Translated "Avante!" article by Ângelo Alves, member of the Political Commitee and of the International Department of PCP

The “pseudo – state” of Kosovo

There are images which value is worth a thousand words, and the USA and European Union flags in the streets of Pristine are clear symbols of what really happened on the 17th February: the consummation of a USA, European Union and NATO’s plan to amputate Serbia of one of its provinces - in fact the most important one, on what concerns the geo-strategic point of view along with the petrol and gas transport routes – and to create in Kosovo a protectorate, a pseudo–State, under the protection and administration of the NATO powers, at the service of their interests. It is never too much to recall that the secession of Kosovo is an integrate part of the whole imperialist plan to dismantle Yugoslavia. A plan which achieved its most critical point in March 1999 (the beginning of the 78 days of the criminal assault against Yugoslavia) in a process of establishment of a whole machine of instigation to ethnic violence together with propaganda and construction of lies, which aimed to devilish Slobodan Milosevic - assassinated in prison, when the truths revealed by his defence in the ICT for the former Yugoslavia, became insupportably embarrassing for the NATO powers. A plan which will be pointed out in history by some of the greatest non-information operations - such as the forged massacres imputed to he Serbian forces and performed in fact by the UCK - and by the hideous crimes committed against the peoples of the Balkans, such as the bombings with impoverished uranium ammunitions, in result of which the peoples of the region are still suffering. A plan of the NATO’s main imperialist powers which, armed, trained and gave coverage to the UCK, a real terrorist mafia that, under the protection of about 15.000 NATO soldiers that are occupying Kosovo up to the present, has transformed the territory into a drug and weapon traffic paradise and an ethnic powder barrel.

A plan, which one must not forget, was conducted, during its crucial phase, by the “democrat” president Bill Clinton, supported by the social – democrat governments in Europe and tolerated by some left forces disoriented and intoxicated by the anti–Milosevic speech. The secession of Kosovo, reintroduces new dangers in the region and in the European continent, elevating to the maximum the risk of new military conflicts and opening up the “Pandora Box” of borders stability in the European continent. But this event is even more serious if we centre our attention in a major question: the “ independence “ of the province, besides being illegal, under the light of international law, makes of Kosovo the first “State” in the world and in History which “foundation” was decided, conducted and monitored by a political–military alliance of offensive nature – NATO. Moreover the process of “independence” introduces a new and strange concept: the so called “limited sovereignty”. This process and concept is no more than a process of creation of a colony of the modern times, which territory was conquered by force from a sovereign and internationally recognized country and which administration will be of the responsibility of the colonizer powers. A criminal process under international law in which the European Union --- the same one of the democracy speeches, the human rights and the international law - has a central role. An European Union, together with the USA and NATO that “shows all its breed“, of a real imperialist power, aggressive and unlawful.

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