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'NY Times' article with commentary by Jared Israel and Max Sinclair
---
> The Sunday Times
> October 1 2000
> EASTERN EUROPE
> SAS trains Montenegrin police
> A HIGHLY secretive SAS mission in Montenegro has spent the past six
> months training the Yugoslav republic's elite special police against
> terrorist threats from Serbia, writes Tom Walker.
> The 1,500-strong commando units of the new Montenegrin force, who
wear
> distinctive black uniforms, are now a common sight near government
> buildings and on Montenegro's borders. The commandos are backed up by
> another 5,000 special police.
> Neither the Montenegrins nor the British government have admitted the
> presence of SAS trainers on Yugslav territory, for fear of provoking
a
> confrontation with the Yugoslav army of President Slobodan Milosevic.
> Diplomats say they believe the trainers, said to have been a squad of
> be-tween four and eight, have now left after concern for their
safety.
> The SAS trainers were experienced Balkan hands. Several had assisted
> Nato's operation in Kosovo last year. "I saw some familiar faces
while I
> was wandering across a park here. They saw me and dived behind a
tree,"
> said one diplomat.
> The British involvement with the Montenegrin police is plain to see.
> More than 150 Land Rovers have been im-ported in the past year. The
> Foreign Office said two ex-port licences had been granted permitting
> civilian use.
> Intelligence sources familiar with the police programme run by the
SAS
> said the trainers were based near Bar, Yugoslavia's main port. The
> police have been given new mountaineering, diving and parachuting
> skills, and some officers are also be-lieved to have been given
training
> in Britain.
> "They've turned the police into a sort of light infantry militia-type
> outfit that can tackle any hijack or hostage crisis, the sort of
thing
> that Serbia might provoke here," said one diplomat. He said most of
the
> police armaments and uniforms came from America. The special police
have
> sub-machineguns, mortars and bazookas, but cannot counter the heavy
> armoury of the Yugoslav army.
>
YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
BELGRADE, 2 October 2000 No. 3200
S P E C I A L I S S U E
YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC ADDRESSES THE NATION
BELGRADE, October 2 (Tanjug). Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic addressed on Monday the nation over the Serbian radio and
television.
"Dear citizens,
In the expectation of the second round of the election, I take
the
opportunity to explain to you my views on the electoral and political
situation in our country, especially in Serbia.
As you know, efforts have been underway for a whole decade to
place the entire Balkan peninsula under the control of some western
powers.
A big part of that job was done by establishing puppet governments in
some
countries, by transforming them into countries with limited sovereignty
or
even deprived of any sovereignty at all.
Due to our resistance to such a fate for our country, we were
subjected to all forms of pressure to which people in the contemporary
world can be subjected. The number and intensity of the pressures
multiplied as time went by. All experience the big powers gained in the
second half of the 20th century in overthrowing governments, causing
unrest, instigating civil wars, disparaging or liquidating national
freedom
fighters, bringing states and nations to the brink of poverty all this
was
applied to our country and our people.
The developments organized for our elections are also a part of
the organized persecution of our country and our people, because our
country and our people constitute a barrier to the establishment of full
domination in the Balkan peninsula.
A grouping has for a long time now been present in our midst
which, under the guise of opposition political parties of democratic
orientation, represents the interests of governments which are the
protagonists of pressures against Yugoslavia, and especially against
Serbia. That grouping appeared in these elections under the name
Democratic
Opposition of Serbia. Its true head is not its presidential candidate.
Its
head for many years has been the president of the Democratic Party and
collaborator of the military alliance which waged a war against our
country. He could not even conceal his collaboration with that alliance.
In
fact, our entire public knows of his appeal to NATO to bomb Serbia for
as
many weeks as necessary to break its resistance. The grouping organized
in
this manner for these elections therefore represents the armies and
governments which recently waged war against Yugoslavia.
In representing their interests, the grouping launched messages
to
our public that with them at the head, Yugoslavia would be out of any
danger of war or violence, that economic prosperity would come, the
standard of living would improve visibly and rapidly, that Yugoslavia
would
allegedly reintegrate in international institutions, and so forth.
