From: Marek Glogoczowski
Subject: "International community", Kosovo's proconsul Michael
Steiner & "Serben muss sterben" principle
Date: 16/05/2003 10:46
Below I pasted a copy of an e-letter I recently received from my
friend,
Piotr Bein, since 30 years established in Vancouver, Canada.
M.G.
-----------------------------
Mr. Lindmeier,
I will be as blunt as UNMIK's cynicism in its press release that
reminds me
of pre-school times when, unable to deal with the message, kids told
the
staff on me. Not only children try to undermine the messenger. You
must also
be aware of the thief who, to detract attention from himself, shouts
and
points to bystanders, like UNMIK does to Serb officials. Please pass
my
comment on to your superiors for a more meaningful answer.
Unfortunately for the "international community", many denizens of
conscience
agree with Mr. Dragan Rakic's complaint. Whom is this "car
registration
before capturing war criminals" rubbish for? We are tired of UNMIK-
KFOR
"inability" and perpetual blaming "the Serbs" for own failures to
accomplish
resolution 1244.
Recently I travelled in Kosovo, stayed with Albanians for a few
nights, and
visited tightly guarded Serb Orthodox monasteries and enclaves. A vice
gripped my throat every time I passed by burned out Serbian houses and
Albanian mansions with driveways paved with rubble from Serbian
houses.
Tears rolled down my face when I saw Serb cemetaries and churches
desecrated
and ruined. I was terrified when I saw some of them surrounded by
barbed
wire and watchtowers of KFOR who abandoned the posts.
I met Albanians involved in arms trade and sex slavery. A pimp
propositioned
me to visit his establishment "full of girls from Moldavia". Learning
that I
am unemployed, my hosts sincerely proposed that I participate in
their arms
trafficking. They told me they hate UNMIK nad KFOR, and are preparing
an
uprising. I saw brand-new posters with a logo of the UCK (outlawed and
supposedly disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army) in public offices and
businesses, even on a road sign next to an UNMIK police station.
Kosovo is dotted with pretentious monuments to fallen UCK men –
heroes to
the Albanians, war criminals to the Serbs. More than a thousand Serbs
are
still missing since US-led KFOR marched in and looked through fingers
at
Albanian extremists' "revenge crimes". A Kosovo Serb friend of mine,
in
Poland since the beginning of NATO attack on Yugoslavia, necessarily
stays
there to date, otherwise he would risk his life, if he returned. UCK
expelled his family to Serbia and Montenegro in 1999. They lost one
member
and everything they owned. I learned just before last Easter that the
Hague
"tribunal's" quest for Albanian victims in Kosovo has unearthed the
lost
family member.
Most of my Albanian interlocutors (and many Moslems in Montenegro,
too)
absolutely hate the Serbs. No registration plates will change their
hearts.
Until the meddling of "humanitarian" West and Islamist states towards
the
end of the past century, Serbs had no problem living and sharing with
Slovenes, Croats, Bosnian Moslems, Albanians and many other groups.
Yet, the
US-led "international community", sponsored hate-driven ethnic
cleansing of
hundreds of thousands of Serbs from Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, and
cynically accused "Milosevic and the Serbs" for doing it to the
others. In
these "humanitarian missions" Germany supplied arms, mercenaries,
money and
intelligence to the illegal secessionists in Slovenia, Croatia,
Bosnia and
Kosovo. No amount of disinformation will obliterate the facts. They
are all
over to be found, except at the kangaroo court in Hague and in German
official statements.
Among lighter "omissions", UNMIK-KFOR obviously do not react to lies
posing
as authoritative publications. This is your basic obstacle to normal
multi-etnicity declared in resolution 1244. At book stands on
Prishtina's
main street I browsed through many books that present propaganda
hoaxes
against the Serbs ("death camps" in Bosnia and Racak "massacre", for
example) as indisputable facts years after they have been debunked. If
anybody in the West tried to spread lies against the Jews, for
example, they
would not last a minute.
The Albanians I met resent the monthly expenses on Herr Steiner's
mansion in
Kosovo no less than they do the salaries of the UNMIK policemen; men
from
developing countries earn a huge multiple of their domestic pay. We
are
getting a good value for our taxes: I saw UNMIK toyotas 4WD
everywhere,
parked by the dozen at every UNMIK post, driving to and fro on every
road.
