Informazione
IZDAJA
"Niko nema pravo da prizna ili potpise kapitulaciju, niti da prihvati
ili prizna okupaciju Socijalisticke Federativne Republike Jugoslavije
ili pojedinog njenog dela. Niko nema pravo da spreci gradane
Socijalisticke Federativne Republike Jugoslavije da se bore protiv
neprijatelja koji je napao zemlju. Takvi akti su protivustavni i
kaznjavaju se kao izdaja zemlje.
Izdaja zemlje je najtezi zlocin prema narodu i kaznjava se kao tesko
krivicko delo"
(Ustav SFRJ iz 1974, Clan 238)
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"Niko nema pravo da prizna ili potpise kapitulaciju, niti da prihvati
ili prizna okupaciju Socijalisticke Federativne Republike Jugoslavije
ili pojedinog njenog dela. Niko nema pravo da spreci gradane
Socijalisticke Federativne Republike Jugoslavije da se bore protiv
neprijatelja koji je napao zemlju. Takvi akti su protivustavni i
kaznjavaju se kao izdaja zemlje.
Izdaja zemlje je najtezi zlocin prema narodu i kaznjava se kao tesko
krivicko delo"
(Ustav SFRJ iz 1974, Clan 238)
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ANCORA SU ENZO BETICA
In seguito alla nostra Ciliegina numero 172
( http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/328?&start=301 )
abbiamo ricevuto la seguente nota critica:
>
> Non vi pare di esagerare? Io sono il primo a non gradire le posizioni
> di Bettiza così accondiscendenti nei confronti del nazionalismo
> croato. In passato ho però letto il libro autobiografico "Esilio",
> scritto da Bettiza, e non mi pare affatto che lo scrittore di Spalato
> neghi le sue origini slave da parte soprattutto materna.
>
> MD
>
Prendiamo atto - anche del coraggio del nostro amico che si e' imbarcato
nella lettura del libro di Betica...
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In seguito alla nostra Ciliegina numero 172
( http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/328?&start=301 )
abbiamo ricevuto la seguente nota critica:
>
> Non vi pare di esagerare? Io sono il primo a non gradire le posizioni
> di Bettiza così accondiscendenti nei confronti del nazionalismo
> croato. In passato ho però letto il libro autobiografico "Esilio",
> scritto da Bettiza, e non mi pare affatto che lo scrittore di Spalato
> neghi le sue origini slave da parte soprattutto materna.
>
> MD
>
Prendiamo atto - anche del coraggio del nostro amico che si e' imbarcato
nella lettura del libro di Betica...
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INFERNO BOSNIACO E VAMPIRI SERBI
Dallo scorso aprile e' in edicola un nuovo fumetto: DAMPYR, nuovo
albo della Sergio Bonelli editore.
L'idea e' di Mauro Boselli e Maurizio Colombo: siamo in qualche lugubre
angolo della Jugoslavia, e la guerra civile impazza. Soldati regolari e
non, paramilitari, cecchini, civili massacrati e - udite, udite -
"vampiri". Ma i vampiri non sono come quelli del cinema: lo scoprono a
loro spese i soldati guidati da Kurjak, che hanno il compito di
mantenere a oltranza la postazione di Yorvolak, un villaggio isolato tra
le montagne. Al loro ingresso in paese trovano ad attenderli solo morti
ammazzati. La sorpresa e' che non soltanti i civili, ma anche i loro
commilitoni sono stati massacrati in modo selvaggio. I misteriosi
assassini colpiscono dopo il tramonto...
Nei Balcani (secondo Boselli&Colombo) c'e' una credenza popolare,
secondo la quale il figlio nato dall'unione tra una donna e un vampiro
diventa un Dampyr, ossia un uccisore di vampiri professionista. A certe
sciocchezze Kurjak non crede, pero' farebbe di tutto per salvare i suoi
uomini. Cosi' manda a chiamare Harlan Draka, un uomo che insieme al suo
assistente, un ragazzino di nome Yuri, gira per le campagne togliendo il
malocchio ai villaggi e impalando cadaveri. Harlan sa di essere diverso
dagli altri esseri umani: il suo corpo invecchia lentamente, le sue
ferite si rimarginano con incredibile rapidita'... presto scopre che
anche i misteriosi assassini del paese hanno paura di lui. Le creature
che assediano Yorvolak sono i non-morti del branco di Gorka, un Maestro
della Notte o supervampiro. Una non-morta presa prigioniera, Tesla,
gli rivela che lui, Harlan Draka, e' davvero un Dampyr, figlio di un
Maestro, e gli chiede di liberarla dalla schiavitu' che la lega al
branco di Gorka. Harlan, Tesla e Kurjak stringono una strana alleanza
e riescono temporaneamente a sconfiggere Gorka. Ma tutti gli altri
fanno una brutta fine, e, sul corpo di Yuri, Harlan giura vendetta.
Il secondo episodio si apre con una citta' assediata. Non ne viene
fatto il nome, ma l'identificazione con Sarajevo e' sin troppo facile:
dalle colline circostanti i serbi - lo stemma sulla manica sinistra
delle divise e' ben riconoscibile - lanciano granate, i cecchini
sparano su qualsiasi corpo in movimento, sui muri campeggiano scritte
del tipo "etnicko ciscenje". In teoria ci sarebbe una "tregua". Di
fatto una granata colpisce il quartiere Nord della citta' in pieno
giorno di mercato... I "ragazzi delle colline", con i quali Kurjak
stesso combatteva fino a pochi giorni prima, sanno che "le guerre non si
vincono seguendo le regole... ma ammazzando piu' gente possibile". I
vampiri approfittano delle stragi: coperti e mascherati per proteggersi
dal sole, escono allo scoperto, fanno finta di soccorrere i feriti e in
realta' li trasportano nei loro rifugi sotterranei per cibarsi del loro
sangue.
Gorka intanto si procura un nuovo servo: ha rapito, succhiato il sangue
e trasformato in vampiro Stanko Radek, quello che Kurjak definisce "il
maggiore Radek, capo della "legione nera", il piu' sadico e crudele
gruppo militare che questa fottuta guerra abbia mai partorito". Ora
Stanko Radek e i suoi non sono solo cattivi (serbi - ovviamente!),
comuni mortali - no, ora sono mostri immortali, sono vampiri.
In fondo, gia' lo sapevamo: ce lo scrivevano i giornali dopo la presa di
Srebrenica che "i serbi si nutrono del sangue dei musulmani", o no?
Ma non finisce qui: Tesla salva una ragazza da tre loschi
individui (questa volta il loro abbigliamento li identifica come
musulmani) che tentano di violentarla, la conduce al Las Vegas, un
hotel dove famiglie, profughi, sbandati di ogni sorta hanno trovato
rifugio. Qui Tesla viene catturata da Gorka e Radek, i cui uomini
fanno strage dei rifugiati. Tesla viene portata al "mattatoio", uno
dei rifugi sotterranei della stirpe di Gorka, di cui i Maestri della
Notte si servono per i loro "festini", banchetti a base di sangue
umano. Gorka sa che Harlan verra' a cercarla, usa Tesla come esca per
attirare Harlan in trappola. Una visione suggerisce a Harlan Draka di
cercare "il luogo dove si va quando si vuole conoscere": e' la
Biblioteca di Sarajevo, distrutta, anch'essa vittima di questa guerra...
Entrandovi Kurjak, che accompagna Harlan alla ricerca di Tesla,
afferma: "la guerra mi ha fatto diventare una bestia... ma prima ero
un uomo... so che cosa significano la cultura, le tradizioni... i miei
ex-commilitoni hanno voluto distruggere non solo questa citta', ma
anche il suo passato, i suoi ricordi, la sua umanita'".
Per fortuna qui in Italia, invece, la cultura gode di ottima salute.
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Dallo scorso aprile e' in edicola un nuovo fumetto: DAMPYR, nuovo
albo della Sergio Bonelli editore.
L'idea e' di Mauro Boselli e Maurizio Colombo: siamo in qualche lugubre
angolo della Jugoslavia, e la guerra civile impazza. Soldati regolari e
non, paramilitari, cecchini, civili massacrati e - udite, udite -
"vampiri". Ma i vampiri non sono come quelli del cinema: lo scoprono a
loro spese i soldati guidati da Kurjak, che hanno il compito di
mantenere a oltranza la postazione di Yorvolak, un villaggio isolato tra
le montagne. Al loro ingresso in paese trovano ad attenderli solo morti
ammazzati. La sorpresa e' che non soltanti i civili, ma anche i loro
commilitoni sono stati massacrati in modo selvaggio. I misteriosi
assassini colpiscono dopo il tramonto...
Nei Balcani (secondo Boselli&Colombo) c'e' una credenza popolare,
secondo la quale il figlio nato dall'unione tra una donna e un vampiro
diventa un Dampyr, ossia un uccisore di vampiri professionista. A certe
sciocchezze Kurjak non crede, pero' farebbe di tutto per salvare i suoi
uomini. Cosi' manda a chiamare Harlan Draka, un uomo che insieme al suo
assistente, un ragazzino di nome Yuri, gira per le campagne togliendo il
malocchio ai villaggi e impalando cadaveri. Harlan sa di essere diverso
dagli altri esseri umani: il suo corpo invecchia lentamente, le sue
ferite si rimarginano con incredibile rapidita'... presto scopre che
anche i misteriosi assassini del paese hanno paura di lui. Le creature
che assediano Yorvolak sono i non-morti del branco di Gorka, un Maestro
della Notte o supervampiro. Una non-morta presa prigioniera, Tesla,
gli rivela che lui, Harlan Draka, e' davvero un Dampyr, figlio di un
Maestro, e gli chiede di liberarla dalla schiavitu' che la lega al
branco di Gorka. Harlan, Tesla e Kurjak stringono una strana alleanza
e riescono temporaneamente a sconfiggere Gorka. Ma tutti gli altri
fanno una brutta fine, e, sul corpo di Yuri, Harlan giura vendetta.
Il secondo episodio si apre con una citta' assediata. Non ne viene
fatto il nome, ma l'identificazione con Sarajevo e' sin troppo facile:
dalle colline circostanti i serbi - lo stemma sulla manica sinistra
delle divise e' ben riconoscibile - lanciano granate, i cecchini
sparano su qualsiasi corpo in movimento, sui muri campeggiano scritte
del tipo "etnicko ciscenje". In teoria ci sarebbe una "tregua". Di
fatto una granata colpisce il quartiere Nord della citta' in pieno
giorno di mercato... I "ragazzi delle colline", con i quali Kurjak
stesso combatteva fino a pochi giorni prima, sanno che "le guerre non si
vincono seguendo le regole... ma ammazzando piu' gente possibile". I
vampiri approfittano delle stragi: coperti e mascherati per proteggersi
dal sole, escono allo scoperto, fanno finta di soccorrere i feriti e in
realta' li trasportano nei loro rifugi sotterranei per cibarsi del loro
sangue.
Gorka intanto si procura un nuovo servo: ha rapito, succhiato il sangue
e trasformato in vampiro Stanko Radek, quello che Kurjak definisce "il
maggiore Radek, capo della "legione nera", il piu' sadico e crudele
gruppo militare che questa fottuta guerra abbia mai partorito". Ora
Stanko Radek e i suoi non sono solo cattivi (serbi - ovviamente!),
comuni mortali - no, ora sono mostri immortali, sono vampiri.
In fondo, gia' lo sapevamo: ce lo scrivevano i giornali dopo la presa di
Srebrenica che "i serbi si nutrono del sangue dei musulmani", o no?
Ma non finisce qui: Tesla salva una ragazza da tre loschi
individui (questa volta il loro abbigliamento li identifica come
musulmani) che tentano di violentarla, la conduce al Las Vegas, un
hotel dove famiglie, profughi, sbandati di ogni sorta hanno trovato
rifugio. Qui Tesla viene catturata da Gorka e Radek, i cui uomini
fanno strage dei rifugiati. Tesla viene portata al "mattatoio", uno
dei rifugi sotterranei della stirpe di Gorka, di cui i Maestri della
Notte si servono per i loro "festini", banchetti a base di sangue
umano. Gorka sa che Harlan verra' a cercarla, usa Tesla come esca per
attirare Harlan in trappola. Una visione suggerisce a Harlan Draka di
cercare "il luogo dove si va quando si vuole conoscere": e' la
Biblioteca di Sarajevo, distrutta, anch'essa vittima di questa guerra...
Entrandovi Kurjak, che accompagna Harlan alla ricerca di Tesla,
afferma: "la guerra mi ha fatto diventare una bestia... ma prima ero
un uomo... so che cosa significano la cultura, le tradizioni... i miei
ex-commilitoni hanno voluto distruggere non solo questa citta', ma
anche il suo passato, i suoi ricordi, la sua umanita'".
Per fortuna qui in Italia, invece, la cultura gode di ottima salute.
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Da "Il Manifesto" del 15 Luglio 2000:
Da Roma una spia per il Kosovo
"Numero 2" del Sisde amministratore civile del settore Usa.
Ambiguità della decisione di Dini
TOMMASO DI FRANCESCO
Le nostre fonti sono dirette, dell'Onu e della Nato, e
mantengono l'anonimato. Ma hai voglia a tacere le fonti.
Quello che stiamo per rivelare è ormai di accesso più che
pubblico. Si può infatti leggere sul website dell'Onu di
Pristina - che illustra le biografie dei dieci funzionari
più importanti dell'Amministrazione Onu (da Kouchner ai
cinque governatori civili delle altrettante zone militari
in cui è ora diviso il Kosovo: Pristina, Mitrovica,
Gnijlane, Pec, Prizren). E lì sta scritto che l'attuale
amministratore civile della regione di Gnijlane,
controllata militarmente dagli americani (gli Stati uniti
hanno costruito qui, presso Urosevac, la gigantesca base
militare di Bondsteel in aperto disprezzo degli accordi di
pace di Kumanovo) è il signor Dionisio Spoliti che "negli
ultimi 5 anni è stato in servizio al Sisde" dov'è stato
"uno dei Numeri 2". Ci sfugge quanti capi-sezione e vice ci
siano al Servizio, ma siccome nel sito non è spiegato se il
signor Spoliti abbia o meno finito di essere al servizio
del Servizio, dobbiamo immaginare che lui ancora eserciti
il suo mestiere al Sisde.
E qui emergono alcune considerazioni sul ruolo dell'Italia
e sull'ancora tragica e delicata crisi in Kosovo. Giacché
l'Italia va raccontando da tempo di essere impegnata per
una ripresa della vita civile nella martoriata regione. E
invece da tempo la sua inconcludenza è manifesta. Basta
fare la storia di questa "presenza", ahimé ben corroborata
poi dal triste primato di aver fornito le basi per l'avvio
della campagna di bombardamenti "umanitari".
Ottobre '98: il vice-questore di Prato
Tutto comincia nell'ottobre del 1998, con l'accordo
Holbrooke-Milosevic, e l'avvio di una missione dell'Osce,
la Kosovo Verification Mission (Kvm) a capo della quale
c'era - alla faccia della missione dell'organismo europeo
dell'Osce - l'americano William Walker (anche lui ex spia
in Sudamerica per l'Amministrazione americana). Walker
aveva 5 vice, ognuno dei rispettivi paesi del Gruppo di
contatto. Inglesi e francesi mandarono personaggi di peso:
i primi un generale di divisione con grande esperienza
balcanica, i secondi l'incaricato d'affari a Belgrado.
L'Italia per due mesi non mandò nessuno, poi, ai primi di
dicembre arrivò nientemeno che il vice-questore di Prato,
tal dottor Perugini (impegnato nel caso Pacciani e forse
per questo considerato esperto di "barbarie"). Sta di fatto
che la sua presenza durò 24 ore: non si è mai saputo se fu
lui ad andarsene o fu cacciato dal furbissimo Walker.
Quindi è arrivato Giovanni Koessler, sostituto procuratore
a Bolzano, che partì in missione, ma dimenticando
l'autorizzazione del Csm e fu costretto a tornare in
Italia. Siamo all'inizio del 1999, Koessler aspettò tutto
febbraio (comincia il vertice-imbroglio di Rambouillet e si
prepara la guerra a tutti i costi) e alla fine arrivò. Ma
il 23-24 marzo, dopo l'ambigua strage di Racak, William
Walker ritirò unilateralmente la missione Osce, e così si
ritirò dopo meno di un mese di presenza anche Koessler.
Finisce la guerra il 10-12 giugno 1999 e comincia, insieme
all'ingresso militare del Kosovo da parte della Nato
secondo gli accordi di Kumanovo con Belgrado, anche la
missione Unmik dell'Onu. Finalmente l'Italia conquista il
diritto ad avere un suo amministratore civile, quello della
turbolenta ed esplosiva Mitrovica, dov'è rimasta l'enclave
più rappresentativa di serbi in Kosovo. Enclave perché da
quel momento in poi - secondo l'Unhcr-Onu - 240.000 serbi,
rom, albanesi "collaborazionisti", turchi ed ebrei vengono
cacciati nel terrore.
Ecco il prefetto d'Arezzo
Ad amministrare Mitrovica viene inviato Mario Morcone,
prefetto di Arezzo, tenendolo, singolarmente, ancora in
carica nelle sue funzioni prefettizie in Toscana. Ma
Morcone ai primi di marzo del 2000 getta la spugna,
anticipando addirittura la caduta del governo D'Alema.
A questo punto altro vuoto di due mesi e, alla fine, arriva
l'uomo del Sisde. Quanto durerà? Perché risulta che non sa
nulla di Balcani, non conosce alcuna lingua straniera
(figurarsi il serbo, che basta pronunciarlo per essere
uccisi a Pristina, o l'albanese); tanto che ha alle costole
un traduttore, altro agente italo-americano del Sisde (o
della Cia?). Va da sé che al quartier generale dell'Onu a
Pristina questo dichiarato "impegno italiano" sia diventato
una specie di barzelletta, come le tradizionali trimestrali
visite del sottosegretario Ranieri con cui la Farnesina
pensa di coprire politicamente questa crisi che resta
esplosiva.
Certo, dietro ci sono motivi strutturali, come il fatto che
i funzionari del Ministero degli esteri mal sopportano di
bruciarsi la carriera in crisi assai pericolose - stessa
difficoltà e motivi stanno dietro la possibilità degli
organismi di polizia internazionale; e poi c'è la
sostanziale diffidenza dei governi occidentali verso i
funzionari delle Nazioni unite. Ma le questioni politiche
che emergono dentro l'ambiguità delle scelte del governo
italiano, sono ancora più gravi. Perché il Kosovo resta una
tragedia non conclusa, dove, dice l'Onu, gli oppressi sono
diventati oppressori con una contropulizia etnica alla
quale - questo è il fatto grave - hanno presenziato le
truppe della Nato senza muover un dito. E nessuno sa ancora
quale dovrà essere lo statuto definitivo di questa regione:
se, come dicono gli accordi di Kumanovo, ancora provincia
serba, o indipendente o Grande Albania, come dicono in
conflitto fra loro le leadership nazionaliste albanesi a
Pristina.
Ebbene, di fronte a questa difficoltà, qual è la scelta
dell'Italia? Quella di alimentare la guerra delle spie. Non
servono spie, ma l'avvio di un processo civile. Soprattutto
ora che l'Amministratore Kouchner vuole, a tutti i costi,
fare elezioni municipali. A quelle liste elettorali i pochi
serbi rimasti per protesta non si iscrivono: che senso
democratico avrebbero, dicono, elezioni senza il rientro di
240.000 profughi non-albanesi dimenticati da tutti, o con
il solo voto di pochi disperati rimasti in una realtà
pesantemente monetnica? Ma Kouchner vuole "un risultato",
l'ha detto con coda di paglia relazionando al Consiglio di
sicurezza: "Anche se a qualcuno può sembrare vergognoso".
Ora è il tempo dell'iniziativa politica. E invece
immaginiamo quale sintonia può stabilirsi tra un uomo del
Sisde e le Ong, e tutto il volontariato di pace che già
tanto ha patito in Kosovo dalla priorità del "militare".
Intanto l'amministratore Spoliti tace. Lui amministra il
settore americano e lì accadono cose tragiche. Che
dall'area di Malisevo, appena al di là della Valle di
Presevo in Serbia (con forte presenza albanese) siano
partiti decine di attacchi armati delle formazioni
dell'Ucpmb, legate all'Uck. L'uomo del Sisde tace. E'
addirittura accaduto mercoledì che sulla strada tra Kolokot
e Vitina, nel settore americano, ci sia stato un attentato
contro tre preti ortodossi serbi, decisivi per trattative
di pace. L'uomo del Sisde non dice una parola. E' il suo
mandato?
[Caro Tommaso di Francesco, ma cosa c'e' di strano nel fatto
che il governo italiano mandi delle spie in zone "calde"?
Piuttosto, ci sarebbe da sorprendersi se non le mandasse!
Il problema piuttosto e', da una parte, che le nostre spie fanno
ridere, come questa che non sa nemmeno le lingue straniere,
e sono solo portaborse degli americani; dall'altra, che le
truppe di occupazione italiane se ne devono solo andare dai Balcani.
CRJ]
FROM FOREIGN MEDIA
IL MANIFESTO: ROME'S SPY IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
ROME, July 18 (Tanjug) The government of Italian Prime
Minister
Giuliano Amato found itself sucked into a scandal linked to Rome's
official
policy on Kosovo and Metohija after the daily "Il Manifesto" revealed
that
one of the top officials of the U.N. civilian mission for Serbia's
southern
province the administrator of the Gnjilane district, Dionisio Spoliti
from
Italy, is at the same time a senior official of the Italian intelligence
service SISDE.
"Il Manifesto" said that the biography of the administrator of
the
Gnjilane region in eastern Kosovo and Metohija which is militarily
controlled by the U.S. troops, includes the fact that he has been one of
the few top officials of SISDE for the past five years.
This puts the Italian government into a compromising position
as
it supports claims that Italy is one of the centres of special espionage
activities aimed against Kosovo and Metohija and the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia.
The paper recalled that the "special activities" of certain
Western governments and the United States in Kosovo and Metohija,
started
in 1998 with the arrival of the socalled monitoring mission of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), headed by
William Walker of the United States who was a former spy in South
America.
"Il Manifesto" said that Spolito knows nothing about the
Balkans,
does not speak any foreign languages "and is constantly accompanied by a
translator another ItalianAmerican agent of SISDE or maybe the CIA."
Recalling that the tragedy in Kosovo and Metohija continues in
the
presence of the KFOR peacekeepers who "are doing nothing to prevent it,"
"Il Manifesto" wondered whether "in this overall situation, Italy's
choice
is to contribute to the war of spies."
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IL PROGETTO DELLA GRANDE ALBANIA
Dal bollettino del Ministero per l'Informazione di Belgrado, 1998
Versione italiana a cura del CRJ
Prima dell’apertura del Congresso di Berlino, alla fine dell I G.M.,
gli Aga e i Beg (leaders feudali-famigliari) indirizzarono ai
rappresentanti delle grandi potenze il progetto della "grande Albania"
che si estenderebbe sugli allora quattro Villajet inseriti nella Turchia
ottomana - Skadar, Janjina, Kosovo e Bitolj - (S. Terzic). E’
interessante che i leaders albanesi allora non chiedessero la formazione
di uno Stato indipendente albanese, ma l’autonomia albanese nell’ambito
dell’Impero ottomano sotto il nome di Villajet albanese. In questo si
trovano le radici dell’approccio per la soluzione della questione
nazionale albanese e la formazione di uno Stato per questo popolo.
Secondo lo storico Kosta Cavoski le questioni non venivano risolte nello
spirito del tempo, cioè con gli atti democratici dell’Europa liberale di
allora e con l’obiettivo di realizzare i veri interessi del popolo
albanese, ma secondo le richieste megalomani dei leaders delle tribu'
albanesi e sotto il patronato di Istanbul, allo scopo di salvaguardare
l’impero islamico feudale ottomano. Bisogna sapere che il cosiddetto
Grande Villajet albanese (cioè la provincia turca governata dai valì -
con
pagamento di tributo) era per grandezza due volte e mezzo rispetto
all’Albania odierna e che gli schipetari (denominati solo in seguito
"albanesi", dal nome dello Stato d'Albania) in quel territorio, secondo
un censimento di allora, rappresentavano la minoranza, cioè il 44% della
popolazione.
Lo Stato albanese viene fondato appena nel 1912, dopo la Prima guerra
balcanica, cioè dopo la liberazione dei Balcani dai turchi. E’
interessante che durante la Prima guerra balcanica gli albanesi non
combatterono a fianco di greci, bulgari, serbi. Non combatterono per
la liberazione nazionale ma lottarono a fianco della Turchia. Quando
fu chiaro che la Turchia ottomana stava per essere cacciata dai Balcani
i leaders albanesi si sono rivolti agli altri protettori e alle altre
potenze - all’Austroungheria e Gran Bretagna. Così la grande Albania
non viene fondata come frutto di una guerra di liberazione, ma secondo
l’idea austroungarica e conformemente agli interessi
dell'Austria-Ungheria. (...) Si è affermato che i nazionalisti
grandealbanesi da allora si sono sempre "appoggiati" ad una forza
europea o mondiale ma che d’altra parte non hanno mai rinunciato al
ruolo di "scudo islamico" in Europa e nemmeno a chiedere aiuto a Stati
islamici e fondamentalisti. I nazionalisti albanesi, ma anche gli
statisti, non hanno mai cercato le soluzioni ai problemi albanesi e
balcanici dialogando con i popoli vicini ma solo contro i popoli e gli
Stati vicini. Questo, secondo i nazionalisti grandealbanesi, è logico
perché la grande Albania si può formare soltanto contro gli interessi e
con l’appropriazione delle terre dei popoli vicini - serbi, macedoni,
montenegrini e greci.
Kosmet, il Piemonte italiano per fondare la grande Albania
L’esodo di serbi e montenegrini dal Kosmet (Kosovo e Metohija), la
tolleranza dell’esplosione demografica schipetara nella regione come
anche lo status di autonomia concesso dalla Costituzione del 1974 -
citano gli autori dello studio - non hanno analoghi in nessuna parte
dell’Europa né nel mondo. Tutto ciò andava in favore dei nazionalisti
grandealbanesi. E non solo: gli esperti dicono che gli schipetari
anziche' approfittare della situazione favorevole che hanno avuto nella
Repubblica Socialista Federativa di Jugoslavia per inserire la loro
minoranza nello sviluppo della Serbia e della Jugoslavia, fomentavano
sempre l’odio dei loro connazionali contro i serbi e i montenegrini e
alimentavano la voglia e le mire secessioniste. E’ paradossale ma vero,
dice lo storico Dusan Batakovic, il Kosmet sviluppato, economicamente e
culturalmente rafforzato, nella visione dei separatisti diventava il
polo e il "Piemonte" per la formazione della grande Albania. Dunque sul
territorio di uno Stato sovrano si tenta di formare il nucleo della
grande Albania... La grande Albania, secondo Batakovic, infatti, si sta
realizzando sui territori dei paesi limitrofi, facendo pressione sulla
popolazione del luogo costretta ad emigrare. Questa è una particolare
forma di "pulizia etnica", mentre nell’opinione pubblica mondiale si
da ad intendere che la minoranza albanese nel Kosmet verrebbe
terrorizzata e minacciata. Infine il cosiddetto Esercito di Liberazione
del Kosovo (UCK) ha espresso finalmente in modo chiaro gli obiettivi dei
grandealbanesi.
Appendice del traduttore:
"Rinfrescati la memoria signora Europa"
Cara Europa,
durante la Prima guerra mondiale a Londra il 16-8-1915 alla Serbia
promettevi i territori dove vivevano in maggioranza i serbi:
la regione di Backa, Slavonia, una parte della Dalmazia e la Bosnia.
Nella guerra ‘14/’18 i soldati serbi hanno liberato tutto il
territorio degli slavi del Sud dal loro e dal tuo nemico. Tu eri
meravigliata e spaventata. La piccola Serbia perse più della metà della
popolazione maschile: la grande Serbia precedentemente disegnata
dagli alleati a Berlino era fatta. Ad essa si sono spontaneamente uniti
altri popoli slavi delle regioni austroungariche, per creare la
Jugoslavia... Come fai ora a parlare di "Stato artificiale"?!
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CHI APPOGGIA LA GRANDE ALBANIA?
(si veda anche:
http://www.marx2001.org/nuovaunita/jugo/crj/m_l/230799c.htm )
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Kosova Task Force, USA
News Update
June 15, 2000
As the first anniversary of Serb withdrawal approaches
(June 20), journalists in leading newspapers are suffering
from a serious bout of collective amnesia. Critics in
alliance with the Serb lobby are questioning whether NATO
intervention on humanitarian grounds was justified. Instead
of acknowledging NATO¹s role in the heroic resistance waged
by the people of Kosova against genocide, the focus is on
whether the number of Serb tanks hit were worth the costs of
intervention.
The following facts need to be remembered and brought forward
to the media's attention.
1 Kosova is still not free. Serbia continues to have
political sovereignty over Kosova despite the overwhelming
vote for independence by Kosovars in 1991. To deny the
aspirations of Kosovars is to ensure new wars and further
atrocities.
2 The UN Security Council assigned UNMIK the impossible
task of creating a multi-ethnic Kosova subject to Belgrade.
Any talk of reconciliation and creation of a multiethnic society
is futile so long as there is no acknowledgment of the wrongs done,
and if not amends then at least a sense that some measure of
justice is being done.
3 NATO went to war against Belgrade not to create some
multiethnic and democratic nirvana but to prevent an escalation
of Serb attacks against Kosovo's civilian population.
4 Albanian relief from Serb tyranny cannot depend simply on
the presence of international forces providing border security.
A political settlement with ethnic Albanians as full partners
is needed.
5 The upcoming municipal elections are no more than a UN
plan to assuage Kosovars and a bid for time in the hope that
some sort of compromise short of Koosovar independence will emerge.
6 French peacekeepers in Kosova have been repeatedly accused of
cooperating with Serb paramilitaries controlling access to northern
Mitrovica. French forces sympathetic to Belgrade have allowed a
defacto partition of the mineral-rich region of Mitrovica by the Serbs.
7 War criminals have not been arrested. KFOR and UNMIK civilian
police force have deliberately failed to pursue indicted war
criminals. Kosova still has no court that can deliver impartial
judgments regarding war crimes.
8 About 1200 Albanians are still being illegally held in
Serbian prisons, subjected to mock trials that make a parody of
justice. Last month, 143 of these prisoners were sentenced to a
total of 1632 years in prison. Another 5000 Kosovars are reported
missing. The weak international response has fostered a profound
cynicism among Kosovars regarding the prospects for realizing
other Western promises such as self-governance or real peace.
9 An estimated 20,000 Kosovar women were raped by Serbs. None of
these criminals have been arrested. Few services are available for
these women to deal with their personal traumas. Local humanitarian
groups, including the Red Cross, have estimated that 100 rape-babies
were born in January alone.
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The following organizations constitute the Kosova Task Force, USA:
Albanian Islamic Cultural Center, American Muslim Council,
Balkan Muslim Association, Council of Islamic Organizations of Chicago,
Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan, Council on American
Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America ( ),
Islamic Council of New England, Islamic Medical Association, Islamic
Shura Council of Southern California, Islamic Society of Greater
Houston, Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Majlis Shura New York,
The Ministry of Imam W.D. Muhammad, Muslim Students Association of US
and Canada, The National Community.
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http://www.serbia-info.com/news
Listed Albanians are not citizens of Serbia and Yugoslavia
July 17, 2000
Kragujevac, July 17th - President of Albanian Democratic Reform Party
and president of Peace Association Board, Sokolj Cuse, said today in
Kragujevac that a large number of Albanians who are not citizens of
Serbia and Yugoslavia applied at the population census organized by
Bernard Kouchner in Kosmet.
Marking that Kouchner`s population census is illegal and opposed to the
Security Council Resolution 1244, Cuse said that listing of Albanians
who have never lived in Kosmet and who are not citizens of Serbia and
Yugoslavia is one more reason why Serbs, Albanians, Turks and Gorans
have not answered this census and for the same reason they will not go
out to the elections.
Reminding that one of Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE)`s representatives has recently threatened Serbs that they
will lose their property unless they answer the census, Cuse said that
Serbs remain resolute in their decision to boycott Koucher`s census.
"The pressure on citizens who are for joint living in Kosovo-Metohija,
as it had been before KFOR and UNMIK came, is great and directed towards
their listing, but we are aware that only united we can preserve
ourselves and stop the anarchy conducted in Kosmet by Kouchner, Thaqui
and other terrorists", Cuse said.
---- Original Message -----
From: <info@...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 8:53 PM
Subject: [DSS] Double Standards of Kfor and Kouchner
>
> Double Standards of Kfor and Kouchner
>
> The international forces in Kosovo and Unmik head Bernard Kouchner
continue
> to apply double standards, quite contrary to United Nations Security
Council
> Resolution 1244. In the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kfor brutally
> injured eight Serbs, from a group which protested at the arrest of student
> Dalibor Vukovic (24). The international police arrested him for having
> beaten up an Albanian half a year ago.
>
> Such zeal was not demonstrated by Kfor in any of the thousands of cases in
> which Serbs were beaten up, while the international administration's
> investigations into the one thousand or so killings or just as many
> kidnappings of Serbs can be counted on one hand. Kfor did not lift a
finger
> when, a little over two weeks ago, followers of Ramush Haradinaj, Hashim
> Thaqi's one-time close associate, blocked the police station in Pec in
order
> to "free" two of their people who had been involved in a bloody
> inter-Albanian showdown in Steroci.
>
> There are no such actions by the international administration when the
> Kosovo Albanians are in question. They are protected by Kouchner who
> describes as retaliation obvious systematic crimes against Serbs staged by
> followers of Thaqi or Haradinaj. With statements like the one in the "New
> York Times" Kouchner is amnestying his protigis and compromising the UN
> mission to extreme limits.
>
> Belgrade, July 18, 2000
>
> Information Service of the Democratic Party of Serbia
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http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
July 19, 2000
Socialist Leader Says He Aided KLA as Premier
TIRANA - Socialist Chairman Fatos Nano has said in an
interview that he held contacts and helped the Kosovo
Liberation Army following the massacre of the Jashari
family in February 1998.
Nano, who was interviewed by the chief editor of
Prishtina’s main daily Koha Ditore, said he had urged
top KLA leaders Hashim Thaci and Xhavit Haliti to
confront the Serbs militarily and diplomatically.
The interview was broadcast by private TV channel Klan
late on Monday evening.
Nano was prime minister at the time.
Nano also said he had arranged a meeting between US
diplomat Richard Holbrooke and a KLA official, Bardhyl
Mahmuti, in Crans Montana, Switzerland.
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http://www.commondreams.org/views/071900-107.htm
Common Dreams - Published on Wednesday, July 19, 2000
Washington's Men In Kosovo:
A Year After the NATO Occupation,
Terror Reigns
by Jeremy Scahill
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http://www.jurist.law.pitt.edu/zlatko.htm
Legal Guide to the Kosovo Conflict
Diplomacy and the Conflict in Kosovo
Notes on Threats and Fears
Dr. Zlatko Isakovic
Director
YUPeace - Centre for Peace and Conflict Research
Institute of International Politics and Economics
Belgrade
Paper prepared for presentation at the ISA Annual Convention, 16-20
February 1999, Washington, DC
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to elaborate on the actual and possible roles
for diplomacy in the conflict resolution process in Kosovo. The first
part of the paper will be devoted to an analysis of the Kosovo conflict;
the second part attempts to present the main diplomatic activities
undertaken after its escalation; and the third part provides conclusions
on the diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict and offers some
suggestions on its future development.
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Da Roma una spia per il Kosovo
"Numero 2" del Sisde amministratore civile del settore Usa.
Ambiguità della decisione di Dini
TOMMASO DI FRANCESCO
Le nostre fonti sono dirette, dell'Onu e della Nato, e
mantengono l'anonimato. Ma hai voglia a tacere le fonti.
Quello che stiamo per rivelare è ormai di accesso più che
pubblico. Si può infatti leggere sul website dell'Onu di
Pristina - che illustra le biografie dei dieci funzionari
più importanti dell'Amministrazione Onu (da Kouchner ai
cinque governatori civili delle altrettante zone militari
in cui è ora diviso il Kosovo: Pristina, Mitrovica,
Gnijlane, Pec, Prizren). E lì sta scritto che l'attuale
amministratore civile della regione di Gnijlane,
controllata militarmente dagli americani (gli Stati uniti
hanno costruito qui, presso Urosevac, la gigantesca base
militare di Bondsteel in aperto disprezzo degli accordi di
pace di Kumanovo) è il signor Dionisio Spoliti che "negli
ultimi 5 anni è stato in servizio al Sisde" dov'è stato
"uno dei Numeri 2". Ci sfugge quanti capi-sezione e vice ci
siano al Servizio, ma siccome nel sito non è spiegato se il
signor Spoliti abbia o meno finito di essere al servizio
del Servizio, dobbiamo immaginare che lui ancora eserciti
il suo mestiere al Sisde.
E qui emergono alcune considerazioni sul ruolo dell'Italia
e sull'ancora tragica e delicata crisi in Kosovo. Giacché
l'Italia va raccontando da tempo di essere impegnata per
una ripresa della vita civile nella martoriata regione. E
invece da tempo la sua inconcludenza è manifesta. Basta
fare la storia di questa "presenza", ahimé ben corroborata
poi dal triste primato di aver fornito le basi per l'avvio
della campagna di bombardamenti "umanitari".
Ottobre '98: il vice-questore di Prato
Tutto comincia nell'ottobre del 1998, con l'accordo
Holbrooke-Milosevic, e l'avvio di una missione dell'Osce,
la Kosovo Verification Mission (Kvm) a capo della quale
c'era - alla faccia della missione dell'organismo europeo
dell'Osce - l'americano William Walker (anche lui ex spia
in Sudamerica per l'Amministrazione americana). Walker
aveva 5 vice, ognuno dei rispettivi paesi del Gruppo di
contatto. Inglesi e francesi mandarono personaggi di peso:
i primi un generale di divisione con grande esperienza
balcanica, i secondi l'incaricato d'affari a Belgrado.
L'Italia per due mesi non mandò nessuno, poi, ai primi di
dicembre arrivò nientemeno che il vice-questore di Prato,
tal dottor Perugini (impegnato nel caso Pacciani e forse
per questo considerato esperto di "barbarie"). Sta di fatto
che la sua presenza durò 24 ore: non si è mai saputo se fu
lui ad andarsene o fu cacciato dal furbissimo Walker.
Quindi è arrivato Giovanni Koessler, sostituto procuratore
a Bolzano, che partì in missione, ma dimenticando
l'autorizzazione del Csm e fu costretto a tornare in
Italia. Siamo all'inizio del 1999, Koessler aspettò tutto
febbraio (comincia il vertice-imbroglio di Rambouillet e si
prepara la guerra a tutti i costi) e alla fine arrivò. Ma
il 23-24 marzo, dopo l'ambigua strage di Racak, William
Walker ritirò unilateralmente la missione Osce, e così si
ritirò dopo meno di un mese di presenza anche Koessler.
Finisce la guerra il 10-12 giugno 1999 e comincia, insieme
all'ingresso militare del Kosovo da parte della Nato
secondo gli accordi di Kumanovo con Belgrado, anche la
missione Unmik dell'Onu. Finalmente l'Italia conquista il
diritto ad avere un suo amministratore civile, quello della
turbolenta ed esplosiva Mitrovica, dov'è rimasta l'enclave
più rappresentativa di serbi in Kosovo. Enclave perché da
quel momento in poi - secondo l'Unhcr-Onu - 240.000 serbi,
rom, albanesi "collaborazionisti", turchi ed ebrei vengono
cacciati nel terrore.
Ecco il prefetto d'Arezzo
Ad amministrare Mitrovica viene inviato Mario Morcone,
prefetto di Arezzo, tenendolo, singolarmente, ancora in
carica nelle sue funzioni prefettizie in Toscana. Ma
Morcone ai primi di marzo del 2000 getta la spugna,
anticipando addirittura la caduta del governo D'Alema.
A questo punto altro vuoto di due mesi e, alla fine, arriva
l'uomo del Sisde. Quanto durerà? Perché risulta che non sa
nulla di Balcani, non conosce alcuna lingua straniera
(figurarsi il serbo, che basta pronunciarlo per essere
uccisi a Pristina, o l'albanese); tanto che ha alle costole
un traduttore, altro agente italo-americano del Sisde (o
della Cia?). Va da sé che al quartier generale dell'Onu a
Pristina questo dichiarato "impegno italiano" sia diventato
una specie di barzelletta, come le tradizionali trimestrali
visite del sottosegretario Ranieri con cui la Farnesina
pensa di coprire politicamente questa crisi che resta
esplosiva.
Certo, dietro ci sono motivi strutturali, come il fatto che
i funzionari del Ministero degli esteri mal sopportano di
bruciarsi la carriera in crisi assai pericolose - stessa
difficoltà e motivi stanno dietro la possibilità degli
organismi di polizia internazionale; e poi c'è la
sostanziale diffidenza dei governi occidentali verso i
funzionari delle Nazioni unite. Ma le questioni politiche
che emergono dentro l'ambiguità delle scelte del governo
italiano, sono ancora più gravi. Perché il Kosovo resta una
tragedia non conclusa, dove, dice l'Onu, gli oppressi sono
diventati oppressori con una contropulizia etnica alla
quale - questo è il fatto grave - hanno presenziato le
truppe della Nato senza muover un dito. E nessuno sa ancora
quale dovrà essere lo statuto definitivo di questa regione:
se, come dicono gli accordi di Kumanovo, ancora provincia
serba, o indipendente o Grande Albania, come dicono in
conflitto fra loro le leadership nazionaliste albanesi a
Pristina.
Ebbene, di fronte a questa difficoltà, qual è la scelta
dell'Italia? Quella di alimentare la guerra delle spie. Non
servono spie, ma l'avvio di un processo civile. Soprattutto
ora che l'Amministratore Kouchner vuole, a tutti i costi,
fare elezioni municipali. A quelle liste elettorali i pochi
serbi rimasti per protesta non si iscrivono: che senso
democratico avrebbero, dicono, elezioni senza il rientro di
240.000 profughi non-albanesi dimenticati da tutti, o con
il solo voto di pochi disperati rimasti in una realtà
pesantemente monetnica? Ma Kouchner vuole "un risultato",
l'ha detto con coda di paglia relazionando al Consiglio di
sicurezza: "Anche se a qualcuno può sembrare vergognoso".
Ora è il tempo dell'iniziativa politica. E invece
immaginiamo quale sintonia può stabilirsi tra un uomo del
Sisde e le Ong, e tutto il volontariato di pace che già
tanto ha patito in Kosovo dalla priorità del "militare".
Intanto l'amministratore Spoliti tace. Lui amministra il
settore americano e lì accadono cose tragiche. Che
dall'area di Malisevo, appena al di là della Valle di
Presevo in Serbia (con forte presenza albanese) siano
partiti decine di attacchi armati delle formazioni
dell'Ucpmb, legate all'Uck. L'uomo del Sisde tace. E'
addirittura accaduto mercoledì che sulla strada tra Kolokot
e Vitina, nel settore americano, ci sia stato un attentato
contro tre preti ortodossi serbi, decisivi per trattative
di pace. L'uomo del Sisde non dice una parola. E' il suo
mandato?
[Caro Tommaso di Francesco, ma cosa c'e' di strano nel fatto
che il governo italiano mandi delle spie in zone "calde"?
Piuttosto, ci sarebbe da sorprendersi se non le mandasse!
Il problema piuttosto e', da una parte, che le nostre spie fanno
ridere, come questa che non sa nemmeno le lingue straniere,
e sono solo portaborse degli americani; dall'altra, che le
truppe di occupazione italiane se ne devono solo andare dai Balcani.