Distinguished citizens,
It is my duty to warn you publicly and in time that such
promises
are false and that the situation is quite different. It is precisely our
policy which guarantees peace and theirs only lasting conflicts and
violence, and I shall tell you why.
With the establishment of an administration supported or
installed
by a community of countries gathered within NATO, Yugoslavia would
inevitably become a country whose territory would quickly be
dismembered.
These are not only NATO's intentions. These are the preelection promises
of
the Democratic Opposition of Serbia. We have heard from its
representatives
that Sandzak would get the autonomy that a member of its coalition and
leader of a separatist Muslim organization Sulejman Ugljanin has been
advocating for ten years, and which would in fact mean a definite
separation of Sandzak from Serbia. Their promises also include giving to
Vojvodina an autonomy that would not only separate it from Serbia and
Yugoslavia but would in fact make it an integral part of neighbouring
Hungary. In a similar manner other areas would be separated from Serbia
and
some other border areas. Their annexation by neighbouring states has for
a
long time been a hot issue in those states, which keep inciting their
minorities in Yugoslavia to make a contribution to an integration of
parts
of our country with neighbouring states.
Within this policy of dismembering Yugoslavia, Kosovo would be
the
first victim. Its present status would be proclaimed legal and final. It
is
the first part of its territory to which Serbia would have to bid
farewell,
without even voicing hope that this part of its land could once be
returned
to it.
The remaining territory that would bear the name Serbia would
be
occupied by international, US or some third military forces, which would
treat this territory as their military training ground and as their
property to be controlled in line with the interests of the power whose
army is present there.
We have been looking at cases of such control and consequences
thereof for decades, and especially in this decade in many countries
around
the world, unfortunately lately even in Europe, for instance in Kosovo,
Republika Srpska and Macedonia, in our immediate neighbourhood. The
people
of Serbia would know the fate of the Kurds, with a prospect of being
exterminated more speedily than the Kurds since they are less numerous,
and
since their movements would be limited to a much smaller area than the
one
in which Kurds have been present for decades.
As for Montenegro, its fate would be left in the hands of the
mafia, whose rules of the game should be made well known to the
citizens:
any breach of discipline and especially any opposition to mafia
interests
is punishable by death without any right to appeal.
I have presented to you the fate of Yugoslavia in case of
acceptance of the NATO option for our country, in order to warn you
that,
in addition to a loss of land and humiliation of the people, all would
live
under ceaseless violence.
The new owners of former Yugoslavia's state territory and
occupiers of the remaining Serbian territory would, as is the nature of
things, terrorize the population whose territory they will have
occupied.
The Serb people itself would at the same time fight continuously for the
reestablishment of a Serb state in which it could reassemble. They do
not
want peace or prosperity in the Balkans. They want this to be a zone of
permanent conflicts and wars which would provide them with an alibi for
their lasting presence.
"A puppet government therefore guarantees violence, possibly
many
years of war, anything but peace. Only our own administration guarantees
peace.
Moreover, all countries finding themselves with a status of
limited sovereignty and with governments under the influence of foreign
powers, have speedily become impoverished in a manner destroying all
hope
for more just and humane social relations. A great division into a poor
majority and a rich minority - this has been the picture of eastern
Europe
for some years now that we can all see. That picture would also include
us.
We, too, would under the command and control of the owners of our
country
quickly have a tremendous majority of the very poor, whose prospects of
coming out of their poverty would be very, very uncertain and far away.
The
rich minority would be constituted by the black marketeering elite,
which
would be allowed to be rich only on condition that it be fully loyal to
the
command which decides the fate of their country.
Public and social property would quickly be transformed into
private property, but its owners, as demonstrated by the experience of
our
neighbours, would as a rule be foreigners.
Among few exceptions would be only those who would purchase
their
right to ownership by their loyalty and submission, which would lead to
the
elimination of elementary national and human dignity. The greatest
national
assets in such circumstances become the property of foreigners, and the
people who used to manage them would continue to do so in these changed
circumstances but as employees of foreign companies in their own
country.
