Issue 113 - November 22, 1993

Is the rapprochement between the Civic Alliance and Vuk Draskovic just a debt of honor, or does it have more far reaching consequences

The opposition has taken its campaign on the road. Vranje, Kragujevac, Leskovac... Medvedja, Lipljan, Obilic... Krusevac, Loznica... As usual, Draskovic (SPO) was the first to hit the road. He was followed by Kostunica (DSS). Seselj (SRS) is visiting local radio stations, Djindjic (DS) has headed south and will visit Pristina

Leader of the Reformist Democratic Party of Vojvodina (RSDV) Dragoslav Petrovic has on a number of occasions shown his inclination towards opposition coalitions and alliances, and soon after the scheduling of parliamentary elections in Serbia, he drew the public's attention with his initiative to have former Yugoslav Prime Minister Milan Panic head the list of the coalition rallied round the Vojvodina Reformists.

When the Serbian authorities forced Zlatan Perucic on Beobanka, experts and those with a sense of professional honor were flabbergasted: how could someone who had never worked in banking come to be the head of a bank?

All of Milosevic's expendable people are very much alike. They are absolutely loyal to their employer; they never protest and always sign what they are supposed to; they never answer to the Parliament which chose them; every new candidate is far worse than his predecessor

So many lines of support have been written that each regime, similar to this, could only wish for such supporters, and each president, similar to Milosevic, for such subjects. After everything that's happened, there is no one else who could take his place either in the hearts or in the heads of Krajina leaders

Dragoslav Bokan, the leader of the ``White Eagles'' is a man who has been frequently mentioned as a potential traveller to The Hague. His name appeared on the first list of those suspected of having committed war crimes, beside those of Slobodan Milosevic, Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan, Vojislav Seselj, Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic, Blagoje Adzic and Veljko Kadijevic. The list has been drawn up by Helsinki Watch. What makes him stand out among the lot is the fact that he never held a relevant military or political position in the hierarchy of any of the Serb lands. He was into film criticism and directing before the war broke out.

I see a danger in the Balkans of the creation of a strong Orthodox coalition round Serbia and Greece, which would be opposed by a weaker Albanian Moslem coalition.