P R E S S R E L E A S E
19 April 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
What Really Happened in Kosovo-Metohija?
Where: 125 McKenzie Hall, 12th & Kincaid , University of Oregon Contact: xenspirit7@msn.com; americansforserbia.blogspot.com
Serbians in America have been quiet about the atrocities being foisted upon them in their homeland and here in the United States. All of this is being done in the name of Western Democracy. In Kosovo they are being divested of their homes , their livelihood , their culture, their religion. In the United States they are depicted as butchers and oppressors. But what is the true story? Is Milosevic the beginning and the end of what there is to know about the United States attempt to take Kosovo-Metohija away from Serbia and give it to the very people the U.S. is fighting in the Middle East?
On the 27th of April, 7:00pm at the University of Oregon, 125 McKenkie Hall. Gregory Elich will be speaking about the effect of United States' foreign policy toward Kosovo-Metohija which induced the U.S. to violate International Law and the UN Charter in order wage a 78- day U.S. led and illegal NATO Bombing of the province. According to Mr. Elich, author of Strange Liberators, events leading up to the carpet-bombing are not as cut and dry as the administration has led its citizens to believe. Furthermore, after the United Nations Mission In Kosovo established itself in the region, attacks against the Serbian Roma and Jewish minorities increased whereby the Serbian minority in Kosovo have seen their rights eroding to worse than they were during the regime of Communist President Josip Broz Tito, when he allowed the Albanians to take over lands and city administration functions, severely limiting Serbians the right to free use of their language, their culture, their religion, even to obtain jobs. Also during this time was implemented the forced removal of Serbians from their homes while Albanians from Albania were encouraged by the Tito regime to move in and take what they wanted. US foreign policy is only continuing this oppression against the Serbian peoples.
But few people know this and Serbian-Americans have become the victims of a type of social genocide in the United States: no one wants to hear their side of the story.
P R E S S R E L E A S E
00 April 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: xenia lynn teresa williams
americansforserbia.blogspot.com
Nonetheless, an opportunity presents itself for a balance report of the events leading up to the NATO invasion of Kosovo-Metohija. In the forward to Mr. Elich's book Strange Liberators Michael Parenti writes:
"Using a wealth of historic evidence and revelatory analysis, deep research and eye-witness investigation, Gregory Elich treats what lawyers call the 'hard cases': Yugoslavia, Croatia, Zimbabwe, North Korea, and certain untouched questions about Iraq, issues that have been most thoroughly misrepresented in the corporate media and even by political commentators and activists who claim to be on the left. Elich wastes no time with genuflections to the dominant ideology. Instead, he sticks to the awful facts and glaring truths that compose the underlying reality of the U.S. global empire. He ties in his deeply informed case studies to the wider issues of U.S. imperial policy, the broader questions of war and peace, and the general crisis that faces the entire world and the planet's ecology itself. Thereby he performs a most valuable service to persons all across the political spectrum."
Michael Parenti, author of The Culture Struggle, The Assassination of Julius Caesar and To Kill a Nation
Recently Senator Gordon Smith co-sponsored Senate Resolution S RES 135 which along with H RES 36 will allow the United States to recognise Kosovo Independence unilaterally in the case that the UN Security Council votes to reject such a move. What will Oregon's role be in this issue? Eugene students and residents will now have an opportunity to hear the other side, and then to make an informed decision.Who: Gregory Elich What: What Really Happened in Kosovo-Metohija When: 27 April 2007, 7:00pm
Where: 125 McKenzie Hall, 12th & Kincaid , University of Oregon Contact: xenspirit7@msn.com
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