CRJ]
FROM FOREIGN MEDIA
IL MANIFESTO: ROME'S SPY IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
ROME, July 18 (Tanjug) The government of Italian Prime
Minister
Giuliano Amato found itself sucked into a scandal linked to Rome's
official
policy on Kosovo and Metohija after the daily "Il Manifesto" revealed
that
one of the top officials of the U.N. civilian mission for Serbia's
southern
province the administrator of the Gnjilane district, Dionisio Spoliti
from
Italy, is at the same time a senior official of the Italian intelligence
service SISDE.
"Il Manifesto" said that the biography of the administrator of
the
Gnjilane region in eastern Kosovo and Metohija which is militarily
controlled by the U.S. troops, includes the fact that he has been one of
the few top officials of SISDE for the past five years.
This puts the Italian government into a compromising position
as
it supports claims that Italy is one of the centres of special espionage
activities aimed against Kosovo and Metohija and the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia.
The paper recalled that the "special activities" of certain
Western governments and the United States in Kosovo and Metohija,
started
in 1998 with the arrival of the socalled monitoring mission of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), headed by
William Walker of the United States who was a former spy in South
America.
"Il Manifesto" said that Spolito knows nothing about the
Balkans,
does not speak any foreign languages "and is constantly accompanied by a
translator another ItalianAmerican agent of SISDE or maybe the CIA."
Recalling that the tragedy in Kosovo and Metohija continues in
the
presence of the KFOR peacekeepers who "are doing nothing to prevent it,"
"Il Manifesto" wondered whether "in this overall situation, Italy's
choice
is to contribute to the war of spies."
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IL PROGETTO DELLA GRANDE ALBANIA
Dal bollettino del Ministero per l'Informazione di Belgrado, 1998
Versione italiana a cura del CRJ
Prima dell’apertura del Congresso di Berlino, alla fine dell I G.M.,
gli Aga e i Beg (leaders feudali-famigliari) indirizzarono ai
rappresentanti delle grandi potenze il progetto della "grande Albania"
che si estenderebbe sugli allora quattro Villajet inseriti nella Turchia
ottomana - Skadar, Janjina, Kosovo e Bitolj - (S. Terzic). E’
interessante che i leaders albanesi allora non chiedessero la formazione
di uno Stato indipendente albanese, ma l’autonomia albanese nell’ambito
dell’Impero ottomano sotto il nome di Villajet albanese. In questo si
trovano le radici dell’approccio per la soluzione della questione
nazionale albanese e la formazione di uno Stato per questo popolo.
Secondo lo storico Kosta Cavoski le questioni non venivano risolte nello
spirito del tempo, cioè con gli atti democratici dell’Europa liberale di
allora e con l’obiettivo di realizzare i veri interessi del popolo
albanese, ma secondo le richieste megalomani dei leaders delle tribu'
albanesi e sotto il patronato di Istanbul, allo scopo di salvaguardare
l’impero islamico feudale ottomano. Bisogna sapere che il cosiddetto
Grande Villajet albanese (cioè la provincia turca governata dai valì -
con
pagamento di tributo) era per grandezza due volte e mezzo rispetto
all’Albania odierna e che gli schipetari (denominati solo in seguito
"albanesi", dal nome dello Stato d'Albania) in quel territorio, secondo
un censimento di allora, rappresentavano la minoranza, cioè il 44% della
popolazione.
Lo Stato albanese viene fondato appena nel 1912, dopo la Prima guerra
balcanica, cioè dopo la liberazione dei Balcani dai turchi. E’
interessante che durante la Prima guerra balcanica gli albanesi non
combatterono a fianco di greci, bulgari, serbi. Non combatterono per
la liberazione nazionale ma lottarono a fianco della Turchia. Quando
fu chiaro che la Turchia ottomana stava per essere cacciata dai Balcani
i leaders albanesi si sono rivolti agli altri protettori e alle altre
potenze - all’Austroungheria e Gran Bretagna. Così la grande Albania
non viene fondata come frutto di una guerra di liberazione, ma secondo
l’idea austroungarica e conformemente agli interessi
dell'Austria-Ungheria. (...) Si è affermato che i nazionalisti
grandealbanesi da allora si sono sempre "appoggiati" ad una forza
europea o mondiale ma che d’altra parte non hanno mai rinunciato al
ruolo di "scudo islamico" in Europa e nemmeno a chiedere aiuto a Stati
islamici e fondamentalisti. I nazionalisti albanesi, ma anche gli
statisti, non hanno mai cercato le soluzioni ai problemi albanesi e
balcanici dialogando con i popoli vicini ma solo contro i popoli e gli
Stati vicini. Questo, secondo i nazionalisti grandealbanesi, è logico
perché la grande Albania si può formare soltanto contro gli interessi e
con l’appropriazione delle terre dei popoli vicini - serbi, macedoni,
montenegrini e greci.
Kosmet, il Piemonte italiano per fondare la grande Albania
L’esodo di serbi e montenegrini dal Kosmet (Kosovo e Metohija), la
tolleranza dell’esplosione demografica schipetara nella regione come
anche lo status di autonomia concesso dalla Costituzione del 1974 -
citano gli autori dello studio - non hanno analoghi in nessuna parte
dell’Europa né nel mondo. Tutto ciò andava in favore dei nazionalisti
grandealbanesi. E non solo: gli esperti dicono che gli schipetari
anziche' approfittare della situazione favorevole che hanno avuto nella
Repubblica Socialista Federativa di Jugoslavia per inserire la loro
minoranza nello sviluppo della Serbia e della Jugoslavia, fomentavano
sempre l’odio dei loro connazionali contro i serbi e i montenegrini e
alimentavano la voglia e le mire secessioniste. E’ paradossale ma vero,
dice lo storico Dusan Batakovic, il Kosmet sviluppato, economicamente e
culturalmente rafforzato, nella visione dei separatisti diventava il
polo e il "Piemonte" per la formazione della grande Albania. Dunque sul
territorio di uno Stato sovrano si tenta di formare il nucleo della
grande Albania... La grande Albania, secondo Batakovic, infatti, si sta
realizzando sui territori dei paesi limitrofi, facendo pressione sulla
popolazione del luogo costretta ad emigrare. Questa è una particolare
forma di "pulizia etnica", mentre nell’opinione pubblica mondiale si
da ad intendere che la minoranza albanese nel Kosmet verrebbe
terrorizzata e minacciata. Infine il cosiddetto Esercito di Liberazione
del Kosovo (UCK) ha espresso finalmente in modo chiaro gli obiettivi dei
grandealbanesi.
Appendice del traduttore:
"Rinfrescati la memoria signora Europa"
Cara Europa,
durante la Prima guerra mondiale a Londra il 16-8-1915 alla Serbia
promettevi i territori dove vivevano in maggioranza i serbi:
la regione di Backa, Slavonia, una parte della Dalmazia e la Bosnia.
Nella guerra ‘14/’18 i soldati serbi hanno liberato tutto il
territorio degli slavi del Sud dal loro e dal tuo nemico. Tu eri
meravigliata e spaventata. La piccola Serbia perse più della metà della
popolazione maschile: la grande Serbia precedentemente disegnata
dagli alleati a Berlino era fatta. Ad essa si sono spontaneamente uniti
altri popoli slavi delle regioni austroungariche, per creare la
Jugoslavia... Come fai ora a parlare di "Stato artificiale"?!
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CHI APPOGGIA LA GRANDE ALBANIA?
(si veda anche:
http://www.marx2001.org/nuovaunita/jugo/crj/m_l/230799c.htm )
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Kosova Task Force, USA
News Update
June 15, 2000
As the first anniversary of Serb withdrawal approaches
(June 20), journalists in leading newspapers are suffering
from a serious bout of collective amnesia. Critics in
alliance with the Serb lobby are questioning whether NATO
intervention on humanitarian grounds was justified. Instead
of acknowledging NATO¹s role in the heroic resistance waged
by the people of Kosova against genocide, the focus is on
whether the number of Serb tanks hit were worth the costs of
intervention.
The following facts need to be remembered and brought forward
to the media's attention.
1 Kosova is still not free. Serbia continues to have
political sovereignty over Kosova despite the overwhelming
vote for independence by Kosovars in 1991. To deny the
aspirations of Kosovars is to ensure new wars and further
atrocities.
2 The UN Security Council assigned UNMIK the impossible
task of creating a multi-ethnic Kosova subject to Belgrade.
Any talk of reconciliation and creation of a multiethnic society
is futile so long as there is no acknowledgment of the wrongs done,
and if not amends then at least a sense that some measure of
justice is being done.
3 NATO went to war against Belgrade not to create some
multiethnic and democratic nirvana but to prevent an escalation
of Serb attacks against Kosovo's civilian population.
4 Albanian relief from Serb tyranny cannot depend simply on
the presence of international forces providing border security.
A political settlement with ethnic Albanians as full partners
is needed.
5 The upcoming municipal elections are no more than a UN
plan to assuage Kosovars and a bid for time in the hope that
some sort of compromise short of Koosovar independence will emerge.
6 French peacekeepers in Kosova have been repeatedly accused of
cooperating with Serb paramilitaries controlling access to northern
Mitrovica. French forces sympathetic to Belgrade have allowed a
defacto partition of the mineral-rich region of Mitrovica by the Serbs.
7 War criminals have not been arrested. KFOR and UNMIK civilian
police force have deliberately failed to pursue indicted war
criminals. Kosova still has no court that can deliver impartial
judgments regarding war crimes.
8 About 1200 Albanians are still being illegally held in
Serbian prisons, subjected to mock trials that make a parody of
justice. Last month, 143 of these prisoners were sentenced to a
total of 1632 years in prison. Another 5000 Kosovars are reported
missing. The weak international response has fostered a profound
cynicism among Kosovars regarding the prospects for realizing
other Western promises such as self-governance or real peace.
9 An estimated 20,000 Kosovar women were raped by Serbs. None of
these criminals have been arrested. Few services are available for
these women to deal with their personal traumas. Local humanitarian
groups, including the Red Cross, have estimated that 100 rape-babies
were born in January alone.
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The following organizations constitute the Kosova Task Force, USA:
Albanian Islamic Cultural Center, American Muslim Council,
Balkan Muslim Association, Council of Islamic Organizations of Chicago,
Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan, Council on American
Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America ( ),
Islamic Council of New England, Islamic Medical Association, Islamic
Shura Council of Southern California, Islamic Society of Greater
Houston, Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Majlis Shura New York,
The Ministry of Imam W.D. Muhammad, Muslim Students Association of US
and Canada, The National Community.
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http://www.serbia-info.com/news
Listed Albanians are not citizens of Serbia and Yugoslavia
July 17, 2000
Kragujevac, July 17th - President of Albanian Democratic Reform Party
and president of Peace Association Board, Sokolj Cuse, said today in
Kragujevac that a large number of Albanians who are not citizens of
Serbia and Yugoslavia applied at the population census organized by
Bernard Kouchner in Kosmet.
Marking that Kouchner`s population census is illegal and opposed to the
Security Council Resolution 1244, Cuse said that listing of Albanians
who have never lived in Kosmet and who are not citizens of Serbia and
Yugoslavia is one more reason why Serbs, Albanians, Turks and Gorans
have not answered this census and for the same reason they will not go
out to the elections.
Reminding that one of Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE)`s representatives has recently threatened Serbs that they
will lose their property unless they answer the census, Cuse said that
Serbs remain resolute in their decision to boycott Koucher`s census.
"The pressure on citizens who are for joint living in Kosovo-Metohija,
as it had been before KFOR and UNMIK came, is great and directed towards
their listing, but we are aware that only united we can preserve
ourselves and stop the anarchy conducted in Kosmet by Kouchner, Thaqui
and other terrorists", Cuse said.
---- Original Message -----
From: <info@...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 8:53 PM
Subject: [DSS] Double Standards of Kfor and Kouchner
>
> Double Standards of Kfor and Kouchner
>
> The international forces in Kosovo and Unmik head Bernard Kouchner
continue
> to apply double standards, quite contrary to United Nations Security
Council
> Resolution 1244. In the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kfor brutally
> injured eight Serbs, from a group which protested at the arrest of student
> Dalibor Vukovic (24). The international police arrested him for having
> beaten up an Albanian half a year ago.
>
> Such zeal was not demonstrated by Kfor in any of the thousands of cases in
> which Serbs were beaten up, while the international administration's
> investigations into the one thousand or so killings or just as many
> kidnappings of Serbs can be counted on one hand. Kfor did not lift a
finger
> when, a little over two weeks ago, followers of Ramush Haradinaj, Hashim
> Thaqi's one-time close associate, blocked the police station in Pec in
order
> to "free" two of their people who had been involved in a bloody
> inter-Albanian showdown in Steroci.
>
> There are no such actions by the international administration when the
> Kosovo Albanians are in question. They are protected by Kouchner who
> describes as retaliation obvious systematic crimes against Serbs staged by
> followers of Thaqi or Haradinaj. With statements like the one in the "New
> York Times" Kouchner is amnestying his protigis and compromising the UN
> mission to extreme limits.
>
> Belgrade, July 18, 2000
>
> Information Service of the Democratic Party of Serbia
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> Fax: (381 11) 328 1793
>
http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
July 19, 2000
Socialist Leader Says He Aided KLA as Premier
TIRANA - Socialist Chairman Fatos Nano has said in an
interview that he held contacts and helped the Kosovo
Liberation Army following the massacre of the Jashari
family in February 1998.
Nano, who was interviewed by the chief editor of
Prishtina’s main daily Koha Ditore, said he had urged
top KLA leaders Hashim Thaci and Xhavit Haliti to
confront the Serbs militarily and diplomatically.
The interview was broadcast by private TV channel Klan
late on Monday evening.
Nano was prime minister at the time.
Nano also said he had arranged a meeting between US
diplomat Richard Holbrooke and a KLA official, Bardhyl
Mahmuti, in Crans Montana, Switzerland.
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http://www.commondreams.org/views/071900-107.htm
Common Dreams - Published on Wednesday, July 19, 2000
Washington's Men In Kosovo:
A Year After the NATO Occupation,
Terror Reigns
by Jeremy Scahill
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http://www.jurist.law.pitt.edu/zlatko.htm
Legal Guide to the Kosovo Conflict
Diplomacy and the Conflict in Kosovo
Notes on Threats and Fears
Dr. Zlatko Isakovic
Director
YUPeace - Centre for Peace and Conflict Research
Institute of International Politics and Economics
Belgrade
Paper prepared for presentation at the ISA Annual Convention, 16-20
February 1999, Washington, DC
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to elaborate on the actual and possible roles
for diplomacy in the conflict resolution process in Kosovo. The first
part of the paper will be devoted to an analysis of the Kosovo conflict;
the second part attempts to present the main diplomatic activities
undertaken after its escalation; and the third part provides conclusions
on the diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict and offers some
suggestions on its future development.
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ENZO BETICA E PAOLO RUMIC
Danica wrote:
>
> UNA NOTA:
>
> CHE ENZO BETTIZA SE NE FREGA PER LA DISTRUZIONE DELLE
> CHIESE ORTODOSSE è una cosa ovvia di fatto: sig. BETTIZA
> è stato per anni uno dei più focosi "falchi" nazifascio-ustasca croati in
> Italia nelle sue dichiarazioni che ha fatto durante tutte le guerre
> balcaniche. E non c'è da meravigliarsi: sig. ENZO BETTIZA
> parla molto bene croato - serbo ... niente di strano, perché il
> cognome BETTIZA è un cognome italianizzato di origine croata: le famiglie con
> il cognome Botice e Betice si trovano a Fiume e isola di Korcula !
>
> Lo sapevate questo ???
> Chiediamo al sig. BETTIZA quali sono le sue origini? ;-)
>
> Come mai sig. BETTIZA non aveva mai pronunciato ni anche una parola
> contro i massacri fatti sulla popolazione serba e musulmana, dai parà croati
> sotto la guida del ex studente della Teologia, cattolico
> Dragoslav Paraga ??? Come mai non si parla mai di questo Dragoslav Paraga?
> Vi siete posti questa domanda ?
>
> Danica Razlag
La slavofobia e serbo-fobia di Enzo Bettiza/Betica ha una origine
psicoanalitica piuttosto evidente: egli rifiuta e rinnega le sue radici
ed ha paura di essere portatore di una identita' mista. Traumi connessi
all'allontanamento dalla sua terra di origine lo portano a voler essere
piu' "italiano" degli stessi italiani della penisola.
Simili atteggiamenti intolleranti e fanatici contro "la barbarie slava"
sono diffusi in ampi settori della borghesia dalmata, istriana e
triestina, che e' ancora scioccata dalla perdita dello status sociale
privilegiato con la vittoria dei partigiani durante la Seconda Guerra
Mondiale. Questa borghesia, di solito educata sui banchi delle scuole
elementari del Fascismo e della Guerra Fredda da "italianissime"
maestrine, ha introiettato quei fantasmi ed ha paura, si scaglia contro
la propria stessa origine e ricchezza multi-etnica e multi-culturale,
che non riconosce nemmeno nel suono del proprio nome.
Un ulteriore esempio? Il giornalista antijugoslavo Paolo Rumiz/Rumic.
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Danica wrote:
>
> UNA NOTA:
>
> CHE ENZO BETTIZA SE NE FREGA PER LA DISTRUZIONE DELLE
> CHIESE ORTODOSSE è una cosa ovvia di fatto: sig. BETTIZA
> è stato per anni uno dei più focosi "falchi" nazifascio-ustasca croati in
> Italia nelle sue dichiarazioni che ha fatto durante tutte le guerre
> balcaniche. E non c'è da meravigliarsi: sig. ENZO BETTIZA
> parla molto bene croato - serbo ... niente di strano, perché il
> cognome BETTIZA è un cognome italianizzato di origine croata: le famiglie con
> il cognome Botice e Betice si trovano a Fiume e isola di Korcula !
>
> Lo sapevate questo ???
> Chiediamo al sig. BETTIZA quali sono le sue origini? ;-)
>
> Come mai sig. BETTIZA non aveva mai pronunciato ni anche una parola
> contro i massacri fatti sulla popolazione serba e musulmana, dai parà croati
> sotto la guida del ex studente della Teologia, cattolico
> Dragoslav Paraga ??? Come mai non si parla mai di questo Dragoslav Paraga?
> Vi siete posti questa domanda ?
>
> Danica Razlag
La slavofobia e serbo-fobia di Enzo Bettiza/Betica ha una origine
psicoanalitica piuttosto evidente: egli rifiuta e rinnega le sue radici
ed ha paura di essere portatore di una identita' mista. Traumi connessi
all'allontanamento dalla sua terra di origine lo portano a voler essere
piu' "italiano" degli stessi italiani della penisola.
Simili atteggiamenti intolleranti e fanatici contro "la barbarie slava"
sono diffusi in ampi settori della borghesia dalmata, istriana e
triestina, che e' ancora scioccata dalla perdita dello status sociale
privilegiato con la vittoria dei partigiani durante la Seconda Guerra
Mondiale. Questa borghesia, di solito educata sui banchi delle scuole
elementari del Fascismo e della Guerra Fredda da "italianissime"
maestrine, ha introiettato quei fantasmi ed ha paura, si scaglia contro
la propria stessa origine e ricchezza multi-etnica e multi-culturale,
che non riconosce nemmeno nel suono del proprio nome.
Un ulteriore esempio? Il giornalista antijugoslavo Paolo Rumiz/Rumic.
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LA 'SINISTRA' E LA GUERRA
di Stefano Garroni
(apparso su: Quaderni Cestes-Proteo n. 3/1999
http://www.ppl.it/proteo/ )
Certamente è vero che le iniziative italiane contro l'aggressione alla
Jugoslavia hanno raggiunto un'ampiezza non comune in Europa, mettendoci
in grado di riscattare, almeno in parte, la vergogna d'aver partecipato,
come Stato, a quella stessa aggressione. E' altrettando indubbio, però,
che la mobilitazione della 'sinistra' italiana ha presentato limiti e
contraddizioni, su cui vale la pena di riflettere, perché
presumibilmente rivelatori di insufficienze radicali e non più
tollerabili.
Se pure è vero che, dopo molti anni, alcuni sindacati (RdB, Cub, Cobas,
ecc.) son riusciti perfino a realizzare uno sciopero politico contro
l'aggressione Nato; altrettanto è vero che, ormai, non risulta più
rinviabile l'analisi e la denuncia della sostanziale povertà e
arretratezza politico-ideologica della nostra 'sinistra'.
Ciò che mi propongo, dunque, è esattamente di individuare almeno alcuni
di tali limiti ideologici, convinto che in tal modo sarà possibile
cogliere cause effettive della inadeguatezza politica della 'sinistra'.
Ma già questo intento merita, forse, qualche precisazione.
Se è vera l'ormai inderogabile necessità di operare esplicite
differenziazioni fra 'sinistra' da un lato e 'ambiente comunista'
dall'altro (uso questa curiosa espressione, perché mi sembrerebbe
eccessivo parlare già di 'movimento comunista'), bisogna comprendere,
anche, che assumere consapevolmente tale esigenza è già di per sé prova
che qualcosa è cambiato sia nell'oggettività della situazione
politico-sociale italiana, sia nel modo in cui essa vien percepita dalla
coscienza diffusa.
Ricordiamo tutti, infatti, che la dissoluzione del campo socialista
europeo fu ambiguamente salutata dalla totalità -o quasi, se si
prescinde da ristrettissimi gruppi o singoli individui- della 'sinistra'
italiana come l'autentico aprirsi di una nuova pagina nella storia:
ormai, questo si diceva, la scena politica non sarà più dominata dalla
defunta lotta di classe, ma sì dallo scontro conclusivo tra democrazia
da un lato e totalitarismo dall'altro.
Ad oggettivo segno di quanto 'cattiva' fosse quella coscienza, basti
ricordare la falsa interpretazione, che subito si diffuse a 'sinistra'
(e proprio questa immediata diffusione è sintomale), dello scritto del
funzionario nord-americano, d'origine giapponese, Fukuiama.
Il quale acutamente aveva sostenuto non la fine della storia tout court,
ma sì che, se il comunismo è finito, allora non c'è più storia.
Il che, com'è chiaro, è del tutto vero, nel senso che se l'ordinamento
capitalistico fosse l'orizzonte ultimo dello sviluppo umano, certo
sarebbero possibili accadimenti ed eventi, ma non sarebbero più
possibili accadimenti ed eventi di carattere storico, dunque, capaci di
rappresentare momenti di svolta nel corso della vicenda umana. Ma quella
'sinistra' che salutava nel modo che sappiamo la 'caduta del muro di
Berlino', esattamente a questo si accingeva: a rinunciare alla lotta per
operare svolte radicali nella forma di vita contenporanea. Quella
'sinistra', dunque, doveva rendere inoffensivo, banalizzandolo, uno
scritto che, se compreso, avrebbe potuto contribuire a rendere almeno
equivoco l'entusiasmo che essa esibiva ed a gettare dubbi sulla
praticabilità di prospettive politiche, il cui presupposto era, appunto,
la fine della storia, dacché proprio la 'sinistra' dava per finiti lotta
di classe, rovesciamento dei rapporti di produzione, ecc.
Si aggiunga a questo un breve articolo -che forse fu effettivamente
letto più dello scritto di Fukuiama, senza però raggiungerne la
notorietà-, che pubblicò Lucio Colletti (un personaggio, dunque, non
limpidissimo, ma certo intelligente). Il senso dell'articolo, in
definitiva, era questo: se il marxismo si è rivelato fallace, allora
bisogna tremare, perché non resta più spazio per una lettura razionale
della storia, per la possibilitò di concepirla come dotata di senso.
Senonché, è facile notare come la 'sinistra post-caduta del muro'
proprio su questa strada si lanciava, priva di dubbi ed incertezze:
sulla strada dell'assunzione piena di una prospettiva irrazionalistica,
che mentre toglieva intelligibilità e senso alla storia, recuperava
l'opaca dimensione dell'immediato, del 'concreto', del desiderio, del
vissuto, insomma, dell'inconsapevolezza e dell'arbitrio soggettivo e
velleitario, nonché della riduzione dell'uomo alla sua elementare
dimensione naturale e sensibile.
Fosse calcolo o mero smarrimento (oppure una mescolanza di entrambi), in
generale la 'sinistra' ritenne, nelle nuove condizioni determinate dalla
scomparsa dell'Urss, di potersi assicurare spazi politici, assumendo la
cultura del decadente irrazionalismo borghese ed estremizzandone gli
obiettivi; questa sembrava la strada per poter continuare a <far
movimento> e, dunque, per non essere emarginata.
L'equivoco è evidente: nessuna società -neppure quella dello
Spätkapitalismus, come dice il titolo di un noto libro di Ernest Mandel-
è irrazionale, se non nella misura in cui un'oggettiva irrazionalità sia
il medio necessario, perché di quella società si affermi, invece, la
ragione propria. Il che implicita, com'è noto, la necessità di
distinguere nella dinamica di una forma di vita determinata (o, se si
vuole, di una formazione sociale) due livelli: quello del modo in cui la
forma di vita in questione si presenta e l'altro, del suo effettivo e
sostanziale funzionamento; insomma, tutto è possibile tranne che
disegnare una prospettiva politica, muovendosi nell'ottica
irrazionalistica.
Come si fa, però, a collocarsi entro il realismo della politica, avendo
rinunciato alla ragione, dunque, alla teoria, come la 'sinistra' faceva?
Ma non basta. Perché, in realtà, in quel desiderio di <far movimento>,
che tanto angustiava la 'sinistra', confluivano componenti diverse:
l'astratta volontà di ritrovare lo slancio e la vivacità del '68 (una
sorta di non casuale tardo-romantica aspirazione ad un'eterna
giovinezza); ma anche la surrettizia continuità con quella tradizione
riformista (ricca di echi irrazionalistici), secondo cui <il movimento è
tutto e il fine nulla>; si aggiunga a questo un fattore di cui poco si
parla, per quanto enorme sia la sua importanza: intendo il
parlamentarismo.
Perché questo è vero: l'esaltazione democratica, successiva alla 'caduta
del muro', per quanto si presentasse con le vesti della novità, della
scopera di una dimensione finalmente capace di superare le angustrie
della visione marxista, di fatto, si rivelava poi, banalmente,
esaltazione della democrazia parlamentare -dunque, di un ordinamento
politico-giuridico, ben precisamente datato dal punto di vista storico
ed in critica del quale mille e mille pagine son state scritte nel corso
ormai di secoli; ordinamento, per altro, proprio oggi (cioè nell'epoca
delle grandi concentrazioni economiche) vistosamente in crisi.
Non ci sarebbe stato bisogno di ricorrere né a Rousseau, a Hegel o Marx
(e tanto meno a Platone) per esser consapevoli delle contraddizioni
dell'ordinamento democratico-parlamentare: sarebbe bastato riandare ad
un dibattito dei primissimi anni 60, in cui studiosi e politici
francesi, italiani, americani, inglesi avevano ampiamente dimostrato
l'inattualità dell'ordinamento democratico-parlamentare (almeno nelle
sue formulazioni ufficiali), stanti le condizioni del capitalismo
oligopolistico (o dell'imperialismo, come Lenin esplicitamente diceva e
come è ricavabile, senza eccessiva fatica, dalle pagine di Marx).
Ma qui continuava ad operare un'indubbia tradizione del movimento
operaio italiano, nonché certi equivoci, che a lungo hanno dominato lo
stesso movimento comunista: intendo la riduzione parlamentaristica della
democrazia, all'interno dell'accettazione di un modello ancora più
pericoloso, quello dell'ideologia propria della moderna società
capitalistica di massa.
Dal confluire di tutto ciò risultava l'abbarbicarsi della 'sinistra' ad
un democratismo "senza qualità" (sto pensando esattamente a Musil),
legato all'esaltazione del mero decidere, della retorica della volontà
dal basso ed all'illusione (che sarebbe, invece, facilissimo
distruggere), secondo cui l'arbitrio delle volontà è ciò su cui può (e
deve) reggersi una società ed, in particolare, la moderna società
industriale (capitalistica o socialistica che sia).
E' interessante notare che la 'sinistra post-crollo' poteva giustificare
questo suo acritico approdo al parlamentarismo richiamandosi, anche,
all'estremismo assembleare del '68, che un qualche rapporto con la
tradizione del 'comunismo critico occidentale' pur lo aveva (penso alla
Luxemburg, a Korsch, Pannekoek, Mattick, Gorter, ecc); voglio dire che
non risultava difficile dar nobili natali ad un atteggiamento di
sostanziale opportunismo politico, anche perché -riconosciamolo con
francezza- ben poco è restato, nella cultura comunista, della articolata
critica leniniana alla concezione dello Stato e della democrazia, che fu
propria di quel comunismo 'occidentale' che dicevo.
Se questo effettivamente era il clima ideologico di cui viveva la
'sinistra post-crollo', sarebbe ingeneroso dimenticare quanto quello
stesso clima avesse radici anche in altri fenomeni -culturali, dacché il
mio ragionamento si confina consapevolmente in quest'ambito-, oggettivi
e aperti potenzialmente a sviluppi di grande importanza. Per poter ben
comprendere la cosa, tiriamo una prima conclusione.
In definitiva, la 'sinistra' che qui ci interessa andava accettando (e
sviluppando) una ideologia paradossale, nel senso di essere, ad un
tempo, politica ed impolitica, ispiratrice di comportamenti politici
determinati ma, anche, rinunciataria, in quanto assumeva i propri valori
dall'immediatezza del modo di vivere tardo-capitalistico e, dunque, li
rendeva autonomi presupposti dall'operosità costruttiva della politica.
Di qui l'approdo ad una concezione (della politica), che si vuole
pragmatica e non ideologica, mentre in verità è intrisa di un'ideologia,
assunta passivamente dall'esterno (dunque, della peggiore ideologia).
Tale intricata forma di coscienza risultava, a ben vedere, consonante
con importanti posizioni culturali, riproposte (solo, riproposte)
vivacemente nel nostro secolo, secondo le quali non c'è rapporto fra
dominio filosofico e dominio delle scienze, dovendosi intendere queste
ultime strettamente come attività intellettuali -per dirla con Hegel- e,
dunque, eminentemente riferite ognuna ad un oggetto particolare,
plasmate secondo modelli empiristico-matematici e non interpretabili se
non come costruzioni pragmatiche e convenzionalistiche.
Dunque, così come l'ideologia della 'sinistra' separava valore ed azione
politica, analogamente in ambito propriamente culturale s'andava
riproponendo, in definitiva, la coppia utilitarismo pratico, da un lato,
e soggettivismo dei valori, dall'altro.
Non voglio approfondire questo aspetto della questione; mi basta
ricordare le analisi di due significativi studiosi marxisti, noti anche
in Italia -l'austriaco V. Hösle e l'ungherese A. Gedö-, i quali hanno
mostrato il nesso profondo, che lega neo-positivismo e Lebensphilosophie
(filosofia della vita), nonché il riproporsi, in questo modo, di ciò che
Hegel definiva lo stanco "scetticismo moderno", in opposizione a quel
vigoroso "scetticismo antico", che tanti meriti si è guadagnato per lo
sviluppo delle scienze e della filosofia.
Tuttavia, comprendere a fondo lo svuotamento di valenza teorica -a cui
la 'sinistra' sottoponeva l'azione politica, separandola così da morale
e scientificità (ovvero da quella Wissenschaftlichkeit, che gioca un
ruolo così essenziale nella prospettiva dialettica di Hegel e di Marx)-
non è possibile senza richiamare gli autentici guasti -sia politici che
culturali-, che son risultati da quel certo modo di organizzare e
interpretare il marxismo, che per lunghi decenni è apparso essere il
marxismo.
E' chiaro che a questo punto l'argomento si fa particolarmente
complesso, anche perché sono assai scarsi gli studi dettagliati sul
tema, che siano capaci di render conto di analogie e differenze nello
svolgersi del marxismo almeno nei principali paesi europei. Mi sembra,
tuttavia, che alcuni punti possano essere fissati. Ad esempio, questo.
E' giunta fino ai nostri giorni la curiosa tesi, secondo cui esiste un
solo marxismo e tante sue deformazioni, per cui, volta a volta, il
compito serio sarebbe quello di recuperare e svolgere quell'unico
marxismo, liberandolo dagli elementi estranei, che possono averlo
appesantito e smorzato nella sua valenza critica.
Lo sfondo religioso di tale convinzione (con la conseguente inevitabile
coppia oppositiva di ortodossia ed eterodossie) non va neppure
dimostrato; ma siccome sappiamo che elementi di mentalità religiosa son
presenti anche nel senso comune, è utile qui osservare che, al contrario
di quanto immediatamente sembra, ogni importante costruzione teorica (ed
il marxismo certo lo è) non è mai priva di polisemia. Al contrario, è
sempre disponibile a svolgimenti -dunque, ad interpretazioni-
molteplici.
Certo, si tratta di una gamma di significati possibili contenuta entro
certi limiti, superati i quali quella tradizione risulta esaurita,
distrutta, morta; ma questo conferma che un grande libro o un'importante
linea di pensiero son tali anche perché producono effetti (di nuovo,
interpretazioni -teoriche e pratiche), relativamente diverse, in
contesti sia uguali che differenti.
Insomma, la vitalità di un libro o di una tradizione di pensiero
comporta varietà di svolgimenti, molteplicità di esiti, opponendosi così
alla secca alternativa dell'autenticità o della falsificazione
interpretativa.
Senonché -e per una molteplicità di fattori-, storicamente si è
costruito il paradosso per cui un pensiero dialettico, come quello di
Marx, ha subito una tematizzazione dogmatica e scolastica. Si è giunti
perfino a cristallizzare un tale pensiero (a reificarlo), fino al punto
di inventare una pretesa "filosofia marxista-leninista", con tanto di
principi, di cui storia e natura non dovevano che esibire prove e
conferme.
L'inevitabile risultato è stato quello di ridurre il marxismo da teoria
dialettica a variante del materialismo meccanicistico, del determinismo
economico, del pragmatismo, del funzionalismo, ecc. ecc.
Proprio la dialettica, dunque, è scomparsa, perché sommersa da una
rigida costruzione sistematica, sempre di più lontana dalla vitalità
effettiva degli eventi politici e scientifici; al pensiero di Marx,
inoltre, si è così attribuita una compattezza e linearità, che in realtà
gli mancano, e che addirittura gli mancano non per caso, ma sì perché
quel pensiero è caratterizzato da un tormentato rapporto con i punti
altri della riflessione a lui contemporanea (basti pensare ad Hegel ed a
Ricardo), che è ragione non ultima della persistente sua vitalità.
Ed allora ecco che, già nella tradizione comunista, si andò costruendo
un autentico divorzio fra teoria (imbalsamata e non più dialettica) e
pratica politica (opportunista, riformista, pur se proclamantesi
comunista).
Il fatto grave è che questa versione del marxismo si è imposta al senso
comune (e non -si pensi a Popper) come il marxismo. In questo modo si
spiega come, a partire dal 1967-1968, la sinistra costruitasi fuori dai
Partiti comunisti abbia oscillato -sulla base delle variazioni del
generale quadro politico e sociale- tra un'accettazione estremistica di
tale marxismo ed il suo rifiuto, non già con la prospettiva di
recuperare la dialetticità del marxismo stesso, ma sì per rincorrere
passivamente questa o quella moda culturali, comunque sempre inscritte
entro il quadro dell'irrazionalismo.
La dissoluzione del campo socialista europeo e la tardiva vittoria di
Bucharin nei restanti Paesi socialisti hanno determinato una situazione,
per cui tutti i fattori, che ho rapidissimamente disegnato, son
precipitati nella costruzione di una 'ideologia di sinistra',
sostanzialmente incapace di intendere le dinamiche del mondo reale, ma
disponibile a sostituirle con autentiche, deliranti costruzioni
oniriche, ispirate a vaghe idealità come pacifismo, ecologismo, cultura
della differenza, ecc.
Naturalmente, tutto ciò non impedisce alle 'cose del mondo' di procedere
nel modo, in cui realmente procedono. Ed allora questa 'sinistra' si
trova a dover reagire con le sue armi ideologiche ad un complesso di
eventi, che le risultato in sostanza opachi, non compresi. E tanto più
drammatici si fanno questi eventi, tanto più drammaticamente inadeguata
si fa la reazione ad essi, di cui la 'sinistra' si dimostra capace.
Stefano Garroni
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di Stefano Garroni
(apparso su: Quaderni Cestes-Proteo n. 3/1999
http://www.ppl.it/proteo/ )
Certamente è vero che le iniziative italiane contro l'aggressione alla
Jugoslavia hanno raggiunto un'ampiezza non comune in Europa, mettendoci
in grado di riscattare, almeno in parte, la vergogna d'aver partecipato,
come Stato, a quella stessa aggressione. E' altrettando indubbio, però,
che la mobilitazione della 'sinistra' italiana ha presentato limiti e
contraddizioni, su cui vale la pena di riflettere, perché
presumibilmente rivelatori di insufficienze radicali e non più
tollerabili.
Se pure è vero che, dopo molti anni, alcuni sindacati (RdB, Cub, Cobas,
ecc.) son riusciti perfino a realizzare uno sciopero politico contro
l'aggressione Nato; altrettanto è vero che, ormai, non risulta più
rinviabile l'analisi e la denuncia della sostanziale povertà e
arretratezza politico-ideologica della nostra 'sinistra'.
Ciò che mi propongo, dunque, è esattamente di individuare almeno alcuni
di tali limiti ideologici, convinto che in tal modo sarà possibile
cogliere cause effettive della inadeguatezza politica della 'sinistra'.
Ma già questo intento merita, forse, qualche precisazione.
Se è vera l'ormai inderogabile necessità di operare esplicite
differenziazioni fra 'sinistra' da un lato e 'ambiente comunista'
dall'altro (uso questa curiosa espressione, perché mi sembrerebbe
eccessivo parlare già di 'movimento comunista'), bisogna comprendere,
anche, che assumere consapevolmente tale esigenza è già di per sé prova
che qualcosa è cambiato sia nell'oggettività della situazione
politico-sociale italiana, sia nel modo in cui essa vien percepita dalla
coscienza diffusa.
Ricordiamo tutti, infatti, che la dissoluzione del campo socialista
europeo fu ambiguamente salutata dalla totalità -o quasi, se si
prescinde da ristrettissimi gruppi o singoli individui- della 'sinistra'
italiana come l'autentico aprirsi di una nuova pagina nella storia:
ormai, questo si diceva, la scena politica non sarà più dominata dalla
defunta lotta di classe, ma sì dallo scontro conclusivo tra democrazia
da un lato e totalitarismo dall'altro.
Ad oggettivo segno di quanto 'cattiva' fosse quella coscienza, basti
ricordare la falsa interpretazione, che subito si diffuse a 'sinistra'
(e proprio questa immediata diffusione è sintomale), dello scritto del
funzionario nord-americano, d'origine giapponese, Fukuiama.
Il quale acutamente aveva sostenuto non la fine della storia tout court,
ma sì che, se il comunismo è finito, allora non c'è più storia.
Il che, com'è chiaro, è del tutto vero, nel senso che se l'ordinamento
capitalistico fosse l'orizzonte ultimo dello sviluppo umano, certo
sarebbero possibili accadimenti ed eventi, ma non sarebbero più
possibili accadimenti ed eventi di carattere storico, dunque, capaci di
rappresentare momenti di svolta nel corso della vicenda umana. Ma quella
'sinistra' che salutava nel modo che sappiamo la 'caduta del muro di
Berlino', esattamente a questo si accingeva: a rinunciare alla lotta per
operare svolte radicali nella forma di vita contenporanea. Quella
'sinistra', dunque, doveva rendere inoffensivo, banalizzandolo, uno
scritto che, se compreso, avrebbe potuto contribuire a rendere almeno
equivoco l'entusiasmo che essa esibiva ed a gettare dubbi sulla
praticabilità di prospettive politiche, il cui presupposto era, appunto,
la fine della storia, dacché proprio la 'sinistra' dava per finiti lotta
di classe, rovesciamento dei rapporti di produzione, ecc.
Si aggiunga a questo un breve articolo -che forse fu effettivamente
letto più dello scritto di Fukuiama, senza però raggiungerne la
notorietà-, che pubblicò Lucio Colletti (un personaggio, dunque, non
limpidissimo, ma certo intelligente). Il senso dell'articolo, in
definitiva, era questo: se il marxismo si è rivelato fallace, allora
bisogna tremare, perché non resta più spazio per una lettura razionale
della storia, per la possibilitò di concepirla come dotata di senso.
Senonché, è facile notare come la 'sinistra post-caduta del muro'
proprio su questa strada si lanciava, priva di dubbi ed incertezze:
sulla strada dell'assunzione piena di una prospettiva irrazionalistica,
che mentre toglieva intelligibilità e senso alla storia, recuperava
l'opaca dimensione dell'immediato, del 'concreto', del desiderio, del
vissuto, insomma, dell'inconsapevolezza e dell'arbitrio soggettivo e
velleitario, nonché della riduzione dell'uomo alla sua elementare
dimensione naturale e sensibile.
Fosse calcolo o mero smarrimento (oppure una mescolanza di entrambi), in
generale la 'sinistra' ritenne, nelle nuove condizioni determinate dalla
scomparsa dell'Urss, di potersi assicurare spazi politici, assumendo la
cultura del decadente irrazionalismo borghese ed estremizzandone gli
obiettivi; questa sembrava la strada per poter continuare a <far
movimento> e, dunque, per non essere emarginata.
L'equivoco è evidente: nessuna società -neppure quella dello
Spätkapitalismus, come dice il titolo di un noto libro di Ernest Mandel-
è irrazionale, se non nella misura in cui un'oggettiva irrazionalità sia
il medio necessario, perché di quella società si affermi, invece, la
ragione propria. Il che implicita, com'è noto, la necessità di
distinguere nella dinamica di una forma di vita determinata (o, se si
vuole, di una formazione sociale) due livelli: quello del modo in cui la
forma di vita in questione si presenta e l'altro, del suo effettivo e
sostanziale funzionamento; insomma, tutto è possibile tranne che
disegnare una prospettiva politica, muovendosi nell'ottica
irrazionalistica.
Come si fa, però, a collocarsi entro il realismo della politica, avendo
rinunciato alla ragione, dunque, alla teoria, come la 'sinistra' faceva?
Ma non basta. Perché, in realtà, in quel desiderio di <far movimento>,
che tanto angustiava la 'sinistra', confluivano componenti diverse:
l'astratta volontà di ritrovare lo slancio e la vivacità del '68 (una
sorta di non casuale tardo-romantica aspirazione ad un'eterna
giovinezza); ma anche la surrettizia continuità con quella tradizione
riformista (ricca di echi irrazionalistici), secondo cui <il movimento è
tutto e il fine nulla>; si aggiunga a questo un fattore di cui poco si
parla, per quanto enorme sia la sua importanza: intendo il
parlamentarismo.
Perché questo è vero: l'esaltazione democratica, successiva alla 'caduta
del muro', per quanto si presentasse con le vesti della novità, della
scopera di una dimensione finalmente capace di superare le angustrie
della visione marxista, di fatto, si rivelava poi, banalmente,
esaltazione della democrazia parlamentare -dunque, di un ordinamento
politico-giuridico, ben precisamente datato dal punto di vista storico
ed in critica del quale mille e mille pagine son state scritte nel corso
ormai di secoli; ordinamento, per altro, proprio oggi (cioè nell'epoca
delle grandi concentrazioni economiche) vistosamente in crisi.
Non ci sarebbe stato bisogno di ricorrere né a Rousseau, a Hegel o Marx
(e tanto meno a Platone) per esser consapevoli delle contraddizioni
dell'ordinamento democratico-parlamentare: sarebbe bastato riandare ad
un dibattito dei primissimi anni 60, in cui studiosi e politici
francesi, italiani, americani, inglesi avevano ampiamente dimostrato
l'inattualità dell'ordinamento democratico-parlamentare (almeno nelle
sue formulazioni ufficiali), stanti le condizioni del capitalismo
oligopolistico (o dell'imperialismo, come Lenin esplicitamente diceva e
come è ricavabile, senza eccessiva fatica, dalle pagine di Marx).
