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Vecernje Novosti, Belgrade, Yugoslavia March 5, 2001 Paris “Le Monde” found guilty of offense against the Serbian people One franc in damages to the Serbs Court of appeals orders “Le Monde” to pay the symbolic penalty and to publish its decision on public racial discrimination against an entire nation From our permanent correspondent in Paris A Paris appellate court has determined that the Paris daily “Le Monde” is guilty of discrimination against and misrepresentation of the Serbian people. The 11th Division of the Court of Appeals in Paris has reached a decision fining the editorial director of “Le Monde”, ...

URL for his article is http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/zorich/arrsol2.htm www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes] Belgrade Demands: "Arrest Solana!" By Milosh Zorich - Special to Emperor’s Clothes Belgrade, February 8, 2001 – Today thousands demonstrated against the arrival of former NATO leader Javier Solana, sentenced by a Yugoslav court to 20 years in prison for aggression against Yugoslavia and crimes of war. "The murderer returns to the scene of his crime" would best describe the reactions of today’s Belgrade to the arrival of Javier Solana. Currently a high EU official, Solana was the NATO Secretary-General who in 1999 issued the order to bomb Yugoslav towns and ...

"My time in Kosovo has been enriched by KFOR" Text: Lt-Cdr. Rune Berge - Photo: SFC Ömer Cankaya PRISTINA: "I have enjoyed my time in Kosovo, a time that has been enriched by the excellent relationship we have had with KFOR," Bernard Kouchner said at HQ's Main in his farewell speech as the United Nations administrator in Kosovo. Bernard Kouchner was replaced on Monday by former Danish Defence Minister Hans Hækkerup as the United Nations administrator in Kosovo. But before relinquishing the post that he took over in June 1999, KFOR decorated him with the NATO medal at a farewell ...

The two top US diplomats for Yugoslavia, James Perdue and William Montgomery have just arrived in the Serbian town of Bujanovac. They traveled there to observe the worsening situation on the ground where Albanian rebels, an offshoot of the Kosovo Liberation Army, have mounted increasing attacks. The diplomats' visit comes hours after one of the most serious attacks on Serbian and Yugoslav forces since the NATO bombing ended. These attacks have been occurring almost daily since the end of the war and have increased dramatically in the last week. The Albanians are attacking from the eastern part of Kosovo, an ...

US officials' convoy comes under fire in southern Serbia BELGRADE, Feb 6 (AFP) - A convoy carrying high-ranking US officials, including the US ambassdor to Yugoslavia, came under fire late Tuesday in tense south of the country, where ethnic Albanian rebels are fighting Serb security forces, a US diplomat told AFP. Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic, quoted by the state Tanjug news agency, blamed the shooting on ethnic Albanian separatists. The independent Beta news agency quoted a Serbian police source as saying the US convoy was shot at by UCPMB fighters near Veliki Trnovac, a town bordering the demilitarised ...

MOLDOVA Sex Slaves: Trafficking in human beings from Moldova to Italy Introduction As the British Helsinki Human Rights group has noted in previous reports, the Nato attacks against Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999 led to a rapid increase in refugees and asylum seekers leaving the war-torn Balkans for the West. Since then, the issue of asylum seekers has not been resolved: figures released for Britain on 25th January 2001 show that the number of asylum seekers in the United Kingdom reached record levels in 2000. There are now over 75,000 such applications a year, even more than the ...

Lukashenko Accuses Soros of Funding Belarus Opposition MINSK, Feb 2, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko -- who has come under increasing fire from western powers -- on Thursday accused billionaire George Soros of funding the opposition in the ex-Soviet republic. "I kicked Soros out of the country, not because I hate him, I even received him," Lukashenko told a gathering of artists. "But why is Soros giving money to leaders of the opposition?" Lukashenko said he had earlier this year ordered the closing of the only independent publisher that published opposition texts with the help ...

MEDIA ADVISORY: DOUBTS ON A MASSACRE: Media Ignore Questions About Incident That Sparked Kosovo War February 1, 2001 In 1999, the discovery of bodies in the Kosovo village of Racak helped push NATO into war. New evidence casting doubt on claims that the bodies were civilian victims of a massacre has stirred debate in the European media-- but there has been a virtual blackout on the news in the U.S. press. In January of 1999, the American head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Kosovo announced that 45 Kosovar Albanians from the village ...

Agence France-Presse January 28, 2001 FINANCIER GEORGE SOROS NOT WELCOME IN THAILAND, NATIONALISTS SAY BANGKOK, Jan 28 (AFP) - Thailand will not be putting out the welcome mat for international financier George Soros when he fronts up here next week, say angry nationalists who accuse him of sabotaging Asian economies. "Our foreign ministry should bar entry to a man who has hurt 60 million Thais, and turned Thailand into one of the United States of America," said leading businessman and campaigner Amarin Khoman. "He is a pirate who robbed our country, and we should show him we do not ...

