HELP NEEDED !!

We trying to organise a trip to Kosovo to visit the people on the camp and see what we can do to help, I know there is a desperate need for nutricious food, for clothing and for toys for the children.
Please read this posting and the previous one, it will outline the desperate plight of these forgotton people.
We need to help and we also need to use the information we gather to lobby politicians and beaurocrats world wide.

Many thanks

Kosovo's poisoned generation

By Nick Thorpe BBC News, Kosovo
A small child is sweeping the yard outside her home - anywhere else the scene would be touching - but here in the Cesmin Lug refugee camp in northern Kosovo, it is tragic.
The children are sick with lead poisoning.
The camps were built close to the Trepca lead mine and smelting works.
The factory was closed by order of the UN administration in Kosovo, in 2000. But the slag heaps were never cleaned up.
The lead blackens the children's teeth, blanks out their memory, and stunts their growth.
The children swing between bursts of nervous hyperactivity, and something like a coma. Some have epileptic fits.
This is the worst ever lead poisoning that we know of in Europe
Dorit Nitzan
WHO regional office, Belgrade
"Every child conceived in these camps will be born with irreversible brain damage," says Paul Polanski, a US human rights activist based in Nis, Serbia.
"Everyone talks about resettlement, but that's not the problem, the problem is medical treatment."
Dangerous levels
Mr Polanski claims 77 people have died in Cesmin Lug and another nearby town, Osterode, mainly through complications from lead poisoning.
The local UN administration in Mitrovica sees him as a trouble maker.
Lead in the blood is measured in micrograms per decilitre.
"This is the worst ever lead poisoning that we know of in Europe," said Dorit Nitzan, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) regional office in Belgrade.
"We are talking in the tens - 40-50 mg/dl, more than a 100 in the blood... really high levels."
In 2004, the WHO recommended the evacuation of Cesmin Lug, and two more Roma camps at Kablare and Zitkovac.
All had been set up by the UNHCR in 1999 as a temporary measure, when the Roma Mahalla, on the southern shore of the Ibar River, was burnt down by Albanians in the dying days of the conflict over Kosovo.

The Roma want medical treatment not resettlement
In 2006, Kablare and Zitkovac were closed down, and the Roma from there moved to Osterode, a former French army base.
It was polluted by lead too, but after the topsoil was removed and concrete put down, the WHO classified it as "safer" than before, and about 600 Roma, including some from Cesmin Lug, moved in.
Some children began medical treatment, known as "chelation" - to clear the lead from the blood - sponsored by the WHO.
But the success of the treatment assumes that the children have been removed from the source of the pollution - that assumption remains a source of controversy today.
Who is responsible?
In Cesmin Lug, children go barefoot, even in winter, on the polluted earth.
In Osterode there is concrete, running water, and indoor toilets, but still the wind blows the deadly dust through the air.
In May 2008, the UNHCR handed responsibility for the camps to Kosovo.
"It was quite a shock," says Sasa Risic, the minister for communities and returns.
"We were told to solve, immediately, a problem which the UN had not been able to solve for nine years."
The UNHCR turned down our request for an interview, on the grounds that administration of the camps belonged to the UN Mission in Kosovo, Unmik.
"The main culprit is always Unmik, or the UN, but it's not true," said Gyorgy Kakuk, outgoing spokesman of Unmik in northern Mitrovica.
So what can Unmik fairly be blamed for? I asked.
"Our responsibility over the years," he replies carefully, "lies in the fact that we were not tough enough, in bringing those people back, from the beginning."

