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Roundup: Former Kosovo Albanian terrorist sentenced
Former member of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, Djelos Krasniqi, was sentenced to 7 years in jail after a mixed court of European and ethnic Albanian separatist judges in Kosovo demonstrated sufficient proof that he kidnapped another ethnic Albanian, Pasko Lulaj in 1999.
The fate of Lulaj is unknown after he was kidnapped from his village od Dobibare near Djkovica.
Krasniqi’s sentence was determined by the Serbian law that existed in 1999 when he committed the crime.
“The Court Council concluded that Djelos Krasniqi kidnapped Pasko Lulaj but there is no conclusion what happened to the victim after Krasniqi kidnapped hi,” said Italian judge Galo.
Lulaj family members testified against Krasniqi.
Krasniqi was also accused of murdering Serb civilians but the court could not find enough evidence of those murders.
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Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac has discussed a bilateral military cooperation with the officials from Turkey, Egypt, Czech Republic, Pakistan, Algeria and Kenya in Istanbul. There is great interest in the products of the Serbian defense industry, and this year is expected to be just as productive for Serbia as the previous one, regardless of the global economic crisis said Sutanovac. Sutanovac is heading the Serbian Defense Ministry delegation which is staying in Istanbul at the International Defense Industry Fair, the Eurasian meeting, with the attendance of several hundreds of exhibitors from 45 countries and delegations from 73 states.
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Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki said on Tuesday evening that the good relations between Serbia and Macedonia have a long tradition and that the arrival of Macedonia’s ambassador to Belgrade would further improve the cooperation between the two countries. “The relations between Macedonia and Serbia have a long tradition and what happened after the recognition of Kosovo independence I see as part of our diplomatic past,” Milososki said.
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Croatia’s investigator of the murder of the news publisher that was allegedly ordered by a Serbian mobster has committed suicide, report the Croatian media. The 35-year old T.F. shot himself in the head at the end of his shift. Police did not specify the motive for the suicide. Meanwhile, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, have welcomed the arrest of the Serbian mobster Sreten Jocic who, alleges the police, is implicated in the murder of the Croatian publisher. Mesic said that Jocic’s arrest proves that the Serbian and Croatian police are cooperating and that such cooperation is the only way to stand up to the organized mafia which operates regardless of the state borders.
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Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and economy Minister Mladjan Dinkic has called for greater U.S. support to Serbia and Eastern European countries in Washington. Dinkic met with the head of the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. Kerry voiced the desire to aid Serbia in the process of joining the World Trade Organization.
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Bosnian Muslim students in the mixed Bosnian town of Stoce have taken down the Christian cross, which was later broken then dumped in a garage near the school. The Stoce school serves students in the segregated format – ethnic Croatians in the morning, while Bosnian Muslims are served in the afternoon. Some time ago, Bosnian Muslim students were stoning the student gathering place and the Croatian flag. Police is investigating but has not found the culprit.
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CEOs of two leading Austrian banks in the Balkan region have warned that the worst of the global crisis is yet to hit the region. “Eastern Europe is experiencing more of bad loans due to the financial crisis,” said Herbert Stepic from the Raiffeisen Bank. Both have said that they expect EU help if the crisis hits.
April 29, 2009
SERBIANNA
Well they sentenced one person just to seem that they were rightous, and that they didnt care about sides, and only about truth. However we see in the political side that they first of all support the murders in Albania, Croatia and parts of Bosnia. E.g Hasim Tachi how is know the so called prsident of Kosovo. He is a well know war criminal in Krajina and Kosovo. He was relased by NATO, even though he had a life sentence of genocide. This is no justice in the world, only though God’s law can justice be serviced, not by the Hague or NATO or someone!
I guess the Albanian contingent here is finding it rather difficult to comment on this particular event.
The reason he was sentenced at all is because of a crime against another Albanian. Please show us where Albanians are paying for their crimes against the Serbs.
As all people that have hurt others Krasniqi got what he deserved. I see that Serbianna always says stories that are against all but Serbians. I haven’t seen the news about the convicted Serb policemen that killed 50+ Albanians and buried them on police grounds in Belgrade. I guess the Serbian contingent here is finding it rather difficult to comment on THAT particular event. Right DamageInc? Oh wait its not even in these news. Hmmm….
Therightone,
disagreements?
There have been a lot of Kosovo Albanians killed by the KLA and you know it.
If they didn’t do what the KLA asked they killed their own, and not a few, then they blamed it on the Serbs, this is being going on sinds the eighties.
