APRIL-MAY2008
SERBS ATTACKED IN KOSOVO COURTHOUSE; U.S. DEMANDS APOLOGY FROM VICTIMS
March 19, 2008
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
Starting on February 21st thousands of Kosovo-Serbs held daily protests
against Kosovo's unlawful secession from Serbia. They gathered in front of
the courthouse in northern Kosovska Mitrovica and brought work inside the
courthouse to a stand still.
On March 14th about fifty Serbian protesters made their way through a police
cordon and entered the courthouse. In spite of reports that the building was
a "UN courthouse", the deed on the courthouse is held by the Serbian
Ministry of Justice, and like a lot of the buildings in Kosovo, the
courthouse is the property of the Serbian Government.
The Serbian protesters who entered the courthouse were Serbian judicial
workers who had been forced out of their offices in the courthouse on August
11, 1999 -- one month after NATO occupied Kosovo. Although exiled from their
offices, they continued to work for the Ministry of Justice from private
homes and premises. They entered the courthouse last Friday and vowed not to
leave until their offices were returned to them. Although they set up a
negotiating team to try and reach an agreement with UNMIK, UNMIK refused to
talk with them.
At 6:00 AM on March 17th, UN and NATO troops launched a raid on the
courthouse to forcibly evict the Serbian judicial workers and arrest them.
Serbia's Kosovo Minister Slobodan Samardzic had been scheduled to meet with
Deputy UNMIK Chief Larry Rossin to try and workout a peaceful end to the
standoff that afternoon, but instead of solving the problem like civilized
people, UNMIK and KFOR resorted to violence before the meeting even started.
To make matters even worse they launched their attack on the one month
anniversary of the unilateral Albanian declaration of Kosovo's independence
and the four year anniversary of deadly Albanian pogroms against Serbs in
Kosovo.
When the Serbian protesters outside the building saw KFOR and UNMIK
attacking the Serbs inside the courthouse they were furious, they retaliated
by hurling stones, Molotov cocktails, and whatever else they could throw at
the UN and NATO troops responsible for the attack. They killed one of the
attackers and wounded several others. The protesters set UN and NATO
vehicles on fire and managed to free 21 women who had been captured and
tied-up with ropes by the UN and NATO troops.
Russia's envoy to NATO condemned the attack, Dmitriy Rogozin denounced "the
disproportionate use of force against the protesters, including women and
children that were in the court building."
Not only did the UN and NATO resort to violence when dialogue was an option,
their attack was directed against the lawful owners of the building. The
people inside the courthouse were employees of the Serbian Ministry of
Justice and the building is owned by the Serbian Ministry of Justice.
In spite of the fact that NATO and the UN provoked the violence, State
Department spokesman Tom Casey said "The United States condemns the violence
against U.N. and NATO personnel near the U.N.(sic) courthouse in Mitrovica"
adding "we call on the Serbian government to denounce these acts of
violence."
The hypocrisy of America's policy in the Balkans never ceases to amaze me.
NATO and the UN attacked Serbian judicial workers for the "crime" of being
in their own workplace, and now the United States is demanding that the
Serbian Government condemn these people because they tried to defend
themselves.
I'll say this for American policy, the United States is doing a masterful
job of making fools out of the "pro-Western" parties that overthrew
Milosevic in 2000. Promises of Western friendship in exchange for
Milosevic's removal and transfer to The Hague have proven to be completely
empty. It has been more than seven years since October 5, 2000 and the West
is just as hostile as its ever been. The State Dept. is going to make
Tomislav Nikolic the most powerful man in Serbia if they keep this up.
http://www.slobodan
REPUBLICAN RIOT (USA)
March 21st 2008 02:32:15 AM
Posted by Julia Gorin
In 2005 President Bush appointed Frank Wisner, Jr. to be
the U.S. envoy to Kosovo. Wisner Jr. has been a loud and
clear voice behind the sabotaging of Albanian-Serbian
talks, always stating from the get-go that independence
must be the end goal of any talks.
Wisner's father, Frank Wisner Sr., was friendly with
Albanan Nazis and as an OSS and CIA operative helped get
them out of Communist Albania, at least partly to help us
fight expansionist Communism. Unlike his father, who
arguably had a larger goal in being friendly with Nazis
(though it's not clear what came first, his friendships
or their usefulness) - that is, using them to fight
Communism - his son is being friendly with Albanian Nazi
heirs and Muslims.for what purpose? Apparently, to
bolster expansionist Albania.
Advice to Arabs
"The U.S. envoy to Kosovo is urging Arab governments
to invest in Europe's newest Muslim-majority nation.
"Ambassador Frank G. Wisner called on the
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to build on
its statement of support issued after Kosovo declared
independence from Serbia on
Feb. 17."He argued that the creation of the Kosovo
republic has implications beyond Europe."'To be able
to secure a Muslim-majority state inside the European
whole is a terrific signal that the Muslim world and the
non-Muslim word can live side by side in peace and
cooperation, one with the other,' he said. "'I
believe that for most of the Muslim world, it's very
important that one
looks at [Kosovo] as a matter of justice.'
Diplomat gagged
over Kosovo organ sale claim
Carla de Ponte's once Prosecuter at the International
Court of The Hague has written a book about the Serb
prisoners of war in 1990s, operated on for their organs
in Albania and subsequently killed. Their organs were
sold to the International medical market.
RUSSIA TODAY
http://www.russiato
April 8, 2008, 12:42
Switzerland has gagged one its Ambassadors from promoting
a controversial
new book about war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. Carla
Del Ponte, who
prosecuted crimes at The Hague, claims some current
Kosovo leaders once sold
vital organs from Serb prisoners.
Switzerland says Del Ponte role as Ambassador to
Argentina will not
complement any promotion campaign.
The book, "The Hunt: Me and War Criminals", was
due to be launched in Milan.
It details atrocities committed by Albanians against
Kosovo Serbs in the
late 1990s and says that some of those currently in power
in Kosovo made
money selling Serb organs.