Issue 88 - May 31, 1993

Adem Demaqi, the well known ethnic Albanian political dissident, recipient of Sacharov's award for freedom of thought, currently the Human Rights Committee president in Pristina and the editor-in-chief of the magazine Zeri, started a hunger strike on May 24 in the building of the "Rilindja" newspaper. Four days later, in an interview to VREME, Demaqi tried to explain why he would go to the end

Who is hoping for a war in the southern Serbian province and why

Since inflation has reached the rate of around 10 percent per day, economic history says that we could expect 100 percent a day in the fall

Those well informed, who disagree with a general assessment of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) as the civil war army - despite the facts that it is a non-national, party army of parades - dispute the moment when it decided (or it was decided in its name) to become one of the participants in the wars of "its" peoples after half a century of parades and celebrations, instead of becoming a staunch defender of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and the constitutional order. Everything fell to pieces. When did the JNA disintegrate, opting to support one of the sides in the wars for Yugoslavia's disintegration?

In the deep shadow of affairs such as "Opera" and those over generals Vasiljevic and Trifunovic, a purge is silently being carried out in the Yugoslav Army

"We've captured several Serbs bearing the insignia of the "White Eagles", a commander of the Croatian Armed Forces (HOS) in Bosnia-Herzegovina boasted at the beginning of May, 1992, and went on, "We wanted to check whether they could really fly. Very strange, even though we let them fly form the fifth floor, all of them splashed against the ground."

In Bosnia two opposed policies and goals have been simultaneously humiliated and defeated. As soon as Belgrade had abandoned its project for the unification of all the Serb lands, the international community lost all ambition to save Bosnia. For the time being, the only victors are Karadzic and Mladic

Generals Veljko Kadijevic (former Yugoslav Defence Minister) and Blagoje Adzic (former chief of staff) fell as the victims of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) Slovenian-Croatian debacle which ended with Vance's plan. General Zivota Panic is the victim of the Bosnian cataclysm and the battle in the background for control over the Yugoslav Army, in the presence of the Vance-Owen plan. The choice of executors shows a subtle sense for humiliating expended people. The handwriting is recognizable...