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It was planned and organized well in advance. Since then our Yugoslav contacts tell us there has been a real reign of terror, not reported in the Western press. This is described in two interviews on Emperor's Clothes, and in the statement from the Socialist Party (SPS) below. An Emperor's Clothes reader suggested that people send email to the Serbian Socialist Party, telling them we are outraged at these attacks and urging them not to cave in to the intimidation. You can write the SPS at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please forward this note. Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS): INFORMATION FOR THE PUBLIC (as of October 7, 2000 ) Despite Mr. Kostunica's public proclamation that his supporters wouldn't harass members and sympathizers of the SPS, in the last three days, in Belgrade and throughout Serbia, we've witnessed a reign of terror. Supporters of the Socialist Party (SPS) have been physically threatened over the phone. Children of socialists have been threatened. Members of the SPS have been beaten. Offices have been attacked and destroyed. Skillfully directing the dissatisfaction of working people against the Socialist Party, the opposition has organized bullying and lawless actions, driving out Socialist directors of companies, but only if those companies are well established and successful. In Kragujevac they attacked, tied and abused ten SPS members. This included Ms. Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic. They held her for ten hours, trying to force her to go on TV and renounce her SPS membership. She refused. They finally released her - right into the arms of a drunken mob. She was cursed, slapped, spat upon and kicked, over and over. In Nish, Mr. Dragisa Vucic, an SPS representative on the town council and a worker at the electric distribution company, as beaten badly. He is in the hospital. In Belgrade they robbed and then destroyed SPS central headquarters (take a look at our web album) and they have done the same with offices in all the boroughs. [Emperor's Clothes note: To view web album go to www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2000/okt/foto-01.html . There are several pages of pictures. Click 'next' on lower right of page) After wrecking the Belgrade offices, members of the opposition parties in Kikinda attacked the Young Socialists' Internet Club. They smashed the doors and windows but SPS members stopped them before they could steal any valuable equipment, which was probably what they were after. The opposition has recruited the worst kind of thugs for this work. Last night, the Belgrade headquarters was attacked again. This time there was nothing to steal so they burned the building, which is beyond repair. In the town boroughs of Palilula, Vracar, Stari Grad and Zvezdara the SPS offices have been totally destroyed. Everything of value, all the furniture, computer equipment and so on has been stolen. At night, between the 5th and 6th of October, opposition demonstrators broke into the headquarters in Leskovac, smashed the windows, stole the computer and other equipment and destroyed what they could not cart away. In Jablanica County they demolished the offices, stole equipment, broke windows and damaged the town building. They looted anything they could. Then they burned the building, the garage and Mayor Zivojin Stefanovic's car. Despite the assurances of the Association of Vojvodina Hungarians that there would be no attacks or threats against people with different opinions, the SPS offices in Kanjiza were attacked. There are continuous telephone threats against those who stand for peace and tolerance. A special target are Hungarian members of the SPS. In Ada, rioters led by Vojvodina Hungarian leaders have attacked the home of town Mayor Tomic Ognjan, a respected teacher. Police were late in intervening so his house got severely damaged. The home of county mayor Ljuba Slijepcevic was attacked. The savagery was stopped by police. Demonstrators broke into SPS headquarters in Smederevo, stole everything they found, then stole the equipment used by Radio "S." In Lajkovac they demolished the Peasant Bank and Cafe. They broke into the local radio station and stole part of the equipment. They also broke into the SPS town headquarters and tried to loot and destroy these offices but were stopped by SPS members. They tried to do the same with the local TV station. In Kragujevac the demonstrators entered the Self-Management Club where the SPS headquarters and TV station are located. Police stopped them. In Vlasotince they demolished the offices of the SPS and the JUL (Yugoslav United Left)as well. In Temerin they broke in and seized the local radio station. They attacked SPS headquarters in Pecinci, Prokuplje, Uzice, Bor, Arilje, Zrenjanin, Sremsak Mitrovica and Pancevo. This is how the "democratic" opposition expresses its much-promised tolerance of all views, all across Serbia. For photo documentation go to http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2000/okt/foto-01.html There are several photographs; go to the lower right and click on 'next' ) *** If you would like to be informed by email of actions or information concerning events in Yugoslavia and have not signed up for the Emperor's Clothes mailing list, send your address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more on what's been happening in Yugoslavia see the articles listed below. 