FIRST OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT CLINTON
Mr. William Jefferson Clinton
President of the United States
White House
Washington D.C. 20003
Mr. President, March 26, 1999
As an American citizen for
thirty years and a registered Democrat, I denounce you personally for the
genocide of the Serbian Christian-Orthodox people. You are hiding
under the umbrella of NATO, but everyone in the world knows that NATO is
under your ultimate command. You are the one who gave the order to
the American General, Wesley K. Clark, the NATO Supreme Commander, to start
the bombing campaign against the Republic of Yugoslavia. You and
your bombers are committing a unilateral act of the most barbaric aggression
against a sovereign and independent state and founding member of the United
Nations. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has not attacked or threatened
any foreign country or peace and security in the Balkans or anywhere else
in the world. It has been attacked by you and your NATO allies because
it sought to solve an internal problem and used its sovereign right to
fight terrorism and prevent secession of part of its territory.
By bombing massively and
indiscriminately the country of my ancestors, you and NATO became associates
and the mercenary airforce of the murderous terrorist organization, KLA.
You are not only attempting to help them to secede from Yugoslavia, but
you are also, with your powerful bombs, disturbing the peace and uprooting
the tombs of my ancestors, grandparents, mother and father. You are
threatening to kill my sister, my brother in-law, my nephew, uncle and
hundreds of my Serb relatives who never raised one finger against the United
States of America. On the contrary, the Serbian people were allies
in the last two great world wars with the Americans and we fought shoulder
to shoulder together for freedom and justice.
You are blatantly misinforming
the American people, to say the least, for blaming the Serbs for their
intransigence in refusing to sign the so-called peace document in Paris,
France. Mr. President, have you ever informed the American people
that not even all members of the Contact Group approved or signed this
fictitious paper invented and created entirely by your American Secretary
of State, Mrs. Madeleine K. Albright? Of course, the terrorist Albanians
signed this document and the Serb delegation rightly so refused because
it was totally unfair. Your American delegation insisted the Serbs endorse
separatist terrorist objectives and you treated them with pressure, blackmail
and menace that you would bomb Yugoslavia if they did not sign, and you
finally carried on this despicable and shameful act.
I am outraged at your behavior.
It is the most ignominious, barbarian act that I am witnessing and I had
hoped that I had left it forever behind me when I chose to cross the Atlantic
to become an American citizen. This cowardly American and NATO military
aggression against the small and defenseless people who desperately try
to protect their right to live peacefully in their native land is totally
unacceptable. It is not only an attack against the Serb people, it
is, as well, “a great leap backward” toward the dark and troubling period
of European history, toward the places, tensions, fears and slaughters
of innocent civilians of the early Forties.
Mr. President, you are committing
one of the most terrible and tragic errors that any president of the United
States has ever made. You are endangering peace and stability, not
only in the Balkans and in Europe, but also in the world. Your uncivilized
and violent behavior is bringing us to the threshold of the return to the
Cold War with Russia and China, and much worse, a Third World War!
Hitler also thought that he was invincible when he declared war on the
rest of humanity. You and your generals are committing the same insane
act by bringing us to the edge of atomic world catastrophe.
Mr. President, you must
stop this murderous bombing and aggression and attempt to peacefully and
diplomatically solve this and other regional problems in the world.
You must allow the United Nations and Security Council to deal with those
and similar crises. By avoiding the United Nations and the Security
Council, you are destroying and undermining the credibility and stability
of this great international organization and sanctuary of humanity.
As an American citizen and
taxpayer of good standing, I extend my appeal to all Americans of good
will to help me to urge you, Mr. President, and your administration to
immediately end this aggression against my people of origin. You
must stop this before it is too late!
Sincerely,
Njegos M. Petrovic, Ph.D.
Professor of Comparative Literature
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510
(570) 941-7778
P.S. I was born and raised in Vucitrn, Serbian Kosovo and I became an American citizen in 1970.
Second Open Letter to President Clinton
Mr. William Jefferson Clinton
President of the United states
White House
Washington D.C. 20003
Mr. President,
April 23, 1999
The world is witnessing how
unopposed military power and might in the hands of the mad and arrogant
leaders coupled with complete ignorance of history is a perfect scenario
for human catastrophe.
