Il comitato Scienziate e Scienziati contro la guerra,
in collaborazione con il Politecnico di Torino, organizza il convegno

CULTURA, SCIENZA e INFORMAZIONE DI FRONTE ALLE NUOVE GUERRE

- I lavori si svolgeranno presso il Politecnico di Torino nei giorni
22-23 giugno 2000, con il supporto logistico di Alternativa Sindacale
Piemonte.

- Scopo del convegno è favorire uno scambio tra esperte ed esperti di
discipline diverse intorno ai temi della guerra, nella consapevolezza
che, nonostante taluni scienziati abbiano spesso collaborato in modo
determinante alla realizzazione di strumenti di distruzione e di
morte,
l'impegno di chi opera nei campi della ricerca, dell'educazione e
dell'informazione può contribuire a prevenire l'insorgere di nuove
guerre.

- Allo stesso tempo questa iniziativa vuole essere una occasione di
incontro e comunicazione tra scienziate/i e società, con l'auspicio
che
l'interazione di diverse componenti dia origine a una cooperazione
fattiva e concreta per il perseguimento di obiettivi comuni. Pertanto,
ampi spazi saranno riservati al dibattito aperto ai contributi di
tutte/i.

- Al termine dei lavori avrà luogo la riunione nazionale del Comitato
Scienziate e Scienziati contro la guerra; chi è interessato a
partecipare a questo incontro potrà formalizzare la propria adesione
al
Comitato nel corso del Convegno.


TEMI DEL CONVEGNO

Sezione 1 - Informazione e disinformazione: cultura, scienza e guerre

Gestione della comunicazione, accesso all'informazione, costruzione del
consenso. Responsabilità della scienza e degli scienziati, accesso al
sapere. Nonviolenza, prevenzione dei conflitti.


Sezione 2 - Conseguenze ecologiche e sanitarie delle guerre

Effetti delle nuove armi, nuovi (e vecchi) inquinamenti, con particolare
riguardo alle conseguenze ambientali dovute alla guerra del Golfo ed
alle guerre nei Balcani.


Sezione 3 - Questioni strategico-militari; diritto internazionale e
ingerenza umanitaria

Scenari strategici, crisi politiche e ambientali; gestione dei
conflitti; negoziati UN. Industria bellica; vecchie e nuove armi,
militarizzazione del territorio.


COMITATO SCIENTIFICO

Angelo Baracca, Giulia Barone, Chiara Cavallaro, Mauro Cristaldi,
Alberto Di Fazio, Elisabetta Donini, Anna Gigli, Andrea Martocchia,
Angelo Raffaele Meo, Franco Nebbia, Carlo Pona, Giovanni Salio, Massimo
Zucchetti.

COMITATO ORGANIZZATORE

Luisella Caire, Valeria Chiado' Piat, Marina Clerico, Rino Lamonaca,
Angelo Raffaele Meo, Massimo Zucchetti, del Politecnico di Torino; Hisao
Fujita Yashima, Margherita Roggero, dell'Università di Torino.

CONTRIBUTI

Le conferenze generali sono ad invito.

Brevi comunicazioni sono benvenute, previa sottomissione di un riassunto
(massimo 1 pagina), che verrà esaminato dal Comitato Scientifico.

I riassunti dovranno essere inviati per posta elettronica in due copie a
ciascuno dei due seguenti indirizzi:

luisella@... zucchetti@...

IL TERMINE PER L'INVIO DEI RIASSUNTI è IL 25 APRILE 2000.


INFORMAZIONI

Ulteriori informazioni sul convegno possono essere richieste a
Margherita Roggero (Università di Torino) all'indirizzo:

roggero@...

Si rimanda inoltre alla home page di Scienzaepace, al sito:

http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~marco/SP/



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DICHIARAZIONE COMUNE
DEI COMITATI EUROPEO E STATUNITENSE DEL
TRIBUNALE INTERNAZIONALE SULLA GUERRA DELLA NATO CONTRO LA JUGOSLAVIA


Common Declaration of
The European and the US American Preparatory Committees for the
International
Tribunals concerning the NATO War against Yugoslavia
March 24, 2000 marks the first anniversary of the day the US-led North
Atlantic
Treaty Organization, with the participation of 18 member states,
treacherously
and brutally attacked the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in violation
of the
Charter of the United Nations and all basic norms of international law.
Under the
pretext of protecting human rights, the aggressors placed the lives of
millions
of inhabitants in danger and disregarded their fundamental human rights.
Seventy-eight days and nights the gigantic NATO aerial armada bombarded
cities
and villages. These bombings killed and maimed thousands of women, men
and
children, destroyed a large part of the Yugoslavian infrastructure as
well as its
industrial foundation, poisoned the environment and set the country back
many
years in its development.
With the terror attacks against civilian targets, hospitals, schools,
residential
areas, television studios and transmitters, against the chemical
industry, the
electrical works and heating factories as well as with the deployment of
internationally banned weapons such as 156 containers with approx.
35,000 cluster
bombs as well as with munition using radioactive depleted uranium, the
NATO
committed a flagrant violation even of the laws of war.
All assertions that NATO waged this war for humanitarian reasons have
been
disproved by the aggression, that had been planned long in advance and
prepared
down to the minutest detail, by the barbaric way of waging the war as
well as by
the developments in Kosovo and Metohija subsequent to this aggression:
This
includes the harassment, murder and the expulsion of the non-Albanian
population
as well as of those Albanians, who do not adhere to the objectives of
the KLA,
before the eyes of the KFOR NATO units. The objective of that war was
the war
itself, as a means of rendering the UN Security Council powerless, of
replacing
the equality of states in international law with the law of the jungle
and of
testing out and establishing the new NATO doctrine, which threatens
world peace.

The war of aggression and the war crimes of NATO must not be allowed to
go
unpunished - for the sake of preventing new wars, for the sake of peace.
These
are the objectives of the International Tribunals that will be convened
June 2nd
and 3rd in Berlin and June 10th 2000 in New York. We want to contribute
to the
dissemination of the truth about the war and to having those liable
civilian and
military leaders of the USA, Germany, Great Britain, and the other NATO
states
brought to justice. The truth cannot be allowed to be hidden, nor the
guilty to
go with impunity.
NATO wreaked immense sorrow, suffering and destitution on the people of
Yugoslavia. Through the destruction of industry and other economic
assets alone,
600,000 people lost their work places and another 2.5 million their
means of
subsistence. As a result of the expulsions from Kosovo the number of
refugees in
Serbia - with its population of 10 million - has been raised to 1
million. The
aged, the chronically ill and those traumatized by the war - including
more than
300,000 children - are suffering particularly due to an enormous deficit
in
medicines and medical equipment created by sanctions and war
devastation. The
mortality rate has rapidly risen. Today, as a result of this war, in the
heart of
Europe, the population of a country, known for its heroic, costly and
victorious
struggle against the German Wehrmacht in the Second World War is being
forced to
struggle for its life.
Rather than offering at least immediate humanitarian aide - let alone
paying
damages, and reparations - the NATO leaders, who claimed to be human
rights
warriors during the aggression, are maintaining the strangling sanctions
against
an entire people. Even worse: by demanding the overthrow of the present
government - a demand in blatant violation of international law, and an
unprecedented interference in the domestic affairs of a sovereign state
not seen
in Europe since 1945 - as prerequisite for the loosening of sanctions,
an entire
people is being held hostage and all considerations of fraternity and
humanism
disregarded. New conflicts are being provoked and Yugoslavia's
territorial
integrity is being further threatened.
In light of these and other obscured forms of the continued war against
the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, we emphatically demand that the NATO
states
immediately lift the illegal and inhumane sanctions against Yugoslavia,
cease the
interference in her domestic affairs, cease the discrimination against
Yugoslavia
in international relations, respect her sovereignty and territorial
integrity,
put a stop to the harassment and banishment of the non-Albanian
population of
Kosovo and Metohija, grant the whole of Yugoslavia rapid assistance in
overcoming
the sequels of the NATO aggression as well as the initiation of payment
of
comprehensive war damages.
The debt that the governments of the USA and its allies owe Yugoslavia
grow with
each passing day in which these fundamental demands are disregarded. But
the day
will come where these governments will be brought to justice. We appeal
to all
people of good will, regardless of their political, ideological,
religious views
to contribute to the advent of that day, and to help in the further
preparation
and support these tribunals concerning the NATO War against Yugoslavia.

===================================================================

VIENNA

Yesterday about 1500 people, mainly Yugoslavs, demonstrated against the
ongoing NATO aggression against Yugoslavia on the occasion of the first
anniversary of the NATO war.

The opening meeting was hold in front of the parliament and was centered
around following questions:

No to any military pact, no to WEU and NATO!

No social cuts for armament!

Keep neutraliy!

The final ralley in front of the opera had as its motto:

Stop the displacements by UCK/KLA and NATO!

NATO out of Kosovo!

Stop the blockade against Yugoslavia!

It is worth to note that both the Vienna branch of Draskovic's SPO as
well
as the Serbian-Orthodox church called to boycott the demonstration.
Therefore the organisers of the Yugoslav-Austrian Solidarity Movement
(JÖSB)
regard the strength of the mobilisation as a success which was also
proven
by the combative morale of the demonstrators.

International Leninist Current (ILC)
Corriente Leninista Internacional (CLI)
PF 23, A-1040 Wien, Austria
Tel & Fax +43 1 504 00 10
ilc@...

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Von der Presse verschwiegen - dennoch ein Erfolg
(rkl, 25.3.00)

Gestern demonstrierten in Wien rund 1.500 Menschen, überwiegend
jugoslawischer Herkunft, anläßlich des ersten Jahrestages des
Nato-Krieges
gegen Jugoslawien gegen die andauernde Aggression.

Bei der Auftaktundgebung vor dem Parlament standen österreichische
Fragen im
Vordergrund

Nein zu Beistandspflicht, WEU und NATO!

Kein Sozialabbau für Aufrüstung!

Erhalt der Neutralität!

während die Abschlußveranstaltung bei der Oper zum Motto hatte:

Stoppt die Vertreibungen durch UCK und NATO!

NATO raus aus dem Kosovo!

Schluss mit der Blockade gegen Jugoslawien!

Hinzuweisen ist darauf, dass der Wiener Ableger der SPO Draskovics zum
Boykott der Demonstration aufgerufen hatte und diese als "kommunistisch
vereinnahmt" bezeichnete. Das ist angesichts der breiten Beteiligung
sowohl
von regierungstreuen, als auch regierungskritischen jugoslawischen
Kräften,
die beide keineswegs als kommunistisch zu bezeichnen sind, völlig aus
der
Luft gegriffen, um so mehr als die übergroße Mehrheit der Wiener Serben
politisch nicht organisiert sind. Dass bei den österreichischen
Unterstützern verschiedene kommunistische Kräfte überwogen, ist
zweifellos
richtig -- doch es liegt in der Natur des Konfliktes, dass sich vor
allem
Kommunisten gegen die konkrete Politik des kapitalistischen Imperiums,
dessen Teil Österreich ist, stellen. Die Organisatoren von der
"Jugoslawisch-Österreischen Solidaritätsbewegung" JÖSB jedenfalls
verstehen
sich auf der Basis des Antiimperialismus als strikt überparteilich!

Weiters hat auch die serbisch-orthodoxe Kirche zum gleichen Zeitpunkt
eine
Gedenkveranstaltung abgehalten, um so die Teilnahme an der Demonstration
zu
schwächen.

Die Veranstalter von der JÖSB sehen die Mobilisierungen deswegen als
Erfolg
an. Nach wie vor manifestiert sich ein starker Haß auf die NATO und den
Westen, der trotz der schwierigen Lage noch nicht in Resignation
umgeschlagen ist -- daher auch die gute Beteiligung.

Dennoch waren die politischen Spannungen innerhalb serbischen Gemeinde
stark
zu spüren.

Obwohl jedem kritischen Menschen bekannt, wollen wir dennoch auf den
totalen
Medienboykott hinweisen. Während von mikroskopischen Manifestationen in
aller Welt, die dem neoliberalen Einheitsdenken ins Konzuept passen,
ausgiebig berichtet wird, ist diese außerordentliche Mobilisierung den
"freien Medien" keine Zeile wert. Während in aller Welt die Kritik an
der
kriegstreiberischen Rolle der Medien immer lauter wird, entblödet sich
der
öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk ORF im Mittagsjournal vom 24.3.00 nicht,
als
einzige Kritik am Nato-Krieg das öffentliche Ausschließen eines
Einsatzes
von Bodentruppen zu nennen!

=================================================================

GERMANIA: VERITA' E MENZOGNE SULLA GUERRA

Betreff: Hamburger Abendblatt: Das späte Eingeständnis -
Verteidigungsminister Scharping unter Druck

http://www.abendblatt.de/contents/ha/news/politik/html/220300/22AUFMA1.HTM

Datum: Mittwoch, 22. März 2000 20:44
Betreff: Hamburger Abendblatt: Was Scharping nicht wusste



http://www.abendblatt.de/contents/ha/news/politik/html/220300/BUWEHR15.HTM











Der NATO-Angriffskrieg

NATO-Anspruch und Wirklichkeit

(von Rainer Rupp)

Die Bundesregierung und die NATO beriefen sich als Rechtfertigung ihres
Angriffskrieges auf
eine angeblich ungeschriebene Fortbildung der Menschenrechte.

Fakt ist, daß sie mit dem Angriff eklatant so gut wie gegen alle
geschriebenen internationalen
Verträge verstoßen haben: gegen die Charta der Vereinten Nationen, gegen
die Schlußakte von
Helsinki, gegen die Genfer Konvention zum Schutz von Zivilpersonen im
Krieg und gegen viele
andere internationale Abkommen und Rechtsnormen der zivilisierten Welt
verstoßen, ja sogar
gegen Artikel 1 der eigenen NATO-Charta. Darüber hinaus hat speziell die
Bundesregierung
gegen das Grundgesetz und den 2+4 Vertrag verstoßen.

Die NATO und vornweg Bundesverteidigungsminister Rudolf Scharping führen
zur Rechtfertigung
des Angriffs die Existenz von serbischen Konzentrationslager und den
Genozid an ethnischen
Albanern im Kosovo an, der mit allen Mitteln hätte gestoppt werden
müssen. Die NATO sprach
erst von Hunderttausenden, später - als sie ins Kosovo einmarschierte -
jedoch nur noch von
zehn Tausend Ermordeten.

Fakt ist, daß im Kosovo kein Genozid statt gefunden hat. Dies belegen
die Untersuchungen des
Internationalen Gerichtshofs für Kriegsverbrechen im ehemaligen
Jugoslawien (ITCY). Im
November letzten Jahres präsentierte das Tribunal dem UNO-Sicherheitsrat
das vorläufige
Endergebnis der Untersuchungen von 200 angeblichen Massengräbern im
Kosovo. Trotz
intensiver Unterstützung durch die NATO wurden insgesamt 2018 Tote
gefunden, exhumiert und
gerichtsmedizinisch untersucht. Die Information, ob es sich bei den
Opfern um Kriegstote oder
Opfer von Exekutionen handelt, oder um Albaner oder Serben, wird vom
Tribunal ohne Angabe von
Gründen als geheim eingestuft. Nach Aussagen des NATO-Sprechers ist die
NATO ein Freund
des Tribunals, das hauptsächlich von der NATO finanziert wird.

Die NATO und die Bundesregierung behaupten, durch ihren Angriffskrieg
sei die Vertreibung der
Kosovo-Albaner gestoppt und die Rückkehr der Vertriebenen erst
ermöglicht worden.

Fakt ist, daß die große Flüchtlingswelle aus dem Kosovo überhaupt erst
durch den NATO-Angriff
provoziert wurde. Das UNO-Flüchtlingshilfswerk hatte unmittelbar vor dem
NATO-Angriff etwa
14.500 Flüchtlinge aus dem Kosovo in den angrenzenden Ländern
registriert. Am Ende des
NATO-Angriffs sollen es zwischen 700.000 und 800.000 gewesen sein. Nach
Aussagen von
General Clark, NATO-Oberbefehlshabers Europa, (gegenüber der New York
Times am 27.3.99
und Newsweek am 12.4.99) hatte die NATO als Reaktion auf ihre
Luftangriffe mit großen
Flüchtlingsströmen aus dem Kosovo gerechnet ( Clark: this was "entirely
predictable"), zumal zu
erwarte war, daß sich unter dem NATO-Bombenhagel auch die ethnischen
Probleme zwischen
Albanern und Serben zuspitzen würden. Eine seltsame Art der humanitären
NATO-Hilfe, die die
NATO den Menschen im Kosovo da gebracht hat!

