I could almost imagine her sitting in her cosy working room, staring into the computer screen with a coffee cup beside [it], trying to sew some new intellectual context from her own 20 years old, disbursed and stale philosophical thoughts, which used to be --- once upon a time --- so interesting to me.

"How can you stop those bent on genocide without war?" she asks, equalising with an unexplainable hatred the whole nation with the Milosevic regime.

But can anyone blame [the] entire Russian nation for Stalin's crimes or [the] Romanian nation for Chausesque's dictatorship and unlimited power to manipulate human lives?

How can anyone justify the NATO genocide done by bombing the prison in the city of Istok in Kosovo, where about 100 prisoners and wardens have been killed and about 200 others wounded in several days of NATO air strikes during last week? Which words can justify attacks on the electricity power supply systems, and the darkness which endangers the lives of helpless patients and new born babies in hospital's incubators?

The bombs will not obliterate Milosevic and the group of his yes-men.

The bombs will only kill innocent people because Milosevic takes good care of his own family and poltroons. [A]... rumour says that his daughter Marija, his son Marko and Marko's "little family" [have] already fled the country - the same rumour says probably to Russia or China, or God knows where. Unfortunately, in this country the rumours are usually more accurate than the official information.

A wounded mother with her baby born on the night when the Dragisa Misovic hospital in Belgrade was attacked by NATO.

For me, the war is [a] very perceptible, serious and deeply emotional matter. When you live only 1000 meters (3000 yards) away from the hospital which is being bomb[ed] for the fourth time in two months, you don't have to hear the screaming of the wounded and dying patients and doctors in the dark night, you can feel it deep inside with each explosion.

And on May 20, at 1 a.m., during the NATO attack on the "Dragisa Misovic" hospital in my neighbourhood, four immobile and seriously ill patients were killed, two women in labour were wounded and several tents of other patients, including children, and medical personnel members were injured.

The cynical NATO claims that it was done by mistake and constituted "collateral damage" are nothing else but only the part of the criminal strategy of killing women, children and everything alive in this country.

For Susan Sontag, untouched by the tragedy of life and death which is going on some 6000 miles away, the war is only the written, sterile, intellectual sample.

This war has [turn]ed my life upside down, and I'm sure that the [ecological] consequences will also change the future of [the] entire European continent and further, maybe even the entire world.

In this war, the aggressors not only fail to respect the international conventions and rules in the field of [the] environment and rights of war, but forget the elementary human ethics, destroying everything and killing everybody.

The most disappointing thing for me is the fact that, although the world knows about [the] intentional bombard[ment] of the chemical industry in Yugoslavia and oil refineries and stores, the prominent ecological movements --- especial [the] usually [vocal] Green Peace --- closes their eyes before the current ecological catastrophe whose consequences could be disastrous.

Even the allegedly "pacifistic" Green Party in Germany voted for this sequel of the aggression against Yugoslavia!

INTELLIGENCE FOR NATO

I'd like to help NATO out. I'd like to inform NATO that beside refineries in Novi Sad and Pancevo, and [the] chemical plant in Pancevo, their bombs also have destroyed the chemical facilities in Baric (part of Belgrade), Sabac, Prahovo (near [the] Romanian border), Lucane, and oil storages in Sombre, Smederevo, Bor (the largest mining complex in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), etc... Each of these targets were attacked between 5 and 30 times.

[Up until today the] refinery in Novi Sad ... [has received over 90] NATO bombs in 18 assaults and each between 500 kg and 2.5 tons of weight, although this refinery was totally destroyed after the second attack!

SOFT KILLING = ECOLOGICAL GENOCIDE

The same night of the hospital bombing, NATO also bombed an oil storage facility in the same neighborhood where our correspondent, Dragana Vicanovic lives. Here is what the poisonous cloud of smoke looked like.

Most of the Yugoslav industry, particularly chemical industry, such as the fertiliser plant Azotara in Pancevo, is situated by the rivers and the most important factories are located by the Danube. The "Petrohemija" complex in Pancevo which was hit, released a cloud of vinyl-chloride-monomer, which is a component of the "floxin" poison gas - after the bombardment, the level of the toxic gases over Pancevo and Belgrade was 10, 600 times more than the so-called technologically allowed conterminous amount, but "luckily" it was blown away by the strong wind. The cloud went toward Greece, Italy, Austria, France, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia, Hungary...

All [of the toxic] materials which were released after NATO strikes on the chemical factories, went into the air and water, among them 20 tons of liquid chlorine, 6000 tons of lye and 100 tons of mercury from Pancevo chemical plant, which do not [recognize national] borders.

The substance called "pyralen", used in [the] chemical industry, is the most dangerous known "active poison" in the world; it is not bio-degradable [and] is [a] very [carcinogenic] material.

Well, last week, after NATO attacked [the] power plant "Kolubara" 40 km away from Belgrade, 90 tons of pyralen was burning for two days! The fire was enormous, but the outcomes considering human health are barely to be seen - but not only in Yugoslavia! The river Danube is full of pyralen, floating further towards Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine... The oil spots from 2 only refineries in Yugoslavia - in Novi Sad and Pancevo - were enormous, from 15 to 20 km, and they destroyed the ecosystem in the Danube, and mostly ended in the Black Sea. But this is only a part of what's going on in the Balkans.

Unfortunately, a paradox lies in fact that Yugoslav-neighbouring countries, in which [the] people and environment are strongly endangered, do not react. The spreading of toxic chemical elements caused by [the] bombing of oil refineries and other chemical industry facilities will have effects on [the] air and environment not only in [the] Balkans, but [in a] much wider [area], including [the] Near East and Northern Africa.

