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Djonbalic Afrim - 9 agosto 1998
How many victims have to be in one grave to be considered as a masse grave: 50, 500, or 5000? The case of Rahovac and the courage of the Austrian journalist of Die Presse which has reported about suspicions that in Rahovac are buried 567 dead bodies in mass graves, turned the Belgrade regime into the open war against the journalist, and the term "suspicions" are qualified as "pure lies" while the observes of the EU cannot confirm neither these of 567 dead civilian bodies according to "Die Presse" or Belgrade version of 50 buried "terrorists".

The civilians are often 90% of the victims in today modern wars, that is the claim of the experts, but that the terror against the civilians mixed with the high "interests of the state" in the front of international community are to be worried.

It's enough to look in the past, the "new democratic regime of Kabila" in the name of the interests of the state have massacred, killed and tortured thousands of civilians, even that international community or independent NGO's have proves of mass graves in ex Zaire, all their attempts to investigate are stopped. Or, ironically, they appear to be qualified as "high interests of Kabila" or "High interests of Milosevic" in front of international community.

So, ironically, international standards have to be changed about mass graves. The burning of the houses and entire villages, war against civilian populations, the purely ethnic cleansing, are qualified as the war against terrorists. And after all we are still asking ourselves: how come the dictators like Kabila or Millosevic... are still there?

Last week, I met my family (my mother and my father) in Tirana, Albania, after 8 years of separation. My father asked me for financial help, because he is unemployed (simply because he does not support Milosevic, or Milosevic does not like him, take as you like) even though he has two degrees with university diploma. After all I asked him ironically, why does he need that money, given that international community will take necessary steps to deal with the guys like Milosevic. He answered simply that till then he couldn't imagine to end up in some mass grave or rubbish holes in Prishtina, like in Rahovac, while the international community is having the dispute with Belgrade and Belgrade with international media about the numbers in it. This was the answer of my 60 year old father, who was always peaceful (you can imagine my pain when I so him going back from Tirana to Prishtina)

Back to Geneva, I understand that the Swiss government has decided to block the financial founds of Albanians from Kosova, under the pretext that these money are destined to buy arms, and the total value of the money is 8 million Swiss Francs. Even though this Kosova NGO's have enough legal proves that these money are for humanitarian aid (as you can read in local newspapers) and all their activities, the decision finally seems to be reconsidered. Ironically, I ask myself and the people in the UN Subcommission, what you can do with 8 million Swiss Francs, regarding weapons, maybe, but in this case Albanians need more, looking the balance of the equipment with Belgrade, more than 200 MIGs 21 and 29, 600 of tanks, hundreds of war helicopters, etc...

Without pretending to be military expert or supporter of the war (I am against all the wars), I ask myself, and my father too, how come he does not believe in this FRY. The next answer was that all this military machinery was build after his 35 years of work in the former Yugoslavia, today this machinery is turning against the tax payers. This happened in Bosnia, Slovenia, and Croatia. The arms embargo imposed by the international community on the FRY is questionable not only for the existing military equipment of the FRY, but also for non-existence of the "No Fly Zone" that would prevent Milosevic to repair his aircrafts somewhere in Russia, China, or why not in Libya (he can freely do it today), similarly as Saddam was doing just before the Gulf war in Zagreb. Preventing Milosevic to so, after 6 months his war aircrafts machinery would be a mess of old iron.

Whatever happen in the future of Kosova (final status etc...), can somebody reassure me, or my father, that he will not find himself somewhere as he describes in "rubbish mass grave holes", somewhere in the suburb of Prishtina, or give him some advice? After all, there is enough evidence from the past in Bosnia, while the international community cannot be unite on the ironically standards "what is the mass grave" (what is important: numbers or evidence of the crime?), leaving the guys like Milosevic or Kabila to work on their scenario. Meanwhile there are temptations to bring them into the justice, one day, yes, but we have to work hard on it all together before the another "rubbish day" eventually can come tomorrow.

 
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