Issue 199 - July 24, 1995

Srebrenica has fallen, Zepa is falling as we speak, Gorazde is already seen as the next in line; Bihac has been attacked again, while areas around Sarajevo wait in anxious anticipation. The concept of UN "safe areas" is dead, without replacement. United Nations is paralyzed, great powers are in disagreement, and Radovan Karadzic is allowed to take advantage of the situation.

Milosevic's key visits to Kosovo began on April 20, 1987 when he visited the Assembly of residents of Kosovo Polje. At the time he claimed: "I can tell you that we have begun solving all problems, particularly those concerning Kosovo. Therefore, all those who say that the Union of Communists is not capable of solving the problems of Kosovo are badly mistaken. In the past the Union of Communists successfully solved even more difficult problems and will thus certainly manage to solve these ones as well". At the end of the assembly he made an appointment with the residents for their next meeting on Friday, April 24, 1987.

Politika and the RTS reported it in the main daily news on July 17: Krajina (RSK) president Milan Martic holds the greatest blame for the tragic events in Western Slavonija. That is the essence of a state commission's report on the causes of the loss of that territory. The commission was formed by the RSK parliament at its May 18 session in Borovo Selo

We don't know what the final straw was, but last week Montenegro's Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic said he would ask the federal prime minister to investigate "the obvious need for personnel changes in the entire foreign policy service of FR Yugoslavia". He said that is necessary to improve diplomatic activities and secure a higher level of quality for Yugoslavia's position in international relations

The government draws moves running counter to the proposals of most experts. Both sides claim that any policy other than the one they are proposing, conduces to an ever higher inflation and ultimately - to hyperinflation

On the 17th of June, in the center of Belgrade and in plain daylight, Dragan Popovic (40), in the underground better known as Dadilja (Nanny), was killed from an automatic Heckler and Koch gun. The murderer ran up to Popovic and his 21-year-old girl friend when they were coming out of a building at 23 Toplicin Venac and fired at Dadilja three brief lethal shots. Two bullets hit also the girl in the leg and arm, but she made it to her Renault 5 (Popovic's present) and got away. So did the murderer but in the opposite direction.