@ Mike L
You dont know how to read?.
MikeL, until Ceku and Thaci are in prison, I would suggest that you simply go find a cigarette truck to hijack and enjoy your status as class A criminals.
Mikel, if you want to read about Albanian victims please go to “New Kosova Repot”. There you will read all against the Serbs as much as you want. When you’ve had enough of that, please ask them to write something about Serbian victims and see how far you get.
KLA = Khomeini & Laden’s Army
Peggy,
Victims are victims Serb or Albanian. There is no distinction of them in my book. Noone is an angel. I want to see all sides of the story not just one’s view. I don’t like New Kosova Report nor Serbianna too much just because of their one sided reports. I’d love to see some news source within the Serb or Albanian camps that are for mutual talk, respect, reconciliation, living etc. But there is none. All I see in most articles and comments especially in the above sources, there is no mutual respect for each other. And I realized that most posters are diaspora young children that the only thing that they know is what they are told by the respective propagandas. Miscommunication between sides has never brought any good fruit.
Ardian King of whatever.
That is what the Hague court was set up for to get Serbs,you clown.
Our general is not hiding I just had coffee with him.
Adrian- King of nothing, Hague is not a credible court. It has discredited itself a lot time ago. Your evil leaders will get their justice in another court. Just wait and see.
Peggy, at least The Hague has successfully sentenced 161 war criminals for the crimes they have committed and acknowledged. This is a bit of justice for those who have lost their love ones.
at least The Hague has successfully sentenced 161 war criminals for the crimes they have committed and acknowledged
Daniel
Bulls**t, if that was the case, then Clinton, Albright, Bush should be locked for life.
My post not going through.
dony, but fake Veljkovic’s is….
Veljkovic.
I noticed that,but he does not fool anyone.
War criminals don,t forget Blair.
Or Holbrooke, Solana and there are many more….
Veljkovic, Dony and Peggy — you are mixing freedom fighters with state terrorism (read: Serbian state!).
There is no justice till Serbia and Russia get back on their feet. Till then while the west is in somewhat power there will be no justice in the world!!!! Zivela Srbia i Rusija!!!!!!!! Kosov je Srbija!!!!!!!!
Peter UK.
You are having a laugh,The USA has been carrying out State terror since the end of WW2 the attack on the FRY was state terror i don,t know what you call it International law was broken that criminal gang NATO broke it,s own charter and the Nurenburg Protocol that was set up at the end of WW2 was broken,how is that for state terrorism?
Paul is a Albanian, freedom fighters my a**,
just like they are freedom fighters in Irak, Afghanistan…pleaseget real.
Gjelosh Krasniqi is chatolic
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To this very day I can’t believe the United States chose to give its support to a group of thugs like the KLA and then call them “freedom fighters”.
Phil,
we can’t believe that they stole our Holy land and made it into a criminal state.
phil angleides
You can,t believe the US gave support to KLA thugs,well i can because they have been supporting Fascist thugs since the end of WW2,in fact sometimes i think they were on the wrong side in WW2.
They came to “rescue” west Europe only when the Germans were already losing that’s why, and to make profit.
Veljkovic, you are right profiteering was one of the reasons. They persuaded Churchill to agree to give up the British Empire in return for their support with the intention being for them to create their own empire.
Off course they did Mark.
They came to Britain in ww2 and they are still here.
At least they didn’t bomb you. They bombed us three times, and we helped them in ww2 saved a few pilots that were shot down by the nazi’s. Then they steal our country.
That’s the thanks we get.
Give them time,they have bombed everyone else.
I still can’t get over that they used the BIG ONE on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, what a discrase they are.
Well some say it ended the war with Japan quicker, the jury is still out on that one,and some people think it was a warning to the USSR.
But still, what a cowardly act. Well they are good at bombing from the sky, on ground is another story. Pathetic.
That was the big mistake Milosovic made in Kosovo he should have called the bluff of NATO because as i have said in the past i don,t think they would have had the stomach for a protracted ground war,public opinion in the west was turning against NATO bombing,the Russian foreign minister at the time had a meeting with Milosovic and told him he was on his own and they would do nothing to help,as we know a drunken clown was the president of Russia at the time now it would be a different ball game.The Serb military should have stayed in Kosovo.
Come on Serbianna post my comment please
http://www.kosovotimes.net/analysis/202-letter-from-a-former-enemy-you-were-right.html
By Russell Gordon
Living in Serbia often reminds me of when I was a recent arrival in Mexico City some years ago. I had moved to Mexico for a four year stint as a journalist, and later, served as an intelligence and strategic policy analyst.
