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Il y a 20 ans, les manifestations contre Milosevic à Belgrade

Un message de Nela Melic du London College of Communication (et avec qui j’ai travaillé lors des séminaires au Goldsmiths Institute de Londres)

On this day, exactly 20 years ago Belgraders begun a 3 months long protest against then president Milosevic. I have been so inspired by that event as a young women that I have done a PhD on it. Thanks to Kulturklammer, centre for cultural interactions in Belgrade, it is now a digital record that is accessible via Internet. Please spread it around and lets remember how great we were and how great Belgrade can be:

►http://www.kulturklammer.org/nm

Explore the map and email me if you want to contribute to it. Thank you to all who have already done so and making this project possible.

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www.arts.ac.uk/lcc
▻https://spaceandplacelcc.wordpress.com
►http://www.kulturklammer.org/nm

#serbie #belgrade #Milosevic #cartographie #cartographie_dynamique

Of course, the righteous nations of the west would never assassinate journalists, except of course when they do - but, you know, it is different because they support an evil regime. In a statement of 8 April 1999, #NATO indicated that the #RTS studios in #Belgrad would be targeted unless they broadcast 6 hours per day of Western media reports: “If President #Milosevic would provide equal time for Western news broadcasts in its programmes without censorship 3 hours a day between noon and 1800 and 3 hours a day between 1800 and midnight, then his TV could be an acceptable instrument of public information” (▻http://www.icty.org/sid/10052#IVB3). The RTS station was bombed on 23/4/99 - sixteen employees died. Nobody was held accountable for the attack.

Yes, Milosevic was busy with #war_crimes. Yes, RTS was instrumental to propaganda supporting them.

So, to recapitulate: journalists who support a government that is criminal according to your laws are fair game - especially if your laws are universal laws that obviously apply to all humanity (such as the Universal Declaration of #Human_rights or the rulings of your favourite religious leaders). Oh noes you say - human rights are natural rights and supporting them is entirely different to any religious creed. Are you sure ? At the very least it makes for an interesting philosophical debate. ▻http://www.ethicsandglobalpolitics.net/index.php/egp/article/view/26262 #religion #philosophy #terrorism #journalism

At least, killing journalists in the name of religion or equivalents thereof is something we can all agree on

(also blogged at
▻http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2015/01/20/at-least-killing-in-the-name-of-religion-or-equivalents-there)