From iliriana at usa.net Mon Oct 2 11:01:01 2000 From: iliriana at usa.net (Iliriana Mushkolaj) Date: Mon Oct 2 11:01:01 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] Countdown to a very personal war, by James P Rubin Message-ID: <20001002150026.7634.qmail@nwcst291.netaddress.usa.net> Interesting and long article with inside observatios of many of events relevant to negotiations from Saturday's Financial Times. The second part is next week. http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3YR6I5QDC&live=true&tagid=YYY9BSINKTM&useoverridetemplate=IXLZHNNP94C ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 From besnik.grajqevci at bt.com Mon Oct 9 09:11:01 2000 From: besnik.grajqevci at bt.com (besnik.grajqevci at bt.com) Date: Mon Oct 9 09:11:01 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] Countdown to a very personal war, by James P Ru bin Message-ID: <71DA16F18D32D2119A1D0000F8FE9A9408DD0FED@mbtlipnt01.btlabs.bt.co.uk> Part two of the article, http://people.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3WH5310EC&l ive=true&tagid=IXLAI5JTS7C&useoverridetemplate=IXLUBP2SS7C Besniku -> -----Original Message----- -> From: Iliriana Mushkolaj [mailto:iliriana at usa.net] -> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 4:00 PM -> To: prishtina-e at alb-net.com -> Subject: [Prishtina-E] Countdown to a very personal war, by James P -> Rubin -> -> -> --- Prishtina-E Discussion Forum --- -> Archives: www.alb-net.com/pipermail/prishtina-e -> -> Interesting and long article with inside observatios of many -> of events -> relevant to negotiations from Saturday's Financial Times. -> The second part is -> next week. -> -> http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid= FT3YR6I5QDC&live=true&tagid=YYY9BSINKTM&useoverridetemplate=IXLZHNNP94C -> -> -> -> ____________________________________________________________________ -> Get free email and a permanent address at -> http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 -> _______________________________________________________ -> Prishtina-E discussion forum: Prishtina-E at alb-net.com -> http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/prishtina-e -> From juniku at hotmail.com Thu Oct 12 07:34:04 2000 From: juniku at hotmail.com (Uk Lushi) Date: Thu Oct 12 07:34:04 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] Article from the globeandmail.com Web Centre Message-ID: This e-mail has been sent to you by Uk Lushi (juniku at hotmail.com) from the globeandmail.com Web Centre. Message: The Globe and Mail, Thursday, October 12, 2000 Ethnic Albanians use Web in fight against Serb control TRENDS: The Internet is growing in popularity among Kosovars who continue to push for an independent nation By Julian Sher PRISTINA, YUGOSLAVIA -- Former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic's power may have collapsed in the face of hundreds of thousands of protesters from across Serbia, but a small army of Web warriors in the province of Kosovo vow to continue their fight against Serbian domination, regardless of who rules in Belgrade. In the capital of Pristina, Afredita Kelmendi gazes out of her 16th-floor office, over the rubble and mangled buildings of a city scarred by war and ethnic hatred, to the satellite dishes that pump her Albanian-language Webcasts around the world. "We started in exactly the opposite way the media in the West did," she explained. "We began on the Web and then moved to the old-style radio airwaves. We were forced to survive on the Web, and that survival showed us that anything is possible." Just over a year ago, she was huddled in a Macedonian refugee camp, one of tens of thousands of Kosovo Albanians who fled the province in the face of Serb aggression. She cobbled together an emergency Web page as the voice of resistance during the Kosovo war. Now she is the director of Radio 21, a full-fledged radio and TV station, respected for its independent reporting. Four out of five journalists are under 30. Most of them are women. The toilets don't work in the building; the elevators are erratic; the hallways are filled with debris. But thanks to funds from foreign foundations and a helping hand from U.S. Internet firms, Ms. Kelmendi, 43, has put together a bustling news operation. "We are the future, the 21st century; that's why we call ourselves Radio 21," she explains. Like its most popular radio station, all of Pristina seems caught in a curious time warp: There is often no running water in the evenings; the phone service is notoriously unreliable; the electricity flickers during regular brownouts; there is no functioning postal service. But computer users can surf the Web at lightning speed, with networks connected directly by satellite to servers abroad. In the middle of Pristina, next to the twisted metal and crushed concrete walls that used to be the police station, young people line up at caf? for a hot connection. Last year, Pristina had not a single Internet caf?; now it has nine Web salons and there are about a dozen more in the region. Veton Rugova sports the short-cropped hair and fast-clipped, slightly accented English that are the trademarks of the under-30 Web warriors here. He is the foreign editor for RTK, the public broadcasting network. "The Web is the best solution to build bridges between communities. Through the Web, I can speak to Serb dissidents," Mr. Rugova said as he clicked through various Albanian, Croatian, Serbian and English-language Web sites. Ironically, it was Mr. Milosevic's repression of ethnic-Albanian culture, starting in 1990, that gave birth to what people call the "Internet generation" of Kosovars. The former president shut down Albanian-language radio, TV stations and newspapers, forcing young people and journalists to turn to e-mail and the Web. Ms. Kelmendi and her colleagues, including her news-editor husband, went underground. Radio 21 emerged in 1998, when Ms. Kelmendi started broadcasting Albanian news on