Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 01:07:06 -0700
From: Michael Pugliese <debsian-AT-pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: AUT: Serbia


http://www.icdsm.org/
Agit-Prop from the Milosevic Fan Club...
Michael Pugliese

 YUGOSLAVIA RESISTS!
Mass Action In Serbia * Pictures From June 29th Rally * And A Few Comments
[2 July 2001]


Pictures from Friday, June 29th Demonstration in Belgrade. This included
people from the Radical Party, the Socialist Party, Serbian Renewal, Serbian
Unity as well as other parties plus tens of thousands of people who might
have voted for the DOS authorities but are now furious that these leaders
have kidnapped the former Yugoslav head of state, Slobodan Milosevic, and
shipped him to the discredited Tribunal at The Hague.

Read more & more photos

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AND NOW, FROM LONDON, YOUR MILOSEVIC MISINFO FOR THE DAY

The excerpt below is from the London 'Telegraph.' This newspaper has no
connection with the Belgrade 'Telegraph' which published a transcript of an
alleged phone conversation between Serbian Prime Minister Djindjic and
Yugoslav President Kostunica before they illegally kidnapped President
Milosevic.
The London 'Telegraph' article is educational for it demonstrates the extent
to which the media spreads pro-Washington misinformation about the Serbian
people in general and Slobodan Milosevic in particular.
Read more

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CANA IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

William Spring has sent by fax a letter to Geoff Hoon MP, Secretary of State
for Defence, a copy of which is pasted below.

He requests Geoff Hoon to provide him with names of those involved in the
decision making process to transport Slobodan Milosevic to The Netherlands,
& says those involved have engaged in an illegal act under UK law, the crime
of kidnapping.

"I am framing an indictment. I hope for legal aid so the indictment can be
settled by counsel, but because of the urgency will frame my own indictment
if legal aid is not forthcoming soon.

"The Magistrate is required to sign the indictment, but will not hear the
case. It should then be remitted to the Crown Court.

"The government will probably plead The Royal Prerogative as a defence, but
at least I hope to get them into Court this time.

Last time, May 99, when I sought to summon Tony Blair, Lloyd Axworthy,
Albright, Holbrook & co to Highgate Magistrates Court alleging conspiracy to
cause explosions & murder people in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in
contravention of an 1861 Act the Magistrate refused to issue the summons, in
violation of the law."

I have sent a copy of my letter to Geoff Hoon to the Hague War Crimes
Tribunal by e mail & request that it be transmitted to Mr Milosevic
immediately. A copy of my letter to The Hague Tribunal is also pasted below.
Read more

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF NEW YORK TIMES BY PROFFESOR RAYMOND K. KENT OF
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
In reference to "Milosevic and the Beginning of Honesty," I applaud the part
of Peter Maass' Op-Ed essay where he recommends that Serb judges be included
and that Serb journalists be helped to report on the Hague tribunal's
proceedings in order to make the verdict convincing to the Serbs. I do so
because Carla del Ponte has already condemned Milosevic in public for life
in prison without a trial, with additional charges beyond Kosovo. Under such
a circumstance she needs to recuse herself from prosecuting the man she has
already sentenced and a new prosecutor is in order. It is not only that
Milosevic is on trial but, also, the Tribunal itself. It has so far been
unable to provide absolute public evidence of a single fair and impartial
trial. An open trial, with full defense rights and with a new prosecutor
would provide the needed environment for a verdict that all can accept.
Otherwise the Rule of Law which the International Community has sought to
promote in the Balkans, will have no future. This is already evident in the
way that Milosevic was delivered to the Hague in an RAF plane in clear
violation of the Rule of Law in Belgrade itself.
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WE DID IT. NOW ITS YOUR TURN
These are the pathetic words of Miroljub Labus, Yugoslavia's Deputy Prime
Minister as he shamelessly begs for his 'thirty pieces of silver'

What 'they' did will for ever besmirch the reputation of the Serb people.
Behind the back of Yugoslav President Kostunica, the one politician whose
integrity has provided credibility for the 'gang' headed up by Djindic, and
in collaboration with foreign states (The R.A.F was involved), Yugoslavia'a
former president was whisked away surreptitiously for a show trial at the
American financed 'kangaroo' court in the Hague.
Read more

