From silke.blumbach at t-online.de Mon Jun 10 21:01:14 2002 From: silke.blumbach at t-online.de (Silke Liria Blumbach) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 01:01:14 -0000 Subject: [NYC-L] [Prishtina-l] Mire se vini ne listen e re "Vizione" ne shqip ! Message-ID: <174rih-16vV4Kx@fwd04.sul.t-online.com> --- Forumi i diskutimeve Prishtina-L --- Arkivi: www.alb-net.com/pipermail/prishtina-l Te dashur lexuese dhe lexues, kam themeluar nje liste te re e-mail-i ne gjuhen shqipe me titullin "Vizione". Ne kete liste do te dergoj hera-here tekste inspiruese dhe shpresedhenese nga burimet me te ndryshme. Pjesa me e madhe prej tyre do te jene perkthime. Tematika do te shtrihet nga psikologjia deri ne mistike (po kini parasysh qe lista nuk eshte fetare, por pertej feve te ndryshme). Thuhet se mendime te tilla jane ende nje luks per shqiptaret e sotem, qe jane te zene krejt nga lufta per jeten e perditshme, per mbijetesen ... une them se njeriu nuk jeton vetem nga buka ... Ky eshe nje nga kontributet e mia per ta bere boten me te mire dhe me njerezore, sidomos boten shqiptare, qe une e kam ne zemer. Ky eshte teksti pershendetes qe del nga faqja e pare: "Ketu mund te lexoni dhe te dergoni shkrime dhe perkthime inspiruese per vizionet me te ndritshme per njeriun dhe per boten ... dhe bile per Shqiperine dhe Kosoven tone te mjere! Dhe mos harroni qe utopite nuk ekzistojne kot, por per te na dhene guxim dhe orientim per jeten tone. Mire se vini ne boten e vizioneve!" Keshtu mund te anetarizoheni: Shkoni ne faqen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vizione dhe bejeni regjistrimin ose dergojini nje e-mail bosh kesaj adrese: vizione-subscribe at yahoogroups.com Nese njihni dike qe mund te jete i interesuar, jeni te mireseardhur t'ia percillni e-mail-in. Mos u cuditni se akoma nuk ka mesazh. Grupi eshte i ri fringo dhe mendoj se javen qe vjen do te filloj te postoj. Mirupafshim - Mirulexofshim ! Juaja Silke Liria Blumbach _______________________________________________________ This list is for discussions in Albanian language only. For English discusions, use the Prishtina-e list. From mentor at alb-net.com Mon Jun 24 15:20:52 2002 From: mentor at alb-net.com (Mentor Cana) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:20:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NYC-L] [AMCC-News] News: MACEDONIA: NEW TWIST IN "TERRORIST" SHOOTING SAGA: Seven so-called terrorists killed by Macedonian police a ppear to have been workers trying to reach Athens to get jobs (fwd) Message-ID: >>>>>>>>>>>>> PLEASE READ & DISTRIBUTE FURTHER <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< --------------------------------------------------------------------- Human Rights Violations in Macedonia http://www.alb-net.com/amcc/humanrights.htm http://www.alb-net.com/amcc/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- WELCOME TO IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, No. 342, June 12, 2002 ****************** VISIT IWPR ON-LINE: www.iwpr.net **************** MACEDONIA: NEW TWIST IN "TERRORIST" SHOOTING SAGA Seven so-called terrorists killed by Macedonian police appear to have been workers trying to reach Athens to get jobs at the Olympic Games By Saso Ordanoski in Skopje Macedonia's media have questioned official accounts of the killing of seven men shot dead by police earlier this year on the outskirts of Skopje. Police said the men, six from Pakistan and one from India, planned attacks on Western embassies in the Macedonian capital. They said bags containing uniforms of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, and weapons were found with the "mujahedin" fighters. Media suspicions were aroused by the fact that the interior ministry altered its version of events several times. Initially, the ministry said police intercepted the seven men in a van. It later withdrew all mention of a van and said the group of seven opened fire on a police patrol from a two-door jeep. TV pictures showed a jeep whose windscreen had two bullet holes. The latest official version of the March 2 incident said police knew the group was coming and ambushed them, thus explaining why none of the police sustained any injuries. One Western diplomat who was permitted to view the corpses said they were riddled with dozens of bullets. But none of the bags containing KLA uniforms that police said they found with the men had holes in them. This raised suspicions that police planted the bags on the bodies after the killing, as part of their propaganda war against ethnic Albanian militants in Macedonia and their allies in Kosovo. Western diplomats voiced particular alarm over the reliability of the police account when the interior ministry rejected a request for foreign forensic experts to look at the bodies. The police said they had sent photographs of the bodies and their fingerprints to Interpol and had requested help in identifying the men. But the police version of events sustained another blow when a US newspaper identified at least one of the men, Bilal Kazmi, as a Pakistani migrant worker looking for a job in Greece. The discovery came to light after Christopher Cooper, a reporter from The Wall Street Journal, contacted Kazmi's brother Dabir in Athens, where he had migrated in 1999. Cooper showed him a book published by the Macedonian interior ministry called "Islamic fundamentalism in Macedonia". Among photographs of the seven dead men, Dabir recognised his brother Bilal. In a front page article on May 28, the newspaper recounted Bilal's tragic journey from Pakistan through Iran, Turkey and Bulgaria to Greece, where he had hoped to join his brother and find work in the run-up to the 2004 Olympic games. The article claimed that the Macedonian police spun the story about terrorists for their own