MOVIMENTO DI SOLIDARIETA' AUSTRIA-JUGOSLAVIA:
* PRIMI RISULTATI DELLA PETIZIONE DI APPOGGIO AI PRIGIONIERI POLITICI DI
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
* RELAZIONE DAL VIAGGIO IN KOSOVO


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KOUCHNER ACCOGLIE LE RICHIESTE DEI 42 PRIGIONIERI POLITICI IN SCIOPERO
DELLA FAME NELLE CARCERI DI KOSOVSKA MITROVICA

Subject: Kouchner meets demands of political prisoners
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 17:40:53 +0200
From: Jug Öster Solibeweg <joesb@...>
To: <joesb@...>

On Sunday May 21 the protector of Kosovo, Kouchner , has met the demands
of
37 Serbs and 5 Romanies who had been on hunger strike since April 10. He
promised the immediate start of their legal procedures as well as the
chairmanship of international judges.

The 42 prisoners has staged their protest, because they have been
incarcerated for minor offences or completely unproven adventurous
accusations already for nearly one year. At the same time Albanian
assassins
had been released immediately by the exclusively Albanian UN
protectorate
judges. The 42 Sebs and Romanies of the UN prison of Kosovska Mitrovica
demand the status of political prisoners as they have obviously been
imprisoned because of their national affiliation (details see
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb).

Although Kouchner has promised fair trials these are very unlikely. The
purpose of the protectorate’s administration is to legitimate war and
occupation by NATO by blaming all on the Serbs. For them it is obvious
that
only the complete albanisation of Kosovo can grant their rule.

The geo-strategic interest of NATO therefore co-incites with those of
the
KLA to displace all non-Albanians. Thus the “juridical system” of the
occupants is subordinated to this principle.

We therefore will closely watch the further proceeding regarding the
Serb
and Romani political prisoners in Kosovo.

The JÖSB demands the return of all displaced non-Albanians, the
withdrawal
of NATO and KLA as well as the complete restitution of Yugoslavia’s
sovereignty of the Kosovo.

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Below we once again publish our petition and the list of supporter who
we
want to thank for their efforts:

To:
Bernard Kouchner, UNMIK governor
Juan Ortuno, KFOR commander
Kaplan Baruti, president of the court of Kosovska Mitrovica
Sven Eric Laarsen, UNMIK police chief of Kosovska Mitrovica

Freedom for the political prisoners in Kosovo who are in hunger strike

We, the undersigned individuals and organisations, request the UN
protectorate authorities, UNMIK, to immediately release the thirty-six
Serbs
and Roma who are in hunger strike, as well as their five fellow
detainees in
the UN prison of Kosovska Mitrovica, if they are only being accused of
summary offences.

Substantiation:

1
For almost one year the non-Albanian detainees are being held without
the
prospect of trials in court. According to press statements, not even
preliminary examinations are being conducted.

2
At the same time, assassins motivated by Albanian nationalism such as
the
recent case of Dzeljalj Ademi, who threw a hand grenade in the Serb
Ghetto
of Mitrovica, injuring 22 Serb civilians and 14 French NATO soldiers are
released without being tried.

3
Until now the protectorate judiciary was not at all able to dispel the
massive doubts of their impartiality.

4
Under the given circumstances as the UÇK/KSK is still armed and still
acting
as a belligerent power in a civil war and expelled great parts of the
national minorities and political critics to own and to carry weapons,
which
is the main accusation against the detained non-Albanians, is pure
self-defence.

To detain the non-Albanians of Kosovska Mitrovica obviously has
political
and nationalist motives and they have to be freed immediately.

Yugoslav Austrian Solidarity Movement
(Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung)
Vienna, April 27th, 2000


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RELAZIONE DAL VIAGGIO DI SOLIDARIETA' A KOSOVSKA MITROVICA

Persecuted and expelled by UÇK, NATO and UNO

Report of the solidarity delegation to the last multi-national part of
Kosovo

In early May a delegation of the Austrian–Yugoslav Solidarity Movement
(JÖSB) came to Kosovska Mitrovica in order to

a. express our demand to free the political prisoners from UNMIK
incarceration,

b. express our support to the remaining non-Albanians in the Ghetto
of
Kosovska Mitrovica

c. investigate the local situation without media manipulation.

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Pictures and a map of the demarcation line between the multi-national
North
and the albanised South can be found under:
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb
****

Hunger strike of the political prisoners
As reported in our declaration of April 24th, 2000, the event that
triggered
the decision for the hunger strike was the release of the Albanian
Dzeljalj
Ademi, who had injured 22 civilians and 14 KFOR soldiers in an anti-Serb
hand-grenade attack, while the non-Albanian prisoners remain
incarcerated
for months without trial. The prisoners demand investigations for a
trial.
The most blatant case is a 16-year old boy who was arrested for genocide
last summer.
Another case worth mentioning is a Serb man called Jaksimovic from the
vicinity of Orahovac, who was stopped by UNMIK at a road block. An
Albanian
whose hand had been injured by gunfire and who was at the site by
chance,
claimed that Mr Jaksimovic was the person who had injured him, and Mr
Jaksimovic was immediately arrested by UNMIK soldiers. One of Mr
Jaksimovic’
s fellow travellers who is Albanian heard that the other Albanian was
told
by passers-by to point at “the guy with the beard” (i.e. Jaksimovic) and
to
claim that he was responsible.
In general the accusations are completely arbitrary and politically
motivated. The witnesses are arbitrarily selected and their testimonies
are
first of all determined by their loyalty to the aims of the UÇK (KLA),
as
the comport of the judges. The few Serb judges that had existed all
resigned, because their personal safety could not be guaranteed. They
also
protested against the partiality of the UNMIK judicial system. The
discrimination between Albanians and non-Albanians proves, that Serbs
and
Romanies are being held in prison for political and ethnical reasons and
not
for concrete offences of law—they are political prisoners of the UN.
Two of the hunger strikers are in a critical state. One of them fell
into
coma. Nevertheless UNMIK does not allow doctors nor journalists to visit
the
prisoners. Now also relatives of the prisoners started a hunger strike.
They
organise daily protest manifestations in front of the prison, in which
thousands of people participate. The JÖSB representative expressed his
solidarity with the gathered crowd.
As delegates of the aid organisation Humanitas we tried hard to get
permission to see the prisoners. The local UNMIC police commander, Sven
Erik
Larson, actually told us that most accusations of the Serb and Romany
prisoners against the UNMIK judiciary are justified. Nevertheless he did
not
grant us permission to visit the prisoners, but sent us to Pristina. In
Pristina our demand was refused by Edita Ryan, who is the competent NGO
liaison officer and who called Humanitas an organisation that illegally
operates in Kosovo.
We call upon everyone to join our campaign for the release of the
political
prisoners and to step up pressure on UNMIK by organising further visits
to
the prison of Kosovska Mitrovica.

