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The Online Journalism Review (www.OJR.org) reports as follows:
<P><I>Special Report: Beyond B92: 24 Online Sources of Kosovo News</I><I></I>
<P><I>Matt Welch, a former freelance journalist in the Yugoslav region,
provides</I>
<BR><I>a list of non-traditional sites providing timely news and information</I>
<BR><I>about the Kosovo conflict.</I><I></I>
<P><I>Editors Note: Radio B92 was officially sealed and closed today. The
Web</I>
<BR><I>site remains up.</I>
<BR>
<BR>Welch's annotated list of 24 sites is available at:
<P><A HREF="http://www.ojr.org/indexf.htm?/sections/features/99_stories/stories_kosovo_033099.htm">http://www.ojr.org/indexf.htm?/sections/features/99_stories/stories_kosovo_033099.htm</A>
<P>--Hank Leland
<BR>Service Employees International Union
<P>Chris Burford wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>The independent radio station in Belgrade B92 which
Doug reported about
<BR>earlier this week was closed down today when a court ordered a director
<BR>sympathetic to Milosevic to take over.
<P>Human rights, not just in Kosovo, but elsewhere will be futher undermined.
<P>Yesterday it was reported that 8 senior Yugoslav military officers have
<BR>been demoted or sacked.
<P>Do not forget that at times of atrocities and violations of human rights
<BR>one of the groups of hidden victims are the members of the military
who
<BR>refuse to obey orders that are against their conscience. They may be
shot.
<P>The Serbian nationalists have inherited the federal armed forces while
<BR>despising the principle of national equality that was essential for
the
<BR>former Yugoslavia.
<P>Accordingly Milosevic has been able to change the senior commander of
the
<BR>federal forces in Montenegro. This puts pressure on the democratically
<BR>elected president of Montenegro who has described the actions of the
<BR>federal government against the Kosovo Albanians as madness, and is
facing
<BR>daily demonstrations from Serb nationalists.
<P>I agree that the NATO action has in the short term made these events
more
<BR>likely, but imperialist motives may lead to appeasement as well as
to
<BR>aggression.
<P>Chris Burford
<P>London</BLOCKQUOTE>
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