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“Nedostatak sazaljenja i solidarnosti u svetu za 11 miliona gradjana Savezne Republike Jugoslavije cije je drustvo izlozeno razaranju zapanjuje i zasluzuje svako gnusanje. Setite se samo kako su ljudi od kulture, nauke, politike, medija i humanizma pohrlili u Sarajevo kad se opsada sklopila oko njega? Gde su svi oni sada? Novinari su se sjatili u Makedoniju i Albaniju – priznajem, s jakim razlozima. Skupljaju se i na dobro reziranim brifinzima NATO-a. Medjutim, osvedociti se licno kako to izgleda i sam biti predmetom najtezeg vojnog, ekonomskog i socijalnog razaranja koje je Evropa dozivela od 1945., izgleda da nije dovoljno jak razlog da bi se bilo ovde” kaze direktor TFF-a Jan Oberg. Gde su svi koji veruju kako Jugoslavijom upravlja diktatura? Podrska drugima koji stenju pod cizmom diktatora izgleda mi kao da jeste plemenit razlog, ali od svih onih koji sirom sveta upravo tako misle, niko tamo da ode. Gde su ti...

“The G8 foreign ministers’ declaration of principlesto resolve the Kosovo “crisis” is a mishmash of face-savingelements for the West and addresses none of the root causesof the conflict or the failure of the West as a mediator,”says TFF director Jan Oberg. “This declaration may be usedto justify continued bombing and, if implemented, promises avery sad future for the Balkans. But ‘conflict illiteracy’abounds, so leading media call it a peace plan – repeatingtheir treatment of Rambouillet.” Here follows the full G8text of principles as published by BBC on May6.  – – – – – “The following general principles must be adopted andimplemented to resolve the Kosovo crisis:  * Immediate and verifiable end of violence and repressionin Kosovo.  * Withdrawal from Kosovo of military, police andparamilitary forces.  * Deployment in Kosovo of effective international civiland security presences, endorsed and adopted by the UnitedNations, capable of guaranteeing the achievement of thecommon objectives.  *...

“Ministri inostranih poslova zemalja G8 izdali sudeklaraciju o principima na osnovu kojih treba da se resikriza na Kosovu. To je mesavina raznorodnih elemenata kojisluze da spasu obraz Zapada a ne doticu se ni jednogjedinog od uzroka same krize a ni uzroka zbog kojih Zapadkao medijator do sad nije imao uspeha. kaze direktor TFF-aJan Oberg. Ova deklaracija moze da posluzi jedino zato daopravda nastavak bombardovanja, a ako se ipak primeni,obecava vrlo tuznu buducnost za citavi Balkan. No, jednestvari ipak imamo u izobilju, nepismenosti u konfliktima,pa nam danas vodeci mediji i ovo nazivaju Mirovnim planomponavljajuci tako gresku iz Rambujea. U prilogu imateceloviti tekst Principa G 8 kako ih je objavio BBC, 6. maja99.  – – – – – “Sledeci opsti principi moraju biti usvojeni iprimenjeni u resavanju krize na Kosovu: * Trenutna i lako proveriva obustava nasilja i represijena Kosovu. * Povlacenje s Kosova vojnih, policijskih i paravojnihsnaga. * Razmestanje na Kosovu...

Vec su moguca poredjenja NATO-ovog rata protiv SavezneRepublike Jugoslavije s Vijetnamskim ratom, s bombardovanjemIraka ili s gadjanjem krstarecim raketama Afganistana iliSudana. Na neuporedivo fundamentalniji nacin od ovih drugihratova, njime se ugrozavaju sve vitalne institucije Zapada,ekonomija i zapadno vodjstvo. Izlaganjem svega ovoga riziku,zapadne vlade izgleda kao da su vec odavno izgubile iz vidasta je tu uopste bio osnovni problem. Mozda je bas to razlogzasto NATO sad sam sebe definise kao ucesnika koji nepregovara tako da mu je od sveg alata u njegovom kompletupreostala jos samo macola. To je potpuno suprotnodrzavnickoj mudrosti kaze direktor TFF-a, Jan Oberg.Svejedno da li cemo odluciti da podrzimo NATO-vobombardovanje ili ne, moramo postati svesni rizika koje onosa sobom nosi a i mogucih troskova za sam Zapad. Izgleda danasi politacari i nisu svesni koliko bi bas ti troskovimogli da budu znacajni. Stoga verujem da je vreme dapokazemo gradjansku hrabrost i preduzmemo nesto u ciljuogranicavanja stete ne samo za...

