Issue 75 - March 1, 1993

At one moment it looked as if the regime had gotten over the loss of Belgrade, knowing that it could always outvote it, but now a real war has started between Serbia and Belgrade. The conquerors have reached the very city center and installed their people, but neither Milosevic nor Seselj walk about town without at least twenty-odd bodyguards, and they certainly don't think of staging a rallies

Terrorist acts, violent behaviour and expelling of Moslems in Sandzak last summer and fall (led by Milika Ceko Dacevic, the Serbian Radical Party leader for Sandzak) approached its end when Dacevic was arrested. Terrorist turned, however, to be only a little mischevaous. Dacevic and his friends had lot of reasons to celebrate

History Moves Backwards

In practically all newspaper interviews he has given in the past few months, General Bozidar Stevanovic, commander of the Yugoslav Army Airforce and Anti-aircraft Defence, has been described as a man of courage and measure, a commander who "never commands from an armchair."

The short course on depoliticizing the army could not teach them much. The latest announcement reminds of a document that preceded the war which led to the disintegration of Yugoslavia

At the moment most of the main protagonists in the conflict are in Belgrade - Arkan, Babic, Hadzic, Paspalj... They want to present their dispute as strictly a matter of principle and to gain credibility with president Milosevic as the supreme arbitrator in all Serbian issues - he is to say who is bad, and who is good, although he is showing less and less will to do so

When a German schoolgirl was asked in class after World War Two, what was Hitler's greatest crime, she answered naively: "The fact that he lost the war." This is one of the things Dordje Marjanovic, a professor at the Faculty of Law in Skopje said in early September 1991. The question asked was can Franjo Tudjman and Slobodan Milosevic be tried as war criminals under international law

President Slobodan Milosevic made it clear where Serbia's position would be in a conflict between the West and post-Yeltzin Russia, if it is in the hands of "national patriots"

One can see every day in Belgrade restaurants and cafes well armed officials of the Serbian Republic and the Republic of Serbian Krajina, with a just as well armed escort. And now, which policeman would, for instance, dare stop and disarm any of them?