MAFIOSI, TERRORISTI E TRUPPE DI OCCUPAZIONE OCCIDENTALI
STANNO GESTENDO IL TRAFFICO DELLA PROSTITUZIONE IN KOSOVO

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Subject: Forced prostitution, Pristina; request from Ukraine, DANA
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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 21:00:16 +0200
From: "Elena Kabashnaya" <elena@...> (by way of Herman de
Tollenaere <hermantl@...>)
To: office@...


DEAR LADIES and GENTLEMEN, ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL !

This appeal is to those, who we not indifferent to
fates
of hundreds of women got into trouble and desperately
seeking for our assistance and defense.

All of them refer to lawyer's services to protect their
out
raged honour and damaged health. In most cases these
women
have no money to pay off a lawyer's fee, which is $100
just
for the beginning of a process.

There is a striking case of Larisa K. who was hired by
recruiters to work in Greece and Pristina {Kosovo] of a
promised job, she was made to be a prostitute.
Penniless,
with risk to her life, she managed to escape to
Ukraine.
Right now Larisa K. is trying to sue the recruiters, who
had damaged her morally and physically, but she has no
money to protect her rights in the court.

Every little contribution will help Larisa and many
other
women in her position to get out of predicament,
restore
their rights and start life anew. We would be very
grateful
to people, who will join "DANA" - NGO from Nikolaev,
Ukraine,
and give a helping hand to these women.

Thank you for your help !

Sincerely yours
Elena Kabashnaya
President "DANA"
P.O.Box 104, Nikolaev 54015 Ukraine
35, Admiralskaya St,. Nikolaev 54001
Tel/Fax (38-0512) 335-108
elena@...
ken@mksat,net

DETAILS OF PAYMENTS:
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IN FAVOR acc. 26206791707001/858
Kabashnaya Elena

BENEFICIARY : NIKOLAEV BRANCH CB "PRIVATBANK"
ADDRESS: 27, FRUNZE Str., NIKOLAEV UKRAINE
ACCOUNT: 3901 9 004017 003

BANK OF THE BENEFICIARY : COMMERCIAL BANK "PRIVATBANK"
ADDRESS: DNEPROPETROVSK, UKRAINE
SWIFT : PBAN UA 2X
CORRESPONDENT ACCOUNT : 890-0085-754

INTERMEDIARY BANK :THE BANK OF NEW YORK
ADDRESS: Eastern Europe Division
One Wall St., 9-th Floor
New York, N.Y. 10286,USA
SWIFT: IRVT US 3N

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INFORMATION :
"DANA" is a Women's organization, non-government,
non-commercial organization, founded in 1995. It
is registered by Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.
Certificate namber is 98.

We run the following projects :
- "Against Trafficking in Women",
- "Women and poverty",
- "Army of saving" - posts of disribution of
clothes and hot food,
- "Homelessness"

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http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
June 3, 2000


East European Girls Face Rape, Violence in Albania


VLORA - Women from Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria face
beatings, rape and prostitution when they arrive in
Albania, which has become a centre for international
trafficking in young females.

Many of the women dreamed of a European Eldorado and
did not know they were to be sold into prostitution,
but their final destination is often the mental
hospital in the port town of Vlora in southern
Albania.

For the hundreds of young women, some of them still
adolescent, the Albanian port of Vlora is an
obligatory transit point on the way to western Europe.
Some of them have refused to be broken by their
ill-treatment while others have given up and can go no
further.

Alina, 18, is one of the latter. Huddled in a corner
of a police station in Vlora, her face bruised and
swollen, she jumps at the slightest noise. Repeating
that she is Romanian, she says that her passport was
confiscated long ago by the pimp who abused her.

Police found her naked in a nearby forest, where she
had been beaten and raped.

"At least she is alive. Last night, we found the body
of a 14-year-old girl in a back street," one of the
policemen said.

Alina will be kept for a few days in a cell here
before being handed over to the port city's
psychiatric hospital. There she is likely to face
worse treatment. Reliable sources said she would
probably be drugged and raped by other inmates.

Three other Romanian women and a Moldovan share a cell
next to Alina's - two women from Bucharest, Loredana,
18, and her sister Mihaela, 16, and 15-year-old Bianca
from Mirsa in central Romania, along with Angela, a
16-year-old Moldovan.

The four were arrested as they prepared to leave for
Italy, where they had been promised well-paid jobs, a
rich wedding and a life of ease. The women also
believed they would be able to send money to help
their poverty-stricken families.

The promises bear no relation to reality and the
women's planned final destination was the brothels of
Europe's major capital cities.

"Trafficking in women is booming in the Balkans and
the former Communist countries," said Fitore Palushi,
an Albanian woman police officer. "Whether they admit
it or not, they are all for sale and they all have
their regular pimps, even though some of them do not
know it."

>From Vlora, at least a dozen women are smuggled into
Italy every night, headed for prostitution, and the
traffic is constantly increasing.

The traffic is also lucrative for the smugglers. For
just one woman handed over personally to pimps in
Italy, the smuggler will be paid 3,000 dollars, three
times the normal tariff for an ordinary illegal
immigrant.

A recent report released in France said that transit
camps exist in Albania, where women are trained to
submit to their future punters by repeated rapes and
beatings, before being sent to western Europe.

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Frankfurter Rundschau
June 5, 2000
Kosovo-Prostitutes

WHEN THE WAITRESSING JOB IS A TRAP
Sexual slave trade a problem in Kosovo
By Stephan Israel

Pristina - The dubious clubs that spring up overnight with names like
Miami Beach, Manhattan or International Club often do not remain in
business very long. A raid by Italian carabinieri first brought the
miserable situation to light in January, when the UN peacekeepers burst
into one club to find a dozen desperate women staring back at them.
"The women were treated like slaves," said one of the investigators on
the case. Since then about 60 women have been freed from similiar
conditions. Trafficking in sexual slaves and forced prostitution have
become serious problems in Kosovo.
The women come from Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and Bulgaria: the poorest
regions of eastern Europe. A monthly salary of 50 to 100 dollars is
normal in all of those countries. Some of the women fell prey to
seemingly innocuous newspaper adverts promising lucrative jobs in the
West as waitresses or dancers. Some of them wound up part of a sex trade
ring after being kidnapped. Still others knew about the nightclub and
the job as a prostitute that awaited them, but not about the horrifying
conditions.
None of the 60 women were still in possession of their identification
documents when they were discovered, according to investigators in
Pristina. Passports are usually collected by the "carers" while the
women are still in their native countries; sometimes, their "escorts"
issue them false documents. It usually takes a while before the trip
gets underway, with long waiting periods par for the course.
The sex traders command a well-organised network of contacts across the
entire region. Inconspicuous motels are the scenes of out-and-out
auctions, where the women are sold for the highest bid to pimps and bar
owners.
On the way to Kosovo, the actual trafficking occurs in Struga on the
Macedonian-Albanian border and several villages around the capital,
Skopje, that are well-known for their role in illegal prostitution.
Until now Macedonian officials have shown little interest in
co-operating with the UN, says one UN investigator, who suspects that
Macedonian police are involved in the trade in women.
Kosovar club owners and pimps pay around 1,500 dollars for each woman.
The women are confined to the bars day and night and made to endure
cramped and unhygenic conditions. They are usually told that they have
to "work off" the cost of transporting them.
However, none of the women found in forced prostitution in Kosovo had
ever seen any money. Anyway, in most cases the women are auctioned off
to another club in some other region after a few weeks or months.
Contributing to the problem is the massive international presence
brought by the arrival of Nato peacekeeping forces, and the large
amounts of money now in circulation. At present more than 40,000
soldiers from all over the world are stationed in Kosovo, plus another
7,000 UN administrators and aid workers from public and private
international relief organisations.
Many of the prospective customers perusing the bars and nightclubs are
members of the international mission in Kosovo, reports one aid worker
with an international organisation. "This business is determined by
supply and demand," says the woman, who gets her information from
talking to victims. It is, she says, a cheap investment for the
traffickers, who are attracted by the low risk and the potential for
making enormous profits.
But, she adds, for the women and girls - sometimes as young as 15 - the
sex trade is an extreme form of sexual and economic exploitation. Once
they come under the slave traders' control and end up in one of the
clubs, the women have no freedom whatsoever to decide their fate,
according to the aid worker.
A campaign is now being planned for the coming weeks that is aimed above
all at the nightclubs' international "clientele." The campaign is
supposed to make it clear to these men that the women in the clubs are
not "normal" prostitutes. "You pay once, she pays her whole life long,"
one of the slogans goes.
The situation in Kosovo is not without precedent. Nightclubs and bars
sprouted up like mushrooms near the former frontline after the war in
Bosnia. Kosovo is simply the latest market in a network that is part of
a booming business. Most local women stay away from the clubs.
Kosovo, like neighbouring Albania, is both a recruiting ground and a
transit area for traffic in women. Experts estimate that around 30,000
Albanian women are currently working as prostitutes, most of them in
Italy. For eastern European women, the road also stops in Serbia or
Belgrade en route to final destinations in Bosnia, Montenegro or western
Europe.
Recently seven Ukranian women were rescued from a club in the
Montenegrin capital of Podgorica, thanks to leads provided by a
development organisation based in their home country. Aid organisations
allege that, once the women are freed from forced prostitution,
officials treat them no better than criminals, arresting them and then
deporting them. Pimps and "nightclub" owners, however, generally get off
scot-free.
In April a Serbian court in the northern section of the divided city of
Mitrovica sentenced two Moldovan women to 30 days in jail for
prostitution, and issued a three-year ban on their re-entering the
country. The UN administration, which is formally responsible for
Kosovo, did not see fit to intervene. The women usually have no
identifying papers to show police when they arrived. In what human
rights observers see as a clear case of criminalising the victim, the
women are generally taken into custody like illegal immigrants to await
their deportation. The carabinieri working for the UN in Kosovo who made
the initial nightclub raid did not know what to do at first with the 12
women they discovered.
In the meantime, local and international aid organisations in Pristina
have quietly opened a temporary refuge for women at a secret location.
The "safe house" with room for 20 women has already been full on
occasion.
Workers from the non-profit International Organisation for Migration
(IOM) assist women who want to return to their countries of origin. The
organisation locates people they can turn to and also procures new
identity documents for the women. IOM is active in some of the women's
home countries as well, working, for example, in Ukraine and Moldova in
conjunction with local charities, counselling centres and women's
shelters so that the women have somewhere to turn once they arrive home.
No one, however, is forced to return. Once back in their hometowns, the
women often fear acts of revenge by the traffickers, who feel cheated
out of their profits.
UN investigators and aid workers believe the trend in illegal
prostitution is likely to continue. "If we close a nightclub one day, a
new one is certain to open up somewhere else the next day," says one
official resignedly. The attention international organisations are now
giving to the problem could result in the unintended consequence that
the lucrative business will increasingly be driven underground, where
the women will be forced to work in anonymous, private apartments.

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http://www.msnbc.com/news/416095.asp?cp1=1

Sex-slave trade flourishes in Kosovo

The seedy side
of peacekeeping
in a war-torn region
NBC’s Kevin Tibbles reports there is a new battle in
Kosovo; an illegal sex slave trade.

By Kevin Tibbles
NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia — A year after NATO’s bombing
campaign and occupation saved Kosovo’s Albanians from
persecution and death,a new kind of human abuse has
emerged: forced prostitution, organized by the
Albanian mob. More than 1,000 women have been smuggled
into the war-ravaged region to serve as sex slaves.
THE WOMEN in Kosovo’s sex business —
estimated by police to number more than 1,000 — come
from all over Eastern Europe, funneled into the region
by well-organized crime gangs using regular trade
routes.
The former Soviet states have become prime
suppliers of women for the multimillion-dollar sex
trade. Moldova, Ukraine and Russia, as well as
Bulgaria and Romania, are the hunting grounds for men
who deal in the seedy business of so-called white
slavery. Many young women, seeking to escape the
shackles of collapsed economies and high rates of
unemployment, are easy targets for the sophisticated
traffickers.
In Bulgaria, for example, women are offered
better lives in Western countries working as nannies
or waitresses. They respond to newspaper ads that
carry a cellular telephone number as a contact. Once
the women accept a job and put their future and
passport in the hands of an “employer,” things go
horribly different than they planned.
“We try to act professionally when we come
here, but it is hard not to be emotional,” said Jack
Simmons, a lanky Texas detective on loan to the U.N.
police force in Kosovo. “This is slavery, and these
are slaves. They are bought and sold at auctions.
They’re treated like property.”

FEAR AS A TOOL OF SUBMISSION
Melissa Colten, an American working for the
International Office for Migration, a non-governmental
organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, said
traffickers instill a deep fear in the women.
“Usually they are locked in a room for between three
and five days. Maybe they will receive water.
Everything is taken away from them. Usually they are
beaten and usually they are raped repeatedly. In some
instances they are kept awake so they lose all sense
of reality and time, and it becomes very, very
disconcerting for them.”
The purpose of the brutal treatment is to break
the women down emotionally so traffickers can control
them. Once this “training” session is over, the women
are ready for sale. Prices start at around $500 in
their country of origin. Each time they’re smuggled
across an international border, the price will
increase. By the time a woman is trafficked into
Kosovo, she could sell for as much as $2,500.



There are bolder ways of obtaining women for
forced prostitution. Many have simply been kidnapped
at gunpoint, outside nightclubs, off trains or on
street corners. Once in the hands of the slave
traders, they become “the disappeared.”
“They’re paraded. The girls tell us they’re
made to walk around in their underwear while the
buyers from Kosovo examine them, and then they make
their choices. So, it’s pretty much like a cattle
auction,” Simmons said.
Officials from Kosovo’s international police
force told NBC News that Valeshta, a town in Macedonia
near the border with Albania, is controlled by the
Albanian mob and where many of the young women say
they were sold. Recently, two Macedonian police were
beaten into critical condition simply for setting foot
in the place.
In Valeshta, reporters were immediately
accosted by three armed men who jumped from a car.
They demanded to know the purpose of the visit and
threatened the lives of any journalist venturing
further into the town.

PSYCHOLOGICAL TOLL
Psychologists say that women forced into
prostitution must fight for their survival.
“If you put a person on the border between life
and death, then every human being would chose life,”
said Nadia Kojouharova, a psychiatrist working in the
Bulgarian capital, Sofia. “They are ready to do
everything just to stay alive. This is the situation
the girls are in. They build in their imagination that
their life doesn’t mean anything beyond survival, and
to survive each day you must obey what the pimp wants
from you.”
What the pimp wants is for the women to have
sex, often unprotected, with as many men as possible.
Records U.N. police have seized from some brothel
owners show hundreds of thousands of dollars being
made in just a few months’ time. The numbers are
shocking in the context of Kosovo, one of the poorest
areas of Europe.
Women, however, see none of the riches. They
are forced to “pay back” their purchase price to the
pimp and reimburse him for clothing, and room and
board. In the rare cases when women do pay back pimps,
they find themselves “fined” for minor infractions —
like not smiling at a client or complaining about
treatment — and falling back into debt.
“Not one girl we’ve rescued has had any money
on her,” Simmons said. “They don’t have money, they
don’t have travel documents ... they’re helpless.”

DISORIENTED PRISONERS
Many women become so confused they don’t even
know where they are. In some cases, police say,
rescued women actually thought they were in Italy,
when in fact they were being held in a Kosovo bar.
Just across the Kosovo border is the Macedonian
town of Tetovo. It is here that an off-duty Macedonian
police officer takes us on a midnight tour down a
series of broken-down roads. We pass a dozen or so
dingy-looking houses, all with red lights out front.

‘We don’t have any money. I work, but I don’t have
any money, because he doesn’t pay me.’
— ANA
Kosovo prostitute Inside one house, Ana, 19,
is from Romania. Natasha, 21, is from Moldavia. They
are slinging beer out front, but they live in a
bare-walled room behind the bar — furnished with two
unmade beds and a dirty hand-held shower in the
corner. The girls are prostitutes, although they claim
they came here to work as waitresses.
“Do you make good money here?” I ask. “No,” Ana
answers. “We don’t have any money. I work, but I don’t
have any money, because he doesn’t pay me.”
Sitting out front, smoking Marlboros and
drinking brandy, Carlo, the girls’ “owner,” swears he
splits their earnings 50-50.
“I buy them on the border with Bulgaria,” he
said. “They come from Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia,
Romania, Greece, and also Albania. I own 30.”
Carlo said he often moves the women he buys on
to Kosovo, and that “they can go back home if they
like.” Still, he holds Ana and Natasha’s passports,
making it impossible for them to travel. Both girls
say they want to go home.
Back in Kosovo, the police have helped 50 such
women return home this year alone. Working in tandem
with the International Organization for Migration, the
police spirit sex slaves out of the clubs, hide them
from pimps and traders in a safehouse and then take
them over the border. The IOM also tries to help them
resettle.

FREEDOM GONE WRONG
Irina, one freed woman who asked that her real
name not be used, was found working in a Pristina
brothel and asked police to get her out. Her story of
liberation, however, doesn’t have a happy ending.
She was repatriated to Bulgaria and provided a
bed in a local women’s shelter in Sofia. She even
managed to get a job and make a few friends, usually
difficult for women who have been taken captive and
lived in fear.

“People don’t make the difference between a
voluntary prostitute and someone who is forced into
prostitution,” said the Bulgarian psychiatrist
Kojouharova. “If you have been in this business, it
stays with you forever and you cannot do anything to
delete it from your life.” Suicide is a common
occurrence, Kojouharova said.
When Irina got home, however, she disappeared,
likely a victim of the long tentacles of organized
crime. One night, after going out with a friend, she
said her good-byes and climbed onto a streetcar. She
has not been seen since.
IOM’s Melissa Colten met and helped Irina when
she was pulled from prostitution’s grasp. Her face
darkens when asked of Irina’s fate.
“My fear is that she is being trafficked again,
and that this is the completion of the vicious cycle
that is going around again for her.” Colten said she
believes Irina’s former pimps tracked her down.
In Giulani, in the heart of the American sector
in Kosovo, an American cop walks the beat. North
Carolinian Steve Dunbar patrols a place where law and
order has been put on hold. The day he found a
pregnant 15-year-old girl working “behind the scenes”
in a local coffee bar, he made freeing sex slaves his
personal mission.
“No kid should be in a business like this,” he
said, pointing to the window where the girl used to
ply her trade. Yet with so many Westerners — including
NATO peacekeepers — the gangs are working overtime to
tempt them with women. U.S. military personnel in the
area have been warned to steer clear of the sex
traders. When off duty, they are confined to a nearby
base.
“I’m not going to say that everyone is immune
to temptation,” said Maj. Debbie Allen. “What I am
going to say is that they know it is illegal ... and
that they are aware of the consequences.”

SHUTTING DOWN THE SEX TRADE
Dunbar and his fellow officers wind their way
down a dusty alley, along a stagnant canal filled with
debris and stench. They’re making their way to the Bar
Tirana, already the target of one police raid. On this
visit, they find a young woman from Moldova. “Yes, I
was bought and sold,” she said. “Of course I was.”

The police shut Bar Tirana down, forcing the
bartender to padlock the doors. They warn him that he
faces arrest if they find the bar open again.
Dunbar may be light years away from the streets
he usually patrols in Charlotte, N.C., but he said it
won’t stop him from laying down the law.
“They can go anywhere they want in Europe to do
this kind of business, but it is not going to happen
in the American Sector in Kosovo, and it’s not going
to happen in the town of Giulani as long as I am
here.”

NBC’s Kevin Tibbles is on assignment in Kosovo.


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INTELLETTUALI DISSIDENTI? OPPORTUNISTI INGRATI E VENDUTI


Una delle voci atlantiste piu' guerrafondaie del panorama politico
europeo attuale e' quella di Vaclav Havel, grande sostenitore della
aggressione NATO contro la RFJ nel 1999 ed ora impegnato ad appoggiare
la secessione del Montenegro.

Forse l'attuale presidente della Repubblica Ceca, troppo impegnato a
calare le braghe dinanzi ai ricatti della NATO e della UE - basti
pensare che ha *regalato* a Radio Free Europe l'intero palazzo del
Parlamento di Praga! - dimentica che negli anni in cui era solo un
piccolo drammaturgo "dissidente" sopravvisse grazie all'onorario
passatogli attraverso la moglie Olga da "Atelje 212", una istituzione
culturale legata al Teatro di Belgrado, che spesso e volentieri metteva
le sue opere in cartellone... A quei tempi, nella RFSJ autonoma da
entrambi i blocchi e fautrice del "non allineamento", la tendenza
politica e culturale del "socialismo dal volto umano" e della primavera
di Praga era vista con simpatia da molti. Per tutto ringraziamento, oggi
Havel ovviamente sputa nel piatto in cui mangiava all'epoca.

Sull'argomento sarebbe interessante conoscere l'opinione del direttore
di "Atelje 212", Jovan Cirilov, che peraltro - come ogni bravo incensato
"intellettuale" - e' oggi pure lui probabilmente vicino alla opposizione
filo-occidentale.