It seems that NATO does not pay attention [to the fact] that its "actions" are taken close to several nuclear plants, like Krsko (Slovenia) and nuclear plants in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. All of these plants can be hit by some new "mistake" or an airplane might fall down on them. Toxic gases still leak from hit chemical factories [into] the Danube, which is streaming through several countries....

The toxic cloud from the bombing of the chemical plant in Pancevo blowing off toward Rumania, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria... and into the Danube River.

The Greek researcher, Professor Zeferos, an environmental chemist from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, says that the first three days of bombing above Yugoslavia released a large amount of hazardous, toxic, carcinogenic and radioactive substances. The biggest fear is of possible bombing of power plants by NATO forces, because the public's risk of inhaling highly contaminated air would then be very high. He said that furans and dioxins which are released at the time of the bomb explosions are being carried for long distances across the planet, that in this process is very often [an] immersion [of] hazardous substances which endangers public health. Some of these substances released by the bombing deplete the ozone layer, which may widen the ozone hole in the future.

Thessaloniki University has proven a higher level of pollution of the atmosphere in the North of Greece for a whole fifteen per cent since NATO had bombed the chemical factories in Pancevo and the refinery in Novi Sad in April. During the same interval, the toxicity of the Danube River water has augmented too. The Romanian government has proven a higher level of ammonia in the atmosphere, Bulgaria registered large oil spills on the Danube, the same as Ukraine.

Dr. Verica Gburcik from the Health Department in Belgrade, stated last week that already during the second half of the summer, especially over the regions of Canada and USA, the first consequences of mass and constant bombing of Yugoslavia will be spotted. The ozone layer will be damage and the climate changed.

"The alarming results about the present ecological catastrophe were sent to all of the world's health organisations, but it is unknown why are they still not reacting. One of the major troubles will be the ultraviolet radiation, which will be doubled on the North[ern] and four times stronger on the South[ern] hemisphere.

"Thess changes will enlarge especially carcinogenic diseases. But the most dangerous will be the changing of the climate. In the few decades during the next century, the temperature will be higher by 4 degrees, the polar ice will start to melt and the sea level will rise [approximately] 50 meters.

"Therefore, the world will be faced with less drinking water and less food." - said Dr. Gburcik

Is Milosevic's head worth that price?

Never before in the history of ... mankind, [has] such a war [been] conducted.

I'm talking about the amount of explosives (equal so far to the 8 nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima) used over such a small region in a such a long and constant period of time. In environmental terms at least, this is perhaps the dirtiest war the West has ever fought.

NATO's scorched earth policy, which seeks to destroy Milosevic' regime by destroying everything else, including civilians as well as the unborn as well as the living [has also and ironically even] proclaimed *animals* "legitimate military targets". In the vicinity of Pristina, NATO destroyed two weeks ago entire sheep farm, killing 1, 600 sheep. Also, the chicken farm near village Careve Cesme were bombed with 15 missiles on May 25. The sugar factory in Sabac, the tobacco factory in Nis, the vacuum-cleaner factory in Cacak, the pharmaceutical complexes in Pancevo, Leskovac and Belgrade were NATO targets too. As such, it can never be a just one.

Two youths in Kraljevo holding casing of a NATO bomb with the friendly greeting: "Do you still wanna be a Serb now!!"

Italy has a lot of reasons to be particularly concerned, as well as Croatia, because of a large quantity of bombs in the Adriatic Sea the NATO aircraft had rid themselves of when returning to their bases from Yugoslavia.. Several fishermen from Kiodie, the centre of the fishing industry in the Veneta region, Italy, were killed when the unexpected catch exploded but media - "objective" as usually - blamed it on the bombs from the WW II. However, it was quickly discovered that there are too many such bombs and that they are too modern for the past technology. Hundreds of cluster bombs were found in the fishing nets. Situation is extremely dangerous, [the] heavily injured captain of the fishing ship "Profeta", Jamie Cenaro, says while lying in [a] hospital bed. He said that the official version saying that the bombs are from the WW II is nothing but a pure lie. That cannot be the truth because those kind of bombs, when found, are covered with shells and see-weeds. The ones that are now finding are clean, perfectly painted in yellow and with the US marks. Faced with these facts, NATO base in Vicenza issued new but equally laconic "explanation" which only allows the possibility that the bombs are coming from the arsenal of the Alliance.

The Spanish newspaper El Paisstates that next to the Italian shore, 143 bombs were dropped into the Adriatic Sea, mostly around Venice, Ancona, Rimini, but Dubrovnik, Split, Pula and Rijeka in Croatia as well. The question is how many other, radioactive bombs are dropped into the Adriatic Sea, now called "Mare Monstrum". El Paisalso quotes the Director of the Danube-Carpathian Program of the World Natural Fund, who said that "a natural and humanitarian catastrophe and tragedy threaten not only the Balkans, but the whole of Europe".

Maybe that's why the United Nations, although never condemned the monstrosity of this war finally have formed a special comity presided over by Senegal's Bakari Kante, Advisor of the UN Program for the Environment, with the task of analysing all health and ecological consequences of the bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Only, they didn't come to Yugoslavia - they went to Bulgaria and Romania!

But, the International Action Centre, part of a coalition of US anti-war goups, is heading a documentary mission to retrieve first-hand evidence of NATO's use of depleted uranium weapons against Yugoslavia and the environmetntal impact of air strikes against chemical and pharmaceutical plants, plastic factories, refineries and other industrial targets. Those people deserve the uttermost acknowledgment and the gratitude of all the Yougoslavians.

Thanks to the NATO efforts to silence the Yugoslav State TV which was finally [silenced] on May 26, when EUTELSAT, the official satelite provider for the Yugoslav State TV unilateraly suspended the broadcasting for Europe and the main part of the world, the pictures of [the] destruction and slaughter of Yugoslav civilians will be buried under the false illusion of the freedom of the press!