STAMATTINA 14 AGOSTO 2000 TRUPPE DELLA NATO HANNO INVASO
L'ENCLAVE NON ANCORA "ETNICAMENTE RIPULITA" DI KOSOVSKA MITROVICA.
Finalita' della operazione:
1. mettere definitivamente a tacere le voci che contestano la politica
razzista e di appoggio al progetto nazionalista pan-albanese, come
"Radio S";
2. intimidire e reprimere la resistenza dei serbi, delle altre
nazionalita' minoritarie e degli albanesi democratici e jugoslavisti per
sgombrare il terreno da ogni ostacolo in vista delle elezioni
illegittime indette dalla amministrazione coloniale per il 28 ottobre;
3. indurre alla fuga i gruppi minoritari che hanno resistito per tutti
questi mesi alla violenza degli alleati KFOR ed UCK, in vista della
annessione della cosiddetta "Kosova" alla Grande Albania nei confini del
nazifascismo;
4. prendere il controllo e rubare le risorse dello stato Jugoslavo,
specialmente le preziose miniere del complesso di Trepca presso
Mitrovica.
L'ITALIA PARTECIPA ATTIVAMENTE ALLA OCCUPAZIONE COLONIALE E SPOLIAZIONE
DEL KOSMET ED APPOGGIA LE POLITICHE RAZZISTE DELLA AMMINISTRAZIONE
KOUCHNER, IN PERFETTA CONTINUITA' CON L'OPERATO DEL FASCISMO TRA IL 1941
ED IL 1943.
Ma il Kosmet era e rimarra' JUGOSLAVIA!
FUORI TUTTE LE TRUPPE STRANIERE DAL KOSMET!
VIVA LA JUGOSLAVIA MULTINAZIONALE ED INDIPENDENTE!
FUORI L'ITALIA DALLA NATO - FUORI LA NATO DALL'ITALIA!
SMRT FASIZMU - SLOBODA NARODU!
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NATO ATTACK ON NORTHERN MITROVICA MOVES TOWARDS NEW WAR
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Early Monday morning, squads of NATO troops seized Northern Mitrovica,
the
only remaining multiethnic part of Kosovo.
Northern Mitrovica, where thousands of Serbs, "Gypsies," Slavic Muslims
and
others driven from the rest of Kosovo lived side by side with local
Serbs,
Albanians and others, was defended by mass, non-violent action from UN
police
abuses and vicious armed assaults by Kosovo 'Liberation Army' forces
trying
to take control.
This popular movement infuriated the NATO humanitarians; hence today's
invasion by French and British NATO troops.
The excuse: to curb 'violence' (that is, the unarmed, non-violent
movement)
and, of all things, to limit pollution at a smelter. Amazing. The same
NATO
that has dropped thousands of deadly cluster (time) bombs on Kosovo's
children, the same NATO, which, as Prof. Chossudovsky has proven,
deliberately created an environmental disaster at Pancevo (1), now is
worried
about...a smelter.
These fabrications insult our intelligence. NATO's real goals: a) to
crush
resistance to KLA fascism, which NATO and the UN have installed
elsewhere in
Kosovo (2) and b) to position NATO troops close to the administrative
border
between Kosovo and inner Serbia, an area that has for months been under
attack by NATO proxy troops of the KLA variety. (3)
Recently Al Gore announced that Sen. Joseph Lieberman will be his Vice
Presidential running mate. This is the same Lieberman who said, while
attending a pro-war rally in Washington last April:
"The "United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for
the
same human values and principles...Fighting for the KLA is fighting for
human
rights and American values." ('Washington Post, April 28, 1999)
Recently, George Bush commented that if elected he will immediately
issue an
arrest warrant for Yugoslav Pres. Milosevic. Amazing isn't it how
casually
these men, even half-wits like little-Bush, how casually these men, no
matter
how limited their abilities, assume Imperial Rights. Thus - poof! - and
little Bush issues his threat to arrest - arrest? - the President of a
sovereign country. How does one arrest somebody else's President? No
problem,
didn't big daddy once pulverize a smaller country, Panama, supposedly to
arrest its President? This is Rome, complete with cruelty and greed. All
that's missing is brains.
The Lieberman announcement and the threat by Little Bush, as well as and
today's attack on Mitrovica, make eminently clear that the American
establishment is not through with Yugoslavia. It wishes to escalate the
attack. The Serbs, for a century the obstacle to Imperial conquest of
the
strategic Balkans, must be crushed as a politically coherent force.
By sending British and French troops to seize Northern Mitrovica the
United
States has positioned NATO troops close to the administrative border
with
inner Serbia. This would make it easier for NATO troops (after a
suitable
provocation is invented) to attack inner Serbia from the south and,
simultaneously, to support provocative actions by the weak,
gangster-ridden
quisling regime in Montenegro, where British SAS (Special Forces) are
currently training whatever rifraff they can scrape together (they call
it a
police force) to be used as provocateurs to a) assassinate Yugoslav
officials
and b) provide some incident9s) to 'justify' NATO intervention.
The line, put forward by NATO, that it is Milosevic who wishes to
destabilize
Montenegro and Mitrovica, etc., etc., is ridiculous on the face. Do they
take
us for fools? Are we to accept a comic book vision of world politics in
which
Milosevic plays "Super Bad Guy" to the US "Super Good Guy," where "Super
Bad
Guy" does absurdly self-destructive things for no reason but
irrepressible
malice.
In reality, it is Yugoslavia (its people AND government) who have
suffered
NATO's cruel and unwarranted assaults. It was Yugoslavia which tried,
prior
to last year's bombing, to work out some kind of peace accord and it was
NATO
which presented Yugoslavia with an agreement (which would have
legalizedthe
occupation of all Yugoslavia by NATO troops!) - a proposal designed
precisely
to ensure Yugoslav rejection. It was only Yugoslavia whose parliament
actually discussed this (anti-)peace proposal. Not one of the NATO
democracies voted, by plebiscite or even in parliament, before
initiating the
brutal 78 day bombing of Yugoslav civilians and infrastructure and the
subsequent invasion and ethnic decimation of Kosovo.
We are now attempting to get direct information from Mitrovica. We will
post
whatever we find out as soon as possible.
-- editorial staff, Emperor's Clothes.
1) 'NATO Willfully Triggered Environmental Catastrophe In Yugoslavia' by
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/willful.htm
2) 'Save the families: The women of Orahovac speak' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe.htm
3) On NATO's proxy attacks on inner Serbia, please see 'Boggling the
mind
department - Report from a UN Website' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/kilibarda/boggling.htm
and see also: 'Terrorism in southern 'Serbia Proper'' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/fighting.htm
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STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
Early this morning on the 14th of August, forces of NATO's Kosovo Force
swept
into Kosovska Mitrovica and took control of the Trepca Mining Complex.
As I
write this Yugoslav workers are resisting the encroachment of
international
forces. This move is a cynical move designed to cow the Serbian, Roma,
Turk,
Montenegrin, and some of the Albanian population that have refused to
participate in NATO organized elections. Mitrovica is the ONLY city in
Kosovo were these groups live with a measure of security thanks to a
strong
BUT COMPLETELY NON-VIOLENT opposition to KFOR in the city. I have
spoken to
Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Serbian community and the city, who has
categorically condemned ALL violence in the city. The Serbs,
Montenegrins
and Roma in Mitrovica have been subjected to beatings, bombings, grenade
attacks, kidnappings, etc. yet this is the SAFEST place for these
people in
KLA/NATO controlled Kosovo!!!!! Most minorities in Kosovo live in
ETHNIC
GHETTOES surrounded by BARBED WIRE and NATO forces. Supplies are
limited by
KLA formations which interupt supply routes and threaten to kill groups
attempting to bring assistance to Yugoslav civilians. I will keep you
posted
on developments....
French troops and Serbs clash in Mitrovica
MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 14 (Reuters) - A group of 250 Serbian workers
clashed on Monday with French riot police at the lead smelter in
northern
Mitrovica which was earlier seized by NATO peacekeepers, a French
spokesman
said.
``They are stoning the gendarmes,'' French spokesman Colonel Henri
Aussavy
told reporters.
British, French and Danish troops swept in force into Serb-held
Mitrovica
around dawn to shut down the lead smelter that had been pumping toxic
fumes
into the air.
Aussavy said the NATO operation faced further resistance inside the
plant,
where a group of 30 to 40 engineers had locked themselves inside an
administration building, refusing to leave or help U.N. experts shut
down the
smelter.
01:50 08-14-00
NATO troops sweep into Serb-held Mitrovica
MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 14 (Reuters) - British and French forces
swept
into Serb-held northern Mitrovica early on Monday to stamp NATO's
authority
on the area and try to shut down a heavily polluting lead smelter,
witnesses
said.
Dozens of vehicles with British and French troops moved across the River
Ibar, which marks the divide between ethnic Albanian dominated Kosovo
and
northern Mitrovica, the last major urban concentration of Serbs in the
Yugoslav province....
UNMIK TARGETS ZVECAN SMELTING WORKS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, August 9 (Tanjug) The United Nations Interim
Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) on Tuesday issued pamphlets
warning citizens of Kosovska Mitrovica against an alleged threat of an
increased level of lead in the atmosphere and an "epidemiological
crisis."
Director General Novak Bijelic of the Trepca mining complex,
which
includes a smelting works, reacted with a statement saying this was an
attempt to prepare public opinion in favor of closing down the Zvecan
smelting works near Pristina which employs Serbs. This action would
jeopardize the survival of the remaining Serb workers in this area,
Bijelic
said.
UNMIK can close down the smelting works "by force only,"
Bijelic
said, underscoring that air pollution is checked on a daily basis and
that
there are no indications of any contamination. Trepca invested over 10
million Dmarks in the most uptodate filters for a safe environment in
1991,
he said.
"The workers will not sit idle while someone tries to push them
out of their ancestral homes and jobs," Bijelic said.
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Kosovo Mining Complex Taken Over
.c The Associated Press
ZVECAN, Yugoslavia (AP) - NATO-led peacekeepers took control of a
Serb-run
mining complex in the northern part of Kosovo in a pre-dawn raid Monday.
British peacekeepers acting in support the U.N. mission seized the
premises
of the lead smelter near Kosovoska Mitrovica. The United Nations said
last
week the plant was spewing pollution into the air, raising lead levels
to 200
times the accepted norms.
U.N. spokesman Michael Keats confirmed the operation was under way.
News of the lead levels sparked a rare moment of solidarity in the
divided
city of Kosovoska Mitrovica, prompting Serb and ethnic Albanian leaders
to
join U.N. personnel in publicly having their blood tested.
Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic claimed the lead scare was a ruse,
however, to be used as an excuse for the United Nations to take over the
Zvecan plant...
UNMIK UMESTO CINJENICA NUDI NEISTINE
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) CIVILNA MISIJA
> UJEDINJENIH NACIJA LANSIRANJEM NETACNIH I UZNEMIRAVAJUCIH PODATAKA O
> NAVODNO ENORMOM ZAGADJIVANJU COVEKOVE OKOLINE U KOSOVSKOJ MITROVICI
> "ZELI
> DA POSTIGNE SAMO JEDAN CILJ DA ONEMOGUCI RAD
> RUDARSKOHEMIJSKOMETALURSKOG
> KOMBINATA "TREPCA" KOJI PREDSTAVLJA TEMELJ EGZISTENCIJE OGROMNOM BROJU
> GRADJANA KOSOVSKE MITROVICE I SIRE",
> OVO SE ISTICE U DANASNJEM OBRACAJU "TREPCE" GRADJANIMA
> MITROVICE
> I, KAKO SE KAZE, "UVAZENIM GOSTIMA KOJI PRIVREMENO BORAVE NA OVIM
> PROSTORIMA", A POVOD JE NEDAVNO DISTRIBUIRANJE PAMFLETA UNMIKA IZ
> PRISTINE
> O PREKOMERNOJ ZAKADJENOSTI VAZDUHA, VODE I TLA OLOVOM IZ TOPIONICE U
> ZVECANU.
> "NAZIVAMO TO PAMFLETOM, JER UMESTO CINJENICA UNMIK NUDI
> NEISTINE I
> LAZNO DUSEBRIZNISTVO ZA NASE ZDRAVLJE I NASU SUDBINU", STOJI U LETKU
> "TREPCE".
> TOPIONICA OLOVA U ZVECANU RADI JOS OD 1939. GODINE, A NE OD
> 1991.
> GODINE, KAKO TVRDE UNMIKOVI ZNALCI I RADI U KONTINUITETU. AKO NE
> RACUNAMO
> AGRESIJU NATO ALIJANSE, TOPIONICA JE ZAUSTAVLJANA SAMO RADI POVREMENOG
> REMONTA. VELIKI DIMNJAK, VISOK 306 METARA, KOJI JE PODIGNUT 1972.GODINE
> KAO
> I OPREMA I POSTROJENJA ZA PRECISCAVANJE OTPADNIH GASOVA U KOJU SMO
> ULOZILI
> PREKO 10 MILIONA NEMACKIH MARAKA NAJBOLJI SU DOKAZ DA SE O NASEM
> ZDRAVLJU
> VODILO I VODI RACUNA JOS MNOGO PRE DOLASKA UNMIKA. NA HILJADE RADNIKA,
> STRUCNJAKA I NAJVISIH RUKOVODILACA "TREPCE" ZIVE I RADE TIK UZ TOPIONICU
>
> OLOVA I SVAKAKO BRINU O SVOM ZDRAVLJU, SASVIM SIGURNO MNOGO VISE OD
> UNMIKA,
> STOJI U OBRACANJU "TREPCE".
> DA NEMA RAZLOGA ZA TOBOZNJU "ZABRINUTOST" UNMIKA POTVRDJUJU
> SVAKODNEVNE ANALIZE NASEG INSTITUTA ZA ISTRAZIVANJE I RAZVOJ, KOJE
> UKAZUJU
> DA SU NAS VAZDUH, VODA I ZEMLJA ZASTICENI OD ZAGADJIVANJA OLOVOM,
> GASOVIMA
> I PRASINOM.
> U SVOM OBRACANJU "TREPCA" JE PONUDILA "REZULTATE KONTROLE
> PRISUSTVA TESKIH METALA U VAZDUHU NA VISE KONTROLNIH PUNKTOVA U
> KOSOVSKOJ
> MITROVICI U PERIODU JUNJULI" PA TAKO NAVODE DA JE OLOVA IZMERENO 0,12
> MILIGRAMA PO METRU KUBNOM, A MAKSIMALNO DOZVOLJENA KONCENTRACIJA JE
> 0,15,
> CINKA JE IZMERENO 0,019 A DOZVOLJENO 0,4, BAKRA 0,004 A DOZVOLJENO 0,01,
>
> GVOZDJA 0,002 A DOZVOLJENO 0,2 I TD.
> AKO VEC BRINU O DECI I TRUDNICAMA KOSOVSKE MITROVICE,
> STRUCNJACI
> UNMIKA BI MORALI NAJPRE DA SAGLEDAJU POSLEDICE KOJE IZAZIVAJU IZDUVNI
> GASOVI IZ NJIHOVIH TESKIH VOZILA KOJA DANONOCNO SPARTAJU NASIM ULICAMA I
>
> DRUMOVIMA I BEZOBZIRNO TRUJU NEDUZNE GRADJANE, STOJI U OBRACANJU.
> NA DRUGOJ STRANI, OPSTE JE POZNATA CINJENICA DA JE BESOMUCNO
> BOMBARDOVANJE KOSOVA I METOHIJE OD NATO AGRESORA, A POSEBNO KORISCENJE
> ZABRANJENIH ORUZJA KAO STO SU OSIROMASENI URANIJUM, KASETNE BOMBE I
> SLICNO,
> UZROKOVALO EKOLOSKU KATASTROFU SA TRAJNIM I NESAGLEDIVIM POSLEDICAMA,
> STOJI
> U OBRACAJU.
> UNMIK, NAZALOST, NE POKAZUJE NI NAJMANJU ZABRINUTOST OD
> POSLEDICA
> RATNIH STRAHOTA KOJA JE POSEJANA NA NASIM PROSTORIMA, ZAKLJUCUJE SE U
> OBRACAJU "TREPCE" GRADJANIMA I GOSTIMA KOSOVKE MITROVICE.
>
UNMIK IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA OFFERS UNTRUTHS RATHER THAN FACTS TREPCA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 13 (Tanjug) The U.N. civilian mission
to
KosovoMetohija (UNMIK) is spreading disturbing untruths about pollution
from the Trepca mining complex in order to put Trepca out of commission,
according to a statement from Trepca on Sunday.
The sole purpose of UNMIK's allegations about high levels of
pollution in Kosovska Mitrovica is "to prevent Trepca, which gives their
livelihood to a large number of people in Kosovska Mitrovica and beyond,
to
go on working", the statement said.
The statement was prompted by a recent UNMIK pamphlet
distributed
in Pristina and alleging excessive air, water and soil pollution with
lead
from the Trepca smelting plant in Zvecan, in the Yugoslav republic of
Serbia's U.N.run KosovoMetohija province.
"We call this a pamphlet, because UNMIK offered untruths and
false
care for our health and our fate instead of giving the true facts", said
the statement, addressed by the mining, chemical and metallurgical
complex
to the people in divided Kosovska Mitrovica.
The Zvecan lead smelting plant has been in operation since
1939,
not 1991, as claimed by UNMIK, and has stopped work only for occasional
overhauls and during NATO's aggression from March to June 1999.
The 306metre smokestack, built in 1972, as well as equipment
and
installations for purifying waste gases, in which more than 10 million
German marks have been invested, are best evidence that the people's
health
was a consideration long before UNMIK's deployment.
Thousands of Trepca's employees workers, experts and
executives work at and live in the immediate vicinity of the Zvecan
lead
smelting plant, and they certainly care much more about their own health
than UNMIK ever could, the Trepca statement said.
Daily sampling of the air, water and soil shows that these are
protected from pollution by lead, gas and dust and that there is no
reason
for UNMIK's socalled "concern".
In its statement, Trepca quoted results of tests for the
presence
of heavy metals in the air at several checkpoints in Kosovska Mitrovica
in
the JuneJuly period.
According to these results, there was .12 milligrams of lead
per
cubic metre (permitted level .15 mg), .019 mg of zinc (permitted level
.4
mg), copper .004 mg (permitted level .01 mg), iron .002 mg (permitted
level
.2 mg), etc.
"If UNMIK experts are concerned for the children and pregnant
women in Kosovska Mitrovica, they should take care of the waste gases
from
their own heavyduty vehicles that throng our roads at all hours and
poison
the people", the statement said.
On the other hand, it is a wellknown fact that NATO's merciless
bombing of KosovoMetohija last year and use of banned weapons, such as
depleted uranium and cluster bombs, have caused an environmental
disaster
with unforeseeable longterm consequences, it added.
Regrettably, UNMIK has shown not the least concern for the
people
suffering the consequences of the horrors of war strewn all over our
land,
Trepca said in Kosovska Mitrovica.
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LIBERTA' DI STAMPA IN JUGOSLAVIA:
"RADIO S" DAVA TROPPO FASTIDIO
ORA LA NATO PUO' FINALMENTE ELIMINARLA DALL'ETERE!
Serb radio in Kosovo defies U.N. shutdown
order
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 13 (Reuters) - A hardline Kosovo
Serb
radio station said on Sunday it was defying a United Nations order to
shut
down its broadcasts from the north of the ethnically-divided city of
Kosovska
Mitrovica.
U.N. administrators, who run Kosovo as a de facto protectorate, issued
Radio
S with the closure order late on Saturday, citing licensing
irregularities....
*** A chi da fastidio la Radio S ....erba?
> KOMESARU OEBSA SMETA "RADIO S"
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) PRIVREMENI KOMESAR
>
> OEBS-A ZA MEDIJE SIMON HADELON URUCIO JE ZAHTEV PREDSTAVNIKU "RADIJA S"
> U
> KOSOVSKOJ MITROVICI DA PRESTANE EMITOVANJE PROGRAMA, UZ OBRAZLOZENJE DA
> JE
> DOKUMENTACIJA TOG RADIJA NAVODNO NEPOTPUNA ZA DOBIJANJE DOZVOLE ZA RAD.
> RADIO S JE TREBALO, PREMA TOJ ODLUCI, DA PRESTANA DA EMITUJE
> PROGRAM SINOC, U 19.00 CASOVA, ALI JE NASTAVIO RAD.
> ODGOVORNI UREDNIK "RADIJA S" RADOVAN GLIGOVIC OCENIO JE DANAS,
> U
> RAZGOVORU S NOVINARIMA, DA JE ZAHTEV HADELONA POKUSAJ DA SE UGASI JOS
> JEDAN
> SRPSKI MEDIJ NA KOSMETU, DODAVSI DA "MIROVNJACI I DEMOKRATE" POKUSAVAJU
> DA
> UGASE GOTOVO SVE MEDIJE U SRPSKOJ JUZNOJ POKRAJINI,STO SU NJIHOVI
> RADNICI
> ODBILI DA PRIMENE.