With the trigger happy American
cowboy mentality that the Clinton administration has exhibited along with
unjust and human economic sanctions that never hurt the political leaders
that they are directed against (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Slobodan
Milosevic, etc.) On the contrary, this practice has hurt and devastated
the lives of the civilian population, especially children, the elderly,
invalids, and other helpless citizens in Iraq, Libya, and now in Serbia.
It clearly demonstrates that the United States foreign policy is not only
on the wrong track, but also completely bankrupt.
As a young student,
Mr. William Jefferson Clinton was a conscientious objector. He refused
to take part in American war in Vietnam. He must feel guilty for
this youthful error and exhibit extreme aggressiveness today as a President.
It is at the same time tragic and unbelievable that this former draft dodger
is now ordering American armed forces in more areas of the world. This
is twice as many times as any other American president has done before
him. To advise him at the helm of the Secretary of State we have
a person that is known in the European Western media as “Albright the Bomber.”
This is the same Mrs. Madeleine K. Albright that “could not remember” her
Jewish heritage. She somehow “conveniently forgot” that she was raised
in the Jewish faith and grew up in the capital of Serbia and Yugoslavia,
Belgrade. This was where her father served as a Czech diplomat and
where the Serbs helped her family to escape the German Nazi arrest.
The more I study and analyze her behavior and her decision concerning the
Serbs, especially in Rombouillet, I am convinced that she suffers from
a hateful obsession against the Serbs for reasons that they are entirely
her own. Therefore, it could not be logically explained.
Speaking of the so-called
Rombouillet Agreement, from the beginning to the end it was illegal and
contrary to all international law. The 1980 Vienna Convention on
the International Treaty declares that… “agreements negotiated under
threat or force are to be invalid.” The Serbian delegation was correct
to reject and not to sign this “Munich” style ultimatum infringing on her
sovereignty. It consisted of four U.S. government ultimatums… 1.)
Kosovo must be granted autonomy. 2.) NATO military force of 30,000
will supervise this autonomy on Yugoslavian soil. 3.) NATO will conduct
a referendum for Kosovo independence and secession from Yugoslavia in three
years. 4.) If the three above conditions are not accepted, NATO will
bomb Yugoslavia until submission. No wonder that Yugoslavs only agreed
to the first conditions and rejected the last three, declaring that they
were gross violations of the country’s sovereignty and independence.
As a University professor
I read regularly several daily and weekly papers and magazines and I have
yet to read one single article that does not mention the population of
Kosovo as being 90% Albanians. This is a complete fabrication and
total fallacy of the real population census. Prior to the NATO bombing
of Kosovo (on March 24, 1999), there were 300,000 Serbs and Montenegrins,
about 210,000 Turks and Egyptians, and other known non-Albanian Muslims,
and close to 170,000 Romany (popularly known as Gypsies). Of the
approximate one million Albanians in Kosovo, more than 800,000 settled
there illegally during the communist Tito rule. President Clinton's
constant declaration that Milosevic’s "ethnic cleansing" forfeits the rights
of Serbs to keep Kosovo is a gross contradiction of the Helsinki Act of
1978. This treaty guarantees Europe’s State borders. President
Clinton has no moral or judiciary authority to give other peoples’ land
to another country.
Our American top journalists,
without blinking their eyes, are perpetrating this biased
(90 % Albanians) misinformation and spinning and disseminating this
outrageous lie every day. Of course, the average American citizen
is misinformed and prejudiced in his assessment and judgement of the situation
in Kosovo.
Mr. Clinton, in most of
his public addresses, claims that Kosovo is of vital national interest.
The American people and the American media believe him and this is not
only tragic, it is sad. How in the world could an entire nation be
blind to the factual truth? I concluded that it is very easy because
American people in general have good intentions and believe in almost everything
they hear from their leaders. It is as simple as that. Regardless
of Monica Lewinsky and all the other "incidentals" that have accompanied
Clinton's presidency, he still holds and enjoys a popular esteem and support.
Up until now, he was able to sell to the American people anything he wished
to. However, I am sensing that the waves are turning in the opposite
direction. More and more grass root American citizens are beginning
to ask questions. Is Kosovo truly an American or someone else’s problem?
Of course, President Clinton claims that Kosovo is of vital national interest.
