KOSOVO - selective silence or something else?

pravda ^ | 03-25-04 | Igor Motsnyi

[Lion in Winter]

PING

[Lion in Winter]

I hope they do something quickly.

[MarMema]

Kerry and his fellow socialist robots can stick it.

And that is the *other* thing that can keep me awake at night. Worrying that Kerry will win over Bush. God help us.

[Travis McGee]

Same old story. "Serbs bad, Albanians good."

[MarMema]

I wonder when the majority of the west will learn. Hopefully not when they are at the gate.

[MarMema]

ping

[MarMema]

ping to some al jazeera pics

[archy]

Same old story. "Serbs bad, Albanians good."

The American bomber crews and other airmen rescued from the Nazis by the Yugoslavian Serbs during WWII still remember, as do most of their families. Whatever the dictates of America's sellout politicians, it's not likely those old soldiers and the families they survived to father will forget.

[AncientAirs]

Pesma

Kradu mi pamcenje
Skracuju mi proslost
Otimaju vekove
Dzamijaju crkve
Araju azbuku
Cekicaju grobove
Izdiru temelj
Razmecu kolijevku.
Uzimaju mi ono
Sto nikome nisam uzeo
Moje lavre i prestonice
ne znam sta je moje
Ni gde mi je granica
Narod mi je u najmu i rasejanju
Pale mi tapije
I zatiru postojanstvo.
Zrtveno polje sa krvavom travom
Ne smem da kazem da je moje
Ne daju mi da udjem u kucu
Kazu da sam je prodao
Zemlju koju sam od neba kupio
Neko im je obecao.
Ko im je obecao
taj ih je slagao
Sto im ne obeca
Ono sto je njegovo?
Zato jurisaju na mene udruzeni
Kivni sto sam ih poznao.

Matija Beckovic

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Poem

Matija BECKOVIC *

They are stealing my memory
Curtailing my past
Snatching the centuries
Turning churches into mosques
Gutting the script
Pummeling the graves
Ripping out the foundation
Overturning the cradle

They take from me that
which I have taken from no one
My treasuries and capitals
I know not what is mine
Nor where my borders lie
My people are yoked and bestrewn
They are burning my deeds
And eradicating my existence

The field of martyrs with its blood-soaked grass
I dare not say is mine
They stop me from entering my home
Saying I sold it
The land I purchased from heaven
Was promised by someone to them
Whoever made that promise
Lied to them
Why does he not promise them
That which is his?
That is why they assail me in unison
Furious that I recognized them.

* Matija Beckovic (1939)
Serbian poet and academican

Matija Beckovic:

Ils volent tout
Ils volent ma mémoire
Effaçant mon passé
Volant les siècles
Transformant les églises en mosquées
Arrachant l'alphabet
Pilonnant les tombes
Déchirant les fondations
Retournant le landau.
Ils me prennent
Ce que je n'ai pris à personne
Mes trésors et capitales
Je ne sais pas ce qui est mien
Ni où sont mes frontières
Mon peuple est asservi et dispersé
Ils brûlent mes titres de propriété
Et exterminent mon existence.
Le champ des martyrs avec son herbe ensanglantée
Je n'ose même pas dire que c'est le mien
Ils ne me laissent pas entrer dans ma maison
Ils disent que je l'ai vendue
La terre que j'avais achetée au ciel
Quelqu'un la leur a promise.
Celui qui la leur a promise
Leur a menti
Pourquoi ne leur a-t-il pas promis
Quelque chose qui lui appartenait ?
Voilà pourquoi ils m'attaquent ensemble
Furieux que je les aie reconnus.
Matija (Mathieu) Beckovic
(poète et académicien serbe né en 1939)

[iconoclast]

I detest Kerry but what does he have to do with this tragic madness?

[iconoclast]

It seems we have a long way to go ... Islam is a religion of peace, don't you know.

[FreedomPoster]

Mark Steyn recently summarized this sort of European complacency, in the face of an evil that needs confronting. He did it in two words:

"Neville Again"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103286/posts

[vpintheak]

I just used him as a current, on everyone's mind, example. He is part of a group of people that believe in international coalitions that don't work versus American sovereignty.

[gershwin]

Post 11 -- which church is this?

[MarMema]

I don't know. Sorry.

[MarMema]

I found it. It came on my most recent emails from ERPKIM.

It is Holy Trinity.

This is what is stated on the email about it.
"Cathedral church of the Holy Trinity (two bell-towers which survived the 1999 mining were razed to the ground. Kosovo Albanians removed all material from the site in the following days, UNMIK/KFOR Report March 18 - Rioters remove debris of destroyed Orthodox Church with trucks & trailers Approx 5,000 K-Albanians participate.)"

From ERP KiM Newsletter 27-03-04.

I cannot find a link on it but I can forward the email to you if you freepmail me a regular email address.

[MarMema]

And now I found the link...

here