Activities against NATO bombings and Kosovo occupation

"PEACE VIGIL AGAINST NATO BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA AND AGAINST NATO OCCUPATION OF KOSOVO"

Please join us to protest:

• U.S./ NATO War Against Yugoslavia
• U.S./NATO Occupation of Kosovo
• Failure of NATO to Protect Serbs In Kosovo

From Copley to Central Square through MIT (Harvard bridge), just after the end of the "Vigil for Peace".

Picnic organized to help the Maternity and Children's Hospital in Belgrade: Sunday, 6/20/99, 1:00pm at the Arsenal Park, in Watertown, MA bridge. Please come and walk to express solidarity with the victims of NATO aggression.

After several years of sanctions and recent NATO attacks, hospitals in Serbia are in a very difficult situation. They lack basic medicines and supplies, and critical equipment is out of order due to the lack of funds for spare parts. In order to help the hospitals:

      Serbian American Alliance of New England (SANE) invites you to the

               S P R I N G   P I C N I C

 Day and date:    Sunday, June 20, 1999

 Time:            1:00 pm

 Place:           Arsenal Park (right behind Arsenal Mall), Watertown, MA

Suggested donation for lunch: $12 (adults and children over 12), $7 (students). Besides this, direct donations are welcome.

All proceeds from the picnic will be sent as humanitarian aid to the Maternity and Children's Hospital in Belgrade. All donations are tax deductible.

Please inform as many friends as possible about the picnic. It is very important that as many people as possible come to the picnic. Hospitals in Serbia need urgent help!

Instructions how to go to the Arsenal Park

You can read answers (from western sources) to basic questions bout Kosovo.
Information that is hidden is USA in tiny columns that no average american reads and never enjoys the broad publicity. Information that shows the extent of the NATO brainwash on US people and the blantant anti Serb propaganda which served as an excuse for the NATO war crimes against Yugoslavia.

A. World: Europe Serb exodus unabated, BBC, 6/18/99
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_372000/372159.stm
 

B. CNN, " KLA rebels accused of vandalizing Serb monastery", June 17, 1999
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_372000/372159.stm
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 "KFOR spokesmen said Thursday the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from
the Serbian province was proceeding ahead of schedule. But the shrine's
desecration could hurt KFOR's attempt to prevent a second flood of refugees
from Kosovo -- this time, from Serb neighborhoods.
French peacekeepers put the Devic monastery under guard after they said
Kosovo Liberation Army fighters terrorized a priest and several nuns for
four days, from Sunday to Wednesday.
  The KFOR troops said KLA rebels vandalized centuries-old murals and paintings
in the chapel and stole two cars and all the monastery's food.
In addition, a French soldier said, the KLA stripped the clothes from a young
nun and took her into a back room. The soldier said she was hysterical and
appeared to be traumatized when she was found. When asked if the woman had
been raped, the French soldier responded to CNN, "What do you think?"
  The 15th-century monastery is one of the shrines from which the Serbian
nation draws its cultural identity."
 

C. Los Angeles Times, "KLA takes over strategic Serbian coal mine",
   By RICHARD BOUDREAUX, 6/14/99
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"OBRO SELO, Yugoslavia--On Day One of NATO's peacekeeping mission in
Kosovo, Dragan Radakovic stood at the edge of Serbia's largest coal
mine and watched it pass from one army's control to another's with
clockwork precision.
  Serbian infantrymen who had guarded the Belacevic open pit mine during
16 months of guerrilla war pulled out at 8 a.m. Saturday. Their army's
withdrawal from Kosovo was supposed to be tightly synchronized with the
arrival of NATO-led troops to pacify the province.
  Instead, the advancing foot soldiers the mine director saw in his binoculars
were from the Kosovo Liberation Army. Much to his alarm, the ethnic Albanian
separatists who looked all but defeated several weeks ago had returned in
force to seize one of the mine's two giant pits, its administration building
and four employees.
 

D. BBC, "KLA move in despite K-For", 6/17/99
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_371000/371441.stm
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"Fighters of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) are moving into town after
town across Kosovo, setting themselves up as the new authorities in areas
vacated by the Serb security forces...
In many cases, KLA troops have set up check-points and are conducting
house-by-house searches - acting, in effect, like a new paramilitary
police force.
 

