May. It will be life-threatening next January. The people are calm Before nightfall, we visited a bombed school. A huge crater devoured what was once the schoolyard. All the windows were gone and the walls were charred. Yet, after two months of bombing, we found people surprisingly calm even when night falls and the air-raid sirens wail.
People move quietly to the shelters.
The first day in Belgrade we spent touring bombed rubble, from small houses on side streets to the huge thermal plant that provided heat and hot water to all New Belgrade, a modern development of 80,000 new apartments. Now its 350,000 people are without heat or hot water. The neonatal hospital in downtown Belgrade was a step into a seemingly secure world. Premature and critically ill newborns from all over Yugoslavia are sent here. Some 180 tiny, fragile infants cling to life in incubators and on mechanical ventilators.