Bombing of RTS - Freedom of expression, according to NATO

IN MEMORIAM:

Darko Stoimenovski (26), technician
Nebojsa Stojanovic (27), technician
Dragorad Dragojevic (27), security guard
Ksenija Bankovic (28), video mixer
Jelica Munitlak (28), make-up artist
Dejan Markovic (30), security guard
Aleksandar Deletic (31), cameraman
Dragan Tasic (31), technician
Slavisa Stevanovic (32), producer
Sinisa Medic (33), programme designer
Ivan Stukalo (34), foreign programming specialist
Milan Joksimovic (47), security officer
Branislav Jovanovic (50), programme operator
Slobodan Jontic (54), set director
Milovan Jankovic (59), mechanic
Tomislav Mitrovic (61), programme director.

Killed on the day that NATO bombed a television station for not toeing the NATO party line.

BELGRADE, April 23 (Reuters) - NATO air strikes blasted Serbian state television off the air on Friday, just hours after Belgrade offered apeace proposal to allow an "international presence" in war-torn Kosovo under U.N. auspices. Belgrade residents reported hearing a "huge explosion" at 2:04 a.m. (0004 GMT) and said NATO had hit the RTS television building, taking all channels off the air. 
"The RTS building has been hit," said one witness. "There is smoke everywhere and there are people inside the building."

NATO bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia headquarters

As our current government is acting upon the saying "If you can't beat them, join them" and is likely to join futures with countries that bombed FR Yugoslavia in 1999 and actually sacrifice 20% of our territory in this integration process, let us remember this unprecedented NATO crime - the bombing of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), The National Broadcasting Company of Serbia, which killed 16 employees and wounded many more. 

Those same countries which invest loads of money in various Non-Governmental Organizations which are allegedly propagating democracy and tolerance in Serbia, those same countries that were fully supportive of the NATO leadership's decision to bomb National Television of Serbia back in 1999.
How about hypocrisy...

The Rape of #Serbia [part 2]

The Rape of Serbia (Part 2)

The War is About The Mines Of Kosovo

„Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter to sweet, and sweet for bitter!“

- Isaiah 5:20.

Wars are at root about economics, and the Kosovo war was no different.

So, why have had hundreds of millions of dollars in high-tech weapons suddenly become available to the, according to State Department – terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army? By way, of the USA and Germany!

At the beginning, the biggest winners of all in this war were Boeing, Northrop-Grumman and Raytheon. And, of course, their happy shareholders.

A Pentagon source has told me that US used 63% of munitions inventory to destroy Serbia. Shortly, U.S. Congress rushed through a $13 billion military spending package after the first two weeks of bombing. Such a bill would not have been possible without this bombing campaign. After that, US Congress requested an additional $120 billion for the next five years, and over $250 billion through the year 2010. What a bonanza for the munitions makers !

„Rambouillet peace conference“ and „Rambouillet Accords“ were nothing else but organized theft of Serbian resources by Western corporations. Even the Serbophobic New York Times admitted in 1998 article: “Below Kosovo, a war’s glittering prize awaits the conqueror“. However, that same media rarely mentioned the 17 trillion dollars in mineral assets of Serbia.

Serbia’s mineral resources are the richest in all Europe – west of Russia.

Kosovo is often portrayed in the media as an isolated mountainous region, poor and without resources. It might seem, from theese accounts, to be an area of interest only to those who live there. continue -- > 

The Rape of #Serbia [part I]

The Rape of Serbia

By Sir Vojislav Milosevic

Part 1.

„To investigate and expose a crime, you need to discover the motive and the modus operandi of the perpetrator“.

I suppose I have a weird sense of humor, but I often laugh at things which really are more grotesque than funny.

Why was there, a „civil war“ in Kosovo? Why did the Clinton administration get involved in it? What has been accomplished with 78 days of warfare, year 1999? continue -- > 

How did I get interested in the issue of anti-NATO resistance in Serbia [Yugoslavia]

Couple of days ago, on the 14th anniversary of NATO's bombing of the train on Grdelica gorge, there was an interesting discussion on my friend's Facebook wall revolving around imperialism, NATO, failure of the left, similarities and differences among the cases of Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Libya and Syria, which was triggered by Sukant Chandan's article: "Patrick Cockburn bemoans Libyan disaster, but was very quiet as the disaster was unfolding". 

Nato hit an international train, on regular service from Belgrade to Thessaloniki (Greece), in the vicinity of Leskovac. Dozen[No one knows the precise number]  passengers were killed, including a 10 year-old child. More than 30 passengers were wounded. All casualties were civilians.

There were some interesting comments there, some of them published in Sons of Malcolm subsequent post: "Before nATO attack on Libya, Afghanistan: There was Yugoslavia 1999". 

This time I would like to share with you one comment in particular that was, in fact, an answer to

Sukant's question: 

Chris Natural, how did you get interested in the issue around anti-nato resistance in Serbia/Yugoslavia?

Chris Natural: 

How did I get interested? How do any of us get interests in such matters?

For myself, I guess from a lifetime of questioning our motives everywhere. A strong feeling of right and wrong. Which seemed to be in my blood from birth for reasons unknown.

