1. NATO'S Peace in Macedonia: Kosovo Redux
by Jared Israel [29 August 2001]
2. NATO playing favourites in treatment of
indicted war criminal
Indicted war criminal Agim Ceku still collects a UN
paycheque. By S. Taylor on Target. Monday,
September 10, 2001
3. "What do we have to fear if they stop
us? Three days in Camp Bondsteel, then freedom"
AFP, Tuesday September 4, 10:15 PM
4. T�moignage sur les livraisons d'armes clandestines
Un article de Scott Taylor - Tetovo, 20/8/01
5. Canadian Officer Confirms NATO Backing
Albanian Rebels in Macedonia
Truth in Media's GLOBAL WATCH Bulletin 2001/8-3
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======================================NATO'S Peace in Macedonia: Kosovo Redux
by Jared Israel [29 August 2001]
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The people who bombed Yugoslavia and decimated
Kosovo by installing the Kosovo Liberation Army
in power are trying to bring Peace to Macedonia.
What that peace would mean if fully realized (and
hopefully the Macedonian people will prevent
this) is described in an astonishingly honest
article in the London Telegraph. The article
describes how the so-called NLA rebels target
Macedonian civilians, killing them and driving
them from their homes.
The pattern is eerily familiar.
In Macedonia, as in Kosovo, NATO stonewalls
reality, claiming it only wants to halt abuses
and bring ethnic peace.
At first these propaganda/promises fooled most of
the Serbian residents of the Kosovo town of
Orahovac. Initially they fooled Chedomir
Pralinchevich, the Jewish leader who was driven
from Kosovo by the KLA with NATO's consent.
Soon the horrific truth became clear: while NATO
broadcasted soothing platitudes, its proxy force,
the Kosovo Liberation Army marched in through the
open border with Albania, slaughtering farmers,
terrorizing people simply for being Serbs,
killing residents for their apartments,
instituting a reign of terror that combined
Nazi-like ethnic terror with gangsterism, so that
no one, not even ethnic Albanians, was safe
All this was neatly packaged for politically
correct western consumption. The province filled
with Western NGOs who spoke of conflict
resolution and healing and building democratic
institutions even as the KLA bumped off its
opponents and drove out the same people Hitler
had targeted during World War II.
The KLA was then recycled as a UN outfit called
the Kosovo Protection Corps, or KPC. The NATO/UN
occupiers even hired the KLA terrorists (now KPC)
a liberal Swedish outfit to hold consciousness
raising sessions and put out public statements
describing how the KPC death squad folks were
getting in touch with their feminine side:
"In the first part of my lecture, I think, I
succeeded in getting the participants to actively
take part and reflect. In the second part about
reconciliation I could feel and see the deep
affection in the eyes of the participants,
although it was such a large group. They were
very active in the first part of the lecture,
giving comments and asking questions. In the
second part I could experience a silent, very
active listening.
"A rose - and other reactions
"After the lecture I got several positive
responses from the audience; as well as from the
interpreters. Some of them told me that they had
really learned something, something new. They not
only applauded, I also received a red rose from
the participants. We were all very touched of the
situation." (From "Training the Kosovo
Protection Corps in Kosovo. A Report," by Kerstin
Schultz of Jan Oberg's Transnational Foundation
for Peace and Future Research, at
www.transnational.org/forum/meet/2000/
KerstinKPCrep.html
Fortunately, most Macedonians know that NATO and
its NGO groupies are the enemy. So perhaps NATO
will not succeed in recreating Kosovo so easily.
In which case, the NLA (NATO's name for their pet
terrorists when they operate in Macedonia) may
not get their training and maybe, just maybe, the
world will get a little consciousness-raising.
Which it sorely needs.
-- Jared Israel
Further Reading:
1) The 'Telegraph' article, documenting
terrorist ethnic violence can be read at
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/
news//2001/08/28/wmac228.xml
2) For articles documenting NATO's
responsibility for anti-Macedonian terror,
see http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/list-m.htm
3) On NATO's terror in the Kosovo town of
Orahovac, see "The Women of Orahovac Answer the
Colonel" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/trouw.htm
4) A Jewish leader tells how he, other Jews and
indeed all Yugoslav loyalists were driven from
Pristina, capital of Kosovo, while NATO looked on at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/ceda.htm
5) On how NATO's policy of opening the border
between Kosovo and Albania led to slaughter, see
"Gracko survivors blame NATO" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/grack.htm
6) On how those running Kosovo have mixed business
and race hate, see "Death of a Yugoslav," at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/news/letter.htm
7) More on the mix of gangsterism and
fascism: "Concentration camps in Kosovo:
The KLA Archipelago" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/reporter.htm
8) The UN is fully aware that its Kosovo
Protection Corps is the Kosovo Liberation Army
death squad recycled. See "How will you plead at
your trial, Mr. Annan?" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/howwill.htm
9) Being a Serb in Kosovo has become a fatal
condition. See "I cannot give it a name but it
seems like hell" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/name.htm
10) On the heroic resistance of the Macedonian
people, please see "People of Tetovo Refuse to be
Left on the Mercy of the Terrorists" at
http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/news/s_mia14.html
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Subject: NATO Playing Favourites In Treatment Of
Indicted War Criminal
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 23:07:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Rozoff
http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2001/09/10/
f121.raw.html
Monday, September 10, 2001
The Halifax Herald Limited
NATO playing favourites in treatment of indicted war
criminal
Indicted war criminal Agim Ceku still collects a UN
paycheque.
By Scott Taylor ON TARGET
WITH SOME 200 troops now on the ground in Macedonia,
as part of NATO's latest intervention force, it's
about time somebody started seriously questioning
Canada's long-range Balkan policy.
Throughout the decade of bloody civil wars in the 90s,
which accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia,
Canadian soldiers have been on continuous deployment
to the region. Originally serving as UN peacekeepers
(who evolved into NATO peacemakers by the time of the
Kosovo crisis), Canada's military had become a
belligerent in this complex conflict. Despite our oft
changing role, one constant that has remained is the
reality experienced by our frontline soldiers, which
is rarely reflected by the Western (read: U.S. State
Department inspired) media portrayals of the ongoing
Yugoslavian tragedy.