Die Bundesregierung und die NATO behaupten, sie hätten keinen Krieg
gegen das serbische Volk
geführt.

Fakt ist, daß NATO-Bomben etwa 2000 Zivilisten zerfetzt oder verbrannt
haben, zum größten
Teil Frauen und Kinder. Viele Tausende wurden schwer verletzt und werden
für Lebzeiten - ohne
Entschädigung durch die NATO - verkrüppelt bleiben. Die jugoslawische
Bundesarmee blieb
durch die NATO-Angriffe so gut wie unberührt. Zu den Opfern, die die
Bundesregierung und die
NATO auf dem Gewissen hat, muß auch die ständig wachsende Zahl der
Kinder gerechnet
werden, die von den Blindgängern der von der NATO völkerrechtswidrig
eingesetzten Cluster
Bomben zerrissen werden.

Die Bundesrepublik und die NATO behaupten, die weitgehende Zerstörung
der jugoslawischen
Wirtschaft, der zivile Infrastruktur, der Krankenhäuser, Wohnkomplexe,
Kindergärten und
Altenheime sei ein Ergebnis von nicht beabsichtigtem sogenannten
Kollateralschaden. Die
Bundesregierung und die NATO bestreiten, absichtlich zivile Ziele
angegriffen zu haben.

Fakt ist, daß der Stabschef der britischen Streitkräfte, General Sir
Charles Guthrie, im britischen
Fernsehen (BBC) unumwunden zuzugeben, daß die Bombenangriffe der NATO
auf zivile Ziele in
Jugoslawien beabsichtigt und Teil der militärischen NATO-Strategie
gewesen sind. Nach seinen
Worten waren "Angriffe auf beide Zielgruppen (militärische und zivile,
Anm.RR) notwendig" den
die Luftangriffe allein auf militärische Ziele hätten der NATO nicht den
gewünschten Sieg
gebracht hätten.





Die Bundesregierung und die NATO behaupten, im Kosovo sei mit dem
Einmarsch der NATO der
Frieden eingekehrt.

Fakt ist, daß seit dem Einmarsch der NATO im Kosovo die
durchschnittliche Zahl der monatlich
registrierten, ethnisch motivierten Morde im Vergleich zur Zeit vor dem
NATO Angriff nicht
zurück gegangen ist; über 500 Menschen wurden seit Juli 1999 ermordet.
Der Unterschied zu
früher liegt darin, daß es sich diesmal fast ausschließlich um Opfer der
kosovo-albanischen
Terrorgruppe UCK handelt. In den Jahren vor dem NATO-Überfall, bis zum
24.März 1999 waren
im Kosovo insgesamt fast 2.000 Menschen den ethnischen Unruhen zum Opfer
gefallen. Etwa die
Hälfte waren Serben und serben-loyal eingestufte Albaner, die von der
sezessionistischen UCK
umgebracht worden waren. Die andere Hälfte setzte sich teils aus
UCK-Terroristen zusammen,
teils aus unschuldigen Menschen, die den serbischen Gegenmaßnahmen zum
Opfer fielen.



Die Bundesregierung und die NATO haben nach eigenen Angaben den Krieg
geführt, um im
Kosovo die angeblichen ethnischen "Säuberungen" zu unterbinden und
behaupten, nun im Kosovo
mit Hilfe der K-FOR und UNMIK eine multi-ethnische demokratische
Gesellschaft aufzubauen.

Fakt ist, daß die unter den Augen der K-FOR und mit deren
stillschweigender Duldung die
ethnische Vertreibung von Serben, Roma, Juden und anderen
nicht-albanischen Minderheiten aus
dem Kosovo eingesetzt hat. Das Kosovo ist heute so gut wie "serbenrein".

Die Bundesregierung und die NATO behaupten, die UCK existiere nicht mehr
und ihre
Nachfolgeorganisation, das Kosovo Schutz Korps, sei demilitarisiert und
habe lediglich den
Katastrophenschutz zur Aufgabe.

Fakt ist, daß ein UNO-Bericht vom 29.2. dem von K-FOR und UNMIK
gegründeten Kosovo
Schutz Korps (KSK) vorwirft, statt bei Katastrophen zu helfen, Menschen
zu ermorden und zu
foltern. Zugleich warnt der Bericht, daß die ungezügelten Aktivitäten
des kriminellen KSK drohen,
das Kosovo ins Chaos zu stürzen.

Bundesregierung und NATO behaupten, im Kosovo die Herrschaft des Rechtes
zu etablieren.

Fakt ist, daß Amnesty International (AI) in ihrem jüngsten Bericht der
K-FOR und UNMIK
vorwirft, sich im Kosovo nicht einmal an die von ihnen selbst gesetzten
Standards zu halten. AI
beschuldigt in dem Bericht sowohl K-FOR als auch UNMIK grober
Menschenrechtsverletzungen
im Kosovo.



Die Bundesregierung und die NATO behaupten, sie hätten alle
diplomatischen Verhandlungswege
erschöpft und es hätte keine Alternative mehr zum Krieg gegeben.

Fakt ist, daß weder die USA noch die NATO überhaupt ein
Verhandlungsergebnis gewollt haben.
Die angeblichen "Friedensverhandlungen" von Rambouillet waren nichts
anders als ein
erpresserischer Versuch, mit Hilfe von Gewaltandrohung die mißliebige
jugoslawische Regierung
dazu zu zwingen, ihre Souveränität aufzugeben. Der Anhang II zum
Rambouillet "Vertrag", zu
dessen Annahme die NATO die jugoslawische Regierung mit dem Ultimatum
der Luftangriffe
zwingen wollte, verlangte von der Regierung in Belgrad, ihre
Souveränität nicht nur über das
Kosovo sondern auch über den Rest Jugoslawiens aufzugeben. Im Anhang II
forderte die NATO
für ihre Truppen freien Zugang zu allen Regionen und Anlagen in ganz
Jugoslawien. Wie auch
Abgeordnete von "Bündnis 90/Die Grünen" später eingestehen mußten: Keine
Regierung der Welt
hätte einen solche Vertrag unterzeichnen können. Die
"Friedensverhandlungen" waren von vor
herein darauf angelegt zu scheitern. Der Krieg war gewollt.

Die Bundesregierung und die NATO behaupteten, daß es im Kosovo um die
"Verteidigung der
Menschenrechte" gegangen sei.

Fakt ist, daß viele Menschen, die in gutem Glauben einen Völkermord zu
verhindern, den
NATO-Angriff unterstützt haben, nichts anderes taten als der NATO zu
erlauben, ohne
demokratische Diskussion zum ersten Mal ihr Neues Strategisches Konzept
in die Tat
umzusetzen. Ohne auch nur in den nationalen Parlamente debattiert worden
zu sein, ist es der
NATO-Führung auf diese Weise gelungen, das ursprüngliche Bündnis zur
Verteidigung der
territorialen Grenzen der NATO-Mitgliedsländer in eine Allianz zu
verwandeln, die in Zukunft ihre
politischen, wirtschaftlichen und geo-strategischen
Sicherheitsinteressen offensiv und weltweit
"verteidigen" will, einschließlich in des Zugangs zu den ölreichen
Regionen am Golf und am
Kaspischen Meer. Darüber hinaus ging es bei dem Krieg auch innerhalb der
NATO sowohl um ein
transatlantisches als auch um ein innereuropäisches Gerangel um
Positionen und Macht bei der
Neuordnung Europas. Mit anderen Worten: es war der erste
Neuordnungskrieg in Europa nach
dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion.

Die Bundesregierung und die NATO werden nicht müde, sich öffentlich zum
erfolgreichen
Angriffskrieg zu gratulieren, den sie als die "vornehmste Stunde der
Allianz" feiern.

Fakt ist, daß immer mehr Menschen beginnen, die "humanitäre" Propaganda
Lügen der NATO zu
entlarven. Das zeigen zunehmend kritische Medienberichte, auch in
konservativen Blättern der
NATO-Länder. Die Tatsache daß sogar ein Abgeordneter des amerikanischen
Kongresses, der
Republikaner Ron Paul aus Texas, kürzlich in einem im Internet
veröffentlichten Schreiben
(http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2000/tst031300.htm) die NATO-Lügen mit
denen des
NAZI-Propagandachefs Josef Goebbels gleich setzt, gibt Hoffnung, daß die
Wahrheit auf Dauer
nicht unterdrückt werden kann. Die Tatsache, daß die NATO außerdem im
Kosovo vor dem
Scherbenhaufen ihrer Kriegspolitik steht, läßt hoffen, daß Menschen in
Deutschland und den
anderen NATO-Ländern sich in Zukunft nicht wieder vor den Karren
"humanitärer"
NATO-Kriege spannen lassen.

SBR. den 21.3.00

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L'ANNIVERSARIO DELLA VERGOGNA

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j032200.html

ANTIWAR, Wednesday, March 22, 2000

Behind the Headlines
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com

ANNIVERSARY OF SHAME

This Friday it will be exactly one year since the mightiest military
power on earth decided to pulverize one of the smallest and weakest -
all in the name of "humanitarianism." And what has been the result of
this mission of mercy? It's time to take stock.

NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE . . .

What do the NATO-crats have to say for themselves? "A year ago, NATO
launched its airpower to end the repression in Kosovo," says NATO
Secretary General George Robertson, "and succeeded. In the blizzard of
words that has followed it is easy to overlook that simple fact." A
blizzard not only of words, but of casualties - over 800 Serbs
slaughtered by the Kosovo Liberation Army fanatics since the NATO
"liberation," and 150,000-plus driven out of the region - right under
the noses of the so-called peacekeepers. This, to the NATO-crats, is
success.

NO ILLUSIONS - AND NO SERBS

But we shouldn't rest on our laurels. "However there should be no
illusions," avers the evil Robertson, "the task remaining is
formidable." Yeah, I hear there are still a few Serbs left in Mitrovica.
But we needn't worry about that - the "peacekeepers" are being kept busy
"escorting" Albanians into the last remaining Serb neighborhood.

COSA NATO

"Liberated" Kosovo, one year later, is - in the words of Kiri
Dienstbier, the UN's special human rights investigator for the former
Yugoslavia - "a paradise for different mafias." "There are very
different private structures of power...It is a paradise for different
mafias which not only control certain regions and villages, they even
fight each other." What he doesn't say is that all these little mafias
are operating under the protection of the Biggest Mafia of Them All,
headquartered in Brussels, and known by its acronym: NATO.

IN THE CROSSFIRE

So, the Albanian Kosovars are "even fighting among themselves" - what a
surprise! For centuries, the rural northern Ghegs - who were heavily
recruited into the Skanderberg Division of the Nazi SS during World War
II - have been fighting the southern Tosks, who live in the plains area
and were big supporters of Enver Hoxha, the Albanian Stalin. The Kosovo
war forged a temporary unity, but now the long-running feud between the
Albanian version of the Hatfields and the McCoys is on again - with NATO
caught in the crossfire.

TURNING POINT

The London Guardian reports that military planners are already preparing
for the inevitable showdown with the KLA, and headlined the story:
"Pentagon braced for bloodshed after raids on guerrillas." The Pentagon
has "formally alerted" US troops in the field that they will no doubt be
facing their former "allies." A year after State Department spokesman
Jamie Rubin praised the KLA as "freedom-fighters," they are getting
ready to start shooting at us - now that's what I call gratitude,
Albanian style. A recent raid on the arm caches built up by the 800-man
Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (UCPMB) - named after
the three Albanian-inhabited towns in southern Serbia's Presevo valley -
is the first major action in what will be an ongoing conflict. "We have
now fired the first shot at the Albanian insurgents - and insurgents
have a tendency to carry a grudge," says one Pentagon official. "If they
come to see us as an enemy then [the raid] will be seen as a turning
point."

KOSOVO, THE SEQUEL

Oh, but not to worry, says the KLA's man in the State Department: Rubin,
just back from a trip to Kosovo, said: "We do not believe we are
drifting towards a conflict with Kosovo Albanian insurgents." Why, those
Albanian pussycats would never harm a hair on an American head due to
the "deep reservoir of respect, thanks and goodwill towards the United
States." Would he care to go over there himself, and go on patrol with
American troops? Perhaps his lovely wife, KLA propagandist Christiane
Amanpour, would like to accompany him: together they could do a CNN
documentary, "Return to Kosovo," where they could confront - and perhaps
even answer for - the results of their handiwork, a land that, as
Dienstbier put it, is "a paradise of mafias."

OOOPS!

But Dienstbier is either unbelievably naïve or else utterly disingenuous
when he avers: "I see that what is happening in Kosovo now is the result
of a mistake of policy of the international community... bombing
Yugoslavia without knowing what will be next. Meanwhile, Kosovo
Liberation Army weapons came and they took over control and are now
cleansing non-Albanians." Mistake? He can't be serious. Here is a
sophisticated man, the former Czech foreign minister, who believes (or
pretends to believe) that the bombing, the murder and ethnic cleansing
of Serbs, the rising dictatorship of the KLA, the continued provocations
aimed at destabilizing what is left of Yugoslavia - it was all an
accident, a terrible "mistake." Is this what the UN has to say about an
action endorsed by its Security Council and personally approved by the
Secretary General: "Ooops!"? Gee, I tried to call The Hague to report a
war crime - but the line seem always to be busy.

REMEMBER NAPALM?

To call what happened to Kosovo a "mistake" would be laughable, but only
to someone given to the blackest humor. This is especially true in light
of the recent confirmation that the US used radioactive bullets against
the Serbs. According to a letter from the UN task force on Kosovo war
damage to Secretary General Kofi Annan, areas hit by radioactive
ammunition - used during approximately 100 bombing missions - are
dangerously contaminated. With a half-life of 4.5 billion years, twice
as dense as lead, depleted uranium is radioactive and ultra-toxic. The
San Francisco Examiner, which broke the story, informs us that "depleted
uranium burns when it hits a target, contaminating the tank and the
surrounding area." Depleted uranium - the napalm of America's
post-millennial Vietnam.

WHAT, ME WORRY?

As the Examiner story goes on, it all has a very familiar ring to it:
"The Pentagon has tried to downplay the risks of exposure to depleted
uranium dust and debris since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, when it was
used for the first time in combat." I wonder how many vets of that war
are now wandering the streets, irreparably damaged, inevitably homeless,
and invariably hopeless - and all because of the Pentagon's
"downplaying"? And how many more on the way? "However," the article
continues, "independent scientists say the substance has been linked to
skin, kidney and respiratory disorders, and can damage any part of the
body in which it is stored, including the lungs, lymph nodes, liver,
kidneys, muscle and bone." Ah, but not too worry, says the UN panel in
their letter to Annan, this "should not be a cause of widespread alarm"!
Unless you happen to live in Kosovo, of course - or if you happen to be
an American soldier on patrol.

THE COVEN

Was it stupidity or evil that poisoned the very land the NATO-crats
claimed to be "liberating"? Is this, too, a "mistake"? I don't think so.
Do you? What we are dealing with, in the current leaders of the Western
world, is not a gang of Keystone Kops, but a coven of sadistic
assassins, the kind who like to torture their victims before they put
them out of their misery. This is precisely what they are doing in
Kosovo, and throughout the former Yugoslavia. An example must be made:
the great enemy, nationalism, must be finally humbled and wiped out, so
that the "European spirit" can wash over the land, cleansing it of any
and all undesirable elements. Kosovo was no mistake, from the
NATO-cratic point of view, but a model of the wars of the future. For
Kosovo is only the first item on the pan-European agenda. Montenegro is
next, and then Vojivodina, and then eastward, to Macedonia, and on to
the Ukraine. Soon we will be at the very gates of Moscow.

TO ELBA

The ambition of the NATO-crats is positively Napoleonic: we can only
hope that it meets a similar fate. In which case more than a few of them
will be exiled to Elba, or some similarly desolate isle, where they will
be free to write their memoirs and brood on the enormity of their
crimes. It is something to look forward to, anyway.