I am not sure what the exact basis he uses for this claim, but I assume
that he wishes to please the Turks and other Muslim nationals elsewhere,
and the reason is very simple. The United States needs air and military
bases in Turkey and other Muslim countries to use them for their plans
for the so-called no-fly zone campaign over Iraq. Also to keep a
close watch on the "old enemy", Russia, because one never knows how the
Russians will react to NATO aggression against Serbia. By pacifying
the Turks, President Clinton is ignoring the Kurdish problem. In
his public address, he claimed that the United States needs bases in Turkey
to keep an eye on Saddam Hussein and to protect the Kurds from him.
He never mentioned that the Turks and Kurds have been enemies for centuries
and of course he doesn’t inform the American people that just recently
the Turks launched an all out attack on the Kurds, even going across the
boarder in Iraq and Iran and killing them by the thousands.
Our United States media
and press are completely silent about all of that . The European
press on the contrary is not. I happen to be a subscriber of the
French weekly edition, Le Monde, and I found out that the American CIA
helped to capture Abdulah Ocalan, the Kurdish leader of the very same people
who “we” are “protecting” from Saddam Hussein and turned him over to Turkish
agents. Why are we dong that, Mr. President? Is this moral?
Is that the American idea of fairness or democracy? Nevertheless,
I guess this is a naïve question. Judging from the standards
demonstrated by you, Mr. President personally and by your administration’s
advising team in Washington D.C. in recent years, this Kurdish episode
should not surprise me.
The American media never
reports the real situation in Kosovo fully and correctly. Only the
Albanian side is presented to us. We hear daily about the struggles,
the exodus and the killings. Yes, there are killings going on in
Kosovo, Mr. President. The so-called KLA (the terrorist organization
that the press is calling the Kosovo Liberation Army) is killing Serbian
people every day, but our American press never reports it. It is
true that Albanian citizens are leaving Kosovo in very large numbers.
However, please ask yourself, Mr. President, this very simple question;
when did this mass exodus of people begin? You know very well and
so does everyone else that it began only after the NATO unleashed its bombing
attack on Kosovo and Yugoslavia. Of course, the Pentagon experts
claim that NATO is targeting military and other strategic installations,
“that feed Slobodan Milosevic’s war machine.” Mr. President, are
you aware that NATO bombers under your ultimate command have destroyed
almost all of the electric and water supply in Kosovo and as well the key
bridges? It is almost impossible to circulate there and that a normal
living infrastructure of consumer goods is nonexistent. In addition,
those bombings are causing profound disruption of the day to day life of
ordinary Yugoslav citizens and also in Serbia proper and Montenegro as
well. People are hungry, cold, scared and they are running away to
Macedonia, and Albania, where they can escape from this hell that is coming
from the sky. They are not forced or pushed by any Serbian police
or army to do that. They are choosing to leave Kosovo to save themselves
from starvation and death. You said in your TV address when you ordered
the bombing attack on Yugoslavia that you are doing this for the moral
and humanitarian reasons because you felt obliged to protect the Albanian
population in Kosovo. Mr. President, is that what you really wanted
to do? To force them to leave their homes in order to escape death
and starvation? Please, Mr. Clinton, ask yourself next Sunday during
church services when you are praying to God for blessings and for wisdom,
to be a just and good man and President. Ask God if it is fair to deprive
two million citizens of Kosovo of food, water, electricity, and other normal
commodities that we all enjoy here in this country on a daily basis.
Mr. President, do you know
how hard it is to not sleep and not to eat for days, especially for the
small children, the sick and the elderly? Is that your desired goal?
If that is your moral principle of fairness and justice to completely destroy
Kosovo’s people because you do not like their leader, Mr. Slobodan Milosevic?
I believe Mr. President that you must reexamine your principles and moral
concerns urgently!
Please tell me, Mr. President
what you and I should say to the young Albanian and Serbian mothers whose
homes have been destroyed by the NATO bombs, how to feed and shelter their
starving children. Could we really look in the eyes of these women
and tell them we are doing this in the name of a better humanity?
Please, Mr. President, stop this tragic carnage, illegal criminal bombing
attacks, and total injustice before it becomes too late.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Njegos M. Petrovic, Ph.D.
Professor of Comparative Literature
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510
(570) 941-7778
P.S. I was born and raised in Vucitrn, Serbian Kosovo, and became an
American citizen in 1970.
THE US/NATO WAR IN YUGOSLAVIA: EIGHT MYTHS
Myth#1. U.S./NATO had to attack the Serbs because
the Yugoslav government and President Slobodan Milosevic refused to negotiate
on Kosovo, a region of Yugoslavia where ethnic Albanians are the majority.