the Web. She and her family moved from house to house, from computer to computer, to get the news out. She hung on for almost a year, until Serbian police caught up with her. She and her family left Kosovo in April, 1999, joining thousands of others of ethnic Albanians who fled to safety across the Macedonian border. Within days, she had set up a new Web site and was issuing news reports for two hours a day. "I'll never forget the first message we sent on the Web: 'We are back; we are going to try to do everything to inform you,' " Ms. Kelmendi recalled, her voice cracking. When North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops entered Kosovo in June, 1999, Ms. Kelmendi's Web army was right behind them. Last summer, Radio 21 began broadcasting by radio on the air 24 hours a day and expanded its Web broadcasts. It also offers Albanian-language news 24 hours a day on the Web. Radio 21's newscasts are now filled with much more than resistance bulletins. Its reporters cover human-rights issues, international relief efforts and infighting among Pristina's politicians. But even with Mr. Milosevic gone, ethnic-Albanian journalists do not hold out much hope for substantive change for Kosovo. The new President, Vojislav Kostunica, is also a strong nationalist and an opponent of NATO's policies. Having survived Mr. Milosevic, the challenge now for Kosovo Albanian journalists is how well they tackle the enemy within. There have been more than 330 serious ethnic crimes in Kosovo since January, about two-thirds committed by ethnic Albanians against Serbs and other minorities. Copyright 2000 | The Globe and Mail Visit the globeandmail.com Web Centre for your competitive edge. News: http://www.globeandmail.com Books: http://www.chaptersglobe.com Careers: http://www.globecareers.com Mutual Funds: http://www.globefund.com Stocks: http://www.globeinvestor.com ROB Magazine: http://www.robmagazine.com Technology: http://www.globetechnology.com ROBTv: http://www.robtv.com Wheels: http://www.globemegawheels.com From Jordan_k at aps.edu Thu Oct 12 11:19:01 2000 From: Jordan_k at aps.edu (Keith Jordan) Date: Thu Oct 12 11:19:01 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] Article from the globeandmail.com Web Centre References: Message-ID: <39E5D667.754FFE3D@aps.edu> Hey Joe, this is interesting stuff, it has to do with your area and the web. :))) Keith Uk Lushi wrote: > This e-mail has been sent to you by Uk Lushi (juniku at hotmail.com) from the globeandmail.com Web Centre. > > Message: > > The Globe and Mail, Thursday, October 12, 2000 > > Ethnic Albanians use Web in fight against Serb control > TRENDS: The Internet is growing in popularity among Kosovars who continue to push for an independent nation > By Julian Sher > > PRISTINA, YUGOSLAVIA -- Former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic's power may have collapsed in the face of hundreds of thousands of protesters from across Serbia, but a small army of Web warriors in the province of Kosovo vow to continue their fight against Serbian domination, regardless of who rules in Belgrade. > > In the capital of Pristina, Afredita Kelmendi gazes out of her 16th-floor office, over the rubble and mangled buildings of a city scarred by war and ethnic hatred, to the satellite dishes that pump her Albanian-language Webcasts around the world. > > "We started in exactly the opposite way the media in the West did," she explained. > > "We began on the Web and then moved to the old-style radio airwaves. We were forced to survive on the Web, and that survival showed us that anything is possible." > > Just over a year ago, she was huddled in a Macedonian refugee camp, one of tens of thousands of Kosovo Albanians who fled the province in the face of Serb aggression. She cobbled together an emergency Web page as the voice of resistance during the Kosovo war. > > Now she is the director of Radio 21, a full-fledged radio and TV station, respected for its independent reporting. > > Four out of five journalists are under 30. Most of them are women. The toilets don't work in the building; the elevators are erratic; the hallways are filled with debris. > > But thanks to funds from foreign foundations and a helping hand from U.S. Internet firms, Ms. Kelmendi, 43, has put together a bustling news operation. > > "We are the future, the 21st century; that's why we call ourselves Radio 21," she explains. > > Like its most popular radio station, all of Pristina seems caught in a curious time warp: There is often no running water in the evenings; the phone service is notoriously unreliable; the electricity flickers during regular brownouts; there is no functioning postal service. But computer users can surf the Web at lightning speed, with networks connected directly by satellite to servers abroad. > > In the middle of Pristina, next to the twisted metal and crushed concrete walls that used to be the police station, young people line up at caf? for a hot connection. > > Last year, Pristina had not a single Internet caf?; now it has nine Web salons and there are about a dozen more in the region. > > Veton Rugova sports the short-cropped hair and fast-clipped, slightly accented English that are the trademarks of the under-30 Web warriors here. > > He is the foreign editor for RTK, the public broadcasting network. > > "The Web is the best solution to build bridges between communities. Through the Web, I can speak to Serb dissidents," Mr. Rugova said as he clicked through various Albanian, Croatian, Serbian and English-language Web sites. > > Ironically, it was Mr. Milosevic's repression of ethnic-Albanian culture, starting in 1990, that gave birth to what people call the "Internet generation" of Kosovars. The former president shut down Albanian-language radio, TV stations and newspapers, forcing young people and journalists to turn to e-mail and the Web. > > Ms. Kelmendi and her colleagues, including her news-editor husband, went underground. Radio 21 emerged