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Islamic Fascist Violence in Kosovo

In a letter released on 28 September from U.S. Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania to Bishop Artemije of Kosovo, Senator Santorum commends the Bishop for his reminder that “the defense of freedom, like the global terror movement itself, is indivisible.

In Kosovo, no less than in the United States or the Middle East, the reality of Islamic fascist violence must be called by its proper name and opposed in every possible way.”

Your Grace:

I regret that I was not able to meet with you in person when you visited my office this week. I am pleased to hear that my staff was able to discuss with you the pressing concerns for the survival of Christianity in the face of rising terrorist violence in the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija.

In the closing days of this legislative session, I have made my absolute priority the reauthorization of the soon to expire Iran-Libya Sanctions Act. In light of Iran's role as a foremost sponsor of Islamic fascist ideology and violence, America cannot afford to let laps this indispensable tool.

I commend you for your mission to Washington with a much-needed reminder that the defense of freedom, like the global terror movement itself, is indivisible. In Kosovo, no less than in the United States or the Middle East, the reality of Islamic fascist violence must be called by its proper name and opposed in every way possible.

I look forward to meeting with you during a future visit to Washington to discuss specific steps that may be taken to address these issues. I wish you the best in your endeavors.

Sincerely,
Rick Santorum
United States Senate

Serbian Parliament: Kosovo Has Always Been and Will Remain Part of Serbia

BBC reports that Serbia’s parliament has unanimously approved a new constitution that claims sovereignty over the UN administered province of Kosovo.

From AFP:

Serbia’s lawmakers unanimously approved a new constitution that claims sovereignty over the breakaway UN-administered province of Kosovo.

“I conclude that the people’s parliament of Republic of Serbia adopted a new constitution of Serbia,” parliamentary speaker Predrag Markovic said.

The constitution was approved by all 242 deputies present in the 250-seat parliament.

“This constitution will seal the truth that Kosovo has always been and will forever be an integral part of the republic of Serbia,” Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica told parliament ahead the vote.

FYI, the Parliament representatives of Serbian Crabs (all eight of them) predictably voted against adopting the new Constitution, by failing to take part in the Parliament session of crucial importance for Serbian national interests. Apparently, they had more important things to do elsewhere on this day, so none of them could show up in Parliament.

One can only hope they all have a shack tucked in a far-away, secluded place, where they will be able to remain hidden once the tide turns. Judging by the reports on the amounts of money Soros&Co. have thus far “invested” in these degenerates, they’ll be fine.

Posted by Svetlana at 06:11 PM | Permalink

Want to get rich? Come to Canada and start making simple woman’s slippers.

It took me no less then a week to find the Chinese ones you see on the left. I wouldn’t complain if they didn’t have all the fancy flowers either -- the fact they are simple, light and obviously created for indoor dwelling two-legged creatures who take their shoes off when they come home was sufficient for me.

FEMALE two-legged creatures - a piece of folded carpet my husband might wear if he could fit into size 7 isn’t quite what I was looking for.

For some reason, Vancouver shoe stores have no slippers whatsoever. It must be because they don’t understand the overly simplified footwear-for-money concept, but subscribe to outrageously-expensive-show-off-shoes-on-which-teenage-girls-can-splurge-their-allowance philosophy instead. The lingerie stores have specialized for fuzzy bathroom and S&M “slippers” designed for punishment, and department stores have filled their racks with multiple variations of one and the same terrycloth/rubber-sole bathroom slipper.

And, to top off the fine range of slippers available, there’s always an option to attempt to revive your childhood by wearing a zoo on your feet.

Presumably, wearing an entire cow on your foot lets the Inner Child play and makes the despicable world of grown-ups fade into the background.

So, after completely familiarizing myself with Canada’s women’s slipper-market, I believe I can safely predict its next big hit -- if you are a fashion conscious Canadian importer with the nose for business, you should hurry up and get us some real FUN&FUNKY footwear no one will be able to resist!

On the other hand, why hold back? Just give us the whole thing, so we can truly relax and be ourselves at home!

Posted by Svetlana at 03:05 AM | Permalink

Momcilo Krajisnik: No Links to Crimes

On Wednesday, September 27th the Hague Tribunal sentenced Momcilo Krajisnik, the former speaker of the Bosnian-Serb Assembly, to 27 years in prison.

Krajisnik was accused of crimes against humanity and genocide. The trial chamber cleared him on the genocide charges, but convicted him of crimes against humanity including murder.

The trial chamber concluded that crimes were committed during the Bosnian war, but it could not directly link Krajisnik to a single one of them. As the speaker of the Assembly, Krajisnik did not have a single soldier or policeman under his command, nor did he have any control over the judiciary.

Conspiracy Theory

In order to convict the highest ranking Bosnian-Serb in the Tribunal’s custody, the Trial Chamber had to find a way to hold him criminally responsible for the crimes allegedly committed by Bosnian-Serb troops on the ground. To achieve this objective, the Trial Chamber found that Krajisnik had participated in a conspiracy, or “joint criminal enterprise,” aimed at the expulsion of non-Serbs from Bosnian-Serb territory.

According to the judgment, “On the facts of this case, the Chamber finds joint criminal enterprise to be the most appropriate mode of liability. Therefore, other forms of liability charged in the indictment were not further considered.”

The crown jewel of the Tribunal’s case that a conspiracy existed, and that Krajisnik was a participant, is a statement that he made in front of the Bosnian-Serb Assembly. The Tribunal’s judgment claims that, “Mr Krajisnik gave the go-ahead for the expulsion programme to commence during a session of the Bosnian-Serb Assembly when he called for, ‘implementing what we have agreed upon, the ethnic division on the ground’.”

Cutileiro Plan, the Grounds for Conviction

Taken alone that statement might sound incriminating. What the Hague’s judgment fails to mention is that Mr. Krajisnik made that particular statement on March 18, 1992. March 18, 1992 is a very important date in Bosnia’s history, because precisely on March 18, 1992 the Cutileiro Plan was adopted.

The Cutileiro plan was signed by Alija Izetbegovic on behalf of the Bosnian-Muslims, by Radovan Karadzic on behalf of the Bosnian-Serbs, and by Mate Boban on behalf of the Bosnian-Croats. The Cutileiro plan was named for Jose Cutileiro, the Portuguese diplomat chosen by the European Community (EC) to bring Bosnia’s feuding ethnic groups to the negotiating table.

The Cutileiro Plan envisioned the cantonization of Bosnia along ethnic lines. The Muslims would control the cantons where they were the majority population, the Serbs and Croats would control the cantons where they were the majority population, and the Sarajevo canton would have a special status. The Cutileiro Plan was never implemented because Alija Izetbegovic withdrew his signature ten days after signing the agreement.

However, when Mr. Krajisnik was speaking to the Bosnian-Serb Assembly on March 18, 1992, everybody was still on board with the Cutileiro Plan. When he called for “implementing what we have agreed upon, the ethnic division on the ground” he was referring to the Cutileiro Plan which had just been signed earlier that same day.

Obviously the “we” in Mr. Krajisnik’s statement refers not only to the Bosnian-Serbs, but also to the Croats, Muslims, and the EC who had all just agreed to the Cutileiro Plan. The plan called for precisely the ethnic cantonizaton of Bosnia, or you could phrase it like Mr. Krajisnik did and say “ethnic division on the ground.”

Anybody with a brain can see that Mr. Krajisnik was calling for the implementation of the Cutileiro Plan, not the implementation of some mythical Serbian conspiracy.

Prosecution Witness Confirmed Krajisnik’s Innocence

The Trial Chamber knew perfectly well that Mr. Krajisnik was speaking about the Cutileiro Plan. The Prosecution called a witness named Dragan Djokanovic to testify against Krajisnik, and that prosecution witness told the Tribunal point blank that Krajisnik’s statement referred to the Cutileiro Plan, not to the implementation of a Serbian conspiracy.

Mr. Djokanovic said, “this portion of Mr. Krajisnik’s speech, when taken out of the context of the entire speech there seems to indicate that the parties that were part of this agreement are still in -- dubious, we don’t know who they are. But when you look at it, this is obviously part of the Cutileiro Plan agreed upon by the three ruling party under the auspices of an international presence, in this case, the European community.” [Krajisnik Transcript; 17 March 2005; Pg. 10661]

By taking Mr. Krajisnik’s statement out of context, the Trial Chamber has deliberately and maliciously led the public to believe that Mr. Krajisnik was calling for the implementation of a criminal conspiracy, when in reality he was calling for the implementation of a peace plan negotiated by the international community.

Judges and Prosecution the Only Criminals in the Courtroom

By convicting Mr. Krajisnik with such a malicious and wrongful interpretation of the evidence, the ICTY Trial Chamber has laid bare the anti-Serb agenda of the Hague Tribunal. The Hague Tribunal has lost all moral authority to accuse, let alone try and convict, any Serb of any crime.

The only criminals in the courtroom when Momcilo Krajisnik was convicted were the judges and the prosecution staff. They condemned an innocent man to what will very likely be the rest of his life in prison.

The Hague Tribunal Convicted Momcilo Krajisnik Because He Called for the Implementation of the Cutileiro Plan, by Andy Wilcoxson

As Nebojsa Malic aptly notes:

Naser Oric, who boasted of his atrocities and even filmed them, got two years for “failing to stop human rights abuses” or some such nonsense. Krajisnik gets 27 years for alleged participation (based on deliberately misinterpreted evidence) in a fictitious conspiracy.