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WANTED


Quando nel giugno dello scorso anno, qualche settimana dopo la
cessazione dei bombardamenti dei paesi NATO sulla RFJ, gli Stati Uniti
d'America imposero una "taglia" sul capo del presidente jugoslavo
(nell'ambito di una serie di misure atte a criminalizzare quel paese
dichiarando in toto la Serbia "Stato terrorista") il vignettista del
"Manifesto" Vauro disegno' un pinco pallino che reclamava i milioni di
dollari di ricompensa poiche' "Milosevic e' a Belgrado" - lo sanno
tutti!
Circa un mese fa le truppe americane della SFOR in Bosnia hanno
tappezzato le strade con manifesti in perfetto stile Far West, nei quali
sono ritratti Karadzic, Mladic e Milosevic - "WANTED". Mentre la
stupidita' intrinseca della subcultura statunitense dilaga nel nostro
continente, il senso del ridicolo si va perdendo anche nelle piu' alte
istituzioni: un dispaccio Reuters del 23/3 ci informa che persino sul
sito dell'Interpol http://www.interpol.int appare da qualche giorno
una foto di Slobodan Milosevic "ricercato per crimini contro
l'umanita'".
Quindi, se vi capita di incontrare dal droghiere uno che assomiglia alla
fotografia, chiamate subito i carabinieri.


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* CECENIA: e' "scoppiata" la disinformazione strategica - proprio come
nei Balcani
* PARLAMENTARI KUWAITIANI commemorano i mercenari arruolati nelle fila
dei separatisti
* SELEZIONE DI LINK ad articoli sulle cause concrete del conflitto in
Caucaso e sulla posizione dei comunisti a riguardo


I SITI DEI SEPARATISTI:
http://www.chechnya.net
http://www.qoqaz.net/


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WAR CRIMES - OR FAKED NEWS?
By Igor Shrurenko (posted 3-10-00)

*** Is Russia the newest victim of Western media demonization? Or is the
anti-Russian news coverage we're seeing in fact nothing new? ***

Emperors-clothes www.tenc.net


DURHAM -- No news is good news. Lately, this formula seems to be a tacit
rule-of-the-thumb on presenting Russia in major publications and on TV
news
networks. According to the mainstream media, the only things now coming
from
Russia are new atrocities the Russians are practicing just for the sport
of
it.

The most recent example came last week, when major world TV networks
provided
us with a vivid picture of mutilated bodies being dumped into a pit.
Commentaries said the pit contained the bodies of Chechen civilians
detained
for interrogation by Russian troops. It was said also that the bodies
showed
the signs of torture.

The report came from German N-24 Television; correspondent Frank Hoefler
said
he had witnessed and documented war crimes. The BBC broadcast the film,
provoking indignation all over the globe.

But it seemed that no one in the U.S. media questioned the authenticity
of
what was shown. The Russians have been bad guys for decades, after all.
For
the Western media, reinforcing negative stereotypes about Russia is one
of
the easiest things to do.

Human rights activists demanded a full-scale investigation. The U.S.
Department of State expressed concern. European Parliament members
called to
add new sanctions against Russia to those now in place.

But the balloon has blown up unexpectedly. Hoefler, the Moscow
correspondent
of N-24, admitted that the film was in fact bought from a Russian
journalist,
Oleg Blotsky. Blotsky said that the film actually showed a mass burial
of
Chechen rebels killed in fighting with Russian troops. Blotsky was going
to
sue N-24, he said.

Then N-24 sacked Hoefler. According to Deutsche Presse-Agentur news
service,
the director of N-24 said that Hoefler distorted the footage and passed
it
off as his own documentation of war crimes.

What came in the West's mainstream media the morning after? Apologies?
No.
Calls for more objective coverage of Russia? Missed again.

Mud sticks, and the faked media event shown on major networks has had a
real
effect. The European Union imposed new sanctions on Russia, putting
another
trade barrier on Russian steel exports to the EU. As a result of this
pseudo-event, the negative stereotype of Russia had been sustained,
allowing
more negative coverage in the future.

When it comes to international coverage, the U.S. media seem not to
recognize
the basic journalistic standards accepted for coverage of domestic
affairs.
At home, no racial, national, gender or minority bias is allowed.
Accusations
need to be substantiated and well-sourced. Any consciously false
reporting,
when spotted, will cause a scandal within the journalistic community.

Abroad, anything goes. The time of such sober and distinguished foreign
correspondents as David Remnick (formerly The Washington Post's Moscow
correspondent) is past. Now correspondents are being posted for much
shorter
periods of time; they have neither time nor, sometimes, the desire to go
deep
into an alien culture and try to understand it. All they want is to
scoop and
move on.

Since U.S. TV networks' international coverage is largely limited to
reporting calamities and major bloodshed, the easiest way to scoop is to
discover an even bigger calamity, even more bloodshed.

And as covering Russia means applying much lower or non-existent
journalistic
standards, reporters feel free to rely on plain rumors and bought
stories,
and on information carefully planted by intelligence services and
special-interest groups.

The N-24 faked story made major news. At the same time the networks did
not
report on the story of Alla Geifman, a 13-year-old Jewish Russian girl
who
was captured by the Chechen rebels and had two fingers cut off. She was
released in a special operation and later was invited to the United
States
for medical treatment. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has denied her a visa
to
enter the U.S.

According to "Kommersant," one of the most respected Russian dailies,
her
father said she was denied a visa because U.S. officials were afraid the
girl, while in the United States, would tell the truth about what is
really
going on in Chechnya. With the only-negative-goes approach to Russia,
this
human story is unlikely to get any coverage.

Likewise, the story of an ITAR-TASS photographer Vladimir Yazina, taken
prisoner and later killed in cold blood by the rebels, has not made it
in the
major U.S. news.

The Chechens are not exactly the good guys the Western media like to
present
them as. And reinforcing negative stereotypes about Russia is easy. To
find
and publish the truth, even if it goes against the grain, has always
been
difficult.

***Igor Shnurenko is a media fellow at the DeWitt Wallace Center for
Communications and Journalism at Duke University. A Russian journalist
and
writer, he has worked in the independent press since 1989.***

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Kuwaiti MP Salutes "Hero" Killed Fighting Alongside Chechen Rebels

KUWAIT CITY, Feb 21, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) An MP has praised as
a "hero" a Kuwaiti killed fighting alongside Chechen rebels during an
attack on Russian forces in the breakaway republic, newspapers reported
Saturday.
Salem al-Ajmi was "a hero who sacrificed his life in the fields of
Jihad," or Islamic holy war, Islamist MP Walid al-Tabtabai said, quoted
by the Arab Times.
Tabtabai, coordinator of a Kuwaiti organization which voices solidarity
for Muslim Chechnya, said that "Ajmi spent four months fighting
alongside Chechen fighters."
Ajmi, two Chechens and a Yemeni national died in an attack on a Russian
army convoy during which "several soldiers" were killed.
The 22-year-old Kuwaiti, whose wife reportedly gave birth to their first
child just three days after his death, was a theology student at Kuwait
university.
He also worked as a muezzin, or a deputy preacher who calls Muslims to
prayer, before leaving Kuwait to fight in Chechnya last November, said
Tabtabai, who congratulated the Ajmi family on his "martyrdom."
Ajmi entered Chechnya through Turkey with four other Kuwaitis, and
joined a Chechen rebel unit headed by warlord Shamil Basayev, according
to local newspapers.
Another Kuwaiti, Mokhled al-Utaibi, was killed by Russian forces last
September in the neighboring republic of Dagestan, where he had been
fighting alongside Islamic insurgents.
Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah denied in
September accusations by Russian authorities that his country was
financing Islamic rebels in Dagestan.
The Gulf monarchies have condemned the Russian military campaign in
Chechnya. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse)


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SELEZIONE DI ANALISI COMUNISTE DEL CONFLITTO CECENO

Sull'argomento si vedano anche:
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/44.html?
e vari articoli pubblicati recentemente su "L'Ernesto" e "Contropiano"


* NorthStar Compass - http://www.northstarcompass.org
CHECHINYA: What’s the position of Communists to this tragedy?

* Revolutionary Worker 12-19-99 - http://www.mcs.net/~rwor/
PIPELINE OF GREED: U.S. imperialism and the "Great Game" for Caspian Oil

* Workers World 12-2-99 Page8 - http://www.workers.org
NEW 'FREEDOM' - TO EXPLOIT: The link between Chechnya war and Caspian
oil

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Da "Solidaire" - http://www.ptb.be/solidaire.htm

Des communistes du Caucase analysent la guerre

Pour qui se battent les Tchétchènes?

L?Ossétie du Nord est une république russe du Caucase. Elle est située
près de la Tchétchénie où la guerre fait rage
entre armée russe et séparatistes tchétchènes. Nous publions ci-dessous
un résumé de l?analyse qu?en fait la
section d?Ossétie du Nord du Parti communiste des Bolcheviks d?Union
soviétique.

Résumé: Jef Bossuyt

Début août 1999, un groupe important de Tchétchènes armés pénètre au
Daghestan, sans déclaration de guerre préalable.
Cette invasion n?allait amener que larmes et amertume au Daghestan,
profondément meurtri. Rien que dans la région de
Botlich, 20.000 personnes se sont enfuies. L?invasion a été de pair avec
des raids terroristes à Boujnaksk, Moscou,
Volgodonsk, Leningrad et d?autres villes russes.

Le Caucase possède de nombreuses richesses connues, à côté d?autres qui
le sont moins. La région forme un pont reliant la
Russie centrale et l?Ukraine à l?Asie occidentale et centrale, la mer
Noire et la Caspienne. Les Soviétiques y avaient
fortement développé l?industrie, l?agriculture et les infrastructures.
Le Caucase est également un creuset de langues et de
religions où, pendant longtemps, peuples russes et non russes ont
cohabité en toute amitié.

Washington veut affaiblir la Russie

Cette guerre, menée par une formation islamique internationale de 10.000
combattants, vise à créer un Etat islamique dont
la capitale serait Khasavyurt. Certains avancent que la guerre a pu être
déclenchée parce que le Saoudien Ben Laden finance
les combattants tchétchènes. Il est évident qu?Usama Ben Laden a une
relation directe avec cette guerre. Selon les dires de
Joseph Volanski, directeur du service britannique de lutte
antiterroriste, il aurait collecté ´des dizaines, sinon des
centaines de millions de dollars' pour ce conflit. Mais ni Ben Laden, ni
l?Arabie saoudite, ni la Turquie ne peuvent opérer
de leur propre chef dans une région considérée comme une zone d?intérêt
vital par les...Etats - Unis! N?oublions pas que le
gouvernement américain a déclaré au monde entier qu?il s?immiscerait
dans les affaires intérieures de tout peuple ´si les
intérêts des USA étaient menacés'.

Les Etats-Unis sont les principaux coupables, organisateurs et sponsors
de la guerre tchétchéno-daghestanaise. Ils sont
également intéressés plus que quiconque par l?affaiblissement et le
démantèlement de la Russie. Ils craignent plus que
tout le rétablissement du socialisme en Russie et donc de l?Union
soviétique. Ils ont même peur d?une Russie capitaliste
forte!

Pour l?instant, Washington craint de réintervenir avec les troupes de
l?Otan contre la Russie, car cette dernière possède
encore des missiles intercontinentaux. Les USA préfèrent donc dresser
les uns contre les autres les peuples de l?ancienne
Union soviétique. C?est précisément ce qui se passe dans la guerre
tchétchéno-daghestanaise, laquelle étant clairement une
guerre de conquête.

Un gouffre entre riches et pauvres

Cette guerre met également fin aux illusions des travailleurs caucasiens
quant à la possibilité qu?aurait toute nation
caucasienne de garantir sa sécurité et son essor économique sans
s?associer aux travailleurs des autres nations. Cette
possibilité n?existe que si ces travailleurs s?unissent aux travailleurs
de la Russie.

Les détenteurs du pouvoir au Kremlin ne sont que les exécutants d?une
politique pro-américaine et pro-impérialiste, tant
en politique intérieure qu?étrangère. Ils veulent poursuivre cette
politique et ont vraiment intérêt à ce que la majorité des
Russes ne découvre pas le vrai visage de son régime. Ils font tout pour
être agréables aux impérialistes américains en
essayant simultanément de se faire passer pour les partisans d?une
Russie puissante et indépendante.

C?est pourquoi le Kremlin se présente comme l?artisan de la lutte contre
les bandes tchétchènes. Or, le mérite de la
destruction des groupes tchétchènes entrées au Daghestan (en été 1999,
ndlr) revient aux soldats et officiers russes ainsi
qu?aux masses laborieuses daghestanaises.

Les réformes de Gorbatchev et d?Eltsine, c?est-à-dire l?introduction de
l?économie de marché et des rapports
capitalistes, ont provoqué une division en classes sociales dans les
républiques, districts et régions du Caucase. Au
Daghestan, 200 familles ont empoché... 80% des richesses ! C?est là que
réside la cause des conflits à venir au Daghestan. Le
bouillon de culture des conflits entre nationalités existe toujours dans
le Caucase: il est constitué par les rapports
capitalistes au Caucase et par la politique du Kremlin.

L?Otan recherche un nouveau Kosovo

Il ne fait aucun doute que les Etats-Unis et l?Otan veulent appliquer la
voie kosovare au Caucase. Pour ce faire, ils y
envoient d?abord leurs agents et mercenaires. Ensuite, ils réclament une
intervention des troupes de l?Otan.

Jusqu?à présent, ça n?a pas marché, mais c?est inévitable dans un proche
avenir. C?est pourquoi la guerre
tchétchéno-daghestanaise met les peuples caucasiens devant ce choix:
soit devenir une colonie des USA et des impérialistes
à part entière, soit rétablir le pouvoir soviétique.

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Guerre en Tchétchénie


Punir les terroristes, pas la population

Sazji Umalatova est née en 1953 dans la capitale tché-tchène Grozny. De
1973 à 1991, elle était conseillère
communale puis parlementaire pour la Tchétchénie-Ingouchie. Aujourd'hui,
elle est présidente du Parti pour la
Paix et l'Unité qui prône l'amitié entre les peuples de Russie et la
réunification de tous les peuples d'Union
soviétique.

Jef Bossuyt

Pourquoi y a-t-il la guerre en Tchétchénie?
Sazji Umalatova. En septembre, le commandant tchétchène Basaev a agressé
le Daghestan au départ de la Tchétchénie.
Basaev a reçu pour cela d'énormes sommes d'argent de l'étranger. Pour
les Russes, c'était l'occasion de déclencher une
nouvelle guerre, sous prétexte de lutter contre ces bandes de bandits.
Mais l'armée russe n'a pas bombardé Basaev, mais les
villages d'où il était déjà parti. Dans les médias russes, tout le
peuple tchétchène a été accusé de l'invasion au Daghestan et
des attentats à la bombe en Russie. Un militaire russe haut placé disait
récemment qu'on aurait très bien pu éliminer les
chefs des bandes terroristes mais qu'aucun ordre en ce sens n'avait été
donné.
Pourtant, lorsque Basaev s'est mis en guerre contre le Daghestan, toute
la Tchétchénie s'est soulevée contre lui. Nous
avons fait de grandes manifestations, nous l'avons maudit. Mais cela, la
télévision ne l'a pas montré. Au contraire, ils
ont bombardé notre peuple.
Lors des dernières élections présidentielles, 79% des Tchétchènes ont
voté pour le président Mashadov. Il a tenté d'éviter
la guerre, il était prêt à des négociations mais il n'a pas reçu de
réponse. Il est même menacé: par les commandants Basaev et
Chatab d'un côté, par le régime russe de l'autre.

Qui finance ces terroristes?
Sazji Umalatova. Plusieurs forces ont intérêt à ce que la Russie se
disloque. Ce n'est un secret pour personne que le
président américain Clinton mène des entretiens directs avec Basaev et
Oudougov, et avec le banquier du Kremlin,
Berezovski. Le pétrole dans le nord du Caucase présente la meilleure
qualité au monde. Je n'exclus pas que les Etats-Unis
s'ingèrent dans le conflit, sous le prétexte de protéger le peuple
tchétchène.
Les Etats-Unis avaient déjà tout tenté en 1945 pour semer la zizanie en
Union soviétique. Le ministre américain des
Affaires étrangères J.F Dulles disait alors: «Nous trouverons nos
partisans en Russie même et nous cultiverons le
nationalisme et l'hostilité entre les nationalités, surtout la haine
envers le peuple russe.»

Que pensez-vous du président russe, Poutine?
Sazji Umalatova. Sa prétendue 'opération contre les terroristes en
Tchétchénie' fait éclater la Russie. Poutine a partagé
son pays en bonnes et mauvaises gens. Il attise l'extrémisme. La plupart
des Tchétchènes veulent rester avec la Russie.
Mais combien de temps devront-ils encore vivre dans des camps de
réfugiés ? Quelle confiance peuvent-ils encore avoir en
la Russie?

