#PERIOD AFTER Jasmina Tesanovic - 17/05/1999- Belgrade


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May 17, 99
A baby of two I know keeps running around the house saying: I won't give up Kosovo, her father says, I wish this Kosovo crisis ends soon, this baby is impossible, she doesn't want to learn to speak, she watches TV all the time... Air raid: I am on the street, near a police station. We are all running, they jump into a jeep saying Hurry, I hurry... we are in the same story at this hour... Today in the park armed policemen were going after kids to take their feet off the benches, I was quarreling with them... At the municipality, we were waiting in crowds, in the hall, for our names to be shouted out: that is how we get our birth certificates nowadays... I realized after 5 minutes that the names shouted out were mostly Muslim names. I even thought one of them was mine and I put my hand and took another Jasmina's document until a much younger pregnant woman snatched it from my hand saying, it is me, it is me, I need it for my baby...I could have been her, but she couldn't be me, that's because I am a Serb and she is a Muslim...in a Serb state. Everybody is speaking about general mobilization due to happen on May 24th; there is slightly more panic and tension in the air, on the streets, I wonder what is going on in people's head: probably the same mess I am writing about, more or less articulated...My friend said: incredible amount of decent people in this country without any capability to organize themselves, work together, structure a party... Country without opposition, country without leaders but one, country of political idiots like me who will eventually die instead of overcoming shyness, ignorance, wall of privacy...
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