Kosovo impressions
In fact the North of Kosovo which is not under UÇK control is the only
multi-national part of Kosovo—even after the war. Here are some concrete
examples:
Kaplan Beruti in Svecan. The chief presiding judge of Kosovska
Mitrovica,
the Albanian Kaplan Beruti, who is actually responsible for the
arbitrary
incarceration of the Serbs and Romanies who went on hunger strike, is
living
in Svecan, north of Kosovska Mitrovica, a village that is predominantly
Serbian—and he lives there without KFOR protection. His children go to a
local school.
Serb refugees in Albanian houses in Banjska: On the premises of this
monastery in the northern mountains there are several week-end cottages
owned by Albanians. Now Serb refugees from the South live in these
houses.
We asked about the former owners and were surprised to hear that they
are
living in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica and that they were
even
paid rent for these houses.
Albanians in daily life: Asking several Serbs about the Albanian flats
and
houses in Kosovo Mitrovica that are under tight KFOR protection, we were
always told that there is a significant difference between UÇK followers
whose flats serve as UÇK bases, and Albanians who are loyal to
Yugoslavia.
The latter can live there without any problems.
The impressions from the southern part of Kosovo are completely
different.
Destroyed Romany quarter: At the road from Kosovska Mitrovica to
Pristina
only 10–20% of the houses seem to be burnt. The Romany quarter of
southern
Kosovska Mitrovica is completely devastated, burnt down and razed to the
ground. UÇK racist national ideology obviously was fully realised here.
UNMIK official warns us of deadly danger: We went to the UNMIK office
for
NGOs in Pristina in order to obtain a permit to visit the prisoners of
Kosovska Mitrovica. When the official in charge, Edita Ryan, saw our
letter
that was written in Cyrillic, she told us immediately that we must not
show
this letter to anybody, because this could be our death sentence—she
also
said that she was saying so “off records”. She even discouraged us to
have
it translated into English within Kosovo.
Albanian taxi driver speaks Serbo-Croatian: Due to the many warnings we
avoided speaking Serbian to the driver who brought us from Mitrovica to
Pristina and back. When we realised that he was listening to Serbian
radio
and was cursing in Serbian, we started talking to him in Russian. He
felt
completely at ease speaking Serbian. When we got of the car, he urgently
reminded us not to utter a single word of Serbian on the streets,
because
this was very dangerous.

There is a system behind the persecution of non-Albanians
The political and ethnic persecution of Serbs and Romanies by the UN
judiciary is only the tip of the iceberg. NATO/UNO, based on the UÇK,
actually formed a regime that oppresses and discriminates against all
non-Albanians in order to finally expel them and to deprive the
integrity of
Yugoslavia of its demographical legitimacy. While UÇK and its successor
organisation TMK respectively were demilitarised only very superficially
(only heavy weapons), and there constantly are attacks against
non-Albanians—these attacks claimed more than 1,000 lives since the
beginning of the NATO occupation!—Serb forces were completely stripped
of
their weapons, thus depriving them of the ability for self-defence. This
means a death sentence for many of those who are determined to stay,
because
due to “lack of capacity” they are not granted KFOR protection. Only the
convoys of fleeing non-Albanians are granted protection.
Re-settlement: Kouchner and other representatives of the so-called
international community say that it is still to early to bring the
non-Albanian refugees to the South of Kosovo; but at the same time in
the
North of Kosovska Mitrovica, KFOR is trying by means of force to bring
Albanian refugees to their houses. There is proof that UÇK fighters are
also
infiltrated, brought to the North of Kosovska Mitrovica: There were
sniper
attacks from the three Albanian tall buildings that were recently
re-settled.
Elections: There is also proof that UNO/KFOR is not a neutral mediator,
but
a motive force. They plan to organise elections for a protectorate
government on the base of the present ethnic composition, to preserve
the
expulsion of 300,000 non-Albanians and the settlement of an unknown
number
of Albanians from the North of Albania.

Yugoslavia is the only multi-national state of the Balkans
The war triggered by the UÇK with the support of the west and
transformed by
NATO into a war against the whole of Yugoslavia, claimed a total of
2,108
victims counted on both sides. But just a year of NATO protectorate
already
claimed the lives of more than one thousand non-Albanians! In spite of
ardent ethnic conflicts there had not been expulsions and “ethnical
cleansing” under Yugoslav rule in Kosovo. Even when UÇK fuelled the
spiral
of violence with their terrorist attacks since 1997, there were hardly
any
refugees. When the fighting subsided, most refugees returned. The
“Horseshoe
Plan” (“Potkovica Plan”) turned out to be a secret service propaganda
forgery. Only after the NATO bombardments started, refugees started to
flee
in large numbers. Now, under the rule of UÇK and NATO, there actually is
systematic “ethnical cleansing” that had earlier been attributed to
Yugoslav
forces. 300,000 non-Albanians have been expelled and the few that
remained
are constantly threatened, and KFOR refuses to protect them seriously.
In spite of the disintegrating tendencies and internal tensions,
Yugoslavia
still is a multi-ethnic state and as such is the only possible form of
peaceful co-existence of the ethnically mixed peoples of the Balkans. It
was
the West that used the “right of ethnical-territorial
self-determination” as
a crowbar against Yugoslavia. That necessarily lead to a civil war. The
Serb
people was and is the heart of Yugoslavia and had relinquished its
ethnical
interests in favour of this common state. So when now the other peoples
of
Yugoslavia revoke this federation, it is only just, when Serbia also
defends
her national interests. But the decisive difference between the Serbs
and
the other peoples is, that the latter became slaves of the New World
Order,
while the Serbian people is fighting against the new NATO tyranny.
This is why Kosovo has to remain a part of Yugoslavia, why the refugees
have
to return and why UÇK and NATO have to vanish!

