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From notes@igc.apc.org Fri Jun 7 03:14:37 1996 Received: from igc7.igc.apc.org (192.82.108.35) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Fri, 7 Jun 1996 03:14:43 -0500 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (cdp.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.1]) by igc7.igc.apc.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA18969; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 21:49:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: 06 Jun 1996 21:08:46 Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat"From: Ivo Skoric Subject: Croatia alert/update To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: <199606070253.TAA22322@igc3.igc.apc.org> X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 101 From: "Ivo Skoric" **** ****** ****** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ***** ***** *** ACTION ALERT ** ** ** ** ** AND UPDATE **** ** ****** ** ** International Freedom of Expression eXchange Clearing House ________________________________________________________________ Date: 5 June 1996 CROATIA: Government threatens to sue independent weekly "Globus"; offices of independent weekly "Panorama" reopened ORIGINATOR: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), New York **New case plus update to IFEX alert dated 8 May 1996** The ruling Democratic Party of Croatia (HDZ) has recently announced that it intends to sue the independent weekly "Globus". HDZ leaders cited an article in the weekly's 21 May 1996 edition written by editor-in-chief Davor Butkovic. The article stated that the HDZ had drafted a list of opposition politicians whom it planned to publicise as public enemies. On 30 May, party leaders issued a public statement denouncing the article's "speculation and lies" and announced they would sue the newspaper. Meanwhile, on 9 May, the offices of the independent weekly "Panorama" were reopened. On 25 April, police forcibly shut down the weekly's offices, ostensibly because the offices did not meet "ecological" standards. However, journalists at the weekly said the shutdown was most likely linked to recent articles in "Panorama" which were critical of President Franjo Tudjman's leadership (see IFEX alert). RECOMMENDED ACTION: Send appeals to authorities: -expressing fear that the threat to sue "Globus" is a further step by the Croatian government to rein in the local independent press as elections near -urging them to ensure that the HDZ does not follow through with its threat to sue "Globus", and to ensure that any other efforts to suppress the independent Croatian media are immediately halted APPEALS TO: His Excellency Franjo Tudjman President of the Republic of Croatia Zagreb, Croatia Fax: +385 1 443 075/444 532 Mr Ivica Mudrinic Minister of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Communication Prisavlje 14 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Fax: +385 1 611 0691 Minister of Internal Affairs Mr Ivan Jarnjak Ministar Ministarstvo za unutraSnje poslove Republike Hrvatske Savska cesta 39 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Fax: +385 1 443 715 Please copy appeals to the originator if possible. For further information, contact Amanda Onion (x101) at CPJ, 330 Seventh Ave, New York NY 10001, U.S.A., tel:+1 212 465 1004, fax:+1 212 465 9568, e-mail: aonion@cpj.org The information contained in this alert is the sole responsibility of its originator. ******************************************************* * IFEX CLEARING HOUSE * * 490 Adelaide St. W. #205 Toronto ONT M5V 1T2 CANADA * * tel: 416-703-1638 fax: 416-703-7034 * * e-mail: ifex@web.apc.org * ******************************************************* Received: from web.net by email.hrw.org (SMTPLINK V2.10.05) ; Wed, 05 Jun 96 13:28:22 EST Return-Path: Received: by web.net via send-mail with stdio id for balkanactions; Wed, 5 Jun 96 13:21:02 -0400 (EDT) (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.12.0 #30.1 built 5-jul-95) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 5 Jun 96 13:21:02 -0400 (EDT) From: ifex@web.net (Clearing House) To: allactions@web.net Subject: Croatia alert/update Cc: balkanactions@web.net, iva@gse.it Ivo Skoric **************************** iskoric@igc.apc.org 212.369.9197 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 1773 Lexington Ave, NYC NY 10029, USA http://www.peacenet.org/balkans/ From notes@igc.apc.org Fri Jun 7 03:14:47 1996 Received: from igc7.igc.apc.org (192.82.108.35) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Fri, 7 Jun 1996 03:14:51 -0500 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (cdp.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.1]) by igc7.igc.apc.