БиХ War Investigation

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► http://www.icty.org/sid/10673
► http://www.icty.org/action/pre​ss/6
► http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stor​ies/bosnia502/profiles_hadzic.​html
► http://www.interpol.int/public​/data/wanted/notices/data/2001​/62/2001_19862.asp
► http://www.time.com/time/daily​/bosnia/bosniatimeline.html
► http://www.pes.org/en/news/pes​-welcomes-serbia-s-detention-w​ar-criminal-mladic
► http://www.bhtourism.ba/eng/th​eheartshapedland.wbsp

RATKO MLADIC
Bosnian Serb Commander 1992-1995. Was charged with two cases of genocide in the siege of Sarajevo and the massacre at Srebrenica. Born March 1942, was arrested May 26, 2011.

► INTERPOL lauds Serbian arrest of fugitive Balkans war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic :: http://www.interpol.int/Public/ICPO/Pres​sReleases/PR2011/PR045.asp



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Adriaan Zef
From The Times
February 28, 2006

The graveside bench that could snare most wanted war criminal
By Peter Wilson in Belgrade

Is Serbian authorities had really wanted to catch Ratko Mladic over the past decade a smart place to start would have been a well-kept grave site in Belgrade's Topcider cemetery.

While police and intelligence services have supposedly been scouring the nation for the man who masterminded the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 men and boys in Srebrenica, General Mladic has regularly been spotted visiting the grave of his daughter Ana.

Last Friday, as 10,000 Mladic supporters from the nationalist Radical Party gathered a few miles away in main square in Belgrade to protest against international demands that the former Bosnian Serb general must finally be handed over, Ana's grave was once again unmonitored.

A few people wrapped in heavy jackets quietly cleaned other graves dotted around the cemetery, which is spread over a wooded hillside in the city's south-east suburbs, but nobody paid any attention to Ana's resting place or the wooden bench installed beside it.

A chilly wind had sprinkled pine needles over the grave. Somebody had recently placed two fresh bouquets of purple flowers on its grey granite, which bears a simple inscription in Cyrillic script: the family name and then "Ana 1971-1994." The death of Ana, a beautiful medical student, from a single gunshot to the head left her doting father deeply depressed and the Serbian public intrigued by her apparent suicide and its impact on General Mladic.

Munira Subasic, a Muslim widow from Srebrenica, has had more cause than most to wonder about General Mladic's behaviour after Ana's death.

"There have been thousands of nights when I have laid in my bed unable to sleep, asking myself how he could lose his daughter like that and then inflict the same pain on other parents," she said in an interview in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.

"This was a human being who had felt the pain that only a parent can, and then he killed so many other children, destroyed so many other parents . . . Losing his daughter should have sent him on the right path. Instead it sent him twice as far on the wrong path — perhaps it somehow made him more brutal and unable to care about other people's pain."

Ms Subasic, talking in an office run by a support group of Srebrenica widows, was speaking from terrible experience. On July 12, 1995, she tearfully pleaded face to face with Mladic in Potocari, a village outside Srebrenica, to save the life of her son Nermin, 19.

General Mladic had just led his men into the "safe haven" which was supposedly protected by Dutch peacekeepers, and addressed a terrified crowd in front of Serbian television cameras. Standing in an open car park, General Mladic assured the thousands of families who had been herded together that they would be safe, even as his ethnic Serbian troops began the ominous process of separating males aged 12 to 70 from their women and children.

"There was already the smell of blood in the air, and when Mladic stopped talking and the cameras went off I pushed forward and begged him to spare Nermin because he was ill. He looked me in the eyes, asked my son's name and said he would be safe. Then he cheated me."

Ms Subasic's friend Kada Kotic was also standing just two or three yards from General Mladic. She heard him turn to his bodyguards and other soldiers clustered around him and say, "Brothers, use this chance well because we will never have an opportunity like this again."

Their "opportunity" was to wipe out any possibility of future resistance by exterminating most of the men of Srebrenica. Ms Subasic's son was dragged away and never seen again. Her husband Hilmo, 50, an engineer, was found in a mass grave.

The Mladic family's own tragedy had come just over a year earlier. Ana had always been close to her father, a career soldier admired by his men for his willingness to eat and sleep with the ordinary troops.

A former senior official in the Serbian Government said that during a family celebration in the 1980s — when General Mladic had been a mid-ranking officer in the army of the united Yugolsavia — he had taken out his favourite pistol, won as an award at military school, and declared that he would only ever fire it to celebrate the birth of a Mladic grandson.

Ana allegedly replied that in that case she would keep the Mladic name when she married so that her father could one day fire the gun when she had a son.

General Mladic orchestrated the siege and shelling of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, which would eventually claim at least 12,000 lives.

Ana died on March 24, 1994, with conflicting accounts saying her body was found in her blood-splattered bedroom, in a nearby park or in the woods near the Topcider cemetery. All accounts agreed that she was killed with her father’s treasured pistol.