Comment résoudre le problème tchétchène?
Sazji Umalatova. La guerre et les conflits entre nationalités doivent
s'arrêter. Pour détruire les terroristes, il faut
engager des commandos spéciaux et non l'armée régulière qui s'en prend à
toute la population. Nous devons restaurer
la paix entre les nationalités et préserver l'unité de la Russie. Nous
devons réunifier les peuples de l'Union soviétique.



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* I libri:
IL FASCISMO E GLI USTASCIA
TRIBUNALE CLARK VIENNA (in tedesco)
* Le riviste:
AGINFORM
BOLLETTINO DI INFORMAZIONE ANTIIMPERIALISTA
CONTROPIANO
NUOVA UNITA'
* Il video:
JUGOSLAVIA - LA GUERRA EVITABILE (in inglese)

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UN LIBRO SUL SOSTEGNO ITALIANO AGLI USTASCIA

"Il Fascismo e gli Ustascia", di Pasquale Iuso,
professore di Storia dei movimenti sindacali dell'ateneo di Teramo,
e' edito da Gangemi, Roma, 1998, pp.150 circa, prezzo Lit. 28.000.
Il testo tratta delle relazioni tra il fascismo
italiano e gli ustascia di Pavelic dal 1929 al 1941.

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DOCUMENTAZIONE DELLA SEZIONE VIENNESE
DEL "TRIBUNALE CLARK"

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AGINFORM

E' in distribuzione il numero 9 di AGINFORM, FOGLIO DI
CORRISPONDENZA COMUNISTA.

INDICE del Numero 9 (febbraio 2000):

Editoriale: I comunisti e il PRC: premesse per un dibattito.
György Lukács "sul parlamentarismo" (da scritti giovanili).
La destra in Europa.
Francia: la verità sulle 35 ore.
Intervista a Domenico Losurdo sugli scritti «Fuga dalla Storia?».
Cresce il movimento per l'incriminazione dei capi di stato e di
governo dei paesi NATO.
La Jugoslavia non è sola: la partecipazione al Congresso del
Partito Socialista Serbo.
Cina, Corea, Cuba: viaggi di amicizia organizzati dalla Fondazione
Pasti
Lettere:
A proposito del male minore (Giulio Bonali).
Sono intenzionato a diffondere il giornale (Ugo Pisani).
Pensioni minime(Giuseppe bernabini).
La nostra condizione non è peggiore di quella dei nostri padri
(Tommaso Massa)

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IL BOLLETTINO

E' in distribuzione il numero di Marzo/Aprile del Bollettino di
Informazione Antimperialista.
Per riceverne una copia o sottoscrivere un abbonamento, scrivete a :
bollettino@....

In questo numero:
* Editoriale
Una nuova veste per i nostri nuovi compiti

* Dibattito
Trattative di pace, compromessi e refendum

* Europa
I crimini contro l'ambiente della NATO dulla RF di Jugoslavia
Italia: repressione contro il movimento antimperialista
Eurodifesa e nuovi scenari militari

Ex-URSS: Colpo di stato in Ukraina

Germania: Vittoriosa lotta dei prigionieri turchi

* Asia
Agente Orange: il Vietnam avvelenato negli ultimi 30 anni

* Stati Uniti
Solo un'altra forma di imperialismo
Intervista a Safiya Buckari ex militante del Black Panther Party

* Classe operaia internazionale

* America Latina
Cuba: Elian deve tornare a Cuba!

Cuba: Vertice Sud: unità contro unipolarità
Quindicesimo Festival Mondiale della Gioventù
Colombia: Lettera aperta al Presidente Pastrana in apertura dei
negoziati
Albright promette 16 miliardi di dollari al governo colombiano
Vieques: Il popolo portoricano continua a lottare
Ecuador: Il dialogo con il governo
Venezuela: Minacce dal Viceministro USA
Cile: Quale futuro per il paese?

Messico: Giornata internazionale della donna in Chiapas

* Medio Oriente
Intervista a Said Hassan Nasrallah, Segretario Generale di Hezbollah in
Libano
Nel cuore dell'Iraq, a dieci anni da Desert Storm

Chi è il nemico della Nazione Araba?

* Africa
La rivoluzione etiope rivisitata: perché gli imperialisti odiano
Mengistu?Ben Barka, "Le rouge"

Inserto: Dossier Jugoslavia, a cura del Comitato Antimperialista Romano

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CONTROPIANO
Giornale per l'iniziativa politica di classe

anno 8 numero 1 15/2/2000

- Il tramonto dei faraoni
- Il nuovo secolo e' cominciato a Seattle?
- Dobbiamo tornare ad essere una "variabile indipendente"
- Disoccupati soprattutto (G. Gattei)
- Una proposta per i comunisti
- Globalizzazione o competizione globale?
- Cecenia: dietro il conflitto c'e' il "grande gioco" del petrolio
- Autunno russo
- Cina: una sfida alla globalizzazione?
- Come eliminare la disoccupazione in cinque mosse
- Le sanguinose verita' che emergono dal Kossovo

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in rete [n][u] 2/2000
articoli, documenti, contributi, comunicazioni
abbonati e sostieni [n]uova [u]nita'

In questo numero:

- Editoriale
A piccole dosi [di Carla Francone]

- Lavoro/Contratti
Un contratto? No, non lo vogliamo più [Coordinamento delle lavoratrici e
dei
lavoratori comunisti calzaturieri del Riviera del Brenta]

- Primo Piano
Il suicido politico di Rifondazione [di Eraldo Mattarocci]

- Speciale Referendum/Dibattito
"Si mira a liquidare qualsiasi possibilità di riemersione della classe
operaia" [Slai Cobas Ansaldo]
La beffa del sommerso [Redazione di Pisa]

- Attualita'
Craxi [di Tiziano Tussi]

- Cultura
"Il Caso Lysenko", prima parte [di Roberto Zanetti]

- Documenti
Esperienze a confronto [Risoluzione del Seminario Comunista
Internazionale]

- Internazionale, Internazionalismo e Solidarieta'
Cuba: Elian vittima, bottino di guerra [di Gioia Minuti]
Cuba: Brevi dall'Avana [di Gioia Minuti]

- Prigionia Politica
Speciale Mumia Abu-Jamal:
Una Delegazione Internazionale al Dipartimento di Giustizia statunitense
[dal Bollettino "Mumia Abu-Jamal News" ]

- Recensioni
"Death Blossoms", l'ultimo libro di Mumia Abu-Jamal [note]
"La Rivoluzione Negata", l'ultimo libro di Angiolo Gracci [note]
"Teoria & Prassi", una nuova rivista al servizio della lotta di classe
[note]

- Lettere, e-mail, fax, comunicazioni...


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PER L'APPUNTO!


"L'umanitario e il militare si confondono sempre di piu'. Diventa
difficile mantenere la nostra neutralita', soprattutto per quelli che
collaborano con i militari come nel caso del Kosovo"

(W. Claus, esponente di "Medici senza frontiere" in Belgio, su
"De Standaard" del 16/10/1999, citato su "Contropiano", febbraio 2000)


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Remembrance Day

One year ago my country have been attacked. It was warm day, nice day,
we
spend it as usual. But, we knew that war is around the corner. Something
was in the air. In 7.50 PM, while I was talking to my friend I heard
sound
of sirens. Screaming sounds. I stopped talking for a while and then said
"O.K. That's it. War started." No panic, just anger and hate. I remember
all those days, all 78 or 79 days and nights, detonations, sirens,
anti-aircraft artillery, jet's sounds, warms and sunny days, lines for
cigarettes... But there is no panic at all. We took it with pride and
ignorance. We tried to defend bridges - I spend several nights on bridge
and no one pushed me to do that. In Belgrade we had all days rock
concerts,
just to show that we are not cowards as they are. You know that my
friends,
we tried to not go to shelters. I never went to any shelter, shelters
are
for rats not for humans and I am still alive. I'll never forget April 9.
when NATO, maybe US, French, Canadian, Belgium, Spain, Dutch, Italian,
German pilot fighter dropped bomb and killed a young kid, 3 years old
Milica Rakic near Batajnica military airport. I said: "Now they overdone
it!!" I said that several times, when they killed young people on
Varvarin's bridge on market's day, when they dropped bomb or hit train
in
Grdelica canyon, when they hit several buildings in down town of
Belgrade,
when they destroyed all bridges in Novi Sad, when they destroy Serbain
Television Center. I said that when they ever made "collateral damage".
Human being for NATO, and for Bill, Madeleine, James Rubin, Tony Blair,
Javier Solana, Hillary Rodham, Michael Short, Joseph Fisher, Jamie Shea,
Wesley Clark and for all modern NATO war criminals, was collateral
damage.
So much about culture, democracy, international law, humane rights, free
media etc and etc.

During the NATO's aggression I started to use Internet for special
purpose,
to write and to inform people what's going on here, who is right who is
wrong. People around the world understood my "English", and they helped
me
to go through that aggression, to go through the war. Now they are my
friends. I would like to thank you to Robert E. Nordlander, Beatriz
Jarramillo, John Peter Maher, Tom Hutt, Caley Powell, David and
Jelisaveta
Storey, Bill Logan, Lee Rockwell, Chris Fogarty, Diane Hatz, Bill
Friend,
James Lee von Bockman, Dick Sampson, Mike Djurichic, Snezana Vitorovich,
prof. Glazachev from Moscow, Alida and T.V. Weber, Mickey from Serbianna
etc, a people who helped me and who cared for us, who cared from my
country.

There is no more words to express something. Today is Remembrance Day,
the
day we have to remember for all victims of New World Order, for all
victims
of one unsane, stupid genocide politics which destroyed world we used to
know. The Day we have to remember for all victims of NATO's aggression,
for
79 Yugoslavian kids who have been killed by Albright's will, for all
Yugoslavian 1002 soldiers and officers who defended our country with
jets,
tenks, anti-aircraft artillery, rifles, police officers who wanted to do
the same job as its collegues arround the world - "To save and to
protect".

After all we won. No doubt about it. Clinton's bombs didn't resolve
problems.

I have no words, dear friends, just Thank you once again. We will never
forget your anti-war activities, your fight for humane world, for
brotherhood and unity. Maybe, it's time to remember what Peter Handke,
an
Austrian plat writer wrote about March 24. Words talking louder than
bombs.
And for the and is one poem, published in today paper edition of
"Politika". A poem talking about kid Milica Rakic, young kid - victim of
NATO aggression. Poem is on Serbian language, and it was written by
Ljubivoje Rsumovic, famous Serbian and Yugoslavian poet. I am sorry
because
I won't translate this, but I hope that prof. J.P. Maher or Snezana will
do
it translation to English.

KOSOVO IS SERBIA !

Warmest regards from Belgrade

Darko Nadic


The whole planet of Earth's name is Yugoslavia
by Peter Handke
Paris, March 25, 1999

`Thank you NATO. Thanks to a great small writers,
from Garcia Marques to Guenter Grass, from Kenzaburo Oe to
subcommander Marcos, for things they didn't write.
Thanks to the Pope and Vatican for his white
celestial silence.
Great step for mankind! For all those on our planet
who didn't transform into marsians and other green
butchers, yet, their homeland, begining from march
24th 1999., is Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska,
Yugoslavia.
`The Mars attacks`, and with the beginning of
marssian Attacks, the whole Earth's name is Yugoslavia.`
`Mars attacs`, and during the marssian attacs
Helsinki, Madrid, Algerie, Dar es Salaam (the house of peace),
Jerusalem, Jeriho, Baghdad, even London, Paris,
Berlin and Washington will be the part of Yugoslavia.`

Handke dated as `from morning noise of air force
airport Villacouble near Paris`



NECE PESMA

U slavu zauvek trogodisnje Milice Rakic iz Batajnice

Slepe zvezde nad sudbinom brinu
Nece pesma dok nam deca ginu

Crn se oblak nadvio nad pluca
Nema vatre nema nadahnuca

Nigde slike da da vid-nevid prene
Nece pesma dok cvile sirene

Kuce reke i planine gore
Smrt uzima cak i metafore

Tuzno srce slika katakombe
Nece pesma dok padaju bombe

Slepe bombe ne biraju cilja
Protiv dece leptira i bilja

Slepe bombe slepih gospodara
Protiv svega sto lepotu stvara

Laz i rdja dosli su do guse
Nece pesma dok mostove ruse

Nema reci zdrave i svecane
Nece pesma dok ruse Zvecane

Pesma zna sto pesma mora znati
Zato nece dok Srbija pati

Ljubivoje Rsumovic



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L'APPELLO DI BRUXELLES

KOSOVO - CONTRE L'OUBLI - de François HOUTART
Louvain-La-Neuve, 22 mars 2000

Chère Madame, cher Monsieur,

Ci-joint l'Appel de Bruxelles, que je soumets à votre adhésion.

Ceux qui peuvent contribuer à sa diffusion - n'oublions pas la guerre
médiatique qui accompagna la campagne militaire - peuvent le faire au
compte suivant:

Rencontre pour la paix
N° 005-1916606-59 (Caisse d'Epargne, 1000 Bruxelles), avec la mention
Kosovo.


Très cordialement

F. HOUTART
Président de la Ligue internationale pour les Droits des Peuples

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KOSOVO - CONTRE L'OUBLI

L'appel de Bruxelles



Au cours du printemps 1999, la ville de Bruxelles, en sa qualité de
siège
de l'OTAN, était le centre de décision et d'exécution des bombardements
de
la Yougoslavie par les 16 pays membres de cette organisation, au nom du
droit humanitaire. Nous croyons que le premier anniversaire d'un
événement
aussi grave ne peut passer inaperçu et doit, au contraire, susciter chez
tout citoyen une sérieuse réflexion à la mesure de l'enjeu.

La guerre a été préparée, décidée et menée à l'encontre des principes
les
plus fondamentaux du droit international. L'action de l'OTAN suivit
l'échec des négociations de Rambouillet. Or, ces dernières avaient
enregistré des
avancées sérieuses sur les dossiers politiques du conflit, avant que des
conditions de dernière minute, de toute évidence inacceptables pour la
partie serbe, ne précipitent l'impasse.

Sans doute, voulons-nous manifester avec clarté que notre condamnation
sans
réserve de l'action de l'OTAN, n'implique nullement adhésion ni
complaisance envers les autorités de Belgrade et particulièrement envers
leur gestion de la question ethnique. De même, notre réprobation,
toujours
actuelle, de la poursuite sans fondement légal des bombardement de
l'Irak
et de l'embargo contre ce pays, ne peut être interprétée comme une
quelconque allégeance envers le régime de Bagdad.

Ceci dit, les menaces explicites de bombarder la Yougoslavie, proférées
dès
l'été 1998, étaient déjà contraires à l'interdiction de la menace de
l'emploi de la force, inscrite à l'article 2 ' 4 de la Charte des
Nations
Unies. La politique tendant à contraindre Belgrade d'accorder un statut
politique particulier à la province du Kosovo constituait d'ailleurs une
intervention dans des affaires qui, aux termes du droit international,
relèvent toujours de la compétence nationale de la Yougoslavie.

Le déclenchement de la guerre viole à l'évidence la Charte des Nations
Unies, qui n'autorise exceptionnellement le recours à la force qu'en cas
de
légitime défense ou d'autorisation du Conseil de sécurité. La
Yougoslavie
n'ayant au préalable agressé aucun Etat souverain, la légitime défense
ne
peut en tout état de cause être invoquée ; les représailles armées, à
supposer même qu'elles soient motivées par des considérations
humanitaires,
sont et restent strictement interdites. Par ailleurs, les résolutions
adoptées par le Conseil de sécurité au sujet de la guerre civile au
Kosovo
ne contenaient aucune autorisation, explicite ou implicite, de recourir
à
la force, la Russie et la Chine ayant clairement marqué leur opposition
à
toute mesure militaire.
Les Etats membres de l'OTAN n'ont pas non plus saisi l'Assemblée
générale
pour tenter d'obtenir une autorisation qui, dans des cas exceptionnels,
aurait été susceptible de légaliser une intervention de leur part. Dans
ces
circonstances, l'action militaire menée doit juridiquement, être
qualifiée
d'agression, et par conséquent de crime international. La guerre est
par
ailleurs incompatible avec les règles propres à l'OTAN elle-même, règles
qui consacrent clairement le respect de la Charte des Nations Unies et
la
reconnaissance consécutive de l'autorité du Conseil de sécurité.