Growing concern in the European media that depleted uranium weapons used in the Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo may be responsible for a growing number of deaths -- both civilian and military -- has been met with much less interest in the mainstream US media. CounterSpin will talk to journalist Robert Fisk about some of the reporting he has been doing on the issue for The Independent.Fisk interviewed from Sarajevo on the ravages wrought by DU in Bosnia (..and about what Western "humanitarians", media outlets, "n"go's, etc, aren't doing about it, 'cuz it's just "the Serbs" so who cares, etc)

sorry, don't have time for the paste: Here's the link, with hyperlinked footnotes and ev'rythang...

Dennis Bernstein interviews Maj. Rokke, former director of the US Army's Depleted Uranium Project Interview starts at about 6:40.0 To fast forward, click "Play" menu in RealPlayer window, choose "Seek to" and enter 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

KOSOVO ELECTIONS: FAILING THE TEST OF DEMOCRACY? Dr David Chandler, a Council of Europe monitor at the Kosovo municipal elections on 28 October, considers whether or not the elections mark a transition to democracy and self-government in the region. Introduction According to the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, on 28th October the people of Kosovo had ‘an historic opportunity to show the international community that the people are committed to a democratic future’. The OSCE claimed the right to set the people of Kosovo a test of their democratic commitment ...

KOSOVO ELECTIONS: FAILING THE TEST OF DEMOCRACY? Dr David Chandler, a Council of Europe monitor at the Kosovo municipal elections on 28 October, considers whether or not the elections mark a transition to democracy and self-government in the region. Introduction According to the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, on 28th October the people of Kosovo had ‘an historic opportunity to show the international community that the people are committed to a democratic future’. The OSCE claimed the right to set the people of Kosovo a test of their democratic commitment ...

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THE SPECTATOR 4 November 2000 Kosovo Elections Anthony Daniels observed the Kosovo elections on behalf of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group, and discovered humbug Pristina IF freedom is proportional to the number of political parties competing for power, then Kosovo is now one of the freest countries in the world. In Pristina, at the Elec-toral Commission office of the Organisation for Security and Co-opera-tion in Europe, there was a seating plan for representatives of the political parties to meet around the table under the chairmanship of the OSCE. The parties represented were, inter alia, the PLDK, the QRSH, the ...

Elections in the Western Part of Macedonia VIOLENCE AND TERROR IN SERVICE OF "DEMOCRACY" On Sunday, during the elections, Start's journalists were present on the relation Tetovo, Gostivar, Mavrovi Anovi, and recorded, in word and picture, drastic events that can push the country into fratricidal chaos by Stevan SAROVSKI Start, Skopje, Macedonia, September 15, 2000 Eight lightly and seriously wounded citizens. That is the result of this Sunday's "democratic" local elections, organized by Georgievski, Cile [Vasil Tupurkovski], Xhaferi, and Thaci. The number of beaten up and maltreated voters is not known. The spokespersons of VMRO-DPMNE and the DA, judging ...

Albanian Daily News October 12, 2000 Trans-Balkan Pitches Pipeline BAKU, Azerbaijan - This month, the Albania-Macedonia-Bulgaria Oil pipeline consortium will start a series of presentations of its project for a pipeline between the Black Sea and the Adriatic to prospective customers. The pipeline should run from the Bulgarian port of Burgas, through FYROM, to the Albanian port of Vlora. The plan, which has the full backing of the US, the European Union and a number of banks and investment funds, should result in a pipeline with an initial capacity of 750,000 barrels a day. The costs of the pipeline’s construction ...

Independent International Commission on Kosovo: The Kosovo Report Updated 3:30 PM ET October 23, 2000 NEW YORK, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kosovo Report* was presented to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York on October 23 at 3:00pm. In the report the Independent International Commission on Kosovo seeks to answer burning questions concerning the Kosovo crisis. The Commission recommends a new status for Kosovo: "conditional independence" -- an independent and self-governed Kosovo, but within an international framework, covering among other things external security and protection of minority rights. "We are now," the Commission says, "at a critical juncture. ...

11 octobre 2000 IN A SPIN by Diana Johnstone The "October surprise" that brought a change of power in Belgrade was actually two events, one superimposed on the other. One was a democratic election, made in Serbia. The other was a totally undemocratic putsch, made in the "international community", otherwise known as NATOland. The democratic election would have been sufficient to oblige Slobodan Milosevic to retire as Yugoslav President. The majority of Yugoslav voters had long wished a change in leadership, and Vojislav Kostunica emerged as an acceptable alternative. But the NATO-backed putschists wanted more. They wanted two things that ...