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PLUNDERED, BURNED AND DESTROYED CHURCHES A list made according to the records of the Diocese of Raska and Prizren the situation as at the holy day of Transfiguration, August 19, 1999. Simultaneously with the persecution of the Serbian Orthodox people - executed through various kinds of violence and crimes (expelling from houses, plundering, raping, kidnapping, killing and massacring of the innocent people), the systematic extinguishing of the spiritual roots of the Serbian people was done and is still being done through demolishing, burning and destroying of the Orthodox churches and monasteries. Only checked pieces of information concerning this kind ...

THE LESSONS OF YUGOSLAVIA -- Sergej Ivanovich Kedrov, post-doctoral researcher in history NATO is forcing Armenia and Russia closer together Today the Russian press has quite a few suppositions about which state with problems similar to those in Kosovo might be the next victim of the "arrogance of power" of the USA and NATO. The most diverse regions throughout Eurasia are names -- from the Dniester River region to Kashmir and North Korea. However, in my opinion, such hypothetical discussions take insufficient account of the actual logic and the model for the actions of the United States and NATO against ...

Holocaust Relativism "Hitler" analogies betray both past and present By Diana Johnstone The war was launched to protect an oppressed ethnic minority, to punish a massacre, and to secure a New World Order. Which war was that? Why, Hitler's war of course, which came to be known as World War II. The ostensibly oppressed ethnic minority was the Germans in Slavic countries, the aggression was a fake Polish incursion into Germany denounced as a "massacre," and the "New World Order" was the declared goal of Nazi Germany. These pretexts or aims of Hitler's war of conquest are largely forgotten in ...

Kosovo Muslims Fleeing to Belgrade Voted with their Feet Kosovo Muslims Fled to Belgrade to escape KLA and Bombs By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com) August 11, 1999 It's an obscure article in today's London Daily Telegraph written from Belgrade by David Millward. I'm a bit surprised it even made it into the paper at all. It finally reported what those of us in the media who bothered to try to find out both sides of the Kosovo issue had already reported months ago. It told about responsible, law-abiding, ethnic Albanians who are fleeing KLA anarchy and terror ...

www.serbia-info.com/news New Tones in World Media Reports on Kosovo and Metohija August 14, 1999 Belgrade, August 14 (Tanjug) - It is, of course, still early to say that it is a U-turn, but certain change is evident - the world media have been criticizing ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo and Metohija, especially the notorious so-called KLA, more and more openly, severely and often due to their incredible terror and violence not only over civilians - especially Serbs - but also over members of the peace forces stationed in the province on decision of the United Nations. This "tide" of new ...

HEADLINE NEWS JAMMING OF YUGOSLAV RADIO, TV STATIONS BELGRADE - The Yugoslav ministry of telecommunications has determined after field investigation and testing that broadcasts by Yugoslav radio and TV stations are being jammed from some neighboring states and from ships or aircraft, which is contrary to the regulations of the International Telecommunications Union and its Convention, Yugoslav Minister of Telecommunications Ivan Markovic said in a statement Saturday. The jamming is banned by the Articles 15 and 23 of the Union's regulations on radio and telecommunications, the statement says. The ITU is a specialized UN agency for telecommunications. Jamming has ...

HEADLINE NEWS JAMMING OF YUGOSLAV RADIO, TV STATIONS BELGRADE - The Yugoslav ministry of telecommunications has determined after field investigation and testing that broadcasts by Yugoslav radio and TV stations are being jammed from some neighboring states and from ships or aircraft, which is contrary to the regulations of the International Telecommunications Union and its Convention, Yugoslav Minister of Telecommunications Ivan Markovic said in a statement Saturday. The jamming is banned by the Articles 15 and 23 of the Union's regulations on radio and telecommunications, the statement says. The ITU is a specialized UN agency for telecommunications. Jamming has ...

EDITORIALS Published Monday, August 9, 1999, in the Miami Herald UNACCEPTABLE TURNABOUT IN KOSOVO NATO must stop the carnage against Serbs or lose its credibility. NATO's dubious victory in Kosovo would be hollow indeed if, in the end, it succeeds in saving ethnic Albanians but at the cost of driving all Serbs from the region. No, there's no evil twin of Slobodan Milosevic exhorting Kosovar Albanians to ``ethnically cleanse'' Serbians the way that the Yugoslavian dictator did against the Albanians. Milosevic was barbaric and efficient in his goal of ridding Kosovo of ethnic Albanians during NATO's 78-day bombing campaign. ...

NATO's 100,000 Kosovo Deaths Shrinking to 3000-6000 Deaths By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com) August 5, 1999 Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media noted in an article entitled "Playing the Numbers Game" (http://www.aim.org/mm/1999/08/03.htm) this week that "Since NATO’s war on Yugoslavia ended, there has been a reevaluation of many of the numbers that were thrown around by NATO and U.S. spokesmen concerning the number of Albanians displaced and killed in Kosovo and the destruction of homes and other property. In a recent commentary, we discussed a report of NBC’s Andrea Mitchell in which she said ...

NATO's Psychological Projection TFF PressInfo 75 July 30, 1999 "I believe there were overlooked or suppressed dimensions such as collective psychology, deep cultural codes and domain Western expansionist/missionary values at work in the West's handling of Kosovo, and I think we do wise to discuss them. For instance, does the US-led West in fact hide a latent, deep-seated authoritarian ideology that seeks world dominance while pretending to create global democracy, partnership and multiculturalism? And does it in its own manner - like Milosevic and Hitler in their different manners - thrive on somebody else's crisis while pretending to help ...

