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trgovinske i ekonomske olaksice bez "demokratskog
raspleta sadasnje napete situacije u Srbiji",
saopstio je u ponedeljak predstavnik Evropske
komisije u Briselu Niko Vegter. "Moramo
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situacija nije promenila ni za pedalj", podvukao
je predstavnik Evropske komisije.
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Forum, Mediji.994, deniBELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of
student-led
demonstrators marched through Belgrade on Monday, furious after the
Serbian Supreme Court confirmed the annulment of opposition victories in
local elections.
The court gave no reason for its rejection Sunday of an appeal to
reinstate the opposition victory. Honoring the ballot box win would have
given President Slobodan Milosevic's critics control of Belgrade.
So far the biggest potential threats to Milosevic's authority --
organized strikes and workers' marches -- have failed to materialize.
Demonstrator allegedly beaten
Monday's protests in bitter cold weather were also directed against the
alleged beating of a 21-year-old demonstrator.
Foes of Milosevic said Dejan Bulatovic was fingered on Saturday for
being one of several protesters in Belgrade who stood atop a jeep with
an effigy of Milosevic in a prison uniform.
Student demonstrators presented a petition to the police headquarters
demanding the immediate release of Bulatovic, who was sentenced to 25
days in prison for "violating the public order."
Dejan's mother, Ljiljana Bulatovic, said she visited her son in prison
Sunday. She said his nose was broken and he told her he had a pistol
barrel stuck into his mouth during interrogation.
A total of 40 demonstrators have been arrested over the past week, the
opposition said. The protest marches began two weeks ago in response to
the reversal of opposition victories in municipal elections November 17.
U.S. pressure
Threatening a new economic squeeze, U.S. Secretary of State Warren
Christopher urged Milosevic to accept opposition election victories and
open talks with his opponents.
Attending NATO's annual winter meeting in Brussels, Christopher told
reporters Milosevic should show the same kind of flexibility that led
him last year to negotiate peace terms for Bosnia.
"We retain the option of seeking (the reimposition of sanctions),"
Christopher said.
In October, the United Nations lifted international sanctions placed on
Belgrade for its role in the Bosnian war. The U.N. Security Council
would have to hold another vote in order to restore them and Russia
would probably make use of its veto.
Correspondent Brent Sadler contributed to this report.
(c) 1996 Cable News Network, Inc.
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===========================00 residents protested their
government's decision to shut down one of the few sources of independent
news, Radio 101. Protesters called the move an attack on democracy.
The protests occurred while Mr. Tudjman was undergoing medical treatment
in Washington. Tudjman returned Nov. 23, and spokesmen insist he is
healthy but won't give details. His illness has shown "the president is
mortal like everyone else," says opposition parliamentarian Bozo
Kovacevic.
Public support for the once-invincible Tudjman and his party, the
Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ), is at an all-time low. The HDZ lost
big in local elections earlier this year, ceding control of the capital
and other major cities. Presidential and general polls are set for 1997.
But Tudjman is still enormously popular among former refugees who
returned to their homes after a 1995 Croatian army offensive expelled
rebel Serbs from territory they had occupied since 1991.
"It's unclear who would fill the vacuum," if Tudjman left the scene,
says a senior European diplomat in the region. "The party has both
moderate and extremist wings, and Tudjman [has] held them together."
One worry has to do with Croatia's support of Herceg-Bosna - a Croat
ministate inside Bosnia created by killing, expelling, or imprisoning
Muslim and Serb residents. Its continued existence has slowed the push
toward unity among all parts of Bosnia that was envisioned by the 1995
Dayton peace deal.
Although Tudjman has given lip service to the Dayton deal, he has only
reluctantly moved to quell the nationalist ambitions of Bosnian Croats.
But the concern is that a hard-line successor might actively encourage
the Bosnian Croats. "Developments here are entirely dependent on what is
happening in Croatia," says Dragan Gasic, a European Union spokesman in
Herceg-Bosna.
In fact, as soon as Herceg-Bosna officials learned Tudjman was away,
they blocked all moves toward unity.
"While the cat's away, the mice will play," says a Western diplomat. "In
the short term, the departure of Tudjman could have terrible
consequences in Bosnia."
But because the opposition backs the Dayton deal, he says, "After new
elections, the situation could improve dramatically if the opposition
wins."
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evic's foes
control of Belgrade.
Radomir Lazarevic, chief of the Belgrade election commission, told
reporters that the election commission would appeal the ruling to the
federal courts of Yugoslavia, the federation of Serbia and smaller
Montenegro. The federal court must rule within 48 hours.
Regardless, the Serbian Supreme Court decision did not bode well for
appeals of nullifications of elections in other cities and brought out
100,000 protesters Sunday against Mr. Milosevic, who once had
extraordinary grass-roots support in Serbia.
Zoran Djindjic, leader of the opposition Democratic Party, said it was
no longer a question of the opposition winning back its election gains.
"This is an uprising to win democracy," Mr. Djindjic said.
The United States talked tough as well, saying it retains "the option''
to reimpose economic sanctions if Mr. Milosevic doesn't show the same
kind of flexibility that led him last year to negotiate peace for
Bosnia.
"Milosevic's position at the present time is self-defeating and he
should recognize the importance of accepting the election results,''
said Mr. Christopher. "Having a dialogue with the opposition is in his
own interest,'' Mr. Christopher added, speaking to reporters in
Brussels, Belgium, at NATO's annual winter meeting. The 16 allies, which
have a peacekeeping force in Bosnia, also are expected to call on Mr.
Milosevic to ease up.
Thirty thousand students were on the streets Monday, this time to
protest the arrest Saturday and beating of 21-year-old Dejan Bulatovic.
Foes of Mr. Milosevic said he was fingered for being one of several
protesters in Belgrade who stood atop a jeep with an effigy of Mr.
Milosevic in a prison uniform.
"Must we bow our heads and take all of this?" said a statement issued by
the students. "Tomorrow it could be one of us. Let's rebel against their
brutality."
Independent radio B 92, which had been shut down last week by the
authorities and then allowed to re-open, reported Mr. Bulatovic faced
charges of offending Mr. Milosevic and could be sentenced to up to three
years in jail.
Kati Marton, chairwoman of the New York-based Committee to Protect
Journalists, met with Mr. Milosevic on Saturday and later told B 92 that
the Serbian leader pledged not to use force against protesters.
But the opposition reported Sunday that eight people -- including Mr.
Bulatovic -- had been arrested the past two days, bringing last week's
total to 40.
Independent unions pledged to start strikes Monday in support of three
weeks of political protests. But workers traditionally are poorly
organized here, and the protests got off to a slow start.
"People are afraid of their managers, and afraid of possible
consequences," said one blue-collar protester, Vojin Malesev, who was
among the hundreds who gathered at a large Belgrade factory.
A strong workers' movement could mean serious trouble for Mr. Milosevic,
under whom the economy has taken a long nosedive. Mr. Malesev, however,
said workers are again said to be considered troublemakers like the
political protesters.
Many of them have worked only sporadically for the last several years.
Mr. Malesev said he hasn't received anything for five months. His normal
pay is $40 per month.
Serbian TV, which is under Mr. Milosevic's tight control, sharply
criticized the opposition in a report late Sunday. In recent weeks, it
has buried news of the mass demonstrations flooding Belgrade and other
cities, trying to get its point across by interviewing citizens who
oppose protest. This time, TV took the protesters head-on.
Its report came earlier in the nightly news broadcast and showed more
film of the protest. It suggested that protest leaders had foreign
sponsors. It also claimed the opposition was receiving support from Adem
Demaci, a leader of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo province. The criticism
harked back to the period when Mr. Milosevic consolidated his hold on
Serbia over the Kosovo issue and used nationalism to inspire support.
Very few Serbs would be inclined to associate themselves with any Kosovo
Albanian cause.
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ity elections.
The protesters accuse Milosevic of stealing the elections; the court
ruling seems to signal that he won't make any significant concessions.
Many demonstrators were particularly shocked yesterday by news that
Dejan Bulatovic, a protester who carried a satiric effigy of Milosevic,
had been arrested and badly beaten by police after Thursday's march.
Bulatovic, 21, had captured local and international attention by bearing
a depiction of Milosevic dressed in prison garb.
His mother, Jelica Bulatovic, was allowed to visit him in prison
yesterday for the first time. She said he needed medical attention for a
broken nose, chest bruises and other injuries.
She said her son, charged with disturbing the peace, had been stripped
of his clothes and left in an unheated cell.
Although about 40 demonstrators have been arrested since the protests
began, mostly for throwing eggs, paint or yogurt at government
buildings, Bulatovic is the first who was said to be so badly beaten.
Some believe Milosevic may be trying to intimidate protesters by such
individual attacks. Bulatovic was apparently followed by police after he
left the demonstration and was arrested.
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Forusnap. 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.
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(6.1017) Uto 10/12/1996 06rnment eased its response to the protests and hinted
it might
reconsider the annulment of the elections.
But the experience awakened the protesters here to the tremendous
potential at their fingertips, and independent journalists have rushed
forward at a dizzying speed with plans to bypass government
transmitters, news agencies and television studios and to use the
Internet to carry their message across Serbia and to the outside world.
"It was the home page put out by B-92 that saved the revolution now
under way in Serbia," said Mr Sasa Vucinic, managing director of the
Media Development Loan Fund, a non-profit group that supports
independent news and information outlets in Eastern Europe.
"In the early days of the protests, before the international media
arrived, it was the only way most people outside Belgrade could hear
about what was happening," he said.
"And the moment the radio signal from B-92 was cut the Internet took
over. Mailboxes of government officials in Europe, humanitarian
agencies, journalists and supporters were flooded within hours with the
news of the closure. A campaign began over the Internet to save the
station. The Internet has become the movement's lifeline."
Many students, professors and professionals here have computers, and
most people who do not seem to know someone who does. And the ties to
the Internet are expected to take a huge leap forward within the next
few days.
B-92, which has had a site on the web for a year, is in the process of
concluding a deal with supporters in the Amsterdam-based access service
XS4ALL to record all its programming digitally and broadcast it over the
Internet 24 hours a day so that anyone in Serbia with access to a
computer could hear the news over Internet audio links.
Local radio stations could broadcast the news from the Internet, and if
the stations were forbidden to carry the news reports, groups could
gather around a computer and hear the news through the Internet,
something many did when the radio was closed for two days last week.
Some 400,000 Serbs are living abroad, many of them young men who avoided
the draft. Large numbers of them, starved for information, gather daily,
often in the homes of friends who have computers in Prague, Vienna and
Berlin, to pull up the Serbian web sites. During the turmoil in Belgrade
over the last three weeks, some of those Serbs living abroad have
organised protests in European cities.
"The government meant to silence us, but instead forced us to build on a
whole new technology to stay alive," said Mr Drazen Pantic, head of the
radio's Internet service. "The drive to close us down has given us a
tool to vastly expand our audience."
Serbian Internet users have even drawn up plans in case the government
attempts to cut the Internet lines. Thousands of faxes of eggs, sent
over the Internet, will flood government fax machines. Eggs are often
thrown during street protests. -- NYT.
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Belgrade and several major Serbian cities have been shaken by three
weeks of demonstrations after Mr Milosevic's ruling Socialists annulled
a victory by the opposition in 15 cities, including the capital, in
local elections last month.
Ms Marton said she felt Mr Milosevic would not yield to opposition
demands to resign and seemed instead to be prepared to outlast the daily
demonstrations.
``I think he feels he has the support from the countryside so he can
ride it out. I don't think that he is in a mood to give up. Not at
all,'' she said.
Ms Marton had travelled to Belgrade to press Mr Milosevic to allow press
freedom after authorities shut down independent radio station B-92, the
only domestic electronic medium covering the demonstrations. ``I came
the very minute I heard of shutting down of radio B-92 to send a very
clear message of solidarity,'' she said. She had presented a manifesto
to Mr Milosevic listing specific methods of media control ``which I
wanted him to sign and pledge not to repeat ever again''.
``I handed that document to him and told him that it would go a very
long way towards mending his image in the West, which I told him was
quite good a year ago but was now about as bad as can be,'' she said.
``So I handed him that manifesto which he proceeded to tear up. What is
left of that manifesto is half the page that I then proceeded to write
on in my own hand because I did not want to lose this opportunity,
because I wanted to come away with something concrete, something in
writing.''
Mr Milosevic signed that document, which read: ``In our conversation
today, President Slobodan Milosevic and I Kati Marton reiterated our
support of a free press in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the
right to publish and broadcast without censorship (both words deleted)
free here.''
Asked who crossed out the words ``without censorship'', Ms Marton
replied: ``It was President Milosevic.''
She repeated Mr Milosevic's promise that he would not use force to
muzzle the country-wide protests. -Reuter
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Yugoslavia Opposition to Boycott Tuesday's Opening of Parliament
By Jovana Gec
Associated Press Writer
Monday, December 9, 1996; 9:13 p.m. EST
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Opposition leaders planned to boycott
Tuesday's opening of federal parliament amid spirited anti-government
demonstrations which so far have failed to draw union workers into a
general strike.
The demonstrations entered their fourth week Monday, with more than
100,000 students and sympathizers rallying against the annulment of a
Nov. 17 opposition election victory.
Dissident leaders also announced the boycott of the opening session of a
new federal parliament, which represents Serbia and its only partner in
Yugoslavia, tiny Montenegro.
A coalition led by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and his
pro-Communist wife triumphed in elections for that parliament early last
month. But two weeks later, the opposition claimed victory in Belgrade
and other municipalities in local elections which Milosevic annulled.
That sparked the demonstrations.
The anti-government protesters also vented their fury Monday at the
arrest and beating of a young demonstrator, one of 40 detained by
authorities in the past week.
Dejan Bulatovic was arrested after a demonstration in which he perched
on a jeep near an effigy of Milosevic dressed in a prison outfit. His
mother, Ljiljana, said the 21-year-old, who suffers from asthma, had his
nose broken during interrogation.
The demonstrations represent the most serious challenge to the
autocratic Serbian president since he came to power in 1987. Workers'
participation is crucial because they may be the only force that can
seriously shake Milosevic.
But efforts by independent union leaders to organize a general strike
thus far have been met with a don't want to be led around
like a sheep," added Djordje Bozanic.
The workers accuse the government of squandering vast sums of money,
destroying the economy and reducing people's daily existence to a bare
minimum.
Sanctions imposed to punish Milosevic's role in instigating war in
Croatia and Bosnia as well as economic mismanagement have sent the
economy into a deep nosedive. Milosevic has shown no interest in ending
state control of the economy.
Out of 4,500 employees, only about 1,000 still have their jobs at the
IMT factory. The rest are on paid leave. Many workers across Serbia got
by under sanctions with small-time smuggling, and now are involved in
selling cigarettes on the street or other activities.
That makes it hard for union leaders to organize them.
"No one knows where they are," said Milan Nikolic, head of the
metalworkers' section of the Independence trade union organization.
The demonstrations in Belgrade have been mostly peaceful, and Milosevic
has taken little action to stop them, apparently hoping they would
fizzle out by themselves.
But his politically powerful wife, Mirjana Markovic, spoke out Monday,
echoing the state-run media's criticism of the protesters. "Brutality on
the streets is not the way to solve economic and social questions," she
said on Serbian TV.
The police beating of the protester was a sign that Milosevic was trying
to frighten his opponents.
Bulatovic's mother told independent radio station B 92 that she visited
her son in prison. She said his nose was broken, and he told her he had
a pistol barrel stuck into his mouth during the interrogation.
She said he was beaten and was lying naked, shivering, in front of a
window left open to the cold winter air. Authorities said Bulatovic
would be taken to the hospital. Lawyer Nikola Barovic said he had been
told he would be allowed to visit his client Tuesday.
About 30,000 students protested the police action. Later, about 100,000
opposition party supporters marched in downtown Belgrade.
The United States condemned the beating of Bulatovic and said renewed
economic sanctions against Milosevic's government were possible.
"Milosevic's position at the present time is self-defeating and he
should recognize the importance of accepting the election results,"
Secretary of State Warren Christopher said in Brussels.
Opposition leader Zoran Djindjic called for negotiations, but said
Milosevic first had to accept the election results and the independent
media, which he briefly shut down last week before relenting.
"This political crisis can be solved ultimately only by the fall of this
regime, and temporarily only if we reach a political agreement (on) how
to prepare the legal change of the regime," Djindjic said.
(c) Copyright 1996 The Associated Press
The Associated Press provides an overview of the key personalities in
the dispute between Milosevic and the opposition.
Get the latest news, background and Web links on our Serbia Page.
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reporters that the election commission would appeal the ruling to the
federal courts of Yugoslavia, the federation of Serbia and smaller
Montenegro. The federal court must rule within 48 hours.
Regardless, the Serbian Supreme Court decision did not bode well for
appeals of nullifications of elections in other cities and brought out
100,000 protesters Sunday against Milosevic, who once had extraordinary
grass-roots support in Serbia.
Zoran Djindjic, leader of the opposition Democratic Party, said it was
no longer a question of the opposition winning back its election gains.
"This is an uprising to win democracy," Djindjic said.
The United States talked tough today, saying it retains "the option" to
reimpose economic sanctions if Milosevic doesn't show the same kind of
flexibility that led him last year to negotiate peace for Bosnia.
"Milosevic's position at the present time is self-defeating and he
should recognize the importance of accepting the election results,"
Secretary of State Warren Christopher said.
"Having a dialogue with the opposition is in his own interest,"
Christopher added, speaking to reporters in Brussels, Belgium, at NATO's
annual winter meeting. The 16 allies, which have a peacekeeping force in
Bosnia, also are expected to call on Milosevic to ease up.
But 30,000 students were on the streets today, this time to protest the
arrest Saturday and beating of 21-year-old Dejan Bulatovic. Foes of
Milosevic said he was fingered for being one of several protesters in
Belgrade who stood atop a jeep with an effigy of Milosevic in prison
clothes.
"Must we bow our heads and take all of this?" said a statement issued by
the students. "Tomorrow it could be one of us."
Independent radio B 92, which had been shut down last week by the
authorities and then allowed to re-open, reported Bulatovic was already
sentenced to 25 days in jail and faced further charges of offending
Milosevic that could sentence him to up to three years in jail.
Dejan's mother, Ljiljana Bulatovic, told B 92 that she visited her son
in prison Sunday. She said his nose was broken and he told her he had a
pistol barrel stuck into his mouth during interrogation.
She said he was shivering with cold and lying naked in front of an open
window despite freezing weather.
Kati Marton, chairwoman of the New York-based Committee to Protect
Journalists, met with Milosevic on Saturday and later told B 92 that the
Serbian leader pledged not to use force against protesters.
But the opposition reported Sunday that eight people -- including
Bulatovic -- had been arrested the past two days, bringing last week's
total to 40.
Independent unions pledged to start strikes today in support of the
protests but workers traditionally are poorly organized here.
"People are afraid of their managers, and afraid of possible
consequences," said one blue-collar protester, Vojin Malesev, who was
among hundreds who gathered at a large Belgrade factory.
