I am a danish journalist working together with my colleaque Lars ___ on
articles about the serbian war crimes i Kosova. We would like to print parts
of the statement by Vojislav Selselj in Velika Serbija on Oct.14, 1995 to
show the absurdity of serb-nationalist way of thinking. However we need to
verify that the article has been printed in Velika Serbija. Could You help
us - f.ex. with a telefax of the article taken from the newspaper.
Best regards
Kim

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We (European Community Monitory Mission) would like to know if you can
provide any information about Mr. Veton Surroi (is he dead or alive) and
about Mr. Dr. Ilir Toloj (who used to work for International red Cross -
ICRC) who was injured last December n FRY - few people died and he was the
only one who survived, in the car - mine -land.

We would be very greatfull for any information,
Thank you in advance,

ECMM Press Office
Sarajevo

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A letter to the Serbian-controlled state media. Everyday I worry for you and
hope that you are all safe, and that you will return home soon.

To whomever it may concern:

I would like to commend you on your outstanding use of propaganda.  It is
rather sad, and unfortunate, that the remainder of the world knows the real
truth.  I recognize the use of propaganda in war, and that both sides use it
- but the Serbia's state-controlled media is so one-sided and biased, that
it is hard to believe anything you say that hasn't been confirmed by outside
neutral sources (non US media).  It reminds me of what one would read in
Pravda or Izvestiya before the demise of the USSR.

Quit Kosova and give peace a chance.  You want the bombing to stop, so do I.
However, this cannot happen as ethnic Albanians continue to be harassed,
robbed, raped, tortured, and killed by JNA and Chetnik forces in Kosova and
Montenegro.

I am sorry for the losses of innocent Serbs, but the facts are undeniable.
Serbian paramilitary "Chetniks" and members of the JNA murdered, raped, and
beat Croatians in Vukovar, and this information is available for the world
to see in the International War Crimes Tribunal documents;  and many who
were responsible are allowed safe haven in Serbia.  It is hard not to
believe it is happening again in Kosova. 

Milosevic is more concerned about his power base than he is about Serbia,
and as a result, thousands of innocents die, and even more to flee.  I do
not believe that he cares even about a "greater Serbia," but only his
ability to control others.

The writing is on the wall, quit Kosova and give peace a chance.  I
recognize that we look at the world from two very different vantage points,
but I grow tired of hearing about the losses of all innocents, Serb and
Albanian alike.

Shannon McCain
Houston, TX USA

If you wish to write similar letters of protest, they can be sent to:
mirs@srbija-info.yu <mailto:mirs@srbija-info.yu>  

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Need information on how to sign up for KLA.

David

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Please if there is any way that I can help by giving a family or
children a place to live I will.  I have room for 3 people.  My little
boy is willing to share his clothes and toys and I will share all that I
have as well.

Melony

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Dear KCC,

My name is Dominic and I'm working on a television programme for Channel 4
entitled "NATO on Trial".

I am looking for Kosovar refugees recently arrived in this country who would
be willing and able to give their opinions on the current NATO action
against Yugoslavia. 

The programme will be recorded in London on Sunday.  Are you able to put me
in touch with anyone who might be able to help? 

Thanks!

Dominic

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Dear Friends,
Where are you?  We go to your web site everyday to read the latest on
Kosova, but your site has not been updated in 3 days.  We hope you are
well.  Perhaps you are students, like me, and are just very busy. In any
event, keep up the good work.  Your efforts are appreciated...
Mary

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dear person:

i have a kosovo website in the u.s. and would like to submit it to
alb-net.com if it is appropriate.

i am using a webtv and the layout is set for that and not for a
computer.  So if you have any suggestions which would make it better for
your viewers i would appreciate them.

i am a new user and not very good at html or tables, but i will try my
best to make my site nice for alb-net.

thank you for considering it.

http://members.tripod.com/~pagoo2/News1/new3.html

sincerely,
karen johnson

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Hello,
      Today I just noticed that you have a database for the location
of missing persons in the Albanian language.  Before I found out
about your database,  I tried to accomplish the same thing, but in
English since I don't speak Albanian or know anybody who does.
I hope my website might be of some help to you if I can get people
to send information to me about missing relatives. I have been
trying to establish contacts in various aid agencies.
      On Sunday, May 9, I  launched an internet website to become a
bulletin board for the identification and location of missing,
unidentified or displaced persons to enable them to locate their
relatives or for aid agencies to identify unidentified children or
victims of amnesia.  Of course, this site would be accessible by
individuals or agencies from any place in the world having internet
access. This site currently has only 3 fictitious persons displayed for
the purposes of demonstrating how the site functions.  The site is
now 100% functional, but needs some real refugee data to be
entered. The current  website address is:

   http://millennium.fortunecity.com/sherwood/806

I am requesting that agencies or individuals email photographs
(in JPG image format) and details of refugees (including a physical
description with age, weight, gender, height, home town, present
location -if known-) who want to be featured on this website so
that I can make this site 100% operational.  If some individuals
would like to keep their family name off the internet, they can be
identified by an ID number  (It's probably better to use,
at least a first name -if available - for the purposes of better
identification.) while more complete information could be
retained in a separate data base with an ID number index. Some
digital cameras create images in JPG format on a floppy disk.

