* QUADRO SINOTTICO degli atti terroristici commessi in Kosmet
dall'arrivo delle truppe KFOR e dell'amministrazione coloniale UNMIK
* LINK ad articoli in inglese sulla situazione in Kosmet dopo un anno di
regime coloniale
* I serbi di Cernica sottoposti ad umiliazioni e violenze dalla KFOR
* Scontri tra truppe KFOR e serbi a Gracanica dopo attacco terrorista
contro i serbi (ed impunita' garantita per i terroristi)
* Gli americani rubano l'oro delle miniere presso Mitrovica
* Thaci: "L'obiettivo e' ancora il Kosova indipendente"
* Il segretario generale della NATO esprime il suo sostegno al criminale
di guerra Agim Ceku
* Le truppe KFOR radunano a Pristina migliaia di bambini albanesi e ne
vestono alcuni con le divise militari per la "giornata del bambino"
* Liste di proscrizione sul quotidiano DITA: pubblicati nomi ed
indirizzi dei serbi da ammazzare, Topoljski tra le prime vittime
* La Germania in imbarazzo per l'antico feeling tra nazisti e
nazionalismo grande-albanese?
* Nessun imbarazzo in Italia per lo sfruttamento della manodopera serba
usata per preparare le divise delle truppe italiane (IN ITALIANO)
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CONTRASTING ANALYSIS OF THE MOST DRASTIC TERRORIST ACTS AND VIOLATIONS
OF
UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1244 (1999) IN THE PROVINCE
OF
KOSOVO AND METOHIJA SINCE THE DEPLOYMENT OF KFOR AND UNMIK, IN THE
PERIOD
FROM 10 JUNE 1999 THROUGH 4 JUNE 2000
Legenda:
1.Period (1999-2000)
2.Terrorist attacks
3.Killed persons
4.Abducted and missing persons
5.Wounded persons
6.Expelled Serbs and other non-Albanians
7.Destroyed temples and cultural sites
8.Arbitrarily arrested Serbs by KFOR
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
8.
10/06-26/07 839 96 245 43 over 165,000 25
31
10/06-30/10 2,947 447 648 216 over 330,000 70
38
10/06-27/02 4,354 910 821 802 over 350,000 84
185
10/06-30/03 4,564 936 867 876 over 350,000 85
191
10/06-07/05 4,792 1,010 936 924 over 350,000 86
200
10/06-04/06 4,878 1,027 945 955 over 360,000 86
466
Note. This contrasting analysis was made on the basis of official data
published in the Memoranda of the Federal Government concerning the
implementation of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999), dated 27 July
and 3 November 1999, 1 March, 3 April, 8 May and 7 June 2000,
respectively.
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http://www.stratfor.com/CIS/specialreports/special26.htm
Kosovo: One Year Later
Summary
Nearly one year after NATO first intervened in Kosovo, it appears the
alliance has failed to fulfill
its chief objectives, both in waging the war and keeping the peace.
Increasingly, Kosovo seems
beyond the alliance's control as crime, weapons and drug trafficking
resurface. Alliance forces
are now on the defensive against former allies within the ethnic
Albanian community; the
guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) now appear to hold
positions of considerable
power. Nine months after the war, the West faces a choice. It can
increase its grip on Kosovo,
committing more troops and confronting the KLA, or the alliance can
resign itself to losing control
of Kosovo.
-
http://www.antiwar.com
Behind the Headlines
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
June 9, 2000
KOSOVO - A TRAGIC ANNIVERSARY
-
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/#News Articles
PAGINA KFOR CON FOTO END ARTICOLI
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KFOR rode Serbs in Cernica
June 07, 2000
Gnjilane, June 7th (Tanjug) - In Cernica near Gnjilane, on Sunday,
4th of June, KFOR soldiers humiliated Serbs in the most brutal
and utterly inhuman way, by literally riding on their backs. The
maltreatment and humiliation of
Serb citizens lasted for three whole hours, before and after midnight.
Reinforced squad of more than 60 American KFOR soldiers dashed, on
Sunday, 4th of June at
10.30p.m. into Serb part of multiethnic village Cernica called Donja
Mala. From that part of the
village, shots from automatic weapons were heard on several occasions,
about an hour and a half
before KFOR carried out a raid. According to testimonies of the Serbs
who live there, shots were
fired by an Albanian.
KFOR soldiers used this shooting, which was deliberately carried out in
the Serb part of the
village, and began the search of seven Serb houses.
The interior of Dobrivoje Menkovic`s house was completely demolished
during the reckless
search, and the old head of the household was literally ridden, although
Dobrivoje has a heart
condition and a few years ago he had heart surgery. The humiliation
reached its climax when an
American soldier climbed on the back of ill Dobrivoje, first pushing the
old man, very hard, from
the bed in which he was sleeping. Dobrivoje found himself on all fours.
In that moment, KFOR soldier sat on the back of the ill old man and
while sitting he lit a
cigarette which he smoked for fifteen minutes, treating him like an
animal.
After that, other American soldiers also pushed this seriously sick man
of his bed, rolled him over,
pushed his face against the floor and dragged him around the room.
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[The same KFOR/UNMIK that escorted 25,000-50,000
members of KLA-instigated mobs to besiege Mitrovica a
few months ago; that hasn't managed to apprehend a
single suspect in the slayings of over 1,000 civilians
in Kosovo over the past year; that has permitted the
killer of a Russian peacekeeper to escape three times,
the last time with a broken ankle; that works
hand-in-glove with KLA chieftans like Hasim Thaci and
Agim Ceku; that tolerates when it doesn't employ the
services of the world's largest heroin trafficking and
sex slave trade operations. This same 'peacekeeping'
force gets real bold when it's time to fire
point-blank on civilians responding to a grenade
attack on their community - the perpetrator of which,
of course, KFOR/UNMIK lets get away, as usual.]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk (International)
ISSUE 1839 Wednesday 7 June 2000
Army shoots Serb protesters
By Lutz Kleveman in Pristina
>Bringing peace to Kosovo - Unmik< (Orwell's Big
Brother's been upstaged with this one)
BRITISH troops opened fire and wounded three Serbs
in Kosovo yesterday after an angry crowd attacked Brig
Richard Shirreff, the senior British officer in
Kosovo.