in 1998, when Ms. Kelmendi started broadcasting Albanian news on the Web. > > She and her family moved from house to house, from computer to computer, to get the news out. She hung on for almost a year, until Serbian police caught up with her. She and her family left Kosovo in April, 1999, joining thousands of others of ethnic Albanians who fled to safety across the Macedonian border. > > Within days, she had set up a new Web site and was issuing news reports for two hours a day. > > "I'll never forget the first message we sent on the Web: 'We are back; we are going to try to do everything to inform you,' " Ms. Kelmendi recalled, her voice cracking. > > When North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops entered Kosovo in June, 1999, Ms. Kelmendi's Web army was right behind them. Last summer, Radio 21 began broadcasting by radio on the air 24 hours a day and expanded its Web broadcasts. It also offers Albanian-language news 24 hours a day on the Web. > > Radio 21's newscasts are now filled with much more than resistance bulletins. Its reporters cover human-rights issues, international relief efforts and infighting among Pristina's politicians. > > But even with Mr. Milosevic gone, ethnic-Albanian journalists do not hold out much hope for substantive change for Kosovo. > > The new President, Vojislav Kostunica, is also a strong nationalist and an opponent of NATO's policies. > > Having survived Mr. Milosevic, the challenge now for Kosovo Albanian journalists is how well they tackle the enemy within. > > There have been more than 330 serious ethnic crimes in Kosovo since January, about two-thirds committed by ethnic Albanians against Serbs and other minorities. > > Copyright 2000 | The Globe and Mail > > Visit the globeandmail.com Web Centre for your competitive edge. > > News: http://www.globeandmail.com > Books: http://www.chaptersglobe.com > Careers: http://www.globecareers.com > Mutual Funds: http://www.globefund.com > Stocks: http://www.globeinvestor.com > ROB Magazine: http://www.robmagazine.com > Technology: http://www.globetechnology.com > ROBTv: http://www.robtv.com > Wheels: http://www.globemegawheels.com > > _______________________________________________________ > Prishtina-E discussion forum: Prishtina-E at alb-net.com > http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/prishtina-e From Daqki at aol.com Thu Oct 12 12:21:01 2000 From: Daqki at aol.com (Daqki at aol.com) Date: Thu Oct 12 12:21:01 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] NYT, letters to the Editor: Oct 12, 2000. Message-ID: <9d.bd8a048.27173ecf@aol.com> NEW YORK TIMES Letters October 12, 2000 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To the Editor: Re "European Union Greets Yugoslav Government" (news article, Oct. 10): The European Union embraced the new government in Belgrade with euphoria. The unconditional pledge of billions of dollars and rushing of European foreign ministers to Belgrade is wrong and counterproductive. Pushing aside demands for the extradition of Slobodan Milosevic and for the release of thousands of Kosovar political prisoners is too big a concession. Europe's embrace of the new power in Belgrade can be viewed in Bosnia and Kosovo as a premature and de facto reward to Serbian nationalism for years of war, "ethnic cleansing" and genocide in the territories of the former Yugoslavia. If true, it's a continuation of failed European policy in the Balkans. ARBEN SELIMAJ New York, Oct. 10, 2000 Letters Related Articles ? The Right Trial for Milosevic(Oct, 10, 2000) ? European Union Greets Yugoslav Government (Oct 10, 2000) ? Letters Index The New York Times Company Milosevic on Trial? Don't Feed the Fires To the Editor: Re "The Right Trial for Milosevic," by Michael Ignatieff (Op-Ed, Oct. 10): Mr. Ignatieff says it is in Serbia's interest to cooperate with the international tribunal in The Hague. The important thing now is to allow Serbia to integrate into the world community, not to reignite Serbian nationalism. The same people who angrily ousted Slobodan Milosevic might also be angered by what they perceive as unwarranted external intrusion. Furthermore, it does not matter if the tribunal is a kangaroo court for the victors; it only matters if Serbians perceive it to be. And given the civilian deaths caused by NATO, I do not think their perceptions are unreasonable. Reigniting nationalist sentiments for the sake of a trial at The Hague for Mr. Milosevic is simply not worth the price. CHRISTOPHER SMITH New Orleans, Oct. 10, 2000 From etrit at alb-net.com Thu Oct 12 13:21:01 2000 From: etrit at alb-net.com (Etrit Bardhi) Date: Thu Oct 12 13:21:01 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] NYT, letters to the Editor: Oct 12, 2000. In-Reply-To: <9d.bd8a048.27173ecf@aol.com> Message-ID: Arben, great job man! How'd you get your letter published in New York Times, I have sent them few letters and none of them were published... Kudos to you... Etrit. On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 Daqki at aol.com wrote: > --- Prishtina-E Discussion Forum --- > Archives: www.alb-net.com/pipermail/prishtina-e > > NEW YORK TIMES > > Letters > October 12, 2000 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To the Editor: > > Re "European Union Greets Yugoslav Government" (news article, Oct. 10): > > The European Union embraced the new government in Belgrade with euphoria. The > unconditional pledge of billions of dollars and rushing of European foreign > ministers to Belgrade is wrong and counterproductive. Pushing aside demands > for the extradition of Slobodan Milosevic and for the release of thousands of > Kosovar political prisoners is too big a concession. > > Europe's embrace of the new power in Belgrade can be viewed in Bosnia and > Kosovo as a premature and de facto reward to Serbian nationalism for years of > war, "ethnic cleansing" and genocide in the territories of the former > Yugoslavia. If true, it's a continuation of