From Fdcleis at aol.com Wed Oct 3 14:44:27 2001 From: Fdcleis at aol.com (Fdcleis at aol.com) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 14:44:27 EDT Subject: [NYC-L] NEW BOOK ON KOSOVO Message-ID: No Place Like Home Echoes from Kosovo By Melanie Friend Current Events/Photography CONTACT: Fr?d?rique Delacoste In the U.S: (415) 575-4700 or FDCLEIS at aol.com Publication Dates: November 1, 2001 in U.S. November 15, 2001 in the U.K. "The power of No Place Like Home doesn?t come from obviously shocking pictures; the shock is the realization that these suddenly-changed and cancelled lives were once so like our own." ? GRANTA Midnight Editions is pleased to announce publication of No Place Like Home: Echoes from Kosovo. Through 75 color photographs and 50 accompanying personal testimonies, No Place Like Home offers an extraordinary insight into how history is lived by ordinary citizens. How do people persist with the chores of daily life, knowing that at any time their villages, or even their own homes, may be targeted for terror? How do they survive the murder of entire families? Or the hope of ever finding loved ones who have disappeared? How do they live in the landscapes where massacres took place?and reconcile the thirst for revenge with the need for peace of mind? These questions, which can be asked in the aftermath of any act of violence, are the subject of No Place Like Home: Echoes from Kosovo. British photojournalist Melanie Friend has covered the Balkans since 1989. Well before Kosovo began to make headlines, she was gripped by the region, whose autonomy was revoked by the government of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that same year. Friend became familiar with the tactics of the Serbian police, who spread fear through the predominantly Albanian Muslim population. Her visits were brief, often subject to surveillance and film confiscation. "Everyone had a story to tell, but it wasn?t always easy to find publishable newspaper photographs," Friend writes in the introduction to No Place Like Home. "Repression was hidden, dramatic visual images rare. Police frequently cordoned off whole villages in the aftermath of police raids and beatings. How could you visually represent fear and repression in picturesque villages where roadblocks and surveillance of foreigners? movements made it impossible to witness such events? I wanted to try a different strategy from straightforward photojournalism. I began photographing the rooms and gardens where police raids had taken place." Friend conducted taped interviews with the inhabitants of those rooms and gardens. In 1999, when thousands of Kosovo Albanians fled large-scale reprisals and killings of civilians by the Serbian police and paramilitaries in the wake of the NATO bombings, Friend traveled to Macedonia and interviewed refugees. "I knew I could not photograph nameless people crying as they streamed across the border on tractors, as in so many newspaper images I had seen. These pictures may have been necessary, but I could not bring myself to take them," she writes. Instead, Friend took dignified studio-style portraits of refugees. Later, when the refugees returned to Kosovo, she sought out and re-interviewed all the people she had met in the refugee camps in Macedonia. In some cases, she had only the name of a village for an address. She visited massacre sites in Recak, Lubizhde, and Celine, where Albanian survivors walked with her through beautiful landscapes, now haunted by the memories of those who were killed there. She also interviewed Serbs, Roma, Turks, and other minorities, who, fearing revenge killings, did not wish to be photographed for publication. Melanie Friend?s photographs and interviews span the past decade and offer a profound and original look at repression, war and its aftermath, and their effect on the lives of ordinary citizens. No Place Like Home not only "shows us the human particularity that lies within phrases such as ?ethnic conflict? and ?civil war? " (Ian Jack, Granta), "it enriches our knowledge of Kosovo and inspires deeper reflection about the wider Balkans"(Gabriel Partos, BBC World Service). ADVANCE PRAISE FOR NO PLACE LIKE HOME "Melanie Friend?s remarkable photographs and interviews show us the human particularity that lies within phrases such as ?ethnic conflict? and ?civil war? ? and help us understand how communal hatred and savagery can break out of (and into) the most peaceful field, the most ordinary living room, and what happens after it does. The power of her book doesn?t come from obviously shocking pictures; the shock is the realization that these suddenly-changed and cancelled lives were once so like our own." ? Ian Jack, GRANTA "Melanie Friend?s volume of photographs and accompanying personal testimonies provides an extraordinary insight into Kosovo?s turbulent recent history through the eyes of its ordinary people. Albanians, Serbs, Roma, Turks and Kosovo?s other ethnic communities tell their stories of suffering, flight, resistance, intolerance and comradeship against the backdrop of an often hostile political and social environment. The understated, even restrained imagery - portraits, homes and landscapes - is in sharp contrast with the atrocities chronicled by the victims or their close relatives and friends. It is a book that enriches our knowledge of Kosovo and inspires deeper reflection about the wider Balkans."