By Mehdi Hyseni Ph.D
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 9:23 am
Essay
By Mehdi Hyseni*

   Bye Colonial Serbia, for ever!
***THE SERBIAN "NEW FORMULA": "KOSOVA IN SERBIA AND SERBIA IN EUROPE" IS AN ANTI-EUROPEAN, ANTI-DEMOCRATIC, UNCIVILIZED AND ANTI-ALBANIAN FORMULA

 So long as Serbia's Belgrade-based government continues to practice the Great-Serbian and genocidal politics of the previous uncivilized, anti-democratic, anti-Albanian, anti-European and anti-American regime of criminal-in-chief, Slobodan Milosevic, proclaiming the notion that Kosova is an integral part of Serbia's territory, it will remain clear why negotiations in Vienna between Serbian and Albanian "work groups," led by international envoy of the United Nations Security Council Marti Ahtisari, were marked by abortive epilog (2006).
 Throughout the duration of these negotiations, the euro-international community played acrobatics with real politics while practicing no political realism at all. Had there been an observance of political realism, then justly the international community would not have consulted the Belgrade government similar to that of the handling of a pampered child (and after Serbia's commitment of ten colonial genocides in Kosova and Ethnic Albania during the time period of 1842-1999), but instead would consider the reality of the terrain in Kosova.
By this, they would abide to the provisions of the United Nations Chart and International Law norms that are in favor of the historical and self-determination rights of Albanians and Kosova. After all, historically since 1371 Kosova had been a part of the Albanian feudal state of the Balshajs which was then conquered by the Ottoman Empire 18 years later in 1389. Kosova has always been a part of the greater Illyrian culture and was formally tied to the Balshajs over six centuries ago, proving that Kosova has been an inalienable part of ethnic Albanian identity. This neither has a connection with being the Serbian "cradle" and "heart" nor with Serbia, as has been proclaimed through centuries of the politics, propaganda and diplomacy of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Great Serbia.
 In this context, Kosova is not a matter of territorial dispute, because historically it has been an integral part of Ethnic Albania. However there are two prevalent irrational and outlaw factors that make the  optimal solution for Kosova problematic: (1) the regressive politics of Great-Serbian colonialism which even today , after the overturn of the anti-Albanian and genocidal regime of Slobodan Milosevic, continues to consider Albanian Kosova as its "legal and legitimate property" and (2) the traditional real politics of the new Bismark in today's so called integral, multiethnic and democratic European nations; the unabashed bias in their political philosophy made evident in their decisions to include Serbia in an international debate to resolve Kosova's status.
 If all of the actors and "mentors" who are involved in Kosova's issue aim to truly resolve it in the interest of both Albanians and Serbian parts, then it's necessary for them to consider the historical, democratic and juridical-geopolitical criterion in order to designate both parties with what legally belongs to them. Serbia must remain within its natural Chetnik Serbian Shumadia borders, whereas Kosova ought to remain in that place where it has been forever cradled: Ethnic Albania. Justified historically, politically and democratically, this would be the optimal and the only right compromise that could reconcile these two antagonized parties, opposed as a result of centuries of genocide and Great-Serbian colonialism on the Albanian nation and the indigenous  territories of natural Ethnic Albania. Otherwise, Europe and the Balkans will confront again upon the invading politics and genocide of today's "democratic" Serbia, a state that has traditionally had the support of Russia.
 Precisely, it was these illusions and utopian ideas of Serbia that amounted to produce enough of an influence upon Serbs and the Serbian Orthodox Church that they selected their fanatical and fallacious "messiah" Slobodan Milosevic, a disastrous result of Serbian collective paranoia, nationalism, and auto-destructive Serb-centrism.  Apparent by the three military and paramilitary aggressions and genocides committed in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosova (1992-1999), these factors clearly had negative consequences on Serbia's general church and state policy.
 If these  horrible, antihuman, antidemocratic, uncivilized and criminal acts of Milosevic's Serbia against the mentioned  ex-Yugoslavian  countries are not taken into account seriously, and if the independence of Kosova is rejected,  there's no doubt that current Serbian authorities (President Boris Tadic, Prime Ministers Vojislav Kostunica and Vuk Jeremic, Tomislav Nicolic, and bishop Artemije Radosavljevic) will finish their political and ecclesiastical careers like Slobodan Milosevic.
 The Belgrade government, all Serbian extremist elements and the Serbian Orthodox Church led by Bishop Artemije Radosavljevic should understand very clearly that only through the achievement of a rational political compromise will there be a guaranty of Serbia's access into the European Union (EU). Thus, Serbian policy, the Serbian Orthodox Church and all Serbian people should agree with Albanian bitter trust, that only after the definitive withdrawal of colonial Serbia from Kosova and the other territories of Ethnic Albania, will there be real conditions and circumstances created for normalization of the political, diplomatic, economic and commercial relations with Kosova and Ethnic Albania. Only this just and profitable compromise for both parties in the conflict can eliminate the alleged new democratic and civilized European formula created by Great-Serbian fascists and colonialists, which is reflected in the model, "Kosova in Serbia, and Serbia in Europe". Such an ideology is a direct historical, political and propagandistic product of Great Serbia which can be traced back to the ideas articulated in Ilia Grasanin's "Nacertania" (1844). Similar products such as "Memorandum" (1986) released by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts as well as other anti-Albanian genocide memorandums and projects of the Serbian Orthodox Church were created in order to promote enlargement of territories of Great Serbia, also providing rationale to exterminate the historical continuity of Albanian extermination, as territories of Ethnic Albania were broken and conquered. There's no way to recognize this in the 21st century without taking into consideration Serbia's official policies addressing Albanians, particularly when it comes to their objection of Kosova's independence.                                                                                                                                         
 The recognition of Kosova's independence is no precedence, neither for international law nor to the peace and stability of the Balkans, such as is speculated by the antidemocratic and propagandistic politics of the Belgrade-based government and the Serbian Orthodox Church, who are by whatever means fighting to convince Europe and America that "Kosova is the cradle and heart" of Serbia.
 As mentioned above, the matter of Kosova's independence is not problematical in any aspect, be it historical, juridical, political, democratic or ethnic minority related, but for the time being it is still an unresolved colonial issue like the Albanian National question in the Balkans.
              
Good Morning, and happy birthday my independent Kosova!  

            
Sunday, February 17, 2008 was a grandiose day for all Albanians and their friends all of the world who supported  them to be free from Serbian colonialism and hegemony because of fact that Kosova's Parliament declares independence of Kosova, which the day after immediately was recognized by the United States of America and some of European Union countries such United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Austria..., etc.
Therefore, by rights that day we can call as a historical because Kosova for the first time in its history becomes independent  and sovereign state in Balkans. Indeed, for that day Albanians have been waited long time almost 100 hundred years  by reason of Serbia's colonialism  and annexation  of Kosova(1912-1999).
According to history and international law Kosovo deserves to be independent and recognized by the international community, regardless of Russia's  illegitimate  contradiction that  "unilateral recognition independence  of  Kosovo is precedence  and  crushing of the international law". This appraisal  is inexistent  because of fact that historically and juridical, Kosova has never been legal part of Serbia, but only  as an illegal and alienated part of its  territory and sovereignty which has  fissured from the indigenous territory of the Ethnic Albania by force and genocide supported from the Russia and European Great Powers in the London Conference of Ambassadors (1913).

