I can understand how Laura Simone feels frustrated but she flew off the handle posting that message. Balkans forum is one of the most respectful groups at Yahoo and those comments were neither opportune nor added anything positive.
Claudia G. S. Martins BRAZIL --- Adinda Van Hemelrijck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find it (as to say in a friendly and euphemistic > way) very inappropriate to have such low level and > purely political discussions on an academic forum as > Balkan Academic News. PLease find other fora for > this! > Thank you. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Laura Simone > To: ANTIC.org-SNN ; [email protected] > Cc: 'SIM' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:47 AM > Subject: Re: [balkans] J. Bissett -BALAKAN > REALITIES > > > "Dear" Former Canadian ambassador! > First of all shame on you for that you doubt to > the regularity, transparency and fairness of the > international prestigious institutions as Hague > Tribunal, or others. Agim Ceku has fight to his > country and has not gone as an invader to another > country to make terror and monstrous crimes as > Millosevic did. He no way can be compared with the > Serbian monster Milosevic. So Ceku fighted to > protect his peoples' rights and liberty. He didn't > go to Serbia to kill people, he fighted on his OWN > HOMELAND, to KOSOVO, country which has nothing to do > with Serbia or any other Slavic country, and nothing > commune with these country. I have impression that > you don't know the meaning of the word > "incomprehensible" (when you say: - "for an > independent Kosovo is incomprehensible"). According > to you it is comprehensible to let Kosovo under the > power and invasion of Serbia, even thought has no > right, no sense to have Kosovo under its power. > Kosovo and Kosovo people (Albanians from Kosovo) > have NOTHING COMMUNE WITH SERBIA. You say it has no > meaning to let Kosovo independent, meanwhile > Montenegro which belongs to Yugoslavia wanted and > reached the independence from Serbia, even though > they have the same origin, and both of them (Serbia > and Montenegro) belonged to the same state. We are > not asking to unite Kosovo with Albania which is > 100% significance as it has been a part of Albania > for centuries (but the old wolf Europe of 1913 cut > up Albania and gave something Serbia (Kosovo), > something to Greece and something Macedonia. Do you > thing this gives the right to Serbia to have Kosovo > as his part???????????????. So I was saying that we > are not asking to have Kosovo part of Albania (which > can be very meaningful and right), but we are asking > that Kosovo to has its independence. Could you > explain why do you call right that "Kosovo to be > part of Serbia"?????????? > You speak for terrorism, but people like you feed > the terrorism by this kind of declarations. Because > for as time that Kosovo will not be independent and > will be under Serbia invasion there never will be > peace and calmness. > Asking Kosovo to respect the minorities is another > thing (and a right thing) but asking them to be > under Serbian invasion is another thing, a bad thing > (it can be called perversity), and can be called > "not respecting the peoples right". Because it is > their right to be independent from Serbia. > SO KOSOVO HAS ITS RIGHT TO BE INDIPENDENT. And has > nothing commune with terrorism the independence of > Kosovo. Kosovo and Albanian people always have been > peaceful and calm people. And if they will be > independent have no reason to fight, or to break the > stability and peace in the region, or to be > terrorist (as you say). > I am repeating it in order that you can > "understand" anything and not say foolish things > like mentioning the word "terrorism" vainly and to > blame a people for something that he doesn't have: > so for as long as they are under Serbian invasion > they have totally right to fight for his > independence. > Shame on them who chose you to be an ambassador, > because the people who are chosen as ambassadors > need to be peaceful diplomatic and mediator for good > things, not a person who vomit venom for a peaceful, > calm and innocent people by saying "terrorist". You > can not be nor ambassador neither a simple person > with cool logic. > Another time "people like you feed the terrorism, > and inflate the fire", and maybe just for hobby. > > > "ANTIC.org-SNN" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Letters to the editor > > LETTERS TO THE EDITOR > July 20, 2006 > > > New York > > > Balkan realities > > Tod Lindberg is right that the EU and NATO > countries should not turn their backs on Balkan > countries wishing to share in the peace and > prosperity of the new Europe. However, he is wrong > to suggest that it was only Slobodan Milosevic's > "genocidal policies" that set the Balkans in flames > in the early 1990s and wrong to condemn Serbian > determination to maintain Kosovo as an integral part > of its territory ("Where Milosevic's butchery held > sway," > Op-Ed, July 11). > It has become fashionable to blame Milosevic > and Serbia for everything that went wrong in the > former Yugoslavia while overlooking the concerns of > the Christian Serbian population in Bosnia and in > Kosovo at the grim prospects of having to live in > Muslim-dominated states. > Alia Izetbegovic, the Muslim Bosnian leader, > was an Islamist extremist who made no attempt to > hide his plans for destroying the Christian entity > in Bosnia, writing, "There can be no peace or > co-existence between the Islamist faith and > non-Islamist institutions." As for Agim Ceku, the > so-called prime minister of Kosovo, the Canadian > military knows what crimes he is guilty of even if > the Hague Tribunal refused to indict him. > In 1993, Mr. Ceku commanded Croatian forces > that violated a U.N.-brokered cease-fire and overran > three Serbian villages in the Medac pocket. When the > Canadians counterattacked and re-entered the burned > villages, they discovered all of the inhabitants and > domestic animals had been slaughtered. Mr. Ceku > later also ordered undefended Serbian villages > shelled in violation of the rules of war, causing > heavy casualties among the civilian population. > In 2002, Mr. Ceku was indicted by Serbia for > responsibility as a Kosovo Liberation Army commander > for the murders of 669 Serbians and other > non-Albanians during the fighting that broke out in > Kosovo in 1998. The indictment includes murder, > abduction, torture and ethnic cleansing of the > non-Albanian population from Kosovo. This is the man > recently invited to Washington to meet with > Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a meeting > obviously planned to show U.S. support for Kosovo > independence. > For many outside observers, including this > writer, the continued support by the United States > for an independent Kosovo is incomprehensible. > Granting independence to Kosovo would be a serious > violation of Serbia's territorial integrity, which > is one of the most cherished principles of > international law and is enshrined in the United > Nations Charter. U.S. violation of this principle > would have far-reaching implications for the very > framework of international peace and security. > Independence for Kosovo also would create a > criminal and terrorist state in the heart of the > Balkans. This is not a happy prospect in today's > world. > Kosovo independence would set a precedent for > other aspiring ethnic groups for independent status > and would destabilize not only the Balkans, but many > other parts of the world. It also would mark a low > point in U.S.foreign policy. It is difficult to be > held up as the champion of the rule of law, of > democracy and the global war on terror, while at the > same time giving support to war criminals and > terrorists. > > JAMES BISSETT > Former Canadian ambassador > to the former Yugoslavia > Ottawa > > http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060719-081857-6783r_page2.htm > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Do you Yahoo!? > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. Claudia G. S. Martins BRAZIL Any religion, despite its eternity carries the birth-marks of its historical circumstances. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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