Friday, June 4th, 1999

Do people there know that there are Americans, who are very much against NATO's bombing?

    Q: I think this is a great site. At risk to yourselves you are providing a lot of information. Do people there know that there are Americans, plenty of them, who are very much against NATO's bombing? Like others who have written, I also lived in Serbia and I have been broken with fear, worry, and grief over the whole situation.
Do you have any suggestions what we over here might be able to do to help, either now or after the madness is over?

    Thank you for the approval of our site. We are giving our best to make the people see all the sides of the coin.

    The question of yours is quite interesting indeed. It's for the answer could be double: yes and no.

    Yes:

    If talking about the ordinary people, the ones that are at least a bit influenced by the state media, they have the permanent opportunity to watch "huge protests against the NATO bombardment world-wide" through it. Though mostly it is just a propaganda produced by the Serbian regime, while the world wide protests are not so huge but quite short, the publicity is likely to accept those tricks. I guess it is mostly because of their subconscious wishes for not being forlorn.

    On the other hand, as for the still "clear sense" people inside Serbia, they are quite aware of the numerous anti-bombing attitudes world wide, especially from Europe, though. Having said that means they are anxious for the information of all kind, but still with a feeling remained for selecting the true out of the "made up" ones.

    No:

    Due to the splice of the upcoming events in every next day during the past two and a half months, an ordinary citizen of Yugoslavia haven't had even a single ground to conclude anyone out there in the world is thinking of supporting him. Day by day, the bombs have been devastating and sowing death around more and more.

    Not much was expected from our regime, as usual. We got used to (but did not resign!) that this regime is thinking and caring about itself only. The shocking news was the governments of the "democratic west" countries, whom we expected the support from, deal in the same way.

    Finally, the most disappointing news was the infirmity of the publicity of those countries in influencing their own democratic elected governments. Or it was the lack of the volition and energy of theirs for acting and protesting. Disappointing, whatsoever, I have to say.

    For what the second part of your question is concerned - "how to help?", I recommend you to take a look on the following.

Cprickett, erols.com