STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jared, You're right Jared! 200.000 people - maybe more. Main streets was crowded with people. It was wonderful!!! DN -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:11 PM Subject: 1-200,000 RALLY Vs. EXTRADITION In BELGRADE! - MARCH TO KOSTUNICA'S OFFICE! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] >STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > >--------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- >Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! > 1. Fill in the brief application > 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds > 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no >annual fee! >Apply NOW! >http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >[NOTE: A BBC man on the scene estimated 85,000, soooooo] > >URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/news/rally26.htm >Send this article to a friend! www.tenc.net * [Emperor's Clothes] > >BELGRADE RALLIES AGAINST EXTRADITION! > >100,000-200,000 March to Kostunica's Office. Demand. "TELL US: WHO RULES >YUGOSLAVIA?" > >As I write this I am listening by connection with a friend's cellular phone >to the rally in Republic Square in Belgrade. > >The sound is indescribable. The crowd is immense, the biggest my friend has >ever seen. People respond to the speakers with a sound like the roar of >lions. The speakers and the crowd are passionately against the decree passed >last Saturday by the DOS parties in the Yugoslav Administration, >'authorizing' extradition of Milosevic and other Yugoslav patriots to NATO's >war crimes tribunal. Speakers are saying this is treason to the Serbian >nation. That the Constitution is the highest legal obligation of any state >and that by breaking the constitution one betrays the nation. They are saying >that all Serbian people and others loyal to Yugoslavia must unite and take >back their government and throw out those who have betrayed the nation to >Washington, which dangles false bribes to humiliate the Serbian people. > >I am told that this crowd, whose passion is so great the phone is vibrating >against my ear, includes activists from parties besides the Socialists, >including Mr. Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia. The DSS people are >outraged that Mr. Kostunica has stifled within his own party criticism of >this gross violation of the constitution. Earlier, one of them took the phone >from my friend and yelled at me against the roar of the background: "We are >now the Serbian Undemocratic Party!'" > >I had the honor of being one of the speakers at the huge (though smaller) >rally March 24th in this same Republic Square, to commemorate the onset of >bombing of Yugoslavia on march 24, 1999. Afterwards one of the leaders of >Kostunica's party gave me the red beret that he had worn as an officer in the >Army of the Republika Srpska. He said, "Our coalition with Djindjic is just >temporary." > >But now Mr. Kostunica and Mr. Djindjic are acting as one. Has Kostunica >betrayed his beliefs? Or was he always really a decoy to supply patriots the >illusion of a hope that in him they had a defender within DOS? Whatever the >case, now the U.S. has made its wishes quite clear and Kostunica has quite >clearly obeyed and, say these activists in the DSS, crushed dissent in his >party. > >The noise has died down a little, and my friend is translating what some of >the speakers said. > >"At the rally people were speaking with one voice. They said: Abolish the >decree! Serbian and Yugoslav governments should resign! Nobody should be >extradited to The Hague! Those who adopted that illegal decree should be >criminally charged! There must be general elections on all levels because the >government has committed treason and lied and therefore nobody any longer >supports them!" > >MARCH TO KOSTUNICA'S OFFICE > >The rally is over. I lost the connection with the first Belgrade friend, so I >am calling another. (I will refrain from using people's names due to the >intensity of the situation in Belgrade.) > >A column of more 100-200,000 people has left Republic Square. They are moving >through Belgrade. There is a truck in front, blaring music, and behind that, >a broad line of people with a huge sign FREEDOM FORE SERBIA! EXTRADITE NO ONE >TO THE HAGUE! Or words to that effect. > >The column is without end. At this moment they are passing Djindjic's party >headquarters, and the crowd is roaring their disapproval. I have to wait a >few minutes for my friend to get far enough from that point for the noise to >quiet down enough so he can be heard. My friend says: > >"We will pass near the Serbian parliament and government and then we will go >to Kostunica's office. Our people today sent him a letter reminding him of >all his past statements, that he was against the Hague Tribunal, against >extradition, that extradition violated the Yugoslav constitution, that it >required a Yugoslav law, that he stood for the dignity of Serbia, that he >stood for defending sovereignty from NATO and on and on and called on him to >appear at the rally today. Now since he has not appeared we are going to his >office to demand that he come out and address the people and explain: Who is >ruling Yugoslavia?" > >BASTILLE? > >Earlier I spoke to an activist who had just been to the Belgrade prison where >Mr. Milosevic is being held. Members of the People's Guards, a group of >mainly women who were beaten by agents of the government while acting as >unarmed witnesses at Mr. Milosevic's residence during the March 28-29th >arrest attempt, are holding a vigil there. The activist told me that there is >a large contingent of police outside, nervously guarding the gates. > >This is what the current authorities, these great democrats, have been >reduced to. Fearful cops, waiting for the people to storm the Bastille. > >Jared Israel >26 June 2001 >2:500 Eastern U.S. time, 8:50 pm in Belgrade > >URGENT APPEAL! 26 JUNE > >TO THOSE WHO HAVE DONATED TO OUR FUNDRAISING APPEAL - THANK YOU! > >BUT EMPEROR'S CLOTHES STILL URGENTLY NEEDS HELP! > >The George Soros Foundation does not fund Emperor's Clothes. Our only source >of money is people like you. All contributions help. > >Our work has expanded but our income has not kept pace. 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