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Pisa / ITALY (RNN Correspondent) March the 3rd, 1999
On monday the process against Daniele Corbizzi-Fattori, a young
student from Cascina (Pisa) suspected to have prepared the trap-book
that exploded in the hands of Matteo Salkanovic at the end of february
1995, has been postponed again, the appointed date is now the 3dh of
june ofthis year.
The seat was postponed already on the 17th of november of the last
year up to the 1st of March. Corbizzi Fattori and Nilo Antonioli are
the last two suspected after that files regarding two other persons
were archiviated.
This was the first bomb directed to Roma children, concealed in a
coloured book in a heap of garbage near a (provisory) settlement of
the Salkanovic family. After some days another (stronger) bomb was put
in a little box near the place where Shengul Demirovska (13 of age)
and her brother Emran (3 years) were often approaching cars to ask
them. This second bomb was harder than the first and had serious
consequences damaging the children for life.
Some light about these events looks still very far from emerging in a
way or another.
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Prague / CZECH REP. (RNN Agency) March the 16th, 1999
During a recent official visit to France, Czech president Vaclav Havel
commented on the Republic's uncertain progress to EU membership. He
said that Prague's current indifference could endanger the country's
favourable status - along with Cyprus, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and
Estonia it is one of the countries first in line for EU expansion
eastwards. Havel's remarks came by way of response to a European
Commission report which highlighted slow adoption of EU policies and
continuing maltreatment of the Roma minority.
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Sakic war crimes trial starts in Zagreb.
Zagreb / CROATIA (RNN Correspondent) March the 15th, 1999
Seen as a chance for the country to reinspect its past, post-Communist
Croatia puts its first WWII war criminal on trial on March 4th. After
months of investigation Dinko Sakic faces the charge that he was
responsible for the death of 2,000 prisoners at the Jasenovac
concentration camp in 1944. Jews, Roma, Serbs and political opponents
within Croatia were among the victims of the Ustashe regime, which
enjoyed Nazi support.
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Worst crisis in Czech Republic since 1989.
Prague / CZECH REP. (RNN Agency) March the 17th, 1999
The Czech government has said that the Republic is in the throes of
its worst crisis since 1989's democratic revolution. Economic and
political indifference threaten to cause havoc, according to a report
compiled by the social democratic government as fulfilment of its
election promises. Especially disquieting are the 8% unemployment
rate, high foreign debt and falling prodictivity rates and the state's
lack of a coherent programme to integrate its Roma minority. Earlier
government parties have rejected the claims.
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Kosovo distrusts peace proposals.
Kumanovo / MACEDONIA (RNN Agency) March the 17th, 1999
The UN's peace plan for Kosovo may be popular with America and the EU
but it lacks support among the people it is meant to benefit most of
all: Kosovo's Serb and Albanian populations. Take the town of Kijevo
for example. A year ago 700 Albanians and 500 Serbs lived together
here in relative harmony, now the Albanian population has shrunk to a
few dozen, about the same as the number of Roma. The others have taken
to the hills around and view those who remained behind as traitors to
the independence movement. The Serb residents are protected by a Serb
police force and resent what they see as mere outside interference in
a matter only locals eally understand. The inhabitants of the garrison
town do not warm to proposals to grant the province UN-backed
autonomy.
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Revelations about Slovakian secret service.
Bratislava / SLOVAKIA (RNN Correspondent) March the 18th, 1999
Following a change of government last Autumn in Bratislava, a report
by the new head of the state's secret service apparatus, the SIS, has
raised questions about its role under the previous Meciar
administration. All political parties have demanded that access be
given to files so as to clear up the confusion surrounding the
organisation. Following the report's appearance, Czech papers have
published articles claiming the the SIS has been involved in
formenting public hostility against the Czech Republic's Roma minority
and plans to join NATO in order to tarnish Prague's image in the West.
Bratislava has announced intentions to apoligise to the Czech Republic
for these activities Roma and Czech representatives at the EU have
however warned that such claims must be taken with a pinch of salt: it
could be that they are merely a propaganda move by the Czech
government in order to deflect attention from Prague's treatment of
Roma.
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