Damnation

Bishop Zarko Gavrilovic sent a letter asking the Serbian Orthodox Church to excommunicate Slobodan Milosevic. The request was sent to the Church Holy Synod and Assembly but he didn't think it was enough just to excommunicate him; he wants him damned as well. Milosevic would become the cursed man of his times and undergo a kind of Eighth Session (of the Serbian communist party when he took power). Gavrilovic based his request on the belief that Milosevic was baptized although he declares himself an atheist now and can be excommunicated.

Next Year

We know the Patriarch publicly voiced concern over state TV programming and that (RTS director) Vucelic publicly responded saying you just have to take a look at the programming to know things have changed. That meant that, in solidarity with expelled and suffering brethren, culture had to be radically reduced and people started proving their patriotism in that context. The public showing of attractive women and singers in Valjevo was postponed, Zajecar's mayor personally stopped the local rock festival.

Then the traditional festival was held in Valjevo. Since he didn't get to celebrate the Ivankovac battle, Kolubara district chief Stanko Terzic did what he could and opened the Kolubara front. He decided that even at times of hardship we shouldn't let our spirits fall into defeatism. He spent all night appealing to the population for help, told refugees everything possible would be done, told the people who prefer war that they had to distance themselves from that option and sent a clear message to the Pale leaders to get out of the way or fall in step. When he finished, he declared the festival open. Rain kept interfering with the program and most people chose to see a documentary crime film. Anyhow, see you next year.

Carnojevic

Theater director Ljubisa Ristic, formally chief of the Yugoslav United Left, author of the Yu-fest and its anthem; Carnojevic Blues. This isn't the first time that Arsenije Carnojevic or the lament has featured here. Part of the former Brotherhood and Unity highway (Belgrade-Zagreb) which runs through part of New Belgrade was called Second Boulevard for years. Occasional efforts by the city fathers to change that to a more suitable name were regularly abandoned because of the cost of changing the ID documents of 200,000 people. On some anniversary of the great migration of the Serbs (led by Carnojevic) the name was quietly changed to Arsenije Carnojevic boulevard. That change of name made sense recently when the long columns of Krajina refugees (at least five times more people than Carnojevic's column) slowly rolled down the highway from west to east this time but without their spiritual leaders (the new Carnojevics ran earlier to come here and call for war) and no land waiting for them unless the Serbian police decide to return them to the place their ancestors left 350 years ago - Kosovo.

Set Up

The body of the unfortunate US negotiator Robert Frasure wasn't even cold yet and the local patriotic and tabloid press was already speculating on who set up the explosion of the French transport he was riding in to Sarajevo. Despite the fact that accident happened on an especially dangerous part of the Igman road in front of a number of witnesses who never doubted the official report that the transport dropped off the road because of a landslide, local conspiracy theorists are busting their guts to prove that Frasure was killed, but they can't agree on the method and who ordered the killing. According to quotes from unnamed local and foreign experts, Frasure was killed because he "got too close to a solution in Bosnia" and because "he realized the complexity of the Yugoslav crisis". Potential assassins include world power brokers, Alija's Jihad warriors (it wouldn't be the first time) and finally Madeline Allbright and Al Gore (they didn't get along with the dead man). The same anonymous sources claim the explosion was caused by an anti-tank mine placed on the road by the Rapid Reaction Force (the only ones with access to the spot) but just to be safe someone tampered with the brakes and put explosives in the transport. Finally, Frasure's driver, a young French soldier, was ordered to drive at high speed.

VREME has its own theory to offer conspiracy lovers: Frasure's murder was ordered by the power brokers in the same Masonic-Jewish-Comintern-Vatican-Islamic coalition that order the death of Tito's close associates: Slobodan Penezic Krcun (because he was a Red Star fan), Boris Krajger (who wanted economic reform) and Dzemal Bijedic (who knew too much). All those killings were done as traffic accidents. The same coalition also organized the death of Borovo Selo commander Vukasin Soskocanin in 1991 using divers to overturn his boat in the Danube and tried to kill Slobodan Milosevic (a tire burst on the road to Dobanovci in 1990). All the killings were done personally by Allbright whose father was a diplomat in Belgrade and Prague and who has a pathological hatred for Serbs. Well-informed sources said that she was recognized just before the accident, disguised as a Swedish mechanic hovering around Frasure's transport.

The British press listed the journalists who died in the Yugoslav conflict during the past four years.