[PEN-L:4651] Kosovo: Internet Information Resources

["Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman@xxxxxxxx>]

Following in a list of resources on Kosovo from the Red Rock Eaters list, a
general Internet information list whose moderator is a very progressive guy.
Interesting note at the beginning as well.  -- Nathan Newman

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Agre <pagre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Red Rock Eater News Service <rre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, March 29, 1999 5:04 PM
Subject: [RRE]intensifying genocide in Kosovo


[I have enclosed another batch of resources and messages on Kosovo.
Even though I regard the Serbian authorities as vile murderers,
I am circulating pro- as well as anti-Serbian materials on my list.
One person observed that my last batch of resources referred mostly
to the bombs falling in Serbia, and not to the violence in Kosovo;
this is largely because the reporters and human rights people in
Kosovo who would otherwise be producing first-hand reports on the
Internet have been killed by the Serbs.  We're in a situation now
where Clinton, Yeltsin, and Milosevic must all pretend that they
have power that they do not have, and have all committed themselves
to policies that can only bring destruction.  On the other hand,
I cannot accept the very common argument that the Nato bombing
campaign has caused or provoked the violence in Kosovo.  The thugs
in Belgrade have already proven themselves capable of mass genocide
in Bosnia without being bombed, and in that case the violence was
only halted when the United States did start bombing, as well as
arming the Serbs' opponents.  Furthermore the Serbs were clearly
mobilizing for a fresh genocide in Kosovo during the negotiations
in France.  Those in the US government and elsewhere who claim to
be surprised by the magnitude of the savagery in Kosovo are idiots.
The bombing campaign is not working very well, and at the current
rate the genocide will be completed within days.  (This calculation
is easily performed: divide the former population of Kosovo by the
daily rate at which refugees -- women and children only, no men --
are now arriving in Albania and Macedonia.)  The Milosevic regime
was already guilty of massive crimes against humanity, and now it
is guilty of more.  It survives by encouraging the psychotic idea
that the Serbs are actually civilized people doing the thankless
work of defending civilization against the Ottoman Turks.  There
*do* exist civilized people in Serbia, namely the astonishingly
courageous reporters who are trying to tell the Serbian people
the truth about the genocide.  The BBC is taking the Internet feed
of their radio programs and broadcasting it back into the country.
So the Internet is playing a very positive role.  But I have to
ask: what are the civilized people in the rest of the world doing
with the Internet?  We're passing URL's around, but are any of
us organizing any useful action?  The EFF's support for anonymous
use of the Internet in Yugoslavia is a positive action, but surely
we can do more.  I've been talking with some people who are trying
to organize various things, and I hope to have something useful
to report soon.  Until then, let's not get too proud of ourselves.
In addition to the iconmedia list, here is another batch of URL's:

  http://anem.opennet.org/
  http://www.kosovapress.com/
  http://www.osce.org/e/kosovo.htm
  http://www.albanian.com/IJAS/
  http://www.beta-press.com/
  http://www.sn-ol.com/
  http://www.egroups.com/list/kosovo/
  http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/albanews.html
  http://moumee.calstatela.edu/sii/
  http://www.suc.org/
  http://www.beograd.com/radioyu/

Please do send more if you find them.  Last point: we understand from
our friends in Yugoslavia that students at Belgrade University and
throughout Serbia, 30,000 to 40,000 in total, have had their Internet
access cut off.  The official explanation, believe it or not, is that
this will prevent Yugoslav students from hacking machines in Nato
countries, thereby provoking disconnection of the country's Academic
Network.  It says something about the importance of the Internet that
it has not served the purposes of the Yugoslav authorities to shut it
down altogether.]

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Date:          Sun, 28 Mar 1999 12:35:53 -0500 (EST)
From:          Stefan J Wray <sjw210@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:            nettime-l@xxxxxxx
Subject:       <nettime> Updated: USA/NATO/Yugoslav/Kosovo war websites

USA/NATO/YUGOSLAVIA/KOSOVO WAR WEBSITES
Version 2.0
Updated on March 28, 1998
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MAINSTREAM MEDIA

CNN: Strike on Yugoslavia
http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9903/27/nato.attack.03/index.html

MSNBC: Special on Kosovo
http://www.msnbc.com/news/KOSOVO_Front.asp

ABC: Coverage of Kosovo
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/Kosovo/new_kosovo_index.html

