Seems like NATO is a fascist regime too. Why support one fascist over the other ?
Charles Brown
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> The Guardian (UK)
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> Thursday April 29, 1999
>
> MILIC WENT TO FETCH LUNCH. WHEN HE
> RETURNED HIS FAMILY WERE DEAD
>
> There is no sign of the soldiers and trucks
> NATO may have been seeking in Surdulica.
>
> By Maggie O'Kane in Surdulica
>
> What is left of the 12 children of Jovina Street is piled on four
> metal trellis tables in the back room of a white-tiled morgue. Their
> street was named after a childrens' poet, Zmaj Jovina, who took to
> writing stories after he lost his seven children to tuberculosis. Now
> Jovina Street has 12 more children to mourn.
>
> On Monday, between noon and 1pm -- nobody seems to remember
> exactly when - they died when a NATO missile burrowed into their
> hiding place in a cellar.
>
> 'They were aged between five and 11,' said Dr Alexander Nicolic,
> though it was impossible to tell the ages from the four heaps of
> human remains on the table.
>
> Most were from the Voyislav family. They had been waiting for
> their grandfather to come back. He had gone to fetch a salad from his
> sister's garden for lunch.
>
> Milic Voyislav liked to make himself useful when he was at home
> on holiday. For 31 years he had worked in a car factory in Cologne,
> raising his children on the wealth of German industry.
>
> This holiday he was fulfilling a long term promise: the Voyislav
> family were finally getting a satellite dish. Dragan came at lunchtime
> to put it up.
>
> That's when the two planes came in, high above the suburban
> spread of Surdulica. There, most of the 300 houses are built from the
> money of migrant fathers; plain two-storey homes built in the 70s and
> 80s, each with a car in the driveway.
>
> When the NATO planes had finished, the white four-door saloon
> in Milic Voyislav's driveway was crushed into a pancake - its number
> plate VR633-52 just discernible - and at least 20 people, 12 of them
> children, were dead.
>
> It is night and the earth movers are still working by the electric
> arc lights. Men in navy boiler suits, white hats and rubber gloves are
> picking between the rubble for more bodies.
>
> An old man, his jeans covered in dust, finds his sheepskin rug and
> a pair of his trousers in the debris. He shakes them, folds them and
> carefully lays them to one side.
>
> Next to him, Ilica Srebena is saying: 'My sister is here
> somewhere, she's here somewhere. I don't understand it. What were
> they trying to hit? The barracks have been empty since the beginning
> and they blew it up on April 6. There was nothing more here, we
> didn't expect them to come back.'
>
> There is no sign of the soldiers and trucks NATO may have been
> seeking in Surdulica. The road to the town, 300 miles south of
> Belgrade, is a ghost highway. Once the trucks of Germany, Austria
> and Hungary ploughed through Serbia on their way to Greece,
> Bulgaria and Romania. Now there is nothing.
>
> Further south, the great highway becomes a mud track through a
> village, winding under 16th century bridges and past mountain
> lodges. Soldiers are silhouetted in the doorways of their
> commandeered houses, their trucks stowed in farmers' barns or untidy
> garages with corrugated iron roofs. They are far from military
> barracks in towns like Surdulica and the streets where the Voyislavs
> live.
>
> In Britain, Surdulica's medical facilities would be called a cottage
> hospital, an ordinary place where women give birth and the old die.
> But late on Tuesday night it was not a place that belonged to humans.
>
> In the first room of the morgue, under hard electric strip lights, a
> giant white table cloth held a mass of human flesh - the parents and
> grandparents of the children of Jovina Street. Body parts were mixed
> with shredded carpet, newspapers, torn flesh and raw bone.
>
> Three generations of Milic Voyislav's family are here. Somewhere
> among them perhaps is Dragan, the man who had come to put up the
> long-awaited satellite dish.
>
> Dragan's friend stood in the morgue. 'He was putting it on the
> roof of Milic's house,' he said. 'I saw him up there, then it hit and
> when I turned my head I saw that there was no Dragan and no roof.'