The most vivid examples of this dichotomy became
evident during the 1999, 78-day NATO air campaign
against Yugoslavia. As cockney spokesman Jamie Shea
took to the airwaves to demonize the Serbian people
and justify NATO's attacks, respected veteran officers
such as General Lewis Mackenzie and Colonel Don Ethell
spoke out to publicly denounce Canada's participation
in the bombing. Having witnessed first-hand the
multi-factional hatred which pervades the Balkan
theatre, Canadian soldiers are unwilling to assign
blame and/or take sides in this brutal civil war.
However, driven by U.S. interests and fuelled by a
jingoistic media corps, NATO leaders have not been so
hesitant to play favourites.
This current crisis in Macedonia originated last March
with Albanian guerrillas attacking from inside
NATO-occupied Kosovo. The guns carried by the
Albanians were the same weapons that NATO was to have
removed from the Kososvo Liberation Army (known as the
UCK) back in 1999. However, over the past two years
with a powerful 40,000 strong occupation force, NATO
has been unwilling and/or unable to strip these
Albanian (UCK) guerrillas of their arsenal. Only now
that a wave of terror has been successfully exported
into heretofore peaceful Macedonia, and the UCK have
seized control of some 30 per cent of Macedonia
territory, has NATO decided to intervene.
The Canadian Combat Group which has been hastily
dispatched from service in Bosnia to participate in
the Macedonia mission is equipped with new Coyote
reconnaissance vehicles. These state of the art
armoured personnel carriers have been roundly praised
by NATO spokesmen for "providing a vital asset in
monitoring the flow of illegal arms across
Macedonian/Kosovo border."
Disgruntled Macedonian citizens are correct in asking
"if such a surveillance capability existed within
NATO's arsenal-why wasn't it employed to prevent
Albanians from entering Macedonia in the first place?"
A similar stumper could be posed to NATO spokesmen
regarding their reluctance to arrest the UCK's
military figurehead General Agim Ceku, an indicted war
criminal. Many of our peacekeepers witnessed the
barbarism committed by Ceku's troops in Croatia in
1993 and 1995 and it is largely on the strength of
Canadian soldiers testimony that The Hague War Crimes
Tribunal has been forced to issue this rogue commander
a sealed indictment.
Agim Ceku, an Albanian Kosovar by birth, began his
military career as an officer in the former federal
Yugoslavian Army (JNA). When the initial Yugoslav
break-up occurred in 1991, Ceku was quick to switch
his loyalty to the Croatian cause of independence. As
a colonel in the Croatian army, Ceku commanded the
notorious 1993 operation now known as the Medak
Pocket.
It was here that the men of the Second Battalion
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry came face
to face with the vulgar savagery of which Ceku was
capable. Over 200 Serbian inhabitants of the Medak
Pocket were slaughtered in a grotesque manner (female
rape victims were found after being burned alive). Our
traumatized troops that buried the grisly remains were
encouraged to collect evidence.
Nevertheless in 1995, Ceku, by then a general of
artillery, was still at large. In fact, he was the
officer responsible for shelling the Serbian refugee
columns and for targeting the UN "safe" city of Knin
during the Croatian offensive known as Operation
Storm.
Just a few months after the Storm atrocities, Canada's
own Louise Arbour began making a name for herself as
the chief prosecutor for The Hague tribunal. Despite
the Canadian connection to these alleged crimes,
Arbour and her lawyers chose instead to pursue more
"politically prominent" individuals and seemingly
little was done to bring Ceku to justice.
Fast forward to January 1999 and the world's attention
begins to focus on a war ravaged Kosovo. With the
blessing of the U.S. State Department, Agim Ceku took
his retirement (at age 37) from the Croatian army and
was pronounced Supreme Commander of the Kosovo
Liberation Army (UCK).
Throughout the air campaign against Yugoslavia, Ceku
was portrayed as a loyal ally and he was frequently
present at the NATO briefings with top generals such
as Wesley Clark and Michael Jackson.
Under terms of the Kosovo peace deal, Ceku's Albanian
guerrillas were to be disarmed and re-constituted into
a UN sponsored, (non-military) disaster relief
organization known as the Kosovo Protection Corps
(KPC). ButCeku's UCK never gave up their guns - nor
their quest for a Greater Albania.
Although he is nominally maintaining an 'arms-length'
posture towards his former comrades, Agim Ceku is
still worshipped as a saviour by both the UCK troops
and Albanian-minority in Macedonia.
As this indicted war criminal continues to enjoy his
freedom, bask in public attention, and collect a UN
paycheque, our Canadian soldiers are risking their
lives to disarm his UCK in Macedonia.
All in the name of peace and justice.
E-mail: espritdecorp@...
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Subject: NATO Provides KLA R&R
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 07:58:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Rozoff
"What do we have to fear if they stop us? Three days
in Camp Bondsteel, then freedom?"
Tuesday September 4, 10:15 PM
Rebel Albanians from Macedonia lay low in Kosovo
UROSEVAC, Yugoslavia, Sept 4 (AFP) -
Hundreds of ethnic Albanian guerrillas have crossed
over from Macedonia to the Serbian province of Kosovo
since demobilising under an August peace deal aimed at
ending a seven-month insurgency.
For members of the National Liberation Army who come
from Kosovo itself, it is a return home, but for those
coming from Macedonia it is a question of lying low
for a few months before returning home when conditions
are safer.
Most of those who have chosen to go to Kosovo do so by
crossing the mountains which separate the mainly
ethnic-Albanian province of Serbia from Macedonia,
with little heed for NATO-led (KFOR) peacekeepers in
the UN-administered province.
"What do we have to fear if they stop us? Three days
in Camp Bondsteel, then freedom?" said commander Ali
Daja, a former official of rebe brigade 113 in the
northern region of Kumanovo, refering to KFOR's
detention centre.
Many witnesses said that commanders and other fighters
stroll the streets of the Kosovo towns of Urosevac,
Prizren and Gnjilane having crossed either legally or
illegally into Kosovo territory.
Since the peace accord struck in the southwestern
Macedonian town of Ohrid on August 13 aimed at ending
the rebellion over minority rights, several hundreds
of fighters have been stopped by KFOR entering Kosovo
illegally, but most were released shortly afterwards.
According to Captain Daniel Byer, spokesman for the
KFOR brigade, only around 100 fighters are still in
detention in Camp Bondsteel. Over a thousand have been
arrested since the beginning of the conflict in
February.
A 21-year-old man, nicknamed Barut, says that he was
detained for three days by KFOR after being
demobilised by the rebels' 113 brigade. Then he was
taken by KFOR soldiers to the bus station several
kilometres (miles) away.