What for?
All Serbian vehicles that I saw in Kosovo had Steiner's plates for the
safety of the owners and passengers. Why does he insist on Belgrade's
recognition of something that should have been implemented in June
1999? In
Grachanica, one of a few remaining Kosovo Serb enclaves, I saw vendors
selling fuel in pop bottles, even though there is a new gas station
near the
village and Serb prices in dinars are equivalent to euro, the official
currency in Kosovo. Serbs would be attacked, if they ventured out –
explained several Serbs and Albanians. Minutes from the gas station
stands a
fort of the Swedish battalion of KFOR.
Why should Belgrade recognize Steiner's plates if UNMIK-KFOR has not
even
tried to remove the root of a fundamental personal safety problem of
the
Serbs in Kosovo? Nebojsa Covic did the right thing when
he "disappointed"
Herr Steiner.
Serbia has legal, historical and moral sovereignty over its ancient
Kosovo.
Hopefully Herr Steiner and German members of KFOR and UNMIK realize
that
they are occupiers in an illegally attacked state, while at the same
time
their government condemns an lawless attack and occupation of Iraq.
When
will UNMIK-KFOR bureaucrats get their act together? Not as long as
they are
the operatives of elites aspring to totalitarian government.
If Kosovo indicates official (overt and covert) German behaviour, I,
a Slav
and a Pole, am very concerned about Germans posing as benevolent
"international community" representatives. Herr Steiner is tacitly
implementing Austro-Hungarian empire's "Serben muss sterben" adage.
Serbia
is sovereign in Kosovo, like Poland is over its Western Lands re-
gained
after WW2. Once Poland joins European Union, revisionists may start
taking
over our land (see German whistle-blowing at
www.freenations.freeuk.com for
substantiation of this Polish "hysteria"). Then another Herr Steiner
will
justify this new "Drang nach Osten" cleansing with a bureaucratic
gimmick to
full the naive West.
If Slavs were as aggressive and cheeky as Albanians and other radical
Balkan
Moslems supported by radical Islam and the "international community",
they
would be prevailing all the way to Hamburg and the Elbe River, never
mind
the Balkans. Herr Steiner is playing with fire. If he is oblivious to
history, Slavs can be devastating when pressed to the wall. Seemingly
mindless destruction by the employees of German-owned farms and
businesses
that sprout in Poland might be a forewarning, if Germans, hiding under
"international community" and "humanitarian missions", don't change
their
social management approach. Until then, the likes of Herr Steiner can
ask
"dumm" questions – as at the end of his press release – till they
drop.
Dr Piotr Bein, PEng
Vancouver, Canada
and
Szczecin (not "Stettin"), Poland
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Lindmeier [mailto:lindmeier@...
Sent: May 15, 2003 5:38 AM
To: "Michel Collon <michel.collon" <michel.collon@...>,
"Russell Gordon <russellgordon" <russellgordon@...>,
"BBC World <worldservice.letters" <worldservice.letters@...>,
"CANAUK <canauk" <canauk@...>,
"David NYTimes Binder <dabind" <dabind@...>,
"Glas Kosmeta KERP <kerp" <kerp@...>,
"<hrwatcheu" <hrwatcheu@...>, "<hrwdc" <hrwdc@...>,
"<hrwnyc" <hrwnyc@...>, "<hrwuk" <hrwuk@...>,
"Jared Israel <jaredi" <jaredi@...>,
"john_peter maher <jpmaher" <jpmaher@...>
Subject: Re: Michael Steiner
(See attached file: #964 - High ranking working group.doc)
UNMIK/PR/964
Wednesday May 14, 2003
SRSG Expresses Disappointment at Covic's departure from meeting of
High
Ranking Working Group
PRISTINA – SRSG Michael Steiner described the departure of Serbian
Deputy
Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic from the High Ranking Working Group, as
"disappointing".
"Mr. Covic wanted the High Ranking Working Group to meet and we were
ready
for it, but the meeting unfortunately did not take place," said SRSG
Michael
Steiner.
Mr. Steiner said that Mr. Covic wanted to discuss the Musliu case
first.