Let’s call this what it is: “Walking while Serb.”

Cartoon by Nikola Otas

Posted by Svetlana at 05:36 PM | Permalink

Plotting Attacks on Jewish and U.S. Targets in Europe

One of the four suspects arrested in Norway on terrorism charges last week was in contact with Princ Dobrosi, a Kosovo Albanian mafia boss that formerly ran the largest European heroin empire from Prague.

According to the Norwegian daily Dagbladet, Dobrosi has established connections with one of the Oslo detainees, Pakistani Arfan Qadeer Bhatti, who headed a four member al-Qaeda group planning attacks on the Israeli and US embassies in Oslo.

“Dobrosi had contacts with one of the people who have been detained in Norway in connection with allegedly planned attacks on Jewish targets,” Gunnar Hultgreen, reporter of the Norwegian daily Dagbladet, said citing his sources from the police and intelligence.

Arfan Qadeer Bhatti visited Dobrosi in Pristina, Kosovo, this summer. It is not clear what was the reason for the visit but unconfirmed reports suggest that the two may have been plotting attacks on Jewish targets in Prague.

Jiri Komorous, head of the Czech anti drug squad, confirmed on Monday that Dobrosi recently spent several weeks in Prague but did not want to comment whether Dobrosi is tied with terrorists.

“We don’t have information that he would continue pursuing drug business,” Komorous said.

Norwegian police has been pursuing Dobrosi since 1996 because he escaped from a local prison after bribing a ward who smuggled him out in a van with dirty linen. Fugitive Dobrosi underwent a plastic surgery in Croatia.

From Serbianna.com News, Kosovo Albanian implicated in Norway terror, also available at Kosovo.net News.

Dobroshi Buying Rocket Systems and Infantry Weapons

Princ Dobroshi (born 1964) was a head of Albanian drug gang in Kosovo.

Dobroshi had controlled the northern path of the “Balkans route” (Turkey-Balkans-Czech Republic-Nordic countries) of heroin trade and was infamous for his brutality. In 1993 he was caught in Norway and in 1994 sentenced to 14 years in prison for heroin trafficking (other charges were pending in Sweden and Denmark). In a well coordinated operation he escaped from the Ullersmo Prison in 1997, travelled to Croatia and underwent plastic surgery of face. As a new place of living he picked up the Czech Republic and soon dominated over local Albanian drug mafias. On February 23, 1999 he was arrested in Prague. In his flat police secured weapons, money and documents showing that Dobroshi has been buying rocket systems and infantry weapons on behalf of UÇK (KLA). Over forty people were arrested all over Europe in follow-up operation.

The criminal underground had planned an armed attack on the Pankrác Prison but in August 1999 Dobroshi was extradited to Norway.

From the UK’s Crimebase

Kosovo, Clinton’s Most Outrageous Whopper

Of all the whoppers told by former President Clinton in his Chris Wallace interview, perhaps the most outrageous was his claim that he was involved in “trying to stop a genocide in Kosovo...” In fact, Clinton’s bombing of the former Yugoslavia killed more people than died in this “genocide.” And his policy benefited Osama bin Laden and the global Jihad.

In the year before the bombing, some 2,000 people had been killed in a civil war in Kosovo. A conservative estimate is that 6,000 were killed by U.S. and NATO bombs.

It’s strange as well that Clinton complained to Wallace about the “neocons” attacking him when many of the same neocons in 1999 supported Clinton’s war on Yugoslavia. The war was never approved by the U.N. or the U.S. Congress, and in fact violated the War Powers Act. The main beneficiary of the intervention was a Muslim terrorist group, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), with links to bin Laden, who had declared war on America in 1996, bombed our embassies in Africa in 1998, and would later, of course, orchestrate 9/11.

Pro-Muslim Foreign Policy

When former CIA official Michael Scheuer says that the Clinton Administration “had eight to ten chances” to kill bin Laden and “they refused to try,” he is making a statement that goes far beyond acknowledging Clinton Administration incompetence or a lack of will. The fact is that Clinton had a pro-Muslim foreign policy that actually benefited bin Laden and facilitated 9/11. Most Republicans don’t mention this because too many of them were duped into backing Clinton’s misguided policy in Kosovo. President Bush, then a candidate, even backed U.S. military intervention there through NATO.

Scheuer’s CIA also has a lot to answer for. It is noteworthy that the CIA issued a January 2000 report that essentially whitewashed the nature of the KLA and claimed it was pro-American. The only public release of this dubious report came through Rep. Elliot Engel, in a posting on the website of the National Albanian American Council, which supports an Albanian Muslim takeover of Kosovo.

That report was prepared under CIA Director George Tenet, who on February 2, 1999, gave testimony referring to the Serb “massacre at Raçak,” which provided the pretext for NATO intervention against Serbia but which turned out to be a hoax. Tenet was, of course, kept on by President Bush. Not only were Tenet’s fingerprints all over the failed and deceptive policy in Kosovo, he told Bush that finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was a slam dunk.

Media Blackout On Kosovo Terrorism

[...] Our media like to talk about Iraq, because they think the issue will damage Bush, but Kosovo gets no mention, except when Clinton himself or former officials of his administration bring it up and claim it as a foreign policy success. There is no coverage of the anti-Christian Jihad underway there. But seven years after the illegal Kosovo intervention, the September 15 Washington Post reports on a new World Bank study on fragile or failing states that “can breed terrorism.” One of them is listed as Kosovo, which is not a state—not yet. Actually, in the report itself, Kosovo is identified as a “territory,” not a province of Serbia, but the point remains valid. Kosovo is identified as being “outside the control of a recognized and reputable government,” offering “fertile soil on which terrorism could thrive.” Terrorism is thriving there, of course, because it was Clinton’s official policy to support the terrorist KLA and remove Kosovo from Serbian control.

[...] Compounding the failure of the Clinton policy in Kosovo, the George Soros-funded International Crisis Group recently released a report saying that the international community “must avoid creating a weak state” and that the territory must have its own army. Left unsaid is that it would be an army dominated by former members of the KLA. That would be the ultimate reward for terrorism. The terrorists would become the official army of Kosovo.

Buried in the report, on page 8, you will find an interesting piece of information. It states that “A tiny but growing minority is turning to Wahhabi Islam,” the dangerous brand of Sunni Islam underwritten by Saudi Arabia, which is also financing the building of many mosques in Kosovo. But this should come as no surprise. That element was always there, nurtured by the Clinton policy. Now it gathers force again, just as it did before 9/11.

Entire article by Cliff Kincaid, Clinton’s Kosovo Whopper, Accuracy in Media

Posted by Svetlana at 05:24 PM | Permalink

Al-Qaeda’s Farouk Fought Against Serbs in Bosnia

During yesterday’s news conference with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, President George Bush said:

“Recently, British forces killed a longtime terrorist affiliated with al-Qaida named Omar Farouk. Farouk was active in Bosnia and Southeast Asia.

He was captured in Indonesia. He escaped from prison in Afghanistan. He was killed hiding in Iraq.

Every victory in the war on terror enhances the security of free peoples everywhere.”

In other words, Bosnian Serbs who fought countless Farouks during the Bosnian war (1992-1995) and later on in Kosovo, could have dealt with this “longtime terrorist affiliated with al-Qaeda” over a decade ago and save many lives and a lot of trouble to American and British forces facing Farouks in Afghanistan and Iraq today. They most surely would if they were not bombed, sanctioned and vilified beyond recognition for fighting against Farouks, by the American, British, German and other “leaders of the free world.”

Whining of the Hideous Christianne Amanpour

When Serbs fought with Farouks in Bosnia and in the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija, mass media in the West couldn’t stop wailing and shedding crocodile tears for every Farouk who has been properly paid for coming to wage jihad in the Serbian lands. As Ryan W. McMaken notes:

Can we ever forget how the hideous Christianne Amanpour whined incessantly about the various crises in Yugoslavia until the American state intervened, bombing Serbian women and children? Didn’t the press whoop it up for war back then calling Slobodan Milosevic another Hitler and repeating the Clinton administration’s deception? I’ll agree the situation is much grander and more tragic now, but it’s just a difference of scope, not of type.

Self-Defeating Balkan Politics

Every victory in the war on terror does enhance the security of free peoples everywhere and it’s about time to admit Serbs were obstructed, punished and prevented from fighting the exact same war on their own turf until seven years ago (when, in 1999, Serbia was bombed back into middle ages for daring to protect its own country from islamic aggression).

One would think it fairly obvious that siding with militant islamists led by al-Qaeda and against Christian Serbs in Bosnia, and musing about handing 15 percent of Serbian territory to those same jihadists today cannot lead to victory against terror, but only to clear and devastating defeat with long term consequences that are bound to be felt throughout the world in decades to come.

If Not the Serbs, Then Someone Else

The same world powers which, for some reason, didn’t want the Serbs to hurt Farouks in Bosnia and Kosovo, now have to deal with Farouks on their own.

Because, to everyone’s surprise, it turns out that Farouks who were decapitating and killing Serbs in Bosnia and Kosovo have moved on to decapitating and killing Americans, Brits and others in Afghanistan, Iraq, New York, London and Madrid.

