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“Doslo je vreme da se osvrnemo na ono sto se stvarno dogodilo ovog proleca na Kosovu a dogodilo se ne samo Kosovu vec i citavom svetu. Ubedjen sam da ce se istoricari sloziti sa mnom kako su se od 24. marta 1999. na ovamo medjunarodni odnosi i politika a i sam globalni sistem uveliko promenili,” kaze direktor TFF-a, Jan Oberg. “Veliki je broj onih koji intervenciju NATO-a smatraju pobedom moralnosti, pravednim ratom i pobedom demokratskih vrednosti. Ja medjutim verujem da na nju moramo gledati iz nekoliko razlicitih uglova zato da bi (a) mogli da je sto dublje shvatimo i razumemo i zato da bi mogli da na osnovu nje (b) razvijemo niz ideja, gledista i principa koji bi nam pomogli da sprecimo da se nesto slicno ikada vise, bilo gde drugde uopste ponovo dogodi. Zaista zacudjuje da ovaj rat – vodjen s toliko moralne nadmenosti a s navodnim zadatkom da...

Stereotyping and discrimination Ask yourself whether NATO’s bombing and subsequent occupation could have been done against any other nation in today’s Europe. Whether any other country than Yugoslavia and any other people but Serbs is so despised? The plight of the Albanian refugees is in focus, but how well and how extensive did media cover that of the Serbs, Goranis, Montenegrin, Turks and Gypsies in Kosovo? The refugee camps in Macedonia and Albania entered our living rooms – but did the human suffering of people living in and fleeing to bombed-out Yugoslavia? Recent Albanian extremist violence against Serbs is reported with “understanding,” presented as (justifiable) revenge for what Serb police, military and paramilitary units did. But the media which told the story this way never “explained” that Serb ethnic cleansing after NATO started bombing could be “understood” as (justifiable) anger at what THEY saw as the destruction of their entire...

Stereotipi i diskriminacija Zapitajte se da li bi NATO-ovo bombardovanje i okupacija koja mu je sledila uopšte bilo moguće u bilo kojoj drugoj zemlji današnje Evrope. Postoji li ijedna druga zemlja sem Jugoslavije i ijedna nacija osim Srba koja bi bila dovoljno prezrena? U žiži interesovanja medija bile su patnje i stradanja albanskih izbeglica, ali da li su i koliko mediji pokrili patnje srpskih, goranskih, crnogorskih, turskih i romskih izbeglica s Kosova? Izbeglički logori u Makedoniji i Albaniji su se prosto preselili u naše dnevne sobe – no da li se isto dogodilo i sa patnjama ljudi koji su živeli pod bombama ili su od njih bežali širom bombama razvaljene Jugoslavije? O nedavnom nasilju albanskih ekstremista protiv Srba izveštava se s „razumevanjem“, ono se predstavlja kao (opravdana) osveta za sve što su srpska policija, vojska i paravojne jedinice uradile. Međutim, nijednom mediju koji ovu priču priča na ovakav način nije...

“If a UN operation had gone this wrong from the beginning, if the mandate had been violated to this extent, politicians, diplomats and media worldwide would have cried ‘Failure!’ But since it is a US-lead NATO operation, independent-minded evaluations and criticism is conspicuously absent from mainstream media and the political discourse. The homogenisation of public opinion with NATO propaganda throughout the Western democracies is disheartening,” says TFF director, Dr Jan Oberg. While NATO troops have been in Macedonia the last 8 months, only on June 14 could the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan present a plan for a civil UN administration for Kosova. It puts the EU in charge of reconstruction and gives the OSCE primary responsibility for establishing democratic institutions, organising elections, and monitoring human rights. The UNHCR will take charge of the resettlement of refugees and displaced persons. The UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) will administer the...

Da je neka UN-ova operacija od samog svog pocetka ovoliko zastranila, da je do te mere prekrsila svoj mandat, politicari, diplomate i mediji sirom sveta vec bi povikali Neuspeh! Propast! Medjutim, posto je ovo NATO-ova operacija pod vodjstvom Amerike, nezavisne ocene i kritike su (zanimljivo) izostale i u vodecim medijima i u politickim razgovorima. Poistovecivanje javnog mnenja sa NATO-ovom propagandom u svim zemljama zapadne demokratije naprosto obeshrabruje, kaze direktor TFF-a, Jan Oberg. Dok su NATO trupe u Makedonij provele cak 8 poslednjih meseci, Generalni sekretar UN-a, Kofi Anan je tek 14. juna podneo plan o UN-ovoj civilnoj upravi za Kosovo. Njime se obnova prepusta EZ-u a osnovna odgovornost za uspostavljanje demokratskih institucija, organizaciju izbora i nadzor nad ostvarivanjem ljudskih prava preuzima OEBS. UNHCR-u je preputeno staranje o povratku izbeglica i raseljenih lica. Prelazna misija UN-a Uprava za Kosovo (INMIK) ce nadzirati policiju, pravosudje, skolstvo, javni prevoz, telekomunikacije i proizvodnju energije....

“Did you read UN Security Council Resolution 1244 about peace in Kosovo? Well, it is not exactly coherent. If your computer manual was this much of a mishmash and contradictions and if dozens of pages were missing, you would probably have operative system failures and bombs – and I think this is what will happen with NATO in Kosovo. But the resolution IS clear enough on essentials for us to ask after one week of NATO ‘peace’-keeping in Kosovo what on earth is going on,” says TFF director Jan Oberg. Here and in PressInfo 72 follow some of the already manifest problems. It condemns all acts of violence by the local parties, but has not even a mild statement about the uniquely brutal NATO-caused killings and devastation of a country of 12 million people. It expresses a determination to resolve the humanitarian crisis – well and good – but does...