A strong workers' movement could mean serious trouble for Milosevic,
under whom the economy has taken a long nosedive. Malesev, however, said
workers are afraid to be considered troublemakers like the political
protesters.
Serbian TV, which is under Milosevic's tight control, sharply criticized
the opposition in a report late Sunday.
In recent weeks, it has buried news of the mass demonstrations flooding
Belgrade and other cities, trying to get its point across by
interviewing citizens who oppose protest.
This time, TV took the protesters head-on.
Its report came earlier in the nightly news broadcast and showed more
film of the protest. It suggested that protest leaders had foreign
sponsors.
It also claimed the opposition was receiving support from Adem Demaci, a
leader of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo province. The criticism harked back
to the period when Milosevic consolidated his hold on Serbia over the
Kosovo issue and used nationalism to inspire support.
Very few Serbs would be inclined to associate themselves with any Kosovo
Albanian cause.
(c) Copyright 1996 The Associated Press
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(6.10indow. "My boy has
asthma," she added. "He looks bad; his face is bloody. I don't know why
they did this to him. They called him an enemy of the state."
Bulatovic's arrest came a day after Milosevic gave in to Western demands
to allow Belgrade's two independent radio stations to resume
broadcasting, less than 24 hours after he shut them down. At the same
time, Serbian officials said the beating of an imprisoned protester
could not have occurred without the president's tacit support.
Such good-cop, bad-cop maneuvers are vintage Milosevic and may provide a
key to his strategy as he confronts the largest and most sustained
challenge to his nine-year rule. On the day Bulatovic was sentenced, for
example, Milosevic met with Kati Marton -- president of the New
York-based Committee to Protect Journalists and wife of Richard C.
Holbrooke, the U.S. diplomat who brokered the plan to end the war in
Bosnia.
During that meeting, he told Marton he would not order violent measures
against the demonstrators and signed a statement promising to respect
independent media. Marton scribbled out the proposed statement,
declaring that Milosevic was committed to support "a free press . . .
and the right to publish and broadcast without censorship freely here."
Milosevic crossed out "without censorship," signed the statement and
handed it back.
The document summed up Milosevic's tendency, as one diplomat put it, to
"confuse us all on purpose."
Mass demonstrations erupted in Belgrade and other cities in Serbia on
Nov. 18 after a coalition of five opposition political parties, called
Together, accused the president of using court orders and ballot-box
stuffing to steal opposition election victories in 14 of Serbia's 19
largest cities.
Western officials say Milosevic's strategy now is designed to confound
his opponents and send mixed signals to the West and that he is trying
to transform his image as the cause of the tumult into its cure. In the
end, they say, his aim is to emerge as the only figure capable of ending
the crisis.
Such tactics resemble those he used during five years of factional
warfare in neighboring Croatia and Bosnia. Widely blamed for instigating
the conflicts, Milosevic later split with ultranationalist Serbs in
those republics and presented himself as a crucial partner in U.S.-led
efforts to bring peace to the region.
"All the time he plays a game of one step forward and two steps back,"
said Srdja Popovic, an opposition politician.
Milosevic's maneuvering continued Saturday as Serbia's Supreme Court
rejected an appeal by the Together coalition that sought recognition of
its ballot triumph in Belgrade. The city's election commission had
initially declared a victory for the opposition, and Belgrade's
Socialist mayor had conceded defeat, but a week later, a state court
nullified the vote.
As protests spread and international pressure mounted on Milosevic early
last week, it appeared he might wish the Supreme Court to rule in favor
of Together as a means of easing the standoff -- thus accepting the
first opposition victory in the capital since the inception of Communist
rule in 1945.
Late Saturday night, however, the court rejected five of the
opposition's 46 appeals, and opposition officials said they interpret
the decisions as a complete veto of their case. "We have exhausted all
legal channels," said Vesna Rakic-Vodinolic, a legal expert working with
the opposition.
(c) Copyright 1996 The Washington Post Company
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Forum, Medijit surprised that the court had sided with Milosevic,
and they pronounced themselves more determined than ever to see an end
to his authoritarian regime.
``We want the protests to spread to as many cities in Serbia as
possible,'' said Zoran Djindjic, president of the opposition Democratic
Party. ``This is an enormous investment in the future. Never before has
there been a single unified protest in 20 towns in Serbia. Never before
have we attracted so much international attention.''
Brutality alleged
Also on Sunday, opposition sources reported the arrest and alleged
torture of a student who had hoisted an effigy of Milosevic, wearing
jailbird stripes, in the demonstrations. The 21-year-old man, Dejan
Bulatovic, was stripped, then beaten with clubs and kicked by police,
said his mother, Ljiljana. They placed a rifle in his mouth and
threatened to kill him, she said after visiting her son.
Bulatovic was sentenced to 25 days in prison for what amounts to
disorderly conduct, opposition officials said.
Approximately 42 protesters have been arrested, according to opposition
lawyers, but there had been no reports of abuse until now. Several of
the arrested were held incommunicado, the lawyers said.
On Sunday, the effigy sat slumped in the corner of the headquarters of
the Zajedno (Together) opposition coalition as thousands of
demonstrators rallied outside.
Subtle suppression
Milosevic and his proxies have told Western officials that they will not
use force to break up the demonstrations. But Milosevic has used tactics
both subtle and overt to intimidate and undermine the opposition.
State-run television, which routinely broadcasts interviews of residents
complaining about how the protests disrupt traffic, resumed its tough
talk Sunday night, accusing Zajedno leaders of subversive attempts to
destabilize the nation and mislead the people.
``All of this is obviously a big farce intended for the foreign media,''
state television said. ``They have finally shown their hand and have
proven that their aim is to destabilize Serbia [and] to compromise it
before the world.''
Milosevic is also seeking scapegoats in an effort to defuse the most
sustained challenge to his authority that he has ever faced. He has
fired officials in his party whose titles seem important but who really
have little power, and he has tried to use the courts for cover.
Although the courts are widely considered to be under Milosevic's
control, some diplomats and Serbian analysts had thought that the
appeals procedure would provide Milosevic with a face-saving way out of
the crisis.
Speculation dashed
In recent days, five Supreme Court justices and a number of lower court
judges have voiced support for the opposition, giving rise to
speculation that Milosevic's annulment of the Nov. 17 elections might be
overturned. Both Zajedno and the Belgrade Electoral Commission filed
appeals; both have now apparently been rejected.
``This doesn't make sense unless he has another legal option [in mind]
or he has decided to hunker down and try to wait it out and not give an
inch,'' a Western diplomat said. ``This demonstrates his desire to not
compromise and to play it tough. It demonstrates he is more interested
in power than the rule of k to outsiders are told by the security detail that
only
"the committee" has the right to make statements.
On Sunday night, Jack Lang, former minister of culture in
France, arrived to express his support for the student
protesters. He was escorted by young men in green fatigue
jackets to a room where he was declared "an enemy of the Serbs"
and ordered to leave.
Lang stumbled unwittingly on the virulent Serbian nationalism
that has increasingly colored the anti-government protests by
students here. The incident, intellectual dissidents in Belgrade
say, illustrates that the challenges for those who want to
change Serbia do not lie in overturning the rule of one man, but
in transforming a society that considers racist remarks to be
acceptable and has learned to express itself in the language of
hate.
"Students, professors, and many Serbs have simply switched their
ideological iconography," said Obrad Savic, the head of the
Belgrade Circle, a dissident group. "They have shifted from a
Marxist paradigm to Serbian nationalism. We have failed to build
an intellectual tradition where people think for themselves. We
operate only in the collective. We speak in the plural as the
Serbian people. It's frightening, especially in the young. It
will take years for us to rid ourselves of this virus."
...
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vesti.733mpavlo,
> PATRIJARH JUCE NIJE PRIMIO STUDENTSKU DELEGACIJU
> student kaze da je to patrijarh ucinio, zbog toga sto ,,bi to neko
> mogao da zloupotrebi, jer je to politicki protest''.
A Šešelja i Nikolića i Mihajlovića je mogao da primi.
vesti.734guta,
Slede vesti agencije Beta, datirane:
11.12.1996.
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vesti.735guta,
U ovoj vesti postoji greška, jer 57+31+31 != 100
------------------------------------------------
GIK verifikovala mandate
Nakon odluke Vrhovnog suda
Srbije verifikovani mandati
za poslanike u Skupstini Beograda
BEOGRAD - Gradska izborna komisija Beograda
verifikovala je u utorak 100 od 110 mandata
odbornika u Skupstini Beograda. Predsednik
Komisije Radovan Lazarevic rekao je da su
verifkovani mandati osvojeni u prvom, drugom i
trecem izbornom krugu, a da ce 10 mandata iz
cetvrtog kruga biti verifkovano naknadno, posle
sudskih odluka. Verifikovani su: 57 mandata
koalicije SPS-JUL, 31 mandat politicke
organizacije "Zajedno", 31 mandat Srpske radikalne
stranke i dva mandata Demokratske stranke Srbije.
Savezni sud je odbacio zahtev GIK za preispitvanje
odluka Vrhovnog suda Srbije, a savezni drzavni
tuzilac je nasao da nema zakonskih mogucnosti za
ulaganje zahteva za zastitu zakonitoti protiv
odluka Vrhovnog suda Srbije.
[Beta]
vesti.736guta,
Sto hiljada Beogradjana i juce na protestu
BEOGRAD - Oko 100.000 Beogradjana se i u utorak
okupilo na Terazijama, odakle su krenuli u
protestnu setnju gradom zbog ponistavanja
rezultata drugog kruga lokalnih izbora. Lideri
koalicije "Zajedno" pozvali su gradjane Beograda i
drugih gradova u Srbiji da istraju u protestu do
potpune demokratizacije drustva. Oni su porucili
da u rukovodstvu koalicije nema sukoba.
[Beta]
vesti.737guta,
Minic novi predsednik Veca gradjana savezne
skupstine
BEOGRAD - Poslanik Socijalisticke partije Srbije i
nekadasnji generalni sekretar te stranke Milomir
Minic izabran je u utorak za predsednika Veca
gradjana jugoslovenske skupstine u novom sazivu.
Na konstitutivnoj sednici Veca gradjana
verifikovano je 116, od ukupno 138 mandata, koliko
ima donji dom jugoslovenske skupstine. Na sednici
nisu verifikovani mandati opozicione koalicije
"Zajedno" koja nije poslala spisak svojih 20
poslanika.
[Beta]
vesti.738guta,
Poslanici koalicija "Zajedno" i "Narodna sloga"
nisu ucestvovali u radu konstitutivne sednice
Skupstine Jugoslavije. Sednica je inace pocela
krsenjem Ustava SRJ, jer su mandati verifikovani i
poslanicima koji vec obavljaju javne funkcije, kao
sto je Milos Milutinovic, ministar inostranih
poslova iako Ustav eksplicitno to zabranjuje.
vesti.739guta,
30.000 studenata u protesnoj setnji gradom
BEOGRAD - Oko 30.000 beogradskih studenata u
utorak je pred zgradom Vrhovnog suda Srbije
ostavilo nekoliko knjiga iz ustavnog prava, posto
sudije tog suda, prema oceni studenata, "nisu ni
videle, a kamoli procitale taj udzbenik".
[Beta]
vesti.740guta,
Jokanovic upozorava pojedince
BEOGRAD - Savezni ministar za unutrasnje poslove
Vukasin Jokanovic izjavio je u utorak da je
politicko-bezbednosna situacija u Beogradu i
zemlji "stabilna", iako, kako je dodao,
"visednevne demonstracije narusavaju svakodnevni
zivot gradjana". U izjavi emitovanoj na Radio
Beogradu, Jokanovic je upozorio da ce, "ukoliko
pojedinci pocnu da se nasilnicki ponasaju, da ruse
imovinu Beogradjana, organi unutrasnjih poslova
prema takvim pojedincima preduzimati zakonske
mere".
[Beta]
vesti.741guta,
Uhapseni Bulatovic pregledan u Urgentnom centru
BEOGRAD - Demonstrant Dejan Bulatovic (21) iz
Sida, koji je uhapsen u noci 6. decembra,
pregledan je u utorak u Urgentnom centru,
potvrdjeno je agenciji Beta u toj zdravstvenoj
ustanovi. Konstatovano je da Bulatovic ima lake
povrede glave, rekao je dezurni lekar u Urgentnom
centru Vojislav Bogosavljevic. On je rekao da je
Bulatovic nakon pregleda vracen "tamo gde je bio".
[Beta]
vesti.742guta,
Studenti za dijalog vlasti i opozicije
BEOGRAD - Portparol Studentskog protesta '96.
Dusan Vasiljevic rekao je u utorak da se studenti
zalazu za dijalog izmedju vlasti i opozicije, jer
je to jedino resenje. "Svaki dijalog vlasti i
opozicije je korak napred u demokratskim
procesima", rekao je Vasiljevic na konferenciji za
novinare.
[Beta]
vesti.743guta,
Ljubisa Ristic za "zajednicko resenje"
BEOGRAD - Predsednik Jugoslovenske levice Ljubisa
Ristic izjavio je u utorak agenciji Beta se nada
da ce biti pronadjeno "zajednicko resenje" za
proteste u Beogradu i Srbiji. "Nadam se da ce
uskoro doci do zajednickog resenja", rekao je
Ristic i dodao: "Mislim da ce polako sazreti
spremnost na razgovore i dogovore".
[Beta]
Pozoriste KPGT, ciji je direktor Ljubisa
Ristic je jedino pozoriste u Beogradu koje je
danas na svom repertoaru imalo predstavu. Sva
ostala pozorista u gradu bila su zatvorena zbog
solidarisanja sa studentskim zahtevima.
vesti.744guta,
Dvanaest novinara "Politike" se ogradjuje od
direktora
BEOGRAD - Jos 12 novinara beogradskog dnevnika
"Politika" ogradilo se u utorak od nacina na koji
taj list izvestava o protestima u Beogradu i
Srbiji, i optuzilo je direktora Hadzi Dragana
Antica da je kriv za "ovu sramnu epizodu
'Politikine' istorije".
vesti.745guta,
Ostale vesti
BEOGRAD - Specijalni izvestilac UN za ljudska
prava na prostoru bivse Jugoslavije Elizabet Ren
saopstila je da volja biraca mora biti postovana u
SR Jugoslaviji.
vesti.746guta,
BEOGRAD - Savet Mladih socijalista Srbije
podmlatka Socijalisticke partije Srbije, optuzio
je u utorak opozicionu koaliciju "Zajedno" da
izaziva "destabilizaciju" Srbije i SRJ.
vesti.747guta,
VALJEVO - U Valjevu je u utorak protestovalo
oko 5.000 gradjana zbog ponistavanja rezultata
lokalnih izbora.
vesti.748guta,
NIS - Vise hiljada studenata niskog
univerziteta demonstriralo je u utorak ulicama
grada zbog ponistavanja rezultata drugog kruga
lokalnih izbora.
vesti.749guta,
NIS - Na centralnom gradskom trgu u Nisu vise
od 10.000 gradjana odrzalo je u utorak 23. dan
protesta zbog izmene rezultata lokalnih izbora u
tom gradu.
[Beta]
vesti.750guta,
NATO izrazava "duboku zabrinutost"
BRISEL - NATO je danas izrazio "duboku
zabrinutost" zbog odluke vlasti u Srbiji o
ponistavanju rezultata lokalnih izbora i pozvao
predsednika Srbije Slobodan Milosevica da je
preinaci. Americki drzavni sekretar Voren
Kristofer izjavio je na pocetku ministarskog
zasedanja NATO da se SAD "pridruzuju u osudi
odluke srpskih vlasti da ignorisu rezultate izbora
od 17. novembra" i rekao da odluka "mora biti
povucena".
[Beta]
vesti.751guta,
Slabe sanse za povratak u finansijske institucije
VASINGTON - Politicka kriza u Srbiji naglo je
umanjila sanse SR Jugoslavije da se vrati u
medjunarodne finansijske institucije, bez obzira
na ishod te krize, tvrde izvori unutar Svetske
banke.
[Beta]
vesti.752guta,
Francuska diplomatija ne prihvata ponasanje
Beograda
BRISEL - Sef francuske diplomatije Erve de Saret
izjavio je u utorak da "srpskom rukovodstvu treba
jasno staviti do znanja da nismo spremni da
prihvatimo njihovo ponasanje koje je suprotno
svetski prihvacenim principima demokratije".
[Beta]
vesti.753guta,
Ostale vesti
ZAGREB - Predsednik Upravnog odbora Instituta
"Otvoreno drustvo" Hrvatske, Ivan Prpic, izjavio
je da se taj institut nikada nije uplitao u borbu
za vlast u Hrvatskoj, niti se opredeljivao za ili
protiv bilo koje politicke stranke, vec je
nastojao da se ustavne norme postuju u hrvatskom
drustvu i drzavi.
vesti.754guta,
ZAGREB - Generalni direktor Hrvatske
zeljeznice Marijan Klaric pozvao je u utorak
zeleznicare da prekinu strajk, jer je Vrhovni sud
juce doneo odluku da je strajk nezakonit.
vesti.755guta,
ZAGREB - Zeleznicki saobracaj izmedju
Hrvatske i SR Jugoslavije na relaciji
Vinkovci-Tovarnik-Sid nije uspostavljen u utorak,
kako je pre najavljeno, zbog neuskladjenih radnih
pitanja izmedju Hrvatske zeljeznice, Jugoslovenske
zeleznice i zeleznicara iz podrucja pod upravom
Untaes.
vesti.756guta,
SARAJEVO - Zdravstveni radnici u
muslimansko-hrvatskoj federaciji objavili su u
utorak da ce obnoviti strajk ako Ministarstvo
zdravlja u narednih 14 dana ne ispuni njihove
zahteve.
vesti.757guta,
ZAGREB - U Zagrebu su u utorak poceli
razgovori izmedju predstavnika hrvatskog i
jugoslovenskog ministarstva za rad i socijalnu
zastitu. Tema sastanka je izrada i zakljucivanje
medjudrzavnog ugovora o socijalnom osiguranju na
osnovu Sporazuma o normalizaciji odnosa izmedju
Hrvatske i SR Jugoslavije.
vesti.758guta,
SARAJEVO - Predsednik Gradskog vijeca Mostara
Hamdija Jahic pozvao je u utorak gradonacelinka
tog grada Ivana Prskala da "hitno pristupi
saniranju teske situacije u gradu izazvane novim
valom progona Bosnjaka iz njihovih kuca i stanova"
u zapadnom, hrvatskom delu Mostara.
vesti.759guta,
SARAJEVO - Zamenik ministra spoljne trgovine
i medjunarodnih komunikacija Republike BiH Seadeta
Ceric izjavila je u utorak da bi telefonske veze
izmedju BiH i SRJ mogle biti vrlo brzo
uspostavljene.
vesti.760guta,
SARAJEVO - Haris Silajdzic, bivsi bosanski
premijer i predsednik opozicione Stranke za BiH,
kandidat je bosanskih Muslimana za
kopredsedavajuceg Saveta ministara, centralnog
izvrsnog organa BiH, javio je sarajevski drzavni
radio.
