понедељак, 24 фебруар 2014
15th ANNIVERSARY OF NATO AGGRESSION AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA (SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO)
NOT TO FORGET
Fifteen years have passed since the beginning of NATO aggression against Serbia and Montenegro (24 March 1999). This aggression resulted in the loss of 4,000 human lives, including 88 children, and 10,000 people were severely wounded. Over two third of these victims were civilians. How many human lives have been lost in the meantime due to the consequences of weapons with depleted uranium, as well as of remaining cluster bombs, will hardly ever be established.
Breaching the basic norms of international law, its own founding act as well as constitutions of member countries, NATO was bombing Serbia and Montenegro during 78 days continuously destroying the economy, infrastructure, public services, radio and TV centers and transmitters, cultural and historical monuments. NATO bears responsibility for polluting the environment and endangering the health of present and future generations. Economic damage caused by the aggression is estimated at over USD 120 billion. War damage compensation has not yet been claimed, and judgments ruled by our court, by which the leaders of aggressor countries were convicted for the crimes against peace and humanity, were annulled after the coup d’état in 2000.
Governments of aggressor countries seized and occupied the Province of Kosovo and Metohija, and then formally delivered it to former terrorists, separatists and international organized crime bosses. An American military base was established in the Province – “Bondstill”, one of the largest beyond the U.S. territory.
After the aggression, over 250,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians have been forced out the Province of Kosovo and Metohija; even today, 15 years later they are not allowed to return freely and safely to their homes. Ethnic cleansing and even drastic change of ethnic population structure are tolerated by so called international community if only to the detriment of Serbs. The remaining Serbian population in the Province of about 120.000 continues to live in fear and uncertainty. Attacks upon Serbs, detentions and killings, including liquidations of their political leaders, have been continuing up to these days, and nobody is held responsible.
NATO aggression against Serbia and Montenegro (FRY) in 1999 is a crime against peace and humanity. It is a precedent and a turning point towards global interventionism, arbitrary violation of the international legal order and the negation of the role of the UN. The “Bondstill” military base is the first and crucial ring in the chain of new American military bases reflecting strategy of expansion towards East, Caspian Basin, Middle East, towards Russia and its Siberia natural resources. Europe has thus got overall militarization and the new edition of the strategy “Drang nach Osten” (“Thrust to the East”). Destabilization and the tragic developments in Ukraine are just the most recent consequence of that strategy.
15 years after objectives of US/NATO military aggression continue to be pursued by other means. Serbia has been blackmailed to de facto recognize illegal secession of its Province of Kosovo and Metohija through so called Brussels negotiations. The most of the puppet states of the former Yugoslavia are much dependant on and indebted to the leading NATO/EU countries, their financial institutions and corporations so that they could hardly be considered independent states but rather neo-colonies. There is no stability in the Balkans, redrawing of borders has not ended, overall situation is dominated by devastated economy, unemployment, social tensions and misery. Europe, particularly its south-east regions, are experiencing profound economic, social and moral crisis.
During and after the aggression, 150 Serb monasteries and churches built in the Middle Ages were destroyed. Killed or abducted were some 3,500 Serbs and other non-Albanians, and fates of many of them have not been established until today. Not even one of the thousands of crimes against Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija got a court clarification. Even such terrorist crimes as was blowing up the “Nis-express” bus on 16 February 2001, when 12 people were killed and 43 wounded, neither the murder of 14 Serb farmers reaping in the field in Staro Gracko, on 23 July 2009 remained without thorough investigation, be it by UNMIK, be it by EULEX, or by any other of so many structures of the so called international community.
The Swiss senator, Dick Marty, revealed documented report on trafficking in human organs of Serbs abducted in Kosovo and Metohija. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the oldest European democratic institution, adopted his Report as the official CE document. Although all factors stand verbally for an efficient investigation and bringing the perpetrators to justice, for many years now there have been no results whatsoever. The documentation on human organ trafficking submitted to The Hague Tribunal had been – destroyed!
The Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, with support of other non-partisan and independent associations from Serbia, from the region and from the Serb Diaspora throughout the world, are organizing a number of activities under the common title “NOT TO FORGET”, with the aim to remind domestic and international public of human loss, destructions and other consequences of NATO aggression.
On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 6 p.m., in Sava Conference Centre, Belgrade (Milentija Popovica No. 1) an opening ceremony will launch a photographic exhibition presenting consequences of NATO aggression.
On Saturday, March 22 and on Sunday, March 23rd, 2014, International conference “Global Peace vs. Global Interventionism and Imperialism” will be held (Sava Conference Centre. Conference starts at 10 a.m. Some 100 prominent personalities from all over the world have confirmed their participation.
On Monday, March 24th, 2014, at 09.30 a.m., the International Memorial Marathon Belgrade-Hilandar will start in front of Saint Sava Church.
The same day, at 11 a.m., civic associations, representatives of Serb Diaspora, guests from abroad and individuals will lay flowers at the monument to children - victims of the aggression, in the Tašmajdan park, and the same day at 12 a.m. flowers will be laid at the Monument to all victims of the aggression, Friendship park, Ušće, New Belgrade.
THE BELGRADE FORUM FOR A WORLD OF EQUALS
THE VETERANS ALIANCE OF SERBIA (SUBNOR)
THE CLUB OF GENERALS AND ADMIRALS OF SERBIA
John Robles - 27 February 2014
In March 1999, at the direction of the United States of America, NATO engaged in its first act of illegal aggressive war, beginning what can only be called the “dark age of intervention” in which we are living today. The fact that NATO was allowed to get away with the aggression on Serbia and Montenegro emboldened US/NATO and the US military industrial intelligence banking complex and since that day, under a doctrine of Responsibility to Protect, Humanitarian Interventionism, Preventive War and then the all encompassing “War on Terror”, US/NATO have proceeded to destroy country after country and do away with leaders that they have not found to be submissive enough to their will.
