SERBIA – PAST AND PRESENT

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By Mirjana Andjelkovic LukicYou cannot talk about Serbia without
mentioning the recent bombings, which
are the cause of all our current problems.
Exactly 13 years ago, on 24 March
1999 at 8:45 pm the bombing of Serbia
began. The first return of the NATO aircraft
to Aviano in Italy was accompanied
by a festive mood in Europe. The pilots
were praised for having hit their targets
with surgical precision. Pictures of villages
and towns full of smoke, destroyed
homes and crying people as the first victims
of war were shown.

Germany’s role

In the twentieth century, the Serbs have
been attacked 3 times. Enormous human
suffering and material damage was inflicted
to them. As in 1941, when on 6
April Germany bombed Belgrade without
any declaration of war very early in
the morning, the forces of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization attacked Serbia
again without prior notice. This time
there were Germans among the ranks of
NATO forces. Once again they flew over
the land, which they knew well from
two previous world wars. Belgrade is
the only capital that has been bombed
more than 40 times since it came into
existence.
The reason for the war was worked out
under the government of Schröder, Fischer
and Scharping in Germany. Lacking
the real reasons for an attack, they made
use of big lies, such as a massacre of civilians
in Racak. Another one was the supposedly
massive expulsion of the Albanian
population, which was actually on the
run, because they had been informed by
the Western countries about the attack on
our country.
In order to justify the longed-for war,
Scharping claimed the Serbs had turned
the soccer stadium in Pristina into a concentration
camp. This allegation has never
proven right.
Apart from these lies, they also spoke
about the alleged plan of the Serbs to torture
the Albanian population and expulse
them. Scharping was handed out this plan
in Serbian language. He ignored, however,
that this document with the name
“Horseshoe Plan” was written in the Croatian
language. In Serbia, the document
was known to nobody. Moreover, a Serb
never writes in Croatian. The reports of
German officers, and many witnesses
who tried to tell that this was a lie, were
also ignored.
Helena Ranta, the Finnish member of
the commission investigating the events
in Racak, was also involved in the network
of lies. In her biography she later
admitted to having worked under great
pressure from the Finnish foreign ministry
and the then head of the Kosovo mission,
William Walker. They searched and
ordered hard-hitting facts about Serbian
crimes. Since Walker was not satisfied
with her coverage, he broke a pencil and
threw it at Mrs Ranta, from whom he demanded
a more convincing account of the
Serbian crimes which they needed to be
able to start the war.

“It started with a lie”

