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Serbian Gays Denounce NATO and Milosevic

By Rex Wockner
International News Report

Slobodan Milosevic

Yugoslavia's Campaign Against Homophobia (CAH) -- a project of the gay group Arcadia, the European Youth Association of Serbia and the Humanitarian Law Fund -- has denounced both the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic.

"[We are] disgusted at the attacks of NATO," the activists said in an English-language press release. "NATO has created a situation which only empowers Milosevic's communist-fascist regime and directly supports further continuation of his terror against both the Kosovo Albanians and every genuine, authentic ... opposition in the Republic of Serbia."

The group said that "the coordinators of the Campaign Against Homophobia are directly endangered by these attacks both by the NATO bombs and by the revenge of the local population, as well as of the police, who consider us to be the American 'agents' which, in the Republic of Serbia, means people who fight for democratization of the country.

"Because of the NATO attacks, every activity toward the democratization of the country had to come to a halt. Which is to say that bombs falling in the Federal Republic in Yugoslavia are not directed against the regime, but on the contrary, paradoxically, against its opponents.

"Our activities, due to the NATO attacks, are entirely stopped. While the bombing is in process it is impossible to fight against the regime of Milosevic and his wife or to advocate human rights of sexual minorities, or any other human rights.

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"We resolutely condemn the Serbian regime, the one indeed responsible for the current situation, which refuses to stop the war by signing the accord. We as well condemn NATO which with its attacks directly undermines our activities toward the democratization of the Republic of Serbia and endangers our lives."

The press release was signed by CAH's chief executive coordinator, Dejan Nebrigic (e-mail: gay2camp@ptt.yu; telephone: 011-381-13-515-077) and vice chief executive coordinator, Dusan Maljkovic (e-mail: camp@beotel.yu; telephone: 011-381-11-105- 277).