I have been in touch with various refugee relief agencies about this
website, but I still have many more to contact. What is needed is
somebody at the various refugee camps to take digital pictures and
collect personal information to be emailed to me for inclusion on
my website. I intend to recruit  student volunteers to help maintain
the website.  I intend to operate it on a non-profit basis, but I
anticipate that there may be some minimal costs involved to hire
someone to do data entry if I am unable to recruit student
volunteers. Please reply to this email if you have any questions,
comments or suggestions.

Thanks,
Joe McGhee

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Other Points of View (Counterpoint)  or  Opinion Article

My husband and I have just returned from Albania. What can we say about
our trip? We met the refugees face to face and had many interviews with
them; we saw their living conditions and their suffering first hand, and
we listened to their stories. The Kosovars who were able to make it into
Albania-over 400,000!-have lost everything: possessions, money, identity
papers, certificates… They have nothing, and the majority of them have
suffered severe traumatic experiences. It was particularly heartbreaking
to visit a hospital in Tirana, the capital of Albania, where one of the
many patients is a little boy, Marwan, just seven-years-old, whose hip
and legs were broken as a result of being struck with the butt of a
rifle! Why such hatred for a little kid?

In that same hospital, which is in dire need of all kinds of surgical
equipment and supplies, doctors implanted a metal stud in a woman's leg
to hold it together; it had been shot off by a sniper's bullet. Another
woman had lost four daughters (17 to 22); they had been abducted and
taken to a rape camp-never to be seen or heard from again! We heard
stories of Serbs cutting off the ears of Kosovars and threatening to kill
them in order to extract money from their parents and relatives! Others
related that children's eyes were gouged and their throats were cut when
their parents could not come up with certain sums of money. Imagine the
trauma of witnessing this! I still ask why?

We talked to a man who said that a Serb policeman at the border held a
gun to his son's head and demanded 800 Marks. The man gave him everything
he had to save his son. We were told that Serbs, after stealing
everything of value in them, burned the homes of Kosovars with people in
them-including children, women, and old people. A young engineer (28) and
his wife (24), carrying her two-year-old child, were shot dead among many
others. Thank God, the mother fell over the child, who was found alive
many hours later. The child now lives with another family at a camp in
Tirana. The stories go on and on-sickening and heartbreaking.

Most Kosovars who came into Albania came on foot, walking anywhere from
17 to 30 hours; those who were too old, too sick, or too feeble to leave
were murdered by the Serbs. I interviewed a young man who had just
crossed into Albania three days earlier. I asked him how the people in
the mountains of Kosova-there are tens of thousands of them still hiding
there-were surviving. He said that they were eating dog meat to survive!
It is hard to believe that all of this is happening right now-yet it is!

The town of Kukes, just 18 miles from the Kosova-Albanian border, used to
house 24,000 inhabitants. Today it is the home of 224,000! You cannot
imagine the sanitation and utilities problems there. To reach this town,
humanitarian convoys must go through 150 miles of mountainous roads,
which are dangerous and in very bad condition. It took us 7 hours to get
there! Thank God, we were able to distribute the few supplies we had
carried from Minneapolis. The people of Kosova were very happy to see and
hear from and receive a helping hand from ordinary people living in the
U.S.

So it was very shocking to us to read Timothy Brennan's article, "War on
Yugoslavia is illegal, immoral and costly" (STAR TRIBUNE, May 18). It may
be easy for someone standing behind a lecture podium in Minneapolis to
say: "Accusations of 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo have never been
substantiated." But if Mr. Brennan left the comfort of his intellectually
balanced position and visited even a single refugee camp in Albania, he
would have a very different view of reality.

When you talk to the ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosova, Muslims and
Catholics, who have been expelled from their homes at gunpoint, whose
homes have been plundered and burnt, whose daughters have been captured
and taken to rape camps, whose young boys have been beaten and maimed,
and whose parents have been slaughtered, you cannot say that these are
"military operations against the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)."

