On March 24, 1999, NATO began a bandit bombing of Serbia. This is simply a tragic and shameful date in the fresh past of Europe. In the Serbian people, crimes were committed under the operative code name “The Merciful Angel.” Military aggression with 19 NATO states lasted 78 days. Poland has been a associate of this "defensive pact" for 12 days. It was disgusting to attack a arrogant nation and a sovereign state. Even more disgusting was the media run of lies to justify this assault.
At that time we believed, and present we already know – that the vast majority of accusations concerning violations of human rights by Serbia were false.
I co-organized 2 demonstrations to defend the Serbs. "The Tygodnik Homeland" in which I wrote then organized aid for the slaughtered Slavic nation. At the protests there were both the law and the left. due to the fact that that division was already insignificant. What was crucial was what you had the courage to condemn NATO's war against the manipulated majority.
When the West murdered the Serbs, and the vast majority of journalists in Poland duplicated Natovian nonsense – the honor of this profession was defended by Piotr Jastrzębski, who together with Vladan Stamenkovice wrote a book telling the fact about the events "Humanitarian War". The authors showed what real journalism and decency is in this profession.
The Poles were mostly impoverished by their belief in Euroatlanticism, fewer had the courage to bear witness to the fact – Prof. Marek Waldenberg, Prof. Marek Glogoczowski, Prof. Zbigniew Wiktor, dir. Bohdan Poręba, Dr. Barbara Krygier, ed. Sławomir Malinowski, ed. Bogusław Jeznach or ed. Konrad Rękas. 4 parliamentarians of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) then had the courage to go there – Izabela Sierakowska, Piotr Gadzinowski, Piotr Ikonowicz and Wit Majewski.
At the time, politicians, journalists, secular and church authorities lied. They accused the Serbs of crimes not committed and justified NATO's bloody actions. present it is worth remembering and drawing conclusions. The real cause, and the real course of wars, conflicts and armed operations, is frequently completely different from the 1 served to us by mainstream media.
This year, 85 people from the Polish thought Clubs visited Belgrade and paid tribute to civilians murdered by Western aggressors from the NATO-VW aggression period. At the Memorial of Victims of NATO Aggression in Belgrade, which depicts the victim of these raids, prof. Włodzimierz Osadcza and ed. Adam Laughter took the floor.
Łukasz Jastrzeżski