The incident occurred in the Serb enclave of
Gracanica, 10 miles south of Pristina, after rioting.
An Army spokesman said bodyguards, believed to be an
SAS unit, accompanying the brigadier drew their
pistols and fired 15 rounds after a Serb grabbed a gun
from a soldier. The Serb was one of those wounded.
Brig Shirreff said about 300 Serbs stood face-to-face
with the British troops. "We were attacked," he said.
"Our lives were very much threatened. My guys did a
first rate job." The rioting broke out after a grenade
was tossed into the market square by men believed to
be Albanian radicals. Five people were injured.
Lt-Col Guy Hony, an Army spokesman, said: "Hundreds of
villagers gathered, very upset, and started bullying
[Swedish] soldiers. When the brigadier arrived to talk
them down, they turned on him."
The protesters also set three cars and three lorries
on fire, and soldiers arrested one man. The Army has
sent extra troops to the Gracanica area to protect
Serbs. Surrounded by checkpoints and watchtowers, and
with helicopters flying overhead, the Serb enclave
resembles a fortress. "That someone still managed to
throw a grenade on Serb home turf is very worrying for
us", Lt Col Hony said.
The incident comes amid an upsurge of violence in
Kosovo in which eight Serbs have been killed and
dozens injured in the past week. On Friday, two Serbs
were killed and three wounded when their car hit a
recently planted landmine on a dirt road to Gracanica.
Serbs responded by suspending their participation in
the United Nations multi-ethnic administrative bodies
in Kosovo. About 150,000 Serbs have fled Kosovo for
fear of Albanian attacks since Nato troops drove out
Serb forces last June.
There was confusion later yesterday over the details
of the incident, when Nato officials said only one
Serb had been wounded. Oliver Ivanovic, the Serb
leader in northern Kosovo, said his people would start
blocking roads in the region today in protest at the
growing violence.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS ATTACK IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S GRACANICA
GRACANICA, June 6 (Tanjug) - Several Serbs, including a child, were
injured in an ethnic Albanian terrorist attack in the locality of
Gracanica
near Pristina in the U.N.-run Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija
province
early on Tuesday. U.N. police and international KFor force troops are
searching for a car from which two grenades were lobbed at around 8:30
a.m.
near the Culture Hall in central Gracanica.
Roads into and out of Gracanica have been sealed and helicopters hover
over the area.
Agence France Press (AFP) quotes a telephone conversation with a U.N.
official to the effect that six Serbs were wounded in the outrage, two
of
them seriously, while the Associated Press (AP) says that a child also
was
among the injured.
Shortly after the incident, about a thousand Serbs gathered in town
centre
in protest against the impermissibly tolerant attitude of the
international
military and civilian missions to the ethnic cleansing campaign of
ethnic
Albanian terrorists and separatists.
The latest wave of ethnic Albanian terrorism has come hard on the heels
of
an announced intention to repatriate a large number of displaced Serbs
to
Kosovo-Metohija.
Since KFor and the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK were deployed last June
10,
more than 1,000 Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians have been
murdered, and more than 300,000 others expelled, which shows that the
U.N.
missions have failed to discharge their mandate under U.N. Resolution
1244.
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AMERICANS STEAL SERBIAN GOLD IN U.N.-RULED KOSOVO-METOHIJA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia, June 6 (Tanjug) - The Stari Trg mine in
south
Kosovska Mitrovica, which was taken over by the U.N. mission (UNMIK)
last
June, is being secretly mined and the gold ore transported through the
U.S.-held sector to Albania and Macedonia.
According to Serb sources in the ethnically-divided town, since Serb
miners were barred from entering the mine, which is part of the Trepca
mining complex, UNMIK has announced that the shafts are flooded and has
engaged ethnic Albanians allegedly to drain them.
About 200 well-paid ethnic Albanians are in fact mining the ore and,
since
the smelting plant is in the north, Serb-populated part of the town, the
ore is transported to Albania and Macedonia by night.
Reliable sources say that the ore is being mined for an Italian
industrialist with the knowledge of the new regional UNMIK
administrator,
William Nash of the United States.
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 99, Part II, 23 May 2000
THACI: INDEPENDENT KOSOVA STILL THE GOAL. Hashim Thaci
told a
convention of his Democratic Party of Kosova in
Prishtina
that independence for the province remains his goal and
that
of the party, Vienna's "Die Presse" reported on 23 May
(see
"RFE/RL Newsline," 22 May 2000). The delegates elected
a 61-
member steering committee. "Die Presse" noted that
Thaci is
having a difficult time maintaining the support of his
former
fighters from the Kosova Liberation Army (UCK). Many
more
radical UCK members now back Ramush Hajradani's
Alliance for
the Future of Kosova, as do Azem Vllasi and some other
former
communist-era leaders. Many moderate UCK supporters and
former backers of Ibrahim Rugova have joined Naim
Maloku's
Liberal Center Party. Both Hajradani and Maloku are
widely
regarded as heroes of the 1999 conflict. PM
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www.serbia-info.com/news
Robertson praises infamous terrorist
May 31, 2000
Pristina, May 31 - NATO Secretary General George Robertson praised in
Pristina today one of the most infamous ethnic Albanian terrorists, Agim
Cheku, commander of the so-called "Kosovo Protection Corps," which is
only another name for the terrorist "KLA," and moreover offered to help
would-be efforts to promote peace and reconciliation in the southern
Serbian province.
Robertson took a step further, he become one of the few foreign visitors
roaming around Kosovo-Metohija to claim that "progress" has been made in
the past year since the establishment in the Province of two U.N.
missions - civil (UNMIK) and security one (KFOR).