(Fonte: "Svedok", rivista jugoslava, 25 maggio 1999


>
> YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
>
> BELGRADE, 19 July 2000 No. 3113
>
> C O N T E N T S :
>


> CZECH CITIZENS CONDEMN HAVEL'S WARMONGERING STATEMENTS
> PRAGUE, July 19 (Tanjug) Dozens of Czech citizens addressed the
> Yugoslav Embassy in Prague these days, condemning or expressing deep
> regrets over what they called unseeming, warmongering statements by their
> President Vaclav Havel in the Croatian town of Dubrovnik.
> Czech students of renowned Charles University of Prague were among
> those who came to the Yugoslav Embassy in person to express support to the
> Yugoslav leadership. The students brought a letter for Yugoslav President
> Slobodan Milosevic.
> We condemn and disown the antiSlav policy of the current Czech
> government which is doing everything to win the sympathies of the United
> States and the NATO Pact. That is why the government is doing whatever they
> order, the letter said.
> Many Czechs, from all parts of the country, have telephoned the
> Yugoslav Embassy or sent letters expressing their apologies over their
> president's statements and his open interference in the internal affairs of
> Yugoslavia.
>
> ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF SLAV CULTURES: HAVEL IS AN EVIL AND
> FALSE PROPHET
> CESKE BUDEJOVICE, July 18 (Tanjug) Czech President Vaclav Havel,
> fake prophet of truth and love, speaks about Serbia calling for a
> demonstration of force, said a letter of apology to the Serb people sent by
> the Association of Friends of Slav Cultures and Languages from the city of
> Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
> The Association recalled that Havel is the author of the
> meaningless term "humanitarian bombing" and that the demolished hospitals
> and the graves of thousands of civilians killed during the 1999 NATO air
> raids "are the result of such humanity."
> The Association said that the Serbs had always helped the Czech
> people in difficult times and that this is why its members are ashamed of
> the Czech leader's statements which "are a far cry from morality and common
> sense."
> We apologize on behalf of the majority of honest Czech citizens
> which share our feelings of bitterness and shame and we beg you not to
> attribute Havel's evil statements to the entire Czech nation, the
> Association said.
> The Association is a nonpolitical organization committed to the
> affirmation of the culture of all Slav countries.
>


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...In seguito al collasso della Jugoslavia monarchica, nel 1941, il
Kosmet viene suddiviso in tre zone di occupazione straniera:
una italiana, una tedesca ed una bulgara.

Nell'agosto 1941 l'Italia, che occupa la parte piu' estesa, annette
questo territorio alla "Grande Albania". Tutto il Kosmet, compresa la
zona di Mitrovica, Podujevo e Vucitrn, a maggioranza serba e
formalmente sotto il controllo del governo-fantoccio filotedesco di
Nedic, e' in realta' alla merce' delle bande dei collaborazionisti
albanesi, specialmente quelle di Boletini e Deva, che seminano il
terrore sotto gli auspici della Wehrmacht.

In effetti durante la guerra nella Grande Albania verra' costituita
persino una divisione schipetara delle SS, la "Skanderbeg", cosi'
come in Bosnia la divisione "Handzar", tutta composta da musulmani.
Analogamente a quanto avviene nella Croazia di Pavelic e Stepinac,
anche nel Kosovo panalbanese i diritti di cittadinanza ai serbi sono
negati. Si mira all'annientamento della cultura e della presenza
fisica serba. Svariati villaggi e luoghi di culto vengono rasi al
suolo, e molti crimini vengono commessi contro la popolazione.

(...) Sotto il nazifascismo nella zona viene
ripristinato il sistema di proprieta' feudale: i contadini perdono
cosi' i beni ottenuti grazie alla riforma agraria del 1918, attuata
dal regno jugoslavo. Rispuntano i "bey" e gli "aga" di ottomana
memoria, che tornano a controllare la distribuzione dei prodotti
agricoli e la vita sociale in quanto rappresentanti del nuovo Stato
panalbanese. Le razzie contro il bestiame e la distruzione dei beni
degli ortodossi sono consuetudine.
Kosovo Polje e Pristina vengono abbandonate dalla popolazione
non-schipetara. Fonti tedesche di allora registrano almeno 60mila
fuggiaschi. Persino Neubacher, plenipotenziario del Ministero degli
Esteri hitleriano, deve intervenire perche' gli episodi di terrore
diminuiscano.

L'atteggiamento degli occupanti italiani nei confronti delle violenze
commesse dalle milizie collaborazioniste albanesi e' duplice.
Nell'ottobre del 1941 gli italiani sono corresponsabili della
distruzione del villaggio di Dren. Viceversa, nel dicembre 1942 a
Vitomirica attacchi a sorpresa dei fascisti locali contro la popolazione
cristiano-ortodossa costringono questa a riparare nell'accampamento dei
Carabinieri...

( http://www.marx2001.org/nuovaunita/jugo/crj/m_l/250399.htm )


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* KOSOVARO-ALBANESI PROGRESSISTI BOICOTTERANNO LE ELEZIONI
* MEMBRI NORVEGESI DELL'UCKFOR RAZZIANO CASA SERBA
* LACRIME DI COCCODRILLO TURCHE PER LA SITUAZIONE IN KOSMET
* ANCORA DIVISIONI DENTRO "MEDICI SENZA FRONTIERE" PER IL TERRORE DELLA
NATO IN KOSMET
* IL RUOLO NEFASTO DEL SENATORE STATUNITENSE LIEBERMAN
* DOVE SONO FINITE LE ARMI DELLA "RIVOLTA DELLE PIRAMIDI"?

* LINK SEGNALATI:

> NATO in Kosovo: in bed with a scorpion

> Noam Chomsky: A review of NATO’s war over Kosovo

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* KOSOVARO-ALBANESI PROGRESSISTI BOICOTTERANNO LE ELEZIONI

http://www.serbia-info.com/news

Numerous ethnic Albanians boycotted registration poll and will boycott
Kouchner's elections

August 03, 2000
Ethnic Albanians saw through the intentions as well
Pristina, August 3 - Leader of the Democratic Reform Party of ethnic
Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija, Sokolj Cuse, assessed that numerous
ethnic Albanians would boycott illegal elections prepared by U.N.
mission chief Bernard Kouchner.
"KFOR and UNMIK keep on exerting unprincipled pressures with threats and
blackmails, not only on unlike-minded ethnic Albanians who do not agree
with extremists and separatists, but also on the representatives of
other national communities - Serbs, Turks, Romanies, Goranies and other,
forcing them to register to vote and go to the polls. That is not only a
non-democratic act, but is also direct violation of the U.N. Security
Council Resolution 1244, Cuse said.
Leader of the Democratic Reform Party of ethnic Albanians, which has
been fighting for multiethnic Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia and
Yugoslavia for years, thinks that there will be no democratic elections
in Kosovo and Metohija "because Kouchner has registered some 250,000
Albanians from Albania and Macedonia".
According to Cuse, they have entered Kosovo and Metohija through a
non-secured border crossing, forcefully moved in the houses of expelled
non-Albanian population, committed numerous robberies, murders and other
crime.
"Unfortunately, not only Kouchner, but also terrorist Hashim Thaqui
relies on them. In return, they have received "recognition" of being
Kosovo and Metohija residents on the basis of false, or even none ID-s,
despite the fact that authorized bodies in Serbia have computer records
on each Kosovo and Metohija resident, Cuse said.

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* MEMBRI NORVEGESI DELL'UCKFOR RAZZIANO CASA SERBA

HTTP://www.serbia-info.com/news

Norwegian troops took money and gold

August 11, 2000
KFOR troops took money and gold
Kosovo Polje, August 10 (Tanjug) - During a three-hour search of a Serb
house, Norwegian KFOR troops based in Kosovo Polje took 7,500 DM and
gold, while the house owner Mirka Maksimovic ended in a health center,
spokesman of the Serbian National Assembly in Kosovo Polje Zivomir Vucic
stated.
Norwegian KFOR troops in full battle dress previously surrounded with
several jeeps a vehicle of the Serbian National Assembly chairman
Ratomir Maksimovic, Serbian National Assembly Executive Board vice
chairman Zvonko Mitic and Vucic, on the pretext of exercising a routine
check.
That "routine check has lasted for three hours with arms prepared to
fire. They took our personal data, demanded that we give them our home
phone numbers and took photos of us", Vucic said.
The harassment continued in front of Mirka Maksimovic's house, Ratomir
Maksimovic's mother. Norwegian troops then searched her house.
"Ratomir Maksimovic was in front of the house, Mitic and I were not
allowed to leave the car. They took 7,500 DM and gold from Mirka
Maksimovic's house. Being a serious diabetic, Mirka got sick and
received treatment in the health center", Vucic said.
This Norwegian KFOR troops' behaviour caused spontaneous gathering of
some 200 Serb residents in front of Mirka Maksimovic's house, Vucic
said, adding that the troops have sent off a Serb translator and brought
a uniformed ethnic Albanian one.

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* LACRIME DI COCCODRILLO TURCHE PER LA SITUAZIONE IN KOSMET

http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news.php3?id=184668§ion=default

Ankara Urges UN to Improve Kosovo Turks' Rights

ANKARA, Aug 1, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Turkish
Foreign Minister Ismail Cem urged Monday the head of
the United Nations interim administration in Kosovo,
Bernard Kouchner, to boost the rights of the Turkish
community in the province, a Turkish official said...

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http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/dostinic/turk.htm

Turkey Weeps Crocodile Tears
by Dan Dostinic (8-3-00)

"Ankara urges UN to improve Kosovo Turks' rights." And therein
lies a tale...

www.tenc.net

A July 31 Agence France Presse (AFP) report states that "Turkish
Foreign Minister
Ismail Cem urged Monday the head of the United Nations interim
administration in
Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, to boost the rights of the Turkish community
in the province."
The article cites Huseyin Dirioz, a Turkish foreign ministry official.

Turkey's concern stems from the decision of some 60,000 Kosovo Turks to
boycott
municipal elections because the "UN mission did not issue registration
forms in Turkish."

The article further states that "the Turks enjoyed cultural autonomy
under Belgrade's rule
and did not join the Albanian struggle for independence although the
two communities
have a common faith in Islam."

AFP does not explore the implications of the statement that the Turks,
a minority in
Serbia as are Albanians, "enjoyed cultural autonomy under Belgrade's
rule" during the
period (i.e., the 1990s) when Albanians were fighting for
'independence.'

Didn't Western leaders claim they had no choice but to bomb Yugoslavia
to restore to
ethnic Albanians the cultural autonomy they had been supposedly denied
because the
Serbian "rulers" loathed their Muslim faith? And wasn't the Muslim
faith brought to - and
in many case forced on - the Balkans by...the Turks?

Is something wrong with this picture?

If Serbian officials hate Muslims, why is it that ethnic Turks in
Serbian Kosovo "enjoyed
cultural autonomy under Belgrade's rule"? And why are the Turks
complaining that now,
under enlightened NATO rule, they can't even get the UN to print
Turkish language
election ballots?

Could it be that Belgrade was speaking the truth?

Could it be that Yugoslavia never took away ethnic Albanians' cultural
autonomy, that is,
judicial functions, schools, hospitals and mass media in the Albanian
language? Could it
be that in fact the Albanian secessionist movement organized a boycott
of Albanian
language institutions (such as schools) in order to score propaganda
points with the
West? [See footnote 2]

And consider Turkey. Turkey was a strategic participant in the 78 day
bombing of
Yugoslavia which President Clinton said was necessary in order to
insure "respect for
minority rights." (Clinton, 'New York Times,' Op-ed, May 23, 1999)

And now Turkey has 1,000 troops in Kosovo.

According to recent reports, ethnic Albanians are complaining about
lawlessness in
Kosovo [Footnote 1] Refugees are afraid to return, fearing attacks by
Albanian
extremists. A recent UN report described the UN-created Kosovo
Protection Corps as
engaging in:

"criminal activities - killings, ill-treatment/torture, illegal
policing, abuse of
authority, intimidation, breaches of political neutrality and
hate speech." ( From
The UN appoints an alleged war criminal in Kosovo, by Michel
Chossudovsky, at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/unandthe.htm )

Given these conditions, shouldn't there be a renewal of demands for
inquiries in all
capitals that took part in the bombing of Yugoslavia? The question to
which we need an
answer is: WHY?

The AFP article closes with the following: "Cem warned that Turkey
could limit its
contributions to Kosovo's security if the rights of the Turkish
community were not
rectified."

What "security" Mr. Cem?

Dan Dostinic is a Canadian antiwar activist.

www.tenc.net

Footnotes

1) In "Concentration camps in Kosovo: The KLA Archipelago" Jared Israel
offers the
following amazing description of the brave new civil government which
the UN and
NATO have installed in Kosovo. The following is from the 'New York
Times, ' hardly an
opponent of US policy in Yugoslavia. The excerpt begins with a quote
from the 'Times':

'"Tahir Canolli, 49, ran a furniture store in Pristina for nearly
three decades. He,
like many businessmen, hoped that when he returned to Pristina
from the refugee
camps in Macedonia, the harassment he experienced under Serbs
would end."'

"Note [from Jared Israel] to readers: the "harassment under
Serbs" remark,
pasted onto the article without benefit of support or explanation
(how was he
harassed and how do we know he was?) is an example of the
Obligatory Bash
( http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/obligato.htm ) which can
be found in
virtually all articles about Yugoslavia. No matter what the
subject, and especially
if the subject is KLA terror, the writer or editor offers at
least one anti-Serbian
side-swipe just to remind readers that however awful the KLA and
NATO may
be, 'The Serbs' are worse. Note that 'The Serbs' are here treated
as an
undifferentiated mass, which is only fitting for an Evil People."

'"Instead, a group of KLA fighters arrived at his shop two
weeks ago
with a paper issued from 'The Ministry of Public Order'
demanding the
keys to his 1990 Audi 80 and his store.

''They were arrogant, brutal and rude,' he said, unfolding
the stamped
order that he now carries in his pocket. 'They told me that
if I did not
comply immediately they knew a cellar I might like to
visit."'

"A cellar? As in dungeon?

"The Times report ascends from the horrible to the surreal:

'"Within hours, $50,000 worth of furniture was loaded onto
trucks brought
by the officials who had demanded his keys. The looters not
only stripped
the store of its contents but also ripped out the heaters,
lamps and
mirrors. [!] They carted away 24 large flower boxes that had
been outside
the building. The next day several flower boxes of the same
design and
with the same kinds of plants were placed outside the
building where Mr.
Thaci works."

"Mr. Thaci was indulging his feminine side, yes? Now comes a bit
of humor,
perhaps unintended:

'"Mr. Thaci's appointees said that such confiscations,
especially of
state-owned buildings, were part of their effort to
determine property
ownership. They also defended the decision to begin
collecting money
from businesses, a practice many shop owners have labeled
'extortion.'"

"Ah, those troublesome shop owners! Always throwing around
labels!

"The article continues:

'"Mr. Canolli has spent hours outside Mr. Thaci's ministries
in recent
days in the hope that he can reclaim some of his property or
be
compensated for it. But each attempt has been rebuffed.

"'I saw the K.L.A. police inspector who gave me the
confiscation order
driving my car, although it had no license plates,' he said.
'I went to his
office but was told at the door that I should never come
back or attempt to
speak with him..'"(NY Times, July 29, 1999, my emphasis).
You can read
this article in full at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/reporter.htm

2) In her excellent introduction to the wars of secession in Yugoslavia
during the
1990s, Yugoslavia Seen Through a Dark Glass, Diana Johsnstone refers to
an ICG report
called Kosovo Spring, which talks about the boycott. Johnstone quotes
from the report:

24) "The March 24, 1998 report of the International Crisis Group
entitled 'Kosovo
Spring' notes that: 'In many spheres of life, including politics,
education and
health-care, the boycott by Kosovars of the Yugoslav state is
almost total.' In
particular, 'Kosovars refuse to participate in Serbian or
Yugoslavian political life.
The leading Yugoslav political parties all have offices in Kosovo
and claim some
Kosovar members, but essentially they are 'Serb-only'
institutions. In 1997
several Kosovars accused of collaborating with the enemy (i.e.
the Serbian
State) were attacked, including Charnilj Gasi, head of the
Socialist Party of
Serbia in Glagovac, and a deputy in the Yugoslav Assembly's House
of Citizens,
who was shot and wounded in November. The lack of interest of
Serb political
parties in wooing Kosovars is understandable. Kosovars have
systematically
boycotted the Yugoslav and Serbian elections since 1981,
considering them
events in a foreign country.'"

As Ms. Johnstone notes, the ICG is very much not a pro-Serbian
institution, merely one
that is required on occasion to tell the truth:

"The ICG, while scarcely pro-Serb in its conclusions,
nevertheless provides
information neglected by mainstream media. This is perhaps
because the ICG
addresses its findings to high-level decision-makers who need to
be in
possession of a certain number of facts, rather than to the
general public. Gasi
was not the only target of Albanian attacks on fellow Albanians
in the Glogovse
municipal district, situated in the Drenica region which the
"Kosovo Liberation
Army" (UCK) tried to control in early 1998. Others included
forester Mujo Sejd,
52, killed by machine-gun fire near his home on January 12, 1998;
postman
Mustafa Kurtaj, 26, killed on his way to work by a group firing
automatic rifles;
factory guard Rusdi Ladrovci, ambushed and killed with automatic
weapons
apparently after refusing to turn over his official arm to the
UCK; among others.
On April 10, 1998, men wearing camouflage uniforms and insignia
of the Army of
Albania fired automatic weapons at a passenger car carrying four
ethnic Albanian
officials of the Socialist Party of Serbia including Gugna Adem,
President of the
Suva Reka Municipal Board, who was gravely injured; and Ibro
Vait, member of
the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and President of
the SPS district
board in the city of Prizren. Numerous such attacks have been
reported by the
Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, but Western media have shown scant
interest in
the fate of ethnic Albanians willing to live Serbs in
multi-ethnic Serbia." ( Quoted
from Through a Dark Glass at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/Johnstone/1yugo.htm

www.tenc.net

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* ANCORA DIVISIONI DENTRO "MEDICI SENZA FRONTIERE" PER IL TERRORE DELLA
NATO IN KOSMET

NOTA: Tra i fondatori di "Medici senza frontiere", ONG premio Nobel che
ha gia' espulso la sua sezione greca perche' "aiutava i serbi", c'e'
l'attuale amministratore coloniale ONU, il serbofobo Kouchner.


http://www.nandotimes.com/no_frames/global/story/0,4382,500236922-500346724-502000175-0,00.html

Global: Humanitarian doctors leave Kosovo in protest

The Associated Press

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (August 7, 2000 5:16 p.m. EDT
http://www.nandotimes.com) - Accusing the United
Nations of allowing ethnic cleansing to continue in
Kosovo, the Belgian branch of the humanitarian group
Doctors Without Borders announced Monday it was
leaving the embattled area.

Doctors Without Borders "can no longer tolerate the
serious and continuous deterioration of living
conditions of the ethnic minorities in Kosovo," the
group said in a statement released in Pristina. French
teams from Doctors Without Borders will remain in the
province.


The group said the Belgian doctors had been
"eyewitnesses to the daily harassment and terror
against the Serb minority in (the towns of) Vucitrn
and Srbica and the Albanian minority in (the northern
part of Kosovska) Mitrovica."

The group said life for ethnic minorities was marked
by killings, drive-by shootings, hand grenade attacks,
verbal abuse, threats, robbery and blackmail. Many had
been forced to leave their homes, the group said.

More than a year after NATO and the United Nations
marched into Kosovo, mistrust and violence still
fester between ethnic Albanians, Serbs and other
minority groups. International officials make almost
daily appeals for tolerance, saying ethnic tensions
are preventing the southern Serb province from
achieving economic and social progress.

"Doctors Without Borders questions the appropriateness
of humanitarian medical and psychological assistance
when, in the presence of internationally mandated
protection forces, the fundamental rights of people
are being denied," the statement said.

The Paris-based group, which was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1999, has worked in Kosovo since 1993.
It provides home-based care in the ethnically divided
city of Kosovska Mitrovica.

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* IL RUOLO NEFASTO DEL SENATORE STATUNITENSE LIEBERMAN

HTTP://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,206755,00.html

The Guardian (UK)
April 9, 1999
Democratic US senator Joe Lieberman, who introduced the Kosovo Self
Defence Act on March 25
"If, after extended air strikes, it becomes clear that Mr Milosevic
intends to continue his war of aggression, we must have an answer to the
question of what next? The bill we are proposing provides us with such
an answer, and an opportunity to send an uncompromising message to Mr
Milosevic: we will not stand idly by and allow him to brutalise the
people of Kosovo any longer..."

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Joseph Lieberman, the KLA and Heroin
http://www.canadianserbs.com/war_stories/kosovo/facts_kosovo_drugkla.htm

Kosovo War: KLA finances war with heroin sales
May 3, 1999 - By Jerry Seper

The Kosovo Liberation Army, which the Clinton administration has
embraced and some members of
Congress want to arm as part of the NATO bombing campaign, is a
terrorist organization that has
financed much of its war effort with profits from the sale of
heroin.
Recently obtained intelligence documents show that drug agents in
five countries, including the
United States, believe the KLA has aligned itself with an
extensive organized crime network
centered in Albania that smuggles heroin and some cocaine to
buyers throughout Western Europe
and, to a lesser extent, the United States.
The documents tie members of the Albanian Mafia to a drug
smuggling cartel based in Kosovo's
provincial capital, Pristina. The cartel is manned by ethic
Albanians who are members of the Kosovo
National Front, whose armed wing is the KLA. The documents show it
is one of the most powerful
heroin smuggling organizations in the world, with much of its
profits being diverted to the KLA to
buy weapons.
The clandestine movement of drugs over a collection of land and
sea routes from Turkey through
Bulgaria, Greece and Yugoslavia to Western Europe and elsewhere is
so frequent and massive that
intelligence officials have dubbed the circuit the "Balkan Route."
Mr. Clinton has committed air power and is considering the use of
ground troops to support the
Kosovo rebels against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Last
week, Sen. Mitch McConnell,
Kentucky Republican, and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut
Democrat, called on the United
States to arm the KLA so ethnic Albanians in Kosovo could defend
themselves against the Serbs.
Mr. McConnell and Mr. Lieberman introduced a bill that would
provide $25 million to equip 10,000
men or 10 battalions with small arms and anti-tank weapons for up
to 18 months.
In 1998, the U.S. State Department listed the KLA -- formally
known as the Ushtria Clirimtare e
Kosoves, or UCK -- as an international terrorist organization,
saying it had bankrolled its
operations with proceeds from the international heroin trade and
from loans from known terrorists
like Osama bin Laden. "They were terrorists in 1998 and now,
because of politics, they're freedom
fighters," said one top drug official who asked not to be
identified.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, in a recent report, said
the heroin is smuggled along
the Balkan Route in cars, trucks and boats initially to Austria,
Germany and Italy, where it is routed
to eager buyers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,
Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Great
Britain. Some of the white powder, the DEA report said, finds its
way to the United States.
The DEA report, prepared for the National Narcotics Intelligence
Consumer's Committee (NNICC),
said a majority of the heroin seized in Europe is transported over
the Balkan Route. It said drug
smuggling organizations composed of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians were
considered "second only to
Turkish gangs as the predominant heroin smugglers along the Balkan
Route." The NNICC is a
coalition of federal agencies involved in the war on drugs.
"Kosovo traffickers were noted for their use of violence and for
their involvement in international
weapons trafficking," the DEA report said.
A separate DEA document, written last month by U.S. drug agents in
Austria, said that while the
war in the former Yugoslavia had reduced the drug flow to Western
Europe along the Balkan Route,
new land routes have opened across Romania, Hungary and the Czech
Republic. The report said,
however, the diversion appeared to be only temporary.
The DEA estimated that between four and six metric tons of heroin
leaves each month from Turkey
bound for Western Europe, the bulk of it traveling over the Balkan
Route.
A second high-ranking U.S. drug official, who also requested
anonymity, said government and
police corruption in Kosovo, along with widespread poverty
throughout the region, had contributed
to an increase in heroin trafficking by the KLA and other ethnic
Albanians. The official said drug
smuggling is "out of control" and little is being done by
neighboring states to get a handle on it.
"This is the definition of the wild, wild West," said the
official. "The bombing has slowed it down, but
has not brought it to a halt. And, eventually, it will pick up
where it left off."
The heroin trade along the Balkan Route has been of concern to
several countries:

The Greek representative of Interpol reported in 1998 that
Kosovo's ethnic Albanians were "the
primary sources of supply for cocaine and heroin in that country."
Intelligence officials in France said in a recent report the KLA
was among several organizations in
southern Europe that had built a vast drug-smuggling network.
France's Geopolitical Observatory
of Drugs said in the report that the KLA was a key player in the
rapidly expanding drugs-for-arms
business and helped transport $2 billion worth of drugs annually
into Western Europe.
German drug agents have estimated that $1.5 billion in drug
profits is laundered annually by Kosovo
smugglers, through as many as 200 private banks or
currency-exchange offices. They noted in a
recent report that ethnic Albanians had established one of the
most prominent drug smuggling
organizations in Europe.
Jane's Intelligence Review estimated in March that drug sales
could have netted the KLA profits in
the "high tens of millions of dollars." The highly regarded
British-based journal noted at the time
that the KLA had rearmed itself for a spring offensive with the
aid of drug money, along with
donations from Albanians in Western Europe and the United States.