"Let me explain my position. Musliu is one of the most violent,
active,
organized crime figures in the region. Nevertheless, as in all cases,
the
rule of law must be followed."
"But this aside, Musliu is not in UNMIK's detention. So I am in not
in a
position to deal with this issue."
"I made this clear to Mr. Covic, but it did not satisfy him and he
suddenly
did not want the meeting he had requested."
"This is particularly disappointing because the first item on the
agenda was
the Protocol on mutual recognition of number plates. This protocol
has been
ready for signature and agreed by the Government in Belgrade since
August of
last year."
"So what does not signing it mean? It means limited freedom of
movement for
all communities and especially for Kosovo Serbs. Providing anonymous
number
plates for everyone is the most practical measure to improving
freedom of
movement and would have immediate results."
"Moreover, in the Common Document, UNMIK had made a `commitment to
increase
freedom of movement through the issuance of free (KS) license plates
to
Kosovo Serbs'. We continue to hand out free number plates to Kosovo
Serbs
and have extended our deadline pending signature of the protocol."
"I fail to understand why this protocol cannot be signed. As I said,
it is
in the interest of all communities and particularly Kosovo Serbs. I
must
ask: Why is it that the whole neighborhood and the EU countries
recognize KS
number plates but Serbia does not?"
======================================================================
===
From: "Dragan Rakic" <dragan@...>
Subject: Michael Steiner
Route: un.org
Sirs,
Michael Steiner's decision not to turn over to the
Serbian justice, the indicted war criminal and terrorist Sefcet
Musliu, if
it is his own, reveals once again that the UN is not able to rule out
the
Security Council resolution 1244, which certainly respects the part
of the
protection of Albanians, and nearly not at all the protection of the
Serbian
population.
The indicted person, Sefcet Musliu, was confirmed
commander of the terrorist groups in the Kosovo region, but also in
the
Southern Serbia, Medvedja , Bujanovac and Presevo, which are not
under the
UNMIK jurisdiction. Of course there cannot be any question of any
sort of
revenge or the violence, but only the respect of laws, and it seems
that
according to Mr. Michael Steiner, Serbia has no right to fully
exercise her
laws even on her own territory.
The question is how can then, any international instance press Serbia
to
turn over her indicted, and not to be able to legally exercise her
justice.
How can one criticize the Iraqi invasion by the coalition forces, and
do the
same in another part of Europe.
Instead of justice equal for all and the multiethnic
society, Mr. Steiner suggests to Serbs "the car registration plates",
like
if it was the most important matter in establishing the peace, order
and
justice.
Besides, the general impression is that although
the post Milosevic era is there , and the new government make efforts
and
all the necessary to comply to the international community's
exigencies, but
also laws, the very same community, at least a part of it, behaves
like
nothing was done.
What was not understood yet is that, any wrong move on behalf
of the international instances is cleverly used by those who still
hope the
return of the previous system and previous political groups. Would it
mean that someone intentionally maintains the country's instability
and
thus the uncertain situation in the whole of the region. If the aim
is a
multiethnic society, then there should not be what we call in France "
deshabiller Pierre pour habiller Paul", take from the ones to give to
the
others, which is exactly what Mr. Steiner seem to be actually doing.,
if
he is the only
authority in the Serbian Province.
Sincerely
Dragan Rakic
Strasbourg
France
--- In Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli., "Coordinamento Nazionale per
la Jugoslavia" ha scritto:
(...)
UNMIK: KOSOVO NOT SERBIAN PROVINCE
ACCORDING TO RESOLUTION 1244
PRISTINA,May 11 (Beta)- UNMIK Chief Michael
Steiner has clearly said that Kosovo is not a Serbian
province according to U.N. Security Council resolution
1244, UNMIK spokeswoman Isabelle Karlovic said on
May 9.
"The secretary general's special envoy (for Kosovo
Michael Steiner) said in (Vienna on May 8) that resolution
1244 leaves the issue of status open. The special envoy has
clearly said that Kosovo is not a province of Serbia
according to Resolution 1244," she said.
Steiner, SerbiaMontenegro ambassador Branislav
Milinkovic and representatives of the council's member
countries addressed an OSCE Permanent Council sitting on
Kosovo on May 8.
