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To: greenspirit who wrote (8964)	5/18/1999 9:12:00 AM
From: Enigma	Respond to of 17770

Yes, the human dimension in all of this is missing - much of the fault is due to the Network's penchant for 20 second sound bites - so they go with the military aspect of the bloody thing - the Apache farce is interesting too. Edit - to be fair the networks do show some of the civilian damage - but the impetus seems to be with the Nato slant. There again I find it hard to watch any of it now - so may be missing something. d

To: greenspirit who wrote (8964)	5/18/1999 9:29:00 AM
From: Enigma	Respond to of 17770

Michael - the human dimension - one of a series of emails from an ex-student in Belgrade to her ex-professor in Canada - names deleted: belgrade Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 20:22:20 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal ---------- > From belgrade > Date: Sunday, May 16, 1999 6:09 PM > > Dear > > I am finally on my husbands night watch again. Obviously, I will spend > whole night answering letters I got previous days. Nothing is new in > Belgrade. New daily routine is two air attacks on Belgrade area. At first > in the early afternoon, it lasts about hour or two, nothing on the downtown > jet. During the night is worse, attacks are heavier, longer and closer. Day > by day, building by building, central area is getting new ugly feature. I > am sitting now very close (less than 50 m) to wide avenue with embassies > and governmental buildings. Embassies now had broken windows, graphits on > their walls, they are empty, governmental buildings are destroyed, while > traffic normally flows. Grothescue. It is very unpleasant sitting here, > knowing that they are attacking the same building several times. > > Last few days we are horrified with new NATO's massacre of Albanian > refugees. For now, it's about 100 dead, but unfortunately, they are finding > new and new bodies. Now, it was not even "mistake", it was "regular > military target"! Of course, they are "sorry if they caused any collateral > damage"! On the other hand, you are exposed to pictures of Albanian's mass > graves, I saw them on satellite. I couldn't imagine common man who > believes that somebody (Yugoslav Army) brutally kills 200 people, and than > bury them orderly, one by one in a tidy graveyard as shown on that > satellite pictures! And all that done in the middle of the war, under the > bombs! But all this hypocrisy is not new, the question is only where is the > end. > > I am worried about food. It is spring, market is full of new green > vegetables and strawberries which I like very much. But I believe that > everything is contaminated now. Should I eat fresh food or not? (The best > solution for me is to stop eating anything at all, because I am getting new > kilograms with this war. The same was with war in Croatia and Bosnia, I > needed months and months of diet after them. But as Patric Breson said > "There is no weighting machine in coffin...") > > I am trying to find some place in my mothers home to install my computer > there. Negotiations are going well, she should move some plants from old > sewing machine....so maybe in a day or two I will have my own Internet > address again. (Why should only my plants suffer on my empty home on the > other side of Sava river?) > > Your letters mean lot for me and my friends, so please keep us informed > what's going on with ourselves. > > All the best, and take care, > > >