Aleksandar Đenic | New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (Serbia)
Dear comrades,
First, I would like to salute you on behalf of the Central Committee of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
Dear comrades,
This historical event is significant for the anti-imperialist struggle. We must send a powerful anti-imperialist message at the exact moment when the Netherlands will host a NATO Summit in Hague. The Hague represents a highly symbolic place for the Serbian people. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, an institution established by Western imperialism and masked as part of the United Nations, has predominantly prosecuted those who resisted imperialism in the former Yugoslavia, thereby enforcing selective justice. The cause of the civil war in Yugoslavia and the subsequent criminal NATO aggression was Western imperialism—not those who defended their country from aggression and were later convicted. This reveals the hypocrisy of selective justice and false reconciliation, where one side, namely the Serbs, is portrayed as solely responsible for all crimes committed in Yugoslavia—where the Serbs were painted as wolves and everyone else as innocent sheep. Such policies provoke further tensions that could lead to new conflicts in the future, while those most responsible for the war in Yugoslavia remain free.
We are a country from the Balkan Peninsula. The Balkan region is of great strategic importance. The Balkan is attracting the imperialist powers like a magnet and making our area an essential arena for manifesting NATO strategic goals. NATO occupied our Peninsula. Practice showed that NATO is the most significant security risk in the World, and the people of Serbia felt that on their skin during the bombing in 1999.
The Serbs directly opposed the interests of Western imperialism and NATO and no doubt suffered significant damage and were victims of it. Starting with the fact that the most crucial number of displaced persons from their homes in the territory of Yugoslavia were among the Serbian people, that NATO bombed us with weapons prohibited by international conventions and thus committed a severe war crime for which no one has been accused and convicted yet, with depleted uranium, from which tens of thousands of people die every year in Serbia.
Undoubtedly, however, all the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, without any exception, have been and are victims of Western imperialism and the violent dismantling of Yugoslavia. Political and economic dependence and conditioning are crystal clear everywhere in former Yugoslavia. We have become easy prey for sharks that have entered our waters.
The necessary and urgent duty for the people is to reject and oppose the “divide and conquer” policy, which aims at the emergence of new and weak states, in fact, protectorates, as is the case in the face of the situation emerging in Kosovo. Today, the imperialist plans and rivalry may again cause bloodshed in the region. The policy promoted by the imperialist powers aims not only to intensify foreign interventions but also to establish governments that are servile to the imperialist dictates of regimes that will further deepen the capitalist exploitation and bind their countries to the imperialist organizations of NATO and EU.
Today, imperialist Western plans may cause bloodshed in the region again. The policy promoted by the Western imperialist powers aims not only to intensify foreign interventions but also to establish governments servile to the imperialist dictates of regimes that will further deepen the capitalist exploitation and bind their countries to the imperialist organizations of NATO and EU.
For a long time, and with clear political intentions, the international public has been presented with an untruthful, distorted picture of what happened in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Everything has been presented crookedly to protect those genuinely responsible and draw the wrong conclusions about what happened and the background of the war against Yugoslavia.
There is a fundamental historical fact that one should proceed from when seeking to understand what happened and which led to everything that happened in the territory of Yugoslavia from 1991 until the present day, and that is the violent destruction of a European state, Yugoslavia, which was derived from the statehood of Serbia. There is no doubt that this fundamental historical fact will leave an imprint on European history in the times to come. A multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-confessional state was destroyed, a condition that had its historical and international legal legitimacy.
Since June 9, 1999, and the signing of the “Kuman Agreement,” the southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija has been under the occupation of the striking military fist of Western imperialism, NATO, and the Serbs living in that area have since become second-class citizens.
The NKPJ demands that the puppet pro-imperialist government in Kosovo immediately stop the pressure on the Serbian people living in that territory and provide all refugees the opportunity to return to their homes.
The Serbian and Albanian people in Kosovo and Metohija should live in peace and togetherness and follow the tradition of fraternal relations between Albanians and Serbs who fought side by side against the Nazi-fascist occupier in the Second World War.
NATO has also formed a new military alliance in the Balkans between the so-called state of Kosovo, Croatia, and Albania, which is clearly directed against Serbia, the only country in the region that is not part of the NATO alliance. NATO is continuously arming the so-called state of Kosovo with the aim of provoking a new conflict in the Balkans.
Russia and China support Serbian sovereignty in the United Nations Security Council, and Serbia depends on Russian energy. The Serbian government does not want to bring sanctions on Russia. This is because the EU, US, and NATO put much pressure on Serbia. This year marks 30 years since the crimes in Srebrenica, which Western imperialism, through manipulations in the United Nations, seeks to portray as genocide. Resolution on the Srebrenica Demonization of The Serbian People with a simple majority. The fact that on the occasion of adopting such a decision, more countries were against its adoption or abstained than those that voted for it clearly shows that many countries in the world reject the hypocrisy of Western countries. By pushing for this resolution, Western imperialism tends to quarrel the fraternal Yugoslav peoples further, in this case, Bosniak and Serbian, incite them against each other, create instability, and encourage national-chauvinism to be able to justify the continued presence of NATO in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
The fact is that objectively speaking, there was no genocide in Srebrenica and that Western imperialism practices double standards to try, ineptly and unsuccessfully, to justify its criminal role in all the massacres on the territory of SFR Yugoslavia, including the one committed in that city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nevertheless, the intrigues of the imperialist power centers in Washington, London, Berlin, and Brussels and their objective guilt for the bloodshed in our region cannot in any way be an excuse for the monstrous crime in Srebrenica. Those who committed it are bastards and a shame for the Serbian people, and the only thing they deserve is the most profound contempt and disgust.
The vote in the General Assembly of the United Nations clearly shows that Serbia’s real friends are socialist countries like China, Cuba, and the DPR of Korea, as well as anti-imperialist countries like Belarus, Nicaragua and Venezuela. There is also significant pressure today on Serbian leadership in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is a protectorate occupied by Western imperialism. On the other hand, it was clear that the Western imperialist countries were not Serbia’s friends, no matter how much the bourgeois government was assuring us otherwise.
Dear comrades,
We realize that we live in a contradictory world and must recognize dialectical moments. We will continue to fight together with you. We need to gather all progressive forces in the world and continue to fight against imperialism.
Long live the anti-imperialist struggle!
