Issue 171 - January 9, 1995

The superiority of the ruling apparatus is certainly unquestionable. But is it possible that no one at the top is troubled by misgivings?

A prominent Belgrade film director comments upon the General Trifunovic trial and the fact that he received no support from his colleagues and the soldiers whose lives he saved

After two acquittals, General Vladimir Trifunovic and his staff-officers have finally been found guilty on charges of "treason and handing over munitions" to the enemy. The court did not take into account his defense that he was protecting the lives of his soldiers after they had been abandoned by decisions of the high command

The third winter of war in Bosnia has barred its teeth. Three winters were enough for that war, like any other, to develop a natural rhythm. First of all, it's a poor man's war: none of the warring sides is rich enough to wage war effectively in winter

Borba has been a problem to the Serbian authorities since 1986, when Stasa Marinkovic started turning the Socialist Alliance organ into a modern daily newspaper. Now they used an opportunity to get rid of Borba, but bear in mind that without the privatization that they're under attack for Borba would have been just like the Brcin edition long ago

A break for the poor who are still in the clutches of the warlords and those responsible for Yugoslavia's disintegration

It is a pity that we don't have that good old Italian custom of throwing old things out of the window at midnight between December 31 and January

A survey of local television stations across Serbia

Slovenia saw out 1994 by summing up the results of local elections (for new mayors) and comparing current failures and achievements

Tudjman's and Bobetko's New Year's messages to the Croatian public seem different, but they may actually be the same

A report on the recent reopening of the Belgrade-Zagreb Highway of Brotherhood and Unity which has been closed since war broke out in Croatia in 1991

The Serbian regime failed to create its version of Fikret Abdic in Kosovo and this is why it has no practical access to other methods in adopting a more active approach to the Kosovo issue other than intensifying police repression

In mid-1994, 35.6% of the population in central Serbia was poor, i.e. 2.1 million people couldn't satisfy their minimum food requirements

Contrary to general opinion, independent and government-influenced daily newspapers in Belgrade are almost identical when war in Bosnia is the issue

The West has no choice but to recognize Milosevic's victory and utilize the total control that he has over the situation in order to bring the war to a "lower level"

Stojan Cerovic's last diary of 1994, published in VREME No. 219