Only a few years later, German media revealed
that story about the alleged crimes
was false. “It started with a lie” was the
title of the TV program in which Scharping
was confronted with his lies. He
played the innocent ignorant.
Another one who has also spoken,
but too late, was Carla del Ponte in her
book “The Hunt” in which she revealed
the awful truth that during the KFOR
occupation organs of kidnapped Serbs
and other non-Albanians were harvested
and sold in Europe. There are indications
that this is still being carried out
today. The Italian journalist Marilina
Veca also wrote about these facts. The
entire Italian public was therefore in a
state of turmoil.
Dick Marty, politician in Switzerland,
member of the Council of Europe and
member of the Commission on Human
Rights in the OSCE, also reported on this
issue.
On 14 December 2010, he published a
report for the Council of Europe in which
he confirmed that Hashim Taci and other
leaders of the UÇK were involved in the
sale of organs of Serb prisoners, in many
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 “Emotional Charge“ – “a great bluff“
The campaign, which Ruder Finn set in
motion in August 1992, had particularly
grave consequences on the perception
and assessment not only of the Bosnian
war, but later on the conflict in Kosovo,
when first Western media reports about
prisoner camps in Bosnia were published.
According to James Harff the PR agency
then succeeded in engaging Jewish circles
in the United States for the Bosnian
issue, and thus brought about the comparison
of events in the Bosnian war with
the Holocaust against the Jews.
James Harff described as his greatest
PR success that during the war in
Bosnia he had succeeded “masterfully
[…]. We outwitted three Jewish organizations”
(quoted according to Merlino
1999, 155). And in fact, three of the largest
Jewish organizations in the US published
a full-page protest ad in the “New
York Times” in August 1992, in which
the Serbs were equated with the Nazis
and the Bosnians with the Jews. According
to Harff, the following happened
after that:
“That was a tremendous coup. When
the Jewish organizations entered the
game on the side of the [Muslim] Bosnians
we could promptly equate the
Serbs with the Nazis in the public mind.
[…] Almost immediately there was a clear
change of language in the press, with the
use of words with high emotional content
such as ethnic cleansing, concentration
camps, etc, which evoke images of
Nazi Germany and the gas chambers of
Auschwitz. The emotional charge was
so powerful that no one risked to contradict,
to avoid of being accused of revisionism.
We had hit the mark.”
Source: Jörg Becker/Mira Beham. Operation
Balkan: Werbung für Krieg und Tod.
ISBN 978-3-8329-3591-7. (English quotation
see: https://www.antipasministries.
com/html/file0000059.htm)
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Mirjana Andjelkovic Lukic studied in Belgrade
at the faculty of technology and
metallurgy, where she met her husband
Mirko Lukic. After he finished his studies
at the Army High School in Paris both
received their doctorate in the field of
technology applied to explosives and
later became research assistants at the
institute of military technology for research
and processing of explosives.
During the war professor Mirko Lukic
visited some of the bombed areas in
Belgrade and its surroundings. As a result
he developed cancer and died in
2003.
Mirjana Lukic paid particular attention
to the ecological affects of the bombings.
After her husband had died she continued
the activities she had previously shared
with him which were the investigation of
the bombings’ chemical and radiological
effects on the citizens of Serbia. Besides
numerous publications about politics and
ecology she worked as judicial consultant
in the field of technology applied to explosives.
She also published a book which
deals with her investigations into the ramifications
of the Nato-war: “The presence
of the merciful angle” (Serbian: Darovi milosrdnog
andjela).
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contract killings as well as in various other
crimes.

Everything was too late
for the Serbian people

None of the people responsible for this
manipulation and war propaganda was
made liable for the crimes that have cost
thousands of lives. For all this, a culprit
was needed. They found it in Miloševic,
the democratically elected president of
Serbia, who had been the only serious interlocutor
for the West for a long time.
With the change of Western targets, he
became the worst dictator in Europe overnight.
These methods were also used for
other statesmen.
The fruitful fantasy of the West reached
its peak in denouncing this personality.
He was compared to Hitler – it was
even claimed that he was worse than this
and that he had created a new Auschwitz.
So the Germans succeeded in removing
their Auschwitz to Serbia. In the Western
media we could only hear the respective
country’s own comments, not the original
words of Miloševic, by which all people
would have been able to make their own
judgment.
The trial in The Hague was to bring the
truth to light. But even there all the news
came from only one direction. The indictment
was presented by Carla del Ponte,
who had collected a lot of evidence. What
really happened in court was not shown –
not in the Western media – for example,
that she could not prove one single charge.
Usually, the Serbian politicians and generals
lost their lives in this situation. However,
nobody cared about this.