failed European policy in the > Balkans. > > ARBEN SELIMAJ > > New York, Oct. 10, 2000 > > > Letters Related Articles > ??? The Right Trial for Milosevic(Oct, 10, 2000) > ??? European Union Greets Yugoslav Government (Oct 10, 2000) > ??? Letters Index > > The New York Times Company Milosevic on Trial? Don't Feed the Fires > > > To the Editor: > > Re "The Right Trial for Milosevic," by Michael Ignatieff (Op-Ed, Oct. 10): > > Mr. Ignatieff says it is in Serbia's interest to cooperate with the > international tribunal in The Hague. The important thing now is to allow > Serbia to integrate into the world community, not to reignite Serbian > nationalism. The same people who angrily ousted Slobodan Milosevic might also > be angered by what they perceive as unwarranted external intrusion. > > Furthermore, it does not matter if the tribunal is a kangaroo court for the > victors; it only matters if Serbians perceive it to be. And given the > civilian deaths caused by NATO, I do not think their perceptions are > unreasonable. Reigniting nationalist sentiments for the sake of a trial at > The Hague for Mr. Milosevic is simply not worth the price. > > CHRISTOPHER SMITH > > New Orleans, Oct. 10, 2000 > > > _______________________________________________________ > Prishtina-E discussion forum: Prishtina-E at alb-net.com > http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/prishtina-e > From juniku at hotmail.com Thu Oct 12 16:19:03 2000 From: juniku at hotmail.com (Uk Lushi) Date: Thu Oct 12 16:19:03 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] Political killings in Kosova/Kosovo Mach-June 1999 by American Bar Association (11 October 2000) Message-ID: >Wednesday October 11, 6:35 pm Eastern Time > >Press Release > >SOURCE: American Bar Association > >CEELI, American Association for the Advancement of Science Report >Documents Killing of 10,500 Kosovar Albanians During the Conflict in >Kosovo > >CHICAGO, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Bar Association Central >and East European Law Initiative and the American Association for the >Advancement of Science issued a report today documenting that >approximately 10,500 Kosovar Albanians were killed from March to June >1999, and that the pattern of killings supports the argument that there >was a coordinated effort targeting ethnic Albanians during the conflict >in Kosovo. > The report, entitled Political Killings in Kosova/Kosovo, >March-June 1999, uses statistical techniques to address two >controversial questions regarding the events in Kosovo last summer: 1) >the number of ethnic Albanians killed in Kosovo; and 2) whether those >fatalities were inadvertent casualties of the conflict between Serbian >forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army, or the targets of a campaign of >systematic ethnic cleansing. > The report represents only the views of the authors. It has not >been presented to the ABA's policy-making House of Delegates, and does >not represent the views of the American Bar Association. > The study applies established statistical methods to witness >testimonies to estimate the total number of Kosovar Albanians killed. In >addition, the study builds upon previous research conducted by the >American Association for the Advancement of Science to conclude that the >patterns of killings are consistent with the hypothesis that the >killings were a result of a coordinated effort targeted at ethnic >Albanians. > The Central and East European Law Initiative interviewed many of >the refugees of the conflict between April and October of last year and >collected much of the raw data that was used for the statistical >analysis by AAAS. > Other non-governmental organizations participating in the study >were the Physicians for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, and The Center >for Peace Through Justice. > The report makes special note of the fact that five human rights >non-governmental organizations, operating under different mandates, >shared their information and technical expertise in this cooperative >effort, and concludes that such inter-organizational technical >cooperation is a promising development. > The report adds, ``The results detailed herein demonstrate the >utility of pooling information for its own sake. ABA/CEELI and AAAS hope >that this study spurs additional scientific investigation of civilian >suffering during the conflict between Yugoslavia and NATO in 1999 ... >ABA/CEELI and AAAS invite like-minded non-governmental organizations to >join them in this ongoing initiative.'' > The full text of the report can be accessed on the Internet at >http://hrdata.aaas.org/kosovo/pk. > CEELI is a public service project of the American Bar Association >designed to advance the rule of law in the world by supporting legal >reform in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. > The American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional >membership association in the world. With more than 400,000 members, the >ABA provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, >information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in >their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public. > >SOURCE: American Bar Association >_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > >http://hrdata.aaas.org/kosovo/pk/ > >Political killings in Kosova/Kosovo >Mach-June 1999 > >This report is dedicated to the Kosovar people. Without their >willingness to report the very personal tragedies that they experienced, >we would not have been able to provide this systematic documentation of >these events. > >PDF Version http://hrdata.aaas.org/kosovo/pk/politicalkillings.pdf > >Copyright ? 