Washington Post: Balkans Special Report
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/balkans.htm

Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/news/

France Press
http://www.afp.com/

BBC: Kosovo Crisis, Balkan Flashpoint
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/kosovo/


INDEPENDENT MEDIA

Anti-NATO web site
http://www.welcome.to/nato

Common Dreams News Center
http://www.commondreams.org/kosovo/kosovo.htm

eGroups: Kosovo Reports
http://www.egroups.com/list/kosovo-reports/

Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/mustreads/032299.html#TC

Kosovo Dies For Independence, Out There News
http://www.megastories.com/kosovo/index.htm

Press Now
http://www.dds.nl/~pressnow/

Radio B92
http://helpB92.xs4all.nl
http://www.b92.net/

Radio 21
http://www.radio21.net/english/headlines.htm

Z Magazine on U.S./NATO Bombings
http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/kosovo.htm


BACKGROUND ARTICLES

Bombing Serbia is Dangerously Counterproductive, by Jonathan Power
http://www.transnational.org/forum/power/1999/03bombing.html

Email Assist for Yugoslavia, by Leander Kahney
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18765.html

Frontline Documentary on Slobodan Milosevic
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/karadzic/trial/scharf.html

Kosovo's Slippery Slope by George Kenney, In These Times
http://www.inthesetimes.com/kenney2309.html

Net Dispatches from Kosovo's War, by Leander Kahney and James Glave
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18755.html

Notes on the Kosovo Problem and the International Community by Diane
Johnstone, Dialogue http://www..bglink.com/business/dialogue/diana.html

Prospects for Peace in Kosovo by Howard Clark
http://www.nonviolence.org//wrl/nva0199-2.htm

Yugoslav Net at the Brink, by Leander Kahney
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18767.html


INFORMATION/ACTION CENTERS

Amnesty International: The Road to Kosovo
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/kosovo/index.html

Balkan Action Council
http://www.balkanaction.org/links.html

Balkan Internet Resources
http://www.balkaninstitute.org/internet.html

Balkan's Page
http://www.igc.org/balkans/raccoon/kosovo.html

Central Europe Online
http://www.centraleurope.com/ceo/special/kosovow/intro.html

Human Rights Watch: Kosovo Focus on Human Rights
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/campaigns/kosovo98/index.htm

Institute for War and Peace Reporting
http://www.iwpr.net/

International Action Center
http://www.iacenter.org/

NO TO NATO
http://www.iacenter.org/bosnia/balkans.htm

Kosovo Crisis Center
http://www.alb-net.com/index.htm

Kosovo Info
http://www.kosovainfo.com/ENGLISH.htm

Kosovo Privacy Project: Service of Anonymizer.com
http://info.anonymizer.com/kosovo.shtml

One World: Special News Reports
http://www.oneworld.org/news/reports/special/kosovo.html

Transnational Center for Peace
http://www.transnational.org/new/index.html


USA-NATO MILITARY AND MILITARY ANALYSIS

Center for Defense Information: Kosovo Site
http://www.cdi.org

Cloud Cover Over Kosovo: Satellite Images
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/kosovo_clouds.htm

Federation of American Scientist's Military Analysis Network
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/kosovo.htm

Jane's Defense Weekly
http://defence.janes.com/

NATO
http://www.nato.int

Pentagon's Operation Allied Force
http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/kosovo/

UK Ministry of Defense: Kosovo

US Air Force News: Crisis in Kosovo
http://www.af.mil/current/kosovo/

US Information Agency: Kosovo
http://www.usia.gov/regional/eur/balkans/kosovo/

US State Department: Special Section on Kosovo
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/kosovo_hp.html


YUGOSLAVIA GOVERNMENT

Yugoslavia Foreign Ministry
http://www.smip.sv.gov.yu/

Yugoslavia Ministry of Information
http://www.serbia-info.com/

Yugoslavia Official Web Site
http://www.gov.yu/

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:11:27 +0100
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      NEW ALERT ON CITY

      BELGRADE, Monday -- The sirens sounded in Belgrade and other
      Yugoslav cities at 10.20 this morning. No strikes have yet been
  25  reported


      LAST NIGHT'S RAIDS

      BELGRADE, Monday -- The all-clear sounded this morning at 7.02.
      The city had been on alert continually since 10.00 pm yesterday.