Some of General Mladic's supporters claimed that she had been depressed about the vilification of her father over atrocities committed by his troops. His critics contend that she took her life after being horrified by her father's actions, perhaps even making her own tragic protest. Family members said she had always been ebullient until a study trip to Russia a few months earlier, which had left her depressed.

In Russia she may have been exposed for the first time to independent news reports about the atrocities being committed in the Balkans. The one-sided nature of Serbian media coverage was such that many Serbs were genuinely shocked last year by the broadcast of newly uncovered video footage showing Bosnian Serb troops killing civilian men at Srebrenica.

A third theory about Ana's death — one widely held in Belgrade — is that she was murdered by hardline political or security forces who wanted to keep General Mladic in line. Proponents of that theory point out that it is unusual for a woman to choose a handgun when committing suicide, and that it was hard to believe she would use her father’s favourite pistol to do so.

Whatever the truth, it was after her death that Mladic is accused of ordering the murders, mass rapes and "ethnic cleansing" that became the biggest bloodbath in Europe since the Second World War.

According to Serbian media accounts, the distraught father asked the military doctor who performed the post-mortem examination, Zoran Stankovic, to retrieve the bullet from Ana's brain and to cut off her hair so he could keep both for ever.

Mr Stankovic later told a Serbian magazine that he had formed a special bond with General Mladic, as he had done occasionally with families for whom he had performed autopsies. Mr Stankovic is now the Serbian Defence Minister whose forces have failed repeatedly to capture General Mladic.

The minister indignantly denies going soft in the hunt but his ministry was recently forced to admit that General Mladic had been allowed to keep drawing his military pension while supposedly on the run, and that serving and former members of the military had helped to shield him.

* Peter Wilson is Europe correspondent of The Australian

source : http://www.timesonline.co.​uk/tol/sport/football/euro​pean_football/article73568​2.ece

Adriaan Zef : If he is proven guilty, the punishment for him is life imprisonment, because the EU does not recognize the death penalty.

Adriaan Zef
Timeline 26 May 2011 / 13:26
Timeline: Ratko Mladic

Timeline of events leading up to the arrest of Ratko Mladic.
Bojana Barlovac

1943
Ratko Mladic was born in the village of Bozinovici in Bosnia.

1945
His father, a military leader of the Bosnian Serbs, was killed while leading a partisan attack on the home village of Croatian WWII puppet state leader Ante Pavelic.

1961
He entered the Military Academy in Belgrade.

1965
Upon graduation, he began his career as a second lieutenant. He went on to command a platoon, a battalion and a brigade.

August 1989
He was promoted to head of the Education Department of the Third Military District of Skopje.

June 1991
He became Deputy Commander of the Pristina Corps in Kosovo and soon after commander of the 9th Corps of the Yugoslav People’s Army, leading it against Croatian forces in the town of Knin.

October 1991
Mladic became Major General of the Yugoslav People’s Army which, under his command, fought in the Croatian war.

August 1991
He helped Croatian Serb leader Milan Martic's paramilitary forces to besiege the village of Kijevo.

April 1992
Mladic was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel General.
May 2, 1992
A month after the Bosnian Republic announced its independence, Mladic and his generals blockaded the city of Sarajevo, beginning the four-year siege of the city.

May 9, 1992
He assumed the post of Chief of Staff/Deputy Commander of the Second Military District Headquarters of the Yugoslav People’s Army in Sarajevo. The following day, Mladic took command of the Second Military District Headquarters of the Yugoslav People’s Army.

May 12, 1992
In response to Bosnia's secession from Yugoslavia, the separatist Bosnian Serb parliament voted to create the Army of Republika Srpska, appointing Mladic as Commander of the Main Staff.

March 1994
His daughter, Ana Mladic, committed suicide in Belgrade with her father’s treasured pistol.

June 1994
Mladic was promoted to the rank of Colonel General.

July 1995
Troops commanded by Mladic occupied the UN-protected enclaves of Srebrenica and Zepa, killing over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys and committing the ethnic cleansing of 25,000-30,000 refugees in the Srebrenica area.

August 1995
The President of the Bosnian Serb Republic, Radovan Karadzic, demoted Mladic to the rank of advisor, accusing him of the loss of two key Serb towns in western Bosnia that had recently fallen to the Croats.

November 1996
The President of the Bosnian Serb Republic, Biljana Plavsic, dismissed Mladic from his post although he continued receiving a pension until November 2005.

July 1995
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) accused Mladic of genocide, crimes against humanity and numerous war crimes.

November 1995
The ICTY expanded the charges to include genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for the attack on Srebrenica. He was also charged with the taking of hostages amongst UN peacekeepers.

March 2000
He was reportedly seen in a private box, surrounded by eight bodyguards, at a football match between China and Yugoslavia in Belgrade.

