Mrs. Jela Jovanovic wrote:
>
> The Committee for National Solidarity
> Tolstojeva 34, Belgrade, YU
>
>
> Is it Time for Bush to Apologize for America's Arming of the Taliban
> and KLA?
>
> Why the Sudden Concern Over the Destruction of Religious Statues?
>
> By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Banner of Liberty (bannerofliberty.com)
>
> March 2, 2001
>
> ``All officials, including the ministry of vice and virtue,
> have been given the go-ahead to destroy the statues,'' the
> Taliban's Information Minister Qadratullah Jamal said
> Thursday. ``The destruction work will be done by any means
> available to them.''
>
> ``All the statues all over the country will be destroyed,''
> he said.
>
> The statues mentioned in the article are statues of Buddha. One of
> them is 175 feet tall and one is 120 feet tall and they date back to
> the 3rd and 5th century AD. UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura
> said of the planned destruction,
>
> ``In Afghanistan, they are destroying statues that the entire world
> considers to be masterpieces,'' UNESCO Director-General Koichiro
> Matsuura said. ``This iconoclastic determination shocks me.''
>
> Considering what we have seen in Kosovo from the Kosovo Liberation
> Army fundamentalist Muslims, who also were armed and supported by the
> United States, the European Union, NAT O and the United Nations along
> this line, why would Matsuura be shocked when the Taliban follows the
> KLA's lead?
>
> The Western press has largely ignored the desecration and destruction
> of Serbian Christian Churches in Kosovo by the KLA. So, the front page
> reports in the Washington Post and New York Times of the Taliban's
> desecration and destruction of Buddhist religious statues is a most
> welcome surprise.
>
> The KLA and the Taliban have a lot in common. Both are armed
> fundamentalist Muslim fanatics determined to destroy the people and
> the symbols of other religions and both were initially armed and
> trained by the United States. Both groups were called "freedom
> fighters" by the West and the weapons they are using to kill, main
> religious people and destroy religious artifacts are mostly those they
> have gotten from the United States..
>
> When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to give aid to the Communist
> government, the United States provided Stinger missiles to the
> "freedom fighters" and taught them how to shoot down Soviet aircraft.
> By 1999 left over Stinger missiles were being deployed to hijack an
> Indian Airbus as the Taliban demanded release of some of its
> terrorists.
>
> The Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, dismissed the
> West's concerns by saying:
>
> "We do not understand why everybody is so worried. All we
> are breaking are stones." A mullah is honored in the Muslim
> faith as one who is learned in the shari'a, the sacred law
> of Muslims.
>
> At least the Muslims in Afghanistan are being honest about
> what they are doing by openly admitting why they are
> killing, maiming and destroying all that stands in their way
> of a purely Muslim state. In Kosovo over 100 Christian
> churches and monasteries, some dating back to the 13th and
> 14th century, have been destroyed by the KLA terrorists we
> helped arm.
>
> However, in both situations, the Western media has shown
> literally no concern for the suffering of the people
> involved, much less the threat to religious treasures. In
> Afghanistan, a once stable nation of 15 million people has
> been literally destroyed with little mention in the West
> that six million of its population were driven out as
> refugees.
>
> Cosma Shalizi in his review of "The Soviet Invasion and the
> Afghan Response, 1979-1982" (University of California Press,
> 1995), by M. Hassan Kakar,
> (http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/reviews/kakar-soviet-invasion/)
> notes:
>
> "The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December
> 1979. It was the last hot war it would fight, and
> one whose failure played a leading role in its
> loss of the Cold War and disintegration.
> Afghanistan is infamous today for being in the
> grip of the most benighted, fanatical and
> misogynist government in the world. It was not
> always that way, but has become so through the
> superpowers' acts of omission and commission ---
> mostly commission. ...
>
> "Here we come to the sowing of the dragon's teeth.