"Last week between 10 and 50 former combatants were
released each day," a witness at the bus station cafe
said.
A welcome committee has been set up by the rebels in
Kosovo to help those coming from Macedonia who have
nowhere to go.
On Friday 140 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo who claimed
they were former rebel soldiers came to Kosovo legally
right under the noses of KFOR troops and the United
Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
They went first to Albania, then they presented
themselves as unarmed civilians at a border post at
Verbnica, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Prizren.
Embarrassed UNMIK officials finally allowed their
entry. "Not one of them was stopped because they had
regulation Macedonian passports," said an UNMIK
spokesman.
A number of KLA guerrillas injured in the war have
also found refuge in hospitals in Kosovo where they
are treated just like other patients. Doctors and
nurses know where their injuries came from, but they
maintain a code of silence.
According to witnesses, one rebel shot in the leg at
Slupcane in northern Macedonia has already spent two
months in hospital in Kosovo without receiving a
single visit from the police or KFOR forces.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Roger ROMAIN
To: r.romain@...
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 8:00 PM
Subject: MACEDOINE : oui, la "moisson
indispensable" en Mac�doine est bien une
nouvelle fumisterie am�ricano-otano-europ�enne
occidentale !
MAC�DOINE : oui, la "moisson indispensable" en
Mac�doine est bien une nouvelle fumisterie
am�ricano-otano-europ�enne occidentale !
Mac�doine : une guerre Made in USA !
T�moignage sur les livraisons d'armes clandestines
Ancien soldat canadien, devenu journaliste
sp�cialiste des questions militaires, le Canadien
Scott Taylor le confirme sur le terrain :
Washington, avide de dominer militairement les
Balkans, joue double jeu en armant l'UCK
albanaise.
Un article de Scott Taylor - Tetovo
Tetovo - 20 ao�t. Lundi, un accord de paix a �t�
sign�. Mais cette tentative de la onzi�me heure
d'�viter une autre guerre civile balkanique
risque bien de rester vaine.
Les 3.000 hommes de l'Otan auront pour t�che de
d�sarmer la gu�rilla albanaise, ma�tresse de 30%
du territoire. Mais leur arriv�e sera une pilule
am�re pour les forces de s�curit� mac�doniennes
combattant l'UCK depuis six mois : �Si l'Otan
n'avait pas arm� et �quip� l'UCK au Kosovo, il ne
serait pas n�cessaire de la d�sarmer � pr�sent en
Mac�doine�, explique le sergent Goran Stevanovic.
"God bless America !"
Les diplomates d�noncent vivement l'aide
militaire apport�e � l'UCK, mais sur le terrain,
personne ne conteste l'aide massive (mat�riel et
experts) que leur apporte l'Otan. D'ailleurs, les
commandants UCK m'accueillent par un �Dieu
b�nisse l'Am�rique, et le Canada, pour tout ce
qu'ils nous ont fournis!�
Dans leurs bunkers bien construits, tout - des
armes de poing aux fusils de snipers - porte le
Made in USA. Un abondant stock de lunettes de
vision nocturne, tr�s sophistiqu�es, leur fournit
un �norme avantage sur les forces de s�curit�
mac�doniennes, oblig�es de rester terr�es dans
leurs bunkers pendant que l'UCK d�ambule � son
aise dans les rues de Tetovo. "Serpent" Arifaj
(22 ans), fier commandant d'un peloton UCK, se
f�licite : �Gr�ce � l'Oncle Sam, les Mac�doniens
ne nous posent pas de probl�mes.�
Il y a deux mois, les protestations diplomatiques
ont afflu� lorsqu'on a vu des h�licopt�res US
effectuer des livraisons � un village albanais
surplombant Tetovo. Version officielle : �aide
humanitaire�. Mais le commandant UCK "Mouse" a
confirm� qu'il s'agissait de canons lourds et
munitions. La preuve : le 16, l'UCK a bombard�
Tetovo avec des canons de 120 mm et 82 mm. Et vu
la dur�e et l'intensit� des tirs, les munitions
ne sont pas un probl�me pour eux.
Fr�quemment aussi, les Etats-Unis envoient leurs
h�licopt�res tactiques d'espionnage, sans
autorisation du gouvernement mac�donien. Et les
villageois albanais l�vent les bras pour saluer
�leur force a�rienne�. Enfin, au Q - G de l'UCK,
� la sortie de Tetovo, les gardiens portent des
T-shirts au logo Nike: "NATO Air : Just do it!"
Untertitre
De l'autre c�t�, la Mac�doine - Tr�sor en
faillite et �conomie en d�gringolade - n'avait
pas donn� la priorit� � �quiper son arm�e. Apr�s
le d�but de l'insurrection, en mars, elle a
import� en masse du mat�riel et des conseillers
mercenaires, principalement d'Ukraine.
Mais, la semaine pass�e, George Robertson et
Javier Solana, secr�taires-g�n�raux
respeectivement de l'Otan et de l'Union
Europ�enne, se sont entretenus avec les
Ukrainiens pour arr�ter cet approvisionnement.
Cette ing�rence explique que la majorit� des
Mac�doniens se soit engag�e dans de violentes
�meutes anti-Otan, attaquant r�cemment les
ambassades et les restos McDonald's.
Roger ROMAIN
a/conseiller communal PCB
B6180 COURCELLES
sites :
http://homeusers.brutele.be/r.romain/Sommario.html
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26-Aug-2001
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Topic: BALKAN AFFAIRS
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HEADLINES
Ottawa 1. Canadian Officer Confirms NATO Backing
Albanian Rebels in Macedonia
Skopje 2. Ukraine, Russia Continue to Arm
Macedonia?
Kiev 3. Macedonian President Gets Putin's,
Kuchma's "Support"
Skopje 4. NATO "Peace Farce" Unfolding
Skopje 5. Angry Macedonians Block NATO
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Canadian Officer Confirms NATO's Backing of
Albanian Rebels in Macedonia
OTTAWA, Aug. 26 - Once again, we have to turn to
Canada to find out what's really going on in
Washington or Brussels, not to mention Skopje or
Pristina. This time, it was an Ottawa-based
journalist that quoted a former Canadian officer,
now also turned journalist and author, as saying
that the Canadian had seen evidence during of
NATO's backing (and arming!) the Albanian rebels
his recent trip to Macedonia.
Of course, this is nothing new to TiM readers.
