Date: 04 Apr 1999 10:15:00 +0200
From: I-AFD_2-AT-anarch.free.de (Nico MYOWNA)
Subject: Zagreb Anarchist Movement on Yugoslavia 3rd April 1999


## News 03.04.99
## by marko-AT-zamir.net

newsletter published by Zagreb Anarchist Movement

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what follows are translated extracts from emails posted to
ex-yu-a-lista-AT-zamir.net which is a mailing list for ex-yu anarchists, and
from private emails..

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from: pop, kraljevo

Yesterday. a friend from Jagodina mentioned to me that their cops have
evacuated from the police station since it is expected that police owned
buildings will be be bombed. I didn't pay much attention to that. Tonight,
between 22 - 23 i passed by the police station and it was interesting to see
that not one police vehicle was parked outside. It was interesting to see
such a big free space which is usually ocupied with various cop's cars.
I went home, and watched 2-3 movies. Then the news came, police building in
the center of Belgrade was bombed and destroyed. I beleive that besides
anger caused by tonight's bombing there are many people who were glad to see
police station burning. If we had a local paper like Class War this sight
would surely be on the front page, if not printed as a bonus poster...

Besides, i have found out that at VMA (?!) 14 rooms were opened for vounded
people from Kosovo - something offcials hide from public. Some doctor called
and through tears reported that the situation is very hard, that KLA is
hitting them very hard in cooperation with NATO.

 "Behind the badge, behind the gun, the cops are naked like everyone.
Don't be afraid of their icy glare, imagine them in their underwear."


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some fragments, came through Vesna Terselic, Zagreb:

Zdravko Marjanovic from Society for Peace and Tolerance grom Backa Palanka:
"We simply can't do anything, can't say anything. I fear that this is
growing into savage nationalism. Now i know why there's no opposition in
Serbia."

Jelena Santic from Grupa 484:
"When all this stops we are expecting a horrible time. People play music in
the squares and Kosovo is burning. There are maybe 500 000 people left in
Kosovo. Everything we did in the past was destroyed. I am only happy because
refugees from Croatia we have worked with, see things differently than other
people."

Manda Prising from Sombor:
"I knew from before that tere is a lot of nationalism. They have smashed
windows on albanian owned shops and bakers. I just ask why did they destroy
the bridge in Novi Sad. What sort of a military target is that. Military
doesn't use it anymore to go to Kosovo. They have all allready went
 there..."

Natasa Kandic and  Nora Ahmeti from Center for Humanitarin Rights, just came
from Pristina:
"She is waiting to board a train. Now I understand how was it in Croatia,
Bosnia. Imagine, she is waiting to be taken away."


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from: viki, belgrade

Only now i can describe to you what has happened last night.

Sometime before 1 0'clock, while i was watching star wars on tv, something
has exploded terribly loud. Everything has shaked and i saw the flash
through the window, although it wasn't watching in the direction of the
explosion. There were 2 explosions at first, then 2 more. They have hit, as
you probably know, the buildings of Federal and Regional Police (MUP), which
are 500 and 700 meters from my home. Federal MUP was hit from the side and
not from the front. It didn't burn in the beggining bit the flames have
spread fast, and it turned out to develop as a fucking camp fire. I saw it
from my terrace quite well. Regional MUP was also on fire, but you couldn't
see it because they've hit only one smaller part of it. You could also hear
numerous smaller explosions, for which have brilliant militarists from my
building decided that they were from the stored munition. However, since the
firemen were there from the very begining i think they're from something
else.
...
A while later the flames were 10-20 meters high .Freaky!
At the national tv they said that one bomb was dropped 20 meters from the
hospital's nursery, which is ridicuolus.
...
Only now i can see how intensly one can be afraid. I scared the shit out of
my pants in the first couple of minutes.


