Sunday, May 31, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Playmobile Castle Rock Instructions
who destroyed the Soviet population?
"Village Yastrebino. About August 13. Our troops are gone. Our lone long-range gun shot left the warehouse nevyvezennyh shells. Beat to distant villages, forest edges, occupied by the Germans. Tormenting thought - who's there? Trunk glowing. There is a growing mountain of empty boxes. There is a rare misfire. They put not far behind a rock. "
"Lt. Gen. Polenov speaks loudly, without a microphone:" The Order to check the documents of the entire population. Part of the chain will go from the western border. Other - To meet us. Sleep circuit. City bypass, they will riot. Check the documents of each. Detain without papers, and immigrants from Russia, though from the last war ... "
http://www.vestnik.com/issues/2001/0522/win/zalgaller.htm
"Village Yastrebino. About August 13. Our troops are gone. Our lone long-range gun shot left the warehouse nevyvezennyh shells. Beat to distant villages, forest edges, occupied by the Germans. Tormenting thought - who's there? Trunk glowing. There is a growing mountain of empty boxes. There is a rare misfire. They put not far behind a rock. "
"Lt. Gen. Polenov speaks loudly, without a microphone:" The Order to check the documents of the entire population. Part of the chain will go from the western border. Other - To meet us. Sleep circuit. City bypass, they will riot. Check the documents of each. Detain without papers, and immigrants from Russia, though from the last war ... "
http://www.vestnik.com/issues/2001/0522/win/zalgaller.htm
Velveeta Pasta Rotel Recipe
USA - "always cheerful Joe and helpful "
Drugs
What would be the perfect working conditions may exist in your restaurant, beware of employees that look too happy, especially the bartenders. Maybe they take drugs. Worse, they can sell drugs to your other employees. If you have such a suspicion, to dismiss them without hesitation. But if ever cheerful and helpful, Joe provides you with the bar higher earnings, then we can and go for a compromise, but should make it clear that you know his little secret. It is hoped that he would take it into account.
disgruntled bartender can say: "I'm tired of these alcoholics. I do not mind a drink. But when it comes to pour liquor down the throats of customers' bottles, but they are still sober, it's just awful. Sometimes, to get rid of the annoying customer, must be added to a cocktail or two, drop the right potions, and a couple of minutes it begins to roil, and he goes home. Gratuities are not bad, but for them, simply laid out. may sometimes clashed. Fortunately, their instigators There are so drunk that he did not pose any danger. By the end of the fifth shifts a week I feel so mentally and physically exhausted, that day I come to you. The next day I feel more rested enough. It's about time I change a job ".
" Catering. How to open and successfully manage the restaurant: Trans. from English. - M.: RosKonsult, 1999.-272 with.
ISBN 0-471-04236-6 (paper) (English) ISBN 5-89805-008-6 (русск.)
The book provides tips for beginners owners own restaurants. Author of the book - Christopher Egerton-Thomas is known as an experienced and successful leader his job restaurateur.
...
Designed for professionals working in restaurants, bars, hotel complexes, as well as for a wide range of readers.
"
Drugs
What would be the perfect working conditions may exist in your restaurant, beware of employees that look too happy, especially the bartenders. Maybe they take drugs. Worse, they can sell drugs to your other employees. If you have such a suspicion, to dismiss them without hesitation. But if ever cheerful and helpful, Joe provides you with the bar higher earnings, then we can and go for a compromise, but should make it clear that you know his little secret. It is hoped that he would take it into account.
disgruntled bartender can say: "I'm tired of these alcoholics. I do not mind a drink. But when it comes to pour liquor down the throats of customers' bottles, but they are still sober, it's just awful. Sometimes, to get rid of the annoying customer, must be added to a cocktail or two, drop the right potions, and a couple of minutes it begins to roil, and he goes home. Gratuities are not bad, but for them, simply laid out. may sometimes clashed. Fortunately, their instigators There are so drunk that he did not pose any danger. By the end of the fifth shifts a week I feel so mentally and physically exhausted, that day I come to you. The next day I feel more rested enough. It's about time I change a job ".
" Catering. How to open and successfully manage the restaurant: Trans. from English. - M.: RosKonsult, 1999.-272 with.
ISBN 0-471-04236-6 (paper) (English) ISBN 5-89805-008-6 (русск.)
The book provides tips for beginners owners own restaurants. Author of the book - Christopher Egerton-Thomas is known as an experienced and successful leader his job restaurateur.
...
Designed for professionals working in restaurants, bars, hotel complexes, as well as for a wide range of readers.
