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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <nettime-l-temp@material.net> is the temporary home of the nettime-l list while desk.nl rebuilds its list-serving machine. please continue to send messages to <nettime-l@desk.nl> and your commands to <majordomo@desk.nl>. nettime-l-temp should be active for approximately 2 weeks (11-28 Jun 99). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:55:26 +0100 (GMT+0100) From: Geert Lovink <geert@basis.Desk.nl> To: tbyfield@panix.com Subject: Kosovo Crisis eMagazine Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:13:18 -0500 From: MeMail <memail@send.memail.com> MeMail: Kosovo Crisis eMagazine http://www.memail.com ___________________________________________________________________ June 18 1999 Index ----------------------------------------> Reports from Kosovo ----------------------------------------> Letters from Kosovo ----------------------------------------> Reports from Serbia --------------------------------------------> Media & the War -------------------------------------> Pacifica Radio Reports -------------------------------------------------> Commentary --------------------------------------------------> Headlines Reports from Kosovo ------------------- More stories and evidence of killing and torture is emerging from Kosovo. The Washington Post had a long piece on Wednesday about what happened in cities around Kosovo. The Boston Globe has a story today on a baker in Pec who kept a diary. Pristina Police Station Holds Tools of Torture by Molly Moore, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/pristina061899.htm Kosovo Rape Victims Suffer Twice by Gordana Igric, Institure for War & Peace Reporting (6-18-99) http://www.iwpr.net/balkans/news/bcr180699_2_eng.htm In key town, cultural elite hunted down by Paul Salopek, Chicago Tribune (6-17-99) http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ws/item/0,1308,11249-11250-30443,00.html Kosovo's Survivors, Up From the Ashes Peter Finn, David Finkel, R. Jeffrey Smith and Michael Dobbs Washington Post (6-16-99) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/kosovo061699.htm From Hospital Beds, Tales of Revenge by Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times (6-18-99) http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/YUGO/lat_revenge990618.htm Kosovar baker delivered bread, buried friends, neighbors by Kurt Pitzer, Boston Globe (6-18-99) http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/169/nation/Kosovar_baker_delivered_bread_buried_friends_neighbors+.shtml Letters from Kosovo ------------------- Finnegan Hamill's reports on his email from Adona (a name used to protect her identity) were some of the first to give a human perspective on what was happening in Kosovo. He got in touch with her Thursday for the first time in almost a month and filed an update that aired today on NPR's Morning Edition. It and his previous stories are on the web. Adona is a member of a peace group called the Postpessimists. Paul Watson wrote about the group back in April. Hamill and others are raising money to help bring Adona and other members of the Postpessimists to the United States to study. Letters from Kosovo by Finnegan Hamill of Youth Radio http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/kosovo-emails.html Bombs Close Door on Teens' Peace Efforts by Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times (4-19-99) http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/YUGO/DISPATCH/t000035112.html Donations can be sent to: Kosovo Refugee Student Fund 2345 Channing Way Berkeley CA 94704 Reports from Serbia ------------------- Since the bombing stopped, many news organizations have withdrawn their reporters from Belgrade at a time of critical importance for the future of Serbia and the region. But some stories are still being filed. Also, the Christian Science Monitor reports on Serbs who fled to other countries during the war. Serbs weigh Milosevic's policies by Brian Hanrahan, BBC (6-18-99) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_372000/372194.stm Serb refugees become forgotten people by Rory Carroll, Guardian (6-18-99) http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,59095,00.html New Refugees Join Those From Past Serb Wars by Carlotta Gall, New York Times (6-18-99) http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/061899kosovo-serbs.html (free registration required) Nowhere to call home after the war Robert Marquand, Christian Science Monitor (6-17-99) http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/06/17/fp8s1-csm.shtml Media & the War --------------- A FAIR analysis of how the New York Times reported on the war. Seth Ackerman talks about the coverage on Counterspin. Reporters Sans Frontieres has issued a report on coverage of the war and also issued a report on repression of independent media in Yugoslavia. ANEM, the Association of Independent Electronic Media in Yugoslavia, has issued a statement on more recent repression. It is on the independent Free B92 website. The original B92 website is now under Yugoslav government control and has been redesigned. Veton Surroi, the publisher of the Kosovar Albanian daily Koha Ditore, is alive. The New York Times' Yawning Gap Between Glowing Portrait of Western Idealism and Reality of U.S. Policy FAIR (6-17-99) http://www.fair.org/activism/kosovo-wines.html Counterspin (6-11-99) http://www.webactive.com/webactive/cspin/cspin990611.html NATO's Media Blunders by Reporters Sans Frontieres (6-16-99) http://www.rsf.fr/uk/rapport/nato/nato.html Yugoslavia - A State of Repression by Reporters Sans Frontieres http://www.rsf.fr/uk/rapport/yougo/rapportyougo.html The Continued Struggle for Independent Media ANEM (6-14-99) http://www.freeb92.net/media/repression/index.shtml Free B92 http://www.freeb92.net B92 (now government controlled) http://www.b92.net Newspaper chief to come out of hiding Independent (6-18-99) http://www.independent.co.uk/stories/B1806902.html Pacifica Radio Reports ---------------------- Laura Flanders reports that Michael Jackson, who commands KFOR forces, was a captain during Bloody Sunday in Ireland. Jeremy Scahill continues to report from Kosovo. On Thursday's Democracy Now, he was on with Jennifer Leaning who talked about a report on War Crimes in Kosovo issued by Physicians for Human Rights. NATO Commanded By Bloody Sunday Captain by Laura Flanders, Pacifica Network News (6-17-99) http://www.webactive.com/webactive/pacifica/pnn/pac990617.html Deployment Of KFOR And Serb Withdrawal On-Schedule by Jeremy Scahill, Pacifica Network News (6-16-99) http://www.webactive.com/webactive/pacifica/pnn/pac990616.html Democracy Now (6-16-99) http://www.webactive.com/webactive/pacifica/demnow/dn990616.html Democracy Now (6-17-99) http://www.webactive.com/webactive/pacifica/demnow/dn990617.html War Crimes in Kosovo Physicians for Human Rights (6-15-99) http://www.phrusa.org/new/kexec.html Commentary ---------- Kosovo and Doublespeak by Edward S. Herman, Zmag (6-17-99) http://www.zoran.net/afp/text/zmag/kosovo_and_doublespeak.htm Read UN Resolution 1244 and Watch NATO in Kosovo by Jan Oberg, Transnational Foundation (6-18-99) http://www.transnational.org/pressinf/pf71.html NATO in Kosovo - Failed Peacekeeping by Jan Oberg, Transnational Foundation (6-18-99) http://www.transnational.org/pressinf/pf72.html Investigating War Crimes by Fred Abrahams, Human Rights Watch (6-18-99) http://www.iwpr.net/balkans/news/bcr180699_4_eng.htm NATO's Pyrrhic victory Boston Globe Editorial (6-18-99) http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/169/editorials/NATO_s_Pyrrhic_victory+.shtml Balkan Wild Card by G. Zachary Pascal, In These Times (7-11-99) http://www.inthesetimes.com/zachary2316.html Showdown in Pristina Nation Editorial (7-5-99) http://www.thenation.com/issue/990705/0705editors.shtml Poison in the air by Mikhail Gorbachev, Guardian (6-18-99) http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,59107,00.html a just war or just a war? by Alison Bechdel, Washington Blade (5-7-99) http://www.washblade.com/forum/cartoons/dykes/990507a.htm Headlines --------- Spanish Fighter Pilots Admit NATO Purposely Attacks Civilian Targets by Jose Luis Morales, Articulo 20 (6-14-99) http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/spanishreport.htm Clear plan lacking for governing Kosovo by Joe Lauria, Boston Globe (6-18-99) http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/169/nation/Clear_plan_lacking_for_governing_Kosovo+.shtml 'Deal struck' on Russian troops BBC (6-18-99) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_372000/372601.stm _____________________________________________________________________ Subscription Information The Kosovo Crisis eMagazine is another MeMail Publication. 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