Friday, April 23, 1999

A view to the shattered mirror

    After the latest bombings, one could notice that NATO officials have difficulties in pronunciation of names of the cities in Yugoslavia. Really, with all this knowledge of particular tragic faiths of Albanian refugees, it is quite understandable why they didn't have time to learn these names. Therefore, here is a crashcourse. After this, it will be much easier for a NATO general or pilot to pronounce correctly, on a press conference, "we killed fourteen of Milosevic's Serbs and Albanians in Pristina", "we hit this mourning strategically important Milosevic's train in Grdelica", "last night, Milosevic's special military bridge in Novi Sad was destroyed", "strategically important convoy of Milosevic's Albanians was attacked on Prizre-Djakovica road", "a strategic village of Merdare was hit last night, and in it was killed a whole Milosevic's family, particularly a eleven-months old baby", "Milosevic's three-year-old girl was killed last night during the bombardment of outskirts of Belgrade".

    Since Albanians and Serbs didn't leave Pristina, they got to be the worst of villains in the whole world. All other reasons would sound quite stupid. How else could you explain their capital sin of staying in Pristina despite all those CNN cameras on the border. They are expected there with great impatience. Not to offer them houses and property they left behind, though, but they will make a great story. How dare they stay in Pristina when Seselj struts for several days that there are no Albanians on Kosovo? One more question remains - why are they Milosevic's. Probably because he only thinks about how to stay in power and has no other connection with them.

    Another great shame: to ride on a train in Yugoslavia in the middle of the day. What arrogance. It is intolerant. It has been affirmed that known war criminals were killed on that train, led by a seven year old girl and a ten year old boy with their seventy two year old grandmother as their leader. Twenty-six other people were blind followers of these villains, and paid for their savageness in the similar way. There were indications that new generations of world slayers and tyrants would gather around their graves, if their bodies remain in one piece. Luckily, world can rest, because their criminal bodies were blown up and burned, therefore there could be no funeral.

    A special bridge, intended solely for military purpose, in the very heart of Kosovo - Novi Sad is finally demolished. Its military purpose was clear: it was built recently, over 50 years ago and it is only about 500km far from Kosovo. It is unknown why aren't the targets in Sofia, Salonika, Athens and Rome yet bombarded. They are similarly important to Milosevic's Serbs. This bridge's special designation is evident because tanks and armoured personnel carriers disguise themselves as common cars and bicycles. Still, when a truck goes across, it would vibrate, which is a confirmation of its immense military importance.

    Finally, after three weeks of attacks, the greatest achievement of NATO - successful liquidation of Milosevic's Albanians terrorist group. If someone had any doubts about these heroic bombardments before, now he is convinced in its rightness and necessity. It is clear how NATO generals worry not to inflict civilian casualties. The sick minds of those women, children and elders, who decided to return home, speak for their terrorist activity. How dare they not to be persons from CNN and Seselj's fairytales? To try to live normally in these hard times? After this magnificent success, none will dare to play a role other than the one assigned to him by scenario.

    This bandit family was killed in heroic attack of NATO bombers. Even though they tried to resist, they were successfully eliminated. An eleven-month-old baby was especially persistent in resistance, so it had to be blown up by a cluster bomb. There has been information that a pregnant woman survived this attack, therefore, a birth of another criminal is to be expected.

    What a notorious criminal was this child? Just look at her eyes. What hatred. It is clear what dark plans were created in this mind. How many people suffered from this murderer? The world and all the people in it can finally rest. She was killed by illustrious NATO action while being in the bathroom. It is fortunate that there are no bathrooms in the shelters in Yugoslavia so villains like this have to leave them once in a while. But, alas, there are swift NATO pilots to react promptly and relief us of these xenophobic monsters, Milosevic's pathological nationalists and world criminals.

    This sci-fi fairytale became cruel reality. All the roles have already been assigned and it would be inhuman to play outside the scenario. Still, we don't have to worry. There are good people from NATO, Serbian police and army and Albanian KLA, always ready to help. Lucky us! It is too expensive to change actors to keep the plausibility of the play. Media are cheaper. There are, always benevolent, reporters of CNN, Sky news, RTS (Serbian broadcasting system), and the rest of televisions and newspapers. The role description is different, though, but who cares. All's well, that ends well. Armament companies shares are rising, Milosevic is finally gaining popularity in Serbia he couldn't dream of.

    Finally, let's look at some real aspects of this tragic war. The war is about human rights on Kosovo. The number of refugees has risen more than ten times. Even if NATO manages to occupy Kosovo, Albanians can return to their destroyed homes and demolished cities. For God's sake don't help them like that. I won't write about how hard is to attack Kosovo on land and the possibilities of global conflict, that could become reality. There are other aspects, the overturn of Milosevic's regime in Serbia. NATO is even more successful in this area, and all of us here in Serbia are convinced that, outside natural death, nothing will stop Milosevic in his reign. With these NATO friends, you really don't need enemies. Although, every thought that the crisis could be solved in an another manner must be rejected. It would be most self-critical. The possibility to support moderate and pro-democratic Rugova instead radical Tachi looks really stupid. To spend 5% of funding spent on the intervention to support democratic forces in Serbia, instead of bombard is quite irrational. And to secure that someone doesn't fall for the story that NATO didn't expect this developments, just look at the shares of major arms producers .I can already imagine this scene: Clinton, NATO generals, the owners of these corporations, Milosevic and his associates pray every mourning for eachother's health, because what would they do without eachother.

    In the end, a simple question remains: why do the smart and normal retreat and let this rampage of the other people, if you can call them people? Probably because they naively believe that the smart ones are also compliant.

Veljko
23 years, student