From: nwmouton@eduserv2.rug.ac.be

Dear readers,

The VNSU is going to organise a manifestation for Kosovo. The aim is to put the focus on the Kosovo situation, the human rights, freedom of thoughts and the fact that a leader should listen to the people of a region and not only think about his own power ... We've already contacted Amnesty International, the League for the human rights and other organisations, they are very enthousiastic about the idea. The VNSU is an organisation in Belgium that wants to separate Flanders from Wallonie. Belgium was a historical error, two different kind of people have been put together into one country ... 40% of the people speaks French (Wallonie), 60% Dutch (Flanders). There's no problem of separating because the French and Dutch-speaking community live in different parts of Belgium. There is even a sort of language-border that separates the two parts, this language-border is one of the aspects of the Belgian laws. Because of the long years of language repression, the economical differences and the fact

that every suggestion (laws and others) has to be compromised so badly the system becomes very difficult and does no good to the democratic state. After reading this you can understand that we are very interested in your problem. So the VNSU (a flemish, democratic, progressive, anti-racist, republican, nationalistic student organisation trying to obtain independance by a non-violent way) is organising this manifestation in Ghent on wednesday the 23th. of Mars at 8 o'clock PM. The main cause for this letter is that we are trying to get in touch with the kossovo community here in Flanders. Maybe you could mail us the addresses of organisations here in Belgium we could contact to propose our plan, because we would like to welcome a great number of kossovo people that also want to walk after the slogans; RESPECT FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS, RESPECT FOR THE PEOPLE OF KOSOVO. Any suggestions for the manifestation, help, addresses of the kosovo community here in Belgium would be very welcome ...

Nick Mouton

P.S.: Could you be so kind to wait until tomorrow (12-02-99) to send a mail, because I only received the possibility to mail today, otherwise your mail would not recieve his destination, thanks