[Beta]
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MINISTARSKI SAVET NATO OSUDIO VLASTI U SRBIJI
Sefovi diplomatija zemalja clanica NATO ostro su danas osudili
nedemokratsko ponasanje vlasti u Srbiji i njihovo ignorisanje
rezultata izbora od 17. novembra, javlja za FoNet dopisnik ,,Nase
Borbe'' Mirko Klarin. Ton raspravi o situaciji u Srbiji na
ministarskom zasedanju saveta NATO-a dao je americki drzavni
sekretar Voren Kristofer. On je atlantske saveznike pozvao da,
kako Srbiji, tako i Hrvatskoj, jasno stave do znanja da se
medjunarodnoj zajednici mogu prikljuciti samo kao otvorena,
demokratska drustva. Narod Srbije, rekao je Kristofer, zasluzuje
ono sto vec imaju njegovi susedi u centralnoj Evropi -- postene
izbore, slobodnu stampu, normalnu trzisnu privredu.
Pozivajuci vlasti u Beogradu da poniste odluke kojima je opoziciji
oduzeta izborna pobeda, americki drzavni sekretar je uputio
sledecu poruku predsedniku Srbije: ,,Ako predsednik Milosevic bude
postovao volju naroda, Srbija moze da ocekuje priznanje i podrsku
koja joj je neophodna. A ako hoce da upravlja Srbijom, kao nekom
nereformisanom diktaturom, Milosevic ce samo pojacati sopstvenu
izolaciju i produbiti patnje svog naroda''. Kristofer je, takodje,
odao posebno priznanje ,,hrabrim, mladim ljudima Srbije'', koji
svojom akcijom pokazuju da u Evropi jos nije zavrsena bitka za
demokratiju.
Podjednako ostar u obracanju srpskim vlastima bio je i francuski
sef diplomatije Herve de Saret. Rukovodstvu Srbije, rekao je De
Saret, treba jasno staviti do znanja da zapadni saveznici nisu
spremni da prihvate i tolerisu nastavak ponasanja, koje je
suprotno univerzalno prihvacenim pravilima demokratije. Zalazuci
se za ostru osudu ponistavanja izbornih rezultata i stava vlasti
prema demonstrantima, francuski ministar je pozvao atlantske
saveznike da, istovremeno, pozdrave dostojanstvo i zrelost koje
ispoljavaju manifestanti i opozicija.
U slicnom tonu su o zbivanjima u Srbiji govorili i ostali
atlantski sefovi diplomatije, ukljucujuci i nemackog ministra
Klausa Kinkela, koji je situaciju ocenio ,,zabrinjavajucom'', u
prvom redu zbog ugrozavanja demokratskih principa od strane
Milosevicevog rezima. Na pitanje da li se neka od delegacija, na
primer Grcka, usprotivila ostroj osudi srpskog rezima, sadrzanoj u
zavrsnoj deklaraciji ministarskog zasedanja Saveta NATO-a,
portparol Stejt dipartmenta Nikolas Berns je odgovorio da ,,nije
bilo nikakvog neslaganja'', te da ta deklaracija izrazava
jedinstvenu poziciju atlantske sesnaestorice.
Slicnu poruku je srpskim vlastima uputio i generalni sekretar NATO
Havijer Solana. Ukazujuci da su sesnaestorica ujedinjeni u osudi
srpskog rezima i u zahtevu da se postuje demokratski izrazena
volja gradjana, Solana je naglasio: ,,Ako Srbija hoce da se
prikljuci zajednici demokratskih drzava morace da sledi
demokratski put''. Drugog puta povratka u Evropu i svet, po njemu,
nema.
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VASINGTON PRETI SRBIJI JOS DUBLJOM IZOLACIJOM
U Stejt diparmentu ponovljeno je danas upozorenje drzavnog
sekretara Vorena Kristofera iz Brisela, u kome je on nazvao rezim
predsednika Srbije Slobodana Milosevica ,,diktaturom'', koja ce
biti gurnuta u jos dublju medjunarodnu izolaciju i dovesti do jos
vecih patnji srpskog naroda, ukoliko se bez odlaganja ne bude
zapocelo sa reformama koje traze Sjedinjene drzave i medjunarodna
zajednica. Kako za FoNet javlja dopisnik ,,Nase Borbe'' Slobodan
Pavlovic, demokratske reforme na kojima su Amerikanci sada poceli
da insistiraju iz sve snage, podrazumevaju ciste izbore, slobodnu
stampu i normalnu trzisnu ekonomiju, sto ce uciniti, kako je
Milosevicu poruceno iz Vasingtona, da Srbija dobije medjunarodni
legitimitet i pomoc koja joj je neophodna u daljem razvoju.
U medjuvremenu, a kao demonstracija americkog nezadovoljstva zbog
gusenja demokratije i represivnih mera koje pocinju da se sprovode
prema demonstrantima, u Vasingtonu je potvrdjeno da ovdasnji
mirovni izaslanik Dzon Kornblum nece ovih dana, u znak protesta,
doci u Beograd na razgovor sa Milosevicem, tako da ce u okviru
svoje uobicajene posete bivsoj Jugoslaviji boraviti samo u
Sarajevu i Zagrebu, a sresce se i sa rukovodstvom bosanskih Srba.
Predstavnik Stejt dipartmenta saopstio je da Kornblumovo
bojkotovanje Beograda ne najavljuje prekid americkih diplomatskih
odnosa sa Jugoslavijom, ali je, s tim u vezi, isto tako i
upozoreno da se ne iskljucuje i ta mogucnost, ukoliko Milosevic ne
opozove odluku o ponistenju izborne pobede opozicije ili krene
silom na demonstrante u Beogradu i ostalim gradovima.
Danas je uruceno pismo Vorena Kristofera Slobodanu Milosevicu u
kojem se trazi da se ne primenjuje sila i da se rezultati lokalnih
izbora priznaju i da se otvori dijalog izmedju vlasti i opozicije.
DEMURIN BEZ KOMENTARA O SRBIJI
Zvanicni predstavnik ruskog ministarstva inostranih poslova ni na
danasnjoj redovnoj konferenciji za novinare nije komentarisao
zbivanja u Srbiji, javlja dopisnik FoNeta Branko Stosic. Zamenik
direktora departmana za informisanje Mihail Demurin nije imao da
doda nista novo izjavi ministra inostranih poslova Jevgenija
Primakova da su i spor oko rezultata izbora i masovne
demonstracije pitanje koje treba da rese sami Jugosloveni.
Jedan drugi diplomata, medjutim, privatno je izjavio da neutralni
stav Rusije, koju partneri u Kontakt grupi za bivsu Jugoslaviju
nastavljaju da ubedjuju da se pridruzi zapadnim naporima da vlasti
i opozicija u Beogradu postignu kompromis, nece trajati beskrajno.
Ovaj diplomata ocekuje da ce takav zahtev biti postavljen
Jevgeniju Primakovu i u Briselu na sastanku Saveta NATO-a. Demurin
je danas objasnio da je odluka predsednika Borisa Jeljcina da
Rusija uspostavi pune diplomatske odnose sa Bosnom i Hercegovinom,
na nivou ambasada, umesto dosadasnjih predstavnistava, motivisana
potrebom jacanja politickog dijaloga, kako sa Unijom tako i sa
njenim dvema jedinicama -- Republikom Srpskom i Muslimansko-
hrvatskom federacijom.
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STUDENTSKA SETNJA DO VRHOVNOG SUDA SRBIJE
Oko 30.000 beogradskih studenata danas je u protestnoj setnji
poslo od platoa kod Filosofskog fakulteta preko Terazija, pored
Beogradjanke i Slavije, pa ulicom Generala Zdanova do zgrade
Vrhovnog suda Srbije. Neposredno pred polazak sa Platoa,
organizatori studentskog protesta citirali su jucerasnju izjavu u
Zagubici predsednika Direkcije Jugoslovenske levice Mire Markovic
o rusenju Beograda tokom protesta. Citiranje izjave bilo je
propraceno petominutnim zaglusujucim zvizducima.
Zeleci da pokazu kako u sudu ne postupaju u skladu sa zakonom,
studenti su sudijama koje ih nisu sacekale, ispred vrata ostavile
nekoliko primeraka Ustava Srbije. Koracajuci i danas iza velikog
transparenta sa natpisom ,,Beograd je svet'' i pozdravljajuci
trubama i pistaljkama gradjane na balkonima i prozorima, studenti
su osim ispred Vrhovnog suda zastali i ispred Savezne skupstine
uzvikujuci ,,Bando crvena'' i ,,Lopovi, lopovi''.
STUDENTI U NISU I NOVOM SADU
,,U trenutku kada je nasa zajednicka domovina na nogama i kada
mnogi ocekuju da Srbi ponovo krenu jedni na druge, sve su oci
uprte u vas. Na vama je da ne prihvatite status tupe palice u
rukama onih koji ne zele dobro ni vama ni nama. Ne dozvolite da
vas sutra nase majke proklinju kao sto neke od vasih kolega, ako
ih vi jos smatrate kolegama, danas proklinje majka naseg
prijatelja Dejana Bulatovica'', stoji u danasnjem proglasu
studenata Novosadskog univerziteta pripadnicima MUP-a Srbije.
Setnja novosadskih studenata i dalje kao vazno obilazno mesto ima
zgradu lista ,,Dnevnik'', koja je zasuta jajima.
Studentski protest nastavljen je danas i u Nisu. Kako je Radiju
B92 saopsteno iz Odbora studentskog protesta, ispred niskog
Univerziteta okupilo se oko 3.000 studenata, koji su u protestnoj
setnji gradom oblepili zgradu Skupstine opstine kopijama zapisnika
sa drugog kruga lokalnih izbora. Protest se nastavlja i sutra.
KOMENTAR RTS-A O STUDENTSKOM PROTESTU
RTS i veceras se, na svoj nacin, bavila studentskim
demonstracijama u Beogradu. Na snimku RTS-a je prikazano kako
nekoliko studenata, napustajuci povrku, cepa plakate
novoformiranog Nezavisnog studentskog pokreta, koji trazi nastavu
i prekid protesta, sa jednog stuba u blizini skupstine Srbije.
Zatim je procitano saopstenje Saveza studenata Beograda: ,,S
obzirom da, s jedne strane deluje Inicijativni odbor studentskog
protesta, a da sa druge strane deluje Nezavisni studentski pokret,
Savez studenata Beograda, zbog postizanja jedinstva svih studenata
Beograda i stvaranja uslova za nesmetan zivot i rad na beogradskim
univerzitetima, poziva predstavnike Inicijativnog odbora
studentskog protesta i Nezavisnog studentskog pokreta na
zajednicki sastanak koji ce biti otvoren za sve medije. Predlaze
se da se sastanak odrzi u prostorijama Saveza studenata Beograda u
sredu 11. decembra ove godine u 14 casova'', istice se u
saopstenju koje je potpisao predsednik Saveza studenata Beograda
Milutin Djordjevic.
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DJINDJIC: MILOSEVIC TRAZI IZLAZ IZ MISOLOVKE
Vise od 80.000 gradjana okupilo se i veceras, na mitingu koalicije
,,Zajedno'' na Terazijskoj cesmi, protestujuci protiv ponistavanja
lokalnih izbora. Lider Srpskog pokreta obnove Vuk Draskovic rekao
je: ,,Hvala demokratskom svetu na podrsci, ali dosta je vise tih
licemernih nadanja da ovaj rezim protiv mirnih demonstracija nece
upotrebiti silu. Svake noci razbojnici vrhovnog razbojnika, kao
hijene, po mraku, kada nema svetskih tv kamera i svedoka,
kukavicki love decu, studente i starce i vode ih u policijske
stanice na premlacivanje''. Draskovic je sefove drzava, ,,pred
kojima je predsednik Srbije u Dejtonu potpisao sporazum i preuzeo
obavezu da se odrice terora'', optuzio da ,,ne znaju ili nece da
znaju'' da ,,on teror sada sprovodi u rodjenoj zemlji''. ,,Za
Dejana ili bilo koga od vas -- oprostaja nema'', istakao je
Draskovic, govoreci o uhapsenom demonstrantu Dejanu Bulatovicu.
Osvrcuci se na emisije drzavnih medija, on je pozvao da se oni
otvore, ,,pa da pokazem narodu Srbije ciji je sin za jednu noc u
Rimu prokockao 400.000 maraka'' i ,,ko je neki Zecevic u Parizu,
koji mu je slao nove pare da bi moglo jedno dete da se kocka''.
,,Nasa eventualna nesloga je jedina njegova sansa, ali -- sto bi
on rekao -- 'malo morgen'... Sva Srbija pocela je da seta, sve se
pretvara u jedan veliki ustanak protiv ovog zla'', zakljucio je
Draskovic.
Predsednik Demokratske stranke Zoran Djindjic konstatovao je da su
u Srbiji ,,glavni problem paraziti od kojih ne mogu da zive ljudi
koji stvaraju''. ,,Setamo da skinemo parazite, da Srbija moze da
zivi. Nikada nije bilo tako antisocijalnog rezima koji se tako
bezocno sklanjao iza socijalne retorike'', naglasio je Djindjic.
Prema njegovim recima, politicka demokratija za koju se bori
koalicija ,,Zajedno'' potrebna je da bi se dobile legalne
politicke institucije za sprovodjenje reformi u zemlji, a
,,uklanjanje crvenih parazita je neophodan, ali ne i dovoljan
korak'' ka tome. ,,Nije vlast cilj zbog kojeg smo ovde i zato nema
kompromisa. Mi smo ovde zbog pravde i jednakosti. Ma koliko na
povrsini ne izgledalo tako, mi krnjimo diktaturu, zrno po zrno,
svakog dana. Ako mi to ne osecamo, oni osecaju -- budite
sigurni'', rekao je Djindjic. On je ocenio da predsednik Srbije
,,trazi izlaz iz misolovke u koju se sam smestio'' i da njegova
,,spremnost na kompromis'' podrazumeva ,,ponistavanje svih izbora
na kojima je izgubio'', dodajuci da koalicija ,,Zajedno'' nece
pristati na ponavljanje izbora koje je vec dobila. ,,Ne mozemo
nazad, vec samo napred, jer od nase istrajnosti zavisi sudbina
Srbije'', zakljucio je Djindjic.
Predsednik Gradjanskog saveza Srbije Vesna Pesic je podsetila da
je danas Svetski dan ljudskih prava, a da je Srbija protestima
pokazala da je njihov ,,najveci sampion''. ,,Nas diktator
diskvalifikovao se kradjom glasova, ali on ne samo sto se nije
kvalifikovao za 21. vek, nego ne moze ni za 15. vek. Ovde smo da
glasno kazemo sta osecamo -- da su nam se smucili Sloba i Mira,
zato sto lazu i preziru svoj narod'', rekla je Pesic. Ona je
zakljucila da ,,ona vlast koja je slepa, gluva i mutava, koja ne
cuje svoj narod, mora da zavrsi na djubristu istorije''. Na
mitingu -- kojem je prethodila vec uobicajena protestna setnja
nepregledne kolone gradjana ulicama Beograda -- govorili su i
glumci LJiljana Blagojevic i Dubravko Jovanovic, a objavljeno je i
da veceras u beogradskim pozoristima, u znak solidarnosti sa
demonstrantima, nece biti predstava.
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MILOMIR MINIC -- PREDSEDNIK VECA GRADJANA
Vece gradjana Skupstine Jugoslavije danas je na konstitutivnoj
sednici tajnim glasanjem izabralo Milomira Minica za predsednika
ovog skupstinskog doma. Za Minicev izbor izjasnilo se 78 poslanika
Veca, koliko je i ucestvovalo u glasanju. Vece gradjana Savezne
skupstine ima 138 poslanika -- 108 iz Srbije i 30 iz Crne Gore.
Minica je za predsednika Veca predlozila Koalicija SPS-JUL-ND,
koja u ovom domu saveznog parlamenta ima najvise poslanika.
Konstitutivnoj sednici nisu prisustvovali savezni poslanici
Koalicije ,,Zajedno''. Poslanik koalicije ,,Vojvodina'' Mile
Isakov je zatrazio da se u dnevni red uvrsti rasprava o politickoj
situaciji, ,,imajuci u vidu demonstracije u zemlji i pretnje
sankcijama medjunarodne zajednice''. Isakov je zatrazio da se tim
povodom poslanicima obrati ,,predsednik ove drzave''. Novak
Kilibarda je izjavio da poslanici Narodne stranke nece uzeti
ucesca u radu Veca gradjana dok ne budu bili verifikovani mandati
svih politickih stranaka i koalicija i dok se ne omoguce
televizijski prenosi sednica Savezne skupstine. Kilibarda je
ocenio i da nije u interesu naroda i drzave da Vece gradjana
zaseda, a da se ne kaze ni jedna rec o demonstracijama u Srbiji.
On je zatrazio da Savezni premijer Radoje Kontic podnese izvestaj
poslanicima o situaciji u zemlji.
Posto je stigao odgovor da Poslovnik o radu Veca gradjana
predvidja da se na inauguracionoj sednici iskljucivo verifikuju
mandati poslanika i biraju predsednik i potpredsednik Veca, kao i
skupstinskih odbora, predstavnici Narodne stranke, koalicije
,,Vojvodina'', Saveza vojvodjanskih Madjara i SDP CG napustili su
sednicu.
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SAVEZNI SUD ODBACIO ZAHTEV GRADSKE IZBORNE KOMISIJE
Predsednik Gradske izborne komisije Beograda Radomir Lazarevic
izjavio je danas da su verifikovani mandati 100 odbornika
Skupstine Beograda, posto je Savezni sud odbacio zahteve Gradske
izborne komisije za vanredno preispitivanje odluka Vrhovnog suda
Srbije. Tako je u Skupstini Beograda izabrano 57 odbornika
Socijalisticke partije Srbije i Jugoslovenske levice, 31
predstavnik Koalicije ,,Zajedno'', 10 odbornika Srpske radikalne
stranke i dva iz Demokratske stranke Srbije. Mandati deset
odbornika nisu jos verifikovani zbog prigovora. Prema
Lazarevicevim recima, i savezni drzavni tuzilac i republicki javni
tuzilac odbacili su predloge Gradske izborne komisije da pokrenu
inicijativu za zastitu zakonitosti zbog odluka Vrhovnog suda
Srbije. Tim odlukama je Vrhovni sud odbio zahteve Gradske izborne
komisije za vanredno preispitivanje odluka Prvog opstinskog suda,
kojim su na vise mesta ponisteni rezultati drugog kruga izbora za
Skupstinu Beograda.
