Jug Öster Solibeweg a écrit : > Persecuted and expelled by UÇK, NATO and UNO > > Report of the solidarity delegation to the last multi-national part of > Kosovo > > In early May a delegation of the Austrian–Yugoslav Solidarity Movement > (JÖSB) came to Kosovska Mitrovica in order to > > a. express our demand to free the political prisoners from UNMIK > incarceration, > > b. express our support to the remaining non-Albanians in the Ghetto of > Kosovska Mitrovica > > c. investigate the local situation without media manipulation. > > **** > Pictures and a map of the demarcation line between the multi-national North > and the albanised South can be found under: www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb > **** > > Hunger strike of the political prisoners > As reported in our declaration of April 24th, 2000, the event that triggered > the decision for the hunger strike was the release of the Albanian Dzeljalj > Ademi, who had injured 22 civilians and 14 KFOR soldiers in an anti-Serb > hand-grenade attack, while the non-Albanian prisoners remain incarcerated > for months without trial. The prisoners demand investigations for a trial. > The most blatant case is a 16-year old boy who was arrested for genocide > last summer. > Another case worth mentioning is a Serb man called Jaksimovic from the > vicinity of Orahovac, who was stopped by UNMIK at a road block. An Albanian > whose hand had been injured by gunfire and who was at the site by chance, > claimed that Mr Jaksimovic was the person who had injured him, and Mr > Jaksimovic was immediately arrested by UNMIK soldiers. One of Mr Jaksimovic’ > s fellow travellers who is Albanian heard that the other Albanian was told > by passers-by to point at “the guy with the beard” (i.e. Jaksimovic) and to > claim that he was responsible. > In general the accusations are completely arbitrary and politically > motivated. The witnesses are arbitrarily selected and their testimonies are > first of all determined by their loyalty to the aims of the UÇK (KLA), as > the comport of the judges. The few Serb judges that had existed all > resigned, because their personal safety could not be guaranteed. They also > protested against the partiality of the UNMIK judicial system. The > discrimination between Albanians and non-Albanians proves, that Serbs and > Romanies are being held in prison for political and ethnical reasons and not > for concrete offences of law—they are political prisoners of the UN. > Two of the hunger strikers are in a critical state. One of them fell into > coma. Nevertheless UNMIK does not allow doctors nor journalists to visit the > prisoners. Now also relatives of the prisoners started a hunger strike. They > organise daily protest manifestations in front of the prison, in which > thousands of people participate. The JÖSB representative expressed his > solidarity with the gathered crowd. > As delegates of the aid organisation Humanitas we tried hard to get > permission to see the prisoners. The local UNMIC police commander, Sven Erik > Larson, actually told us that most accusations of the Serb and Romany > prisoners against the UNMIK judiciary are justified. Nevertheless he did not > grant us permission to visit the prisoners, but sent us to Pristina. In > Pristina our demand was refused by Edita Ryan, who is the competent NGO > liaison officer and who called Humanitas an organisation that illegally > operates in Kosovo. > We call upon everyone to join our campaign for the release of the political > prisoners and to step up pressure on UNMIK by organising further visits to > the prison of Kosovska Mitrovica. > > Kosovo impressions > In fact the North of Kosovo which is not under UÇK control is the only > multi-national part of Kosovo—even after the war. Here are some concrete > examples: > Kaplan Beruti in Svecan. The chief presiding judge of Kosovska Mitrovica, > the Albanian Kaplan Beruti, who is actually responsible for the arbitrary > incarceration of the Serbs and Romanies who went on hunger strike, is living > in Svecan, north of Kosovska Mitrovica, a village that is predominantly > Serbian—and he lives there without KFOR protection. His children go to a > local school. > Serb refugees in Albanian houses in Banjska: On the premises of this > monastery in the northern mountains there are several week-end cottages > owned by Albanians. Now Serb refugees from the South live in these houses. > We asked about the former owners and were surprised to hear that they are > living in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica and that they were even > paid rent for these houses. > Albanians in daily life: Asking several Serbs about the Albanian flats and > houses in Kosovo Mitrovica that are under tight KFOR protection, we were > always told that there is a significant difference between UÇK followers > whose flats serve as UÇK bases, and Albanians who are loyal to Yugoslavia. > The latter can live there without any problems. > The impressions from the southern part of Kosovo are completely different. > Destroyed Romany quarter: At the road from Kosovska Mitrovica to Pristina > only 10–20% of the houses seem to be burnt. The Romany quarter of southern > Kosovska Mitrovica is completely devastated, burnt down