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LORD OVEN PREKO INTERNETA PONUDIO STUDENTIMA POMOC
,,Studentskom protestu '96 preko Interneta javio se i lord Devid
Oven koji je porucio da ce on, ako postoji nesto sto kao privatno
lice moze uciniti, to i uciniti'', rekao je Vasiljevic.
STUDENTSKU PETICIJU POTPISAO I HILJADITI PROFESOR
Trinaesti dan protesta studenata Beogradskog Univerziteta,
protekao je u znaku brojnih podrski upucenih studentima i njihovom
strajku. Saopsteno je da su zasedala jos dva Nastavno naucna veca
-- Matematickog i Bioloskog fakulteta, koji su doneli odluku o
pristupanju strajku i protestu studenata. Takodje je saopsteno, da
je danas, peticiju podrske studentima, potpisao i hiljaditi
profesor Beogradskog Univerziteta.
Protest je kao i obicno zapoceo na platou ispred Filozofskog
fakulteta a okupljenim studentima govorili su danas u glavnom
ljudi iz sveta kulture, glumci Dragan Nikolic i Dragan Bjelogrlic,
reditelj Dejan Mijac, knjizevnik Miroslav Josic Visnjic, kao i
burno pozdravljeni Milorad Pavic, koji je studentima rekao i ovo:
,,Ponosan sam na dve velike skole koje su vas dale i kojima i sam
pripadam, novosadski i beogradski Univerzitet. Zelim vam vise
srece i uspeha no sto smo moje pokolenje i ja imali. I jos nesto
zelim vam da sacuvate mudrost jer mudrost se s godinama moze
izgubiti. Ziveli i pozdravite 21. vek''.
Procitani su i telegrami podrske, koji su stigli od Beogradskih
advokata i taksista. Taksisti su danas pokusali da se prikljuce
studentima na ulicama. U trenutku kada se njih stotinak sa svojim
vozilima vec okupilo na Trgu Republike, stigla je naredba od
Direktora ,,Beo'' i ,,Zutog'' taksija, kao i od policije o zabrani
ucestvovanja u protestu studenata.
Ipak, predstavnici Nezavisnog sindikata taksista, sa po jednim
vozilom ,,Beo'', ,,Zutog'' i ,,Zelenog'' taksija predvodili su
danasnju kolonu studenata Beogradskim ulicama.
Danasnja setnja trajala je nesto krace od dva sata i prosla je,
kao i obicno bez ijednog incidenta. Najzanimljiviji deo setnje
odigrao se na Slaviji, gde se studentima pridruzio i bivsi
guverner Narodne Banke Jugoslavije, Dragoslav Avramovic. Na
brojna pitanja novinara nije zeleo da odgovara, ali smo ipak od
njega uspeli da cujemo da i on podrzava Studentski protest, te da
ce im se mozda i obratiti u nekom od narednih dana.
Novo okupljanje studenata najavljeno je za sutra, naravno u 12
casova na Platou ispred Filozofskog fakulteta.
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JEDNA TRECINA UNIVERZITETA ZVANICNO OBUSTAVILA NASTAVU
,,Do sada je vec prikupljeno 1.000 potpisa nastavnika i saradnika
Beogradskog univerziteta, koji podrzavaju studentski protest, a
jedna trecina fakulteta je zvanicno obustavila nastavu'', rekao je
clan Inicijativnog odbora za odbranu demokratije na Univerzitetu,
profesor Ekonomskog fakulteta Goran Milicevic.
Milicevic je na konferenciji za stampu naveo imena fakulteta na
kojima je Nastavno -- naucno vece zvanicno podrzalo studente.
Medju fakultetima Beogradskog univerziteta to su: Filozofski
fakultet, Matematicki fakultet, Bioloski fakultet, Elektrotehnicki
i Gradjevinski fakultet, Tehnolosko-metalurski, Pravni i
Saobracajni fakultet, dok medju fakultetima Univerziteta umetnosti
studente podrzavaju Fakultet dramskih umetnosti i Fakultet muzicke
umetnosti.
Nastavno-naucno vece Rudarsko-geoloskog i Defektoloskog fakulteta
zvanicno je odlucilo da ne podrzava studente. Milicevic je rekao
da se ,,situacija svakim danom poboljsava i da je sve vise
profesora na strani svojih studenata'', a zatim je naglasio da
,,ovako sirok pokret nikada do sada nije postojao na
Univerzitetu''.
On je, takodje, obavestio novinare da je studentsku stranicu na
Internetu do danas citalo preko sto hiljada korisnika, a da je
studentskom protestu upuceno preko Interneta desetak hiljada
poruka, odgovora i sugestija.
On je za izvestaj Tanjuga, koji je danas objavila Politika, a u
kome se ,,zid od hiljadu cigala'', koji su studenti juce napravili
na platou ispred Savezne skupstine, karakterise kao ,,studentsko
ogradjivanje od mitinga koalicije 'Zajedno''', rekao da ,,nema
veze sa istinom''. U demantiju ovog izvestaja Informativne sluzbe
studentskog protesta kaze se, izmedju ostalog, da je,, tekst koji
ste nam posvetili primer neobjektivnog, laznog, rezimsko-
udvorickog izvestavanja i manipulisanja javnoscu''.
Vasiljevic je obavestio novinare da protesti studenata traju vec
nedelju dana i u Kragujevcu, Nisu i Novom Sadu, dok je Goran
Milicevic najavio sutrasnji dolazak delegacije profesora i
studenata sa Pristinskog univerzuteta.
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PROGLAS SAVEZA DRAMSKIH UMETNIKA SRBIJE
Predsednistvo Saveza dramskih umetnika Srbije osudilo je u
danasnjem proglasu ,,uzurpaciju gradjanskih prava i nepostovanje
Ustava i demokratskih principa, o cemu je svedocilo i ukidanje
medija, Radija B92 i ometanje programa Radio Indeksa''.
,,Smatramo da gusenje slobode govora i javnog izrazavanja
misljenja dovodi u pitanje i slobodu izrazavanja u pozoristu'',
naglasava se u proglasu.
,,Zbog toga Predsednistvo Saveza dramskih umetnika Srbije poziva
svoje clanove i predlaze pozoristima Srbije da u utorak 10.
decembra 1996. godine izraze svoj protest neigranjem predstava
toga dana''. ,,Pozivamo i sva strukovna umetnicka udruzenja,
organizacije i ustanove kulture da nam se toga dana na isti nacin
pridruze''.
,,Obavestavamo nase clanove i javnost da cemo svim raspolozivim
zakonskim sredstvima stititi clanstvo od pojave izrazavanja
samovolje politizovanih uprava pojedinih pozorista'', kaze se u
proglasu Saveza dramskih umetnika Srbije.
,,Takodje, trazimo od nasih clanova da nastave sa citanjem
proglasa Saveza dramskih umetnika Srbije pred svaku predstavu pred
svojom publikom''.
DEMOKRATSKI CENTAR ZAHVALJUJE STUDENTIMA I GRADJANIMA
Beogradski odbor Demokratskog centra zahvalio je danas studentima
i gradjanima, koji svojom upornoscu istrajavaju u protestima.
,,Demokratski centar se zahvaljuje svojim clanovima i
simpatizerima DC, studentima i gradjanima Beograda, koji svojom
upornoscu istrajavaju u principijelnoj borbi za postovanje
demokratske procedure i vec izrazene volje gradjana na izborima, a
protiv nasilnog naknadnog prekrajanja rezultata izbora'', stoji u
saopstenju DC.
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RATKO DMITROVIC: HADZI DRAGAN ANTIC NIJE ,,POLITIKA''
Nekadasnji novinar ,,Politike'' Ratko Dmitrovic danas je u
otvorenom pismu ocenio da direktor te informativne kuce Hadzi
Dragan Antic nije ,,Politika'', vec da nju, ,,onakvu kakva jeste,
cine njeni novinari i urednici iz Makedonske 29''.
,,Moze pred zgradom 'Politike' da demonstrira i pola miliona
Beogradjana, Hadzi Antic ce ostati tamo gde jeste, ali ako samo
dvadesetak novinara u redakciji 'Politike' odbije da radi, Antic
vise nece biti ono sto jeste'', smatra Dmitrovic. On zakljucuje
da ,,cast i obraz uvek zavise od izbora, a mogucnost izbora uvek
postoji''.
ZILNIKOV FILM O TEKUCOJ ,,ZUTOJ REVOLUCIJI''
U beogradskom bioskopu Reks sutra u 20.00 casova bice projekcija
filma ,,Do jaja'' Zelimira Zilnika, u produkciji Radija B92.
Producent kaze da je rec o prvom filmu o tekucoj ,,zutoj
revoluciji'' u Srbiji.
GLIGOROV ZABRINUT ZBOG ZBIVANJA U BEOGRADU
Makedonski predsednik Kiro Gligorov izrazio je danas zabrinutost
zbog dogadjaja u Beogradu. ,,Kao neposredni susedi mi smo
zabrinuti za ono sto se dogadja u Beogradu'', izjavio je
novinarima u Skoplju sef makedonske drzave, ocenjujuci proteste
opozicije i studenata u Beogradu. Ovo je, kako podseca MAKFAKS,
prva zvanicna reakcija Skoplja na zbivanja u Beogradu.
,,Oni koji nose najvecu odgovornost za stanje u Jugoslaviji treba
da imaju dovoljno snage i hrabrosti da prihvate rezultate
demokratskih procesa'', rekao je Gligorov. ,,Ukoliko to oni ne
prihvate, tesko da ce naci prikljucnu tacku sa onima koji to ne
mogu da razumeju'', izjavio je Gligorov.
On je precizirao da je rec o upozorenjima svetske zajednice da
vlasti u Beogradu ne mogu da racunaju na vracanje u medjunarodne
institucije i organizacije, ukoliko ne postuju demokratske procese
u svojoj zemlji.
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NEMACKI MEDIJI SVE OSTRIJI PREMA MILOSEVICU
Sto mirne demonstracije u Beogradu traju duze, to su nemacki
komentatori sve ostriji prema srpskom predsedniku Slobodanu
Milosevicu, ali i prema svojoj vladi, trazeci od nje da u osudi
Milosevica ne kaska za Vasingtonom.
Zbog falsifikovanja lokalnih izbora i suzbijanja nezavisnih
medija, nemacki komentatori traze konkretne mere, cak i vracanje
embarga protiv Srbije.
Na udaru je narocito navodni stav Bona, pa i cele Evropske unije
da je Milosevic garant mira i faktor stabilnosti na Balkanu, sto
komentatori smatraju zabludom koju Evropa mora hitno razbiti.
Najkarakteristicniji u tome danas je komentar ,,Zidojce
cajtung''-a, pod naslovom 'Sumrak balkanskih diktatora'.
Minhenski dnevnik najpre ironise stav zapada posle Dejtona o
,,Slobi kao nasem coveku, koji eto, jeste uzasan covek ali
kontrolise policiju i vojsku, pa je zato faktor stabilnosti, isto
kao Tudjman u Zagrebu''.
,,Kako, medjutim, faktor stabilnosti moze da bude neko ko kod kuce
gubi vlast'', pita se ,,Zidojce cajtung'' i konstatuje: ,,Taj
faktor je Milosevic isto tako malo kao i operetski diktator
Tudjman u Hrvatskoj''.
,,Njemu, bolesnom od raka, uskoro ce presuditi visi sudija, a
Milosevicu bi mogao presuditi srpski narod. Obojica su
antidemokrate, obojica su podsticali rat dok god je bilo izgleda
za dobitak. Nijedan nije covek koji miru i demokratiji garantuje
buducnost'', zakljucuje 'Zidojce cajtung'.
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CENE NA MALO PORASLE ZA 1,8 ODSTO U NOVEMBRU
Cene na malo u Jugoslaviji u novembru porasle su za 1,8 odsto, a
troskovi zivota za 2,2 odsto u odnosu na oktobar, saopstio je
danas Savezni zavod za statistiku (S).
Prema podacima S, u novembru u odnosu na isti mesec prosle godine
zabelezen je rast cena za 65,6 odsto, dok su u odnosu na decembar
cene povecane za 52 odsto.
,,Za kretanje cena robe i usluga u novembru karakteristicna je
dalja stabilizacija. Prema statistickoj proceni, za poslednjih 10
godina, izuzev 1994, ovo ce biti godina u kojoj je zabelezen
najmanji rast cena na malo'', rekla je na konferenciji za stampu
pomocnik direktora S Mirjana Rankovic.
Posmatrano po grupama proizvoda i usluga, u novembru najvise su
povecane cene poljoprivrednih proizvoda, za 6,9 odsto.
Industrijski prehrambeni proizvodi poskupeli su za 0,1 odsto, a
industrijski neprehrambeni proizvodi za 3,2 odsto. Cene duvana
nisu promenjene, dok su cene pica povecane za 0,6 odsto, a usluga
za 0,5 odsto.
SRBI U ISTOCNOJ SLAVONIJI TRAZE REFERENDUM
Srbi u istocnoj Slavoniji su zatrazili odrzavanje referenduma na
kojem bi se odredio administrativni status ove oblasti, javlja
AFP, pozivajuci se na neke nagovestaje u hrvatskoj stampi. Tako
danasnji ,,Vjesnik'' tvrdi da je Vojislav Stanimirovic, lider Srba
u istocnoj Slavoniji, poslednjoj oblasti pod kontrolom Srba koja
treba da bude vracena u sastav Hrvatske, izjavio da Srbi zele da
ta oblast bude posebno podrucje.
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POLITICKI RAZLOZI IZA UKIDANJA TV EMISIJE
Popularna emisija ,,Treca strana medalje'' zagrebacke ,,Otvorene
televizije'' skinuta je s programa iz, kako njeni autori kazu,
,,politickih razloga'', javlja AFP.
,,Skinuti smo s programa sinoc u 20.15 casova'', izjavio je Vlado
Pavlinic, urednik ove kontakt emisije. ,,Umesto emisije dobili smo
samo kratko objasnjenje da se nismo pristojno ponasali prema
upravi. Rec je o cisto politickom potezu, objasnjenje je samo losa
isprika'', smatra Pavlinic.
Program je redovno emitovan na ,,Otvorenoj televiziji'' (OTV),
koju finansira Evropska Unija (EU). Sinocnja emisija imala je za
temu odnose Hrvatske sa zapadnim susedima, Slovenijom i
Madjarskom.
Pavlinic je naglasio da u emisiji ,,nije bilo niceg kontroverznog,
vec je bila zamisljena kao otvorena razmena misljenja i stavova''.
Emisija je realizovana u saradnji sa Udruzenjem Hrvata u
inostranstvu, organizacijom koja se bavi odnosima Hrvata ,,u
domovini'' i dijaspori, koja je, inace, obilato finansijski
pomagala Hrvatsku od prvih dana proglasenja nezavisnosti i u toku
sukoba sa Srbima 1991. i 1992. godine.
DRUGA NEDELJA STRAJKA HRVATSKIH ZELJEZNICARA
Strajk zeljeznicara ulazi vec u drugi tjedan, iako su strajkaci
izlozeni sve grubljim priticima, donekle popustili, javlja
dopisnik FoNeta Zarko Modric.
Poslije niza niskih udaraca usmjerenih uglavnom na pojedince u
organizaciji strajka, strajkacki odbor je odlucio da uspostavi
cjelokupni putnicki promet, pa stanovnistvo vise ne osjeca
neposredne posljedice strajka.
Ne voze jedino teretni vlakovi, sto je paradoksalno, mozda cak i u
interesu vlasti, koja ne pristaje na pregovore sa zeljeznicarima.
Hrvatska privreda, naime, ionako stvara samo gubitke, pa je dugi
strajk najbolji alibi za vladajucu partiju, jer ce za sve
ekonomske probleme okriviti strajkace.
Strajk je vec dospio i pred sud jer Uprava zeljeznice tvrdi da je
nezakonit. Vrhovni sud ce o tuzbi Uprave drzavnih zeljeznica
odlucivati iduceg tjedna.
Bez obzira na relativni neuspjeh zeljeznicara, val strajkova u
Hrvatskoj ne jenjava jer krajem iduceg tjedna, strajkove
najavljuju drzavni cinovnici, koji su mirnim demonstracijama prije
desetak dana trazili povecanje svojih mizernih placa za 10 posto,
zatim jos 15 posto sredinom godine i novih 10 posto pocetkom 1998.
godine. Vlada za sada pristaje na povecanje placa od pet posto i
jos sest do sedam posto sredinom sljedece godine.
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PRIPADNICI IFOR UHVATILI GRUPU PLJACKASA
Pripadnici francuskog kontingenta u sastavu IFOR juce su uhapsili
grupu pljackasa koji su provaljivali u kuce u jednom srpskom selu
i odnosili sve sa sobom, javlja AFP, pozivajuci se izvore u IFOR.
Prema ovim izvestajima, najmanje 20 pljackasa opremljeni sa osam
vozila provalili su u cetiri kuce u srpskom selu Bovici, juzno od
Konjica, izneli sve sto se u njima nalazilo, a zatim pokusali da
se vrate na teritoriju Muslimansko-hrvatske federacije, odakle su
i krenuli, ali su ih pripadnici IFOR zaustavili.
,,Pljackasi su ne samo poneli stvari iz kuca vec su skinuli vrata,
prozore, pa cak i kucne pragove'', izjavio je predstavnik IFOR,
major Bret Budro, i dodao da su ,,uhvaceni u poslednjem
trenutku''.
Francuski vojnici su ih odveli u policijsku stanicu na teritoriji
Federacije gde im je naredjeno da opljackane stvari vrate a vrata,
prozore i ostale delove zgrada ponovo ,,pricvrste''.
Samo dva sata nakon ovog incidenta, francuski vojnici su uhvatili
dvojicu pljackasa koji su pokusali da provale u pravoslavnu crkvu
u istom selu.
IFOR ZAPLENIO PROTIVAVIONSKI SISTEM BOSANSKIH SRBA
Komanda IFOR danas je saopstila da su americki vojnici u okolini
Brckog, prilikom rutinske kontrole, zaplenili protivavionski
raketni sistem bosanskih Srba, javlja AFP.
Rec je o sistemu SA-14, koji nije bio prijavljen IFOR-u, kao sto
predvidja Dejtonski sporazum.
RAZGOVORI O RADU KOMISIJE ZA NESTALE OSOBE
Predsednik Narodne skupstine Republike Srpske Dragan Kalinic
razgovarao je danas na Palama sa sefom Ureda Medjunarodne komisije
za nestale osobe na podrucju bivse Jugoslavije Ervinom Boijem o
radu ovog novoformiranog tela, javlja SRNA.
,,Predlozio sam predsedniku Kalinicu da bude predstavnik RS u ovom
telu i on ce nam za par dana dati konacan odgovor o tome'',
izjavio je Boi posle sastanka.
Predstavnici vlada SR Jugoslavije i Hrvatske u Komisiji za nestale
osobe su ministri inostranih poslova -- Milan Milutinovic i Mate
Granic.
Predsednik Predsednistva BiH Alija Izetbegovic i clan
Predsednistva Kresimir Zubak su na sastancima u Sarajevu obecali
da ce imenovati predstavnike Federacije BiH u ovom telu.
