News

Call Number
350-1-1:608/3

General information

Call No.:
350-1-1:608/3
Part of series
HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive
Located at
BetaSP NTSC #608 / No. 3
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00000608
Date of air
1999-03-27
Date
1999
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
Serbo-croatian
Duration
36 min.
Notes
copy on a separate Beta cassette

Content

Form/Genre
Television program
Contents Summary
Serbian Television News:
- Novi Sad: Vojvodina Executive Council tours the industrial zone damaged by NATO air strikes – losses total 25 million German Marks.
- Nis citizens protest on main square just as air raid signals go on – protest organized by the Yugoslav Socialist Party; singers, actors, and writers present.
- A NATO rocket hits Vrbas surroundings, political commentary by reporter disparaging NATO. (translated)
- Report from Pristina: another aggressor airplane taken down, it falls on Macedonian territory; TV crew records crimes against humanity; minimal losses to police and army – significant civilian property losses; KLA leaflet signed by Ibrahim Rugoba instructs the Albanian populace to amass on the Macedonian border; political commentary on Albanian terrorist ploy to use so-called refugees to hide terrorists breaking into Kosovo; NATO criminals planned to bomb Kosovo dam and destroy surrounding Serbian villages: bomb missed; Pristina in darkness awaiting another NATO air raid. (translated)

00:06.58
- Report from Belgrade bomb shelter: civilians interviewed, footage of children in shelter.
- Report from Šabac bomb shelter: civilians interviewed.
- Report from Zrenjanin bomb shelter: civilians interviewed.

07:38.30
- Report from Smederevo bomb shelter: civilians interviewed.
- Serbian Ministry for Defense of the Environment warns the international public that NATO air strikes may damage the environment: if hit, chemical industry could cause loss of lives and an ecological catastrophe.
- Serbian Artists Association: Gracanica Monastery is not a military object and can in no way be a threat, cultural monuments have become a target of destructive projectiles.
- The Yugoslav Red Cross: non-military objects were targeted during NATO attacks; international humanitarian law has been broken.
- Serbian Medical Association: appeals to doctors throughout the world to ask the world "why?" – were the medical buildings and schools in Nis and Leskovac military objects and so dangerous as to be targeted?
- Serbian Radical Party: the only goal of systematic bombardment is the total destruction of the Serbian people and state; call Americans Wild West barbarians and Satanists. (translated)

07:42.30
- Serbian Left: Serbia is in almost an identical situation as 58 years ago when Adolf Hitler attacked. (translated)
- Serbian Renewal Movement: the UN Security Council has turned into a White House servant by refusing to denounce the NATO attacks on Yugoslavia.
- Montenegrin Socialist People's Party: civilians, women, children, hospitals, schools and cultural monuments hurt and damaged in the criminal NATO attacks on Yugoslavia – their message to Clinton, "the murderer": Kosovo is priceless to us and we are united.
- People's Party of Kosovo consisting of Albanians loyal to Yugoslavia denounces the fascist NATO powers.

07:44.24
- A report on a British SKY News program on NATO air strikes, during which viewers put the British reporter in an uncomfortable situation: viewers accuse CNN, SKY news and other Western stations of German-style propaganda and say that the NATO attacks are wrong (VO, translation). (translated)

07:48.25
- Various reports from Moscow state that the Americans have sent the International Monetary Fund CEO to pay the Russian government to say it won't support Serbia anymore – a sum of six billion dollars was mentioned.
- Duma passes a resolution denouncing the NATO attacks and supporting Yugoslavia – Duma demands an immediate stop to the attacks on Yugoslavia, support from other international parliaments, and bringing a case to the Hague because of war crimes committed by NATO during aggression.

06:15.49 (CHANGE OF TIME CODE)
- Russian military official Igor Sergeev states that Russia will do everything in its power to stop the air strikes against Yugoslavia.
- Greek president expresses Greek solidarity with the Yugoslav nations.
- The U.S. has expressed dissatisfaction with the Greek support of Yugoslavia: Madeleine Albright telephoned the Greek president and stated that NATO should be united against Serbia – the Greek president answered that he was for a diplomatic solution.

06:17.06
- The Bulgarian Parliamentary Vice President states for the Bulgarian daily Monitor that NATO was wrong in thinking that strikes would bring disunity to Yugoslavia.
- Rome: the Italian Parliament passes a resolution asking for the end of NATO action for the first time in 50 years – a Balkan conference should be set up instead of military action.
- The Indonesian government appeals for a stop to the use of brutal force against Yugoslavia.
- The Chinese media express the opinion that NATO will never succeed in making the Yugoslav nation bow down.
- Leading Western countries did all in their power to stop OSCE from passing the resolution against the air strikes which was proposed by the Russian delegation.

06:19.53
- A BBC reporter denied that there was any truth to the British Defense Minister's report on the Yugoslav army offensive against Albanians in Kosovo. (translated)
- French military officials denied there was truth to NATO leaders that Yugoslav army forces are on the offensive against Albanian terrorist forces in Kosmet – French officials state that there is no proof to NATO's statement. (translated)
- British analysts announce that the British government and Tony Blair have not succeeded in getting the public on to their side; a great majority of Britain is against the NATO air strikes; Blair appeared on British television last night and is said to have lied. (translated)

06:22.38
Protests around the world against NATO air strikes:
- Moscow: anti-American protest in front of American embassy.
- Minsk: anti-American and anti-NATO protests, demands for having Russian nuclear weapons in Byelorussia once more.
- Greece: pro-Yugoslav protests in Solin, Athens, Corfu; a small war was waged in front of the U.S. embassy in Athens when Greek students and 15,000 Athenian citizens clashed with police – tear gas was used and Athens city center was blocked off; Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis supports Yugoslavia as it is once more attacked by fascist forces.

Context

Associated Names
Radio-televizija Srbije (RTS) (Producer)