HEADLINE NEWS MILOSEVIC RECEIVES BELARUS-RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN DELEGATION BELGRADE - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic received Thursday a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia, visiting our country at the invitation of the Yugoslav parliament. The cooperation of the three countries is developed successfully, it was said. Parliament representatives maintain continued contacts and exchange experience about the most important issues of interest for their international position, and internal development. Highligned was the importance of the agreement on activities of the Joint Commission of the parliaments, whose task is to examine in detail issues related to the ...

They Don't Need a Gandhi One of the leaders of the Kosovo Albanians, the un-recognized president of Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova, visited Prishtina. His adherents of the Democratic League of Kosovo, which he headed, in the capital of the region met the leader with flowers and banners: "Rugova is Our President". However, after being in his homeland only a few hours, Rugova suddenly and secretly left Kosovo. Soon he turned up in Italy. The representative of the DLK in Pristina and the vice- president of the party, Edit Takhiri, announced that "Rugova will return after a week and will work ...

Vuk Drashkovich Criticizes the West ---------------------------------------------------- The leader of the Yugoslav opposition considers that only "political idiots" could count on an outburst of pro-Western sympathies in Serbia Romanian powers modified their position regarding the one-day private visit of the leader of the Yugoslav opposition Vuk Drashkovich, as soon as it became clear that official Belgrade had no position on this visit. That is why immediately after the arrival of the leader of the Serbian Renovation Movement (SDO), he was received by the President of Romania Emil Constantinescu and then Premier Radu Vasile. In his press conference, Vuk Drashkovich sharply ...

"Hands are Moving toward the Kosovo Pie: The West is Trying to Impose its own Protectorate over the Yugoslav Province" -- Russkaja Gazeta [The Russian Newspaper] Representatives Christian Portman and Rory O'Sullivan of the World Bank have reported that there will be this autumn an international conference on rebuilding the Kosovo economy, destroyed by NATO. This is not a slip of the tongue. The subject will be "a conference of aid donors to re-establish the economy of Kosovo and the Balkan region". Yugoslavia does not appear on the list as the country which suffered the most from the war... Invitations ...

Yugoslavia calls to return its army to Kosovo border posts. BELGRADE, July 20 (Itar-Tass) -- The Yugoslav government on Tuesday called for the United Nations to sanction the immediate return of the Yugoslav army and police as well as customs officials and epidemiologic service workers to the posts on Kosovo borders with Albania and Macedonia. U.N. Sectetary General Kofi Annan's latest report to the Security Council admits that there are serious security problems in the territory, Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic said in a letter. The recent statement of KFOR and the U.N. observers also shows that their forces ...

Results of the Kremlin's Failed Policy ["This is Russia's last chance in the Balkans. The Helsinki Accords need to be re-examined"] One of the most startling episodes of the Balkan epic was Boris Yeltsin's pronouncement, carried by TV, on the "brilliantly carried out policy" which Russia had conducted during the Yugoslav crisis, which was crowned by the participation of Russian peacekeepers in Kosovo. There's only two ways he could say this: either he is living in the world of the imagination, having lost all connection with reality, or else he considers all his fellow citizens, "dear Russians", complete fools. Which ...

From: Transnational Foundation TFF Subject: Some Ethical Aspects on NATO's Intervention in Kosovo. Part A On http://www.transnational.org from July 15, 1999 P r e s s I n f o # 7 3 S O M E E T H I C A L A S P E C T S O N N A T O ' S I N T E R V E N T I O N I N K O S O V O July 15, 1999 "Now is the time to begin to reflect on what actually happened this spring in Kosovo and, thus, ...

The Serbs are now being blamed for killing themselves (by the millions). See the 2nd paragraph in the article below. God help us, Archdeacon Christodoulos National Review, July 12, 1999, Vol. 51 Issue 13 ABROAD, by David PRYCE-JONES KOSOVO, FROM SCRATCH The next Balkans challenge. Kacanik, Ruckhat, and Lukare are villages of which few people had ever heard. They are among the more dreadful sites in Kosovo where mass graves have been identified. There are already over 50 such sites, and more remain to be discovered. Kosovar Albanians were systematically tortured. Almost all their houses have been burnt out, and ...

0158 GMT, 990715 Romania/NATO/EU – Romanian President Emil Constantinescu criticized the West on July 14 for what he described as unfavorable treatment since the conclusion of the conflict in Kosovo. He stated, "Every day, a personality from NATO or the European Union is coming to Bucharest to congratulate us for the way we acted, as if we were a NATO country. But we have neither the security guarantees nor the advantages of the NATO countries. The treatment applied [by the West] to Romania, compared to the other countries in southeastern Europe, is clearly disadvantageous for us." Romanian officials have ...

For fair use for discussion and education NATO Allies Now Ethnic Cleansing Don Feder July 14, 1999 BELGRADE -- When is ethnic cleansing not ethnic cleansing? When the victims are Serbs. As many as 60,000 of Kosovo's 200,000 Serbs have already fled. Each day brings news of calculated atrocities. Human Rights Watch reports "investigations in Orahovac, Prizen and Pec revealed KLA soldiers' involvement in five murders, four abductions, one rape and 12 ... beatings." Since the war in Bosnia, Serbs have been so effectively demonized that not only will Western opinion believe almost anything of them, no one seems to ...