> US aid to the mujahideen went through the CIA. The
> CIA passed it on to its counterpart in Pakistan,
> the ISI (which doubles as the Pakistani secret
> police). The ISI passed it on to the political
> parties of exiles in Peshawr, from whom, in turn,
> it finally made its way, often much-reduced, to
> commanders inside Afghanistan. The ISI, as a
> matter of deliberate policy, favored the most
> extreme Islamist organizations it could lay hands
> on, plus ethnic separatists --- not because it
> thought these groups could form a stable
> government in Afghanistan, but precisely because
> it hoped they could not. (Recall that the frontier
> with Afghanistan, including Peshawr, had been
> disputed since before Pakistan formed in 1947.)
> The CIA went along, reasoning that the Islamists
> were the most immovably anti-communist groups
> available; the fact that they were also the most
> anti-western does not seem to have entered into
> their calculations."
>
> Well, we are in the midst of still another instance in which
> we have backed the wrong horse in foreign affairs. What that
> policy has gotten us, and Afghanistan, was the most
> oppressive, most evil, the most violent of all the political
> groups in Afghanistan. And, to think that our only concern
> in noticing the nation is the destruction of its cultural
> past by the Taliban, when the people are also being
> destroyed by the Taliban says something of the values we
> have after eight years of Bill Clinton.
>
> In Kosovo, the KLA has pretty much succeeded in killing or
> driving out everyone - Serbs, Romas, Jews, and others that
> are different from the fundamentalist Muslims who control
> the KLA. And, they have done to the Churches what the
> Taliban is doing to the Buddhist statues. They have blown
> them up. I've checked frequently on the Serbian Orthodox
> website (see:
> http://www.serbian-church.net/Svetinje/svetinje_e.html) over
> the past two years. In the beginning, the Church believed
> the West would care about their buildings being hit by KLA
> missiles. The West didn't care. Now, they merely catalogue
> the latest atrocities - the killings, the missile attacks,
> on the Churches.
>
> The media of the West used its power to demonize the Serbs.
> It merely has ignored the rape of Afghanistan until
> recently. Both the media and the Western governments seem
> too arrogant to confess to their mistaken judgments in both
> situations. In Kosovo, in spite of it being occupied by NATO
> troops and supposedly being overseen by the United Nations,
> what exists there, as in Afghanistan, is anarchy. The monks
> in Decani Monastery were critical of Slobodan Milosevic and
> believed that co-existence was possible with their KLA
> neighbors two years ago. Today, their website
> (http://www.decani.yunet.com/) shows pictures of demolished
> churches and dead priests.
>
> Today's Washington Post quotes "Cultural preservationists"
> as comparing the "Taliban's actions to those of other
> intolerant regimes that attempted to obliterate religious
> cultures, including the Chinese government's demolition of
> thousands of Buddhist monasteries in Tibet and the
> destruction of Jewish artifacts under Nazi rule in Germany."
>
> In the mostly American Air Force bombing of Yugoslavia for
> 79 days, over a "genocide" that UN financed forensic experts
> say never happened in Kosovo, Churches and monasteries,
> hospitals and schools were bombed. Since NATO troops and the
> UN have occupied Kosovo, the KLA has continued to
> systematically blow up churches and statues and to kill or
> drive out non-Albanians.
>
> George W. Bush said during his campaign that we, as a
> nation, needed to be more "humble." I agreed with him every
> time he said it. The key to being humble most of the time is
> repenting of one's wrong-doing. Perhaps the time has come
> for the new American president to apologize to the surviving
> Afghan and Serb people for the behavior of a past
> administration or two. After all, if we can apologize for
> accidentally blowing up a Japanese fishing boat, we ought to
> be able to apologize for arming the Taliban and the KLA and
> bombing Churches, monasteries, cemeteries, hospitals and
> schools in Yugoslavia, whether by accident or design.
>
> To comment: mmostert@...
>
> Mrs Jela Jovanovic, art historian
> Secretary General
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>
> The Committee for National Solidarity
> Tolstojeva 34, Belgrade, YU
>
>
> Is it Time for Bush to Apologize for America's Arming of the Taliban
> and KLA?