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Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB)
PF 217, A-1040 Wien, Österreich
joesb@...
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb


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RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
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ARCOBALENO: PROROGA INDAGINI, ANCHE ASSOCIAZIONE A DELINQUERE


(ANSA) - BARI, 25 maggio - Si ipotizza l'associazione per delinquere
nell'inchiesta avviata sei mesi fa dalla Procura di Bari sulla Missione
Arcobaleno: il nuovo reato e' contenuto negli avvisi di proroga delle
indagini preliminari che il Sostituto Procuratore inquirente, Michele
Emiliano, ha fatto notificare ad alcuni degli inviati della Protezione
Civile in Albania.
Da quanto si e' potuto sapere l'associazione per delinquere, finalizzata
al peculato e a una serie di falsi, e' contestata ai componenti della
cosiddetta "squadra", capeggiata dal capo della Missione Arcobaleno in
Albania, Massimo Simonelli. Quest'ultimo fu arrestato il 20 gennaio
scorso su disposizione della magistratura barese insieme col capo del
villaggio delle regioni di Valona, Luciano Tenaglia, la dipendente della
Protezione Civile Silvia Lucatelli e col volontario Alessandro Morono.
I reati contestati a vario titolo nel provvedimento restrittivo erano di
peculato aggravato e continuato, occultamento di atto pubblico e uso di
atto pubblico falso, favoreggiamento personale, falso materiale in atto
pubblico. Simonelli e Tenaglia, dopo tre mesi trascorsi agli arresti,
sono tornati in servizio in uffici presso la Presidenza del Consiglio
dei Ministri, dove erano stati trasferiti pochi giorni prima
dell'arresto, ma destinati a servizi e mansioni diversi da quelli
precedentemente svolti.


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ROMA 3 GIUGNO -> NEW YORK 10 GIUGNO
e poi:
BELGRADO, BERLINO, AMSTERDAM
ed infine:
un testo in francese sul lavoro del Tribunale indipendente


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ROMA 3 GIUGNO 2000

VIA PIETRO COSSA 40 – SALA UNIVERSITA’ VALDESE
DALLE ORE 9.00
PROIEZIONE VIDEO, MOSTRE FOTOGRAFICHE
TRIBUNA APERTA TRA I COMITATI E LE ASSOCIAZIONI
ORE 15.00
SESSIONE FINALE DELLA SEZIONE ITALIANA DEL
TRIBUNALE INDIPENDENTE CONTRO I CRIMINI DELLA
NATO IN JUGOSLAVIA

in preparazione della giornata del 3 giugno ricordiamo a tutte le
strutture che intendessero esporre mostre o altro materiale di
contattarci entro il 1 giugno ai nostri indirizzi,
ricordiamo inoiltre che la mattinata potra' essere un giusto momento di
dibattito e di discussione per continuare e programmare le attivita'
inerenti la lotta alla NATO e la solidarieta' con la Jugoslavia


TRIBUNALE ITALIANO CONTRO I CRIMINI DELLA NATO IN YUGOSLAVIA
065181048- FAX 068174010
E-MAIL: s.deangelis@... ponac@...

CONTINUANO AD ARRIVARE NUMEROSE LE ADESIONI PER LA GIORNATA DEL 3
GIUGNO.
CI TENIAMO A DIRE CHE NONOSTANTE I NOSTRI CONTINUI TENTATIVI NE' IL
QUOTIDIANO IL MANIFESTO NE' IL QUOTIDIANO LIBERAZIONE HANNO PUBBLICATO
L'APPELLO CON L'ATTO DI ACCUSA AI NOSTRI GOVERNANTI ED ALLA NATO.


