From: pnmideast@igc.apc.org
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:04 PDT
Subject: SUBOTICA PEACE CAMP MESSAGE
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Subject: SUBOTICA PEACE CAMP MESSAGE

/* Written  2:34 pm  Aug 17, 1992 by gn:jsax in cdp:yugo.antiwar */
/* ---------- "SUBOTICA PEACE CAMP MESSAGE" ---------- */
Cc: igc!hfrederick igc!josefina igc!pnmidea
Subject: SUBOTICA PEACE CAMP MESSAGE

                        AN OPEN LETTER TO
             SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, PRESIDENT OF SERBIA
               FRANJO TUDMAN, PRESIDENT OF CROATIA
      BOUTROS BOUTROS GHALI, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE U:N:
               THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL
                    AND THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL
               FROM THE MEMBERS OF THE PEACE CAMP
                 SUBOTICA, VOJVODINA, YUGOSLAVIA
                         14 AUGUST 1992

We come from many countries and continents, despite the
sanctions, to meet the people of Yugoslavia and to seek new ways
to peace.  We write to all of you to express our desire for an
end to all the fighting and ethnic persecutions and their results
which we have witnessed.

Almost all of us oppose military intervention as the solution to
the problems here.  Though a few of us feel that there is no
other way to stop the killing, the majority feels that
intervention only means more killing.  We are not unmoved by the
tragedies of this war for we have seen Vukovar.  We do not want
to see Vukovars everywhere in former Yugoslavia and, for this
reason, we call on you to seek other ways to peace.  Moreover, we
do not want the friends we have made here to die in senseless
bombings and other attacks on civilians.

The people of Vojvodina and Vukovar have often turned to us and
asked "what can you do to stop this war?"  We must reply that it
is not our problem to solve.  Peace must come from the peoples of
former Yugoslavia.  And you, as leaders of your respective
nationalities and as representatives of the international
community, must make it possible for the peoples of former
Yugoslavia to make that peace.  You must do it by allowing the
people of Croatia, Bosnia, and the new Yugoslavia to talk.

We have often met people who have spoken of their sense of having
lost many friends now living on the other side.  In this and not
in blind nationalistic stirrings we find the routes of peace.  A
great wall has fallen between the peoples of this region and you,
as leaders, must lift it so that the people may pass and make
peace with their friends.

We call upon you to seek peaceful alternatives to the war, to
help Croatia and Bosnia to rebuild, to help the refugees and
displaced people, and to help restore the friendly relations
which the people of Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia once enjoyed,
if not as one nation, then as three where truth, democracy, and
the dignity of all are respected.

The killing must stop.




Signatories include:

Thierry de Lannoy, Belgium; Varga Harzovits Vira'a, Italy; Oleg
V. Popov, Russia; Kosyta Csaba Janos, Romania; Dr. Peter Ihaza,
Nigeria; Katai Katalin, Hungary; Karsay Gabriella, Hungary; Andre
Northlight, Denmark; Cristina Ichimescu, Romania; Kis Csaba,
Romania; Trinivj Katalin, Romania; Bukova Erika, Romania; Brendan
Keaveney, Republic of Ireland; Magari Iloiko, Romania; Tim
Zoltan, Romania; Joel Gazis-Sax, USA; Koszta Zoltan Lazlo,
Romania; Marie-Pierre Seron, Belgium; Alain Parmentier, Belgium;
Fr. Bernard LaCombe, France; Rasheed Kualatatia, Sudan; Helen
Scwenken, Germany; Andrea Schmidt, Germany; Watanabe Tetsu,
Japan; Barabas Aron, Hungary.

The following camp participants departed before the drafting of
this document:

Chi Huang, USA; Isabel Fernandez Suerras, Spain; Alfredo Boix
Pastor, Spain; Joan Navarro,Spain; Nuno Jimenez Walter, Spain;
Felip Bens Carrion, Spain; two Germans from Dresden.

Xref: sparky soc.culture.yugoslavia:8081 soc.culture.greek:7698 soc.culture.europe:7473 eunet.politics:1072