A Truly Heroic
Resistance
As an American, I have not been
affected in the same way Serbian and Serbian-American
people have been by the horrible bombing. At the same
time, as a thinking person, I find the "peace
agreement," as published by the AP, most disturbing.
For 72 days the people of Serbia - from
all ethnic groups -- have kept up their spirit in the
face of an onslaught by what amounts to the old Colonial
club of Western powers. These powers gave us the Slave
trade, colonialism in all its horror, the gruesome wars
of our century and now they have embarked on a World-Wide
drive for power under the cover of humanitarian concerns.
The US is trying to use NATO to
destabilize and economically dominate a vast region,
perhaps the entire Eastern world. The Serbs are first on
the list. As has happened twice before during this
century, they are the outpost, defending civilization
against barbarians bent on world conquest. By resisting
the power of NATO they have followed the old Serbian
saying: "Freedom is priceless."
Despite a torrent of lies in the
Western media, the Serbian people have inspired millions
-- hundreds of millions -- from China to Canada. They
have reawakened the spark of decency, a new political
awareness on right and left. This new grouping of people
refuse to accept international injustice and lawlessness.
The Serbian people's symbol, the target bullseye, has
become the symbol for all of us. People from all over the
world now say, proudly, "I am a Serb," just as
many years ago John Paul Sartre said "I am a
Jew." Except this time, thank God, the
"Jews" are not going quietly to those ovens.
Whatever happens, nothing can lessen
the contribution the Serbs have made to the cause of
human freedom which today means resisting NATO. Nothing.
NATO IS THE NAME
NATION DESTROYING IS THE GAME
The U.S. government started the bombing
because Serbia would not surrender its national
sovereignty, as called for in Appendix B of the
Rambouillet "agreement." But what does the text
of the NEW peace agreement call for?
The Agreement calls for the complete
withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from the Serbian province
of Kosovo. It adds the contemptuous proviso that several
hundred troops might be allowed back into Kosovo to mark
land mines and guard monasteries. Indeed.
These troops, perhaps the best in the
world, are dug into well-engineered defenses. From
reports, their morale is superb. They have routed the KLA
which has been reduced to scattered snipers. NATO would
need a huge ground force -- certainly several hundred
thousand troops -- perhaps as many as a million -- to
have any hope of taking Kosovo from these men and women.
Such an attack would put immense
internal strains on NATO and greatly increase opposition
to NATO around the world.
U.S. Government's Goal is NOT Peace
True the bombing is horrible. But what
are the U.S. government's actual "peace goals"
in Serbia? Every indication is the U.S. government would,
given the chance, carry out the PRACTICAL program of the
KLA. (The KLA has after all never been an independent
force, but rather has been the terrorist arm of NATO in
Kosovo.) What is the practical program of the KLA? The
KLA has carried out its program for a year and a half: it
is the murder of anti-racist Albanians and all Serbs and
Roma people ("Gypsies"). The U.S. government
knows this is KLA policy. When Clinton praises the KLA he
is making it perfectly clear what will happen in Kosovo
if NATO gets control.
With the Yugoslav army gone, NATO
troops would suppress any significant resistance.
No Serbian police, no Yugoslav troops
with armor, just NATO "under unified command,"
that is, with ALL troops, including Russian and Greek
troops, controlled by the U.S. and Britain. This
"unified command" could maintain order while
the KLA does its work, slaughtering decent people, town
by town.
Real Serbian-Albanian Unity
Sometimes good things come out of
suffering. The devastating bombing of Kosovo has brought
many Serbs and Albanians together in a fighting unity
against NATO's attacks. This is expressed in mutual aid
and solidarity of all kinds including the repair of
damaged facilities, the arming of Albanians to fight KLA
snipers, and so on. This new solidarity is crucial
because it lays the basis for a new, antiracist political
unity against the racist Albanians, who call themselves
"nationalists," from the KLA to Rugova. And
this unity has been paid for by the suffering and
struggle of many people. Quite literally, with blood,
sweat and tears. (See Appendix 1, # 3, a, b & c and #
5)
What NATO needs in Kosovo
The U.S. has been instigating disunity
in Kosovo since 1987; disunity is the necessary
prerequisite for NATO domination of Kosovo. The simplest
way to break the current unified resistance is to kill
the people involved, especially the Albanian loyalists.