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Kfor non vede vandalismo albanese nel Cimitero ortodosso di Kosovska
Mitrovica che si trova nella parte sud, albanese
> SRUSENO 500 SPOMENIKA NA PRAVOSLAVNOM GROBLJU
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) SRBI IZ SEVERNOG
> DELA
> KOSOVSKE MITROVICE, NJIH 120, KOJI SU DANAS, U PRATNJI KFORA, POSETILI
> PRAVOSLAVNO GROBLJE U JUZNOM, ALBANSKOM DELU GRADA, NAISLI SU NA
> NEVIDJEN
> VANDALIZAM ALBANSKIH EKSTREMISTA.
> NASLI SU NOVIH 300 POLOMLJENIH NADGROBNIH SPOMENIKA, A SA NEKIH
>
> SPOMENIKA SU POSKIDANA MESINGANA SLOVA I ODNETE BISTE OD BRONZE.
> OGORCENI I REVOLTIRANI ZBOG OVOG VANDALIZMA, SRBI SU OSTRO
> PROTESTOVALI KOD KFORA KOJI NISTA NE CINI, I PORED OBECANJA, DA ZASTITI
> PRAVOSLAVNO GROBLJE U JUZNOM DELU KOSOVSKE MITROVICE U KOME ZIVI
> ALBANSKO
> STANOVNISTVO.
> DANASNJA POSETA SRBA IZ SEVERNOG DELA KOSOVSKE MITROVICE
> PRAVOSLAVNOM GROBLJU U JUZNZOM DELU GRADA PRVA JE POSLE ZADUSNICA, A VEC
>
> TADA JE BILO PORUSENO 200 NADGROBNIH SPOMENIKA.
ALTRI ATTI DI VIOLENZA E TERRORISMO CHE LA KFOR APPOGGIA
> OTETA DVA SRPSKA MLADICA
>
> K O S O V S K A K A M E N I C A (TANJUG) DVA SRPSKA MLADICA
> IZ
> OKOLINE KOSOVSKE KAMENICE SU OTETA, ZAJEDNO SA SVOJIM TRAKTOROM, NA
> BENZINSKOJ PUMPI "ISMAILPETROL" U SUSEDNOM ALBANSKOM SELU ODANOVCE, GDE
> SU
> JUCE OKO 13.00 SATI OTISLI DA NATOCE GORIVO ZA TRAKTOR.
> KAKO JE DANAS SAOPSTIO KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I LJUDSKA PRAVA
> KOSOVSKE
> KAMENICE, REC JE O 20GODISNJEM GORANU STANKOVICU IZ SELA DOMOROVCA KOD
> KOSOVSKE KAMENICE I NJEGOVOM NESTO MLADJEM BRATU OD TETKE IZ
> BUJANOVACKOG
> SELA LOPARDINCE, CIJE IME NIJE NAVEDENO.
> CIM JE JUCE ALARMIRAN NJIHOV NESTANAK, U DOMOROVCU SE OKUPILO
> OKO
> 500 SRBA IZ TOGSELA I IZ SUSEDNOG KORMINJANA, KOJI SU U ZNAK PROTESTA
> BLOKIRALI LOKALNI PUT DOMOROVCE OGOSTE.
> VOJNICI KFORA, IZ AMERICKOG I RUSKOG SASTAVA, U POTRAZI SU ZA
> KIDNAPOVANIM SRBIMASU OD JUTROS BLOKIRALI PUT GNJILANE BUJANOVACI I
> KOSAVSKA KAMENICA BUJANOVAC KOD MESTA BELA ZEMLJA, GDE SE INACE NALAZI
> NJIHOV PUNKT. ONI CINE NAPORE DA PRONADJU KIDNAPOVANE SRPSKE MLADICE.
> RODBINA KIDNAPOVANIH MLADICA I VOJNICI KFORA SU KASNO SINOC
> RAZGOVARALI SA VLASNIKOM BENZINSKE PUMPE"ISMAILPETROL" U SELU ODANOVCE,
> GDE
> SE MLADICIMA IZGUBIO TRAG, ALI RADNICI TE PUMPE NISU POKAZALI SPREMNOST
> ZA
> SARADNJU SA ISLEDNICIMA IZ KFORA, SAOPSTIO JE DANAS KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I
>
> LJUDSKA PRAVA KOSOVSKE KAMENICE.
>
> ALBANSKI BANDITI UKRALI OKO 250 VAGONA JZ
> K O S O V O P O LJ E, D O B R E V O (TANJUG) ABANSKI
> PLJACKASI U
> SARADNJI SA CELNICIMA KFORA VEC VISE OD MESEC DANA ODVLACE TRANSPORTNE
> VAGONE IZ KOSOVA POLJA KA ZELEZARI SKOPLJE, GDE CE IH, NAJVEROVATNIJE,
> PRODATI KAO STARO GVOZDJE, OSTECUJUCI TAKO IMOVINU JUGOSLOVENSKIH
> ZELEZNICA, JAVILI SU DANAS RADIOAMATERI SA KRIZNIH PODRUCJA KOSMETA.
> VISE OD 450 STARIH I POKVARENIH, ODNOSNO, NEREGISTROVANIH
> VAGONA,
> BILO JE SMESTENO NA DEONICI PRUGE OD DOBREVA PREMA RUDNIKU KISNICA, TAKO
> DA
> SE KOLONA VAGONA PROTEZALA SVE DO LAPLJEG SELA, ALI JE OD TOG BROJA DO
> SADA
> VEC ODVEZENO VISE OD POLOVINE VAGONA.
> KAKO GRANICU SA MAKEDONIJOM KONTROLISU PRIPANICI KFORA, NAJVECU
>
> ODGOVORNOST ZA OVU VELIKU KRADJU I OTIMACINU, SNOSE UPRAVO PRIPADNICI
> MEDJUNARODNIH MIROVNIH SNAGA.
>
ETHNIC ALBANIANS STEEL 250 WAGGONS FROM YUGOSLAV RAILWAYS
KOSOVO POLJE/DOBREVO, Serbia, Aug 13 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian
bandits, in collusion with international force KFor officials, have for
more than a month been hauling off rolling stock from U.N.run
KosovoMetohija to Macedonia, according to reports on Sunday.
Amateur radio operators in that U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav)
province say that railway waggons are being taken from Kosovo Polje to
the
iron works in Skopje, probably to be sold as scrap iron, thus causing
heavy
losses to the Yugoslav railway company.
More than onehalf of the 450plus old and decommissioned waggons
parked on the track between Dobrevo and the Kisnica mine have been
hauled
away.
Since the KosovoMetohija section of the YugoslavMacedonian
border
is controlled by KFor, the greatest responsibility for the theft rests
with
the international force.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS START FOREST FIRES IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
NOVO BRDO, Serbia, August 12 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian
extremists
on Friday set fire to the woods in the vicinity of a Serb village in the
Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's U.N.administered KosovoMetohija province,
according to reports.
Amateur radio operators inform that the socalled international
force KFor fire brigade, made up solely of ethnic Albanians, never even
tried to put out the fires, which are raging around the village of Izvor
in
the Novo Brdo municipality in east KosovoMetohija.
The fires are ravaging the forests of Lazovi, Glog and Vrbina,
which were the source of highquality firewood for the local Serb.
After villagers of Izvor reported the fires, KFor troops
quickly
came out to inspect the scene, together with the fire brigade, but then
equally quickly left, without having tried to intervene at all.
The people in Izvor suspect that the fires were set by their
neighbours in the purely ethnic Albanian populated village of Vlasce,
according to amateur radio operators.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS SHOOT AT SERB CONVOY
PASJANE, August 8 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian terrorists fired
shots
at Serbs travelling late on Monday in a convoy of cars from the
southSerbian town of Presevo to the village of Pasjane, near the town of
Gnjilane, situated in the east of the KFORadministered Serbian province
of
Kosovo and Metohija.
Serb Ljubisa Cuparevic from the village of Donje Budrige
sustained
injuries in the incident that occurred near the permanent checkpoint of
the
KFOR U.S. contingent, local radio operators said.
> SRBIMA UNISTENO 30 HEKTARA POD KUKURUZOM
> G NJ I L A N E (TANJUG) U ATARU MULTIETNICKOG SELA PONESA, KOD
>
> GNJILANA, ALBANSKI STOCARI SU, NAGONECI SVOJU STOKU NA SRPSKE NJIVE,
> UNISTILI 30 HEKTARA POD KUKURUZOM, SAOPSTIO JE KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I
> LJUDSKA
> PRAVA GNJILANE
> LOKALNI ALBANCI SVAKODNEVNO NAGONE CITAVO STADO OD PEDESETAK
> GRLA
> KRUPNE STOKE, NA TE NJIVE ILI SEKIROM SEKU KUKURUZNE STABLJIKE I NJIME
> HRANE DOMACE ZIVOTINJE.
> U TOM POHODU NAJVISE SU STRADALI POTEZI IZNAD SELA PREMA
> LIVOCKOM
> JEZERU, GDE SVOJE NJIVE POD KUKURUZOM IMAJU MOMCILO STOJANOVIC, BRACA
> DIMITRIJE, DOBRIVOJE I ZARKO CVEJIC, PETAR SAVIC, STAJKO STAJIC, TRAJA
> PAUNOVIC, STANKO SIMIC I MNOGI DRUGI SRBI.
> SRBIMA U PONESU NA ISTI NACIN UNISTENO JE I DESETAK HEKTARA
> USEVA
> OVSA I JECMA, DOK SE DRVO SA OKO 500 HEKTARA HRASTOVE SUME I DALJE
> NESMETANO SECE I UNISTAVA.
> SRPSKI PREDSTAVNIK TOGA SELA ALEKSANDAR RISTIC SE, KAKO SE
> NAVODI
> U SAOPSTENJU, OTVORENO ZALI NA KFOR, KOJI NISTA NE CINI DA ZASTITI SRBE
> OD
> UNISTAVANJA LETINE.
> RISTIC KAZE DA "ALBANSKI STOCARI I BANDITI IMAJU PRECUTNU
> PODRSKU
> 'MIROVNJAKA' U SVOJIM NECASNIM RADNJAMA, USMERENIM NA PROTERIVANJE I
> IZGON
> SRBA IZ TOGA SELA".
> SELO PONES IMA 180 SRPSKIH DOMOVA I 50 ALBANSKIH I PREDSTAVLJA
> JAKO SRPSKO UPORISTE SEVEROZAPADNO OD GNJILANA.
