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Federale di Jugoslavia. In particolare, i contributi seguenti sono le
testimonianze di JAMES BISSET, ex-ambasciatore canadese a Belgrado, ora
"indesiderato" nella stessa ambasciata canadese a Belgrado, e SERGE
TRIFKOVIC, professore di storia, responsabile per gli esteri di
"Chronicles - Magazine of American Culture".
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Author: James Bisset
Publisher/Date: February 2000
Title: Notes for address to Standing Committee Foreign Affairs and
International Trade (Ca)
1: Introduction
I wish to thank the committee for giving me the opportunity of speaking
this morning.
It is some comfort to know that although I was not allowed to speak to
anyone in the Canadian embassy in Belgrade during a recent visit there
that I am free to speak to members of the Canadian parliament.
I have been an out spoken critic of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. I
believe it to have been a tragic mistake -- a historic miscalculation
that will have far reaching implications.
When NATO bombs fell on Yugoslavia in the spring and summer of last year
they caused more than just death and destruction in that country. The
bombs also struck at the heart of international law and delivered a
serious blow to the framework of global security that since the end of
the second world war has protected all of us from the horrors of a
nuclear war.
Kosovo broke the ground rules for NATO engagement and the aggressive
military intervention by NATO into the affairs of a sovereign state for
other than defensive purposes marked an ominous turning point in the
aims and objectives of that organization. It is important that we
understand this and seek clarification as to whether this was a
"one-off" aberration or a signal of fundamental change in the nature and
purposes of the organization. This is something the committee might well
examine in the course of its work.
2: An Illegal War
NATO's war in Kosovo was conducted without the approval of the United
Nations Security Council. It was a violation of international law, the
United Nations charter and its own article 1, which requires NATO to
settle any international disputes by peaceful means and not to threaten
or use force, "in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the
United Nations."
Apologists for NATO including our own foreign and defence ministers try
to avoid this issue by simply not mentioning it. There has been no
attempt to explain why the United Nations Security Council was ignored.
No effort to spell out under whose authority did NATO bomb Yugoslavia.
The ministers and their officials continue to justify the air strikes on
the grounds that the bombs were necessary to stop ethnic cleansing and
atrocities, despite all the evidence that by far the bulk of the ethnic
cleansing took place after the bombing not before it. It was the bombing
that triggered off the worst of the ethnic cleansing.
As for the atrocities it now seems that here again we were lied to about
the extent of the crimes commited. United States Secretary of Defence
Cohen told us that at least 100,000 Kosovars had perished. Tony Blair
spoke of genocide being carried out in Kosovo. The media relished in
these atrocity stories and printed every story told to them by Albanian,
"eye witnesses." The myth that the war was to stop ethnic cleansing and
atrocities contiues to be perpetrated by department spokesmen and large
parts of the media.
No one wants to defend atrocities and the numbers game in such
circumstances becomes sordid. Nevertheless numbers do become important
if they are used to justify military action against a sovereign state.
in the case of Kosovo it appears that about 2000 people were killed
there prior to the NATO bombing. considering that a civil war had been
underway since 1993 this is not a remarkable figure and compared with a
great many other hot spots hardly enough to warrant a 79-day bombing
campaign. It is also interesting to note that the UN tribunal
indictement of Milosovic of May 1999, cites only one incident of deaths
before the bombing -- the infamous Racak incident -- which itself is
challenged by French journalists who were on the ground there and
suspect a frame-up involving US General Walker who sounded the alarm.
The Kosovo "war" reveals disturbing evidence of how lies and duplicity
can mislead us into accepting things that we instinctively know to be
wrong. Jamie Shea and other NATO apologists have lied to us about the
bombing. The sad thing is that most of the Canadian media, and our
political representatives have accepted without question what has been
told to us by NATO and our own foreign affairs spokesmen.
3: An Unecessary War
perhaps the most serious charge against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
is that it was unnecessary. NATO chose bombing over diplomacy. Violence
over negotiation. NATO's leaders tried to convince us that dropping tons
of bombs on Yugoslavia was serving humanitarian purposes.
A UN Security Council resolution of October 1998 accepted by Yugoslavia,
authorized over 1300 monitors from the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe [OSCE] to enter Kosovo and try to de-escalate the
fighting. from the accounts of a number of these monitors their task was
successful. While cease-fire violations continued on both sides the
intensity of the armed struggle was considerably abated.
The former Czech foreign minister, Jiri Dienstbier, and Canada's own
Rollie Keith of Vancouver -- both monitors for the OSCE on the ground in
Kosovo -- have publicly stated that there were no international refugees
over the last five months of the OSCE's presence in Kosovo and the
number of internally displaced only amounted to a few thousands in the
weeks leading up to the bombing.
The OSCE mission demonstrated that diplomacy and negotiation might well
have resolved the Kosovo problem without resorting to the use of force.
It was the failure of the United States to accept any flexibility in its
dealing with Belgrade in the weeks leading up to the war that spelled
diplomatic failure.
The adamant refusal of the USA to involve either the Russians or the
United Nations in the negotiations. The refusal to allow any other
intermediary to deal with Milosovic and finally the imposition of the
Rambouillet ultimatum which was clearly designed to ensure that
Yugoslavia had no choice but to refuse its insulting terms.
It is now generally accepted by those who have seen the Rambouillet
agreement that no sovereign state could have agreed to its conditions.
The insistence of allowing acess to all of Yugoslavia by NATO forces and
the demand that a referendum on autonomy be held within three years
guaranteed a Serbian rejection.
The Serbian parliament did, however, on March 23, state a willingness to
"examine the character and extent of an international presence in Kosovo
immediately after the signing of an autonomy accord acceptable to all
national communities in Kosovo, the local Serb minority included. " The
United States was not interested in pursuing this offer. NATO needed its
war. NATO's formal commitment to resolve international disputes by
peaceful means was thrown out the window.
The Rambouillet document itself was not easily obtained from NATO
sources. The chairman of the defence committee of the French National
Assembly asked for a copy shortly after the bombing commenced but was
not given a copy until a few days before the UN peace treaty was signed.
I hope that members of this committee have a copy to look at and will be
able to find out when and if Canada was informed of its conditions.
4: NATO's campaign a total failure
We have been asked to believe that the war in Kosovo was fought for
human rights. Indeed the president of the Czech republic received a
standing ovation in this House of Commons when he stated that Kosovo was
the first war fought for human values rather than territory. I suspect
even President Havel would have second thoughts about that statement now
that a large part of Yugoslav territory has in effect been handed over
to the Albanians.
The war allegedly to stop ethnic cleansing has not done so. Serbs
Gypsies, Jews, and Slav muslims are being forced out of Kosovo under the
eyes of 45,000 NATO troops. Murder and anarchy reigns supreme in Kosovo
as the KLA and criminal elements have taken charge. The United Nations
admits failure to control the situation and warns Serbs not to return.
The war allegedly to restore stability to the Balkans has done the
opposite.Yugoslavia's neighbors are in a state of turmoil. Montenegro is
on the edge of civil war. Macedonia is now worried that Kosovo has shown
the way for its own sizeable Albanian minority to demand
self-determination. Albania has been encouraged to strive harder to
fulfill its dream of greater Albania. Serbia itself has been ruined
economically. Embittered and disillusioned it feels betrayed and
alienated from the western democracies.
The illegal and unecessary war has alienated the other great nuclear
powers, Russia and China. These countries are now convinced that the
west cannot be trusted. NATO expansion eastward is seen as an aggressive
and hostile threat and will be answered by an increase in the nuclear
arsenal of both nations. After Kosovo who can with any conviction
convince them that NATO is purely a defensive alliance dedicated to
peace and to upholding the principles of the United Nations?
More seriously the NATO bombing has destroyed NATO's credibility. NATO
stood for more than just a powerful military organization. It stood for
peace; the rule of law, and democratic institutions. The bombing of
Yugoslavia threw all of that out the window.
No longer can NATO stand on the moral high ground. Its action in
Yugoslavia revealed it to be an aggressive military machine prepared to
ignore international law and intervene with deadly force in the internal
affairs of any state with whose actions or behaviour it does not agree.
5: Conclusions
There are those who believe that the long standing principle of state
sovereignty can be over ruled when human rights violations are taking
place in a country. Until Kosovo the ground rules for such intervention
called for Security Council authority before such action could be taken.
Apologists for NATO argue that it was unlikely Security Council
authority could have been obtained because of the veto power of China or
Russia. So it would appear rather than even try to get consent NATO took
upon itself the powers of the Security Council. I am not sure we should
all be comfortable with this development.
Undoubtedly there may be times when such intervention is justified and
immediately Rwanda comes to mind -- but intervention for humanitarian
reasons is a dangerous concept. Because who is to decide when to take
such action and under whose authority? Hitler intervened in
Czechoslovakia because he claimed the human rights of the Sudeten
Germans were being violated. Those who advocate a change in the current
rules for intervention are free to do so but until the rules change
should we not all obey the ones that still have legitimacy?
NATO made a serious mistake in Kosovo. Its bombing campaign was not only
an unmitigated disaster but it changed fundamentally the very nature and
purposes of the alliance. Does article 1 of the NATO treaty still stand?
Does NATO still undertake to settle any international disputes in which
it may become involved by peaceful means? Do the NATO countries still
undertake to refrain in their international relations from the threat or
use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the united
nations?
Kosovo should serve as a warning call that Canadian democracy needs a
shot in the arm to wake it up to the realities that foreign policy is
important--important because as happened one day last march Canadians
can wake up and find they are at war. Canadian pilots were bombing
Serbia. yet there was no declaration of war. The Canadian parliament was
not consulted. The majority of the Canadian people had no idea where
Kosovo was -- let alone understand why our aircraft were bombing cities
in a fellow nation state that had been a staunch ally during two world
wars.
It was not only Yugoslav soverignty that was violated by NATO's illegal
action. Canadian sovereignty was also abused. Canada had become involved
in a war without any member of the Canadian parliament or the Canadian
people being consulted.the ultimate expression of a nation's sovereignty
is the right to declare war. NATO abrogated this right.
If it essential that we give up some of our sovereignty as the price we
pay for membership in global institutons such as NATO then it is
mandatory that such institutions follow their own rules, respect thrule
of law, and operate within the generally accepted framework of the
United Nations charter. This NATO did not do. It is for this reason I
would suggest your committee must ask some tough questions about the
nature of Canada's involvement in the Kosovo war.
(James Bisset is the former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia, who was
recently physically barred by the Canadian government from entering the
embassy in Belgrade.)
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Testimony by S. Trifkovic, House of Commons SCFAIT, Ottawa, 17/02/2000
GEO-POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF NATO INTERVENTION IN KOSOVO
Testimony by S. Trifkovic
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
House of Commons, Ottawa, February 17, 2000
The war waged by NATO against Yugoslavia in 1999 marks a significant
turning point, not only for America and NATO but also for “the West” as
a
whole. The principle of state sovereignty, and of the rule of law
itself, has
been subverted in the name of an allegedly humanitarian ideology. Facts
have been converted into fiction, and even the fictions invoked to
justify
the act are giving up all pretense to credibility. Old systems for the
protection of
national liberties, political, legal and economic, have now been
subverted into vehicles for their destruction. But so far from
demonstrating
the vigor of Western ruling elites in their ruthless pursuit of an
ideology of
multi-ethnic democracy and international human rights, the whole Balkan
entanglement may be as a disturbing revelation of those ruling elites’
moral and cultural decay. I shall therefore devote my remarks to the
consequences of the war for the emerging new international system, and –
ultimately – for the security and stability of the Western world itself.
Almost a decade separated ‘Desert Storm’ from ‘Humanitarian Bombing.’ In
1991 the Maastricht Treaty was signed, and the rest of the decade has
brought the gradual usurpation of traditional European sovereignty by a
corporate-controlled Brussels regime of unelected bureaucrats who now
feel
bold enough to tell Austria how to run its domestic affairs. On this
side
of the ocean we had the passage of NAFTA and in 1995 the Uruguay round
of GATT gave us the WTO. The nineties were thus a decade of gradual
foundation laying for the new international order. The denigration of
sovereign nationhood hypnotized the public into applauding the
dismantling
of the very institutions that offered the only hope of representative
empowerment. The process is sufficiently far advanced for President
Clinton to claim (“A Just and Necessary War,” NYT, May 23, 1999) that,
had
it not bombed Serbia, "NATO itself would have been discredited for
failing
to defend the very values that give it meaning."
The war was in fact both unjust and unnecessary, but the significance of
Mr. Clinton’s statement is in that he has openly declared null and void
the international system in existence ever since the Peace of Westphalia
(1648). It was an imperfect and often violated system, but nevertheless
it
provided the basis for international discourse from which only the
assorted red and black totalitarians have openly deviated. Since 24
March
1999 this is being replaced by the emerging Clinton Doctrine, a carbon
copy of the Brezhnev doctrine of limited sovereignty that supposedly
justified the Soviet-led occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Like his
Soviet predecessor, Mr. Clinton used an abstract and ideologically
loaded
notion - that of universal “human rights” - as the pretext to violate
the law and
tradition. The Clinton Doctrine is rooted in the bipartisan hubris of
Washington’s foreign policy “elite,” tipsy on its own heady brew of the
“world’s last and only superpower.” Legal formalities are passé, and
moral
imperatives - never sacrosanct in international affairs - are replaced
by
a cynical exercise in situational morality, dependent on an actor’s
position within the superpower ’s value system.
And so imperial high-mindedness is back, but in a new form. Old
religion, national flags and nationalist rivalry play no part. But the
yearning
for excitement and importance, that took the British to Peking, Kabul
and
Khartoum, the French to Fashoda and Saigon, and the Americans to Manila,
has now re-emerged. As a result a war was waged on an independent nation
because it refused foreign troops on its soil. All other justifications
are post facto rationalizations. The powers that waged that war have
aided
and abetted secession by an ethnic minority, secession that – once
formally
effected - will render many European borders tentative. In the context
of
any other European nation the story would sound surreal. The Serbs,
however, have been demonized to the point where they must not presume to
be treated like others.
But the fact that the West could do anything it chose to the Serbs does
not explain why it should. It is hardly worth refuting, yet again, the
feeble excuses for intervention. “Humanitarian” argument has been
invoked.
But what about Kashmir, Sudan, Uganda, Angola, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka,
Algeria? Properly videotaped and Amanpourized, each would be good for a
dozen “Kosovos”. There was no “genocide,” of course. Compared to the
killing fields of the Third World Kosovo was an unremarkable,
low-intensity conflict, uglier perhaps than Northern Ireland a decade
ago,
but much less so than Kurdistan. A total of 2,108 fatalities on all
sides
in Kosovo until June 1999, in a province of over two million, favorably
compares to the annual homicide tally of 450 in Washington D.C.
(population 600,000). Counting corpses is poor form, but bearing in mind
the brutalities and “ethnic cleansings” ignored by NATO - or even
condoned, notably in Croatia in 1995, or in eastern Turkey - it is clear
that “Kosovo” is not about universal principles. In Washington Abdullah
Ocalan is a terrorist, but KLA are freedom fighters.
What was it about, then? “Regional stability”, we were told next: if we
didn ’t stop the conflict it would engulf Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, the
whole of the Balkans in fact, with much of Europe to follow. But the
cure
- bombing Serbia into detaching an ethnically pure-Albanian Kosovo to
the
KLA narco-mafia, under NATO’s benevolent eye – will unleash a chain
reaction throughout the ex-Communist half of Europe. Its first victim
will be
the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, where the restive Albanian
minority comprises a third of the total population. And will the
Pristina
model not be demanded by the Hungarians in Rumania (more numerous
than Kosovo’s Albanians), and in southern Slovakia? What will stop the
Russians in the Ukraine, in Moldova, in Estonia, and in northern
Kazakhstan from following suit? Or the Serbs and Croats in the
chronically
unstable and unviable Dayton-Bosnia? And finally, when the Albanians get
their secession on the grounds of their numbers, will the same apply
when
the Latinos in southern California or Texas eventually outnumber their
Anglo
neighbors and start demanding bilingual statehood, leading to
reunification
with Mexico? Are Russia and China to threaten the United States with
bombing if Washington does not comply?
The outcome in Kosovo, for now, is in line with a deeply flawed model of
the new Balkan order that seeks to satisfy the aspirations of all ethnic
groups in former Yugoslavia - except the Serbs. This is a disastrous
strategy for all concerned. Even if forced into submission now, the
Serbs
shall have no stake in the ensuing order of things. Sooner or later they
will fight to recover Kosovo. The Carthaginian peace imposed on the
Serbs
today will cause chronic imbalance and strife for decades to come. It
will
entangle the West in a Balkan quagmire, and guarantee a new war as soon
as Mr. Clinton’s successors lose interest in underwriting the ill-gotten
gains
of America’s Balkan clients.
NATO has won, for now, but “the West” has lost. The war has undermined
the very principles that constitute the West, namely the rule of law.
The
notion of “human rights” can never provide a basis for either the rule
of
law or morality. “Universal human rights,” detached from any rootedness
in
time or place, will be open to the latest whim of outrage or the latest
fad for victimhood. The misguided effort to transform NATO from a
defensive alliance into a mini-U.N. with “out-of-area” self-appointed
responsibilities, is a certain road to more Bosnias and more Kosovos
down
the line. Now that the Clintonistas and NATO were “successful” in
Kosovo,
we can expect new and even more dangerous adventures elsewhere. But
next time around the Russians, Chinese, Indians and others will know
better than to buy the slogans about free markets and democratic human
rights, and the future of “the West” in the eventually inevitable
conflict may
be uncertain. Canada should ponder the implications of this course, and
gather the courage to say “no” to global interventionism – for its own
sake,
and for the sake of peace and stability in the world. Is it really
obliged to
watch in undissenting submission as a long, dangerous military
experiment
is mounted which will lead us to a real war for Central Asia? Will it
soon be
'defending' new KLAs against 'genocide' along Russia’s Islamic rim,
among
ethnic groups as yet unknown to the Western press that can provide a
series of excuses for intervention, all as good, that is as bad, as the
Kosovo
Albanian excuse?
Was Canada’s imperial history so sweet that it must seek another
imperial command-center, in Washington, to compensate for the loss of
London? Does Canada today feel comfortable with the emerging truth: that
it has less freedom of choice about war and peace than it did as a free
Dominion under the old Statute of Westminster? For there can be no doubt
that the war NATO was fighting in April and May 1999 was not intended,
or
willed, by anything which can be called the Alliance, when the use of
force
was plotted inside the Beltway in 1998.
It is worth asking how far this re-acquisition of minor imperial status
-
by Canada and other NATO members - is creating a media-led political
process that leaves national decision-making meaningless, beyond a
formal
cheer-leading function. It is also worth asking how it came to be that
the
chief war aim of NATO was 'keeping the Alliance together', what
disciplines it implies, and how easily, and bloodily, it can be
repeated.
The moral absolutism that was invoked by the proponents of intervention
as
a substitute for rational argument can no longer be sustained. Genuine
dilemmas about our human responsibility for one another must not be used
to reactivate the viral imperialism of the re-extended West. The more
arrogant the new doctrine, the greater the willingness to lie for the
truth. To be capable of “doing something” sustains moral self-respect,
if
we can suppress the thought that we are not so much moral actors as
consumers of predigested choices. At the onset of the Millenium we are
living in a virtual Coliseum where exotic and nasty troublemakers can be
killed not by lions but by the magical flying machines of the Imperium.
As
the candidates for punishment - or martyrdom - are pushed into the
arena,
many denizens of “the West” react to the show as imperial consumers, not
as citizens with a parliamentary right and a democratic duty to question
the proceedings.
May the results of your present inquiry prove me wrong. Thank you.
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Peter Bein [mailto:pbein@...]
>>>>Sent: February 10, 2000 4:16 PM
>>>>To: 'HilchJ@...'
>>>>Subject:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I am urging you that the following individuals be called to testify
before
>>>>the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
(SCFAIT)
>>>>as expert witnesses re Canada's role in the conflict and
post-conflict
>>>>developments in Kosovo and Metohija. It is imperative that MPs in
SCAFIT
>>>>hear from and question experts who reflect all sides in this
conflict. The
>>>>MPs are already well acquainted with the perspectives of Canada's
military
>>>>and the Dept of Foreign Affairs, as their views were publicized for
many
>>>>months.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Mr. James Bissett, Canada's former ambassador to Yugoslavia,
Bulgaria and
>>>>Albania.
>>>>
>>>>Dr. Michael Chossudovsky, professor of economics at the University
of
>>>>Ottawa.
>>>>
>>>>Mr. Roland Keith from Vancouver, B.C.,who was stationed in Kosovo
as a
>>>>monitor with the
>>>>Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
>>>>
>>>>Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Director of Research at the International
Institute
>>of
>>>>Concern for Public Health in Toronto.
>>>>
>>>>Prof. Dr. Hari Sharma, professor emeritus of chemistry at the
University
>>of
>>>>Waterloo, Ontario.
>>>>
>>>>Prof. Dr. Michael Mandel, professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law
School ,
>>>>York
>>>>University, Toronto.
>>>>
>>>>Dr. Serge Trifkovic, an author, former university professor,
historian,
>>>>foreign affairs editor of the "Chronicles - Magazine of American
>>>>Culture".
>>>>
>>>>Mrs. Radmila Swann, a retired federal public servant and a founding
member
>>>>of
>>>>the Ottawa Heritage Society.
>>>>
>>>>Mr. Nikola Rajkovic, a law student and a founding member of the
Centre for
>>>>Peace in the Balkans in Toronto.
>>>>
>>>>I trust that testimonies of these people will add a great value to
the
>>>>hearings.
>>>>
>>>>Dr. Peter Bein, P.Eng.
>>>>Vancouver B.C.
>>>>tel. +604 822 1685
>>>>fax +604 822 3033
>>>>e-mail: pbein@...
>>>>
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I contribuiti che diffondiamo in questo messaggio vengono dal Canada. Si
tratta di alcune audizioni tenute ad Ottawa, alla Camera dei Comuni,
dinanzi allo Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International
Trade da parte di varie personalita' ritenute a vario titolo "informate
sui fatti" riguardo alla aggressione della NATO contro la Repubblica
Federale di Jugoslavia. In particolare, i contributi seguenti sono le
testimonianze di JAMES BISSET, ex-ambasciatore canadese a Belgrado, ora
"indesiderato" nella stessa ambasciata canadese a Belgrado, e SERGE
TRIFKOVIC, professore di storia, responsabile per gli esteri di
"Chronicles - Magazine of American Culture".
Tutti i documenti sono stati diffusi dalla lista STOPNATO@...
===
Author: James Bisset
Publisher/Date: February 2000
Title: Notes for address to Standing Committee Foreign Affairs and
International Trade (Ca)
1: Introduction
I wish to thank the committee for giving me the opportunity of speaking
this morning.
It is some comfort to know that although I was not allowed to speak to
anyone in the Canadian embassy in Belgrade during a recent visit there
that I am free to speak to members of the Canadian parliament.
I have been an out spoken critic of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. I
believe it to have been a tragic mistake -- a historic miscalculation
that will have far reaching implications.
When NATO bombs fell on Yugoslavia in the spring and summer of last year
they caused more than just death and destruction in that country. The
bombs also struck at the heart of international law and delivered a
serious blow to the framework of global security that since the end of
the second world war has protected all of us from the horrors of a
nuclear war.
Kosovo broke the ground rules for NATO engagement and the aggressive
military intervention by NATO into the affairs of a sovereign state for
other than defensive purposes marked an ominous turning point in the
aims and objectives of that organization. It is important that we
understand this and seek clarification as to whether this was a
"one-off" aberration or a signal of fundamental change in the nature and
purposes of the organization. This is something the committee might well
examine in the course of its work.
2: An Illegal War
NATO's war in Kosovo was conducted without the approval of the United
Nations Security Council. It was a violation of international law, the
United Nations charter and its own article 1, which requires NATO to
settle any international disputes by peaceful means and not to threaten
or use force, "in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the
United Nations."
Apologists for NATO including our own foreign and defence ministers try
to avoid this issue by simply not mentioning it. There has been no
attempt to explain why the United Nations Security Council was ignored.
No effort to spell out under whose authority did NATO bomb Yugoslavia.
The ministers and their officials continue to justify the air strikes on
the grounds that the bombs were necessary to stop ethnic cleansing and
atrocities, despite all the evidence that by far the bulk of the ethnic
cleansing took place after the bombing not before it. It was the bombing
that triggered off the worst of the ethnic cleansing.
As for the atrocities it now seems that here again we were lied to about
the extent of the crimes commited. United States Secretary of Defence
Cohen told us that at least 100,000 Kosovars had perished. Tony Blair
spoke of genocide being carried out in Kosovo. The media relished in
these atrocity stories and printed every story told to them by Albanian,
"eye witnesses." The myth that the war was to stop ethnic cleansing and
atrocities contiues to be perpetrated by department spokesmen and large
parts of the media.
No one wants to defend atrocities and the numbers game in such
circumstances becomes sordid. Nevertheless numbers do become important
if they are used to justify military action against a sovereign state.
in the case of Kosovo it appears that about 2000 people were killed
there prior to the NATO bombing. considering that a civil war had been
underway since 1993 this is not a remarkable figure and compared with a
great many other hot spots hardly enough to warrant a 79-day bombing
campaign. It is also interesting to note that the UN tribunal
indictement of Milosovic of May 1999, cites only one incident of deaths
before the bombing -- the infamous Racak incident -- which itself is
challenged by French journalists who were on the ground there and
suspect a frame-up involving US General Walker who sounded the alarm.
The Kosovo "war" reveals disturbing evidence of how lies and duplicity
can mislead us into accepting things that we instinctively know to be
wrong. Jamie Shea and other NATO apologists have lied to us about the
bombing. The sad thing is that most of the Canadian media, and our
political representatives have accepted without question what has been
told to us by NATO and our own foreign affairs spokesmen.
3: An Unecessary War
perhaps the most serious charge against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
is that it was unnecessary. NATO chose bombing over diplomacy. Violence
over negotiation. NATO's leaders tried to convince us that dropping tons
of bombs on Yugoslavia was serving humanitarian purposes.
A UN Security Council resolution of October 1998 accepted by Yugoslavia,
authorized over 1300 monitors from the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe [OSCE] to enter Kosovo and try to de-escalate the
fighting. from the accounts of a number of these monitors their task was
successful. While cease-fire violations continued on both sides the
intensity of the armed struggle was considerably abated.
The former Czech foreign minister, Jiri Dienstbier, and Canada's own
Rollie Keith of Vancouver -- both monitors for the OSCE on the ground in
Kosovo -- have publicly stated that there were no international refugees
over the last five months of the OSCE's presence in Kosovo and the
number of internally displaced only amounted to a few thousands in the
weeks leading up to the bombing.
The OSCE mission demonstrated that diplomacy and negotiation might well
have resolved the Kosovo problem without resorting to the use of force.
It was the failure of the United States to accept any flexibility in its
dealing with Belgrade in the weeks leading up to the war that spelled
diplomatic failure.
The adamant refusal of the USA to involve either the Russians or the
United Nations in the negotiations. The refusal to allow any other
intermediary to deal with Milosovic and finally the imposition of the
Rambouillet ultimatum which was clearly designed to ensure that
Yugoslavia had no choice but to refuse its insulting terms.
It is now generally accepted by those who have seen the Rambouillet
agreement that no sovereign state could have agreed to its conditions.
The insistence of allowing acess to all of Yugoslavia by NATO forces and
the demand that a referendum on autonomy be held within three years
guaranteed a Serbian rejection.
The Serbian parliament did, however, on March 23, state a willingness to
"examine the character and extent of an international presence in Kosovo
immediately after the signing of an autonomy accord acceptable to all
national communities in Kosovo, the local Serb minority included. " The
United States was not interested in pursuing this offer. NATO needed its
war. NATO's formal commitment to resolve international disputes by
peaceful means was thrown out the window.
The Rambouillet document itself was not easily obtained from NATO
sources. The chairman of the defence committee of the French National
Assembly asked for a copy shortly after the bombing commenced but was
not given a copy until a few days before the UN peace treaty was signed.
I hope that members of this committee have a copy to look at and will be
able to find out when and if Canada was informed of its conditions.
4: NATO's campaign a total failure
We have been asked to believe that the war in Kosovo was fought for
human rights. Indeed the president of the Czech republic received a
standing ovation in this House of Commons when he stated that Kosovo was
the first war fought for human values rather than territory. I suspect
even President Havel would have second thoughts about that statement now
that a large part of Yugoslav territory has in effect been handed over
to the Albanians.
The war allegedly to stop ethnic cleansing has not done so. Serbs
Gypsies, Jews, and Slav muslims are being forced out of Kosovo under the
eyes of 45,000 NATO troops. Murder and anarchy reigns supreme in Kosovo
as the KLA and criminal elements have taken charge. The United Nations
admits failure to control the situation and warns Serbs not to return.
The war allegedly to restore stability to the Balkans has done the
opposite.Yugoslavia's neighbors are in a state of turmoil. Montenegro is
on the edge of civil war. Macedonia is now worried that Kosovo has shown
the way for its own sizeable Albanian minority to demand
self-determination. Albania has been encouraged to strive harder to
fulfill its dream of greater Albania. Serbia itself has been ruined
economically. Embittered and disillusioned it feels betrayed and
alienated from the western democracies.
The illegal and unecessary war has alienated the other great nuclear
powers, Russia and China. These countries are now convinced that the
west cannot be trusted. NATO expansion eastward is seen as an aggressive
and hostile threat and will be answered by an increase in the nuclear
arsenal of both nations. After Kosovo who can with any conviction
convince them that NATO is purely a defensive alliance dedicated to
peace and to upholding the principles of the United Nations?
More seriously the NATO bombing has destroyed NATO's credibility. NATO
stood for more than just a powerful military organization. It stood for
peace; the rule of law, and democratic institutions. The bombing of
Yugoslavia threw all of that out the window.
No longer can NATO stand on the moral high ground. Its action in
Yugoslavia revealed it to be an aggressive military machine prepared to
ignore international law and intervene with deadly force in the internal
affairs of any state with whose actions or behaviour it does not agree.
5: Conclusions
There are those who believe that the long standing principle of state
sovereignty can be over ruled when human rights violations are taking
place in a country. Until Kosovo the ground rules for such intervention
called for Security Council authority before such action could be taken.
Apologists for NATO argue that it was unlikely Security Council
authority could have been obtained because of the veto power of China or
Russia. So it would appear rather than even try to get consent NATO took
upon itself the powers of the Security Council. I am not sure we should
all be comfortable with this development.
Undoubtedly there may be times when such intervention is justified and
immediately Rwanda comes to mind -- but intervention for humanitarian
reasons is a dangerous concept. Because who is to decide when to take
such action and under whose authority? Hitler intervened in
Czechoslovakia because he claimed the human rights of the Sudeten
Germans were being violated. Those who advocate a change in the current
rules for intervention are free to do so but until the rules change
should we not all obey the ones that still have legitimacy?
NATO made a serious mistake in Kosovo. Its bombing campaign was not only
an unmitigated disaster but it changed fundamentally the very nature and
purposes of the alliance. Does article 1 of the NATO treaty still stand?
Does NATO still undertake to settle any international disputes in which
it may become involved by peaceful means? Do the NATO countries still
undertake to refrain in their international relations from the threat or
use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the united
nations?
Kosovo should serve as a warning call that Canadian democracy needs a
shot in the arm to wake it up to the realities that foreign policy is
important--important because as happened one day last march Canadians
can wake up and find they are at war. Canadian pilots were bombing
Serbia. yet there was no declaration of war. The Canadian parliament was
not consulted. The majority of the Canadian people had no idea where
Kosovo was -- let alone understand why our aircraft were bombing cities
in a fellow nation state that had been a staunch ally during two world
wars.
