ABSTRACT
24 March 1999: NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana gives the order for the bombing campaign against the Milosevic regime to begin. Within four hours, the Yugoslav Telecommunications Ministry suspends the transmissions of Belgrade independent radio station B92, confiscating its equipment. Editor-in-Chief Veran Matic is taken into custody. He is detained for eight hours, and forbidden contact with his family or lawyers. Matic is later released without being charged, accused, or even questioned. It is the third time in its ten-year history that B92 has been banned. But the station switches to the Net and its broadcasts are bounced back over Eastern Europe by satellite, bringing its message to much wider attention than if they'd been left alone. The Serbian authorities, says Veran Matic, simply didn't understand the possibilities of the Internet.
