Subject: SERBIAN SOCIALISTS PHYSICALLY ATTACKED - please organize support! > The url for this page is http://emperors-clothes.com/news/attack2.htm It is > being sent as email text and as a text attachment > > Translated from the Serbian text at www.sps.org.yu/index-ie.htm > > SERBIAN SOCIALISTS PHYSICALLY ATTACKED > ======================================== > Introductory note. It is admitted in the Western media (AFP, Oct. 8) that > last Thursday's Yugoslav coup was a military operation with a vanguard of at > least 2000 men, many of them armed, planned and organized well in advance. I > urge you to email the Serbian Socialist Party which is under fierce > physical assault for resisting the coup. It will boost their morale to > receive your messages. The report below has been confirmed by interviews > conducted by emperor's clothes. See www.tenc.net > > Please send statements of support, with as many signers as possible, to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Jared Israel, editor, Emperor's Clothes > > www.tenc.net > [Emperor's Clothes] > > October 7, 2000 > > Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS): INFORMATION FOR THE PUBLIC > > In Belgrade and throughout Serbia there is a reign of terror. The attacks on > members of SPS and their property are ceaseless. The method of organization > and the way these actions are executed are completely resembling actions of > Nazi storm-troopers as they have done the same to the leftists at the dawn of > German Nazism. Members of DOS are physically attacking members and leaders of > SPS. They are threatening members and supporters of SPS. The threats are > physical, over the phone. They are threatening women and children of > socialists. > > Skillfully using the dissatisfaction of the workers, DOS is organizing > bullying and > lawless actions of toppling and prosecuting those directors of organizations > who are members of SPS, but only in companies that are well established and > financially successful. > > In Kragujevac they have attacked, tied and maltreated ten of our members, > including Ms. Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic. They have maltreated her for ten long > hours in order to make her say, publicly, on TV Ktragujevac, that she > denounces her membership to SPS. As she did not succumb to their threats they > have let her go - right into arms of ruthless, drunken mob. Ten of those > hooligans were slapping her face, kicking her, spitting at her and cursing > her. > > In the town of Nish, a worker at electric distribution company, Mr. Dragisa > Vucic, a SPS representative at the town council, was beaten badly. He ended > up in a hospital as his colleagues, some hundred of them were literally > lynching him. > > Last night, SPS Belgrade's headquarters was attacked again but this time > there was nothing to steal so they burned the premises - and they are useless > now. In the town boroughs of Palilula, Vracar, Stari Grad and Zvezdara the > SPS offices are totally destroyed and all of value, all the furniture, > computer equipment etc was looted. > > In Bor, the headquarters of SPS is demolished. > > In Arilje the SPS building was stoned and the entrance door was chopped by an > axe. > > After their destructive visit to Belgrade, members of DOS in Kikinda attacked > a Club of Young Socialists. They broke the doors and windows but presence of > SPS members in the building prevented them from looting the valuable > equipment of the Internet Club of the Young Socialists. Probably that > equipment was the main reason for the attack in the first place. > > In Kovacica, the DOS followers took the SPS flags from the headquarters there > and burned them in the center of the town. > > Headquarters at Sremska Mitrovica were vandalized again, for the second > night. This time they have demolished doors and windows to the building. > Yesterday they have broken into SPS building in Pecinci and changed the door > locks on it. > Information on October 6, 2000: > > Despite Mr. Kostunica's public proclamations that there will be no revanchism > toward the members and sympathizers of the left - the followers of DOS do not > respect or tolerate an opinion different from their own (which is one of the > most important characteristics of a democracy). In last three days we have > witnessed an avalanche of mindless terror organized by "Democratic > Opposition. (DOS)" > > According to the information we have, the SPS offices that were attacked in > which lives of our members were put at jeopardy include headquarters in > Belgrade, Lajkovac, Leskovac, Prokuplje, Vlasotince, Uzice, Aleksinac, Pirot, > Smederevo, Raskoj, Kragujevac, Pancevo, Novi Sad, Temerin, Ada, Kanjiza, > Senta, Sremska Mitrovica, Zrenjanin... > > In Belgrade they have robbed and then destroyed the SPS town's headquarters > (take a look at our web album) and then they have done the same with all > boroughs. > At night between 5 and 6th October DOS demonstrators have broken into economy > headquarters in Leskovac. They broke all the windows, stole all computer and > other equipment. Anything they could not carry away they destroyed. They > broke into headquarters of Jablanica County. They demolished the offices, > stole equipment, broke windows and damaged the town building. They looted > anything they could then burned the building, garage and car of major Zivojin > Stefanovic. > > They demolished SPS offices in Prokuplje. > > In Vlasotince they demolished the offices of SPS and JUL (Yugoslav United > Left) party. > > Demonstrators broke into SPS headquarters in Smederevo, stole everything they > found, plus stole equipment of Radio "S." > > Windows were broken on SPS building in Uzice. > > In Lajkovac they have demolished peasant bank and cafe. They broke entrance > door of local radio, stole part of the equipment. > They also broke into SPS town headquarters and tried to loot and destroy the > offices but were not able to though out SPS members. They tried the same with > local TV station. > > In Kragujevac the demonstrators entered Self-Management Club where SPS > headquarters and TV station is located. The police was able to prevent > greater terror, though. > > In Sremsak Mitrovica doors and windows on SPS headquarters were broken. > > In Pancevo the SPS sign was ripped off and windows broken. > > In Temerin they broke into local radio station and took over. > > In Ada, demonstrators led by representatives of organizations of Vojvodina > Hungarian minority attacked the home of town major Tomic Ognjan, respected > teacher. Police was late intervening so the house got severely damaged. > > In Zrenjanin, hooligans have broke into party headquarters. They broke doors > and windows. > > Home of county major Mr. Ljuba Slijepcevic was attacked. The savagery was > stopped by police. > > Despite the assurances of Association of Vojvodina Hungarians that there will > be no attacks, threats or disturbance of people with different opinion, SPS > offices in Kanjiza were attacked. Telephone threats to those who are for > peace and tolerance do not stop. A special target are Hungarians who are > members of SPS. > > These disturbing events, verbal threats, use of raw physical force are > present in Vojvodina as well as in the other towns across Serbia where DOS > decided to perform their Bartholomey Nights. > > For photo documentation of the destruction click here. (There are several > photographs. Go to 'next' at lower right) > > http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2000/okt/foto-01.html > > www.tenc.net > [Emperor's Clothes]