Enfin, la manière dont les bombardements ont été menés contredit les
règles
de droit international qui régissent la conduite des hostilités. De
manière générale, la destruction systématique de l'infrastructure
économique et des moyens de communication, délibérément destinée à
décourager la population et à provoquer son soulèvement, sont
incompatibles
avec le principe de proportionnalité qui impose que toute attaque
produise
des avantages militaires spécifiques décisifs. Plus particulièrement,
le
choix de cibles comme la radio télévision serbe ou des usines fabriquant
des produits de consommation courante, est incompatible avec
l'interdiction
de viser des objectifs civils. L'utilisation de certaines armes, comme
celles contenant de l'uranium appauvri, contredit par ailleurs le
principe
de précaution imposant à l'attaquant de ne pas causer de dommages
graves,
étendus ou irréversibles.

La violation du droit international par les Etats membres de l'OTAN est
d'autant plus manifeste que ces Etats ont refusé qu'un organe impartial
se
prononce sur la licéité de leurs actions, y compris en analysant leurs
arguments fondés sur les violations préalables du droit international
perpétrées par la Yougoslavie. En dépit de leur déclaration en faveur
du
règne du droit et de la justice, aucune des puissances intervenantes n'a
en
effet accepté que la Cour internationale de Justice se prononce sur ces
questions.

L'action de l'OTAN suivit l'échec des négociations de Rambouillet. Or,
ces
dernières avaient enregistré des avancées sérieuses sur les dossiers
politiques du conflit, avant que des conditions de dernière minute, de
toute évidence inacceptables pour la partie serbe, ne précipitent
l'impasse.

La stratégie de guerre, qui a dévasté la Yougoslavie et rendu non-viable
le
Kosovo, a produit plus de réfugiés et de victimes que n'en aurait causé
tout autre combinaison de force et de diplomatie. Elle mérite d'être
contestée, tant du point de vue politique que du point de vue moral.
Elle
fut accompagnée d'une campagne médiatique visant à légitimer
systématiquement l'opération en cours.

Les dispositions prises après la fin des bombardements tendent à
conditionner l'aide internationale aux résultats électoraux internes en
Yougoslavie et à privilégier l'aide en fonction des options politiques
prises par ses destinataires, ce qui constitue un moyen peu honorable
d'intervention politique dans les affaires internes d'un pays tiers.
Quant
au Kosovo, il est devenu, sous l'administration créée par les forces de
l'OTAN, une région quasiment mononethnique où les minorités non
albanaises,
qu'elles soient serbe, rom, slave, musulmane, juive, turque ou croate,
ont
dû fuir les attentats ou se réfugier dans des ghettos.

Nous voudrions aussi souligner le fait que la guerre menée en
Yougoslavie
revêt une signification qui dépasse de loin le cas de ce pays. En effet,
l'intervention de l'OTAN au Kosovo, sous la direction des Etats-Unis
d'Amérique, s'inscrit dans une série de choix opérés par l'unique
super-puissance du monde aujourd-hui. Le maintien du budget militaire
américain à un niveau de guerre froide, supérieur à l'addition des six
budgets inférieurs en Russie, Japon, France, Allemagne, Royaume-Uni et
Chine
; le choix de maintenir l'OTAN malgré la dissolution du pacte de
Varsovie
et la fin de l'URRS, puis de l'élargir à l'Est de l'Europe ; la
projection
de la force armée sur l'arène mondiale en faisant fi des institutions
internationales ; le refus de ratifier le Traité d'interdiction des
essais
nucléaires; le développement des systèmes antimissiles et la récente
révélation de l'existence d'un système mondial d'écoute des
communications
privées et officielles, tels sont les aspects les plus saillants d'une
politique dessinée progressivement à Washington, qui laisse présager la
naissance d'un nouveau modèle d'exercice du pouvoir, fondé sur la
capacité
de gérer des instruments de destruction et de mort, toujours plus
perfectionnés.

Notre refus, notre réprobation, s'adressent donc à un projet et à des
méthodes qui ne correspondent aucunement aux proclamations démocratiques
ou
humanitaires.

Voilà pourquoi nous invitons tous ceux qui partagent ces inquiétudes et
qui
ne veulent plus que les bombes soient l'alternative à la légalité
internationale, à la négociation, au dialogue démocratique, aux
pressions
diplomatiques et politiques, au droit, à signer cet appel. La liste sera
clôturée en juin, pour la date anniversaire de la fin des bombardements.
Nous proposons également que se tienne une réunion de réflexion à
Rambouillet, à l'occasion de l'anniversaire de la fin des bombardements,
pour redonner à cette ville sa valeur de lieu de dialogue et de
tolérance.
Ainsi, Bruxelles et Rambouillet, auront en cette année 2000, une
signification nouvelle, celle d'être jumelées dans une entreprise en
faveur
de la paix et de l'affirmation du droit.

Bruxelles, 24 mars 2000.

Olivier CORTEN, professeur à l'Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Eric
DAVID, professeur à l'ULB, Barbara DELCOURT, professeur à l'ULB,
François
HOUTART, professeur émérite à l'Université catholique de Louvain (UCL),
Pierre KLEIN, professeur à l'ULB, Paulette PIERSON-MATHY, professeur à
l'ULB, Yves REGISTER, chargé de recherche auprès du CADOP, université de
Liège, François RIGAUX, professeur émérite à l'UCL, Jean SALMON,
professeur
émérite à l'ULB.



Les adhésions peuvent être envoyées aux adresses suivantes:

- action-kosovo@...
-Rencontres pour la paix,
Boulevard Jacques de Dixmude 124
B- 1050 Bruxelles
Les participations aux frais de diffusion de l'appel peuvent être
envoyées à Rencontres pour la Paix, N° 005n1916606n59 (Caisse d=Epargne,
1000 Bruxelles), avec mention: Kosovo.


François Houtart
CETRI
houtart@...

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WORKER'S PARTY OF IRELAND

NEWS RELEASE


Friday, 24th March 2000
For Immediate Use


THE AMERICAN WAR IN EUROPE - 1ST ANNIVERSARY

The Workers' Party of Ireland has marked the first anniversary of the
start
of NATO's bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by
stating that this illegal act of aggression against a sovereign state
has
achieved nothing other than widespread death and destruction.

The International Affairs Committee of The Workers' Party maintains that
the
situation in the Balkans is now much worse than it was a year ago whilst
NATO remains in occupation of Kosovo-Metohija with logistical support
from
troops from supposedly neutral Ireland and under a totally flawed UN
mandate.

"Ireland played a particularly despicable role in the run up to the NATO
attack on Yugoslavia. Former Minister David Andrews' infamous statement
that he was stuck 'between a rock and a hard place' will not easily be
forgotten. We could have then played a pivotal role as a neutral
honest
broker and used that position to encourage positive and genuine
negotiation
instead of NATO's 'settle on our terms or else' Rambouillet deal which
would
have involved free access for NATO troops, not just in Kosovo, but
throughout Yugoslavia, including Belgrade itself."

"Ireland failed to pursue positive neutrality. It sat on the fence
while
NATO tried to force Yugoslavia to accept the unacceptable - the invasion
of
its entire territory by a hostile enemy bent on destroying it. Then
when
the bombing commenced Ireland shamefully jumped off the fence into the
NATO
camp and cheered on the bombers. The Taoiseach stated that the bombing
was
'both necessary and justified' in the face of 'human rights violations'.
Fine words from a man who has publicly advocated detention centres for
asylum seekers."

"Two and a half months of relentless bombing turned a crisis into a
disaster. Innocent civilians, journalists and refugees were murdered in
the
heaviest bombing campaign on European soil since World War II,
reminiscent
of the Nazi bombing of Belgrade during that war. The attack on
Yugoslavia
was in essence an American war against a European country. It was
simplified by the spin-doctors into a tale of 'the world against one
man'
when in fact it was the US military-industrial complex against the
Serbian
people. The people of Serbia and Yugoslavia are well capable of
deciding
for themselves the make up of their sovereign government. A grave
injustice
has been done to the truth, which has been, as always, the first
casualty of
war."

ends.

John Jefferies, Press Officer Tel: +353-1-8740716
The Workers' Party of Ireland,
23 Hill Street,
Dublin 1.

www.workers-party.org


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Current Headlines
http://www.serbianna.com/current_headlines.html
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THE GLOBAL TYRANNY

The Balkans:

One Year Ago the Bombing Started - You Never Told us WHY, Mr. President
(by Mary Mostert)
http://www.originalsources.com/OS3-00MQC/3-24-2000.1.html

Between the Lines: A year after the air war (by Joseph Farah )
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/readerservice/printer_friendly.php3?item=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_btl/20000324_xcbtl_a_year_aft.shtml

Diary (by Jamie Shea)
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a38dbf9eb5503.htm

A Republic, Not an Empire (by Patrick J. Buchanan)
http://www.gopatgo2000.com/new/speeches/antiwar.htm

"Humanitarian Wars," Realist Geopolitics, and Genocidal Practices:
"Saving the Kosovars" (by Richard Falk)
http://www.algonet.se/~d58155/forum/meet/2000/humanitarianwars.html

Nato ended a nightmare in Kosovo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=001798725956593&rtmo=quJesex9&atmo=tttttttd&pg=/et/00/3/25/wnato25.html

Kosovo Revisited (by Richard Falk)
http://www.thenation.com/issue/000410/0410falk.shtml

Antiwar.com: Keeping an eye on war
http://www.ocregister.com/liberty/articles/antiwar.shtml
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Sanctions to remain until Milosevic goes
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Print/0,3858,3978264,00.html
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British Helsinki Group reports from southern Serbia
http://www.bhhrg.org/balkans/balkans2000.htm

Russian Ultranationalist Offers Troops To Belgrade
http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news.php3?id=145656
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NATO chiefs drop plans to visit Kosovska Mitrovica
http://www.timesofindia.com/today/25worl9.htm

NATO Sets Up Kosovo Neutral Zone (Kosovska Mitrovica)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=wpni/print&articleid=A12112-2000Mar24

Stable Kosovo 'years away'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_688000/688735.stm
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Britain: libel verdict vs. exposé of Bosnia War propaganda bankrupts
independent journal
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/mar2000/livm-m25_prn.shtml
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Strengthening the United Nations: an Ambitious Agenda
http://www.algonet.se/~d58155/forum/meet/2000/ambitiousagenda.html

Civilian Peace-Keepers - a Future Challenge
http://www.algonet.se/~d58155/forum/meet/2000/peacekeepers.html
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DELEGAZIONE DELL'ILC A BELGRADO

Strengthening the Anti-imperialist co-operation
for the defence of Yugoslavia

Today a solidarity delegation of the International Leninist Current
(ILC)
will join the political demonstrations in Belgrade and hold a press
conference protesting the NATO military aggression, which started one
year
ago.

The purpose of the new journey to Yugoslavia is the strengthening of the
links between all Anti-imperialist forces in Yugoslavia and the
Anti-imperialist movement in the aggressor countries. The next concrete
aim
to be achieved is the international solidarity conference with the
Yugoslav
people which should both show the besieged Serbian masses that there are
forces who do support them and to unify and strengthen the fragmented
forces
in the West and all around the world who supported Yugoslavia against
the
imperialist aggression.

This attempt proves to be of urgent importance as the NATO, who up to
now
did not achieve its main aim that is to install a puppet regime in
Belgrade,
is stepping up its provocations in order to create the conditions for a
new
military intervention:

* instigation of a civil war in Montenegro to cut Serbia from its vital
access to the sea

* complete political and national cleansing of Kosovo from all
anti-fascists
and non-Albanians and the destruction of the ghetto of Kosovska
Mitrovica in
order to destroy Yugoslav claims on Kosovo

* support for the UCK/KLA terror in the demilitarised zone in Southern
Serbia

* continuation of the disastrous economic blockade

All this should eventually lead to civil war to bring down the
government
and all forces which are not completely submitting themselves to the
neo-liberal new world order.

Taking into account the record of the Serb people in resisting the
imperialist aggression, "humanitarian" imperialism will be forces to
engage
in a genocidal war against the Serbian people. That they will not
hesitate
to do so, has been proven even by recent history (see Iraq).

It is therefore of utmost importance for all forces who want to defend
the
principles of liberty, equality and fraternity

* to defend Yugoslavia and Serbia against the Western aggression

* to give any help to Yugoslavia and its people to survive the
totalitarian
liberalism of the new world order

* to struggle for the destruction of the new world order.

Under very hard circumstances the Yugoslav and Serb people is carrying
on
the defense against imperialism and is paying a heavy price for it.
Their
survival as an independent nation will pave the way for a new offensive
of
the forces of national and social liberation against imperialism and
capitalism while their defeat will bring us deeper in the darkness of
neo-liberal totalitarism.

Permanent Bureau of the ILC
Rome-Vienna
March 24, 2000

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LETTERA APERTA AL PARLAMENTO CANADESE


>March 24, 2000
>
>
>An Open Letter to the Parliament of Canada on the Anniversary of NATO’s
Bombing Of Yugoslavia — The March of Fully Continues…
>
>To: All Members of the House of Commons and the Senate of the Parliament of
Canada
>
>Twelve months have passed since NATO initiated its bombing campaign against
Yugoslavia. The time to reflect on the consequences of this action is
long
overdue; we must understand not only what happened, but also what must
be
done next.
>
>One year later, it is patently obvious that the war was a colossal blunder
of historical proportions. It has resulted in millions of innocent
victims—people who are and will be paying a heavy price for a long time
to
come for misguided decisions made in far away places such as Washington
and
Ottawa. A festering sore has been opened up in the heart of Europe and
the
world is clearly a far more dangerous place than before. The principle
of
using force in international relations was decreed by the very countries
who
allege—in a haunting echo of nineteenth-century colonialism—to be the
most
enlightened and progressive of all. We are seeing the ramifications
already:
the brutal war in Chechneya, the ominous rumbling of mainland China
towards
Taiwan, and the exporting of KLA terror into Serbia proper. Might makes
right. Sadly, this generation of politicians continues the destructive
march
of folly.
>
>We know now, directly from the testimony of NATO’s own negotiators in
Rambouillet, that the so-called "agreement" was carefully crafted to be
unacceptable to the Yugoslav government—an ultimatum woefully
reminiscent of
the one presented to the Serbian government on the eve of the First
World
War. That this war was premeditated is now without doubt. How could the
Government of Canada agree to embroil this country and its people in
such an
obviously sordid affair without even consulting Parliament? Where did it
get
the mandate to abandon our long-established and widely admired foreign
policy based on peace, dialogue, and respect for international law?
>
>History teaches us that ethnic conflicts, such as the one in Kosovo, have
never been successfully resolved through military intervention by
external
powers. NATO’s ham-fisted intervention, which transformed a low-scale
internal conflict into a major humanitarian and environmental
catastrophe,
has confirmed this yet again.
>
>The aftermath of 78 days of bombing has left thousands of civilians dead,
maimed, and homeless. The victims are of all nationalities and include
young
children, the old and infirm—ordinary people—many of them burned alive
or
torn to pieces. The massive devastation of the country’s infrastructure
ensures a state of perpetual misery for these people and their
descendants
well into the foreseeable future. More than 300,000 people are without
work
and they and their families are left without a source of income (a
recent UN
report estimates that the Yugoslav GDP has fallen to one third of its
pre-war level, making it the poorest country in Europe). The use of
radioactive weapons and the wanton destruction of chemical factories in
highly populated areas have also resulted in an ecological nightmare,
with
major rivers contaminated and significant percentage of arable land made
unsuitable for agriculture for a very long time. This situation
threatens
the wider Balkan region as well; it has caused a closure of Danube’s
international waterway, the largest and most significant commercial
waterway
in Europe.
>
>What else do we know—now that the perpetrators have wound down their
Orwellian propaganda machine and would much rather have us forget that
any
of it ever happened (after all, it is an election year)?
>
>First, we should note that there was no genocide. This, after all, was one
of the primary justifications for NATO’s intervention. At one time we
were
told that over 100,000 people were presumed killed by Yugoslav forces.
The
latest results of the detailed investigation in Kosovo by a number of
forensic experts from NATO countries have confirmed that a total of
2,100
bodies have been found. This number includes all the victims of the
conflict: Kosovo Albanians (including KLA rebels killed in action and
civilian victims of the bombing campaign), Serbs, and members of other
ethnic groups.
>
>Second, it is also clear now that NATO’s intervention has mainly served the
purpose of establishing the KLA as the undisputed (but unelected) ruler
of
the province. In pursuit of their publicly proclaimed goal of an
ethnically
pure Kosovo, the KLA have undertaken a systematic campaign to cleanse
the
province of its entire non-Albanian population: Serbs, Turks, Moslems,
Gypsies, Gorans, and others. This objective has almost been fully
achieved
by now. The most recent report by UNICEF states that between 200,000 and
300,000 refugees have left Kosovo, making mockery of NATO’s claim that
they
would stop ethnic cleansing.
>
>Given the false premises behind the war and the convincing failure in
attaining the proclaimed objectives (while creating large-scale
devastation), what should the Parliament of Canada do to help redeem the
situation?
>
>To that end, we recommend following:
>
>· That an open debate be initiated in Parliament, with the objective of
establishing the extent and nature of Canada’s participation in the
bombing
of Yugoslavia and the actual damage inflicted upon the civilian
population
and infrastructure of Yugoslavia;
>
>· That Parliament instruct the Government of Canada to:
>
>1. apologize to all innocent civilian victims of the NATO bombing and to
establish mechanisms and make available resources for justly
compensating
them for damages and losses incurred as a result of the bombing,
proportionate to Canadian involvement;
>
>2. demand, through the UN Security Council, the immediate cessation of the
killing and ethnic cleansing of the non-Albanian population of Kosovo,
including specific instructions to KFOR military commanders and UN
administration in the province;
>
>3. insist on immediate and full implementation of all elements of UN
resolution 1244 on Kosovo;
>
>4. initiate negotiations for a peaceful and equitable solution to the
Kosovo problem, with full respect of the territorial integrity and
sovereignty of Yugoslavia, leading to complete and safe return to Kosovo
of
all its inhabitants, regardless of their ethnicity; this political
process
must exclude militants and extremists on all sides.
>
>As peaceful and law-abiding Canadians, we feel that these steps are
essential to sustain the democratic principles on which this country is
founded. They are also crucial to restoring the hard-earned respect that
our
country has enjoyed in the past both internationally and among its own
citizens. Our children must never be ashamed of their history.
>
>
>Yours respectfully,
>
>
>
>The Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society
serbian.heritage@...

