File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9905, message 10


Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 19:16:26 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: That Serb Vice Premier....



Earlier this week I posted about how the vice-premier of Serbia had made a
speech whereupon he called on the Yugoslavian government to start "telling
the truth" to the serb people about the causes of the war with NATO and
also for the leadership to tell the people that NATO was not fracturing
itself over the conduct of the war as the state claimed.  

Then I said no one had heard from the vice premier since then.

Well, now the guy is back in the news.  Why?   Milosevic fired him for
making the speech.

Also of note is an interview that ABC had with a 20ish Serb womyn on
Friday who had lost her home Thursday night to an errant NATO bomb.  The
womyn was very angry that her home had been destroyed and said she knew
exactly who was responsible, "Milosevic," because of the irresponsible
purge of Albanians out of Kosovo.  Not NATO, she said, but "Milosevic" and
his policies, and she quite frankly, didn't care if the camera was on her
or not. She said everyone else who lost their homes felt the same way
about the responsibility but they were afraid to talk about it in public.

The ABC announcer called the womyn's frankness "dramatic" and "rare."

I'd have to say she was by far the bravest thing I've seen come out of the
war.   And she wasn't asking for an apology.




carp





   

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