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L-I: Re: State terror and the "free market" Opening Kosovo to foreigncapital
Jared quotes Professor Chossudovsky:
> State terror and the "free market"
> Opening Kosovo to foreign capital
> by Michel Chossudovsky (3-3-00)
> The Trebca Mines
>
> The "reconstruction" of Kosovo financed by international debt largely
> purports to transfer Kosovo's extensive wealth in mineral resources and
coal
> to multinational capital. In this regard, the KLA had already occupied
> (pending their privatization) the largest coal mine at Belacevac in Dobro
> Selo northwest of Pristina. In turn, foreign capital had its eyes riveted
on
> the massive Trepca mining complex which constitutes "the most valuable
piece
> of real estate in the Balkans, worth at least $5 billion." 8 The Trebca
> complex not only includes copper and large reserves of zinc but also
cadmium,
> gold, and silver. It has several smelting plants, 17 metal treatment
sites, a
> power plant and Yugoslavia's largest battery plant. Northern Kosovo also
has
> estimated reserves of 17 billion tons of coal and lignite.
> NOTES
> 8. New York Times, July 8, 1998, report by Chris Hedges.
I dont know, where Professor Chossudovsky in Ottawa gets his information
>from 'that the KLA has occupied the coal mines'. Obviously its not from the
1998 NYT report he quotes as the source for the next sentence.
We are in close contact with the miners union and they report the mines are
under occupation of French UNIMIK forces. Without any payment miners are
allowed to do necessary maintainance works (otherwise the mines will be
flodded). The miners are doing that work, because they regard the mines as
workers property and not as private property.
Professor Chossudovsky creates the impression KLA and NATO was needed to
clear the way for privatisation.
But actually it was the government of the so-called Socialist Party of
Milosevic who sold out workers property at the Trepca complex to private
capitalists from NATO states thus as the Greek Mytilineos Holdings S.A. and
the French Soci�t� Commerciale de M�taux et de Min�raux.
So in this respect there is no difference between the Yugoslav government
and the NATO occupation force: Both are staunch defenders of private
property.
Johannes
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