Reality: U.S./NATO bombs are falling on all Yugoslavs: Serbs,
Montenegrins , Albanians, Hungarians, Romanis (called Gypsies) and other
peoples who make up the multiethnic Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
There were no negotiations. U.S. officials like Secretary
of State Madeleine Albright went out of their way to make this point when
peace talks were held in France in February. Instead, the U.S.
government presented an ultimatum to the Yugoslav government that had three
points: 1) Kosovo must be granted autonomy; 2) NATO must be allowed to
station 30,000 ground troops in Yugoslavia to ensure this autonomy; and
3) a NATO conducted referendum for Kosovo’s independence from Yugoslavia
would take place within three years.
The Yugoslav government agreed to the first condition, and rejected
the second and third, saying they were a gross violation of their sovereignty
and the independence of their country. The one breaking point that
Yugoslavia refused to negotiate is that they will not allow a foreign occupying
army. The only constant U.S. demand was that NATO troops must be
based in Yugoslav territory. The U.S. refused to allow the
Yugoslav delegation to meet with the Albanian delegation, or
even to see 56 pages of the 80-page agreement.
Myth#2. Yugoslavia is the aggressor in this conflict and Milosevic
is a new Hitler.
Reality: No Yugoslav soldiers, planes or ships are attacking
another country. The conflict in Kosovo is an internal issue.
Yugoslavia is a small developing country of 11 million people, being attacked
by 19 countries, including the biggest military powers in the world, which
have a combined population of more than half a billion people. Milosevic
has been demonized much like Saddam Hussein was during the war against
Iraq. A State Department official admitted: the demonization
of Milosevic is necessary to maintain the air attacks. (San
Francisco Chronicle, March 30, 1999)
Myth #3. Clinton, Albright and the Pentagon generals were moved
to action by their concerns about ethnic cleansing and human
suffering.
Reality: The U.S., Germany and other NATO powers played a key
role in breaking up Yugoslavia in 1991-92, arming and supporting secessionist
movements. It was the International Monetary Fund that demanded an
end to special privileges for Kosovo in the 1980's. For
45 years after World War II, the many nationalities that made up Yugoslavia
lived together in peace. In the civil wars, which followed the break-up
of Yugoslavia, there was much bloodshed and human-rights violations on
all sides. The biggest single act of ethnic cleansing
was the forced removal of 600,000 Serbs from the Krajina region of the
former Yugoslav Republic Croatia by the U.S.-trained and armed Croatian
military in 1995. More than 55,000 of these Serbs, who were resettled
in Kosovo, are among the hundreds of thousands of people made refugees
by NATO bombing and the conflict in Kosovo. (Julia Taft, Asst. Secretary
of State on C-SPAN, March 29, 1999) The U.S. concern about
removal of people from their homeland is very selective. This is
not surprising: Virtually the entire continent of North America was
ethnically cleansed of Native people to make way for the U.S. and
Canada, two NATO powers. U.S. policy has supported, with arms and
money, the removal of Kurdish people in Turkey and of Palestinians, East
Timorese, Guatemalan indigenous people--the list goes on.
Myth#4. The U.S./NATO goal is to protect the rights of the predominantly
Muslim Albanians in Kosovo.
Reality: U.S. officials pretend to care about the rights of
Muslim people in Yugoslavia, while their policy of sanctions and war kills
300 mostly Muslim Iraqis every day--half children under 5 years old.
The Pentagon is not a humanitarian relief agency and the
corporate-owned politicians don’t really care about any people--Albanians,
Serbs, Kurds, Iraqis, or the poor and working people of this country.
This war is killing people of all nationalities in Yugoslavia, and poisoning
their land with radioactive depleted uranium (DU) weapons. Hundreds
of thousands of Iraqis, U.S. veterans and their families are suffering
from Gulf War Syndrome as a result of depleted-uranium poisoning.
The Clinton administration and the Pentagon talk about supporting
our troops before they go into battle, but then deny medical benefits
to veterans who suffer from the after-effects of Agent Orange from Vietnam
or DU from Iraq.
