IN RETROSPECTIVE: SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC’S ADDRESS TO THE NATION

Regardless of our opinion about Slobodan Milosevic now, 12 years after his overthrow on October 5, 2000 or our feelings about him back then, this speech is an important historical document as well as an important warning to people living in Serbia and in other former Republics of Yugoslavia. It is also a must read for people in Arab countries that were recently a stage for the so called "Arab Spring". I doubt that young people in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya or Syria are ready to hear this message now, but I hope some of them will take time to learn from the past events in this once grand country that is now reduced to what Milosevic described in this speech: National humiliation, state fragmentation and social misery...

Belgrade - October 2, 2000

Honored citizens, 

In the expectation of a second round of election, I'd like to take the opportunity to explain my views on the political situation in our country, especially in Serbia. As you know, efforts have been underway for a whole decade to put the whole Balkan Peninsula under the control of certain Western powers. A big part of that job was accomplished by establishing puppet governments in some countries, by transforming them into countries with limited sovereignty or no sovereignty at all. 

Because we resisted, we have been subjected to all the pressures that can be applied to people in today's world. The number and intensity of these pressures multiplied as time went by. 

Kosovo: Eight years after the pogrom

Kosovo, the occupied territory  - Eight years ago in a wave of violence in the occupied territories, Albanian extremists killed 19 people and destroyed 34 Orthodox churches.
More than 4,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians were expelled from their homes then. After the pogrom against the Serbs, 270 Albanians were arrested, 143 people were sentenced, mostly with money fees, a total of 67 of them sent to prison.

About 900 houses and 35 Orthodox churches and monasteries were burned, including the medieval relics, such as Virgin Ljeviska in Prizren, dating to the 14th century.

A call to a civil society. What needs to change, how we should act (Part Two)

George Kontogiorgis

The issue of the " Syntagma 2011" for the first time brings the civil society faced with all the (political and others) power holders of the state. The very fact shows that the collective does not define itself anymore in terms of mass, but aspire to be the cumulative product of society. The affirmation of individuality in the collective alters a civilian from the effected obedient citizen in to a free and emancipated entity who is forming the developments. Therefore, it is manifestly a falsehood of the greatest thinkers of modernity to claim that state and political system are identical in nature.

To preserve the conquest of this civil society it is required to:

Serbia generously allowed to sit in the backyard of EU without Kosovo?

The decision was made at the meeting of foreign ministers of 27 countries participating in the EU that Serbia will become a candidate for the EU membership. Now the question is whether Serbia joins the ranks with the European Union, and what will happen to Kosovo [Kosovo and Metohija], whose independence was recognized by the majority of the EU members.

A positive decision on granting Serbia the status of a candidate was announced by the French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe. He noted that currently the Balkan country has fulfilled all necessary conditions. 

The final decision will be made in the next few days, when the Heads of State and Government gather in Brussels. However, until now there has not been a case when the decision of foreign ministers was cancelled. This means that the government of Serbia probably has nothing to fear. [1]

They shot at us while we carried the wounded

- Such thing is unheard of elsewhere, to shoot at people carrying wounded man! We were carrying a man who was wounded in the leg towards the ambulance. I have never seen such an open fracture. His bone has raptured all the way through, and they were shooting at us. I never felt when the bullet hit me in the chin. All of a sudden I was in a semiconscious state- says for "Blic" 31-year-old Mladen Antonijevic, who was wounded at the administrative crossing Jarinje by the shots fired by KFOR soldiers.

Beside Antonijevic , in the trauma ward of the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica there are also Alexander Radunovic (35), Sasa Stanojevic Nebojsa Radojicic (38), Stevo Petronijević (44) and Milan Premović (44).


- I was shot first. Two bullets in the leg and one in the shoulder. However, most importantly, I am now well - Sasa Stanojevic said, adding that as soon as he recovers, he will again be at the barricades if nothing changes for the better.

The doctors have assessed as the most serious injuries those of Radunović Alexander. The bullet hit him in the left lung, and he was operated.

- I have two children, son and old daughter. I do not like to be on the barricades. None of us likes it. But I have to give my children a future in this our country - Radunovic speaks slowly as we see his face in spasm from pain.

And Nebojsa Radojicic has the same opinion.


- I have three sons, 6, 11 and 16 year-old. All three are athletes, I teach them such a life. I do not want my sons to be at the barricades, I need to provide them with the future - said Radojicic, who was wounded in the abdomen and right lower leg.

The bullet hit Radojicic while, as he says, he was in a shelter. It was him that Antonijevic was carrying to ambulance when he got shot in right side of his jaw.

All wounded Serbs say that as soon as they recover and leave the hospital once again they will be at the barricades to defend the survival of their people in Kosovo.

