Issue 79 - March 29, 1993

Victor Ivancic, a journalist of the Split daily "Slobodna Dalmacija" and one of the authors of the "Feral Trubune" satirical supplement

Sanctions are only a screen for the planned nationalization of the economy. This syndrome, whether it comes from the authorities or the opposition, can be found in all the states which grew out of the former Socialist Yugoslavia

Their life is reduced to pointless wanderings between meals. They talk about what they had left behind, about burnt and plundered houses, about friends and relatives for whom they don't know whether they are dead or alive... As with all refugees, real life has been left behind, and a better one is somewhere else. There is practically no one who hasn't lost someone in the war

It is said that the Russians will go to war against the whole world because of Serbia...

The public and the citizens are left to make guesses as to who makes donations to the political parties, since the recent extremely costly pre-election campaign could not have been financed with the money, collected from the membership fees, voluntary donations, sales of the party's buttons or symbolic state subsidies

It is obvious that the Serbs are being led by people capable of producing almost an unlimited number of wars, but can they be brought to their senses, should one make concessions or threaten them, make promises or punish them? What do these people react to at all?

It seems that President Milosevic intends to put an end to a year-long purge within the Yugoslav army