LETTER OF ALEKSANDAR JOVANOVICH
Dear friends and coleagues,
it is now 50 days of "air strikes against Miloshevich";
In humanitarian action against Miloshevich:
1. somebody decided that all the nonalbanian people are Miloshevich's
subjects and probably his private property; Albanians subjected
to other noblties;
2. so far quite high damage is densily distributed;
3. the roads and railroads have been destroyed; bridges everywhere too;
consequently, high topologic disconnectedness has been achieved;
4. fuel tanks and depots burnt everywhere;
5. chemical plants with large amounts of highly poisoned raw chemistry
rocketed, the thousands tons of poisonous chemistry leaking to
the environment; similarly with all refinaries and their
derivatives..
6. TV and radio relays everywhere; studios too; postal-telephone nodes
partly; more to be expected;
7. potable water in larger no of cities;
8. electroenergy sys, attacked so far with bombs localy, major plants
distribution with soft bombs; it was a demonstration of what follows;
9. thousands of people's houses and appartments distroyed, tens of
thousands damaged seriously;
10. depleted uranium bullets from the Am anti-tanc planes: so far
hundreds of thousands; yesterday night TV announced 50 more planes
of that sort are moved towards us here; consequently, expecting
tens or hundreds of millions of this stupid bullets to fertilize
soil densily ...
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SCORE: so far EVERYBODY, 10-11 millions experienced very seriously
the consequences of the current "humanitarian mission";
the total value of real estate has been reduced by 1/2;
the life quality has been reduced to ZERO to undeterminedly many;
the life quality of EVERYBODY has been reduced by quite high %;
less than 1 hour ago i spoked to friends in Nish, one of havily attacked
towns; The cluster bombs have been densily seeded today there again,
but in much larger quantity in a purely residential area; i heared on
the phone the detonations of the bombs;
BACKSCORE: unofficialy, but seemingly confirmed via various sources,
the ALLIANCE loss is getting closer to 100 aircrafts;
the unresistable cruise missiles downed, close to 200,
roughly some 20%;
All done by absolutely DEPLETED army, with the out fashioned arms,
after 10 years embargoes; after 10 years of Miloshevich petting his
police and insalting, reducing and finaly distroying "his" army;
the cardinal numbers 100 : 1;
the technical ratio probably 7000 : 1;
the fire power ratio somewhere 50.000 : 1,
not including nuclears;
Very probably, after a fiew extra weeks of the current humanitarian work
it will be a waste of money to drop any more expensive bombs and rockets
here, since nothing of any value will remain;
Some weeks ago broad-media relayed that CIA announced
"that it is highly probable to expect the serbian terorrism soon";
I am afraid they were right.
They have to be right.
They have always been right.
The scale of devastation of this country
WAS KNOWN IN ALL DETAILS TO THEM WHEN THEY PREDICTED
the above IDIOTIC statement.
Somebody decided that this "war" be happenning this way:
some homosexuals invisible in their
armchairs far away or cockpits +10km high,
aim at targets known to them,
targets probably not having time to
realize they had been targets;
Probably the worst criminals alive, Mr Dinko Shakich former
commander of JASENOVAC, facing justice after 54 years, has a fair
trial in Zagreb nowdays. There are alive victims strongly hesitating
to witness against him.
His human rights are well respected, when he
does not feel well he can visit a doc or retire.
He has comfortable accomodation.
We, including me, are sentenced without a trial,
except if everybody accepts
that we are all mr Miloshevich private property and as such we
should be treated accordingly to
what was claimed against him and his property.
Today we received strong evidences that our access to Internet will be
turned off.
Why should we have a right to contact even our friends or people that
might trust us.
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The reaction of China after three deaths in the totaly demolished
embassy influenced the formulation of the following.
Tomorrow, if ther will be tomorrow, I have lectures and exams,
our University is "continuing its work".