"
The Names Of Columbus Ships
Like Croatian Serbs took away property and bank deposits in 1995.
Balkan home truths: how Croatia swindled its exiled Serbs
Dragoslav Dupor and his family abandoned the Krajina peninsula 10 years ago. Ethnically cleansed, they and thousands of others have now been robbed of their homes. Vesna Peric Zimonjic reports from Zagreb on a shocking epilogue to war
Friday, 4 February 2005
It was an early summer morning, almost 10 years ago, when Dragoslav Dupor woke up to the sounds of Croatian artillery shells and terrified screams. He packed his wife, their three children, a young grandchild and his mother into an old Lada and fled. In the panic, they had no time to look back at what they were leaving in Karin Gornji, a Serb village on Croatia's Adriatic coast.
It was an early summer morning, almost 10 years ago, when Dragoslav Dupor woke up to the sounds of Croatian artillery shells and terrified screams. He packed his wife, their three children, a young grandchild and his mother into an old Lada and fled. In the panic, they had no time to look back at what they were leaving in Karin Gornji, a Serb village on Croatia's Adriatic coast.
"I had no time to think if I would ever see my home again. I knew I had a long journey ahead," says Mr Dupor.
Like more than 300,000 Croatian Serbs, the 60-year-old and his family fled to Serbia proper at the onset of the Croatian army offensive in August 1995, codenamed "Storm". In the wake of the sudden exodus, 50,000 homes were left empty.
A decade on and the Dupor family are no closer to returning to their coastal home. Instead they, along with thousands of other refugees, are the apparent victims of a scam that has salted the open wounds left by the Yugoslav wars of succession and threatened to derail Croatia's attempt to take the fast track into the European Union.
When Operation Storm had blown over, the rebellion by local Serbs against the authority of the newly independent Croatia was crushed. The bloody rebellion, launched with the direct backing of Serbia's strongman Slobodan Milosevic, cost the lives of more than 20,000 people. The offensive ended Serb resistance but it also brought an abrupt end to hundreds of years of Serb history in Croatia. Many thought that when peace finally came they would be able to return to their former homes. Today that hope is gone.
Thanks to a scheme run by corrupt officials and organised-crime syndicates, the abandoned homes were bought up by the Croatian state and sold for a profit behind their backs without the families seeing a penny.
Mr Dupor's nice little house is now home to a family of Bosnian Croats, themselves refugess of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Their new home came to them via the state-run Agency for Legal Transactions and Mediation in Real Estate (APN).
Vladimir Goatti took charge of APN last September with a mandate to reform the agency. He admits that there is a serious case to answer. "All these people were victimised twice," he told The Independent. "We [APN and the Croatian state] have to find the least traumatising solution for their problems now ... And all the people will get their property back, without any discussion, once the courts settle the matter."
The agency has been in business since 1997 but involvement of some officials in illegally trading refugees' homes was not known of until last month. It is now being described as one of the biggest Balkan swindles; a cunning new variation on the theme of ethnic cleansing.
Since its formation, APN has spent more than €200m (£140m) on buying 8,380 Serb homes in areas of Krajina or Slavonija, abandoned in 1995. According to Milorad Pupovac, the head of the Serb caucus in the Croatian parliament, much of this money found its way into private pockets. "It is estimated that between €4m and €8m were skimmed in this operation and that the money went into private pockets, both of the intermediaries and the crooked employees of APN."
Thanks to visa restrictions on Serbs crossing into Croatia - which were only relaxed last year - most transactions between APN and Serbs willing to sell their property were done through the Serbia-based, private real-estate agencies representing Croatian Serbs. The Serb owners were compelled to sign power of attorney over to agents who would then strike a deal with APN. On the surface things worked well for years. Then Mr Dupor and his friend Desimir Draca, 66, decided the time had come to sell their former homes. They quickly discovered that there was nothing left to sell. The houses they fled from had already been sold using forged paperwork with a fake power of attorney. The files on Mr Dupor's home included an authorised agreement for sale issued in 2004, but signed by his mother, Cvijeta, who died in 1997, and an uncle who died 70 years ago.
"That was the last property that we had," both Mr Dupor and Mr Draca said. "We hoped to solve our families' housing problems in Serbia." Today they both live in Krnjaca, a shabby village outside Belgrade. The seaside village homes have been swapped for makeshift shelters with no bathrooms. Since 1995, both men have tried, with little success, to eke out a living by doing odd jobs. They both regard Serbia proper as a stepmother rather than the motherland. In Serbia, the scandal rocking the refugee community has been greeted with indifference. "We are grateful to Serbia for letting us stay here," says Mr Draca. "Apart from that we got nothing from this state."
