[NYC-L] RE: [Prishtina-l] Are we awake? Let's open our eyes before the wo rld media starts calling us terrorists!

[BECA, Emine]

Medias:
"Le monde diplomatique" 15/02/2001: "Les Séparatistes albanais cause
probable d'actions violentes en Serbie" (Albanian separatists probable
origin of violent actions in Serbia).
Euronews/BBC World: Always speak about Albanian Separatists.
Under mentioned article was written by S Popovic with a name like that I
doubt she is pro any Albanian cause.
Medias do not stop at CNN or "the Washington post", we need to start
educating ourselves before staring the "Jewish syndrome" everybody is
against us...
Regards
Emine

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		From:	Mentor Cana [mailto:mentor at alb-net.com]
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		Subject:	[Prishtina-l] Are we awake? Let's open our
eyes before the world media starts calling us terrorists!

		Dear friends,

		The article below talks about the fighting in Souther
Serbia. From an
		Albanian perspective the fight is against an oppressor
(Serbia) of many
		decades.

		However, as you see in the article below the Serbs refer to
Albanian
		freedom fighters as terrorist. The term terrorist more and
more is being
		used by the western media (albeit in quotes). The very first
use
		of the word "terrorism" is used by washingtonpost.com as if
they agree with
		that - maybe they do maybe they don't.

		If this trend of labeling continues without protest the
media will see no
		stop in referring to Albanians as terrorist. Hope I'm wrong
in my
		assessment. However, given the fact that the current Serbian
government is
		treated as democratic one by the west, what a paradox!, the
west may give
		them the "green" light to fight the "terrorism".

		We need to start talking..... action is needed in educating
the media
		about the truth...

		later,
		Mentor

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010219/aponline024703_000.ht
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		Yugoslavia Urges Action After Blast

		By Suzana Popovic
		Associated Press Writer
		Monday, Feb. 19, 2001; 2:47 a.m. EST

		PRISTINA, Yugoslavia -- Yugoslavia's leaders promised a
crackdown on
		terrorism along the Kosovo border and demanded action from
NATO
		peacekeepers following two explosions that left at least 10
Serbs dead.
		    Serb authorities blamed ethnic Albanian militants for
the mine that
		killed three police officers Sunday and a bus bombing within
Kosovo that
		killed at least seven civilians Friday.
		    The rebels denied responsibility and said one of their
commanders
		was killed by Serb police later Sunday in Lucane, just
outside a buffer
		zone separating Kosovo province from the rest of Serbia, the
larger of
		the two republics that make up Yugoslavia.
		    Top Yugoslav and Serbian leaders met late Sunday to
discuss the
		mounting violence, and President Vojislav Kostunica's office
released a
		statement pledging a "series of measures against terrorism"
in the area.
		    Yugoslavia also urged NATO-led peacekeepers to stop the
flow of arms
		and guerrillas in the buffer zone, which rebels have used to
stage
		attacks on Serbian police and Yugoslav army troops.
		    The militants want to join the zone with Kosovo as part
of a push
		for independence for the Serbian province, which has been
run by the
		United Nations and NATO-led peacekeepers since June 1999,
when
		Yugoslavia halted its crackdown on the Albanian majority
after a NATO
		bombing campaign.
		    Friday's bombing of a bus carrying Serbs to visit the
graves of
		relatives in Kosovo killed at least seven people and wounded
43, the
		deadliest attack in the province since 13 Serb farmers were
		machine-gunned to death while tilling their fields in July
1999.
		    "I think that the terrorists the other day were trying
to send a
		message to several constituencies at once," Brig. Gen. Rob
Fry,
		commander of the British peacekeepers, said Sunday.
		    The three policemen died Sunday when their van was
demolished by
		what were believed to be anti-tank mines on a road near
Lucane, a
		southern Serbian village just outside the three-mile-wide
buffer zone.
		    The zone was created to prevent what officials feared
would be
		clashes between Serbian forces and the NATO-led peacekeepers
patrolling
		Kosovo under the 1999 peace deal for the province.
		    Only lightly armed Serbian police are allowed to enter
the zone, and
		ethnic Albanian militants have taken control of most of the
strip in
		recent months.
		    Yugoslav authorities say the peacekeepers have failed to
fulfill a
		mandate to keep the ethnic Albanian militants and their
weapons out of
		the buffer zone.
		    Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic appealed
Sunday to NATO
		Secretary-General George Robertson to ensure that the
peacekeeping force
		immediately seal Kosovo's boundary with Serbia.
		    The militants have attacked Serbian police inside the
zone and
		sometimes launch attacks across the line into Serbia proper.
The
		explosion Sunday took place about 200 yards outside the
zone.
		    Serbian police came under fire while trying to pull out
the wreckage
		of the wrecked police vehicle, a government statement said.
		    No one was injured, but Serbian officials reported a
further
		exchange of gunfire between police and the rebels in the
buffer zone
		later Sunday.
		    A spokesman for the ethnic Albanian militants, Jonuz
Musliu, said
		one rebel commander was killed by Serb police Sunday in
Lucane and
		another commander and a soldier were wounded.
		    Musliu, the political officer of the Liberation Army of
Presevo,
		Medvedja and Bujanovac, denied the group was behind the
policemen's
		deaths and condemned the bus bombing.
		    Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic, who
submitted a peace
		plan for the buffer zone to NATO earlier this week, said the
		government's patience was wearing thin.
		    "It is not permissible that such attacks continue,"
Covic said. "We
		also demand from the international community specific
decisions."
		    Meanwhile, U.N. officials in Kosovo's capital, Pristina,
said a
		German forensic team had begun identifying victims in the
bus attack by
		examining bodies and body parts laid out in a large tent.
There were
		fears that the death toll could rise.
		    Hundreds of Serbs gathered Sunday in the Serb enclave of
Gracanica,
		some six miles south of Pristina, to protest Friday's
bombing.
		    Tens of thousands of Serbs have fled their homes in
Kosovo since the
		United Nations and NATO took over, fearing reprisals
following former
		Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown on the
province's
		ethnic Albanians.

		© Copyright 2001 The Associated Press