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Serbia Today, 97-02-17
Serbia Today
CONTENTS
[01] SOME THREE THOUSAND MUSLIMS IN JEOPARDY IN MOSTAR
[02] THE LARGEST EUROPEAN WASTE DUMP
[03] THE HAGUE LESSENS CRIMES AGAINST SERBS
[04] DEMAND FOR THE DECISION ON BRCKO TO BE PROCLAIMED FINAL
[05] TUDJMAN BEGS ISRAEL
[06] TV PERSECUTION OF SERBS
[07] ALBANIAN FLAGS AND NATIONAL ANTHEM IN THE MACEDONIAN STATE
[08] LETTER TO KLEIN: "PREVENT A CATASTROPHE"
[09] YUGOSLAV MEMORANDUM ON MISSING PERSONS
[10] TRADE COOPERATION BETWEEN CZECH REPUBLIC AND YUGOSLAVIA
[11] CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN YUGOSLAV AND HUNGARIAN BUSINESSMEN
[12] RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN WORD
[01] SOME THREE THOUSAND MUSLIMS IN JEOPARDY IN MOSTAR
Commissioner of the international police forces in Mostar, Frank Sarver,
stated that this city is still in a very serious situation, reports the
Muslim Radio Sarajevo. The Muslim Party of Democratic Action (SDA) demanded
from the Croat Democratic Community (HDZ) of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the
international factors, to secure a peaceful and safe life for the remaining
part of Muslim population in the western, Croat part of Mostar. Over there
some 3,000 Muslims have remained who are deprived of all the human rights
and are living in constant fear from threats that they will be exiled,
claims the same source.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-17 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-02-17
[02] THE LARGEST EUROPEAN WASTE DUMP
Behind the public scene of a peaceful process in Bosnia-Herzegovina and
engagement of the international community, many abuses and manipulations
are concealed, writes the British monthly magazine "Strategic Policy",
pointing out especially at the sale and dumping of the nuclear waste. The
magazine claims that Germany and France have concluded separate agreements
with the Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic on the dumping of the medical
nuclear waste in the areas under control of his government. The cover for
these agreements are the UN missions and the international military forces,
whose insignia and vehicles are being used for transport of the nuclear
waste. In return, writes this magazine, France and Germany are assisting
Izetbegovic's government in providing armament and the overall training of
the Muslim armed forces. A similar agreement is also made between Germany
and Croatia and the dumping of the German medical nuclear waste in this
republic is taking place for two years already. It is also claimed that
this waste is mostly dumped in the deserted areas which used to be
inhabited by Serbs. Croatia today, claims the British magazine, is the
largest European nuclear waste dumping site.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-17 ; Borba, 1997-02-15
[03] THE HAGUE LESSENS CRIMES AGAINST SERBS
The Tribunal in The Hague, where on March 10, 1997 the hearing is to begin
of the Serbs-inmates, bearing testimony of their detention in the prison
camp of Celebici, has decreased the number of victims, pre-qualified the
crimes and indicted only four persons from the Bosnia-Herzegovina Army.
This was stated by Dusica Bojic, head of the Documentation Center on
sufferings of the inmates during the conflicts in former Yugoslavia. Crimes
committed in the prison camp of Celebici near Konjic, where some one
thousand persons were detained, were only one part of crimes perpetrated
against the civilian population during the large-scale offensive of the
Muslim-Croat forces in May 1992. Killing, torture, rape, looting of
property and burning down of villages have brought about the final exile of
almost all of the 7,700 citizens of Serbian nationality, among them many
children, women and aged. Since the victim was the entire Serbian civilian
population, it was expected that The Hague Tribunal will qualify these
crimes of the Croat and Muslim soldiers as the crime against humanity and
the crime of genocide, says Bojic. In this, for the time being the only
indictment where the victims are Serbs, however, The Hague Tribunal is
treating everyone, both women and men, as the victims of the war actions,
although in this particular region there were no war actions at all. Dusica
Bojic further states that, in spite of the existence of documents and
witnesses of the culpability and direct involvement in crimes of the
President of Bosnia-Herzegovina Alija Izetbegovic, of the government and of
the Bosnia-Herzegovina Army leadership in the events which have taken place
in the prison camp of Celebici, the indictments are charging only four
persons, at that those who are the lowest ones in the hierarchy. Bojic
especially points out at the preamble of the indictments, and the attention
of Mrs. Louis Arbour President of the Tribunal was also drawn to that fact,
during her visit to the Documentation Center. Although we have been
pointing out with all the necessary argumentation, that in Bosnia it is a
question of the civil war, in the preamble the qualification remained that
in the municipality of Konjic an international war conflict occurred with
