News

Call Number
350-1-1:607/2

General information

Call No.:
350-1-1:607/2
Part of series
HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive
Located at
BetaSP NTSC #607 / No. 2
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00000607
Date of air
1999-03-25
Date
1999
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
Serbo-croatian
Duration
1 hour

Content

Form/Genre
Television program
Contents Summary
Serbian Television News:
- Announcer comments on NATO air strikes.
- Report from Pristina and NATO attack on Gracanica monastery: Serbian peasants interviewed: Clinton wants to take over the world just like Hitler had before him; Siptar terrorists open fire on Serbian houses.
- Richard Holbrooke had seen Gracanica, upon his return sent projectiles to destroy pearl of Serbian culture.
- Report on NATO attack on Serbian police Training Center in Novi Sad, Vojvodina.
- NATO air strikes on Katrga village destroyed civilian houses, Serbian peasants interviewed: a new Hitler has appeared.
- Tony Blair states there were no civilian victims in Yugoslavia, saying that television shots are produced by Serbian television (cited).
- Siptar terrorists, coordinated with NATO air strikes, have begun a thorough attack on the Yugoslav army and Serbian police forces in Kosovo and Metohija.
- Report from Prizren and Pec district: Siptar terrorists burn and shoot at buildings in order to scare the populace, there is no panic, the city is well supplied.

05:18.32
- Temporary Executive Council of Kosovo and Metohija denounces the brutal, fascist, bandit, and unprovoked NATO aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the goal of which is to overtake the province and turn it over to the terrorists. (translate)
- Report from the Federal Government meeting: diplomatic relations with U.S., British, French, and German governments broken off; the Federal Government will reexamine its relations with countries helping the aggression; no expense to be spared for defense of country – taxes raised.
- Air strike danger in Belgrade and Pristina.
- Two Serbian policemen killed by Siptar terrorists in Pristina.
- Yugoslav Red Cross delivers 130 tons of humanitarian aid to various Kosovo districts.
- Federal Ministry of Justice describes NATO attack as the grimmest and most dishonorable event since WWII, as well as a show of disrespect for the UN Charter and International law, NATO protects terrorists. (translate)

05:23.45
- Belgrade public reaction to NATO air strikes and feelings for Yugoslav army. (translate)
- Federal Government holds press conference; Serbia's Vice President, Dragan Tomic: most important that citizens continue going to their workplace and defend the economical sovereignty of the country, there is enough food, at the first appearance of black marketeering there will be measures taken.
- Yugoslav ambassadors throughout the world demand a stop to NATO air strikes.
- Report from Moscow: Yeltsin terms the NATO attacks a great mistake perpetrated by Americans and Clinton (subtitles, translated); Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov meets with Yeltsin; Duma calls emergency session to discuss NATO attacks on Yugoslavia; Russian Military states that it is still not too late to stop strikes; Russian citizens and Yugoslavs who work in Russia protest against strikes in front of the American Embassy in Moscow – the American Embassy is hit with paint and eggs; Comsomol Youth representatives meet with Yugoslav ambassador to Russia; political parties throughout Russia are organizing volunteers; German consulate set on fire in Novosibirsk – a short message left: "For Serbia."

05:31.30
- Report from Beijing: Chinese president warns use of force complicates matters in Kosovo, demands immediate stop to NATO air strikes; Chinese Minister of Defense demands stop to NATO aggression.
- India denounces NATO's actions.
- Commanders of NATO in Brussels are giving contradictory statements about the goals and results of the cowardly action, Javier Solana lies – nothing else can be expected from this garden variety American pawn and all-round wretch of a human being. (translate – this also on 785)

Report on foreign media coverage:
- Portuguese daily "Diario de Noticias" calls Solana a one-time demonstrator against American imperialism and now an American pawn; protests against NATO in front of the American embassy in Skopje, Macedonia – Macedonians call NATO and foreign reporters murderers and liars, protesters say that CNN cannot lie to Macedonians, the American flag burned; the Libyan president denounces the NATO attacks and appeals to Nelson Mandela; Paris: several politicians speak out against the NATO air strikes, the French media is against the attacks; Italy: the ruling parties sign a petition to the UN to put a stop to the NATO attacks, the Italian Foreign Minister demands new action for a political solution to the Kosmet problem; London: British citizens accuse Blair's government of shameful support of Albanian terrorists in their letters to the press, the Parliament is not united in the decision to attack, the Serbian Unity Congress in Europe states that Blaire, Cooke, and Robertson are war criminals; the Algerian Foreign Ministry is against the NATO attacks on Yugoslavia; the South African Foreign Ministry denounces the NATO attacks; Byelorussia might use nuclear weapons; Frankfurt, Germany: Yugoslavs in Germany support Milosevic, Gregor Gysi, a political party president, and other politicians denounce German policy; Bonn: OSCE's Wiemer denounces the NATO attacks and accuses Washington and London politicians of hypocrisy; Belgian university professors denounce NATO aggression; Paris: Peter Handke, an Austrian writer, calls the entire globe Yugoslavia, uses Mars-Earth metaphor to show his support for Serbia. (all cited)

05:42.51
- Announcer reports that the country has never been as politically united as it is now: reports and speeches from various protest meetings around Serbia. (translate, much inflammatory speech against NATO and Clinton, support for Milosevic)

05:46.28
- Report from Serbian Socialist Party press conference: denouncement of NATO attacks, praise for citizens' patriotism.
- Serbian Radical Party press conference: Vojislav Seselj states that Serbia will win because the Serbs are more united than ever, thanks the Yugoslav army for defending of country, a war crimes court will have to be established to try Javier Solana and other NATO leaders, citizens asked to volunteer for the army.
- Yugoslav Left Party has Italian Communist Party support.
- Vuk Draskovic holds press conference: we will not accept blackmail, the truth is on Serbia's and Yugoslavia's side (cited), the nation is united, soon there will be a reaction from Russia, public opinion will turn in NATO member countries. (translate)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Council President Zivko Ratisic denounces NATO aggression.
- Youth in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, protest against NATO aggression.
- Council of Independent Unions of Yugoslavia and Serbia demands that other Unions throughout the world put a stop to the aggression against Yugoslavia.
- The Belgrade Patriotic Council denounces with disgust the barbarous aggression against Yugoslavia and supports the heroic fight of the Yugoslav army and Serbian police.

05:55.55
- Serbian patriotic song: "We love you, our homeland." (footage of Yugoslav army, air force, and navy)
- Belgrade Muslim religious official denounces NATO attacks and pleads for end to the attacks, in order to help Albanian brethren and stop sending them in front of gun barrels, Americans are not friends to Muslims. (translate - very strange speech!)
- The Economic Council of Yugoslavia holds a press conference: smuggling and inflation must not be allowed, there is no fear for the economy if everyone keeps working.
- The Ministry of Education announces that elementary and secondary schools will go on a temporary break.
- The 38th international car expo will take place in Belgrade.
- Moscow: Yugoslav Tourism delegation will remain in Moscow for the Tourism expo because of a great love for the Russian people.

06:00.19
- Minister Cerovic holds press a conference in Moscow: a sovereign and independent people is being thrust in front of a firing squadron and raped (cited) (translate).
- Yugoslav Charge D'Affaires, Vladislav Jovanovic, speaks to CNN on strikes against Yugoslavia: Yugoslavia subjected to brutal aggression, perpetrators are responsible for the deterioration of the situation in the region, Yugoslavia has never been opposed to any peace process (CNN, untranslated). (it is unclear whether this is part of Serbian Television programming or mistakenly recorded CNN program)

Context

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