A comprehensive approach to the economic development and
stabilization of
the crisis region. This will include the implementation of a stability
pact
for South-Eastern Europe with broad international participation in order
to
further promotion of democracy, economic prosperity, stability and
regional
cooperation.
10. Suspension of military activity will require acceptance of the
principles
set forth above in addition to agreement to other, previously
identified,
required elements, which are specified in the footnote below.1 A
military-technical agreement will then be rapidly concluded that would,
among
other things, specify additional modalities, including the roles and
functions of Yugoslav/Serb personnel in Kosovo:
Withdrawal
- Procedures for withdrawals, including the phased, detailed schedule
and
delineation of a buffer area in Serbia beyond which forces will be
withdrawn;
Returning personnel
- Equipment associated with returning personnel;
- Terms of reference for their functional responsibilities;
- Timetable for their return;
- Delineation of their geographical areas of operation;
- Rules governing their relationship to the international security
presence
and the international civil mission.
Notes
1 Other required elements:
- A rapid and precise timetable for withdrawals, meaning, e.g., seven
days to
complete withdrawal and air defence weapons withdrawn outside a 25
kilometre
mutual safety zone within 48 hours;
- Return of personnel for the four functions specified above will be
under
the supervision of the international security presence and will be
limited to
a small agreed number (hundreds, not thousands);
- Suspension of military activity will occur after the beginning of
verifiable withdrawals;
- The discussion and achievement of a military-technical agreement shall
not
extend the previously determined time for completion of withdrawals.
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Iraqi Kurds accuse Turkish warplanes of killing 38 civilians
10.16 p.m. ET (229 GMT) August 17, 2000
CAIRO, Egypt (AP)— Turkish warplanes have killed 38 civilians in a
strike on a camp of Kurdish herdsmen in Iraq, an Iraqi Kurdish group
said Thursday.
A military spokesman in Turkey's capital Ankara denied the allegation,
saying that Turkish planes would not attack civilian targets.
The planes attacked a camp of herdsmen and their families while pursuing
Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, or KDP,
said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press in Cairo.
Turkey has waged a 15-year war against Kurdish guerrillas who are
demanding autonomy in southern Turkey, which borders on Iraq.
The KDP statement wasn't clear on exactly when the attack occurred,
indicating it was either on Tuesday or Wednesday. The group couldn't be
reached for a clarification.
The statement also said that 11 people were wounded in the alleged raid
and four were missing.
The pilots had intended to strike targets of the Kurdistan Workers Party
or PKK in the northeastern border region of Iraq, the statement said.
The PKK declared a cease-fire early this year and the rebels began
retreating from Turkey to bases in Iraq and Iran. The Turkish armed
forces did not recognize the cease-fire.
In the past, KDP forces have assisted the Turkish military in operations
against the PKK inside Iraq.
The KDP and the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan control the Kurdish
zone of northern Iraq, an area whose autonomy has been protected by U.S.
and British planes since Iraqi government forces brutally put down a
Kurdish revolt there in 1991.
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10.16 p.m. ET (229 GMT) August 17, 2000
CAIRO, Egypt (AP)— Turkish warplanes have killed 38 civilians in a
strike on a camp of Kurdish herdsmen in Iraq, an Iraqi Kurdish group
said Thursday.
A military spokesman in Turkey's capital Ankara denied the allegation,
saying that Turkish planes would not attack civilian targets.
The planes attacked a camp of herdsmen and their families while pursuing
Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, or KDP,
said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press in Cairo.
Turkey has waged a 15-year war against Kurdish guerrillas who are
demanding autonomy in southern Turkey, which borders on Iraq.
The KDP statement wasn't clear on exactly when the attack occurred,
indicating it was either on Tuesday or Wednesday. The group couldn't be
reached for a clarification.
The statement also said that 11 people were wounded in the alleged raid
and four were missing.
The pilots had intended to strike targets of the Kurdistan Workers Party
or PKK in the northeastern border region of Iraq, the statement said.
The PKK declared a cease-fire early this year and the rebels began
retreating from Turkey to bases in Iraq and Iran. The Turkish armed
forces did not recognize the cease-fire.
In the past, KDP forces have assisted the Turkish military in operations
against the PKK inside Iraq.
The KDP and the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan control the Kurdish
zone of northern Iraq, an area whose autonomy has been protected by U.S.
and British planes since Iraqi government forces brutally put down a
Kurdish revolt there in 1991.
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EDGARDO SOGNO
Un golpista onorato con
funerali di stato da Giuliano Amato l'8 agosto del 2000
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EDGARDO SOGNO
Loggia P2
FASCICOLO 786
- note - attivo.
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EDGARDO SOGNO HA SCRITTO TRA L'ALTRO:
La Seconda Repubblica,
Sansoni, Firenze,
1° edizione 1974, pagg. 256;
4° edizione 1976, prefazione di Manlio Brosio, pagg. 464
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DA: Tiscalinet- almanacco - I Misteri D'Italia
6 agosto - Edgardo Sogno, in uno scritto dell' 11 luglio scorso,
probabilmente l' ultimo, inviato ad amici e ad intellettuali, nel
segnalare
numerosi articoli usciti "contro" di lui, afferma di "essersi battuto
per 50
anni per la distruzione dello Stato" che i comunisti "con i loro amici e
alleati sono riusciti a creare". "Non c'e' soluzione - scrive Sogno
riferendosi in modo particolare ai "comunisti" - al di fuori della
distruzione totale di questa realta' perche' le alternative sono
soltanto la
nostra sottomissione o il loro annientamento. Il Pc e' riuscito a
rendere
ovvia all' opinione comune delle Sinistre la nozione storica che io sono
un
mostro antidemocratico e totalitario". In una altro passo, Sogno
sostiene
che "sarebbe ridicolo pensare che i comunisti usino qualche obiettivita'
per
me che sono un loro nemico, ma e' ugualmente ridicolo ed assurdo
continuare
come voi fate ad illudersi che i comunisti accettino un qualche
compromesso
di ragionamento obiettivo quando non serva ad una loro poltica". Tra i
destinatari della lettera vi sono Gianni Baget Bozzo, Marcello Dell'
Utri,
Mario Cervi, Giorgio Forattini, Paolo Guzzanti, Marcello Pera, Maurizio
Belpietro, il "Foglio", Radio Radicale.
DA: COMMISSIONE STRAGI
relazione Giovanni Pellegrino Cap I - Il quadro storico-politico nel
dopoguerra
[...] E' da rilevare che nel fascicolo concernente "Pace e libertà"
presso
la Divisione Affari riservati del Ministero dell'interno vi è una
"riservatissima" priva di firma nella quale si afferma tra l'altro:
"elemento fiduciaro riferisce che nel corso di un lungo colloquio col
Conte
Sogno (...) il predetto gli ha esposto le sue idee politiche. Convinto
che
il popolo italiano ama la forza e persuaso inoltre che il primo
squadrismo
fascista del 19 e del '20 sia degno di encomio, in quanto fu capace di
rintuzzare la tracotanza rossa, Sogno tenta di rimettere in piedi uno
squadrismo "democratico", capace di difendere gli ideali cristiani e
democratici contro l'assolutismo comunista [...]. Egli ha detto che nel
1948, l'onorevole Scelba gli offrì la direzione della "Difesa civile",
egli
rifiutò perché la "Difesa civile" doveva entrare in azione soltanto nel
caso
che i comunisti tentassero un'azione di forza e (secondo le sue
opinioni)
non si possono galvanizzare gli uomini soltanto per un'occasione sola,
che
anche non potrà verificarsi. Occorre uno squadrismo risoluto e
attaccabrighe, capace di prendere l'iniziativa e non di servire da
semplice
reazione (50). Di questa offerta vi è traccia anche in una lettera di
Sogno
al ministro Carlo Sforza del 1949, nella quale egli dice: "Come Ella sa
il
ministro Scelba mi ha recentemente manifestato il desiderio di chiedere
il
mio distacco presso l'amministrazione dell'interno allo scopo di
affidarmi
un incarico alle sue dipendenze. L'onorevole Scelba mi ha parlato in
proposito della carica di prefetto di Firenze o di quella di capo del
costituendo Servizio per la Difesa civile" (51).
[...] Nella citata lettera di Sogno all'onorevole Moro vi è infatti un
passaggio che appare assai significativo "Nel luglio del 1953, per
iniziativa della Presidenza del Consiglio (governo Scelba) mi veniva
nuovamente proposto un incarico di carattere eccezionale e riservato
(organizzazione della difesa psicologica delle istituzioni democratiche)
in
ripresa di una operazione avviata nel 1948 per iniziativa del ministro
Sforza nel quadro dell'attività svolta in base al piano Marshall.
Accettai
tale incarico [...] l'azione volta per il tramite del comitato da me
organizzato ebbe tre fasi principali: in un primo periodo (fino
all'ottobre
1954) essa si concretò nella realizzazione del progetto che gli
onorevoli De
Gasperi e Pella evavano ripetutamente sostenuto in Consiglio atlantico e
consistente nel contrapporre l'azione degli organi promotori e
coordinatori
della propaganda occidentale alla costante iniziativa sovietica nel
campo
della informazione. Nel secondo periodo (ottobre 1954 - giugno 195) il
Comitato assolse funzioni specifiche nel quadro dei provvedimenti
adottati
dal governo Scelba per la difesa delle istituzioni, assumendo compiti di
punta che non potevano essere affidati ad organi governativi. Nel terzo
periodo (dopo il giugno 1955) il Comitato ridusse progressivamente
l'azione
esterna per concentrarsi su compiti di carattere riservato sempre nel
campo
della difesa psicologica. Durante questo servizio prestato alle dirette
dipendenze della Presidenza del Consiglio ed in collaborazione con i
Ministeri dell'interno e della difesa, rimasi nei ruoli del Ministero
esteri
[...] (57). E' da rilevare che nel corso dell'interrogatorio del
generale
Allavena dinanzi alla Commissione d'inchiesta Lombardi (di cui si
tratterà
in prosieguo) egli afferma che l'istituzione, al Servizio, di una
rubrica
"E" (estremisti), avvenuta nel 1953 "derivava dalla circostanza che si
era
costituito presso il Ministero dell'interno un Comitato anticomunista"
(58).
L'affermazione di Allavena sembra offrire una conferma delle parole di
Sogno. L'attività di Pace e Libertà può inserirsi in questo contesto ma
non
certo esaurire le iniziative di questo Comitato. Sogno, peraltro, nella
lettera a Moro, opera una precisa periodizzazione, mostrando che il suo
incarico assume, nel volgere degli anni, un carattere sempre più
riservato.
Una conferma di tale affermazione potrebbe rilevarsi nella "relazione
sull'attività svolta dal Comitato Nazionale "Pace e Libertà" dal 1º
gennaio
al 31 dicembre 1956" redatta presumibilmente dalla Direzione del
Movimento e
contenuta tra gli atti del fascicolo esistente alla Divisione Affari
riservati del Ministero dell'interno: "Agli inizi del 1956 gli sviluppi
internazionali e nazionali della politica della coesistenza e della
distensione consigliavano una parziale rinunzia alla propaganda di tipo
diretto e aggressivo e rendevano necessaria una più o meno rigorosa
mimetizzazione dell'azione anticomunista. In conformità a tale esigenza,
il
Comitato Difesa Nazionale sottrasse una parte considerevole dei mezzi
disponibili al Comitato Nazionale "Pace e Libertà" per destinarli ad
altri
organismi" (59). E' ipotizzabile, dunque, l'esistenza di altre strutture
non
note a questa Commissione. Contatti con i servizi di sicurezza della
Nato
non adombrati in una relazione contenuta nel fascicolo dedicato a Pace e
Libertà presso la Divisione Affari riservati del Ministero dell'interno
(60). In un altro appunto, sempre nel predetto fascicolo, c'è la
conferma
del rapporto tra Sogno e Pièche (61): "Dal dottor Sogno stesso si è
appreso
che il generale di Corpo d'Armata Giuseppe Pièche fa parte attiva della
sua
organizzazione. E' da ritenere, quindi, che tale alta personalità possa
agire con funzioni di guida e di controllo" (62). Nel più volte citato
fascicolo della Divisione Affari riservati del Ministero dell'interno vi
è
infine una relazione anonima, che l'Ufficio invia in copia al Capo della
polizia, di una non precisata "fonte fiduciaria militante nel PSI",
nella
quale si afferma: "approfittando del soggiorno a Milano ho ritenuto
opportuno, prendere contatti concreti e conclusivi con il dottor Sogno
Edgardo [...] già addetto al Defence College della Nato [...]. L'opera
di
propaganda e di forza del Movimento "Pace e Libertà" esorbita dalle
limitazioni osservate da analoghe organizzazioni [...] ponendosi su un
piano
di lotta aperta ed a oltranza, con organizzazione paramilitare. [...] Il
"centro sicurezza" raccoglie gruppi di ex partigiani autonomi, nonché di
giovani volontari di "Pace e Libertà", organicamente costituiti in
reparti
da impiegarsi in azione controrivoluzionaria, qualora il potere dovesse
passare in mano alle sinistre, anche se ci ò dovesse malauguratamente,
avvenire attraverso consultazioni elettorali. [...] L'accesso ai locali
è
inibito a chicchessia. Essendo accompagnato dal Sogno, ho potuto
personalmente rendermi conto della elevata efficienza della
organizzazione.
Presso la Direzione ho preso visione di [...] carteggio riservato. Da
esso
si è rilevato:
a) che il Sogno ha preso diretto contatto, recentemente, con il
Presidente
del Consiglio, onorevole Scelba. Dell'esito di tale contatto egli ha
trasmesso una succinta, ma delicata, relazione alle autorità dalle quali
dipende (non esattamente definite) (sottolineato nel testo, n.d.r.)
b) che il Sogno opera con la piena autorizzazione del Ministero degli
esteri
italiano dal quale direttamente dipende [...]
c) che la organizzazione "Pace e Libertà" è validamente sostenuta da
potenti
erogazioni finanziarie provenienti da gruppi industriali del Nord
d) che il Sogno gode di un certo appoggio di elementi dell'Ambasciata
americana (segreteria Signora Luce) [...] (63). Il dato più rilevante di
questa informativa riguarda certamente l'affermata esistenza di reparti
da
impiegarsi in non meglio specificate "azioni contro rivoluzionarie"
qualora
il potere fosse passato alle sinistre, anche in seguito a libere
consultazioni elettorali. Dal complesso di informazioni a disposizione
di
questa Commissione appare evidente il carattere di "Pace e Libertà" come
organizzazione con doppio livello di attività, una palese e legale,
l'altra
occulta e illegale. Questo doppio livello si appalesa anche nella forma
societaria, privata nella forma e ufficiale nella sostanza. Resta oscuro
il
senso delle affermazioni contenute nella lettera di Sogno a Moro, nella
quale egli accenna ad una attività più riservata che egli stesso avrebbe
svolto - non è chiaro se all'interno di Pace e Libertà o a prescindere
da
essa - dopo il giugno 1955. Di rilevante interesse sono anche gli
accenni
fatti da Sogno alla "difesa civile", che - come già accennato nelle
pagine
precedenti - lascia intuire la possibile esistenza di una struttura
segreta
di intervento anticomunista fin dal dopoguerra in seno al Ministero
dell'interno, probabilmente nell'ambito della direzione generale dei
Servizi
antincendi.
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[...] Agnelli, la massoneria, i golpisti bianchi e neri
Roberto Fabiani, giornalista de L'Espresso (massone di Giustizia e
Libertà,
confidente di Licio Gelli e dell'ingegner Siniscalchi, massone
avversario
della P2) esperto di servizi segreti e massoneria, ha scritto in un
libro, I
massoni in Italia del 1978 che Gianni Agnelli, assieme ad altri
industriali,
faceva parte della massoneria, nella quale fu introdotto da Valletta, e
della P2 prima che venisse sciolta nel 1974.
Al di là di confermare o meno questi dati, quel che è certo (lo ha
dichiarato lo stesso Agnelli ai giudici) è che la Fiat ha finanziato
abbondantemente la massoneria di Lino Salvini che, non dimentichiamolo,
fu
messo sotto inchiesta per il golpe Borghese, per l'assassinio del
giudice
Occorsio e per l'Italicus. Sappiamo anche che attraverso Edgardo Sogno,
iscritto alla P2, i finanziamenti finirono anche alla loggia di Gelli.
Dall'inchiesta del giudice Catalani emerse che la Fiat nel periodo fra
il
1971 e il 1976, tramite la Banca popolare di Novara, emise circa 3.000
assegni per un valore di allora di circa 15 miliardi, una cifra enorme,
tale
da giustificare ben altri obiettivi che non il semplice finanziamento
alla
massoneria. Tramite un prestanome, a riscuotere gli assegni presso la
Cassa
di risparmio di Firenze era un industriale farmaceutico, Piero Cerchiai,
gran tesoriere aggiunto della massoneria di palazzo Giustiniani (Grande
Oriente). La conferma dell'emissione degli assegni venne anche dalle
deposizioni di Luciano Macchia, condirettore dell'IFI della famiglia
Agnelli
e di Maria Cantamessa, cassiera generale della Fiat e inquisita per il
tentativo di golpe attribuito a Edgardo Sogno e Luigi Cavallo.
[...] Altri finanziamenti giunsero a Sogno dalla Fiat (400 milioni del
1974)
per mezzo del consigliere particolare di Giovanni Agnelli, l'attuale
deputato europeo della Dc Vittorino Chiusano, che dal 1966 svolge la
funzione di collegamento della Fiat con la Dc. La Fiat aveva anche altri
canali di collegamento con l'area del golpismo bianco e della destra Dc.
Nel 1972 venne alla luce il caso di Ubaldo Scassellati, direttore della
fondazione Agnelli, che aveva dato al piano "cinque per cinque" legato
al
movimento della destra Dc "Europa 70" cospicui finanziamenti in vista di
un
piano presidenzialista simile a quello di Pacciardi e Sogno. Scoperto,
Ubaldo Scassellati venne scaricato dalla Fiat che lo sostituì con
Vittorino
Chiusano per il medesimo scopo. Compagno di cordata dell'allora
segretario
della fondazione Agnelli era il democristiano Bartolo Ciccardini,
esperto
Nato, fautore della seconda repubblica, militarista folle; ha più volte
chiesto che anche l'Italia si doti di una forza nucleare autonoma.
Finanziamenti della Fiat finirono quasi sicuramente anche alla Cisal, un
sindacato autonomo attorno al quale lavoravano elementi legati al Fronte
di
Borghese (il dentista torinese Salvatore Francia) ed il solito Edgardo
Sogno. Quest'ultimo, ambasciatore leader della destra liberale, massone
P2
(assieme al repubblicano Pacciardi anch'egli massone) ha rappresentato
negli
anni della strategia della tensione una sorta di crocevia attraverso il
quale si incontravano le varie facce del golpismo e del
presidenzialismo. Ex
partigiano bianco, il Sogno era legato ai servizi segreti alleati
(anglo-Usa) e successivamente alla Nato e alla Cia: in quanto
ambasciatore,
poteva godere dell'immunità diplomatica per le sue trame. Sogno teneva
contatti con tutte le aree del golpismo bianco (Mar di Fumagalli, Rosa
dei
venti, Europa 70) e nero (Fronte di Borghese, Ordine nuovo, eccetera) ed
agiva in proprio, in stretto rapporto con l'esercito e i carabinieri.
Ma soprattutto Sogno era uomo della Fiat e non si limitava ad agire
nell'ombra, emarginato tra bombaroli ed agenti dei servizi. Nel 1973,
come
documenta Gianni Flamini, Edgardo Sogno organizzò a Firenze sotto
l'egida
del suo "Comitato di resistenza democratica" nei locali della "Nazione"
del
golpista Attilio Monti un convegno sulla "rifondazione dello stato". Al
convegno non intervennero nostalgici golpisti suonati, ma personaggi con
cariche pubbliche importanti, come il giudice costituzionale Vezio
Crisafulli il quale aprì i lavori affermando "il tema delle
modificazioni
costituzionali pone i seguenti problemi: repubblica presidenziale,
abolizione dell'assurdo, ingombrante bicameralismo, delimitazioni delle
competenze parlamentari, con conferimento di poteri normativi propri al
governo, unificazione della figura del presidente del consiglio con
quella
del segretario del partito di maggioranza".
Tra gli altri intervennero sul medesimo tono Aldo Sandrelli, Domenico
Fisichella, il componente del consiglio superiore della magistratura
Gianni
Di Benedetto, Valerio Zanone, Antonio Patuelli. Intervenne anche il
consigliere speciale di Fanfani Antonio Lombardo, ex appartenente a
Ordine
nuovo il quale pose il problema: costituzione antifascista o
anticomunista.
Al convegno di Sogno parteciparono anche i democristiani del movimento
Europa 70 Pietro Giubilo, Celso De Stefanis, Maurizio Gilardi i quali
affermarono: "il periodo di centrosinistra ha prodotto più disastri nel
nostro paese di una guerra e ha generato germi di dissoluzione, forze ed
energie altamente incontrollabili. C'è la consapevolezza molto più
diffusa
di quanto non si possa pensare che la prima repubblica è finita". Nel
concludere i lavori Edgardo Sogno, soddisfatto della generale
accoglienza
avuta dalla sua proposta di seconda repubblica presidenziale, mandò un
messaggio a Giovanni Leone perché intervenisse anticipando i tempi,
aggiungendo nella sua qualità di ambasciatore che ciò era auspicato
anche
negli Usa.
Il 22 agosto 1974 il PM di Torino Violante ordinò una perquisizione
nella
casa di Sogno (che ebbe tempo di sparire) ritenendo che "Edgardo Sogno
agisce per la costituzione di una organizzazione intesa a riunire tutti
i
gruppi di estrema destra, tra i quali Ordine nuovo in epoca successiva
al
suo scioglimento". Nello stesso periodo, con un comunicato di stampa
congiunto, il Mar di Fumagalli, le Sam, Avanguardia nazionale, Potere
nero
dichiararono guerra allo stato.
Il 28 luglio 1974 durante il congresso del Pli, Sogno denunciò il
pericolo
di un golpe marxista e propose di attuare un colpo di stato liberale per
prevenire i tempi. Poco dopo, il 4 agosto 1974, avvenne la strage
dell'Italicus.
[...]Nell'ottobre 1974 il golpe Sogno è nell'aria, il partito americano
si è
messo in moto. Il presidente Giovanni Leone è tornato da poco dagli Usa,
il
ministro delle finanze Tanassi con un durissimo attacco ha provocato la
caduta del governo Rumor ed afferma trionfante che il centrosinistra è
morto! Anche la stampa estera si rende conto di quanto avviene in
Italia,
tra gli altri Le Monde scrive: "il modo con cui si è aperta la nuova
crisi
ministeriale italiana ravviverà i sospetti di chi imputa agli Usa
interventi
e pressioni occulte nella vita politica dei loro alleati".
In quei giorni Edgardo Sogno si incontrò a Roma con l'ammiraglio
Birindelli
ex comandante Nato, ex presidente del Msi, per concordare l'intervento
di
militari in occasione di un nuovo attentato che si stava preparando.
Accadde
però che il genovese Pietro Benvenuto, uomo di fiducia del dirigente
della
Rosa dei venti De Marchi, mentre stava preparando la bomba ebbe un
incidente
"sul lavoro" col detonatore e, ferito, fu costretto a fuggire
all'estero.
Successivamente il giudice Vitalone scagionerà Edgardo Sogno e Pacciardi
perché i sospetti iniziali sul tentativo di golpe mai sono assurti a
dignità
di prova. Nell'aprile 1975 Giovanni Agnelli incontrò il presidente della
repubblica Leone, al quale chiese di intervenire contro gli scioperi e
per
ripristinare la governabilità del paese. [...]
DA: NUOVA REPUBBLICA
Anno III (nuova serie) - Nr. 3 - Marzo 1997
(quotidiano dei liberali mazziniani di ravenna associati a forza italia
-
http://www.agora.stm.it/nuova.repubblica/)
[...]Ci ha provato anche Edgardo Sogno, ex ambasciatore ed ex capo
partigiano, medaglia d'oro della Resistenza, che ha avuto un suo momento
di
notorietà a metà degli anni Settanta, quando fu incriminato per
"cospirazione contro le istituzioni dello Stato". Nei giorni scorsi
Sogno ha
voluto ritagliarsi un altro piccolo spazio sulla ribalta della cronaca,
"rivelando" che "sì, in effetti nel 1974 era tutto pronto per effettuare
un
golpe democratico per difendere l'Italia dal pericolo di una conquista
del
potere da parte dei comunisti". Non solo: Sogno, con un colpo di scena,
ha
tirato fuori dalla tasca un foglio di carta con l'elenco dei ministri
del
"gabinetto di salute pubblica". In cima alla lista, il nome di Randolfo
Pacciardi, cui sarebbe stato assegnato l'incarico di capo del governo
(Sogno, più modestamente, aveva riservato per sé il ministero della
Difesa).
A seguire, una sequela di nomi prestigiosi con l'indicazione di un
dicastero. Un asterisco contrassegnava le persone che, a suo tempo,
erano
state messe a conoscenza del progetto di colpo di Stato. Gli altri sono
stati definiti da Sogno "presunti consenzienti". Tra questi ultimi il
presidente attuale di Nuova Repubblica, Antonio de Martini, e uno dei
più
assidui e autorevoli collaboratori del nostro mensile, il professor
Mauro
Mita. Entrambi erano, anche nel 1974, stretti collaboratori di Pacciardi
e
Sogno li "gratifica" ora indicandoli rispettivamente come
sottosegratario
alla presidenza del Consiglio e ministro dell'Informazione. [...]
Da: Stragi di stato http://www.strano.net/stragi/
ipertesto a cura di Stefano Sansavini dell'Associazione sTRANO nETWORK
Sogno Edgardo
Nell'inverno del 1944 il tenente Edgardo Sogno e' a capo
dell'"Organizzazione Franchi" (rete spionistica collegata all'IS, il
servizio segreto inglese, si tratta di una delle formazioni partigiane
bianche, foraggiate dagli alleati che agiscono in molte citta' citta'
del
nord.
Nel 1947 risulta collaborare con i servizi segreti USA alla
riorganizzazione
di un servizio informativo militare in Italia.
Nel Luglio 1953, dopo aver seguito a Parigi i corsi del "Defense
College"
per la guerra psicologica, torna in Italia per organizzare il movimento
"Pace e Liberta'", che fondera'nell'Ottobre dello stesso anno, con
l'appoggio totale della CIA, anche dal punto di vista finanziario. La
nascita dell'organizzazione inoltre era stata voluta dall'allora
presidente
del consiglio Scelba e dal ministero della difesa guidato da Randolfo
Pacciardi, lo rivela lo stesso Sogno in una lettera a Francesco Silj,
direttore generale del personale del ministero degli affari esteri, del
3/3/1960 in cui dice: "...L'interesse politico di non far sapere
all'opinione pubblica che dietro Pace e Liberta' stavano il governo
Scelba,
il ministero della difesa e vari complessi industriali privati e' ormai
talmente irrilevante che possiamo lavarcene le mani?...". Al gruppo
aderisce
anche Luigi Cavallo; nel 1954 Il gruppo, che ottiene anche finanziamenti
dalla FIAT e dalla Pirelli, inizia una intensa attivita' contro gli
operai
di sinistra nelle fabbriche del nord, frequenti saranno anche le
pubblicazioni di falsi documenti del PCI. In un appunto del SIFAR datato
16/10/1953 si legge a proposito di Pace e Liberta' "...Il Movimento si
dovrebbe persino sostituire alla polizia, specie nello schedare gli
attivisti del PCI e le maestranze comuniste...". Il gruppo aveva inoltre
carattere internazionale, la sua origine risale infatti al 1951, quando
l'ex
funzionario della NATO, Jean Paul David fonda a Parigi una agenzia
informativa anticomunista che chiamera' "Paix et liberte'". In un'altro
appunto del SIFAR datato 25/5/1954 si legge "...Il David e il Sogno si
sono
recati a Roma per far visita all'Ambasciatore degli USA, Luce, ed al
presidente del consiglio Scelba, per ottenere un congruo finanziamento
per
la intensificazione della propaganda anticomunista in Italia. Oltre che
in
Italia, analoghe organizzazioni furono fondate in Belgio, Olanda e
Germania.
Nel 1954 i rapporti fra Cavallo e Sogno si guastano, in un appunto del
SIFAR
del 2/12/1954 viene scritto "...Viene riferito che il conte Sogno in
data 20
Novembre u.s. ha allontanato dal movimento Pace e Libeta'...Luigi
Cavallo...".
Il 4 Novembre 1956 truppe sovietiche invadono l'Ungheria. Sogno giunge
nel
paese per salvare alcuni esponenti del deposto governo Nagy. Si instaura
un
fitto rapporto epistolare per la riuscita dell'impresa fra Sogno e il
ministro Taviani.
Nel Febbraio 1971 Sogno fonda i Comitati di Resistenza Democratica , cui
aderisce fra gli altri, l'ex comandante dei partigiani bianchi Enrico
Martini-Mauri. In questo periodo riprende i contatti con Luigi Cavallo,
da
questo rinato sodalizio ne ricava, fra il Giugno '71 e il Luglio '74 ben
187
milioni di finanziamento dalla FIAT, per la sua nuova organizzazione
anticomunista. Sogno e Cavallo non si limitano a intascare finanziamenti
dalle grandi industrie ma lavorano in questo periodo alla preparazione
di un
"golpe bianco", che Cavallo cosi' definisce "...un golpe di destra con
un
programma avanzato di sinistra che divida lo schieramento antifascista e
metta i fascisti fuori gioco...". Tale progetto vedra' il sostanzioso
appoggio del gen. Maletti, capo dell'ufficio D del SIFAR.
