Most shameful act in 20th century
April 30, 1999
Most shameful act in 20th century - intellectuals and artists of the entire world
condemns aggression on Yugoslavia and send message: "God will punish America"
"I can not watch with approval how the most powerful world force carries out air
strikes against a small country in Middle Europe. I am not able to understand why
innocent people are killed from the sky", says the most famous modern writer
Djerdj Konrad, former president of the International PEN club in front of his
students in Freiburg, Germany.
If NATO does not like the government " why has he to shell bombs over Serbian
people? What justice is it, where is the moral base there?" - asks the prominent
writer.
"Who gave them right to this? How is it possible that NATO, opposite to all
international norms, attacks the country that has not threatened to any country
member of NATO Alliance? Has inhabitants of NATYO countries authorized their
officers to kill several hundreds, or possibly thousands, civilians in Yugoslavia
without any court judgement? How could they help Albanians Kosmet by destroying
bridges in Novi Sad? - continued Konrad with his questions. He clearly stated that
answers to these questions are well known to all good-will people, but majority of
them must not tell them publicly.
"NATO says that it must not lose the war. It can not humiliate itself. But what
kind of victory would it be? Who would be happy for it? If bombarding should have
been continued only because we had told to do it, then the Western Military
Alliance came to the track of lies where vengeance prevail over reasoning and
humanism. That one who permanently threatens becomes captive of his own words",
added the writer.
Famous Spanish writer Camilo Jose Sela winner of the Nobel Prize for literature
has today severely condemned the criminal NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, reports
Itar Tass.
"It is the most shameful act in 20th century", said Sela in the interview to the
Spanish daily "Diario 16", adding that this what is going on creates him "the
unbearable pain".
Jose Sela thinks that bombarding of Yugoslavia is an "absolute nonsense" and that
it is unacceptable to solve problems by means of force and weapons at the
threshold of the third millenium.
Russian poet Jevgenij Jevtusenko said that history goes back to the stage of crime
writes the British daily "Guardian". "It came back in the end of 20th century in
the Balkans where the First World War started as well", writes Jevtusenko in his
article "Nightmare of reason" and warns: "Do not demonize any people, since
somebody could start demonizing you yourself."
"That is the war of cowards and poltroons, this is the war against Serbian people
who like hero King Leonide in Thermopile Gorge defends his freedom and at the same
time the freedom of the entire Europe. France has been a symbol of freedom and
human rights already from the Revolution in 1789, but on March 24, 1999 France
sold its heart and lost its generosity", said Patrique Bario, French writer
yesterday in the Serbian Association of Writers.
Famous Russian writer Viktor Astafjev has said today that "God will punish America
because it tortures Yugoslavia and destroy its cultural and historical
inheritance".
"As a former soldier I am against war in general, particularly wars in which
innocent civilians are targets", said Astafjev and emphasized: " Those who bomb
Yugoslavia should understand that they mutilate not only that state and its long
tradition, but themselves as well."
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