KOSOVO - GERMAN IMPERIALISM
TO DEFY UN?
Report by the German Journalists of www.german-foreign-policy.com
dated 24th August 2005 Translated by Edward Spalton for www.freenations.freeuk.com
INTRODUCTION (By Freenations) Once again we witness the repeat
in the 21st century of the ambitions and aggression of Nazi Germany
and fascist Europe. The same powers (Germany and Austria) who pulverised
the Balkans in the First and Second World Wars have destroyed Yugoslavia
again. Again they have been welcomed (as "the fascist powers"!)
by Albanians whose country they founded in 1913 and whose Muslim expansion
today knows no bounds - Kosovo today Macedonia tomorrow. Once again
the hand of Bertelsmann, the Nazis propaganda publisher and eurofederalist
manipulator, is at work.
At least in 1914 and 1939 Britain and America knew what side to
back - our Serb ally against "Greater Germany" and the Third
Reich. Today we have destroyed that ally and put its leader on trial
with trumped up charges while rewarding fascist statelets and Muslim
terrorists. As in the last war when Soviet Communism was the critical
power in the defeat of German imperialism so today in the Balkans it
could be China's UN veto!
BERLIN/BELGRADE/PRISTINA (German Foreign Policy Report) The
international controversy about the separation of Kosovo from Serbia
is intensifying. Negotiations have been arranged for this autumn under
strong German pressure. Observers believe that a shift in the discussions
as well as a possible “exit strategy” for the United Nations
is possible. As a result, it is likely that insistence on human rights
standards in Kosovo will be dropped. Whilst the German Bertelsmann
Foundation is pressing for the separation of Kosovo and the creation
of an EU protectorate, Belgrade is trying to win over the People’s
Republic of China. Beijing could safeguard the territorial integrity
of Serbia by using its veto in the UN Security Council, if the German
strategy for secession was advanced. These disagreements mark the last
phase of the disintegration of former Yugoslavia, which had its beginnings
in the early Nineties with decisive German participation. Justification
in the media for the attack on Belgrade is the topic of a recently published
study of the German press. This analyses the significant part played
by media manipulation in the destruction of Yugoslavia.
The Austrian political expert, Helmut Kramer, believes that the negotiations
may well move in the direction of amputating Kosovo from Serbia. He
believes it is possible that they could lead to an exit strategy for
the UN, which “could lead to a situation like Afghanistan”.
(1) In the background of the discussions are German demands, which contradict
existing UN Resolutions and aspire to the secession of Kosovo. In a
strategy paper the Bertelsmann Foundation proposes that the EU should
set up a “semi-sovereign” Kosovo, “if Kosovo Albanians
and Serbs are not in a position to create a lasting resolution to the
Kosovo conflict”. Futhermore the EU should take over the command
of the KFOR troops “not only to become the most important international
player in Kosovo but also to lend weight to its foreign and security
policy”. Brussels must be prepared for a blockade in the Security
Council and be ready “to recognise Kosovo unilaterally” (2).
These recommendations are a re-run of the German coercion by which the
diplomatic recognition of Croatia was compelled at the beginning of
the Yugoslavian wars.
DEMONISATION
The German role in the territorial destruction of Yugoslavia is the
topic of a media analysis, recently published by the Berlin Information
Centre for Transatlantic Security (BITS) (3). The study analyses the
reporting of the British Times” and the “Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung” (FAZ) from the beginning of 1991 to the end of 1995. Whilst
the Times is credited with “balance at the beginning” which
ended with the militarization of the conflict, the FAZ “gave a
decidedly negative image both to the recent history of Yugoslavia and
to Yugoslavia in its death throes. To this end, the FAZ used images
of fascist analogues and mobilised anti-communist resentments in manipulating
reports of massacres, according to the study.
PRIMITIVE FRAMES OF REFERENCE
The author of the BITS study sees a further characteristic in the FAZ
reporting of its attributions to ethnocentric causes. The paper not
only accepted the “simplification of points of difference along
ethnic lines” supported by “nationalist forces in Yugoslavia”
but had set out to deepen and multiply these “primitive frames
of reference”. In connection with this, the paper had “inverted
the norms of international law” and “used the principle of
self-determination selectively for its argument”. The writer noted
a similar conversion to the ethnocentric cause by the Times.
ORDERS AND DECORATIONS
The author also demonstrates the deep partisan commitment of the FAZ
in the conflict from the “grateful gestures of the presidents of
Slovenia and Croatia”, who gave state approval to the Frankfurt
paper. Victor Meier, a long time South East Europe correspondent for
the FAZ, received the highest decoration of the land, “The Order
of Freedom”, from the President of Slovenia. The FAZ cartoonist
Fritz Behrend, who is known for his aggressive style, is being considered
for an order and was also decorated with the title “Danica Hrvatke”
(Dawns of Croatia). According to BITS, the highly partial stance of
the FAZ was “not without influence on the political decision makers
of Germany “. (4)
WAR PROPAGANDA
The results of the study correspond to the findings of already existing
investigations into the legitimisation of the attack on Yugoslavia of
4 March 1999. Brigadier General Heinz Loquai confirmed the manipulation
by the media of the “Racak Massacre” in a lecture on the background
to the war. It was, he said, “ a definite “setting of the
points toward war in Yugoslavia” (5) According to Loquai, well-known
journalists ignored inconvenient results of investigation by the independent
medical forensic specialist, appointed by the court (6). The war against
Belgrade was substantially legitimised by this type of reporting. It
not only marked a milestone on the forced march by the Red/Green coalition
to remove the taboo on the military but prepared the way for the amputation
of Kosovo from Serbia, which Berlin will attempt to negotiate this autumn.
A FOUNDING ACT
In memory of the preparations of German foreign policy , which sees
the war against Belgrade as “a founding act for a Europe of people
and human rights”, german-foreign-policy.com is preparing excerpts
from a government statement by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. The statement
was received with universal applause by almost all MPs in the German
parliament.
References
(1) “Situation wie in Afghanistan”; Der Standard .2005-08-24
(2) Bertelsmann: Europa vor der Suedosterweiterung – Strategiepapier
zur Konferenz “ Suedosteuropa auf dem Weg in die Europaeische Union”
der Bertelsmannstiftung. Zagreb 3-4 Juni 2005; www.cap.lmu.de/download/2005/2005_Strategie_SOE_erweiterung.pdf
(3) And Dr Alexander Neu: Die Jugoslawien-Kriegsberichterstattung der
Times und FrankfurterAllgemeinen Zeitung - Ein Vergleich www.bits.de
(5)
Heinz Loquai: Medien als Weichensteller zum Krieg. Vortrag auf dem
Friedensratschlag 6/7 Dezember in Kassel www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/rat/2003/loquai.html.S.
auch Heinz Loquai: Weichenstellung fuer einen Krieg
(6)
“Many victims were mutilated: skulls broken, faces shot to pieces,
eyes poked out. One man was beheaded" was - according to Loquai
- one report from the Frankfurter Allgemiene's Correspondent Matthias
Rueb despite reports from doctors which asserted the opposite. But,
said Loquai "the media exaggeration of the manner of death and
mutilations was designed to demonstrate to best effect the special bestiality
of the murderers".
