Beta TC: 05:46:20-06:15:29 05:46.40 - Report from Aleksinac: NATO criminals destroyed tens of family homes and residential buildings while bombing the city center of Aleksinac. Practically all buildings were damaged. Footage proves that NATO is the aggressor, killer, and that it targets women and children. President of the Serbian Government, Mirko Marjanovic, states: they are killing women and children in the heart of Serbia; these crimes are greater than those of the fascists who bombed Belgrade on April 6th, 1941; Blair, Clinton, Chirac, and Albright will be judged just like the fascist were at the Nuremberg Trial; the Serbian government will provide aid to those who have suffered most; we will take care of our people; nothing will stop us in our defense of the country and its independence; we are all unified around our president Slobodan Milosevic. Local officials reported to the President of the Serbian government: 30 civilians were pulled from the rubble, and seven were killed. Foreign journalist could see for themselves that there are no military objects in the vicinity, and that civilians were targeted. Mirko Marjanovic: this is genocide. Aleksinac residents will gather as soon as their Golgotha is over and defend their fatherland. - Report from Aleksinac: footage of rubble. There are many victims and bodies still buried in the rubble. Killers who sow death on civilians under the cover of night are to blame. - Reuters reported from Brussels today that NATO admitted to missing a target and striking a populated area. Seven people died. The error occurred either due to a technical error or due to anti-aircraft defense. NATO criminals, killers and their spokespeople are confused: first they say it was a technical error, then the anti-aircraft defense. We are really dealing with bombing of city centers and cowardly killing of civilian populace under the cover of darkness. 05:52.14 Report on foreign media coverage of NATO striking Aleksinac: - Reuters: the center of Aleksinac shows things opposite to what NATO stated happened. Associated Press: the barbarian mission advocated as a humanitarian intervention by the Washingtonian strategist with his European lawyers and hangers-on resulted in Aleksinac alone with seven dead residents and about thirty injured ones. Radio France (reporting on Le Figaro reporter's report from Aleksinac):civilian losses are tremendous, there are dead children (footage of destruction). 05:53.40 - Report from Novi Sad: (footage of explosion) strikes against civilian targets continued last night. Oil refinery was struck, many components were destroyed. This is monstrous behavior. The components of the refinery were built by Texaco. Firefighters contained the fire. In last night's attack, the only remaining bridge over the Danube at Novi Sad was destroyed. Railroad and automobiles cannot cross the bridge. - Report from Bogojevo: the criminal armada attempted to destroy bridges over the Danube near Bogojevo. Deadly shrapnel rained on surrounding civilian homes, and it was only by pure chance that no inhabitants were hurt. Footage of bridges destroyed in Novi Sad, Raska, Zubin Potok, Backa Palanka. - Report from Lozna: bridge over the Iber river at Lozna was destroyed. All homes and elementary school damaged. Bridge which served civilian purposes only, situated in Brbenik village over the Raska river, was destroyed. Windows and roof tiles were shattered. - Report from Kraljevo: neo-Nazi armada attacked the civilian area of Kraljevo. There are no human losses, but homes were damaged. Part of the Kraljevo-Kragujevac railroad track was damaged. Telegraph and phone lines were down. - Report from Pancevo: early this morning Pancevo was the aggressor's target for the fifth time. Five missiles fell into fields, while damage was done to vacationers' and villagers' homes. 05:58.43 - Surdulica: material damage was done during NATO's grenade attack. - Vranje: NATO aggressor again attacked with grenades. Five missiles fell on the city. There was damage to the bakery, windows of the Vranje hospital, banks and shop windows shattered. - Prizren: NATO missiles targeted army barrack, as well as a suburb of Prizren where several family homes were razed to the ground, especially homes of the Taci family (!!!!!!). Water pipe system was damaged and some parts of the city have no drinking water. Windows and facades on residential buildings shattered. This was one of the fiercest NATO attacks in the past few days. (TRANSLATE) - Report from Pristina: our crew obtained footage of the aggressor's action. Their airplanes threw bait bombs to fool the anti-aircraft defense, but the defense did not buy it. About 12:20 a.m. our anti-aircraft defense struck one of the enemy airplanes which continued to fly toward Albania. General Colonel Nebojsa Pavkovic and General Major Vladimir Lazarevic toured the federal border area which was attacked by an infamous terrorist gang from Jablanica intending to merge with the terrorists in Albania several days ago. The generals could see for themselves the gang was destroyed, that Jablanica villages had been turned into terrorist bases, that the situation in the area was now peaceful, and movement unrestricted. We ourselves climbed the hill from which you can see all of Metohija. The terrorists left proof of their stay here: bunkers, trenches, an anti-tank mine. The generals could see the border was peaceful and stable. Our anti-aircraft defense is extremely effective – it hit one enemy plane last night, while it prevented many missiles from hitting the ground. Unit commanders reported that the force was ready to defend the federal border. 