But while we arrived at the same conclusion via a
geopolitical analysis (see Macedonia: Another
Farcical American Oil War, Aug. 10), this
Canadian officer did it the old-fashioned way -
he saw it with his own eyes.
"A Canadian journalist has evidence that NATO is
arming and equipping the ethnic Albanian
guerillas who have waged a five-month long
insurgency against the Macedonian government in
Skopje" wrote Stephen Gowans in an Aug. 23
special report published first at the Media
Monitors web site. "Scott Taylor, editor of
Espirit de Corps magazine, says that on a visit
to guerilla bunkers overlooking the besieged
Macedonian city of Tetovo he was welcomed with
shouts of, "God bless America and Canada too for
all they have provided to us." Canada is a member
of the US-led NATO coalition."
Taylor should be no stranger to longtime TiM
readers, either. Just like the TiM editor, he
was in Belgrade in the spring of 1999, while the
NATO bombs were raining down on the Yugoslav
capital and on much of the country (see his
moving account of a funeral he attended in June
1999, published contemporaneously in the NATO War
section of the TiM web site -
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/War/day78.html
).
The two of us met for the first time in Toronto,
in December 1999, following the TiM editor's
lecture on NATO's war on Serbia (see New World
Order Pits Canadians vs. Serbs, Dec. 1999 -
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Tour-de-Canada/tor-12-99.html).
That's when we learned that Taylor had also
served as a Canadian officer within the UN
peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Krajina. In
other words, he knows of what he speaks - inside
out.
And now, with this as a brief preamble, here's
the rest of Steve Gowans article, republished
here by TiM with permission of the Media
Monitors' publisher:
More signs NATO is behind ethnic Albanian attacks
on Macedonia by Stephen Gowans
Taylor says guerrilla commanders showed off their
arsenal, which included side arms, sniper rifles
and grenade launchers, all marked "Made in the
USA."
Says Taylor, one commander remarked that, "thanks
to Uncle Sam, the Macedonians are no match for
us." Taylor isn't the first to charge that
Washington is aiding the guerillas. The
Macedonian government alleged that US helicopters
were delivering supplies to guerillas in the
mountains above Tetovo. US officials don't deny
that airdrops were made, but say helicopters were
transporting vital humanitarian aid. But Taylor
says the local guerilla commander told him that
the helicopters were delivering heavy mortars and
ammunition. The guerillas have bombarded Tetovo
with artillery.
Taylor says ethnic Albanian villagers cheer at
the sight of US helicopters, while guerillas at
brigade headquarters wear Nike-style T-shirts
bearing the phrase, "NATO Air - Just do it!"
Meanwhile, one Macedonian police officer lamented
to Taylor that "if NATO hadn't been arming and
equipping the (KLA) in Kosovo there would be no
need for them to disarm these guerillas now."
This isn't the first time complaints about the US
and NATO arming ethnic Albanian guerillas have
been made. In March, a European K-For battalion
commander told the London Observer that, "the CIA
has been allowed to run riot in Kosovo with a
private army designed to overthrow Slobodan
Milosevic...Most of last year, there was a
growing frustration with US support for the
radical Albanians." And in January the BBC
reported that Western forces were training
guerillas, then opening a new front in southern
Serbia and Macedonia.
In June, when Macedonian forces were closing in
on guerillas in the town of Aracinovo, NATO
intervened, transporting ethnic Albanian rebels
out of the besieged town in air-conditioned
busses. According to the German newspaper
Hamburger Abendblatt, 17 US advisors, belonging
to an American mercenary firm involved in other
Balkan conflicts, were among the guerillas. And
the newspaper pointed out that 70 percent of the
equipment carried away by the guerillas was US
made.
Days earlier, a American diplomat was slightly
wounded by Macedonian gunfire as he emerged from
the woods (around Aracinovo) with two other
Americans," according to the International Herald
Tribune. The diplomats were emerging from
rebel-held territory. Two months ago, the London
Sunday Times reported that at least 800 ethnic
Albanian guerillas fighting in Macedonia are
members of the Kosovo Protection Corps, a
paramilitary police unit created by the UN from
the KLA. The Times says, "Hundreds of KPC
reservists were called up by their Albanian
commander Agim Ceku, in March. They subsequently
disappeared to former KLA training camps in
Albania and are now re-emerging in Macedonia."
Ceku, one of the top leaders of the KLA, along
with Hacim Thaci, was artillery chief of the
Croatian army when it launched a war in the
Krajina region of Croatia, which led to 250,000
Serbs being driven from their homes. Under the
KPC, 250,000 Serbs, and another 100,000 Roma,
Gorani, Turks and Jews have been driven from
Kosovo. Now, the KLA offshoot in Macedonia, the
NLA, seems intent on ethnically cleansing the
largely Albanian Tetovo region. Over 120,000
Macedonians have fled or have been driven from
their Tetovo area homes by guerillas. Ilir Hoxha,
a 25-year old ethnic Albanian said, "Let them
leave. They should never return. Tetovo is
Albanian and it will remain Albanian."
For years, many Albanians have dreamed of
resurrecting the greater Albania established
under the Italian fascists, and then under the
Nazis. It incorporated parts of Macedonia and
Greece, southern Serbia, and Kosovo into Albania
proper. Some reports say an ethnic Albanian
Liberation Army of Chameria will open a new front
in Greece soon.
Skopje has been hampered in its response to the
guerillas. NATO and the EU have warned Macedonia
not to crack down on the guerillas, and Ukraine,
which was providing equipment to the
under-equipped Macedonian army, was warned to
stop shipments of materiel. Meanwhile, press
reports in the West describe NATO and EU
diplomatic efforts as aimed at preventing a civil
war, though the intention appears to be to
prevent a strong Macedonian response.
The guerillas say they're fighting to win
language rights, but critics point out that an
armed attack is highly disproportional to the
NLA's stated aims. Moreover, the fact that the
guerillas have been recruited from Kosovo, pass
freely over a Kosovo-Macedonia border presumably
patrolled by NATO K-For forces, and have driven
non-Albanians from their homes in an apparent
effort to ethnically cleanse the Tetovo region,
points to the pursuit of other goals, fully
backed by NATO.
Taylor, who served in the Canadian Armed Forces,
says NATO's support of the guerillas is so
blatant "it is little wonder that the Macedonian
majority have staged violent anti-NATO riots."
Mr. Steve Gowans is a writer and political
activist who lives in Ottawa, Canada.
