[kcc-news] MILOSEVIC AND UNFPA 'TEAM UP' TO TARGET KOSOVARS (fwd)

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http://www.pop.org/briefings/milosevic.html

13 July 1999

Dear Friend and Colleague:
 
The Population Research Institute was concerned about the UNFPA's
"reproductive health" campaign that the UNFPA is waging against the Kosovar
refugee population. PRI sent veteran journalist Austin Ruse to investigate.
The startling revelations contained in this Weekly News Briefing are based
on the report which will appear in the upcoming issue of the PRI Review. 
       
                                        -- Steven W. Mosher, President
 

MILOSEVIC AND UNFPA 'TEAM UP' TO TARGET KOSOVARS
"Stealth" Ethnic Cleansing to Continue with Help of UNFPA, and US Tax
Dollars
 
(WASHINGTON, DC / KOSOVO) --- Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic invited
the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to target the Kosovar population
in a "reproductive health" campaign, according to a just-issued report from
the Population Research Institute (PRI). Milosevic's goal is to engage in
ethnic cleansing by reducing the Kosovars' high birthrate.
 
The report cites an interview with Sterling Scruggs, UNFPA's head of
external communication, in which Scruggs admits that the UNFPA was invited
into Kosovo by Milosevic to conduct a reproductive health "needs assessment"
among the Kosovar population. In addition, Scruggs confirmed, the UNFPA will
conduct regular "reproductive health programs" in Kosovo in the coming
months, as the persecuted ethnic group returns home (Interview with Sterling
Scruggs, PRI Review, "Kosovar Refugee Women 'Just Say No': Milosevic Invites
UNFPA to Target Kosovo Population Upon Their Return Home," June / July 1999,
9).
 
The UNFPA/Milosevic campaign will consist of the indiscriminate distribution
of "reproductive health" supplies to the largely Muslim Kosovar population.
These supplies include abortifacient "morning after" pills, crude IUDs no
longer used in other Western countries, and "manual vacuum aspirators"
(MVAs) used for early term abortions. While the UNFPA falsely claims that
such MVAs are only used to remove the products of incomplete abortions, the
PRI report cites first-hand documentary evidence that Albanian doctors and
health care workers are being trained to use MVAs exclusively as abortion
devices. The report also cites the testimony of a Kosovar refugee who
received an abortion without informed consent.
 
The PRI report, based on interviews with dozens of Kosovar refugee women,
confirms that there is virtually no demand among the Kosovar population for
"reproductive health" services; and that claims of widespread rape,
promiscuity and male oppression were largely fabricated to justify shipments
of "reproductive health" supplies to the region. "The Kosovar women are
outspoken and strong," the report concludes, "The Kosovars are uninterested
in 'reproductive health' supplies." In fact, the Kosovars pride themselves
in having one of the highest birthrates in dying Europe.
 
"Milosevic has been forced to withdraw his troops from Kosovo," the report
concludes, "but, aided by the UNFPA, a new form of ethnic cleansing will
continue under the guise of 'reproductive health'." "Shame on UNFPA for
cooperating with a war criminal like Milosevic," said Steven W. Mosher of
PRI. "This is nothing less than ethnic cleansing by other means. The
Kosovars are proud of their children and their country, and Milosevic and
UNFPA want to deprive them of both." At a time when the US Congress is
considering restoring $25 million in US taxpayer dollars to the UNFPA,
Mosher added that "We should not be violating the rights of Kosovar women or
subsidizing the genocidal plans of war criminals."
 
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The Population Research Institute is committed to ending human rights abuses
committed in the name of "family planning," and to ending counter-productive
social and economic paradigms premised on the myth of "overpopulation."
 
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