------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:41:29 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RALLY AGAINST THE WAR IN YUGOSLAVIA/MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY ANNOUNCEMENT RALLY AGAINST THE WAR IN YUGOSLAVIA PRESENTS MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY ECONOMIST, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, EXPERT ON THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE BALKANS, Author of THE GLOBALIZATION OF POVERTY, Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms, Third World Network, and forthcoming book, THE ALBANIAN CRISIS, Abele Group Publishers, Rome "Macro economic reforms imposed by Belgrade's external creditors since the late 1980's had been carefully synchronized with NATO's military and intelligence operations. Kosovo's fate had already been decided. Resulting from the IMFs deadlly economic medicine, the entire Yugoslav economy had been spearheaded into bankruptcy. The Rambouillet agreement largely replicated the model of colonial administration and military occupation imposed on Bosnia under the Dayton Agreement. In Kosovo, the economic reforms were conducive to the concurrent impoverishment of both the Albanian and Serbian populations contributing to fueling ethnic tensions. The deliberate manipulation of market forces destroyed economic activity and people's livelihood creating a situation of social despair. The fate of Kosovo had already been carefully laid out prior to the signing of the 1995 Dayton agreement. NATO had entered an unwholesome marriage of convenience with the mafia. Freedom Fighters were put in place, the narcotics trade enabled Washington and Bonn to finance the Kosovo conflict with the ultimate objective of destabilizing the Belgrade government and fully recolonizing the Balkans. The destruction of an entire country is the outcome. Western governments which participated in the NATO operation bear a heavy burden of responsibility in the deaths of civilians, the impoverishment of both the ethnic and Serbian populations and the plight of those who were so brutally uprooted fromo towns and villages in Kosovo as a result of the bombings." Michel Chossudovsky OTHER SPEAKERS ARE TO BE CONFIRMED SATURDAY, JUNE 5TH, 1999 4:00 P.M. VANCOUVER ART GALLERY (north side) Sponsors committed to date: Ad hoc Committee to Stop Canada's Participation in The War in Yugoslavia, Canada Cuba Friendship Society, Canadian Auto Workers, Canadian Action Party, Coalition of Solidarity WIth Peoples In Struggle, Communist Party of Canada, Communist Party of Chile (Vancouver), Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee, Serbian-Canadian Community, Veterans Against Nuclear War, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, Green Party of Canada, East Indian Workers Association, Connolly Association, Canadian Latin American Association Many other possibles. Contacts: George Gidora 254- 9836 (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Connie Fogal 687 0588 (work) or 872 2128 (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Eduardo Luro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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