Kk-Forum,
KLA's avleggere i Sør-Serbia og nå i Makedonia gjør seg mer og mer
gjeldende. De håper åpenbart at fremgangsmåten vil virke like godt som den
gjorde under opptakten krigen i/om Kosovo i 1998-1999. Nå har NATO det
verre (?), de har andre propagandabehov, og ingen Holborn vil besøke dem og
avbildes sammen med dem i de sør-serbiske eller makedonske fjellene. Om
Stor-Albania plattformen (med forventet støtte fra USA og FN og NATO), se
denne fra antiwar.com:
http://antiwar.com/rep/albania1.html
Bytt ut 'South Serbia med Finnmark', og 'UCPBM' med ikke-eksisterende
hypotetisk rabiat samisk geriljagruppe i væpnet kamp for et stort
'Sameland' (innbefattende deler av Sverige, Finland og Russland),
'albanian' med 'samisk', og les om igjen om ikke gruppens kriminelle
politikk blir åpenbar uten ombyttingen. (NB! Denne anbefalte øvelse tar
selvsagt ikke sikte på å slå Finnmarks samiske befolkning i hartkorn med
KLA og kumpaner, men ment som en teoretisk øvelse i sammenliknende politikk).
Legg for øvrig merke til denne snedighet:
' ... Our
starting point is that individual and collective human rights
have a higher priority than state sovereignty.
'
Hørt den før?
Knut Rognes
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Albanian
Platform for
Resolution of the Southern Serbia Crisis
"Divisions Against the Will of the People"
Danas,
March 5, 2001 (via Beta news agency)
Translated
by Nebojsa Malic for Antiwar.com
3/6/01
Editorial
Note: If anyone had any doubt that we are in for another
round of action in the Balkans, then the release of the
following
document by the Albanian insurgency in the Presevo valley
should
put all such illusions to rest. This "platform" is not just a
list of grievances, or even demands – it is a declaration
of war. The Albanian nationalist movement – unleashed by
NATO – has its eyes not only on the Presevo valley, but also
on neighboring Macedonia. Fighting is breaking out on both
fronts,
simultaneously – with US troops stuck in the middle.
Meanwhile,
George W. Bush is going back on his campaign promise to get
us
out of this quagmire, at precisely the moment when the
whole region
is about to go up in flames. This is the legacy of the Kosovo
war: militant Albanians on the rampage. Read their "platform"
– and weep.
Presevo
(Beta) – The Chairman of the Party of Democratic Action (PDD)
of southern Serbian Albanians, Riza Halimi, presented here
yesterday
the platform of military and political representatives of the
Albanian in Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac counties,
intended
to resolve the crisis in the area. This is the integral
text of
the "Platform for stopping the armed conflict and resolution
of the crisis in Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac region":
All
disputes can and must be resolved politically and through
negotiations.
Negotiations
should commence as soon as possible, and unconditionally.
The Albanian negotiating team shall include
representatives
of the Liberation Army of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja
(UCPBM) as the leaders of the group, and the
representatives
of political structures.
Negotiations
should be held in another country, with the mediation
of international
institutions (United States or the UN).
All
military actions from both sides should cease on the
day negotiations
begin.
Implementation
of the agreement should be guaranteed by an
internationally
credible organization – NATO or the UN.
The
solution cannot be sought within the concept of status
quo ante. The political solution and the constitutional
position of Albanians in the Presevo Valley cannot be
reached
within the existing constitutional and institutional
framework
of Serbia.
Negotiations
should proceed on the basis of non-exclusion of any
proposed
solution, and on the basis of well-known international
principles.
The
purpose of negotiations is to protect the individual
and collective
rights of citizens, preserve their ethnic territory,
and reach
a political solution that would solve the crisis in a
just
and permanent way.
PREAMBLE
The
current crisis and tension in the region of Presevo, Medvedja
and Bujanovac counties, are a consequence of political
segregation,
repression and violence that the Serbian authorities have
imposed
on the Albanian population for decades:
The
long-term institutional discrimination and centralization
of power in Serbia, military and police repression,
murders
and massacres of Albanian civilians, torching of
settlements
and destruction of private homes in wartime, which all
influenced
the exodus of Albanians from the Karadak of Presevo;
Distancing
of Albanians from work places in state and educational
institutions;
Conversion
of schools and enterprises into military barracks and
police
stations;
Neglect
of Albanian participation in local government and
exclusion
of cultural, historical and ethnic values of from
educational
curricula and schoolbooks;
Systematic
and premeditated neglect of economic development of the
region.
Complete media blackout.
These
are just some of the elements that have directly influenced
the
position of Albanians in Presevo Valley.
Having
in mind the evident tendencies of Serbia to ethnically
cleanse
this region, the Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and
Bujanovac
(UCPMB) was formed from Albanian citizens from this region,
as
a response to military and police repression and for the
purpose
of self-defense and preservation of biological and physical
existence
of Albanians in this region, protected by no one.
Our
starting point is that individual and collective human rights
have a higher priority than state sovereignty. Our goal, in
order
to resolve the Albanian Question in this region through
political
means, is to prevent open armed conflict between Albanians
organized
in self-defense (UCPMB) and Serbian army and police, which
could
have unpredictable consequences.
We
are convinced that only the political solution would
produce acceptable
and desired results on all sides, having as their basic
interest
the prevention of an armed conflict and the creation of
prerequisites
for a just and acceptable political solution for both sides.