Despite the growing scandal, the hundreds of destitute families and the millions of pounds, only one arrest has been made at the agency after it was established that it sold both the Dupor's and Mr Draca's homes, allegedly without their consent. The agency is alleged to have had three employees involved in transactions with the forged papers. They were all Serbs from Croatia with dual citizenship that enabled them to travel and work without restrictions, even when the visa regime was in force. Serb police are now investigating the work of several agencies in provincial Serbia and in Belgrade as well, after a complaints line established for refugees received many calls alleging fraud.
Investigators from Croatia are expected to arrive in Serbia any day now in the clearest act of cooperation for a decade. The Croatian Attorney General, Mladen Bajic, has promised to look into the matter personally.
Property agencies initially became involved with the property of Serbs who died either in exile in Serbia or at home in Croatia, after establishing that there was no procedure for determining legal inheritance of their holdings. With forged power-of-attorney papers, they sold the homes to APN.
The forgeries were certified by courts in Serbia, but it later emerged that the seals on court documentation were also forged. Investigators found you could buy the necessary seals for a pittance at Belgrade's flea-market. Once it became clear a profit was there to be made, agencies stopped waiting for people to die, forged the papers from start to finish.
The scale of the problem became apparent when officials came to evict Serbs who thought they were living in their own homes in villages in the Krajina region of Croatia. The officials presented startled homeowners with documents they had never seen containing their own signatures on sale agreements. In many cases there were double contracts, with a smaller sum being given to the vendor living in Serbia and a larger sum being put into the contract with APN. The smaller sum was given to the vendor, but APN paid the larger sum to the agent. The difference was split between the agent and crooked officials, it is alleged.
According to diplomats, Mr Goatti was appointed to the agency when rumblings reached Zagreb that officials were involved in cross-border crime worth million of euros. All contracts have now been reviewed, several employees are under investigation and the APN office in Osijek, east of Zagreb, has been closed. Mr Goatti and Mr Pupovac admitted that the practice of working through intermediaries had left a "wide margin for financial abuse". Mr Goatti admits that as many as half of the 8,380 Serb homes sold to APN were involved in the scam. Mr Pupovac says the figure is closer to 90 per cent.
"There are reasonable grounds for [believing] that the whole business [of illegal sales of Serb homes] was a clear case of organised crime that involved the government," a senior diplomat told The Independent. "It was a refined method of ethnic cleansing."
These claims are strongly denied by Mr Goatti.
Of the 300,000 Croatian Serbs who fled the country, only 115,000 have officially returned. The real number of returnees is thought to be as low as 30,000 as the official figures include those who returned only to claim a Croatian passport and did not re-settle.
This shift is reflected in the bigger population picture that includes Serbs who elected not to flee in 1995. Only 200,000 Serbs now live in Croatia - a country of 4.5 million - compared to 600,000 before the war.
"There's a problem of sustainability of returnees," says Axel Jaenicke from the Zagreb office of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe). "Two thirds of people who decide to return have no real means of support, as they are mostly old and live in rural areas".
Refugees have found themselves unwanted by either country. Croatia has been very slow, according to the OSCE, in providing basic living conditions for returnees. Of 186 Serb villages due to get electricity back again in 2004, only 20 did. The rest remain in the dark, as they have been for a decade.
The only glimmers of hope for those who want to return come from Croatia's push to join the EU, which should impose international standards for private property and minority on the fledgling state. But with membership talks due to start in March, many EU diplomats in Zagreb seem to be unaware of the property swindle.
"[The illegal sale] is not a key issue among the EU diplomats," said one senior embassy official from an EU country on condition of anonymity. He admitted to being unaware of it himself.
Despite optimistic noises from Brussels on Croatia's progress towards democracy and the rule of law, the judiciary system is still under international observation because its impartiality is often in doubt.
Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic, fresh from re-election, admitted that the property scandal could tarnish his country's image in the promised land of the EU. "Croatia has started the reform of its judiciary and I'm convinced it can solve the problem of the illegal sale of Serb property in accordance with the rule of law," he told The Independent. "Croatia is a country where all its people, regardless of nation, should be equal before the law."