Several leading intelligence officials said the KLA has, in part,
financed its purchase of AK-47s,
semiautomatic rifles, shotguns, handguns, grenade launchers,
ammunition, artillery shells,
explosives, detonators and anti-personnel mines through drug
profits -- cash laundered through
banks in Italy, Germany and Switzerland. They also said KLA rebels
have paid for weapons using the
heroin itself as currency.
The profits, according to the officials, also have been used to
purchase anti-aircraft and anti-armor
rockets, along with electronic surveillance equipment.

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http://www.antiwar.com/szamuely/pf/p-sz081000.html

Decline of The West
by George Szamuely - Antiwar.com
August 10, 2000

Joe Lieberman and the Gangsta State

"Determined to transform a potential liability into a defining asset,
Vice President Al Gore today
formally introduced Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut as his
Democratic running mate
and portrayed his selection of Mr. Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, as a
measure of his devotion to
tolerance and his willingness to break barriers" – thus the New York
Times's (8/9/00) entirely
predictable attempt to bully people into voting for Al Gore...

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http://www.originalsources.com/OS8-00MQC/8-10-2000.1.html

The Media’s Inaccurate Report Creates Lieberman "Anti-Semitic" Incident

Milking the "Jewish Connection" Portrays Lieberman as a "Victim"
By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com)
August 10, 2000

On Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee, Vice President Gore introduced
Connecticut Sen. Joseph I.
Lieberman as his vice presidential running mate and said the inclusion
of the "first Jew on a
national ticket would help tear down a mighty wall of division." ...

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http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/garris/duringthe2.htm

Senator Lieberman - Apologist for the fascist KLA

by Jared Israel and Eric Garris (8-10-00)


"And so this Lieberman, who makes a public spectacle of his
religious beliefs, who
pontificates from a pinnacle higher than Morality, this Lieberman
fronts for the KLA,
self-proclaimed heirs to the Balli Kombëtar, the World War II
Albanian fascists (3) who
are responsible for the deaths of almost all the Jews in Kosovo.
Note that since being put
in power by NATO and the UN, the KLA has driven from Kosovo those
Jews who
escaped the Balli Kombëtar during W.W. II, driven out those
survivors of the Holocaust
and their descendants.(4)" [Excerpt from "Senator Lieberman -
Apologist for the fascist
KLA"]

www.tenc.net

In April, 1999, during the NATO War against Yugoslavia, an attempt was
made in Congress to
officially fund the arming of the Kosovo Liberation (sic!) Army (sic!
again) or KLA. Along with
Sen. John McCain, Sen. Joseph Lieberman sponsored the "Kosovo
Self-Defense Act." The text of
the statement Lieberman made at the time is posted below.

Here are a few observations to help put Lieberman's actions in
perspective.

There is virtually no doubt that at the time Lieberman was calling on
Congress to arm the KLA,
the US was already covertly providing arms and training to that
secessionist-terrorist group. As
early as the fall of 1998 we know that the Kosovo Verification Mission
was setting up tactical
liaison with and providing training for the KLA (1), all under the
guidance of seasoned US death
squad liaison expert, William Walker. (2)

In February a Bosnian Islamist daily published the following:

"TRAINING OF KLA MEMBERS IN US?
"According to Tirana daily newspapers, the Albanian Minister of
Foreign Affairs Paskal
Milo said that KLA members will be trained in the US. During his
meeting with US
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Milo was informed that
Albanian guerrilla members
from Kosovo would be sent to the US for training. Milo added that
this was a promise,
which Albright gave him personally." ('NEVNI AVAZ' or 'Daily
Voice,' pro-Islamist
Sarajevo daily, 26 Feb 99)

Does a promise, apparently made by US Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright in February, 1999,
to openly train the KLA contradict our assertion that the US was already
covertly training the
KLA long before February?

We don't think so. Rather, the promise of open training represented an
escalation in illegality by
the US government.

Consider, if you will, what it meant for the US to train the KLA.

1) The US was not at war with Yugoslavia in February, 1999.

2) In February, Albright described Kosovo as "a region of
Yugoslavia about the size of
Connecticut," i.e. admitted it was part of a sovereign country.

3) In February, Albright called the KLA a "sometimes brutal and
indiscriminate"
secessionist group devoted to a "simple answer to the tragedy of
Kosovo: independence
from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia." (Quotes are from
"Madeleine Albright delivers
remarks on Kosovo at the Institute of Peace," Feb. 4, 1999)

For the US to train the KLA secretly was therefore to secretly violate
national sovereignty, the
cornerstone of international law. But to promise open support for
violent secessionists was to
uphold the US government's right to openly and flagrantly violate
national sovereignty, the
cornerstone of international law.

In another statement in February, Albright described how the
'international community' (led by the
US) would respond if the KLA didn't cooperate with US wishes:

"And if the Kosovar's [i.e., the KLA] crater this, it is obviously
more complicated because
there's not one any center, but they will lose the support of the
international community
and find themselves increasingly isolated and they can't operate
without the
community...('ABC this Week,' Feb. 7. 1999, our emphasis)

Obviously the KLA couldn't "lose the support of the international
community," that is, of the U.S.,
unless it had it to lose. As Albright noted, the KLA "cannot operate
without" this support. So US
Secretary of State Albright was admitting that the US government made it
possible for the KLA to
conduct terrorist attacks on Yugoslavia, a sovereign country. And mind
you, all this was weeks
before the failure of the so-called negotiations at Rambouillet.

Significance of Lieberman's 'Arm-the-KLA' Resolution

The point of the "Kosovo Self-Defense Act" was not that it was needed in
order for the KLA to
get U.S. weapons. Rather, it was intended to openly involve the US
Senate in a crime of war and
to prepare public opinion for viewing the vicious KLA fascists as
freedom fighters deserving
popular support. Lieberman refers to the KLA as "Kosovan military
forces" at a time (April 9,
1999) when the KLA was largely isolated, even among secessionist-minded
Albanians. And note,
that "Kosovan military forces" suggest there is some legitimate nation
of "Kosova" though no
such has ever existed, except as a Nazi creation. Indeed, the very word
"Kosova" is meaningless
in the Albanian language. (5)

And so this Lieberman, who makes a public spectacle of his religious
beliefs, who pontificates
from a pinnacle higher than Morality, this Lieberman fronts for the KLA,
self-proclaimed heirs to
the Balli Kombëtar, the World War II Albanian fascists (3) who are
responsible for the deaths of
almost all the Jews in Kosovo. Note that since being put in power by
NATO and the UN, the KLA
has driven from Kosovo those Jews who escaped the Balli Kombëtar during
W.W. II, driven out
those survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants.(4)

Following is the statement Sen. Lieberman gave to 'The Guardian' (UK) on
April 9, 1999.

"If, after extended air strikes, it becomes clear that Mr.
Milosevic intends to continue his
war of aggression, we must have an answer to the question of what
next? The bill we are
proposing provides us with such an answer, and an opportunity to
send an uncompromising
message to Mr Milosevic: we will not stand idly by and allow him
to brutalise the people
of Kosovo any longer.

This bill is premised on our belief that Nato ground forces will
not be put into Kosovo
unless the Serbs and Kosovans reach a peace agreement. If we adopt
that stance, though,
and Serbian aggression continues, we have an obligation to allow
the Kosovans to defend
themselves. Our legislation, by providing aid to the Kosovan
military forces, would give
them a fair chance to fight for their families and their future.

"I am aware that this proposal will raise some concerns. I recall
that when I first raised
the idea of training and equipping the Bosnian army, many critics
told us that we would
destabilise an entire region or accelerate an arms race. In the
end, I think those concerns
were shown to be misguided.

"Training and equipping the Bosnians enhanced the stability of the
area and helped end the
Bosnian war. The situation in Kosovo is different. But that does
not diminish the suffering
of the Kosovan people subjected to Serb aggression, nor negate
their right to defend their
families from the threat of genocide."

***

Further reading...

1) See 'The Cat is Out of the Bag" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/ciaaided.htm

2) On William Walker's death squad credentials see 'Meet Mr. Massacre'
at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/meetmr.htm

3) On fascism in Kosovo see George Thompson's 'The roots of Kosovo
fascism' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/thompson/rootsof.htm

4) 'Driven from Kosovo: Jewish Leader Blames NATO - Interview With Cedda
Prlincevic' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/prlincevic.htm

(5) '''KosovA' 'KosovO' - What's in a Name?'' by Prof. J. Peter Maher at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/JP%20maher/InAname.html

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* DOVE SONO FINITE LE ARMI DELLA "RIVOLTA DELLE PIRAMIDI"?

http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
August 10, 2000

"The Kosovars [KLA] acquired some state-of-the-art
weapons from western European countries and the U.S.,
but they relied for most of the weaponry on smuggling
through Albania's porous mountainous border."

Half of Guns Smuggled Abroad

TIRANA - Government officials say that half of some
700,000 weapons looted from army barracks have been
smuggled into neighbouring countries, while the
“complete disarming” of the population should take two
more years.

Minister of Public Order Spartak Poci said on Tuesday
that “only half” of the guns taken from army bases in
the 1997 turmoil still remain in the country.

“A considerable amount of weapons that were looted
from the army are not inside Albania’s borders, but
were smuggled abroad,” Poci said. “According to our
estimates, only 50 percent of the guns remain in
Albania, the rest were smuggled abroad.”

The minister did not provide any details on how the
government estimated the number of guns smuggling.
Unofficial sources said that this a rough estimate
based on the number of weapons seized and still in
possession in Kosovo, and figures from Italian and
Greek police gun-hunt operations.

Kosovo’s restive ethnic Albanian population was armed
thanks to a state breakdown in Albania, that made
impossible its control of the borders and army bases.
The Kosovo Liberation Army emerged as an organised
armed force in the second half of ‘97, a few months
after the riots.

The Kosovars acquired some state-of-the-art weapons
from western European countries and the US, but they
relied for most of the weaponry on smuggling through
Albania’s porous mountainous border.

Weapons were also smuggled to Italy and Greece to fuel
the local underworld there.

Albanian police have seized only 130,000 weapons,
mainly through voluntarily handing in, and from
development-for-weapons programmes.

Minister Poci said that a similar operation launched
at the beginning of this year, with the cooperation of
international donor organisations and western
government funds, yielded more than 40,000 weapons in
seven months. In addition, the police seized more than
3.5 million bullets, and military equipment such as
high-power explosives and heavy weapons.

“The disarming operation has given some impressive
results, but we will have to postpone the disarming
deadline for two more years,” said Poci, in a meeting
on disarmament in the central town of Elbasan.

The new deadline is set for August 13, 2002. The
minister said that the two-year deadline postponement
is a “sufficient period of time” to complete the
disarming process.

“The Albanian will be totally convinced that weapons
are no longer needed for their families,” Poci said,
failing to elaborate on his belief that the time
schedule was right.

Earlier this year the police found in one barn seven
air-to air missiles looted from the Gjadri air base.
When the police started the population disarming late
in ‘97, some people handed over tanks they had parked
in their backyards.

Elbasan, some 50 kilometres from Tirana, and the
surrounding villages are supposed to complete the
disarming by Sunday, August 13, this year but the
police and the local authorities have failed to meet
their target.

Some $1.5 million were invested in infrastructure
improvement, within the framework of a
development-for-weapons programme funded by the UN
Development Programme, and the governments of United
States, Britain and Denmark.

The police chief of Elbasan, Edmond Koseni, said the
police are still continuing to search for weapons, but
the priority is given to voluntarily handing over the
guns.

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* LINK SEGNALATI

-> http://www.globeandmail.com/gam/Commentary/20000809/COKOSOVO.html

Toronto Globe and Mail

NATO in Kosovo: in bed with a scorpion
The KLA is running drugs and refuelling conflict.
No wonder even innocent tourists can get arrested

SUNIL RAM
Wednesday, August 9, 2000

-> http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/chomskymay2000.htm

Foreign Policy
In Retrospect

A review of NATO’s war over Kosovo, Part II

By Noam Chomsky

The absurdity of the principle of retrospective justification is,
surely,
recognized at some level. Accordingly, many attempts to justify
the NATO
bombing take a different tack. One typical version is that “Serbia
assaulted
Kosovo to squash a separatist Albanian guerrilla movement, but
killed
10,000 civilians and drove 700,000 people into refuge in Macedonia
and
Albania. NATO attacked Serbia from the air in the name of
protecting the
Albanians from ethnic cleansing [but] killed hundreds of Serb
civilians and
provoked an exodus of tens of thousands from cities into the
countryside.”
Assuming that order of events, a rationale for the bombing can be
constructed. But uncontroversially, the actual order is the
opposite...


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-Ora sappiamo, dopo aver letto le carte, che la trappola che ha portato
all’arresto del compagno Jaime Yovanovic Prieto (Professor J.), era
scattata il 20 aprile, quando la polizia cilena inviò a quella italiana
una nota con la richiesta della sua cattura in quanto “pericoloso
terrorista”.

La Polizia italiana sapeva dunque che Jaime sarebbe arrivato in Italia
per partecipare al Campo antimperialista di Assisi. Ma non l’ha fermato
all’aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci, né ha osato farlo durante i lavori del
Campo. La DIGOS di Perugia, sicuramente sulla base di una direttiva
UCIGOS, ha atteso che il Campo fosse finito, colpendoci tutti alle
spalle e ritenendo, a torto, di coglierci un un momento di debolezza.

- E invece la risposta nostra è stata pronta e massiccia. Abbiamo
lanciato una campagna nazionale e internazionale di controinformazione
grazie alla quale sono giunti centinaia di messaggi di solidarietà.
Dalle dieci di questa mattina, in duecento, eravamo sotto il carcere di
Perugia, mentre Jaime veniva interrogato dal Giudice di Corte d’Appello.
sapevamo che Jaime avrebbe non solo rifiutato di essere estradato in
Cile, ma anche di essere rispedito in Brasile dove vive da anni. La sua
e la nostra battaglia è stata per la libertà immediata e incondizionata
e l’asilo politico. Durante l’interrogatorio è giunto in carcere un fax
del Ministro di Grazia e Giustizia Fassino col quale si chiedeva di
mettere in libertà il compagno Jaime in quanto: 1. il reato ascritto ad
Jaime è reato politico e come tale non è perseguibile dalla legge
italiana; 2. in caso di estradizione in Cile (dove vige non la
democrazia ma come dicono i cileni la democradura, un ibrido tra
democrazia e dittatura!
) Jaime sarebbe giudicato non da un tribunale civile ma da quello
Militare, e ciò confligge col codice penale italiano; 3. Il Tribunale
militare cileno condannerebbe Jaime alla pena capitale e ciò è
incompatibile con la nostra Costituzione.

- Quando gli avvocati Innamorati e Crisci (che ringraziamo per il loro
appassionato lavoro) verso le ore 14,00 sono usciti dal carcere
annunciando questo esito straordinario, c’è stata in strada una gioia
incontenibile. A tutti era chiara la dimensione della vittoria ottenuta.
La nostra mobilitazione, la solidarietà internazionale hanno obbligato
il Ministro Fassino ha scarcerare Jaime, che ora è non è solo un libero
cittadino, ma gli è riconosciuta la sua dignità come combattente
antifascista.
E’ una vittoria anzitutto per tutti gli esuli cileni nel mondo, per
tutti i perseguitati dalla “Giustizia” militare di Santiago; è una
vittoria per tutti i militanti che nel mondo combattono per la
democrazia e la giustizia; è infine una vittoria nostra, organizzatori
del campo antimperialista contro la globalizzazione, che da anni veniamo
perseguitati, controllati (spesso illegalmente), umiliati, trattati da
terroristi.

- Abbiamo vinto una battaglia ma non finisce qui. Come i democratici
cileni che vogliono giustizia e per giustizia intendono anche il castigo
e la punizione assieme a Pinochet dei responsabili dei massacri compiuti
dalla dittatura militare; noi chiediamo che vengano puniti qui in Italia
i responsabili ai più alti livelli che hanno arrestato Jaime Yovanovic
Prieto a partire dal capo della Criminalpol, dal capo dell’UCIGOS
Andreassi per finire col Ministro dell’Interno G. Bianco che hanno
calpestato la legge italiana, violato la Costituzione repubblicana e
compiuto un gravissimo abuso di potere.
I responsabili dei crimini fascisti compiuti in Cile debbono pagare,
come debbono pagare per l’affronto portatoci i responsabili della
polizia italiana.


Moreno Pasquinelli e Alessandro Folghera
per il comitato del Campo Antimperialista contro la Globalizzazione
Assisi 2000

10 agosto, ore 16,30

Campo Antimperialista
www.antiimperialista.com
campo@...

Appello per la Libertà di Jaime Yovanovic Prieto
Arrestato all’uscita del campo antimperialista di Assisi
il 6 agosto 2000


Considerando che in Cile:

- I recenti precedenti giurisprudenziali di Patricio Ortiz e di Claudio
Molina, cittadini cileni arrestati rispettivamente in Svizzera ed in
Argentina su mandato di cattura emesso dall’Interpol (per ordini di
cattura dei tribunali militari cileni) e, successivamente rilasciati con
la motivazione che in Cile non si rispettano i diritti umani e che per i
reati politici esista tutt’oggi un accanimento giudiziario,

- A tutt’oggi, i reati politici sono di corrispondenza della giustizia
militare che si somma a quella civile, violando apertamente il principio
del “non bis in idem”,

- Vige tutt’ora la pena di morte,

- La democrazia cilena nei suoi poteri costitutivi e’ minata
dall’esistenza di un organo superiore, ovvero il Consiglio di Sicurezza
Nazionale (formato dai comandanti delle tre Forze Armate, dal Presidente
della Repubblica e dai Presidenti della Corte Suprema di Giustizia e del
Senato), che ha facolta’ di porre veto a qualsiasi iniziativa in ambito
legislativo, giudiziario ed esecutivo:


Noi, sottofirmatari del seguente appello, ci rivolgiamo al Governo
italiano affinche’ al cittadino Jaime Yovanovic Prieto, arrestato ad
Assisi nella giornata di domenica 6 agosto ed attualmente detenuto
presso il carcere di Perugia, sia data liberta’ immediata e concesso
l’asilo politico.


Jaime Yovanovic Prieto, ex militante del Movimento della Sinistra
Rivoluzionaria cilena, e’ accusato di aver presuntamente partecipato
nell’azione che causo’ la morte del general Carol Urzua, esperto di
controspionaggio militare, il 29 agosto del 1983.

Vale la pena segnalare che il processo non si e’ mai svolto fino ad
oggi, cosi’ come segnalare che il procedimento giudiziario e’ stato
posto in essere in pieno periodo dittatoriale.

La situazione di Jaime Yovanovic e’ gia’ un caso internazionale per
l’Italia: in primo luogo perche’ Jaime Yovanovic vide la propria vita
salvata grazie all’intervento del Papa e del cardinale Agostino
Casaroli, quando chiese asilo presso la nunziatura apostolica di
Santiago (1984), in secondo luogo perche’ la lezione di …calan,
evidentemente, non e’ servita ad imparare nulla.


La Corte d’Appello ha ora 4 giorni per pronunciarsi sulla legittimita’
dello stato di arresto di Jaime Yovanovic. Non possiamo tirarci
indietro. Estendiamo quindi l’invito alle diverse associazioni,
organizzazioni e cittadini, a sommarsi alla Campagna ed a partecipare al
Sit-In che sara’ sviluppato nella giornata di mercoledi’ o giovedi’
(domani confermeremo la data e l’ora esatte) davanti al Tribunale di
Perugia, in occasione del trasferimento di Jaime dal carcere alla Corte
d’Appello dove si svolgerˆ il suo interrogatorio.

Uniamo le Forze contro la globalizzazione antimperialista per la Pace e
la Giustizia Sociale!

Per la Liberta’ di Jaime Yovanovic Prieto! Per la Liberta’ di Tutti i
Prigionieri Politici!