It was not only Yugoslav soverignty that was violated by NATO's illegal
action. Canadian sovereignty was also abused. Canada had become involved
in a war without any member of the Canadian parliament or the Canadian
people being consulted.the ultimate expression of a nation's sovereignty
is the right to declare war. NATO abrogated this right.
If it essential that we give up some of our sovereignty as the price we
pay for membership in global institutons such as NATO then it is
mandatory that such institutions follow their own rules, respect thrule
of law, and operate within the generally accepted framework of the
United Nations charter. This NATO did not do. It is for this reason I
would suggest your committee must ask some tough questions about the
nature of Canada's involvement in the Kosovo war.
(James Bisset is the former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia, who was
recently physically barred by the Canadian government from entering the
embassy in Belgrade.)
===
Testimony by S. Trifkovic, House of Commons SCFAIT, Ottawa, 17/02/2000
GEO-POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF NATO INTERVENTION IN KOSOVO
Testimony by S. Trifkovic
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
House of Commons, Ottawa, February 17, 2000
The war waged by NATO against Yugoslavia in 1999 marks a significant
turning point, not only for America and NATO but also for “the West” as
a
whole. The principle of state sovereignty, and of the rule of law
itself, has
been subverted in the name of an allegedly humanitarian ideology. Facts
have been converted into fiction, and even the fictions invoked to
justify
the act are giving up all pretense to credibility. Old systems for the
protection of
national liberties, political, legal and economic, have now been
subverted into vehicles for their destruction. But so far from
demonstrating
the vigor of Western ruling elites in their ruthless pursuit of an
ideology of
multi-ethnic democracy and international human rights, the whole Balkan
entanglement may be as a disturbing revelation of those ruling elites’
moral and cultural decay. I shall therefore devote my remarks to the
consequences of the war for the emerging new international system, and –
ultimately – for the security and stability of the Western world itself.
Almost a decade separated ‘Desert Storm’ from ‘Humanitarian Bombing.’ In
1991 the Maastricht Treaty was signed, and the rest of the decade has
brought the gradual usurpation of traditional European sovereignty by a
corporate-controlled Brussels regime of unelected bureaucrats who now
feel
bold enough to tell Austria how to run its domestic affairs. On this
side
of the ocean we had the passage of NAFTA and in 1995 the Uruguay round
of GATT gave us the WTO. The nineties were thus a decade of gradual
foundation laying for the new international order. The denigration of
sovereign nationhood hypnotized the public into applauding the
dismantling
of the very institutions that offered the only hope of representative
empowerment. The process is sufficiently far advanced for President
Clinton to claim (“A Just and Necessary War,” NYT, May 23, 1999) that,
had
it not bombed Serbia, "NATO itself would have been discredited for
failing
to defend the very values that give it meaning."
The war was in fact both unjust and unnecessary, but the significance of
Mr. Clinton’s statement is in that he has openly declared null and void
the international system in existence ever since the Peace of Westphalia
(1648). It was an imperfect and often violated system, but nevertheless
it
provided the basis for international discourse from which only the
assorted red and black totalitarians have openly deviated. Since 24
March
1999 this is being replaced by the emerging Clinton Doctrine, a carbon
copy of the Brezhnev doctrine of limited sovereignty that supposedly
justified the Soviet-led occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Like his
Soviet predecessor, Mr. Clinton used an abstract and ideologically
loaded
notion - that of universal “human rights” - as the pretext to violate
the law and
tradition. The Clinton Doctrine is rooted in the bipartisan hubris of
Washington’s foreign policy “elite,” tipsy on its own heady brew of the
“world’s last and only superpower.” Legal formalities are passé, and
moral
imperatives - never sacrosanct in international affairs - are replaced
by
a cynical exercise in situational morality, dependent on an actor’s
position within the superpower ’s value system.
And so imperial high-mindedness is back, but in a new form. Old
religion, national flags and nationalist rivalry play no part. But the
yearning
for excitement and importance, that took the British to Peking, Kabul
and
Khartoum, the French to Fashoda and Saigon, and the Americans to Manila,
has now re-emerged. As a result a war was waged on an independent nation
because it refused foreign troops on its soil. All other justifications
are post facto rationalizations. The powers that waged that war have
aided
and abetted secession by an ethnic minority, secession that – once
formally
effected - will render many European borders tentative. In the context
of
any other European nation the story would sound surreal. The Serbs,
however, have been demonized to the point where they must not presume to
be treated like others.
But the fact that the West could do anything it chose to the Serbs does
not explain why it should. It is hardly worth refuting, yet again, the
feeble excuses for intervention. “Humanitarian” argument has been
invoked.
But what about Kashmir, Sudan, Uganda, Angola, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka,
Algeria? Properly videotaped and Amanpourized, each would be good for a
dozen “Kosovos”. There was no “genocide,” of course. Compared to the
killing fields of the Third World Kosovo was an unremarkable,
low-intensity conflict, uglier perhaps than Northern Ireland a decade
ago,
but much less so than Kurdistan. A total of 2,108 fatalities on all
sides
in Kosovo until June 1999, in a province of over two million, favorably
compares to the annual homicide tally of 450 in Washington D.C.
(population 600,000). Counting corpses is poor form, but bearing in mind
the brutalities and “ethnic cleansings” ignored by NATO - or even
condoned, notably in Croatia in 1995, or in eastern Turkey - it is clear
that “Kosovo” is not about universal principles. In Washington Abdullah
Ocalan is a terrorist, but KLA are freedom fighters.
What was it about, then? “Regional stability”, we were told next: if we
didn ’t stop the conflict it would engulf Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, the
whole of the Balkans in fact, with much of Europe to follow. But the
cure
- bombing Serbia into detaching an ethnically pure-Albanian Kosovo to
the
KLA narco-mafia, under NATO’s benevolent eye – will unleash a chain
reaction throughout the ex-Communist half of Europe. Its first victim
will be
the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, where the restive Albanian
minority comprises a third of the total population. And will the
Pristina
model not be demanded by the Hungarians in Rumania (more numerous
than Kosovo’s Albanians), and in southern Slovakia? What will stop the
Russians in the Ukraine, in Moldova, in Estonia, and in northern
Kazakhstan from following suit? Or the Serbs and Croats in the
chronically
unstable and unviable Dayton-Bosnia? And finally, when the Albanians get
their secession on the grounds of their numbers, will the same apply
when
the Latinos in southern California or Texas eventually outnumber their
Anglo
neighbors and start demanding bilingual statehood, leading to
reunification
with Mexico? Are Russia and China to threaten the United States with
bombing if Washington does not comply?
The outcome in Kosovo, for now, is in line with a deeply flawed model of
the new Balkan order that seeks to satisfy the aspirations of all ethnic
groups in former Yugoslavia - except the Serbs. This is a disastrous
strategy for all concerned. Even if forced into submission now, the
Serbs
shall have no stake in the ensuing order of things. Sooner or later they
will fight to recover Kosovo. The Carthaginian peace imposed on the
Serbs
today will cause chronic imbalance and strife for decades to come. It
will
entangle the West in a Balkan quagmire, and guarantee a new war as soon
as Mr. Clinton’s successors lose interest in underwriting the ill-gotten
gains
of America’s Balkan clients.
NATO has won, for now, but “the West” has lost. The war has undermined
the very principles that constitute the West, namely the rule of law.
The
notion of “human rights” can never provide a basis for either the rule
of
law or morality. “Universal human rights,” detached from any rootedness
in
time or place, will be open to the latest whim of outrage or the latest
fad for victimhood. The misguided effort to transform NATO from a
defensive alliance into a mini-U.N. with “out-of-area” self-appointed
responsibilities, is a certain road to more Bosnias and more Kosovos
down
the line. Now that the Clintonistas and NATO were “successful” in
Kosovo,
we can expect new and even more dangerous adventures elsewhere. But
next time around the Russians, Chinese, Indians and others will know
better than to buy the slogans about free markets and democratic human
rights, and the future of “the West” in the eventually inevitable
conflict may
be uncertain. Canada should ponder the implications of this course, and
gather the courage to say “no” to global interventionism – for its own
sake,
and for the sake of peace and stability in the world. Is it really
obliged to
watch in undissenting submission as a long, dangerous military
experiment
is mounted which will lead us to a real war for Central Asia? Will it
soon be
'defending' new KLAs against 'genocide' along Russia’s Islamic rim,
among
ethnic groups as yet unknown to the Western press that can provide a
series of excuses for intervention, all as good, that is as bad, as the
Kosovo
Albanian excuse?
Was Canada’s imperial history so sweet that it must seek another
imperial command-center, in Washington, to compensate for the loss of
London? Does Canada today feel comfortable with the emerging truth: that
it has less freedom of choice about war and peace than it did as a free
Dominion under the old Statute of Westminster? For there can be no doubt
that the war NATO was fighting in April and May 1999 was not intended,
or
willed, by anything which can be called the Alliance, when the use of
force
was plotted inside the Beltway in 1998.
It is worth asking how far this re-acquisition of minor imperial status
-
by Canada and other NATO members - is creating a media-led political
process that leaves national decision-making meaningless, beyond a
formal
cheer-leading function. It is also worth asking how it came to be that
the
chief war aim of NATO was 'keeping the Alliance together', what
disciplines it implies, and how easily, and bloodily, it can be
repeated.
The moral absolutism that was invoked by the proponents of intervention
as
a substitute for rational argument can no longer be sustained. Genuine
dilemmas about our human responsibility for one another must not be used
to reactivate the viral imperialism of the re-extended West. The more
arrogant the new doctrine, the greater the willingness to lie for the
truth. To be capable of “doing something” sustains moral self-respect,
if
we can suppress the thought that we are not so much moral actors as
consumers of predigested choices. At the onset of the Millenium we are
living in a virtual Coliseum where exotic and nasty troublemakers can be
killed not by lions but by the magical flying machines of the Imperium.
As
the candidates for punishment - or martyrdom - are pushed into the
arena,
many denizens of “the West” react to the show as imperial consumers, not
as citizens with a parliamentary right and a democratic duty to question
the proceedings.
May the results of your present inquiry prove me wrong. Thank you.
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Peter Bein [mailto:pbein@...]
>>>>Sent: February 10, 2000 4:16 PM
>>>>To: 'HilchJ@...'
>>>>Subject:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I am urging you that the following individuals be called to testify
before
>>>>the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
(SCFAIT)
>>>>as expert witnesses re Canada's role in the conflict and
post-conflict
>>>>developments in Kosovo and Metohija. It is imperative that MPs in
SCAFIT
>>>>hear from and question experts who reflect all sides in this
conflict. The
>>>>MPs are already well acquainted with the perspectives of Canada's
military
>>>>and the Dept of Foreign Affairs, as their views were publicized for
many
>>>>months.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Mr. James Bissett, Canada's former ambassador to Yugoslavia,
Bulgaria and
>>>>Albania.
>>>>
>>>>Dr. Michael Chossudovsky, professor of economics at the University
of
>>>>Ottawa.
>>>>
>>>>Mr. Roland Keith from Vancouver, B.C.,who was stationed in Kosovo
as a
>>>>monitor with the
>>>>Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
>>>>
>>>>Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Director of Research at the International
Institute
>>of
>>>>Concern for Public Health in Toronto.
>>>>
>>>>Prof. Dr. Hari Sharma, professor emeritus of chemistry at the
University
>>of
>>>>Waterloo, Ontario.
>>>>
>>>>Prof. Dr. Michael Mandel, professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law
School ,
>>>>York
>>>>University, Toronto.
>>>>
>>>>Dr. Serge Trifkovic, an author, former university professor,
historian,
>>>>foreign affairs editor of the "Chronicles - Magazine of American
>>>>Culture".
>>>>
>>>>Mrs. Radmila Swann, a retired federal public servant and a founding
member
>>>>of
>>>>the Ottawa Heritage Society.
>>>>
>>>>Mr. Nikola Rajkovic, a law student and a founding member of the
Centre for
>>>>Peace in the Balkans in Toronto.
>>>>
>>>>I trust that testimonies of these people will add a great value to
the
>>>>hearings.
>>>>
>>>>Dr. Peter Bein, P.Eng.
>>>>Vancouver B.C.
>>>>tel. +604 822 1685
>>>>fax +604 822 3033
>>>>e-mail: pbein@...
>>>>
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RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
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VIVA IL RE D'ITALIA E D'ALBANIA
S.A.R. il Principe Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, partito da Ginevra con
un volo privato, in qualita' di rappresentante dell'Ordine dei Santi
Maurizio e Lazzaro, antico ordine dinastico dei Savoia, si e' recato in
Albania per adottare 600 kosovari:
http://www.marx2001.org/crj/IM/kosovo.gif
Scortato dai Carabinieri del Regno, ha visitato i campi profughi:
http://www.marx2001.org/crj/IM/campo.jpg
dove ha contribuito alle operazioni di soccorso umanitario organizzate
nell'ambito della Missione Arcobaleno:
http://www.marx2001.org/crj/IM/campo2.jpg
http://www.marx2001.org/crj/IM/campo3.jpg
Peccato pero' che il giovine abbia una nonna serba... Cosi' tanto un bel
ragazzo...
(Fonte: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8261/ )
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
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S.A.R. il Principe Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, partito da Ginevra con
un volo privato, in qualita' di rappresentante dell'Ordine dei Santi
Maurizio e Lazzaro, antico ordine dinastico dei Savoia, si e' recato in
Albania per adottare 600 kosovari:
http://www.marx2001.org/crj/IM/kosovo.gif
Scortato dai Carabinieri del Regno, ha visitato i campi profughi:
http://www.marx2001.org/crj/IM/campo.jpg
dove ha contribuito alle operazioni di soccorso umanitario organizzate
nell'ambito della Missione Arcobaleno:
http://www.marx2001.org/crj/IM/campo2.jpg
http://www.marx2001.org/crj/IM/campo3.jpg
Peccato pero' che il giovine abbia una nonna serba... Cosi' tanto un bel
ragazzo...
(Fonte: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8261/ )
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
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* Protesta formale della RF di Jugoslavia per il comportamento dei
soldati KFOR durante le perquisizioni a Mitrovica
* Scambio di accuse tra RF di Jugoslavia e NATO ("The Times of
India"/Reuters)
* Pesanti critiche dalla Cina all'atteggiamento di KFOR/UNMIK in Kosmet
* Comunicato del Partito Democratico della Serbia sull'appoggio
statunitense all'irredentismo panalbanese
* Italia: Comunicato di Voce Operaia sulla situazione a Mitrovica
* C'ERANO UNA VOLTA... "Circassians in Kosovo Polje in the Yugoslav
Federation" - storia sconosciuta di una delle comunita' nazionali
spazzate via dal Kosmet per mano dell'UCKFOR
---
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG
YUGOSLAVIA LODGES SHARP PROTEST WITH UN SECURITY COUNCIL
Yugoslavia lodged a sharp protest with the United Nations Security
Council late Monday on the occasion of the latest dramatic developments
in Kosovska Mitrovica which have been caused by ethnic Albanian
terrorists, but also members of the international force KFOR with their
arrogant behavour and brutal action of house-searching Serb districts of
this town in Serbia's Kosovo province.
The letter, sent to Security Council President Arnoldo Listre, the
Argentinian Ambassador, by the head of the Yugoslav mission to the
United Nations, Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic, most strongly protested
and demanded that the council take immediate measures toward a
normalization of the situation in this town, immediately to curb the
terrorism of ethnic Albanians, vandalism, and lynching and liquidation
of Serbs and other non-Albanians.
The very course of events and building up of tensions confirm that this
is a pre-conceived action in which ethnic Albanians of Kosovska
Mitrovica, led by terrorists of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army,
were joined by thousands of ethnic Albanians who arrived from Pristina,
the letter said.
It is perfectly clear that the concentrated attack was planned with the
objective of banishing Serbs, Montenegrins, Goranians, Muslims of Slav
extraction, and ethnic Turks from Kosovska Mitrovica, the only remaining
multi-national and multi-confessional town in Kosovo, in order to
complete the process of ethnic cleansing of non-Albanians who live in
isolation in enclaves in this Serbian province, said the letter.
Yugoslavia has already warned the Security Council on previous occasions
against the fiasco and inability of KFOR and UNMIK to realize their
obligations stemming from Resolution 1244, as well as the
Military-Technical Agreement.
In spite of Yugoslavia's warning and the fact that most of the Serb and
non-Albanian population have already been banished from Kosovo,
witnessed by these very same security forces and the civilian mission,
the KFOR and UNMIK have not only failed to do anything to prevent the
terrorism of ethnic Albanians and acts of vandalism, but have very often
been accomplices in these heinous acts.
The latest aggravation of the situation in Kosovska Mitrovica is due to
the totally unprovoked arrogant behaviour of KFOR towards Serbs in that
town, said the letter, proceeding to describe the destructive and brutal
behaviour of KFOR U.S. and German troops who broke down doors and
windows on schools and private houses in their house-search.
The action had evidently been planned in advance. U.S. troops arrived
from Gnjilane, and among them were ethnic Albanians in KFOR U.S.
uniforms, who were recognized by the local population.
Press representatives also appeared to be on the spot, reporting in
Albanian, as well as several crew of foreign TV stations. Leaflets were
dropped from a helicopter, urging Serbs to surrender their allegedly
concealed weapons.
The latest abuse of the about 4,500 Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica is yet
more proof of the political double standards of the KFOR mission, warned
the letter sent by Yugoslavia to the Security Council.
---
Times of India
Wednesday 23 February 2000
Belgrade dismisses West's allegations on Kosovo
By Julijana Mojsilovic
BELGRADE: Yugoslavia dismissed Western officials' allegations that it
was stoking tensions in and around Kosovo and accused them on Tuesday of
supporting Albanian "terrorists" in the province.
"These people are behind the terrorism and separatism of Kosovo
Albanians. They have created the Kosovo Liberation Army and a crisis in
the Balkans to expand NATO to the region," Yugoslav Information Minister
Goran Matic said.
He was speaking a day after battles broke out between Western
peacekeepers and rioters when thousands of ethnic Albanians tried to
storm across a bridge in the centre of the flashpoint Kosovo city of
Mitrovica to reach the province's largest remaining Serb enclave.
On Sunday, NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping troops clashed with Mitrovica's
Serbs, angered by the troops' search of homes for weapons following
shootings and grenade attacks which killed nine people, both Serbs and
Albanians.
Richard Holbrooke, US ambassador to the UN, said in New York on Monday
that trouble was being fomented by the Yugoslav government, which was
forced by last year's NATO air war to surrender control of Kosovo.
NATO Secretary-General George Robertson said on Monday the military
alliance was also monitoring a Yugoslav troop build-up in other ethnic
Albanian areas of southern Serbia and would not tolerate a new conflict
there.
NATO Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark, visiting Albania, also
expressed concern about the area.
Matic counterattacked by accusing Holbrooke, Robertson and Clark of
wanting to expel remaining Serbs from Mitrovica in order to gain control
of a mine near the city, saying they were "in a gold rush".
"The three are demanding from ethnic Albanians to expel the remaining
non-Albanians from Mitrovica in order to get hold of the richest gold
mine in the Balkans," Matic said.
But it would not succeed, he said, adding that "Serbia is not
California".
He was referring to the Trepca lead and zinc mining complex, which
exploits ore also containing gold and silver. The complex is situated
north of Mitrovica in a Serb-dominated area. Serbia still controls four
of some 17 Trepca mines in Kosovo.
"These people are now doing everything to cover up their crimes," Matic
said of the leaders of NATO countries which took part in the
March-to-June air campaign against Belgrade.
The state news agency Tanjug reported that Yugoslavia lodged a sharp
protest with the UN Security Council late on Monday. "Yugoslavia has
already warned the Security Council on previous occasions against the
fiasco and inability of KFOR and the UN mission in Kosovo to realise
their obligations stemming from resolution 1244 as well as the
Military-Technical Agreement," it quoted the Yugoslav letter as saying.
(Reuters)
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www.serbia-info.com/news
"Jiefan Jun Bao": West stirs ethnic Albanians up against Serbs
February 23, 2000
Concern for escalation of violation in Kosovo and
Metohija
Beijing, February 22nd - Chinese military daily
"Jiefan Jun Ban" condemned today "incapability of KFOR
and UNMIK in Kosovo" and appealed to the world
community to "prevent ethnic Albanian terrorism under
the auspices of the UN".
Reacting to "the latest separatist actions of ethnic
Albanian separatists in Kosovo, the military daily
warned that "West deliberately stirs up anger of
ethnic Albanians towards the Serbs in
Kosovo-Metohija".
"It is necessary to create the conditions for
political solution of Kosovo issue with full respect
of sovereignty and territorial integrity of FRY and
consistent implementation of the UN Security Council's
Resolution 1244", stressed today Chinese
representative for press Ju Ban Tzao, referring to the
latest wave of crime in Kosovo.
"It is obvious that the situation in Kosovo has
deteriorated since the arrival of the UN military and
civil mission last June", stated Ju, stressing this
was preceded by the NATO aggression against
Yugoslavia, headed by the US.
"The use of force against sovereign Yugoslavia not
only violated the UN Charter and the principles of the
international standards, but also turned out to be
utterly dangerous example of interference with the
interior business of a sovereign country" stated Ju,
expressing "China's deep concern regarding the
escalation of violence in Kosovo".
The military daily points out that "the inclined
policy of KFOR and UNMIK exerted pressure on Serbs and
supported ethnic Albanian extremists which created
additional tension in Kosovo".
"Tolerant attitude of KFOR and UNMIK towards extreme
ethnic Albanians now returns as a boomerang to the UN
military and civil mission in Kosovo" says Jiefan Jun
Bao, reminding that terrorist organization KLA is not
disarmed, but only transformed into so-called "Kosovo
Protective Corps".
"The world community insists on the fact that Kosovo
is an inseparable part of Yugoslavia, which
additionally enraged ethnic Albanian extremists due to
their separatist idea on independent Kosovo",
emphasizes the military paper.
Jiefan Jun Bao reminds that Yugoslavia has warned the
UN that the attacks of ethnic Albanian terrorists to
date have already caused tragic consequences and
victims in Kosovo.
Yugoslavia demands that the Security Council urgently
takes most energetic measures in order to immediately
stop the attacks on unprotected Serb population, says
Jiefan Jun Bao.
Bias of West and incapability of KFOR and UNMIK must
change fundamentally their transparent attitude and
consistently implement the Security Council's
Resolution 1244, otherwise they will face a dead-end
situation in inflamed Kosovo, warns the military
paper.
---
>
>Right-and Albright was just in Tirana on February 19 to meet with
>Hashim Thaci.
>http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/albania/usa/20000219/tir09
>
>
>inf-@... wrote:
>original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/sorabia/?start=3307
>> Albright, Holbrooke and Clark Lead Albanians
>>
>> NATO and Washington have been warning for days that a solution to the
>> problem in Kosovska Mitrovica must be found. Since the exodus of more
>than
>> 200,000 Serbs and the harassment of those who remained in the
>province
>> resolved the Kosovo issue, Washington believes that the only thing to
>be
>> done is to cleanse the last significant Serb enclave by expelling the
>Serbs
>> from Mitrovica. It is important to note that the Mitrovica enclave is
>the
>> one linking Kosovo with the rest of Serbia. Washington is apparently
>> determined to carry out a U.S. plan in which only an ethnically
>"pure,"
>> Albanian Kosovo can be considered truly multi-ethnic.
>>
>> For that purpose, an Albanian march on Mitrovica was organised. Just
>like it
>> promoted several Albanian terrorists and criminals to high-ranking
>military
>> officers and diplomats in Rambouillet only to demilitarise them later
>and
>> turn them into commanders, political leaders and state dignitaries,
>> Washington has now decided to head the Albanian march on Mitrovica.
>Its true
>> goal is to ethnically cleanse the town of the Serbs rather than
>liberate it.
>>
>> The Albanian masses involved in the campaign on Mitrovica were not
>led by
>> Albanian criminal politicians like Hashim Thaqi, but rather the very
>top of
>> the U.S. diplomatic and military elite. After all that happened in
>Kosovo
>> before the eyes of the whole wide word, Madeleine Albright termed as
>> "tragedy" the events in Mitrovica only. Richard Holbrooke said that
>> Mitrovica was the hottest spot in Europe, and Wesley Clark guaranteed
>that
>> NATO would take "appropriate measures" to avoid the final division of
>> Mitrovica. Thereby, the trio making Washington's iron fist confirmed
>that it
>> was behind the Albanian march and barbarism of U.S. soldiers of KFOR
>in the
>> north of Mitrovica. Tomorrow, it can easily support another "Flash"
>or
>> "Storm" thanks to which Mitrovica would no longer be a divided town.
>To say
>> the truth, it would be a Serbless town, just like the whole of Kosovo
>after
>> all. Those on the Serb side failing to see this are both politically
>blind
>> and irresponsible.
>>
>> Belgrade, February 22, 2000
>>
>> Information Service of the Democratic Party of Serbia
>>
>
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Comunicato di VOCE OPERAIA
22 febbraio
Uno spettacolo raccapricciante si è consumato a Kosovska Mitrovica sotto
gli occhi di chi li aveva aperti. Issando bandiere albanesi, Nato, UE, e
USA, i seguaci dell¹UCK (frazione Taci) hanno inscenato una marcia per
sradicare dal Kosovo non soli i serbi, ma tutte quelle minoranze,
nazionali e politiche, che rifiutano l¹albanizzazione forzata. Non si
tratta soltanto di ³pulizia etnica², abbiamo a che fare con una pulizia
sociale e politica, di una rappresaglia fanatica dal chiaro segno
reazionario e filo-occidentale. Ci vengono in mente tutti quei pagliacci
di sinistra che durante i bombardamenti NATO, con la scusa di difendere
i diritti albanesi, hanno sostenuto l¹UCK come legittima forza di
liberazione nazionale considerando, proprio come i regimi imperialisti,
il governo di Belgrado come il nemico numero uno. Allora dicevamo a
questo signori che la maggioranza degli albanesi del Kosovo, volenti o
no, erano un popolo di Crumiri (Crumiri, per chi non lo sapesse, erano
qui tunisini schierati coi colonialisti francesi durante la lotta per
l¹indipendenza) i quali, se avessero avuto la meglio, non avrebbero
affatto costruito un Nazione, ma un casino coloniale sotto diretto
protettorato NATO. Questi signori hanno avuto il ben servito.
Lo diciamo così, tanto per la cronaca, non perché speriamo in un loro
ripensamento. L¹autocritica non presuppone solo l¹intelligenza, ma
l¹onestà intellettuale, qualità che hanno lasciato sfracellare al suolo,
assieme alle bombe all¹uranio impoverito sganciate sulla Iugoslavia dai
bombardieri occidentali.
Dichiarazione di Voce Operaia
Sin dal giugno scorso, subito dopo gli Accordi di pace di Kumanovo, le
milizie dell¹UCK, sotto l¹ombrello e l¹indifferenza delle truppe
NATO-Kfor, hanno dato una sistematica caccia ai cittadini serbi, rom,
gorani (e albanesi anti-UCK), provocando la loro espulsione in massa dal
Kosovo. Questa vendetta, che ha gia¹ provocato centinaia di morti
e migliaia di feriti, contrariamente a quanto affermano i reticenti e
pudici mass media, non e¹ soltanto una ³pulizia etnica², èla seconda
fase della guerra civile che contrappone il nazionalismo kosovaro
filo-NATO e filo-USA a TUTTI coloro che si rifiutano di sottomettersi
alla supremazia dei nazionalisti più fanatici e di trasformare il
Kosovo e la Iugoslavia in protettorati della NATO.
Costretti a vivere in piccole enclaves, i serbi sono stati costretti,
anche a causa della complicita¹ delle truppe occidentali con i miliziani
dell¹UCK, ad autodifendersi per non soccombere. Nelle ultime settimane
la pressione dei nazionalisti albanesi oltranzisti si è concentrata su
Kosovska Mitrovica dove vivono, nel settore nord, assieme alla comunità
serba, rom, albanesi e altre minoranze. Queste comunita¹ dopo essere
state sottoposte ad ogni tipo di vessazione e umiliazione, sono state
fatte bersaglio di attacchi armati sanguinosi che hanno causato, nelle
ultime settimane, decine di morti. Le truppe Kfor hanno lasciato correre
e sono intervenute in forze solo quando gruppi armati serbi hanno
inflitto colpi pesantissimi alle forze UCK decidendo la chiusura del
ponte che collega le due parti della citta¹. La comunita¹ serba non
puo¹ essere lasciata sola: piaccia o no essa e¹ ora un avamposto non
solo cotro l¹UCK, ma pure contro l¹occupante NATO!
E¹ una trincea nella lotta contro l¹imperialismo!
Intenzionati a spazzare via ogni serbo dal Kosovo, i centri dirigenti
dell¹UCK dell¹ala di Taci, da Pristina, hanno cosi¹ ordinato una marcia
su Kosovska Mitrovica con l¹obbiettivo di occupare la parte nord della
citta¹. I manifestanti, tanto per far capire con chi stanno e in chi
sperano, innalzavano numerose bandiere degli USA, della NATO e della
Gran Bretagna e gridavano slogan invocando un piu¹ deciso impegno
nord-americano in Kosovo per fare piazza pulita dei serbi.
Nel momento in cui la marcia si avvicinava a Kosovska Mitrovica, le
truppe NATO sono state poste nella massima allerta, anche perche¹ quelle
iugoslave avevano fatto altrettanto ammassandosi ai bordi del Kosovo. Le
notizie dell¹ultima ora segnalano che la marcia degli albanesi,
attestatasi sul ponte oltre il quale centinaia di serbi formavano un
presidio, ha fatto dietrofront anche grazie all¹interposizione delle
truppe NATO-Kfor. Il peggio e¹ stato dunque per ora evitato. Ma solo
per ora.
E¹ infatti evidente che in Kosovo la NATO non ha mantenuto alcuna sua
promessa: non c¹è pace, non c¹è alcuna convivenza,
non c¹è alcuna tolleranza multietnica. Cio¹ a causa anzitutto del
tentativo degli albanesi UCK di cacciare tutti gli oppositori, tra cui i
serbi. E non ci sara¹ mai fino a quando la NATO continuera¹ a
sostenerli. E¹ infatti nell¹interesse della NATO che il Kosovo sia
ingovernabile, cosi¹ si potra¹ giusitificare un¹occupazione militare
permanente.
E questo e¹ l¹altro fattore devastante: la NATO non vuole rispettare gli
Accordi di pace (che prevedono che il Kosovo sia riconsegnato alle
autorita¹ iugoslave). Cio¹ portera¹ ad una nuova esplosione del
conflitto, poiche¹ il governo di Belgrado, almeno fino a quando non
cadra¹ in mano alle opposizioni filo-occidentali, e¹ deciso a far
rispettare gli accordi del giugno 1999.
Non ci sara¹ pace nei Balcani fino a quando la NATO vorra¹ imporre il
suo dominio!
PRIMO COMPITO:
RISPETTARE GLI ACCORDI DI KUMANOVO! FUORI LA NATO DALLA IUGOSLAVIA E
DAI BALCANI!
Non ci sara¹ pace fino a quando ogni nazione non avrà dignità e il
diritto di autodeterminarsi su basi
democratiche!
SECONDO COMPITO:
AUTODETERMINAZIONE IN UNA FEDERAZIONE ANTIMPERIALISTA!
Ci sara¹ pace solo quando saliranno al potere governi operai e popolari
e tutte le cricche capitaliste
saranno spazzate via!