'Djindjic Calls for Complete Yugoslav Submission to U.S.' at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/submit.htm Discusses the consequences of turning Yugoslavia into a U.S. protectorate 'U.S. Arrogance and Yugoslav Elections' at http://emperors-clothes.com/engl.htm 'The International Monetary Fund And The Yugoslav Elections' at http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/1.htm www.tenc.net Emperor's Clothes] ***************************************** The url for this article www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/onthelist.htm 'On the list they had me marked as a nationalist' Interview with a Serbian woman threatened by the opposition prior to the recent coup. Interview was conducted the morning of 10-5-2000 and posted 10-10 Interviewer: Jared Israel The following interview was conducted prior to the attack on Parliament and other Yugoslav institutions last week. The interview was conducted in English and is accurate to the word. Mirjana's identity has been withheld, despite her insistence that I reveal it. Jared: I got an email from [name of mutual friend]. She said you had been threatened or something? Mirjana: Yes, a man was waiting when I came to work. He threatened to kill me if I went to vote in the second part of the elections. This also happened to many other people, not just to me. Jared: Can you talk about it? Mirjana: Of course. You see, Jared, I did not expect this. I think I am always doing right things so I never think that there is anybody in this world who is doing something bad to me. And do you know when he came close to me, in that moment when I realized what is going on I just said to myself, because you know I have experience from the war in Republic of Serbian Krajina [when Croatia attacked this Serbian area] just to look at his eyes all the time. His stayed there three or four minutes and it was so bad. Jared: You are very brave. Was he young or old? Mirjana: He was about 40 years old. And you know, I think that I met him several years ago and that he is a Serbian man from Germany. He looked familiar and I had all day yesterday to think. And now I remember that he was coming from U.S. some years ago to complain and give his opinions. You see, Jared, I am sure that I'm doing very good things, I am really fighter for freedom for everybody in this world. And if God is going to allow that they do me something bad it is no matter. I am not afraid for myself. They are doing this all around Belgrade. Even in the supermarkets they are telling people that they are going to kill people if they try to vote, that they are not allowed to go to vote. Can you imagine this? Jared: Isn't that going to turn people against them? The word will spread - Mirjana: Of course. Jared: Have you told other people. Mirjana: Yesterday morning I called my friends of course because first of all I wanted them to know because I am scared for them because they are also people like me, big fighters But there are so many people they have threatened, even people living on my street, they have been threatened too. Because do you know, people from Democratic Parties, they have all lists with citizens of voters of Belgrade. And one man from DOS he came, you know from this democratic opposition parties, he came to my work to talk to me and showed me that list. In our country it is a crime to have a list of the citizens who are voters. So all the people on the list, they were marked if they were members of the Socialist Party or Serbian Radical Party or Communist Party. I was marked as a nationalist. You understand? So I told him first this is a crime. And second, as want to represent people in government, this is a very bad thing that you have something like this list. So now I know how they can be so well organized, to threaten all the voters. Because they have all informations about people. Especially they are now pressuring people who have never been to any political party. Pressuring them not to go and vote. But a lot of them will go now because they are angry. You cannot tell me not to go to work or to vote. I want to have my personal opinion. Serbian people hate to be pressed. Especially Serbian women. Can you imagine? To try to scare me! My father he is peasant from Krajina. [Note: the Krajina is a mountainous section near Croatia and inhabited for hundreds of years almost entirely by ethnic Serb farmers. When Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia in June, 1991, the Croatian neo-fascists tried to subjugate the Krajina Serbs, but were roundly defeated. The West then brokered a peace agreement disadvantageous to the Serbs, who