>
> Why the Sudden Concern Over the Destruction of Religious Statues?
>
> By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Banner of Liberty (bannerofliberty.com)
>
> March 2, 2001
>
> ``All officials, including the ministry of vice and virtue,
> have been given the go-ahead to destroy the statues,'' the
> Taliban's Information Minister Qadratullah Jamal said
> Thursday. ``The destruction work will be done by any means
> available to them.''
>
> ``All the statues all over the country will be destroyed,''
> he said.
>
> The statues mentioned in the article are statues of Buddha. One of
> them is 175 feet tall and one is 120 feet tall and they date back to
> the 3rd and 5th century AD. UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura
> said of the planned destruction,
>
> ``In Afghanistan, they are destroying statues that the entire world
> considers to be masterpieces,'' UNESCO Director-General Koichiro
> Matsuura said. ``This iconoclastic determination shocks me.''
>
> Considering what we have seen in Kosovo from the Kosovo Liberation
> Army fundamentalist Muslims, who also were armed and supported by the
> United States, the European Union, NAT O and the United Nations along
> this line, why would Matsuura be shocked when the Taliban follows the
> KLA's lead?
>
> The Western press has largely ignored the desecration and destruction
> of Serbian Christian Churches in Kosovo by the KLA. So, the front page
> reports in the Washington Post and New York Times of the Taliban's
> desecration and destruction of Buddhist religious statues is a most
> welcome surprise.
>
> The KLA and the Taliban have a lot in common. Both are armed
> fundamentalist Muslim fanatics determined to destroy the people and
> the symbols of other religions and both were initially armed and
> trained by the United States. Both groups were called "freedom
> fighters" by the West and the weapons they are using to kill, main
> religious people and destroy religious artifacts are mostly those they
> have gotten from the United States..
>
> When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to give aid to the Communist
> government, the United States provided Stinger missiles to the
> "freedom fighters" and taught them how to shoot down Soviet aircraft.
> By 1999 left over Stinger missiles were being deployed to hijack an
> Indian Airbus as the Taliban demanded release of some of its
> terrorists.
>
> The Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, dismissed the
> West's concerns by saying:
>
> "We do not understand why everybody is so worried. All we
> are breaking are stones." A mullah is honored in the Muslim
> faith as one who is learned in the shari'a, the sacred law
> of Muslims.
>
> At least the Muslims in Afghanistan are being honest about
> what they are doing by openly admitting why they are
> killing, maiming and destroying all that stands in their way
> of a purely Muslim state. In Kosovo over 100 Christian
> churches and monasteries, some dating back to the 13th and
> 14th century, have been destroyed by the KLA terrorists we
> helped arm.
>
> However, in both situations, the Western media has shown
> literally no concern for the suffering of the people
> involved, much less the threat to religious treasures. In
> Afghanistan, a once stable nation of 15 million people has
> been literally destroyed with little mention in the West
> that six million of its population were driven out as
> refugees.
>
> Cosma Shalizi in his review of "The Soviet Invasion and the
> Afghan Response, 1979-1982" (University of California Press,
> 1995), by M. Hassan Kakar,
> (http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/reviews/kakar-soviet-invasion/)
> notes:
>
> "The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December
> 1979. It was the last hot war it would fight, and
> one whose failure played a leading role in its
> loss of the Cold War and disintegration.
> Afghanistan is infamous today for being in the
> grip of the most benighted, fanatical and
> misogynist government in the world. It was not
> always that way, but has become so through the
> superpowers' acts of omission and commission ---
> mostly commission. ...
>
> "Here we come to the sowing of the dragon's teeth.
> US aid to the mujahideen went through the CIA. The
> CIA passed it on to its counterpart in Pakistan,
> the ISI (which doubles as the Pakistani secret
> police). The ISI passed it on to the political
> parties of exiles in Peshawr, from whom, in turn,
> it finally made its way, often much-reduced, to
> commanders inside Afghanistan. The ISI, as a
> matter of deliberate policy, favored the most
> extreme Islamist organizations it could lay hands
> on, plus ethnic separatists --- not because it
> thought these groups could form a stable
> government in Afghanistan, but precisely because
> it hoped they could not. (Recall that the frontier
> with Afghanistan, including Peshawr, had been
> disputed since before Pakistan formed in 1947.)