Nell'agosto del '74, il ministro della difesa Giulio Andreotti parla
dell'esistenza di piu' di un tentativo di colpo di stato. Edgardo Sogno,
contemporaneamente, lancia un appello per un "...colpo di stato
liberale...". Il golpe, si sapra' poi, avrebbe dovuto scattare in piena
estate, durante la chiusura delle fabbriche e gode dell'appoggio degli
USA e
della loggia P2 di Licio Gelli a cui Sogno e' iscritto.
In tutto questo periodo Sogno svolge le funzioni di ambasciatore della
repubblica italiana presso vari paesi esteri.
Il 23 Agosto 1974 la magistratura di Torino scopre il complotto facente
capo
a Edgardo Sogno , Randolfo Pacciardi ed altri fra cui il braccio destro
di
Junio Valerio Borghese. Il golpe era previsto per ferragosto e aveva
come
obiettivo di forzare l'intervento dei militari a favore di una
repubblica
presidenziale.
Il 27/1/1975 il giudice Violante aveva valutato necessario acquisire
agli
atti il carteggio riguardante Sogno, esistente negli archivi del SID. Il
successivo 12 Febbraio il SID invia poche pagine piene di "omissis",
affermando che "...le parti mancanti non potevano essere trasmesse,
perche'
si riferivano a materia connessa a specifica attivita' di
controspionaggio...". Il 4/6/1975, il presidente del consiglio Moro,
afferma
che "...i documenti non consegnati rientravano nella materia connessa a
specifica attivita' di controspionaggio in relazione a dati formali
soggettivi (nomi di personaggi stranieri e di agenti informatori, sigle
di
operazioni di controspionaggio, denominazione di uffici addetti alle
operazioni ed altri elementi analoghi) che dovevano essere mantenuti
segreti
a tutela di interessi politici e militari...".
Il 5/5/1976 Violante emette mandato di arresto contro Sogno e Cavallo.
Il 24 Maggio 1976 la magistratura romana conferma le accuse del giudice
Violante di Torino, ed emette altri due mandati di cattura per Sogno e
Cavallo. Il 19 Giugno pero', il giudice istruttore Filippo Fiore, su
conforme parere del pubblico ministero poneva i due imputati in liberta'
provvisoria, il p.m. quindi chiedeva il proscioglimento di Sogno e
Cavallo
per insufficienza di prove e degli altri imputati per non aver commesso
il
fatto. Il 12 Settembre 1978 il giudice istruttore Francesco Amato emette
una
sentenza di proscioglimento per tutti gli imputati "...perche' il fatto
non
sussiste...".
Le Brigate Rosse sequestreranno documenti riservati e gli elenchi degli
iscritti all'organizzazione di Sogno, ma, gli autori del sequestro,
verranno
immediatamente arrestati e la documentazione viene fatta scomparire dai
carabinieri.
Nel Dicembre 1990 Sogno ha rilasciato un'intervista a Panorama nella
quale
ha rivelato che i suoi comitati di resistenza democratica avevano preso
"...l'impegno di sparare contro coloro che avessero fatto il governo con
i
comunisti...".
Alcune delle note richiamate dal documento sulle stragi
49) Lettera di Edgardo Sogno al ministro degli esteri Aldo Moro del 12
agosto 1969. Archivio storico Camera dei deputati.
62) "Aggiornamento notizie sull'organizzazione Sogno: "Pace e Libertà".
Doc.
datato 12 maggio 54 in: Ministero dell'interno, Divisione AA.RR. fasc.
cit.
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Un golpista onorato con
funerali di stato da Giuliano Amato l'8 agosto del 2000
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EDGARDO SOGNO
Loggia P2
FASCICOLO 786
- note - attivo.
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EDGARDO SOGNO HA SCRITTO TRA L'ALTRO:
La Seconda Repubblica,
Sansoni, Firenze,
1° edizione 1974, pagg. 256;
4° edizione 1976, prefazione di Manlio Brosio, pagg. 464
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DA: Tiscalinet- almanacco - I Misteri D'Italia
6 agosto - Edgardo Sogno, in uno scritto dell' 11 luglio scorso,
probabilmente l' ultimo, inviato ad amici e ad intellettuali, nel
segnalare
numerosi articoli usciti "contro" di lui, afferma di "essersi battuto
per 50
anni per la distruzione dello Stato" che i comunisti "con i loro amici e
alleati sono riusciti a creare". "Non c'e' soluzione - scrive Sogno
riferendosi in modo particolare ai "comunisti" - al di fuori della
distruzione totale di questa realta' perche' le alternative sono
soltanto la
nostra sottomissione o il loro annientamento. Il Pc e' riuscito a
rendere
ovvia all' opinione comune delle Sinistre la nozione storica che io sono
un
mostro antidemocratico e totalitario". In una altro passo, Sogno
sostiene
che "sarebbe ridicolo pensare che i comunisti usino qualche obiettivita'
per
me che sono un loro nemico, ma e' ugualmente ridicolo ed assurdo
continuare
come voi fate ad illudersi che i comunisti accettino un qualche
compromesso
di ragionamento obiettivo quando non serva ad una loro poltica". Tra i
destinatari della lettera vi sono Gianni Baget Bozzo, Marcello Dell'
Utri,
Mario Cervi, Giorgio Forattini, Paolo Guzzanti, Marcello Pera, Maurizio
Belpietro, il "Foglio", Radio Radicale.
DA: COMMISSIONE STRAGI
relazione Giovanni Pellegrino Cap I - Il quadro storico-politico nel
dopoguerra
[...] E' da rilevare che nel fascicolo concernente "Pace e libertà"
presso
la Divisione Affari riservati del Ministero dell'interno vi è una
"riservatissima" priva di firma nella quale si afferma tra l'altro:
"elemento fiduciaro riferisce che nel corso di un lungo colloquio col
Conte
Sogno (...) il predetto gli ha esposto le sue idee politiche. Convinto
che
il popolo italiano ama la forza e persuaso inoltre che il primo
squadrismo
fascista del 19 e del '20 sia degno di encomio, in quanto fu capace di
rintuzzare la tracotanza rossa, Sogno tenta di rimettere in piedi uno
squadrismo "democratico", capace di difendere gli ideali cristiani e
democratici contro l'assolutismo comunista [...]. Egli ha detto che nel
1948, l'onorevole Scelba gli offrì la direzione della "Difesa civile",
egli
rifiutò perché la "Difesa civile" doveva entrare in azione soltanto nel
caso
che i comunisti tentassero un'azione di forza e (secondo le sue
opinioni)
non si possono galvanizzare gli uomini soltanto per un'occasione sola,
che
anche non potrà verificarsi. Occorre uno squadrismo risoluto e
attaccabrighe, capace di prendere l'iniziativa e non di servire da
semplice
reazione (50). Di questa offerta vi è traccia anche in una lettera di
Sogno
al ministro Carlo Sforza del 1949, nella quale egli dice: "Come Ella sa
il
ministro Scelba mi ha recentemente manifestato il desiderio di chiedere
il
mio distacco presso l'amministrazione dell'interno allo scopo di
affidarmi
un incarico alle sue dipendenze. L'onorevole Scelba mi ha parlato in
proposito della carica di prefetto di Firenze o di quella di capo del
costituendo Servizio per la Difesa civile" (51).
[...] Nella citata lettera di Sogno all'onorevole Moro vi è infatti un
passaggio che appare assai significativo "Nel luglio del 1953, per
iniziativa della Presidenza del Consiglio (governo Scelba) mi veniva
nuovamente proposto un incarico di carattere eccezionale e riservato
(organizzazione della difesa psicologica delle istituzioni democratiche)
in
ripresa di una operazione avviata nel 1948 per iniziativa del ministro
Sforza nel quadro dell'attività svolta in base al piano Marshall.
Accettai
tale incarico [...] l'azione volta per il tramite del comitato da me
organizzato ebbe tre fasi principali: in un primo periodo (fino
all'ottobre
1954) essa si concretò nella realizzazione del progetto che gli
onorevoli De
Gasperi e Pella evavano ripetutamente sostenuto in Consiglio atlantico e
consistente nel contrapporre l'azione degli organi promotori e
coordinatori
della propaganda occidentale alla costante iniziativa sovietica nel
campo
della informazione. Nel secondo periodo (ottobre 1954 - giugno 195) il
Comitato assolse funzioni specifiche nel quadro dei provvedimenti
adottati
dal governo Scelba per la difesa delle istituzioni, assumendo compiti di
punta che non potevano essere affidati ad organi governativi. Nel terzo
periodo (dopo il giugno 1955) il Comitato ridusse progressivamente
l'azione
esterna per concentrarsi su compiti di carattere riservato sempre nel
campo
della difesa psicologica. Durante questo servizio prestato alle dirette
dipendenze della Presidenza del Consiglio ed in collaborazione con i
Ministeri dell'interno e della difesa, rimasi nei ruoli del Ministero
esteri
[...] (57). E' da rilevare che nel corso dell'interrogatorio del
generale
Allavena dinanzi alla Commissione d'inchiesta Lombardi (di cui si
tratterà
in prosieguo) egli afferma che l'istituzione, al Servizio, di una
rubrica
"E" (estremisti), avvenuta nel 1953 "derivava dalla circostanza che si
era
costituito presso il Ministero dell'interno un Comitato anticomunista"
(58).
L'affermazione di Allavena sembra offrire una conferma delle parole di
Sogno. L'attività di Pace e Libertà può inserirsi in questo contesto ma
non
certo esaurire le iniziative di questo Comitato. Sogno, peraltro, nella
lettera a Moro, opera una precisa periodizzazione, mostrando che il suo
incarico assume, nel volgere degli anni, un carattere sempre più
riservato.
Una conferma di tale affermazione potrebbe rilevarsi nella "relazione
sull'attività svolta dal Comitato Nazionale "Pace e Libertà" dal 1º
gennaio
al 31 dicembre 1956" redatta presumibilmente dalla Direzione del
Movimento e
contenuta tra gli atti del fascicolo esistente alla Divisione Affari
riservati del Ministero dell'interno: "Agli inizi del 1956 gli sviluppi
internazionali e nazionali della politica della coesistenza e della
distensione consigliavano una parziale rinunzia alla propaganda di tipo
diretto e aggressivo e rendevano necessaria una più o meno rigorosa
mimetizzazione dell'azione anticomunista. In conformità a tale esigenza,
il
Comitato Difesa Nazionale sottrasse una parte considerevole dei mezzi
disponibili al Comitato Nazionale "Pace e Libertà" per destinarli ad
altri
organismi" (59). E' ipotizzabile, dunque, l'esistenza di altre strutture
non
note a questa Commissione. Contatti con i servizi di sicurezza della
Nato
non adombrati in una relazione contenuta nel fascicolo dedicato a Pace e
Libertà presso la Divisione Affari riservati del Ministero dell'interno
(60). In un altro appunto, sempre nel predetto fascicolo, c'è la
conferma
del rapporto tra Sogno e Pièche (61): "Dal dottor Sogno stesso si è
appreso
che il generale di Corpo d'Armata Giuseppe Pièche fa parte attiva della
sua
organizzazione. E' da ritenere, quindi, che tale alta personalità possa
agire con funzioni di guida e di controllo" (62). Nel più volte citato
fascicolo della Divisione Affari riservati del Ministero dell'interno vi
è
infine una relazione anonima, che l'Ufficio invia in copia al Capo della
polizia, di una non precisata "fonte fiduciaria militante nel PSI",
nella
quale si afferma: "approfittando del soggiorno a Milano ho ritenuto
opportuno, prendere contatti concreti e conclusivi con il dottor Sogno
Edgardo [...] già addetto al Defence College della Nato [...]. L'opera
di
propaganda e di forza del Movimento "Pace e Libertà" esorbita dalle
limitazioni osservate da analoghe organizzazioni [...] ponendosi su un
piano
di lotta aperta ed a oltranza, con organizzazione paramilitare. [...] Il
"centro sicurezza" raccoglie gruppi di ex partigiani autonomi, nonché di
giovani volontari di "Pace e Libertà", organicamente costituiti in
reparti
da impiegarsi in azione controrivoluzionaria, qualora il potere dovesse
passare in mano alle sinistre, anche se ci ò dovesse malauguratamente,
avvenire attraverso consultazioni elettorali. [...] L'accesso ai locali
è
inibito a chicchessia. Essendo accompagnato dal Sogno, ho potuto
personalmente rendermi conto della elevata efficienza della
organizzazione.
Presso la Direzione ho preso visione di [...] carteggio riservato. Da
esso
si è rilevato:
a) che il Sogno ha preso diretto contatto, recentemente, con il
Presidente
del Consiglio, onorevole Scelba. Dell'esito di tale contatto egli ha
trasmesso una succinta, ma delicata, relazione alle autorità dalle quali
dipende (non esattamente definite) (sottolineato nel testo, n.d.r.)
b) che il Sogno opera con la piena autorizzazione del Ministero degli
esteri
italiano dal quale direttamente dipende [...]
c) che la organizzazione "Pace e Libertà" è validamente sostenuta da
potenti
erogazioni finanziarie provenienti da gruppi industriali del Nord
d) che il Sogno gode di un certo appoggio di elementi dell'Ambasciata
americana (segreteria Signora Luce) [...] (63). Il dato più rilevante di
questa informativa riguarda certamente l'affermata esistenza di reparti
da
impiegarsi in non meglio specificate "azioni contro rivoluzionarie"
qualora
il potere fosse passato alle sinistre, anche in seguito a libere
consultazioni elettorali. Dal complesso di informazioni a disposizione
di
questa Commissione appare evidente il carattere di "Pace e Libertà" come
organizzazione con doppio livello di attività, una palese e legale,
l'altra
occulta e illegale. Questo doppio livello si appalesa anche nella forma
societaria, privata nella forma e ufficiale nella sostanza. Resta oscuro
il
senso delle affermazioni contenute nella lettera di Sogno a Moro, nella
quale egli accenna ad una attività più riservata che egli stesso avrebbe
svolto - non è chiaro se all'interno di Pace e Libertà o a prescindere
da
essa - dopo il giugno 1955. Di rilevante interesse sono anche gli
accenni
fatti da Sogno alla "difesa civile", che - come già accennato nelle
pagine
precedenti - lascia intuire la possibile esistenza di una struttura
segreta
di intervento anticomunista fin dal dopoguerra in seno al Ministero
dell'interno, probabilmente nell'ambito della direzione generale dei
Servizi
antincendi.
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[...] Agnelli, la massoneria, i golpisti bianchi e neri
Roberto Fabiani, giornalista de L'Espresso (massone di Giustizia e
Libertà,
confidente di Licio Gelli e dell'ingegner Siniscalchi, massone
avversario
della P2) esperto di servizi segreti e massoneria, ha scritto in un
libro, I
massoni in Italia del 1978 che Gianni Agnelli, assieme ad altri
industriali,
faceva parte della massoneria, nella quale fu introdotto da Valletta, e
della P2 prima che venisse sciolta nel 1974.
Al di là di confermare o meno questi dati, quel che è certo (lo ha
dichiarato lo stesso Agnelli ai giudici) è che la Fiat ha finanziato
abbondantemente la massoneria di Lino Salvini che, non dimentichiamolo,
fu
messo sotto inchiesta per il golpe Borghese, per l'assassinio del
giudice
Occorsio e per l'Italicus. Sappiamo anche che attraverso Edgardo Sogno,
iscritto alla P2, i finanziamenti finirono anche alla loggia di Gelli.
Dall'inchiesta del giudice Catalani emerse che la Fiat nel periodo fra
il
1971 e il 1976, tramite la Banca popolare di Novara, emise circa 3.000
assegni per un valore di allora di circa 15 miliardi, una cifra enorme,
tale
da giustificare ben altri obiettivi che non il semplice finanziamento
alla
massoneria. Tramite un prestanome, a riscuotere gli assegni presso la
Cassa
di risparmio di Firenze era un industriale farmaceutico, Piero Cerchiai,
gran tesoriere aggiunto della massoneria di palazzo Giustiniani (Grande
Oriente). La conferma dell'emissione degli assegni venne anche dalle
deposizioni di Luciano Macchia, condirettore dell'IFI della famiglia
Agnelli
e di Maria Cantamessa, cassiera generale della Fiat e inquisita per il
tentativo di golpe attribuito a Edgardo Sogno e Luigi Cavallo.
[...] Altri finanziamenti giunsero a Sogno dalla Fiat (400 milioni del
1974)
per mezzo del consigliere particolare di Giovanni Agnelli, l'attuale
deputato europeo della Dc Vittorino Chiusano, che dal 1966 svolge la
funzione di collegamento della Fiat con la Dc. La Fiat aveva anche altri
canali di collegamento con l'area del golpismo bianco e della destra Dc.
Nel 1972 venne alla luce il caso di Ubaldo Scassellati, direttore della
fondazione Agnelli, che aveva dato al piano "cinque per cinque" legato
al
movimento della destra Dc "Europa 70" cospicui finanziamenti in vista di
un
piano presidenzialista simile a quello di Pacciardi e Sogno. Scoperto,
Ubaldo Scassellati venne scaricato dalla Fiat che lo sostituì con
Vittorino
Chiusano per il medesimo scopo. Compagno di cordata dell'allora
segretario
della fondazione Agnelli era il democristiano Bartolo Ciccardini,
esperto
Nato, fautore della seconda repubblica, militarista folle; ha più volte
chiesto che anche l'Italia si doti di una forza nucleare autonoma.
Finanziamenti della Fiat finirono quasi sicuramente anche alla Cisal, un
sindacato autonomo attorno al quale lavoravano elementi legati al Fronte
di
Borghese (il dentista torinese Salvatore Francia) ed il solito Edgardo
Sogno. Quest'ultimo, ambasciatore leader della destra liberale, massone
P2
(assieme al repubblicano Pacciardi anch'egli massone) ha rappresentato
negli
anni della strategia della tensione una sorta di crocevia attraverso il
quale si incontravano le varie facce del golpismo e del
presidenzialismo. Ex
partigiano bianco, il Sogno era legato ai servizi segreti alleati
(anglo-Usa) e successivamente alla Nato e alla Cia: in quanto
ambasciatore,
poteva godere dell'immunità diplomatica per le sue trame. Sogno teneva
contatti con tutte le aree del golpismo bianco (Mar di Fumagalli, Rosa
dei
venti, Europa 70) e nero (Fronte di Borghese, Ordine nuovo, eccetera) ed
agiva in proprio, in stretto rapporto con l'esercito e i carabinieri.
Ma soprattutto Sogno era uomo della Fiat e non si limitava ad agire
nell'ombra, emarginato tra bombaroli ed agenti dei servizi. Nel 1973,
come
documenta Gianni Flamini, Edgardo Sogno organizzò a Firenze sotto
l'egida
del suo "Comitato di resistenza democratica" nei locali della "Nazione"
del
golpista Attilio Monti un convegno sulla "rifondazione dello stato". Al
convegno non intervennero nostalgici golpisti suonati, ma personaggi con
cariche pubbliche importanti, come il giudice costituzionale Vezio
Crisafulli il quale aprì i lavori affermando "il tema delle
modificazioni
costituzionali pone i seguenti problemi: repubblica presidenziale,
abolizione dell'assurdo, ingombrante bicameralismo, delimitazioni delle
competenze parlamentari, con conferimento di poteri normativi propri al
governo, unificazione della figura del presidente del consiglio con
quella
del segretario del partito di maggioranza".
Tra gli altri intervennero sul medesimo tono Aldo Sandrelli, Domenico
Fisichella, il componente del consiglio superiore della magistratura
Gianni
Di Benedetto, Valerio Zanone, Antonio Patuelli. Intervenne anche il
consigliere speciale di Fanfani Antonio Lombardo, ex appartenente a
Ordine
nuovo il quale pose il problema: costituzione antifascista o
anticomunista.
Al convegno di Sogno parteciparono anche i democristiani del movimento
Europa 70 Pietro Giubilo, Celso De Stefanis, Maurizio Gilardi i quali
affermarono: "il periodo di centrosinistra ha prodotto più disastri nel
nostro paese di una guerra e ha generato germi di dissoluzione, forze ed
energie altamente incontrollabili. C'è la consapevolezza molto più
diffusa
di quanto non si possa pensare che la prima repubblica è finita". Nel
concludere i lavori Edgardo Sogno, soddisfatto della generale
accoglienza
avuta dalla sua proposta di seconda repubblica presidenziale, mandò un
messaggio a Giovanni Leone perché intervenisse anticipando i tempi,
aggiungendo nella sua qualità di ambasciatore che ciò era auspicato
anche
negli Usa.
Il 22 agosto 1974 il PM di Torino Violante ordinò una perquisizione
nella
casa di Sogno (che ebbe tempo di sparire) ritenendo che "Edgardo Sogno
agisce per la costituzione di una organizzazione intesa a riunire tutti
i
gruppi di estrema destra, tra i quali Ordine nuovo in epoca successiva
al
suo scioglimento". Nello stesso periodo, con un comunicato di stampa
congiunto, il Mar di Fumagalli, le Sam, Avanguardia nazionale, Potere
nero
dichiararono guerra allo stato.
Il 28 luglio 1974 durante il congresso del Pli, Sogno denunciò il
pericolo
di un golpe marxista e propose di attuare un colpo di stato liberale per
prevenire i tempi. Poco dopo, il 4 agosto 1974, avvenne la strage
dell'Italicus.
[...]Nell'ottobre 1974 il golpe Sogno è nell'aria, il partito americano
si è
messo in moto. Il presidente Giovanni Leone è tornato da poco dagli Usa,
il
ministro delle finanze Tanassi con un durissimo attacco ha provocato la
caduta del governo Rumor ed afferma trionfante che il centrosinistra è
morto! Anche la stampa estera si rende conto di quanto avviene in
Italia,
tra gli altri Le Monde scrive: "il modo con cui si è aperta la nuova
crisi
ministeriale italiana ravviverà i sospetti di chi imputa agli Usa
interventi
e pressioni occulte nella vita politica dei loro alleati".
In quei giorni Edgardo Sogno si incontrò a Roma con l'ammiraglio
Birindelli
ex comandante Nato, ex presidente del Msi, per concordare l'intervento
di
militari in occasione di un nuovo attentato che si stava preparando.
Accadde
però che il genovese Pietro Benvenuto, uomo di fiducia del dirigente
della
Rosa dei venti De Marchi, mentre stava preparando la bomba ebbe un
incidente
"sul lavoro" col detonatore e, ferito, fu costretto a fuggire
all'estero.
Successivamente il giudice Vitalone scagionerà Edgardo Sogno e Pacciardi
perché i sospetti iniziali sul tentativo di golpe mai sono assurti a
dignità
di prova. Nell'aprile 1975 Giovanni Agnelli incontrò il presidente della
repubblica Leone, al quale chiese di intervenire contro gli scioperi e
per
ripristinare la governabilità del paese. [...]
DA: NUOVA REPUBBLICA
Anno III (nuova serie) - Nr. 3 - Marzo 1997
(quotidiano dei liberali mazziniani di ravenna associati a forza italia
-
http://www.agora.stm.it/nuova.repubblica/)
[...]Ci ha provato anche Edgardo Sogno, ex ambasciatore ed ex capo
partigiano, medaglia d'oro della Resistenza, che ha avuto un suo momento
di
notorietà a metà degli anni Settanta, quando fu incriminato per
"cospirazione contro le istituzioni dello Stato". Nei giorni scorsi
Sogno ha
voluto ritagliarsi un altro piccolo spazio sulla ribalta della cronaca,
"rivelando" che "sì, in effetti nel 1974 era tutto pronto per effettuare
un
golpe democratico per difendere l'Italia dal pericolo di una conquista
del
potere da parte dei comunisti". Non solo: Sogno, con un colpo di scena,
ha
tirato fuori dalla tasca un foglio di carta con l'elenco dei ministri
del
"gabinetto di salute pubblica". In cima alla lista, il nome di Randolfo
Pacciardi, cui sarebbe stato assegnato l'incarico di capo del governo
(Sogno, più modestamente, aveva riservato per sé il ministero della
Difesa).
A seguire, una sequela di nomi prestigiosi con l'indicazione di un
dicastero. Un asterisco contrassegnava le persone che, a suo tempo,
erano
state messe a conoscenza del progetto di colpo di Stato. Gli altri sono
stati definiti da Sogno "presunti consenzienti". Tra questi ultimi il
presidente attuale di Nuova Repubblica, Antonio de Martini, e uno dei
più
assidui e autorevoli collaboratori del nostro mensile, il professor
Mauro
Mita. Entrambi erano, anche nel 1974, stretti collaboratori di Pacciardi
e
Sogno li "gratifica" ora indicandoli rispettivamente come
sottosegratario
alla presidenza del Consiglio e ministro dell'Informazione. [...]
Da: Stragi di stato http://www.strano.net/stragi/
ipertesto a cura di Stefano Sansavini dell'Associazione sTRANO nETWORK
Sogno Edgardo
Nell'inverno del 1944 il tenente Edgardo Sogno e' a capo
dell'"Organizzazione Franchi" (rete spionistica collegata all'IS, il
servizio segreto inglese, si tratta di una delle formazioni partigiane
bianche, foraggiate dagli alleati che agiscono in molte citta' citta'
del
nord.
Nel 1947 risulta collaborare con i servizi segreti USA alla
riorganizzazione
di un servizio informativo militare in Italia.
Nel Luglio 1953, dopo aver seguito a Parigi i corsi del "Defense
College"
per la guerra psicologica, torna in Italia per organizzare il movimento
"Pace e Liberta'", che fondera'nell'Ottobre dello stesso anno, con
l'appoggio totale della CIA, anche dal punto di vista finanziario. La
nascita dell'organizzazione inoltre era stata voluta dall'allora
presidente
del consiglio Scelba e dal ministero della difesa guidato da Randolfo
Pacciardi, lo rivela lo stesso Sogno in una lettera a Francesco Silj,
direttore generale del personale del ministero degli affari esteri, del
3/3/1960 in cui dice: "...L'interesse politico di non far sapere
all'opinione pubblica che dietro Pace e Liberta' stavano il governo
Scelba,
il ministero della difesa e vari complessi industriali privati e' ormai
talmente irrilevante che possiamo lavarcene le mani?...". Al gruppo
aderisce
anche Luigi Cavallo; nel 1954 Il gruppo, che ottiene anche finanziamenti
dalla FIAT e dalla Pirelli, inizia una intensa attivita' contro gli
operai
di sinistra nelle fabbriche del nord, frequenti saranno anche le
pubblicazioni di falsi documenti del PCI. In un appunto del SIFAR datato
16/10/1953 si legge a proposito di Pace e Liberta' "...Il Movimento si
dovrebbe persino sostituire alla polizia, specie nello schedare gli
attivisti del PCI e le maestranze comuniste...". Il gruppo aveva inoltre
carattere internazionale, la sua origine risale infatti al 1951, quando
l'ex
funzionario della NATO, Jean Paul David fonda a Parigi una agenzia
informativa anticomunista che chiamera' "Paix et liberte'". In un'altro
appunto del SIFAR datato 25/5/1954 si legge "...Il David e il Sogno si
sono
recati a Roma per far visita all'Ambasciatore degli USA, Luce, ed al
presidente del consiglio Scelba, per ottenere un congruo finanziamento
per
la intensificazione della propaganda anticomunista in Italia. Oltre che
in
Italia, analoghe organizzazioni furono fondate in Belgio, Olanda e
Germania.
Nel 1954 i rapporti fra Cavallo e Sogno si guastano, in un appunto del
SIFAR
del 2/12/1954 viene scritto "...Viene riferito che il conte Sogno in
data 20
Novembre u.s. ha allontanato dal movimento Pace e Libeta'...Luigi
Cavallo...".
Il 4 Novembre 1956 truppe sovietiche invadono l'Ungheria. Sogno giunge
nel
paese per salvare alcuni esponenti del deposto governo Nagy. Si instaura
un
fitto rapporto epistolare per la riuscita dell'impresa fra Sogno e il
ministro Taviani.
Nel Febbraio 1971 Sogno fonda i Comitati di Resistenza Democratica , cui
aderisce fra gli altri, l'ex comandante dei partigiani bianchi Enrico
Martini-Mauri. In questo periodo riprende i contatti con Luigi Cavallo,
da
questo rinato sodalizio ne ricava, fra il Giugno '71 e il Luglio '74 ben
187
milioni di finanziamento dalla FIAT, per la sua nuova organizzazione
anticomunista. Sogno e Cavallo non si limitano a intascare finanziamenti
dalle grandi industrie ma lavorano in questo periodo alla preparazione
di un
"golpe bianco", che Cavallo cosi' definisce "...un golpe di destra con
un
programma avanzato di sinistra che divida lo schieramento antifascista e
metta i fascisti fuori gioco...". Tale progetto vedra' il sostanzioso
appoggio del gen. Maletti, capo dell'ufficio D del SIFAR.
Nell'agosto del '74, il ministro della difesa Giulio Andreotti parla
dell'esistenza di piu' di un tentativo di colpo di stato. Edgardo Sogno,
contemporaneamente, lancia un appello per un "...colpo di stato
liberale...". Il golpe, si sapra' poi, avrebbe dovuto scattare in piena
estate, durante la chiusura delle fabbriche e gode dell'appoggio degli
USA e
della loggia P2 di Licio Gelli a cui Sogno e' iscritto.
In tutto questo periodo Sogno svolge le funzioni di ambasciatore della
repubblica italiana presso vari paesi esteri.
Il 23 Agosto 1974 la magistratura di Torino scopre il complotto facente
capo
a Edgardo Sogno , Randolfo Pacciardi ed altri fra cui il braccio destro
di
Junio Valerio Borghese. Il golpe era previsto per ferragosto e aveva
come
obiettivo di forzare l'intervento dei militari a favore di una
repubblica
presidenziale.
