Issue 95 - July 19, 1993

Not only are the prices of hard currencies and goods racing each other - but the Central banks and their governments are also vying to cause the collapse of the national economy

On May 31st, 1993, prior to the events in the night between June 1st and 2nd and the arrest of the Draskovic couple, the Serbian opposition was clinically dead

The fact that we are forced to remember the names of Percevic, Dacic, Suvakovic, Zeljko Simic and countless other future "young Socialists" can be regarded as a serious form of mental violence and terror in this country

Impossible is possible in only two countries in the world where greater is smaller and where an increase of violence against the citizens is taken as an extension of justice

Many, like Yugoslav Army General Staff information service head Colonel Ljubodrag Stojadinovic who admits so openly today, did not take Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj seriously earlier, so that they had to leave in the end

"As regards sanctions, Serbs can go on living on a piece of bread and roast lamb", General Zivota Panic said in an interview to the German "Der Spiegel" in late April. Two months later, the senior officers of the Serbian-Montenegrin army admitted they had no more money, not even for food

The town of Kragujevac is choking in poverty. Every day most of 40,000 workers stand on the street corners selling the foreign currencies, instead of passing through the gates of many factories in town. Or, they linger around the green markets selling cigarettes, washing detergent, cooking oil and other goods, now in short supply. In order to survive those workers who are on "forced vacations" have to take out whatever household items they can sell on the flea market