Date: 01 Apr 1999 07:42:00 +0200
From: I-AFD_2-AT-anarch.free.de (Nico MYOWNA)
Subject: Zagreb Anarchist Movement on Yugoslavia 29.3.99


## News 31.03.99
## by marko-AT-zamir.net
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ZAGINFLATCH #18, 29th March 1999.
newsletter published by Zagreb Anarchist Movement
ZAP / ARK
GAJEVA 55
10 000 ZAGREB
CROATIA zap_zg-AT-geocities.com
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/3707/


Dear friends,

info on Zaginflatch is available on request.

Basically, with this newsletter we want to inform the international
community (this is you) on how antiautoritarians 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. This is our act of solidarity.
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.

Zagreb Anarchist Movement (ZAP)



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from: Misa Djurkovic, Institute for European Studies in Belgrade
Subject: NEOCOLONIALISM AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

1)Concerning plans and tactic of NATO in attacking Yugoslavia, you might
find many interesting question. I'll try to pose one. During the first
phase, NATO has attacked only static targets (factories,
warehouses, radars for defence of towns, military and civil airports,
fortresses, and AA Artillery). Due to "colateral damage" many civil objects
were destroyed as well. Five(!) days after the beginning NATO has started to
attack the very target they claimed they intend to attack: serbian military
forces at Kosovo. What's the difference when you compare situation at the
moment with the one from five days ago? According to Russian military
experts NATO didn't have to much success in fighting Yugoslav AA Artillery
and Aircrafts (not more than 5 shoot down while we have confirmed
information for at least ten NATO aircrafts - these are not official
information since they don't give any information about outcomes of NATO
strikes; except about F-117 A ). But there have been ruining and damaging
of:
- many buildings
- many other construction objects
- many factories with complete technology
- many kinds of different civic technology
- radars and other parts of military technology...
There was even talking about possible targeting bridges, railways, roads...

NATO claims that it wants to destroy all the facilities of Serbia to ever
make war. (It seems more that it wants to destroy all the facilities of
Serbians to ever live and earn normally: Car factory Zastava in Kragujevac
which employs 38 000 thousands of workers was bombed during first attacks;
now these people every night make a circle of their bodies around their
factory .). Destroying the factories which produce reserves for army could
be justified only if they plan to make war for long time , since at the
moment Serbian army definitely has to have enough of it. Does NATO plan to
make a long war with serbian army? But remember, basically they wanted just
to prevent humanitarian catastrophe, which can't be done by long war. So why
have they destroyed all these objects and why they want to continue
with it? I think that we should ask another question which might help us.
What's gonna happen with Yugoslav economics after this Aggression?
Definitely Yugoslavia will be destroyed and all those things (including
technology stuff) will have to be repaired and replaced. Who will give money
for that? Russians? China, India, Taiwan? No; but western companies (take a
look at Bosnia and Republika Srpska). Even if they give you credits for free
or with a small rates, they definitely earn since you find yourself tied to
their technology, and economically completely dependent on them. How is it
called? Yes, NEOCOLONIALISM!

2)And one more great thing in which NATO "helped" us. Capital punishment (or
death penalty). It has recently been abolished from Yugoslav Constitution
and I find it as a one of the biggest successes of our hard fighting for
democracy, constitutionalism and normal life values. Tonight, Minister of
Justice in Srebian Government, mister Dragoljub Jankovic proposed that it
should be introduced again while we have the State of War. I don't have
reasons to doubt that it will be introduced in these circumstances (no
independent electronic media and press, civil society is almost completely
isolated and destroyed). DO YOU KNOW WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR US (AND
EVEN FOR
ALBANIANS) IN THIS COUNTRY? DO YOU KNOW THAT ONLY IN BELGRADE WE
HAVE ALMOST
100 000 ALBANIAN CITIZENS? DOES ANYONE OF POLITICIANS REALLY CARES
ABOUT THE
ISSUES CONCERNED WITH SECOND PART OF MY LETTER (HUMAN RIGHTS)
OR THEY ONLY
(OB)USE IT FOR THE ISSUES FROM THE FIRST PART OF IT?


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from: davor konjikusic, belgrade. zgebche-AT-Eunet.yu

I can't manage to reply to all emails and send all the info i have... Today,
together with a friend of mine i watched how military police raided the
skyscraper across my building.. A silly situation. Everybody was on their
balconies, but when they saw the MP's they all went inside to hide...

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Tonight i spoke briefly with a friend of mine who's in Pristina. She has
suffered a lot in the past, since she worked for Humanitarian Right Fund.
>From her words it is clear that the situation in Kosovo is extremely hard.
Since 11 o'clock they are bombing Yugoslav military and police. I just saw
on television that there is a lot of fire in the field, and who knows what
else. Nothing good.... It seems to me that refugees from Pec were
deliberately sent towards Montenegro. Montenegro still hasn't declared state
of war, so it was neccessary for them to destabilize that region.