2000 >American Bar Association Central and East European Law Initiative > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From Daqki at aol.com Thu Oct 12 16:45:01 2000 From: Daqki at aol.com (Daqki at aol.com) Date: Thu Oct 12 16:45:01 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] NYT, letters to the Editor: Oct 12, 2000. Message-ID: <79.abe14e2.27177c8e@aol.com> From juniku at hotmail.com Sat Oct 14 00:52:01 2000 From: juniku at hotmail.com (Uk Lushi) Date: Sat Oct 14 00:52:01 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] Kostunica Another Milosevic?! Message-ID: This story appeared on http://www.individual.com October 9, 2000 _________________________________________________________ New president says he is a Serb nationalist and ``profoundly a democrat'' PARIS (AP) - Vojislav Kostunica, the new president of Yugoslavia, said in an interview Monday with French television that he is ``profoundly a democrat'' but also a Serb nationalist _ with no plans to create a greater Serbia. ``I am profoundly a democrat and at the same time a nationalist, like the French and the Americans,'' Kostunica said in an interview with TF1. ``My nationalist feelings are normal,'' he said through a translator. ``My nationalism is tied to my interest in the future of my country ... and the misery of my people.'' He said, however, that he ``has no grand idea of a greater Serbia.'' Kostunica was sworn in as the new president on Saturday evening after protests finally swept Slobodan Milosevic from office. Kostunica had won the presidential election. Kostunica blamed Milosevic, and NATO bombings, for the current plight of his nation. ``The repression of the authoritarian regime of President Slobodan Milosevic and after the NATO bombings of last year ... the country is ... totally destroyed.'' He affirmed that ``today, there are no democratic institutions.'' ``All of these problems,'' he said, ``are important for seeing the future of Milosevic,'' Kostunica said, without indicating whether he would work to send his predecessor to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, as the United States wants. He has suggested in the past he would not do so. Yugoslavia ``is open for the future and a democratic reality,'' the president said. The European Union's lifting earlier Monday of economic sanctions has created a ``new situation,'' he said, adding that he wants to open his country ``for the world and the European Union.'' Asked if he would grant independence to the mainly Albanian province of Kosovo, Kostunica said no. ``It is impossible,'' he said. ``Our constitution doesn't permit the independence of Kosovo, or Montenegro,'' he said. ``We want to establish a democratic regime with Montenegro and Kosovo .... those two elements form (are part of) the country.'' He added that U.N. Resolution 12-44 guarantees the territorial and political integrity of the country. The Kosovo question ``should be resolved in the framework of this resolution and not by the wishes of certain'' Albanians, he said. Applying the U.N. resolution ``will bring peace and stability ... needed in the current situation of chaos.'' Kostunica said that he wants to see the return of 1,000 Albanian prisoners in Serbia, and said he would pay ``personal attention'' to the ``sensitive question'' of Serb prisoners. 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From juniku at hotmail.com Sat Oct 14 00:52:21 2000 From: juniku at hotmail.com (Uk Lushi) Date: Sat Oct 14 00:52:21 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] "NATO Ministers Assess Yugoslavia" Message-ID: >The Associated Press (Tue 10 Oct 2000) >NATO Ministers Assess Yugoslavia > >BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) -- As the tumultuous events in Yugoslavia >develop faster than diplomats can write cables, NATO defense ministers >are trying to assess how the rapidly changing situation will affect >security in the Balkans. > >Even as the 19-nation alliance welcomed the return to democracy in >Belgrade, the major concern of the ministers meeting here Tuesday was >how the new government of President Vojislav Kostunica will deal with >Kosovo, occupied by 36,000 NATO-led troops who are supported by 10,000 >more in neighboring Macedonia and Albania. > >The ground forces from 39 countries intervened in Kosovo at the end of >last year's 78-day NATO bombing campaign. The mission of the force is >to provide security while the U.N.-directed civilian authority tries to >build permanent peace in Kosovo, the southern province of Serbia, >Yugoslavia's dominant republic. > >The situation in Kosovo isn't stable, NATO Secretary-General Lord >Robertson acknowledged. Violence is down, but "we've still got a long >way to go," he said. > >NATO also leads a force of 20,000 in the new state of >Bosnia-Herzegovina. Ethnic hatred still seethes under the surface in >Bosnia, but NATO considers the situation stable enough there to have >reduced by two-thirds the 60,000-member force that originally entered >the country five years ago. > >In Bosnia, NATO has the Dayton peace agreement as a framework upon >which to build peace. In Kosovo, no such agreement exists. The majority >ethnic Albanians in Kosovo have demanded independence, and it is by no >means certain they will again submit to Serbian rule, no matter who the >leader is. > >The Kosovo force is being beefed up by about 2,500 for municipal >elections on Oct. 28. That involves four battalions from Britain, >France, Italy and Greece. > >The defense ministers also are to talk about whether to hold out the >NATO hand to Serbia or to let other organizations such as the European >Union take the lead. There are few NATO admirers among the Serbs, >particularly after the bombing, and some at NATO feel a low profile may >be the best approach, at least in the short term. > >Adm. Guido Venturoni, chairman of the NATO Military Committee, and Gen. >Joseph Ralston, the supreme allied commander in Europe, were to brief >the defense ministers on the military situation in the Balkans. > >The ministers also were to examine the state of NATO's relations with >the European Union as the 15-nation economic and political bloc begins >to develop its own defense arm. The EU has pledged to establish a >60,000-member rapid reaction force by 2003 and has been working with >NATO in several areas. > >Relations with Russia -- which have been warming somewhat lately after >a long hiatus that followed NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia >-- also are high on the agenda of the ministers' annual informal >meeting. > >Norwegian defense minister Bjorn Tore Godal was scheduled to speak >about Norway's experience during efforts to rescue seamen aboard the >sunken Russian submarine Kursk. > >In August, the nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, taking 118 >men to their deaths. After some delay, Moscow sought NATO's expertise >in trying to rescue the Kursk's sailors. A British mini-submarine and >Norwegian deep-sea divers were dispatched to the Barents Sea, but it >was too late. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From juniku at hotmail.com Sat Oct 14 00:52:23 2000 From: juniku at hotmail.com (Uk Lushi) Date: Sat Oct 14 00:52:23 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] Serbs must face up to Kosovo crimes! Message-ID: >Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 21:59:30 +0200 > >http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,380984,00.html > >Serbs must face up to Kosovo crimes, says freed reporter > >Jonathan Steele in Belgrade >Thursday October 12, 2000 > >Like most first-time prisoners, Miroslav Filipovic, the courageous >Serbian journalist who was given a seven-year sentence for "revealing >state secrets" and "spreading false information", says he learned a >great deal from his time behind bars. > "I shared a cell with two or three others. The inmates were moved >around but I usually had Albanians with me. I had never had such close >contact with them before," Filipovic said in Belgrade after he was freed >on Tuesday on the instructions of the new president, Vojislav Kostunica. > His crime was to be the first Serb journalist to write directly >about atrocities in Kosovo and to try to explain how some Serb units >attacked Albanian civilians. > He was tried in a military court and held in a military prison in >Nis, in southern Serbia. Some of his Albanian fellow inmates were >convicted of membership of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Others were >awaiting trial. He believes most are innocent and ought to be freed. > "The Albanians treated me well. I made friends with several. I had >written about Kosovo and in some way was on their side," he said. They >listened together to radio reports of Slobodan Milosevic's downfall. > Exhausted but neatly dressed in a suit, ready for an interview on a >Serbian TV channel, Filipovic does not look the part of a brave >investigative reporter. Now 50, he was not trying to start a career as a >young journalist with a splash. He had not done any critical reporting >before he joined the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting >as its correspondent in Kraljevo, a town in southern Serbia. > "If I had known what would happen to me, I would not have written >those articles. I am not so brave," he said. "I was just in the right >place at the right time." > What he picked up, and then published, was a series of searing >accounts given after the war by several officers and men who had served >in Kosovo. One saw a three-year-old Albanian boy beheaded in front of >his family. Others witnessed the artillery shelling of defenceless >villages, and forces going in to massacre civilians. > Filipovic does not believe that collective guilt can be placed on a >whole people. The atrocities were carried out by particular units. But >he does not accept that few Serbs knew what was happening in Kosovo. > "Everyone who was in Kosovo knew, as well as their friends and >families. They talked about it. There are people who still cannot sleep >properly for thinking about what was done," he said. > Unlike most Serbs, he believes that Mr Milosevic and the other >suspected war criminals should go on trial in the Hague, not in Serbia. >"They will get a fairer trial there," he said. > Serbs have to start to face up to and discuss war crimes fully, he >believes. This is vital if good relations are to be restored with >Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo. "We cannot go forward otherwise." > After some rest, Filipovic plans to write a book and more articles >on atrocities. The pieces which caused the military to put him in prison >this summer appeared only on the internet. > >Guardian Unlimited ? 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From juniku at hotmail.com Thu Oct 19 00:41:02 2000 From: juniku at hotmail.com (Uk Lushi) Date: Thu Oct 19 00:41:02 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] US Denies Backing Republic Status for Kosova Message-ID: >From: NAACDC at AOL.COM >To: NAACDC at aol.com >Subject: [alb-information] US Denies Backing Republic Status for Kosova >Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:30:03 EDT > >National Albanian American Council >2000 L Street, N.W., Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036 >(202) 416-1627 Fax: (202) 416-1628 >Email: NAACDC at aol.com >______________________________________________________________________ >PRESS RELEASE > > >US Denies Backing Republic Status for Kosova > > >Washington, DC, October 18, 2000: In a meeting on October 17th with NAAC, >US >Special Envoy to the Balkans Jim O'Brien denied a press report that the US >is >promoting the idea that Kosova should become a third republic within a >Yugoslav Federation that includes Serbia and Montenegro. > >The Associated Press reported on October 15, 2000 that a "western >diplomat," >speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the US believes this plan >offers the "best chance for bringing stability to the Balkans and for >diminishing prospects for more ethnic conflict." > >O'Brien denied that the US is backing such a plan: "The US is not promoting >any plan regarding the final status of Kosova," said