March 2000
His professional army service was officially ended by a decree from the Republic of Srpska President Mirko Sarovic.

January 2002
The US General Secretary offered a five million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of Hague indictees Mladic and Karadzic.

June 2002
The Serbian parliament passed a law mandating cooperation with the ICTY.

December 2004
It was revealed in that the Serbian Army had been harboring and protecting Mladic until 2004.

June 2005
Human Rights Watch calls on Serbia, the EU and NATO to fulfill their legal and moral obligations and hand over Mladic and Karadzic, saying that "the victims of Srebrenica should not have to wait another decade for justice."

December 2005
The Serbian Defense Ministry confirmed that Mladic received an army pension from Serbia-Montenegro until November 2005.

February 2006
The Romanian government, along with various foreign and domestic media outlets, reported that Mladic was arrested in Romania, close to the Serbian border by a joint Romanian-British special operation. ICTY prosecutor Carla Del Ponte denied the rumours of Mladic’s arrest, urging the Serbian government to find him without further delay.

September 2006
Serbian authorities prosecuted people suspected of hiding Mladic. A web of his former colleagues from the Bosnian Serb Army, friends and relatives who had been helping Mladic was revealed along with the fact he had lived in a building in Yuri Gagarin Street for more than a year.

April 2006
The Serbian and Montenegrin parliament adopted the Law on Freezing the Assets of Hague Indictees.

May 2006
Talks between Serbia and EU were suspended after the Serbian government failed to meet the EU deadline to hand over Mladic.

June 2006
There was speculation that Mladic had recently suffered a third stroke and that he had low chances of survival.

July 2006
The Serbian government adopted an Action Plan for Future ICTY Cooperation.

May 2007
The Serbian nationalist NGO Serbian National Movement 1389 put up fake street signs in Belgrade, renaming a boulevard after fugitive Mladic. The street was renamed the week before in tribute to late reformist Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, who was assassinated in 2003. Several hundred Serbian Radical Party followers gathered in Belgrade after it to show their support for Mladic.

October 2007
Serbia offered a reward of €1 million for information leading to the location or arrest of Mladic.

January 2009
The Serbian National Movement 1389 put up posters naming so-called “true Serbs”, among them Mladic. A poll of 1,050 people in Serbia revealed that two-thirds of Serbs would not turn in Mladic.

June 2009
Bosnian state television broadcast several video clips showing Mladic living freely in Serbia. The President of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal Rasim Ljajic confirmed that the footage was old and was handed over to the ICTY in March 2009.

June 16, 2010
Mladic’s family filed a request to declare him dead in accordance with the law as he has been absent for seven years

May 19, 2010
The ICTY prosecutor said he had received Mladic's diaries from Serbia in May. The diaries are considered to be key pieces of evidence in several ongoing trials at the UN war crimes tribunal.

October 28, 2010
The Serbian government increased by tenfold a reward for information leading to the arrest of the most wanted war crimes suspect in the Balkans.

November 2, 2010
Serbian police searched three locations (two in Belgrade and one in Arandjelovac) where people close to Mladic are believed to be located.

May 26, 2011
Serbian police arrest Ratko Mladic in Serbia.
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source : http://www.balkaninsight.c​om/en/article/timeline-rat​ko-mladic

Adriaan Zef
Some people believe, not only the network of Serbian military and security officials who have made Mladic free to roam, but also the reluctance of international community, at least in the first years. NATO Members avoided the actions that could threaten the peace after war, that was still fragile. I think there was a kind of collective reluctance among Nato military commanders and their command was not only American but also British command. They feared that if they acted against Ratko Mladic, would be no major political disruption or other disruptions. But as soon as time passed, the West became increasingly hard determination to imprison him and increased its pressure on Serbia. International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague said it was confident that he was hiding in Serbia for years, "within reach" the authorities in Belgrade.


Jan Pepijn Servaas : Ratko Mladic's Interview
● Part 1/5 http://www.youtube.com/wat​ch?v=C_XTZ9Gk-K8
● Part 2/5 http://www.youtube.com/wat​ch?v=EmvaV8u1ALw&feature=r​elated
● Part 3/5 http://www.youtube.com/wat​ch?v=ZlZybglsQVA&feature=r​elated
● Part 4/5 http://www.youtube.com/wat​ch?v=jJr5YwBKg7g
● Part 5/5 http://www.youtube.com/wat​ch?v=uh7MbqpnyY8

Jan Pepijn Servaas: Does he have a complaint about the "ministry" in prison?

Lakshmi Lavanya : C, there are some similarities between you and Mladic: watching TV, eating strawberries and reading Leo Tolstoy's books ... http://www.foxnews.com/wor​ld/2011/05/27/mladic-asks-​strawberries-books-detenti​on/

Almira Izzati : ‎"I came here today to see if his eyes are still bloody," said Munira Subasic, whose 18-year-old son and husband were both killed by Serb forces in Srebrenica.