Basic
freedoms, individual and collective rights of Albanians,
shall
be secured and guaranteed on the basis of the following
relevant
international documents:
The
United Nations Charter
Universal
Declaration on Human Rights
International
treaty on economic, social and cultural rights
International
treaty on civil and political rights.
STARTING
POINTS
The
starting points for considering the position of Albanians
in the
region of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, relevant to the
negotiations,
are:
The
Presevo Valley region is a natural part of the Albanian
ethnic,
linguistic, cultural and territorial continuum, the
division
of which was imposed against the will of the people;
Albanians
in the Presevo Valley live in their own ethnic territory,
and make up a majority population;
The
administrative division of this region from Kosovo
through
the Serbian constitutions of 1947, 1963 and 1974 ahs
caused
a tendency of assimilating the Albanian population;
The
systematic repression of Serbian state against
Albanians in
the Presevo Valley has significantly increased after
the dissolution
of Yugoslav federation by Serbia in 1990, and
especially through
the 1992 Constitution of FR Yugoslavia, and systematic
laws
based on it, which have institutionalized
discrimination and pressure against Albanians to the point where their
political,
social, economic, cultural, educational, media and
other rights
were denied.;
The
position of Albanians in the Presevo Valley region has
deteriorated
to its ultimate extent with the repression during the
1998-99
Kosovo war. After the withdrawal of Serbian troops from
Kosovo,
which included individuals and units that have been
indicted
by the Hague Tribunal for massacres of civilians in
Kosovo,
most of those units were deployed in the Presevo Valley
region,
producing pressure and [population] movements which
clearly manifested the tendency to ethnically cleanse this territory.
Experiences of repeated actions by Serbian authorities against
the Albanian population in this region throughout the
20th century, and above all the genocidal behavior of these forces
towards the Presevo Valley Albanians have caused the
natural
response of self-organization and self-defense;
The
political changes in FRY and Serbia after October 5, 200,
have not improved the situation in this region.
FRAMEWORK
In
order for any solution to be acceptable, and a permanent
peace
established in these three counties, the Albanian negotiating
team proposes the following framework:
The
region shall be placed under international control,
encompassing
the entire territory of all three counties (Presevo,
Medvedja
and Bujanovac) and treating them as a territorial and
political
entity;
The
region of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac shall be
demilitarized
by withdrawing the Serb forces and putting UCPMB under
international
control;
The
International factor shall undertake the establishment of
order and security for all citizens, regardless of
their ethnicity;
The
international factor shall establish a legal order and
institutions
of state in this region, including the police, government
and judiciary;
The
international administration shall continue until the
definite
solution is reached;
The
issue of definite status of the region shall only be
reached
after the establishment of democratic society, enabling
the
population of the region to decide its own fate.
The
Albanian delegation considers the following measures as
prerequisites
for reaching the long-term, stable and acceptable solution
for
both sides:
Creation
of local law enforcement forces, based on ethnic
composition
of the population, which would be internationally aided
and
monitored and trained by international police;
Demilitarization
of the region, to be implemented and supervised by an
international
armed force;
The
return of refugees and exiled citizens to their homes,
with
full security and without time constraints, under the
supervision
of international humanitarian organizations and the
payment
of reparations for the destruction of their private
property
by the state;
ADDITIONAL
RIGHTS
In
addition to universal rights, Albanians shall enjoy the
following
legitimate rights. These legitimate rights are part of
international
law, and cannot be changed even by a majority vote in the
Parliament:
Education
and Culture rights
to
be educated in native language, in schools with
profiles and
degree levels determined by Albanians;
to
create curricula and school books, and the right for them
to include content related to [Albanian] national
history,
language, culture and heritage;
to
cooperate with the mother country in regard to culture
and
education; in that regard, there shall be a right to
establish
cultural and educational institutions and appropriate
associations,
and a right to recognize degrees obtained from various
universities;
Language
rights
to
have official and equal usage of Albanian language and
script
in public and official communication in the region, at
all
levels of government, in judicial proceedings, official
documents,
in names of geographic locations, and institutions;
all
official documents shall be written in Albanian;
Albanian
names shall be written according to Albanian language
spelling
and grammar rules ;
to
have the right to be informed in Albanian through
public media;
Administration
and Judiciary rights
the
regional administration shall have a proportionally
higher
percentage of Albanians than the percentage of actual
population;
the
law enforcement and security agencies shall have a
proportionally
higher percentage of Albanians than the percentage of
actual
population;
the
judiciary system shall have a proportionally higher
percentage
of Albanians than the percentage of actual population;
the
right to use [Albanian] national symbols and freely
celebrate
[Albanian] national holidays
Mother-country
rights
Presevo
Valley Albanians shall have full rights to communicate
with
Kosovo;
Kosovo
institutions shall aid the Presevo Albanians to
preserve and
develop their ethnic and cultural identity through:
a
joint curricular council for Albanian schools in
Presevo
Valley, and
a
joint council for preservation and development of
Albanian
cultural and religious buildings;
Religious
rights
Albanian
religious and cultural monuments shall be protected by
state
and international institutions;
The
custody over religious monuments shall be given to the
Kosovo
Islamic Community;
Financial
rights
redistribution
of income on county and regional level shall not be
biased
against Albanians and their interests;
Rights
to Economic and Trade Development and Free Trade
to
declare the region of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac a
free
trade and customs zone;
to
use natural resources of the region;
to
organize an international donor conference for economic
revitalization
of the region;
Establishment
of a permanent EU Monitoring Mission;
Establishment
of an Ombudsman to oversee these rights.
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