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Subject: Belgrade: bombing day second
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:29:51 +0000
From: "Women's Center Belgrade" <[log in to unmask]>
To: Zarana Papic <[log in to unmask]>
Belgrade, 24 march, 99
2pm.
dear friends,
we have received many letters of support, calls from our friends
from Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia, thank you.
The situation:
Many women are affraid more or less. last night some of us have
worked in the Womens Center untill 9pm, and after that the town was
calm and empty, and some citizens were around entrance of houses and
some in the cellers.
The parts of the town near the military bases felt hard detonations
and saw the fire. Those in the center of town did not.
The telephone lines have become difficult.
The worry of pacifists is the situation on Kosovo.
First, most artillery the serbian army has concentrated in the region
of Kosovo. Last night i finally caught the telephone lines with
Pristina and talked to my friend, and she said that the biggest worry
is the vengeance of serbian army against albanian population.
The CNN and BBC TV stations are obviously very pro-violence oriented
and they have inflicted much fear into people in Kosovo, on top of
the facts that are fearfull in themselves. The serbian officials have
cut electriciy in Pristina last night, and tuned in this morning.
The cutting of electricity was clearly the act of producing more fear
on the one already there. So you can imagine the mood in Pristina.
This morning there is no bread and milk in most of the shops in
Belgrade and Pristina.
and it is a beautifull sunny day.
The fact that enrages is that serbian regime has totally and
apsolutelly taken the control of all the media. Which means that
only few words come in, and that language of hatred, production of
enemies and vengeance politics is increasing every minute. Four
TV stations fused in one and two others in the other one. The people
who do not have satellite TV get few news per hour, about shelters
and enemies, and nothing else. This is as well frightening.
Many women did not sleep last night,
and sirenas are on and off every couple of hours. So some of us are
constatly on the phone with those who feel bad.
Once again feminists and pacifists from Belgrade are again this time
sending sisterly tender words for our friends and Albanian women and
their families in Kosovo.
lepa mladjenovic
autonomous women's center against sexual violence
tirsova 5a, beograd, fr yugoslavia
tel/fax: 381.11.687.190
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