From http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2000/08/F.RU.000822131359.html }}>Begin Yugoslavia: Kosovar Leader Condemns Violence Between Ethnic Albanians By Robert McMahon United Nations, 22 August 2000 (RFE/RL) -- A leading Kosovo Albanian leader has condemned recent violent attacks involving Kosovar politicians, saying they represent a threat to the province's move toward democracy. Hashim Thaci, who leads the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), said today that despite the violence, he believes the local elections set for October will proceed fairly. He also said he expects Kosovo's minority Serbs to participate in the polls and to be integrated into the province's institutions after the elections are held. Thaci spoke at a press conference at UN headquarters. He is concluding a trip to the United States, during which he met with U.S. State Department and congressional officials. He also attended the convention in Los Angeles last week at which the U.S. Democratic Party chose Vice President Al Gore to be its candidate for president. In response to questions, Thaci repeatedly said he saw democracy progressing in Kosovo. He said local elections would help provide a basis for general elections in the province and contribute to what he called the democratization of the Balkans. Thaci pointed to democratic changes in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia and said he believed pro-democracy forces would eventually win out in Montenegro. He also said he considered the general elections planned for Yugoslavia next month as "elections in a neighboring country." He viewed the elections planned for Kosovo on October 28 to be part of the development of a new democratic order and an "independent life" for Kosovo free of Belgrade's control. Thaci's visit to the United States comes at a time of mounting concern about the violence in Kosovo. In recent weeks, one local leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), which rivals Thaci's PDK, has been murdered and two more have been shot and wounded. An office of the ethnic Albanian party in the town of Malisevo was destroyed by an explosion on Friday night. Many international officials see the LDK, led by Ibrahim Rugova, as more moderate than its main rivals. 22-08-00 22-08-00 Search | Newsline | Magazine | Reports | Services | Realaudio © 1995-2000 Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Inc., All Rights Reserved. http://www.rferl.org End<{{ A<>E<>R Integrity has no need of rules. -Albert Camus (1913-1960) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The libertarian therefore considers one of his prime educational tasks is to spread the demystification and desanctification of the State among its hapless subjects. His task is to demonstrate repeatedly and in depth that not only the emperor but even the "democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist by exploitive rule over the public; and that such rule is the reverse of objective necessity. He strives to show that the existence of taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled. He seeks to show that the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to accept State rule and that these intellectuals obtain, in return, a share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded subjects. [[For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Murray N. Rothbard, Fox & Wilkes, 1973, 1978, p. 25]] <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