TERZO COMPITO:
LOTTARE PER IL SOCIALISMO!
(per contatti: voceoperaia@...)
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Predrag Tosic <p-tosic@...> wrote
> Meaning, basically, of the same origin as the Basques?
You're right, Predrag. Also, the Iberian, pre-Roman, component is still
present in Spanish and
Portuguese (correct me, João, if I am wrong) languages: sounds as the
typical double /RR/, so
unpronounceable for english speaking people, for example.
>
> Frankly, I did tend to believe that most of the NORTH Caucasus
> indigenous peoples were Turkophonic.
You can have a look to this map, about Ethnography in the North
Caucasus.
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/6150/ethno.jpg
>
> What other modern nations/ethnos belong to this group?
You can find Circassians (Cherkess) in Jordan (they are becoming a
powerful lobby group) and
Syria, but no longer in places as Kosovo Polje because they were forced
to leave to the Republic of
Adigeya (their ancestral homeland), inside Russian Federation, "thanks"
Albanian terrorism.
>
I enclose a pretty good article from a good Jordan friend.
------------------------
Circassians in Kosovo Polje in the Yugoslav Federation
The following article was extracted from "Les Tcherkesses du Kosovo
Polje en Yougoslavie" by
Niko Zupanic in The Journal of The International Institute of
Anthropology, the Paris session, first
section. It was translated and edited by Amjad Jaimoukhaf, a Circassian
intellectual from Jordan.
The ethnographers and historians are aware that the homeland of the
Circassians is along the
basin of the Kuban river in Ciscaucasia. They inhabited the
north-western part of the Caucasus.
The Circassians were divided into many tribes that spoke mutually
intelligible dialects:
Natuqwazh, Shapsugh, Abzakh, Bzhadugh, Hatuqwai, Beslanay, Mokhosh,
Temirgoy, Zhanay,
Egherukoy, Ubykh and Kabarday.
Their collective name was probably corrupted by the Turks from the
ancient Greek name
'kerxetai'. In the middle ages, the Russians used to refer to them by
the name Kossogh, which is
related to Kasag, the name by which the Ossetians call the Kabardians,
but also the Circassians
in general. The self designation of the Circassians is Adygha, which is
believed by linguists to be
related to the old name Zyghoy (strabon). It is believed that the
'Iazyghi', who were installed in
the territory between the rivers Tisa (Theiss) and the Danube not long
after the birth of Christ,
were a group of Zyghoy from the Caucasus, which name was transformed in
European Sarmatia by
adding first the prefix a- and then ia-.
The Circassians were until the 13th century a.d. pagan and free. They
were then subjugated by the
Georgians and christianised. In the first half of the 15th century they
overthrew the Georgian yoke,
but they were in continuous battle with the Tatars and they lost their
territory in the north.
Towards the middle of the 16th century the Kuban became their northern
frontier, because in 1570,
Ghirai, the khan of the Tatars, defeated them in a battle on the banks
of middle Kuban and forced
them to embrace Islam. Until that time, the Circassians settlements
stretched northwards to the
river Kama and some scattered groups were even found as far as the mouth
of the don.
The Circassians switched their religious allegiance very easily
according to the circumstances.
They had a superficial knowledge of Christianity and they were a mixture
of semi-pagans,
demi-muslims and some Christians.
The Circassians have always been distinguished by their intrepidity and
equine skills. They strictly
observed a code of hospitality and blood vengeance. The songs and tales
of the east celebrate the
beauty of Circassians maidens.
The Circassians put up a fierce resistance in their war with the
Russians, but they were eventually
defeated in 1864. Many of them were forced to leave their country and
resettle in the ottoman
empire: in Syria, Asia minor and the Balkan peninsula. Only a few
remained in their homeland,
about 110,000 people.
The majority of the Circassians who were established in the Balkan
peninsula were sent by the
ottoman authorities to the frontiers of the ancient duchy of Serbia to
reinforce its position there
and to terrorise the Serbs. During that time the Circassians were
established in Kosovo Polje
where the author visited them in 1924 and 1929. He counted about fifty
families, or about 250
people, for the majority had left for Asia minor and Syria.
The Circassians are very interesting for the Serbs, because the first
bearers of the name Serb
were aboriginal in the Caucasus, probably Circassians who crossed the
don at the time of the great
Sarmatian migration, together with the Ants, the Zichi (Kissi), the
Chorvats, the Vals, etc. They
co-mingled with the Slavs and established the first tribal
organisations. Undoubtedly these
Caucaso-sarmatian horsemen were assimilated in the mass of the Slav
population, but the names
of the tribes and the primitive structure of the state still exist to
this day.
>From their original Slav homeland at the confluence of the upper and middle Dniepr and of the
Pripet and the Boug, the Serbs immigrated to the confluence of the
middle Elbe and the Saale,
whence a group, which had a military organisation, resettled in Illyria
[NOTE from Javier: it's
pathetic the way Kosovo Albanian are trying to fake History, claiming
themselves to be
"descendants of the ancient Illyrian tribe of the Dardanians". See
http://www.unpo.org/member/kosova/kosova.html ] It was probably in 626
a.d., when
Constantinopla was besieged by the Avars and the Persians, that
Hercules, the Byzantine emperor
implored Samo, the Grand Duke of the Slavs, for help. The Croats and the
Serbs moved to the
Balkan peninsula, attacked the Avars from behind, delivered the Slavs
(Yugoslavs) who were
living there and saved Constantinopla, the Byzantine empire and eastern
Christendom.
After defeating the Avars, the Serbs established themselves in the
interior of Illyria at the lower
end of the indigenous Slavs. At their arrival in Illyria, the Serbs
spoke the same language as the
Serbs of Lusace, but being fewer in number than the native population,
they were linguistically
assimilated and they lost their north-west Slavic language.
The Circassians, who used to be one of the three principal nations in
the Caucasus, speak a
Japhetic language, which is not related to any other language group.
This means that they are not
Aryan, since these speak Indo-European languages. They may be allied to
the Basques in the
Pyrenees, who, before the advent of the Indo-Europeans, formed one
section of an organic chain
of related nations that stretched from Spain to the Caucasus. Those
nations were the Iberians, the
Legurs, the Etruscans, the Rets, the Pelasgians (an ancient pre-Aryan
race, which used to be
widely spread over the coasts and islands of the eastern Mediterranean
and Aegean, and believed
to have occupied Greece before the Hellenes), the Kars, the
Cappadochians, the Amazons (a race
of female warriors alleged to have existed in Scythia) , the Khalybs,
the Colchians, etc. These
peoples were violently replaced by the Indo-Europeans.
The circassians in Kosovo Polje are to be found in the following
villages: Gornje Stanovce, Donje
Stanovce, Velika Reka and Milosevo. Before the Turko-Serbian war of
1877-1878, there were
about 12,000 Circassians in the region. After the war the overwhelming
majority immigrated to
Syria and Asia minor. In 1912 and 1918 more people moved out, and the
author estimated that there
were only 250 circassians in the province by 1929. The present
population is estimated at 1,000.
References:
1. Niko Zupanic, 'Les Origines des Serbes', the origins of the Serbs.
Second session of the
International Institute of anthropology, pp. 227-229. Paris, 1926.
2. Niko Zupanic, 'Bela Srbija'. Zagreb, 1922; Les Serbes a Srbciste
(Macedoine), au vii siecle.
Extrait du Byzantion, t. Iv, p. 277-280. Liege, 1929.
3. T. R. Djordjevic, 'Cerkezi u Nasoj Zemlji', the circassians on our
territory. Glasnik Skopskog
Naucnog Drustva, t. Iii, p. 143. Skoplje, 1928.
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soldati KFOR durante le perquisizioni a Mitrovica
* Scambio di accuse tra RF di Jugoslavia e NATO ("The Times of
India"/Reuters)
* Pesanti critiche dalla Cina all'atteggiamento di KFOR/UNMIK in Kosmet
* Comunicato del Partito Democratico della Serbia sull'appoggio
statunitense all'irredentismo panalbanese
* Italia: Comunicato di Voce Operaia sulla situazione a Mitrovica
* C'ERANO UNA VOLTA... "Circassians in Kosovo Polje in the Yugoslav
Federation" - storia sconosciuta di una delle comunita' nazionali
spazzate via dal Kosmet per mano dell'UCKFOR
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YUGOSLAVIA LODGES SHARP PROTEST WITH UN SECURITY COUNCIL
Yugoslavia lodged a sharp protest with the United Nations Security
Council late Monday on the occasion of the latest dramatic developments
in Kosovska Mitrovica which have been caused by ethnic Albanian
terrorists, but also members of the international force KFOR with their
arrogant behavour and brutal action of house-searching Serb districts of
this town in Serbia's Kosovo province.
The letter, sent to Security Council President Arnoldo Listre, the
Argentinian Ambassador, by the head of the Yugoslav mission to the
United Nations, Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic, most strongly protested
and demanded that the council take immediate measures toward a
normalization of the situation in this town, immediately to curb the
terrorism of ethnic Albanians, vandalism, and lynching and liquidation
of Serbs and other non-Albanians.
The very course of events and building up of tensions confirm that this
is a pre-conceived action in which ethnic Albanians of Kosovska
Mitrovica, led by terrorists of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army,
were joined by thousands of ethnic Albanians who arrived from Pristina,
the letter said.
It is perfectly clear that the concentrated attack was planned with the
objective of banishing Serbs, Montenegrins, Goranians, Muslims of Slav
extraction, and ethnic Turks from Kosovska Mitrovica, the only remaining
multi-national and multi-confessional town in Kosovo, in order to
complete the process of ethnic cleansing of non-Albanians who live in
isolation in enclaves in this Serbian province, said the letter.
Yugoslavia has already warned the Security Council on previous occasions
against the fiasco and inability of KFOR and UNMIK to realize their
obligations stemming from Resolution 1244, as well as the
Military-Technical Agreement.
In spite of Yugoslavia's warning and the fact that most of the Serb and
non-Albanian population have already been banished from Kosovo,
witnessed by these very same security forces and the civilian mission,
the KFOR and UNMIK have not only failed to do anything to prevent the
terrorism of ethnic Albanians and acts of vandalism, but have very often
been accomplices in these heinous acts.
The latest aggravation of the situation in Kosovska Mitrovica is due to
the totally unprovoked arrogant behaviour of KFOR towards Serbs in that
town, said the letter, proceeding to describe the destructive and brutal
behaviour of KFOR U.S. and German troops who broke down doors and
windows on schools and private houses in their house-search.
The action had evidently been planned in advance. U.S. troops arrived
from Gnjilane, and among them were ethnic Albanians in KFOR U.S.
uniforms, who were recognized by the local population.
Press representatives also appeared to be on the spot, reporting in
Albanian, as well as several crew of foreign TV stations. Leaflets were
dropped from a helicopter, urging Serbs to surrender their allegedly
concealed weapons.
The latest abuse of the about 4,500 Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica is yet
more proof of the political double standards of the KFOR mission, warned
the letter sent by Yugoslavia to the Security Council.
---
Times of India
Wednesday 23 February 2000
Belgrade dismisses West's allegations on Kosovo
By Julijana Mojsilovic
BELGRADE: Yugoslavia dismissed Western officials' allegations that it
was stoking tensions in and around Kosovo and accused them on Tuesday of
supporting Albanian "terrorists" in the province.
"These people are behind the terrorism and separatism of Kosovo
Albanians. They have created the Kosovo Liberation Army and a crisis in
the Balkans to expand NATO to the region," Yugoslav Information Minister
Goran Matic said.
He was speaking a day after battles broke out between Western
peacekeepers and rioters when thousands of ethnic Albanians tried to
storm across a bridge in the centre of the flashpoint Kosovo city of
Mitrovica to reach the province's largest remaining Serb enclave.
On Sunday, NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping troops clashed with Mitrovica's
Serbs, angered by the troops' search of homes for weapons following
shootings and grenade attacks which killed nine people, both Serbs and
Albanians.
Richard Holbrooke, US ambassador to the UN, said in New York on Monday
that trouble was being fomented by the Yugoslav government, which was
forced by last year's NATO air war to surrender control of Kosovo.
NATO Secretary-General George Robertson said on Monday the military
alliance was also monitoring a Yugoslav troop build-up in other ethnic
Albanian areas of southern Serbia and would not tolerate a new conflict
there.
NATO Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark, visiting Albania, also
expressed concern about the area.
Matic counterattacked by accusing Holbrooke, Robertson and Clark of
wanting to expel remaining Serbs from Mitrovica in order to gain control
of a mine near the city, saying they were "in a gold rush".
"The three are demanding from ethnic Albanians to expel the remaining
non-Albanians from Mitrovica in order to get hold of the richest gold
mine in the Balkans," Matic said.
But it would not succeed, he said, adding that "Serbia is not
California".
He was referring to the Trepca lead and zinc mining complex, which
exploits ore also containing gold and silver. The complex is situated
north of Mitrovica in a Serb-dominated area. Serbia still controls four
of some 17 Trepca mines in Kosovo.
"These people are now doing everything to cover up their crimes," Matic
said of the leaders of NATO countries which took part in the
March-to-June air campaign against Belgrade.
The state news agency Tanjug reported that Yugoslavia lodged a sharp
protest with the UN Security Council late on Monday. "Yugoslavia has
already warned the Security Council on previous occasions against the
fiasco and inability of KFOR and the UN mission in Kosovo to realise
their obligations stemming from resolution 1244 as well as the
Military-Technical Agreement," it quoted the Yugoslav letter as saying.
(Reuters)
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"Jiefan Jun Bao": West stirs ethnic Albanians up against Serbs
February 23, 2000
Concern for escalation of violation in Kosovo and
Metohija
Beijing, February 22nd - Chinese military daily
"Jiefan Jun Ban" condemned today "incapability of KFOR
and UNMIK in Kosovo" and appealed to the world
community to "prevent ethnic Albanian terrorism under
the auspices of the UN".
Reacting to "the latest separatist actions of ethnic
Albanian separatists in Kosovo, the military daily
warned that "West deliberately stirs up anger of
ethnic Albanians towards the Serbs in
Kosovo-Metohija".
"It is necessary to create the conditions for
political solution of Kosovo issue with full respect
of sovereignty and territorial integrity of FRY and
consistent implementation of the UN Security Council's
Resolution 1244", stressed today Chinese
representative for press Ju Ban Tzao, referring to the
latest wave of crime in Kosovo.
"It is obvious that the situation in Kosovo has
deteriorated since the arrival of the UN military and
civil mission last June", stated Ju, stressing this
was preceded by the NATO aggression against
Yugoslavia, headed by the US.
"The use of force against sovereign Yugoslavia not
only violated the UN Charter and the principles of the
international standards, but also turned out to be
utterly dangerous example of interference with the
interior business of a sovereign country" stated Ju,
expressing "China's deep concern regarding the
escalation of violence in Kosovo".
The military daily points out that "the inclined
policy of KFOR and UNMIK exerted pressure on Serbs and
supported ethnic Albanian extremists which created
additional tension in Kosovo".
"Tolerant attitude of KFOR and UNMIK towards extreme
ethnic Albanians now returns as a boomerang to the UN
military and civil mission in Kosovo" says Jiefan Jun
Bao, reminding that terrorist organization KLA is not
disarmed, but only transformed into so-called "Kosovo
Protective Corps".
"The world community insists on the fact that Kosovo
is an inseparable part of Yugoslavia, which
additionally enraged ethnic Albanian extremists due to
their separatist idea on independent Kosovo",
emphasizes the military paper.
Jiefan Jun Bao reminds that Yugoslavia has warned the
UN that the attacks of ethnic Albanian terrorists to
date have already caused tragic consequences and
victims in Kosovo.
Yugoslavia demands that the Security Council urgently
takes most energetic measures in order to immediately
stop the attacks on unprotected Serb population, says
Jiefan Jun Bao.
Bias of West and incapability of KFOR and UNMIK must
change fundamentally their transparent attitude and
consistently implement the Security Council's
Resolution 1244, otherwise they will face a dead-end
situation in inflamed Kosovo, warns the military
paper.
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>
>Right-and Albright was just in Tirana on February 19 to meet with
>Hashim Thaci.
>http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/albania/usa/20000219/tir09
>
>
>inf-@... wrote:
>original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/sorabia/?start=3307
>> Albright, Holbrooke and Clark Lead Albanians
>>
>> NATO and Washington have been warning for days that a solution to the
>> problem in Kosovska Mitrovica must be found. Since the exodus of more
>than
>> 200,000 Serbs and the harassment of those who remained in the
>province
>> resolved the Kosovo issue, Washington believes that the only thing to
>be
>> done is to cleanse the last significant Serb enclave by expelling the
>Serbs
>> from Mitrovica. It is important to note that the Mitrovica enclave is
>the
>> one linking Kosovo with the rest of Serbia. Washington is apparently
>> determined to carry out a U.S. plan in which only an ethnically
>"pure,"
>> Albanian Kosovo can be considered truly multi-ethnic.
>>
>> For that purpose, an Albanian march on Mitrovica was organised. Just
>like it
>> promoted several Albanian terrorists and criminals to high-ranking
>military
>> officers and diplomats in Rambouillet only to demilitarise them later
>and
>> turn them into commanders, political leaders and state dignitaries,
>> Washington has now decided to head the Albanian march on Mitrovica.
>Its true
>> goal is to ethnically cleanse the town of the Serbs rather than
>liberate it.
>>
>> The Albanian masses involved in the campaign on Mitrovica were not
>led by
>> Albanian criminal politicians like Hashim Thaqi, but rather the very
>top of
>> the U.S. diplomatic and military elite. After all that happened in
>Kosovo
>> before the eyes of the whole wide word, Madeleine Albright termed as
>> "tragedy" the events in Mitrovica only. Richard Holbrooke said that
>> Mitrovica was the hottest spot in Europe, and Wesley Clark guaranteed
>that
>> NATO would take "appropriate measures" to avoid the final division of
>> Mitrovica. Thereby, the trio making Washington's iron fist confirmed
>that it
>> was behind the Albanian march and barbarism of U.S. soldiers of KFOR
>in the
>> north of Mitrovica. Tomorrow, it can easily support another "Flash"
>or
>> "Storm" thanks to which Mitrovica would no longer be a divided town.
>To say
>> the truth, it would be a Serbless town, just like the whole of Kosovo
>after
>> all. Those on the Serb side failing to see this are both politically
>blind
>> and irresponsible.
>>
>> Belgrade, February 22, 2000
>>
>> Information Service of the Democratic Party of Serbia
>>
>
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Comunicato di VOCE OPERAIA
22 febbraio
Uno spettacolo raccapricciante si è consumato a Kosovska Mitrovica sotto
gli occhi di chi li aveva aperti. Issando bandiere albanesi, Nato, UE, e
USA, i seguaci dell¹UCK (frazione Taci) hanno inscenato una marcia per
sradicare dal Kosovo non soli i serbi, ma tutte quelle minoranze,
nazionali e politiche, che rifiutano l¹albanizzazione forzata. Non si
tratta soltanto di ³pulizia etnica², abbiamo a che fare con una pulizia
sociale e politica, di una rappresaglia fanatica dal chiaro segno
reazionario e filo-occidentale. Ci vengono in mente tutti quei pagliacci
di sinistra che durante i bombardamenti NATO, con la scusa di difendere
i diritti albanesi, hanno sostenuto l¹UCK come legittima forza di
liberazione nazionale considerando, proprio come i regimi imperialisti,
il governo di Belgrado come il nemico numero uno. Allora dicevamo a
questo signori che la maggioranza degli albanesi del Kosovo, volenti o
no, erano un popolo di Crumiri (Crumiri, per chi non lo sapesse, erano
qui tunisini schierati coi colonialisti francesi durante la lotta per
l¹indipendenza) i quali, se avessero avuto la meglio, non avrebbero
affatto costruito un Nazione, ma un casino coloniale sotto diretto
protettorato NATO. Questi signori hanno avuto il ben servito.
Lo diciamo così, tanto per la cronaca, non perché speriamo in un loro
ripensamento. L¹autocritica non presuppone solo l¹intelligenza, ma
l¹onestà intellettuale, qualità che hanno lasciato sfracellare al suolo,
assieme alle bombe all¹uranio impoverito sganciate sulla Iugoslavia dai
bombardieri occidentali.
Dichiarazione di Voce Operaia
Sin dal giugno scorso, subito dopo gli Accordi di pace di Kumanovo, le
milizie dell¹UCK, sotto l¹ombrello e l¹indifferenza delle truppe
NATO-Kfor, hanno dato una sistematica caccia ai cittadini serbi, rom,
gorani (e albanesi anti-UCK), provocando la loro espulsione in massa dal
Kosovo. Questa vendetta, che ha gia¹ provocato centinaia di morti
e migliaia di feriti, contrariamente a quanto affermano i reticenti e
pudici mass media, non e¹ soltanto una ³pulizia etnica², èla seconda
fase della guerra civile che contrappone il nazionalismo kosovaro
filo-NATO e filo-USA a TUTTI coloro che si rifiutano di sottomettersi
alla supremazia dei nazionalisti più fanatici e di trasformare il
Kosovo e la Iugoslavia in protettorati della NATO.
Costretti a vivere in piccole enclaves, i serbi sono stati costretti,
anche a causa della complicita¹ delle truppe occidentali con i miliziani
dell¹UCK, ad autodifendersi per non soccombere. Nelle ultime settimane
la pressione dei nazionalisti albanesi oltranzisti si è concentrata su
Kosovska Mitrovica dove vivono, nel settore nord, assieme alla comunità
serba, rom, albanesi e altre minoranze. Queste comunita¹ dopo essere
state sottoposte ad ogni tipo di vessazione e umiliazione, sono state
fatte bersaglio di attacchi armati sanguinosi che hanno causato, nelle
ultime settimane, decine di morti. Le truppe Kfor hanno lasciato correre
e sono intervenute in forze solo quando gruppi armati serbi hanno
inflitto colpi pesantissimi alle forze UCK decidendo la chiusura del
ponte che collega le due parti della citta¹. La comunita¹ serba non
puo¹ essere lasciata sola: piaccia o no essa e¹ ora un avamposto non
solo cotro l¹UCK, ma pure contro l¹occupante NATO!
E¹ una trincea nella lotta contro l¹imperialismo!
Intenzionati a spazzare via ogni serbo dal Kosovo, i centri dirigenti
dell¹UCK dell¹ala di Taci, da Pristina, hanno cosi¹ ordinato una marcia
su Kosovska Mitrovica con l¹obbiettivo di occupare la parte nord della
citta¹. I manifestanti, tanto per far capire con chi stanno e in chi
sperano, innalzavano numerose bandiere degli USA, della NATO e della
Gran Bretagna e gridavano slogan invocando un piu¹ deciso impegno
nord-americano in Kosovo per fare piazza pulita dei serbi.
Nel momento in cui la marcia si avvicinava a Kosovska Mitrovica, le
truppe NATO sono state poste nella massima allerta, anche perche¹ quelle
iugoslave avevano fatto altrettanto ammassandosi ai bordi del Kosovo. Le
notizie dell¹ultima ora segnalano che la marcia degli albanesi,
attestatasi sul ponte oltre il quale centinaia di serbi formavano un
presidio, ha fatto dietrofront anche grazie all¹interposizione delle
truppe NATO-Kfor. Il peggio e¹ stato dunque per ora evitato. Ma solo
per ora.
E¹ infatti evidente che in Kosovo la NATO non ha mantenuto alcuna sua
promessa: non c¹è pace, non c¹è alcuna convivenza,
non c¹è alcuna tolleranza multietnica. Cio¹ a causa anzitutto del
tentativo degli albanesi UCK di cacciare tutti gli oppositori, tra cui i
serbi. E non ci sara¹ mai fino a quando la NATO continuera¹ a
sostenerli. E¹ infatti nell¹interesse della NATO che il Kosovo sia
ingovernabile, cosi¹ si potra¹ giusitificare un¹occupazione militare
permanente.
E questo e¹ l¹altro fattore devastante: la NATO non vuole rispettare gli
Accordi di pace (che prevedono che il Kosovo sia riconsegnato alle
autorita¹ iugoslave). Cio¹ portera¹ ad una nuova esplosione del
conflitto, poiche¹ il governo di Belgrado, almeno fino a quando non
cadra¹ in mano alle opposizioni filo-occidentali, e¹ deciso a far
rispettare gli accordi del giugno 1999.
Non ci sara¹ pace nei Balcani fino a quando la NATO vorra¹ imporre il
suo dominio!
PRIMO COMPITO:
RISPETTARE GLI ACCORDI DI KUMANOVO! FUORI LA NATO DALLA IUGOSLAVIA E
DAI BALCANI!
Non ci sara¹ pace fino a quando ogni nazione non avrà dignità e il
diritto di autodeterminarsi su basi
democratiche!
SECONDO COMPITO:
AUTODETERMINAZIONE IN UNA FEDERAZIONE ANTIMPERIALISTA!
Ci sara¹ pace solo quando saliranno al potere governi operai e popolari
e tutte le cricche capitaliste
saranno spazzate via!
TERZO COMPITO:
LOTTARE PER IL SOCIALISMO!
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Predrag Tosic <p-tosic@...> wrote
> Meaning, basically, of the same origin as the Basques?
You're right, Predrag. Also, the Iberian, pre-Roman, component is still
present in Spanish and
Portuguese (correct me, João, if I am wrong) languages: sounds as the
typical double /RR/, so
unpronounceable for english speaking people, for example.
>
> Frankly, I did tend to believe that most of the NORTH Caucasus
> indigenous peoples were Turkophonic.
You can have a look to this map, about Ethnography in the North
Caucasus.
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/6150/ethno.jpg
>
> What other modern nations/ethnos belong to this group?
You can find Circassians (Cherkess) in Jordan (they are becoming a
powerful lobby group) and
Syria, but no longer in places as Kosovo Polje because they were forced
to leave to the Republic of
Adigeya (their ancestral homeland), inside Russian Federation, "thanks"
Albanian terrorism.
>
I enclose a pretty good article from a good Jordan friend.
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Circassians in Kosovo Polje in the Yugoslav Federation
The following article was extracted from "Les Tcherkesses du Kosovo
Polje en Yougoslavie" by
Niko Zupanic in The Journal of The International Institute of
Anthropology, the Paris session, first
section. It was translated and edited by Amjad Jaimoukhaf, a Circassian
intellectual from Jordan.
The ethnographers and historians are aware that the homeland of the
Circassians is along the
basin of the Kuban river in Ciscaucasia. They inhabited the
north-western part of the Caucasus.
The Circassians were divided into many tribes that spoke mutually
intelligible dialects:
Natuqwazh, Shapsugh, Abzakh, Bzhadugh, Hatuqwai, Beslanay, Mokhosh,
Temirgoy, Zhanay,
Egherukoy, Ubykh and Kabarday.
Their collective name was probably corrupted by the Turks from the
ancient Greek name
'kerxetai'. In the middle ages, the Russians used to refer to them by
the name Kossogh, which is
related to Kasag, the name by which the Ossetians call the Kabardians,
but also the Circassians
in general. The self designation of the Circassians is Adygha, which is
believed by linguists to be
related to the old name Zyghoy (strabon). It is believed that the
'Iazyghi', who were installed in
the territory between the rivers Tisa (Theiss) and the Danube not long
after the birth of Christ,
were a group of Zyghoy from the Caucasus, which name was transformed in
European Sarmatia by
adding first the prefix a- and then ia-.
The Circassians were until the 13th century a.d. pagan and free. They
were then subjugated by the
Georgians and christianised. In the first half of the 15th century they
overthrew the Georgian yoke,
but they were in continuous battle with the Tatars and they lost their
territory in the north.
Towards the middle of the 16th century the Kuban became their northern
frontier, because in 1570,
Ghirai, the khan of the Tatars, defeated them in a battle on the banks
of middle Kuban and forced
them to embrace Islam. Until that time, the Circassians settlements
stretched northwards to the
river Kama and some scattered groups were even found as far as the mouth
of the don.
The Circassians switched their religious allegiance very easily
according to the circumstances.
They had a superficial knowledge of Christianity and they were a mixture
of semi-pagans,
demi-muslims and some Christians.
The Circassians have always been distinguished by their intrepidity and
equine skills. They strictly
observed a code of hospitality and blood vengeance. The songs and tales
of the east celebrate the
beauty of Circassians maidens.
The Circassians put up a fierce resistance in their war with the
Russians, but they were eventually
defeated in 1864. Many of them were forced to leave their country and
resettle in the ottoman
empire: in Syria, Asia minor and the Balkan peninsula. Only a few
remained in their homeland,
about 110,000 people.
The majority of the Circassians who were established in the Balkan
peninsula were sent by the
ottoman authorities to the frontiers of the ancient duchy of Serbia to
reinforce its position there
and to terrorise the Serbs. During that time the Circassians were
established in Kosovo Polje
where the author visited them in 1924 and 1929. He counted about fifty
families, or about 250
people, for the majority had left for Asia minor and Syria.
The Circassians are very interesting for the Serbs, because the first
bearers of the name Serb
were aboriginal in the Caucasus, probably Circassians who crossed the
don at the time of the great
Sarmatian migration, together with the Ants, the Zichi (Kissi), the
Chorvats, the Vals, etc. They
co-mingled with the Slavs and established the first tribal
organisations. Undoubtedly these
Caucaso-sarmatian horsemen were assimilated in the mass of the Slav
population, but the names
of the tribes and the primitive structure of the state still exist to
this day.
>From their original Slav homeland at the confluence of the upper and middle Dniepr and of the
Pripet and the Boug, the Serbs immigrated to the confluence of the
middle Elbe and the Saale,
whence a group, which had a military organisation, resettled in Illyria
[NOTE from Javier: it's
pathetic the way Kosovo Albanian are trying to fake History, claiming
themselves to be
"descendants of the ancient Illyrian tribe of the Dardanians". See
http://www.unpo.org/member/kosova/kosova.html ] It was probably in 626
a.d., when
Constantinopla was besieged by the Avars and the Persians, that
Hercules, the Byzantine emperor
implored Samo, the Grand Duke of the Slavs, for help. The Croats and the
Serbs moved to the
Balkan peninsula, attacked the Avars from behind, delivered the Slavs
(Yugoslavs) who were
living there and saved Constantinopla, the Byzantine empire and eastern
Christendom.
After defeating the Avars, the Serbs established themselves in the
interior of Illyria at the lower
end of the indigenous Slavs. At their arrival in Illyria, the Serbs
spoke the same language as the
Serbs of Lusace, but being fewer in number than the native population,
they were linguistically
assimilated and they lost their north-west Slavic language.
The Circassians, who used to be one of the three principal nations in
the Caucasus, speak a
Japhetic language, which is not related to any other language group.
This means that they are not
Aryan, since these speak Indo-European languages. They may be allied to
the Basques in the
Pyrenees, who, before the advent of the Indo-Europeans, formed one
section of an organic chain
of related nations that stretched from Spain to the Caucasus. Those
nations were the Iberians, the
Legurs, the Etruscans, the Rets, the Pelasgians (an ancient pre-Aryan
race, which used to be
widely spread over the coasts and islands of the eastern Mediterranean
and Aegean, and believed
to have occupied Greece before the Hellenes), the Kars, the
Cappadochians, the Amazons (a race
of female warriors alleged to have existed in Scythia) , the Khalybs,
the Colchians, etc. These
peoples were violently replaced by the Indo-Europeans.
The circassians in Kosovo Polje are to be found in the following
villages: Gornje Stanovce, Donje
Stanovce, Velika Reka and Milosevo. Before the Turko-Serbian war of
1877-1878, there were
about 12,000 Circassians in the region. After the war the overwhelming
majority immigrated to
Syria and Asia minor. In 1912 and 1918 more people moved out, and the
author estimated that there
were only 250 circassians in the province by 1929. The present
population is estimated at 1,000.
