Archive for 2008/11 :

Radical Islamists arming their selves in Balkans

Posted by AriRusila on 30/11/08

Radical Islam is again in headlines thanks for recent attack in Mumbai.  Already during battle discussion had started about foreign connections of terrorists.  Besides  Pakistan also British and Bosnian connections were mentioned.  The question is mostly related to Muslim immigrants living in West.  As far as Bosnia or western Balkans is concerned the core problem [...]

UN adopts 6-point plan for Kosovo - bye bye independence experiment

Posted by AriRusila on 28/11/08

A week ago I wrote here an article “UN deciding over plan for Kosovo – which plan to select?”. On the table was a 6-point plan negotiated between UN and Serbia, and a 4-point plan, a declaration by Kosovo’s separatist government. Now we know the answer – 6-point plan was selected unanimously in UNSC. Next [...]

War crime selected – organ harvesting from Serbs by KLA

Posted by AriRusila on 26/11/08

One of the most macabre recent war crime is harvesting organs from captured Serbs by Kosovo Albanian guerrillas during Kosovo conflict 1998-99.  The story was kept undercover by western mainstream media until last April 2008 before former UN war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte opened her mouth.    New reportages was made e.g. by German Der [...]

The two Images of Transdnistria

Posted by AriRusila on 25/11/08

When I sometimes in my blogs wrote about Transdnistria (officially  Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic – PMR) the most common feedback has been following:
 “Transnistria is a refuge for the criminal organizations being engaged in the illegal sale of weapons, in the contraband and in the money laundering, its also a rogue state.”  One could conclude that for [...]

Depleted Uranium from Nato bombs killing people in Balkans

Posted by AriRusila on 23/11/08

I was just reading an article “Nato Still killing People in Kosovo” related to an issue of use depleted uranium during Nato bombings against Serbia. This topic was discussed years ago when e.g. I was working in Kosovo, however any proof then did not came to my hands.  I also do not [...]

Global Trends 2025

Posted by AriRusila on 22/11/08

I just took a glance at very interesting new report published on 21st November 2008 by the United States National Intelligence Council - Washington’s main intelligence body.  The report, Global Trends 2025: A World Transformed, is published every four years to give U.S. leaders insight into looming problems and opportunities. This agency of agencies, [...]

UN deciding over plan for Kosovo – which plan to select?

Posted by AriRusila on 21/11/08

Some 5.000 to 10.000 Kosovo Albanians protested on Wednesday in Pristina against the UN plan on the reconfiguration of Unmik. Last week, the United Nations put forward an amended 6-point plan for the deployment of the EU’s EULEX mission. The United Nations’ six-point plan, negotiated between the UN Secretary General, Serbia and the European Union [...]

Croatia’s and Serbia’s ‘Genocide’ Case To Proceed

Posted by AriRusila on 19/11/08

Last century was marked deep ethnic tensions between Croats and Serbs. These tensions erupted most violent way during WWII and Yugoslavia’s breakup wars early 1990s. Now this brutal past is going on tables of international courtrooms while Croatian lawsuit against Serbia and Serbia’s countersuit will be heard in Haague.
ICJ
The International Court of [...]

Grumbling in puppet state

Posted by AriRusila on 18/11/08

In Kosovo fifteen movements and different non-governmental organizations have announced a demonstration for Wednesday (19/11/2008) in Priština against the six-point Serbia-UN plan, which basic idea is to agree EULEX mission deployment to Kosovo. ” We invite all citizens of Kosovo to join us an in a demonstration and oppose in a peaceful way the [...]

UN struggling with Kosovo’s parallel structures

Posted by AriRusila on 16/11/08

New Kosova Report -  a non-profit information portal about Kosovo/a  - got hold a secret facsimile from the former UNMIK chief Joachim Rücker sent to the United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guéhenno on 15 October 2007.  The letter describes how the Serb government was increasingly building parallel structures/services while the province was [...]

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