NATO Secretary General apparently has only one goal - support for
terrorists - because what kind of support can he speak about two days
after an ethnic Albanian terrorist, nearby U.S. KFOR troops, killed
three Serbs, including a four-year-old child, raising the number of
killed Serbs since the arrival of KFOR to 900.
Robertson ignores the fact that in the past year from Kosovo-Metohija
have been expelled 360,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians, that in
Pristina live today only 270 Serbs, as compared to 44,000 a year ago,
that ethnic Albanian terrorists have burned down or plundered over
40,000 Serbian houses...
Only Robertson sees progress there. Nevertheless, he claims that in
Kosovo-Metohija things are getting better and better and apparently in
that improvement he sees also the role of Agim Cheku, Hashim Thaqui and
others.
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Thousands of Kosovo children celebrate ``freedom''
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, June 1 (Reuters) - Thousands of Kosovo Albanian
children gathered in Pristina in fancy dress on Thursday for a
``Children's
Day'' intended to help them overcome their dark memories of war.
[Interesting
FACT: out of a 40,000
strong Serbian population in Pristina, less than 300 remain. Out of
that
40,000, 25,000 were students from preschool to university level -- only
35
Serbian children remain in all of Pristina district, living in ghetto
conditions and bused daily to a small make-shift school!]
Bringing the provincial capital's traffic to a virtual standstill, they
walked to the national theatre carrying balloons and wearing colourful
clothes and masks.
A few children were dressed as BRITISH SOLDIERS while at least one boy
wore a
cap with the insignia of the now officially disbanded Kosovo Liberation
Army,
which waged a guerrilla war against Serb rule. Most of the participants
had
more traditional children's fancy dress.
``We are here to celebrate the Children's Day and to enjoy it, and our
freedom,'' said 11-year-old Genti Muhaxheri.
Journalists estimated the turnout at between 5,000 and 10,000.
Yugoslav forces withdrew from the province almost a year ago following
78
days of NATO air strikes intended to halt Belgrade's repression of
Kosovo's
ethnic Albanian majority.
Thursday's event was organised by a local youth organisation that said
it
wanted to help the children look towards the future.
10:30 06-01-00
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U.N. Halts Publication Of Kosovo Newspaper
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, June 4, 2000; Page A22
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, June 3 –– Petar Topoljski became
famous here in the Kosovo
capital on April 27 when an ethnic Albanian newspaper published his
picture, his address and his
workplace. But it was not the sort of publicity that brings good fortune
here.
One of just a handful of Serbs employed by the U.N. mission here,
Topoljski was accused by the
newspaper Dita of violently expelling Albanians from their homes during
last year's bitter ethnic
war. The paper's sources were identified only by their initials, and no
details about Topoljski's
activities were given. No reply from Topoljski, or his friends or
family, was included.
Within three weeks, Topoljski was dead, the latest victim of the
vigilantism that persists in
Kosovo nearly a year after the war's end. His decomposed body was found
with multiple stab
wounds and wire garrote drawn tight around his neck.
The killers have not been found. But today, in the midst of a spate of
killings of Serbs, the
United Nations decided to take action against the newspaper. It sent a
squad of U.N. police to the
paper's office and ordered employees to stop publishing for eight days
on grounds that the paper
poses a threat to the province's law and order.
The decision underscores U.N. officials' frustration about the ethnic
Albanian media's practice of
making unproven accusations against individual Serbs, a technique that
some officials here say is
tantamount to publicly ordering a mafia-style hit against the accused.
U.N. spokeswoman Susan Manuel said while there is no proof that the
article directly
caused Topoljski's murder, "one could conclude that there was such a
link."
Manuel called the suspension of the paper "a symbolic gesture" but said
"we had to take a stand."
Forcibly halting publication of Dita nonetheless provoked controversy
here, among both local
journalists and international officials. Baton Haxhiu, editor of the
well-known Kosovo daily Koha
Ditore, said that while Dita should not have published Topoljski's name,
the action against it
bodes poorly for the development of independent media in Kosovo.
"This is the same as in Belgrade," Haxhiu said, referring to the Serbian
government's closure of
newspapers that print articles that displease it. He also said that the
United Nations should have
investigated the allegations but had failed to create a judicial system
where such charges could be
heard.
Daan Everts, who heads the Kosovo office of the 55-nation Organization
for Security and
Cooperation in Europe, told U.N. administrator Bernard Kouchner in a
letter that the "preferred
approach" would have been to order publication of a retraction or an
apology. But Everts said that
if Kouchner judged that "the threat to security and stability warrants
drastic action . . . then I
respect and support your decision."
A U.N. official said no one in the organization had been aware of the
article attacking Topoljski
until his death and that many officials felt ashamed for not taking
precautions to protect him.
Topoljski disappeared while running an errand for a U.N. official.
The editor of Dita, Belul Beqaj, is a former political adviser to Hashim
Thaqi, a former
guerrilla who now directs a political party. Beqaj said, "I feel sorry
this newspaper is linked with
the killing," but added that he does not regret publishing the article.
He said he plans to publish
additional photographs and names of Serbs involved in misdeeds when the
paper reopens June 12.
© 2000 The Washington Post Company
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"Unzere zeit": Uncomfortable historic relationships
May 16, 2000
Public and secret activities
Berlin, May 16th (Tanjug) - German soldiers, members
of KFOR, were warned of the possibility that the
former members of SS divisions "Skenderbeg", who
fought in Kosmet with support of Vermacht against
Yugoslav partizans, will try to make contact with
them, based on those "historic" relationships.
"It should not be excluded that that historic
relationship with German soldiers will be used to form
joint anti-Serbian movement", the intelligence service
of Bundesver warns members of German troops in Kosmet.
The issue is about "Instruction for Bundesver troops
in Kosovo", which was given to all German soldiers,
members of KFOR and in which, as it is discovered by
German journal "Unzere zeit", many constatations
differ from the usual media reports and official
government stands in Berlin.
In that Instruction, German soldiers are reminded of
the Kosmet crisis genesis and they are told that " by
the end of the year 1997, members of KLA intensified
its actions of violence".