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DALLA FINLANDIA

IMPERIALISM LED BY USA ATTEMPTED TO DESTROY YUGOSLAVIA. EU-COUNTRIES DID
NOT RESIST.

USA AND EU CONTINUE VIOLETING OF YUGOSLAVIA´S RIGHTS AGAINST THE TERMS
OF
THE PEACE AGREEMENT.

AMONG OTHER ANTI-IMPERIALIST GOVERNMENTAL AND PEOPLE´S LEVEL POWERS
CUBA,
CHINA, LIBYA, NORTH KOREA, LAOS AND MYANMAR SUPPORT YUGOSLAVIA.

Yugoslavia has been a nuisance for imperialism. Yugoslavia´s prosperous
state-owned companies have been elements which capitalists cannot
tolerate.
Yugoslavia did not obey imperialism´s demands for privatizations.
Yugoslavia was not interested in NATO´s membership.

In order to launche an imperialist military attack on Yugoslavia
USA-backed
forces had years ago begun to arrange and to seek suitable pretexts of
the
internal problems of the country.

The Sfor-units of NATO occupied in the autumn 1997 four radio and
television stations in Bosnia. According to the NATO sources these
stations
had transmitted propaganda against the Dayton pact manipulated by USA.

No news source has indicated what kind of propaganda or information
these
stations had transmitted.

The stations began their activities again after having replaced the
destroyed equipment.

The new stations were silenced once more. According to the newspapers
the
NATO sources inform that "a group of American experts have been on spot
studying the situation".

Then a Serbian television station in Bosnia was blown up.

This is the way USA operates after having appointed themselves world
police
in order to defend democracy and the freedom of speech.

The breaking up of Yugoslavia began from Croatia. The arms for this
civil
war came from America. A quarter million of Serbs were thrown out of
their
homes. Thousands were killed.

In the former wealthy socialist Yugoslavia there was no threat of civil
wars. Poverty after the counter-revolution brought also internal
violence.
Imperialism uses the situation for its own goals in an unscrupulous way.

Imperialism´s consequential method in its efforts to take over all the
world is to use separatist groups in order to split states.

The period for the Sfor-units as they are now should haven been over in
June 1998. However, NATO will continue their presence in Bosnia.

Yugoslavia still exists as a shrinkened federation formed by Serbia and
Montenegro. Imperialism´s political aim has been to separate Serbia and
Montenegro from each other. Kosovo is a province of Serbia.

Kosovo is a rich mining area. It is not a coincidence that imperialism
is
interested especially in Kosovo. In spring 1998 the USA- and EU-backed
powers began provocations in Kosovo.

Provocations succeeded. In Summer 1998 there was a civil war going on at
Kosovo area. According to the media the Serbian army fighted against
unarmed people. Yet there was a battle between the Serbian army and the
heavily armed Albanian rebels. The Albanian arms are suited with the
goals
of the political background powers of NATO. Additonally, there were
unidentified armed groups at the area.
In October 1998 military operations at Kosovo were calmed down by
Yugoslavian armed forces. NATO has informed of its intentions to begin
unlegal military operations without the necessary international
authorizations.

Because of a mass murder at Kosovo area NATO got a pretext to plan for a
military attack against Yugoslavia. However, the murderers or even their
nationalities are still unknown.

Instead of this guiltiness we know that Kosovo Liberation Army is a
large
drug organization. Their weapons have been paid with drugs. Many leaders
of
KLA sit in jails of Germany, Switzerland and Italy because of drug
dealing.
Kosovo has been the most important centre for heroine and cocaine in
Europe. NATO had allied with the "liberation army" already before the
war.

On March 24th 1999 USA began air attacks against Yugoslavia. It was not
a
question of any kind of a peace operation. The aim of imperialism is
political and economical control over Yugoslavia. "Protecting" Albanians
was just an excuse. Albanians have been deceived. In fact they should
have
fought together with Serbs against NATO as a part of the worldwide
struggle
against the superpower of capitalist imperialism.

American war information lied when speaking of military targets. Air
attacks hitted especially civil targets. The destruction caused by the
attacks were crucially worse compared to the hypotethical situation
without
the operation of NATO. This concerns especially also Albanians in
Kosovo.
USA with their sympathizers had now a serious new problem caused by
themselves. What to do with the refugees? The media performed sad
stories
of the misere fates of refugees. Without NATO there had been no
refugees.

NATO did not mention their misses. Greek newspaper Athinaiki wrote about
body-bags transported through the port of Thessaloniki
.
Yugoslavia has destroyed about one hundred of military aircrafts and
helicopters and a big amount of missiles. Yugoslavians sold parts of
them
in the internet...
After one week´s war it was clear that NATO has failed to reach the
settled
goals. In circumstances of military shortcomings NATO accelerated the
bombardings and bombed especially civil targets.

The western media used a lot of program time and newspaper page space
for
telling principal and practical lies especially concerning NATO´s
shortcomings in this war. Fortunately, we have the internet. Information
flow in the internet cannot be controlled by the media monopolies.

The power media mixes things intentionally. The internal problems of
Yugoslavia form one issue. The imperialist attack on a sovereign country
is
antoher issue.
United Nations tried to handle the war. As permanent members of the
Council
of Security Russia, China and India have strictly condemned the attack.

Yet USA is not interested of the political aims of countries and people
in
the world. The American propaganda speaks of democracy. The deeds of USA
have nothing to do with democracy.

Afterwards we know that USA with its allies did not even intend to work
for
any kind of a peaceful solution. The terms settled by USA in the so
called
"Rambouillet agreement" included an idea of absolute control over
Yugoslavia by USA and NATO. No sovereign country could accept that kind
of
an agreement. The western media has lied about the contents of these
proposals. Why?

For more than two months of war NATO was desperate. The military
potential
of Yugoslavia and the forming of a large worldwide political
anti-imperialist front was a surprise for the American politicians and
for
NATO´s generals.

NATO´s internal problems flourished. Greece and Austria denied NATO to
use
their air space. In case of the planned ground attack Greece had not
allowed NATO to use her area at all. At peoples´ level resistance
against
NATO´s criminal war has grown explosively in NATO-countries and
everywhere
in the world.

On the first weekend of June there were large demonstrations against
USA´s
policy and NATO´s aggressions all around the world, especially in USA
and
England. The authorities of USA tried to prevent organizing of these
demonstrations.

In the end of April we knew that satellite photos of mass graves in
Kosovo
had been faked. USA has used these photos in its propaganda. In May 1999
the media shows a bunch of "evidence" of mass murders in order to
justify
continuing the war.The western power media worked hard to dehumanize
Yugoslavian army and its leadership.

In early morning on May 14th NATO committed a massacre near Albanian
border. More than one hundred Albanians were killed by NATO´s cluster
bombs. This operation was ment to justify the massive ground attack by
blaiming Yugoslavia for this terror attack. However, one day before this
crime NATO´s plans came to publicity.

NATO´s explanations were amusing. At first "there were no NATO aircrafts
at
the area". Then they found that the Albanians were as a human shield for
a
Yugoslav military unit. NATO has "evidences". NATO has always
"evidences"
when investigating its own deeds. In case there were a Yugoslavian unit,
why did NATO not mention it right away? Finding suitable explanation and
making the possible "evidences" took even couple of days.

Crotian warplanes were integrated to NATO´s operation. They have
Yugoslavian Army insignia. This is one of the most extreme form of
fraudulent means of NATO. There must have been be a real emergency in
NATO
when intending to use this kind of a deception.

Yugoslavian TV-stations had been mostly destroyed. Thus the lies of NATO
remained alive. The media repeated like a parrot the "news" controlled
by
NATO.

An agreement was finally made. According to the negotiation results
Yugoslavia remains as a sovereign state and Kosovo will be a part of it
with certain amount of independence. The peace troops at Kosovo area
will
work under UN´s control and a part of them will not be NATO´s troops.
Imperialism achieved with unscrupoulous violence military victory but
suffered serious political defeat.

Yugoslavia was the moral winner of the war. The heroic battle by
Yugoslav
people and the Yugoslavian army has proved that fight against massive
aggression of imperialism is possible and necessary.

Different forms of violence continue at Kosovo area. KFOR is not too
interested in the raw violence by ethnic Albanians against Serbs.

The contemporary process of this political theatre is obviously handling
of
real or faked war crimes.

The legal processed will be carried on in Hague tribunal. This court is
not
a court in a common sense of the word. It is a political organ of the
capitalist elite. "Evidence" of Yugoslavia´s "war crimes" are seeked
for.
Of course there are corps after the civil war and after the war.
However,
examining these corps may be very selective. Yet the corps in the at
first
found graves were Serbs...

A legal war crime process against NATO not depending on imperialist
backgrounds was started in New York on July 31st. There is another
corresponding process going on in Berlin. In Vienna the government of
Austria has been prosecuted because of supporting NATO´s criminal
activities.

There are also accusations in Hague against NATO for war crimes with
hard
evidence. Media pretends not to see them.

Up to November 1999 the political court in Hague has found no evidence
for
the genocide on which NATO based their criminal attack. Of course, after
the civil war there are graves. It is another matter. In December 1999
USA
and UN continue spreading faked evidence of the brutality by Serbs in
order
to justify NATO´s criminal attack afterwards.

In November 1999 English Members of Parliament have questionned
England´s
participation in the war on false basis.

The main intention of the world capitalism in this war is to get closer
to
Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Imperialism is - not without reason -
afraid
of these countries to return gradually to socialism. Additonally, it is
quite clear that imperialism is interested in the Caspian oil.

It is EU´s intention to take control over Yugoslavia by violence and
coercions.
USA and NATO continue in many different methods involving the internal
affairs of Yugoslavia. Among other things the western powers infiltrated
into Yugoslavia try to change the political leadership to imperialists´
puppets.

One of the significant consequences of the war is that Yugoslavia joins
to
the state union formed by Russia and Byelorussia. Additionally, the for
instance the relations between Yugoslavia and Cuba, People´s Republic of
China, Vietnam and Iran have become more intensive.

Yugoslavia demands USA to pay a remarkable amount of money to cover the
economic damages caused by NATO.

According to an official report by Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in
November 1999 the western troops in Kosovo and their political
leadership
do not follow the UN terms of ending the war. Imperialism´s aim is still
to
suppress and to occupy Yugoslavia.

In the end of 1999 the EU continued breaking international legislation
by
efforts to affect Yugoslavia´s internal politics by supplying oil to the
internal opposition of the country.

Against all agreements and without any kind of justification Pentagon
began
in December 1999 to build a permanent military base in Kosovo.

Unjust against Yugoslavia continues in the new millenium. Unscrupulous
violence of human rights against non-Albanians have continued since June
1999 under the "control" of KFOR and UNMIK-units. The UN itself does not
honor their own resolution 1244/1999.

The worst violences in Kosovo after the war have occurred in February
2000.
They continue in March. Their origin is KLA under the protection of the
UN
"peacekeepers".

It is quite possible that NATO uses the contemporary situation as an
excuse
for a new attack on Yugoslavia in order to take over the Yugoslav mine
riches for imperialism.

In February 2000 People´s Republic of China has expressed their support
for
Yugoslavia. China hopes Yugoslavia to be a strong anti-imperialist
power.
The Socialist Party of Serbia has expressed its support for the Workers´
Party of Korea. People´s Republic of Korea, People´s Republic of China
and
the Republic of Yugoslavia form a remarkable potential power against
imperialism.

The foreign minister of Yugoslavia visited North Korea in the end of
February 2000. In order to honor the DPRK party leader Kim Jong Il´s
birthday a Korean socialist Juche study group has been established in
Yugoslavia.

Libyan and Yugoslavian top officials have met on February 20th, 2000.
"Yugoslavia and Serbia appreciate the clear stand of Libya and its
president who openly condemned NATO aggression against Yugoslavia," the
release issued in Belgrade said.

In March 2000 relations between Byelorussia and Yugoslavia have become
still more intensive in bilateral talks between the countires.

In March 2000 Yugoslavia and Iran inform about the aims to develope
their
mutual political and economic relations. Yugoslavia has also established
new political end economic relations with Myanmar Union (former Burma)
and
with Democratic People´s Republic of Laos.

USA and their EU-lackeys hoped for a catastrophe for Yugoslavia during
this
winter. What a disappointment. Electricity and heating work again in
Belgrade. Damages caused by the war are repaired quickly. The dirty US
effort by political-economic blackmailing of Yugoslavia does not work.
The
country builds on its own.

Imperialism wants to separate the Yugoslav Federation states. There have
been demonstrations for maintaining the federation both in Serbia and in
Montenegro.
Protests and demonstrations will be arranged on the anniversary of
NATO´s
attack on March 24th, 2000.

