------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 15:59:32 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: MESSAGE FROM SERBIA'S WRITERS' ASSOCIATION e-Bulletin No 54 / April 1, 1999 #4 Nato Genocide over Serbs SERBIA'S WRITERS' ASSOCIATION To the writers of Europe and the World Respected colleagues and dear friends, we expect Your Word. It is most needed now, healing and responsible. Since the night of March 24th 1999 our country, Serbia and Yugoslavia and all our cities have been attacked with cluster bombs and rockets, without Declaration of war by the North Atlantic Military Alliance NATO, which violated the sovereignty of Yugoslavia as well as the Charter and Declarations of the UN. In continuous attacks by several hundreds of airplanes all the vital strategic objects of our home country have been attacked as well as schools, kindergartens, hospitals, medical factories, churches, monasteries, gas stations and water wells, cemeteries and national sanctuaries, libraries and cultural institutions, rivers, forests, mountains - our whole world. Endlessly, NATO troops have been attacking for days now Belgrade, the capital of Serbia and Yugoslavia which has been bombed by Nazis in 1941 and by Allies in 1944. Cetinje was bombed - a historical city, the sanctuary and the seat of the Mithropolites of Montenegro. Bombed was the peak of Lovcen, with its tomb of the legendary poet Njegos, the second time in this century - at its beginning and at its end. A deadly missile fell in the port of our holy monastery Gracanica (1320) in Kosovo. The center of Kosovo and Metohija itself - the city of Pristina, former capital of the Serbian nobleman Vuk Brankovic, was bombed. The park monument Sumarice in Kragujevac a graveyard of 7000 Serbian citizens and pupils shot by fascists in 1941 was struck by missiles. This time the NATO pilots killed the already dead peasants, clerks and students. Even their sacred innocence was a "strategic military object and target". There is no end to this madness!!! We, the Serbian writers, believe that the great Austrian and German poet Peter Handke was right in his global message in which he called the whole free world - Yugoslavia! Yesterday at the very moment that the new attacks on Belgrade have been announced, at the Liberty Square, 100 000 of young men and women came to the rock concert wearing targets on their breasts. Maybe You saw them on television last night? If you have, say so! Let us address together in this protest the gentlemen leading these new barbarians, and stop them. Let us save together the free and democratic spirit of Europe and the World, this altar of the Gift and the Mind which the Serbian people have built themselves into. The writers of the world have never been accomplices, but witnesses. In the third genocide over Serbs in this century, let us add Your voice of the Biblical Jove to the book of conscience we are writing together, on the scales of the world temptation. Belgrade, March 30th 1999. SERBIA'S WRITERS' ASSOCIATION FWD by ------------------------ CONGRES MONDIAL SERBE WORLD SERB CONGRESS WELTKONGRESS DER SERBEN ------------------------
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