ADVOKATI U POSETI BULATOVICU
Advokati uhapsenog Dejana Bulatovica otisli su da ga posete u
zatvoru u Padinskoj Skeli, saopsteno je danas na konferenciji za
novinare Studentskog protesta '96. Prema recima portparola
Studentskog protesta Aleksandra Vasiljevica, uprkos jucerasnjem
obecanju sudije za prekrsaje Dobrivoja Glavonjica da ce Bulatovic
biti prebacen na lekarske preglede u bolnicu, to se nije dogodilo.
Danas popodne Bulatovic je primljen u Urgentni centar gde je
konstatovano da ima lake povrede glave, a zatim je vracen u
Padinsku Skelu. Po izjavi Dejanove majke, Bulatovic je doziveo ono
sto nisu radili ,,ni na Golom otoku''. RTS je, povodom vesti da je
student Dejan Bulatovic prebijen, citirajuci dopis Ministarstva
pravde, demantovao istinitost te vesti ispravkom da Bulatovic nije
student, nego ,,mesar''.
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IVKOVIC ZA RADIO B92
Radio B92 je saveznoj Skupstini danas intervjuisao predsednika
beogradskih socijalista Branislava Ivkovica. Na pitanje o krizi u
gradovima Srbije, Ivkovic je prvo odgovorio: ,,Sto ne pitate nesto
g. Ivkovica u vezi sa saveznim parlamentom u kojem smo?''
Odgovarajuci na ponovljeno pitanje, on je istakao da krizu izaziva
koalicija ,,Zajedno'' time sto njeni clanovi ,,nisu nasli za
shodno da se pojave u saveznom parlamentu'', a krizu ,,ne
proizvode u gradovima gde su dobili vecinu'', nego ,,tamo gde su u
manjini''. ,,Izuzetno sam iznenadjen prisustvom tipicno
komunistickog nacina organizovanja u radu koalicije 'Zajedno'.
Ocigledno je da je Djindjic odneo izvesnu prevagu i da podmladak
Demokratske stranke ima dobru organizaciju na cisto komunistickom
principu'', rekao je Ivkovic novinarima u Saveznoj Skupstini.
On je rekao da je procena o 150.000 demonstranata preterana, jer,
kako je rekao ,,pouzdano zna da ih nije bilo ni 10.000''. Na
pitanje ko ga o informise o broju demonstranata, Ivkovic je rekao
da ,,kao sto svako ima svoje ljude koji ucestvuju u
demonstracijama i na osnovu toga daju procene, na taj nacin i ja
imam clanove svoje partije koji su prisutni na licu mesta, jer
zelim da imam prave ocene i procene''. Ivkovic, koji je i
republicki ministar za gradjevinarstvo i profesor na Gradjevinskom
fakultetu, ocenio je obracanje Inicijativnog odbora Studentskog
protesta nastavno naucnim vecima fakulteta da se izjasnjavaju o
njihovom protestu kao ,,pokusaj nametanja kolektivne volje
pojedinacnoj''. ,,Cinjenica da nastavno-naucna veca, pod uticajem
dela studenata i pojedinih profesora, odlucuju o politickom delu
zahteva nije dobra za Univerzitet i to je povreda njegove
autonomije'', rekao je on. Prema njegovim recima, ,,lako je
uocljivo'' da je podmladak DS ,,vodeci deo koji povezuje proteste
i studente''.
,,Ocigledno je da protest dela omladine i studenata nije dobio
verifikaciju u legalnim organima, a pre svega u studentskim
organizacijama'', rekao je Ivkovic. On je izrazio ocekivanje da ce
Gradska izborna komisija danas ili sutra saopstiti definitivne
rezultate izbora. ,,Ukoliko budu (saopsteni) ovi rezultati koje mi
verifikujemo, odnosno priznajemo da su pravi, vrlo brzo cemo
organizovati gradsku skupstinu'', rekao je Ivkovic. On je jos
rekao da protesti u Beogradu treba da budu okoncani na ,,miran
nacin i da se svi vrate svom poslu, da sve funkcionise kako treba
u gradu, drzavnoj upravi, preduzecima i skolama'', a da se
organizatori protesta ,,vrate legalnim institucijama, kao sto je
na primer Savezna Skupstina''.
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ADVOKATI BEOGRADA O KRIZI PRAVOSUDJA
Upravni odbor Advokatske komore Beograda, juce je nakon odrzane
vanredne sednice izdao saopstenje, u kojem stoji: 1. Poslednje
odluke Vrhovnog suda Srbije i Prvog opstinskog suda u Beogradu,
potvrdile su duboku krizu pravosudja na sta je advokatura
ukazivala, a posebno svojim protestom zapocetim 18. oktobra 1996.
2. Igrom oko prigovora Socijalisticke partije Srbije, zapisnika o
rezultatima izbora, oko njihovog potpisivanja i dostavljanja sudu,
te odluke Prvog opstinskog suda sa neprihvatljivim i
kontradiktornim obrazlozenjem i odlukom Vrhovnog suda Srbije, koji
se poziva na neistinite cinjenice, stvorena je velika konfuzija i
nesnalazenje, ne samo kod gradjana vec i kod pravnika, sto govori
o smisljenom nacinu vlasti da nelegalnim postupcima sudskih organa
pribavi legitimitet.
3. Sudske odluke donela su ,,ad hoc'' formirana, a ne stalna veca,
sacinjena od sudija koje su prihvatile da u takvom odlucivanju
ucestvuju, protivno profesionalnim i etickim normama. Uprkos
naknadno podnetim pravnim lekovima, posebnu odgovornost snosi GIK
u stalnom sastavu za nezakonito postupanje u izbornoj proceduri.
4. Upravni odbor Advokatske komore Beograda energicno OSUDjUJE
ovakve postupke nesavesnih sudija, upotrebu sile protiv mirnih
demonstranata, a posebno mucenje privedenih gradjana. 5. Upravni
odbor Beograda zahteva pokretanje postupka za utvrdjivanje
odgovornosti, ukljucujuci i krivicnu, ucesnika u ponistenju drugog
izbornog kruga i njihovo razresenje sudijske duznosti.
FRANCUSKA TRAZI DIJALOG VLASTI I OPOZICIJE
Strahujuci da bi se postojeca tenzija u Jugoslaviji zbog
ponistavanja rezultata lokalnih izbora u Srbiji mogla zaostriti i
prosiriti, Francuska je danas zatrazila od vlasti u Beogradu da
otvore dijalog sa opozicionim partijama, javlja Rojter. ,,Smatramo
da je postojeci corsokak opasan'', ocenio je na brifingu s
novinarima predstavnik francuskog ministarstva inostranih poslova
Zak Rimelar i dodao: ,,Zbog toga trazimo od jugoslovenskih vlasti
da odmah otvore dijalog s predstavnicima opozicije''. S tim u vezi
je posebno pomenuo pretnje strajkovima u metalskoj industriji i
transportu. ,,U ovakvim okolnostima, vlasti u Srbiji mogle bi se u
narednih nekoliko dana suociti sa sirenjem pokreta protesta
ukoliko veoma brzo ne ucine gestove pomirljivosti i otvaranja'',
naglasio je Rimelar.
SKUPSTINA U MLADENOVCU
Na konstitutivnoj sednici Skupstine opstine Mladenovac, za
predsednika SO izabran je Predrag Cokic, odbornik koalicije
,,Zajedno''. Za potpredsednika je izabran Radoje Ranisavljevic,
predstavnik grupe gradjana, kojeg je za ovu funkciju predlozila
SPS. Inace, u SO Mladenovac, koalicija ,,Zajedno'' osvojila je 27
mandata, SPS 24, JUL 3, a jedno mesto pripalo je kandidatu grupe
gradjana.
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GRCKA STAMPA: MILOSEVIC NE NAMERAVA DA POPUSTI
U grckoj stampi je danas ponovo ozivelo interesovanje za
demonstracije u Srbiji. Uticajni atinski konzervativni list
,,Katimerini'', koji je danas objavio cak pet tekstova o tome,
ocenjuje da predsednik Srbije Slobodan Milosevic ne namerava da
popusti, mada je u teskom polozaju. Najugledniji grcki list smatra
da neubedljivi Milosevicevi politicki manevri pokazuju da rezim,
koji studenti optuzuju kao samodrzacki, ne moze da promeni stav.
Zato opstanak Milosevica na vlasti zavisi od Zapada, smatra
,,Katimerini'' i ocenjuje da je jedino resenje za zapadne vlade
da, kako pise, ,,diciplinuju Milosevica da ustupcima obezbedi
miran zavrsetak demonstracija''.
S druge strane, javlja dopisnik ,,Katimerinija'' iz Bona,
funkcioneri nemacke vlade smatraju opasnim postavljanje pitanja o
demokratiji u Srbiji, posto to izaziva i pitanja o odgovornosti
Nemacke, zato sto je Hrvatska, u kojoj prilike nisu nista bolje,
uspela da dobije demokratsku etiketu. Atinski list umerene levice
,,Elefterotipija'' danas ocenjuje da su demonstracije u Srbiji
dobile ,,nov kvalitet sukoba'' jednostranacke drzave sa
demokratijom i da je vec vidno da se antidemokratski i totalitarni
rezim brani od drustva. ,,Elefterotipija'' ocenjuje da ,,Milosevic
deluje kao da je van vremena i prostora, ulazuci poslednje napore
za odrzavanje licne vlasti''. Ali, konstatuje ,,Elefterotipija'',
problem ce na kraju ipak biti resen ukidanjem totalitarne drzave,
demokratizacijom i povratkom Srbije civilizaciji.
KINA: SRBIJA U GVATEMALI
Kineska stampa i dalje ostaje gluva za proteste u Srbiji i premda
su demonstracije usle vec u cetvrtu nedelju, ovde o tome nije
objavljena ni jedna jedina informacija, javlja dopisnik FoNeta
Aleksandar Novacic. Izuzetak je, naravno, kineska novinska
agencija Hsinhua koja manje -- vise redovno izvestava o
dogadjajima u Srbiji, ali samo za korisnike u inostranstvu.
Pretpostavlja se i da jedan specijalni list namenjen samo za
kineske kadrove takodje objavljuje izvestaje iz Beograda.
Ocigledno je da se radi o partijskom uputstvu kineskim sredstvima
informisanja da zaobidju ,,vruce teme'' iz Srbije, mozda i zbog
moguce komparacije sa kineskim prilikama i poredjenja sa
svojevremenim studentskim nemirima u Pekingu.
Danas je, medjutim i pored sve kontrole, objavljena jedna
fotografija sa protesta u Beogradu, i to u listu ,,Cajna dejli'',
koji izlazi na engleskom jeziku. Fotografija prikazuje gradjane na
Terazijama kako nose veliki venac na kojem je cirilicom napisano
,,Umrla pravda''. Ispod fotografije je tekst u kome se kaze da se
radi o protestu neke porodice u Gvatemali zbog masakra kojeg je
tamosnja armija pocinila.
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,,GARDIJAN'': MILOSEVIC IGRA NA DOBIJANJU VREMENA
Britanski ,,Gardijan'' danas u redakcijskom komentaru pise da je,
i pored toga sto je jedan broj sudija izrazio podrsku zahtevima
opozicije, odluka Vrhovnog suda Srbije da potvrdi uspehe
socijalista na lokalnim izborima, doneta, kako se navodi,
,,nepristojnom brzinom'', odala cvrstu ruku predsednika Srbije
Slobodana Milosevica. Studenti mogu kontrolisati ulice, ali
Milosevic, kako pise list, jos moze da manipulise sudom. Opasno je
to, istice ,,Gardijan'', sto Milosevic namerno igra na dobijanje
vremena u nadi da se opozicija okrene nasilju sto bi onda
opravdalo represivne mere. Niko ni za trenutak nije poverovao da
ce Milosevic ikada mirno otici, navodi se dalje u komentaru i
zakljucuje da su, na kraju, unutrasnje snage u Srbiji te koje ce
ili uspeti ili ne da poraze Milosevica, a medjunarodna zajednica
mora svoju kritiku izraziti potpuno i energicno.
Dok ,,Indipendent'' pise kako, uprkos tronedeljnim protestima
Milosevic izgleda uveren da moze nadmudriti opoziciju i ignorisati
rastuce negodovanje Zapada, ,,Dejli telegraf'' navodi kako su od
strane lidera opozicije predsedniku Srbije ponudjeni pregovori. Za
lidere koalicije ,,Zajedno'' Zorana Djindjica i Vuka Draskovica
list istice da nijedan od njih nema mnogo zajednickog sa
liberalima, koji su srusili komunisticke rezime u ostatku istocne
Evrope, jer obojica imaju snaznu nacionalisticku pozadinu.
Opoziciona taktika ujedinjavanja liberalnog i nacionalistickog
neraspolozenja prema Milosevicu izgleda da se isplatila, pise
list. Ali, analiticari upozoravaju da bi ova koalicija, ukoliko
uspe da osvoji vlast, mogla ili skliznuti u nacionalizam ili se
podeliti pod uticajem prepirki liberala i nacionalista, pise,
izmedju ostalog, ,,Dejli telegraf''.
SVETISLAV BASARA, ODLOMAK IZ TEKSTA U LISTU ,,DEMOKRATIJA''
,,Vise nista nije kao pre. Do juce zastrasujuca masina iluzija iz
Takovske 10. pocinje da lici na rdjave filmove iz zanra negativnih
utopija. Naslovi poput: vraticemo novac deviznim stedisama,
prestala poskupljenja, redovna isplata penzija, ne samo da ne
izazivaju ocekivani efekat, vec se na njih niko i ne obazire. TV
dnevnici pocinju da bivaju komicni. I tragicni kao ilustracija
dokle se, zarad ostanka na vlasti, moze ici u samoponizavanju. Od
sada nadalje, sa TV Srbije se moze emitovati najcistija istina,
sve ce to ostati bez ikakvog efekta. Bilo koji potez da vladajuca
vrhuska sada povuce, on ce uvek biti pogresan i uvek u funkciji
dezintegracije deluzija na kojima je gradila svoj parapoliticki
opstanak.
Protiv SPS-a i JUL-a sada nisu samo odredjene politicke stranke i
revoltirani gradjani, vec kompletna realnost koja se -- posle
besomicnog neuzimanja u obzir i potiskivanja -- vraca kao
istorijska stihija razarajuci mimikrije i simulacije. Strogo uzev,
vec sada se moze reci da je Srbija zakoracila na put reformi i
reintegracije u aktuelne svetske tokove. Na demokratskom delu
Srbije je sada veliki zadatak da ogromnu energiju agresije
inicirane u vrhovima ovdasnje vlasti -- agresije koja je, na
zalost, obavila svoj pogubni posao na prostorima bivse Jugoslavije
i sada preti da se vrati na polazistu -- mudrim potezima sublimise
i pretvori u kreativnu energiju za obnovu opustosene zemlje''.
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The New York Times, 8. DECEMBAR, 1996: ,,SRPSKI ODGOVOR NA
TIRANIJU -- IDITE NA web''
Chris Hedges: Kad je predsednik Slobodan Milosevic, suocen sa
masovnim anti-rezimskim demonstracijama, pokusao da zatvori
poslednju uzdanicu nezavisnih medija prosle nedelje, on je
nenamerno zapoceo tehnoloski bunt, koji bi mogao da mu se osveti.
Desetine hiljada studenata, profesora, zaposlenih i novinara su
odmah prikljucili kompjutere na Internet web site-ove sirom sveta.
B92, nezavisna radio stanica koju je vlada zabranila dva dana,
iskoristila je to vreme da zapocne emitovanje izvestaja na srpsko-
hrvatskom i engleskom, preko audio Internet linkova. Njen web site
je preuzeo zadatak da informise o protestima koji su zapoceti zbog
ponistavanja lokalnih izbora. Ova radio stanica, koja je ovde
glavni izvor informacija, se ponovo cuje na radio talasima, posto
je vlada zauzela umereniji stav prema demonstracijama, i
nagovestila da bi mogla da ponovo razmotri odluku o ponistavanju
izbora.
Ipak, ovaj dogadjaj je otkrio svim ucesnicima protesta ogromne
mogucnosti koje im se nalaze na dodir prstiju. Nezavisni novinari
su pohrlili sa planovima da zaobidju drzavne predajnike, novinske
agencije i televizijski studio i da upotrebe Internet sa ciljem da
sire njihovu poruku sirom Srbije i sveta. ,,Home page koji je
uredio B92 je spasao revoluciju koja se sada odigrava ovde u
Beogradu'', izjavio je Sasa Vucinic, izvrsni direktor Media
Developement Loan Fund-a, neprofitne grupe koja podrzava novinske
i informativne organizacije u Istocnoj Evropi. ,,Tokom prvih dana
protesta, pre nego sto su medjunarodni mediji stigli u Beograd,
ovo je bio jedini nacin da svi van Beograda saznaju sta se
desava'', rekao je Vucinic. ,,Onog trenutka kad je signal radija
B92 prekinut, Internet je preuzeo ulogu odbrane slobode
izrazavanja. Strane vlade, medjunarodne organizacije i udruzenja
kao i informativne kuce su preplavljene, u roku od nekoliko sati,
vestima o zabrani stanice. Kampanja da se stanica spase zapoceta
je preko Interneta. Internet je postao spasonosna veza naseg
pokreta''.
Mnogi studenti, profesori i profesionalci ovde imaju kompjutere, a
mnogi koji nemaju, znaju nekoga koji poseduje racunar. A i veze sa
Internetom ce se, ocekuje se, znacajno poboljsati sledecih dana.
B92, koji ima svoj web site vec godinu dana, trenutno pregovara sa
saradnicima u access servisu XS4ALL u Amsterdamu, koji bi snimali
sve programe B92 digitalno i onda ih emitovali preko Interneta 24c
dnevno. To bi znacilo da bi lokalne radio stanice mogle da emituju
vesti sa Interneta, a u slucaju da se to zabrani, grupe bi mogle
da se okupljaju oko kompjutera i da slusaju vesti, kao sto su
mnogi radili dok je stanica bila zabranjena dva dana prosle
nedelje.
Preko 400.000 Srba zivi u inostranstvu, mnogi od njih su mladici
koji izbegavaju sluzenje vojske. Veliki broj njih, u potrazi za
informacijama, okuplja se svakodnevno, cesto u kucama prijatelja
koji imaju kompjutere, u Pragu, Becu ili Berlinu, da bi razgledali
srpske web site-ove. Tokom ovih nedelja protesta, neki od tih Srba
koji zive u inostranstvu su organizovali demonstracije u Evropskim
gradovima. ,,Ironija je u tome da nas je vlada, u pokusaju da nas
ucutka, naterala da se oslonima na potpuno novu tehnologiju da bi
preziveli'', kaze Drazen Pantic, sef Internet sluzbe B92.
,,Pokusaj da nas zatvore nam je dao orudje da znatno prosirimo
nase slusalastvo''. Vladini zvanicnici su u cetvrtak naredili
rektorima fakulteta Beogradskog Univerziteta da zabrane studentima
da upotrebljavaju univerzitetske kompjutere za slanje poruka i
primanje informacija sa Interneta. Ali posto vecina profesora
podrzava studente, naredjenje je ignorisano.