Ma qui continuava ad operare un'indubbia tradizione del movimento
operaio italiano, nonché certi equivoci, che a lungo hanno dominato lo
stesso movimento comunista: intendo la riduzione parlamentaristica della
democrazia, all'interno dell'accettazione di un modello ancora più
pericoloso, quello dell'ideologia propria della moderna società
capitalistica di massa.
Dal confluire di tutto ciò risultava l'abbarbicarsi della 'sinistra' ad
un democratismo "senza qualità" (sto pensando esattamente a Musil),
legato all'esaltazione del mero decidere, della retorica della volontà
dal basso ed all'illusione (che sarebbe, invece, facilissimo
distruggere), secondo cui l'arbitrio delle volontà è ciò su cui può (e
deve) reggersi una società ed, in particolare, la moderna società
industriale (capitalistica o socialistica che sia).
E' interessante notare che la 'sinistra post-crollo' poteva giustificare
questo suo acritico approdo al parlamentarismo richiamandosi, anche,
all'estremismo assembleare del '68, che un qualche rapporto con la
tradizione del 'comunismo critico occidentale' pur lo aveva (penso alla
Luxemburg, a Korsch, Pannekoek, Mattick, Gorter, ecc); voglio dire che
non risultava difficile dar nobili natali ad un atteggiamento di
sostanziale opportunismo politico, anche perché -riconosciamolo con
francezza- ben poco è restato, nella cultura comunista, della articolata
critica leniniana alla concezione dello Stato e della democrazia, che fu
propria di quel comunismo 'occidentale' che dicevo.
Se questo effettivamente era il clima ideologico di cui viveva la
'sinistra post-crollo', sarebbe ingeneroso dimenticare quanto quello
stesso clima avesse radici anche in altri fenomeni -culturali, dacché il
mio ragionamento si confina consapevolmente in quest'ambito-, oggettivi
e aperti potenzialmente a sviluppi di grande importanza. Per poter ben
comprendere la cosa, tiriamo una prima conclusione.
In definitiva, la 'sinistra' che qui ci interessa andava accettando (e
sviluppando) una ideologia paradossale, nel senso di essere, ad un
tempo, politica ed impolitica, ispiratrice di comportamenti politici
determinati ma, anche, rinunciataria, in quanto assumeva i propri valori
dall'immediatezza del modo di vivere tardo-capitalistico e, dunque, li
rendeva autonomi presupposti dall'operosità costruttiva della politica.
Di qui l'approdo ad una concezione (della politica), che si vuole
pragmatica e non ideologica, mentre in verità è intrisa di un'ideologia,
assunta passivamente dall'esterno (dunque, della peggiore ideologia).
Tale intricata forma di coscienza risultava, a ben vedere, consonante
con importanti posizioni culturali, riproposte (solo, riproposte)
vivacemente nel nostro secolo, secondo le quali non c'è rapporto fra
dominio filosofico e dominio delle scienze, dovendosi intendere queste
ultime strettamente come attività intellettuali -per dirla con Hegel- e,
dunque, eminentemente riferite ognuna ad un oggetto particolare,
plasmate secondo modelli empiristico-matematici e non interpretabili se
non come costruzioni pragmatiche e convenzionalistiche.
Dunque, così come l'ideologia della 'sinistra' separava valore ed azione
politica, analogamente in ambito propriamente culturale s'andava
riproponendo, in definitiva, la coppia utilitarismo pratico, da un lato,
e soggettivismo dei valori, dall'altro.
Non voglio approfondire questo aspetto della questione; mi basta
ricordare le analisi di due significativi studiosi marxisti, noti anche
in Italia -l'austriaco V. Hösle e l'ungherese A. Gedö-, i quali hanno
mostrato il nesso profondo, che lega neo-positivismo e Lebensphilosophie
(filosofia della vita), nonché il riproporsi, in questo modo, di ciò che
Hegel definiva lo stanco "scetticismo moderno", in opposizione a quel
vigoroso "scetticismo antico", che tanti meriti si è guadagnato per lo
sviluppo delle scienze e della filosofia.
Tuttavia, comprendere a fondo lo svuotamento di valenza teorica -a cui
la 'sinistra' sottoponeva l'azione politica, separandola così da morale
e scientificità (ovvero da quella Wissenschaftlichkeit, che gioca un
ruolo così essenziale nella prospettiva dialettica di Hegel e di Marx)-
non è possibile senza richiamare gli autentici guasti -sia politici che
culturali-, che son risultati da quel certo modo di organizzare e
interpretare il marxismo, che per lunghi decenni è apparso essere il
marxismo.
E' chiaro che a questo punto l'argomento si fa particolarmente
complesso, anche perché sono assai scarsi gli studi dettagliati sul
tema, che siano capaci di render conto di analogie e differenze nello
svolgersi del marxismo almeno nei principali paesi europei. Mi sembra,
tuttavia, che alcuni punti possano essere fissati. Ad esempio, questo.
E' giunta fino ai nostri giorni la curiosa tesi, secondo cui esiste un
solo marxismo e tante sue deformazioni, per cui, volta a volta, il
compito serio sarebbe quello di recuperare e svolgere quell'unico
marxismo, liberandolo dagli elementi estranei, che possono averlo
appesantito e smorzato nella sua valenza critica.
Lo sfondo religioso di tale convinzione (con la conseguente inevitabile
coppia oppositiva di ortodossia ed eterodossie) non va neppure
dimostrato; ma siccome sappiamo che elementi di mentalità religiosa son
presenti anche nel senso comune, è utile qui osservare che, al contrario
di quanto immediatamente sembra, ogni importante costruzione teorica (ed
il marxismo certo lo è) non è mai priva di polisemia. Al contrario, è
sempre disponibile a svolgimenti -dunque, ad interpretazioni-
molteplici.
Certo, si tratta di una gamma di significati possibili contenuta entro
certi limiti, superati i quali quella tradizione risulta esaurita,
distrutta, morta; ma questo conferma che un grande libro o un'importante
linea di pensiero son tali anche perché producono effetti (di nuovo,
interpretazioni -teoriche e pratiche), relativamente diverse, in
contesti sia uguali che differenti.
Insomma, la vitalità di un libro o di una tradizione di pensiero
comporta varietà di svolgimenti, molteplicità di esiti, opponendosi così
alla secca alternativa dell'autenticità o della falsificazione
interpretativa.
Senonché -e per una molteplicità di fattori-, storicamente si è
costruito il paradosso per cui un pensiero dialettico, come quello di
Marx, ha subito una tematizzazione dogmatica e scolastica. Si è giunti
perfino a cristallizzare un tale pensiero (a reificarlo), fino al punto
di inventare una pretesa "filosofia marxista-leninista", con tanto di
principi, di cui storia e natura non dovevano che esibire prove e
conferme.
L'inevitabile risultato è stato quello di ridurre il marxismo da teoria
dialettica a variante del materialismo meccanicistico, del determinismo
economico, del pragmatismo, del funzionalismo, ecc. ecc.
Proprio la dialettica, dunque, è scomparsa, perché sommersa da una
rigida costruzione sistematica, sempre di più lontana dalla vitalità
effettiva degli eventi politici e scientifici; al pensiero di Marx,
inoltre, si è così attribuita una compattezza e linearità, che in realtà
gli mancano, e che addirittura gli mancano non per caso, ma sì perché
quel pensiero è caratterizzato da un tormentato rapporto con i punti
altri della riflessione a lui contemporanea (basti pensare ad Hegel ed a
Ricardo), che è ragione non ultima della persistente sua vitalità.
Ed allora ecco che, già nella tradizione comunista, si andò costruendo
un autentico divorzio fra teoria (imbalsamata e non più dialettica) e
pratica politica (opportunista, riformista, pur se proclamantesi
comunista).
Il fatto grave è che questa versione del marxismo si è imposta al senso
comune (e non -si pensi a Popper) come il marxismo. In questo modo si
spiega come, a partire dal 1967-1968, la sinistra costruitasi fuori dai
Partiti comunisti abbia oscillato -sulla base delle variazioni del
generale quadro politico e sociale- tra un'accettazione estremistica di
tale marxismo ed il suo rifiuto, non già con la prospettiva di
recuperare la dialetticità del marxismo stesso, ma sì per rincorrere
passivamente questa o quella moda culturali, comunque sempre inscritte
entro il quadro dell'irrazionalismo.
La dissoluzione del campo socialista europeo e la tardiva vittoria di
Bucharin nei restanti Paesi socialisti hanno determinato una situazione,
per cui tutti i fattori, che ho rapidissimamente disegnato, son
precipitati nella costruzione di una 'ideologia di sinistra',
sostanzialmente incapace di intendere le dinamiche del mondo reale, ma
disponibile a sostituirle con autentiche, deliranti costruzioni
oniriche, ispirate a vaghe idealità come pacifismo, ecologismo, cultura
della differenza, ecc.
Naturalmente, tutto ciò non impedisce alle 'cose del mondo' di procedere
nel modo, in cui realmente procedono. Ed allora questa 'sinistra' si
trova a dover reagire con le sue armi ideologiche ad un complesso di
eventi, che le risultato in sostanza opachi, non compresi. E tanto più
drammatici si fanno questi eventi, tanto più drammaticamente inadeguata
si fa la reazione ad essi, di cui la 'sinistra' si dimostra capace.
Stefano Garroni
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IL PAGLIACCIO
"Possiamo inviare altri 50mila soldati ma non possiamo impedire alle
persone di comportarsi male, se sono proprio determinate a comportarsi
male"
Lo ha detto George Robertson, Segretario Generale della NATO - che ha
armato ed addestrato il fanatismo nazionalista dell'UCK, ne protegge i
terroristi e chiude entrambi gli occhi dinanzi ai continui atti di
violenza e vandalismo - in visita nella zona d'occupazione del Kosovo il
18 luglio u.s.
> STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/07/18/yugo.kosovo.02/index.html
>
> NATO chief visits Kosovo as fresh violence breaks out
>
> July 18, 2000
> Web posted at: 2:07 p.m. EDT (1807 GMT)
> In this story:
> Arrest of Serb sparks protest
> October elections may be in jeopardy
>
> KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo -- NATO Secretary-General George Robertson on
> Tuesday appealed to Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica to help stop the culture
> of violence.
>
> Peace in the Balkans
> "You can bring in another 50,000 troops and you can't stop people
> behaving badly if they are determined to behave badly. So what has got
> to happen is the culture of violence has got to cease," he said.
> Robertson and about 20 ambassadors from NATO member states arrived in
> Kosovo on Tuesday to check the situation more than a year after the
> beginning of the peacekeeping mission.
> As he toured Prizren, hundreds of Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica were
> protesting to demand the release of a Serbian suspect whose arrest
> sparked demonstrations and violence Monday night.
> During the Monday disturbances, NATO-led peacekeepers from the KFOR
> force used tear gas and fired in the air. One U.N. police officer was
> briefly held hostage during the unrest.
> Robertson said KFOR and the United Nations had dealt professionally with
> the violence and urged Serbs to choose cooperation rather than
> confrontation.
> "The Serb community's future depends on KFOR and that is why they have
> to cooperate with KFOR, why they should be involved in civic
> institutions that the United Nations is creating -- that is for their
> future and for their benefit," he told reporters in Prizren.
> Robertson had earlier met the peacekeeping commander, Brig. Gen. Juan
> Ortuno of Spain, before flying to Prizren and was expected to return to
> Pristina for meetings with U.N. officials and representatives of Serb
> and ethnic Albanian communities.
> Arrest of Serb sparks protest
> Since NATO and the United Nations took control of Kosovo in June of last
> year, Kosovska Mitrovica has been their most dangerous flashpoint,
> mainly because it is the only place in the province where Serbs and
> ethnic Albanians still live near each other in large numbers.
> In the latest outbreak of violence, trouble flared after U.N. police
> arrested the Serb on Monday for an alleged assault on an ethnic Albanian
> last month.
> "The Serb population was very angry," said Oliver Ivanovic, the leader
> of the Serb community in the northern part of the city.
> The protesters stopped the U.N. vehicles and threw rocks at the
> peacekeepers. About 30 Serbs were seen carrying baseball bats.
> Soldiers had fired five tear gas grenades to disperse the crowd, KFOR
> spokesman Maj. Scott Slaten said.
> Kosovo's U.N.-led administration, known as UNMIK, said four people had
> been slightly injured by the tear gas canisters. A local Serb surgeon
> said one woman was more seriously hurt and that a total of nine people
> had sought medical treatment.
> By Tuesday morning, calm had returned to Kosovska Mitrovica, where
> Kosovo Serbs and ethnic Albanians live in mutual hostility, separated
> only by the river Ibar that runs through its center.
> Protesters gathered again Tuesday outside the jail where the Serb,
> Dalibor Vukovic, was being held. Their protest appeared to be peaceful,
> at least initially.
> Serb leaders sent a letter to U.N. police repeating their demand for the
> release of Vukovic, who authorities say is a member of a self-styled
> Serb security force known as the "bridge watchers." The bridge watchers
> monitor people crossing into the Serb section of the city across the
> main bridge.
> The Serbs threatened more violence if Vukovic is not released.
> It was the second confrontation in less than a week between Serbs and
> peacekeepers in the city.
> On Friday, four grenades were fired from the ethnic Albanian side,
> touching off about three hours of Serb protests, which ended without
> injuries.
> Also, on Sunday, an explosion ripped through a medieval Serbian Orthodox
> Church in Kosovo, flattening the structure. The church of the Holy
> Prophet Elijah was located in the village of Pomazetin, just outside the
> Serb village of Kosovo Polje. The church was not under guard by NATO-led
> peacekeepers.
> October elections may be in jeopardy
> The Kosovska Mitrovica clash occurred as the U.N. mission is trying to
> convince Serbs to register for municipal elections in October, the first
> internationally supervised balloting in Kosovo's history.
> Most Serb leaders are resisting until the United Nations and NATO can
> guarantee their security and allow thousands of Serbs to return to
> Kosovo, which they fled after Yugoslav forces withdrew at the end of
> NATO's 78-day bombing campaign in 1999.
> Since then, more than 150,000 Kosovo Serbs have also fled the province
> in fear of attacks by ethnic Albanians seeking vengeance.
> The leader of the largest Serb community left in Kosovo has assured
> international officials that he will not stand in the way of Serbs who
> may want to register.
> However, Oliver Ivanovic said Monday that he did not believe many Serbs
> would sign up until the U.N. takes steps to allow more than 200,000
> Serbs to return there.
> Ivanovic offered assurances to Daan Everts, head of the Kosovo mission
> of the 54-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,
> which will oversee the election and which is registering voters.
> Everts said Ivanovic's comments were encouraging.
> "Mr. Ivanovic has promised that he would do what he can to avoid any
> violence or intimidation and let people at least have the freedom of
> choice," Everts said.
> --
> CNN Belgrade Bureau Chief Alessio Vinci, The Associated Press and
> Reuters contributed to this report.
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"Possiamo inviare altri 50mila soldati ma non possiamo impedire alle
persone di comportarsi male, se sono proprio determinate a comportarsi
male"
Lo ha detto George Robertson, Segretario Generale della NATO - che ha
armato ed addestrato il fanatismo nazionalista dell'UCK, ne protegge i
terroristi e chiude entrambi gli occhi dinanzi ai continui atti di
violenza e vandalismo - in visita nella zona d'occupazione del Kosovo il
18 luglio u.s.
> STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/07/18/yugo.kosovo.02/index.html
>
> NATO chief visits Kosovo as fresh violence breaks out
>
> July 18, 2000
> Web posted at: 2:07 p.m. EDT (1807 GMT)
> In this story:
> Arrest of Serb sparks protest
> October elections may be in jeopardy
>
> KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo -- NATO Secretary-General George Robertson on
> Tuesday appealed to Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica to help stop the culture
> of violence.
>
> Peace in the Balkans
> "You can bring in another 50,000 troops and you can't stop people
> behaving badly if they are determined to behave badly. So what has got
> to happen is the culture of violence has got to cease," he said.
> Robertson and about 20 ambassadors from NATO member states arrived in
> Kosovo on Tuesday to check the situation more than a year after the
> beginning of the peacekeeping mission.
> As he toured Prizren, hundreds of Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica were
> protesting to demand the release of a Serbian suspect whose arrest
> sparked demonstrations and violence Monday night.
> During the Monday disturbances, NATO-led peacekeepers from the KFOR
> force used tear gas and fired in the air. One U.N. police officer was
> briefly held hostage during the unrest.
> Robertson said KFOR and the United Nations had dealt professionally with
> the violence and urged Serbs to choose cooperation rather than
> confrontation.
> "The Serb community's future depends on KFOR and that is why they have
> to cooperate with KFOR, why they should be involved in civic
> institutions that the United Nations is creating -- that is for their
> future and for their benefit," he told reporters in Prizren.
> Robertson had earlier met the peacekeeping commander, Brig. Gen. Juan
> Ortuno of Spain, before flying to Prizren and was expected to return to
> Pristina for meetings with U.N. officials and representatives of Serb
> and ethnic Albanian communities.
> Arrest of Serb sparks protest
> Since NATO and the United Nations took control of Kosovo in June of last
> year, Kosovska Mitrovica has been their most dangerous flashpoint,
> mainly because it is the only place in the province where Serbs and
> ethnic Albanians still live near each other in large numbers.
> In the latest outbreak of violence, trouble flared after U.N. police
> arrested the Serb on Monday for an alleged assault on an ethnic Albanian
> last month.
> "The Serb population was very angry," said Oliver Ivanovic, the leader
> of the Serb community in the northern part of the city.
> The protesters stopped the U.N. vehicles and threw rocks at the
> peacekeepers. About 30 Serbs were seen carrying baseball bats.
> Soldiers had fired five tear gas grenades to disperse the crowd, KFOR
> spokesman Maj. Scott Slaten said.
> Kosovo's U.N.-led administration, known as UNMIK, said four people had
> been slightly injured by the tear gas canisters. A local Serb surgeon
> said one woman was more seriously hurt and that a total of nine people
> had sought medical treatment.
> By Tuesday morning, calm had returned to Kosovska Mitrovica, where
> Kosovo Serbs and ethnic Albanians live in mutual hostility, separated
> only by the river Ibar that runs through its center.
> Protesters gathered again Tuesday outside the jail where the Serb,
> Dalibor Vukovic, was being held. Their protest appeared to be peaceful,
> at least initially.
> Serb leaders sent a letter to U.N. police repeating their demand for the
> release of Vukovic, who authorities say is a member of a self-styled
> Serb security force known as the "bridge watchers." The bridge watchers
> monitor people crossing into the Serb section of the city across the
> main bridge.
> The Serbs threatened more violence if Vukovic is not released.
> It was the second confrontation in less than a week between Serbs and
> peacekeepers in the city.
> On Friday, four grenades were fired from the ethnic Albanian side,
> touching off about three hours of Serb protests, which ended without
> injuries.
> Also, on Sunday, an explosion ripped through a medieval Serbian Orthodox
> Church in Kosovo, flattening the structure. The church of the Holy
> Prophet Elijah was located in the village of Pomazetin, just outside the
> Serb village of Kosovo Polje. The church was not under guard by NATO-led
> peacekeepers.
> October elections may be in jeopardy
> The Kosovska Mitrovica clash occurred as the U.N. mission is trying to
> convince Serbs to register for municipal elections in October, the first
> internationally supervised balloting in Kosovo's history.
> Most Serb leaders are resisting until the United Nations and NATO can
> guarantee their security and allow thousands of Serbs to return to
> Kosovo, which they fled after Yugoslav forces withdrew at the end of
> NATO's 78-day bombing campaign in 1999.
> Since then, more than 150,000 Kosovo Serbs have also fled the province
> in fear of attacks by ethnic Albanians seeking vengeance.
> The leader of the largest Serb community left in Kosovo has assured
> international officials that he will not stand in the way of Serbs who
> may want to register.
> However, Oliver Ivanovic said Monday that he did not believe many Serbs
> would sign up until the U.N. takes steps to allow more than 200,000
> Serbs to return there.
> Ivanovic offered assurances to Daan Everts, head of the Kosovo mission
> of the 54-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,
> which will oversee the election and which is registering voters.
> Everts said Ivanovic's comments were encouraging.
> "Mr. Ivanovic has promised that he would do what he can to avoid any
> violence or intimidation and let people at least have the freedom of
> choice," Everts said.
> --
> CNN Belgrade Bureau Chief Alessio Vinci, The Associated Press and
> Reuters contributed to this report.
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* La Jugoslavia deve vivere (L'avamposto degli incompatibili)
* SOS Zastava (Torino)
* Edizione greca per "L'arcivescovo del genocidio"
* Manifestazioni e processi contro i pacifisti (Olanda)
* Stop alle sanzioni! (Svezia)
* Sotto processo militanti dell'IAC (USA)
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LA JUGOSLAVIA DEVE VIVERE
E' da un po' di tempo che circola nel "movimento antagonista" una
posizione sulla guerra
degna di un pacifismo acritico e di fatto complice della NATO. Si dice:
guerra inutile e
dannosa perché senza risolvere i problemi che l'hanno scatenata, ha
portato morti e
distruzione, soprattutto fra i civili e alle fabbriche.
Ciò, secondo noi, oltre ad essere falso, tende a spostare la discussione
su un terreno
lacrimoso e di fatto equidistante fra le parti in causa.
Di questa guerra tutto si può dire eccetto che sia stata inutile,ammesso
che una guerra sia
mai stata inutile. Fare questa affermazione significa accettare
l'assioma della NATO,
secondo cui questa guerra è stata condotta per porre fine alla
cosiddetta "pulizia etnica" e
per portare a convivere le varie etnie in un Kosovo democratizzato. Solo
accettando tale
assioma, si può definire questa guerra inutile oltre che dannosa.
Ma come tutti sanno questo assioma è falso!
Falso, non solo perché la "pulizia etnica" è stata strombazzata ad arte:
tanto è vero che le
fosse comuni non sono mai state trovate, nonostante l'invio di
specialisti NATO, ma anche
perché i veri motivi di questa guerra erano geo-politici ed economici,
come la realtà ha
ampiamente dimostrato.
Se questi sono i fatti, la guerra nei Balcani, per i paesi NATO non è
stata nè dannosa nè
tantomeno inutile.
Vediamo i fatti
I paesi NATO, che sono stati i più convinti fautori della
disintegrazione Jugoslava, sono:
Germania (e il satellite Austria);
Italia
Turchia (e la sua longa manus albanese);
USA (e Inghilterra di contorno).
E' STATA INUTILE LA GUERRA PER QUESTI PAESI? NO!
Dalla disintegrazione Jugoslava la Germania guadagna la conquista
economica di Slovenia e
Croazia (dove ormai la moneta dominante è il marco tedesco) oltre che di
parte della
Bosnia: vale a dire le zone più ricche dell' ex Jugoslavia. Nell'ultimo
periodo, poi, l'influenza
economica sta acquistando sempre più le caratteristiche di influenza
politica, anche grazie al
cavallo di Troia austriaco. Basti pensare ai rapporti fra Carinzia,
Friuli e Slovenia, con la
tacita benedizione dei demo-reazionari bavaresi. Tenendo presente che è
forte la spinta
verso l'Europa a due velocità e la presenza dell'asse franco-tedesco,
secondo noi, la
conquista tedesca dello sbocco sull'Adriatico è stato un fenomeno
cruciale nell'assetto
geo-politico dell'Europa del futuro.
Altro che guerra inutile per la Germania!
Le ambizioni Italiane erano più limitate, come sempre daltronde. Come ai
tempi del fascismo
ci si è accontentati di stabilire una specie di protettorato in Albania
(in comproprietà coi
turchi) magari allargabile domani al Montenegro. Questo obiettivo è
stato raggiunto, e molte
"imprese" italiane si sono spostate da quelle parti per "diventare
competitive".
Poca cosa , naturalmente, ma da questa guerra qualche briciola l'ha
guadagnata anche
l'Italia.
Veniamo alla Turchia. Con gli accordi di Helsinki dei mesi scorsi si è
assicurata la
commercializzazione del petrolio del Caucaso, con un'opzione sul gas
Turkmeno. Con
questa guerra si è assicurata, grazie ad Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia il
passaggio dei futuri
oleodotti e gasdotti verso la destinazione Europea. Se avranno successo
le spinte
panalbanesi anche in Macedonia il passaggio sarà lineare. Non è un caso
che pochi mesi fa,
l'Italia ha deciso di liberalizzare l'approvvigionamento di gas
proveniente dai paesi europei,
e solo da quelli.
E, naturalmente, sono aumentate le chances turche di entrare nell'UE.
Altro che guerra inutile per la Turchia!
E gli USA? E' risaputo che gli USA non sono mai stati entusiasti
dell'Europa "dall'Atlantico
agli Urali", cosa che alla lunga potrebbe risultare pericolosa per il
proprio dominio sul
pianeta. Piazzare nel sud-Europa il cavallo di Troia del fedele alleato
turco da affiancare
all'altro cavallo di Troia inglese significa indebolire politicamente e
condizionare
economicamente l'Unione Europea. Se poi dovesse prendere corpo il
progetto di Europa a
due velocità gli USA si assicurerebbero il dominio economico in tutto il
sud-Europa, Italia
compresa.
Se così stanno le cose, il movimento antimperialista, invece di
piagnucolare sulla guerra inutile e
dannosa, dovrebbe demistificare e denunciare l'ideologia guerrafondaia
imperialista che contagia tutti, in
primis i sinistri di governo, e mettere in risalto quali danni questa
guerra ha prodotto sia in Jugoslavia sia sui
popoli che in questa guerra sono stati catapultati. In Italia, per
esempio, nessuno ha mai spiegato ai proletari che,
a fronte dei vantaggi per le imprese, questa guerra ha portato
incremento della disoccupazione al sud, visto che le
imprese trasferite in Albania, per i bassi costi del lavoro, hanno
licenziato in Italia, specialmente in Puglia.
Inoltre questa guerra ha portato ad aumenti vertiginosi del prezzo dei
prodotti petroliferi e derivati, sia a causa
dell'apprezzamento del dollaro dopo la guerra del Kosovo, sia grazie ai
già citati accordi di Helsinki e alla,
anch'essa già citata, liberalizzazione dell'approvvigionamento del gas
turco.
Se non ci si muove in questa direzione, ci si ritroverà a breve
scadenza, catapultati in
un'altra guerra: quella del Montenegro. Già i preparativi sono in atto e
di nuovo si stanno
strombazzando proclami di "liberazione del Montenegro dal dittatore
Milosevic", reo di aver
modificato la costituzione "per garantirsi con l'elezione diretta la
rielezione a presidente
Jugoslavo". Strano a dirsi, la stessa cosa che molti vogliono fare in
Italia. Ma si sa, una
legge fatta in Italia è profondamente democratica. La stessa legge fatta
in Jugoslavia, vuol
dire dittatura.
E allora basta piagnucolare e muoviamoci per demistificare e contrastare
questo spirito
guerrafondaio. Altrimenti non hanno senso incontri con operai della
Zastava o contromarce
della pace. Noi ci siamo opposti alla guerra e all'embargo, non perché
inutili e dannosi, ma
perché vogliamo combattere contro l'imperialismo occidentale e il
dominio imperiale
amerikano.
SMRT FASIZMU - SLOBODA NARODU!
morte al fascismo - libertà al popolo",
L'Avamposto degli Incompatibili
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Informazione sul viaggio del 15 e 16 giugno a Kragujevak
Nei giorni 15 e 16 giugno 2000, una delegazione di lavoratori e
militanti
sindacali di Torino si è recata a Kragujevac per portare gli aiuti ai
156
ragazzi, figli dei lavoratori della Zastava, adottati a distanza dopo la
guerra del 1999 ed i bombardamenti subiti dal più grande stabilimento
jugoslavo.
La delegazione ha portato 27 milioni di lire da distribuire ai ragazzi.
Ha
visitato 6 famiglie dei ragazzi adottati. Ha visitato la fabbrica
accompagnata dal sindacato aziendale.
Il complesso industriale Zastava era composto da tre stabilimenti: la
fabbrica di automobili, la fabbrica di camion chiamata "Iveco -
Zastava", ed
uno stabilimento di armi da caccia e sportive. In tutto lavoravano
36.000
lavoratori: 2.500 alla Iveco, 2.000 alla fabbrica d'armi, oltre 30.000
in
quella delle auto. Il complesso è stato bombardato due volte con 36
missili
o bombe laser di precisione. Sono stati colpiti e distrutti in modo tale
da
rendere irricostruibili: il centro informatico, gli impianti
automatizzati
di verniciatura, lo stabilimento di meccanica dell'Iveco. Sono stati
distrutti, ma si è iniziato per il recupero della centrale termica,
degli
impianti di lastroferratura e del montaggio delle automobili e dei
trattamenti termici dell'Iveco (usiamo il termine "Iveco" perché usato
dai
lavoratori interessati, la partecipazione della Fiat Iveco è al 40%). La
fabbrica di armi è stata bombardata per ultima con un solo missile sui
36
lanciati, ha distrutto i capannoni, ma non gli impianti perché questi
erano
già stati trasferiti in quanto ritenuti obiettivo militare,
contrariamente
alla produzione di automobili e di camion.
Il risultato è che oggi lavorano poco più di 10.000 lavoratori, per
produrre
automobili e camion quando si può (durante la visita, un impianto era
fermo
in per mancanza di energia) e come si può (nei box di verniciatura si
lavora
a mano, le fucine sono come erano le nostre alla Fiat negli anni '60).
Nelle
famiglie che abbiamo incontrato le lavoratrici o i lavoratori della
Zastava
lavorano, quando va bene, una settimana al mese.
Il secondo risultato ottenuto con bombardamenti è che la famiglia di chi
non
lavora nel mese ha un reddito di 15.000 lire, di chi lavora 1 settimana
al
mese di 37.000 lire, di chi lavora tutto il mese davanti ad una forgia
ne
guadagna 100.000. Gli operai però sono particolarmente dinamici, quando
abbiamo visitato la famiglia di un ragazzo adottato da lavoratori della
Fiat
Iveco, il padre, vedovo con quattro figli, ci ha raccontato che per
arrotondare lo stipendio riempie vecchi accendini e li va vendere lungo
la
strada. Alcune settimane or sono ha incontrato sulla strada un cinese e
gli
ha detto: "hai visto? Sono messo peggio di te…".
Un terzo aspetto è quello sanitario: nelle sei famiglie che abbiamo
visitato
2 piccoli ragazzi hanno l'asma ma non hanno i farmaci per curarsi; una
mamma, lavoratrice Zastava, è mentalmente malata; un'altra mamma soffre
di
sclerosi multipla ma non si riesce a lenire con cure farmacologiche
questa
grave malattia progressiva.
Nessuno di coloro che abbiamo incontrato, nella fabbrica, nelle case o
per
strada ha espresso sentimenti di rancore nei nostri confronti. Prima
abbiamo
concorso a distruggere le fonti della loro esistenza (e, per alcuni di
loro;
delle possibilità di vivere almeno dignitosamente) ed oggi ci
ringraziano
perché li aiutiamo.
Per le prime sottoscrizioni fatte a dicembre 1999 ed a febbraio 2000,
siamo
in possesso degli elenchi firmati da chi ha ricevuto i soldi. Per la
prossima volta ci chiedono di incontrare tutti i bambini e di consegnare
direttamente a loro le sottoscrizioni: si dovrà organizzare una
delegazione
da Torino.
per il
Comitato Piemontese SOS Zastava
Perini Fulvio
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IL GENOCIDIO DIMENTICATO
Il giorno 28 giugno 2000 alle ore 20:30 ad Atene – Grecia
Un anno dopo la fine dei bombardamenti NATO e l’ occupazione del Kosovo
(teritorio della Jugoslavia) L’ Associazione di amicizia tra Grecia e
Serbia insieme alla casa editrice Proskinio, presentano ad Atene il
libro del prof. Marco Aurelio Rivelli, studioso della realt? balcanica,
“L'arcivescovo del genocidio” in lingua greca su licenza della Kaos
Edizioni Milano. Il libro a curato lo storico Nikos Klitsikas ed a
tradotto la dottoressa Margherita Salvato.
All dibatito che si terra’ all amfiteatro dell museo della guera di
Atene, interverrano:
Marco Aurelio Rivelli, scrittore
Nikos Klitsikas, storico
Panagiotis Kritikos, deputato socialista
Stelios Papathemelis, deputato socialista
Alexandros Likourezos, deputato dela nuova Democrazia
Maria Mantuvalou, proffesoressa al Universita’ di Atene
Vasilis Rafailidis, giornalista
Giorgos Anastopoulos, presidente del Associazione di Amicizia
Grecia-Serbia
Saranno presenti ed interverano:
Il vescovo di Tebe Ieronimos (il qualle ha fatto la prefazione del libro
nella edizione in lingua greca
L’ ambasciatore della Jugoslavia in grecia Dragomir Vucicevic.
La guerra contro la Jugoslavia non e’ finita, ma la resistenza contro
NATO continua
Una riflessione dedicata all'argomento sollecita ad esaminare, tra
l'altro, gli eventi che nel corso del II conflitto mondiale sfociarono
nella costituzione dello Stato Croato Indipendente, uno Stato che fu
servitore fedele del III Reich, che nacque connotato da un'ideologia
apertamente razzista, che venne difeso dalle gerarchie vaticane, nel
quale venne perpetrato il genocidio delle popolazioni serbe ortodosse.
La riflessione sulle vicende legate alla storia dello Stato guidato da
Ante Pavelic rappresenta oggi, dopo il crollo dell'unit? Jugoslava e la
nascita della Repubblica di Croazia, un'occasione preziosa per
comprendere le radici di questo presente, con la consapevolezza che i
progetti egemonici del Nuovo Ordine Mondiale non si fermeranno alle
frontiere dei Balcani.
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Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:35:36 +0200
From: Herman de Tollenaere
Subject: Peace demonstrations Utrecht, The Netherlands
On Saturday 8 July, people gathered near the Central Station in Utrecht,
to
oppose the military propaganda at the "Megafestatie". The "Megafestatie"
is
a trade fair/exhibition in the Jaarbeurs hall, aimed at young people.
Main
exhibitors, besides, eg, MTV, are the Dutch military, aiming to get
teenagers into the Dutch army, military police, and Marines. Not many
young
people want to join the Dutch [professional] armed forces; they have
trouble with finding people for vacancies. To counter that, lots of tax
money go to expensive propaganda. The slogan of the armed forces is:
"[Like] a nanny; but differently." People killed or wounded by Dutch or
other NATO armed forces in the Balkans and elsewhere might differ. So,
during the whole Megafestatie, until 16 July, visitors will get counter
information to the official propaganda. Starting every day at 12
o'clock.
In the night of Friday 7 to Saturday 8 July, two activists wanted to tie
a
banner to a big building crane near the entrance of the Jaarbeurs. The
banner challenged the army's claim of being a "peace army." However,
police
arrested them.
Later on Saturday, the demonstrators gathered at Smakkelaarsveld
[Central
Station side, opposite to Jaarbeurs] for a street rave/march. The
leaflet
of the organizers, "Onkruit vergaat niet", said the army propaganda
stimulated violence, also in foreign countries. "Violence there [by
Dutch
and coalition armed forces] also does not bring communication between
parties in conflicts, but impedes it. We have seen this during the war
in
Kosovo and elsewhere." Other leaflets passed around told what
demonstrators
could do if arrested; and on the "humanitarian" 1999 Balkans war,
including
many deaths like of the fifteen years old Yugoslav schoolgirl and
mathematics champion, Sanja Milenkovic.
Behind a big banner, opposing militarist propaganda, gathered drummers;
people with signs of Crass and other punk rock bands on their clothes;
people with T shirts of Rood [Red], youth branch of the Socialist Party,
and against the witch hunt against "illegal" immigrants; people with
anarchist symbols on. Average age not much over twenty, though there
were
also some elderly people.
The marchers passed the army recruiting center in the inner city of
Utrecht
[closed for the weekend]. With chalk, people drew slogans on the
pavement
close to it, like "Stop recruiting child soldiers", and "Stop NATO."
The demonstration continued to the police station, where the arrested
activists were still being held. The demonstrators made very much noise
to
enable the people in the cells to hear that outside, there were people
in
solidarity with them.
Standing in front of a worker's house, a mother rocked her toddler to
the
rhythm of the music of the sound system in the demonstrators' van, as
her
husband waved to the demonstrators.
During the whole march, new people joined, so that at the Jaarbeurs, the
end, there were many more people then at the beginning. At the
"Megafestatie" entrance, many leaflets were passed to the visitors.
Demonstrators juggled with balls, to show a fun alternative to going
abroad
to shoot people.
Next day, Sunday 9 July, demonstrators gathered at the eastern entrance
of
the Jaarbeurs.
Three banners were taped to the Jaarbeurs entrance: "Onkruit vergaat
niet"
[the organizers]; "Stop military violence"; and "NATO out of the
Balkans"
[thanks, Utrecht friend, for improving the banner's letters!]
Repeatedly, there was street theater: a 'die in' with people being
'killed', falling to the ground, splattered with red 'blood' [paint]. A
more realist approximation of real war then the armed forces propaganda
inside the hall.
As the 'die in' went on, Yvonne shouted through her megaphone: "The
Dutch
army is not a peace army. The Netherlands is a member of NATO. NATO does
not bring peace. NATO kills innocent people!"
Some reactions from the audience were reserved. One boy asked: "You say
the
Dutch army is bad. But how about national defence?" However, he had to
concur that the practice of the Dutch army was *not* 'national defence.'
In
1945-1949, the Dutch army attacked Indonesia. Indonesians wanted
independence from colonialism; they did *not* invade The Netherlands.
Later, Dutch Marines ended a strike, broken by deaths, by workers in
Curacao [Antilles]. Defense? In 1999, the Dutch Air Force helped bomb
Yugoslavia. Defense? Dutch Prime Minister Kok was not even notified by
NATO
that the war begun, let alone the people in The Netherlands. "No" the
questioner had to concede,"that was not really democracy ... or
defence."
A woman, claiming to be married to a Dutch soldier of the NATO forces in
Kosovo, reacted emotionally to the 'die in.' However, it was not
possible
to understand more of her inarticulate words than "my husband did a good
job in Kosovo." A friend of hers dragged her away to prevent her from
making more of a spectacle of herself. If, indeed, as she claims, her
husband was a soldier in Kosovo, I hope it will be possible to explain
to
people like her how people like her husband are used for the dirty work,
while people like NATO General Secretary Lord George Robertson and the
management of cruise missile factory Raytheon, who would not dream of
doing
the dangerous dirty work themselves, make millions of dollars.
A skinhead angrily refused to accept a leaflet against the Balkan war,
bringing the Nazi salute. The Hitler greeting is illegal in The
Netherlands
[so are Hitler posters; still, as TV journalists found out in July 2000,
one may find them on Dutch military barracks' walls]. Nevertheless,
police
standing 10 meters away did not react.
However, reactions by the Megafestatie visitors were generally
favorable.
If you passed, eg, one leaflet on Sanja Milenkovic to one boy or girl,
then
ten of their friends might gather around you asking for more leaflets.
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
-
Date sent: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 23:15:25 +0200
From: Herman de Tollenaere
Subject: Peace activists on trial, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
Peace activists on trial, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
In 1981, half a million people demonstrated at the Museumplein [Museum
Square] in Amsterdam, to get nuclear weapons out of The Netherlands. To
commemorate that demonstration, a sculpture of a stone "cruise missile"
arose on the Museumplein. The maker of that "missile" was Yugoslav born
Miletic, one of the best known sculptors of Amsterdam.
In 1999, as NATO cruise missiles, not of stone, and bombs rained on
Miletic's native country, authorities had his monument for the 1981
peace
demonstration ripped out from the Museumplein. That demonstration had
helped to prevent even more nuclear weapons in The Netherlands. However,
Volkel air base in the Southern Netherlands still has not only the F16
aircraft of the Balkan war; but also nuclear weapons. Well ... they are
very, very, probably there; officially, the government refuses to
confirm
or deny their presence. Even though the International Court of Justice
[older than, and not to be confused with, the NATO countries-financed
Yugoslavia Tribunal, also in The Hague] practically outlawed nuclear
weapons in 1996. The presence of NATO nuclear weapons in The Netherlands
is
also against the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty.
Already before the Balkans war, peace activists planned to go to Volkel
on
2 April 1999. They wanted to inspect the presence of nuclear weapons as
"civilian inspectors". According to the rules of the 1945 Nuremberg
trial,
every human is obliged to prevent war crimes. They unfastened a metal
thread of the fence, making it possible to enter the base. However, fife
of
them were arrested and faced a trial.
On Tuesday 11 July 2000, people gathered near the court house in Den
Bosch,
The Netherlands, to support the activists. They had banners with them,
and
photos of victims of the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Yugoslav women said
why
they had come: "We know everything about war. However, we are waging
action, not just for the victims in Yugoslavia, but also for the
children
of Iraq, people in Colombia, and people all over the world at risk by
nuclear bombs. War, and capitalism, are world wide problems."
The lawyer of the accused, Mr Eric Hummels, had called for an expert
witness on international law: Nico Steijnen, who had often written on
nuclear weapons cases. However, the public prosecutor objected to
hearing
Mr Steijnen's testimony. The court went along with this, as, according
to
them, Mr Steijnen had often been the lawyer of private persons against
the
Dutch state in international law cases [like of civilian victims of the
NATO bombing in Yugoslavia], and, supposedly, as a consequence, was not
"independent." The accused protested against the exclusion of Mr
Steijnen.
"Not *we* should be in the dock here", one of the accused said, "but
Government Ministers Kok and Van Aartsen."
The accused stated there was a case of emergency. That emergency only
existed in the heads of the accused, the public prosecutor said. Really?
one of them replied. Are these outlawed nuclear weapons not an
emergency?
Also, we went there as civilian inspectors when NATO bombed Yugoslavia.
Not
an emergency? As one of the many terrible consequences, relationships
between the nuclear powers of NATO, Russia, and China worsened,
increasing
the danger of the war crime of use of nuclear weapons.
When the public prosecutor said there was complete opportunity for
democratic ways to express opposition to military policy, she caused
immediate bitter ironic laughter from the whole audience. Whether they
were
older people remembering police attacks on demonstrators against the
Vietnam war, or people so young that the Balkans 1999 war was the only
war
they remembered, they all had personal experience with free speech, or
lack
of it, on war in The Netherlands, belying the prosecutor's rosy colored
image.
Yvonne, one of the people in the dock, told how she had wanted to
distribute flyers: they had been torn from her hands. She had held a
banner: police tore it from her hands. Only yesterday, in Utrecht at the
Jaarbeurs, when she wanted to protest military propaganda at the
"Megafestatie", first private "police" had physically attacked the
demonstrators [which they have no right to]. Some were wounded. Then,
real
police came and arrested four demonstrators, including Yvonne. Some
demonstrators were wounded.
In the night of Friday 7 to Saturday 8 July, two activists wanted to tie
a
banner to a big building crane near the entrance of the Jaarbeurs. The
banner challenged the army's claim of being a "peace army." However,
police
arrested them.
On 25 July at 9.30, the court will announce its decision. If necessary,
the
activists will appeal this decision at a higher level court.
After the court case, peace activists met to discuss future activities:
- on 6 and 9 August, they will remember the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki
- on 2 September, they will try to find the nuclear bombs on Volkel air
base
- during the Peace Week [17-24 September], activists will go to police
stations all over The Netherlands, and ask police to take action against
Prime Minister Wim Kok, for making the country and the world unsafe by
having NATO nuclear weapons at Volkel
- Sunday 1 October people will try to find the nuclear bombs on Volkel
air
base. This is world wide nuclear weapons abolition day. See:
http://www.napf.org/abolition2000
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
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Subject: Sanctions Against Yugoslavia - a Continuation of
NATO Aggression
The following report and appeal by a Swedish Member of
Parliament from the
Social Democratic Pary is very important. We urge that his
be used to
mobilize people in the U.S. to end the sanctions against
Yugoslavia and to
raise humanitarian aid.