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by Jared Israel [29 August 2001]
2. NATO playing favourites in treatment of
indicted war criminal
Indicted war criminal Agim Ceku still collects a UN
paycheque. By S. Taylor on Target. Monday,
September 10, 2001
3. "What do we have to fear if they stop
us? Three days in Camp Bondsteel, then freedom"
AFP, Tuesday September 4, 10:15 PM
4. T�moignage sur les livraisons d'armes clandestines
Un article de Scott Taylor - Tetovo, 20/8/01
5. Canadian Officer Confirms NATO Backing
Albanian Rebels in Macedonia
Truth in Media's GLOBAL WATCH Bulletin 2001/8-3
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2001/
tim2001-8-3.html
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URL for this article:
http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/terror.htm
www.tenc.net * [Emperor's Clothes]
======================================NATO'S Peace in Macedonia: Kosovo Redux
by Jared Israel [29 August 2001]
======================================
The people who bombed Yugoslavia and decimated
Kosovo by installing the Kosovo Liberation Army
in power are trying to bring Peace to Macedonia.
What that peace would mean if fully realized (and
hopefully the Macedonian people will prevent
this) is described in an astonishingly honest
article in the London Telegraph. The article
describes how the so-called NLA rebels target
Macedonian civilians, killing them and driving
them from their homes.
The pattern is eerily familiar.
In Macedonia, as in Kosovo, NATO stonewalls
reality, claiming it only wants to halt abuses
and bring ethnic peace.
At first these propaganda/promises fooled most of
the Serbian residents of the Kosovo town of
Orahovac. Initially they fooled Chedomir
Pralinchevich, the Jewish leader who was driven
from Kosovo by the KLA with NATO's consent.
Soon the horrific truth became clear: while NATO
broadcasted soothing platitudes, its proxy force,
the Kosovo Liberation Army marched in through the
open border with Albania, slaughtering farmers,
terrorizing people simply for being Serbs,
killing residents for their apartments,
instituting a reign of terror that combined
Nazi-like ethnic terror with gangsterism, so that
no one, not even ethnic Albanians, was safe
All this was neatly packaged for politically
correct western consumption. The province filled
with Western NGOs who spoke of conflict
resolution and healing and building democratic
institutions even as the KLA bumped off its
opponents and drove out the same people Hitler
had targeted during World War II.
The KLA was then recycled as a UN outfit called
the Kosovo Protection Corps, or KPC. The NATO/UN
occupiers even hired the KLA terrorists (now KPC)
a liberal Swedish outfit to hold consciousness
raising sessions and put out public statements
describing how the KPC death squad folks were
getting in touch with their feminine side:
"In the first part of my lecture, I think, I
succeeded in getting the participants to actively
take part and reflect. In the second part about
reconciliation I could feel and see the deep
affection in the eyes of the participants,
although it was such a large group. They were
very active in the first part of the lecture,
giving comments and asking questions. In the
second part I could experience a silent, very
active listening.
"A rose - and other reactions
"After the lecture I got several positive
responses from the audience; as well as from the
interpreters. Some of them told me that they had
really learned something, something new. They not
only applauded, I also received a red rose from
the participants. We were all very touched of the
situation." (From "Training the Kosovo
Protection Corps in Kosovo. A Report," by Kerstin
Schultz of Jan Oberg's Transnational Foundation
for Peace and Future Research, at
www.transnational.org/forum/meet/2000/
KerstinKPCrep.html
Fortunately, most Macedonians know that NATO and
its NGO groupies are the enemy. So perhaps NATO
will not succeed in recreating Kosovo so easily.
In which case, the NLA (NATO's name for their pet
terrorists when they operate in Macedonia) may
not get their training and maybe, just maybe, the
world will get a little consciousness-raising.
Which it sorely needs.
-- Jared Israel
Further Reading:
1) The 'Telegraph' article, documenting
terrorist ethnic violence can be read at
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/
news//2001/08/28/wmac228.xml
2) For articles documenting NATO's
responsibility for anti-Macedonian terror,
see http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/list-m.htm
3) On NATO's terror in the Kosovo town of
Orahovac, see "The Women of Orahovac Answer the
Colonel" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/trouw.htm
4) A Jewish leader tells how he, other Jews and
indeed all Yugoslav loyalists were driven from
Pristina, capital of Kosovo, while NATO looked on at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/ceda.htm
5) On how NATO's policy of opening the border
between Kosovo and Albania led to slaughter, see
"Gracko survivors blame NATO" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/grack.htm
6) On how those running Kosovo have mixed business
and race hate, see "Death of a Yugoslav," at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/news/letter.htm
7) More on the mix of gangsterism and
fascism: "Concentration camps in Kosovo:
The KLA Archipelago" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/reporter.htm
8) The UN is fully aware that its Kosovo
Protection Corps is the Kosovo Liberation Army
death squad recycled. See "How will you plead at
your trial, Mr. Annan?" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/howwill.htm
9) Being a Serb in Kosovo has become a fatal
condition. See "I cannot give it a name but it
seems like hell" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/name.htm
10) On the heroic resistance of the Macedonian
people, please see "People of Tetovo Refuse to be
Left on the Mercy of the Terrorists" at
http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/news/s_mia14.html
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Subject: NATO Playing Favourites In Treatment Of
Indicted War Criminal
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 23:07:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Rozoff
http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2001/09/10/
f121.raw.html
Monday, September 10, 2001
The Halifax Herald Limited
NATO playing favourites in treatment of indicted war
criminal
Indicted war criminal Agim Ceku still collects a UN
paycheque.
By Scott Taylor ON TARGET
WITH SOME 200 troops now on the ground in Macedonia,
as part of NATO's latest intervention force, it's
about time somebody started seriously questioning
Canada's long-range Balkan policy.
Throughout the decade of bloody civil wars in the 90s,
which accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia,
Canadian soldiers have been on continuous deployment
to the region. Originally serving as UN peacekeepers
(who evolved into NATO peacemakers by the time of the
Kosovo crisis), Canada's military had become a
belligerent in this complex conflict. Despite our oft
changing role, one constant that has remained is the
reality experienced by our frontline soldiers, which
is rarely reflected by the Western (read: U.S. State
Department inspired) media portrayals of the ongoing
Yugoslavian tragedy.
