* Comment from an angry Serbian girl *
On April 28th a NATO missile slammed into a residential suburb in Bulgaria, providing rock-solid
proof that President Clinton's was right: most Americans really can't find Kosovo on a map
(unfortunately, this includes NATO pilots).
In a less reported incident (OK, a not-at-all reported one), the US also accidentally bombed Puerto
Rico yesterday in a training exercise (check www.motherjones.com or www.latinolink.com). To
summarize, Operation Allied Force is being conducted by people who:
1. Cannot distinguish Yugoslavia from Bulgaria (or Puerto Rico, it seems).
2. Cannot distinguish a civillian target from a military one.
3. Cannot distinguish a refugee convoy from a military convoy.
4. Cannot hide an invisible plane.
5. Can "produce" before and after photos of a mass grave site, but not one single photo of the graves
being dug, bodies brought by truck, graves being covered, etc. It must have taken at least a day;
what was the satelite camera doing for all that time in between? Perhaps NATO needs to take a
time out from their killing spree and head back to the classroom.
Katarina
last night was bad, very bad. They've been destorying Belgrade. Can you
imagine how it feels when you pass trough the part of the town, and you
see that some famous building is destroyed. There's something missing,
it is like loosing something, a part of a body. Can you imagine some
part of the Rome destroyed? Of course, I hope that will never happen.
Belgrade is one of the oldest cities in the world. It has been destroyed
33 times! It is a city that lies on the shores of Ister, the river of
paradise, a city called "Portal of Wars" by the Turks, and "Bastion of
Christianity" by the Christians. The Argonauts, Celts, Romans,
Byzantines, Goths, Huns, Avars, Bulgars, Ugrians, Crusaders and Turks
all passed through this portal, leaving behind traces of their power,
their rage and their cultures.
If you come to Belgrade you should know this: "Belgrade is one of the
oldest, most battered cities in the world. Those who love and know this
city today, know it not from what they have seen or touched. Its
greater, perhaps finest part has disappeared without a trace and we
shall never see, photograph, or touch it again. But the part of it that
is gone, that can never be reconstructed, belongs to history too, the
history we carry inside us." - Milorad Pavic, serbian writer.
The sites were awful. The people died. Who knows what will happen
tonight.
I'm visiting your site. I will try to write you something (I've tried
already, but it sounds so sentimental, and for some reason I think that
it is not appropriate), I'm constantly in some rush. Even faculty
started to work, and I don't know where to start since I've completed my
course of studies, but there are a lot of exames to pass.
This war is Europe vs. Europe. In the left corner challenger: Europe,
and in the right corner, defending the title: Europe.
Should I mention the pollution, the ecological disaster. Should I
mention the declination of Euro, or should I say, the raise of dollar.
And what about killed people?
Every day there is another "mistake", another civilian catastrophe. I'm
afraid what will happen the next days. But I won't give up, no mather
what.
Sorry, I got to get some sleep. We will stay in touch.
Thank you for friendship and humanity. Say thanks to the italian
friends.
Right now, air raid siren started. My friend, I hope that you'll never
hear that sound. Gotta go.
Vladimir
Serbia blues
(New Reservation)
Nothing to fear, nothing to worry,
It is an old, well known story.
Don't think too deep,
Don't loose your sleep
Just another nation goes to reservation.
Serbian people, they are so bad,
The world would be best if they were all dead.
Let's throw some bombs, lets burn them all,
Put them against or behind a wall.
Lets find a new desert, a new location,
Let's call it "The Serbian Reservation".
Don't think too long, don't thing too deep,
Serbian land is now so cheap.
Croats, Albanians, come and get some
A piece of Serbia to every world's bum.
It gives me sorrow it gives me blues
Whenever I hear the CNN news:
Kid kills his schoolmaster with a gun,
Macguire hits another home run.
The San Diego zoo got a new panda,
Eight-hundred-thousand killed in Rwanda.
Eight-hundred-thousand dead on the scene,
Is NATO going to intervene?
Give me a break, come on, get real,
They were all black, not a big deal,
Eight-hundred-thousand, their throats slit,
We all remember what Clinton did.
The Support he offered was only moral,
At the time he was just getting oral.
In the case of Rwanda he was to slow,
But now he's ready for a final blow.
The peace on the Balkans someone disturbs,
So let's go there and bomb some Serbs.
Let's get Kosovo ethnically clean,
Ten percent Serbs, and they're so mean.