International Center for Peace and Justice (ICPJ)
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Sanctions against Yugoslavia - a continuation of NATO
aggression
By Karin Wegestal MP, on behalf of the Swedish Committee
for Solidarity
with the Yugoslav People
During the last decade, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
has received
more than 500,000 refugees from Croatia and Bosnia, and
another 300,000
internally displaced persons, mainly from the province
Kosovo and Metohia.
For a country with about ten million inhabitants, such an
influx of
homeless people is obviously a very heavy burden - even
under peaceful
conditions.
But in addition to that, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
has been the
subject to sanctions from the western powers for close to
ten years and its
infrastructure was badly hurt through Nato's intense
bombardment during 78
days in 1999. The result of all this is that Yugoslavia,
once the most
developed industrial country in Eastern Europe, is today
the poorest
country in Europe. In Serbia excluding Kosovo, with about
ten million
inhabitants and close to a million refugees and displaced
persons, about 30
international aid organisations operate. This should be
compared to the
Kosovo province, with about one million inhabitants, where
no less than 400
aid organisations operate. There, one could talk about
overheated aid
activity. A delegation from the Swedish Committee in
support of the
Yugoslav people, the Yugoslavia Committee, visited the
country during one
week in January, on the invitation of the International Red
Cross and
Crescent Society. We saw with our own eyes the great relief
efforts made
for suffering people. We visited refugee camps, soup
kitchens and
warehouses for humanitarian relief in Uzice, Pozega, Cacak,
Novi Sad and
other places. We met representatives of the Roma people
(gypsies) and saw
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's Minister for refugees,
displaced
persons and humanitarian aid, Mrs Bratislava Morina.
This visit gave us a strong impression of the very
difficult situation of
the Yugoslav people, but also of the great efforts done to
relieve the
situation for the refugees and displaced persons and other
people driven
into misery, and to repair the damage done by Nato's bombs.
All the refugees and displaced persons must be given
lodging, food,
clothes, school and if possible also a new job. In the
beginning, many
families opened up their homes for refugees. Through great
personal
sacrifice, most could be taken care of in that way. But we
also met
refugees who have lived for nine years in provisional
refugee camps with
all their personal possessions squeezed into a few square
metres. Many have
to suffice with food rations containing only 20 grams of
meat a day.
The refugee situation is made worse by the country's
stagnating economy.
Many companies have been deprived, through the sanctions,
of their
possibilities to import raw material, to re-invest and to
export their
products. Therefore they have been forced to stop
production or to
continue working on a low level. The result is falling
salaries and
excessive unemployment. 1.2 million people are totally
jobless. The figures
have increased gradually, but took a great leap through the
bombardment in
March-May 1999, when many factories were destroyed. Over
two million people
- one out of five citizens - are under the line of poverty.
Except for the
refugee problem, there are 300,000
social cases.
Many people who have volunteered to take care of
refugees, have
themselves become dependent of social assistance. About one
million people
get assistance through the Red Cross, which has a well
functioning
organisation with offices in 180 places - a fantastic
structure and an
impressive work both from the employees and from many
unpaid volunteers.
For those people who are lucky enough to have a job, the
average salary
is about 82 D-marks (equivalent to some 40 British pounds)
a month. A
well-educated university graduate can have 150-300 D-marks
(75-150 GBP),
which is regarded as a very good salary. Many young people
- the best
educated and most productive ones - leave the country to
find jobs abroad
if given a chance.
The medical situation is all but catastrophic, with acute
lack of medicine
and spare parts. The insulin was almost used up. At our
visit at Bezanijska
Kosa Medical Center in Belgrade, we learnt that X-ray
equipment stood idle
because X-ray tubes are regarded as "strategic spare parts"
and therefore
cannot be imported - even with hard currency!
We can now see the paradoxical result of the Yugoslav
wars during the 90s.
Several ethnically cleaned states and areas have been
established and
today receive extensive international assistance, while
Serbia, the most
multinational society with 26 nationalities living
peacefully together, are
exposed to the punishment of the western world.
The sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
were not imposed
by the United Nations but single-handedly by the USA and
EU. Officially
they are not intended as a punishment against Yugoslavia or
its population,
but as a pressure to make the government "co-operate with
the world
society" and "respect human rights for all citizens of the
country".
In reality, however, they are a continuation of Nato's
war of aggression.
Their intention is to achieve what Nato could not achieve
at Rambouillet,
i.e. total political, economic and military control of the
whole country.
It is blatant big power aggression against a sovereign
country and gross
interference in its internal affairs.
The sanctions hit hard against the people. They are
obviously intended as
one of several means to force the people to overthrow their
government and
replace it with an administration which can be manipulated
and dominated
from abroad. That is a travesty of democracy; in fact its
very opposite.
What is now required is common action to force the EU
countries to stop
its hostilities. The sanctions and interference in
Yugoslavia's internal
affairs must come to an end and normal inter-state
relations be
established. Relief assistance must be increased to
alleviate the human
suffering.
International assistance must be given unconditionally to
help repair the
damages after Nato's bombing.
In Sweden, an appeal against the sanctions was published
in connection
with the anniversary of the start of Nato's bombing of
Yugoslavia. It was
signed by representatives of various political parties,
former government
members, bishops and priests, scholars and writers,
athletics, and many
other well-known people representing a broad political and
social opinion
among the Swedish people. The appeal was published in a
number of papers,
including the dominating dailies Aftonbladet and Dagens
Nyheter, and on
international
web-pages including www.antiwar.com and
www.transnational.org. That appeal
shows that there is a broad support in the Swedish society
for a
normalisation of relations.
It would be very useful if a similar initiative could be
carried out in
all EU countries, to mobilise broad strata of the people.
Such an appeal,
of course, must be supplemented with other forms of
mobilisation of public
opinion and mass actions to increase the pressure on our
governments to
stop their hostile actions and change their present hostile
policy against
Yugoslavia.
Karin Wegestal is a Member of the Swedish Parliament for
the Social
Democratic Party. She is a member of the Defense Committee
and of the
Swedish Parliamentary Delegation of the OSCE. She is one of
two
spokespeople of the Committee for solidarity with the
Yugoslav people,
which started in April 1999, as the Stop the bombings now!
Committee.
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Prière de corriger le § 10 avant toute publication ou retransmission
(ÉMV)
SANCTIONS CONTRE LA YOUGOSLAVIE :
IL FAUT UNE ACTION COMMUNE CONTRE LE CHANTAGE DES PAYS AGRESSEURS
De Karin Wegestal, membre du Parlement Suédois, porte-parole du Comité
Suédois de Solidarité avec le Peuple Yougoslave (transmis le 15 juillet
2000
par Internet).
En dix ans, la République Fédérale de Yougoslavie a reçu plus de 500 000
réfugiés de Croatie et de Bosnie, et 300 000 autres de l'intérieur,
c'est à
dire essentiellement des provinces du Kosovo et de Métochia. Pour un
pays
d'environ dix millions d'habitants, une pareille marée de personnes
déportées, sans domicile fixe, serait de toute évidence un fardeau
insupportable même en temps de paix.
Mais de surcroît, la République Fédérale de Yougoslavie a été soumise à
des
sanctions par les puissances occidentales depuis presque dix ans et son
infrastructure a été gravement détruite par les bombardements intenses
de
l'OTAN, pendant 78 jours de 1999. Le résultat de tout ceci est que la
Yougoslavie, qui était l'un des pays les plus industriellement
développés
d'Europe de l'Est , est devenu le pays le plus pauvre d'Europe.
30 organisations d'aide internationale environ opèrent en Serbie (Kosovo
exclus), pour une population d'environ dix millions d'habitants et un
million de réfugiés et déportés. Il faut comparer ces chiffres aux 400
organisations d'aide internationale qui opèrent dans la seule province
du
Kosovo, peuplée d'un million d'habitants. Là, on pourrait parler d'une
surchauffe de l'aide humanitaire.
Une délégation du Comité Suédois de Solidarité avec le Peuple
Yougoslave, le
"Comité Yougoslavie", a visité ce pays pendant une semaine en janvier
2000,
à l'invitation de la Croix Rouge Internationale et du Croissant Rouge.
Nous
avons vu de nos propres yeux les grands efforts qui sont faits pour
soulager
ces souffrances. Nous avons visité des camps de réfugiés, des soupes
populaires et des lieux de distribution de produits d'aide humanitaire à
Uzice, Pozega, Cacak, Novi Sad et autres. Nous avons rencontré des
représentants du peuple Rom (les gitans) et rencontré la Ministre de la
République Fédérale pour les Réfugiés, les Déportés et l'Aide
Humanitaire,
Madame Bratislava Morina.
Cette visite nous a permis d'avoir une vue impressionnante de la
situation
très difficile du peuple yougoslave, mais aussi du grand effort qui est
fait
pour soulager la détresse des réfugiés et déportés, et des autres
personnes
réduites à la misère par les bombes de l'OTAN, ainsi que pour réparer
les
dégâts qu'elles ont causé.
Il faut procurer à tous les réfugiés et les personnes déplacées un abri,
de
la nourriture, des vêtements, une solarisation et si possible également
un
emploi. Au début, beaucoup de familles ont ouvert leurs portes aux
réfugiés.
Grâce à de grands sacrifices individuels, beaucoup ont pu être pris en
charge de cette manière. Mais nous avons aussi rencontré des réfugiés
qui
vivent depuis neuf ans dans des camps de réfugiés provisoires, toutes
leurs
affaires personnelles entassées dans quelques mètres carrés. La plupart
doivent se contenter d'une ration de viande de 20 grammes par jour.
La situation des réfugiés est encore aggravée par la stagnation de
l'économie du pays. Beaucoup de sociétés ont été privées par les
sanctions
du droit d'importer des matières premières, de réinvestir et d'exporter
leurs produits. Elles ont dû en conséquence arrêter toute production ou
ne
continuer à travailler qu'au rythme le plus bas. Le résultat est une
chute
des salaires et un chômage excessif. Un million et demi de personnes est
totalement privé d'emploi. Les chiffres ont augmenté graduellement, mais
ont
fait un bond quantitatif avec les bombardements de mars à mai 1999, avec
la
destruction de nombreuses usines. Plus de deux millions (un citoyen sur
cinq) vivent au-dessous du seuil de pauvreté. Sans compter les réfugiés,
on
recense 300 000 cas sociaux.
Nombre de ceux qui s'étaient portés volontaires pour secourir les
réfugiés
sont devenus eux-mêmes dépendants de l'assistance sociale. Plus d'un
million
de personnes sont assistés par la Croix Rouge, qui a une bonne
organisation
locale, avec des bureaux dans 180 communes - une structure fantastique
et
des résultats impressionnants, tant de la part des employés que de
nombreux
volontaires bénévoles.
Pour ceux qui ont la chance d'avoir un emploi, le salaire moyen est
d'environ 82 deutschemark 'l'équivalent de quelquesXXXXXXXXXXfrancs
français) par mois. Un diplômé d'université de haut niveau peut gagner
entre
150 et 300 DM par mois, ce qui est considéré comme un très bon salaire.
De
nombreux jeunes gens - les plus instruits et les plus productifs -
quittent
le pays pour chercher un travail à l'étranger, dès qu'ils le peuvent.
La situation médicale est catastrophique, avec un manque aigu de
médicaments
et de matériel de rechange. Les stocks d'insuline sont pratiquement
épuisés.
A notre visite au Centre Médical Bezanijska Kosa de Belgrade, nous avons
découvert que le département de radiologie n'était plus en état de
service,
parce que les tubes pour les rayons X sont considérés comme "matériel
stratégique" et sont de ce fait interdits à l'importation - même contre
paiement en monnaies fortes.
Maintenant, nous pouvons faire le bilan des résultats paradoxaux des
guerres
qui se sont succédées sans interruption contre la Yougoslavie au cours
de
ces dix dernières années.
Plusieurs états et zones "ethniquement purifiés" ont été créés et
reçoivent
aujourd'hui une assistance internationale extensive, tandis que la
Serbie,
qui jouit de la société multiethnique la plus large, avec plus de 26
nationalités vivant paisiblement ensemble, est l'objet de la "punition"
décrétée par le monde occidental.
Les sanctions contre la République Fédérale de Yougoslavie n'ont pas été
imposées par les Nations Unies mais décidées unilatéralement par les USA
et
l'Union Européenne. Officiellement, elles n'ont pas pour but de punir la
Yougoslavie ou sa population, mais constituent un moyen de pression pour
obliger le gouvernement à "coopérer avec la société mondiale" et à
"respecter les Droits de l'Homme pour tous les citoyens du pays". En
réalité, cependant, elles sont la poursuite de la guerre d'agression de
l'OTAN - par d'autres moyens.
Leur but est d'achever ce que l'OTAN n'a pas réussi à obtenir à
Rambouillet,
c'est à dire un contrôle politique, économique et militaire total sur le
pays tout entier. C'est une agression patente de grandes puissances
contre
une nation souveraine, et une intervention grossière dans ses affaires
internes.
Les sanctions frappent lourdement le peuple. Elles sont visiblement l'un
des
divers moyens utilisés pour obliger ce peuple à renverser son propre
gouvernement et à le remplacer par une administration qui puisse être
manipulée et dirigée de l'étranger. C'est une parodie de démocratie; en
fait
c'est exactement le contraire.
Ce qu'il est urgent d'entreprendre aujourd'hui est une action commune
pour
obliger les nations qui composent l'Union Européenne à mettre fin aux
hostilités. Les sanctions et l'intervention dans les affaires
intérieures de
la Yougoslavie doivent cesser, et des relations internationales normales
doivent être rétablies. L'assistance humanitaire doit être augmentée
pour
soulager les souffrances humaines. Une aide internationale doit être
accordée inconditionnellement pour permettre de réparer les dommages
causés
par les bombardements de l'OTAN.
En Suède, un appel contre les sanctions a été publié à l'occasion de
l'anniversaire du début des bombardements de l'OTAN. Il a été signé par
des
représentants des différents partis politiques, d'anciens membres du
gouvernement, des évêques et des prêtres, des savants et des écrivains,
des
athlètes, et de nombreuses autres célébrités représentant un large
éventail
d'opinions sociales et politiques au sein du peuple suédois. Cet appel a
été
reproduit par de nombreux journaux, comprenant les quotidiens majeurs
que
sont le Aftonbladet et le Dagens Nyheter, ainsi que par plusieurs
"pages" du
Web international, dont www.antiwar.com et www.transnational.org.
Cet appel montre qu'il y a un large support dans la société suédoise
pour
une normalisation des relations. Il serait très utile qu'une initiative
similaire soit entreprise dans tous les pays de l'Union Européenne pour
mobiliser de larges couches du peuple. Un appel de ce genre doit
naturellement être accompagné d'autres formes de mobilisation de
l'opinion
publique et d'actions de masse pour augmenter la pression sur nos
gouvernants afin qu'ils arrêtent leur politique hostile actuelle contre
la
Yougoslavie.
K.W.
Karin Wegestal est membre du Parlement Suédois (Parti Social Démocrate).
Elle est membre du Comité de la Défense et de la Délégation
Parlementaire
Suédoise auprès de l'OSCE. Elle est l'un des deux porte-parole du Comité
pour la Solidarité avec le Peuple Yougoslave, créé en avril 1999 sous le
nom
de Comité "Arrêtez les Bombardements Maintenant"
Traduction Éliazar MARIO-VINCENT
pour le FORUM EUROPÉEN DES ORTHODOXES
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INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER
For Immediate Release
Attention: Assignment Editor
Press contact: Sarah Sloan (212) 633-6646
July 17, 2000
VICTIMS OF POLICE PREVENTIVE DETENTION ACTION
STAND TRIAL IN WASHINGTON D.C. -
TUESDAY, JULY 18
This Tuesday, July 18, victims of the mass arrest of 678 people on
April 15 in Washington D.C. will stand trial. The defendants include
Brian Becker, Co-Director of the International Action Center,
George Vavatsikos, a Greek American activist and others.
The defendants face 90 days in jail and fines if convicted of
disorderly conduct.
They were arrested last April 15 at a demonstration held in
conjunction with the week of protests against meetings of the
International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington D.C.
The April 15 protest demanded "Shut down the Prison-Industrial
Complex" and "New Trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal."
A class action law suit alleging a police-government conspiracy to
deny the First Amendment rights of demonstrators will be filed in the
coming weeks.
"This trial is itself a brazen miscarriage of justice," said Brian
Becker.
"The police violated our constitutional rights to assemble and
protest and exercise our First Amendment guarantee of free speech.
All 678 arrested people were protesting against the Prison-
Industrial Complex, racism and to demand a new trial for Mumia
Abu-Jamal. We broke no laws and yet we were illegally detained,
handcuffed hand to foot and held for 24 to 36 hours in school
buses, basements and remote ad-hoc detention centers in the
Washington DC area," Becker asserted. For a detailed description
of events, see http://www.iacenter.org/rept415.htm.
"The outcome of this trial is important and must be put into the
context of a new, aggressive and we believe unconstitutional policing
strategy directed at denying the constitutional rights of those
engaged in protest," said Larry Holmes, a leader of the IAC and
one of the 678 arrested on April 15. "This is the post-Seattle
backlash by the police. They want to intimidate and prevent mass
protests at the Republican Convention in Philadelphia and the
Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. These efforts by the state
will fail. Our movement against the death penalty, against racist
police brutality and the Prison-Industrial Complex is getting
stronger, not weaker. We will fight in the memory of Shaka
Sankofa (aka Gary Graham) and all those freedom fighters who
have struggled against a system that breeds racism, repression and
death."
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* Edizione greca per "L'arcivescovo del genocidio"
* Manifestazioni e processi contro i pacifisti (Olanda)
* Stop alle sanzioni! (Svezia)
* Sotto processo militanti dell'IAC (USA)
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LA JUGOSLAVIA DEVE VIVERE
E' da un po' di tempo che circola nel "movimento antagonista" una
posizione sulla guerra
degna di un pacifismo acritico e di fatto complice della NATO. Si dice:
guerra inutile e
dannosa perché senza risolvere i problemi che l'hanno scatenata, ha
portato morti e
distruzione, soprattutto fra i civili e alle fabbriche.
Ciò, secondo noi, oltre ad essere falso, tende a spostare la discussione
su un terreno
lacrimoso e di fatto equidistante fra le parti in causa.
Di questa guerra tutto si può dire eccetto che sia stata inutile,ammesso
che una guerra sia
mai stata inutile. Fare questa affermazione significa accettare
l'assioma della NATO,
secondo cui questa guerra è stata condotta per porre fine alla
cosiddetta "pulizia etnica" e
per portare a convivere le varie etnie in un Kosovo democratizzato. Solo
accettando tale
assioma, si può definire questa guerra inutile oltre che dannosa.
Ma come tutti sanno questo assioma è falso!
Falso, non solo perché la "pulizia etnica" è stata strombazzata ad arte:
tanto è vero che le
fosse comuni non sono mai state trovate, nonostante l'invio di
specialisti NATO, ma anche
perché i veri motivi di questa guerra erano geo-politici ed economici,
come la realtà ha
ampiamente dimostrato.
Se questi sono i fatti, la guerra nei Balcani, per i paesi NATO non è
stata nè dannosa nè
tantomeno inutile.
Vediamo i fatti
I paesi NATO, che sono stati i più convinti fautori della
disintegrazione Jugoslava, sono:
Germania (e il satellite Austria);
Italia
Turchia (e la sua longa manus albanese);
USA (e Inghilterra di contorno).
E' STATA INUTILE LA GUERRA PER QUESTI PAESI? NO!
Dalla disintegrazione Jugoslava la Germania guadagna la conquista
economica di Slovenia e
Croazia (dove ormai la moneta dominante è il marco tedesco) oltre che di
parte della
Bosnia: vale a dire le zone più ricche dell' ex Jugoslavia. Nell'ultimo
periodo, poi, l'influenza
economica sta acquistando sempre più le caratteristiche di influenza
politica, anche grazie al
cavallo di Troia austriaco. Basti pensare ai rapporti fra Carinzia,
Friuli e Slovenia, con la
tacita benedizione dei demo-reazionari bavaresi. Tenendo presente che è
forte la spinta
verso l'Europa a due velocità e la presenza dell'asse franco-tedesco,
secondo noi, la
conquista tedesca dello sbocco sull'Adriatico è stato un fenomeno
cruciale nell'assetto
geo-politico dell'Europa del futuro.
Altro che guerra inutile per la Germania!
Le ambizioni Italiane erano più limitate, come sempre daltronde. Come ai
tempi del fascismo
ci si è accontentati di stabilire una specie di protettorato in Albania
(in comproprietà coi
turchi) magari allargabile domani al Montenegro. Questo obiettivo è
stato raggiunto, e molte
"imprese" italiane si sono spostate da quelle parti per "diventare
competitive".
Poca cosa , naturalmente, ma da questa guerra qualche briciola l'ha
guadagnata anche
l'Italia.
Veniamo alla Turchia. Con gli accordi di Helsinki dei mesi scorsi si è
assicurata la
commercializzazione del petrolio del Caucaso, con un'opzione sul gas
Turkmeno. Con
questa guerra si è assicurata, grazie ad Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia il
passaggio dei futuri
oleodotti e gasdotti verso la destinazione Europea. Se avranno successo
le spinte
panalbanesi anche in Macedonia il passaggio sarà lineare. Non è un caso
che pochi mesi fa,
l'Italia ha deciso di liberalizzare l'approvvigionamento di gas
proveniente dai paesi europei,
e solo da quelli.
E, naturalmente, sono aumentate le chances turche di entrare nell'UE.
Altro che guerra inutile per la Turchia!
E gli USA? E' risaputo che gli USA non sono mai stati entusiasti
dell'Europa "dall'Atlantico
agli Urali", cosa che alla lunga potrebbe risultare pericolosa per il
proprio dominio sul
pianeta. Piazzare nel sud-Europa il cavallo di Troia del fedele alleato
turco da affiancare
all'altro cavallo di Troia inglese significa indebolire politicamente e
condizionare
economicamente l'Unione Europea. Se poi dovesse prendere corpo il
progetto di Europa a
due velocità gli USA si assicurerebbero il dominio economico in tutto il
sud-Europa, Italia
compresa.
Se così stanno le cose, il movimento antimperialista, invece di
piagnucolare sulla guerra inutile e
dannosa, dovrebbe demistificare e denunciare l'ideologia guerrafondaia
imperialista che contagia tutti, in
primis i sinistri di governo, e mettere in risalto quali danni questa
guerra ha prodotto sia in Jugoslavia sia sui
popoli che in questa guerra sono stati catapultati. In Italia, per
esempio, nessuno ha mai spiegato ai proletari che,
a fronte dei vantaggi per le imprese, questa guerra ha portato
incremento della disoccupazione al sud, visto che le
imprese trasferite in Albania, per i bassi costi del lavoro, hanno
licenziato in Italia, specialmente in Puglia.
Inoltre questa guerra ha portato ad aumenti vertiginosi del prezzo dei
prodotti petroliferi e derivati, sia a causa
dell'apprezzamento del dollaro dopo la guerra del Kosovo, sia grazie ai
già citati accordi di Helsinki e alla,
anch'essa già citata, liberalizzazione dell'approvvigionamento del gas
turco.
Se non ci si muove in questa direzione, ci si ritroverà a breve
scadenza, catapultati in
un'altra guerra: quella del Montenegro. Già i preparativi sono in atto e
di nuovo si stanno
strombazzando proclami di "liberazione del Montenegro dal dittatore
Milosevic", reo di aver
modificato la costituzione "per garantirsi con l'elezione diretta la
rielezione a presidente
Jugoslavo". Strano a dirsi, la stessa cosa che molti vogliono fare in
Italia. Ma si sa, una
legge fatta in Italia è profondamente democratica. La stessa legge fatta
in Jugoslavia, vuol
dire dittatura.
E allora basta piagnucolare e muoviamoci per demistificare e contrastare
questo spirito
guerrafondaio. Altrimenti non hanno senso incontri con operai della
Zastava o contromarce
della pace. Noi ci siamo opposti alla guerra e all'embargo, non perché
inutili e dannosi, ma
perché vogliamo combattere contro l'imperialismo occidentale e il
dominio imperiale
amerikano.
SMRT FASIZMU - SLOBODA NARODU!
morte al fascismo - libertà al popolo",
L'Avamposto degli Incompatibili
http://digilander.iol.it/CONTROAPPUNTO1/
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Informazione sul viaggio del 15 e 16 giugno a Kragujevak
Nei giorni 15 e 16 giugno 2000, una delegazione di lavoratori e
militanti
sindacali di Torino si è recata a Kragujevac per portare gli aiuti ai
156
ragazzi, figli dei lavoratori della Zastava, adottati a distanza dopo la
guerra del 1999 ed i bombardamenti subiti dal più grande stabilimento
jugoslavo.
La delegazione ha portato 27 milioni di lire da distribuire ai ragazzi.
Ha
visitato 6 famiglie dei ragazzi adottati. Ha visitato la fabbrica
accompagnata dal sindacato aziendale.
Il complesso industriale Zastava era composto da tre stabilimenti: la
fabbrica di automobili, la fabbrica di camion chiamata "Iveco -
Zastava", ed
uno stabilimento di armi da caccia e sportive. In tutto lavoravano
36.000
lavoratori: 2.500 alla Iveco, 2.000 alla fabbrica d'armi, oltre 30.000
in
quella delle auto. Il complesso è stato bombardato due volte con 36
missili
o bombe laser di precisione. Sono stati colpiti e distrutti in modo tale
da
rendere irricostruibili: il centro informatico, gli impianti
automatizzati
di verniciatura, lo stabilimento di meccanica dell'Iveco. Sono stati
distrutti, ma si è iniziato per il recupero della centrale termica,
degli
impianti di lastroferratura e del montaggio delle automobili e dei
trattamenti termici dell'Iveco (usiamo il termine "Iveco" perché usato
dai
lavoratori interessati, la partecipazione della Fiat Iveco è al 40%). La
fabbrica di armi è stata bombardata per ultima con un solo missile sui
36
lanciati, ha distrutto i capannoni, ma non gli impianti perché questi
erano
già stati trasferiti in quanto ritenuti obiettivo militare,
contrariamente
alla produzione di automobili e di camion.
Il risultato è che oggi lavorano poco più di 10.000 lavoratori, per
produrre
automobili e camion quando si può (durante la visita, un impianto era
fermo
in per mancanza di energia) e come si può (nei box di verniciatura si
lavora
a mano, le fucine sono come erano le nostre alla Fiat negli anni '60).
Nelle
famiglie che abbiamo incontrato le lavoratrici o i lavoratori della
Zastava
lavorano, quando va bene, una settimana al mese.
Il secondo risultato ottenuto con bombardamenti è che la famiglia di chi
non
lavora nel mese ha un reddito di 15.000 lire, di chi lavora 1 settimana
al
mese di 37.000 lire, di chi lavora tutto il mese davanti ad una forgia
ne
guadagna 100.000. Gli operai però sono particolarmente dinamici, quando
abbiamo visitato la famiglia di un ragazzo adottato da lavoratori della
Fiat
Iveco, il padre, vedovo con quattro figli, ci ha raccontato che per
arrotondare lo stipendio riempie vecchi accendini e li va vendere lungo
la
strada. Alcune settimane or sono ha incontrato sulla strada un cinese e
gli
ha detto: "hai visto? Sono messo peggio di te…".
Un terzo aspetto è quello sanitario: nelle sei famiglie che abbiamo
visitato
2 piccoli ragazzi hanno l'asma ma non hanno i farmaci per curarsi; una
mamma, lavoratrice Zastava, è mentalmente malata; un'altra mamma soffre
di
sclerosi multipla ma non si riesce a lenire con cure farmacologiche
questa
grave malattia progressiva.
Nessuno di coloro che abbiamo incontrato, nella fabbrica, nelle case o
per
strada ha espresso sentimenti di rancore nei nostri confronti. Prima
abbiamo
concorso a distruggere le fonti della loro esistenza (e, per alcuni di
loro;
delle possibilità di vivere almeno dignitosamente) ed oggi ci
ringraziano
perché li aiutiamo.
Per le prime sottoscrizioni fatte a dicembre 1999 ed a febbraio 2000,
siamo
in possesso degli elenchi firmati da chi ha ricevuto i soldi. Per la
prossima volta ci chiedono di incontrare tutti i bambini e di consegnare
direttamente a loro le sottoscrizioni: si dovrà organizzare una
delegazione
da Torino.
per il
Comitato Piemontese SOS Zastava
Perini Fulvio
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IL GENOCIDIO DIMENTICATO
Il giorno 28 giugno 2000 alle ore 20:30 ad Atene – Grecia
Un anno dopo la fine dei bombardamenti NATO e l’ occupazione del Kosovo
(teritorio della Jugoslavia) L’ Associazione di amicizia tra Grecia e
Serbia insieme alla casa editrice Proskinio, presentano ad Atene il
libro del prof. Marco Aurelio Rivelli, studioso della realt? balcanica,
“L'arcivescovo del genocidio” in lingua greca su licenza della Kaos
Edizioni Milano. Il libro a curato lo storico Nikos Klitsikas ed a
tradotto la dottoressa Margherita Salvato.
All dibatito che si terra’ all amfiteatro dell museo della guera di
Atene, interverrano:
Marco Aurelio Rivelli, scrittore
Nikos Klitsikas, storico
Panagiotis Kritikos, deputato socialista
Stelios Papathemelis, deputato socialista
Alexandros Likourezos, deputato dela nuova Democrazia
Maria Mantuvalou, proffesoressa al Universita’ di Atene
Vasilis Rafailidis, giornalista
Giorgos Anastopoulos, presidente del Associazione di Amicizia
Grecia-Serbia
Saranno presenti ed interverano:
Il vescovo di Tebe Ieronimos (il qualle ha fatto la prefazione del libro
nella edizione in lingua greca
L’ ambasciatore della Jugoslavia in grecia Dragomir Vucicevic.
La guerra contro la Jugoslavia non e’ finita, ma la resistenza contro
NATO continua
Una riflessione dedicata all'argomento sollecita ad esaminare, tra
l'altro, gli eventi che nel corso del II conflitto mondiale sfociarono
nella costituzione dello Stato Croato Indipendente, uno Stato che fu
servitore fedele del III Reich, che nacque connotato da un'ideologia
apertamente razzista, che venne difeso dalle gerarchie vaticane, nel
quale venne perpetrato il genocidio delle popolazioni serbe ortodosse.
La riflessione sulle vicende legate alla storia dello Stato guidato da
Ante Pavelic rappresenta oggi, dopo il crollo dell'unit? Jugoslava e la
nascita della Repubblica di Croazia, un'occasione preziosa per
comprendere le radici di questo presente, con la consapevolezza che i
progetti egemonici del Nuovo Ordine Mondiale non si fermeranno alle
frontiere dei Balcani.
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Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:35:36 +0200
From: Herman de Tollenaere
Subject: Peace demonstrations Utrecht, The Netherlands
On Saturday 8 July, people gathered near the Central Station in Utrecht,
to
oppose the military propaganda at the "Megafestatie". The "Megafestatie"
is
a trade fair/exhibition in the Jaarbeurs hall, aimed at young people.
Main
exhibitors, besides, eg, MTV, are the Dutch military, aiming to get
teenagers into the Dutch army, military police, and Marines. Not many
young
people want to join the Dutch [professional] armed forces; they have
trouble with finding people for vacancies. To counter that, lots of tax
money go to expensive propaganda. The slogan of the armed forces is:
"[Like] a nanny; but differently." People killed or wounded by Dutch or
other NATO armed forces in the Balkans and elsewhere might differ. So,
during the whole Megafestatie, until 16 July, visitors will get counter
information to the official propaganda. Starting every day at 12
o'clock.
In the night of Friday 7 to Saturday 8 July, two activists wanted to tie
a
banner to a big building crane near the entrance of the Jaarbeurs. The
banner challenged the army's claim of being a "peace army." However,
police
arrested them.
Later on Saturday, the demonstrators gathered at Smakkelaarsveld
[Central
Station side, opposite to Jaarbeurs] for a street rave/march. The
leaflet
of the organizers, "Onkruit vergaat niet", said the army propaganda
stimulated violence, also in foreign countries. "Violence there [by
Dutch
and coalition armed forces] also does not bring communication between
parties in conflicts, but impedes it. We have seen this during the war
in
Kosovo and elsewhere." Other leaflets passed around told what
demonstrators
could do if arrested; and on the "humanitarian" 1999 Balkans war,
including
many deaths like of the fifteen years old Yugoslav schoolgirl and
mathematics champion, Sanja Milenkovic.
Behind a big banner, opposing militarist propaganda, gathered drummers;
people with signs of Crass and other punk rock bands on their clothes;
people with T shirts of Rood [Red], youth branch of the Socialist Party,
and against the witch hunt against "illegal" immigrants; people with
anarchist symbols on. Average age not much over twenty, though there
were
also some elderly people.
The marchers passed the army recruiting center in the inner city of
Utrecht
[closed for the weekend]. With chalk, people drew slogans on the
pavement
close to it, like "Stop recruiting child soldiers", and "Stop NATO."
The demonstration continued to the police station, where the arrested
activists were still being held. The demonstrators made very much noise
to
enable the people in the cells to hear that outside, there were people
in
solidarity with them.
Standing in front of a worker's house, a mother rocked her toddler to
the
rhythm of the music of the sound system in the demonstrators' van, as
her
husband waved to the demonstrators.
During the whole march, new people joined, so that at the Jaarbeurs, the
end, there were many more people then at the beginning. At the
"Megafestatie" entrance, many leaflets were passed to the visitors.
Demonstrators juggled with balls, to show a fun alternative to going
abroad
to shoot people.
Next day, Sunday 9 July, demonstrators gathered at the eastern entrance
of
the Jaarbeurs.
Three banners were taped to the Jaarbeurs entrance: "Onkruit vergaat
niet"
[the organizers]; "Stop military violence"; and "NATO out of the
Balkans"
[thanks, Utrecht friend, for improving the banner's letters!]
Repeatedly, there was street theater: a 'die in' with people being
'killed', falling to the ground, splattered with red 'blood' [paint]. A
more realist approximation of real war then the armed forces propaganda
inside the hall.
As the 'die in' went on, Yvonne shouted through her megaphone: "The
Dutch
army is not a peace army. The Netherlands is a member of NATO. NATO does
not bring peace. NATO kills innocent people!"
Some reactions from the audience were reserved. One boy asked: "You say
the
Dutch army is bad. But how about national defence?" However, he had to
concur that the practice of the Dutch army was *not* 'national defence.'
In
1945-1949, the Dutch army attacked Indonesia. Indonesians wanted
independence from colonialism; they did *not* invade The Netherlands.
Later, Dutch Marines ended a strike, broken by deaths, by workers in
Curacao [Antilles]. Defense? In 1999, the Dutch Air Force helped bomb
Yugoslavia. Defense? Dutch Prime Minister Kok was not even notified by
NATO
that the war begun, let alone the people in The Netherlands. "No" the
questioner had to concede,"that was not really democracy ... or
defence."
A woman, claiming to be married to a Dutch soldier of the NATO forces in
Kosovo, reacted emotionally to the 'die in.' However, it was not
possible
to understand more of her inarticulate words than "my husband did a good
job in Kosovo." A friend of hers dragged her away to prevent her from
making more of a spectacle of herself. If, indeed, as she claims, her
husband was a soldier in Kosovo, I hope it will be possible to explain
to
people like her how people like her husband are used for the dirty work,
while people like NATO General Secretary Lord George Robertson and the
management of cruise missile factory Raytheon, who would not dream of
doing
the dangerous dirty work themselves, make millions of dollars.
A skinhead angrily refused to accept a leaflet against the Balkan war,
bringing the Nazi salute. The Hitler greeting is illegal in The
Netherlands
[so are Hitler posters; still, as TV journalists found out in July 2000,
one may find them on Dutch military barracks' walls]. Nevertheless,
police
standing 10 meters away did not react.
However, reactions by the Megafestatie visitors were generally
favorable.
If you passed, eg, one leaflet on Sanja Milenkovic to one boy or girl,
then
ten of their friends might gather around you asking for more leaflets.
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
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Date sent: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 23:15:25 +0200
From: Herman de Tollenaere
Subject: Peace activists on trial, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
Peace activists on trial, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
In 1981, half a million people demonstrated at the Museumplein [Museum
Square] in Amsterdam, to get nuclear weapons out of The Netherlands. To
commemorate that demonstration, a sculpture of a stone "cruise missile"
arose on the Museumplein. The maker of that "missile" was Yugoslav born
Miletic, one of the best known sculptors of Amsterdam.
In 1999, as NATO cruise missiles, not of stone, and bombs rained on
Miletic's native country, authorities had his monument for the 1981
peace
demonstration ripped out from the Museumplein. That demonstration had
helped to prevent even more nuclear weapons in The Netherlands. However,
Volkel air base in the Southern Netherlands still has not only the F16
aircraft of the Balkan war; but also nuclear weapons. Well ... they are
very, very, probably there; officially, the government refuses to
confirm
or deny their presence. Even though the International Court of Justice
[older than, and not to be confused with, the NATO countries-financed
Yugoslavia Tribunal, also in The Hague] practically outlawed nuclear
weapons in 1996. The presence of NATO nuclear weapons in The Netherlands
is
also against the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty.
Already before the Balkans war, peace activists planned to go to Volkel
on
2 April 1999. They wanted to inspect the presence of nuclear weapons as
"civilian inspectors". According to the rules of the 1945 Nuremberg
trial,
every human is obliged to prevent war crimes. They unfastened a metal
thread of the fence, making it possible to enter the base. However, fife
of
them were arrested and faced a trial.
On Tuesday 11 July 2000, people gathered near the court house in Den
Bosch,
The Netherlands, to support the activists. They had banners with them,
and
photos of victims of the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Yugoslav women said
why
they had come: "We know everything about war. However, we are waging
action, not just for the victims in Yugoslavia, but also for the
children
of Iraq, people in Colombia, and people all over the world at risk by
nuclear bombs. War, and capitalism, are world wide problems."
The lawyer of the accused, Mr Eric Hummels, had called for an expert
witness on international law: Nico Steijnen, who had often written on
nuclear weapons cases. However, the public prosecutor objected to
hearing
Mr Steijnen's testimony. The court went along with this, as, according
to
them, Mr Steijnen had often been the lawyer of private persons against
the
Dutch state in international law cases [like of civilian victims of the
NATO bombing in Yugoslavia], and, supposedly, as a consequence, was not
"independent." The accused protested against the exclusion of Mr
Steijnen.
"Not *we* should be in the dock here", one of the accused said, "but
Government Ministers Kok and Van Aartsen."
The accused stated there was a case of emergency. That emergency only
existed in the heads of the accused, the public prosecutor said. Really?
one of them replied. Are these outlawed nuclear weapons not an
emergency?
Also, we went there as civilian inspectors when NATO bombed Yugoslavia.
Not
an emergency? As one of the many terrible consequences, relationships
between the nuclear powers of NATO, Russia, and China worsened,
increasing
the danger of the war crime of use of nuclear weapons.
When the public prosecutor said there was complete opportunity for
democratic ways to express opposition to military policy, she caused
immediate bitter ironic laughter from the whole audience. Whether they
were
older people remembering police attacks on demonstrators against the
Vietnam war, or people so young that the Balkans 1999 war was the only
war
they remembered, they all had personal experience with free speech, or
lack
of it, on war in The Netherlands, belying the prosecutor's rosy colored
image.
Yvonne, one of the people in the dock, told how she had wanted to
distribute flyers: they had been torn from her hands. She had held a
banner: police tore it from her hands. Only yesterday, in Utrecht at the
Jaarbeurs, when she wanted to protest military propaganda at the
"Megafestatie", first private "police" had physically attacked the
demonstrators [which they have no right to]. Some were wounded. Then,
real
police came and arrested four demonstrators, including Yvonne. Some
demonstrators were wounded.
In the night of Friday 7 to Saturday 8 July, two activists wanted to tie
a
banner to a big building crane near the entrance of the Jaarbeurs. The
banner challenged the army's claim of being a "peace army." However,
police
arrested them.
On 25 July at 9.30, the court will announce its decision. If necessary,
the
activists will appeal this decision at a higher level court.
After the court case, peace activists met to discuss future activities:
- on 6 and 9 August, they will remember the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki
- on 2 September, they will try to find the nuclear bombs on Volkel air
base
- during the Peace Week [17-24 September], activists will go to police
stations all over The Netherlands, and ask police to take action against
Prime Minister Wim Kok, for making the country and the world unsafe by
having NATO nuclear weapons at Volkel
- Sunday 1 October people will try to find the nuclear bombs on Volkel
air
base. This is world wide nuclear weapons abolition day. See:
http://www.napf.org/abolition2000
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
---
Subject: Sanctions Against Yugoslavia - a Continuation of
NATO Aggression
The following report and appeal by a Swedish Member of
Parliament from the
Social Democratic Pary is very important. We urge that his
be used to
mobilize people in the U.S. to end the sanctions against
Yugoslavia and to
raise humanitarian aid.
International Center for Peace and Justice (ICPJ)
---------
Sanctions against Yugoslavia - a continuation of NATO
aggression
By Karin Wegestal MP, on behalf of the Swedish Committee
for Solidarity
with the Yugoslav People
During the last decade, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
has received
more than 500,000 refugees from Croatia and Bosnia, and
another 300,000
internally displaced persons, mainly from the province
Kosovo and Metohia.
For a country with about ten million inhabitants, such an
influx of
homeless people is obviously a very heavy burden - even
under peaceful
conditions.
But in addition to that, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
has been the
subject to sanctions from the western powers for close to
ten years and its
infrastructure was badly hurt through Nato's intense
bombardment during 78
days in 1999. The result of all this is that Yugoslavia,
once the most
developed industrial country in Eastern Europe, is today
the poorest
country in Europe. In Serbia excluding Kosovo, with about
ten million
inhabitants and close to a million refugees and displaced
persons, about 30
international aid organisations operate. This should be
compared to the
Kosovo province, with about one million inhabitants, where
no less than 400
aid organisations operate. There, one could talk about
overheated aid
activity. A delegation from the Swedish Committee in
support of the
Yugoslav people, the Yugoslavia Committee, visited the
country during one
week in January, on the invitation of the International Red
Cross and
Crescent Society. We saw with our own eyes the great relief
efforts made
for suffering people. We visited refugee camps, soup
kitchens and
warehouses for humanitarian relief in Uzice, Pozega, Cacak,
Novi Sad and
other places. We met representatives of the Roma people
(gypsies) and saw
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's Minister for refugees,
displaced
persons and humanitarian aid, Mrs Bratislava Morina.
This visit gave us a strong impression of the very
difficult situation of
the Yugoslav people, but also of the great efforts done to
relieve the
situation for the refugees and displaced persons and other
people driven
into misery, and to repair the damage done by Nato's bombs.
All the refugees and displaced persons must be given
lodging, food,
clothes, school and if possible also a new job. In the
beginning, many
families opened up their homes for refugees. Through great
personal
sacrifice, most could be taken care of in that way. But we
also met
refugees who have lived for nine years in provisional
refugee camps with
all their personal possessions squeezed into a few square
metres. Many have
to suffice with food rations containing only 20 grams of
meat a day.
The refugee situation is made worse by the country's
stagnating economy.
Many companies have been deprived, through the sanctions,
of their
possibilities to import raw material, to re-invest and to
export their
products. Therefore they have been forced to stop
production or to
continue working on a low level. The result is falling
salaries and
excessive unemployment. 1.2 million people are totally
jobless. The figures
have increased gradually, but took a great leap through the
bombardment in
March-May 1999, when many factories were destroyed. Over
two million people
- one out of five citizens - are under the line of poverty.
Except for the
refugee problem, there are 300,000
social cases.