This requires a) the removal of Yugoslav Army troops from
Kosovo and b) the "regrettable" reentry of KLA
terrorists >from Albania. Once the Yugoslav troops are
gone, these butchers will stream across the border, led
by US and European special forces. The U.S.-controlled
verifiers who were stationed in Kosovo starting in
October, 1998, expressed "concern" that the KLA
used the Yugoslav troop withdrawal to rebuild its army.
In the same way, after a new Yugoslav withdrawal, NATO
would be "shocked" at KLA murders. Or perhaps
the news of these murders would be suppressed so that
later the victims of KLA attacks could be unearthed, and
the murders blamed on Yugoslav troops who, we would be
told, killed Albanians as they retreated. These Serbs and
Albanian brothers would get to be killed twice: first by
bullets and then by lies.
The result of this slaughter would be
even worse then the loss of human life; for this heroic
multi-ethnic group is the basis for reconstructing
Kosovo, for the first time, on an anti-racist basis.
Give NATO an arm and it will go for your leg
Once in possession of Kosovo, would
NATO respect the spirit of peace and cease aggression
against the rest of Serbia? If you answered
"yes" I'm afraid you don't know NATO. Or
anyway, you don't know Clinton and company. Kosovo is the
first stop in a long train ride, with many bumps.
Everything has been prepared to make
Vojvodina, the breadbasket of Serbia, which borders
Hungary, the next Kosovo. It has been physically isolated
through the bombing of bridges over the Danube. In
Hungary proper, flunky leaders have voiced the
appropriate concerns about ethnic abuses and they have
been echoed by NATO statements to the effect that
Milosevich is "expected" to target ethnic
Hungarians in Vojvodina next. How convenient of these
Serbs to abuse precisely the ethnic group that NATO needs
abused, and to do it at just the required moment.
The minute Kosovo is secure, or perhaps
before it is fully secure, atrocities against Hungarians
will be "discovered." There will be satellite
photos and eye-witness accounts of horrors in Vojvodina.
Some neo-fascist group of Hungarian secessionists will
pop up like a balloon charged with NATO hot air and voila
-- a whole new Kosovo. It is all predictable because,
like every criminal organization, NATO has a modus
operandi. I don't say that because I am paranoid and I
don't know that because I am clairvoyant; I simply read.
For instance, in the Feb. 15, 1999 Washington Post,
former State Department planner Robert A. Manning
described U.S. policy as: "...turning the former
Yugoslavia into a series of protectorates, one province
at a time."
One province at a time, until Serbia is
a group of Banana Republics. Each time a new province is
taken by NATO (to prevent some humanitarian catastrophe
which NATO has created) the neo-fascist group of choice
will slaughter "pro-Serbian nationalists" and
"non-Serbian collaborationists" (such as the
Albanians who oppose NATO and the KLA, but this applies
just as easily to ethnic Hungarians, Turks, Jews or
Roma.) NATO spokesmen will terribly regret this violence,
tsk tsk tsk, or lie about it (blame the victims) or the
media will bemoan a history of interethnic strife going
back hundreds of years. Or Jamie Shea will just say what
he said when a bridge was bombed, killing and wounding
many: "Tough luck," said Mr. Shea.
They Would Give us Afghanistan and
Call It Peace
A true peace is of course better than
war. And all things beingequal, it's worse to be bombed
than not.