Evidently, no one told court officials in Sisak, a town less than half an hour's drive from Mr Mesic's residence in the capital. Its Serb residents found themselves the target of a rip-off that echoes many of the crimes that have persisted like an ugly hangover from the war. A bank clerk was recently pardoned although found guilty of fraud in a crime that would normally result in the sack and jail. She took tens of thousands of pounds from accounts belonging to Croatian-Serb customers between 1992 and 1995. The scheme was discovered by a local Croat who noticed that money was being siphoned off for years while he lived in Zagreb, but the district court pardoned the clerk because: "she would never have committed the crime had she not been revolted by the deeds of Serbs".
Question mark over Balkan state's EU future
By Stephen Castle in Brussels
Croatia's bid for EU membership talks was in deep trouble last night, as the UN's chief war crimes prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, said the Zagreb government was not trying hard enough to arrest a general wanted for war crimes against Croatian Serbs.
Ms Del Ponte's comments heap more pressure on the Croatian government to arrest Ante Gotovina, accused of arranging the killing of at least 150 civilians and the expulsion of 150,000 others during an operation against the Krajina Serbs in 1995.
Satisfactory co-operation with the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague is the one remaining obstacle to Croatia's ambition to launch membership negotiations with the EU on 17 March. This week, Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for enlargement, said if he had to make a recommendation on the basis of present information, "I could not recommend opening negotiations with Croatia".
Ms Del Ponte, whose judgment will be crucial, said bluntly: "The government of Croatia is in a position to arrange the transfer to The Hague." Officials believe that the general, who became a hero figure for nationalists, may be moving through the region. They say this would be impossible without a network of supporters on whom the Croatian authorities could easily exert pressure.
The EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, underlined the importance of Ms Del Ponte's judgment, saying it "will be absolutely fundamental for the final decision". Diplomats believe the talks cannot open without a development, preferably the handover of General Gotovina.
Ms Del Ponte is also frustrated that 18 indictees remain free in the Balkans, the most infamous being Radovan Karadzic, wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs and his general, Ratko Mladic. Sheadded that no one would be able to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, in which around 7,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered, with those accused of responsibility remaining at liberty.
http://www.osservatoriobalcani.org/article/articleview/3891/1/44/
Balkan home truths: how Croatia swindled its exiled Serbs
Dragoslav Dupor and his family abandoned the Krajina peninsula 10 years ago. Ethnically cleansed, they and thousands of others have now been robbed of their homes. Vesna Peric Zimonjic reports from Zagreb on a shocking epilogue to war
Friday, 4 February 2005
It was an early summer morning, almost 10 years ago, when Dragoslav Dupor woke up to the sounds of Croatian artillery shells and terrified screams. He packed his wife, their three children, a young grandchild and his mother into an old Lada and fled. In the panic, they had no time to look back at what they were leaving in Karin Gornji, a Serb village on Croatia's Adriatic coast.
It was an early summer morning, almost 10 years ago, when Dragoslav Dupor woke up to the sounds of Croatian artillery shells and terrified screams. He packed his wife, their three children, a young grandchild and his mother into an old Lada and fled. In the panic, they had no time to look back at what they were leaving in Karin Gornji, a Serb village on Croatia's Adriatic coast.
"I had no time to think if I would ever see my home again. I knew I had a long journey ahead," says Mr Dupor.
Like more than 300,000 Croatian Serbs, the 60-year-old and his family fled to Serbia proper at the onset of the Croatian army offensive in August 1995, codenamed "Storm". In the wake of the sudden exodus, 50,000 homes were left empty.
A decade on and the Dupor family are no closer to returning to their coastal home. Instead they, along with thousands of other refugees, are the apparent victims of a scam that has salted the open wounds left by the Yugoslav wars of succession and threatened to derail Croatia's attempt to take the fast track into the European Union.
When Operation Storm had blown over, the rebellion by local Serbs against the authority of the newly independent Croatia was crushed. The bloody rebellion, launched with the direct backing of Serbia's strongman Slobodan Milosevic, cost the lives of more than 20,000 people. The offensive ended Serb resistance but it also brought an abrupt end to hundreds of years of Serb history in Croatia. Many thought that when peace finally came they would be able to return to their former homes. Today that hope is gone.
Thanks to a scheme run by corrupt officials and organised-crime syndicates, the abandoned homes were bought up by the Croatian state and sold for a profit behind their backs without the families seeing a penny.
Mr Dupor's nice little house is now home to a family of Bosnian Croats, themselves refugess of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Their new home came to them via the state-run Agency for Legal Transactions and Mediation in Real Estate (APN).
Vladimir Goatti took charge of APN last September with a mandate to reform the agency. He admits that there is a serious case to answer. "All these people were victimised twice," he told The Independent. "We [APN and the Croatian state] have to find the least traumatising solution for their problems now ... And all the people will get their property back, without any discussion, once the courts settle the matter."
