avevo deciso di spedire un messaggio a Djordje

Salve,

avevo deciso di spedire un messaggio a Djordje Vidanovic dopo aver letto
gli appelli su Peacelink, ma ormai e` impossibile. Gia` da qualche giorno
controllavo che cos'era rimasto in piedi e cosa no, su Internet, a Nis;
oggi decisamente nessuna delle macchine dell'universita` risponde. Anzi:
il collegamento passa per Amsterdam, quindi raggiunge Atene, e poi andava 
verso Belgradol; fino a ieri la raggiungeva, o forse arrivava addirittura
ai "router" di Nis di Telekom Srbija. Oggi nessun segno di vita, oltre
Atene. :(((((
Se per caso Vidanovic ha qualche altro indirizzo funzionante, ecco il
messaggio, anche se ormai mi sembra la situazione sia davvero
precipitata... Grazie.

Emanuele

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Dear Mr. Vidanovic,

let me introduce myself briefly... I'm a 19-year-old Italian student, who
spent the last two years finishing a high-school course, the International
Baccalaureate, in an international school - the United World College of
the Adriatic, where I had a chance at least to meet people from
"elsewhere", and finally think of names, faces and souls when I hear news
from another country. I also devloped a strong liking (I don't know
why...) for Eastern Europe and particularly Yugoslavia, which was
strengthened last summer, when I stayed for two weeks in Kotor on a
biology course, and visited, although quickly, Belgrade.

Today I found your messages on Peacelink's website, and I decided to catch
immediately the suggestion to write to you. I never expected to write to
someone @kalca.junis.ni.ac.yu excepted my friend Mladen, who
now studies Medicine in Italy... and I never expected to write to you -- I
remember your "Introduzione alla neurolinguistica" tempted me in a
bookshop, as I have a strong interest in cognitive science.

I'm ashamed at the thought of what my country, and the West in general, is
currently doing; another friend from Nis who is near Trieste, at the
College I wrote about, and should go back home at the end of this month, 
gave me the best picture of the situation I could think of; "My father
told me on the phone he's optimistic and by then everything will be fine",
she told me, "but my mother said I shouldn't think of it for now, and I
should manage to go to my aunt's in Switzerland". Not to speak, of course,
of those who haven't got relatives abroad; not to think of the whole
Serbian nation, then, who IS in Serbia right now. And has a right to,
needless to say -- to be in Serbia, and to be alive.

When I say I'm ashamed, I mean it in a definitely passionate way; I lack
the words to express it adequately.

What can I do against all this? What I've been doing for the last 42 days
is to seek information, Z Magazine being a major provider, and talking to
almost everyone I have a chance to talk to about the necessity to stop the
massacre. Yet, I know it isn't enough, and everyone can see that; if you
have any ideas, please tell me...

I realise I can't send the message now, the computer that should receive
it is not on-line. Hardly surprising. The nearest I can get to is
Telekom's routers in Nis, I hope things will work later. I'm saving this.

With my best wishes and regards,

Emanuele