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Subject: Fw: From Serbian Auto Workers
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:35:40 +0200
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Date: Sunday, March 28, 1999 7:44 AM
Subject: From Serbian Auto Workers
This open letter from the workers of the Zastava car factory can be sent to
trade (labour) unions in the countries where you live. Everyone's help is
welcome!
COMMUNICATION TO THE PUBLIC OF ALL NATO MEMBER-COUNTRIES
As we have already informed you in our yesterday's address, in
keeping with our decision, we, the employees of ZASTAVA and citizens
of freedom-loving Kragujevac, made a live shield of 8,240 men in the
ZASTAVA factory area at 2 p.m. local time yesterday. And even at the
shift end, even at the alarm sound, the ZASTAVA workers did not leave
their workshops, but remained to protect with their bodies what
provides for their and their families' living, that in which they
have built in years-long honest work in order to provide for their
better future.
Herewith we advise you that also henceforth, as long as the war
operations go on, we shall remain within the factory area of 305
hectares, at 44º N and 20º E. We took the decision to occasionally
go out of the workshops and hold rallies and protest walks in the
factory yard. Workers, citizens of Kragujevac, and members of their
families are availing themselves of this opportunity to publicly
announce on behalf of their collegues and co-citizens of Kragujevac
what they think about this insane act and what they believe in.
Therefore we want you to know that the attack on our factory shall
mean a direct death to thousands of men and an enormous spiritual and
material loss to their families.
We, the citizens and workers of Kragujevac, cannot understand how
governments of your countries think that the air raids, wildly
conducted upon our country, destroying not only military premises but
also important economic and civil premises, including even schools
and hospitals, would contribute to the humanitarian goals that they
verbally advocate. We cannot indeed understand how the pulled down
schools and hospitals, destroyed factories and gross civilian victims
would contribute to a general idea of humanness.
We do not know how to explain to our children, already years-long
famished by sanctions, whose schools are being pulled down now, and
their lives brought into the question - what do the ideas of
humanity, freedom, and equality mean, the ideas that the great minds,
precisely from your cultures, were so nicely explaining in their
works and supporting also by their deeds, often at the price of own
lives.
Have this great freedom-loving and philosophical ideas dispersed with
the NATO strategy prepared for the end of this millennium? We do not
want to believe that this had happened because we wish that all which
has been great in human civilization since its nascent to this date
be conveyed into the new era in which we should all live better in
the now already quite a global world.
We feel encouraged because the public we are addressing has
consciousness and expresses indignation at this trifling with the
fate of the entire humanity, considering the destructive power of the
threatening weapons.
We are appealing to this already awaken public, wishing them to still
more loudly raise their voice against the destruction of the human
quality in men, of the achievements that all the generations since
Egyptians, Assyrians, peoples of ancient China and India, over all
European and non-European peoples, have been creating to these days.
Kragujevac, March 27, 1999
EMPLOYEES AND MANAGEMENT OF ZASTAVA AND CITIZENS OF KRAGUJEVAC
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