National humiliation, state fragmentation and social poverty
would
necessarily lead to many forms of social pathology, of which crime would
be
the first. This is not just an assumption, this is the experience of all
countries which have taken the path that we are trying to avoid at any
cost. The centres of European crime are no longer in the west, they were
moved to eastern Europe a decade ago. Our people find it hard to bear
already the present crime incidence, as we lived for a long time from
World War II to the 1990s in a society which hardly knew any crime at
all.
Any large-scale crime, such as cannot be avoided in a society that we
would
become with the loss of sovereignty and a large part of territory, such
large-scale crime would be as dangerous for our small and unused to
crime
people as war is dangerous for the society and its citizens.
One of the essential tasks of a puppet government in any
country,
including ours were we to have such a government, is loss of identity.
Countries under foreign command relatively quickly part with their
history,
their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of
living,
often their own literary language. Invisible at first, but very
efficient
and merciless selection of national identity would reduce it to a few
local
dishes, a few songs and folk dances, the names of national heroes used
as
brand names for food products or cosmetics.
One of the really obvious consequences of the takeover of
territories of countries by the big powers in the 20th century is the
annihilation of the identity of the people of those countries.
Experience
of other countries shows that people can hardly come to terms with the
speed with which they are starting to use a foreign language as their
own,
to identify with foreign historic figures forgetting their own, to be
better acquainted with the literature of their occupiers than their own,
to
glorify the history of others while mocking their own, to resemble
others
instead of themselves. The loss of a national identity is the greatest
defeat a nation can know, which is inevitable in the contemporary form
of
colonization. Besides, that new form of colonization by its very nature
rules out any possibility of free speech or free will, and especially
rules
out any creativity of any kind. Countries which are not free deny to the
people who live in them the right to freely express their opinion, as
that
opinion would be in collision with the absence of freedom. This is why
torture over thought is the most consistent and essential form of
torture
in a country that has lost its freedom. As for exercising free will, it
is,
naturally, out of the question. Free will is allowed only as a farce. It
is
allowed only to the lackeys of foreign masters, whose simulated free
will
is used by the occupiers as a justification for establishing democracy
in
whose name they have taken possession of another people's country. I
would
like to stress particularly because of young people, intellectuals,
scientists, that countries deprived of sovereignty are as a rule
deprived
of the right to creative work, and especially creative work in the field
of
science. Large centers and large powers finance scientific work, control
its attainments and decide about the application of its results.
Dependent
states, if they have scientific laboratories and scientific institutes,
are
not independent ones but operate as branches controlled by one center.
Their attainments must remain within bounds that will not introduce in
occupied countries and occupied peoples the seed of rebellion and
emancipation.
At this moment ahead of the runoff elections, because the
Democratic Opposition of Serbia doubts it can achieve the result it
needs,
leaders of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia with money introduced
into
the country are bribing, blackmailing and harassing citizens and
organizing
strikes, unrest and violence in order to stop production, all work and
every activity. All that, of course, with the aim of stopping life in
Serbia and with the explanation that life can start again and go on
successfully and well, when it is organized by those who represent here
the
intentions, plans and interests of occupiers. Our country is a sovereign
state. It has its laws, its Constitution, its institutions. Serbia is
duty bound, and it deserves to defend itself from invasion which has
been
prepared against it through different forms of subversion.
And the citizens should know, that by participating in
subversion
whose objective is foreign domination over their country or the
occupation
of their country, they bear the historical responsibility of denying to
their country the right to exist and also the responsibility of losing
control over their own lives.
By giving up their country to others, to foreign will they also
surrender to foreign will their own life and the life of their children
and
of many other people.
I considered it my duty, to warn the citizens of our country
about
the consequences of the activities financed and supported by the
governments of NATO countries. Citizens can trust me but they do not
have
to. My wish is only that they do not realize this when it is too late,
that
they do not realize this when it will be difficult to redress mistakes
that
citizens naively, superficially or erroneously made, as those mistakes
will
be difficult to rectify and some will never be rectified.