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I sometimes feel small and stupid. I don't know much about many things. But
Milosevic is there because of them, they are here because of him, Tudjman is
there because of Milosevic  and so on. It's a circle. Simply put, we are
positioned between two sides. One is Milosevic's regime, other is
capitalist-expansionist politics of USA. Third side maybe fights for an
Albanian state in Kosovo - a poligon for new exploitation from Albanian
elite. I van not choose a side in this conflict. I don't support neither one
of them. I don't want to get killed in order to protect this pighouse in
Serbia, i don't want to get killed for a united and free Europe. We were
brought to absurdity. Our existence in absurd. As Maya (see Zaginflatch #16)
has well put it, we are thinking about passports, open borders, normal
life... I believe that i have a right on that and much more by birth and
that i shouldn't have to fight for those rights. My country is gone (darko
was born in zenica, bosnia, translator). Streets which i liked no longer
exist, and i don't believe in defence of virtual national states. The
problem is that people who die aren't cyber but real people from flash and
blood. To direct your hate towards an Albanian person or towards a NATO
pilot doesn't solve anything. You can hurt an individual but not the system.
They know that well. ... The only question is what's good, i.e. best for me.
Since i want to live...

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Today I took a ride with some people who were on their way to report to the
army. They were speaking about some Bulgarians who were caught while placing
radio locators. I feel that they are just ordinary smugglers, and this
atmosphere smells bad. Serbia is becoming even more radicalized.


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from: marko strpic, zagreb, markos-AT-zamir.net

SITUATION IN CROATIA and short analysis of what's going on

Here are some more personal conclusions and analysis of situation in
Croatia since NATo air strikes started. The whole thing is still main news
in all media, and aproach is still (more or less) objecitve as much as media
can be, without political or personal comments from journalists. That's what
you get from a national tv station (HTV), but from other tv stations and
newspapers too... And than you read some more about what was going on behind
waht you see on the news... Statment of the main news editor at HTV that we
could see in newspapers was this (more or less) - "we were euphoric,
atmosphere was really good, but we managed to cover almost everything, we
did a good job." They were  happy!!!??? After hearing something like that,
you have to question everything you saw on a tv, but at the end, when you
compare it with what you see elsewhere, yes, it's objective. At least they
don't show their feelings while they report about current events.
Interesting thing is that ruling party (HDZ), which is right wing, although
they call themselves "party of the centre", stated in all news and at all
press conferences how they are very concerned and worried cause of the air
strikes and development of the situation in Yugoslavia. Also, they acused
all euphoric reactions caused by bombings. They also call all sides to find
a peaceful solution and sign a agrement. It was strange to listen something
like that coming from HDZ, becasue of their nationalist and militarist
politics that we used to listen through all these years. It's nice change,
but just for ears, not for current situation in Croatia - reasons for this
kind of statement are not in a big change in their politics, but in many
other reasons. First of all, Croatian air space was closed for the first two
days (all the airport got direct order from NATO to stop all the traffic) of
air atrikes, and after that just part of it is open again. Economic damage
done by that is big. Than, lots of tourists (tourism is one of the biggest
money - making resources for Croatia, especially cause of the big and nice
coast) canceled their reservations for these holidays. Some got here and
that was a big news on a tv, although i supose that most of the tourists
deceided to cancel cause Ministry of tourism looks very worried. And it's
not just about current holidays, but big question is how it will look like
this summer - expected number is falling down every day, and it will
conitinue so, as long as there is a war going on. So, we should look for
reasons of all this in economic part and not elsewhere. Also, there's a
chance to see this conflict expanding into other countries. Croatia is maybe
not the first one to be drawn into it, but it's somehwere on the "list". I
don't see that as a development of current situation, although, anything is
possible now - no one beleived that NATO will attack and it happened. Maybe
the biggest danger of new conflicts is in Macedonia, but i still can't say
who can cause that and what would be the main reason for conflicts there...
At the other hand, there is a huge number of NATO forces placed there nad i
don't think that they would let something like that happen. Although, there
were troops in Somalia too and that couldn't stop conflicts in that country.
I don't want to be pessimistic, but situation doesn't look to bright at the
moment. I still didn't manage to see first reactions of public or politicans
in Croatia after these first attacks of second wave of NATO bombings, but i
don't think that much have changed. According to some media analysis, 80 or
90% of people in Croatia support NATO strikes and think that it will help
bring peace at Kosova. I'm not sure how offical these numbers are, but
unfortunatly that might be true. If i manage to find checked and good
analysis, i'll
> write about it. Zvonimir Boban (yes, a football player) stated (within a
big interview hat he gave for a daily newspapers) how "people shouldn't be
happy cause someone else suffers" and that "he's really sorry cause of all
this happenig"... suprise, suprise... i hope that general situation will
change in that direction... That's all from me for today and my small
anarchist analysis of situation here... i just hope that all the anarchist
friends in Yugoslavia are ok and that our informations reach anarchist
firends in the world - any feedback from you would be great!

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