Following "statement from an insider at the governments
offices in Bonn, Germany, concerning the Balkan-war of april 7th
1999" was handed over to us by an anonymous person. Please check if
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Bonn, 8.4.1999
Jürgen Reents, Press-spokesman
of PDS at the German parliament.
1. Personal remark
2. About the recent lies of Schroeder,Sharping and Fischer
3. Preparation for war: "Roots" - a covert action of the CIA
aimed at the
destruction of Jugoslavia
Personal remark
This writing I hand over to a catholic priest, who is member
of the group "Ordensleute fur den Frieden" and asked him, while
keeping my identity secret, to arrange the distribution to the media
and politicians.
Holding a strictly confidential and high position at the
offices of the German government, because of my conscience I cannot
remain silent any longer.
All facts stated by me are veryfiable for the
better-informed and can be checked.
The complete NATO-Propagandastaff and over here the leading
trio Schröder, Scharping und Fischer are utterly lying in public
concerning almost all the facts in regard to the Balkanwar and a big
crowd of journalists copy these lies without any checks or controls.
Now to the present situation
The German government knows about the real cause of the
massive refugee outflux and plays with cynism the calculated
refugeedisaster at the borders of Kosovo. This way it can preserve
the image of deportations and "ethnic cleansing".
Reconnaissance of the German army and NATO as a whole do not
have any pictures, nor insight, nor signs or data, proving the
systematic deportation of the refugees by the Jugoslav Special
forces, army or police.
Causes for refugees to leave Kosovo as concluded by the Ministry
of Defence are with equal effect:
- Attacks of Jugoslav soldiers and police, but partly provoced
by attacks of UCK-forces using Albanians as human shields. There
are indications that plundering Jugoslav soldiers are executed on
the spot.
- NATO-Attacks and bombs
- NATO-Bomb effects like the destruction of fesh-water facilty
in almost all cities in Kosovo
- The fear to be caught in the middle of clashes between army
and UCK
- Permanent spreading of fear and horrorstories transmitted by
about 100 small UCK, NATO or Albanian pirate-broadcasting in the
mountains, as well as propagandaprograms of the UCK at Radio
Tirana.
- Gangs of the Albanian Mafia looting homes just vacated.
- Gangs of multiple ethnic composition consisting of fled
prisoners, deserters of the Jugoslav and Albanian army, often
using uniforms of the UCK or the Jugoslav army, easy to obtain at
each basar in the bordering states.
- UCK-fighters, proclaiming "General Mobilisation" and
recruiting every man of proper age and forcing them to join arms.
Anyone refusing is beaten badly and must pay a ransom and is
forced by oath and bloodrevenge to remain silent and told to
inform media and family they are a victim of Serb atrocities.
- Proclamation by the UCK that NATO has no option but to start a
ground-offensive.
Some forces in NATO welcome the exodus. With enthousiasm the
comment made by the US-Ministry of Defence dated april 5 was picked
up by the German military, that when all have fled, a massive attack
in the whole of Kosovo becomes a possibility.
The German government knows that there are no
concentrationcamps and that no houses where marked with an S by the
Serbs. This, as well as the fact that in no stadium in Pristina
people are detained, was reported by representatives of the catholic
church in Pristina in a direct telephoneconversation with employees
of the German government. Still
Scharping is spreading these lies. The German government
also knows that american and european private media at
the border are offering USD 200,000 for videomaterial of
massacres, true or false.
NATO and the German army are supporting the UCK with
uniforms, food and instructors.
All UCK-commanders are in constant radiocontact with NATO.
NATO-groundforces are already operating in Kosovo, they are
only German and US-units. Their task is to mark targets. Furthermore
NATO-officers function as communicationcommandos for the UCK.
The necessary contacts were established as the US and German
officers abused their mission as OSCE-observers before the
NATO-attacks. The German parliament is not informed about these
facts, nor the general public.
With the deployment of German Tornado aircraft our Minister
of Defence purposely is chosing to violate the Geneva Convention and
other international laws. This is the case concerning the attacks on
the military hospital as well as the attack on bridges. All traffic
by boat on the Donau is made impossible, which is a violation of
international law.
Premier and Minister of Foreign affairs knew from the very
beginning that no Jugoslav government could ever sign the
occupation-dictate as written in articles 6, 8 and 10 annex B of the
Rambouillet papers. Both understood clearly that this would mean the
end of Jugoslavia as a sovereign state. Therefor war was the only
outcome possible.
Experts of the Justice-Department doctored the lines that
would give NATO the rights of a medieval knight in the whole of
Jugoslavia.
According to statements made by Rugova’s Italian legal
advisor at Rambouillet, Filippo di Robilant, the moderate
Kosovo-Albanians were given assurance by Robin Cook, that signing the
paper would only permit NATO to attack military objects and further
saveguard the civilian population in the whole of Jugoslavia.
Codename "Roots"- a covert action by the CIA prepared for
war- aim is the destruction of Jugoslavia by disengaging Kosovo,
Montenegro and the Vojvodina.
Since the beginning of Clintons presidency the USA works
closely together with Germany under the codename "Roots". This covert
action is planned by the CIA and DIA, a joint office of the Pentagon
and the CIA supported by the German secret service in order to
destabilize Jugoslavia, which is the last resisting force in the
Balkans.
"Roots" objective is the separation of Kosovo by means of
autonomy, independance or becoming part of Albania, the separation of
Montenegro as the last means of acces to the Mediterranian and the
separation of the Vojvodina which is the area for the majority of
Jugoslavia’s food-supplies.
This will lead to the total collapse of Jugoslavia as a
viable independant state.
The trigger for this action is the fear of Germany and the
USA that Jugoslavia will ally itself with Russia and other former
Soviet-states the moment that Jeltzin is replaced by communist and
nationalist forces in the near future.
In order with the old Roman policy of "Divide et impera" the
implementation of Roots supports directly the dream of Greater
Albania in Kosovo, but also the direct financing of royalist Chetniks
and Serb ultranationalists in
Kosovo by rich Serbs living in exile in the USA, trying to
provoce an ethnic conflict.
Dissappointing developments for the "Roots"-planners, as in
1997 a peaceful solution seemed possible. The moderate speaker of the
Kosovo-Albanians and the systematically demonised Milosevic agreed to
establish the autonomy
concerning schools and education.
Now the UCK, founded by the CIA, came into play. This
organisation is based on the powers of the Albanian mafia, that still
controls mountainvillages in the borderarea of Montenegro, Kosovo,
Macedonia and Albania. Their source of
income is drugtrafficing, smuggling, extortion etc, and the
Codex of bloodrevenge still applies.
Their weaponry was obtained during the civil war in Albania.
Peaceful settlement between Serbs and Albanians became
diffucult due to ambushes by the UCK against Jugoslav police-units.
The civilian population was used as human shield.
These actions were stepped up after a new meeting between
Rugova and Milosevic in 1998 and as expected the military and
police-units overreacted in Kosovo. This way the UCK and the
NATO-states could sell these actions as
ethnic cleansing. Never any word was spoken about the
killings of the UCK. Neither about the abuse of the civil population
by UCK, nor the activities carried out by Serb nationalist thugs,
financed by the West, like Arkans Tigermilitia and Chetniks. (Similar
financial support was given to the Ustascha in their
segregationstruggle in Croatia).
In the same period of time Montenegro received immense
investments from European and American companies in the tourist
industry. So-called ‘prowestern’ privat radio broadcaststations were
raised and NATO-friendly politicians supported. This resulted in the
present situation that about half of the population supports the
NATO-friendly government.
In the Vojvodina the influence of the new NATO-member
Hungary came into play. Anti-serb feelings under minoritygroups like
Hungarians, Romanians and Croatians were vocalled by small
radiostations at the border in attempt to raise resistance against
Belgrade.
The bombs against the Donau-bridges effectively isolate the
province from the rest of Jugoslavia, forcing on the one hand better
relations with new NATO-member Hungary, on the other hand it is shown
who is in charge, now that big cities like Novi Sad with
predominantly Serb inhabitants are bombed. Cities with Hungarian
majorities are not bombed.
If these preparations for an offensive war with the
knowledge and approval of the previous Kohl-government and now
Schroeder, Scharping and Fischer are not to be brought to the
International Tribunal of War Crimes, then I donot
know what should be adressed there. End the NATO- and
CIA-war against the sovereign Jugoslavia.
The "Humanists" are exposed.
An Appeal from American Jews to the Green
Party of Germany
We are Jewish Americans who are deeply concerned that the
memory and tragedy of the Holocaust is being invoked in order to
justify an unjust bombing campaign against the civilian population of
Yugoslavia. Many of us have friends who lost family members in the
Holocaust, or have lost relatives ourselves. We are deeply aware of
our own history and the need for the world community to intervene in
situations where there is a threat of genocide, in order to prevent
it. However, this is clearly not what is happening in Yugoslavia
today.
We do not believe that our government's war against
Yugoslavia is motivated by humanitarian concerns. This is evidenced
by their refusal to airlift food and water to desperate refugees
within Kosovo, as well as the paltry sums allocated for refugee
relief as compared to the billions of dollars spent on the bombing.
The Clinton Administration's great reluctance to pursue a negotiated
solution to the conflict also indicates that this intervention is
mainly about power: showing the world that the United States (and
NATO, which it largely controls) is the self- appointed international
policeman, and stands above international law and the United Nations.
They are waging their war against civilians, destroying the Yugoslav
economy and killing hundreds of innocent people, in order to
demonstrate and consolidate their power.
Many supporters of the bombing have drawn analogies to the
Holocaust, arguing that the world cannot simply stand by in the face
of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. But the bombing has greatly worsened
the situation of the Kosovar Albanians, as is now universally
recognized. It has also destroyed the pro-democracy movement within
Yugoslavia, and is destabilizing
neighboring countries.
We urge you to reject these false and exaggerated analogies
to the Holocaust and World War II, which are being used to garner
support for a bombing campaign that is intensifying the suffering of
all nationalities in Yugoslavia. We appeal to the Green Party of
Germany to oppose this war, and to support a negotiated solution of
the conflict.
(Organizations listed for identification only).
Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor of Linguistics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Edward S. Herman
Professor Emeritus, Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania
Mark Weisbrot
Research Director, Preamble Center
Dean Baker
Senior Research Fellow, Preamble Center
Robert Naiman
Research Associate, Preamble Center
Note:
The above letter could make a difference in helping to stop
the bombing of Yugoslavia. We have just 6 days to gather
signatures and deliver it to the Green Party of Germany,
which is meeting on Thursday, May 13. Many Green Party members are
very angry about their party's support of bombing, and if the
conference votes to oppose the bombing, the ruling Social
Democratic-Green Party alliance will be under tremendous pressure to
change its policies or risk the collapse of its coalition government.
We are circulating this letter from American Jews because in
Germany (as in the US), many liberal and progressive people are being
told that those who oppose the bombing of Yugoslavia are committing
the same mistake as those who failed to intervene in the events
leading up to the Holocaust. We disagree strongly, as explained
below.
Please circulate this letter as widely and rapidly as you
can, especially through e-mail and web sites. To sign on, simply
return your name, and any title or organizational affiliation (it
will be made clear that this is for identification only) to:
naimanr@preamble.org