"Your wire, our barricades "

On the administrative crossing Jarinje yesterday morning was quiet. At the base of KFOR there were two carriers parked, and helicopters flew over from time to time from the Croatian unit . Wearing full war equipment ,German soldiers were observing some thirty gathered Serbs who were peacefully protesting about thirty meters from their position. The Serbs were standing on a three-meter high barricade and shouted: "Your wire, our barricades ." 

 This is a translation, You can find the original article here: http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Tema-Dana/279899/Pucali-su-na-nas-dok-----smo-nosili-ranjene

Press Release of SNC of North Kosovo and Metohija

Serbian National Council of the North of Kosovo and Metohija

PRESS RELEASE


Unprovoked attack against unarmed Serbs at the administrative crossing Jarinje, is a fascist-like  act of American and German members of NATO. Together with EULEX, NATO has a role of the military service to Albanian separatists, as well as being an armed and strong support to the cause of persecuting the remaining Serbs and establishing a criminal state of Albanian terrorists, known American and NATO allies during the 1999 bombing and colaborators of ocupational forces in the WWII.

With fascist coloured homicidal lust, American and German soldiers fired live ammunition not only to participants in peaceful protest at the barricades, but the ambulances with wounded Serbs, as well as the medical staff who came to help the wounded.

NATO has committed crime against Serbs in Jarinje, and the reaction of Serbian state leadership, is to  call the unarmed participants of peaceful protest on the barricades, by order of the West, for "restraint", is rough, unsustainable and very harmful substitution of theses for the Serbs.

Following such unsustainable statement from the President of Serbia, following an armed attack of U.S. and German troops against Serbs in Jarinje, the German government immediately resorted to even more open and rougher substitution of theses and shamelessly announced that "the use of force against the soldiers of KFOR, by Serbian extremists, is not acceptable and that Belgrade must send a clear word to those who are responsible for the outbreak of violence." Belgrade did so, but those "clear words" were wrongly and 'upside-down'  addressed, so that the call for restraint was sent to Serbs, who were victims of violence, instead of American and German soldiers who fired live ammunition at participants in peaceful protest  seriously wounding seven Serbs .

Encouraged by President Tadic's statement, as well as the German government, reacted the European Union, which "condemned the violence against members of the international community in the north," so that the victims of armed violence by the  American and German soldiers were blithely appointed as bullies.

Demolition of barricades and armed attack on Serbs in Jarinje happened only a day after a statement by Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac that "international forces movement should be enabled troughout the whole province," and immediately after an armed attack against the Serbs, the EU said that  "the barricades are restricting freedom of movement and must be removed" . In any case, we see many similarities in the statements of Serbian officials and the West, where many stands of Belgrade serve as an alibi for anti-Serb actions in Kosovo and Metohija.

Kosovska Mitrovica,
28th 09th 2011th
PRESIDENT
SERBIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL
North of Kosovo and Metohija

DR MILAN IVANOVIC

KFOR shooting live ammo on Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija

Jarinje 13:53

KFOR threw tear gas and stun grenades at the gathered  Serbs in Jarinje. There are injured. KFOR soldiers removed the barricades on the alternative road to Jarinje. Here we see the picture of KFOR soldier provoking by removing the Serbian flag from the barricades in Jarinje.

 New clashes occurred after local Serbs threw stones at KFOR toward Macon as a truck was brought in front of the barbed wire that the KFOR troops placed to block the alternative road to central Serbia. KFOR then responded with a lot of tear gas and rubber bullets. ( we'll see about that later...) TANJUG team car was damaged by rubber bullets.

After that KFOR shot at the ambulance and doctors when they came to pick up the injured Serbs. In spite of the shooting, 3 ambulance cars managed to transport 7 injured people ( 6 wounded and 1 with eye problem due to exposition to tear gas) to the Hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica where they were taken care of.

Health condition of seven injured Serbs is still difficult, but according to the doctors in Kosovska Mitrovica their injuries are not life threatening.

The first wounded, who was transported to the hospital was hit by rubber bullets, while other injured have bullet wound, it was announced in the  Kosovska Mitrovica hospital. According to statements of the hospital staff, Aco Radulovic suffered the most serious injuries, he was shot in the stomach and spine. Other than Radulovic, in the clashes with KFOR  Milan Premovic and Stevo Petronijevic were also injured.

Deputy spokesman for KFOR, Kai Gudenoge said that the soldiers were forced to fire rubber bullets on the Serbs in "self defense" ??? Well that really doesn't explain the bullets found on the X-rays of the injured, does it? Why such animosity?! Didn't they like the Serbian hospitality? So we feed them cabbage and home made bread and that's how they repay...

