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From: "heikki sipil� " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:52 AM
Subject: Yugoslavia. Lies, bloody lies and Reuters/AlertNet
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> >From: "F J BERNAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >
> >29Oct00
> >By Mark Heinich
> >
> >PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Against the odds, Kosovo has
> >just held the first free elections in its history without bloodshed,
> >but also without the participation of its Serb minority.
> >
> >[ Not true; there were formally free elections w/o bloodshed in the
> >past, only it was typically the Kosovo ALbanians who boycotted them,
> >not the Kosovo Serbs. Perhaps those elections were far from perfect;
> >but, then, so are these, Kouchner's elections, in spite of the
> >self-serving, self-congratualting tone of the NATO and EU officials
> >].
> >
> >
> >No one denies that Saturday's municipal elections conducted by
> >international administrators were a significant achievement just 18
> >months after Kosovo was ablaze and its people in biblical upheaval.
> >
> >[ Not true -- the legitimate President of FRY does, so do the Kosovo
> >Serbs, and so do all the relevant political parties and coalitions in
> >Serbia outside of Kosovo. Nobody relevant in Belgrade finds these
> >elections legitimate and fully legal, let alone "a significant
> >achievement" . Last but not least, several international monitoring
> >groups. including the British Helisnki Watch, have expressed openly
> >their major reservations Re.: how "great" a step these municipal
> >Kosovo elections are. ]
> >
> >
> >"Kosovars have indeed passed the test of democracy with flying
> >colours," said Daan Everts, head of the Organisation for Security and
> >Cooperation in Europe mission which ran the vote.
> >
> >[ If it were nor sad and pathetic, it would be laughable. Some 200,000
> >or more Kosovo residents did not vote, because they could not even
> >safely come to the poll stations in Kosovo to begin with - for the
> >non-ALbanians in Kosovo, there is no even elementary freedom of
> >movement, yet this NATOcrat talks about a "test of democracy [passed]
> >with flying colours" !?! ]
> >
> >
> >Some 80 percent of the 900,000 registered Kosovans voted, but almost
> >all were ethnic Albanians, and almost none from the formerly dominant
> >Serb minority, who boycotted the polls in protest at their isolation
> >in enclaves guarded by peacekeepers.
> >
> >[ How about the people ethnically cleansed from Kosovo, yet as
> >legitimate Kosovo voters as those "80% of the reigstered 900,000
> >voters" who "passed the democracy test with flying colours" ?? ]
> >
> >Provisional results of the election are expected on Monday, and the
> >moderate LDK party of Ibrahim Rugova, a pacifist who led pre-war
> >passive resistance to Belgrade, is expected to win majorities in most
> >of Kosovo's 30 municipal assemblies.
> >
> >The PDK party of former Kosovo Liberation Army chief Hashim Thaci and
> >a hardline nationalist offshoot, the AAK, who grabbed control of
> >municipalities after last year's NATO bombing forced the Yugoslav army
> >to withdraw, face serious losses to the LDK.
> >
> >
> >SUSPECT DEMOCRATS
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >Whichever ethnic Albanian party gains control, all of them are
> >committed to independence and most of their supporters believe the
> >Serbs have forfeited any right to share power or even live in Kosovo,
> >let alone keep the province in Yugoslavia.
> >
> >[ So, this Reuters report OPENLY CONDONES ethnic cleansing of Kosovo -
> >forceful expulsion of over 200,000 Kosovo residents who were kicked
> >out or intimidated and scared out of the province BECAUSE OF THEIR
> >ETHNICITY. "The Serbs have forfeited any right to share power or even
> >live in Kosovo" according to (basically, all relevant) political
> >parties of the Kosovo ALbanians. Reuters apparently does nto find
> >anything objectioanble about this brazenly Racist, xenophobic and
> >fascist attitude of the "KosovarGandhi" Rugova and other Albanian
> >separatist politicans. ]
> >
> >
> >That mindset poses a volatile dilemma for U.N. authorities not only
> >long term, deliberating Kosovo's final status, but just weeks from now
> >when U.N. administrator Bernard Kouchner must decide whether to allow
> >Serbian republic elections to be conducted in Kosovo too.
