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Titolo: cosa succede in Kosso'? C'e' qualche cosa che non va

LA LIBERAZIONE DEL KOSOVO
MAURIZIO MATTEUZZI - Il Manifesto 4 agosto
Q uel che sta succedendo in Kosovo, a sette settimane dall'entrata
delle truppe Nato - all'alba di sabato 12 giugno - in quella che era
una provincia jugoslava, è una indecenza umanitaria, un guazzabuglio
giuridico, una bomba politica. Tutto meno che una sorpresa.
Perché non solo quel che sta accadendo giorno dopo giorno - la
contro-pulizia etnica e lo stillicidio di assassinii, stupri e
vessazioni di ogni genere contro la minoranza serba e contro i rom del
Kosovo - era atteso e inevitabile, vista la soluzione politica
"proposta" a Rambouillet e la successiva guerra punitiva cui le
democrazie americana ed europee hanno inferto alla Jugoslavia.
Di fronte al contro-scempio umanitario di cui i serbi sono divenuti da
carnefici a vittime, giornali e personaggi che avevano sostenuto con
fervore la bubbola della guerra giusta si interrogano in questi
giorni, esprimono dubbi, manifestano perplessità, chiedono alla Kfor,
ai governi occidentali, all'Onu di mostrare un po' più di muscoli per
fermare le scalmane dei boys dell'Uck - lanciati dalla signora
Albright - prima che sia troppo tardi.
Ma come ieri la guerra umanitaria, oggi la pacificazione del Kosovo
mostra in che mani siano le sorti dell'umanità. E' stato lo stesso
generale Jackson, capo della Kfor, a rivelare che il generale Clark,
comandante supremo della Nato, voleva sparare sul contingente russo
per impedirgli di entrare a Pristina.
Stranamore, azzeccagarbugli, cinici, mentitori. O peggio: criminali
come Milosevic, e suoi complici più o meno consapevoli, perché il
sangue serbo in Kosovo diventa tutta farina nel sacco suo e dei
nazionalisti ultrà di Belgrado.
A questo punto sorgono spontanee alcune domande. Come mai le armate
high-tech della Nato non riescono a salvare i vecchietti serbi e le
donne rom dalla prevedibile vendetta degli albanesi? Come mai il
contingente Kfor ha portato in Kosovo solo 30 mila dei 50 mila uomini
annunciati? Come mai la polizia che il commissario Kouchner (un
umanitario della stessa pasta della Bonino) doveva mettere in piedi
conta solo 150 uomini? Come mai l'Uck, che non aveva cavato un ragno
dal buco contro l'esercito jugoslavo, riesce a fare quello che vuole
con le poderose armate Nato?
Queste semplici domande ne portano delle altre. Non sarà che lo
scempio anti-serbo - ma soprattutto anti-umanitario - del Kosovo
"liberato", oltreché atteso, sia anche in qualche misura concordato?
Non sarà che il "serpente" Taqi e i suoi ragazzi fanno quello che
fanno perché c'è un tacito accordo di regalargli il Kosovo, che era
poi l'obiettivo ultimo dell'ukase di Rambouillet? Infine l'ultima
domanda: e dopo? 
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E adesso che anche 200.000 serbi stanno per essere cacciati dal Kosovo,
chi bombarderanno gli umanitari? Te, me, l'India o la Cina?

chi bombarderanno gli umanitari? Te, me, l'India o la Cina?
:-))) Carina!
Provo a rispondere:
l'India? ;-)
Ciao!

Infine l'ultima domanda: e dopo?
E dopo cosa? Dopo averglielo regalato?
Ekkisenefraga! :))))
-Stefano

