KK-Forum,
siste om Racak. Iflg mine kilder er ikke noe av dette nevnt i engelsk eller
amerikansk presse foreløpig.
Knut Rognes
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http://www.BerlinOnline.de/suche/.bin/mark.cgi/aktuelles/berliner_zeitung/po
litik/.html/1510.html?keywords=racak
"... Der Expertenbericht für die im Niederländischen Verlag Elsevier
herausgegebene Fachzeitschrift "Forensic Science International" bestätigt
die Schlussfolgerungen, zu denen die "Berliner Zeitung" in Auswertung
geheim gehaltener Autopsie-Protokolle bereits im März 2000 gekommen war:
Die seinerzeit von der OSZE und vielen westlichen Politikern behaupteten
Beweise für eine Massenhinrichtung albanischer Zivilisten durch serbische
Sicherheitskräfte gibt es nicht. ..."
"... Rantas geheimes Referat
Aufschlussreich ist in diesem Zusammenhang die Tatsache, dass auf
politischer Ebene bis zum heutigen Tag eine Veröffentlichung der
Untersuchungsergebnisse verhindert wurde."
"... Nach Kriegsende stellte Frau Ranta im EU-Auftrag erneut
Nachforschungen zu Racak an. Am 21. Juni 2000 lieferte sie einen Bericht
beim Jugoslawien-Tribunal ab, das das angebliche Massaker von Racak zu
einem der wesentlichen Anklagepunkte gegen die Alte jugoslawische Führung
gemacht hatte. Der Bericht wurde sofort geheimgestempelt. Tags darauf
referierte Frau Ranta hinter verschlossener Tür vor Beamten der EU-Staaten
über ihre Erkenntnisse. Doch auch dieses Referat blieb geheim. Nicht nur
den Medien, sondern sogar Europa-Parlamentariern wurde verwehrt, sich mit
den Aussagen vertraut zu machen. Vielleicht hängt das damit zusammen, dass
Frau Ranta auch vor den EU-Beamten wiederholte, was sie einer mit der
"Berliner Zeitung" kooperierenden kanadischen Journalistin - weit weg von
der interessierten europäischen Öffentlichkeit - mitteilte: Dass ihre
Recherche die offizielle Version einer Massenhinrichtung nicht untermauert;
dass sie nicht wisse, was in Racak wirklich passiert sei."
"... Auch auf jugoslawischer Seite ist der Fall Racak präsent. Mit Blick
auf die ständigen Überfalle albanischer Freischärler auf die
entmilitarisierte Pufferzone, die nach dem Kosovo-Krieg auf Nato-Druck
zwischen Zentralserbien und dem UN-verwalteten Kosovo errichtet worden war,
zog Jugoslawiens Präsident Vojislav Kostunica bereits Parallelen zur
Situation im Winter 1998/99. Er betonte den Willen, "die Souveränität des
Landes im südlichen Serbien zu verteidigen". Zugleich aber warnte er,
Jugoslawien dürfe nicht wieder hineingezogen werden in "eine Art
Provokation" wie in Racak, die "eine internationale Intervention" ausgelöst
habe..."
and
http://www.BerlinOnline.de/suche/.bin/mark.cgi/aktuelles/berliner_zeitung/po
litik/.html/1940.html?keywords=racak
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Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring
January 18, 2001, Thursday
HEADLINE: Yugoslav president explains reasons for deciding to meet Del Ponte
SOURCE: Radio Belgrade in Serbo-Croat 1400 gmt 18 Jan 01
Text of on news conference given by FRY President Vojislav Kostunica in
Belgrade on 18 January, broadcast by Serbian radio the same day
Reporter Jelena Hinic The possible change in Montenegro's status must take
into account the constitution of the Republic of Montenegro and the federal
constitution, President Kostunica said, and continued:
Kostunica I do not know what the outcome of the elections will be, and much
depends on that outcome. Also, if the political strand which today holds the
majority in Montenegro wins the elections, I do not know whether it will
adhere to the procedure stipulated by the constitution for changing the
constitution and passing a new one, either the Yugoslav or the Montenegrin
one. In any case, Belgrade will not do anything that would prevent those who
win the majority in Montenegro to decide whatever they may decide, including
the decision to go ahead with Montenegro's independence which is what
President Djukanovic favours. I wish to stress this along with another fact,
and that is that we will do nothing that could be used as an excuse in the
complex relations between Serbia and Montenegro.