References:
1. Niko Zupanic, 'Les Origines des Serbes', the origins of the Serbs.
Second session of the
International Institute of anthropology, pp. 227-229. Paris, 1926.
2. Niko Zupanic, 'Bela Srbija'. Zagreb, 1922; Les Serbes a Srbciste
(Macedoine), au vii siecle.
Extrait du Byzantion, t. Iv, p. 277-280. Liege, 1929.
3. T. R. Djordjevic, 'Cerkezi u Nasoj Zemlji', the circassians on our
territory. Glasnik Skopskog
Naucnog Drustva, t. Iii, p. 143. Skoplje, 1928.
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MANOVRE MILITARI
Secondo il segretario generale della NATO George Robertson l'esercito
della Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia non deve effettuare movimenti di
truppe sul proprio territorio. Robertson si riferisce in particolare
alle truppe jugoslave che sarebbero concentrate in Serbia centrale, nei
pressi del confine interno con la provincia del Kosmet.
Robertson pero' ritiene che il suo paese (la Gran Bretagna) possa ed
anzi debba impiegare truppe e mezzi non solo in Irlanda del Nord, ma
persino nei Balcani, a migliaia di chilometri di distanza - magari
proprio sul territorio della Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia!
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Secondo il segretario generale della NATO George Robertson l'esercito
della Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia non deve effettuare movimenti di
truppe sul proprio territorio. Robertson si riferisce in particolare
alle truppe jugoslave che sarebbero concentrate in Serbia centrale, nei
pressi del confine interno con la provincia del Kosmet.
Robertson pero' ritiene che il suo paese (la Gran Bretagna) possa ed
anzi debba impiegare truppe e mezzi non solo in Irlanda del Nord, ma
persino nei Balcani, a migliaia di chilometri di distanza - magari
proprio sul territorio della Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia!
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GIORNALI DA BUTTARE: 1. "LA REPUBBLICA"
Leggiamo su "Repubblica on line" del 22/2/2000 che i carabinieri
italiani avrebbero individuato qualcuna delle famose "fosse comuni" di
Srebrenica. La notizia sarebbe clamorosa, visto che dopo ben cinque
anni, del "massacro serbo di ottomila musulmani" al quale si allude
continuamente (ma per "Repubblica" adesso sono diventati diecimila!)
ancora nessuna fossa comune era stata ritrovata - a parte le "foto da
satellite" di fonte CIA nelle quali ci hanno fatto vedere "terra mossa
di fresco".
Purtroppo (o per fortuna), pero', la notizia non e' credibile, ed anzi
sembra un "cappello" fatto apposta per "coprire" giornalisticamente la
vera notizia contenuta nell'articolo, riguardante le indagini
sull'omicidio di tre volontari italiani. Questi ultimi sarebbero stati
uccisi dai "Berretti Verdi", che gia' dal nome sembrano piuttosto essere
una formazione paramilitare bosniaco-musulmana (ma nell'articolo non si
dice). E' questa una maniera doppiamente infame - ma non certo nuova -
di contribuire, come giornalisti, al conflitto nei Balcani attizzando
odio gratuito nei confronti di una delle parti in causa (sempre quella).
> I militari sulle tracce del massacro di Sebrenica
> Individuati gli assassini dei volontari bresciani
>
> I carabinieri scoprono
> nuove fosse in Bosnia
>
>
> SARAJEVO - Per anni hanno investigato in silenzio, cercato prove, scovato
> riscontri, portato testimoni: tutte cose difficili nella Sarajevo sconvolta
> dalla guerra. Ora i carabinieri della Multinational Specialized Unit sono
> riusciti a scoprire gli assassini dei tre volontari bresciani uccisi nel
> 1993 in Bosnia. I militari non si sono fermati e hanno individuato altre
> fosse comuni, due sicure e altre cinque su cui stanno ancora perfezionando
> le ultime verifiche. Montagne di cadaveri che portano le indagini sulle
> tracce del massacro di Sebrenica, dove durante il conflitto nell'ex
> Yugoslavia vennero fatte scomparire diecimila persone.
>
> Per raccontare questa ultima, tragica, scoperta bisogna partire da lontano:
SI NOTI CHE ADESSO IL GIORNALISTA CAMBIA TEMA DI NUOVO, NEL TENTATIVO DI
CONFONDERE LA PROBLEMATICA DI SREBRENICA (scritto "Sebrenica", poiche'
l'ignoranza non mente) CON QUELLA DELL'ATTENTATO AI VOLONTARI
> da quando Guido Puletti, Sergio Lana e Fabio Moreni furono falciati a colpi
> di mitra, nel 1993 nei pressi di Gornji Vakuf, da una banda paramilitare
> durante l'attacco ad un convoglio umanitario. I carabinieri, in stretto
> contatto con Carla Del Ponte, il magistrato che coordina le indagini sui
> crimini di guerra nella ex Jugoslavia, sono riusciti a dare un nome e un
> volto ai colpevoli. L'inchiesta porta ai "berretti verdi" di Hanefjia
> Prjijc, il comandante Paraga, che vive tranquillo nella sua città, Voljice.
> Per lui e i suoi uomini, molti fuggti all'estero, sono però pronti i
> mandati di cattura e per l'arresto non dovrebbe mancare molto tempo.
>
> La stessa tecnica di lavoro, fatta di tenacia e professionalità, i
> carabinieri l'hanno usata nella caccia alle fosse comuni. Gli inquirenti su
> questo punto mantengono il più stretto riserbo ma sembrano essere arrivati
> appunto ad un passo da uno degli episodi più sanguinosi della guerra
> nell'ex Jugoslavia: la probabile eliminazione fisica di diecimila persone
> dalla città di Sebrenica.
SI NOTI: "IL PIU' STRETTO RISERBO", "SEMBRANO ESSERE ARRIVATI",
"PROBABILE ELIMINAZIONE FISICA"
> Finora sono stati individuati tremila cadaveri, all'appello mancano dunque
SI NOTI: "SONO STATI INDIVIDUATI" (A NOI NON RISULTA)
> gli altri settemila, che si teme possano essere seppelliti in diverse fosse
SI NOTI: "ALTRI SETTEMILA" (IN BASE A QUALI FONTI?), "SI TEME CHE"
> comuni. Nei mesi scorsi gli uomini del colonnello Renato Scuzzarello ne
> avevano individuate tre, negli ultimi giorni ne sono venute alla luce altre
> due.
...MA ALL'INIZIO DELL'ARTICOLO SI DICE CHE SONO DUE SICURE E CINQUE
FORSE!
SE QUALCUNO AVESSE INFORMAZIONI PIU' PRECISE SU QUESTE FOSSE GIA'
INDIVIDUATE (OLTRE AL NOME DEL COLONNELLO) E' PREGATO DI INVIARCELE E
LE DIFFONDEREMO IMMEDIATAMENTE.
> L'attenzione adesso, con esami balistici sulle armi usate dai serbi, è
SOLO QUI SI CITA ESPLICITAMENTE UNA PARTE IN CONFLITTO (I SERBI)
> puntata sulle ultime cinque fosse scovate. Le indagini dureranno sino a
> primavera, se andranno nella direzione immaginata dai carabinieri, sarà un
> altro contributo alla verità, un piccolo-grande omaggio alle vittime di
> quella guerra.
A PRIMAVERA AVREMO TUTTI DIMENTICATO LA NOTIZIOLA E NESSUNO ANDRA' A
VERIFICARE.
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Leggiamo su "Repubblica on line" del 22/2/2000 che i carabinieri
italiani avrebbero individuato qualcuna delle famose "fosse comuni" di
Srebrenica. La notizia sarebbe clamorosa, visto che dopo ben cinque
anni, del "massacro serbo di ottomila musulmani" al quale si allude
continuamente (ma per "Repubblica" adesso sono diventati diecimila!)
ancora nessuna fossa comune era stata ritrovata - a parte le "foto da
satellite" di fonte CIA nelle quali ci hanno fatto vedere "terra mossa
di fresco".
Purtroppo (o per fortuna), pero', la notizia non e' credibile, ed anzi
sembra un "cappello" fatto apposta per "coprire" giornalisticamente la
vera notizia contenuta nell'articolo, riguardante le indagini
sull'omicidio di tre volontari italiani. Questi ultimi sarebbero stati
uccisi dai "Berretti Verdi", che gia' dal nome sembrano piuttosto essere
una formazione paramilitare bosniaco-musulmana (ma nell'articolo non si
dice). E' questa una maniera doppiamente infame - ma non certo nuova -
di contribuire, come giornalisti, al conflitto nei Balcani attizzando
odio gratuito nei confronti di una delle parti in causa (sempre quella).
> I militari sulle tracce del massacro di Sebrenica
> Individuati gli assassini dei volontari bresciani
>
> I carabinieri scoprono
> nuove fosse in Bosnia
>
>
> SARAJEVO - Per anni hanno investigato in silenzio, cercato prove, scovato
> riscontri, portato testimoni: tutte cose difficili nella Sarajevo sconvolta
> dalla guerra. Ora i carabinieri della Multinational Specialized Unit sono
> riusciti a scoprire gli assassini dei tre volontari bresciani uccisi nel
> 1993 in Bosnia. I militari non si sono fermati e hanno individuato altre
> fosse comuni, due sicure e altre cinque su cui stanno ancora perfezionando
> le ultime verifiche. Montagne di cadaveri che portano le indagini sulle
> tracce del massacro di Sebrenica, dove durante il conflitto nell'ex
> Yugoslavia vennero fatte scomparire diecimila persone.
>
> Per raccontare questa ultima, tragica, scoperta bisogna partire da lontano:
SI NOTI CHE ADESSO IL GIORNALISTA CAMBIA TEMA DI NUOVO, NEL TENTATIVO DI
CONFONDERE LA PROBLEMATICA DI SREBRENICA (scritto "Sebrenica", poiche'
l'ignoranza non mente) CON QUELLA DELL'ATTENTATO AI VOLONTARI
> da quando Guido Puletti, Sergio Lana e Fabio Moreni furono falciati a colpi
> di mitra, nel 1993 nei pressi di Gornji Vakuf, da una banda paramilitare
> durante l'attacco ad un convoglio umanitario. I carabinieri, in stretto
> contatto con Carla Del Ponte, il magistrato che coordina le indagini sui
> crimini di guerra nella ex Jugoslavia, sono riusciti a dare un nome e un
> volto ai colpevoli. L'inchiesta porta ai "berretti verdi" di Hanefjia
> Prjijc, il comandante Paraga, che vive tranquillo nella sua città, Voljice.
> Per lui e i suoi uomini, molti fuggti all'estero, sono però pronti i
> mandati di cattura e per l'arresto non dovrebbe mancare molto tempo.
>
> La stessa tecnica di lavoro, fatta di tenacia e professionalità, i
> carabinieri l'hanno usata nella caccia alle fosse comuni. Gli inquirenti su
> questo punto mantengono il più stretto riserbo ma sembrano essere arrivati
> appunto ad un passo da uno degli episodi più sanguinosi della guerra
> nell'ex Jugoslavia: la probabile eliminazione fisica di diecimila persone
> dalla città di Sebrenica.
SI NOTI: "IL PIU' STRETTO RISERBO", "SEMBRANO ESSERE ARRIVATI",
"PROBABILE ELIMINAZIONE FISICA"
> Finora sono stati individuati tremila cadaveri, all'appello mancano dunque
SI NOTI: "SONO STATI INDIVIDUATI" (A NOI NON RISULTA)
> gli altri settemila, che si teme possano essere seppelliti in diverse fosse
SI NOTI: "ALTRI SETTEMILA" (IN BASE A QUALI FONTI?), "SI TEME CHE"
> comuni. Nei mesi scorsi gli uomini del colonnello Renato Scuzzarello ne
> avevano individuate tre, negli ultimi giorni ne sono venute alla luce altre
> due.
...MA ALL'INIZIO DELL'ARTICOLO SI DICE CHE SONO DUE SICURE E CINQUE
FORSE!
SE QUALCUNO AVESSE INFORMAZIONI PIU' PRECISE SU QUESTE FOSSE GIA'
INDIVIDUATE (OLTRE AL NOME DEL COLONNELLO) E' PREGATO DI INVIARCELE E
LE DIFFONDEREMO IMMEDIATAMENTE.
> L'attenzione adesso, con esami balistici sulle armi usate dai serbi, è
SOLO QUI SI CITA ESPLICITAMENTE UNA PARTE IN CONFLITTO (I SERBI)
> puntata sulle ultime cinque fosse scovate. Le indagini dureranno sino a
> primavera, se andranno nella direzione immaginata dai carabinieri, sarà un
> altro contributo alla verità, un piccolo-grande omaggio alle vittime di
> quella guerra.
A PRIMAVERA AVREMO TUTTI DIMENTICATO LA NOTIZIOLA E NESSUNO ANDRA' A
VERIFICARE.
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TEST DI INTELLIGENZA
1. Di che nazionalita' erano i dimostranti scesi in piazza il 21/2/2000
presso Mitrovica, in Kosovo?
2. Che bandiere portavano?
3. Chi controllava la zona?
4. Chi controllava la marcia?
5. Ed in che modo l'hanno controllata?
6. Cosa facevano i serbi di Mitrovica in quelle ore?
7. Cosa era successo il giorno precedente?
8. Chi e' che cerca di fomentare la tensione?
RISPOSTE: 1. albanesi-kosovari e albanesi d'Albania 2. albanesi e
americane 3. le truppe di alcuni paesi NATO 4. vedi risposta precedente
5. ne hanno lasciati passare molti fin dentro la citta', poi il
comandante Reinhardt ha arringato la folla esprimendo solidarieta' per
gli obiettivi della marcia 6. donne, bambini ed anziani scappavano nei
boschi, poche migliaia di uomini formavano un presidio 7. soldati
statunitensi e tedeschi avevano passato al setaccio in malo modo tutto
il settore serbo per privare le popolazione degli strumenti di
autodifesa 8. Slobodan Milosevic, ovvio! Che domanda idiota...
"Lord George Robertson said Monday there was 'no doubt that (Yugoslav
President Slobodan) Milosevic will have a hand in some of the
provocations being organized on the Serb side'... In New York, Richard
Holbrooke, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, accused the
Yugoslav government in Belgrade of fomenting the latest unrest. His view
was shared by Gen. Wesley Clark, the NATO commander in Europe. 'There is
an influence by Belgrade in the area,' Clark said" (AP 22/2)
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1. Di che nazionalita' erano i dimostranti scesi in piazza il 21/2/2000
presso Mitrovica, in Kosovo?
2. Che bandiere portavano?
3. Chi controllava la zona?
4. Chi controllava la marcia?
5. Ed in che modo l'hanno controllata?
6. Cosa facevano i serbi di Mitrovica in quelle ore?
7. Cosa era successo il giorno precedente?
8. Chi e' che cerca di fomentare la tensione?
RISPOSTE: 1. albanesi-kosovari e albanesi d'Albania 2. albanesi e
americane 3. le truppe di alcuni paesi NATO 4. vedi risposta precedente
5. ne hanno lasciati passare molti fin dentro la citta', poi il
comandante Reinhardt ha arringato la folla esprimendo solidarieta' per
gli obiettivi della marcia 6. donne, bambini ed anziani scappavano nei
boschi, poche migliaia di uomini formavano un presidio 7. soldati
statunitensi e tedeschi avevano passato al setaccio in malo modo tutto
il settore serbo per privare le popolazione degli strumenti di
autodifesa 8. Slobodan Milosevic, ovvio! Che domanda idiota...
"Lord George Robertson said Monday there was 'no doubt that (Yugoslav
President Slobodan) Milosevic will have a hand in some of the
provocations being organized on the Serb side'... In New York, Richard
Holbrooke, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, accused the
Yugoslav government in Belgrade of fomenting the latest unrest. His view
was shared by Gen. Wesley Clark, the NATO commander in Europe. 'There is
an influence by Belgrade in the area,' Clark said" (AP 22/2)
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TARANTO - incontro con gli operai della Zastava
TORINO - si e' costituito il COORDINAMENTO TORINESE PER LA JUGOSLAVIA
>
> Riceviamo e diffondiamo questo messaggio di Ferdinando Dubla
> <dubla@...>
>
> TARANTO INCONTRA GLI OPERAI JUGOSLAVI DELLA ZASTAVA BOMBARDATA DALLA NATO
>
> Il 24 marzo del 1999, l'alleanza dei 19 paesi aderenti al Patto Atlantico
> (NATO), attaccarono la Federazione Jugoslava con la scusa di voler
> difendere la minoranza albanese. Ma nei 78 giorni che seguirono
> bombardarono di tutto, compresi gli stessi albanesi, con distruzioni di
> infrastrutture civili e morte di innocenti. La guerra fu un pauroso
> arretramento di diritti e di democrazia per tutti noi e l'Italia, con il
> governo D'Alema, fu complice dell'imperialismo USA-NATO. Imponendo il
> consenso alla cosiddetta 'missione umanitaria', oltre che con la forza,
> anche con la mistificazione attraverso l'uso propagandistico dei media. Da
> una parte si bombardava, dall'altra si chiedeva al nostro popolo di
> partecipare alla farsa della "missione Arcobaleno", terreno di scambio e di
> corruzione con le mafie albanesi, come hanno dimostrato le ultime vicende
> giudiziarie.
> E ancora oggi, il popolo jugoslavo, nonostante già stremato dai danni che
> la guerra ha prodotto (come ad esempio l'inquinamento delle acque e della
> terra che impedisce un approvvigionamento alimentare sufficiente, la
> carenza di medicinali di base, ecc..) soffre di un odioso embargo che
> impedisce non solo la ricostruzione, ma anche la semplice sopravvivenza.
> E' necessario che tutti i cittadini di Taranto si sentano solidali e
> partecipi all'iniziativa con i delegati sindacali della Zastava di
> Kragujevac, fabbrica di automobili che ora la Fiat ha abbandonato e che
> solo i suoi 35.000 operai possono salvare con la solidarietà di classe e
> internazionalista.
>
> Durante l'incontro sarà proiettato il video di Fulvio Grimaldi "Serbi da
> morire" e sarà presentato il libro di poeti dilettanti contro la guerra
> "Gli assassini della tenerezza" con disegni dei bambini di Kragujevac, il
> ricavato delle cui vendite sarà devoluto in solidarietà ai lavoratori
> jugoslavi. Sarà inoltre proposto il programma di adozioni a distanza.
>
> SABATO 26 FEBBRAIO 2000
> h.16,30
> Aula Magna ITIS "A.Righi"
> Via Dante
> Taranto
>
> CONFERENZA-STAMPA DEI PROMOTORI DI TARANTO
> VENERDI 25 FEBBRAIO 2000
> h.11
> Salone circolo "E.Che Guevara" PRC
> c.so Piemonte (100 metri dall'Ufficio-pacchi PT)
> TARANTO
>
> Organizzazione:
> Coordinamento cittadino Partito della Rifondazione Comunista-Taranto
> Un ponte per Belgrado in terra di Bari
> Cobas (Confederazione sindacati di base)
> Slai-Cobas
> Cooperativa sociale "Owen"
> Comitato jonico contro le guerre
> Collettivo per l'autorganizzazione sociale
> Primaveraradio
---
COSTITUITO IL COORDINAMENTO TORINESE PER LA JUGOSLAVIA
Lo schieramento di forze e soggetti che, all'interno del movimento
contro la
guerra, ha ritenuto primario e fondamentale, lo schierarsi dalla parte
degli
aggrediti contro gli aggressori, ha costituito il Coordinamento torinese
per
la Jugoslavia, con lo scopo di rafforzare e consolidare le attività di
sostegno e solidarietà per il popolo jugoslavo.
Ciascuno di noi in questi mesi si è impegnato in attività di denuncia,
sostegno, controinformazione e solidarietà sotto varie forme; oggi
abbiamo
ritenuto giusto e soprattutto doveroso costruire un percorso unitario,
che
metta insieme esperienze, intelligenze, risorse e forze.
UNIRSI per UNIRE e rendere più forti ed efficaci gli sforzi per questa
battaglia di solidarietà e sostegno a questo popolo aggredito,
bombardato,
avvelenato ed ora strangolato ed affamato dalle moderne armi di
sterminio di
massa, quali sono l'embargo e le sanzioni (l'Iraq è sotto i nostri
occhi);
armi usate dagli imperialisti contro i popoli non asserviti al Nuovo
Ordine
Mondiale.
Riteniamo questo impegno un dovere e non un'opzione. Chi sceglie
percorsi
individuali o autoreferenziali, favorisce logiche più dannose che
proficue.
Nel Coordinamento ciascuno manterrà la sua specificità e autonomia, ma
ciascuno è parte di un processo unitario e collettivo che ha nella
solidarietà concreta e consapevole alla Jugoslavia e
nell’antiimperialismo,
la sua ragione di essere.
Siamo coscienti di essere una piccola forza di fronte agli scenari
mass-mediatici e imperiali della realtà intorno, ma questo non ci
spaventa o
fa desistere, e la nascita di questo Coordinamento è un piccolo passo
avanti, un segnale di speranza e anche di forza, perché dove ci sono
idee,
intelligenze, determinazione, coscienze schierate che si uniscono, tutti
siamo un po' forti, di conseguenza più forte risulterà il nostro lavoro.
Le caratteristiche, la composizione, le tematiche su cui si svilupperà
il
lavoro, con varie iniziative sono:
· Solidarietà concreta come obiettivo primario e urgente (raccolta
fondi,
alimentari, medicine con le strutture contattate)
· Denuncia delle devastazioni ambientali nella Jugoslavia bombardata
· Documentazione e controinformazione, dando voce e rendendo pubblici i
punti di vista degli aggrediti.
· Lavori del Tribunale Indipendente Internazionale contro i crimini
NATO in
Jugoslavia.
Facciamo Appello ad aderire ed essere partecipi a questo lavoro a
chiunque
concordi con queste basi minime di affinità e che ritenga di non voler
essere complice con un governo che, violando la Costituzione,
calpestando il
Diritto Internazionale e infangando il patrimonio ideale di pace e
solidale,
lasciatoci in eredità dalla lotta di liberazione dal Nazifascismo, ha
oggi
portato il nostro paese ad essere aggressore e affamatore di un altro
popolo. Per noi questo è inaccettabile politicamente ed eticamente.
Facciamo moralmente nostro quel motto che per decenni ha unito i popoli
e le
genti jugoslave, impedendo guerre, tragedie e miserie:
"UNITA' E FRATELLANZA" - per il futuro dei popoli e nostro.
Comitato Promotore :
Un ponte per (Torino)- Comitato contro la guerra dei Lavoratori
dell'Università e del Politecnico -Comitato Yugoslavia - Fondazione
Pasti
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TORINO - si e' costituito il COORDINAMENTO TORINESE PER LA JUGOSLAVIA
>
> Riceviamo e diffondiamo questo messaggio di Ferdinando Dubla
> <dubla@...>
>
> TARANTO INCONTRA GLI OPERAI JUGOSLAVI DELLA ZASTAVA BOMBARDATA DALLA NATO
>
> Il 24 marzo del 1999, l'alleanza dei 19 paesi aderenti al Patto Atlantico
> (NATO), attaccarono la Federazione Jugoslava con la scusa di voler
> difendere la minoranza albanese. Ma nei 78 giorni che seguirono
> bombardarono di tutto, compresi gli stessi albanesi, con distruzioni di
> infrastrutture civili e morte di innocenti. La guerra fu un pauroso
> arretramento di diritti e di democrazia per tutti noi e l'Italia, con il
> governo D'Alema, fu complice dell'imperialismo USA-NATO. Imponendo il
> consenso alla cosiddetta 'missione umanitaria', oltre che con la forza,
> anche con la mistificazione attraverso l'uso propagandistico dei media. Da
> una parte si bombardava, dall'altra si chiedeva al nostro popolo di
> partecipare alla farsa della "missione Arcobaleno", terreno di scambio e di
> corruzione con le mafie albanesi, come hanno dimostrato le ultime vicende
> giudiziarie.
> E ancora oggi, il popolo jugoslavo, nonostante già stremato dai danni che
> la guerra ha prodotto (come ad esempio l'inquinamento delle acque e della
> terra che impedisce un approvvigionamento alimentare sufficiente, la
> carenza di medicinali di base, ecc..) soffre di un odioso embargo che
> impedisce non solo la ricostruzione, ma anche la semplice sopravvivenza.
> E' necessario che tutti i cittadini di Taranto si sentano solidali e
> partecipi all'iniziativa con i delegati sindacali della Zastava di
> Kragujevac, fabbrica di automobili che ora la Fiat ha abbandonato e che
> solo i suoi 35.000 operai possono salvare con la solidarietà di classe e
> internazionalista.
>
> Durante l'incontro sarà proiettato il video di Fulvio Grimaldi "Serbi da
> morire" e sarà presentato il libro di poeti dilettanti contro la guerra
> "Gli assassini della tenerezza" con disegni dei bambini di Kragujevac, il
> ricavato delle cui vendite sarà devoluto in solidarietà ai lavoratori
> jugoslavi. Sarà inoltre proposto il programma di adozioni a distanza.
>
> SABATO 26 FEBBRAIO 2000
> h.16,30
> Aula Magna ITIS "A.Righi"
> Via Dante
> Taranto
>
> CONFERENZA-STAMPA DEI PROMOTORI DI TARANTO
> VENERDI 25 FEBBRAIO 2000
> h.11
> Salone circolo "E.Che Guevara" PRC
> c.so Piemonte (100 metri dall'Ufficio-pacchi PT)
> TARANTO
>
> Organizzazione:
> Coordinamento cittadino Partito della Rifondazione Comunista-Taranto
> Un ponte per Belgrado in terra di Bari
> Cobas (Confederazione sindacati di base)
> Slai-Cobas
> Cooperativa sociale "Owen"
> Comitato jonico contro le guerre
> Collettivo per l'autorganizzazione sociale
> Primaveraradio
---
COSTITUITO IL COORDINAMENTO TORINESE PER LA JUGOSLAVIA
Lo schieramento di forze e soggetti che, all'interno del movimento
contro la
guerra, ha ritenuto primario e fondamentale, lo schierarsi dalla parte
degli
aggrediti contro gli aggressori, ha costituito il Coordinamento torinese
per
la Jugoslavia, con lo scopo di rafforzare e consolidare le attività di
sostegno e solidarietà per il popolo jugoslavo.
Ciascuno di noi in questi mesi si è impegnato in attività di denuncia,
sostegno, controinformazione e solidarietà sotto varie forme; oggi
abbiamo
ritenuto giusto e soprattutto doveroso costruire un percorso unitario,
che
metta insieme esperienze, intelligenze, risorse e forze.
UNIRSI per UNIRE e rendere più forti ed efficaci gli sforzi per questa
battaglia di solidarietà e sostegno a questo popolo aggredito,
bombardato,
avvelenato ed ora strangolato ed affamato dalle moderne armi di
sterminio di
massa, quali sono l'embargo e le sanzioni (l'Iraq è sotto i nostri
occhi);
armi usate dagli imperialisti contro i popoli non asserviti al Nuovo
Ordine
Mondiale.
Riteniamo questo impegno un dovere e non un'opzione. Chi sceglie
percorsi
individuali o autoreferenziali, favorisce logiche più dannose che
proficue.
Nel Coordinamento ciascuno manterrà la sua specificità e autonomia, ma
ciascuno è parte di un processo unitario e collettivo che ha nella
solidarietà concreta e consapevole alla Jugoslavia e
nell’antiimperialismo,
la sua ragione di essere.
Siamo coscienti di essere una piccola forza di fronte agli scenari
mass-mediatici e imperiali della realtà intorno, ma questo non ci
spaventa o
fa desistere, e la nascita di questo Coordinamento è un piccolo passo
avanti, un segnale di speranza e anche di forza, perché dove ci sono
idee,
intelligenze, determinazione, coscienze schierate che si uniscono, tutti
siamo un po' forti, di conseguenza più forte risulterà il nostro lavoro.
Le caratteristiche, la composizione, le tematiche su cui si svilupperà
il
lavoro, con varie iniziative sono:
· Solidarietà concreta come obiettivo primario e urgente (raccolta
fondi,
alimentari, medicine con le strutture contattate)
· Denuncia delle devastazioni ambientali nella Jugoslavia bombardata
· Documentazione e controinformazione, dando voce e rendendo pubblici i
punti di vista degli aggrediti.
· Lavori del Tribunale Indipendente Internazionale contro i crimini
NATO in
Jugoslavia.
Facciamo Appello ad aderire ed essere partecipi a questo lavoro a
chiunque
concordi con queste basi minime di affinità e che ritenga di non voler
essere complice con un governo che, violando la Costituzione,
calpestando il
Diritto Internazionale e infangando il patrimonio ideale di pace e
solidale,
lasciatoci in eredità dalla lotta di liberazione dal Nazifascismo, ha
oggi
portato il nostro paese ad essere aggressore e affamatore di un altro
popolo. Per noi questo è inaccettabile politicamente ed eticamente.
Facciamo moralmente nostro quel motto che per decenni ha unito i popoli
e le
genti jugoslave, impedendo guerre, tragedie e miserie:
"UNITA' E FRATELLANZA" - per il futuro dei popoli e nostro.
Comitato Promotore :
Un ponte per (Torino)- Comitato contro la guerra dei Lavoratori
dell'Università e del Politecnico -Comitato Yugoslavia - Fondazione
Pasti
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* Ambulanza della "Missione Arcobaleno" conteneva un arsenale
("Il Manifesto", Associated Press)
* Il punto della situazione... (G. Carpi)
* Ignobile comportamento dei "peacekeeper" olandesi ad Orahovac (Emperors
Clothes, Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli.)
* Devastato il settore nord di Mitrovica dalle truppe tedesche e statunitensi
"alla ricerca di armi" mentre in decine di migliaia marciano con bandiere
albanesi ed americane per chiedere la cacciata degli ultimi serbi rimasti.
Il comandante KFOR Reinhardt: "Stanno dimostrando per un futuro migliore"
(KFOR Press Update, stopnato@..., New York Times, Tanjug)
---
Da "Il manifesto" del 16 Febbraio 2000
KOSOVO/NATO-ONU
Ambulanza della "Missione Arcobaleno" trasportava armi a Mitrovica
Bernard Kouchner attacca il governo di Parigi: "Non mandate la polizia".
Verso le sue dimissioni?
- TOMMASO DI FRANCESCO -
L a notizia. Un'autoambulanza diretta a Kosovska Mitrovica, la città ancora
a ferro e fuoco nel nord del Kosovo, è finita fuori strada e al suo interno
la polizia dell'Onu ha scoperto un grosso carico di armi: 14 lanciarazzi,
182 granate, moltissime munizioni e sei casse di proiettili calibro 7,62 per
armi leggere. Secondo Andrea Angeli, portavoce della polizia Onu,
"l'incidente non è chiaro, non si sa se dell'autoambulanza fosse prima stato
denunciato un furto o che cosa...". Qual è il fatto esplosivo? E' che sulla
fiancata dell'autoambulanza svetta a lettere cubitali la scritta "Missione
Arcobaleno". L'autoambulanza risulta essere stata donata dal Cesvi, Ong di
Bergamo, all'ospedale di Glakovac - a circa 30-40 km da Pristina, nella
direzione di Pec sulla strada per Mitrovica - e quindi pagata con i soldi
della Missione Arcobaleno. Era stata forse rubata dall'ospedale per
trasportare armi - in Bosnia ambulanze dell'Onu sono spesso servite allo
stesso scopo - destinate agli albanesi di Mitrovica che riprendono la guerra
sparando per la prima volta sugli uomini del contingente francese della
Nato? Alla fine diranno che sì, era stata rubata. Ma la verità è che le armi
arrivano a Mitrovica dall'Uck che in Kosovo controlla tutto, dai comuni agli
ospedali, dalle strade ai fondi elargiti a piene mani da ampie strutture -
400 Ong solo a Pristina - che fanno riferimento all'Onu e
all'Amministratore, Bernard Kouchner. E questo perché l'Uck altro non è che
l'attuale Kpt (Kosovo Protection Corps) la nuova polizia voluta a tutti i
costi da Kouchner e dalla Nato che ha così riciclato, a partire dal
comandante Agim Ceku - su cui indaga il Tribunale dell'Aja - le sue
gerarchie di comando, i mezzi militari e le milizie.
