Day 20... wow

 On Friday I went with Milos to the Nikola Tesla Museaum. On the way back, quite near to his apartment, are the locations to these two pictures of "collateral damage". 

The story: On April 23, 1999, NATO bombed the RTS (Radio and Television Serbia) building. Allegedly a warning had been given to those inside but the management insisted everyone report for work. Milos walked by the building 15 minutes before the bombing and saw them all hard at work through the windows. Sixteen people died and survivors were trapped in the rubble for days. (see picture below curtsey of BBC). To add insult to injury (putting it lightly) there has been considerable debate as to whether the RTS building was after all a legitimate target. The families of the victims took their case to the European Court of Human Rights but the case

 was never actually heard because the ECHR declared it to be inadmissible. 

Carl Clausewitz famously stated, "War is a continuation of politics by other means"... We see this in the bombed out shell of the RTS building still standing after 10 years-- a testimony to the fact that the 1999 bombing is remains and untreated open wound. 

Yesterday Ayatollah Khamenei declared war on the protesters of last week's election. Even as I write this I believe there are 100s of Iranians who woke up today and are perhaps now gathering at the rally with their friends who will lie dead in the street before the day is through... 

politics by other means... 

This is the memorial to those killed in the NATO bombing of RTS. The large letters read "Why?"....

and I do not know the answer.