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MILOSEVIC'S ARREST, EXTRADITION CONDEMNED


Several representatives of the political parties and NGOs met in New Delhi
in an emergency meeting convened by the National Panthers Party President,
Prof. Bhim Singh to review the situation created following the illegal
detention and extradition of Mr. Slobodan Milesovic, former President of
Yugoslavia. The representatives of National Panthers Party, International
Jurists Council, Non-Aligned Congress of Youth, Global Women Lib,
Indo-African Solidarity Committee, State Legal Aid Committee and several
other groups of the Lawyers discussed the dangers caused to the security of
the sovereign states due to the draconian command of the New World Order
unleashed by the unipolar command of the USA.
Read more

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THE RALLY
Big rally organized by Socialist party of Serbia and Serbian Radical party
on friday 29th of june on Republic square at 18:00

We are calling all people to come to The Rally at Republic Square at 18:00.
This rally is organized by all major opposition parties against
unconstituional and criminal extradiction of Slobodan Milosevic to Hague.

This action by traitorous and now criminal Serbian goverment outrages all
decent people of Yugoslavia.

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International Call from the PCN-NCP (June 28, 2001) :
WE MUST HELP THE PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC AND ALL SERBIAN IMPRISONED BY THE
SO-CALLED "INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL"!
Since creation, the alleged " International Criminal Tribunal for former
Yugoslavia "(ICTY) is a war machine leaded against the Serbian People and
its defenders, in Yugoslavia and in Republika Srpska (Bosnia).

Directly financed by NATO, the ICTY and his slavish magistrates abiding by
the orders of Washington, is a shame to all the magistracy and the
international judicial world.
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CANA STATEMENT: Immediate Release
RAF AIR CREW MINISTERS & COMMANDERS TO BE INDICTED IN UK COURTS FOR
KIDNAPPING

I have just heard on BBC television that the former head of state of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, has been transported to
Holland by an RAF plane.

If this proves to be true, later today I will be visiting the British
Ministry of Defence to ask for the names of the pilots & air crew of the
aircraft involved, so that their names can be included in an indictment I
plan to lodge at the Crown Court on the charge of kidnapping.

If the MOD refuse to give me these names, I will instead proceed against the
appropriate Minister, senior civil servants & RAF commanders, whose names
are known, & who gave the orders & acted as accomplices in the illegal
abduction of a foreign national.

I hope others might consider other moves, such as applying for a writ of
Habeus Corpus, but such a writ would have to be directed I presume against
the Dutch authorities.

What Britain has done & Mr Tony Blair has endorsed is a loathsome act of
international brigandage.
Read more
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100.000 PARTICIPANTS OF THE POPULAR RALLY
on June 26, 2001 in Belgrade


Today, at 6 p.m. another popular rally organized by the Socialist Party of
Serbia is expected in Belgrade. Failure of the authorities to fulfill
demands of the protesters and threatening statements and moves of Djindjic's
NATO/Mafia junta will certainly cause today's rally to be even more massive.
Wave of protests will cover whole Serbia. Protests will continue until all
demands will be fulfilled.
Read more

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LETTER OF CHRISTOPHER BLACK TO EDITOR OF TORONTO SUN
The Editor,
Toronto Star

Your piece on Milosevic entitled "No place To Hide" constitutes nothing less
than criminal journalism. A series of lies from beginning to end, it
attempts to control public opinion about the truth of events in Yuglosavia
in order to justify the criminal aggression by Canada and the other Nato
countries on the last progressive country in eastern Europe and cover the
war crimes of Chretien and Arbour and the rest of gangsters who pretend to
control the New World Order.
Read more

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NON-SUPPORTERS OF MILOSEVIC CONDEMN EXTRADITION DECREE!
WONDERFUL LETTER FROM 'CAMPEACE'

Dear friends,

I received tonight the email posted below. It is from Cambridge Campaign for
Peace(CAMPEACE). It takes a strong stand against the EXTRADITION DECREE that
was just illegally 'passed' by some of the Ministers of the Yugoslav
government, in defiance of a Parliamentary majority and under orders from
Washington.

The authors say they are not supporters of Mr. Milosevic and I say: then
good for them that they realize the issue with this decree is Yugoslavia's
existence.

