News

Call Number
350-1-1:612/1

General information

Call No.:
350-1-1:612/1
Part of series
HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive
Located at
BetaSP NTSC #612 / No. 1
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00000612
Date of air
1999-03-29
Date
1999
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
Serbo-croatian
Duration
1 hour 20 min.

Content

Form/Genre
Television program
Contents Summary
03:11:18
- NATO soldiers stationed in Macedonia continue to desert and flee to Bulgaria due to physical threats by the local population; residents of Stari Glagorican, a village near Kumanovo, protest in front of NATO headquarters: ask NATO command to leave Kumanovo as their physical safety can not be guaranteed.
- Russian fleet to conduct training exercises in air and underwater defense. BEGINNING CUT OFF.
- Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark visits Belgrade and Novi Sad surveying the impact of NATO bombs on the infrastructure and population. In Belgrade, he visits Surcin airport. In Novi Sad, he visits the "Tehnogas," "Novograd," and "Izolacija" companies, the junior high school "Svetozar Markovic," and a clinic.
- The heaviest bombing wave of Pristina since the beginning of NATO's air campaign: one NATO plane was downed and at least one was hit; five Serb villages around Pristina and five Serb villages around Gnjilane were hit, Serbian police headquarters were destroyed – the building was used for the issuance of civilian ID's and travel documents, barracks where refugees were housed, also damaged were a health facility and "Boro i Ramiz" shopping center – terrorists have been synchronizing their attacks with those of NATO.
- There has been an obvious correlation between terrorists and NATO attacks on Yugoslavia; the Yugoslav army killed 13 terrorists during a clash at the "Mitar Voinovic" border crossing: all terrorists wore NATO uniforms or uniforms with German flags; under NATO command, the terrorists were to mobilize all Kosovo Albanians in Albania and conduct attacks which would provoke the Yugoslav army to respond – Yugoslavia would then be blamed for aggression on Albania thus prompting more threats and pressures by NATO; interviewed are Yugoslav army soldiers and a commander.

03:23:23
- NATO criminals continue to bomb civilians buildings, hospitals, and schools.
- Report on the bombing of health care facilities in Pristina: many civilians wounded during NATO bombing, bombs fall close to OB/GYN clinic in Pristina; interviews with two Pristina doctors.
- NATO bombs hit a barrack of the "Termokos" company: refugees were housed in the barrack; interviews with a survivor and "Termokos" assistant manager.

03:30:18
- NATO criminals do not shy away from hitting civilian targets, health facilities, and humanitarian organizations.
- World criminals (svetski zlikovci) commit violations against basic human rights; in the barbarian attacks on a sovereign and democratic Yugoslavia, which is only defending its existence, 50 schools, kindergartens, and health facilities have been destroyed; NATO bombs destroyed a public health facility; interviews with doctors.
- One NATO missile hits a barrack used to house refugees; the barrack was situated next to the "Termokos" company: interview with "Termokos" assistant manager.
- Report from Pristina bomb shelter: civilians interviewed.

03:33:55
- NATO bombs hit towns and villages surrounding Prizren, Orahovac, and Djakovica, resulting in the damage of many residential buildings and a Catholic church in Djakovica; one [NATO] plane shot down near the Zrza village.
- Two tomahawk missiles and bombs fell on a Gracanica farm; Yugoslav air defense eliminated several missiles, and shot down one NATO plane.
- Šiptar terrorist bands attack state security, Yugoslav army, and Serbian police forces in districts of Pec, Klina, and Decani; the attacks were successfully blocked.
- Report on CNN's and SKY's reporting on a presumed humanitarian crisis; both stations show refugees in snow which melted a month ago, or refugees sitting on grass that is green as if it were summer.
- Leskovac was once again subjected to genocidal attacks by NATO bombers; local residents help each other out while NATO is attacking civilian buildings, houses, farmsteads, and farms.
- Brief footage of damaged residential buildings in the Kraljevo area.

03:38:33
- Dr. Ivica Milovanovic: two civilians women wounded during NATO attack.
- Kraljevo hospital (klinicki centar) began operating under war time conditions and is ready to take in any potential victims of the insensitive and unscrupulous NATO barbarians.
- SPS's (Socialist Party of Serbia) General Secretary Gorica Gajevic visits the Clinical Center of Serbia (Klinicki Centar Srbije) and asses the clinic's readiness to care for the injured and wounded.
- A NATO pilot was forced to land in the Loznica area after being hit [by Yugoslav air defense?]
- "Zastava" auto factory continues production under war time conditions; interviews with "Zastava" workers; production was interrupted for a rally in support of Yugoslav government policies; speeches by various company representatives associated with "Zastava."