The agency has been in business since 1997 but involvement of some officials in illegally trading refugees' homes was not known of until last month. It is now being described as one of the biggest Balkan swindles; a cunning new variation on the theme of ethnic cleansing.
Since its formation, APN has spent more than €200m (£140m) on buying 8,380 Serb homes in areas of Krajina or Slavonija, abandoned in 1995. According to Milorad Pupovac, the head of the Serb caucus in the Croatian parliament, much of this money found its way into private pockets. "It is estimated that between €4m and €8m were skimmed in this operation and that the money went into private pockets, both of the intermediaries and the crooked employees of APN."
Thanks to visa restrictions on Serbs crossing into Croatia - which were only relaxed last year - most transactions between APN and Serbs willing to sell their property were done through the Serbia-based, private real-estate agencies representing Croatian Serbs. The Serb owners were compelled to sign power of attorney over to agents who would then strike a deal with APN. On the surface things worked well for years. Then Mr Dupor and his friend Desimir Draca, 66, decided the time had come to sell their former homes. They quickly discovered that there was nothing left to sell. The houses they fled from had already been sold using forged paperwork with a fake power of attorney. The files on Mr Dupor's home included an authorised agreement for sale issued in 2004, but signed by his mother, Cvijeta, who died in 1997, and an uncle who died 70 years ago.
"That was the last property that we had," both Mr Dupor and Mr Draca said. "We hoped to solve our families' housing problems in Serbia." Today they both live in Krnjaca, a shabby village outside Belgrade. The seaside village homes have been swapped for makeshift shelters with no bathrooms. Since 1995, both men have tried, with little success, to eke out a living by doing odd jobs. They both regard Serbia proper as a stepmother rather than the motherland. In Serbia, the scandal rocking the refugee community has been greeted with indifference. "We are grateful to Serbia for letting us stay here," says Mr Draca. "Apart from that we got nothing from this state."
Despite the growing scandal, the hundreds of destitute families and the millions of pounds, only one arrest has been made at the agency after it was established that it sold both the Dupor's and Mr Draca's homes, allegedly without their consent. The agency is alleged to have had three employees involved in transactions with the forged papers. They were all Serbs from Croatia with dual citizenship that enabled them to travel and work without restrictions, even when the visa regime was in force. Serb police are now investigating the work of several agencies in provincial Serbia and in Belgrade as well, after a complaints line established for refugees received many calls alleging fraud.
Investigators from Croatia are expected to arrive in Serbia any day now in the clearest act of cooperation for a decade. The Croatian Attorney General, Mladen Bajic, has promised to look into the matter personally.
Property agencies initially became involved with the property of Serbs who died either in exile in Serbia or at home in Croatia, after establishing that there was no procedure for determining legal inheritance of their holdings. With forged power-of-attorney papers, they sold the homes to APN.
The forgeries were certified by courts in Serbia, but it later emerged that the seals on court documentation were also forged. Investigators found you could buy the necessary seals for a pittance at Belgrade's flea-market. Once it became clear a profit was there to be made, agencies stopped waiting for people to die, forged the papers from start to finish.
The scale of the problem became apparent when officials came to evict Serbs who thought they were living in their own homes in villages in the Krajina region of Croatia. The officials presented startled homeowners with documents they had never seen containing their own signatures on sale agreements. In many cases there were double contracts, with a smaller sum being given to the vendor living in Serbia and a larger sum being put into the contract with APN. The smaller sum was given to the vendor, but APN paid the larger sum to the agent. The difference was split between the agent and crooked officials, it is alleged.
According to diplomats, Mr Goatti was appointed to the agency when rumblings reached Zagreb that officials were involved in cross-border crime worth million of euros. All contracts have now been reviewed, several employees are under investigation and the APN office in Osijek, east of Zagreb, has been closed. Mr Goatti and Mr Pupovac admitted that the practice of working through intermediaries had left a "wide margin for financial abuse". Mr Goatti admits that as many as half of the 8,380 Serb homes sold to APN were involved in the scam. Mr Pupovac says the figure is closer to 90 per cent.
"There are reasonable grounds for [believing] that the whole business [of illegal sales of Serb homes] was a clear case of organised crime that involved the government," a senior diplomat told The Independent. "It was a refined method of ethnic cleansing."
These claims are strongly denied by Mr Goatti.
Of the 300,000 Croatian Serbs who fled the country, only 115,000 have officially returned. The real number of returnees is thought to be as low as 30,000 as the official figures include those who returned only to claim a Croatian passport and did not re-settle.