Certo, è troppo presto per gettare discredito, anche qui, sulla Missione
Arcobaleno - anche se qualche risposta dal governo italiano dovrà pur
venire, come dallo stesso Kouchner che ogni giorno deve fare i conti con la
cappa di piombo del potere mafioso-malavitoso che in Kosovo controlla tutto.
Il fatto è che questa notizia-bomba, insieme alla crisi esplosiva della
città di Mitrovica, pongono all'ordine del giorno il nodo dei risultati
della guerra "umanitaria" della Nato. E sotto tiro è Bernard Kouchner.
Soprattutto dopo il duro scontro da lui avuto ieri addirittura con il
governo francese. Per il terzo mese di fila Kouchner ha accusato i governi
occidentali di non fornire forze di polizia all'Amministrazione Onu. Ieri ha
denunciato anche il comportamento di Parigi, che "dimentica di essere la
patria dei diritti umani" e dove "i politici francesi si 'sparano' addosso"
mentre a Mitrovica i cecchini albanesi sparano sui soldati francesi. Gli ha
risposto il ministro della difesa Jean Pierre Chevenement: "Quando si spara
sui soldati - ha detto duramente - l'aumento del numero dei poliziotti non è
forse la soluzione al problema". Uno scontro tutto interno alla sinistra di
governo che ha voluto l'intervento "umanitario".
La polemica ha raggiunto anche le Nazioni unite: Kouchner, dicono, non deve
pensare che la questione della sicurezza in Kosovo sia una questione "di
famiglia", tra lui e il governo francese. Un conflitto ingigantito dai fatti
di Mitrovica di questi giorni, dove cecchini albanesi hanno fatto fuoco sui
soldati della Nato per la prima volta, un ceccino albanese è stato ucciso e
la città è sotto coprifuoco, sempre divisa in due dal ponte sul fiume Ibar.
Kouchner, dicono fonti dell'Onu di Pristina, continua a ripetere che
"Mitrovica non è il simbolo del Kosovo", e qui sbaglia "perché i fatti di
Mitrovica sono proprio il simbolo di quello che ora il Kosovo rappresenta".
Lì le forze Kfor-Nato solo adesso difendono i serbi perché sono i pochi
serbi - cinquemila - rimasti in tutto il Kosovo, Mitrovica è il bantustan
più grosso con sacche di poche centinaia sparse a Pristina, Pec e in poche
altre parti. Dopo una mattanza su cui si è spesso taciuto che ha visto 500
civili serbi morire ammazzati dopo l'ingresso della Nato. Se i serbi
venissero cacciati anche da lì chi la racconterebbe più la favola degli
obiettivi multietnici? Sotto gli occhi della Nato l'Uck in sette mesi ha
cacciato dal Kosovo quasi 300.000 persone, serbi, albanesi
"collaborazionisti", goranci (serbi islamizzati, considerati agenti di
Belgrado) e tutti gli zingari le cui case sono state rase al suolo ovunque.
Mitrovica è il simbolo di tutto questo. Kouchner, su mandato Nato-Onu e di
tutti i governi europei, ha avviato di fatto l'indipendenza della regione
(con il libero corso del marco tedesco al posto del dinaro, con l'apertura
delle frontiere all'Albania, con le targhe autonome, con il governo senza
serbi, con la polizia emanazione dell'Uck, le telecomunicazioni a rete
autonoma da Belgrado - fra l'altro affidata alla francese Alcatel). Ma negli
accordi di pace il Kosovo resta regione della Serbia, e questo vogliono
ancora Unione europea e Stati uniti. Ora siamo nella palude. Washington
cerca in ogni modo di trovare una via d'uscita. Il cerino resta nelle mani
dell'Europa, e del signor Kouchner. A Pristina, negli ambienti Onu - come
alcuni giornali americani in questi giorni - dicono che le sfuriate di
Kouchner sulle forze di polizia che non arrivano, mentre incombe il
fallimento, sono una "dichiarazione d'impotenza, meglio a questo punto
passare la mano, girare pagina, meglio le sue dimissioni".
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Weapons, ammunition found in ambulance in Kosovo
Associated Press
By ELENA BECATOROS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia (February 15, 2000 10:57 a.m. EST
http://www.nandotimes.com) - Peacekeepers found a large stock of
powerful weapons and ammunition in an ambulance apparently driven by
ethnic Albanians and heading for this turbulent northern city, a NATO
spokesman said Tuesday.
The ambulance, its emergency signals flashing, veered off a road and
into a ditch while approaching a checkpoint outside Kosovska Mitrovica
late Monday, said Fabrice Turco, a spokesman for the French
peacekeepers. Peacekeepers found weapons and ammunition in the vehicle,
including 14 anti-tank rocket launchers and 182 high-explosive grenades,
NATO said.
The ambulance was marked with ethnic Albanian writing, which uses a
different alphabet from the Serb language. U.N. police were searching
Tuesday for the driver and a passenger, both of whom fled the vehicle
after it went into the ditch.
Kosovska Mitrovica has been a flashpoint for violence between the
province's ethnic Albanian and Serb populations for months. Unrest began
to escalate Feb. 2, when a grenade attack on a U.N. bus killed two
elderly Serbs.
Two French peacekeepers were injured by ethnic Albanian snipers here
over the weekend, and the NATO-led peacekeepers have arrested dozens of
people since. Of the 51 ethnic Albanians arrested, six have been
released.
In addition, the nightly curfew has been extended from seven hours to 12
hours. Under the new regulations, people are prohibited from circulating
on Kosovska Mitrovica's streets from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m.
The alliance reported no security incidents overnight, and the city was
calm. But a local ethnic Albanian human rights group said three more
Albanian families were forced to flee their homes on the northern,
Serb-controlled side of the city.
Additional Greek peacekeepers backed up by U.S. and Canadian soldiers
have been sent in to help cope with the weekend's outbreak of violence.
The peacekeepers are conducting extensive searches of houses and
buildings for weapons and other evidence of criminal intent.
Thousands of ethnic Albanians were killed by Serb forces during Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic's 18-month crackdown against separatists in
Kosovo. After NATO bombing forced the Serb troops to withdraw last
spring, ethnic Albanians began attacking Serbs in revenge.
The NATO peacekeeping mission, which began after the bombing, has
shifted over the last eight months from facilitating the return of
refugees to protecting Serbs and Gypsies from the ethnic Albanian
reprisals.
"I would remind all parties in Kosovo that it was NATO that put an end
to organized ethnic cleansing and has worked to restore peace and
stability for all ethnic groups in the province," NATO Secretary-General
Lord George Robertson said in Brussels, Belgium.
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RIEPILOGO DELLA SITUAZIONE NELLA PRIMA META' DI FEBBRAIO
Il mese di febbraio comincia come meglio non si potrebbe: il 2/II un
autobus di civili serbi in uscita dall'enclave-ghetto di Kosovska
Mitrovica e' stata attaccato a colpi di razzi anticarro. Risultato,
due morti e cinque feriti, nonche' una prevedibile recrudescenza della
guerra per bande: il giorno dopo, tre albanesi kosovari vengono
"cecchinati" a Mitrovica e due granate lanciate in locali frequentati
da serbi fanno circa venticinque feriti. Gli scontri sono proseguiti
nei giorni successivi, costringendo circa 550 persone a lasciare le
proprie case, tanto che il rappresentante russo della missione ONU
Sergej Ivanov ha denunciato la totale impotenza della "forza di pace"
e ha minacciato di ritirare il proprio contingente. Intanto,
proseguono gli incendi, i rapimenti, i pestaggi e le esercitazioni
nello sport di lanciare granate in case, negozi e locali serbi: il
4/II a Obilic; nello stesso giorno, viene presa a colpi di granata una
corsia dell'ospedale di Prizren, col ferimento grave di 4 pazienti
serbe; a Gnjilane, il 9/II, 5 bombe in 24 ore, mentre nella stessa
citta' un serbo era stato ammazzato a casa sua il 4/II; un altro
autobus carico di serbi e' stato bersagliato a Lipljan l'8/II,
fortunatamente senza vittime.
Non stupisce quindi che i non albanesi continuino a lasciare il
Kosovo, spinti dalla paura o dai rastrellamenti dell'UCK. Il 2/II, gli
ultimi slavi-musulmani (circa un migliaio), hanno abbandonato la
regione di Prizren per rifugiarsi a Novi Pazar (Serbia). La
piccola comunita' ebraica di Pristina era gia' stata costretta in
novembre a rifugiarsi a Belgrado. "E' stato terribile quando due
dozzine di uomini armati, albanesi di Albania a giudicare dall'accento
(!), hanno fatto irruzione nel nostro appartamento." - Dichiara il
capo dell'ex comunita' ebraica Cedomir Prlincevic al quotidiano
tedesco "Neues Deutschland" (22/XII) - "Mia madre, che ha ottant'anni,
ha avuto un infarto perche' si e' ricordata delle SS di Hitler, che
nel 1943 irruppero nel suo appartemento allo stesso modo". Come spesso
accade, anche in questo caso le forze di occupazione KFOR si erano
distinte per l'atteggiamento pilatesco.
Mentre 45.000 soldati KFOR armati fino ai denti ignorano la
sistematica pulizia etnica condotta in Kosovo, impiegati come sono ad
occupare a lungo termine e a fortificare i nodi strategici
fondamentali della regione per futuri obiettivi che niente hanno a che
fare col "peacekeeping" (la base americana di Camp Bondsteel, costo
36,6 milioni di dollari, 6300 presenze, e' destinata a rimpiazzare
Aviano come testa di ponte verso oriente), il contingente civile ONU
e' totalmente privo di fondi (le quote dell'UE e degli USA sono
"sotto" di 102 milioni di dollari secondo lo stesso Rappresentante
Generale della missione ONU B. Kouchner) e non ha ancora avviato
nessuna delle opere di ricostruzione previste. In compenso, secondo
un'inchiesta del "London Times" (5/II), nella regione fioriscono
traffico di droga, rapimento e tratta dei bambini, prostituzione
(quest'ultima merce anche ad usum delle stesse truppe KFOR).
Intanto, se la struttura amministrativa ad interim, patrocinata da B.
Kouchner e non prevista dagli accordi di pace, nasce gia' lacerata
dalle liti inter-albanesi (gli altri gruppi etnici non vi
partecipano), l'UCK non perde occasione per ribadire a modo suo
l'egemonia de facto sulla maggior parte dei comuni: Hasim Chuse,
leader di un piccolo partito democratico, e' stato ritrovato morto il
2/II con tre proiettili nella nuca, dopo essere sparito di casa il
19/I.
Anche su questo versante, ben poche le garanzie offerte dalle forze
KFOR: dopo la perquisizione, con sequestro di un arsenale, a casa del
fratello del leader UCK Hashim Thaci e dopo le indagini su altri
capibanda, e' bastato che il portavoce UCK Krasniqi indirizzasse a
Kouchner e al generale Klaus Reinhardt (comandante generale della
KFOR) una lettera minatoria, accusando la KFOR di "agire come i
criminali serbi", perche' i due alti papaveri della forza di
occupazione si scusassero direttamente con Thaci. La concordia e'
stata prontamente ristabilita, e pochi giorni dopo Kouchner e
Reinhardt hanno tenuto a battesimo il nuovo "Corpo di Protezione del
Kosovo", interamente targato UCK a cominciare dal suo comandante Agim
Ceku, ex ufficiale disertore dell'esercito jugoslavo, poi noto come il
piu' feroce fra i capi dei contras kosovari, responsabile del massacro
di 120 serbi a Gospic (Croazia) gia' nel 1991.
Oltre che alla pulizia di casa propria, i terroristi UCK si dedicano
con un certo successo anche ai rapporti internazionali: il Primo
Ministro bulgaro Ivan Kostov (destra nazionalista e filo-atlantica),
ha invitato Thaci a Sofia in visita ufficiale, probabilmente sperando
che cio' acceleri il tanto ambito ingresso della Bulgaria nell'UE e
nella NATO. Non bastera' certo a rovinare l'intesa il recente
sequestro (29/I) di 38 chili di eroina su un tir albanese alla
frontiera bulgara: il paese gioca infatti da anni un ruolo chiave
nella via della droga gestita dalle mafie turca, albanese e kosovara
(261 kg sequestrati in Bulgaria nel '99).
Si sa: "business is business", e parallelamente alla colonizzazione
delle strutture produttive kosovare (vedi "Rinascita" del 14/I), gli
occupanti occidentali non perdono tempo neanche sul fronte
finanziario. Il 24/I ha iniziato le attivita' la "Micro Enterprise
Bank" (MEB), un ente di credito industriale acquartierato presso la
Missione ONU e patrocinato e diretto dai governi tedesco e olandese
(amministratore generale: l'olandese Koen Wasmus). In una situazione
di assoluto monopolio finanziario dopo la distruzione forzata di tutti
i legami economici fra Pristina e Belgrado, la MEB promette di
diventare il principale volano di colonizzazione economica della
regione, in modo non dissimile da quanto gia' da tempo attuato in
Bosnia dalla "Banca Europea per la Ricostruzione e lo Sviluppo" (BERS,
non a caso uno dei principali finanziatori anche della MEB).
Guido Carpi
Universita' di Cassino
Fonti: Tanjug; FreeB92; Agence France Presse; Transnational Foundation
for Peace and Future Research; "Il Manifesto"; Reuters; IWPR's Balkan
Crisis Report.
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Date: Monday, February 21, 2000 3:29 AM
Subject: [sorabia] NATO Dutch Mercenaries Torment Serb Women and Children in
Orahovac
>Dutch Rep Office to UN
>Attn. Office Manager/Ambassador
>United Nations
>New York, NY
>
>Copies: Foreign Missions to UN, Foreign Embasses to US, State Department,
> US Congress, Senate, US and Intermnationa Media,
Concerned
>/ Involved Individuals Across the World
>
>February 20, 2000
>
>Dear Sir, or Madam,
>
>The arrogant Dutch mercenaries under the pirate NATO flag, both the aerial
>and the ground butchers, have been rated by the civilized world as the most
>notorious brutes and barbarous savages in the recent cowardly, terrorist
>attack on a small nation of the Serbs, in the motley pack of the wild and
>blood thirsty NATO professional killers of the children, nannies, sick and
>defenseless victims, under the command of the even more vicious military
and
>civilian superiors.
>
>Known as the nation of cowards in defending their homeland in W.W.II, that
>graciously forgave the Germans for pulverized Rotterdam, but then the
loyal,
>rubber-spine lackeys, subservient butlers, shoeshine boys and dog-walkers
of
>the victorious German Nazi officers. Now the armed Dutch, under the NATO
safe
>skirt, have displayed their true colors in Kosovo: monstrous bullies for
the
>helpless Serb women and children in Orahovac, who found their match and
ally
>in the Albanian cutthroats, both in the service of the same masters in
Bonn,
>Washington and London.
>Once a colonial power, the Dutch have become faithful colonial servants for
>the US and German empires, diligently wagging the tail for a piece of a
>chewed off bone.
>I am hoping the Dutch hunters of the Serbs will someday leave their crushed
>bones in the Serb Kosovo sacred soil-to contaminate it, as did the British
>and US depleted uranium shells. The Netherlands could not stoop any lower
in
>disgrace.
>
> Respectfully
and
>Truly Yours,
>
> Tika
Jankovic
> San Jose,
>California
>
>
>
>
>
>Can children be war criminals?'
>by Abe de Vries
>(Translated from Trouw, Amsterdam daily newspaper)
>www.emperors-clothes.com
>
>BELGRADE
>
>"The sooner the Dutch 'Yellow Riders' leave Orahovac, the better. They're
>worse than the Germans," says Mirjana. "The soldiers are not so bad, but
the
>officers are terrible'', according to Natasha. "They admit that they're
only
>here for the Albanians, not for the Serbs,'' says Simka.
>
>Three women from Orahovac, who until recently lived there or who have
family
>there. This is their story, which differs substantially from the one
>lieutenant-colonel Tony van Loon, the commander of the Yellow Riders, has
>told. (Trouw, November 11). His artillery unit will soon be replaced. [See
>Note # 1 at end]
>
>The women read the interview with Van Loon. In their eyes the Yellow Riders
>don't have even one reason to be proud of themselves. "Dear sir,'' begins
an
>open letter from the Humanitarian Committee of Women from Orahovac, ''the
>fact that you turned Orahovac into a test field where the Serbs - without a
>possibility to leave because you pretend not to be able to give them
>protection - are thus forced to stay imprisoned in a ghetto - should not be
>something you should be proud of, nor should you leave Kosovo with a clear
>conscience. To keep the Serbs as prisoners this way is to deliver them to
the
>mercy of terrorists. If this is the way to create a multi-ethnic society,
>than such a society existed also in Warshaw during World War Two.''
>
>In Orahovac 2500 Serbs and 500 gypsies live a terrible life. They are
packed
>into a few streets with only KFOR [NATO] checkpoints separating them from
the
>extremely hostile Albanian majority in the rest of the town. They all want
to
>leave for Serbia or Montenegro. Only one thing is keeping them in Orahovac:
>the fact that the Dutch don't want to guarantee their safety if they
venture
>out of the ghetto.
>
>The Yellow Riders say they're searching for possible war criminals amongst
>the Serbs. A lot of Serbian men are afraid the KLA has put their names on a
>secret list of suspects, so they stay where they are.
>
>Mirjana (26), Natasha (27) and Simka (35) have difficulty believing the
>Serbian police really murdered hundreds of Albanian citizens in Orahovac
and
>the surrounding villages. According to the Yellow Riders, Serbian police
>reservists born in the area executed perhaps some thousand Albanians in
cold
>blood. Until now, 400 bodies have been found. Natasha: "There was a war
going
>on. The KLA attacked the army and the police, who were not saying: 'O
please,
>kill us.' I was in Orahovac myself when the war started. It was a
>psychologically unbearable situation. While NATO bombed us from the air,
>uniformed terrorists were everywhere in the city. In Orahovac and the
>villages everyday Serbs were killed.'' Mirjana: "A number of bodies that
were
>found could belong to Serbs. Villages like Velika Hoca, Retimlje, Zociste
and
>Opterusa were mainly inhabited by Serbs. In Retimlje alone 30 Serbs were
>murdered last year. Where are the bodies of the Serbs?'' Simka: "People say
>all kinds of things. It's because of the hatred Albanians have for the Serb
>police.'' Natasha: "Let's say some Serbs did commit war crimes. Do you
think
>they'll be waiting in Orahovac for Kfor to arrest them? Those who maybe
>really did something wrong are long gone.'' Mirjana: "My husband was
director
>of a municipal archive. If he hadn't left on time, he would probably also
now
>be considered a war criminal. But he is not a nationalist. He fired some
>Albanians because they didn't work well.''
>
>The women do not understand why KFOR refuses to let at least the children
go.
>Until now only one convoy of 155 Serbs was allowed to leave town. Guarded
by
>Dutch troops, it was attacked by a large crowd of Albanians in the vicinity
>of Pec. After that UNHCR, the refugee-agency of the United Nations, stopped
>its humanitarian evacuations in Kosovo. Natasha and Simka both tried
several
>times to take the children of their relatives back to Serbia. Without
>success.
>
>"Can children also be war criminals?'' asks Natasha. "I've cried and I've
>screamed'', says Simka. "But this Dutch officer just stood there and looked
>at me as through a mask. He didn't show any emotion. Nothing. It was just
not
>allowed.'' Simka recently returned from a visit to Orahovac. She says the
>situation there is worse than a couple of weeks ago. Many times there are
>days without electricity, she says. The Serbs cannot buy food in Albanian
>shops They rely on humanitarian organisations to help them. Albanians block
>the road to Pristina, to stop a Russian batallion from entering the town
(the
>Russians are scheduled to replace the Dutch), so all kinds of shortages
>exist.
>
>Simka: "With winter coming, the Serbs are in panic. They're afraid
everybody
>will forget about them. Now they can still drive to Velika Hoca, where many
>Serbs live, but the road is in bad condition and nobody clears up the snow.
>They'll be stuck.''
>
>A visit to Orahovac is only possible with KFOR protection. Visitors have to
>leave the same day. The Serbs in Orahovac are allowed to use a Red Cross
>satellite telephonefor one minute a week. According to the women, the phone
>is bugged. Mirjana: "The line is cut the moment someone says something
>negative about life in Orahovac."
>
>Mail can be delivered to the Red Cross, but the letters are first examined
by
>a censor. Relatives in Serbia get them with thick black lines through the
>text.
>
>Since the arrival of the Dutch soldiers more than 20 Serbs from Orahovac
have
>been kidnapped and 136 Serbian houses have been burned to the ground. One
of
>the missing Serbs is the husband of a translator who worked for the Yellow
>Riders. In none of these cases have the Dutch started an investigation, let
>alone succeeded in bringing someone back, says Simka.
>
>In 1998, some 50 Serbs were kidnapped. Nobody has heard from them since.
She
>asks why the Dutch, who arrested 11 Serb war crimes suspects, have never
>arrested an Albanian for war crimes. The Albanian Ismet Tara is Orahovac's
>KLA-commander. He would be the biggest criminal. Simka: "His uncle had the
>reputation in 1941 of being the worst fascist in town. My uncle, who was a
>Partizan, told me that.'' Mirjana mentions Sebajdin Cena, her teacher at
>school. "My parents and I were at his wedding. My father gave him his first
>job. He was recognized as one of the organizors of the kidnappings last
>year.''
>
>The Dutch, conclude the women, are one-sided, anti-Serb and don't do a
thing
>to improve the situation for the Serbs in Orahovac. Natasja: "With them,
>every day is worse than the day before''. Mirjana: "I don't think this
[Dutch
>Col.] Van Loon will ever sleep well again."
>
>***
>
>Note # 1 - The above article is second in a series by Trouw. The first
>consisted of an interview with Dutch KFOR (NATO) Commander Col. Tony van
>Loon. Excerpts from that article with comments by Simca and Natasha can be
>read by clicking on The Women of Orahovac Answer the Colonel or going to
>http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/trouw.htm
>
>Note # 2 - To read interviews with the women from Orahovac, click on Save
the
>families: The women of Orahovac speak or go to
>http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe.htm
>
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From: NATODOC <natodoc@...>
To: NATODATA@...
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Date: Monday, February 21, 2000 8:47 AM
Subject: KFOR Press Update, 21 February 2000
>KFOR
>Press Update
>Delivered by Lieutenant Commander Philip Anido
>KFOR Spokesman
>
>PRISTINA - Monday, 21 February 2000
>KFOR Search Operation in Mitrovica
>KFOR soldiers, supported by UNMIK police, began a second day of searches in
>several neighbourhoods in Mitrovica this morning at 7 a.m. They are looking
>for small and large caches of illegal and dangerous weapons.
>Owners of the weapons will be detained and turned over to UNMIK police, and
>those who are suspected for having been involved in the recent violent
>actions will be arrested.
>Yesterday, 11 arrests were made, all for weapons violations. The men
>included 10 Albanians and one Serb. Following identification and
>interrogation, nine were released. One Albanian and one Serb remain in
>custody.
>The latest report of weapons confiscated includes:
>* 22 rifles
>* 8 blocks of plastic explosive
>* 1 heavy machine gun
>* 18 rifle magazines loaded with ammunition; 30 bullets per
>* 1 hunting rifle
>* 1000's of rounds of ammunition
>* 2 automatic pistols
>* 4 hand grenade
>The search operation will continue until General Dr. Klaus Reinhardt, the
>Commander of KFOR, is satisfied that illegal activities have been stopped
>and dangerous weapons are banned from Mitrovica.
>KFOR and UNMIK will not allow any illegal activities that perpetuate the
>cycle of violence or hold up the process of peace and reconciliation in
>Kosovo to continue.
>Approximately 2,500 KFOR troops from 12 nations are supporting the
operation
>in Mitrovica.
>Demonstration
>Twenty thousand Albanian citizens from Pristina and other communities are
>marching to Mitrovica today to protest the situation in that troubled city.
>The men, women and children are marching on foot and driving in cars, vans
>and busses.
>UNMIK police are following the parade and KFOR soldiers are monitoring the
>progress along the route using foot patrols, vehicles and helicopters.
>The organizers have called for a peaceful demonstration and have agreed
that
>the protesters will stop in Vucitrn south of the city. From there, 12
>representatives will be allowed to deliver a letter to UN officials in
>Mitrovica.
>By 4 p.m. the crowds on foot will be picked up by bus for the return trip
to
>Pristina.
>Incidents During the Past 24 Hours
>Searches and Weapons Confiscations
>Multinational Brigade East
>Yesterday in Kravarica, a KFOR patrol confiscated two rifles
>and a quantity of ammunition.
>Incidents and Injuries
>Multinational Brigade Centre
>Yesterday evening, KFOR Norwegian troops reported that a
>home-made bomb was thrown into an occupied Serb house. There were no
>injuries but there was damage to the house. KFOR are using specially
>trained dogs in their investigation.
>Arrests
>Multinational Brigade West
>Yesterday morning in Pec, KFOR Military Police and UNMIK
>police arrested a Montenegrin man in connection with the shooting of an
>Albanian on 19 February in Vitomirica.
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[Finally, a headline has been assigned to this story
from the New York Times - by the Florida Sun Sentinel
- that doesn't grotesquely distort the truth.
For those who have been following the current state of
"Kosovo peacekeeping," in a province overrun by 50,000
NATO occupation troops an equal number of ethnic
Albanians "just happen" to gather in the capital city,
Pristina, and march 25 miles to Mitrovica.
Waving Albanian (that is, the nation of Albania's) and
American flags, the marchers - organized by whom, if
not the KLA? - are able to converge on Mitrovica
unhindered and ostensibly unnoticed by General
Reinhardt and his Balkans Korps, who are busy
ransacking Serb quarters in that city for non-existent
arms caches.
And then this from General Reinhardt: "They have
demonstrated how they want to live" - as they're
forcing their way through K-For cordons and
threatening God-knows-what violence should they
succeed - "and are demonstrating for a better future.
They want a united city."
They want a united city, indeed. United like Warsaw
became after Reinhardt's countrymen attacked the
Warsaw Ghetto some sixty-five years ago.
Beginning to sound surreal? No more than the entire
false rationale for NATO aggression and occupation in
the first place.]
_____________________________________________________
Thousands of Albanians rally to oust Serbs from city
in Kosovo
By CARLOTTA GALL
Web-posted: 10:55 p.m. Feb. 21, 2000
MITROVICA, Yugoslavia -- Thousands of ethnic Albanians
from throughout Kosovo marched on this divided city on
Monday and clashed with NATO-led troops who used tear
gas and fists to keep them from reaching the Serbian
district.
An estimated 25,000 protesters tried to cross the
main bridge that divides the Serb and Albanian
sections of this mining town, but were turned back as
thousands of Serbs stood watching from the other side.
The Albanians repeatedly pushed against the lines of
British and Canadian soldiers and French gendarmes as
fights broke out and demonstrators were hauled away.
Monday's showdown came as tensions continued to
build in the ethnically divided city of 90,000 people.
The violence of the past two weeks has left 11 people
dead and dozens wounded, including two French soldiers
who were shot in gun battles.
Wave after wave of protesters arrived Monday on
foot from Pristina, the capital of Kosovo province, 25
miles away, and from the western towns of Pec and
Srbica among others. Young men strode up the main
street waving red Albanian flags and banners as they
tried to breach the military lines.
Across the River Ibar, Serbs held the Serbian
tricolor aloft and played Serbian nationalist songs on
loudspeakers. For several hours peacekeepers struggled
to contain the crowd and French police resorted to
volley after volley of tear gas over the heads of the
British and Canadians, often leaving the soldiers
choking and retching along with the demonstrators.
By nightfall the protesters, some of whom had
walked for 10 hours, grew tired and drifted away. The
commander of the peacekeeping force, German Gen. Klaus
Reinhardt, climbed atop a British tank to talk to the
crowd. He praised his troops for their restraint and
said they had prevented any serious injuries or
consequences.
He also said he understood the demonstrators.
"They have shown the way they want to live and are
demonstrating for a better future. They want a united
city," he said.
But his words underlined the intractable problem
the city presents for the peacekeepers and the U.N.
administration. The Albanians all speak of liberating
the city, by which they mean moving back into the Serb
district en masse, which in turn would force the Serbs
to flee.
---
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
BRUTAL AND BARBARIC ACT BY KFOR
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, February 21 (Tanjug) - Jovica Jovanovic, a member of
the subcommittee for administration and legislature of the Yugoslav
committee for cooperation with the United Nations mission in Kosovo and
Metohija province, said on Sunday that the search of apartments and
institutions in northern Kosovska Mitrovica by international force KFOR
U.S. and German troops was a brutal, barbaric and uncivilized act.
Jovanovic told reporters he had been present during a search of the
Faculty of Technology. He saw troops break down with axes the doors of a
laboratory and other premises.
Jovanovic also toured the school of technology which had also been a
target of KFOR's barbaric activities.
He said it was not by accident that the barbaric action was carried out by
U.S. and German troops. The presence of numerous foreign reporters and TV
crew at the very time when the action took place, and their on-the-spot
reporting is proof that this was all stage-managed, Jovanovc said.
The leading players in this action - U.S. and German troops - were not
picked at random, because there are no more Serbs in the parts of Kosovo
and Metohija where these troops are deployed, he said.
Jovanovic said it was an act of ultimate cynicism when French troops
brought the principal of the School of Technology about a dozen cylinder
locks and padlocks to compensate for the incurred damage.
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("Il Manifesto", Associated Press)
* Il punto della situazione... (G. Carpi)
* Ignobile comportamento dei "peacekeeper" olandesi ad Orahovac (Emperors
Clothes, Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli.)
* Devastato il settore nord di Mitrovica dalle truppe tedesche e statunitensi
"alla ricerca di armi" mentre in decine di migliaia marciano con bandiere
albanesi ed americane per chiedere la cacciata degli ultimi serbi rimasti.
Il comandante KFOR Reinhardt: "Stanno dimostrando per un futuro migliore"
(KFOR Press Update, stopnato@..., New York Times, Tanjug)
---
Da "Il manifesto" del 16 Febbraio 2000
KOSOVO/NATO-ONU
Ambulanza della "Missione Arcobaleno" trasportava armi a Mitrovica
Bernard Kouchner attacca il governo di Parigi: "Non mandate la polizia".
Verso le sue dimissioni?