"In 1995 I begged him to let my son go. He listened to me and promised to let him go. I trusted him at that moment. Sixteen years later, I am still searching for my son's bones."

"Mladic didn't look like a cold-blooded murderer when I spoke to him at the time," said Subasic. :: http://in.reuters.com/arti​cle/2011/06/03/idINIndia-5​7476620110603

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More Recent News
(Added by me on October 10, 2011)

► http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15253968

Ratko Mladic treated in hospital
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Bosnian Serb war crimes defendant Ratko Mladic is being treated in hospital, with reports suggesting he is suffering from pneumonia.

GORAN HADZIC
President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina in Croatia from 1991 to 1993. Was charged with 14 cases of war crimes and humanity. Born September 1958, a fugitive since July 2004.
► http://www.interpol.int/public/data/want​ed/notices/data/2001/62/2001_19862.asp

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
1989-1997 President of the Republic of Serbia. Was indicted as a Croatia and Kosovo war criminal; the massacres in Bosnia. Born: August 1941. Arrested 2001. Died in prison 2006.
► http://www.icty.org/case/slobodan_milose​vic/4

RADOVAN KARADZIC
President of the Republic of Srpska from 1992 to 1996. Was charged
with 11 cases for war crimes, including genocide. Born in June 1945, was arrested July 21, 2008.
► http://www.interpol.int/public/ICPO/Pres​sReleases/PR2008/PR200836ES.asp

Bullet taken from the Luka detention facility near Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bombing Destruction. Bombed mosque in Ahmići, Bosnia and Herzegovina in April 1993.

Camps; Exhibit illustrating Hangar 6 in the Čelebići camp as described by a Serb inmate (red crosses mark murder scenes).

Field Investigations and Evidentiary Material; Bodies of people killed in April 1993 around Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Field Investigations and Evidentiary Material; Bodies of people killed in April 1993 around Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Field Investigations and Evidentiary Material; Ligature used to bind victims hands in Srebrenica, unearthed during an exhumation in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bombing Destruction; Aerial photo depicting destroyed mosques around Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bombing Destruction; Destruction of the bridge leading into Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovin

Ethnic composition in BiH by municipality 1991

A United Nations peacekeeper from Norway holds his helmet as a Hercules C-130 transport plane lands at Sarajevo airport in the summer of 1992.

Ethnica Majorities in Bosnia by area. Yellow: Croat; Green: Muslim; Red: Serb; Taupe: No Majority present.

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Do not miss this one : http://www.jpost.com/Natio​nalNews/Article.aspx?id=20​4344 .... Alexander Zvtkovic is suspected of involvement in a 1995 massacre during which thousands of Muslims were murdered in eastern Bosnia.

Israel clears way for Serb's extradition hearings
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
01/19/2011 17:18

An Israeli judge has cleared the way for Israeli prosecutors to try to extradite a former Bosnian Serb soldier back to his homeland to face genocide charges.

A Jerusalem judge on Wednesday ordered Aleksander Cvetkovic to remain in jail during extradition proceedings. The 42-year-old Cvetkovic covered his face with his hands as he entered the courtroom for the hearing.

Cvetkovic was arrested on Tuesday following a Bosnian extradition request accusing him of participating in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, where more than 8,000 Muslim men were killed.

His attorney says he "stands on his innocence."

Bosnia says he was part of a firing squad that executed between 1,000 and 1,200 Bosnian Muslims at the Branjevo Farm in July 1995. The request for his extradition was submitted by the government of Bosnia-Herzegovina on August 29, 2010.

Cvetkovic immigrated to Israel with his wife and children in 2006 and received Israeli citizenship because his wife is Jewish. He was living in Carmiel and worked in a factory and in construction before his arrest.
(SOURCE : JPost
: http://www.jpost.com/Lande​dPages/SearchResults.aspx?​q=Alexander+Zvtkovic )


Pranay Suresh : Milorad Komadic ( pseudonym of Ratko Mladic ) :: Extradition procedure to last "2 to 4 days"
http://www.b92.net/eng/new​s/politics-article.php?yyy​y=2011&mm=05&dd=30&nav_id=​74654

Jan Pepijn Servaas
Focus on Mladic:
● Mercy for a monster: Mladic visits grave of daughter who killed herself with his pistol as he faces extradition 'within 24 hours'::
http://www.dailymail.co.uk​/news/article-1392673/Mlad​ic-taken-grave-medical-stu​dent-daughter-killed-pistol-Bosnian-wa​r.html

● Judges reject Mladic's appeal against extradition :: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/i​d/43221398/ns/world_news-e​urope/

● Ratko Mladic extradition appeal rejected (Serbian judges rules former Bosnian Serb commander will be extradited to The Hague 'as soon as possible') :: http://www.guardian.co.uk/​world/2011/may/31/ratko-ml​adic-extradition-appeal-re​jected

Fairuz Azalia :

@ http://www.cbsnews.com/sto​ries/2011/06/01/501364/mai​n20067828.shtml

@ http://www.dailymail.co.uk​/news/article-1391085/Ratk​o-Mladic-fit-stand-trial-w​ar-crimes-rules-court.html

@ http://www.unhcr.org/refwo​rld/country,,,,BIH,,4ddf7a​f22,0.html

Jan Pepijn Servaas : In Scheveningen, I hope he's happy to see his "old friends" Vujadin Popovic, Radovan Karadzic, and his former enemy Ante Gotovina.

