Byzantine Blog

I will certainly be at the demo in London. Thanks for posting the info.
I went to the one in Trafalgar Square when Serbia was bombed and I still have the 'bullseye' badge some kind Serb gave to me at the time.
There were lots of English people there with very amateur banners like mine and the atmosphere was magic. Hugs and tears.
Elizabeth

I'll be at protest in Belgrade of course.
Thanks for everything you're doing here!
milan

Sadly, as usual no good initiative is scheduled here in Rome. As a very strong SRS supporter and a member of the SRS forum, I am much more than ashamed to be born in the West. I have many Serb friends, most of them from the SRS, and all of them sound really astonished these days. Most of them my girlfriend living in Beograd. I am disgusted beyond belief. My many work commitments are making it quite hard for me to take a few days off to visit Beograd and Srbija again, after quite too long (just over 3 years). However, after postponing the trip three times in the last two weeks, I will do my very best to come before Easter. I keep asking myself what concrete things I can do to help, even from here. Keep on fighting!

We occupied Iraq on phony pretenses about WMD presence, which we later admitted was not true. O.K. Fine. In the total, during our illegal war and ever since ONE MILLION IRAQIIS GOT KILLED DURING OUR MILITARY OCCUPATION! What do you call that? I am assuming you call that a normal fact of life, something that we should not use the breakfast appetite over.

Let me ask you all this question: What would be your reaction if the Serbs occupied Iraq on the same WMD pretenses and then presided over 1 million murders in Iraq? Would you just go in a cool way about your every day life, or - would you be protesting in the streets w/ bloody hands, big signs about GENOCIDE in this small country committed by the enamels Serbs?

Now comes the conclusion: I have a news for you: During 1989 to 1999 (up to the American bombing)THERE WERE IN TOTAL 2,000 PEOPLE KILLED IN KOSOVO! That is 10 times less than in the City of NYC for the same period. That is your GENOCIDE BOOL.
Go to ICTY Hague Tribunal site. You will find that neither Milosevic nor any Serb were not even indicted for any genocide!!!
Than what is all this about? Bombing Serbia for three months, just to "liberate" Albanians in a low level conflict? That does not look right? Doesn't it? Of course not. Why would you and others then lye about so called genocide? One word: BONDSTEEL, a huge US/NATO base in Kosovo. You do not have to pay a dime. No control, nobody to be responsible to. What a deal! At the end, I want to leave you with a good deal-economic thought: Imagine if the US would not conquer Kosovo, to achieve the same gains, we would have to build 6 airplane carriers and place them in the Mediterranean See! Wow, what an achievement through the humanitarian bombing!

I will be there in London. My two very good friends (both native of Cyprus) will be joining the protest as well (one of them is traveling all the way from Northampton).

Hope many other Londoners and non-Londoners will join the protest!

Elizabeth, I remember the Trafalager Square protest. I also have some of the literature and target badges. I was interviewed at one point and my interview was posted on a socialist website (although not exactly the way I explained things, but the main point was there).
There was at one point couple of Albanians or Albanian Lobbyists, thinking we weren't Serbian, approached us and offered us literature on why Serbs should be bombed, why Serbs are genocidel and why Albanians should be given their own state.

I hope to see a lot of people down here on Saturday.

Dear Mila

Yes I did see them wondering about. Did you see the handful on the traffic island holding up their placards?
I was incensed by the media. Firstly it played down the numbers of us in Trafalgar Square by about 50% if not more and then mentioned these few people - a dozen at best - they fitted on a traffic island for heavens sake - as if they were an equal and comparable demonstration. It was outrageous.
I have been trying to find my badge to wear. However, it has been put in a 'safe place' and which safe place it is, I have yet to discover!!!
I can't be there at 12. I have to travel down from Hertfordshire and because of having to get care for my disabled son cannnot get away to catch an early train but I should be there by one.
I am an old lady in beige, but a pretty furious old lady spitting proverbial tacks at the injustice to the Serbian people.
Take care all.
Elizabeth

There is a demonstration here in downtown Chicago this Sunday 02/24 at 1:00. Unfortunately, two local churches have their annual meeting and a third has their slava. Monastery Gracanica is organizing a massive protest again on Saturday 03/01 also in downtown Chicago, with forthcoming details on the local radio and papers. Please bring signs, banners, US and Serb flags, and anything that you can think of to support our position. We are stressing on keeping it peaceful, but it is a demonstration, so break out your placards. What happened in Belgrade is embarassing and counterproductive.

Dear Serbian Brothers!

There will be be some huge protests against destroying your beloved country in Poland - in Warsaw, Cracow, Katowice. Here you have an info about one of them:
http://images31.fotosik.pl/152/5ac0e14553f2c89amed.jpg

I also wrote new article on that matter influenced by yesterday's riots in Belgrade. Here it is(in Polish):
http://www.jednodniowka.com/news.php or(straight address):
http://www.jednodniowka.com/print.php?type=N&item_id=75

Niech żyje Serbia!
Polacy są z Wami!