The most vivid examples of this dichotomy became
evident during the 1999, 78-day NATO air campaign
against Yugoslavia. As cockney spokesman Jamie Shea
took to the airwaves to demonize the Serbian people
and justify NATO's attacks, respected veteran officers
such as General Lewis Mackenzie and Colonel Don Ethell
spoke out to publicly denounce Canada's participation
in the bombing. Having witnessed first-hand the
multi-factional hatred which pervades the Balkan
theatre, Canadian soldiers are unwilling to assign
blame and/or take sides in this brutal civil war.
However, driven by U.S. interests and fuelled by a
jingoistic media corps, NATO leaders have not been so
hesitant to play favourites.
This current crisis in Macedonia originated last March
with Albanian guerrillas attacking from inside
NATO-occupied Kosovo. The guns carried by the
Albanians were the same weapons that NATO was to have
removed from the Kososvo Liberation Army (known as the
UCK) back in 1999. However, over the past two years
with a powerful 40,000 strong occupation force, NATO
has been unwilling and/or unable to strip these
Albanian (UCK) guerrillas of their arsenal. Only now
that a wave of terror has been successfully exported
into heretofore peaceful Macedonia, and the UCK have
seized control of some 30 per cent of Macedonia
territory, has NATO decided to intervene.
The Canadian Combat Group which has been hastily
dispatched from service in Bosnia to participate in
the Macedonia mission is equipped with new Coyote
reconnaissance vehicles. These state of the art
armoured personnel carriers have been roundly praised
by NATO spokesmen for "providing a vital asset in
monitoring the flow of illegal arms across
Macedonian/Kosovo border."
Disgruntled Macedonian citizens are correct in asking
"if such a surveillance capability existed within
NATO's arsenal-why wasn't it employed to prevent
Albanians from entering Macedonia in the first place?"
A similar stumper could be posed to NATO spokesmen
regarding their reluctance to arrest the UCK's
military figurehead General Agim Ceku, an indicted war
criminal. Many of our peacekeepers witnessed the
barbarism committed by Ceku's troops in Croatia in
1993 and 1995 and it is largely on the strength of
Canadian soldiers testimony that The Hague War Crimes
Tribunal has been forced to issue this rogue commander
a sealed indictment.
Agim Ceku, an Albanian Kosovar by birth, began his
military career as an officer in the former federal
Yugoslavian Army (JNA). When the initial Yugoslav
break-up occurred in 1991, Ceku was quick to switch
his loyalty to the Croatian cause of independence. As
a colonel in the Croatian army, Ceku commanded the
notorious 1993 operation now known as the Medak
Pocket.
It was here that the men of the Second Battalion
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry came face
to face with the vulgar savagery of which Ceku was
capable. Over 200 Serbian inhabitants of the Medak
Pocket were slaughtered in a grotesque manner (female
rape victims were found after being burned alive). Our
traumatized troops that buried the grisly remains were
encouraged to collect evidence.
Nevertheless in 1995, Ceku, by then a general of
artillery, was still at large. In fact, he was the
officer responsible for shelling the Serbian refugee
columns and for targeting the UN "safe" city of Knin
during the Croatian offensive known as Operation
Storm.
Just a few months after the Storm atrocities, Canada's
own Louise Arbour began making a name for herself as
the chief prosecutor for The Hague tribunal. Despite
the Canadian connection to these alleged crimes,
Arbour and her lawyers chose instead to pursue more
"politically prominent" individuals and seemingly
little was done to bring Ceku to justice.
Fast forward to January 1999 and the world's attention
begins to focus on a war ravaged Kosovo. With the
blessing of the U.S. State Department, Agim Ceku took
his retirement (at age 37) from the Croatian army and
was pronounced Supreme Commander of the Kosovo
Liberation Army (UCK).
Throughout the air campaign against Yugoslavia, Ceku
was portrayed as a loyal ally and he was frequently
present at the NATO briefings with top generals such
as Wesley Clark and Michael Jackson.
Under terms of the Kosovo peace deal, Ceku's Albanian
guerrillas were to be disarmed and re-constituted into
a UN sponsored, (non-military) disaster relief
organization known as the Kosovo Protection Corps
(KPC). ButCeku's UCK never gave up their guns - nor
their quest for a Greater Albania.
Although he is nominally maintaining an 'arms-length'
posture towards his former comrades, Agim Ceku is
still worshipped as a saviour by both the UCK troops
and Albanian-minority in Macedonia.
As this indicted war criminal continues to enjoy his
freedom, bask in public attention, and collect a UN
paycheque, our Canadian soldiers are risking their
lives to disarm his UCK in Macedonia.
All in the name of peace and justice.
E-mail: espritdecorp@...
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Subject: NATO Provides KLA R&R
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 07:58:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Rozoff
"What do we have to fear if they stop us? Three days
in Camp Bondsteel, then freedom?"
Tuesday September 4, 10:15 PM
Rebel Albanians from Macedonia lay low in Kosovo
UROSEVAC, Yugoslavia, Sept 4 (AFP) -
Hundreds of ethnic Albanian guerrillas have crossed
over from Macedonia to the Serbian province of Kosovo
since demobilising under an August peace deal aimed at
ending a seven-month insurgency.
For members of the National Liberation Army who come
from Kosovo itself, it is a return home, but for those
coming from Macedonia it is a question of lying low
for a few months before returning home when conditions
are safer.
Most of those who have chosen to go to Kosovo do so by
crossing the mountains which separate the mainly
ethnic-Albanian province of Serbia from Macedonia,
with little heed for NATO-led (KFOR) peacekeepers in
the UN-administered province.
"What do we have to fear if they stop us? Three days
in Camp Bondsteel, then freedom?" said commander Ali
Daja, a former official of rebe brigade 113 in the
northern region of Kumanovo, refering to KFOR's
detention centre.
Many witnesses said that commanders and other fighters
stroll the streets of the Kosovo towns of Urosevac,
Prizren and Gnjilane having crossed either legally or
illegally into Kosovo territory.
Since the peace accord struck in the southwestern
Macedonian town of Ohrid on August 13 aimed at ending
the rebellion over minority rights, several hundreds
of fighters have been stopped by KFOR entering Kosovo
illegally, but most were released shortly afterwards.
According to Captain Daniel Byer, spokesman for the
KFOR brigade, only around 100 fighters are still in
detention in Camp Bondsteel. Over a thousand have been
arrested since the beginning of the conflict in
February.
A 21-year-old man, nicknamed Barut, says that he was
detained for three days by KFOR after being
demobilised by the rebels' 113 brigade. Then he was
taken by KFOR soldiers to the bus station several
kilometres (miles) away.