Lets kick them out to reservation
Kosovo is for the Albanian nation
Ten percent only, used to be more,
Seventy percent after Second World War.
After fifty years they almost all left,
Under the pressure, terror, and theft.
Some ten percent just wouldn't go,
Now Clinton's ready for the final blow.
Serbs from Croatia, Serbs from Bosnia,
We chased them all to little Serbia,
What Hitler started, lets get it done,
Let's go to Serbia and have some fun.
Let's test some weapons, cause some destruction,
Let's see what will be the Russian's reaction.
It'll be good for the bonds and stocks,
'Cause the market lately really sucks.
Let us create the New World Order
For every country, we'll write a new border.
Everyone has to dance as we play,
Or he'll become NATO's pray.
Mirko
Top Ten Reasons for being a Serb
1. You are not a Croat.
2. Basketball team.
3. You can choose between several war criminals in Presidential elections.
4. You can enjoy the positive media coverage of your country when abroad.
5. You can fight 600 year-old battles against the Turks and their domestic
collaborators, be convinced that it's happening right now, and not be
entirely wrong.
6. You can always go to Greece and Cyprus and fear nothing.
7. Grilled meat and slivovitz.
8. You get to drink slivovitz and eat grilled meat even when under economic
sanctions.
9. You are the only European country which will be bombed by NATO.
10.Every now and then you get to fly to the Hague at someone else's
expense.
Top ten reasons for being a Croat:
1. You're not a Serb
2. Soccer team.
3. You get to pretend that your language is different from Serbian,
although
it's really not.
4. Dubrovnik.
5. You get to dream about independent Croatia.
6. Every now and then you get to sing "Danke, Danke,Deutschland," and
continue to
dream about independent Croatia.
7. You have a thousand-year culture of which no one has heard.
8. You have a democratically elected President who is not ashamed of being
a
Croat.
9. The glorious World War Two past.
10.You have a thousand-year culture....
Top ten reasons for being Bosnian:
1. You can get asylum anywhere except in Serbia.
2. You can pretend that your state exists.
3. Kebab.
4. You can pretend that Sarajevo is a really cosmopolitan European city
when
you know that it is not.
5. Great kebab.
6. You can be visited by Francois Mitterand, Bernard Henry-Levy, Susan
Sontag, and Bill Clinton
and it still doesn't make a difference.
7. Free round-trip to any Moslem country.
8. You get to be bombed by a psychiatrist.
9. You can fly your flag in the UN but nowhere else.
10. Foreigners give you money and don't ask any questions.
Top ten reasons for being Slovenian.
1. You can speak the beautiful Slovene language and know that no one cares
except you.
2. You can feel superior to all former Yugoslavs.
3. You can drink after work.
4. You can pretend to live on the "sunny side of the Alps," although you
know it's not that sunny.
5. You can pretend that you are as good as any German while secretly
enjoying the fact that you are a Slav.
6. Good relations with Italy and Austria.
7. You can afford to be Yugo-nostalgic.
8. You can marry a Slovene and have Slovene children who speak Slovene.
9. You don't have to be ashamed when abroad.
10.No one bothers you because no one really cares.
Top ten reasons for being Macedonian.
1. You can call yourself Macedonian and not get killed by a Bulgarian,
Greek, Serb or Albanian.
2. Fresh tomatoes, watermelon and tobacco.
3.You can pretend you are a descendant of Alexander the Great and piss off
the Greeks.
4.You get to be sad and suffer while listening to folk music.
5. Good relations with your neighbors, especially Greeks and Albanians.
6. American soldiers on your territory.
7. You get to call your country The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
8. Fresh tomatoes, watermelon, and tobacco.
9. You can successfully pretend your language is not Bulgarian.
10.Everyone is interested in the stability of your country except your
neighbors.
Top ten reasons for being Montenegrin.
1. You can be proud of your heroic past and not being conquered by the
Turks
for 500 years.
2. You can sing epic songs about your heroic past and not being conquered
by
the Turks for 500 years.
3. You can think of Russia as your Mother, although Russia does not know
you
are her son.
4. You can combine orthodoxy with Stalinism with love of Russia and still
think that you are better and more
progressive than the Serbs.
5. Goat cheese, grilled lamb, and grappa.
6. You get to kill at least one person in a vendetta and defend your honor.
7. If you are a woman you can kill your husband and everyone knows why you
did it.
