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Titolo: U.S./NATO continue siege against Yugoslavia

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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Aug. 19, 1999
issue of Workers World newspaper
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THE WAR’S NOT OVER YET:
U.S./NATO CONTINUE SIEGE  AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA
By Pat Chin
The brutal U.S./NATO bombing of Yugoslavia may have stopped,
but the imperialist war against that besieged country is not
over.
The terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army--which re-entered
Kosovo under NATO protection--has unleashed a bloodbath
against Serbs, Roma people, progressive Albanians and
others. This is the current stage of the KLA campaign to
purge Kosovo of all non-Albanians in its stated goal of
winning independence and forming a a “Greater Albania.”
Thousands of refugees created by KLA ethnic cleansing have
been fleeing Kosovo since NATO entered this southern
province of Yugoslavia. But the KLA is NATO-backed, and the
mighty U.S./NATO occupiers find it convenient, in this case,
to feign impotence in the face of this terrible human
catastrophe.
Only months ago, the Clinton White House said it had to bomb
Yugoslavia because of an alleged humanitarian crisis
involving Albanian refugees leaving Kosovo. Not only were
the numbers greatly inflated. Studiously ignored was the
fact that most ethnic Albanians--and other nationalities--
were forced to hit the road after NATO started bombing their
homes, schools, hospitals, fields and factories.
The United States and its imperialist allies are not
satisfied with having instigated the secession of Croatia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia and Macedonia. These countries
were once part of the multi-ethnic Socialist Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia before its breakup began in 1991.
The U.S.-scripted Rambouillet Accords called for, among
other things, total NATO occupation of Yugoslavia, the cost
to be borne by the Yugoslav government. The Yugoslav
government’s rejection of Rambouillet was foreseen by the
United States and used to justify the murderous NATO bombing
of that sovereign country.
In the capitalist drive for limitless profits, the United
States and its imperialist allies want all of Yugoslavia and
beyond--not just Kosovo. The Clinton White House has been
working nonstop, on behalf of the exploitative class it
represents, to put pro-imperialist puppets in office and to
encourage the secession of Montenegro from the Yugoslav
federation.
In early June, Robert Gelbard, the U.S. special envoy to the
Balkans, held a secret meeting in Montenegro with nine
bourgeois opposition leaders. (Washington Post, June 18)
The removal of President Slobodan Milosevic, elected leader
of the federal government, was one of the main goals
discussed in the name of democracy. Gelbard’s role has also
been to foment a split between Serbia and Montenegro, the
only two republics left in Yugoslavia.
During the vicious Nazi-like blitzkrieg, Gelbard arranged
financial assistance for Montenegro, while the economic
noose was tightened around Serbia. He also reportedly helped
to choose the bombing targets.
“A senior Administration official said the United States,
which last year appropriated $15 million to promote
democracy in the Yugoslav Federation, will direct that money
primarily to cities not controlled by Milosevic,” reported
the Post.
The June 21 New York Times confirmed this subversive
campaign when it quoted Michael Steiner, the chief
diplomatic advisor to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
The money, he said, “would be used as a political weapon to
isolate Milosevic. Aid would be channeled to Kosovo,
Montenegro, and even perhaps areas of Serbia itself run or
controlled by the opposition parties.”
Montenegran President Milo Djukanovic was at the secret
meeting. And so was Zoran Djindic, president of the
Democratic Party; Milan Panic, a former prime minister of
Yugoslavia and a U.S. business executive; Vladim Baltic,
head of the bourgeois coalition Alliance for Change; and
Goran Svilanovic, president of the Civic Alliance.
Then on July 31, Bill Clinton and 38 other world leaders met
in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital. The meeting was billed as
a summit on reconstructing the war-torn Balkans.
Excluded from the gathering was Yugoslav President
Milosevic, who is a Serb. But Montenegran President
Djukanovic was invited to attend.
“I do not believe,” said Clinton, “that we should give
reconstruction aid to Serbia as long as it rejects democracy
and as long as Mr. Milosevic is in power. We have had enough
of ‘ethnic cleansing.’” (New York Times, July 31)
Clinton pledged $10 million for Serbia. “The money will go
to the democratic opposition to Mr. Milosevic and to
encircle Serbia with a ring of transmitters for the Voice of
America and Radio Free Europe to counter Mr. Milosevic’s
state-run propaganda machine,” the Times reported.
The Clinton White House is limiting funding so it only goes
to Serb opposition groups, political parties, the pro-
imperialist media, lawyers, and other “pro-democracy”
groups, while keeping sanctions against the rest of
Yugoslavia in place.
“Our lawyers and State Department lawyers agreed last week,”
said John Tennant, deputy assistant administrator at the
United States Agency for International Development, “that we
could provide assistance and go forward with the programs
for independent media, opposition parties and trade
unions.”(New York Times, July 24)
Not surprisingly, on Aug. 5 the Montenegran parliament
proposed sweeping changes that would amount to a split with
Serbia and the end of Yugoslavia. Montenegro, which provides
Serbia with access to the Adriatic Sea, threatened a
referendum on full independence if the federal government
rejects the proposal.
“This is not Montenegro’s proposal,” said Goran Matic, a
spokesperson for the federal government. “This is Gelbard’s
proposal.” (Washington Post, Aug. 6)
Demonstrations calling for Milosevic’s resignation, for
early elections and “democratic reforms” have been big news
in the capitalist media. Encouraged by the United States,
these protests do not involve the majority of the people.
On Aug. 6, Milosevic defiantly told a gathering of Serb
emigres in Belgrade that NATO is “trying to undermine our
stability from within to realize in this manner the aims it
failed to do with 22,000 tons of bombs fired on our
country.”
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 these protests do not involve the majority of the people.
Incoraggiate dagli Stati Uniti?  Controllano pure la chiesa ortodossa
serba che chiede le stesse identiche cose e che ha condannato Milosevic?
:)  Che potenza questi Stati Uniti *rotfl*
-Stefano

: 
#Di cui solo il giornalista ha prove che pero', come tutti gli altri,
#si rifiuta di mostrare.
#Certamente. Mancano solo le prove
#Falso :)
Dece', ti e' mai passato per la mente che ANCHE TU dovresti, ogni
tanto, portare prove di cio' che dici?
Noi stiamo raccogliendo (e solo a volte postiamo) qualche tonnellata
di articoli e commenti, e non solo di giornalacci bolscevici... E tu?
Credi che le tue affermazioni siano vere solo perche' e' la tua parte
a sostenerle? Ipse dixit? 

 a sostenerle? Ipse dixit?
Le mie affermazioni? Quali affermazioni?
Mai fatto affermazioni io. Smentisco le affermazioni degli altri con le
loro stesse fonti al massimo.
-Stefano