RV: [Inside report] Re: Serbia (PHIL-LIT)

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De: Michael Gregory, NEXA/H-NEXA <mgregory@concentric.net>
Para: H-NEXA@H-NET.MSU.EDU <H-NEXA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Fecha: Miércoles 7 de Abril de 1999 4:31 PM
Asunto: [Inside report] Re: Serbia (PHIL-LIT)


>Date:  Tue, 6 Apr 1999 15:06:13 +0300
>From: Djordje Vidanovic <djordjev@KALCA.JUNIS.NI.AC.YU>
>
>Thanks for the interest.  Yes, the connection is still working
>(miraculously so).  I have a statement to make and let some people know
>what is happening here.  If you care and can, please spread it around  -- I
>am not sure how long this tenuous life line will hold out.
>
>I stand behind the facts, they are verified thoroughly.
>
>The little town of Aleksinac, 20 miles away from my home town, was hit last
>night with full force.  The local hospital was hit (!!), and a whole street
>was simply wiped off.   What I know for CERTAIN is 6 dead civilians and
>more than 50 badly hurt.  There was no military target around whatsoever.
>Neither the local police station HQ nor the military HQ were hit.  These
>are not adjacent anyway.
>
>I hear (fortunately did not watch or else would have gone completely
>insane) that CNN and Skynews said that the Aleksinac bombing was a rig-up
>by the Serbian State TV.  I, Djordje Vidanovic, Professor of Linguistics
>and Semantics at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Nis, Serbia, 47
>yrs old, (my photo can be found at www.cent.co.yu/chess when you click on
>*write to me*) vouch for the veracity of the above report and confirm that
>a whole street full of innocent civilians was simply wiped out by the NATO
>bombing on the night of April 5/6, 1999. (Do not for a moment, please,
>think that I believe the Serbian State TV.  But I, myself, witnessed the
>carnage and the photos from there are genuine.  Hold me responsible for the
>facts!)
>
>If you can, please contact the American public and the networks.  This is
>turning into a bloody war against one people. Please contact Professor Noam
>Chomsky and tell him about who sent you this report.  He knows me as we
>exchanged linguistic (not political) ideas at the beginning at the end of
>the 80s and the beginning of the 90s while I was writing my book *Problems
>of Language and Mind*.
>
>This is genocide.  One genocide  -- Kosovo, intensified, this other one
>starting and getting more and more insane.  Unstoppable. HELP.
>
>Djordje Vidanovic.
>
>
>
>*********** REPLY PARTITION ***********
>
>On 04/05/99, at 08:05 PM, Gregory {Greg} Downing wrote:
>
>>At 04:32 PM 4/1/99 +0300, you wrote:
>>>Very best regards,
>>>Djordje
>>>
>>>University of Nis, Serbia
>>>djordjev@kalca.junis.ni.ac.yu
>>>
>>
>>So I hear on the news that they hit Nis tonight. Is your internet
connection
>>still working?
>>
>>Nonpartisanly wondering....
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Greg D.
>>
>>
>>Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing@nyu.edu or gd2@is2.nyu.edu