Someone has to deal with Farouks, if not the Serbs, it will be the Americans or Brits or whoever (maybe even the Norwegians), and Farouks have to be dealt with sooner or later -- if not fifteen years ago, then today, or tomorrow. The world powers have made their bed, they now have to sleep in it.

Perhaps the Serbs should wash their hands after all, shake the dust off their feet and move on.

Posted by Svetlana at 10:37 PM | Permalink

Above is the photo published yesterday by Serbian daily “Glas Javnosti” (Voice of the Public), that has caused the uproar both among the “reformers” in Serbia and abroad. I first learned about it from the BBC World, which called it “tasteless” and “insulting.” They didn’t explain why exactly would this particular photo coming from Serbia be more offensive then the similar and worse sort of things coming from the other parts of former Yugoslavia regarding men wanted by the Hague for war crimes.

In its Tuesday edition, Glas Javnosti is reminding its foaming criticizers demanding that the daily be punished for publishing the “offensive” photo that Ivo Sanader, Croatian Prime Minister, for example, defended Ante Gotovina wanted by the Hague Tribunal before the crowd of 150,000 people in 2001. Sanader spoke of the man accused of most grievous war crimes as of Croatian Hero, Croatian Knight and Braveheart.

Neither BBC, nor the “international community” protested the fact that Agim Ceku, who conducted ethnic cleansing of Serbs in both Croatia and Kosovo, and is accused of committing genocide, was handed the position of Kosovo “Prime Minister.” On the contrary, Ceku is welcomed and greeted by the world’s most prominent figures and politicians, including Condoleezza Rice.

The Srebrenica Butcher of Serbs, Bosnian Muslim warlord Naser Oric was euphorically greeted by other Bosnian Muslim butchers, “his fighters,” on his return from the Hague, where he was charged for failing to prevent men under his command to commit gruesome crimes over Serbian civilians (that included roasting-on-spit, impaling and similar).

Another Kosovo Albanian “politician,” accused of ethnic cleansing of Serbs, murder, rape, cruel treatment, destruction of property, etc. during Kosovo war in 1998-1999, Ramush Haradinaj has been allowed to waltz out of Hague Tribunal to prepare his defense in freedom and to engage in Kosovo politics while waiting for the start of his trial. UN Mission in Kosovo thought this decision by the Kangaroo Court is “beneficial for Kosovo stability.”

Can you imagine Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić being elected Prime Minister, received by the State Department and allowed to take part in the political life of Republika Srpska, backed by the UN officials claiming this will help stabilize Bosnia? Why not? If we are all equal in the eyes of law and presumed innocent until proven guilty, then General Mladić should be treated with the same respect afforded to Croatian, Bosnian and Albanian Muslim “heroes.”

However, some are obviously more equal then others. Therefore, the 24 year old Serbian officer Žarko Stojanović shown saluting General Mladić on the photo has been suspended and removed from his unit and Glas Javnosti is facing the lawsuit for publishing the photo.

So much for “freedom and democracy” Serbs enjoy now that a “dictator” Slobodan Milošević is out of the way.

Posted by Svetlana at 06:36 PM | Permalink

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!”

O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us - he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

Psalm 136 (137)

Posted by Svetlana at 11:43 PM | Permalink

Rogue Court With Rigged Rules

As early as June 17, 1999 The Times of London has issued a verdict to the Hague Tribunal, calling it “a rogue court with rigged rules.” Since then, the “tribunal” hasn’t only been unable to disprove the allegation, but seems to have been working on proving it true from case to case, sometimes on a daily basis.

Notorious for its murky beginnings, dubious legality at best, selective prosecution and double standards, the so-called International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, Netherlands, after highly suspicious deaths of three Serbian indictees, including the former President of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, has recently added another controversy to its already swarming pool of blatant hypocrisy and thuggish proceedings.

Indicted for a Verbal Delict

Dr. Vojislav Seselj, the president of the Serbian Radical Party, has been indicted by the Hague “tribunal” for what boils down to a verbal delict almost four years ago, and has been imprisoned in the Hague ever since, awaiting for his trial to begin.

The staunchest and most powerful political enemy of the Serbian ruling elite imposed by the western power centers after the 1999 bombardment of Serbia, and relentless in unmasking the behind-the-closed-doors deals and sell-outs, Dr. Seselj was considered the main obstacle to the new government’s Brainwashing by Design mission and had to be removed from Serbian political scene.

The mock indictment against him was hastily slapped together in Belgrade, by Soros NGO’s and their semi-literate lawyers. It is such a wobbly and sloppy piece of work that even the Hague “prosecution” complained they barely managed to make something resembling the proper indictment out of it. The “case” against Vojislav Seselj is entirely based on the claim he incited war crimes by his public statements -- something that is in most parts of the world generally known as the freedom of speech.

Upon receiving the indictment Seselj made a decision to go to The Hague of his own free will and, by defending himself, expose the “tribunal” as an illegal institution established in order to prosecute and charge entire Serbian nation through its numerous military and political leaders. Being an excellent lawyer who was the youngest PhD holder in Yugoslavia and has taught Law first at Michigan and then at Sarajevo universities, Vojislav Seselj chose to represent himself before the Kangaroo Court.

Apart from his academic and legal expertise, Vojislav Seselj is also a brilliant man with the encyclopedic knowledge and complete familiarity with even the most minute details of the 1990s Yugoslav civil wars. Combined with the most astounding memory and power of concentration on the one hand and the bogus indictment on the other, it is virtually impossible for the prosecutor to have a leveled-plane dialogue with Seselj, let alone to gain the upper hand in such exchange.

Being also known for his unrepentant directness and raw sense of humor which he doesn’t hesitate to use against the opponent, exposing the lies, cowardice and dishonesty hidden behind the thin veneer of politically correct claptrap, Vojislav Seselj is an unpleasant adversary indeed.

Testimony in Milosevic’s Defense

Because of that and because the “case” against Seselj is entirely ridiculous, in the last four years since Mr. Seselj has been awaiting the start of his trial in the “temporary imprisonment” in the Hague, the “judges,” the “prosecution” and the public had an opportunity to hear him speak only once -- as a witness to the late President Milosevic.

Dr. Seselj took the stand on August 19, 2005, right after the Kosovo Albanian witnesses who were also testifying in President Milosevic’s defense.

The unpleasant confrontation for the “court” started with the fact that Vojislav Seselj does not hide his contempt for the “tribunal.” Seselj considers it a criminal enterprise based neither on law, nor on principles of justice, but on a single imperative: to brand the Serbian nation as criminal and genocidal and have it enter the history as such. So, for example, he refused to follow the Kangaroo Court’s ceremonial procedures of standing up and bowing (!!!) when the “judges” are entering or leaving the courtroom, explaining he is an Orthodox Christian and therefore cannot honor the symbols and rituals reminiscent of the Inquisition. He reluctantly decided to oblige, despite his faith and personal convictions, only after the “judge” threatened him with being barred from testifying.

Joined the Enterprise With Himself

During a thirteen day testimony, Seselj has demonstrated the scope of his knowledge and managed to scare the “judges” and the “prosecution” to the point where they simply decided they would rather never let him speak again. Commenting on Dr. Seselj’s testimony, Sinisa Djuric wrote:

[...] Finally, Milosevic asked Seselj if he could explain a certain discrepancy between his and Seselj’s indictment, namely that in Milosevic’s indictment it is mentioned that the Joint Criminal Enterprise had existed since August 2, 1991, while in Seselj’s indictment it is mentioned that it existed since February 1991. Seselj replied that it is all perfectly clear to him - in February 1991 he alone was a member of the Joint Criminal Enterprise - that is, he joined in an enterprise with himself - and six months later he was joined in the enterprise by Milosevic and the rest of the people from the list. Milosevic then added that he’s glad that Seselj could provide some assistance to the prosecutor, which was followed by a burst of laughter by both him and his witness.

It is not hard to see where all this leads - Milosevic is not accused of committing a single crime personally, but on the principle of command responsibility which is based on the Greater Serbia thesis - that is the Joint Criminal Enterprise - he would be responsible for any crime committed by Serbs in Croatia or Bosnia (while Kosovo is a different story). However, if the basic thesis of the prosecution falls apart, so do a great deal of the charges against Milosevic. And not only him, but also several other individuals charged with participating in the Joint Criminal Enterprise - particularly Vojislav Seselj. Seselj’s indictment is the most bogus one of all at The Hague tribunal, since he’s not even charged on command responsibility, but on the principle of a verbal delict: that his words may have incited someone to commit a crime. This principle was abolished 300 years ago in Anglo-Saxon legal practice, but the Hague Tribunal seems pretty keen on establishing all sorts of precedents.

Vojislav Seselj, who went to the Hague willingly as a Trojan Horse, knowing about the absurdity of the so-called Joint Criminal Enterprise, may well turn the “trial of the century” into the blunder of the century. In his own trial, which has not even begun though he’s been kept in prison for more than two years, he was warned by presiding judge Carmel Agius that with his admission that he advocates Greater Serbia he’s only incriminating himself. It’s clear that the judges of the tribunal still don’t get it - Seselj is charged for participating in a Joint Criminal Enterprise to create a Greater Serbia, but if there was no Joint Criminal Enterprise as described in his indictment, then it doesn’t really matter what he advocates. All charges would then have to be dropped and he may well advocate the conquest of the world. Nobody could put him behind bars for it - it’s a thing usually called freedom of speech, which allows any nutter to say whatever he wants, without being prosecuted.

