The Left Alternative Association (BAL) organized a forum during the bombing campaign of NATO against Yugoslavia in Spring 1999. Some well-known personalities of Hungarian public life, like sociologist Erzsebet Szalai, historians Ivan Harsanyi, Tibor Hajdu and Tamas Krausz, political economist Nicholas Bardos-Feltoronyi, literary historian Daniel Jakocs, film criticist Ivan Forgoes, and an unnamed Kurdish participant presented their views on the tragic events.