- TOMMASO DI FRANCESCO -
L a notizia. Un'autoambulanza diretta a Kosovska Mitrovica, la città ancora
a ferro e fuoco nel nord del Kosovo, è finita fuori strada e al suo interno
la polizia dell'Onu ha scoperto un grosso carico di armi: 14 lanciarazzi,
182 granate, moltissime munizioni e sei casse di proiettili calibro 7,62 per
armi leggere. Secondo Andrea Angeli, portavoce della polizia Onu,
"l'incidente non è chiaro, non si sa se dell'autoambulanza fosse prima stato
denunciato un furto o che cosa...". Qual è il fatto esplosivo? E' che sulla
fiancata dell'autoambulanza svetta a lettere cubitali la scritta "Missione
Arcobaleno". L'autoambulanza risulta essere stata donata dal Cesvi, Ong di
Bergamo, all'ospedale di Glakovac - a circa 30-40 km da Pristina, nella
direzione di Pec sulla strada per Mitrovica - e quindi pagata con i soldi
della Missione Arcobaleno. Era stata forse rubata dall'ospedale per
trasportare armi - in Bosnia ambulanze dell'Onu sono spesso servite allo
stesso scopo - destinate agli albanesi di Mitrovica che riprendono la guerra
sparando per la prima volta sugli uomini del contingente francese della
Nato? Alla fine diranno che sì, era stata rubata. Ma la verità è che le armi
arrivano a Mitrovica dall'Uck che in Kosovo controlla tutto, dai comuni agli
ospedali, dalle strade ai fondi elargiti a piene mani da ampie strutture -
400 Ong solo a Pristina - che fanno riferimento all'Onu e
all'Amministratore, Bernard Kouchner. E questo perché l'Uck altro non è che
l'attuale Kpt (Kosovo Protection Corps) la nuova polizia voluta a tutti i
costi da Kouchner e dalla Nato che ha così riciclato, a partire dal
comandante Agim Ceku - su cui indaga il Tribunale dell'Aja - le sue
gerarchie di comando, i mezzi militari e le milizie.
Certo, è troppo presto per gettare discredito, anche qui, sulla Missione
Arcobaleno - anche se qualche risposta dal governo italiano dovrà pur
venire, come dallo stesso Kouchner che ogni giorno deve fare i conti con la
cappa di piombo del potere mafioso-malavitoso che in Kosovo controlla tutto.
Il fatto è che questa notizia-bomba, insieme alla crisi esplosiva della
città di Mitrovica, pongono all'ordine del giorno il nodo dei risultati
della guerra "umanitaria" della Nato. E sotto tiro è Bernard Kouchner.
Soprattutto dopo il duro scontro da lui avuto ieri addirittura con il
governo francese. Per il terzo mese di fila Kouchner ha accusato i governi
occidentali di non fornire forze di polizia all'Amministrazione Onu. Ieri ha
denunciato anche il comportamento di Parigi, che "dimentica di essere la
patria dei diritti umani" e dove "i politici francesi si 'sparano' addosso"
mentre a Mitrovica i cecchini albanesi sparano sui soldati francesi. Gli ha
risposto il ministro della difesa Jean Pierre Chevenement: "Quando si spara
sui soldati - ha detto duramente - l'aumento del numero dei poliziotti non è
forse la soluzione al problema". Uno scontro tutto interno alla sinistra di
governo che ha voluto l'intervento "umanitario".
La polemica ha raggiunto anche le Nazioni unite: Kouchner, dicono, non deve
pensare che la questione della sicurezza in Kosovo sia una questione "di
famiglia", tra lui e il governo francese. Un conflitto ingigantito dai fatti
di Mitrovica di questi giorni, dove cecchini albanesi hanno fatto fuoco sui
soldati della Nato per la prima volta, un ceccino albanese è stato ucciso e
la città è sotto coprifuoco, sempre divisa in due dal ponte sul fiume Ibar.
Kouchner, dicono fonti dell'Onu di Pristina, continua a ripetere che
"Mitrovica non è il simbolo del Kosovo", e qui sbaglia "perché i fatti di
Mitrovica sono proprio il simbolo di quello che ora il Kosovo rappresenta".
Lì le forze Kfor-Nato solo adesso difendono i serbi perché sono i pochi
serbi - cinquemila - rimasti in tutto il Kosovo, Mitrovica è il bantustan
più grosso con sacche di poche centinaia sparse a Pristina, Pec e in poche
altre parti. Dopo una mattanza su cui si è spesso taciuto che ha visto 500
civili serbi morire ammazzati dopo l'ingresso della Nato. Se i serbi
venissero cacciati anche da lì chi la racconterebbe più la favola degli
obiettivi multietnici? Sotto gli occhi della Nato l'Uck in sette mesi ha
cacciato dal Kosovo quasi 300.000 persone, serbi, albanesi
"collaborazionisti", goranci (serbi islamizzati, considerati agenti di
Belgrado) e tutti gli zingari le cui case sono state rase al suolo ovunque.
Mitrovica è il simbolo di tutto questo. Kouchner, su mandato Nato-Onu e di
tutti i governi europei, ha avviato di fatto l'indipendenza della regione
(con il libero corso del marco tedesco al posto del dinaro, con l'apertura
delle frontiere all'Albania, con le targhe autonome, con il governo senza
serbi, con la polizia emanazione dell'Uck, le telecomunicazioni a rete
autonoma da Belgrado - fra l'altro affidata alla francese Alcatel). Ma negli
accordi di pace il Kosovo resta regione della Serbia, e questo vogliono
ancora Unione europea e Stati uniti. Ora siamo nella palude. Washington
cerca in ogni modo di trovare una via d'uscita. Il cerino resta nelle mani
dell'Europa, e del signor Kouchner. A Pristina, negli ambienti Onu - come
alcuni giornali americani in questi giorni - dicono che le sfuriate di
Kouchner sulle forze di polizia che non arrivano, mentre incombe il
fallimento, sono una "dichiarazione d'impotenza, meglio a questo punto
passare la mano, girare pagina, meglio le sue dimissioni".
---
Weapons, ammunition found in ambulance in Kosovo
Associated Press
By ELENA BECATOROS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia (February 15, 2000 10:57 a.m. EST
http://www.nandotimes.com) - Peacekeepers found a large stock of
powerful weapons and ammunition in an ambulance apparently driven by
ethnic Albanians and heading for this turbulent northern city, a NATO
spokesman said Tuesday.
The ambulance, its emergency signals flashing, veered off a road and
into a ditch while approaching a checkpoint outside Kosovska Mitrovica
late Monday, said Fabrice Turco, a spokesman for the French
peacekeepers. Peacekeepers found weapons and ammunition in the vehicle,
including 14 anti-tank rocket launchers and 182 high-explosive grenades,
NATO said.
The ambulance was marked with ethnic Albanian writing, which uses a
different alphabet from the Serb language. U.N. police were searching
Tuesday for the driver and a passenger, both of whom fled the vehicle
after it went into the ditch.
Kosovska Mitrovica has been a flashpoint for violence between the
province's ethnic Albanian and Serb populations for months. Unrest began
to escalate Feb. 2, when a grenade attack on a U.N. bus killed two
elderly Serbs.
Two French peacekeepers were injured by ethnic Albanian snipers here
over the weekend, and the NATO-led peacekeepers have arrested dozens of
people since. Of the 51 ethnic Albanians arrested, six have been
released.
In addition, the nightly curfew has been extended from seven hours to 12
hours. Under the new regulations, people are prohibited from circulating
on Kosovska Mitrovica's streets from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m.
The alliance reported no security incidents overnight, and the city was
calm. But a local ethnic Albanian human rights group said three more
Albanian families were forced to flee their homes on the northern,
Serb-controlled side of the city.
Additional Greek peacekeepers backed up by U.S. and Canadian soldiers
have been sent in to help cope with the weekend's outbreak of violence.
The peacekeepers are conducting extensive searches of houses and
buildings for weapons and other evidence of criminal intent.
Thousands of ethnic Albanians were killed by Serb forces during Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic's 18-month crackdown against separatists in
Kosovo. After NATO bombing forced the Serb troops to withdraw last
spring, ethnic Albanians began attacking Serbs in revenge.
The NATO peacekeeping mission, which began after the bombing, has
shifted over the last eight months from facilitating the return of
refugees to protecting Serbs and Gypsies from the ethnic Albanian
reprisals.
"I would remind all parties in Kosovo that it was NATO that put an end
to organized ethnic cleansing and has worked to restore peace and
stability for all ethnic groups in the province," NATO Secretary-General
Lord George Robertson said in Brussels, Belgium.
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RIEPILOGO DELLA SITUAZIONE NELLA PRIMA META' DI FEBBRAIO
Il mese di febbraio comincia come meglio non si potrebbe: il 2/II un
autobus di civili serbi in uscita dall'enclave-ghetto di Kosovska
Mitrovica e' stata attaccato a colpi di razzi anticarro. Risultato,
due morti e cinque feriti, nonche' una prevedibile recrudescenza della
guerra per bande: il giorno dopo, tre albanesi kosovari vengono
"cecchinati" a Mitrovica e due granate lanciate in locali frequentati
da serbi fanno circa venticinque feriti. Gli scontri sono proseguiti
nei giorni successivi, costringendo circa 550 persone a lasciare le
proprie case, tanto che il rappresentante russo della missione ONU
Sergej Ivanov ha denunciato la totale impotenza della "forza di pace"
e ha minacciato di ritirare il proprio contingente. Intanto,
proseguono gli incendi, i rapimenti, i pestaggi e le esercitazioni
nello sport di lanciare granate in case, negozi e locali serbi: il
4/II a Obilic; nello stesso giorno, viene presa a colpi di granata una
corsia dell'ospedale di Prizren, col ferimento grave di 4 pazienti
serbe; a Gnjilane, il 9/II, 5 bombe in 24 ore, mentre nella stessa
citta' un serbo era stato ammazzato a casa sua il 4/II; un altro
autobus carico di serbi e' stato bersagliato a Lipljan l'8/II,
fortunatamente senza vittime.
Non stupisce quindi che i non albanesi continuino a lasciare il
Kosovo, spinti dalla paura o dai rastrellamenti dell'UCK. Il 2/II, gli
ultimi slavi-musulmani (circa un migliaio), hanno abbandonato la
regione di Prizren per rifugiarsi a Novi Pazar (Serbia). La
piccola comunita' ebraica di Pristina era gia' stata costretta in
novembre a rifugiarsi a Belgrado. "E' stato terribile quando due
dozzine di uomini armati, albanesi di Albania a giudicare dall'accento
(!), hanno fatto irruzione nel nostro appartamento." - Dichiara il
capo dell'ex comunita' ebraica Cedomir Prlincevic al quotidiano
tedesco "Neues Deutschland" (22/XII) - "Mia madre, che ha ottant'anni,
ha avuto un infarto perche' si e' ricordata delle SS di Hitler, che
nel 1943 irruppero nel suo appartemento allo stesso modo". Come spesso
accade, anche in questo caso le forze di occupazione KFOR si erano
distinte per l'atteggiamento pilatesco.
Mentre 45.000 soldati KFOR armati fino ai denti ignorano la
sistematica pulizia etnica condotta in Kosovo, impiegati come sono ad
occupare a lungo termine e a fortificare i nodi strategici
fondamentali della regione per futuri obiettivi che niente hanno a che
fare col "peacekeeping" (la base americana di Camp Bondsteel, costo
36,6 milioni di dollari, 6300 presenze, e' destinata a rimpiazzare
Aviano come testa di ponte verso oriente), il contingente civile ONU
e' totalmente privo di fondi (le quote dell'UE e degli USA sono
"sotto" di 102 milioni di dollari secondo lo stesso Rappresentante
Generale della missione ONU B. Kouchner) e non ha ancora avviato
nessuna delle opere di ricostruzione previste. In compenso, secondo
un'inchiesta del "London Times" (5/II), nella regione fioriscono
traffico di droga, rapimento e tratta dei bambini, prostituzione
(quest'ultima merce anche ad usum delle stesse truppe KFOR).
Intanto, se la struttura amministrativa ad interim, patrocinata da B.
Kouchner e non prevista dagli accordi di pace, nasce gia' lacerata
dalle liti inter-albanesi (gli altri gruppi etnici non vi
partecipano), l'UCK non perde occasione per ribadire a modo suo
l'egemonia de facto sulla maggior parte dei comuni: Hasim Chuse,
leader di un piccolo partito democratico, e' stato ritrovato morto il
2/II con tre proiettili nella nuca, dopo essere sparito di casa il
19/I.
Anche su questo versante, ben poche le garanzie offerte dalle forze
KFOR: dopo la perquisizione, con sequestro di un arsenale, a casa del
fratello del leader UCK Hashim Thaci e dopo le indagini su altri
capibanda, e' bastato che il portavoce UCK Krasniqi indirizzasse a
Kouchner e al generale Klaus Reinhardt (comandante generale della
KFOR) una lettera minatoria, accusando la KFOR di "agire come i
criminali serbi", perche' i due alti papaveri della forza di
occupazione si scusassero direttamente con Thaci. La concordia e'
stata prontamente ristabilita, e pochi giorni dopo Kouchner e
Reinhardt hanno tenuto a battesimo il nuovo "Corpo di Protezione del
Kosovo", interamente targato UCK a cominciare dal suo comandante Agim
Ceku, ex ufficiale disertore dell'esercito jugoslavo, poi noto come il
piu' feroce fra i capi dei contras kosovari, responsabile del massacro
di 120 serbi a Gospic (Croazia) gia' nel 1991.
Oltre che alla pulizia di casa propria, i terroristi UCK si dedicano
con un certo successo anche ai rapporti internazionali: il Primo
Ministro bulgaro Ivan Kostov (destra nazionalista e filo-atlantica),
ha invitato Thaci a Sofia in visita ufficiale, probabilmente sperando
che cio' acceleri il tanto ambito ingresso della Bulgaria nell'UE e
nella NATO. Non bastera' certo a rovinare l'intesa il recente
sequestro (29/I) di 38 chili di eroina su un tir albanese alla
frontiera bulgara: il paese gioca infatti da anni un ruolo chiave
nella via della droga gestita dalle mafie turca, albanese e kosovara
(261 kg sequestrati in Bulgaria nel '99).
Si sa: "business is business", e parallelamente alla colonizzazione
delle strutture produttive kosovare (vedi "Rinascita" del 14/I), gli
occupanti occidentali non perdono tempo neanche sul fronte
finanziario. Il 24/I ha iniziato le attivita' la "Micro Enterprise
Bank" (MEB), un ente di credito industriale acquartierato presso la
Missione ONU e patrocinato e diretto dai governi tedesco e olandese
(amministratore generale: l'olandese Koen Wasmus). In una situazione
di assoluto monopolio finanziario dopo la distruzione forzata di tutti
i legami economici fra Pristina e Belgrado, la MEB promette di
diventare il principale volano di colonizzazione economica della
regione, in modo non dissimile da quanto gia' da tempo attuato in
Bosnia dalla "Banca Europea per la Ricostruzione e lo Sviluppo" (BERS,
non a caso uno dei principali finanziatori anche della MEB).
Guido Carpi
Universita' di Cassino
Fonti: Tanjug; FreeB92; Agence France Presse; Transnational Foundation
for Peace and Future Research; "Il Manifesto"; Reuters; IWPR's Balkan
Crisis Report.
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Date: Monday, February 21, 2000 3:29 AM
Subject: [sorabia] NATO Dutch Mercenaries Torment Serb Women and Children in
Orahovac
>Dutch Rep Office to UN
>Attn. Office Manager/Ambassador
>United Nations
>New York, NY
>
>Copies: Foreign Missions to UN, Foreign Embasses to US, State Department,
> US Congress, Senate, US and Intermnationa Media,
Concerned
>/ Involved Individuals Across the World
>
>February 20, 2000
>
>Dear Sir, or Madam,
>
>The arrogant Dutch mercenaries under the pirate NATO flag, both the aerial
>and the ground butchers, have been rated by the civilized world as the most
>notorious brutes and barbarous savages in the recent cowardly, terrorist
>attack on a small nation of the Serbs, in the motley pack of the wild and
>blood thirsty NATO professional killers of the children, nannies, sick and
>defenseless victims, under the command of the even more vicious military
and
>civilian superiors.
>
>Known as the nation of cowards in defending their homeland in W.W.II, that
>graciously forgave the Germans for pulverized Rotterdam, but then the
loyal,
>rubber-spine lackeys, subservient butlers, shoeshine boys and dog-walkers
of
>the victorious German Nazi officers. Now the armed Dutch, under the NATO
safe
>skirt, have displayed their true colors in Kosovo: monstrous bullies for
the
>helpless Serb women and children in Orahovac, who found their match and
ally
>in the Albanian cutthroats, both in the service of the same masters in
Bonn,
>Washington and London.
>Once a colonial power, the Dutch have become faithful colonial servants for
>the US and German empires, diligently wagging the tail for a piece of a
>chewed off bone.
>I am hoping the Dutch hunters of the Serbs will someday leave their crushed
>bones in the Serb Kosovo sacred soil-to contaminate it, as did the British
>and US depleted uranium shells. The Netherlands could not stoop any lower
in
>disgrace.
>
> Respectfully
and
>Truly Yours,
>
> Tika
Jankovic
> San Jose,
>California
>
>
>
>
>
>Can children be war criminals?'
>by Abe de Vries
>(Translated from Trouw, Amsterdam daily newspaper)
>www.emperors-clothes.com
>
>BELGRADE
>
>"The sooner the Dutch 'Yellow Riders' leave Orahovac, the better. They're
>worse than the Germans," says Mirjana. "The soldiers are not so bad, but
the
>officers are terrible'', according to Natasha. "They admit that they're
only
>here for the Albanians, not for the Serbs,'' says Simka.
>
>Three women from Orahovac, who until recently lived there or who have
family
>there. This is their story, which differs substantially from the one
>lieutenant-colonel Tony van Loon, the commander of the Yellow Riders, has
>told. (Trouw, November 11). His artillery unit will soon be replaced. [See
>Note # 1 at end]
>
>The women read the interview with Van Loon. In their eyes the Yellow Riders
>don't have even one reason to be proud of themselves. "Dear sir,'' begins
an
>open letter from the Humanitarian Committee of Women from Orahovac, ''the
>fact that you turned Orahovac into a test field where the Serbs - without a
>possibility to leave because you pretend not to be able to give them
>protection - are thus forced to stay imprisoned in a ghetto - should not be
>something you should be proud of, nor should you leave Kosovo with a clear
>conscience. To keep the Serbs as prisoners this way is to deliver them to
the
>mercy of terrorists. If this is the way to create a multi-ethnic society,
>than such a society existed also in Warshaw during World War Two.''
>
>In Orahovac 2500 Serbs and 500 gypsies live a terrible life. They are
packed
>into a few streets with only KFOR [NATO] checkpoints separating them from
the
>extremely hostile Albanian majority in the rest of the town. They all want
to
>leave for Serbia or Montenegro. Only one thing is keeping them in Orahovac:
>the fact that the Dutch don't want to guarantee their safety if they
venture
>out of the ghetto.
>
>The Yellow Riders say they're searching for possible war criminals amongst
>the Serbs. A lot of Serbian men are afraid the KLA has put their names on a
>secret list of suspects, so they stay where they are.
>
>Mirjana (26), Natasha (27) and Simka (35) have difficulty believing the
>Serbian police really murdered hundreds of Albanian citizens in Orahovac
and
>the surrounding villages. According to the Yellow Riders, Serbian police
>reservists born in the area executed perhaps some thousand Albanians in
cold
>blood. Until now, 400 bodies have been found. Natasha: "There was a war
going
>on. The KLA attacked the army and the police, who were not saying: 'O
please,
>kill us.' I was in Orahovac myself when the war started. It was a
>psychologically unbearable situation. While NATO bombed us from the air,
>uniformed terrorists were everywhere in the city. In Orahovac and the
>villages everyday Serbs were killed.'' Mirjana: "A number of bodies that
were
>found could belong to Serbs. Villages like Velika Hoca, Retimlje, Zociste
and
>Opterusa were mainly inhabited by Serbs. In Retimlje alone 30 Serbs were
>murdered last year. Where are the bodies of the Serbs?'' Simka: "People say
>all kinds of things. It's because of the hatred Albanians have for the Serb
>police.'' Natasha: "Let's say some Serbs did commit war crimes. Do you
think
>they'll be waiting in Orahovac for Kfor to arrest them? Those who maybe
>really did something wrong are long gone.'' Mirjana: "My husband was
director
>of a municipal archive. If he hadn't left on time, he would probably also
now
>be considered a war criminal. But he is not a nationalist. He fired some
>Albanians because they didn't work well.''
>
>The women do not understand why KFOR refuses to let at least the children
go.
>Until now only one convoy of 155 Serbs was allowed to leave town. Guarded
by
>Dutch troops, it was attacked by a large crowd of Albanians in the vicinity
>of Pec. After that UNHCR, the refugee-agency of the United Nations, stopped
>its humanitarian evacuations in Kosovo. Natasha and Simka both tried
several
>times to take the children of their relatives back to Serbia. Without
>success.
>
>"Can children also be war criminals?'' asks Natasha. "I've cried and I've
>screamed'', says Simka. "But this Dutch officer just stood there and looked
>at me as through a mask. He didn't show any emotion. Nothing. It was just
not
>allowed.'' Simka recently returned from a visit to Orahovac. She says the
>situation there is worse than a couple of weeks ago. Many times there are
>days without electricity, she says. The Serbs cannot buy food in Albanian
>shops They rely on humanitarian organisations to help them. Albanians block
>the road to Pristina, to stop a Russian batallion from entering the town
(the
>Russians are scheduled to replace the Dutch), so all kinds of shortages
>exist.
>
>Simka: "With winter coming, the Serbs are in panic. They're afraid
everybody
>will forget about them. Now they can still drive to Velika Hoca, where many
>Serbs live, but the road is in bad condition and nobody clears up the snow.
>They'll be stuck.''
>
>A visit to Orahovac is only possible with KFOR protection. Visitors have to
>leave the same day. The Serbs in Orahovac are allowed to use a Red Cross
>satellite telephonefor one minute a week. According to the women, the phone
>is bugged. Mirjana: "The line is cut the moment someone says something
>negative about life in Orahovac."
>
>Mail can be delivered to the Red Cross, but the letters are first examined
by
>a censor. Relatives in Serbia get them with thick black lines through the
>text.
>
>Since the arrival of the Dutch soldiers more than 20 Serbs from Orahovac
have
>been kidnapped and 136 Serbian houses have been burned to the ground. One
of
>the missing Serbs is the husband of a translator who worked for the Yellow
>Riders. In none of these cases have the Dutch started an investigation, let
>alone succeeded in bringing someone back, says Simka.
>
>In 1998, some 50 Serbs were kidnapped. Nobody has heard from them since.
She
>asks why the Dutch, who arrested 11 Serb war crimes suspects, have never
>arrested an Albanian for war crimes. The Albanian Ismet Tara is Orahovac's
>KLA-commander. He would be the biggest criminal. Simka: "His uncle had the
>reputation in 1941 of being the worst fascist in town. My uncle, who was a
>Partizan, told me that.'' Mirjana mentions Sebajdin Cena, her teacher at
>school. "My parents and I were at his wedding. My father gave him his first
>job. He was recognized as one of the organizors of the kidnappings last
>year.''
>
>The Dutch, conclude the women, are one-sided, anti-Serb and don't do a
thing
>to improve the situation for the Serbs in Orahovac. Natasja: "With them,
>every day is worse than the day before''. Mirjana: "I don't think this
[Dutch
>Col.] Van Loon will ever sleep well again."
>
>***
>
>Note # 1 - The above article is second in a series by Trouw. The first
>consisted of an interview with Dutch KFOR (NATO) Commander Col. Tony van
>Loon. Excerpts from that article with comments by Simca and Natasha can be
>read by clicking on The Women of Orahovac Answer the Colonel or going to
>http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/trouw.htm
>
>Note # 2 - To read interviews with the women from Orahovac, click on Save
the
>families: The women of Orahovac speak or go to
>http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe.htm
>
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From: NATODOC <natodoc@...>
To: NATODATA@...
<NATODATA@...>
Date: Monday, February 21, 2000 8:47 AM
Subject: KFOR Press Update, 21 February 2000
>KFOR
>Press Update
>Delivered by Lieutenant Commander Philip Anido
>KFOR Spokesman
>
>PRISTINA - Monday, 21 February 2000
>KFOR Search Operation in Mitrovica
>KFOR soldiers, supported by UNMIK police, began a second day of searches in
>several neighbourhoods in Mitrovica this morning at 7 a.m. They are looking
>for small and large caches of illegal and dangerous weapons.
>Owners of the weapons will be detained and turned over to UNMIK police, and
>those who are suspected for having been involved in the recent violent
>actions will be arrested.
>Yesterday, 11 arrests were made, all for weapons violations. The men
>included 10 Albanians and one Serb. Following identification and
>interrogation, nine were released. One Albanian and one Serb remain in
>custody.
>The latest report of weapons confiscated includes:
>* 22 rifles
>* 8 blocks of plastic explosive
>* 1 heavy machine gun
>* 18 rifle magazines loaded with ammunition; 30 bullets per
>* 1 hunting rifle
>* 1000's of rounds of ammunition
>* 2 automatic pistols
>* 4 hand grenade
>The search operation will continue until General Dr. Klaus Reinhardt, the
>Commander of KFOR, is satisfied that illegal activities have been stopped
>and dangerous weapons are banned from Mitrovica.
>KFOR and UNMIK will not allow any illegal activities that perpetuate the
>cycle of violence or hold up the process of peace and reconciliation in
>Kosovo to continue.
>Approximately 2,500 KFOR troops from 12 nations are supporting the
operation
>in Mitrovica.
>Demonstration
>Twenty thousand Albanian citizens from Pristina and other communities are
>marching to Mitrovica today to protest the situation in that troubled city.
>The men, women and children are marching on foot and driving in cars, vans
>and busses.
>UNMIK police are following the parade and KFOR soldiers are monitoring the
>progress along the route using foot patrols, vehicles and helicopters.
>The organizers have called for a peaceful demonstration and have agreed
that
>the protesters will stop in Vucitrn south of the city. From there, 12
>representatives will be allowed to deliver a letter to UN officials in
>Mitrovica.
>By 4 p.m. the crowds on foot will be picked up by bus for the return trip
to
>Pristina.
>Incidents During the Past 24 Hours
>Searches and Weapons Confiscations
>Multinational Brigade East
>Yesterday in Kravarica, a KFOR patrol confiscated two rifles
>and a quantity of ammunition.
>Incidents and Injuries
>Multinational Brigade Centre
>Yesterday evening, KFOR Norwegian troops reported that a
>home-made bomb was thrown into an occupied Serb house. There were no
>injuries but there was damage to the house. KFOR are using specially
>trained dogs in their investigation.
>Arrests
>Multinational Brigade West
>Yesterday morning in Pec, KFOR Military Police and UNMIK
>police arrested a Montenegrin man in connection with the shooting of an
>Albanian on 19 February in Vitomirica.
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[Finally, a headline has been assigned to this story
from the New York Times - by the Florida Sun Sentinel
- that doesn't grotesquely distort the truth.
For those who have been following the current state of
"Kosovo peacekeeping," in a province overrun by 50,000
NATO occupation troops an equal number of ethnic
Albanians "just happen" to gather in the capital city,
Pristina, and march 25 miles to Mitrovica.
Waving Albanian (that is, the nation of Albania's) and
American flags, the marchers - organized by whom, if
not the KLA? - are able to converge on Mitrovica
unhindered and ostensibly unnoticed by General
Reinhardt and his Balkans Korps, who are busy
ransacking Serb quarters in that city for non-existent
arms caches.
And then this from General Reinhardt: "They have
demonstrated how they want to live" - as they're
forcing their way through K-For cordons and
threatening God-knows-what violence should they
succeed - "and are demonstrating for a better future.
They want a united city."
They want a united city, indeed. United like Warsaw
became after Reinhardt's countrymen attacked the
Warsaw Ghetto some sixty-five years ago.
Beginning to sound surreal? No more than the entire
false rationale for NATO aggression and occupation in
the first place.]
_____________________________________________________
Thousands of Albanians rally to oust Serbs from city
in Kosovo
By CARLOTTA GALL
Web-posted: 10:55 p.m. Feb. 21, 2000
MITROVICA, Yugoslavia -- Thousands of ethnic Albanians
from throughout Kosovo marched on this divided city on
Monday and clashed with NATO-led troops who used tear
gas and fists to keep them from reaching the Serbian
district.
An estimated 25,000 protesters tried to cross the
main bridge that divides the Serb and Albanian
sections of this mining town, but were turned back as
thousands of Serbs stood watching from the other side.
The Albanians repeatedly pushed against the lines of
British and Canadian soldiers and French gendarmes as
fights broke out and demonstrators were hauled away.
Monday's showdown came as tensions continued to
build in the ethnically divided city of 90,000 people.
The violence of the past two weeks has left 11 people
dead and dozens wounded, including two French soldiers
who were shot in gun battles.
Wave after wave of protesters arrived Monday on
foot from Pristina, the capital of Kosovo province, 25
miles away, and from the western towns of Pec and
Srbica among others. Young men strode up the main
street waving red Albanian flags and banners as they
tried to breach the military lines.
Across the River Ibar, Serbs held the Serbian
tricolor aloft and played Serbian nationalist songs on
loudspeakers. For several hours peacekeepers struggled
to contain the crowd and French police resorted to
volley after volley of tear gas over the heads of the
British and Canadians, often leaving the soldiers
choking and retching along with the demonstrators.
By nightfall the protesters, some of whom had
walked for 10 hours, grew tired and drifted away. The
commander of the peacekeeping force, German Gen. Klaus
Reinhardt, climbed atop a British tank to talk to the
crowd. He praised his troops for their restraint and
said they had prevented any serious injuries or
consequences.
He also said he understood the demonstrators.
"They have shown the way they want to live and are
demonstrating for a better future. They want a united
city," he said.
But his words underlined the intractable problem
the city presents for the peacekeepers and the U.N.
administration. The Albanians all speak of liberating
the city, by which they mean moving back into the Serb
district en masse, which in turn would force the Serbs
to flee.
---
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
BRUTAL AND BARBARIC ACT BY KFOR
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, February 21 (Tanjug) - Jovica Jovanovic, a member of
the subcommittee for administration and legislature of the Yugoslav
committee for cooperation with the United Nations mission in Kosovo and
Metohija province, said on Sunday that the search of apartments and
institutions in northern Kosovska Mitrovica by international force KFOR
U.S. and German troops was a brutal, barbaric and uncivilized act.
Jovanovic told reporters he had been present during a search of the
Faculty of Technology. He saw troops break down with axes the doors of a
laboratory and other premises.
Jovanovic also toured the school of technology which had also been a
target of KFOR's barbaric activities.
He said it was not by accident that the barbaric action was carried out by
U.S. and German troops. The presence of numerous foreign reporters and TV
crew at the very time when the action took place, and their on-the-spot
reporting is proof that this was all stage-managed, Jovanovc said.
The leading players in this action - U.S. and German troops - were not
picked at random, because there are no more Serbs in the parts of Kosovo
and Metohija where these troops are deployed, he said.
Jovanovic said it was an act of ultimate cynicism when French troops
brought the principal of the School of Technology about a dozen cylinder
locks and padlocks to compensate for the incurred damage.
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I SOCIALISTI NELLE ELEZIONI IN CROAZIA
Le recenti elezioni politiche in Croazia, vinte dai socialdemocratici di
Racan, sono state le prime cui ha partecipato la Socijalisticka Radnicka
Partija Hrvatske [SRP], formazione nata del 1997. Diversamente dagli altri
raggruppamenti, la SRP non e' entrata in alcuna coalizione con altre forze
politiche perche' - nelle parole del suo presidente Stipe Suvar - "noi siamo
per il socialismo del XXI secolo, mentre gli altri non vogliono sentir
nemmeno parlare di qualche tipo di socialismo".
