Dopo molto tempo, avendo finalmente riavuto l'assegnazione della scorta militare il 23 ed il 24 novembre, sono potuto tornare nel Kosovo Meohija per continuare i Progetti di solidarietà, che la nostra Associazione "SOS Yugoslavia - SOS Kosovo Metohija" ha nella provincia serba da molti anni, provincia autoproclamatasi indipendente dallo scorso anno, sotto la protezione della NATO.
Nello specifico il viaggio doveva proseguire e rafforzare il Progetto con l'Associazione "Sclerosi Multipla del Kosovo", il Progetto "Decani Enclavi Metohija" ed un incontro all'enclave di Gorazdevac per riprendere una possibilità di solidarietà Project "Gorazdevac" as well as a visit to a family of the Project "Children of the kidnapped."
Not everything went as planned and had it out the reasons, which are closely related to the situation on the ground, a reality of the absurd and incredible, but in essence it terrible for the Serb minority that lives and resists Day by day, but it is not known as yet.
The trip was organized with the Association of Multiple Sclerosis Kosmet, the delegation consisted of Ilija Spiric, President of the same and our representative, by Jasmina, President of the Association for Sumadia by Rajka contact our Projects in Serbia as well as other members of the Association of SM and KG, which has added Alexander of Rome.
How successful is significant and life situation of Serbs in the "new democratic Kosovo."
The possibility of the stock (which, for information, is determined and established by international forces KFOR / EULEX), we had been given for 23 and 24 November, with timetables and fixed routes and fixed, as always provided in advance and writing. The news of recent weeks is that stocks are now entrusted to the KPS (Kosovo Police Service, the Kosovo Police Force), ie Kosovo Albanian policemen, all former KLA fighters, as if to a robber that was entrusted with the safety of a bank and the people inside. This new situation is related to the reasons for disengagement of the various EU countries from the "Kosovo mission" because of the heavy and now ten-year costs and substantial evidence of his failure, though not officially eligible. To accomplish this, you claim I said and now the situation has normalized, the "standard" democratic achievements and ethnic coexistence, albeit with some problems (!) Is reached.
This especially France, Germany, England, Italy, are gradually demobilizing and leaving the total field of the former KLA men, armed and political as the U.S., on the contrary, has no plans to demobilize, not nothing Camp Bondsteel, the largest U.S. base since Vietnam has been designed for 99 years! On the morning of 23/11
come to northern Mitrovica, where he began the protection of stock and we train with friends from there, the delegation for the trip even get off the van we are informed by the escort of the KPS that we have 5 minutes to do gasoline and start again, otherwise they leave.
This is a beginning that will be repeated throughout the day, so skip the meeting with members of the ASM-KM and delivery of financial support for MS Project Kosovo, which I had with me, we decide to postpone the next day.
He then spent a route for our delegation is not certain tour the streets of Kosovo and Metohija, to 60 km took us 6 hours! By continuing discussion, stops along the streets, reversals, appeals, changes in inventories, tensions, veiled threats and mocked (... "Let us leave here and who cares ...", "we decide whether or not there are problems ..." "... do you have to laugh, do you want me to laugh really ..", etc. tones). All surrounded by a hostile and dangerous if there had been any particular situation.
At 17 we get to the Patriarchate of Pec, controlled by Italian soldiers with armored cars and checkpoints. At 18 we arrive at the Monastery of Decani (also protected by Italian military: check point, protective barriers, armored cars, etc..), where we had to discuss the project "Decani Enclaves Metohija" with our contact Father Petar. In fact, just give us arrived seven minutes and then want to leave. Vojkan Association of Mitrovica try mediation but the cops do not accept discussion, I was asked to speak to the Orthodox Fathers, or some Italian officer. I run to look for the father with whom for years we have strong fraternal ties and the commitment for the people abandoned the Kosmet, the Italian soldiers politely tell me I can not do anything ... in 7 minutes, and especially do not give us a chance to have their Commons and even more at night, for the new Kosovo non-Albanian, has not advisable to walk around. Through the mediation of the Fathers and valuable work "diplomatic" with the policemen of Vojkan Albanians, got 50 minutes and then leave. This lets us skip all the programs, in fact we should stay with the stock up to 24 evening, we have to cut the commitments that were planned and delivered in haste after the Milatovic economic support for the family of the kidnapped children in the Project ( a mother with a 12 year old daughter, two elderly parents, father kidnapped and murdered in 1999), living in a shed without water and possibility to go out, isolated in an area inhabited only by Albanians, we have to start over.
We should go to visit them the next day and document their situation, but it will be Father Petar, who visits them regularly and that is our representative of the Project, to deliver it. At 19
off again after a stop within the Monastery, an oasis of peace, spirituality and depth of emotions, unique.
renounce bitterness and anger to the 24/11 program, we are ... in their hands and the hands are not friendly or brotherly ... Arriving five to 20 km from north Mitrovica, the Albanian side in the light stops and tells us that they have finished their service and that we have to go it alone, our grievances laugh and tell us to rest assured that everything will go well and if they go. Those in the dark 5 km south of Mitrovica, were not completely relaxed and serene.