Jeste li procitali Rezoluciju 1244 Saveta bezbednosti UN-a o miru na Kosovu? Pa, ne moze se bas reci da je koherentna. Kad bi uputstvo za rukovanje vaseg kompjutera imalo tako brojne nejasnoce i protivrecnosti, pa jos kad bi mu i nekoliko desetaka stranica bilo istrgnuto, izvesno je da bi vam se operativni sitem neprestano rusio i zapinjao a mislim da je upravo to ono sto ce se dogoditi NATO-u na Kosovu. Medjutim, ova Rezolucija je IPAK dovoljno jasna u svojim osnovnim crtama pa ce nam dozvoliti da se posle evo, prve nedelje NATO-ovog kosovskog mirotvorstva zapitamo sta se to uopste tamo dogadja? kaze direktor TFF-a, Jan Oberg. U ovoj i u sledecoj informaciji (Pres Info # 72) mozete pratiti analizu nekih od vec uocenih ociglednih problema. Rezolucijom se osudjuje svako nasilje lokalnih strana umesanih u sukob dok ona istovremeno ne sadrzi ni najblazi oblik spomena izuzetno brutalnog ubijanja koje je...

“Where do I stand: very simply, I am against the NATO bombing, I am against ethnic cleansing, whether by Serbs or anybody else — for instance by the immigrants to North America who in the period 1600-1900 cleansed away about 10,000,000 American Indians. I find nothing original in my position. The only original position would be to be in favor of both, a view probably only entertained by arms dealers. There are those who try to make us believe that you have to make a choice between NATO and Milosevic; if you are against one for sure you are in favor of the other. Nonsense. Early on in this horrible decade many of the same people tried to make us believe that you had to make a choice between the Gulf war and Saddam Hussein; again, perfectly possible to be against both. Then, the second example of this terrible dualism,...

Napisao Dzon Galtung dr hc mult, profesor na mirovnim studijama, direktor TRANSCEND-a, Mreze za mir i razvoj, pridruzeni clan TFF-a. “Moj stav je – vrlo prosto – da se protivim bombardovanju NATO-a, a protivim se i etnickom ciscenju svejedno da li ga provode Srbi ili neko drugi – recimo useljenici u Severnu Ameriku koji su izmedju 1600 i 1900 ocistili oko 10.000.000 americkih Indijanaca. Ne mislim da moj stav izrazava bilo sta sto bi bilo stvarno novo ili jako originalno. Jedini originalan stav bio bi kad bi neko podrzavao i jedno i drugo, stav koji bi verovatno zadovoljio samo trgovce oruzjem. Veliki je broj onih koji nas uce kako je jedini dopusteni izbor onaj izmedju Milosevica i NATO-a; ako niste za jedno onda ste sigurno za ono drugo. Pa to je glupost! Jos pocetkom ove decenije, isti ovi ljudi su pokusali da nas ubede kako je jedini izbor koji nam...

“Here we go again: Media around the world tell us that there is a ‘peace’ process, ‘peace’ negotiations and a ‘peace’ agreement soon to be concluded. There will be NATO ‘peace-keepers’ in Kosovo. They tell that Yugoslavia and the Balkans are taking the first steps to long-term ‘peace’ and stability. To a peace professional it’s all Orwellian Newspeak. This authoritarian NATO operation bodes ill for the future, for world order, normativity, lawful governance, democracy, moral politics and indeed peace,” says TFF director Jan Oberg. “The present and future costs of this type of peace policy are unacceptable and out of proportion with the Albanian-Serb problem it purported to solve in the first place. Today Serbs and Albanians are more polarised and hateful than ever. The very least would be to stop using the word ‘peace’ under circumstances like this. There are those who say that there were no alternatives –...

“Evo nas jos jednom, uvek u istom krugu: mediji sirom sveta govore nam kako imamo “mirovni” proces, “mirovne” pregovore i “mirovni” sporazum koji ce uskoro biti zakljuceni. Imacemo i NATO-ove “mirotvorce” na Kosovu. Govore nam kako Jugoslavija i Balkan prave prve korake na putu ka dugorocnom “miru” i stabilnosti. Profesionalnim mirovnjacima to ne predstavlja nista drugo nego orvelijanski novgovor. Ova autoritarna operacija NATO-a opako sluti na zlo: za buducnost, za svetski poredak, za zakonodavstvo, za vladavinu zakona, za demokratiju, za moralnu politiku, pa ako hocete i za mir” kaze direktor TFF-a, Jan Oberg. “Cena koju vec placamo za ovakvu vrstu mirovne politike, a koju cemo nastaviti da placamo i u buducnosti nije samo neprihvatljivo visoka nego i uveliko nesrazmerna s realnom velicinom srpsko-albanskog problema koji je navodno uopste trebalo da se resi. Srbi i Albanci su danas udaljeniji jedni od drugih i njih danas razdvaja vise mrznje nego ikada pre....

“The lack of empathy and solidarity with the 11 million citizens of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia whose society is being destroyed is as amazing as it is deplorable. Remember when people of culture, science, politics, media and humanism flocked to Sarajevo when it was under siege? Where are they now? Journalists flock to Macedonia and Albania – admittedly for very good reasons – and they flock to NATO’s well-staged press briefings. But seeing for oneself what it means to be the object of the worst military, economic and social destruction in Europe since 1945 seems, remarkably, not to be as good a reason,” says TFF director Jan Oberg. Where are those who believe Yugoslavia is a dictatorship? Supporting fellow human beings suffering under dictatorship is a noble reason to go but those around the world who hold this view stay away. Where are the human rights activists when numerous...