Statements of the Week

am only authorized for assuming responsibilities where cooperation with the Hague Tribunal is concerned”.
Vukasin Jokanovic, Federal State Prosecutor

Vojislav Seselj,
President of the Serbian Radical Party claimed, on TV Sunce in Arandjelovac, that “a Radical government will be better” than that of the socialists.  He has proof: “If I come to power I will prohibit the use of tainted glass in passenger vehicles so that it is always clear who is driving them”.

Bogdan Tirnanic,
columnist with the Dnevni telegraf daily, reporting that Marko Milosevic was wounded: “Milosevic Jr. is certainly not an individual about whose health I would be greatly concerned were this bit of false rumor around town something that had not been spawned at a working breakfast between Zoran Djindjic and journalists, when the DS leader, as a supposedly well informed man, stated that the “painted boy” is being medically attended to abroad.  Well, it turned out not to be so.
Some people will say that it’s not nice for Djindjic to lie.  How now are we supposed to believe his stories about democracy!?  As far as I’m concerned, I think that it’s better for him to be a confirmed liar, for had his information been correct, had Marko really bit the bullet, that would mean that someone’s tragedy had become a legal political weapon.  Such a possibility is loathsome”.

Obrad Savic,
philosopher and active member of the Belgrade Circle, spoke about his experiences with political parties for the Zapisi journal in Cacak: “Recently there was a meeting of the social-democratic alternative political scene at Mr. Vuk Obradovic’s abode.  I was invited as President of the Belgrade Circle to participate in a political debate which,grew into a heated political and theoretical discussion.  The conflict arose because Mr. Dusan Janjic, speaking in the name of the Social Democratic Party, stated that the objective of that party is to create a legal and political blueprint that would permit legalization of newly acquired wealth and plundered property.  A polemic broke out in which I insisted on the fact that support for such a hypothesis has as its goal the legitimization and promulgation of the idea of economic benefits in war.  It is apparent that this new social class of war profiteers on the rise needs to structuralize and legalize their illegally acquired wealth, and for them to be allowed the possibility of acting like humanitarians, to hand out money, to open various kinds of foundations, like the Karic brothers.  Maybe such a scenario will really materialize, maybe that is merely history’s cynicism.  I, as a citizen of Yugoslavia and as an active intellectual, am absolutely against that”.