Oralba Castillo-Najera,
presidentessa del Coordinamento Internazionale per i Prigionieri
Politici,
Moreno Pasquinelli ed Alessandro Folghera
per il Comitato Politico del Campo Antimperialista di Assisi
ed Elias Letelier, poeta e presidente della Rete dei Familiari ed Amici
dei Prigionieri Politici del Cile.

Per Adesioni: tel 0742-78828 cel 0349-3650834

Perugia 7 agosto 2000

Campo Antimperialista
www.antiimperialista.com
campo@...

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>
> ARRESTO ESULE ANTIFASCISTA CILENO:
> INTERROGAZIONE URGENTE DELL'ON. PISAPIA
>
> L'on. Giuliano Pisapia ha presentato un'interrogazione urgente al Ministro
> di Grazia e Giustizia per chiedere un immediato intervento per la
> scarcerazione del professore cileno Jaime Yovanovic Prieto, militante della
> sinistra cilena e oppositore del regime dittatoriale del generale Pinochet.
>
> Prieto, che era in Italia con un regolare permesso, è stato arrestato sulla
> base di un mandato di cattura internazionale del tribunale militare cileno
> pur essendo già stato varie volte in Europa - Spagna, Belgio, Svizzera -
> senza aver alcun problema.
>
> Nell'interrogazione si fa presente che, nel caso del prof. Prieto, non è
> concepibile - ai sensi dell'art. 698 del codice di procedura penale -
> l'estradizione, anche qualora fosse richiesta dall'attuale governo cileno,
> in quanto:
> 1) il reato contestato - e in relazione al quale l'interessato si dichiara
> innocente - è indubbiamente reato politico. Ai sensi dell'art. 8 del nostro
> codice penale, infatti, è considerato reato politico ogni "delitto comunque
> determinato, in tutto o in parte, da motivi politici";
> 2) in Cile è prevista, per il reato contestato, la pena di morte e la Corte
> Costituzionale ha anche recentemente ribadito che in tali casi non è
> possibile l'estradizione;
> 3) in Cile - come sancito anche in recenti sentenze relative a casi analoghi
> in altri Paesi (Svizzera e Argentina) - non sono rispettati i diritti umani
> e non è garantito un equo processo, specialmente davanti ad un Tribunale
> Militare;
> 4) se estradato, il prof. Prieto sarebbe sicuramente sottoposto ad atti
> discriminatori per motivi politici.
>
> In tale situazione, Pisapia chiede al Ministro della Giustizia che faccia
> espressa richiesta, come suo potere ai sensi dell'art. 716 c.p.p., di revoca
> della misura coercitiva anche qualora la Corte d'Appello di Perugia
> convalidasse l'arresto provvisorio disposto dalla polizia giudiziaria.
>
> Nell'interrogazione urgente il deputato di Rifondazione Comunista ricorda
> come, nel caso specifico, vi siano tutti i presupposti per la concessione
> dell'asilo politico:
> a) il prof. Prieto, infatti, è stato ripetutamente sottoposto a torture in
> Cile dalla polizia golpista, proprio per la sua militanza politica (ancora
> oggi, a seguito di tali torture, versa in gravi condizioni di salute:
> timpano sinistro completamente fuori uso, timpano destro gravemente
> compromesso, disturbi di deambulazione);
> b) l'esule cileno era riuscito a sfuggire alla morte nel 1984, grazie
> all'intervento del Papa, quando si era rifugiato presso al Nunziatura
> apostolica di Santiago.
>
> Campo Antimperialista
> www.antiimperialista.com
> campo@...

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Liberta¹ perJaime Yovanovic Prieto


Comunicato dell¹ 8 agosto



- Domani mattina sapremo con esattezza se Jaime verrà interrogato dal
Magistrato
domani o dopodomani e a che ora. Da questo dipende l¹indizione della
manifestazione,
che comunque si svolgerà.

- Le adesioni al nostro appello per la libertà di Jaime continuano a
crescere dall¹Italia e
da tutto il mondo, così come alla manifestazione. Segnaliamo quelle
dell¹On. Luigi
Manconi (Verdi), Paolo Ferrero (Segreteria Nazionale del Partito della
Rifondazione
Comunista), Don Vitaliano Della Sala (Parroco di S. Angelo a Scala),
Gianni Tognoni
della Fondazione Internazionale Lelio Basso per i diritti e la
liberazione dei Popoli,
Giorgio Nebbia (ex-deputato della Sinistra Indipendente e Docente
Università di Bari),
Dino Frisullo (Kurdistan Azad). La lista completa delle adesioni giunte
sarà disponibile
da domani mattina alle ore 10,00 sul nostro sito: www.
antiimperialista.com (alla pagina:
prigionieri)

- Ci rivolgiamo a tutti i cittadini democratici e ai compagni che hanno
a cuore la sorte
di Jaime e di tutti gli antifascisti cileni di comunicarci la loro
adesione e, nel caso la
partecipazione alla manifestazione a questo indirizzo:
liberta@...

- Informiamo che l¹Onorevole Giuliano Pisapia ha presentato questa
mattina al Ministro
di Grazia e Giustizia Fassino un¹interrogazione parlamentare (alleghiamo
il testo).


- Nella difesa di Jaime, all¹avvocato Francesco Innamorati
(ex-partigiano), si è
aggiunta, su segnalazione della comunità degli esuli cileni in Italia,
l¹avvocatessa
Simonetta Crisci del foro di Roma patrocinante in Cassazione.

- Segnaliamo che quest¹oggi abbiamo rilasciato interviste a Radio
Popolare di Milano,
Radio Città Aperta di Roma, Onda Rossa di Roma, Onda d¹Urto di Brescia,
Corriere
dell¹Umbria, Metro di Roma, Libero di Milano. La notizia oggi è stata
ritrasmessa dal TG1
delle ore 13,00. Mentre ieri, oltre al TG1 un servizio di 4 minuti è
passato sul TG3
dell¹Umbria. Tutte le Tv privare umbre hanno aperto con servizi
sull¹arresto. Ci hanno
assicurato che domani parleranno del caso il manifesto, Repubblica, e
molti altri
quotidiani.


Comitato Politico del Campo Antimperialista di Assisi 2000
Coordinamento Internazionale per i Prigionieri Politici

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Vendetta di Pinochet nella citta' di S. Francesco


Nella citta' di Assisi (Perugia), il giorno 6 agosto 2000, la UCIGOS
dopo alcuni giorni di
monitoraggio, e' intervenuta per ordine dell'INTERPOL ed ha proceduto
all'arresto del cittadino
cileno Jaime Yovanovic Prieto, ex militante del Movimento della Sinistra
Rivoluzionaria, che
presuntamente avrebbe partecipato nell1azione che causo1 la morte del
general Carol Urzua.
Jaime Yovanovic era stato invitato a viaggiare dal Brasile in Italia,
per partecipare all'Incontro
Antimperialista '' No alla Globalizzazione'', dove si scambiavano idee
con altre organizzazioni
progressiste mondiali.

Alla fine dell'evento, il giorno 6 agosto dell'anno 2000, la Digos che
aveva tenuto sotto controllo
l'evento, ha proceduto a detenerlo, quando questo stava per prendere il
treno, diretto a Roma,
procedendo a trasportarlo alla Questura di Perugia e, successivamente,
al carcere del capoluogo
umbro.

Le ragioni dell1arresto sono per omicidio ed in questo momento, 7
agosto, gli avvocati e le
organizzazioni italiane stanno lavorando attorno alla organizzazione e
difesa del nuovo prigioniero
politico cileno, che oggi, soffre lo stesso trattamento di Patricio
Ortiz e di Claudio Molina; cittadini
cileni che hanno affrontato richieste di estradizione per attivita 1
sviluppate durante la dittatura
militare in Cile. Patricio Ortiz in Svizzera, dopo una lunga battaglia
legale, si e 1 visto riconoscere
dal governo svizzero che in Cile nsi violano i diritti umani e quindi e1
stata negata la sua
estradiuzione.

E1 cosi, come la stessa situazione e1 stata imposta al cittadino cileno
Claudio Molina, militante
del Fronte Patriottico Manuel Rodriguez, per il quale la giustizia
militare cilena aveva domandato
l1estradizione al governo argentino, senza ottenere l1obiettivo. Di
fronte a questo fatto, lo stato
argentino, ha riconosciuto l1illegalita1 della giustizia militare
cilena, concedendo l1asilo politico al
lottatore cileno.
Il 16 gennaio del 1984, Jaime Yovanovic Prieto e altri tre cittadini
cileni, aiutati dal viceconsole
francese in Cile; Ivonne Legrand, entro1 nella nunziatura apostolica per
chiedere protezione per la
propria vita. La giustizia militare cilena immediatamente detto1
l1ordine di cattura, senza ottenere
l1obiettivo.

A partire dal 29 agosto del 1983, data in cui e1 stato giustiziato il
generale Urzua, si decreto1
l1esecuzione e la cattura di massa dei militanti del MIR, che venivano
accusati della
responsabilita1 della morte del Generale. Il governo militare ordino1 la
creazione di un piano
strategico che sarebbe servito a terrorizzare la sinistra cilena, che si
batteva in una franca lotta
contro la dittatura cilena.

La Centrale Nazionale del Controspionaggio (CNI), sotto l1esistenza
dello squadrone
antisovversivo della Forza Aerea del Cile, decretarono una operazione
con il nome 3Punto 302,
operazione che implico1 la cattura e la morte dei cittadini:

Alejandro Salgado Troquian, assassinato dalla CNI e dalla Forza Aerea
Arturo Villabella Arauco;
assassinato dalla CNI e dalla Forza Aerea Carlos Araneda, arrestato dai
servizi d1intelligenza
Hugo Marchant Moya, arrestato dai servizi d1intelligenza Juan Elias
Espinoza Parra, assassinato
dalla CNI e dalla Forza Aerea Lucia Vergara, assassinata dalla CNI e
dalla Forza Aerea Sergio
Pena Diaz, assassinato dalla CNI e dalla Forza Aerea

Di fronte alla situazione degli assassinii dei militanti del MIR, Jaime
Yovanovic Prieto, Jose1
Aguilera, Elba Duarte e Pameila Cordero, aiutati dalla viceconsole
francese in Cile, Ivonne
Legrand, entrarono alla nunziatura apostolica, con il fine di richiedere
protezione per le loro vite. Il
governo militar cileno si vide obbligato a concedere il salvacondotto
dopo intervento diretto del
Cardinale Agostino Casaroli prima e, poi, di sua Santita1 Giovanni Paolo
II.
Chiediamo alla comunita1 internazionale, alle organizzazioni politiche e
dei diritti umani, di agire
con urgenza per esigere la liberta1 incondizionale ed asilo politico al
cittadino cileno. Chiediamo a
tutti gli esseri liberi della terra di non permettere ai tribunali
militari cileni di continuare nella
persecuzione dei suoi cittadini che solo sognano una democrazia giusta e
degna.

Coordinamento Internazionale per i Prigionieri Politici, Oralba
Castillo-Najera, presidentessa
Comitato Politico del Campo Antimperialista di Assisi, Moreno
Pasquinelli, Alessandro Folghera,
Rete dei Familiari ed Amici dei Prigionieri Politici del Cile, il poeta
Elias Letelier, presidente

Numeri Utili:
Ministero degli Esteri fax 06-3691006
Ministero degli Interni fax 06-46549534
Carcere di Perugia Tel 075-5735640

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En la Ciudad de Asis, Italia, el día domingo 06 de agosto del año 2000,
la
policía política italiana, (DIGOS), después de algunos días de
monitoreo,
actuó bajo orden de la INTERPOL y procedió al arresto del ciudadano
chileno Jaime Yovanovic Prieto, ex militante del MIR, quien
presuntamente
participara en el ajusticiamiento del general Carol Urzua.

En efecto, Jaime Yovanovic fue invitado a viajar desde Brasil a Italia,
para participar en el encuentro antiimperialista mundial, donde se
intercambiaban ideas con otras organizaciones progresistas mundiales. Al
termino del evento, el día 6 de agosto de año 2000, la Policía Política
italiana, que había moni toreado el evento, procedió a detenerlo cuando
tomaba el tren para viajar a Roma., para trasladarlo a ala Centro
preventivo de Perugia

Las razones de la detención son por homicidio y en estos momentos, 07 de
agosto, los abogados y organizaciones italianas se encuentra trabajando
en
torno a la organización de la defensa de nuevo prisionero político
chileno, quien hoy, sufre el mismo trato que Patricio Ortiz y Claudio
Molina; ciudadanos chilenos que se vieron enfrentados a peticiones de
extradición por actividades desarrolladas durante la dictadura militar
chilena. Patricio Ortiz en Suiza, después de una larga batalla legal, el
gobierno suizo reconoció que en Chile se violan los derechos humanos y
categóricamente negó la extradición. Es así, como la misma situación fue
impuesta al ciudadano chileno Claudio Molina, militante del Frente
Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez, por quien la justicia militar chilena
demandara la extradición al gobierno Argentino, sin lograr el objetivo.
Ante este hecho, el estado argentino reconoció la ilegalidad de justicia
militar chilena otorgando asilo políticos al luchador chileno.

El 16 de enero de 1984, Jaime Yovanovic y otros ciudadanos chilenos,
ayudado por la Vicecónsul de Francia en Chile, señora Ivonne Legrand,
entró a la Nunciatura Apostólica para solicitar protección por su vida.
La
justicia Militar chilena inmediatamente dicto orden de captura sin
lograr
su objetivo.

A partir del 29 de Agosto de 1983, fecha en que fue ajusticiado de
General
Urzua, se decreto la ejecución y la captura masiva de los militantes del
MIR, a quienes se sindicaban como responsables de la muerte del General.
El gobierno militar ordenó la creación de un plan estratégico que
sirviera
como escarmiento generalizado contra la izquierda, que se batía en una
franca lucha contra la dictadura chilena.

La Central Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI), bajo la asistencia del
Escuadrón Antisubversivo de la Fuerza Aérea de Chile, decretaron una
operación con el nombre PUNTO 30, la que implico la captura y el
asesinato
de los ciudadanos:

Alejandro Salgado Troquian, asesinado por la CNI y la Fuerza Aérea
Arturo Villavela Araujo, asesinado por la CNI y la Fuerza Aérea
Carlos Araneda, detenidos por los servicios de inteligencia.
Hugo Marchant Moya, detenidos por los servicios de inteligencia.
Juan Elías Espinoza Parra, asesinado por la CNI y la Fuerza Aérea
Lucía Vergara, asesinada por la CNI y la Fuerza Aérea
Sergio Peña Díaz, asesinado por la CNI y la Fuerza Aérea

Ante la situación de los asesinatos los militantes del MIR, Jaime
Yovanovic Prieto, José Aguilera, Elba Duarte y Pamela Cordero, ayudados
por la Vicecónsul de Francia en Chile, señora Ivonne Legrand, entraron a
la Nunciatura Apostólica con el fin de solicitar protección por su vida.
El Gobierno militar chileno se vio obligado a otorgar salvoconducto
después de la intervención directa de Su Santidad Juan Pablo II.

Solicitamos a la comunidad Intencional, a las organizaciones políticas y
de derechos humanos, actuar con urgencia para exigir la libertad
incondicional y asilo político al ciudadano chileno. Solicitamos a todos
los seres libres de la tierra no permitir a las cortes militares de
continuar la persecución contra los chilenos que sueñan con una país
democrático y justo.


Coordinadora Internacional por los Presos Políticos, Oralba
Castillo-Najera, presidenta Comité Politico del Campo Antimperialista de
Asis, Moreno Pasquinelli, Alessandro Folghera, Red de Familiares y
Amigos
de Presos Politicos de Chile, Elias Letelier, presidente

Numeros para enviar protestas urgentes:
Ministero de Relaciones Exteriores fax 0039-06-3691006
Ministero degli Interni fax 0039-06-46549534
Carcere di Perugia Tel 0039-075-5735640

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In Assisi (Umbrien) verhaftete die DIGOS (politische Polizei) am 6.
August
2000, nach tagelanger Überwachung, den chilenischen Staatsbürger Jaime
Yovanovic Prieto, ehemaliges Mitglied der Bewegung der Revolutionären
Linken
(MIR), mittels eines Haftbefehls der Interpol, nach dem er angeblich an
der
Aktion teilgenommen haben soll, die zum Tod von General Urzua führte.
Jaime
Yovanovic kam von Brasilen nach Italien um am Antiimperialistischen
Lager
„Nein zur Globalisierung“ teilzunehmen.

Erst nach Abschluss der Veranstaltung am 6. August schritt die DIGOS,
die
das gesamte Treffen genau überwacht hatte, ein und verhaftete ihn als er
den
Zug nach Rom besteigen wollte. Er wurde auf eine Polizeistation in
Perugia
und in der Folge ins Gefängnis „Capolungo umbro“ gebracht.

Anwälte und Solidaritätsorganisationen haben die Kampagne zur
Verteidigung
dieses neuen chilenischen politischen Häftlings bereits begonnen, dem
scheinbar das gleiche Schicksal wie Patricio Ortiz und Claudio Molina
widerfährt: alle sind chilenische Staatsbürger, für die seitens der
chilenischen Behörden Auslieferungsanträge für Taten gestellte, die
unter
der Militärdiktatur begangen wurden. Nach einem langen juristischen
Kampf
mussten die Schweizer Gerichte anerkennen, dass in Chile die
Menschenrechte
verletzt werden. Daher wurde das Auslieferungsansuchen letztendlich
abgelehnt. Ähnlich entwickelte sich der Fall des chilenischen
Staatsbürgers
Claudio Molina, Aktivist der Patriotischen Front Manuel Rodriguez,
dessen
Auslieferung durch Argentinien von der chilenischen Militärjustiz
gefordert,
jedoch schließlich abgelehnt wurde. Der Grund: Argentinien betrachtet
die
chilenische Militärjustiz als illegal und gewährte dem chilenischen
Kämpfer
politisches Asyl.

Ab 29. August 1983, Zeitpunkt der erfolgreichen Hinrichtung des Generals
Urzua, hatte eine Welle der Massenverhaftung von Kämpfern der MIR
eingesetzt, der die Verantwortung für den Anschlag angelastet wurde. Die
chilenische Militärregierung ordnete die Durchführung ihres
Generalplanes
zur Terrorisierung der chilenischen Linken an, die sich im offenen Kampf
mit
der Diktatur befand.

Die Nationale Zentrale für Gegenspionage (CNI) befahl die sogenannte
Operation „3Punto302“ durch die Aufstandsbekämpfungseinheiten der
chilenischen Luftwaffe, die folgendermaßen endete: Alejandro Salgado
Troquian (ermordet), Arturo Villabella Arauco (ermordet), Juan Elias
Espinoza Parra (ermordet), Lucia Vergara (ermordet), Sergio Pena Diaz
(ermordet), Carlos Araneda (vom Geheimdienst verhaftet), Hugo Marchant
Moya
(vom Geheimdienst verhaftet).

Angesichts dieser Mordwelle an Aktivisten der MIR flüchteten sich Jaime
Yovanovic Prieto, José Aguilera, Elba Duarte und Pameila Cordero am 16.
Januar 1984 mit Hilfe des französischen Vizekonsuls Ivonne Legrand in
die
Apostolische Nuntiatur, um ihr Leben zu schützen. Die chilenische
Militärjustiz strebte ihre Festnahme an, doch gelang diese nicht.

Die Militärmachthaben mussten nach direkter Intervention des Kardinals
Agostino Casaroli und schließlich des Heiligen Vaters Johannes Paul II.
selbst den sicheres Geleit zugestehen.

Wir rufen die internationale Öffentlichkeit sowie alle politischen und
Menschenrechtsorganisationen sofort Aktionen zu setzen, um die sofortige
und
bedingungslose Freilassung von Jaime zu erzwingen und ihm politisches
Asyl
zu gewähren. Wir rufen alle freien Menschen dazu auf, es den
chilenischen
Militärtribunalen nicht zu erlauben, die Verfolgung all jener
fortzusetzen,
die nichts mehr wünschten als Gerechtigkeit, Demokratie und
Menschenwürde.

Vorsitzende der Internationalen Koordination für Politische Gefangene
Oralba
Castillo Najera (Mexiko)
Politisches Komitee der Antiimperialistischen Lagers von Assisi, Moreno
Pasquinelli, Alessandro Folghera (Italien)
Vorsitzender des Netz der Familienangehörigen und Freunde der
politischen
Gefangenen Chiles, Elias Letelier

Protestschreiben bitte an:
Außenministerium: Fax 0039 06 3691006
Innenministerium: Fax 0039 06 46549534
Gefängnis Perugia: Tel 0039 075 5735640

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Per Presa Visione: fax 0742-78828
Per Informazioni: tel 0742-78828
cel 0349-3650834
liberta@...
www.antiimperialista.com

* Coordinamento Nazionale "LA JUGOSLAVIA VIVRA'"

* Progetto "Pancevo chiama Italia"
* Richiesta informazioni sulle elezioni nella RFJ
* LIBRI SEGNALATI in francese ed in tedesco
* PROGRAMMINO ANTI-SPIE

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* Coordinamento Nazionale "LA JUGOSLAVIA VIVRA'"


L?embargo uccide come le bombe, come l?uranio,
come l?indifferenza

Rompiamo l?embargo contro la Jugoslavia!

Con pretesti vergognosamente definiti ?umanitari? gli USA e la NATO
hanno aggredito la
Jugoslavia, paese sovrano non disposto ad accettare le ricette del Fondo
Monetario
Internazionale, allo scopo di imporre il proprio dominio coloniale sui
Balcani.

La Jugoslavia è stata prima sottoposta, da USA ed Unione Europea, ad 8
anni di sanzioni
economiche ed infine bombardata.

Fabbriche, ponti, centrali elettriche, scuole, ospedali ed abitazioni
civili sono stati distrutti, mentre
a causa dell?inquinamento di aria, acque e terreni agricoli c?è una
crescente diffusione di turbe
psichiche e gravi malattie che colpiscono particolarmente i più deboli,
ad iniziare dai bambini.

La popolazione jugoslava, come quella irachena, oltre ad aver subito gli
effetti di nuove micidiali
armi di distruzione di massa, sta tuttora scontando un infame embargo
che la priva di beni e
strumenti indispensabili alla propria sopravvivenza.