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from: mirko

Just 15 minutes ago madmen hit the buildings in the center of Belgrade close
to the bridge over Sava river. We are afraid that many people are killed --
this part of city is heavily populated. I know this part of Belgrade very
well.  Only 200 meters away there are about 10 hospitals and clinics, full
of CIVILIANS
NATO's propaganda machinery number 1 -- CNN -- transmitted pictures where
big flames are visible. Very big flames. I can see in my imagination how
people in Montana US, Den Hag, Lyon, Birmingham, collected with their
families for Easter, are sitting in front of TV and looking. Enjoying?
Oh, yes, those buildings where headquarters of police. Do you have police in
your country?
Was the police headquarter in Being, China, destroyed  after massacre of
students on Tien An Men square?
What is the difference between me and Ho Wan Kung (some Chinese)?
I have many Albanian friends from Kosovo I work for human rights.  I haven't
killed anyone.
We were making many actions against the war.
Another hits. Villages on Fruska Gora mountain, in Vojvodina. Small villages
with peaceful farmers -- Slovaks, Serbs, Croats.
They (madmen) announced bombing of bridges, like that one destroyed Novi
Sad.
People are desperate, they were making live chain with their bodies over the
bridge in Belgrade.
Yesterday, Russian monks with Serbian priests prayed on the bridge between
Pancevo and Belgrade to protect it from "American bombs". Mysticism? Or only
protection left?
Will somebody find few minutes during the Easter and explain to me, stupid
me, how the death of a child in Vojvodina, 600 km (400 miles) north from
Kosovo will help to suffering Kosovo children?
One hour ago I got information from my Hungarian friends -- there are only
few hundred places more left in refugee camps in Hungary. Total capacity was
2000. Only women and small children can enter. No boys and men at all.
There were in Yugoslavia thousands of political refugees from Hungary after
Soviet attack 1956.
There were in Yugoslavia many thousands of political refugees from
Czechoslovakia after Soviet invasion 1968
There are in rump Yugoslavia (SRJ) 350 000t refugees from Croatia, came
after Croatian attack on so called Krajina in 1995.
Oh, yes, but this is past.
We are here, at the end of 20th century.
So trapped in the cave by Milosevic and NATO, wrote me just now one my good
friends.
How many are left?
Happy Easter, the holiday of Peace



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from: G 484

Dear friends,

We are sending you the announcement, which explains the position of
nongovernmental organizations of Serbia towards NATO bombing.
The incredible events that have happened in Europe, more precisely in Serbia
and Montenegro, will change our lives in many aspects.  The decision "to use
violence for humanitarian reasons" is a sign of
impatience, incompetence and impotence of political elite.  The bomb attacks
in an undeclared war  have destroyed human lives, army installations and all
chances for Serbia to engage in a process of
democratization in near future. Ten years of hard work of groups of
courageous people in the opposition and the NGO sector, which tried to
develop institutions of civil society, to promote modern European values, to
teach about "non violent conflict resolution", has been erased in one night.
The emerging democracy in Montenegro will be hard to maintain now. Milosevic
regime will be stronger than ever, and the Kosovo problem will be unsolved.
These are the long term results of bombing. It is difficult to estimate
which of the following is less depressing: 1. the politicians knew the above
mentioned consequences of their decisions or 2. they were incapable of
foreseeing the impact of heir decisions. We hope that all involved will come
to their senses and try to resolve problems by negotiations without further
violence.
We believe that you agree with us that violence is the worst solution and
that the process of the democratization of our country will be completely
stopped now. The worst thing now is that the civilians are the ones that
suffer the most, especially those who are completely innocent - children.
The efforts of NGO sector of Serbia to develop the institutions of the civil
society had your significant support for the last few years. All our joint
results are now being questioned.
Even now, we hope that we can have your support by insisting, in your
countries and to your government, TO STOP THE BOMBING IMMIDIATELY.
We are convinced that it is never too late for the peaceful solutions and
therefore we are calling to pledge together with us for them again.
Belgrade, March 26, 1999
For Group 484, Jelena Santic

Situation in Yugoslavia is getting worse because of NATO bombing.Our
organization (Group 484) gathers 484 refuge families, who came from Croatia
in Serbia in 1995. Coordinator of our Group is Mrs.Jelena Santic, peace
activist since 1991. During the biggest war destructions in Croatia, she
traveled from Belgrade to Pakrac, the town in Croatia which was divided
between Serbs and Croats, where she led the project of renewal of trust.
During 1996 and 1997 the Group was leading a big peace project of renewal of
trust in Eastern Slavonija in Croatia. The refuge years in Belgrade, we
devoted to pledge for peace and nonviolent conflict solutions. As civil
victims of war, we know that violent  solutions breads only more violence,
and that they could not stop people's suffering. We all see now that this is
true. For years, nongovernmental movement in Serbia pledged for raising the
civil society in Serbia, but now, all our efforts are going to be lost.
Nondemocratic and nationalistic forces are  homogenizing and getting
stronger, and civil initiatives are under pressure. Bombing must stop
immediately, because the number of victims is increasing. We feel your
support and it matters a lot in the times like this.

Best regards, Vesna Golic
grupa484-AT-opennet.org


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Dear friends,

Info about Zaginflatch is available on request.

Basically, with this newsletter we want to inform the international
community (this is you) on how antiauthoritarians in Yugoslavia and
ex-Yugoslavia feel in these moments. Also, as people who have experienced
air raids and general alerts, we want to support our friends in Yugoslavia
who are experiencing this today. We don't want to prejudice any political
solutions to Kosovo and other ex-yu problems, we just want to help our
friends, and support them in this way. All opinions published in
Zaginflatch will be just personal ones. There is no joint platform.
Zaginflatch will bring you hardly any news in the way mainstream media does
it. For this kind of info we suggest you try cnn, bbc or some other
services. They are available to you anyway.. This is meant to come from
inside... Also, if you're into alternative news sources, we suggest you try
at www.b92.net ...

Zagreb Anarchist Movement (ZAP)

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