> P R O C E S S I A M O L I !!
>
> Il 31 luglio 1999 hanno avuto inizio a New York le attivita' del
> "TRIBUNALE INTERNAZIONALE INDIPENDENTE CONTRO I
> CRIMINI DELLA NATO IN JUGOSLAVIA", promosso da Ramsey
> Clark, con la stesura di 19 punti di accusa contro la NATO ed i
> governi occidentali.
>
> Le attivita' del "Tribunale" hanno trovato seguito in molti altri paesi
> del mondo. In Italia il primo novembre 1999 alla presenza di
> Ramsey Clark ha preso il via la sezione italiana del Tribunale. Nel
> corso di questi mesi, confortati dal crescente interesse suscitato e
> dalle numerose iniziative di presentazione del "Tribunale Italiano" in
> molte citta', abbiamo potuto verificare con dati oggettivi la
> veridicita' delle nostre accuse.
>
> A completamento del lavoro svolto in questi mesi, noi sottoscritti
> firmatari di questo appello accusiamo le massime autorità della
> Repubblica in carica nel marzo 1999 - in particolare il presidente
> del Consiglio dei Ministri Massimo D'Alema e i membri del Governo
> per la partecipazione alla guerra illegale e il Presidente della
> Repubblica Oscar Luigi Scalfaro per non aver difeso la Costituzione
> - nonchè i loro successori per quanto attiene ai crimini in continuità
> con l'aggressione armata, ciascuno secondo la personale
> responsabilità scaturente dalle diverse competenze, azioni e
> omissioni:
>
> - per avere collaborato attivamente all'aggressione contro la
> Repubblica Federale Jugoslava, paese sovrano da cui non era
> venuta nessuna minaccia nè all'Italia nè ai suoi alleati;
>
> - per aver liquidato e vanificato con l'aggressione militare le
> iniziative internazionali tendenti a favorire la soluzione con mezzi
> pacifici dei problemi esistenti nel Kosovo;
>
> - per avere violato tutti i principi del diritto internazionale e in
> particolare la Carta delle Nazioni Unite, i principi del Tribunale di
> Norimberga, le Convenzioni di Ginevra e i protocolli aggiuntivi sulla
> tutela delle popolazioni civili, nonchè lo stesso trattato istitutivo
> della NATO;
>
> - per aver consentito che dal proprio territorio partissero attacchi
> contro istallazioni e popolazioni civili, condotti su obiettivi e con
> armi appositamente studiate per infliggere il massimo danno,
> anche protratto nel tempo, alle persone e alle loro condizioni di vita
> (attacchi deliberati contro strutture civili, bombe a grappolo);
>
> - per aver consentito l'utilizzo massiccio di proiettili e missili
> all'uranio impoverito, causando danni incalcolabili e per un tempo
> indeterminato alle popolazioni della Federazione Jugoslava, con
> enormi rischi attuali anche per i volontari civili e per i militari italiani
> impegnati nel Kosovo.
>
> - per aver partecipato al bombardamento di impianti chimici e
> farmaceutici, causando deliberatamente danni ambientali di
> enorme rilevanza, tali da configurare una vera e propria guerra
> batteriologica, chimica e nucleare;
>
> - per aver danneggiato l'economia della Costa Adriatica con la
> chiusura degli aeroporti civili e per aver consentito e cercato di
> occultare lo smaltimento di ordigni bellici nelle acque territoriali
> italiane e in quelle immediatamente adiacenti, causando danni alle
> persone, all'ambiente, all'economia;
>
> - per aver violato la Costituzione italiana e ignorato le procedure che essa
> impone in caso di stato di guerra, guerra che non può mai essere intrapresa
> dall'Italia ma solo combattuta per difendere dall'aggressione altrui
> il nostro paese e i paesi di cui l'Italia sia impegnata a condividere la
> difesa;
>
> - per avere attivamente collaborato ad affamare e sacrificare la popolazione
> della Jugoslavia, sia nel corso della guerra sia con l'imposizione di misure
> di embargo internazionalmente illegittime;
>
> - per avere attivamente collaborato a esercitare pressioni e ingerenze
> contro un paese sovrano e le sue legittime istituzioni;
>
> - per avere inviato truppe e personale civile a governare territori ridotti
> di fatto a nuovi protettorati e colonie, senza peraltro impedire nel Kosovo
> la persecuzione sistematica e l'espulsione della popolazione di etnia
> serba e di altre etnie non albanesi, nonchè degli stessi abitanti di etnia
> albanese considerati non affidabili o dissidenti dal nuovo potere di fatto
> ivi insediato in violazione della risoluzione 1244 dell'ONU;
>
> - per aver usato la Missione Arcobaleno come operazione di promozione e
> legittimazione della guerra, e per avere allo stesso fine attivato o
> favorito una disinformazione e propaganda di guerra;
>
> - per avere rinunciato all'esercizio della sovranità del nostro paese e al
> diritto-dovere di controllo delle attività che vi svolgono comandi,
> strutture e mezzi militari stranieri;
>
> - per avere acconsentito a modificare, senza nessuna decisione del
> Parlamento, lo "status" politico e giuridico della NATO.
>
> Queste accuse, saranno esposte e ampiamente documentate il 3
> giugno a Roma nella sessione plenaria del Tribunale Indipendente
> contro i crimini NATO costituitosi in Italia che si terrà presso
> l'Università Valdese (via Pietro Cossa 40) e saranno quindi portate
> a New York, dove il 10 giugno si riunirà il Tribunale Internazionale
> Indipendente promosso dall'ex Ministro della Giustizia USA
> Ramsey Clark.
>
> Invitiamo tutti i cittadini, le associazioni, le personalità consapevoli
> della necessità di impedire che tali crimini siano perpetuati e
> diventino anzi la norma delle relazioni internazionali, a sostenere
> l'iniziativa della sezione italiana del Tribunale Clark e la raccolta di
> testimonianze e documenti e partecipare attivamente all'assemblea
> del 3 giugno a Roma.

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NEW YORK

AGGIORNAMENTI SULLA ORGANIZZAZIONE DELLA GIORNATA DEL 10 GIUGNO

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ADDRESS CORRECTION -- The June 10 International Tribunal on U.S./NATO
War Crimes
Against Yugoslavia will be held at 66th St. and Amsterdam (10th Ave.).
(NOT at 64th and 9th.)
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We will not let the history of war crimes be written by the
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BELGRADO
LA NATO SOTTO PROCESSO NEI TRIBUNALI JUGOSLAVI

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Serbs To Charge Western Leaders With War Crimes

BELGRADE, May 21, 2000 -- (Reuters) Serbia's public prosecutor said on
Saturday charges would shortly be filed against Western leaders accusing
them of committing war crimes against the civilian population during
last year's NATO air war.
"Charges will be filed in the coming days against leading figures of the
most responsible NATO countries for war crimes against the civilian
population committed in Yugoslavia during the March 24 to June 8
aggression last year," the state news agency Tanjug quoted prosecutor
Dragisa Krsmanovic as saying.
The list of the accused includes U.S. President Bill Clinton, former
NATO Secretary General Javier Solana and leaders of Britain, France and
Germany.
An investigation against Western leaders was opened last year. The
accusations included violation of the Geneva convention on the conduct
of war by using cluster bombs, attacks on civilians and residential
areas and attacks on non-military targets.
The president of Serbia's Supreme Court, Balsa Govedarica, said "trials
of the organizers of the aggression against Yugoslavia, given their
specific nature which will certainly provoke a lot of public attention,
would be conducted before a court made up of judges from the entire
republic."
NATO, which launched the air strikes over Yugoslavia's repression of
Kosovo's Albanians, insisted throughout the campaign it was aiming only
at military targets and said it took all possible precautions to avoid
civilian casualties.
When the Washington-based Human Rights Watch said in February 500
civilians had been killed by the air strikes, NATO said its report
constituted legitimate criticism but that NATO's its actions could not
be compared with Serb violence in Kosovo.
The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
indicted Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and four other top
Yugoslav Serb officials last year for alleged war crimes in Kosovo.
Krsmanovic said Yugoslavia did not recognize the UN court based in The
Hague.
He also said an investigation was being conducted against Bernard
Kouchner, head of the U.N.-led administration in Kosovo, and ethnic
Albanian leaders Hasim Thaqi and Agim Ceku for alleged genocide against
Serbs and other non-Albanians.
NATO-led forces and the United Nations took de facto control of Kosovo
last June after Yugoslav security forces pulled out of the province.
Over 200,000 Serbs and other minorities have fled Kosovo since then,
fearing revenge attacks by the ethnic Albanian majority which suffered
years of Serbian repression.
Yugoslavia has accused international forces of not fulfilling its task
to protect the entire Kosovo population.