My motive to express my opinion in this way is not, at all, of
personal nature. I was elected twice President of Serbia and once
President
of Yugoslavia. It should be clear to all, after these ten years, that
they
are not attacking Serbia because of Milosevic, but Milosevic because of
Serbia. My conscience in that respect is absolutely clear. My
conscience,
however, would not at all be clear if I would not tell my people, after
all
these years at their head, what I think about their fate if that fate is
imposed by someone else, even if it means to explain to the people that
they have chosen that fate themselves.
The misjudgment that they are choosing what has been chosen by
someone else, is the most dangerous misjudgment and the main reason of
my
decision to address publicly the citizens of Yugoslavia.
Thank you."
YUGOSLAV ELECTION COMMISSION REJECTS DOS COMPLAINT
BELGRADE, Oct 1 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav election commission, at
a
session presided over by Borivoje Vukicevic, determined on Saturday the
list of candidates for electing the president of Yugoslavia in a runoff,
said a statement from Yugoslav parliament.
Candidates for president of Yugoslavia are:
1. Vojislav Kostunica, Ph.D. of law, born 1944, from Belgrade,
nominated by the Democratic Party, Democratic Party of Serbia,
SocialDemocracy, Civil Alliance of Serbia, ChristianDemocratic Party of
Serbia, New Serbia, Movement for Democratic Serbia, Vojvodina League of
SocialDemocrats, Reformist Democratic Party of Vojvodina, Vojvodina
Coalition, Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, Democratic Alternative,
Democratic Center, New Democracy, SocialDemocratic Union, Democratic
Action, League for Sumadija, Serbian Resistance Movement Democratic
Movement.
2. Slobodan Milosevic, B.A. of law, born 1941, from Belgrade,
nominated by the Socialist Party of Serbia, the Yugoslav Left and the
Socialist People's Party of Montenegro.
At the same time, the commission made a decision that the
election
councils, which conducted the elections for Yugoslav president in the
first
round, will conduct the elections for Yugoslav president in the runoff,
the
statement said.
The election commission has also made a decision about the
printing of election material for the election of Yugoslav president in
the
runoff. Ballots will be printed in the same number as the number of
voters
in the first round, and that number is 7,861,421. The printing of
ballots
in several languages will start on Sunday, October 1, 2000.
The Yugoslav election commission has rejected the complaint of
DOS
about balloting results for Yugoslav president as unfounded. Also
reviewed
were a number of complaints concerning local elections, said the
statement
of the Yugoslav parliament information section.
BULGARIANATOTRIBUNAL
WESTERN LEADERS, NATO FOUND GUILTY
SOFIA, Oct 1 (Tanjug) Court council of the International
Social
Tribunal based in Moscow found guilty, on Sunday, at the end of the
trial
in Sofia, 14 Western leaders and the NATO alliance of crimes committed
during NATO's aggression last year on FR Yugoslavia.
The verdict, read by tribunal president Mihail Kuznyecov for
war
crimes, crimes against humanity, violation of all international norms
and
regulations and other crimes, found guilty: William Clinton, Madeleine
Albright, Wiliam Cohen, Gerhard Schroeder, Jozef Fischer, Rudolf
Scharping,
Anthony Blair, Robin Cook, George Robertson, Jacque Chirac, Hubert
Vedrine,
Alain Richard, Javier Solana and Wesley Clark.
The verdict was signed by the 14 judges of the council from ten
countries.
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
THREE POWER TRANSFORMERS BURNED IN FIRE IN "TREPCA"
ZVECAN, Oct 1 (Tanjug) In a fire that broke out Saturday
evening
around 22.00 in the power plant of Trepca's lead metallurgy plant were
burned down three 35kilowat transformers, that lead to power outages in
Zvecan and surrounding villages.
Tanjug's reporter learnt on the spot that the fire was very
quickly brought under control by fire brigade units from the
northernSerbian part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
According to the first information the fire was caused by a
technical malfunction of a power line that has been submerged under
water
for days. A few Serbs working on the maintenance of the plant, the only
ones to remain at their work posts after the forcible takeover of Trepca
by
KFOR in August this year, have warned KFOR members about that,
apparently
to no avail.
The situation has also stabilized around the plant, and UNMIK
and
KFOR helicopetres are no longer overflying the area since midnight.
