Mihajlo Acimovic on Wed, 9 Jun 1999 08:44:40 -0700 (PDT) |
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People When you write stuff that get's placed on the web, it's important to keep in mind how that material will be used and for whose purposes. If you're gon'na be publishing stuff about war in .yu, please read this txt: Peace groups from .yu tend to either overcriticise .yu government (something which was greatly supported by US based funding of peace org's during the last 8 years - there is no other way to get funding in a land of poverty) and forget to do the same about NATO, or the other way around (either due to .yu.gov giving them social positions or due to "patriotism"). Keep in mind that there are only two power(money) centres in .yu One is .yu.gov, which controls economy, allowing only their own to get rich while everybody else gets progresively poorer. The other are US-based foreign foundations, primarily Soros and USAID, which resemble Milosevic's gang a great deal by goals, although not by image and methods. Here, you can work for one of them, but then you're not allowed to critisize your funders, or you can work for no one and be very poor. Also, a lot of NATO country activists concentrate solely on criticism of US/NATO policy, while forgeting to mention Milosevic as the ruthless dictator he is. I've even found a text on the syndicate web site <I can't remember the title> saying that less than 35% people who were polled in Thessaloniki thought that Milosevic should be tried for war crimes. The message was in a positive context, following other results of the same pole, by which 99,5% were against NATO war in Serbia. I must remind you that the .yu army order for at least two regular units I've heard of was that 30% Albanians should survive military actions in Kosovo and Metohija. Pristina is a city whith almost no population and most of Kosovo likewise. The "ethnic cleansing" (combination of genocide and forced relocations of people) was a thing that was braged about for days at the "peace concerts" in downtown Belgrade. Everyone's mouths were full of stories about "how WE fu*ked the Shqiptars", "how WE slaughtered THEM", of destroyed villages, etc. Those were the same concerts that at least some musicians were ordered to attend under threat that the production houses (all gov controlled) would erase all their master records/CD's if they didn't. I believe this was regular procedure, but could not call up every musician in Belgrade to veryfy. Likewise, many people who live near bridges in Belgrade were ordered to come to the "Spontaneous rally's to save Our bridges" (which were announced and shown Live by Radio-Television of Serbia), under threat of loosing their jobs. Ok, I know most people at syndicate see it objectively, but think what Milosevic's propaganda machine would do if they found out that a syndicate activist gave a positive connotation to a pole in which over 65% people in Thessaloniki thought Milosevic shouldn't be tried for war crimes at all. Milosevic's propaganda here often uses antiwar protests there to show the people in Serbia that everyone there supports the cause of Serbia(=Milosevic). They've used peace protests in Italy to "prove" that all independent media in Serbia are liars and "soros's mercenaries"(both claims are true in some cases). They say that "thousands of people are marching every day in support of Serbia's struggle" They also make web sites of non-existent organizations which critise NATO in a way similar to that of the article I've read at tha syndicate site. When you write a criticism of NATO, please, at least mention Milosevic, vice versa, or your txt's can become subject to heavy misinterpretations. Just be careful what you write, cause it can be misused or misinterpreted in many ways. Peace Mihajlo Acimovic _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress