Issue 223 - January 15, 1996

The shell that hit the tram near the Holiday Inn just confirms suspicions that the Bosnian Serbs have no intention of living with anyone. Also, the attack suddenly brought IFOR face to face with the realities of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Both Belgrade and Zagreb, or more precisely, the media they control, have tried to minimize the importance of the meeting, proving that the other side is in greater need of Granic's visit

The statements and comments collected by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Belgrade are quite contrary to the theory that the Serbs and Croats "cannot live together ever again."

Zoran Djindjic in his interview to "Vreme" in late 1994 said he was convinced that in order to win the elections, one had to travel around Serbia, that direct contacts with people were more important than the reports on Radio Television Serbia (RTS). In the meantime, we have come closer to the elections, Serbia has been travelled around and RTS has not shown Djindjic for a long time. A short time ago he admitted that "if something is not on RTS - it doesn't exist."

One should not forget that blood was spilled in Belgrade over disagreements as to the site of demonstrations five years ago

A true avalanche of books on the history of Vojvodina and of the Serbs in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire can only possibly be explained as a devised or subconscious sign of resistance to the merciless centralization of Serbia