Thus, tomorrow I will start the promotion of a forgotten
principle of
S Y M M E T R Y
beginning with the OLD TESTAMENT and closing with the NEW TESTAMENT
recomendations concerning the treatment of violence and evil;
Tomorrow we will establish the procedure wich will contain:
- civil victim identifications, with time, locus and means;
- justice algorithm acceptance;
I will propose the weighted random choice of
either OT or NT;
- cancelation of classic law;
- generation algorithm for New Corts - software;
- punnishment/retalliation items definition;
- identification of the involved-subjects-by-hierarchy alg;
- execution of the corts decisions;
I will propose the method of rewards which was proved
to be efficient on the Wild West;
- data-base MS and administrators of the
DB-of-identified-criminals;
- reward fond generation; fond bord;
All will be stored in computer, carefuly maintained for future
needs.
This is my last mesage during the humanitarian action in Balkans.
Let the force be with all of you out there,
Always wishing you all the best,
Aleksandar Jovanovich
NEWS OF THE WEEK
May 10, 1999
Volume 77, Number 19
CENEAR 77 19 pp. 7-8
ISSN 0009-2347
NATO bombs take out chemical complex
Michael Heylin
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's aerial bombardment of
Serbia has specifically targeted refineries and petrochemical and
fertilizer facilities with devastating impact, according to both NATO
and Serbian sources.
The biggest chemical target in Serbia has been a petrochemical and
fertilizer complex in Pancevo, on the Danube River about 10 miles
northeast of Belgrade. This complex is adjacent to an oil refinery that
has been attacked several times since NATO's air campaign started on
March 24. On April 8, the Pentagon claimed that this refinery, one of
the two largest in Serbia, was no longer capable of operating.
The major strikes against the Pancevo chemical facilities came on
the nights of April 15 and 17. The units destroyed were HIP
Petrohemija's ethylene, vinyl chloride, polyvinyl chloride, and
mercury-cell chlor-alkali plants and HIP Azotara's ammonia and
fertilizer facilities.
According to an April 16 statement by Slobodan Tresac, director
general of HIP Petrohemija, which was distributed via the Internet, the
ethylene and vinyl chloride units were hit directly in the first attack,
which also damaged the chlor-alkali and PVC units. According to Tresac,
a fire broke out and very large quantities of toxic materials were
released, injuring a large number of people, but he reports no deaths.
The second attack finished off the chlor-alkali and PVC units and
destroyed the ammonia and fertilizer facilities. The information service
of the Yugoslav Army Supreme Command claims that 70,000 people had to be
evacuated, resumably temporarily, because of the attacks. The plant is
about three miles from the center of Pancevo, a city with a population
of about 150,000.
An e-mailed statement received by C&EN last week from the president
of the Serbian Chemical Society, Miroslav J. Gasic, claims that huge
volumes of chlorine, mercury, hydrocarbons, ammonia, nitrogen and sulfur
oxides, phosphorus compounds, and hydrogen halides have been released as
a result of these attacks. It also states that "a large number of people
have had to be treated for poisoning."
The society appeals to the scientific and professional public to
help stop the "targeting of industrial complexes which release toxic,
teratogenic, carcinogenic materials to prevent further spread of the
ecological catastrophe in the Balkan Peninsula and Europe."
A statement on the Internet from a group of chemistry-related
University of Belgrade faculty expresses similar sentiments. It calls
for a cessation of "the extremely dangerous policy of NATO" of attacking
chemical plants before "an ecological catastrophe results."
At a press briefing on April 19, a Pentagon spokesman dismissed
such concerns. He pointed to Serbian press reports that the plants went
into controlled shutdown as soon as they were attacked. He added that
the U.S. believes that some very volatile gases may have been released
and that they quickly dispersed.
However, the reports of considerable health problems resulting from
the Pancevo bombing are not inconsistent with U.S. estimates of chemical
hazards as reflected in risk management plans prepared by U.S. chemical
facility operators at the behest of the Environmental Protection Agency.
For example, a sudden release of 650 tons of chlorine from storage at
one plant is estimated to have an end-point distance of at least 25
miles. Within this distance, according to EPA, people exposed for an
hour could face "serious health effects."
