>From: "Infinite Communist Revolution !!!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >The Global Reflexion Foundation contributes, according to her ability, to >the distribution of information on international issues that in the media >does not recieve proper attention or is presented in a distorted way. We >receive information from different sources, that does not necessary reflect >our opinion. If you don't want to receive it, please send us an e-mail. > >****************************************************** >Wednesday, October 11, 2000 > >1. Reign of terror in Serbia >2. 'On the list they had me marked as a nationalist' >3. 'These Djindjic people are brown shirts' > >***************************************************** > >The url for this is http://emperors-clothes.com/news/attack.htm > >REIGN OF TERROR IN SERBIA > >Translated and edited by Emperor's Clothes > >Introductory note: It has been admitted in the Western media (AFP, Oct. 8) >that last Thursday's Yugoslav coup was a military operation with a hard >core of at least 2000 men, many of them armed. It was planned and organized >well in advance. Since then our Yugoslav contacts tell us there has been a >real reign of terror, not reported in the Western press. This is described >in two interviews on Emperor's Clothes, and in the statement from the >Socialist Party (SPS) below. > >An Emperor's Clothes reader suggested that people send email to the Serbian >Socialist Party, telling them we are outraged at these attacks and urging >them not to cave in to the intimidation. You can write the SPS at >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please forward this note. > >Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS): INFORMATION FOR THE PUBLIC (as of October >7, 2000 ) > >Despite Mr. Kostunica's public proclamation that his supporters wouldn't >harass members and sympathizers of the SPS, in the last three days, in >Belgrade and throughout Serbia, we've witnessed a reign of terror. >Supporters of the Socialist Party (SPS) have been physically threatened >over the phone. Children of socialists have been threatened. Members of the >SPS have been beaten. Offices have been attacked and destroyed. > >Skillfully directing the dissatisfaction of working people against the >Socialist Party, the opposition has organized bullying and lawless actions, >driving out Socialist directors of companies, but only if those companies >are well established and successful. > >In Kragujevac they attacked, tied and abused ten SPS members. This included >Ms. Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic. They held her for ten hours, trying to force >her to go on TV and renounce her SPS membership. She refused. They finally >released her - right into the arms of a drunken mob. She was cursed, >slapped, spat upon and kicked, over and over. > >In Nish, Mr. Dragisa Vucic, an SPS representative on the town council and a >worker at the electric distribution company, as beaten badly. He is in the >hospital. > >In Belgrade they robbed and then destroyed SPS central headquarters (take a >look at our web album) and they have done the same with offices in all the >boroughs. > >[Emperor's Clothes note: To view web album go to >www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2000/okt/foto-01.html . There are several pages of >pictures. Click 'next' on lower right of page) > >After wrecking the Belgrade offices, members of the opposition parties in >Kikinda attacked the Young Socialists' Internet Club. They smashed the >doors and windows but SPS members stopped them before they could steal any >valuable equipment, which was probably what they were after. The opposition >has recruited the worst kind of thugs for this work. > >Last night, the Belgrade headquarters was attacked again. This time there >was nothing to steal so they burned the building, which is beyond repair. >In the town boroughs of Palilula, Vracar, Stari Grad and Zvezdara the SPS >offices have been totally destroyed. Everything of value, all the >furniture, computer equipment and so on has been stolen. > >At night, between the 5th and 6th of October, opposition demonstrators >broke into the headquarters in Leskovac, smashed the windows, stole the >computer and other equipment and destroyed what they could not cart away. >In Jablanica County they demolished the offices, stole equipment, broke >windows and damaged the town building. They looted anything they could. >Then they burned the building, the garage and Mayor Zivojin Stefanovic's >car. > >Despite the assurances of the Association of Vojvodina Hungarians that >there would be no attacks or threats against people with different >opinions, the SPS offices in Kanjiza were attacked. There are continuous >telephone threats against those who stand for peace and tolerance. A >special target are Hungarian members of the SPS. > >In Ada, rioters led by Vojvodina Hungarian leaders have attacked the home >of town Mayor Tomic Ognjan, a respected teacher. Police were late in >intervening so his house got severely damaged. > >The home of county mayor Ljuba Slijepcevic was attacked. The savagery was >stopped by police. > >Demonstrators broke into SPS headquarters in Smederevo, stole everything >they found, then stole the equipment used by Radio "S." > >In Lajkovac they demolished the Peasant Bank and Cafe. They broke into the >local radio station and stole part of the equipment. They also broke into >the SPS town headquarters and tried to loot and destroy these offices but >were stopped by SPS members. They tried to do the same with the local TV >station. > >In Kragujevac