Questo embargo rappresenta un vero e proprio atto di guerra il cui fine
è quello di ottenere la resa
dei cittadini jugoslavi costringendoli a scelte politiche allineate ai
diktat del nuovo ordine mondiale
dell?imperialismo USA-NATO.

Di fronte alla disinformazione strategica, alla criminale partecipazione
del governo italiano all?
aggressione con basi militari, uomini e mezzi per la guerra prima e per
l?occupazione del Kosovo
poi, all?ambiguità di parte della sinistra e dei movimenti pacifisti,
molti comitati contro la guerra ed
associazioni di solidarietà con il popolo jugoslavo si sono costituiti
nel:

Coordinamento Nazionale ?La Jugoslavia vivrà?

Difendiamo l?integrità territoriale e la multietnicità della Repubblica
Federale di Jugoslavia!

Basta con le aggressioni contro gli stati che non si allineano al nuovo
ordine mondiale!

La Jugoslavia vivrà!

-

Il Coordinamento Nazionale invita ad aderire alle seguenti iniziative
per rompere l?embargo

- A partire dall?inizio del mese di settembre, presidi cittadini di
controinformazione e raccolta di materiali (medicinali, viveri, beni
sottoposti a regime di embargo) per la Jugoslavia

- 21/22 ottobre giornate internazionali di lotta contro l?embargo e la
NATO

- inizio novembre partenza della nave di solidarietà contro tutti gli
embarghi dal porto di Bari verso il Montenegro e prosecuzione della
carovana fino a Belgrado

PER INFORMAZIONI, CONTATTI ED ADESIONI: Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli.


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* PANCEVO CHIAMA ITALIA

Subject: progetto "Pancevo chiama Italia"
Resent-Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:14:34 +0200
Resent-From: pck-yugoslavia@...
From: "Abcsolidarieta" <abcsolidarieta@...>


Gentili amici,

Vogliamo informarvi che il progetto "Pancevo chiama Italia" va avanti.
Durante il nostro ultimo viaggio in Serbia per la consegna delle quote
dei
primi quattro mesi dell'anno ai bambini serbi e bosniaci affidati a
distanza, abbiamo incontrato la dott.ssa Mica Saric Tanaskovic,
responsabile
dell'Istituto d'igiene e tutela ambientale del Banato del sud. Siamo
così
riusciti, dopo tre mesi e più di lavoro, aiutati in questo anche da
molti
soci, a definire un elenco preciso di quanto è necessario al laboratorio
di
Pancevo.

Strumenti e materiali di consumo serviranno all'équipe della Tanaskovic
per
capire quello che bambini e genitori debbono fare per non morire di
"inquinamento". Parliamo dei bambini perché sono il nostro interesse
preminente, ma è chiaro che tutti gli abitanti della regione, dai
cittadini
di Pancevo ai contadini che hanno visto i loro terreni resi improduttivi
perché contaminati, ai pescatori che sopravvivevano grazie ai pesci del
fiume Danubio, agli operai delle fabbriche rimasti senza lavoro,
vorrebbero
sapere...

Finora per quest'iniziativa, realizzata in collaborazione con "il
manifesto", sono stati raccolti circa 16 milioni di lire.

In questi giorni abbiamo avviato i primi contatti, che intensificheremo
da
settembre, per "proporre" ad organizzazioni, sindacati, associazioni
professionali, singole persone, ecc. di intervenire a sostegno del
progetto
finanziando l'acquisto, tutto o in parte, di uno strumento o dei
materiali
d'uso necessari. Faremo anche presente a tutti che eventuali donazioni
dovranno riguardare strumenti revisionati (perfettamente funzionanti) e
materiali di consumo ben conservati.

Nelle prossime settimane definiremo l'acquisto, presso la "Camag", unica
distributrice di quel che la dott.sa Mica Saric Tanaskovic ha chiesto
per la
gascromatografia, di uno strumento e di alcuni accessori.

Sul sito di "ABC" è possibile consultare e scaricare l'elenco di tutti
gli
strumenti e dei materiali di consumo richiesti dall'Istituto d'igiene
ambientale del Banato del sud. Desideriamo però far presente che
l'elenco
potrà subire delle variazioni e che ai prezzi indicati sarà applicato
uno
sconto che andrà dal 10 al 20%. Un'ultima informazione: il costo totale
del
progetto è di circa 67.000.000 di lire ai quali si aggiungeranno le
spese di
trasporto e doganali ancora non definite.

Grazie per la Vostra attenzione e cordiali saluti.

p. A,B,C, solidarietà e pace
Franco Della Marra


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* RICHIESTA INFORMAZIONI SULLE ELEZIONI NELLE RFJ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michel Collon"
To: "wpb" <wpb@...>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 2:04 PM
Subject: Urgent: Do you have Info abou Yugo elections?


Dear,
I am looking for information about next elections in Yugoslavia,
specially
Kustanovic, Mihailovic and expectations. and the "poll presenting
Kustanovic
as favorite".
Also the questions you might have on this topic.

Thank you very much in advance!

Je recherche des infos sur les candidats de l'opposition,
Kustanovic et Mihailovic,
ainsi que des analyses des élections, y compris le "sondage Kustanovic
est
favori.
Et aussi les questions que vous vous posez à ce sujet.
Merci beaucoup d'avance.

Michel Collon


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* LIBRI SEGNALATI

1.
Alexandre Del Vallee
GUERRES CONTRE L' EUROPE: BOSNIE - KOSOVO - TCHETCHNIE
Editions: "Des Syrtes"
Paris, 2000

2.
Pierre-Henri Bunel, *Crimes de guerre à l’OTAN*,
Paris, Editions 1, $$$ p., 110 FF, parution juin 2000.
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/377

3.
Kriegsverbrechen.
Die tödlichen Lügen der Bundesregierung und ihre Opfer im
Kosovo-Konflikt.
Mit einem Dossier zu Srebrenica (ca. 200 Seiten, ca. 26 DM,
KONKRET-Verlag Hamburg)

-

Jürgen Elsässer
c/o Redaktion KONKRET
Tel. 040/8512530, Fax. 040/8512514
Mobil 0171/1720368
Email: J.Elsasser@...
www.juergen-elsaesser.de


betr. Buch-Neuerscheinung
Veranstaltungsangebot




Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
liebe Freunde aus der Friedensbewegung,



am 15. Oktober erscheint mein neues Buch

Kriegsverbrechen.
Die tödlichen Lügen der Bundesregierung und ihre Opfer im
Kosovo-Konflikt.
Mit
einem Dossier zu Srebrenica (ca. 200 Seiten, ca. 26 DM, KONKRET-Verlag
Hamburg)

Die Buchpremiere wird am 20. Oktober auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse sein,
der
(von Scharping mittlerweile geschaßte) deutsche OSZE-Offizier Heinz
Loquai
und
der Hamburger Friedensforscher Dieter S. Lutz haben ihre Teilnahme
bereits
zugesagt. Gerne würde ich das Buch auch in Ihrer Stadt vorstellen -
entweder
im
Rahmen einer Lesung oder einer Vortragsveranstaltung oder einer
Podiumsdiskussion mit anderen Teilnehmern.

Über mein letztjähriges Kosovo-Buch »Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns. Das
Kosovo
und
die neue deutsche Geopolitik« (Konkret Verlag Juni 1999; 2. Auflage
November
1999) schrieb die Frankfurter Rundschau: »Ein hervorragender Band, im
Zorn
geschrieben und aus tiefer Enttäuschung heraus, Enttäuschung über Linke
und
Grüne. Aber es ist sorgfältig recherchiert.«

Zwar gibt es mittlerweile eine ganze Reihe guter Veröffentlichungen zum
Kosovo-Krieg. Doch mein aktuelles Buch steuert nicht nur zu bereits
behandelten
Themen - Rambouillet, Racak, Hufeisenplan - neues Material bei, das ich
in
Brüssel, Wien und Belgrad recherchiert habe.
Vor allem packt es als erstes heiße Eisen an, die bisher von
Kriegsgegnern
sträflich vernachlässigt wurden:
* Srebrenica, wo die Truppen der bosnischen Serben im Juli 1995 7.000
bis
8.000
Muslime massakriert haben sollen. „Für mich war das die Wende“ (J.
Fischer).
* Die Behauptung von den angeblich 100.000 ermordeten Kosovo-Albaner,
mit
der
während des Krieges - und danach! - die Politik Milosevics als
„genozidal

(Goldhagen) dargestellt wurde.
* Das Kosovo im ersten Jahr nach dem Nato-Einmarsch: Der Durchbruch des
albanischen Faschismus.

Falls Sie an meinem Angebot einer Lesung/Veranstaltung interessiert
sind,
bitte
ich um rechtzeitige Kontaktaufnahme - von Mitte August bis Mitte
September
bin
ich in Übersee und schwer zu erreichen. Die Konditionen würden in etwa
denen
des
letzten Jahres entsprechen.

Rezensionsexemplare des Buches fordern Sie bitte direkt bei KONKRET an
(Marit
Hofmann/Katrin Gremliza, Tel 040/8512531 bzw. Fax 040/8512514)



Vielen Dank für Ihr Interesse,
mit freundlichen Grüßen

J. Elsässer



Es folgt: Exposé mit inhaltlichem Profil
Inhaltsübersicht, Kurzbiographie und Bibliographie

-

Exposé

Jürgen Elsässer

Kriegsverbrechen.

Die tödlichen Lügen der Bundesregierung und ihre Opfer im
Kosovo-Konflikt.

Mit einem Dossier zu Srebrenica



»Noch nie haben so wenige so viele so gründlich belogen wie im
Zusammenhang
mit
dem Kosovo-Krieg«, sagt der CDU-Bundestagsabgeordnete Willy Wimmer.
»Dafür
sind
Menschen gestorben.«

Keine Lüge war zu grotesk, das Schlachten in Gang zu bringen und am
Laufen
zu
halten. : Milosevic als Hitler, ein KZ in Pristina, Auschwitz auf dem
Amselfeld.
Während Nato und CNN sich die Mühe machten, Video-Aufnahmen zu fälschen,
beeindruckte der deutsche Verteidigungsminister durch nackte Wortgewalt:
Scharpings Serben, die mit abgeschnittenen Albanerköpfen Fußball spielen
und
Föten grillen, werden in die Geschichte der Psychopathologie eingehen.
Schließlich Wunder von biblischer Dimension: Massakrierte albanische
Intellektuelle, die post mortem Pressekonferenzen in westlichen
Hauptstädten
geben; Geisterzüge, die plötzlich auf wenig befahrenen Brücken
erscheinen
und
sich in Nato-Raketen bohren; Massengräber, die so leer sind wie jenes
von
Jesus
nach der Himmelfahrt.


Was ist daraus geworden? »Neun Monate nach der Stationierung der KFOR im
Kosovo
stützt nichts die Anschuldigung eines ›Völkermordes‹« (Le Monde
Diplomatique,
März 2000). Jürgen Elsässer hat die Rechtfertigungen der Nato im Lichte
neuer
Fakten und bisher unzugänglicher Dokumente geprüft.

Elsässer widerlegt die Behauptung, das erste Opfer im Krieg sei die
Wahrheit.
Die Wahrheit stirbt nämlich bereits lange vor dem Krieg: Mit den Lügen
über
Srebrenica, über Racak, über Rambouillet, über die sogenannte
Apartheidpolitik
im Kosovo wurden Parlamentarier und Bürger in den westlichen Staaten
getäuscht
und in ein blutiges Abenteuer gelockt. Die Nato ließ sich zur "Luftwaffe
im
ethnischen Krieg" (Henry Kissinger) machen und hat der UCK zur Macht
verholfen.
Resultat: Pristina ist judenfrei, die Volksfremden sind vertrieben, auf
den
Straßen wütet der Mob, die UCK-Geheimpolizei ist überall, die wenigen
Überlebenden zittern in Ghettos um ihr Leben. Allerdings: Jetzt spricht
niemand
von "humanitärer Katastrophe", "ethnischer Säuberung" und "Völkermord".
Kein
Wunder: Die Blamage des letzten würde die Vorbereitung des nächsten
Krieges
erschweren.

Darum ist diese vollständige, nüchterne und rücksichtslose Bilanz des
Kosovo-Krieges so wichtig.
Elsässers Buch ist eine unverzichtbare Enzyklopädie für alle, die nach
überprüfbaren Fakten gegen die tödliche Propaganda suchen.






Inhaltsverzeichnis

1) Vor dem Krieg

1a) Die Mutter aller Lügen
Die "Rampe von Srebrenica" als Abschußrampe in den Krieg
*** Schwerpunktkapitel*** Ca. 50.000 Zeichen

1b) Die verschwiegenen Morde
Der Terror der UCK vor dem Krieg und die Desinformation der westlichen
Öffentlichkeit
Ca. 25.000 Zeichen

1c)Geheimakte Racak
Die bisher geheimen Autopsieprotokolle der 40 Racak-Leichen dementieren
die
Nato-Version von einem serbischen Massaker
Ca. 18.000 Zeichen

1d)Hineingefingert
Die Memoiren des Wiener Diplomaten: Petritsch als deutscher Frontmann in
Rambouillet
Ca. 20.000 Zeichen

1e)Scharpings Hufschmied
"Operation Potkova" - eine stümperhafte Fälschung der
Geheimdienstconnection
Berlin-Wien
Ca. 24.000 Zeichen

2) Im Krieg

2a) Sex, Lügen und Video
Wie man mit manipulierten Fotos und sexuell konnotiertem Horror
Kriegsstimmung
erzeugt
Ca. 14.000 Zeichen

2b) Legal, illegal, kollateral
Legende und Fakten über den Bombenkrieg
Ca. 19.000 Zeichen

2c) Killing Fields und Deadly Lies
Was bleibt von den 100.000 Toten in Massengräbern?
***Schwerpunkkapitel*** Ca. 50.000 Zeichen

3) Nach dem Krieg

3a) Prizren ist serbenfrei
Die Lüge von der sauberen Bundeswehr
Ca. 24.000 Zeichen

3b) Albanischer Faschismus
Das Nato-Märchen von der multiethnischen Zukunft des Kosovo-Protektorats
***Schwerpunktartikel*** Ca. 40.000 Zeichen

4) Nachwort
Faktenmüll im Cyberspace
Die Zerstörung der Vernunft durch die Postmoderne oder: Fragen eines
arbeitenden
Lesers
Ca. 15.000 Zeichen

5) Anhang
5a) Internationale Pressestimmen zur Lage im Kosovo in den 80er Jahren
Ca. 10.000 Zeichen
5b) Milosevics Rede auf dem Amselfeld (ungekürzt)
Ca. 15.000 Zeichen
5c) Überblick über die Lügen des bosnischen Krieges
Ca.50.000 Zeichen







Der Autor

Jürgen Elsässer, Jahrgang 1957, war bis Juni 1997 leitender Redakteur
der
Berliner Tageszeitung „junge Welt“ und wurde im April 1999 Redakteur des
Monatsmagazins KONKRET, seit 1957 die bedeutendste Zeitschrift der
parteiunabhängigen Linken in der Bundesrepublik. Daneben arbeitet er
unregelmäßig unter anderem für die „Allgemeine Jüdische Wochenzeitung“,
die
„Süddeutsche Zeitung“, den WDR und das „Kursbuch“.

Im Kosovo-Krieg popularisierte er den Slogan "Kein Blut für Joschka"
(eine
Anspielung auf den Slogan "Kein Blut für Öl", den die Grünen im
Golfkrieg
1991
skandiert hatten) und wurde daraufhin vom SPIEGEL als „Berufszyniker

mit „altlinken Klischees“ geschmäht. Andere urteilten freundlicher: Über
sein
letztjähriges Kosovo-Buch »Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns. Das Kosovo und die
neue
deutsche Geopolitik« (Konkret Verlag Juni 1999; 2. Auflage November
1999)
schrieb die renommierte Tageszeitung Frankfurter Rundschau: »Ein
hervorragender
Band, im Zorn geschrieben und aus tiefer Enttäuschung heraus,
Enttäuschung
über
Linke und Grüne. Aber es ist sorgfältig recherchiert.«



Bibliographie

Jürgen Elsässer/Andrei S. Markovits (Hrsg)
Die Fratze der eigene Geschichte
Von der Goldhagen-Debatte zum Jugoslawienkrieg. Berlin
(Elefantenpress) September 1999, 208 Seiten, 29.90 DM

Jürgen Elsässer (Hrsg.)
Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns
Das Kosovo und die neue deutsche Geopolitik. Hamburg
(Konkret)
Juni
1999, 165 Seiten, 22.80 DM

Jürgen Elsässer
Braunbuch DVU
Eine deutsche Arbeiterpartei und ihre Freunde. Hamburk
(Konkret)
September 1998, 152 Seiten, 19.80 DM

Jürgen Elsässer/Sahra Wagenknecht
Vorwärts und vergessen?
Ein Streit über Marx, Lenin, Ulbricht und die verzweifelte
Aktualität des Kommunismus. Hamburg (Konkret) Juni 1996, 140
Seiten,
19.80 DM

Jürgen Elsässer
Wenn das der Führer hätte erleben dürfen
29 Glückwünsche zum deutschen Sieg über die Alliierten.
Hamburg
(Konkret) Mai 1995, 112 Seiten, 14.80 DM

Jürgen Elsässer
Antisemitismus - das alte Gesicht des neuen Deutschland
Analysen nach der Wiedervereinigung. Berlin (Dietz)
September
1992,
145 Seiten, 19.80 DM



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MILOSEVIC RICEVE I DIPLOMATICI STRANIERI

MILOSEVIC RECEIVES HEADS OF YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVE OFFICES
BELGRADE, August 5 (Tanjug) Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic
on Saturday received a group of heads of Yugoslav diplomatic and
consular
representative offices in several dozen countries and international
organizations.
In the talks, Milosevic stressed that Yugoslavia sets great
importance on the intensive development of equal relations and open
cooperation with all countries of the world, in which the successful
work
of Yugoslav diplomatic consular representative offices has an important
role and responsibility.
Yugoslavia firmly urges the affirmation of the policy of peace
and
stability, and due respect of all fundamental international principles,
which inevitably includes respect of sovereignty, territorial integrity
and
independence of all countries, and noninterference in their internal
affairs. Yugoslavia appears everywhere in the world with such an
approach
and that is why it enjoys great renown and wide international support,
and
why all attempts to isolate Yugoslavia have failed.
Yugoslavia realizes comprehensive bilateral ties with the vast
majority of world countries, ties which are based on longterm
cooperation,
mutual respect and understanding, which presents an example of building
international relations and the best way in which a country's own
interests
should be realized and protected, Milosevic said.
With its heroic defense from the NATO aggression (MarchJune,
1999)
and impressive results in national renewal, Yugoslavia has joined the
frontline in the struggle against the new colonialism, in which the
truth
about Yugoslavia and the defense of its freedom are becoming fully
expressed, awakening the conscience of millions of people who refuse to
be
reconciled and are also resisting the policy of hegemony and dictate.
Milosevic spoke to the Yugoslav diplomats about the most
important
issues of the national home and foreign policies.
Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic took part in the
talks.

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CHI HA DISTRUTTO DEVE PAGARE I DANNI

BELGRADE BRIEFS FOREIGN DIPLOMATS ON DAMAGE FROM SANCTIONS, NATO WAR
BELGRADE, August 4 (Tanjug) There can be no reconstruction or
development of southeast Europe if Yugoslavia is left out of the
development projects, according to Yugoslavia's Assistant Foreign
Minister
at a briefing on Friday. Zoran Jeremic briefed foreign diplomats in
Belgrade on the damage sustained by Yugoslavia through the application
of
international antiYugoslav sanctions and last year's NATO aggression.
Jeremic was quoting data submitted to U.N. Secretary General
Kofi
Annan on July 31 and published as a U.N. document. Annan has requested
similar information from the other countries in the region.
Jeremic said that experts of the U.N. Economic Commission for
Europe attach great importance to the inclusion of Yugoslavia in the
process of regional reconstruction, believing that it has a central part
to
play in the process.
"As a relatively large economy, located on strategic routes
leading to Western Europe, the Yugoslav economy is important both as a
market for neighbouring countries and as a country of transit.
"In the opinion of the Commission, the FR of Yugoslavia plays a
decisive role in the reconstruction plans for the region and the
prevention
of the FR of Yugoslavia to play that role would threaten the economy and
political stability of entire Europe", he said. He added that, until the
outbreak of the Balkan crisis, Yugoslavia had been in the forefront of
the
transitional economies in economic and social reform.
Overall direct and indirect damage caused by NATO's
antiYugoslav
aggression is estimated at 100 billion dollars plus, according to
Jeremic.

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SPARITI TRE PRIGIONIERI POLITICI SERBI DALL'OSPEDALE DI MITROVICA

SERB PRISONERS GO MISSING FROM KOSOVSKA MITROVICA HOSPITAL
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, August 4 (Tanjug) Three Serb prisoners
disappeared from a hospital in U.N.run Kosovska Mitrovica during the
night
between Thursday and Friday, Serbs sources in the divided city confirmed
to
TANJUG on Friday.
Dragan Jovanovic, Vlastimir Aleksic and Dragisa Peica were
being
treated after a protracted hunger strike in prison in Kosovska
Mitrovica,
where they had been held unlawfully for between 10 and 13 months without
a
trial.
They disappeared overnight while under U.N. mission (UNMIK)
police
guard.

