Issue 52 - September 21, 1992

One must ask the West why it chose nationalism as the more efficient means to oust communism than political and economic reform?

The controversial Ivan Zvonimir Cicak, a man who for 25 years has been part of the opposition in various undemocratic regimes in the former Yugoslavia and the states that appeared after its disintegration, speaks of the elections in Croatia, the possibilities of coexistence, the situation in Bosnia and Hercegovina... The interview took place last week-end in Verona where, under the organization of the Association for Non-violence and the European Green movements, a meeting called the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation in the Former Yugoslavia, took place. Mr Cicak participated in the work of this meeting.

The Eighth Session itself, as an event, is of no great importance, except that false security was acquired, the understanding that everything can be accomplished with democratic centralism

We did not lose freedom with the Eighth Session, rather many wretched persons, unused to or better still unprepared for serious consideration of real freedom, happily embraced freedom's paltry shadow

Two months, which is all that is left before the elections, is really too short a period. Even if the TV were to change its policy at this very minute it would be extremely difficult to seriously change anything in the minds of a large number of people who for years have been the victims of one propaganda

The Eighth Session is the result of the events that took place in 1983, first and foremost in Kosovo

This week the historical Eighth Session of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia (CK SKS) will celebrate its fifth birthday. The Party is preparing a jubilee present for its Leader: candidacy for the "highest position". These have been the longest five years of Serbian post-war history because history has been speeded up. Serbia was not involved in a single war, but it lost three; alone and isolated it is nearing the floor of its decline and with trepidation awaits the coming winter. The "anti-bureaucratic revolution" continues, and the Eighth Session holds on

The goal - the removal of Milosevic, the unwanted consequence - the destruction of Panic

No-one, or course, can challenge the Serbian President's right to candidacy at the elections, or even pretensions at higher federal office. All the same, I am unable to make the mental connection with a man who seeks reward from the people he should be begging for forgiveness from