and razed to the > ground. UÇK racist national ideology obviously was fully realised here. > UNMIK official warns us of deadly danger: We went to the UNMIK office for > NGOs in Pristina in order to obtain a permit to visit the prisoners of > Kosovska Mitrovica. When the official in charge, Edita Ryan, saw our letter > that was written in Cyrillic, she told us immediately that we must not show > this letter to anybody, because this could be our death sentence—she also > said that she was saying so “off records”. She even discouraged us to have > it translated into English within Kosovo. > Albanian taxi driver speaks Serbo-Croatian: Due to the many warnings we > avoided speaking Serbian to the driver who brought us from Mitrovica to > Pristina and back. When we realised that he was listening to Serbian radio > and was cursing in Serbian, we started talking to him in Russian. He felt > completely at ease speaking Serbian. When we got of the car, he urgently > reminded us not to utter a single word of Serbian on the streets, because > this was very dangerous. > > There is a system behind the persecution of non-Albanians > The political and ethnic persecution of Serbs and Romanies by the UN > judiciary is only the tip of the iceberg. NATO/UNO, based on the UÇK, > actually formed a regime that oppresses and discriminates against all > non-Albanians in order to finally expel them and to deprive the integrity of > Yugoslavia of its demographical legitimacy. While UÇK and its successor > organisation TMK respectively were demilitarised only very superficially > (only heavy weapons), and there constantly are attacks against > non-Albanians—these attacks claimed more than 1,000 lives since the > beginning of the NATO occupation!—Serb forces were completely stripped of > their weapons, thus depriving them of the ability for self-defence. This > means a death sentence for many of those who are determined to stay, because > due to “lack of capacity” they are not granted KFOR protection. Only the > convoys of fleeing non-Albanians are granted protection. > Re-settlement: Kouchner and other representatives of the so-called > international community say that it is still to early to bring the > non-Albanian refugees to the South of Kosovo; but at the same time in the > North of Kosovska Mitrovica, KFOR is trying by means of force to bring > Albanian refugees to their houses. There is proof that UÇK fighters are also > infiltrated, brought to the North of Kosovska Mitrovica: There were sniper > attacks from the three Albanian tall buildings that were recently > re-settled. > Elections: There is also proof that UNO/KFOR is not a neutral mediator, but > a motive force. They plan to organise elections for a protectorate > government on the base of the present ethnic composition, to preserve the > expulsion of 300,000 non-Albanians and the settlement of an unknown number > of Albanians from the North of Albania. > > Yugoslavia is the only multi-national state of the Balkans > The war triggered by the UÇK with the support of the west and transformed by > NATO into a war against the whole of Yugoslavia, claimed a total of 2,108 > victims counted on both sides. But just a year of NATO protectorate already > claimed the lives of more than one thousand non-Albanians! In spite of > ardent ethnic conflicts there had not been expulsions and “ethnical > cleansing” under Yugoslav rule in Kosovo. Even when UÇK fuelled the spiral > of violence with their terrorist attacks since 1997, there were hardly any > refugees. When the fighting subsided, most refugees returned. The “Horseshoe > Plan” (“Potkovica Plan”) turned out to be a secret service propaganda > forgery. Only after the NATO bombardments started, refugees started to flee > in large numbers. Now, under the rule of UÇK and NATO, there actually is > systematic “ethnical cleansing” that had earlier been attributed to Yugoslav > forces. 300,000 non-Albanians have been expelled and the few that remained > are constantly threatened, and KFOR refuses to protect them seriously. > In spite of the disintegrating tendencies and internal tensions, Yugoslavia > still is a multi-ethnic state and as such is the only possible form of > peaceful co-existence of the ethnically mixed peoples of the Balkans. It was > the West that used the “right of ethnical-territorial self-determination” as > a crowbar against Yugoslavia. That necessarily lead to a civil war. The Serb > people was and is the heart of Yugoslavia and had relinquished its ethnical > interests in favour of this common state. So when now the other peoples of > Yugoslavia revoke this federation, it is only just, when Serbia also defends > her national interests. But the decisive difference between the Serbs and > the other peoples is, that the latter became slaves of the New World Order, > while the Serbian people is fighting against the new NATO tyranny. > This is why Kosovo has to remain a part of Yugoslavia, why the refugees have > to return and why UÇK and NATO have to vanish! > > **************************** > Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB) > PF 217, A-1040 Wien, Österreich > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb
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