?Gabriel Partos, BBC WORLD SERVICE "These are not war photographs in the way we would expect, but calm statements of witness, filled with a pathos which even the best of photojournalism could not hope to convey ." ? Val Williams, Curator, THE HASSELBLAD CENTER Melanie Friend?s work has appeared in NEWSWEEK, THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT, GRANTA, and MARIE CLAIRE among other publications. Her photographs of Kosovo have been exhibited at Camerawork, the National Portrait Gallery in London, The Houston Center for Photography, and are currently showing at the Hasselblad Center in Sweden. She lives in London. NO PLACE LIKE HOME: ECHOES FROM KOSOVO by Melanie Friend Current Events/Photography 75 Color Photos, 10x11, 160 pages, Midnight Editions. ISBN 1-57344-119-8 U.S. Price: $39.95 U.K. Price: 30 Pounds Sterling TO ORDER IN U.S. CALL 1-800-780-2279 or email:fdcleis at aol.com TO ORDER IN U.K. CALL 020-8829-3000 or email: orders at turnaround-uk.com From xagolli at stumail.sjcsf.edu Fri Oct 12 13:35:34 2001 From: xagolli at stumail.sjcsf.edu (Xhuliana Agolli) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:35:34 -0600 Subject: [NYC-L] (no subject) Message-ID: <001501c15344$4ca86370$6828a8c0@sjcsf.edu> Giacometti Retrospective NYToday Pick, Museum An exhibition of sculptures, drawings and paintings by Alberto Giacometti (1901-66). The show will include nearly 200 works from 1919 to 1965. Giacometti shows us how to see from a sculptural point of view. A sculpture needs an armature the way a body needs its skeleton. Perhaps everything has an armature, thought being built around a kind of wire in the mind. Giacometti's use of armature was conventional until you understand that several bronzes were born from the clay on one twisted metal rod. After working for a day, a week or maybe a month, he would reach a point of satisfaction. Down the hall from his studio, his brother Diego worked as a furniture maker. Diego would take a plaster mold of the clay original and then use the mold to make a plaster duplicate while Giacometti returned to working on the clay original. At a certain point, Diego would make another mold and later another and perhaps another and another. The sculpture was in flux, and the plasters became a way to see it in time. Giacometti wasn't interested in the fact that the plasters froze the form but in the way the play of light on the surface of the plaster gave him alternative positions from which to view his work. I think this process is beautiful and can serve as an entrance into the work itself. It's so physical yet ephemerally spread out in time, like a thought growing in the mind. Adapted from Thinking of Sculpture as Shaped by Space, The Times, 10/07/01. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10/11/01-01/08/02 $12 Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) Midtown West 11 W. 53d St. New York, NY (212) 708-9480 -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From xagolli at stumail.sjcsf.edu Sun Oct 14 15:31:39 2001 From: xagolli at stumail.sjcsf.edu (Xhuliana Agolli) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:31:39 -0600 Subject: [NYC-L] (no subject) Message-ID: <001101c154e6$d950ffa0$6c28a8c0@sjcsf.edu> Pershendetje, Une kam disa jave qe po mendoj se do t'ishte shume e dobishme dhe interesante--per arsye disa prej te cilave edhe nuk mund te parashikohen :-)--qe studentet shqiptare neper ShBA te mblidheshin dikur sebashku per te kaluar nje mbremje ne nje restorant diku. Ideja ime eshte qe kjo gje te ndodhe andej nga mesi a fundi i Dhjetorit ne NYC ose Boston, kur shume studente duhet jene me pushime shkolle, dhe ku ata si une do te kene mundesi te kthehen prane te afermeve (dhe miqve qe i duan shume). Une do vazhdoj te perpiqem per te kontaktuar studente te tjere te interesuar ne NY, Boston dhe vende te tjera, por, nderkohe, nqs ju jeni te interesuar te merrni pjese ne kete eveniment te mundshem, apo edhe te me ndihmoni ne realizimin e kesaj ideje (sidomos nqs ju ndodheni ne NY ose Boston personalisht), ju lutem te me dergoni nje mesazh ne posten time