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Preparing for Peace The website of the Westmorland General Meeting 'Preparing for Peace' initiative
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WAYS TO PREVENT WAR- Otpor (Serb for Resistance)Card 3General instruction on each cardYou are a Serb living in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999. Your President is Slobodon Milosevic. He has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, but he is still running the country. You have heard that he has organised the killing of thousands of Kosovan Albanians. Your country has been bombed by NATO in a war over Kosovo. 44% of industrial production has been destroyed leaving your country the poorest in Europe. Professors in universities have been instructed to sign a loyalty oath or lose their jobs. He controls most of the media. People who stand up to him are sometimes murdered. People are not sure who they can trust. No one agrees about what can be done.
Your father is a journalist at one of the few independent newspapers left in the country. Every day he goes to work expecting to find his paper shut down and the proprietor arrested. He has confided in you that he has been invited by the East West Institute and the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs to attend a conference in Bratislava, Slovakia, entitled “The future of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the context of post war reconstruction”. The conference will bring together the pro-democracy parties and groups for the first time, with representatives from the international community as well. It would be an opportunity to start working together to bring about a new government. He is trying to decide what to do. Please write him a note giving him your thoughts and feelings and saying what you think he should do.
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