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Archive für 19.11.2007
Kosovo by the Institute for European Policy commissioned by the German Bundeswehr
19.11.2007 by CrniLabudovi.
11/18/2007 (Balkanalysis.com)
By David Binder
Forget about status negotiations for a moment. The near-term outlook for Kosovo is unalterably grim: an economy stuck in misery; a bursting population of young people with “criminality as the sole career choice;” an insupportably high birthrate; a society imbued with corruption and a state dominated by organized crime figures.
These are the conclusions of “Operationalizing of the Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans,” a 124-page investigation by the Institute for European Policy commissioned by the German Bundeswehr and issued last January. This month the text turned up on a weblog. It is labeled “solely for internal use.” Provided one can plow through the appallingly dense Amtsdeutsch - “German officialese” - that is already evident in the ponderous title, a reader is rewarded with sharp insights about Kosovo.
Occasionally a flicker of human frustration with the intractability of Kosovo’s people appears in the stolid German text. That reminded me of an encounter 44 years ago in the fly-specked cafeteria of Pristina’s Kosovski Bozur Hotel, occupied by a lone guest drinking a beer. He introduced himself as an engineer from
What was he doing here?” I inquired. “Ich verbloede,” he replied - “I am stupefying myself.” - (or, I am making myself stupid).
In this text, the authors make clear that
The institute authors, Mathias Jopp and Sammi Sandawi, spent six months interviewing 70 experts and mining current literature on Kosovo in preparing the study. In their analysis the political unrest and guerrilla fighting of the 1990s led to basic changes which they call a “turnabout in Kosovo-Albanian social structures.” The result is a “civil war society in which those inclined to violence, ill-educated and easily influenced people could make huge social leaps in a rapidly constructed soldateska.”
“It is a Mafia society” based on “capture of the state” by criminal elements. (”State capture” is a term coined in 2000 by a group of World Bank analysts to describe countries where government structures have been seized by corrupt financial oligarchies. This study applied the term to Montenegro’s Milo Djukanovic, by way of his cigarette smuggling and to Slovenia, with the arms smuggling conducted by Janez Jansa). In Kosovo, it says, “There is a need for thorough change of the elite.”
In the authors’ definition, Kosovan organized crime “consists of multimillion-Euro organizations with guerrilla experience and espionage expertise.” They quote a German intelligence service report of “closest ties between leading political decision makers and the dominant criminal class” and name Ramush Haradinaj, HashimThaci and Xhavit Haliti as compromised leaders who are “internally protected by parliamentary immunity and abroad by international law.” They scornfully quote the UNMIK chief from 2004-2006, Soeren Jessen Petersen, calling Haradinaj “a close and personal friend.” UNMIK, they add “is in many respects an element
of the local problem scene.”
They cite its failure to improve Kosovo’s energy supply, and “notable cases of corruption that have led to alienation from Kosovo public and to a hostile picture of a colonialist administration.” They describe both UNMIK and KFOR as infiltrated by agents of organized crime who forewarn their ringleaders of any impending raids. “The majority of criminal incidents do not become public because of fear of reprisals.
Among the negative findings listed are:
The justice system’s 40,000 uncompleted criminal cases;
The paucity of corruption-crime investigations (10-15 annually);
The province’s 400 gas stations (where 150 would suffice), many of which serve as fronts for brothels and money-changing depots;
A Kosovo Police Service “dominated by fear, corruption and incompetence”;
The study sharply criticizes the
In an aside, it quotes one unidentified official as saying of the American who is deputy chief of UNMIK, “The main task of Steve Schook is to get drunk once a week with Ramush Haradinaj.”
Concerning the crime scene the authors conclude that “with resolution of the status issue and the successive withdrawal of international forces the criminal figures will come closer than ever to their goal of total control of Kosovo.”
Among the dismal findings of the German study are those on the economy:
Sinking remission of money from Kosovans working abroad, a primary source of income for many Kosovo families, pegged now at 560 million euros per annum;
Some 88 percent of the land now in private ownership, meaning ever more sub dividing of plots, usually among brothers, leading to less and less efficient agriculture;
Proliferation of NGOs - now numbering 2,400 – the great bulk of which exist for shady purposes;
A hostile climate for foreign investors, frightened by political instability and the power of mafia structures.
