12 GODINA OD POČETKA NATO AGRESIJE NA SRJ

Tavola Rotonda sulla NATO a Belgrado il 23/3:

Annuncio e programma / Србија и Нато - Округли сто 23. март 2011

http://www.beoforum.rs/saopstenja-beogradskog-foruma-za-svet-ravnopravnih/198-srbija-i-nato-okrugli-sto-23-mart-2011.html
Primo report e Fotografie / Очувати војну неутралност. О чланству у НАТО само на референдуму!
http://www.beoforum.rs/saopstenja-beogradskog-foruma-za-svet-ravnopravnih/203-srbija-i-nato-okrugli-sto.html

Prima relazione online / Генерал Радиновић: Уводно излагање

Pesma posvecena Milici Rakic/Song about Milica Rakic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX9mrFVMOws

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http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/CultureAndMedia/Serbia-Anti-Nato-sentiment-strong-in-12th-anniversary-of-78-day-war_311824965215.html

ADN Kronos International - March 24, 2011

Serbia: Anti-Nato sentiment strong in 12th anniversary of 78-day war


Nato launched a bombing campaign against rump Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) to push Serbian forces out of the breakaway Kosovo province...

Serbian forces withdrew from Kosovo in June 1999, paving the way for Kosovo independence declared in February 2008.

Twelve years later, animosities still run high against the western military alliance and the ruins of former military headquarters in the center of Belgrade is a ghostly reminder of what here is referred to as a “Nato aggression.”

The event is being commemorated throughout the country which, according to Serbian estimates, suffered material damage of one hundred billion dollars.
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Recent surveys showed that only 15.1 per cent of Serbian citizens support the country’s joining the military alliance [NATO].

The anniversary is marked with round tables, commemorations and anti-Nato protests by some opposition groups. Belgrade mayor Dragan Djilas laid wreaths at the memorial of 13 workers killed in the bombing of Belgrade's television broadcasting building in the centre of the city.

Opposition Democratic Party of Serbia of former premier Vojislav Kostunica held a protest in the city’s main pedestrian area, distributing leaflets saying “Never to Nato”.

Visiting Russian prime minister Vldimir Putin told Serbian president Boris Tadic on Wednesday that Russia, Belgrade’s closest ally, had nothing against Serbia’s joining the EU. But he later told Serbian MPs the situation with Nato was different.

“If Serbia joins Nato, Nato will make all the decisions,” Putin was quoted as saying. “If Nato deploys its missile systems in Serbia, Russia will be forced to direct its nuclear potential towards Serbia,” Putin warned.

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http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_648702.html

Agence France-Presse - March 24, 2011

Libya airstrikes remind Serbians of Nato bombings 


BELGRADE - The airstrikes on Libya brought back bitter memories for many Serbs on Thursday, 12 years after the start of a Nato bombing campaign aimed at ending a Serbian crackdown on Kosovo. 

'I am trying not to watch television reports from Libya because its a painful reminder' of a spring spent hiding in shelters, software engineer Mr Petar Marjanovic said. 

'Even if I try to rationalise the bombing to convince myself that they were not aimed at us civilians but the military, I will never forget these days of fear and anxiety,' Marjanovic said. 

Nato launched the strikes - without UN Security Council backing unlike the intervention in Libya....

In one of the bloodiest incidents, more than a dozen people were killed on May 7, 1999, when Nato planes dropped cluster bombs on a crowded outdoor market in the southern town of Nis. It was later described as a 'blunder'. 

The bombing campaign against Serbia lasted 78 days and remains etched in public memory.  

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http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/03/24/47917703.html

Voice of Russia - March 24, 2011

Humanism laced with geopolitics


The Director General of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center Claude Moniquet says that political and oil interests are behind the jostling by France and Britain to spearhead the military campaign against Libya, saying that both countries are scheming to play the leading political role in the Arab world. “Besides, the action of Paris and London in that region are traditionally dictated by oil interests”, Moniquet said. 