,,Radi se o tome da Komisija izvrsi pritisak na sve vlade zemalja
bivse Jugoslavije da daju odgovore na pitanja o nestalim
osobama'', rekao je Boi, dodajuci da je zadatak Komisije i da
omoguci medjusobno komuniciranje porodica nestalih.
Predsedavajuci Komisije, bivsi drzavni sekretar SAD Sajrus Vens i
clanovi -- visoki komesar za ljudska prava Hoze Ajala Laso,
predsednik MKCK Kornelio Somaruga, visoki komesar za pitanja
nacionalnih manjina Maks van der Stol i bivsi americki ambasador u
UN Herbert Okun -- od 25. do 28. novembra boravili su u Banjaluci,
Sarajevu, Vukovaru, Beogradu i Zagrebu.
IZBORNA TISINA OD PONOCI, REFERENDUM U NEDELJU
U ponoc pocinje u Sloveniji izborna tisina pred referendum na
kojem bi gradjani, u nedelju, trebalo da se izjasne za jedan od
tri predloga izbornog sistema. Slovenci ce 8. decembra birati
izmedju cistog vecinskog izbornog sistema, koji predlaze
Socijaldemokratska stranka Janeza Janse, proporcionalnog sistema,
prema kojem bi cela Slovenija bila jedna izborna jedinica, koji je
predlozila Liberalno-demokratska stranka Janeza Drnovseka, i
kombinacije vecinskog i proporcionalnog sistema, ciji je predlagac
Drzavno vece slovenackog parlamenta. Vecina gradjana Slovenije,
prema nekim anketama, nije obavestena o sustini predlozenih
izbornih sistema i nije zainteresovana za izjasnjavanje na
referendumu. Slovenacki parlament ce nastaviti modifikaciju
sadasnjeg proporcionalnog izbornog sistema, ako nijedan od
predloga ne dobije podrsku na referendumu.
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U.S. Revives Broadcasts That Milosevic Silenced
Chill Enters Relations With Serbian Leader
By Michael Dobbs
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 5 1996; Page A01
The Washington Post
The United States yesterday signaled a chilly new phase in its
up-and-down relationship with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic by
announcing that the Voice of America will beam news programs into his
country by an independent Serbian radio station that the embattled
president shut down earlier this week.
Over the past week, U.S. spokesmen have steadily ratcheted up the
rhetoric level against the 55-year-old Serbian leader, who currently
faces public protests that represent the most serious challenge yet to
his power.
Milosevic was regarded until recently in Washington as the indispensable
guarantor of the peace agreement in Bosnia, which borders Serbia. But
public and private comments by U.S. officials suggest that the Clinton
administration no longer regards Milosevic as vital to peace in the
Balkans and would shed no tears about his overthrow.
"Milosevic probably needs us at this point more than we need him," said
State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, announcing that Washington
will permit the Voice of America to rebroadcast news programs by the
independent Serbian radio station, B-92, which was closed down earlier
this week by the Belgrade government.
The administration's point man on the Balkans, Assistant Secretary of
State John Kornblum, said that Washington continued to regard Milosevic
as a legal "guarantor" of the 1995 Dayton agreement on Bosnia. He added,
however, that the Serbian leader's importance to the United States was
"decreasing" as new political institutions take root in Bosnia.
The State Department also said yesterday it has extracted a promise from
the Belgrade government not to use force to end daily marches by up to
150,000 anti-Milosevic demonstrators, whose protests were sparked by
reversal of opposition victories in last month's municipal elections.
Burns said the pledge was made by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan
Milutinovic at a meeting in London with Deputy Secretary of State Strobe
Talbott.
Serbia is the dominant part of what remains of Yugoslavia, which broke
apart in 1991 and 1992. U.S. officials said they believed that
Yugoslavia is in such dire economic straits that the card of militant
Serbian nationalism that Milosevic once played so effectively is no
longer a viable option. In the American view, Milosevic or any of his
likely replacements are desperate about ending Serbia's political
isolation in order to regain access to international capital markets.
"They have only one direction to go, and that is the direction of Europe
and cooperation with the West," one administration Balkan expert said.
Official U.S. attitudes toward Milosevic have gone through several
cycles since his rise to power in 1987, when he pushed Communist Party
rivals aside by turning himself into the symbol of the newly unleashed
forces of Serbian nationalism. U.S. diplomats in Belgrade initially
regarded him as a vigorous politician who could break the political
deadlock that had developed following the death of Josip Broz Tito in
1980 and push through much-needed economic reforms.
By 1991, as it became increasingly apparent that Yugoslavia was headed
for a violent breakup, the U.S. view of Milosevic had turned
overwhelmingly negative. In cables to the State Department, the last
U.S. ambassador to Belgrade, Warren Zimmermann, accused Milosevic of
fanning civil wars among rival ethnic groups in Bosnia and Croatia.
Former secretary of state Lawrence S. Eagleburger bluntly labeled him a
"war criminal."
In 1995, the American view of Milosevic went through a further
evolution, as the Serbian leader discarded his nationalist rhetoric and
begin to put pressure on his Bosnian Serb allies to make peace. At the
Dayton talks, U.S. officials found Milosevic to be the most flexible and
accommodating of all their Balkan partners, and looked to him to make
the key concessions.
Although U.S. officials continued to criticize Milosevic for his
authoritarian ways, they did not make a major public issue out of
domestic political repression in Serbia proper until recently. When
Secretary of State Warren Christopher visited Belgrade in February, he
did not find time to meet with any of the leading political opponents to
Milosevic.
"The Clinton administration adopted a deferential approach toward
Milosevic because they saw him as a key player in the Dayton process,"
said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, an
independent group.
U.S. policy toward Milosevic now appears to have entered a fourth phase.
While no U.S. official is predicting Milosevic's imminent downfall, the
Clinton administration has decided that it has little to gain, and
potentially a lot to lose, by soft-pedaling its criticism of the Serbian
strongman. Fairly or unfairly, its earlier restraint had served to fan
suspicions by anti-Milosevic demonstrators that he had the support of
the United States.
As the demonstrations got underway in Belgrade last month, the
protesters marched past the U.S. Embassy and burned an American flag.
Opposition leaders criticized the U.S. charge d'affaires in Belgrade,
Richard Miles, for permitting himself to be filmed on state-run Serbian
television touring factories during the election campaign in October.
"There was a perception [among the demonstrators] that the U.S. had
decided to back Milosevic, that he was our man," said Zimmermann. "The
VOA announcement is clearly intended to rectify this, and put the U.S.
where it ought to be."
In a telephone interview from London, where he is attending a Bosnia
reconstruction conference, Kornblum disputed the notion that the United
States had played down criticism of political repression in Serbia. He
said that he had taken care to meet with opposition leaders and
independent groups, whenever he was in Belgrade.
"I have met Milosevic 14 or 15 times and there has not been a single
time when I have not raised with him the issues of democracy, human
rights, and questionable economic policies. This has been a standard
aspect of my conversations with him," Kornblum said.
U.S. officials also appear to be taking a more favorable view of the
leading opposition politicians. A few months ago, U.S. experts on the
Balkans were describing the opposition as a fractious group that did not
pose a credible threat to Milosevic. They noted, for example, that the
principal opposition leader, Zoran Djindjic, campaigned in favor of Serb
nationalists during the Bosnian election campaign last summer.
Yesterday, a U.S. Balkan expert described Djindjic as "charismatic and
pragmatic . . . a very interesting figure with a lot of potential," and
predicted that he would be forced to adopt a pro-Western position if he
ever achieved power.
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Milosevic, Opposition At Standoff
Western Officials Fear Return to Repression
By John Pomfret
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, December 5 1996; Page A39
The Washington Post
President Slobodan Milosevic met with Serbian officials Nov. 18 to
monitor results of local elections held the previous day. Things did not
look good for Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia, which has ruled
with an iron hand for nine years. An opposition coalition of five
political parties was leading in 15 of Yugoslavia's 19 biggest cities.
But Milosevic, according to participants in the meeting, was
philosophical. Defeat in some cities might enliven his party, he
suggested. "An opposition victory is like a jumbo jet," one participant
quoted the president as saying. "The key will be to show the people that
they haven't got a pilot."
But now, more than two weeks later, Milosevic has exchanged his soft
words for tough deeds.
Victories of the opposition coalition, Together, have been reversed in
all but one Serbian city, either by state-run court decisions or by
dictums. Serbian officials have branded largely peaceful street protests
in Belgrade as "fascistic" and "terroristic." Hundreds of riot police
have been bused to the capital, and 32 protesters, mostly students, have
been arrested, sparking fears of a wider, bloody crackdown. Milosevic's
government has pulled the plug on the last two independent radio
stations in the capital and a third independent broadcaster in
Milosevic's home town, prompting widespread condemnation in Washington
and elsewhere.
As Milosevic's position has hardened, the opposition has followed suit.
Following a simple call for Milosevic to respect the results of the
local polls, the opposition demanded that he step down as president of
Serbia. One opposition leader, Danica Draskovic, urged protesters to
throw bombs at Milosevic's house. Another leader, Zoran Djindjic, used
foul language to insult the president.
Seventeen days into the most serious challenge to the rule of a man
widely blamed for starting wars in Croatia and Bosnia, Milosevic and the
opposition both appear to have backed themselves into corners. An uneasy
standoff has brought Belgrade to a virtual standstill, and Western
diplomats and Serbian officials say they see no easy way out.
Western officials worry that the results of this standoff will not be
good for Yugoslavia or for this troubled region, the scene of four wars
in the last 100 years. The longer a stalemate persists, the higher the
chances that a crackdown could transform the streets of Belgrade from a
festive monument to democratic change into a new symbol of repression in
central Europe.
Already, a Janus-faced pattern of life has emerged in the capital. The
opposition controls Belgrade by day, with two protests -- one by
students and the other by Belgrade's impoverished middle class. At
night, the Socialists retake the town, dominating the airwaves with a
skewed version of the day's events. Today, for example, more than
150,000 protesters peacefully jammed downtown in one of the biggest
protests yet. Tonight, however, TV Serbia's news, seen throughout the
country, reported that the protest was filled with violence.
Hopes had been raised for a British initiative to resolve the dispute.
British Ambassador Ivor Roberts, working with New Democracy, a political
party of businessmen close to Milosevic, proposed several face-saving
alternatives that would force the opposition to back down from its
demands that Milosevic leave office in exchange for the president
recognizing the results of the polls.
"Milosevic's people said they would consider it. At one stage they
appeared positively attracted by it, and then they went cold," a senior
Western European diplomat said.
The opposition also backed away from the compromise. After receiving a
letter from Roberts in which he requested that its contents remain
confidential, opposition leader Vuk Draskovic, the husband of Danica
Draskovic, read it aloud to 25 opposition officials. Then, in a speech
to a crowd of protesters, he lambasted the idea of a special Serbian
parliamentary board to investigate the electoral results -- one of
Roberts's proposals.
"We've moved back to the time of black and white," said a Serbian
official who tried to arrange a compromise between the two sides.
"Everyone is radicalized."
Time does not appear to be on the side of either combatant.
Milosevic already has set himself back months, if not years, in his
efforts to integrate Yugoslavia into the West. The European Union
recently postponed indefinitely a decision on tariffs that would have
allowed this country to sell millions of dollars' worth of goods to
Europe. The United States this week blocked the International Monetary
Fund from coming to Belgrade for talks on Yugoslavia's reentry into
international financial institutions.
While there is no threat that U.N. economic sanctions will be reimposed
on Yugoslavia, the country will stay "an economic shambles" as long as
Milosevic continues to defy the will of his people, a senior Western
official said.
The opposition too appears to have little idea how to proceed.
Draskovic and other leaders were shocked that their coalition did so
well in the Nov. 17 vote, the opposition said. Once it became clear that
Milosevic was intent on overturning the results, the opposition also was
taken aback that their calls for protests routinely brought 100,000
people out onto the streets of Belgrade.
But, as one Western official said, "you can't keep people marching until
the year 2000."
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Milosevic Relents on Radio Stations
Belgrade Protests Continue
By Mark J. Porubcansky
Associated Press Writer
Thursday, December 5, 1996; 5:57 p.m. EST
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Slobodan Milosevic permitted a small radio
station that symbolizes the struggle for civic freedoms to go back on
the air Thursday as he sought to defuse the biggest protests ever
against him.
There were other signs the Serbian president was trying to take the
steam out of the opposition's protests. Thursday, the 17th consecutive
day of protests, 100,000 demonstrators came out on the streets of
Belgrade to decry the annulment of Nov. 17 local elections won by the
opposition.
The head of Belgrade's election commission told BK television he would
appeal to the Supreme Court to uphold the original election results.
In another attempt at appeasing the protesters, the government said it
would make good on late pension payments and provide student loans and
grants.
Veran Matic, chief editor of B 92 radio, said its return to the air
Thursday evening was ``a big step for the democratic process in Serbia,
and a sign ... for Serbia to begin serious democratic reforms.''
He credited domestic and foreign pressure on Milosevic for the reversal
of Tuesday's closure of his station. Voice of America and other foreign
broadcasters had picked up the station's broadcasts on their own
frequencies.
Another radio station, Radio Index, was allowed to resume operating at
full power after two days of broadcasting at sharply reduced frequency.
Matic said he would continue to press for the lifting of a ban on a
third station, BOOM 93, in Milosevic's hometown of Pozarevac.
But Zoran Djindjic, a leader of the opposition Zajedno coalition, said
allowing B 92 back on the air was not enough.
``It's purely cosmetic,'' as is anything short of recognizing the
opposition election victory, he said.
Deputy Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic told reporters the
entire election process -- including the annulment of the opposition
victory -- had been carried out ``according to the law.''
``Demonstrations do not help democracy and peace,'' he said.
But Milosevic, acknowledged even by his foes as a shrewd operator,
apparently misjudged the huge opposition to his annulment of the local
election results. The action has led to the biggest protests against
Milosevic since he took power in 1987.
Belgrade's small private radio stations were curbed after broadcasting
extensive reports on the protests.
On Thursday, protesters carried candles and tossed paper airplanes at
government buildings, and a car carried a near-life-size image of
Milosevic in a prison uniform.
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As protests mount, Serbia's hard line begins to soften
Dissident media back on the air
December 5, 1996
Web posted at: 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 GMT)
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- As street protests in Belgrade pick up
steam, the Serbian government for the first time is showing signs of
succumbing to the pressure.
Instead of ignoring or condemning the marches, officials Thursday began
to distance themselves from their root cause: a decision ratified by the
Supreme Court to overturn an opposition triumph in local elections last
month.
With international condemnation of the move escalating along with the
marches, Serbia's Deputy Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic deflected
blame for the unrest.
"Courts, being a judiciary, are entirely independent of influence of
anybody, be it political, be it administrative, be it party of any other
political leaders," Jovanovic said.
B-92 broadcasts again
After cracking down of press earlier this week, officials let
independent news broadcasts from Belgrade's most popular station, Radio
B-92, back on the air Thursday after two days of silence.
The student station Radio Index, another opposition media outlet that
was switched off Tuesday, also returned to the air.
The small radio stations, together with a handful of independent
publications, have offered the only coverage of street demonstrations
that erupted after the election results were overturned.
State television, radio and newspapers have portrayed the wave of
peaceful demonstrations as led by outlaws advocating "terrorism."
The easing of censorship follows a U.S. government decision to increase
Voice of America programming that can be heard in Belgrade.
Calculated but risky
The latest government move is calculated but risky. It may reduce the
level of international criticism on press freedom. But it might help
protesters build their movement, a task they were continuing in the
streets.
An estimated 100,000 marchers gathered again Thursday, depicting Serbian
President Slobodan Milosevic as a thief who stole their votes and
ignores their stand.
The protesters have grabbed attention and raised concern in Washington
and Europe. But in Serbia both the government and the leaders of big
business brush them aside as unrepresentative of the majority of people.
Too busy making money
Consider Lubomir Mihailovich, a Belgrade banker who dismisses the
protesters as fun-seekers who aren't serious about overthrowing the
government.
Though noise from the protests were audible from his plush offices in
central Belgrade, Mihailovich expressed confidence the demonstrations
would subside.
"They can't destabilize the country," he said. "They're just having fun,
the workers aren't with them. I don't hear them. I don't see them. I'm
too busy."
It's difficult for anyone in downtown Belgrade to ignore the protesters,
who continue to limit their actions to generally non-violent and
symbolic gestures. They threw paper airplanes at the offices of Belgrade
TV and lit candles in memory of truth, which they claim was extinguished
by the government.
It seems like good-natured dissent -- for now. But there's no way of
telling how long it will last, or how it will end.
CNN Correspondent Brent Sadler and Reuters contributed to this report.
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AP Photos BEL101-106<
By MARK J. PORUBCANSKY=
Associated Press Writer=
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic
acted Thursday to defuse the biggest protests against his rule,
permitting a small private radio station symbolizing the struggle
for civic freedoms to go back on air.
There were other signs of a move toward compromise.
The head of Belgrade's election commission said he would appeal
to the Supreme Court to overturn the annulment of Nov. 17 local
elections in some places won by the opposition. That annulment
sparked weeks of protest. More than 100,000 opposition supporters
again hit Belgrade streets Thursday.
B 92 radio, which has broadcast reports from anti-Milosevic
protests, was shut down on Tuesday by officials who said it had no
permission to operate.
On Thursday, Milosevic caved in to foreign and domestic
pressure, and the radio station resumed operating at 7 p.m. (1800
GMT) with live broadcast of a news conference announcing its
resurrection.
"Radio B 92 is back on the air again," said a statement from
the station.
The return to the airwaves came after the United States put
strong pressure on Milosevic about the radio station. It can only
be heard in central Belgrade but is an important symbol of the
struggle against Milosevic's authoritarian rule.
Veran Matic, the station's chief editor, told The Associated
Press that the resumption of broadcasting was "a big step for the
democratic process in Serbia, and a sign ... for Serbia to begin
serious democratic reforms."
Editors said they had received a fax from official Serbian radio
and TV, whose transmitters they used, that they had been out of
service due to technical problems.
Radio staff said they would continue to press for a written
contract so the government cannot pull the plug on them again.
Earlier in the day, another private radio station, Radio Index,
resumed broadcasting at full power after two days of being severely
restricted.
The United States lent its backing to B 92 by broadcasting its
taped reports on Voice of America. Other foreign short-wave
broadcasters did the same.
If the Belgrade election commission successfully appeals to the
Supreme Court to overturn the annulment of local elections, that
could defuse the biggest-ever protests against Milosevic, who has
governed Serbia since 1987.
The president, acknowledged even by his foes as a shrewd
political operator, apparently misjudged the scale of protest that
would result from overturning the local election results.
In Belgrade, more than 100,000 people took to the streets once
more, for the 17th day. They carried candles and tossed paper
airplanes at government buildings. A car carried a near-lifesized
image of Milosevic in a prison uniform.
On Thursday, he not only rowed back on the media, but loosened
the government's purse strings in another signal he was interested
in compromise before workers and others join the protests and he is
forced to give away some real power.
Belgrade newspapers reported that the government would pay up on
October pensions and increase them by almost 14 percent. Student
loans and grants, also chronically behind, will be paid out in the
next two weeks, the reports said.
That followed word from state TV late Wednesday of a reduction
in electricity prices. They were hiked just before last month's
local elections, when Milosevic's ruling Socialists lost in dozens
of towns and cities to a united oppositon.