> POSLE POHARE USEVA I DUGE OVOGODISNJE SUSE SRBI SU VEC POCELI
> DA
> SMANJUJU STOCNI FOND. SRBIMA PRETI HUMANITARNA KATASTROFA OVE JESENI I
> ZIME, JER NEMAJU DOVOLJNO HRANE NI ZA STOKU, NI ZA SEBE, A OSETICE I
> NESTASICU OGREVNOG DRVETA, UPRKOS VELIKIM PROSTRANSTVIMA SVOJIH SUMA,
> KOJIH
> VISE GOTOVO I DA NEMA.
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BULLDOZER DALL'ARABIA SAUDITA PER DISTRUGGERE I CENTRI STORICI KOSOVARI
From: Greek Helsinki Monitor <office@g...>
Date: Tue Aug 8, 2000 4:40pm
Subject: RFE/RL: SAUDI AID WORKERS BULLDOZE BALKAN MONUMENTS
RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
___________________________________________________________
RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 151, Part II, 8 August 2000
SAUDI AID WORKERS BULLDOZE BALKAN MONUMENTS
By Jolyon Naegele
The Saudi bulldozing of some of the most historically
valuable architectural monuments in the western Kosova market
town of Djakovica is merely the latest in a series of
iconoclastic activities in the Balkans undertaken in the name
of reconstruction assistance by Arab aid organizations. War-
damaged historic buildings are not repaired, but rather
demolished to make way for what the Arab donors consider to
be more proper Islamic structures.
The destruction is a further blow to Kosova's
architectural heritage, following the destruction by Serbian
forces and civilians in 1998 and 1999 of over 200 mosques and
other Islamic structures--about one-third of the total number
in the province.
Harvard University Fine Arts librarian Andras
Riedlmayer, the co-author of a survey of Kosova's war-damaged
architectural sites, is outraged by the Saudi demolition
program.
"Unfortunately, a Saudi aid agency got permits from the
local reconstruction agency and from the local institute for
the preservation of monuments to work on the restoration, so
to speak, of the Hadum mosque complex in the center of the
historic district."
Riedlmayer says the Saudis began on 24 July by trying to
knock down all the Ottoman-era gravestones in the cemetery of
the Hadum mosque.
"The Saudis were interested in removing them because
they consider gravestones to be idolatrous. They are
followers of Wahhabism, which is an extremist interpretation
of Islam at odds with the practice of most of the Muslim
world."
The Wahhabis are a purist movement founded in the 18th
century by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (c. 1703-1791). He
converted the Saud tribe, which now rules Saudi Arabia. The
Wahhabis are the largest and most powerful Muslim sect in
Saudi Arabia.
Riedlmayer says the Saudis are obsessed with having all
ancient tombstones, mausoleums, and Sufi shrines located near
mosques eliminated, since--unlike most Muslims in the world
today--the Wahhabis believe these to be "un-Islamic" and
idolatrous. He said: "the Wahhabis, with their wealth and
fanaticism, are a menace to heritage, in some ways more
dangerous than the [Serb paramilitary] Chetniks, since about
the latter, at least, no one harbors any illusions regarding
their uncharitable intentions."
The Saudi Joint Relief Committee for the People of
Kosovo and Chechnya, established by royal decree, has built
mosques, schools, clinics, and shelters for displaced
persons. It has also supplied the province with several
hundred tons of medicine, food, blankets, tents, and clothing
during the last 13 months.
But spreading the message of Wahhabi Islam appears to be
another aim of the committee. The new mosques are white, boxy
structures devoid of detail--a far cry from the centuries-old
Ottoman-style mosques that characterize the urban and village
landscape in much of the Balkans.
Riedlmayer says NATO-led KFOR peacekeepers declined to
intervene in Djakovica after the Saudis showed their
authorized papers.
"Eventually the Department of Culture in UNMIK (the UN
administration) was notified. They spoke with the Saudis on
[27 July] and tried to get them to desist. However, on [28
July], the Saudis sent in a bulldozer [and] knocked down the
buildings around the Hadum mosque, including the library
built in 1733 and ancient gravestones in the graveyard."
The Hadum mosque itself, which survived last year's
fighting largely intact--despite fire damage to its porch and
grenade damage to its minaret--remains endangered. If the
past is prologue, the frescoes could soon be whitewashed by
Wahhabi purists.
Attempts by RFE/RL to contact the UNMIK-Joint Interim
Administration's Department of Culture, the Kosovo Institute
for the Protection of Monuments, or the Saudi Joint Relief
Committee in Kosovo were unsuccessful.
However, Peruvian Alvaro Higueras, from the UNMIK
Culture Department, confirmed in a telephone call to
Riedlmayer on 3 August that the Saudis had razed the library
and Koran school.
Higueras said the Saudis planned to build a reinforced
concrete Islamic center on the cleared site. But the UNMIK
official says the Saudis applied for permission for a
restoration project, not for new construction. Higueras says
an order has now been issued to stop construction
indefinitely. He says the Saudis will have to "undo the
damage" and restore the Ottoman-era buildings using
traditional materials and techniques.
Riedlmayer has documented cases in which the Saudi and
other Arab aid agencies have destroyed other historic Islamic
buildings elsewhere in Kosova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and
Bulgaria.
Last October, while Riedlmayer was in Kosova conducting
a survey of war-damaged architectural heritage, he witnessed
the destruction of Muslim cemeteries in Vushtrri. He says an
Islamic aid agency from the United Arab Emirates had
pressured local Albanian residents to sledgehammer the graves
of their ancestors, completely clearing two historic
graveyards next to the Gazi Ali Beg and Karamanli mosques of
more than 100 gravestones dating back to the 15th century.
Only the grave marker of Gazi Ali Beg himself remained, as
the locals refused to allow that one to be smashed.
Riedlmayer says the UAE aid agency promised to rebuild
the damaged mosques "twice as big and twice as Islamic," but
only if the gravestones were removed. He says the agency, the
largest aid organization in the town, also made an implicit
threat to withhold humanitarian aid if the donors' request
was ignored.
Riedlmayer notes that during and immediately after the
war in Bosnia (1992-95), a Saudi aid agency took charge of
the restoration of the Gazi Husrev Beg mosque (Begova
dzamija) as well as other historic mosques in Sarajevo and in
many other towns and villages.
At the Beg mosque, the Saudis ordered the Ottoman tile
work and painted wall decorations stripped off and discarded
and had the whole building redone, as Riedlmayer puts it "in
gleaming hospital white, even the minaret slathered in white
plaster." He says that in scores of villages, the Saudis had
war-damaged but restorable historic Ottoman-style Bosnian
mosques demolished and redone Saudi-style. All of the
colorful Balkan-Muslim interior decor was eliminated, and
separate entrances were added to segregate women.
To drive home the significance of the Saudi destruction
in the Balkans, Riedlmayer says, "Imagine, if you will, some
terrible catastrophe affecting the historic churches of Rome
and Tuscany, and then having" modern-day U.S. Christian sects
coming in and insisting that they be redone in "proper
Christian style."
The author is a senior RFE/RL correspondent based in Prague.
To view photos of some of the structures described in the
article go to:
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2000/08/F.RU.000804130919.html
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SOLDATI BELGI DELLA KFOR PERQUISISCONO E PICCHIANO
RAPPRESENTANTI UFFICIALI JUGOSLAVI PER I RAPPORTI CON L'ONU
HTTP://WWW.KFORMYASS.com
Yugoslav Liaison Committee members harassed
August 11, 2000
Kosovska Mitrovica, August 10 -
Members of the Yugoslav Committee
Liaising with the U.N. mission, Jovica
Jovanovic and Radovan Redzic, were
harassed by Belgian KFOR troops at
a KFOR checkpoint in Donje Jerinje.
According to Jovanovic, the KFOR
troops stopped the Yugoslavs' car,
demanded personal identification papers from the two passengers, and
then proceeded to search the vehicle, including the two Yugoslav
diplomats' personal belongings.
The Belgians then insisted on taking photos of the Yugoslavs, dragged
Redzic to a barrack a few meters away, kicked him, put him up against
the wall and forcefully took his photo.
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IL TERRORISTA "DEMOCRATICO" THAQI OSPITE DELLA CONVENTION
DI LOS ANGELES!
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
According to Albanian newspaper Zeri Hashim Thaqi will attend
Democratic National Convention starting Monday in LA.
If you are going to be somewhere near, don't forget to give him my
regards! I am too far from LA to throw any eggs on him.
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VERSO LE ELEZIONI-TRUFFA NEL PROTETTORATO DEL "KOSOVA"
U.N. calls Kosovo election for October 28
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The United Nations
administration in
Kosovo has decided to hold municipal elections on October
28, an spokeswoman
said.
The spokeswoman for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo
said UNMIK head
Bernard Kouchner had decided on the date after
consultations with the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),
which is
overseeing the first post-war poll. The election had been
expected to take
place sometime in October....
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SCANDALO!
TRUPPE JUGOSLAVE CERCANO DI ENTRARE IN JUGOSLAVIA!?!
Serbs accused of Kosovo raid
Special report: Serbia
Saturday August 12, 2000
The Guardian
Serbian soldiers made a probing incursion into Kosovo two weeks ago in
the worst breach yet of the agreement that ended Nato's bombing campaign
last year, the US forces newspaper, Stars and Stripes, said yesterday.
US forces scrambled Apache helicopters to confront the group of armed
and uniformed Serbs in two all-terrain vehicles who retreated across the
dividing line between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia, the paper said.
The incident took place on July 28 in the mountains of eastern Kosovo,
near Serbia's Presevo valley, where there have been clashes between
Serbian police and a group of ethnic Albanians seeking independence from
Belgrade.
Shortly after the alleged incursion, peacekeepers said they had stepped
up security in the Presevo area to try to stop the ethnic Albanian UCPMB
group from operating. US forces had reported seeing mortar fire and
other military activity.
Officials of the US military contingent that patrols the area refused to
respond to questions about the incident and Nato spokesman Major Craig
Snow in Pristina said he could not confirm that Serbian forces had
crossed into Kosovo. "We've not been commenting on specific incidents,"
Maj Snow said.
Serb army and police units pulled out of Kosovo in July last year as
part of an agreement that ended Nato's 78-day bombing campaign of
Serb-dominated Yugoslavia.
The Serb incursion, if confirmed, would be regarded by Nato as a test of
its commitment to control the movement of UCPMB guerrillas who operate
out of Kosovo and have been trying the patience of the Serb military in
Presevo.
