Issue 496 - June 22, 2001

The graves were hidden: dug up, filled and covered in secret, all in the hope that they would never be discovered. Someone was ashamed – or afraid; on the other hand, others refused to keep quiet because their shame was stronger than their fear. Nikola, a man from this story, refused to keep quiet

In the past three weeks the frightening proof of systematic cover-ups of crimes in which human victims were treated like carcasses, instead of serving to identify the culprits or the suspects, ended up being used in political confrontations between republican and federal authorities, that is to say between DOS and DOS

‘Changes, changes’ – what the citizens of Serbia have yearned for prior to October 5th, and what eventually brought about a democratic government shift in December elections – began to come true. Radical economic reforms are not easy for those who are compelled to conduct them and have them put into practice, nor are they bearable for those who have to ‘make ends meet’. The impatient are criticising the fact that the radical break-up with socialism is far too slow, mumbling that the inauguration of capitalism is far