Suzan Manuel otvoreno kaze da: "...vecina pacijenata su etnicki Srbi. = Oni bi se nasli u okruzenju, koje im nije naklonjeno, sa minimalnom moci = komunikacije i mogli bi da se nadu u velikoj opasnosti." Apelujemo na sve ljude dobre volje i organizacije koje se bave = problemima krsenja ljudskih prava da podrze ideju Mental Disability = Rights International (MDRI) i da se svojim autoritetom zauzmu da UNMIK = odmah omoguci da se ovi ljudi prebace u Gracanicu ili druge srpske = enklave na Kosovu i Metohiji. (Jedna od mogucnosti je da se pise = direktno na sajtu UNMIKa http://www.unmikonline.org/index.html odnosno = na UNMIK webmail http://mail.unmikonline.org/webmail/
Susan Manuel speaks openly about the present human rights situation of = non-Albanians in Kosovo: "the patients were mostly ethnic Serbs, while = the surrounding community was mostly ethnic Albanian, and the patients = might be "abused or killed" if released." We appeal to all people of good will and Human Rights Organizations to = act now and put pressure on UN authorities. Please support Mental = Disability Rights International (MDRI) by all your means and immediate = transfer of those unfortunate people to Gracanica or other Serbian = Ghettoes in Kosovo and Metohia. (One possibility is to write directly to = UNMIK authorities at UNMIK webmail http://mail.unmikonline.org/webmail/ = and please visit also http://www.unmikonline.org/index.html where you = can find also this report: "Kosovo making progress in security, = inter-ethnic relations, Annan reports 26 July - While Kosovo has seen = progress over the last few months, most notably in safety and = inter-ethnic relations, the United Nations mission still needs to be = able to extend its authority throughout the province, Secretary-General = Kofi Annan says in a new report released today." =20 Sincerely, Jovana Krstic, Prava pomoc, Beograd - Real Help, Belgrade =20 ENGLISH TEXT - THE GUARDIAN (SRPSKI TEKST U NASTAVKU): UN 'ignored' abuse at Kosovo mental homes http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,770856,00.html Oliver Burkeman in New York Thursday August 8, 2002 The Guardian=20 Patients at United Nations mental institutions in Kosovo have been raped = and physically attacked under the eyes of UN staff, held in "filthy and = degrading" conditions, and threatened with punishment if they report the = abuses, according to a damning investigation published in New York = yesterday. In one case, a woman patient was raped after UN employees locked her in = a room with a male patient because they wanted to "calm her down", while = employees who observed another rape in a hallway said they did not = intervene because the victim "must have asked for it", according to the = independent campaigning group Mental Disability Rights International = (MDRI), which produced the report.=20 "This is a pervasive pattern of serious abuses. The rule of law simply = does not apply within these psychiatric facilities," Dr Eric Rosenthal, = MDRI's founder, said yesterday. "We found extreme, inhuman and degrading = treatment, arbitrary detention and the physical and sexual assault of = women, and we received a blanket denial from the authorities."=20 Dr Robert Okin, chief psychiatrist at San Francisco's biggest hospital = and one of the report's authors, said the UN had "disregarded its own = standards for the protection and treatment of the mentally disabled and = turned a blind eye to the evidence" at Kosovo's two mental institutions = - the Shtime home, which houses 285 patients 19 miles south of Pristina, = and the Pristina elderly home - and the Pristina University hospital.=20 In the course of the two-year study, investigators at Shtime reported = finding patients sleeping on concrete floors amid piles of human = excrement, or in soiled sheets, and spending their days in apathy, = sometimes without clothing, and often with nothing to do. They were = given out-of-date psychotropic drugs with no monitoring by experts, = because there is no psychiatrist on staff.=20 In further reports of sexual assault, male patients were allowed to roam = the women's wards at night making what one Red Cross worker called = "voluntary or involuntary girlfriends".=20 Kosovo's director of psychiatric institutions told MDRI he did not have = the money available to fit a secure door to protect the women's wards, = even though funds were available for refurbishment elsewhere in the = facility, the group said.=20 An official at the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (Unmik), which holds = overarching responsibility for the government of the former Yugoslav = province, admitted the report was "not generally inaccurate".=20 The campaigners condemned the UN for continuing to fund refurbishment of = the institutions instead of integrating the patients into community care = programmes, but the official said money was not available for such = initiatives. In addition, the patients were mostly ethnic Serbs, while = the surrounding community was mostly ethnic Albanian, and the patients = might be "abused or killed" if released.=20 "This is not in any way to excuse the bad circumstances in the = institutions, but it's not like New York or California." But the = official agreed that many ethnic Albanian staff had "not been trained = and probably [were] not very sympathetic" to the patients.=20 Another UN official said the organisation intended to "explore and = examine" individual allegations, but money might prevent it. "The = question is, do we have the resources that are sufficient to follow the = recommendations in the report?" the official said.