These actions were, as it is stated, directed against
Serbian security forces in Kosmet, against Serb law
and economy officials and, also, against suspicious
Kosmet Albanians.
It is also reminded that the terrorist "KLA" kept 40%
of Kosmet under control from the middle of 1998 and
that it was partially repulsed in contra operations of
Serbian-Yugoslav fighting and security forces.
German soldiers are then reminded of NATO aggression
on Yugoslavia, and in the Instruction they are clearly
told that the Americans solely decided about targets
for bombing.
Bundesver intelligence service then informs its
soldiers who and what they will face in Kosmet.They
are warned that there are practically two armed
Albanian organizations in Kosmet:
KLA: General Staff includes ten different areas,
commanders of seven operative zones and - instrument
of government inside the terrorist organization -
Planning Staff. The chief of Staff is 38 years-old
Agim Ceku, who after spending eight years in Croatian
army, transferred, as a general, to KLA in 1999.
According to the estimation of the Instruction's
author, the core of "KLA" was formed of remaining
members of "Kosovo Ministry of Defense". It was formed
from the former Albanian officers and noncommissioned
officers of the Yugoslav National Army (YNA) and it
was close to Ibrahim Rugova`s Democratic Kosovo League
(DKL).
FFKR: Democratic Kosovo League, whose wing was
gathered in Germany around the "president of the
government" Bujar Bukosi, formed in the meantime
(1998) its own fighting forces, so-called FFKR
(Fighting Forces of Kosovo Republic). Their forming
was given to former YNA officer, Ahmet Krasnici. He
was murdered on September 21st 1998 in Tirana, from
where the forming was directed. Ismet Aliu took his
place.
Most members of FFKR have, in the meantime,
transferred to KLA, it is said in the Instruction and
it is claimed that Bukosi on June 17th 1999 declared
dismissal of that terrorist organization.
The division in DKL lasts until today with unpredicted
consequences, it is claimed in the Instruction and
added that Bukosi has better chances in that
confrontation, because he has donation funds from
community in exile. Albanian side realizes most of its
financial incomes through emigrant donations, first of
all from the countries of EU and Switzerland. In those
circles, Rugova`s (Bukosi`s) DKL dominates now, as
before, thus it has small military potential, but
great financial power.
KLA is mostly financed through "The Country Calls"
fund, which is legal and recognized in Germany. In
June 1999, Hashim Thaqui sent a proclamation to all
emigrants to pay 500DM to that fund.
Due to this, in near future, intensified fights for
money between rival Albanian formations can be
expected in Kosmet, the authors of the Instruction
claim.
It remains to be seen how wiser the German soldiers in
KFOR will be after reading the Instruction, which, by
the way, does not reveal anything new. The essence of
the Instruction is something else. Things that are
told to German soldiers are officially hushed up.
The reason for this is clear. The fact is about two
different things - politics and safety of its own
soldiers. In the first case it is known to whom
Germany is obedient and how it acts.
As for the security of its soldiers, Bundesver
obviously wanted to teach its soldiers with whom they
will or already deal with in the southern Serbian
province.
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Le dogane accusano: "Divise italiane made in Serbia"
31 marzo 2000
Articolo messo in Rete alle 20:53 ora italiana (18:53 GMT)
<Immagine: Sanmarco>Soldati del battaglione San Marco: fanno parte della
forza Kfor in Kosovo
BELGRADO (CNN) -- E' polemica tra la Jugoslavia di Slobodan Milosevic e
l'Italia. Le dogane della federazione jugoslava hanno accusato l'Italia
di
usare manodopera a buon mercato in Serbia per fabbricare le divise
destinate
ai propri caschi blu di stanza nel vicino Kosovo. Le autorità di
Belgrado
hanno anche dichiarato di aver sequestrato in container provenienti
dalla
Svezia uniformi e altri capi d'abbigliamento con i simboli dell'Esercito
di
liberazione del Kosovo, l'esercito kosovaro che ufficialmente è invece
stato
smantellato con l'arrivo delle truppe internazionali.
A fare queste accuse è stato Mihalj Kertes, il responsabile del servizio
doganale jugoslavo. Kertes ha mostrato ai giornalisti uniformi, guanti,
maglioni e addirittura biancheria intima con la sigla Uck, l'acronimo
con il
quale la formazione militare è conosciuta in albanese.
<Immagine>
Queste uniformi sono state inviate - dicono le autorità serbe - dalla
Svezia
come "aiuto umanitario" e stavano entrando in Jugoslavia dall'Ungheria.
Il
sequesto dovrebbe dimostrare la tesi di Belgrado, secondo la quale il
contingente internazionale della Kfor, in ormai un anno di attività, non
è
riuscito o non ha voluto disarmare davvero l'Uck.
Quanto all'Italia, Kertes ha affermato che tre società serbe (la
Borjanka
con sede a Bor, la Branka Dinic con sede a Knjazevac e la Modna
Konfekcija
con sede a Nis) hanno fabbricato uniformi dell'esercito italiano per
conto
di un subappalatore ceco, la società Emily.
"I criminali della Nato si sono dimostrati ancora una volta squallidi -
ha
tuonato il capo delle dogane serbe - Hanno commissionato la
fabbricazione
delle loro divise in Serbia pur di pagare costi di fabbricazione
bassissimi,
riducendo anche gli operai che le fabbricano al livello di criminali".
Uniformi con I gradi e I simbolki delle forze armate italiane impegnate
nella Kfor sarebbero state sequestrate a Horgos, una località al confine
con
l'Ungheria, lo scorso 2 marzo. Tra il materiale sequestrato ci sarebbero
2.428 paia di pantaloni e 406 camice. "Sono divise in cotone, ma che
contengono una sostanza speciale che le rende impenetrabili alle
radiazioni", ha detto Kertes.
Kertes dice che tra la merce trovata al confine c'è anche gomma da
masticare
con I simboli della Nato e dell'Uck, per un valore di 6 milioni di lire.
