> >From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] Fresh From U.S. Tour, CIA Gangster Launches ' > >http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news.php3?id=199119§ion=Kosovo > > >[It's clear that Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton, Al >Gore, at whose nominating convention Thaci was greeted >as a guest of honor, UNMIK's autocrat Bernard >Kouchner, and now OSCE's Daan Everts have already cast >their votes. Proposed campaign slogan: Vote For Me Or >Die!] > > > >Former Guerrilla Leader Thaci Launches Kosovo Election >Campaign > >PRISTINA, Sep 14, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) The >former political leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army >(KLA) launched his party's campaign for Kosovo's first >post-war municipal elections Wednesday with a upbeat >rally. > >Thousands of supporters of Hashim Thaci's Democratic >Party of Kosovo (PDK) packed Pristina's university >sports hall to mark the official start of the 45-day >buildup the poll, an AFP correspondent at the scene >said. > >"I greet you, dear friends, on this very important day >in the history of Kosovo, which marks the opening of >the election campaign, the day when for the first time >Kosovo is preparing for free and democratic >elections," Thaci said. > >"You are the liberators of Kosovo and it is you who >will decide Kosovo's future," he declared, "It's you >who will build a free and independent Kosovo ... you >will integrate Kosovo with western Europe." > >October 28 will see the first elections to be held in >Kosovo since the United Nations took over the running >of the province in June last year after the end of a >civil war between Thaci's KLA and Yugoslav forces. > >The Organization for Security and Cooperation in >Europe was charged by the UN mission in Kosovo with >organizing the poll, and the head of the mission, Daan >Everts, took the opportunity of the rally to address >its supporters. > >"It's very special to here today with a party that is >so proud of its origins," Everts said. > >"This party holds the key to the future of Kosovo, but >it does not do so alone. Together with other parties >you will open the door on a new era for Kosovo, an era >of multiparty democracy." > >"The entire world is watching you," he warned, before >switching from English into Albanian to urge the crowd >to "show the world that Kosovo is ready to pass the >democratic test." > >The trumphant crowd cheered all the speakers at the >packed rally and was so large it spilled out into the >streets outside, with up to 6,000 mainly young >supporters waving Albanian banners and chanting >Thaci's name. > >In the hall the climaax of the celebrations was the >appearance on stage of a young woman in a camouflage >KLA uniform, who sang a song in honor of Adem Jashari, >the guerrilla movement's most famous martyr. ((c) 2000 >Agence France Presse) > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! >http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