Children have little protection from the polluted soil
"We always withdrew when we faced resistance."
Resistance came from two sources.
One was the local council in Albanian-run southern Mitrovica, which delayed the rebuilding of the Roma Mahalla, where the gypsies lived before 1999; the other was the Roma in the camps themselves.
Today, the rebuilding of Roma Mahalla in southern Mitrovica, funded by the Dutch and Norwegian governments, is proceeding slowly.
In Phase 1, some 400 Roma returned, but Phase 2 has not yet started.
The US government has also launched a new project to re-house 50 families from Cesmin Lug - but there are complications.
Some Roma at Cesmin Lug told me they were afraid to leave the Serb-controlled north, for the Albanian-majority south, because they feared they would lose their welfare payments - which were still paid by Belgrade.
Others said they would not feel safe living among Albanians again, after what happened in 1999.
Later this month, the WHO will make their next fact-finding visit to the camps.
As a wintry sun sets over the slag heaps, the children sing a nursery rhyme some say dates back to the time of the Great Plague in England.
"Ring a-ring o'roses, a pocket full of posies. A-tishoo! A-tishoo! We all fall down."

Happy Christmas..The Shame of Europe

I would like to wish all that read my blog a very happy Christmas..and my best wishes for the new year

Sadly in an EU member state there are children that are not as fortunate as our own children and grandchildren, many of them will not be here next Christmas

I know it is a busy time of year, but I beg you all to please read this posting, click the links and count your blessings..but please PLEASE..add your names to the "toxic waste kills" web site.

On the camp they have a running track..called the "path of health" as children run on this the toxins rise even more ..and because the children are running they breath in those toxins even more

UPDATE

Since posting this entry I have recieved an email from Dianne Post who is an Attorney in USA, Dianne's email says so well what I am trying to pass on that I am adding it to this post, It is good to know that in a world that is so often uncaring that there are good people who really do care
Thank you Dianne...thank you so very much


I am an attorney who started working with the Roma IDPs in the lead poisoned camps in 2005. I worked at ERRC and we filed 4 different legal actions against them. I left ERRC in 2006 and have since filed another action. The only cases still standing are one at the United Nations Headquarters in New York that was filed in February 2006 and one with the Human Rights Advisory Panel in Kosovo. In nearly 4 years, they have refused to take any action with the case at the UN. With the case in Kosovo, they have denied jurisdiction and said it has to go to the UN in NY. So yes, there is no Rule of Law and it is Europe's shame. I visited my clients last January and saw children runnning around in the snow and ice with no shoes. I saw young men whose hands were blown up like balloons from the excess lead in their bodies. Sara, the child in the story in the Sun, is one of my clients and I visited their home and had to see the terror and pain in her parents eyes as they watched her slow death knowing they could do nothing. The UN has in the past admitted they are responsible for the harm but now refuses to take any responsibility. It is extremely difficult to hold them accountable in the legal realm. We need you. Each one of you to contact Ban Ki-Moon at the UN, your countries ambassador to the UN, your foreign minister, your president or prime minister and force them to take action. The EU is now in charge of Kosovo as UNMIK slinks out as the criminals they are. Go to the EU Parliament. Join the actions at the www.toxicwastekills.com web site. But do something.As you eat your Christmas dinner, as you open your gifts, as you sip your wine, remember these children whose kidneys, brains, and eyes - whose lives - are being destroyed every day by the lead in doses never before seen in humankind.
Thank you.
Dianne Post Attorney
Phoenix, AZ, USA



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I am not a lover of the "The Sun" newspaper..in the past they have posted derrogatory articles about our people. However I applaud and thank them them for this recent article