Hinic Commenting on the meeting with Slobodan Milosevic, President Kostunica
said:
Kostunica I wanted to demonstrate that a code of behaviour different from
the code followed in the past is being followed in the country since 5
October. The presidents of the state will talk to the presidents of
opposition parties when these ask to be received for talks. I would also
like to stress something for all those who have trouble remembering or are
prone to forgetting, and that is that I have spoken with Slobodan Milosevic
twice in my life and both times publicly. The first occasion was on 6
October 2000, and the second time on 13 January 2001 and on both occasions I
spoke to a Milosevic who was no longer in power.
Hinic Commenting on the possible meeting with the Hague tribunal's
Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, President Kostunica said the following:
Kostunica Let me say that I had not planned on meeting with her because I am
busy. I have mentioned all the things that are keeping me busy and I had not
planned to meet her because there are many other, more relevant people who
are involved with these issues. But allow me to say at this news conference
today that there were several things that influenced me to change my
decision and to receive Carla Del Ponte: there are three things; first, the
affair, or scandal and great lie that has finally come to light about the
use of depleted uranium. A number of nongovernmental organizations, those
that are not on foreign payrolls which is why their voice was never heard or
was stifled, had repeatedly pointed this out - both in the country and
abroad, in 1995. In 1995, depleted uranium was used to bomb the Serb
Republic. That is a very, very serious matter for the Hague Tribunal. If it
wishes to prove that it is a court, then this is a test. The second very
important event is Racak where mass killing of Kosovo Albanians said to have
taken place in 1999 . Racak served to bring about Rambouillet, it served to
bring about the blackmail in Rambouillet which led to the bombing of
Yugoslavia. My position on this issue is very well known. Slobodan Milosevic
and the former regime were in a position to avoid both Racak and Rambouillet
if they had conducted a different policy and resolved the Kosovo issue. They
did not resolve it, but that does not justify those who were in a position
on 24 March 1999 to avoid 24 March 1999; however, the entire scenario,
including Racak, was put into circulation, and now that is has become clear
that this was something that was staged, I have an additional reason to meet
Carla Del Ponte. The third reason is connected to an unusual proposal
presented in what I perceive to be a very unusual and aggressive manner and
tone by Mrs Del Ponte and her spokesmen, and in what I would call a very
incomprehensible manner changes thought by the Hague Tribunal and Carla Del
Ponte as if there are no other judges or court presidents, and so forth.
sentence as heard Carla Del Ponte's very unusual and aggressive proposal
involves her presenting me with sealed indictments. Sealed indictments are,
to put it simply, a disgrace for all those who have known for centuries what
law is and what it should be.
United Press International
January 18, 2001, Thursday 01:29 PM Eastern Time
SECTION: GENERAL NEWS
HEADLINE: bc-yugoslavia-kostunica
BYLINE: By STEFAN RACIN
DATELINE: BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan. 18
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica said Thursday he would meet a
representative of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal not to discuss the
extradition of former President Slobodan Milosevic, as the tribunal wants,
but to talk about NATO's use of depleted uranium in the Balkans and a recent
report that cleared Yugoslav forces of killing Albanian civilians in 1999.
Kostunica had previously said he would not meet war crimes prosecutor Carla
Del Ponte and said Milosevic and other indictees must be tried in
Yugoslavia.
"I didn't think to meet with her because of my busy schedules, but there are
several reasons to change this decision," Kostunica said. "The first is the
shameful affair just brought to light about the use of depleted uranium."
Kostunica said he wanted to discuss NATO's 1995 bombing of Republika Srpska,
the Bosnian Serb republic, with uranium-tipped shells.
"This is a very, very serious matter for the Hague tribunal," Kostunica
said.
Del Ponte, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, said she would arrive in
Belgrade Jan. 23 for a three-day visit. She said she hoped to see Kostunica
to hand him open and sealed indictments against a number of Serbs and urge
him to extradite his predecessor, Milosevic, the tribunal's main indictee.
Kostunica described this as "an unusual offer made to me in an very unusual
manner, in a very aggressive tone."
"Sealed indictments are simply a shame for all those who know what law had
been for centuries," he said. "Therefore, naturally I will receive these
indictments and put them at the disposal of our government and our
parliament."
Kostunica also said he would raise the issue of the reported massacre of
ethnic Albanians in the Racak village of Kosovo by Yugoslav troops in 1999.
At the time, U.S. diplomat Peter Walker led a team from the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe to the area and said a number of
Albanians were shot dead from close range by Yugoslav police and left
unburied in a ditch. Earlier this week, however, Finnish researchers used
forensic evidence and said no massacre took place. Their findings were
published in Germany's Berliner Zeitung newspaper.
Kostunica said reports of the massacre were a ploy used by the West to
blackmail Yugoslav negotiators into accepting their terms for a settlement
before their eventual bombing of the country.
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