From: "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 22:55:03 -0400 Subject: [C-I] FW: Macedonians Mock NATO -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 4:05 PM Subject: san: Macedonians Mock NATO Friday September 7, 06:30 PM Macedonians 'surrender' toys and fruit to mock NATO SKOPJE (Reuters) - Several hundred Macedonians have "surrendered" kitchen cutlery, toy weapons and fruit in central Skopje to mock NATO's mission to collect arms from ethnic Albanian guerrillas. The burlesque, dubbed "We harvest water melons", was organised by domestic media as a parody of NATO's "Essential Harvest" mission of gathering up weapons handed in by the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) as part of a peace plan. "There are too many weapons in the region and this is an effort, at least in some way, to release frustration from the people," said Branko Gerovski, editor-in-chief of independent daily Dnevnik and one of the organisers of the charade. Most of the domestic media have criticised "Essential Harvest", saying it is reaping mainly ancient, unusable weapons while the guerrillas squirrel away their modern firepower for another day. NATO has been accused of grossly under-estimating the NLA arsenal. "We wanted to show the international community that we want a more successful disarmament operation than the one NATO is doing now," Gerovski said. People from all over town gathered in front of parliament and stood peacefully in lines at designated checkpoints waiting to deliver their forks, spoons, knives, brooms, plastic toy weapons, water melons, bananas -- you name it. Organisers playing the role of NATO soldiers made lists of every peace of "weaponry" brought in before they gathered up the haul and delivered it to NATO headquarters in Skopje. The scene resembled NATO collection points in guerrilla-held hills north of Skopje where rebels have queued up to disarm. ======================================================================== [Via: Communist Internet eGroup: http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