"Last week between 10 and 50 former combatants were
released each day," a witness at the bus station cafe
said.
A welcome committee has been set up by the rebels in
Kosovo to help those coming from Macedonia who have
nowhere to go.
On Friday 140 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo who claimed
they were former rebel soldiers came to Kosovo legally
right under the noses of KFOR troops and the United
Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
They went first to Albania, then they presented
themselves as unarmed civilians at a border post at
Verbnica, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Prizren.
Embarrassed UNMIK officials finally allowed their
entry. "Not one of them was stopped because they had
regulation Macedonian passports," said an UNMIK
spokesman.
A number of KLA guerrillas injured in the war have
also found refuge in hospitals in Kosovo where they
are treated just like other patients. Doctors and
nurses know where their injuries came from, but they
maintain a code of silence.
According to witnesses, one rebel shot in the leg at
Slupcane in northern Macedonia has already spent two
months in hospital in Kosovo without receiving a
single visit from the police or KFOR forces.
====================================================
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger ROMAIN
To: r.romain@...
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 8:00 PM
Subject: MACEDOINE : oui, la "moisson
indispensable" en Mac�doine est bien une
nouvelle fumisterie am�ricano-otano-europ�enne
occidentale !
MAC�DOINE : oui, la "moisson indispensable" en
Mac�doine est bien une nouvelle fumisterie
am�ricano-otano-europ�enne occidentale !
Mac�doine : une guerre Made in USA !
T�moignage sur les livraisons d'armes clandestines
Ancien soldat canadien, devenu journaliste
sp�cialiste des questions militaires, le Canadien
Scott Taylor le confirme sur le terrain :
Washington, avide de dominer militairement les
Balkans, joue double jeu en armant l'UCK
albanaise.
Un article de Scott Taylor - Tetovo
Tetovo - 20 ao�t. Lundi, un accord de paix a �t�
sign�. Mais cette tentative de la onzi�me heure
d'�viter une autre guerre civile balkanique
risque bien de rester vaine.
Les 3.000 hommes de l'Otan auront pour t�che de
d�sarmer la gu�rilla albanaise, ma�tresse de 30%
du territoire. Mais leur arriv�e sera une pilule
am�re pour les forces de s�curit� mac�doniennes
combattant l'UCK depuis six mois : �Si l'Otan
n'avait pas arm� et �quip� l'UCK au Kosovo, il ne
serait pas n�cessaire de la d�sarmer � pr�sent en
Mac�doine�, explique le sergent Goran Stevanovic.
"God bless America !"
Les diplomates d�noncent vivement l'aide
militaire apport�e � l'UCK, mais sur le terrain,
personne ne conteste l'aide massive (mat�riel et
experts) que leur apporte l'Otan. D'ailleurs, les
commandants UCK m'accueillent par un �Dieu
b�nisse l'Am�rique, et le Canada, pour tout ce
qu'ils nous ont fournis!�
Dans leurs bunkers bien construits, tout - des
armes de poing aux fusils de snipers - porte le
Made in USA. Un abondant stock de lunettes de
vision nocturne, tr�s sophistiqu�es, leur fournit
un �norme avantage sur les forces de s�curit�
mac�doniennes, oblig�es de rester terr�es dans
leurs bunkers pendant que l'UCK d�ambule � son
aise dans les rues de Tetovo. "Serpent" Arifaj
(22 ans), fier commandant d'un peloton UCK, se
f�licite : �Gr�ce � l'Oncle Sam, les Mac�doniens
ne nous posent pas de probl�mes.�
Il y a deux mois, les protestations diplomatiques
ont afflu� lorsqu'on a vu des h�licopt�res US
effectuer des livraisons � un village albanais
surplombant Tetovo. Version officielle : �aide
humanitaire�. Mais le commandant UCK "Mouse" a
confirm� qu'il s'agissait de canons lourds et
munitions. La preuve : le 16, l'UCK a bombard�
Tetovo avec des canons de 120 mm et 82 mm. Et vu
la dur�e et l'intensit� des tirs, les munitions
ne sont pas un probl�me pour eux.
Fr�quemment aussi, les Etats-Unis envoient leurs
h�licopt�res tactiques d'espionnage, sans
autorisation du gouvernement mac�donien. Et les
villageois albanais l�vent les bras pour saluer
�leur force a�rienne�. Enfin, au Q - G de l'UCK,
� la sortie de Tetovo, les gardiens portent des
T-shirts au logo Nike: "NATO Air : Just do it!"
Untertitre
De l'autre c�t�, la Mac�doine - Tr�sor en
faillite et �conomie en d�gringolade - n'avait
pas donn� la priorit� � �quiper son arm�e. Apr�s
le d�but de l'insurrection, en mars, elle a
import� en masse du mat�riel et des conseillers
mercenaires, principalement d'Ukraine.
Mais, la semaine pass�e, George Robertson et
Javier Solana, secr�taires-g�n�raux
respeectivement de l'Otan et de l'Union
Europ�enne, se sont entretenus avec les
Ukrainiens pour arr�ter cet approvisionnement.
Cette ing�rence explique que la majorit� des
Mac�doniens se soit engag�e dans de violentes
�meutes anti-Otan, attaquant r�cemment les
ambassades et les restos McDonald's.
Roger ROMAIN
a/conseiller communal PCB
B6180 COURCELLES
sites :
http://homeusers.brutele.be/r.romain/Sommario.html
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Truth in Media's GLOBAL WATCH Bulletin 2001/8-3
26-Aug-2001
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Topic: BALKAN AFFAIRS
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HEADLINES
Ottawa 1. Canadian Officer Confirms NATO Backing
Albanian Rebels in Macedonia
Skopje 2. Ukraine, Russia Continue to Arm
Macedonia?
Kiev 3. Macedonian President Gets Putin's,
Kuchma's "Support"
Skopje 4. NATO "Peace Farce" Unfolding
Skopje 5. Angry Macedonians Block NATO
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Canadian Officer Confirms NATO's Backing of
Albanian Rebels in Macedonia
OTTAWA, Aug. 26 - Once again, we have to turn to
Canada to find out what's really going on in
Washington or Brussels, not to mention Skopje or
Pristina. This time, it was an Ottawa-based
journalist that quoted a former Canadian officer,
now also turned journalist and author, as saying
that the Canadian had seen evidence during of
NATO's backing (and arming!) the Albanian rebels
his recent trip to Macedonia.
Of course, this is nothing new to TiM readers.
