[Fwd: N'avons-nous rien a dire sur la guerre ?]

[Stefan Grund <s.grund _at__ gbpe.uni-frankfurt.de>]

Liebe Inetbiber,

aus der franzoesischen Bibliotheksliste biblio-fr anbei eine Mail der
Belgrader Nationalbibliothek (auf Englisch, keine Angst!) + einem kurzen
Kommentar dazu vom Moderateur der Liste.

Dennoch: Frohe Ostern!

Stefan Grund



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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:51:53 +0100
To: bibliofr _at__ info.unicaen.fr
From: Herve.Le_Crosnier _at__ info.unicaen.fr (Herve Le Crosnier)
Subject: N'avons-nous rien a dire sur la guerre ?

   On est loin dans cette prise de position de la langue de bois
        chauvine de la Bibliothhque nationale Serbe dans le message
        qui a iti envoyi sur toutes les listes de bibliothicaires
        (vous trouverez ce texte en fin de ce message). En criant au
        loup et annongant une destruction de la bibliothhque qui n'a
        pas lieu, ce message cherche ` cacher que la dernihre
destruction
        de livres fut la destruction de la Bibliothhque de Sarajevo
        par les armies serbes !!!

     
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From: "Vesna_Injac" <injac _at__ nbsbg.nbs.bg.ac.yu>
Subject: A MESSAGGE OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SERBIA - BELGRADE -
YUGOSLAVIA

A MESSAGGE OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SERBIA - BELGRADE - YUGOSLAVIA

DEAR COLLEAGUES,

WHILE WE ARE PREPARING TO CELEBRATE GREAT CULTURAL
JUBILEES - ANNIVERSARIES OF GOETHE, PUSHKIN, BALZAC,
AS WELL AS THE 650TH ANNIVERSARY OF TSAR DUSHAN'S CODE -
NATO HAS BEEN SENDING LETHAL BOMBS TO OUR COUNTRY FOR
SEVERAL DAYS. INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING. THERE HAS
BEEN MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL DESTRUCTION. APART FROM OTHER
THINGS, THE WRIITEN SPIRITUAL HERITAGE IN OUR LIBRARIES
IS SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED, WHERE THERE ARE MANUSCRIPTS
FROM THE 12TH AND THE FOLLOWING CENTURIES. WE ARE WORRIED,
BECAUSE WE HAVE TRAGIC EXPERIENCES. IN WORLD WAR I,
OCCUPATIONAL FORCES OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY BOMBED THE SERBIAN
NATIONAL LIBRARY AND ALMOST COMPLETELY DESTROYED IT. IN
WORLD WAR II, IT WAS BURNED TO THE GROUNDS, IN ORDER THAT
THE SPIRITUAL ROOTS OF THE SERBIAN PEOPLE BE DESTROYED, AND
ONLY BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT OUR PEOPLE DID NOT WANT TO
SUBMIT TO FORCE AND ACCEPT INJUSTICE. IN THE VERY NATIONAL
LIBRARY WERE BURNED MORE THAN 1.400 BOOKS AND CHARTERS, THE
COMPLETE COLLECTION OF OLD PRINTED BOOKS, AND MORE THAN
500.000 COPIES OF MORE RECENT PUBLICATIONS, OF THE 19TH AND
20TH CENTURIES, COLLECTIONS OF NEWSPAPERS, JOURNALS AND OTHER
LIBRARY MATERIAL.
OUR NATIONAL LIBRARY, WHICH WAS REBORN FROM THE ASHES AFTER
WORLD WAR II AND BECAME ONE OF THE BIGGEST AND MOST IMPORTANT
LIBRARIES IN THE BALKANS, AS WELL AS A PART OF THE EUROPEAN
AND WORLD HERITAGE, IS IMPERILLED FOR THE THIRD TIME IN THIS
CENTURY.
WE SEE THE ATTACK OF NATO FORCES ON OUR COUNTRY IN THE SAME
WAY OUR ANCESTORS SAW THE ATTACKS IN WORLD WAR I AND II, SINCE
THE AIMS OF THE AGGRESSOR ARE THE SAME, AND THE CONSEQUENCES
ARE ALWAYS IMMEASURABLY TRAGIC.
WE ARE AWAITING YOUR VOICE OF REASON, COURAGE AND DIGNITY, YOUR
VOICE AGAINST THE DESTRUCTION OF HUMAN LIVES AND OF MATERIAL AND
SPIRITUAL PROPERTY, YOUR VOICE AGAINST THE VIOLENCE THAT NATO
IS COMMITTING IN OUR COUNTRY TODAY, AND WHICH IT WILL COMMIT
IN OTHERS TOMORROW, BECAUSE THE APPETITE OF FORCE IS INSATIABLE.
WE WANT THAT OUR TIMES, AS WELL AS THE FUTURE, BE FILLED WITH
THE FUNDAMENTAL MEANING OF THE HUMAN EXISTENCE - THE PRESERVATION
AND DEVELOPMENT OF EVERLASTING CIVILIZATION AND CULTURAL VALUES.


                        NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SERBIA

BELGRADE
28 MARCH, 1999