O'Brien. "We support >resolving the question of final status by using the procedures set forth in >UN Resolution 1244. We believe that now is not the time to resolve the >final >status issue. We are focusing instead on helping to build democratic >institutions, civil societies, and market economies in both Kosova and >Serbia, and we hope Kosovars and Serbs will do the same." > >The Associated Press story created some concern among Albanians, who view >the >United States as its savior and closest ally. Albanians also believe that >the American people strongly support independence, after a national poll >conducted in March by Penn, Schoen and Berland showed that nearly 80 >percent >of the American people support creating a democratic, independent Kosova. > >"Serbia annexed Kosova by force, held on to it through oppression, and >finally used mass expulsions, murder, and rape in an effort to cleanse it >of >its indigenous Albanian population," said Ilir Zherka, NAAC President. >"Given this history, it is understandable why Kosovars will never accept >anything short of independence. We are satisfied that the current >Administration understands this point and that it is not attempting to >advance any solutions to the final status question that undermines the will >of the people of Kosova." > > >### > >-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> >eGroups eLerts >It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! >http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/1/_/1980/_/971901124/ >---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> > >Voto p?r Informimi Shqiptar duke klikuar me poshte - Vote for >Alb-Information by clicking here: >http://208.56.60.189/cgi-bin2/lspro/lspro.cgi?click=965479377 > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From etrit at alb-net.com Fri Oct 20 13:02:01 2000 From: etrit at alb-net.com (Etrit Bardhi) Date: Fri Oct 20 13:02:01 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] From Sofia to Pristina or Rahovec (fwd) Message-ID: Please reply directly. Etrit. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:51:47 +0200 From: Ramon Arboix To: support at alb-net.com Subject: From Sofia to Pristina or Rahovec Dear Sirs, I do not know if you are going to be able to help me. If not, I would be very grateful if you were so kind to let me know whom a I have to address to get following information. Next December 4 I would like to travel from Sofia (Bulgaria) to Pristina or Rahovec but I do not know what kind of transportation may I take. Do you have any information about how to reach Rahovec or Pristina from Sofia? Thanks a lot in advance. My e-mail: r_arboix at yahoo.com or afornaguera at yahoo.es Your sincerely, Ramon R. Arboix From mentor at alb-net.com Sun Oct 22 13:47:01 2000 From: mentor at alb-net.com (Mentor Cana) Date: Sun Oct 22 13:47:01 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] Can Anyone Help... (fwd) Message-ID: If you can help please contact LBerkeleyBulliqi at compuserve.com directly. thanks, Mentor ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:45:33 -0400 From: Linda BerkeleyBulliqi To: Mentor Cana Subject: Can Anyone Help... We've had a death in the family in the Uk and his brothers want to bury him in Kosovo. Does anyone know who that funeral company is who advertised on Kosovo TV's foreign broadcasts that they could help bring relatives back to Kosovo for burial? A name/address/phone number/fax number would be a big help... Thanks. Linda K. Berkeley-Bulliqi From etrit at alb-net.com Mon Oct 23 12:47:01 2000 From: etrit at alb-net.com (Etrit Bardhi) Date: Mon Oct 23 12:47:01 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] Boy in Yellow Shirt (fwd) Message-ID: please reply directly. etrit. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 23:22:20 -0500 From: David L. McFarland To: support at alb-net.com Subject: Boy in Yellow Shirt To anyone in Kosovo, Thanks for your assistance. About this time last year, I began to look for a young Kosovar boy that I had seen on television here in the US during the war in Kosovo. The boy was in a refugee convoy on a highway near Djakovice/Gjakove. The convoy was accidently bombed by NATO fighters and over 70 people were killed. The Serbs brought in news media the next day to view the carnage. The most well know picture probably from the war was the boy pictured on the following web site. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/nato_gallery/victims_default.stm I ran a program in Alabama to bring historic figures to an Air Force Staff College. Each year, we also brought about 50 teenagers to get their first rides in light aircraft. Brig Gen Chuck Yeager participated each year and gave about 50 of the rides personally each year. One year, I brought two Dutch kids from the Netherlands (6th graders) with the help of Martinair Holland. I was really touched by the "boy in the yellow jumper" and began search to find him. I tried working with the K-for US public affairs in Kosovo. It was just before they left at Christmas and really got no where. I sent a message to OMik, and an Icelandic public affairs officer for the UN put me in touch with a Greek-American working for OSCE in Gjakove. Amazingly, within days he called me and said he had a picture from a local paper of the boy. He faxed it to me, and I confirmed that it appeared to be the boy. The name that the newspaper gave Mr. Demetrious Tzotzis turned out to be incorrect. At first, it appeared that the boys family had all been killed and he had been sent to Belgium to an aunt. December 1999 and January 2000 were really bad, and the snow was up to 4 feet deep and the roads were iced. Tzotzis got a correct name in January. In February, he made a trip to the village where he thought the boy was. He had to use a four-wheel drive vehicle. The tiny village of Pacaj is a few kilometers southeast of Junik near Decani. It is near the Albanian border between Pec/Peja and Djakovice/Gjakove. It lies