Many people who have volunteered to take care of
refugees, have
themselves become dependent of social assistance. About one
million people
get assistance through the Red Cross, which has a well
functioning
organisation with offices in 180 places - a fantastic
structure and an
impressive work both from the employees and from many
unpaid volunteers.
For those people who are lucky enough to have a job, the
average salary
is about 82 D-marks (equivalent to some 40 British pounds)
a month. A
well-educated university graduate can have 150-300 D-marks
(75-150 GBP),
which is regarded as a very good salary. Many young people
- the best
educated and most productive ones - leave the country to
find jobs abroad
if given a chance.
The medical situation is all but catastrophic, with acute
lack of medicine
and spare parts. The insulin was almost used up. At our
visit at Bezanijska
Kosa Medical Center in Belgrade, we learnt that X-ray
equipment stood idle
because X-ray tubes are regarded as "strategic spare parts"
and therefore
cannot be imported - even with hard currency!
We can now see the paradoxical result of the Yugoslav
wars during the 90s.
Several ethnically cleaned states and areas have been
established and
today receive extensive international assistance, while
Serbia, the most
multinational society with 26 nationalities living
peacefully together, are
exposed to the punishment of the western world.
The sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
were not imposed
by the United Nations but single-handedly by the USA and
EU. Officially
they are not intended as a punishment against Yugoslavia or
its population,
but as a pressure to make the government "co-operate with
the world
society" and "respect human rights for all citizens of the
country".
In reality, however, they are a continuation of Nato's
war of aggression.
Their intention is to achieve what Nato could not achieve
at Rambouillet,
i.e. total political, economic and military control of the
whole country.
It is blatant big power aggression against a sovereign
country and gross
interference in its internal affairs.
The sanctions hit hard against the people. They are
obviously intended as
one of several means to force the people to overthrow their
government and
replace it with an administration which can be manipulated
and dominated
from abroad. That is a travesty of democracy; in fact its
very opposite.
What is now required is common action to force the EU
countries to stop
its hostilities. The sanctions and interference in
Yugoslavia's internal
affairs must come to an end and normal inter-state
relations be
established. Relief assistance must be increased to
alleviate the human
suffering.
International assistance must be given unconditionally to
help repair the
damages after Nato's bombing.
In Sweden, an appeal against the sanctions was published
in connection
with the anniversary of the start of Nato's bombing of
Yugoslavia. It was
signed by representatives of various political parties,
former government
members, bishops and priests, scholars and writers,
athletics, and many
other well-known people representing a broad political and
social opinion
among the Swedish people. The appeal was published in a
number of papers,
including the dominating dailies Aftonbladet and Dagens
Nyheter, and on
international
web-pages including www.antiwar.com and
www.transnational.org. That appeal
shows that there is a broad support in the Swedish society
for a
normalisation of relations.
It would be very useful if a similar initiative could be
carried out in
all EU countries, to mobilise broad strata of the people.
Such an appeal,
of course, must be supplemented with other forms of
mobilisation of public
opinion and mass actions to increase the pressure on our
governments to
stop their hostile actions and change their present hostile
policy against
Yugoslavia.
Karin Wegestal is a Member of the Swedish Parliament for
the Social
Democratic Party. She is a member of the Defense Committee
and of the
Swedish Parliamentary Delegation of the OSCE. She is one of
two
spokespeople of the Committee for solidarity with the
Yugoslav people,
which started in April 1999, as the Stop the bombings now!
Committee.
NOTE : URGENT : cette traduction est libre pour toute reproduction avec
mention du traducteur. La traduction été faite un jour férié, sans
possibilité de vérifier la valeur du Franc français par rapport au DM.
Prière de corriger le § 10 avant toute publication ou retransmission
(ÉMV)
SANCTIONS CONTRE LA YOUGOSLAVIE :
IL FAUT UNE ACTION COMMUNE CONTRE LE CHANTAGE DES PAYS AGRESSEURS
De Karin Wegestal, membre du Parlement Suédois, porte-parole du Comité
Suédois de Solidarité avec le Peuple Yougoslave (transmis le 15 juillet
2000
par Internet).
En dix ans, la République Fédérale de Yougoslavie a reçu plus de 500 000
réfugiés de Croatie et de Bosnie, et 300 000 autres de l'intérieur,
c'est à
dire essentiellement des provinces du Kosovo et de Métochia. Pour un
pays
d'environ dix millions d'habitants, une pareille marée de personnes
déportées, sans domicile fixe, serait de toute évidence un fardeau
insupportable même en temps de paix.
Mais de surcroît, la République Fédérale de Yougoslavie a été soumise à
des
sanctions par les puissances occidentales depuis presque dix ans et son
infrastructure a été gravement détruite par les bombardements intenses
de
l'OTAN, pendant 78 jours de 1999. Le résultat de tout ceci est que la
Yougoslavie, qui était l'un des pays les plus industriellement
développés
d'Europe de l'Est , est devenu le pays le plus pauvre d'Europe.
30 organisations d'aide internationale environ opèrent en Serbie (Kosovo
exclus), pour une population d'environ dix millions d'habitants et un
million de réfugiés et déportés. Il faut comparer ces chiffres aux 400
organisations d'aide internationale qui opèrent dans la seule province
du
Kosovo, peuplée d'un million d'habitants. Là, on pourrait parler d'une
surchauffe de l'aide humanitaire.
Une délégation du Comité Suédois de Solidarité avec le Peuple
Yougoslave, le
"Comité Yougoslavie", a visité ce pays pendant une semaine en janvier
2000,
à l'invitation de la Croix Rouge Internationale et du Croissant Rouge.
Nous
avons vu de nos propres yeux les grands efforts qui sont faits pour
soulager
ces souffrances. Nous avons visité des camps de réfugiés, des soupes
populaires et des lieux de distribution de produits d'aide humanitaire à
Uzice, Pozega, Cacak, Novi Sad et autres. Nous avons rencontré des
représentants du peuple Rom (les gitans) et rencontré la Ministre de la
République Fédérale pour les Réfugiés, les Déportés et l'Aide
Humanitaire,
Madame Bratislava Morina.
Cette visite nous a permis d'avoir une vue impressionnante de la
situation
très difficile du peuple yougoslave, mais aussi du grand effort qui est
fait
pour soulager la détresse des réfugiés et déportés, et des autres
personnes
réduites à la misère par les bombes de l'OTAN, ainsi que pour réparer
les
dégâts qu'elles ont causé.
Il faut procurer à tous les réfugiés et les personnes déplacées un abri,
de
la nourriture, des vêtements, une solarisation et si possible également
un
emploi. Au début, beaucoup de familles ont ouvert leurs portes aux
réfugiés.
Grâce à de grands sacrifices individuels, beaucoup ont pu être pris en
charge de cette manière. Mais nous avons aussi rencontré des réfugiés
qui
vivent depuis neuf ans dans des camps de réfugiés provisoires, toutes
leurs
affaires personnelles entassées dans quelques mètres carrés. La plupart
doivent se contenter d'une ration de viande de 20 grammes par jour.
La situation des réfugiés est encore aggravée par la stagnation de
l'économie du pays. Beaucoup de sociétés ont été privées par les
sanctions
du droit d'importer des matières premières, de réinvestir et d'exporter
leurs produits. Elles ont dû en conséquence arrêter toute production ou
ne
continuer à travailler qu'au rythme le plus bas. Le résultat est une
chute
des salaires et un chômage excessif. Un million et demi de personnes est
totalement privé d'emploi. Les chiffres ont augmenté graduellement, mais
ont
fait un bond quantitatif avec les bombardements de mars à mai 1999, avec
la
destruction de nombreuses usines. Plus de deux millions (un citoyen sur
cinq) vivent au-dessous du seuil de pauvreté. Sans compter les réfugiés,
on
recense 300 000 cas sociaux.
Nombre de ceux qui s'étaient portés volontaires pour secourir les
réfugiés
sont devenus eux-mêmes dépendants de l'assistance sociale. Plus d'un
million
de personnes sont assistés par la Croix Rouge, qui a une bonne
organisation
locale, avec des bureaux dans 180 communes - une structure fantastique
et
des résultats impressionnants, tant de la part des employés que de
nombreux
volontaires bénévoles.
Pour ceux qui ont la chance d'avoir un emploi, le salaire moyen est
d'environ 82 deutschemark 'l'équivalent de quelquesXXXXXXXXXXfrancs
français) par mois. Un diplômé d'université de haut niveau peut gagner
entre
150 et 300 DM par mois, ce qui est considéré comme un très bon salaire.
De
nombreux jeunes gens - les plus instruits et les plus productifs -
quittent
le pays pour chercher un travail à l'étranger, dès qu'ils le peuvent.
La situation médicale est catastrophique, avec un manque aigu de
médicaments
et de matériel de rechange. Les stocks d'insuline sont pratiquement
épuisés.
A notre visite au Centre Médical Bezanijska Kosa de Belgrade, nous avons
découvert que le département de radiologie n'était plus en état de
service,
parce que les tubes pour les rayons X sont considérés comme "matériel
stratégique" et sont de ce fait interdits à l'importation - même contre
paiement en monnaies fortes.
Maintenant, nous pouvons faire le bilan des résultats paradoxaux des
guerres
qui se sont succédées sans interruption contre la Yougoslavie au cours
de
ces dix dernières années.
Plusieurs états et zones "ethniquement purifiés" ont été créés et
reçoivent
aujourd'hui une assistance internationale extensive, tandis que la
Serbie,
qui jouit de la société multiethnique la plus large, avec plus de 26
nationalités vivant paisiblement ensemble, est l'objet de la "punition"
décrétée par le monde occidental.
Les sanctions contre la République Fédérale de Yougoslavie n'ont pas été
imposées par les Nations Unies mais décidées unilatéralement par les USA
et
l'Union Européenne. Officiellement, elles n'ont pas pour but de punir la
Yougoslavie ou sa population, mais constituent un moyen de pression pour
obliger le gouvernement à "coopérer avec la société mondiale" et à
"respecter les Droits de l'Homme pour tous les citoyens du pays". En
réalité, cependant, elles sont la poursuite de la guerre d'agression de
l'OTAN - par d'autres moyens.
Leur but est d'achever ce que l'OTAN n'a pas réussi à obtenir à
Rambouillet,
c'est à dire un contrôle politique, économique et militaire total sur le
pays tout entier. C'est une agression patente de grandes puissances
contre
une nation souveraine, et une intervention grossière dans ses affaires
internes.
Les sanctions frappent lourdement le peuple. Elles sont visiblement l'un
des
divers moyens utilisés pour obliger ce peuple à renverser son propre
gouvernement et à le remplacer par une administration qui puisse être
manipulée et dirigée de l'étranger. C'est une parodie de démocratie; en
fait
c'est exactement le contraire.
Ce qu'il est urgent d'entreprendre aujourd'hui est une action commune
pour
obliger les nations qui composent l'Union Européenne à mettre fin aux
hostilités. Les sanctions et l'intervention dans les affaires
intérieures de
la Yougoslavie doivent cesser, et des relations internationales normales
doivent être rétablies. L'assistance humanitaire doit être augmentée
pour
soulager les souffrances humaines. Une aide internationale doit être
accordée inconditionnellement pour permettre de réparer les dommages
causés
par les bombardements de l'OTAN.
En Suède, un appel contre les sanctions a été publié à l'occasion de
l'anniversaire du début des bombardements de l'OTAN. Il a été signé par
des
représentants des différents partis politiques, d'anciens membres du
gouvernement, des évêques et des prêtres, des savants et des écrivains,
des
athlètes, et de nombreuses autres célébrités représentant un large
éventail
d'opinions sociales et politiques au sein du peuple suédois. Cet appel a
été
reproduit par de nombreux journaux, comprenant les quotidiens majeurs
que
sont le Aftonbladet et le Dagens Nyheter, ainsi que par plusieurs
"pages" du
Web international, dont www.antiwar.com et www.transnational.org.
Cet appel montre qu'il y a un large support dans la société suédoise
pour
une normalisation des relations. Il serait très utile qu'une initiative
similaire soit entreprise dans tous les pays de l'Union Européenne pour
mobiliser de larges couches du peuple. Un appel de ce genre doit
naturellement être accompagné d'autres formes de mobilisation de
l'opinion
publique et d'actions de masse pour augmenter la pression sur nos
gouvernants afin qu'ils arrêtent leur politique hostile actuelle contre
la
Yougoslavie.
K.W.
Karin Wegestal est membre du Parlement Suédois (Parti Social Démocrate).
Elle est membre du Comité de la Défense et de la Délégation
Parlementaire
Suédoise auprès de l'OSCE. Elle est l'un des deux porte-parole du Comité
pour la Solidarité avec le Peuple Yougoslave, créé en avril 1999 sous le
nom
de Comité "Arrêtez les Bombardements Maintenant"
Traduction Éliazar MARIO-VINCENT
pour le FORUM EUROPÉEN DES ORTHODOXES
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INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER
For Immediate Release
Attention: Assignment Editor
Press contact: Sarah Sloan (212) 633-6646
July 17, 2000
VICTIMS OF POLICE PREVENTIVE DETENTION ACTION
STAND TRIAL IN WASHINGTON D.C. -
TUESDAY, JULY 18
This Tuesday, July 18, victims of the mass arrest of 678 people on
April 15 in Washington D.C. will stand trial. The defendants include
Brian Becker, Co-Director of the International Action Center,
George Vavatsikos, a Greek American activist and others.
The defendants face 90 days in jail and fines if convicted of
disorderly conduct.
They were arrested last April 15 at a demonstration held in
conjunction with the week of protests against meetings of the
International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington D.C.
The April 15 protest demanded "Shut down the Prison-Industrial
Complex" and "New Trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal."
A class action law suit alleging a police-government conspiracy to
deny the First Amendment rights of demonstrators will be filed in the
coming weeks.
"This trial is itself a brazen miscarriage of justice," said Brian
Becker.
"The police violated our constitutional rights to assemble and
protest and exercise our First Amendment guarantee of free speech.
All 678 arrested people were protesting against the Prison-
Industrial Complex, racism and to demand a new trial for Mumia
Abu-Jamal. We broke no laws and yet we were illegally detained,
handcuffed hand to foot and held for 24 to 36 hours in school
buses, basements and remote ad-hoc detention centers in the
Washington DC area," Becker asserted. For a detailed description
of events, see http://www.iacenter.org/rept415.htm.
"The outcome of this trial is important and must be put into the
context of a new, aggressive and we believe unconstitutional policing
strategy directed at denying the constitutional rights of those
engaged in protest," said Larry Holmes, a leader of the IAC and
one of the 678 arrested on April 15. "This is the post-Seattle
backlash by the police. They want to intimidate and prevent mass
protests at the Republican Convention in Philadelphia and the
Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. These efforts by the state
will fail. Our movement against the death penalty, against racist
police brutality and the Prison-Industrial Complex is getting
stronger, not weaker. We will fight in the memory of Shaka
Sankofa (aka Gary Graham) and all those freedom fighters who
have struggled against a system that breeds racism, repression and
death."
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International Action Center
39 West 14th Street, Room 206
New York, NY 10011
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web: www.iacenter.org
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* INIZIATIVA A SPOLETO (21/7)
* CAMPO ANTIIMPERIALISTA 2000 (ASSISI 30/7-6/8): PROGRAMMA DEFINITIVO
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Iniziativa alla "Festa dei Comunisti" a Spoleto il 21 luglio prossimo:
(...) Il C.A.R. (Comitato Antimperialista Romano) gestisce e partecipa
ad alcune iniziative-dibattito a Spoleto all'interno della suddetta
festa organizzata tutti gli anni dal locale circolo di Rifondazione.
Venerdì 21/7 alle ore 18,00 ci sarà un incontro sugli embarghi come
prosecuzione/preparazione delle guerre (militari e commerciali) e quindi
parleremo anche degli effetti di quello alla Jugoslavia.
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> Campo antimperialista 2000 - Assisi, 30 luglio - 6 agosto
>
> Programma
>
> (per prenotazioni telefonare direttamente e prima possibile allo:
> 0333.3543251)
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Domenica 30 luglio, arrivi
> Durante tutto il Campo: Laboratorio Informatico di Comunicazione
> Alternativa
> a cura di Elías Letelier
> (poeta cileno ed ex ufficiale dell¹Esercito Sandinista di Liberazione
> Nazionale)
> dalla mattina del 30 Luglio sarà attivo il sito del Campo:
> http://www.antiimperialista.com
>
> ore 21,00
>
> Presentazione del programma e delle delegazioni ospiti.
> Lettura saluti e messaggi.
>
> Ore 22,30 Concerto.
>
>
>
> Lunedì, 31 luglio
>
> Ore 9,30
>
> Forum n.1: Incontro con la delegazione jugoslava
> Forum n.2: Incontro con le delegazioni cilena
> (Rete Cilena Popolare ed Indigena)
> Forum n.3: Incontro con le delegazioni russe
> (Oleg Shein, deputato comunista della Duma e Sergey Novikov,
> responsabile relazioni internazionali del Partito Russo dei Comunisti)
>
>
> Ore 15,30
>
> 1. Sessione plenaria: I crimini NATO nei Balcani: i capi di accusa del
> Tribunale Ramsey Clark. Presiedono: Stefano De Angelis ed altri
>
> Ore 21,30
>
> Forum n.1: Le ³guerre umaniterie² e le nuove strategie NATO per la
> supremazia mondiale. Introducono: Marco Saba (Osservatorio Etico
> Ambientale)
> Francesco Iannuzelli (Ass. Peacelink sez.
> Disarmo)
> Forum n.2: Dall'emarginazione alla resistenza, percorsi di dignità nel
> Brasile d'oggi .
> Introducono: Paola Riccobelli (Centro di Difesa dei Diritti Umani di
> Garulhos, Sao Paulo)
> Responsabile del Coordinamento Latinoamericano dei Giuristi,
> Ricercatori Sociali e Gruppi Emarginati per una Alternativa
> Democratica e Popolare
> Forum n.3: Questione nazionale e socialismo: tavola rotonda coi
> movimenti di liberazione
>
> Martedì, 1 agosto
>
> ore 9,30
>
> Forum n.1: Incontro con le delegazioni messicane
> (Sinistra Democratica Popolare, Fronte Popolare Francisco
> Villa e CLETA)
> Forum n.2: Incontro con le delegazioni sarde
> (Gavino Sale e Bustiano Cumpostu di Sardigna Natzione e
> Confederazione dei Comunisti Sardi)
> Forum n.3: Incontro con la delegazione turca
> (Fronte Rivoluzionario di Liberazione del Popolo, DHKC)
>
> Ore 15,30
> 2. Sessione plenaria: Repressione, Prigionia Politica, violazione dei
> diritti umani e civili nel tempo della globalizzazione
> Tavola rotonda con:
> Associazione dei Familiari ed Amiici dei Prigionieri
> Politici (Spagna)
> Partito Repubblicano Socialista Irlandese (Irlanda)
> Euskal Herriko Komunistak, Comunisti dei Paesi Baschi (Paesi
> Baschi)
> Fronte Rivoluzionario di Liberazione del Popolo, DHKC
> (Turchia)
> Fedeltà all¹Uomo e alla Terra (Palestina)
>
> Ore 21,30
>
> Forum n.1: Violenza o non-violenza? Forme di lotta contro la
> globalizzazione
> Introduce: Comitato Contro la NATO ela Guerra di Ravenna
> Forum n.2: La guerra in Cecenia, il governo Putin e la sinistra russa
> Introducono:
> Oleg Shein, deputato comunista della Duma
> Sergey Novikov, responsabile relazioni internazionali del Partito
> Russo dei Comunisti
> Forum n.3: La Solidarietà Internazionalista, da percorsi diversi per
> un obiettivo comune. Introducono:
> Don Vitaliano Della Sala
> Padre Jean Marie Benjamin (responsabile delle manifestazioni
> culturali dell¹Unicef)
>
> Mercoledì, 2 agosto
>
> ore 9,30
>
> Forum n.1: "Teoria e pratica dell'autonomia per il potere popolare",
> introduce Prof. J. (CLAJADEP, Brasile)
> Forum n.2: incontro con la delegazione irlandese
> Partito Socialista Repubblicano Irlandese (IRSP)
> Forum n.3: incontro con le delegazioni basche
> Euskal Herriko Komunistak, Comunisti dei Paesi Baschi (Paesi
> Baschi)
>
> Ore 15,30
>
> 3. Sessione plenaria: Echelon: sorveglianza informatica mondiale e
> contromisure democratiche. Incontro con Nicki Hager
>
> ore 21,30
>
> Forum n.1: Immigrazione e lotta contro il razzismo nell¹Europa di
> Shengen
> Introducono: Gruppo Immigrati di Brescia
> Paola Riccobelli (operatrice sociale nell¹ambito della prostituzione
> per l¹Associazione On the Road)
> Forum n.2: Africa: Imperialismo e Multinazionali nella crisi dei
> vecchi equilibri africani
> Introduzione: Forze Africane di Liberazione della Mauritania (FALM,
> Mauritania)
> e altri. . . .
> Forum n.3: Nuova destra e antifascismo
> Introducono: W. Fisher (Germania Est)
> L. Willy (Austria)
>
> Giovedì, 3 agosto
>
> ore 9,30
>
> Forum n.1: incontro con le delegazioni palestinese e libanese
> I Comunardi (Libano)
> Fedeltà all¹Uomo ed alla Terra (Palestina)
>
> Forum n.2: incontro con la delegazione mauritana
> Forze Africane di Liberazione della Mauritania (FALM)
> Forum n.3: incontro con la delegazione dello Sri lanka
> Fronte di Liberazione del Popolo (JVP)
>
> Ore 15,30
>
> 4. Sessione plenaria: Islam e nuovo ordine mondiale
> Introduce: Associazione Culturale di Hezbollah
>
> ore 21,30
>
> Forum n.1: La resistenza libanese contro il sionismo.
> Introduce l¹Associazione Culturale di Hezbollah
> Forum n.2: Le nuove sfide della tecnologia nella comunicazione di
> massa in un progetto rivoluzionario. Introduce: Elias Letelier
> Forum n.3: Iran: Lotte sociali e opposizione nell¹Iran di Khatamy.
> Introducono: Guerriglieri Feddayn del Popolo dell¹Iran
>
> Venerdì, 4 agosto
>
> ore 9,00
>
> Forum n.1: incontro con la delegazione pakistana
> (Partito Comunista Pakistano)
> Forum n.2: incontro con le delegazioni filippine
> (K.M.U. Centrale Sindacale delle Filippine
> Nuova Alleanza Patriottica, BAYAN))
> Forum n.3: Incontro con la delegazione venezuelana
> (Federazione degli Studenti Universitari del Venezuela, FEUV)
>
> ore11:00
> Conferenza Stampa Interplanetaria
> INCONTRO CON I PROTAGONISTI E GLI OSPITI DEL CAMPO
> CON I MEZZI DI COMUNICAZIONE
> TRASMESSA IN VIDEOCONFERENZA
>
> Ore 15,00
> 5. Sessione plenaria: La lotta di Liberazione in Colombia, la minaccia
> dell¹intervento USA e l¹esito dei negoziati di pace.
> Introducono
> Paul Emile Dupret (assessore della Sinistra Unitaria Europea per le
> relazioni con l¹America del Sud)
> Esponente della Commissione Internazionale delle Forze Armate
> Rivoluzionari della Colombia - Esercito del Popolo
> Esponente del Fronte Internazionale dell¹Esercito di Liberazione
> Nazionale della Colombia
>
> ore 21,30
>
> Forum n.1: Reddito di cittadinanza o lavoro come diritto inalienabile?
> Forum n.2: Quale futuro per il Popolo Assiro, dopo la svolta del PKK
> Introduce: Organizzazione Patriottica Rivoluzionaria di Bethnarin
> Forum n.3: Il Messico dopo le elezioni: via parlamentare o via
> rivoluzionaria
> Introducono: Sinistra Democratica Popolare (Izquierda Democratica
> Popular),
> Fronte Popolare Francisco Villa e CLETA
>
> sabato, 5 agosto
>
> ore 9,30
>
> 6. Sessione plenaria: Inquinamento, transgenica e bio-tech: un nuovo
> terreno della lotta anticapitalista.
> Tavola rotonda con: Laura Corradi, esperta di salute ambientale,
> docente di sociologia della medicina, presso l¹Università di Messina
> Grazia Francescato, presidentessa dei Verdi e altri
>
> Ore 15,30
>
> 7. Sessione plenaria: Seattle : valore e limiti della rivolta contro
> il WTO
> ITavola rotonda con: Grazia Francescato, presidentessa dei Verdi
> (Italia)
> Norma G. Biñas, segretaria del K.M.U. (Filippine)
> José Bové, rappresentante di Confederazione dei Contadini
> (Francia)°
> °(in attesa di conferma)
> ore 21,00
>
> Saluti ai Partecipanti
>
> ore 21,30 - Concerto e festa di chiusura -Domenica 6 agosto, partenze
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* CAMPO ANTIIMPERIALISTA 2000 (ASSISI 30/7-6/8): PROGRAMMA DEFINITIVO
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Iniziativa alla "Festa dei Comunisti" a Spoleto il 21 luglio prossimo:
(...) Il C.A.R. (Comitato Antimperialista Romano) gestisce e partecipa
ad alcune iniziative-dibattito a Spoleto all'interno della suddetta
festa organizzata tutti gli anni dal locale circolo di Rifondazione.
Venerdì 21/7 alle ore 18,00 ci sarà un incontro sugli embarghi come
prosecuzione/preparazione delle guerre (militari e commerciali) e quindi
parleremo anche degli effetti di quello alla Jugoslavia.
---
> Campo antimperialista 2000 - Assisi, 30 luglio - 6 agosto
>
> Programma
>
> (per prenotazioni telefonare direttamente e prima possibile allo:
> 0333.3543251)
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Domenica 30 luglio, arrivi
> Durante tutto il Campo: Laboratorio Informatico di Comunicazione
> Alternativa
> a cura di Elías Letelier
> (poeta cileno ed ex ufficiale dell¹Esercito Sandinista di Liberazione
> Nazionale)
> dalla mattina del 30 Luglio sarà attivo il sito del Campo:
> http://www.antiimperialista.com
>
> ore 21,00
>
> Presentazione del programma e delle delegazioni ospiti.
> Lettura saluti e messaggi.
>
> Ore 22,30 Concerto.
>
>
>
> Lunedì, 31 luglio
>
> Ore 9,30
>
> Forum n.1: Incontro con la delegazione jugoslava
> Forum n.2: Incontro con le delegazioni cilena
> (Rete Cilena Popolare ed Indigena)
> Forum n.3: Incontro con le delegazioni russe
> (Oleg Shein, deputato comunista della Duma e Sergey Novikov,
> responsabile relazioni internazionali del Partito Russo dei Comunisti)
>
>
> Ore 15,30
>
> 1. Sessione plenaria: I crimini NATO nei Balcani: i capi di accusa del
> Tribunale Ramsey Clark. Presiedono: Stefano De Angelis ed altri
>
> Ore 21,30
>
> Forum n.1: Le ³guerre umaniterie² e le nuove strategie NATO per la
> supremazia mondiale. Introducono: Marco Saba (Osservatorio Etico
> Ambientale)
> Francesco Iannuzelli (Ass. Peacelink sez.
> Disarmo)
> Forum n.2: Dall'emarginazione alla resistenza, percorsi di dignità nel
> Brasile d'oggi .
> Introducono: Paola Riccobelli (Centro di Difesa dei Diritti Umani di
> Garulhos, Sao Paulo)
> Responsabile del Coordinamento Latinoamericano dei Giuristi,
> Ricercatori Sociali e Gruppi Emarginati per una Alternativa
> Democratica e Popolare
> Forum n.3: Questione nazionale e socialismo: tavola rotonda coi
> movimenti di liberazione
>
> Martedì, 1 agosto
>
> ore 9,30
>
> Forum n.1: Incontro con le delegazioni messicane
> (Sinistra Democratica Popolare, Fronte Popolare Francisco
> Villa e CLETA)
> Forum n.2: Incontro con le delegazioni sarde
> (Gavino Sale e Bustiano Cumpostu di Sardigna Natzione e
> Confederazione dei Comunisti Sardi)
> Forum n.3: Incontro con la delegazione turca
> (Fronte Rivoluzionario di Liberazione del Popolo, DHKC)
>
> Ore 15,30
> 2. Sessione plenaria: Repressione, Prigionia Politica, violazione dei
> diritti umani e civili nel tempo della globalizzazione
> Tavola rotonda con:
> Associazione dei Familiari ed Amiici dei Prigionieri
> Politici (Spagna)
> Partito Repubblicano Socialista Irlandese (Irlanda)
> Euskal Herriko Komunistak, Comunisti dei Paesi Baschi (Paesi
> Baschi)
> Fronte Rivoluzionario di Liberazione del Popolo, DHKC
> (Turchia)
> Fedeltà all¹Uomo e alla Terra (Palestina)
>
> Ore 21,30
>
> Forum n.1: Violenza o non-violenza? Forme di lotta contro la
> globalizzazione
> Introduce: Comitato Contro la NATO ela Guerra di Ravenna
> Forum n.2: La guerra in Cecenia, il governo Putin e la sinistra russa
> Introducono:
> Oleg Shein, deputato comunista della Duma
> Sergey Novikov, responsabile relazioni internazionali del Partito
> Russo dei Comunisti
> Forum n.3: La Solidarietà Internazionalista, da percorsi diversi per
> un obiettivo comune. Introducono:
> Don Vitaliano Della Sala
> Padre Jean Marie Benjamin (responsabile delle manifestazioni
> culturali dell¹Unicef)
>
> Mercoledì, 2 agosto
>
> ore 9,30
>
> Forum n.1: "Teoria e pratica dell'autonomia per il potere popolare",
> introduce Prof. J. (CLAJADEP, Brasile)
> Forum n.2: incontro con la delegazione irlandese
> Partito Socialista Repubblicano Irlandese (IRSP)
> Forum n.3: incontro con le delegazioni basche
> Euskal Herriko Komunistak, Comunisti dei Paesi Baschi (Paesi
> Baschi)
>
> Ore 15,30
>
> 3. Sessione plenaria: Echelon: sorveglianza informatica mondiale e
> contromisure democratiche. Incontro con Nicki Hager
>
> ore 21,30
>
> Forum n.1: Immigrazione e lotta contro il razzismo nell¹Europa di
> Shengen
> Introducono: Gruppo Immigrati di Brescia
> Paola Riccobelli (operatrice sociale nell¹ambito della prostituzione
> per l¹Associazione On the Road)
> Forum n.2: Africa: Imperialismo e Multinazionali nella crisi dei
> vecchi equilibri africani
> Introduzione: Forze Africane di Liberazione della Mauritania (FALM,
> Mauritania)
> e altri. . . .
> Forum n.3: Nuova destra e antifascismo
> Introducono: W. Fisher (Germania Est)
> L. Willy (Austria)
>
> Giovedì, 3 agosto
>
> ore 9,30
>
> Forum n.1: incontro con le delegazioni palestinese e libanese
> I Comunardi (Libano)
> Fedeltà all¹Uomo ed alla Terra (Palestina)
>
> Forum n.2: incontro con la delegazione mauritana
> Forze Africane di Liberazione della Mauritania (FALM)
> Forum n.3: incontro con la delegazione dello Sri lanka
> Fronte di Liberazione del Popolo (JVP)
>
> Ore 15,30
>
> 4. Sessione plenaria: Islam e nuovo ordine mondiale
> Introduce: Associazione Culturale di Hezbollah
>
> ore 21,30
>
> Forum n.1: La resistenza libanese contro il sionismo.
> Introduce l¹Associazione Culturale di Hezbollah
> Forum n.2: Le nuove sfide della tecnologia nella comunicazione di
> massa in un progetto rivoluzionario. Introduce: Elias Letelier
> Forum n.3: Iran: Lotte sociali e opposizione nell¹Iran di Khatamy.
> Introducono: Guerriglieri Feddayn del Popolo dell¹Iran
>
> Venerdì, 4 agosto
>
> ore 9,00
>
> Forum n.1: incontro con la delegazione pakistana
> (Partito Comunista Pakistano)
> Forum n.2: incontro con le delegazioni filippine
> (K.M.U. Centrale Sindacale delle Filippine
> Nuova Alleanza Patriottica, BAYAN))
> Forum n.3: Incontro con la delegazione venezuelana
> (Federazione degli Studenti Universitari del Venezuela, FEUV)
>
> ore11:00
> Conferenza Stampa Interplanetaria
> INCONTRO CON I PROTAGONISTI E GLI OSPITI DEL CAMPO
> CON I MEZZI DI COMUNICAZIONE
> TRASMESSA IN VIDEOCONFERENZA
>
> Ore 15,00
> 5. Sessione plenaria: La lotta di Liberazione in Colombia, la minaccia
> dell¹intervento USA e l¹esito dei negoziati di pace.
> Introducono
> Paul Emile Dupret (assessore della Sinistra Unitaria Europea per le
> relazioni con l¹America del Sud)
> Esponente della Commissione Internazionale delle Forze Armate
> Rivoluzionari della Colombia - Esercito del Popolo
> Esponente del Fronte Internazionale dell¹Esercito di Liberazione
> Nazionale della Colombia
>
> ore 21,30
>
> Forum n.1: Reddito di cittadinanza o lavoro come diritto inalienabile?
> Forum n.2: Quale futuro per il Popolo Assiro, dopo la svolta del PKK
> Introduce: Organizzazione Patriottica Rivoluzionaria di Bethnarin
> Forum n.3: Il Messico dopo le elezioni: via parlamentare o via
> rivoluzionaria
> Introducono: Sinistra Democratica Popolare (Izquierda Democratica
> Popular),
> Fronte Popolare Francisco Villa e CLETA
>
> sabato, 5 agosto
>
> ore 9,30
>
> 6. Sessione plenaria: Inquinamento, transgenica e bio-tech: un nuovo
> terreno della lotta anticapitalista.
> Tavola rotonda con: Laura Corradi, esperta di salute ambientale,
> docente di sociologia della medicina, presso l¹Università di Messina
> Grazia Francescato, presidentessa dei Verdi e altri
>
> Ore 15,30
>
> 7. Sessione plenaria: Seattle : valore e limiti della rivolta contro
> il WTO
> ITavola rotonda con: Grazia Francescato, presidentessa dei Verdi
> (Italia)
> Norma G. Biñas, segretaria del K.M.U. (Filippine)
> José Bové, rappresentante di Confederazione dei Contadini
> (Francia)°
> °(in attesa di conferma)
> ore 21,00
>
> Saluti ai Partecipanti
>
> ore 21,30 - Concerto e festa di chiusura -Domenica 6 agosto, partenze
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VANDALISMO CONTRO LE CHIESE ORTODOSSE IN KOSMET:
LA KFOR SBADIGLIA, L'UNMIK RELATIVIZZA, I MEDIA MINIMIZZANO,
PREDRAG MATVEJEVIC ED ENZO BETTIZA SE NE FREGANO
(e certo, mica e' la biblioteca di Sarajevo!)
Per le immagini e l'elenco delle distruzioni operate finora:
http://www.decani.yunet.com/
http://www.decani.yunet.com/destroyedchurch.html
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ANOTHER SERB ORTHODOX CHURCH DESTROYED IN KOSOVO
Gracanica, July 17 2000
Last night (July 16) around 23.30 the Serbian Orthodox Church of St.
Elias in Pomazatin, 12 km west from Pristina was completely destroyed in
a powerful explosion The church of St Elias was originally built in 1937
near the river Drenica. At the beginning of the WW2 it was destroyed by
Albanian Nazi troops called Balli Combetar. After the war the Serbs
rebuilt the church in 1965 and it served as a parish church since then.
Last year in summer, just after the deployment of KFOR in Kosovo the KLA
memebers damaged the entrance of the church by a hand grenade. Despite
this damage the church could be easily repaired and the Diocese
requested from KFOR to secure the church from further destruction. KFOR
only surrounded the church by barbed wire and from time to time patrols
would pass near by.
The church of St. Elias is only a few hundred meters from the nearest
British KFOR base. The attackers who are supposed again to be the
members of the former KLA brought large quantity of explosive and
informed the local population not to go out of their homes at the time
of explosion which was planned for 23.30.
Serbian Orthodox Church has condemned this latest barbarous attack and
has requested from KFOR and UN Mission to carry out the investigation.
There are very few reasons to believe that the perpertrators would ever
be arrested because so far not a single attacker on nearly 90 destroyed
Serb churches has been identified or arrested.
Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren
Information Service
KFOR
Daily Press Release
Delivered by Major Scott A. Slaten
KFOR Spokesman
#07-10
PRISTINA, Kosovo - Monday, 17 July, 2000
Serb Church Destroyed
A ruined Serb Church in the village of Pomatetin/ Pomazatin (5
kilometers west of Fushe Kosove/ Kosovo Polje) was completely destroyed
in
an explosion last night.
Explosives were detonated at approximately 11.30 p.m. and UNMIK police
reported that two suspects were seen running from the scene towards
Fushe
Kosove / Kosovo Polje. Initial reports from explosive experts state that
up
to 30 kilograms of dynamite were used in the attack.
The Church of the Holy Prophet Elijah has been out of use for the past
six years and was badly damaged during last year's conflict. As a result
it
was not one of the churches guarded by KFOR troops.
An investigation is ongoing in the destruction of the church. KFOR MNB
Centre is committed to removing the weapons used for these types of
extremist activities from general use. As a result, a search operation
has
begun in the municipality this morning.
Weapons Search Targets Extremists
Troops from MNB Centre began a search operation this morning which
centers on the village of Miradi e Eperme / Gornje Dobrevo in the Kosovo
Polje municipality.
The mission of the operation is to search for illegal weapons in the
area and remove them from the hands of extremists. Four hundred KFOR
Norwegian soldiers make up the core of the units participating in the
operation. Additional manpower and expertise is being provided by search
teams from the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, the
Swedish
Battalion and the Scots Dragoon Guards.
The village is located near the scene of a mine strike in early June
which killed three Serbs whose car drove over a mine which had been
planted
in the road. Although the village is in no way connected with last
night's
attack on the Serb Church, it is this type of extremism that the search
operation aims to prevent.
Incidents During the Past 24 Hours
Multinational Brigade North
Shots Reported
KFOR MNB North reported that shots were heard in the northern and
southern areas of Mitrovica for several hours last night. KFOR patrols
searched the areas. No reports of injuries or loss of life were reported
as
a result of the shootings.
Mass Held
KFOR soldiers secured the area around the southern Mitrovice/Mitrovica
Orthodox Church yesterday morning, in order to secure church goes
attending
mass. There were no reported incidents of violence or serious incidents
during the transport escort and mass of the attendees.
Multinational Brigade West
Weapons Seized, Men Arrested
KFOR soldiers near the village of Piskote stopped a vehicle driven by a
Kosovar Albanian man from the village of Skiviane. A search of the
vehicle
revealed an empty automatic machinegun magazine.
The driver was detained for questioning. KFOR Italian Military Police
then conducted a search of the man's home. One AK-47 Assault Rifle with
magazines and ammunition was discovered and confiscated. The man was
then
handed over to UNMIK Police for arrest. The investigation is still
ongoing.
Later in the evening, KFOR soldiers from Task Force Pegasus stopped a
car driven by a Kosovar Albanian man at the Zaimovo Bridge. A search of
the
vehicle revealed a Simonov Rifle. The weapon was confiscated and UNMIK
Police arrested a male passenger in the vehicle. The investigation is
still
ongoing.
Multinational Brigade Centre
See Lead Story
Multinational Brigade South
Commemoration Held
Yesterday morning, a commemoration for former UCK-fighters took place
in the village of Hoca Zagradska. The commemoration was announced
yesterday
evening. KFOR MNB South reinforced the area with additional soldiers. An
estimated 400 people participated in the commemoration. The
commemoration
was peaceful and ended without incidents at 11:45 a.m.
Multinational Brigade East
Weapons Seized
Yesterday morning, north of the village of Saraiste, soldiers from KFOR
US 501st Mechanized Infantry Battalion and UNMIK Police conducted a
house
search of a Kosovar Albanian man arrested for carrying a hand grenade. A
search of the house revealed one grenade, assorted ammunition, One MUP
uniform, two sets of binoculars, and two syringes. UNMIK Police held the
individual for questioning.
UXO Reported, Weapons Seized
In MNB East, yesterday evening in the town of Cernica, KFOR US Task
Force
1-187 headquarters reported that an item of unexploded ordinance was
found
in the backyard of a Kosovar Serb home.
An Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team was dispatched to the scene and
discovered a hand grenade near the house. Assessing the situation, the
EOD
team determined that the grenade could not be safely moved. It was then
detonated in place. The resulting blast caused some damage to the house
and
revealed some 7.62 ammunition. A search of the house was then conducted
and
an AK-47 Assault Rifle and magazines were confiscated. The investigation
is
still ongoing.
KFOR Medical Assistance Provided
An 11-year-old Kosovar Serb boy was medically evacuated (MEDEVAC) to
the 212th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital at Camp Bondsteel, and treated
for
appendicitis early this morning.
The boy was admitted to the hospital at 1:40 a.m. and had his appendix
removed. The youth was from the town of Strpce and escorted to Camp
Bondsteel by members of the 18th Polish Battalion. The boy's condition
is
currently listed as being stable.
The 212th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital also provided medical support
to another Kosovar Serb citizen last night. A 64-year-old woman
requested a
MEDEVAC last night and was transported by ambulance to Camp Bondsteel
for
treatment of a possible heart attack. The woman was admitted just after
10
p.m. and by midnight was listed in stable condition. Medical tests were
conducted and are pending results to determine the severity of the
attack.
The woman will remain at the 212th MASH for further observation.
MEDIA INFORMATION
UNMIK and NATO
A Press Conference will be held Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the Press
Conference Room of the UNMIK Government Building. NATO Secretary
General,
the Lord George Robertson of Port Ellen and SRSG, Dr. Bernard Kouchner
will
be speaking.
MNB Centre
Destroyed Serb Church
An MNB Centre media event will take place after the press conference
today. The schedule will include a visit the site of the destroyed
church
and then go on to the search operation being carried out in the local
area.
This operation highlights the KFOR activities being carried out to
prevent
any form of extremism threatening the people living in Kosovo.
Live Fire Ranges
The Second Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, will be
exercising and live firing their Warrior Armored Vehicles on the
Krivolak
ranges in the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) next
week.
This is part of an ongoing training operation that the KFOR British
troops carry out to ensure that British soldiers are continuously
trained on
their weapon systems in order to meet any threats.
MNB Centre will provide a media opportunity on the afternoon of Wed 19
July, 2000 to cover this event. Twelve places are currently available
for
interested journalist on a KFOR helicopter. Journalists should get in
contact with Flight Lieutenant Tim Serrell-Cooke, at the MNB Centre PIO
office.
MNB South
NATO Secretary General, Sir George Robertson and North Atlantic Council,
will visit MNB South to receive an overview of the current situation and
to
gain information on reconstruction projects in the town of Reshan
Mahala.
A media event is scheduled on Tuesday 18 July 2000 in Prizren.
Journalists are requested to be at the KFOR Main Headquarters VIP Gate
no
later than 9:10 a.m. for transportation to Prizren. For details please
see
the KFOR Media Event Flyer located in the main lobby of the KFOR Press
and
Information Center, Pristina.
KFOR Press and Information Center, Pristina, Kosovo
PTT phone: +389 91 68-6600
PTT fax: +389 91 68-6610
Sat phone : +871 382 060 323
Official KFOR homepage: http://kforonline.com
For specific information related to brigade-level operations, please
contact
Brigade Information Offices:
Multinational Brigade Centre
PPT phone: +44-7808946390 or +44-7801130055
PTT fax: +381-38-501 433-234
Sat phone: +870-762 103 839, +870-762 103 843 or +870-762 134 957
Sat fax: +870-762 134 991
Multinational Brigade East
http://www.hqusareur.army.mil/htmlinks/tffalconframe.htm
Sat phone: +871 762 069 495
E-mail: pao@...