But this "peace" agreement,
as presented by the Associated Press, lays the basis for
continuing the war without NATO having to take the losses
which war usually requires, i.e., without having to
launch a land invasion. Land invasion is preferable to
uncontested occupation, which would have a demoralizing
affect on the population, and make the job of resistance
-- which would nevertheless occur -- more difficult.
Moreover, if the citizens of Serbia
were to allow the uncontested occupation of Kosovo, this
would encourage the U.S. government to pursue adventures
of a similar kind further East. The US is openly and
covertly encouraging conflict between Moslems and
Orthodox Christians in the Caspian Sea area, rich in oil.
As Zbigniew Brzezinski, the high-placed U.S. government
"thinker" has said, Russia is far too big. The
U.S. government has used the IMF to enforce policies
which have cut the Russian economy in half and similarly
devastated other parts of the former Soviet Union
preparatory to breaking up this vast area into
mini-states, too small to defeat economic domination and
exploitation. Much like Central America.
In essence, the United States elite is
trying to carve up the world, the way colonial powers
used to do in the late 19th century. But this isn't the
late 19th century. This is the nuclear age and there are
tens of thousands of nuclear warheads all over the former
USSR - and elsewhere. So this plan for world conquest
makes nuclear war quite possible, perhaps probable. As
you read this, Russian nuclear warheads have been
re-aimed so they once again target the U.S. The ancient
Greeks said, "Whom the Gods would destroy, they
first make mad."
Are our leaders mad? Perhaps they are.
But mad or not, this is their plan.
As usual, Serbia is the dress rehearsal
for those attempting world domination. As usual, the
Serbs are the "kraj," which means the end in
Serbian. The end, the outpost, the outpost of
civilization against barbarism. What the Serbs do about
this "peace agreement" will affect the whole
course of world history.
Shakespeare said:
"There is a tide in the affairs of
men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries."
(Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 2)
The stakes are great indeed.
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APPENDIX 1
1. Evidence that reporters KNEW the
U.S. government had deliberately written the Rambouillet
"peace" agreement to be so extreme that the
Serbs couldn't sign it. That is, it was a setup to
achieve bombing. But this was never reported. See:
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/kosovo-talks.html
2. Documents, not intended for
publication, from the German Courts and German Foreign
Ministry According to these official German documents,
there was no Serbian persecution of Albanians during the
year before the bombing started. http://www.counterpunch.org/germanmemo.html
3. Three reports from Paul Watson,
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter on the ground in Kosovo
since bombing started.
a) "Missing " Albanian men
are doing fine, and fraternizing with Yugoslav troops http://www.beograd.com/nato/texts/english/l/LATimes/lat_kosovo990517.htm
b) Despite Western reports, Mr. Watson
sees NO evidence of massacres or organized government
persecution of Albanians in Pristina, capital of Kosovo http://www.counterpunch.org/watson.html
c) Albanians and Serbs work side by
side in Kosovo to undo damage caused by NATO's bombs http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/YUGO/DISPATCH/t000048733.html
4. Here's a brilliant deconstruction of
a NATO mass grave hoax http://www.srpska-mreza.com/Mass_Graves_Hoax/
5. Eve-Ann Prentice, London Times
reporter targeted (!) by NATO planes over Kosovo,
describes Serbian/Albania kindness towards her after the
attack. Gives a whole different impression of what these
folks are like from what we're getting on TV. (http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/06/01/timkoskos02002.html?1124027)
6. What is the KLA, the Kosovo Albanian
group for which NATO is now providing an air force? Prof.
