> >There was a demonstration in The Hague, The Netherlands, on Friday 24 >March. It marked the start, one year ago, of NATO's war against Yugoslavia. >It was part of a world wide, continuing, movement to remember the victims, >help stop continuing violence in Kosovo, and prevent more war. > >The demonstration started at the Malieveld near The Hague's Central railway >station, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. This time meant many workers and >students who would have participated, were unable to. The weather: >torrential rain. Nevertheless, hundreds of people had gathered, nearly all >with banners and signs, often home made. According to the Dutch national TV >news, it was only: "fifty Serbs". Well, it is not the first time Dutch >NATO-ite TV is wrong. > >The crowd varied: from Serb to Croat to Asian Dutch; from dreadlocked >teenager to grey haired octogenarian veteran of the Resistance against the >Nazi occupation of The Netherlands, 1940-1945. A lady had travelled all the >way from Enschede, the extreme East of The Netherlands, to The Hague, the >extreme West. She had not travelled most of the demonstration: there was a >representative of the Filipino organization Bayan, from California, USA, >along with someone from the Filipino community in Amsterdam. > >Slogans asked: "F-16 pilots [of also the Dutch air force], can you still >sleep at night?" They pointed out that "30% of the victims of NATO bombs >were children". They remembered Milica Rakic from Belgrade, who never grew >beyond three years old. They remembered Sanja Milenkovic, the sixteen year >old mathematics champion of Yugoslavia; the girl died as NATO bombed >Varvarin bridge, where never any tank had crossed, as it was too narrow for >any tank too cross. "Do you know what cluster bombs are? We do!" said a >sign. And "Billions [of Dutch guilders] for people's well-being; not for >bombs!", said another one. Copies of the new issue #3 of Dutch "Targets" >magazine, opposing NATO military exercises in Kosovo, went from hand to hand. > >As the demonstrators marched for hours through the The Hague city center, >one of them from time to time played a recording of the air raid alarm >signal during the bombing. At the Peace Palace, the International Court of >Justice, a delegation of the demonstrators handed over a petition. The >demonstrators kept silent for two minutes, to remember the victims of the war. > >The actions against continuing NATO militarism will continue. For instance, >from 11-14 April against an armaments trade fair, also in The Hague. > >And on Saturday 25 March: > >in community centre VERZET [Resistance] >Hembrugstraat 156 >Amsterdam; from Central Station bus no. 22 > >PROGRAM > >19:30 Welcome >19:40 Video "Under Nato's bombs, 15 Belgians in Yugoslavia". > (a travel account) >20:30 Explanation on the film by Michel Collon > (journalist and participant of the journey). >20:45 Pause >21:00 Discussion, chaired by Wil van der Klift. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Herman de Tollenaere >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >My Internet site on Asian history and "new" religions: > >http://stad.dsl.nl/~hermantl/ > >See also SIMPOS, information on occult tendencies' impact on society: > >http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/simpoeng.htm >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