Kompjuterski centri univerziteta su prepuni studenata. ,,Preuzeli
smo sve kompjutere sa filoloskog fakulteta i upotrebljavamo ih za
studentski protest'', izjavila je dvadesetjenogodisnja Natasa
Milinkovic. Broj korisnika Internet sluzbe B92 nije poznat,
posebno posto su brojne kompanije u Evropi i SAD-u otvorile
,,mirror'' web stranice sa istovetnim programom kao i na
originalnom web site-u. Ipak, sa sigurnoscu se moze reci, broj
korisnika, samo u Srbiji, je u hiljadama. Srpski korisnici
Interneta su pripremili planove u slucaju da vlasti pokusaju da
preseku Internet veze. Hiljade faks poruka sa likom jaja, poslate
preko Interneta, bi preplavile faks masine rezima. Jaja su simbol
protesta posto se cesto bacaju tokom demonstracija. Internet
korisnici u Evropi mogu da se ukljuce na web site B92 na adresi
http://www.xs4all.nl/opennet/ ili u SAD-u na adresi
http://www.siicom.com/odrazb/. Tu mogu da nadju web stranicu sa
grafikom koja im pruza sve najnovije vesti o protestima u Srbiji.
Danas je korisnicima omoguceno da cuju trominutni izvestaj na
srpsko-hrvatskom i na engleskom. ,,Lord Dejvid Oven je kontaktirao
Studentski protest 96 danas, pomocu Interneta, i kao privatni
gradjanin nam je ponudio svoju pomoc'', rekla je spiker, Julia
Glyn-Pickett, Britanka koja predaje engleski na Univerzitetu i
koja radi na radio stanici. ,,Uspostavili smo zivi video link
izmedju Beograda i Brisela, na Internet Ucionici B92, pomocu
Internews agencije'', dodala je ona.
Ali, posto je ovo Balkan, revolucije, cak i tehnoloske, proizvode
kontrarevolucije. Rasa Karapandea, osamnaestogodisnji student
fizike u Beogradu, vidi Internet kao orudje za modernu diktaturu
nad gradjanima. On i njegovi prijatelji, iako kazu da nisu
sledbenici Predsednika Milosevica, su oformili grupu da bi
izvrsili sabotazu mladog Internet pokreta. ,,Internet je
dehumanizujuca bolest zavisnosti i najveca pojedinacna opasnost za
covecanstvo'', kaze G. Karapandea. ,,Srecom, ljudi koji vladaju
Srbijom ne prepoznaju njegovu opasnost, inace bi je [Internet]
potpomogli. Radimo na stvaranju virusa za Unix, sistem koji
Internet upotrebljava, ali je sistem dobro cuvan. Znamo kako da
unistimo DOS, to je lako''. DOS, ili Disk Operating System je
osnovna komponenta koja kontrolise rad vecine softvera licnih
racunara. ,,Ako ne mozemo da napravimo virus za Unix, mozemo da
presecemo opticke kablove'', izjavio je on. ,,Ovo je moja zivotna
misija, da spasem svet od Interneta''.
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LAUREAT MILETA PRODANOVICA
Mileta Prodanovic, beogradski likovni umetnik, dobitnik je ugledne
nagrade iz Fonda ,,Ivan Tabakovic''. Ova nagrada, koja se svake
druge godine dodeljuje za doprinos likovnoj umetnosti, podrazumeva
organizovanje samostalne izlozbe u Galeriji Srpske akademije nauka
i umetnosti u toku sledece dve godine.
BIOSKOPI RADE
Svi beogradski bioskopi danas rade. Clanovi Udruzenja filmskih
distributera Jugoslavije, na jucerasnjem sastanku, upoznali su se
sa zahtevima studenata-ucesnika studentskog protesta. Kako
saznajemo, svoj stav po pitanju ovih zahteva clanovi Udruzenja
filmskih distributera zauzece u sredu na novom sastanku.
SRPSKI KNJIZEVNI MAGAZIN
Danas u 12 casova na Tribini ,,Francuska 7'' predstavljen je
dvobroj ,,Serbian literary magazin''-a, koji izlazi na engleskom
jeziku, u izdanju Udruzenja knjizevnika Srbije i distribuira se u
svet.
I KPGT ODLOZIO PREDSTAVU
Kako Radio B92 saznaje, veceras je, ipak, na zahtev glumaca,
odlozena predstava u KPGT-u ,,Sarajevske price''.
SLIKARI ZA DECU
U okviru akcije ,,50. godina UNICEF-a -50 umetnika deci
Jugoslavije'', a u organizaciji beogradske kancelarije UNICEF-a, u
galeriji ,,Radionica duse'', otvorena je izlozba koju prati
aukcija slika nasih eminentnih stvaralaca. Sav prihod od prodaje
umetnickih dela namenjen je jugoslovenskoj deci koja zive u
posebno teskim uslovima, a medju kojima je vise od 10.000 dece bez
roditelja i preko 8.000 hendikepiranih malisana. Licitacija traje
jos tri dana u prostoru Progresove galerije u Knez-Mihailovoj
ulici.
PREDRAG EJDUS, GLUMAC KOJI JE GOVORIO NA PROTESTU
Na pitanje novinara u listu ,,Demokratija'' dokle ce trajati
setnje Beogradom, Predrag Ejdus, glumac, odgovorio je: ,,Optimista
sam. I studenti i gradjani ce izdrzati. Moraju da izdrze.
Najvaznija stvar je da je uvrezeni strah za egzistenciju polako
nestaje. Ljudi se vise ne boje. Shvataju da je potrebno ustanoviti
tu promenjivost. Pad ovog rezima je vrlo vazan. Mislim da su dobro
uzdrmani. U ovom trenutku ne razmisljam dalje. Sada je vazno da im
pokazemo da su smenjivi. Da napokon ovde zapocne demokratija.
Nismo imali demokratiju. Moramo da pocnemo. Dugo ce da se uci. Ova
okupljanja nose veliku pozitivnu energiju i ja verujem u nju''.
Pripremio(la): Zoran Penevski
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KLINTONOVA PORUKA MILOSEVICU
Americki predsednik Bil Klinton pozvao je prosle noci predsednika
Srbije Slobodana Milosevica da prizna rezultate lokalnih izbora od
17. novembra, porucujuci mu da ,,glas naroda mora da se slusa'',
javlja Rojter.
Upitan na jednoj svecanosti u Beloj kuci da li ima nesto da poruci
predsedniku Milosevicu, Klinton je odgovorio ,,da izbori moraju
biti postovani i da se glas naroda mora slusati i da ljudska,
politicka i gradjanska prava ljudi moraju biti postovana''.
,,Ni mi niti bilo ko drugi ne zeli da se mesa u unutrasnje
dogadjaje u Srbiji'', rekao je Klinton na svecanosti u Beloj kuci
povodom imenovanja Evlin Liberman za sefa radio stanice Glas
Amerike.
Ali, dodao je americki predsednik, ,,nase simpatije su uvek na
strani slobodnih ljudi koji se bore da izraze svoju slobodu i zele
da se postuje integritet njihovih izbora''. On je podsetio da su
SAD o tome izrekle iznele ,,jasni stav''.
KRISTOFEROVO PISMO MILOSEVICU
U Stejt departmentu je veceras potvrdjeno da je, preko sefa
americke diplomatske misije u Beogradu, danas uruceno pismo
drzavnog sekretara Vorena Kristofera predsedniku Srbije Slobodanu
Milosevicu, u kome je obnovljen zahtev da se ne upotrebljava sila
protiv mirnih demonstranata u Beogradu, javlja za FoNet dopisnik
,,Nase Borbe'' Slobodan Pavlovic.
U pismu se, takodje, trazi i da se izlaz iz sadasnje krize
pronadje, kako u priznavanju legitimnih pobeda opozicionih
kandidata na opstinskim izborima od 17. novembra, tako i u
otvaranju dijaloga o svim spornim pitanjima sa predstavnicima
Koalicije ,,Zajedno''.
U Kristoferovom pismu Milosevicu konstatovano je, pored ostalog,
da su narodi u Srbiji zasluzili da vec jednom dobiju ljudska prava
i demokratske slobode, koje su odavno vec dostupne ostalim
zemljama u istocnoj i centralnoj Evropi.
U protivnom, kako je upozoreno u ovoj poruci americkog drzavnog
sekretara, srpski rezim uvuci ce Jugoslaviju u jos dublju i jos
pogubniju medjunarodnu izolaciju od ove u kojoj se vec nalazi.
Na konferenciji za stampu u Stejt departmentu danas je, pored
Milosevica, zestoko kritikovan i predsednik Hrvatske Franjo
Tudjman zbog nedavne, kako je receno, apsolutno negativne i
neprihvatljive odluke da se odlikuje general Tihomir Blaskic koji
se nalazi u istraznom zatvoru u Hagu u iscekivanju sudjenja za
ratne zlocine u Bosni.
U znak americkog protesta zbog tekucih ponasanja Milosevica i
Tudjmana, u Vasingtonu je odluceno da ovdasnji mirovni posrednik
za bivsu Jugoslaviju Dzon Kornblum krajem nedelje bojkotuje i
Beograd i Zagreb prilikom svoje redovne posete Balkanu, koja ce se
zbog toga svesti ovog puta samo na boravak u Mostaru i Sarajevu.
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DJINDJIC: CUDO BI BILO DA JE ODLUKA SUDA BILA DRUGACIJA
Predsednik Demokratske stranke Zoran Djindjic izjavio je, povodom
odluke Saveznog suda da odbije zahtev Gradske izborne komisije za
vanredno preispitivanje odluka Vrhovnog suda Srbije o ponistenju
drugog kruga lokalnih izbora, da ,,bi bilo pravo cudo da je odluka
bila drugacija''.
U izjavi za Rojter, Djindjic je rekao da je ,,to od samog pocetka
bila samo iluzija o pravosudju''. ,,Jedina stvar do koje je
Milosevicu stalo je medjunarodni pritisak, i sigurno je da ce u
narednih nekoliko dana on pokusati da pronadje politicko
resenje'', smatra Djindjic.
Posle danasnje odluke Saveznog suda, Koaliciji nije preostao
nijedan pravni nacin borbe protiv ponistenja izbora.
Rojter prenosi i izjavu saveznog ministra za unutrasnje poslove
Vukasina Jovanovica, koji je rekao da ce ,,demonstracije biti
skrsene ukoliko oni koji protestuju upotrebe silu''.
Povodom neucestvovanja poslanika Koalicije na danasnjoj
konstitutivnoj sednici Veca gradjana Savezne skupstine Djindjic je
rekao da ce ,,22 poslanika iz Koalicije 'Zajedno' bojkotovati sve
sednice Saveznog parlamenta dok rezultati (lokalnih) izbora ne
budu priznati''.
KOSTUNICA: OPOZICIJA VODILA PREGOVORE SA MILOSEVICEM
Predsednik Demokratske stranke Srbije Vojislav Kostunica izjavio
je danas da je opozicija, tokom demonstracija u Beogradu, vodila
pregovore sa predsednikom Srbije Slobodanom Milosevicem, ,,vise
posredno, nego neposredno''.
Kostunica je naglasio da DSS nije ucestvovala u tim kontaktima,
posto ,,ni do sada nije imala iluzija da bi se moglo potajno
pregovarati sa Milosevicem''.
,,Ovakvi razgovori sa Milosevicem, koji se ne vode pred ocima sire
javnosti, nemaju veceg znacaja i ne mogu dovesti do zaokreta u
Srbiji'', ocenio je Kostunica.
On je izjavio da se problem, ,,stvoren besprimernom kradjom
socijalista na izborima, moze resiti samo politickim sredstvima''.
,,Potrebno je da vlast prizna ravnopravne uslove za sve ucesnike u
stranackom nadmetanju i javnom zivotu. Nije dovoljno da Srbija
dobije nekoliko oaza demokratije, vec da cela postane mesto gde ce
funkcionisati demokratske institucije'', naglasio je Kostunica.
Prema njegovim recima, ,,pored demonstracija, demokratskoj
javnosti stoji na raspolaganju i vracanje poslanickih mandata u
republickoj i Saveznoj skupstini''. Kostunica je ocenio da bi na
taj nacin rezim u Srbiji izgubio svaki legitimitet.
,,Sistem vlasti bi postao otvoreno jednopartijski i novi izbori se
ne bi mogli izbeci, ali pod ravnopravnim uslovima'', izjavio je
Kostunica.
Povodom inicijative za forimiranje Okruglog stola izmedju vlasti i
opozicije, Kostunica je rekao: ,,Nedostatak dijaloga proteklih
godina nas je i doveo u ovakvu situaciju. Takav razgovor je preko
potreban, pod uslovom da se na njemu otvore pitanja izbornih,
politickih, medijskih uslova, u kojima bi kradja izbora bila
nemoguca''.
Kostunica je ocenio da je steta sto se tokom protesta zbog
ponistavanja rezultata drugog kruga lokalnih izbora ,,zaobilazi
pitanje kradje i na saveznim izborima''.
Prema njegovim recima, rezim u Srbiji je i do sada pokusavao da
odlozi ustupke koje je morao da ucini, u zelji da ih ne prikaze
kao neuspehe, vec kao uspehe.
Tu tvrdnju je potkrepio izjavom da je Milosevic svojeveremno
odbacivao svaku mogucnost postavljanja medjunarodnih posmatraca na
Drini, otvaranja americkog Informativnog centra u Pristini i
kancelarije Haskog tribunala u Beogradu, a kasnije pristao na
takve zahteve.
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,,NEDELJNI TELEGRAF'': BULATOVIC TRAZIO PRIZNANJE DRUGOG KRUGA
Predsednik Crne Gore, Momir Bulatovic, je na sastanku odrzanom 4.
decembra zatrazio od predsednika Srbije Slobodana Milosevica da
prizna rezultate drugog kruga lokalnih izbora, cije je sudsko
ponistenje izazvalo buru revolta, pise ,,Nedeljni Telegraf''.
Pozivajuci se na pouzdan izvor iz krugova bliskih Milosevicevom
kabinetu, list tvrdi da je Bulatovic u Beogradu rekao Milosevicu
da ce ,,Crna Gora, a i Savezna Republika Jugoslavija, pretrpeti
velike ekonomske, ali i ukupne politicke posledice ukoliko se
nastave gradjanski protesti na ulicama Beograda i drugih gradova
Srbije''.
Prema Bulatovicevim recima, ,,u Podgoricu su diplomatskim i drugim
kanalima stigla upozorenja Sjedinjenih Americkih Drzava da ce Bela
kuca zamrznuti svu imovinu SRJ na podrucju SAD ukoliko Milosevic
ne izgladi odnose sa opozicijom'', pise ,,Nedeljni Telegraf''.
,,Na sva ova upozorenja Milosevic je odgovorio da ne moze da
preinacuje odluke suda, da sud radi svoj posao, a on ne zeli da
gazi Ustav'', tvrdi list, pozivajuci se na poverljive izvore.
Rasprava Milosevica i Bulatovica je trajala nepuna tri casa i
zavrsila se uveravanjem domacina ,,da ce sve da se zavrsi u okviru
regularnih zakonskih postulata, demonstranti ce se razici posto se
uvere da sud ima apsolutno poverenje naroda, a u to ce se uveriti
i medjunarodna zajednica'', pise ,,Nedeljni Telegraf''.
DACIC: OGRADJIVANJE 150 SUDIJA ,,NIJE VAZNO''
Portparol Socijalisticke partije Srbije Ivica Dacic izjavio je za
danasnji ,,Dnevni telegraf'' da su ,,spekulacije'' o skorim
kadrovskim promenama u Socijalistickoj partiji Srbije ,,uvek
prisutne'' ali, kako je naglasio, ,,o tome ce odlucivati Glavni
odbor SPS kada i ako bude bilo potrebno''.
,,Nije bilo reci o kadrovskim promenama vezanim za mene, to su
bile samo price u kuloarima i medju opozicionom stampom. Ostacu
portparol onoliko koliko Partija proceni da to treba'', rekao je
Dacic, isticuci da to nije ,,izborna nego tehnicka funkcija''. On
je dodao da ,,tamo gde su postignuti slabiji rezultati na lokalnim
izborima, sigurno ce doci do uklanjanja slabosti koje su do toga
dovele, a jedan od nacina su i kadrovske promene''.
Za Dacica nedolazak predstavnika Koalicije ,,Zajedno'' na
jucerasnju konstitutivnu sednicu Veca gradjana Savezne skupstine
,,nije nista novo'' i to je, kako je ocenio, ,,samo nastavak
politike koju vode od 1990. godine, politike koja potvrdjuje da za
njih parlamentarni zivot igra manje vaznu ulogu od
vanparlamentarnog, od ulicnih demonstracija i pokusaja da se vlast
destabilizuje''.
Na pitanje kako komentarise cinjenicu da se 150 sudija u Srbiji
ogradilo od sudija koji su ponistili izbore, Dacic je odgovorio da
,,to nije vazno, i da to samo govori o politickoj obojenosti, ne
samo onih koji su potpisali, vec i onih koji predstavljaju clanove
i simpatizere 'Zajedno'''.
Na opasku ,,Dnevnog telegrafa'' da sudije nisu clanovi stranaka
portparol SPS-a je rekao: ,,A sta vi mislite o tome sto je vrhovni
sud doneo odluku. Vrhovni sud je Vrhovni sud, a ne pojedinac''.
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PLAVSIC: MILOSEVIC NIJE NAJVAZNIJI ZA SPROVODJENJE ,,DEJTONA''
Predsednik Republike Srpske Biljana Plavsic podrzala je
demonstracije opozicije u Srbiji, naglasavajuci da izlazak
studenata na ulice ,,uvek znaci da su sloboda i demokratija
ugrozene''.
Kako prenose AFP, Plavsic je sinoc u emisiji srpske radio
televizije na Palama rekla da bi ,,zelela da Srbija iz ovih
nemirnih dana izadje na kraju kao jaka nacionalna zemlja kao sto
su sve evropske drzave''.
Ona je izrazila neslaganje sa medjunarodnim uverenjem da je
predsednik Srbije Slobodan Milosevic garant dejtonskog mirovnog
sporazuma, naglasavajuci da uspeh sporazuma u najvecoj meri zavisi
od ljudi i lidera kojih se direktno tice.
Plavsic je, aludirajuci na 50 godina socijalisticke vladavine u
Srbiji, rekla da su ,,ideoloske barijere'' mnogo kostale srpski
narod.
Prema njenim recima, nema razloga da Srbija ostane socijalisticka
,,enklava'' u Evropi kada su se sve ostale zemlje bivse
Jugoslavije vec resile komunisticke vladavine.
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MINISTARSTVO PRAVDE: BULATOVIC NIJE SMESTAN U SAMICU
U vecerasnjem saopstenju Ministarstva pravde Republike Srbije,
povodom prekrsajnog kaznjavanja Dejana Bulatovica (21) iz Sida,
kaze se da uslovi u kojima on izdrzava kaznu ,,odgovaraju
zakonskim kriterijumima'' i da ce Ministarstvo, ,,ukoliko se ukaze
potreba'' preduzeti ,,sve neophodne mere za njegovu potpunu
zdravstvenu zastitu''.