It's worth fact to remember Serbia's authorities and its scholars,                                                                that when Serbia  has been recognized as an independent state by European Great Powers in Berlin's Congress in 1878,  then Kosovo  wasn't  within its territorial and state sovereignty, but under the Ottoman Empire until 1912,

However, this truth  de facto and de jure  Serbia and Serbs know very well, but they have never accepted it as such, because  it was in favor of their colonial interests  in Kosova, and other territories of the Ethnic Albania (such is Presheva, Bujaboci and Medevegja).

Thank you America!

For  rescue over two millions people, support and recognition  of independence of Kosova ( beside the Kosova Liberation Army-KLA- UK-Ushtria lirimtare e Kosovs) is  meritorious the United States of America with its  direct historical, political, diplomatic, economic, humanitarian, military, juridical and peace-loving deed.
This is a main human and rational  reason why all Albanians people in Balkans and all of the world must be grateful  and  loyal ally, good and confident  friend united for ever with our loved homeland America.
Thank you  Amereica!
Long live America!
United we stand for ever!
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*Author is Ph.D. in International Relations

By Mehdi Hyseni Ph.D
Tue, January 29, 2008 7:52 am

          Kosova in  Great Serbian  “soccer diplomacy”(!)

Recently I had opportunity to read  an article under title “The case against Kosovo independence”  written  by Miodrag Isakov, ambassador of Serbia in Israel, which is published in “The  Jerusalem Post”, December 12, 2007.

 

 However, his simulation is more than a diplomatic nonsense because of  fact that  he  has confounded booth  diplomatic and soccer sport rules attempting  to justify  “Serbian international law” that “traditionally” Serbia has  the historical right to rule Albanian Kosova as “its inalienable part” of Serbia’s territory. But the truth is another, in Albanians  side.

 

 Kosova has never been legal part of Serbia’s territory and sovereignty, but illegal its colony (1912-1999). Albanians  have never been the minority in Kosova, but vast majority from 1371 when they have had their state under Balshaj rulers . This historical fact is unknown for Serbian ambassador in Tel Aviv, and for the Serbian history, politics and diplomacy entirely. On the contrary of this fact, Serbian ambassador Miodrag Isakov this “diplomatic” commentary has written  in order to oppose  the right of independence of Kosova, trying   to  “justify”  that through  his  imaginable  soccer  game between Israel and England: “If I were to say that Israel deserved to qualify for the European championship, most local football fans might agree. Israel played really well - the best ever”.  

First, on the one side, through Israel is reflected   fans “Desire” to go ahead to get championship  reason is that “Israel is playing well – the best ever”. Second, whereas in the other side, Serbian ambassador, express  oneself “Desire” that England merits also to be qualified  for championship because it has long traditional history in soccer game, respectively “England invented the soccer ”. However according through the “deepest diplomatic acknowledge” expressed  in sport vocabulary “style”  by Miodrag Isakov neither Israel nor England can be qualified for  championship as he comes to conclusion because  of the fact that he said  “there are  certain rules and conditions which preclude that from happening.”

 

Seen diplomatically, Isakov  with Israel example has compared  Kosova which really plays very good  “soccer game” because one plays in its homeland which  is in accordance with  all  definite rules of “international soccer” i.e. in historical,  political and diplomatic sense  within international community in a consequence of it Kosova got support of the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and NATO in holding of it’s independence. Meanwhile, with England example is compared Serbia  under the pretext that one has “long historical tradition upon Kosovo”. In this case, Serbian ambassador tried  to say  to Serbia allies and supporters that Serbia has historical right on Kosovo because one  “legally” is “office-holder”/ “land-owner” of Albanian Kosova. However, this “sportive conclusion”  is   very wrong  and fickle historically because there are no  any valid and justifiable arguments that Kosova  has ever  been Serbia’s land.  This is main reason  why  the international community  factors (USA, OUN, EU and NATO) are  determined to support independence on Kosova.

 

However, apart from these arguments, Miodrag Isakov is served  with  his very limited and thoughtless  “diplomatic” appraisals  in sportive manner that “Israel and England will not be qualified for championship because there are certain rules and conditions which preclude that from happening”(Ibidem). This is very bed logical mistake of Serbian ambassador’s   when he says that “Israel and England cannot move ahead  for championship because of the fact that “there are certain rules and conditions” from which depend their qualification to get in finale soccer game.

 

 In this case the international  rules and conditions aren’t  any kind of stumble-stones, if Israel and England play good soccer, but, if not, the rules and conditions are very clear, nobody can blame ones. If Israel and England  will have  fallen  as a consequence of their week party   games, apparently nobody normal individual couldn’t  insist “that Israel and England take part in the finals…” regardless of fans “desire” as Serbia’s ambassador Miodrag Isakov  was concluded.

 

This comparison is wrong and absurd  in diplomatic sense even though Serbian and Albanian  negotiations  of Kosova’s status  have been fallen  during last two years(2005-2007) under the United Nations monitoring  mission. That  does not mean that Albanian side must be eliminated from the legal support of international community because ones fulfill all designated conditions and rules  in accordance with international law and the United Nations Charter to be independent state.

 

These are fair and legal rules which official Belgrade must take into account if Serbia wants to remain in further soccer games of qualification  for the championship, but one didn’t accept these rules of the game of the international professional soccer in appreciation that doesn’t need to play more any game because of the fact that it consider itself the first finalist of the world  championship under the international law, the UN Security Council Resolution 1244(June 10,1999), and the United Nations Charter which guarantees “Serbian sovereignty and territorial  integrity /that means/ Kosovo is a part of that sovereign  state- the Republic of Serbia” (Ibidem).

 

Apart from this  M. Iskaov’s “desire” and invalid explanation in international law context, by which  apparently “Kosovo belong to Serbia”, ones cannot  be approved by the United Nations  Security Council because Serbia doesn’t have historical and international right to hold still Kosovo as “it’s national territory” because of the fact that historically Kosova concerns to ethnic Albania and Albanians, not to  Serbia or Yugoslavia as Serbian ambassador “describes” in this commentary for “The Jerusalem Post”. Kosovo has never been legally part of territory and sovereignty of Serbia respectively Yugoslavia, except illegal  their  classic colony from 1912 to June10, 1999).

 

No  bona fide  interpretation of diplomacy and international law

 without  basic  acknowledgement of world history!

 

Serbian ambassador M.Isakov in Israel  doesn’t know   history of Albanians and Ethnic Albania in Balkans. As if he knows it, he wouldn’t make a lot of  cardinal mistakes  in his  attempt to interpret  the truth of  Albanian – Serbian  historical and political relations   aforetime and today.

 

Therefore, he wouldn’t have had  valid reason to criticize  right  estimation  that “Kosova deserves independence”, asserts  through  a commentary by his colleague Albanian ambassador Tonin Gjuraj in Israel, published in the same newspaper “The Jerusalem Post” in Telaviv.

 

As  a consequence of unknowingness of Balkan’s history, Serbian ambassador i Tel Aviv, Miodrag Isakov reflects  unconsidered  arguments in disfavor of independence of Kosova in  historical and international law context of his  wrong and tendentious  thesis interpreted  according to colonial history, politics and diplomacy of interest of Greater Serbia (1878-1999).