      NATO missiles last night were mostly directed at Kosovo in this
  30  wave of attacks. The most intensive action was focused on
      Pristina. Three missiles hit the police headquarters in the
      central city. Civilian buildings in the neighbourhood were
      damaged, as was a dental clinic near the police station. State
      media report at least three injuries in the attack.

  35  All windows in the Grand Hotel in the city centre were broken by
      the explosion.

      State media reported that about twenty missiles hit the area of
      Gnjilane in last night's attacks. There is also a report of a
      strike on an army barracks in Djakovica. No casualties have been
  40  reported.

      Strikes were also reported last night from Sombor and Kraljevo.

      State media: NATO aircraft downed

      BELGRADE, Sunday -- The Yugoslav army's anti-aircraft system shot
      down a NATO aircraft near Loznica last night, state television
  45  reports this morning. The same source claimed that an SFOR
      helicopter was searching the area along the left bank of the Drina
      river seeking the pilot.


      YELTSIN

      MOSCOW, Monday -- Russian president Boris Yeltsin will soon
  50  announce measures to be undertaken by Russia in order to stop NATO
      air strikes on Yugoslavia. Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov told media
      after a meeting with Prime Minister Evgeny Primakov that the
      bombing must be stopped. Sources said that Yeltsin could make the
      announcement in his long-postponed address to the nation tomorrow.


  55  REPLY TO CLINTON SOON

      ATHENS, Sunday -- The Greek government is expected to reply soon
      to a letter from US President Bill Clinton calling for NATO
      solidarity in bombing Yugoslavia. Clinton wrote on the eve of the
      NATO air strikes to the heads of state of all NATO member
  60  countries seeking support for NATO's operation. Diplomatic sources
      in Athens say that Greece is still reluctant to join the
      aggression against Yugoslavia, but are avoiding explicitly vetoing
      the continuation of the campaign. Government sources say, however,
      that there is still a possibility that Greece would veto the third
  65  phase of the operation.

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      Edited by: Steve Agnew

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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 20:07:09 +0200
From: Dusan Djordjevich <dusandj@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: NATO bombing

Thank you so much to all who responded to my letter (posted, inter
alia, on the RRE list).  Your well-wishes and concern are greatly
appreciated and VERY important to everyone here.  I will try to post
more information on my personal impressions and observations from
Belgrade in the days to come.  For now, here are two pieces that may
be of interest.  The first is an op-ed from an American scholar whose
specialty is the former Yugoslavia.  The second is a report/appeal
from the ground in Kosovo, from a highly respected figure in the
region, a leader of the anti-regime, pro-democratic camp of the
Serbian Orthdodox Church.

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     Dusan Djordjevich
     PhD Candidate
     Department of History
     Stanford University
     dusandj@xxxxxxxx
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[I cannot forward the text of this article because it is copyrighted
by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  It is, however, available on the Web
at <http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/19990328edhayden8.asp>.  -- PA]

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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:47:54 +0100
From: "Fr. Sava" <dejank@xxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: Decani Monastery
Subject: APPEAL AGAINST NATO ATTACKS (SHARE IT WILL ALL YOU KNOW)

Friday, March 26, 1999

The following was received from Fr. Sava from the Decani monastery in
Kosovo, who has been part of the anti-Milosevic peace mission headed
by Bishop Artemije, that has repeatedly come to Washington in an
effort to defuse the crisis in Kosovo in a manner that protects the
rights of both Albanians and Serbs:

APPEAL FROM DECANI AGAINST NATO AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA

I am writing this appeal while the NATO bombers and cruise missiles
are spreading death and destruction all around my country.  It is
my moral obligation to say that the statements by the NATO officials
that only military targets are attacked in Yugoslavia are not true and
they are intended to deceive many peace loving people in the West that
their air force is in a "humanitarian" action.

>From our credible sources we learned that several dozens of civilian
facilities (infrastructure, education, telecommunication, environment
and traffic facilities) were attacked and destroyed by NATO air force.
Besides there are more and more civilians who are killed or crippled
by NATO bombs, including refugees from Bosnia and Croatia.  Their
refugee camp was hit near Kursumlija and 10 women and children were
killed or wounded at the spot.  Several schools have been destroyed
and many of them damaged so that children cannot go to schools any
more because there is a danger that they might be killed in them.