U.S. chemical and environmental experts contacted by C&EN say there
could be short-term ecological damage, such as defoliation, if the
attacks on the Pancevo chemical plants were as devastating as reported
by the Serbs. But they are skeptical of claims of a long-term ecological
catastrophe.
Emergency Mobilization to Stop the War
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EYEWITNESS YUGOSLAVIA:
Ramsey Clark will report on his trip from the Yugoslav war zone on
Tuesday, May 25 at 6:30 pm at FIT in NYC (27 St. and 8 Ave.) Former U.S.
Attorney General Ramsey Clark and other members of a fact-finding
delegation to the war zone in Yugoslavia between May
14-18 will provide testimony that the U.S./NATO bombing of Yugoslavia is
deliberately targeting civilians, civilian infrastructure, and the
facilities necessary to sustain civilian life in Yugoslavia.
"It is a war crime as defined by the Geneva Convention to deliberately
target civilians. But the U.S. and NATO war planes are using cluster
bombs that have killed and wounded thousands of innocent civilians in
Belgrade, Novi Sad, Nis, and other cities and villages throughout
Yugoslavia_including in Kosovo," said Sara Flounders, Co-director of the
International Action Center and a member of the fact-finding delegation.
The May 25 reportback meeting will include eyewitness testimony and
dramatic, uncensored video footage that prove that civilians have been
targeted in the U.S./NATO war effort. Clark traveled throughout
Yugoslavia in late March 1999 and this second trip during the war
provides comprehensive coverage of how economic, as well as military
infrastructure, has been damaged or destroyed.
Members of the delegation will be available for interviews with the
press on Tuesday, May 25 at 6:30 pm at the Fashion Institute of
Technology (6th floor) located at 27 St. and 8 Ave. in Manhattan.
"If most people in the United States could have seen what we saw in
Yugoslavia they would immediately join the ranks of the already growing
anti-war movement," Flounders stated. "We are organizing a
demonstration of tens of thousands of people for June 5, 1999, in
Washington DC. It will be the largest demonstration to date to protest
the U.S./NATO war. One thing that was evident from our trip is that the
people of Yugoslavia have suffered greatly, but that their spirit of
resistance against foreign aggression has not been broken. The U.S. must
end this criminal war or it will be a repeat of the
debacle in Vietnam."
REMEMBER!!!
March 26, 1999. Kragujevac is a place in Serbia where 5 000 of citizens and schoolboys were
executed in few days, in October 1941. Kragujevac and the memorial park with
the monument, where these victimes are buried was bombed yesterday...
Last night was bombed Nish. Among different targets, NATO bombed the hospital
and the Faculty of Engeneering. Have you seen that on CNN?
At the Washington ISIS-Symmetry Conference we met professor
William Huff. After joint lounch we have been surprised (and impressed):
he visited all Serbian
monasteries, and know about some of them even more than we do.
Today evening is bombed Grachanica, 600 years old Serbian monastery. That cultural
monument (under the protection of UNESCO) survived the Turkish occupation,
World War I, German fascists...
During the War, London was bombed by fascist Germany, but theaters
continued to work. The theaters in Yugoslavia also
continue to work: this evening, at the World Day of Theater,
Belgrade theaters will play... The bombing continues, more violent
and barbarian then before, in insane attempt to produce ecological catastrophy...
Beginning from March 28, 1999 each day in all main cities of Serbia
are organised concerts for peace.
I hope that the people participating in this Ghandian protest
will not be bombed.
April 1, 1999. This morning is destroyed old Varadin bridge (Novi Sad).
During the War, this bridge was destroyed by Germans, and rebuild after the War.
April 3, 1999. The first time from the beginning of this undeclared
war is bombed the target
at the Belgrade downtown: Republic Security building, only
50 meters from the University Hospital Clinic.
April 6, 1999. Tonight NATO bombed the center of Aleksinac,
with many civil victimes. On the other side,
the exodus of Kosovar Albanians is continuing.
April 9, 1999. Among many other places, tonight is again bombed Kragujevac.
More than 120 workers trying to protect by their own bodies
the car factory, the only source of life for 35 000
workers and their families, are wounded.
