" The KLA, which was not a direct party to the talks, used the ceasefire to
regain and extend its influence, not only in villages but also in towns. It
also began its own "cleansing" operation, directed against the 12,000
strong Gorani community--Slavs who are Muslims and speak Albanian,
but are not ethnic Albanians. The KLA accused the Goranis, a number of
whom were supporters of Rugova's LDK, of being "Serb collaborators".
Among those killed was a close aide of Rugova's, Enver Maloku, a half
Gorani, who was shot dead in Pristina in mid-January by gunmen
rumoured to be from the KLA."


It's an American website www.wsws.org

Hamp hand-cream from the 'Body Shop' is wery nice.
Ddc really knows stuff abot HAMP.

Hasta luego

The strange case of two Australian aid
workers detained in Yugoslavia

By Mike Head
29 April 1999

>>>A few days later it became known that Pratt's predecessor as head of
CARE Australia in Yugoslavia was another military officer, former
colonel Tony McGee. McGee admitted that two years ago he had been
threatened with expulsion from Yugoslavia because the authorities
suspected him of spying. McGee said CARE had a computer data base
of thousands of refugees and an extensive information gathering network,
but insisted these were used solely to monitor refugee movements. He
also revealed that Pratt had been his deputy, first in Rwanda and then in
Yugoslavia.

On April 16, some media outlets decided, belatedly, to unveil another
peculiar feature of Pratt's biography. In 1989-90 he took leave from the
Army to stand as the Liberal Party candidate for the Sydney seat of
Banks in the federal election of 1990. He was associated with the most
right-wing faction of the Liberal Party and closely aligned himself with
John Howard, now the prime minister, who personally campaigned on
Pratt's behalf. Pratt championed strong conservative views, advocating
compulsory national military service for school leavers.

By this stage, certain newspaper pundits began to admit that Pratt would
have difficulty in dispelling the impression that he was a spy. "As an
Australian aid worker, Pratt is just the sort of person whom NATO
intelligence services would approach to become an agent," wrote Brian
Toohey, a veteran observer of the security agencies, in the Sydney
Sun-Herald on April 18. Toohey noted that the Australian Secret
Intelligence Service (ASIS), the country's overseas spy agency, has
previously acted for the US in countries where CIA agents might have
difficulty operating, such as Chile before the 1973 US-backed military
coup.

Like its American and British partners, ASIS is known to depend heavily
on information gathered from agents, as well as full-time officers. To use
everyday parlance, agents are part-time informers--people such as aid
workers, business people, trade union officials and journalists, who are
well placed to gather data in sensitive locations. In the past ASIS agents
have included a hotel owner in Dili, East Timor, on the eve of the 1975
Indonesian invasion, and UNSCOM weapons inspectors in Iraq. The
American CIA has a well-documented record of using the US Agency
for International Development and the Peace Corps as cover for its
operations. Both the CIA and ASIS also use informers as "agents of
influence," actively intervening into political developments or implementing
provocations and other "dirty tricks" projects.

Fresh evidence of how Australian authorities use aid workers as
informers emerged on April 23, when a former AusAID team leader in
East Timor told the Melbourne Age he had warned embassy officials as
early as June last year that the Indonesian army was arming and training
pro-Jakarta militia groups. Lansell Taudevin, who administered a water
and sanitation project from June 1996 to February this year, said it was
made clear to him that he was expected to provide information on
security to Australian officials in Jakarta.

He gave the Age copies of e-mail messages he sent to the embassy that
included details of Indonesian troop arrivals and warnings of growing
violence. He said AusAID pulled him out of East Timor because he was
considered to be alarmist and biased toward the East Timorese
secessionist movement.<<<


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Dear Maja,
I guess you are right, legally at least.
But if those people (not the whole of NATO nations, which are lead by their noses by their NATO friendly media) have breached a long list of international laws and charters with impunity, what are the Yugoslavs' chances?

This whole situation feels like being mugged in the middle of Madison Square Garden in front of the crowd cheering on the muggers. What kind of justice can you expect? It is a lynching mob.

Besides, I do not believe at all in the separation of the judicial and executive powers in the US. A few rulings against the US government do not prove this separation.

This is similar to the "democratic media": they operate under the famous Chomsky's 9:1 principle - 9 articles for aggression, one against. That one is there just to prove "democracy". I do not know, but I would not be surprised that the US judiciary operate under a similar principle.

Daniela,
Thanks for your kind words. The irony here is that we get the hemp and seedoil from Romania and Hungerey. And then have to raise the price to sell it in the states. (not me personally). If the Serbs and Albanians would use some of the technical info to process the hemp for their own cultures then I think it might help everyone concerned.
Cannabis food, fuel, fiber, FARMaceuticals,etc!
Peace not WoD!
MMMay Day is Manana!
DdC

DDC,
You wascally wabbit, you are the maroon.

