Issue 221 - December 25, 1995

It looks like Mira Markovic has finally managed to convince the Serbian President that communism is back

Reports from Radovan Karadzic's close associates said the Bosnian Serb leader is thinking about going to the war crimes tribunal in the Hague himself and, allegedly, has gone so far as to develop a strategy for his appearance

The special session of the Holy Assembly of all Serbian Orthodox Church Bishops, came as no surprise after the public disagreements over the Dayton peace accord reflecting the two factions in the church. The first is personified in Patriarch Pavle, the second in Bishop Atanasije Jevtic.

The draft budgets of the FRY, Serbia and Montenegro stand at around four billion dollars at present, showing that the authorities are preparing for an election victory. So, hyper-inflation is coming back

It's almost five years since the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) started to fall apart. General Veljko Kadijevic, former Defence Minister said three armies were created out of one; one of those was broken apart, the second was saved from defeat by Dayton and the third has become marginal. Those armies lost one state, three wars and all credibility; the damages they inflicted are well known. The process of breaking up Yugoslavia can best be understood through the destruction of the army; one couldn't exist without the other; faced with a choice (preserving communism or the state), the military lost both

"On the basis of the facts which I had at my disposal and in accordance with my understanding of extreme need, there was no criminal act. That was the gist of my ruling and I haven't changed my opinion. Better yet, with the facts which I had, if I had to sit in judgment a hundred more times, I would hand down the same decision", Djordje Dozet said

President Bulatovic told the journalists that two countries can drag each other through court for years for a piece of land

Stepping Over Our Own Shadow
What should be done after Dayton

Miodrag Batricevic seems to have killed himself because he wasn't good at maneuvering in the Balkan triangle of politics, business and the underworld