Hague Violating International Law and Fundamental Human Rights

Although the UN Human Rights Watch decided in the case of an Algerian man that 16 months of detention before the start of the trial represents the inhumane treatment, and the EU considers the limit should be set to no more then two years imprisonment before the trial begins, in the case of Vojislav Seselj almost four years imprisonment seem to be considered entirely reasonable for an innocent man to be parted from his wife and children, friends and the life he once had.

Not only that, but on August 21, 2006 the Hague “Trial Chamber” decided to impose a “Counsel” to Vojislav Seselj, breaching his inviolable legal right to self-representation. According to this decision, completely unimaginable in the civilized world, the enforced “Counsel” would have the exclusive right to file submissions on behalf of Mr. Seselj. Vojislav Seselj is also deprived of any right to address the court -- he is now barred from defending himself and even speaking at his own trial.

When the same decision was made during the mockery of a trial of the late President Milosevic, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark called it a travesty, citing a right to self-representation as the “fundamental human right.” Ramsey Clark explained that “under International Law, every person accused of a crime has the right to represent himself in person in the court adjudicating his case.”

Although the same fundamental human right undoubtedly applies to Dr. Seselj also, the Kangaroo Court, already exposed as rotten to the core, is so scared of Vojislav Seselj they seem to be willing to give up the last shred of pretense just to avoid confronting him again.

Posted by Svetlana at 11:44 PM | Permalink

Bush Administration Reassessing Position on Kosovo

Attempts to reach a negotiated solution on independence for Kosovo remained deadlocked last night, leaving the troubled province’s political future in the hands of divided international powers, aides to the United Nations’ chief mediator said.

Martti Ahtisaari is expected to present proposals in November that Kosovo be granted sovereignty, resolving the last lingering question from the collapse of Yugoslavia. [...]

The [Contact] group brings together the US, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Russia in a supporting role to the UN, which has administered Kosovo since the expulsion of Yugoslav Serb forces in 1999.

During a week of heightened ethnic tension in Kosovo, the group made clear that it would permit neither Belgrade nor Pristina “unilaterally” to block negotiations to decide the disputed territory’s future status. Serbia argues that independence will lead to renewed regional instability.

But observers suspect that Russia and China, fearful of secession disputes within their own borders, may resist formal independence for Kosovo in the UN Security Council, which will be required to ratify any proposal.

Diplomats in Washington also see the Bush administration responding to the concerns raised by Russia and Serbia and reassessing their position on Kosovo.

Serbia’s parliament in an emotional session last week decided to name Kosovo as an “integral part” of the country in a new constitution, which Vojislav Kostinica, the prime minister, aims to complete before elections early next year. [...]

American and many European officials have tacitly supported “imposed independence,” assuming continued international involvement will help protect Serbs and other minorities.

But four bombing incidents during the past eight days have raised the spectre of deadly clashes again in the province.

Entire article by Neil MacDonald in Zagreb and Guy Dinmorein in Washington, FinancialTimes.com, September 23, 2006.

Serbs From Klina Region Scared

Klina, 22 Sep (Glas Javnosti) – Three days after the bomb attack against the Pavlovic family, Serbian returnees from Klina and surrounding villages are scared and worried for their safety, stated Sveto Dabizljevic, an SDP member from Klina.

“There is no doubt that the statement of the Kosovo parliament president, who by the way is from Klina, caused the attack on the Pavlovic family, and it is only a question of when a new attack will happen. Serbs from this region are aware of this. An additional concern is caused by the KFOR announcement that it will withdraw from the base in the returnee village in Bica. If this happens, there is no doubt that the Serbs will once again have to leave their homes. After the attack, the police did not increase their presence,” said Dabizljevic.

He claims that attack against the Serbs which have become more frequent, are organized, and that Serbs which recently returned to their homes now do not know what to do because they cannot address anyone for help.

“I have the impression that for Prishtina authorities these attacks come as nifty promotion material because every time there is an attack against Serbs, their politicians take cameras and news reporters and start visiting injured Serbs. This means that Ceku and his company first throw bombs on Serbs and then cure them so that it can be seen how they care about them. If Serbs do not bother them, why are they throwing bombs on them,” asked Dabizljevic.

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Vatican/German Strategic Game

The Kosovo debacle is finally coming to a close. Albania’s gain will be Serbia’s loss. But who is the real winner? Germany.

“Game, set and match to Germany,” wrote the Trumpet six years ago. “Germany: the peace-broker in Kosovo, the future administrator of Kosovo and of the whole Balkan Peninsula—the lead nation in the Eurocombine shortly to rule the European continent and extend its powerful reach globally to impact all nations” (June 1999).

That’s the way the Trumpet called the outcome of the grand Vatican/German-inspired strategic game to sew up the Balkan Peninsula and pave the way for expanding the empire of the European Union eastward from central Europe. This action paved the way for 10 more nations from Eastern Europe to be added to the grand Germanic design for a pan-European Union, which occurred four years later.

The game began in 1991 with Germany—quickly followed by the Vatican—declaring its recognition of the [Roman] Catholic states of Slovenia and Croatia as sovereign nations, outside the Yugoslavian federation of Balkan states. To that point, the nations of the Balkans had survived 46 years in union since World War II. The very first foreign-policy initiative of the newly united Germany—this act of contempt for global public opinion and the will of many Balkan peoples—was a deliberate attempt to initiate a crisis in the Balkans upon which Germany and the papal state could impose their own well-planned solution. By initiating an illegal war, funded by and fought for the EU largely by the United States and Britain via NATO, all that was left for the Vatican and Germany to do was to sit back and wait till the dust settled—then simply take over.

Teutonic Masters of Reviving Roman Empire

It was a masterful piece of political subterfuge which served to demonstrate that the old Teutonic masters of the ancient, ever-reviving Holy Roman Empire had learned much from their failure to win Europe in two great world wars. Simply let others fight the wars—preferably at their own expense—and always appear reluctant to enter the offensive; then follow along, cap-in-hand, and offer to be the peacemaker at the end of the major conflict. Fait accomplis!

With Bosnia now due to be handed to a German nominee high commissioner, one festering sore yet remains within this revamped, 21st-century Balkan Peninsula—Kosovo.

The United Nations is exasperated with the mess. “Kosovo has been stewing in economic destitution and political no-man’s-land for six years. And now the United Nations finally seems ready to admit that it will not get any better, and so let it move on. … The urge to wash hands and simply dispose of the mess is palpable” (Stratfor, October 25). Faced with virtually no real progress toward a resolution of the division of hatred that exists between the Serbian minority and Albanian majority in Kosovo, the UN has decided to basically walk away from the problem as soon as it finds someone willing to take it on.

Enter former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, hand-picked to lead final-status talks on the future of this former territory of Yugoslavia that has existed as a de facto UN protectorate since the end of the Kosovo war.

Entire article, Germany Wins Out in Kosovo End Game, The Trumpet.

Artwork by Zoran Spasojevic

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Battle of Dannoura

In 1185 Japan was torn by a long civil war between two powerful clans. Heike or Taira family, up until then the ruling Japanese clan, was gathered around the seven year old emperor Antoku. The other, Genji or Minamoto clan, became as powerful in the preceding decades and was threatening to take over the right to ascension to Japanese throne.

The final battle between the two clans was fought off the coast of Dannoura, in Japanese sea, on August 24, 1185. Heike warriors were outnumbered by one to three. The Taira had no place to flee and nothing to lose. They fought bravely. But after some of the Taira followers had switched sides during the battle, the fate had turned against them. Finally one of the renegades had revealed to the enemy on which ship the emperor Antoku could be found. After a fierce and grim battle, the forces of the Minamoto prevailed.

Defeated, many Heike noblemen committed suicide by jumping into the sea and drowning themselves. Among them was also Kiyomori’s widow and grandmother of the child emperor Antoku. She took the child in her arms and leaped into the sea where they both drowned. To a Japanese, a graceful death is preferable to a life in shame.

Because of their valor and noble sacrifice, from the historical defeat the Heike clan went straight into the myth as exalted moral winners. The Tale of Heike (Heike Monogatari) is the heroic epic about the Taire clan and the Battle of Dannoura is replayed every year on the anniversary of the tragic battle within the celebrations held annually at the Akama Shrine in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, built in the honor of child emperor Antoku.

Heike Crabs

Ever since the Dannoura battle, fishermen from the Straits of Shimonoseki have been finding the crabs with samurai face on their backs. Believing these crabs -- Heikegani -- are reincarnations of the spirits of the Heike warriors defeated at the Battle of Dannoura, Japanese fishermen kept throwing them back into the sea from their nets.

Carl Sagan used Heikegani in his popular science television show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage as an example of artificial selection. Since the crabs with shells resembling samurai warrior’s face were thrown back, and those not resembling samurai were eaten, the former were given a greater chance of reproducing. So, basically, Sagan concluded that if you are a crab and have the shell that looks like a face of the samurai, people will spare you and you’ll have more descendants. And, as the generations of both men and crabs were passing, there were more and more Heikegani in the Japanese sea.