This war will cost many billions of dollars, money stolen from housing,
health care, education and other social programs. Each cruise missile
costs $1 million. The only ones who will benefit from this war will
be the military-industrial complex and big business. The real U.S./NATO
goal is to break Yugoslavia into ever-smaller pieces and bomb its people
into submission. The Balkans is a strategic region, a crossroads between
Western Europe and the oil-rich Middle-East and Caspian Basin. The
U.S. has established, in only five years, military domination of the former
Yugoslav republics of Croatia, Bosnia and Macedonia, as well as Hungary
and Albania. The only hold-out has been what is today the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia. This is the real reason why Yugoslavia has become
the target in the Balkans, just as it is the real reason that Iraq has
become the target in the Persian/Arabian Gulf region.
Myth#5. U.S. news reports are balanced and impartial, giving
us the true story.
Reality: What we see today is a gross distortion of the facts.
The media is dominated by big business interests, and functions as a Pentagon
propaganda machine. For political purposes, the suffering of only one group,
the refugees leaving Kosovo, is shown while the other Yugoslav victims
of the NATO bombing are virtually ignored. The New York
Times, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, The Chronicle Examiner, and others
have given a very slanted view of events in Yugoslavia, to justify the
massive bombing. General Electric, one of the country’s largest military
contractors which supplies engines for NATO jet fighters, owns NBC and
co-owns MS/NBC.
Myth #6: The U.S. is trying to defend the rights of the people
of Kosovo because they have no rights.
Reality: All minorities in Yugoslavia have much greater rights
than national minorities have in the United States or in Europe.
While bilingual education is under attack from California to New York,
Albanians in Kosovo have schools and tuition-free universities in the Albanian
language. Medical care is free for all citizens in Yugoslavia.
Albanian separatists boycotted the government school system and health
care system. To refuse to use what exists is very different from
being denied these rights.
The population information commonly given out is also misleading.
For example saying that 90 percent of the population is Albanian is not
accurate. This figure actually includes all non-Serbs in Kosovo--Romanis,
Turks, Egyptians, Goramacs (Serb Muslims from Kosovo) and others.
At the Rambouillet talks, the Yugoslav delegation represented not only
Serbs, but all of the nationalities in Kosovo, including two Albanians,
while the Albanian separatist delegation consisted only of Albanians.
The religious differences are also exaggerated. While many Albanians
are Muslim, 10 percent of the Serb population is also Muslim. In
addition, 25 percent of the Albanian population is roman Catholic such
as Mother Teresa, who was a Kosovo Albanian.
Myth#7. The KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) is a genuine liberation
army.
Reality: The KLA is a terrorist force similar to CIA-funded
Contras used by the U.S. in Nicaragua in an effort to overthrow the government.
NATO uses the KLA to justify sending U.S. troops to occupy and further
break up Yugoslavia. The KLA did not exist one year ago. Suddenly,
it has the latest high tech weapons.
What kind of liberation struggle calls for the bombing of its own people
and for a foreign army of occupation on its soil? This is the KLA demand.
The Society of Albanian American Students released a call for a demonstration
on Wednesday, March 31 organized with the invitation of the U.S.
State Department of support NATO strikes, and above all, will focus on
pressure for Ground Troops in Kosov o and Arms for KLA.
Al Gore addressed the crowed. The signs of KLA supporters at rallies organized
by the U.S. State Department-- NATO Bombing, Just Do It,
KLA is NATO --express the real relationship between the KLA and the U.S.
government.
Myth #8: The NATO bombing is not the cause of the refugee crisis.
Reality: There were no waves of refugees until the
beginning of the NATO bombing on March 24. The U.S. government used
similar scripts of defending civilians and stopping massacres to justify
massive bombing campaigns in both the Vietnam and Iraq wars. Again
and again it was the massive bombing that created refugee crises.
THE LONDON TIMES interviewed refugees and found: Nor
was there much fodder for NATO propagandists among the 200 or so refugees
waiting to register at a Skopje district police station early on Friday
[Ma rch 26]. Mirvei, a tall Albanian woman clutching her four-month-old
baby, looked bewildered when asked if Serbian troops had driven her out,
There were no Serbs, she said. We were frightened of the
bombs.
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Source: SUC News Bulletin, Year 7,
Issue 170; April, 15, 1999.
To: Managing Editor of The Scranton and Sunday Times/Tribune
Corner of Spruce and Penn
Scranton PA, 18503
Title: Only criminal conduct in Balkans carried out by NATO and Clinton.
