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>�mne: Yugoslavia and US terrorism
>Datum: fre 24 mar 2000 23.36
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> Communist Web
> Friday 24th March 2000 9.30pm gmt
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> Yugoslavia and US terrorism
> by Rob Gowland
>
> Yugoslavia was subjected to NATO air attack - using missiles and "smart
> bombs" - for 78 days. The country incurred losses of at least $100
> billion, a huge sum for a small country.
>
> NATO deliberately knocked out every trunk route - road, rail and river -
> between Yugoslavia and all its neighbours as part of Washington's strategy
> of ruining the economy of any country that defies it. Even when the bombing
> is brought to a halt, the victim country goes on suffering with
> infrastructure and trade both in ruins. And to make sure they stay that
> way, sanctions are imposed.
>
> The people of Yugoslavia have accomplished some remarkable feats of
> reconstruction under extremely difficult conditions. In all, NATO destroyed
> or seriously damaged 45 road bridges and 17 rail bridges, but already most
> important road and rail traffic has been restored with new or reconstructed
> bridges.
>
> As part of US tactics to encourage the ethnic Hungarians of the north of
> the country to "rise up against Milosevic", NATO heavily bombed the
> northern city of Novy Sad and destroyed all bridges over the Danube,
> cutting off Novy Sad and the northern province of Vojvodina.
>
> This, it was apparently thought, would make the ethnic Hungarian population
> welcome the prospect of Hungarian and NATO troops as liberators and
> peacekeepers.
>
> Predictably, it had the opposite effect. The Hungarian minority in northern
> Yugoslavia has no desire to join Hungary or to bend the knee to NATO.
>
> Tito built a multi-ethnic country and Slobadan Milosevic's government has
> continued that policy while reaping the benefits of it at the same time.
>
> With the support of the local people and enterprises, work on
> reconstructing the road bridge between Novy Sad and Belgrade began just
> three days after the bombing was halted. It was completed in record time.
>
> Reconstruction
>
> In fact, the Serbs accomplished some remarkable feats of construction in
> tackling NATO's handiwork: they built new railway bridges in 60 days, for
> example. They set a world record for the construction of steel bridges.
>
> At the same time, despite the urgency of the situation, historic old stone
> bridges were carefully restored, not just replaced with modern steel
> structures.
>
> Since the end of hostilities the Ministry for Reconstruction has fully
> restored or replaced:
>
> 28 main bridges
> 4 railway bridges
> 2 roads
> 1 railway line
> 4 heating plants
> 7 schools or colleges
> 4 hospitals
> 445 houses or flats and the Museum of Modern Art in Belgrade.
>
> Work is presently going on at 65 sites, including ten road bridges, 12
> railway bridges, two... http://www.billkath.demon.co.uk/cw/yug/yug.html
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