Battle of Kosovo

Two hundred years after the Battle of Dannoura, in another part of the world, Serbian emperor Lazar and his noblemen fought equally tragic, although far more decisive battle, the Battle of Kosovo. Unlike the Japanese clash between two powerful clans, the battle the Serbs chose to fight was not the internal war for power and throne, but the battle between two empires, Serbian Christian and Ottoman Muslim.

Serbian warriors were outnumbered by ten to one and, being Christian, not permitted to take their lives in order to avoid humiliation and suffering in case of defeat. Being fully aware they are fighting for their faith, freedom and the lives of their children’s children and their children, they were determined to “neither yield, nor submit.” Not only Serbian noblemen and knights, but every Serb in the Kingdom able to bear arms took his rightful place in the Battle of Kosovo. They fought like lions, until the last man and the last breath.

The Battle of Kosovo was a draw -- both the Serbian emperor and the Turkish sultan were killed (in fact, sultan Murad I who was killed by the Serbian knight Milos Obilic in the Battle of Kosovo, was the only Ottoman ruler who was killed in a battle, during some 700 years of Osman Empire), so neither the Serbs, nor the Ottomans could claim victory on the battlefield. But the death toll for the small Serbian nation was tremendous, the loss of the emperor, along with the most exalted noblemen, the best warriors, the entire army and every third male in the country was too harsh a blow from which Serbian Kingdom could not easily recover. Soon after, Serbia was annexed to the Ottoman Empire and the five centuries of sheer misery ensued.

Prejudice and Bias

While most people seem to be capable of comprehending the valor and nobility of the Japanese Heike clan, Serbian medieval warriors who sacrificed their lives in the Battle of Kosovo are rarely considered equally worthy of respect, and their tragic heroism in facing the overwhelmingly more powerful enemy is often ignored. Likewise, while the Japanese epic, memory, re-enactment and honoring of the Taira clan that lost the Dannoura Battle is appreciated, Serbian epic poetry, mainly the Kosovo Cycle (which even the great Goethe admired and thought was brilliant) and the fact Serbs consider Vidovdan -- the celebration of Tsar Lazar and Kosovo Martyrs -- their holiest national day, is commonly laughed off by many westerners as an incomprehensible celebration of the “lost battle.”

So much for the prejudice and general, long held anti-Serbian bias in the West, but that is not the subject of this entry.

Serbian Crabs

Now, since the 1389 Battle of Kosovo was the ground rather then the naval battle, no crustaceans showed up afterwards, but the artificial selection did start and there are many Serbian Heike Crabs inhabiting Serbia nowadays.

Through countless wars and battles in which the best and most valiant Serbs were sacrificing their lives during over 600 years, the cowards, the spineless, the sleazeballs, degenerates, masochists and traitors kept surviving, mating and multiplying. Following Carl Sagan’s line of thinking, if you are a Serb and you betray your faith, your ancestors, your brothers and sisters, you don’t get hurt, you get to live, have babies and teach them your most important survival skills and tricks, that being a traitor and a degenerate is the best way to ensure you’ll live long and prosper. So, for example, few hundred years back, Serbian Heike Crabs were hastily switching the deadly cross-shaped shell for the much safer Islamic crescent moon. They lived to spread through Bosnia, overwhelming the Christian Serbs and faithfully turning against them in every future war.

Today, Serbian Heike Crabs that don’t get eaten are hiding in the “liberal,” “democratic” and “antinational” shells. Like E. M. Forster a while ago, they too have concluded it’s better to “be a coward than brave, because people hurt you when you are brave.”

In a current climate, while Serbia and Serbian lands are occupied and colonized, merely being aware and proud of your history, national heritage and ancestors can hurt, as much as it would during the Turkish and communist rule, perhaps even more. Ever since the Battle of Kosovo, it is not safe to be an Orthodox Serb in Serbian lands, since Serbia has not been really free save for about hundred years after it got itself rid of Turks.

Nasty Degenerates

Serbian Heike Crabs, with degenerate genes perfected through the generations of traitors and cowards, are today mostly gathered around the Crab god, George Soros, his NGO’s and the Crab Mother Ship, B92 Information Centre.

They are exceptionally and universally nasty, making an obvious effort to use every opportunity to demonstrate nothing has any value to them, unless it can be worn, driven or comes with the famous trademark and hefty price tag. They seem to be involved in a permanent internal competition where the one who will go farthest in denigrating, degrading and maligning their country, nation, history, cradle and graves wins. At the same time, they also have a suck-up-to-every-foreigner competition, which is only expected, since hating their own genes, faith and roots is part and parcel of the debilitating masochism gnawing at their souls.

Because being of Serbian ethnicity is so unpopular and painful nowadays, Serbian Heike Crabs are tearing their lungs up from the crevices of the Crab Mother Ship in an effort to distance themselves from their ethnicity and heritage and tell the world: “We may have had the misfortune of being born as Serbs, but WE HATE SERBS AS MUCH AS YOU DO, Mr. Ahtisaari, German Mister, Mr. Clinton, Ms. Albright...! And we love everyone you love: Albanian Muslims, Bosnian Muslims, Muslim Muslims, along with everyone else who hates Serbs. So WHY CAN’T WE BE EXCUSED and beamed up to a better place already?!”

No one has the heart to tell them they’ll never earn respect and admiration they are ready to kill for, nor will they ever be rescued from under that rock since:

1. They are needed right where they are, desperate, miserable, wretched as they are, to keep doing what they have been doing (mudslinging their own country and nation);
2. Nobody needs more degenerates and scumbags (everyone is looking for ways to get rid of their own);
3. Treason is only acceptable and mildly entertaining within someone else’s borders.

Although Serbian Heike Crabs are far from dominating political scene in Serbia today and, for all their efforts, still represent the marginal, semi-pathetic and commonly despised segment of the society, whenever a mediocre pen-pusher or Albanian lobbyist from the West gets an order to slap together another Serb-bashing propaganda piece, he or she is bound to cite one from the Crab Clan, and present the ensuing exercise in self-flagellation as the “Serbian view.” In most cases, the actual view of majority of Serbs happens to be exactly opposite from what the Crabs say, but most westerners cannot possibly know that, so there, Serbian Crabs do serve a purpose after all.

The good news? There are few:

Many of the valiant men also survived the wars Serbs had to fight, got married, had babies and taught them all the right things (both of my grandfathers came back from the First and Second World Wars with so many medals each household had to dedicate a separate drawer for, and they are not the only ones).

Secondly, in the last fifteen years the Crabs, being protected from the outside and well fed, have grown so fat and careless they are rarely hiding their true identity. This is good because when Serbian lands get free again, we’ll know exactly whom to take in front of the shooting squad and in which order. After the proper trial, of course.

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Arms Rattling Vs. Bombs Throwing

As soon as the Finnish Nazi Martti Adolfsen was exposed as a Nazi by the Serbian public and government officials for his advocacy of Hitler’s concept of collective guilt, being unable to cover up the unpleasant revelation, Adolfsen, like any dim-witted manipulator, figured attack is the best defence and accused Serbs of “arms rattling.”

This came as a complete surprise to everyone who has been following the unravelling of the Kosovo drama, since each of the Serbian politicians on the scene has been saying exactly the opposite all along: that, although Kosovo and Metohija will remain an integral part of Serbia and independence is absolutely out of the question as far as the Serbs are concerned, Serbia will not reach for arms and is not preparing for war. Poor old Adolfsen must’ve gone completely off his rocker while working so hard to satisfy the KLA terrorists and earn his bone.

On the other hand, Adolfsen turned predictably deaf and mute when the “president” of Kosovo Albanian “parliament” Kole Berisha openly threatened both the Serbs and the so-called international community by the new pogrom of remaining non-Albanians in Kosovo, in case Albanians are not given another state on the territory of Serbia.

Berisha issued the threat first on Monday in Slovenia, and repeated it on his return to Kosovo late on Tuesday:

If our aim of independence is not realised then citizens’ revolts are expected in Kosovo. We don’t want revolts, but we cannot exclude them if our aim is not realised.

Hours after Berisha managed to put those two sentences together (grunting would be easier, I’m sure), a hand grenade was lobbed through the window of an apartment in the western town of Klina, wounding four elderly Serbs. They were refugees who had returned to Kosovo last year, having been forced to flee after the 1998-99 war, as soon as UN/NATO handed the reign over Serbian province to Albanian KLA terrorists.

This is the fourth bomb attack in the last five days in Kosovo. It occurred in a home in the town of Klina, some 60 kilometers west of Pristina, where around 50 Serbian families remain. Three of the four injured Serbs were women. While in this latest attack the Albanian terrorists threw a grenade through an open window of Pavlovic family home, the earlier three bombings that occurred within the past few days in the province were aimed at cars.

So, let me see if I got this right: while Serbs are “rattling” their invisible arms in such a way that no one but Adolfsen is made aware of it, the Albanians -- who are not arms rattling -- can openly threaten with further extermination of remaining non-Albanians in the Serbian province, blackmailing the “international community” with future pogroms and, just to assure everyone these are not empty threats, throwing bombs into Serbian cafes, homes and cars. But they are NOT arms rattling! No sirree, Bob! It’s the Serbs that are the problem, Albanians are the good guys. After all, didn’t half of the “civilized” world bomb Serbia into oblivion few years back because of Kosovo Albanians? Therefore, they HAVE TO BE good, no matter what they do, because that half of the world which was involved in the aggression and 78-day punitive mission of destruction and devastation HAS to be right. And they will defend their claim to righteousness down to the last living Serb.

