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

[Antid Oto]

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Kosovo in handen van Groot-Albanezen?
Niet volgens nrc.next:
http://www.nrcnext.nl/nieuws/internationaal/article947540.ece


Hein van Meeteren wrote:
> 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:
>> REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl
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>> -------- Original Message --------
>> 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:
>> alt.politics.europe,yu.forum.politika,alt.anarchism.communist,alt.politics.socialism.trotsky
>>
>>
>> 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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>>
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