03:45:44
- Workers of "Zastava Specijalni Automobili" and "Zastava Promet" in Sombor hold a rally against the terrorist organization of international and fascist proportions, a.k.a. NATO; workers will pose as human shields as long as the brutal and violent attacks [on Yugoslavia] continue.
- Podgorica, Montenegro: protests against NATO's brutal aggression on Yugoslavia.

03:47:33
- Yugoslav Army Headquarters Information Service: radio locators have been destroyed in several areas of Serbia.
- Serbian Minister of Transportation Dragan Todorovic visits Surcin airport which was bombed by NATO during the previous night.
- More than Serbian 100 schools have been destroyed by NATO bombs; interviewed are Serbian Minister of Education Jovo Todorovic and a Belgrade junior high school student.
- In Pristina: the building of the Agricultural College was damaged during a NATO attack. CUT OFF.
- BEGINNING CUT OFF. Under the auspices of bloodthirsty Madeleine Albright, Russian representatives arrive in Belgrade; before their arrival, the representatives stopped in Budapest to receive their lesson and instructions from the criminal Richard Holbrooke.
- Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor Ivanov comments that Russian representatives have not been sent by the Russian government.
- Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov does not believe that the Russian representatives' visit to Belgrade will be successful.

03:55:45
- Residents of Kumanovo, Macedonia, block the way for NATO forces in the Zebrnjak hill area for several hours; around one hundred NATO soldiers ran away due to the threat of being lynched by Kumanovo residents; the whereabouts of the frightened NATO soldiers are unknown.
- Bucharest, Rumania: protesters against the NATO bombing throw eggs at the U.S. embassy building in Bucharest.
- Beijing: Chinese Premiere Zhu Rongji tells U.S. Trade Minister William Daly that NATO aggression on Yugoslavia must stop immediately.
- Athens: Greek Minister of Information Dimitris Reppas: Greek government will not allow the use of its territory for aggression on Yugoslavia; protests against NATO aggression continue.
- Tel Aviv: protests in front of U.S. embassy against NATO policies in Yugoslavia
- Pittsburgh, Pa: anti-NATO protests.
- Bonn, Germany: doubts over U.S.'s plan for solution of Kosovo crisis increasing.
- London, England: NATO's leading countries began propaganda war to cover up its mistakes and evade all political responsibility for the criminal aggression against Yugoslavia.
- Ottawa, Canada: former UN Commander in Bosnia MacKenzie spoke out against the dangerous precedent set by NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia; the same policy should be set for Turkey and its [oppression] of the Kurds, and against Indonesia against its [oppression] against the East Timorese; one year ago, the KLA was on CIA's list of world terrorists.

04:02:06 – ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERAGE:
- British daily The Independent: lists points of international law which have been violated by NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia.
- British daily The Times: Kosovo conflict is Yugoslavia's internal affair.
- British Daily Telegraph: downing of the F-117 stealth fighter worries U.S. leaders.
- Washington, DC: The Washington Post: Clinton policy for Kosovo produced many unexpected and negative consequences.

04:04:50
- Russian Federation embassy proclaims that all diplomatic representatives are working as usual.
- SPS General Secretary Gorica Gajevic meets leader of the Political Spring Party (Partija Političkog Proleća) Antonios Dudos; Dudos: a solution is possible only through political means.
- Yugoslav Left meeting.
- Serbian Radical Party: BEGINNING CUT OFF: Washington's mentally retarded (maloumni) leaders unsuccessfully try to cover up an obvious debacle [in Kosovo policy]; NATO's criminal missiles intentionally hit civilian along with military buildings; provoke humanitarian catastrophe as an alibi to occupy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
- Serbian Movement of Renewal: NATO bombs cause humanitarian catastrophe; no mention of suffering experienced by other ethnic communities.
- Letter of Republika Srpska SPS in support of Serbs in Yugoslavia.
- Belgrade University Professor Milos Aleksic: U.S. uses NATO as tool to create a technologically totalitarian New World Order.

04:15:40
- Serbian Patriarch Pavle: from the religious aspect, only defensive war can be just.
- Second rock concert held in downtown Belgrade: interviews with Belgrade citizens.
- Sydney, Australia: pro-Yugoslavia protests around the world shown with song "Ko Ne Slusa Pesmu" in the background.

Context

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