Albanian Politicians: Barbarians and Primitives

Commenting on the latest flare-up of the terror campaign in Kosovo, spurred on by the threats of a self-styled Albanian “parliamentarian,” political science professor and anti-terrorism expert Dragan Simeunovic said:

The statement of the so-called Kosovo and Metohija official proves that Kosovo province is immature and not ready for any form of independence. To be the president of the parliament in Europe, the cradle of the legislative state, and to threaten with violence and rebellion is both laughable and sad. This statement shows the main instigators of the Albanian violence in Kosovo are none other then their politicians. Instead of being the factor for establishing better inter-ethnic relations, Kosovo and Metohija officials, like all barbarians and primitives, grab the biggest bat as soon as their spoilt demands are not met.

Europe’s Last Cavemen, indeed.

Ruecker’s Propaganda Campaign

Following Adolfsen’s lead, Joachim Ruecker who was recently appointed as the head administrator of the UN Mission in Kosovo, started issuing urgent appeals for preventing Kosovo Serbs to partition the province. Meanwhile, those same Kosovo Serbs are stunned by Ruecker’s hysterics, having no idea what on earth is the German KLA lobbyist blabbering about.

The Vice-President of the Serbian National Council of Kosovo and Metohija, Dragan Velic finds Ruecker’s statement baffling and bizarre.

The Serbian National Council, as well as every political party active in the northern part of the province, stands firmly on the position that there can be no partition of Kosovo and Metohija, because it is the integral part of Serbia. We cannot understand the armed troops buildup to the north of river Ibar, when the danger is on the south side -- on the Albanian side.

The member of Kosovo negotiating team Goran Bogdanovic confirms Mr. Velic’s statement:

It is not true that we wish to secede from the rest of Kosovo and Metohija, since we consider the entire province an integral part of Serbia. This is the way the international community propaganda, under the pressure from Albanians, is trying to present the [Serbian inhabited] North as the only problematic area in Kosovo and Metohija.

We all got it by now: Serbs are the problem. Perhaps that is why they keep vanishing, or ending up in Kosovo hospitals and graveyards, while the Albanian Muslim Good Guys, on the other hand, keep being rewarded for sending them there. It’s so encouraging to know that justice does prevail. I also sleep better knowing that our world is ruled by the most egotistic, narcissistic, maniacal brutal thugs, sleaze balls and bastards who have sold their souls before they could speak, and are miserable and bloodthirsty ever since because they can’t keep selling it over and over, while marching toward their graves.

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Conference: Reconsidering Kosovo

On Thursday, September 28, between 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM, in the Eisenhower Lounge in the Capitol Hill Club, American Council for Kosovo, Christian Solidarity International, and Religious Freedom Coalition will hold a Conference titled “Reconsidering Kosovo.”

One of the most serious but overlooked security issues facing the United States today is the future of the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija. Since 1999, Kosovo has been under United Nations administration and NATO military control, with hundreds of U.S. troops still stationed there. Today the question is: should Kosovo remain a part of Serbia or – as many believe -- should it be detached from Serbia as an independent state?

Among the issues to be examined:

• Kosovo report card -- Europe’s “Black Hole”?
• Organized crime, jihadism, and Kosovo’s impact on the War on Terror;
• Human rights and religious freedom in an independent “KosovA”;
• Kosovo’s future status: impact on regional stability, international law, and other disputed regions.

Bishop Artemije of Raska-Prizren (Kosovo and Metohija) Diocese, the spiritual leader of Kosovo’s Christian Serbian community will be a keynote speaker, while Congressman Trent Franks (R-Arizona) will offer the luncheon remarks. Other confirmed speakers include:

Doug Bandow (commentator; author of Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire; Former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan); Peggy Birchfield (Executive Director, Religious Freedom Coalition); Ambassador James Bissett (last Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia); Julia Gorin (commentator; contributor, Jewish World Review, FrontPageMag.com); Joseph Grieboski (Founder and President, Institute on Religion and Public Policy); Nikolas Gvosdev (Editor, The National Interest); John Hulsman (coauthor, Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World; contributing editor to The National Interest; former senior research fellow, Heritage Foundation); Cliff Kincaid (commentator; Editor, Accuracy in Media (AIM) Report); Steven Meyer (Professor of Political Science, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University); Fr. Keith Roderick (Washington Representative, Christian Solidarity International); Robert Spencer (Director of JihadWatch.org and author of The Truth about Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)); and Srdja Trifkovic (commentator; author of Defeating Jihad and Sword of the Prophet; foreign-affairs editor, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture).

Arrival and registration begin at 8:00 AM, attendance is free.

Kosovo, the Last Outpost on European Doorstep

If you understand that Kosovo and Metohija, though a small province far away, may prove to be the key to preserving the most essential tenets upon which the democratic structure of the free world is built, you will be there.

The Judeo-Christian civilization based on freedom, tolerance and respect for human rights is disappearing in front of our eyes, being swallowed, chunk by chunk, by the overwhelmingly aggressive, oppressive and totalitarian system of beliefs.

Jihad is spreading like a deadly malignant disease throughout the world, catching us unprepared, shocked and feeling helpless. Like Israel in the Middle East, Serbian Jerusalem -- Kosovo and Metohija -- is one of those chunks of Judeo-Christian civilization on the front lines of the World War Three that is now in full swing, and the last outpost on the European doorstep the world simply cannot afford to sacrifice.

Thursday, September 28, 8:00 AM, Capitol Hill Club (Eisenhower Lounge), 300 First Street SE, Washington D.C. 20003 -- be there and help us fight the world’s cancer!

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Slobodan Rekalic graduated at Belgrade Academy of Art, Department of Sculpture, two decades ago. In his Studio, Slobodan produces the most beautiful pieces of sculptural jewelry and art in precious metals -- gold and silver, as well as bronze. Most of Slobodan’s artwork is inspired by Byzantine masterpieces, often fusing the modern simplicity with the regal intricacy of the Byzantine era.

Apart from pendants, bracelets, rings and earrings, Slobodan is also making Church candelabras and cupola crosses, each of which represents a truly unique piece of art -- a one-of-a-kind sculpture.

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I'm starting to have a sneaking suspicion all passionate bloggers gain weight soon after they find a cause worthy of spending 5 hours a day in front of their computers (crochet not being considered a “cause”), but only the most honest ones will admit it.

So, as I was busy saying NO! to Kosovo independence, issuing warnings about the growing Reich-ization of the European Union dominated by the renewed German hegemony and flipping over the fact Islamization of the once free world is proceeding without much obstruction, my derriere was slowly but surely beginning to resemble the shape of my chair. Sorry to bring it up, but when things get blown out of proportions the truth is bound to come out in one way or the other.

And though I couldn’t be more appalled by the today-I-had-a-baloney-sandwich-and-haven’t-had-enough-sleep blogs (does anyone really care?), in the honored tradition of the lamest, most stupid and devoid of any content I-just-discovered-a-pimple-on-my-(Judy)-butt blogs, I say: I'm off to the gym!

Not that it’s exactly my idea of fun -- far from it! -- the sweaty, sticky, stinky spaces and torture mechanisms I feel like papering over before utilizing and all the puffing and panting in-between is something I generally avoid, but since it’s currently the only alternative to continued swelling, the gym it is.

Meanwhile, I’d recommend reading only the smartest people’s blogs and articles, since the Global Dumbing Down Operation seems to be succeeding beyond anyone’s wildest dreams.

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Italian Casa dei Libri has recently published a truly remarkable book about Kosovo and Metohija, titled “Second Kosovo War,” with subtitle “Serbian Orthodox Christian Heritage that Has to be Rescued.”

European Unity Built on Serbian Graveyard

“Second Kosovo War” is a compilation of well documented studies prepared by the Italian Parliament Senator, Luana Zanella. In a short and powerful preface Mayor of Venice Massimo Cachari writes:

If Europe fails to comprehend that monasteries and churches in Pec, Decani and Gracanica are an integral part of its own memory and its own cultural heritage, not only a possibility for the peaceful development of the Balkan region will be lost, but the political unity of the European community will become absurd.

Cachari urges Europe to rebuild destroyed cultural, artistic and religious monuments in Kosovo and Metohija, since “although most proficient and most capable of destruction, the man is also able to restore.”

Apartheid in the Heart of Europe

Editor Luana Zanella says that if there is “one nation today that is forced to live in the state of apartheid in the heart of Europe, and precisely at the place where its civilization was born, it is the Serbian nation.” In the gesture of His Eminence Amfilohije Radovic, the Bishop of Serbian Orthodox Church, who defended a mosque in Belgrade from the enraged crowd, Zanella sees the hope for ethnic, religious and cultural tolerance in the Balkans.

The first part of the book titled “History and Art,” follows the once flourishing Serbian culture and art in Kosovo and Metohija as it steadily declines through the centuries, suffocated by the Turkish and Albanian Muslim hordes and tribes.