the demonstrators entered the Self-Management Club where the >SPS headquarters and TV station are located. Police stopped them. > >In Vlasotince they demolished the offices of the SPS and the JUL (Yugoslav >United Left)as well. > >In Temerin they broke in and seized the local radio station. > >They attacked SPS headquarters in Pecinci, Prokuplje, Uzice, Bor, Arilje, >Zrenjanin, Sremsak Mitrovica and Pancevo. > >This is how the "democratic" opposition expresses its much-promised >tolerance of all views, all across Serbia. > >For photo documentation go to >http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2000/okt/foto-01.html > >There are several photographs; go to the lower right and click on 'next' ) > >*** > >If you would like to be informed by email of actions or information >concerning events in Yugoslavia and have not signed up for the Emperor's >Clothes mailing list, send your address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For more on what's been happening in Yugoslavia see the articles listed >below. > >'Djindjic Calls for Complete Yugoslav Submission to U.S.' at >http://emperors-clothes.com/news/submit.htm >Discusses the consequences of turning Yugoslavia into a U.S. protectorate > >'U.S. Arrogance and Yugoslav Elections' at >http://emperors-clothes.com/engl.htm > >'The International Monetary Fund And The Yugoslav Elections' at >http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/1.htm > >www.tenc.net Emperor's Clothes] > >***************************************** > >The url for this article www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/onthelist.htm > > 'On the list they had me marked as a nationalist' > > Interview with a Serbian woman threatened by the opposition prior to the >recent coup. > > Interview was conducted the morning of 10-5-2000 and posted 10-10 >Interviewer: Jared Israel > > The following interview was conducted prior to the attack on Parliament >and other Yugoslav institutions last week. The interview was conducted in >English and is accurate to the word. Mirjana's identity has been withheld, >despite her insistence that I reveal it. > > Jared: I got an email from [name of mutual friend]. She said you had been >threatened or something? > > Mirjana: Yes, a man was waiting when I came to work. He threatened to kill >me if I went to vote in the second part of the elections. This also >happened to many other people, not just to me. > > Jared: Can you talk about it? > > Mirjana: Of course. You see, Jared, I did not expect this. I think I am >always doing right things so I never think that there is anybody in this >world who is doing something bad to me. And do you know when he came close >to me, in that moment when I realized what is going on I just said to >myself, because you know I have experience from the war in Republic of >Serbian Krajina [when Croatia attacked this Serbian area] just to look at >his eyes all the time. His stayed there three or four minutes and it was so >bad. > > Jared: You are very brave. Was he young or old? > > Mirjana: He was about 40 years old. And you know, I think that I met him >several years ago and that he is a Serbian man from Germany. He looked >familiar and I had all day yesterday to think. And now I remember that he >was coming from U.S. some years ago to complain and give his opinions. > > You see, Jared, I am sure that I'm doing very good things, I am really >fighter for freedom for everybody in this world. And if God is going to >allow that they do me something bad it is no matter. I am not afraid for >myself. > > They are doing this all around Belgrade. Even in the supermarkets they are >telling people that they are going to kill people if they try to vote, that >they are not allowed to go to vote. Can you imagine this? > > Jared: Isn't that going to turn people against them? The word will spread - > > Mirjana: Of course. > > Jared: Have you told other people. > > Mirjana: Yesterday morning I called my friends of course because first of >all I wanted them to know because I am scared for them because they are >also people like me, big fighters > > But there are so many people they have threatened, even people living on >my street, they have been threatened too. Because do you know, people from >Democratic Parties, they have all lists with citizens of voters of >Belgrade. And one man from DOS he came, you know from this democratic >opposition parties, he came to my work to talk to me and showed me that >list. In our country it is a crime to have a list of the citizens who are >voters. So all the people on the list, they were marked if they were >members of the Socialist Party or Serbian Radical Party or Communist Party. >I was marked as a nationalist. You understand? So I told him first this is >a crime. And second, as want to represent people in government, this is a >very bad thing that you have something like this list. So now I know > how they can be so well organized, to threaten all the voters. Because >they have all informations about people. Especially they are now pressuring >people who have never been to any political party. Pressuring them not to >go and vote. But a lot of them will go now because they are angry. > > You cannot tell me not to go to work or to vote. I want to have my >personal opinion. Serbian people hate to be pressed. Especially Serbian >women. Can you imagine? To try to scare me! My father he is peasant from >Krajina. > > [Note: the Krajina is a mountainous section near Croatia and inhabited for >hundreds of years almost entirely by ethnic Serb farmers. When Croatia >seceded from Yugoslavia in June, 1991, the