The areas with important cultural and religious monuments are also
targeted.  Day before yesterday Gracanica monastery area was attacked.
Thank God there is only a slight damage on the monastery roof but on
the other hand several family homes were burned to ashes.

Last night a cruise missile hit the old town in Djakovica, mostly
inhabited by Albanians, and made a great fire in which several
Albanian houses were destroyed and several civilians seriously
wounded.

In short, NATO attacks are nothing but barbarous aggression which
affects mostly the innocent civilian population, both Serb and
Albanian.  Their continuation will not only break the will of the
people of Yugoslavia to live in freedom but will strengthen their
determination to resist to tomahawk - democracy which is trying to
bring "peace" by crimes against humanity.

Such actions are a shame for Western democracies and the whole world.
Serbian Orthodox Church remains fully faithful to the principle that
good can never be achieved by evil and that the Kosovo crisis must
be resolved by peaceful and diplomatic means so that all peoples
living here will be granted full protection of their human rights
and freedom.  NATO attacks will only make the things worse.  They
will definitely destroy the prospects of peaceful coexistence and
will further radicalize extremists on both sides.  And finally, the
greatest victims of this criminal policy will be innocent civilians.

We have the full moral right to protest against these crimes because
our Church has strongly condemned acts against civilians committed
both by Serb and Albanian extremists in this conflict and has made
great efforts to achieve a peaceful settlement of the crisis.  As
much as we have committed criminal acts against innocent civilians
and their property in the course of the last year, by extremists on
both sides, we are equally condemning these NATO attacks which do
not differ at all from what we have seen in Kosovo so far.  In fact
there is a danger that NATO bombing produces far greater humanitarian
crisis than the one we already have.  These inconsiderate actions will
destabilize Balkans and possibly create a European Vietnam which will
obstruct the political and economical processes in Europe for years
ahead.

Unfortunately, many people in the West still live in illusion that
their super-powerful and precise air force is fighting against the FRY
military.  The truth is that there are more and more civilian victims
and damages on exclusively non-military facilities.  Therefore the
Western governments bear great responsibility for these criminal acts
in front of God and history.

The ironic statements that the goal of this operation is to prevent
suffering of civilians are absolutely hypocritical and tragic.
President Clinton speaks sweet words to the Serbian people while
his bombers mercilessly destroy schools, kinder-gardens and fill the
hearts of children with hatred against the peoples which they believed
were their friends and supporters of true peace and democracy.

It is not true that our country is against the peaceful solution of
the Kosovo conflict.  The paper proposed by the Yugoslav delegation in
Paris granted full autonomy to Kosovo Albanians and all other national
communities.

Serb proposal:
http://www.balkanaction.org/paper/skia399.pdf

The delegation also said that they were ready to accept certain kind
of international supervision.  What our delegation did not accept
and what no one in this country can accept is secession of Kosovo
and Metohija from Serbia and Yugoslavia and occupation by NATO forces.
There is not a single country in the world which would accept such
terms.  Therefore the claim by Mr. Clinton and others that our country
is against negotiations and peace are not true.  The truth is that
we cannot accept disintegration of our country, not even under the
threats of NATO missiles and bombers.  I am always ready to ask for my
fellow Albanian neighbors the same rights which Serbs and all others
in this country have, but neither me nor anyone in our Church can
accept that Kosovo is given into the hands of Albanian extremists who
have already cleansed 50% of Kosovo from Serbs and other non-Albanian
ethnic groups, who kill our children in cafes and our farmers working
in fields.  Unfortunately, openly supporting the Albanian separatists
NATO is not supporting suffering civilians on all sides, as it so
proudly said, but exclusively those forces both among Albanians and
Serbs who want more war and blood.

It is true that Kosovo has many refugees and many times we have urged
responsible on both sides to stop their violence and let the people go
back to their homes.  But the West forgets that in Serbia there are
600.000 refugees who are now directly endangered by NATO bombs.

In the name of God and my fellow Albanian and Serb neighbors I make
a strong appeal on all people of good will to stop these barbarous
attacks immediately.  The peace is not built by deaths of innocent
children and pride of the mighty ones.

Fr. Sava

(Please share this appeal with your friends and all you know)

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