                                      The X-rays clearly show small bore bullets! Evidence that KFOR fired live ammunition! 

KIM Radio has learned that one of the injured- Mladen Antonijevic, was wounded when the bullet hit him in the jaw as he tried to bring one of the injured to the ambulance. Antonijevic has a broken jaw and he is in stable condition at Health Center Kosovska Mitrovica. The names of three other injured have not yet been announced. 

Director of the Health Centre in Kosovska Mitrovica, Milan Jakovljevic said that up to 14:00  the health department received seven people who were injured earlier today in Jarinje, and hospital appeals to blood donors to donate blood. 


Meanwhile, KFOR has expanded its base over the administrative crossing Jarinje and in the afternoon four helicopters arrived with reinforcement soldiers.

"Serbian President is very concerned about the conflict (?? and again?) and the worsening security situation in northern Kosovo. (Hmm, not like he didn't have ample time to deal with those threats...)
He calls on Kosovo Serbs to show the much needed peace and restraint, condemns use of force and calls for calm, "because the preservation of peace and dialogue is the only way to solve the problem."

Tadic added that the international forces are there to defend the unarmed citizens, and not to clash with them."I call on KFOR to the maximum restraint," says the president of Serbia.

Tadic stressed that KFOR troops have to be status neutral and must not use force against citizens, and the Kosovo Serbs to maintain composure and not fall for provocations.

"No problem can not be solved by violence, and bringing people's lives at risk is no contribution to defending our interests. The value of human lives is above all else and must be preserved," Tadic said, as quoted by the Press Service of the President of Serbia. .

The current situation at the crossing Jarinje is peaceful, but tense.
Several dozen people are still gathered near the crossing.
KFOR controls the crossing, and the number of troops on their arrival by helicopter at about 15 pm are no longer increasing. Several dozen people still stands on the asphalt road, on the Ibar highway near the crossing.

It is peaceful  in Leposavić also. Serbs are gathered on the barricade at a place called Vodice where neither KFOR, nor EULEX vehicles are allowed to pass, but only civilian cars.

The atmosphere is very tense and people are very tense. 

Kosovo Serbs in a Trap

Since the end of the 78-day long 1999 campaign of NATO air raids against Yugoslavia, Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija remain locked in a ghetto, with no defense from their own statehood. The withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers – the only force in the province that could realistically be expected to guarantee the security of the local Serbian community and other minorities – killed the Kosovo Serbs' last hope for any kind of on-site protection. These days they find themselves living in a NATO trap built by KFOR and the Albanian separatist “administration” backed Eulex whose only goal is to strengthen the institutions of the “independent” Kosovo.

The northern part of Kosovo, where the population is predominantly Serbian, emerged as a bastion of the Serbs' resistance to the illegitimate Pristina authorities. Serbs in Kosovo have to live under de facto war-time conditions, permanently struggling for survival and lacking elementary guarantees of personal safety and rights to their property. In the summer of 2011, at the same time Gadhafi's regime was being uprooted in Libya, Albanian separatists supported by KFOR provoked a new round of tensions in Kosovo. As the temperature of the conflict was rising, NATO outrageously overstepped the limits set by UN Security Council Resolution 1244 and launched an offensive which clearly fit into the alliance's eastbound expansion strategy.

At the first phase of the offensive, the Albanian Rosu special forces attempted to seize the Jarinje and Brnjak border crossings in the northern part of Kosovo, but their attack was repelled. Though Kosovo started to maintain a unified customs zone back in 2000, the two crossings retained a special status. Eulex staff ran the Jarinje and Brnjak crossings since the establishment of the mission. The UN Secretary General's six-point plan approved by the UN Security Council gave exclusive control over the two checkpoints to an internationally operated customs service.

In July, 2011, Pristina tried to break the rules, but Serbs made the Rosu special forces retreat and blocked the crossings' roads. Having taken control over the crossings, NATO declared them restricted military areas and threatened to use lethal force in case they came under attack. As a result, the NATO blockade cut the Kosovo Serbs off the rest of Serbia, and Pristina imposed an embargo on supplies coming from the Serbian mainland, putting the Serbian population residing in the north of Kosovo on the brink of a humanitarian disaster.

The West shows no signs of reaction to the threat of genocide facing a whole population. The blockade which already counts six weeks has also caused considerable financial damage to Serbia. The Serbian community's only functioning supply inlets at the moment are the so-called alternative crossings via which the people bring in food and medications, which is the only reason why disaster could be averted so far. Therefore, it is currently of great importance to prevent NATO and KFOR from having the alternative crossings sealed. Another Serbian community's problem that takes the cooperation of Belgrade to resolve is fuel shortage, but the administration of Serbia seems unwilling to organize an adequate fuel supply.