By BRIAN FLYNN
Published: 15 Dec 2009
LITTLE Sara Jahirovic is dying a slow, painful death.
Staring up with big, haunting brown eyes, Sara is a victim of broken promises by United Nations charity chiefs more than a decade after British troops helped free Kosovo.
Her desperate father - he has eight other children - explains that at the age of three she has already had three heart attacks and, as she now suffers daily fainting fits, this Christmas may well be her last.
Sara is just one of hundreds of forgotten children abandoned to suffer brain damage and await death in an international scandal exposed today by The Sun.
The youngsters are being poisoned by dust blowing into a stinking refugee camp from a mountain of toxic lead waste towering above them.
They were packed into the contaminated site by the UN ten years ago after British soldiers went in with our allies to rescue Kosovo from Serbian tyrant Slobodan Milosevic.
Their families, burned from their own homes by ethnic cleansing as the conflict ended, were assured it would be for just a few months until a safer place could be found.
But the UN High Commission For Refugees and sister agency UNMIK - the UN Mission in Kosovo - abandoned them behind the barbed wire of the filthy Osterode camp in Mitrovica when they pulled out two years ago and left the Kosovo government with the problem.
Around 400 of the 650 refugees at Osterode are youngsters, with more than 200 under the age of ten.
After a decade in the hellhole, tests show the children now have so much lead in their blood that medical equipment cannot accurately measure it.
The World Health Organisation and humanitarian campaigners say only immediate evacuation and medical treatment will save the children.
Yet the UN and its agencies STILL refuse to act.
Last night British scientists and humanitarian campaigners called on Foreign Secretary David Miliband to intervene.
Leading toxicologist Professor Alastair Hay, a UK Government adviser, said: "I have never encountered a situation in all the years I have been looking at lead where the situation is so catastrophic as it is for these children.
At risk ... camp kids with a bleak future
DAN CHARITY
"I think this is absolutely criminal. It is such a disgrace that these children are exposed."
So far, at least 84 refugees have died in the camp - many of them children whose organs simply packed up.
Sara's father Feruz, 38, wipes away a tear as he watches her play in the filthy, crumbling former army barracks and says he expects her to join them soon.
Feruz, his own skin tainted with a dull, grey film of the deadly dust, said: "We do not know how long Sara will be with us.
"She has had three heart attacks and she is only three. She has regular fainting fits and epileptic attacks, yet she is a lovely, happy child. The only grace is that she does not understand what is happening to her.
"If she gets too excited, she collapses with an attack. At night she is screaming and my wife and I take turns to be awake with her because at any second she could die. We are exhausted.
"It is agonising to look outside and see a mountain of lead, and know it is killing your children.
"I am a strong man and yet I can do nothing and have to watch my children die in front of me.
"I have nine children, and seven of them are very sick. If there is a God, then he would help us. I am begging anyone who can help to stop this crime.
"The United Nations moved us here and told us it would be for a few months. We believed them and were grateful. Now they have gone but we are still here.
"Kids are kids wherever they are. They have a right to be healthy and happy. The United Nations told us it was saving us but it is killing us.

"The only way the children can be saved is to move them away and give them medical treatment because here they are getting nothing. We are forgotten.
"People come and measure the levels of lead in our children's blood and then go away and do nothing. There is no help, no hope.
"Where is the United Nations? When we first came we were told we would be here for four months. That is what they promised. Now they have gone. We need help."
When the World Health Organisation first tested the childrens' blood for lead five years ago, the readings for 90 per cent of the children went off the scale.
The levels were the highest they had ever recorded in any area, with many children poisoned by more than four times the amount that triggers brain damage.
Three months ago, after repeated pleas for help were ignored, outraged WHO bosses called for the camp's "immediate and urgent" closure.
Standing on top of the 200 metre high mountain of 100 million tons of lead waste, you can see the air thick with the fine, grey dust that blows on to the camp.
The colossal slag heap that dominates the skyline was formed by Europe's biggest mining and smelting complex, which has lain derelict since the Kosovo war. Below, children play in skips of human excrement and drink water from communal taps on land contaminated with the lead waste.
British human rights campaigner Bernard Sullivan told how he first began fighting for the refugees after delivering aid.
He said: "The UN has left these people high and dry. They have a moral responsibility to clean up the mess they have made."
Both UN organisations claim they are still committed to helping the families even though they are no longer in charge.
But Kosovo government spokesman Memli Krasniqi said: "The UN did not do anything to move these people. We don't know why.
"They have done their job badly. Now we are trying to deal with it but a lot of time has been lost."
Meanwhile, only one thing is certain this winter in the camp - even more children will die.
b.flynn@the-sun.co.uk

Obama Insults Gypsy People with Use of Derogatory Racist Word

I am fully aware that this posting is likely to generate an emotional response. Please be mindful That I only post on this blog when I feel there is something meaningful and important to share, before reading please take a moment to ponder on these words;

"All truth passes through three stages...First it is ridiculed..secondly it is violently opposed ..thirdly it is accepted as self-evident"

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pholosopher 1788-1860

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Earlier this month Barack Obama stated during a speech he was making about health care that;

“All we're trying to do is make sure that if you're buying health insurance on the private marketplace that you're not getting gouged, and gypped, by the insurance companies."

