MAKEDONSKA VISNJICA 2/3:
I MACEDONI CHE SI OPPONGONO ALLA STRATEGIA TERRORISTA DELLA NATO SONO
"SLAVI NAZIONALISTI"; I TERRORISTI CHE VOGLIONO SFASCIARE LO STATO
MULTINAZIONALE E CREARE LA GRANDE ALBANIA SONO "GUERRIGLIERI"; I SOLDATI
DELLA NATO CHE ARMANO E SOSTENGONO I TERRORISTI SONO "PEACEKEEPERS"
MACEDONIA: NAZIONALISTI BLOCCANO STRADA, CONTRO NATO E UCK
(ANSA-AFP-REUTESR) - BLACE (MACEDONIA), 18 AGO - Alcune decine di
nazionalisti slavi macedoni hanno bloccato oggi una strada che da Skopje
porta al Kosovo, per protestare contro l'intervento della Nato in
Macedonia e chiedere il ritiro dei guerriglieri albanesi dell'Uck dai
villaggi che hanno occupato. Il blocco, formato da automobili messe di
traverso sulla strada in mezzo a sacchetti di terra e sabbia e da filo
spinato, e' stato eretto a qualche chilometro dal posto di frontiera di
Blace. Solo ambulanze e mezzi della polizia vengono lasciati passare. La
strada bloccata e' quella lungo cui passano i rifornimenti dalla
Macedonia alla Kfor, la forza della Nato in Kosovo. ''Abbiamo bloccato
la via di comunicazione degli aggressori della Nato che contrabbandano
droga e armi ai terroristi albanesi'', ha detto alla 'France Presse' uno
dei manifestanti, Gjeorgji Petrovski, un meccanico di 39 anni. Petrovski
ha detto che la manifestazione e' stata organizzata dal Congresso
nazionale dei macedoni, un'organizzazione fortemente nazionalista e da
un comitato formato da macedoni scacciati dalle loro case dei
guerriglieri albanesi. Altri manifestanti interrogati dall'agenzia
britannica 'Reuters' hanno detto di aver eretto il blocco per chiedere
il ritiro dei guerriglieri albanesi dai villaggi macedoni che hanno
occupato, il rilascio di tutti gli ostaggi macedoni che secondo loro
essi terrebbero prigionieri, e particolari agevolazioni per le famiglie
delle persone uccise durante i sei mesi di guerra civile .
(ANSA-AFP-REUTERS). LG 18/08/2001 16:28
Sunday August 19, 12:18 AM
Macedonian refugees block route to "NATO aggressors"
BLACE, Macedonia, Aug 18 (AFP) -
Macedonian anger at perceived pro-Albanian bias in the
West's response to fighting in their country boiled
over Saturday on the Kosovo border, where protesters
blocked a major NATO supply route.
More than 60 Macedonians, many of them refugees driven
from their homes by ethnic Albanian rebels, rolled
barbed wire across the main road from Skopje to the
Blace border crossing and stopped NATO and
international traffic.
"We have blocked the communication route of the NATO
aggressors who are smuggling drugs and weapons to the
Albanian terrorists," said Gjeorgji Petrovski, a
39-year-old mechanic from Skopje.
Small numbers of Macedonian police looked on as the
protesters filtered the traffic, turning back two
armour-plated British military staff cars from
Kosovo's NATO peacekeeping force and vehicles carrying
OSCE monitors.
The mood was angry, but not violent, although one
Macedonian who attempted to pass the barricades
driving a van marked with diplomatic plates had his
identity papers snatched and thrown into a ditch.
While most of the protesters were young or middle-aged
men, a busload of women and children from displaced
families joined them in the early afternoon.
The protesters arrived at around midnight Friday and
the road was still blocked at 4:00 pm Saturday, with
many protesters vowing to remain in place until the
NATO troops arriving at the weekend left the country.
The protest was organised by the World Macedonian
Congress, a nationalist organisation representing
mainly Macedonian emigres, and the coordination
committee for civilians driven from their homes by
fighting.