> The CIA went along, reasoning that the Islamists
> were the most immovably anti-communist groups
> available; the fact that they were also the most
> anti-western does not seem to have entered into
> their calculations."
>
> Well, we are in the midst of still another instance in which
> we have backed the wrong horse in foreign affairs. What that
> policy has gotten us, and Afghanistan, was the most
> oppressive, most evil, the most violent of all the political
> groups in Afghanistan. And, to think that our only concern
> in noticing the nation is the destruction of its cultural
> past by the Taliban, when the people are also being
> destroyed by the Taliban says something of the values we
> have after eight years of Bill Clinton.
>
> In Kosovo, the KLA has pretty much succeeded in killing or
> driving out everyone - Serbs, Romas, Jews, and others that
> are different from the fundamentalist Muslims who control
> the KLA. And, they have done to the Churches what the
> Taliban is doing to the Buddhist statues. They have blown
> them up. I've checked frequently on the Serbian Orthodox
> website (see:
> http://www.serbian-church.net/Svetinje/svetinje_e.html) over
> the past two years. In the beginning, the Church believed
> the West would care about their buildings being hit by KLA
> missiles. The West didn't care. Now, they merely catalogue
> the latest atrocities - the killings, the missile attacks,
> on the Churches.
>
> The media of the West used its power to demonize the Serbs.
> It merely has ignored the rape of Afghanistan until
> recently. Both the media and the Western governments seem
> too arrogant to confess to their mistaken judgments in both
> situations. In Kosovo, in spite of it being occupied by NATO
> troops and supposedly being overseen by the United Nations,
> what exists there, as in Afghanistan, is anarchy. The monks
> in Decani Monastery were critical of Slobodan Milosevic and
> believed that co-existence was possible with their KLA
> neighbors two years ago. Today, their website
> (http://www.decani.yunet.com/) shows pictures of demolished
> churches and dead priests.
>
> Today's Washington Post quotes "Cultural preservationists"
> as comparing the "Taliban's actions to those of other
> intolerant regimes that attempted to obliterate religious
> cultures, including the Chinese government's demolition of
> thousands of Buddhist monasteries in Tibet and the
> destruction of Jewish artifacts under Nazi rule in Germany."
>
> In the mostly American Air Force bombing of Yugoslavia for
> 79 days, over a "genocide" that UN financed forensic experts
> say never happened in Kosovo, Churches and monasteries,
> hospitals and schools were bombed. Since NATO troops and the
> UN have occupied Kosovo, the KLA has continued to
> systematically blow up churches and statues and to kill or
> drive out non-Albanians.
>
> George W. Bush said during his campaign that we, as a
> nation, needed to be more "humble." I agreed with him every
> time he said it. The key to being humble most of the time is
> repenting of one's wrong-doing. Perhaps the time has come
> for the new American president to apologize to the surviving
> Afghan and Serb people for the behavior of a past
> administration or two. After all, if we can apologize for
> accidentally blowing up a Japanese fishing boat, we ought to
> be able to apologize for arming the Taliban and the KLA and
> bombing Churches, monasteries, cemeteries, hospitals and
> schools in Yugoslavia, whether by accident or design.
>
> To comment: mmostert@...
>
> Mrs Jela Jovanovic, art historian
> Secretary General
---
Questa lista e' provvisoriamente curata da componenti
dell'ex Coordinamento Nazionale "La Jugoslavia Vivra'",
oggi "Comitato Promotore dell'Assemblea Antimperialista".
I documenti distribuiti non rispecchiano necessariamente le
opinioni delle realta' che compongono questa struttura, ma
vengono fatti circolare per il loro contenuto informativo al
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