E. Washington Post, "And the Winner Is . . . the KLA",
By Richard Cohen, Thursday, June 17, 1999; Page A35
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".. if you want to know who the real winner is, it's the Kosovo Liberation
Army. It won the war and, in the bargain, Kosovo itself.
     Say what you will about the KLA, it has been the one player in the
current Balkan drama that has known from the start precisely what it  wanted
and how to get it. Back in May 1998, I spoke in Istanbul to a KLA leader.
His business card said he was the prime minister of the Republic of Kosovo
and he was a physician named Bujar Bukoshi. At the time, Kosovo was under
the Serbian boot and hardly anyone's idea of a republic. All that would change,
Bukoshi said. He has been true to his word.
   The KLA had a simple, but effective, plan. It would kill Serb policemen.
The Serbs would retaliate, Balkan style, with widespread reprisals and the
occasional massacre. The West would get more and more appalled, until finally
it would -- as it did in Bosnia -- take action. In effect, the United States
and much of Europe would go to war on the side of the KLA. It worked...."
 

F. Boston Globe, "Kosovo Albanian who was believed dead is alive
and well, British official says", By Kevin Cullen, 6/17/99
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"PRISTINA, Yugoslavia - Veton Surroi, the ethnic Albanian leader in Kosovo
whose reported death was a blow to Western allies, is alive and has met with
senior British government officials, one of those officials said yesterday.
  NATO said March 29 that Surroi was murdered by Serb forces, a claim repeated
by the White House April 6. His purported death was widely reported as a blow
to the efforts to stabilize Kosovo and establish a democratic government....."

From I-93:

1. Take I-93 South
2. Take the RT-60 exit (0.2 miles)
3. Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto SALEM ST. (0.1 miles)
4. Turn SLIGHT RIGHT at the intersection of RT 60 E to stay on SALEM ST.
(0.2 miles)
5. Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto MAIN ST. (0.1 miles)
6. Take the RT-16 WEST ramp. (0.1 miles)
7. Merge onto MYSTIC VALLEY PKWY. (1.1 miles)
8. Turn RIGHT onto unnamed roundabout. 0.0
9. Turn RIGHT onto ALEWIFE BROOK PKWY. 0.0
10. Turn SLIGHT RIGHT at the intersection of GORDON ST to stay on ALEWIFE
BROOK PKWY. (0.2 miles)
11. Turn SLIGHT RIGHT at the intersection of STERLING ST to stay on ALEWIFE
BROOK PKWY. (0.2 miles)
12. ALEWIFE BROOK PKWY becomes unnamed roundabout. (0.1 miles)
13. Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto ALEWIFE BROOK PKWY. (1.7  miles)
14. ALEWIFE BROOK PKWY becomes unnamed roundabout. 0.0
15. Stay straight to go onto CONCORD AVE. (0.1  miles)
16. CONCORD AVE becomes RT 16 W. (0.1 miles)
17. RT 16 W becomes unnamed roundabout. 0.0
18. Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto FRESH POND PKWY. (0.1 miles)
19. FRESH POND PKWY becomes RT 16. (0.4 miles)
20. Stay straight to go onto FRESH POND PKWY. (0.3 miles)
21. FRESH POND PKWY becomes RT 2 E. (0.4 miles)
22. Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto GERRYS LANDING RD. (0.1 miles)
23. GERRYS LANDING RD becomes GREENOUGH BLVD. (1.2 miles)
24. Turn RIGHT onto ARSENAL ST. (0.7 miles)
25. Park is on the left, after Arsenal Mall

From Rt. 2:
1. Take Rt 2 East (to Arlington, Cambridge)
2. go to the end of highway, turn RIGHT at the light
3. you are at Alewife Brook Pkwy, follow directions from 12. above

From I-90:
1. I-90 TOLL E.
2. Take the exit for Centre St., Newton, merge onto CENTRE ST. (0.2 miles)
4. Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto unnamed road. 0.0
5. Turn LEFT onto CENTRE ST. (0.2 miles)
6. CENTRE ST becomes GALEN ST. (0.4 miles)
7. Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto US-20. (0.1 miles)
8. Stay straight to go onto ARSENAL ST. (1.0 miles)

From EAST:
1. follow Charles River from Boston to Cambridge, pass the intersection with
JFK Street (bridge is going to be on your left),
follow the river further (Watertown signs) until you reach Arsenal Street,
whose left part crosses the bridge, and then turn RIGHT