Issue 133 - April 11, 1994

The unwritten ethics of journalism make it difficult to deal with someone's personal tragedy. All the more so when the matter concerns suicide. War, that worst of human activities has led to the breaking of all taboos, so that a suicide and the tragedy of a family become public property and a political fact.

Perhaps it is not possible to treat these people justly, said Michael Wlazer, a professor of political sciences at Princeton University

The fate of a large number of Muslim and Serb refugees who disappeared from Montenegro still has to be determined

The bureaucratic courtesy of Montenegro's Interior Minister Nikola Pejakovic could be understood if his letter to Danijela StuparTitoric were less terrifying.

Dusan Boljevic and his wife Jagoda have been in prison for two years on charges of murdering 18 respectable non-Serb civilians in Bilje, near Osijek

To put Rugova in jail would fit into his arrogant and risky policy, to which he resorts whenever in trouble or under pressure

The feeling that life is running along that wellknown course: today is worse than yesterday, but better than tomorrow, is disappearing slowly...

Reports that the Pope will visit Belgrade next September speak for themselves. At a time when all relevant political factors in the world are competing in visiting Belgrade, Zagreb or Sarajevo on their peace missions, September seems a thousand years away

We are moved and excited by something that doesn't exist, the invented bombing of Belgrade, while we manage to close our eyes and ears to scenes of real destruction and real atrocities