a few kilometers west of the road between these two larger towns. The boy was there. One of 8 siblings had been killed and his father had lost a leg. They were living in an animal shelter, since the Serbians had destroyed the houses. The boy was still in the clothes in the picture. He had nothing else. They were surviving on bread. Tzotzis took the boy and an uncle into Djakovice/Gjakove and bought him some clothes and fed them. He also got the Argentinian Military Hospital to give him a physical. He was very thin but physically healthy. The impact mentally obviously left him traumatized. Unfortunately, Tzotzis said that he also had a tough winter and was due to leave. I think he went to East Timor. He was my contact. The boy's name is Mehemet Alija, and his father is Sherif Alija. The Alija entended family seems to be the main group in Pacaj. The Serbian paramilitary began their operations around Pacaj and Junik in early April 1999 by kidnapping an Alija elder and taking him to Djakovice. They tortured him, killed him, and then brought the body back and dumped it in the village. That is when the Alija family group took to the hills and forests and then to the road south and west to Albania. I still hope to make contact personally with the boy. It is purely a humanitarian project on my part. I am amazed that I got this far with only a picture. My goal is first to see if I can reach them by post. Does it work in Kosovo now? Any advice that anyone in Kosovo can provide would be greatly appreciated. By next spring...I might try a trip to Kosovo via Greece and Macedonia... Thanks for your assistance David L. McFarland Lt Col, USAF, Retired email is dlmcfarland at mindspring.com From dbein at osnabrueck.netsurf.de Sat Oct 28 14:33:06 2000 From: dbein at osnabrueck.netsurf.de (Divi Beineke) Date: Sat Oct 28 14:33:06 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] TË LIROHEN MENJËHERË TË BURGOSURIT - EMAIL CAMPAIGN - RELEASE PRISONERS NOW! Message-ID: <39FB1B2E.48FD2BB6@osnabrueck.netsurf.de> A-PAL AND FRIENDS NEED YOU!! JOIN THE EMAIL ACTION CAMPAIGN!! VISIT: http://www.kosova-info-line.de/APP/ RELEASE PRISONERS NOW! T? LIROHEN MENJ?HER? T? BURGOSURIT! As there are 878 Kosova-albanian prisoners wrongly detained in serbian prisons, we start this EMAIL-ACTION. Right now there are still 877 Kosova-albanian prisoners in serbian jails. YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!! We would like to gather as many email-senders as there are prisoners left in serbian jails. At this moment there are 38 members taking part in this action, sending one email a day to foreign-ministers, prime-ministers and other politicians all over the world. IF YOU WANT TO JOIN THIS ACTION, PLEASE CHOOSE THE LANGUAGE YOU PREFER: SHQIP (akoma jo, s? shpejti!) ENGLISH http://www.kosova-info-line.de/APP/ DEUTSCH (wird bald folgen!) From Zenelito at aol.com Mon Oct 30 03:23:01 2000 From: Zenelito at aol.com (Zenelito at aol.com) Date: Mon Oct 30 03:23:01 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:=20[Prishtina-E]=20T=CB=20LIROHEN=20MENJ=CBHER?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=CB=20T=CB=20BURGOSURIT=20-=20EMAIL=20CAMPAIGN=20-=20RELE?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?A...?= Message-ID: <98.bf37b76.272e89a6@aol.com> In einer eMail vom 00-10-28 7:34:02 MD (MEZ) Mitteleurop?ische Zeit schreibt dbein at osnabrueck.netsurf.de: << X-Priority: 2 (High) >> From Zenelito at aol.com Mon Oct 30 03:23:17 2000 From: Zenelito at aol.com (Zenelito at aol.com) Date: Mon Oct 30 03:23:17 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:=20[Prishtina-E]=20T=CB=20LIROHEN=20MENJ=CBHER?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=CB=20T=CB=20BURGOSURIT=20-=20EMAIL=20CAMPAIGN=20-=20RELE?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?A...?= Message-ID: <7a.bde22de.272e89a0@aol.com> In einer eMail vom 00-10-28 7:34:02 MD (MEZ) Mitteleurop?ische Zeit schreibt dbein at osnabrueck.netsurf.de: << X-Priority: 2 (High) >> From Zenelito at aol.com Mon Oct 30 03:27:01 2000 From: Zenelito at aol.com (Zenelito at aol.com) Date: Mon Oct 30 03:27:01 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:=20[Prishtina-E]=20T=CB=20LIROHEN=20MENJ=CBHER?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=CB=20T=CB=20BURGOSURIT=20-=20EMAIL=20CAMPAIGN=20-=20RELE?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?A...?= Message-ID: <3d.2c88deb.272e8a9a@aol.com> In einer eMail vom 00-10-28 7:34:02 MD (MEZ) Mitteleurop?ische Zeit schreibt dbein at osnabrueck.netsurf.de: << X-Priority: 2 (High) >> tash mbas Zgjedhjeve menjhere duhet tja fillojn Perfaqsuest tan Politikanet bisedimet pere lirimin e te burgosurve.Edhe pse kan qen keto Zgjedhje vetem Lokale duhetata te bejn shtypje ne UMIKIN ,Kombet e Bashkuara ,se ne qofte se ne nuk marrim asnj far Akcione pere ti liru te burgosurit do te zgjat burgimi i tyre edhe ma shum . From mentor at alb-net.com Mon Oct 30 14:54:28 2000 From: mentor at alb-net.com (Mentor Cana) Date: Mon Oct 30 14:54:28 2000 Subject: [Prishtina-E] computer books? (fwd) Message-ID: If you can help, please contact Teresa directly at teresa at advocacynet.org thanks, Mentor ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:48:03 -0400 From: Teresa Crawford Reply-To: Teresa Crawford Subject: computer books? i just got back from 3 weeks in Kosovo where I hooked up to email 20 politicians, media folks and civil society people. They all got laptops dontated by Gateway. you can see the pix at www.mort.ws in the teresa work section. I have been hired to supervise the training that these folks need. I have two people who will do it and I am finalizing the proposal. I am on the hunt now for a basic computer text in albanian and serbian to give them. Preferrably something that explains Windows 98/2000 and Microsoft Office. Do you know if this exists, an idea of the cost and where I can get ahold if them? I need about 10 in Serbian and 30 in Albanian. Thanks a ton. Teresa