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Can you help?

This came up in my postbox this week from the good people at the Committee for Peace in the Balkans:

Dear friends,

Attached is e-mail from Michele Collon, a journalist that I met in Belgrade and who is very dedicated to our cause. I know that Michele has made a powerful presentation of the dramatic conditions in Kosovo and we should help him by supporting his efforts. Michele has already suggested ways as to how he should be helped, therefore LET AS UNITE AND HELP HIM.

Regards,
Stan

----- Original Message -----
From: Michel Collon
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 3:08 PM
Subject: TV documentary on Kosovo: can you help?


Dear friends,

I just come back from Kosovo where I shooted images for a TV documentary (50 minutes or more) about the situation of Serbs and other minorities in Kosovo today. I was helped by very good and courageous profesionals there. We now have 450 minutes of very good interviews in Betacam.
This situation is dramatic and is not improving although there is now another government in Belgrade. On the contrary. Two weeks before, the representative of Belgrade was almost killed by a bomb. Many assistents of Rugova are also targets. Some Albanians I interviewed believe a civil war will occur in the next years. Between Albanians.
I interviewed many ordinary Serbs: old people beaten, expelled from villages or houses, doctors, nuns, journalists, teachers and children in the schools, theatre actors, families of kidnapped or murdered persons…
I also interviewed representative of other national minorities : Goranis, Roms, Moslims, Egyptians, Turks, Jewish. Expelled or living under terror. The situation in the ghettos is really terrible.
1200 Serbs were kidnapped and I received documents showing how KFOR (NATO) does not really investigate to find them neither the perpetrators.
I also interviewed a responsible of the civil Unmik administration whose opinions are very significant.

How can you help?
1. Do you know profesionals - producer and and mounter - who coule help me? We have no money but we believe it is our duty to communicate the truth all over the world about this Nato occupation.
2. Can you help to make translated versions in different languages? The interviews are in Serb (or Albanian and English), and will be translated to French)?
3. Can you help for the circulation of the film (I believe it would be good to present it for the second anniversay of the war)?

Please contact me. All suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance!

-- Michel Collon

Don't hate the media, be the media.

Michel's e-mail is michel.collon@skynet.be

It's nice to be noticed:

I also got this in response to my two articles on the British peace movement (I and II):

I read your two recent articles on the UK peace movement on antiwar.com with great interest.

I've been involved in the UK peace movement for the last couple of years, mainly over the Kosovo war.

I would very much like to help start something with a more right-wing perspective; I think there is a lot of untapped goodwill out there looking for a focus.

I too am not sure where to start, but I still thought it worthwhile to express my interest.

A big question

Another correspondant asked:

I read the second part of your article on the British Peace Movement. Do you think you could get Tories to agree to the demand: US out of NATO unless National Missile Defense is cancelled and depleted uranium no longer deployed?

Short answer, no.