(...)
Subject: "International community", Kosovo's proconsul Michael
Steiner & "Serben muss sterben" principle
Date: 16/05/2003 10:46
Below I pasted a copy of an e-letter I recently received from my
friend,
Piotr Bein, since 30 years established in Vancouver, Canada.
M.G.
-----------------------------
Mr. Lindmeier,
I will be as blunt as UNMIK's cynicism in its press release that
reminds me
of pre-school times when, unable to deal with the message, kids told
the
staff on me. Not only children try to undermine the messenger. You
must also
be aware of the thief who, to detract attention from himself, shouts
and
points to bystanders, like UNMIK does to Serb officials. Please pass
my
comment on to your superiors for a more meaningful answer.
Unfortunately for the "international community", many denizens of
conscience
agree with Mr. Dragan Rakic's complaint. Whom is this "car
registration
before capturing war criminals" rubbish for? We are tired of UNMIK-
KFOR
"inability" and perpetual blaming "the Serbs" for own failures to
accomplish
resolution 1244.
Recently I travelled in Kosovo, stayed with Albanians for a few
nights, and
visited tightly guarded Serb Orthodox monasteries and enclaves. A vice
gripped my throat every time I passed by burned out Serbian houses and
Albanian mansions with driveways paved with rubble from Serbian
houses.
Tears rolled down my face when I saw Serb cemetaries and churches
desecrated
and ruined. I was terrified when I saw some of them surrounded by
barbed
wire and watchtowers of KFOR who abandoned the posts.
I met Albanians involved in arms trade and sex slavery. A pimp
propositioned
me to visit his establishment "full of girls from Moldavia". Learning
that I
am unemployed, my hosts sincerely proposed that I participate in
their arms
trafficking. They told me they hate UNMIK nad KFOR, and are preparing
an
uprising. I saw brand-new posters with a logo of the UCK (outlawed and
supposedly disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army) in public offices and
businesses, even on a road sign next to an UNMIK police station.
Kosovo is dotted with pretentious monuments to fallen UCK men –
heroes to
the Albanians, war criminals to the Serbs. More than a thousand Serbs
are
still missing since US-led KFOR marched in and looked through fingers
at
Albanian extremists' "revenge crimes". A Kosovo Serb friend of mine,
in
Poland since the beginning of NATO attack on Yugoslavia, necessarily
stays
there to date, otherwise he would risk his life, if he returned. UCK
expelled his family to Serbia and Montenegro in 1999. They lost one
member
and everything they owned. I learned just before last Easter that the
Hague
"tribunal's" quest for Albanian victims in Kosovo has unearthed the
lost
family member.
Most of my Albanian interlocutors (and many Moslems in Montenegro,
too)
absolutely hate the Serbs. No registration plates will change their
hearts.
Until the meddling of "humanitarian" West and Islamist states towards
the
end of the past century, Serbs had no problem living and sharing with
Slovenes, Croats, Bosnian Moslems, Albanians and many other groups.
Yet, the
US-led "international community", sponsored hate-driven ethnic
cleansing of
hundreds of thousands of Serbs from Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, and
cynically accused "Milosevic and the Serbs" for doing it to the
others. In
these "humanitarian missions" Germany supplied arms, mercenaries,
money and
intelligence to the illegal secessionists in Slovenia, Croatia,
Bosnia and
Kosovo. No amount of disinformation will obliterate the facts. They
are all
over to be found, except at the kangaroo court in Hague and in German
official statements.
Among lighter "omissions", UNMIK-KFOR obviously do not react to lies
posing
as authoritative publications. This is your basic obstacle to normal
multi-etnicity declared in resolution 1244. At book stands on
Prishtina's
main street I browsed through many books that present propaganda
hoaxes
against the Serbs ("death camps" in Bosnia and Racak "massacre", for
example) as indisputable facts years after they have been debunked. If
anybody in the West tried to spread lies against the Jews, for
example, they
would not last a minute.
The Albanians I met resent the monthly expenses on Herr Steiner's
mansion in
Kosovo no less than they do the salaries of the UNMIK policemen; men
from
developing countries earn a huge multiple of their domestic pay. We
are
getting a good value for our taxes: I saw UNMIK toyotas 4WD
everywhere,
parked by the dozen at every UNMIK post, driving to and fro on every
road.
