Serbian Province Deteriorating Towards Humanitarian Catastrophe
Living under occupation: Young Serbian mother carrying her newborn out of hospital, protected by the KFOR troops. Kosovo and Metohija, Serbia.
German UN Official Backs Oppression of Non-Albanians in Serbian Province
KOSOVKSA MITROVICA, Kosovo and Metohija, Serbia -- In a press conference called in reaction to power cuts that are continuing for days and to vandalism toward Serbian Telekom equipment in Kosovo, the representative of Kosovo Serbs Marko Jaksic said that UNMIK chief Joachim Ruecker is acting like a member of Albanian Muslim interim “government,” rather than a high UNMIK official.
“Ruecker is one of those who authored the looting privatization and the economic discrimination against Serbs and Serbian-owned companies, and is charged with driving everything that even reminds of Serbs and the Serbian state away from Kosovo,” Jaksic said.
In his words, “out of 190 privatized companies in Kosovo not a single one is owned by a Serb, which means that the property belonging to one nation is taken away and given to another.”
Jaksic said that beside the physical violence and persecution that the Serbs suffer at the hands of the Albanians, UNMIK is undertaking torture on the economic level, and called on Ruecker to “stop jeopardizing Serbian interests making the lives of Serbs impossible.”
Serbian National Council (SNV) President Milan Ivanovic said that the situation in the province has deteriorated to the level of a humanitarian catastrophe.
Business as Usual for Albanian Muslim Mafia
And, while Serbs are being left to despair without electricity, heat and food in their ghettos, until they finally pack up and leave after getting fed up with life in constant fear and misery, the good news is that Albanian mafia is doing just fine, except for a tiny hiccup here and there, like two days ago when Serbia’s customs officers seized 33 pounds of heroin hidden in a vehicle that tried to cross into Croatia.
According to the media, the heroin valued at $640,000 on the black market was stashed in 28 packages in the upholstery and in fenders of a car with German registration plates driven by a Macedonian of Albanian origin.
Serbia’s Albanian Secessionists Losing Support in the EU
Regarding the expected proposal on Serbian southern province’s final status, representatives of the breakaway regions in three former Soviet republics claim there are more legal and political grounds to grant ex-Soviet regions independence than Kosovo.
After a recent vote for independence in which 99 percent of South Ossetians backed the secession from the former Soviet republic of Georgia, some Western analysts are starting to question the reasons for denying South Ossetians the same luxury Kosovo Albanians are encouraged to pursue.
However, the “support” for the secession of Serbian Kosovo province is not so solid and unanimous as one is led to believe in the EU either. Most recently, Spain has joined Greece and Romania in its opposition to the amputation of Serbian Jerusalem, insisting on the respect for the international law, Helsinki Act on inviolability of borders and Serbian constitution, while Italy keeps wavering back and forth, backing Serbia one day and Ahtisaari (i.e. Adolfsen) the next.
Comments
Don't you find it both maddening and puzzling how the Kosovo independence issue is yoyoing back and forth, and is all over the place? From most news reports one would continue to believe that most parties with influence want independence for the Serbian province, but I just don't believe that's quite true. As the date of the supposed independence approaches, many are getting cold feet and fearing...finally...what kinds of reverberations that could cause. And cause them it will!
Posted by: Blackbird | November 20, 2006 10:18 AM
It seems like it's yoyoing away from the independence - even though those who lobby on behalf of Albanian secessionists keep shooting from their hip and writing rather stupid and irresponsible pieces with the single message: YES, IT WILL! (be granted independence), the facts are certainly not pointing in that direction.
It would've been easy if Serbs have simply signed their province away, if the UN Security Council approved the hijacking, if only the EU was unanimous in backing the amputation, or if there was any legal ground to cut part of Serbia's territory off. But none of it happened, none of it will happen and the international law, the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act - all of it is firmly on Serbian side where it shall remain. Serbian position is also strongly backed by China, Russia and Israel, neither of which can be easily disregarded in matters of such weight and importance. So, what is left to Adolfsen, war criminal Ceku and other Nazis on the world stage is to go door to door, pleading, bending arms and trying to bribe smaller players, in hope the scales will eventually tip in their favor.
I sincerely doubt that strategy will work: Serbian province of Kosovo was always part of Serbia and taking it away and handing it over to a bunch of foreign terrorists and illegal immigrants just because they want it for themselves cannot fail to create a grave precedent, bound to be repeated hundreds of times afterwards, in all sorts of expected and unexpected places. Albanian lobbyists keep saying Serbian southern province is "a unique case", but with absolutely no arguments to support such claim, apart from their desire to single it out, just saying so won't make it stick. It is going to be very, very hard to try to cut Kosovo and Metohija off from Serbia - not impossible (since we've been taught by the West in the last 15 years that might is right), but very, very hard. And even if they manage to do it, they'll have the hardest time keeping it.
Posted by: Svetlana | November 20, 2006 05:09 PM