Saopstenje, kako su preneli beogradski mediji, u celini glasi:
,,Na osnovu resenja gradskog sudije za prekrsaje, dana 6. decembra
ove godine u 20 casova, primljen je u Okruzni zatvor u Beogradu --
Odeljenje za izdrzavanje kazni u Padinskoj Skeli -- Dejan
Bulatovic, po zanimanju mesar, rodjen 1975. godine, sa
prebivalistem u Sidu.
Imenovani je smesten u prostoriju u kojoj kaznu izdrzavaju
prekrsajno kaznjena lica. Uslovi i smestaj odgovaraju zakonskim
kriterijumima i ne razlikuju se od uslova u kojima kaznu
izdrzavaju i druga lica kaznjena za prekrsaj.
Prilikom prijema u Okruzni zatvor, imenovani je pregledan od
strane zdravstvene sluzbe ove ustanove. Devetog decembra ove
godine pregledan je na internom odeljenju Kazneno-popravnog doma
Bolnice u Beogradu, a 10. decembra upucen je na pregled u Klinicki
centar u Beogradu.
Ukoliko se ukaze potreba za daljim zdravstvenim tretmanom Dejana
Bulatovica, Ministarstvo pravde preduzece sve neophodne mere za
njegovu potpunu zdravstvenu zastitu.
Za vreme boravka u Okruznom zatvoru, ponasanje Bulatovicevo bilo
je primerno. Nijednog trenutka nije izdvajan od drugih kaznjenih
lica, nije smestan u samicu, niti je na bilo koji nacin stavljan u
nepovoljniji polozaj u odnosu na druga lica kaznjena za prekrsaj.
U svojim usmenim i pismenim izjavama, imenovani nije imao nikakvih
primedbi na postupanje prema njemu u Okruznom zatvoru u
Beogradu''.
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PREDSTAVNICI INICIJATINVNOG ODBORA NECE NA SASTANAK
Portparol Inicijativnog odbora studentskog protesta '96 Dejan
Vasiljevic izjavio je danas da se predstavnici tog odbora nece
odazvati pozivu na sastanak koji im je uputio Savez studenata
Beogradskog univerziteta.
Vasiljevic je, kako prenosi Radio B92, rekao da se Savez
studentata, ,,koji pretenduje da predstavlja sve studente'' nije
odredio prema zahtevima studentskog protesta, medju kojima su
zahtev za smenom rektora i studenta prorektora univerziteta.
,,Nase ucesce na sastanku koji je zakazan za 14.00c bilo bi
kontraproduktivno i mi za sada ovaj poziv ne mozemo da prihvatimo,
jer niko nema mandat da pregovara'', rekao je Vasiljevic, isticuci
da je to jedinstven stav Inicijativnog odbora i ponavljajuci da
prvo Savez studenata treba da se izjasni o zahtevima studenstkog
protesta.
Kako je najavljeno, studenti koji se i danas okupljaju na platou
ispred Filozofskog fakulteta, tokom svoje protestne setnje proci
ce i pored zgrade u kojoj ce se odrzati sastanak Saveza studenta.
,,Kako su prostorije Saveza studenata premale da prime sve
ucesnike Studentskog protesta '96, pozivamo vas da sutra 12.
decembra dodjete u Vasinu br.2 (plato ispred filozofskog
fakulteta) izmedju 12 i 13 casova''.
U post skriptumu ove poruke pise: ,,Ostavite clanske karte i
ponesite indekse''.
RISTIC: SVI RAZMISLJAJU O DEMONSTRACIJAMA
Predsednik Jugoslovenske levice, i Upravnik KPGT-a Ljubisa Ristic,
koji je juce najavljivao da ce se predstava u tom pozoristu
normalno odrzati, izjavio je sinoc, nakon odluke glumaca da ipak
ne igraju, da je ,,nedopustivo terorisati ljude'' i da ,,ako
glumci hoce da igraju, dobro je, a ako nece opet je dobro''.
Ljubisa Ristic izjavio je za danasnju ,,Nasu Borbu'', povodom
politickih dogadjanja na ulicama, da je ,,to pocetak u kojem i
jedni i drugi hsvataju da je i jednima i drugima potrebna
demokratija i odnosi u kojima je prirodna stvar da neko ima
drugacije misljenje''.
,,Mislim da to sto dugo traje, svi o tome razmisljaju'', rekao je
Ristic, isticuci da ,,razlicito misljenje ne znaci prezir i jednih
i drugih''.
,,Iza svega toga stoji politika i odnos snaga, iza glasa manjine i
tihe vecine, ili glasa vecine i tihe manjine, to je nesto sto sada
sazreva i ima elemenat koji do sada nismo znali. Brine me hoce li
se izmedju nas to, (demokratija) desiti. Ako se desi ima sanse da
se razumemo'', dodao je on.
,,Ako bude previse pomaganja se strane, bilo kome, onda mislim da
to nece biti dobro jer ce nepomirljivosti porasti, a mislim da nam
je potrebno da raste tolerancija i konstruktivnost sa svih
strana'', zakljucio je Ljubisa Ristic.
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POLICIJSKA PATROLA NALETELA NA KARADZICA
Policijska patrola UN naletela je juce na bivseg predsednika
Republike Srpske Radovana Karadzica, ali po recima portparola UN i
Ifora, tom prilikom nije preduzeta nikakva akcija u kojoj bi lider
bosanskih Srba bio uhapsen. Portparol Aleksandar Ivanko saopstio
je danas da je patrola naisla na Karadzica nedaleko od Pala, na
putu za ,,Famos'', gde se nalazi njegova kancelarija. On je bio u
vozilu sa otvorenim prozorom, okruzen clanovima specijalne
policije RS, naoruzanih automatskim puskama.
Dvojica pripadnika policijske patrole UN tom prilikom su ga
prepoznala, dodao je Ivanko. O tome je, nekoliko sati kasnije
obavesten Ifor, ali ni njegovi pripadnici nisu reagovali. Kako je
danas rekao portaprol Ifora u Sarajevu, major Bret Budro (Brett
Boudreau), pripadnici Ifora ,,nemaju mandat da love ratne
zlocince''. Ivanko je dodao da pirpadnici policije UN ,,nisu
naoruzani i da nisu dobili mandat da hapse ratne zlocince''.
DANAS O SAVETU MINISTARA BIH
Zamenik visokog medjunarodnog predstavnika Mihael Stajner izrazio
je uverenje, nakon sinocnjeg razgovora sa clanom predsednistva
Bosne i Hercegovine Momcilom Krajisnikom, da ce se na danasnjem
sastanku Predsednistva konsenzusom doci do sastava Saveta
ministara.
Kako javlja SRNA, Krajisnik je sa Stajnerom razgovarao o sastavu
Saveta ministara i utvrdjivanju pravila za ratne zlocince.
Stajner je rekao i da bi Predsednistvo BiH danas trebalo da
,,usvoji pravila za hapsenja ratnih zlocinaca, cime bi odmah bilo
oslobodjeno 50 ljudi iz oba entiteta''.
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MINISTARSTVO ODBRANE TUZILO ,,GLOBUS''
Hrvatsko ministarstvo odbrane podnelo je tuzbu protiv nezavisnog
nedeljnika ,,Globus'' zbog, kako se navodi, klevete iznete u
njegovom izvestaju da je vlada pruzila utociste bosanskom Hrvatu
Ivici Rajicu, koga je Haski tribunal optuzio za ratne zlocine.
Kako javlja Rojter, ,,Globus'' je u oktobru pisao da je Ivica
Rajic ziveo gotovo godinu dana u jednom splitskom hotelu, ciji je
vlasnik ministarstvo odbrane, objavivsi fotografije Rajica kako u
blizini hotela cita novine.
,,Flagrantna je laz da objavljene fotografije prikazuju Ivicu
Rajica, a takodje nije tacno da je ministarstvo odbrane u bilo
kakvom kontaktu sa Rajicem ili da mu pomaze da se sakrije'',
navodi se u tuzbi ministarstva.
Ministarstvo je ranije saopstilo da je lice na ,,Globusovim''
fotografijama jedan radnik hotela, a takodje je demantovalo
tvrdnje ,,Globusa'' da su mu podatke o Rajicevom prebivalistu
dostavili izvori obavestajne sluzbe.
JOS DUGO NECU SVIRATI U ZAGREBU
Poznati novosadski kantautor Djordje Balasevic u izjavi za novi
,,Globus'' rekao je da jos dugo nece svirati u Zagrebu. Balasevic
je rekao kako mu klinci na koncertima vicu da djodje u Zagreb, ali
da to politicarima jos ne odgovora.
Nazvavsi politicare ,,zlim starcima'', on je rekao da se nada da
ce ,,vremenom biti resena vazna pitanja, poput Prevlake i jos
nekih kamenih brda, za koja se ne zna pripadaju li ovom ili onom
plemenu''.
,,Mi, naivno, verujemo u ljudske vrednosti: pravdu, demokratiju,
istinu, no cini se da u skoli nismo razumeli lekciju o Matiji
Gupcu, koji je verovao u pravdu pa su mu na glavu nabili uzarenu
krunu'', rekao je Balasevic.
On je ocenio da je njegov koncert u Sloveniji bio ,,emotivni sok''
i ,,nagovestaj boljeg vremena, protoka ljudi i roba. Medjutim
proboj je ucinjen samo u posecenosti koncerta -- sve je ostalo
tamo gde je i bilo, cak jos u beznadeznijem polozaju''.
Balasevic je rekao da je zbog rata mnogo izgubio i da ce jednog
dana osnovati svoju izdavacku kucu, kako bi njegove pesme napokon
postale vlasnistvo njegove dece i porodice.
Pripremio(la): Valentina Delic
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-> #733, mpavlo** A Šešelja i Nikolića i Mihajlovića je mogao da primi.
Sasvim je logično da nije hteo da blagoslovi studentski protest,
jer, moglo bi da dođe do nekih incidenata (uvek ima provokatora),
tj. do prolivanja srpske krvi, a srpska crkva to ne sme da podrži.
Zato ne treba patrijarha kriviti za ovo, i ovako ćemo da skinemo
bandu!
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EVROPSKI POSLANICI PODRZALI PROTESTE U BEOGRADU
Poslanici Evropskog parlamenta u Strazburu izrazili su danas
solidarnost sa narodom koji u Beogradu i sirom Srbije mirno
demonstrira za demokratiju, pluralizam i postovanje volje glasaca,
saopsteno je u Briselu.
U rezoluciji usvojenoj na danasnjoj plenarnoj sednici, najvise
predstavnicko telo Evropske unije insistira na postovanju
rezultata izbora od 17. novembra i trazi da se sprovede puna
istraga o izbornim nepravilnostima, u koju bi bili ukljuceni i
predstavnici opozicionih partija.
Ostali zahtevi iz danasnje rezolucije odnose se na Savet ministara
EU i Evropsku komisiju. Od Saveta i Komisije se zahteva da srpskim
vlastima jasno stave do znanja da je EU neprihvatljivo delovanje
protiv demokratskog razvoja, ciji su sustinski elementi posteni
izbori i slobodni mediji.
U tom smislu se Savet ministara poziva da Jugoslaviji uskrati
trgovinske preferencijale, sve dok njene vlasti ne pokazu istinsku
privrzenost postenim i slobodnim izborima i slobodi medija.
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MITING KOALICIJE ,,ZAJEDNO''
Dvadeset drugi dan protesta koalicije ,,Zajedno'' protiv
ponistavanja rezultata lokalnih izbora okoncan je, posle
uobicajene setnje beogradskim ulicama, vecerasnjim mitingom na
Trgu republike, kojem je prisustvovalo vise desetina hiljada
gradjana.
Predsednik Demokratske stranke Zoran Djindjic rekao je da je ,,ovo
mesto na kome Srbija ulazi u evropsku civilizaciju, zahvaljujuci
nama, i to je slava Srbije''.
,,Kazu da se pre pet-sest godina nasoj zemlji dogodio narod. Moze
biti, ali znamo sta se u medjuvremenu dogodilo. Ove godine Srbiji
su se dogodili gradjani. Mi smo odrasli i postali gradjani.
Gradjanima ne treba vodja, niko ne moze da ih zavede. Oni imaju
pravo da pitaju. Prvo pravo gradjana je da znaju sta se dogadja.
Nas vodja zeli da narod zauvek ostane u tami i da nam zapusi oci i
usi. Posto smo postali gradjani, ne pristajemo i hocemo slobodne
medije. To nije politicki zahtev, vec uslov da prezivimo'',
naglasio je Djindjic.
Dodajuci da ,,nema slobodnog naroda koji ne moze da bira svoje
predstavnike'', on je istakao da koalicija ,,Zajedno'' ne trazi
puku smenu vlasti, vec ,,postavlja merila za svaku buducu vlast''.
,,Ne trebaju nam vodje, cenzura, zatvoreni kabineti. O nasoj
sudbini se nece odlucivati izvan nase zemlje, na kaucevima i
kanabetima, vec u slobodnim parlamentima ove zemlje'', zakljucio
je Djindjic.
Predsednik Gradjanskog saveza Srbije Vesna Pesic rekla je da
,,nismo ovde samo zbog nasih prava, nego i zbog para''.
Pesiceva je naglasila da su se ,,gradjanima odjednom otvorile
oci'' kada je predsednik Srbije ,,zgazio gradjansku volju i pokrao
glasove'' i da oni sada vide ,,samo dva puta'' -- ,,ili da
nastavimo velicanstvenu borbu za demokratsku Srbiju u Evropi ili
da padnemo u propast, u zatvor u kojem ce on i ona da budu
upravnici''.
Ona je istakla da ,,necemo zatvor i okupaciju'' i zamolila
,,demokratske zemlje koje nas podrzavaju'' da predsednika
Milosevica ne kaznjavaju ponovnim stavljanjem Srbije u izolaciju.
,,Mi necemo izolaciju, hocemo u svet. Kaznite njega, ne
kaznjavajte nase gradjane'', porucila je Pesiceva, dodajuci da je
vreme za ,,deblokadu naseg drustva'' i da se to mora odmah
uraditi.
,,Svakim danom oni se sve vise krune, a mi smo sve jaci'',
zakljucila je Pesic.
Lider Srpskog pokreta obnove Vuk Draskovic konstatovao je da se
vodi ,,odsudna bitka za opstanak Beograda i Srbije'' u kojoj
,,nema razloga za povlacenje, nego za napredovanje''.
Podsecajuci da je nezadovoljan narod i Nikolu Pasica zasipao
jajima i paradajzom, a da je on to prihvatao kao ,,temelj
demokratije'', Draskovic je naglasio da je ,,sve ispricano'' i da
vise ne treba trositi reci.
Prema njegovim recima, svetski lideri su se vise uzbudili zbog
dogadjaja u Srbiji nego njen predsednik, koji je na njihove
zahteve da prizna rezultate izbora odgovorio: ,,Moji sudovi su
slobodni i dodelili su pobedu mojoj partiji''.
,,Rekao je da nema cene po kojoj ce nam predati Beograd, Nis,
Kraljevo. Ko si ti, kome neces da predas Beograd -- Beogradjanima?
Beograd je nas, Srbija je nasa, a on koji smatra da je njegova
prcija i da je vlasnik ovog grada i ove zemlje, mora da ode i da
podnese ostavku'', naglasio je Draskovic.
Isticuci da je predsednik Milosevic ,,ponizio, osramotio i na
kraju pokrao ovaj narod'', Draskovic je zakljucio: ,,Ostavka, u
svakom slucaju''.
Na vecerasnjem mitingu govorili su i predsednik Narodne stranke
Crne Gore Novak Kilibarda, predstavnik sindikata ,,Nezavisnost''
Rade Radovanovic, a procitana je i poruka podrske bugarskih
opozicionih partija.
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UHAPSEN GLUMAC GOJKO BALETIC
Informativna sluzba Izbornog staba koalicije ,,Zajedno'' saopstila
je da su danas u 15.50 sati, na uglu ulica Kneza Milosa i
Nemanjine, cetiri policajca pretukla pred gradjanima glumca Gojka
Baletica.
Incident se dogodio posto je prosla kolona studenata, a dvojica od
cetiri policajca bili su saobracajci. Posto je Baletic izgubio
svest, policajci su mu stavili lisice na ruke i odvezli ga
policijskim automobilom u nepoznatom pravcu, stoji u saopstenju.
Advokati koalicije ,,Zajedno'' su u Gradskom MUP-u, u ulici 29.
novembra, gde traze da se Baletic pusti. Svedoci dogadjaja dali su
pismene izjave o onome sto se dogodilo, navodi se u saopstenju.
,,Koalicija ''Zajedno,, upozorava domacu i svetsku javnost da
Milosevic nastavlja sa represijom i terorom prema gradjanima
Srbije koji na miran nacin izrazavaju svoje nezadovoljstvo zbog
ponistavanja lokalnih izbora'' stoji u saopstenju, u kojem se
navodi da prebijanje Dejana Bulatovica nije slucajan ekces, vec da
se radi o namerama policije ,,da prebijanjem demonstranata
zastrasi gradjane''.
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PUKOVNIK VESKOVIC: PONISTAVANJEM IZBORA -- PONISTEN USTAV
Pukovnik Milorad Veskovic, pomocnik nacelnika staba artiljerije
Prve armijske oblasti izjavio je ,,Dnevnom Telegrafu'' da vrh
Generalstaba Vojske Jugoslavije nema jedinstveno misljenje o
izbornim manipulacijama i narodnom protestu.
U izjavi, koju danas objavljuje DT, Veskovic kaze:
,,Ponistavanjem izbornih rezultata, pogazen je i Ustav ove zemlje.
Vojska je u tom slucaju bila duzna da zastiti Ustav, ali ponasanje
vojnog vrha je, blago receno, nedopustivo.
Generalstab VJ ce morati uskoro da iznese konacan stav o trenutnim
dogadjajima. Vojska ne moze da bude izolovana dok u gradovima
Srbije hiljade ljudi psuje vlast i zahteva pravdu.
Treba konacno reci da li podrzavamo ono sto narod trazi, ili
izlazimo na ulice i pomazemo policiji. U svakom slucaju, mislim da
dilema nece dugo potrajati, jer je cutanja svima dosta''.
,,Dnevni Telegraf'' napominje da u Informativnoj sluzbi VJ ,,nisu
zeleli da komentarisu nastalu dilemu, jer, po njihovim recima, ona
i ne postoji''.
Oficir u Generalstabu VJ, koji nije zeleo da se predstavi, rekao
je novinaru DT: ,,Strasno mi je zao, ali ja vam o tome trenutno
nista ne mogu reci. Vojska se nalazi u kasarnama i tu nikakve
dileme nema''.