Croatian neo-fascists tried to >subjugate the Krajina Serbs, but were roundly defeated. The West then >brokered a peace agreement disadvantageous to the Serbs, who were disarmed. >Four years later, the Croatian army, trained by a CIA-connected private >military organization called MPRI, and with US air support, drove the >entire population of Krajina from their homes - 250,000 people in a few >days. These people are now refugees in Serbia. The MPRI is now involved in >training the paramilitary forces of the secessionist government in >Montenegro.] > > Mirjana: We prefer to die before we accept to be a slave. I got so mad. I >think these people took the U.S. money and promised something to American >government and so they're scared. They are afraid of the Americans so now >they try to scare me and other people - and you know most of the people >they threatened are women - can you imagine? > > Jared: Did you tell your husband? > > Mirjana: Of course. You know, he's my best friend. But he knows that I am >enough crazy that I can protect myself. > > Jared: We're all a little crazy > > Mirjana: We're not crazy, we have crazy politicians. If there are people >listening to your phone from your country's secret police, let me tell them >something: you should stop these stupid people to do such bad things in our >country.. If you want an Empire, don't you need women to have children? > It is not smart to threaten women and try to scare them. Can you imagine, >a new Empire which is trying to run the world by scaring women? > > Jared: Kidnapping them too. The Sunday Times says 500,000 women a year are >kidnapped out of Eastern Europe, sold. > > Mirjana: Can you imagine things like this? But this will not work, no, >especially not with the Serbian women because we are very strong. When we >get mad we are capable of doing many things. > > Jared: Thank you for talking about this. I was worried when I heard you >were being harassed. > > Mirjana: Don't worry for your friend. > > Jared: But I'm going to publicize it. But I don't want to use your name of >course and - > > Mirjana: Write my name! Why not? Do you want to say where they threatened, >the address? > > Jared: The address? I don't - > > Mirjana: Yes, say it. [Despite her demand I have not published Mirjana's >full name or address- JI.] I was a member of Djindjic's party but I am not >a member, not anymore. Because they are involved in crime. Racketing. I >found this out and you can write it all now. Because now I am mad. I hate > when somebody threaten me. > >www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes] > >************************************************* > >The url for this article www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/djindjic2.htm > >'These Djindjic people are brown shirts' > >Interview with a Serbian woman, by Jared Israel > >The following interview took place several days after the October 5 coup in >Belgrade. The person interviewed is a member of the Serbian Radical Party, >a conservative nationalist party opposed to the recent coup. > >Jared: What's going on? > >Gordana: Some very aggressive people from the opposition are grabbing >everything around here, in particular taking the institutions that have >some money, for instance the telecommunications company. They are scaring >people and beating people. > >They want to destroy the results of previous elections by declaring that >new elections have to be held for the Serbian Parliament. Elections are not >supposed to be held for a year but they want them this fall. That would >mean the Serbian people would lose their representatives because the >elections would be held in an impossible situation. Whole groups of >political parties have no access to media. In the past we had many >viewpoints because we had government media and even more widespread was >various shades of opposition media. Now only one view. And there is day to >day terrorizing of people. Mr. Djindjic hopes that people will be too >scared to run as candidates from those parties which stand in his way. > >Jared: You say there is "day to day terrorizing"?. > >Gordana: Take this example. A friend of mine is intellectual. Every time >her phone rings she gets a threat from the other side. They stop her car in >traffic to threaten her, and so on. And this is a professional woman, the >daughter of a well-known professor. Even these people who are well known >are subject to threats. Another such woman, a reporter, visits me, and she >is afraid to go home alone and stays over - and this is in Belgrade! Can >you imagine how the common people feel? They are even more afraid. I was on >a bus full of tired, worried working people and one of these Otpor types >got on and demanded that the bus stands still and he says: "Listen! We have >the power now and you will see what we do!" > >Jared: So you think that people will be afraid to vote for the Socialist or >Radical parties or other parties that oppose the coup? > >Gordana: No, I think that people may be afraid to run as candidates for >these parties. > >The Djindjic people took over all the radio stations and TV stations and >newspapers. On TV now you can't see even the regular old shows. It is >propaganda. The old ladies in Serbia like to watch soap operas from South >America but now they can't do that. You see they are poor and they have >such a hard life and now they don't have even this small pleasure. Instead >we have to watch stupid American government lies, even about the wars in >Bosnia and Croatia and so on. They have programs that blame the Serbs, for >everything. Can you believe this? Do