Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: MA CHI CAZZO CI CREDIAMO DI ESSERE?!

I "nazionalisti croati" puniti con la perdita di 10 posti nell'assemblea
regionali (posti che l'HDZ ha regolarmente vinto in elezioni) per
aver...  varato un referendum nei consigli da loro controllati.
Il presidente di un partito Serbo minacciato di
essere dimesso per aver... espresso
una sua opinione in un giornale Russo.
Chi e' quest'autorita' che punisce reati di opinione e si permette
di togliere posti a candidati eletti?   Che domande, l'OSCE... la
gente incaricata ad INSEGNARE AI BOSNIACI LA DEMOCRAZIA!
Certo che con "maestri" del genere la Bosnia, nazionalistica o meno,
sta fresca.   Il nazionalismo sara' anche da combattere, ma se la
cura e' l'imperialismo colonialista , preferisco restar malato.
Anche perche' questo genere di cura non funziona.
L'URSS non riusci' a pacificare Armeni e Azerbadjani, figuriamoci
se la NATO e l'OSCE ci riuscira' coi Serbi e i Bosniaki.
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 West hits back at nationalists after Bosnian poll
 By Philippa Fletcher
 SARAJEVO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Western officials in Bosnia punished Serb
and Croat nationalists on Thursday for breaking the rules in weekend
elections and warned them
 they could face further sanctions.
 Seeking to limit the ability of the nationalists, who did well at the
polls, to hamper Bosnia's post-war recovery, the officials also gave two
financial inspectors their jobs back
 and warned a Serb presidential candidate over some reported remarks.
 The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) which
ran the polls took away 10 seats in regional assemblies from the
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
 and half the seats won by the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) in the town
of Srebrenica.
 The nationalist Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) responded to the
penalties by threatening to boycott governments at all levels, something
that could help its moderate rivals
 form ruling coalitions between them.
 But the Croat party, already accused by the West of encouraging ethnic
hatred and separatism, also said Western policy in Bosnia could only be
changed by "bare force,"
 indicating that it might not give up power without a fight.
 NATIONALISTS AHEAD
 According to the OSCE's latest results, with more than 90 percent of
votes counted, nationalists were leading in most assemblies, although
moderates did better than in the
 last general vote in 1998. Final results will take a few more days.
 Western officials say there is a chance that moderate parties can form
ruling coalitions in some, if not all, of the state, entity, regional
and local assemblies designed to maintain
 an ethnic balance of power in the war-scarred state.
 The OSCE sanctions will give the moderates an extra boost.
 Post-war Bosnia comprises a Muslim-Croat federation and a Serb
republic.
 The penalties against the HDZ for running an illegal referendum on
Croat rights on election day were not as tough as had been rumoured, but
the party said they amounted to
 "drastic sanctioning" and "electoral engineering."
 "The worst form of protectorate has come to the scene and it can be
only changed by bare force," the party said in a statement.
 "If the Provisional Election Commission of the OSCE mission fails to
withdraw its decisions...the HDZ asserts it would not participate in the
formation of new governments at
 any level."
 The OSCE also issued more minor penalties against three parties, among
them the HDZ, which it said risked more sanctions if the party was found
to have violated campaign
 financing rules.
 FRAUD ALLEGED
 The SDS, founded by Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, was
reported to have attempted widespread fraud and intimidation of voters
in Srebrenica, the OSCE
 said, removing the seats and ordering the party to dismiss the
officials involved.
 "Failure to comply will result in the party losing the other half of
its mandates in the municipal assembly," OSCE spokesman Luke Zahner told
a news conference.
 Muslims are only now trickling back to Srebrenica -- the site of the
worst Serb massacre of Muslims in the 1992-95 war -- and other towns in
eastern Bosnia from which
 they were expelled during the conflict.
 Some Western officials argue that there will never be substantial
refugee returns as long as the SDS is in power, saying it has links with
Karadzic and other war crimes suspects.
 SDS leader Mirko Sarovic -- the leading candidate for the presidency of
Bosnia's Serb half, Republika Srpska (RS), was reported to have made
comments to a Russian
 newspaper casting doubt over the future of the Bosnian state.
 "If he really made these remarks we would find them unacceptable for a
candidate for the leadership of the RS," Alexandra Stiglmayer, the
spokeswoman for the West's top
 envoy in Bosnia, told a news conference.
 She said the envoy, in a separate moves, had ordered the Muslim
nationalist-led government of Bosnia's Muslim-Croat half to reinstate
two financial policemen dismissed in
 the middle of important investigations.
 13:13 11-16-00
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