The electricity price reduction was bannered Thursday on the
front pages of state-controlled newspapers.
Opposition leader Zoran Djindjic accused Milosevic of
"shamelessly defending his power without caring about any law."
In comments to Associated Press Television, he called on the
international community to isolate Milosevic.
The decrease and pension payments appeared aimed at defusing
anger over Serbia's ruined economy. To date, workers and farmers
have not joined the street protests, confined mostly to students,
intellectuals and the middle class in Belgrade.
Unrest has not taken in those who are struggling hardest to make
ends meet, such the elderly and industrial workers.
Pension payments are chronically late. The government said
October pension checks would be paid in one lump sum, instead of
the normal two halves, and increased by 13.7 percent.
That will make October's average pension check worth 709 dinars
(dlrs 139).
Payment of student loans and grants, perhaps intended to take
some stream out of students' protests, should start on Dec. 20.
But buying out of trouble is risky. Serbia's mismanaged economy
is in dire shape. New spending means printing money, threatening a
return of inflation - in check since a monetary reform in January
1994 ended hyperinflation.
The opposition is better organized than it ever has been. And
Milosevic is seeing opposition from some traditional supporters.
Some judges have spoken out against political control of the
courts, and on Thursday newspaper reports said Serbian Information
Minister Aleksandar Tijanic was resigning to protest pressure on
independent media. That could not be confirmed.
Journalists from Belgrade's private BK television, run by
Tijanic, published a letter of support for student demonstrators in
the independent Nasa Borba newspaper on Thursday.
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Milosevic Raises Fears of Bloody Crackdown
By John Pomfret
The Washington Post
05.12.96.
BELGRADE - President Slobodan Milosevic met with Serbian
officials Nov. 18 to monitor results of local elections held the
previous day. Things did not look good for Milosevic's Socialist
Party of Serbia, which has ruled with an iron hand for nine years.
An opposition coalition of five political parties was leading in 15
of Yugoslavia's 19 biggest cities.
But Milosevic, according to participants in the meeting, was
philosophical. Defeat in some cities might enliven his party, he
suggested. 'An opposition victory is like a jumbo jet,' one
participant quoted the president as saying. 'The key will be to
show the people that they haven't got a pilot.'
But now, more than two weeks later, Milosevic has exchanged his
soft words for tough deeds.
Victories of the opposition coalition, Together, have been
reversed in all but one Serbian city, either by state-run court
decisions or by dictums. Serbian officials have branded largely
peaceful street protests in Belgrade as 'fascistic' and
'terroristic.' Hundreds of riot police have been bused to the
capital, and 32 protesters, mostly students, have been arrested,
sparking fears of a wider, bloody crackdown. Milosevic's government
has pulled the plug on the last two independent radio stations in
the capital and a third independent broadcaster in Milosevic's home
town, prompting widespread condemnation in Washington and
elsewhere.
As Milosevic's position has hardened, the opposition has
followed suit. Following a simple call for Milosevic to respect the
results of the local polls, the opposition demanded that he step
down as president of Serbia. One opposition leader, Danica
Draskovic, urged protesters to throw bombs at Milosevic's house.
Another leader, Zoran Djindjic, used foul language to insult the
president.
Seventeen days into the most serious challenge to the rule of a
man widely blamed with starting wars in Croatia and Bosnia,
Milosevic and the opposition both appear to have backed themselves
into corners. An uneasy standoff has brought Belgrade to a virtual
standstill, and Western diplomats and Serbian officials say they
see no easy way out.
Western officials worry that the results of this standoff will
not be good for Yugoslavia or for this troubled region, the scene
of four wars in the last 100 years. The longer a stalemate
persists, the higher the chances that a crackdown could transform
the streets of Belgrade from a festive monument to democratic
change into a new symbol of repression in central Europe.
Already, a Janus-faced pattern of life has emerged in the
capital. The opposition controls in Belgrade by day, with two
protests - one by students and the other by Belgrade's impoverished
middle class. At night, the Socialists retake the town, dominating
its airwaves with a skewed version of the day's events. Wednesday,
for example, more than 150,000 protesters peacefully jammed
downtown in one of the biggest protests yet. Wednesday night,
however, TV Serbia's news, seen throughout the country, reported
that the protest was filled with violence.
Hopes had been raised for a British initiative to resolve the
dispute. British Ambassador Ivor Roberts, working with New
Democracy, a political party of businessmen close to Milosevic,
proposed several face-saving alternatives that would force the
opposition to back down from its demands that Milosevic leave
office in exchange for the president recognizing the results of the
polls.
'Milosevic's people said they would consider it. At one stage
they appeared positively attracted by it, and then they went
cold,' a senior Western European diplomat said.
The opposition also backed away from the compromise. After
receiving a letter from Roberts in which he requested that its
contents remain confidential, opposition leader Vuk Draskovic, the
husband of Danica Draskovic, read it aloud to 25 opposition
officials. Then, in a speech to a crowd of protesters, he lambasted
the idea of a special Serbian parliamentary board to investigate
the electoral results - one of Roberts' proposals.
'We've moved back to the time of black and white,' said a
Serbian official who tried to arrange a compromise between the two
sides. 'Everyone is radicalized.'
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German parliament unites to rap Serbia
(Releads with parliamentary motion of support)
BONN, Dec 5 (Reuter) - The German parliament united on
Thursday to express support for opposition groups in Serbia and
warn President Slobodan Milosevic his hardline stance on dissent
would lead to international isolation.
Deputies passed unanimously an all-party motion criticising
Serbian authorities for annulling the results of local elections
won by the opposition and closing independent radio stations.
"The German parliament supports the demands of the
opposition in Belgrade for the recognition of the local election
results and for democratic reforms," the motion said.
Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel said European Union foreign
ministers, meeting in Brussels on Friday, would have to look
seriously at whether the 15-nation bloc should offer economic
support to the Serbian government.
"What is going on in Belgrade at the moment is an attack on
peoples' democratic rights," Kinkel told parliament in a
statement on the role of human rights in foreign policy.
The parliamentary motion said Serbia's actions violated the
democratic principles of the Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe and would hinder Belgrade's attempts to
enter the "structures of the family of European states".
"Continuing to disregard democratic rules and limiting press
freedom will lead to a new isolation of Belgrade and to serious
consequences from the international community and the European
Union," it said.
The United Nations last year removed trade sanctions on
Serbia. But an "outer wall" remains, denying Serbia funds from
the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, as well as
membership in the United Nations and other organisations.
"Anyone who deprives citizens of their vote and their rights
will have difficulty finding the path to Europe," Kinkel said.
"Annulling elections which have taken place democratically is
not acceptable."
Karl-Heinz Hornhues, chairman of parliament's foreign
affairs committee, said it would be wrong to loosen any of the
remaining restrictions at the moment.
"It would be totally unacceptable to strengthen the position
of the Serbian president through trade benefits which would also
be a slap in the face to the opposition," he told the Neue
Osnabruecker Zeitung daily.
More than 120,000 opposition supporters flooded central
Belgrade on Wednesday for a 17th day of demonstrations against
Milosevic's ruling Socialist Party.
REUTER
1341 051296 GMT
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Zanimljiv tekst iz lista SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE od 3. decembra... u
pitanju su lokalne novine u San Francisku koje objavljuju uglavnom
vesti o kupovinama, cenama, rasprodajama i slicno. Ovo je bilo na
udarnom mestu, prva strana:
Belgrade's Unheard Heroes Keep Broadcasting
Radio station jammed by government
By Chris Hedges
New York Times
Belgrade
Bumbling along behind the 100,000 or so protesters who circle the city
center each afternoon in Belgrade, his head buried inside the hood of
his thick yellow parka and his hands fumbling with a tape recorder, a
mobile phone, and a walkie-talkie, was a portly and disheveled radio
reporter.
To look at Aleksandar Timofejev, 31, is to know that his is not a
glamorous profession. His black shoes were soaked with cold water, his
pants flecked with mud, and his hands red with cold in the blustery
weather.
But it is not just the weather that conspires daily to thwart
Timofejev. For almost a week, the government has been jamming his
station, B-92, the only independent news radio station left in Serbia.
It is now impossible for the reporter to hear his own work.
But just to fight the thick buzz that is now transmitted over their
frequency, he and his colleagues trudge the streets to transmit live
coverage of the rallies. Citizens in Belgrade and some other cities
are protesting the government's nullification of local election results
and calling for President Slobodan Milosevic to step down.
They continued to do so yesterday, defying government scare tactics and
a blizzard. On Sunday night, Milosevic controlled state television and
a senior government official lashed out at opposition leaders, branding
them fascists and terrorists and comparing them to Hitler. The verbal
attack, and a similar tone in headlines in state-run newspapers yesterday,
suggested that Milosevic is losing patience and preparing to use police to
crush the marches.
"I don't know who can hear me, but I do my job", Timofejev said. "I
still report. Someone else, somewhere in this city, is doing his job,
which is to jam my broadcasts."
If there are any heroes in this wave of anti-government protests that
have gone on for two weeks, it is the 35 reporters, announcers, and
editors in Radio B-92. The decision to broadcast into the void has
earned the station the admiration of the tens of thousands of
protesting Serbs, many of whom push through the throngs each afternoon
to pat the radio reporters on the back and offer words of
encouragement.
"I can hear you" a middle-aged man shouted at Timofejev. "I stand in
the water in my bathtub holding the antenna, and I pick you up. My
whole family comes in to listen."
Radio B-92, founded in 1989 by a Youth Council that vanished in
the dissolution of Yugoslavia, operates out of four cramped rooms on
the fifth floor of a dilapidated building, which was put up without the
permit by the owners. In 1989, the radio got a legal license to operate
for 15 days, but since then it has never had legal status and has been
in constant danger of being closed.
"We are a nonexistent company owned by a nonexistent organization
that broadcasts from nonexistent building into silence," said Veran
Matic, 34, the head of the station.
The government of Milosevic often uses the state-run media to rail
against the radio station, which has always reported on the opposition.
B-92, which took its name from the emergency telephone number for the
Belgrade police, was one of the scattered voices that opposed
Milosevic's virulent nationalism, which stoked the tensions that led to
the war in Croatia and Bosnia.
B-92 organized peace rallies and urged listeners to dodge the draft.
It mounted drives to send clothing and medicine to those trapped in
besieged Sarajevo. "We are more than a radio station," Matic said. "We
are a movement of people who believe there are more civilized ways to
live. We have always believed that things here could change."
The station, which once in a while can be picked up on the edges of
the city where the jamming is less effective, pumps out alternative
music and arts programming. It has a following among students,
professionals and intellectuals.
The evening newscast, which goes the theme song from "The Good, The
Bad, and The Ugly," was, until it was jammed, the nation's most
important outlet. Stations in other cities broadcast it through
telephone lines.
Late at night, Miomir Grujic, a blind disc jockey known as Fleka, began
his acerbic three-hour show of talk and the latest Serbian rock music,
called "The Bat."
"Good evening, zombies," he said. "Good evening, zombie town."
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:: Sta kaze Bela kuca
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White House Urges Serbia to Honor Election Results<
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States urged Serbia on Wednesday to
accept opposition victories in last month's local elections.
The White House also condemned Serbia's decision to close
independent radio stations that had been reporting on massive
anti-government demonstrations.
It called on the government of President Slobodan Milosevic to
respect the rights of the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators
who have peacefully paraded through the streets of Belgrade to
protest Milosevic's decision to nullify the election results.
"These steps undermine the election process and invalidate
Serbian leaders' claims that they are committed to democracy,"
White House press secretary Mike McCurry said.
"Attempts to stifle the opposition's call to respect the
democratic will of the people and to keep the Serbian people in the
dark will only exacerbate the situation," McCurry said.
"The continuing demonstrations around the country show that the
Serb people take seriously their right to choose their leaders,"
he said.
Denial of democratic rights, including the annulment of the Nov.
17 victories by opposition parties in municipal elections, "can
only lead to the continued decline and isolation of Serbia,"
McCurry said.
He commended Milosevic's opponents for holding fast to
nonviolent tactics and urged the Serbian government "to avoid any
use of force against peaceful protesters."
"The Serbian government should harbor no illusions: Any
crackdown will provoke a strong reactions from the international
community, resulting in Serbia's further isolation," McCurry said.
The two weeks of protests since the election have turned into a
major political crisis in Serbia and pose the biggest threat ever
to Milosevic's eight years of rule.
Although Milosevic has made no direct move against the
protesters themselves, on Tuesday he shut down three independent
radio stations - two in Belgrade and one to the southeast - in an
attempt to stop reporting on the demonstrations.
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Thursday December 5 3:54 PM EST
Record 150,000 Demonstrate in Belgrade
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (Reuter) - Two independent radio stations were
allowed to resume broadcasts Thursday as a record 150,000 protesters
took to the streets of Belgrade to demonstrate against Serbian
President Slobodan Milosevic.
Serbia's opposition scented possible victory in their campaign against
fraud by the ruling party when the Belgrade election commission asked
the supreme court to review disputed results in municipal voting.
The move followed signals that Milosevic had ordered steps to be taken
to appease students and supporters of the opposition Zajedno coalition
who have harassed the ruling Socialists with 18 days of mass
demonstrations.
As a huge throng protested in Belgrade and 25,000 mustered in the
southern town of Nis, Belgrade's main independent radio station B-92
was allowed back on the air after being shut this week amid a U.S.-led
international outcry.
Radio Index, whose transmitter was also switched off after it
broadcast live reports on the daily demonstrations, returned to t air
shortly before B-92.
Zajedno was told the central election commission sought a decision
from the supreme court on the fate of seats the opposition claimed it
won in Belgrade in elections Nov. 17.
The court is expected to issue a ruling within 48 hours and the
commission said the public prosecutor was asked to start an
investigation, implying that prosecutions could follow.
Milosevic's Socialists first admitted defeat but then had Zajedno's
majority revoked due to unspecified "irregularities."
The suppression of the biggest setback for Socialist rule in Serbia
since World War II set off the most intense challenge Milos has faced
since he gained power in 1987.
Students paraded an effigy of Milosevic in prison garb through
Belgrade Thursday and built a brick wall outside the federal
parliament to symbolize the gulf between the Serbian people and the
ruling party.
A student organizer who gave his name only as Boris said: "We are
trying to prove that we are building Serbia up, not destroyin it like
Milosevic. Milosevic and his politicians are cut off from the people."
Milosevic, warned by the United States not to resort to violence, has
already begun a purge of party officials accused of elect fraud and
offered olive branches to the people.
The government has promised cash for students and pensioners together
with cheaper electricity for the nation.
Efforts to pave the way to a solution coincided with the return of
Milosevic's wife Mirjana from a visit to India.
Mrs. Milosevic, an avowed Marxist who leads her own party in alliance
with the Socialists, is reputed to wield strong influence over her
husband.
The Serbian leader also met President Momir Bulatovic of Montenegro,
Serbia's partner in the Yugoslav federation, which has issued cries of
alarm over the Belgrade turmoil.
Milosevic was reported to have accepted the "resignation" of the
Socialist boss in the southern town of Nis where blatant stuff of
ballot boxes with Socialist votes triggered the first protests.
Belgrade newspapers said Serbian Information Minister Aleksander
Tijanic, a government stalwart, had also resigned.
Other high-ranking officials in the capital and provinces were
expected to be sacrificed as Milosevic distanced himself from th main
culprits to placate the demonstrators.
Zajedno leaders said the resignations showed Milosevic was in serious
trouble and that they would stick by their demands for a confirmation
of their electoral victory.
Vesna Pesic, head of the Civic Alliance, one of three parties in the
Zajedno coalition, told Reuters the resignations would not satisfy an
angry population. "Our economy is destroyed and our living standard
keeps going down ... There's an accumulation of dissatisfaction."
The government is increasingly concerned that workers will be drawn
into the protests in pursuit of pay demands.
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Friday December 6 8:55 AM EST
Milosevic Popularity Plunges Amid Protests
BELGRADE (Reuter) - Public support for Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic has fallen sharply since students and opposition parties
assailed his socialist government with demonstrations and charges of
election rigging, a magazine poll said Friday.
As students gathered for a 19th day of street protests and Milosevic
showed signs of backing down, the bi-monthly Nin said the president's
popularity rating had fallen from 26 to 16.5 percent.
The rating of Zoran Djindjic, the most popular leader of the Zajedno
(Together) opposition coalition, rose from two to 10 percent in the
poll conducted earlier this month.
Students and opposition have been campaigning against Milosevic in the
streets since Zajedno accused the ruling Socialists of robbing it of
victory in the second round of local elections on November 17.
In one of a series of concessions by the authorities on Thursday,
banned independent radios were allowed to start broadcasting again and
the supreme court was asked to review the election results.
"Milosevic gives in, to recognise second round?" the daily Dnevni
Telegraf said in a headline on Friday.
The Socialists initially admitted they lost the polls in Belgrade but
then changed their minds and overturned the result. Zajedno claims it
also won in Nis, Serbia's second city, as well as other towns.
The supreme court was due to issue a ruling within 48 hours and the
commission said the public prosecutor was asked to start an
investigation.
A Socialist official, who asked not to be named, said the government
was eager to "reduce tensions" after coming under heavy Western
criticism over its handling of the crisis.
The official hinted the ruling party might concede defeat in
industrial Nis, where reports of blatant vote-rigging helped trigger
the first protests. "The courts will decide" who won in Nis, he said.
International condemnation, led by the United States, forced the
government to reinstate Belgrade's main independent radio station B-92
after banning it from the air on Tuesday to halt its live reports of
street marches.
Djindjic said the protests had restored hope for the first time since
1991, when Milosevic crushed street demonstrations with tanks and
water cannon.
"For six years we grew accustomed to defeat, but now that we have
tasted victory we are not ready to accept defeat any more," Djindjic
told crowds in Belgrade's central Republic Square.
Earlier, students paraded an effigy of Milosevic in prison garb
through the city and built a brick wall outside the federal parliament
to symbolise the gulf between the Serbian people and the Socialists.
A student organiser named Boris said: "We are trying to prove that we
are building Serbia up, not destroying it like Milosevic. Milosevic
and his politicians are cut off from the people."
Efforts to pave the way to a solution coincided with the return of
Milosevic's wife Mirjana from a visit to India.
An avowed Marxist who leads her own party in alliance with the
Socialists, she is reputed to wield strong influence over her husband.
The Serbian leader also met President Momir Bulatovic of Montenegro,
Serbia's partner in the Yugoslav federation, which has barely
concealed its alarm at the Belgrade turmoil.
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vesti.540mmarkovic,
-> #509, corto> TIJANICEVA OSTAVKA
> Dao sam neopozivu ostavku na mesto Ministra za informisanje i o
> tome obavestio premijera.
Ovaj čovek me non-stop zbunjuje...
Nikako da steknem sliku o njemu... ?!?
vesti.541johnnya,
-> #506, guta >> To, na žalost, u vestima ne piše :( No, ako neko sazna, ne bilo
>> mu zapoveđeno... ;)
Eto, nadam se da ću biti prvi...
URL : http://www.sps.org.yu
e-mail : info@sps.org.yu
----- mali izvodi sa home page-a ----
Tokom 1996 godine, pocelo se sa izgradnjom globalne racunarske mreze
SPS-a sa ciljem da se povezu vitalne jedinice ove organizacije iz cele
Srbije. Racuna se da ce ovakav vid komunikacije uveliko pribliziti SPS
modernim svetskim tokovima sto i nije cudno ako se zna da danas vecina
informacija ide preko racunarskih mreza.