G-O-O-D M-O-R-N-I-N-G K-O-S-O-V-O!
Whats the weather like for the Belgrade Million Marijuana March. LOUD! Very LOUD! Bombs to the left and bombs to the right. VERY LOUD!
NATO promised a temperary cease fire, but stepped up bombing when they discovered it was potheads! Now they're trying to re-aim the missles to include one of the 20 cities worldwide fed up with Government dictations concerning ones personal choice to use a God given herb. Peculiar that million buck bombs are landing on out of the way hempfields growing through out the region.
What about these Albanian KLA Heroine Traffickers! Are they raking it in with the GI's flowing in and out or what. Vietnam DeJeVu? Competition for El Gordo's?
American NRA members private tour buses filing in for the weekend war games. Authentic burned out buildings already leased to Holywood for the up and coming change the American Values theme of the week that of coarse society so desparately needs. Damn sitcoms! Damn Simpsons! Damn Oprah! Back to war shows damn it! Vic Marrow never did drugs! Cept for the homeless I guess can watch in the shelters that are set to be built sometime in the future. And the seniors strapped down in government warehouses won't mind. Or the 2 million busted and those presently caged by Klintoons Gestapo for possessing cannabis. Private Prisons why not private re-hab tv? Clockwork Orange!
On the Yugo homefronts the Commies are still at odds with the John Birchers. The Serbs against the NATO Cops and Air Jockies and KLA Heroine Dealers backed by the Klintoon cannabis phoebe Bizarberry! And all involvement drastically opposed by the GOPers. I feel like I'm at the DC May Day Demonstration against Vietnam with Nexxon, Commie Joe McCarthy and Rushky Limbog passing the joints and mumbling Masters of War!
Not that they object having genetically altered "sparing no cost to get the bastard" attitudes, so eliquently portrayed when Ronnie Rayguns invaded Gulligans Island or when his pet bush George killed the 111 civilians in Panama retreiving their CIA paid operative Noreaga. Or on and on. Everybodys killing and letting God sort it out. Just ask the kids in Littleton, CO. And we sit on the sidelines cheering and tearing. Whats right with this picture? Its just to damn confusing. But at least I know where I can get some re-"leaf"
Miloshoveit man. Turn on the B-52! NATO stop making LocheedMartin and G.E.more stinking rich. Klintoon and Robersons Rug Rat Ralph Reed stop politisizing tragedy! Stop legislating your own personal immorality. All of you listen to your self.
We are all born with freewill, then spend our lives educating ourselves from it until death. Question Authority! Question Reality! Question Internal Combustion! Question Nukes! Question War!
NATO listen to the people, Not just Klintoon.
Serbia start talking to your leaders. If the people on both sides lead, the leaders will follow!
Paaaaaaalllleeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzeee!!!
Peace not WoD!
MMMay Day is Today!
FFFF
DdC

Wire service:

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the former Irish President,
Mrs Mary Robinson has warned NATO leaders, responsible for the
barbaric bomb attacks on Yugoslavia, that they could face criminal
charges. Speaking at Friday's meeting of the UN Human Rights
Commission in Geneva, Mrs Robinson said that the bombings had
inflicted heavy casualties and destroyed many civilian sites. She
said NATO had usurped the right to decide which of the sites should
be bombed. Mrs Robinson noted that a principle of proportionate
responsibility should be applied to those responsible for the crimes
in Yugoslavia.

odiug,
Purple?
I'm a purple. What does this mean? You know cartoon characters can't insult worth a damn. Why do you insist on having them as mentors?
I Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbblieve dats all folk's!
Peace not WoD Clod!
FFFF
DdC

Maja
Dream on
Zoja

TO maja.
nope never wrote that.Try and learn to read will you.The rest dream on! or whatever

Emina

TO NICK
I sincerely hope this will mean there will be a better solution.

Emina

Source RFE /

'ETHNIC CLEANSING' UNDER WAY IN MONTENEGRO. The Yugoslav army
has begun ordering the mainly Muslim inhabitants to leave a 5
mile (8 kilometer) wide swathe of territory between Rozaje
and the Kosovar border, "The Daily Telegraph" reported on 30
April. The ethnic cleansing operation, which is apparently
aimed at depriving the Kosova Liberation Army (UCK) of places
to regroup and hide, has strained relations between the army
and the population of Rozaje. The Muslim mayor said the
"relationship between the town and the army is like a thread.
It can easily break at any time." Some Kosovar refugees, who
fled to the Rozaje area one month ago, told the London-based
daily that men in Yugoslav army uniforms recently forced
their way into some homes in the Rozaje area, robbed the
Kosovars staying there, and ordered them to leave. Some
refugees said they want the Montenegrin police to protect
them. Others charged that "there is no safe place in
Montenegro," adding that they want to go to Albania. PM?????????

Emina.
Where does it all end?

source RFE

MILOSEVIC'S ALLIES BREAK UP MONTENEGRIN 'PEACE TALKS.'
Representatives of the Socialist People's Party (SNP) walked
out of talks in Podgorica on 29 April aimed at preserving
domestic peace and avoiding a civil war between supporters
and opponents of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. SNP
deputy leader Predrag Bulatovic charged that the Montenegrin
government of President Milo Djukanovic, who opposes
Milosevic, is "obstructing the Yugoslav Army and treating
Montenegro like a separate state." It is unclear what
prompted the walk-out. Djukanovic has often said he fears
that Milosevic will use the conflict in Kosova as a pretext
to stage a putsch in Podgorica. PM

Emina.

Source RFE/

EU OIL BAN GOES INTO EFFECT. The EU's ban on oil shipments to
Yugoslavia has gone into effect, an EU spokesman said in
Brussels on 30 April. The previous day, a NATO spokesman
noted that efforts on enforcing the ban will center on
stopping ships at sea. He stressed that the Atlantic alliance
does not plan to attack oil pumping or storage facilities in
Montenegro, RFE/RL's South Slavic Service reported. The
governments of some 15 non-member countries have announced
that they will respect the ban. They are Bulgaria, Romania,
Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein,
Switzerland, and Cyprus. PM

This i think is a sad thing, cause its not Milosevic who will be short, but the ordenairy family. I posted for all to see. BUT I DON'T SUPPORT IT!

Emina