This shift is reflected in the bigger population picture that includes Serbs who elected not to flee in 1995. Only 200,000 Serbs now live in Croatia - a country of 4.5 million - compared to 600,000 before the war.
"There's a problem of sustainability of returnees," says Axel Jaenicke from the Zagreb office of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe). "Two thirds of people who decide to return have no real means of support, as they are mostly old and live in rural areas".
Refugees have found themselves unwanted by either country. Croatia has been very slow, according to the OSCE, in providing basic living conditions for returnees. Of 186 Serb villages due to get electricity back again in 2004, only 20 did. The rest remain in the dark, as they have been for a decade.
The only glimmers of hope for those who want to return come from Croatia's push to join the EU, which should impose international standards for private property and minority on the fledgling state. But with membership talks due to start in March, many EU diplomats in Zagreb seem to be unaware of the property swindle.
"[The illegal sale] is not a key issue among the EU diplomats," said one senior embassy official from an EU country on condition of anonymity. He admitted to being unaware of it himself.
Despite optimistic noises from Brussels on Croatia's progress towards democracy and the rule of law, the judiciary system is still under international observation because its impartiality is often in doubt.
Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic, fresh from re-election, admitted that the property scandal could tarnish his country's image in the promised land of the EU. "Croatia has started the reform of its judiciary and I'm convinced it can solve the problem of the illegal sale of Serb property in accordance with the rule of law," he told The Independent. "Croatia is a country where all its people, regardless of nation, should be equal before the law."
Evidently, no one told court officials in Sisak, a town less than half an hour's drive from Mr Mesic's residence in the capital. Its Serb residents found themselves the target of a rip-off that echoes many of the crimes that have persisted like an ugly hangover from the war. A bank clerk was recently pardoned although found guilty of fraud in a crime that would normally result in the sack and jail. She took tens of thousands of pounds from accounts belonging to Croatian-Serb customers between 1992 and 1995. The scheme was discovered by a local Croat who noticed that money was being siphoned off for years while he lived in Zagreb, but the district court pardoned the clerk because: "she would never have committed the crime had she not been revolted by the deeds of Serbs".
Question mark over Balkan state's EU future
By Stephen Castle in Brussels
Croatia's bid for EU membership talks was in deep trouble last night, as the UN's chief war crimes prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, said the Zagreb government was not trying hard enough to arrest a general wanted for war crimes against Croatian Serbs.
Ms Del Ponte's comments heap more pressure on the Croatian government to arrest Ante Gotovina, accused of arranging the killing of at least 150 civilians and the expulsion of 150,000 others during an operation against the Krajina Serbs in 1995.
Satisfactory co-operation with the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague is the one remaining obstacle to Croatia's ambition to launch membership negotiations with the EU on 17 March. This week, Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for enlargement, said if he had to make a recommendation on the basis of present information, "I could not recommend opening negotiations with Croatia".
Ms Del Ponte, whose judgment will be crucial, said bluntly: "The government of Croatia is in a position to arrange the transfer to The Hague." Officials believe that the general, who became a hero figure for nationalists, may be moving through the region. They say this would be impossible without a network of supporters on whom the Croatian authorities could easily exert pressure.
The EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, underlined the importance of Ms Del Ponte's judgment, saying it "will be absolutely fundamental for the final decision". Diplomats believe the talks cannot open without a development, preferably the handover of General Gotovina.
Ms Del Ponte is also frustrated that 18 indictees remain free in the Balkans, the most infamous being Radovan Karadzic, wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs and his general, Ratko Mladic. Sheadded that no one would be able to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, in which around 7,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered, with those accused of responsibility remaining at liberty.
http://www.osservatoriobalcani.org/article/articleview/3891/1/44/
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Truck Bed Slide Container
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Как writes the Yerevan newspaper "Third Force", "killing hundreds of civilians, destruction of towns and villages, mass deportations of people from ages familiar places - not only Saakashvili regime's crimes committed during the South Ossetian operation ".
