Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Kosovo -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (5413)	4/25/1999 8:55:00 PM
From: robnhood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

One Year Laier------- <<<<Cyclist (Looking back Kosovo) ID#339274: Copyright © 1999 Cyclist/Kitco Inc. All rights reserved one year. April 23 1998 in SIRI-US 4. Kosovo-Metohija - New Trouble Forthcoming: * The Yugoslavia-wide referendum as to whether Serbia should accept an international mediator between Serbians and the Albanian separatists of Kosovo takes place today and absentee balloting has begun. It is expected that Serbians and Montenegrins will overwhelmingly reject the proposition --no surprise. * Yesterday, my Serb friend Goran was around and he's nervous. He thinks the Army may have to reinforce the Police in Metohija for a new operation. The shooting by KLA guerrillas picked up again about a week ago as these internationally-defined terrorists started to harass Serb villagers in several mixed hamlets near the Albanian border in the Decani district of Metohija -the church dominated half of the province. This has received scant attention for several days, but there have been AP & Reuters dispatches. My friend “Mickey” happens to be in Kosovo visiting his brother in their childhood village near the Macedonian border and we await his report upon his return --he always begins with extended, noisy gasconnading that would outdo Cyrano de Bergerac. * It is worth noting that on the 15th Belgrade made clear they will offer the local Albanian separatists what is in OSCE and treaty terms, a reasonable deal in conformity with Human Rights law. Kosovo-Metohija and Vojvodina will both get a return to their prior status as autonomous provinces of Serbia ( suspended by Milosevic, including local legislatures that have reasonable local powers. Obviously, the Albanians of any given town, elect their mayors and other officials and control those local offices and services. What the provincial legislatures will not get is the sovereign powers of the states or Federal level, and Albanians in Kosovo will not have the power to seize Serb lands and buildings on a “right of eminent domain” basis, or to take over government property and enterprises of the Federal or Serb & Montenegrin States. * Not all Kosovan Albanians support this Rugova-KLA conspiracy at independence through tricking the humanitarian West. In fact, most Christian Albanians who have lived with the Serbs for centuries strongly oppose Rugova and his Muslim immigrants, hence they get shot, harassed, etc. for continuing to serve as postmen, forest rangers, local officials, etc. Rugova's people walked off their jobs and walked out of their schools, refusing to teach their children Serbian anymore. Given these facts and the number of SS veterans and SS veterans' sons involved in Rugova's LDK party and in the outlaw KLA, one can understand why there is not more pressure on Serbia. * Steve Skakel spent last week in Albania both in Tirana and northern Scutari and reports a worsening mess with widespread anarchy outside the Capital and monumental corruption within. * On April 15, The Christian Science Monitor published a pair of articles ( available on-line ) focused on outside support for the KLA and Rugova's LDK political front and tracked back to former NY Democrat Congressman Joe DioGuardi, whose father was lbanian. His quoted remarks are dangerous and irresponsible, to say the least and his political contributions should be shunned by both Democrats and Republicans; however, DioGuardi has Benjamin Gilman and Jesse Helms. * DioGuardi heads The Albanian-American Civic League and openly advocates carving a “Greater Albania” out of parts of Greece, Macedonia, all of Kosovo and part of Montenegro. This just does not conform with OSCE law or any other international law. Given the chaos within Albania, a responsible leader would focus on that, not on tricking the world into a general Balkan war. Oh; don't forget that Bob Dole is in cahoots with DioGuardi; proof it is a bad policy. >>>>>