 

 Ethnic Albania is older than Miodrag Isakov

 and his Serbian Hitler colonizers  in Balkans

 

 In appreciation wrongly   historical retrospective of Ethnic Albania and  Albanias in Balkans, Serbian ambassador in Israel, Miodrad Isakov did   several historical  and political  mistakes, as following :

“ANTI-SEMITISM IN SERBIA DURING THE WORLD WAR II

There are still some significant historical facts about Serbia before and during the Second World War which remain suppressed or are even distorted with prejudice, not only in Serbia but also abroad. We believe this to be the consequence of ignorance due to the energetic, and unfortunately successful, propaganda of Yugoslavia and Serbia these past fifty years. Thus, these facts should always be pointed out in a precise and detailed manner whenever this dark period is mentioned, which is, in effect, only just one such period in a series of similar centuries-old ones in Serbian history.

Until today, Serbia has worn a heroes halo in a land of martyrs as a member of the anti-Hitler coalition and an alleged contributor to the victory in the Second World War. This is completely untrue. Serbia was not an unfortunate occupied land subjected to German terror. During the entire war, Serbia was the most faithful ally to the Third Reich on European territory under its domination. As opposed to all the other countries of the former Yugoslavia, there was no organized, and an even less massive, armed anti-Hitler movement. When England finally ceased supporting and exalting Draza Mihajlovic, even Radio London, according to the Serbian press, had Mr. Harrison direct the following warning: "It is up to the Serbs to brighten their reputation and cleanse their blemishes. Serbs, remember! The Greater Serbian hegemony will never return. The other nations in Yugoslavia have been exploited enough by the Serbs. You are being given one more opportunity to save yourselves. There has been enough dawdling and enjoyment on the part of the Serbs while other nations have been fighting."

Serbia was a real state during World War II. It consisted of the following: a government, organized ministries, independent authorities in towns and villages, its own army which was armed by the Germans, and this Nedic’s Serbian State Guard, the Serbian Guard, the elite Ljotic�s Serbian Voluntary Corps, the Serbian Border Guard, the Serbian Country Guard, as well as numerous Cetnik units. Within the Ministry of Internal affairs there was a large, well-organized and well-trained Serbian police force, with numerous prisons, customs services and special police schools. Elementary and secondary schools were in function in the towns and villages. Many newspapers and magazines were being printed as well as a large number of books. New theaters and cinemas were being built. Museums were open. Art shows and concerts were organized. New laws and statutes passed by the Serbian government were published in the "Official Gazette". The Serbian National Bank, with a Serbian governor at its head, printed new Serbian money with an exchange rate in relation not only to the German mark but also to other significant European currency including the kuna. Ancient Serbian flags were hoisted everywhere and the national coat of arms was emphasized. Kosovo and the divine Knez Lazar were celebrated, St. Sava and the Karadjordjevic dynasty were exulted, etc. Until the very final moment, the Serbians believed that they would be rewarded with the creation of a Greater Serbia after Hitler�s victory!

Anti-Semitism was, along with the militant, conquering, genocidal Orthodoxy of St. Sava, one of the constant ideologies and politics of the Serbian Orthodox Church before, during and after the Second World War. This is in effect even today. That is to say, the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) is in fact a kind of political party. It is greater Serbian and even racist. Pastoral work has been completely neglected.

Anti-Semitism began to spread in Serbia before the Second World War. The Fascist Party "Zbor", Dimitrij Ljotic, prominent Church dignitaries, as well as the church press, were the main generators of the expansion of anti-Semitism. Ljotic roused the Serbian population with the following types of statements: "The Jewish people use the explosives in their hearts to destroy Christian communities and lead them to their ruin"; "The destructive action of the Jewish spirit may be felt in all domains of human life"; "Judaism is appearing as a cultural and national danger, which we must be free of as soon as possible". Ljotic�s model and idol was the leader of the Third Reich. He praised him in the following manner: "Hitler is the instrument of God�s providence. He is an instrument which can no longer be stopped until his assigned mission has been fully completed." A great number of Orthodox priests were very active members of "Zbor". The most prominent was the main ideologist of Orthodoxy and anti-Semitism in the Serbian church, episcopate Nikolaj Velimirovic who had been decorated by Hitler already in 1934. It was probably in gratitude that he wrote the following in his book about St. Sava in 1935: " We must regard with esteem the present German leader who, in the twentieth century, came up with the idea of St. Sava and as a layman took upon himself a task for his people as befits only a holy man, a genius and a hero." Several years later, in 1939, he publicly preached racism: " We are people of an Aryan race, which fate has given an honorary role... so that tribes of weaker races and inferior faiths will not...". In the "Glasnik Srpske pravoslavne Patrijarsije" (Gazette of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate), letters about Jewish people such as the following were common: "Jews are enemies, sly as snakes and dangerous". The same newspaper reported the following statement given by Patriarch Varnava to a German newspaper in 1937. "The Führer, is leading a battle which will benefit mankind", "God has sent the German people, a führer with foresight. We believe his truthful words". Sometime before this Varnava referred to the Soviet government as a "deceiving Jewish gang".

Germany attacked Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941, and without battle on April 12 its army had already entered Belgrade which had been abandoned by the Yugoslav Army and by all authorities since the first day of the war. The unconditional surrender was signed by the generals of the King�s Army on April 17.

On the actual day of the German arrival, Milicevic, the Governor of Belgrade, informed the citizens on a posted notice that the Serbian army was already organized and armed. Several days later, Dragi Jovanovic became the Governor (he held this title until the end of the war), the Chief of the Serbian police, and later the Chief of Serbian Security. The following statement made by SS General Harald Turner, only a month after his arrival in Belgrade, proves the unlimited power of the Serbian police: "I attempted to re-establish the activity of the police system with particular haste. Today, executive power in Serbia is carried out by the police and gendarmes who have been given weapons... internal relations are regulated by local organs without German interference." Dragi Jovanovic himself stated in a report to the Gestapo: "Occupying forces were always able to rely on the Belgrade police. Special Police forces dealt with their assignments with great enthusiasm and success, unlike any other police in any city in all of occupied Europe". In 1946, at his trial in Belgrade, he added: "These results were better and greater than the results of the Gestapo itself in Belgrade."

For the first four months, Milan Acimovic was at the head of Serbia with his Council of Commissars and then, General Milan Nedic, former Minister of the Yugoslavian Army, who had a pro-German and anti-Semitic orientation, took over the leadership in Serbia. Owing to the wholehearted cooperation of all Serbian authorities and the police with the Germans, SS-man Harald Turner, stated the following in 1942: " Serbia is a nation in which the problem of Jews and Gypsies has been solved." Franz Rademacher of the Nazi Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported: "The Jewish problem in Serbia is no longer acute. The only thing left is to solve the legal questions concerning property." The chief of the German Security Service in Serbia, A. Schafer bragged: "Belgrade - the only larger European city which is cleansed of Jews, has become �Judenfrei.�" Let us be reminded of the historical fact that Serbia ingloriously took first place in the genocide against the Jews in Europe just three months after the meeting of Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the German Security Service, Heinrich Muller, chief of the Gestapo and Adolf Eichmann, chief of the Special Department for Jews, which was held on January 20, 1942, at Lake Wansee by Berlin when the decision was made to approach the " final solution to the Jewish problem". Specifically, at the end of April and the beginning of May of that year, the remaining Jews were killed in the Sajmiste concentration camp...