The issue is the Serbian people's very survival. LET US ALL UNITE - however
we feel about Mr. Milosevic - to defend Yugoslav sovereignty, to defend the
Serbian people, which means to defend all of us, and especially all small
and medium sized nations everywhere, from NATO destruction of sovereignty,
and war.

I hope a petition can be produced as soon as possible that takes the sort of
position stated by the Cambridge Peace people and which says "However we
feel about Mr. Milosevic - for him, against him, or none of the above - we
are united to defend Yugoslavia from this total assault on its sovereignty."
Something like that.

The other thing we need - and we need it now - is public action!

As Vice Chairman of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic
(ICDSM) I can say this: the ICDSM will aid any effort to oppose this illegal
decree.

We need demonstrations!

It is very important now for people with international reputations to go to
Belgrade and speak out.

The ICDSM can help with arrangements. (We don't have money, alas, but we do
have energy and excellent contacts)

Jared Israel
Vice Chairman ICDSM
Read letter

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DEMOCRACY IS VISITED UPON YUGOSLAVIA
24 June 2001
* SPECIAL *
The Yugoslav cabinet adopted a decree today committing itself to kiss NATO's
ring, sending the former president, Slobodan Milosevic, to the United
Nations tribunal in The Hague to face trial on charges of insufficient
devotion to Great Satan.
The extradition of Mr. Milosevic could set the stage for a trial such as
hasn't been seen in Europe since the Reichstag fire. A Bechtel official who
declined to be identified said his company is planning a prison complex
exclusively for housing foreign heads of state who respond sluggishly to IMF
austerity demands.
Read more

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CITIZENS PROTEST IN FRONT OF CENTRAL JAIL IN BELGRADE
Belgrade, June 23-24, 2001

Several thousands angry citizens protested in front of central jail where
Slobodan Milosevic is held without any charge on criminal activity. The
citizens shouted: "We wnat Sloba", "We want our freedom". The reason for
this rally was decision of DOS politicians to extradict Slobodan Milosevic
to Hague Tribunal which is in contrary with Yugoslav constitution and with
will of Yugoslav people.

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PROCLAMATION OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA
Belgrade, June 23, 2001
Respected citizens!

An attempt at treason and shameful capitulation of the country is going on!
The decree by which members of the DOS politburo in the Federal Government
have accepted extradition of our citizens to the Hague Tribunal is an
unprecedented anticonstitutional and antipopular act that puts under the
question survival of the federal state, our freedom and sovereignty.
Read more

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THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA
Head Committee
Belgrade, June 23, 2001
THE STATEMENT

The Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Serbia warns that
thedecision of the DOS Politburo to adopt a federal decree authorizing
extradition of Yugoslav citizens to the Hague Tribunal represents a most
severe violation of the Constitution and paves the way for the imposition of
martial law in the country.
Read more

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THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA
Belgrade, June 23, 2001
THE STATEMENT
The Socialist Party of Serbia underlines that by today's DOS decree an
unprecedented coup has been carried out against the constitutional order of
the country. The constitutional protection of all citizens of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, and in the first place of the defenders of the
fatherland [the Army and police] has been abolished.
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COMMITTEE BACKING MILOSEVIC WARNS AGAINST EXTRADITION TO ICTY
Agence France Presse. 21 June 2001.

BELGRADE -- An official of an international committee set up to defend
Slobodan Milosevic Thursday warned of catastrophic consequences for
Yugoslavia if the former president is handed over to the UN war crimes
tribunal in The Hague.
"Be sure that misery, poverty, famine and total destruction would prevail in
the country" if Milosevic is sent to The Hague, said Mikhail Kuznecov,
deputy chairman of the International Committee for the Defense of Slobodan
Milosevic.
"Do not have any illusions that the United States or NATO will give you
money and help you rebuild your economy?" he told reporters.
Read more

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STATEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO DEFEND SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

The International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic held its session in
Belgrade.
In documents which were acknowledged in that occasion, The International
Committee repeated its demand for immediate release of President Milosevic
from custody and accented danger for sovereignty and economical future of
Yugoslavia as well as International Laws if the threat presented by
political extremists of Milosevic's extradition to Hague Tribunal come true.
Read more

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THE DEMANDS OF PARTICIPANTS OF THE PUBLIC RALLY
Socialist Party of Serbia, June 17, 2001. Belgrade

Over 50.000 citizens from whole Serbia, participants of public rally which
took place in Belgrade on June 16, 2001 under the slogan "Against the Hague
Tribunal, for liberty of Serbia, for Kosmet in Serbia, for freedom of
Slobodan Milosevic".
Read more

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ICDSM FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
Belgrade, June 17, 2001
The ICDSM Working Committee has considered and accepted the preliminary
report presented by Christopher Black, after his week long mission in
Belgrade.