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BERLINO

ATTO D'ACCUSA DEL TRIBUNALE EUROPEO (NON UFFICIALE) SULLA
GUERRA DELLA NATO CONTRO LA JUGOSLAVIA

Anklage beim Internationalen Europäischen (inoffiziellen) Tribunal über
den NATO-Krieg gegen Jugoslawien
(Sonderbeilage der Tageszeitung junge Welt von Mittwoch, 24. Mai 2000)

http://www.jungewelt.de/2000/05-25/004.shtml
http://www.jungewelt.de/2000/05-24/004.shtml
http://www.jungewelt.de/2000/05-24/001.shtml
http://www.nato-tribunal.de/

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AMSTERDAM

IL 9 GIUGNO IL GOVERNO OLANDESE SOTTO PROCESSO IN TRIBUNALE

>Herman de Tollenaere wrote:
>
>> On Friday 9 June, at the "Paleis van Justitie" [court house] in
Amsterdam,
>> Dutch Government Ministers will be on trial for the NATO bombing of
>> Yugoslavia in 1999.
>>
>> In 1999, 29 citizens of Yugoslavia, victims of the bombs, started this
>> court case against Ministers Kok [Prime Minister], Van Aartsen [Foreign
>> Affairs], and De Grave [Defense]. In May 1999, the judge did not grant
>> their request for summary proceedings. However, he also did not throw out
>> the case, as pro-war politicians might have liked.
>>
>> The case starts Friday 9 June, 11 o'clock at the "Paleis van Justitie",
>> Prinsengracht 434 in Amsterdam. The court case is public. So, the lawyers
>> of the bombing victims call on peace activists to come.
>>
>> Herman de Tollenaere

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CE "STALINISME" NE LES ENERVE PAS :

De : sinbad
À : controle_omc@...
Date : Vendredi 26 Mai 2000 05:18
Sujet : [controle_omc] Les crimes du Pentagone
exposés !


Un nouveau rapport établi par le journaliste américain Seymour Hersh
(1),
confirme que les troupes US ont massacré des soldats irakiens le 2 Mars
1991, aprés le cessez le feu qui mit fin à la guerre
du Golfe. Le rapport de Hersh a été publié dans le magazine New Yorker
du 22 Mai 2000.
Selon le rapport, le Général McCaffrey a ordonné le massacre de soldats
irakiens Ce massacre avait été cité lors des auditions sur les crimes de
guerre
tenues par les groupes antiguerre, peu de temps après la guerre du
Golfe. D'
aprés les transcriptions de ces exposés du 11 Mai 1991, La Commission d'
Enquêtes du Tribunal International des Crimes de Guerre:
"Une division des Gardes Républicains qui se retirait, sans protection,
le long de l' autoroute 8 qui surplombe des
marécages, fut attaquée sans raison. . . Les films pris pendant l'
attaque parlent d' eux mêmes:
Les troupes sous les ordres de McCaffrey, lancèrent une attaque
simultanément avec hélicoptères Apaches, tanks,
artillerie, et missiles guidés au laser. Sur le film on peut entendre la
description du commandant de l' opération: "Nous
nous mirent en position comme pour un tir au pigeon. Nous les avons
littéralement rétamés"
Ceci est sur le film ! Des milliers de soldats irakiens tués et pas une
perte américaine.
Le massacre fut ordonné par le général McCaffrey, aujourd' hui, "Tsar"
de la
lutte anti-drogue sous l' administration Clinton, poste équivalent à une
position de ministre. Cela signifie que le le
général 4 étoiles "à la retraite" fait partie du cercle des privilégiés
de la Maison Blanche.
Parlons donc du pouvoir civil sur les militaires américains, il
semblerait que les généraux tracent les lignes de la
politique à suivre !
McCaffrey est aussi l' architecte des préparatifs militaires US en
Colombie.
Le plan du général comprend 1 milliards 700 millions de dollars destinés
à lancer une nouvelle guerre américaine de style
Vietnam, cette fois-çi, contre le peuple colombien.
Le reportage de Hersh ajoute de nouveaux détails a ceux qui avait été
cités
durant les auditions sur les crimes de guerre, particulièrement sur le
rôle joué par le général McCaffrey. Selon Hersh, L'
officier responsable des opérations, Patrick Lamar, rapporte que le soit
disant tir irakien sur les troupes US, prétexte
invoqué pour justifier , n' était qu' "une gigantesque escroquerie. Les
Irakiens ne faisaient absolument rien. J' avais dit à
McCaffrey que j' avais des difficultés à confirmer le tir irakien sur
nos troupes."
Le Lieutenant-Général John J. Yeosock ajoute: "Ce que Barry (McCaffrey)
finissait par faire était de livrer bataille aux dunes de sable et de se
déplacer rapidement. McCaffrey cherchait à avoir 'sa'
bataille".
Le Major Général Ronald Griffith dit que McCaffrey "fit une bataille de
ce qui n' en était pas."
Ceci est une partie des accusations présentée par Sara Flounders,
maintenant
co-directrice de L' International Action Center.
Depuis le début , le Pentagone a eu en sa possession des évidences
documentées, y compris des heures de bandes video sur l'
assaut mortel d'
unités sans défense. Le 8 Mai 1991, le New York Newsday fit un reportage
sur
ce massacre, basé sur des films pris par l' armée US.
L' armée avait ouvert une enquête en Août 1991 sur les accusations de
crimes
de guerre y compris le massacre de soldats en pleine retraite ainsi qu'
un massacre de prisonniers irakiens désarmés. Selon
le reportage de Hersh, les unités de McCaffrey ouvrir le feu, avec des
mitrailleuse de gros calibre, exterminant
un groupe de prés de 400 prisonniers de guerre désarmés.
L' enquête avait révélé que McCaffrey avait ordonné de tue les troupes
irakiens durant leur retraite, aprés le cessez le feu,
mais que cela était justifié et n' était pas un crime de guerre. C' est
le genre de décision que l' on peut comparer avec les 4
policiers qui tirèrent 41 balles sur l' immigrant guinéen Amadou
Diallou, pas du tout armé, à New York en 1999.