Dear Editor, May 10, 1999
As an American of Serb origin,
I witness every day, unjust and biased propaganda against the people and
the country that I was born in. The American government and the American
media are attacking daily, my people of origin and accusing them of being
"war mongers." This one-sided accusation is untrue and it reminds
me vividly of Goebbels' propaganda against the Jews. Your editorial,
"A War, For What?” in The Sunday Times of May 9, 1999 is a classical
example of this practice. You are calling Mr. Milosevic, "a well-documented
practitioner of genocide." Sir, the only true genocide practitioners
in the present Kosovo crisis are, the President of the United States, Mr.
Clinton, and his henchmen NATO Supreme Commander, American General Wesley
K. Clark. These two, through their bombers are committing a unilateral
criminal act of most barbaric aggression against the sovereign states and
the founding member of the UN, Yugoslavia. Sir, Yugoslavia has not
assaulted or threatened any country or peace and security in the Balkans
or anywhere else in the world. It has been attacked by Mr. Clinton
under the umbrella of NATO because it sought to solve an internal problem
and used its rights to fight terrorism and prevent secession of part of
its territory.
It is tragic that Mr. Clinton,
a former conscientious objector, is now ordering the American armed forces
in more areas of the world than any other American President has done before
him. Yugoslavia is the fourth country along with Iraq, Afghanistan
and the Sudan, that has been bombed by the U.S. in the past eight months.
The American/NATO bombs are disturbing the peace and uprooting the
tombs of my ancestors, grandparents, mother and father. They are
threatening to kill my sister, my uncle, and hundreds of my Serbian relatives
who have never raised one finger against the U.S. On the contrary,
the Serbian people were allies in the last two world wars with the Americans
and we fought together for freedom and justice.
Your newspaper blatantly
misinforms the American people, to say the least, by blaming the Serbs
for their intransigence in refusing to sign the so-called peace document
in France. Sir, are you aware that Rambouillet accord contained provisions
that would have subjected the whole of Yugoslavia to NATO occupation? (article
8).
If the Yugoslav government
had signed the accord, they would have been relinquishing all claims to
sovereignty over their own territory. It is apparent that the Rambouillet
conference was aimed at providing a pretext for war, not a political solution
to the Kosovo conflict. "An accord such as this could not be signed
by any head of a sovereign state," commented the German newspaper, Taz.
Sir, I am not the only American
who is condemning Mr. Clinton for his bankrupt foreign policy. Permit
me to share with your readers, excerpts from the letter of the former Attorney
General, Mr. Ramsey Clark, who had sent it to the ambassadors of the UN
countries:
"I have just returned from
Serbia where I surveyed civilian damage and saw civilian causalities.
The targeting by U.S. and NATO outside of Kosovo was clearly directed at
terrorizing and crippling civilian society. Schools, agricultural equipment
manufacturing plant, a bridge at Novi Sad for local traffic… were among
the earlier civilian facilities damaged by the bombing. These targets
confirm what the US has now announced-it will strike food, fuel and other
civilian essentials. The use of hunger as a weapon is, of course,
prohibited by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Protocol I
Additional of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions.
It is imperative that the
Security Council and the General Assembly immediately demand that the US
stop all military assaults on Yugoslavia and Iraq and end the sanctions
against their people.”
In addition to killing people, American/NATO bombing campaign
is creating a region wide ecological and economic disaster zone.
Sir, even though I am not
a war specialist, I do know very well what war truly is because I experienced
and lived through World War II. I had witnessed the killing of my
father before I was twelve years old. I saw our house burned and
destroyed. I know what it means to be homeless, cold, hungry, and
a refugee. I hoped that I would leave those nightmarish memories forever
when I chose to start a new life in this country. Unfortunately, I was
wrong. Mr. Clinton is threatening the well being of the small children
in my native Yugoslavia, and it hurts more than any one can express.
Sir, do you know how hard
it is not to sleep or eat for days, especially for a small child?
Is that the desired American goal, to create hunger and homelessness?
Is that the American moral principle of fairness and justice, to destroy
Serbian people because the Americans do not like Mr. Milosevic? I
believe that Mr. Clinton and the American media must reexamine their principles
urgently.
Please, Sir, join me and
other Americans to urge our President to stop this tragic carnage, illegal,
criminal bombing attacks on Yugoslavia, and total injustice before it becomes
too late.
(Appeared in Scranton Tribune on May 13, 1999, on page 4.)
Sincerely,
Njegos M. Petrovic, Ph.D.
Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510
(570)-941-7778
P.S. I was born and raised in Vucitrn, Serbian Kosovo, and became an American citizen in 1970.