The 24/11 in the room of an abandoned tenement, home to the ASM-KM, no water or heating, there was the delivery of € 5,000 and the gift of a printer, then a visit to the Monastery of Sokolica (also beautiful), which has a particular history. In fact it is located in a mountainous area above Mitrovica, inhabited entirely by Albanians, but it is one of the few non-Orthodox places attacked or destroyed by the terrorist KLA. The reason is that for hundreds of years the Albanian women in the area and not just go there to seek pardon for the fertility of a statue of a Madonna who is in the Monastery, the only statue that's in a place of Orthodox worship in the Balkans, in As the Orthodox religion does not include the presence of statues in places of prayer.
I realize in these few lines, and through a brief chronicle of forty-eight hours, it is difficult to understand the actual situation of this puppet state, a creature to exclusive use of geo-strategic interests of the USA.
It is especially difficult to give an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat is the reality of daily life of the Serbian minority in Kosovo remained to try to survive, resist and defend their land, their homes, their lives, their sacred places, not only religious expression, but also historical, cultural and identity of an entire people, not just believers. And ultimately their right to "exist" as a people, in a Europe and a West that blather, talk, philosophize and go for the world to do "humanitarian" wars, wars "smart" wars "treatment" that "export" democracy , progress, over the alleged civilization, from Yugoslavia to Iraq, from Somalia to Sudan, from Palestine to Afghanistan.
But above all leave an endless trail of blood of peoples, death, violence, pain, devastation and human social and sow hatred, resentment, feelings of anger hidden.
As in the case of this "free Kosovo" where, with the presence, supervision, control, and in these 10 years, tens of thousands of soldiers from 32 countries, in an increasingly decadent, corrupt and prone Europe, a minority of people, the Serbs of Kosovo live an everyday life of apartheid, without the most basic rights enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations (of which the people Serbs, as constituent people of Yugoslavia, was a founding ... just to remind the forgetful).
Today in 2009, any person who is honest, independent, not subservient to any particular political, economic or personal, should know that there is a people, the Serbian Kosovo (... other minorities are all already fled), which, in a state created, funded, backed by Western powers, is going through agony for ten years quotidiana. Umiliato, offeso, vessato, violentato in tutti i suoi aspetti: umani, politici, economici, sociali, culturali, religiosi e morali.
Ma questo, se non si vede, è sempre più difficile spiegarlo qui.
Eppure è ancora lì: piegato ma non ancora vinto, senza ormai più voce… e forse senza futuro, ma dignitoso e con animo e sguardi ancora fieri.
E noi, come SOS Kosovo Metohija, con i nostri modesti e piccoli Progetti di solidarietà, tenacemente e caparbiamente, gli siamo ancora al fianco da molti anni ormai; nutrendo così, grazie ad essi, le nostre coscienze e le nostre dignità di uomini e donne, che hanno scelto di non essere assoggettati alle imperialist politics and profits, built on oppression and exploitation of peoples.
With 'anguish increasingly painful and intense, howling very soul and conscience, every time you come off and leave behind this real-world scenario of desolation and sadness, there is awareness of a debt and a deep respect you have and you must have these ... "Damned of Kosovo", removed, forgotten, silenced but resist in spite of everything and everyone, and give us a lesson in dignity, courage, roots and identity forged in the own history as a people ... and also of hope and struggle for a better future and better ... but far from being necessary for the people and the honest and industrious men.
"... now we live like caged prisoners, but foreigners say that we are free ..."
(Jovan R., 10 years, child enclave of Orahovac, Kosovo Metohija)
December 2
the time of this report the trip, I was notified by the Ambassador of Serbia in Italy, Ms. Sanda Raskovic Ivic, the news office, but it will be an official day of withdrawal in the coming months the Italian contingent of the KFOR in Kosovo to move the borders of Afghanistan, leaving a few dozen soldiers with special tasks. Since the last Orthodox monasteries in the province are manned by the Italian military and, as I have had numerous occasions to bring in recent years, with a penalty and carrying out the task entrusted to highly regarded by all this news, which is a consequence of the request to increase U.S. military and the war effort in Afghanistan, if confirmed would be for the last Serb enclaves (including the monasteries remain, including the Decani and Pec, which I wrote above) perspective
tragic and dramatic, remain at the mercy of the Kosovar Albanian leadership, which is the same that has guided and directed the Kosmet of ethnic cleansing since 1999. With
campaign of kidnappings and assassinations (1300 abducted and disappeared, and over 3000 ... murdered by the KLA), with 148 monasteries and holy places attacked and destroyed, tens of thousands of Serbian houses, Roma and other minorities were burnt and destroyed, this leadership was responsible for planning and situation of the non-Albanian minorities (including many thousands of Kosovar Albanian families, loyalist refugees in Serbia and Yugoslavia because they were considered), confined to enclaves.
I think the description given in the report above is a picture of what will be the inexorable fate that will meet that part of Kosovo that the Serbian people, in almost subhuman conditions of oppression and apartheid, still stands south of the Ibar river.