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DALLA SVEZIA

>PRESSRELEASE 2000-03-23
>
>One year after the bombing of Yugoslavia started, an appeal calling for
>an end to the sanctions against Yugoslavia was published in Sweden,
>signed by 70 prominent people, among them sportsmen, ex-ministers,
>bishops including the archbishop of Sweden, trade union presidents,
>members of parliament, scholars, representatives of the business
>community and from the cultural sector. I their appeal they point out
>the
>fact that those who suffer the most in Yugoslavia are old people and
>children but because reconstruction after the devastation is hampered,
>everybody in the population is suffering. They request the Swedish
>government to work for an end to the sanctions against Yugoslavia..
>
>The appeal and the names follow.
>
>Opinions and information: <erikgoethe@...>
>
>
>"END SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA!
>
>The sanctions against Yugoslavia have been going on for nearly ten
>years, inflicting tremendous supply problems and suffering upon the
>Yugoslav people, particularily after last year's bombing raids. They now
>try to endure with small food rations, and lack of medicins and fuel.
>Those who suffer the most are old people and children, and because
>reconstruction after the devastation is hampered, everybody in the
>population is suffering. Yugoslavia also has to bear the heavy burden of
>taking care of one million refugees who have fled to the country as a
>consequence of the wars in the Balkan.
>
>It is the traditional policy of Sweden to maintain normal inter state
>relations with all countries in agreement with the United Nation's rules
>and decisions. That principle should apply also in relation to
>Yugoslavia.
>
>The sanctions currently upheld against Yugoslavia are not decided by the
>United Nations. Sweden participates in these sanctions as decided by the
>Council of Ministers of the European Union.
>
>Humanitarian reasons as well as efforts to create peaceful conditions in
>Europe, and respect for the UNO Charter make it urgent to re-establish
>normal relations with Yugoslavia in all fields.
>
>We therefore request the Swedish government to work for an end to the
>sanctions against Yugoslavia.."
>
>
>ROY ANDERSSON, film director
>STEN ANDERSSON, MP (Moderate Party)
>LENNART ASPEGREN, ex-judge of UNO war crimes tribunal
>THORSTEIN BERGMAN, author, composer
>ANDERS BJÖRNSSON, editor of "Samtider", Svenska Dagbladet daily (indep.
>mod.)
>LENNART BODSTRÖM, ex-Minister for Foreign Affairs (Social Democratic
>Party) ambassador
>TOMAS BOLME, actor, president of Swedish Actors' Equity Association
>AL BURKE, chairman Society for a Living Future
>KNUT CARLQVIST, cultural editor Finanstidningen
>CURT CARLSSON, reporter Arbetet daily
>BICKY CHAKRABORTY, hotelière
>ANNA CHRISTENSEN, professor of civil law
>PETER CURMAN, author
>MALTE ERIKSSON, president of the Sw. Graphic Workers' Union
>BJÖRN VON DER ESCH, MP (Christian Democratic Party)
>GUNNAR FREDRIKSSON, author
>JONAS DE GEER, editor of the Conservative Cultural Magazine Salt
>GÖRAN GREIDER, chief editor of Dala-Demokraten daily (Soc. Dem.)
>LOTTA GRÖNING, chief editor of Norrländska Socialdemokraten daily (Soc.
>Dem.)
>JAN GUILLOU, author
>BENGT GÖRANSSON, ex-minister of Cultural Affairs (Social Democratic
>Party)
>JAN HAGBERG, chefaktuarie, Dr. of Technology
>ROLF HAGEL, party leader (Swedish Communist Party), ex-MP
>MOHSEN HAKIM, university teacher
>BIRGITTA HAMBRAEUS, ex-MP (Centre Party)
>K G HAMMAR, archbishop of the Swedish Church
>PETER PAUL HEINEMAN, Dr. of Medicin, "Mr. radio doctor"
>C H HERMANSSON, ex party leader (Left Party), ex-MP
>TOM HEYMAN, MP (Moderate Party)
>JOACHIM ISRAEL, professor emeritus
>LENA ISRAEL, universitety lecturer
>THURE JADESTIG, ex-MP (Social Democratic Party)
>NINEL JANSSON, president of the Commercial Employees' Union
>REIDAR JÖNSSON, author
>GUN KESSLE, artist, photographer
>KALLE LARSSON, MP (Left Party)
>CARL LIDBOM, ex-minister of Justice and Foreign affairs (Social
>Democratic Party) ambassador
>SVEN-ERIC LIEDMAN, professor of science history
>MARTIN LIND, bishop diocese of Linköping
>JENNY LINDAHL, chairwomen of the Young Left,
>TAGE LINDBOM, Dr. Phil.
>TANJA LINDEBORG MP (Left Party), chairwomen of the Swedish Parliament
>Law Committee
>KJELL MAGNUSSON, peace researcher
>SAID MAHMOUDI, professor of international law
>JAN MYRDAL, author
>MARGARETA NORLIN, journalist
>NEBOJSA NOVAKOVIC, football player AIK
>ANDERS R. OLSSON, journalist, author
>LARS OHLY, MP and party secretary (Left Party)
>SUZANNE OSTEN, filmdirector, professor of the Dramatic Institute
>DAG SANDAHL, assistant vicar
>LASSE SANDLIN, sports columnist Aftonbladet daily
>HARRY SCHEIN, managing director
>BENGT SILFVERSTRAND, MP (Social Democratic Party)
>RIGMOR STENMARK, MP (Centre Party)
>MAJ-BRITT THEORIN, MEP (Social Democratic Party)
>HANS TOLLIN, Preacher of the Royal Court
>TORBJÖRN TÄNNSJÖ, professor of practical philosophy
>CECILIA VENNERSTEN, singer
>LJUBOMIR VRANJES, handball-player
>DAN WAERN, 1500-m runner
>HANS WAHLSTRÖM, president of the Swe. Transport Workers' Union
>MAJ WECHSELMAN, film director
>KARIN WEGESTÅL, MP (Social Democratic Party)
>SÖREN WIBE, professor of Forest Economy and ex-MEP (Social Dem.)
>ERIK WIJK, author
>CLAES-BERTIL YTTERBERG, bishop diocese of Västerås
>MIRO ZALAR, track and field coach and ex-pole-vaulter
>MARGARETA ZETTERSTRÖM, author
>JAN ÖBERG, peace researcher, director Transnational Foundation for Peace
>and Future Research
>
>
>
>
>
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ROMA 25/3: CORTEO NO, MA TUTTI A PIAZZA SS. APOSTOLI!

Comunicato stampa
Ad un anno dalla guerra contro la Jugoslavia
Sabato 25 marzo ci sarà una manifestazione a piazza SS. Apostoli
(o è più importante il derby ?)
Per denunciare i crimini di guerra commessi dalla NATO con i
bombardamenti
di un anno fa sulla Jugoslavia, un ampio cartello di associazioni,
centri
sociali e organizzazioni sindacali di base, ha convocato una
manifestazione
a Piazza SS. Apostoli il prossimo sabato 25 marzo alle ore 17.30.
Gli organizzatori intendono denunciare anche la nuova escalation della
tensione nella regione balcanica nella quale più di qualche osservatore
intravede nuovi scenari di guerra. In questo senso appare grave la
decisione
del governo D'Alema di inviare altri soldati italiani in Kosovo nel
quadro
della vera e propria occupazione militare da parte dei contingenti NATO.
Le forze promotrici della manifestazione intendono denunciare anche le
difficoltà interposte dalla Questura di Roma allo svolgimento della
stessa.
Inizialmente avevamo chiesto di poter svolgere un corteo da piazza della
Repubblica ma è stato negato per motivi di ordine pubblico dovuti alla
coincidenza con il derby tra Roma e Lazio. Abbiamo accettato di tenere
la
manifestazione in piazza SS. Apostoli per venire incontro a queste
esigenze,
ma la Questura ha preteso di tenerla in un orario impossibile (tra il
primo
e il secondo tempo del derby! ovvero dalle 15.30-16.30) mettendo sullo
stesso piano i problemi che possono derivare dal cosiddetto "teppismo
negli
stadi" con quelli di una pacifica manifestazione contro la guerra.
Questo condizionamento appare decisamente inaccettabile. Accettato una
volta, la prossima occasione ci verrà detto anche quali striscioni
portare o
quali contenuti esprimere..E' evidente il tentativo del governo di
mettere
"una pietra sopra" alle sue responsabilità passate e presenti nella
guerra
contro la Jugoslavia (fattore che ha provocato profonde lacerazioni
politiche e morali nel "popolo della sinistra")
Per questi motivi ribadiamo l'appuntamento per una manifestazione
pacifica
contro i crimini di guerra in Jugoslavia un anno fa e il rischio che si
ripetano
a Piazza SS. Apostoli alle ore 17.30 per sabato 25 marzo.
Convoglio internazionalista Giorgiana Masi, Forum per il Diritto a
Comunicare, Scienziati contro la Guerra, Radio Città Aperta,
Rappresentanze
Sindacali di Base, la Sezione italiana del Tribunale Clark, compagni e
compagne precari e fuorisede, Unione Popolare, Centro Documentazione
Internazionalista, Rete dei Comunisti, Democrazia Popolare-Sinistra
Unita,
AIASP, Operatori Volontari Difesa, Associazione Internazionalista
Operatori
Prima Infanzia, Comitato contro la repressione Mumia Abu Jamal,
Coordinamento romano per la Jugoslavia, Centro Sociale Intifada, Centro
Sociale "Ricomincio dal Faro", Lavoratrici e lavoratori della Fiat
Cassino.

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ROMA: LONTANO DAGLI OCCHI...

24 marzo 1999 24 marzo 2000

DOPO IL MASSACRO, L'OCCUPAZIONE MILITARE
FUORI LA NATO DALLA JUGOSLAVIA!

Quante cose, belle e brutte, accadono
Lontano dagli occhi
Quante persone vivono, soffrono, gioiscono e muoiono
Lontano dagli occhi

Quante cose vengono fatte solo
Lontano dagli occhi
Quante persone mandiamo via perché siano
Lontano dagli occhi

Per vedere tutto questo
Bisogna allenare meglio il nostro cuore

LONTANO DAGLI OCCHI...

Mercoledì 29 marzo 2000

Circolo Arci “Musillo”
Via Labicana 29 – Roma

ore 18,30
Incontro: Quante cose stanno accadendo nei Balcani?
Partecipano:
Carlo Pona – Ricercatore ENEA – Comitato scienziate e scienziati contro
la
guerra
Draghiza Soskic - critica jugoslava
Sergio Giovagnoli – Arci Solidarietà
Mauro Cristaldi – Prof. Anatomia comparata Univ. La Sapienza

ore 21,00
Il video di Krusewitz sui danni ambientali in Jugoslavia dopo i
bombardamenti della NATO.
A seguire musica gitana (e non) dal vivo, e…

Un compleanno di solidarietà: un invito a tutti i nati di marzo,
febbraio e
gennaio ad un festeggiamento di solidarietà con la popolazione yugoslava
colpita dalla guerra e con i ROM deportati in Bosnia dal comune di Roma


Il ricavato della serata verrà destinato a finanziare una azione di
solidarietà con il comune di Rakovica (Belgrado) e a dare sostegno ai
Rom
del Campo di Tor de' Cenci deportati in Bosnia dal Comune di Roma.

Promuovono: Comitato contro la guerra di Centocelle, Coordinamento
universitario contro le guerre, ARCI Solidarietà del Lazio, Ass. Cult.
Il
Geranio


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BERLINO

Betreff: Demo 24.3.
Datum: Donnerstag, 23. März 2000 14:33

Aufruf zum Jahrestag des Beginnes der NATO-Bombardierung Jugoslawiens

Zuerst wirtschaftliche Sanktionen, dann NATO- Angriff auf Jugoslawien,
begleitet
von Zerstörung ziviler Ziele und der Infrastruktur. Der Einsatz von
Uranmunition,
Splitter- und Streubomben und auch die ökologische Kriegführung waren
Teil einer
Strategie zur Disziplinierung und Unterwerfung sowie zur Verwirklichung
der
globalen Interessen von Großmächten.
Dies alles ungeachtet des Völkerrechts, der UNO- Resolutionen Nr. 75/1
und 130,
als auch anderem internationalen und nationalen Rechts.
Jetzt wird unter KFOR- Aufsicht der Krieg fortgesetzt. Die Spaltung
Jugoslawiens
wird aktiv weiterbetrieben. Die Unterdrückung und Gräueltaten durch die
UCK gegen
alle politisch andersdenkenden Bevölkerungsteile, ungeachtet sogenannter
ethnischer Definitionen werden faktisch hingenommen. Die Besetzung des
Kosovo
durch die NATO führt aktuell zur Gefahr weiterer militärischer
Eskalationen.
Menschliches Leid ist nicht wieder gutzumachen, die Toten können nicht
ins Leben
zurückgerufen werden. Es können aber die materiellen Schäden behoben
werden. Aus
Solidarität und Mitgefühl mit den Opfern der "humanitären Intervention"
fordern
wir von allen an der Aggression beteiligten Ländern:
· Schadensersatzleistungen für alle Kriegsschäden. Sofortiger
Wiederaufbau,
jedoch nicht im Geschäftsinteresse westlicher Konzerne.
· Vollständige Aufhebung aller Wirtschaftssanktionen und die
Entkopplung
von humanitärer Hilfe und politischem Wohlverhalten.
· Die Vertreibungen und den Terror der UCK gegen alle anderen
politischen
gesellschaftlichen Kräfte sofort unterbinden!
· Die Anwendung der UNO- Resolution 1244 (Rückkehr aller
Flüchtlinge, Gleichberechtigung für alle nationalen Gemeinschaften,
Verbleib
des Kosovo bei Serbien und der Bundesrepublik Jugoslawien).
· Abzug aller NATO- Truppen vom Balkan.
· Verbot des Einsatzes deutscher Soldaten im Ausland.
· Stopp des Exports von Kriegswaffen, Rüstungsmaterialien und
Kleinwaffen.

Demonstration 24. März 2000
18 Uhr Adenauerplatz (U7)
Kundgebung
19 Uhr Breitscheidplatz (S & U Zoo)

Berliner Bündnis von Friedens-, Antifa- und Internationalismusgruppen
V.i.S.d. P.: Laura von Wimmersperg, Hauptstraße 37, 10827 Berlin

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FIRENZE

sabato 25 marzo

CPA-Fi sud
Viale Giannotti 79, Firenze
Serata di solidarietà con
i lavoratori jugoslavi della Zastava
ore 20,30
Cena popolare di solidarietà

ore 21,30
Proiezione video realizzato dai lavoratori della Zastava
Dibattito per rilanciare l'attenzione sulla Jugoslavia
a cui interverrà Giacomo Scotti

ore 23,30
Concerto
n.b. tutto il ricavato sarà devoluto al fondo nazionale di
solidarietà con il popolo jugoslavo

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MILANO



JUGOSLAVIA: MARZO 1999 - MARZO 2000

LA GUERRA CONTINUA

SABATO, 25.MARZO 2000. ORE 11,00

CONCENTRAMENTI LARGO DONEGANI



OSSERVATORIO DI MILANO - ASSOCIAZIONE ITALO-JUGOSLAVA

PROMUOVONO

UN CORTEO DI MEMORIA E PROTESTA

CONTRO L?EMBARGO ALLA JUGOSLAVIA

LE VIOLENZE CONTRO SERBI E ROM



PROGRAMMA

ORE 11,30 PARTENZA DA LARGO DONEGANI, DOPO IL SUONO DELLA
SIRENA

ORE 12,00 IN PIAZZA SCALA, SARANNO ACCESE DELLE CANDELE

PER RICORDARE I MORTI CAUSATI DAI BOMBARDAMENTI
"UMANITARI" DELLA NATO.



NEL OCCASIONE IL DIRETTORE DEL OSSERVATORIO DI MILANO
RENDERA? PUBBLICO IL DOCUMENTO SULL? ATTUALE STATO
DELLA SERBIA E DEL KOSOVO, CONSEGNATO AL PONTEFICE
GIOVANNI PAOLO II NELL? UDIENZA DELL?8.MARZO.


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* Balkanac (D. Maksimovic)
* Ai lavoratori italiani... (M. Simovic)
* We are the ones (N. Pavic)
* Prkosna Pesma (D. Eric)
* Il buon senso (I. Slavo)


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BALKANAC (Desenka Maksimovic)


Ne stidim se sto sam-
kako vi velite-
varvarin sa Balkana
tla prljavstine i bure.
Cucete sad
i kod nas ima neke
vama nepoznate kulture.

Vi prvo ispitujete i sumnjate
daleki ste i od rodjenih sinova,
za trpezu svoju ne posadite
svakog tudjina.
Vi mozete da pijete
a da svakom ne pruzite
case vina.

A kod nas su jos obicaji grubi
mi pustamo svakog pod svoje sleme,
kod nas se jos i s namernikom ljubi,
kod nas se podvizi zbog gostoljublja cine,
kod nas svaki covjek ima
citavo pleme
prijatelja i rodbine.

Vi,doista,imate
nekoliko miliona Hristovih kipova
na svakog covjeka po jednoga
imaju ga drumovi i polja,apsane i skole,
a kod nas,kad ljudi veruju u Boga
u sebi ga nose
i tiho mu se
skoro u snu,mole.

Vi,istina,za svaki kut zivota
imate sprava i masina,
sve ste sracunali i sve znate
izumi vasi su za divljenje,
a mi jos imamo starinske alate,
ali sve je kod nas jos zdravo
i prirodno ko glina
i umiranje,i radjanj,i zivljenje.

Vi imate citave zbirke
pravila i nauka o slobodi
o svemu se kod vas pise i pripoveda
ali mi po nepisanim zakonima
slobodno zivimo
i nekog prirodnog drzimo se reda
slicno ognju,vetru i vodi.

Kod vas je zbilja sve tacno propisano
kako se jede,govori i oblaci,
a mi kad govorimo,vicemo
i masemo rukama
i corbu glasno srcemo
i u rukavicama smo
obucu nosimo od svinjske koze,
puno je kod nas seljackih navika i stvari
i kraljevski preci nasi
doista su bili govedari.

Narod nas,zbilja,u gnevu moze da kolje
rusi i pali,
ali mi nismo oni sto smisleno tlace
mi ne smatramo da je svet celi nase polje
mi ne bismo podneli
ni urodjenik prasumski da zbog nas place.

Dusa je nasa prostrana
iako smo brojem mali.

-

"The Balkan Character" (Desenka Maksimovic)

I am not ashamed to be -
as you say -
a Barbarian from the Balkans:
that soil of dirt and tempest.
You will hear now
we also have some,
unknown to you, culture.