La SRP ha ottenuto una percentuale di voti prossima all'uno per cento,
raccogliendo consensi soprattutto in Istria e nelle zone costiere. Sulla
base dell'analisi dello stesso Suvar, sotto riportata, alla SRP
auguriamo una crescita costante ed un piu' forte radicamento territoriale
ed organizzativo per il futuro. CRJ
---
Lettera del presidente del Partito Socialista Operaio della
Croazia Stipe Suvar alle organizzazioni ed agli iscritti
Zagreb, 5. sijeènja 1999.
Pismo predsjednika organizacijama i èlanovima
SRP je na izborima prošao relativno
dobro, kad se uzme u obzir da su u Sabor
ušle samo dvije koalicije koje æe preuzeti
vlast (dvojka + èetvorka), oèerupani i
pokunjeni HDZ, koji æe se ubrzano
dezintegrirati i dvojac s bukaèke desnice
(Ðapiæ - Veselica).
A nisu ušle stranke s desnice koje su
buèno najavljivale osvajanje mnoštva
mandata, Merèepova HPS i Prkaèinova NH.
ASH se prikljuèio “èetvorki”, ali njihov nijedan
kandidat nije se domogao mandata. SDU je
dobio minimalan broj glasova u tri izborne
jedinice, u kojima je nastupao.
Mjesta u Saboru takoðer nije osvojila ni jedna
regionalna stranka, osim onih koje su
zastupljene u dvije pobjednièke koalicije, ili
stranka nacionalnih manjina (ni Srpska
samostalna demokratska stranka).
Po izbornim rezultatima, SRP se probio na
treæe ili èetvrto mjesto meðu 31 stranke i 20
nezavisnih lista koje nisu ušle u Sabor (više
glasova od SRP-a dobile su jedino Hrvatska
stranka umirovljenika, Merèepova Hrvatska
puèka stranka i Paragina Hrvatska stranka
prava 1861).
Na izbore smo išli bez ikakvih para, osim
dobrovoljnih priloga naših èlanova, pa nismo
mogli plaæati ni reklame, ni prevoziti ljude
autobusima, ni prireðivati koncerte, ni tiskati i
masovno lijepiti plakate.
Naše su organizacije i èlanovi iskazali veliki
entuzijazam i požrtvovanje u animiranju ljudi,
prireðivanju predizbornih skupova, tiskanju,
dijeljenju i lijepljenju plakata koje su sami, iz
svojih sredstava tiskali, te u skupljanju priloga
za plaæanje dvorana. Naši su kandidati
sami sebi plaæali putne troškove, itd. Sve
to raduje i ohrabruje.
Stekli smo dragocjena iskustva za
iduæe izbore. Najteže je prvi puta izaæi pred
biraèe, zar ne?
Prema SRP-u postoji još mnogo predrasuda, a i
strah kod mnogih da nam pristupe ili da se
odazovu na naše skupove. No, nadajmo se da
æe i to jenjavati.
Naši istupi u predizbornoj kampanji bili su u
pravilu dobri. Pokazalo se da imamo mnogo
sposobnih ljudi koji mogu u ime stranke
istupati, i tumaèiti njezin program i politiku.
U cjelini, SRP je izašao iz poluilegale, u kojoj su
ga drugi držali i predstavio se najširoj hrvatskoj
javnosti kao stranka ozbiljnih namjera!
Kada smo osnivali SRP u listopadu 1997.
godine, u Hrvatskoj se gotovo nije smjelo
izjašnjavati za bilo kakav socijalizam, pa makar
i u buduænosti. Valjda æe u godinama pred
nama sve više ljudi i u Hrvatskoj shvaæati da
zalaganje za socijalizam 21. stoljeæa nije
donkihotsko. A tome bi trebala pridonijeti i
smjena na vlasti, premda se SDP ne izjašnjava
za socijalizam i premda se neæe i sam ponašati
kao istinska lijeva stranka.
Za SRP je sada najvažnije da pridobija mlade i
posebno da se širi Mlada demokratska ljevica
Hrvatske.
U toku veljaèe ili ožujka 2000. godine održat
æemo izborno-izvještajnu skupštinu SRP-a,
ponovo birati naša rukovodeæa tijela, dopuniti
Porgramsku deklaraciju, izvršiti neke izmjene
Statuta, pa æe to biti prilika i da vidimo što je
SRP postigao u dvije godine postojanja i što
mu je èiniti u iduæe dvije godine.
Mnogi ljudi koji su po svojim uvjerenjima na
liniji SRP-a i kojima je on blizak ovaj put su
glasali za koaliciju SDP-HSLS, želeæi time
pridonijeti HDZ-ovom silasku s vlasti. A ako se
ta koalicija ne pokaže vjerodostojna i ako se u
praksi ne potvrdi da odluèno raskida sa ZNA SE
politikom, ljudi æe sve više prilaziti SRP-u, tim
više ako budemo kao stranka agilni, ako se
budemo pravovremeno oglašavali i izlazili sa
svojim prijedlozima i zahtjevima u
odnosu na novu vlast.
Možda uskoro doðe i do izvanrednih izbora, a u
tom æe sluèaju SRP, nema nikakve sumnje,
mnogo bolje proæi!
Prema tome, na izlazak SRP-a na izbore 3.
sijeènja 2000. trebamo gledati kao na poèetak
naše jaèe prisutnosti na hrvatskoj politièkoj
sceni i našeg veæeg utjecaja, a ne kao na
nekakav (relativni) neuspjeh.
Po svoj prilici, ostat æemo jedina lijeva stranka
u Hrvatskoj, jer se druge neæe potvrditi kao
takve ili æe se ugasiti.
Moramo se širiti, osnivati nove organizacije
SRP-a, pridobijati nove èlanove i potvrðivati
svoju prisutnost u dnevnom pulsiranju
politièkog života.
U to ime sve vas pozdravljam i svima
želim sretnu 2000. godinu!
Stipe Šuvar, v.r.
http://srp.hr
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Le recenti elezioni politiche in Croazia, vinte dai socialdemocratici di
Racan, sono state le prime cui ha partecipato la Socijalisticka Radnicka
Partija Hrvatske [SRP], formazione nata del 1997. Diversamente dagli altri
raggruppamenti, la SRP non e' entrata in alcuna coalizione con altre forze
politiche perche' - nelle parole del suo presidente Stipe Suvar - "noi siamo
per il socialismo del XXI secolo, mentre gli altri non vogliono sentir
nemmeno parlare di qualche tipo di socialismo".
La SRP ha ottenuto una percentuale di voti prossima all'uno per cento,
raccogliendo consensi soprattutto in Istria e nelle zone costiere. Sulla
base dell'analisi dello stesso Suvar, sotto riportata, alla SRP
auguriamo una crescita costante ed un piu' forte radicamento territoriale
ed organizzativo per il futuro. CRJ
---
Lettera del presidente del Partito Socialista Operaio della
Croazia Stipe Suvar alle organizzazioni ed agli iscritti
Zagreb, 5. sijeènja 1999.
Pismo predsjednika organizacijama i èlanovima
SRP je na izborima prošao relativno
dobro, kad se uzme u obzir da su u Sabor
ušle samo dvije koalicije koje æe preuzeti
vlast (dvojka + èetvorka), oèerupani i
pokunjeni HDZ, koji æe se ubrzano
dezintegrirati i dvojac s bukaèke desnice
(Ðapiæ - Veselica).
A nisu ušle stranke s desnice koje su
buèno najavljivale osvajanje mnoštva
mandata, Merèepova HPS i Prkaèinova NH.
ASH se prikljuèio “èetvorki”, ali njihov nijedan
kandidat nije se domogao mandata. SDU je
dobio minimalan broj glasova u tri izborne
jedinice, u kojima je nastupao.
Mjesta u Saboru takoðer nije osvojila ni jedna
regionalna stranka, osim onih koje su
zastupljene u dvije pobjednièke koalicije, ili
stranka nacionalnih manjina (ni Srpska
samostalna demokratska stranka).
Po izbornim rezultatima, SRP se probio na
treæe ili èetvrto mjesto meðu 31 stranke i 20
nezavisnih lista koje nisu ušle u Sabor (više
glasova od SRP-a dobile su jedino Hrvatska
stranka umirovljenika, Merèepova Hrvatska
puèka stranka i Paragina Hrvatska stranka
prava 1861).
Na izbore smo išli bez ikakvih para, osim
dobrovoljnih priloga naših èlanova, pa nismo
mogli plaæati ni reklame, ni prevoziti ljude
autobusima, ni prireðivati koncerte, ni tiskati i
masovno lijepiti plakate.
Naše su organizacije i èlanovi iskazali veliki
entuzijazam i požrtvovanje u animiranju ljudi,
prireðivanju predizbornih skupova, tiskanju,
dijeljenju i lijepljenju plakata koje su sami, iz
svojih sredstava tiskali, te u skupljanju priloga
za plaæanje dvorana. Naši su kandidati
sami sebi plaæali putne troškove, itd. Sve
to raduje i ohrabruje.
Stekli smo dragocjena iskustva za
iduæe izbore. Najteže je prvi puta izaæi pred
biraèe, zar ne?
Prema SRP-u postoji još mnogo predrasuda, a i
strah kod mnogih da nam pristupe ili da se
odazovu na naše skupove. No, nadajmo se da
æe i to jenjavati.
Naši istupi u predizbornoj kampanji bili su u
pravilu dobri. Pokazalo se da imamo mnogo
sposobnih ljudi koji mogu u ime stranke
istupati, i tumaèiti njezin program i politiku.
U cjelini, SRP je izašao iz poluilegale, u kojoj su
ga drugi držali i predstavio se najširoj hrvatskoj
javnosti kao stranka ozbiljnih namjera!
Kada smo osnivali SRP u listopadu 1997.
godine, u Hrvatskoj se gotovo nije smjelo
izjašnjavati za bilo kakav socijalizam, pa makar
i u buduænosti. Valjda æe u godinama pred
nama sve više ljudi i u Hrvatskoj shvaæati da
zalaganje za socijalizam 21. stoljeæa nije
donkihotsko. A tome bi trebala pridonijeti i
smjena na vlasti, premda se SDP ne izjašnjava
za socijalizam i premda se neæe i sam ponašati
kao istinska lijeva stranka.
Za SRP je sada najvažnije da pridobija mlade i
posebno da se širi Mlada demokratska ljevica
Hrvatske.
U toku veljaèe ili ožujka 2000. godine održat
æemo izborno-izvještajnu skupštinu SRP-a,
ponovo birati naša rukovodeæa tijela, dopuniti
Porgramsku deklaraciju, izvršiti neke izmjene
Statuta, pa æe to biti prilika i da vidimo što je
SRP postigao u dvije godine postojanja i što
mu je èiniti u iduæe dvije godine.
Mnogi ljudi koji su po svojim uvjerenjima na
liniji SRP-a i kojima je on blizak ovaj put su
glasali za koaliciju SDP-HSLS, želeæi time
pridonijeti HDZ-ovom silasku s vlasti. A ako se
ta koalicija ne pokaže vjerodostojna i ako se u
praksi ne potvrdi da odluèno raskida sa ZNA SE
politikom, ljudi æe sve više prilaziti SRP-u, tim
više ako budemo kao stranka agilni, ako se
budemo pravovremeno oglašavali i izlazili sa
svojim prijedlozima i zahtjevima u
odnosu na novu vlast.
Možda uskoro doðe i do izvanrednih izbora, a u
tom æe sluèaju SRP, nema nikakve sumnje,
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Prema tome, na izlazak SRP-a na izbore 3.
sijeènja 2000. trebamo gledati kao na poèetak
naše jaèe prisutnosti na hrvatskoj politièkoj
sceni i našeg veæeg utjecaja, a ne kao na
nekakav (relativni) neuspjeh.
Po svoj prilici, ostat æemo jedina lijeva stranka
u Hrvatskoj, jer se druge neæe potvrditi kao
takve ili æe se ugasiti.
Moramo se širiti, osnivati nove organizacije
SRP-a, pridobijati nove èlanove i potvrðivati
svoju prisutnost u dnevnom pulsiranju
politièkog života.
U to ime sve vas pozdravljam i svima
želim sretnu 2000. godinu!
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http://srp.hr
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LA ALBRIGHT SCAMBIATA PER UN ESSERE UMANO !
Il "Guardian" del 28 gennaio scorso riportava un trafiletto su di un
episodio avvenuto durante i colloqui-truffa di Rambouillet, presso
Parigi, nel febbraio 1999. Aggirandosi per i corridoi del castello che
ospitava tutte le delegazioni, Madeleine Albright si affaccio'
improvvisamente all'uscio di una stanza dove era riunita la delegazione
albanese. "Un membro della delegazione, che non si era reso conto di chi
si trattasse, e pensando probabilmente che fosse qualche donna delle
pulizie visto che la mezzanotte era gia' passata, le disse
semplicemente: 'Ci lasci cinque minuti e se ne vada'...", ricorda
Dugagjin Gorani, editore del giornale in lingua inglese "KD Times", che
era presente. Secondo Veton Surroi "la Albright sbotto' con una sequela
di espressioni che i traduttori non avrebbero mai potuto tradurre in
albanese".
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Il "Guardian" del 28 gennaio scorso riportava un trafiletto su di un
episodio avvenuto durante i colloqui-truffa di Rambouillet, presso
Parigi, nel febbraio 1999. Aggirandosi per i corridoi del castello che
ospitava tutte le delegazioni, Madeleine Albright si affaccio'
improvvisamente all'uscio di una stanza dove era riunita la delegazione
albanese. "Un membro della delegazione, che non si era reso conto di chi
si trattasse, e pensando probabilmente che fosse qualche donna delle
pulizie visto che la mezzanotte era gia' passata, le disse
semplicemente: 'Ci lasci cinque minuti e se ne vada'...", ricorda
Dugagjin Gorani, editore del giornale in lingua inglese "KD Times", che
era presente. Secondo Veton Surroi "la Albright sbotto' con una sequela
di espressioni che i traduttori non avrebbero mai potuto tradurre in
albanese".
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George Thompson: "LE RADICI DEL FASCISMO IN KOSOVO"
(dal sito "Emperors Clothes" - http://www.tenc.net)
IERI... "La popolazione serba in Kosovo dovrebbe essere cacciata il prima
possibile. I coloni serbi vanno ammazzati" (Il leader fascista albanese
Mustafa Kruja, giugno 1942).
...OGGI "Come molti ufficiali UCK, anch'egli dice apertamente che sogna un
Kosovo libero dai serbi" (Descrizione de "Il Maestro" Comandante di uno
squadrone della morte UCK, "Agence France Presse", 19 agosto 1999).
"Quando la Germania invase la Jugoslavia nel 1941, il popolo kosovaro fu
liberato dai tedeschi. Tutti i territori albanesi di questo stato, come il
Kosova, la Macedonia occidentale e le regioni di confine del Montenegro
furono riunificate con l'Albania propriamente detta. Furono ristabilite le
scuole in lingua albanese, l'amministrazione del governo, la stampa e la
radio" (Da: www.klpm.org, sito web affiliato all'UCK).
L'Italia di Mussolini occupo' l'Albania nell'aprile 1939 e insedio' un regime
collaborazionista con l'evidente entusiasmo di molti albanesi (1). Dopo che
Hitler ebbe invaso ed occupato la Jugoslavia nella primavera 1941, il grosso
dell'attuale Kosovo-Metohija fu posto sotto il controllo del governo
collaborazionista italo-albanese ed annesso all'Albania (2). Quando le forze
italiane entrarono in Kosovo, erano accompagnate da albanesi d'Albania. Gli
albanesi che vivevano in Kosovo si unirono alle forze di invasione che
aprivano loro la strada verso nord ed ovest, e tendevano agguati alle unita'
dell'esercito jugoslavo che affrontavano gli invasori. Questi albanesi,
nativi sia dell'Albania che del Kosovo, scatenarono una campagna di assassini
e deportazioni nei confronti dei serbi. Inizialmente, la mattanza era portata
avanti in modo disorganizzato da unita' di "Kachaki" irregolari. Si trattava
di briganti albanesi di entrambi i lati del confine che avevano combattutto
la Jugoslavia durante gli anni '20 e '30 (3). Nondimeno, venne presto
costituita una milizia kosovara locale. Tale milizia, detta "Vulnetari",
insieme ad altre unita' di polizia, inizio' persecuzioni piu' sistematiche (4).
I FASCISTI ITALIANI COLTI ALLA SPROVVISTA
Le autorita' italiane in Kosovo parvero alquanto spiazzate dal terrore contro
i serbi, e occasionalmente intervennero per prevenire attacchi albanesi, per
lo meno nelle aree urbane. Cosi' scrive uno storico serbo: "Le truppe italiane
furono dislocate nelle citta' del Kosovo e agivano come forza contenitrice..."
(5). Carlo Umilta', un ausiliario civile del Comando delle forze di
occupazione italiane, descrisse diversi episodi in cui le truppe italiane
aprirono il fuoco sugli albanesi per evitare massacri di serbi (6).
A causa della scarsita' di forze e dell'alleanza de facto fra albanesi e
forze dell'Asse, questi tentativi di contenimento costituirono ben poca cosa.
Tuttavia, gli occupanti italiani riferirono il loro disgusto per le azioni
degli albanesi alle autorita' di Roma. L'esercito italiano riferi' che gli
albanesi "stavano dando la caccia ai serbi", e che "la minoranza serba viveva
in condizioni veramente miserevoli, continuamente perseguitata dalla
brutalita' degli albanesi che alimenta l'odio razziale" (7). Carlo Umilta'
descrive alcune delle atrocita' nelle sue memorie e osserva che "gli albanesi
stanno sterminando gli slavi" (8). Alle sue parole fanno eco quelle di Hermann
Neubacher, il rappresentante del Terzo Reich per l'Europa sud-orientale: "Gli
schipetari avevano fretta di espellere il maggior numero possibile di Serbi
dal paese" (9).
Le atrocita' furono commesse deliberatamente, come parte di
un piano volto a creare una "grande Albania" libera dai serbi. Nel giugno
1942, il presidente fantoccio fascista dell'Albania Mustafa Kruja dichiaro'
candidamente i suoi principi davanti ai suoi seguaci kosovari: "La popolazione
serba in Kosovo dovrebbe essere cacciata il prima possibile. Tutti i serbi
indigeni dovrebbero essere qualificati come colonizzatori, e in quanto tali,
attraverso i governi albanese e italiano, mandati in campi di concentramento
in Albania. I coloni serbi vanno ammazzati" (10). Sentimenti simili furono
espressi da un capo albanese-kosovaro, Ferat-Bej Draga: "E' arrivato il
momento di sterminare i serbi. Non rimarra' alcun serbo sotto il sole del
Kosovo" (11). I pogrom anti-serbi si intensificarono dopo il collasso
italiano nel settembre '43. I nazisti tedeschi assunsero il controllo
dell'Albania, incluso il Kosovo. Le unita' militari italiane furono cacciate
e rimpiazzate da tre divisioni del XXI corpo alpino tedesco. La presenza
militare tedesca lascio' agli albanesi piena liberta' d'azione.
Le milizie nazionaliste kosovaro-albanesi, chiamate "Balli Kombaetar" (o
"Balisti") portarono avanti una campagna di deportazione e sterminio di serbi
nel '43-'44. Poi, su ordine esplicito di Hitler, i tedeschi formarono la
21¡ "Waffen-Gebirgsdivision SS" - la Divisione Skanderbeg. Con capi
tedeschi e ufficiali e truppa kosovaro-albanesi, gli hitleriani speravano che
usando gli Skanderbeg, la Germania avrebbe potuto "raggiungere il suo ben
noto obiettivo politico": creare una "grande Albania" vitale (cioe' pura) che
includesse il Kosovo (12).
In generale, la politica tedesca era quella di organizzare unita' militari
volontarie fra i simpatizzanti nazisti dei paesi occupati. Fra tutte le
nazioni occupate, solo i serbi, i greci e i polacchi rifiutarono
di formare unita' volontarie naziste. Piuttosto che unirsi ai nazisti, come
avevano fatto gli albanesi in Kosovo, i serbi organizzarono la piu' grande
resistenza antinazista in Europa. Sia i partigiani comunisti che i monarchici
cetnici erano principalmente serbi, e entrambi i gruppi combatterono i
tedeschi e i loro alleati locali in tutta la jugoslavia. I tedeschi
reclutarono i 9000 uomini della divisione Skanderbeg per combattere questi
gruppi di resistenza, ma gli albanesi della Skanderbeg non avevano interesse
ad affrontare soldati; essi volevano principalmente terrorizzare i civili
serbi, zingari ed ebrei locali. Molti di questi albanesi kosovari avevano
prestato servizio in precedenza nelle divisioni SS bosniaco-musulmane e
croate, note per i loro massacri di civili.
Come si spiega l'odio furioso per i non-albanesi? Un fattore importante era
la militanza islamica. La fondamentalista "Seconda Lega di Prizren" fu creata
nel settembre '43 da Xhafer Deva, un albanese kosovaro, per collaborare con
le autorita' germaniche. La lega proclamo' una jijad (guerra santa) contro
gli slavi. Essi erano supportati dal Gran Mufti di Gerusalemme El Haj Emin
Huseini, filonazista, che aspirava a liberarsi di tutti gli ebrei in quella
che al tempo era la Palestina occupata dai Britannici. L'intolleranza
religiosa albanese si manifesto' con evidenza negli attacchi a chiese e
monasteri ortodossi (13).
Non ci sono dati certi sulle perdite umane subite durante
l'olocausto fascista albanese. Le stime vanno da 10.000 a 30.000 serbi uccisi;
per lo meno 100.000 furono cacciati e rimpiazzati da persone "immigrate"
dall'Albania propriamente detta (14).
Nel giustificare l'attuale aspirazione kosovaro-albanese a secedere dalla
Serbia, i media hanno ripetuto come un mantra: il 90 per cento della
popolazione e' albanese. Anche se queste proporzioni sono molto esagerate
(nessuno lo sa con certezza, perche' i kosovaro-albanesi hanno boicottato
i censimenti per anni!) - la provincia e' certo in massima parte albanese.
Ma una causa determinante dell'attuale sproporzione demografica fu il
successo degli albanesi nel ruolo di volonterosi esecutori di Hitler durante
la II Guerra mondiale (15).
Oltre tutto, le loro attenzioni non si limitarono
ai serbi. Non si sa quanti zingari furono eliminati. E gli albanesi kosovari,
sia da soli che sotto la direzione tedesca, eliminarono molti degli ebrei del
Kosovo. L'opera principale sulla "soluzione finale" di Hitler in Jugoslavia
(16) stima che 550 ebrei vivessero in Kosovo al momento dell'invasione
nazista. 210 di essi, ossia il 38 per cento, furono uccisi in Kosovo, per
lo piu' da albanesi. Infatti, la prima operazione della divisione Skanderbeg
come "Einsatztruppen" fu un'incursione contro gli ebrei, e la seconda fu lo
sterminio del villaggio serbo di Velika, dove piu' di 400 serbi furono uccisi
(17).
Ceda Prlincevic, capo della Comunita' ebraica di Pristina e dirigente
degli archivi provinciali, ha spiegato alla Emperors-Clothes che gli ebrei
che non furono uccisi subito furono inviate dalla Skanderbeg nei campi di
sterminio tedeschi di Treblinka e Bergen-Belsen. Un treno diretto a
quest'ultimo prese la tratta sbagliata e fu intercettato dalle truppe russe
che avanzavano. Secondo Prlincevic, senza questo fortunato errore, l'intera
popolazione ebraica del Kosovo sarebbe stata eliminata.
Sebbene i sostenitori
dell'UCK oggi proclamino che non siano stati uccisi ebrei in Kosovo e che gli
ebrei siano stati difesi dagli albanesi-kosovari, tali affermazioni sono false
e dovrebbero essere trattate allo stesso modo in cui tratteremmo le altre
smentite sull'olocausto.
I FASCISTI ALBANESI CONTINUANO A COMBATTERE
I tedeschi si arresero nel 1945, ma i resti dei gruppi nazisti e fascisti
kosovaro-albanesi continuarono a combattere il governo jugoslavo per sei
anni, con una grande ribellione durata dal 1945 al 1948 (Drenica e' stata
il focolaio del reclutamento UCK nel '98-'99) sotto il comando di Shabhan
Paluzha. Violenze sporadiche continuarono fino al '51. E' vero alla lettera
dire che gli ultimi spari della II Guerra mondiale furono sparati in Kosovo.
IN CONCLUSIONE...
La scorsa estate, quando i Tedeschi sono entrati a Prizren per la prima volta
dopo la II Guerra mondiale, un corrispondente della NBC ha riportato:
"L'altra sera ero a cena con una gentile famiglia di kosovari musulmani,
quando il discorso e' caduto sulle truppe NATO tedesche che entravano in
citta' per farne il quartier generale del loro distretto di peacekeeping.
Il capofamiglia, un uomo abbastanza anziano da ricordare l'ultima volta che
le truppe germaniche erano entrate a Prizren, disse che si sentivano tutti al
sicuro ora. 'I soldati tedeschi sono eccellenti', egli disse. Poi aggiunse:
'Lo so ben io, ero uno di loro'. Allora ha sollevato il braccio in un saluto
nazista, ha detto 'heil' e si e' messo a ridere tutto contento"
(NBC, 18 giugno 1999).
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INTRODUCTION
Why do some ethnic Albanians support KLA terror against Serbs, Roma
("Gypsies") and other Kosovo residents? The mass media says it's revenge,
revenge for Serbian misdeeds; this despite ever-growing evidence that the
tales of misdeeds are fiction. (See "Spinning the Kill" at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/spin.htm
Nevertheless the revenge argument appears in some form in most Western
reports of KLA terror. (See "Mr. Kenigs has 2nd thoughts" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/egyptians.htm.)
But if revenge is not the reason some ethnic Albanians hate Serbs, Roma and
others, what is? During the U.S. Civil Rights movement, 'States Rights' was a
polite code for anti-Black racism. In Kosovo "secession" is the code for "Get
rid of all sub-humans." If this sounds like Nazism, good guess; the racist
movement came to power in Kosovo under Mussolini and Hitler, during W.W.II.
The article posted below, Mr. Thompson's "Roots of Kosovo fascism", is an
eye-opener.
ROOTS OF KOSOVO FACSIM
by George Thompson (2-19-00)
www.tenc.net [emperors-clothes]
THAT WAS THEN...
"The Serbian population in Kosovo should be removed as soon as possible.
Serbian settlers should be killed." (Albanian fascist leader Mustafa Kroja,
June 1942.)
...AND THIS IS NOW
"He, like many KLA officers, says openly that he dreams of a Kosovo without
Serbs." (Description of KLA death squad commander "the Teacher", Agence
France Presse, August 19, 1999)
"As Germany overtook Yugoslavia in 1941, the Kosovar people were liberated by
the Germans. All Albanian territories of this state, such as Kosova, western
Macedonia and border regions under Montenegro, were re-united into Albania
proper. Albanian schools, governmental administration, press and radio were
re-established." (From www.klpm.org , a Kosovo Liberation Army-affiliated
affiliated website)
Mussolini's Italy occupied Albania proper in April, 1939, and established a
collaborationist regime with the apparent enthusiasm of most Albanians.(1)
After Hitler invaded and occupied Yugoslavia in spring 1941, the bulk of
current Kosovo-Metohija was placed under Italian-Albanian collaborationist
control and annexed to Albania.(2)
When Italian forces moved into Kosovo they were accompanied by Albanians from
Albania. Albanians living in Kosovo joined the invasion force as it made its
way North and West, and also ambushed Yugoslav Army units moving to meet the
invaders. These Albanians, natives of both Albania and Kosovo, instituted a
campaign of murder and expulsion of Serbs. Initially, the mayhem was carried
out by disorganized "kachak" (irregular) units. These were Albanian brigands
from both sides of the border who had fought Yugoslavia throughout the 1920s
and 1930s.(3) However, soon a native Kosovo militia was formed. This militia,
called the Vulnetari, and various gendarme units, began more systematic
persecution.(4)
ITALIAN FASCISTS TAKEN ABACK
Italian authorities in Kosovo seemed a bit distressed by the terror against
Serbs and occasionally intervened to prevent Albanian attacks, at least in
urban areas. Thus a Serbian historian wrote: "Italian troops were stationed
in the towns of Kosovo and acted as a restraining force ..."(5) And Carlo
Umilta, a civilian aide to the Commander of the Italian occupation forces,
described several instances where Italian forces fired on Albanians to halt
massacres of Serbs.6)
Because of manpower limitations and the de facto alliance between Albanians
and the Axis powers, these efforts at restraint were limited. Nevertheless,
the Italian occupiers reported their disgust at Albanians’ actions to the
authorities in Rome. The Italian army reported that Albanians were "hunting
down Serbs", and that the "Serbian minority are living in conditions that are
truly disgraceful, constantly harassed by the brutality of the Albanians, who
are whipping up racial hatred."(7) Carlo Umilta described some of the
atrocities in his memoirs and observed that "the Albanians are out to
exterminate the Slavs."(8) His words were echoed by those of German diplomat
Hermann Neubacher, the Third Reich’s representative for southeastern Europe:
"Shiptars (i.e., Kosovo Albanians) were in a hurry to expel as many Serbs as
possible from the country."(9)
The atrocities were deliberate, part of a plan to create a Serb-free "Greater
Albania". In June 1942 the fascist puppet president of Albania, Mustafa
Kroja, declared his goals candidly before his followers in Kosovo:
"The Serbian population of Kosovo should be removed as soon as possible . . .
All indigenous Serbs should be qualified as colonists and as such, via the
Albanian and Italian governments, be sent to concentration camps in Albania.
Serbian settlers should be killed." (10)
Similar sentiments were expressed by a Kosovo Albanian leader, Ferat-bey
Draga:
"time has come to exterminate the Serbs . . . there will be no Serbs under
the Kosovo sun."(11)
The anti-Serb pogroms intensified after Italy's collapse in September 1943.
The German Nazi's assumed control of Albania, including Kosovo. Italian
military units pulled out and were replaced by three divisions of the German
XXI Mountain Corps. The German presence freed the Albanians of restraint.
Kosovo Albanian nationalist militias called the "Balli Kombëtar" (or
"Ballistas") carried out a campaign of deportation and murder of Serbs in
1943 and 1944. Then, on Hitler’s express order, the Germans formed the 21st
"Waffen-Gebirgs Division der SS" - the Skanderbeg Division. With German
leaders and Kosovo Albanian officers and troops, Hitler’s hoped that using
the Skanderbergs Germany could "achieve its well-known political objective"
of creating a viable (i.e., pure) "Greater Albania" including Kosovo.(12)
In general, German policy was to organize volunteer military units among Nazi
sympathizers in occupied countries. Of all the occupied nations only the
Serbs, Greeks and Poles refused to form Nazi volunteer units. Rather than
joining the Nazis, as the Albanians in Kosovo did, the Serbs organized the
largest anti-Nazi resistance in Europe. Both the Communist Partisans and thee
Royalist Chetniks were mainly Serbs and both groups fought the Germans and
their local allies throughout Yugoslavia.
The Germans recruited the 9,000 man Skanderbeg division to fight these
resistance groups But the Skanderberg's Albanians had little interest in
going up against soldiers; they mainly wanted to terrorize local Serbs,
"Gypsies" and Jews. Many of these Kosovo Albanians had seen prior service in
the Bosnian Muslim and Croatian SS divisions which were notorious for
slaughtering civilians.
