Some of the goals are part of worldwide Radical campaigns; others are "specific" applications of those ideas which are common to Radicals elsewhere.

1. BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. As we have already reported, Prague's Radical activists engaged in the campaign for the International Tribunal, gaining the signatures of a number of well-known Czech politicians, writers etc., plus those of important non-Czech personalities like the Viennese fighter against Nazi criminals, Simon Wiesenthal, the American poet Allen Ginsberg, and the Bosnian intellectual leader Raymond Rehnicer. Measured by the size of the staff in Prague (3 people, only 1 of whom works full-time) this was a major success.

However, the Bosnian tragedy continues and much more should have been done. We believe that it is necessary to discredit the "peacemaking" efforts of Lord Owen's conference, which only gives victory to Serb fascism and leads to further ethnic cleansing. We also fully support the idea which was presented in June by Paolo Pietrosanti and formulated again in December by Allen Ginsberg at his Prague press conference - the idea of a "mass-media blitzkrieg" on the territory of former Yugoslavia, which would require that European countries re-evaluate their view of "rights" and give precedence to the right of human beings (the right not to be killed, raped and mutilated) over the right of Mr.Milosevic to dominate the mass-media in his own country. This proposal was described in detail in a recent report sent to s.agora.

Finally, the undersigned individuals believe that instead of a partition of Bosnia, the whole territory should be put under U.N. mandate and that this mandate should be enforced, if the aforementioned strategy fails, by military means. We believe that anything is better than to tolerate the continuation of genocide.

2. CIVIL RIGHTS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. The most acute problem in the region, according to our view, is one which is arising now on the territory of former Czechoslovakia: tens of thousands of Gypsies who were born in the Czech Republic are becoming "non-citizens" just because their parents came from Slovakia. The situation has so far brought only feeble protests from European institutions. If there is any institution which has almost a moral duty to respond to this, it is the Radical Party with all its parliamentarians (including those in the European Parliament). AGORA has been repeatedly informed about the activities of the Prague Radicals attempting to change the law, and the support the Radical proposal for an amendment received from some deputies in the Czech Parliament. Still, we have not succeeded in changing the law, and now only international pressure can do it, before a Yugoslav-style solution evolves. The time to act is now. We have sent to our friends in the Radical Party a proposal

for an appeal to the Czech Parliament and we truly expect that they will react in the Radical tradition - if the existence of a transnational party has any meaning at all.

3. ENVIRONMENT. In this sphere the Prague activists have done relatively little, but they intend to get more engaged. Also, support from abroad - from our distinguished parliamentarians, many of whom are Greens - has been conspicously lacking, especially concerning the problem of the mammoth nuclear plant in Temelín, which is now under construction in the south of the Czech Republic. Despite having sent numerous articles about the case to AGORA and having presented the theme at the Radical Party Congress with full urgency, despite having engaged an important ex-minister for environment in our activities concentrating on gaining support from Rome, we have not received virtually any reply. It is hard to express in words how disappointing this has been for us.

4. LAW. We have engaged in various activities concerning the shortcomings of the Czech legal system - i.e., laws we believe to be unfair (like the aforementioned Citizenship Law) or those which are correct but are not enforced - like the law concerning the promotion of racial hatred, which has not been used, although dozens of racially motivated pogroms occurred, in which many people (mostly Gypsies and foreigners) were injured and 12 of them died. In December, we have been very active on the case of David Stotler, an American teacher falsely accused of a sexual crime; the presumption of innocence was not taken into account in his case, he was repeatedly beaten in prison and the police violated every possible law to get him convicted. The case is receiving front-page coverage in Czech newspapers almost every day; it was mainly due to our activities that Stotler was released from prison on Dec.21. He has since joined the Radical Party. His case has prompted us to attempt a thorough re-evaluation of tho

se "Communist-style" laws in the Czech system which still enable the police and other authorities to act without regard to individual rights. Besides, we plan to create an initiative to change the current law on alternative service for conscientious objectors, which is grossly unfair in its current form.

5. We are ready, of course, to continue work on long-term objectives - i.e., antiprohibitionism, abolition of the death penalty worldwide etc., following the initiatives from Rome and other centers.

Jan Ja ab, Olga Çechurová, Petr Horák