Surdulica, Varvarin... Bloody Feast With No End In Sight

The Sanatorium in Surdulica at midnight, May 31: civilian rescue teams are clearing the rubble, worrying that the number of victims is very high.  The Serbian Ministry for Labor, Union and Social Issues announced that the 20 were killed in the Retirement Home in Surdulica.  This is the second tragedy in this city in the past month.  On March 28, while targeting an army barracks in this small town of poor, thrifty, hardworking people, NATO dropped a bomb on a shelter in the house of a man who spent his life working abroad to save money to build a house in his hometown where he returned pass his old age: death toll   25 civilians.  On May 31 our reporter in Surdulica observed that in the bombed building the ceiling and the floor became one.  The diary of a twenty-year-old woman, Milena Malobabic, was discovered in the rubble, in which she wrote about her young man Dejan.  Surrounded by elderly women, Milena lived in the retirement home with here mother and two brothers.  They were refugees from the infamous military operation entitled "Storm" which took place in Croatia in 1995.  Dejan Milenkovic, who was wounded in the leg, spoke how after the explosion he flew several meters out of the bed, how he fell into the corner of the room, and how he could only see dust and smoke...

This time NATO did not admit its mistake: Spokesman Shea claimed that "a legitimate military target" had been hit in Surdulica.  That same day the Beta Agency reported that in only 40 hours of NATO attacks on the entire territory of Serbia there had been at least 37 dead and around 100 wounded.

In Varvarin, on May 29 at about 1:35 p.m., in an attack on the bridge over the Morava River, at least 11 people were killed, while around 40 were wounded.  Six persons are accounted for as missing, while teams in boats have been searching the bottom of the Morava River.  Spokesman Shea announced that NATO "still has no details about civilian victims," that this was "designated a legitimate military target" which had been hit with great precision, that the wester military alliance pilots are taking all precautionary measures in order to avoid victims, that "that never before in the history of mankind such a great number of people were working so hard to avoid reduce to the minimum all risks to civilians," that "by comparison with other conflicts in history this represents a significant step forward," and how "a great number of missions had been recalled because they could have represented risks to civilians."  The same Jamie Shea also said: "We undertake equal precautionary measures both at noon and at night."  One young woman who received many rewards in mathematics competitions, withdrew to the peaceful town of Varvarin in order to escape the constant bombing in Belgrade.  She was killed at noon.

Sky Looking Like a Net

Ten people were killed and over 20 seriously injured in the NATO attack on Novi Pazar on May 31 when a residential building was directly hit.  Of the 10 citizens who lost their life, five of them were killed in a butcher's shop in the same street...  20 projectiles were dropped on Novi Pazar that day.

In its repot RTS claimed that the "Jedinstvo" media company was also among the targets that day, a company whose local publishing house, and television and radio stations are located near a children's hospital and a bus station...  Among those killed is two-year-old Marko Simic, and at least another ten citizens of this town, a television station from Kraljevo reported.  Beside the two- year-old boy, those killed included his father Vladan Simic, then Zvezdan Jojic, Dragan Simovic, Miodrag Nikic, Djorjde Pantovic, Golub Ratkovic and Dragomirka Bijorac...

"There is no real war here: one side is doing the killing, and the other is being killed," stated Vuk Draskovic, leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO), the next day, noting that a immediate session of the Security Council needs to be held in which crimes against a people need to be put an end to.  Draskovic demanded that the G8 principles be adopted immediately by the Serbian side because this "murdering of the Yugoslavia has not lasted just 70 days but 70 years," because "so many bombs and so much other instruments of death have been dropped on the country that every day is putting the country back by at least one year."