8. You can smuggle cigarettes to Italy and live like a king.
9. You don't have to work even when you have to.
10.You don't have to work....
Top ten reasons for being Albanian.
1. You can always swim to Italy.
2. You can choose between a president who stole your whole income, one who
killed all your relatives,
or go fight the Serbs in Kosovo.
3. You can be proud of being from "the land of the eagle."
4. You can always swim to Italy.
5. You can take weapons from any army garrison and defend your honor.
6. You can get killed in a vendetta and be remembered as the hero of the
family.
7. You get to be called the poorest country in Europe.
8. You can live in the ecologically cleanest country in Europe.
9. You can always swim to Italy
10.You are proud of being "from the land of the eagle."
Top ten reasons for being a Yugoslav:
1.You can be proud that you are neither a Serb, nor a Croat, nor a Slovene,
nor a Bosnian,
nor a Macedonian, nor Montenegrin, nor an Albanian, although you are one or
more of the above.
2.You don't have to feel bad about being "Yugo-nostalgic."
3.You can have a husband/wife from any part of Yugoslavia and still feel
like the country never fell
apart, especially if you are abroad
4.You get to listen to Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian,
Macedonian, Montenegrin, and even Albanian music and feel that it's quite
OK.
5. You don't have to be ashamed of your Titoist past.
6. You can sing Partisan songs from World War Two or rock-and-roll from the
1980's.
7. You get to be cosmopolitan and spit on all the nationalists.
8. You get to be researched by foreign sociologists interested in your
identity.
9. You are invited to speak about Yugoslavia at conferences abroad.
10.You are a good candidate for a Soros stipend.
Mila
RUSSI NON ABBIATE PAURA
I SERBI SONO CON VOI!
(RUSSIANS DONT BE AFRAID
SERBS ARE WITH YOU!)
cartello anonimo sul ponte di Branko durante uno delle migliaia di bombardamenti su Belgrado
Dear Enzo,
thanks for good news. Our media also reported about request of 170
parliament representatives, as well as Dini's statements. Few Italian
parliamentarians visited last days some of destroyed places in YU.
Yesterday Mr. Bosi met Milosevic (by the way, it is surprisingly to me,
because, as I know, North League represents separatistic ideas in
Italy). We are also regularly informed about anti-NATO manifestations in
Italy and publicly expressed opinions of many Italian intellectuals.
But, unfortunately, it is also noticed that Italian ambassador, as the
last one from the countries involved in the conflict, left Belgrade last
week. I afraid that even expressed anti-war attitude of Italian
Government could not stop this aggression. Some reports indicate that
positions of some NATO members, Greece and Italy above all, and even
France, are already marginalized, and there is strong tendency of
focusing decision making into limited number of NATO, US and UK
officials. According to CNN, Wesley Clark is very frustrated because he
is not entitled, yet, to solely determine targets in YU (he prefers
electric power sources). Whereas in last air raids several electric
stations in and near Belgrade has been struck, I'm afraid that the
cowboy's dreams become true. As you know, they struck and Television
building. More than 100 journalists and technicians were there at the
moment. I've heard explanations on BBC. I'm astounded. That is horrible
and shamefully. I simply can't understand. The foreign-media
correspondents in Belgrade have signed a declaration deploring that
attack, and their houses simultaneously justify attack because TV was
"legitimate target". And "legitimate target" is everything which NATO
denotes as such. I'm a lawyer, but I must admit that I can not
comprehend that concept of legitimacy.
Dear friend, please, there is no one reason to feel guilty. Nobody here
blames Italian people, or any other people, for this war. Everybody
knows that this aggression is not a choice of Italians. Believe me, vast
majority of Serbs and all other Yugoslavs, frankly and cordially
sympathizes Italy and its people. We've always had excellent connections
(business, cultural and any other) and we very well understand your
temper and with great sympathy accept your modus vivendi. You can very
seldom find a Yugoslav (particularly in generations who live in former,
good and great YU) who hasn't ever been in Italy. It is also important
that Serbs don't forget that Italian soldiers in 2. WW, notwithstanding
being allies of Wermacht, helped a lot of Serbs in Croatia to save their
lives, and this fact was (and is) very often emphasized in various
public occasions.
Dear Enzo, I'll be very happy to see you if you'll be able to come here.
Concerning internet connections, so far it functions, but telephone
connections are very bad, so it is not easy to get on Internet.
Best regards,
Filip