You first examine and doubt,
estranged you are even from your own sons,
and you do not invite just anyone
at your abundant tables.
You can drink,
yet not offer to everyone
a glass of wine.

Yet by us the customs are rough
we let everyone under our roof,
by us we kiss even the stranger,
by us heroic deeds are done in the name of hospitality,
by us every man has
a whole tribe
of friends and relatives.

You do, truth is, have
a few million statues of Christ
one for everyone of you
on your roads and fields, in your jails and schools,
but by us, when people believe in God
they carry Him within
and quietly, as in a dream, they
pray to Him.

You have, truth is, for every aspect of life
devices and machines,
you've calculated all and omniscient you are,
your inventions are marvelous,
but we still use obsolete tools,
yet everything by us is still healthy,
and natural as clay
dying, giving birth, and living.

You have entire collections
of rules and sciences on freedom
you write and speak of everything
but we, by unwritten laws,
freely live
and keep to some natural order
like the fire, wind and water.

By you, everything really is precisely prescribed
how to eat, speak and dress,
yet when we speak - we shout
and wave our arms
and we slurp our soup
and we wear gloves
and shoes of pig's leather,
there are many peasant habits and things by us
and even those royal ancestors of ours
really were a cow-herding lot.

Our people, the truth is, can slaughter in rage
bring down and burn,
but we are not of those who deliberately oppress
we do not consider the whole world as our field
we could not stand
even that natives in the jungles cry because of us.

Our soul is all-embracing
although our numbers are small.


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Da Simovic Milica ai lavoratori Italiani ed ai loro figli

Dov' questo mare delle lacrime dei bambini
che ogni giorno diventa pi grande ............
Si trova forse su qualche carta geografica
perch lo veda tutto il mondo ?

Si abbattuta una tempesta feroce
su questo pallido mare delle lacrime dei bambini
E' stata la tempesta a distruggere i sogni ...
oppure stato il frutto delle mani di qualcuno ?

Per i bambini hanno trovato l'aiuto di qualcuno
di quelle persone che combattono per i diritti dei bambini
Persone che amano e che saranno amate
perch questo si chiama amicizia


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WE ARE THE ONES

WE are the ones,
The mighty ones!
That stand with honor and pride.
Though fear may knock us down,
Two seconds or so...
We rise!
Again...
We stand straight and tall,
Defending what is ours...
With our souls.
We fought for centuries like that.
Until lies to all the other ones,
Have been told...
They told the world,
That we were the enemy,
They provided false proof.
Lies were told to the world
That we were the enemy,
And must be destroyed...
What happened to us?
The world shall ask tomorrow.
Yet only we know...
The truth...

(Natalija Pavic, 12 years old, Toronto)


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Prkosna pesma (Dobrica Eric)

Ja
kci Bozja
Srbija
izjavljujem dragovoljno
kroz lance i zicu
pred svedocima
Silom, Mukom i Nepravdom
da kriva sam i da priznajem krivicu!

Kriva sam sto sam neko
a ne niko i netko
Kriva sam sto u doba
opsteg Srbobrsta
idem u pravoslavnu crkvu
doduse, poretko
i sto se krstim ovako
s tri prsta!

Kriva sam sto jesam
a treba da nisam
Kriva sam odavno
sto stojim uspravno
i gledam u nebo, umesto u travu
Kriva sam sto se drznuh
protiv krivde
kriva sam
sto opet slavim svoju krsnu slavu!

Kriva sam sto pisem i citam
cirilicom

Kriva sam sto pevam
smejem se i psujem
(a ponekad i lajem)

Kriva sam, i priznajem
da ne znam sto znam, i da znam sto,
ne znam

Kriva sam i da zavrsim
s najvecom krivicom
(pre nego sto se zacenim od smeha)
Kriva sam, tvrdoglavka
sto sam Pravoslavka
i Svetosavka i sto ne verujem
u sveti zlocin i oprostaj greha!
Kriva sam i gresna, dakle sto
postojim

i kad vec postojim i jos drsko stojim
sto bar ne priznam da ne postojim!

Ako to priznam
da sacuvam glavu
izgubicu casni krst i krsnu slavu
Ako ne priznam
crno mi se pise
ceo svet ce na moju Zemlju da kidise
Rulje bivsih ljudi
lopova i golja
copori robota i drugih monstruma
kidisanje na moje vocnjake i polja
i na moje bele kuce pored druma
oko kojih, kao najlepse odive
cvetaju tresnje, jabuke i sljive, (...)

Moja ruza slika
ozaerena lika
koju umnozavate u veceri i jutra
to je slika vase svesti i podsvesti
To nisam ja, spolja
to ste vi - iznutra!
Mnogo smo vazne
Zemljo moja mila
Ja i Moje sestre
Istina i Pravda
cim se na nas digla ovolika sila
cim su na nas zinule krivda
i nepravda.

Sta ce ovde dzihadlije
krstasi
ameri
koji Mi cerece sinove i kceri
Mora da su cule belosvetske bande
da imamo zlatna Srca
pa ih vade
da ih presade u sopstvene grudi
ne bi li i oni tako bili ljudi (...)

Ja se ne plasim smrti crne duge
vec ropskog zivota i bolesti duge
Smrt je cesta pojava medj nama Srbima
kao sto su prolece
leto
jesen
zima
I nije strasnija
pogotovo danju
od suse
poplave
zemljotresa
mraza
kad je covjek sretne na svome imanju
okadjene duse i svetla obraza,

Zlonamernici
siti i maniti
sve mi zabraniste u rodjenoj kuci
al ne moze mi niko zabraniti
da pevam i da se smejem, umiruci
A to se vama vise ne dogadja
ni kad svadbujete
ni kad, vam se radja!

Postedite me koca i konopca
i razapnite me na vrhu planina
kao vasi praoci sto su mog praoca
Isusa Hrista Nazarecanina.

Ja cu da gledam
a vi zazmurite
Inace ce vam se oci rasprsnuti
od sjaja mog lica
Samo pozurite
Sto me pre razapnete
pre cu vaskrsnuti!

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Spiteful Verses (Dobrica Eric)

I
divine daughter
Serbia
hereby freely state
with shackles and through the wire
before my witnesses
Force, Suffering and Injustice
that I am guilty and that I confess!

I am guilty of being someone
instead of no one or niemand
I am guilty of going
to the Orthodox church
in times of general Serb-hunt
and guilty of crossing myself
not too often though
thus, with three fingers!

I am guilty of existing
instead of being unreal.
I have a long standing guilt
of standing upright
and looking up to the sky
instead of down at the grass
I am guilty of daring
and challenging injustice
I am guilty of celebrating again
my family patron saint!

I am to blame for reading and writing
in Cyrillic

I am guilty of singing,
laughing and cursing
(and sometimes barking)

I am guilty, and I confess
that I do not know what I do,
and that I know why I don't know

I am guilty and to name
my greatest guilt
(before I die laughing)
I'm guilty - pig-headed as I am
of being Orthodox
devoted to St. Sava
and of not believing in
the Holy crime and the absolution!

My sin and my guilt is that I exist
and with all that I stand spitefully
refusing to confess I am not real!

Should I confess
to save my life
I will loose the sacred cross
and the patron saint.
Should I refuse
dire future awaits
the entire world will raid my land
Swarms of former men
Thieves and paupers
Packs of robots and other monsters yet
will pounce on my orchards and fields
and my little white houses along the roads
adorned by green goddesses
cherry, apple and plum trees (...)

My ugly image
With monstrous features
That you multiply morning and evening
It's the image
of your conscience and subconscience
That's not me on the outside
That's you - on the inside!
We are very important,
I and my sisters
Truth and Justice
for such mighty forces have rallied against us
and Wrong and Injustice are sneering at us.

Why are Jihad warriors
Crusaders or
Yanks
to quarter my sons and daughters
I suppose that foreign hordes have heard
that we have hearts of gold
and they are ripping them out
to replace their own
hoping to become human. (...)

I fear not death - the black conclusion
but slavery and endless sickness
Death is a common thing among us Serbs
Just like Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
and it is not so fearsome
especially in daylight
no more than the drought
flood
earthquake
frost
if one meets with it on his farm
his soul cleansed with incense
his honor untarnished.

Fiends
well-fed and deranged,
you've banned all in my own home,
but no one can stop me
from singing and laughing as I am dying!
For you no longer laugh or sing
neither on weddings
nor when a child is born!

Spare me the rope and the spear
and crucify me on a mountain top
as your forefathers did my forefather
Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

I will look on
and you close your eyes
for they might shatter
in the brightness of my face
hurry now,
crucify me this day
and I shall be resurrected sooner!


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IL BUON SENSO

Nati molto dopo il sessantotto, non urlavamo
per piacere
se occupammo scuole era per futili motivi
e ancora esplodiamo di rassegnazione.

Ma voi canaglie, esseri vuoti di morale,
voi reticenti sulle stragi della NATO
e complici di crimini di Stato
sciacalli, opportunisti, masnada di assassini

voi che il massimo di sforzo lo impiegate in battimani
a fare le troie e gli avvocati degli americani
con quel pessimo buon senso - vi dovreste vergognare
ancora nessuno vi ha presentato il conto da pagare.

Voi zitti su Jasenovac, voi bugiardi fino in cima,
che non avete mai memoria ne' speranza ne' autostima
e dopo trenta anni non capite ancora Piazza Fontana:
voi triste buoncostume, ignobili figli di puttana

noi - viceversa - non abbiamo da dimenticare
dobbiamo solo capire cosa andremo a raccontare
ai figli ed ai nipoti, ai popoli fratelli
voi decadenza, cimitero dei cervelli

(Italo Slavo)


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PARIGI

> From: Olga Daric
> To: crj@...
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 5:00 PM
> Subject: Godinu dana nato oruzane agresije na Jugoslaviju
>
>
> Dragi drugovi,
> dostavljavljam vam malu ispravku: Okupljanje u Parizu
> pocinje u 15 sati, a ne kako je prvobitno najavljeno u 17.
> Molim vas da to objavite ako je moguce. Dunque, la manifestazione è
> alle 15 h e non alle 17 h come inizialmente previsto. Inoltre, hanno
> adderito diverse alte associazioni e collettivi, ma non potendo io
> verificarlo, non ve ne rendo conto. Cari saluti.
> Smrt fasizmu, sloboda narodu!
> Olga Daric, lektor prevodilac (Tanjug 1973-1993)
> **************************************************************************************************************************
>
> 25. marta, Pariz u 15 h. na trgu Republike Skup mira protiv
> zlocinacke n a t o agresije.
>
> A PARIGI
> Sabato 25 marzo alle 15 h. in p.zza della Repubblica
> manifestazione pacifica per ricordare una guerra sanguinaria della
> n a t o
>
> organizzata da Comité pour la protection des droits de l' homme
> (informazioni tel. 01 48 58 50 86) Montreuil

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BRUXELLES - WIEN - LONDON

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A BRUXELLES : ON MANIFESTERA AUSSI CONTRE LES TUEURS DE L'OTAN !

Commémoration du 1er anniversaire des bombardements de la
yougoslavie par l'OTAN


Vendredi 24 mars 2000, à 18 heures
Place de Brouckère
Bruxelles

Organisée par le Comité pour la paix de la Ligue Anti-Impérialiste

NON A LA PROPAGANDE DE GUERRE
NON A L'EXTENSION DE L'OTAN

Site web: http://www.lai-aib.org/

LAI, 68 rue de la Caserne, B-1000 Bruxelles

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WIEN (OESTERREICH)


Pressekonferenzeinladung/Präsentation der Dokumentation des
Wiener-Tribunals/Demonstration anläßlich des ersten Jahrestages der
NATO-Aggression



Gedenk- und Protestdemonstration zum Jahrestag der NATO-Aggression
Utl.: Präsentation der Dokumentation des Wiener-Tribunals


Wien (OTS): Anläßlich des ersten Jahrestages des NATO-Militärschlages
gegen Jugoslawien wollen wir - Vertreter und Vertreterinnen des Wiener
Tribunals - den Opfern dieser Aggression gedenken und uns gegen die
damit
eingeleitete neue Weltordnung und eine weitere militärpolitische
Integration Österreichs aussprechen.

Vor diesem Hintergrund laden wir Sie als Wiener Tribunalkomitee
anläßlich

+ des Internationalen Gedenk- und Protestmarsches am 24. März 2000,
18.30 Uhr Parlament - 20.00 Uhr Karlsplatz/vor der Oper
Motto: "Nein zu Beistandspflicht, WEU und NATO! Kein Sozialabbau für
Aufrüstung! Erhalt der Neutralität!"

+ und der Erst-Präsentation der Dokumentation des Wiener-Tribunals


zur Pressekonferenz des Wiener-Tribunal-Komitees

am Donnerstag, den 23. März 2000, um 11.00 Uhr ins Cafe
Landtmann
herzlich ein.

Ein Jahr nach dem selbstmandatierten Einsatz, dem größten Militärschlag
in
der Geschichte der NATO, gilt es Bilanz zu ziehen.
Mit diesem selbstmandatierten Kampfeinsatz wurde das Völkerrecht
ausgehölt
und die Vereinten Nationen nachhaltig geschwächt. Sowohl die
"Washingtoner Erklärung der NATO" (April 1999), wie der EU-Beschluß von
Helsinki (Dezember 1999) erkennen nur mehr "eine vorrangige
Verantwortung
des Sicherheitsrats der Vereinten Nationen" an. Damit wird offen
ausgesprochen, daß die "unerläßliche(n) Nation(en)", denen die ewige
"Mission" zukomme die "Welt zu führen" (B. Clinton), letztlich auch
gewillt sind, ihre selbstausgerufene sekundäre Verantwortung "notfalls"
mittels einer Suspendierung der Vereinten Nationen wahrzunehmen.

Was immer auch an Menschenrechtsverletzungen vor und nach dem 24. März
1999 im Kosovo passiert sein mag, heute müßte zumindest zweierlei
auffallen: 1. Daß sich die den Krieg legitimierenden Vorwürfe, die sich
von "ethnischen Säuberungen" bis zum "Genozid" gesteigert haben, als
unhaltbar erwiesen haben. 2. Daß sich die Lage im Kosovo seit dem
Einrücken der NATO-geführten KFOR-Truppen nachweislich verschlimmert
hat,
Kriminalität und Terror durch die vom Westen zur "Befreiungsbewegung"
aufgewerteten Terrororganisation UCK auf der Tagesordnung stehen und
heute
weite Teile der Provinz, zumindest unter Duldung der NATO, tatsächlich
ethnisch gesäubert sind.

Gleichzeitig drängen die maßgeblichen Kräfte der österreichischen
Politik
in Richtung einer weiteren militärpolitischen Integration Österreichs.
Daher wurde bereits in den Koalitionsgesprächen zwischen der SPÖ und der
ÖVP festgelegt, im Falle eines nichtzustandekommens einer
EU-Beistandspflicht, direkte Verhandlungen mit der WEU und/oder NATO
aufzunehmen. Die neue Regierung hat dieses Ansinnen dankend in ihren
Koalititonspakt übernommen und stellt nun die Weichen auf eine
"vollumfängliche" Teilnahme Österreichs an künftigen Militärschlägen.

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Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB)
PF 217, A-1040 Wien, Österreich
joesb@...

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LONDON (UK)

Committee for Peace in the Balkans l Update No4 l Mar 2000

CONTENTS m First anniversary of NATO
bombing - Commemorative Rally details

FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF NATO BOMBING OF
YUGOSLAVIACOMMEMORATIVE RALLYOne year after NATO started bombing - speak
out against
NATO war crimes in Yugoslavia Speakers include:

Alice Mahon MP, reporting back from the second national Building
Bridges delegation to Yugoslavia on 17th
March
Tariq Ali editor of Masters of the Universe, NATO's Balkan
Crusade, which is about to be published
Felicity Arbuthnot writer specialising in depeleted uranium
Michael Gavrilovic British-Serbian Alliance for Peace
Philip Hammond media studies speciallist
Dave Knight Chair of CND
Jean Lambert MEP
Mark Steel writer

Friday 24th March7pm at Friends House, Euston Road, London NW1 (oppostie
Euston BR)Organised by the
Committee for Peace in the Balkans, supported by Campaign for Nuclear
DisarmamentThe rally will be followed by a
Candle-lit Vigil at Downing Street, 9.30pm to 10.30pm.Contact the
Committee for Peace in the Balkansc/o Alice Mahon MP,
House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
tel 0171 275 0164
email committee@...
web sit www.peaceinbalkans.freeserve.co.uk


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