Adam

Zora are you referring to the minor torching of the US embassy? if thats the case it pales in comparison with what should be done. They should throw out all American and EU NGOs as well as all recognizing Ambassadors from Serbia.

As for the Demonstrations, they'll likely be marginalized, under-reported or mis-reported and they will do nothing to reverse this decision, nothing done on US soil will reverse this decision, look at the Iraq war, 70% of the American population wants out but the US govt doesn't give a damn...

but hey I'd rather be proven wrong as a pessimist then wrong as an optimist so give them hell!

Ever since i read an article by journalist Diana Johnstone on the balkans conflict, ive been sympathetic to the serbian situation. Johnstone made clear back in 1999 that the US with NATO was seeking to break up Yugoslavia, as it nows seeks to break up iraq, to render it powerless and draw it into the western capitalist orbit. This involved a heavy bombardment against the reputation of Slobodan Milosevic, whose only crime was having an independent mind and policies. He has been and is still being demonised.
Its unfortunate that many westerners have been brainwashed by the cunning propaganda disguised as journalism emanating from the press. Its good to see more westerners like some Hollywood actors becoming aware, ironically thru the imperial overreach, that they have not been told the truth about the Balkans situation.

There was only little I could do, besides writing a letter, voicing my protest and dissent, to my government (Federal Republic of Germany) and two letters, voicing my sympathy and support, to the Serbian embassy and the Serbian consulate in my hometown.

I apologize to the Serbian people for the behaviour of the German government. The regognition of the "Independence of Kosovo" marked another black day in German history, I am deeply ashamed and offended.

You are not alone, even in a country where the government has so terribly insulted you. Most people think differently here.

Best regards

Heribert Schindler
Düsseldorf / Germany

Thank you all - Adam and Heribert, if everyone would do as much as you have done, we would be celebrating our freedom in weeks! May the good Lord bless you and show you our gratitude!

I will support any serbian and russian protest! We, the whole NATO-states became war-criminals in Serbia 1999. Due to the fact that we didn't avoid our govs from attacking and destryoing serbia, we have the duty to stay on your side now!
Go serbia go, don't let them succeed!

Greetings from germany

Svetlana, svaka čast za trud i rezultate u pravilnom obaveštavanju dogadjaja vezanih za Srbe..
Molila bih sve učesnike protesta širom sveta da postavljaju fotografije, da ih možemo širiti po netu da se što više zna a i da što brže ispravimo nepravdu i besčašće..
Na srpskim forumima ima ponešto slika sa protesta iz Srbije i van Srbije..Najveću zbirku fotosa do sada pronašla sam ovde, pa širite ih i vi..
Možda bude još..sve dok google ne bude zatrpan i prenatrpan isključivo naslovom KOSOVO je SRBIJA.
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/miting-srba-za-jedinstvenu-srbiju-445673.html
Mnogo pozdrava svima ,a posebno Svetlani :)

Hvala, draga Vedrana, Bog ti dao svako dobro! Fotografije na forumu za koji si dala link su odlicne; neke sam vec videla (i na svom sajtu :-)), a neke nisam, pa cu morati da ih kopiram i objavim.

Molim te ako mozes da na forumima gde si clan zamolis nase ljude da ne linkuju direktno na slike sa sajtova - ubijaju koliko otimaju "bandwidth" takvim dobacivanjem sa foruma na forum! Ja se trudim da ne sakrivam slike da bi bile dostupne za kopiranje (na sopstveni kompjuter), podizanje na internet odatle i povezivanjem na forume i druge sajtove, ali ako nastave da linkuju po forumima direktno sa mog servera moracu da pocnem da ih sakrivam, jer ne mogu da se naplacam "bandwidth"-a.

To stvarno nije fer, kod toliko besplatnih sajtova za foto albume na internetu, neki ljudi su u stanju da nas nateraju da ugasimo licne sajtove samo zato sto ih mrzi da se malo potrude, pa da prenose drugima slike na nacin koji nikoga ne kosta.

Serbs should read sveti nikolaj velimirovici / kroz tamnicki prozor... their past, their present and their future is there, and on the other hand all orhodox should read this prophetic book

S'Bogom

ion

for the campaign

http://www.ionuttene.ro/ he made those actions

http://www.clujeanul.ro/cluj/rugaciune-pentru-serbia-la-cluj-2411823

http://www.gandul.info/actualitatea/rugaciune-pentru-unitatea-serbiei-in-fata-catedralei-mitropolitane.html?3927;2412601

and here is the word of HH Artemije of Kosovo and Metohia who was taken by now by at least a doesen of sites from Romania and Basarabia (Republic of Moldavia)

http://www.predania.ro/kosovo.html