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> The Sunday Times
> October 1 2000
> EASTERN EUROPE
> SAS trains Montenegrin police
> A HIGHLY secretive SAS mission in Montenegro has spent the past six
> months training the Yugoslav republic's elite special police against
> terrorist threats from Serbia, writes Tom Walker.
> The 1,500-strong commando units of the new Montenegrin force, who
wear
> distinctive black uniforms, are now a common sight near government
> buildings and on Montenegro's borders. The commandos are backed up by
> another 5,000 special police.
> Neither the Montenegrins nor the British government have admitted the
> presence of SAS trainers on Yugslav territory, for fear of provoking
a
> confrontation with the Yugoslav army of President Slobodan Milosevic.
> Diplomats say they believe the trainers, said to have been a squad of
> be-tween four and eight, have now left after concern for their
safety.
> The SAS trainers were experienced Balkan hands. Several had assisted
> Nato's operation in Kosovo last year. "I saw some familiar faces
while I
> was wandering across a park here. They saw me and dived behind a
tree,"
> said one diplomat.
> The British involvement with the Montenegrin police is plain to see.
> More than 150 Land Rovers have been im-ported in the past year. The
> Foreign Office said two ex-port licences had been granted permitting
> civilian use.
> Intelligence sources familiar with the police programme run by the
SAS
> said the trainers were based near Bar, Yugoslavia's main port. The
> police have been given new mountaineering, diving and parachuting
> skills, and some officers are also be-lieved to have been given
training
> in Britain.
> "They've turned the police into a sort of light infantry militia-type
> outfit that can tackle any hijack or hostage crisis, the sort of
thing
> that Serbia might provoke here," said one diplomat. He said most of
the
> police armaments and uniforms came from America. The special police
have
> sub-machineguns, mortars and bazookas, but cannot counter the heavy
> armoury of the Yugoslav army.
>
YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
BELGRADE, 2 October 2000 No. 3200
S P E C I A L I S S U E
YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC ADDRESSES THE NATION
BELGRADE, October 2 (Tanjug). Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic addressed on Monday the nation over the Serbian radio and
television.
"Dear citizens,
In the expectation of the second round of the election, I take
the
opportunity to explain to you my views on the electoral and political
situation in our country, especially in Serbia.
As you know, efforts have been underway for a whole decade to
place the entire Balkan peninsula under the control of some western
powers.
A big part of that job was done by establishing puppet governments in
some
countries, by transforming them into countries with limited sovereignty
or
even deprived of any sovereignty at all.
Due to our resistance to such a fate for our country, we were
subjected to all forms of pressure to which people in the contemporary
world can be subjected. The number and intensity of the pressures
multiplied as time went by. All experience the big powers gained in the
second half of the 20th century in overthrowing governments, causing
unrest, instigating civil wars, disparaging or liquidating national
freedom
fighters, bringing states and nations to the brink of poverty all this
was
applied to our country and our people.
The developments organized for our elections are also a part of
the organized persecution of our country and our people, because our
country and our people constitute a barrier to the establishment of full
domination in the Balkan peninsula.
A grouping has for a long time now been present in our midst
which, under the guise of opposition political parties of democratic
orientation, represents the interests of governments which are the
protagonists of pressures against Yugoslavia, and especially against
Serbia. That grouping appeared in these elections under the name
Democratic
Opposition of Serbia. Its true head is not its presidential candidate.
Its
head for many years has been the president of the Democratic Party and
collaborator of the military alliance which waged a war against our
country. He could not even conceal his collaboration with that alliance.
In
fact, our entire public knows of his appeal to NATO to bomb Serbia for
as
many weeks as necessary to break its resistance. The grouping organized
in
this manner for these elections therefore represents the armies and
governments which recently waged war against Yugoslavia.
In representing their interests, the grouping launched messages
to
our public that with them at the head, Yugoslavia would be out of any
danger of war or violence, that economic prosperity would come, the
standard of living would improve visibly and rapidly, that Yugoslavia
would
allegedly reintegrate in international institutions, and so forth.