Dentro le confezioni ci sarebbe stato "materiale propagandistico, come
fotografie di celebri comandanti dell'Uck e scene di battaglie condotte
dagli albanesi contro I serbi.
Con il contributo di Reuters
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dall'arrivo delle truppe KFOR e dell'amministrazione coloniale UNMIK
* LINK ad articoli in inglese sulla situazione in Kosmet dopo un anno di
regime coloniale
* I serbi di Cernica sottoposti ad umiliazioni e violenze dalla KFOR
* Scontri tra truppe KFOR e serbi a Gracanica dopo attacco terrorista
contro i serbi (ed impunita' garantita per i terroristi)
* Gli americani rubano l'oro delle miniere presso Mitrovica
* Thaci: "L'obiettivo e' ancora il Kosova indipendente"
* Il segretario generale della NATO esprime il suo sostegno al criminale
di guerra Agim Ceku
* Le truppe KFOR radunano a Pristina migliaia di bambini albanesi e ne
vestono alcuni con le divise militari per la "giornata del bambino"
* Liste di proscrizione sul quotidiano DITA: pubblicati nomi ed
indirizzi dei serbi da ammazzare, Topoljski tra le prime vittime
* La Germania in imbarazzo per l'antico feeling tra nazisti e
nazionalismo grande-albanese?
* Nessun imbarazzo in Italia per lo sfruttamento della manodopera serba
usata per preparare le divise delle truppe italiane (IN ITALIANO)
---
CONTRASTING ANALYSIS OF THE MOST DRASTIC TERRORIST ACTS AND VIOLATIONS
OF
UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1244 (1999) IN THE PROVINCE
OF
KOSOVO AND METOHIJA SINCE THE DEPLOYMENT OF KFOR AND UNMIK, IN THE
PERIOD
FROM 10 JUNE 1999 THROUGH 4 JUNE 2000
Legenda:
1.Period (1999-2000)
2.Terrorist attacks
3.Killed persons
4.Abducted and missing persons
5.Wounded persons
6.Expelled Serbs and other non-Albanians
7.Destroyed temples and cultural sites
8.Arbitrarily arrested Serbs by KFOR
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
8.
10/06-26/07 839 96 245 43 over 165,000 25
31
10/06-30/10 2,947 447 648 216 over 330,000 70
38
10/06-27/02 4,354 910 821 802 over 350,000 84
185
10/06-30/03 4,564 936 867 876 over 350,000 85
191
10/06-07/05 4,792 1,010 936 924 over 350,000 86
200
10/06-04/06 4,878 1,027 945 955 over 360,000 86
466
Note. This contrasting analysis was made on the basis of official data
published in the Memoranda of the Federal Government concerning the
implementation of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999), dated 27 July
and 3 November 1999, 1 March, 3 April, 8 May and 7 June 2000,
respectively.
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Kosovo: One Year Later
Summary
Nearly one year after NATO first intervened in Kosovo, it appears the
alliance has failed to fulfill
its chief objectives, both in waging the war and keeping the peace.
Increasingly, Kosovo seems
beyond the alliance's control as crime, weapons and drug trafficking
resurface. Alliance forces
are now on the defensive against former allies within the ethnic
Albanian community; the
guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) now appear to hold
positions of considerable
power. Nine months after the war, the West faces a choice. It can
increase its grip on Kosovo,
committing more troops and confronting the KLA, or the alliance can
resign itself to losing control
of Kosovo.
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Behind the Headlines
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
June 9, 2000
KOSOVO - A TRAGIC ANNIVERSARY
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KFOR rode Serbs in Cernica
June 07, 2000
Gnjilane, June 7th (Tanjug) - In Cernica near Gnjilane, on Sunday,
4th of June, KFOR soldiers humiliated Serbs in the most brutal
and utterly inhuman way, by literally riding on their backs. The
maltreatment and humiliation of
Serb citizens lasted for three whole hours, before and after midnight.
Reinforced squad of more than 60 American KFOR soldiers dashed, on
Sunday, 4th of June at
10.30p.m. into Serb part of multiethnic village Cernica called Donja
Mala. From that part of the
village, shots from automatic weapons were heard on several occasions,
about an hour and a half
before KFOR carried out a raid. According to testimonies of the Serbs
who live there, shots were
fired by an Albanian.
KFOR soldiers used this shooting, which was deliberately carried out in
the Serb part of the
village, and began the search of seven Serb houses.
The interior of Dobrivoje Menkovic`s house was completely demolished
during the reckless
search, and the old head of the household was literally ridden, although
Dobrivoje has a heart
condition and a few years ago he had heart surgery. The humiliation
reached its climax when an
American soldier climbed on the back of ill Dobrivoje, first pushing the
old man, very hard, from
the bed in which he was sleeping. Dobrivoje found himself on all fours.
In that moment, KFOR soldier sat on the back of the ill old man and
while sitting he lit a
cigarette which he smoked for fifteen minutes, treating him like an
animal.
After that, other American soldiers also pushed this seriously sick man
of his bed, rolled him over,
pushed his face against the floor and dragged him around the room.
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[The same KFOR/UNMIK that escorted 25,000-50,000
members of KLA-instigated mobs to besiege Mitrovica a
few months ago; that hasn't managed to apprehend a
single suspect in the slayings of over 1,000 civilians
in Kosovo over the past year; that has permitted the
killer of a Russian peacekeeper to escape three times,
the last time with a broken ankle; that works
hand-in-glove with KLA chieftans like Hasim Thaci and
Agim Ceku; that tolerates when it doesn't employ the
services of the world's largest heroin trafficking and
sex slave trade operations. This same 'peacekeeping'
force gets real bold when it's time to fire
point-blank on civilians responding to a grenade
attack on their community - the perpetrator of which,
of course, KFOR/UNMIK lets get away, as usual.]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk (International)
ISSUE 1839 Wednesday 7 June 2000
Army shoots Serb protesters
By Lutz Kleveman in Pristina
>Bringing peace to Kosovo - Unmik< (Orwell's Big
Brother's been upstaged with this one)
BRITISH troops opened fire and wounded three Serbs
in Kosovo yesterday after an angry crowd attacked Brig
Richard Shirreff, the senior British officer in
Kosovo.