The events of 9-11-2001 were a watershed moment for the geopolitical architects and served as a catalyst to allow them to expand their military machine to every corner of the world and invade countries at will and conduct operations with complete disregard for international law and accepted international norms.
In light of the 15th Anniversary of the NATO aggression the Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals and other independent Civic associations in Serbia will hold an international conference from the 21st to the 24th of March 2014. The conference will gather 100 prominent intellectuals from all over the world, in addition to those from Serbia, Montenegro, the Republica Srpska and 10 to 15 guests from Russia, including Academician and retired Russian Army General Leonid Ivashov. The conference will also include the participation of the Veterans Alliance of Serbia and the Club of Generals and Admirals of Serbia.
Migliaia di serbi contaminati dalla«pioggia» di radiazioni caduta nel 1999
Elena Cardinali
È venuta a Verona dalla Serbia a curarsi la leucemia contratta dopo essere stata contaminata dalle radiazioni delle bombe all’uranio impoverito sganciate sul suo Paese nel 1999. Furono 77 giorni di incursioni aeree della Nato. Oggi la popolazione serba paga ancora le conseguenze di quella guerra, frettolosamente archiviata dalle cronache, in termini di malattie morti per cancro e leucemie.
Nada V., 60 anni, è una di loro. Un anno e mezzo fa scoprì di essere affetta da una forma acuta di leucemia. L’unica speranza di sopravvivenza era un trapianto di midollo osseo e cure specifiche. Così, informata da un connazionale, Zoran, di 54anni, pure lui ammalatosi di leucemia e salvato grazie alle cure degli specialisti del Policlinico di BorgoRoma, è approdata a sua volta nell’ospedale scaligero. A raccontare la sua odissea è un’amica e connazionale, Biljana Dautovic, che dal 1991 vive a Verona, a Ca’ di David, con il marito.«Nada è stata per circa un anno e mezzo a casa mia, dentro e fuori l’ospedale», racconta, «e ora si trova in una struttura d’accoglienza per malati. Lei ha fatto il trapianto di midollo l’anno scorso ma deve ancora sottoporsi a cure specifiche. Per potersi pagare l’ospedale ha venduto anche la casa in Serbia ma probabilmente l’importo ricavato non sarà sufficiente a pagare tutto. Deve dare all’ospedale 80.000 euro e non ha tutta la somma. Devo dire che Nada è stata trattata con grande professionalità dai medici e dagli infermieri. Ripete spesso di aver avuto fortuna a capitare in un posto come Verona, dove è stata circondata di umanità. Farà il possibile per pagare quello che deve ma se potesse trovare qualche aiuto, dico io, sarebbe un gesto straordinario».
A queste preoccupazioni, continua Biljana, per Nada si aggiunge quella, molto grande, del figlio disabile di 35 anni, in coma vegetativo persistente, che ha in casa. E tutta la sua speranza è di riuscire a vivere ancora qualche anno per consentire al figlio di restare il più a lungo possibile a casa prima di essere confinato in una struttura per cronici dove, con tutta probabilità, non riuscirebbe a sopravvivere più di tanto.
Zoran, il paziente salvato, è riuscito ad affrontare le spese perchè la sorella si è sobbarcata un oneroso mutuo. «In Serbia Zoran era finito in ospedale con altri 17 ammalati come lui», racconta Biljana. «Lui è riuscito a trovare la strada per venire a Verona ma tutti gli altri suoi compagni di sventura sono morti tutti nel giro di poco tempo».
Biljana è stata una testimone dei bombardamenti della Nato. «Vivevo a Kraljevo, nella Serbia centrale. La sera del 23 marzo del 1999 la città fu sconvolta da una botta tremenda, come se ci fosse il terremoto. Invece erano i missili della Nato sparati contro il vicino aeroporto militare. A Belgrado in quegli stessi giorni quei missili hanno devastato tutto, ponti, case, fabbriche, anche il giornale locale. In 77 giorni ci hanno scaricato addosso una pioggia di bombe all’uranio impoverito e poi hanno utilizzato anche altre bombe, molte delle quali sono rimaste inesplose nel terreno. Ci sono milioni di metri quadri di Serbia ancora da bonificare ma del nostro destino sembra non interessarsi nessuno. Della Serbia si parla pochissimo. È un Paese in ginocchio, dove la gente deve pagarsi tutto, dove non si trovano le medicine per curarsi. L’alternativa è il mercato nero, e quello se lo può permettere solo chi ha un po’ di soldi».
Oggi in Serbia, dice Biljana che segue costantemente le vicende del suo Paese, «si prevedono altri 40.000 malati di tumore. Nel 2001 i malati di leucemia erano più di trentamila e nel 2012 più di 37.000. Solo quest’anno si prevedono almeno 22.000 vittime di leucemie e tumori».
G. Vlaic: << Sono più che d'accordo con Alberto. Non credo che si faccia cosa saggia nell'indicare sempre e comunque il DU come sorgente di tutti i possibili tumori, dobbiamo ricordarci che i bombardamenti sugli stabilimenti industriali hanno sversato in atmosfera e nelle falde schifezze di tutti i tipi. Il caso dei lavoratori della Zastava morti di tumore al fegato due-tre anni dopo aver rimosso le macerie dimostra che non è stato il DU… >>