The word Gypped, is a derogatory and a racist slur against the Gypsy/Roma people meaning to rob or defraud by sharp practice it is an Americanism and originates from the word “Gypsy”. I do not accept the argument that this was probably a mistake and Obama did not know the meaning of the word “Gypped”..it is at best slang and as such should have no part in a political speech. Obama has an army of support staff who also let this pass uncensored. There has been no apology.

It is startlingly shocking that a world leader who rose to power aboard the wonderful magic carpet ride otherwise known as “the race card” should make such a remark. Whilst I would agree a first black President would be a wonderful thing indeed, I don’t hold the belief that any black President will do.

The world seems to be bewitched by the concept and blinded to the facts by some form of politically correct mass hysteria.

If this man chooses to use such derogatory terms maybe he should look first to himself before he passes remark about others, if we must use this word well just who has “gypped” who?

Firstly Obama is not the first black President, he is however the first “mixed race” President; but that may not hold the same political passport to power.

Speaking of passports, there seems to be more than a little controversy surrounding Obama’s nationality and therefore his qualification to be president at all. The Obama story..like all good fairy tales requires the listener to be sitting comfortably.

So..If you are sitting comfortably ..I will begin..

To qualify to be President of the USA you must be a “natural born” American, Obama’s father was Kenyan, and his dear old Grandmother excitedly bragged to the worlds press that her grandson was going to be president of the USA..and how she was present in the delivery room when he was born….In Kenya.

Obama himself claims to have been born in Honolulu Hawaii, and his sister backs this up, she names the hospital he was born in, but she can’t quite make up her mind on which one, firstly she named Kapiolani Hospital, but later named Queens Hospital, couple this with the fact that Obama refuses to produce the very document that could lay all of this to rest..his birth certificate.

Now the subject of the birth certificate opens up another hornets nest. Obama put a copy of a birth certificate on his website.In fact here were 2 “certification of Live Birth's” posted and were verified by Factcheck.org.

One of the certificates published by Obama

One of the Certification of Live birth's had the Certification number blacked out, the other Certification of Live Birth showed the Certification number. Factcheck.org is a company that checks documents for authenticity
As it happens Factcheck is part of Annenberg, a Chicago based company disbursing up to $60 millon a year. Obama sat on the board of this company for several years, so hardly a neutral company to employ to verify the documents.
Obama did not declare his interest in that company but then that hardly comes as a surprise when you consider that this man has also refused to release both his medical & education records.

One story goes along the lines that Obama’s mother travelled to Kenya while pregnant, but was not well received by her in laws because she was white. Heavily pregnant she left Kenya because she did not like the way Muslim men treated their wives. A fine and plausible storyline if you take it in isolation. It is somewhat flawed however when you consider that not that many years into the future she married another Muslim man,Lolo Soetoro an Indonesian a strange move considering her alleged reason for leaving Kenya, but even stranger is the fact that not only did she marry another Muslim man, but she took her very young son to Indonesia which at the time was a war zone.
There are records and photographs of a very young Obama at school in Indonesia, but his name has been changed to Barry Soetoro his religion listed as Islam. At this time in Indonesia only Indonesian Citizens were allowed to attend school. The only way this could have been achieved is if his step father had adopted or acknowledged him thus enabling him to secure Indonesian citizenship. This would have relinquished any US citizenship he might have had, he could, on his return to the US have applied to be a naturalised American, but that would not have qualified him for Presidency.