I remember as a nine year old being one of very few speaking out against Thatcher during my junior school vote on the eve of the '79 election. Not because of any encouragement from my folks (at this time we rarely spoke about politics, though they had an interest). 

CNN and BBC helping Albanians to ethnically cleanse North Kosovo Serbs?

Bomb has been thrown this morning on a Serb home in Zvečan.
More than twenty bombs have been thrown on Kosovo Serb houses since January this year.
Hundreds of Serb graves were desecrated.
Serb pupils were stoned while waiting for the bus.
No one was persecuted.
Not even one bomb was thrown on an Albanian house in retaliation.
 

Sneža Vučetić trying to console one of her two children,
injured when bomb was thrown on their home, 04.02.13.

The last bomb is significant because it comes amid the news that Albanian Rosu special forces (consisting mostly of former KLA fighters) intensified patrols around Serb areas and are behaving as if they are about to attack civilians. President of the Leposavić Municipality Dragiša Vasić said yesterday that Serbs are worried due to sudden suspicious increased presence and movements of ROSU forces in Serb areas.

"Serbs see it as a provocation, and as a possibility for an attempt of re-invasion, similar to July 2011, when ROSU tried to forcefully occupy North Kosovo" said Vasić for Kurir press.

The Republic of Serbia, President Mr. Tomislav Nikolic, UN General Assembly,Thematic Debate: Role of International Criminal Justice in Reconciliation

The Serbian president expressed the view that the ICTY, known as the Hague Tribunal, has done nothing to help but has rather only hindered the process of reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia.

 Republic of Serbia, President Mr. Tomislav Nikolic, UN General Assembly,Thematic Debate: Role of International Criminal Justice in Reconciliation

“Serbia and I are ready not to wait for 70 more years to reconcile with the neighbors that we used to live with together in the same state or (to reconcile) with those, I mean to say Kosovo-Metohija, with whom we live in the same country today. I am deeply convinced that the Hague Tribunal has only done harm to this process and that it has probably caused an unnecessary delay that will be carried over to the next generation. The process has certainly and to a large extent been slowed down and made more difficult,” said the Serbian president. 

Thematic Debate on the Role of International Criminal Justice in Reconciliation

S.E. M. Vuk Jeremić, President of the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly

S.E. M. Vuk Jeremić, President of the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly

Address at the Opening of the Thematic Debate on the
Role of International Criminal Justice in Reconciliation
New York, 10 April 2013


Mr. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
Esteemed Heads of State,
Respected Ministers,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is my distinct privilege to welcome you to the United Nations General Assembly.

Two decades after the establishment of the inaugural UN ad hoc tribunal, and eleven years following the entry into force of the Rome Statute establishing the ICC, we are finally holding our first thematic debate on international criminal justice.

I believe this is an issue of enormous significance for the international community. The number and diversity of countries that will participate in today’s proceedings demonstrates how widespread is the interest in this topic.

It is also an immensely sensitive one, for discussions about international criminal justice often involve considerations of delicate matters like sovereignty or impartiality. But I firmly believe there should be no forbidden subjects in the General Assembly. Where else can all Member States come together, as equals, to exchange views frankly, openly, and inclusively on far-reaching issues?

Students from the University of Belgrade and citizens of Serbia: “NO TO CAPITULATION!”

Many thanks The Voice Of Russia

Photo: Група подршке браћи на Космету

Students from the University of Belgrade and citizens of Serbia are up in arms over a proposed agreement with Pristina over Kosovo which is for all intents and purposes entails the complete and total capitulation of Kosovo and will cement the loss of an area that many Serbs consider to be the heart of Serbia. 

This is a "no" to blackmails, conditions and threats from Brussels #Serbia #Kosovo

Protest in Serbian Capital Blegrade against EU blackmail 

The government of Serbia cannot accept principles verbally presented to its negotiating team in Brussels, since they do not guarantee full security and protection of human rights to the Serb people in Kosovo," Ivica Dacic, Serbian prime minister, told reporters.

Update on EU ultimatum to Serbia regarding Kosovo status

President Nikolic gave a statement at the press conference held after the meeting with President of Republic Srpska, Milorad Dodik, saying that government will announce  its stance on proposed solutions for Kosovo tomorrow and that it will be a stance supported both by the President and the majority of parliamentary parties. He also said that Serbian delegation did not have an actual offer at the talks in Brussels, that the existing principles need to be fixed and that Serbia can not give up on its constitution and implement Kosovo's laws and constitution.

Protests in Belgrade will continue until the Government refuses the Kosovo ultimatum

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić, Prime Minister Ivica Dačić and First Deputy PM Aleksandar Vučić  will continue consultations regarding the status of Kosovo over weekend. The final decision is supposed to be announced after the extraordinary government session on Monday, as B92 reports.

Return to the framework of the Serbian Constitution and the Resolution 1244,
stop making the border with Kosovo and
the recognition of the so-called independent Kosovo

Meanwhile, today, on the 72nd anniversary of German bombing of Belgrade in WWII, approximately five thousands people have gathered at the protest called

"We don't want EU - We want Kosovo and Metohija" organized by the movement Dveri Srpske as a culmination of their campaign "This can't go on!" who called all interested people and organizations to participate united, under the Serbian flag.