Until now, the Holocaust in Serbia has been an unspoken topic, a taboo. Jewish and Serbian sources offer relatively little data, mostly fragmented. What really happened, nevertheless, may be seen. The following was noted: "Only seven days after their arrival in Belgrade, the Germans announced that all Jews had to register themselves at Tasmajdan (Serbian Police Headquarters). Before then, they had already formed a special police force for Jewish people, with the help of the police, that is, the Civil Government of Belgrade. Every Jew received a yellow band." Another source stated that "Jude" was written on the first bands and had the "stamp of Belgrade�s Governor". On one original preserved band (from a later time, it appears), "Jude" is written in German and "Jevrejin" is written in Cyrillic. The following data was found as well: "The Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, who always endeavored to deal with all their responsibilities on time, dealt with the Jewish problem, as well". Also: "From among local traitors, the Gestapo trained the "Special Police" to battle against Jewish-Communistic actions. The special police closely collaborated with the Gestapo and was often the initiator of joint actions. The employees of the police were paid from a fund in which Belgrade Jews were forced to pay 1,400,000 dinars. Rewards for captured or killed Jews were paid from this fund as well..." By May 1941, German authorities had already announced the order by which "Jews were to register with Serbian police authorities", "they cannot be public servants, they must immediately be eliminated by Serbian authorities", so they were further forbidden to pursue a series of independent professions, to go to the theater or cinema, etc. Serbian authorities were declared "responsible for the carrying out of the order" which they immediately set out to do with in a conscientious and thorough manner, with the wholehearted approval of the press. Along with this, they rejoiced in the newspaper at the time: "Jews will never again be doctors, pharmacists, lawyers or judges in Serbia. The Serbs have finally opened their eyes". Dragi Jovanovic, the Serbian Ministry of Justice, even the Musicians� Associations and others, immediately proclaimed their own regulations that Jews turn in all radios and refrigerators even threatening citizens who might be hiding the property of their Jewish friends or providing them with unregistered shelter. They ordered the closing of all Jewish lawyers� offices appointing Serbians in their places. They prohibited Jews to travel on Belgrade streetcars and refused work licenses to Jewish musicians and others. In keeping with the battle for a pure Aryan race, the newspapers started to publish employment offers which had as one of their first stipulations: "that they be of pure Aryan race, without Jewish or gypsy blood". Confirmation of this racial purity was issued by the local Serbian authorities. Nedic�s "Ministerial Council" published the following order: "Property of the Jews who were citizens of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia on April 15, 1941, belongs to Serbia if it is on Serbian territory, without any compensation". The Serbian Council for the Management of Properties of Serbia of the National Mortgage Bank would then put the properties up for auction, placing an advertisement in the daily papers. The synagogue in Nis, which is now a part of the city museum, was among the properties listed. The Jews also had to pay a sum of 4,834,231 dinars to Belgrade�s Civil Government and a million dinars to the Belgrade municipality. According to a Jewish source, Serbians made up 33% of the buyers of Jewish properties! Some "deserving" Serbians, received, as a reward, a part of the looted Jewish money. The Gestapo Major Karl Krauss, ordered: "commencing July 1, 1941, every month until further notice, a sum of 10,000 dinars will be paid, without receipts, to Belgrade�s Police Chief and a sum of 6,000 dinars to his assistant from money collected from Jews in Belgrade". Other than this, the Gestapo rewarded approximately 30 members of the Special Police with 10 to 20,000 dinars.

The physical liquidation of Serbian Jews began immediately in the spring of 1941. Almost all the men were killed by the autumn and the women and children and the remaining men were liquidated at the end of April and the beginning of May, 1942. The exact number of people killed is not known even from Jewish sources. Historian Jasa Romano, however, has come to the conclusion that 88% of all Serbian Jews were killed. The Serbian historian Sretenije Zrokic says that of the 11,870 Belgrade Jews only 1,115 or 9% survived the war. It was not only the Germans who captured and killed the Jews in Serbia, rather it was the Serbian Police, Nedic�s volunteers and Cetniks. Most were killed in the Sajmiste and Banjica concentration camps. Not a single Jew managed to escape from the camps.

The Banjica camp in Belgrade was established in July 1941 and shut down at the end of September 1944, a month before the withdrawal of the Germans from Belgrade. At a meeting between the Serbian Police and members of the Gestapo in June 1941, it was decided that one of the barracks of the former Yugoslav Army in Belgrade�s suburbs be transformed into a concentration camp. Dragi Jovanovic signed the document to this effect and the first prisoners were brought in on May 9. Svetozar Vujkovic was appointed director of the Serbian part of the camp where there were only Serbian police. The smaller German part was directed by members of the Gestapo. The commander of the camp and along with his assistant were German. The German and Serbian parts of the camps were completely separate.

The prisoners were watched by heavily armed guards: "Machine guns and reflectors were set up on the roofs. Day and night, double guards made up of one SS-man and a gendarme from the Special Police stood watch. Later when the police gained the trust of the occupier, the German guards were withdrawn". The same Serbian source also said: "The camp management apparatus was also made up of prison wardens, headed by their commander, who had been chosen from the ranks of former gendarmes, now members of the Serbian guard."

From partially preserved documents of the Serbian part of the camp we learn that 23,697 people were registered and 3,489 were executed by a firing squad. The German and Serbian police began, at the end of 1943, to destroy the documentation and to excavate and burn the executed bodies so that it is actually not known how many victims perished, nor how many were Jews, Serbs or others. The only thing that is known for certain is: not one Jew left Banjica alive... They were killed along with the other prisoners in the camp yard, shot down in the village of Jajinci at the foot of Avala, at the Jewish and the central cemetery in Belgrade. The Gestapo, the Special Police, and the Serbian National Guard performed the executions together. All the lists found were handwritten in Cyrillic. The prisoners were sent to the camps by the Belgrade Civil Government, the heads of the Serbian municipal police, the Serbian National Guard, Ljotic�s volunteer units, Serbian court-martials, and by regional and district leaders throughout Serbia. Execution lists were drawn up by the Special Police, the camp chief, Vujkovic, the Gestapo commander and his assistant. From the few preserved lists, it can be observed that even children were executed: 22 under the age of 7; 26 under the age of 14; 76 under the age of 17; even mothers with small children in their arms. Belgrade grave-diggers recall: "Members of the Gestapo and Special Police agents would draw women out of armored cars, one by one. Two men would hold each one by the arms and the third would shoot her in the head and then push her into the grave." A Jewish source stated: " From 1942 up to September 1944, Jews, who had found refuge in some villages in Serbia, were brought to the Banjica camp after being caught by Ljotic�s and Nedic�s men, as well as by Cetniks and handed over to the Germans for which they received financial rewards."

The only surviving Jews in Serbia were those who remained unexposed in remote Serbian villages where peasants were hiding them. In a written report after the war, one of the surviving Jews said the following " Draza Mihailovic�s Cetniks, mercilessly pursued Jews in that region, especially the Cetnik units that came from Ravna Gora (Draza�s main headquarters), whom we were forced to hide from just as we had to hide from the Germans. I know that it was these Cetniks who killed several families in that region in the most appalling manner."

