[CTRL] It is not easy to sell wars to Italians.

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

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Date: Sunday, January 23, 2000 7:40 PM
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>Dear friends,
>
>feel free to use the following.
>
>[small typos corrected]
>_____________________________________
>
>It is not easy to sell wars to Italians. Italian Premier Massimo
>D'Alema managed to do so by presenting the war mainly in the guise of
>the so-called "Operation Rainbow" (Operazione Arcobaleno), a highly
>publicised joint action by private and public resources to help the
>Albanian refugees from Kosovo, set up under the auspices of the
>Ministry for Civil Protection (which usually deals with emergencies
>such as earthquakes, etc.). Instead of [seeing] bombing victims,
>Italian TV watchers throughout the war saw refugees being fed by
>Italian soldiers.
>
>Whenever D'Alema is asked critically about the war, he boasts about
>this "humanitarian mission."
>
>Yesterday, January 20, 2000, the Italian police, on orders from the
>Bari magistrate Daniela Rinaldi, made four arrests among the main
>organisers of "Operation Rainbow:" the people in gaol are the head of
>the operation in Albania [Mr Massimo Simonelli], the secretary of the
>Minister, and two other officers. The investigation began this summer,
>after the war, when a German newspaper discovered no less than 914
>containers of food rotting in the port of Bari. Shortly after, the
>Italian weekly Panorama released an amateur film taken by a (genuine)
>Albanian refugee at Valona (Vlore) in Albania, just before the
>Italians handed over the camp to the Albanian "authorities": hundreds
>of armed Albanian criminals were sacking the camp under the
>indifferent eyes of the Italian army. The Vlore camp had been opened
>on Italian request in order to keep refugees in Albania (and out of
>Italy). During the war, a great amount of aid never reached the camps
>because NATO military were using the port of Durres and the airport of
>Tirana full time.
>
>The inquiry revealed close links between the Italian authorities and
>Albanian mafia boss, Rami Isufi, who regularly collected a share of
>the "humanitarian aid". The current arrests are based on the fact that
>the "Rainbow" people destroyed the documents proving their "donations"
>to Isufi and replaced them with false ones.
>
>Meanwhile, more NATO cluster bombs have got stuck in the nets of
>fishermen off Caorle, near Venice: the NATO pilots used to drop their
>excess bombs into Italian waters. On November 21st, two more areas off
>the Romagna cost were declared off-limits for fishing due to cluster
>bombs.
>
>Source: Italian dailies of January 21st, 2000.
>
>Miguel Martinez
>http://www.kelebekler.com/
>
Secretary General
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic
Art  historian
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