SLUZBA ZA INFORMISANJE PRVE ARMIJE VJ: VASKOVIC NIJE OFICIR VJ
Sluzba za informisanje Komande Prve armije Vojske Jugoslavije
danas je, povodom teksta u ,,Dnevnom Telegrafu'' o nejedinstvu u
vojnom vrhu, saopstila da Milorad Stojana Vaskovic ,,nije
profesionalni oficir VJ'', preneli su beogradski mediji.
,,Vaskovic nije clan Komande, niti je ikada bio pomocnik nacelnika
Staba Artiljerije Prve armijske oblasti, jer takva duznost ne
postoji u VJ, gde mu je sluzba prestala 30. juna 1993. godine'',
stoji u saopstenju.
,,Dnevni Telegraf'' preneo je Vaskovicevu izjavu da vrh
Generalstaba VJ nema jedinstveno misljenje o izbornim
manipulacijama i narodnom protestu u Srbiji.
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OTVORENO PISMO STUDENATA MIRJANI MARKOVIC
Organizacioni odbor protesta studenata Univerziteta umetnosti
uputio je danas otvoreno pismo predsedniku Direkcije Jugoslovenske
levice Mirjani Markovic u kojem ukazuje ,,na manipulacije i
zloupotrebe dece i omladine koje su partije levice svojevremeno
upraznjavale''.
Reagujuci na izjavu Mirjane Markovic o ,,zloupotrebi dece u korist
pojedinih stranaka'', studenti Univerziteta umetnosti podsecaju na
nastupe Filharmonije mladih ,,Borislav Pascan'' na promocijama JUL
i Socijalisticke partije Srbije:
krajem jeseni 1995. Filharmonija mladih svirala je u Centru za
kulturu Vracar, na proslavi godisnjice JUL-a;
17. februara 1996. i 2. marta 1996. ovi mladi ljudi, od kojih
je vecina jos uvek u nizim i srednjim muzickim skolama
(starosti do 18 godina), nastupili su na Kongresu SPS u Sava
centru;
4. jula 1996. nastupili su u Senti, na proslavi Dana borca, u
organizaciji opstinskih znamo-vec-kojih vlasti;
22. jula 1996. ansambl je nastupio na proslavi godisnjice JUL-
a;
23. jula 1996. bili smo svedoci svojevrsnog 'politickog
striptiza', kada su svi clanovi ovog ansambla, tokom nastupa u
prostorijama Direkcije JUL, u ulici Djure Djakovica, u jednom
trenutku ustali sa stolica i sinhronizovano skinuli kosulje.
Ispod njih su, naravno, bile majice sa natpisom 'JUL'. Naravno
da verujemo da su bas svi ovo ucinili dobrovoljno;
u oktobru 1996. Filharmonija mladih 'Borislav Pascan'
nastupila je u SNP u Novom Sadu, na predizbornoj promociji
JUL-a.
,,Podsecamo Vas usput da, prema povelji Ujedinjenih nacija o
pravima deteta, 'svaki covek, ma koje starosti bio, ima pravo da
na miran nacin izrazi svoje misljenje'''.
U potpisu: ,,Izmanipulisani studenti Univerziteta umetnosti
(razlicitih starosti)''.
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PAROLE SA STUDENTSKOG PROTESTA:
Jucerasnji Studentski protest '96 obelezile su i ove parole:
,,Ponistavamo izbore za Mis sveta -- Prvi opstinski sud'',
,,Sreco, ne ljubi me tako strasno-ovlazices mi koaksijalni kabl'',
,,Doci ce zima, pravicemo sneska, bice i Srbija slobodna k'o
Ceska'', ,,Rezim na rezim-Veterina'', ,,Setaci, prodajem melem za
zuljeve''...
ZAMIRANJE PROTESTA U NISU?
Danasnji miting koalicije ,,Zajedno'' u Nisu kao da je nagovestio
izvesno zamiranje protesta, posto se na trgu okupila jedva
desetina gradjana od broja koji je prethodna 23 dana bio u centru
grada.
Da li je rec o zamoru ili gubljenju strpljenja pred tvrdoglavoscu
vlasti da udovolje zahtevima koalicija Zajedno, koji su i ovoga
puta imali identicni sadrzaj -- priznavanje rezultata lokalnih
izbora od 17. novemba i smenu vlasti -- ubrzo ce se videti.
Sigurno je medjutim ono sto se moze golim okom videti, a to je
izostanak sa mitinga niskih taksista i potpuno radnicko
ignorisanje protesta.
Studenti su tek naknadna ikonografija, posto se akademski gradjani
mitingu prikljucuju posle svojih protesta u gradu.
Gradjanima su se danas obratili predstavnici koalicije ,,Zajedno''
iz Beograda i Nisa koji nisu uspeli u dovoljnoj meri da
,,zagreju'' okupljene, jer se vecina njih bavila iznosenjem licnih
problema, kao sto su pretnje porodici, deci ili telefonsko
prisluskivanje.
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MEDIJI PROZIVAJU MOSKVU ZBOG PODRSKE MILOSEVICU
Ruski mediji su danas ponovo prozvali zvanicnu Moskvu da odustane,
kako navodi komercijalna tv mreza NTV, od toga da ,,drzi stranu
Slobodanu Milosevicu i da podrzi zahteve za demokratskim promenama
u Srbiji''.
,,Ni posle 20 dana koji su potresli Srbiju'', istice
,,Literaturnaja gazeta'', ,,sef srpske drzave ne pokazuje nameru
da cuje glas naroda''. ,,Vlasti, kao i njihova javna glasila,
ponasaju se kao da se ''kajgana revolucija,, nije dogodila'', pise
moskovski nedeljnik, koji takodje istice da Rusija nastavlja da
cuti.
,,Dokle Rusija moze da upraznjava Milosevicev stil, da se ponasa
kao da se u Srbiji ne odrzavaju najmasovniji u njenoj istoriji
protesti protiv vlasti'', prenosi NTV misljenje svog balkanskog
dopisnika.
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,,DEMOKRATIJA'': REDITELJ GORCIN STOJANOVIC ,,MEDJU PAMETNIM
SVETOM OVOG GRADA''
Reditelj Gorcin Stojanovic govori za ,,Demokratiju'' o protestima
u Beogradu:
,,Vise nego zanimljivo. To ce, u svakom slucaju, biti jedan od
kljucnih dogadjaja u poslednjih deset godina. Mislim da je ovo
zanimljivije od 9. marta, da daleko prevazilazi cak i one
dogadjaje zvane 'birokratska revolucija'. Ovo bi moglo da bude, i
ja sam ubedjen da ce biti, zavrsna tacka jednog procesa''.
-- Mislis da ce se ovo zavrsiti kako narod ocekuje?
,,Ne znam sta narod ocekuje, ali mislim da stvari vise ne mogu
biti iste. Gledati sa distrance na sve ovo je jako tesko, ali ja
pokusavam da objektiviziram stvari koliko je to moguce. Kao deo
velikog svetskog procesa, ovo su ona cetiri poslednja prsljena na
repu, onaj atavizam koji mi vise nemamo otkako smo postali homo
sapiensi. to su poslednje godine naseg zivota ovde i to neminovno
svi znaju. To zna i rezim i opozicija i narod. Nece se to zavrsiti
mozda za narednih mesec dana, ali u sledlecih godinu sigurno hoce.
Cela ova prica mora da ima svoj kraj. Daj Boze da taj kraj ne bude
sa treskom nego sa cviljenjem, sto bi rekao T.S. Eliot''.
,,DEMOKRATIJA'': STUDENT JE ZANIMANJE, A NE POLITICKO OPREDELJNJE
Portparol JUL-a i generalni sekretar SK-PJ Aleksandar Vulin za
,,Demokratiju'' govori o studentskim protestima:
,,Nikad nisam voleo stvari koje su u modi. I clan SK PJ sam postao
1991. godine kada je to bilo apsolutno demode. Sto se tice
studenata, znate kako-student je zanimanje, to nije politicko-
opredeljenje. Kome je do politike neka imenom i prezimenom stane
iza neke odredjene opcije, to je sasvim logicno. Ipak ne
zaboravite da postoji veliki broj studenata koji se ne slazu sa
politikom Koalicije 'Zajedno' i imaju legitimno pravo da idu na
predavanje ili sede kuci ako to zele''.
-- Imaju li isti ti studenti legitimno prvo da dignu glas protiv
izborne kradje, krsenja Ustava?
,,Ja podrzavam Ustav, naravno ali za mene su najmerodavniji organi
vlasti. Sud je tu da resi sve eventualne sporovoe. Ako Vrhovni sud
kaze -- tako je -- to je tako i kraj price''.
-- Da li Vi zaista verujete u nezavisnost sudstva u ovoj zemlji?
,,Naravno, uveren sam da je to tako. Kako da ne''...
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DEMOKRATIZACIJA JE U INTERESU BALKANA
Vlada Grcke je stavila na znanje vladi SRJ da je demokratizacija u
interesu stabilizacije Balkana i priblizavanja Evropskoj uniji,
izjavio zamenik ministra inostranih poslova Grcke Jorgos
Papandreu.
Odgovarajuci na pitanje o tome kakav je stav Grcke prema tome sto
vise od tri nedelje traju demonstracije u Beogradu zbog
ponistavanja rezultata lokalnih izbora, Papandreu je najpre rekao
da je Grcka u delikatnom polozaju, u smislu, kako je podvukao, da
je to unutrasnje pitanje i dodao ,,izrazito unutrasnje pitanje
SRJ''.
Ali, nastavio je on, Grcka uvek zeli da vidi da dolazi do sirenja
i produbljavanja demokratskih procesa, a posebno u prijateljskim
zemljama kao sto je Jugoslavija.
,,VJESNIK'': OKO 100 SRPSKIH PORODICA VRACA SE U ZAPADNU SLAVONIJU
Oko 100 srpskih porodica moglo bi se pre katolickog Bozica vratiti
u neka mesta u Zapadnoj Slavoniji, odakle su izbegle prosle
godine, za vreme hrvatske ofanzive ,,Bljesak'', pise danasnji
Vjesnik, a prenosi AFP.
Prema pisanju zagrebackog dnevnika, predvidjeno je da se srpske
porodice vrate u Okucane, Gornje Bogicevce, Staru Gradisku, Lipik
i Pakrac, a sporazum o njihovom povratku potpisali su savetnik
hrvatskog predsednika Tudjmana Slobodan Lang i neimenovani
predstavnici srpskih i hrvatskih udruzenja izbeglica.
Hrvatske vlasti do sada nisu dozvoljavale tako masovan povratak
srpskih izbeglica, vec samo spajanje porodica.
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ODLOZENA SEDNICA SAVETA MINISTARA
Za danas u Sarajevu zakazana sednica Predsednistva BiH, na kojoj
je trebalo da bude imenovan dvanaestoclani Savet ministara,
odlozena je, jer Momcilo Krajisnik nije dosao na ovo zasedanje,
javlja AFP, pozivajuci se na izvestaj sarajevskog radija.
Portparol Visokog predstavnika medjunarodne zajednice u Bosni
Kolam Marfi potvrdio je da je sednica odlozena, ali je napomenuo
da ne zna iz kojih razloga.
,,Odlozena je (sednica), ali ne znam razlog'', rekao je Marfi.
Odlaganje sednice znaci da BiH i dalje ostaje bez centralne vlade.
SEDNICA ODGODJENA ZBOG NESPORAZUMA U TUMACENJU POSLOVNIKA O RADU
Sednica Predsednistva BiH, zakazana za danas, nije odrzana zbog
nesporazuma u tumacenju Poslovnika o radu Predsednistva, kojim je
predvidjeno naizmenicno odrzavanje sastanaka -- dvaput u Zemljskom
muzeju, jedanput u Lukavici -- saopsteno je iz Kabineta
predsednika Momcila Krajisnika.
Kako javlja SRNA, ovaj problem je resen u telefonskom kontaktu
clanova Predsednistva, i oni bi trebalo da se sastanu sutra u 9.00
sati u Zemaljskom muzeju u Sarajevu.
Pripremio(la): Valentina Delic
vesti.793mpavlo,
-> #781, dizel>>A Šešelja i Nikolića i Mihajlovića je mogao da primi.
> Sasvim je logično da nije hteo da blagoslovi studentski protest,
> jer, moglo bi da dođe do nekih incidenata (uvek ima provokatora),
> tj. do prolivanja srpske krvi, a srpska crkva to ne sme da podrži.
Kao što piše u mom citatu "neko bi to mogao da zloupotrebi, jer je to
politicki protest". Znači, nije u pitanju strah od prolivanja krvi već je po
sredi politički stav koji je SPC uvek imala, ali ga je u različitim vremenim i
pod različitim vladarima manje ili više javno saopštavala. A ako je
patrijarhova logika stvarno takva, onda nije trebao da pravi selekciju jer je
tek na ovaj način kako je to uradio njegov postupak može pogrešno da se
protumači (kako sam i ja to, nadam se, uradio).
> Zato ne treba patrijarha kriviti za ovo, i ovako ćemo da skinemo
> bandu!
Daće Bog
pozdrav
ateista
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"SARAJEVSKA RAJA NA BEOGRADSKIM ULICAMA!
K O B A C A J A J A
NA BEOGRADSKE FASADE BACENO HILJADE MARAKA
Jaje, prehrambeni artikl omiljen u nasem narodu.
Nesto bez cega se obrok prostog Srbina ni ne moze
zamisliti. Donedavno ona su i bila samo to ali vise
ne! Demonstracije su ih pokazale u drugom svetlu.
Tragovi koji su ostali na fasadama grada medijskih
i politickih kuca nisu samo pokazale sta oni koji
su ih bacili misli o pogodenim kucama nego i ko su
oni koji ih bacaju. Svako bi se zapitao odakle
dolaze i gde ih nalaze. Nije valjda da ih kupuju?
Ako znamo da jedno jaje na pijaci kosta izmedu 80
para i 1 dinara onda su na zgrade bacene hiljade
dinara i maraka ko sta vise voli! Nismo u Africi
niti su jaja banane pa da rastu na drvetu ona se
kupuju i prodaju, a tesko da postoji bas toliko
demonstranata koji po kucama gaje kokoske, ako i
postoje onda sigurno nisu iz Beograda. Resenje je
mnogo prostije. Kako saznajemo u sluzbi
komesarijata za izbeglice republike Srbije ona su
deo svakodnevnog izbeglickog sledovanja. JAJA su
nabavljena uglavnom na drzavnim farmama gde su i
uredno placena, a sve iz budzeta vlade Srbije. Po
svoj prilici oni koji su i do sada nalazili nacina
da izbegnu obaveze prema svojoj domovini, dosetili
su se kako da na ionako umorna leda gradana Srbije
namaknu jos koji teret da ne kazemo jaje. Stvar je
jasna, gradani porez vlada, vladi raji jaja, raja
jaja RTS-u a racun svima nama. Postavlja se
pitanje kako ce cela stvar do kraja izgledati?
Noseni primerom "kolega" sa prekodrinskih fakulteta
i ovi domaci su resili da krenu istim putem. Neki
se bave i tvrdo kuvanim sto samo znaci da redovni
i sasvim pristojni (za nase uslove) studentski
dorucak zavrsava na ulici! Inace nepotrebno je reci
da i studentsku ishranu dotira, vlada!
Naravno i ona se dotira od nas putem poreza! Nece
nas zacuditi da se vec pomenuti mastoviti gosti
dosete da pod hitno uvezu koji komad pileceg
podmlatka i zapocnu ugodan biznis. Nekada benzin a
sada jaja najvaznije se uvek prilagoditi situaciji.
Kako u biznisu tako i u politici. Osim ovih
prakticnih problema namece se jos jedan problem
tezi od svih drugih moralni. Imaju li pravo oni
koji su u punoj snazi napustili svoja mesta i
ostavili ih svojim siromasnim rodacima na
cuvanje, da kroje politicku sudbinu onih koji u
ovoj zemlji zive. Mogu li svoju izbeglicku
nesrecu ublaziti pravljenjem nesrece na drugom
mestu. Hleb i so pa i jaja data od srca i odvojena
od usta gradana Srbije moraju se postovati. Ako
nije tako moramo se zapitati sta je sledece sto
ce poleteti i gde."
Nedeljnik "Fles", 10.12.1996, strana 4;
autor teksta se nije potpisao.
Greske u tekstu nisu moje, tj. nisu nastale
tokom prekucavanja... Naprimer, recenica
"Tragovi koji su ostali na fasadama grada medijskih
i politickih kuca nisu samo pokazale sta oni koji
su ih bacili misli" je bas takva u originalu.
Isto i "Stvar je jasna, gradani porez vlada, vladi
raji jaja, raja jaja RTS-u a racun svima nama.",
itd...
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NATO condemns Milosevic over election reversal
December 10, 1996
Web posted at: 3:30 p.m. EST (2030 GMT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuter) -- NATO on Tuesday "strongly deplored" the
Serbian government's cancellation of local election results last month
and called on President Slobodan Milosevic to reverse the decision.
"We are dismayed that the Serbian authorities have ignored the calls of
the international community to respect internationally recognized
democratic principles," the 16 NATO members said in a statement.
The statement, issued shortly after the start of a two-day meeting of
NATO foreign ministers, also praised the restraint of the Serbian
opposition, which has mounted peaceful mass protests against Milosevic's
decision.
"We commend the opposition for its adherence to non-violence and call
upon the government to avoid any use of force against the peaceful
protesters," it said.
Warning from U.S.
Earlier, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher warned Milosevic he
faced international isolation unless he respected democratic norms.
"The people of Serbia deserve what their neighbors in central Europe
have: clean elections, a free press, a normal market economy,"
Christopher told the meeting.
"If President Milosevic respects their will, Serbia can enjoy the
legitimacy and assistance it needs. If he seeks to rule Serbia as an
unreformed dictatorship, it will only increase his isolation and the
suffering of his people."
An opposition coalition claimed widespread victories in the November 17
elections, winning control of Belgrade and 14 other major cities. But a
Serbian court canceled the results and Milosevic has so far shown no
sign of reinstating them.
Following more than three weeks of protest marches, the opposition
planned to boycott Tuesday's session of the Federal Parliament in
Belgrade.
Christopher's words were echoed by French Foreign Minister Herve de
Charette, who said NATO "must make clear to the Serb leaders that we are
not ready to accept the continuation of behavior contrary to the
universally accepted rules of democracy."
Will Russia join in?
Christopher was due to meet in Brussels later on Tuesday with Russian
Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov in an attempt to swing Moscow, which
has traditionally taken a pro-Serbian stance, behind international
condemnation of Belgrade.
In Washington, officials said the United States was ratcheting up
pressure on Milosevic to talk to the opposition by canceling a meeting
between the Serbian president and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State John
Kornblum.
They said Kornblum had been scheduled to meet Milosevic in Belgrade
later this week after the NATO meeting but decided to call it off.
"We're cutting (Milosevic) off little by little," said one official,
adding that Kornblum was "doing it because he doesn't think it's useful
to talk to Milosevic at this particular moment ... It's in reaction to
recent events, absolutely."
