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From: Indira Kajosevic 
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Zasto i zasto i zasto?  Odgovora nikad nece biti.  Ja tugujem za one koji

su izgubili djetinsvo i nevinost u ovom krvoprolicu, za one koji su izgubili

zivote bez razloga. Kako moze ljudsko bice najedanput postati zivotinja?

Sarajevo, ti si tuga u mom srcu za sve sto je moglo biti ali je bilo zaklano.

Pitam se da li su ikad vjerovali sto su nas ucili u skoli: bratstvo, jedinstvo.

Ili je to uvijek bila velika laz? Nisam vise dijete koje iz daljine gleda kako

njena zemlja umire.  Sada sam skoro punoljetna, ali jos uvijek ne
razumjem:

Zasto?

Draga, ti koja si tek punoljetna,
i ja se isto tako stalno pitam: zasto? nazalost mislim da na to pitanje nama
koji to pitamo nikada niko nece zadovoljavajuci odgovori dati. Nema
opravdanja za toliko  unistenih i razrusenih zivote. Mozda nam jedino
prestaje da se nadamo da ce se jednom za svagda okoncati.

indira
p.s. pisi.







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From: Ivo Skoric 
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From: "Ivo Skoric" 

Ivo Skoric **************************** iskoric@igc.apc.org

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-------------- Enclosure number 1 ----------------
I hope somebody may find this offensive.

Browsing through the program of this year's Human Rights
Watch International Film Festival one finds a lot of movies
about the world's dispossessed, yet mostly done by idler
western film makers (particularly the U.S. and the U.K.: 17 of
43 productions presented).

This is exactly that noble quirk among the rich: some of them
cruelly exploit people in those countries as a source of cheap
labor and , occasionally, cannon-fodder, while some of them
then write about that cruel exploitation with an unparalleled
compassion (and get paid for it by the surplus money earned
by the primal plunder).  The system works fine, as the self-congratulatory gala on Monday showed: $ 150 a ticket
brought in a lot of celebrities showing off their new summer
wardrobe, raising funds to pay people to produce moaning
reports over conditions in countries which inhumane labor
conditions helped produce fabric for those clothes.  It is a
perfectly closed circle.  Wouldn't Kafka laugh?

This is all a circus, isn't it? I feel like we are all to them like
lions and Christians in some huge Colosseum, and some of
them cheer for the lions, and some of them cheer for the
Christians: but none of us would ever sit in the bleachers.  We
are participants - they gently took the noble role of being
witnesses.  To our slaughter.

If I address this article to any one of them - he or she would
feel terribly insulted, after "all the good" she/he has done for
our people.  And if I write this in the global tone, it will be
quickly read and quicklier forgotten.  In the good new age
spirit things contrarian are simply declared not present; why
should the rich feel bad?

Yet, the fact is that there are many films done for this festival
about Bosnia, Bosnians and things Bosnian and former
Yugoslavian, but none was done, produced or distributed by a
Bosnian (or for that matter a Croat or a Serb).  They are all
done by the well endowed westerners in a search for their
inner child.  They "explore interior landscape" of our mind,
they "examine" ethnic cleansing anatomically, like a virulent
bacteria specimen under a microscope, they are here to
"compel viewers to embrace a sense of universal humanity":
exploiting the inhumane tragedy that happened to some,
somewhere far away, a ghostlike creatures, perhaps. 

A token Slavic last name in the program, don't be mistaken, is
also a (second generation) American citizen.

At one point the whole Roman Empire became Christian.  But
there were no Christians around any more to witness.  They
were all devoured.  Just some Romans feeling the famous
"liberal guilt" tore down their expensive robes and pretended
to be Christians - cheating hordes of immigrating barbarians
with that new faith of politically correct bullshiting.

(And what happened to the  blonde animals'?  They were caged
in maximum security cages for life or herded in inner city
jungles through which tourist-full of buses dash on their
safari excursions.)

ivo