the elements of occupation.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-17 ; Politika, 1997-02-16
[04] DEMAND FOR THE DECISION ON BRCKO TO BE PROCLAIMED FINAL
Serbian forum of intellectuals in Banja Luka submitted an open letter to
the UN high representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina Carl Bildt, in which he
is asked to proclaim as final the decision of Robert Owen on the separation
line in the region of Brcko. In the letter it is recalled that according to
the provisions of the Dayton Accords, the subject of arbitration is the
disputable part of the border line between the entities in the region of
Brcko. It is also underlined that the Arbitration commission was bound
until February 14, 1997 at the latest, to announce the result of
arbitration about the disputable separation line. On this day it did
announce that the inter-ethnic frontier, until the final decision, which is
to be passed within the period of one year at the latest, remains
unchanged. Since the Arbitration commission has no authorization to extend
its own mandate, its decision therefore should be considered as final,
reads the letter submitted to Carl Bildt.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-17 ; Politika ekspres, 1997-02-17
[05] TUDJMAN BEGS ISRAEL
In his interview for the "Jerusalem Post", Croat President is concealing
his anti-Semitic nature and is trying to "beautify the mistakes" of the
Croat anti-Semitic past. His target is for Israel and Croatia to establish
full diplomatic relations, since he has now published the revised edition
of his book "Wastelands of Historical Reality", from which some parts
derogatory for the Jews have been deleted. Tudjman's book, among other
things, also minimized the number of Jewish victims in World War Two,
because of which fact the State of Israel boycotted Tudjman ever since he
became President of Croatia. That the rehabilitation of Tudjman, in spite
of his pleas, will not be an easy task, is also shown in the parts of the
interview made by the reporter Steve Rodan. He recalls that "for the
Israeli officials and many American Jewish leaders" Tudjman is the
personification "of the remnants of the European anti-Semitism of the old
order". The newspaper extensively writes that Tudjman "glorified the
Ustashi regime of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in Zagreb", that
Croatia was 'a Nazi puppet" state in which during World War Two 30,000 Jews
were killed. "Jerusalem Post" among others, also quotes Abraham Foxmann,
director of "The League for Fight Against Libel", the most powerful Jewish
institution for monitoring of the anti-Semitic phenomena in the world.
"Tudjman must say it clearly and without ambiguities that he had written
what he had written, and must publicly apologize, or else prove that he did
not at all write this", comments Foxmann on Tudjman's wish to establish
diplomatic relations with Israel.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-17 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-02-17
[06] TV PERSECUTION OF SERBS
At the time of the official reconciliation between Serbs and Croats, the
Croat Television, in its main newsreel, opens once again the Pandora's box.
In an extensive commentary, without any ambiguities, there is a demand for
unification of all the Croat parties into "a single Croat block", in order
"to win over Serbs the elections in the Danube river basin". The anonymous
author is counting out Serbs in the Danube river basin, and claims that
there are some eighty thousand of them, but that "it is not known whether
this number will remain once the Croat army has reached the Danube shores".
Croat chauvinists, according to this same formula, in the year 1991 have
started the ethnic war in the Balkans. Serbs were denied the rights of a
constituent people, severe limits were drawn in the right to work between
Croats and Serbs, and the expression of loyalty of Serbs to the new regime
were only "the final touches" of the Croat neo-Fascism. Nowadays, for the
elections in the Danube river basin, where some one hundred sixty thousand
Serbs are living, there are calls again for the creation of a "Croat block",
which when translated actually means - all Croats unite against Serbs.
Furthermore, the Serbs are being threatened with the Croat army.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-17 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-02-17
[07] ALBANIAN FLAGS AND NATIONAL ANTHEM IN THE MACEDONIAN STATE
In the Skypetary (Albanian) village of Mala Recica near Tetovo in Macedonia,
a great celebration was organized on the occasion of the second anniversary
of the "All-Albanian University", officially unrecognized by the Macedonian
authorities. The celebration was taking place with the display of only the
Albanian flag, with singing of the Albanian national anthem and with other
symbols of this state, unacceptable in the Macedonian state. Among the
Skypetary (Albanian) leaders, some of them even the cabinet ministers,
present was also the rector of this para-university, Dr. Fadilj Sulejman,
who was released from prison some twenty days ago, where he was actually
detained because of his illegal activities in the establishment of this
"All-Albanian University".
