Syndicate: Mihajlo's letter from Belgrad

["Mihajlo" <abroeck@v2.nl>]

From: "Mihajlo" <@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 06:09:18 PDT


  The situation in Belgrade is stabilising. We now constantly have
electricity and water and things are starting to look brighter. The
strawberry and cherry prices have dropped from 30 Din to 15 Din in 3 days
so now we can afford something besides onions and green salad.

  People are looking hopefully at the peace talks. Even the kids from the
neighborhood have realised that war isn't much fun.

  No one will ever know how many albanians were killed by YU army, police
and paramilitary units in Kosovo and Metohija. I heard many bloody stories
and braggings about burned and bombed down villages. The usual recipy is to
bomb the village to the ground and then blame it on NATO. I heard stories
from Serbs who left Pristina and came to Belgrade that when the troops
surrounded the city, they surrounded albanian houses one by one and entered
them. They heard shots and cries from inside and they didn't see any
albanians come out alive, but they mostly didn't stick around such places
long enough to be sure.

The NATO and the Yu army are covering up most of each others losses. NATO
have hit several barracks in the first days of the bombing while the troops
were still in them. No one published a thing. They all know that. One of
those barracks was in Belgrade. The Yu high command is trying to reduce
official NATO air losses to a minimum, and it publishes info only on those
planes that have been seen to crash.
I saw a site of some russian claiming that Yu airforce made an air-raid on
Tuzla airport in Bosnia in broad daylight, destroying NATO aircraft on the
ground.

The yugo army is constantly entering albanian territory, trying to push the
KLA/NATO forces and the refugees deeper into Albania.

About the peace concerts at Belgrade's Republic square and at Branko's
bridge, the musical bands were ORDERED to attend those or else the music
houses, which are all controlled by milosevic's gang would erase all their
original records and CD's.
Also, I saw an incredible number of skinheads attending them, some of which
wanted to beat me because I was wearing an antiwar t-shirt, but their
leader stopped them.

Same goes for the "Spontaneous gatherings of citizens" on the bridges. Most
of those people come there because they were told they would be sacked from
their jobs if they didn't. The rest come because they want to show
themselves as loyal slaves to the master.



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