SPS racunarska mreza bi trebala da pruzi svojim korisnicima brzu i
efikasnu komunikaciju, lak pristup udaljenim podacima i servisima.
Izlaskom takve mreze na INTERNET, dobice se kako na marketingu tako i
na sposobnosti da se, ako se INTERNET bude koristio na pravi nacin,
ostane u centru svetskih zbivanja.
Na sledecim stranicama, upoznacete se poblize sa organizacijom
racunarske mreze SPS-a.
vesti.542nenad,
-> #540, mmarkovic> Ovaj čovek me non-stop zbunjuje...
>
> Nikako da steknem sliku o njemu... ?!?
Jednostavno je procenio sa koje strane vetar duva, pa na vreme da
promeni stranu. Laži i falsifikati mu nisu smetali za vreme
predizborne kampanje, sad mu odjednom smetaju...
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VESTI DANA
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BERNS POZIVA SRPSKE VLASTI NA RAZGOVOR SA OPOZICIJOM
Sjedinjene americke drzave zatrazile su veceras od vlasti u Srbiji
da otvore dijalog sa opozicijom, cije pristalice vec 18 dana
protestvuju na ulici, javlja Rojter.
Predstavnik Stejt dipartmenta Nikolas Berns izjavio je da je
Beograd ovih dana preduzeo mere prema opoziciji, ali, kako je
rekao, ,,Sjedinjene drzave veruju da bi srpska vlada sada trebalo
da ode i korak dalje... trebalo bi da pokrene otvoreni dijalog sa
opozicijom u Srbiji''.
Na konferenciji za stampu on je naglasio da za Srbiju ,,nije
dovoljno'' da dozvoli da dve nezavisne radio stanice nastave sa
emitovanjem programa i da ,,razmislja'' o promeni svoje odluke da
ponisti izborne rezultate od 17. novembra, koje opozicija tvrdi da
je dobila.
,,Nije vreme za poslove kao obicno u Srbiji. Vreme je da
demokratski procesi krenu napred u Srbiji'', naglasio je Berns.
,,Opoziciji mora biti omoguceno da ucestvuje u politickom zivotu
zemlje. Opozicija sada slobodno ucestvuje na ulicama zemlje. Treba
je pustiti u strukture vlasti. Treba je pustiti u vladine urede'',
rekao je predstavik Stejt dipartmenta.
RUSIJA PROTIV VRACANJA SANKCIJA JUGOSLAVIJI
Rusija se odlucno izjasnjava protiv svake mogucnosti ponovnog
uvodjenja sankcija protiv Jugoslavije, izjavio je agenciji
,,Interfaks'' visoki funkcioner Ministarstva inostranih poslova.
Ovaj neimenovani diplomata rekao je da zvanicna Moskva na sve sto
se ovih dana desava u Srbiji gleda kao na iskljucivo unutrasnju
stvar samih Jugoslovena.
On je posebno podvukao da to ni u kojoj meri ne moze biti
upotrebljeno kao razlog ili osnova za ponovno uvodjenje
medjunarodnih sankcija protiv Beograda.
Ako do podnosenja neke nove anti-jugoslovenske rezolucije Savetu
bezbednosti Ujedinjenih nacija, medjutim, i dodje, Rusija ce
ponovo iskoristiti lisabonsku varijantu da bi blokirala eventualne
pokusaje da se obnove sankcije protiv Jugoslavije, istakao je ovaj
funkcioner.
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Odraz B92 vesti do 22 sata, 6. decembar 1996.
KETI MORTON U BEOGRADU
Predsednik najvece organizacije americkih medija, ,,Komiteta za
zastitu novinara'', dosla je danas u Beograd da bi, kako je rekla:
,,izrazila solidarnost americkih novinara sa slobodom stampe u
bivsoj Jugoslaviji''.
,,Nisam ovde da bih u ime americkih novinara izrazavala bilo kakvu
politicku podrsku. Ako budem imala priliku da se susretnem sa
predstavnicima opozicije, onda se nadam da cu od njih dobiti
obecanje da ce podrzavati pravo na slobodu medija.
Zaista sam srecna zbog toga (sto je Radio B92 ponovo u etru). To
je dobar pocetak. Mislim da problemi oko emitovanja nikada nije ni
trebalo da se dese. Drago mi je da smo poceli da preduzimamo
korake koji su sto dalje od onoga sto je izgledalo kao veoma
opasna situacija. Srecna sam i nadam se da mozemo jos vise da
napredujemo.
Srescu se sa novinarima i iz radija i televizije i stampe,
nezavisnim novinarima kojima je, kako mi se cini, potrebna podrska
njihovih americkih kolega.
Nadam se da cu se takodje sresti i sa predsednikom Milosevicem i
da cu mu reci ono sto sam saznala od novinara. Izrazicu
zabrinutost Sjedinjenih drzava zbog nedostatka postovanja
slobodnog novinarstva u Srbiji'' rekla je predsednica americkog
,,Komiteta za zastitu novinara''.
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PROTESTNA SETNJA I MITING U BEOGRADU
Vise od 100.000 demonstranata obelezilo je i ovaj, sedamnaesti dan
protesta u Beogradu. Danasnja protestna setnja imala je, kako se
ispostavilo, uobicajenu marsrutu jer su demonstranti i danas
predvodjeni lutkom predsednika Srbije u robijaskom odelu, dzipom
sa ozvucenjem i liderima koalicije ,,Zajedno'', prosli pored
zgrada Skupstine Srbije, zgrade RTS-a i ,,Politike''. Ispoljavanje
protesta gadjanjem papirnim avionima i drzanjem zapusenih noseva,
danas je, medjutim, bilo dopunjeno i paljenjem stotina sveca u
zardinjerama pred tim zgradama.
Ucesnici protesta su aplauzom i skandiranjem pozdravili redakcije
Radio Indeksa i Radija B92, a primecen je i transparent sa
natpisom ,,Ziveo koaksijalni kabl''. Na zavrsnom mitingu na Trgu
republike lideri koalicije ,,Zajedno'' danas su, pak, ponovili da
cenkanja sa izbornim rezultatima nece biti i da se ne trazi
priznavanje samo izborne pobede u Beogradu, nego i one u Nisu,
Kraljevu i Pirotu.
,,Oni su mislili mi cemo odustati, a nas je dva puta vise nego sto
nas je bilo i na izborima'' -- rekao je lider demokrata Zoran
Djindjic.,,Iako su na zadatku, drago mi je da se medju nama nalaze
i milicioneri u civilu'' dodao je Djindjic i nastavio:
,,ozdravljam nase milicionere i one koji su u civilu medju nama. I
oni ce moci da kazu -- bili smo na demonstracijama. Obecali su im
kao i drugim milicionerima da ce dobiti drugi deo novembarske
plate i oba dela decembarske plate. A mi im kazemo dobicete i
platu za celu sledecu godinu jer ce ovo da potraje''.
Predsednik GSS, Vesna Pesic obavestila je demonstrante da se juce
licno uverila kako i desetine hiljada gradjana Nisa i Pirota ne
misle da odustanu od svoje pobede. ,,Bude li Vrhovni sud konacno
ispostovao izbornu volju gradjana, a mediji postanu slobodni ljudi
ce se vratiti uobicajenom zivotu, a opozicija pripremama za
republicke izbore'', rekao je predsednik SPO-a Vuk Draskovic.
,,Ne postoji ni jedna drzava u Evropi koja nije osudila rezim i
podrzala nase zahteve'', rekao je Draskovic i osudio izjavu sefa
ruske diplomatije Jevgenija Primakova koji je ,,rekao da se ne
treba mesati u unutrasnje stvari Srbije''.
Draskovic je rekao da je uputio pismu predsedniku Rusije Borisu
Jeljcinu u kome je u ime svih gradjana koji protestuju izrazio
nadu da ,,glas Primakova nije bio glas Jeljcinove Rusije vec iz
Rusije iz groba''. Protest je i za sutra zakazan za 15 casova na
Trgu republike.
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DJINDJIC POZVAN NA MOLITVENI DORUCAK U VASINGTON
Demokratska stranka saopstila je danas da je americki kongresmen
Bil Baret uputio predsedniku DS Zoranu Djindjicu poziv da
ucestvuje 6. februara na tradicionalnom molitvenom dorucku u
Vasingtonu.
Tom dorucku redovno prisustvuju predsednik i potpredsednik SAD,
clanovi Predstavnickog i Senata, kao i clanovi Vlade. Djindjic je
pozvan u ime 28 kongresmena i senatora SAD i ,,oslovljen kao
'izabrani gradonacelnik Beograda''', navodi se u saopstenju DS.
POZAREVACKI RADIO ,,BUM 93'' TRAZI PRIVREMENU DOZVOLU ZA RAD
Nezavisni radio ,,Bum 93'' uputio je danas zahtev za izdavanje
privremene dozvole za rad Saveznom ministarstvu za saobracaj i
veze i Saveznoj upravi za radio veze.
Emitovanje programa ove radio stanice zabranio je savezni
inspektor za radio-veze 3. decembra zbog ,,neposedovanja dozvole
za rad'' i ,,ometanja rada drugih radio stanica''.
,,Ova zabrana predstavlja najveci udar na demokratiju i slobodu
izrazavanja i moze u velikoj meri da steti ugledu nase zemlje i
predsednika (Srbije Slobodana) Milosevica u svetu'', navodi se u
zahtevu Radija Bum 93.
Ta radio stanica navodi da radi u skladu sa Planom radiodifuznog
sistema namenjenog lokalnoj radiodifuziji i ne ometa programe od
znacaja za Srbiju.
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OKO 20.000 GRADJANA NA SKUPU U NISU
Oko 20.000 gradjana okupilo se danas, devetnaestog dana, u Nisu na
protestu zbog ponistavanja rezultata lokalnih izbora.
,,Socijalisti su svuda krali, ali su to najgrublje radili u Nisu.
Sada pokusavaju da se elegantno izvuku, ali to nas nece
zadovoljiti. Odgovorni za ovakvu kradju morace da odgovaraju po
slovu zakona'', rekao je na mitingu potpredsednik Skupstine Srbije
Vojislav Mihajlovic.
Na mitingu su govorili i potpredsednik Srpskog pokreta obnove
Miroslav Milutinovic, potpredsednik Nezavisnog sindikata
zemljoradnika Srbije Zivadin Stojcic . Miting je okoncan setnjom
kolone kroz grad, a na celu povorke bilo je nekoliko taksi-vozila.
PODRSKA SUDIJAMA VRHOVNOG SUDA SRBIJE
Kolegijum sudija Veca za prekrsaje u Nisu podrzao je danas sudije
Vrhovnog suda Srbije koji su protestovali zbog narusavanja casti i
profesionalnosti sudstva u Srbiji. ,,Pruzamo podrsku sudijama
Vrhovnog suda Srbije koji su se kao nosioci pravosudne funkcije u
najvisoj pravosudnoj instanci Srbije oglasili u ovom delikatnom
trenutku nase profesije'', navodi se u saopstenju niskog Veca za
prekrsaje.
Sudije su se ogradile od ,,bilo kakvog uticaja dnevne politike''
na njihov ,,samostalan i nezavistan rad u vrsenju sudijske
duznosti''. To saopstenje potpisali su svi clanovi Kolegijuma
Veca, predsednik Veca sudija Mica Canak i clanovi Veca sudija
Gordana Pavlovic, Vesna Filipovic i Branivoje Mitic. Saopstenje
niskih sudija procitano je na danasnjem protestnom mitingu u
centru Nisa.
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ZAPOSLENI U BK NE DAJU TIJANICA
Peticija koju je danas potpisalo oko 140 zaposlenih u Televiziji
,,BK telekom'' upucena je predsedniku Sistema ,,Braca Karic'',
Bogoljubu Karicu, sa zahtevom da ,,ne dopusti'' direktoru te
televizije, Aleksandru Tijanicu, da ode iz televizije.
,,Postovani gospodine predsednice Karicu, ne dajte Aleksandra
Tijanica!!!'', jedina je recenica ispod koje su se ti zaposleni
potpisali u peticiji, uz opasku, ,,Vasa BK Televizija''.
Tijanic je danas saopstio da je dao ostavku na mesto republickog
ministra za informacije i rekao da je ostavku ponudio i
predsedniku Kompanije Bogoljubu Karicu, na mesto direktora BK
Televizije. Tu ostavku je Karic odbio.
RATKO KNEZEVIC: UKINUTI SVE SANKCIJE PREMA CRNOJ GORI
Sef nedavno otvorene trgovinske misije Crne Gore u Vasingtonu
Ratko Knezevic izjavio je da eventualno ponovno uvodjenje sankcija
ni u kom slucaju ne bi trebalo da se odnosi i na Crnu Goru, ciji
su novembarski izbori, kako je naglasio, bili demokratski i pomno
praceni od strane medjunarodne zajednice.
Prema Knezevicevim recima, evidentno je da ne postoji ni jedan
razlog da i Crna Gora ponese teret dodatnih sankcija, kojima prete
Sjedinjene Drzave zbog nedemokratskog ponasanja rezima u Beogradu.
Ocenjujuci da ponistavanje demokratskih izbora pripada praksi
totalitarnih rezima, sef trgovinske misije Crne Gore u Vasingtonu
naglasio je tim povodom da je rukovodstvo u Podgorici apsolutno
jedinstveno u stavu da se rezultati opstinskih izbora u Srbiji
moraju priznati onakvim kakvi su bili.
Prema Knezevicevim recima, i postojeci spoljni zid americkih
sankcija ne bi trebalo da se odnosi na Crnu Goru, imajuci u vidu
cinjenicu da Kosovo nije u sastavu ove federalne jedinice kao i
potvrdjenu spremnost vlade u Podgorici da u svakom slucaju
saradjuje sa medjunarodnim tribunalom u Hagu.
Crna Gora ce, stoga, kako je receno u ovoj izjavi, pojacati napore
u Vasingtonu, i prema Evropskoj uniji u Briselu, da se sto pre
oslobodi postojeceg spoljnog zida sankcija i izbori za
medjunarodnu finansijsku pomoc, koja joj je neophodna u zapocetom
procesu privatizacije i trazenih ekonomskih reformi.
vesti.549corto,
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ODRAZ B92, Beograd Dnevni informativni servis
Odraz B92 vesti do 22 sata, 6. decembar 1996.
KRAJISNIK ,,ZABRINUT'' ZBOG ZBIVANJA U SRBIJI
Clan predsednistva Bosne i Hercegovine Momcilo Krajisnik izrazio
je danas ,,ozbiljnu zabrinutost'' zbog situacije u Srbiji.
U izjavi AFP-u, Krajisnik je rekao da ,,nema dovoljno
informacija'' da bi mogao stati na neciju stranu, pozivajuci obe
strane da pocnu razgovore da rese spor oko izbora.
,,Mislimo da problemi moraju biti resavani udruzenim naporima
obeju strana. Moraju sesti za sto sto je pre moguce, jer ono sto
se dogadja je stetno za Srbe i stabilnost Jugoslavije'', rekao je
Krajisnik.
,,Ovi dogadjaji su veoma uznemirujuci i sve sto se dogadja u
Jugoslaviji se ozbiljno prati u Republici Srpskoj'', dodao je on,
naglasavajuci da ,,ako buduci dogadjaji budu dramaticniji, svi ce
izgubiti''.
JUGOSLAVIJA CE BITI POZVANA KAD ISPUNI USLOVE
Devet zemalja jugoistocne Evrope potpisalo je danas americku
inicijativu, ciji je cilj privlacenje privatnog kapitala u taj
region i jacanje ekonomske integracije sa ostatkom Evrope, javlja
AFP.
Specijalni pomocnik za pitanja nacionalne bezbednosti americkog
predsednika Bila Klintona Ricard Sifter objavio je na sastanku u
Zenevi da je danas ,,osnovana Inicijativa za saradnju sa
jugoistocnom Evropom'', koju su zasad potpisale Albanija, Bosna i
Hercegovina, Bugarska, Makedonija, Grcka, Madjarska, Modlavija,
Rumunija i Turska.
Hrvatska i Slovenija, koje su prisustvovale dvodnevnom sastanku,
nisu potpisale saopstenje kojim se ozvanicava ova inicijativa.
Savezna Republika Jugoslavija ostala je, kako navodi AFP,
,,nepozvana'' na skup, posle demonstracija u Beogradu protiv
ponistavanja izbornih rezultata.
,,Nije rec o pokusaju da se Beograd zauvek iskljuci'', rekao je
Sifter. ,,Ukoliko se (pitanje izbora) na zadovoljavajuci nacin
resi, namera nam je da ih pozovemo da ucestvuju'', dodao je on.
NA KONFERENCIJI UNTAES-A OBECANA POMOC OD 30 MILIONA DOLARA
Kancelarija Ujedinjenih nacija u Zagrebu danas je saopstila da je
na konferenciji donatora odrzanoj u Zagrebu u organizaciji UNTAES-
a, obecana pomoc u vrednosti od preko 30 miliona americkih dolara
za obnovu istocne Slavonije, Baranje i zapadnog Srema.
Na konferenciji pod nazivom 'Izazov obnove' ucestvovalo je preko
240 predstavnika drzava i medjunarodnih organizacija, koji su
izneli projekte obnove za koje je neophodna finansijska pomoc.
UNTAES je procenio da je, na duzi rok, za rekonstrukciju ovog
regiona neophodno obezbediti sumu od preko milijardu dolara.
vesti.550corto,
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Odraz B92 vesti do 22 sata, 6. decembar 1996.
DODATAK
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INFORMATIVNI CENTAR NEVLADINIH ORGANIZACIJA O HAPSENJIMA U VREME
PROTESTA
Petog decembra 1996. u Beogradu je osnovan Informativni centar
nevladinih organizacija. Zadatak Centra je da redovno prati i
dnevno izvestava o stanju ljudskih prava u Jugoslaviji, narocito
povodom situacije nastale nakon ponistavanja i menjanja rezultata
lokalnih izbora u Srbiji. Ovaj Centar cine nevladine organizacije
za zastitu ljudskih prava, Fond za humanitarno pravo, Beogradski
centar za ljudska prava, Grupa 484 i Vece za ljudska prava.
Informativni centar ove organizacije sakupio je i u obliku biltena
objavio informacije o problemima koje su imali gradjani u
gradovima Srbije za vreme protesta koji se odrzavaju vec dve
nedelje. U biltenu se nalaze sledece informacije.
U Jagodini 3. decembra 1996. godine, uvece, na demonstracijama
povodom ponistavanja rezultata lokalnih izbora, uhapsen je
dvadesetpetogodisnji Zoran Petrovic iz Jagodine, zaposlen u
preduzecu ,,Srbokoka'', zbog toga sto je navodno bacio petardu za
vreme demonstracija. Policajac u civilu izdvojio ga je iz mase
demonstranata i priveo u SUP. Petrovic je tek oko ponoci pusten.
Sutradan mu je uruceno resenje sudije za prekrsaje kojim mu je
izrazena kazna zatvora u trajanju od 10 dana. Odmah nakon urucenja
resenja Zoran Petrovic je upucen u zatvor.