benefit. Since then, the Greek newspaper Elefterotipia contacted other relatives of the dead men in Greece, as well as the family of the Indian national back in India. All confirmed that their relatives had been trying to get to Athens to find work. The title also revealed that the six Pakistanis belonged to the Shiite Muslim community, a religious minority in Pakistan that has been frequently targeted by Sunni extremists linked to Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. This discovery cast further doubt on Macedonian claims that the men were terrorists. The newspaper said the Macedonian authorities had resorted to desperate methods in their attempt to link their own internal battle with ethnic Albanian insurgents to last year's US-led war against the Taleban Islamists in Afghanistan. Macedonia's hard line interior minister, Ljubo Boskovski, not surprisingly, has refused to budge, saying the case is now closed. His spokesmen insist the seven men were indeed terrorists. However, Boskovski's critics say it may have been no accident that the "terrorists" were shot dead only days before The Hague war crimes tribunal were due to exhume the bodies of ethnic Albanians killed by police in the village of Ljuboten in last year's conflict. Boskovski says attempts to link the two events - and suggestions that the shooting was a diversion - form part of a campaign by his internal enemies and their western friends to undermine him. The bodies of the seven men remain in a morgue in Skopje. An official Pakistani delegation is expected to come and eventually take them away. In the meantime, relatives of the dead have not been allowed to remove them while the investigation continues. Saso Ordanoski is IWPR coordinating editor in Macedonia ______________________________________________________________ If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message to: amcc-news-unsubscribe at alb-net.com , or visit AMCC-NEWS's page at: http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/amcc-news From mentor at alb-net.com Mon Jun 24 15:24:13 2002 From: mentor at alb-net.com (Mentor Cana) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:24:13 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NYC-L] [Kcc-News] News: SERBIA: NEW MASS GRAVES FOUND: More evidence of mass killings of Albanian civilians could soon emerge, but t he perpetrato rs of these crimes may never be prosecuted (fwd) Message-ID: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> READ & DISTRIBUTE FURTHER <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kosova Crisis Center (KCC) News Network: http://www.alb-net.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- WELCOME TO IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, No. 343, June 14, 2002 ****************** VISIT IWPR ON-LINE: www.iwpr.net **************** SERBIA: NEW MASS GRAVES FOUND More evidence of mass killings of Albanian civilians could soon emerge, but the perpetrators of these crimes may never be prosecuted. By IWPR team in Belgrade and London The authorities are preparing to exhume four new mass graves, which are expected to contain more bodies of ethnic Albanians killed in the Kosovo conflict, judicial sources say. Three of the sites are thought to be located in Batajnica, near Belgrade, while the fourth is near Vranje, in southern Serbia. A judicial source said the first exhumation at Batajnica will begin "in a couple of days". He said about 400 to 500 people were buried there and foreign donors had supplied funds for the work. The latest move by the Serbian judiciary does not imply that the perpetrators of these crimes face punishment, however. Judicial sources complain that the police have impeded, rather than expedited, investigations of mass graves containing the bodies of 470 murdered Albanians, which have already been exhumed. Judicial officials say no criminal charges have been brought because the police refused to identify the perpetrators of the killings and their accomplices. Serbia's interior minister, Dusan Mihajlovic, said three months ago that police had finished their share of the job and it was up to the courts to make any further moves. But Milan Sarajlic, deputy district prosecutor in Belgrade, said the police had merely informed the courts of the discovery of the corpses and provided some information about their personal belongings and documents. The public prosecutor could not prosecute those responsible for the killings "because we do not know who the perpetrators are," Sarajlic said. "The police need to file charges against the perpetrators, including their names and surnames, for specific crimes but they have done nothing of the sort." The courts attribute the obstructive stance of the police to the fact that little changed in the police department after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, beyond the replacement of a few top officials. Judicial sources say the Milosevic-era police are "covering up and removing the traces leading towards those responsible for mass graves", mainly to protect themselves from potential prosecution. The process of identifying the killers and their accomplices should not be difficult, given that at least two mass graves were discovered on police property in Batajnica, inside a training centre at the base of a special unit there. Reports of the first Batajnica site to be discovered were leaked to the media two weeks before the new government decided last June to hand over Milosevic to The Hague war crimes tribunal. Facing heavy international pressure to extradite Milosevic to the tribunal, but wary of being labelled a traitor by nationalists at home, the new prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, purposely shocked the public with revelations of the existence of mass graves