Le massacre des soldats irakiens en retraite a fait l' objet d' un livre
"The Fire This Time", par Ramsey Clark, ancien
Ministre de la Justice des États Unis et fondateur du "International
Action Center". Ce livre raconte l' histoire de soldats
irakiens qui accouraient, les bras levés, pour se rendre aux soldats
américains, essayant de se rendre, occasion qui leur fut
refusé par des troupes trop contentes de pouvoir tuer impunément. Clark
décrit aussi comment les jeunes conscrits
irakiens terrifiés et enfermés dans leur bunker de sable, furent
enterrés vivants par les lames de bulldozer montées à l'
avant des tanks. Il est intéressant de remarquer que Timothy McVeigh,
condamné pour l' attentat à la bombe contre l'
immeuble fédéral, à Oklahoma City et ancien combattant de la Guerre du
Golfe, avait mentionné l' enterrement de soldats
irakiens terrés dans leurs bunkers de
peur de se rendre, suite aux fusillades sur ceux qui avaient tenté de le
faire. Merci l' humanisme du monde capitaliste, et que ceux qui pensent
que
le Système est amendable y pensent à deux fois.
McVeigh avait mentionné ce fait pour mettre en évidence, durant sa
défense,
que la violence est de toute façon institutionalisée par le gouvernement
US.
Si cela excuse son geste ou pas, est une tout autre affaire.
Le livre de Clark, expose également d' autres crimes de guerre qui sont
devenus le pilier central de la stratégie de l'
impérialisme US: la destruction systématique des infrastructures civiles
d' un pays. Le livre "The Fire This Time" cite un
article du Whashington Post du 23 juin 1991, basé sur des interviews
accordés par quelques uns des planificateurs de haut
niveau de la Guerre du Golfe.
Le reporter du WP, Barton Gellman, écrivait "De nombreuses cibles n' ont
pas
été choisies en premier lieu pour leur contribution à une défaite
militaire de l' Irak. . .Les militaires pensaient que les
bombardements amplifieraient l' impact économqiue et psychologique de l'
embargo international sur la société irakienne.
Étant donné les objectifs poursuivis, les dommages faits aux structures
civiles, sont invariablement décrits par les porte
paroles officiels de l' armée, comme des dommages collatéraux ou
involontaires, alors qu' ils ne le sont pas.
Le but poursuivi était de faire le plus grand dommage aux capacités de
l' Irak à se maintenir et se développer en tant que
société industrielle."

La même stratégie a été utilisée huit ans plus tard, en Yougoslavie,
lors des bombardement de l' USA/OTAN sur la Serbie
et le Kosovo. Une nouvelle audition sur les nouveaux crimes de guerre
américains a été mise sur pied, sur l' initiative du
"International Action Center".
La Commission d' Enquête sur les Crimes de Guerre US-OTAN en Yougoslavie
a
commencé à fonctionner le 31 Juillet 1999. Ramsey Clark a établi une
liste de 19 chef d' accusation pour crimes de guerres,
crime contre l' humanité et crime contre la paix à l' encontre des
leaders américians et des pays de l' OTAN.
Le "International Action Center " va ouvrir les séances du Tribunal
Mondial sur les Crimes de Guerre commis contre Le
Peuple de Yougoslavie, à New York,
le 10 Juin 2000. Sara Flounder, la coordinatrice de la commission d'
enquête
a précisé: "Bien que nous ne pouvons procéder aux arrestations des
criminels
identifiés, nous voyons en cette procédure juridique un défi au pouvoir
arrogant et arbitraire. Nous sommes confiant qu' il
s' agit là d' un premier pas d' un processus qui continuera de résonner
à travers les pays de l' OTAN et parmi les peuples
ciblés par le Nouvel Ordre Mondial."
"la IAC a commencé un mouvement qui a encouragé des milliers de
personnes à
exposer les crimes de l' OTAN et à montrer leur solidarité avec la
Yougoslavie. Des audiences sur les crimes se sont tenus
à Oslo à Berlin à Belgrade à Kiev à Athènes, à Sydney, dans 24 villes et
14 pays à travers le monde."
Les lecteurs qui veulent obtenir des précisions sur les audience contre
les crimes de guerre :
International Action Center au (212) 633-6646
email iacenter@...
www.iacenter.org

sinbad

(1) S. Hersh a obtenu le prix Pulitzer pour avoir exposé le massacre de
civils vietnamiens dans le village de Milay, durant
la guerre au Vietnam..
Ce massacre je le rappelle n' était pas une "bavure" mais faisait partie
du "Program Phoenix" programme d' extermination
des civils soupçonnés d' aider
l' OPA Vietcong.