Distinguished citizens,
It is my duty to warn you publicly and in time that such
promises
are false and that the situation is quite different. It is precisely our
policy which guarantees peace and theirs only lasting conflicts and
violence, and I shall tell you why.
With the establishment of an administration supported or
installed
by a community of countries gathered within NATO, Yugoslavia would
inevitably become a country whose territory would quickly be
dismembered.
These are not only NATO's intentions. These are the preelection promises
of
the Democratic Opposition of Serbia. We have heard from its
representatives
that Sandzak would get the autonomy that a member of its coalition and
leader of a separatist Muslim organization Sulejman Ugljanin has been
advocating for ten years, and which would in fact mean a definite
separation of Sandzak from Serbia. Their promises also include giving to
Vojvodina an autonomy that would not only separate it from Serbia and
Yugoslavia but would in fact make it an integral part of neighbouring
Hungary. In a similar manner other areas would be separated from Serbia
and
some other border areas. Their annexation by neighbouring states has for
a
long time been a hot issue in those states, which keep inciting their
minorities in Yugoslavia to make a contribution to an integration of
parts
of our country with neighbouring states.
Within this policy of dismembering Yugoslavia, Kosovo would be
the
first victim. Its present status would be proclaimed legal and final. It
is
the first part of its territory to which Serbia would have to bid
farewell,
without even voicing hope that this part of its land could once be
returned
to it.
The remaining territory that would bear the name Serbia would
be
occupied by international, US or some third military forces, which would
treat this territory as their military training ground and as their
property to be controlled in line with the interests of the power whose
army is present there.
We have been looking at cases of such control and consequences
thereof for decades, and especially in this decade in many countries
around
the world, unfortunately lately even in Europe, for instance in Kosovo,
Republika Srpska and Macedonia, in our immediate neighbourhood. The
people
of Serbia would know the fate of the Kurds, with a prospect of being
exterminated more speedily than the Kurds since they are less numerous,
and
since their movements would be limited to a much smaller area than the
one
in which Kurds have been present for decades.
As for Montenegro, its fate would be left in the hands of the
mafia, whose rules of the game should be made well known to the
citizens:
any breach of discipline and especially any opposition to mafia
interests
is punishable by death without any right to appeal.
I have presented to you the fate of Yugoslavia in case of
acceptance of the NATO option for our country, in order to warn you
that,
in addition to a loss of land and humiliation of the people, all would
live
under ceaseless violence.
The new owners of former Yugoslavia's state territory and
occupiers of the remaining Serbian territory would, as is the nature of
things, terrorize the population whose territory they will have
occupied.
The Serb people itself would at the same time fight continuously for the
reestablishment of a Serb state in which it could reassemble. They do
not
want peace or prosperity in the Balkans. They want this to be a zone of
permanent conflicts and wars which would provide them with an alibi for
their lasting presence.
"A puppet government therefore guarantees violence, possibly
many
years of war, anything but peace. Only our own administration guarantees
peace.
Moreover, all countries finding themselves with a status of
limited sovereignty and with governments under the influence of foreign
powers, have speedily become impoverished in a manner destroying all
hope
for more just and humane social relations. A great division into a poor
majority and a rich minority - this has been the picture of eastern
Europe
for some years now that we can all see. That picture would also include
us.
We, too, would under the command and control of the owners of our
country
quickly have a tremendous majority of the very poor, whose prospects of
coming out of their poverty would be very, very uncertain and far away.
The
rich minority would be constituted by the black marketeering elite,
which
would be allowed to be rich only on condition that it be fully loyal to
the
command which decides the fate of their country.
Public and social property would quickly be transformed into
private property, but its owners, as demonstrated by the experience of
our
neighbours, would as a rule be foreigners.
Among few exceptions would be only those who would purchase
their
right to ownership by their loyalty and submission, which would lead to
the
elimination of elementary national and human dignity. The greatest
national
assets in such circumstances become the property of foreigners, and the
people who used to manage them would continue to do so in these changed
circumstances but as employees of foreign companies in their own
country.
