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L-I: How Will You Plead at Your Trial, Mr. Annan? (...please forward...)
HOW WILL YOU PLEAD AT YOUR TRIAL, MR. ANNAN?
www.tenc.net [emperors-clothes] (3-12-00)
The London Observer's summary of a non-public report on the Kosovo situation
to Kofi Annan merely confirms what the anti-war movement has been saying for
months. But now we have proof: UN leaders KNOW what they created in Kosovo.
The UN report admits everything but the name, Fascism. Kofi Annan is, by
virute of receiving this report and not firing Bernard Kouchner, head of his
Kosovo operation, an accomplice to fascist terror. Period. When Anan is put
on trial for abetting monstrous crimes against all ethnic minorities in
Kosovo will be plead that he was only following U.S. orders? The UN and NATO
exit Kosovo NOW! Only the Yugoslav Army can re-establish civil society in
Kosovo - NOW!
Here is the London Observer -
Revealed: UN-backed unit's reign of terror
Kosovo 'disaster response service' stands accused of murder and torture
John Sweeney and Jens Holsoe
Sunday March 12, 2000
The Observer (lONDON)
Murder, torture and extortion: these are the extraordinary charges made
against the UN's own Kosovo Protection Corps in a confidential United Nations
report written for Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
The KPC stands accused in the document, drawn up on 29 February, of 'criminal
activities - killings, ill-treatment/torture, illegal policing, abuse of
authority, intimidation, breaches of political neutrality and hate-speech'.
The 5,000-strong corps, funded by UN members including Britain, has a �30
million aid budget for Kosovo. It was set up to provide 'disaster response
services'; instead, says the UN, it has been murdering and torturing people.
The UN's own damning verdict on its newly created civil defence force is
fresh evidence of the failure of Special Representative Bernard Kouchner to
establish the rule of law in Kosovo. Many of the corps's recruits came
straight from the Kosovo Liberation Army, set up to meet the violence of
Slobodan Milosevic's police with violence.
Nato's intervention last June saw the departure of armed Serbs from Kosovo,
but violence and gangsterism by Albanian extremists has not stopped. The
report's grim message is that the UN is paying the salaries of many of the
gangsters.
The report covers the period from 21 January, when the corps formally came
into being. Under the heading 'killings', the UN says: 'Dragash: two members
of the KPC and three others were arrested by UN police in connection with the
killing of an ethnic Gorani (11 February).'
There are three charges of ill-treatment and torture: in Pec, a man was
beaten senseless in the KPC's headquarters, suffering head injuries and
severe bruising from a rifle butt. The victim had been attacked in a
newspaper article, written by a former fighter in the KLA. In Prizren, a man
>from the Torbesh minority - a group of Muslim Turks suspected by the
Albanians of collaborating with the Serbs - was kidnapped and beaten up by a
KPC member and three other men.
Also in Prizren, the KPC stands accused of using torture to obtain
confessions. After two men arrested on suspicion of stealing cars were handed
over to UN police, they 'complained they had been severely ill-treated.
Subsequent medical examinations corroborated the victims' allegations'.
Troops from K-For, the multi-national force, suspended the two alleged
torturers from the KPC on 4 February.
The KPC is not a police force, and yet one of the grave concerns raised by
the UN report, drawn up by Kouchner's own office, is that mem bers of the KPC
are behaving as if they were above the law. The report lists complaints from
UN police working for its mission in Kosovo, Unmik.
The KPC has been running protection rackets across Kosovo - in Pristina, Suva
Reka, Dragash, Istok and Prizren - demanding 'contributions' from
shopkeepers, businessmen and contractors. In Suva Reka, KPC members are
alleged to have forced petrol stations to accept coupons rather than money
for fuel.
In Vucitrn, the KPC reportedly demanded protection money from members of an
ethnic minority, the Ashkali, originally from India. One family member had
previously been kidnapped and the family had been bombed.
The KPC has a nice line in death threats, says the UN. Two members threatened
to kill K-For interpreters after being arrested by Nato troops in Kosovo.
Following the arrests, 20 KPC men mobbed the police station and demanded
their release. They were freed the next day.
The KPC may be running prostitution rackets, says the UN. A report was
received on 14 February that a high-ranking KPC officer may be supervising a
forced prostitution racket running out of the Drenica Bar, close to the
Srbica KPC training camp.
The KPC is led by General Agim Ceku, who comes in for fierce criticism from
the report. His earlier pledges not to tolerate any criminal behaviour by KPC
members and to expel anyone who violates the law are mocked by the report,
and Ceku, who was formerly a senior commander in the KLA, comes in for
personal criticism.
Under the heading 'Activities against minorities, including hate speech',
Ceku is criticised for being present at a walk-out staged by Albanian members
of the KPC when a speech was translated into Serbo-Croat - the language of
the Muslim Slav minority suspected by the Albanians of collaboration with the
Serbs.
The report comments: 'It was the clear opinion of those present that this was
a premeditated action. The speeches of General Ceku and that of the regional
KPC commander were not those agreed upon in advance. The men spoke of the war
and loyalty to the "country" - 10 February.' Such a speech would contradict
the policy of the UN, the general's paymaster.
Further Reading...
* The KLA is operating as the proxy arm of the U.S. government in Kosovo. See
Why is the KLA SHooting at KFOR? at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisthe.htm
* We now have documented proof of our charge that the CIA is behind the KLA
and was behind it BEFORE the bombing started - that the OSCE verifier mission
was a cover for spying and death squad liason work. See The Cat's Outta the
Bag! at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/ciaaided.htm
* One of the worst examples of UN/NATO creation of horror in Kosovo is what
they have done to Orahovac:
The article, The Women of Orahovac answer the Colonel , deals with claims
made by Dutch KFOR (NATO) Commander van Loon that his troops are doing a good
job in the Kosovo town of Orahovac. In this article, women with intimate
knowledge of conditions in Orahovac answer Col. van Loon.
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/trouw.htm
The article, Save the families: The women of Orahovac speak includes in-depth
interviews with women from Orahovac.
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe.htm
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