Il 27/1/1975 il giudice Violante aveva valutato necessario acquisire
agli
atti il carteggio riguardante Sogno, esistente negli archivi del SID. Il
successivo 12 Febbraio il SID invia poche pagine piene di "omissis",
affermando che "...le parti mancanti non potevano essere trasmesse,
perche'
si riferivano a materia connessa a specifica attivita' di
controspionaggio...". Il 4/6/1975, il presidente del consiglio Moro,
afferma
che "...i documenti non consegnati rientravano nella materia connessa a
specifica attivita' di controspionaggio in relazione a dati formali
soggettivi (nomi di personaggi stranieri e di agenti informatori, sigle
di
operazioni di controspionaggio, denominazione di uffici addetti alle
operazioni ed altri elementi analoghi) che dovevano essere mantenuti
segreti
a tutela di interessi politici e militari...".
Il 5/5/1976 Violante emette mandato di arresto contro Sogno e Cavallo.
Il 24 Maggio 1976 la magistratura romana conferma le accuse del giudice
Violante di Torino, ed emette altri due mandati di cattura per Sogno e
Cavallo. Il 19 Giugno pero', il giudice istruttore Filippo Fiore, su
conforme parere del pubblico ministero poneva i due imputati in liberta'
provvisoria, il p.m. quindi chiedeva il proscioglimento di Sogno e
Cavallo
per insufficienza di prove e degli altri imputati per non aver commesso
il
fatto. Il 12 Settembre 1978 il giudice istruttore Francesco Amato emette
una
sentenza di proscioglimento per tutti gli imputati "...perche' il fatto
non
sussiste...".
Le Brigate Rosse sequestreranno documenti riservati e gli elenchi degli
iscritti all'organizzazione di Sogno, ma, gli autori del sequestro,
verranno
immediatamente arrestati e la documentazione viene fatta scomparire dai
carabinieri.
Nel Dicembre 1990 Sogno ha rilasciato un'intervista a Panorama nella
quale
ha rivelato che i suoi comitati di resistenza democratica avevano preso
"...l'impegno di sparare contro coloro che avessero fatto il governo con
i
comunisti...".
Alcune delle note richiamate dal documento sulle stragi
49) Lettera di Edgardo Sogno al ministro degli esteri Aldo Moro del 12
agosto 1969. Archivio storico Camera dei deputati.
62) "Aggiornamento notizie sull'organizzazione Sogno: "Pace e Libertà".
Doc.
datato 12 maggio 54 in: Ministero dell'interno, Divisione AA.RR. fasc.
cit.
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PULIZIA ETNICA DEMOCRATICA:
"AVETE TANTI MODI DIVERSI PER TOGLIERVI DAI PIEDI!"
L'amministratore statunitense di Kosovska Mitrovica William Nash
ha dichiarato di essere "piuttosto ansioso di rapportarsi con quelli che
sono interessati alla democrazia, e quelli che non sono interessati alla
democrazia possono andarsene da qualche altra parte. Possono lasciare il
Kosovo in tanti modi diversi."
>
> Serbs turn on British troops
> Soldiers hurt as UN forces seize 'dirty' factory
>
> Special report: Serbia
> Nicholas Wood in Mitrovice
> Tuesday August 15, 2000
> The Guardian
>
> Four British soldiers were injured in violent clashes in the Kosovan
> town of Mitrovice yesterday, as the UN launched an operation to reassert
> its authority in the province.
> Three soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, suffered head
> injuries and were taken back to their base in Pristina. Another suffered
> a hand injury. Six Serbs were also injured in the clashes outside a
> factory complex in the predominantly Serbnorth of the town.
> The operation saw 900 troops from Britain, Denmark and France take
> control of the lead smelting plant which the UN said was polluting the
> local environment.
> The violence erupted as workers arriving to start their shifts at the
> Serb-run complex gathered outside an entrance. British troops manning
> checkpoints nearby were attacked by up to 500 people angry at the
> operation.
> Rubber bullets were fired and the crowd was charged by the Fusiliers
> with batons as the soldiers came under a hail of stones. The British
> troops were ultimately ordered to withdraw and were replaced by French
> troops.
> It is only the second time this year that British soldiers have been
> deployed in Mitrovice. A spokesman for the French army, Henry Aussavy,
> put the violence down to local hostility. "It seems that the Serbs do
> not like the English," he said. Britain is hated for its prominent role
> in Nato's bombing of Kosovo last year.
> UN officials said that the takeover was prompted by an increase in lead
> emissions from the factory, which began to work full-time in June. They
> that said that air samples indicated pollution levels 200 times above
> World Health Organisation standards.
> But the American UN administrator of Mitrovice, William L Nash, said
> that the takeover was part of a much broader security operation. He
> admitted that the UN was going to change the structure of local
> municipal boards in the region over the next few days.
> Sources inside the UN said that members of Slobodan Milosevic's ruling
> Serbian Socialist party (SPS) were expected to be removed from their
> posts. Local Serb leaders have accused the party of attempting to
> undermine their authority in the region.
> Mr Nash said that the UN wanted to see a change in the political balance
> of local authorities. "We are quite anxious to deal with those people
> who are interested in democracy, and those that are not interested in
> democracy can go elsewhere. They can leave Kosovo in a variety of ways."
> Doctors from the local hospital in northern Mitrovice dismissed claims
> that the smelter was causing pollution. Doctor Radosav Jankovic said:
> "We haven't had a patient with a toxicology problem for years. Today
> only soldiers and Unmik [UN Mission in Kosovo] police officers suffer
> problems of lead in the blood." ...
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"AVETE TANTI MODI DIVERSI PER TOGLIERVI DAI PIEDI!"
L'amministratore statunitense di Kosovska Mitrovica William Nash
ha dichiarato di essere "piuttosto ansioso di rapportarsi con quelli che
sono interessati alla democrazia, e quelli che non sono interessati alla
democrazia possono andarsene da qualche altra parte. Possono lasciare il
Kosovo in tanti modi diversi."
>
> Serbs turn on British troops
> Soldiers hurt as UN forces seize 'dirty' factory
>
> Special report: Serbia
> Nicholas Wood in Mitrovice
> Tuesday August 15, 2000
> The Guardian
>
> Four British soldiers were injured in violent clashes in the Kosovan
> town of Mitrovice yesterday, as the UN launched an operation to reassert
> its authority in the province.
> Three soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, suffered head
> injuries and were taken back to their base in Pristina. Another suffered
> a hand injury. Six Serbs were also injured in the clashes outside a
> factory complex in the predominantly Serbnorth of the town.
> The operation saw 900 troops from Britain, Denmark and France take
> control of the lead smelting plant which the UN said was polluting the
> local environment.
> The violence erupted as workers arriving to start their shifts at the
> Serb-run complex gathered outside an entrance. British troops manning
> checkpoints nearby were attacked by up to 500 people angry at the
> operation.
> Rubber bullets were fired and the crowd was charged by the Fusiliers
> with batons as the soldiers came under a hail of stones. The British
> troops were ultimately ordered to withdraw and were replaced by French
> troops.
> It is only the second time this year that British soldiers have been
> deployed in Mitrovice. A spokesman for the French army, Henry Aussavy,
> put the violence down to local hostility. "It seems that the Serbs do
> not like the English," he said. Britain is hated for its prominent role
> in Nato's bombing of Kosovo last year.
> UN officials said that the takeover was prompted by an increase in lead
> emissions from the factory, which began to work full-time in June. They
> that said that air samples indicated pollution levels 200 times above
> World Health Organisation standards.
> But the American UN administrator of Mitrovice, William L Nash, said
> that the takeover was part of a much broader security operation. He
> admitted that the UN was going to change the structure of local
> municipal boards in the region over the next few days.
> Sources inside the UN said that members of Slobodan Milosevic's ruling
> Serbian Socialist party (SPS) were expected to be removed from their
> posts. Local Serb leaders have accused the party of attempting to
> undermine their authority in the region.
> Mr Nash said that the UN wanted to see a change in the political balance
> of local authorities. "We are quite anxious to deal with those people
> who are interested in democracy, and those that are not interested in
> democracy can go elsewhere. They can leave Kosovo in a variety of ways."
> Doctors from the local hospital in northern Mitrovice dismissed claims
> that the smelter was causing pollution. Doctor Radosav Jankovic said:
> "We haven't had a patient with a toxicology problem for years. Today
> only soldiers and Unmik [UN Mission in Kosovo] police officers suffer
> problems of lead in the blood." ...
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LE INCREDIBILI AVVENTURE DEL SIGNOR KOUCHNER (5)
"Come medico e capo dell'amministrazione del Kosovo, sarei un derelitto
se lasciassi continuare questo rischio per la salute dei bambini e delle
donne incinte per un solo giorno di piu'": questa la nobile
dichiarazione con la quale il capo della missione civile dell'ONU
(UNMIK) in Kosmet Bernard Kouchner ha giustificato la occupazione della
parte di Kosovska Mitrovica non ancora "etnicamente ripulita" ed il
sequestro dell'impianto metallurgico di Trepca.
Poiche' gli veniva troppo da ridere, la dichiarazione l'ha resa per
iscritto.
Le altre puntate su:
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http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/219
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> Bernard Kouchner, Kosovo's top U.N. administrator, stressed that the closure
> was only temporary, and workers would return to work ``as soon as possible.''
>
> Kouchner said the takeover was necessary to end a health risk, adding 160
> people had been hospitalized in the past year for treatment for lead
> poisoning. Last week, U.N. officials said lead levels from the plant were 200
> times World Health Organization norms.
>
> ``As a doctor and as chief administrator of Kosovo, I would be derelict if I
> let this threat to the health of children and pregnant women continue for one
> more day,'' Kouchner said in a written statement.
NATO Takes Over Kosovo Mine Complex
BY ALISON MUTLER, ZVECAN, Yugoslavia, 14/8/00 (AP)
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"Come medico e capo dell'amministrazione del Kosovo, sarei un derelitto
se lasciassi continuare questo rischio per la salute dei bambini e delle
donne incinte per un solo giorno di piu'": questa la nobile
dichiarazione con la quale il capo della missione civile dell'ONU
(UNMIK) in Kosmet Bernard Kouchner ha giustificato la occupazione della
parte di Kosovska Mitrovica non ancora "etnicamente ripulita" ed il
sequestro dell'impianto metallurgico di Trepca.
Poiche' gli veniva troppo da ridere, la dichiarazione l'ha resa per
iscritto.
Le altre puntate su:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/292
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/231
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/219
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/218
> Bernard Kouchner, Kosovo's top U.N. administrator, stressed that the closure
> was only temporary, and workers would return to work ``as soon as possible.''
>
> Kouchner said the takeover was necessary to end a health risk, adding 160
> people had been hospitalized in the past year for treatment for lead
> poisoning. Last week, U.N. officials said lead levels from the plant were 200
> times World Health Organization norms.
>
> ``As a doctor and as chief administrator of Kosovo, I would be derelict if I
> let this threat to the health of children and pregnant women continue for one
> more day,'' Kouchner said in a written statement.
NATO Takes Over Kosovo Mine Complex
BY ALISON MUTLER, ZVECAN, Yugoslavia, 14/8/00 (AP)
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DOSSIER FORZA NUOVA
a cura della redazione de “La Nuova Alabarda” - Trieste.
E’ da un paio d’anni che il nostro periodico, trattando dei
problemi collegati alla rinascita del nazifascismo, si occupa di
analizzare le posizioni e le attivita’ dell’organizzazione Forza Nuova.
Ne denunciammo gia’ due anni or sono la pericolosita’ (diversa da quella
che puo’ essere la pericolosita’ della Fiamma tricolore o di altre
organizzazioni dell’estrema destra): ben prima quindi che l’opinione
pubblica di “sinistra” si accorgesse di Forza Nuova quando questa
organizzazione espresse la propria solidarieta’ a Haider definendolo
“speranza d’Europa”...
In questo dossier intendiamo ricostruire un po’ la storia di
Forza Nuova, analizzare quanto da loro pubblicato (sia nel loro sito
Internet che su carta) e le loro attivita’ correnti, con particolare
riguardo a cio’ che avviene a Trieste, citta’ peculiare per molti
aspetti e che non a torto il poeta Umberto Saba defini’ “la piu’
fascista d’Italia”.
In una lettera apparsa sul quotidiano triestino “Il Piccolo”
(25.2.2000) il responsabile provinciale della sezione triestina di Forza
Nuova, Fabio Bellani, defini’ “evidente mistificazione” quanto scritto
dallo stesso quotidiano in occasione della manifestazione di
contestazione della trasmissione “Circus” di Santoro (presente a
Trieste, ricordiamo, per dibattere del “caso Haider”), ossia l’avere
rilevato la presenza di “Terza posizione”. Che “non esiste piu’ da 20
anni”, scrive Bellani, ed e’ anche vero, pero’ se Forza Nuova non
desidera essere confusa con Terza posizione dovrebbe evitare di
scrivere, come invece fa nei suoi bollettini e documenti “Forza Nuova
per la Terza posizione”. Ma cos’era Terza Posizione?
Scrive Gianni Flamini (“L’ombra della piramide”, Teti editore):
< ... Francesco Mangiameli, Roberto Fiore, Gabriele Adinolfi (...)
stavano fondando una nuova organizzazione e dando alle stampe un
giornale. Si sarebbero chiamati entrambi “Terza posizione” >. Era il
1979, e Flamini cita un brano dei loro scritti: < “Terza posizione
rimuove le stagnanti acque della rassegnazione e si manifesta come polo
per tutti coloro che vogliono disegnare con noi il futuro del nostro
sistema. Dobbiamo considerarci naturali alleati dell’Islam, a cui non
puo’ non andare la nostra stima” >. Il 14.12.1979, in una sede romana
del movimento vengono arrestati tre esponenti di Terza posizione, colti
nel bel mezzo del trasporto di una cassa piena di bombe a mano. Nella
perquisizione successiva la DIGOS trovera’ divise da carabiniere e
guardia di finanza, documenti rubati e falsi, fucili ed esplosivi vari.
Gli “ideologi” del gruppo riparano all’estero: tra essi pure
Roberto Fiore, che dopo quasi vent’anni di “esilio” a Londra
ricomincera’ a costruire un altro gruppo di estrema destra, Forza Nuova
appunto, che si avvarra’ anche di contatti con molti altri movimenti
simili che stanno nascendo un po’ qua e un po’ la’ in Europa.
Un articolo a firma Silvio Maranzana sul “Piccolo” del
27.11.1997 scrive: < Due terroristi dei NAR stanno orchestrando da
Londra lo sbarco in Italia di un nuovo movimento fascista >. L’articolo
ricostruisce l’attivita’ di Fiore e del suo camerata, il cantautore
Massimo Morsello (detto anche il “De Gregori di destra”) latitanti nella
compiacente Londra, dove sono diventati “imprenditori di successo”,
titolari della “Meeting point”, un’azienda che organizza concerti e
turismo scolastico, soggiorni e prevendite di biglietti per partite.
Cosi’ pure, scrive Maranzana, secondo la polizia inglese i Nostri
avrebbero organizzato attraverso la societa’ “Trust of St. Michael the
Archangel” delle vendite di beneficienza per raccogliere fondi
“destinati a fondare in Spagna un villaggio fascista”. Un progetto per
un villaggio spagnolo “dove i nazionalisti di tutta Europa possano
vivere nel nuovo ordine” appare anche, prosegue Maranzana, nel
bollettino interno dell’organizzazione “neonazista” “Third position
international”, tanto per riprendere le solite sigle. All’idea di questo
“villaggio” < Morsello se la ride. “Una citta’ nera? Magari si potesse
costruire, me ne andrei la’ di corsa. Purtroppo pero’ sono tutte
invenzioni di un giornalista” >. Pero’ nel novembre 1999 il quotidiano
“Liberazione” riprendera’ un articolo di “El pai’s” nel quale si legge
che “il gruppo neonazista britannico Terza posizione internazionale”
(toh! coincidenza?) “si appresta a ricostruire un villaggio abbandonato
che ha comprato interamente due anni fa (...) nella regione di
Valencia”.
Quanto alla permanenza a Londra dei due condannati per
associazione sovversiva in Italia, troviamo che il quotidiano “Il
Manifesto” del 5.11.1998 riprende un articolo dell’inglese “Guardian”,
il quale avrebbe sostenuto “sulla base di nuove informazioni di un’ex
agente della CIA in Europa” che Fiore e Morsello sarebbero stati
“reclutati” in Libano nei primi anni ‘80 (si erano li’ rifugiati dopo
essere scappati dall’Italia) dal sevizio segreto inglese Mi6 e che per
questo motivo la Gran Bretagna non concesse mai la loro estradizione
all’Italia.
Non siamo riusciti pero’ a verificare se queste notizie siano
poi state confermate o smentite o semplicemente ignorate.
Morsello che, secondo Gianni Barbacetto in un articolo sul
“Diario” del 19.5.1999, si autodefinisce “fascista, cattolico, latitante
e cantautore politicamente scorretto” e’ rientrato in Italia nella
primavera del ‘99 grazie alla legge Simeone perche’ gravemente ammalato
(si parlo’ di cancro in fase terminale). Ma piu’ di un anno dopo
Morsello pare avere riacquistato la salute, difatti va in giro a fare
concerti e comizi ed e’ intervenuto pure ad una manifestazione a Trieste
nel maggio scorso.
Sempre Barbacetto ricostruisce cosi’ la “genesi” di Forza Nuova,
nata all’inizio come una sorta di movimento d’opinione all’interno della
Fiamma tricolore dove coagulava i militanti attorno al proprio
bollettino, il “Foglio di lotta” (che esce tuttora). Nel 1997 lo stesso
Rauti decise di mettere fine a questa fronda impedendo la diffusione del
“Foglio” e “richiamando i camerati alla disciplina”. Ma a quel punto ci
fu la scissione vera e propria e < Fiore e Morsello, da Londra,
indicarono la data - il 29 settembre, San Michele Arcangelo, protettore
della Guardia di Ferro di Codreanu, il leader del fascismo romeno - in
cui, gettate alle ortiche le vecchie prudenze rautiane, sarebbe
finalmente nata una forza nuova >. In contemporanea si formo’, attorno
ad un gruppo di giornalisti di estrema destra (Mario Consoli, Piero
Sella, Sergio Gozzoli, fondatori del giornale “Uomo Nuovo”) un gruppo
che, avendo un rapporto privilegiato con Le Pen, cercava di costruire un
“Fronte nazionale” anche in Italia.
Parte del nucleo dirigente di Forza Nuova e’ stato coinvolto
nell’inchiesta sugli Hammerskin italiani, facenti parte di quella rete
neonazista internazionale fondata una decina d’anni fa in Texas e poi
diffusasi in Europa, presentantesi come “l’elite dell’elite” degli
skinheads. Il loro simbolo sono due martelli in marcia (quelli che
appaiono nel film “The wall” dei Pink Floyd), e si ritengono < nuovi
cavalieri di un medioevo postmoderno, crociati schierati in difesa
dell’Europa bianca >. Sia il leader milanese degli Hammerskin Duilio
Canu che quello di Padova Alessandro Ambrosino sarebbero poi diventati
dirigenti locali di Forza Nuova.
Viste queste premesse e vista la presenza assidua che Forza
Nuova ha a Trieste da due anni in qua (precisiamo subito che quanto a
presenza numerica alle manifestazioni contano dalle cinque alle trenta
persone al massimo) siamo andati a cercare notizie su di loro, ed ecco
quanto abbiamo tratto dal materiale da essi stessi fornito (sia su
volantini e riviste che sul sito Internet www. forzanuova.org).
Cos’e’ dunque Forza Nuova? Sono fascisti, palesemente fascisti,
non quelle cose addomesticate come A.N. di oggi. Sono corporativisti,
cattolici integralisti, antiabortisti, odiano gli immigrati e i “non
europei” (dove tra questi includono pure, non si capisce a quale titolo,
tutti gli ebrei); sono contrari al divorzio e favorevoli “alla
famiglia”; propugnano uno stile di vita “legionario”, cantano le lodi
della Decima Mas di Borghese come della Falange spagnola di de Rivera,
come della legione romena Arcangelo Michele (toh! chi si rivede) di
Codreanu.
Sono contrari al “bilinguismo” (dove per esso intendono ogni
forma di tutela di qualsivoglia minoranza etnica) e
nell’ipernazionalista Trieste trovano consenso tra tutti coloro che
negano alla comunita’ etnica slovena il diritto di esprimersi nella
propria lingua; cosi’ pure sono contrari alla legge Mancino che
proibisce di dire “s’ciavo” (epiteto dispregiativo che i razzisti
triestini usano per gli sloveni) ed altri insulti di marchio razzista.
Sono contrari alla massoneria ed alle organizzazioni internazionali come
la Trilateral ed il Bilderberg, quali esponenti del mondialismo
capitalista. Che certe frange del terrorismo nero siano state usate in
passato da certa massoneria (P2) non sembra creare loro problemi di
coscienza. O forse e’ anche a cose come queste che si riferiscono quando
parlano di “esempi di machiavellismo negativi” quali “collusioni ambigue
in funzioni di golpe (vero o presunto)” in un articolo sul nuovo ruolo
di A.N. (vedasi il n° 20 del loro bollettino “Foglio di lotta”, che
appare anche nel sito Internet).
Sono populisti, e lo dimostrano con tre delle loro piu’
importanti attivita’: la campagna “compra italiano”, la “Befana
tricolore” e l’associazione “Italica” che organizza campeggi estivi per
“bambini provenienti da famiglie bisognose”.
Nel Bollettino n° 13 vediamo come si strutturano queste
attivita’.
< Dal popolo per il popolo: la Befana tricolore.
Viene scelta la zona adatta ... un quartiere proletario o povero
... si contattano con una lettera le famiglie dove il capofamiglia e’
senza lavoro o sottoccupato... vengono poi coinvolti tutti i militanti
ed i simpatizzanti del movimento in raccolta di fondi, vestiario,
giocattoli ... viene annunciata la Befana Tricolore con volantini e
manifesti ... si diramano poi comunicati ... le manifestazioni vanno
tenute preferibilmente nelle sedi di Forza Nuova. Il tutto deve essere
poi concluso con un’appello alla popolazione ... per la ricostruzione
del Patrimonio tradizionale e del tessuto sociale della citta’ o del
quartiere >.
A parte la strumentalizzazione politica che traspare da questo
modo di fare “carita’ pelosa” svolgendo le iniziative di beneficienza
(?) nelle sedi del movimento, c’e’ anche altro che da’ da pensare.
L’individuazione delle famiglie che vanno contattate a questo modo
richiede una forte presenza di controllo sul territorio da parte dei
forzanovisti, che del resto strutturano le proprie sedi in maniera molto
“funzionale”, quasi militarista, a leggere le loro indicazioni per i
militanti. Ma fino a che punto si spinge la loro attivita’? Fino ad una
sorta di “schedatura” della popolazione dei quartieri? E cosa puo’
accadere ad una famiglia, che pure “bisognosa”, magari decida per
convinzione antifascista di rifiutare la “Befana tricolore”? In quale
“schedatura” potra’ incorrere?
Il progetto “Compra italiano” (del quale sarebbe tra i maggiori
organizzatori l’ex Hammerskin padovano Ambrosino) invece funziona cosi’:
< e’ ... una campagna lanciata recentemente dalla Corporazione Lucana
... i contadini riuniti sotto la Corporazione Lucana spediscono il loro
camion carico di arance verso le varie citta’ d’Italia dove vengono
gestite in modo autonomo da individui o gruppi legati alle sezioni di
Forza Nuova ... le arance passano di mano una volta sola e vengono
distribuite direttamente dai piccoli distributori sparsi nelle varie
citta’ > (logicamente tutti membri di Forza Nuova...).
E cosa fa invece l’associazione “Italica”? Organizza i “pionieri
d’Italia” la cui “struttura e’ attualmente suddivisa in reparti,
composti da quattro o sei squadriglie con bambini da 6 a 14 anni,
suddivisi in maschili e femminili; a capo di questi reparti vi e’ un
consiglio-capi composto prevalentemente da ex appartenenti ad
associazioni scoutistiche preesistenti. Attualmente si sta pensando di
creare anche un reparto di ragazzi piu’ adulti, quale scuola di
preparazione per la formazione dei consigli capi di tutta Italia >.
Segue (Bollettino n° 17 del settembre ‘98) una descrizione delle
“uscite” di questi “reparti” e di queste “squadriglie”, < in
preparazione del campo estivo che si svolgera’ in Francia ... il
progetto ... e’ stato perfezionato durante le colonie estive Evita Peron
1998 con le quali si e’ potuto sperimentare il metodo che verra’
utilizzato nelle attivita’ pionieristiche >: Colonie queste che Forza
Nuova avrebbe organizzato per venire incontro alle “famiglie bisognose”
(anche qui vediamo una ricerca selettiva delle famiglie cui proporre un
soggiorno estivo per i figli). Iniziativa lodevolissima? Ma la
giornalista Cristiana Mangani del “Messaggero” ha raccolto alcune
testimonianze che sono state pubblicate in un articolo nel giugno ‘98. I
ragazzini da lei sentiti sarebbero stati “reclutati” nelle case ex
Bastogi dalla sezione di Forza Nuova di Cave dei Tirreni, per un
soggiorno gratuito a Gressoney. I genitori, dopo avere inviato i figli
in montagna, allarmati dal tono di una delle telefonate a casa fatta da
un bambino, < hanno preteso che il gruppo tornasse a Roma e si sono
trovati davanti dei ragazzini spaventati, arrabbiati, pieni di graffi e
lividi. Ieri hanno chiamato la polizia e denunciato l’associazione Forza
Nuova ... >. Raccontano i ragazzini: < una volta due di noi sono stati
portati nel bosco perche’ non volevano dormire ... siamo dei bambini
piuttosto vivaci, ma loro ci hanno trattato come rifiuti. Dovete
imparare a vivere, ci dicevano. Vi mettiamo a posto noi >. E un altro: <
Uno di noi ha reagito per la pasta che faceva schifo, lo hanno preso e
sbattuto contro il muro. Se non ti sta bene, gli hanno detto, te ne puoi
anche andare. E hanno aggiunto: vai a fare del bene a persone come
queste >. E via di seguito con racconti simili. Cosi’ conclude la
giornalista: < nessuno pensava di trovare piccoli lord sulle montagne di
Gressoney. Tantomeno pero’ di imbattersi in una scuola di addestramento
per marines >.
Un altro dei cavalli di battaglia di Forza Nuova e’
“l’opposizione all’anticultura” (in effetti il loro linguaggio e’ molto
“contro”, si dichiarano molto “antagonisti”, ricalcando sia vecchie
parole d’ordine di certa sinistra che di altri “vecchi” fascisti alla
Freda e Ventura). Sostengono ad esempio (e purtroppo non hanno tutti i
torti...) che l’insegnamento umanistico nelle scuole, oltre a fare
schifo, viene pure ridimensionato dalle riforme scolastiche per lasciare
piu’ spazio ad altre materie “scientifiche”. Si preoccupano molto
dell’insegnamento della storia, sostenendo che lo studio di essa e’
subordinato alle logiche del potere e che essendo questo in mano alla
sinistra vengono insegnati dei falsi storici funzionali a chi sta al
potere (tenendo presente che i libri di storia sono piu’ o meno sempre
quelli da trent’anni a questa parte e che la “sinistra” e’ al potere da
solo quattro, tutto il discorso ci pare un po’ forzato...).
Ad ogni modo la loro risposta e’ di organizzare < corsi di
Storia da tenere nei propri locali ... tenuti da professori del
movimento o d’area, che ricalchino la struttura dei normali corsi
scolastici e che quindi si rivelino utili agli studenti nei loro studi.
Al termine di questi corsi ... verranno stilate e distribuite dispense
del corso >.
Ci troviamo quindi di fronte ad un movimento politico che e’
organizzato in maniera quasi militarista e che si “autogestisce” (o
quantomeno ha in programma di fare) un mucchio di cose: dalla scuola
alle colonie estive (che sembrano piuttosto campi paramilitari), dalla
distribuzione diretta di generi alimentari al controllo nei quartieri.
Sotto questa luce assume un aspetto particolare anche il nome del loro
“progetto Contropotere”: cosa intendono per “contropotere”? La creazione
di uno stato all’interno dello Stato?
Se ci limitiamo a leggere sui giornali e sui loro bollettini
ufficiali, vediamo che il “progetto Contropotere” appare sostanzialmente
come la creazione di una sorta di centri sociali ideologicamente
schierati all’estrema destra. Uno spazio per iniziative culturali
(secondo il concetto che di “cultura” ha quel tipo di persone,
ovviamente), di socializzazione, per dibattiti, per i loro progetti
“compraitaliano” eccetera.
Nel sito Internet, invece, il progetto Contropotere viene
descritto in ben altro modo.
< L’esperienza degli ultimi anni ci insegna che se pur necessario,
concentrarsi su tematiche politiche del momento puo’ non essere
sufficiente; va compiuto uno sforzo continuo per creare strutture
durature che garantiscano la continuita’ del movimento in caso di
attacchi, tradimenti e atti repressivi ... alcuni movimenti europei si
sono adoperati negli ultimi anni nel gettare semi di contropotere ...
abbiamo visto il progetto villaggio in Spagna, progetto che potrebbe
essere seguito presto da nuove iniziative simili in altri paesi... >.
Domanda: ma se qui Forza Nuova “rivendica” il “progetto villaggio in
Spagna” come mai Morsello s’era tanto preoccupato di negare che
esistessero dei progetti simili, se questi “villaggi” sono iniziative
del tutto innocenti?
