This is a document in Serbian
and English
where you can find various
information concerning
the NATO military action
against Serbia.
Please help stop the war between our two countries!
I have not written
to you earlier, while only our civilians were
killed. Tens of
innocent people, including women and kids, were
killed during the
recent U.S. attacks. Some of them were
refugees, who were
kicked out from Croatia and Bosnia during the
past wars. More
than 30 schools we hit, 2 civilian airports, city
water supplies,
refugee camps, roads...
The reason I have
not asked for help is that you may have said
Serbs should be
attacked because of what the Serbian government
had been doing
in Kosovo. I did not want to argue explaining that
Kosovo has been
the heart of Serbia for a thousand years, that
the key Serbian
monasteries are in that area, and that Kosovo was
and still is a
multiethnic environment. Serbs were there one half
of the population
just before World War II. I did not want to
persuade you that
Serbs are now about 10% of the populations
there because Albanians
have been doing an ethnic cleansing for
decades, supported
by Germans, and then by our communist
government. I did
not want to say that the U.S. support for the
Albanians is helping
in ethnic cleansing of Serbs.
I did not want to
offend you by saying that the situation in
Kosovo is similar
to a hypothetical situation when your Hispanics
in New Mexico,
who are the majority there, would start terrorist
actions in order
to take New Mexico out of the U.S. and join it
to Mexico.
I did not want to
bother you with facts that Albanian terrorists
have killed many
of their own people who are not against our
government. I did
not want to appeal to stop acting against our
country as the
American and Serbian people have been (and, I am
sure, still are)
friends, and were allies in two world wars.
I did not want to
bother you with stories that this attack on an
independent country
has united all the people behind our
president, whom
the majority of people consider to be a severe
dictator. His position
is cemented now, and you are killing all
democratic movements
in our country to make Yugoslavia a part of
the free world.
I did not want to
write how my three kids suffer, having to spend
most of the day
and night in a shelter, with sirens sounding all
day long. All those
things, I am afraid, you would not be able to
understand as you
are not acquainted with our history, because
you are blinded
by the false or incomplete information on your TV
and other media,
and because from your distance you cannot
understand the
horrors of war.
Now, however, when
you can undoubtedly see that American soldiers
are being jeopardized
in this absurd war, I beg you, on this
Christian Day of
Peace, to do whatever is in your power to
influence your
government to stop the war. Please try to persuade
your leaders they
are heading in a wrong direction, which hurts
the whole world.
Please stop the innocent people suffer any more.
Let us continue
collaborating on issues that take the humanity
forward, instead
of destroying it.
Sincerely yours,
Antonije Djordjevic
edjordja@etf.bg.ac.yu
[Professor Dr. Antonije
R. Djordjevic was born in Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, in
1952. He graduated from the School of Electrical
Engineering, University
of Belgrade, in 1975, and obtained his
M.Sc. and D.Sc.
degrees from the same School in 1977 and 1979,
respectively. He
is a professor of Microwave Engineering at the
same School and
a visiting scholar at Syracuse University, N.Y.
He is a corresponding
member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences
and Arts. His main
fields of interest are wire and surface
antennas, multiconductor
transmission lines, EMC, and other
specific problems
of numerical electromagnetics. He is an author
or co-author of
about 90 papers, co-author of a monograph on wire
antennas, principal
co-author of seven monographs with software
on analysis of
printed-circuits and wire antennas (published in
the U.S.), and
an author or co-author of four textbooks.]