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#> MAURIZIO MATTEUZZI - Il Manifesto 4 agosto
#Giornale integerrimo e di grandi virtu' morali ;) :)))
Preferisci il Washington Post? Ecco:
NATO Losing Kosovo Battle
By Peter Finn
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, August 4, 1999; Page A01
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Aug. 3 &#8211;&#8211; Zoran Vujovic found his
mother's body in her stylish two-bedroom apartment in the Sunny Hill
section of Pristina. Her fully dressed corpse lay over the edge of the
bathtub, her feet on the ground, her head in the water, where someone
had held her until she drowned.
Ljubica Vujovic, 78, was a lifelong resident of Kosovo. She was also a
Serb, and in the new Kosovo that is enough to get you killed.
Every day since NATO-led peacekeeping troops assumed authority in this
Serbian province, a Serb or Gypsy has been killed, tortured, beaten,
kidnapped or threatened, according to tallies by NATO, human rights
groups and Serbian officials. Serb- and Gypsy-owned homes have been
burned, looted or seized; state-owned or private Serbian businesses
have been occupied and their operators expelled; Serbian Orthodox holy
places have been bombed or desecrated -- and all the while, more Serbs
have fled.
The ideal of a multi-ethnic Kosovo -- a place in which Serbs, ethnic
Albanians and Gypsies can live together, an ideal NATO went to war to
achieve -- is on the verge of collapse. NATO commanders and U.N.
officials here vow to protect members of all communities but
acknowledge that thus far they are spread too thin to do so.
"It looks like it's over for the Serbs," said one U.S. official
bluntly. "We can talk about peace, love and democracy, but I don't
think anyone really knows how to stop this."
The flight of Serbs from Kosovo since the NATO-Yugoslav war ended in
early June is beginning to seem irreversible, a development with
profound political implications for the U.N.-led effort to create a
pluralistic, democratic society here while still respecting the
sovereignty of Serb-controlled Yugoslavia. Less than 25 percent of
Kosovo's prewar Serbian population of 200,000 remains, and more flee
each day. Without Serbs, the drive by the province's ethnic Albanian
majority for an independent Kosovo -- an aspiration long resisted by
the West -- could become unstoppable, Western officials acknowledge.
Ethnic Albanian leaders, including commanders of the paramilitary
Kosovo Liberation Army, have condemned the recent violence and have
said publicly that they want the Serbs to remain. But human rights
groups charge that while there is no evidence of an organized effort
by the KLA to drive out Serbs, some of its units have been implicated
in acts of violence against Serbian civilians and Gypsies.
"The most serious incidents of violence . . . have been carried out by
members of the KLA," said Human Rights Watch in a report released
today. "Although the KLA leadership issued a statement on July 20
condemning attacks on Serbs and [Gypsies], and KLA political leader
Hashim Thaqi publicly denounced the July 23 massacre of 14 Serbian
farmers, it remains unclear whether these beatings and killings were
committed by local KLA units acting without official sanction or
whether they represent a coordinated KLA policy. What is indisputable,
however, is that the frequency
and severity of such abuses make it incumbent upon the KLA leadership
to take swift and decisive action to prevent them."
The report noted, for instance, that within days of the entry of NATO
troops into Kosovo, uniformed KLA members in the town of Prizren began
appearing at the homes of Marica Stamenkovic, 77, and Panta Filipovic,
63, demanding money. On June 21, the throats of both Serbs were slit.
An ethnic Albanian later told Filipovic's wife, Maria, that KLA
members had carried out the killings, the report said.
At least 200 Kosovo Serbs have been killed or have disappeared in the
past eight weeks, according to Western and Serbian officials. "Kosovo
is being 'ethnically cleansed,' " said Zoran Andjelkovic, who
represents the Belgrade government in Kosovo. "And if it happens, this
will represent a huge failure for the international community."
In fact, the spiral of oppression is turning. Belgrade's massive
military campaign -- launched in late March -- to eradicate KLA
guerrilla forces and purge Kosovo of its ethnic Albanian majority is
finding a poisonous counterpoint in the wave of terror against Serbs
who remain here and Gypsies believed to have played a compliant role
in the government offensive.
Ninety percent of the 800,000 ethnic Albanians who fled Kosovo or were
expelled by Serb-led Yugoslav forces have returned, many to find their
relatives murdered, their businesses and homes gutted, their mosques
destroyed. The cycle of brutality and expulsion was quickly reversed.
The Serbian Orthodox Church -- which has condemned the policies of
