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1993-02-02
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To our Governments and to the Secretary-General of the United
Nations

The world must take action to bring the war in former Yugoslavia
to an end. Two and a half million people have been driven from
their homes in a program of "ethnic cleansing." Thousands of
civilians have been massacred. This winter, a far greater number
may die of starvation and exposure.
     We condemn the rulers of Serbia (and of other successor
states of former Yugoslavia to the extent that they condone such
policies) for the destruction of countless communities, for
ordering mass executions, for running detention camps where
people are tortured and wantonly killed, for resorting to rape
and unspeakable violence in pursuit of territorial gains.
     We must not acquiesce in this outbreak of barbarism. Well-
articulated principles of human rights have been widely
recognized by public opinion in the past two decades. They became
an effective instrument of policy in international relations. In
signing the Helsinki Accords, governments in Europe agreed to
circumscribe their sovereign rights in the name of human rights.
For the sake of the future -- for the sake of our own safety as
well as that of others -- we cannot now stand idly by while armed
gangs arrogate to themselves the freedom to violate these rights
in the name of religious or ethnic exclusivism.
     The war in Yugoslavia must be brought to an end, but in the
meantime safe havens must be created for refugees, delivery of
humanitarian aid to communities in need must be secured, and
borders must be effectively policed to deny paramilitary groups
ever more weapons.
     We support civic groups that oppose "ethnic cleansing" and
work for peace in former Yugoslavia. We support mayors who want
to keep different communities in their towns together. We support
students who have been occupying Belgrade University in protest
against the war and the policies of the Milosevic government. We
support groups of women who have organized peace demonstrations
against the forcible conscription of their husbands and sons.
However, the international community has its own direct
responsibility for bringing peace to the region.
     We appeal to governments to greatly increase their human and
financial commitments in carrying out this task. For the cost of
inaction, in human lives as well as in human values, will be
incomparably greater than the cost of assistance. If democracies
acquiesce in violations of human rights on such a massive scale
as this, they will undermine their ability to protect these
rights anywhere in the post-cold war world. And then, when, as
has happened many times before, an armed hoodlum kicks our own
doors ajar, there will be no one to lift a finger in our defense
or to raise a voice.
     Please join the list of signatories and send or fax your
name and profession or institutional affiliation to 

                 East and Central Europe Program
                 New School for Social Research
                         65 Fifth Avenue
                       New York, NY 10003
                        fax (212)229-5894

Timothy Garton Ash, Writer, GB
Ivo Banac, Professor of History, Yale University, USA
Stanislaw Baranczak, Poet, Professor, Harvard University, USA
Norberto Bobbio, Sociologist, Italy
Pierre Bourdieu, Sociologist, College de France, France
Martin Butora, Sociologist, Slovak Republic
Marek Edelman, Cardiologist, Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Poland
Peter Esterhazy, Writer, Hungary
Jonathan Fanton, President of the New School for Social Research, USA
Bronislaw Geremek, Historian, Poland
Anthony Giddens, Professor of Sociology, Cambridge University, GB
Pierre Hassner, Political Scientist, France
Stanley Hoffmann, Professor of European Studies, Harvard University, USA
Irving Howe, Editor, _Dissent_, USA
Ira Katznelson, Political Scientist, New School for Social Research, USA
Paul Kennedy, Professor of History, Yale University
Jamaica Kincaid, Writer, USA
Janos Kis, Philosopher, Hungary
Adam Michnik, Writer, Poland
Arthur Miller, Writer, USA
Heiner Mueller, Writer, Germany
Simon Schama, Historian, Harvard University
Jonathan Schell, Writer, USA
Volker Schloendorff, Film Director, Germany
Tzvetan Todorov, Professor of Literature, France
Tomas Venclova, Writer, USA

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          _The New York Review of Books_, February 11, 1993, p.8.
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                        begepelte: Borocz Jozsef )

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