TRANSNATIONAL FAX N.22

Information bulletin on the campaigns of the Transnational Radical Party

Issue #22 7 August, 1998

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* Editor's Office: Mihai Romanciuc - Marco Perduca, Via di Torre Argentina 76, 00186 Rome (IT)

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* Printing and Distribution: Alberto Novi (B)

* Published in English, Italian, French, Russian, and Spanish.

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ACTION ALERT ON KOSOVO

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The situation in Kosovo is getting worse and worse on a daily basis. Among the things that we, as a transnational organization can do, there is the public denounce of what has been, and still is, going on in Yugoslavia in general and in Kosovo in particular. The widespread and systematic oppression perpetrated by an authoritarian National-Communist regime against millions of people, a policy that denies the fundamental human rights and civil liberties of Kosovars and Serbs as well.

We must end all this, we must make the international community realize that if European States and the US will act like eight years ago, another violent bloody war will kill thousands of people in Kosovo and will allow, once again, the perpetrators of these heinous crimes to go unpunished.

We ask you to support our initiative signing our appeal to have President Milosevic indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for genocide and crimes against humanity. We ask you to circulate it among interested and concerned people and to contact your parliamentarian and have him endorse it.

Time is running out, we must act now!

The text of the appeal can also be downloaded in English, French, Italian and Spanish at: www.radicalparty.org

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WE MUST OVERTHROW THE REGIME OF BELGRADE:

REQUEST TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE PROSECUTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE CRIMES COMMITTED IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA TO INDICT PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC.

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Ten years ago, in Kosovo, at the 'Blackbirds Camp', President Milosevic launched to the world his platform of intolerance and hatred, his promises of war, death and destruction.

Since then, the former Yugoslavia, which has suffered Miloscevic's policy of destruction and ethnic cleansing, has experienced a dramatic barbarity situation that the world now knows.

From Vukovar to Dubrovnik, from the concentration camps of Prijedor and Omarska to Sebrenica, his ethnic cleansing policy has been applied everywhere, through the most violent and inhuman means.

During these 10 years, Kosovo has not been spared. A "soft" but systematic repression, imposed by the Belgrade regime, has deprived two million Albanians from their rights; two million individuals, who - nevertheless - still want to live in the country that they consider their own.

Today in Kosovo, like yesterday in Croatia or Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milosevic has launched his policy of intolerance and hatred, violence and blood.

We must overthrow the National-Communist regime of Belgrade. We must end the aggression of the Belgrade regime against Kosovo. We must give the possibility to Serbs to establish democracy and the rule of law in their country. For these reasons we must stop President Milosevic. We must neutralize him, once for all. We must indict for genocide and crimes against humanity the person who, for the last years, has been the 'big director' and the instigator of the Balkan tragedy. We must do it now!

Otherwise any possibility of eventual freedom and democracy for Kosovo, as for Yugoslavia itself, for the Kosovars as well as for the Serbs will be lost. If we do not act now we will miss an opportunity for justice, the rule of law and the international community as a whole.

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