Each day that I would peruse the local press, I was aghast at the prevalence of corruption, ineptitude, incompetence, and smugness ? qualities that were so commonplace as to at times be paraded as sources of national pride. And as time went on, and I acquired deeper personal experience, I saw that these reports only hinted at what lie beneath. Regrettably, the same has come true of my almost three years living in Serbia.
In 2006 I was an intelligence and strategic policy analyst in Kosovo, writing under the pen-name V. Groginsky. Among my activities, I was involved in acquiring the database of the KPC (formerly UCK) and bringing it to Serbia. At that time I believed that the Serbs were exclusive victims of international policy bias in the region, and that their claims were the most valid among the conflicting parties in the Balkans. Never having lived in the Balkans, I was under the impression that recent events in the Balkans were not of their own making, but were forced upon them.
For all the years that I defended the Serbian nation, I never understood why their former neighbors and countrymen would choose warfare and bloodshed to secede from them. Until I lived in Serbia; now I do.
While my efforts to analyze the facts on the ground, and ?follow them wherever
they may lead?, were well-intentioned, I failed to see these events within the greater context ? to see them within the larger picture. While refuting false media accusations and policy biases are of themselves noble pursuits, the fact is that I neglected one essential point: it is simply impossible for a non-Serb to have justice, equality or normal socio-economic relations within the Serbian nation.
What constitutes a legitimate and legal secession of territory I will leave for the legal experts and jurists to opine on. Certainly there are states which have not recognized Kosovo?s independence due to their own ongoing separatist insurrections, careful to not embolden or encourage their own local adversaries that warfare plus persistence equals legitimacy and recognition.
But if Kosovo is not due rightful independence, what is due in lieu? A return to Serbia?s control? A dismantlement of the functioning Albanian-majority state that was first created as parallel institutions in response to institutionalized discrimination and inequality? If so, does that mean that 90-plus percent of the populace should simply bow their heads, humbly take off their national identity to hang in the closet of lost hopes, and become unequal Serbian citizens again?
A case might be made in Serbia?s favor if the Serbian system and society was more functional than the Albanian-majority one. But Serbia?s klepto-bureaucracy is so blatant that one security consultant stated that ?Serbian politicians are ?only [busy occupied] fighting over money and power.? One American diplomat was more succinct when asked if Belgrade?s streets were safe, she quipped that most crime in Serbia ?is committed by politicians…?
The essential conflict is cultural at heart. Former US President George Bush was accurate in describing the Albanian people as hard-working. And work they have to build a functioning state
from the ruins of war. One regional observer waxed eloquent about the Serbs, describing their characteristic indifference to professional pursuits as ?leisure-oriented.? Beneath the issue of ethnicity, territory, religion, and competing economic interests lies the fact that there are those who want to build a state, and those who behind nationalistic rhetoric couldn?t have cared less for its administration and management, then or now.
The people of Kosovo ? like Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia ? fought and won their independence from a nation — a people ? with whom it was simply impossible to have justice or equality from. To further delay recognition of that hard-won independence is to maintain the lie that life under Serbian rule would be better, legitimate, or just. This is simply not the case.
More than 50 nations now recognize Kosovo?s independence, a de-facto reality given regardless of the international diplomatic arena?s whims. The Republic of Kosovo has serious problems, but those inadequacies and idiosyncrasies are little different from those of other nations in the region, and indeed most world powers have their human rights problems and organized criminal elements as well.
Kosovo?s leaders are all too aware that despite back-room assurances from some among the Belgrade leadership that their Serbian counterparts? international and public protestations are merely for domestic consumption, and that they de-facto accept the new State, that the Belgrade regime is duplicitous at best. The current leadership in power in Belgrade is even more corrupt and cynical than the former ruling socialists, and would spare no effort to destabilize Kosovo and life for Albanians and others there if they found it in their economic or political interests. Plus ca change, plus ce la meme chose: the more things change, the more they stay the same.
I would like to wish you and all the people of Kosovo the best of luck with your new lives in a new country, and I hope that you can build a State and society truly based on democracy, human rights and the rule of Law. I can assure you that after 15 years of involvement with the Serbian nation, and almost 3 years of living here in Serbia, they certainly have not.
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http://www.kosovotimes.net/analysis/202-letter-from-a-former-enemy-you-were-right.html
Serbianna, you put Russell’s anti Serb link on very page but my comments aren’t comming through?????