-Caveat Lector- NOTE: Sasa Rakezic (aka Aleksander Zograf) is a cartoonist living in Serbia. His published works include Life Under Sanctions (Fantagraphics) and Flock of Dreamers (Kitchen Sink Press). He has been witnessing the NATO bombing of his hometown Pancevo, and has managed to stay in contact by e-mail with the international community of cartoonists, comics fans, publishers, and scholars. Following is his latest report. >From: "Sasa Rakezic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Internet war and peace >Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 21:31:35 +0200 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Priority: 3 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Status: > >Sasa Rakezic >P.F. 163 >26000 Pancevo >Yugoslavia (Serbia) >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >May 15th 1999 > >Hello people! >YES! We still have an access to Internet. Despite that New York's Loral >Space and Communications company ( which deals with U.S. communicational >satellites business), said that they may be forced to cut the internet >access to Serbia, it seems that this decision was withdrawn for the moment. >I don't pretend that I understand how this all operates, but anyway >Yugoslav providers have announced yesterday that they will be able to find >the alternative Internet links, even if they will be cut off from the >access to satellite. >Still, Serbian Internet users are having difficulties because of the NATO >"soft bombs" strikes against the power lines, and frequent black outs, >etc., not to mention the bombing of communicational infrastructure... >Recently I received a warning note, because many of the Internet users in >Serbia >have received computer virus through a file attachment titled "Stop the >bombing". Many think that the virus was probably produced in NATO >countries, or maybe even by somebody directly connected to NATO, as the >design is obviously made to attract the Internet users who are opposed to >bombing. >Anyway, Internet had an important impact on this war, as it provided a >communication link between people, even if their governments were in war , >and it may be an important >tool for the future pacification process of this sick world we're living >in. >Two nights ago, NATO has switched out the electricity in many towns in >Serbia. During the last night, black outs were caused not by NATO bombs, >but by a storm. As in a few occasions before, everybody was trying to >distinct the >thunder and lightning from the bomb blasts (which is not easy). Several >times during this bombing campaign there were earthquakes shaking the >Serbian soil, as well, and - like many others - I haven't even noticed it, >in the midst of all >the detonations. >Yesterday, the number one news was the NATO bombing of another Albanian >refugee column, in a village of Korisa, in Kosovo. As I write this, more >then 80 people, mostly women and children, were found dead!!! A shocking >sight that we have seen already too often in this war, when the powerfull >NATO projectils have exploded too close to the unprotected people: remains >of the human flesh torn to pieces. >According to a report few days old, among about 300 civilians who were >killed >by NATO bombs thrown at the territory of Kosovo only, about half were >Albanians. The misery was equaly distributed, among the nations in this >meaningless conflict.... >The whole Kosovo is radiating a vibration of violence and despair. >Yesterday I spoke to a friend who lives in a small town in Southern >Serbia...A town is very close to Kosovo, and my friend could often see the >endless series of blasts, echoes of the countless NATO bombings coming >from that direction...What is also visable is a traffic of buses adjusted >for transportation of injured Serbian soldiers....As it >is not possible to transport all the wounded people by the regular >ambulance car, they have taken out the seats from the buses, and inserted a >double beds >instead...A large number of injured people could be transported that way... >A friend has told me that he spoke to a man who is a driver of another type >of vehicle, a military car which transports dead soldiers from Kosovo to >the city of Nis....The man >was almost mad of misery. On top of his morbid "everyday activity", while >he was passing through the >perifery of some village in Kosovo , by a chance he has spotted a man who, >looking from a distance, seemed to be kneeling down underneath the branches >of the trees...It turned out that it was a body of a man who commited >suicide... Later they found that it was an Albanian who >was overwhelmed by dispair and hanged himself....."It was a small, tiny >tree, and it must have been the enormous urge to die which enabled that man >to actually kill himself" - said the driver, whispering to my friend. >Bye >Sasa 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. 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