News

Call Number
350-1-1:608/1

General information

Call No.:
350-1-1:608/1
Part of series
HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive
Located at
BetaSP NTSC #608 / No. 1
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00000608
Date of air
1999-03-25
Date
1999
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
Serbo-croatian
Duration
37 min.

Content

Form/Genre
Television program
Contents Summary
06:08.00 – Serbian television news:
- Report from Pristina: air strikes continue in Kosovo; one NATO airplane taken down; mostly military and police objects, but also television, post office, and radio stations attacked; airplanes arrive from Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Albania; losses are minimal; 100 projectiles fired.
- Report from Kraljevo: NATO attacks continue; anti-air defense shot down missiles; no panic within populace.
- Nis attacked for first time since strikes began; two army barracks hit.
- NATO attack on Podgorica, Montenegro: strike of airport, Podgorica in darkness.
- Prizren army barrack hit with three projectiles.
- TANJUG reports explosions and fire rounds in Kosovska Mitrovica.
- Projectiles fell on Leskovac.
- NATO projectiles fell on Bukulje: post office, telecommunications center, anti-hail center and radio station antenna destroyed.
- Serbian public reaction to NATO attacks. (translate)

06:13.05 – News in English:
- Report on UN Security Council Session: China, Russia, Brazil ask for stop to NATO aggression; Russian President Yeltsin terms NATO attacks a grave American mistake. (cited)
- German general against NATO strikes. (cited)
- Macedonian Prime Minister states that NATO never asked permission to use the territory of Macedonia for attack on Yugoslavia. (cited)
- Macedonia: anti-NATO protest in front of American Embassy
- Russian patriotic organization voices support for Yugoslavia and Serbia.

06:15.25 – Serbian Television News:
- Reporter, while standing in front of destroyed civilian homes, compares Tony Blair to Goebbels; footage of destroyed Pristina downtown; buildings hit had housed Serbian refugees, why does the Hague Tribunal not react, NATO air force is committing crimes against civilian populace, terrorist Albanian gangs are amassing at the border, terrorists arrive to Macedonia daily – NATO plans to smuggle them over the border, Yugoslav army ready to defend border (footage of Yugoslav army anti-tank weaponry). (translated)

06:19.24
- Report from Prizren: NATO shot at Prizren, after the NATO attack the KLA attacks intensified, the citizens are not in a state of panic, there are enough supplies.
- Two Tomahawk rockets hit Nis hospital: footage, crime against humanity has been committed, two secondary schools in Nis were hit during air strikes. (translated)
- Report from Leskovac after NATO air strikes: civilian houses hit, Serbian peasants interviewed, a high school was hit, its principal interviewed. (translated)

06:23.47
- Federal Minister of Education announces Western alliance aggression has so far damaged 30 schools throughout Yugoslavia – greatest damage in Kosovo, Minister expressed hope that Western leaders will be punished for such barbarous acts.
- Report from Urosevac: army barrack and police barrack hit, Serbian police building destroyed, Yugoslav army cleaning up.
- Nis: Serbian civilian hurt in NATO air strikes shown, his physician is interviewed.
- Twelve people required medical attention due to air strikes on Pristina – both Serbs and Albanians were hurt, children were hurt as well.
- Yugoslav army generals visit wounded soldiers in Montenegro.
- Forest near Djakovica destroyed by NATO air strike, damage to civilian houses shown; industrial area near Rakovica damaged, elementary school damaged: Italian parliament members tour area and express sentiments against NATO air strikes. (translated)

06:30.00
- NATO airplanes strike Serbian Orthodox Monastery Gracanica: commentary by reporter, footage of May 1998 visit by Holbrooke and Gelberdt, footage of damaged facade. (translated)
- Report from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina: citizens of Republika Srpska and college and high school students protest against NATO air strikes in front of the British and American consulates, another protest to take place in the evening.
- Yugoslav army takes down NATO airplane on Republika Srpska territory.
- Macedonians keep protesting in Skopje against NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, NATO troops guard foreign embassies. (translated)
- Macedonians and Banat residents speak up for Yugoslavia and denounce NATO aggression: interview with Macedonian civilians.
- Report on Javier Solana: protesters against NATO strikes in Spain have called Solana by his real name – American garbage (cited). (translated)

06:37.35
- Report from Germany: Yugoslav and Serbian organizations and German unions that sympathize with Yugoslavia protest against Clinton and NATO in Frankfurt – a group of Albanians attempted to clash with protesters; similar demonstrations held in Hamburg and to be held in Stuttgart; Yugoslav Ambassador Zoran Jerenic interviewed on German television. (translated)
- Prague, Czech Republic: Yugoslav and Czech citizens express solidarity with Yugoslavia in front of its embassy in Prague – Czech Patriotic Front and Czech and Moravian Communist Party denounce President Havel's silence.
- Stockholm, Sweden: Yugoslavs living in Sweden hold protest meetings against NATO air strikes.
- New Zealand: a protest march going from the American to the German Embassy in Wellington, Clinton and NATO compared to Adolf Hitler
- Toronto, Canada: anti-American protest held in front of U.S. Embassy; embassy hit with Molotov cocktails which set the inside of the building on fire – two Canadian policemen hurt.

06:40.40 – Report on foreign media coverage:
- London Times publishes what is well known but kept quiet: Albanian terrorists financed by drug smuggling; the Times reporter wonders whether Albanian terrorism and separatism stem from the Mafia or the Mafia from terrorism and separatism, and what is NATO's function in the Kosovo problem; the article was kept in the drawer for a month before publishing; Serbian daily Politika editorial commenting on London Times article. (translate)

06:42.40
- Communist parties throughout the world denounce the NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia: Balkan Communist Parties (Bulgarian, Rumanian, Greek, and Albanian) issue joint statement condemning the brutal NATO and American attack on Yugoslavia; NATO and Western leaders have for decades enflamed conflicts in the Balkans to further their own imperialist aims; New Bulgarian Communist Internationale demands immediate stop to aggression against Yugoslavia; Austrian Communist Party issues manifesto stating that NATO is simply an instrument of American intervention; Italian Communists demand that the Italian government refuse usage of Italian territory for NATO attacks and work on peaceful solution; Greek Youth Communist Party organizes demonstrations and asserts that murderous NATO troops want to mark new Yugoslav borders with the blood of the Yugoslav people.

06:44.50
- Report from Belgrade: Serbia's Independent Worker's Union states that workers' unions throughout the world sympathize with the Yugoslav workers and nations, telegraphs of support arrive from Greece, Byelorussia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia, Italy, France, and Cyprus.

06:45.32: END OF TAPE

Context

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