Audiatur et altera pars –
listen to the other side as well

In every conflict there are at least two
sides. To get to know the truth – which
would be essential with damage of such
magnitude – you must listen to both sides.
This is the only prerequisite for the understanding
among the peoples, and the only
way to peace.
A source of Serbian crimes was created
from many constructed lies. These lies
shook the whole world. NATO had long
been ready for action. The aircraft engines
were already running. The war had to be
started.
With their aggression on Serbia, all
NATO countries violated many international
conventions, protocols and
resolutions of the UN, among others
against:
• the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change from 1997
[Kyoto Protocol],
• the “Convention Concerning the Protection
of the World Cultural and Natural
Heritage” from 1972 (World Heritage
Convention),
• the “Protocol Additional to the Geneva
Conventions of 12 August 1949, and
relating to the Protection of Victims of
International Armed Conflicts (Protocol
I), 8 June 1977”
• the “Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions
on the Use of Certain Conventional
Weapons” from 1980 (UN
weapons ban convention)
• the UN Human Rights Commission’s
resolutions for the prevention of discrimination
and the protection of minorities
from 1996 to 1997 and many
others.
By ignoring many international conventions,
the NATO alliance has committed
the greatest crime against peace
in the area of Europe. The bombing of
Serbia with depleted uranium, but also
with newly developed weapons, has contaminated
the areas on Serbian territory
forever, because the half life of DU
[depleted uranium] is 4.5 billion years.
The increasingly larger number of people
with cancer nowadays bears witness
to this fact.
Despite all these findings, the German
Chancellor Angela Merkel recently said
on television that she was happy that there
have been no more wars in Europe since
the Second World War. The processes in
Serbia used to be called a “humanitarian
intervention” by the mainstream.
Whatever the future of Serbia will be,
no one will ever be able to justify NATO’s
war against this small country and
the participation of Germany, Ralph Hartmann
wrote.
Alastair Campbell on the other hand,
the second most powerful man in the UK
and the first press secretary to Tony Blair,
stated the following in an interview for
the newspaper “Novosti” in Belgrade: He
did not feel sorry that NATO had bombed
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Without
batting an eyelid, he admitted to hav-
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Charter of the United Nations
Preamble

We the peoples of the United Nations
determined
to save succeeding generations from
the scourge of war, which twice in our
lifetime has brought untold sorrow to
mankind, and
to reaffirm faith in fundamental
human rights, in the dignity and worth
of the human person, in the equal
rights of men and women and of nations
large and small, and
to establish conditions under which
justice and respect for the obligations
arising from treaties and other sources
of international law can be maintained,
and
to promote social progress and better
standards of life in larger freedom,
and for these ends
to practice tolerance and live together
in peace with one another as good
neighbours, and
to unite our strength to maintain international
peace and security, and
to ensure, by the acceptance of principles
and the institution of methods,
that armed force shall not be used,
save in the common interest, and
to employ international machinery for
the promotion of the economic and
social advancement of all peoples,
have resolved to combine our efforts to
accomplish these aims [...].

Extracts from the Charter of the United Nations

Article 41
The Security Council may decide what
measures not involving the use of armed
force are to be employed to give effect
to its decisions, and it may call upon the
Members of the United Nations to apply
such measures. These may include complete
or partial interruption of economic
relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic,
radio, and other means of communication,
and the severance of diplomatic
relations.
Article 51
Nothing in the present Charter shall impair
the inherent right of individual or
collective self-defence if an armed attack
occurs against a Member of the
United Nations, until the Security Council
has taken measures necessary to
maintain international peace and security.
Measures taken by Members in the
exercise of this right of self-defence shall
be immediately reported to the Security
Council and shall not in any way affect
the authority and responsibility of the
Security Council under the present Charter
to take at any time such action as it
deems necessary in order to maintain or
restore international peace and security.
Source: www.un.org/en/documents/
charter/index.shtml
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ing been one of the strategists of the
propaganda war against Serbia. (Source:
“Vecernje novosti” dated 01/21/2011)