elektronike (xagolli at stumail.sjcsf.edu). Dhe nqs ju njihni studente te tjere te interesuar, ju lutem njoftojini edhe ata qe nje ide e ketille eshte duke u harbuar ne mendjet e disave, dhe se realizimi i saj varet direkt prej tyre (studentave qe do te duan dhe kene mundesi per te marre pjese). Miqesisht, Xhuliana Agolli -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From mentor at alb-net.com Mon Oct 29 00:19:38 2001 From: mentor at alb-net.com (Mentor Cana) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 00:19:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: [NYC-L] [Kcc-News] In-Depth [HRW] Report Documents Milosevic Crimes: New Statistics Show Direction from Belgrade (fwd) Message-ID: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> READ & DISTRIBUTE FURTHER <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kosova Crisis Center (KCC) News Network: http://www.alb-net.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/10/kosovo1026.htm In-Depth Report Documents Milosevic Crimes New Statistics Show Direction from Belgrade "This report implicates the former leadership of Serbia and Yugoslavia in numerous atrocities. The 1999 Kosovo campaign was clearly coordinated from the top, and some of these people still hold important positions today." Elizabeth Andersen Executive Director Europe and Central Asia division (Pristina, Kosovo, October 26, 2001) Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and his inner circle of political and military leaders are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo, Human Rights Watch said today, three days before Milosevic's next hearing at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague. The 593-page report released today, "Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo," uses innovative statistical methods and comprehensive field research to document the torture, killings, rapes, and forced expulsions committed by forces under Milosevic's command against Kosovar Albanians between March 24 and June 12, 1999, the period of NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia. More than 600 victims and witnesses of atrocities were interviewed for the report. "This report implicates the former leadership of Serbia and Yugoslavia in numerous atrocities," said Elizabeth Andersen, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia division. "The 1999 Kosovo campaign was clearly coordinated from the top, and some of these people still hold important positions today." War crimes committed by Serbian and Yugoslav security forces did not occur in isolation, the Human Rights Watch report says. Three chapters of the report document abuses committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army, which abducted and murdered civilians during and after the war, as well as violations by NATO, which failed to minimize civilian casualties during its bombing of Yugoslavia. A background chapter analyzes Kosovo's recent history and the international community's failure to stop what is dubbed a "predictable conflict." "For a decade the international community tolerated human rights abuses in Kosovo in the name of regional stability," Andersen said. "This report stresses the importance of promoting human rights before a conflict erupts, as well as accountability for past abuses to halt the cycle of violence." "Under Orders" breaks new ground in the depth and breadth of its documentation, including detailed case studies of dozens of villages, a statistical analysis of the abuses, photographs of perpetrators, a strategic overview of the Belgrade government's offensive, and the organizational structure of the Serbian police and Yugoslav army, both controlled by Milosevic. A statistical analysis of executions in Kosovo, prepared in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), reveals the coordinated nature of the offensive. Three distinct waves of killings suggest the executions were not the result of random violence by government forces. Rather, "they were carefully planned and implemented operations that fit into the [Belgrade] government's strategic aims," the report concludes. Witness and survivor testimonies in village after village describe how Serbian and Yugoslav troops systematically burned homes, looted businesses, expelled civilians, and murdered those suspected of participating in or harboring the KLA, including some women and children. At some sites, witnesses reported that bodies were removed to conceal the crimes. This cover-up was apparently confirmed in 2001, when seven mass graves were discovered in Serbia proper containing the bodies of Kosovar Albanians. Rape and sexual violence were also components of the campaign, the report says, used to terrorize the civilian population, extort money from families, and push people to flee their homes. Human Rights Watch documented ninety-six cases of rape and sexual assault in Kosovo, although the total number of sexual assaults is certainly much higher. Human Rights Watch has urged the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to include rape charges in the indictment against Milosevic. A chapter entitled "Forces of the Conflict" details the various government troops involved in the conflict, as well as key members of the KLA. Important commanders in the Serbian police and Yugoslav Army, all listed in organizational diagrams, include: Gen. Dragoljub Ojdanic, former Chief of the Yugoslav Army General Staff Col. Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic, former head of the Yugoslav Army's Third Army Maj. Gen. Vladimir Lazarevic, former head of the Third Army's Pristina Corps Vlajko Stojiljkovic, former Serbian Minister of Internal Affairs Col. Gen. Radomir Markovic, former head of Serbia's state security service (SDB) Col. Sreten Lukic, former head of Serbian police in Kosovo Col. Gen. Vlastimir Djordjevic, former head of Serbia's public security service (RJB) Lt. Gen. Obrad Stevanovic, former head of Serbia's police department Despite his direct involvement in the 1999 campaign, Nebojsa Pavkovic is currently chief of the Yugoslav Army General Staff. Sreten Lukic is currently chief of public security in the Serbian police. Ojdanic and Stojiljkovic, both indicted by the ICTY for crimes in Kosovo, are still at large, as are two other Kosovo-related indictees, Nikola Sainovic, former Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister, and Milan Milutinovic, still the President of Serbia. The report also documents violations by NATO and the KLA. NATO bombs killed approximately 500 Yugoslav civilians between March and June 1999, and NATO did not take adequate steps to minimize this number, the report concludes. NATO's use of cluster bombs, although halted in the course of the conflict, is also criticized in the report. Human Rights Watch also charged the KLA with committing serious abuses in 1998, in the course of fighting that led up to the NATO bombing. KLA abuses during this period included abductions and murders of Serbs and ethnic Albanians considered collaborators with the state. Elements of the KLA are also responsible for post-conflict attacks on Serbs, Roma, and other non-Albanians, as well as ethnic Albanian political rivals. As many as one thousand Serbs and Roma have been murdered or have gone missing since NATO bombing ceased on June 12, 1999. Criminal gangs or vengeful individuals may have been involved in some incidents since the war, but KLA members are clearly responsible for many of these crimes. By late-2000 more than 210,000 Serbs had fled Kosovo; most of them left in the first six weeks of the NATO deployment. Those who remain are concentrated in mono-ethnic enclaves. The international community's slow response after the bombing campaign is partially to blame for the post-war violence, the report concludes. The United Nations and NATO failed to take decisive action from the outset to curb the forced displacement and killings of Kosovo's non-ethnic Albanian population, which set a precedent for the post-war period. Two years after the war, a functioning judiciary system has not been established and an atmosphere of impunity persists. The report welcomes Milosevic's April 2001 arrest and his subsequent transfer to the ICTY. But Human Rights Watch urged further action by the Serbian authorities and the international community to hold accountable all those responsible for crimes committed during the war in Kosovo, as well as during the wars in other parts of the former Yugoslavia. "Holding Milosevic accountable is a first step," Andersen said. "But he is only one on a long list." The report "Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo" is available online at http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/kosovo/. The release, the table of contents, and the executive summary are available in Albanian at http://www.hrw.org/albanian/kosovo2001/kosovo1026-alb.htm and in The release, table of contents, and executive summary are available in Serbian at http://www.hrw.org/serbian/kosovo2001/kosovo1026-serbian.htm For more information on war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Kosovo, please see: Key documents on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at http://www.hrw.org/europe/fry.php Kosovo: Focus on Human Rights (HRW Focus Page) at http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/kosovo98/index.shtml ________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list visit: http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/kcc-news