U subotu 30. novembra 1996. godine u Beogradu dezurni sudija za
prekrsaje Mira Djuricic izrekla je kazne zatvora dvanaestorici
privedenih demonstranata, i to rukovodeci se direktivom dobijenom
od drugostepenog prekrsajnog organa da se u slucajevima protiv
uhapsenih demonstranata izricu iskljucivo zatvorske kazne, a ne
novcane, zakonom inace predvidjene kao alternativne. Najmladji
medju uhapsenima (osamnaestogodisnji mladic) dobio je sedam dana
zatvora zbog navodnog bacanja dva jogurta za vreme demonstracija.
Ostali su dobili izmedju sedam i deset dana. Zalbe izjavljene
protiv resenja o kaznjavanju nisu zadrzale njihovo izvrsenje, tako
da su mladici odmah upuceni na izdrzavanje kazni. Roditeljima i
advokatima nije dozvoljen kontakt sa osudjenima. U medjuvremenu su
sve zalbe odbijene.
Prema navodima advokatske kancelarije iz Jagodine, 3. decembra
1996. godine izvesni Jovica, zvani Dzibra, ucestvovao je u
demonstracijama ispred TV Jagodina, gde je sa ostalim ucesnicima
uzvikivao protestne parole. Pripadnici organa unutrasnjih poslova
izdvojili su ga iz mase demonstranata, odvukli do sluzbenog
automobila, usput ga udarajuci pesnicama i sluzbenim palicama,
zbog navodnog vredjanja milicionara koji su obezbedjivali
televiziju. Nakon toga, priveden je u MUP odakle je pusten istog
dana. Potom je osudjen prekrsajno na 20 dana zatvora i upucen na
izdrzavanje kazne.
Prema podacima advokata iz Kraljeva, u poslednjih desetak dana je
vise lica pozivano i privodjeno na ,,informativne razgovore'' i
zadrzavano u policiji vise sati. Tom prilikom su ispitivani o
ucescu na demonstracijama, pri cemu je na njih vrsen pritisak da
na demonstracijama vise ne ucestvuju. Advokat koalicije
,,Zajedno'', koji je policiji podneo prijavu za odrzavanje
demonstracija, takodje je priveden na informativni razgovor kod
nacelnika MUP Kraljevo, Rase Milijanovica.
4. decembra 1996. godine u Beogradu, na demonstracijama povodom
ponistavanja lokalnih izbora, iz pravca Slavije, ulicom Srpskih
vladara, kretala se nepregledna kolona studenata. Istovremeno, iz
suprotnog smera od Terazija ka Slaviji kretala se kolona
automobila. Saobracajni milicionar koji je regulisao saobracaj na
raskrsnici umesto da zaustavi saobracaj dao je znak koloni
automobila da nastavi u pravcu kojim su se kretali demonstranati i
to bez obzira na to sto su se oni kretali sredinom ulice.
Posto su automobili na celu kolone odbili da nastave u pravcu u
kojem ih je saobracajac upucivao, saobracajac je prisao najblizem
vozilu i zapoceo s pretnjama terajuci vozaca na demonstrante.
Nemajuci drugog izbora, vozac je krenuo ka demonstrantima, a za
njim i ostala vozila. Kako nisu mogli da nastave u tom pravcu,
vozaci su skretali na trotoar, sto je saobracaj u tom delu grada
dovelo do potpunog kolapsa. Prema navodima brojnih ocevidaca, ovo
je deo sire prakse policije upravljene na ometanje demonstracija i
izazivanje nezadovoljstva gradjana prema demonstrantima.
vesti.551corto,
-> #540, mmarkovic> Nikako da steknem sliku o njemu... ?!?
Nevaspitani siledzija koji jako voli da slusa svoj glas, a pritom ima
osobit talenat da oceni kad treba da promeni stranu. Tako je od
sportskog novinara i dogurao do ministra..... Nismo ga se jos resili.
PS Za mene je mnogo vece razocarenje drug Bogdan Tirnanic ;)
vesti.552n.ceh,
-> #541, johnnya ...
Jo> Na sledecim stranicama, upoznacete se poblize sa organizacijom
Jo> racunarske mreze SPS-a.
E, nije ni Internet ono sto je nekad bio... otkad svako moze da se pojavi
sa Home Page-om, postao je pravo selo. Bezveze.
Ceh.
vesti.553mmarkovic,
-> #541, johnnya> e-mail : info@sps.org.yu
I ? Šta biva sa jajima? ;)
vesti.554guta,
Slede vesti Agencije Beta, datirane:
07.12.1996.
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vesti.555guta,
BEOGRAD - Vise od 100.000 gradjana okupilo se u petak na Trgu
republike posle protestne setnje kroz centar Beograda.
Demonstranti su 17. dana protesta prosli pored Skupstine
Srbije, zgrade Radio-televizije Srbije i "Politike" i gadjali
ih papirnatim avionima, a ispred njih ostavili upaljene svece.
Ispred povorke u kojoj su bili lideri koalicije "Zajedno" isao
je covek sa upaljenom svecom i parolom na kojoj je pisalo "Ovo
je profasista iz ETS 'Nikola Tesla'". Na vozilu sa ozvucenjem,
koje ide sa povorkom, stajala je velika lutka predsednika
Milosevica u zatvorenickom odelu.
[Beta]
vesti.556guta,
BEOGRAD - Lider DS Zoran Djindjic rekao je u petak
demonstrantima u Beogradu da "nema cenkanja" oko izborne pobede
"Zajedno" na lokalnim izborima, jer "niko nema pravo da ponisti
volju gradjana". "Nije nama bitna pobeda zato sto smo mnogo
dobili osvajanjem vlasti u opstinama i gradovima. Nama je
pobeda potrebna zbog toga sto hocemo da uspostavimo pravilo po
kome niko nikada nece moci da dodje na vlast preko krvi,
nasilja i pljacke", rekao je Djindjic. Predsednica GS Vesna
Pesic rekla je da Srbija "nece vise da zivi u totalnom
medijskom mraku u kome Beograd ne zna sta se desava u Nisu i
obrnuto". Lider SPO Vuk Draskovic pozvao je Milosevica da
"licno sudijama Vrhovnog suda Srbije naredi da sude po pravdi
kako bi bili vraceni mandati koalicije 'Zajedno'".
Kao "izabrani gradonacelnik Beograda" Zoran Djindjic je juce
pozvan na tradicionalni molitveni dorucak u Vasingtonu 6.
januara 1997. Uz podsecanje da dorucku prisustvuje predsednik
SAD, clanovi Kongresa i Senata, DS je saopstila da je poziv
uputio Bil Baret u ime dvadesetosmorice kongresmena i senatora
SAD.
[Beta]
vesti.557guta,
BEOGRAD - Oko 30.000 beogradskih studenata protestovalo je u
petak. Oni demonstriraju vec 13 dana, zahtevajuci formiranje
republicke izborne komisije na paritetnoj osnovi koja bi
utvrdila tacne rezultate izbora. Oni su za vreme protesta
zatrazili i ostavke rektora Beogradskog univerziteta Dragutina
Velickovica i studenta-prorektora Vojina Djurdjevica.
Studentima su se obratili pisci Miroslav Josic-Visnjic i
Milorad Pavic, glumci Ksenija Jovanovic, Dragan Nikolic, Dragan
Bjelogrlic, reditelj Dejan Mijac, kao i profesorka na Fakultetu
dramskih umetnosti Milena Dragicevic-Sesic.
[Beta]
vesti.558guta,
BEOGRAD - Bivsi guverner Narodne banke Jugoslavije Dragoslav Avramovic
pozdravio je u petak je beogradske studente. "Podrzavam studente, oni se
bore za svoja prava. Sa njima setam svaki dan".
[Beta]
vesti.559guta,
BEOGRAD - Ministar informisanja u vladi Srbije Aleksandar
Tijanic izjavio je u petak da je dao neopozivu ostavku na tu
funkciju i da je o tome obavestio premijera Mirka Marjanovica.
"Odluku o ostavci doneo sam pre 14 dana, ali sam sacekao da se
sa puta vrati gospodin Bogoljub Karic, predsednik Kompanije BK,
da prvo njega obavestim", rekao je Tijanic. On je istakao da
njegova ostavka "nije politicka, pa nema dodirnih tacaka sa
aktuelnim protestima u Srbiji ili sa zahtevima i tumacenjima
nekih ljudi sa simsa na Terazijama - oni se zaklinju u slobodu
medija, a novine koje uredjuju ne predstavljaju onaj obrazac
medija za koje se ja zalazem". Bogoljub Karic nije prihvatio
Tijanicevu ostavku na mesto direktora BK Telekoma, tako da ce
on, do daljeg, obavljati tu funkciju.
[Beta]
vesti.560guta,
BEOGRAD - Oko 140 zaposlenih u Televiziji "BK
telekom" potpisalo je u petak peticiju i uputilo je
predsedniku Sistema "Braca Karic", Bogoljubu Karicu, sa
zahtevom da "ne dopusti" direktoru te televizije, Aleksandru
Tijanicu, da ode iz televizije.
[Beta]
vesti.561guta,
BEOGRAD - Republicki ministar za gradjevinarstvo i
predsednik beogradskog odbora SPS Branislav
Ivkovic izjavio je u petak da je zahtev za ponistavanje
rezultata izbora "samo izgovor koalicije Zajedno, dok je njen
pravi cilj destabilizacija Srbije". On je rekao da je broj
ucesnika protesta, koji navode strani mediji "preteran".
[Beta]
vesti.562guta,
KRAGUJEVAC - Vise hiljada Kragujevcana nastavilo
je u petak proteste zbog ponistavanja izbornih
rezultata i pruzanja podrske gradovima koji takodje protestuju.
Na mitingu je govorio republicki poslanik Boris Tadic koji je
porucio da narod Srbije "trese drvo vlasti" i da ce, "ako
treba, protestovati do Djurdjevdana".
[Beta]
vesti.563guta,
KRAGUJEVAC - Grupa od 15 sudija Opstinskog suda u Kragujevcu
obratila se u petak javnosti porukom da ne prihvata donosenje
sudskih odluka "pod uticajem ili pritiskom pojedinaca,
politickih stranaka ili predstavnika najvisih drzavnih organa".
U saopstenju "Mi nismo lopovi", sudije isticu da donosenje
odluka pod pritiskom predstavlja "ne samo grubo krsenje Ustava
i Zakona od strane nosilaca pravosudnih funkcija, vec degradira
cast i ugled profesije sudija, a celokupno pravosudje dovodi u
podanicki polozaj". "Podrzavamo kolege koji su se vec oglasili
i pozivamo celokupno pravosudje Srbije da nam se javno pridruzi
u borbi za nezavisnost, samostalnost sudstva i odbranu casti,
ugleda i dostojanstva sudijskog poziva".
vesti.564guta,
NIS - Oko 20.000 gradjana okupilo se u petak, 12.
dana, u Nisu na protestu zbog ponistavanja
rezultata lokalnih izbora. "Socijalisti su svuda krali, ali su
to najgrublje radili u Nisu. Sada pokusavaju da se elegantno
izvuku, ali to nas nece zadovoljiti. Odgovorni za ovakvu kradju
morace da odgovaraju po slovu zakona", rekao je na mitingu
potpredsednik Skupstine Srbije Vojislav Mihajlovic.
[Beta]
vesti.565guta,
NIS - Kolegijum sudija Veca za prekrsaje u Nisu podrzao je u
petak sudije Vrhovnog suda Srbije koji su protestovali zbog
narusavanja casti i profesionalnosti sudstva u Srbiji. "Pruzamo
podrsku sudijama Vrhovnog suda Srbije koji su se kao nosioci
pravosudne funkcije u najvisoj pravosudnoj instanci Srbije
oglasili u ovom delikatnom trenutku nase profesije", navodi se
u saopstenju.
vesti.566guta,
NOVI SAD - Oko 15.000 studenata i srednjoskolaca u petak je
izaslo na ulice Novog Sada u znak solidarnosti sa protestima
koalicije "Zajedno". Stotinak profesora Novosadskog
univerziteta se pridruzilo studentima svojim potpisima podrske,
a njih desetak je govorilo na mitingu ispred Filozofskog
fakulteta.
[Beta]
vesti.567guta,
BEOGRAD - Novi predsednik Jugoslovenskog olimpijskog komiteta
je Dragan Kicanovic, direktor jugoslovenske muske kosarkaske
reprezentacije. On je na ovom mestu zamenio dosadasnjeg
predsednika Aleksandra Bakocevica.
[Beta]
vesti.568guta,
PALE - Clan Predsednistva BiH Momcilo Krajisnik
izjavio je danas da je Republika Srpska vrlo
zabrinuta situacijom u Srbiji. "Ti dogadjaji su vrlo neprijatni
i sve sto se desava u SRJ jako se odrazava na RS", rekao je on.
Nije zeleo da se izjasni da li je na strani opozicije ili
Milosevica, ocenjujuci da "ne raspolaze dovoljnim
informacijama".
[Beta]
vesti.569guta,
BEOGRAD - Jugoslovensko udruzenje za ustavno pravo osudilo je u
petak sve pokusaje vlasti da "nelegitimnim i nelegalnim
sredstvima, i krseci ustav i zakone", onemoguci izrazavanje
volje gradjane na izborima. Udruzenje je podrzalo protest
studenata i gradjana i zatrazilo od vlasti u Beogradu i celoj
zemlji da bez odlaganja "odustane od pokusaja falsifikovanja
izbornih rezultata, kao i gusenja slobodnih medija, cime
izaziva izlive opravdanog nezadovoljstva sa nesagledivim
posledicama".
[Beta]
vesti.570guta,
PODGORICA - Opoziciona crnogorska koalicija "Narodna
sloga" optuzila je u petak predsednika Crne Gore
Momira Bulatovica da "planira razvoj zemlje sa glavnim krivcem
sveukupne tragedije" dok "citav svet osudjuje diktatorski rezim
Milosevica". Koalicija je konstatovala da je taj susret pokazao
da je "jasno da Bulatovic stoji cvrsto u zagrljaju svog
politickog oca".
[Beta]
vesti.571guta,
BRISEL - Sefovi diplomatija Evropske unije su na zasedanju u
Briselu osudili "nedemokratsko ponasanje vlasti u Beogradu u
vezi sa lokalnim izborima" i izrazili "veliko divljenje prema
mirnim demonstracijama" naroda u Srbiji, izjavio je u petak
predsedavajuci Saveta ministara Evropske unije, irski ministar
Dik Spring.
[Beta]
vesti.572guta,
BRISEL - Evropski savet osudio je u petak
nedemokratsko ponistavanje odredjenih
rezultata lokalnih izbora i arbitrarnu akciju protiv nezavisnih
medija u Srbiji. Savet ministara EU je "izrazio duboku
zabrinutost aktuelnim razvojem u SRJ, zemlji sa kojom je EU
zainteresovana da izgradi konstruktivne odnose ako postoje
odgovarajuci uslovi". "Imajuci na umu mirne demonstracije
naroda u Srbiji u prilog demokratskih reformi, Savet je pozvao
sve strane da se i dalje uzdrzavaju od primene nasilja".
[Beta]
vesti.573guta,
PRISTINA - Potpredsednik Demokratskog saveza Kosova Hidajet
Hiseni izjavio je u petak da "albanski narod sa simpatijama
gleda na svaki napor za valjane demokratske promene u Srbiji i
osudjuje svako krsenje kolektivnih ili individualnih ljudskih
prava, narocito kada se krsi izborno pravo gradjana i sloboda
stampe".
[Beta]
vesti.574corto,
Kako smo culi na vestima B92, Vrhovni sud je odbio sve prigovore i
Gradske izborne komisije i Zajedno. Ko je tu lud ?!
vesti.575guta,
Serbian Supreme Court to review appeal of local elections
December 7, 1996 Web posted at: 11:30 a.m. EST (1630 GMT)
From Correspondent Brent Sadler
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- After 18 days of
protests highlighting the tug-of-war for control
of Serbia's largest cities, there is hope that a
crucial decision by the country's Supreme Court
may help calm the unrest.
Opponents of President Slobodan Milosevic appear
increasingly optimistic that opposition election
victories swept aside by the Socialist government
three weeks ago could soon be reinstated.
Their enthusiasm was heightened when the Belgrade
electoral commission finally asked the high court
to restore the opposition's election wins. The
decision could give the opposition control of
Belgrade.
But the upcoming legal decision may not be as
clear-cut as opposition leaders hope. They said
they will not be satisfied with winning Belgrade
alone; they want their election victories restored
in all three major Serbian cities.
"There will be no compromise. Nis, Belgrade and Kraljevo are a package, and
we will not give up until everything is given back to us," Zoran Djindjic
of the Democratic Party said.
Supreme court judges could rule the opposition won
the disputed elections, but they could also hedge
the issue by ordering a further judicial review of
the case.
Opposition draws more backers
Either way, demonstrators -- who have accused the
government of trying to manipulate the courts --
seem to be gathering support. A number of
prominent judges have sided with them. And trade
unions threatened Saturday to strike and join the
protesters.
Meanwhile, the U.S. and its allies
have adopted an increasingly hard line
-- repeatedly warning Belgrade not to use force
against mostly peaceful protesters.
Signs of dissatisfaction with
Milosevic are mounting.
Serbia's information minister, Aleksandar Tijanic,
quit Friday after heavy public criticism for
shutting down two independent radio stations that
reported on the protests. The stations have
resumed broadcasting.
An association of legal experts has criticized the elections and said
they will form a panel to investigate the local
courts that annulled the elections.
In addition, Montenegro has distanced itself from
Milosevic, saying in a statement that "the
annulment of democratic elections belongs to the
practice of totalitarian regimes."
The demonstrators are not content with the gains
they are making. They have said their ultimate
goal is Milosevic's resignation. "If Milosevic
doesn't recognize our complete victory, we will
continue until he resigns," said Vuk Draskovic,
leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement.
vesti.576djcorto,
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:: Pocelo i u Valjevu :O
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Konacno...
U Valjevu je juce oko 15 casova (po lokalnom vremenu ;)) poceo prvi
protest
gradana zbog krsenja njihovih ustavom zagarantovanih prava. Protest je
u najmanju ruku, jadno. Radio Patak, inace apoliticna radio stanica,
koju,
ruku na srce vode nesto manje apoliticni ljudi ;>>> osmelila se da
objavi
najavu mitinga, u vidu oglasa. Bilo je izgleda i nekoliko :( plakata,
mada
ja nisam video nijedan. I pored toga skupilo se nekoliko stotina
ljudi ispred
sedista SPO-a ili koalicije (ne znam tacno cije je to mesto), koji su
oko
15.45 krenuli u setnju gradom. U setnji je medutim ucestvovalo oko
2000 ljudi.
Ovo sve je prepricavanje, posto u dogadaju nisam ucestvovao, jer
nisam znao
za isti!!!
Ali zato danas... Skupilo se oko 1000-1500 ljudi na istom zbornom
mestu.
Oko 16 casova kolona je krenula, predvodena odbornicima i celnicima
SPO-a i
DS-a iz Valjeva. Posle nekih 200-tinak metara setnje, mislim da nas
je bilo
vec oko 2500. Prvi kritican prolazak, pored prostorija SPS-a,
protekao je
uz jedno 100-nak bacenih petardi i veliki zvizduk i negodovanje
mase...
