-Caveat Lector- NOTE: Following is the latest report from Serbian cartoonist Sasa Rekazic (aka Aleksandar Zograf), creator of Alas!, Life Under Sanctions, and Psychonaut. He has been witnessing the bombing of Pancevo by NATO and is staying in contact with the international alternative comics community by e-mail. Mack White [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.swankarmy.net/dutch5/comixnow/ >From: "Aleksandar Zograf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sasa Rakezic >P.F.163 >26000 Pancevo >Yugoslavia /Serbia/ >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hello!!! >Yesterday, several NATO projectiles were launched to a buildings >(administartive centers) owned by Serbian Police, in a downtown >Belgrade...The fire has destroyed the buildings, and one of them is >positioned only 100 meters from the large complex of Medical Installations, >inluding the central town's Clinic, one of the biggest on Balkans, where >the babies were born... Reporters were talking to a young mother who gave >birth about 1 hour after the bombing... All the new born babies had to be >avacuated, and the mothers, too... With that eerie fire burning in the very >center of the town...What can I say. While I'm typing this, I listen about >the news of another bridge in Novi Sad being bombed by NATO, with the >civilian cars passing the bridge during the moment of bombing... Several >people are taken to the hospital, said first reports... >I had no intention of writing this letters as real "war reports", or >something - you can find that sort of thing in the regular media...I'm a >cartoonist, not a war journalist or political analyst... But so many >people are asking me about the Albanian refugees, and the situation in >Kosovo, etc. >I have never even been to Kosovo, and my town is in another part of the >country, so - for the start - I don't have the first-hand account of the >situation there... But YES, I know of the terrible drama of the refugees... >It is a real horror, shame, I can see no justification for the suffering of >those people!! >But I will describe again what happened : after the negotiations in Paris >have failed, UN verificators were withdrown from Kosovo, and Serbia was >exposed to NATO attacks...As soon as this happened, Serbian regime, which >was on the bottom of it's popularity in (by all the previous crisis) >exhausted Serbia, has took the total control over the informations in the >state's media, and the police has closed down all the independent media... >It was presented as a necessary action because of the (trully stupid) >bombing action initiated by the rich and powerfull countries from the >West... Bewildered and enraged by the bombings of the towns and >infrastructures, most of the common people in Serbia haven't protested >against that sort of action by their own government, and the regime was >seen as the only force of prtection .... (What sort of reaction would YOU >espect in your country under the same circumstances? It was so >predictable). > The situation in Kosovo was already complex and heavy - NATO action was >like pulling out the fire with gasoline... First of all, the whole >theritorry was left without independent monitoring, and of course the >Serbian Police and Army forces were now fighting openly with the Albanian >Militia... I heard the reports about people of both nationalities being >frightened and confused, and about towns where the telephone lines are out >of work, so that people didn't know what is happening... In the midst of >all that, it's obvious that Serbian paramilitary groups were added to that >chaos... The next thing that I heard was that many 1000's of Albanian >people were kicked out of their houses and sent to the near by countries... >All the while, there was absolutely no information about this on the >Serbian media - just the reports about NATO bombings and patriotic songs... >And after few days, they started to speak about Albanian refugees, but they >mostly presented it as if they were escaping NATO bombings (which were >really hard on the territory of Kosovo)... >It should be stated that all of the sides involved in this hellish conflict >were lieing - NATO was trying to justify their irresponsible action by >using the powerful media machinery, Serbian regime was taking adventage of >it's own people's misery to control the informations, and the Albanians >(divided into sveral fractions, including armed extremists) are trying to >use the back-up of the NATO to achieve their separatistic political >programs...This is the madhouse, and I, dear reader, just like you - am >trying to see through all that, and this is just one possible vision of the >situation....I'm just stupid cartoonist, I told you. >But as far as I can see, the common people on all sides are being hurt, and >they are all bleeding, they are confused and bewildered, and when >everything finishes, the administartion of all three "sides" in this >conflict will be safe and givving speaches, while the crazy people on the >Balkans will have to lick their wounds (as the Serbs say) for many years >to come.... It's funny, we don't even know how we came to this, I feel as >if I just woke up one morning to see that bombs are falling in my >neighborhood... >Good night , friends, love to you all >S. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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