SERBIAN OFFICIAL DOUBTS SERBS ESCAPED FROM KOSOVOMETOHIJA HOSPITAL
BELGRADE, August 4 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's
Deputy Justice Minister on Friday expressed doubt that three Serb
detainees, who disappeared from a hospital in U.N.run divided Kosovska
Mitrovica overnight, escaped of their own accord.
Zoran Bilinovac said that "the confused statement issued by the
UNMIK (U.N. KosovoMetohija mission) police saying that Dragan Jovanovic,
Dragisa Peica, and Vlastimir Aleksic three innocent Serbs whom the
socalled UNMIK justice department has kept in detention for a
year disappeared from the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica today, arouses
serious doubts about what really happened to them.
"The three were arrested a year ago on the sayso of the (ethnic
Albanian) socalled Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and during the
investigation have been threatened with being handed over to KLA
terrorists
unless they confessed their alleged crimes.
"In early June this year, (another Serb) Arsenije Vitosevic had
also disappeared from the Kosovska Mitrovica hospital. He was arrested
only
because his name was on a list submitted to (international force) KFor
on
June 18, 1999, by socalled KLA Commander Ismet Tari.
"The suspicion that KFor and UNMIK have handed over the four
Serbs
to their allies should not be entirely ruled out.
"It is, however, more probable that KFor and UNMIK have
stagemanaged events so as to bring additional pressure to bear on Serb
detainees to give up their demands for a swift and fair trial and
release
from detention, or in order to justify the transfer of detained Serbs
from
Kosovska Mitrovica deeper inside KosovoMetohija where they would not be
able to receive visits from relatives or attorneys, thereby making it
difficult for them to prove their innocence," Bilinovac said.

PEACE AND TOLERANCE CENTRE SEEKS EXPLANATION OF SERBS' DISAPPEARANCE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, August 4 (Tanjug) The Centre for Peace and
Tolerance in divided Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday asked the U.N. mission
UNMIK and the international force KFor to explain how Serb prisoners
disappeared from a local hospital overnight.
The Centre issued a statement to say it "learned today that
three
Serbs, who had been detained in the Kosovska Mitrovica prison,
disappeared
from the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica early this morning. "They are
Dragan Jovanovic, Vlastimir Aleksic and Dragisa Peic.
"Since neither UNMIK nor KFor have given a valid and serious
explanation of what has happened to them, the Centre for Peace and
Tolerance shares the concern of their families and awaits an explanation
of
the circumstances under which the three Serbs disappeared from the
hospital
in Kosovska Mitrovica.
"Concern is all the greater in view of the fact that there has
been no explanation to this day of the recent disappearance from the
same
hospital of Serb detainee Arsenije Vitosevic, of whom nothing is known
at
this time."
The UNMIK office in this city in the Yugoslav Republic of
Serbia's
U.N.administered province of KosovoMetohija said on Friday UNMIK was
investigating the disappearance of the three prisoners.

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SLAVO-MACEDONI ABBANDONANO LA FYROM OCCIDENTALE CAUSA NAZIONALISMO
PAN-ALBANESE

MACEDONIANS LEAVING WESTERN MACEDONIA
SKOPJE, August 5 (Tanjug) More and more Macedonians are
permanently leaving the western parts of their country for other parts
or
destinations abroad because ethnic Albanians have long been predominant
in
these parts, the Skopje daily Makedonija Denes warned on Saturday.
In Gostivar alone, Macedonians are currently selling some 400
apartments or houses, the daily said, underscoring that they are now
treated in this western town as secondclass citizens.
The inflow of ethnic Albanians into western Macedonian towns
began
several years ago when they started offering Macedonians large sums of
Dmarks for real estate. As a result of tense interethnic relations, but
also because they had been unable to find employment or become more
successfully engaged in private businesses, Macedonians had decided to
sell
their property and then leave permanently, the daily said.
In addition to houses and apartments, ethnic Albanian
businessmen
have purchased all business premises, department stores and main stores
in
Gostivar and Tetovo which had earlier been social property. The son of
former Croatian President Franjo Tudjman has also invested in business
premises in Gostivar, since he has close business ties with ethnic
Albanian
businessmen, Makedonija Denes said.
The Macedonian municipality of Gostivar has a population of
45,000. The majority population were formerly Macedonians, but they have
now dropped to a mere 18 percent. Consequently, Macedonians now make up
the
bulk of the 11,000 unemployed persons in Gostivar, the daily said.

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OLANDESI, CANADESI E BRITANNICI ARRESTATI IN JUGOSLAVIA.
L'ACCUSA E' TERRORISMO

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?f=/stories/20000805/361600.html

NATIONAL POST, Saturday, August 5, 2000

Yugoslavia facing pressure over 'terrorist' arrests

Canadians held by army: Axworthy blasts treatment of men as unacceptable

Stewart Bell
National Post

As Yugoslavia faced mounting international pressure over its arrest of
two Canadians and their British travel companions, Lloyd Axworthy, the
Foreign Affairs Minister, demanded his envoy be allowed to visit the
men, and called their treatment unacceptable.

A Canadian diplomat dispatched to the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro to
meet the detained Albertans, Shaun Going, 45, and his nephew, Liam Hall,
19, has been refused access to the men, who are being held in the town
of Andrijevica by the Yugoslav military...

New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/080400yugo-arrest.html

August 4, 2000
Yugoslavs Hold 4 Westerners in Arms Case
By STEVEN ERLANGER

PRAGUE, Aug. 3 -- The Yugoslav Army said today that it had arrested two
Britons and two
Canadians in Montenegro, accusing them of possessing weapons and
explosives, in what
appeared to be another effort to stimulate fears of Western encirclement
before elections next
month.

It was the second arrest of four foreigners reported this week by
Yugoslav authorities. Four
Dutchmen whose detention was disclosed on Monday were seized last month
on Serbia's border
with Montenegro, reportedly because they were trying to kill President
Slobodan Milosevic.

The army said today that the Britons and Canadians were employees of the
NATO-led forces in
Kosovo and were suspected of training pro-Western secessionists in
Montenegro, Serbia's tiny
sister republic, to commit "terrorist actions." ...

YUGOSLAV ARMY ARRESTS FOUR ARMED FOREIGN NATIONALS
BELGRADE, Aug 3 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Army has arrested four
armed foreign nationals carrying military equipment and demolition gear,
the Army Command said on Thursday.
The arrests were made in the border belt beyond the border
crossing in the northeast of the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro in the
night between Aug. 1 and 2.
The arrested persons are British nationals Adrian Michael
Prangnel
and John Connon Bredley Yore, and Canadian nationals Shuan Gerald Going
and
Liam Patrick Hall.
They were not authorised by the competent Yugoslav bodies to be
present in the area.
There are indications that the arrested foreign nationals have
been training Montenegrin interior ministry special troops and are
specialists in demolition and terrorist operations.
The competent Yugoslav Army authorities have information that
one
of the arrested is a member of the socalled Kosovo Protection Corps. The
authorities have also voluminous documents which clearly indicate the
true
plans and intentions of the arrested.
Investigation results will be made public in due course, the
army
statement said.

Yugoslavia suspects 4 Britons of spying
The Associated Press

PODGORICA, Yugoslavia (August 3, 2000 7:03 a.m. EDT
http://www.nandotimes.com) - The Yugoslav military has
detained four British citizens on suspicion of spying,
the private Montena-fax news agency reported Thursday.

It said the four unidentified Britons were arrested
Tuesday on Mount Cakor, on the border between
Montenegro and Kosovo. They were tourists, but arms
were allegedly found in their possession, Montena-fax
said.

"They were taken to military barracks under the
suspicion that they were conducting a hostile act of
spying," the Montenegrin news agency said, without
elaborating.

The British Foreign Office said Thursday it had no
reports of the arrests.

Yugoslav authorities said Monday that four Dutchmen
were arrested in July for allegedly plotting to
assassinate President Slobodan Milosevic.

The arrests follow allegations that NATO has hired
mercenaries to snatch fugitive war crimes suspects on
Yugoslav territory, tightening the noose around
indicted Serb leaders.

The Dutch government has demanded access to the
detainees, in accordance with international
conventions, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bart Jochems
said Thursday. But he said a Yugoslavia official in
The Hague would not tell details of the charges, where
they were being held or their medical condition.

DUTCH ESPIONAGE TERRORIST GANG ARRESTED IN YUGOSLAVIA - MINISTER
BELGRADE,
July 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's Information Minister said on Monday
state
security forces have arrested four Dutch special force troops who have
come
to Yugoslavia with the job of trying to assassinate President Slobodan
Milosevic. Briefing domestic and foreign reporters, Minister Goran Matic
said the espionage and terrorist gang was arrested while attempting to
enter Serbia from the other Yugoslav republic, Montenegro, via Serbia's
U.N.-run Kosovo-Metohija province. One of the four is a professional
soldier and they have all been trained by the British SAS. State
security
troops have seized some of the weapons and equipment found in the gang's
possession, Matic said, adding that the four, posing as war adventurers
and
weekend soldiers, have been organised and trained for subversive
operations
and assassinations. He went on to say that, by their own admission, the
gang had tried to get in touch with the Dutch KFor (international Force
in
Kosovo-Metohija) battalion and had planned to try to assassinate
Milosevic
or commit acts of terrorism on Yugoslav territory. Matic said the four
had
visited the territory of the former Yugoslavia on several occasions, as
evident from visas for (Bosnian Serb) Republika Srpska, Croatia and
Slovenia stamped on their passports, and prepared terrorist operations.
"Yugoslavia has an organised system of security, which is capable of
providing adequate protection to the people, the state and the political
system of the country. "No hired guns, military adventurers, special
troops
or gangs will ever penetrate our system of security and protection", he
vowed. The reporters were shown video footage of the arrested Dutchmen,
identified as Gotfrides Johannes Antonijus de Ri, Samrordijan Tjetje,
Johannes van Iersel and Ian van Stajk, who spoke about their arrival in
Yugoslavia and their terrorist plans. Asked by reporters who trains the
Montenegrin police, Matic said this is done by Great Britain, and that a
group of Montenegrin police officers has undergone training in U.S.
police
structures. "The truth is that the British provide some of the training
of
Montenegro's special forces, while Montenegro's interior ministry, for
all
the protestations of peace of its officials, has lately been busily
buying
various arms with Croatia's help", he said. "One cannot talk of peace
while
amassing weapons, the way Montenegrin President Djukanovic is doing",
Matic
added.


'This Is Fiction'
U.N. Tribunal, Dutch Govt. Deny Links to Milosevic's Alleged Assassins
The Yugoslav government showed a film of a Dutch citizen who was
arrested in Yugoslavia along with three other Dutchmen. All are accused
of planning to kidnap or kill President Slobodan Milosevic. (Reuters)

A M S T E R D A M, Netherlands, Aug. 1 — The International Criminal
Tribunal for former Yugoslavia today strongly denied links to a group of
Dutchmen being held in Serbia on suspicion of plotting to assassinate
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
Yugoslavia said Monday it had arrested four Dutchmen,
allegedly sent by Western intelligence agencies, who were planning to
kidnap Milosevic and other alleged war criminals indicted by The Hague
tribunal.
"I would call it pretty good fiction," said Paul Risley,
spokesman for the tribunal. "This story is fiction and nothing more."
With pictures of the four and their alleged cache of
weapons spread across most Dutch newspapers, the Dutch government raised
the tempo of its own denials and said it was trying to find out more
about the incident.
"We deny any military operation," said a Dutch Foreign
Ministry spokesman. He said Dutch diplomats were trying to make contact
with their Yugoslav counterparts in The Hague and in Belgrade to find
out more about the incident.
Friends and colleagues of one of those detained, Godfried
de Rie, reacted to the news with shock.
"He is a dead honest, hardworking man who never planned to
kidnap President Milosevic," Jaap Havik, the owner of a Mercedes
restoration firm that employed de Rie, told Dutch television. "He's
always working on cars and motorbikes."
A next-door neighbor of de Rie's described him as a
perfectly normal person who once worked as a postman.
'Weekend Warriors'
Yugoslav Information Minister Goran Matic said the men were posing as
amateur "weekend warriors" but were in fact assassins sent by the West.
He said the men had been caught in Mehov Krs, an isolated
corner of Serbia near Kosovo and Montenegro, about 300 miles south of
Belgrade.
Matic showed a film in which one of the four, identified as
Jeroen van Iersel, told an unidentified questioner that he and his
friends had been looking for people indicted by the U.N. tribunal.
The Dutch spokesman said the Foreign Ministry was
investigating reports that the group was arrested as long as two weeks
ago.
"We will continue our efforts and go to the [Yugoslav]
Foreign Ministry to ask why we were not told earlier of their arrest,"
the spokesman said.
He added that de Rie had done his military service in the
army in 1989. "But he was an administrator, hardly a paratrooper."
The Dutch Foreign Ministry named the others as Bas van
Schaik, Sander Zeitsen and van Iersel. All are aged between 28 and 32.
"We are pretty sure that they are neither military nor
involved in military things," the spokesman said.
The United States has offered a reward of up to $5 million
for information leading to the arrest of Milosevic, former Bosnian Serb
leader Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, who commanded Bosnian Serb
forces during the 1992-95 conflict in Bosnia.
In the film shown to journalists in Belgrade, van Iersel
said he knew Milosevic and Mladic were among those indicted. He said
that if he met the Yugoslav leader he would have been put in a box on
top of a car and driven out of the country.
'These Are No Pros'
Military specialists appeared in the Dutch media this morning to say it
was extremely unlikely that the four are professional militiamen.
If they were what the Yugoslavs claim they are —
SAS-trained assassins — then they would never have told their plans,
the experts argued. Those same specialists pointed out that Dutch
mercenaries fought in Croatia, mostly on the Croatian side.
Most of them came from extreme right-wing organizations,
they said.
They also pointed out that the $5 million bounty is for
information — not for kidnapping, much less delivering a human head.
One NATO source was reported as dismissing the whole
incident as "bizarre."
The Dutch anti-fascist group Kakfa, which monitors rightist
activity, believes the men could be former members of the ultra-right
CP'86 group, which was ordered dismantled last year by a Dutch court.
Like many other small skinhead groups, CP'86 played survival games on
the weekends.
Like most other European countries, the Netherlands has its
fringe groups of ultra-rightists and neo-Nazis — many of whom are also
hardcore soccer hooligans. They are closely monitored by the
intelligence services.
A Milosevic Stunt?
In Belgrade, the opposition dismissed the arrests as a propaganda stunt.
"Matic is crazy about conspiracy theories," said Bogdan
Grubacic, editor of the independent English language newsletter VIP. He
said the arrests are part of the propaganda war launched by the
Milosevic regime ahead of early elections, scheduled for Sept. 24.
And the alleged location of the arrests, on the border to
Montenegro, could serve the dual purpose of helping Milosevic to fuel
his war of words with the smaller, anti-Milosevic partner in the
Yugoslav federation.
The Milosevic regime says Montenegro is behind repeated
assassinations. Montenegro, in return, regularly accuses Milosevic of
sending his hit-men there.
Montenegro is boycotting the upcoming elections, saying the
laws had been changed by the Yugoslav government to favor the
re-election of Milosevic and his partners.
ABCNEWS.com's Sue Masterman and Reuters contributed to this report.


DATE: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 19:59:00
From: Herman de Tollenaere <hermantl@...>
To: right-left@...

On 31 July, Dutch TV rebroadcast Serbian TV tapes of four Dutchmen,
arrested in Yugoslavia. On those tapes, they claimed to be an armed
"special unit" with violence and abduction plans.

For whatever it is worth:

Dutch daily NRC-Handelsblad ["NRC-Business Paper"] of Tuesday 1 August
on
one of the arrested, Godfried de Rie:

"According to the Group for Anti-Fascist Research, KAFKA, his name, with
the same initials and place of residence, is on the list of members for
1995 of the extreme Rightist [political party] CP'86. The [Dutch]
Ministry
of Defence confirms that De Rie was a conscript Army lance corporal, of
1989/8."

The CP'86 ["Center" Party, founded in 1986] political party was
notorious
for racism, violence, and open propaganda for Nazis like Adolf Hitler
and
Rudolf Hess. In the 1990s, they sent Dutch mercenaries to Yugoslavia, to
fight in extreme Right Croat units in Croatia and Bosnia.

Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,

Herman de Tollenaere



BLIC
English Edition


Goran Matic, the Federal Minister about the arrest of
Holland citizens

They planned assault on Slobodan Milosevic

Belgrade (Beta)- Goran Matic, the Federal Information
Minister said that
Yugoslav police had arrested four Holland citizens who had
planned an
assault on Slobodan Milosevic. Matic added that they had
been arrested on
Mehov Krs, at the Serbia-Montenegro border, just before the
Group of Eight
summit in Japan.

Names of the arrested are Gotfrides Johanes Antonius de
Rij, Samvordian
Tjetje, Johanes Andrianus Kornelius van Irshel and Ian van
Stajk Bastien.
(That's how the names were told to the journalists.)
Journalists could watch videotaped statements of the
arrested. One of them
said that the group's aim was to kidnap Slobodan Milosevic
and take him
abroad or to some foreign embassy in order to obtain the
warrant prize. "Our
plan was to kidnap Slobodan Milosevic, to kill him, cut off
his head, put it
in a box and send it," he added.

The arrested said that they had traveled from Slovenia, via
Croatia, Bosnia
and Herzegovina and Montenegro. They added that they had
planned to go to
Kosovo and join the Holland KFOR battalion. The Holland
KFOR members were to
provide firearms for them.

Gotfrides Johanes Antonius de Rij said that his rank was
"Soldier number
one" and that his identification number was 690816197.

We intended to come to Yugoslavia to see the situation. We
planned to go to
the war zone, to Kosovo. We planned to fight against Serbs
there. We also
planned to visit the Holland battalion in Kosovo," he said.
He added that
they had entered the country through Montenegro, in a car.

"Situation at the check-point was very unusual. They didn't
ask us anything.
We were told that we had to pay car insurance and that
every person was
allowed to take in 5 grams of drug," he added. He mentioned
that they
possessed "special knifes, handcuffs, and a saw". They had
five cameras for
shooting military bases, nature and customs checkpoints.
They also had a dog
that guarded the car.

"Part of the plan was to kidnap an important person. I
cannot say the name,
but we could earn a lot of money with that person," the
arrested said.

Samvordian Tjetje said that they had planned to collect
information about
Milosevic, Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and other persons
indicted by The
Hague Tribunal.

Matic said that this group was a part of American
subversive activities
directed against Yugoslavia. Matic accused the Montenegrin
Ministry of Home
Affairs and Montenegrin President of purchasing
anti-aircraft and
anti-helicopter arms with the help of Croatia. He said that
the Montenegrin
police had been trained by members of special British SAS
units and members
of American intelligence service.

"In this case, Croatia is not benign. It's obvious that
there is space for
terrorist acts against Yugoslavia," Matic added.


Holland doesn't have information about arrested Holland
citizens

The Hague (Beta-AFP)- Yesterday, the Holland Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
announced that it didn't possess information about four
Holland citizens,
arrested in Yugoslavia and accused of planning to kidnap
and murder
President Milosevic.

"We don't know anything. We are not sure about their
nationality," spokesman
of the Ministry said for France Press. He added that
Holland authorities
were searching for "Credible information and affirmations".

"We are trying to gain some information through our embassy
in Belgrade. In
this moment, we don't have any information from Yugoslav
authorities," the
spokesman added.

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SUL RIPRISTINO DELLA NAVIGABILITA' DEL DANUBIO BLOCCATA DALLA NATO

YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ISSUES STATEMENT ON CLEARING OF DANUBE WATERWAY
BELGRADE, August 3 (Tanjug) Recent complex talks with the
Danube
Commission on clearing the waterway of debris from NATOdemolished
bridges
has produced results of interest to Yugoslavia and other Danube
Commission
members, the Yugoslav Government said on Thursday.
Navigation in the River Danube through Yugoslavia has been
blocked
by debris of bridges smashed by NATO in its aggression on Yugoslavia
last
year.
At the session chaired by Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic, the
Government reviewed a report on the results of the negotiations, the
Government statement said.
Documents adopted by the Danube Commission incorporated the
positions set down in the Yugoslav Government's Memorandum that the
resumption of international navigation in the Danube through Yugoslavia
must be done with full respect for Yugoslavia's territorial integrity
and
sovereignty, its laws and regulations.
In the first stage of the navigation route rehabilitation, the
project envisages for building a new bridge across the Danube at Novi
Sad,
to replace the pontoon bridge erected after NATO planes had demolished
all
three bridges in this northern city.
The Yugoslav Government recommended that the Commission appoint
Radisa Djordjevic, director of the Yugoslav Institute for the
Maintenance
and Development of Inland Waterways, to head the project.

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VERSO LE ELEZIONI DI SETTEMBRE NELLA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA

YUGOSLAVIA - GENERAL ELECTIONS

YUGOSLAV PREMIER CONFIDENT MONTENEGRO WILL JOIN IN SEPTEMBER POLLS
BELGRADE, August 3 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's Prime Minister said
on
Thursday that general elections called for September would be held also
in
Montenegro, because that Republic too is part of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia.
Elections are a right, not an obligation, Momir Bulatovic told
reporters during a recess at the 2nd Diaspora 2000 convention of
Yugoslav
expatriates, being held in Belgrade. He added he would personally feel
very
happy if all people exercised this right.
Bulatovic noted that Montenegro is a single constituency in the
election of deputies to both chambers of the Yugoslav Federal
Parliament.
He said that the Socialist People's Party (SNP) of Montenegro,
which he heads and which is in opposition in Montenegro, would contest
the
elections.
On the other hand, the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro,
the
senior partner in Montenegro's ruling coalition, is threatening to
boycott
the polls, called for September 24.
He hoped a way would be found, in cooperation with Montenegro's
Government, to make it possible for the people of Montenegro to vote in
the
polls if they want to, and added this would be a test of the democratic
character of the present regime in Montenegro.

YUGOSLAV MEDIA, PARTIES SIGN ACCORD ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN COVERAGE
BELGRADE, August 3 (Tanjug) State radio and television
stations
in Yugoslavia, the Governments of Yugoslavia and its republics of Serbia
and Montenegro, and political parties contesting upcoming elections
agreed
on Wednesday on criteria for the contestants' fair and equal media
presentation during the election campaign. On behalf of the Yugoslav
Government, the accord was signed by Minister of Information Goran
Matic.
Elections for president of state and both houses of the Federal
Parliament have been called for September 24. Serbia will have local
elections on the same day.
Matic said the accord was open to all political parties
planning
to take part in the polls.
The accord determines the number and length of radio and
television appearances by the contestants on state radio and television
channels, according to Matic.
Under the election laws, state electronic media, both at the
federal level and at the level of the republics, are obliged to give
equal
coverage to all candidates in the information programmes during the
election campaign, he said.
The accord was signed on Wednesday by Radio Yugoslavia,
Yugoslav
Television, Serbian Radio and Television and Studio B.
About 30 parties have also signed the accord.