Western countries’ main aims in the troubled region are not so much the protection of civilians as the pursuit of economic and geopolitical interests, as evidenced by similar military operations in the past 20 years. 

The bombing of the Bosnian Serb Republic in 1994-1995 and Yugoslavia in 1999 by NATO, and the American-led Western incursion into Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 and now in Libya were undertaken under the pretext of the noble act of protecting the lives of civilians. 

The putative fight against Al-Qaeda’s brand of terrorism in both Afghanistan and Iraq was thrown into the mix of preventing humanitarian catastrophe and ethnic cleansing. Significantly, none of these tasks was fulfilled and some of the mentioned evils didn’t even exist. Suffice to recall that no smoking gun was found in Iraq after a lengthy and costly search, but the day-and-night bombing of Yugoslavia led to an untold humanitarian catastrophe, including the mass exodus of Yugoslavians to neighbouring states. The country’s infrastructure was reduced to rubble.

New-fangled ideas, including the introduction of western-style democracy in Afghanistan, Iraq and in Albanian-controlled Kosovo were used to justify the wanton destruction of sovereign and independent countries. 

A similar spurious excuse is used to justify the intervention in Libya, and Britain, France and the U.S remain defiant about their right to solve Libyan internal political wrangling by military force. The only question  still being debated is whether it is worth it to sacrifice the Libyan leader Muammar Ghadafi on the altar of democracy a la the Western model.

Behind the pseudo-humanitarian summersault lies a hidden agenda of Western countries’ geopolitical and economic interests in oil-rich regions of the world.  

Besides, by supporting fifth columns in such regions, the U.S and its Western allies desire to create the basis for a long term military presence, a plan that is presently being tried out in Libya. The experiment is fraught with extreme dangers, says Anna Filimonova of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Center for the Study of Modern-Day Balkan Crises. 

"The most serious of the dangers is the confirmation of the new role of  NATO in international relations, the crushing of international law and its Yalta-Potsdam post-war system. Unfortunately, the world is entering a new stage of development characterized by the formation of servile protectorates," Filimonova said. "Under the new dispensation NATO would be calling the shots," predicts Filimonova.

The Western military operation in Libya is supposedly guided by parts of the UN Charter, Security Council resolutions and UN agreements, but the campaign has exceeded the UN mandate and is taking on the features of a  full-scale war against a sovereign state. 

As the events in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans have shown, what the world is witnessing in Libya is not the triumph of humanism and democracy, but the unleashing of anarchy and the carving up of an independent nation.

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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=03&dd=24&nav_id=73402

Tanjug News Agency - March 24, 2011

Serbia marks anniversary of start of NATO bombing 


BELGRADE: Serbia today marks the 12th anniversary since NATO launched its air campaign against targets in then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ). 

The campaign, code-named Operation Allied Force, involved 19 NATO countries and began March 24, 1999. 

It lasted 78 days, resulting in 2,500 civilian deaths, 89 of whom were children, and 1,031 dead soldiers and police officers, Tanjug reports. 

Around 6,000 civilians were injured, of whom 2,700 were children. The military and police had 5,173 injured. NATO's losses have never been made public. 

More than half of the casualties from NATO attacks were among Kosovo Albanians, although the western officials had claimed the intervention was necessary to protect them and named it “Merciful Angel”. 

The data on the material damage caused by NATO's strikes differs. 

Authorities in Belgrade at the time said it was close to USD 100bn....

A third of the country's electric energy capacity was destroyed, while refineries in Pančevo and Novi Sad were also attacked. 

The decision to go forward with the campaign was made without the consent of the UN Security Council, which was something that had never happened before. The NATO forces were commanded by now retired U.S. General Wesley Clark, who received the order to begin the campaign from Javier Solana, NATO's secretary general at the time. 

Yugoslavia was attacked after being blamed for the failure of the negotiations on Kosovo's status, held in Rambouillet and Paris. The Serbian authorities, headed by Slobodan Milošević, refused to accept the military annex to the proposed agreement, which was interpreted as a permission to occupy the country. 