Yugoslav President Slobodon Milosevic as the cause of the war -- has
stressed that Serbs guilty of atrocities in Kosovo almost certainly
have fled the province and that, overwhelmingly, those being
victimized did not take part in any assaults on ethnic Albanians. As
the terror mounts, however, the few remaining Serbs and Gypsies live
in constant fear, and neither NATO nor the United Nations has been
able to reassure them.
"As long as people feel as insecure as they do, it's going to be very
difficult to stop them from leaving," said Ron Redmond, a spokesman
for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
In the Kosovo capital of Pristina , for instance, the prewar Serbian
population of 40,000 has fallen to fewer than 1,000, and homes of
Serbs across the city have been commandeered by ethnic Albanians.
British troops have positioned themselves inside some apartment
buildings that have mostly Serbian residents. But some of the soldiers
say they don't know how long the British army, or any other military
force, can provide such personal protection. An international police
force has yet to make itself felt on the
streets, and U.N. officials have complained that promised assistance
by donor countries, including experienced police officers, has been
slow in arriving.
Meanwhile, Serbs say they cannot shop in local stores in many parts of
the province and depend on food deliveries by peacekeeping troops and
humanitarian groups. They say they cannot speak Serbian in public
without fear of being spat upon, taunted or, in one possible instance,
killed. In some places, they cannot even walk the streets, which in
the cities of Pristina, Pec and Prizren are teeming with jubilant
ethnic Albanians, their celebratory mood contrasting with that of
frightened Serbs who nightly barricade themselves in their homes.
In Pristina recently, even Serbs seeking medical care were turned away
from the city hospital by a security guard associated with the KLA,
according to a report by the Kosovo peacekeeping force. The last
Serbian-run business in Pristina, a grocery store near the NATO media
center here, closed Saturday after ethnic Albanians told the owner he
must leave or be ejected, according to officials with the Serbian
Ministry of Trade.
"We are going to have a huge problem with property," said one U.N.
official, acknowledging the problem. "Albanians are just taking places
and setting up shop."
Across the city, gas stations, restaurants and small businesses once
owned by Serbs are in the hands of ethnic Albanians who have refused
to discuss how they obtained them. Most Serbian businessmen have fled
Kosovo, according to the Ministry of Trade, which is attempting to
track the seizure of Serbian enterprises, according to Peter Djuric, a
ministry official here.
Even efforts to forge a new consensus here are faltering. NATO created
a series of inter-communal committees to try to rebuild crucial state
institutions, providing new opportunities for ethnic Albanians while
preserving a Serbian presence. At the state-run electric company
branch, for instance, a committee led by an ethnic Albanian, a Serb
and a British military officer was formed to supervise operations.
According to Serbian officials, the Serb on the committee fled Friday
after being followed home
from a meeting at the utility's headquarters.
His departure was preceded by the slaying of six Serbian electrical
engineers employed by the enterprise. Three weeks ago, engineer Zoran
Kontic was found handcuffed and fatally stabbed in his Pristina
apartment. A few days later, another engineer, Zivota Januz, was shot
and killed, purportedly after he was heard speaking Serbian on the
street. The other four were gunned down while traveling together in a
village outside Pristina, company officials said.
Before the war, 13,500 people worked at the utility here, 53 percent
of them ethnic Albanians, the rest mostly Serbs. Today, 145 Serbian
workers and no Serbian managers remain at their jobs, according to
officials at the headquarters of the enterprise in Belgrade.
"What's happening is a catastrophe," said a company official, who
asked that he not be named because he has relatives in Kosovo. "But
it's quite simple.
We have a saying: If a hunter sees a line of sparrows on a branch and
he shoots one, how many will remain on the branch?"
© 1999 The Washington Post Company
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Da quando chiamano intelligenti le bombe
preferisco che mi considerino un perfetto idiota.

ministry official here.
E fa benissimo. Ma al tempo stesso si preparino a pagare i danni causati
alle proprieta' dei kosovari albanesi dal proprio esercito e dalla
propria polizia e milizie.
-Stefano

MAURIZIO MATTEUZZI - Il Manifesto 4 agosto
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Ho ripostato lo stesso articolo! non me n'ero accorto che gia` l'avessi 
messo tu ... welcome back, CN!