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Article: Focus - War in the Balkans: What signal does this send? If Nato's bombing of the Serbian television station was intended as a message to the Yugoslav people, it is one that they are finding hard to decipher. John Simpson reports from Belgrade
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- April 25, 1999
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LESS than 12 hours after the attack that destroyed his television
station, Zarko was back at work, satelliting our report about the
attack to London. "I was lucky," he said, with the lopsided grin he
seems to show only when he is under great strain. "My shift ended at
11 on Thursday night."
I had seen what had happened to the control room where he used to
work. If his shift had ended at 4am, as it normally did, it would
have been his body in the mass of rubble and wiring on the floor
instead of somebody else's. But Zarko lived to broadcast another
day. Together with the rest of Serbian Television, he had shifted
his entire operation to the other side of Belgrade.
On the television set in the ...