=20 Later, in a statement, Unmik said: "We are in the process of developing = special programmes to alert nurses and staff to the issue," adding that = "children have been removed from the institution at Shtime and are no = longer vulnerable". But "to build up a structure and mechanisms to deal = with this phenomenon at the local level... takes time".=20 Dr Rosenthal said that patients had been warned by staff to keep quiet. = "If you say anything bad about the staff, God will kill you," a nurse = was reported as telling a patient in front of an MDRI investigator at = Pristina University hospital.=20 Two former patients there, along with a physician working for another = organisation, were also threatened by a staff member to prevent them = revealing that the staff member had had sexual relationships with the = two patients, the report said.=20 Furthermore, "when women have been diagnosed as mentally ill, they are = no longer credible as witnesses to the abuse", said Laura Prescott, one = of the report's authors and president of Sister Witness International, a = US organisation founded by formerly institutionalised women.=20 Dr Okin said UN bureaucracy prevented the organisation from hiring a = foreign psychiatrist. There were no psychiatrists at Shtime because "the = UN is strangled by its own version of a civil service bureaucracy: its = pay classification system is such that it won't allow itself to pay for = a psychiatrist", he said.=20 The report, funded by the Open Society Institute with money from = financier George Soros, was endorsed by the most respected human rights = organisation in the US yesterday. Kenneth Roth, executive director of = Human Rights Watch, called it "profoundly important... the horrors it = describes are undeniable". =20 *** =20 SRPSKI PREVOD: BBC - World Service / Serbian Programmes = http://www.bbc.co.uk/serbian/ / Telefoni: +44 20 7557 2515, +44 20 7557 = 2274, Faks:+44 20 7240 4641 =A9 BBC World Service Bush House, Strand, = London WC2B 4PH, UK=20 =20 Americka organizacija kritikuje misiju UN na Kosovu http://www.bbc.co.uk/serbian/news4.shtml 08.8.2002 17:49 (CET) Americka nevladina organizacija Mental Disabiliti Rajts Internesnal, = koja se bori za prava mentalno obolelih, optuzila je misiju UN na Kosovu = da nije sprecila maltretiranje, seksualno zlostavljanje i drzanje = mentalno obolelih u prljavim i ponizavajucim uslovima.=20 Autori koji su tokom dve godine pratili situaciju u ustanovama za = mentalno bolesne u Stimlju i Pristini, a cije zakljucke objavljuje = danasnji Gardijan, navode slucajeve da su muski pacijenti silovali = zenske, a zaposleni nista nisu preduzimali.=20 O ovom sokantnom izvestaju BBC je razgovarao sa izvrsnim direktorom = Mental Disabiliti Rajtsa Erikom Rozentalom i portparolom UNMIK-a Suzan = Manuel.=20 Erik Rozental ovako je opisao uslove pod kojima zivi nekoliko stotina = mentalno obolelih ili retardiranih, mahom srpskih pacijenata u Stimlju:=20 "Privatnost uopste ne postoji. Zadah je uzasan, sve je prekriveno = muvama. Ljudi leze na podu, na betonu. Lecenje je neadekvatno. Nema ni = jednog strucnjaka, koji bi pomogao mentalno retardiranim osobama. = Nedovoljno obucene osobe, daju im prejake lekove. Oni su otpisani, ceo = dan provode klateci se napred-nazad, te neki pocinju da dizu ruku na = same sebe. Od osoblja norveskog Crvenog krsta dobili smo opsezan = izvestaj o seksulanom zlostavljanju u Stimlju, a o zlostavljanju u = Pristini su nam posvedocili studenti i zaposleni na psihijatrijskom = odeljenju pristinske bolnice. Pre godinu dana smo zbog toga uputili = ostro pismo Hansu Hekerupu, no, ni do danas nije pokrenuta istraga". =20 Portparol UNMIK-a Suzan Manuel priznaje da je vecina navoda izvestaja = organizacije Mental Disabiliti Rajts tacna.=20 Medutim, ona podvlaci da UNMIK nikada nije primio ni jedan zvanican = izvestaj o seksualnom zlostavljanju, ali i najavljuje program obuke = zaposlenih u institucijama za mentalno zdravlje, pomocu kojeg bi se oni = naucili koje mehanizme da primene kako bi takve slucajeve mogli ubuduce = da prijave nadleznima bez opasnosti po sopstvenu bezbednost.=20 Ona ukazuje i na neophodnost promene jugoslovenskog zakona u toj = oblasti, koji je, po njenim recima, drakonski i nedemokratski.=20 Sa druge strane, Erik Rozental upozorava na procenu lekara da vecina = pacijenata nije toliko bolesna da bi morala da bude institucionalizovana = i istice da se postojeci novac trosi na popravku postojecih bolnica, a = ne na razvoj programa za rad sa mentalno obolelima i retardiranima u = okviru zajednice.=20 =20 Insistirajuci da novac nedostaje, Suzan Manuel podseca da je UNMIK od = preuzimanja vlasti na Kosovu otvorio tri nova centra za mentalno = zdravlje.=20 Ona iznosi razloge zbog kojih vecina pacijenata ne moze da bude pustena = ili lecena u takozvanim "dnevnim bolnicama", van postojecih institucija: = "Problem sa tzv. negom pacijenata u okviru zajednice tj. dnevne bolnice = lezi u tome sto vecina pacijenata nisu kosovski Albanci. Oni bi se nasli = u okruzenju, koje im nije naklonjeno, sa minimalnom moci komunikacije i = mogli bi da se nadu u velikoj opasnosti. Zato su i dalje = institucionalizovani, rekla je protparol UNMIK-a.=20 Portparol UNMIK-a najavljuje i da ce, kada novi zakon o brizi o mentalno = obolelima, ciji je nacrt u izradi, bude usvojen, svaki pojednicani = slucaj biti preispitan.=20 Erik Rozental medutim odbacuje objasnjenja UNMIK-a:=20 "Mi ne kazemo da treba otvoriti vrata i pustiti ljude na ulicu. Tu = gresku su pocinile Sjedinjene Drzave i druge zemlje. Nema razloga da se = ne nacini program integracije srpskih pacijenata u srpske zajednice, = enklave i predgrada na Kosovu. Organizacija "Lekari sveta" vec je = sprovela program preselljenja dece iz Stimlja. Vise od polovine dece su = srpska i sada, pod mnogo boljim uslovima, zive u Gracanici". Srpska Informativna Mreza [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antic.org/