War, our daily awful reality, comes to us in the guise of tragic news, in the guise of the thunder of airplanes in the sky, in the guise of explosions and sirens from which we hurriedly seek shelter.  As well as in the guise of the deaths of the innocent.  And though various outrages.  The priest in the Church of St. Peter and Paul in the village of B. says that the Wrath of God is catching up with this people, but then goes on to sow the seed of spite against the enemy, instead of humbling himself and praying to God.
In its crime stories, just like in works of literature and in film, the war includes speculation in death.  A woman is being judged in the court in Smederevo for dealing in coffins.
Our correspondent from Valjevo reports that the Martial Court of the Division in Drina released a reservist by the name of D., with a Serbian last name Sindjelic, from an indictment that he committed a criminal act of diminishing combat moral in a state of war, for which the sentence ranges from 5 to 20 years.  According to the indictment, Sindjelic stated in front of soldiers that "NATO forces cannot be stopped which is why it is senseless to fight in a military unit, that we are being attacked by 19 of the most powerful countries and that they will walk into Serbia, and that we are waging battle against them in vain."  The Court concluded that Sindjelic voiced his own personal view without any intention of inciting unrest among other soldiers, that this act was not committed during battle or shortly before battle.  Sindjelic was sentenced to nine months in prison for leaving his unit at his own initiative and for petty theft.  On Friday evening, when he was asked whether anything new happened, the member of the highest party forum stated "on Monday everything should end, we need only discuss a few things..."  On Saturday at the opening of the press center of the Drina Division, one general concluded his speech with information that he believes "that the enemy's pathology is entering is final phase   metastases can be observed everywhere."  On Sunday in the afternoon the sky virtually looked like a net.  NATO airplanes made shapes in the sky, leaving white traces behind them.  There were no attacks.  On Monday, Valjevo celebrated its day of the Trinity.  The President of the Community symbolically broke a loaf of bread.  A service was given in the church, a litany stood in the portal, and a saint's day feast was given at a restaurant.

A civilian called upon a highly ranked officer for a drink, asking him whether he'd prefer brandy or beer...  The latter refused, not being able to drink with anyone he did not know   another time...  The civilians kept insisting and the officer finally had to accept.  On Tuesday evening, te Tanjug Agency reported that the film maker from Valjevo, Zoran Djorjdevic, got a Golden Knight Award for directing at the VIII international film festival   "Bottoms up!"  Lady Zora, in a bomb shelter near the landmark known as the "Pilot", bought drinks for everyone   two rounds.  A film maker and our reporter went together to the hills around Pozega, each doing his job, when the hero of Bozidar Jovicevic's film showed up, a man who during his life built a mausoleum with a red star atop the dome.  The saluted just like Boza: "Long live Serbia, we are invincible!"

Noise Of A Desired Future

Over the weekend they showed us that they are capable of turning off the electricity switch on us with that NATO finger weighing five megatons.  After electrical distribution centers were destroyed in Lestani and Bezanija, a city with a population of two million was practically paralyzed.  Water stopped coming out of taps in the sweltering summer heat.  Other things staggered along somehow.  On Wednesday, June 2, the editorial office of VREME dispersed around the city in search of sections of town where there was electricity, sticking to the actors' principle that the show must go on.  This journalists managed to find electrical shelter in the quaint little street called Sokolska.  In no. 6 one child was practicing solfeggio, in front of no. 14 little girls were playing hopscotch, while somewhere around no. 18 construction workers were making intense noise that sounded like the noise of a desired future: "Do as I tell you.  I don't need any flack from you...  Just hold onto the board...  Bang, bang... whizzz....  You got to keep quiet while he's working, its done in seconds, in centimeters... hold the level... no problems... keep the level... take it easy Mile... why didn't you put away that bottle... can't you see it's air alert - aint that so Mile?"  In the apartment we are working in there is a drawing made by little Mina, a sweet little girl to whom we owe at least a chocolate, with a multicolored horse prancing over green hills, beneath the words "What a beautiful day."

In Kragujevac there is a young girl with blue eyes, jet black hair, with little dots on her cheeks; she's saying farewell to someone and sobbing, and then in passing with a velvety voice she greets her schoolmate, saying with sorrow that she's going to the seacoast for three months to work, while he schoolmate says that he's going to the army, trying to force a smile, while she breaths a deep sigh.  In New Belgrade, the whole high-rise building gave up its daily activities only to search for a paraquet which flew away from one of the neighbors apartments: they are looking for him in balconies, on the roof, in the trees, on TV antennas.  The residents of Leskovac dubbed the bombing alert sirens "Giselle", "Mirelle" and "Too-late- to-tell" (the last one comes after a bomb has fallen, tardy like a certain number of our public officials).  If the war continues at least one building in Belgrade will suffer from alcoholic's liver.  Every night they look at the stars and shout   there he is, then they imagine capturing the pilot, roasting him on a spit with apple in mouth, before he gets sent back to Clinton.  One of the residents says in the dark: "Where am I?", then "How did I get here?"  Others ask a neighbor who has a battery powered radio: "Has Chernobil arrived yet?"