What for?
All Serbian vehicles that I saw in Kosovo had Steiner's plates for the
safety of the owners and passengers. Why does he insist on Belgrade's
recognition of something that should have been implemented in June
1999? In
Grachanica, one of a few remaining Kosovo Serb enclaves, I saw vendors
selling fuel in pop bottles, even though there is a new gas station
near the
village and Serb prices in dinars are equivalent to euro, the official
currency in Kosovo. Serbs would be attacked, if they ventured out –
explained several Serbs and Albanians. Minutes from the gas station
stands a
fort of the Swedish battalion of KFOR.
Why should Belgrade recognize Steiner's plates if UNMIK-KFOR has not
even
tried to remove the root of a fundamental personal safety problem of
the
Serbs in Kosovo? Nebojsa Covic did the right thing when
he "disappointed"
Herr Steiner.
Serbia has legal, historical and moral sovereignty over its ancient
Kosovo.
Hopefully Herr Steiner and German members of KFOR and UNMIK realize
that
they are occupiers in an illegally attacked state, while at the same
time
their government condemns an lawless attack and occupation of Iraq.
When
will UNMIK-KFOR bureaucrats get their act together? Not as long as
they are
the operatives of elites aspring to totalitarian government.
If Kosovo indicates official (overt and covert) German behaviour, I,
a Slav
and a Pole, am very concerned about Germans posing as benevolent
"international community" representatives. Herr Steiner is tacitly
implementing Austro-Hungarian empire's "Serben muss sterben" adage.
Serbia
is sovereign in Kosovo, like Poland is over its Western Lands re-
gained
after WW2. Once Poland joins European Union, revisionists may start
taking
over our land (see German whistle-blowing at
www.freenations.freeuk.com for
substantiation of this Polish "hysteria"). Then another Herr Steiner
will
justify this new "Drang nach Osten" cleansing with a bureaucratic
gimmick to
full the naive West.
If Slavs were as aggressive and cheeky as Albanians and other radical
Balkan
Moslems supported by radical Islam and the "international community",
they
would be prevailing all the way to Hamburg and the Elbe River, never
mind
the Balkans. Herr Steiner is playing with fire. If he is oblivious to
history, Slavs can be devastating when pressed to the wall. Seemingly
mindless destruction by the employees of German-owned farms and
businesses
that sprout in Poland might be a forewarning, if Germans, hiding under
"international community" and "humanitarian missions", don't change
their
social management approach. Until then, the likes of Herr Steiner can
ask
"dumm" questions – as at the end of his press release – till they
drop.
Dr Piotr Bein, PEng
Vancouver, Canada
and
Szczecin (not "Stettin"), Poland
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Lindmeier [mailto:lindmeier@...
Sent: May 15, 2003 5:38 AM
To: "Michel Collon <michel.collon" <michel.collon@...>,
"Russell Gordon <russellgordon" <russellgordon@...>,
"BBC World <worldservice.letters" <worldservice.letters@...>,
"CANAUK <canauk" <canauk@...>,
"David NYTimes Binder <dabind" <dabind@...>,
"Glas Kosmeta KERP <kerp" <kerp@...>,
"<hrwatcheu" <hrwatcheu@...>, "<hrwdc" <hrwdc@...>,
"<hrwnyc" <hrwnyc@...>, "<hrwuk" <hrwuk@...>,
"Jared Israel <jaredi" <jaredi@...>,
"john_peter maher <jpmaher" <jpmaher@...>
Subject: Re: Michael Steiner
(See attached file: #964 - High ranking working group.doc)
UNMIK/PR/964
Wednesday May 14, 2003
SRSG Expresses Disappointment at Covic's departure from meeting of
High
Ranking Working Group
PRISTINA – SRSG Michael Steiner described the departure of Serbian
Deputy
Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic from the High Ranking Working Group, as
"disappointing".
"Mr. Covic wanted the High Ranking Working Group to meet and we were
ready
for it, but the meeting unfortunately did not take place," said SRSG
Michael
Steiner.
Mr. Steiner said that Mr. Covic wanted to discuss the Musliu case
first.