A central issue in Kosovo is an “inexhaustible supply of young people without a future and therefore ready for violence,” the study says. The only remedy for dealing with this “youth bulge” is to open northern
In anticipation of a transfer of oversight from the UN to the European Union, the authors warn: “the EU is in danger of following too strongly in the wake of a failed UN and to disintegrate under the inherited burden unless they make an open break with practices and methods of UNMIK.” One of the experts they interviewed put it more bluntly: “the EU is inheriting from UNMIK a fireworks store filled with pyromaniacs.”
In the estimate of the authors neither NATO nor the EU or UN appear capable of self examination, much less self-criticism. The authors draw a picture of self-satisfied incompetents in all international organizations dealing with Kosovo.
However, in their depiction, Kosovans appear equally beholden to legend - in their case of historic exploitation - such that if they finally achieve independence, all will suddenly be well. In the past Kosovans could and did always blame somebody else for their troubles: Ottomans, Yugoslavs, Serbs. Now they have begun to blame UNMIK. But what will happen if they have only themselves to blame?
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*David Binder (born 1931) was a correspondent for The New York Times from 1961 until 2004. He specialized in coverage of central and eastern Europe, based in
http://www.balkanalysis.com/2007/11/18/kosovo-auf-deutsch/
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Mafia “State capture” in Kosovo
19.11.2007 by admin.
Former KLA leader claims victory in Kosovo
19/11/2007
The main opposition party in Kosovo was the winner in Saturday’s vote, which saw a boycott by Kosovo Serbs and the lowest turnout of any election held in the province since the 1998-99 conflict.
By Blerta Foniqi-Kabashi for Southeast European Times in Pristina – 19/11/07
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Kosovo voters, frustrated over delays in resolving the province’s status, rejected the current leadership in local and parliamentary elections Saturday (November 17th), handing a victory to former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Hashim Thaci and his Democratic Party of Kosovo (DPK).
The DPK won around 34% of the vote, followed by the ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) with 22%, according to preliminary results. However, Thaci has already acknowledged that his party’s margin of victory will not allow it to govern alone.
The Alliance for a New Kosovo finished third with 10%, while the Democratic League of Dardania, led by Nexhat Daci, was fourth. The reformist party ORA garnered only 4%, putting it in sixth place.
“We have had the democratic elections as always and this is the victory for Kosovo,” said Thaci, 39, who until now had seen his political fortunes checked by distrust over his militant background. The former guerrilla commander — once known as “The Snake” — had lost every prior election held in the province, starting in 2000……..
http://setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2007/11/19/feature-01
The German IEP - BND secret report Kosovo 2007
http://balkanforum.org/IEP-BND/iep0001.PDF

more in german
http://balkanforum.org/thread.php?threadid=622
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The Romanian bribery scandal
19.11.2007 by admin.
Following bribery scandal, Romanian parliament passes privacy bill
19/11/2007
Human rights groups are calling on President Traian Basescu to veto new privacy legislation that some say is meant to protect officials from investigative reporters.
By Calin Cosmaciuc for Southeast European Times in Bucharest — 19/11/07
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Romania’s parliament recently passed a new privacy bill that some say will suppress anti-corruption efforts. It stipulates jail terms for anyone who releases the contents of intercepted conversations. Right groups, including the country’s Helsinki Committee, warn that the bill “puts the media under a lot of pressure” and have called on President Traian Basescu to exercise his veto power.
Lawmakers passed the bill just weeks after Romanian public television (TVR) broadcast a video of Agriculture Minister Decebal Traian Remes accepting a bribe. Some say the country’s political leaders appear more anxious to punish investigative reporters than deal with corruption.
The Remes scandal — one of the biggest to hit the country — resulted in the minister’s resignation. The video also implicated former Agriculture Minister Ioan Muresan and local businessman Gheorghe Ciorba.
A hidden camera recorded a meeting in a Bucharest cafe between Remes and Muresan, during which Muresan gave Remes an envelope. The TVR broadcast also included taped phone conversations with Ciorba, who is heard saying he wanted to win tenders worth millions of euro in institutions that were co-ordinated by Remes.
In the phone calls, Ciorba asked Muresan to be an intermediary with Remes, offering 15,000 euros, traditional sausages and a new car……
a new (mercedes) car and sausages is the balcan system
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Estimated at between 40% and 45%, voter turnout in Kosovo’s elections Saturday hit a record low. [Laura Hasani]
Following bribery scandal, Romanian parliament passes privacy bill