Subject: TRANSNATIONAL - part 1 of 5
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EUROPE WILL EITHER DIE OR BE REBORN IN SARAJEVO
BOSNIA: IMMEDIATE MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN UNION!
by Olivier Dupuis
Dear friends,
In this humble newsletter, now almost our only means of communication, we
will try to give you an update on the economic situation of the party and
on our campaigns.
First of all, however, I want to recall once again the tragic death of a
dear friend, Izet Muhamadagic, the Vice-Minister of Justice of the Republic
of Bosnia Hercegovina. As you have heard on the news, Izet died together
with the Foreign Minister and six other people when their helicopter was
shot down by the Serbo-Bosnian troops of Karadzic and Mladic.
Izet's story as a Radical was unusual and intense. In 1991, he sent off the
enrollment form, cut out of "The New Party", from Bosanski Novi. A few
months later, he was taken hostage by the Serbo-Bosnian troops, who
threatened every day to kill him. From Budapest, Brussels, and Zagreb, we
began to bombard the police authorities with telephone calls and faxes
signed by Marco Pannella and other European deputies. A few months later he
was released. Saved, according to his jailors, by "Europe".
After a period spent in Zagreb, Izet went back to Sarajevo. It was here
that he believed he could make a contribution to his country's difficult
and tragic resistance. And, with him, we had been working hard in the last
few months on the campaign for Bosnian membership of the European Union. In
April, Izet and Sandro Ottoni met the Prime Minister and other Bosnian
ministers in Sarajevo to explain and perfect our initiative, which we hoped
would be supported by the government of Bosnia Hercegovina.
We are still trying, as we write, to continue this battle even though we
are without funds and ever closer to having to close down our activities.
Izet is still with us and with the memory of the things we have done or
tried to do together during these tragic years. For this reason, together
with a group of European deputies, we have decided to gather all our forces
and ideals in Cannes on 26 June, when there will be a meeting of the heads
of government of the member countries of the European Union. We will ask
Europe to abandon its current policy of negotiation with criminals,
reminiscent of the 1930s, and to take sides with the victims of aggression,
with justice and international law, by formally inviting Bosnia to join the
European Union.
>From Lisbon to Moscow, from New York to Bucharest, from all over the world,
you can give your support to this battle for the survival of Bosnia
(without forgetting our other battles, for justice and international law,
for a free Tibet, for a new international drug policy), by joining the
transnational and transdivisional Radical Party and setting up militant
groups in your home cities.
Help us to build up the resources we need. There is no time to be lost.