April 9, 1999. Solidarity of scientists: at the University of North Carolina
(Chapel Hill) will be organized "Stop the Bombing Vigil".
That protest will be continued every friday, till the end of the bombing.
April 11, 1999. Peaceful Easter to all the people of good will.
April 12, 1999. The coldblooded murder: in Grdelicka Klisura
NATO bombed the train. About 30-50 people are
kild, among them a ten-years old boy. By the camera on the top of the missile
the pilot was able to see his target.
April 14, 1999. Today is in Belgrade opened the 46th Festival of the
Documentary and Short Movie, the oldest film festival in Europe.
April 14, 1999. The NATO genocide of Albanians: at the road Djakovica-Prizren
NATO bombed the convoy of Albanian refugees. In the four attacs,
more than 70 Albanians are kild.
April 17, 1999. Today, at the day of Global Anti-NATO
Protest organized in about 100
cities all over the world, in Belgrade was
the traditional Belgrade Marathon: a race for peace.
April 18, 1999. The potential ecological catastrophy: tonight the NATO attacks have been
especially concentrated to the large petro-chemical agregates at Novi Sad.
From Pancevo (near Belgrade)
huge clouds of released gas from fertilizer factory
expanded all over, producing dangerous concentration of
vinil chlorid monomer. Could you imagine our future
(and maybe the future of neighbouring countries): the children that will
drink the milk from there, eat the fruits or vegetables...
April 19, 1999. NATO begun the chemical
war: last night is bombed the
chemical plant in Baric, less than 20 km from Belgrade.
At 10 km from here is the Nuclear Institute in Vincha.
Maybe it is the next target?
April 20, 1999. PLEASE, DON'T SMOKE: taking
care about our helth, NATO
last night terminated the tabacco factory in Nish.
Today is Adolph Hitler's birthday, so maybe
it would be the propper time to
complete the chemical plant in Barich,
doing the job efficiently with one gigantic gas chamber...
April 21, 1999.
In tonight bombing the last bridge to Novi Sad, that citizens defended by threir
own bodies, is broken. The Electronical Faculty at Nish is hardly demaged.
About 90% of laboratories and the library are destroyed.
April 22, 1999.
The day of the memory to the victimes of Jasenovac (Croatia), the place of holocaust
where have been exterminated about 300 000 Serbs and Jews. After the exodus of Serbs
in 1995, the teritory of Croatia is ethnicaly clear. Tonight at Kosovo, NATO bombed the
refugee vilage of Serbs that escaped from Croatia, and more than ten people are kild.
April 23, 1999.
After the bombing of the petrochemical industry centers (Novi Sad, Smederevo, Pancevo)
and chemical plants (Pancevo, Baric), we have the serious
warning that the next target might be the
Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences (about 15 km from Belgrade).
April 23, 1999.
Tonight at 2.06, in the middle of the TV-News,
NATO bombed the Radio-Television Belgrade
(in the center of Belgrade, 300 meters from my home), trying to
destroid the complete information system. We still don't know the exact
number of victimes that remained in the ruins of the building (till the April, 27: 9
dead, and 18 wunded journalists and TV workers).
April 25, 1999.
The war against the true: the distruction of informative system is continued.
In Belgrade we can see now only three local TV stations. By every such action,
the real danger of the ground operations is getting closer. Welcome to Vietnam!
April 29, 1999.
REPEATED CRIME: after NATO bombing of Surdulica, till now 16 bodies are found,
among them 12 of the children between 3-11 years. The first such bombing
of Aleksinac is explained by NATO as a "mistake"; this one is the repeated crime.
May 1, 1999.
In the intensifyed bombings, among the other targets are bombed the purely civilian part of
Belgrade, the center and hospital area in Pancevo.
May 1, 1999.
INCREDIBLE CRIME: In the NATO attack to the bus full of
passengers (at Luzani, near to Prishtina)
about 50 people are kild. Immediately after that, NATO bombed the car of the Red
Cross with medical team going to help to the victimes.