The majority of Serbian Jews were killed in the Sajmiste camp. There is no precise information and documentation is almost non-existent, yet it is estimated that the number of victims comes to at least 11,000. The camp was formed on the left bank of the Sava by the railway bridge at the entrance into Belgrade where the pre-war trade fair was located. This is where the name Sajmiste originated. This territory which was, at that time, deserted, uninhabited and marshy, was several kilometers from Zemun and formed a part of NDH (Independent State of Croatia) territory, so the Germans asked for it to be given to them. It is, however, completely untrue that this was an Ustasa camp which Serbian propaganda claims even today. Not one Ustasa ever entered the camp. The commander, Androfer, and his assistant, were SS-men. On Gestapo ruling, order and discipline were maintained by the Camp Council which was comprised exclusively of camp inmates who were at first solely Jews because there were no others and some agents of the Serbian police. Supplies were provided by the "Department of Social Care and Social Institutions of Belgrade�s Municipal Authorities". At the beginning of December 1941, Serbian gendarmes called upon Jews in Belgrade to report to the Special Police and to hand over their house keys. The transfer of Jews, primarily women and children, lasted from December 8 until 12. Conditions in the camp were extremely difficult - the damp and the cold, hunger and epidemics. A Jewish source says: "The food was appalling and often not even the minimal amount of food was supplied. In Nedic�s units there were people who were no better than the Germans themselves." What is almost unbelievable is that even the camp�s German commander protested against the quantity of supplies. The reply of Belgrade�s Municipal Authorities to the Germans was just as unbelievable if not insolent: "Provisions for the Jewish camp will be carried out once all other needs are met."

As camp inmates starved and froze to death, they were transferred over the frozen Sava to Belgrade where they were buried. Many (the number is unknown) were led away to be shot by firing squads in Belgrade. They were killed in the same manner, in the same place and by the same people as were the Banjica prisoners. Some were killed by the Germans in a special gas truck on their way to Belgrade and buried in Jajinci but their number is not known. A Serbian company "Obnova" purchased the clothes of those. Some were led away to camps in other countries (numbers and destination are unknown). When the number of imprisoned Jews began to decrease, Serbian prisoners and others began to arrive. One of these prisoners recalls: "The criminals were the same as those in Banjica. The commanders were also the same - Germans, Nedic�s men and other Serbian fascists". According to some data, all Jews in that camp were liquidated before May 9, 1942. Belgrade had become "Judenfrei"....

Another surviving Serbian camp inmate, wrote in his book of memoirs: "Several thousand Jews passed through the Sajmiste camp... Long lines of sad histories were written on the walls of the pavilions and in many places artistic portraits were completed. For days we returned to these final traces of thousands of people. There were surviving Serbians who told us various details about the life of the Jews in Sajmiste and who had allowed the Jews to write their final parting thoughts and vows ." Today, there is not a trace of these words at Sajmiste. Which of the "liberators" erased, destroyed and eradicated their every trace? Consequently, in the pavilions that remain today, consisting of offices and warehouses, there is not even a small plaque commemorating that this was the scene of a horrific concentration camp for Jews. On February 11, 1993, the European parliament adopted the Resolution on European and International Protection of Concentration Camps as Historical Monuments. But it seems this does not pertain to camp Sajmiste. Sajmiste, the largest Jewish execution camp in Serbia, is not even listed among the names of the 22 largest camps for Jews in Europe in the Memorial Center Jad Vashem in the Hall of Memoirs in Jerusalem. Of all the camps in the former Yugoslavia, Jasenovac is the only name listed! Does this intentionally imply that all Serbian Jews were apparently killed in the NDH in Jasenovac?

* * *

Finally, how did the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) act during World War II? Not one word of condemnation of the genocide, the yellow bands, the concentration camps or the racism was ever heard from them. Immediately upon the arrival of the Germans, representatives of the Holy Synod paid homage to the German military commander and stated, first in print and then in person: " The Holy Orthodox Synod will loyally carry out the laws and commands of the occupying and territorial authorities and will, through its organs, endeavour to effect the complete abidance of order, peace and obedience." The synod remained loyal to their promise until the end and it never violated its promise given to the "father of Serbia" General Milan Nedic that "the Serbian Orthodox Church will, in the spirit of St. Sava�s Orthodox tradition, continue to fight on his side". There are no known cases of any Serbian Orthodox priest saving the life or attempting to save the life of one Jew, although some of them often openly expressed anti-Semitic attitudes in their sermons, instigating their congregation against Jews. Metropolitan Josif, as the head of the Serbian church during war time, signed orders that Jews be forbidden to transfer to the Orthodox faith, even though this would have saved them. Three episcopates were the first to sign the "Appeal to the Serbian people" of August 1941, in which over 500 of the intellectual elite of Serbia publicly expressed their support of the occupiers and quislings, which was a unique case in war-affected Europe.

* * *

One clear manifestation of Serbian anti-Semitism was the anti-Masonic, specifically the anti-Jewish exhibition which opened in Belgrade on October 22, 1941 and which was to support and justify the genocide against the Jews in Serbia and in Europe. Apart from the exhibits at the show, an overwhelming amount of propaganda material was prepared (over 200,000 various brochures, 60,000 posters, 100,000 leaflets, 108,000 copies of nine different post cards, 176 various cinema advertisements, four types of postal stamps, etc.). The organizers boasted: "Such a conceived exhibition will be unique, not only in Serbia but in the Balkans as well, not only in south-eastern Europe and Europe, but in the world". The press awakened the national pride of the people: "The success of the Belgrade exhibition has surpassed Serbia�s borders and received deserved recognition by the press in entire Europe". The pride of the organizers was directed to a truly unique occurrence in Europe during the war, this being the anti-Jewish stamps which showed abominable racist drawings, and which were to, according to requests by Serbian anti-Semites, "in the entire world, for all time, serve as the most convincing evidence of how one nation awakened when faced with the danger of disappearing(?)". Milan Nedic expressed "his complete gratitude to the organizers and believes that the exhibition will have a great educational impact, because it systematically displays, in a clear manner, the work of the enemy of the nation and the people".

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Much time has passed since what has been described in Serbia, but anti-Semitism in Serbia, like the vampire, does not die. In 1985, the Serbian eparchy in Western Germany printed a book in Serbian and in Cyrillic written by the already deceased episcopate, Nikolai Velimirovic, supposedly in 1945 in the Dachau camp. The fact that this is completely untrue is another theme. The book preaches to the Serbian Orthodox people: "Today, Europe is primarily the battlefield of the Jews and the father of the Jewish devil. Europe is not aware of this and in this lies the dark tragedy of its peoples. Europeans, Christians and the anointed, have completely surrendered themselves to the Jews. They think as the Jewish people do, they have adopted Jewish programs, accepted Jewish lies as the truth, they travel the same paths as Jews and they serve Jewish goals". There was no reaction from either side. In 1991, the Serbian Orthodox Church organized the spectacular transfer to Serbia of the remains of this anti-Semitic ideologist. The newsletter of the Serbian patriarchy "Pravoslavlje" printed an article in January 1992 by their correspondent in Israel "Jews Crucify Christ Once More", with the following allegations: "Many Israelis are sick with hatred for the Christians. The hatred is open among the ordinary people. Politicians are perfidious and work in secret.", etc. etc... Two weeks later, the Holy Orthodox Synod announced that the text " sounds anti-Semitic, things are carelessly reported" and at the same time claimed: "the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism is completely alien to the tradition and history of the Serbian Orthodox Church". In February 1992, the Belgrade "Borba" wrote that at the entrance to the Jewish cemetery, someone had written: "Death to Jews and all Jewish p....", but the whole affair was covered up. The "Tanjug" news agency announced a few days later that "the Jewish lobby had arranged the diplomatic recognition of Croatia and Slovenia by Russia". One of Seselj�s commanders stated in Subotica that the property of Jews (and Croats) should be confiscated. In August 1993, the president of the Jewish community in Belgrade, commenting on their relations with the Orthodox Church, stated in a conversation with Zagreb Jews that the Orthodox Church "still preaches deicide and is still streaked with anti-Semitism". Two months ago, in an Israeli newspaper, we learn that "a member of the Serbian parliament has accused the Jews of stabbing Serbia in the back".