"Let me explain my position. Musliu is one of the most violent,
active,
organized crime figures in the region. Nevertheless, as in all cases,
the
rule of law must be followed."
"But this aside, Musliu is not in UNMIK's detention. So I am in not
in a
position to deal with this issue."
"I made this clear to Mr. Covic, but it did not satisfy him and he
suddenly
did not want the meeting he had requested."
"This is particularly disappointing because the first item on the
agenda was
the Protocol on mutual recognition of number plates. This protocol
has been
ready for signature and agreed by the Government in Belgrade since
August of
last year."
"So what does not signing it mean? It means limited freedom of
movement for
all communities and especially for Kosovo Serbs. Providing anonymous
number
plates for everyone is the most practical measure to improving
freedom of
movement and would have immediate results."
"Moreover, in the Common Document, UNMIK had made a `commitment to
increase
freedom of movement through the issuance of free (KS) license plates
to
Kosovo Serbs'. We continue to hand out free number plates to Kosovo
Serbs
and have extended our deadline pending signature of the protocol."
"I fail to understand why this protocol cannot be signed. As I said,
it is
in the interest of all communities and particularly Kosovo Serbs. I
must
ask: Why is it that the whole neighborhood and the EU countries
recognize KS
number plates but Serbia does not?"
======================================================================
===
From: "Dragan Rakic" <dragan@...>
Subject: Michael Steiner
Route: un.org
Sirs,
Michael Steiner's decision not to turn over to the
Serbian justice, the indicted war criminal and terrorist Sefcet
Musliu, if
it is his own, reveals once again that the UN is not able to rule out
the
Security Council resolution 1244, which certainly respects the part
of the
protection of Albanians, and nearly not at all the protection of the
Serbian
population.
The indicted person, Sefcet Musliu, was confirmed
commander of the terrorist groups in the Kosovo region, but also in
the
Southern Serbia, Medvedja , Bujanovac and Presevo, which are not
under the
UNMIK jurisdiction. Of course there cannot be any question of any
sort of
revenge or the violence, but only the respect of laws, and it seems
that
according to Mr. Michael Steiner, Serbia has no right to fully
exercise her
laws even on her own territory.
The question is how can then, any international instance press Serbia
to
turn over her indicted, and not to be able to legally exercise her
justice.
How can one criticize the Iraqi invasion by the coalition forces, and
do the
same in another part of Europe.
Instead of justice equal for all and the multiethnic
society, Mr. Steiner suggests to Serbs "the car registration plates",
like
if it was the most important matter in establishing the peace, order
and
justice.
Besides, the general impression is that although
the post Milosevic era is there , and the new government make efforts
and
all the necessary to comply to the international community's
exigencies, but
also laws, the very same community, at least a part of it, behaves
like
nothing was done.
What was not understood yet is that, any wrong move on behalf
of the international instances is cleverly used by those who still
hope the
return of the previous system and previous political groups. Would it
mean that someone intentionally maintains the country's instability
and
thus the uncertain situation in the whole of the region. If the aim
is a
multiethnic society, then there should not be what we call in France "
deshabiller Pierre pour habiller Paul", take from the ones to give to
the
others, which is exactly what Mr. Steiner seem to be actually doing.,
if
he is the only
authority in the Serbian Province.
Sincerely
Dragan Rakic
Strasbourg
France
--- In Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli., "Coordinamento Nazionale per
la Jugoslavia" ha scritto:
(...)
UNMIK: KOSOVO NOT SERBIAN PROVINCE
ACCORDING TO RESOLUTION 1244
PRISTINA,May 11 (Beta)- UNMIK Chief Michael
Steiner has clearly said that Kosovo is not a Serbian
province according to U.N. Security Council resolution
1244, UNMIK spokeswoman Isabelle Karlovic said on
May 9.
"The secretary general's special envoy (for Kosovo
Michael Steiner) said in (Vienna on May 8) that resolution
1244 leaves the issue of status open. The special envoy has
clearly said that Kosovo is not a province of Serbia
according to Resolution 1244," she said.
Steiner, SerbiaMontenegro ambassador Branislav
Milinkovic and representatives of the council's member
countries addressed an OSCE Permanent Council sitting on
Kosovo on May 8.
(...)