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA06534; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 12:02:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: 06 Jun 1996 10:56:56 Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat" From: felipe@matem.unam.mx Subject: Re: http://mediafilter.org/SJ/Pages/Liberation of Krajina To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: <1378052632-31211@mediafilter.org> In-Reply-To: <1404087440-998691@mediafilter.org> X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 34 He leido sus paginas en Internet, tambien he leido algunos documentos sobre la destruccion de importantes bibliotecas. Lamento mucho que esto haya sucedido. Que la experiencia que han obtenido de la guerra la asimilen para que en un futuro tengan presente el riesgo que se cierne sobre este tipo de centros cultura- les y desarrollen un programa para proteger estos recintos de la calamidad de la guerra. Lamento tambien mucho la perdida de vidas humanas, principalmente aquellas que de una u otra forma eran inocentes y victimas de las pasiones politicas del antiguo estado yugoslavo. Felipe Meneses Tello Biblioteca. Instituto de Matematicas. UNAM. Mexico From notes@igc.apc.org Fri Jun 7 03:15:30 1996 Received: from igc7.igc.apc.org (192.82.108.35) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Fri, 7 Jun 1996 03:15:31 -0500 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (cdp.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.1]) by igc7.igc.apc.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA12529; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 20:47:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: 06 Jun 1996 20:23:34 Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat" From: Edward Agro Subject: Re: SREBRENICA MASSACRE To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: <199606070322.UAA23366@igc3.igc.apc.org> In-Reply-To: <1378228775-346961@mediafilter.org> X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 62 ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- |Orig. From: iskoric@igc.apc.org |Orig. Subject: Re: SREBRENICA MASSACRE |Orig. Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 02:30:48 Thanks for this info. With the old due respect for the great guys in Globalvision, the Srebrenica story is surviving another interesting twist lately: not only that the U.N. have been complicit, but also the U.S. might have been complicit (which by default made U.N. complicit) with the Serb advance on Srebrenica. Mladic took Srebrenica after Croatian Army took Pakrac. It was as if 'somebody' gave a signal to both Milosevic and Tudjman that if Serbs give up the struggle in Croatia, they'd be generously rewarded with territory in Bosnia. When Srebrenica fell, a wave of outrage with Serbs suddenly rolled through the Western (particularly American) press. The U.S. started closing in on its Western allies asking for NATO air-strikes. Loosing on of its "Safe Havens" the U.N. took up the blame (well, that is why we have them, don't we). Organizations like Safe Haven Relief funded by the likes of Freedom House just spawned out of nowhere; CIA took nice sattelite pictures of every move Serbs did in Srebrenica.. ..and didn't release them for three weeks, all the way until The New York Times printed that two F-18s helped Croatian forces to subdue Krajina. Eventually this series of events discredited the U.N. operations in former Yugoslavia, established the U.S. as the only rightful leader (which is exactly the role the U.S wanted to play in this as in any other game), and blatantly showed Balkan leaders their place in the game (when Holbroke seated them for dinner in a hangar at the Dayton Air-Force Base just next to the parked F-117 and a few cruise missiles). It did work, so we should not be screaming foul now. It is just unfortunate that the same mindgames will now apply to the implementation of the civilian part of the Dayton Agreement, which is still headed by Europeans, so the U.S. is not really interested in making it work (yet both Holbroke and Christopher wrote in major newsmagazines how 'all three parties to the Dayton agreement are not enough committed to implementation of civilian accords', without much sympathy for Carl Bildt). Of course the European powers pursue their own agendas which have nothing in common with the interests of Bosnian people, too. The cold war between the U.S. (with large and affluent, voting Croatian emigre community) and the U.K. (which ruling party highest ranking members received generous contributions from Slobodan Milosevic's proxies), did not damage no houses in either the U.S. or the U.K. (or women raped, or kids massacred, or where are those floods of refugees from London or New York?). In such wonderfully enacted "New World Order" the U.N. can be expected not to work: they are what we made of them. ivo Ivo Skoric **************************** iskoric@igc.apc.org 212.369.9197 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 1773 Lexington Ave, NYC NY 10029, USA http://www.peacenet.org/balkans/ _______ Ed Agro Peacenet Balkans Desk - SPE/PISMA Mail - People Finder Service pnbalkans@igc.apc.org - eagro@igc.apc.org eagro@bronze.lcs.mit.edu