Syndicate: [Fwd: [aman-disc] Message to all students organizations (fwd)]

[james stauffer <stauffer@pacbell.net>]

i apologize if for some reason this got sent twice--my mailbox is acting up  js

> --On Wednesday, May 05, 1999, 7:59 PM +0200 Dusan <dusank@EUnet.yu> wrote:
>
> > From: "Dusan" <dusank@EUnet.yu>
> >
> >
> > Student Union of Yugoslavia gathers many independent student organisations
> > and individuals who have in the past seven years fiercely opposed, and
> > still do, Milosevic's regime and his war policy in Croatia, Bosnia and
> > Kosovo. Because of  these protests we were suffering oppression and
> > violence against us, by the police. We have always strongly opposed
> > violence and that is the reason why we can not sit and watch passively
> > while hundreds of civilians of all nationalities are being killed by NATO,
> > at a scale which is not presented in a real light in western media, just
> as
> > we were not silent  as the "Serbian special police forces" and KLA were
> > killing Albanian and Serb civilians.
> >
> > The NATO bombardment has reached the most brutal phase so far. Every
> second
> > day a "mistake" happens that results in destruction of dozens of lives and
> > of whole civilian populated areas. The responsible for such bombings in
> > Bosnia are justly accused by the International Tribunal in Den Haag for
> war
> > crimes. In just five weeks of NATO bombardment the number of civilians
> > casualties has risen to the number of all (Albanian and Serb) civilians
> > killed by the Serbian special police forces and the KLA in 1998 and 1999.
> > We are fearing that the use of so called "dumb bombs" (because the stocks
> > of the so-called "smart" ones have been used up), which is being announced
> > by NATO in the past few days, will lead to a major destruction, killings
> > and massacres.
> >
> > The economy of Yugoslavia has also been completely ruined by the bombing,
> > all major factories are destroyed, which has left one million families
> > without any income.  The systematic destruction of all necessary life
> > resources, from heating plants, over power plants to water installations
> > countrywide are causing a humanitarian catastrophe. We are convinced that
> > any goal needs to be in accord with the means one uses to reach the goal.
> > Killing is always just killing, there are no different scales and ratings
> > of it. There can be no moral justification
> > for such an act. The militarisation of the society suits those who fear
> > democratic and pluralistic society.
> >
> > At our website ( http://welcome.to/freeserbia ) we have tried to give some
> > responses to the most frequent questions the people from outside are
> > having.
> >
> > We consider that the most important question that we are faced with at
> this
> > stage is: "What can we do in a unified effort to reach peace and prevent
> > possible European and maybe even global conflict?". We think that
> students,
> > as the most progressive part of the society, need to start the wave of
> > protests against the way that Kosovo crisis is trying to get resolved. We
> > think that it would be exceptionally important and useful that all
> European
> > student organisations would agree on joint demands, to be forwarded to our
> > governments. These demands should include the demand to stop ethnical
> > cleansing and a stop to the NATO bombing. We think that such joint
> > statement would effectively demonstrate that despite the war which our
> > governments are leading we are able to reach an agreement and that we are
> > acting much more responsible than the political leaders of our countries,
> > which are committing terrible crimes and claiming it to be acts on behalf
> > of our whole nations.
> >
> > The demands could be very similar to those French students already agreed
> > upon (we would like to add another few points)
> >
> > 1. unconditional end to the NATO bombings
> > 2. The return of the Kosovo refugees under control of the UNHCR
> > 3. An interposition UN force led by European countries, Russia and neutral
> > countries.
> > 4.  Organisation of the Conference about the future of Balkans (led by
> > Russia and European countries) in order of reestablishing the appropriate
> > political status of Kosovo in the future.
> > 5. Direct aid to democratic forces in Serbia, including independent media
> > 6. Donator conference which would work out the strategy of development for
> > the whole region, aiming to achieve renewal and establishment of stability
> > in the region.
> >
> >
> > Of course, all these points are just suggestions for demands and we are
> > open to reformulate them.
> >
> > I hope indeed, to hear from you very soon and consider our initiative
> > further.
> >
> > Dusan Kovacevic
> > Student Union of Yugoslavia
> >
>
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