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Sullo stesso argomento si veda l'articolo, in italiano sul sito
irredentista pan-albanese "I Balcani",

LA PRIVATIZZAZIONE DELLA GUERRA
Gli USA appaltano i loro affari di stato ad aziende al di fuori di ogni
controllo pubblico, come nel caso della "pulizia etnica" in Croazia.
di Ken Silverstein ("The Nation", 28 luglio 1997)

http://www.ecn.org/est/balcani/jugo/jugo12.htm


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>
> GENERALS FOR HIRE: CONFRONTED WITH ITS TRICKIEST
> TASK IN BOSNIA, THE USA
> HAS MADE PLANS TO PAY SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT.
> Source: TIME magazine - By Mark Thompson,
> Washington, with reporting by
> Massimo Calabresi, Sarajevo and Alexandra
> Stiglmayer, Tuzla, with other
> bureaus - 15 Jan 1996; page 34
>
> THIS IS THE AGE OF PRIVATIZATION. All across
> America, communities are
> hiring for-profit firms to perform the tasks that
> have traditionally
> fallen to government -- educating children, running
> prisons, even building
> and maintaining highways. There is one job, though,
> that seems to be an
> unlikely candidate for outsourcing: executing the
> foreign policy of the
> U.S. If that is not the business of the Federal
> Government, what is? In
> Bosnia, however, the U.S. has a problem: there is
> one particular aspect of
> its mission that is crucial but that it is loath to
> carry out. So the very
> 1990s solution is likely to be hiring a private
> company to do the job
> instead.
>
> For anyone who wants to rent a general, the place to
> go is Military
> Professional Resources Inc., headquartered in a
> squat, red brick office
> building in Alexandria, Virginia. Eight years old
> and with annual revenues
> of about $12 million, MPRI is, according to its
> brochure, "the greatest
> corporate assemblage of military expertise in the
> world." With 160
> full-time employees and some 2,000 retired generals,
> admirals and other
> officers on call, it is making a fair claim. Among
> its most prominent
> executives are retired four-star General Carl Vuono,
> who ran the Army
> during Desert Storm and now heads the company's
> growing overseas business,
> and Crosbie ("Butch") Saint, who was once the chief
> of the Army's
> operations in Europe and who oversees MPRI's work
> there. This is the
> outfit that the U.S. will probably turn to for help
> in Bosnia.
>
> Why would the U.S. need MPRI? The Dayton accord
> calls for disarmament
> negotiations to reduce the Bosnian Serbs' military
> edge over the weaker
> Muslim-Croat Federation. While its European allies
> vigorously disagree,
> the U.S.believes that even if arms control shrinks
> the Bosnian Serb
> arsenal, the federation will require new weaponry to
> ensure a military
> balance in the region. The accord allows arms to
> start flowing into the
> region beginning in mid-March. "We will not be able
> to leave unless the
> Bosnian government is armed and prepared to defend
> itself," says
> Democratic Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware. "That's
> the ticket home for
> Americans."
>
> The problem is the Bosnian Serbs. They object to the
> notion that the U.S.,
> by agreement a neutral party, would make any move to
> strengthen the
> Bosnian army. The U.S. fears Serb attacks on its
> troops if it uses them to
> arm and train the Bosnians. In fact, the Clinton
> Administration has
> pledged that U.S. troops will not play an active
> role in rearming the
> Bosnians. So how is Washington to achieve what it
> considers the necessary
> balance of power in the region? After months of
> fretting, the U.S. has
> come up with a plan. Senior officials told TIME that
> some private company,
> most likely MPRI, which has done work for the
> Croats,will train the
> Bosnians, who will be freshly outfitted with
> hundreds of tons of new
> weapons provided by the U.S. and its allies. "MPRI
> has got the know-how
> and the track record in the Balkans," says a senior
> Pentagon official.
>
> Last week James Pardew, the Pentagon's point man in
> negotiating the Dayton
> accord, flew to Sarajevo to urge the Bosnian
> government to hire MPRI or a
> competitor like BDM Inc. or SAIC (Science
> Applications International).
> Pardew plans to tell the Bosnians that weapons will
> not begin to flow into
> Bosnia for months, but training (assuming the
> Bosnians act swiftly to
> organize the effort) is expected to begin within a
> few weeks, perhaps in
> Croatia, U.S. officials say. Assistant Secretary of
> State Richard
> Holbrooke, who brokered the Dayton pact, recently
> spoke favorably of MPRI
> in testimony to Congress and says training "can
> begin as soon as the
> contracts are worked out."
>
> MPRI is ready. "The Bosnians need training at the
> company level, putting
> battalion staff together, that sort of thing," says
> retired Army Lieut.
> General Harry Soyster. "It can be done pretty
> quickly." Formerly the head
> of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Soyster, MPRI's
> operations chief, is
> the only official who speaks publicly for the
> company. For the past year,
> MPRI has had 15 men in Croatia, a group headed by
> retired two-star General
> Richard Griffitts. They have been teaching the
> Croats to run a military
> force in a democracy, and recently signed a second
> contract to reorganize
> Croatia's Defense Ministry. Also during the past
> year, MPRI, under a State
> Department contract, has been monitoring cargo
> flowing from Serbia to the
> Bosnian Serbs as part of an internationaleffort.
>
> Croatia gave a dramatic demonstration of military
> power last August, when
> it drove rebel Serbs from the Krajina region. That
> offensive took place
> seven months after MPRI began its work in the
> country. Serb and European
> military analysts suggested that the Croats had
> outside help, and MPRI
> quickly found itself on the defensive. But Soyster
> insists MPRI's role in
> Croatia is limited to classroom instruction on
> military-civil relations
> and doesn't involve training in tactics or weapons.
> Other U.S. military
> men say whatever MPRI did for the Croats--and many
> suspect more than
> classroom instruction was involved -- it was worth
> every penny. "Carl
> Vuono and Butch Saint are hired guns and in it for
> the money," says
> Charles Boyd, a recently retired four-star Air Force
> general who was the
> Pentagon's No. 2 man in Europe until July. "They did
> a very good job for
> the Croats, and I have no doubt they'll do a good
> job in Bosnia. "
>
> In a secret, just finished report that cost $400,000
> to prepare, the