The official Belgrade's involvement is limited to wasteful talks about search for compromise and negotiations with Pristina during which the administration of Serbia has already made a series of completely unwarranted concessions. The readiness of the Kosovo Serbs to safeguard the northern part of the breakaway province, however, came as a shock to both Belgrade and the West, and the situation stayed in a frozen condition for over a month. Propelled to power due to the Western diplomatic support, Serbia's ruling political group which used to capitulate on essentially every occasion now has to at least imitate eagerness to side with the Kosovo Serbs. Even that proved to be a serious challenge as the West keeps Belgrade under pressure and has no intention to allow it to save face. So far the negotiations produced a deal by which KFOR would be delivering “border policemen” and “Kosovo customs officers” to the crossings in the north of Kosovo by KFOR copters. In other words, NATO is as usual helping Kosovo separatists convert an administrative border into one between countries, which promises the Kosovo Serbs further isolation.

In late August – early September, 2011, the Kosovo police service, NATO (KFOR), and Eulex carried out searches in the north of Kosovo which allegedly led to confiscations of large arsenals. Based on the dubious evidence, Albanians bluntly claim that whatever concerns Kosovo has to be regarded as their “domestic” affair and whatever they do in coordination with the international community is up to them, while Kosovo “premier” H. Thaci's propaganda portrays the leaders of the Kosovo Serbian community as criminal elements. Thaci even threatened that Pristina would issue international arrest warrants for those whom it suspects of inciting riots, thus referring to the leaders who are defending Serbia's statehood in Kosovo and Metohija. In the meantime B. Tadic's administration, in line with its strategy of surrendering Kosovo without much ado, stays out of the game and lets the architects of the new world order have their way.

Germany's Angela Merkel woke up the Serbian administration by pushing for a de facto escalation of the conflict and demanding to eliminate the “parallel institutions” in the north of Kosovo, which is the West's cynical term for what remained of the Kosovo Serbian self-government and Serbia's statehood in the province. The emboldened Albanians are teaching Belgrade how it should abdicate from the Serbs of northern Kosovo. Kosovo “minister of the internal” Bajram Rexhepi said the Albanian administration did not expect Belgrade to take the step voluntarily but still expected it to stop supporting the Kosovo Serbs financially, and would take drastic measures otherwise. He indicated that elections would be held after which the Kosovo administration would be dealing with “legitimate partners”. A new round of talks, with Borko Stefanovic at the helm on Serbia's side, produced curious results: as of November 1, documents and car license plates issued in Serbia would become invalid in Kosovo and all Kosovo residents would have to obtain “independent” Kosovo IDs. All Serbian institutions in Kosovo would lose legitimacy as a part of the package.

An agreement between Belgrade and Pristina on customs stamps was penned on September 2, 2011. In the process, Serbia's administration clumsily pretended that, due to the absence of the title “The Republic of Kosovo” on the stamps, the deal was not tantamount to a recognition of the Kosovo customs authority. Kosovo Serbs' leader Marko Jaksic remarked sarcastically on the occasion that even putting on the stamps a portrait of Serbia's King Dusan theMighty would not obscure the fact that their very existence invites being interpreted as a confirmation of the Kosovo independence. He stressed that since 1999 the Kosovo Serbs felt that they could count on S. Milosevic, V. Kostunica, and even the pro-Western Z. Dindic, but never on B. Tadic who readily takes commands from Eulex and KFOR and ignores the calls from his own people locked in a ghetto in Kosovo and Metohija.

http://serbiasos.blogspot.com/2011/09/russian-ambassador-in-belgrade-are_16.html Serbia's deputy premier and minister of internal affairs I. Dacic explains that the pledge to never recognize Kosovo is all talk which actually translates as the intention to recognize anything short of the Kosovo independence. “Leader of the pseudopatriotic Serbian Progressive Party T. Nikolic says the EU will not set the recognition of Kosovo as a prerequisite for Serbia's admission. It certainly will not – rather, it will demand that we abolish our institutions in Kosovo, consent to customs control, etc., which is practically the same”, says Dacic who demands that Serbia's politicians tell the nation honestly what is happening.

KFOR plans to use military force to remove barricades in Kosovo and to reign in the occasionally violent mass protests. The German army sent two armored bulldozers to remove the improvised fortifications built by Serbs on the roads to Kosovska Mitrovica. The German forces and a reserve German-Austrian battalion are quartered in Novo Selo. On September 19, German and Austrian servicemen attempted to install a checkpoint on the Kosovska Mitrovica – Zubin Potok road but were blocked by heavily loaded Serbian trucks and eventually had to retreat. The same day KFOR showered Kosovo and Metohija with leaflets saying that building barricades and blocking roads were illegal, and Eulex chief Xavier de Marnhac demanded that the Serb's barricades be bulldozed. Water canons for dispersing protesters will be delivered to Kosovo by early October.