Skrenuli smo u Karadordevu, inace glavnu ulicu u Valjevu, a povorka
se
povecavala gotovo neverovatno. Na svakoj raskrsnici pridruzivali su
se ljudi
koji, verujem, nisu znali za protest. Kolona je, po mojoj slobodnoj
proceni,
u tom trenutku dotigla duzinu od 500-tinak metara. Sada dolazi ono
najbolje...
*** Prolazak pored poslasticarnice lokalnog (smem li) lopova, pekara,
Mihaila
Todorovica. U Fontani, kako se inace zove poslasticarnica, nema
nikoga :))).
Pocinje pravi vatromet petardama i stravicna galama mase. Posle
svega
20-tak sekundi izlazi "gazda" Todorovic, sa starijim sinom i jos
jednim tipom
koga ne znam. Todorovic uz cinicno smeskanje aplaudira masi, sto
izaziva jos
vece negodovanje. Osetivsi preveliku napetost mase, Todorovicev sin,
pokusava
da ga uvuce nazad. On pomalo popusta, ali kad su vec skoro bili
unutra, on se
istrze iz sinovljevog zagrljaja i potrca nekoliko koraka prema masi.
Udaljenost izmedu mase i poslasticarnice oko 40-tak metara. Todorovic
se
zaustavio posle 3-5 metara, dakle jos uvek na prilicnom odstojanju.
Tada
nastupa momenat zbog koga sam zazalio sto ne poneh fotoaparat.
*** Lokalna (znaci smem) bagra upucuje masi pozdrav u vidu ispruzenog
srednjeg prsta (ostali su ostali savijeni). Dolazi do spontane
reakcije
nekoliko ljudi (izmedu 40 i 50 godina starosti) izlazi iz mase i
krece prema
njemu. Za njima naravno, jos jedno 100-200 najvatrenijih. Fantasticnom
reakcijom ljudi iz obezbedenja mitinga, stvar se nekako smiruje i
Todorovic
ostaje nekaznjen :(((* . Setnja se nastavlja, do kraja glavne ulice,
pa
kontra-desno (2 puta) i ponovo u Panticevu (ulica iz koje se
krenulo). Setnja
se zavrsila na trgu vojvode Misica, gde su odbornici odrzali
"Dnevnik".
Posto nemam bas mnogo vremena za detaljnija objasnjenja, ostalo cu
samo
navesti taksativno:
Parole(pismene): - Menjam stan u Valjevu za supu u Kragujevcu ili
Cacku,
- Iskljucite televizore i ukljucite mozak...
Parole(usmene): - Gde su vam penzije (prilikom prolaska pored
penzionerskih
zgrada)
- Slobo turcine...
- Bando crvena
- Izlazite napolje...
Lepi momenti: - Baka koja deli rekvizite za "navijanje"(case od
kiselog
mleka napunjene pasuljem i zatvorene celofanom i
gumicom)
- Ljudi sa prozora pored kojih smo prolazili, masu
kao da
smo oslobodioci
- Visoka svest prisutnih, koji su hvatali za ruku
klince,
koji su pokusavali bacati kamenje na razne
ustanove...
Ruzni momenti: - Nekoliko pijanih, koji ni ne znaju zasto su tu...
- Dosta navijacki raspolozenih klinaca...
- Suvise petardi, tako da se posmatracki narod
pomalo i plasi
* Onaj oznaceni kontra-smajli je iz moje podsvesti, koja duboko zali
zbog
zivog i zdravog pekara.
Pozdrav Beogradu, Nisu, Kragujevcu, Novom Sadu... iz Valjeva.
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Newspaper says Milosevic misled over elections
By Peter Greste
BELGRADE, Dec 7 (Reuter) - Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic distanced himself on Saturday from senior officials of
his ruling socialist party accused of rigging elections to deny
power to an opposition coalition.
As the supreme court considered whether to confirm an
opposition Zajedno (Together) coalition victory in Belgrade and
students launched a 20th day of street protests, the daily
Dnevni Telegraf published a defence of Milosevic.
Political sources said the story, attributed to reliable
sources close to the Serbian leader, was the first stage of a
campaign to rehabilitate Milosevic who is under strong
international pressure to yield to the opposition.
Telegraf reported that Milosevic's first instinct was to
recognise the socialists had suffered their first major defeat
for 50 years in Belgrade and other cities in the November 17
elections.
Its source said a senior socialist official persuaded
Milosevic that there were legal grounds for a successful
socialist challenge to the opposition capture of 60 out 110
Belgrade city council seats.
The decision to revoke the opposition victory has turned
into a political catastrophe for Milosevic, mobilising daily
demonstrations by up to 150,000 people against his nine year
rule and destroying his electoral credibility.
The United States has led a Western campaign to force
Milosevic to honour the outcome of the polls and open talks with
Zajedno.
"This is no time for business as usual on Serbia. This is a
time for the democratic process to move forward in Serbia,"
State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns said on Friday.
The strong words from the State Department followed a
decision by the European Union to refuse Belgrade preferential
trade terms granted to its Balkan neighbours.
Almost 150,000 protesters thronged central Belgrade on
Friday after Zajedno's lawyers submitted papers to the supreme
court, which was expected to decide over the weekend on the
outcome of Belgrade local elections.
The judges can decide whether Zajedno won control of
Belgrade or order a review of the result by a lower court which
earlier ruled in the socialists' favour.
The mood on the streets was euphoric as the conviction grew
that the sustained protests had inflicted severe damage on the
autocratic Milosevic.
Zajedno leader Zoran Djindjic told demonstrators the
opposition's aim was still to oust Milosevic.
"We are not concealing our main aim -- to remove Slobodan
Milosevic from power," he said. "But we want to do this in a
fair way, in a fair political struggle, and the first step is
the recognition of the election results."1232 071296 GMT
Zajedno spokesman Slobodan Vuksanovic denied that the
opposition was bargaining with Milosevic over a compromise. "The
Socialists must admit their defeat in Belgrade, Nis and
Kraljevo," he said.
A poll in NIN magazine showed Milosevic was suffering
politically, with a fall in his public support from 26 to 16.5
percent since the demonstrations began.
REUTER
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:: Washington Post
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Panel Finds Safety in Jail as It Decides -- Again -- Who Won Serbian Election
By John Pomfret
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, December 7 1996; Page A26
The Washington Post
NIS, Yugoslavia, Dec. 6 -- The city jail in this gritty industrial town
in southern Serbia has some new inmates: the local election commission.
The Socialist Party officials, assigned to decide who won the municipal
election in this city on Nov. 17, meet secretly every day in a room in
the massive complex because, Serbian officials said, they consider it
the only safe place in town.
The commission's decision to incarcerate itself symbolizes the quandary
faced by the government of President Slobodan Milosevic, which is
confronted with the largest and most sustained challenge to its
nine-year rule in Serbia. A coalition of five opposition parties claims
his Socialist Party of Serbia stole the elections in 14 of Serbia's 19
biggest cities, including Belgrade, the capital, and Nis, about 160
miles southeast of Belgrade. Now they want Milosevic to acknowledge his
mistake and give them back power in those cities.
Under intense Western pressure and amid a tide of street protests,
Milosevic has bowed slightly to opposition demands. On Thursday, he
allowed two independent radio stations to resume broadcasting a day
after he had shut them down. He fired Nis's Socialist Party boss, the
widely despised Mile Ilic, a burly Tammany Hall-type figure who had
placed his wife in charge of city finances. Milosevic also announced
pension increases, and he cut the price of electricity and sausages in
an attempt to mollify the anger of Serbia's impoverished middle class,
the source of the current upheaval.
But Milosevic has yet to take the hardest step -- recognizing opposition
victories.
The United States, which has led growing international criticism of the
Serbian strongman, demanded today that the Serbian government "go a
further step" and "initiate an open dialogue with the opposition in
Serbia." The statement, from State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns,
appeared aimed at a compromise between the opposition's demand for
outright victory and Milosevic's desire to keep power, seemingly at all
costs.
By not calling on Milosevic to cede to the opposition's demands, but
simply to negotiate, Burns's statement "gives Milosevic too much space
to maneuver," one opposition leader said. "We shouldn't forget that this
man stole the elections."
During vote-counting here in Nis, opposition party officials said they
saw Socialist Party workers stuffing ballot boxes and changing results
on election forms to ensure a Socialist Party victory. At one point,
Socialist Party officials threw an opposition official out of a room
where the ballots were kept. He had complained that there was no
reliable security organization guarding the site.
While the local election commission will decide who won in Nis, the
courts will determine the victor in the capital. On Thursday, the
Belgrade electoral commission appealed for a ruling restoring the
results of the Belgrade municipal election -- which the opposition won.
The court overturned those results on Nov. 24 after intense pressure by
Milosevic, but now Milosevic appears willing to let the courts decide
again.
In Nis and in the rest of Serbia, the opposition is marching in the
streets and waiting. Nineteen straight days of protests here and in
Belgrade have galvanized the once fractious opposition. Instead of
bickering, they seem to have found common ground in their common enemy.
Among the Socialists, however, unity seems to be in short supply.
Minister of Information Aleksander Tijanic formally announced his
resignation today. Blamed by Belgrade's independent press for shutting
the city's last two independent radio stations, Tijanic quit the
government post after only one year. He told reporters he acted because
he disagreed with "decisions being made without consulting me."
At the Nis City Hall, almost all work has stopped during the crisis --
except collecting taxes.
Predrag Todorovic, 24, a bee farmer, and his fiancee, Ljilja Arapovic,
were trying to get a marriage license today but were turned back by a
gruff policeman.
"He told me to get lost," Todorovic said -- a bewildered air spreading
across his broad, open face. "But Ljilja and I want to settle down."
c Copyright 1996 The Washington Post Company
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:: Wall Street Journal
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The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition -- December 6, 1996
Belgrade Feels the Squeeze From All Financial Angles
WHILE NOISY CROWDS pack Belgrade's streets, an important date for
Yugoslavia looks set to pass quietly: Dec. 14.
That's the day the country, under happier circumstances, would have
rejoined the IMF. Since the old federation broke up and the Bosnian war
began, Yugoslavia's application to rejoin the body has been blocked by
U.S. "outer wall" sanctions -- effectively, U.S. veto power over
membership in the multilateral organization.
Every six months, Yugoslavia has asked that consideration of its
application be postponed. In June, when the six-month deadline last
rolled around, it didn't ask for a postponement, expecting that it would
be readmitted.
Until recently, with the Dayton accord on track, that looked likely.
Then, two weeks ago, President Slobodan Milosevic annulled local
election results and Serbs took to the streets. Now the U.S. says it has
no plans to lift the outer wall sanctions for the moment, and the
application is in limbo again.
Yugoslavia needs the outside world. Its trade deficit for the year is
close to $2 billion -- between 10% and 20% of GDP, depending on how big
you think the economy is. Its foreign debt is close to $9 billion, and
fast collecting arrears in the absence of a rescheduling agreement.
Unemployment is nearly 30% and rising. The country's sole source of
foreign currency is funds Yugoslav officials have spirited abroad since
1991, plus the estimated three billion marks to 4.5 billion marks ($1.9
billion to $2.9 billion) ordinary citizens keep in their pockets and
pillowcases.
There's plenty of pressure on Belgrade -- some coming from the capital's
streets -- to open the economy. But sanctions have created powerful new
lobbies -- banks, trading companies -- which support the status quo.
Mr. Milosevic, in short, is feeling pressure from all sides these days.
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Dow Jones Business News -- December 8, 1996
Yugoslavia Unions Increase Pressure On Milosevic
AP-Dow Jones News Service
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Trade unions threatened Saturday to go on
strike, escalating the three-week protest against Serbian President
Slobodan Milosevic that brought 150,000 people onto the streets of
Belgrade in the biggest demonstration so far, The Associated Press
reports.
Leaders of two independent unions said their members were ready to
strike next week if Milosevic did not reinstate the opposition's Nov. 17
local election victories. They also demanded that the government ensure
decent standards of living.
'Their demands could potentially be more dangerous for Milosevic than
ours,' said Zoran Djindjic, leader of the opposition Democratic Party.
Individual workers have taken part in the street marches, but organized
labor has not so far.
The unions' grievances over unemployment, poor living conditions and bad
wages may be as damaging to Milosevic as complaints about civic
freedoms.
Many of Serbia's factories are idle, and hundreds of thousands of
workers are on paid leave because of lack of raw materials and other
failures of Milosevic's economy.
Economic sanctions imposed after he instigated wars in Bosnian and
Croatia hurt badly. So has mismanagement and inefficiency. Milosevic has
shown little interest in breaking up the state-run economy and
privatizing the factories. Average wages are often no more than the
equivalent of $100 per month.
Milosevic has tried to outlast the protesters. The president said
Saturday he wouldn't use force against them, Kati Marton, head of the
New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, told independent Radio
B 92. She met with him for 2 1/2 hours.
But if workers join in an organized fashion, he may find it hard to stay
in power without cracking down or giving in.
In the past, Serbia's labor movement has been disinclined to mount
serious strikes. But some union leaders indicated Saturday they were
finding common cause with opposition coalition.
Marton told Associated Press Television that Milosevic also 'promised
that he would uphold the rights of a free press, and keep his hands off
Radio B 92,' one of two independent radio stations he temporarily banned
last week. She described their conversation as 'very good.'
Marton is the wife of Richard Holbrooke, the former U.S. diplomat who
negotiated with Milosevic on the Dayton peace agreement for Bosnia.
In the streets of Belgrade, demonstrators aimed paper airplanes and
fireworks at state TV. One banner read 'Better Dead than Red.' Another
portrayed Milosevic as a pig. Residents of the capital watched the
procession from their windows and waved.
Some 120 members of an independent bus drivers' union joined the protest
in Belgrade for the first time Saturday, carrying their flags.
In Novi Sad, to the northwest, 10,000 students protested for the fifth
day.
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:: Miami Herald
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Published Saturday, December 7, 1996, in the Miami Herald
21A
`Yugo' town has key role in opposition
By MISHA SAVIC
Associated Press
KRAGUJEVAC, Yugoslavia -- This bleak industrial town was once a showcase
of Yugoslavia's semimarket economy. Its factories employed thousands. It
even achieved modest fame as the home of the ill-fated Yugo car.
Today, the economy is devastated, but Kragujevac (pronounced
KRAH-goo-jeh-vahts) has again managed to distinguish itself. It is one
of the few towns in the Serbian republic of Yugoslavia where the
opposition is forming a new local government.
When opposition candidates swept municipal elections last month,
President Slobodan Milosevic annulled the results and called a new vote.
In Belgrade and other spots, the opposition boycotted the vote. Here,
opposition candidates swallowed their pride: They ran -- and won again.
Now, the new leaders must try to reverse a ruined economy and years of
political corruption. They face not only local problems, but also a
national government still controlled by Milosevic.
The odds for success are about as encouraging as were sales of the Yugo.
``It's an enormous and difficult job to fix things here,'' said Vlato
Rajkovic, a 37-year-old dentist and Democratic Party member who is up
for the mayor's job. The Democrats, allied with two other parties, won
control of the city council.
One reason they won is the economic misery their supporters hope they
can change.
The town's unemployment rate is about 70 percent; those with jobs make
less than $100 a month. Mismanagement and 3 1/2 years of international
sanctions against Yugoslavia for fomenting the Balkan wars nearly
stopped the assembly lines that once churned out the Yugo and other
vehicles.
U.S. sales of the car peaked in 1988 before plummeting. The no-frills
Yugo was economical -- its price started at $3,990 -- but it was tiny
and had recurring technical problems.
This year, the Zastava car factory will produce only about 10,000,
vehicles -- down from 230,000 in 1989.
``When I had job, I had dignity. Now I have to make do with smuggling
cigarettes and chewing gum, and we still can't make ends meet,'' said
Zoran Milosavljevic, who gets $40 a month in welfare for his family of
four.
``I voted for the opposition because we need change,'' Milosavljevic
said.
Still, Yugoslavia's discontented working class hasn't exactly shed its
pro-Socialist inertia. Relatively few have joined daily anti-government
protests, started about three weeks ago by intellectuals and urbanites
furious over the annulled elections.
The opposition in Kragujevac wants to encourage private enterprise --
not only small shops and cafes, but workshops producing metal and
plastic goods.
Leaders know it's an uphill fight.
Rajkovic says he expects arms-factory orders from the Yugoslav army to
dry up as the central government tries to punish the town for electing
new leaders.
Copyright (c) 1996 The Miami Herald
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vesti.583guta,
BEOGRAD - U subotnjem mirnom protestu u Beogradu zbog
ponistavanja rezultata lokalnih izbora ucestvovalo je vise od
200.000 ljudi. Toliko gradjana Beograda i iz drugih mesta u
Srbiji jos nije vidjeno od pocetka protesta pre 18 dana. Oni
nose najrazlicitije transparetne medju kojima i jedan "Mozemo
da izdrzimo jos duze". Mnogi demonstranti nose svece i fenjere.
U koloni su mladi, stari, deca, invalidi u kolicima.
[Beta]
vesti.584guta,
BEOGRAD - Vrhovni sud Srbije odbio je veceras zahtev gradske
izborne komisije Beograda kao i opozicione koalicije Zajedno za
vanredno preispitivanje presuda Prvog opstinskog suda u
Beogradu, kojima su ponistena 33 mandata te Koalicije, osvojena
u drugom krugu lokalnih izbora, 17. novembra.
[Beta]
vesti.585guta,
BEOGRAD - Predsednik Srpskog pokreta obnove Vuk Draskovic
izjavio je u subotu uvece na protestnom skupu koalicije
"Zajedno" ispred Savezne Skupstine da ta koalicija nece
pristati na kompromise i da ce nastaviti proteste dok ne budu
priznati rezultati drugog kruga lokalnih izbora u Srbiji. "Nema
kompromisa. Ili ce izborni rezultat od 17. novembra biti
priznat ili nema mira", rekao je Draskovic 18. dana mirnih
protesta koalicije "Zajedno" i Beogradjana zbog ponistavanja
rezultata drugog kruga lokalnih izbora.
[Beta]
vesti.586guta,
BEOGRAD - Vise od 20.000 beogradskih studenata zasadilo je danas na Novom
Beogradu "srpsku sljivu" koja ce "roditi kada u Srbiji bude
demokratije". Cetrnaestog dana protesta zbog ponistavanja
rezultata lokalnih izbora studenti svih beogradskih fakulteta
sproveli su akciju medijske blokade drzavne agencije Tanjug
koju su "zatrpali" starim novinama. To je bio studentski
odgovor na nacin na koji ta agencija "izvestava" o njihovom
protestu "protiv vlasti koja ne priznaje izborni poraz",
odnosno volju biraca.
[Beta]
vesti.587guta,
KRAGUJEVAC - Velikim mitingom u centru Kragujevca u subotu
uvece je proslavljena pobeda koalicije Zajedno na lokalnim
izborima. Pred vise od 30 000 Kragujevcana govorio je jedan od
celnika Gradjanskog saveza Srbije Nebojsa Popov, koji je
istakao da je Kragujevac pravo mesto za slavlje, jer je sve
pocelo u ovom gradu.
[Beta]
vesti.588guta,
BEOGRAD - Beogradski Informativni centar nevladinih
organizacija saopstio je u subotu da trojica
demonstranata osudjenih zbog bacanja jaja i jogurta na zgrade
drzavnih medija u Beogradu, jos nisu pusteni iz zatvora u
Padinskoj Skeli, iako je to trebalo da bude ucinjeno jos u
subotu ujutru.