YUGOSLAV ELECTORAL COMMISSION ADOPTS REGULATIONS FOR COMING POLLS
BELGRADE, August 2 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Central Electoral
Commission met on Wednesday and adopted rules and regulations for
activities leading up to federal presidential and parliamentary
elections
scheduled for September 24, a Parliament statement said.
At its second session, held at the Federal Parliament and
chaired
by Commission Chairman Borivoje Vukicevic, the body defined uniform
rules
and standards for the coming elections. The rules are fully in line with
the laws that regulate presidential elections and elections to the
Chambers
of Citizens (lower house) and Republics of the Yugoslav Parliament.
The Commission further adopted rules and regulations for the
attendance of the presidential and parliamentary elections by foreign
observers.
It also appointed chairmen, secretaries and members of local
electoral commissions and their deputies in the constituencies in the
Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro, the statement said.

YUGOSLAV MINISTRY OFFERS AGREEMENT ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN
BELGRADE, August 1 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Information Ministry
on
Tuesday invited state media and parties contesting forthcoming general
elections to come to a consultation about election campaign terms on
Wednesday.
The Ministry said that, under the relevant regulations, the
radio
and television stations whose founders are the Yugoslav Federation or
either of its republics (Serbia, Montenegro), representatives of the
founders and parties taking part in elections should together decide
about
the number and duration of radio and television appearances of the
contestants during the election campaign.
The purpose of such an agreement is to give equal access to the
media to all parties and all candidates, and to give a balanced media
presentation and an equal treatment of the contestants in the election
campaign.
The agreement, to be reached on Wednesday, will be open to all
political parties contesting the elections.
Yugoslav presidential and parliamentary elections have been
called
for Sept. 24.

ELECTIONS - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
DINI AND ALBRIGHT AGREE OVER MONTENEGRO
ROME, Aug 1 (Tanjug) - The United States and Italy agree that Montenegro
should take part at the Sept 24 elections in Yugoslavia. U.S. Secretary
of
State Madeleine Albright and Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini
reached
agreement on this issue during their meeting in Rome on Tuesday. In a
brief
statement after talks at the Italian Foreign Ministry, Albright said the
main subject at her talks with Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic in
Rome later today would be preparations for the Yugoslav elections, which
the United States considers of extreme importance. Italy, for its part,
believes it is necessary to urge the Montenegrin authorities not to
boycot
the elections, which Minister Dini also described as very important.


http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/01/montenegro.albright/index.html
Albright to ask Montenegro to reconsider election boycott

August 1, 2000
Web posted at: 4:43 a.m. EDT (0843 GMT)

From staff and wire reports
ROME -- U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is to ask
Montenegro's president to
reconsider a planned boycott of Yugoslavia's presidential, parliamentary
and municipal elections
scheduled for September....

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RAPPORTI BILATERALI RF JUGOSLAVIA - IRAN

YUGOSLAVIA'S MILOSEVIC SENDS MESSAGE TO IRAN'S KHATAMI
TEHRAN, Aug 3 (Tanjug) Deputy Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zoran
Novakovic met in Tehran on Thursday with Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal
Gharazi to whom he gave a personal message from Yugoslav President
Slobodan
Milosevic for Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.
Novakovic is paying a severalday official visit to Iran.
During the cordial and frank discussion on the first day, the
two
sides exchanged views on the current situation in bilateral relations
and
supported new initiatives for cooperation, especially in the economy and
information.
Meeting separately with his host, Deputy Foreign Minister
Mortez
Sarmadi, Novakovic expressed pleasure at the attained degree of accord
on
most important international matters and at a mutually declared
readiness
to promote bilateral cooperation in all areas of mutual interest.

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NUOVE MISURE PER IL SISTEMA SANITARIO IN SERBIA

SERBIAN HEALTH MINISTER PRESENTS NEW MEASURES IN HEALTH SERVICE
BELGRADE, Aug 2 (Tanjug) The Serbian Medical Society will play
an
important part in the efforts to enhance health services, especially in
a
consulting capacity, according to the Serbian minister of health on
Wednesday.
Minister Milovan Bojic, who is also vice premier of this
Yugoslav
republic, was meeting with the Society's Executive Board. Bojic
explained
that medical professionals would in the future be given a greater role
to
play in shaping the policy of the health service, especially through
special commissions that are to be set up within the Ministry of Health.
He went on to say that doctors would be given a chance to
supplement their incomes by putting in additional work at state medical
facilities.
He said the government would set aside funds for building at
least
1,000 homes for young doctors, as one of the measures aimed at
preventing a
drain of highly qualified young professionals.
In future, greater attention would be paid to research projects
in
the health department, Bojic said, announcing tighter supervision at
medical institutions to replace the present slackness and even chaos in
some segments of the health protection system.

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IL PIANO DI RICOSTRUZIONE ECONOMICA DELLA SERBIA

SERBIAN PREMIER SAYS GOVERNMENT RESOLUTE TO BOOST ECONOMIC GROWTH
KANJIZA, August 1 (Tanjug) Serbia's premier said on Tuesday
the
Government was committed to boosting economic growth and development in
order that this Yugoslav Republic should as soon as possible recover the
lost domestic product and repair the huge damage done by last year's
NATO
aggression.
Visiting the industrial town of Kanjiza in Serbia's northern
Vojvodina province, Premier Mirko Marjanovic inaugurated a new modern
plant
at the Potisje brickyard.
Marjanovic said Serbia was looking ahead to a period of brisk
development, with a twodigit domestic product growth rate.
According to him, the primary strategic project in the year
2000
is to build 10,000 homes at low cost and with all modern amenities as
the
first stage of a project for building 100,000 homes over the next ten
years.
The intensive housing development should boost the construction
industry, which had doubled its performance this year, and should
stimulate
the industry of building materials and other ancillary industries, he
said.
He added that the first half of the year had seen the
attainment
of the key goals of brisk economic growth and maintenance of
macroeconomic
and price stability.
In the period, industrial production had risen by 21.2 percent
over the same period in 1999, in line with the projected economic policy
for the year 2000 of increasing industrial production by 15 percent and
the
domestic product by 14 percent, he said.
The Government was, meanwhile, continuing its policy of firm
budget restrictions, i.e., of financing public spending solely from real
sources, which was the chief factor of price stability, Marjanovic said.
"Sanctions and other forms of outside pressure have not stopped
us
implementing reforms, building modern market institutions and adopting
major systemic laws: on companies, on concessions, on ownership
transformation, on value added tax, and others," he said.
He added the programme was a continuation of a policy that
meant
protecting the country's freedom, independence and integrity, settling
the
problem of KosovoMetohija politically, ending the missions of KFor and
UNMIK and returning that Serbian province under the full jurisdiction of
Serbia and Yugoslavia.
Also, he said, this policy meant a Yugoslavia as a state of
equal
people, nations and republics, economic and cultural development,
constant
growth of production and living standards, free education and medical
services, social security, affirmation of the policy of national unity,
development of democratic institutions, freedom of the media, national
and
religious equality, openness to economic, political and cultural
cooperation with all countries on an equal footing with respect for the
fundamental principles of international relations and international law.
Upcoming general elections, according to Marjanovic, will give
full support to the policy of heroic defence of the country against
aggressors, to reconstruction and the building of development projects,
and
will marginalise those who would like to come to power as exponents of
the
aggressors, betraying their country, sabotaging reconstruction and
justifying the crimes of the aggressors.

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VUCIC: LA SERBIA E' UN AVAMPOSTO DI LIBERTA'

VUCIC: SERBIA BASTION OF FREEDOM
VRANJE, August 2 (Tanjug) Serbian Information Minister and
ranking official of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Aleksandar Vucic
said
in Vranje late on Tuesday that Serbia is a bastion of freedom and the
only
unsubdued country in Europe even though part of its territory is
occupied,
referring to Kosovo and Metohija province which is currently under de
facto
administration of the United Nations.
Speaking in a broadcast by the local TV station in this
southern
Serbian town, Vucic spoke about the upcoming local and federal elections
and the current political situation in Yugoslavia.
He said he believed citizens would decide well and that
patriotic,
nationallyoriented political forces would triumph.
Vucic strongly criticized political parties of prowestern
orientation.
Fifthcolumn activities by opposition parties in Serbia
demonstrate
the senselessness of propaganda activities which urge "the options of
those
who killed our children" in comparison with activists who "never left
the
country and want to preserve the common state of Serbia and Montenegro."
Vucic underscored that Kosovo and Metohija province "is not
lost,
but only temporarily occupied." Serbia is the only unsubdued state in
Europe and a nucleus of freedom, he reiterated.
Commenting on the upcoming elections for Yugoslav president,
Vucic
said opposition parties were proU.S. oriented and that all those who
support the policy of Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic advocate
turning Montenegro, and even Yugoslavia, into an ethnic Albanian and
Muslim
country.
It is all the same to the west which opposition figure they
will
appoint "since they are all the same and all servants," Vucic said.

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UCKFOR: KFOR PERQUISISCE LA CASA DI UN TESTIMONE DEI CRIMINI DELL'UCK

KFOR RAIDS HOME OF WITNESS AGAINST ETHNIC ALBANIAN MURDER SUSPECT
GNJILANE, August 1 (Tanjug) International force Kfor and
ethnic
Albanian police troops in U.N.run KosovoMetohija have raided the house
of a
Serb witness against an ethnic Albanian murder suspect, amateur radio
operators reported on Tuesday.
The ethnic Albanian, Afrim Zeqiri, is accused of murdering
three
people, including a fouryearold child, and wounding two Serbs in the
multiethnic village of Cernica near Gnjilane, in the east of the
Yugoslav
Republic of Serbia's KosovoMetohija province.
Kfor and ethnic Albanian police troops searched the house of
the
Serb, chief witness and one of two survivors of Zeqiri's attack.
The Serb, Zoran Stolic, sustained seven wounds at Zeqiri's
hands
and was hospitalised. After being discharged from hospital, he had gone
to
Smederevo, central Serbia, for further medical treatment and to
recuperate
with relatives.
A day after his departure, Kfor and ethnic Albanian police
troops
broke down the door to his home and turned the place upside down,
smashing
everything in sight.
Stolic returned home on Monday to find the place ransacked and
his
savings of 6,500 German marks gone, according to amateur radio
operators.

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RAPPORTI BILATERALI RFJ - UCRAINA

UKRAINIAN MP VISITS YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT
BELGRADE, August 1 (Tanjug) A senior Yugoslav Parliament
official
received on Tuesday a visiting Ukrainian parliamentarian who heads his
country's parliamentary working group on cooperation with the Yugoslav
Parliament.
Ljubisa Ristic, who chairs the Foreign Policy Committee of the
Yugoslav Parliament's Chamber of Citizens (lower house), briefed the
guest
from Ukraine, Sergei Kiashko, on recent amendments to the Yugoslav
constitution.
Ristic said that procedures for electing MPs to the Chamber of
Republics (upper house) and for electing president of state had been
changed.
He explained that the 350,000 Serbs and other nonAlbanians who
have fled KosovoMetohija would be able to vote in forthcoming elections,
as
would the Serbs remaining in that U.N.administered province of the
Yugoslav
republic of Serbia.
The same applies to all other Yugoslav citizens in
KosovoMetohija,
according to Ristic.
"Forces of occupation in KosovoMetohija have carried out a sham
census in an effort to set the stage for unlawful elections without
Serbs,"
said Ristic, adding that such elections would be an attempt to legalize
KosovoMetohija's secession.
He went on to say that foreign observers would be invited to
the
elections, but they would not be from the countries that had launched
last
year's aggression on Yugoslavia.
"We maintain no contacts with the parliaments of these
countries,
as they will not have most of our MPs in their countries," Ristic
explained.

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LA RFJ VERSO LA RATIFICA DELLA CONVENZIONE DI RIO SULLA BIODIVERSITA'

YUGOSLAVIA FOR PRESERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY BELGRADE, Aug 1
(Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Government has prepared for the federal
parliament
a draft law ratifying the Convention on Biological Diversity whose
objective is the preserved and balanced use of biological diversity.
This
Convention implies that states have the sovereign right, in keeping with
the United Nations Charter and principles of international law, to
exploit
their own resources according to their own ecological policy, but also
the
responsibility not to cause damage to the environment and biological
diversity of other states or areas which are outside their jurisdiction,
said a statement by the federal government. Having in mind Yugoslavia's
central position in the Balkans, the high degree of biological
diversity,
and the need to follow the long-term effects of last year's (March-June)
NATO aggression on the environment, the draft law is also aimed at
preserving biological diversity in the wider region of the Balkans. The
international Convention on Biological Diversity, of which Yugoslavia is
a
signatory, was drawn up in Rio De Janeiro on June 5, 1992, and it
regulates
the area of the use of biodiversity along with securing conditions for
an
equal division of benefits from genetic resources and development.

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LE CONCLUSIONI DEL CAMPEGGIO INTERNAZIONALE DI SIROGOJNO

INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CAMP IN ZLATIBOR INTERNATIONAL CAMP URGES
SOLIDARITY WITH YUGOSLAVIA SIROGOJNO, Yugoslavia, Aug 1 (Tanjug) - An
international friendship camp in Sirogojno on Mt Zlatibor, west-central
Serbia (Yugoslavia), on Tuesday adopted a declaration urging solidarity
with Yugoslavia in its resistance to the new world order. Some sixty
representatives of various organisations from 21 countries have come to
Yugoslavia to analyze the current situation and consequences of last
year's
NATO aggression and sanctions, and have been the extent of the
devastation
at first hand. They also inquired into the situation in the Yugoslav
republic of Serbia's U.N.-administered province of Kosovo-Metohija.
According to the Declaration, reasons offered by foreign powers
notwithstanding, the March-June 1999 war against Yugoslavia had nothing
to
do with the situation in the country, since the government in Belgrade
had
never tried to expel, let alone commit a genocide of, the ethnic
Albanian
population in Kosovo-Metohija. The conflict between the Yugoslav
government
and the ethnic Albanian so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was the
result of numerous crimes committed by ethnic Albanian separatists, and
was
stoked by the super-powers, which took the side of the KLA and launched
an
aggressive policy towards Yugoslavia, the document says. It goes on to
say
that the pressure culminated at Rambuillet, France, talks in early 1999,
where Yugoslavia was forced to reject an unacceptable ultimatum which,
if
accepted, would have stripped it of its sovereignty. The refusal
furnished
a pretext for NATO's air strikes, which in fact gave air support to the
KLA, the paper avers. The Declaration says that the current situation in
Kosovo- Metohija, which is now administered by the international force
KFor
and the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK, is disastrous. The missions have
done
next to nothing to prevent crimes: 1,100 Serbs, Romanies and other
non-Albanians have been murdered along with 290 ethnic Albanians, 960
people have disappeared, 90 Serbian churches and monasteries have been
damaged or destroyed, it adds. More than 350,000 people have been forced
out of Kosovo-Metohija, the Declaration says. Yugoslavia, it adds, is a
hub
of telecommunications networks, oil pipelines, roads, railways that
transport raw materials, information and labour between the Caucasus,
the
Far East, the Middle East and Western Europe. According to the document,
the true reason for the so-called humanitarian war against Yugoslavia
lay
in its being seen as an obstacle in the way of multinational companies
attaining their objectives and increasing profits. The paper goes on to
call for solidarity with Yugoslavia and for lifting all anti-Yugoslav
sanctions and implementing the U.N. Security Council's Resolution No.
1244
on Kosovo-Metohija. The Friendship Camp participants urge
indemnification
of Yugoslavia for war damages and losses sustained through the
sanctions,
for prosecuting NATO politicians for war crimes, and for putting an end
to
the demonisation of Yugoslavia in western media. They also urge support
for
the forces in Yugoslavia that want dialogue between the ethnic
communities
and that oppose war, urge respect for the country's sovereignty and
international law and the disbanding of NATO.

INITIATIVE FOR LIFTING SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA
BELGRADE, July 30 (Tanjug) Prominent Norwegian politicians and
public figures will launch in their country an initiative for lifting
the
international economic sanctions imposed on the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, Norwegian author Jo Eggen told Tanjug.
Eggen is taking part in the work of the International camp of
Friendship held in the village of Sirogojno on Mt. Zlatibor, western
Serbia.
Eggen has discussed this action, which is gaining in intensity
in
Norway, with certain members of the Norwegian parliament and government
all
of whom expressed readiness to support the demand for lifting this
inhuman
form of pressure on the people of Yugoslavia.
According to Eggen, the initiative will be joined by many
public
figures in Norway, trade union leaders and senior church dignitaries.

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IN BOSNIA SI PRIVATIZZA QUANTO SI E' COSTRUITO IN 50 ANNI DI SFRJ CON IL
SUDORE E L'IMPEGNO DEI LAVORATORI JUGOSLAVI DI OGNI NAZIONALITA'

Bosnia to sell 51 pct stakes in 86 large firms

SARAJEVO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Bosnia's Moslem-Croat federation will
offer 51
percent stakes in 86 of its largest firms to strategic investors and 49
percent stakes to citizens through public share offerings, an official
said
on Tuesday.

Nedim Lulo, deputy head of the federation privatisation agency, also
said
that a swap of privatisation vouchers for shares in state firms in the
federation would start on September 29 after a three-month delay.

Lulo said that 51 percent share stakes would be offered to strategic
foreign
and local investors via tenders and solely for cash while the remaining
49
percent would be offered to citizens in exchange for privatisation
vouchers.

The list of firms, seen as of strategic importance for the state and
including two federation power and telecommunication companies, was
proposed
by an international group of experts.

In another list of 206 firms proposed by the federation's ten cantonal
privatisation agencies, 10 percent of shares would be offered for cash
with
the remaining 90 percent privatised in exchange for vouchers.

Lulo said that cantonal privatisation bodies should decide next week
whether
the state would keep 51 percent of shares in infrastructure firms, such
as
waterworks and sewage systems, and offer remaining shares via public
share
offerings.

He said that the federation privatisation agency is obliged to publicly
announce the final list of firms to be privatised by the end of August.
He
added that the exchange of vouchers for shares should be complete in 45
days.

The vouchers are granted to citizens as a compensation for war-related
debts,
such as unpaied salaries and pensions and frozen foreign currency bank
accounts. Their total value was estimated at 15 billion Bosnian marka
($7.09
billion).

Post-war Bosnia also comprises the Serb republic, where the distribution
of
vouchers to citizens has only just begun.

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YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
BELGRADE,18 July 2000 No.3112

INTERVIEW OF THE FEDERAL FOREIGN MINISTER ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC
TO THE QATAR TELEVISION AL-DZAZIRA


Announcement: Meeting of the day

What are the effects of embargo imposed by the West on Yugoslavia - it
is
one of the questions that Jumana Tammur asks the Foreign Minister of
Yugoslavia in the "Meeting of the day", which is currently on the air

Meeting of the day

Dear viewers, welcome to our today's show "Meeting of the day". This is
a
meeting with the Yugoslav Foreign Minister, Mr. Zivadin Jovanovic. The
topics we shall address will include internal political and economic
situation in Yugoslavia, the attitude towards the opposition and his
views
on the future of Kosovo and Metohija, Yugoslavia, Montenegro and the
Balkans in general.

Q: Mr. Jovanovic, welcome to TV Al-Dzazira show. First of all, what are
the
factors that have determined and are determining your Government's
position
concerning the crisis in Kosovo and in the Balkans in general?

A: The Kosovo problem is one of separatism and terrorism. It has been
present for some time, but it has been intensified in the last few
years.
Separatism has been supported from the outside to destabilize the region
and aggravate the situation in the region in pursuit of their own global
interests in Europe, Asia and the world at large. Province of Kosovo and
Metohija has been the birthplace of the statehood of Serbia. Medieval
Serbian State was situated in Kosovo and Metohija. Some cultural
monuments
still testify to that. Separatist movement caused chaos in the region,
endangering international principles and stability.

Q: You say terrorism, separatism but the people there say they want
independence.

A: First of all, people in Kosovo and Metohija are not of one ethnic
national community. Serbs, Albanians, Muslims, Turks, Egyptians,
Goranci,
and members of other nationalities have been living there for centuries.

Q: What about the majority? Can you illustrate that?

A: Majority in Serbia are Serbs and Kosovo has always been in Serbia.
So,
you cannot take a city or a district and say majority in this city are
those and those and claim separation of the city or a district. One
should
not simplify the situation. Kosovo and Metohija is a multi-ethnic,
multi-cultural, multi-religious region of Serbia and Yugoslavia and
solution over there has always been community and tolerance, solidarity
of
all. Albanians make most of the population in Kosovo and Metohija, this
is
true. But they are citizens of Serbia and Yugoslavia and there they are
a
national minority. These are international standards. Why would
Albanians
live outside prosperous Serbia and Yugoslavia, which is better than any
other in the region? Who would take Albania as a model anyway and in
what
respect, with chaos, crime and instability over there?

Q: You are giving a nice picture of the situation, while most analysts
say
that you handled roughly the crisis in Kosovo and Metohija?

A: All depends who the analysts are. If you had been in Yugoslavia, in
Kosovo and Metohija you would have seen quite a different picture from
the
one presented in Western media. NATO was no longer necessary in Europe.
With the break-up of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, as a global
factor NATO remained without a global adversary, without a global
threat.
Linked with military-industrial complex, it had to justify its existence
and even expand to the East although there is no reason for that in the
newly-created conditions. Therefore, it started to openly encourage
separatism and terrorism, to create problems and crises to justify its
expansion to the south and south-east of Europe, towards the Caspian
basin,
central Asia, region of the Middle East, towards the sources of energy,
strategic raw materials and big markets.

Q: Then, you are saying that foreign interference has led to that. But
if
you really think so why did you allow the soldiers to kill civilians? We
saw on TV that women were slaughtered, just like that.

A: Pictures have been falsified on TV. You could see pictures from
Kosovo
and Metohija from the winter while it was spring. Many pictures were not
from Kosovo at all, and cars or vehicles were from other countries. This
is
simply technology they use to prepare and justify the aggression.

