[Prishtina-E] Are we awake? Let's open our eyes before the world media starts calling us terrorists!

[A. Springhetti]

Nato has no compassion , it has strategies and
political views. It acts based on those. Media will
respond according to the descriptins given- before it
were atrocity reports, now it is terrorists from
kosovo.
Who expected anything else. we already witnessed
Bosnia and its savior- bosnia doesnot exist any more
There is an old proverb: " The wolf doesnot ask the
sheep for a favor and the sheep does not ask the wolf
for a favor. "
--- Mentor Cana <mentor at alb-net.com> wrote:
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> Dear friends,
> 
> The article below talks about the fighting in
> Souther Serbia. From an
> Albanian perspective the fight is against an
> oppressor (Serbia) of many
> decades.
> 
> However, as you see in the article below the Serbs
> refer to Albanian
> freedom fighters as terrorist. The term terrorist
> more and more is being
> used by the western media (albeit in quotes). The
> very first use
> of the word "terrorism" is used by
> washingtonpost.com as if they agree with
> that - maybe they do maybe they don't.
> 
> If this trend of labeling continues without protest
> the media will see no
> stop in referring to Albanians as terrorist. Hope
> I'm wrong in my
> assessment. However, given the fact that the current
> Serbian government is
> treated as democratic one by the west, what a
> paradox!, the west may give
> them the "green" light to fight the "terrorism".
> 
> We need to start talking..... action is needed in
> educating the media
> about the truth...
> 
> later,
> Mentor
> 
> ---
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010219/aponline024703_000.htm
> 
> Yugoslavia Urges Action After Blast
> 
> By Suzana Popovic
> Associated Press Writer
> Monday, Feb. 19, 2001; 2:47 a.m. EST
> 
> PRISTINA, Yugoslavia -- Yugoslavia's leaders
> promised a crackdown on
> terrorism along the Kosovo border and demanded
> action from NATO
> peacekeepers following two explosions that left at
> least 10 Serbs dead.
>     Serb authorities blamed ethnic Albanian
> militants for the mine that
> killed three police officers Sunday and a bus
> bombing within Kosovo that
> killed at least seven civilians Friday.
>     The rebels denied responsibility and said one of
> their commanders
> was killed by Serb police later Sunday in Lucane,
> just outside a buffer
> zone separating Kosovo province from the rest of
> Serbia, the larger of
> the two republics that make up Yugoslavia.
>     Top Yugoslav and Serbian leaders met late Sunday
> to discuss the
> mounting violence, and President Vojislav
> Kostunica's office released a
> statement pledging a "series of measures against
> terrorism" in the area.
>     Yugoslavia also urged NATO-led peacekeepers to
> stop the flow of arms
> and guerrillas in the buffer zone, which rebels have
> used to stage
> attacks on Serbian police and Yugoslav army troops.
>     The militants want to join the zone with Kosovo
> as part of a push
> for independence for the Serbian province, which has
> been run by the
> United Nations and NATO-led peacekeepers since June
> 1999, when
> Yugoslavia halted its crackdown on the Albanian
> majority after a NATO
> bombing campaign.
>     Friday's bombing of a bus carrying Serbs to
> visit the graves of
> relatives in Kosovo killed at least seven people and
> wounded 43, the
> deadliest attack in the province since 13 Serb
> farmers were
> machine-gunned to death while tilling their fields
> in July 1999.
>     "I think that the terrorists the other day were
> trying to send a
> message to several constituencies at once," Brig.
> Gen. Rob Fry,
> commander of the British peacekeepers, said Sunday.
>     The three policemen died Sunday when their van
> was demolished by
> what were believed to be anti-tank mines on a road
> near Lucane, a
> southern Serbian village just outside the
> three-mile-wide buffer zone.
>     The zone was created to prevent what officials
> feared would be
> clashes between Serbian forces and the NATO-led
> peacekeepers patrolling
> Kosovo under the 1999 peace deal for the province.
>     Only lightly armed Serbian police are allowed to
> enter the zone, and
> ethnic Albanian militants have taken control of most
> of the strip in
> recent months.
>     Yugoslav authorities say the peacekeepers have
> failed to fulfill a
> mandate to keep the ethnic Albanian militants and
> their weapons out of
> the buffer zone.
>     Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic
> appealed Sunday to NATO
> Secretary-General George Robertson to ensure that
> the peacekeeping force
> immediately seal Kosovo's boundary with Serbia.
>     The militants have attacked Serbian police
> inside the zone and
> sometimes launch attacks across the line into Serbia
> proper. The
> explosion Sunday took place about 200 yards outside
> the zone.
>     Serbian police came under fire while trying to
> pull out the wreckage
> of the wrecked police vehicle, a government
> statement said.
>     No one was injured, but Serbian officials
> reported a further
> exchange of gunfire between police and the rebels in
> the buffer zone
> later Sunday.
>     A spokesman for the ethnic Albanian militants,
> Jonuz Musliu, said
> one rebel commander was killed by Serb police Sunday
> in Lucane and
> another commander and a soldier were wounded.
>     Musliu, the political officer of the Liberation
> Army of Presevo,
> Medvedja and Bujanovac, denied the group was behind
> the policemen's
> deaths and condemned the bus bombing.
>     Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic, who
> submitted a peace
> plan for the buffer zone to NATO earlier this week,
> said the
> government's patience was wearing thin.
>     "It is not permissible that such attacks
> continue," Covic said. "We
> also demand from the international community
> specific decisions."
>     Meanwhile, U.N. officials in Kosovo's capital,
> Pristina, said a
> German forensic team had begun identifying victims
> in the bus attack by
> examining bodies and body parts laid out in a large
> tent. There were
> fears that the death toll could rise.
>     Hundreds of Serbs gathered Sunday in the Serb
> enclave of Gracanica,
> some six miles south of Pristina, to protest
> Friday's bombing.
>     Tens of thousands of Serbs have fled their homes
> in Kosovo since the
> United Nations and NATO took over, fearing reprisals
> following former
> Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown on
> the province's
> ethnic Albanians.
> 
> © Copyright 2001 The Associated Press
> 
> 
>
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