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## Author : peaceworkers@igc.apc.org



San Francisco, CA  Oct. 21, 1997
Dear Friends,
        I have just returned from Kosova and was deeply touched by the
students nonviolent demonstrations and commitment to peacefully reopen the
university to all students with full respect for their human rights. In
repsponse to an invitation from the students, Peaceworkers is helping find
people who can go to Kosova to accompany and support the students as they
develop this important nonviolent movement. Most people in Kosova I met with
see this students movement as the most important and hopeful development in
Kosova in the past seven years. If the students can be successful in
peacefully opening up the university to all students, this will be an
important sign that peaceful means can be used to try to challenge some of
the other heavy duty injustice the people of Kosova are feeling. Letters of
support to the students can be sent to The Students Independent Union at the
University of Pristina at upsup@albanian.com. Thought you would like to see
the following announcement from the students about their next protest
October 29. Please get in touch with us if you would like to get involved in
supporting this important nonviolent movement.
Peace,
avid Hartsough>Return-Path: <luckie@sezampro.yu>
>From: "Students Independent Union of UP" <luckie@sezampro.yu>
>To: "Mentor Cana" <cana@ece.stevens-tech.edu>,
>        "Martin Brusis" <101350.200@compuserve.com>,
>        "Albanews" <albanews@uban.cc.buffalo.com>,
>        "ALBSTUD" <ALBSTUD-L@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>,
>        "Karim Taalouch" <ataalouc@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>,
>        "Associated Press" <athomson@ap.org>,
>        "Eric Campbell" <avsbc@glasnet.ru>,
>        "Valon Budima" <budima@dardania.com>,
>        "Dardan Blaku" <dblaku@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu>,
>        "TelevizioniSuedez" <elmsater@sam_c.svt.se>,
>        "Natasa Kandic" <hlc@opennet.org>,
>        "Christine Palladino" <icrcbel@EUnet.yu>,
>        "SwedishHelsinkiCommittee" <info@shc.co>,
>        "Arne Geensen" <int.sec@vvd.nl>,
>        "Natasa Jevtic Esbjornson" <jevtic.esbjornson@usa.net>,
>        "Joe McDermott" <jmcderm@u.washington.edu>,
>        "Janusz Bugajski" <jxb@csis.org>,
>        "Karin Karlsbro" <karin_karlsbro@liberal.se>,
>        "Luckie" <luckie@sezampro.yu>,
>        "MersyCorpsMacedonia" <mcimak@lotus.mpt.com.mk>,
>        "Nicholas Hill" <N.HILL@DOS.US-STATE.GOV>,
>        "Andres Ilves" <ndibel@EUnet.yu>,
>        "Pronar�t" <owner-albanian@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu>,
>        "David Hartsough" <PEACEWORKERS@igc.org>,
>        "Zoltan Fekete" <press@szdsz.hu>,
>        "Zyra Amerikane" <pristina@diplomats.com>,
>        "QIK-u" <qik_pr@zana-pr.ztn.apc.org>,
>        "Jonas Renz" <renz@julinside.ndh.com>,
>        "Yll Bajraktari" <sas_1997@hotmail.com>, "OSCE" <ssv@tip.nl>,
>        "Stephan Israel" <stisrael@compuserve.com>,
>        "Trond Botnen" <Trond.Botnen@fni.wpoffice.telemax.no>,
>        "Besnik Pula" <ulpiana@albanian.com>,
>        "Jan Weijers" <worldlib@cix.compulink.co.uk>
>Subject: Students' Protests in Prishtina
>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 22:05:47 +0200
>X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
>
>UNIVERSITY OF PRISHTINA
>STUDENTS INDEPENDENT UNION
>Prishtin�, October 21, 1997
>
>Dear Sir,
>
>We feel free to inform You that the Students Independent Union of the
>Albanian University of Prishtina, again on 29 October 1997 is going to
>organize peaceful, non-violent, students' protests with the intention to
>release with no conditions premises and university room-space for
>delivering instructions in the Albanian language, as they have been
>occupied by Serbian regime since 1991. As you already know, Students
>Independent Union on 1 October 1997 organized peaceful students' protests
>and without any provocation by students, Serbian police attacked with no
>prior warning in the most brutal way to disperse the quiet protests during
>which the participators were arrested and injured.
