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As NATO's crushing air strikes commenced across Yugoslavia, the state of
emergency declared by President Slobodan Milosevic began to bite hard for
residents of the stricken country.
Even before the first missiles were deployed, Yugoslavia's most important
independent media entity, radio station B92 was closed. On the night of
24.3.99, Radio B92's Belgrade transmitter was confiscated by the Serbian
authorities. B92's editor-in-chief, Veran Matic, was arrested and held in
custody for over 8 hours.
In response to these extraordinary events, an international support group,
comprising writers, activists and media practitioners from across Europe
and around the world, has been founded to stage a campaign to help B92
continue to provide news updates about the situation in Yugoslavia as it
develops.
The campaign is centred in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, through the internet
service provider, XS4ALL and the cultural organisation, De Balie.
With the assistance of internet provider XS4ALL, B92 has broadcast its
radio programs on the internet since December 1996. These digital
broadcasts are picked up by the BBC World Service and retransmitted via
satellite. Through a network of local radio stations, the programs of B92
can be heard throughout Serbia. Despite repeated attempts by the
authorities to silence the station, this method has ensured that B92 has
been able to provide up-to-date news about developments within Yugoslavia
to many media entities across the country. The support of XS4ALL has
ensured that, in spite of Yugoslavia's repressive information laws, B92 has
been able remain operative.
Despite this support, the current crisis situation in Yugoslavia means that
the possibilities of B92 continuing its independent news service will be
limited even further. The recently founded support group intends to take
measures to distribute news by and about B92, from Amsterdam. For this
purpose a special website has been established: http://helpB92.xs4all.nl
B92 is the backbone of the independent news service in Yugoslavia. Without
immediate financial support this last source of independent news for the
inhabitants of this region is endangered. A fund raising campaign is being
started by the support group, with the objective of sending money and
equipment to B92 and other independent radio stations in Serbia and Kosovo.
There are four key ways that you can assist the group in its support of B92.
1) Link to our website:
By using the logo from the website and promote the spreading of this logo
in any way you can.
Also link to the B92 website:
2) Help us raise funds for B92 and other endangered independent news
services from Serbia and Kosovo. The special account number that has been
opened for donations is 7676.
International money orders are payable to:
Press Now
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen
10 1017 RR Amsterdam
the Netherlands
International bank transfers can be sent to:
Postbank Amsterdam
Swift address:
INGBNL2A Account number: 7676
in the name of: Press Now Kleine Gartmanplantsoen
10 1017 RR Amsterdam
the Netherlands
3) Distribute the press release about the fundraising campaign to your
local media.
4) Sign the guestbook on the website if you want to express your individual
support or, if you represent an organisation that wants to become part of
the support group, mail us more details about the organisation and nature
of the support offered, preferably accompanied by a small logo in
gif-format to include on our website.
The Help B92 Team is:
B92: http://www.b92.net/
De Balie: http://www.balie.nl/
De Digitale Stad: http://dds.nl/
Next 5 Minutes: http://www.n5m.org/
Press Now: http://www.dds.nl/~pressnow/
radioqualia (Australia): http://www.radioqualia.va.com.au/
De Waag (MONM): http://www.waag.org/
XS4ALL: http://www.xs4all.nl/
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