they think we are morons, not to know >our own history. But the purpose here is also a kind of terror, to break >the spirit. To make people feel hope is lost. > >Today they had a show on the television telling lies about Dubrovnik, >showing pictures to prove it was burned down in 1991 by the Yugoslav army. >But Dubrovnik has all the old buildings in perfect condition and I know >this because friends have been back to see the town, and it was not >damaged. (1) > >And these movies they now show to prove to us that the Serbs were >responsible for the wars this past decade. Why? Did we try to secede? >Doesn't Yugoslavia have a right to exist? .Would other countries allow >secessionists and foreign factors to destroy their nation? I have never >seen such lies. Can you imagine, having a situation where you can't stand >to watch the TV or read the papers. > >Jared: I'm afraid I can imagine. What we mainly do on Emperor's Clothes is >expose lies. They create 'em faster than we can expose them. All I do is >expose fiction. > >Gordana: Today is 1941 in Yugoslavia. If there are people who don't know, >well, they will know it very soon. Even some people I spoke to who were >supporting the DOS now see this violence that is going on and they say, >"These Djindjic people are brown shirts." > >[Brown shirts is a term for Fascists or Nazi's - E-C] > >Footnotes > >(1) I am writing a book about the Western media's lies about Yugoslavia. As >part of the research, I read many of the news reports written in 1991 about >Dubrovnik. As Gordana says, the Western claim is that the Yugoslavs (read: >Serbs) burned the place down. This lie was used to prove the Serbs were >ruthless monsters. When the first stories broke about burning Dubrovnik >down they produced a strongly anti-Serb response in the public so, wanting >to make the most of a good thing, the stories were repeated. In the >"Independent" I found Dubrovnik burned to the ground on not fewer than five >occasions, spanning a period of four months. Remarkable. Despite this >repeated cataclysm, Prof. Peter Maher, who is a knowledgeable witness, shot >a film during his March 1992 visit to Dubrovnik which proves there was no >damage to the old city. > >There was indeed fighting in the Dubrovnik area. But the evidence I >uncovered during my research shows that the Yugoslav Army deliberately >avoided shelling the old city. Here is the basic sequence of events: the >Croatian secessionist troops attacked Yugoslav army barracks near >Dubrovnik. The Yugoslav Army gave chase. The secessionists retreated behind >the old city digging in in areas dangerously close to hotels in which they >had housed refugees from the fighting . In a moment of candor, Phil >Davison, a reporter from the British "Independent" admitted that this >virtually guaranteed the shelling of hotels: > > "The Croats have set up a mortar close to our hotel, just as they have >next to hospitals and refugee centres. This may make us a target for >the army. Sooner or later, they are going to lay a couple of rounds >on us. The army is zapping Lokrum island, 300 yards from my hotel. > Mortars, machineguns, ack-ack guns. It is deafening. A machinegun >barrage rattles my windows. It is just a matter of time." > (The 'Independent' November 17, 1991) > >The press was full of stories of how the heartless Yugoslav Army was >shelling hotels where refugees were housed. Did the secessionists set up >their positions near the hotels in order to force the Yugoslavs to shell >the hotels and thus provide ammunition for anti-Yugoslav propaganda? Common >sense suggests they did. And more than common sense: consider this report, >which appeared in only two English language newspapers: > > "Women And Children Barred From Leaving Croatian Town > > "The six-member Dubrovnik crisis committee decided six days ago that >the defense of this coastal Adriatic city required the presence of all >the remaining women and children. > UNICEF was informed of the decree three days ago, and on Tuesday, it >was first implemented when 200 people were prevented from leaving the >city on a UNICEF relief vessel that had brought supplies to the city. > > "First, he said, if the women and children stay, it will mean that the >attacking army would be shooting at them and not just at a >walled city. > > "Second, he said, their presence might force the army to hesitate >before shooting. > > "Third, if there is an attack, the international public reaction to >such an attack > would be a public-relations coup for Croatia, which has been trying >desperately for months to get diplomatic and military support from the >West. > > "Only 100 of 300 people scheduled to leave on a ship Tuesday were >allowed to depart, and UNICEF was told by Dubrovnik officials >that no one else would be able to leave."('The Orange County >Register,' December 5, 1991) > >www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes] > > *** > >Global Reflexion - Amsterdam - The Netherlands > > > > >_______________________________________________________________________ > > >REVOLUTION, COMMUNIST & CONTINUOUS ! ! ! > > http://members.fortunecity.com/joncorlett/ > > >E Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To Subscribe or Unsubscribe; Click Reply in E Mail Program, > >enter 'Subscribe' or 'Unsubscribe' on Subject line and Send to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >If wish to receive only certain types of Revolutionary Communist Information >Please Specify. > > >_______________________________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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