>From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: NATO Forces Kill Civilians In Kosovo [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] > > >Pravda.RU > >14:18 2000-12-19 > >NATO FORCES KILL CIVILIANS IN KOSOVO > >A serious incident took place on Saturday night in >Leposavic, northern Kosovo, between Serb civilians and >Belgian forces from the NATO Kfor peacekeeping force. >The incident was provoked by the imprisonment of a >Serb by Kfor forces. The NATO barracks were surrounded >by a furious group of Serb civilians, who have accused >NATO of favouring the Albanians and discriminating >against the Serbs. In the middle of the disturbance, >Belgian soldiers in the NATO force opened fire, >killing one civilian (Milan Jokovic, 20 years old) >outright and seriously wounding another (Mladen >Obradovic, 19), while a third civilian (Trifun >Milenkovic, 42) died of a heart attack. >Meanwhile in southern Serbia, the Albanian terrorist >group U«PMB continues to launch attacks on Serbian >targets from their strongholds deep within Kosovo. >NATO has proved useless in controlling the Albanians >and the case was taken to the United Nations >Organization, which has decided to launch a series of >ìdebatesî on the issue. >The Yugoslav and Serbian authorities have decided to >launch a massive operation against these terrorists, >in case the UNO does not manage to react. Judging from >past experience, it would seem better to launch this >operation now, because waiting for the United Nations >Organization to perform, when unauthorized to do so by >NATO, is a lost cause. >The situation in the Balkans can be blamed fair and >square on NATO. In a gross error of judgement, a very >serious miscalculation of the situation was made when >it was decided to enter Kosovo, sovereign territory of >the state of Yugoslavia, freeing the Albanian eagle to >fly all over the Balkans, something which 500 years of >history had been trying to prevent. >The incidents of last weekend were certainly not >premeditated murder by NATO troops, but rather acts by >frightened young soldiers, out of their element and >too deeply involved in conflicts and cultures which >have nothing to do with them. Nobody expects NATO to >understand the Balkans, but nobody asked them to >intervene. >What is totally unacceptable is that civilians have to >pay the price of death for demonstrating against the >terrorists who are destroying their country and >stealing their livelihoods. > >Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey >Pravda.Ru >Lisbon > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. >http://shopping.yahoo.com/ > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________________ 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 geopolitics. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