Vengono poi descritti tre esempi di queste “nuove iniziative” in
Inghilterra, Normandia ed Irlanda, dove < vi sono tre proprieta’ aventi
in comunte le seguenti caratteristiche:
1) la presenza di vasti appezzamenti di terra;
2) l’appartenenza delle proprieta’ a militanti o associazioni non
lucrative gestite da militanti;
3) la presenza di attivita’ economiche, di struttrue politico-culturali,
di piccole Cappelle >.
In queste proprieta’ (quella inglese comprende 10 ettari di
terreno ed una “casa di notevoli dimensioni” che oltre al resto
comprende anche 5 stanze “per i residenti e gli ospiti”) le “strutture
economiche” consisterebbero in “uno studio per la produzione di video” e
di “edizione, produzione e distribuzione di libri”.
Dulcis in fundo questa considerazione sull’importanza
dell’acquisto di queste proprieta’: < anche nei casi piu’ estremi di
repressione le strutture sono li’ a disposizione di chi continuera’ la
lotta politica. A questo proposito e’ di particolare importanza la
fisionomia giuridica delle associazioni non a scopo di lucro che
garantiscono l’uso delle proprieta’ per fini prestabiliti stabiliti
negli statuti e che proteggono il tutto da possibili atti persecutori >.
Il “progetto Contropotere” cosi’ come descritto somiglia piu’
alla creazione di una serie di basi logistiche che non ad un <
laboratorio di idee dove poter coniugare pensiero ed azione al di fuori
degli schemi imposti dai burattinai del sistema >, come dichiarato da
Fabio Bellani al “Piccolo” del 26.5.1999.
Un altro punto da tenere presente si ricollega a questa
affermazione apparsa nel n° 20 del loro bollettino (estate 1999): < ...
il fenomeno forse piu’ interessante (delle elezioni europee, n.d.r.) e’
il crollo verticale della Lega dell’ormai screditatato Bossi. Forza
Nuova e’ pronta ad accogliere tra le sue fila la base di quel partito
costituita da uomini da sempre anticomunisti, attaccati alle tradizioni
e nemici dei poteri forti sovrannazionali >. In seguito, il 16.10.1999
Haider e’ intervenuto “a sorpresa” al comizio che Bossi stava tenendo a
Vicenza e tale notizia e’ stata data dal periodico “Padania. Lega Nord”
(dicembre 1999) con questo titolo < Il pendolo della storia sta andando
verso la riscoperta dei valori della famiglia e delle radici.
Mitteleuropa: incontro Bossi, Haider. Una lotta comune contro la
globalizzazione dell’Unione Europea e a favore dell’Europa dei popoli >
. Nell’articolo vengono anche riportate le posizioni del leader
austriaco, in sintesi che egli intende lavorare, a livello europeo, solo
con la Lega, alle quali Bossi avrebbe risposto affermando il bisogno di
costruire una “casa comune mitteleuropea” allo scopo di difendere i
popoli dai pericoli della globalizzazione”. Ed ancora dall’articolo
citato: < ... la stampa di regime cerca in tutti i modi di demonizzare
questo nuovo flusso che porta il pendolo della storia ad oscillare nella
direzione dei valori cioe’ della salvaguardia della famiglia e delle
radici dei popoli (....) la Mitteleuropa ha in comune una storia
significativa e comuni valori cristiani... >.
Europa dei popoli, famiglia, cristianita’: gli stessi “valori”
che abbiamo sentito porre come fondamentali anche da Forza Nuova: in una
conferenza indetta da Forza Nuova e tenutasi a Trieste il 6.11.1999, il
direttore della rivista “Uomo libero” Gozzoli (ve lo ricordate?) ha
ribadito la necessita’ di portare avanti un concetto di Europa quale
ordine etnico tra popoli affini per radici di lingua e di sangue, di
affinita’ storiche e di un ordine ideale di Europa come civilta’ da
contrapporre alla globalizzazione imposta dagli Stati Uniti. Cosi’ Forza
Nuova e Lega Nord hanno in comune le posizioni in materia di
immigrazione e sono da subito scese in piazza assieme in molte citta’
(prime fra tutte Padova e Como) per esprimere il loro sostegno a Haider.
Passando alla situazione specificatamente locale, a Trieste
Forza Nuova ha un cavallo di battaglia in piu’ da portare avanti: la
lotta contro il cosiddetto “bilinguismo” (piu’ correttamente la legge di
tutela per la comunita’ etnica slovena che e’ presente nelle provincie
di Trieste e Gorizia storicamente da diversi secoli). Nel corso di
questa “battaglia” Forza Nuova ha trovato l’adesione di uno strano
personaggio, tale Giorgio Rustia, triestino vissuto per trent’anni a
Milano prima di rientrare nella citta’ natale agli inizi degli anni ‘90.
Rustia, che si e’ avvicinato a Forza Nuova dopo avere fondato un
“Comitato di triestini che non parlano lo sloveno” e’ diventato il
referente locale di “Contropotere” per il quale tiene regolarmente
conferenze pseudo-storiche dove tratta della storia recente di Trieste.
In realta’ egli non e’ uno storico, e’ laureato in scienze biologiche,
ma sulle pagine dei giornali locali appaiono spesso sue lettere in
merito alla questione delle foibe e ai rapporti tra italiani e sloveni
in queste terre. Il modo che ha Rustia di fare “controinformazione” su
questi argomenti e’ quello di estrapolare frasi e spezzoni da vari
documenti per darne poi un’interpretazione di parte (come si suol dire,
prendendo una frase di qua ed una di la’ si puo’ riuscire a dimostrare
che il Papa ha celebrato anche una messa nera...). Il tutto e’ teso a
dimostrare una presunta “cattiveria” del popolo sloveno che da decenni
non ha pensato ad altro che cercare di eliminare “l’italianita’” di
queste terre; che Rustia faccia cio’ in perfetta malafede e’ dimostrato
dal fatto che, piu’ di una volta, sulle pagine dei giornali sono apparse
chiarificazioni e smentite delle interpretazioni da lui date a frasi
stralciate di qua e di la’, ciononostante Rustia insiste nel riscrivere
sempre gli stessi concetti.
Questo personaggio a Trieste rappresenta anche il Centro di
studi storici della Guardia Civica (la Guardia Civica fu un gruppo
militare creato dai nazisti dopo l’8 settembre ‘43), pur non avendo
militato nel suddetto Corpo ed e’ anche segretario dell’Associazione
Congiunti Deportati in Jugoslavia, pur non essendo, a quanto e’ dato
sapere, imparentato con alcun “deportato” (a Trieste si usa questo
termine impropriamente per definire i prigionieri di guerra che furono
condotti in Jugoslavia subito dopo la liberazione della citta’ nel
maggio ‘45); ha inoltre stretti contatti con le varie associazioni
combattentistiche comprese quelle dei reduci della Repubblica di Salo’,
unite nell’Associazione Grigioverde.
Sempre riguardo la questione slovena, Forza Nuova ha rilevato
che < all’interno della stessa minoranza ci sono delle divisioni:
infatti, PDS e RC mantengono il monopolio come interlocutori per la
minoranza, mentre vengono sistematicamente fatti da parte quelli che
fanno parte ad altre organizzazioni>. Sorvolando sul fatto che gli
“italianissimi” forzanovisti non sanno scrivere in italiano, vediamo che
nella primavera del 2000 il consiglio regionale ha stanziato 11 miliardi
di finanziamenti ad un “Istituto per gli sloveni del Friuli Venezia
Giulia”, iniziativa che ha visto il plauso di un’unica associazione
slovena, la Comunita’ economico culturale slovena che fa capo a tale
Boris Gombac (e che si richiama politicamente a Lega Nord e Forza
Italia); Gombac e la sua associazione a sua volta starebbero prendendo
contatti con un altro “istituto” per le minoranze etniche, analogamente
promosso dalla Regione Carinzia, ed alla cui presentazione hanno
partecipato uno stretto collaboratore di Haider, Karl Anderwald,
vicedirettore dell’ufficio di presidenza della Regione Carinzia e lo
stesso Gombac.
Leggiamo tutto questo tenendo presenti le avances di Haider per
una “grande Carinzia”, “macroregione” (termine questo caro pure alla
Lega Nord) che comprenda anche il Nordest italiano e la Slovenia.
Andando indietro nel tempo possiamo trovare delle interessanti
analogie tra Forza Nuova (che e’ stata fondata ufficialmente, lo
ricordiamo, nel settembre 1997) e la meno nota associazione denominata
“Nuova Acropoli”, della quale ha parlato la rivista “Cuore” nel numero
del 3.12.1994.
Nuova Acropoli fu fondata in Argentina nel 1957 e si diffuse in
Italia all’inizio degli anni ‘80; cosi’ viene descritta nell’articolo
sopra citato.
< ... 5mila membri nel 1989 (500 solo in Italia) ed un
patrimonio dichiarato di oltre 8 milioni di dollari, Nuova Acropoli e’
“esteriormente un’organizzazione culturale e umanistica, ma nasconde
(...) una struttura piramidale molto rigida ed occulta ai propri adepti
di base” (dal Manuale del Dirigente riservato ai livelli superiori del
gruppo). Al vertice della piramide c’e’ un Comandante Mondiale, dal
potere assoluto, che governa per “decreti” >.
(E’ interessante a questo punto rilevare come il termine
“comandante” sia d’uso ricorrente in certi ambienti: “comandante” era,
per i suoi adepti, Junio Valerio Borghese, il “principe nero” della
Decima Mas; Marco Pirina, lo pseudostorico revisionista di Pordenone che
si dedica da anni a stampare libri pieni di falsita’ storiche allo scopo
di infangare la Resistenza ed il movimento partigiano sostenne, una
volta, di essere stato inquisito per il fallito golpe Borghese solo
perche’ il suo nome si trovava nell’agendina del “comandante” Sandro
Saccucci; Giorgio Rustia, il leader triestino di Contropotere, ha una
volta definito Roberto Fiore, in una conferenza pubblica “comandante
fondatore”).
Continuiamo con l’articolo di “Cuore”.
< Il gruppo dirigente della setta e’ formato dall’ elite degli
“asciati”, gli unici a poter vantare un contatto diretto con il
comandante mondiale. Vengono quindi i semplici membri, suddivisi in tre
strutture dai toni tipicamente hitleriani. C’e’ innanzitutto il “Corpo
di sicurezza”. Indossa divise nere che si richiamano alle SS, simbolo
della folgore compreso e svolge una funzione piu’ o meno mascherata
(...) di vigilanza e di pronto intervento. In Italia ha preso da qualche
anno - subito dopo la “svolta ambientalista” avvenuta nei primi anni ‘80
- il nome di “Dipartimento di protezione civile”. ... si affiancano le
“Brigate Maschili” (...) e le “Brigate Femminili” (...) >.
Vediamo ora se quanto segue ricorda qualcosa di cui abbiamo
parlato prima.
< Nuova Acropoli nel proprio sistema educativo prevede strutture
anche per i piu’ piccoli: l’edificazione dell’Uomo Nuovo ha inizio sin
dalla prima infanzia attraverso (...) una sorta di asilo nido in cui tra
l’altro si insegna la tecnica per riuscire a vedere “Gnomi, elfi e
fate”; quindi, dai 7 ai 14 anni, i bambini vengono divisi tra la
struttura maschile dei “Cavalieri della tavola rotonda” e quella
femminile della “Tavola di Iside”. (...) Nuova Acropoli insegna una
dottrinaccia filosofeggiante in cui l’umanita’ si divide in razze
superiori ed inferiori (...) si associa una malsana etica dell’”uomo
forte”, che comporta l’obbligo di “evitare l’iperprotezione dei piu’
deboli a danno delle persone piu’ importanti...” > eccetera eccetera.
Nuova Acropoli, spiega ancora l’articolo, negli anni Ottanta, al
seguito della “moda” ecologista, si diffuse come associazione
ambientalista che organizzava incontri, seminari, corsi ed attivita’
varie, spesso con il patrocinio delle istituzioni (nel 1989 a Genova, ad
esempio, le Ferrovie affidarono alla locale sezione di Nuova Acropoli la
gestione di un corso per annunciatori nelle stazioni). Ma anche gite per
anziani a Venezia col patrocinio del Comune e la partecipazione del
sindaco; un campo di addestramento “per l’ecologia attiva” nel parco
d’Abruzzo, sotto l’egida dell’Ente parco, dell’aeroclub dell’Aquila, del
Corpo forestale dello Stato e della Regione Abruzzo e via di seguito.
Infine, nell’ottobre del 1989 un “campo” di Nuova Acropoli (una
cascina acquistata qualche anno prima: ricorda niente?) fu perquisito
dai carabinieri della stazione di Montefiascone che vi trovarono
“gagliardetti, labari, coltelli, una radio ricetrasmittente priva di
licenza e numerosi bossoli di pistola” e vi arrestarono un giovane del
“Corpo di sicurezza”. Armi da fuoco furono invece trovate in altre
sezioni non italiane: a Madrid e ad Atene (dove la responsabile fu
condannata a 12 anni di carcere).
Vediamo infine i referenti internazionali di questi “militanti”.
< Il fondatore, Livraga Rizzi, ha rivendicato negli anni ‘70 i
propri rapporti con i circoli golpisti argentini ed uruguagi, con i
cileni di “Patria y libertad”, con la Falange spagnola. Ed anche la
sezione italiana, almeno agli inizi, sfoggia stretti rapporti di
amicizia con quest’area: fondata a Roma nel 1975 (tra il 1976 ed il 1979
aprira’ filiali in quindici citta’) viene inzialmente aiutata da
Serafini Di Luia, fondatore della nazi-maoista Lotta di Popolo, mentre
Gabriele Adinolfi (toh! chi si rivede) uno dei padri di Terza Posizione
incoraggia i propri camerati a frequentare l’organizzazione >.
Infine vediamo come e’ diffusa sul territorio nazionale Forza
Nuova. Nel febbraio 2000 era presente in 10 regioni (Sicilia, Piemonte,
Lombardia, Veneto, Toscana, Abruzzo, Lazio, Campania, Basilicata e
Puglia), un anno dopo le regioni erano diventate 14, con in piu’ Marche,
Umbria, Friuli Venezia Giulia ed Emilia Romagna.
Vediamo la situazione regione per regione. In Piemonte c’era una
sezione a Torino nel ‘99 ed e’ rimasta nel 2000; in Lombardia nel
febbraio 1999 erano aperte le sezioni di Milano, Brescia, Bergamo e
Gallarate; nel 2000 risultano in piu’ una a Campione d’Italia ed una a
Lodi, mentre non c’e’ piu’ quella di Brescia; Veneto: nel 1999 Vicenza,
Padova e Schio, nel 2000 Padova e Verona; Toscana: nel 1999 Lucca,
Casteldelpiano e Grosseto, quest’ultima non risulta nel 2000; Abruzzo
nel 1999 una sede a Pescara e nel 2000 una a Vasto; Lazio: nel 1999
Roma, Cave, Viterbo, Santa Marinella, Sora e Latina, nel 2000 non
appaiono queste ultime tre mentre abbiamo in piu’ Gaeta e Montelanico;
Campania: nel 1999 Napoli, Salerno e Fratta Maggiore, quest’ultima non
c’e’ nel 2000 ma ci sono in piu’ Pianura e Caserta; Basilicata: nel 1999
Bernalda e nel 2000 Metaponto; Puglia: nel 1999 Bari, Fasano, Brindisi e
Taranto, la quale non ci sara’ piu’ nel 2000, pero’ abbiamo in piu’ le
seguenti sezioni: San Michele Salentino, S. Vito dei Normanni, Lecce,
Carmiano, Martina Franca e Santeramo in colle; Sicilia: Palermo nel 1999
come nel 2000; infine nel 2000 abbiamo in piu’ le seguenti sedi:
Falconara nelle Marche; Trieste nel Friuli Venezia Giulia, Bologna in
Emilia Romagna; Perugia in Umbria.
Come si puo’ vedere il massimo dello sviluppo l’organizzazione
l’ha visto nelle Puglie, regione che negli ultimi anni ha assunto due
peculiarita’, collegate tra di loro dai traffici degli “scafisti”:
l’ingresso di “clandestini” in Italia e l’attivita’ di contrabbando che
si e’ trasformata in una e vera propria guerra contro lo Stato.
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a cura della redazione de “La Nuova Alabarda” - Trieste.
E’ da un paio d’anni che il nostro periodico, trattando dei
problemi collegati alla rinascita del nazifascismo, si occupa di
analizzare le posizioni e le attivita’ dell’organizzazione Forza Nuova.
Ne denunciammo gia’ due anni or sono la pericolosita’ (diversa da quella
che puo’ essere la pericolosita’ della Fiamma tricolore o di altre
organizzazioni dell’estrema destra): ben prima quindi che l’opinione
pubblica di “sinistra” si accorgesse di Forza Nuova quando questa
organizzazione espresse la propria solidarieta’ a Haider definendolo
“speranza d’Europa”...
In questo dossier intendiamo ricostruire un po’ la storia di
Forza Nuova, analizzare quanto da loro pubblicato (sia nel loro sito
Internet che su carta) e le loro attivita’ correnti, con particolare
riguardo a cio’ che avviene a Trieste, citta’ peculiare per molti
aspetti e che non a torto il poeta Umberto Saba defini’ “la piu’
fascista d’Italia”.
In una lettera apparsa sul quotidiano triestino “Il Piccolo”
(25.2.2000) il responsabile provinciale della sezione triestina di Forza
Nuova, Fabio Bellani, defini’ “evidente mistificazione” quanto scritto
dallo stesso quotidiano in occasione della manifestazione di
contestazione della trasmissione “Circus” di Santoro (presente a
Trieste, ricordiamo, per dibattere del “caso Haider”), ossia l’avere
rilevato la presenza di “Terza posizione”. Che “non esiste piu’ da 20
anni”, scrive Bellani, ed e’ anche vero, pero’ se Forza Nuova non
desidera essere confusa con Terza posizione dovrebbe evitare di
scrivere, come invece fa nei suoi bollettini e documenti “Forza Nuova
per la Terza posizione”. Ma cos’era Terza Posizione?
Scrive Gianni Flamini (“L’ombra della piramide”, Teti editore):
< ... Francesco Mangiameli, Roberto Fiore, Gabriele Adinolfi (...)
stavano fondando una nuova organizzazione e dando alle stampe un
giornale. Si sarebbero chiamati entrambi “Terza posizione” >. Era il
1979, e Flamini cita un brano dei loro scritti: < “Terza posizione
rimuove le stagnanti acque della rassegnazione e si manifesta come polo
per tutti coloro che vogliono disegnare con noi il futuro del nostro
sistema. Dobbiamo considerarci naturali alleati dell’Islam, a cui non
puo’ non andare la nostra stima” >. Il 14.12.1979, in una sede romana
del movimento vengono arrestati tre esponenti di Terza posizione, colti
nel bel mezzo del trasporto di una cassa piena di bombe a mano. Nella
perquisizione successiva la DIGOS trovera’ divise da carabiniere e
guardia di finanza, documenti rubati e falsi, fucili ed esplosivi vari.
Gli “ideologi” del gruppo riparano all’estero: tra essi pure
Roberto Fiore, che dopo quasi vent’anni di “esilio” a Londra
ricomincera’ a costruire un altro gruppo di estrema destra, Forza Nuova
appunto, che si avvarra’ anche di contatti con molti altri movimenti
simili che stanno nascendo un po’ qua e un po’ la’ in Europa.
Un articolo a firma Silvio Maranzana sul “Piccolo” del
27.11.1997 scrive: < Due terroristi dei NAR stanno orchestrando da
Londra lo sbarco in Italia di un nuovo movimento fascista >. L’articolo
ricostruisce l’attivita’ di Fiore e del suo camerata, il cantautore
Massimo Morsello (detto anche il “De Gregori di destra”) latitanti nella
compiacente Londra, dove sono diventati “imprenditori di successo”,
titolari della “Meeting point”, un’azienda che organizza concerti e
turismo scolastico, soggiorni e prevendite di biglietti per partite.
Cosi’ pure, scrive Maranzana, secondo la polizia inglese i Nostri
avrebbero organizzato attraverso la societa’ “Trust of St. Michael the
Archangel” delle vendite di beneficienza per raccogliere fondi
“destinati a fondare in Spagna un villaggio fascista”. Un progetto per
un villaggio spagnolo “dove i nazionalisti di tutta Europa possano
vivere nel nuovo ordine” appare anche, prosegue Maranzana, nel
bollettino interno dell’organizzazione “neonazista” “Third position
international”, tanto per riprendere le solite sigle. All’idea di questo
“villaggio” < Morsello se la ride. “Una citta’ nera? Magari si potesse
costruire, me ne andrei la’ di corsa. Purtroppo pero’ sono tutte
invenzioni di un giornalista” >. Pero’ nel novembre 1999 il quotidiano
“Liberazione” riprendera’ un articolo di “El pai’s” nel quale si legge
che “il gruppo neonazista britannico Terza posizione internazionale”
(toh! coincidenza?) “si appresta a ricostruire un villaggio abbandonato
che ha comprato interamente due anni fa (...) nella regione di
Valencia”.
Quanto alla permanenza a Londra dei due condannati per
associazione sovversiva in Italia, troviamo che il quotidiano “Il
Manifesto” del 5.11.1998 riprende un articolo dell’inglese “Guardian”,
il quale avrebbe sostenuto “sulla base di nuove informazioni di un’ex
agente della CIA in Europa” che Fiore e Morsello sarebbero stati
“reclutati” in Libano nei primi anni ‘80 (si erano li’ rifugiati dopo
essere scappati dall’Italia) dal sevizio segreto inglese Mi6 e che per
questo motivo la Gran Bretagna non concesse mai la loro estradizione
all’Italia.
Non siamo riusciti pero’ a verificare se queste notizie siano
poi state confermate o smentite o semplicemente ignorate.
Morsello che, secondo Gianni Barbacetto in un articolo sul
“Diario” del 19.5.1999, si autodefinisce “fascista, cattolico, latitante
e cantautore politicamente scorretto” e’ rientrato in Italia nella
primavera del ‘99 grazie alla legge Simeone perche’ gravemente ammalato
(si parlo’ di cancro in fase terminale). Ma piu’ di un anno dopo
Morsello pare avere riacquistato la salute, difatti va in giro a fare
concerti e comizi ed e’ intervenuto pure ad una manifestazione a Trieste
nel maggio scorso.
Sempre Barbacetto ricostruisce cosi’ la “genesi” di Forza Nuova,
nata all’inizio come una sorta di movimento d’opinione all’interno della
Fiamma tricolore dove coagulava i militanti attorno al proprio
bollettino, il “Foglio di lotta” (che esce tuttora). Nel 1997 lo stesso
Rauti decise di mettere fine a questa fronda impedendo la diffusione del
“Foglio” e “richiamando i camerati alla disciplina”. Ma a quel punto ci
fu la scissione vera e propria e < Fiore e Morsello, da Londra,
indicarono la data - il 29 settembre, San Michele Arcangelo, protettore
della Guardia di Ferro di Codreanu, il leader del fascismo romeno - in
cui, gettate alle ortiche le vecchie prudenze rautiane, sarebbe
finalmente nata una forza nuova >. In contemporanea si formo’, attorno
ad un gruppo di giornalisti di estrema destra (Mario Consoli, Piero
Sella, Sergio Gozzoli, fondatori del giornale “Uomo Nuovo”) un gruppo
che, avendo un rapporto privilegiato con Le Pen, cercava di costruire un
“Fronte nazionale” anche in Italia.
Parte del nucleo dirigente di Forza Nuova e’ stato coinvolto
nell’inchiesta sugli Hammerskin italiani, facenti parte di quella rete
neonazista internazionale fondata una decina d’anni fa in Texas e poi
diffusasi in Europa, presentantesi come “l’elite dell’elite” degli
skinheads. Il loro simbolo sono due martelli in marcia (quelli che
appaiono nel film “The wall” dei Pink Floyd), e si ritengono < nuovi
cavalieri di un medioevo postmoderno, crociati schierati in difesa
dell’Europa bianca >. Sia il leader milanese degli Hammerskin Duilio
Canu che quello di Padova Alessandro Ambrosino sarebbero poi diventati
dirigenti locali di Forza Nuova.
Viste queste premesse e vista la presenza assidua che Forza
Nuova ha a Trieste da due anni in qua (precisiamo subito che quanto a
presenza numerica alle manifestazioni contano dalle cinque alle trenta
persone al massimo) siamo andati a cercare notizie su di loro, ed ecco
quanto abbiamo tratto dal materiale da essi stessi fornito (sia su
volantini e riviste che sul sito Internet www. forzanuova.org).
Cos’e’ dunque Forza Nuova? Sono fascisti, palesemente fascisti,
non quelle cose addomesticate come A.N. di oggi. Sono corporativisti,
cattolici integralisti, antiabortisti, odiano gli immigrati e i “non
europei” (dove tra questi includono pure, non si capisce a quale titolo,
tutti gli ebrei); sono contrari al divorzio e favorevoli “alla
famiglia”; propugnano uno stile di vita “legionario”, cantano le lodi
della Decima Mas di Borghese come della Falange spagnola di de Rivera,
come della legione romena Arcangelo Michele (toh! chi si rivede) di
Codreanu.
Sono contrari al “bilinguismo” (dove per esso intendono ogni
forma di tutela di qualsivoglia minoranza etnica) e
nell’ipernazionalista Trieste trovano consenso tra tutti coloro che
negano alla comunita’ etnica slovena il diritto di esprimersi nella
propria lingua; cosi’ pure sono contrari alla legge Mancino che
proibisce di dire “s’ciavo” (epiteto dispregiativo che i razzisti
triestini usano per gli sloveni) ed altri insulti di marchio razzista.
Sono contrari alla massoneria ed alle organizzazioni internazionali come
la Trilateral ed il Bilderberg, quali esponenti del mondialismo
capitalista. Che certe frange del terrorismo nero siano state usate in
passato da certa massoneria (P2) non sembra creare loro problemi di
coscienza. O forse e’ anche a cose come queste che si riferiscono quando
parlano di “esempi di machiavellismo negativi” quali “collusioni ambigue
in funzioni di golpe (vero o presunto)” in un articolo sul nuovo ruolo
di A.N. (vedasi il n° 20 del loro bollettino “Foglio di lotta”, che
appare anche nel sito Internet).
Sono populisti, e lo dimostrano con tre delle loro piu’
importanti attivita’: la campagna “compra italiano”, la “Befana
tricolore” e l’associazione “Italica” che organizza campeggi estivi per
“bambini provenienti da famiglie bisognose”.
Nel Bollettino n° 13 vediamo come si strutturano queste
attivita’.
< Dal popolo per il popolo: la Befana tricolore.
Viene scelta la zona adatta ... un quartiere proletario o povero
... si contattano con una lettera le famiglie dove il capofamiglia e’
senza lavoro o sottoccupato... vengono poi coinvolti tutti i militanti
ed i simpatizzanti del movimento in raccolta di fondi, vestiario,
giocattoli ... viene annunciata la Befana Tricolore con volantini e
manifesti ... si diramano poi comunicati ... le manifestazioni vanno
tenute preferibilmente nelle sedi di Forza Nuova. Il tutto deve essere
poi concluso con un’appello alla popolazione ... per la ricostruzione
del Patrimonio tradizionale e del tessuto sociale della citta’ o del
quartiere >.
A parte la strumentalizzazione politica che traspare da questo
modo di fare “carita’ pelosa” svolgendo le iniziative di beneficienza
(?) nelle sedi del movimento, c’e’ anche altro che da’ da pensare.
L’individuazione delle famiglie che vanno contattate a questo modo
richiede una forte presenza di controllo sul territorio da parte dei
forzanovisti, che del resto strutturano le proprie sedi in maniera molto
“funzionale”, quasi militarista, a leggere le loro indicazioni per i
militanti. Ma fino a che punto si spinge la loro attivita’? Fino ad una
sorta di “schedatura” della popolazione dei quartieri? E cosa puo’
accadere ad una famiglia, che pure “bisognosa”, magari decida per
convinzione antifascista di rifiutare la “Befana tricolore”? In quale
“schedatura” potra’ incorrere?
Il progetto “Compra italiano” (del quale sarebbe tra i maggiori
organizzatori l’ex Hammerskin padovano Ambrosino) invece funziona cosi’:
< e’ ... una campagna lanciata recentemente dalla Corporazione Lucana
... i contadini riuniti sotto la Corporazione Lucana spediscono il loro
camion carico di arance verso le varie citta’ d’Italia dove vengono
gestite in modo autonomo da individui o gruppi legati alle sezioni di
Forza Nuova ... le arance passano di mano una volta sola e vengono
distribuite direttamente dai piccoli distributori sparsi nelle varie
citta’ > (logicamente tutti membri di Forza Nuova...).
E cosa fa invece l’associazione “Italica”? Organizza i “pionieri
d’Italia” la cui “struttura e’ attualmente suddivisa in reparti,
composti da quattro o sei squadriglie con bambini da 6 a 14 anni,
suddivisi in maschili e femminili; a capo di questi reparti vi e’ un
consiglio-capi composto prevalentemente da ex appartenenti ad
associazioni scoutistiche preesistenti. Attualmente si sta pensando di
creare anche un reparto di ragazzi piu’ adulti, quale scuola di
preparazione per la formazione dei consigli capi di tutta Italia >.
