>From: Jug �ster Solibeweg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Petition for freedom for political prisoners in hungerstrike in Kosovo > >Pls. support this call. We intent to hand over the petition by a solidarity >delegation to K Mitrovica. The specific Austrian references will be omitted >for the use in Kosovo. > >J�SB, Vienna, April 29, 2000 > >******* > >To: >Bernard Kouchner, UNMIK governor >Juan Ortuno, KFOR commander >chief protectorate prosecutor >Kaplan Baruti, president of the court of Kosovska Mitrovica >Sven Eric Laarsen, UNMIK police chief of Kosovska Mitrovica >Benita Ferrero-Waldner, minister of foreign affairs >Albert Rohan, general secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs > >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. >We request the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to bring their influence >to bear in this sense. > >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 U�K/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-�sterreichische Solidarit�tsbewegung) >Vienna, April 27th, 2000 > >**************************** >Jugoslawisch-�sterreichische Solidarit�tsbewegung (J�SB) >PF 217, A-1040 Wien, �sterreich >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
