The Electoral Promises

"Svetlost", the newspaper from Kragujevac ( central Serbia), has on November 21 of this year reminded the public of the electoral promises given by SPS (Serbian Socialist Party) on the eve of the elections in December 1990. Next to the facsimile of the last year's newspaper headlines - "The Peace is of Utmost Importance", "Keep the Peace" and "Serbia is Headed Toward Better Future" - some of which were printed in huge capital letters on the front page of "Politika", "Svetlost" reprinted the SPS political slogan from November 1990: "The Socialist Party is the right choice for those - who want to live in peace and not in national hatred and national conflicts; - who want a brighter tomorrow for their children, instead of uncertainty and the threat of a fratricidal war; - who want to live well on the fruits of their labor; - who in the freedom of the others find the condition for their own freedom; - who are for democratic dialogue and tolerance; - who expect their society to help them when they need it; - who are for the values of the progressive Europe, for joining the most progressive socialist forces;

The Kragujevac county SPS Board reacted by giving the following explanation: "The electoral message from last November was not a slogan, but a summery of our party's allegiances which we still hold . The war was imposed on us by the Croatian ustashi secessionists".

MIRKO JOVIC, the leader of the Party of Serbian National Renewal (extreme right wing), stated recently in an interview to "Monitor", Montenegrin weekly: "We should go easy on the Croatians, gradually, first Vukovar, then Dubrovnik. I'm all for the 'clearing operations'. I've seen handsome guys among them (although they are Croatian) who are laughing. They have never experienced a genocide and thus should be given the opportunity to see what it's like. I applaud the genocide of the Croatians! For this reason they should be given arms, the more the better. Their resistance would last longer and here we have the chance to get rid of them once and for all . Naturally, what's left of them should be placed under permanent forcible supervision".

Dr. RADOVAN SAMARDZIC, an academic and a professor, said in an interview to the Polish revue "Spotkania": "Dubrovnik is not in danger. It is a prostituted city, for American geriatric ladies, British gays, stupid French and German typists. The South-East Europe is already a colony of German typists, anyway... We don't need any allies, because the USA are corrupted, English are stupid, French are rightist and Russians are poor". (VREME, November 25 1991)

MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI, an Indian guru, has, through his Yugoslav Association for Transcendental Meditation, invited the people of Yugoslavia to take part in his project called "1000 Flyers for Peace". He has offered a solution to the Yugoslav crisis which would satisfy all the parties involved: "At the moment the accumulated collective stress has reached its climax, an explosion occurred in the form of war, which has already caused numerous casualties. By forming a permanent group of 1000 yogi flyers not only would peace be achieved, but there would be enormous spiritual and material prosperity too. The peace is what inevitably follows after the integration in the collective consciousness".