to counter expected outrage over the former Yugoslav president's deportation. Several days after Milosevic's arrest and hand-over to the tribunal, the public was flooded with police reports concerning two more mass graves. One was sited in a special unit compound, at Petrovo Selo, in eastern Serbia, while the other was near an artificial lake at Perucac, in western Serbia. Soon after, news of the second Batajnica site was broken, containing the largest number of corpses. Dragan Karleusa, deputy head of the anti-organised crime squad, said on May 25 last year the bodies belonged to victims of a "cleaning-up operation" in Kosovo. Karleusa said Milosevic had ordered the aforementioned operation in March 1999 at a meeting with his interior minister, Vlajko Stojiljkovic, and the secret police and regular police chiefs, Radomir Markovic and Vlastimir Djordjevic. The impression was given that the police were investigating the case with some energy. Serbia's deputy prime minister, Zarko Korac, confirmed this when he said efforts to collect evidence on the killings were being stepped up to expand Milosevic's indictment for war crimes. But no criminal charges were brought against any alleged suspects mentioned by Karleusa. While Milosevic and Markovic were jailed, Stojiljkovic committed suicide and Djordjevic was reported to have moved to Moscow. Police sources say Djordjevic was in charge of removing the bodies from Kosovo and burying them at secret locations in Serbia. They say that when a refrigerator truck containing the bodies of murdered Albanians resurfaced from the depths of the Danube, near Tekija, in April 1999, during the NATO bombing, Djordjevic ordered details of this case to be kept secret. Curiously, when Djordjevic disappeared abroad, the police only issued an internal arrest warrant, not an international one. The police have become increasingly reluctant to comment on the mass graves. Unusually, they have failed even to reveal the names of those who had dug the graves. At a news conference on the lorry that was full of bodies, Serbia's interior minister, Dusan Mihajlovic, blandly said the corpses from the truck were transported to Batajnica and handed over to "unidentified officials", without enlarging on who those officials were. It became clear that the police were determined to pass the "hot potato" of mass graves to the judiciary, leaving the courts and the prosecutor's office to take any subsequent blame for inefficiency in the investigation. Journalists who tried to extract more information on the investigation found themselves referred to the judiciary. In late April, the district prosecutor of Belgrade, Rade Terzic, said his office had requested after the first reports of mass graves that police to "check all the facts related to the circumstances of death". He said he told the police that "if these persons [had] suffered at the hands of perpetrators of crimes against the civilian population, the circumstances of their violent death should be investigated". However, judicial sources suggest that the police are spreading rumours that Prime Minister Djindjic himself told the prosecutor's office to halt its investigation, apparently out of fears that his own position might be jeopardised. The Palace of Justice, the principal judicial authority in Serbia, has resolutely denied this, arguing that the premier insisted on the completion of the investigation. The Belgrade district court's investigating judge, Nenad Cavlina, who is in charge of the first Batajnica mass grave site, said the judiciary's work there was almost complete. He said he had issued a warrant for the 36 corpses to be identified through DNA analysis and that forensic experts had taken samples from all the disinterred human remains, while UNMIK provided blood samples of the victims' relatives in Kosovo. "All the evidence was sent to Madrid for DNA analysis and we're expecting results from Spain any time now," he said. Cavlina's colleague, Milan Dilparic, in charge of the investigation at the second Batajnica site, containing 269 bodies, said his case was also proceeding satisfactorily. He also denies the investigation has been deliberately obstructed and insists that a warrant for the exhumation and identification of the bodies was issued and that DNA analysis was underway. Dilparic said the Red Cross would soon be in a position to compile a database of the victims' belongings, including watches, necklaces, rings, cash and personal documents, which would be made available to their relatives for identification purposes. A similar procedure is reportedly underway for the 74 corpses exhumed in Petrovo Selo and the 60 bodies disinterred near the lake at Perucac. But the police are highly reluctant to answer questions on their own activities in connection with the mass graves. Serbia's deputy interior minister, Nenad Milic, recently said they were "still undertaking all available measures and actions within their powers to shed light on all the circumstances related to these events". Requests for the interior ministry to supply hard information on these "measures and actions" invariably hit a brick wall. The response is always the same, "Given that the evidence is in the possession of the judicial organs, the police have reached an agreement that judiciary officials comment on these issues". ______________________________________________________________ If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message to: kcc-news-unsubscribe at alb-net.com , or visit KCC-NEWS's page at: http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/kcc-news From eb246 at columbia.edu Thu Jun 27 12:39:41 2002 From: eb246 at columbia.edu (Erkanda Bujari) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:39:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NYC-L] FW: NATO Parliamentary Assembly Paid Internship (fwd) Message-ID: ****************************************************************** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:19:52 -0400 From: Kevin Hallinan To: "Othereurope (othereurope)" Subject: FW: NATO Parliamentary Assembly Paid Internship -----Original Message----- From: Paul Cook [mailto:stagiaires at naa.be] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 5:42 AM To: stagiaires at naa.be Cc: jspence at naa.be Subject: NATO Parliamentary Assembly Paid Internship Dear Sir/Madame, I am the Economics and Security Committee Director of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels and am also responsible for our Research Assistant/Internship program. The NATO PA works with Parliamentarians from all the NATO Member and Associate Member countries on a range of issues shaping both the trans-Atlantic relationship and East-West relations. Each year we engage five Researchers from January to June and the same number from August to December to assist our Committee Directors in researching and drafting reports. Researchers work with several of the Committees during their tenure and are thus exposed to a wide range of subjects. The five NATO PA Committees cover political and diplomatic affairs, defence and security matters, the civilian aspects of security and trans-Atlantic and transition economic issues. The reports, which are posted on our website at http://www.naa.be, are the central focus of debate at the NATO PA's bi-annual plenary sessions and provide a framework for Committee and Sub-Committeee fact finding missions. Our sessions are held each year in different North American and European cities, and our researchers also help staff these large events. We believe that the Research Assistant Program is one of the best paid internships in international affairs and want to ensure that outstanding recent graduates in international affairs are aware of this opportunity. Candidates for these positions must be nationals of any NATO Member or Associate Member country, and they should hold a first degree and a Master's degree (or equivalent) in Political Science, Political Philosophy, International Relations, Contemporary History, International Economics, European Studies or related subjects. We generally give preference to candidates who have recently completed a Masters degree. Ph.D. candidates are also welcome to apply but should recognize that during their tenure with the NATO-PA, their workday will be dedicated to Assembly defined projects. I should note as well that we receive nearly two hundred applications for these positions, and those selected have had outstanding academic records. We ask candidates to send us a letter of introduction, a CV and two letters of recommendation. The NATO PA provides a small fully-equipped apartment near the center of Brussels free of charge for each Researcher as well as a stipend of Euro 630 a month. The Assembly will also pay the way of researchers to and from Brussels and provide basic medical insurance. All of this is explained in greater detail on our web page at http://www.naa.be/info/stagiaires.html I attach the text from that page and have also pasted it below this e mail should you have problems downloading the attachment. I invite you to place this letter and the print out from our web page in the job/internship listings at your career office or departmental bulletin board. This program is a truly excellent opportunity for young people interested in launching a career in international affairs, and we want to ensure that top students are aware of it. Finally, we hope to bring in the next group of Researchers in January 2003. We have therefore established a November 1, 2002 deadline for applications. Please note that our schedule does not permit us to accept interns interested only in working during the summer. I hope this information is useful, and thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Paul Cook, Ph.D. Director NATO PA Economics and Security Committee, and Research Assistant Program NATO-PA Research Assistant Programme The NATO Parliamentary Assembly usually employs eight paid Research Assistants from NATO nations each year. In general, four of these start in late January and finish in June. The second group starts in August and finishes in late November or mid-December. In addition, the Assembly employs two Research Assistants from Associate Delegate Countries. All applications from candidates with the appropriate qualifications are placed on a list for consideration. Their names remain on the list for consideration for about twelve months. Candidates are requested to inform the Assembly if they cease to be available to take up a position during that time. The Assembly receives well over two hundred applications per year from very well qualified candidates. Every effort is made to assess applications objectively, but many factors must be taken into account. These include the need for a regional balance among participants in the programme. Consequently, it is rare to select two candidates from the same nation for the same intake. Due to the large number of applicants, only candidates selected to participate will be contacted. See below for further details regarding candidates from NATO Member Countries and from Associate Delegation Nations. Information for Candidates from NATO Member Nations The NATO Parliamentary Assembly is the parliamentary consultative organization of the Atlantic Alliance, comprising about 200 members of the national parliaments of the 19 NATO member countries, as well as legislators from 17 Associate Member Nations. The Assembly is divided into five committees: the Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security, the