It seems as if the "Borba" journalist was correct when he concludes his article with the following words: " Propagandistic platitudes on the non-existence of anti-Semitism in Serbia do not correspond to reality: there has always been anti-Semitism in Serbia".

It is true, history does not repeat itself in Serbia, it merely continues in a uninterrupted series...

As do certain statements made by Serbian intellectuals, for instance: "it is a propaganda lie that Serbians liquidated Jews during the Second World War and that anti-Semitism was present in Serbia before the war and is present now!" This statement was made by Dr. Ljubo Tadic�s, a professor of the Faculty of Arts in Belgrade and a Serb, and Dr. Andrija Gams, professor at the Faculty of Law, sadly, a Serbian Jew.”(Source: ://www.hic.hr/books/seeurope/014e-stefan.htm).

Mr. Serbian ambassador Miodrag Isakov in Tel Aviv to get more historical, political and diplomatic acknowledge about Albanians and Kosova, respectively Ethnic Albania in Balkans could read as following  my additional  essay which is published last year in some Albanians and English mass-media.

Lastly, my suggestion  to Serbian ambassador in Israel, Miodrag  Isakov is :- Mr. ambassador don’t try to manipulate  and speculate with Israel people, and to poise them with your Serbian genocide propaganda against Albanians because Israel and its people have sufficient  historical, political and diplomatic  knowledge about Albanians, Kosova and Albania in Balkans.

By Mehdi HYSENI, Ph.D.

HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, YES FULL INDEPENDENCE OF ALBANIAN KOSOVA!

 

ESSAY

By Mehdi Hyseni, Ph.D.*

Saturday, January 12, 2008

The Black-Colonial Serbian ResolutionAgainst Idependence of Kosova  

    *** Anatole France : “Change is the essence of life”

    *** But, the  meaning  of this  philosophical  maxim is not  apprehensible and acceptable  for Serbia and Serbs  collective   political and national paranoia.

In this  context we should understand and last  the Serbian Parliament  New Resolution on Kosova  which  reflects   the  essence of the unchanged  face  of the old-black Serbian colonialism and  imperialism  in  native territories of the Ethnic Albania in Balkans.

There’s no doubt that the new Resolution on Kosova, adopted by Serbian Parliament(December 26,2007)  has the same meaning  such as  all the other previous  resolutions, declarations and constitutions  on Kosova approved by Serbian Government and Parliament during period of 1989 to 2008.

I must emphasize that the main goal  and message of this new resolution against Kosovo’s independence is in favor of  the protection of colonial sovereignty, and age-old imperialism of the Greater Serbia on Albanian Kosova, respectively Ethnic Albania, in attempting  to “justify historical right”  and “international law”(according to the United Nations  Security Council  Resolution 1244 on Kosovo) that “ Kosovo-Metohija is Integral Part of Republic of Serbia.”(See: www.byzantinesacredart.com, “ Serbian Parliament adopts Kosovo-Metohija Resolution for Defense of state sovereignty and territorial integrity. December 26, 2007.”).

As above-metioned  the new Serbian Resolution against Kosova’s independence, we  cannot  appraise  only as  “black paper of Serbian nationalism” as  it qualified  Albanian prime minister Sali Berisha answering to a journalist question regarding  that issue at press conference  in Tirana capital city of Albania on December 27, 2007(www.lajmet.net,12.28.07) , but it is  the serial repetitious attestation of the traditional doctrine and practice of the old age-long colonialism rule of Great Serbia on Albanian Kosova, and other indigenous territories of the Ethnic Albania (not at all “Greater Albania” because of the fact that  term is embryo and invent of Great Serbia  since 1844 up today.

Ethnic Albania is not “Geater Albania”!

In an interview with Epoka e Re daily, Albanian analyst Koco Danaj rightly says that the process of reunification of the Albanians within the boundaries of a state of their own called Ethnic Albania is inevitable (perhaps even before 2013).  Ethnic Albania is not the "Greater Albania" of the political and diplomatic circles of official Serbia headed by Foreign Minister Draskovic.

Despite all the disinformation and the biased anti-Albanian interpretation of the Albanian analyst's statement on the part of Serbian Foreign Minister Draskovic and the TANJUG news agency, its terse and clear message must have been understood not only by the chauvinist and neo-colonialist circles of Serbian official politics but also by those in Montenegro, Greece, and Macedonia, because unless the problem of the colonial status of the Albanians living in these artificial states is resolved, there can be no security and peace in the Balkans.

Looking at problems in their historical, political, and juridical aspects, Danaj comes to the objective conclusion that the colonizing Serbian-Slav states (Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, and Macedonia) are "unnatural creations," that is, artificial state structures set up on territories belonging to the Albanians and to ethnic Albania.  The Albanians and their international allies know this historical truth full well.  Draskovic, the pessimistic Serbian "George Orwell," had predicted as early as 2002 the natural disintegration of artificial Greater Serbia!

Hence, Draskovic has no valid reason to oppose the predictions made by Koco Danaj, who says that within a few years (no later than 2013) all the Albanians living in the Balkans will be reunited in their natural state -- Ethnic Albania.  This statement must not be understood or interpreted according to the tyrannical bandit-like whims of the Serbian-Slav colonialist and hegemony-seeking strategy, or seen as utopian, because in the very near future the Albanians of all Balkan countries will be reunited within the borders of Ethnic Albania.  Whether Draskovic, Tadic, Kostunica, the "Black Angels" of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and the neighboring colonialist states like it or not, this is bound to happen.  In other words, the populations and territories grabbed by the Serbian, Montenegrin, Macedonian, and Greek imperialists will -- in a peaceful and legitimate manner -- be restored to Ethnic Albania, not "Greater Albania," as the distorted science, politics, and propaganda of Greater Serbia keeps saying, having concocted "Greater Albania" to further its expansionist and militarist ends in the Balkans, a fiction that, according to the needs and the political developments in the region and beyond it, is wielded as a "modern weapon" to oppose and even deny the historical truth of the ethnic, territorial, and state existence of the Albanians in the Balkans.  Only those politicians who have always been on the side of colonialist and genocidal Serbia and the Serbian-Slav "Little Entente" in its Balkan dimension can fail to see that.  Moreover, the head of Serbian diplomacy himself predicted the reunion and independence of the Albanians in their ethnic state as early as four years ago (2002), stressing: "Kosova and Metohia will become independent states, or more precisely will form Greater Albania.  As a result, Bujanovac, Medvedja, and Presevo will in effect be left outside Serbia, which means that Greater Albania will knock at Vranje's door" (www.antic.org 30 June 2002).

However, Vuk Draskovic, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, and Macedonia have no reason to be "frightened" by Koco Danaj's statement, which does not express his personal stance, but is -- directly or indirectly -- a reaffirmation of the all-Albanian national platform, an ideal of all Albanians.  This natural, legitimate, and ever-living aspiration to the defense of national and state identity, of Ethnic Albania, and of the whole of the Albanian nation in the Balkans is officially sanctioned in the Constitution of the Republic of Albania, which was adopted in 1998 and which, among other things says: "...with the centuries-long aspiration of the Albanian people to preserve their identity and achieve national unification, with the deep conviction that justice, peace, harmony, and cooperation among nations are the highest values of mankind."  (Preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Albania, Tirana, 2002, p 5.)