Andrea Catone, President of the Bridge for Belgrade Society, documents that the latest ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija is only the continuation of the ethnic cleansing Albanians were carrying out for centuries, especially since the mass exodus of the Serbs in 1690. Valentino Pache claims the architecture and fresco painting from the time of Serbian medieval King Milutin represents the peak of Byzantine art.

Outside the Ghetto Walls

The second part of the book, titled “Testimonies and Documents,” contains articles by Alessandro Bianchini and Andrea Catone (“Kosovo Under the UNMIK Protection: Ethnocide Revealed”), as well as reports and interviews by Tomaso di Franchesco, the renowned Manifesto journalist. The compilation ends with Luana Zanella’s travelogue, “Three Days of Kosovo.” Both Franchesco’s and Zanella’s writings give a convincing picture of the true situation in Kosovo and Metohija today.

Tomaso di Franchesco also spoke with Father Sava of Decani Monastery, who says that Albanians plan to turn Serbian shrines and holy places into museums, but that can be done only if they cleanse Kosovo and Metohija from the last remaining Serb. They have already achieved that with Gypsies, very few of whom remain in Kosovo today within Serbian enclaves, and whom -- as Rajko Djuric said -- no one from the International Community even thinks of including into the negotiations about Kosovo status. While the images of Serbian misery and poverty dominating Serb enclaves are still fresh, Zanella is taken to a luxurious Albanian restaurant in Pristina named by the Italian military base from which fighter jets were taking off to bomb Serbia -- “Aviano” -- another detail from the sad, controversial and absurd Kosovo and Metohija reality.

“Second Kosovo War” is richly illustrated with color photos of the most important churches and monasteries in Kosovo and Metohija. The photo of the destroyed Church of Holy Trinity in Petric is on the front cover, along with the note that Albanians have even cut down the tree around which the faithful were gathering.

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Shall We Start With Finland?

The U.N. Special Envoy for Kosovo “negotiations” Martti Ahtisaari (a.k.a. Martti Adolfsen) has recently accused Serbian nation of being collectively guilty for any and all alleged war crimes and the present situation in Serbian southern province of Kosovo and Metohija. When Serbian government officials demanded an explanation for his fascist outburst, Adolfsen used the opportunity to add insult to the injury by saying that “every nation has a burden to pay for.” If that is how things should be, before “paying” for their collective sin as perceived by Adolfsen and his fascist friends with 15 percent of their territory, Serbs should wait not only for Croatia, Albania and Bosnian Muslims to pay for their burden and face their historical responsibility for genocide over Serbs (old, new and ongoing), but also to have Adolfsen’s native Finland pay for its historical burden and war crimes. Carl Savich explains, below.

Finland, Adolf Hitler’s Closest Ally

(Quote) Ahtisaari, whose real name is Adolfsen, was born in Viipuri, now Vyborg, Russia. His family originally came from southern Norway. The family name was officially changed in 1935 to the more Finnish sounding “Ahtisaari.” What he is hiding is Finland’s Nazi past and role in the Holocaust, the extermination of European Jewry. Finland was one of the closest allies of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Finns, regarded as part of the Nazi “master race,” were integral members of the Nazi “Wiking” 5th Waffen SS Division and made up their own Volunteer SS formation, the Finnish Nazi Waffen SS Battalion “Nordost” which was attached to the Waffen SS Regiment “Nordland.” Ahtisaari’s father was a “military mechanic” in the Nazi Finnish troops that attacked the USSR in 1941. The number of Finnish volunteers sent to Germany in 1941 was over 1,200, 400 of whom were placed in the Nazi 5th SS Division “Wiking” and then sent to the Eastern front. Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler wrote that “where a Finnish SS man stood, the enemy was always defeated.” Adolf Hitler made a personal visit to Carl Mannerheim, the Nazi commander of Finland’s armed forces, a close ally of Nazi Germany, and later president of Finland. Hitler also met with Finnish President Risto Ryti. Heinrich Himmler went to Finland in 1942 to request of deportation of Finnish Jews.

Annexing Russian Territory to Nazi Finland

Ahtisaari covers up any mention of the Finnisches Freiwilligen Battalion der Waffen-SS “Nordost,” or any mention of Finnish Nazi SS troops in the Wiking Nazi SS Division. Gottlob Berger, the head of Waffen SS recruiting, in referring to the Finnish Nazi SS troops, said that “I have never had a better battalion.” Finnish units were part of the 1941 Nazi assault on the Soviet Union known as Operation Barbarossa and annexed Russian territory, East Karelia, to a Nazi Greater Finland. East Karelia was a Slavic or Russian majority area that was annexed to a Nazi Greater Finland. How many Russians, Jews, and Serbs were killed because of Finnish collaboration with Adolf Hitler?

Let’s Start With Finland’s “Historical Responsibility”

Finland was unique during World War II and the Holocaust in that it freely and voluntarily joined Adolf Hitler’s Nazi New Order in Europe and freely and voluntarily formed Nazi SS formations, which the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal held were criminal and whose members were war criminals. Finland was not under German military occupation. Finns made the free and voluntary choice and decision to join Nazi Germany as the vanguard of the new Nazi Order in Europe. Where is Ahtisaari’s discussion of his nation’s real “historical responsibility” and “collective guilt” for Finland’s role in the Holocaust and the Nazi New Order? Ahtisaari is a shameless and mindless hypocrite. Finns and Albanians have a real Nazi past as collaborators with Adolf Hitler in the murder of millions of Jews and thousands of Kosovo Serbs. What he has in common with his Albanian proxies is a historical responsibility for their nation’s Nazi past and their collective guilt during the Holocaust and their historical responsibility for the genocide committed in Kosovo against Kosovo Serbs during World War II.

Historical responsibility, indeed. Let us start with Finland and the “historical responsibility” of Finland. (End Quote)

Entire article by Carl Savich, Martti Ahtisaari: “Historical Responsibility”.

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At the beginning of the year the mandate of former international ombudsman for Kosovo Marek Antoni Nowicki was not extended. With his departure, the institution of ombudsman lost its international character and the general international community has been prevented from hearing about human rights abuses in Kosovo and Metohija. The following is an excerpt from the translated interview from Serbian weekly Vreme (Time) with Mr. Nowicki, published on September 14, 2006.

Complete Shutdown of Cooperation

VREME: A large number of ethnically motivated crimes have been committed during the UN protectorate in Kosovo. Do you have information how many perpetrators have been found and sanctioned?

M. A. Nowicki: Very few. In Kosovo police can find information on who committed a crime but they can’t get evidence and witnesses. No one wants to testify because testifying in Kosovo, not just about ethnically motivated crimes, is very dangerous. The consequences of testifying against someone can be horrendous. Furthermore, the short mandates and constant rotation of international police are yet another, crucial factor of ineffectiveness, as is the closed nature of Kosovo society. It is difficult to establish cooperation with the population, especially in cases of ethnically motivated crimes where there is a complete shutdown of cooperation.

Crime Permitted in Kosovo

VREME: Does this create a sense that crime is permitted?

M. A. Nowicki: Yes. On the one hand, there is the problem of the ineffectiveness of organs that are supposed to prevent this, on the other, there are also objective difficulties. One of the problems of the international police is that they are people coming from different environments and cultures who don’t really have a good understanding of the environment (in Kosovo). On the other hand, the Kosovo police lacks experience. Additionally, they live among the people who are involved in crime, they themselves are under constant pressure and in real danger. When all these factors are put together, the results can’t be different than they are.

VREME: How many participants in the March violence were prosecuted by the Kosovo justice system?

M. A. Nowicki: A few of the minor perpetrators were sanctioned but not the ones who committed the serious crimes, let alone the ones who organized the expulsions. The statistics look impressive but when one looks at them more closely, it is obvious they are only the minor perpetrators.

VREME: Why is that?

M. A. Nowicki: Without getting into whether there was any will to sanction those crimes, which would involve speculation and I have no evidence to back that up, some of the objective circumstances need to be taken into account. In mass events the focus is on prevention and it is difficult to collect evidence at the same time. What’s left afterwards is witnesses and then we go back to the story about witnesses in Kosovo.

In Case of Pogrom Use the Cellphones

VREME: Were police forces and KFOR up to the task on March 17?

M. A. Nowicki: The real question is how was it possible for all this to escape a large number of various UNMIK and KFOR services concerned with security as well as a large number of intelligence agencies from various countries. Kosovo is a land with the highest number of intelligence agents per capita in the world; surely they must have known what was in the works. They are responsible for following the security situation in Kosovo on an hour-by-hour basis. And what happened? They knew nothing. That’s incredible. We can’t help but wonder whether they were taking their job seriously.

It’s interesting that in spring 2004 I had information of the existence of a plan to reduce the number of KFOR troops by the beginning of July, leaving about 2,000 troops still deployed in Kosovo and making their presence symbolic.

VREME: Taking into account that these are serious security agencies, should we doubt their objectivity?

M. A. Nowicki: Some things cannot be explained rationally. For example, two weeks before March 17 I sent a letter to the KFOR commander, General Kammerhof, asking for an explanation for the removal of security checkpoints in some Serb enclaves, questioning the reasons and other possible security measures for these people, who lived in fear. At first they didn’t want to answer at all and they were displeased with the fact that the information had been released to the public; then they answered that the situation was improving, that there is a Kosovo police that is well-trained and capable of protecting them, and that people who feel unsafe should ask for cell phones from the municipality so they can report when they are in danger.