The continuation of the NATO expansion and separatist Pristina's impunity, combined with Belgrade's servility and betrayal of national interests, reached such proportions that Russian ambassador to Serbia A.V. Konuzin urged Belgrade in a strongly worded statement at the Serbian Security Forum to provide protection for Kosovo and Metohija at a level adequate to the threats stemming from the current developments. Konuzin spoke in response to the criticism voiced during the debate according to which Russia contributed a destabilizing influence and, siding with Serbia, acted exclusively in keeping with its own interests.

It should be noted in the context that Serbia hosts a total of around 1,600 (!) NGOs which draw funding from the West and target audiences in all segments of the country's society. The agendas of the NGOs mandatorily include a mix of negative portrayal of Russia and aggressive marketing of the Anglo-Saxon culture. Konuzin said that Russia would continue to stand by Serbia's side regardless of the interests of those Serbs who want to see the country put under foreign control and stressed that speakers at the Forum avoided mentioning the fact that right as the debate was going on NATO and KFOR were violating the UN Security Council Resolution 1244. Konuzin's comment reflected with utmost clarity the position officially held by Moscow. He remarked a number of times previously that the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 had been trampled underfoot by the Pristina administration and that its steps undermined the security of the residents of Kosovo and the broader Balkan region along with the international security as a whole. The message delivered by Konuzin at the Belgrade Security Forum resonated with Serbia's society. As a Serbian media outlet wrote, “There is no real Serb who does not want Konuzin, the man who in a concise statement taught the Serbian administration a lesson on properly defending Serbdom, to be his friend or a guest at his home”. As Russia's UN ambassador V. Churkin stated unequivocally at the September 16 UN Security Council meeting, the worst part of the problem at the moment is that KFOR and Eulex are overstepping the bounds set by their mandates, their anti-Serbian operations in Kosovo are unacceptable, and Pristina's plans create serious risks and can lead to fighting and bloodshed.

The Serbs of Kosovo and Metohija are determined to stand by their northern Kosovo homeland, and Russia is prepared to keep supporting them internationally. Belgrade's position, however, is at the heart of the problem. The Serbian society deems unacceptable the administration's neglect for its constitutional obligations to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia, and, by the way, even Albanians are wary of Belgrade conduct when it enters into agreements with them and immediately moves on to present the deals as something different from what they really are.

It should be noted as a final remark that, acting along the whole “instability line” and staying involved in a variety of manageable local and regional conflicts, since the late 1990ies – early 2000ies NATO has been launching both major missions like bombing campaigns against sovereign countries and relatively limited-scale operations. In Kosovo, NATO maintains Camp Bondsteel, a powerful infrastructure for future serious strategic initiatives, which is currently used to give protection to the global drug trafficking flows traversing Kosovo, to separatist groups, and to the renamed but still not disarmed Kosovo Liberation Army which turned the province, with the exception of its northern part, into an ethnically cleansed territory. NATO is the muscle behind the separation of Kosovo from Serbia, and its presence in the province is tantamount to the occupation of a part of a sovereign country. Besides, NATO is the catalyst for a pan-European crisis and a threat to the physical survival of Serbs in the north of Kosovo and Metohija. The recent developments in the region, moreover, erode the positions of Russia and create conditions ever more conductive to NATO seizures of territories and resources belonging to sovereign countries.

Anna Filimonova
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/09/22/kosovo-serbs-in-a-trap.html

RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR IN BELGRADE: ARE THERE NO SERBS HERE?

 

RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR IN BELGRADE: ARE THERE NO SERBS HERE? IS THERE ANYONE HERE WHO CARES ABOUT THE DESTINY OF THE SERBIAN PEOPLE IN KOSOVO?

Do you think Kontuzin's speech would instigate some sense of shame in Serbian politicians?

Russian ambassador in Belgrade left the Security Forum, unsatisfied with the debate. Konuzin criticized the other participants, because nobody on the panel raised the issue of Kosovo’s customs officials headed for the checkpoints of Brnjak and Jarinje, which is about to be disscused on UN Security Council.

“I’m confused. NATO, KFOR and EULEX are planning to bring Kosovars customs officers at the crossings in Northern Kosovo, and thus violate their mandate, Resolution 1244 and UN Security Council decision from 2008, and yet the audience did not even raise one question about it. Are there any Serbs in this room, do you care about the destiny of your compatriots?”, asked the Konuzin.

Reminding the audience, that in a few hours, the UN Security Council will take up this issue, Konuzin said that Russia, together with the head of the Serbian diplomacy, will be there, defending the interests of Serbia.