[Beta]
vesti.589guta,
BEOGRAD - Patrijarh Srpske pravoslavne crkve
gospodin Pavle primio je subotu u Beogradu
predsednika Nove demokratije Dusana Mihajlovica, sa kojim je
razmenio misljenja o aktuelnoj politickoj situaciji u Srbiji.
Mihajlovic je u razgovoru sa patrijarhom Pavlom ukazao na
"opasnosti koje nosi obnavljanje ideoloskih podela u srpskom
narodu, i na potrebu da se okrenemo buducnosti, savladjivanju
ekonomskih i socijalnih teskoca u kojima se nalazimo kao i
brzem povezivanju sa medjunarodnom zajednicom".
[Beta]
vesti.590guta,
BEOGRAD - Srpska radikalna stranka saopstila je
da je patrijarh srpski gospodin Pavle u subotu
primio predsednika stranke i njegovog zamenika, Vojislava
Seselja i Tomislava Nikolica.
[Beta]
vesti.591guta,
BEOGRAD - Srpska radikalna stranka upozorila je u subotu da
"pokusaj vodja koalicije 'Zajedno' da kao najvece borce za
slobodu i demokratiju predstave poznate separatiste i
neprijatelje naseg naroda Adema Demacija i Sulejmana
Ugljanina", predstavlja "vrhunac manipulacije opravdanim
narodnim nezadovoljstvom".
[Beta]
vesti.592guta,
ZAGREB - Predsednik Hrvatske Franjo Tudjman optuzio je u subotu
medjunarodnu zajednicu da ne pokazuje naklonost prema
uspostavljanju samostalne hrvatske drzave. Tudjman je na drugoj
sednici Glavnog odbora Hrvatske demokratske zajednice, u
uvodnom govoru, kritikovao stav opozicije prema vladajucoj
stranci, konstatujuci da su opozicione stranke pod "stranim
uticajem".
[Beta]
vesti.593guta,
NOVI SAD - Izmedju 10.000 i 15.000 studenata i
srednjoskolaca izaslo je i u subotu na
demonstracije u Novom Sadu. Gradjani na ulicama, sa prozora i
balkona zgrada pozdravljali su ih aplauzima i povicima "Napred
omladino!"
[Beta]
vesti.594guta,
ZAGREB - Ured vlade Republike Hrvatske za informacije saopstio
je u subotu da je u petak odrzan sastanak hrvatske ekspertne
grupe za granicu sa SR Jugoslavijom, koju je imenovala Drzavna
komisija za granice. Ekspertna grupa je raspravljala o granici
na podrucju istocne Slavonije. Na sednici su takodje usvojeni
zadaci na utvrdjivanju granica kao i stavovi koji ce se
zastupati u pripremi razgranicenja Hrvatske i SRJ.
[Beta]
vesti.595guta,
BEOGRAD - Predsednica americkog Komiteta za zastitu novinara
Keti Marton razgovarala je u subotu u Beogradu sa predsednikom
Srbije Slobodanom Milosevicem, javio je Radio B-92. Prema
izjavi Kati Marton, Milosevic je rekao da ce ostaviti na miru
Radio B-92 i obecao da policija i vojska nece intervenisati
povodom masovnih protesta u Beogradu i drugim gradovima u
Srbiji.
[Beta]
vesti.596guta,
BEOGRAD - Predsednik Srbije Slobodan Milosevic bio je
spreman da prihvati izborni poraz socijalista u Beogradu i
vecim gradovima Srbije, ali ga je generalni sekretar
Socijalisticke partije Srbije Gorica Gajevic navela da promeni
misljenje tvrdeci da postoje zakonski osnovi da se poraz
pretvori u pobedu, pise danasnji "Dnevni telegraf".
[Beta]
vesti.597guta,
SPLIT - Americke analize pokazuju da je raspolozenje Muslimana
u nekim mestima u BiH "krajnje naostreno sa tedencijom biranja
ratnog resenja u skoroj buducnosti", pise u subotu splitska
"Slobodna Dalmacija", pozivajuci se na neimenovane americke
izvore. Americke analize navode Sanski Most, Prijedor,
Kalesiju, Zvornik i Gorazde "kao mesta u kojima se sve vise
razmislja o ratu". Splitski list se poziva na izjave nekih
pripadnika Armije BiH da je njihov cilj "da do kraja potuku
Srbe".
[Beta]
vesti.598guta,
NOVI SAD - Nemacka marka se od subotu ujutru na crnom deviznom
trzistu u Novom Sadu prodaje za 3,90, a otkupljuje za 3,70
dinara. To je trece poskupljenje marke u toku ove nedelje a
ulicni "dileri" kazu da slede nova poskupljenja s obzirom da
"na ulicama sada ima mnogo dinara".
[Beta]
vesti.599guta,
NJUJORK - Organizacija za zastitu ljudskih prava Hjumen rajts
voc u subotu je najostrije osudila "autoritarne i rasisticke
reakcije vlasti u Srbiji" na proteste opozicije i na svaku
kritiku postojeceg rezima.
[Beta]
vesti.600guta,
BEOGRAD - Udruzenje likovnh umetnika Srbije
solidarisalo se sa studentima beogradskog
Univerziteta umetnosti, koji vec 14 dana protestuju zbog
ponistavanja rezultata lokalnih izbora u Srbiji.
[Beta]
vesti.601guta,
ZAGREB - Lokalni izbori u Hrvatskoj i izbori za Zupanijski dom
Sabora bice odrzani na prolece 1997. godine, najavio je
generalni sekretar Hrvatske demokratske zajednice Ivan Valent.
[Beta]
vesti.602guta,
ZAGREB - Predsednik Hrvatske Franjo Tudjman izjavio
je u subotu da postoji sprega izmedju izvesnih
zapadnih krugova i "unutrasnjih neprijatelja" koji pokusavaju
da destabilizuju Hrvatsku demokratsku zajednicu i samu
Hrvatsku.
[Beta]
vesti.603guta,
TIRANA - Albanija je u subotu pozdravila odluku Evropske unije
da odlozi davanje SR Jugoslaviji trgovinskih povlastica, uz
obrazlozenje da ce ona doprineti miru i stabilnosti u regionu.
[Beta]
vesti.604guta,
PRISTINA - Kosovski odbor za zastitu ljudskih prava upozorio je u
subotu da su srpske vlasti u proslom mesecu pojacale represiju nad albanskim
skolstvom na Kosovu.
[Beta]
vesti.605guta,
BANJALUKA - Humanitarna situacija na podrucju opstine
Banjaluka, gde, prema nezvanicnim podacima, zivi vise od
100.000 socijalno ugrozenih lica, gotovo je dostigla kriticnu
tacku, izjavio je u subotu sekretar Opstinske organizacije
Crvenog krsta Miroslav Vesic.
[Beta]
vesti.606guta,
SARAJEVO - Imenovanje centralne vlade BiH - Saveta ministara
odlozeno je za sledecu nedelju, saznaje se u subotu iz
kancelarije Visokog predstavnika za BiH Karla Bilta. Spisak
novog Saveta trebalo je u subotu da bude dostavljen na sednici
zajednickog parlamenta BiH, ali je sednica odlozena za sledecu
nedelju. Do sada nije bilo zasedanja tog parlamenta, jer su
bosanski Srbi bojkotovali konstitutivnu sednicu 5. oktobra,
odbijajuci da poloze zakletvu.
[Beta]
vesti.607jvujnic,
-> #581, guta> of the few towns in the Serbian republic of Yugoslavia where the
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Serbian Republic of Yugoslavia? ;)))
vesti.608evlad,
-> #598, guta=- trzistu u Novom Sadu prodaje za 3,90, a otkupljuje za 3,70
khm, u Kikindi je 4.00 i raste ka 4.10 :((
navodno do nove godine treba da stigne na 5.00
ovo je nezvanična informacija sa gradske pijace ;)
vesti.609corto,
Izvinjavam se cenjenom aiditorijumu, ali vesti B92 nisu stigle od juce
ujutro :( Cim stignu, saznacete.
vesti.610sav.gacic,
OVO SU ČITALI NA DALKOM ISTOKU:
HONG KONG STANDARD:
Milosevic paves way for possible climbdown
BELGRADE: Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, under pressure from daily
street demonstrations, prepared the way for a possible climbdown that would
recognise an opposition victory in the capital Belgrade.
The opposition scented triumph in their confrontation with Mr Milosevic after
the Belgrade electoral commission on Thursday asked the supreme court to
review the annulment of an opposition victory in the capital.
The supreme court was due to issue a ruling within 48 hours and the commission
said the public prosecutor was asked to start an investigation.
Serbia has been shaken by 18 days of street demonstrations since the Zajedno
(Together) opposition coalition accused the Socialists of robbing it of
victory in Belgrade and other major towns in local elections.
Mr Milosevic's Socialists first admitted defeat in Belgrade but then had
Zajedno's majority overturned by a municipal court due to unspecified
``irregularities''.
A Socialist official, who asked not to be named, said the government was eager
to ``reduce tensions'' after coming under heavy Western criticism over its
handling of the crisis.
The official also hinted that Socialists might concede defeat in the
industrial town of Nis, where reports of blatant vote-rigging helped trigger
the first protests. He said ``the courts would decide'' who won in Nis.
State media reported that the unpopular Socialist boss in Nis had ``resigned''
and more high-ranking officials were expected to be sacrificed as Mr Milosevic
tried to distance himself from the poll fraud.
A record 150,000-strong crowd staged a fresh protest in the capital and 25,000
marched in Nis on Thursday after authorities allowed independent radio
stations back on the air.
International condemnation, led by the United States, forced the government to
reinstate Belgrade's main independent radio station B-92 after knocking it
off the air on Tuesday to halt its live broadcasts of street marches.
Zoran Djindjic, an opposition leader, said the protests had restored hope for
the first time since 1991, when Mr Milosevic crushed street demonstrations
with tanks and water cannons.
``For six years we grew accustomed to defeat but now that we tasted victory we
are not ready to accept defeat anymore,'' Mr Djindjic told the throng in the
central Republic Square.
Earlier, students paraded an effigy of Mr Milosevic in prison garb through
Belgrade and built a brick wall outside the federal parliament to symbolise
the gulf between the Serbian people and the ruling Socialists.
A student organiser called Boris said: ``We are trying to prove that we are
building Serbia up, not destroying it like Milosevic. Milosevic and his
politicians are cut off from the people.''
Efforts to pave the way to a solution coincided with the return of Mr
Milosevic's wife Mirjana from a visit to India.
An avowed Marxist who leads her own party in alliance with the Socialists, she
is reputed to wield strong influence over her husband. The Serbian leader also
met President Momir Bulatovic of Montenegro, Serbia's partner in the Yugoslav
federation, which has issued barely coded cries of alarm at the Belgrade
turmoil.
With the opposition threatening to call strikes, the government has also
promised cash for students and pensioners and cheaper electricity for the
nation.
The Socialists, who have presided over the country's economic collapse, are
increasingly concerned that workers will be drawn into the protests in pursuit
of pay demands. _ Reuter
vesti.611sav.gacic,
Straits Times, Singapur
By Louise Branson
THIS summer I ended a six-year reporting tour in Belgrade. I
was depressed. Like most other journalists and diplomats, I
despaired of ever seeing the scenes that have rocked the Serb
capital over the past few days: students, workers, thousands of
them, protesting after Dictator Slobodan Milosevic annulled
municipal elections in major cities where his party lost.
As I left, I felt Serbs were mule-like, incomprehensible. I had
watched them endure repression, war, poverty, sanctions, with
barely a peep. I shared the conclusion of a frustrated Western
charge d'affaires, who, in a cable to his capital declared most
Serbs had "TV sets (tuned to Big Brother state television) instead
of brains".
In retrospect, I should have realised something had to snap.
There was an unbearable tension: people fought in
sparsely-stocked supermarkets; there were senseless shootings;
suicides rocketed among the elderly who could no longer feed
themselves. And this a people who had prided itself on being the
region's wealthiest, most generous-hearted.
A popular uprising is now happening. People have been pushed
beyond limits of endurance. The gulf between dismal reality and
the propaganda on TV has become too great. This is the very
uprising the United Nations envisaged when it imposed sanctions
on Serbia four years ago. "The sanctions will bring about such
privations there will be a revolt against Milosevic -- they'll
overthrow him," was the smug word from Western diplomats in
interviews and at cocktail parties at the time. Except it was not to
be. Not then.
The tragic irony is that now, when it is, the American-led
international community has long since switched from Plan A to
Plan B. Milosevic, in Plan B, is our man. We need him. He is the
guarantor of the Dayton peace agreement (under which he
cold-bloodedly sold out his Bosnian Serb allies and began
extending his tentacles to control their territory through his
police). Besides, he no longer says he is a nationalist. That is a
Good Thing.
So instead of taking draconian measures against the dictator --
re-imposing sanctions, scaling down diplomatic missions -- there
have been only mild rebukes from major capitals. Yet Milosevic
has reneged on most of Dayton's provisions: indicted Bosnian
Serb war criminals walk free; refugees are prevented from
returning home. Such international timidity will no doubt prolong
Serbia's agony. Nevertheless, this is still the beginning of the end
for Milosevic. If not now, then next time. And that next time will
be soon.
This is why: Dictator Milosevic rose to power through the
bureaucracy of former communist dictator Marshall Tito. He
learned then the methods that have so far kept him in power, and
which he is now ruthlessly upgrading: from the control of the
media (he has shut down the last independent radio station in
recent days) to the use of a brutal police force for intimidation
and infiltration.
Rasputin-lookalike Vuk Draskovic, one of three leaders in the
opposition coalition Zajedko ("Together") knows Milosevic's
methods first-hand. "Vuk," as he is popularly known, draw wild
crowds in 1990. But that was before police beat him to within
inches of his life. The last time I saw him at a subdued summer
dinner, he was cowed and incoherent, interested mainly in writing
mystery novels.
But Vuk, ever a bellwether for the popular mood, is back, leading
the demonstrations with his coalition partner Zoran Djindjic and
also Ilija Djukic, the savvy former Yugoslav foreign minister.
They, too, have sensed that something has snapped. That people
are finally seeing Milosevic for what he is: a tinpot dictator who
has led them into poverty and degradation.
Milosevic could conceivably have survived if he had remained a
nationalist, providing something for Serbs to believe in, a reason
to endure their privations. But the nationalist persona that swept
him to power on a wave of popular adulation in the late 1980s was
-- like his TV propaganda -- an illusion.
His people have finally seen through it. And turned, too, against
his wife Mira Markovic, head of a hard-line communist party,
who has played an increasingly public role -- not dissimilar to
that of Elena Ceaucescu in Romania before she and her husband
were shot by angry crowds in 1989. That execution, Belgrade wags
said at the time, seriously rattled the Milosevics. But not so
seriously, perhaps, as it may rattle them now.
The writer, a British journalist formerly based in Belgrade, has
relocated to Washington, DC.
vesti.612corto,
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Serbia: Regime gives hint of climbdown
SATURDAY DECEMBER 7 1996
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By Laura Silber in Belgrade and Lionel Barber in Brussels
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Serbia's regime showed signs of giving ground to the opposition
yesterday after nearly three weeks of steadily growing street protests
and international condemnation.
European Union foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels, stepped up their
pressure on Belgrade by refusing to grant trade concessions which they
have extended to other former Yugoslav republics.
But Mr Carl Bildt, the international community's high representative in
Bosnia, told the EU ministers he could see "signs of light in the
darkness" in the form of concessions by the Serbian authorities.
The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to reconsider its earlier decision to
cancel the opposition's victory in the Belgrade municipal election of
November 17.
But Mr Zoran Djindjic, president of the opposition Democratic party,
made clear his supporters would continue mass demonstrations until local
election victories in a string of Serbian cities were fully restored.
Opposition leaders were pessimistic about the chances of an early
compromise with President Slobodan Milosevic, noting that the régime had
summoned extra police to Belgrade in an apparent sign that it had not
ruled out the use of force.
"There will be no compromise. We will not give up until everything is
given back to us," said Mr Djindjic, who has been elected as the first
non-communist mayor of Belgrade since the second world war.
Western diplomats in Belgrade said Mr Milosevic had signalled to them
his keenness to make a gesture that would stem the street
demonstrations, which have attracted crowds of up to 100,000.
The president's power base showed further signs of eroding yesterday
when Mr Aleksandar Tijanic, the information minister, resigned over
state media censorship.
The republic of Montenegro, until now Serbia's loyal partner in the rump
state of Yugoslavia, denounced as "absolutely undemocratic" the
behaviour of Mr Milosevic in seeking to reverse local election results.
But the Serbian leader, who rose to power on a nationalist platform in
1987 and later backed the Serb rebellions in Croatia and Bosnia,
remained in control of the main levers of power, including the police
and most media.
Mr Bildt described as "significant" the fact that the regime had drawn
back from completely suppressing Belgrade's independent media.
Meanwhile, the EU's Irish presidency prepared a strongly worded
statement which called on the Serb president to abide by the election
results and stop censoring the media.
Mr Klaus Kinkel, German foreign minister, said Mr Milosevic "is no
longer Serbia," adding: "We can manage without him."
(c) Copyright the Financial Times Limited 1996
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:: Christian Science Monitor
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Serbia's 'Egg Revolt' Scrambles to Crack Regime
Police vow tough action if protests go on; opposition seeks blue-collar backing
Paul Wood, Special to The Christian Science Monitor
BELGRADE
12/03/1996
It was the first time Zoran had been arrested. The police came early in
the morning to take him and his girlfriend for interrogation. He says
they slapped him repeatedly and called him a traitor for joining the
huge anti-government demonstrations that have brought the Serbian
capital, Belgrade, to a standstill every day for two weeks.
Zoran's was one of the first arrests following the biggest and most
sustained protest against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic since he
came to power nine years ago. Mr. Milosevic has become a necessary agent
of the West in preventing renewed war in Bosnia - a conflict he helped
start.
Only a handful of people were detained, but it is the first sign the
authorities may no longer remain aloof from the protest, which began
after opposition victories in a local elections in a number of key towns
were canceled.
While remaining silent so far, the Milosevic regime has just changed
gears in its attitude toward the protest. State television, which has
ignored the demonstrations for the past two weeks, showed the first
pictures of the demonstrations - highly selective shots showing people
hurling objects at state buildings - along with a vitriolic commentary.
The Speaker of the Serbian Parliament, Dragon Tomic - the first
high-level official to comment - compared the opposition leaders to
Hitler and the Nazis.
In a strongly worded statement, the interior ministry warned it would
"no longer tolerate any element of violence" from the protesters.
The huge demonstrations have so far been largely peaceful and
disciplined, although some protesters are pelting symbols of the regime
- Milosevic's office, the Serbian Parliament, and the state television
building - with eggs, red paint, and other projectiles.
The eggs symbolize the petty thievery of which they accuse Milosevic;
the red paint is symbolic of their charges that Milosevic is nothing
more than a Communist who conveniently changed his ideology to stay in
power.
The opposition said yesterday that the police statement and the new
official line conveyed by state television were nothing more than an
attempt to scare people off the streets. Having already brought more
than 150,000 people out to protest, they promise even bigger
demonstrations.
