Thanks for this on point research. Marta Russell
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Chris sent us the following:
> >Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo
> >
> >
> > Report by
> > the
> > International
> > Helsinki
> > Federation
> > for
> > Human
> > Rights
> > and
> > the
> > Kosovo
> > Helsinki
> > Committee
> >
> >Vienna, 30 March 1999.
> >The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Kosovo
> >Helsinki Committee provided information and analysis today concerning the
> >nature of genocide and atrocities against Kosovo Albanians; the pattern of
> >ethnic cleansing taking place
>
> And Lou posted their funding sources:
> ***** The Hell-Stinky Group lists the following sources of funding on its
> web-page. Is there any doubt that these are the same class forces currently
> prosecuting the war?
>
> =====
>
> Austrian Federal Chancellor's Program for Cooperation with Countries in
> Central and Eastern Europe
> Austrian Foreign Ministry
> European Commission
> City of Vienna
> Council of Europe
> Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
> Erste Oesterreichische Spar-Casse
> European Human Rights Foundation
> Ford Foundation
> The Robert and Ardis James Foundation
> Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation
> Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland
> Niederösterreichische Landesregierung (Austria)
> PHARE and TACIS Democracy Programme of the European Union
> Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway)
> Österreichische Nationalbank (Austria)
> Österreichische Postsparkasse (Austria)
> Oberösterreichische Landesregierung (Austria)
> Open Society Institute
> UNHCR
> Vorarlberger Landesregierung (Austria)
> Westminster Foundation for Democracy (UK) [AT NED]
>
> Louis Proyect
>
> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html) *****
>
> Also, we ought to mention that George Soros is on the advisory board of the
> International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF). Also, on the IHF
> website at <http://www.ihf-hr.org/about.htm>, the following information on
> the group's origin is available:
>
> ***** HELSINKI COMMITTEES
> On May 12, 1976, Dr. Yuri F. Orlov announced the formation of the Moscow
> Helsinki Group. The eleven founders of the group, which also included
> Yelena Bonner, Anatoly Shcharansky, Anatoly Marchenko, Ludmilla M.
> Alexeyeva and other Soviet citizens, sought to uphold the USSR's
> responsibility to implement the Helsinki commitments. They set up their
> watchdog organization based on the provision in the Helsinki Final Act,
> Principle VII, that establishes the rights of individuals to know and act
> upon their rights and duties. In the wake of their appeal to concerned
> citizens in other countries, new citizens' groups were established
> elsewhere inside and outside the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact nations.
> In January 1977, Charter 77 was founded in Czechoslovakia, and in September
> 1979, the Helsinki Watch group was founded in Poland. Although all these
> groups were persecuted by their governments, they continued their
> activities. In 1982, the Moscow Helsinki Group was forced to disband (it
> was re-organized in 1989), yet its pioneering efforts had inspired others
> to call attention to violations of human rights. Groups were formed in
> Western European countries, in Canada, and in the United States. *****
>
> To say the least, the group was originally formed with an express purpose
> of supporting the views & activities of dissidents in the Soviet Union &
> and other socialist countries, nothing more. With George Soros as one of
> the main backers of the group, I am certain that their primary interest
> lies in the introduction of so-called free market everywhere in the world.
> They are obviously most interested in the 'human rights abuses' of the
> countries that are not perceived to be sufficiently capital-friendly.
>
> To clarify, I am not saying no human rights abuse ever occured in the areas
> referred to as 'the Warsaw Pact nations' and the Soviet Union, but I'd say
> that Geroge Soros, his likes, and the interests they represent (i.e.
> capitalism) have worse human rights record than the targets of their
> criticisms.
>
> Yoshie
-- Marta Russell author, Los Angeles, CA Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract http://www.commoncouragepress.com/ramps.html