Issue 155 - September 12, 1994

Pope John Paul's visit to Sarajevo was cancelled,angering the authorities, disappointing the people,saddening the faithful and worrying Zagreb. The real reasons why the Pope isn't coming to Sarajevo aren't clear, but the consequences are

If he has to choose between a continuity of power and a continuity of policy, Milosevic will always choose the first. That is why he has been described as a great tactician and a lousy strategist

After the turnabout in Bosnia it is natural to expect the SPS to purge itself of the radical elements which have infiltrated its ranks. The SPS is a peculiar party; it is prepared to change its name, state ideology, war and peace policies, but it does not change its officials often. The scores change, but not the orchestra. It is the other parties which are instead riven with divisions

The Montenegrin authorities are blamed for a lot of things and it is getting harder for them to defend themselves. It is even harder to establish how rich they really are

Experience from the first multi-party elections in Macedonia held four years ago, on the eve of Yugoslavia's disintegration, showed that a change of political views by the masses in Macedonia could be effected in only a week

Vojkan Durkovic is officially the President of the Serb Republic's (RS) Commission for the Exchange of Civilians and Prisoners of War for Semberija, headquartered in Bijeljina: the office is located across the street from the bus station. He is not a member of the Army of the RS and has no rank or title in it.

Viewed from Kosovo, the latest Greek-Albanian clash is a reflection of Balkan realities and deep national and state conflicts

Why the practice of ethnic cleansing, which, after its largest manifestations in 1992, was generally confined isolated incidents, has reappeared

Uzice (town in southwestern Serbia) Corps, in collaboration with various paramilitary formations (mostly thieves), In the spring of 1992, with the entry of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) into deserted Visegrad, troops from the found only feeble old people - Muslims who were unable to walk and were unable to escape.