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From: "Slobodan Mijuskovic" <smijusko@f.bg.ac.yu> Subject: To The Academic Community Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 14:55:07 +0200 Organization: Faculty of Philosophy To the Academic Community The crisis in south-eastern Europe which has been lasting for almost ten years, as well as the violent break-up of Yugoslavia, continue to take their bloody toll. Attempts in finding the solution of the extremely complex Serbian-Albanian question and the status of Kosovo and Metohija, started during the peace conferences in Rambouillet and Paris, were interrupted by mindless partiality and blackmail on the part of some international mediators. The mere thought that a problem which goes back at least several decades can be solved with bombs is irrational, while the assertion that the NATO intervention is aimed at preventing or ending the humanitarian catastrophe is deeply cynical. The initiation of that action, taken outside the bounds of the international law, is in total contradiction to the moralising rhetoric used for justifying it. The peace of a wide area of south-eastern Europe has been put in jeopardy, while possible consequences may affect the entire world. A systematic destruction all over Yugoslavia makes every sensible solution more difficult to achieve: quite contrary to the claim that only military targets have been hit, a great number of civilian targets have been affected too: apartment buildings, non-military factories and bridges, with a serious threat of further damage to medical establishments, historical and artistic monuments and schools. Above all, violence which has been unleashed on all sides, brings more suffering to an ever-growing number of human victims, including the Kosovo refugees who are pouring into neighbouring countries as well as into northern Serbia. In such circumstances, favourable conditions for a peaceful settlement are rapidly diminishing. That is why we are making this appeal to all members of the Academic Community, in Yugoslavia and abroad, to use all means available to them in bringing about an immediate cessation of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, an end of all military actions in Kosovo and an urgent re-start of political di scussions. Members of The Society of Professors and Researchers University of Belgrade Belgrade, April 3, 1999. ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- information: http://www.v2.nl/east/ mail archive: http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/current/ to unsubscribe send a message to <syndicate-request@aec.at> with the message in the body: unsubscribe your@email.adress