The bombing destroyed whole residential blocks in a number of towns and cities, like Aleksinac, Kuršumlija, Ćuprija, Niš, Novi Sad, Murin, Valjevo and Surdulica, which resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties. 

The campaign ended when the Yugoslav authorities signed the Military Technical Agreement in Kumanovo, Macedonia, June 9, 1999. Three days later, the Yugoslav forces began withdrawing from Kosovo. 

Solana gave the official order to stop the bombing on June 10. 

The same day, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1244, which confirmed Serbia's sovereignty over Kosovo, while NATO established the Kosovo Force (KFOR) and sent 37,200 troops from 36 countries to the territory.  

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http://rt.com/usa/news/usa-libya-yugoslavia-anniversary-war/

RT - March 24, 2011

Yugoslavia anniversary highlights parallels with Libya

In March the seasons change and sunshine falls on America. In March American politicians venture to foreign counties – to drop bombs. 

March 1999 – the United States entered Yugoslavia. 

“Our armed forces joined our NATO allies in air strikes against Serbian forces responsible for the brutality in Kosovo,” said US President Bill Clinton. 

March 2011 – the United States entered Libya. 

“The UN Security Council passed a strong resolution that demands an end to the violence against [Libyan] citizens. It authorizes the use of force,” US President Barack Obama said. 

From one democratic president to another, bombing commences. The US and coalition forces reign down on Libya over the anniversary of the Yugoslavia bombings. 

The attack on Libya was sanctioned by the UN Security Council, in contrast to the bombings in Yugoslavia. Without approval in 1999, NATO took the lead in the first time the alliance attacked an independent and sovereign nation which posed no threat to the organization’s members. Similarly, Libya poses no threat to the nations leading the campaign of aggressive attacks. 

There are many sticking parallels between the two wars.

The enemy in 1999 was Slobodan and “The New Hitler” – Milosevic. Today it is Moammar Ghadafi who has been in power in Libya for over 40 years. 

“As much as Ghadafi is this John Galliano-dressed freak show, he modernized Libya for a while,” said Pepe Escobar, a correspondent from the Asia Times. 

Nevertheless, America seeks regime change and a nation friendlier to US interests. 

“Ghadafi needs to step down and leave,” Obama stated. 

“What we are seeing is a full-fledged war, including attempting evidently to kill the head of state of the targeted country. That again is a page from a Yugoslav book from 12 years ago,” said Rick Rozoff of Stop NATO. “What has the world learned? Evidently, not much.” 

Officially, the US and allied intervention is one of humanitarian concern – the same rational argued in 1999 when bombings commenced in Yugoslavia. 

“You can bomb a country because you are coming to save its people, and essentially that was what the rationale behind the war in Yugoslavia,” explained Michel Chossudovsky, the director of the Centre for Research on Globalization in Montréal. “You don’t come to the rescue of civilians with bombs and missiles, ok? Bombs and missiles are part of a killing machine, and they inevitable will kill civilians.” 

Like Yugoslavia, a no-fly zone has ignited the engine of the war machine – a green light to use bombing and airstrikes. 

The UN agreement on Libya created the no-fly zone and went further to allow “all means necessary” which opens the doors for nearly any type of assault. 

In Yugoslavia thousands of people were killed and millions displaced. 

“After the war, when they did a count, they found that US and NATO bombs had destroyed 14 tanks in Serbia. But, they had also bombed 473 schools,” said Sara Flounders from the International Action Center.

Experts are predicting a similar outcome in Obama’s war in Libya. 

The White House is promising the conflict will last only days, not week – just days. Initially, the same guarantee was given for the war in Yugoslavia. That conflict lasted two and a half months. 

“They think that a quick bit of bombing will sort the matter out, but in fact, I think they will find that it will last far longer than they’ve gambled for,” remarked journalist John Laughland. 

12 years on Serbia still remembers the losses it suffered at the hands of US led NATO bombings and the US is now entering its fourth set of attacks on foreign soil in the past 12 years.