were disarmed. Four years later, the Croatian army, trained by a CIA-connected private military organization called MPRI, and with US air support, drove the entire population of Krajina from their homes - 250,000 people in a few days. These people are now refugees in Serbia. The MPRI is now involved in training the paramilitary forces of the secessionist government in Montenegro.] Mirjana: We prefer to die before we accept to be a slave. I got so mad. I think these people took the U.S. money and promised something to American government and so they're scared. They are afraid of the Americans so now they try to scare me and other people - and you know most of the people they threatened are women - can you imagine? Jared: Did you tell your husband? Mirjana: Of course. You know, he's my best friend. But he knows that I am enough crazy that I can protect myself. Jared: We're all a little crazy Mirjana: We're not crazy, we have crazy politicians. If there are people listening to your phone from your country's secret police, let me tell them something: you should stop these stupid people to do such bad things in our country.. If you want an Empire, don't you need women to have children? It is not smart to threaten women and try to scare them. Can you imagine, a new Empire which is trying to run the world by scaring women? Jared: Kidnapping them too. The Sunday Times says 500,000 women a year are kidnapped out of Eastern Europe, sold. Mirjana: Can you imagine things like this? But this will not work, no, especially not with the Serbian women because we are very strong. When we get mad we are capable of doing many things. Jared: Thank you for talking about this. I was worried when I heard you were being harassed. Mirjana: Don't worry for your friend. Jared: But I'm going to publicize it. But I don't want to use your name of course and - Mirjana: Write my name! Why not? Do you want to say where they threatened, the address? Jared: The address? I don't - Mirjana: Yes, say it. [Despite her demand I have not published Mirjana's full name or address- JI.] I was a member of Djindjic's party but I am not a member, not anymore. Because they are involved in crime. Racketing. I found this out and you can write it all now. Because now I am mad. I hate when somebody threaten me. www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes] ************************************************* The url for this article www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/djindjic2.htm 'These Djindjic people are brown shirts' Interview with a Serbian woman, by Jared Israel The following interview took place several days after the October 5 coup in Belgrade. The person interviewed is a member of the Serbian Radical Party, a conservative nationalist party opposed to the recent coup. Jared: What's going on? Gordana: Some very aggressive people from the opposition are grabbing everything around here, in particular taking the institutions that have some money, for instance the telecommunications company. They are scaring people and beating people. They want to destroy the results of previous elections by declaring that new elections have to be held for the Serbian Parliament. Elections are not supposed to be held for a year but they want them this fall. That would mean the Serbian people would lose their representatives because the elections would be held in an impossible situation. Whole groups of political parties have no access to media. In the past we had many viewpoints because we had government media and even more widespread was various shades of opposition media. Now only one view. And there is day to day terrorizing of people. Mr. Djindjic hopes that people will be too scared to run as candidates from those parties which stand in his way. Jared: You say there is "day to day terrorizing"?. Gordana: Take this example. A friend of mine is intellectual. Every time her phone rings she gets a threat from the other side. They stop her car in traffic to threaten her, and so on. And this is a professional woman, the daughter of a well-known professor. Even these people who are well known are subject to threats. Another such woman, a reporter, visits me, and she is afraid to go home alone and stays over - and this is in Belgrade! Can you imagine how the common people feel? They are even more afraid. I was on a bus full of tired, worried working people and one of these Otpor types got on and demanded that the bus stands still and he says: "Listen! We have the power now and you will see what we do!" Jared: So you think that people will be afraid to vote for the Socialist or Radical parties or other parties that oppose the coup? Gordana: No, I think that people may be afraid to run as candidates for these parties. The Djindjic people took over all the radio stations and TV stations and newspapers. On TV now you can't see even the regular old shows. It is propaganda. The old ladies in Serbia like to watch soap operas from South America but now they can't do that. You see they are poor and they have such a hard life and now they