May 2, 1999. Next civilian victimes :
In the NATO bombing of Kurshumliska Banja more than 30 people are kild.
May 4, 1999. Systematical killing:
In the second bus bombed by NATO (on the road Prishtina-Rozaje) more then 20
passengers are kild, and 30 wounded.
May 4, 1999.
Two days after NATO used the new bombs with graphite net making
the electrical shortcuts, the electrical power and the water supply
depending on it is now almost normalized in the whole Serbia. TV-Novi Sad
haveng the program in the six languages of national minorities
in Vojvodina, is completely distroyed.
May 7, 1999.
In the NATO attack by cluster bombs to the center of Nish and hospital,
about twenty people are kild and 40 wounded. Far as I know, no one of
my coleagues from Nish University was not hurt.
May 8, 1999.
Tonight NATO bombed the Chinese Embassy (by three missiles) and
one of the three bigest international hotels at Belgrade:
the hotel "Yugoslavia".
May 9, 1999.
The Day of Victory over the fachism. Raise your voice against
its rebirth.
May 12, 1999.
In today terrible bombing of the purely civil parts
of Nish by missiles and cluster bombs, more
than 20 people are wounded.
May 13, 1999.
This morning we received the very serious announcement that
the Internet connections with Yugoslavia will be closed.
Please read the recent letter of our
colleague Aleksandar Jovanovich, the professor of mathematics
at University of Belgrade.
May 14, 1999.
NATO massacre of Kosovar Albanians: in the bombing of Albanian
refugees (at Korisha, near to Prizren)
87 of them are kild, and 78 wounded.
May 17, 1999.
Among other targets, tonight NATO bombed the petrol stations,
continuing to produce the ecological catastrophy.
May 20, 1999.
Tonight NATO bombed the hospital "Dr Dragisha Mishovich"
in Belgrade. Three patients are kild.
May 23, 1999.
After tonight NATO bombing, almost complete Serbia remained without electricity.
May 24, 1999.
Three-day NATO bombing of the electrical system produced the humanitarian catastrophy.
Many hospitals are without electricity and water.
May 25, 1999.
Eyewitness testimony about NATO aggression
will be presented in the report by Ramsey Clark
on his trip from the Yugoslav war zone.
May 28, 1999.
Two good things never come together:
after two days without electricity, we are now
without water!
May 31, 1999.
In the last few days the NATO bombings of Yugoslavia are intensifyed.
At the same time, all the informations comming from Yugoslavia are cut of.
June 1, 1999.
In the NATO bombings of Yugoslavia every day are kild about twenty civilians:
three days ago more than 20 people in the hospital at Surdulica, and yesterday
at least 17 civilians at the center of Novi Pazar.
June 6, 1999.
APPEAL FOR PEACE
"I invite all the prisoners of the nazi concentracion camps World War II and
their descendants to raise their voices against the present crime
and new fashism..."
Vida Jocic
Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck
prisoner No. 49865, 1942/45
"We have no ethical right to forgive,
no historical right to forget."
After more than two months of bombing and Yugoslav
resistence it was assigned the peace agreement. As the result of NATO aggression,
there remained the thousands
of dead and homeless Serbs and Kosovar Albanians...
After the "humanitarian bombing" of Yugoslavia, we have now the next exodus:
in the same way as 500 000 Serbs from Croatia and 250 000 Serbs from Bosnia,
the remaining 120 000 Serbs will must to escape from their homeland - Kosovo.
EDITOR'S PERSONAL COMMENT
At the beginning of the war, I received a copy of the paper
"ASHAMED TO BE A CANADIAN"
by Michael Bliss. Strange, but there is at least one
Canadian citizen who don't need to be ashame:
ME. My father was born in Canada. He spent the most
of his life in Sarajevo, as a renowned director of the National Theater.
During the Yugoslav crisis, as a Serb
(Montenegrian), in the age of 76 he escaped from the Muslim part of
Sarajevo only with a small bag.
Now he lives in Toronto. At this moment I don't need to be ashame: I am here,
in Belgrade, with all the Yugoslav people who suffer...
Slavik Jablan
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