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Party Leader Condemns U.S. Move to Expel Yugoslavia from UN BELGRADE, Jul 4, 2000 -- (BBC Monitoring) New Democracy Deputy Chairman Vojislav Andric today criticized the U.S. initiative for the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the United Nations as "another senseless and counterproductive move by the U.S. administration". "The move is another slap in the face to the democratic forces in Serbia and new wind to the sails of (Yugoslav President) Slobodan Milosevic, who has the RTS [Serbian radio-television] propaganda machinery to explain to the people the U.S. conspiracy against Serbia," Andric said in a news conference. If the initiative of ...

Elian protests split Miami Tens of thousands of Cuban exiles and non-Hispanic residents have been taking part in rival Miami street demonstration following last week's seizure of the six-year-old shipwreck survivor, Elian Gonzalez. Tension between the communities has arisen since the boy was returned to his father with many non-Hispanics saying Elian's Miami relatives were wrong not to hand him over sooner. The boy's great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez, who looked after Elian for nearly five months after his rescue from the Atlantic Ocean, has appealed to supporters for a peaceful demonstration. Tensions persist between police and protestors after the city's police ...

In pictures: Elian seized

A MAN who spent almost 15 years in jail for the alleged brutal rape and assault of a student nurse was freed yesterday after the Court of Appeal found that the crimes of which he had been convicted "almost certainly never happened". Roy Burnett, 56, a gardener, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 1986 after a jury accepted evidence from the 20-year-old nurse. As Mr Burnett refused to admit his guilt, his applications for parole were unsuccessful, and he had no grounds for trying to have his case reopened. But in 1998, the same woman made a ...

Here is the BBC's timeline of the Kosovo crisis. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/map/yugoslavia/ Notice how the years between 1980 and 1992 are missing (1980 is mentioned in the 1945 link). The one-sided reporting of "ethnic cleansing" in the 1992 link is also obvious. Since the BBC insists that it's reporting is impartial, it's possible that they simply couldn't find the missing reports in their archives. As a Freeper who is only interested in getting to the truth, I'll glady offer them my help below. http://www.fair.org/articles/memory-hole.html http://members.tripod.com/~sarant_2/ksm.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/bomb162.htm http://www.hrw.org/hrw/reports98/kosovo/Kos9810-10.htm

Hi everyone, I'm calling it quits for a while. I'm spending way too much time on the Internet, and I need to catch up on other things. I will lurk though. After all, where else can I get news like I do from here? Thanks for the enjoyable and educational conversation. I'll see you when I get back.

The rules of internal armed conflict, outlined in Common Article 3 and Protocol II of the Geneva Conventions, are binding on both governments and armed insurgencies. As such, the KLA is legally obliged to respect the provisions of international humanitarian law, such as the protection of noncombatants and the prohibition of hostage taking. (See section on Legal Standards and the Kosovo Conflict.) Despite these obligations, the KLA has committed violations of international humanitarian law, including the taking of hostages and, by their own apparent admission, summary executions (see below). Over one hundred people, mostly ethnic Serbs (but also some ethnic ...

Now that the media is slowly but surely admitting that there was no genocide in Kosovo, let's revisit what NATO did for nothing: http://www.serbia-info.com/news/1999-07/23/13466.html#koris Clinton can add these photos to his personal album.

Due to the number of people who have indicated that they never saw these articles, I'll post the links here for everyone. Background of Serb/Albanian Conflict Various Articles from the early to late 80's Bin Laden's link to Albania - or who we defended This should help give you a better idea of what Serbia was up against.

I met her for the first time, a year ago, in Shale's KLA hospital. I was told she was being treated for trauma, because she witnessed the killing of her sister, apparently by Serbs in an attack on her village. But in June with the retreat of the Yugoslav army, it was at last safe for me to visit her home in Skenderaj. I wasn't optimistic about finding anyone at home because Rajmonda had told me her family was now in Albania. But this wasn't true. I found Rajmonda's mother, Barhije, at home along with two other daughters. Two year ...

The US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and the US railroads were built by English expatriates. Why did the English people build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which ...

After reading a recent BBC article in which they were still parroting Nato's "10,000 Albanians killed by Serbs" estimates, I was wondering if anybody knows the actual count of dead found in Kosovo so far. So what is the count? Any idea as to how many are Serbs? Albanians? Gypsies? How were they killed? Massacre? Combat? Nato bombing? I thought it would be a good idea to view Nato's claims in light of what's been found so far.

To those of you who support the U.S. Attack against the Serbs, I'm going to make my case against it here. You may refute it as you see fit. Those of you who, like me, oppose this war may add to my list or respond as you see fit. But, let's finish this debate and get the truth out once and for all. Who started the war: The Albanians started the civil war by attempting to cleanse the minority Serbs, and other minority groups, from Kosovo and establish a "Greater Albania" in the mid 80's. In this effort, they harassed, ...

GODEN, Kosovo (CNN) -- Bullet-riddled walls and charred bone fragments and clothing attest to a mass killing believed to have taken place in a burned house in Kosovo, one of many such sites scattered across the province. Proving the killings were part of a planned campaign by Yugoslav forces requires painstaking forensic analysis by war crimes investigators. But in Goden, villagers say they have the documents to prove the Yugoslav army supervised the eviction of ethnic Albanians from the village and the execution of 20 men. Immediately after NATO began its bombing campaign, Goden residents say the Yugoslav army forced ...

OPERUSA, Serbia (Reuters) - Ethnic Albanians in western Kosovo told NATO Supreme Commander Gen. Wesley Clark Wednesday that 60,000 of them would flee their villages if Russians were deployed there as peacekeepers. ``If the Russians come, all 60,000 people who live in the Orahovac area will leave for Albania and we will not return until they leave,'' Ismet Tara, a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), told Clark in this Kosovo village. Clark came to Operusa to inspect Dutch and Turkish troops, but a four-person ethnic Albanian delegation headed by Tara took the opportunity to give him a petition ...

The facts about the Kosovo "Liberation" Army have been well-documented by Antiwar.com. The KLA is gang of murderous neo-Maoist thugs, who are killing, raping, and looting their way through "liberated" Kosovo in brazen defiance of NATO – or, some say, with NATO's full complicity. Thursday night the Senate passed a major foreign aid bill. This bill included an amendment by Senator McConnell (R-KY), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. The amendment would make this complicity official: if adopted, it would provide $20 million to arm "Kosovo security forces" that, supporters admit, would probably include the KLA. The ...

LONDON - The man accused of orchestrating the U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa operates a terrorist network out of Albania that has infiltrated other parts of Europe, The Sunday Times reported. The newspaper quoted Fatos Klosi, the head of the Albanian intelligence service, as saying a network run by Saudi exile Osama Bin Laden sent units to fight in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Bin Laden is believed to have established an Albanian operation in 1994 after telling the government he headed a wealthy Saudi humanitarian agency wanting to help Albania, the newspaper reported. Klosi said he believed terrorists had ...