> Pentagon has determined the Bosnians' military
> needs. The study concludes
> that the Bosnian Serbs' advantage could be erased by
> giving the
> Muslim-Croat Federation about 50 tanks plus similar
> numbers of artillery
> and armored vehicles, say Pentagon officials
> familiar with the findings.
> The Muslims also need antitank and antimortar
> weapons, light arms and
> basics like boots and bullets. In an indication of
> how important MPRI's
> role would be, the report contends that the forces
> need more training than
> arming, especially in tactics for midsize units
> involving hundreds of
> troops.
>
> Biden, who backs the Bosnians, has quietly won $100
> million in Pentagon
> weaponry and supplies for Sarajevo in a 1996
> spending bill. Some U.S.
> officials say it will take several times that amount
> to right the military
> balance. Nations likely to be asked for weapons and
> cash include Turkey,
> Egypt and Pakistan. Those countries, expecting
> nearly $3 billion in U.S.
> aid this year, may have a hard time saying no.
>
> As for the Bosnians, this aid effort will come with
> strings attached. A
> key condition, senior U.S. officials told TIME,
> requires Bosnia to sever
> all its military and intelligence links with Iran.
> Ejup Ganic, the
> federation Vice President, gave TIME official
> confirmation that Bosnia had
> received arms from Iran, bringing them through gaps
> in the NATO no-fly
> zone. "What we received from Iran," he says, "it's
> kind of a
> science-fiction solution. You cannot load a ship
> with ammunition and bring
> it in a normal way." But Ganic won't quibble about
> cutting Iranian ties
> now. "You bring us stuff," he says, and "we won't
> look anywhere else."
>
> The Serbs remain disturbed by the entire business.
> Last month several U.S.
> lawmakers got a similar reaction from Serbian
> President Slobodan Milosevic
> in Belgrade. Over espresso and pastries, Milosevic
> told them that
> Americans "are looking for trouble," says Republican
> Representative Jim
> Ramstad of Minnesota. Milosevic, widely blamed for
> igniting the Balkan
> wars, has some unexpected allies. Retired top U.S.
> military officers who
> until recently were responsible for the Balkans say
> the plan may embolden
> the Bosnians to seize land now held bythe Bosnian
> Serbs. Boyd suggests it
> would be better to leave well enough alone, saying
> both sides are war
> weary and that a rough military stability already
> exists. Retired General
> David Maddox, the chief U.S. Army officer in Europe
> until last year, also
> criticizes the policy. "The more we do to make sure
> they can fight well,"
> he says, "the less motivation there is for peace."
>
> Given the risks posed by training the Bosnians and
> the importance the U.S.
> has given the mission, it seems especially proper to
> ask if a private
> company ought to be undertaking it. The desire to
> protect American troops
> is understandable, but will the Serbs really
> distinguish between them and
> MPRI trainers? By hiring consultant mercenaries to
> do a messy job, it is
> easier for Washington to ignore the consequences and
> fudge the
> responsibility. Once again, for better or worse,
> that seems to be an
> overshadowing aim of America's policy in Bosnia.
>
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>
> PRIVATE MILITARY TO MONITOR PULLOUT OF SERBS FROM
> KOSOVO
> Source: The Sydney Morning Herald - By Jonathan
> Steele, 02 Nov 1998
>
> The United States has asked a private mercenary firm
> to provide the US
> military contingent to verify the withdrawal of Serb
> forces from Kosovo.
> The move will allow President Bill Clinton to avoid
> the political risk of
> having Americans die in active service in the
> Balkans.
>
> European governments, including Britain, have
> seconded military officers
> to the high-risk mission. However, because
> Yugoslavia's President Slobodan
> Milosevic has refused to allow the monitors to be
> armed, US officials
> believe it is safer to give the task to private
> contractors.
>
> The winner of the State Department contract for
> about 150 men to join the
> international monitoring group of 2,000 is DynCorp,
> a Virginia-based
> company. On its Web site, it says of itself:
> "Imagine technology with a
> touch of humanity. Meet a team of experts who treat
> hi-tech like an art
> form."
>
> Mr Spence Wickham, a retired US Air Force officer
> and director of
> international operations in the DynCorp division
> that is handling the
> Kosovo mission, said his team were arriving in the
> region over the
> weekend. "We have extensive experience of doing
> business for the
> military," he said. The team included weapons
> inspectors, verification
> experts and drivers and technicians to operate the
> standard US infantry
> vehicle, the Humvee.
>
> Mr Clinton's decision to dump the Kosovo mission on
> the private sector has
> raised eyebrows in Europe. A British defence expert,
> Ms Mary Kaldor, said:
> "It is extraordinary that a country with a highly
> paid volunteer army
> should turn to a private company of mercenaries.
> This is not the sort of
> task which should be done for profit. It indicates
> the Clinton
> Administration's determination to keep at arm's
> length [from the Kosovo
> conflict]."
>
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>
> v) U.S. SEEKS OFFICERS FOR KOSOVO.
> Source: Washington Post - 10 June 1999
>
> Washington - Job alert! Great pay and benefits,
> foreign travel,
> interesting work. DynCorp Technical Services says
> the State Department "is
> seeking active and recently retired police officers
> of any rank who are
> eager to accept a challenging and rigorous
> assignment." And where might
> this be? In beautiful downtown Prizren, Pristina,
> and other hot spots in
> Kosovo. The State Department is looking for up to
> 750 folks - the numbers
> haven't been worked out - to serve with the
> International Police Task
> Force in Kosovo as police monitors.
>
> The pay for a one-year gig is $101,000, which
> includes per diem, a
> completion bonus and hazard pay, the notice says.
> They're looking for
> officers with a minimum of eight years' experience,
> including some patrol
> and training expertise, to help build up a Kosovar
> police force. But the
> State Department is not going to take just anyone.
> You must be a citizen,
> have a "valid U.S. driver's license and ability to
> drive a 4x4 vehicle
> with a manual transmission," have an "unblemished
> background" and a U.S.
> passport, and be in "excellent health without
> temporary or permanent
> disabilities."
>
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