Mr. Black is a Canadian lawyer with a great deal of experience with
and knowledge of the so-called International War Crimes Tribunals. He has
written several papers on their structure, financing and role in the New
World Order.

Mr. Black is one of the group of lawyers, led by Professor Michael Mandel,
who
in May, 1999 brought war crimes charges against NATO leaders and officials
for their responsibility for the criminal aggression against Yugoslavia.
Read more

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Declaration of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic
(ICDSM)
DEFEND THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA FROM LIES AND TERROR!
Belgrade, June 17, 2001

THE ICDSM condemns the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) attack on the Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and applauds the brave efforts of the people
to defend that embattled nation.
The KLA attack could not have taken place if it were not sponsored by NATO,
led by Washington. We urge people everywhere: defend FYROM from the
international smear campaign which has been launched by the Western mass
media and so-called human rights groups.
NATO always claimed that ethnic conflict in the Balkans was the work of Mr.
Miloshevich and the Yugoslav government. But Mr. Miloshevich has been
illegally jailed for 10 weeks. And the Yugoslav government is now pro-NATO.
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SOCIALISTS PROTESTED
Saturday June, 16th

Fifty thousand people gathered in the center of Belgrade at saturday to
attend a rally organized by the Socialist Party of Serbia.
Socialist party top brass spoke at the rally, titled "Against the Hague -
For Kosovo in Serbia - For a Free Serbia - For a free Slobodan".
Branislav Ivkovic accused the Democratic Opposition of Serbia of bargaining
with the international community about the price for extraditing the former
Yugoslav president.

The majority of those who were attending the protest meeting were mostly
young people and students who are disappointed with current Serbian
government and degradation of Serbian traditional values such as pride,
heroism and freedom.

After the rally, the crowd which went to the Belgrade Central Prison was
encuraged and joined by several thousands citizens, where they chanted "We
want Sloba".

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SLOBODAN - A SYMBOL OF RESISTANCE TO NATO AGGRESSION
Press conference by Christopher Black, lawyer from Toronto, member of the
International Committee for the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic.

"It is absolutely clear that no evidence can be provided in proceedings
against Slobodan Milosevic and that keeping him in custody is exclusively
politically motivated," said Christopher Black, adding that, according to
information he gathered, 250 political prisoners, mostly members of the
Left, were in Serbian jails.
Read more
Watch Video (Videos are in Real format, You need RealPlayer8 to watch them)

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BIG RALLY "AGAINST HAGUE, FOR KOSMET AND SERBIA, FREEDOM FOR SERBIA, FREEDOM
FOR SLOBODAN"

Socialist party of Serbia is inviting all citizens to big rally which will
be held on Republic square at 16:00 on Saturday, 16th of June 2001. in
Belgrade. Rally is called: "Against Hague, for Kosmet and Serbia, freedom
for Serbia, freedom for Slobodan".

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FEDERAL ASSEMBLY COMMISSION SUPPORTED APPEAL FOR SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC MEDICAL
TREATMENT OUT OF PRISON

Commission for applications and suggestions of the Federal Assembly
supported the appeal of 20 medical doctors, members of Assembly who are
demanding medical treatment out of prison for Slobodan Milosevic. This
treatment is supposed to be held in highly specialized medical institution.
According to Fonet, this appeal that was sent to authorities of Serbia and
FRY, medical experts and public was supported by 4 members of commission,
one was against it, and one was detached. Commission didn't support
suggestion for previous opinion from prison and Military Medical Academy
experts. Commission evaluated this appeal as "human and sustainable".