Segue (Bollettino n° 17 del settembre ‘98) una descrizione delle
“uscite” di questi “reparti” e di queste “squadriglie”, < in
preparazione del campo estivo che si svolgera’ in Francia ... il
progetto ... e’ stato perfezionato durante le colonie estive Evita Peron
1998 con le quali si e’ potuto sperimentare il metodo che verra’
utilizzato nelle attivita’ pionieristiche >: Colonie queste che Forza
Nuova avrebbe organizzato per venire incontro alle “famiglie bisognose”
(anche qui vediamo una ricerca selettiva delle famiglie cui proporre un
soggiorno estivo per i figli). Iniziativa lodevolissima? Ma la
giornalista Cristiana Mangani del “Messaggero” ha raccolto alcune
testimonianze che sono state pubblicate in un articolo nel giugno ‘98. I
ragazzini da lei sentiti sarebbero stati “reclutati” nelle case ex
Bastogi dalla sezione di Forza Nuova di Cave dei Tirreni, per un
soggiorno gratuito a Gressoney. I genitori, dopo avere inviato i figli
in montagna, allarmati dal tono di una delle telefonate a casa fatta da
un bambino, < hanno preteso che il gruppo tornasse a Roma e si sono
trovati davanti dei ragazzini spaventati, arrabbiati, pieni di graffi e
lividi. Ieri hanno chiamato la polizia e denunciato l’associazione Forza
Nuova ... >. Raccontano i ragazzini: < una volta due di noi sono stati
portati nel bosco perche’ non volevano dormire ... siamo dei bambini
piuttosto vivaci, ma loro ci hanno trattato come rifiuti. Dovete
imparare a vivere, ci dicevano. Vi mettiamo a posto noi >. E un altro: <
Uno di noi ha reagito per la pasta che faceva schifo, lo hanno preso e
sbattuto contro il muro. Se non ti sta bene, gli hanno detto, te ne puoi
anche andare. E hanno aggiunto: vai a fare del bene a persone come
queste >. E via di seguito con racconti simili. Cosi’ conclude la
giornalista: < nessuno pensava di trovare piccoli lord sulle montagne di
Gressoney. Tantomeno pero’ di imbattersi in una scuola di addestramento
per marines >.
Un altro dei cavalli di battaglia di Forza Nuova e’
“l’opposizione all’anticultura” (in effetti il loro linguaggio e’ molto
“contro”, si dichiarano molto “antagonisti”, ricalcando sia vecchie
parole d’ordine di certa sinistra che di altri “vecchi” fascisti alla
Freda e Ventura). Sostengono ad esempio (e purtroppo non hanno tutti i
torti...) che l’insegnamento umanistico nelle scuole, oltre a fare
schifo, viene pure ridimensionato dalle riforme scolastiche per lasciare
piu’ spazio ad altre materie “scientifiche”. Si preoccupano molto
dell’insegnamento della storia, sostenendo che lo studio di essa e’
subordinato alle logiche del potere e che essendo questo in mano alla
sinistra vengono insegnati dei falsi storici funzionali a chi sta al
potere (tenendo presente che i libri di storia sono piu’ o meno sempre
quelli da trent’anni a questa parte e che la “sinistra” e’ al potere da
solo quattro, tutto il discorso ci pare un po’ forzato...).
Ad ogni modo la loro risposta e’ di organizzare < corsi di
Storia da tenere nei propri locali ... tenuti da professori del
movimento o d’area, che ricalchino la struttura dei normali corsi
scolastici e che quindi si rivelino utili agli studenti nei loro studi.
Al termine di questi corsi ... verranno stilate e distribuite dispense
del corso >.
Ci troviamo quindi di fronte ad un movimento politico che e’
organizzato in maniera quasi militarista e che si “autogestisce” (o
quantomeno ha in programma di fare) un mucchio di cose: dalla scuola
alle colonie estive (che sembrano piuttosto campi paramilitari), dalla
distribuzione diretta di generi alimentari al controllo nei quartieri.
Sotto questa luce assume un aspetto particolare anche il nome del loro
“progetto Contropotere”: cosa intendono per “contropotere”? La creazione
di uno stato all’interno dello Stato?
Se ci limitiamo a leggere sui giornali e sui loro bollettini
ufficiali, vediamo che il “progetto Contropotere” appare sostanzialmente
come la creazione di una sorta di centri sociali ideologicamente
schierati all’estrema destra. Uno spazio per iniziative culturali
(secondo il concetto che di “cultura” ha quel tipo di persone,
ovviamente), di socializzazione, per dibattiti, per i loro progetti
“compraitaliano” eccetera.
Nel sito Internet, invece, il progetto Contropotere viene
descritto in ben altro modo.
< L’esperienza degli ultimi anni ci insegna che se pur necessario,
concentrarsi su tematiche politiche del momento puo’ non essere
sufficiente; va compiuto uno sforzo continuo per creare strutture
durature che garantiscano la continuita’ del movimento in caso di
attacchi, tradimenti e atti repressivi ... alcuni movimenti europei si
sono adoperati negli ultimi anni nel gettare semi di contropotere ...
abbiamo visto il progetto villaggio in Spagna, progetto che potrebbe
essere seguito presto da nuove iniziative simili in altri paesi... >.
Domanda: ma se qui Forza Nuova “rivendica” il “progetto villaggio in
Spagna” come mai Morsello s’era tanto preoccupato di negare che
esistessero dei progetti simili, se questi “villaggi” sono iniziative
del tutto innocenti?
Vengono poi descritti tre esempi di queste “nuove iniziative” in
Inghilterra, Normandia ed Irlanda, dove < vi sono tre proprieta’ aventi
in comunte le seguenti caratteristiche:
1) la presenza di vasti appezzamenti di terra;
2) l’appartenenza delle proprieta’ a militanti o associazioni non
lucrative gestite da militanti;
3) la presenza di attivita’ economiche, di struttrue politico-culturali,
di piccole Cappelle >.
In queste proprieta’ (quella inglese comprende 10 ettari di
terreno ed una “casa di notevoli dimensioni” che oltre al resto
comprende anche 5 stanze “per i residenti e gli ospiti”) le “strutture
economiche” consisterebbero in “uno studio per la produzione di video” e
di “edizione, produzione e distribuzione di libri”.
Dulcis in fundo questa considerazione sull’importanza
dell’acquisto di queste proprieta’: < anche nei casi piu’ estremi di
repressione le strutture sono li’ a disposizione di chi continuera’ la
lotta politica. A questo proposito e’ di particolare importanza la
fisionomia giuridica delle associazioni non a scopo di lucro che
garantiscono l’uso delle proprieta’ per fini prestabiliti stabiliti
negli statuti e che proteggono il tutto da possibili atti persecutori >.
Il “progetto Contropotere” cosi’ come descritto somiglia piu’
alla creazione di una serie di basi logistiche che non ad un <
laboratorio di idee dove poter coniugare pensiero ed azione al di fuori
degli schemi imposti dai burattinai del sistema >, come dichiarato da
Fabio Bellani al “Piccolo” del 26.5.1999.
Un altro punto da tenere presente si ricollega a questa
affermazione apparsa nel n° 20 del loro bollettino (estate 1999): < ...
il fenomeno forse piu’ interessante (delle elezioni europee, n.d.r.) e’
il crollo verticale della Lega dell’ormai screditatato Bossi. Forza
Nuova e’ pronta ad accogliere tra le sue fila la base di quel partito
costituita da uomini da sempre anticomunisti, attaccati alle tradizioni
e nemici dei poteri forti sovrannazionali >. In seguito, il 16.10.1999
Haider e’ intervenuto “a sorpresa” al comizio che Bossi stava tenendo a
Vicenza e tale notizia e’ stata data dal periodico “Padania. Lega Nord”
(dicembre 1999) con questo titolo < Il pendolo della storia sta andando
verso la riscoperta dei valori della famiglia e delle radici.
Mitteleuropa: incontro Bossi, Haider. Una lotta comune contro la
globalizzazione dell’Unione Europea e a favore dell’Europa dei popoli >
. Nell’articolo vengono anche riportate le posizioni del leader
austriaco, in sintesi che egli intende lavorare, a livello europeo, solo
con la Lega, alle quali Bossi avrebbe risposto affermando il bisogno di
costruire una “casa comune mitteleuropea” allo scopo di difendere i
popoli dai pericoli della globalizzazione”. Ed ancora dall’articolo
citato: < ... la stampa di regime cerca in tutti i modi di demonizzare
questo nuovo flusso che porta il pendolo della storia ad oscillare nella
direzione dei valori cioe’ della salvaguardia della famiglia e delle
radici dei popoli (....) la Mitteleuropa ha in comune una storia
significativa e comuni valori cristiani... >.
Europa dei popoli, famiglia, cristianita’: gli stessi “valori”
che abbiamo sentito porre come fondamentali anche da Forza Nuova: in una
conferenza indetta da Forza Nuova e tenutasi a Trieste il 6.11.1999, il
direttore della rivista “Uomo libero” Gozzoli (ve lo ricordate?) ha
ribadito la necessita’ di portare avanti un concetto di Europa quale
ordine etnico tra popoli affini per radici di lingua e di sangue, di
affinita’ storiche e di un ordine ideale di Europa come civilta’ da
contrapporre alla globalizzazione imposta dagli Stati Uniti. Cosi’ Forza
Nuova e Lega Nord hanno in comune le posizioni in materia di
immigrazione e sono da subito scese in piazza assieme in molte citta’
(prime fra tutte Padova e Como) per esprimere il loro sostegno a Haider.
Passando alla situazione specificatamente locale, a Trieste
Forza Nuova ha un cavallo di battaglia in piu’ da portare avanti: la
lotta contro il cosiddetto “bilinguismo” (piu’ correttamente la legge di
tutela per la comunita’ etnica slovena che e’ presente nelle provincie
di Trieste e Gorizia storicamente da diversi secoli). Nel corso di
questa “battaglia” Forza Nuova ha trovato l’adesione di uno strano
personaggio, tale Giorgio Rustia, triestino vissuto per trent’anni a
Milano prima di rientrare nella citta’ natale agli inizi degli anni ‘90.
Rustia, che si e’ avvicinato a Forza Nuova dopo avere fondato un
“Comitato di triestini che non parlano lo sloveno” e’ diventato il
referente locale di “Contropotere” per il quale tiene regolarmente
conferenze pseudo-storiche dove tratta della storia recente di Trieste.
In realta’ egli non e’ uno storico, e’ laureato in scienze biologiche,
ma sulle pagine dei giornali locali appaiono spesso sue lettere in
merito alla questione delle foibe e ai rapporti tra italiani e sloveni
in queste terre. Il modo che ha Rustia di fare “controinformazione” su
questi argomenti e’ quello di estrapolare frasi e spezzoni da vari
documenti per darne poi un’interpretazione di parte (come si suol dire,
prendendo una frase di qua ed una di la’ si puo’ riuscire a dimostrare
che il Papa ha celebrato anche una messa nera...). Il tutto e’ teso a
dimostrare una presunta “cattiveria” del popolo sloveno che da decenni
non ha pensato ad altro che cercare di eliminare “l’italianita’” di
queste terre; che Rustia faccia cio’ in perfetta malafede e’ dimostrato
dal fatto che, piu’ di una volta, sulle pagine dei giornali sono apparse
chiarificazioni e smentite delle interpretazioni da lui date a frasi
stralciate di qua e di la’, ciononostante Rustia insiste nel riscrivere
sempre gli stessi concetti.
Questo personaggio a Trieste rappresenta anche il Centro di
studi storici della Guardia Civica (la Guardia Civica fu un gruppo
militare creato dai nazisti dopo l’8 settembre ‘43), pur non avendo
militato nel suddetto Corpo ed e’ anche segretario dell’Associazione
Congiunti Deportati in Jugoslavia, pur non essendo, a quanto e’ dato
sapere, imparentato con alcun “deportato” (a Trieste si usa questo
termine impropriamente per definire i prigionieri di guerra che furono
condotti in Jugoslavia subito dopo la liberazione della citta’ nel
maggio ‘45); ha inoltre stretti contatti con le varie associazioni
combattentistiche comprese quelle dei reduci della Repubblica di Salo’,
unite nell’Associazione Grigioverde.
Sempre riguardo la questione slovena, Forza Nuova ha rilevato
che < all’interno della stessa minoranza ci sono delle divisioni:
infatti, PDS e RC mantengono il monopolio come interlocutori per la
minoranza, mentre vengono sistematicamente fatti da parte quelli che
fanno parte ad altre organizzazioni>. Sorvolando sul fatto che gli
“italianissimi” forzanovisti non sanno scrivere in italiano, vediamo che
nella primavera del 2000 il consiglio regionale ha stanziato 11 miliardi
di finanziamenti ad un “Istituto per gli sloveni del Friuli Venezia
Giulia”, iniziativa che ha visto il plauso di un’unica associazione
slovena, la Comunita’ economico culturale slovena che fa capo a tale
Boris Gombac (e che si richiama politicamente a Lega Nord e Forza
Italia); Gombac e la sua associazione a sua volta starebbero prendendo
contatti con un altro “istituto” per le minoranze etniche, analogamente
promosso dalla Regione Carinzia, ed alla cui presentazione hanno
partecipato uno stretto collaboratore di Haider, Karl Anderwald,
vicedirettore dell’ufficio di presidenza della Regione Carinzia e lo
stesso Gombac.
Leggiamo tutto questo tenendo presenti le avances di Haider per
una “grande Carinzia”, “macroregione” (termine questo caro pure alla
Lega Nord) che comprenda anche il Nordest italiano e la Slovenia.
Andando indietro nel tempo possiamo trovare delle interessanti
analogie tra Forza Nuova (che e’ stata fondata ufficialmente, lo
ricordiamo, nel settembre 1997) e la meno nota associazione denominata
“Nuova Acropoli”, della quale ha parlato la rivista “Cuore” nel numero
del 3.12.1994.
Nuova Acropoli fu fondata in Argentina nel 1957 e si diffuse in
Italia all’inizio degli anni ‘80; cosi’ viene descritta nell’articolo
sopra citato.
< ... 5mila membri nel 1989 (500 solo in Italia) ed un
patrimonio dichiarato di oltre 8 milioni di dollari, Nuova Acropoli e’
“esteriormente un’organizzazione culturale e umanistica, ma nasconde
(...) una struttura piramidale molto rigida ed occulta ai propri adepti
di base” (dal Manuale del Dirigente riservato ai livelli superiori del
gruppo). Al vertice della piramide c’e’ un Comandante Mondiale, dal
potere assoluto, che governa per “decreti” >.
(E’ interessante a questo punto rilevare come il termine
“comandante” sia d’uso ricorrente in certi ambienti: “comandante” era,
per i suoi adepti, Junio Valerio Borghese, il “principe nero” della
Decima Mas; Marco Pirina, lo pseudostorico revisionista di Pordenone che
si dedica da anni a stampare libri pieni di falsita’ storiche allo scopo
di infangare la Resistenza ed il movimento partigiano sostenne, una
volta, di essere stato inquisito per il fallito golpe Borghese solo
perche’ il suo nome si trovava nell’agendina del “comandante” Sandro
Saccucci; Giorgio Rustia, il leader triestino di Contropotere, ha una
volta definito Roberto Fiore, in una conferenza pubblica “comandante
fondatore”).
Continuiamo con l’articolo di “Cuore”.
< Il gruppo dirigente della setta e’ formato dall’ elite degli
“asciati”, gli unici a poter vantare un contatto diretto con il
comandante mondiale. Vengono quindi i semplici membri, suddivisi in tre
strutture dai toni tipicamente hitleriani. C’e’ innanzitutto il “Corpo
di sicurezza”. Indossa divise nere che si richiamano alle SS, simbolo
della folgore compreso e svolge una funzione piu’ o meno mascherata
(...) di vigilanza e di pronto intervento. In Italia ha preso da qualche
anno - subito dopo la “svolta ambientalista” avvenuta nei primi anni ‘80
- il nome di “Dipartimento di protezione civile”. ... si affiancano le
“Brigate Maschili” (...) e le “Brigate Femminili” (...) >.
Vediamo ora se quanto segue ricorda qualcosa di cui abbiamo
parlato prima.
< Nuova Acropoli nel proprio sistema educativo prevede strutture
anche per i piu’ piccoli: l’edificazione dell’Uomo Nuovo ha inizio sin
dalla prima infanzia attraverso (...) una sorta di asilo nido in cui tra
l’altro si insegna la tecnica per riuscire a vedere “Gnomi, elfi e
fate”; quindi, dai 7 ai 14 anni, i bambini vengono divisi tra la
struttura maschile dei “Cavalieri della tavola rotonda” e quella
femminile della “Tavola di Iside”. (...) Nuova Acropoli insegna una
dottrinaccia filosofeggiante in cui l’umanita’ si divide in razze
superiori ed inferiori (...) si associa una malsana etica dell’”uomo
forte”, che comporta l’obbligo di “evitare l’iperprotezione dei piu’
deboli a danno delle persone piu’ importanti...” > eccetera eccetera.
Nuova Acropoli, spiega ancora l’articolo, negli anni Ottanta, al
seguito della “moda” ecologista, si diffuse come associazione
ambientalista che organizzava incontri, seminari, corsi ed attivita’
varie, spesso con il patrocinio delle istituzioni (nel 1989 a Genova, ad
esempio, le Ferrovie affidarono alla locale sezione di Nuova Acropoli la
gestione di un corso per annunciatori nelle stazioni). Ma anche gite per
anziani a Venezia col patrocinio del Comune e la partecipazione del
sindaco; un campo di addestramento “per l’ecologia attiva” nel parco
d’Abruzzo, sotto l’egida dell’Ente parco, dell’aeroclub dell’Aquila, del
Corpo forestale dello Stato e della Regione Abruzzo e via di seguito.
Infine, nell’ottobre del 1989 un “campo” di Nuova Acropoli (una
cascina acquistata qualche anno prima: ricorda niente?) fu perquisito
dai carabinieri della stazione di Montefiascone che vi trovarono
“gagliardetti, labari, coltelli, una radio ricetrasmittente priva di
licenza e numerosi bossoli di pistola” e vi arrestarono un giovane del
“Corpo di sicurezza”. Armi da fuoco furono invece trovate in altre
sezioni non italiane: a Madrid e ad Atene (dove la responsabile fu
condannata a 12 anni di carcere).
Vediamo infine i referenti internazionali di questi “militanti”.
< Il fondatore, Livraga Rizzi, ha rivendicato negli anni ‘70 i
propri rapporti con i circoli golpisti argentini ed uruguagi, con i
cileni di “Patria y libertad”, con la Falange spagnola. Ed anche la
sezione italiana, almeno agli inizi, sfoggia stretti rapporti di
amicizia con quest’area: fondata a Roma nel 1975 (tra il 1976 ed il 1979
aprira’ filiali in quindici citta’) viene inzialmente aiutata da
Serafini Di Luia, fondatore della nazi-maoista Lotta di Popolo, mentre
Gabriele Adinolfi (toh! chi si rivede) uno dei padri di Terza Posizione
incoraggia i propri camerati a frequentare l’organizzazione >.
Infine vediamo come e’ diffusa sul territorio nazionale Forza
Nuova. Nel febbraio 2000 era presente in 10 regioni (Sicilia, Piemonte,
Lombardia, Veneto, Toscana, Abruzzo, Lazio, Campania, Basilicata e
Puglia), un anno dopo le regioni erano diventate 14, con in piu’ Marche,
Umbria, Friuli Venezia Giulia ed Emilia Romagna.
Vediamo la situazione regione per regione. In Piemonte c’era una
sezione a Torino nel ‘99 ed e’ rimasta nel 2000; in Lombardia nel
febbraio 1999 erano aperte le sezioni di Milano, Brescia, Bergamo e
Gallarate; nel 2000 risultano in piu’ una a Campione d’Italia ed una a
Lodi, mentre non c’e’ piu’ quella di Brescia; Veneto: nel 1999 Vicenza,
Padova e Schio, nel 2000 Padova e Verona; Toscana: nel 1999 Lucca,
Casteldelpiano e Grosseto, quest’ultima non risulta nel 2000; Abruzzo
nel 1999 una sede a Pescara e nel 2000 una a Vasto; Lazio: nel 1999
Roma, Cave, Viterbo, Santa Marinella, Sora e Latina, nel 2000 non
appaiono queste ultime tre mentre abbiamo in piu’ Gaeta e Montelanico;
Campania: nel 1999 Napoli, Salerno e Fratta Maggiore, quest’ultima non
c’e’ nel 2000 ma ci sono in piu’ Pianura e Caserta; Basilicata: nel 1999
Bernalda e nel 2000 Metaponto; Puglia: nel 1999 Bari, Fasano, Brindisi e
Taranto, la quale non ci sara’ piu’ nel 2000, pero’ abbiamo in piu’ le
seguenti sezioni: San Michele Salentino, S. Vito dei Normanni, Lecce,
Carmiano, Martina Franca e Santeramo in colle; Sicilia: Palermo nel 1999
come nel 2000; infine nel 2000 abbiamo in piu’ le seguenti sedi:
Falconara nelle Marche; Trieste nel Friuli Venezia Giulia, Bologna in
Emilia Romagna; Perugia in Umbria.
Come si puo’ vedere il massimo dello sviluppo l’organizzazione
l’ha visto nelle Puglie, regione che negli ultimi anni ha assunto due
peculiarita’, collegate tra di loro dai traffici degli “scafisti”:
l’ingresso di “clandestini” in Italia e l’attivita’ di contrabbando che
si e’ trasformata in una e vera propria guerra contro lo Stato.
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STAMATTINA 14 AGOSTO 2000 TRUPPE DELLA NATO HANNO INVASO
L'ENCLAVE NON ANCORA "ETNICAMENTE RIPULITA" DI KOSOVSKA MITROVICA.
Finalita' della operazione:
1. mettere definitivamente a tacere le voci che contestano la politica
razzista e di appoggio al progetto nazionalista pan-albanese, come
"Radio S";
2. intimidire e reprimere la resistenza dei serbi, delle altre
nazionalita' minoritarie e degli albanesi democratici e jugoslavisti per
sgombrare il terreno da ogni ostacolo in vista delle elezioni
illegittime indette dalla amministrazione coloniale per il 28 ottobre;
3. indurre alla fuga i gruppi minoritari che hanno resistito per tutti
questi mesi alla violenza degli alleati KFOR ed UCK, in vista della
annessione della cosiddetta "Kosova" alla Grande Albania nei confini del
nazifascismo;
4. prendere il controllo e rubare le risorse dello stato Jugoslavo,
specialmente le preziose miniere del complesso di Trepca presso
Mitrovica.
L'ITALIA PARTECIPA ATTIVAMENTE ALLA OCCUPAZIONE COLONIALE E SPOLIAZIONE
DEL KOSMET ED APPOGGIA LE POLITICHE RAZZISTE DELLA AMMINISTRAZIONE
KOUCHNER, IN PERFETTA CONTINUITA' CON L'OPERATO DEL FASCISMO TRA IL 1941
ED IL 1943.
Ma il Kosmet era e rimarra' JUGOSLAVIA!
FUORI TUTTE LE TRUPPE STRANIERE DAL KOSMET!
VIVA LA JUGOSLAVIA MULTINAZIONALE ED INDIPENDENTE!
FUORI L'ITALIA DALLA NATO - FUORI LA NATO DALL'ITALIA!
SMRT FASIZMU - SLOBODA NARODU!
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NATO ATTACK ON NORTHERN MITROVICA MOVES TOWARDS NEW WAR
www.tenc.net
Early Monday morning, squads of NATO troops seized Northern Mitrovica,
the
only remaining multiethnic part of Kosovo.
Northern Mitrovica, where thousands of Serbs, "Gypsies," Slavic Muslims
and
others driven from the rest of Kosovo lived side by side with local
Serbs,
Albanians and others, was defended by mass, non-violent action from UN
police
abuses and vicious armed assaults by Kosovo 'Liberation Army' forces
trying
to take control.
This popular movement infuriated the NATO humanitarians; hence today's
invasion by French and British NATO troops.
The excuse: to curb 'violence' (that is, the unarmed, non-violent
movement)
and, of all things, to limit pollution at a smelter. Amazing. The same
NATO
that has dropped thousands of deadly cluster (time) bombs on Kosovo's
children, the same NATO, which, as Prof. Chossudovsky has proven,
deliberately created an environmental disaster at Pancevo (1), now is
worried
about...a smelter.
These fabrications insult our intelligence. NATO's real goals: a) to
crush
resistance to KLA fascism, which NATO and the UN have installed
elsewhere in
Kosovo (2) and b) to position NATO troops close to the administrative
border
between Kosovo and inner Serbia, an area that has for months been under
attack by NATO proxy troops of the KLA variety. (3)
Recently Al Gore announced that Sen. Joseph Lieberman will be his Vice
Presidential running mate. This is the same Lieberman who said, while
attending a pro-war rally in Washington last April:
"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." ('Washington Post, April 28, 1999)
Recently, George Bush commented that if elected he will immediately
issue an
arrest warrant for Yugoslav Pres. Milosevic. Amazing isn't it how
casually
these men, even half-wits like little-Bush, how casually these men, no
matter
how limited their abilities, assume Imperial Rights. Thus - poof! - and
little Bush issues his threat to arrest - arrest? - the President of a
sovereign country. How does one arrest somebody else's President? No
problem,
didn't big daddy once pulverize a smaller country, Panama, supposedly to
arrest its President? This is Rome, complete with cruelty and greed. All
that's missing is brains.
The Lieberman announcement and the threat by Little Bush, as well as and
today's attack on Mitrovica, make eminently clear that the American
establishment is not through with Yugoslavia. It wishes to escalate the
attack. The Serbs, for a century the obstacle to Imperial conquest of
the
strategic Balkans, must be crushed as a politically coherent force.
By sending British and French troops to seize Northern Mitrovica the
United
States has positioned NATO troops close to the administrative border
with
inner Serbia. This would make it easier for NATO troops (after a
suitable
provocation is invented) to attack inner Serbia from the south and,
simultaneously, to support provocative actions by the weak,
gangster-ridden
quisling regime in Montenegro, where British SAS (Special Forces) are
currently training whatever rifraff they can scrape together (they call
it a
police force) to be used as provocateurs to a) assassinate Yugoslav
officials
and b) provide some incident9s) to 'justify' NATO intervention.
The line, put forward by NATO, that it is Milosevic who wishes to
destabilize
Montenegro and Mitrovica, etc., etc., is ridiculous on the face. Do they
take
us for fools? Are we to accept a comic book vision of world politics in
which
Milosevic plays "Super Bad Guy" to the US "Super Good Guy," where "Super
Bad
Guy" does absurdly self-destructive things for no reason but
irrepressible
malice.
In reality, it is Yugoslavia (its people AND government) who have
suffered
NATO's cruel and unwarranted assaults. It was Yugoslavia which tried,
prior
to last year's bombing, to work out some kind of peace accord and it was
NATO
which presented Yugoslavia with an agreement (which would have
legalizedthe
occupation of all Yugoslavia by NATO troops!) - a proposal designed
precisely
to ensure Yugoslav rejection. It was only Yugoslavia whose parliament
actually discussed this (anti-)peace proposal. Not one of the NATO
democracies voted, by plebiscite or even in parliament, before
initiating the
brutal 78 day bombing of Yugoslav civilians and infrastructure and the
subsequent invasion and ethnic decimation of Kosovo.
We are now attempting to get direct information from Mitrovica. We will
post
whatever we find out as soon as possible.
-- editorial staff, Emperor's Clothes.
1) 'NATO Willfully Triggered Environmental Catastrophe In Yugoslavia' by
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/willful.htm
2) 'Save the families: The women of Orahovac speak' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe.htm
3) On NATO's proxy attacks on inner Serbia, please see 'Boggling the
mind
department - Report from a UN Website' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/kilibarda/boggling.htm
and see also: 'Terrorism in southern 'Serbia Proper'' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/fighting.htm
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STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
Early this morning on the 14th of August, forces of NATO's Kosovo Force
swept
into Kosovska Mitrovica and took control of the Trepca Mining Complex.
As I
write this Yugoslav workers are resisting the encroachment of
international
forces. This move is a cynical move designed to cow the Serbian, Roma,
Turk,
Montenegrin, and some of the Albanian population that have refused to
participate in NATO organized elections. Mitrovica is the ONLY city in
Kosovo were these groups live with a measure of security thanks to a
strong
BUT COMPLETELY NON-VIOLENT opposition to KFOR in the city. I have
spoken to
Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Serbian community and the city, who has
categorically condemned ALL violence in the city. The Serbs,
Montenegrins
and Roma in Mitrovica have been subjected to beatings, bombings, grenade
attacks, kidnappings, etc. yet this is the SAFEST place for these
people in
KLA/NATO controlled Kosovo!!!!! Most minorities in Kosovo live in
ETHNIC
GHETTOES surrounded by BARBED WIRE and NATO forces. Supplies are
limited by
KLA formations which interupt supply routes and threaten to kill groups
attempting to bring assistance to Yugoslav civilians. I will keep you
posted
on developments....
French troops and Serbs clash in Mitrovica
MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 14 (Reuters) - A group of 250 Serbian workers
clashed on Monday with French riot police at the lead smelter in
northern
Mitrovica which was earlier seized by NATO peacekeepers, a French
spokesman
said.
``They are stoning the gendarmes,'' French spokesman Colonel Henri
Aussavy
told reporters.
British, French and Danish troops swept in force into Serb-held
Mitrovica
around dawn to shut down the lead smelter that had been pumping toxic
fumes
into the air.
Aussavy said the NATO operation faced further resistance inside the
plant,
where a group of 30 to 40 engineers had locked themselves inside an
administration building, refusing to leave or help U.N. experts shut
down the
smelter.
01:50 08-14-00
NATO troops sweep into Serb-held Mitrovica
MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 14 (Reuters) - British and French forces
swept
into Serb-held northern Mitrovica early on Monday to stamp NATO's
authority
on the area and try to shut down a heavily polluting lead smelter,
witnesses
said.
Dozens of vehicles with British and French troops moved across the River
Ibar, which marks the divide between ethnic Albanian dominated Kosovo
and
northern Mitrovica, the last major urban concentration of Serbs in the
Yugoslav province....
UNMIK TARGETS ZVECAN SMELTING WORKS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, August 9 (Tanjug) The United Nations Interim
Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) on Tuesday issued pamphlets
warning citizens of Kosovska Mitrovica against an alleged threat of an
increased level of lead in the atmosphere and an "epidemiological
crisis."