Chossudovsky's answers and it isn't good. http://www.transnational.org/features/crimefinansed.html
7. Report of U.S. Congressional Mission
to Serbia refutes NATO assertions about atrocities and
ethnic cleansing. (http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/findings1.html)
8. A group of articles from the NY
Times and other papers in the 1980s show the Serbs were
victims of a racist movement in Kosovo. http://members.tripod.com/~sarant_2/ksm.html
9. When NATO planes bomb Albania,
everyone within miles flees - illustrating the Serbian
government's point that bombing is what crated the
refugee crisis. (http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/06/02/timkoskos01002.html?1124027)
10. Albanians take up arms against the
secessionist KLA. http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEt
11. Sean Gervasi has written some of the best
analysis of U.S. and German plans for carving up the
world. For instance, see: http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Gervasi.html
12. NATO has been demonizing the Serbs
for 9 years. Here one of the most successful slanders,
the concentration camp hoax, is debunked by Thomas
Deichmann. http://www.informinc.co.uk/ITN-vs-LM/story/LM97_Bosnia.html
The "Peace" Agreement
The text was in Serbian and translated
by AP:
"In order to move forward toward
solving the Kosovo crisis, an agreement should be reached
on the following principles:
``1: Imminent and verifiable end to
violence and repression of Kosovo.
``2. Verifiable withdrawal from Kosovo
of military, police and paramilitary forces according to
a quick timetable.
``3. Deployment in Kosovo, under U.N.
auspicies, of efficient international civilian and
security presences which would act as can be decided
according to Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter and be capable
of guaranteeing fulfillment of joint goals.
``4. International security presence,
with an essential NATO participation, must be deployed
under a unified control and command and authorized to
secure safe environment for all the residents in Kosovo
and enable the safe return of the displaced persons and
refugees to their homes.
``5. Establishment of an interim
administration for Kosovo ...which the U.N. Security
Council will decide and under which the people of Kosovo
will enjoy substantial autonomy within the Federal
Republic of >Yugoslavia . The interim administration
(will) secure transitional authority during the time (for
the) interim democratic and self-governing institutions,
(establish) conditions for peaceful and normal life of
all citizens of Kosovo.
``6. After the withdrawal, an agreed
number of Serb personnel will be allowed to return to
perform the following duties: liaison with
the international civilian mission and international
security presence, marking mine fields, maintaining a
presence at places of Serb heritage, maintaining a
presence at key border crossings.
``7. Safe and free return of all
refugees and the displaced under the supervision of UNHCR
and undisturbed access for humanitarian organizations to
Kosovo.
``8. Political process directed at
reaching interim political agreement which would secure
essential autonomy for Kosovo, with full taking into
consideration of the Rambouillet agreement, the
principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and other states in
the region as well as demilitarization of the Kosovo
Liberation Army. The talks between the sides about the
solution should not delay or disrupt establishment of the
democratic self-governning institutions.
``9. General approach to the economic
development of the crisis region. That would include
carrying out a pact of stability for southeastern Europe,
wide international participation in order to advance
democracy and economic prosperity, and stability and
regional cooperation.
``10. The end of military activities
will depend on acceptance of the listed principles and
simultaneous agreement with other previously identified
elements which are identified in the footnote below. Then
a military-technical agreement will be agreed which will
among other things specify additional modalities,
including the role and function of the Yugoslav, i.e.
Serb, personnel in Kosovo.
``11. The process of withdrawal
includes a phased, detailed timetable and the marking of
a buffer zone in Serbia behind which the troops will
withdraw.
``12. The returning personnel: The
equipment of the returning personnel, the range of their
functional responsibilities, the timetable for their
return, determination of the geographic zones of their
activity, the rules guiding their relations with the
international security presence and the international
civilian mission.
``Footnote. Other required elements:
Fast and precise timetable for the withdrawal which means
for instance: seven days to end the withdrawal; pulling
out of weapons of air defense from the zone of the mutual
security of 25 kilometers within 48 hours; return of the
personnel to fullfill the four duties will be carried out
under the supervision of >the international security
presence and will be limited to a small agreed number --
hundreds,not thousands.
``Suspension of military actions will
happen after the beginning of the withdrawal which can be
verified. Discussion about the military-technical
agreement and its reaching will not prolong the agreed
period for the withdrawal.''
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