don't have even this small pleasure. Instead we have to watch stupid American government lies, even about the wars in Bosnia and Croatia and so on. They have programs that blame the Serbs, for everything. Can you believe this? Do they think we are morons, not to know our own history. But the purpose here is also a kind of terror, to break the spirit. To make people feel hope is lost. Today they had a show on the television telling lies about Dubrovnik, showing pictures to prove it was burned down in 1991 by the Yugoslav army. But Dubrovnik has all the old buildings in perfect condition and I know this because friends have been back to see the town, and it was not damaged. (1) And these movies they now show to prove to us that the Serbs were responsible for the wars this past decade. Why? Did we try to secede? Doesn't Yugoslavia have a right to exist? .Would other countries allow secessionists and foreign factors to destroy their nation? I have never seen such lies. Can you imagine, having a situation where you can't stand to watch the TV or read the papers. Jared: I'm afraid I can imagine. What we mainly do on Emperor's Clothes is expose lies. They create 'em faster than we can expose them. All I do is expose fiction. Gordana: Today is 1941 in Yugoslavia. If there are people who don't know, well, they will know it very soon. Even some people I spoke to who were supporting the DOS now see this violence that is going on and they say, "These Djindjic people are brown shirts." [Brown shirts is a term for Fascists or Nazi's - E-C] Footnotes (1) I am writing a book about the Western media's lies about Yugoslavia. As part of the research, I read many of the news reports written in 1991 about Dubrovnik. As Gordana says, the Western claim is that the Yugoslavs (read: Serbs) burned the place down. This lie was used to prove the Serbs were ruthless monsters. When the first stories broke about burning Dubrovnik down they produced a strongly anti-Serb response in the public so, wanting to make the most of a good thing, the stories were repeated. In the "Independent" I found Dubrovnik burned to the ground on not fewer than five occasions, spanning a period of four months. Remarkable. Despite this repeated cataclysm, Prof. Peter Maher, who is a knowledgeable witness, shot a film during his March 1992 visit to Dubrovnik which proves there was no damage to the old city. There was indeed fighting in the Dubrovnik area. But the evidence I uncovered during my research shows that the Yugoslav Army deliberately avoided shelling the old city. Here is the basic sequence of events: the Croatian secessionist troops attacked Yugoslav army barracks near Dubrovnik. The Yugoslav Army gave chase. The secessionists retreated behind the old city digging in in areas dangerously close to hotels in which they had housed refugees from the fighting . In a moment of candor, Phil Davison, a reporter from the British "Independent" admitted that this virtually guaranteed the shelling of hotels: "The Croats have set up a mortar close to our hotel, just as they have next to hospitals and refugee centres. This may make us a target for the army. Sooner or later, they are going to lay a couple of rounds on us. The army is zapping Lokrum island, 300 yards from my hotel. Mortars, machineguns, ack-ack guns. It is deafening. A machinegun barrage rattles my windows. It is just a matter of time." (The 'Independent' November 17, 1991) The press was full of stories of how the heartless Yugoslav Army was shelling hotels where refugees were housed. Did the secessionists set up their positions near the hotels in order to force the Yugoslavs to shell the hotels and thus provide ammunition for anti-Yugoslav propaganda? Common sense suggests they did. And more than common sense: consider this report, which appeared in only two English language newspapers: "Women And Children Barred From Leaving Croatian Town "The six-member Dubrovnik crisis committee decided six days ago that the defense of this coastal Adriatic city required the presence of all the remaining women and children. UNICEF was informed of the decree three days ago, and on Tuesday, it was first implemented when 200 people were prevented from leaving the city on a UNICEF relief vessel that had brought supplies to the city. "First, he said, if the women and children stay, it will mean that the attacking army would be shooting at them and not just at a walled city. "Second, he said, their presence might force the army to hesitate before shooting. "Third, if there is an attack, the international public reaction to such an attack would be a public-relations coup for Croatia, which has been trying desperately for months to get diplomatic and military support from the West� "Only 100 of 300 people scheduled to leave on a ship Tuesday were allowed to depart, and UNICEF was told by Dubrovnik officials that no one else would be able to leave."('The Orange County Register,' December 5, 1991) www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes] *** Global Reflexion - Amsterdam - The Netherlands