“NATO and EU will be against your national interests, but I have an impression that you do not care,” said the Russian ambassador.

Konuzin commented on the criticisms made during the debate, in which it was pointed out that Russia works only on the basis of interest.

“Tell me which interests Russian volunteers had when they came to fight with you?” asked Konuzin.

“Russia has interests. And who doesn’t? We invest in your country, although some Serbs want to put your country under control. We have interests, but our interests overlap with yours,” said a Russian ambassador.

Ambassador’s speech was interupted by the panel’s moderator Ivan Vejovda, and after a brief discussion the Russian ambassador turned to the audience and asked if he could continue to talk.

After the audience refused it, he demonstratively left the hall.

Link for the text in serbian language: http://serbian.ruvr.ru/2011/09/15/56229686.html

Well I feel ashamed...Why do Serbs always wait for Russia to 'save' or 'defend' them, when our own government does no such thing? 

URGENT : COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF NOTHERN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA

 

Kosovska Mitrovica – to inform our Serbian brothers and sisters, first of all our martyrs from Kosovo, and the entire Serbian public – about the obvious and well documented announced aggression by NATO forces and separatists in the Shiptar-Free Serbian north of Kosovo, which will be attempted today – Our Kosovar brothers are organising a massive total blockade of all roads and crossings in the North!

IMPORTANT NOTE: The method of resistance which our brothers and sisters in Serbian Kosovo are using towards the occupiers at the moment is purely peaceful and „Gandhi"-like. This notice applies primarily to the brothers and sisters from Serbia, and to all Orthodox and fraternal countries as well, who are now rushing towards, or are already in Serbian Kosovo – they are required to unquestionably accept this way of legal civil resistance (disobedience) of our Serbian people from Kosovo – and to unconditionally listen to the commands of Serbian Crisis Staff and trusted local Serbian leaders. Please do not make this situation harder than it is and do not endanger the position of Serbian population in Kosovo with any reckless action – please fortify Serbian human shield barricades – and do not give any reason for the armed repression of the occupiers against defenseless Serbian population in Kosovo! Not only at the Free Serbian north, but also those in the occupied Serbian enclaves …

Our strongest weapon in this unfair fight between the Serbian „David“ and the invaders „Goliath“ is just a mass civil disobedience, passive physical resistance, to get an attention from domestic and international public and media focus on the suffering of Serbs in Kosovo. We have already managed to achieve the latter– the focus of the wider national and international public and media is now back in Kosovo – and thus we spoiled the main asset of NATO Shiptar insidious invaders – to complete the dirty work in silence,under the ‘cover of darkness’. All their plans now fell into the water – according to our reliable sources, mutual suspicions and clashes emerged (because of the exposed details of their plans that we announced two days ago), not only between Siptar factions and security services – but between Shiptar and NATO as well, servants and their masters..

Therefore, it is now extremely important to maintain a cool head, but remain consistent and courageous in our heroic struggle for basic human freedom and national dignity of our disenfranchised people in Kosovo. Throughout the process, unfortunately, in addition to the occupier, we should not have any confidence in Tadic’s regime, which has recently tried to legitimize a false Shiptar state signatures in Brussels. For Tadic’s regime Serbian Kosovo is only a burden on their imaginary and demented way to EU, „ballast“ that they, along with any other of our national values (which are already sold out), are ready to obediently sacrifice, in order to achieve their own political interests and colonial agenda of their Euro-Atlantic masters.

Our editorial staff has reliable information that in the preparation of destabilizing the North and providing excuses for the occupiers for the „full“ military aggression against the north, along with the western secret services and Shiptar,Tadic’s regime and his secret services are also actively involved. Along the way, some European anarchists, and members of the so-called „Communist International“ are targets for the recruiting, in addition to foreign mercenaries, and well-meaning and naive Serbian patriots. Under these plans, these individuals would be misused for the escalation of a wider conflict with the largest armed force in the world, with NATO, and then withdrawn from Kosovo (or killed), and the Serbian population in Kosovo would be left in the lurch, exposed to the permanent ethnic cleansing from their ancestral homes . Which would subsequently give a ‘legitimacy’ to anti-Serbian President Boris Tadic to publicly renounce Serbian Kosovo, and accept „the actual situation on the ground“, as he had done countless times before.

Any normal person should ask herself, why would a legitimate Serbian State use any illegitimate moves to protect its legitimate national territory, national interests and its citizens? Although the Serbian state doesn’t have powerful army as we had in previous years, it still has a very powerful paramilitary Gendarmerie-like units, and each has a constitutional, God and the human right to mobilize and arm the territorial defense units-both in the central Serbia, and the occupied territories of our Serbian state.

