From: Connie Fogal <cfogal@netcom.ca>
Date: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 11:08 PM
PRESENTS
SATURDAY, JUNE 5TH, 1999
400 P.M.
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY (north side)
Hear what Chossudovsky has learned in his research of the fact that planning for the imposition of GROUND TROOPS INTO YUGOSLAVIA has been going on for years.
CHOSSUDOVSKY is an ECONOMIST from the UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, and EXPERT ON THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE BALKANS. He is the author of many articles on the Balkans and books including THE GLOBALIZATION OF POVERTY, (Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms), Third World Network, as well as his forthcoming book, THE ALBANIAN CRISIS, Abele Group Publishers, Rome.
"Macro economic reforms imposed by Belgrade's external creditors since the late 1980's had been carefully synchronized with NATO's military and intelligence operations. Kosovo's fate had already been decided. Resulting from the IMF’s deadly economic medicine, the entire Yugoslav economy had been spearheaded into bankruptcy. The Rambouillet agreement largely replicated the model of colonial administration and military occupation imposed on Bosnia under the Dayton Agreement.
In Kosovo, the economic reforms were conducive to the concurrent impoverishment of both the Albanian and Serbian populations contributing to fuelling ethnic tensions. The deliberate manipulation of market forces destroyed economic activity and people's livelihood creating a situation of social despair.
The fate of Kosovo had already been carefully laid out prior to the signing of the 1995 Dayton agreement. NATO had entered an unwholesome marriage of convenience with the mafia. Freedom Fighters were put in place, the narcotics trade enabled Washington and Bonn to finance the Kosovo conflict with the ultimate objective of destabilizing the Belgrade government and fully recolonizing the Balkans. The destruction of an entire country is the outcome. Western governments which participated in the NATO operation bear a heavy burden of responsibility in the deaths of civilians, the impoverishment of both the ethnic and Serbian populations and the plight of those who were so brutally uprooted from towns and villages in Kosovo as a result of the bombings." Michel Chossudovsky
Sponsors committed to date:
Ad Hoc Committee to Stop Canada’s Participation in the War in Yugoslavia, Canada Cuba Friendship Association, Canadian Auto Workers, Canadian Action Party, Canadian Latin-American Association, Centre for Socialist Education, Coalition of Solidarity With People's In Struggle, Committee of Solidarity with Peoples in Struggle, Communist Party of Canada, Communist Party of Chile (Vancouver), Connolly Association, Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee, East Indian Workers Association, Green Party of Canada, Serbian-Canadian Community, Stop the Bombing Initiative, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Contacts: George Gidora 254- 9836 (work) ggidora@home.com; Connie Fogal 687 0588 (work) or 872 2128 (home) cfogal@netcom.ca; Eduardo Luro susan@ansa.com
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