ANDREJ TISMA on Tue, 3 Mar 1998 21:44:34 +0100 (MET) |
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<nettime> Concerned about terrorism in Kosovo |
We in Yugoslavia are very concerned about the increasing of terrorist actions by so called "Kosovo Liberation Army", the paramilitary and illegal terrorist organization of Albanian separatists in Kosovo, the southern autonomous province of Serbia. They are attacking and killing state's policemen of Republic of Serbia, Serb civilians, even Albanians who are loyal to their state. This organization is already on the scene in last six months, but recently it intensified its activities, taking control over whole parts of Kosovo during the night, well armed and supported by separatist Albanian parties from Kosovo and from abroad. Last Saturday a grave incident happened, when the KLA attacked the official police patrol near Glogovac in Kosovo, killed four policeman and wounded other two. The rest of policeman opened fire in defense and killed sixteen terrorists and arrested nine of them, finding a huge amount of weapons with them. After that Albanian separatist parties from Kosovo organized big demonstrations (about 10.000 participants) against "the terror of Serbian police in Kosovo". Of course, police didn't allow these demonstrations which are directly supporting separatists terrorism in Kosovo. Now some leading European countries and USA are criticizing Serbian Government for using power against demonstration in Kosovo, instead of accusing separatists' terrorist activities, same as in Belfast, Corsica, Basque, Texas... We are worried about the support to Albanian separatism and terrorism in Kosovo by these European states and USA, and we are afraid that Serbs and Serbia will again be accused for "aggression", this time in its own territory (Kosovo is still a part of Serbia). We see it as involvement in inner affairs of our sovereign state, especially because it goes about separatists' terrorism, and it is known how should one state deal with terrorists and armed separatists on its territory. Andrej Tisma --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de