Issue 172 - January 16, 1995

Asked whether he would agree to give expert testimony at the trial of the Varazdin corps officers, a Yugoslav army general said: "How can I be an expert witness when I carried a hand grenade with me for days, hoping I'd meet that traitor Trifunovic and kill him." Those words were spoken in 1993 just prior to the second court martial General Trifunovic and his staff officers faced, but they were not enough to get them sentenced

The lawyer who defended General Trifunovic and his officers explains how they were sentenced at their third court martial

Serbian Patriarch's Christmas message calls for more babies but has so far only resulted in feminist ire

Many Serbian opposition politicians have visited Pale in the last year, but few have gained any political kudos. All things apart, Bosnian Serbs seem to have the greatest faith in Slobodan Milosevic

The Serbian Government decided to stop inflation on Tuesday by making businessmen return the prices of their products to those of July 25, 1994. This was announced to the country by cabinet member Dragan Tomic who is entrusted with coordinating the Yugoslav National Bank (NBJ) Governor's program of economic recovery, on Tuesday evening in the prime time news program.

Even though I wouldn't deny her a certain amount of inherent charm, Ms Mirjana Markovic, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's wife, is out to get us, something that no gentlemen is expected to overlook or ignore.

Two women, one from Dubrovnik in Croatia the other from Belgrade, decided to exchange apartments in 1991. Before they could complete the paperwork, the war broke out and Anica Glusac from Belgrade changed her mind about living in Croatia, while Milunka Galogaza, a Serb, was expelled from Dubrovnik. The whole issue provoked a storm of protests from human rights activists because a Belgrade court ordered the forcible expelling of 62 year old Mrs Glusac who now has nowwhere to go

Tripalo, VREME and patriotism. Seen through the eyes of Croatian parliament deputy Speaker Vladimir Seks, those three words are completely incompatible. Judging from Seks reply to Tripalo's interview in VREME, the Social Democrat Action party leader is not a patriot and the interview just makes that assumption stronger

A military expert's thoughts on the offensive and counter-offensive in the so-called Bihac pocket in western Bosnia during November and December of 1994

There is a show mania. Only places of worship have been spared "fashion" spectacles mounted by so-called businessmen and designers