12. Jacanje autoritarizma na ZapaduPogledajte rubriku Pisma uredniku bilo kojih uticajnihzapadnih dnevnih novina, pogledajte debate koje se vode nateleviziji, obratite paznju na pitanja koja postavljajunovinari. Surfajte po internetu, listajte web-sajtove,servere i grupe za diskusiju i jedna ce vam stvar postatiocigledno jasna: obicni gradjani na Zapadu postaju svesumnjicaviji. Polako uvidjaju sve siri i siri jaz izmedjunovosti koje dobijaju od NATO-a i Stejt Departmenta i onihdrugih agencija. Mnogi jednostavno osecaju da bombardovatineduzne civile nikako ne moze biti ispravno; zdrav razum namtakodje govori da se tako nece uspostaviti poverenje izmedjuAlbanaca i Srba – ili ako hocete izmedju bilo koje dvesukobljene strane. To je u suprotnosti sa svim sto uopsteznamo o psihologiji ljudi. Sto god ovo bude duze trajalo,sve veci zamah ce dobijati protesti javnosti. Gradjani NATOzemalja pocinju da se pitaju: ako se na ovako vaznom poljumogla dogoditi greska, zar se skrivene greske mozda nenalaze i u drugim vaznim problemima danasnjice;globalizaciji, demokratizaciji koje se...

“NATO’s war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) is not comparable with the Vietnam war, with bombing Iraq or throwing cruise missiles on Sudan or Afghanistan. In a more fundamental way, it threatens major Western institutions, economies and Western leadership. With that much at stake, Western governments have long forgotten what the original problem was. Perhaps this is the reason why NATO now defines itself as a player that does not negotiate and thus has only the hammer left in its toolbox. That’s the opposite of statesmanship,” says TFF director Jan Oberg. “Whether or not we support NATO’s bombing, we must be aware of the risks and potential costs to the West itself. Our politicians seem not to be aware of how big they could be. Therefore, I believe it’s time to show some civil courage and engage in solid damage-limitation both for the Balkans and for ourselves, otherwise...

12. An increasingly authoritarian WestLook at the ‘Letters to the Editor’ section of variousinfluential Western dailies, watch debates on television,listen to new questions being asked by journalists. SurfInternet, read list servers, websites and discussion groupsand one thing is abundantly clear: ordinary citizensthroughout the West are increasingly skeptical. They see theever widening gap between NATO and State Department news andother news. Many feel that bombing innocent civilians isjust not right; common sense also tells that this is not theway to create trust between Albanians and Serbs – or forthat matter between any conflicting parties. It allmilitates against all we know about human psychology. The longer it takes, the more likely the momentum of thatpublic protest. NATO country citizens will begin to ask: ifa mistake like this could be made in this important field,are other mistakes also lurking in, say, globalization, inthe more or less forced democratization, in the zeal withwhich Western...

“We are told there the West knew already last autumnthat President Milosevic had a plan to ethnically cleanseall Albanians from the Kosovo province. However, while it istrue that Yugoslav forces have exploited NATO’s bombingcampaign to drive out Albanians in a way and to an extentthat must be morally condemned, the unproved allegation thatthere existed a plan tells more about NATO than aboutPresident Milosevic – and what it tells is not to theadvantage of the former,” says TFF director JanOberg.  “The disgusting expulsion of Albanians from Kosovo can’tbe defended. The Yugoslav authorities who carries it out orlets individuals do it, can not defend such human rightsviolations with reference to NATO’ bombing. Sure, Serbs willsee NATO’s destruction of Yugoslavia as work commissioned byKosovo-Albanians/UCK, but it is anyhow up to Yugoslavia tofight NATO, not to take revenge against those who areinnocent civilians.  Having said that, NATO and the West can not be trustedwhen...