They are thinking of the Russian negotiator Chernomirdin whose arrival in Belgrade is guessed at with conflicting news at five minute intervals.  His arrival was conjectured about in the same way the entire previous week, when the principal issue for several days was whether the Hague indictment would undermine the negotiating process.  Principal Prosecutor Louise Arbour announced on May 27 that the International Criminal Court for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia indicted the President of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, on May 27, along with the Serbian President Milan Milutinovic, Vice-President of Federal Government Nikola Sainovic, Chief of the Supreme Headquarters of the Yugoslav Army Dragoljub Ojdanic and Vlajko Sojiljkovic, Serbian Minister of Internal Affairs, and that a warrant for their arrest has been issued.  As the Beta Agency reports, Louise Arbour announced that they are criminally responsible for the deportation of 740,000 Albanians from Kosovo, for the exile and murder of 340 people who have been identified thus far.  The indictment which was reprinted in the Vijesti magazine of Podgorica, along with a very long political introduction with begins with the description of political events since 1987 to today, Yugoslav officials according to rank are accused of banishing Albanians.  The indictment asserts that policemen, soldiers and army superiors used extensive frisking methods, threats and aggressive actions against the Albanians of Kosovo in order to strip them of money and other valuables, and that FRY border authorities systematically appropriated private vehicles and other belongings from Albanians of Kosovo who were being deported from the region.  It is also claimed in the indictment that "throughout Kosovo, FRY and Serbian forces banished, insulted and degraded Albanians from Kosovo, civilians, maltreating them both physically and verbally.  It is claimed that policemen, soldiers and military officers constantly insulted the Albanians of Kosovo, insulting them because of their race, degrading them, beating them up and using other forms of physical maltreatment because they were of a different race, religious and political persuasion, and that they stripped them of their documents.  It is claimed that there was mass banishment and deportation from Djakovica, Pristina, the suburbs of Gnjilane ("the city of Prilepnica"), Kosovska Mitrovica, the neighborhood of Orahovac, etc.  It is claimed that there were mass liquidations in Racaak, the villages of Velika Krusa and Mala Krusa, etc.  It is claimed that on March 27, 1999, Serbian and FRY forces attacked the village of Izbica (Community of Srbica), that several thousand Albanians villagers hid in the field behind the village, that on March 28, or during that day, in 1999, FRY and Serbian forces besieged them, and that after policemen and soldiers took things of value, that men were separated from the women and children, and that about 130 of them were killed at that point.  The entire media war between NATO and Yugoslavia was waged around the massacre in the village of Izbica   there was talk about it in the middle of April, when state media negated that there were any mass graves in that village which were shown on satellite footage.
After the issuing of the indictment, Goran Matic, Minister without a portfolio in the Government of Yugoslavia, denied for a second time reports by the American TV network CNN "regarding the massacre in Izbica" and regarding mass graves in that village.  Journalists were shown slides with footage broadcast by CNN, with differences observed in those slides, while Matic drew attention to different descriptions of the locations, to the differing slope of the location, to the difference in the location of houses and the vegetation in the area in which the slides were supposedly taken.

Otherwise, Matic stated that the issuing of indictments against the highest Yugoslav officials is "a mere propaganda ploy which has as its objective to postpone a political solution and diplomatic efforts," that "the Hague Tribunal is the private political Tribunal of Madeline Albright, James Rubin and Wesley Clark intended for all those who do not think the same way they do," that the issuing of indictments against the highest Yugoslav officials is a propaganda ploy whose objective to postpone a political solution and "to create a curtain" behind which the NATO aggression against the FRY will continue...  "If they are unable to kill them when they target their residence, they can at least demand their ousting from the international community in those countries which they control through the NATO pact," stated Matic.  When asked whether there is any official reaction to the issuing of the indictments, Matic answered: "Why would we at all react to a private tribunal?"  "We accept the authority of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, but that Court is not acknowledged by the US..."

