>From: "T.V. Weber & Alida Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "T.V. and Alida Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Back in April, we wrote an article about the KFOR/UNMIK confiscation of the >valuable Trepca mining complex in Kosovo. (See "Marching in Hitler's >Footsteps: KFOR Confiscates Kosovo's Mines," >http://www.computec-int.com/bsc/war/archives/04-27-12.htm.) > >Western businessmen, if they think of Kosovo at all, regard it as a place to >make some money, by exploiting its minerals, by using it as a transportation >corridor, or by gaining lucrative contracts from governments, NGOs, and >foundations involved with the occupation forces. With their narrow >materialistic view, it would never occur to them to think of Kosovo, or any >land anywhere, for that matter, as sacred ground, whose resources are to be >used with care and only for the benefit of their rightful owners. > >According to a Reuters story on May 30, 2000, "Kosovo Zinc Plant to Sue >KFOR, UNMIK over Fire," the valuable zinc metallurgy complex at Trepca was >destroyed by fire. (See >http://www.egroups.com/message/decani/29684?&start=29660 > >Trepca General Director Novak Bjelic says, "The fire did not break out by >accident," adding that it happened precisely at the time Trepca had agreed >with its Greek partner and shareholder to restart production. > >The Trepca firm estimates that the fire caused $1 billion of damage to their >property, and they are suing KFOR and UNMIK for having allowed the property >to be destroyed while under their control. > >We have no information about how the Trepca firm in Belgrade and its Greek >partner firm hoped to be able to restart production with the facility >currently in the hands of the KFOR/UNMIK occupation forces. But it's no >secret that the presence of mineral resources in Kosovo was one of the major >reasons for occupying it. It's also clear that KFOR/UNMIK, with its allies >among the "disbanded" KLA, had hoped to exploit the mineral resources of >Trepca for their own ends, without regard to the rightful ownership of the >mines and factories. > >Perhaps the Trepca fire was started by someone who spitefully wanted to >destroy the assets so that the rightful owners--Serbs and Greeks--would give >up trying to reclaim them. Perhaps there is some truth to the claims that >the fire may have been started to cover up a massive theft of equipment and >moveable assets from the facility by Albanian criminals and their Western >accomplices. (See >http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-6-8.html). Perhaps the >fire had some other cause. No matter what the reason, it is clear that the >schemes of KFOR, UNMIK, and the KLA to profit from this mining complex have >already gone seriously awry. In the long run, they will have to pay back the >rightful owners. Meanwhile, their takeover of the mining complex will most >likely profit them nothing and cost them plenty. > >Sadly, KFOR has learned nothing from this. Under the pretext that the mining >complex is a source of environmental pollutants, 900 NATO troops stormed the >Zvecan smelting plant at Trepca and shut it down. Environmental pollution? >What about NATO's use of cluster bombs and depleted uranium ordnance? What >about NATO's deliberate bombing of the Pancevo refinery complex, which >caused a widespread environmental catastrophe many orders of magnitude worse >than anything that could possibly happen at Trepca? > >UNMIK officials recently claimed that medical tests showed that KFOR >personnel had been exposed to traces of heavy metal toxicity. But no such >test results were reported for other people who live and work in the Trepca >area. Why is this? Maybe it's just one more example of the fact that >KFOR/UNMIK has no concern for the well-being of anyone other than its own >staff and hangers-on. Maybe KFOR/UNMIK faked the test results the way they >fake everything else. Maybe some KFOR personnel contaminated themselves >while handling (or tampering with) various toxic substances for purposes >that we can only guess. Maybe it's just bad karma. > >Clearly, the Trepca takeover has no more to do with concern for the >environment than the bombing of Yugoslavia had to do with humanitarianism. >It's a simple case of looting, and nothing more. (If you have any doubts >about KFOR/UNMIK's motives, we urge you to check it out for yourself. >Emperor's Clothes website has a wealth of information about the Trepca >takeover. See George Szamuely's article at >http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/szamuely/soros.htm.) > >But what must happen in the end? > >In the film, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," Nazis steal the sacred Ark of the >Covenant, resting place of the tablets of the Ten Commandments given to >Moses. Not comprehending its sacred character, the Nazis open it. They >immediately die. But that's only a work of fiction, isn't it? > >Western commentators ridicule the Serbs for considering Kosovo to be sacred >ground. But what if it is? What keeps happening to invaders and occupiers >who attempt to exploit Kosovo for their own ends? > >How did Serbia become known as the "graveyard of empires"? > >You tell us. > >T.V. & Alida Weber > >For all those who believe in the survival of the Serbian people, we say: >"NEXT YEAR IN KOSOVO!" > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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