Issue 45 - August 3, 1992

"We are very grateful for their help and patriotism, but they've gone too far. Our first task is to rid ourselves of the "Eagles" and other armed groups," told Risto Perisic,the head of the newly-formed Serb police post in Visegrad Belgrade daily VECERNJE NOVOSTI two months ago

The POLITIKA case is only the tip of the iceberg of nationalization far worse than the one which took place after the World War II. These are the words Mr. Veselin Vukovic, professor at Podgorica University and associate of Belgrade Institute of Social Sciences

A pensioner, 71, exchanged his so-called old foreign currency savings (hopelessly blocked in banks) with the intention of "purchasing" his apartment after half a century of permanent residence in Serbia (he is a Serb) and in such a way provide for his daughter, 45, married, mother of two-year-old child

Internal situation in the newly-created Serbian states and regions outside Serbia is chararacterized by lawlessness, quarrels, dictatorship and chaos...

Macedonia has not worked out new legislation concerning citizenship and state symbols, although procedure to this end was initiated as early as April this year. Therefore, no-one in Macedonia can at this moment apply for or be granted Macedonian citizenship

The Serbian Democratic Forum (SDF) in Croatia recently launched an initiative for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to recognize the independence of the Republic of Croatia

The story about the transformation of POLITIKA into a public enterprise is just one chapter in a longer story on the transformation of entire Serbia into a ground where the regime has free rein to exercise a repressive policy, for which it is laying a groundwork through a whole series of different laws

Explosions and bursts of machine gun fire still echo in Pljevlja. Men with automatic rifles slung over their shoulders still patrol the streets of the town, wearing insignia which do not resemble those worn by members of the police and army

Milosevic`s ears are obviously still ringing with slogans chanted at the June 28 demonstrations, such is the haste with which his aides have set out to "clear up" so many matters during the summer vacations