Reuters, Pristina
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L'ENCLAVE NON ANCORA "ETNICAMENTE RIPULITA" DI KOSOVSKA MITROVICA.
Finalita' della operazione:
1. mettere definitivamente a tacere le voci che contestano la politica
razzista e di appoggio al progetto nazionalista pan-albanese, come
"Radio S";
2. intimidire e reprimere la resistenza dei serbi, delle altre
nazionalita' minoritarie e degli albanesi democratici e jugoslavisti per
sgombrare il terreno da ogni ostacolo in vista delle elezioni
illegittime indette dalla amministrazione coloniale per il 28 ottobre;
3. indurre alla fuga i gruppi minoritari che hanno resistito per tutti
questi mesi alla violenza degli alleati KFOR ed UCK, in vista della
annessione della cosiddetta "Kosova" alla Grande Albania nei confini del
nazifascismo;
4. prendere il controllo e rubare le risorse dello stato Jugoslavo,
specialmente le preziose miniere del complesso di Trepca presso
Mitrovica.
L'ITALIA PARTECIPA ATTIVAMENTE ALLA OCCUPAZIONE COLONIALE E SPOLIAZIONE
DEL KOSMET ED APPOGGIA LE POLITICHE RAZZISTE DELLA AMMINISTRAZIONE
KOUCHNER, IN PERFETTA CONTINUITA' CON L'OPERATO DEL FASCISMO TRA IL 1941
ED IL 1943.
Ma il Kosmet era e rimarra' JUGOSLAVIA!
FUORI TUTTE LE TRUPPE STRANIERE DAL KOSMET!
VIVA LA JUGOSLAVIA MULTINAZIONALE ED INDIPENDENTE!
FUORI L'ITALIA DALLA NATO - FUORI LA NATO DALL'ITALIA!
SMRT FASIZMU - SLOBODA NARODU!
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NATO ATTACK ON NORTHERN MITROVICA MOVES TOWARDS NEW WAR
www.tenc.net
Early Monday morning, squads of NATO troops seized Northern Mitrovica,
the
only remaining multiethnic part of Kosovo.
Northern Mitrovica, where thousands of Serbs, "Gypsies," Slavic Muslims
and
others driven from the rest of Kosovo lived side by side with local
Serbs,
Albanians and others, was defended by mass, non-violent action from UN
police
abuses and vicious armed assaults by Kosovo 'Liberation Army' forces
trying
to take control.
This popular movement infuriated the NATO humanitarians; hence today's
invasion by French and British NATO troops.
The excuse: to curb 'violence' (that is, the unarmed, non-violent
movement)
and, of all things, to limit pollution at a smelter. Amazing. The same
NATO
that has dropped thousands of deadly cluster (time) bombs on Kosovo's
children, the same NATO, which, as Prof. Chossudovsky has proven,
deliberately created an environmental disaster at Pancevo (1), now is
worried
about...a smelter.
These fabrications insult our intelligence. NATO's real goals: a) to
crush
resistance to KLA fascism, which NATO and the UN have installed
elsewhere in
Kosovo (2) and b) to position NATO troops close to the administrative
border
between Kosovo and inner Serbia, an area that has for months been under
attack by NATO proxy troops of the KLA variety. (3)
Recently Al Gore announced that Sen. Joseph Lieberman will be his Vice
Presidential running mate. This is the same Lieberman who said, while
attending a pro-war rally in Washington last April:
"The "United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for
the
same human values and principles...Fighting for the KLA is fighting for
human
rights and American values." ('Washington Post, April 28, 1999)
Recently, George Bush commented that if elected he will immediately
issue an
arrest warrant for Yugoslav Pres. Milosevic. Amazing isn't it how
casually
these men, even half-wits like little-Bush, how casually these men, no
matter
how limited their abilities, assume Imperial Rights. Thus - poof! - and
little Bush issues his threat to arrest - arrest? - the President of a
sovereign country. How does one arrest somebody else's President? No
problem,
didn't big daddy once pulverize a smaller country, Panama, supposedly to
arrest its President? This is Rome, complete with cruelty and greed. All
that's missing is brains.
The Lieberman announcement and the threat by Little Bush, as well as and
today's attack on Mitrovica, make eminently clear that the American
establishment is not through with Yugoslavia. It wishes to escalate the
attack. The Serbs, for a century the obstacle to Imperial conquest of
the
strategic Balkans, must be crushed as a politically coherent force.
By sending British and French troops to seize Northern Mitrovica the
United
States has positioned NATO troops close to the administrative border
with
inner Serbia. This would make it easier for NATO troops (after a
suitable
provocation is invented) to attack inner Serbia from the south and,
simultaneously, to support provocative actions by the weak,
gangster-ridden
quisling regime in Montenegro, where British SAS (Special Forces) are
currently training whatever rifraff they can scrape together (they call
it a
police force) to be used as provocateurs to a) assassinate Yugoslav
officials
and b) provide some incident9s) to 'justify' NATO intervention.
The line, put forward by NATO, that it is Milosevic who wishes to
destabilize
Montenegro and Mitrovica, etc., etc., is ridiculous on the face. Do they
take
us for fools? Are we to accept a comic book vision of world politics in
which
Milosevic plays "Super Bad Guy" to the US "Super Good Guy," where "Super
Bad
Guy" does absurdly self-destructive things for no reason but
irrepressible
malice.
In reality, it is Yugoslavia (its people AND government) who have
suffered
NATO's cruel and unwarranted assaults. It was Yugoslavia which tried,
prior
to last year's bombing, to work out some kind of peace accord and it was
NATO
which presented Yugoslavia with an agreement (which would have
legalizedthe
occupation of all Yugoslavia by NATO troops!) - a proposal designed
precisely
to ensure Yugoslav rejection. It was only Yugoslavia whose parliament
actually discussed this (anti-)peace proposal. Not one of the NATO
democracies voted, by plebiscite or even in parliament, before
initiating the
brutal 78 day bombing of Yugoslav civilians and infrastructure and the
subsequent invasion and ethnic decimation of Kosovo.
We are now attempting to get direct information from Mitrovica. We will
post
whatever we find out as soon as possible.
-- editorial staff, Emperor's Clothes.
1) 'NATO Willfully Triggered Environmental Catastrophe In Yugoslavia' by
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/willful.htm
2) 'Save the families: The women of Orahovac speak' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe.htm
3) On NATO's proxy attacks on inner Serbia, please see 'Boggling the
mind
department - Report from a UN Website' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/kilibarda/boggling.htm
and see also: 'Terrorism in southern 'Serbia Proper'' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/fighting.htm
www.tenc.net
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STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
Early this morning on the 14th of August, forces of NATO's Kosovo Force
swept
into Kosovska Mitrovica and took control of the Trepca Mining Complex.
As I
write this Yugoslav workers are resisting the encroachment of
international
forces. This move is a cynical move designed to cow the Serbian, Roma,
Turk,
Montenegrin, and some of the Albanian population that have refused to
participate in NATO organized elections. Mitrovica is the ONLY city in
Kosovo were these groups live with a measure of security thanks to a
strong
BUT COMPLETELY NON-VIOLENT opposition to KFOR in the city. I have
spoken to
Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Serbian community and the city, who has
categorically condemned ALL violence in the city. The Serbs,
Montenegrins
and Roma in Mitrovica have been subjected to beatings, bombings, grenade
attacks, kidnappings, etc. yet this is the SAFEST place for these
people in
KLA/NATO controlled Kosovo!!!!! Most minorities in Kosovo live in
ETHNIC
GHETTOES surrounded by BARBED WIRE and NATO forces. Supplies are
limited by
KLA formations which interupt supply routes and threaten to kill groups
attempting to bring assistance to Yugoslav civilians. I will keep you
posted
on developments....
French troops and Serbs clash in Mitrovica
MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 14 (Reuters) - A group of 250 Serbian workers
clashed on Monday with French riot police at the lead smelter in
northern
Mitrovica which was earlier seized by NATO peacekeepers, a French
spokesman
said.
``They are stoning the gendarmes,'' French spokesman Colonel Henri
Aussavy
told reporters.
British, French and Danish troops swept in force into Serb-held
Mitrovica
around dawn to shut down the lead smelter that had been pumping toxic
fumes
into the air.
Aussavy said the NATO operation faced further resistance inside the
plant,
where a group of 30 to 40 engineers had locked themselves inside an
administration building, refusing to leave or help U.N. experts shut
down the
smelter.
01:50 08-14-00
NATO troops sweep into Serb-held Mitrovica
MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 14 (Reuters) - British and French forces
swept
into Serb-held northern Mitrovica early on Monday to stamp NATO's
authority
on the area and try to shut down a heavily polluting lead smelter,
witnesses
said.
Dozens of vehicles with British and French troops moved across the River
Ibar, which marks the divide between ethnic Albanian dominated Kosovo
and
northern Mitrovica, the last major urban concentration of Serbs in the
Yugoslav province....
UNMIK TARGETS ZVECAN SMELTING WORKS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, August 9 (Tanjug) The United Nations Interim
Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) on Tuesday issued pamphlets
warning citizens of Kosovska Mitrovica against an alleged threat of an
increased level of lead in the atmosphere and an "epidemiological
crisis."
Director General Novak Bijelic of the Trepca mining complex,
which
includes a smelting works, reacted with a statement saying this was an
attempt to prepare public opinion in favor of closing down the Zvecan
smelting works near Pristina which employs Serbs. This action would
jeopardize the survival of the remaining Serb workers in this area,
Bijelic
said.
UNMIK can close down the smelting works "by force only,"
Bijelic
said, underscoring that air pollution is checked on a daily basis and
that
there are no indications of any contamination. Trepca invested over 10
million Dmarks in the most uptodate filters for a safe environment in
1991,
he said.
"The workers will not sit idle while someone tries to push them
out of their ancestral homes and jobs," Bijelic said.
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Kosovo Mining Complex Taken Over
.c The Associated Press
ZVECAN, Yugoslavia (AP) - NATO-led peacekeepers took control of a
Serb-run
mining complex in the northern part of Kosovo in a pre-dawn raid Monday.
British peacekeepers acting in support the U.N. mission seized the
premises
of the lead smelter near Kosovoska Mitrovica. The United Nations said
last
week the plant was spewing pollution into the air, raising lead levels
to 200
times the accepted norms.
U.N. spokesman Michael Keats confirmed the operation was under way.
News of the lead levels sparked a rare moment of solidarity in the
divided
city of Kosovoska Mitrovica, prompting Serb and ethnic Albanian leaders
to
join U.N. personnel in publicly having their blood tested.
Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic claimed the lead scare was a ruse,
however, to be used as an excuse for the United Nations to take over the
Zvecan plant...
UNMIK UMESTO CINJENICA NUDI NEISTINE
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) CIVILNA MISIJA
> UJEDINJENIH NACIJA LANSIRANJEM NETACNIH I UZNEMIRAVAJUCIH PODATAKA O
> NAVODNO ENORMOM ZAGADJIVANJU COVEKOVE OKOLINE U KOSOVSKOJ MITROVICI
> "ZELI
> DA POSTIGNE SAMO JEDAN CILJ DA ONEMOGUCI RAD
> RUDARSKOHEMIJSKOMETALURSKOG
> KOMBINATA "TREPCA" KOJI PREDSTAVLJA TEMELJ EGZISTENCIJE OGROMNOM BROJU
> GRADJANA KOSOVSKE MITROVICE I SIRE",
> OVO SE ISTICE U DANASNJEM OBRACAJU "TREPCE" GRADJANIMA
> MITROVICE
> I, KAKO SE KAZE, "UVAZENIM GOSTIMA KOJI PRIVREMENO BORAVE NA OVIM
> PROSTORIMA", A POVOD JE NEDAVNO DISTRIBUIRANJE PAMFLETA UNMIKA IZ
> PRISTINE
> O PREKOMERNOJ ZAKADJENOSTI VAZDUHA, VODE I TLA OLOVOM IZ TOPIONICE U
> ZVECANU.
> "NAZIVAMO TO PAMFLETOM, JER UMESTO CINJENICA UNMIK NUDI
> NEISTINE I
> LAZNO DUSEBRIZNISTVO ZA NASE ZDRAVLJE I NASU SUDBINU", STOJI U LETKU
> "TREPCE".
> TOPIONICA OLOVA U ZVECANU RADI JOS OD 1939. GODINE, A NE OD
> 1991.
> GODINE, KAKO TVRDE UNMIKOVI ZNALCI I RADI U KONTINUITETU. AKO NE
> RACUNAMO
> AGRESIJU NATO ALIJANSE, TOPIONICA JE ZAUSTAVLJANA SAMO RADI POVREMENOG
> REMONTA. VELIKI DIMNJAK, VISOK 306 METARA, KOJI JE PODIGNUT 1972.GODINE
> KAO
> I OPREMA I POSTROJENJA ZA PRECISCAVANJE OTPADNIH GASOVA U KOJU SMO
> ULOZILI
> PREKO 10 MILIONA NEMACKIH MARAKA NAJBOLJI SU DOKAZ DA SE O NASEM
> ZDRAVLJU
> VODILO I VODI RACUNA JOS MNOGO PRE DOLASKA UNMIKA. NA HILJADE RADNIKA,
> STRUCNJAKA I NAJVISIH RUKOVODILACA "TREPCE" ZIVE I RADE TIK UZ TOPIONICU
>
> OLOVA I SVAKAKO BRINU O SVOM ZDRAVLJU, SASVIM SIGURNO MNOGO VISE OD
> UNMIKA,
> STOJI U OBRACANJU "TREPCE".
> DA NEMA RAZLOGA ZA TOBOZNJU "ZABRINUTOST" UNMIKA POTVRDJUJU
> SVAKODNEVNE ANALIZE NASEG INSTITUTA ZA ISTRAZIVANJE I RAZVOJ, KOJE
> UKAZUJU
> DA SU NAS VAZDUH, VODA I ZEMLJA ZASTICENI OD ZAGADJIVANJA OLOVOM,
> GASOVIMA
> I PRASINOM.
> U SVOM OBRACANJU "TREPCA" JE PONUDILA "REZULTATE KONTROLE
> PRISUSTVA TESKIH METALA U VAZDUHU NA VISE KONTROLNIH PUNKTOVA U
> KOSOVSKOJ
> MITROVICI U PERIODU JUNJULI" PA TAKO NAVODE DA JE OLOVA IZMERENO 0,12
> MILIGRAMA PO METRU KUBNOM, A MAKSIMALNO DOZVOLJENA KONCENTRACIJA JE
> 0,15,
> CINKA JE IZMERENO 0,019 A DOZVOLJENO 0,4, BAKRA 0,004 A DOZVOLJENO 0,01,
>
> GVOZDJA 0,002 A DOZVOLJENO 0,2 I TD.
> AKO VEC BRINU O DECI I TRUDNICAMA KOSOVSKE MITROVICE,
> STRUCNJACI
> UNMIKA BI MORALI NAJPRE DA SAGLEDAJU POSLEDICE KOJE IZAZIVAJU IZDUVNI
> GASOVI IZ NJIHOVIH TESKIH VOZILA KOJA DANONOCNO SPARTAJU NASIM ULICAMA I
>
> DRUMOVIMA I BEZOBZIRNO TRUJU NEDUZNE GRADJANE, STOJI U OBRACANJU.
> NA DRUGOJ STRANI, OPSTE JE POZNATA CINJENICA DA JE BESOMUCNO
> BOMBARDOVANJE KOSOVA I METOHIJE OD NATO AGRESORA, A POSEBNO KORISCENJE
> ZABRANJENIH ORUZJA KAO STO SU OSIROMASENI URANIJUM, KASETNE BOMBE I
> SLICNO,
> UZROKOVALO EKOLOSKU KATASTROFU SA TRAJNIM I NESAGLEDIVIM POSLEDICAMA,
> STOJI
> U OBRACAJU.
> UNMIK, NAZALOST, NE POKAZUJE NI NAJMANJU ZABRINUTOST OD
> POSLEDICA
> RATNIH STRAHOTA KOJA JE POSEJANA NA NASIM PROSTORIMA, ZAKLJUCUJE SE U
> OBRACAJU "TREPCE" GRADJANIMA I GOSTIMA KOSOVKE MITROVICE.
>
UNMIK IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA OFFERS UNTRUTHS RATHER THAN FACTS TREPCA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 13 (Tanjug) The U.N. civilian mission
to
KosovoMetohija (UNMIK) is spreading disturbing untruths about pollution
from the Trepca mining complex in order to put Trepca out of commission,
according to a statement from Trepca on Sunday.
The sole purpose of UNMIK's allegations about high levels of
pollution in Kosovska Mitrovica is "to prevent Trepca, which gives their
livelihood to a large number of people in Kosovska Mitrovica and beyond,
to
go on working", the statement said.
The statement was prompted by a recent UNMIK pamphlet
distributed
in Pristina and alleging excessive air, water and soil pollution with
lead
from the Trepca smelting plant in Zvecan, in the Yugoslav republic of
Serbia's U.N.run KosovoMetohija province.
"We call this a pamphlet, because UNMIK offered untruths and
false
care for our health and our fate instead of giving the true facts", said
the statement, addressed by the mining, chemical and metallurgical
complex
to the people in divided Kosovska Mitrovica.
The Zvecan lead smelting plant has been in operation since
1939,
not 1991, as claimed by UNMIK, and has stopped work only for occasional
overhauls and during NATO's aggression from March to June 1999.
The 306metre smokestack, built in 1972, as well as equipment
and
installations for purifying waste gases, in which more than 10 million
German marks have been invested, are best evidence that the people's
health
was a consideration long before UNMIK's deployment.
Thousands of Trepca's employees workers, experts and
executives work at and live in the immediate vicinity of the Zvecan
lead
smelting plant, and they certainly care much more about their own health
than UNMIK ever could, the Trepca statement said.
Daily sampling of the air, water and soil shows that these are
protected from pollution by lead, gas and dust and that there is no
reason
for UNMIK's socalled "concern".
In its statement, Trepca quoted results of tests for the
presence
of heavy metals in the air at several checkpoints in Kosovska Mitrovica
in
the JuneJuly period.
According to these results, there was .12 milligrams of lead
per
cubic metre (permitted level .15 mg), .019 mg of zinc (permitted level
.4
mg), copper .004 mg (permitted level .01 mg), iron .002 mg (permitted
level
.2 mg), etc.
"If UNMIK experts are concerned for the children and pregnant
women in Kosovska Mitrovica, they should take care of the waste gases
from
their own heavyduty vehicles that throng our roads at all hours and
poison
the people", the statement said.
On the other hand, it is a wellknown fact that NATO's merciless
bombing of KosovoMetohija last year and use of banned weapons, such as
depleted uranium and cluster bombs, have caused an environmental
disaster
with unforeseeable longterm consequences, it added.
Regrettably, UNMIK has shown not the least concern for the
people
suffering the consequences of the horrors of war strewn all over our
land,
Trepca said in Kosovska Mitrovica.
---
LIBERTA' DI STAMPA IN JUGOSLAVIA:
"RADIO S" DAVA TROPPO FASTIDIO
ORA LA NATO PUO' FINALMENTE ELIMINARLA DALL'ETERE!
Serb radio in Kosovo defies U.N. shutdown
order
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 13 (Reuters) - A hardline Kosovo
Serb
radio station said on Sunday it was defying a United Nations order to
shut
down its broadcasts from the north of the ethnically-divided city of
Kosovska
Mitrovica.
U.N. administrators, who run Kosovo as a de facto protectorate, issued
Radio
S with the closure order late on Saturday, citing licensing
irregularities....
*** A chi da fastidio la Radio S ....erba?
> KOMESARU OEBSA SMETA "RADIO S"
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) PRIVREMENI KOMESAR
>
> OEBS-A ZA MEDIJE SIMON HADELON URUCIO JE ZAHTEV PREDSTAVNIKU "RADIJA S"
> U
> KOSOVSKOJ MITROVICI DA PRESTANE EMITOVANJE PROGRAMA, UZ OBRAZLOZENJE DA
> JE
> DOKUMENTACIJA TOG RADIJA NAVODNO NEPOTPUNA ZA DOBIJANJE DOZVOLE ZA RAD.
> RADIO S JE TREBALO, PREMA TOJ ODLUCI, DA PRESTANA DA EMITUJE
> PROGRAM SINOC, U 19.00 CASOVA, ALI JE NASTAVIO RAD.
> ODGOVORNI UREDNIK "RADIJA S" RADOVAN GLIGOVIC OCENIO JE DANAS,
> U
> RAZGOVORU S NOVINARIMA, DA JE ZAHTEV HADELONA POKUSAJ DA SE UGASI JOS
> JEDAN
> SRPSKI MEDIJ NA KOSMETU, DODAVSI DA "MIROVNJACI I DEMOKRATE" POKUSAVAJU
> DA
> UGASE GOTOVO SVE MEDIJE U SRPSKOJ JUZNOJ POKRAJINI,STO SU NJIHOVI
> RADNICI
> ODBILI DA PRIMENE.