National humiliation, state fragmentation and social poverty
would
necessarily lead to many forms of social pathology, of which crime would
be
the first. This is not just an assumption, this is the experience of all
countries which have taken the path that we are trying to avoid at any
cost. The centres of European crime are no longer in the west, they were
moved to eastern Europe a decade ago. Our people find it hard to bear
already the present crime incidence, as we lived for a long time from
World War II to the 1990s in a society which hardly knew any crime at
all.
Any large-scale crime, such as cannot be avoided in a society that we
would
become with the loss of sovereignty and a large part of territory, such
large-scale crime would be as dangerous for our small and unused to
crime
people as war is dangerous for the society and its citizens.
One of the essential tasks of a puppet government in any
country,
including ours were we to have such a government, is loss of identity.
Countries under foreign command relatively quickly part with their
history,
their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of
living,
often their own literary language. Invisible at first, but very
efficient
and merciless selection of national identity would reduce it to a few
local
dishes, a few songs and folk dances, the names of national heroes used
as
brand names for food products or cosmetics.
One of the really obvious consequences of the takeover of
territories of countries by the big powers in the 20th century is the
annihilation of the identity of the people of those countries.
Experience
of other countries shows that people can hardly come to terms with the
speed with which they are starting to use a foreign language as their
own,
to identify with foreign historic figures forgetting their own, to be
better acquainted with the literature of their occupiers than their own,
to
glorify the history of others while mocking their own, to resemble
others
instead of themselves. The loss of a national identity is the greatest
defeat a nation can know, which is inevitable in the contemporary form
of
colonization. Besides, that new form of colonization by its very nature
rules out any possibility of free speech or free will, and especially
rules
out any creativity of any kind. Countries which are not free deny to the
people who live in them the right to freely express their opinion, as
that
opinion would be in collision with the absence of freedom. This is why
torture over thought is the most consistent and essential form of
torture
in a country that has lost its freedom. As for exercising free will, it
is,
naturally, out of the question. Free will is allowed only as a farce. It
is
allowed only to the lackeys of foreign masters, whose simulated free
will
is used by the occupiers as a justification for establishing democracy
in
whose name they have taken possession of another people's country. I
would
like to stress particularly because of young people, intellectuals,
scientists, that countries deprived of sovereignty are as a rule
deprived
of the right to creative work, and especially creative work in the field
of
science. Large centers and large powers finance scientific work, control
its attainments and decide about the application of its results.
Dependent
states, if they have scientific laboratories and scientific institutes,
are
not independent ones but operate as branches controlled by one center.
Their attainments must remain within bounds that will not introduce in
occupied countries and occupied peoples the seed of rebellion and
emancipation.
At this moment ahead of the runoff elections, because the
Democratic Opposition of Serbia doubts it can achieve the result it
needs,
leaders of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia with money introduced
into
the country are bribing, blackmailing and harassing citizens and
organizing
strikes, unrest and violence in order to stop production, all work and
every activity. All that, of course, with the aim of stopping life in
Serbia and with the explanation that life can start again and go on
successfully and well, when it is organized by those who represent here
the
intentions, plans and interests of occupiers. Our country is a sovereign
state. It has its laws, its Constitution, its institutions. Serbia is
duty bound, and it deserves to defend itself from invasion which has
been
prepared against it through different forms of subversion.
And the citizens should know, that by participating in
subversion
whose objective is foreign domination over their country or the
occupation
of their country, they bear the historical responsibility of denying to
their country the right to exist and also the responsibility of losing
control over their own lives.
By giving up their country to others, to foreign will they also
surrender to foreign will their own life and the life of their children
and
of many other people.
I considered it my duty, to warn the citizens of our country
about
the consequences of the activities financed and supported by the
governments of NATO countries. Citizens can trust me but they do not
have
to. My wish is only that they do not realize this when it is too late,
that
they do not realize this when it will be difficult to redress mistakes
that
citizens naively, superficially or erroneously made, as those mistakes
will
be difficult to rectify and some will never be rectified.