So no matter what Draskovic, Kostunica, Tadic, Patriarch Pavle, Bishop Artemije, or the Serbian delegation to the Vienna talks (which has warned that it will use "Greater Albania" as a "justification" to defend Serbia's colonial sovereignty (over Kosova [Kosovo] and its artificial territorial integrity) may say, this statement expresses the aims of the official strategy, policy, and science of the Republic of Albania, regardless of who may be at its head today, tomorrow, or the day after.

History, politics, propaganda and diplomacy of Serbia  using the notion “Greater Albania” in order to keep still Albanian  native territories as their a classic colonial plunder. As a matter of fact, this coherent accusation and attack in wrong address of Albanians of Kosova and the other  territories of Ethnic Albania  in face of the internatuional community (USA, OUN, UE, NATO, OSCE ect.) is the best way to protect and justify the concept of Great Serbia (1844-2008).

Moreover, that black resolution against independence of Kosova is very prejudicial in the first place for Serbia own itself   and its people who is going to lead in very wrong  and regress way, i.e. in defoliate  and  total isolation from neighbor countries of Balkans,  integrated and democratic Europe, and international community entirely, as by the time Slobodan Milosevich who in set terms rejects to endorse “Interim Agreement for Peace and Self-Government in Kosovo”, Rambouillet, France - February 23, 1999.
 

Serbia’s Parliament and Government, as well as their leaders (its president, Boris Tadic and prime minister, Voislav Kostunica) must be aware that there is no  integration within European Union without recogonation of independence of Kosova. Nations with unresolved colonial problems  such is Serbia in this case with colonial problem of Kosova cannot be any kind of legal part of European Union (EU).
/ sended to ereniku.net Sat, January 12, 2008 12:37 pm /

ESSAY

 Mehdi HYSENI, Ph.D*
30 dhjetor, 2007
 

POLITICAL-NATIONAL “SYMPHONY AND CACOPHONY” OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH VERSUS KOSOVA’S INDEPENDENCE
 

* It is crucial that Washington, the UN, the EU, and all international diplomatic organizations do not accept political talks at any level from Serbian bishop Artemije Radosvaljevic as his proclaimed role as “special state envoy” of the Republic of Serbia. The Serbian Orthodox Church (although de facto, is practicing politics on the pretense of protecting Serbian national and state interests) is not an international legal subject recognized by the international community (like states within the international system). Furthermore, de jure, it is no form of a political-state institution of Serbia, but only one religious institution.

 

As a result of the installation of the UNMIK and KFOR, Kosova de facto and de jure detached from genocidal Serbia (in accordance to Resolution 1244 of the United Nations Security Council July 10, 1999). Until December 2006, the Serbian Orthodox Church managed by Serbian bishop Artemije Radosavljevic, continued to run a propaganda campaign of defamations against Albanians and the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA).

 

In consequence of propagandistic and religious infiltrations by the Serbian Orthodox Church on the matter of the Serbian minority in Kosova under the directives and instructions of Belgrade’s government, the governing administration of the UNMIK was compromised both politically and legally from Chief Dr. Bernard Kushner to Soren Jesen Petersen. Without any valid reason, they made concessions in favor of the irrational requests of the Serbian Orthodox Church by opening talks with Belgrade in order to reach a common solution of the simulated and nonexistent problem of the rights of the Serbian minority in Kosova.

 

How has international juridical base been in accordance with the present rules and procedure of the peace-loving missions of the United Nations and the cooperation of the UNMIK with Serbia? The premature abdication of the administrators-in-chief of the UNMIK, (Bernard Kushner, Hans Hekerup, Harry Holker and Soren J. Petersen) came as a direct consequence of the political sabotaging and provocative compulsion by the Serbian Orthodox Church led by their “head-angel” Bishop Artemije Radosavljevic, who then and now has not changed his negative views on the United States and the UNMIK. Radosavljevic described it as a “piratical act of the robbery of Kosova from Serbia” upon the installation of the UNMIK and KFOR. This type of classification by Radosavljevic implies that the United States, UNMIK and KFOR are essentially now occupiers of Serbia.

 

However, it does not come as a surprise that Serbia has declared such a fickle, inhuman and unlawful assertion upon NATO’s intervention and bombardments against Serbia because of their genocidal aggression in Kosova (March-June 1999). Apart from the sly politics and the flatteries made by the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian government in order to profit unnatural allies, as well as foreign credits and investments that are to be recovered from national and ecclesiastic ash and genocidal terror of the Serbian regime of Slobodan Milosevic, the United States, NATO, KFOR, UNMIK, Albanians and Albania collectively are considered “enemies and occupiers” of Serbia, especially by the Serbian Chetnik lobby in America, and everywhere in the world. Radosavljevic’s official visit to Washington in the beginning of October 2006 should be fully comprehended within this context.

 

How a Great-Serbian “Chief Diplomat” Convinced Washington to “Close Its Mouth” About Kosova’s Independence

 

The campaign against Albanians and the independence of Kosova, carried out by the Belgrade-based government of Serbia, the Serbian Orthodox Church and advocates of Great Serbia, is developing in the same manner as when their leader Slobodan Milosevic came to power in 1989. The double-edged sword politics played by Serbia against Kosova’s independence and the KLA (currently known as the Kosova Protection Corpus) was proven during the most recent visit of Artemije Radosavljevic to Washington, which was arranged by the Serbian Chetnik-fascist lobbyists in America in conjunction with Serbia’s Belgrade-based government.

 

Indeed this was not the first time, and surely will not be the last visit by Radosavljevic to Washington. From 1999 to 2006, when Kosova came under international jurisdiction and administration of the United Nations (UNMIK and KFOR), the Serbian national-chauvinist and so-called chief diplomat, Bishop Radosavljevic, together with previous and present firebugs of Kosova (1989-2006) visited Washington at least seven times. Politically, this is evidence of the historical continuity of “symphony” and “cacophony” caused by the Serbian Orthodox Church, as it still remains the main pillar of the Serbian state power, as well as one of the most relevant political factors in Kosova.

 

Why has the bishop Artemije Radosavljevic and the Serbian Orthodox Church assumed the role of the Serbian government and politicians of Belgrade, when it is evident that the Serbian Orthodox Church is neither a governmental subject nor a political organization? Its purpose is that of a religious institution which does not hold authority to interfere in politics and state issues. This political-judicial, governmental-ecclesiastic and religious paradox is most illustrative of the argument that Serbia, since its establishment has constantly been governed by the Serbian Orthodox Church. This is the only paradoxical paradigm in the world of international government system.

 

The Serbian Orthodox Church has persistently interfered in the political “symphony” and “cacophony” at both the state and international levels. This historical coherence proves its negative, subversive role as a propagandistic, saboteur in Kosova, not only during the seven years when Kosova was under international juridical and administration mandate (1999-2006), but from the Ottoman Empire rule up until now. According to the Great-Serbian imperial goals, Serbia has everlastingly had plans to break up the territorial integrality of ethnic Albania and to exterminate Albanians altogether. They would attempt to justify their actions on the basis of being the legal owner of ethnic Albanian territories, which includes Kosova. The main merits of this appalling genocidal plan belong to the Serbian Orthodox Church and its genocidal and fundamentalist Slave clergymen.

                                                                  

                                                                                                            

The Goals of the Serbian Orthodox Church “Diplomats” in their Visit to the American State Department

 

Why did Bishop Artemije Radosavljevic choose just Washington to visit in order to pin accusations on Albanians and Kosova? The answer is very simple and clear: because Washington holds important political weight that will decide the future status of Kosova.