---
Kfor non vede vandalismo albanese nel Cimitero ortodosso di Kosovska
Mitrovica che si trova nella parte sud, albanese
> SRUSENO 500 SPOMENIKA NA PRAVOSLAVNOM GROBLJU
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) SRBI IZ SEVERNOG
> DELA
> KOSOVSKE MITROVICE, NJIH 120, KOJI SU DANAS, U PRATNJI KFORA, POSETILI
> PRAVOSLAVNO GROBLJE U JUZNOM, ALBANSKOM DELU GRADA, NAISLI SU NA
> NEVIDJEN
> VANDALIZAM ALBANSKIH EKSTREMISTA.
> NASLI SU NOVIH 300 POLOMLJENIH NADGROBNIH SPOMENIKA, A SA NEKIH
>
> SPOMENIKA SU POSKIDANA MESINGANA SLOVA I ODNETE BISTE OD BRONZE.
> OGORCENI I REVOLTIRANI ZBOG OVOG VANDALIZMA, SRBI SU OSTRO
> PROTESTOVALI KOD KFORA KOJI NISTA NE CINI, I PORED OBECANJA, DA ZASTITI
> PRAVOSLAVNO GROBLJE U JUZNOM DELU KOSOVSKE MITROVICE U KOME ZIVI
> ALBANSKO
> STANOVNISTVO.
> DANASNJA POSETA SRBA IZ SEVERNOG DELA KOSOVSKE MITROVICE
> PRAVOSLAVNOM GROBLJU U JUZNZOM DELU GRADA PRVA JE POSLE ZADUSNICA, A VEC
>
> TADA JE BILO PORUSENO 200 NADGROBNIH SPOMENIKA.
ALTRI ATTI DI VIOLENZA E TERRORISMO CHE LA KFOR APPOGGIA
> OTETA DVA SRPSKA MLADICA
>
> K O S O V S K A K A M E N I C A (TANJUG) DVA SRPSKA MLADICA
> IZ
> OKOLINE KOSOVSKE KAMENICE SU OTETA, ZAJEDNO SA SVOJIM TRAKTOROM, NA
> BENZINSKOJ PUMPI "ISMAILPETROL" U SUSEDNOM ALBANSKOM SELU ODANOVCE, GDE
> SU
> JUCE OKO 13.00 SATI OTISLI DA NATOCE GORIVO ZA TRAKTOR.
> KAKO JE DANAS SAOPSTIO KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I LJUDSKA PRAVA
> KOSOVSKE
> KAMENICE, REC JE O 20GODISNJEM GORANU STANKOVICU IZ SELA DOMOROVCA KOD
> KOSOVSKE KAMENICE I NJEGOVOM NESTO MLADJEM BRATU OD TETKE IZ
> BUJANOVACKOG
> SELA LOPARDINCE, CIJE IME NIJE NAVEDENO.
> CIM JE JUCE ALARMIRAN NJIHOV NESTANAK, U DOMOROVCU SE OKUPILO
> OKO
> 500 SRBA IZ TOGSELA I IZ SUSEDNOG KORMINJANA, KOJI SU U ZNAK PROTESTA
> BLOKIRALI LOKALNI PUT DOMOROVCE OGOSTE.
> VOJNICI KFORA, IZ AMERICKOG I RUSKOG SASTAVA, U POTRAZI SU ZA
> KIDNAPOVANIM SRBIMASU OD JUTROS BLOKIRALI PUT GNJILANE BUJANOVACI I
> KOSAVSKA KAMENICA BUJANOVAC KOD MESTA BELA ZEMLJA, GDE SE INACE NALAZI
> NJIHOV PUNKT. ONI CINE NAPORE DA PRONADJU KIDNAPOVANE SRPSKE MLADICE.
> RODBINA KIDNAPOVANIH MLADICA I VOJNICI KFORA SU KASNO SINOC
> RAZGOVARALI SA VLASNIKOM BENZINSKE PUMPE"ISMAILPETROL" U SELU ODANOVCE,
> GDE
> SE MLADICIMA IZGUBIO TRAG, ALI RADNICI TE PUMPE NISU POKAZALI SPREMNOST
> ZA
> SARADNJU SA ISLEDNICIMA IZ KFORA, SAOPSTIO JE DANAS KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I
>
> LJUDSKA PRAVA KOSOVSKE KAMENICE.
>
> ALBANSKI BANDITI UKRALI OKO 250 VAGONA JZ
> K O S O V O P O LJ E, D O B R E V O (TANJUG) ABANSKI
> PLJACKASI U
> SARADNJI SA CELNICIMA KFORA VEC VISE OD MESEC DANA ODVLACE TRANSPORTNE
> VAGONE IZ KOSOVA POLJA KA ZELEZARI SKOPLJE, GDE CE IH, NAJVEROVATNIJE,
> PRODATI KAO STARO GVOZDJE, OSTECUJUCI TAKO IMOVINU JUGOSLOVENSKIH
> ZELEZNICA, JAVILI SU DANAS RADIOAMATERI SA KRIZNIH PODRUCJA KOSMETA.
> VISE OD 450 STARIH I POKVARENIH, ODNOSNO, NEREGISTROVANIH
> VAGONA,
> BILO JE SMESTENO NA DEONICI PRUGE OD DOBREVA PREMA RUDNIKU KISNICA, TAKO
> DA
> SE KOLONA VAGONA PROTEZALA SVE DO LAPLJEG SELA, ALI JE OD TOG BROJA DO
> SADA
> VEC ODVEZENO VISE OD POLOVINE VAGONA.
> KAKO GRANICU SA MAKEDONIJOM KONTROLISU PRIPANICI KFORA, NAJVECU
>
> ODGOVORNOST ZA OVU VELIKU KRADJU I OTIMACINU, SNOSE UPRAVO PRIPADNICI
> MEDJUNARODNIH MIROVNIH SNAGA.
>
ETHNIC ALBANIANS STEEL 250 WAGGONS FROM YUGOSLAV RAILWAYS
KOSOVO POLJE/DOBREVO, Serbia, Aug 13 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian
bandits, in collusion with international force KFor officials, have for
more than a month been hauling off rolling stock from U.N.run
KosovoMetohija to Macedonia, according to reports on Sunday.
Amateur radio operators in that U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav)
province say that railway waggons are being taken from Kosovo Polje to
the
iron works in Skopje, probably to be sold as scrap iron, thus causing
heavy
losses to the Yugoslav railway company.
More than onehalf of the 450plus old and decommissioned waggons
parked on the track between Dobrevo and the Kisnica mine have been
hauled
away.
Since the KosovoMetohija section of the YugoslavMacedonian
border
is controlled by KFor, the greatest responsibility for the theft rests
with
the international force.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS START FOREST FIRES IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
NOVO BRDO, Serbia, August 12 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian
extremists
on Friday set fire to the woods in the vicinity of a Serb village in the
Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's U.N.administered KosovoMetohija province,
according to reports.
Amateur radio operators inform that the socalled international
force KFor fire brigade, made up solely of ethnic Albanians, never even
tried to put out the fires, which are raging around the village of Izvor
in
the Novo Brdo municipality in east KosovoMetohija.
The fires are ravaging the forests of Lazovi, Glog and Vrbina,
which were the source of highquality firewood for the local Serb.
After villagers of Izvor reported the fires, KFor troops
quickly
came out to inspect the scene, together with the fire brigade, but then
equally quickly left, without having tried to intervene at all.
The people in Izvor suspect that the fires were set by their
neighbours in the purely ethnic Albanian populated village of Vlasce,
according to amateur radio operators.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS SHOOT AT SERB CONVOY
PASJANE, August 8 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian terrorists fired
shots
at Serbs travelling late on Monday in a convoy of cars from the
southSerbian town of Presevo to the village of Pasjane, near the town of
Gnjilane, situated in the east of the KFORadministered Serbian province
of
Kosovo and Metohija.
Serb Ljubisa Cuparevic from the village of Donje Budrige
sustained
injuries in the incident that occurred near the permanent checkpoint of
the
KFOR U.S. contingent, local radio operators said.
> SRBIMA UNISTENO 30 HEKTARA POD KUKURUZOM
> G NJ I L A N E (TANJUG) U ATARU MULTIETNICKOG SELA PONESA, KOD
>
> GNJILANA, ALBANSKI STOCARI SU, NAGONECI SVOJU STOKU NA SRPSKE NJIVE,
> UNISTILI 30 HEKTARA POD KUKURUZOM, SAOPSTIO JE KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I
> LJUDSKA
> PRAVA GNJILANE
> LOKALNI ALBANCI SVAKODNEVNO NAGONE CITAVO STADO OD PEDESETAK
> GRLA
> KRUPNE STOKE, NA TE NJIVE ILI SEKIROM SEKU KUKURUZNE STABLJIKE I NJIME
> HRANE DOMACE ZIVOTINJE.
> U TOM POHODU NAJVISE SU STRADALI POTEZI IZNAD SELA PREMA
> LIVOCKOM
> JEZERU, GDE SVOJE NJIVE POD KUKURUZOM IMAJU MOMCILO STOJANOVIC, BRACA
> DIMITRIJE, DOBRIVOJE I ZARKO CVEJIC, PETAR SAVIC, STAJKO STAJIC, TRAJA
> PAUNOVIC, STANKO SIMIC I MNOGI DRUGI SRBI.
> SRBIMA U PONESU NA ISTI NACIN UNISTENO JE I DESETAK HEKTARA
> USEVA
> OVSA I JECMA, DOK SE DRVO SA OKO 500 HEKTARA HRASTOVE SUME I DALJE
> NESMETANO SECE I UNISTAVA.
> SRPSKI PREDSTAVNIK TOGA SELA ALEKSANDAR RISTIC SE, KAKO SE
> NAVODI
> U SAOPSTENJU, OTVORENO ZALI NA KFOR, KOJI NISTA NE CINI DA ZASTITI SRBE
> OD
> UNISTAVANJA LETINE.
> RISTIC KAZE DA "ALBANSKI STOCARI I BANDITI IMAJU PRECUTNU
> PODRSKU
> 'MIROVNJAKA' U SVOJIM NECASNIM RADNJAMA, USMERENIM NA PROTERIVANJE I
> IZGON
> SRBA IZ TOGA SELA".
> SELO PONES IMA 180 SRPSKIH DOMOVA I 50 ALBANSKIH I PREDSTAVLJA
> JAKO SRPSKO UPORISTE SEVEROZAPADNO OD GNJILANA.
