[Fwd: IAC: U.S. Hands Off Serbia - No New Colony in Kosovo]

[Hein van Meeteren]

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Graag wil ik jullie laten weten dat ik TEGEN de unilaterale afscheiding
van Kosovo ben, vierkant achter Servië en Rusland sta (in dezen) en de
rol van de USA en de EU in deze kwestie afkeurenswaardig acht. Kosovo is
in handen van "Groot Albanezen" gekomen, en dat is vreselijk.
Heb voor IDI tweemaal in Servië gewerkt, en daar zijn mij de ogen
opengegaan.
Het is een drama, en deze afscheiding zal een lange, nare, bloedige
nasleep hebben. De Serviérs zijn tot diep in hun ziel gekrenkt, en ze
zullen dit jaren en jaren meedragen.
Maar ja, wat heb ik eraan dat hier te melden. De dingen gebeuren gewoon.

Antid Oto schreef:
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> Subject: IAC: U.S.  Hands Off Serbia - No New
> Colony in Kosovo
> Date: 23 Feb 2008 01:39:09 GMT
> From: rolf.martens at comhem.se (Rolf Martens)
> Organization: Your Organization
> Newsgroups:
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> U.S. Hands Off Serbia!
> U.S./Nato OUT of the Balkans!
> No to a new U.S. colony in Kosovo!
>
> A Giant U.S. Military Base and Total Domination Is
> the Reality ? NOT Independence Serbian Demonstrators Show Resistance
> to U.S.
> Colonial-Style Land Seizure
>
> The demonstration of over 500,000 people in
> Belgrade and the attack on the U.S. Embassy show
> the depth of outrage and anger over the seizure of
> the Serbian province of Kosovo. In the past three
> days two Kosovo border posts were destroyed, one
> by fire the other in an explosion, along with ten
> McDonald's outlets and several Western banks and
> other hated targets.
>
> The Western media had overwhelming applauded the
> U.S. destruction in 1999 and it now has a
> responsibility to explain the reason for the mass
> anger of millions of people.  The outrage is
> because the province of Kosovo is not
> actually being granted ?independence.? Millions of
> people see this week?s recognition of Kosovo
> ?independence? as an effort to legitimize a direct
> U.S. colony and to permanently secure a giant U.S.
> military base in the region.
>
> Regarding the hypocritical condemnation by
> Washington that angry demonstrators had targeted
> the U.S. Embassy, it should be remembered that
> when the U.S. bombed Serbia for 78 days in 1999,
> U.S. bombs destroyed the Chinese Embassy.
> Nineteen other diplomatic and consular missions
> were damaged in the U.S. bombing, along with 480
> schools and 33 hospitals, heating plants, sewage
> plants, bridges, communications, the electric grid
> and other civilian targets.
>
> The ?declaration of independence? by Kosovo, a
> province of Serbia, and its immediate recognition
> as a state by the U.S., Germany, Britain and
> France, is a fraud. Three things should be
> understood about the events this week.
>
> First, Kosovo is not gaining independence or even
> minimal self-government. Kosovo will be run by an
> appointed High Representative and bodies appointed
> by the U.S., European Union and NATO. An old-style
> colonial viceroy and imperialist administrators
> will have control over all aspects of foreign and
> domestic policy. Washington has merely consolidated its direct control
> of a totally dependent colony in the heart of the Balkans.
>
> Second, Washington?s immediate recognition of
> Kosovo confirms once again that the U.S.
> government will break any and every treaty or
> international agreement it has ever signed,
> including agreements it drafted and imposed by
> force and violence on others.
>
> The recognition of Kosovo is in direct violation
> of such law?specifically U.N. Security Council
> Resolution 1244, which the leaders of Yugoslavia
> were forced to sign to end the 78 days of NATO
> bombing of their country in 1999. Even this
> imposed agreement affirmed the ?commitment of all
> Member States to the sovereignty and territorial
> integrity? of Serbia, a republic of Yugoslavia.
>
> Thirdly, U.S. imperialist domination does not
> benefit the occupied people. Kosovo after nine
> years of direct NATO military occupation has a
> staggering 60 percent unemployment rate. It has
> become a center of the international drug
> trade and of prostitution rings in Europe.
>
> The once humming mines, mills, smelters, refining
> centers and railroads of this small resource-rich
> industrial area all sit silent. The resources of
> Kosovo under NATO occupation were forcibly
> privatized and sold to giant Western multinational
> corporations. Now almost the only employment is
> working for the U.S./NATO army of occupation or
> U.N. agencies.
>
> The only major construction in Kosovo is of Camp
> Bondsteel, the largest U.S. base built in Europe
> in a generation. Halliburton, of course, got the
> contract. The U.S. base guards the strategic oil
> and transportation lines of the entire region.
>
> Over 250,000 Serbian, Romani and other
> nationalities have been driven out of this Serbian
> province since it came under U.S./NATO control.
> Almost a quarter of the Albanian population has
> been forced to leave in order to find work.
>
> The plan under which Kosovo?s ?independence? is
> recognized by the U.S, Germany, France and Britain
> not only violates U.N. resolutions but it is
> consolidates a total colonial structure. It is
> similar to the absolute power held by L. Paul
> Bremer in the first two years of the U.S.
> occupation of Iraq. The documents setting out the
> new government for Kosovo are available at
> unosek.org/unosek/en/statusproposal.html. A
> summary is available on the U.S. State
> Department?s Web site at
> state.gov/p/eur/rls/fs/100058.htm
>
> An International Civilian Representative (ICR)
> will be appointed by U.S. and E.U. officials to
> oversee Kosovo. This appointed official can
> overrule any measures, annul any laws and remove
> anyone from office in Kosovo. The ICR will have
> full and final control over the departments of
> Customs, Taxation, Treasury and Banking.
>
> The E.U. will establish a European Security and
> Defense Policy Mission (ESDP) and NATO will
> establish an International Military Presence. Both
> these appointed bodies will have control over
> foreign policy, security, police, judiciary, all
> courts and prisons. They are guaranteed immediate
> and complete access to any activity, proceeding or
> document in Kosovo.
>
> These bodies and the ICR will have final say over
> what crimes can be prosecuted and against whom;
> they can reverse or annul any decision made. The
> largest prison in Kosovo is at the U.S. base, Camp
> Bondsteel, where prisoners are held without
> charges, judicial overview or representation.
>
> The recognition of Kosovo?s ?independence? is just
> the latest step in a U.S. war of re-conquest of
> this strategic region. But as yesterday?s massive
> demonstration shows this reckless and illegal
> maneuver may unleash a whirlwind of opposition and
> resistance.
>
> U.S. Hands Off Serbia!
> U.S./Nato OUT of the Balkans!
> No to a new U.S. colony in Kosovo!
>
>
> The International Action Center sent a delegation
> to Serbia during the US/NATO bombing in 1999 and
> has published several books on the crisis in the
> Balkans, including Hidden Agenda: U.S./NATO
> Takeover of Yugoslavia, NATO in the Balkans:
> Voices of Opposition, and The Defense Speaks for
> History and the Future - all
> available from Leftbooks.com.
>
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