So glad that the Peacelink site is up again

21 April (5:51 p.m)

Dear Sabrina,

So glad that the Peacelink is up again.  I think that such, peace-oriented,
web pages can really help bring peace to this region because people visit
them and read the stuff.  What happens then is that the information
received
works its way to the mind-set of the person and s/he starts thinking about
the stuff seen on CNN and the like.  That is the crucial moment.  The
awakening.  We should all awake to our own moral law within us, as Kant
said
in the Beschluss of his Critique of Practical Reason.  I have been terribly
ashamed of anything bad that the Serbian forces have done in Kosovo against
the innocents.  What caused this shame is the moral law within me that is
most likely triggered quite by itself.  I only wish most other people felt
the same and had the same automatic mechanism.  I am definitely certain
that
the one-sided accounts of the Kosovo crisis with scores of refugees in
focus, the horrific,  most frequently unverified stories of mangling,
torture and rape cannot bring about peace and objectivity in the region.
The West and its glitzy anchorpersons have been villifying Serbs for too
long now and each little piece on their alleged atrocities, however
incredible and unverified, is taken for granted.

Yes, the refugee camp in Djakovica (Kosovo) was hit.  15 dead Serbs.
Ironically so, the casualties were all Serbs from the Serbian Krajina in
Croatia that  was ethnically cleansed by the Croats back in 1995 (400,000
Serbs driven out with lots of generous help by the Americans, no CNN
cameras
there at that time, no protests by the great Western democracies.  I
remember that one particular refugee column was 27 km long and that it was
strafed by an American plane!!).  These unfortunate people had lived in
Djakovica, in a civilian refugee camp since then, for almost four years.
Their end came this morning, when the big black occidental birds of prey
brought deliverance.  What are Messrs.  Shea and Wilby going to say about
this newest bit of 'collateral damage' at their NATO press conference, I
wonder?

Thankfully, Nis was spared last night.  My family went to bed about quarter
past twelve, I stayed up at my computer.  I roamed the world of the 'Net,
pricking up my ears every now and then, not quite sure if the sounds I
heard
were the planes or not.  Went to bed at about two, with a Stephen King book
in my hands.  BTW, I am somewhat of an expert on Stephen King and Clive
Barker.   I have been trying to find semiotic patterns in their writing and
will, perhaps, write on the subject one day...  Something of the type that
Roland Barthes wrote in his Mythologies on the semiotic landmarks in
America
and  Western Europe.

But sleep does not come easy in Serbia nowadays.  Sometimes it does not
come
at all.  You linger in the no-man's zone of slumber and harsh reality,
always on the verge of oblivion and remembrance, of acceptance and denial,
of numb protest and meek submission.  This duality is in fact the hallmark
of nightmare.  I have found this out for a fact.  Nightmare would not be
what it is, were it not for a tiny chance that the whole edifice of terror
has a crack in it and would collapse right before your eyes, seconds before
doom.

So you hope.  One night they come, the other they do not... What will it be
tonight?

Many, many thanks.

Djordje