Gil Scott Heron

"You never cared enough to be Black" — Gil Scott Heron

Reading For Today :
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► http://www.npr.org/blogs/there​cord/2011/05/27/136731274/gil-​scott-heron-poet-and-musician-​has-died
► http://www.stuff.co.nz/enterta​inment/blogs/3309462/The-anger​-and-poetry-of-Gil-Scott-Heron

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Cisca Zarmansyah

NOW AND THEN
"Because I always feel like running
Not away, because there is no such place
Because if there was, I would have found it by now
Because it's easier to run,
Easier than staying and finding out
you're the only one who didn't run
Because running will be the way your life and mine will be described,
As in "the long run"
Or as in having "given someone a run for his money"
Or as in "running out of time"
Because running makes me look like everyone else,
though I hope there will ever be cause for that
Because I will be running in the other direction, not running for cover
Because if I knew where cover was, I would stay there and never have to run for it
Not running for my life, because I have to be running for something of more value to be running and not in fear
Because the thing I fear cannot be escaped, eluded, avoided, hidden from, protected from, gotten away from,
Not without showing the fear as I see it now
Because closer, clearer, no sir, nearer
Because of you and because of that nice
That you quietly, quickly be causing
And because you're going to see me run soon and because you're going to know why I'm running then
You'll know then
Because I'm not going to tell you now"
*****
( The Poems of Gil Scott-Heron )

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Jan Pepijn Servaas : Work fusion of soul, jazz, blues, and poems. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised!

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Flashback

Gary Moore dead: Thin Lizzy guitarist dies in Costa del Sol hotel

www.dailymail.co.uk

Legendary rock guitarist and former Thin Lizzy star Gary Moore has died in Spain. The 58-year-old, originally from Belfast, was found dead in a hotel room on the Costa del Sol.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-n​orthern-ireland-12377862

www.bbc.co.uk

Thin Lizzy guitar ace dies after booze-up on holiday

www.thesun.co.uk

GUITAR ace dies on hol — choking on vomit after knocking back champagne & brandy.

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Understanding The Jazz As An Expression Language

Understanding The Jazz As An Expression Language
by Cisca Zarmansyah

Jazz is basically the language of musical expression, it is very individual. In America today I see many black jazz musicians use jazz music as an expression of political culture to voice their position as a minority. This awareness I can even see the black jazz musicians who are still teenagers. If you have time to listen to jazz in the southern city of Chicago, you will know that jazz music performances there have a different context with jazz performances at clubs downtown area of Chicago.

What matters here is not good or poor quality of their play. Jazz that I hear in the clubs of Chicago is part of an entertainment industry, even if it does not reduce the weight of the music itself. I often hear jazz in the south of Chicago is a subversive political expression to the dominance of white society. Here the black jazz musicians are very aware that they play jazz in the context of making a firm statement about their cultural identity. They even claim that jazz, specifically, is a black American community music. I see this awareness induced in since they still play jazz at the elementary school level.

If jazz has a status like this, you can imagine how should we play jazz. Thus, basically playing jazz music is to express our expression as strongly as possible for others to hear our voice. As jazz evolves into a global musical language, musicians around the world take advantage of it. The musicians who are not black is not able to claim jazz as an expression of their identity politics, because they do not live in a social context and the same history. However, this does not mean jazz musicians who are not black should not use jazz as a language of personal expression.

As part of American society, they are accustomed to voicing their opinions out loud, no matter what their skin color. Therefore, jazz can be a part of their emotional life.

In other words, jazz is not just music. That is a very powerful culture container. Every jazz player from any cultural background should be able to tell their emotions at play, and in this expression must also be able to communicate them.

The language of jazz music is created specially for the sake of it. By doing so, will create an excellent jazz performances. The advantages of jazz music is not owned by other types of music anywhere in the world. Jazz is a genre of music that is born in a specific cultural context, but can grow effectively become the international language of expression. In addition, when the verbal language is often co-opted by the dominant groups of society, the language of jazz music can give us the opportunity to continue to communicate amongst humanely without trapped in an ideological social construction.

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(CLA-Jz/AZ/M52711)

(Inspired by Adriaan Zef, my beloved beloved new husband "husband" )

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Lakshmi Lavanya : what are the limits of jazz today? I hear it is served no longer pure, there are also many other musical elements. But this would make it sound more colorful, not monotonous, and can be enjoyed by all walks of life.