It is also indicative that: The occupation plans, which were revealed to the public on the pages of this blog thanks to Mr. Drecun, and the above-mentioned activities of Western and Serbian secret services overlap in many details – and represent an occupation and Serbian ethnic cleansing of the North!

In the following days, many unpleasant facts about the serbian regime will be unmask and expose the dirty role of Tadic’s regime in the betrayal of our national interests. We are not currently in a situation to present all the facts at our disposal for reasons of security of our sources. All citizens of Serbia, in need of legal state aid and advice on these events, we advise you to contact the Russian embassy, which is familiar with the whole situation and working on a „resolution“ of the situation in our national interest-,as well as state agencies of Serbian Republic, which in this situation is the only fully functional and real Serbian state. Unfortunately, the official Belgrade is just another NATO protectorate like Pristina and Podgorica.

In front of the editorial board FB Reporter

Miodrag Novakovic

Translated from Serbian by the SerbiaSOS team
Original link in serbian language: http://www.vaseljenska.com/vesti/vazno-obavestenje-kompletna-blokada-severa-kim/

Details of the new action in northern Kosovo after the 16th September!

We stumbled upon this alarming news, where else but on the page of Facebook Reporter, and we thought it would be wise to inform both the domestic and foreign public about it...



1. Participation of combat helicopters "Apache",
2. Two large boats delivered to transfer KFOR special forces over the Gazivode lake,
3. Main forces would be shifted in direction of Podujevo-Bajgora-Banjska to avoid blockades in Zvecane
4. Heavy equipment to break the blockade was already in the "Notinghil" base
5. Use of force permitted.
  80 mercenaries from Albania and Macedonia took positions- Bajgora Svinjare Wet Gora.

These are the details of the new plan for the military-police operation, which is scheduled for 16th, but will be conducted after September the 16th. I managed to get hold of the plan and I have to admit that I am very disturbed by the potential for causing destabilization that this plan has. Knowledge of the details I have provided is vital to those who are to oppose this action. It is a joint action of the KPS, ROSU, KFOR and EULEX. 


This is a classic military or combat action and extremely dangerous for the Serbian people. 
It is necessary that the public, both domestic and international, become familiar with the details ...
M. Drecun, journalist, writer and military-political analyst

Serbian workers in Libya: Mistake or revenge?

Rebels in Libya captured five workers from Serbia

"NATO's Islamist terrorist fanatics, which have slaughtered children, raped women, abducted girls and impaled young boys with metal rods, have now seized five Serbian construction workers.

The Serbs were working normally and said they were seized during their lunch break in Tripoli." says Timothy Bancroft- Hinchey in today's PRAVDA.RU http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/25-08-2011/118856-serbs_libya-0/

 
There has been a swift reaction of Serbian users of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, who started a campaign for the immediate release of the apprehended workers and more information on their whereabouts. There was a report on the Serbian B92 about this arrest, where they quoted the members of the self proclaimed NTC saying that they have arrested five Serbian nationals and although they identified themselves as workers, it is believed they were working as snipers for Gaddafi. B92 haven't thought to ask for their names or whereabouts, to the best of our knowledge. Nor have we seen any particular interest by government on that matter. The claim that the above mentioned were "arrested snipers working as Gaddafi's mercenaries" is by itself ridiculous!  Do you know of many cases of apprehended snipers? Five of them together? Not likely! What worries us is the treatment they would receive under custody of those same rebels that were labeling black people in Libya as mercenaries and had them tortured and executed on public squares in front of masses in Benghazi and Dherna. Considering how the Serbs were labeled as Gaddafi's mercenaries from the very beginning, even advertised so on you tube videos featuring Libya, it is not hard to imagine what faith could await our workers in such circumstances.

Serbian people demand that the Serbian President promptly react and demand an URGENT release of Serbian workers who were falsely accused of killing civilians with snipers in Libya.

R.I.P. Kosovo's children

Gorazdevac: Memorial service-anniversary of the Bistrica river slaughter

Murder in Gorazdevac is one of four major crimes against the Serbs since the arrival of the international mission. The killers are not punished, as well as in three other crimes - in the Old Gracko, Obilic near Podujevo.

Unknown persons fired on the Serbian children who were swimming in the river near Gorazdevac,killing Ivan Jovovic (19) and Pantelija Dakic (13),and seriously wounding Djordje Ugrenović (20), Bogdan Bukumiric (14), Marko Bogićević (12) and Dragan Srbljak (13).

Today, as every year on this day, in the church of the Holy Virgin in Gorazdevac , Vladika Teodosije will hold a memorial service for the murdered boys.