The incident occurred in the Serb enclave of
Gracanica, 10 miles south of Pristina, after rioting.
An Army spokesman said bodyguards, believed to be an
SAS unit, accompanying the brigadier drew their
pistols and fired 15 rounds after a Serb grabbed a gun
from a soldier. The Serb was one of those wounded.
Brig Shirreff said about 300 Serbs stood face-to-face
with the British troops. "We were attacked," he said.
"Our lives were very much threatened. My guys did a
first rate job." The rioting broke out after a grenade
was tossed into the market square by men believed to
be Albanian radicals. Five people were injured.
Lt-Col Guy Hony, an Army spokesman, said: "Hundreds of
villagers gathered, very upset, and started bullying
[Swedish] soldiers. When the brigadier arrived to talk
them down, they turned on him."
The protesters also set three cars and three lorries
on fire, and soldiers arrested one man. The Army has
sent extra troops to the Gracanica area to protect
Serbs. Surrounded by checkpoints and watchtowers, and
with helicopters flying overhead, the Serb enclave
resembles a fortress. "That someone still managed to
throw a grenade on Serb home turf is very worrying for
us", Lt Col Hony said.
The incident comes amid an upsurge of violence in
Kosovo in which eight Serbs have been killed and
dozens injured in the past week. On Friday, two Serbs
were killed and three wounded when their car hit a
recently planted landmine on a dirt road to Gracanica.
Serbs responded by suspending their participation in
the United Nations multi-ethnic administrative bodies
in Kosovo. About 150,000 Serbs have fled Kosovo for
fear of Albanian attacks since Nato troops drove out
Serb forces last June.
There was confusion later yesterday over the details
of the incident, when Nato officials said only one
Serb had been wounded. Oliver Ivanovic, the Serb
leader in northern Kosovo, said his people would start
blocking roads in the region today in protest at the
growing violence.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS ATTACK IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S GRACANICA
GRACANICA, June 6 (Tanjug) - Several Serbs, including a child, were
injured in an ethnic Albanian terrorist attack in the locality of
Gracanica
near Pristina in the U.N.-run Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija
province
early on Tuesday. U.N. police and international KFor force troops are
searching for a car from which two grenades were lobbed at around 8:30
a.m.
near the Culture Hall in central Gracanica.
Roads into and out of Gracanica have been sealed and helicopters hover
over the area.
Agence France Press (AFP) quotes a telephone conversation with a U.N.
official to the effect that six Serbs were wounded in the outrage, two
of
them seriously, while the Associated Press (AP) says that a child also
was
among the injured.
Shortly after the incident, about a thousand Serbs gathered in town
centre
in protest against the impermissibly tolerant attitude of the
international
military and civilian missions to the ethnic cleansing campaign of
ethnic
Albanian terrorists and separatists.
The latest wave of ethnic Albanian terrorism has come hard on the heels
of
an announced intention to repatriate a large number of displaced Serbs
to
Kosovo-Metohija.
Since KFor and the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK were deployed last June
10,
more than 1,000 Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians have been
murdered, and more than 300,000 others expelled, which shows that the
U.N.
missions have failed to discharge their mandate under U.N. Resolution
1244.
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AMERICANS STEAL SERBIAN GOLD IN U.N.-RULED KOSOVO-METOHIJA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia, June 6 (Tanjug) - The Stari Trg mine in
south
Kosovska Mitrovica, which was taken over by the U.N. mission (UNMIK)
last
June, is being secretly mined and the gold ore transported through the
U.S.-held sector to Albania and Macedonia.
According to Serb sources in the ethnically-divided town, since Serb
miners were barred from entering the mine, which is part of the Trepca
mining complex, UNMIK has announced that the shafts are flooded and has
engaged ethnic Albanians allegedly to drain them.
About 200 well-paid ethnic Albanians are in fact mining the ore and,
since
the smelting plant is in the north, Serb-populated part of the town, the
ore is transported to Albania and Macedonia by night.
Reliable sources say that the ore is being mined for an Italian
industrialist with the knowledge of the new regional UNMIK
administrator,
William Nash of the United States.
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 99, Part II, 23 May 2000
THACI: INDEPENDENT KOSOVA STILL THE GOAL. Hashim Thaci
told a
convention of his Democratic Party of Kosova in
Prishtina
that independence for the province remains his goal and
that
of the party, Vienna's "Die Presse" reported on 23 May
(see
"RFE/RL Newsline," 22 May 2000). The delegates elected
a 61-
member steering committee. "Die Presse" noted that
Thaci is
having a difficult time maintaining the support of his
former
fighters from the Kosova Liberation Army (UCK). Many
more
radical UCK members now back Ramush Hajradani's
Alliance for
the Future of Kosova, as do Azem Vllasi and some other
former
communist-era leaders. Many moderate UCK supporters and
former backers of Ibrahim Rugova have joined Naim
Maloku's
Liberal Center Party. Both Hajradani and Maloku are
widely
regarded as heroes of the 1999 conflict. PM
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Robertson praises infamous terrorist
May 31, 2000
Pristina, May 31 - NATO Secretary General George Robertson praised in
Pristina today one of the most infamous ethnic Albanian terrorists, Agim
Cheku, commander of the so-called "Kosovo Protection Corps," which is
only another name for the terrorist "KLA," and moreover offered to help
would-be efforts to promote peace and reconciliation in the southern
Serbian province.
Robertson took a step further, he become one of the few foreign visitors
roaming around Kosovo-Metohija to claim that "progress" has been made in
the past year since the establishment in the Province of two U.N.
missions - civil (UNMIK) and security one (KFOR).
NATO Secretary General apparently has only one goal - support for
terrorists - because what kind of support can he speak about two days
after an ethnic Albanian terrorist, nearby U.S. KFOR troops, killed
three Serbs, including a four-year-old child, raising the number of
killed Serbs since the arrival of KFOR to 900.