Pranay Suresh : It's nice to think of history in all respects. Initially, they didn't realize that their tones would be a very beautiful song. They were also not familiar with Western instruments. After French people left their plantations, they found the musical instruments such as piano, drums, saxophone, and bass. They tried to play it without reading musical notes and without knowing the real meaning of Western music.

Pranay Suresh : One interesting thing to me is the origin of the word "jazz" that comes from a vulgar term used for sexual acts. Some jazz rhythm was associated with the brothels and women with a negative reputation, but along with running time, it became a musical art form both in composition and improvisation that reflected its melodic spontaneously. Not bad!

Adriaan Zef : My wife, you are good at making me feel flattered. Thank you for consider me as your husband. And indeed, for me, the couple is you and me.

Valentino Vie : yeah? hahahhaa....

In memory of the news :



Jazz composer Billy Taylor dies
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The US musician, composer and jazz advocate Billy Taylor dies of heart failure at the age of 89.

Keeping The Character

Remember the fairy tale of Malin Kundang? He was a poor boy from Sumatra (Indonesia), who sought his fortune on the seacoast. For years he was exploring the various islands to pursue a dream. He fared better. After became the rich man and married a beautiful girl, he sailed home with beautiful and luxurious ship. Arriving in the village, was where he got the life test. An old woman dressed in rags came to pick him. Immediately, the old woman rushed to hug him and confessed that she was his mother.

When his wife asked whether the older woman was his mother, Malin Kundang, in shame, didn't admit it. The mother, who had long waited for and longed for him, in sorrow and disappointment then prayed, "If it is true he is my son, I hope he becomes a stone." So, Malin Kundang turned into a stone.

In the past, such tales were circulating as informal education to maintain the behavior and maintain the character. For example, there was also a tale about brothers who have ignored the advice of their parents. Because the upset, both of their parents decided to turn into birds and flew away from them. In their cries, the children heard the birds singing were singing as if saying, "That's what you get if you ignore your parents advice."

From ancient times there is always a fairy-tale or phrases or expressions full of wisdom messages. Among the Muslims, in the Middle East, there's the mystical and philosophical movement of Sufis in the 11th -12 th century. According to its history (Religions of the World, 1971), because the Sufi way of life tends to renounce the world to dedicate themselves in devotion to God alone, they are regarded as saints by the multitude of Muslims. The interesting thing is, the fairy tales and wise phrases that had been disseminated by them, much quoted by the world literature. There are a lot of their works are useful for informal education in order to build the society's character.

There was a Sufi named Attar who lived in Nishapar, Persia (Iran) in the 12th century. His works were considered important, because by his community, it was considered to be helpful and maintain a network of social and ethical values of Islam.

There was another writer named Saadi Persian from Shiraz (13th century). His classic works collected in The Orchard (Bostan) and The Rose Garden (Gulistan) were very famous and widely translated into many languages. He perpetuated the Sufism in Persian literature. Some of his quotes are, "A jewel that fell into the mud did not diminish its value." ; "No one is throwing a barren tree that does not bear fruit." ; "When we see the beggars do not eat, the food seems to make a sick and toxic." ; "The wealth of the sea is not unexpected, but if you want to survive, stay on the beach." ; "The Arabian horse ran fast. The camel moved slowly, but the camel walk day and night."

In ancient times, people everywhere seemed like fairy tales and phrases that contained the profound positive message. This is a kind of informal education without sounding to impose, but effective way to keep maintaining the values of life are respected by and within the community.

Lately, fairy tales or the bedtime of wise phrases are rarely heard. Children usually get other types of practical entertainment that don't bother their parents, such as a spectacle of violence through the electronic tools. Along with that, the temptations of worldliness more intense, the competition increasingly fierce. We witnessed the violation manners everywhere, in various forms and ways. It's not only sneak in family life, but also in the society, state, political and religious life.

If in the old days we often heard the expressions of rebellious child, so now it seems we more often see the children who suffer because of neglect by their parents. Thousands of street children scattered in various parts of the world. Certainly too cliche if we talk about poverty and unemployment as the reason. What will happen is, the growth of child life will be disrupted due to trauma in childhood. Even it's possible the uncomfortable experience will be the uncertainty revenge in adulthood.

Running the informal education through the parental advice, stories, and phrases wisely can help build the character, considering its implementation can begin from an early age and continue until the adulthood. This education can be strengthened through non-formal education institutions or political associations, religious, sports or other organizations, as well as by formal education in schools that its curriculum can be adjusted to the needs of nation. As Saadi said, "If we take the straight road, it is impossible to get lost."
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(CZ/LA-St/0525)

READING For TODAY 001. The Legend of Malin Kundang Story 002. Fifty Poems of Attar 003. Attar Poetry 004. The Gulistan of Sa'di 005. The Bustan of Sadi

006. Poems by Saadi (Persian poet)

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Fairuz Azalia : An interesting review, C. I agree with your idea. Fairy tales are useful for children, other than useful for sharpening their intellect and imagination, we can also instill the values and ethics, and motivate their reading interests.