Political Planting

Political parties in Serbia reacted negatively to those indictments as political planting.  The pivot of these reactions consists of the observation that in using this method the aggressor is trying to judge a people over which he is perpetrating a crime.  The Spokesman of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Ivica Dacic, stated that the issuing of the indictment against the FRY President Slobodan Milosevic by the Hague Tribunal "is directly in the service of the genocide being perpetrated against the Serbian people and their state."  "This show by the NATO criminals entirely figures their monstrousness and hypocrisy, so that the fact is masked that this alliance is executing genocide," stated Dacic at a press conference.  He said that this is "on in a list of attempts at hijacking the peace process, as well as a way of satanizing an entire people and of stepping up the military intervention."  The SPS Spokesman stated that the Hague Tribunal "has no authority over the FRY" and that the issuing of an indictment against the FRY President is "a clear sort of abuse of the court and that Louise Arbour ought to be added to the list of those who committed war crimes in Yugoslavia;" that she is "a yes man" answering to those are bombing Yugoslavia and perpetrating genocide in it," adding that "the whole world is accusing NATO on a daily basis of crimes against the FRY."  He also said that this indictment has been issued against an entire people and the whole freedom loving world, but that "this time once again only the aggressors and the criminals will end up being judged, perhaps even in the Hague."  Dacic posed the question "how is it possible to accuse of crimes those people who are merely defending their country," adding that under such conditions the Hague Tribunal would have its work cut out for itself because it would need to issue indictments against all 10 million people who are defending Yugoslavia.  According to him, NATO "has executed the most atrocious ethnic cleansing of Kosovo, demonstrating in this way that it needs the territory of Kosovo, but not its people."  When asked whether the SPS and its President Slobodan Milosevic might meet with the same fate as the fate of the Serbian Democratic Party and its President Radovan Karadzic, Dacic answered that the SPS always shared the fate of its people and its state.  "SPS did everything in order for peace to be established, and for the country to be defended from aggression.  And there is the great difference between these two parties," Dacic answered.

The President of the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO), Vuk Draskovic, noted that the indictment represents "political provocation and pressuring" and expressed the hope that President Milosevic will not only ignore those provocations, but that "he will be even more decisive in finding a peaceful solution to the Kosovo drama, in accordance with UN General Principles and the principles adopted by the Group of seven most developed countries and Russia," and "in the interest of our people, our state and stability in the entire region."

The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) characterized the issuing of the indictment as "a political move" whose objective is "to cut at the root all negotiating initiatives."  "It would be worth finding out how Slobodan Milosevic has been so suddenly transformed 'from the Dayton factor of peace and stability in the Balkans' into 'an exceedingly skillful and tough negotiator'   into someone indicted by the Hague Tribunal when in the ten years that he has occupied leading positions in Serbia and the FRY he did not change even minutely his methods of governing," it is noted in the DSS press release.

The President of the Serbian Radical Party and Vice- President of the Serbian Government, Vojislav Seselj, by indicting the FRY President Slobodan Milosevic "America is attempting to prevent his participation in he negotiating process...  In this way America is attempting to impede negotiations and to hinder all Russian initiatives;" that this tribunal is "a historical and political joke, the mere instrument of American policies;" that "the Hague Tribunal is a political and not a legal institution which merely serves to fulfill the political needs of the USA;" and that "Clinton, Blair, Chirac and other western leaders who murdered our children, destroyed our cities and drove Albanians out of Kosovo" are the first in line for being judged by this Tribunal.

The President of the Civilian Alliance of Serbia (GSS), Goran Svilanovic, noted that the announcement by the International Court in the Hague of issuing an indictment against the President of FR Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, will not aid in the negotiating process.  Svilanovic stated at a press conference that he does not believe "that Milosevic will ever go to the Hague," noting that the Tribunal has a very questionable reputation among "the peoples living on the territories of the former Yugoslavia."  He expressed his conviction that the responsibility of individual parties for the war in the FRY will be established in the elections which, according to his opinion, should be held "soon after the end of the war."  According to him, the extent of the destruction of the infrastructure of  Yugoslavia is "enormous" so that the FRY "will have full right to demand damages from countries which participated in the bombing after the end of the war."  He also criticized the international community for politically isolating the FRY from the international community, assessing that "aid for democratizing Serbia and Montenegro includes the lifting of sanctions, as well as the return of Yugoslavia into all international organizations."  In this context, the GSS Leader sharply criticized Yugoslav authorities for going after all those who hold different political views and who "appeal for the war to end as soon as possible."

Kosta Cavoski, Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Belgrade, stated that the principal purpose of the indictment against the FRY President, Slobodan Milosevic, "is to rule him out of the negotiations."