> >
> >[ This tells enough Re.: B. Kouchner and the NATO occupation of
> >Kosovo. Since when is a temporary administrator, really a UN-approved
> >foreign bureaucrat, in a province legitimately recognized to be a
> >part of a certain country entitled to determine whether that country's
> >elections apply to that particular province's territory as well, or
> >not ?!? ]
> >
> >Albanians are sure to oppose the idea, maybe violently. But local
> >Serbs look forward to voting for a new democratic Serbian government,
> >hoping it will relieve their plight.
> >
> >With the recent fall of Yugoslav Serb autocrat Slobodan Milosevic and
> >the election of democratic reformer Vojislav Kostunica as president,
> >ethnic Albanian leaders privately worry that their watertight case for
> >statehood has sprung leaks.
> >
> >Kostunica has taken giant strides to rehabilitate Belgrade in Western
> >eyes by acknowledging Serbs committed genocide in Kosovo, pledging
> >equal rights for all ethnic groups in Yugoslavia and harmonious
> >relations with Balkan neighbours.
> >
> >[ THIS IS A BLOODY LIE, STRAIGHT AND SIMPLE!!!! Kostunica did take
> >responsibility for the Serb share of crimes and atrocities in Kosovo,
> >but he NEVER MENTIONED THE WORD 'GENOCIDE' in the context - and,
> >indeed, there was never a Serbian genocide in Kosovo to talk about to
> >begin with! For the Reuters' information, genocide is "the deliberate
> >and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group"
> >(according to Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary), and NOTHING of the
> >sort ever happened in Kosovo; the total number of dead found after
> >NATO occupied the province was slightly over 2,000 , including people
> >of various nationalities and who died due to various causes, in a
> >brutal ground armed conflict accompanied by almost ceaseless NATO
> >bombing from 15,000 feet high. ]
> >
> >
> >But he has also reaffirmed Yugoslavia's sovereignty over Kosovo and
> >says he will press for a return of over 100,000 Serb inhabitants who
> >fled ethnic Albanian reprisals after the war.
> >
> >[ First, the number of Serbs and others who have fled Kosovo is about
> >twice what Reuters claims. Second, Kosovo *IS* a part of FRY according
> >to the UN Resolution 1244, bad and of dubious legitimacy as that
> >Resolution is (the previous Serbian authorities signed it under
> >extreme duress, whcih, strictl, makes any Serbian concessions
> >illegitimate, according to the 1980 Vienna Convention On Treaties).
> >Third, asking for ethnically cleansed people to return to their homes,
> >all of a sudden, seems to be a politically unjustifed, or at least
> >dubious, request. Or, perhaps, the request appears dubious only when
> >we talk about the ethnically cleansed Serbs (in Croatia, Bosnia or
> >Kosovo) ?!? ]
> >
> >U.N. WANTS SERBS TO COME IN FROM COLD
> >
> >His stance dovetails with Big Power policy -- that Kosovo should get
> >substantial autonomy but not independence which could destabilise
> >other Balkan countries with disgruntled ethnic groups, and that Kosovo
> >must be a safe place for minorities.
> >
> >In any case, Kosovo has a long way to go before good government,
> >democracy and ethnic co-existence reign in a part of the world that
> >has never known them.
> >
> >The bleak reality is that Kosovo will require long foreign engagement
> >and billions of dollars of investment before it is self-sustaining.
> >
> >Health-threatening garbage smears the land, air pollution chokes the
> >towns as car use explodes, public services are rudimentary,
> >unemployment exceeds 50 percent despite bustling small trade, and law
> >and order remains shaky.
> >
> >"This place would collapse in days if we handed it over to them now,"
> >said a senior Western official. "The people of Kosovo are still quite
> >unready to run their own affairs. They have much to learn about civic
> >responsibility."
> >
> >
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