As the correspondent of IA REGNUM, the publication argues that on the orders of the President Mikheil Saakashvili in the rear of the Georgian army have been deployed so-called "barrage units, designed to shoot retreating soldiers. "Detachments These were formed from the Georgian Interior Ministry special forces personnel, led by one of the "hawks" of the Georgian government, notorious Vano Merabishvili. The latter was famous for his passion to "prevent" all sorts of "coup" and a special operation to capture the "enemies of Georgia", which systematically "discover" it in neighboring states, in their own country "- said the source. According to the newspaper, Merabishvili in a narrow range tries to justify himself before his colleagues, blaming all the country's president, and last, the same data, tends to shift responsibility to the head of the Interior Ministry, "which became unmanageable. "One way or another, but a massive fire, open detachments Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia on the retreating troops of the Georgian army, caused a real panic among the latter. To the extent that many of them preferred to flee to neighboring countries to escape the physical abuse of the Ministry of Internal Affairs "- reports Newspaper "third force". One Georgian reservist, had survived a fire detachments, and passed the Armenian border, along with a colleague with relatives in Yerevan. September 18, he gave an interview to Armenian TV channel "ALM", which made a sensational details of the atrocities of the Georgian law enforcers. "The authorities deceived us originally. Said in Tbilisi that will carry us to the teachings of Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Gori. Planted in the car and we left. But before reaching Gori, a column suddenly turned on Tskhinvali. We were brought to the artillery positions, and later we were just a few kilometers from Tskhinvali, where there was our special forces. At nightfall, earned our artillery systems "Grad". Immediately after the bombing of the city went riot. After some time, began retaliatory firing. Ossetians direct fire shot straight at the positions where we stood. It was scary, scary. Gave the team go forward. Where to go? With whom fight? Who shoots, shoots at someone? In the pitch darkness no one knew. Us, untrained, neobstrelyannyh, carried on the teachings, and thrown into a real meat grinder, a real war. Among the guys started to panic, no one thought of the beginning, we started to beat a hasty retreat, many simply fled. And here it has begun shooting from behind - says Georgian soldier, whose name Armenian television concealed for security reasons. A journalist's question, "Who opened fire on the retreating Georgian soldiers? "interlocutor" ALM ", said:" detachments Merabishvili Merabishvili. This special unit MIA, they and opened fire on our guys. Who else could shoot? As in the 40-ies detachments stood in the rear and fired at her as to prevent them from retreating. The same situation we had. As soon as people began firing Vano, we fell to the ground and crawled in all directions. Everyone was thinking how to survive and escape from this hell. My friend and I barely escaped from there and got to the nearest villages. There's got rid of the form, and burned it, and asked the villagers' clothes. Then the trail through the woods, came to Armenia, where another relatives live. To them and moved. What to do next, do not know yet. Rest a bit, gather my thoughts out there and decide what to do "- said the Georgian reservist. "Monologue of a Georgian soldier did not surprise me - said the former vice-mayor of Akhalkalaki (regional center of mostly Armenian-populated Javakheti region - REGNUM) and the former head of the Popular Movement Javakh Norayr Tepoyan. - He, like us, like all citizens of Georgia - a victim of the current regime. In our country, established this criminal dictatorship that does not write the laws, there is no universal moral norms. Expect them to think about the fate of the citizens of Georgian nationality - Top naivete. Proved by history: the one who tramples on the rights and freedoms of other nations, in the end turns despot and a tyrant to her. Saakashvili's regime - vivid confirmation of this ".
" Georgian reservist rights: it was in the military adventure against South Ossetia in the Armenian-Georgian Javakheti command "suddenly" decided to conduct a military exercise - says a resident of Akhalkalaki, the local intellectuals Arakel Maysuryan. - The calculation is simple: under the guise of training exercises carried out a general mobilization among the Armenian population, then "teaching" smoothly distributed до Гори, откуда их быстро перебрасывают к осетинским рубежам. По нашим сведениям, тот же сценарий готовился и в районе Квемо-Картли, населенном преимущественно Azerbaijanis. That is, Tbilisi, as in the past, trying to decide whether the breakaway regions - Abkhazia and South Ossetia - the hands of Armenians and Azerbaijanis. So to speak, to combine "business with pleasure: get rid of some minority hands of others. But only one message of mobilization caused such outrage in dzhvahkskih Armenian, Georgian authorities quickly rejected the idea, rightly fearing the opening of the third, this time the Armenian-Georgian front not to mention Azerbaijan, as an attempt to mobilize and Marneuli caused no less resentment among citizens of Azeri. Yes, and a five-day rout of Army Saakashvili has confused all the cards of the regime. After that, spend some mobilization is simply meaningless ".
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Как writes the Yerevan newspaper "Third Force", "killing hundreds of civilians, destruction of towns and villages, mass deportations of people from ages familiar places - not only Saakashvili regime's crimes committed during the South Ossetian operation ".
