News

Call Number
350-1-1:640/2

General information

Call No.:
350-1-1:640/2
Part of series
HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive
Located at
BetaSP NTSC #640 / No. 2
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00000640
Date of air
1999-04-01
Date
1999
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
Serbo-croatian
Duration
30 min.

Content

Form/Genre
Television program
Contents Summary
BEGINNING CUT OFF
- Report from Magura and Vrelo villages: Serbian woman (possibly from Croatia) and villagers interviewed about NATO strikes. Four cruise missiles were shot down by anti-aircraft defense. Criminals dropped cluster bombs, citizens should report to authorities if they find yellow mines from the bombs.
- Report from Djakovica surroundings: Anti-aircraft defense units shot down guided NATO missiles. Yugoslav army anti-aircraft defense officer and soldiers interviewed.
- Report on NATO missiles damaging Zaglavak village homes in south eastern Serbia. Villagers interviewed.

00:35.00
- Most victims of war waged against Yugoslavia are civilians.
- Report on NATO air strikes: civilian victims treated at the Pristina Clinical and Hospital Center. People of all ethnicities were wounded, children and many people hurt; smell of kerosene found in the bombs. Wounded children shown and interviewed.
- Report on Russian Duma and Belarus Parliament delegations visiting NATO air strikes victims treated in Belgrade's Military Medical Academy and various hospital clinics.
- Report on Emergency Center in Belgrade and NATO air strike civilian victims ranging in age from 13 to 56. Doctor states there is enough medication.
- Report from Nis hospital: five civilians were wounded in NATO air strikes. Wounded woman interviewed: NATO indiscriminate in its targets.
- Kosmet citizens (Serbian? refugees) exhausted and ill from the strikes are being taken care of throughout Serbia.
- Report on people leaving Pristina due to air strikes. Albanian civilian interviewed: NATO targets civilian targets. Albanians and Serbs are afraid. Civilians (Albanians and Serbs) interviewed are leaving because of air strikes. Albanians, Serbs and other ethnicities demand a stop to NATO aggression. (translate)

00:42.25
- Report from Belgrade's Central Train Station: footage of Kosovo refugees. More than 300 refugees arrived from Kosovo to escape NATO air strikes and Albanian terrorist attacks. Refugees interviewed: an Albanian man says he and his family left because they wanted to save their children. Gypsy woman interviewed. Gypsy girl interviewed. Gypsy man interviewed: refugees were given food as soon as they arrived. Albanian (?) man interviewed. (translate)
- Report from Kraljevo: thirty women and children from Pristina, mostly Romani Gypsies, were given shelter in a village near Kraljevo. Their husbands and sons remained in Kosovo to defend the fatherland. Woman interviewed. Little boy sings Serbian song praising Yugoslav army.
- Report from Zajecar: women and children of all nationalities became refugees from Kosovo before air strikes. Women interviewed: we won't give up Kosovo even if all Serbs have to die.

00:47.05
- The [Yugoslav army] Pristina Corps Headquarters issues a proclamation concerning Kosovo and Metohija citizens: NATO beasts are attacking mostly villages and cities, and they do not spare any nationality. This is our common homeland. Albanians, the NATO policy will not result in anything good for you. NATO only supports the terrorist gangs. You are being sacrificed for their goals which can never be achieved. Do not fool yourself with [dreams of] an independent state. Do not follow KLA's horrible ideals. Albanians, return the weapons you have taken by force. Unmerciful and harsh measures will be taken against those who do not do so. Only life alongside others can lead to the wellbeing and a happy childhood for your children. Return to your homes. It is spring, and fields need to be sown. Do so today. (cited) (TRANSLATE!!!)

00:50.15
-Our country's citizens have not lost faith yet.
- Report from bomb shelter in Leskovac: people in shelter interviewed.
- Report from Belgrade bomb shelter: people in shelter interviewed. Two Albanian women interviewed.
- News just in: NATO enthusiastic about Boris Yeltsin's initiative to set up meeting of G-8 foreign ministers. Javier Solana supports all diplomatic attempts to solve problem, states Yeltsin could play important role. NATO wishes to participate in final solution (sic) to Kosovo problem. The criminals have destroyed 120 schools throughout country in the past 9 days of aggression.

00:54.30
- Report on Jovo Todorovic, Education Minister, announcing Easter spring break. Jovo Todorovic: instruction will resume the moment the necessary conditions are met, i.e. when war stops, schools are rebuilt, and there is safety for both students and educators. Report on damaged schools. Minister speaks about the situation, and tells students, educators, and parents that this school year will end successfully just like those that came before, and those which are still to come.
- Report from Belgrade: children cannot go to kindergarten anymore. Minister for Family Welfare speaks about the need for parents to decide whether to send children to kindergarten. Certain institutions have anti-stress and anti-fear programs.
- The Red Cross of Serbia sends emergency aid to Pristina.
- Serbian academician Stozevic returns his Legion of Honor medal to France because he is disgusted by its participation in NATO air strikes. (cited)
- Anti-NATO protests are held throughout the world.
- Report on anti-NATO and pro-Yugoslav protest in Kicevo, Macedonia. Young people burned American flag and carried Yugoslav and Serbian flags, as well as pictures of Slobodan Milosevic. Anti-NATO protests held in Skopje, Bitula, and Beladona.

Context

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