Pranay Suresh : Fairuz, I think everything has its positive and negative sides. Things we need to look at is, it turns out the tales of children sometimes are dangerous. In a discussion between me and my two sisters, the fairy tale that is told to children will indirectly affect the patterns of their thought and behavior. So, don't be surprised if the bad behavior of children and adolescents come from fairy tales.


Jan Pepijn Servaas : Try to ask the younger siblings, or children about the story that they know. How the story of Alexander the Great, Haman, Harut, Nimrod, Queen of Sheba, Asiyah, Zulaikha or 25 prophets?

Almira Izzati : ‎@ Pranay Suresh, why can it be dangerous?

Pranay Suresh : Almira Izzati, Let us examine the story closely. Sleeping Beauty (Grimm Brothers) its brief, the Princess fell asleep because the needle pricked her finger. The curse was missing after a prince kissed her. Imagine it, a young man kissed a young woman (at the time told that the Princess's age was 15 years old) who was sleeping. So, don't be surprised if many teenagers now are kissing before marriage. Or even more than kissing....? .....


Cisca Zarmansyah : Kashmir, did you know when I was at the age of 16 years, ... since the first time he kissed me, I was still sleeping until now!


Almira Izzati : Pranay, she was the Cinderella who liked party since she was 17 years old .....

Stephen Hawking

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■ The Telegraph

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Cisca Zarmansyah : Stephen. I'm just a fool, that's why I believe there is life after death. And my belief about life after death makes me feel that the life I lead now become more meaningful. I'm not afraid of the dark, I'm just afraid of blindness while my eyes still can see. We have an equation to find the greatest value from each of our actions. I also don't want to rush to die, I also can't accelerate my death and I'm not going to do things that cause the death. Because I believe that death and life are God's creations. And until now you will not be able to explain why you and I are still alive. If you die first, I'll make a poem for you. (Love - Cisca Zarmansyah)

Jan Pepijn Servaas: Many people are clever, but ridiculous

Jan Pepijn Servaas: Two of his thesis about heaven and God's are pretty horrendous, though they are not quite thrilling.

Almira Izzati : He is the virus of anti heaven..

Lakshmi Lavanya : ‎"Belief in God is not about plugging a gap in explaining how one thing relates to another within the Universe. It is the belief that there is an intelligent, living agent on whose activity everything ultimately depends for its existence. Physics on its own will not settle the question of why there is something rather than nothing" Dr Rowan Williams in Telegraph : http://www.telegraph.co.uk​/news/religion/7979093/Ste​phen-Hawking-religious-lea​ders-dismiss-God-not-neede​d-comments.html

"Let's take the law mentioned by Dr. Hawking above – the law of gravity. It has a specific constant associated with it and specific characteristics, and it has specific effects on mass-energy and even on space-time itself. This is a very curious definition of 'nothing'. Now if we rephrase Dr Hawking's statement in the above fashion, then he has clearly not explained why there is something rather than nothing. He has only explained that something comes from something," Jesuit priest and scholar, former president of Gongaza University Fr Robert Spitzer : http://www.indcatholicnews​.com/news.php?viewStory=16​662

Jan Pepijn Servaas: Stephen Hawking Warns That Aliens May Be Like Us http://www.treehugger.com/​files/2010/04/stephen-hawk​ing-warns-that-aliens-may-​be-like-us.php

Laksmi Lavanya

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Lakshmi Lavanya : C, these days I see you are so pretty in white domination. How do you think about it, Almira Izzati ?


Jan Pepijn Servaas: ‎@ Almira Izzati : Don't pretend not to see this beautiful flower.

Almira Izzati : heel mooiiii.... @ Cisca Zarmansyah : Do not pretend not to know that before becoming a tarantula, you are a beautiful girl, innocent and beautiful as this beautiful lily....! ...lol.........

Cisca Zarmansyah: ‎@ Cisca Zarmansyah : For shared perception, it's good for you if I make clear the tarantula (like what is meant by Izti) is based on this reference, tadaaa ...... http://animals.nationalgeo​graphic.com/animals/bugs/t​arantula/, ... naaah, has now become clear to us.

Almira Izzati ‎: ..... tadaaa..... ........

Valentino Vie in May and June

Les moments où je mets mes mains sur tes seins si doux au toucher. Bonjour ma femme, Avoir des enfants de vous est la plus belle chose que je veux, dans le reste de ma vie. Tenez-vous bien. Je vous aimerai toujours, et personne ne ou la chose ne peut l'ébranler.