Multinational Brigade North
PTT phone: +381-28-31024 or +381-28-31025
PTT fax: +381-28 - 31022
Sat phone: +871-762159078 or +871-761294148
Sat fax: +870-762134991
Multinational Brigade South
Satellite phone: +871-11 22 151 or +871-761 617 247 or +871-762069467
Satellite fax: +871-1122152
E-mail: piz_ge_kfor@...
Multinational Brigade West
Sat phone: +871-762 069 491
E-mail: martiref@...
Serbian Church Blown Up in Kosovo
.c The Associated Press
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - An explosion ripped through a medieval
Serbian
Orthodox Church in Kosovo, flattening the structure, U.N police said
Monday.
The church of the Holy Prophet Elijah was located in the village of
Pomazetin, just outside the Serb village of Kosovo Polje. The church was
leveled in the Sunday night explosion, said Oleg Rubezhov, a U.N. police
officer who patrols the area.
``It was destroyed to the basement,'' he said.
About 66 pounds of explosives were used in the 11:30 p.m. blast,
peacekeepers said. Two people were seen running from the site shortly
after
the explosion.
The church was not under guard by NATO-led peacekeepers, U.N. police
said.
They said it had already been severely damaged during the war between
ethnic
Albanian separatists and the forces of Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic.
However, the private Beta and FoNet news agencies in Belgrade said in
their
reports that the church was first damaged last August in a fire or by an
explosion.
The opposition Serbian Renewal Movement blamed the latest explosion on
the
peacekeeping force, called KFOR, saying its troops did nothing to
prevent it
in this heavily ethnic Albanian province.
``Members of KFOR know well enough that Albanian extremists
systematically
destroy Orthodox Christian churches, but they obviously do nothing to
prevent
them, which is proven by this latest crime,'' the party said.
Minority Serbs have faced daily attacks over the past year and Serb
Orthodox
monuments have been targeted by ethnic Albanian militants. The Beta news
agency said 86 religious objects have been destroyed.
Beta said Pomazetin was an ethnically mixed village before Kosovo's
1998-99
war. Since the deployment of NATO-led peacekeepers in the province last
year,
Serb villagers have fled, fearing for their safety.
AP-NY-07-17-00 0948EDT
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS DESTROYED CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
KOSOVO POLJE, July 17 (Tanjug) A strong explosion echoed in
Pomazatin village near Kosovo Polje late Sunday, amateur radio operators
said early on Monday.
Unofficial sources said ethnic Albanian terrorists had razed
the
Serbian Orthodox church of St. Ilia in this village of Kosovo and
Metohija
province which had had a mixed Serbethnic Albanian population before
international forces KFOR arrived in June 1999. All Serbs have meanwhile
been forced to flee the village due to onslaughts by militant ethnic
Albanians.
There was a power failure a minute before the blast, which took
place at about 11.30 p.m., and electricity was turned on again a minute
after the explosion.
Local Serbs believe that this is a synchronized action by
ethnic
Albanian extremists and those employed in the Obilic electric power
plant
in order to make such attacks appear more frightening in total darkness.
======================================================================
>Orthodox Church on post-war Kosovo firing line
>
>SLOVINJE, Yugoslavia, June 13 (Reuters) - Three attacks over the
>space of 10 months have reduced a Serb Orthodox church in a Kosovo
>village to a mound of rubble.
>
>Children play in the ruins and ethnic Albanians smile when asked what
>happened. "The church stepped on a mine," said a bearded man with a
>laugh.
>
>Slovinje's Church of Saint Nicholas is just one of 87 Orthodox Serb
shrines,
>churches and monasteries that have been destroyed or damaged in the
>year since NATO-led peacekeepers entered Kosovo as Yugoslav Serb
>security forces withdrew.
>
>Father Sava Janjic, in the nearby 14th-century monastery of Gracanica,
>says Albanian extremists are systematically seeking to eradicate the
>church from Kosovo as part of a wider campaign to chase out the minority
>Serb population.
>
>"The Orthodox church is the anchor of the Serbian people here. If the
>churches are destroyed then the Serb people will not stay," said Father
>Sava, an Orthodox priest who acts as spokesman for the region's Serb
>moderates.
>
>An estimated 150,000 Serbs have fled Kosovo since June 1999, leaving
>100,000 behind out of a total population of less than two million.
>The Albanian majority is nominally Moslem.
>
>Anxious to reassure the Serbs that they have their best interests at heart,
>KFOR peacekeepers now stand guard 24 hours a day outside many of
>Kosovo's remaining Orthodox shrines.
>
>CHURCH HAS LONG KOSOVO HISTORY
>
>Kosovo, which remains legally a part of Yugoslavia but has become a de
>facto international protectorate, is regularly described by Serbs as the
>cradle of their culture and the spiritual home of their Orthodox church.
>
>The seat of the Serb church was not actually founded in Kosovo, but
>moved there at the end of the 13th century after its original foundation in
>central Serbia burned down.
>
>Seven centuries later, many of Kosovo's most beautiful buildings are
>its Orthodox centres, including the monasteries at Pec, Decani and
>Gracanica.
>
>"I'd say that 95 percent of Kosovo's cultural heritage sites are Orthodox
>buildings. These need saving not just for the Serbs, but for all
Europeans,"
>said Father Sava.
>
>For ethnic Albanians, who suffered years of repression at the hands of
>Serbian troops and police, the Orthodox Church is inextricably linked
>to the notion of Serb national identity.
>
>A wave of Orthodox churches built over the past 10 years are described
>by locals as "political churches" and they have borne the brunt of the
>attacks. Some KFOR commanders openly question whether it is worth
>trying to save these buildings.
>
>"If a church has value as a historical place then clearly it should be
>guarded," said Finnish Colonel Arto Raty, head of KFOR operations in
>Slovinje, which lies just to the south of the regional capital Pristina.
>
>"But if it has no historical value and there is no chance of the Serbs
>returning anytime soon to the area, then it should be gently dismantled,"
>he told Reuters.
>
>A "CRUCIFIED" KOSOVO
>
>Slovinje's little domed church and adjacent belfry were built in 1996 on
>the site of a 16th-century church. It was attacked in June and July 1999
>and then again in May of this year, leaving just a pile of shattered
>concrete and red brick.
>
>KFOR troops later found the church's heavy iron bell hidden under an ethnic
>Albanian's haystack.
>
>Father Sava is angry that despite the presence of some 47,000 peacekeepers
>in Kosovo nobody has been caught or charged for the attacks on Orthodox
>property.
>
>The Church has published a book, "Crucified Kosovo", to highlight the
>plight of the Orthodox faith in the province, asking the world not to
>blame it for the policies of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
>
>Father Sava, who admits to harbouring sometimes un- Christian feelings of
>hate for Milosevic, says his Church did what it could to protect the
>Albanians from Serbian forces.
>
>"There was no organised involvement of the Serb church in fighting for
>Albanian rights because we had our own problems with the Yugoslav
>regime. But we always insisted that all human beings should be treated in
the
>same way," he said.
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From: "Predrag Tosic" <p-tosic@...>
To: "yugoslaviainfo" <Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli.>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 4:54 PM
Subject: [yugoslaviainfo] A reminder: God's houses in ruin [throughout
Kosovo]
[ A few basic questions for Mr Kouchner and UNMIK, as well as each and
every NATO country government:
- How many of the damaged or destroyed churches and monasteries have
been
rebuilt?
- In how many instances has the reconstruction at least started?
- In how many instances have the culprits - arsonists, bombers and other
attackers at Christian religious shrines in Kosovo - been arrested?
- How many of the arrested have been acquited? Is anybody
currently serving a prison term in Kosovo for vandalizing or destroying
a
church? If there is, how many people?
Between 85 and 100 Christian churches (mostly Serbian Orthodox, as
well
as some other) have been either severely damaged or destroyed in Kosovo
since mid-June of 1999. If our readers know of a single case where the
culprits were arrested - please let us know; thus far, I do not recall
reading or hearing a single news agency report to that effect. PT ]
Subject: God's houses in ruins: The world keeps silent as Serb churches,
monasteries are destroyed in Kosovo under noses of
peacekeepers
The Montreal Gazette
Sunday 27 February 2000
God's houses in ruins: The world keeps silent as Serb churches,
monasteries
are destroyed in Kosovo under noses of peacekeepers
MARK ABLEY The Gazette
The Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas, in the Kosovo village Banjska, was
probably not an international treasure.
As far as we know, it was just a modest house of God in an area dotted
with
the same.
But no one may ever be sure. On Jan. 30, 11 kilograms of explosives were
detonated at the altar, leaving much of the building in ruins.
The explosion forms part of a sad and continuing pattern. Since a wary
peace took shape in Kosovo in June 1999, nearly 80 of its Orthodox
churches
and monasteries are known to have suffered heavy damage or destruction.
The
total may be higher, given that a lot of churches are located in remote
areas where few, if any, Serbs still live.
These attacks did not occur during the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization's
bombing campaign last spring. They have happened since the return of
Kosovo's Albanian majority. Extremists, usually assumed to be linked to
the
Kosovo Liberation Army, have carried out a systematic campaign of
destruction under the eyes of international peacekeepers.
The unanswered question is why this devastation has caused so little
outcry. British and French media have paid some attention to the
attacks;
but the North American media have carried few reports. Dozens of
non-profit
groups are now working in Kosovo; they have said next to nothing.
"The Western world is rather fed up with the Balkans," suggested Colin
Kaiser, chief of the unit for southeast Europe and the Arab states in
UNESCO's Division of Cultural Heritage. "The wars, first in Croatia,
then
in Bosnia and most recently in Kosovo, became more and more intense in
terms of damage. But the cumulative effect has been that the Western
sensibility to it all has been dulled."
True enough. But beyond that, it also seems true that after the wars of
the
past decade, few Westerners dare to sympathize with anything Serbian.
Last September, Bishop Artemije, the head of the Orthodox diocese of
Raska
and Prizren, charged that while the first aim of the Kosovo Albanians
"is
to expel all Serbs, the second is to eradicate all traces and witnesses
that could serve as evidence that the Serbs have existed at all.
"But who and what are the witnesses? Churches, monasteries and holy
places.
So they set out to destroy the witnesses, to obliterate the traces. In
21Z2
months more than 70 monasteries and churches were burned or demolished.
Among them were the churches built by our illustrious and holy ancestors
in
the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. The churches and monasteries, which
survived 500 years of Turkish occupation, did not endure two months in
the
presence of a 50,000-strong international 'peacekeeping' force."
Peacekeeping troops from the United Arab Emirates, serving in the United
Nations' multinational KFOR mission, had been stationed near the Church
of
St. Nicholas. But in late January they withdrew, leaving the church
unprotected. It was soon blown to pieces.
The presence of the UN soldiers has slowed the rate of destruction in
recent months, but foreign troops can provide no guarantee of safety. On
Jan. 14, for instance, the Church of St. Elias, in a village called
Cernica, was partly destroyed by explosives. It stood just 70 metres
from a
checkpoint of U.S. soldiers.
Almost everyone would agree that the destruction of St. Elias's and St.
Nicholas's churches is regrettable. But what has so far escaped much
notice, particularly in North America, is that dozens of the earlier
victims were not just Serbian village churches, but buildings of great
beauty and historical significance. Among them:
- The Church of the Holy Virgin in Musutiste, built in 1315. Frescoes
painted in the following years were among the finest examples of
medieval
wall-painting in the entire region. The church was looted, burned and
mined
by explosives.
- The Church of St. Nicholas in Prizren, which is said to date to 1348
or
earlier, and which contained medieval icons. Five explosives went off,
causing extensive damage.
- The Monastery of the Holy Trinity near Musutiste, built from 1465 on.
It
held a unique library of manuscripts as well as a collection of recent
icons. The monastery was first plundered, then burned and finally
leveled
with explosives.
- The Monastery of the Holy Archangels in Gornje Nerodimjle, built in
the
14th century, renewed and extended in 1700. The monastery was looted and
burned; a great pine tree, said to date from 1336, was chopped down and
burned; the cemetery was desecrated.
The stories go on and on. The pattern is undeniable - and for once, no
one
is even trying to claim that Yugoslavia's notorious president, Slobodan
Milosevic, is behind it.
So far, thanks to a 24-hour guard by foreign soldiers, the greatest of
all
treasures in the region - the monastic churches of Gracanica and Decani
-
have survived. Writers have waxed eloquent about them for generations;
Rebecca West, for one, called Gracanica "as religious a building as
Chartres Cathedral. The thought and feeling behind it were as complex. S
There is in these frescoes, as in the parent works of Byzantium, the
height
of accomplishment."
Some of the buildings were jewels of European civilization. Now they are
rubble.
- - -
Throughout the Balkans, politics and art, history and myth, oppression
and
religion are intertwined. The ruined Orthodox buildings of Kosovo were
not
only centres of worship and art; they were political symbols.
Since the mid-1980s, writes Michael Sells, professor of comparative
religion at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, "Serb nationalists have
manipulated concern for the (Kosovo) shrines to motivate, justify and
implement 'ethnic cleansing' and annihilation of centuries of non-Serb
artistic and religious monuments.
"In exploiting Serbian monasteries and the heritage they represented to
foment hate and violence, they desecrated a great Serbian heritage that
deserves better."
It must also be said that if the KLA is behind the devastation, it's
following a path already trod by Serbs themselves. In Sarajevo, Banja
Luka
and other Bosnian cities, the Serbs blew up historic mosques and Islamic
shrines, as well as burning the Oriental Institute and the National
Library.
Moreover, between March and June last year, while NATO was bombing
Serbia
and hundreds of thousands of Albanian-speaking Kosovars were seeking
foreign refuge, many buildings in Kosovo were subject to deliberate
Serbian
attack.
The main targets, however, do not seem to have been mosques. Serbian
forces
aimed most of their destruction at Albanian houses and marketplaces.
Now the Serbs are reaping the whirlwind. Since the Kosovars poured back
into their ravaged homeland, any buildings where Serbs lived or prayed
have
been vulnerable - even if they were homes built in Ottoman style during
the
long centuries of Turkish rule.
Another of the recently damaged buildings is the Kosovo Battle Memorial,
built on the famous battleground of 1389. That losing fight against the
invading Turks became a cornerstone of Serbian memory and folk history.
It
also became a useful symbol for Milosevic when he wanted to stir up
nationalist fervour in the 1980s.
In recent months, the Yugoslav government has bitterly protested against
the desecration of Orthodox buildings in Kosovo. But the protests have
fallen on deaf ears.
"I don't know how many times we have said this already," complained
Ljiljana Milojevic Borovcanin, first counselor at the Yugoslav embassy
in
Ottawa. "We have raised the issue at the United Nations and also
bilaterally, with the countries participating in KFOR."
Those countries include Canada. About 1,450 Canadian troops are now in
Kosovo, serving mostly in the central and northern areas alongside
soldiers
from Britain, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Czech Republic. The
international community has a lot at stake in the peacekeepers' success.
Under KFOR, Kosovo has been divided into five sectors, each run by a
NATO-led brigade. The peacekeeping force is made up of 42,500 soldiers
from
28 countries, in addition to a further 7,500 troops based in
neighbouring
countries. For each soldier in the KFOR mission, only about two Serbs
remain in Kosovo.
Borovcanin says she has spoken to Canadian officials about the
continuing
destruction of Orthodox churches, "and the response was always
diplomatic.
The Canadian government says it regrets all the damage, but at no time
will
it take any action.
"Yet it's the non-implementation of the UN resolution that has enabled
this
barbarism to occur."
She was alluding to Security Council Resolution 1244. Under its terms,
the
mandate of the KFOR troops involves "demilitarizing the Kosovo
Liberation
Army (KLA) and other armed Kosovo Albanian groups S establishing a
secure
environment in which refugees and displaced persons can return home in
safety S (and) ensuring public safety and order."
UNESCO has been in touch with KFOR leaders, Kaiser told The Gazette.
"We provided them with lists of heritage sites that were much longer
than
what they could actually handle. We were told that they have many
responsibilities, and can't possibly station soldiers in front of every
monastery."
Speaking from Pristina last week, KFOR spokesman Lt.-Commander Philip
Anido
said that "KFOR and its soldiers have static guards on the sites that
are
active. Some of the churches are guarded by moving patrols, and it's up
to
the brigade commander to decide on the level of sensitivity and the
level
of risk."
About 800,000 Albanian refugees are thought to have fled Kosovo before
and
during the war last spring. Perhaps it's not surprising that Canada - a
full participant in the NATO bombing campaign - should be reluctant to
speak out publicly against the Kosovo Albanians whom it spent so much
time,
effort and money in helping.
Canada even contributed $200,000 to help pay for a cultural festival in
Kosovo last September. On hand along with international stars like
Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Meryl Streep and Elton John was the Cape Breton choir Men
of
the Deeps, flown in to sing coal-mining songs.
"Canada is helping rebuild Kosovo," Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd
Axworthy
said at the time. "That rebuilding effort must not only focus on bricks
and
mortar; we must also help rebuild the human spirit."
But as elements of the KLA were quick to realize, the best way to crush
the
spirit of Kosovo's remaining Serbs was to destroy significant chunks of
their bricks and mortar. The day after the cultural festival ended, the
14th-century church of Saints Cosma and Damian in the village of Zociste
was razed. The church was noted for its frescoes of Old Testament
prophets.
On the same day, near the town of Vitina, the remnants of the
14th-century
monastery of the Holy Archangel Gabriel were destroyed by explosives.
The
monastery had already been looted and burned.
So much for the human spirit.
- - -
What is surprising, if not downright shocking, is that the destruction
of
churches and monasteries in Kosovo has aroused so little attention from
international groups that are supposedly dedicated to the preservation
of
cultural treasures.
To an outsider, it looks very much as though the ancient buildings and
artworks are somehow tainted by their association with present-day
Serbia.
When it comes to the monasteries and churches of Kosovo, silence has
become
an unofficial policy.
Consider the following:
- The World Monuments Fund (a private, non-profit group based in New
York
and funded extensively by American Express) placed no Kosovo buildings
on
its recent list of the 100 most endangered sites around the world.
The fund has given money for architectural restoration and preservation
to
165 projects in 51 countries - not including Kosovo. Its Web site
includes
no mention of Kosovo, and a request for an interview with its president,
Bonnie Burnham, was turned down.
- If you believe the Web site of the International Centre for the Study
of
the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, this awkwardly
named
group is a "catalyst for action." But it has remained silent about the
dangers to cultural property in Kosovo. An E-mail asking for an
explanation
went unanswered.
- At UNESCO's headquarters in Paris last July, a six-day official
meeting
took place under the auspices of the Convention Concerning the
Protection
of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. Member nations debated the
threats to heritage sites in no fewer than 55 countries, including
Canada
(a proposed open-pit mine near Jasper National Park came under
scrutiny);
but Kosovo received only a brief general mention.
UNESCO did sponsor two missions of inquiry to Kosovo in July and
November.
Yet Colin Kaiser, who led one of them, admitted that "UNESCO is not
tooled
to work quickly for emergencies."
Part of the problem, he said, is that proper documentation is not
available
for Kosovo. The agency intends to resume work there in co-operation with
a
Swedish group called Cultural Heritage Without Borders.
"But we can't become involved in saying who did what," Kaiser
emphasized.
"UNESCO cannot take sides."
- Last April, at the height of the war in Kosovo, a statement went out
from
the International Committee of the Blue Shield (a joint endeavour that
unites librarians, archivists, museum curators and preservation
officials).
The statement expressed a generalized "concern about all damage to the
cultural heritage of the peoples of Yugoslavia." Once the war was over,
the
Blue Shield Committee had nothing more to say.
Last week, Manus Brinkman, the secretary-general of the International
Council of Museums, told The Gazette that "ICBS has not issued any new
appeals, because the first one is still as valuable as ever."
Asked about the response to the April statement, Brinkman said that
"there
have been a lot of positive reactions and the appeal invoked much
discussion. S Sadly enough, there was no reaction from the parties
involved
in the fighting in Kosovo, neither from the official Serbian or Albanian
side, nor from NATO."
- Canada is one of many nations represented on ICOMOS, the International
Council on Monuments and Sites, whose aim is "the conservation of the
world's historic monuments and sites." The Web site of ICOMOS Canada
includes statements from 1997 onward. None mentions Kosovo.
The Canadian group's administrative secretary, Victoria Angel, said that
ICOMOS Greece has tried to raise awareness about the cultural monuments
in
Kosovo. But Greece was not one of the NATO members that bombed
Yugoslavia;
and anyway, a little-known non-profit group based in Athens can scarcely
be
expected to kindle public attention in other countries.
"North America is still stuck with the message that there's a good guy
and
a bad guy in Kosovo," said Dinu Bumbaru, the head of Heritage Montreal
and
a vice-president of ICOMOS Canada. "And what the good guy does at the
end
of the movie is fine with us."
Bumbaru noted that while a great deal of information is available about
the
Kosovo destruction, especially on the Internet, "there's no
communications
campaign. Frankly I just wonder if, in the West, this is of interest."
In 1992, following Yugoslavian attacks on the magnificent Croatian city
Dubrovnik during a previous Balkan war, Bumbaru led a UNESCO-sponsored
mission to assess the damage. International funds were provided to help
Croatia, and Dubrovnik has largely been rebuilt.
But Croatia was widely seen as a victim, so, in the case of Dubrovnik,
it
was politically easy for other countries to do the right thing.
The Serbs, on the other hand, were widely seen as aggressors. Now
they're
outnumbered in Kosovo nearly 20 to 1; and in Kaiser's words, "the
problem
is that ultimately, the defence of anything depends upon local people.
"Ideally, both Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo will realize that the loss
of
the monasteries and churches, like the loss of the mosques and Ottoman
houses, will impoverish the whole area."
But that's a remote ideal. In the meantime, there appears to be no
political will outside Kosovo to stand up for an Orthodox heritage so
fraught with beauty, so redolent of pain.
- Reporter Mark Abley can be reached at (514) 987-2555 or by E-mail at
mabley@....
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http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=2958
19-May-2000 -- EWTN News Brief
KOSOVO PENTECOSTAL CHURCH ATTACKED BY ISLAMIC
MILITANTS
PRISTINA, Kosovo (CWNews.com/Keston) - The Fellowship
of the Lord's People, an Assemblies of God Church in
the Kosovo capital Pristina, was raided by
self-proclaimed Islamic militants in the early hours
of April 29.
The robbers, who claimed to represent the Kosovo
branch of an organization linked to Saudi terrorist
Osama bin Laden, threatened the occupants with guns
during a two-hour raid and stole a considerable sum of
money, a computer, and other valuable items of
equipment. They daubed the door and the walls of the
church building with Islamic slogans.
The United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) police
force has primary responsibility for law and order in
the Pristina region and its officers visited the
incident, but an UNMIK representative said so far they
are only looking at the raid "from a criminal aspect."
However, he promised that all three raids the church
has endured over the past year would be reviewed.
The overwhelming majority of Kosovo's Albanian
population is of Muslim background, though some
Albanians are Christians (mostly Catholic, with a
small number of Protestants). The vast majority of the
Serbs that remain in Kosovo are of Serbian Orthodox
background.
The Rev. Artur Krasniqi and his brother Driton
reported the bandits entered the church in the early
morning and tied up the two men and two others,
including an American and a 14-year-old boy, pointing
guns at them and ordering them to renounce
Christianity.
Krasniqi reported that UNMIK police arrived an hour
after the intruders had left and, according to
Krasniqi, did little to help them. However,
representatives from the peacekeeping Kosovo Force
(KFOR) have shown interest, and KFOR representatives
attended a meeting at the church on May 9. "The
British KFOR is trying to do something investigating
this crime," Artur Krasniqi declared. "There have been
no results yet, even though they have some information
already. From UN so far nothing. 'Defend yourself' was
the reply of some UNMIK policemen."
A spokesman for the UNMIK police in Pristina region,
Charley Johnson, confirmed that UNMIK had gone to the
church in the wake of the raid. "The incident has been
listed not as an ethnic crime, but one of robbery and
vandalism," Johnson said this week. "The UNMIK police
are looking at it from a criminal aspect. We have not
developed any suspects as yet."
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ANOTHER SERB ORTHODOX CHURCH DESTROYED IN KOSOVO
Gracanica, July 17 2000
Last night (July 16) around 23.30 the Serbian Orthodox Church of St.
Elias in Pomazatin, 12 km west from Pristina was completely destroyed in
a powerful explosion The church of St Elias was originally built in 1937
near the river Drenica. At the beginning of the WW2 it was destroyed by
Albanian Nazi troops called Balli Combetar. After the war the Serbs
rebuilt the church in 1965 and it served as a parish church since then.
Last year in summer, just after the deployment of KFOR in Kosovo the KLA
memebers damaged the entrance of the church by a hand grenade. Despite
this damage the church could be easily repaired and the Diocese
requested from KFOR to secure the church from further destruction. KFOR
only surrounded the church by barbed wire and from time to time patrols
would pass near by.
The church of St. Elias is only a few hundred meters from the nearest
British KFOR base. The attackers who are supposed again to be the
members of the former KLA brought large quantity of explosive and
informed the local population not to go out of their homes at the time
of explosion which was planned for 23.30.
Serbian Orthodox Church has condemned this latest barbarous attack and
has requested from KFOR and UN Mission to carry out the investigation.
There are very few reasons to believe that the perpertrators would ever
be arrested because so far not a single attacker on nearly 90 destroyed
Serb churches has been identified or arrested.
Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren
Information Service
KFOR
Daily Press Release
Delivered by Major Scott A. Slaten
KFOR Spokesman
#07-10
PRISTINA, Kosovo - Monday, 17 July, 2000
Serb Church Destroyed
A ruined Serb Church in the village of Pomatetin/ Pomazatin (5
kilometers west of Fushe Kosove/ Kosovo Polje) was completely destroyed
in
an explosion last night.
Explosives were detonated at approximately 11.30 p.m. and UNMIK police
reported that two suspects were seen running from the scene towards
Fushe
Kosove / Kosovo Polje. Initial reports from explosive experts state that
up
to 30 kilograms of dynamite were used in the attack.
The Church of the Holy Prophet Elijah has been out of use for the past
six years and was badly damaged during last year's conflict. As a result
it
was not one of the churches guarded by KFOR troops.
An investigation is ongoing in the destruction of the church. KFOR MNB
Centre is committed to removing the weapons used for these types of
extremist activities from general use. As a result, a search operation
has
begun in the municipality this morning.
Weapons Search Targets Extremists
Troops from MNB Centre began a search operation this morning which
centers on the village of Miradi e Eperme / Gornje Dobrevo in the Kosovo
Polje municipality.
The mission of the operation is to search for illegal weapons in the
area and remove them from the hands of extremists. Four hundred KFOR
Norwegian soldiers make up the core of the units participating in the
operation. Additional manpower and expertise is being provided by search
teams from the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, the
Swedish
Battalion and the Scots Dragoon Guards.
The village is located near the scene of a mine strike in early June
which killed three Serbs whose car drove over a mine which had been
planted
in the road. Although the village is in no way connected with last
night's
attack on the Serb Church, it is this type of extremism that the search
operation aims to prevent.
Incidents During the Past 24 Hours
Multinational Brigade North
Shots Reported
KFOR MNB North reported that shots were heard in the northern and
southern areas of Mitrovica for several hours last night. KFOR patrols
searched the areas. No reports of injuries or loss of life were reported
as
a result of the shootings.
Mass Held
KFOR soldiers secured the area around the southern Mitrovice/Mitrovica
Orthodox Church yesterday morning, in order to secure church goes
attending
mass. There were no reported incidents of violence or serious incidents
during the transport escort and mass of the attendees.
Multinational Brigade West
Weapons Seized, Men Arrested
KFOR soldiers near the village of Piskote stopped a vehicle driven by a
Kosovar Albanian man from the village of Skiviane. A search of the
vehicle
revealed an empty automatic machinegun magazine.
The driver was detained for questioning. KFOR Italian Military Police
then conducted a search of the man's home. One AK-47 Assault Rifle with
magazines and ammunition was discovered and confiscated. The man was
then
handed over to UNMIK Police for arrest. The investigation is still
ongoing.
Later in the evening, KFOR soldiers from Task Force Pegasus stopped a
car driven by a Kosovar Albanian man at the Zaimovo Bridge. A search of
the
vehicle revealed a Simonov Rifle. The weapon was confiscated and UNMIK
Police arrested a male passenger in the vehicle. The investigation is
still
ongoing.
Multinational Brigade Centre
See Lead Story
Multinational Brigade South
Commemoration Held
Yesterday morning, a commemoration for former UCK-fighters took place
in the village of Hoca Zagradska. The commemoration was announced
yesterday
evening. KFOR MNB South reinforced the area with additional soldiers. An
estimated 400 people participated in the commemoration. The
commemoration
was peaceful and ended without incidents at 11:45 a.m.
Multinational Brigade East
Weapons Seized
Yesterday morning, north of the village of Saraiste, soldiers from KFOR
US 501st Mechanized Infantry Battalion and UNMIK Police conducted a
house
search of a Kosovar Albanian man arrested for carrying a hand grenade. A
search of the house revealed one grenade, assorted ammunition, One MUP
uniform, two sets of binoculars, and two syringes. UNMIK Police held the
individual for questioning.
UXO Reported, Weapons Seized
In MNB East, yesterday evening in the town of Cernica, KFOR US Task
Force
1-187 headquarters reported that an item of unexploded ordinance was
found
in the backyard of a Kosovar Serb home.
An Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team was dispatched to the scene and
discovered a hand grenade near the house. Assessing the situation, the
EOD
team determined that the grenade could not be safely moved. It was then
detonated in place. The resulting blast caused some damage to the house
and
revealed some 7.62 ammunition. A search of the house was then conducted
and
an AK-47 Assault Rifle and magazines were confiscated. The investigation
is
still ongoing.
KFOR Medical Assistance Provided
An 11-year-old Kosovar Serb boy was medically evacuated (MEDEVAC) to
the 212th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital at Camp Bondsteel, and treated
for
appendicitis early this morning.
The boy was admitted to the hospital at 1:40 a.m. and had his appendix
removed. The youth was from the town of Strpce and escorted to Camp
Bondsteel by members of the 18th Polish Battalion. The boy's condition
is
currently listed as being stable.
The 212th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital also provided medical support
to another Kosovar Serb citizen last night. A 64-year-old woman
requested a
MEDEVAC last night and was transported by ambulance to Camp Bondsteel
for
treatment of a possible heart attack. The woman was admitted just after
10
p.m. and by midnight was listed in stable condition. Medical tests were
conducted and are pending results to determine the severity of the
attack.
The woman will remain at the 212th MASH for further observation.
MEDIA INFORMATION
UNMIK and NATO
A Press Conference will be held Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the Press
Conference Room of the UNMIK Government Building. NATO Secretary
General,
the Lord George Robertson of Port Ellen and SRSG, Dr. Bernard Kouchner
will
be speaking.
MNB Centre
Destroyed Serb Church
An MNB Centre media event will take place after the press conference
today. The schedule will include a visit the site of the destroyed
church
and then go on to the search operation being carried out in the local
area.
This operation highlights the KFOR activities being carried out to
prevent
any form of extremism threatening the people living in Kosovo.
Live Fire Ranges
The Second Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, will be
exercising and live firing their Warrior Armored Vehicles on the
Krivolak
ranges in the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) next
week.
This is part of an ongoing training operation that the KFOR British
troops carry out to ensure that British soldiers are continuously
trained on
their weapon systems in order to meet any threats.
MNB Centre will provide a media opportunity on the afternoon of Wed 19
July, 2000 to cover this event. Twelve places are currently available
for
interested journalist on a KFOR helicopter. Journalists should get in
contact with Flight Lieutenant Tim Serrell-Cooke, at the MNB Centre PIO
office.
MNB South
NATO Secretary General, Sir George Robertson and North Atlantic Council,
will visit MNB South to receive an overview of the current situation and
to
gain information on reconstruction projects in the town of Reshan
Mahala.
A media event is scheduled on Tuesday 18 July 2000 in Prizren.
Journalists are requested to be at the KFOR Main Headquarters VIP Gate
no
later than 9:10 a.m. for transportation to Prizren. For details please
see
the KFOR Media Event Flyer located in the main lobby of the KFOR Press
and
Information Center, Pristina.
KFOR Press and Information Center, Pristina, Kosovo
PTT phone: +389 91 68-6600
PTT fax: +389 91 68-6610
Sat phone : +871 382 060 323
Official KFOR homepage: http://kforonline.com
For specific information related to brigade-level operations, please
contact
Brigade Information Offices:
Multinational Brigade Centre
PPT phone: +44-7808946390 or +44-7801130055
PTT fax: +381-38-501 433-234
Sat phone: +870-762 103 839, +870-762 103 843 or +870-762 134 957
Sat fax: +870-762 134 991
Multinational Brigade East
http://www.hqusareur.army.mil/htmlinks/tffalconframe.htm
Sat phone: +871 762 069 495
E-mail: pao@...
Multinational Brigade North
PTT phone: +381-28-31024 or +381-28-31025
PTT fax: +381-28 - 31022
Sat phone: +871-762159078 or +871-761294148
Sat fax: +870-762134991
Multinational Brigade South
Satellite phone: +871-11 22 151 or +871-761 617 247 or +871-762069467
Satellite fax: +871-1122152
E-mail: piz_ge_kfor@...
Multinational Brigade West
Sat phone: +871-762 069 491
E-mail: martiref@...
Serbian Church Blown Up in Kosovo
.c The Associated Press
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - An explosion ripped through a medieval
Serbian
Orthodox Church in Kosovo, flattening the structure, U.N police said
Monday.
The church of the Holy Prophet Elijah was located in the village of
Pomazetin, just outside the Serb village of Kosovo Polje. The church was
leveled in the Sunday night explosion, said Oleg Rubezhov, a U.N. police
officer who patrols the area.
``It was destroyed to the basement,'' he said.
About 66 pounds of explosives were used in the 11:30 p.m. blast,
peacekeepers said. Two people were seen running from the site shortly
after
the explosion.
The church was not under guard by NATO-led peacekeepers, U.N. police
said.
They said it had already been severely damaged during the war between
ethnic
Albanian separatists and the forces of Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic.
However, the private Beta and FoNet news agencies in Belgrade said in
their
reports that the church was first damaged last August in a fire or by an
explosion.
The opposition Serbian Renewal Movement blamed the latest explosion on
the
peacekeeping force, called KFOR, saying its troops did nothing to
prevent it
in this heavily ethnic Albanian province.
``Members of KFOR know well enough that Albanian extremists
systematically
destroy Orthodox Christian churches, but they obviously do nothing to
prevent
them, which is proven by this latest crime,'' the party said.
Minority Serbs have faced daily attacks over the past year and Serb
Orthodox
monuments have been targeted by ethnic Albanian militants. The Beta news
agency said 86 religious objects have been destroyed.
Beta said Pomazetin was an ethnically mixed village before Kosovo's
1998-99
war. Since the deployment of NATO-led peacekeepers in the province last
year,
Serb villagers have fled, fearing for their safety.
AP-NY-07-17-00 0948EDT
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS DESTROYED CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
KOSOVO POLJE, July 17 (Tanjug) A strong explosion echoed in
Pomazatin village near Kosovo Polje late Sunday, amateur radio operators
said early on Monday.
Unofficial sources said ethnic Albanian terrorists had razed
the
Serbian Orthodox church of St. Ilia in this village of Kosovo and
Metohija
province which had had a mixed Serbethnic Albanian population before
international forces KFOR arrived in June 1999. All Serbs have meanwhile
been forced to flee the village due to onslaughts by militant ethnic
Albanians.
There was a power failure a minute before the blast, which took
place at about 11.30 p.m., and electricity was turned on again a minute
after the explosion.
Local Serbs believe that this is a synchronized action by
ethnic
Albanian extremists and those employed in the Obilic electric power
plant
in order to make such attacks appear more frightening in total darkness.
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>Orthodox Church on post-war Kosovo firing line
>
>SLOVINJE, Yugoslavia, June 13 (Reuters) - Three attacks over the
>space of 10 months have reduced a Serb Orthodox church in a Kosovo
>village to a mound of rubble.
>
>Children play in the ruins and ethnic Albanians smile when asked what
>happened. "The church stepped on a mine," said a bearded man with a
>laugh.
>
>Slovinje's Church of Saint Nicholas is just one of 87 Orthodox Serb
shrines,
>churches and monasteries that have been destroyed or damaged in the
>year since NATO-led peacekeepers entered Kosovo as Yugoslav Serb
>security forces withdrew.
>
>Father Sava Janjic, in the nearby 14th-century monastery of Gracanica,
>says Albanian extremists are systematically seeking to eradicate the
>church from Kosovo as part of a wider campaign to chase out the minority
>Serb population.
>
>"The Orthodox church is the anchor of the Serbian people here. If the
>churches are destroyed then the Serb people will not stay," said Father
>Sava, an Orthodox priest who acts as spokesman for the region's Serb
>moderates.
>
>An estimated 150,000 Serbs have fled Kosovo since June 1999, leaving
>100,000 behind out of a total population of less than two million.
>The Albanian majority is nominally Moslem.
>
>Anxious to reassure the Serbs that they have their best interests at heart,
>KFOR peacekeepers now stand guard 24 hours a day outside many of
>Kosovo's remaining Orthodox shrines.
>
>CHURCH HAS LONG KOSOVO HISTORY
>
>Kosovo, which remains legally a part of Yugoslavia but has become a de
>facto international protectorate, is regularly described by Serbs as the
>cradle of their culture and the spiritual home of their Orthodox church.
>
>The seat of the Serb church was not actually founded in Kosovo, but
>moved there at the end of the 13th century after its original foundation in
>central Serbia burned down.
>
>Seven centuries later, many of Kosovo's most beautiful buildings are
>its Orthodox centres, including the monasteries at Pec, Decani and
>Gracanica.
>
>"I'd say that 95 percent of Kosovo's cultural heritage sites are Orthodox
>buildings. These need saving not just for the Serbs, but for all
Europeans,"
>said Father Sava.
>
>For ethnic Albanians, who suffered years of repression at the hands of
>Serbian troops and police, the Orthodox Church is inextricably linked
>to the notion of Serb national identity.
>
>A wave of Orthodox churches built over the past 10 years are described
>by locals as "political churches" and they have borne the brunt of the
>attacks. Some KFOR commanders openly question whether it is worth
>trying to save these buildings.
>
>"If a church has value as a historical place then clearly it should be
>guarded," said Finnish Colonel Arto Raty, head of KFOR operations in
>Slovinje, which lies just to the south of the regional capital Pristina.
>
>"But if it has no historical value and there is no chance of the Serbs
>returning anytime soon to the area, then it should be gently dismantled,"
>he told Reuters.
>
>A "CRUCIFIED" KOSOVO
>
>Slovinje's little domed church and adjacent belfry were built in 1996 on
>the site of a 16th-century church. It was attacked in June and July 1999
>and then again in May of this year, leaving just a pile of shattered
>concrete and red brick.
>
>KFOR troops later found the church's heavy iron bell hidden under an ethnic
>Albanian's haystack.
>
>Father Sava is angry that despite the presence of some 47,000 peacekeepers
>in Kosovo nobody has been caught or charged for the attacks on Orthodox
>property.
>
>The Church has published a book, "Crucified Kosovo", to highlight the
>plight of the Orthodox faith in the province, asking the world not to
>blame it for the policies of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
>
>Father Sava, who admits to harbouring sometimes un- Christian feelings of
>hate for Milosevic, says his Church did what it could to protect the
>Albanians from Serbian forces.
>
>"There was no organised involvement of the Serb church in fighting for
>Albanian rights because we had our own problems with the Yugoslav
>regime. But we always insisted that all human beings should be treated in
the
>same way," he said.
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From: "Predrag Tosic" <p-tosic@...>
To: "yugoslaviainfo" <Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli.>
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Subject: [yugoslaviainfo] A reminder: God's houses in ruin [throughout
Kosovo]
[ A few basic questions for Mr Kouchner and UNMIK, as well as each and
every NATO country government:
- How many of the damaged or destroyed churches and monasteries have
been
rebuilt?
- In how many instances has the reconstruction at least started?
- In how many instances have the culprits - arsonists, bombers and other
attackers at Christian religious shrines in Kosovo - been arrested?
- How many of the arrested have been acquited? Is anybody
currently serving a prison term in Kosovo for vandalizing or destroying
a
church? If there is, how many people?
Between 85 and 100 Christian churches (mostly Serbian Orthodox, as
well
as some other) have been either severely damaged or destroyed in Kosovo
since mid-June of 1999. If our readers know of a single case where the
culprits were arrested - please let us know; thus far, I do not recall
reading or hearing a single news agency report to that effect. PT ]
Subject: God's houses in ruins: The world keeps silent as Serb churches,
monasteries are destroyed in Kosovo under noses of
peacekeepers
The Montreal Gazette
Sunday 27 February 2000
God's houses in ruins: The world keeps silent as Serb churches,
monasteries
are destroyed in Kosovo under noses of peacekeepers
MARK ABLEY The Gazette
The Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas, in the Kosovo village Banjska, was
probably not an international treasure.
As far as we know, it was just a modest house of God in an area dotted
with
the same.
But no one may ever be sure. On Jan. 30, 11 kilograms of explosives were
detonated at the altar, leaving much of the building in ruins.
The explosion forms part of a sad and continuing pattern. Since a wary
peace took shape in Kosovo in June 1999, nearly 80 of its Orthodox
churches
and monasteries are known to have suffered heavy damage or destruction.
The
total may be higher, given that a lot of churches are located in remote
areas where few, if any, Serbs still live.
These attacks did not occur during the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization's
bombing campaign last spring. They have happened since the return of
Kosovo's Albanian majority. Extremists, usually assumed to be linked to
the
Kosovo Liberation Army, have carried out a systematic campaign of
destruction under the eyes of international peacekeepers.
The unanswered question is why this devastation has caused so little
outcry. British and French media have paid some attention to the
attacks;
but the North American media have carried few reports. Dozens of
non-profit
groups are now working in Kosovo; they have said next to nothing.
"The Western world is rather fed up with the Balkans," suggested Colin
Kaiser, chief of the unit for southeast Europe and the Arab states in
UNESCO's Division of Cultural Heritage. "The wars, first in Croatia,
then
in Bosnia and most recently in Kosovo, became more and more intense in
terms of damage. But the cumulative effect has been that the Western
sensibility to it all has been dulled."
True enough. But beyond that, it also seems true that after the wars of
the
past decade, few Westerners dare to sympathize with anything Serbian.
Last September, Bishop Artemije, the head of the Orthodox diocese of
Raska
and Prizren, charged that while the first aim of the Kosovo Albanians
"is
to expel all Serbs, the second is to eradicate all traces and witnesses
that could serve as evidence that the Serbs have existed at all.
"But who and what are the witnesses? Churches, monasteries and holy
places.
So they set out to destroy the witnesses, to obliterate the traces. In
21Z2
months more than 70 monasteries and churches were burned or demolished.
Among them were the churches built by our illustrious and holy ancestors
in
the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. The churches and monasteries, which
survived 500 years of Turkish occupation, did not endure two months in
the
presence of a 50,000-strong international 'peacekeeping' force."
Peacekeeping troops from the United Arab Emirates, serving in the United
Nations' multinational KFOR mission, had been stationed near the Church
of
St. Nicholas. But in late January they withdrew, leaving the church
unprotected. It was soon blown to pieces.
The presence of the UN soldiers has slowed the rate of destruction in
recent months, but foreign troops can provide no guarantee of safety. On
Jan. 14, for instance, the Church of St. Elias, in a village called
Cernica, was partly destroyed by explosives. It stood just 70 metres
from a
checkpoint of U.S. soldiers.
Almost everyone would agree that the destruction of St. Elias's and St.