Robertson ignores the fact that in the past year from Kosovo-Metohija
have been expelled 360,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians, that in
Pristina live today only 270 Serbs, as compared to 44,000 a year ago,
that ethnic Albanian terrorists have burned down or plundered over
40,000 Serbian houses...
Only Robertson sees progress there. Nevertheless, he claims that in
Kosovo-Metohija things are getting better and better and apparently in
that improvement he sees also the role of Agim Cheku, Hashim Thaqui and
others.
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Thousands of Kosovo children celebrate ``freedom''
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, June 1 (Reuters) - Thousands of Kosovo Albanian
children gathered in Pristina in fancy dress on Thursday for a
``Children's
Day'' intended to help them overcome their dark memories of war.
[Interesting
FACT: out of a 40,000
strong Serbian population in Pristina, less than 300 remain. Out of
that
40,000, 25,000 were students from preschool to university level -- only
35
Serbian children remain in all of Pristina district, living in ghetto
conditions and bused daily to a small make-shift school!]
Bringing the provincial capital's traffic to a virtual standstill, they
walked to the national theatre carrying balloons and wearing colourful
clothes and masks.
A few children were dressed as BRITISH SOLDIERS while at least one boy
wore a
cap with the insignia of the now officially disbanded Kosovo Liberation
Army,
which waged a guerrilla war against Serb rule. Most of the participants
had
more traditional children's fancy dress.
``We are here to celebrate the Children's Day and to enjoy it, and our
freedom,'' said 11-year-old Genti Muhaxheri.
Journalists estimated the turnout at between 5,000 and 10,000.
Yugoslav forces withdrew from the province almost a year ago following
78
days of NATO air strikes intended to halt Belgrade's repression of
Kosovo's
ethnic Albanian majority.
Thursday's event was organised by a local youth organisation that said
it
wanted to help the children look towards the future.
10:30 06-01-00
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U.N. Halts Publication Of Kosovo Newspaper
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, June 4, 2000; Page A22
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, June 3 –– Petar Topoljski became
famous here in the Kosovo
capital on April 27 when an ethnic Albanian newspaper published his
picture, his address and his
workplace. But it was not the sort of publicity that brings good fortune
here.
One of just a handful of Serbs employed by the U.N. mission here,
Topoljski was accused by the
newspaper Dita of violently expelling Albanians from their homes during
last year's bitter ethnic
war. The paper's sources were identified only by their initials, and no
details about Topoljski's
activities were given. No reply from Topoljski, or his friends or
family, was included.
Within three weeks, Topoljski was dead, the latest victim of the
vigilantism that persists in
Kosovo nearly a year after the war's end. His decomposed body was found
with multiple stab
wounds and wire garrote drawn tight around his neck.
The killers have not been found. But today, in the midst of a spate of
killings of Serbs, the
United Nations decided to take action against the newspaper. It sent a
squad of U.N. police to the
paper's office and ordered employees to stop publishing for eight days
on grounds that the paper
poses a threat to the province's law and order.
The decision underscores U.N. officials' frustration about the ethnic
Albanian media's practice of
making unproven accusations against individual Serbs, a technique that
some officials here say is
tantamount to publicly ordering a mafia-style hit against the accused.
U.N. spokeswoman Susan Manuel said while there is no proof that the
article directly
caused Topoljski's murder, "one could conclude that there was such a
link."
Manuel called the suspension of the paper "a symbolic gesture" but said
"we had to take a stand."
Forcibly halting publication of Dita nonetheless provoked controversy
here, among both local
journalists and international officials. Baton Haxhiu, editor of the
well-known Kosovo daily Koha
Ditore, said that while Dita should not have published Topoljski's name,
the action against it
bodes poorly for the development of independent media in Kosovo.
"This is the same as in Belgrade," Haxhiu said, referring to the Serbian
government's closure of
newspapers that print articles that displease it. He also said that the
United Nations should have
investigated the allegations but had failed to create a judicial system
where such charges could be
heard.
Daan Everts, who heads the Kosovo office of the 55-nation Organization
for Security and
Cooperation in Europe, told U.N. administrator Bernard Kouchner in a
letter that the "preferred
approach" would have been to order publication of a retraction or an
apology. But Everts said that
if Kouchner judged that "the threat to security and stability warrants
drastic action . . . then I
respect and support your decision."
A U.N. official said no one in the organization had been aware of the
article attacking Topoljski
until his death and that many officials felt ashamed for not taking
precautions to protect him.
Topoljski disappeared while running an errand for a U.N. official.
The editor of Dita, Belul Beqaj, is a former political adviser to Hashim
Thaqi, a former
guerrilla who now directs a political party. Beqaj said, "I feel sorry
this newspaper is linked with
the killing," but added that he does not regret publishing the article.
He said he plans to publish
additional photographs and names of Serbs involved in misdeeds when the
paper reopens June 12.
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"Unzere zeit": Uncomfortable historic relationships
May 16, 2000
Public and secret activities
Berlin, May 16th (Tanjug) - German soldiers, members
of KFOR, were warned of the possibility that the
former members of SS divisions "Skenderbeg", who
fought in Kosmet with support of Vermacht against
Yugoslav partizans, will try to make contact with
them, based on those "historic" relationships.
"It should not be excluded that that historic
relationship with German soldiers will be used to form
joint anti-Serbian movement", the intelligence service
of Bundesver warns members of German troops in Kosmet.
The issue is about "Instruction for Bundesver troops
in Kosovo", which was given to all German soldiers,
members of KFOR and in which, as it is discovered by
German journal "Unzere zeit", many constatations
differ from the usual media reports and official
government stands in Berlin.
In that Instruction, German soldiers are reminded of
the Kosmet crisis genesis and they are told that " by
the end of the year 1997, members of KLA intensified
its actions of violence".
These actions were, as it is stated, directed against
Serbian security forces in Kosmet, against Serb law
and economy officials and, also, against suspicious
Kosmet Albanians.