Abandoned Dog and the Albanian Looter

At that time I visited several Serb locations where KFOR checkpoints were removed, among them Vucitrnska Slatina. It was clear to the people with whom I spoke there that the removal of the checkpoints was to be their end. A man with whom I spoke told me, “Sir, there are no arguments for the removal of the checkpoints; we know that, we live here.”

The first place I visited after March 17 was Vucitrnska Slatina. I wanted to check what I had been told two weeks earlier. Everything was completely destroyed, I found just two living beings there: one was (the man’s) dog, who recognized us because we had had coffee and honey there just two weeks ago, and the other was an Albanian from nearby who was taking away looted items. It all seemed symbolic: the torched houses, some of them still smoldering, the abandoned dog among the ruins, and the Albanian looter.

Entire Interview with Kosovo Ombudsman Marek Antoni Nowicki, Corruption and makeshift arrangement.

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Ahtisaari, the Fascist

In his latest article, Carl Savich reveals the most disturbing facts about the ex-president of Finland Martti Ahtisaari who recently, from the position of a UN Special Envoy for Kosovo negotiations, pointed his finger at Serbs to lay a collective guilt charge upon the entire nation. Serbs around the world could hardly believe anyone would actually resort to Hitler’s “arguments” at this day and age and calmly move on as if nothing really happened.

Serbian government officials stopped short of calling Ahtisaari a fascist, saying his statement is racist. They should now reconsider since, when it comes to this man, it is not his words that are the problem, but his deeds. Contrary to what one would like to think, Ahtisaari’s fascist outburst wasn’t a mere senile blubber, but the result of his long-held, proven political convictions:

Martti Ahtisaari, as President of Finland, sought to honor and commemorate Finnish Nazi SS war criminals, war criminals held guilty by the Nuremberg Tribunal of committing crimes against humanity and of participation in the Final Solution, the genocide of European Jews. This supporter and financier of Nazi war criminals and of genocide is deciding the future status of Kosovo? The irony is unbelievable.

Proud of Finnish Nazi Past

Savich's damning revelation also helps explain why Ahtisaari never apologized to Serbs -- apart from believing it was perfectly alright to revive Hitler’s line of thinking, the man has a super-thick skin which successfully prevented any feelings of shame to seep through few years earlier, when Shimon Samuels of the Simon Wiesenthal Center asked him to use his influence with the government to “desist from this act of historical revisionism,” of glorifying Nazi units associated with war crimes and therefore balancing the Holocaust by equating perpetrators and victims. Ahtisaari’s response? “Officials defend the plan to commemorate the SS men, saying it would be a gesture of remembrance rather than approval.”

Boy, am I thrilled this fascist is assigned to “mediate” between Serbs who fought against fascists and Albanians, Hitler’s loyal allies! It would be hard to find someone better for the job, save for an actual Nazi war criminal, the one who killed with his own hands or ran Auschwitz for a while. No doubt such can still be found among the UN “diplomats” operating today, so we should be careful not to complain too much, or they’ll dig one out for the occasion -- just until Serbs get to take over all the blame, for the First and Second World War, for the concentration camps, the Holocaust and everything Nazis did, until Slobodan Milosevic replaces Hitler entirely and Serbs replace fascists, entering all the textbooks and history as the actual fascists, and until the SS Waffen units turn to be the good guys who deserve to be honored throughout the world as the “fallen soldiers” and heroes who only defended their countries in our countries... from the evil Jews, Serbs and Russians.

Cartoon by Nikola Otas

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NEW YORK, September 13, 2006
Sanda Raskovic – Ivic, President of the Coordination Centre of the Republic of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohija,
Address to the UN Security Council

Observance of the International Principles

It is my special privilege to address you and express my respect to this world organisation’s high body.

First and foremost, taking into account an imperative of introducing peace and stability as well as developing the future of both Kosovo and Metohija and the region of South East Europe, I wish to emphasize the unique significance of the Security Council as a guarantor for upholding the universal principles of international law and the entire world order.

The Republic of Serbia resolutely maintains that upholding and upgrading the peace and stability in the West Balkans are only possible through the means of a strict observance of the international principles, such as inviolability of sovereignty and territorial integrity of democratic states.

Mr President, we particularly wish to reiterate that Serbia is all set to assume her share of responsibility in the process of a successful resolution of the Kosovo and Metohija issue, pursuant to the international law and in conformity with the democratic values of the contemporary world. We address the Security Council in full confidence, expecting its instrumental contribution in line with its previously endorsed documents, and in particular with Resolution 1244 of June 10, 1999, which reconfirms the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our country.

Nervousness and Arrogance Not Constructive

We firmly believe that achieving a durable settlement on the future status of Kosovo and Metohija is only possible through the means of systematic, responsible and orderly negotiations, without artificial deadlines that can only result in additional pressure. Otherwise, there may occur new complications entailing inestimable consequences as always and inevitably invoked by any deviation from the international community’s universal principles.

Nervousness, irrational haste and arrogance can not contribute to finding a sustainable solution for Kosovo and Metohija, or to the peace and stability in the SEE region, both of which my country’s politics is firmly supporting.

Regretfully, I have to inform this high body that three months ago, on the very day of my previous address to the Security Council, on the day when UNMIK reported on progress of the standards, security, and the return of displaced persons to Kosovo and Metohija, late Dragan Popovic, a Serbian returnee from Klina, was brutally murdered.

Tragic Facts Disprove Inflated Clerical Reports

Thus, tragically, it took another human life to drastically disprove the ever-repeating wording of UNMIK report about improvements of standards, security, return of displaced person etc. as it was being presented to this high body.

Sorry to say, but it is the reality in Kosovo and Metohija that most tragically and brutally drafts its reports about security, thus proving wrong the inflated clerical reports.

Since that Security Council session to the day before, there have occurred 51 small and high-scale incidents, involving assaults against lives and property of the Serbs (from 24 October 2005 till 1 September 2006 there were 260 incidents).

Ahtisaari’s Horrid Accusation, the Sole “Argument”

On 26th of August this year, in the evening, a 16 year old Albanian slowly walked across the bridge between South and North Mitrovica. He threw a bomb on a nearby Serbian cafe bar packed with guests, and walked away in cold blood. Undoubtedly, this act of violence was in fact a political one, aiming at the Serbs as targets. Therefore, it was not aimed at a person who happened to be a Serb, but at the Serbs marked as tragically legitimate targets.

With our deepest regret, we have to state that this terrorist attack against the Serbs occurred subsequent to the statement that “Serbs as a nation were guilty,” which was verbatim made in front of the Serbian Negotiation Team in Vienna and several other witnesses by a man least expected to, having in mind his high office. Regretfully, it was Mr. Martti Ahtisaari, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Future Status Process for Kosovo, who said that.

This unfortunate statement, Mr President, together with his refusal to offer to the Serbian people an apology for making such a horrid accusation, unheard of since the end of World War Two, is at the same time the only argument in favour of Kosovo and Metohija independence we had a chance to hear so far.

One-Sided “Negotiations”

Whilst our negotiation team maintains the universality of the international law and impossibility to rip a state of 15 percent of its territory as their arguments, and actively works on protection of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, the Albanians in fact do not engage in negotiations at all, calmly waiting for being granted a second Albanian state in the Balkans – on the territory of the internationally recognized Serbia. The negotiations are being carried out in a relaxed and peaceful tone, being so relaxed that, until the Serbian party explicit request, neither the minutes were kept nor the rules of procedure were set.

Last March, there was another incident on the same bridge which the above mentioned Albanian youth crossed before throwing a bomb at a Serbian cafe bar, where 19 year old Milisav Ilincic was stabbed. International Public Prosecutor for Kosovska Mitrovica County, Paul Flin, terminates investigation against two Albanians suspected to have attempted the murder of this young Serbian, although one of them confessed to stabbing Ilincic with a knife on 28th of March. Pursuant to that event and other numerous cases, as well as pursuant to the incomprehensible fact that ever since UNMIK had assumed responsibility for the peace and security in Kosovo and Metohija, namely, since 1999, very few from among numerous cases of murders of, and assaults against the Serbs have been brought to court. One may conclude that survival and life of Serbs, from Albanians’ point of view, are an obstacle for achieving their political and ideological goals, whereas UNMIK’s tactics for avoiding conflicts with militant Albanians is a simple shutting of eyes to the reality.

Law and Justice Caving In From Fear of Violent Albanians

Mr President, it is hard to believe it, but all previously said point out to a conclusion that the fear of powerful and violent Albanians and their threats to avenge, currently amount to a “principle” which makes the international law and international justice deviate.

Let me remind you that in Kosovo and Metohija people have been killed just for speaking a Slavic language which happens to resemble Serbian. A Bulgarian in Pristina lost his life because of it. Ethnic identity becomes a licence to kill. But the real situation is worse still. In a previously referred terrorist bomb attack on a Serbian cafe bar of 26 August, few non-Serbs, foreign citizens, were also injured. One of them is an international police officer. They were attacked just because they have been sitting in a “Serbian” cafe bar. This simply means that in Kosovo, if one speaks Serbian, or sits at a Serbian cafe bar, he or she becomes a target of a terrorist attack.

With regards to the religious monuments, culture heritage a