Solidarity meeting in NYC
The International Action Center, the People's
Video Network and Yugoslavs against Occupation held a meeting
in New York on June 28 in solidarity with a demonstration at
the tribunal in The Hague, Holland, where former Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic is being tried. Other solidarity
meetings were held in Moscow and Belgrade.
Milos Raickovich, a composer and teacher in New York, gave a
brief description of the demonstration in The Hague before the
Yugoslav film "Wounded Country" ("Ranjena Zemlja") was shown.
The film depicts the bombardment of Yugo slavia by U.S. bombs
and missiles in 1999.
After the film, Pat Chin of the IAC spoke on the political
context of the 78 days of air warfare against Yugoslavia in
1999, asserting "it was a neocolonial attack to expand the U.S.
empire." Nadja Tesich, a Yugoslav author and film maker,
pointed out that the real reason the U.S. and NATO powers
imprisoned Milosevic was that he "defended his country from
enemy attacks." Barry Lituchy, a historian, explained the
historical context of Euro pean and U.S. aggression in the
Balkans.
Sara Flounders, who was in Yugoslavia while it was being
bombed in 1999, drew parallels with the struggles in Palestine
and Iraq.
-- G. Dunkel
Reprinted from the July 10, 2003, issue of
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