06:02.27 - Ibro Vajit, the Regional Secretary for Ethnic Minorities' Human Rights, gave a statement in Pristina: the criminal NATO bombing caused a part of the Albanian population to flee the Kosovo and Metohija area. All residents should return to their homes. I am a Gora villager and am proud to say that we have organized ourselves extremely well to defend the country's integrity and sovereignty and have done all in our power to go on with our lives as normally as possible. - There are no more Albanian columns seeking refuge from the frenzied Death Alliance bombing at the "Vrbnica" Yugoslav-Albanian and "Djeneral Jankovic" Yugoslav-Macedonian border crossings. The meeting between President Slobodan Milosevic and Ibrahim Rugova contributed to the Albanians' return to their homes. The Albanians also opted to return to their homes after being called to do so by Serbian and Yugoslav state officials. One of the long lines of cars returning to Pristina was filmed by both the Pristina Television station crew, as well as those of aggressor countries. - A railroad guard was killed in Štrpci by SFOR soldiers during the mining operation of the Belgrade-Bar railroad. - Bijeljina: footage of anti-NATO protest. - The Russian Foreign Ministry hailed the cease-fire in Kosmet as the first step toward a peaceful solution to the problems in the south Serbian province. NATO must now completely stop the strikes against Yugoslavia. President Yeltsin was informed of the situation. Russian TV stopped regular programming to report on the recent development. Evgeny Primakov and Al Gore had a telephone conversation about the situation. - Protests against the NATO action are being held around the world: a protest march was held in Athens, protests in Austria and Australia. - Report from Sydney, Australia: anti-NATO protest. Serbs were joined by Australian citizens who also wanted to protest the bias in Australian media coverage. - Report from Vienna, Austria: anti-NATO protest. About ten thousand people gathered. 06:07.45 - One of the most famous contemporary Hungarian writers, George Konrad, condemned the West for hypocrisy - as the West itself favors integration, it promotes disintegration in the Balkans. The West supports radical Albanian separatists. Each country has a right to defend itself. NATO member countries should stop air strikes if they themselves want to avoid being a part of the genocide, the famous Hungarian writer, who is of Jewish origin, added. - French author Patrik Besson addressed the Serbian nation: my dear Serbian friends, I have seen you compare Bill Clinton to Hitler, which is not being nice - to Hitler. I know they have much in common: to conquer the world using weapons, to exploit poor and annex rich countries, and to exterminate nations. Hitler, just like Clinton, bombed civilians, but then sent in ground troops, unlike Clinton. Brothers and sisters, I will soon come to your city which I love more than life itself. I will either die or win with you. 06:10.43 - Report from Paris, France: French radio reports that the world is surprised at he fact that the great world powers are picking on and attacking such a small country. "It is unbelievable to see how well Yugoslavia is doing in such difficult circumstances," the reporter was full of admiration. The Yugoslav army is organized extremely well. In Kosovo, the army had completely defeated NATO. French radio stresses that the capture of three American soldiers could not be a greater strike to the Americans. Americans are paying the price of their propaganda in the U.S. when they say their soldiers are not threatened. Yugoslav propaganda is more crafty, however, as they showed the footage of American soldiers to the American media, and now do not mention it anymore, as if it happened every day. Amateurs have defeated professionals, poor defeated rich, improvisers the specialists – Balkan's revenge over an almighty civilization. Albanians are only competing in their cynicism and cruelty and are pawns in the selfish interests of Washington, masked under humanitarian propaganda. 06:14.10 - Even the NATO killers' bosses realize they have lost the media war. The criminals have now started to wage a truly barbarian campaign against the Serbian television, destroying our transmitters throughout the country. - Political commentary on NATO entering Serbian media space. The criminals are now telling the same people they have been killing for 14 years that they are wise and good. (TRANSLATE) - The Pristina Corps Information Service Headquarters reports: all units are acting upon the decision of the government. There is freedom of movement. Situation is peaceful.