Gifts of the Good Angel

As they “have endowed us from a humanitarian
point of view with bombs, I called
my book in which all aspects of the bombing
and its aftermath are published, “Gifts
of the Good Angel”.
In the US, this operation was known as
“Operation Noble Anvil” whereas in Serbia
it was called “Merciful Angel”.
The bombing of Serbia lasted for 78
days, from 24 March to 10 June 1999. In
this act of aggression 1,031 soldiers were
killed, 5,173 soldiers and policemen were
wounded, 2,500 civilians were killed, including
78 children, and more than 6,000
civilians were wounded. Particularly
memorable is the tragic fate of the three
year old Milica Rakic from Batajnica.
She was hit by a NATO bomb on 14 April
1999 at 21:45 in the bathroom while she
was sitting on her potty.
At the beginning of the bombings 370
planes flew over Serbia daily. In the end,
the number rose to 1,200 a day.
Apart from the projectiles with depleted
uranium on the territory of Serbia,
other explosive combinations and rocket
fuels with certain chemical compounds
have been used in the bombings, whose
explosive effects are very toxic and cause
cancer.
NATO has admitted 30,000 bullets;
the military of Serbia speaks of 50,000,
the Russians of 90,000. About 200 targets
were hit, mainly in Kosovo. Against us a
very special chemical and radiological
war was waged with the aim of destroying
both the people and their property.
Although no chemical weapons were
used, the NATO war against Serbia has also
chemical aspects. They refer to the bombing
of transformer stations, electric power
plants, chemical factories, oil refineries and
their oil depot. This way the combustion
products, various cyclic compounds, cancerous
dioxins, but also phosgenes were
blown into the atmosphere.
The transformer station that had been
hit released the toxic Pyralene [French
trade name for polychlorinated biphenyls].
The Pyralen oils are genotoxic and
should not come into contact with the environment.
They are highly carcinogenic
and mutagenic. Since 2001, these oils
have been prohibited in Europe.
My husband and his team visited the
destroyed objects during the war to study
the effect of explosive projectiles in laboratories.
He has also studied the effect of
the electrically conductive fibers, which
were thrown on electrical systems, substations
and transmission lines. These fibers
have caused a short circuit that led to
power failure in all districts and knocked
them out. These systems were applied in
our country for the first time ever.
They are commonly called “soft” or
“graphite bombs”, although they are not.
They were part of the so-called CBUs, i.e.
cluster bombs produced in the US. A CBU
contains 202 clusters with a mass of electro-
permeable fibers of 1 kg each. During
the fall, these fibers wound on bobbins unfold
like a spider’s web, cover power lines
and cause short circuits making them useless.
The fibers are very light and the wind
blows them in all directions. If they fall
off the lines, they often rise up and cause
damage once again. The professionals in
my husband’s team managed to neutralize
them, so they stuck to the ground and
could not rise again. Therefore, our trans-
past-and-present1
Bombed Surdulica 27.4.1999, 20 deads, including 12 children, 100 injured citizens,
500 destroyed family houses. From 6 to 27 April the small city was hit by 175 destructive
projectiles.
Number of deads according to sex in central Serbia.
Legend: unfilled triangles: total, white triangles: women, squares: men. (Institute for
health care of Serbia “Dr Milan Jovanovic-Batut”, cancer register 2011)

former stations were later attacked with
real bombs, which was much more difficult
to repair. My husband paid for such
actions and the desire to help his people
with his life. 36 young people paid with
their lives in similar actions.
In addition to these objects, hospitals,
TV stations, bridges, children’s nursery
homes and many neighborhoods were attacked,
in which innocent civilians lived.
Even travelers were not spared: trains
were bombed, in which not a single soldier
but only civilians were traveling. The
entire war damage was estimated at 120
billion dollars.

