Issue 437 - May 5, 2000

Many of the accused have been kept in police detention for more than a year, testimonies which claim that confessions were extracted by way of torture are being heard in court while in the ongoing trial against a group of Albanian students the plaintiff demands that an RTS program be admitted as proof

The "Mihajlovic case" is threatening to - instead of its expected propaganda effect -become the unexpected defective affair which can't be hidden even by the state media´s stony silence

The last session of the Serbian Parliament indicates that the main theme of the next election will be the fate of Yugoslavia which is why there is a need for the homogenization of political influence on the federal level

"The connection between the victims is not a criminological fact which will facilitate investigation, but a picture of a system with a group of people who are supposed to dabble a little in the economy, a little in politics, a little in crime, with the whole needing to produce money and brute power over people"

There seems to be a great historical irony in the fact that during the seven hundred year old history of Serbia, there is no longer era of prosperity that that during Tito's reign. That Croat-Slovenian seems to have done more for Serbia than all the Nemanjic's, Obrenovic's and Karadjordjevic's together, at least in terms of economic development

A 'suspicious person', Konishi, was taken in last Saturday at Belgrade Airport when he was trying to leave for London where he works in the 'Yom Yuri Shimbun' branch office. The immigration officer discovered that there was no 'leave to enter' in Konishi's passport, which would prove that he legally entered the country