My motive to express my opinion in this way is not, at all, of
personal nature. I was elected twice President of Serbia and once
President
of Yugoslavia. It should be clear to all, after these ten years, that
they
are not attacking Serbia because of Milosevic, but Milosevic because of
Serbia. My conscience in that respect is absolutely clear. My
conscience,
however, would not at all be clear if I would not tell my people, after
all
these years at their head, what I think about their fate if that fate is
imposed by someone else, even if it means to explain to the people that
they have chosen that fate themselves.
The misjudgment that they are choosing what has been chosen by
someone else, is the most dangerous misjudgment and the main reason of
my
decision to address publicly the citizens of Yugoslavia.
Thank you."
YUGOSLAV ELECTION COMMISSION REJECTS DOS COMPLAINT
BELGRADE, Oct 1 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav election commission, at
a
session presided over by Borivoje Vukicevic, determined on Saturday the
list of candidates for electing the president of Yugoslavia in a runoff,
said a statement from Yugoslav parliament.
Candidates for president of Yugoslavia are:
1. Vojislav Kostunica, Ph.D. of law, born 1944, from Belgrade,
nominated by the Democratic Party, Democratic Party of Serbia,
SocialDemocracy, Civil Alliance of Serbia, ChristianDemocratic Party of
Serbia, New Serbia, Movement for Democratic Serbia, Vojvodina League of
SocialDemocrats, Reformist Democratic Party of Vojvodina, Vojvodina
Coalition, Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, Democratic Alternative,
Democratic Center, New Democracy, SocialDemocratic Union, Democratic
Action, League for Sumadija, Serbian Resistance Movement Democratic
Movement.
2. Slobodan Milosevic, B.A. of law, born 1941, from Belgrade,
nominated by the Socialist Party of Serbia, the Yugoslav Left and the
Socialist People's Party of Montenegro.
At the same time, the commission made a decision that the
election
councils, which conducted the elections for Yugoslav president in the
first
round, will conduct the elections for Yugoslav president in the runoff,
the
statement said.
The election commission has also made a decision about the
printing of election material for the election of Yugoslav president in
the
runoff. Ballots will be printed in the same number as the number of
voters
in the first round, and that number is 7,861,421. The printing of
ballots
in several languages will start on Sunday, October 1, 2000.
The Yugoslav election commission has rejected the complaint of
DOS
about balloting results for Yugoslav president as unfounded. Also
reviewed
were a number of complaints concerning local elections, said the
statement
of the Yugoslav parliament information section.
BULGARIANATOTRIBUNAL
WESTERN LEADERS, NATO FOUND GUILTY
SOFIA, Oct 1 (Tanjug) Court council of the International
Social
Tribunal based in Moscow found guilty, on Sunday, at the end of the
trial
in Sofia, 14 Western leaders and the NATO alliance of crimes committed
during NATO's aggression last year on FR Yugoslavia.
The verdict, read by tribunal president Mihail Kuznyecov for
war
crimes, crimes against humanity, violation of all international norms
and
regulations and other crimes, found guilty: William Clinton, Madeleine
Albright, Wiliam Cohen, Gerhard Schroeder, Jozef Fischer, Rudolf
Scharping,
Anthony Blair, Robin Cook, George Robertson, Jacque Chirac, Hubert
Vedrine,
Alain Richard, Javier Solana and Wesley Clark.
The verdict was signed by the 14 judges of the council from ten
countries.
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
THREE POWER TRANSFORMERS BURNED IN FIRE IN "TREPCA"
ZVECAN, Oct 1 (Tanjug) In a fire that broke out Saturday
evening
around 22.00 in the power plant of Trepca's lead metallurgy plant were
burned down three 35kilowat transformers, that lead to power outages in
Zvecan and surrounding villages.
Tanjug's reporter learnt on the spot that the fire was very
quickly brought under control by fire brigade units from the
northernSerbian part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
According to the first information the fire was caused by a
technical malfunction of a power line that has been submerged under
water
for days. A few Serbs working on the maintenance of the plant, the only
ones to remain at their work posts after the forcible takeover of Trepca
by
KFOR in August this year, have warned KFOR members about that,
apparently
to no avail.
The situation has also stabilized around the plant, and UNMIK
and
KFOR helicopetres are no longer overflying the area since midnight.
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