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Date: 06 Jun 1996 21:08:46
Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat"
From: Ivo Skoric
Subject: Croatia alert/update
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From: "Ivo Skoric"
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International Freedom of Expression eXchange Clearing House
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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.
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Ivo Skoric **************************** iskoric@igc.apc.org
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From notes@igc.apc.org Fri Jun 7 03:14:47 1996
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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
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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
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Date: 06 Jun 1996 20:23:34
Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat"
From: Edward Agro
Subject: Re: SREBRENICA MASSACRE
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|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
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