One of the leaders of the opposition coalition Zajedno (Together), Zoran
Djindjic, said: "More and more people come to the protests every day and
that is a big problem for Milosevic.... I think it will have the
opposite effect, that even more people will come."
The demonstrations have gripped provincial towns and cities as well as
in Belgrade. But most of the protesters have been people already in the
opposition camp, the young and the middle classes.
Opposition leaders are trying to get trade unionists to back their
cause. Protests by this core of Serbian society would cause panic among
the governing socialists, but large numbers of workers have yet to join
the protest.
But the opposition has history on its side. Twice in this century,
Serbian kings have been killed by their people. Only one man has kept a
long and peaceful rule: Josip Broz Tito, the Communist leader who held
Yugoslavia together until his death in 1980.
Two-part world response
After an initially limp response, the international community has begun
to back the opposition efforts.
The United States has made clear, in toughly worded statements, that
Serbia's international rehabilitation is on hold, with no chance of
Milosevic gaining access to loans from the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund.
The European Union has suspended a deal on trade preferences,
infuriating Serbian officials.
Over the past two weeks, on public platforms, the opposition had widened
its demand from the recognition of local election results to the
resignation of Milosevic.
Western diplomats who have talked to both sides say that is just
rhetoric and the opposition would be satisfied with their council seats.
"Both sides are now desperate to end this crisis without losing face,"
says a senior Western envoy who has been trying to mediate.
But there is no international support for an attempt to topple
Milosevic. "We Serbs have bad timing," says one of the protesters on the
street. "When the West wanted us to get rid of Milosevic when the war
started, we did nothing. Now we make our move when they really need
him."
Milosevic's international support is partly based on his value to the
Bosnian peace process. It was Milosevic who represented the Bosnian
Serbs at the 1995 Dayton peace talks, which ended the three-year Bosnian
war.
Diplomats remind opposition leaders that Milosevic was directly elected
in 1992, and that whatever the concerns about the democratic process in
Serbia, he is no Erich Honecker of East Germany or Nicolae Ceausescu of
Romania - the dictatorial dinosaurs swept away by revolts in 1989.
Furthermore, there are questions about the opposition's true commitment
to democracy - and whether it really rejects nationalism. During his
longtime opposition to Milosevic, Mr. Djindjic has proved himself more
of an adroit critic than a principled ideologue. As Milosevic
alternately espoused and disavowed nationalism, Djindjic criticized both
stances.
Djindjic also campaigned for the ultranationalist Bosnian Serb party of
Radovan Karadzic, who has been indicted for war crimes. But throughout
his long political career, Djindjic has retained great popularity.
Beside the police statement, there are other signs that Milosevic is
rattled by this challenge to his rule. The tiny independent Belgrade
radio station B92 - the only domestic source of broadcast news on the
protest for most of the two weeks of demonstrations - has had its signal
jammed. The Belgrade mass-circulations newspaper Blic came under heavy
official pressure to drop its support for the opposition. When it did,
journalists walked out in protest, starting their own, rebel publication
to report on the protest.
Compromise coming?
But there are signs of a compromise in the offing. The opposition is
calling for the Serbian Parliament, which meets today, to appoint a
special commission to examine the whole question of election results and
then reinstate the opposition victories.
The Belgrade press reported yesterday that Milosevic was preparing to
sack a number of senior socialist officials in an attempt to open
dialogue with the opposition. However, there has so far been no
indication that the government is prepared to go further than this
limited step.
But change could also come during next year's presidential and
parliamentary elections.
Zoran, the student demonstrator arrested by police, exemplifies Serbia's
recent troubled past. When the war with Croatia began five years ago, he
returned to his home to volunteer for the army. But he became
disillusioned as he saw the tough battle for the town of Vukovar in
eastern Croatia.
Like many of Serbia's young and bright, he plans to emigrate, but not
before taking to the streets again to join what the opposition now calls
"Serbia's Democratic Revolution."
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Friday December 6, 1996 Edition
Serbia's Leader Risks Street Protests to Keep Iron Grip on Economy
Paul Wood, Special to The Christian Science Monitor
BELGRADE -- Vladimir K. is just the kind of businessman who could
jumpstart Serbia's faltering economy.
<Picture> ODOROUS OPPRESSION: Opposition leaders Vuk Draskovic (r.),
Vesna Pesic, (c.) and Zoran Djindjic (l.) hold their noses over
state-run TV's characterization of their protests as violent.
(EMIL VAS/REUTERS)
His chain of upscale bakeries turns a nice profit. But now he says the
local authorities in Belgrade, Serbia's capital, want to take one of his
stores away from him.
"It is almost impossible to make a proper living here," he says. "You
have no idea. We pray that things will change."
Mr. K. is not alone. In fact, local city councils control many of
Serbia's most important businesses - most electricity plants, many
manufacturing facilities, the state-run airline, and a critical
munitions factory in the south.
These local councils have long been dominated by the socialist party of
President Slobodan Milosevic. And Mr. Milosevic's sway over local party
officials has been a key element in his ability to keep pervasive
control over Serbia's economy - and set up web of cushy patronage jobs
that beget loyalty among officials.
So when the opposition won control of councils in Belgrade and several
other key cities in recent elections, Milosevic's power was threatened.
But when he overturned the election results the people took to the
streets in the biggest and most sustained protest against the government
since Milosevic came to power nine years ago. Day after day, the
opposition is able to muster crowds of 100,000 to demand that the
election results are reinstated.
On Wednesday, the opposition claimed the biggest demonstration yet in
Belgrade with more than 150,000 people in the streets. Discontent over
Milosevic's economic policies has swollen the crowds.
International agencies say one-third of the population lives in poverty.
The Red Cross feeds thousands of people in Serbia every day.
Unemployment is 50 percent; annual inflation 100 percent.
After three weeks of mass demonstrations and no official response, the
authorities yesterday made the first sign of movement. The Serbian
government adopted a number of populist measures, including a reduction
in electricity bills, and prompt payment of pensions. And, in an
apparent attempt to open talks with the protesters, Milosevic began
sacking senior socialist officials. In a one-sentence report, state
television announced the resignation of the mayor of Serbia's second
city, Nis.
Diplomats said the most "blatant" electoral fraud took place in Nis,
where voter returns were allegedly altered by hand. The socialist mayor,
Mile Ilic, ran the city as his own fiefdom. He attracted personal
criticism from opposition demonstrators in a way no other local
politician had.
Despite this, the authorities made no announcement on the opposition's
minimum demand - recognition of election victories - and for the time
being, the huge demonstrations are continuing.
To lose control of the city councils would severely threaten Milosevic's
power. Belgrade's city council earlier this year, for instance, assumed
control of Serbia's last politically independent television station,
Studio B, by means of a court order.
The council argued that the privatization years earlier of Studio B was
invalid, and the city was therefore still the owner.
'If you don't have good relations with the state,
you don't have good business.' - Dragoljub Karic
"They are thieves," says one Studio B employee who lost his shareholding
in the company when the city council took over.
Many think the takeover was ordered by Milosevic, who was reportedly
unhappy about the station's independent coverage of politics. The
socialists' grip on power in part depends on maintaining their grip on
the media. If the opposition controlled Belgrade's council they would
also control Studio B.
Other television stations in Serbia are under independent ownership, but
their coverage of the huge demonstrations is either nonexistent or
mirrors that of state television. BK TV is owned by Dragoljub Karic, who
is seen as one of the government's favorite businessmen - and one of the
country's richest. Having successful businessmen close to him is also
appears to be Milosevic tactic for retaining power.
Mr. Karic and his brothers started out as musicians in a nightclub band.
But he denies their success came with political help.
"In every country it's the same," he says. "If you don't have good
relations with the state, you don't have good business. But there's no
secret, we succeeded by working hard."
But Karic's friends say his huge empire would suffer at official hands
if his television station caused problems for the Milosevic
administration.
He has a lot to lose: Karic's company is the biggest privately owned
multinational in the former East bloc. It deals in mobile phones,
construction, banking, and owns a television station.
But business has taken a downward turn because of the turmoil over the
election results.
Another whose business has suffered is Vladimir K. Every day he puts up
metal shutters at his city center shop - in case of a violent clash
between police and protesters - and turns customers away. But, he says,
it is a price he is prepared to pay to change Serbia.
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Odraz B92 vesti, prvo izdanje, 8. decembar 1996.
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PET PRESUDA VRHOVNOG SUDA -- ODBIJENI ZAHTEVI
Do sada je Gradska izborna komisija dobila pet presuda Vrhovnog
suda kojima se odbija njihov zahtev za preispitivanjem presuda
kojima su ponistena 33 mandata koalicije ,,Zajedno'' na izborima
za gradske organe vlasti, saopsteno je na danasnjoj konferenciji
za novinare Pravnog saveta koalicije ,,Zajedno''. Takodje je
napomenuto je da jos uvek nisu stigle presude Vrhovnog suda za
Nis, Savski venac i Pirot, i da neke od njih kasne i vise nego sto
to zakonski rok dozvoljava.
DRAGANIC O ODLUCI VRHOVNOG SUDA
Clan pravnog odbora koalicije ,,Zajedno'' iz Demokratske stranke
Goran Draganic izjavio je danas Radiju B92 da je sinocnja odluka
Vrhovnog suda Srbije pokazala da je ,,definitivno nastupio kraj
pravnog sistema u Srbiji''.
,,Sinocnja presuda je definitivno pokazala da desavanja u
pravosudnim organima predstavljaju izraz politicke volje rezima''
rekao je Draganic. ,,To je kraj pravosudnog sistema i rada
pravosudnih organa u Srbiji'' dodao je on.
On je objasnio da ce uskoro uslediti odluka ,,o daljim politickim
potezima Koalicije Zajedno''.
KOALICIJA ,,ZAJEDNO'' NEMA VISE NIJEDNO PRAVNO SREDSTVO
Vrhovni sud Srbije kasno sinoc odbio je zahteve za vanredno
preispitivanje pravosnazne presude Prvog opstinskog suda koje su
podneli odvojeno koalicija ,,Zajedno'' i Gradska izborna komisija
(GIK) Beograda, a povodom presude Prvog opstinskog suda o
ponistenju izbornih rezultata za 33 odbornika gradske skupstine iz
redova koalicije ,,Zajedno''.
U obrazlozenju odluke Vrhovnog suda, pristiglom kasno sinoc, stoji
da se autenticni zapisnik GIK ne moze uzeti u obzir jer su ga
potpisali ,,samo predsednik GIK i zapisnicar''. Zakonom je, inace,
predvidjeno da ga samo oni i potpisuju.
Pravni savetnici koalicije ,,Zajedno'' objasnili su novinarima da
po ZUS Zajedno vise ne moze podneti ni jedno pravno sredstvo. To
moze samo republicki javni tuzilac, na osnovu prethodno podnete
inicijative za ulaganje zahteva za zastitu zakonitosti Vrhovnom
sudu, ako on tu inicijativu, podnetu odvojeno od GIK i
,,Zajedno'', prihvati.
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PREDSEDNIK SRBIJE NE MOZE PONISTITI IZBORE
Pravni savetnici ,,Zajedno'' su pokusali da razjasne dilemu koja
se pojavljuje u javnosti o tome da li predsednik Srbije ima
ustavna ovlascenja da ponisti lokalne izbore.
,,Prema pozitivnim propisima, prema zakonu i Ustavu, Predsednik
Srbije ne moze ponistiti izbore'' objasnio je Goran Draganic iz
pravne sluzbe Zajedno. ,,Predsednik medjutim ima pravna ovlascenja
da raspusti politicke organizacije, da raspusti skupstinu i
raspise vanredne lokalne i republicke izbore'' dodao je on.
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ADVOKAT BAROVIC: BULATOVIC PRETUCEN I TEZE OZLEDJEN
Novinarima se na konferenciji za stampu koalicije ,,Zajedno''
obratio i advokat Nikola Barovic koji je objasnio situaciju u vezi
sa dosadasnjim hapsenjima demonstranata na beogradskim ulicama,
posebno povodom jucerasnjeg hapsenja 21-godisnjeg Dejana
Bulatovica, mladica koji tokom protesta na mitinzima u Beogradu
nosi lutku Slobodana Milosevica.
Prema recima Barovica, za proteklih nedelju dana uhapseno je 40
ljudi, od kojih je 30 gonjeno prekrsajno, a protiv 10 se vodi
krivicni postupak. Jedinstveno u svim slucajevima je da su svi
hapseni privodjeni u policijske prostorije, gde im je i do 24 sata
uskracivana voda i hrana, ali i kontakt sa braniocima, osim u dva
do tri slucaja.
,,Radi se protivpravnom zadrzavanju i nepostovanju procedure''
rekao je Barovic i dodao da su i resenja, odnosno presude donosene
mimo zakonskog roka i da su kasnile i po 24 casa. ,,Prekrseni su i
zakon o krivicnom i zakon o prekrsajnom postupku'' dodao je on.
,,Za jedno jaje ili jogurt dobijalo se sedam dana'' rekao je
Barovic.
Sto se slucaja Dejana Bulatovica tice, Barovic je rekao da je
mladic uhapsen kod Omladinskog stadiona na Karaburmi kada se sinoc
vracao kuci, posle protesta, i dok je bio sam. Mladic je prebacen
u zatvor u Padinskoj skeli.
Prema recima svedoka, odnosno onih koji su izdrzali kaznu od sedam
dana povodom protesta i sinoc bili pusteni, rekao je Barovic,
Bulatovic je pretucen i teze ozledjen.
Pravna sluzba ,,Zajedno'' uputila je apel Ministarstvu pravosudja
da mladic bude prebacen u Klinicki centar, ali je stigao odgovor
pomocnika ministra da se za to treba obratiti ,,nadleznima'', a ne
tom ministarstvu.
,,Ovo je gore nego 1991, 1992. i 1993'', rekao je Barovic i dodao
da branioci jos ne znaju za sta je optuzen Bulatovic, jer kontakt
sa njim nije moguc.
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ADVOKATSKA KOMORA SRBIJE TRAZI PRIZNAVANJE REZULTATA IZBORA
Upravni odbor Advokatske komore Srbije zatrazio je priznavanje
rezultata drugog kruga lokalnih izbora, ,,proisteklih iz postupka
sprovedenog po zakonskim propisima''.
U saopstenju sa jucerasnje sednice Upravnog odbora se kaze:
,,Postovanje zakonom utvrdjenog izbornog postupka na izborima za
lokalne organe vlasti u Srbiji je ustavna obaveza svih organa koji
su ovlasceni i odgovorni za sprovodjenje izbora''.
,,Svako odstupanje od propisanog postupka ne predstavlja samo
krsenje zakonskih propisa, vec direktno vodi u drustveni haos'',
navodi se u saopstenju.
Uz to se navodi: ,,U ovom trenutku, kada je ozbiljno poljuljano
poverenje u sudove i njihovu nezavisnost, Upravni odbor Advokatske
komore Srbije smatra da odrzavanje Opste javne sednice Vrhovnog
suda Srbije moze da doprinese utvrdjivanju istine i provere odluka
sudova koji su ucestvovali u oceni sprovedenog izbornog
postupka''.
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VUK DRASKOVIC: CILJ OSTAVKA SLOBODANA MILOSEVICA
Predsednik Srpskog pokreta obnove, Vuk Draskovic jutros je
govoreci za Radio B92 povodom presuda Vrhovnog suda, rekao je:
Dragi Beogradjani,
Nakon odluke Vrhovnog suda Srbije Slobodan Milosevic je sam sebe
pred gradjanima Srbije predstavio, ne kao sefa drzave, nego kao
sefa pravnog i drzavnoga terorizma, a to jeste i medjunarodni
zlocin.
Mi smo sada izlozeni da biramo ili da pognemo glave i da budemo
robovi jednog coveka i jedne zene, jer u Srbiji ne vlada vise
jednopartijska diktatura nego jednokrevetna diktatura, ili da
nastavimo mirno jos odlucnije jos masovnije sa nasim protestima.
Ali ovog puta cilj nasih protesta, od sinoc, jeste ostavka
Slobodana Milosevica kao uslov svih uslova da bi Srbija docekala
bolju sudbinu i slobodu. On je i predsednik Vrhovnog suda, i
glavni urednik televizije i sef policije i glavni urednik
,,Politike'' on ima ambicije da bude sef nasih sudbina on ima
ambiciju da isprovocira nemire, sukobe, krvoprolice u Srbiji da bi
sacuvao svoju vlast, njega nista drugo ne interesuje.
Mi imamo ambiciju i volju da nastavimo jos upornije mirno, mirno,
samo mirno i da celu Srbiju pretvorimo u jedan opsti mirni ustanak
protiv ove opasne strategije coveka koji je do juce bio predsednik
Srbije, a od juce je postao sef terorizma protiv svoga sopstvenoga
naroda.
Zato molim vas, u 15c na Trgu Slobode u masovnijem broju nego
juce, svi da pokazemo da smo ljudi da vise nema sile koja moze
zaustaviti ovu nasu zelju da budemo gradjani da budemo slobodni da
ne budemo robovi.
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LJUBA TADIC I ZORAN CVIJANOVIC GOVORILI STUDENTIMA
Poznati glumci Ljuba Tadic i Zoran Cvijanovic govorili su danas
pre podne na platou ispred Filozofskog fakulteta studentima koji
su se i danas nastavili protest. Pozdravljajuci ih Ljuba Tadic je
izmedju ostalog rekao:
,,Culi smo jutros da nas je Vrhovni sud osudio da dozivotno
setamo. Ja mislim da u pozitivnom pravu ne postoji takav primer.
Kada budemo hodali pitace nas covecanstvo ko ste vi a mi cemo im
odgovarati mi smo iz Srbije.
Glupost je nebeska sila. Prvo su zatvorili B92 zbog mnogo vode u
kablu, pa su rekli da Skupstina ne moze da radi zbog mnogo pacova
u njoj, otvaraju svaki cas pred izbore fabrike koje vec rade.
Nadam se da to nece dugo. Mi smo vec vidjali sve to. Govore da
drugi nisu sposobni da vode ovu zemlju, ja licno mislim da se vi,
ovako ponosno hodajuci, spremate da budete opozicija i onoj
opoziciji sa cetvrtog sprata. Zelim da pre nego sto odem u polje
vidim ledja ovoj vlasti pa da mirno milenijumima lezim'', rekao je
Tadic i dodao:
,,Ako je istina da se govori da ce zabraniti mojim kolegama ucesce
na drzavnoj televiziji ja sam dosao da se solidarisem sa njima i
necu ni ja da idem na tu televiziju'', zavrsio je svoj govor
glumac, Ljuba Tadic. Njegov mladji kolega Zoran Cvijanovic obratio
se studentima sledecim recima:
,,Moja porodica je juce provela dan sa vama. Ja sam danas hteo da
povedem mog petogodisnjeg sina, ali mi je on rekao -- nemoj da
manipulises sa mnom nego hajde, hajmo svi u napad!
Mogu samo da kazem -- da je Slobodan Milosevic citao 'Magbeta',
velikog Sekspira, verovatno bi sada bio bankarski cinovnik, a
ovako su mu Srbija i Beograd na ulicama priredili poslednji cin
ovog velikog komada''. Potom je, burno pozdravljen, Cvijanovic
pozvao studente u setnju.