Environmental and
health effects of war

It is hard to describe what we have witnessed
during these 78 days. Only after
several years we have become aware of
the environmental, health and political
consequences. The use of uranium 238
and other weapons tells us that a radioactive
and nuclear war has been waged
with terrible aftermaths for people and
nature.
In Kosovo the watershed of three river
sources was also bombed – although there
were neither soldiers nor civilians:
• Sitnica – Ibar – Morava – Danube –
Black Sea
• Pinja – Vardar – Aegean Sea
• Crni and Beli Drim – Skadarsko Jezero
[Lake Skadar] – Bojana – Adriatic Sea.
The goal was the contamination of rivers
and the people on their banks.
The Geneva Convention has also been
obviously violated by the use of cluster
bombs. They were dropped twice on
Nis – on the market and the hospital –
on Valjevo, Kraljevo, on the oil refineries
in Novi Sad and other cities such as
Pancevo, Pe and Prizren in Kosovo and
Metohija and many more areas. 93 targets
on the territory of Serbia were hit
by cluster bombs where they have caused
great damage among the population. Besides
many deaths there is an even greater
number of wounded with dilacerated
body parts who are now invalids. People
are still dying today from leftover
bombs.
Before the bombing Serbia was a
green oasis in Europe, famous for the
production of organic products that were
exported to large parts of Europe. Many
places were protected, the mountains of
Fruska Gora, Tara, Zlatibor, as well as
the Deliblatska Pescara [Banat Sand Desert],
a rare example of a dry landscape
in Europe. Large areas around industrial
zones such as Pancevo, Novi Sad and
Kragujevac, Nis, Belgrade and other cities
are contaminated.
In the south of Serbia, alongside Kosovo
and Metohija, where yet no decontamination
has taken place, mainly the
areas around Vranje, Bujanovac and Presevo
were attacked. In his film “Deadly
Dust”, Frieder Wagner described similar
situations, with precise explanations
by Dr Günther. The number of cancer patients
is growing from year to year.
The aftermath of the bombing is best
seen in the newborn. According to doctors
from the hospital in Vranje, 21 children
were brought there with deformities
in 1998. With a constant birth rate of between
800 and 1,000 births per year, the
number rose to 73 children in 2008 [an
increase of 248%].
The physician Dr. Nebojsa Srbljak
from Kosovska Mitrovica stated that by
1998 one out of 1,000 children suffered
from leukemia. By 2008 this number
had risen to 10 to 15 children. In Vranje,
it is impossible to buy the expensive
equipment needed for the blood test to
identify the traces of uranium. The doctors
from Vranje hope to be able to use
the experience of Japanese experts after
the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In addition to the increase of cancer
patients, the number of malformed newborns
is also growing. The father of one
child was involved in the decontamination
of DU near Vranje. It is not only in
children but also in animals that an increase
in deformities is being observed.
The tragic aftermath of this war is clearly
visible in Nikola Jovi, a 10-year boy
from Kosovska Mitrovica. As a baby he
had cancer of the eyes. The eyes were then
removed and replaced with artificial eyes.
For a time he attended the school for the
blind in the Belgrade suburb of Zemun.
Since his parents live in Kosovska Mitrovica,
Nikola was very unhappy. Later he
was in a normal fourth grade class in Kosovska
Mitrovica and was greatly helped
by his school friends. He uses Braille.
The Petkovic family, which survived all
the bombing in Kosovo, fled to Bor in
northeastern Serbia. A few years later, her
daughter Nikolina was born without eyes.
Later, she received artificial eyes. The
parents are very poor and cannot help her
much. We do not have institutions that can
take care of such children.
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 “Nuremberg Principles”
1. Principles of International Law Recognized
in the Charter of the Nuremberg
Tribunal and in the Judgment of the
Tribunal, adopted by the International
Law Commission, 29 July 1950:
Nuremberg Principles
Principle I. Any person who commits an
act which constitutes a crime under international
law is responsible therefor
and liable to punishment.
Principle II. The fact that internal law
does not impose a penalty for an act
which constitutes a crime under international
law does not relieve the person
who committed the act from responsibility
under international law.
Principle III. The fact that a person who
committed an act which constitutes a
crime under international law acted as
Head of State or responsible Government
official does not relieve him from
responsibility under international law.
Principle IV. The fact that a person
acted pursuant to order of his Government
or of a superior does not relieve
him from responsibility under international
law, provided a moral choice was
in fact possible to him.
Principle V. Any person charged with a
crime under international law has the
right to a fair trial on the facts and law.
Principle VI. The crimes hereinafter set
out are punishable as crimes under international
law:
(a) Crimes against peace:
– Planning, preparation, initiation or
waging of a war of aggression or a
war in violation of international treaties,
agreements or assurances;
– Participation in a common plan or
conspiracy for the accomplishment
of any of the acts mentioned under
(i).
(b) War crimes:
Violations of the laws or customs of war
which include, but are not limited to,
murder, ill-treatment or deportation to
slave-labour of for any other purpose of
civilian population of or in occupied territory;
murder or ill-treatment of prisoners
of war, of persons on the Seas,
killing of hostages, plunder of public or
private property, wanton destruction of
cities, towns, or villages, or devastation
not justified by military necessity.
(c) Crimes against humanity:
Murder, extermination, enslavement,
deportation and other inhuman acts
done against any civilian population, or
persecutions on political, racial or religious
grounds, when such acts are done
or such persecutions are carried on in
execution of or in connection with any
crime against peace or any war crime.
Principle VII. Complicity in the commission
of a crime against peace, a war
crime, or a crime against humanity as
set forth in Principle VI is a crime under
international law.
Source: https://home.snafu.de/kdv/contentpages/
nuernberg.html
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The town of Leposavic in Kosovo was
also bombed heavily during the war.
Kristina Milutinovic lives with her parents
in Leposavi. [we reported about
Kristina 6 February].
In Serbia, more than 33,000 cancer
cases are registered every year, with
about 21,000 people dying each year. In
the last 10 years the number of patients
has increased constantly (see charts
below). Serbia has now the largest cancer
rate in Europe.