Congress president Todor Petrov, who arrived escorted
by three uniformed men carrying assault rifles, said:
"The protest is to make sure the Macedonian people's
voice is heard".
He said he had presented NATO with a list of demands
and that the road would remain blocked until the
alliance forced ethnic Albanian rebels to free the
Macedonians he said they had kidnapped and give up
captured land.
The road is the main supply route for NATO's
peacekeeping force in Kosovo, and previous occasions
when the Macedonian government has closed it have
caused serious disruption for the province's
international administration.
NATO's spokesman in Macedonia, US Major Barry Johnson,
said: "We use the crossing very heavily, but it has
been closed before and it will no doubt be closed
again. We use other routes when we have to."
But the blocking of the route is more important for
the signal it sends the NATO commanders who arrived in
Macedonia on Friday to take the temperature of the
conflict before advising on the deployment of a larger
force.
Many Macedonians oppose concessions made to ethnic
Albanians in a peace deal signed on Monday by party
leaders, and Western diplomats suspect hardline
politicians of manipulating protests to maintain
pressure on the West.
Every one of the protesters on the road Saturday,
sweltering in the blistering heat around their
makeshift barricades, were convinced that the West,
and the United States in particular, is supporting the
rebels.
The location of their protest also had a symbolic
importance.
Gesturing at a wide, dusty stretch of parched farmland
beyond the road, a middle-aged protester, shows where
in 1999 tens of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees
were housed in the Stenkovec refugee camp.
"When all those people came here during the Kosovo
crisis we helped them. Now look what they are doing to
us," he said.
The protesters were also furious with their own
government for signing off on the peace deal, many
accusing their leaders of being bought off by Albanian
and US money.
"All the moves made by the government are against the
Macedonian people and the state," Petrovski said.
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I MACEDONI CHE SI OPPONGONO ALLA STRATEGIA TERRORISTA DELLA NATO SONO
"SLAVI NAZIONALISTI"; I TERRORISTI CHE VOGLIONO SFASCIARE LO STATO
MULTINAZIONALE E CREARE LA GRANDE ALBANIA SONO "GUERRIGLIERI"; I SOLDATI
DELLA NATO CHE ARMANO E SOSTENGONO I TERRORISTI SONO "PEACEKEEPERS"
MACEDONIA: NAZIONALISTI BLOCCANO STRADA, CONTRO NATO E UCK
(ANSA-AFP-REUTESR) - BLACE (MACEDONIA), 18 AGO - Alcune decine di
nazionalisti slavi macedoni hanno bloccato oggi una strada che da Skopje
porta al Kosovo, per protestare contro l'intervento della Nato in
Macedonia e chiedere il ritiro dei guerriglieri albanesi dell'Uck dai
villaggi che hanno occupato. Il blocco, formato da automobili messe di
traverso sulla strada in mezzo a sacchetti di terra e sabbia e da filo
spinato, e' stato eretto a qualche chilometro dal posto di frontiera di
Blace. Solo ambulanze e mezzi della polizia vengono lasciati passare. La
strada bloccata e' quella lungo cui passano i rifornimenti dalla
Macedonia alla Kfor, la forza della Nato in Kosovo. ''Abbiamo bloccato
la via di comunicazione degli aggressori della Nato che contrabbandano
droga e armi ai terroristi albanesi'', ha detto alla 'France Presse' uno
dei manifestanti, Gjeorgji Petrovski, un meccanico di 39 anni. Petrovski
ha detto che la manifestazione e' stata organizzata dal Congresso
nazionale dei macedoni, un'organizzazione fortemente nazionalista e da
un comitato formato da macedoni scacciati dalle loro case dei
guerriglieri albanesi. Altri manifestanti interrogati dall'agenzia
britannica 'Reuters' hanno detto di aver eretto il blocco per chiedere
il ritiro dei guerriglieri albanesi dai villaggi macedoni che hanno
occupato, il rilascio di tutti gli ostaggi macedoni che secondo loro
essi terrebbero prigionieri, e particolari agevolazioni per le famiglie
delle persone uccise durante i sei mesi di guerra civile .