Director General Novak Bijelic of the Trepca mining complex,
which
includes a smelting works, reacted with a statement saying this was an
attempt to prepare public opinion in favor of closing down the Zvecan
smelting works near Pristina which employs Serbs. This action would
jeopardize the survival of the remaining Serb workers in this area,
Bijelic
said.
UNMIK can close down the smelting works "by force only,"
Bijelic
said, underscoring that air pollution is checked on a daily basis and
that
there are no indications of any contamination. Trepca invested over 10
million Dmarks in the most uptodate filters for a safe environment in
1991,
he said.
"The workers will not sit idle while someone tries to push them
out of their ancestral homes and jobs," Bijelic said.
---
Kosovo Mining Complex Taken Over
.c The Associated Press
ZVECAN, Yugoslavia (AP) - NATO-led peacekeepers took control of a
Serb-run
mining complex in the northern part of Kosovo in a pre-dawn raid Monday.
British peacekeepers acting in support the U.N. mission seized the
premises
of the lead smelter near Kosovoska Mitrovica. The United Nations said
last
week the plant was spewing pollution into the air, raising lead levels
to 200
times the accepted norms.
U.N. spokesman Michael Keats confirmed the operation was under way.
News of the lead levels sparked a rare moment of solidarity in the
divided
city of Kosovoska Mitrovica, prompting Serb and ethnic Albanian leaders
to
join U.N. personnel in publicly having their blood tested.
Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic claimed the lead scare was a ruse,
however, to be used as an excuse for the United Nations to take over the
Zvecan plant...
UNMIK UMESTO CINJENICA NUDI NEISTINE
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) CIVILNA MISIJA
> UJEDINJENIH NACIJA LANSIRANJEM NETACNIH I UZNEMIRAVAJUCIH PODATAKA O
> NAVODNO ENORMOM ZAGADJIVANJU COVEKOVE OKOLINE U KOSOVSKOJ MITROVICI
> "ZELI
> DA POSTIGNE SAMO JEDAN CILJ DA ONEMOGUCI RAD
> RUDARSKOHEMIJSKOMETALURSKOG
> KOMBINATA "TREPCA" KOJI PREDSTAVLJA TEMELJ EGZISTENCIJE OGROMNOM BROJU
> GRADJANA KOSOVSKE MITROVICE I SIRE",
> OVO SE ISTICE U DANASNJEM OBRACAJU "TREPCE" GRADJANIMA
> MITROVICE
> I, KAKO SE KAZE, "UVAZENIM GOSTIMA KOJI PRIVREMENO BORAVE NA OVIM
> PROSTORIMA", A POVOD JE NEDAVNO DISTRIBUIRANJE PAMFLETA UNMIKA IZ
> PRISTINE
> O PREKOMERNOJ ZAKADJENOSTI VAZDUHA, VODE I TLA OLOVOM IZ TOPIONICE U
> ZVECANU.
> "NAZIVAMO TO PAMFLETOM, JER UMESTO CINJENICA UNMIK NUDI
> NEISTINE I
> LAZNO DUSEBRIZNISTVO ZA NASE ZDRAVLJE I NASU SUDBINU", STOJI U LETKU
> "TREPCE".
> TOPIONICA OLOVA U ZVECANU RADI JOS OD 1939. GODINE, A NE OD
> 1991.
> GODINE, KAKO TVRDE UNMIKOVI ZNALCI I RADI U KONTINUITETU. AKO NE
> RACUNAMO
> AGRESIJU NATO ALIJANSE, TOPIONICA JE ZAUSTAVLJANA SAMO RADI POVREMENOG
> REMONTA. VELIKI DIMNJAK, VISOK 306 METARA, KOJI JE PODIGNUT 1972.GODINE
> KAO
> I OPREMA I POSTROJENJA ZA PRECISCAVANJE OTPADNIH GASOVA U KOJU SMO
> ULOZILI
> PREKO 10 MILIONA NEMACKIH MARAKA NAJBOLJI SU DOKAZ DA SE O NASEM
> ZDRAVLJU
> VODILO I VODI RACUNA JOS MNOGO PRE DOLASKA UNMIKA. NA HILJADE RADNIKA,
> STRUCNJAKA I NAJVISIH RUKOVODILACA "TREPCE" ZIVE I RADE TIK UZ TOPIONICU
>
> OLOVA I SVAKAKO BRINU O SVOM ZDRAVLJU, SASVIM SIGURNO MNOGO VISE OD
> UNMIKA,
> STOJI U OBRACANJU "TREPCE".
> DA NEMA RAZLOGA ZA TOBOZNJU "ZABRINUTOST" UNMIKA POTVRDJUJU
> SVAKODNEVNE ANALIZE NASEG INSTITUTA ZA ISTRAZIVANJE I RAZVOJ, KOJE
> UKAZUJU
> DA SU NAS VAZDUH, VODA I ZEMLJA ZASTICENI OD ZAGADJIVANJA OLOVOM,
> GASOVIMA
> I PRASINOM.
> U SVOM OBRACANJU "TREPCA" JE PONUDILA "REZULTATE KONTROLE
> PRISUSTVA TESKIH METALA U VAZDUHU NA VISE KONTROLNIH PUNKTOVA U
> KOSOVSKOJ
> MITROVICI U PERIODU JUNJULI" PA TAKO NAVODE DA JE OLOVA IZMERENO 0,12
> MILIGRAMA PO METRU KUBNOM, A MAKSIMALNO DOZVOLJENA KONCENTRACIJA JE
> 0,15,
> CINKA JE IZMERENO 0,019 A DOZVOLJENO 0,4, BAKRA 0,004 A DOZVOLJENO 0,01,
>
> GVOZDJA 0,002 A DOZVOLJENO 0,2 I TD.
> AKO VEC BRINU O DECI I TRUDNICAMA KOSOVSKE MITROVICE,
> STRUCNJACI
> UNMIKA BI MORALI NAJPRE DA SAGLEDAJU POSLEDICE KOJE IZAZIVAJU IZDUVNI
> GASOVI IZ NJIHOVIH TESKIH VOZILA KOJA DANONOCNO SPARTAJU NASIM ULICAMA I
>
> DRUMOVIMA I BEZOBZIRNO TRUJU NEDUZNE GRADJANE, STOJI U OBRACANJU.
> NA DRUGOJ STRANI, OPSTE JE POZNATA CINJENICA DA JE BESOMUCNO
> BOMBARDOVANJE KOSOVA I METOHIJE OD NATO AGRESORA, A POSEBNO KORISCENJE
> ZABRANJENIH ORUZJA KAO STO SU OSIROMASENI URANIJUM, KASETNE BOMBE I
> SLICNO,
> UZROKOVALO EKOLOSKU KATASTROFU SA TRAJNIM I NESAGLEDIVIM POSLEDICAMA,
> STOJI
> U OBRACAJU.
> UNMIK, NAZALOST, NE POKAZUJE NI NAJMANJU ZABRINUTOST OD
> POSLEDICA
> RATNIH STRAHOTA KOJA JE POSEJANA NA NASIM PROSTORIMA, ZAKLJUCUJE SE U
> OBRACAJU "TREPCE" GRADJANIMA I GOSTIMA KOSOVKE MITROVICE.
>
UNMIK IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA OFFERS UNTRUTHS RATHER THAN FACTS TREPCA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 13 (Tanjug) The U.N. civilian mission
to
KosovoMetohija (UNMIK) is spreading disturbing untruths about pollution
from the Trepca mining complex in order to put Trepca out of commission,
according to a statement from Trepca on Sunday.
The sole purpose of UNMIK's allegations about high levels of
pollution in Kosovska Mitrovica is "to prevent Trepca, which gives their
livelihood to a large number of people in Kosovska Mitrovica and beyond,
to
go on working", the statement said.
The statement was prompted by a recent UNMIK pamphlet
distributed
in Pristina and alleging excessive air, water and soil pollution with
lead
from the Trepca smelting plant in Zvecan, in the Yugoslav republic of
Serbia's U.N.run KosovoMetohija province.
"We call this a pamphlet, because UNMIK offered untruths and
false
care for our health and our fate instead of giving the true facts", said
the statement, addressed by the mining, chemical and metallurgical
complex
to the people in divided Kosovska Mitrovica.
The Zvecan lead smelting plant has been in operation since
1939,
not 1991, as claimed by UNMIK, and has stopped work only for occasional
overhauls and during NATO's aggression from March to June 1999.
The 306metre smokestack, built in 1972, as well as equipment
and
installations for purifying waste gases, in which more than 10 million
German marks have been invested, are best evidence that the people's
health
was a consideration long before UNMIK's deployment.
Thousands of Trepca's employees workers, experts and
executives work at and live in the immediate vicinity of the Zvecan
lead
smelting plant, and they certainly care much more about their own health
than UNMIK ever could, the Trepca statement said.
Daily sampling of the air, water and soil shows that these are
protected from pollution by lead, gas and dust and that there is no
reason
for UNMIK's socalled "concern".
In its statement, Trepca quoted results of tests for the
presence
of heavy metals in the air at several checkpoints in Kosovska Mitrovica
in
the JuneJuly period.
According to these results, there was .12 milligrams of lead
per
cubic metre (permitted level .15 mg), .019 mg of zinc (permitted level
.4
mg), copper .004 mg (permitted level .01 mg), iron .002 mg (permitted
level
.2 mg), etc.
"If UNMIK experts are concerned for the children and pregnant
women in Kosovska Mitrovica, they should take care of the waste gases
from
their own heavyduty vehicles that throng our roads at all hours and
poison
the people", the statement said.
On the other hand, it is a wellknown fact that NATO's merciless
bombing of KosovoMetohija last year and use of banned weapons, such as
depleted uranium and cluster bombs, have caused an environmental
disaster
with unforeseeable longterm consequences, it added.
Regrettably, UNMIK has shown not the least concern for the
people
suffering the consequences of the horrors of war strewn all over our
land,
Trepca said in Kosovska Mitrovica.
---
LIBERTA' DI STAMPA IN JUGOSLAVIA:
"RADIO S" DAVA TROPPO FASTIDIO
ORA LA NATO PUO' FINALMENTE ELIMINARLA DALL'ETERE!
Serb radio in Kosovo defies U.N. shutdown
order
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 13 (Reuters) - A hardline Kosovo
Serb
radio station said on Sunday it was defying a United Nations order to
shut
down its broadcasts from the north of the ethnically-divided city of
Kosovska
Mitrovica.
U.N. administrators, who run Kosovo as a de facto protectorate, issued
Radio
S with the closure order late on Saturday, citing licensing
irregularities....
*** A chi da fastidio la Radio S ....erba?
> KOMESARU OEBSA SMETA "RADIO S"
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) PRIVREMENI KOMESAR
>
> OEBS-A ZA MEDIJE SIMON HADELON URUCIO JE ZAHTEV PREDSTAVNIKU "RADIJA S"
> U
> KOSOVSKOJ MITROVICI DA PRESTANE EMITOVANJE PROGRAMA, UZ OBRAZLOZENJE DA
> JE
> DOKUMENTACIJA TOG RADIJA NAVODNO NEPOTPUNA ZA DOBIJANJE DOZVOLE ZA RAD.
> RADIO S JE TREBALO, PREMA TOJ ODLUCI, DA PRESTANA DA EMITUJE
> PROGRAM SINOC, U 19.00 CASOVA, ALI JE NASTAVIO RAD.
> ODGOVORNI UREDNIK "RADIJA S" RADOVAN GLIGOVIC OCENIO JE DANAS,
> U
> RAZGOVORU S NOVINARIMA, DA JE ZAHTEV HADELONA POKUSAJ DA SE UGASI JOS
> JEDAN
> SRPSKI MEDIJ NA KOSMETU, DODAVSI DA "MIROVNJACI I DEMOKRATE" POKUSAVAJU
> DA
> UGASE GOTOVO SVE MEDIJE U SRPSKOJ JUZNOJ POKRAJINI,STO SU NJIHOVI
> RADNICI
> ODBILI DA PRIMENE.
---
Kfor non vede vandalismo albanese nel Cimitero ortodosso di Kosovska
Mitrovica che si trova nella parte sud, albanese
> SRUSENO 500 SPOMENIKA NA PRAVOSLAVNOM GROBLJU
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) SRBI IZ SEVERNOG
> DELA
> KOSOVSKE MITROVICE, NJIH 120, KOJI SU DANAS, U PRATNJI KFORA, POSETILI
> PRAVOSLAVNO GROBLJE U JUZNOM, ALBANSKOM DELU GRADA, NAISLI SU NA
> NEVIDJEN
> VANDALIZAM ALBANSKIH EKSTREMISTA.
> NASLI SU NOVIH 300 POLOMLJENIH NADGROBNIH SPOMENIKA, A SA NEKIH
>
> SPOMENIKA SU POSKIDANA MESINGANA SLOVA I ODNETE BISTE OD BRONZE.
> OGORCENI I REVOLTIRANI ZBOG OVOG VANDALIZMA, SRBI SU OSTRO
> PROTESTOVALI KOD KFORA KOJI NISTA NE CINI, I PORED OBECANJA, DA ZASTITI
> PRAVOSLAVNO GROBLJE U JUZNOM DELU KOSOVSKE MITROVICE U KOME ZIVI
> ALBANSKO
> STANOVNISTVO.
> DANASNJA POSETA SRBA IZ SEVERNOG DELA KOSOVSKE MITROVICE
> PRAVOSLAVNOM GROBLJU U JUZNZOM DELU GRADA PRVA JE POSLE ZADUSNICA, A VEC
>
> TADA JE BILO PORUSENO 200 NADGROBNIH SPOMENIKA.
ALTRI ATTI DI VIOLENZA E TERRORISMO CHE LA KFOR APPOGGIA
> OTETA DVA SRPSKA MLADICA
>
> K O S O V S K A K A M E N I C A (TANJUG) DVA SRPSKA MLADICA
> IZ
> OKOLINE KOSOVSKE KAMENICE SU OTETA, ZAJEDNO SA SVOJIM TRAKTOROM, NA
> BENZINSKOJ PUMPI "ISMAILPETROL" U SUSEDNOM ALBANSKOM SELU ODANOVCE, GDE
> SU
> JUCE OKO 13.00 SATI OTISLI DA NATOCE GORIVO ZA TRAKTOR.
> KAKO JE DANAS SAOPSTIO KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I LJUDSKA PRAVA
> KOSOVSKE
> KAMENICE, REC JE O 20GODISNJEM GORANU STANKOVICU IZ SELA DOMOROVCA KOD
> KOSOVSKE KAMENICE I NJEGOVOM NESTO MLADJEM BRATU OD TETKE IZ
> BUJANOVACKOG
> SELA LOPARDINCE, CIJE IME NIJE NAVEDENO.
> CIM JE JUCE ALARMIRAN NJIHOV NESTANAK, U DOMOROVCU SE OKUPILO
> OKO
> 500 SRBA IZ TOGSELA I IZ SUSEDNOG KORMINJANA, KOJI SU U ZNAK PROTESTA
> BLOKIRALI LOKALNI PUT DOMOROVCE OGOSTE.
> VOJNICI KFORA, IZ AMERICKOG I RUSKOG SASTAVA, U POTRAZI SU ZA
> KIDNAPOVANIM SRBIMASU OD JUTROS BLOKIRALI PUT GNJILANE BUJANOVACI I
> KOSAVSKA KAMENICA BUJANOVAC KOD MESTA BELA ZEMLJA, GDE SE INACE NALAZI
> NJIHOV PUNKT. ONI CINE NAPORE DA PRONADJU KIDNAPOVANE SRPSKE MLADICE.
> RODBINA KIDNAPOVANIH MLADICA I VOJNICI KFORA SU KASNO SINOC
> RAZGOVARALI SA VLASNIKOM BENZINSKE PUMPE"ISMAILPETROL" U SELU ODANOVCE,
> GDE
> SE MLADICIMA IZGUBIO TRAG, ALI RADNICI TE PUMPE NISU POKAZALI SPREMNOST
> ZA
> SARADNJU SA ISLEDNICIMA IZ KFORA, SAOPSTIO JE DANAS KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I
>
> LJUDSKA PRAVA KOSOVSKE KAMENICE.
>
> ALBANSKI BANDITI UKRALI OKO 250 VAGONA JZ
> K O S O V O P O LJ E, D O B R E V O (TANJUG) ABANSKI
> PLJACKASI U
> SARADNJI SA CELNICIMA KFORA VEC VISE OD MESEC DANA ODVLACE TRANSPORTNE
> VAGONE IZ KOSOVA POLJA KA ZELEZARI SKOPLJE, GDE CE IH, NAJVEROVATNIJE,
> PRODATI KAO STARO GVOZDJE, OSTECUJUCI TAKO IMOVINU JUGOSLOVENSKIH
> ZELEZNICA, JAVILI SU DANAS RADIOAMATERI SA KRIZNIH PODRUCJA KOSMETA.
> VISE OD 450 STARIH I POKVARENIH, ODNOSNO, NEREGISTROVANIH
> VAGONA,
> BILO JE SMESTENO NA DEONICI PRUGE OD DOBREVA PREMA RUDNIKU KISNICA, TAKO
> DA
> SE KOLONA VAGONA PROTEZALA SVE DO LAPLJEG SELA, ALI JE OD TOG BROJA DO
> SADA
> VEC ODVEZENO VISE OD POLOVINE VAGONA.
> KAKO GRANICU SA MAKEDONIJOM KONTROLISU PRIPANICI KFORA, NAJVECU
>
> ODGOVORNOST ZA OVU VELIKU KRADJU I OTIMACINU, SNOSE UPRAVO PRIPADNICI
> MEDJUNARODNIH MIROVNIH SNAGA.
>
ETHNIC ALBANIANS STEEL 250 WAGGONS FROM YUGOSLAV RAILWAYS
KOSOVO POLJE/DOBREVO, Serbia, Aug 13 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian
bandits, in collusion with international force KFor officials, have for
more than a month been hauling off rolling stock from U.N.run
KosovoMetohija to Macedonia, according to reports on Sunday.
Amateur radio operators in that U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav)
province say that railway waggons are being taken from Kosovo Polje to
the
iron works in Skopje, probably to be sold as scrap iron, thus causing
heavy
losses to the Yugoslav railway company.
More than onehalf of the 450plus old and decommissioned waggons
parked on the track between Dobrevo and the Kisnica mine have been
hauled
away.
Since the KosovoMetohija section of the YugoslavMacedonian
border
is controlled by KFor, the greatest responsibility for the theft rests
with
the international force.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS START FOREST FIRES IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
NOVO BRDO, Serbia, August 12 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian
extremists
on Friday set fire to the woods in the vicinity of a Serb village in the
Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's U.N.administered KosovoMetohija province,
according to reports.
Amateur radio operators inform that the socalled international
force KFor fire brigade, made up solely of ethnic Albanians, never even
tried to put out the fires, which are raging around the village of Izvor
in
the Novo Brdo municipality in east KosovoMetohija.
The fires are ravaging the forests of Lazovi, Glog and Vrbina,
which were the source of highquality firewood for the local Serb.
After villagers of Izvor reported the fires, KFor troops
quickly
came out to inspect the scene, together with the fire brigade, but then
equally quickly left, without having tried to intervene at all.
The people in Izvor suspect that the fires were set by their
neighbours in the purely ethnic Albanian populated village of Vlasce,
according to amateur radio operators.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS SHOOT AT SERB CONVOY
PASJANE, August 8 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian terrorists fired
shots
at Serbs travelling late on Monday in a convoy of cars from the
southSerbian town of Presevo to the village of Pasjane, near the town of
Gnjilane, situated in the east of the KFORadministered Serbian province
of
Kosovo and Metohija.
Serb Ljubisa Cuparevic from the village of Donje Budrige
sustained
injuries in the incident that occurred near the permanent checkpoint of
the
KFOR U.S. contingent, local radio operators said.
> SRBIMA UNISTENO 30 HEKTARA POD KUKURUZOM
> G NJ I L A N E (TANJUG) U ATARU MULTIETNICKOG SELA PONESA, KOD
>
> GNJILANA, ALBANSKI STOCARI SU, NAGONECI SVOJU STOKU NA SRPSKE NJIVE,
> UNISTILI 30 HEKTARA POD KUKURUZOM, SAOPSTIO JE KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I
> LJUDSKA
> PRAVA GNJILANE
> LOKALNI ALBANCI SVAKODNEVNO NAGONE CITAVO STADO OD PEDESETAK
> GRLA
> KRUPNE STOKE, NA TE NJIVE ILI SEKIROM SEKU KUKURUZNE STABLJIKE I NJIME
> HRANE DOMACE ZIVOTINJE.
> U TOM POHODU NAJVISE SU STRADALI POTEZI IZNAD SELA PREMA
> LIVOCKOM
> JEZERU, GDE SVOJE NJIVE POD KUKURUZOM IMAJU MOMCILO STOJANOVIC, BRACA
> DIMITRIJE, DOBRIVOJE I ZARKO CVEJIC, PETAR SAVIC, STAJKO STAJIC, TRAJA
> PAUNOVIC, STANKO SIMIC I MNOGI DRUGI SRBI.
> SRBIMA U PONESU NA ISTI NACIN UNISTENO JE I DESETAK HEKTARA
> USEVA
> OVSA I JECMA, DOK SE DRVO SA OKO 500 HEKTARA HRASTOVE SUME I DALJE
> NESMETANO SECE I UNISTAVA.
> SRPSKI PREDSTAVNIK TOGA SELA ALEKSANDAR RISTIC SE, KAKO SE
> NAVODI
> U SAOPSTENJU, OTVORENO ZALI NA KFOR, KOJI NISTA NE CINI DA ZASTITI SRBE
> OD
> UNISTAVANJA LETINE.
> RISTIC KAZE DA "ALBANSKI STOCARI I BANDITI IMAJU PRECUTNU
> PODRSKU
> 'MIROVNJAKA' U SVOJIM NECASNIM RADNJAMA, USMERENIM NA PROTERIVANJE I
> IZGON
> SRBA IZ TOGA SELA".
> SELO PONES IMA 180 SRPSKIH DOMOVA I 50 ALBANSKIH I PREDSTAVLJA
> JAKO SRPSKO UPORISTE SEVEROZAPADNO OD GNJILANA.
> POSLE POHARE USEVA I DUGE OVOGODISNJE SUSE SRBI SU VEC POCELI
> DA
> SMANJUJU STOCNI FOND. SRBIMA PRETI HUMANITARNA KATASTROFA OVE JESENI I
> ZIME, JER NEMAJU DOVOLJNO HRANE NI ZA STOKU, NI ZA SEBE, A OSETICE I
> NESTASICU OGREVNOG DRVETA, UPRKOS VELIKIM PROSTRANSTVIMA SVOJIH SUMA,
> KOJIH
> VISE GOTOVO I DA NEMA.
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BULLDOZER DALL'ARABIA SAUDITA PER DISTRUGGERE I CENTRI STORICI KOSOVARI
From: Greek Helsinki Monitor <office@g...>
Date: Tue Aug 8, 2000 4:40pm
Subject: RFE/RL: SAUDI AID WORKERS BULLDOZE BALKAN MONUMENTS
RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
___________________________________________________________
RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 151, Part II, 8 August 2000
SAUDI AID WORKERS BULLDOZE BALKAN MONUMENTS
By Jolyon Naegele
The Saudi bulldozing of some of the most historically
valuable architectural monuments in the western Kosova market
town of Djakovica is merely the latest in a series of
iconoclastic activities in the Balkans undertaken in the name
of reconstruction assistance by Arab aid organizations. War-
damaged historic buildings are not repaired, but rather
demolished to make way for what the Arab donors consider to
be more proper Islamic structures.
The destruction is a further blow to Kosova's
architectural heritage, following the destruction by Serbian
forces and civilians in 1998 and 1999 of over 200 mosques and
other Islamic structures--about one-third of the total number
in the province.
Harvard University Fine Arts librarian Andras
Riedlmayer, the co-author of a survey of Kosova's war-damaged
architectural sites, is outraged by the Saudi demolition
program.
"Unfortunately, a Saudi aid agency got permits from the
local reconstruction agency and from the local institute for
the preservation of monuments to work on the restoration, so
to speak, of the Hadum mosque complex in the center of the
historic district."
Riedlmayer says the Saudis began on 24 July by trying to
knock down all the Ottoman-era gravestones in the cemetery of
the Hadum mosque.
"The Saudis were interested in removing them because
they consider gravestones to be idolatrous. They are
followers of Wahhabism, which is an extremist interpretation
of Islam at odds with the practice of most of the Muslim
world."
The Wahhabis are a purist movement founded in the 18th
century by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (c. 1703-1791). He
converted the Saud tribe, which now rules Saudi Arabia. The
Wahhabis are the largest and most powerful Muslim sect in
Saudi Arabia.
Riedlmayer says the Saudis are obsessed with having all
ancient tombstones, mausoleums, and Sufi shrines located near
mosques eliminated, since--unlike most Muslims in the world
today--the Wahhabis believe these to be "un-Islamic" and
idolatrous. He said: "the Wahhabis, with their wealth and
fanaticism, are a menace to heritage, in some ways more
dangerous than the [Serb paramilitary] Chetniks, since about
the latter, at least, no one harbors any illusions regarding
their uncharitable intentions."
The Saudi Joint Relief Committee for the People of
Kosovo and Chechnya, established by royal decree, has built
mosques, schools, clinics, and shelters for displaced
persons. It has also supplied the province with several
hundred tons of medicine, food, blankets, tents, and clothing
during the last 13 months.
But spreading the message of Wahhabi Islam appears to be
another aim of the committee. The new mosques are white, boxy
structures devoid of detail--a far cry from the centuries-old
Ottoman-style mosques that characterize the urban and village
landscape in much of the Balkans.
Riedlmayer says NATO-led KFOR peacekeepers declined to
intervene in Djakovica after the Saudis showed their
authorized papers.
"Eventually the Department of Culture in UNMIK (the UN
administration) was notified. They spoke with the Saudis on
[27 July] and tried to get them to desist. However, on [28
July], the Saudis sent in a bulldozer [and] knocked down the
buildings around the Hadum mosque, including the library
built in 1733 and ancient gravestones in the graveyard."
The Hadum mosque itself, which survived last year's
fighting largely intact--despite fire damage to its porch and
grenade damage to its minaret--remains endangered. If the
past is prologue, the frescoes could soon be whitewashed by
Wahhabi purists.
Attempts by RFE/RL to contact the UNMIK-Joint Interim
Administration's Department of Culture, the Kosovo Institute
for the Protection of Monuments, or the Saudi Joint Relief
Committee in Kosovo were unsuccessful.
However, Peruvian Alvaro Higueras, from the UNMIK
Culture Department, confirmed in a telephone call to
Riedlmayer on 3 August that the Saudis had razed the library
and Koran school.
Higueras said the Saudis planned to build a reinforced
concrete Islamic center on the cleared site. But the UNMIK
official says the Saudis applied for permission for a
restoration project, not for new construction. Higueras says
an order has now been issued to stop construction
indefinitely. He says the Saudis will have to "undo the
damage" and restore the Ottoman-era buildings using
traditional materials and techniques.
Riedlmayer has documented cases in which the Saudi and
other Arab aid agencies have destroyed other historic Islamic
buildings elsewhere in Kosova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and
Bulgaria.
Last October, while Riedlmayer was in Kosova conducting
a survey of war-damaged architectural heritage, he witnessed
the destruction of Muslim cemeteries in Vushtrri. He says an
Islamic aid agency from the United Arab Emirates had
pressured local Albanian residents to sledgehammer the graves
of their ancestors, completely clearing two historic
graveyards next to the Gazi Ali Beg and Karamanli mosques of
more than 100 gravestones dating back to the 15th century.
Only the grave marker of Gazi Ali Beg himself remained, as
the locals refused to allow that one to be smashed.
Riedlmayer says the UAE aid agency promised to rebuild
the damaged mosques "twice as big and twice as Islamic," but
only if the gravestones were removed. He says the agency, the
largest aid organization in the town, also made an implicit
threat to withhold humanitarian aid if the donors' request
was ignored.
Riedlmayer notes that during and immediately after the
war in Bosnia (1992-95), a Saudi aid agency took charge of
the restoration of the Gazi Husrev Beg mosque (Begova
dzamija) as well as other historic mosques in Sarajevo and in
many other towns and villages.
At the Beg mosque, the Saudis ordered the Ottoman tile
work and painted wall decorations stripped off and discarded
and had the whole building redone, as Riedlmayer puts it "in
gleaming hospital white, even the minaret slathered in white
plaster." He says that in scores of villages, the Saudis had
war-damaged but restorable historic Ottoman-style Bosnian
mosques demolished and redone Saudi-style. All of the
colorful Balkan-Muslim interior decor was eliminated, and
separate entrances were added to segregate women.
To drive home the significance of the Saudi destruction
in the Balkans, Riedlmayer says, "Imagine, if you will, some
terrible catastrophe affecting the historic churches of Rome
and Tuscany, and then having" modern-day U.S. Christian sects
coming in and insisting that they be redone in "proper
Christian style."
The author is a senior RFE/RL correspondent based in Prague.
To view photos of some of the structures described in the
article go to:
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2000/08/F.RU.000804130919.html
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SOLDATI BELGI DELLA KFOR PERQUISISCONO E PICCHIANO
RAPPRESENTANTI UFFICIALI JUGOSLAVI PER I RAPPORTI CON L'ONU
HTTP://WWW.KFORMYASS.com
Yugoslav Liaison Committee members harassed
August 11, 2000
Kosovska Mitrovica, August 10 -
Members of the Yugoslav Committee
Liaising with the U.N. mission, Jovica
Jovanovic and Radovan Redzic, were
harassed by Belgian KFOR troops at
a KFOR checkpoint in Donje Jerinje.