Ferment in Montenegro

Both the Serbian and the Yugoslav authorities came out with similar announcements.  The Yugoslav Government assessed that the issuing of this indictment is "a shameful act and that height of hypocrisy."  Every statement issued indicates that "the indictment has been issued by war criminals, those same ones who are bombing our country and murdering our people on a daily basis, against those who are defending the freedom, honor and dignity of our country."  The Federal Government "assesses with indignation that what is at issue is yet another manipulation on the part of the NATO aggressors in their relation with the FRY, and yet one more proof that the Hague Tribunal is not any kind of institution of law and justice, but a mere instrument for executing orders issued in Washington and Bruxelles;" that "militarist circles are trying to stop further erosion of the support for the aggression" and are trying "to eschew widespread demands by the entire world for an immediate stop to the senseless NATO aggression, the massacre of civilians and the suffering and constant;" "that this is an attempt to proclaim the victims as the guilty, to shroud the responsibility of NATO leaders for the genocide perpetrated over the peoples of our country."  "Instead of those who are defending their people and country, those who issued orders for the execution of unprecedented crimes against the citizens of FRY, along with those who executed those crimes, people like Xavier Solana, Wesley Clark and their patrons from Washington, London   William Jefferson, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair   such people should find themselves in the prisoners docks."  In the Yugoslav Government's press release, the above are characterized as "cowards and officers without honor, and politicians without morals or human scruples who murder women and children, who kill the sick in hospitals and babies in maternity wards on a daily basis."

Somehow at the same time that the Serbian public was entertained by the Hague Tribunal indictment, the Montenegrin Parliament began a several-day-long discussion of two contrary resolutions tabled by the ruling Coalition "For a Better Life" and the Socialist People's Party (SNP).  In the proposal for the resolution to the Government of Montenegro, the ruling Coalition calls upon the public, and especially the Yugoslav Army, to contribute through cooperation and joint activity to the implementation of the objectives of the new, adopted resolution on peace in Montenegro.  According to the proposal submitted by the Coalition "For a Better Life", the Montenegrin Parliament should condemn the use of force in resolving the Kosovo problem and should express regret because of the enormous number of victims and the extent of destruction.  It is demanded that all military activity and attempts at solving the problem through force stop immediately, as well as that without further postponement the peace process be initiated immediately and in cooperation with the international community conditions be created for the return of peace to Kosovo.  The Parliament is advised to adopt the G8 principles as a basis for adopting the UN resolution and for the return of peace and security to Kosovo and the region.  It is suggested that the Parliament should support the diplomatic activities of the President of Montengro, Milo Djukanovic, and the activities of the highest officials in the Republic, and to call them to do everything with the objective of stopping NATO attacks and all other violence.  The ruling Coalition advises the Parliament to conclude that the adoption of a pact for stability in Southeastern Europe is necessary for stabilization and development in the region, so that its future could be based on peace, democracy and economic prosperity.

In the Resolution submitted by Bulatovic's SNP, it is demanded that Parliament should condemn the NATO aggression against FRY, and that the NATO aggression on our country stop immediately; that Parliament should observe that the Government of Montenegro and other officials, in accordance with the Constitution, should contribute to the defense of the country and the operations of the Yugoslav Army, and should assert that the Yugoslav Army is the only armed force entitled to carry weapons, organize battles, and command all military activity.  A demand is made for the condemnation of all crimes against humanity and war crimes which were committed during the NATO aggression against FRY, and there is special emphasis on establishing responsibility before the International Law Tribunal in the Hague for crimes committed by political and military leaders of NATO and its member countries.

According to reports by the Beta Agency, Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and SNP members of parliament spent the smallest amount of time considering the proposed resolutions during their statements, and instead spent time accusing each other.  SNP MP's unanimously accused the Government of Montenegro of "obstructing the defense of the country, of persistent refusal to condemn the aggression against the FRY," and especially criticized the President of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic and his international activities, assessing that "he is adhering to a policy of submission."  SNP Member of Parliament, Emilo Labudovic stated that Djukanovic's meetings with German and English representatives are "part of a special war" being waged against FR Yugoslavia.  The President of the MP's Club of SNP, Predrag Bulatovic, stated that his party will adopt the resolution of the ruling Coalition "if it is modified to include the condemnation of the aggressor and military commanders."  He also demanded that responsibility be sought in the Hague Tribunal for the ordering of the bombing of civilians in Yugoslavia.  However, DPS members of parliament assessed that SNP is identifying Yugoslavia with its President Slobodan Milosevic and that "because of this it is condemning everything which does not agree with Milosevic's policies."  Answering accusations that the Government of Montenegro is "holding meetings with the aggressor in order to serve him," DPS members of parliament noted that Milosevic demanded a meeting with "the aggressor and criminal Bill Clinton," and that SNP never condemned this.  The international community must be negotiated with and agreed with, and Djukanovic's meetings with Presidents of Great Britain and Germany, and his talks with other world leaders have as their objective to find a solution to the problem in the region, DPS members of parliament stated.  They reminded SNP members of parliament that Djukanovic, including the Government of Montenegro, "are working hard on putting an end to the bombing."!
  Miomir Mugos, Minister of Health, stated that "it is not possible to avoid responsibility of all those who are working against Montenegro and are damaging it."