Defence and Security Committee, the Economics and Security Committee, the Political Committee and the Science and Technology Committee. The full Assembly meets twice a year in different member countries at the invitation of national parliaments. Sub-committees and Special Groups examine specific issues and conduct fact-finding missions throughout the year. The International Secretariat of the Assembly is based in Brussels and is staffed by some 30 people from the various NATO member countries. The main task of research assistants is to contribute, at the request of Committee Directors, to the research necessary for the drafting of the Assembly reports, and other documents. The job occasionally entails some administrative work, but most tasks are research oriented. Research assistants from NATO member nations are typically recruited for a three-month period which is usually renewed for up to two additional months. Due to the Assembly's work schedule, research assistants are usually requested to commence work in either January or August. Summer internships are generally not available. The stipend is EURO 620 net per month. The Assembly provides a small furnished and equiped flat free of charge and provides a basic health insurance policy for the duration of the internship. Qualifications Candidates must possess a first degree and a Master's degree (or equivalent) in Political Science, International Relations or related subjects. Preference will be given to candidates who have recently completed their Master's degree. Ph.D. candidates are also welcome to apply but should recognize that during their tenure with the NATO-PA, their workday will be dedicated to Assembly defined projects. Candidates should be completely fluent in oral and written English and/or French. If neither is mother tongue, certified evidence of proficiency level will be required. Knowledge of other European languages is a further asset. Applicants should apply by type-written or word-processed letter, indicating their areas of interest and competence, nationality, and period of availability. A curriculum vitae and two letters of recommendation from referees well-acquainted with the applicant's recent work should also be forwarded to the International Secretariat. Please note that the Assembly receives a very large number of applications for only a few places. Applications for positions commencing in January 2003 should be received by November 1, 2002. Applications should be sent to: Director of Research Assistant Programme E-mail: stagiaires at naa.be NATO Parliamentary Assembly 3 place du Petit Sablon B - 1000 BRUSSELS Information for Candidates from Associate Delegation Nations The NATO Parliamentary Assembly is the parliamentary consultative organization of the Atlantic Alliance, comprising about 200 members of the national parliaments of the 19 NATO member countries, as well as legislators from 17 associate member nations. The Assembly is divided into five committees: the Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security, the Defence and Security Committee, the Economics and Security Committee, the Political Committee and the Science and Technology Committee. The full Assembly meets twice a year in different member countries at the invitation of national parliaments. Sub-committees and Special Groups examine specific issues and conduct fact-finding missions throughout the year. The International Secretariat of the Assembly is based in Brussels and is staffed by some 30 people from the various NATO member countries. The main task of research assistants is to contribute, at the request of Committee Directors, to the research necessary for the drafting of the Assembly reports and other documents. The job occasionally entails some administrative work, but most tasks are research oriented. Research assistants from associate delegation nations are typically recruited for a period of one to three months. Due to the Assembly's work schedule, research assistants are usually requested to commence work in either January or August. The stipend is EURO 620 net per month. The Assembly provides a small furnished and equiped flat free of charge and provides a basic health insurance policy for the duration of the internship. Qualifications Preference is given to candidates who are employed in their national parliaments in a capacity relevant to international relations and/or security. Candidates with backgrounds in academia, government, policy research institutions or journalism are also considered. In general, candidates should have a Master's degree (or equivalent) in Political Science, International Relations or related subjects. In some cases, candidates who do not possess such a degree will be considered if they have relevant professional experience. Candidates should be completely fluent in oral and written English and/or French. If neither is mother tongue, certified evidence of proficiency level will be required. Knowledge of other European languages is a further asset. Applicants should apply by type-written or word-processed letter, indicating their areas of interest and competence, nationality, and period of availability. A curriculum vitae and two letters of recommendation from referees well-acquainted with the applicant's recent work should also be forwarded to the International Secretariat. Please note that the Assembly receives a very large number of applications for only a few places. Applications for positions commencing in January 2003 should be received by November 1, 2002. The names of those selected will be posted on this website. Applications or requests for information should be sent to: Director of Research Assistant Programme E-mail: stagiaires at naa.be NATO Parliamentary Assembly 3 place du Petit Sablon B - 1000 BRUSSELS