From: Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 7:50 PM Subject: The Right Of Any Civilised Human Being: returning home, for Palestinians, for Kosovars, for Afghans, for Iraqis, and yes for European Jews to return to Europe
28 February 2010 "The Right Of Any Civilised Human Being" <http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/.a/6a00d834522bcd69e20120a8e26164970b-pi > Image removed by sender. Government of palestine birth certificate We understand the right of return perfectly well when it suits us. Like, for example, when we're talking about refugees from the former Yugoslavia. 1. UNHCR <http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:oelzkZ6geIkJ:www.irishtimes.com/newspa per/world/1999/0519/99051900081.html+blair+> effort in Balkans attracts strong criticism from Oxfam; The Irish Times (cached), 19 May 1999. Mr Tony Blair visited a camp run by the Turkish Red Crescent in Elbasan, about 67km from Tirana. The British Prime Minister, pursing his lips and shaking his head as though he could not bear to hear it, sat cross-legged on the floor of a tent as an elderly woman refugee from Kosovo described seeing a Serb paramilitary gunman shoot a man dead in front of her... The Elbasan camp houses around 4,000 refugees, and in a 30-minute stop Mr Blair had time to listen to only a few of their stories. But it was enough for him to be moved. After walking down two lines of neatly placed white tents, he strode to the microphones with the Albanian Prime Minister, Mr Pandeli Majko, beside him. "These people have been driven from their homes and their homeland," he declared. "Our mission is very simple and very clear. It is to make sure that they return and are able to live in peace and security as should be the right of any civilised human being. 2. Refugees Must Be <http://articles.latimes.com/1999/apr/06/news/mn-24606> Allowed to Return, Clinton Tells Serbs, Los Angeles Times, April 06, 1999 WASHINGTON - With Yugoslavia pressing ahead with its brutal "ethnic cleansing" campaign to empty Kosovo of ethnic Albanians, President Clinton vowed Monday to punish the Serbian military so mercilessly that it will have no choice but to allow refugees to return... Although the president continued to rule out the use of ground troops for combat in Kosovo, he ordered U.S. infantry units to neighboring Albania and Macedonia to deliver relief supplies to refugees and to protect humanitarian aid operations from cross-border Serbian attacks. He vowed not to allow Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to negotiate a cease-fire locking in his gains after expelling most of the ethnic Albanians, who made up 90% of Kosovo's population before the war. "The ethnic cleansing of Kosovo cannot stand as a permanent event," Clinton said. The only acceptable long-term solution, he said, is for the refugees to return to their villages, rebuild their demolished homes and restart their shattered lives... "The refugees belong in their own homes on their own land," Clinton said. "Our immediate goal is to provide relief. Our long-term goal is to give them their right to return." 3. PM TELLS REFUGEES THEY WILL GO BACK TO THEIR HOMES AS BLAIRS SEE FOR THEMSELVES THE HUMAN COST OF WAR; the Scottish Daily Record, via The Free <http://tinyurl.com/yahmhgq> Library. THE suffering of thousands of Kosovar refugees left Cherie Blair in tears of despair yesterday. The Prime Minister's wife broke down after hearing the harrowing tales of two distraught women... The plight of the Kosovars also affected the Prime Minister. He was shaking with rage after hearing their horrific stories and witnessing the sight of children waiting hours for help in heat and squalor. It left him angry - and all the more determined to help. Mr Blair revealed Britain's aid for the Kosovo crisis would be doubled to pounds 40 million and far more would be done to give families a home in the UK. He said: "This is not a battle for NATO. This is not a battle for territory. It is a battle for humanity. It is a just cause." And he vowed that the West's commitment to defeating Milosevic's evil ethnic cleansing was "total". He said: "We are also making arrangements to help by taking more refugees from here to our own country, as well as helping to make arrangements for these camps to be stabilised and improved here. "We will do whatever we can to make sure these people, these innocent people, are allowed to go back to Kosovo, to their homes, their towns, their villages." 4. <http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/.a/6a00d834522bcd69e20120a8e26397970b-pi > Secretary Arrives For Macedonia Tour; Associated Press. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright praised American troops preparing today to move into Kosovo as peacekeepers and assured refugees they would soon be able to return home "to live a decent normal life"... Albright visited camp Stenkovic I, the first refugee camp established here and a tent city that's home to about 25,000 refugees, many of them children. Albright counseled against vengeance and said the goal was a multi-ethnic democracy in Kosovo. But she also acknowledged the task was awesome and said many of the refugees may not be able to get home before the onset of winter. In a statement to hundreds of refugees crowded behind a rope, Albright said "we want you to rebuild. We want you to go home. But be very careful, there are land mines. All the world knows about your suffering, they know you want to go home and have a normal life. You will go home and be able to live a decent normal life and do it your way." 5. Statement on the Kosovo <http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/1999/99-079a.shtml> Refugee Crisis; US Conference of Catholic Bishops, April 6, 1999. The U.S. Catholic bishops are extremely concerned about the plight of Kosovar refugees fleeing the terror enveloping their homeland. Close to one-half million Kosovars have been driven from their homes in recent days by Serbian forces, creating a crisis which threatens to undermine the stability of the surrounding region and put at risk the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent persons. Justice requires that the Kosovar refugees fleeing their homeland be given the opportunity to return to their homes in safety... Through its various service agencies, the Catholic Church in the United States is prepared to work with the Administration and the international community in formulating a humane response to the refugee crisis in and around Kosovo. It is clear that the Kosovar refugees have a right to return to their homes; any settlement to the present conflict should respect that right. Photo: Fatima Yousif Sayed-Ahmad, a 68-year-old Palestinian refugee, points at her birth certificate which was issued by the Palestinian Government in 1937, in her shop, May 15, 2005 in the Zaytoon refugee camp, located within Gaza City in the Gaza Strip. Sayed-Ahmad was born and used to live in the city of Jaffa before fleeing to the Gaza Strip in the mass displacement of Palestinians after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Sayed-Ahmad and her family still have a hope to return to their old city which is now in Israeli territory. (Photo By Abid Katib/Getty Images Posted by Lawrence of Cyberia *** exposing the hidden truth for further educational research only *** CAVEAT LECTOR *** In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. NOTE: Some links may require cut and paste into your Internet Browser. 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