>
> Milic Voyislav, a grandfather in his 60s who worked all his life in
> Cologne, had come home to visit his family - now there is no one left.
> Somewhere in the morgue are his wife Vesna, his daughter Llijana,
> his son Dladica, his grandchildren Jana, Marina and Sash, his brother
> Alexander and Alexander's wife, Stamena.
>
> 'I went to my sister's to get the salad for lunch,' said the old man,
> 'and when I got to the front of my house I saw what had happened
> and then my neighbour told me "they are all dead".'
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>>> Chris Burford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/05/99 07:43PM >>>
At 12:24 05/05/99 -0400, you wrote:
>http://www.independent.co.uk/stories/B0405918.html
>
>The Independent Online
>
>May 4, 1999
>
>US admits Sudan bombing mistake
A valuable report and I rejoice at it. It is one of the issues that
constrains the would be hegemons of the new global government.
But since you have found the Independent site and therefore pointed it out
to me, and since the Independent is an anti-war paper, can I ask you, or
us, not just to amplify the news that for whatever good motives, and I see
them in many subscribers, objectively argues for appeasement of the crimes
against humanity of the Serbian fascist regime.
This was also on the Independent site.
Chris Burford
London
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
War in The Balkans -
Villagers saw more than 100
men shot
By Emma Daley in Kukes
Grief marked the faces of dozens of women and
girls crossing to safety in Albania from the killing
grounds of Kosovo yesterday.
Tears flowed freely as children, wives and sisters
described the murders of their menfolk by
Serbian soldiers. "They wore masks and they
killed my brother right in front of me," said
22-year-old Nerxhivana Gerxhaliu. "It is not a
long story. They began beating men and shooting
others. They formed no lines, they just pulled
them out of the tractors and killed them."
A wounded Kosovar refugee is unloaded
from his tractor trailer at Morini in Albania
yesterday - AP
More than 100 men are reported to have been
dragged from the refugee convoy and shot dead
by the roadside between the villages of Upper
and Lower Studime, close to the town of Vucitrn
in Kosovo. The survivors say the convoy, a
couple of thousand people forced from their
homes in the villages, was surrounded on Sunday
night.
"They killed my husband before my eyes,"
Sebaate Gerxhaliu said, blank with grief as she sat
in a tractor trailer clutching her youngest son. "At
first they beat the men with rifle butts, then they
killed them. All through the journey I closed my
eyes because I did not want to remember the
scene." Ten men were taken from Mrs
Gerxhaliu's tractor alone, eight of them relatives.
"I managed to touch my son once, to lay my hand
on his wound, and my hand came up covered
with blood," said another women, Merita, who
did not want to be identified further because she
must break the news to other children living
abroad. "They would not even let us take the
bodies. We don't know if anyone bothered to
make a grave for them."
Another woman, Lulietta Gerxhaliu, also
witnessed the horrific scenes. "We saw many
people being killed in front of us - 20 to 30 - and
we saw more than 100 bodies," she said.
"They pulled the men from the tractors, asked for
DM2,000 [£700] and said that anyone who
could not pay would be killed." But even that was
not to save Merita's son, as she testified in an
entirely separate interview. "I gave them
DM2,000 but they still killed him."
Once the killing was done, the troops ordered the
villagers to drive to Vucitrn and even then they
were screaming and shooting in the air to terrify
the survivors, who spent the night corralled at a
farm, guarded by armed men and denied food
and water. The next morning the Serbs came for
the surviving men, removing dozens, perhaps
hundreds of men aged 22 to 55 in trucks and then
returning, trucks empty, for more. Eventually they
ordered the convoy to leave at once for Albania.
"We know at least 200 are gone - we are certain
of this because we know them all," said
Nerxhivana Gerxhaliu, who was riding in a
different tractor. It was not a long story - but it
was typical of President Slobodan Milosevic's
blood feud against Kosovo.
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