News

Call Number
350-1-1:614/2

General information

Call No.:
350-1-1:614/2
Part of series
HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive
Located at
BetaSP NTSC #614 / No. 2
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00000614
Date of air
1999-03-31
Date
1999
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
Serbo-croatian
Duration
24 min.

Content

Form/Genre
Television program
Contents Summary
07:00:00–07:24:00 – Serbian Television:

07:00.10
- Report on victims of NATO attacks: Federal Government vice president Zoran Lilic, Minister of Defense Pavle Bulatovic, and Minister of Health Miodrag Kovac visit Belgrade's Military Medical Academy and soldiers and civilians wounded during NATO aggression. Even at this moment, no difference is being made between the victims' nationalities, so even now, there are Albanian patients being treated.
- Interview with Dr. Slavkovic of Belgrade's Institute of Orthopedic Diseases: he discusses the victims [of NATO bombing] and their wounds.
- Report from Nis hospital: 13 year-old from Pec wounded during the NATO aggressor's action, young man's life is in danger. 24 year-old also seriously wounded. A Serbian and an Albanian patient in next room are being treated equally.
- Report from Belgrade's Military Medical Academy: forty year-old Albanian woman, Mereme Beciri from Gnjilane, was just operated on. Mereme Beciri interviewed, (voice-over translation) – she is well taken care of. (translate?)
- Report from Kragujevac: three NATO missiles fell near the monument to 7,000 Kragujevac high school students shot en masse by German soldiers in WW2. A huge "school lesson" for everyone; report also a commentary. Over 100,000 people gathered to commemorate attack. Serbian poet declares he is proud to be Serbian. Actor Mihailo Janketic yells lines of old Serbian poetry. Reporter: poetry never made so much sense as in Kragujevac today.

07:09.45
- Report on anti-NATO and pro-Yugoslavia protest in center of Novi Sad. A concert held at Freedom Square. Serbian pop singers at concert interviewed and shown performing.
- Anti-NATO protest in Velika Plana.
- Anti-NATO protest and concert in Srpska Crnja, citizens burn American flag given to them by American pilots saved by the town during WW2.
- Anti-NATO protest and concert in Valjevo.
- Workers of a Prijepolje factory stop production for anti-NATO protest.
- Report on anti-NATO protest and concert in Smederevo.
- Report on anti-NATO protest in Vrnjacka Banja.
- Report on anti-NATO protest and concert during air raid signal in Pancevo.
- Report on anti-NATO protest and concert in Belgrade: Yugoslav volleyball team captain supports Yugoslavia, rock song about downed U.S. fighter plane.

07:21.13
- Montenegro: Serbian clan Pastrovic sends support to Serbs and states readiness to defend every inch of Serbian land.
- Gora villagers (a Kosovo ethnic minority) protest in front of U.S. embassy in Belgrade.

Report on foreign media coverage:
- Skopje, Macedonia: police fails to stop anti-American protests throughout Macedonia. Macedonian national identity has awakened and stands by its Slavic brethren. Macedonia did not gain anything by extending hospitality to the NATO fighting machine. There is growing concern that terrorists are dressed in NATO uniforms.
- Banja Luka, Republika Srpska (sic): anti-NATO protests held throughout Republika Srpska. Young people and policemen protest. Footage of U.S. and British flag burning.
- Strumic, Macedonia: anti-American protest, peasants blocked entrance to town with tractors.
- Bonn, Germany: Green party parliament representatives demand Joschka Fischer's resignation because of aggression against Yugoslavia and announce they are leaving the party.
- Rome, Italy: the Italian daily Giornale characterized aggression on Yugoslavia as an unprecedented mistake; NATO cannot defeat the Yugoslav army.
- Brazil condemned NATO's aggression and became part of all Latin American countries that are against the aggression. Brazilian press reports on anti-NATO concerts and protests throughout Yugoslavia.
- Vietnamese publication Nam Dam (sp.?) writes that NATO is only helping weapon dealers.
- New York: since the start of NATO's aggression, the stock of the American companies that produce military equipment rose on the New York Stock Exchange. However, Northrop-Gramen and Lockheed-Martin – manufacturers of the downed F-117 – stock fell by 1.4%, which proves that American military's failures are reflected on the exchange, and that Clinton's clique began the war to get rich.

07:27.50
- Kicevo, Macedonia: district court proved the guilt of nine Albanian terrorists, who were punished with jail sentences totaling 44 years.
- Report from Washington, D.C.: U.S. media are concentrating on Clinton's main goal – separating Kosovo from Serbia. Reporters stated that next phase could be an independent Kosovo. James Rubin, State Dept. spokesman stated Washington still has same policy (cited).
- London, Great Britain: Yugoslav nationals hold anti-NATO protests in downtown London. The British press is full of letters to the editor protesting the strikes against Yugoslavia, written by conscientious citizens.

07:30.50
- Brussels, Belgium: Belgrade hackers broke into NATO's internet and electronic mail server. Belgrade hackers made the NATO server break down by flooding it with messages and viruses.

Context

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