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WE ACCUSE:
AID PROMISES ARE A TRAITOROUS LIE!
Socialist Party of Serbia Statement, 31 May


For the leaders of a country to tell the people in that country that they
should extradite patriots in exchange for money from the forces which have
bombed that country - is an outrage.
But for leaders of a country to pretend that they are getting money from the
bombers when they know perfectly well they are not - to tell the people that
they should support the jailing of their patriots in exchange for money
which these leaders know does not exist - this is the worst treason.
The present authorities in Belgrade are guilty of treason.
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BACKS U.S. ATTACK ON MILOSEVIC; A MEMBER PROTESTS
by Phillip Greenspan [23 May 2001]

To Amnesty International:
For several years I have been a member of Amnesty International [AI] and was
very proud of its human and civil rights positions.
However, I was deeply disappointed when I opened the current edition of
'Amnesty Now' to see a circled request for members to urge the transfer of
Slobodan Milosevic to the International Criminal Tribunal.
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500,000 UKRAINIANS DEMAND: FREE SLOBODAN MIOLSEVIC!
And they're still signing....
by Jared Israel [19 May 2001]

In Ukraine, the powerful Peasant Party has collected 500,000 signatures on a
very strong statement demanding that former Yugoslav President Miloshevich
be freed from jail immediately. They have sent the petition and a cover
letter to Yugoslav President Kostunica and others.
Read more

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RUSSIANS DEMAND ACTION

In the most significant reaction to Mr. Miloshevich's arrest to date,
ninety-two out of the one hundred and thirty members of the Russian
Parliament's Upper House have signed a statement condemning the arrest in
the strongest terms and demanding the Russian government take action to
secure Mr. Miloshevich's release.
Read more

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Petition of International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic
FREE PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC NOW! HANDS OFF YUGOSLAVIA!

We the undersigned demand that the Serbian authorities immediately release
Slobodan Milosevic and all other Serbian patriots from jail.
The arrest of Mr. Milosevic is an attempt by NATO leaders to blame the
Serbian people for crimes against Yugoslavia committed by NATO.
We demand that Mr. Milosevic immediately be given proper medical treatment,
in the hospital of his choice, with doctors of his choice, for a heart
condition that appeared only after he was jailed.
We demand that neither Slobodan Milosevic, nor any other Yugoslav, be sent
to the Hague Tribunal.
We demand an end to the arbitrary kidnapping, arrest, harassment and
persecution of Yugoslav leaders and soldiers and ordinary people whose crime
was to set an example to the world by resisting NATO aggression.
Free Slobodan Milosevic at once!
End persecution of Mr. Milosevic and all Yugoslav patriots and soldiers at
once!
Jail the real war criminals: the NATO leaders who committed crimes against
humanity and against Yugoslav sovereignty and who continue to commit those
crimes today.

Sign for Freedom (click here)
Signed by (click here)


This petition was written and is being circulated by the International
Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) at icdsm-AT-aol.com . Signing
indicates agreement with the content of the petition. One need not be an
ICDSM member to sign, nor does signing make one a member of the Committee.
We urge any and every person and group to sign the petition, circulate it,
print it, place it on Websites, etc. Please send names of new signers to
freeslobo-AT-aol.com. You may write your own support literature, or use
available material, which will be posted and updated at www.tenc.net.

Socialist Party of Serbia


----- Original Message -----
From: "cwright" <cwright-AT-21stcentury.net>
To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: AUT: Serbia