Serbia today

Serbia has now changed from a socialist
system to liberal capitalism, suffering
economic, moral, cultural and every other
form of damage. In Serbia today, there is
poverty, and the social culture of its people
is getting worse.
10,000 companies have been closed,
and 60,000 are blocked or face extinction.
The closed companies include mainly
crafts, trades, dental and veterinary offices
and agencies for various purposes. The
most important companies in the country
are being sold to foreign companies. Some
of them work well, thanks to cheap labour
from Serbia, because the products are sold
at high prices abroad.
Other companies were bought and then
closed to prevent competition with the
buyer’s own products on the market. That
was the case with the Zastava car factory
in Kragujevac, which before the war employed
50,000 workers, and was bought
by Fiat. Today, only a small part of the
plant is working, where our politicians
like to be photographed and thereby deceive
the people about the productivity of
this factory. Fiat cars are available on the
market in Serbia, but only available to a
small proportion of the population.
Sugar factories, brick plants, breweries
and cement plants have been sold.
Our cigarette factory in Nis was bought
by Philip Morris. In five years they
transferred about 10 billion euro out
of Serbia, but paid hardly any taxes to
the Serbian budget! A large number of
workers became unemployed. All these
companies have been sold to foreign investors
at a price far below their value.
The number of unemployed in Serbia
has reached a historic high. According
to the national employment office,
there are 730,000 people unemployed.
According to unofficial sources in Serbia
more than 1 million people are unemployed.
According to the Statistical Office, the
number of people living below the poverty
line in Serbia grew to 700,000, i.e. 9.2%
of the population, between 2008 and 2010.
In 2010 the minimum salary was 8500 dinars
or 85 euro.
The number of soup kitchens has increased.
Every day 30,000 people queue
up for a loaf of bread and a hot meal in
Serbia, which in itself represents an increase
of 50% over the past year. According
to alarming data from the Red Cross,
6,000 children need these meals, 2500 of
them younger than 10.
For 2012, a minimum income of 19,500
dinars is predicted (195 euro), but prices
have already reached the level of European
countries, where salaries are much
higher.
The territory of Serbia is rich in water,
medicinal herbs and spas. As far as the
amount of water is concerned, we are in
40th place in the world.
Today, we do not even own all the
springs. The best known mineral springs
are in the hands of foreign companies. The
Knjaz Milos mineral water and juice factory
in Arandjelovac has been bought by the
Dutch company Clates Holding.
The Rosa natural mineral water spring
is at 1550 meters above sea level in the
pristine nature reserve of Vlasina. The
water is bottled at optimum temperature
while maintaining natural properties directly
by the spring. Because of its low
mineral content, especially sodium, it is
good for daily use. It is owned entirely by
Coca-Cola.
Mivela mineral water is owned by the
Croatian Agrokor company. The spring
is located in the village of Veluce near
Trstenik. The Mivela mineral water contains
about 330 mg of magnesium per
litre, which covers the body’s daily requirements.

The banks

Of the Serbian banks only three are still
existing, the Serbian Bank, the Komercijalna
banka and the Postbank. There is
talk that these banks are to be sold as well.