(ANSA-AFP-REUTERS). LG 18/08/2001 16:28
Sunday August 19, 12:18 AM
Macedonian refugees block route to "NATO aggressors"
BLACE, Macedonia, Aug 18 (AFP) -
Macedonian anger at perceived pro-Albanian bias in the
West's response to fighting in their country boiled
over Saturday on the Kosovo border, where protesters
blocked a major NATO supply route.
More than 60 Macedonians, many of them refugees driven
from their homes by ethnic Albanian rebels, rolled
barbed wire across the main road from Skopje to the
Blace border crossing and stopped NATO and
international traffic.
"We have blocked the communication route of the NATO
aggressors who are smuggling drugs and weapons to the
Albanian terrorists," said Gjeorgji Petrovski, a
39-year-old mechanic from Skopje.
Small numbers of Macedonian police looked on as the
protesters filtered the traffic, turning back two
armour-plated British military staff cars from
Kosovo's NATO peacekeeping force and vehicles carrying
OSCE monitors.
The mood was angry, but not violent, although one
Macedonian who attempted to pass the barricades
driving a van marked with diplomatic plates had his
identity papers snatched and thrown into a ditch.
While most of the protesters were young or middle-aged
men, a busload of women and children from displaced
families joined them in the early afternoon.
The protesters arrived at around midnight Friday and
the road was still blocked at 4:00 pm Saturday, with
many protesters vowing to remain in place until the
NATO troops arriving at the weekend left the country.
The protest was organised by the World Macedonian
Congress, a nationalist organisation representing
mainly Macedonian emigres, and the coordination
committee for civilians driven from their homes by
fighting.
Congress president Todor Petrov, who arrived escorted
by three uniformed men carrying assault rifles, said:
"The protest is to make sure the Macedonian people's
voice is heard".
He said he had presented NATO with a list of demands
and that the road would remain blocked until the
alliance forced ethnic Albanian rebels to free the
Macedonians he said they had kidnapped and give up
captured land.
The road is the main supply route for NATO's
peacekeeping force in Kosovo, and previous occasions
when the Macedonian government has closed it have
caused serious disruption for the province's
international administration.
NATO's spokesman in Macedonia, US Major Barry Johnson,
said: "We use the crossing very heavily, but it has
been closed before and it will no doubt be closed
again. We use other routes when we have to."
But the blocking of the route is more important for
the signal it sends the NATO commanders who arrived in
Macedonia on Friday to take the temperature of the
conflict before advising on the deployment of a larger
force.
Many Macedonians oppose concessions made to ethnic
Albanians in a peace deal signed on Monday by party
leaders, and Western diplomats suspect hardline
politicians of manipulating protests to maintain
pressure on the West.
Every one of the protesters on the road Saturday,
sweltering in the blistering heat around their
makeshift barricades, were convinced that the West,
and the United States in particular, is supporting the
rebels.
The location of their protest also had a symbolic
importance.
Gesturing at a wide, dusty stretch of parched farmland
beyond the road, a middle-aged protester, shows where
in 1999 tens of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees
were housed in the Stenkovec refugee camp.
"When all those people came here during the Kosovo
crisis we helped them. Now look what they are doing to
us," he said.
The protesters were also furious with their own
government for signing off on the peace deal, many
accusing their leaders of being bought off by Albanian
and US money.
"All the moves made by the government are against the
Macedonian people and the state," Petrovski said.
---
Questa lista e' curata da componenti del
Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia (CNJ).
I documenti distribuiti non rispecchiano necessariamente
le posizioni ufficiali o condivise da tutto il CNJ, ma
vengono fatti circolare per il loro contenuto informativo al
solo scopo di segnalazione e commento ("for fair use only").
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