>As You may know, in 1991, about 1,000 Albanian professors and assistants
>and 200 administrative workers, adding to them more than 27,000 Albanian
>students, were expelled by Serbian police forces from their university
>buildings, after 21 years of successful work of the University, only due to
>the fact that they were Albanians and studied in their mother tongue -
>Albanian. However, the students and teachers, aided by the Albanian
>population, have resisted this occupation and violence by continuing their
>classes in extremely difficult conditions in private houses. This is the
>seventh academic year that the University of Prishtina has worked outside
>is official buildings.
>Therefore, the protests have the intention to have the official buildings
>released, as they are the property of the University. The peaceful protests
>will be organized and kept under full control by the Students Union, which
>is a non-political organization and the sole students organization at the
>University of Prishtina. The Students Union has made the required
>preparations for the protests. It will not allow involving of some
>political force or tendency in the protests with any requests that are
>outside of our own ones. The Students Union is determined to avoid the use
>of force, causing of conflict or any physical excess.
>Accordingly, we ask You, dear Sir, to send some representatives of Yours to
>observe our peaceful protests, so that they may inform You appropriately
>about our noble intention, to protect and to realize peacefully our
>fundamental human and national rights for studying freely in our mother
>tongue, that is guaranteed by international covenants. We shall do our
>utmost to take care of your representatives in these conditions.
>We feel free to ask You to forward this information to the ones You find it
>convenient to make their contribution to this action of ours.
>Your observation on our peaceful protests would contribute much to avoid
>any escalation for the situation otherwise tense in Kosova.
>Extending my great thanks to You in advance for Your understanding, I
>remain
>
>Sincerely Yours,
>Bujar Dugolli, president
>
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>UNIVERSITY OF PRISHTINA
>
>
>    Since the students - the Students Independent Union of the University of
>Prishtina has undertaken the initiative to organize peaceful protests for
>releasing the occupied buildings of the University;
>    Since the students had prior talks with the state institutions, political
>subjects and other associations, from whom they had formal support, and
>hope that they will offer their concrete help too;
>    Since the University has offered support to the students' initiative for
>these protests and have expressed their readiness to organize peaceful,
>cautious, many-sided and dignified protests;
>    The University Organization Council distributes to the public opinion in
>the country and abroad the following
>
>
>
>    PLATFORM
>
>    1. Students' protests are organized for the purpose of releasing
>university buildings and other premises occupied by the Serbian regime in
>1991.
>    2. Students' protests are calm, peaceful and nonviolent.
>    The whole activity about the organization of protests  will be in the
>function of peaceful protests. The opinion in the country and abroad will
>be notified in due time with the slogans and placard (shouts,  etc.), which
>will be used by the students in and during the protests. The opinion will
>be notified in due time about other adequate actions which will enable
>better organization and realization of peaceful protests. The media and
>other international bodies will be informed and invited in due time. 
>    3. Preparation and realization of peaceful protests will be done by the
>Students Protest Council of the University and other sub-councils of
>faculties and high pedagogic schools (two year colleges), in close
>cooperation with the University, faculties and high pedagogic schools.
>    4. Students Council for the organization of protests is open and ready to
>cooperate and coordinate the work with institutions and other relevant
>subjects and associations on the basis of their concrete declarations for
>the support offered to the peaceful protests as well as for the measures
>and the extent of support they offer.
>    5. The general or specific prepared strategy for the realization of
>protests and the exact time of organization will be offered to the public
>opinion, dependent on the time, the suitable moment and favorable
>circumstances. 
>    6. The new academic year begins in time. The University will be working
>uninterruptedly all the time. The teaching process will be adapted to the
>peaceful protests and their duration, in accordance with the decision of
>competent authorities and pursuant to the regulation in force, the purpose
>of which should be implementation of students' requests.
>
>Prishtina, 15.09.1997
>Organization Council
>
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