It is also reminded that the terrorist "KLA" kept 40%
of Kosmet under control from the middle of 1998 and
that it was partially repulsed in contra operations of
Serbian-Yugoslav fighting and security forces.
German soldiers are then reminded of NATO aggression
on Yugoslavia, and in the Instruction they are clearly
told that the Americans solely decided about targets
for bombing.
Bundesver intelligence service then informs its
soldiers who and what they will face in Kosmet.They
are warned that there are practically two armed
Albanian organizations in Kosmet:
KLA: General Staff includes ten different areas,
commanders of seven operative zones and - instrument
of government inside the terrorist organization -
Planning Staff. The chief of Staff is 38 years-old
Agim Ceku, who after spending eight years in Croatian
army, transferred, as a general, to KLA in 1999.
According to the estimation of the Instruction's
author, the core of "KLA" was formed of remaining
members of "Kosovo Ministry of Defense". It was formed
from the former Albanian officers and noncommissioned
officers of the Yugoslav National Army (YNA) and it
was close to Ibrahim Rugova`s Democratic Kosovo League
(DKL).
FFKR: Democratic Kosovo League, whose wing was
gathered in Germany around the "president of the
government" Bujar Bukosi, formed in the meantime
(1998) its own fighting forces, so-called FFKR
(Fighting Forces of Kosovo Republic). Their forming
was given to former YNA officer, Ahmet Krasnici. He
was murdered on September 21st 1998 in Tirana, from
where the forming was directed. Ismet Aliu took his
place.
Most members of FFKR have, in the meantime,
transferred to KLA, it is said in the Instruction and
it is claimed that Bukosi on June 17th 1999 declared
dismissal of that terrorist organization.
The division in DKL lasts until today with unpredicted
consequences, it is claimed in the Instruction and
added that Bukosi has better chances in that
confrontation, because he has donation funds from
community in exile. Albanian side realizes most of its
financial incomes through emigrant donations, first of
all from the countries of EU and Switzerland. In those
circles, Rugova`s (Bukosi`s) DKL dominates now, as
before, thus it has small military potential, but
great financial power.
KLA is mostly financed through "The Country Calls"
fund, which is legal and recognized in Germany. In
June 1999, Hashim Thaqui sent a proclamation to all
emigrants to pay 500DM to that fund.
Due to this, in near future, intensified fights for
money between rival Albanian formations can be
expected in Kosmet, the authors of the Instruction
claim.
It remains to be seen how wiser the German soldiers in
KFOR will be after reading the Instruction, which, by
the way, does not reveal anything new. The essence of
the Instruction is something else. Things that are
told to German soldiers are officially hushed up.
The reason for this is clear. The fact is about two
different things - politics and safety of its own
soldiers. In the first case it is known to whom
Germany is obedient and how it acts.
As for the security of its soldiers, Bundesver
obviously wanted to teach its soldiers with whom they
will or already deal with in the southern Serbian
province.
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Le dogane accusano: "Divise italiane made in Serbia"
31 marzo 2000
Articolo messo in Rete alle 20:53 ora italiana (18:53 GMT)
<Immagine: Sanmarco>Soldati del battaglione San Marco: fanno parte della
forza Kfor in Kosovo
BELGRADO (CNN) -- E' polemica tra la Jugoslavia di Slobodan Milosevic e
l'Italia. Le dogane della federazione jugoslava hanno accusato l'Italia
di
usare manodopera a buon mercato in Serbia per fabbricare le divise
destinate
ai propri caschi blu di stanza nel vicino Kosovo. Le autorità di
Belgrado
hanno anche dichiarato di aver sequestrato in container provenienti
dalla
Svezia uniformi e altri capi d'abbigliamento con i simboli dell'Esercito
di
liberazione del Kosovo, l'esercito kosovaro che ufficialmente è invece
stato
smantellato con l'arrivo delle truppe internazionali.
A fare queste accuse è stato Mihalj Kertes, il responsabile del servizio
doganale jugoslavo. Kertes ha mostrato ai giornalisti uniformi, guanti,
maglioni e addirittura biancheria intima con la sigla Uck, l'acronimo
con il
quale la formazione militare è conosciuta in albanese.
<Immagine>
Queste uniformi sono state inviate - dicono le autorità serbe - dalla
Svezia
come "aiuto umanitario" e stavano entrando in Jugoslavia dall'Ungheria.
Il
sequesto dovrebbe dimostrare la tesi di Belgrado, secondo la quale il
contingente internazionale della Kfor, in ormai un anno di attività, non
è
riuscito o non ha voluto disarmare davvero l'Uck.
Quanto all'Italia, Kertes ha affermato che tre società serbe (la
Borjanka
con sede a Bor, la Branka Dinic con sede a Knjazevac e la Modna
Konfekcija
con sede a Nis) hanno fabbricato uniformi dell'esercito italiano per
conto
di un subappalatore ceco, la società Emily.
"I criminali della Nato si sono dimostrati ancora una volta squallidi -
ha
tuonato il capo delle dogane serbe - Hanno commissionato la
fabbricazione
delle loro divise in Serbia pur di pagare costi di fabbricazione
bassissimi,
riducendo anche gli operai che le fabbricano al livello di criminali".
Uniformi con I gradi e I simbolki delle forze armate italiane impegnate
nella Kfor sarebbero state sequestrate a Horgos, una località al confine
con
l'Ungheria, lo scorso 2 marzo. Tra il materiale sequestrato ci sarebbero
2.428 paia di pantaloni e 406 camice. "Sono divise in cotone, ma che
contengono una sostanza speciale che le rende impenetrabili alle
radiazioni", ha detto Kertes.
Kertes dice che tra la merce trovata al confine c'è anche gomma da
masticare
con I simboli della Nato e dell'Uck, per un valore di 6 milioni di lire.
Dentro le confezioni ci sarebbe stato "materiale propagandistico, come
fotografie di celebri comandanti dell'Uck e scene di battaglie condotte
dagli albanesi contro I serbi.
Con il contributo di Reuters
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