Nicholas's churches is regrettable. But what has so far escaped much
notice, particularly in North America, is that dozens of the earlier
victims were not just Serbian village churches, but buildings of great
beauty and historical significance. Among them:
- The Church of the Holy Virgin in Musutiste, built in 1315. Frescoes
painted in the following years were among the finest examples of
medieval
wall-painting in the entire region. The church was looted, burned and
mined
by explosives.
- The Church of St. Nicholas in Prizren, which is said to date to 1348
or
earlier, and which contained medieval icons. Five explosives went off,
causing extensive damage.
- The Monastery of the Holy Trinity near Musutiste, built from 1465 on.
It
held a unique library of manuscripts as well as a collection of recent
icons. The monastery was first plundered, then burned and finally
leveled
with explosives.
- The Monastery of the Holy Archangels in Gornje Nerodimjle, built in
the
14th century, renewed and extended in 1700. The monastery was looted and
burned; a great pine tree, said to date from 1336, was chopped down and
burned; the cemetery was desecrated.
The stories go on and on. The pattern is undeniable - and for once, no
one
is even trying to claim that Yugoslavia's notorious president, Slobodan
Milosevic, is behind it.
So far, thanks to a 24-hour guard by foreign soldiers, the greatest of
all
treasures in the region - the monastic churches of Gracanica and Decani
-
have survived. Writers have waxed eloquent about them for generations;
Rebecca West, for one, called Gracanica "as religious a building as
Chartres Cathedral. The thought and feeling behind it were as complex. S
There is in these frescoes, as in the parent works of Byzantium, the
height
of accomplishment."
Some of the buildings were jewels of European civilization. Now they are
rubble.
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Throughout the Balkans, politics and art, history and myth, oppression
and
religion are intertwined. The ruined Orthodox buildings of Kosovo were
not
only centres of worship and art; they were political symbols.
Since the mid-1980s, writes Michael Sells, professor of comparative
religion at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, "Serb nationalists have
manipulated concern for the (Kosovo) shrines to motivate, justify and
implement 'ethnic cleansing' and annihilation of centuries of non-Serb
artistic and religious monuments.
"In exploiting Serbian monasteries and the heritage they represented to
foment hate and violence, they desecrated a great Serbian heritage that
deserves better."
It must also be said that if the KLA is behind the devastation, it's
following a path already trod by Serbs themselves. In Sarajevo, Banja
Luka
and other Bosnian cities, the Serbs blew up historic mosques and Islamic
shrines, as well as burning the Oriental Institute and the National
Library.
Moreover, between March and June last year, while NATO was bombing
Serbia
and hundreds of thousands of Albanian-speaking Kosovars were seeking
foreign refuge, many buildings in Kosovo were subject to deliberate
Serbian
attack.
The main targets, however, do not seem to have been mosques. Serbian
forces
aimed most of their destruction at Albanian houses and marketplaces.
Now the Serbs are reaping the whirlwind. Since the Kosovars poured back
into their ravaged homeland, any buildings where Serbs lived or prayed
have
been vulnerable - even if they were homes built in Ottoman style during
the
long centuries of Turkish rule.
Another of the recently damaged buildings is the Kosovo Battle Memorial,
built on the famous battleground of 1389. That losing fight against the
invading Turks became a cornerstone of Serbian memory and folk history.
It
also became a useful symbol for Milosevic when he wanted to stir up
nationalist fervour in the 1980s.
In recent months, the Yugoslav government has bitterly protested against
the desecration of Orthodox buildings in Kosovo. But the protests have
fallen on deaf ears.
"I don't know how many times we have said this already," complained
Ljiljana Milojevic Borovcanin, first counselor at the Yugoslav embassy
in
Ottawa. "We have raised the issue at the United Nations and also
bilaterally, with the countries participating in KFOR."
Those countries include Canada. About 1,450 Canadian troops are now in
Kosovo, serving mostly in the central and northern areas alongside
soldiers
from Britain, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Czech Republic. The
international community has a lot at stake in the peacekeepers' success.
Under KFOR, Kosovo has been divided into five sectors, each run by a
NATO-led brigade. The peacekeeping force is made up of 42,500 soldiers
from
28 countries, in addition to a further 7,500 troops based in
neighbouring
countries. For each soldier in the KFOR mission, only about two Serbs
remain in Kosovo.
Borovcanin says she has spoken to Canadian officials about the
continuing
destruction of Orthodox churches, "and the response was always
diplomatic.
The Canadian government says it regrets all the damage, but at no time
will
it take any action.
"Yet it's the non-implementation of the UN resolution that has enabled
this
barbarism to occur."
She was alluding to Security Council Resolution 1244. Under its terms,
the
mandate of the KFOR troops involves "demilitarizing the Kosovo
Liberation
Army (KLA) and other armed Kosovo Albanian groups S establishing a
secure
environment in which refugees and displaced persons can return home in
safety S (and) ensuring public safety and order."
UNESCO has been in touch with KFOR leaders, Kaiser told The Gazette.
"We provided them with lists of heritage sites that were much longer
than
what they could actually handle. We were told that they have many
responsibilities, and can't possibly station soldiers in front of every
monastery."
Speaking from Pristina last week, KFOR spokesman Lt.-Commander Philip
Anido
said that "KFOR and its soldiers have static guards on the sites that
are
active. Some of the churches are guarded by moving patrols, and it's up
to
the brigade commander to decide on the level of sensitivity and the
level
of risk."
About 800,000 Albanian refugees are thought to have fled Kosovo before
and
during the war last spring. Perhaps it's not surprising that Canada - a
full participant in the NATO bombing campaign - should be reluctant to
speak out publicly against the Kosovo Albanians whom it spent so much
time,
effort and money in helping.
Canada even contributed $200,000 to help pay for a cultural festival in
Kosovo last September. On hand along with international stars like
Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Meryl Streep and Elton John was the Cape Breton choir Men
of
the Deeps, flown in to sing coal-mining songs.
"Canada is helping rebuild Kosovo," Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd
Axworthy
said at the time. "That rebuilding effort must not only focus on bricks
and
mortar; we must also help rebuild the human spirit."
But as elements of the KLA were quick to realize, the best way to crush
the
spirit of Kosovo's remaining Serbs was to destroy significant chunks of
their bricks and mortar. The day after the cultural festival ended, the
14th-century church of Saints Cosma and Damian in the village of Zociste
was razed. The church was noted for its frescoes of Old Testament
prophets.
On the same day, near the town of Vitina, the remnants of the
14th-century
monastery of the Holy Archangel Gabriel were destroyed by explosives.
The
monastery had already been looted and burned.
So much for the human spirit.
- - -
What is surprising, if not downright shocking, is that the destruction
of
churches and monasteries in Kosovo has aroused so little attention from
international groups that are supposedly dedicated to the preservation
of
cultural treasures.
To an outsider, it looks very much as though the ancient buildings and
artworks are somehow tainted by their association with present-day
Serbia.
When it comes to the monasteries and churches of Kosovo, silence has
become
an unofficial policy.
Consider the following:
- The World Monuments Fund (a private, non-profit group based in New
York
and funded extensively by American Express) placed no Kosovo buildings
on
its recent list of the 100 most endangered sites around the world.
The fund has given money for architectural restoration and preservation
to
165 projects in 51 countries - not including Kosovo. Its Web site
includes
no mention of Kosovo, and a request for an interview with its president,
Bonnie Burnham, was turned down.
- If you believe the Web site of the International Centre for the Study
of
the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, this awkwardly
named
group is a "catalyst for action." But it has remained silent about the
dangers to cultural property in Kosovo. An E-mail asking for an
explanation
went unanswered.
- At UNESCO's headquarters in Paris last July, a six-day official
meeting
took place under the auspices of the Convention Concerning the
Protection
of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. Member nations debated the
threats to heritage sites in no fewer than 55 countries, including
Canada
(a proposed open-pit mine near Jasper National Park came under
scrutiny);
but Kosovo received only a brief general mention.
UNESCO did sponsor two missions of inquiry to Kosovo in July and
November.
Yet Colin Kaiser, who led one of them, admitted that "UNESCO is not
tooled
to work quickly for emergencies."
Part of the problem, he said, is that proper documentation is not
available
for Kosovo. The agency intends to resume work there in co-operation with
a
Swedish group called Cultural Heritage Without Borders.
"But we can't become involved in saying who did what," Kaiser
emphasized.
"UNESCO cannot take sides."
- Last April, at the height of the war in Kosovo, a statement went out
from
the International Committee of the Blue Shield (a joint endeavour that
unites librarians, archivists, museum curators and preservation
officials).
The statement expressed a generalized "concern about all damage to the
cultural heritage of the peoples of Yugoslavia." Once the war was over,
the
Blue Shield Committee had nothing more to say.
Last week, Manus Brinkman, the secretary-general of the International
Council of Museums, told The Gazette that "ICBS has not issued any new
appeals, because the first one is still as valuable as ever."
Asked about the response to the April statement, Brinkman said that
"there
have been a lot of positive reactions and the appeal invoked much
discussion. S Sadly enough, there was no reaction from the parties
involved
in the fighting in Kosovo, neither from the official Serbian or Albanian
side, nor from NATO."
- Canada is one of many nations represented on ICOMOS, the International
Council on Monuments and Sites, whose aim is "the conservation of the
world's historic monuments and sites." The Web site of ICOMOS Canada
includes statements from 1997 onward. None mentions Kosovo.
The Canadian group's administrative secretary, Victoria Angel, said that
ICOMOS Greece has tried to raise awareness about the cultural monuments
in
Kosovo. But Greece was not one of the NATO members that bombed
Yugoslavia;
and anyway, a little-known non-profit group based in Athens can scarcely
be
expected to kindle public attention in other countries.
"North America is still stuck with the message that there's a good guy
and
a bad guy in Kosovo," said Dinu Bumbaru, the head of Heritage Montreal
and
a vice-president of ICOMOS Canada. "And what the good guy does at the
end
of the movie is fine with us."
Bumbaru noted that while a great deal of information is available about
the
Kosovo destruction, especially on the Internet, "there's no
communications
campaign. Frankly I just wonder if, in the West, this is of interest."
In 1992, following Yugoslavian attacks on the magnificent Croatian city
Dubrovnik during a previous Balkan war, Bumbaru led a UNESCO-sponsored
mission to assess the damage. International funds were provided to help
Croatia, and Dubrovnik has largely been rebuilt.
But Croatia was widely seen as a victim, so, in the case of Dubrovnik,
it
was politically easy for other countries to do the right thing.
The Serbs, on the other hand, were widely seen as aggressors. Now
they're
outnumbered in Kosovo nearly 20 to 1; and in Kaiser's words, "the
problem
is that ultimately, the defence of anything depends upon local people.
"Ideally, both Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo will realize that the loss
of
the monasteries and churches, like the loss of the mosques and Ottoman
houses, will impoverish the whole area."
But that's a remote ideal. In the meantime, there appears to be no
political will outside Kosovo to stand up for an Orthodox heritage so
fraught with beauty, so redolent of pain.
- Reporter Mark Abley can be reached at (514) 987-2555 or by E-mail at
mabley@....
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http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=2958
19-May-2000 -- EWTN News Brief
KOSOVO PENTECOSTAL CHURCH ATTACKED BY ISLAMIC
MILITANTS
PRISTINA, Kosovo (CWNews.com/Keston) - The Fellowship
of the Lord's People, an Assemblies of God Church in
the Kosovo capital Pristina, was raided by
self-proclaimed Islamic militants in the early hours
of April 29.
The robbers, who claimed to represent the Kosovo
branch of an organization linked to Saudi terrorist
Osama bin Laden, threatened the occupants with guns
during a two-hour raid and stole a considerable sum of
money, a computer, and other valuable items of
equipment. They daubed the door and the walls of the
church building with Islamic slogans.
The United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) police
force has primary responsibility for law and order in
the Pristina region and its officers visited the
incident, but an UNMIK representative said so far they
are only looking at the raid "from a criminal aspect."
However, he promised that all three raids the church
has endured over the past year would be reviewed.
The overwhelming majority of Kosovo's Albanian
population is of Muslim background, though some
Albanians are Christians (mostly Catholic, with a
small number of Protestants). The vast majority of the
Serbs that remain in Kosovo are of Serbian Orthodox
background.
The Rev. Artur Krasniqi and his brother Driton
reported the bandits entered the church in the early
morning and tied up the two men and two others,
including an American and a 14-year-old boy, pointing
guns at them and ordering them to renounce
Christianity.
Krasniqi reported that UNMIK police arrived an hour
after the intruders had left and, according to
Krasniqi, did little to help them. However,
representatives from the peacekeeping Kosovo Force
(KFOR) have shown interest, and KFOR representatives
attended a meeting at the church on May 9. "The
British KFOR is trying to do something investigating
this crime," Artur Krasniqi declared. "There have been
no results yet, even though they have some information
already. From UN so far nothing. 'Defend yourself' was
the reply of some UNMIK policemen."
A spokesman for the UNMIK police in Pristina region,
Charley Johnson, confirmed that UNMIK had gone to the
church in the wake of the raid. "The incident has been
listed not as an ethnic crime, but one of robbery and
vandalism," Johnson said this week. "The UNMIK police
are looking at it from a criminal aspect. We have not
developed any suspects as yet."
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A PROFESSIONAL LIAR
Il signor Jamie Shea sta per compiere un salto di carriera: da mera
voce-senza-cervello della NATO, diventera' uno dei responsabili della
strategia di propaganda della stessa organizzazione terroristica.
Prossimo tema-chiave: l'espansione ad Est; prossimi "target":
Bielorussia e Russia; prossimi cervelli da candeggiare: sempre i nostri.
> STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
>
> http://www.the-times.co.uk (World)
>
> The Times (London)
> July 18 2000 EUROPE
>
> Promotion for the voice of Nato
>
> BY RICHARD BEESTON, DIPLOMATIC EDITOR
>
>
> JAMIE SHEA, the sharp-tongued Nato spokesman who led
> the alliance's propaganda campaign during the Kosovo
> conflict, has been promoted from his frontline media
> job.
> In a move similar to the changes recently announced
> for Alastair Campbell, the Prime Minister's press
> secretary, Mr Shea said yesterday that he was moving
> on after seven years as Nato's most distinctive face
> and voice.
>
> The academic and francophile, who grew up in East
> London, has become the alliance's acting director of
> information, responsible for "selling Nato to a new
> audience".
>
> "I have been spokesman for several years and worked
> for four Secretary-Generals of Nato," he said. "I have
> now moved on to the job that I have always wanted to
> do." The post, which he will probably take up after
> the summer, involves preparing an information strategy
> for Nato's eastward expansion.
>
> One of the leading contenders for the spokesman's old
> job is likely to be Mark Laity, the BBC's former
> defence correspondent, who joined Nato after the
> conflict in Kosovo.
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
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Il signor Jamie Shea sta per compiere un salto di carriera: da mera
voce-senza-cervello della NATO, diventera' uno dei responsabili della
strategia di propaganda della stessa organizzazione terroristica.
Prossimo tema-chiave: l'espansione ad Est; prossimi "target":
Bielorussia e Russia; prossimi cervelli da candeggiare: sempre i nostri.
> STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
>
> http://www.the-times.co.uk (World)
>
> The Times (London)
> July 18 2000 EUROPE
>
> Promotion for the voice of Nato
>
> BY RICHARD BEESTON, DIPLOMATIC EDITOR
>
>
> JAMIE SHEA, the sharp-tongued Nato spokesman who led
> the alliance's propaganda campaign during the Kosovo
> conflict, has been promoted from his frontline media
> job.
> In a move similar to the changes recently announced
> for Alastair Campbell, the Prime Minister's press
> secretary, Mr Shea said yesterday that he was moving
> on after seven years as Nato's most distinctive face
> and voice.
>
> The academic and francophile, who grew up in East
> London, has become the alliance's acting director of
> information, responsible for "selling Nato to a new
> audience".
>
> "I have been spokesman for several years and worked
> for four Secretary-Generals of Nato," he said. "I have
> now moved on to the job that I have always wanted to
> do." The post, which he will probably take up after
> the summer, involves preparing an information strategy
> for Nato's eastward expansion.
>
> One of the leading contenders for the spokesman's old
> job is likely to be Mark Laity, the BBC's former
> defence correspondent, who joined Nato after the
> conflict in Kosovo.
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
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George Tenet, attuale capo della CIA, e' di origine
albanese: sua madre "ha lasciato l'Albania meridionale alla fine della
Seconda guerra mondiale, a bordo di un sottomarino britannico,
per sfuggire al comunismo... Lei e' un vero eroe. E' con queste
esperienze di vita e di valori in mente
che io spero di guidare la nostra comunita' di intelligence..."
(Fonte: "Il manifesto" 24/2/1999).
---
LOTTA INTESTINA NELL'UCK:
FERITO IN UNO SCONTRO A FUOCO TRA FAZIONI TERRORISTICHE,
IL CAPOBANDA RAMUSH HARADINAJ PROTETTO DALLE TRUPPE USA VIENE
TRASFERITO IN UN OSPEDALE MILITARE AMERICANO
---
> Zëri, Kosovo Albanian daily, on page five carried the story of Sadik
> Musaj, who claims to have thrown a grenade at the Haradinaj brothers,
> who he said came with about 40 people to attack his family.
>
> MUSA FAMILY: WE WERE ATTACKED
>
> July 11, 2000
>
> Zëri on page five carried the story of Sadik Musaj, who claims to have
> thrown a grenade at the Haradinaj brothers, who he said came with about
> 40 people to attack his family.
>
> "It was about 0100 hours, I was at that moment in the bathroom. One
> brother was awake, while the other part of the family was asleep. They
> came with 10-15 vehicles, there were 7-8 jeeps and other vehicles. One
> jeep had Tirana license plates; there was also a red Audi. There were
> about 40 people. They came from all directions through both gates and
> over the wall. Ramush Haradinaj was the first, accompanied by Daut,
> Lieutenant Idriz Balaj, Faton Mehmetaj, the self-proclaimed chief of
> security for Dukagjin area. A brother saw them from inside and told us
> to wake up because we are
> surrounded by the KPC. I was only half-dressed and I came out the door.
> Ramush directed the laser weapon at me and told me: 'Don't move or you
> and your family will be liquidated,' then Daut and the Lieutenant
> reacted and together with Faton Mehmetaj and Bekim Zekaj, they
> surrounded me."
>
> "I considered myself dead, but I knew that someone from my family was
> killed, because the automatic weapons hit the windows. At the moment I
> had revolvers and automatic weapons on my head. I took the grenade the
> Lieutenant held in his hand, and he was left with the ring. I quickly
> went backwards, Bekim Zeka (Daut's bodyguard) directed his weapon at me.
> I removed his hand quickly; the bullets hit the wall and I jumped
> quickly on the other side, I hided behind the car and threw the bomb. It
> was a matter of seconds. The bomb exploded near the chair and from its
> explosion Ramush, Daut and others were wounded, who are probably being
> treated privately. Then there was a lot of firing from automatic weapons
> and different arms, and another bomb exploded. All this lasted two
> hours. My brother jumped from the stairs and scuffled with one of them,
> took his automatic weapon. He had a revolver in his hand and after a
> scuffle he luckily escaped. Then they started to withdraw. Later they
> withdrew the wounded with much difficulty. During all this time, the
> firing never stopped from both sides. Then, I came to the street to stop
> somebody to inform KFOR and UNMIK. First came UNMIK and later KFOR. This
> lasted from 0100 to 0300 hours. When people from UNMIK came, they
> verified the event, saw the blood of the wounded and somewhere they
> found the official permit of Ramush. After the search, they verified the
> blood was theirs and that we were attacked in our yard," said Musaj.
>
> As for the reasons of this attack, Musaj explained: "My brother, Sinan
> Musaj, was a member of the Bukoshi Army. KLA members abducted him
> together with Rexhe Osaj, Bashkim Balaj, Rame Idrizi and Vesel Muriqi on
> 24 June of last year. Only Vesel managed to escape from Ratish. He made
> detailed statements to UNMIK and KFOR on who made the 'arrest'. After
> the event, we immediately informed the Italian Carabinieris, KFOR,
> UNMIK, and political parties. KFOR investigated, for example in Ratish.
> They checked a couple of wells, even experts of The Hague were there.
> After the 'arrest' of these soldiers, among them our brother, these
> families went to Ramush's father, including our father and uncles, but
> Ramush's father said he was not
> interested, and that 'if you have any business, you should address my
> sons'. He said that nobody asked him for these things. We were at
> Ramush's family two days before the event, and he didn't want to speak
> about this case. Our elders told Ramush's father that our sons were
> fighting against the Serbs and it is not important whose soldiers they
> were. Our brother, Ismet Musaj, was in Dubrava prison, where he was
> wounded during the Serb massacre when 160 people were killed, and then
> he was in Pozarevac prison, from where he returned a month and a half
> ago. We were all in Switzerland and contributed with money and other
> things. During the war our father and one brother were here. At this
> time, when we could hardly wait to be liberated, Ramush Haradinaj comes
> and attacks us at one in the morning, in the presence of ten women and
> children".
---
> Transcript of an article published in yesterday's Bota Sot, taken from
> the Albanian magazine Tema, which claims to uncover secret documents of
> the KLA Secret Service. The paper also provides facsimiles of some
> documents
>
> BOTA SOT - Kosovo Albanian Daily
>
> July 11, 2000
>
> KLA SECRET SERVICE PERSECUTED ALBANIAN POLITICIANS
>
> The so-called secret service of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) seems
> to have persecuted a list of politicians and renowned names from Albania
> and Kosovo, who were regarded as an impediment to its takeover of the
> armed movement in Kosovo. A series of documents discovered a few months
> ago in the house of one of the heads of the former secret service of the
> KLA, provide evidences of execution lists and a scheme of persecution of
> Albanian opposition politicians in Tirana and people close to Rugova in
> Pristina.
>
> The list contains names of 15 principle authorities of the opposition in
> Albania, politicians, journalists and people with influence in the
> Democratic League of Kosovo, headed by Ibrahim Rugova.
>
> The coded list is compiled according to precise rules of a secret
> service. First, the list is compiled in one copy and the following
> subject has a code which corresponds to pseudonyms of the monitors who
> are coded with the name "eagle". On the other side, the coded names of
> subsequent persons have a corresponding pseudonym in Albanian with a
> word determined by the KLA Secret Service.
>
> List no. 7, for example, is a list joining the pseudonym of a person to
> combinations of people who follow him. List no. 8, has only the code of
> the followed person, which is explained in the list no. 7. On the other
> side, different persons kept both lists and it as very difficult for
> different persons to know everything about the list.
>
> In the list coded as "List no. 7", the pseudonyms of the persons of the
> subjects are given. For example, Ibrahim Rugova "the scarf", Sali
> Berisha "Zani", Azem Hajdari "the democrat" etc. This list was given to
> people who were following them, but not the complete one (?) The
> complete facsimile was signed by Bislim Zyrapi, chief of KLA Secret
> Service.
>
> At least three persons from that list were executed, while another was
> heavily wounded. The reasons might not be directly linked to this
> activity, but at least in two cases, in the murder of Enver Maloku and
> journalist Ali Ukaj, it seems that this mysterious illegal organization
> is involved. Documents which came to our office from sources close to
> persons who on behalf of KFOR confiscated a house of a senior KLA
> official in Pristina, make believable the assumptions that this
> organization was getting even with its political opponents in Kosovo,
> where Enver Maloku and Sabri Hamiti were the main ones. In addition, the
> murder case of Ali Ukaj, one of the first KLA activists who didn't
> accept the KLA to be taken under the control of the Albanian Secret
> Services (SHIK) in Tirana, is also clear. Consequences of this policy
> were very grave. The Albanian resistance was weakened and the risk of an
> eventual civil conflict as present. The armed people, on behalf of the
> KLA, used military might against their political opponents, by
> preventing in a way, a perfect military organization in Kosovo and a
> serious, dignified preparation for war.
>
>
> -----------------------
> ANNEX:
> -----------------------
>
> June 25, 1999
> NEWS YORK TIMES
>
> Kosovo's Rebels Accused of Executions in the Ranks
>
> By CHRIS HEDGES
>
>
> he senior commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who have a signed
> agreement with NATO to disarm, carried out assassinations, arrests and
> purges within their ranks to thwart potential rivals, say current and
> former commanders in the rebel army and some Western diplomats.
>
> The campaign, in which as many as half a dozen top rebel commanders were
> shot dead, was directed by Hashim Thaci and two of his lieutenants, Azem
> Syla and Xhavit Haliti, these officials said. Thaci denied through a
> spokesman that he had been responsible for any killings.
>
> Although the United States has long been wary of the KLA, the rebel
> group has become the main ethnic Albanian power in Kosovo. Rebel
> commanders supplied NATO with target information during the bombing
> campaign. Now, after the war, the United States and other NATO powers
> have effectively made Thaci and the KLA partners in rebuilding Kosovo.
> The agreement NATO signed with Thaci, for example, envisions turning the
> KLA into a civilian police force and leaves open the possibility that
> the KLA could become a provisional army modeled on the U.S. National
> Guard.
>
> While none of the KLA officials interviewed saw Thaci or his aides
> execute anyone, they recounted, and in some cases said they had
> witnessed, incidents in which Thaci's rivals had been killed shortly
> after he or one of his aides had threatened them with death.
>
> "When the war started, everyone wanted to be the chief," said Rifat
> Haxhijaj, 30, a former lieutenant in the Yugoslav army who left the
> rebel movement last September and now lives in Switzerland. "For the
> leadership, this was never just a war against Serbs -- it was also a
> struggle for power."
>
> Thaci's representative in Switzerland, Jashae Salihu, denied accounts of
> assassinations. "These kind of reports are untrue," he said. "Neither
> Thaci nor anyone else from the KLA is involved in this kind of activity.
> Our goal has been to establish a free Kosovo and nothing more."
>
> The accusations of assassinations and purges were made in interviews
> with about a dozen former and current Kosovo Liberation Army officials,
> two of whom said they had witnessed executions of Thaci's rivals; a
> former senior diplomat for the Albanian government; a former police
> official in the Albanian government who worked with the rebel group, and
> several Western diplomats.
>
> But the State Department Wednesday challenged some aspects of these
> accounts. "We simply don't have information to substantiate allegations
> that there was a KLA-leadership-directed program of assassinations or
> executions," James Rubin, the State Department spokesman, said.
>
> Rubin said he could not exclude the possibility that the rebel leaders
> were somehow tied to the killings. But he said department officials had
> checked a wide range of sources in the past 24 hours and could not
> confirm the accusations.
>
> A senior State Department official and a Western diplomat in the
> Balkans, citing intelligence reports and extensive contacts with KLA
> officials inside and outside Kosovo, said they were aware of executions
> of middle-grade officers suspected of collaborating with the Serbs, but
> said they had no evidence to link those killings with Thaci.
>
> The Western diplomat in the Balkans said, however, that Thaci is
> legendary in the region for ruthless tactics.
>
> "Thaci has engaged in some pretty rough intimidation" of officials in a
> rival party, the diplomat said, "but none of them have been killed." He
> added: "There have been detentions, and the victims allege beatings. We
> cannot prove that. Thaci, according to them, was in charge of the team
> that detained them and was in charge of the interrogation and personally
> threatened them.
>
> "Thaci has a reputation for being pretty tough," the diplomat continued.
> "Haliti and Syla are not known for their sweet tempers. This is a rough
> neighborhood, and intimidation and assassinations happen."
>
> Former and current KLA officials also charge that a campaign of
> assassinations was carried out in close cooperation with the Albanian
> government, which often placed agents from the Albanian secret police at
> the disposal of the rebel commanders.
>
> Rubin said the State Department did not have any information to suggest
> that the KLA leadership directed an execution program in conjunction
> with the Albanian security services.
>
> The Western diplomat in the Balkans said he knew of at least two
> Albanian secret police officers who were fighting with the KLA. "The two
> officers are brigade or battalion commanders, and they've been in the
> field fighting," the diplomat said. "They're volunteers from Albania."
>
> Albania has long waged a campaign to unite with Kosovo, a Serbian
> province where Albanians are in the majority. Such unification was
> briefly achieved during Fascist occupation in World War II and was held
> out as a goal by radical groups financed and backed by Tirana in the
> later part of the century.
>
> Indeed, the close relationship between Thaci and the Tirana government,
> which has a reputation for corruption and has been linked by Western
> diplomats to drug trafficking, is one of the factors that disillusioned
> many former fighters who were interviewed in Germany, Switzerland and
> Albania. The fighters said they had fought to create a more Western,
> democratic state, free from Albanian influence and control.
>
> The Albanian minister of information, Musa Ulqini, said that there was
> "never any violation of our constitutional law." He added: "The Albanian
> government has relations with all of the political and military forces
> in Kosovo, but it insists that these forces unite and speak with one
> voice."
>
> Two former rebel leaders and a former Albanian police official,
> interviewed in Tirana, said that Haliti, who is officially Thaci's
> ambassador to Albania, was working in Kosovo with 10 secret police
> agents from Albania to form an internal security network that would be
> used to silence dissenters in Kosovo.
>
> Thaci, 30, has named a government, with himself as prime minister, and
> denounced Ibrahim Rugova, who for nearly a decade was the self-styled
> president of Kosovo and ran a successful campaign of nonviolent protest
> after the Serbs stripped Kosovo of its autonomy in 1989.
>
> Thaci has long ties to radical groups that called for the violent
> overthrow of the government in Belgrade. He joined a clandestine
> organization known as the Kosovo Popular Movement that existed on the
> fringes of Pristina University.
>
> The group was financed and backed by the Stalinist dictator of Albania,
> Enver Hoxha, until his death in 1985. Its members, including Syla, whom
> Thaci appointed his defense minister, and Haliti have become the core of
> the leadership that dominates the Kosovo Liberation Army.
>
> Violence has long swirled around Thaci, whose nom de guerre was Snake.
>
> In June 1997, in an incident that many in the underground guerrilla
> movement found ominous, a Kosovar Albanian reporter who had close links
> with the movement was found dead in his apartment in Tirana, his face
> disfigured by repeated stabbings with a screwdriver and the butt end of
> a broken bottle.
>
> The reporter, Ali Uka, was supportive of the rebel movement, but he was
> also independent enough to criticize it. At the time of his death, he
> was sharing his apartment with Thaci.
>
> Thaci inspired fear and respect in his home base of the central Drenica
> region in Kosovo as he organized armed units and carried out ambushes
> against Serbian policemen. In the early days of the rebel uprising, in
> March 1998, Thaci moved about from his hometown of Broja in a small
> compact car with a few bodyguards and wore an unadorned camouflage
> uniform.
>
> There were persistent reports at the time that he personally carried out
> executions of Kosovar Albanians whom he had branded as traitors or
> collaborators, but no witnesses have surfaced.
>
> Thaci was involved, along with Haliti, in arms smuggling from
> Switzerland in the years before the 1998 uprising, say current and
> former senior rebel commanders.
>
> Thaci and Haliti both have wives and children in Switzerland, although
> Haliti has formed a new family in Tirana, where he has a large villa and
> close links with senior government leaders, say former and current rebel
> officials in Albania.
>
> When the uprising began, and money and volunteers flooded into Albania
> from the 700,000 Kosovar Albanians living in Europe, Thaci and Haliti
> found themselves in charge of thousands of fighters and tens of millions
> of dollars.
>
> The arms smuggling mushroomed into a huge operation that saw trucks
> loaded with weapons, most bought from Albanian officials, headed for KLA
> camps on the border. By the war's end, former and current KLA officials
> estimate, the KLA. paid $50 million to Albanian officials for weapons
> and ammunition.
>
> In April 1998, a KLA commander who transported many of the weapons, Ilir
> Konushevci, was ambushed and killed on the road outside Tropoja in
> northern Albania. A few days earlier, in a heated meeting with senior
> commanders, he had accused Haliti of misusing funds, according to
> commanders who were present.
>
> The commander had charged that Haliti was buying boxes of grenades at $2
> apiece and charging the movement $7 for each grenade. The killing,
> although it took place in a rebel-controlled region in northern Albania,
> was blamed on the Serbs.
>
> Other killings of rebel commanders and political rivals ascribed to
> Thaci are attributed to a struggle to consolidate control and eliminate
> potential challengers.
>
> "Cadavers have never been an obstacle to Thaci's career," said Bujar
> Bukoshi, the prime minister in exile in Rugova's administration, which
> is often at odds with the KLA. One Western diplomat, citing intelligence
> reports, said that Thaci planned an unsuccessful assassination attempt
> on Bukoshi last May. "Thaci has a single goal and that is to promote
> himself, to be No. 1," Bukoshi said.
>
> As the rebels suffered reverses on the battlefield in the summer and
> fall of 1998, in large part due to inexperience and a lack of central
> command, they turned to Kosovar Albanians who had served in the former
> Yugoslav army.
>
> The most experienced was a former colonel named Ahmet Krasniqi who had
> organized some 600 former officers, most living in Switzerland and
> Germany, to join the fight. Krasniqi had surrendered his garrison in
> Gospic, Croatia, in 1991 rather than defend Slobodan Milosevic's regime
> in Belgrade.
>
> Krasniqi had the blessing of Bukoshi, who allowed him to pass on $4.5
> million to the KLA raised by Rugova's administration. He swiftly set up
> training camps in the border region and formed special units. Bukoshi
> named him commander of a rival military structure known as the Armed
> Forces of the Kosovo Republic. The effort to join the armed struggle was
> a belated attempt by the Rugova administration, which had swiftly lost
> political support in Kosovo, to regain credibility by playing a role in
> the "liberation" of the Serbian province.
>
> Thaci and Haliti accepted the money and the trained volunteers,
> integrating them into KLA units, but began to thwart Krasniqi's attempt
> to build an independent military force. In June 1998 the KLA, which
> controlled the border, began to divert or block arms being taken over
> the mountain to these rival units fighting around Pec and Decane. As
> tensions rose, Thaci and the Albanian authorities decided to eliminate
> Krasniqi, according to former rebel commanders and two former Albanian
> officials interviewed in Tirana.
>
> They said that in the middle of September 1998, Albanian police stopped
> Krasniqi and several aides and confiscated their weapons. Krasniqi's
> office in Tirana was raided by about 50 policemen and emptied of guns
> and munitions. On Sept. 21 at 11 p.m. on the way back from a restaurant
> in Tirana, Krasniqi ran into a police checkpoint about 300 yards from
> his office, according to a former KLA commander who was with Krasniqi.
> Krasniqi and his two companions were again frisked for weapons, and
> their vehicle was searched. The two cars behind Krasniqi, which carried
> aides, were not allowed through the checkpoint.
>
> When Krasniqi and his two companions got out of their gray Opal jeep
> they saw three men emerge from the shadows with black hoods over their
> faces. The men, speaking in an Albanian accent that distinguished them
> from Kosovar Albanians, ordered the two men with Krasniqi down on the
> ground.
>
> "Which one is it?" asked one of the gunmen, according to one of the
> commanders who was prone on the asphalt.
>
> "The one in the middle," said another. The gunmen, who held a pistol a
> few inches from Krasniqi's head, fired a shot. He then fired two more
> shots into Krasniqi's head once he fell onto the pavement.
>
> American officials also had reports that the KLA killed Krasniqi, but
> said there were also subsequent, conflicting reports from the region
> that he was killed by disaffected members of his own unit.
>
> After Krasniqi's death, former KLA commanders said, the killings, purges
> and arrests accelerated. KLA police, dressed in distinctive black
> fatigues, threw into detention anyone who appeared hostile to Thaci.
> Many of these people were beaten.
>
> One commander, Blerim Kuci, was taken away in October 1998 to a KLA jail
> and hauled before a revolutionary court. He was held for weeks on
> charges that he was a Serb collaborator and then suddenly released in
> the face of a large Serb offensive and allowed to rejoin the fight.
>
> "I saw an accused collaborator tried before a revolutionary court and
> then tied to the back of a car in Glodjane and dragged through the
> streets until he died," said a former KLA officer in Albania, who asked
> not to be identified. A senior State Department official and a Western
> diplomat in the Balkans confirmed this account.
>
> As NATO bombs fell on Kosovo this April, two more outspoken commanders,
> Agim Ramadani, a captain in the former Yugoslav army, and Sali Ceku,
> were killed, each in an alleged Serb ambush.
>
> Although a former senior rebel officer in Tirana said that Thaci was
> responsible, a Western diplomat contends that that Ceku was killed by a
> Serb sniper. He said that his contacts indicated that Ramadani was
> killed in battle, but those contacts did not mention an ambush, or
> politically related killing, in either case.
>
> The former KLA officer said, however, that rebel officials had told Ceku
> that he and his lieutenant Tahir Zemaj should leave the movement, but
> the stubborn Ceku had refused to depart. Zemaj, however, fled to
> Germany. "Tahir knew they were serious, and he got out," said the
> officer said. "Sali stayed, and he was killed."
>
---
INTRAETHNIC ALBANIAN CONFLICT BEGINS
PRISTINA, July 10 (Tanjug) Ramush Haradinaj, who has been
wounded
and transfered to a U.S. military hospital in Germany, is the third most
important figure in the ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, the
socalled Kosovo Liberation Army, after Hashim Thaci and Agim Ceku, and
he
is the leader of the thirdbiggest party of Kosovo Albanians.
Representatives of the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK in Pristina
and
the international force KFOR on Monday again failed to give any details
about this latest incident, in which Haradinaj was wounded, but the
facts
are gradually being revealed to the Pristina public.
The general conclusion here is that Haradinaj was wounded in a
conflict among Kosovo Albanians with a definite political and criminal
background.
Regarding political reasons, experts on the situation in
Pristina
and elsewhere in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province claim it is a
wellknown fact that there is rivalry between Thaci and Haradinaj. Both
men
are trying to impose themselves as leaders of Kosovo Albanians. It was
just
a matter of time when their dislike of each other would culminate.
The sources said the criminal background was the rivalry
between
certain bands of Kosovo Albanians not only concerning a division of the
spoils from smuggling drugs, weaponry, automobiles and many other
things,
but also concerning control over smuggling routes into and through this
province.
Intraethnic Albanian conflicts are something new in Kosovo and
Metohija, in addition to ethnic Albanian terrorist actions against the
KFOR.
It is evident that the announced elections are a good
opportunity
for ethnic Albanian extremists and terrorists to legalize even further
their criminal activities in the province. And in all the chaos,
everyone
is trying to get something for themselves.
---
UCK-Gangster als Volksheld und großer Politiker
(von Rainer Rupp)
Am Dienstag eröffeneten UCK-Terroristen im amerikanischen Sektor des
Kosovo mit automatischen Waffen aus einem vorbeifahrenden Auto das Feuer
auf einen orthodoxen serbischen Priester und zwei Seminaristen, die ihn
begleiteten. Alle drei wurden später schwer verletzt am Straßenrand
gefunden. Pflichtgemäß zeigte sich der umstrittene UNMIK-Chef und
Serbophobe Bernard Kouchner von dem Mordanschlag "auf den religiösen
Mann" geschockt wobei er jedoch sofort wieder Worte fand um die Aktion
der UCK "moralisch" zu relativieren: Es sei nicht hinnehmbar, daß "diese
Art von Rachemord ein Ersatz für die Gerechtigkeit ist". ("Serb priest
wounded in Kosovo drive-by shooting", PRISTINA, Yugoslavia Reuters Jul
12 2000 1:56PM ET)
Für Kuchner scheint es jedoch nicht mehr erwähnenswert, wenn - wie am
Montag geschehen - einer der letzten, im albanischen Teil Mitrovicas
verbliebenen Serben vor seinem Haus halb tot geschlagen aufgefunden
wurde. Vier Albaner waren bei im eingedrungen, hatten ihn nach draußen
geschleift und als abschreckendes Beispiel für alle anderen Serben
schwer verletzt liegen gelassen. Mit Schädelbasisbruch wurde er
schließlich ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert. ("Serb Severely Beaten in
Albanian Area of Divided Kosovo Town", BELGRADE, Jul 12, 2000 - Agence
France Presse. Wen wundert es da, wenn sich die serbische Minderheit im
Norden der geteilten Stadt vehement gegen die von den Albanern verlangte
"Freizügigkeit in der ganzen Stadt" zur Wehr setzt.
Inzwischen gibt der Mord von Sadri Xhekaj, einem bekannten
UCK-Terrorist, Anlaß zu neuen Spekulationen über einen Bandenkampf
innerhalb der UCK. Der Bericht der UNO-Polizei im Kosovo vom Mittwoch
dieser Woche liest sich wie folgt: "Ein albanischer Mann wurde von einem
anderen, der Polizei bekannten albanischen Mann mit einem AK-47
Sturmgewehr ermordet, als er auf der Terrasse eines Restaurants saß. Der
Verdächtige näherte sich dem Opfer und stellte ihm eine Frage. Dann
feuerte er drei Schüsse auf das Opfer ab. Niemand sonst wurde verletzt."
Sadri Xhekaj, der mit dem ehemaligen stellvertretenden Kommandeur des
Kosovo-Schutz-Korps und Bandenchef Ramush Haradinaj eng befreundet war,
war sofort tot.
Der Zwischenfall geschah um die Mittagszeit in Decani, im Südwesten des
Kosovo. In der als Schmuggel- und Banditenzentrum bekannten Region ist
anscheinend ein offener Krieg zwischen unterschiedlichen UCK-Klans um
die kriminelle Vorherrschaft und ihre Pfründe ausgebrochen. Ramush
Haradinaj, der im Mai die Partei "Allianz für die Zukunft des Kosovo"
gegründet hatte, liegt zur Zeit im US-Army-Krankenhaus im bayerischen
Landshut, wohin ihn seine fürsorglichen amerikanischen Freunden zu einer
schwierigen Operation ausgeflogen hatten. Letztes Wochenende war er bei
einem Versuch, mit Hilfe seiner Bande ein Mitglied eines rivalisierenden
Klans zu kidnappen, bei einer Schießerei verwundet worden war. Der
Überfall auf das Haus von Sadik Musaj, Anführer des befeindeten
Familienklans, fand letzten Freitag in Streoc statt, etwa fünf Kilometer
nördlich von Decani, wo am Dienstag Haradinajs Freund auf der
Restaurantterrasse erschossen wurde.
Bezeichnend für den respektvollen Umgang der NATO und UNMIK mit den
UCK-Gangstern und Terroristen sind die Berichte westliche
Nachrichtenagenturen, die den Gangsterboß Ramush Haradinaj als
"Volksheld" beschreiben. AFP behauptet sogar, daß "westliche Beobachter
ihm (Haradinaj) eine große Zukunft in der Kosovo-Politik vorausgesagt"
hätten. ("Ally of injured political leader shot dead in Kosovo",
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Thursday, July 13 2:20 AM SGT , original Source,
AFP, 12 2000, AFP) Die Tatsache, daß Haradinaj im Mai in mehrere
Auseinandersetzungen und Kämpfe mit russischen Kosovo-Truppen verwickelt
war, in deren Folge es zu einer Reihe von Gewehrfeuer-, Granaten- und
Raketenangriffen auf russische Basen kam, scheint dabei nicht zu zählen.
("Kosovo Leader Flown to Germany As Plot Thickens", by Andrew Gray,
STREOC, Yugoslavia, Reuters, Sunday July 9 10:31 AM ET
Der Fall ist für die NATO besonders brisant, weil er für die
bevorstehenden lokalen Wahlen das Gespenst bewaffneter
Auseinandersetzungen zwischen verschiedenen ethnisch-albanischen Gruppen
heraufbeschwört. Allerdings ist es unwahrscheinlich, daß die K-FOR
Ramush Haradinaj wegen des bewaffneten Überfalls und des
Kidnappingversuchs von Sadik Musaj verhaften wird. Die Gefahr, dadurch
womöglich einen lokalen Aufstand der UCK gegen die NATO zu provozieren,
ist zu groß.
Saarbrücken den 13.7.00
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SULLA PROTEZIONE OFFERTA DALL'ESERCITO USA AL TERRORISTA HARADINAJ:
http://www.hq.c5.army.mil/News/archives99/sep99/bondsteel.htm
Subject: [stopnato] [TW] The 67th Combat Support Hospital to
have new page soon!