According to Jovanovic, the KFOR
troops stopped the Yugoslavs' car,
demanded personal identification papers from the two passengers, and
then proceeded to search the vehicle, including the two Yugoslav
diplomats' personal belongings.
The Belgians then insisted on taking photos of the Yugoslavs, dragged
Redzic to a barrack a few meters away, kicked him, put him up against
the wall and forcefully took his photo.
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IL TERRORISTA "DEMOCRATICO" THAQI OSPITE DELLA CONVENTION
DI LOS ANGELES!
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
According to Albanian newspaper Zeri Hashim Thaqi will attend
Democratic National Convention starting Monday in LA.
If you are going to be somewhere near, don't forget to give him my
regards! I am too far from LA to throw any eggs on him.
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VERSO LE ELEZIONI-TRUFFA NEL PROTETTORATO DEL "KOSOVA"
U.N. calls Kosovo election for October 28
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The United Nations
administration in
Kosovo has decided to hold municipal elections on October
28, an spokeswoman
said.
The spokeswoman for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo
said UNMIK head
Bernard Kouchner had decided on the date after
consultations with the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),
which is
overseeing the first post-war poll. The election had been
expected to take
place sometime in October....
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SCANDALO!
TRUPPE JUGOSLAVE CERCANO DI ENTRARE IN JUGOSLAVIA!?!
Serbs accused of Kosovo raid
Special report: Serbia
Saturday August 12, 2000
The Guardian
Serbian soldiers made a probing incursion into Kosovo two weeks ago in
the worst breach yet of the agreement that ended Nato's bombing campaign
last year, the US forces newspaper, Stars and Stripes, said yesterday.
US forces scrambled Apache helicopters to confront the group of armed
and uniformed Serbs in two all-terrain vehicles who retreated across the
dividing line between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia, the paper said.
The incident took place on July 28 in the mountains of eastern Kosovo,
near Serbia's Presevo valley, where there have been clashes between
Serbian police and a group of ethnic Albanians seeking independence from
Belgrade.
Shortly after the alleged incursion, peacekeepers said they had stepped
up security in the Presevo area to try to stop the ethnic Albanian UCPMB
group from operating. US forces had reported seeing mortar fire and
other military activity.
Officials of the US military contingent that patrols the area refused to
respond to questions about the incident and Nato spokesman Major Craig
Snow in Pristina said he could not confirm that Serbian forces had
crossed into Kosovo. "We've not been commenting on specific incidents,"
Maj Snow said.
Serb army and police units pulled out of Kosovo in July last year as
part of an agreement that ended Nato's 78-day bombing campaign of
Serb-dominated Yugoslavia.
The Serb incursion, if confirmed, would be regarded by Nato as a test of
its commitment to control the movement of UCPMB guerrillas who operate
out of Kosovo and have been trying the patience of the Serb military in
Presevo.
Reuters, Pristina
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L'ENCLAVE NON ANCORA "ETNICAMENTE RIPULITA" DI KOSOVSKA MITROVICA.
Finalita' della operazione:
1. mettere definitivamente a tacere le voci che contestano la politica
razzista e di appoggio al progetto nazionalista pan-albanese, come
"Radio S";
2. intimidire e reprimere la resistenza dei serbi, delle altre
nazionalita' minoritarie e degli albanesi democratici e jugoslavisti per
sgombrare il terreno da ogni ostacolo in vista delle elezioni
illegittime indette dalla amministrazione coloniale per il 28 ottobre;
3. indurre alla fuga i gruppi minoritari che hanno resistito per tutti
questi mesi alla violenza degli alleati KFOR ed UCK, in vista della
annessione della cosiddetta "Kosova" alla Grande Albania nei confini del
nazifascismo;
4. prendere il controllo e rubare le risorse dello stato Jugoslavo,
specialmente le preziose miniere del complesso di Trepca presso
Mitrovica.
L'ITALIA PARTECIPA ATTIVAMENTE ALLA OCCUPAZIONE COLONIALE E SPOLIAZIONE
DEL KOSMET ED APPOGGIA LE POLITICHE RAZZISTE DELLA AMMINISTRAZIONE
KOUCHNER, IN PERFETTA CONTINUITA' CON L'OPERATO DEL FASCISMO TRA IL 1941
ED IL 1943.
Ma il Kosmet era e rimarra' JUGOSLAVIA!
FUORI TUTTE LE TRUPPE STRANIERE DAL KOSMET!
VIVA LA JUGOSLAVIA MULTINAZIONALE ED INDIPENDENTE!
FUORI L'ITALIA DALLA NATO - FUORI LA NATO DALL'ITALIA!
SMRT FASIZMU - SLOBODA NARODU!
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NATO ATTACK ON NORTHERN MITROVICA MOVES TOWARDS NEW WAR
www.tenc.net
Early Monday morning, squads of NATO troops seized Northern Mitrovica,
the
only remaining multiethnic part of Kosovo.
Northern Mitrovica, where thousands of Serbs, "Gypsies," Slavic Muslims
and
others driven from the rest of Kosovo lived side by side with local
Serbs,
Albanians and others, was defended by mass, non-violent action from UN
police
abuses and vicious armed assaults by Kosovo 'Liberation Army' forces
trying
to take control.
This popular movement infuriated the NATO humanitarians; hence today's
invasion by French and British NATO troops.
The excuse: to curb 'violence' (that is, the unarmed, non-violent
movement)
and, of all things, to limit pollution at a smelter. Amazing. The same
NATO
that has dropped thousands of deadly cluster (time) bombs on Kosovo's
children, the same NATO, which, as Prof. Chossudovsky has proven,
deliberately created an environmental disaster at Pancevo (1), now is
worried
about...a smelter.
These fabrications insult our intelligence. NATO's real goals: a) to
crush
resistance to KLA fascism, which NATO and the UN have installed
elsewhere in
Kosovo (2) and b) to position NATO troops close to the administrative
border
between Kosovo and inner Serbia, an area that has for months been under
attack by NATO proxy troops of the KLA variety. (3)
Recently Al Gore announced that Sen. Joseph Lieberman will be his Vice
Presidential running mate. This is the same Lieberman who said, while
attending a pro-war rally in Washington last April:
"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." ('Washington Post, April 28, 1999)
Recently, George Bush commented that if elected he will immediately
issue an
arrest warrant for Yugoslav Pres. Milosevic. Amazing isn't it how
casually
these men, even half-wits like little-Bush, how casually these men, no
matter
how limited their abilities, assume Imperial Rights. Thus - poof! - and
little Bush issues his threat to arrest - arrest? - the President of a
sovereign country. How does one arrest somebody else's President? No
problem,
didn't big daddy once pulverize a smaller country, Panama, supposedly to
arrest its President? This is Rome, complete with cruelty and greed. All
that's missing is brains.
The Lieberman announcement and the threat by Little Bush, as well as and
today's attack on Mitrovica, make eminently clear that the American
establishment is not through with Yugoslavia. It wishes to escalate the
attack. The Serbs, for a century the obstacle to Imperial conquest of
the
strategic Balkans, must be crushed as a politically coherent force.
By sending British and French troops to seize Northern Mitrovica the
United
States has positioned NATO troops close to the administrative border
with
inner Serbia. This would make it easier for NATO troops (after a
suitable
provocation is invented) to attack inner Serbia from the south and,
simultaneously, to support provocative actions by the weak,
gangster-ridden
quisling regime in Montenegro, where British SAS (Special Forces) are
currently training whatever rifraff they can scrape together (they call
it a
police force) to be used as provocateurs to a) assassinate Yugoslav
officials
and b) provide some incident9s) to 'justify' NATO intervention.
The line, put forward by NATO, that it is Milosevic who wishes to
destabilize
Montenegro and Mitrovica, etc., etc., is ridiculous on the face. Do they
take
us for fools? Are we to accept a comic book vision of world politics in
which
Milosevic plays "Super Bad Guy" to the US "Super Good Guy," where "Super
Bad
Guy" does absurdly self-destructive things for no reason but
irrepressible
malice.
In reality, it is Yugoslavia (its people AND government) who have
suffered
NATO's cruel and unwarranted assaults. It was Yugoslavia which tried,
prior
to last year's bombing, to work out some kind of peace accord and it was
NATO
which presented Yugoslavia with an agreement (which would have
legalizedthe
occupation of all Yugoslavia by NATO troops!) - a proposal designed
precisely
to ensure Yugoslav rejection. It was only Yugoslavia whose parliament
actually discussed this (anti-)peace proposal. Not one of the NATO
democracies voted, by plebiscite or even in parliament, before
initiating the
brutal 78 day bombing of Yugoslav civilians and infrastructure and the
subsequent invasion and ethnic decimation of Kosovo.
We are now attempting to get direct information from Mitrovica. We will
post
whatever we find out as soon as possible.
-- editorial staff, Emperor's Clothes.
1) 'NATO Willfully Triggered Environmental Catastrophe In Yugoslavia' by
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/willful.htm
2) 'Save the families: The women of Orahovac speak' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe.htm
3) On NATO's proxy attacks on inner Serbia, please see 'Boggling the
mind
department - Report from a UN Website' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/kilibarda/boggling.htm
and see also: 'Terrorism in southern 'Serbia Proper'' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/fighting.htm
www.tenc.net
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STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
Early this morning on the 14th of August, forces of NATO's Kosovo Force
swept
into Kosovska Mitrovica and took control of the Trepca Mining Complex.
As I
write this Yugoslav workers are resisting the encroachment of
international
forces. This move is a cynical move designed to cow the Serbian, Roma,
Turk,
Montenegrin, and some of the Albanian population that have refused to
participate in NATO organized elections. Mitrovica is the ONLY city in
Kosovo were these groups live with a measure of security thanks to a
strong
BUT COMPLETELY NON-VIOLENT opposition to KFOR in the city. I have
spoken to
Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Serbian community and the city, who has
categorically condemned ALL violence in the city. The Serbs,
Montenegrins
and Roma in Mitrovica have been subjected to beatings, bombings, grenade
attacks, kidnappings, etc. yet this is the SAFEST place for these
people in
KLA/NATO controlled Kosovo!!!!! Most minorities in Kosovo live in
ETHNIC
GHETTOES surrounded by BARBED WIRE and NATO forces. Supplies are
limited by
KLA formations which interupt supply routes and threaten to kill groups
attempting to bring assistance to Yugoslav civilians. I will keep you
posted
on developments....
French troops and Serbs clash in Mitrovica
MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 14 (Reuters) - A group of 250 Serbian workers
clashed on Monday with French riot police at the lead smelter in
northern
Mitrovica which was earlier seized by NATO peacekeepers, a French
spokesman
said.
``They are stoning the gendarmes,'' French spokesman Colonel Henri
Aussavy
told reporters.
British, French and Danish troops swept in force into Serb-held
Mitrovica
around dawn to shut down the lead smelter that had been pumping toxic
fumes
into the air.
Aussavy said the NATO operation faced further resistance inside the
plant,
where a group of 30 to 40 engineers had locked themselves inside an
administration building, refusing to leave or help U.N. experts shut
down the
smelter.
01:50 08-14-00
NATO troops sweep into Serb-held Mitrovica
MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 14 (Reuters) - British and French forces
swept
into Serb-held northern Mitrovica early on Monday to stamp NATO's
authority
on the area and try to shut down a heavily polluting lead smelter,
witnesses
said.
Dozens of vehicles with British and French troops moved across the River
Ibar, which marks the divide between ethnic Albanian dominated Kosovo
and
northern Mitrovica, the last major urban concentration of Serbs in the
Yugoslav province....
UNMIK TARGETS ZVECAN SMELTING WORKS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, August 9 (Tanjug) The United Nations Interim
Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) on Tuesday issued pamphlets
warning citizens of Kosovska Mitrovica against an alleged threat of an
increased level of lead in the atmosphere and an "epidemiological
crisis."
Director General Novak Bijelic of the Trepca mining complex,
which
includes a smelting works, reacted with a statement saying this was an
attempt to prepare public opinion in favor of closing down the Zvecan
smelting works near Pristina which employs Serbs. This action would
jeopardize the survival of the remaining Serb workers in this area,
Bijelic
said.
UNMIK can close down the smelting works "by force only,"
Bijelic
said, underscoring that air pollution is checked on a daily basis and
that
there are no indications of any contamination. Trepca invested over 10
million Dmarks in the most uptodate filters for a safe environment in
1991,
he said.
"The workers will not sit idle while someone tries to push them
out of their ancestral homes and jobs," Bijelic said.
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Kosovo Mining Complex Taken Over
.c The Associated Press
ZVECAN, Yugoslavia (AP) - NATO-led peacekeepers took control of a
Serb-run
mining complex in the northern part of Kosovo in a pre-dawn raid Monday.
British peacekeepers acting in support the U.N. mission seized the
premises
of the lead smelter near Kosovoska Mitrovica. The United Nations said
last
week the plant was spewing pollution into the air, raising lead levels
to 200
times the accepted norms.
U.N. spokesman Michael Keats confirmed the operation was under way.
News of the lead levels sparked a rare moment of solidarity in the
divided
city of Kosovoska Mitrovica, prompting Serb and ethnic Albanian leaders
to
join U.N. personnel in publicly having their blood tested.
Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic claimed the lead scare was a ruse,
however, to be used as an excuse for the United Nations to take over the
Zvecan plant...
UNMIK UMESTO CINJENICA NUDI NEISTINE
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) CIVILNA MISIJA
> UJEDINJENIH NACIJA LANSIRANJEM NETACNIH I UZNEMIRAVAJUCIH PODATAKA O
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> RUDARSKOHEMIJSKOMETALURSKOG
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> O PREKOMERNOJ ZAKADJENOSTI VAZDUHA, VODE I TLA OLOVOM IZ TOPIONICE U
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> ULOZILI
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> ZDRAVLJU
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> STRUCNJAKA I NAJVISIH RUKOVODILACA "TREPCE" ZIVE I RADE TIK UZ TOPIONICU
>
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> GASOVI IZ NJIHOVIH TESKIH VOZILA KOJA DANONOCNO SPARTAJU NASIM ULICAMA I
>
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> POSLEDICA
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> OBRACAJU "TREPCE" GRADJANIMA I GOSTIMA KOSOVKE MITROVICE.
>
UNMIK IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA OFFERS UNTRUTHS RATHER THAN FACTS TREPCA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 13 (Tanjug) The U.N. civilian mission
to
KosovoMetohija (UNMIK) is spreading disturbing untruths about pollution
from the Trepca mining complex in order to put Trepca out of commission,
according to a statement from Trepca on Sunday.
The sole purpose of UNMIK's allegations about high levels of
pollution in Kosovska Mitrovica is "to prevent Trepca, which gives their
livelihood to a large number of people in Kosovska Mitrovica and beyond,
to
go on working", the statement said.
The statement was prompted by a recent UNMIK pamphlet
distributed
in Pristina and alleging excessive air, water and soil pollution with
lead
from the Trepca smelting plant in Zvecan, in the Yugoslav republic of
Serbia's U.N.run KosovoMetohija province.
"We call this a pamphlet, because UNMIK offered untruths and
false
care for our health and our fate instead of giving the true facts", said
the statement, addressed by the mining, chemical and metallurgical
complex
to the people in divided Kosovska Mitrovica.
The Zvecan lead smelting plant has been in operation since
1939,
not 1991, as claimed by UNMIK, and has stopped work only for occasional
overhauls and during NATO's aggression from March to June 1999.
The 306metre smokestack, built in 1972, as well as equipment
and
installations for purifying waste gases, in which more than 10 million
German marks have been invested, are best evidence that the people's
health
was a consideration long before UNMIK's deployment.
Thousands of Trepca's employees workers, experts and
executives work at and live in the immediate vicinity of the Zvecan
lead
smelting plant, and they certainly care much more about their own health
than UNMIK ever could, the Trepca statement said.
Daily sampling of the air, water and soil shows that these are
protected from pollution by lead, gas and dust and that there is no
reason
for UNMIK's socalled "concern".
In its statement, Trepca quoted results of tests for the
presence
of heavy metals in the air at several checkpoints in Kosovska Mitrovica
in
the JuneJuly period.
According to these results, there was .12 milligrams of lead
per
cubic metre (permitted level .15 mg), .019 mg of zinc (permitted level
.4
mg), copper .004 mg (permitted level .01 mg), iron .002 mg (permitted
level
.2 mg), etc.
"If UNMIK experts are concerned for the children and pregnant
women in Kosovska Mitrovica, they should take care of the waste gases
from
their own heavyduty vehicles that throng our roads at all hours and
poison
the people", the statement said.
On the other hand, it is a wellknown fact that NATO's merciless
bombing of KosovoMetohija last year and use of banned weapons, such as
depleted uranium and cluster bombs, have caused an environmental
disaster
with unforeseeable longterm consequences, it added.
Regrettably, UNMIK has shown not the least concern for the
people
suffering the consequences of the horrors of war strewn all over our
land,
Trepca said in Kosovska Mitrovica.
---
LIBERTA' DI STAMPA IN JUGOSLAVIA:
"RADIO S" DAVA TROPPO FASTIDIO
ORA LA NATO PUO' FINALMENTE ELIMINARLA DALL'ETERE!
Serb radio in Kosovo defies U.N. shutdown
order
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 13 (Reuters) - A hardline Kosovo
Serb
radio station said on Sunday it was defying a United Nations order to
shut
down its broadcasts from the north of the ethnically-divided city of
Kosovska
Mitrovica.
U.N. administrators, who run Kosovo as a de facto protectorate, issued
Radio
S with the closure order late on Saturday, citing licensing
irregularities....
*** A chi da fastidio la Radio S ....erba?
> KOMESARU OEBSA SMETA "RADIO S"
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) PRIVREMENI KOMESAR
>
> OEBS-A ZA MEDIJE SIMON HADELON URUCIO JE ZAHTEV PREDSTAVNIKU "RADIJA S"
> U
> KOSOVSKOJ MITROVICI DA PRESTANE EMITOVANJE PROGRAMA, UZ OBRAZLOZENJE DA
> JE
> DOKUMENTACIJA TOG RADIJA NAVODNO NEPOTPUNA ZA DOBIJANJE DOZVOLE ZA RAD.
> RADIO S JE TREBALO, PREMA TOJ ODLUCI, DA PRESTANA DA EMITUJE
> PROGRAM SINOC, U 19.00 CASOVA, ALI JE NASTAVIO RAD.
> ODGOVORNI UREDNIK "RADIJA S" RADOVAN GLIGOVIC OCENIO JE DANAS,
> U
> RAZGOVORU S NOVINARIMA, DA JE ZAHTEV HADELONA POKUSAJ DA SE UGASI JOS
> JEDAN
> SRPSKI MEDIJ NA KOSMETU, DODAVSI DA "MIROVNJACI I DEMOKRATE" POKUSAVAJU
> DA
> UGASE GOTOVO SVE MEDIJE U SRPSKOJ JUZNOJ POKRAJINI,STO SU NJIHOVI
> RADNICI
> ODBILI DA PRIMENE.
---
Kfor non vede vandalismo albanese nel Cimitero ortodosso di Kosovska
Mitrovica che si trova nella parte sud, albanese
> SRUSENO 500 SPOMENIKA NA PRAVOSLAVNOM GROBLJU
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) SRBI IZ SEVERNOG
> DELA
> KOSOVSKE MITROVICE, NJIH 120, KOJI SU DANAS, U PRATNJI KFORA, POSETILI
> PRAVOSLAVNO GROBLJE U JUZNOM, ALBANSKOM DELU GRADA, NAISLI SU NA
> NEVIDJEN
> VANDALIZAM ALBANSKIH EKSTREMISTA.
> NASLI SU NOVIH 300 POLOMLJENIH NADGROBNIH SPOMENIKA, A SA NEKIH
>
> SPOMENIKA SU POSKIDANA MESINGANA SLOVA I ODNETE BISTE OD BRONZE.
> OGORCENI I REVOLTIRANI ZBOG OVOG VANDALIZMA, SRBI SU OSTRO
> PROTESTOVALI KOD KFORA KOJI NISTA NE CINI, I PORED OBECANJA, DA ZASTITI
> PRAVOSLAVNO GROBLJE U JUZNOM DELU KOSOVSKE MITROVICE U KOME ZIVI
> ALBANSKO
> STANOVNISTVO.
> DANASNJA POSETA SRBA IZ SEVERNOG DELA KOSOVSKE MITROVICE
> PRAVOSLAVNOM GROBLJU U JUZNZOM DELU GRADA PRVA JE POSLE ZADUSNICA, A VEC
>
> TADA JE BILO PORUSENO 200 NADGROBNIH SPOMENIKA.
ALTRI ATTI DI VIOLENZA E TERRORISMO CHE LA KFOR APPOGGIA
> OTETA DVA SRPSKA MLADICA
>
> K O S O V S K A K A M E N I C A (TANJUG) DVA SRPSKA MLADICA
> IZ
> OKOLINE KOSOVSKE KAMENICE SU OTETA, ZAJEDNO SA SVOJIM TRAKTOROM, NA
> BENZINSKOJ PUMPI "ISMAILPETROL" U SUSEDNOM ALBANSKOM SELU ODANOVCE, GDE
> SU
> JUCE OKO 13.00 SATI OTISLI DA NATOCE GORIVO ZA TRAKTOR.
> KAKO JE DANAS SAOPSTIO KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I LJUDSKA PRAVA
> KOSOVSKE
> KAMENICE, REC JE O 20GODISNJEM GORANU STANKOVICU IZ SELA DOMOROVCA KOD
> KOSOVSKE KAMENICE I NJEGOVOM NESTO MLADJEM BRATU OD TETKE IZ
> BUJANOVACKOG
> SELA LOPARDINCE, CIJE IME NIJE NAVEDENO.
> CIM JE JUCE ALARMIRAN NJIHOV NESTANAK, U DOMOROVCU SE OKUPILO
> OKO
> 500 SRBA IZ TOGSELA I IZ SUSEDNOG KORMINJANA, KOJI SU U ZNAK PROTESTA
> BLOKIRALI LOKALNI PUT DOMOROVCE OGOSTE.
> VOJNICI KFORA, IZ AMERICKOG I RUSKOG SASTAVA, U POTRAZI SU ZA
> KIDNAPOVANIM SRBIMASU OD JUTROS BLOKIRALI PUT GNJILANE BUJANOVACI I
> KOSAVSKA KAMENICA BUJANOVAC KOD MESTA BELA ZEMLJA, GDE SE INACE NALAZI
> NJIHOV PUNKT. ONI CINE NAPORE DA PRONADJU KIDNAPOVANE SRPSKE MLADICE.
> RODBINA KIDNAPOVANIH MLADICA I VOJNICI KFORA SU KASNO SINOC
> RAZGOVARALI SA VLASNIKOM BENZINSKE PUMPE"ISMAILPETROL" U SELU ODANOVCE,
> GDE
> SE MLADICIMA IZGUBIO TRAG, ALI RADNICI TE PUMPE NISU POKAZALI SPREMNOST
> ZA
> SARADNJU SA ISLEDNICIMA IZ KFORA, SAOPSTIO JE DANAS KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I
>
> LJUDSKA PRAVA KOSOVSKE KAMENICE.
>
> ALBANSKI BANDITI UKRALI OKO 250 VAGONA JZ
> K O S O V O P O LJ E, D O B R E V O (TANJUG) ABANSKI
> PLJACKASI U
> SARADNJI SA CELNICIMA KFORA VEC VISE OD MESEC DANA ODVLACE TRANSPORTNE
> VAGONE IZ KOSOVA POLJA KA ZELEZARI SKOPLJE, GDE CE IH, NAJVEROVATNIJE,
> PRODATI KAO STARO GVOZDJE, OSTECUJUCI TAKO IMOVINU JUGOSLOVENSKIH
> ZELEZNICA, JAVILI SU DANAS RADIOAMATERI SA KRIZNIH PODRUCJA KOSMETA.
> VISE OD 450 STARIH I POKVARENIH, ODNOSNO, NEREGISTROVANIH
> VAGONA,
> BILO JE SMESTENO NA DEONICI PRUGE OD DOBREVA PREMA RUDNIKU KISNICA, TAKO
> DA
> SE KOLONA VAGONA PROTEZALA SVE DO LAPLJEG SELA, ALI JE OD TOG BROJA DO
> SADA
> VEC ODVEZENO VISE OD POLOVINE VAGONA.
> KAKO GRANICU SA MAKEDONIJOM KONTROLISU PRIPANICI KFORA, NAJVECU
>
> ODGOVORNOST ZA OVU VELIKU KRADJU I OTIMACINU, SNOSE UPRAVO PRIPADNICI
> MEDJUNARODNIH MIROVNIH SNAGA.
>
ETHNIC ALBANIANS STEEL 250 WAGGONS FROM YUGOSLAV RAILWAYS
KOSOVO POLJE/DOBREVO, Serbia, Aug 13 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian
bandits, in collusion with international force KFor officials, have for
more than a month been hauling off rolling stock from U.N.run
KosovoMetohija to Macedonia, according to reports on Sunday.
Amateur radio operators in that U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav)
province say that railway waggons are being taken from Kosovo Polje to
the
iron works in Skopje, probably to be sold as scrap iron, thus causing
heavy
losses to the Yugoslav railway company.
More than onehalf of the 450plus old and decommissioned waggons
parked on the track between Dobrevo and the Kisnica mine have been
hauled
away.
Since the KosovoMetohija section of the YugoslavMacedonian
border
is controlled by KFor, the greatest responsibility for the theft rests
with
the international force.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS START FOREST FIRES IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
NOVO BRDO, Serbia, August 12 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian
extremists
on Friday set fire to the woods in the vicinity of a Serb village in the
Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's U.N.administered KosovoMetohija province,
according to reports.
Amateur radio operators inform that the socalled international
force KFor fire brigade, made up solely of ethnic Albanians, never even
tried to put out the fires, which are raging around the village of Izvor
in
the Novo Brdo municipality in east KosovoMetohija.
The fires are ravaging the forests of Lazovi, Glog and Vrbina,
which were the source of highquality firewood for the local Serb.
After villagers of Izvor reported the fires, KFor troops
quickly
came out to inspect the scene, together with the fire brigade, but then
equally quickly left, without having tried to intervene at all.
The people in Izvor suspect that the fires were set by their
neighbours in the purely ethnic Albanian populated village of Vlasce,
according to amateur radio operators.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS SHOOT AT SERB CONVOY
PASJANE, August 8 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian terrorists fired
shots
at Serbs travelling late on Monday in a convoy of cars from the
southSerbian town of Presevo to the village of Pasjane, near the town of
Gnjilane, situated in the east of the KFORadministered Serbian province
of
Kosovo and Metohija.
Serb Ljubisa Cuparevic from the village of Donje Budrige
sustained
injuries in the incident that occurred near the permanent checkpoint of
the
KFOR U.S. contingent, local radio operators said.
> SRBIMA UNISTENO 30 HEKTARA POD KUKURUZOM
> G NJ I L A N E (TANJUG) U ATARU MULTIETNICKOG SELA PONESA, KOD
>
> GNJILANA, ALBANSKI STOCARI SU, NAGONECI SVOJU STOKU NA SRPSKE NJIVE,
> UNISTILI 30 HEKTARA POD KUKURUZOM, SAOPSTIO JE KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I
> LJUDSKA
> PRAVA GNJILANE
> LOKALNI ALBANCI SVAKODNEVNO NAGONE CITAVO STADO OD PEDESETAK
> GRLA
> KRUPNE STOKE, NA TE NJIVE ILI SEKIROM SEKU KUKURUZNE STABLJIKE I NJIME
> HRANE DOMACE ZIVOTINJE.
> U TOM POHODU NAJVISE SU STRADALI POTEZI IZNAD SELA PREMA
> LIVOCKOM
> JEZERU, GDE SVOJE NJIVE POD KUKURUZOM IMAJU MOMCILO STOJANOVIC, BRACA
> DIMITRIJE, DOBRIVOJE I ZARKO CVEJIC, PETAR SAVIC, STAJKO STAJIC, TRAJA
> PAUNOVIC, STANKO SIMIC I MNOGI DRUGI SRBI.
> SRBIMA U PONESU NA ISTI NACIN UNISTENO JE I DESETAK HEKTARA
> USEVA
> OVSA I JECMA, DOK SE DRVO SA OKO 500 HEKTARA HRASTOVE SUME I DALJE
> NESMETANO SECE I UNISTAVA.
> SRPSKI PREDSTAVNIK TOGA SELA ALEKSANDAR RISTIC SE, KAKO SE
> NAVODI
> U SAOPSTENJU, OTVORENO ZALI NA KFOR, KOJI NISTA NE CINI DA ZASTITI SRBE
> OD
> UNISTAVANJA LETINE.
> RISTIC KAZE DA "ALBANSKI STOCARI I BANDITI IMAJU PRECUTNU
> PODRSKU
> 'MIROVNJAKA' U SVOJIM NECASNIM RADNJAMA, USMERENIM NA PROTERIVANJE I
> IZGON
> SRBA IZ TOGA SELA".
> SELO PONES IMA 180 SRPSKIH DOMOVA I 50 ALBANSKIH I PREDSTAVLJA
> JAKO SRPSKO UPORISTE SEVEROZAPADNO OD GNJILANA.
> POSLE POHARE USEVA I DUGE OVOGODISNJE SUSE SRBI SU VEC POCELI
> DA
> SMANJUJU STOCNI FOND. SRBIMA PRETI HUMANITARNA KATASTROFA OVE JESENI I
> ZIME, JER NEMAJU DOVOLJNO HRANE NI ZA STOKU, NI ZA SEBE, A OSETICE I
> NESTASICU OGREVNOG DRVETA, UPRKOS VELIKIM PROSTRANSTVIMA SVOJIH SUMA,
> KOJIH
> VISE GOTOVO I DA NEMA.