"Battle" for Ivanova Korita

In the meantime, on Cetinje, more precisely near Ivanova Korita (on his death bed Vuk Karadzic, author of the Serbian version of the Cyrillic alphabet, wished "to drink water from Ivanova Korita"), there were several skirmishes.  The Information Service of the Second Army and the Navy announced that a group of members of Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) of Montenegro caused an incident, trying to provoke Yugoslav Army units, and to prevent their distribution on the territory of the Republic.  It is stated that this was done by members of MUP and the armed forces, with conviction expressed that the police will identify and disarm all involved civilians and will take all lawful measures, and that the army, with the full support of the people, will not tolerate provocations instigated by individuals and groups, and that their activities will be decisively stopped using measures stipulated in by the codes of state of war and according to rules of combat.  The MUP of Montenegro announced that verbal conflicts occurred in Ivanova Korita, and that physical conflict broke out between members of MUP and the Yugoslav Army located in Ivanova Korita, that on that occasion several individuals received minor wounds, that shortly after this event a meeting was held with all officers of the Yugoslav Army and the MUP of Montenegro with the objective of resolving tensions, and that joint investigative authorities are working on shedding light on this incident.  On June 2, the daily Politika wrote that members of the military police overcame three youths in a white jeep when the latter blocked off the arm's passage, that the three youths were wearing masked uniforms and that one of them was armed, Bozidar Bogdanovic, who is known to have provoked the police on earlier occasions.  On June 2, the Banja Luka paper Reporter described in an article entitled "Paramilitary, Parapolice and Paradeployment" a man "who was exceedingly full of himself," who "proudly" claimed that he is the commander of the Training Center for Lovcen; he said: "We're no paramilitary types.  We're all volunteers who are getting ready to defend this state from Slobodan Milosevic.  Cetinje is surrounded by the Army, but we control them..."  When asked who are "we", he answered: "People who wish for a free Montenegro and who believe that the only correct policies are those of Milo Djukanovic.  At the beginning the army would be stronger, but we would take the initiative and victory would be certain, and you all know that following every rain the sun breaks out, which also holds true for Montenegro.  We'll defend our country from sycophant Montenegrins, down to the last man..."  After those words he addressed some Liberal: "Did I put this right!"

Slavko Perovic, MP forthe Liberal Alliance (LS) of Montengro stated that the LS is not the organizer of what is happening in Cetinje, and advised the Montenegrin Minister of Police that he should call his men by their proper name   cops...  It is clear from statements given by some Montenegrin officials (M. Vujovic, in an interview for the BBC) that the Government of Montenegro is not content to see the Yugoslav Army located in such numbers in Cetinje, where "there's no NATO."  Following this, news arrived from Kotor that a certain Montenegrin MUP reservist attacked one Liberal MP.

While the answer to the Hague was being carried by state media and political-state institutions, on May 27 the President of FR Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, stated that the political solution to the problem in Kosovo precludes a stop to the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia, and a return of its proper role to the UN Organization.  Greek Prime Minister and Honorary President of New Democracy, Konstantin Micotakis, who came to Yugoslavia on a friendly visit, transmitted to Milosevic "his personal support in his efforts to find a peaceful, political solution to the situation in the FRY;" later he stated somewhere that the Yugoslav President is not ascribing any importance to the Hague indictment.  On Wednesday, while negotiations with Chernomirdin and Arthasari were taking place in Belgrade, indications came from all sides that salvation is possible, that the agreement is not too far away, but that perhaps the killing and destruction might continue.

Milan Milosevic with Dragan Todorovic, Dragoslav Grujic, Vojislav Milosevic, Nenad Stefanovic and Beta Agency Reporters