According to the Yugoslav Ministry of Foreign Affairs,around 300 civilians have been killed between March 24 whenNATO’s bombing campaign started and April 13. These civiliancasualties are related to places such as Aleksinac,Pristina, Kursumlija and Grdelica Gorge. Two days ago arefugee convoy was hit, killing some 60 Albanians. Thus, dueto NATO’s mistakes about 350 civilians have been killed in24 days. That is an average of 15 per day. The war between various Yugoslav/Serb forces on theone hand and the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK or KLA) brokeout in February 1998. Thus there were 13 months of warfarein Kosovo, or 395 days. The international communityestimates that 2.000 – soldiers and civilians – were killed.That is an average of 5 per day.  About 250.000 people were estimated to have fled theirhomes during the 13 months of war, but remainedpredominantly within Kosovo and Montenegro. That is anaverage of 632 per day. Since NATO began bombing,...

Prema jugoslovenskom Ministarstvu inostranih poslova izmedju 24. marta kada je pocelo NATO-ova kampanja bombardovanja i 13. aprila poginulo je oko 300 civila. Te civilne zrtve su pale u mestima kao Aleksinac, Pristina, Kursumlija i Grdelicka Klisura. Pre dva dana pogodjena je kolona izbeglica, usmrceno je oko 60 Albanaca. Na taj nacin je zahvaljujuci NATO-ovim greskama izginulo oko 350 civila u svega 24 dana. To cini prosek od oko 15 ljudi dnevno. Rat izmedju raznih srpskih – jugoslovenskih jedinica na jednoj i Oslobodilacke vojske Kosova (OVK, UCK ili KLA) na drugoj, izbio je februara 1998. Dakle trajao je 13 meseci, ili 395 dana. Medjunarodna zajednica je procenila da je u tom periodu poginulo 2.000 ljudi, vojnika i civila. To daje prosek od 5 ljudi na dan. Procenjeno je da je oko 250.000 ljudi pobeglo od svojih kuca za vreme ovih 13 meseci ratovanja ali oni su se uglavnom zadrzali unutar Kosova...

“Most people around the world probably think that warand media are separate. When there is a war, the media tellus about it as objectively as they can under the oftendifficult circumstances. But in today’s information society,every war is two wars: that on the ground and that in themedia. Weapons communicate and communication is a weapon. Wemust ask what interests determine what we are told and whatwe are not told? The history of warfare makes one thingabundantly clear,” says TFF director Jan Oberg, “namely thatwe can safely assume that we are not told the truth, thewhole truth and nothing but the truth. In NATO’s war withYugoslavia, there is reason to paraphrase Hamlet – ‘there issomething rotten in the state of the media.’ This is what you can read about the use by the UnitedStates of information in times of war: “Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations plannedto convey selected information and indicators...

Ogromna vecina ljudi sirom sveta misli kako su rat imediji razdvojeni. Kad se vodi rat mediji nas o njemuizvestavaju sto mogu objektivnije i to pod cesto veomateskim okolnostima. Medjutim u ovom danasnjem, informatickomdrustvu svaki se rat ustvari sastoji od dva rata: onog kojise vodi na zemlji i onog u medijima. Oruzjem se komunicira ikomunikacija sluzi kao oruzje. Morate da se zapitate kojimse to interesima rukovode oni koji odlucuju sta hoce a stanece da nam saopste? Istorija ratovanja jednu stvar cinivise nego ociglednom,” kaze Jan Oberg, direktor TFF-a, ” ato je da s pravom mozemo pretpostaviti da nam nece reciistinu, celu istinu i nista osim istine. U ratu koji NATOvodi protiv Jugoslavije postoje razlozi da citiramo Hamleta– “ima nesto trulo u drzanju medija.” Evo sta se moze procitati o tome kako SAD koristeinforcije za vreme rata: “Psiholoske operacije (PSYOP) suoperacije koje se planiraju s namerom da prenose probraneinformacije, nagovestaje i indikacije...