 
NEWS FROM KOSOVO



Impending economic and humanitarian crisis


Minister of Health in the Serbian Government, Zoran Stankovic, has announced yesterday that new shipment of medicines and medical supplies is to be send to Gracanica and other Serbian enclaves in Kosovo and Metohija, on Monday August the 15th. He told the B92 TV that the hospitals in Gracanica, Strpci, Pruzani and other enclaves would be supplied with all the necessary medical equipment. He also reminded that the Government has already sent one shipment of medicines and medical supplies to Kosovo and Metohija (Kosovo) last week .

Meanwhile, Northern Kosovo Serbs are facing an impending economic and humanitarian crisis due to the lack of basic food and medical supplies. KFOR doesn't allow any vehicle to pass to the Northern part of Kosovo, so the basic supplies didn't arrive yesterday and the embargo on the goods from Serbia lasts for days now. The stores on the north of Kosovo are emptier by the day. Bread, milk, flour, oil and other supplies are missing from the store shelves.

At the same time, many of the employees of the biggest companies in the region are facing unemployment due to embargo.

Slavisa Stanic, General Secretary of the Economic Chamber of Kosovo and Metohija, stated for the newspaper "Politika" that the economy in the north is in danger of the complete collapse, because it is unable to import raw materials or to transport goods to Serbia.

Thousands of people who work in large companies, such as "Trepca", in the Factory "Lola" in Lesak , the facilities in Zubin Potok, and in the factory "Simpo" in Zubin Potok, will remain out of work.

 
The team for the investigation of Dick Marty's report is ready

Section of the report, which was already distributed to the ambassadors of Security Council members, states that EULEX has completed formation of a special team to deal with investigation of allegations of the Council of Europe special rapporteur, Dick Marty, and that the investigation into the links of former KLA commanders with human organ trafficking is to begin soon .


Quiet night at the barricades

Last night, as all the previous nights since the beggining of the crisis in Northern Kosovo ( Kosovo and Metohia) on the July the 25th, Serbs remained on the barricades in the village Rudare, near Zvecane, while observing all the other roads leading to Brnjak and Jarinje crossings. It was quiet, as much as it is possible since they say the words "suspense" and "tension" are two best words to describe the situation in Northern Kosovo, says the reporter of KiM radio from Kosovska Mitrovica, Sladjana Trifunovic.


Mayors of four municipalities of Northern Kosovo sent a letter to Ban Ki-moon

The Greek newspaper "Proto Thema" reports that the representatives of four municipalities of Northern Kosovo (Kosovo and Metohia) have sent a letter to Secretary-General of UN, Ban Ki-moon, in which they expressed their concerns about the security of Serbian population in this part of Kosovo (Kosovo and Metohia), after the threats of the temporary Kosovo authorities from Pristina, that they would violently integrate the north of Kosovo and bring Albanian policemen and custom officers, after the departure of the KFOR. They stressed the importance of the information they have received about the possible action of KFOR, EULEX and the Kosovo police, that could endanger the stability and the safety of the region, but also the lives of both Kosovo Serbs and the members of KFOR and EULEX. In the same letter, that was also sent to the representatives of UNMIK, EULEX, KFOR and OSCE, the mayors of four municipalities reported that the Commander of KFOR, Erhard Buler's behavior is unprofessional and under the orders of the US Ambassador in Pristina, Christopher Dell.


The Security Council session to be postponed

The Security Council session that was scheduled for August 24th will most likely be postponed due to the two-day visit of Angela Merkel to Belgrade on August 22 and 23, that would prevent the Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic from arriving to UN headquarters in New York in time. "We are currently considering the option of postponing the Security Council Session for Monday August 29th, so that the Minister Jeremic could present the official position of the Serbian authorities on the situation in Kosovo and Metohija" said the Serbian Ambassador in the UN, Fedor Starcevic.

We will have to wait until then for the Ban Ki-moon's report on the crisis in Kosmet, because he had completed his regular report before the recent events took place. Beside the Ban Ki-moon's report and information about the recent events in Kosmet, there is to be discussion,on Serbia's request, that the investigation into allegations of Dick Marty gets a UN mandate.

In the days preceding the outbreak of violence, the United Nations have stated that the situation in the north is relatively peaceful, but tensions are slowly rising, especially because the local Serb leaders have consistently expressed concern about the intentions of the Kosovo authorities to expand their operations in northern Kosovo (Kosovo and Metohia), through the actions of ROSU unit and the traffic police.


Crossed traffic signs

On the traffic sign by the road Skopje-Pristina, at the entrance to the city, someone crossed the names of Belgrade and Pristina in the Serbian language and inscribed over the signpost

"Enver Zimberija street." Enver Zimberi was a member of a special unit ROSU who was killed during the violent try to take over administrative check-point Brnjak-Jarinje.