Wednesday, April 7th

Belgrade, Bombing day fifteen

    Today in the tram in Belgrade I saw a woman with the button: Clinton's face with Hitler's moustache, behind the US flag and the Nazi star on the top: 'Bring Monica back to him'. Are not radical feminists those who traced the beginning of violence in the male sexual violence against women! (For those who still don't get the button: ... if he did it to Monica, he will not do it to Serbia!).

    The new graffiti down the road: 'Kosovo - National park'.

    Schools and university and all the educational institutions are closed down indefinitely. People watch TV most of the time, and only one discourse of hatred against agression. Nothing in public can be heard but the support to regime, Serbia, military, and hatred against the enemy. Of independent papers only two have remained, without commentaries, without signatures of journalists. The human rights and peace NGOs have frozen activities for now, in order to survive for later. People are leaving Belgrade slowly, 5 buses a day go to Budapest. Four of our friends have already gone. One wonders if democracy can be installed with bombs and fear? Knowing that fear is the best emotion to control the mind. If citizens of Serbian nationality are victims or hostages?

    The fear goes through different phases among women. Fear of crossing bridges, fear of sirens, fear of every sound, evening, fire in the night sky... In the first two weeks the activists from the Center talked about fear to women from 27 towns in 240 calls. We also received about 200 emails of support from different women and men around the world. And many of them are translated and are hanged on the peace poster on the wall.

    Most of our Albanian friends from Pristina by now were forced to Macedonia. Two of them have called us in the last two days to tell us they are alive and we should not worry for them. Their stories are horrible. Their friendship and trust in us touching.

Illegal feminist anti-fascist,
Woman in Black