Deliverance

A woman from the group of Serbs from Istok, Kosovo, which have been protesting for weeks in Pionirski Park gave birth to a baby under President Milosevic's window. Naturally, she didn't deliver the baby on a park bench but in a hospital; however, journalists cannot resist strong symbolic images, therefore creating the impression that the baby's first scream must have, at least for a second, made Milosevic jump, bringing him out of his weighty contemplation of government business. These Serbs, Kosovo returnees, are complaining because they were kicked out of the apartments they had illegally occupied; in that sense they truly are Milosevic's victims. The thing is that they see their return as a heroic feat. Gazimestan-mythological logic is spouting from their mouths, since they view their return to the "holy land" as a saintly gesture; they are not native Serbs nor, God forbid, Albanians... they are something else and all banal rules of the game cannot be applied to them. Therefore, they are threatening to ask for asylum in foreign embassies if they are not allowed to return to those apartments. They believe that their naive threat of "renouncing their Serb origins" will induce someone's pity and that their non-existent rights, combined with their desperation, will transform into an overnight triumph, all due to the danger of dispersing their genetic potential throughout the world. Milosevic visited Kosovo while they remained in Belgrade. Their roads will not meet. The President himself is a Kosovo returnee; however, unlike the unfortunate people from Istok, no one will dupe him into taking up residence there. The baby was born, Milosevic had proclaimed that he would not cede an inch of territory, while the desperate people from the park, as far as I can understand, aren't demanding land but - apartments.