 

According to Artemije Radosavljevic’s statement, the main goal of the Serbian Orthodox Church’s delegation’s visit to the American State Department was to request more time on the settlement of Kosova’s issue because, as they claim, Serbians have been gaining more support, while “Muslim fascists” (a term used as an allusion to Kosova’s Albanians in a most provocative sense, and an attempt to label other Albanians in general as Muslim fundamentalists) have been losing theirs. The Serbian delegation’s address to Congress resulted in the loss of support by members of Congress for the independence of Kosova. (Las Javnosti, 04.10.2006).

 

It is clear that Radosavljevic’s initiatives, during his visit to the U.S. capital were to persuade Washington to abandon their support for the independence of Kosova. Radosavljevic’s address to the American Congress proved that there is not any political “novas” for American or Albanian diplomacy. However, in essence there is only a continual parrot relapse of requests by the Serbian Orthodox Church and Belgrade’s government in order to convince the United States that Kosova must continue to remain further as ancient colonial property of Serbia.

 

This scandalous request made by the Serbian Orthodox Church does not come as a surprise at all. It lacks any ethical, political and juridical basis. Furthermore, it was clearly a propagandistic anti-Albanian reservation made by the Serbian bishop Radosavljevic when he asserted the notion that Serbs are gaining more support by the United States while “Muslim fascists” are losing theirs.

 

Indeed, Radosavljevic’s arbitrary and vicious offenses are made in the same manner as Hitler’s fascist propaganda, however on the pretext that the Albanians of Kosova are “fascist Muslims.” These defamations indirectly also qualify Washington officials and Albanian politicians in Albania as well as throughout the Albanian diasporas as “fascist Islamites” as well.

 

On the contrary, because Great-Serbs fail to interact with rational reasoning, the legitimacy of the war cause of the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA) and NATO’s military intervention to break the backbone the Slobodan Milosevic’s genocidal military, paramilitary and police forces, is verified. The genocide committed in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosova by Serbia has revealed to the world that the fascist and terrorist aggressors in international dimensions are Serbia and the Serbian Orthodox Church. This became a well-known truth throughout Europe and the United States when the atavistic barbarism of Serbian Chetniks and Serbia occurred during the last decade of the 20th century (1992-1999) when these genocides occurred. Nevertheless, Great-Serbian politicians and the Serbian Orthodox Church led by Radosavljevic are using all means to try and eliminate these facts from Albanian and international memory and history.

  

For that reason, the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbian governmental officials need not travel to Vienna, Brussels, New York and Washington to accuse Albanians of “Islamic terrorism.” Historically, this hideous phenomenon has never been practiced by the doctrine of Albanian politics. In lieu of this political practice at the end of the 20^th century that caused the death of hundreds and thousands of Albanians, Croatians and Bosnians (1992-1999) in the Balkans, Radosvaljevic first needs to seek through his “club” staff of the Serbian Orthodox Church and in other state institutions and organs of Serbia, for the main masterminds, initiators, executioners and bearers of Slave terrorism, genocide, fascism, national-chauvinism, fundamentalism and radicalism not only in the Balkans, but throughout Europe.

 

In this context, it is enough to remember the “erased memory” of these genocides, and that Great-Serbian Radosavljevic’s mentioned terrorism has its roots in Serbia and in Serbian collective anti-Semitism, not in Kosova, Albania, nor among Albanians who for centuries (1842-2006) have been victims of Serbia’s institutional state terrorism and genocide.

 

To truly realize Serbia’s status as the cradle of local, regional and international terrorism, consider five of the most drastic cases of Serbia’s political terrorist history. Serbia, because of its “porno-nationalism” and hegemonic ideology aspires to conquer Hungarian, Croatian and Albanian territories in order to establish Great Serbia (Velika Serbija). Ever since the First World War, Serbia has organized and committed several terrorist attacks both secretly and publicly, in order to fulfill this nationalist dream, some of which include: (1) the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the successor to the Austrian throne, by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina on June 28, 1914. Soon following this terrorist attack, Austria declared war on Serbia, an action that initiated World War I; (2) the killing of Croatian deputy Stjepan Radich by Punisha Rachich of the Serbian-Croatian-Slovenian parliament on May 25, 1928; (3) the assassination of Croatian academic, Milan Shuflaj on February 18, 1931 in Zagreb; (4) the killing of Serbian Prime Minister Dr. Zoran Djindjich on March 12, 2003 committed by special “red berets” or the so-called “Zemun Clan”; and (5) the killing of Swedish Foreign Minister, Ana Lind committed by Mihajlo Mihajlovich in Stockholm on September 10, 2003.

 

At last, Serbia along with their state authorities (President Boris Tadich, Prime minister, Vojislav Kostunica, Foreign minister, Vuk Draskovich) and the Serbian Orthodox Church led by Bishop Artemije Radosavljevic, and his secretary Simeon, must first rid themselves of state and individual terrorism brought by the Great-Serbian “jihad.” It is then, when they have washed themselves of their own state terrorism that they might appeal to the American State Department to present their false witness accounts and documents simulated in order to discourage U.S. recognition of an independent Kosova under the pretense that it will transform into an “Islamic jihad state.”

 

The alleged historical, political and juridical justification that Radosavljevic and the Serbian Orthodox Church utilizes is that if Kosova becomes an independent state tomorrow, it will inevitably become an “Islamic jihad state.” This anti-Albanian propagandistic thesis is a recycled political technique used by the Serbian Orthodox Church. Together with the Serbian government the Serbian Orthodox Church, who invented this malicious thesis in disfavor of Kosova’s independence, still consider Kosova as the “cradle” and “ heart” of Serbia and Serbs, even though de facto and de jure Kosova is not, and will never more be under colonial sovereignty of Great Serbia.

 

In this sense, on October 1, 2006, the parliament of Serbia adopted a new Constitution, but with the old provision that Kosova is an integral part of Serbia. Several events accompanied the adoption of this constitution including the avoidance from the itinerary debating the draft-Resolution about Kosova’s independence by the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council (October 2, 2006); the official visit to Washington made by the Serbian Orthodox Church led by Bishop Radosavljevic; the sabotage of Serbian–Albanian negotiations about Kosova in the capital city Vienna, Austria; as well as the request of all Serbian political spectrum opposition parties and the Serbian Orthodox Church to eliminate international special envoy of the United Nations Security Council, Marti Ahtisari from his charged mission to resolve Kosova’s  final status. These events indicate that the recent eristic propaganda and diplomacy of Serbia has elevated the political temperature not only in Serbian public opinion, but amongst international relations, in order to buy time to postpone the solution status of Kosova until after holding parliamentary elections in Serbia on January 21, 2007.

 

However, the procrastination of this deadline is neither convenient for American policy nor for Albanian policy. For this reason both parties need to be maximally engaged in the solving of Kosova’s status in order to be finished by the designated deadline set by the United Nations Security Council, set to expire in 2006. This should occur independent of the of the adoption of the new Serbian Constitution, the holding of the Referendum during the last quarter of 2006, and parliamentary elections in Serbia in January 2007, because not one of these issues concerns Kosova and Albanians, but solely pertain to Serbia and Serbs. This is the internal issue of Serbia, not Kosova, nor America, nor Europe./To: info@ereniku.net/ Date: Sat, December 29, 2007 9:41 am /