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"To the public of all NATO member countries:
"Tonight, the 9th of April, the Zastava factory plants in Kragujevac were
bombed. The live shield was broken through. This bombardment has inflicted
severe damage to factory equipment and almost completely destroyed the
energy supply complex that served not only the Zastava factory, but also the
heating needs of the entire city of Kragujevac: its residential houses,
schools, faculties, hospitals...
"We were horror-stricken to see the civilian victims: tens of men had formed
a live shield that was safeguarding the factory plants. Among the victims
were not only the Zastava workers, but also members of their families and
other citizens of the city of Kragujevac. What none of us could assume
possible did happen: Kragujevac has re-experienced its WW II tragedy; its
citizens have again become the target of a barbarian assault. In the name of
what aims did war planes take off from once friendly countries which used to
send us the ideas of humanness, freedom, maybe the greatest treasure that we
have in the modern civilization? What has happened to all those ideas and
have they been just an illusion that dispersed at the first sound of raised
arms? We, the small people, that have looked with admiration at all the
great things coming from you, could not, or did not, want to accept that
this was so. Have we been mistaken?
"Has any one from among you given a thought to our future and the future of
our children that has become entirely uncertain due to this insane act.
Precisely this future we have been defending at the price of our own lives.
Already exhausted by sanctions that have reduced our average monthly salary
from DM 870 to DM 5-60, knowing that a destruction of the factory would call
into the question the very existence of ourselves and our families, we have
made a desperate move: with our bodies we have made a live shield that has
been guarding our factory night-and-day. We have been resolute, since the
very onset of the attack on our country, and persisted in the realization of
that decision every day, not to leave our plants after the expiration of the
working hours, not even when the alarms would sound air strikes, thus
staying round the clock by our workplaces. By night our family members and
citizens of Kragujevac were visiting us, giving us support and making these
moments of painful suspense easier. In order to prevent a horrendous
catastrophe that may arise due to an insane act of attack on our factory,
through the media, we have addressed the local and world public, giving the
precise co-ordinates of the factory, and pointing at the potential losses,
spiritual and material, that may be inflicted by its destruction. In our
addressees we appealed to the public of NATO member countries, to the
conscience of the common men in those countries. Our appeal was published
and broadcast by numerous local and foreign media: TV networks and news
houses.
"We, the Zastava workers and citizens of Kragujevac, are afraid of the
future standing in front of us. Now we wonder whether we have any future at
all. Our children are hungry, and their eyes filled with horror. We have no
more answers to their questions."
Kragujevac, April 9th, 1999
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As far as I remember Kragujevac and the Zastava plant workers resisted NATO
vociferously. Including an anti-NATO letter during the bombings and the
destruction of their factory. I find it hard to believe that these same
people cheered NATO on, but I could be wrong...
cheers!
Kole
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Good job all of you. The word SCAB seems to work, too.
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