Those who know the situation on the ground directly, any level, can not foresee and imagine that a new exodus, otherwise the risk of life, in the case of being alone, in phone calls these days, when I was asked to do the job of pressure at the highest level, the institutional political and culture of our country, also personally contacted confirmed the real fear that this perspective will reopen scenarios of further violence, if not material (it would be stupid of them) but certainly psychological, and made veiled threats of direct pressure and anonymous to further terrorize civilians and cause them to choose the final path of the exodus. In a situation like this, the very existence of this cultural heritage of humanity che sono i Monasteri ortodossi, si troverebbe esposta a rischi di distruzione; tanto per dare un idea della situazione, il sindaco della cittadina di Decani (dove oltre al Monastero non vive neanche più un solo serbo) ed il capo della Polizia del KPS sono due ex comandanti guerriglieri secessionisti, che ripetutamente in pubbliche occasioni hanno ribadito l’impegno a cancellare la presenza dei luoghi sacri ortodossi come compimento della cosiddetta “liberazione” finale del Kosovo.
Dopo la “pulizia etnica” della gente, l’obiettivo sarà quello dell’epurazione della memoria storica. Cancellare le simbologie concernenti il passato. Via ciò che testimonia, soprattutto quello che è più deep: churches, monasteries, holy places, the rest has already been destroyed, including cemeteries and monuments non-Albanian Yugoslav. To clear up the identity as a people to rape and remove any pretext for the return of Serbs.
return of extreme I think the words of the mayor of Venice and University Professor M. Cacciari, said in March 2003:
"But if they withdraw Italian troops from the garrisons, the risk is high:
MC: It would be like if they were blowing up San Marco in Venice. It 's a crazy, keep the military there, it is vital to prevent such an eventuality to happen ... So ...
io dico: se nell'ambito delle operazioni che l'Italia deve fare, non tutela un patrimonio di questo genere che non ha confronti al mondo, si fa corresponsabile della distruzione. Siamo da fucilare. Non ho altre parole: siamo da fucilare. Saremmo noi i liberatori, quelli che sono andati a portare la pace, che hanno scelto la civiltà contro la barbarie? Sono cose dell'altro mondo…
…Finché non siamo assolutamente certi che nessuno può mettere in pericolo queste chiese, non bisogna assolutamente sguarnire i presidi militari. Questo patrimonio artistico è unico, non esistono altri esempi. E' come San Marco, ripeto: chiese uguali in Europa non ce ne sono, non perché San Marco sia la più bella, ma perché artistic language that does not exist elsewhere. Unfortunately, nobody talks about it .... " From: "The New Venice and Mestre", "La Tribuna di Treviso", March 4, 2003
The problem is still tricky in the arrangements and the withdrawal of Serbian police, inside the Security Council Resolution 1244 UN, UNMIK and the KFOR (although in fact as everyone knows, was to lead the NATO operation "free Kosovo") had signed a commitment to the preservation of historical and religious sites in the province and not to leave these points were not restored until the conditions for a normal and safe life for all citizens of Kosovo, without discrimination of nationality, ethnicity or religion. This old story is repeated over 10 years, but unfortunately until now has remained only a promise or, at worst, a nursery rhyme. On the face of suffering and violence that has been exposed the Serb minority, even in the presence of KFOR and dell'Umnik, better not think about what would happen if they went away, before it reaches a solution that constitutes a truly democratic and multiethnic Kosovo that was the goal, remember, the so-called "humanitarian" war of aggression or better in 1999! But it was the Kosovo before June 99! How
today, after 10 years of NATO occupation, the "New Kosovo" free and democratic?
Who is really served this "humanitarian" war?!
Aware that, for those who know the realities of Kosovo and Metohija of the Serbian people, the defense of those sacred places is a battle that goes beyond the religious aspect is a battle for justice and rights set everywhere except NATO protectorate in this creature.
means defending the right town, in this case of the Serbian people of Kosovo, to live, exist, live where, for hundreds of years has been, as given and historical fact. It means to denounce the arrogant, violent, prevaricating on this scale puppet created and built, using bombers for 78 days, ten thousand feet, dropped thousands of bombs (including uranium "depleted"), devastating and destroying a country and submit it to snatch, to criminal use, this piece of land.
means once again, for the umpteenth time, take the side of peoples and the common people, preempted and overwhelmed by the powerful of the earth, whatever the cost.
means take the side of truth and justice, who day after day, as indestructible seeds, hard, stoic, and emerge from the darkness of the catacombs where they are relegated from the "strategic disinformation" and "dumb servants."
means to side with those who have no voice or more televisions, but the reason for the dignity of its history.
Our small group in all these years has made his small part, has deployed and operated a solidarity which we call "practical and knowing, without fear and often bitter loneliness, along with a few other realities.
It is with profound dignity and seriousness related to events, we reaffirm our choice of field and our commitment, tenaciously, to head up the side of ... "Damned of Kosovo and Metohija."
November 30, 2009
Vigna Enrico, Chairman of SOS Kosovo Metohija - SOS Yugoslavia
Adapted from resistenze.org
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