Gerald Celente, the director of the Trends Research Institute argued that the first great war of the 21st century has now begun – in Libya. 

“Any excuse that the United States has to attack another county, they just make up,” said Celente. 

It’s all hypocrisy, he argued. The US invaded Libya over supposed humanitarian concerns, but as governments in Yemen, Somali and other nations continue to kill their people, the US is not talking about intervention and invasion there. 

“All this is the United States doing what it has become accustom to do, and that is attack any country it wants to at any time for any reason it can make up. And the new reason they made up is perfectly Orwellian – humanitarian crisis. So, you kill people to solve a humanitarian crisis and you take dictators out that you don’t like,” Celente said. 

He argued the drive to war is oil and other resources. If the major export was anything less significant, like vegetables, the US would not have invaded, Celente contended. 

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23/03/2011 - In occasione del dodicesimo anniversario dell’inizio dei bombardamenti della NATO contro la Jugoslavia, domani a Kosovska Mitrovica settentrionale sarano organizzate le manifestazioni, mentre a Gracanica, nel Kosovo centrale, sarà somministrato il parastos, la messa funebre il suffragio delle vittime dell’aggressione della NATO. Il parastos sotto la croce nel cortile del Palazzo della cultura a Gracanica sarà somministrato dal vescovo di Raska e Prizren Teodosije. È stato annunciato che dalla manifestazione a Kosovska Mitrovica settentrionale sarà mandato il messaggio alla comunità internazionale, alle auitorità di Belgrado e quelle  di Pristina che i serbi che vivono in Kosovo non vogliono integrarsi nelle istituzioni kosovare.

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24/03/2011 - In tutta la Serbia è stato celebrato il dodicesimo anniversario dell’inizio dei bombardamenti della NATO nell’anno 1999. Il primo vice premier della Serbia Ivica Dacic e il presidente del parlamento del comune di Belgrado Aleksandar Antic hanno deposto le ghirlande sotto il monumento eretto in onore ai membri dell’esercito jugoslavo che sono caduti nei bombardamenti della NATO sulla montagna Strazevica, nei pressi di Belgrado. Dacic ha dichiarato che tutti i cittadini devono ricordare le vittime che sono cadute nei bombardamenti e tutti coloro che hanno dato la vita per la libertà della Serbia. Tutte le vittime che sono cadute, i civili, i soldati e i poliziotti erano innocenti, ha dichiarato Dacic. Il Ministro della Difesa  Dragan Sutanovac ha deposto la ghirlanda sotto il monumento a Vranje. Il sindaco di Belgrado Dragan Djilas ha deposto la ghirlanda sotto la lapide commemorativa nel parco Tasmajdan, nel pieno centro a Belgrado, sulla quale c’è scritto perché?. La lapide è stata posta in onore di 16 impiegati della TV Serbia che hanno perso la vita nella notte tra il 22 e il 23 aprile. La ghirlanda è stata deposta anche sulla tomba della bambina Milica Rakic che aveva tre anni quando è stata uccisa dalla bomba che è caduta sulla sua casa nei pressi di Belgrado