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BULLDOZER DALL'ARABIA SAUDITA PER DISTRUGGERE I CENTRI STORICI KOSOVARI
From: Greek Helsinki Monitor <office@g...>
Date: Tue Aug 8, 2000 4:40pm
Subject: RFE/RL: SAUDI AID WORKERS BULLDOZE BALKAN MONUMENTS
RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
___________________________________________________________
RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 151, Part II, 8 August 2000
SAUDI AID WORKERS BULLDOZE BALKAN MONUMENTS
By Jolyon Naegele
The Saudi bulldozing of some of the most historically
valuable architectural monuments in the western Kosova market
town of Djakovica is merely the latest in a series of
iconoclastic activities in the Balkans undertaken in the name
of reconstruction assistance by Arab aid organizations. War-
damaged historic buildings are not repaired, but rather
demolished to make way for what the Arab donors consider to
be more proper Islamic structures.
The destruction is a further blow to Kosova's
architectural heritage, following the destruction by Serbian
forces and civilians in 1998 and 1999 of over 200 mosques and
other Islamic structures--about one-third of the total number
in the province.
Harvard University Fine Arts librarian Andras
Riedlmayer, the co-author of a survey of Kosova's war-damaged
architectural sites, is outraged by the Saudi demolition
program.
"Unfortunately, a Saudi aid agency got permits from the
local reconstruction agency and from the local institute for
the preservation of monuments to work on the restoration, so
to speak, of the Hadum mosque complex in the center of the
historic district."
Riedlmayer says the Saudis began on 24 July by trying to
knock down all the Ottoman-era gravestones in the cemetery of
the Hadum mosque.
"The Saudis were interested in removing them because
they consider gravestones to be idolatrous. They are
followers of Wahhabism, which is an extremist interpretation
of Islam at odds with the practice of most of the Muslim
world."
The Wahhabis are a purist movement founded in the 18th
century by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (c. 1703-1791). He
converted the Saud tribe, which now rules Saudi Arabia. The
Wahhabis are the largest and most powerful Muslim sect in
Saudi Arabia.
Riedlmayer says the Saudis are obsessed with having all
ancient tombstones, mausoleums, and Sufi shrines located near
mosques eliminated, since--unlike most Muslims in the world
today--the Wahhabis believe these to be "un-Islamic" and
idolatrous. He said: "the Wahhabis, with their wealth and
fanaticism, are a menace to heritage, in some ways more
dangerous than the [Serb paramilitary] Chetniks, since about
the latter, at least, no one harbors any illusions regarding
their uncharitable intentions."
The Saudi Joint Relief Committee for the People of
Kosovo and Chechnya, established by royal decree, has built
mosques, schools, clinics, and shelters for displaced
persons. It has also supplied the province with several
hundred tons of medicine, food, blankets, tents, and clothing
during the last 13 months.
But spreading the message of Wahhabi Islam appears to be
another aim of the committee. The new mosques are white, boxy
structures devoid of detail--a far cry from the centuries-old
Ottoman-style mosques that characterize the urban and village
landscape in much of the Balkans.
Riedlmayer says NATO-led KFOR peacekeepers declined to
intervene in Djakovica after the Saudis showed their
authorized papers.
"Eventually the Department of Culture in UNMIK (the UN
administration) was notified. They spoke with the Saudis on
[27 July] and tried to get them to desist. However, on [28
July], the Saudis sent in a bulldozer [and] knocked down the
buildings around the Hadum mosque, including the library
built in 1733 and ancient gravestones in the graveyard."
The Hadum mosque itself, which survived last year's
fighting largely intact--despite fire damage to its porch and
grenade damage to its minaret--remains endangered. If the
past is prologue, the frescoes could soon be whitewashed by
Wahhabi purists.
Attempts by RFE/RL to contact the UNMIK-Joint Interim
Administration's Department of Culture, the Kosovo Institute
for the Protection of Monuments, or the Saudi Joint Relief
Committee in Kosovo were unsuccessful.
However, Peruvian Alvaro Higueras, from the UNMIK
Culture Department, confirmed in a telephone call to
Riedlmayer on 3 August that the Saudis had razed the library
and Koran school.
Higueras said the Saudis planned to build a reinforced
concrete Islamic center on the cleared site. But the UNMIK
official says the Saudis applied for permission for a
restoration project, not for new construction. Higueras says
an order has now been issued to stop construction
indefinitely. He says the Saudis will have to "undo the
damage" and restore the Ottoman-era buildings using
traditional materials and techniques.
Riedlmayer has documented cases in which the Saudi and
other Arab aid agencies have destroyed other historic Islamic
buildings elsewhere in Kosova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and
Bulgaria.
Last October, while Riedlmayer was in Kosova conducting
a survey of war-damaged architectural heritage, he witnessed
the destruction of Muslim cemeteries in Vushtrri. He says an
Islamic aid agency from the United Arab Emirates had
pressured local Albanian residents to sledgehammer the graves
of their ancestors, completely clearing two historic
graveyards next to the Gazi Ali Beg and Karamanli mosques of
more than 100 gravestones dating back to the 15th century.
Only the grave marker of Gazi Ali Beg himself remained, as
the locals refused to allow that one to be smashed.
Riedlmayer says the UAE aid agency promised to rebuild
the damaged mosques "twice as big and twice as Islamic," but
only if the gravestones were removed. He says the agency, the
largest aid organization in the town, also made an implicit
threat to withhold humanitarian aid if the donors' request
was ignored.
Riedlmayer notes that during and immediately after the
war in Bosnia (1992-95), a Saudi aid agency took charge of
the restoration of the Gazi Husrev Beg mosque (Begova
dzamija) as well as other historic mosques in Sarajevo and in
many other towns and villages.
At the Beg mosque, the Saudis ordered the Ottoman tile
work and painted wall decorations stripped off and discarded
and had the whole building redone, as Riedlmayer puts it "in
gleaming hospital white, even the minaret slathered in white
plaster." He says that in scores of villages, the Saudis had
war-damaged but restorable historic Ottoman-style Bosnian
mosques demolished and redone Saudi-style. All of the
colorful Balkan-Muslim interior decor was eliminated, and
separate entrances were added to segregate women.
To drive home the significance of the Saudi destruction
in the Balkans, Riedlmayer says, "Imagine, if you will, some
terrible catastrophe affecting the historic churches of Rome
and Tuscany, and then having" modern-day U.S. Christian sects
coming in and insisting that they be redone in "proper
Christian style."
The author is a senior RFE/RL correspondent based in Prague.
To view photos of some of the structures described in the
article go to:
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2000/08/F.RU.000804130919.html
---
SOLDATI BELGI DELLA KFOR PERQUISISCONO E PICCHIANO
RAPPRESENTANTI UFFICIALI JUGOSLAVI PER I RAPPORTI CON L'ONU
HTTP://WWW.KFORMYASS.com
Yugoslav Liaison Committee members harassed
August 11, 2000
Kosovska Mitrovica, August 10 -
Members of the Yugoslav Committee
Liaising with the U.N. mission, Jovica
Jovanovic and Radovan Redzic, were
harassed by Belgian KFOR troops at
a KFOR checkpoint in Donje Jerinje.
According to Jovanovic, the KFOR
troops stopped the Yugoslavs' car,
demanded personal identification papers from the two passengers, and
then proceeded to search the vehicle, including the two Yugoslav
diplomats' personal belongings.
The Belgians then insisted on taking photos of the Yugoslavs, dragged
Redzic to a barrack a few meters away, kicked him, put him up against
the wall and forcefully took his photo.
---
IL TERRORISTA "DEMOCRATICO" THAQI OSPITE DELLA CONVENTION
DI LOS ANGELES!
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
According to Albanian newspaper Zeri Hashim Thaqi will attend
Democratic National Convention starting Monday in LA.
If you are going to be somewhere near, don't forget to give him my
regards! I am too far from LA to throw any eggs on him.
---
VERSO LE ELEZIONI-TRUFFA NEL PROTETTORATO DEL "KOSOVA"
U.N. calls Kosovo election for October 28
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The United Nations
administration in
Kosovo has decided to hold municipal elections on October
28, an spokeswoman
said.
The spokeswoman for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo
said UNMIK head
Bernard Kouchner had decided on the date after
consultations with the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),
which is
overseeing the first post-war poll. The election had been
expected to take
place sometime in October....
---
SCANDALO!
TRUPPE JUGOSLAVE CERCANO DI ENTRARE IN JUGOSLAVIA!?!
Serbs accused of Kosovo raid
Special report: Serbia
Saturday August 12, 2000
The Guardian
Serbian soldiers made a probing incursion into Kosovo two weeks ago in
the worst breach yet of the agreement that ended Nato's bombing campaign
last year, the US forces newspaper, Stars and Stripes, said yesterday.
US forces scrambled Apache helicopters to confront the group of armed
and uniformed Serbs in two all-terrain vehicles who retreated across the
dividing line between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia, the paper said.
The incident took place on July 28 in the mountains of eastern Kosovo,
near Serbia's Presevo valley, where there have been clashes between
Serbian police and a group of ethnic Albanians seeking independence from
Belgrade.
Shortly after the alleged incursion, peacekeepers said they had stepped
up security in the Presevo area to try to stop the ethnic Albanian UCPMB
group from operating. US forces had reported seeing mortar fire and
other military activity.
Officials of the US military contingent that patrols the area refused to
respond to questions about the incident and Nato spokesman Major Craig
Snow in Pristina said he could not confirm that Serbian forces had
crossed into Kosovo. "We've not been commenting on specific incidents,"
Maj Snow said.
Serb army and police units pulled out of Kosovo in July last year as
part of an agreement that ended Nato's 78-day bombing campaign of
Serb-dominated Yugoslavia.
The Serb incursion, if confirmed, would be regarded by Nato as a test of
its commitment to control the movement of UCPMB guerrillas who operate
out of Kosovo and have been trying the patience of the Serb military in
Presevo.
Reuters, Pristina
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LIBERTA' DI STAMPA STILE N.A.T.O.
Il giornalista della BBC John Humphrys ha ricevuto una reprimenda
ufficiale per l'intervista da lui fatta al segretario generale della
NATO, Lord Robertson. L'accusa e' di essere stato troppo aggressivo con
il povero segretario generale, averlo interrotto troppo spesso e con
frasi troppo critiche, facendogli dire in fondo cose che non voleva dire
- non perche' non le pensasse, ma perche' certe cose in TV non si
dicono!...
(dell'intervista al povero segretario generale abbiamo gia' parlato in
una precedente ciliegina: si veda
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/347 )
-
Daily Telegraph
August 2, 2000
Humphrys condemned over Kosovo interview
By Tom Leonard, Media Correspondent
THE BBC has reprimanded John Humphrys after the
Secretary General of Nato complained that the Radio 4
Today presenter used an interview about Kosovo as a
"platform for his own opinions".
The corporation's governors announced yesterday that
they have upheld a complaint by Lord Robertson of
Portellen, the former Defence Secretary, that Humphrys
had "not met proper BBC standards".
Lord Robertson said that during the interview, which
was broadcast in February, Humphrys's repeated
interruptions amounted to a "critical running
commentary". The governors' programmes complaints
committee admitted that the tone of the questioning
was "inappropriate" and the frequency of interruptions
"ill-judged". They said Rod Liddle, the editor of
Today, had spoken to Humphrys about the interview and
warned him not to do it again.
It is the second time in little more than a year that
Humphrys has been criticised over his treatment of
Lord Robertson. In March 1999, he was attacked by
politicians for an interview in which he repeatedly
interrupted the then Defence Secretary and insisted
the war in Kosovo was a "mess".
The governors said: "Although the premises of Mr
Humphrys's questions referred to views expressed by
others rather than opinions of his own, the tone of
the questioning was inappropriate at times and the
frequency of interruption was ill-judged."...
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Il giornalista della BBC John Humphrys ha ricevuto una reprimenda
ufficiale per l'intervista da lui fatta al segretario generale della
NATO, Lord Robertson. L'accusa e' di essere stato troppo aggressivo con
il povero segretario generale, averlo interrotto troppo spesso e con
frasi troppo critiche, facendogli dire in fondo cose che non voleva dire
- non perche' non le pensasse, ma perche' certe cose in TV non si
dicono!...
(dell'intervista al povero segretario generale abbiamo gia' parlato in
una precedente ciliegina: si veda
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/347 )
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Daily Telegraph
August 2, 2000
Humphrys condemned over Kosovo interview
By Tom Leonard, Media Correspondent
THE BBC has reprimanded John Humphrys after the
Secretary General of Nato complained that the Radio 4
Today presenter used an interview about Kosovo as a
"platform for his own opinions".
The corporation's governors announced yesterday that
they have upheld a complaint by Lord Robertson of
Portellen, the former Defence Secretary, that Humphrys
had "not met proper BBC standards".
Lord Robertson said that during the interview, which
was broadcast in February, Humphrys's repeated
interruptions amounted to a "critical running
commentary". The governors' programmes complaints
committee admitted that the tone of the questioning
was "inappropriate" and the frequency of interruptions
"ill-judged". They said Rod Liddle, the editor of
Today, had spoken to Humphrys about the interview and
warned him not to do it again.
It is the second time in little more than a year that
Humphrys has been criticised over his treatment of
Lord Robertson. In March 1999, he was attacked by
politicians for an interview in which he repeatedly
interrupted the then Defence Secretary and insisted
the war in Kosovo was a "mess".
The governors said: "Although the premises of Mr
Humphrys's questions referred to views expressed by
others rather than opinions of his own, the tone of
the questioning was inappropriate at times and the
frequency of interruption was ill-judged."...
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Interviews with Nikola, a Yugoslav Prosecutor from Mitrovica and Oliver
Ivanovic, leader of the resistance movement (8-14-00)
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
Interview with Nikola --- a Yugoslav prosecutor August 14th, 2000 4:33AM
Washington Time, 10:33AM Yugoslav Time
Nikola: Hallo
Konstanin: hi is Nikola there
Nikola: Yes
Konstanin: Hi this is Konstantin from Emperor's Clothes.com
Nikola: Yes yes yes
Konstanin: Are you in Mitrovica right now?
Nikola: No I am in [name of town in inner Serbia] now, in the middle of
Serbia right now, but if I can help you please ask me
Konstanin: Well I don't know if you've heard about the developments in
Mitrovica, KFOR [i.e., the name for NATO in Kosovo] just moved to seize
the
smelter plant, the mining complex?
Nikola: Yes yes yes it was early morning about half past three o'clock
KFOR
started with the operation, the Second English Royal Platoon are
occupied it
- Desant, you know what is Desant?
Konstanin: No.
Nikola: When they parachute with the helicopters, commandos
Konstanin: Okay yes yes,"descent"
Nikola: They occupied lead factory; after that they occupied the Chapter
Representative offices and after that in the sixth hour and thirty
minutes
[6"30 Yugoslav time] they occupied Radio S in Zvecan.
Konstanin: Which radio, Radio S?
Nikola: Radio S.
Konstanin: That's the one that was recently ordered closed down by the
Internationals, right?
Nikola: Ahhh they claim Yugoslav government are behind that radio. And
now I
know there are some conflicts in Mitrovica and Zvecan because all roads
are
blocked and few people are in
Konstanin: Are the local residents the ones blocking the roads?
Nikola: Yes yes lot of roads between Mitrovica and Zvecan, between
Zvecan and
some other Serb villages and this is conflict between village civilians
and
the British soldiers
Konstanin: Is the threat to all of Mitrovica or is it limited to...
Nikola: Zvecan is three kilometers to the North of Mitrovica, very close
Konstanin: Ahah. And what was the reason for shutting the radio
station??
Nikola: I don't know what will be with the radio. I think that they have
not
any reason to close that radio station, but it is British choice
Konstanin: Here in the West the reports are that it was calling NATO an
occupying army. That was the only thing that they came up with, and this
isn't a crime I don't think? According to the UN resolutions as far as I
know.
Nikola: Yes but that's not the only thing. This [smelter plant] was the
last
one factory in Serbian hands and only one sector of the Trepca
[Emperor's
clothes: the Trepca mining concern - extremel;y valuable] concern who
still
working. All other, every other factory from Trepca concern are in
Albanian
hands and not one working.
Konstanin: Are they also in ZInternational hands?
Nikola: No no Internationals don't work anything. Secessionists supposed
[laughs] must work in that factory. But as you know maybe in the South
side
all mining are under the water, and ah one factory for battery are
burned
before two months in some unknown fire. Today there has been much
conflict
and a few people are injured. British use some you know rubber, rubber
bullets
Konstanin: So no reports of live ammunition, are there any reports of
such
ammunition used by KFOR forces?
Nikola: I don't know. They use the tanks, they use the choppers, they
use too
many troops, and I think that ah these Frenchman wish to stay out from
that;
British soldiers are in the main role.
Konstanin: Okay. And the radio station that was closed, was that the
last
free Serbian radio station in Kosovo?
Nikola: Yes yes yes yes and now on the Kosovo we have two or three radio
station all in the North but that is the some commercial, commercial
radio
station without any news, without any messages political or anything
else.
Konstanin: So basically the KFOR forces have just shut down with one
move the
major economic source for Serbs as well as their major communications
and
news source?
Nikola: Who knows that! Look, this is for the Serbs, that pollution or
economic investment are only excuse for occupation. Because we know very
well
that from that nothing is. Because some company, big company from
Sweden,
from Germany, from America are involved in that.
Konstanin: Thank You, we're going to call Oliver now, or try to get in
touch
with him. Thank you for your information. We will post this unaltered on
the
web to have it circulate around the world. Do you have anything else you
want
to say
Nikola: Just my best wishes for all who try to help us. Thank you. Thank
you.
Konstantin: Bye
Nikola: Bye.
Interview with Oliver Ivanovic August 14th, 5:11 AM Washington time,
11:11AM
Yugoslav time. EC caught Oliver in the middle of a meeting on the
situation.
EC will call back tomorrow to get more detailed description and more
official
reactions.
Konstanin: Hello.
Oliver: Hi, who is it.
Konstanin: This is Konstantin from EC.
Oliver: Okay okay
Konstanin: Can you describe what has just occurred in Kosovska
Mitrovica?
Oliver: In the morning about half past three this morning couple of
hundred
soldiers came in the lead plant and take over this ledd plant in the
Northern
part of Mitrovica. This is the last one factory, Trepca factory, which
works
and only one which are under Serb responsibility. Under Serb control.
And of
course they didn't allow the workers to come in the first shift at seven
o'clock in the morning and now we have couple of hundreds in Zvecan but
also
some people about seven hundred people are waiting in Mitrovica.
Konstanin: Workers?
Oliver: Workers and citizens of course.
Konstanin: Has anything else happened?
Oliver: Nothing for now we have the emergency meeting at the city and we
are
waiting for the next step of the management because they are not allowed
to,
how to say, assistant of general manager are not allowed to make any
kind of
decision and they waiting for the general manager but in the meantime
Konstanin: They can't make a decision without who?
Oliver: First of all the general managers are not allowed to come in
Kosovo
because of the special regulation of Mr. Kouchner. He expelled him from
Kosovo. And his assistants are not allowed to make any kind of
negotiations
or decision and now we are in bad position.
Konstanin: We heard about the involvement of Swedish, German, US
companies in
this, with interests in Trepca?
Oliver: YES we waiting for more detail about both of these agreements
but now
for now I didn't see these agreements.
Konstanin: So the agreement predates the raid?
Oliver: Yeah. This agreement between consortium, US company, French
company
and Swedish company with the UNMIK. They made this agreement yesterday
in the
morning but I didn't see this until now.
Konstanin: We heard of the very heavy involvement of British troops,
were
there any other contingents involved?
Oliver: No just the British, French, Danish, and Pakistani's.
Konstanin: Were weapons used?
Oliver: No, just tear gas.
Konstanin: We heard of other military vehicles, commando raid.
Oliver: Yes helicopters were observing, but it isn't used for any
purpose
now. Now just observing
Konstanin: Okay can you tell us a bit about this radio station that was
closed down.
Oliver: Yes in the 6:30 am this morning Radio plus, or, Radio S was
closed,
and UNMIK police confiscated all their equipment.
Konstanin: What was the official reason for that?
Oliver: They have not permission from OSCE to work. Working, working
license.
Konstanin: But does it contravene any Yugoslav laws?
Oliver: I think they using some kind of regulation, OSCE regulation for
media.
Konstanin: Do you have any official opinion on the actions of KFOR over
the
last day?
Oliver: We think it is not necessary, and we think that behind of that
many
talking of environment and health is exactly political decision to stop
only
one factory in the Serb area, under Serb control. That's the reason,
because
I think high-pressure from Albanian side who made the pressure to
Kouchner,
and Kouchner decided.
Konstanin: So you think Kouchner made the final decision for the forces
to
move in?
Oliver: Yes. Exactly.
Konstanin: So with the radio station shut down and the main source of
employment for Serbs in the region shut down, is there any, how's the
Serbian
population reacting? Is there a sense of panic right now?
Oliver: Ah, no its not a panic but people are very very angry and I
don't
know what will happen. Perhaps we'll have the important meeting this
afternoon or we are waiting, we are just in a meeting and we are
finished
this meeting perhaps we will decide about that.
Konstanin: Can we call you back later or tomorrow when things are more
settled?
Oliver: Of course you can. Of course.
Konstanin: Okay thank you very much for the information currently
Oliver: Okay
Konstanin: Bye
Oliver: Bye
For more on Mitrovica see the following:
1) 'Why is the KLA shooting at KFOR' at
2) Why is the KLA shooting at KFOR? at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisthe.htm
3)Mass Action forces release of Kosovo resistance leader at
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/avictory.htm
4)US Police Attack Serbs in Northern Mitrovica at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/us.htm
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
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Ivanovic, leader of the resistance movement (8-14-00)
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
Interview with Nikola --- a Yugoslav prosecutor August 14th, 2000 4:33AM
Washington Time, 10:33AM Yugoslav Time
Nikola: Hallo
Konstanin: hi is Nikola there
Nikola: Yes
Konstanin: Hi this is Konstantin from Emperor's Clothes.com
Nikola: Yes yes yes
Konstanin: Are you in Mitrovica right now?
Nikola: No I am in [name of town in inner Serbia] now, in the middle of
Serbia right now, but if I can help you please ask me
Konstanin: Well I don't know if you've heard about the developments in
Mitrovica, KFOR [i.e., the name for NATO in Kosovo] just moved to seize
the
smelter plant, the mining complex?
Nikola: Yes yes yes it was early morning about half past three o'clock
KFOR
started with the operation, the Second English Royal Platoon are
occupied it
- Desant, you know what is Desant?
Konstanin: No.
Nikola: When they parachute with the helicopters, commandos
Konstanin: Okay yes yes,"descent"
Nikola: They occupied lead factory; after that they occupied the Chapter
Representative offices and after that in the sixth hour and thirty
minutes
[6"30 Yugoslav time] they occupied Radio S in Zvecan.
Konstanin: Which radio, Radio S?
Nikola: Radio S.
Konstanin: That's the one that was recently ordered closed down by the
Internationals, right?
Nikola: Ahhh they claim Yugoslav government are behind that radio. And
now I
know there are some conflicts in Mitrovica and Zvecan because all roads
are
blocked and few people are in
Konstanin: Are the local residents the ones blocking the roads?
Nikola: Yes yes lot of roads between Mitrovica and Zvecan, between
Zvecan and
some other Serb villages and this is conflict between village civilians
and
the British soldiers
Konstanin: Is the threat to all of Mitrovica or is it limited to...
Nikola: Zvecan is three kilometers to the North of Mitrovica, very close
Konstanin: Ahah. And what was the reason for shutting the radio
station??
Nikola: I don't know what will be with the radio. I think that they have
not
any reason to close that radio station, but it is British choice
Konstanin: Here in the West the reports are that it was calling NATO an
occupying army. That was the only thing that they came up with, and this
isn't a crime I don't think? According to the UN resolutions as far as I
know.
Nikola: Yes but that's not the only thing. This [smelter plant] was the
last
one factory in Serbian hands and only one sector of the Trepca
[Emperor's
clothes: the Trepca mining concern - extremel;y valuable] concern who
still
working. All other, every other factory from Trepca concern are in
Albanian
hands and not one working.
Konstanin: Are they also in ZInternational hands?
Nikola: No no Internationals don't work anything. Secessionists supposed
[laughs] must work in that factory. But as you know maybe in the South
side
all mining are under the water, and ah one factory for battery are
burned
before two months in some unknown fire. Today there has been much
conflict
and a few people are injured. British use some you know rubber, rubber
bullets
Konstanin: So no reports of live ammunition, are there any reports of
such
ammunition used by KFOR forces?
Nikola: I don't know. They use the tanks, they use the choppers, they
use too
many troops, and I think that ah these Frenchman wish to stay out from
that;
British soldiers are in the main role.
Konstanin: Okay. And the radio station that was closed, was that the
last
free Serbian radio station in Kosovo?
Nikola: Yes yes yes yes and now on the Kosovo we have two or three radio
station all in the North but that is the some commercial, commercial
radio
station without any news, without any messages political or anything
else.
Konstanin: So basically the KFOR forces have just shut down with one
move the
major economic source for Serbs as well as their major communications
and
news source?
Nikola: Who knows that! Look, this is for the Serbs, that pollution or
economic investment are only excuse for occupation. Because we know very
well
that from that nothing is. Because some company, big company from
Sweden,
from Germany, from America are involved in that.
Konstanin: Thank You, we're going to call Oliver now, or try to get in
touch
with him. Thank you for your information. We will post this unaltered on
the
web to have it circulate around the world. Do you have anything else you
want
to say
Nikola: Just my best wishes for all who try to help us. Thank you. Thank
you.
Konstantin: Bye
Nikola: Bye.
Interview with Oliver Ivanovic August 14th, 5:11 AM Washington time,
11:11AM
Yugoslav time. EC caught Oliver in the middle of a meeting on the
situation.
EC will call back tomorrow to get more detailed description and more
official
reactions.
Konstanin: Hello.
Oliver: Hi, who is it.
Konstanin: This is Konstantin from EC.
Oliver: Okay okay
Konstanin: Can you describe what has just occurred in Kosovska
Mitrovica?
Oliver: In the morning about half past three this morning couple of
hundred
soldiers came in the lead plant and take over this ledd plant in the
Northern
part of Mitrovica. This is the last one factory, Trepca factory, which
works
and only one which are under Serb responsibility. Under Serb control.
And of
course they didn't allow the workers to come in the first shift at seven
o'clock in the morning and now we have couple of hundreds in Zvecan but
also
some people about seven hundred people are waiting in Mitrovica.
Konstanin: Workers?
Oliver: Workers and citizens of course.
Konstanin: Has anything else happened?
Oliver: Nothing for now we have the emergency meeting at the city and we
are
waiting for the next step of the management because they are not allowed
to,
how to say, assistant of general manager are not allowed to make any
kind of
decision and they waiting for the general manager but in the meantime
Konstanin: They can't make a decision without who?
Oliver: First of all the general managers are not allowed to come in
Kosovo
because of the special regulation of Mr. Kouchner. He expelled him from
Kosovo. And his assistants are not allowed to make any kind of
negotiations
or decision and now we are in bad position.
Konstanin: We heard about the involvement of Swedish, German, US
companies in
this, with interests in Trepca?
Oliver: YES we waiting for more detail about both of these agreements
but now
for now I didn't see these agreements.
Konstanin: So the agreement predates the raid?
Oliver: Yeah. This agreement between consortium, US company, French
company
and Swedish company with the UNMIK. They made this agreement yesterday
in the
morning but I didn't see this until now.
Konstanin: We heard of the very heavy involvement of British troops,
were
there any other contingents involved?
Oliver: No just the British, French, Danish, and Pakistani's.
Konstanin: Were weapons used?
Oliver: No, just tear gas.
Konstanin: We heard of other military vehicles, commando raid.
Oliver: Yes helicopters were observing, but it isn't used for any
purpose
now. Now just observing
Konstanin: Okay can you tell us a bit about this radio station that was
closed down.
Oliver: Yes in the 6:30 am this morning Radio plus, or, Radio S was
closed,
and UNMIK police confiscated all their equipment.
Konstanin: What was the official reason for that?
Oliver: They have not permission from OSCE to work. Working, working
license.
Konstanin: But does it contravene any Yugoslav laws?
Oliver: I think they using some kind of regulation, OSCE regulation for
media.
Konstanin: Do you have any official opinion on the actions of KFOR over
the
last day?
Oliver: We think it is not necessary, and we think that behind of that
many
talking of environment and health is exactly political decision to stop
only
one factory in the Serb area, under Serb control. That's the reason,
because
I think high-pressure from Albanian side who made the pressure to
Kouchner,
and Kouchner decided.
Konstanin: So you think Kouchner made the final decision for the forces
to
move in?
Oliver: Yes. Exactly.
Konstanin: So with the radio station shut down and the main source of
employment for Serbs in the region shut down, is there any, how's the
Serbian
population reacting? Is there a sense of panic right now?
Oliver: Ah, no its not a panic but people are very very angry and I
don't
know what will happen. Perhaps we'll have the important meeting this
afternoon or we are waiting, we are just in a meeting and we are
finished
this meeting perhaps we will decide about that.
Konstanin: Can we call you back later or tomorrow when things are more
settled?
Oliver: Of course you can. Of course.
Konstanin: Okay thank you very much for the information currently
Oliver: Okay
Konstanin: Bye
Oliver: Bye
For more on Mitrovica see the following:
1) 'Why is the KLA shooting at KFOR' at
2) Why is the KLA shooting at KFOR? at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisthe.htm
3)Mass Action forces release of Kosovo resistance leader at
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/avictory.htm
4)US Police Attack Serbs in Northern Mitrovica at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/us.htm
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
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