> > >Now, I opposed the US bombing of Serbia simply because the US had no
> > >intention of liberating Kosova, but rather of imposing a solution more
to
> > > >their own liking, which promoted micro-states that definitiely cannot
> > > >survive without being totally dependent on one or another 'Great
> Power'.
> >
> > I find this a bit troublesome Chris, would it have been OK for NATO to
> > slaughter Serbian and Kosovar civilians if they had been genuine about
> > liberating Kosova?
>
> I phrased that poorly.  My point was simply that we should oppose the
> bombing of Serbia not because we back Milsevic or have illusions in some
> Serbian "socialist state" or because Serbia somehow represented a
challenge
> to capital (both arguments I have heard), but because the US and NATO
> bombing had no, and could have no , ability to actually help the Kosovars.
> Their intent was to divide the area further and break down any kind of
> resistance to their interests.  I can't help but think that the US and
NATO
> are eyeballing the Caspian Sea oil reserves, as well as what it will take
to
> control the workers of that area, and a policy of micronationalisms suites
> that policy well, IMO.
>
> > >Failure to address the reasonable struggle of the Kosovars against
> Serbian
> > > >domination
> >
> > the struggle might be reasonable but the methods certainly weren't, i
> think
> > fairly early on the KLA started killing Serbian civilians as well as
cops.
>
> Well, I am not opposed to killing cops.  Unlike some people who see them
as
> workers, I see them as the straight enemy, far more reliable and hardened
> than soldiers conscripted into the military.  They are full-time watch
dogs
> and the direct, daily enforcers of capital's power.
>
> As for Serbian civilians, while I don't like it, how can we be shocked by
it
> given the role many of those Serbian civilians played in the paras?
> Certainly, the KLA would be rather indiscriminate about it to foster
> national sentiment, but I don't know that for a fact.  I am not given to
> listening to Stalinists like Michael Chossudovsky, who defended Serbia to
> the gills and based his research on all kinds of far right nut jobs.  I
did
> not hear too many other people make sustained arguments that the KLA were
> systematically attacking Serbian civilians who were not suspected of being
> paras.  This is why, even though I did not support the KLA, I am cautious
> about how they have been demonized.  I don;t think the KLA represented any
> kind of unified force politically and from what I can tell, they had many
> fractions, some right wing nationalist, some more
> pro-worker/internationalist.
>
> > seems to me to limit the effective opposition to US bombing, >otherwise
we
> > become little more than cheerleaders for Serbian nationalism
> > >and Milosevic (even as we say we oppose these monstrosities.)
> >
> > that's the problem but what do we do? given that all sides, NATO, Serbia
> and
> > the KLA were fucked best to denounce them all.
>
> Yes, but not to denounce the Kosovars.  It is not enough to denounce the
> KLA, but to say that the KLA will sell out the Kosovar workers to the US
and
> NATO, instead of Serbia.  It is important to address that section of
workers
> where we live who supported the war as 'humanitarian' and supposedly aimed
> at liberation of Kosova by showing how neither the NATO forces nor the KLA
> could do the job.  Here in Chicago, we had pro-Kosova demonstrations led
by
> and mostly composed of Albanians, demonstrations which almost no one on
the
> Left came to(except News and Letters, who critically supported the KLA).
> Similarly in England.  They all went to the Serbian nationalist
> demonstrations.  If you wanted to intervene in either of these, i think
you
> had to call for NATO to stop bombing, but also for Serbia out of Kosova,
> with a sharp critique of Serbian Nationalism as reactionary and defending
> the right of the Kosovars to choose how they want to live, while showing
> exactly how the KLA's nationalist politics would make that impossible.
> After all, how can one reasonably imagine Kosova surviving autonomously
when
> even much larger nations cannot pretend to do so.  At the same time, unity
> between Serbian, Kosovar, and other workers in the region would only be
> possible if Serbian workers demanded the complete withdrawal of Serbian
> forces from Kosova and the overthrow of the Serbian regime.
>
> >
> > >At the same time, a >section of the KLA clearly engaged in anti-Romani
> > >attacks (however, one of >the KLA spokesman from before the NATO
> > >intervention appears to have opposed >attacks on the Romani and
defended
> > >some notion of workers' power.)
> >
> > Actually at least since the 'liberation' if not before the KLA and other
> > Albanian gangs have been attacking all non-Albanian residents of Kosovo
ie
> > Serbs, Romani, Turks, Slavic Muslims. as the Serbs were the largest
> minority
> > and identified with Serbian rule they suffered the most with probably
less
> > than a quarter of the pre-war 200000 Serbs left in Kosovo. there have
been
> > at least several hundred serbs murdered in Kosovo since the war.
>
> Of course, which is why, although I supported the Kosovars desire to expel
> the Serbian military and Serbian control, I refused to support the KLA.
In
> this case, I don't think that we had an organization to defend, but that
> does not mean we did not have an obligation to defend Kosova.  Too often
we
> stay at the level of looking for an organization to defend, instead of
> trying to recognize that one may not exist.
>
> > pete
> >
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
>
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