> POSLE POHARE USEVA I DUGE OVOGODISNJE SUSE SRBI SU VEC POCELI
> DA
> SMANJUJU STOCNI FOND. SRBIMA PRETI HUMANITARNA KATASTROFA OVE JESENI I
> ZIME, JER NEMAJU DOVOLJNO HRANE NI ZA STOKU, NI ZA SEBE, A OSETICE I
> NESTASICU OGREVNOG DRVETA, UPRKOS VELIKIM PROSTRANSTVIMA SVOJIH SUMA,
> KOJIH
> VISE GOTOVO I DA NEMA.
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BULLDOZER DALL'ARABIA SAUDITA PER DISTRUGGERE I CENTRI STORICI KOSOVARI
From: Greek Helsinki Monitor <office@g...>
Date: Tue Aug 8, 2000 4:40pm
Subject: RFE/RL: SAUDI AID WORKERS BULLDOZE BALKAN MONUMENTS
RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
___________________________________________________________
RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 151, Part II, 8 August 2000
SAUDI AID WORKERS BULLDOZE BALKAN MONUMENTS
By Jolyon Naegele
The Saudi bulldozing of some of the most historically
valuable architectural monuments in the western Kosova market
town of Djakovica is merely the latest in a series of
iconoclastic activities in the Balkans undertaken in the name
of reconstruction assistance by Arab aid organizations. War-
damaged historic buildings are not repaired, but rather
demolished to make way for what the Arab donors consider to
be more proper Islamic structures.
The destruction is a further blow to Kosova's
architectural heritage, following the destruction by Serbian
forces and civilians in 1998 and 1999 of over 200 mosques and
other Islamic structures--about one-third of the total number
in the province.
Harvard University Fine Arts librarian Andras
Riedlmayer, the co-author of a survey of Kosova's war-damaged
architectural sites, is outraged by the Saudi demolition
program.
"Unfortunately, a Saudi aid agency got permits from the
local reconstruction agency and from the local institute for
the preservation of monuments to work on the restoration, so
to speak, of the Hadum mosque complex in the center of the
historic district."
Riedlmayer says the Saudis began on 24 July by trying to
knock down all the Ottoman-era gravestones in the cemetery of
the Hadum mosque.
"The Saudis were interested in removing them because
they consider gravestones to be idolatrous. They are
followers of Wahhabism, which is an extremist interpretation
of Islam at odds with the practice of most of the Muslim
world."
The Wahhabis are a purist movement founded in the 18th
century by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (c. 1703-1791). He
converted the Saud tribe, which now rules Saudi Arabia. The
Wahhabis are the largest and most powerful Muslim sect in
Saudi Arabia.
Riedlmayer says the Saudis are obsessed with having all
ancient tombstones, mausoleums, and Sufi shrines located near
mosques eliminated, since--unlike most Muslims in the world
today--the Wahhabis believe these to be "un-Islamic" and
idolatrous. He said: "the Wahhabis, with their wealth and
fanaticism, are a menace to heritage, in some ways more
dangerous than the [Serb paramilitary] Chetniks, since about
the latter, at least, no one harbors any illusions regarding
their uncharitable intentions."
The Saudi Joint Relief Committee for the People of
Kosovo and Chechnya, established by royal decree, has built
mosques, schools, clinics, and shelters for displaced
persons. It has also supplied the province with several
hundred tons of medicine, food, blankets, tents, and clothing
during the last 13 months.
But spreading the message of Wahhabi Islam appears to be
another aim of the committee. The new mosques are white, boxy
structures devoid of detail--a far cry from the centuries-old
Ottoman-style mosques that characterize the urban and village
landscape in much of the Balkans.
Riedlmayer says NATO-led KFOR peacekeepers declined to
intervene in Djakovica after the Saudis showed their
authorized papers.
"Eventually the Department of Culture in UNMIK (the UN
administration) was notified. They spoke with the Saudis on
[27 July] and tried to get them to desist. However, on [28
July], the Saudis sent in a bulldozer [and] knocked down the
buildings around the Hadum mosque, including the library
built in 1733 and ancient gravestones in the graveyard."
The Hadum mosque itself, which survived last year's
fighting largely intact--despite fire damage to its porch and
grenade damage to its minaret--remains endangered. If the
past is prologue, the frescoes could soon be whitewashed by
Wahhabi purists.
Attempts by RFE/RL to contact the UNMIK-Joint Interim
Administration's Department of Culture, the Kosovo Institute
for the Protection of Monuments, or the Saudi Joint Relief
Committee in Kosovo were unsuccessful.
However, Peruvian Alvaro Higueras, from the UNMIK
Culture Department, confirmed in a telephone call to
Riedlmayer on 3 August that the Saudis had razed the library
and Koran school.
Higueras said the Saudis planned to build a reinforced
concrete Islamic center on the cleared site. But the UNMIK
official says the Saudis applied for permission for a
restoration project, not for new construction. Higueras says
an order has now been issued to stop construction
indefinitely. He says the Saudis will have to "undo the
damage" and restore the Ottoman-era buildings using
traditional materials and techniques.
Riedlmayer has documented cases in which the Saudi and
other Arab aid agencies have destroyed other historic Islamic
buildings elsewhere in Kosova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and
Bulgaria.
Last October, while Riedlmayer was in Kosova conducting
a survey of war-damaged architectural heritage, he witnessed
the destruction of Muslim cemeteries in Vushtrri. He says an
Islamic aid agency from the United Arab Emirates had
pressured local Albanian residents to sledgehammer the graves
of their ancestors, completely clearing two historic
graveyards next to the Gazi Ali Beg and Karamanli mosques of
more than 100 gravestones dating back to the 15th century.
Only the grave marker of Gazi Ali Beg himself remained, as
the locals refused to allow that one to be smashed.
Riedlmayer says the UAE aid agency promised to rebuild
the damaged mosques "twice as big and twice as Islamic," but
only if the gravestones were removed. He says the agency, the
largest aid organization in the town, also made an implicit
threat to withhold humanitarian aid if the donors' request
was ignored.
Riedlmayer notes that during and immediately after the
war in Bosnia (1992-95), a Saudi aid agency took charge of
the restoration of the Gazi Husrev Beg mosque (Begova
dzamija) as well as other historic mosques in Sarajevo and in
many other towns and villages.
At the Beg mosque, the Saudis ordered the Ottoman tile
work and painted wall decorations stripped off and discarded
and had the whole building redone, as Riedlmayer puts it "in
gleaming hospital white, even the minaret slathered in white
plaster." He says that in scores of villages, the Saudis had
war-damaged but restorable historic Ottoman-style Bosnian
mosques demolished and redone Saudi-style. All of the
colorful Balkan-Muslim interior decor was eliminated, and
separate entrances were added to segregate women.
To drive home the significance of the Saudi destruction
in the Balkans, Riedlmayer says, "Imagine, if you will, some
terrible catastrophe affecting the historic churches of Rome
and Tuscany, and then having" modern-day U.S. Christian sects
coming in and insisting that they be redone in "proper
Christian style."
The author is a senior RFE/RL correspondent based in Prague.
To view photos of some of the structures described in the
article go to:
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2000/08/F.RU.000804130919.html
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SOLDATI BELGI DELLA KFOR PERQUISISCONO E PICCHIANO
RAPPRESENTANTI UFFICIALI JUGOSLAVI PER I RAPPORTI CON L'ONU
HTTP://WWW.KFORMYASS.com
Yugoslav Liaison Committee members harassed
August 11, 2000
Kosovska Mitrovica, August 10 -
Members of the Yugoslav Committee
Liaising with the U.N. mission, Jovica
Jovanovic and Radovan Redzic, were
harassed by Belgian KFOR troops at
a KFOR checkpoint in Donje Jerinje.
According to Jovanovic, the KFOR
troops stopped the Yugoslavs' car,
demanded personal identification papers from the two passengers, and
then proceeded to search the vehicle, including the two Yugoslav
diplomats' personal belongings.
The Belgians then insisted on taking photos of the Yugoslavs, dragged
Redzic to a barrack a few meters away, kicked him, put him up against
the wall and forcefully took his photo.
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IL TERRORISTA "DEMOCRATICO" THAQI OSPITE DELLA CONVENTION
DI LOS ANGELES!
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
According to Albanian newspaper Zeri Hashim Thaqi will attend
Democratic National Convention starting Monday in LA.
If you are going to be somewhere near, don't forget to give him my
regards! I am too far from LA to throw any eggs on him.
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VERSO LE ELEZIONI-TRUFFA NEL PROTETTORATO DEL "KOSOVA"
U.N. calls Kosovo election for October 28
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The United Nations
administration in
Kosovo has decided to hold municipal elections on October
28, an spokeswoman
said.
The spokeswoman for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo
said UNMIK head
Bernard Kouchner had decided on the date after
consultations with the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),
which is
overseeing the first post-war poll. The election had been
expected to take
place sometime in October....
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SCANDALO!
TRUPPE JUGOSLAVE CERCANO DI ENTRARE IN JUGOSLAVIA!?!
Serbs accused of Kosovo raid
Special report: Serbia
Saturday August 12, 2000
The Guardian
Serbian soldiers made a probing incursion into Kosovo two weeks ago in
the worst breach yet of the agreement that ended Nato's bombing campaign
last year, the US forces newspaper, Stars and Stripes, said yesterday.
US forces scrambled Apache helicopters to confront the group of armed
and uniformed Serbs in two all-terrain vehicles who retreated across the
dividing line between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia, the paper said.
The incident took place on July 28 in the mountains of eastern Kosovo,
near Serbia's Presevo valley, where there have been clashes between
Serbian police and a group of ethnic Albanians seeking independence from
Belgrade.
Shortly after the alleged incursion, peacekeepers said they had stepped
up security in the Presevo area to try to stop the ethnic Albanian UCPMB
group from operating. US forces had reported seeing mortar fire and
other military activity.
Officials of the US military contingent that patrols the area refused to
respond to questions about the incident and Nato spokesman Major Craig
Snow in Pristina said he could not confirm that Serbian forces had
crossed into Kosovo. "We've not been commenting on specific incidents,"
Maj Snow said.
Serb army and police units pulled out of Kosovo in July last year as
part of an agreement that ended Nato's 78-day bombing campaign of
Serb-dominated Yugoslavia.
The Serb incursion, if confirmed, would be regarded by Nato as a test of
its commitment to control the movement of UCPMB guerrillas who operate
out of Kosovo and have been trying the patience of the Serb military in
Presevo.
Reuters, Pristina
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