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24/03/2011 - In tutta la Serbia è stato celebrato il dodicesimo anniversario dell’inizio dei bombardamenti della NATO, nei quali sono state uccise 3.500 persone e più di 12.500 sono state ferite. I bombardamenti dei 19 Paesi membri dell’Alleanza, denominati Angelo misericordioso, sono iniziati il 24 marzo del 1999. Nei 78 giorni dell’aggressione sono stati uccisi 2,500 civili, includendo 89 bambini, e 1.031 membri dell’esercito e della polizia. Più della metà delle vittime erano di nazionalità albanese, anche se i rappresentanti dell’Alleanza nordatlantica sostenevano che l’intervento era inevitabile, perché soltanto così poteva essere evitata la catastrofe umanitaria. La decisione sull’attacco contro la Jugoslavia è stata presa per la prima volta senza permesso del Consiglio di sicurezza. Il segretario generale della NATO Javier Solana ha impartito l’ordine sull’inizio dei bombardamenti al generale statunitense Wesley Clarc. Nei bombardamenti sono stati distrutti e danneggiati 25.000 stabilimenti, 470 chilometri di strade e 595 chilometri di linee ferroviarie. Sono stati danneggiati seriamente 15 aeroporti, 40 ospedali, 18 asili nido, 69 scuole, 176 monumenti culturali e 44 ponti. 38 ponti sono stati distrutti. È stato distrutto un terzo della capacità produttiva di corrente elettrica. Sono state bombardate anche due rafinerie. Il danno materiale è stato stimato a 100 miliardi di dollari. I bombardamenti della Serbia sono cessati dopo la stipulazione dell’accordo militare a Kumanovo il 9 giugno del 1999.

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Da: Alessandro Di Meo 
Data: 24 marzo 2011 10.43.30 GMT+01.00
Oggetto: oggi è il 24 marzo...

Cari tutti,
nel 12.o anniversario dell'aggressione della Nato alla Jugoslavia (e in particolare alla Serbia), che iniziò proprio il 24 marzo del 1999  e che per 78 giorni massacrò un popolo e una nazione... con bombardamenti all'uranio impoverito... con le famigerate bombe a frammentazione dette "cluster bombs"... con  effetti dovuti all'inquinamento ambientale devastanti... con conseguenze sulla popolazione civile che ancora oggi vengono pagate dalle persone di qualunque etnia, ceto sociale o religione... con aumento incontrollato ed esponenziale di malattie del sangue e tumorali... con l'uso scientifico di una propaganda che demonizzò l'intero popolo serbo, propaganda che preparò ad arte il terreno alla guerra... con il frutto di quella "guerra" che oggi si chiama "Kosovo libero e indipendente", un narco-stato n el cuore dell'Europa al cui comando siede un criminale di guerra denunciato (finalmente e bontà loro) anche dai rapporti dei rappresentanti del Consiglio d'Europa...
vi voglio girare una notizia dell'ottobre scorso, così, tanto per non dimenticare.

Tutto, anche in concomitanza con un'altra aggressione armata, ancora una volta molto ben digerita, a quanto pare, sia a destra che a sinistra grazie all'idea romantica e molto rassicurante dell'intervento "umanitario". Umanità che, però, non risparmia uranio impoverito, morte e distruzione sulla Libia e fra il suo popolo, tutto. Che le bombe, quando cadono, non distinguono bene chi colpiscono.
Un messaggio, quindi, non a futura memoria ma, purtroppo e sempre più drammaticamente, a memoria del presente.

Alessandro Di Meo

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Suicida il pilota della NATO che uccise la piccola Milica Rakic

Si è tolto la vita un mese fa il diretto responsabile della morte di Milica Rakic, la piccola di tre anni che abitava nei pressi dell'aeroporto di Belgrado e fu colpita da frammenti di bombe "umanitarie" della NATO il 17 aprile 1999 alle ore 21:45. 
Il tenente colonnello Harold F. Myers era andato in pre-pensionamento da pochi mesi con una diagnosi di "stress da disordine post-traumatico" in seguito a quei bombardamenti, secondo le dichiarazioni di sua moglie Elisabeth.

La piccola Milica appare oggi trasfigurata, tra le icone dei santi della chiesa ortodossa, negli affreschi realizzati dal diacono Nikola Lubardic - si veda:
https://www.cnj.it/24MARZO99/criminale.htm#milicarakic
Allo stesso indirizzo rimandiamo per l'elenco completo dei bambini morti ammazzati nell'operazione "umanitaria" della NATO, mirata a strappare il Kosovo alla Serbia per accelerare lo sventramento della Jugoslavia secondo criteri "etnici".

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Su Milica Rakic segnaliamo la canzone:

Pesma posvecena Milici Rakic/Song about Milica Rakic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX9mrFVMOws

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