Tout conjugue le verbe aimer. Voici les roses. Je ne suis pas en train de parler d'autres choses. Premier mai! l'amour gai, triste, brûlant, jaloux. Fait soupirer les bois, les nids, les fleurs, les loups. L'arbre où j'ai, l'autre automne, écrit une devise. La redit pour son compte et croit qu'il l'improvise. Les vieux antres pensifs, dont rit le geai moqueur. Clignent leurs gros sourcils et font la bouche en coeur. L'atmosphère, embaumée et tendre, semble pleine. Des déclarations qu'au Printemps fait la plaine. Et que l'herbe amoureuse adresse au ciel charmant. A chaque pas du jour dans le bleu firmament, la campagne éperdue, et toujours plus éprise. Prodigue les senteurs, et dans la tiède brise. Envoie au renouveau ses baisers odorants. Tous ses bouquets, azurs, carmins, pourpres, safrans. Dont l'haleine s'envole en murmurant: Je t'aime! Sur le ravin, l'étang, le pré, le sillon même, Font des taches partout de toutes les couleurs. Et, donnant les parfums, elle a gardé les fleurs. Comme si ses soupirs et ses tendres missives. Au mois de mai, qui rit dans les branches lascives. Et tous les billets doux de son amour bavard. Avaient laissé leur trace aux pages du buvard! Les oiseaux dans les bois, molles voix étouffées. Chantent des triolets et des rondeaux aux fées. Tout semble confier à l'ombre un doux secret. Tout aime, et tout l'avoue à voix basse. On dirait. Qu'au nord, au sud brûlant, au couchant, à l'aurore. La haie en fleur, le lierre et la source sonore. Les monts, les champs, les lacs et les chênes mouvants. Répètent un quatrain fait par les quatre vents.

(Premier mai - VICTOR HUGO, Les contemplations)

Cisca Zarmansyah : When the moon was asked, "What do you want?" I heard its answer was, "I hope the sun disappears, hiding behind the clouds forever!"

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Adriaan Zef : Idiot!

Cisca Zarmansyah : You rebel.

Adriaan Zef : Nope! I'm erect.

Adriaan Zef : Come on, hon.

Adriaan Zef : Skip that SOB!

Adriaan Zef : You are mine.

Adriaan Zef : No need clothes. No need bras. Come on, time for our bed.

Cisca Zarmansyah : No, blue beard. Wait a minute. I still want to type a little more, ... "There was a great king who depressed and lost his confidence. One day he called all the people in his country. He said,"

Cisca Zarmansyah: ‎... BB, are you still there?

Adriaan Zef: Get out of my mind.

Adriaan Zef : Ok, go ahead. Promise me, briefly only. What did he say?

Cisca Zarmansyah: ‎"I want a special ring that can reconcile the country. I want the ring has a peculiarity that can make me happy when I'm sad, and can make me sad when I'm happy."

Adriaan Zef : Don't start me with your silly fantasy, hon. Please.

Cisca Zarmansyah : No. Just listen to me. Let me continue it. Of course, the king's desire confused the clever people in the country.

Adriaan Zef : who cares? all to hell!

Cisca Zarmansyah:  After sharing ideas, thinking hard and negotiate, then the clever people finally agreed to make the ring was inscribed with these words.


Adriaan Zef : what words?

Cisca Zarmansyah : hehheee.... I don't know. Once completed, the ring was directly saved by the king.

Adriaan Zef : stop sticking your tongue out!

Adriaan Zef: stop laughing!

Adriaan Zef : You lie!.....

Adriaan Zef : I'm sure you know it!

Cisca Zarmansyah : Ok, let us sleep now. You are already angry. Promise me, no love bites tonight.

Adriaan Zef : No, I can't promise you.

Adriaan Zef : You really make my nerves curly. But don't worry.

Adriaan Zef:  I'll make you say what is written in the ring! you must tell it to me!

Adriaan Zef : Ok, come on.

Valentino Vie : There is the moon at night. A man is silent with a thousand words, just stares with his wounded heart, his heart is hurt. The air is heavy with romance so suffocating his chest, when the love hit by a wall. Please open your heart's door that is always frozen. So I can see the moon again in your face. Do not hide your heart to me. I, a man, and the moon, you, united in the night when the wind blows in the breeze here.

Cisca Zarmansyah

When the moon was asked, "What do you want?" I heard its answer was, "I hope the sun disappears, hiding behind the clouds forever!"

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Valentino Vie : Only the sun that can accommodate its moon's dreams. You are my moon and I am your sun. The light of beauty that you have is derived from the light power that I have. You are my moon, my woman. I am your man, your sun. Do not hide me from you.

I need you to see my strength and you need me to see your beauty. Let the stars watch this story.

I am the biggest star for you, and you do not have to expect a small star to decorate your night, because we have been through a few nights without stars in the sky, and life still goes on.

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(V- des Vosges, Mai 2011)

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