Q: But we saw Albanians talking about their relatives, fathers, mothers,
or
daughters and it was confirmed by independent journalists, as seen on
TV.

A: Those pictures appeared after the aggression of NATO and what
happened
happened only after 24 March 1999. There have been no refugees in
Macedonia, Albania or any other country before the aggression but only
after the aggression. Can you blame the people running from NATO bombs,
cruise missiles, cluster bombs, bombs with depleted uranium. Even the
western media now admit that they have been manipulated, and even
subjected
to censorship.

Q: Are you saying that the Albanians ran to Macedonia because they were
afraid of NATO?

A: They were running because and after NATO bombing because Pristina was
a
centre of bombings. Bombs were falling all over Pristina and other towns
in
Kosovo and Metohija. How can you expect the people to stay in towns and
villages with NATO bombs falling and hundreds of civilians getting
killed?

Q: What about massacres that happened before?

A: Which massacres? Where did you get these information?

Q: From agencies.

A: What agencies, whose agencies? News agencies, intelligence, NATO.
There
are a lot of agencies, you will agree. There were no massacres at all in
Kosovo and Metohija. There were provocations by a terrorist organization
calling themselves Kosovo Liberation Army, ambushing and killing Serbian
policemen and people. Police responded in accordance with the law and
their
authority to stop the terror from being spread, to protect the law,
public
peace and order. Fighting terrorists is an obligation, and it is in the
interest of peace and stability, and life in peace of all citizens.

Q: How did they react, the police?

A: Police reacted proportionate to the situation and the danger. Serbia
tried to get rid of the terrorist organization KLA. You have to know
that
this terrorist organization was on a list of terrorist organizations in
Washington but they removed it when they considered that it can be
useful
as a tool for destabilization of the region, they proclaimed it a
liberation organization, although it was all along the same
organization.

Q: You call it terrorist, maybe the Americans used to call it terrorist
but
for Kosovars they are heroes. They are heroes, they are working for
independence, they are working for a better life of Kosovars.

A: No State in the world, including ours, can legitimize terrorist and
separatist objectives, nor should we identify their aims with ordinary
people, citizens. Even today, regardless of NATO foul play and its links
with terrorist "KLA", hundreds of thousands of people of Albanians link
their future with Serbia and Yugoslavia. They understand that terrorism
and
separatism are a disaster for Albanians, that secession is a great
deception of NATO, that they have been manipulated and that they can
have
peace and prosperity only in Serbia and Yugoslavia as equal citizens.

Q: Do you really think that you have the support of the Serbian people?

A: Who is we?

Q: Your Government and your regime, of course.

A: How do you think I became Minister, that I was imposed? You should
come
to Serbia and Yugoslavia and hear what the people have to say, their
opinion on the Government defence, reconstruction, reforms. You should
not
be relying too much on the CNN and the like, they are a part of NATO war
propaganda!

Q: It is not just listening to the news. I saw thousands of people
gathering, saying no to Milosevic, no this Government, they said they
wanted early elections. Why don't you go?

A: We shall have regular elections this year. Why do you think we should
have them couple of months in advance? Who would want that?

Q: Why not? If people like you and people want you. Then you would be
able
to say to the opposition, OK we did it and we came back because people
wanted it.

A: This is what will happen at regular elections. We have no reason to
please minority. We have to care about majority. That is why we were
elected. Majority is with the Government, with the leadership of
President
Milosevic. This is a reality and you can see that for yourself. You
mentioned demonstrations. If they gather and express their views that is
O.K. What about millions who feel differently?

Q: You are saying that they are paid from the outside, that the tell
them
to say that they want a better life.

A: Search on INTERNET you will find that the USA allocates 25 million
dollars for opposition in Belgrade. If Americans are publicly saying
that
they are paying, those who are receiving they are paid, are they not?
And,
do you know how the Western countries react if somebody interferes in
their
elections by payments from outside? They say it is a gross violation of
democratic principles. But how do they dare to pay political parties in
my
country? Everybody knows that they are doing it for their own benefit,
not
for the benefit of Serbia.

Q: Let us talk about the opposition. The opposition in your country
complained bitterly about the censorship and sometimes even harsh
measures
against journalists. What would make your Government more lenient
towards
this opposition?

A: Media in Serbia, in Belgrade, are the most developed in south-eastern
Europe, in terms of quality, in terms of number, circulation and so on.
We
in Serbia have more than 650 radio and TV channels and stations. We also
have more than 3,000 dailies, weeklies and publications. For example, we
have some 15 TV channels.

Q: It is not the number that counts, what about the freedom of speech
and
freedom to act and to move?

A: Listen, 12 TV channels in Belgrade are private, opposition,
independent
and they are responsible only to those who are paying them, as private
owners. There is no censorship. There is no discrimination or dismissals
speaking of the freedom of the press. If you were referring to
transferring
ownership from one TV to the State, the reason is that they were calling
for the uprising in Serbia, liquidation of leadership and so on. Is
there a
responsible Government that considers such activity as a democratic
method
or would tolerate that.

Q: But some observers went as far as accusing your Government of some
complicity in assassination attempt on Vuk Draskovic? Why did they
accuse
you of that?

A: Those observers, where do they come from? This question should be
posed
to them, on what basis do they level charges? It is easy to publish
false
information. It is more difficult to, but the only right thing to do to
stick to the facts and rely on analyses not on observers.

Q: Is there anything new concerning assassinations in Yugoslavia?

A: Those were terrorist acts as you know, one of our Ministers was
killed
and a representative from one of the Serb Provinces while he was
attending
an international fair. These were terrorist acts aimed at destabilizing
the
country from the inside.
You should know that the last year's aggression of NATO on
Yugoslavia contributed only to the strengthening of solidarity and
strength
of the people of in defence of its freedom. The aggressors know that
they
did not succeed, so they are continuing by other methods to destabilize
Yugoslavia, seeking to portray Yugoslavia as a problematic country. But
they cannot succeed because the truth is increasingly prevailing.

Q: Let us go back to the accusations against you. Don't you think that
those accusations cast a shadow of distrust against your government?

A: I know that the aim of certain foreign factors is to provoke distrust
against our Government, but I know that the trust in the Government is
strengthened. The Government is reconstructing what NATO had destroyed
and
is building even better. In a short period, it repaired electricity,
roads,
highways, bridges, railways, hospitals, kindergartens. People in
Yugoslavia
and all over the world know that we are not weak, that we are stronger
now.

Q: But you have many economic problems, don't you?

A: What country does not have economic problems? Our problems come from
sanctions which are illegal, totally inhuman. It is inadmissible that
children and people suffer because someone in the world does not like
their
regime. We lost 150 billion dollars. Consequences of NATO aggression
left
Yugoslavia with losses of 100 billion dollars. Sanctions and aggression
in
the amount of 250 billion dollars for a nation of the size and capacity
of
Yugoslavia is too much. Despite of all this, you talk about economic
problems of Yugoslavia. We have 1 million refugees in Yugoslavia now. In
addition, we have no access to the World Bank and IMF.

Q: But thanks to the policy of Milosevic, you have no foreign donor, you
have been denied international financial assistance, because of your
policy.

A: It is true that we conduct an independent policy. It is true that it
does not suit the forces that seek domination. Despite that, Yugoslavia
is
a free and independent country. Yugoslavia has not given in to NATO
despite
enormous force employed to destroy a sovereign country. Our current
problems are not due to a wrong policy but to the NATO aggression and
sanctions.
Despite that, Yugoslavia is economically a leading country in
the
region. In the last five years, we have had an average of 5-6 per cent
of
GNP rise compared to all our neighbours which have only 1.7 per cent.
And
they did not have refugees, sanctions and embargo and other
limitations. This can be done only by the people and the Government
which
are united.

Q: You talked a lot of sanctions. Don't you think that handing over
Radovan
Karadzic and Ratko Mladic and cooperation with Montenegro, The Hague
Tribunal might enhance your respect and reputation and will help ease
the
sanctions.

A: We are not ready to deceive our people and State to be patted on the
shoulder. We do not care much compliments from others, especially we
don't
need compliments from aggressors, from NATO countries. As for Karadzic,
he
is not a citizen of Yugoslavia and he is not in Yugoslavia. Let us not
forget that The Hague Tribunal is an extended arm of NATO, and creation
of
NATO, serving its interests and not the interests of justice. The
Amnesty
International in its last report stated that NATO committed war crimes
against humanity against peace in Yugoslavia, particularly by bombing
RTS
television in Belgrade, killing 16 of its employees. Is International
Tribunal to be trusted when in the case of certain personalities it
justified killing journalists, destroying bridges, destroying
international
train in and they say it is legitimate military objective.

Q: But isn't Slobodan Milosevic an instigator or maybe rather
protagonist
in this whole Balkan conflict from the first, and his campaign in
1990ies
it was along purely ethnic lines?

A: Yugoslavia, that is previous Yugoslavia was destroyed because it
represented an obstacle to hegemonism and an obstacle to domination.
This
is the essence. And those who were destroying Yugoslavia were playing on
separatism to disintegrate it into small states and peoples in order to
rule over them. Slobodan Milosevic has always been an advocate of the
Yugoslav federation. He had nothing to do that Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia
and Macedonia decided to go it alone and resort to force. We have
normalized relations with Macedonia, Croatia we are to normalize
relations
with Bosnia and Slovenia. We are an open country. But, attributing to
the
victim responsibility for destruction, responsibility for civil wars in
Bosnia and Croatia, etc, is aimed at diverting the attention from those
who
are responsible. They need a scape goat and they need to divert
attention
from those who are really responsible. They want a scape goat to divert
attention from themselves and from their own people. We filed charges
with
the International Court of Justice in the Hague, we accused them of
crimes
against peace and humanity, for genocide against Yugoslavia and we asked
for compensation. Many peoples from all European countries are accusing
NATO and leaders leading the aggressive the war against. That wave of
protest and clear condemnation is growing.

Q: In the end, Mr. Jovanovic, what is the scenario regarding the future
of
Kosovo, Yugoslavia and Montenegro and the Balkans in general?

A: I see the solution, peace and stability and progress in that part of
Europe under by respecting Yugoslavia as an equal partner and as a key
factor of peace, stability and development in the region. Second, to
abolish and remove all sanctions and measures of isolation which are
illegal from the point of view of international law. The third, to
immediately resume Yugoslavia's full legitimate role in European and
international organizations and institutions, including the United
Nations
and Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. The fourth, to solve Kosovo and
Metohija respecting territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia and
Yugoslavia, and that the Serb province be granted autonomy within
Serbia,
based on equality of all national communities and all citizens living
there. The doors to cooperation in the Balkans should be fully opened.
The
Balkan states have a prosperous future only if they are integrated at
the
regional level. In that respect, Yugoslavia is of importance in
promoting
economic, cultural, information, scientific integration and development.
Yugoslavia considers that the future of countries of the size and
history
as is the case is in trans-border links, mutual respect and integration.
On
this basis, the whole of the Balkans would secure modern economic and
technological development and integration with other developed European
countries.


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IVAN CUKALOVIC, DEPUTY LEGAL ADVISOR AT YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTRY:
GROUNDLESS REFUTATIONS


BELGRADE, July 18 (Tanjug) Diplomatic and political circles
question the right of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to act as the
successor of the exYugoslavia, in order to exert additional political
pressure and destabilize its position.
The Constitutional Declaration of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
of
April 27, 1992, clearly defines the country's standpoint concerning this
issue: "While preserving the continuity of the exYugoslavia related to
the
international law, its political position, and its integrity as a state,
Yugoslavia will ensure strict fulfilment of all international
obligations
binding the exYugoslavia in the past.
The analysis of Yugoslavia's legal status that follows will
provide an answer to the question of its legal position. Most countries
that are members of the international community see Yugoslavia as a
state
that has established continuity to the former Yugoslavia, whereas the
United States, and some Western countries, tend to deny this standpoint
thus refuting a range of other standpoints related to continuity, such
as
the position of Yugoslavia in the U.N., negotiations on the division of
the
property of the former Yugoslavia, and so on.
First we must make a theoretical distinction between the issue
of
succession and the issue of continuity. Succession is an institution
related to changes in territorial sovereignty through which a state that
has gained a certain territory takes over the rights and obligations of
the
former state, i.e. the state to which the previously territory belonged.
Therefore, succession is a legal institution the purpose of
which
is to alleviate the consequences resulting from the break up of a
country,
or the decrease of its territory, and to provide a solution to the
problems
of inheriting debts, contracts, public property, legal obligations
concerning individuals, and so on.
The principle of succession appears in cases of fusion of two
countries into one (e.g. fusion of Syria and Egypt in 1958, and Serbia
and
Montenegro in 1918), or in cases of separation (e.g. of the
AustroHungarian
Empire in 1918, of Norway and Sweden 1905, Pakistan and Bangladesh, USSR
and the Commonwealth of Independent States.)
As opposed to the principle of succession, regulating the
validity
of privileges and obligations of a state that has ceased to exist, the
principle of continuity is legitimate only when a state that is
acknowledged by international law, adheres to all valid regulations and
maintains its membership in all international organizations after
certain
territorial changes.
It is of no relevance whatsoever, to what extent the
territorial
loss reduces the size of the previous state. The emphasis is on the fact
that territorial losses do not affect the identity of a state, and on
the
fact that the core territory is maintained. In the history of
international
relations there were many examples showing that certain states preserved
their integrity and continuity, despite substantial territorial losses.
For
example, Great Britain, Turkey, or France, continued to exist as states,
even after considerable territorial losses. This happened with Russia,
which established the continuity of the USSR. Serbia and Montenegro,
countries that had sacrificed their sovereignty, thus contributing to
the
creation of Yugoslavia in 1918, are a continuation of the exYugoslavia,
the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the State of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.
Members of the international community have given both de iure
and
de facto recognition of Yugoslavia's continuity. Explicit de iure
recognition came from the exYugoslav republics, the very ones which most
frequently refute the continuity of Yugoslavia.
Thus, Article 5 of the contract normalizing relations between
Yugoslavia and Croatia, signed on August 23, 1996 in Belgrade, says: "It
is
a historical fact that Serbia and Montenegro existed as independent
states
before the creation of Yugoslavia, therefore, bearing in mind that
Yugoslavia maintains the position of these states, related to
international
law, the Republic of Croatia recognizes the continuity of Yugoslavia."
An identical formulation was used in Article 4 of the contract
regulating YugoslavMacedonian relations, signed in Belgrade on April 8,
1996 (...the Republic of Macedonia recognizes the continuity of FR
Yugoslavia...)
Paragraph 1 of the joint declaration, signed by Presidents
Slobodan Milosevic and Alija Izetbegovic in Paris on October 3, 1996
says:"BosniaHerzegovina accepts the continuity of Yugoslavia."
Officials of some Western countries have also made statements
confirming the continuity of Yugoslavia.
At a debate between European foreign ministers in Brussels on
January 29, 1996 aimed at solving the problem of the formal recognition
of
Yugoslavia, French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette said that France
had
never severed diplomatic relations with Belgrade, and consequently, does
not need to recognize Belgrade. "That is the standpoint of some E.U.
countries, but not the official standpoint of the French government."
In a comment on the decision of the French government to raise
diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia to the highest level, the spokesman
of
the French Foreign Ministry said on February 22, 1996 that "France never
cut off diplomatic relations with Belgrade. France recognizes states,
not
governments."
Upon the normalization of YugoslavBritish relations, Malcolm
Rifkind sent a message to Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic saying: "We
have
decided to raise diplomatic relations with Belgrade to the highest
level...
we will adhere to all valid contracts and treaties signed by Great
Britain
and the exYugoslavia."
Spanish Foreign Minister Carlos Westendorp, after his visit to
Yugoslavia, said on March 16, 1996: "The problem of recognizing
Yugoslavia
is not an issue for Spain, because diplomatic relations between the two
countries were never severed."
The above statements, made by representatives of E.U.
countries,
reflect their views on the recognition of Yugoslavia in an indirect way.
Although there was no explicit mention of continuity, the very fact that
they maintained diplomatic relations, and were willing to adhere to the
contracts signed with the exYugoslavia, is proof of de facto
recognition.
The United States, the biggest opponent of the recognition of
Yugoslavia, recognized Yugoslavia in a similar way.
Namely, the American embassy in Belgrade, in note S42 issued on
May 5, 1998 requested from Yugoslavia the extradition of ethnicAlbanian
Rifat Etej for felonies committed in the USA. This request was based on
the
Extradition Agreement of 1901, signed by the Kingdom of Serbia and the
USA.
Thus, the USA recognized the continuity of Yugoslavia, not only
regarding
the exYugoslavia, but also the Kingdom of Serbia, as the nucleus of all
other subsequent Yugoslav states. This confirms the theory, as well as
the
practice, of international law, according to which territorial loss does
not affect a country's continuity if its nucleus is preserved.
The continuity of Yugoslavia, as we can see, is legally
undeniable. Nevertheless, the following example shows how this matter
can
serve as a means of exerting political pressure on Yugoslavia. In
paragraph
297 of his report, (Summary of Practice of Secretary General as
Depositary
of Multilateral Treaties) the U.N. Secretary General explains the legal
position of the Russian Federation and Yugoslavia in the following way:
"After the secession of some parts of the USSR, which became
independent states, the USSR (as the Russian Federation) continued to
exist
as the presuccessor and all the rights and obligations resulting from
contracts remain valid. The same applies to Yugoslavia (Serbia and
Montenegro), which remains the presuccessor, although a part of the
territory of the exYugoslavia has broken away."
The U.N. Secretary General quite appropriately drew a parallel
between the legal position of the Russian Federation and the position of
Yugoslavia. Regretfully, after the intervention of several countries,
which
submitted a letter, the U.N. Legal Advisor submitted a corrigendum (LA
41
TR/220), in which the section referring to Yugoslavia was deleted, while
the one referring to the Russian Federation remained. This shows that
neither the Secretary General, nor his legal advisor are immune to
political pressure.
The majority of countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and
Eastern Europe, as well as Russia, China and India, have passed acts of
either de iure or de facto recognition of Yugoslavia. As far as Latin
America is concerned, Yugoslavia has been recognized by Cuba, Argentina
and
Brazil. The other countries of the region have recognized Yugoslavia
tacitly, by maintaining the level of diplomatic relations, by raising
them
to a higher level, or by issuing statements that were a confirmation of
their willingness to maintain the practice of friendly relations and
cooperation with Yugoslavia.
The legal consequences of continuity are reflected by the fact
that Yugoslavia is a continuation of the exYugoslavia, and that it
maintains its membership in all organizations, while all international
contracts signed by the exYugoslavia remain valid. Therefore, claims
according to which Yugoslavia must appeal for membership in the U.N. are
quite absurd. Such requests are merely a form of political pressure,
with
no foundation in legal theory, or practice.
The U.N. General Assembly, in Resolution 52/215 of December 22,
1997 has determined the budget quotas for all countries in the period of
19982000, including Yugoslavia, which is clear proof of Yugoslavia's
membership in the U.N., and any denial of its status is just an aspect
of
political manipulation.
The problem of succession, i.e. the division of gold and frozen
hard currency reserves abroad, the inheriting of the embassy buildings
will
be solved through negotiations between its successors Yugoslavia, the
state which is the continuation of the exYugoslavia, and the exYugoslav
republics, with cooperation from the Peace Implementation Council, and
Arthur Watts as the mediator.
The Yugoslav Mission in New York sent a message to the
President
of the Security Council on December 13, 1999 informing him of
Yugoslavia's
willingness to continue the negotiations on succession, according to
international laws regulating the problem of succession, and the joint
declaration signed by Presidents Slobodan Milosevic and Alija
Izetbegovic,
signed in Paris on October 3, 1996, as well as the contracts normalizing
relations between Yugoslavia and Croatia, signed in Belgrade on August
23,
1996 and between Yugoslavia and Macedonia, signed on April 8, 1996.
In the message, the Mission described the draft of the
agreement
proposed by Watts, as acceptable, saying that, if the negotiations
continue, an agreement could be reached soon. Unfortunately, despite
this
intervention, there has been no continuation of the negotiations, as
Watts
has failed to schedule them. This is a confirmation of the claims that
those who have committed the act of aggression on Yugoslavia have no
interest whatsoever in solving any of the problems related to this
region,
as they strive to continue the practice of pressure and groundless
accusations against Yugoslavia.
This review of the theory of international law and practice,
focusing on the legal position of Yugoslavia, is an undeniable proof of
the
fact that Yugoslavia is a continuation of the exYugoslavia, because,
regardless of territorial losses, the nucleus of the territory (Serbia
and
Montenegro) remained, which is the decisive factor for the
acknowledgement
of continuity. In any case, similar analyses carried out by other
members
of the international community, show that most countries have recognized
the continuity of Yugoslavia, either by acts of explicit de iure
recognition, or by taking certain actions (such as the ones taken by the
United States of America) that are an example of de facto recognition.

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Due recenti interviste al Ministro degli Esteri della
RF di Jugoslavia Zivadin Jovanovic

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YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY BELGRADE,18 July 2000 No.3112
INTERVIEW OF THE FEDERAL FOREIGN MINISTER ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC
TO THE QATAR TELEVISION AL-DZAZIRA

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Yugoslav Daily Survey 20 July 2000 No.3114

INTERVIEW OF THE FEDERAL MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
OF THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA, MR. ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC,
TO "AL ARAB AL YAWM" DAILY

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IL SITO INTERNET DEL MINISTERO DEGLI ESTERI DELLA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA

http://www1.mfa.gov.yu/
http://www.smip.sv.gov.yu/
http://www.mfa.gov.yu/

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Institute of International Politics and Economics Belgrade
http://www.diplomacy.bg.ac.yu/

Balkan Journal of International Law
International Law and Kosovo
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/benin/260/

Association for the Study of Foreign Policy Kotor Montenegro
http://www.diplomacy.cg.yu/

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http://www.diplomacy.cg.yu/doc13.htm

Udruzenje za istrazivanje spoljne politike Kotor
Association for the Study of Foreign Policy Kotor

Konferencija:
SAVREMENA DIPLOMATIJA I CRNA GORA
Kotor, 27. juna 1998.

Prof. Dr Predrag Simic*, Institute of International Politics and
Economics, Belgrade

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