As the correspondent of IA REGNUM, the publication argues that on the orders of the President Mikheil Saakashvili in the rear of the Georgian army have been deployed so-called "barrage units, designed to shoot retreating soldiers. "Detachments These were formed from the Georgian Interior Ministry special forces personnel, led by one of the "hawks" of the Georgian government, notorious Vano Merabishvili. The latter was famous for his passion to "prevent" all sorts of "coup" and a special operation to capture the "enemies of Georgia", which systematically "discover" it in neighboring states, in their own country "- said the source. According to the newspaper, Merabishvili in a narrow range tries to justify himself before his colleagues, blaming all the country's president, and last, the same data, tends to shift responsibility to the head of the Interior Ministry, "which became unmanageable. "One way or another, but a massive fire, open detachments Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia on the retreating troops of the Georgian army, caused a real panic among the latter. To the extent that many of them preferred to flee to neighboring countries to escape the physical abuse of the Ministry of Internal Affairs "- reports Newspaper "third force". One Georgian reservist, had survived a fire detachments, and passed the Armenian border, along with a colleague with relatives in Yerevan. September 18, he gave an interview to Armenian TV channel "ALM", which made a sensational details of the atrocities of the Georgian law enforcers. "The authorities deceived us originally. Said in Tbilisi that will carry us to the teachings of Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Gori. Planted in the car and we left. But before reaching Gori, a column suddenly turned on Tskhinvali. We were brought to the artillery positions, and later we were just a few kilometers from Tskhinvali, where there was our special forces. At nightfall, earned our artillery systems "Grad". Immediately after the bombing of the city went riot. After some time, began retaliatory firing. Ossetians direct fire shot straight at the positions where we stood. It was scary, scary. Gave the team go forward. Where to go? With whom fight? Who shoots, shoots at someone? In the pitch darkness no one knew. Us, untrained, neobstrelyannyh, carried on the teachings, and thrown into a real meat grinder, a real war. Among the guys started to panic, no one thought of the beginning, we started to beat a hasty retreat, many simply fled. And here it has begun shooting from behind - says Georgian soldier, whose name Armenian television concealed for security reasons. A journalist's question, "Who opened fire on the retreating Georgian soldiers? "interlocutor" ALM ", said:" detachments Merabishvili Merabishvili. This special unit MIA, they and opened fire on our guys. Who else could shoot? As in the 40-ies detachments stood in the rear and fired at her as to prevent them from retreating. The same situation we had. As soon as people began firing Vano, we fell to the ground and crawled in all directions. Everyone was thinking how to survive and escape from this hell. My friend and I barely escaped from there and got to the nearest villages. There's got rid of the form, and burned it, and asked the villagers' clothes. Then the trail through the woods, came to Armenia, where another relatives live. To them and moved. What to do next, do not know yet. Rest a bit, gather my thoughts out there and decide what to do "- said the Georgian reservist. "Monologue of a Georgian soldier did not surprise me - said the former vice-mayor of Akhalkalaki (regional center of mostly Armenian-populated Javakheti region - REGNUM) and the former head of the Popular Movement Javakh Norayr Tepoyan. - He, like us, like all citizens of Georgia - a victim of the current regime. In our country, established this criminal dictatorship that does not write the laws, there is no universal moral norms. Expect them to think about the fate of the citizens of Georgian nationality - Top naivete. Proved by history: the one who tramples on the rights and freedoms of other nations, in the end turns despot and a tyrant to her. Saakashvili's regime - vivid confirmation of this ".
" Georgian reservist rights: it was in the military adventure against South Ossetia in the Armenian-Georgian Javakheti command "suddenly" decided to conduct a military exercise - says a resident of Akhalkalaki, the local intellectuals Arakel Maysuryan. - The calculation is simple: under the guise of training exercises carried out a general mobilization among the Armenian population, then "teaching" smoothly distributed до Гори, откуда их быстро перебрасывают к осетинским рубежам. По нашим сведениям, тот же сценарий готовился и в районе Квемо-Картли, населенном преимущественно Azerbaijanis. That is, Tbilisi, as in the past, trying to decide whether the breakaway regions - Abkhazia and South Ossetia - the hands of Armenians and Azerbaijanis. So to speak, to combine "business with pleasure: get rid of some minority hands of others. But only one message of mobilization caused such outrage in dzhvahkskih Armenian, Georgian authorities quickly rejected the idea, rightly fearing the opening of the third, this time the Armenian-Georgian front not to mention Azerbaijan, as an attempt to mobilize and Marneuli caused no less resentment among citizens of Azeri. Yes, and a five-day rout of Army Saakashvili has confused all the cards of the regime. After that, spend some mobilization is simply meaningless ".
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