What explained this passionate hatred for non-Albanians? A big factor was
militant Islam. The Fundamentalist "Second League of Prizren" was created in
September 1943 by Xhafer Deva, a Kosovo Albanian, to work with the German
authorities. The League proclaimed a jihad (holy war) against Slavs. They
were backed by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, El Haj Emin Huseini, who was
pro-Nazi and had called for getting rid of all Jews in what was at that time
British-occupied Palestine. Albanian religious intolerance was shown by their
targeting Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries for destruction.(13)
No one is certain of human destruction suffered in this Fascist Albanian
Holocaust. Estimates range from 10,000 to 30,000 Serbs murdered. At least
100,000 were driven from Kosovo and replaced with "immigrants" from Albania
proper.(14)
In justifying current Kosovo Albanian demands to secede from Serbia, the
media has repeated, like a mantra: 90% of the population is Albanian. While
this figure is most likely exaggerated (nobody knows for sure because Kosovo
Albanians boycotted the census for years!) - the province has been largely
Albanian. But a major cause of the current demographic imbalance: was the
Albanians' success as Hitler's willing executioners during World War II.(15)
And their attention was not limited to Serbs. Unknown numbers of Roma
("Gypsies") were liquidated. And Kosovo Albanians, acting alone as well as
under German direction, eliminated many of Kosovo's Jews.
The definitive work on Hitler's "Final Solution" in Yugoslavia (16) estimates
that 550 Jews lived in Kosovo Hitler took over Yugoslavia. 210 of them, or 38
percent, were murdered in Kosovo, mainly by Albanians. In fact, the
Skanderbeg division's first operation was to act as an "einsatzgruppen"
against the Jews, and its second was a similar extermination foray against
the Serb village of Velika where more than 400 Serbians were murdered.(17)
Ceda Prlincevic, head of the Jewish community in Pristina and an executive of
the provincial archives, has explained to Emperors-Clothes that the Jews who
were not murdered outright were sent by the Skanderbeg division to the German
death camps Treblinka and Bergen-Belsen. One train, on its way to the latter
camp, took the wrong track and was intercepted by advancing Russian soldiers.
According to Mr. Prlincevic, were it not for that fortunate detour, the
entire Jewish population of Kosovo would have been eliminated.
Although KLA supporters now claim that no Jews were killed in Kosovo and that
Jews were sheltered by the Kosovo Albanians, such claims are false and should
be treated the same way we would treat other Holocaust denials.
ALBANIAN FASCISTS GO ON FIGHTING
The Germans surrendered in 1945, but the remnants of the Kosovo Albanian Nazi
and fascist groups continued fighting the Yugoslav government for six years,
with a major rebellion from 1945 to 1948 in the Drenica region. (Drenica was
the hotbed for KLA recruiting in 1998-99). That rebellion was under the
command of Shabhan Paluzha; it is called the Shabhan Paluzha rebellion.
Sporadic violence continued until 1951. It is literally true to say that the
last shots of World War II were fired in Kosovo
PARTING THOUGHT
This past summer, as Germans entered Prizren in Kosovo for the first time
since World War II, an NBC correspondent reported:
"I was at dinner with a kind Kosovo Muslim family the other night when talk
turned to the German NATO troops that rolled into town to make the city the
headquarters of its peacekeeping district. The patriarch of the family, a man
old enough to remember the last time German troops rolled into Prizren, said
they all felt safe now. 'The German soldiers are excellent,' he said. Then he
added, 'I should know, I used to be one.' Then he raised his arm in a Nazi
salute and said, 'Heil,' and laughed merrily. (NBC, June 18, 1999)
FOOTNOTES
(1) Professor Nikalaos A. Stavrou, KFOR: Repeating History, The Washington
Times (August 11, 1999).
(2) Hugo Wolf, Kosovo Origins (1996) chapter 10. Portions of northern Kosovo,
from Mitrovica to the provincial border with Serbia, were administered by
Germany from the outset, primarily to exploit the mines in the area. An
eastern sliver of Kosovo was ceded to Bulgaria.
(3) Dr. Smilja Avramov, Genocide in Yugoslavia, Part 2, Chapter 5, "Genocide
in Kosovo and Metohija" (1995): "The crimes were begun by the ‘kachak’
guerrilla detachments which had been sent into Kosovo from Albania, but
members of the Shqiptar minority quickly joined in. Judging from Italian
reports, at first the situation resembled more the marauding of bandits than
a deliberate policy."
(4) Dr. Dusan Batakovic, The Kosovo Chronicles (1992); Avramov, supra.
(5) Dr. Smilja Avramov, supra.
(6) Carlo Umilta, Jugoslavia e Albania, Memoire di un diplomatico (1947), in
Avramov, supra, note 141.
(7) Dr. Smilja Avramov, supra, note 117.
(8) Carlo Umilta, Jugoslavia e Albania, Memoire di un diplomatico (1947), in
Avramov, supra, note 137.
(9) Hermann Neubacher, Sonderauftrag Sudost (1953), quoted in Dr. Slavenko
Terzic, Old Serbia and Albanians.
(10) Dr. Slavenko Terzic, Kosovo, Serbian Issue and the Greater Albania
Project.
(11) Batakovic, supra, citing H. Bajrami, Izvestaj Konstantina Plavsica Tasi
Dinicu, ministru unutrasnjih poslova u Nedicevoj vladi oktobra 1943, o
kosovsko-mitrovackanm srezu, Godisnjak arhiva Kosova XIV-XV (1978-1979) at
313.
(12) Avramov, supra, note 151.
(13) Avramov, supra, note 148, citing Bishop Atanisije Jevtic, From Kosovo to
Jadovno.
(14) Batakovic gives a conservative estimate of 10,000 dead while Dr.
Slavenko Terzic cites a contemporary American intelligence report that 10,000
died in the first year of occupation alone. Terzic, supra, citing Serge
Krizman, Maps of Yugoslavia at War (1943). Carl Kosta Savitch, in Genocide in
Kosovo: Skanderbeg Division, quotes a wartime account that 30,000 to 40,000
Serbs were killed by Albanians. In addition, an unknown number of Serbs dies
in the German-operated work camps of Pristina and Mitrovica, or were killed
by the Germans as reprisals against resistance activity.
The reported number of expelled Serbs also varies depending on the source.
Dragnich and Todorovich cited the figure of 70,000-100,000, based on a review
of wartime refugee records. Dmitri Bogdanovich estimates 100,000, but
acknowledges that the exact number has never been determined. Dmitri
Bogdanovich, The Kosovo Question: Past and Present (1985). Dr. Avramov notes
that wartime records showing 70,000 refugees from Kosovo counted only those
persons in need of government assistance who registered with the Commissariat
for Refugees in Belgrade. Records of those who did not register, or who fled
to Montenegro, apparently do not exist. Avramov, supra.
(15) Before world war 2 Serbs constituted a slight majority of the Kosovo
population. Avramov, supra. In addition to the murder and expulsion of Serbs,
the relative ethnic population balance was further skewed by the entrance of
hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians from Albania proper during the war.
Relying on Italian records from the time, Dr. Avramov estimates that 150,000
to 200,000 Albanians moved into Kosovo between 1941 and 1943.
(16) The Crimes of Fascist Occupants and Their Collaborators Against the Jews
of Yugoslavia (1952, revised 1957) (published by The Federation of Jewish
Communities of Yugoslavia).
(17) Avramov, supra.
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IERI... "La popolazione serba in Kosovo dovrebbe essere cacciata il prima
possibile. I coloni serbi vanno ammazzati" (Il leader fascista albanese
Mustafa Kruja, giugno 1942).
...OGGI "Come molti ufficiali UCK, anch'egli dice apertamente che sogna un
Kosovo libero dai serbi" (Descrizione de "Il Maestro" Comandante di uno
squadrone della morte UCK, "Agence France Presse", 19 agosto 1999).
"Quando la Germania invase la Jugoslavia nel 1941, il popolo kosovaro fu
liberato dai tedeschi. Tutti i territori albanesi di questo stato, come il
Kosova, la Macedonia occidentale e le regioni di confine del Montenegro
furono riunificate con l'Albania propriamente detta. Furono ristabilite le
scuole in lingua albanese, l'amministrazione del governo, la stampa e la
radio" (Da: www.klpm.org, sito web affiliato all'UCK).
L'Italia di Mussolini occupo' l'Albania nell'aprile 1939 e insedio' un regime
collaborazionista con l'evidente entusiasmo di molti albanesi (1). Dopo che
Hitler ebbe invaso ed occupato la Jugoslavia nella primavera 1941, il grosso
dell'attuale Kosovo-Metohija fu posto sotto il controllo del governo
collaborazionista italo-albanese ed annesso all'Albania (2). Quando le forze
italiane entrarono in Kosovo, erano accompagnate da albanesi d'Albania. Gli
albanesi che vivevano in Kosovo si unirono alle forze di invasione che
aprivano loro la strada verso nord ed ovest, e tendevano agguati alle unita'
dell'esercito jugoslavo che affrontavano gli invasori. Questi albanesi,
nativi sia dell'Albania che del Kosovo, scatenarono una campagna di assassini
e deportazioni nei confronti dei serbi. Inizialmente, la mattanza era portata
avanti in modo disorganizzato da unita' di "Kachaki" irregolari. Si trattava
di briganti albanesi di entrambi i lati del confine che avevano combattutto
la Jugoslavia durante gli anni '20 e '30 (3). Nondimeno, venne presto
costituita una milizia kosovara locale. Tale milizia, detta "Vulnetari",
insieme ad altre unita' di polizia, inizio' persecuzioni piu' sistematiche (4).
I FASCISTI ITALIANI COLTI ALLA SPROVVISTA
Le autorita' italiane in Kosovo parvero alquanto spiazzate dal terrore contro
i serbi, e occasionalmente intervennero per prevenire attacchi albanesi, per
lo meno nelle aree urbane. Cosi' scrive uno storico serbo: "Le truppe italiane
furono dislocate nelle citta' del Kosovo e agivano come forza contenitrice..."
(5). Carlo Umilta', un ausiliario civile del Comando delle forze di
occupazione italiane, descrisse diversi episodi in cui le truppe italiane
aprirono il fuoco sugli albanesi per evitare massacri di serbi (6).
A causa della scarsita' di forze e dell'alleanza de facto fra albanesi e
forze dell'Asse, questi tentativi di contenimento costituirono ben poca cosa.
Tuttavia, gli occupanti italiani riferirono il loro disgusto per le azioni
degli albanesi alle autorita' di Roma. L'esercito italiano riferi' che gli
albanesi "stavano dando la caccia ai serbi", e che "la minoranza serba viveva
in condizioni veramente miserevoli, continuamente perseguitata dalla
brutalita' degli albanesi che alimenta l'odio razziale" (7). Carlo Umilta'
descrive alcune delle atrocita' nelle sue memorie e osserva che "gli albanesi
stanno sterminando gli slavi" (8). Alle sue parole fanno eco quelle di Hermann
Neubacher, il rappresentante del Terzo Reich per l'Europa sud-orientale: "Gli
schipetari avevano fretta di espellere il maggior numero possibile di Serbi
dal paese" (9).
Le atrocita' furono commesse deliberatamente, come parte di
un piano volto a creare una "grande Albania" libera dai serbi. Nel giugno
1942, il presidente fantoccio fascista dell'Albania Mustafa Kruja dichiaro'
candidamente i suoi principi davanti ai suoi seguaci kosovari: "La popolazione
serba in Kosovo dovrebbe essere cacciata il prima possibile. Tutti i serbi
indigeni dovrebbero essere qualificati come colonizzatori, e in quanto tali,
attraverso i governi albanese e italiano, mandati in campi di concentramento
in Albania. I coloni serbi vanno ammazzati" (10). Sentimenti simili furono
espressi da un capo albanese-kosovaro, Ferat-Bej Draga: "E' arrivato il
momento di sterminare i serbi. Non rimarra' alcun serbo sotto il sole del
Kosovo" (11). I pogrom anti-serbi si intensificarono dopo il collasso
italiano nel settembre '43. I nazisti tedeschi assunsero il controllo
dell'Albania, incluso il Kosovo. Le unita' militari italiane furono cacciate
e rimpiazzate da tre divisioni del XXI corpo alpino tedesco. La presenza
militare tedesca lascio' agli albanesi piena liberta' d'azione.
Le milizie nazionaliste kosovaro-albanesi, chiamate "Balli Kombaetar" (o
"Balisti") portarono avanti una campagna di deportazione e sterminio di serbi
nel '43-'44. Poi, su ordine esplicito di Hitler, i tedeschi formarono la
21¡ "Waffen-Gebirgsdivision SS" - la Divisione Skanderbeg. Con capi
tedeschi e ufficiali e truppa kosovaro-albanesi, gli hitleriani speravano che
usando gli Skanderbeg, la Germania avrebbe potuto "raggiungere il suo ben
noto obiettivo politico": creare una "grande Albania" vitale (cioe' pura) che
includesse il Kosovo (12).
In generale, la politica tedesca era quella di organizzare unita' militari
volontarie fra i simpatizzanti nazisti dei paesi occupati. Fra tutte le
nazioni occupate, solo i serbi, i greci e i polacchi rifiutarono
di formare unita' volontarie naziste. Piuttosto che unirsi ai nazisti, come
avevano fatto gli albanesi in Kosovo, i serbi organizzarono la piu' grande
resistenza antinazista in Europa. Sia i partigiani comunisti che i monarchici
cetnici erano principalmente serbi, e entrambi i gruppi combatterono i
tedeschi e i loro alleati locali in tutta la jugoslavia. I tedeschi
reclutarono i 9000 uomini della divisione Skanderbeg per combattere questi
gruppi di resistenza, ma gli albanesi della Skanderbeg non avevano interesse
ad affrontare soldati; essi volevano principalmente terrorizzare i civili
serbi, zingari ed ebrei locali. Molti di questi albanesi kosovari avevano
prestato servizio in precedenza nelle divisioni SS bosniaco-musulmane e
croate, note per i loro massacri di civili.
Come si spiega l'odio furioso per i non-albanesi? Un fattore importante era
la militanza islamica. La fondamentalista "Seconda Lega di Prizren" fu creata
nel settembre '43 da Xhafer Deva, un albanese kosovaro, per collaborare con
le autorita' germaniche. La lega proclamo' una jijad (guerra santa) contro
gli slavi. Essi erano supportati dal Gran Mufti di Gerusalemme El Haj Emin
Huseini, filonazista, che aspirava a liberarsi di tutti gli ebrei in quella
che al tempo era la Palestina occupata dai Britannici. L'intolleranza
religiosa albanese si manifesto' con evidenza negli attacchi a chiese e
monasteri ortodossi (13).
Non ci sono dati certi sulle perdite umane subite durante
l'olocausto fascista albanese. Le stime vanno da 10.000 a 30.000 serbi uccisi;
per lo meno 100.000 furono cacciati e rimpiazzati da persone "immigrate"
dall'Albania propriamente detta (14).
Nel giustificare l'attuale aspirazione kosovaro-albanese a secedere dalla
Serbia, i media hanno ripetuto come un mantra: il 90 per cento della
popolazione e' albanese. Anche se queste proporzioni sono molto esagerate
(nessuno lo sa con certezza, perche' i kosovaro-albanesi hanno boicottato
i censimenti per anni!) - la provincia e' certo in massima parte albanese.
Ma una causa determinante dell'attuale sproporzione demografica fu il
successo degli albanesi nel ruolo di volonterosi esecutori di Hitler durante
la II Guerra mondiale (15).
Oltre tutto, le loro attenzioni non si limitarono
ai serbi. Non si sa quanti zingari furono eliminati. E gli albanesi kosovari,
sia da soli che sotto la direzione tedesca, eliminarono molti degli ebrei del
Kosovo. L'opera principale sulla "soluzione finale" di Hitler in Jugoslavia
(16) stima che 550 ebrei vivessero in Kosovo al momento dell'invasione
nazista. 210 di essi, ossia il 38 per cento, furono uccisi in Kosovo, per
lo piu' da albanesi. Infatti, la prima operazione della divisione Skanderbeg
come "Einsatztruppen" fu un'incursione contro gli ebrei, e la seconda fu lo
sterminio del villaggio serbo di Velika, dove piu' di 400 serbi furono uccisi
(17).
Ceda Prlincevic, capo della Comunita' ebraica di Pristina e dirigente
degli archivi provinciali, ha spiegato alla Emperors-Clothes che gli ebrei
che non furono uccisi subito furono inviate dalla Skanderbeg nei campi di
sterminio tedeschi di Treblinka e Bergen-Belsen. Un treno diretto a
quest'ultimo prese la tratta sbagliata e fu intercettato dalle truppe russe
che avanzavano. Secondo Prlincevic, senza questo fortunato errore, l'intera
popolazione ebraica del Kosovo sarebbe stata eliminata.
Sebbene i sostenitori
dell'UCK oggi proclamino che non siano stati uccisi ebrei in Kosovo e che gli
ebrei siano stati difesi dagli albanesi-kosovari, tali affermazioni sono false
e dovrebbero essere trattate allo stesso modo in cui tratteremmo le altre
smentite sull'olocausto.
I FASCISTI ALBANESI CONTINUANO A COMBATTERE
I tedeschi si arresero nel 1945, ma i resti dei gruppi nazisti e fascisti
kosovaro-albanesi continuarono a combattere il governo jugoslavo per sei
anni, con una grande ribellione durata dal 1945 al 1948 (Drenica e' stata
il focolaio del reclutamento UCK nel '98-'99) sotto il comando di Shabhan
Paluzha. Violenze sporadiche continuarono fino al '51. E' vero alla lettera
dire che gli ultimi spari della II Guerra mondiale furono sparati in Kosovo.
IN CONCLUSIONE...
La scorsa estate, quando i Tedeschi sono entrati a Prizren per la prima volta
dopo la II Guerra mondiale, un corrispondente della NBC ha riportato:
"L'altra sera ero a cena con una gentile famiglia di kosovari musulmani,
quando il discorso e' caduto sulle truppe NATO tedesche che entravano in
citta' per farne il quartier generale del loro distretto di peacekeeping.
Il capofamiglia, un uomo abbastanza anziano da ricordare l'ultima volta che
le truppe germaniche erano entrate a Prizren, disse che si sentivano tutti al
sicuro ora. 'I soldati tedeschi sono eccellenti', egli disse. Poi aggiunse:
'Lo so ben io, ero uno di loro'. Allora ha sollevato il braccio in un saluto
nazista, ha detto 'heil' e si e' messo a ridere tutto contento"
(NBC, 18 giugno 1999).
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INTRODUCTION
Why do some ethnic Albanians support KLA terror against Serbs, Roma
("Gypsies") and other Kosovo residents? The mass media says it's revenge,
revenge for Serbian misdeeds; this despite ever-growing evidence that the
tales of misdeeds are fiction. (See "Spinning the Kill" at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/spin.htm
Nevertheless the revenge argument appears in some form in most Western
reports of KLA terror. (See "Mr. Kenigs has 2nd thoughts" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/egyptians.htm.)
But if revenge is not the reason some ethnic Albanians hate Serbs, Roma and
others, what is? During the U.S. Civil Rights movement, 'States Rights' was a
polite code for anti-Black racism. In Kosovo "secession" is the code for "Get
rid of all sub-humans." If this sounds like Nazism, good guess; the racist
movement came to power in Kosovo under Mussolini and Hitler, during W.W.II.
The article posted below, Mr. Thompson's "Roots of Kosovo fascism", is an
eye-opener.
ROOTS OF KOSOVO FACSIM
by George Thompson (2-19-00)
www.tenc.net [emperors-clothes]
THAT WAS THEN...
"The Serbian population in Kosovo should be removed as soon as possible.
Serbian settlers should be killed." (Albanian fascist leader Mustafa Kroja,
June 1942.)
...AND THIS IS NOW
"He, like many KLA officers, says openly that he dreams of a Kosovo without
Serbs." (Description of KLA death squad commander "the Teacher", Agence
France Presse, August 19, 1999)
"As Germany overtook Yugoslavia in 1941, the Kosovar people were liberated by
the Germans. All Albanian territories of this state, such as Kosova, western
Macedonia and border regions under Montenegro, were re-united into Albania
proper. Albanian schools, governmental administration, press and radio were
re-established." (From www.klpm.org , a Kosovo Liberation Army-affiliated
affiliated website)
Mussolini's Italy occupied Albania proper in April, 1939, and established a
collaborationist regime with the apparent enthusiasm of most Albanians.(1)
After Hitler invaded and occupied Yugoslavia in spring 1941, the bulk of
current Kosovo-Metohija was placed under Italian-Albanian collaborationist
control and annexed to Albania.(2)
When Italian forces moved into Kosovo they were accompanied by Albanians from
Albania. Albanians living in Kosovo joined the invasion force as it made its
way North and West, and also ambushed Yugoslav Army units moving to meet the
invaders. These Albanians, natives of both Albania and Kosovo, instituted a
campaign of murder and expulsion of Serbs. Initially, the mayhem was carried
out by disorganized "kachak" (irregular) units. These were Albanian brigands
from both sides of the border who had fought Yugoslavia throughout the 1920s
and 1930s.(3) However, soon a native Kosovo militia was formed. This militia,
called the Vulnetari, and various gendarme units, began more systematic
persecution.(4)
ITALIAN FASCISTS TAKEN ABACK
Italian authorities in Kosovo seemed a bit distressed by the terror against
Serbs and occasionally intervened to prevent Albanian attacks, at least in
urban areas. Thus a Serbian historian wrote: "Italian troops were stationed
in the towns of Kosovo and acted as a restraining force ..."(5) And Carlo
Umilta, a civilian aide to the Commander of the Italian occupation forces,
described several instances where Italian forces fired on Albanians to halt
massacres of Serbs.6)
Because of manpower limitations and the de facto alliance between Albanians
and the Axis powers, these efforts at restraint were limited. Nevertheless,
the Italian occupiers reported their disgust at Albanians’ actions to the
authorities in Rome. The Italian army reported that Albanians were "hunting
down Serbs", and that the "Serbian minority are living in conditions that are
truly disgraceful, constantly harassed by the brutality of the Albanians, who
are whipping up racial hatred."(7) Carlo Umilta described some of the
atrocities in his memoirs and observed that "the Albanians are out to
exterminate the Slavs."(8) His words were echoed by those of German diplomat
Hermann Neubacher, the Third Reich’s representative for southeastern Europe:
"Shiptars (i.e., Kosovo Albanians) were in a hurry to expel as many Serbs as
possible from the country."(9)
The atrocities were deliberate, part of a plan to create a Serb-free "Greater
Albania". In June 1942 the fascist puppet president of Albania, Mustafa
Kroja, declared his goals candidly before his followers in Kosovo:
"The Serbian population of Kosovo should be removed as soon as possible . . .
All indigenous Serbs should be qualified as colonists and as such, via the
Albanian and Italian governments, be sent to concentration camps in Albania.
Serbian settlers should be killed." (10)
Similar sentiments were expressed by a Kosovo Albanian leader, Ferat-bey
Draga:
"time has come to exterminate the Serbs . . . there will be no Serbs under
the Kosovo sun."(11)
The anti-Serb pogroms intensified after Italy's collapse in September 1943.
The German Nazi's assumed control of Albania, including Kosovo. Italian
military units pulled out and were replaced by three divisions of the German
XXI Mountain Corps. The German presence freed the Albanians of restraint.
Kosovo Albanian nationalist militias called the "Balli Kombëtar" (or
"Ballistas") carried out a campaign of deportation and murder of Serbs in
1943 and 1944. Then, on Hitler’s express order, the Germans formed the 21st
"Waffen-Gebirgs Division der SS" - the Skanderbeg Division. With German
leaders and Kosovo Albanian officers and troops, Hitler’s hoped that using
the Skanderbergs Germany could "achieve its well-known political objective"
of creating a viable (i.e., pure) "Greater Albania" including Kosovo.(12)
In general, German policy was to organize volunteer military units among Nazi
sympathizers in occupied countries. Of all the occupied nations only the
Serbs, Greeks and Poles refused to form Nazi volunteer units. Rather than
joining the Nazis, as the Albanians in Kosovo did, the Serbs organized the
largest anti-Nazi resistance in Europe. Both the Communist Partisans and thee
Royalist Chetniks were mainly Serbs and both groups fought the Germans and
their local allies throughout Yugoslavia.
The Germans recruited the 9,000 man Skanderbeg division to fight these
resistance groups But the Skanderberg's Albanians had little interest in
going up against soldiers; they mainly wanted to terrorize local Serbs,
"Gypsies" and Jews. Many of these Kosovo Albanians had seen prior service in
the Bosnian Muslim and Croatian SS divisions which were notorious for
slaughtering civilians.
What explained this passionate hatred for non-Albanians? A big factor was
militant Islam. The Fundamentalist "Second League of Prizren" was created in
September 1943 by Xhafer Deva, a Kosovo Albanian, to work with the German
authorities. The League proclaimed a jihad (holy war) against Slavs. They
were backed by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, El Haj Emin Huseini, who was
pro-Nazi and had called for getting rid of all Jews in what was at that time
British-occupied Palestine. Albanian religious intolerance was shown by their
targeting Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries for destruction.(13)
No one is certain of human destruction suffered in this Fascist Albanian
Holocaust. Estimates range from 10,000 to 30,000 Serbs murdered. At least
100,000 were driven from Kosovo and replaced with "immigrants" from Albania
proper.(14)
In justifying current Kosovo Albanian demands to secede from Serbia, the
media has repeated, like a mantra: 90% of the population is Albanian. While
this figure is most likely exaggerated (nobody knows for sure because Kosovo
Albanians boycotted the census for years!) - the province has been largely
Albanian. But a major cause of the current demographic imbalance: was the
Albanians' success as Hitler's willing executioners during World War II.(15)
And their attention was not limited to Serbs. Unknown numbers of Roma
("Gypsies") were liquidated. And Kosovo Albanians, acting alone as well as
under German direction, eliminated many of Kosovo's Jews.
The definitive work on Hitler's "Final Solution" in Yugoslavia (16) estimates
that 550 Jews lived in Kosovo Hitler took over Yugoslavia. 210 of them, or 38
percent, were murdered in Kosovo, mainly by Albanians. In fact, the
Skanderbeg division's first operation was to act as an "einsatzgruppen"
against the Jews, and its second was a similar extermination foray against
the Serb village of Velika where more than 400 Serbians were murdered.(17)
Ceda Prlincevic, head of the Jewish community in Pristina and an executive of
the provincial archives, has explained to Emperors-Clothes that the Jews who
were not murdered outright were sent by the Skanderbeg division to the German
death camps Treblinka and Bergen-Belsen. One train, on its way to the latter
camp, took the wrong track and was intercepted by advancing Russian soldiers.
According to Mr. Prlincevic, were it not for that fortunate detour, the
entire Jewish population of Kosovo would have been eliminated.
Although KLA supporters now claim that no Jews were killed in Kosovo and that
Jews were sheltered by the Kosovo Albanians, such claims are false and should
be treated the same way we would treat other Holocaust denials.
ALBANIAN FASCISTS GO ON FIGHTING
The Germans surrendered in 1945, but the remnants of the Kosovo Albanian Nazi
and fascist groups continued fighting the Yugoslav government for six years,
with a major rebellion from 1945 to 1948 in the Drenica region. (Drenica was
the hotbed for KLA recruiting in 1998-99). That rebellion was under the
command of Shabhan Paluzha; it is called the Shabhan Paluzha rebellion.
Sporadic violence continued until 1951. It is literally true to say that the
last shots of World War II were fired in Kosovo
PARTING THOUGHT
This past summer, as Germans entered Prizren in Kosovo for the first time
since World War II, an NBC correspondent reported:
"I was at dinner with a kind Kosovo Muslim family the other night when talk
turned to the German NATO troops that rolled into town to make the city the
headquarters of its peacekeeping district. The patriarch of the family, a man
old enough to remember the last time German troops rolled into Prizren, said
they all felt safe now. 'The German soldiers are excellent,' he said. Then he
added, 'I should know, I used to be one.' Then he raised his arm in a Nazi
salute and said, 'Heil,' and laughed merrily. (NBC, June 18, 1999)
FOOTNOTES
(1) Professor Nikalaos A. Stavrou, KFOR: Repeating History, The Washington
Times (August 11, 1999).
(2) Hugo Wolf, Kosovo Origins (1996) chapter 10. Portions of northern Kosovo,
from Mitrovica to the provincial border with Serbia, were administered by
Germany from the outset, primarily to exploit the mines in the area. An
eastern sliver of Kosovo was ceded to Bulgaria.
(3) Dr. Smilja Avramov, Genocide in Yugoslavia, Part 2, Chapter 5, "Genocide
in Kosovo and Metohija" (1995): "The crimes were begun by the ‘kachak’
guerrilla detachments which had been sent into Kosovo from Albania, but
members of the Shqiptar minority quickly joined in. Judging from Italian
reports, at first the situation resembled more the marauding of bandits than
a deliberate policy."
(4) Dr. Dusan Batakovic, The Kosovo Chronicles (1992); Avramov, supra.
(5) Dr. Smilja Avramov, supra.
(6) Carlo Umilta, Jugoslavia e Albania, Memoire di un diplomatico (1947), in
Avramov, supra, note 141.
(7) Dr. Smilja Avramov, supra, note 117.
(8) Carlo Umilta, Jugoslavia e Albania, Memoire di un diplomatico (1947), in
Avramov, supra, note 137.
(9) Hermann Neubacher, Sonderauftrag Sudost (1953), quoted in Dr. Slavenko
Terzic, Old Serbia and Albanians.
(10) Dr. Slavenko Terzic, Kosovo, Serbian Issue and the Greater Albania
Project.
(11) Batakovic, supra, citing H. Bajrami, Izvestaj Konstantina Plavsica Tasi
Dinicu, ministru unutrasnjih poslova u Nedicevoj vladi oktobra 1943, o
kosovsko-mitrovackanm srezu, Godisnjak arhiva Kosova XIV-XV (1978-1979) at
313.
(12) Avramov, supra, note 151.
(13) Avramov, supra, note 148, citing Bishop Atanisije Jevtic, From Kosovo to
Jadovno.
(14) Batakovic gives a conservative estimate of 10,000 dead while Dr.
Slavenko Terzic cites a contemporary American intelligence report that 10,000
died in the first year of occupation alone. Terzic, supra, citing Serge
Krizman, Maps of Yugoslavia at War (1943). Carl Kosta Savitch, in Genocide in
Kosovo: Skanderbeg Division, quotes a wartime account that 30,000 to 40,000
Serbs were killed by Albanians. In addition, an unknown number of Serbs dies
in the German-operated work camps of Pristina and Mitrovica, or were killed
by the Germans as reprisals against resistance activity.
The reported number of expelled Serbs also varies depending on the source.
Dragnich and Todorovich cited the figure of 70,000-100,000, based on a review
of wartime refugee records. Dmitri Bogdanovich estimates 100,000, but
acknowledges that the exact number has never been determined. Dmitri
Bogdanovich, The Kosovo Question: Past and Present (1985). Dr. Avramov notes
that wartime records showing 70,000 refugees from Kosovo counted only those
persons in need of government assistance who registered with the Commissariat
for Refugees in Belgrade. Records of those who did not register, or who fled
to Montenegro, apparently do not exist. Avramov, supra.
(15) Before world war 2 Serbs constituted a slight majority of the Kosovo
population. Avramov, supra. In addition to the murder and expulsion of Serbs,
the relative ethnic population balance was further skewed by the entrance of
hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians from Albania proper during the war.
Relying on Italian records from the time, Dr. Avramov estimates that 150,000
to 200,000 Albanians moved into Kosovo between 1941 and 1943.
(16) The Crimes of Fascist Occupants and Their Collaborators Against the Jews
of Yugoslavia (1952, revised 1957) (published by The Federation of Jewish
Communities of Yugoslavia).
(17) Avramov, supra.
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