Simply ask yourself what you can say to children who have been beaten,
wounded, or burned by the Serbs? Why did the Serb hate you that much?

Nor do such things, which for some reason we are afraid to call by their
true name (just as the Clinton Administration is afraid to call Milosevic
a "war criminal"), happen in a vacuum. Have we already forgotten about
Greater Serbia? Have we already forgotten about what happened just a few
years ago in Croatia and Bosnia? Have we forgotten about ethnic cleansing
there? Milosevic is a repeat offender and a war criminal.

To suggest that the UN can be part of the solution is wishful thinking at
best. This body has been rendered so weak that it does not even have a
voice of its own. Have we all forgotten about Srebrenica? It was a "safe
haven" under the UN, and the Serbs murdered over 10,000 there before the
UN forces' very eyes. Have we forgotten the 60,000 women who were raped
in Bosnia? Have we forgotten the 250,000 human beings who were killed by
Milosevic's armies while the world and the UN watched, silent and
helpless.

The UN cannot even be part of the solution where the refugees are
concerned. Consider the status of UN resolutions with regard to the
Palestinian refugees. Have the resolutions been implemented?  And we
still talk about the UN! What UN?

As for the claim that ethnic cleansing started as a result of the
bombing, we asked that very question in interview after interview. All
the Kosovar refugees said that they had left because of the atrocities in
Kosova-atrocities that had started before the bombing.

Is the bombing right? Is it legal? No. But how can we talk about what is
legal and what is not in the absence of all law? If law existed, if law
were respected and implemented, wouldn't we have arrested, convicted, and
punished Milosevic and all his aides (including Karadic and Mladic) for
their war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia? Instead we make deals with
criminals. Is that legal?

We say we respect the rights of other human beings. If so, why don't we
recognize Kosova as an independent state and allow the Kosovars to defend
themselves? Have we forgotten what it means to be independent? Is the
Fourth of July now just a fireworks display? Have we forgotten the
history of this country and what sacrifices had to be made for the sake
of independence? Is it legal and moral to put obstacles in front of
others seeking their own independence?

We say we want peace and stability in the world, yet we rob the UN of all
tools and resources that could help it become an agent for the resolution
of conflicts. We say we want justice, yet we do not properly fund or
support the International War Crimes Tribunal. Is that legal? Is that
moral?

There seem to be many hidden agendas in what we do. And until we
understand and find remedies for the causes of human injustice towards
other human beings, we cannot call ourselves civilized.

Magda and Samir Saikali
Savage, MN

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I would like to help.  I am a 31 single female from Florida.  I have no ties
to Kosovo area.  How can I help.  Please advise

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I have sent an email to a couple of news organizations hoping that they
would publish the two URL's I have listed in the email message.  I believe
it would help if you would email these two URL's to your subscribers so they
can see the total fabrications coming from the Serb propaganda machine.  I
also believe putting these on your site would help people realize and be
able to see for themselves the Serb lying propaganda machine at work.

By looking at the picture on this URL I would believe that the woman
probably picked up an explosive.  Her hands have been severed from her arms
and in all probability that would not have happened (from a percussion from
a dropped bomb) had she been standing upright.

----- Original Message -----
From: News Online <newsonline@bbc.co.uk>
To: 'Hoyal' <Hoyal@email.msn.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 8:51 AM
Subject: RE: Can't remember what they have written.


> Thanks for your contribution, Hoyal. It comes as no particular surprise
that
> the Serbian Website contains this error - it is after all a propaganda
> outfit.
>
> Regards
> BBC News Online
> http://news.bbc.co.uk
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hoyal [SMTP:Hoyal@email.msn.com]
> > Sent: 19 May 1999 22:04
> > To: newsonline@bbc.co.uk
> > Subject: Can't remember what they have written.
> >
> > I am sending you this email in the hopes that it can be shown to the
world
> > about the total fabrications that are coming out of the Serbia info
site.
> >
> > This link will take you to the Serbia info site.  The reason for sending
> > you this site is for showing that the propaganda machine is all messed
up
> > in this war torn country.  The old woman shown on this site as being
> > killed today was also killed on April 23, 1999.  I find this site quite
> > amusing since they tend to contradict themselves on a day to day basis.
> >  (URL # 1)
> > <http://www.serbia-info.com/news/1999-05/18/11945.html>
> >
> > This url will take you to the April 23, 1999 story and picture of the
same
> > woman.  Also part of the picture has a deletion(white out) to remove
> > something.  The picture will be the second down on this page.
> >  (URL #2)
> > <http://www.serbia-info.com/news/1999-04/23/11210.html>
> >
> > Hoyal White
> > USA