----Original Message Follows---- From: "Vaik Yousefi" vaiky@library.tmc.edu Reply-To: hegel-l@bucknell.edu To: Multiple recipients of list hegel-l@bucknell.edu Subject: Re: NATO bombings Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:41:00 -0400 (EDT)

I am taking the liberty of reproducing the following reponse to a message that I saw in another listserv (H-NEXA: the Science-Humanities Convergence Forum" H-NEXA@H-NET.MSU.EDU). The reponse is from Djordje Vidanovic professor of Linguistics who presently lives in Yugoslavia.

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 15:06:13 +0300 From: Djordje Vidanovic djordjev@KALCA.JUNIS.NI.AC.YU

Thanks for the interest. Yes, the connection is still working (miraculously so). I have a statement to make and let some people know what is happening here. If you care and can, please spread it around -- I am not sure how long this tenuous life line will hold out.

I stand behind the facts, they are verified thoroughly.

The little town of Aleksinac, 20 miles away from my home town, was hit last night with full force. The local hospital was hit (!!), and a whole street was simply wiped off. What I know for CERTAIN is 6 dead civilians and more than 50 badly hurt. There was no military target around whatsoever. Neither the local police station HQ nor the military HQ were hit.
These are not adjacent anyway.

I hear (fortunately did not watch or else would have gone completely insane) that CNN and Skynews said that the Aleksinac bombing was a rig-up by the Serbian State TV. I, Djordje Vidanovic, Professor of Linguistics and Semantics at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Nis, Serbia, 47 yrs old, (my photo can be found at www.cent.co.yu/chess when you click on *write to me*) vouch for the veracity of the above report and confirm that a whole street full of innocent civilians was simply wiped out by the NATO bombing on the night of April 5/6, 1999. (Do not for a moment, please, think that I believe the Serbian State TV. But I, myself, witnessed the carnage and the photos from there are genuine. Hold me responsible for the facts!)

If you can, please contact the American public and the networks. This is turning into a bloody war against one people. Please contact Professor Noam Chomsky and tell him about who sent you this report. He knows me as we exchanged linguistic (not political) ideas at the beginning at the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s while I was writing my book *Problems of Language and Mind*.

This is genocide. One genocide -- Kosovo, intensified, this other one starting and getting more and more insane. Unstoppable. HELP.

Djordje Vidanovic

Vaik Yousefi vaiky@library.tmc.edu