There are just too many questions surrounding this mans background. Why has no birth certificate been actually produced in the flesh for inspection? So to recap two different hospitals have been named as his place of birth together with two different birth certificates. I am also told that records of live births show a fair amount of information that does not appear on the certificates produced by Obama. A genuine live birth certificate has the hospital or other named location where the birth took place, together with the Doctors name and the midwifes name

A genuine certification of live birth for a

Baby born in Hawaii

The reason why the certificate produced by Obama does not have this information is because it is issued based upon the unverified report of an adult, usually the parent, or some other person.
A certificate like this can be obtained in Hawaii and no evidence is required that the birth actually took place there only that the person reporting the birth attests that it did. It is unique to Hawaiian law that it allows for the reporting of a birth outside of the Hawaiian Islands as long as one of the child’s parents can claim to have lived in Hawaii as their principle place of residence for the year prior to the birth. ( this law was effective between 1911 and 1972)

Interestingly, and adding to the doubts about Obama’s place of birth and seemingly transient nationality/citizenship, Obama claims to have travelled to Pakistan in 1981. Whilst this might have been intended to enhance his credentials as a well travelled and well rounded individual he inadvertently added to the already compelling questions.

In 1981 Americans were not free to travel to Pakistan; the country was under martial law. Obama, must have used his Indonesian citizenship and passport to enter Pakistan, there is the possibility that being born in Kenya in 1961 Obama could possibly have held a British passport, but the most likely and obvious reason why he was allowed to travel to Pakistan at this time was that he travelled as an Islamic Indonesian citizen whose name was Barry Soetoro.

There are just too many questions over Obama’s qualification to be President of US. I would not wish to give the impression that my objections to him are based on racial or religious objection. My objection is based on fear. Here we have a man who appears very compellingly to have risen to power by falsifying his past. The question “why” needs to be explored fully. History will show that those who have been driven by the need to rise to personal power have had devastating effect when the “self” inevitably comes before the common good.

Obama who is so clearly impassioned about discrimination towards African Americans thinks nothing of delivering racist slurs against another ethnic people. A people that I might add have a long way to go before they come close to enjoying a lifestyle remotely akin to that enjoyed by most African Americans. As such a powerful world leader he should be ever mindful of the impact of his words, but sadly I believe that he is fully mindful.

For 17 months Philip J Berg the former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania has been fighting through the US Courts to expose Obama. Berg is also a life long Democrat so his beef is not a political one I have come to the conclusion that Berg’s fight for the truth is a moral one. Remarkably Obama could have simply produced his birth certificate and ended this lawsuit, but instead he chose with the full backing of the DNC to apply for a motion to have the case dismissed.

Speaking to me on Sunday night Philip J Berg stated;

“Obama is a phony, a fraud and this is the biggest "HOAX" upon the United States in over 230 years, all put forth by Obama and his cronies ! !”

I have grave reservations about Barak Obama and the more I look into him the greater my fears. If I gazed into my Crystal ball I might well be faced with a vision of chaos being brought to the world brought by a tall dark and admittedly extremely handsome man.

I wish Phil Berg luck in his quest for the truth but realistically the truth is very likely to bring with it turmoil and unrest on a massive scale. If all the indications, and there are many prove to be correct then Obama should never have been allowed to run for president due to lack of qualification and his deceit will set the cause of African Americans in the Political arena back decades.

I and many honest hardworking law abiding Gypsy/Roma people worldwide object to Obama’s off hand racist slur and we are still awaiting the apology that is a long time coming.

“Gypped” Mr President? How dare you?

As a British Romany Gypsy woman I like to speak from the heart and I like to do so clearly with as little margin for error as possible. Kindly keep your derogatory remarks to yourself, your are in no position to cast such aspersions, because from where I sit it looks very clear to me that you have “conned” and “deceived” 18 million trusting US citizens into voting for you.

Shay Clipson Dec 2009
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