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:54:59 -0400
From: "ES LaPorte - Abolish NATO! Webmaster"
Dear friends :
I am pleased to announce that the 67th Combat Support Hospital and its
star patient, Ramush
Haradinaj, will soon have a new home page.
The 67th Combat Support Hospital, as of now, does not have it's own web
page and neither does
Ramush Haradinaj.
But that will change. . .
In the next week you can watch their homepage - which will have its own
guestbook soon, go up
at the URL below.
I feel that as an American, it is important that the public see just how
their tax money is being
spent funding the Kosovo mission and helping poor unfortunates like
Kosovo Albanian "leader"
Ramush Haradinaj .
There are millions of Americans without access to basic heath care, but
the 67th Combat Support
Hospital's efforts at helping poor unfortunate Mr. Haradinaj, should
show the American people
that there are some more important things, like helping Kosovo mobsters
recover from the results
of their criminal behaviors.
http://www.abolishnato.com/medical.care.for.KLA.mobsters.htm
Watch this page go up and KFOR, NATO, the United States Army and mostly
the 67th Combat
Support Hospital, will be proud!!!
Perhaps Americans and "our NATO allies" would want to donate more for
this cause!
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http://www.abolishnato.com/KLA.mobsters.care.htm
http://www.abolishnato.com/PAIN,and.OUTRAGE.htm
http://nettoilet/users.com/bondsteelmed/
http://nettoilet.com/users/bondsteelmed/poor.mobster.htm
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Article from the Bondsteel Med site - spoof of real article from Army
News Service!
Have a good laugh!
Combat Support Hospital accomplishes mission of cleaning up KLA members
after feuds, not
guilty about it.
by Cpl. Chris DeHart
CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo (Army News Service, Aug. 30, 1999) -- While the
67th Combat
Support Hospital here relies on medical evacuation units to transport
anyone in a state of medical
emergency, they are a means to an end, with the end being decided on the
trauma tables of the
CSH emergency room. This is what make the mission of NATO's KFOR proud.
Americans,
although some have no access to basic health, can feel proud that their
US government and
military is expending money and manpower providing scott-free health to
KLA mobsters like
Ramush Haradinaj, under the KFOR mission.
"Our main goal is saving lives, especially those of good natured, KLA
mobsters, like Ramush
Haradinaj. We try to get the patient stable enough, in the case of
international patients, to have
the host nation facilities take care of them until they are well again.
The majority of patients we've
seen have been Kosovar, as they have more favor than even our own
American citizens back
home, under orders of Secretary General Lord Robertson," said Maj.
Jimmie Keenan, chief nurse,
after a not-so-typical busy morning. The workload that morning included
four trauma patients,
two being closed head injuries, as well as sick call patients. Even the
sick call patients must wait
until the staff is through attending to Kosovar Albanians patients.
Keenan explained that although they can handle a lot of different
trauma, such as chest or
abdomen, head injuries are beyond their current ability and are referred
to either Pristina or Skopje.
Recently, the Camp Bondsteel facility saved and gave free aid to Ramush
Haradinaj, a KLA
mobster who's criminal activity got him quite beat up.
"We average one to two trauma patients a day. We are approaching our
50th trauma patient since
the hospital opened July 14. A lot of this is due to Kosovo simply not
having the level of care for
dealing with trauma patients in this sector. Also, the civilian
hospitals in Gnjilane, Urosevac, and
in some other areas (of Kosovo) have trouble getting the supplies
necessary to handle the number
of patients requiring treatment," Keenan said. "We know that there are
many Americans without
access to basic health care, but we here at KFOR, as well as our
Secretary General Lord
Robertson and the 67th Support Combat Hospital feel that the Kosovar
Albanians come first, so
they do."
"So what," she went on to state. " I would rather be here than in
America. If some Americans
cannot get care and suffer in pain, Ramush Haradinaj is a nice talkative
fellow and is more
deserving of free health care than most Americans. After all, HE is
liberating his country, and it is
NATO, KFOR's and the 67th's mission to aid them if - well - they get
hurt. So - the best doctors
nedd - no must - be part of the KFOR mission, not wasted in Germany or
America."
The team can't rest after the emergency room is clear of patients,
according to Keenan. Whether
they get sent to the operating room or transferred to another facility,
the trauma teams must
immediately prepare for whoever may come through the door next. There is
triage, but preference
is given to Kosovo "Liberation Army" members over civilian Ablanians,
and over Serbs. "The KLA
members are even given preference over our own American citizens,"
Keenan said, with a smile.
"Although we haven't had to work on many of our own soldiers, you never
know if the next patient
coming in will be one of ours, and we have to be ready," she said.
According to Keenan, there are four trauma bays within the ER fully
equipped and staffed with
trauma teams. Each team consists of a physician, a registered nurse, a
licensed practical nurse, a
medic and either a nurse anesthetist or a respiratory therapy
technician. All for the benefit of our
KLA allies, espically cleaning up after the blood feuds. This is NATO
ans KFOR's policy."
Medic Spc. Jacob Rusk said this is drastically different from what he
did in the rear -- an
instructor for setting up deployable hospitals.
"I went from setting up hospitals to helping run a trauma table for the
our KLA mobster allies. It is
a very drastic change but good experience," Rusk said. "I used to be
just a front-line medic, but
now I hold my own with the doctors, nurses and technicians and mobsters.
I have seen more and
done more than any other (medic) has, for being in a non-combat
situation. I really did like serving
Mr. Haradinaj, he was so nice and talkative." As far as America's - and
NATO's -concern with
putting Kosovar Albanians, giving them free treatment while some
American suffer without
access to any health care, Spc. Rusk replied with a grim, "So what,
screw 'em, the Kosovar
Albanians come first, that is NATO's policy and it is a good one."
(Editor's note: DeHart is a propagandist with the Task Force Falcon
Public Affairs Office.)
Bondsteel Med.
The one, only and official homepage of the
Camp Bondsteel Medical Facility!
www.abolishnato.com/KLA.mobsters.care.htm
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Dear friends :
I have just gotten off the phone with the Senate Relations Committee
in International Relations.
When I asked why US military personal were being used to treat KLA
narcoterrorists
for their injuries, when there are a lot of medical charities that could
take care of these scumb -bags, I was "blown off!"
This was even after I pointed out that I had served in the US military -
and that I - an American citizen - have NO access
to the same medical care!
The Committee headed by Jessie Helms.
450 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Tel. (1) 202 - 224-4651
Fax. (1) 202 - 228-1339
And if anybody has can dig up the e-mails on Mr. Helms.
ES LaPorte
"Abolish NATO!" Webmaster
www.abolishnato.com
Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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Mr. Ramush Haradinaj injured during Incident
in Pec Region
Mr. Ramush Haradinaj, a KLA narcoterrorist, was injured during
an blood feuding brawl in Pec region last night. Details of
the incident are still sketchy at this time, But what is know is
that this criminal is recieving FREE medical care from the
smokin' - jokin' - tokin' bunch of cigar-loving Harvard grads at
the 67th CSH.
Mr. Haradinaj requested medical assistance earlier in the day.
The man was intoxicated and fell and hurt his poor head. A
KFOR Italian helicopter was dispatched to bring Haradinaj to
Camp Bondsteel.
He arrived around 2:30 p.m. and is currently receiving a medical
evaluation at the Combat Support hospital, this despite
the fact that American citizens have NO access to the same level
of care as this narcoterrorist! As of 4 p.m. KFOR US
Medical officials reported that Haradinaj is being treated for a
two-inch (2") laceration that is not considered life
threatening.
These same KFOR US medical doctors, if here in the US, in a US
hospital, would refuse to give the same to their own
citizens. Narcopimps DOES pay.
KFOR Online Editorial Note: Mr. Ramush Haradinaj is a former
narcoterrorist of the Kosovo "Liberation Army" (KLA) of
the Rrafshi i Dukagjinit area, and the current leader of the
"AAK" - a political party in Kosovo., another gang of outlaw
blood feuding scumb. Also Mr. Ramush Haradinaj has been warned,
through a supporter living in England, to stay on the
Eastern side of the stupid Atlantic, as he would be safer in
Kosovo than in America!
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
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albanese: sua madre "ha lasciato l'Albania meridionale alla fine della
Seconda guerra mondiale, a bordo di un sottomarino britannico,
per sfuggire al comunismo... Lei e' un vero eroe. E' con queste
esperienze di vita e di valori in mente
che io spero di guidare la nostra comunita' di intelligence..."
(Fonte: "Il manifesto" 24/2/1999).
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LOTTA INTESTINA NELL'UCK:
FERITO IN UNO SCONTRO A FUOCO TRA FAZIONI TERRORISTICHE,
IL CAPOBANDA RAMUSH HARADINAJ PROTETTO DALLE TRUPPE USA VIENE
TRASFERITO IN UN OSPEDALE MILITARE AMERICANO
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> Zëri, Kosovo Albanian daily, on page five carried the story of Sadik
> Musaj, who claims to have thrown a grenade at the Haradinaj brothers,
> who he said came with about 40 people to attack his family.
>
> MUSA FAMILY: WE WERE ATTACKED
>
> July 11, 2000
>
> Zëri on page five carried the story of Sadik Musaj, who claims to have
> thrown a grenade at the Haradinaj brothers, who he said came with about
> 40 people to attack his family.
>
> "It was about 0100 hours, I was at that moment in the bathroom. One
> brother was awake, while the other part of the family was asleep. They
> came with 10-15 vehicles, there were 7-8 jeeps and other vehicles. One
> jeep had Tirana license plates; there was also a red Audi. There were
> about 40 people. They came from all directions through both gates and
> over the wall. Ramush Haradinaj was the first, accompanied by Daut,
> Lieutenant Idriz Balaj, Faton Mehmetaj, the self-proclaimed chief of
> security for Dukagjin area. A brother saw them from inside and told us
> to wake up because we are
> surrounded by the KPC. I was only half-dressed and I came out the door.
> Ramush directed the laser weapon at me and told me: 'Don't move or you
> and your family will be liquidated,' then Daut and the Lieutenant
> reacted and together with Faton Mehmetaj and Bekim Zekaj, they
> surrounded me."
>
> "I considered myself dead, but I knew that someone from my family was
> killed, because the automatic weapons hit the windows. At the moment I
> had revolvers and automatic weapons on my head. I took the grenade the
> Lieutenant held in his hand, and he was left with the ring. I quickly
> went backwards, Bekim Zeka (Daut's bodyguard) directed his weapon at me.
> I removed his hand quickly; the bullets hit the wall and I jumped
> quickly on the other side, I hided behind the car and threw the bomb. It
> was a matter of seconds. The bomb exploded near the chair and from its
> explosion Ramush, Daut and others were wounded, who are probably being
> treated privately. Then there was a lot of firing from automatic weapons
> and different arms, and another bomb exploded. All this lasted two
> hours. My brother jumped from the stairs and scuffled with one of them,
> took his automatic weapon. He had a revolver in his hand and after a
> scuffle he luckily escaped. Then they started to withdraw. Later they
> withdrew the wounded with much difficulty. During all this time, the
> firing never stopped from both sides. Then, I came to the street to stop
> somebody to inform KFOR and UNMIK. First came UNMIK and later KFOR. This
> lasted from 0100 to 0300 hours. When people from UNMIK came, they
> verified the event, saw the blood of the wounded and somewhere they
> found the official permit of Ramush. After the search, they verified the
> blood was theirs and that we were attacked in our yard," said Musaj.
>
> As for the reasons of this attack, Musaj explained: "My brother, Sinan
> Musaj, was a member of the Bukoshi Army. KLA members abducted him
> together with Rexhe Osaj, Bashkim Balaj, Rame Idrizi and Vesel Muriqi on
> 24 June of last year. Only Vesel managed to escape from Ratish. He made
> detailed statements to UNMIK and KFOR on who made the 'arrest'. After
> the event, we immediately informed the Italian Carabinieris, KFOR,
> UNMIK, and political parties. KFOR investigated, for example in Ratish.
> They checked a couple of wells, even experts of The Hague were there.
> After the 'arrest' of these soldiers, among them our brother, these
> families went to Ramush's father, including our father and uncles, but
> Ramush's father said he was not
> interested, and that 'if you have any business, you should address my
> sons'. He said that nobody asked him for these things. We were at
> Ramush's family two days before the event, and he didn't want to speak
> about this case. Our elders told Ramush's father that our sons were
> fighting against the Serbs and it is not important whose soldiers they
> were. Our brother, Ismet Musaj, was in Dubrava prison, where he was
> wounded during the Serb massacre when 160 people were killed, and then
> he was in Pozarevac prison, from where he returned a month and a half
> ago. We were all in Switzerland and contributed with money and other
> things. During the war our father and one brother were here. At this
> time, when we could hardly wait to be liberated, Ramush Haradinaj comes
> and attacks us at one in the morning, in the presence of ten women and
> children".
---
> Transcript of an article published in yesterday's Bota Sot, taken from
> the Albanian magazine Tema, which claims to uncover secret documents of
> the KLA Secret Service. The paper also provides facsimiles of some
> documents
>
> BOTA SOT - Kosovo Albanian Daily
>
> July 11, 2000
>
> KLA SECRET SERVICE PERSECUTED ALBANIAN POLITICIANS
>
> The so-called secret service of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) seems
> to have persecuted a list of politicians and renowned names from Albania
> and Kosovo, who were regarded as an impediment to its takeover of the
> armed movement in Kosovo. A series of documents discovered a few months
> ago in the house of one of the heads of the former secret service of the
> KLA, provide evidences of execution lists and a scheme of persecution of
> Albanian opposition politicians in Tirana and people close to Rugova in
> Pristina.
>
> The list contains names of 15 principle authorities of the opposition in
> Albania, politicians, journalists and people with influence in the
> Democratic League of Kosovo, headed by Ibrahim Rugova.
>
> The coded list is compiled according to precise rules of a secret
> service. First, the list is compiled in one copy and the following
> subject has a code which corresponds to pseudonyms of the monitors who
> are coded with the name "eagle". On the other side, the coded names of
> subsequent persons have a corresponding pseudonym in Albanian with a
> word determined by the KLA Secret Service.
>
> List no. 7, for example, is a list joining the pseudonym of a person to
> combinations of people who follow him. List no. 8, has only the code of
> the followed person, which is explained in the list no. 7. On the other
> side, different persons kept both lists and it as very difficult for
> different persons to know everything about the list.
>
> In the list coded as "List no. 7", the pseudonyms of the persons of the
> subjects are given. For example, Ibrahim Rugova "the scarf", Sali
> Berisha "Zani", Azem Hajdari "the democrat" etc. This list was given to
> people who were following them, but not the complete one (?) The
> complete facsimile was signed by Bislim Zyrapi, chief of KLA Secret
> Service.
>
> At least three persons from that list were executed, while another was
> heavily wounded. The reasons might not be directly linked to this
> activity, but at least in two cases, in the murder of Enver Maloku and
> journalist Ali Ukaj, it seems that this mysterious illegal organization
> is involved. Documents which came to our office from sources close to
> persons who on behalf of KFOR confiscated a house of a senior KLA
> official in Pristina, make believable the assumptions that this
> organization was getting even with its political opponents in Kosovo,
> where Enver Maloku and Sabri Hamiti were the main ones. In addition, the
> murder case of Ali Ukaj, one of the first KLA activists who didn't
> accept the KLA to be taken under the control of the Albanian Secret
> Services (SHIK) in Tirana, is also clear. Consequences of this policy
> were very grave. The Albanian resistance was weakened and the risk of an
> eventual civil conflict as present. The armed people, on behalf of the
> KLA, used military might against their political opponents, by
> preventing in a way, a perfect military organization in Kosovo and a
> serious, dignified preparation for war.
>
>
> -----------------------
> ANNEX:
> -----------------------
>
> June 25, 1999
> NEWS YORK TIMES
>
> Kosovo's Rebels Accused of Executions in the Ranks
>
> By CHRIS HEDGES
>
>
> he senior commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who have a signed
> agreement with NATO to disarm, carried out assassinations, arrests and
> purges within their ranks to thwart potential rivals, say current and
> former commanders in the rebel army and some Western diplomats.
>
> The campaign, in which as many as half a dozen top rebel commanders were
> shot dead, was directed by Hashim Thaci and two of his lieutenants, Azem
> Syla and Xhavit Haliti, these officials said. Thaci denied through a
> spokesman that he had been responsible for any killings.
>
> Although the United States has long been wary of the KLA, the rebel
> group has become the main ethnic Albanian power in Kosovo. Rebel
> commanders supplied NATO with target information during the bombing
> campaign. Now, after the war, the United States and other NATO powers
> have effectively made Thaci and the KLA partners in rebuilding Kosovo.
> The agreement NATO signed with Thaci, for example, envisions turning the
> KLA into a civilian police force and leaves open the possibility that
> the KLA could become a provisional army modeled on the U.S. National
> Guard.
>
> While none of the KLA officials interviewed saw Thaci or his aides
> execute anyone, they recounted, and in some cases said they had
> witnessed, incidents in which Thaci's rivals had been killed shortly
> after he or one of his aides had threatened them with death.
>
> "When the war started, everyone wanted to be the chief," said Rifat
> Haxhijaj, 30, a former lieutenant in the Yugoslav army who left the
> rebel movement last September and now lives in Switzerland. "For the
> leadership, this was never just a war against Serbs -- it was also a
> struggle for power."
>
> Thaci's representative in Switzerland, Jashae Salihu, denied accounts of
> assassinations. "These kind of reports are untrue," he said. "Neither
> Thaci nor anyone else from the KLA is involved in this kind of activity.
> Our goal has been to establish a free Kosovo and nothing more."
>
> The accusations of assassinations and purges were made in interviews
> with about a dozen former and current Kosovo Liberation Army officials,
> two of whom said they had witnessed executions of Thaci's rivals; a
> former senior diplomat for the Albanian government; a former police
> official in the Albanian government who worked with the rebel group, and
> several Western diplomats.
>
> But the State Department Wednesday challenged some aspects of these
> accounts. "We simply don't have information to substantiate allegations
> that there was a KLA-leadership-directed program of assassinations or
> executions," James Rubin, the State Department spokesman, said.
>
> Rubin said he could not exclude the possibility that the rebel leaders
> were somehow tied to the killings. But he said department officials had
> checked a wide range of sources in the past 24 hours and could not
> confirm the accusations.
>
> A senior State Department official and a Western diplomat in the
> Balkans, citing intelligence reports and extensive contacts with KLA
> officials inside and outside Kosovo, said they were aware of executions
> of middle-grade officers suspected of collaborating with the Serbs, but
> said they had no evidence to link those killings with Thaci.
>
> The Western diplomat in the Balkans said, however, that Thaci is
> legendary in the region for ruthless tactics.
>
> "Thaci has engaged in some pretty rough intimidation" of officials in a
> rival party, the diplomat said, "but none of them have been killed." He
> added: "There have been detentions, and the victims allege beatings. We
> cannot prove that. Thaci, according to them, was in charge of the team
> that detained them and was in charge of the interrogation and personally
> threatened them.
>
> "Thaci has a reputation for being pretty tough," the diplomat continued.
> "Haliti and Syla are not known for their sweet tempers. This is a rough
> neighborhood, and intimidation and assassinations happen."
>
> Former and current KLA officials also charge that a campaign of
> assassinations was carried out in close cooperation with the Albanian
> government, which often placed agents from the Albanian secret police at
> the disposal of the rebel commanders.
>
> Rubin said the State Department did not have any information to suggest
> that the KLA leadership directed an execution program in conjunction
> with the Albanian security services.
>
> The Western diplomat in the Balkans said he knew of at least two
> Albanian secret police officers who were fighting with the KLA. "The two
> officers are brigade or battalion commanders, and they've been in the
> field fighting," the diplomat said. "They're volunteers from Albania."
>
> Albania has long waged a campaign to unite with Kosovo, a Serbian
> province where Albanians are in the majority. Such unification was
> briefly achieved during Fascist occupation in World War II and was held
> out as a goal by radical groups financed and backed by Tirana in the
> later part of the century.
>
> Indeed, the close relationship between Thaci and the Tirana government,
> which has a reputation for corruption and has been linked by Western
> diplomats to drug trafficking, is one of the factors that disillusioned
> many former fighters who were interviewed in Germany, Switzerland and
> Albania. The fighters said they had fought to create a more Western,
> democratic state, free from Albanian influence and control.
>
> The Albanian minister of information, Musa Ulqini, said that there was
> "never any violation of our constitutional law." He added: "The Albanian
> government has relations with all of the political and military forces
> in Kosovo, but it insists that these forces unite and speak with one
> voice."
>
> Two former rebel leaders and a former Albanian police official,
> interviewed in Tirana, said that Haliti, who is officially Thaci's
> ambassador to Albania, was working in Kosovo with 10 secret police
> agents from Albania to form an internal security network that would be
> used to silence dissenters in Kosovo.
>
> Thaci, 30, has named a government, with himself as prime minister, and
> denounced Ibrahim Rugova, who for nearly a decade was the self-styled
> president of Kosovo and ran a successful campaign of nonviolent protest
> after the Serbs stripped Kosovo of its autonomy in 1989.
>
> Thaci has long ties to radical groups that called for the violent
> overthrow of the government in Belgrade. He joined a clandestine
> organization known as the Kosovo Popular Movement that existed on the
> fringes of Pristina University.
>
> The group was financed and backed by the Stalinist dictator of Albania,
> Enver Hoxha, until his death in 1985. Its members, including Syla, whom
> Thaci appointed his defense minister, and Haliti have become the core of
> the leadership that dominates the Kosovo Liberation Army.
>
> Violence has long swirled around Thaci, whose nom de guerre was Snake.
>
> In June 1997, in an incident that many in the underground guerrilla
> movement found ominous, a Kosovar Albanian reporter who had close links
> with the movement was found dead in his apartment in Tirana, his face
> disfigured by repeated stabbings with a screwdriver and the butt end of
> a broken bottle.
>
> The reporter, Ali Uka, was supportive of the rebel movement, but he was
> also independent enough to criticize it. At the time of his death, he
> was sharing his apartment with Thaci.
>
> Thaci inspired fear and respect in his home base of the central Drenica
> region in Kosovo as he organized armed units and carried out ambushes
> against Serbian policemen. In the early days of the rebel uprising, in
> March 1998, Thaci moved about from his hometown of Broja in a small
> compact car with a few bodyguards and wore an unadorned camouflage
> uniform.
>
> There were persistent reports at the time that he personally carried out
> executions of Kosovar Albanians whom he had branded as traitors or
> collaborators, but no witnesses have surfaced.
>
> Thaci was involved, along with Haliti, in arms smuggling from
> Switzerland in the years before the 1998 uprising, say current and
> former senior rebel commanders.
>
> Thaci and Haliti both have wives and children in Switzerland, although
> Haliti has formed a new family in Tirana, where he has a large villa and
> close links with senior government leaders, say former and current rebel
> officials in Albania.
>
> When the uprising began, and money and volunteers flooded into Albania
> from the 700,000 Kosovar Albanians living in Europe, Thaci and Haliti
> found themselves in charge of thousands of fighters and tens of millions
> of dollars.
>
> The arms smuggling mushroomed into a huge operation that saw trucks
> loaded with weapons, most bought from Albanian officials, headed for KLA
> camps on the border. By the war's end, former and current KLA officials
> estimate, the KLA. paid $50 million to Albanian officials for weapons
> and ammunition.
>
> In April 1998, a KLA commander who transported many of the weapons, Ilir
> Konushevci, was ambushed and killed on the road outside Tropoja in
> northern Albania. A few days earlier, in a heated meeting with senior
> commanders, he had accused Haliti of misusing funds, according to
> commanders who were present.
>
> The commander had charged that Haliti was buying boxes of grenades at $2
> apiece and charging the movement $7 for each grenade. The killing,
> although it took place in a rebel-controlled region in northern Albania,
> was blamed on the Serbs.
>
> Other killings of rebel commanders and political rivals ascribed to
> Thaci are attributed to a struggle to consolidate control and eliminate
> potential challengers.
>
> "Cadavers have never been an obstacle to Thaci's career," said Bujar
> Bukoshi, the prime minister in exile in Rugova's administration, which
> is often at odds with the KLA. One Western diplomat, citing intelligence
> reports, said that Thaci planned an unsuccessful assassination attempt
> on Bukoshi last May. "Thaci has a single goal and that is to promote
> himself, to be No. 1," Bukoshi said.
>
> As the rebels suffered reverses on the battlefield in the summer and
> fall of 1998, in large part due to inexperience and a lack of central
> command, they turned to Kosovar Albanians who had served in the former
> Yugoslav army.
>
> The most experienced was a former colonel named Ahmet Krasniqi who had
> organized some 600 former officers, most living in Switzerland and
> Germany, to join the fight. Krasniqi had surrendered his garrison in
> Gospic, Croatia, in 1991 rather than defend Slobodan Milosevic's regime
> in Belgrade.
>
> Krasniqi had the blessing of Bukoshi, who allowed him to pass on $4.5
> million to the KLA raised by Rugova's administration. He swiftly set up
> training camps in the border region and formed special units. Bukoshi
> named him commander of a rival military structure known as the Armed
> Forces of the Kosovo Republic. The effort to join the armed struggle was
> a belated attempt by the Rugova administration, which had swiftly lost
> political support in Kosovo, to regain credibility by playing a role in
> the "liberation" of the Serbian province.
>
> Thaci and Haliti accepted the money and the trained volunteers,
> integrating them into KLA units, but began to thwart Krasniqi's attempt
> to build an independent military force. In June 1998 the KLA, which
> controlled the border, began to divert or block arms being taken over
> the mountain to these rival units fighting around Pec and Decane. As
> tensions rose, Thaci and the Albanian authorities decided to eliminate
> Krasniqi, according to former rebel commanders and two former Albanian
> officials interviewed in Tirana.
>
> They said that in the middle of September 1998, Albanian police stopped
> Krasniqi and several aides and confiscated their weapons. Krasniqi's
> office in Tirana was raided by about 50 policemen and emptied of guns
> and munitions. On Sept. 21 at 11 p.m. on the way back from a restaurant
> in Tirana, Krasniqi ran into a police checkpoint about 300 yards from
> his office, according to a former KLA commander who was with Krasniqi.
> Krasniqi and his two companions were again frisked for weapons, and
> their vehicle was searched. The two cars behind Krasniqi, which carried
> aides, were not allowed through the checkpoint.
>
> When Krasniqi and his two companions got out of their gray Opal jeep
> they saw three men emerge from the shadows with black hoods over their
> faces. The men, speaking in an Albanian accent that distinguished them
> from Kosovar Albanians, ordered the two men with Krasniqi down on the
> ground.
>
> "Which one is it?" asked one of the gunmen, according to one of the
> commanders who was prone on the asphalt.
>
> "The one in the middle," said another. The gunmen, who held a pistol a
> few inches from Krasniqi's head, fired a shot. He then fired two more
> shots into Krasniqi's head once he fell onto the pavement.
>
> American officials also had reports that the KLA killed Krasniqi, but
> said there were also subsequent, conflicting reports from the region
> that he was killed by disaffected members of his own unit.
>
> After Krasniqi's death, former KLA commanders said, the killings, purges
> and arrests accelerated. KLA police, dressed in distinctive black
> fatigues, threw into detention anyone who appeared hostile to Thaci.
> Many of these people were beaten.
>
> One commander, Blerim Kuci, was taken away in October 1998 to a KLA jail
> and hauled before a revolutionary court. He was held for weeks on
> charges that he was a Serb collaborator and then suddenly released in
> the face of a large Serb offensive and allowed to rejoin the fight.
>
> "I saw an accused collaborator tried before a revolutionary court and
> then tied to the back of a car in Glodjane and dragged through the
> streets until he died," said a former KLA officer in Albania, who asked
> not to be identified. A senior State Department official and a Western
> diplomat in the Balkans confirmed this account.
>
> As NATO bombs fell on Kosovo this April, two more outspoken commanders,
> Agim Ramadani, a captain in the former Yugoslav army, and Sali Ceku,
> were killed, each in an alleged Serb ambush.
>
> Although a former senior rebel officer in Tirana said that Thaci was
> responsible, a Western diplomat contends that that Ceku was killed by a
> Serb sniper. He said that his contacts indicated that Ramadani was
> killed in battle, but those contacts did not mention an ambush, or
> politically related killing, in either case.
>
> The former KLA officer said, however, that rebel officials had told Ceku
> that he and his lieutenant Tahir Zemaj should leave the movement, but
> the stubborn Ceku had refused to depart. Zemaj, however, fled to
> Germany. "Tahir knew they were serious, and he got out," said the
> officer said. "Sali stayed, and he was killed."
>
---
INTRAETHNIC ALBANIAN CONFLICT BEGINS
PRISTINA, July 10 (Tanjug) Ramush Haradinaj, who has been
wounded
and transfered to a U.S. military hospital in Germany, is the third most
important figure in the ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, the
socalled Kosovo Liberation Army, after Hashim Thaci and Agim Ceku, and
he
is the leader of the thirdbiggest party of Kosovo Albanians.
Representatives of the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK in Pristina
and
the international force KFOR on Monday again failed to give any details
about this latest incident, in which Haradinaj was wounded, but the
facts
are gradually being revealed to the Pristina public.
The general conclusion here is that Haradinaj was wounded in a
conflict among Kosovo Albanians with a definite political and criminal
background.
Regarding political reasons, experts on the situation in
Pristina
and elsewhere in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province claim it is a
wellknown fact that there is rivalry between Thaci and Haradinaj. Both
men
are trying to impose themselves as leaders of Kosovo Albanians. It was
just
a matter of time when their dislike of each other would culminate.
The sources said the criminal background was the rivalry
between
certain bands of Kosovo Albanians not only concerning a division of the
spoils from smuggling drugs, weaponry, automobiles and many other
things,
but also concerning control over smuggling routes into and through this
province.
Intraethnic Albanian conflicts are something new in Kosovo and
Metohija, in addition to ethnic Albanian terrorist actions against the
KFOR.
It is evident that the announced elections are a good
opportunity
for ethnic Albanian extremists and terrorists to legalize even further
their criminal activities in the province. And in all the chaos,
everyone
is trying to get something for themselves.
---
UCK-Gangster als Volksheld und großer Politiker
(von Rainer Rupp)
Am Dienstag eröffeneten UCK-Terroristen im amerikanischen Sektor des
Kosovo mit automatischen Waffen aus einem vorbeifahrenden Auto das Feuer
auf einen orthodoxen serbischen Priester und zwei Seminaristen, die ihn
begleiteten. Alle drei wurden später schwer verletzt am Straßenrand
gefunden. Pflichtgemäß zeigte sich der umstrittene UNMIK-Chef und
Serbophobe Bernard Kouchner von dem Mordanschlag "auf den religiösen
Mann" geschockt wobei er jedoch sofort wieder Worte fand um die Aktion
der UCK "moralisch" zu relativieren: Es sei nicht hinnehmbar, daß "diese
Art von Rachemord ein Ersatz für die Gerechtigkeit ist". ("Serb priest
wounded in Kosovo drive-by shooting", PRISTINA, Yugoslavia Reuters Jul
12 2000 1:56PM ET)
Für Kuchner scheint es jedoch nicht mehr erwähnenswert, wenn - wie am
Montag geschehen - einer der letzten, im albanischen Teil Mitrovicas
verbliebenen Serben vor seinem Haus halb tot geschlagen aufgefunden
wurde. Vier Albaner waren bei im eingedrungen, hatten ihn nach draußen
geschleift und als abschreckendes Beispiel für alle anderen Serben
schwer verletzt liegen gelassen. Mit Schädelbasisbruch wurde er
schließlich ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert. ("Serb Severely Beaten in
Albanian Area of Divided Kosovo Town", BELGRADE, Jul 12, 2000 - Agence
France Presse. Wen wundert es da, wenn sich die serbische Minderheit im
Norden der geteilten Stadt vehement gegen die von den Albanern verlangte
"Freizügigkeit in der ganzen Stadt" zur Wehr setzt.
Inzwischen gibt der Mord von Sadri Xhekaj, einem bekannten
UCK-Terrorist, Anlaß zu neuen Spekulationen über einen Bandenkampf
innerhalb der UCK. Der Bericht der UNO-Polizei im Kosovo vom Mittwoch
dieser Woche liest sich wie folgt: "Ein albanischer Mann wurde von einem
anderen, der Polizei bekannten albanischen Mann mit einem AK-47
Sturmgewehr ermordet, als er auf der Terrasse eines Restaurants saß. Der
Verdächtige näherte sich dem Opfer und stellte ihm eine Frage. Dann
feuerte er drei Schüsse auf das Opfer ab. Niemand sonst wurde verletzt."
Sadri Xhekaj, der mit dem ehemaligen stellvertretenden Kommandeur des
Kosovo-Schutz-Korps und Bandenchef Ramush Haradinaj eng befreundet war,
war sofort tot.
Der Zwischenfall geschah um die Mittagszeit in Decani, im Südwesten des
Kosovo. In der als Schmuggel- und Banditenzentrum bekannten Region ist
anscheinend ein offener Krieg zwischen unterschiedlichen UCK-Klans um
die kriminelle Vorherrschaft und ihre Pfründe ausgebrochen. Ramush
Haradinaj, der im Mai die Partei "Allianz für die Zukunft des Kosovo"
gegründet hatte, liegt zur Zeit im US-Army-Krankenhaus im bayerischen
Landshut, wohin ihn seine fürsorglichen amerikanischen Freunden zu einer
schwierigen Operation ausgeflogen hatten. Letztes Wochenende war er bei
einem Versuch, mit Hilfe seiner Bande ein Mitglied eines rivalisierenden
Klans zu kidnappen, bei einer Schießerei verwundet worden war. Der
Überfall auf das Haus von Sadik Musaj, Anführer des befeindeten
Familienklans, fand letzten Freitag in Streoc statt, etwa fünf Kilometer
nördlich von Decani, wo am Dienstag Haradinajs Freund auf der
Restaurantterrasse erschossen wurde.
Bezeichnend für den respektvollen Umgang der NATO und UNMIK mit den
UCK-Gangstern und Terroristen sind die Berichte westliche
Nachrichtenagenturen, die den Gangsterboß Ramush Haradinaj als
"Volksheld" beschreiben. AFP behauptet sogar, daß "westliche Beobachter
ihm (Haradinaj) eine große Zukunft in der Kosovo-Politik vorausgesagt"
hätten. ("Ally of injured political leader shot dead in Kosovo",
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Thursday, July 13 2:20 AM SGT , original Source,
AFP, 12 2000, AFP) Die Tatsache, daß Haradinaj im Mai in mehrere
Auseinandersetzungen und Kämpfe mit russischen Kosovo-Truppen verwickelt
war, in deren Folge es zu einer Reihe von Gewehrfeuer-, Granaten- und
Raketenangriffen auf russische Basen kam, scheint dabei nicht zu zählen.
("Kosovo Leader Flown to Germany As Plot Thickens", by Andrew Gray,
STREOC, Yugoslavia, Reuters, Sunday July 9 10:31 AM ET
Der Fall ist für die NATO besonders brisant, weil er für die
bevorstehenden lokalen Wahlen das Gespenst bewaffneter
Auseinandersetzungen zwischen verschiedenen ethnisch-albanischen Gruppen
heraufbeschwört. Allerdings ist es unwahrscheinlich, daß die K-FOR
Ramush Haradinaj wegen des bewaffneten Überfalls und des
Kidnappingversuchs von Sadik Musaj verhaften wird. Die Gefahr, dadurch
womöglich einen lokalen Aufstand der UCK gegen die NATO zu provozieren,
ist zu groß.
Saarbrücken den 13.7.00
---
SULLA PROTEZIONE OFFERTA DALL'ESERCITO USA AL TERRORISTA HARADINAJ:
http://www.hq.c5.army.mil/News/archives99/sep99/bondsteel.htm
Subject: [stopnato] [TW] The 67th Combat Support Hospital to
have new page soon!
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:54:59 -0400
From: "ES LaPorte - Abolish NATO! Webmaster"
Dear friends :
I am pleased to announce that the 67th Combat Support Hospital and its
star patient, Ramush
Haradinaj, will soon have a new home page.
The 67th Combat Support Hospital, as of now, does not have it's own web
page and neither does
Ramush Haradinaj.
But that will change. . .
In the next week you can watch their homepage - which will have its own
guestbook soon, go up
at the URL below.
I feel that as an American, it is important that the public see just how
their tax money is being
spent funding the Kosovo mission and helping poor unfortunates like
Kosovo Albanian "leader"
Ramush Haradinaj .
There are millions of Americans without access to basic heath care, but
the 67th Combat Support
Hospital's efforts at helping poor unfortunate Mr. Haradinaj, should
show the American people
that there are some more important things, like helping Kosovo mobsters
recover from the results
of their criminal behaviors.
http://www.abolishnato.com/medical.care.for.KLA.mobsters.htm
Watch this page go up and KFOR, NATO, the United States Army and mostly
the 67th Combat
Support Hospital, will be proud!!!
Perhaps Americans and "our NATO allies" would want to donate more for
this cause!
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http://www.abolishnato.com/KLA.mobsters.care.htm
http://www.abolishnato.com/PAIN,and.OUTRAGE.htm
http://nettoilet/users.com/bondsteelmed/
http://nettoilet.com/users/bondsteelmed/poor.mobster.htm
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Article from the Bondsteel Med site - spoof of real article from Army
News Service!
Have a good laugh!
Combat Support Hospital accomplishes mission of cleaning up KLA members
after feuds, not
guilty about it.
by Cpl. Chris DeHart
CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo (Army News Service, Aug. 30, 1999) -- While the
67th Combat
Support Hospital here relies on medical evacuation units to transport
anyone in a state of medical
emergency, they are a means to an end, with the end being decided on the
trauma tables of the
CSH emergency room. This is what make the mission of NATO's KFOR proud.
Americans,
although some have no access to basic health, can feel proud that their
US government and
military is expending money and manpower providing scott-free health to
KLA mobsters like
Ramush Haradinaj, under the KFOR mission.
"Our main goal is saving lives, especially those of good natured, KLA
mobsters, like Ramush
Haradinaj. We try to get the patient stable enough, in the case of
international patients, to have
the host nation facilities take care of them until they are well again.
The majority of patients we've
seen have been Kosovar, as they have more favor than even our own
American citizens back
home, under orders of Secretary General Lord Robertson," said Maj.
Jimmie Keenan, chief nurse,
after a not-so-typical busy morning. The workload that morning included
four trauma patients,
two being closed head injuries, as well as sick call patients. Even the
sick call patients must wait
until the staff is through attending to Kosovar Albanians patients.
Keenan explained that although they can handle a lot of different
trauma, such as chest or
abdomen, head injuries are beyond their current ability and are referred
to either Pristina or Skopje.
Recently, the Camp Bondsteel facility saved and gave free aid to Ramush
Haradinaj, a KLA
mobster who's criminal activity got him quite beat up.
"We average one to two trauma patients a day. We are approaching our
50th trauma patient since
the hospital opened July 14. A lot of this is due to Kosovo simply not
having the level of care for
dealing with trauma patients in this sector. Also, the civilian
hospitals in Gnjilane, Urosevac, and
in some other areas (of Kosovo) have trouble getting the supplies
necessary to handle the number
of patients requiring treatment," Keenan said. "We know that there are
many Americans without
access to basic health care, but we here at KFOR, as well as our
Secretary General Lord
Robertson and the 67th Support Combat Hospital feel that the Kosovar
Albanians come first, so
they do."
"So what," she went on to state. " I would rather be here than in
America. If some Americans
cannot get care and suffer in pain, Ramush Haradinaj is a nice talkative
fellow and is more
deserving of free health care than most Americans. After all, HE is
liberating his country, and it is
NATO, KFOR's and the 67th's mission to aid them if - well - they get
hurt. So - the best doctors
nedd - no must - be part of the KFOR mission, not wasted in Germany or
America."
The team can't rest after the emergency room is clear of patients,
according to Keenan. Whether
they get sent to the operating room or transferred to another facility,
the trauma teams must
immediately prepare for whoever may come through the door next. There is
triage, but preference
is given to Kosovo "Liberation Army" members over civilian Ablanians,
and over Serbs. "The KLA
members are even given preference over our own American citizens,"
Keenan said, with a smile.
"Although we haven't had to work on many of our own soldiers, you never
know if the next patient
coming in will be one of ours, and we have to be ready," she said.
According to Keenan, there are four trauma bays within the ER fully
equipped and staffed with
trauma teams. Each team consists of a physician, a registered nurse, a
licensed practical nurse, a
medic and either a nurse anesthetist or a respiratory therapy
technician. All for the benefit of our
KLA allies, espically cleaning up after the blood feuds. This is NATO
ans KFOR's policy."
Medic Spc. Jacob Rusk said this is drastically different from what he
did in the rear -- an
instructor for setting up deployable hospitals.
"I went from setting up hospitals to helping run a trauma table for the
our KLA mobster allies. It is
a very drastic change but good experience," Rusk said. "I used to be
just a front-line medic, but
now I hold my own with the doctors, nurses and technicians and mobsters.
I have seen more and
done more than any other (medic) has, for being in a non-combat
situation. I really did like serving
Mr. Haradinaj, he was so nice and talkative." As far as America's - and
NATO's -concern with
putting Kosovar Albanians, giving them free treatment while some
American suffer without
access to any health care, Spc. Rusk replied with a grim, "So what,
screw 'em, the Kosovar
Albanians come first, that is NATO's policy and it is a good one."
(Editor's note: DeHart is a propagandist with the Task Force Falcon
Public Affairs Office.)
Bondsteel Med.
The one, only and official homepage of the
Camp Bondsteel Medical Facility!
www.abolishnato.com/KLA.mobsters.care.htm
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Dear friends :
I have just gotten off the phone with the Senate Relations Committee
in International Relations.
When I asked why US military personal were being used to treat KLA
narcoterrorists
for their injuries, when there are a lot of medical charities that could
take care of these scumb -bags, I was "blown off!"
This was even after I pointed out that I had served in the US military -
and that I - an American citizen - have NO access
to the same medical care!
The Committee headed by Jessie Helms.
450 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Tel. (1) 202 - 224-4651
Fax. (1) 202 - 228-1339
And if anybody has can dig up the e-mails on Mr. Helms.
ES LaPorte
"Abolish NATO!" Webmaster
www.abolishnato.com
Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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Mr. Ramush Haradinaj injured during Incident
in Pec Region
Mr. Ramush Haradinaj, a KLA narcoterrorist, was injured during
an blood feuding brawl in Pec region last night. Details of
the incident are still sketchy at this time, But what is know is
that this criminal is recieving FREE medical care from the
smokin' - jokin' - tokin' bunch of cigar-loving Harvard grads at
the 67th CSH.
Mr. Haradinaj requested medical assistance earlier in the day.
The man was intoxicated and fell and hurt his poor head. A
KFOR Italian helicopter was dispatched to bring Haradinaj to
Camp Bondsteel.
He arrived around 2:30 p.m. and is currently receiving a medical
evaluation at the Combat Support hospital, this despite
the fact that American citizens have NO access to the same level
of care as this narcoterrorist! As of 4 p.m. KFOR US
Medical officials reported that Haradinaj is being treated for a
two-inch (2") laceration that is not considered life
threatening.
These same KFOR US medical doctors, if here in the US, in a US
hospital, would refuse to give the same to their own
citizens. Narcopimps DOES pay.
KFOR Online Editorial Note: Mr. Ramush Haradinaj is a former
narcoterrorist of the Kosovo "Liberation Army" (KLA) of
the Rrafshi i Dukagjinit area, and the current leader of the
"AAK" - a political party in Kosovo., another gang of outlaw
blood feuding scumb. Also Mr. Ramush Haradinaj has been warned,
through a supporter living in England, to stay on the
Eastern side of the stupid Atlantic, as he would be safer in
Kosovo than in America!
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