Serbia Today, 1997-02-17 ; Politika, 1997-02-17
[08] LETTER TO KLEIN: "PREVENT A CATASTROPHE"
"Let the Serbian victims, of whose sufferings and perdition are speaking
our documents, warn you of the impending catastrophe and peril to civilians,
which will be much greater than the one from the year 1991. It is both your
moral and professional duty to prevent it", reads the letter of the
Information Center of the Serbian Alliance from Belgrade, sent to the UN
transitional administrator Jacques Klein. "The local Serbs have already
once been loyal to the same Croat regime, and that regime was assassinating
them. For this reason they have no more confidence in the Republic of
Croatia and are forced, because they do not feel at all safe, to abandon
their homes", continues the letter. It is stated that one part of
responsibility rests with Klein himself because he did not secure the
adequate mechanisms for the protection of human rights. Warning is given
that the return to Vukovar must be prevented of those Croats who have
committed monstrous crimes against innocent civilians. Together with the
letter, Jacques Klein was also given the documentation of the Information
Center of the Serbian Alliance which is investigating crimes of Croats and
Muslims committed in the territory of Croatia and Bosnia from 1991 to 1996,
but also of those perpetrated now, in peace time.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-17 ; Politika, 1997-02-16
[09] YUGOSLAV MEMORANDUM ON MISSING PERSONS
Commission of the Federal Government for Humanitarian Issues and Missing
Persons, at the request of Cyrus Vance, will submit to the international
commission for missing persons, which he is heading, the Memorandum on
activities in search for missing persons in the territory of former
Yugoslavia, from the beginning of the war conflicts in Slovenia. Among the
six annexes of the Yugoslav Memorandum, there are also documents of the
humanitarian non-governmental organization "Veritas", according to which
the information is requested from Croatia about 2,985 missing persons from
Krajina. Our side has complied with all the requests of Croatia contained
in the Protocol on cooperation, said president of the Commission, Pavle
Todorovic. Our country is requesting from Croatia information about 956
missing persons of different nationalities and religion, who were at the
time of their disappearance the citizens of the Socialist Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia. The former commissions also had problems in their work with
the commission from Croatia, because there were receiving unreliable data,
says Todorovic. From the Muslim side, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is
requesting clarification about the tragic fate of 112 soldiers of the
Yugoslav People's Army, who had perished in the convoys in Tuzla and
Sarajevo. Otherwise, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, all the sides are searching for
a total of some 18 thousand persons.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-17 ; Borba, 1997-02-15
[10] TRADE COOPERATION BETWEEN CZECH REPUBLIC AND YUGOSLAVIA
Goods exchange between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Czech
Republic last year amounted to 90 million US dollars, which is a good
result, in view of the fact that the more important deals started only in
May. This was stated by the charge d'affaires of the embassy of the Czech
Republic in Belgrade Alan Markov. There is interest for cooperation, which
is also confirmed by the forthcoming fair exhibition of the Yugoslav
economy in Prague, planned for June, where the companies from the food
processing, textile, chemical, machine building and leather goods and civil
engineering industries will be presented. Good effects were achieved by the
exhibition of the Czech economy held December last in Belgrade. In the
activation of the economic cooperation with Yugoslavia, also the largest
Czech non-governmental foundation "Patriae" will take part and in its
organization, some 40 firms will offer the plan for joint export-import
deals.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-17 ; Tanjug, 1997-02-17
[11] CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN YUGOSLAV AND HUNGARIAN BUSINESSMEN
In the organization of the Regional Chamber of Economy in Subotica and the
Chamber of Economy of the Hungarian county of Congrad, a consultative
meeting was held in Subotica between our and Hungarian businessmen, devoted
to the promotion of mutual economic cooperation. "With good economic
relations, hand in hand go good political relations", said the Ambassador
of Yugoslavia in Budapest Balsa Spadijer, while addressing the participants
of the meeting. Our interests in the economic cooperation with Hungary are
profoundly strategic and long-term oriented, because in the development of
Yugoslavia, priority is given to the cooperation with neighbors, and in
this Hungary has a special place, as our at one time most important
partner. Ambassador of Hungary in Yugoslavia Janosh Tot, who also attended
the consultative meeting, underlined that the Hungarian side is very much
interested in cooperation and its development, and in expanding of the
cooperation forms, striving for lowering of limitations which are
obstructing the overall trade exchange between the two countries.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-17 ; Borba, 1997-02-15
[12] RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN WORD
The newly appointed Minister of Information of the Republic of Serbia, Mrs.
Radmila Milentijevic, in her interview for the "Politika" daily, while
speaking of the changes in the media image in our information space and the
image of Serbia in the world, underlined that this can be done only with
facts, through full media freedom, but within the legal framework and with
full professional responsibility for the spoken and written word. The
changes are necessary in one of the fields in which Serbia is now attacked
the most from the West, and that is the field of information. The second
field in which Serbia should gain affirmation, in the opinion of Minister
Milentijevic, is the field of economics, and this especially through
privatization. She stated that in Serbia until now the importance of media
has not yet been sufficiently understood, especially of the party media,
and their impact on creating public opinion and state politics. While
reiterating the statement, which she gave immediately after her appointment
to the ministerial post - that the greatest victim of this war during the
disintegration of Yugoslavia, was the truth - Minister Milentijevic
specified: "Serbian people was demonized, accused for the worst of crimes.
It was a terrible demonization. This battle for a different image of Serbia
until now we did not win and we can not win it overnight. We will change it
when the facts and documents surface".
Serbia Today, 1997-02-17 ; Politika, 1997-02-14
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