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Subject:

Slaughter

From:

"Chris Emery" <[log in to unmask]>

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Chris Emery

Date:

Sat, 27 Mar 1999 08:25:20 +0000

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I find the NATO activity abhorrent and insupportable. I find the
explanations fractured and ridiculous. I find the support non-existent and
the war-mongering rabid and vacuous. Where was the UN input as the decision
was taken that that talks had reached an end, where was Russia's involvement
as deadlock led to bombing? The whole episode disgusts me. It's infantile
and medieval.

But I'm deeply ashamed that we never protested on the list for our friends
in Kosovo too, only now do we raise our voices of the slaughter, with so
many ethnic Albanians already dead and suffering . . . there has to be
another way. Why can't our efforts go into tackling such national identities
and the pointlessness of boundaries, why not accept Serbia into Europe, why
not trade with and rebuild Yugoslavia. Political change comes through
support not sanctions and bombs.

Outside the birds are singing. I'm staring at a peaceful blue sky over the
flat lands of East Anglia and I'm imagining it littered with bombers and
missiles, my house in flames, my children dead . . .

There must be another way. We have to speak out. We have to scream.

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>From: "Lawrence Upton." <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "british-poets" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Fw:
>Date: Sat, Mar 27, 1999, 1:16 am
>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clemente Padin <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 27 March 1999 00:41
>
>
> Friends:
> Again the consternation and the impotence in the face of the
> new bath of blood. Again the big powers, including to the civilized Europe,
> teach us how face the solution of the problems: to blood and fire. Not by
> chance, also, they are the old makers of weapons and they will integrate, in
> the centuries of the centuries, the Council of Security of the United
> Nations, an institution created in order to foment the peace totally
> integrated by countries makers of weapons: we are saved. If soldiers only
> die... (the first that they learn in the army is to kill). But, this
> aggression that began for "avoid old losses of lives" is killing hundreds
> and hundreds of Serbian civilians. There are our friends artist-s-mail and
> visual poets with whom we have shared years and years of relationship,
> exchange of works, exhibitions, hopes... will we leave that do they die
> |without making nothing? I have just received this letter of the son of an
> old Yugoslavian poet visual , Miroljub Todorovic, editor of the legendary
> Signal:
>
> From: "Viktor Todorovic" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Clemente Padin" <[log in to unmask]>
> |Subject: bombing
> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:32:33 +0100
>
> Dear Clemente,
>
> Viktor writting. Please do something to mobilize international public
> oppinion against brutal NATO attacks against my country. There are civilian
> victims, but NATO claims that it will continue with the blooodshed. What are
> their goals? Peace they say, but I wouldn't say that peace is comming along
> with tomahawks, F117, F15, F16, F18, B2, B52, Harriers, Tornados, and who
> knows what other machines for destruction. Help, until it is too late.
> Dobrica Kamperelic <[log in to unmask]>
> Miroljub Todorovich <[log in to unmask]>
> Andrej Tisma <[log in to unmask]>
>
> What will I answer to Viktor? ... that the poetry is weak (it is enough
> with counting you the verses)...that we are artists and that we don't know
> nothing of politics. .. that they are hoaxed by challenging to the power...
> that they continue reducing their borders... that they pray so that a bomb
> don't you fall above?
>
> For the moment I will write them so that the spirit of the networking wraps
> them and so they don't feel alone to the hour of dying. How another thing
> could I make? Later we will always have time of making them any exhibition
> art mail in posthumous homage.
>
> Fraternal greetings,
> Clemente Padin
>
>
>
>


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