But while we arrived at the same conclusion via a
geopolitical analysis (see Macedonia: Another
Farcical American Oil War, Aug. 10), this
Canadian officer did it the old-fashioned way -
he saw it with his own eyes.
"A Canadian journalist has evidence that NATO is
arming and equipping the ethnic Albanian
guerillas who have waged a five-month long
insurgency against the Macedonian government in
Skopje" wrote Stephen Gowans in an Aug. 23
special report published first at the Media
Monitors web site. "Scott Taylor, editor of
Espirit de Corps magazine, says that on a visit
to guerilla bunkers overlooking the besieged
Macedonian city of Tetovo he was welcomed with
shouts of, "God bless America and Canada too for
all they have provided to us." Canada is a member
of the US-led NATO coalition."
Taylor should be no stranger to longtime TiM
readers, either. Just like the TiM editor, he
was in Belgrade in the spring of 1999, while the
NATO bombs were raining down on the Yugoslav
capital and on much of the country (see his
moving account of a funeral he attended in June
1999, published contemporaneously in the NATO War
section of the TiM web site -
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/War/day78.html
).
The two of us met for the first time in Toronto,
in December 1999, following the TiM editor's
lecture on NATO's war on Serbia (see New World
Order Pits Canadians vs. Serbs, Dec. 1999 -
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Tour-de-Canada/tor-12-99.html).
That's when we learned that Taylor had also
served as a Canadian officer within the UN
peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Krajina. In
other words, he knows of what he speaks - inside
out.
And now, with this as a brief preamble, here's
the rest of Steve Gowans article, republished
here by TiM with permission of the Media
Monitors' publisher:
More signs NATO is behind ethnic Albanian attacks
on Macedonia by Stephen Gowans
Taylor says guerrilla commanders showed off their
arsenal, which included side arms, sniper rifles
and grenade launchers, all marked "Made in the
USA."
Says Taylor, one commander remarked that, "thanks
to Uncle Sam, the Macedonians are no match for
us." Taylor isn't the first to charge that
Washington is aiding the guerillas. The
Macedonian government alleged that US helicopters
were delivering supplies to guerillas in the
mountains above Tetovo. US officials don't deny
that airdrops were made, but say helicopters were
transporting vital humanitarian aid. But Taylor
says the local guerilla commander told him that
the helicopters were delivering heavy mortars and
ammunition. The guerillas have bombarded Tetovo
with artillery.
Taylor says ethnic Albanian villagers cheer at
the sight of US helicopters, while guerillas at
brigade headquarters wear Nike-style T-shirts
bearing the phrase, "NATO Air - Just do it!"
Meanwhile, one Macedonian police officer lamented
to Taylor that "if NATO hadn't been arming and
equipping the (KLA) in Kosovo there would be no
need for them to disarm these guerillas now."
This isn't the first time complaints about the US
and NATO arming ethnic Albanian guerillas have
been made. In March, a European K-For battalion
commander told the London Observer that, "the CIA
has been allowed to run riot in Kosovo with a
private army designed to overthrow Slobodan
Milosevic...Most of last year, there was a
growing frustration with US support for the
radical Albanians." And in January the BBC
reported that Western forces were training
guerillas, then opening a new front in southern
Serbia and Macedonia.
In June, when Macedonian forces were closing in
on guerillas in the town of Aracinovo, NATO
intervened, transporting ethnic Albanian rebels
out of the besieged town in air-conditioned
busses. According to the German newspaper
Hamburger Abendblatt, 17 US advisors, belonging
to an American mercenary firm involved in other
Balkan conflicts, were among the guerillas. And
the newspaper pointed out that 70 percent of the
equipment carried away by the guerillas was US
made.
Days earlier, a American diplomat was slightly
wounded by Macedonian gunfire as he emerged from
the woods (around Aracinovo) with two other
Americans," according to the International Herald
Tribune. The diplomats were emerging from
rebel-held territory. Two months ago, the London
Sunday Times reported that at least 800 ethnic
Albanian guerillas fighting in Macedonia are
members of the Kosovo Protection Corps, a
paramilitary police unit created by the UN from
the KLA. The Times says, "Hundreds of KPC
reservists were called up by their Albanian
commander Agim Ceku, in March. They subsequently
disappeared to former KLA training camps in
Albania and are now re-emerging in Macedonia."
Ceku, one of the top leaders of the KLA, along
with Hacim Thaci, was artillery chief of the
Croatian army when it launched a war in the
Krajina region of Croatia, which led to 250,000
Serbs being driven from their homes. Under the
KPC, 250,000 Serbs, and another 100,000 Roma,
Gorani, Turks and Jews have been driven from
Kosovo. Now, the KLA offshoot in Macedonia, the
NLA, seems intent on ethnically cleansing the
largely Albanian Tetovo region. Over 120,000
Macedonians have fled or have been driven from
their Tetovo area homes by guerillas. Ilir Hoxha,
a 25-year old ethnic Albanian said, "Let them
leave. They should never return. Tetovo is
Albanian and it will remain Albanian."
For years, many Albanians have dreamed of
resurrecting the greater Albania established
under the Italian fascists, and then under the
Nazis. It incorporated parts of Macedonia and
Greece, southern Serbia, and Kosovo into Albania
proper. Some reports say an ethnic Albanian
Liberation Army of Chameria will open a new front
in Greece soon.
Skopje has been hampered in its response to the
guerillas. NATO and the EU have warned Macedonia
not to crack down on the guerillas, and Ukraine,
which was providing equipment to the
under-equipped Macedonian army, was warned to
stop shipments of materiel. Meanwhile, press
reports in the West describe NATO and EU
diplomatic efforts as aimed at preventing a civil
war, though the intention appears to be to
prevent a strong Macedonian response.
The guerillas say they're fighting to win
language rights, but critics point out that an
armed attack is highly disproportional to the
NLA's stated aims. Moreover, the fact that the
guerillas have been recruited from Kosovo, pass
freely over a Kosovo-Macedonia border presumably
patrolled by NATO K-For forces, and have driven
non-Albanians from their homes in an apparent
effort to ethnically cleanse the Tetovo region,
points to the pursuit of other goals, fully
backed by NATO.
Taylor, who served in the Canadian Armed Forces,
says NATO's support of the guerillas is so
blatant "it is little wonder that the Macedonian
majority have staged violent anti-NATO riots."
Mr. Steve Gowans is a writer and political
activist who lives in Ottawa, Canada.
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