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About War and Peace

By Vladimir Sukalovic - posted Saturday, 15 May 1999


Armed international forces in our country would not work. In Croatia, they betrayed those people they should have defended. In Bosnia they are worse than occupation forces, and Macedonia is a clear example of how welcomed those forces are.

The US started this war to force us to sign a non existing treaty with the Albanians but realizing we were not going to surrender they have started to destroy our land and attacked civilians.

They have committed many atrocities, and I want to comment on two in particular. The first is the bombing of Radio Televizija Beograd (RTS ). They bombed only one part of the building, as the rest of it is empty in the night shift. They could have bombed the transmitter tower near the building, but they levelled three floors, killing more than 15 people.

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The transmitter tower near the building is still intact. Every small kid in Yugoslavia knows that main TV transmitter is Avala tower, without it our TV is blind. But it was two week later before they destroyed the Avala tower. Our TV continues to broadcast from other locations, using a war studio and alternative broadcast techniques like satellite. They have had no real effect. Last night I saw Titanic with Leonardo DiCaprio.. :)))))

The other thing I want to talk about is the "soft" graphite bomb they are using to cut power supplies and disable the power grid network. The US and NATO say that without power our air defence and computers are useless. That is not true. The army has it's own power generators and our old IC night visors work better if there is no light from the city to interfere with light from enemy planes and missiles. Why do they bomb the power network, one may ask? To provoke panic. In a single minute the whole town is left in dark. People are trapped in lifts, others may be in surgery or on life support machines. One can only guess how much food is destroyed when the refrigerators melt down; how many cars crash without street and traffic lights. Without power the city is also without water – lack of clean water leads to infection and disease.

The US needs a quick end, and they think they can achieve that by attacking civilians. They are wrong. We will fight to the end. We don’t have any option. And the poor Albanian people are in an even worse position, with the KLA on the ground, and the US (NATO) in the air. And as the bombs fall and destroy what they built for generations, they have little choice, but to seek refugee in some other country.

I don't say that our military and police are without any guilt, but this is war, and there is little mercy in the war. There are atrocities on both sides, and we will be glad to put them on trial, together with those who gave order to bomb us. All or no one.

Every time I connect to the net I meet many wonderful people from other countries who offer me their help, shelter and support. And for that I am very grateful. Even in the US most of the people knows only what they see on CNN.

They are not to blame for what is going on here, as they (even living in a democracy) have little or no chance to intervene if their government goes in a wrong direction. I find the people of most nations friendly. Certainly no less friendly than they used to be, even Americans. I have travelled around the world (been to Australia in 1985), and I hope I will travel the world again.

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Until then, let us hope that peace is at hand. . .

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Vladimir Sukalovic lives in Belgrade and works as a Research Assistant while completing a PhD project on "Computer Aided Modelling of Dopamine Receptor Ligands". He was born in 1971.

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