Kosovo – Serbia deprived
of a part of his country

The greatest injustice, however, was afflicted
on Serbia in Kosovo. There is
talk of many aspects, here are only two
of them:
The robbery began with the greatest
mine Trepca, situated in the North and the
South of Kosovska Mitrovica. It had contributed
to Serbian export with a major
part before and had employed 23,000
workers. In late 2008 the lead reserves
alone had been estimated to b e 425,000
tons, those of cink 415,000 tons, of silver
800 tons, of nickel 185,000 tons and
of cobalt 6,500 tons. In the mine Grbenik,
also situated in Kosovo, there are reserves
of one million and 700,000 tons of bauxite,
from which about 425,000 tons of aluminum
could be produced. The export of
ore is growing steadily. Only in the period
between 2009 and 2010 it rose to an
amount worth 557 million dollar. Almost
the complete Serbian area covers brown
coal, the value of which has been estimated
to be 1000 billion dollar. No wonder,
Soros visited Kosovo several times and
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Number of new incidents of cancer in central Serbia.
Legend: unfilled triangles: total, white triangles: women, squares: men. (Institute for
health care of Serbia “Dr Milan Jovanovic-Batut”, cancer register 2011)
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tried to buy all of that for just 300 million
dollar.
The Hashim Taci government promised
US state secretary Hilary Clinton, US
companies were to be the main buyers of
these riches. Bill Clinton, former US president,
was the initiator of the Kosovo war.
The depletion is worked with Serbian infra-
structure for which we are still paying
off the debts, today.

Camp Bondsteel: Little Guantánamo?

It is not by accident that Camp Bondsteel,
the biggest American military base outside
the USA is situated in Kosovo. That
is a town of its own. The food is taken
there from the USA, the water is, too, and
everything that might protect the soldiers
from contamination. All the same the
West is pretending that the poisons that
they threw onto our country are not dangerous.
You need not talk about the importance
of strategic aims either. They are
well-known.
Alvaro Gil-Robles, former Commissioner
for Human Rights in the Council
of Europe visited the prison of Camp
Bondsteel in 2002, but he talked about
it only in 2005. In an interview with the
Spanish newspaper “El País” he said that
he had seen a miniature Guantánamo
there. He had found that KFOR had been
authorized to arrest people without any
previous judicial examination in court
before.
The Serbs would never have agreed
to that, under no circumstances. Neither
would they admit that their property was
robbed. Therefore reasons were invented
to expel them. Here is but one of them:
German sources pretended that the Serbs
were massively expelling Albanian people.
In reality the following happened:
during the Second World War 10,000
Serbs were killed in Kosovo although
no essential fights against the occupying
forces (Germany, Italy, who were supporting
the Albanians) had taken place. Between
the Second World War and 1999 in
total 200,000 Serbs were expelled several
times. Their houses were used to lodge
Albanian people coming in from Albania.
The biggest expulsion took place in
1999, when Kosovo became a protectorate
of UNO (KFOR). Around 300,000
Serbs and inhabitants of Montenegro left
their territory. So you see very well who
expelled whom. The West knew all this, it
is for that reason that they had to use lies.
As in many other European countries,
more people die in Serbia than are born.
According to a census there were 300,000
less people living in Serbia. This amounts
to the size of a town as Cacak.
Since in Serbia people cannot find any
work because of the ruined economy our
young people go to the USA, to Canada or
to European countries after finishing their
studies.
A great number of medical students,
of IT specialists, of electric engineers
and other very highly qualified people
are leaving Serbia after Serbia has given
them education and instruction. They are
in search of a better life.
On 1st March Serbia gained the status
of a candidate to EU access. The commitment
of Serbia with respect to their candidate
status is considerable.
Nobody has made his people believe
more seriously that Kosovo is still a part
of their country, i.e. Serbia’s integrity than
the present government with Boric Tadic.
The Serbian leaders did not focus on the
integrity of Serbia which has been destroyed
just by its deprivation of Kosovo.
Today both are orienting themselves towards
Europe, are going in that direction,
but as two separate states. Serbia is expected
to maintain peaceful relations with
her neighbors. It is only on this basis that
they will be able to fly the blue flag with
the little stars.
The Serbs will remember President
Tadic as a person who served everyone
except his own people. The EU promised
Serbia payments totaling 60 million
euro, which need not be given back. Serbia
could easily earn this amount through
her own mineral resources which have
been taken away from her. The amount of
60 million does not even cover part of the
interests on all the treasures which have
been taken away.
After they have renounced everything
so carelessly, not only me, but many Serbs
are afraid that the future Serbia will look
as the one shown in a commercial by the
US firm Calgon on our TV channels: the
Vojvodina is lacking. •
(Translation Current Concerns)