Copyright 1996 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
(c) 1996 Cable News Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Guardian Tuesday 10 December 1996
The Force that Milosevic fears
International criticism is important, but internal dissent vital.
The Serbian struggle has been drawn out and inconclusive, but it must
soon come to the crunch. At the end of last week, the opposition forces
thought they were celebrating a victory when their disputed election
result in Belgrade was referred to the supreme court. But the judges
found in favour of the governmetn ruling which had set aside last
month's victory by the Zajedno (Together) opposition coalition in the
local elections. A number of judges in the supreme and lower courts had
voiced support for the challenge, but the decision - reached with
indecent speed - betrayed the heavy hand of President Slobodan
Milosevic. The students may control the streets, but Slobo can still
manipulate the seats. The only hope now lies in a subsequent move by the
city's electoral commission to appeal against the ruling. This could
give Mr Milosevic another chance to defuse the crisis while quietly
giving ground. The danger is that he is deliberately playing for time,
in the hope that the opposition will turn to outright violence - which
would then legitimise repressive measures. No one believes for a moment
that Mr Milosevic will ever go quietly. The effect of the Dayton
agreement was initially to strengthen, not weaken, his pretensions to
great leadership. Though the implicit objective of the war - to build a
Greater Serbia - had been lost (or at least postponed) Mr Milosevic was
able to present himself as a peace-maker, at least in part because the
Western powers felt obliged to treat him as such. His weakness arose
not from the acutal terms of the settlement, but from the evaporation of
an atmosphere of perpetual war crisis which had helped him to maintain
dictatorial power against all challengers. The current protest in the
streets is based on a coalition of student and inteligentsia calling for
free speech with a broader stratum of middle class opinion which
complains of public corruption and private hardship. Over the past
three weeks it has been an impressive performance,not least because of
its relative restraint (eggs and a few stones rather than firebombs or
worse). But it has failed to reach a critical mass comparable to that
of the Czech velvet revolution - to which it has nonetheless been
compared. The organisers are now threatening workers' strikes and
marches, but yesterday's protest at a Belgrade tractor factory failed
miserably when only a few hundred out of several thousands took part.
The international community is hovering outside this crisis uncertainly.
Mr Milosevic is the man who started the Bosnia tragedy: he is also the
man who finished it. In the opposition coalition, only Vuk Draskovic
appears fully committed to Dayton. But these calculations are futile in
a situation so full of uncertainties. In the end Mr Milosevic will
either be defeated or not by the internal forces against him.
International criticism of his action should be expressed fully and
forcefully.
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Fear Pervades Yugoslavia
By Jovana Gec
Associated Press Writer
Monday, December 9, 1996; 4:13 p.m. EST
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Their anger and poverty are great. Fear of
losing the little they have is even greater. Because of that, workers
have yet to join protests against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
The demonstrations entered their fourth week Monday, with more than
100,000 students and sympathizers rallying against the annulment of a
Nov. 17 opposition election victory. Dissident leaders announced a
boycott of Tuesday's opening session of a new federal parliament.
The anti-government protesters also vented their fury at the arrest and
beating of a young demonstrator, one of 40 detained by authorities in
the past week.
Dejan Bulatovic was arrested after a demonstration in which he perched
on a jeep near an effigy of Milosevic dressed in a prison outfit. His
mother, Ljiljana, said the 21-year-old, who suffers from asthma, had his
nose broken during interrogation.
The demonstrations represent the most serious challenge to the
autocratic Serbian president since he came to power in 1987. Workers'
participation is crucial because they may be the only force that can
seriously shake Milosevic.
But efforts by independent union leaders to organize a general strike
thus far have been met with a timid response.
Several hundred people gathered at Belgrade's IMT engine and tractor
factory to demand better living and working conditions. But they refused
to leave the factory gates for a planned march Monday to the Serbian
government building.
Union leaders said workers were afraid of losing their jobs and minimal
salaries.
"The fear is immense," Dragoljub Matic, an independent union official
said. "This is the first time that we can't get workers to walk out of
the factories."
In shabby clothes, hardship etched in their faces, most of the workers
refused to talk to reporters. Some even hid their faces from cameras.
Others said they feared being used as tools in a political struggle.
Unlike the protesters who jam downtown streets every day, they say their
demands are purely economic.
"We are here because we have nothing to eat. We don't care about
politics," said Zarko Jokic, a 47-year-old father of two who earns $50 a
month.
"I'm willing to go to the rallies ... but I don't want to be led around
like a sheep," added Djordje Bozanic.
The workers accuse the government of squandering vast sums of money,
destroying the economy and reducing people's daily existence to a bare
minimum.
Sanctions imposed to punish Milosevic's role in instigating war in
Croatia and Bosnia as well as economic mismanagement have sent the
economy into a deep nosedive. Milosevic has shown no interest in ending
state control of the economy.
Out of 4,500 employees, only about 1,000 still have their jobs at the
IMT factory. The rest are on paid leave. Many workers across Serbia got
by under sanctions with small-time smuggling, and now are involved in
selling cigarettes on the street or other activities.
That makes it hard for union leaders to organize them.
"No one knows where they are," said Milan Nikolic, head of the
metalworkers' section of the Independence trade union organization.
The demonstrations in Belgrade have been mostly peaceful, and Milosevic
has taken little action to stop them, apparently hoping they would
fizzle out by themselves.
But his politically powerful wife, Mirjana Markovic, spoke out Monday,
echoing the state-run media's criticism of the protesters. "Brutality on
the streets is not the way to solve economic and social questions," she
said on Serbian TV.
The police beating of the protester was a sign that Milosevic was trying
to frighten his opponents.
Bulatovic's mother told independent radio station B 92 that she visited
her son in prison. She said his nose was broken, and he told her he had
a pistol barrel stuck into his mouth during the interrogation.
She said he was beaten and was lying naked, shivering, in front of a
window left open to the cold winter air. Authorities said Bulatovic
would be taken to the hospital. Lawyer Nikola Barovic said he had been
told he would be allowed to visit his client Tuesday.
About 30,000 students protested the police action. Later, about 100,000
opposition party supporters marched in downtown Belgrade.
The United States condemned the beating of Bulatovic and said renewed
economic sanctions against Milosevic's government were possible.
"Milosevic's position at the present time is self-defeating and he
should recognize the importance of accepting the election results,"
Secretary of State Warren Christopher said in Brussels.
Opposition leader Zoran Djindjic called for negotiations, but said
Milosevic first had to accept the election results and the independent
media, which he briefly shut down last week before relenting.
"This political crisis can be solved ultimately only by the fall of this
regime, and temporarily only if we reach a political agreement (on) how
to prepare the legal change of the regime," Djindjic said.
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Serbian's Foes Are a Varied Lot
By John Pomfret
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, December 10, 1996; Page A01
BELGRADE, Dec. 9 -- Wrapped in toasty mink or shivering in threadbare
jean jackets, dreaming of Greater Serbia, democracy or just a decent
wage, the people of Belgrade pour out onto the streets each day to
protest against the government of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
A disparate band of students, Belgrade's once-prosperous middle class
and, lately, some workers have trudged peacefully through the broad
boulevards in the center of the city for 22 days straight, tooting
whistles and kazoos in a boisterous stream. A few are obviously
untouched by the economic collapse that has lowered the average standard
of living in Yugoslavia to the level of Ghana. But most have been ruined
by the five-year-old financial collapse, scratching by on salaries of
$40 a month.
Whatever their motives, since they took to the streets following the
overturning of the Nov. 17 municipal elections, the marchers have
attracted worldwide attention and mounted the most sustained challenge
to Milosevic's rule since he took the helm of the Serbian Communist
Party in 1987. Their protests, although unfocused beyond opposition to
the president, have reminded Europe and the United States that the
Balkans have other problems besides the conflict in nearby Bosnia.
The failure of the opposition's Together coalition to unite the manifold
groups opposing Milosevic is its greatest weakness so far. Students
protest in the late morning and have refused to join their march with an
opposition demonstration starting three hours later. Sporadic strikes
have erupted in factories but no union chief appears eager to join the
march.
Some marchers, the Serb nationalists, march because they believe
Milosevic abandoned a quest to unite all Serbs in one state and sold out
Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia when he signed the Dayton peace plan a year
ago. Others walk because they wanted nothing of the war and such racism
and mourn that the soul of their country was left sickened by the war.
They desire liberal democracy, free markets and peace.
The sole unifying theme of political discourse on these dark, noisy
streets is opposition to Milosevic, his ambitious wife, Mirjana
Markovic, and their political machine. It is his authoritarian style and
her fascination with reintroducing communism that provoke resentment.
Corruption within the ruling circle -- a band of Socialist Party
businessmen who control state-run companies and profit from smuggling
and inside deals -- inspires hate.
Trembling in a tattered leather jacket, Radovan Milanovic turned his
collar up against today's wintry chill and began marching. At 3 p.m.
each day since Nov. 20, he said, he has gathered with other protesters
at the opposition Democratic Party headquarters and walked wherever
opposition political chiefs led him. Walking does him good, he said,
because otherwise he would freeze.
Milanovic, 42, a father of three, is one of Yugoslavia's unlucky ones.
Before war erupted in 1991, he worked in a coffee shop and made enough
to support his family in Bresevo, a small town on the border with
Macedonia.
Then, like thousands of other men, he was drafted and sent to fight in
Croatia as part of Milosevic's attempt to annex a chunk of that country
as it seceded from prewar Yugoslavia. Milanovic battled Croatian forces
around Vukovar in November 1991, participated in the capture of that
city, got shot in the leg and came home.
While at the front, he lost his job. His leg wound made it hard for him
to get other work. The Yugoslav army was not paying veterans' benefits
because Milosevic never acknowledged he was participating in the war.
Empty coffers at home forced Milanovic to sell the family car. But that
$1,000 was spent a long time ago.
He and his three children, his wife and his parents now live jammed into
his father's two-room apartment in Bresevo. Their sole income is his
father's pension of $76 a month.
"I should be supporting him, not him supporting me," Milanovic said,
obviously ashamed.
Like many in the crowd, Milanovic voted for Milosevic after the
president journeyed to Kosovo in southern Serbia in 1987 and embraced
Serb nationalism in a historic speech.
"But he pushed us into all this misery," Milanovic said. "He and his
wife are but con men, swindlers. They believe in nothing."
Despite his sentiments against Milosevic, Milanovic said he has little
love for Together, the coalition of five opposition parties that has
headed the protests. "I'm marching for my children and for a decent
wage," he said. "Just give me a job and I'll leave all this politics to
somebody else."
Rosa Krstic bought her mink coat in London several years ago. The
schoolteacher and her engineer husband, Branko, had gone there on
vacation to celebrate their retirement. Today, in her fur coat, a
fox-fur hat and fox-fur shawl, she admitted being quite comfortable
despite the winter chill.
"We don't lack anything in our house," Rosa said, absent-mindedly
patting a shiny pocketbook as she strolled among the marchers. "We are
doing fine."
Krstic and her husband demonstrated today for something that has nothing
to do with bread, jobs or money. They marched for Dejan Bulatovic and
democracy.
Bulatovic, 21, is a student who allegedly was tortured by Serbian police
Friday after they arrested him. His offense was that he carried a
plastic-foam effigy of Milosevic dressed in prison garb. For that he was
beaten, according to his mother, and sentenced to 25 days in jail.
"Sure, I have a comfortable life," Rosa Krstic said, "but I can't really
be comfortable when we see others around us with no freedom, suffering
economically, with no hope and no future."
The couple both contend Milosevic overturned victories of the Together
coalition in the local elections Nov. 17. Together claimed that
Milosevic stole their victories in 14 of Yugoslavia's 19 biggest cities
-- including Belgrade and Nis, a major industrial center 160 miles south
of the capital.
"Milosevic won't allow a peaceful transition of power," Branko Krstic
said. "Until he does, we will walk."
Shuffling side to side in front of the Industrial Machine and Tractor
Factory in a Belgrade suburb today, Trifon was nervous. He did not want
to give his last name. "You're not cops, are you?" one of his friends
asked two reporters. The middle-aged factory worker had just gone on
strike with several hundred other workers at the plant. But he had no
plans to join the protest in the city's center.
Trifon's demands, like those from the other workers in his union, have
little to do with politics. In the past 12 months he has been paid only
five times, he said, totaling about $90.
Asked whether he supported the protests unfolding several miles away,
Aleksander Stojiljkovic, Trifon's union chief, said he would rather not
say. "It's a private thing," he added. "Besides, this strike has got
nothing to do with politics. These are labor and social demands."
At 20, Goran Karadzic said he should be feeling "hopeful, optimistic --
whatever you want to call those feelings a man my age should have."
Instead, the medical student feels that living in Yugoslavia today is
like inhabiting a blind alley. Most of his 25-year-old sister's friends
have left the country. Most of his friends want to leave, too. "This
place sucks," he said, spitting out the words.
So each day for the last 22, Karadzic has marched with his classmates to
express disgust with the Milosevic regime.
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U.S., NATO Allies Criticize Serbian President
By Barry Schweid
AP Diplomatic Writer
Tuesday, December 10, 1996; 7:43 p.m. EST
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- In his sharpest criticism of Serbian President
Slobodan Milosevic, Secretary of State Warren Christopher said Tuesday
that ``there is no place in the Europe we are trying to build for an
unreformed dictatorship.''
He was backed by the 15 other NATO foreign ministers who, in a separate
statement, said they were ``dismayed that the Serbian authorities have
ignored the calls of the international community to respect
internationally recognized democratic principles.''
The ministers specifically deplored a decision by the Serbian government
to annul results of the Nov. 17 municipal elections and called on it to
reverse the decision.
And President Clinton added his voice. Asked in Washington what he would
say to Milosevic, Clinton replied: ``That elections should be respected,
and that the voice of the people should be heard, and that the human,
political and civil rights of the people should be respected.''
``The United States has made its statement and its position clear,''
Clinton said. ``Neither we, nor anyone else, would seek to interfere in
the internal events in Serbia. But our sympathies are always with free
people who are struggling to express their freedom and want to have the
integrity of their elections respected.''
Christopher also was backed by French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette
who, in a speech to the North Atlantic Council, said ``we must clearly
make it known to the Serbian leadership that we are not prepared to
accept the continued conduct that is contrary to universally accepted
rules of democracy.''
Charette said the allies ``must send them a clear sign of condemnation''
for cancelling the election results and ``our condemnation of the
attitude of the government toward opposition demonstrations.''
Christopher also asked Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov to join
in the condemnation, but Primakov took no stand during an 80-minute
meeting Tuesday night.
In Washington, the State Department moved to further isolate Milosevic
by announcing that Assistant Secretary of State John Kornblum, the
administration's point man on implementing the Bosnian peace accords,
would bypass the Serbian capital during his coming tour of the region.
``His plans are to go to the region, but not to go to Belgrade,''
department spokesman Glyn Davies said Tuesday. ``Given the current
situation in Serbia and the government's continuing refusal to accept
the results of the elections, he decided it would not be appropriate to
go to Belgrade at this time.''
Christopher has gradually intensified his criticism of Milosevic since
coming here Monday for his ninth and last meeting of NATO's top
policy-making body. Christopher is stepping down next month.
He said his remarks, however, applied to any country that did not
respect democratic principles. He called his statement one of ``sheer
reality.''
Besides the cancellation of election results, Milosevic is under U.S.
attack for declining to meet with opposition leaders and for closing two
radio stations. Christopher on Monday threatened to reimpose economic
sanctions against Serbia.
The sanctions were relaxed after Milosevic cooperated last year in the
U.S.-led effort to negotiate a settlement of the ethnic conflict in
Bosnia that pitted Serbia-backed Serb rebels against Muslims and Croats.
Christopher, in his speech Tuesday to the Council, said ``we join in
condemning the Serbian government's decision to ignore the results of
the Nov. 17 elections. That decision must be reversed. The people of
Serbia deserve what their neighbors in Central Europe have: clean
elections.''
The Council, meanwhile, approved sending a new peacekeeping force to
Bosnia next year. The mandate of the current force expires Dec. 20.
An 18-month mission is planned for some 25,000 to 30,000 troops, to be
reviewed at six and 12-month intervals with the aim of progressively
reducing its size. Some 8,500 U.S. troops may be included.
NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana said its role would not be
different, but Christopher said ``we will be seeking means to be more
effective'' in apprehending war crimes suspects.
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Life Goes on in Yugoslavia
By Mark J. Porubcansky
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, December 10, 1996; 4:07 p.m. EST
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- In part of Belgrade, thousands of people
rally daily in hope of forcing political change. In another part,
thousands struggle just to survive.
The merchants of Belgrade's huge outdoor market sell about everything:
"Babie" dolls, cheap imitations of "Barbie." Miracle ointments. Bolts
and screws. Their jackets sport misspelled slogans like "America --
Uinted States" or the names of nonexisting sports teams: the Chicago
Tigers or the Indiana Hawks.
Like the protesters, the market workers have grievances against Slobodan
Milosevic, president of the Serb republic that makes up most of postwar
Yugoslavia. Unlike the protesters, they doubt things can ever change.
They don't want to hear, much less talk, about politics.
The opposition -- mostly intellectuals, students and urbanites -- is
trying to build a movement strong enough to force Milosevic from power.
It has yet to reach merchants, farmers and laborers, and it isn't clear
how it ever will.
On Tuesday, the usual 100,000 protesters jammed the center of Belgrade,
in the fourth week of protests that started after Milosevic annulled
Nov. 17 elections the opposition had won.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down yet another appeal to reinstate
the opposition's victory. The Belgrade election commission, which
appealed the annulment, gave up and certified the election results
giving Milosevic's Socialists a majority. Opposition legislators
boycotted the inaugural session of the new Yugoslav parliament.
At the same time, Belgrade's market was in full swing.
Native Belgraders mixed with Gypsies and Serb refugees -- reminders of
the wars Milosevic instigated in Croatia and Bosnia. Among them were
people like 48-year-old Mirjana Mandic, whose middle-class life has
disintegrated.
Bundled in an orange hat and a multicolored fleece jacket, Mandic waited
for customers for her belts. The market was jammed, but -- as usual --
sales were slow.
On an average day she makes about $10, her contribution toward
supporting her husband and 13-year-old daughter. "It's miserly and
demeaning," she said.
She once was a clerk for a machinery company in Belgrade. But when war
started in 1991, her job ended because the company's factories were in
Yugoslav republics that seceded. She was put on paid leave of $60 a
month.
Her husband was put on paid leave, too. He now does odd jobs. Between
them, they bring in about $400 a month, far below prewar standards but
pretty good for today.
Will things get better?
"Not with this government," she said. "They took everything away from
us."
And yet Mandic has not joined the opposition, nor will she talk in
detail about politics.
Many workers are afraid to protest, because they fear losing the little
they have or because of the danger of outright repression. Many
merchants are afraid to protest, too. The outdoor market is illegal but
tolerated because it provides an outlet for commerce and income.
Merchants know it could be closed any time.
Yugoslavia's economy has been crippled by sanctions imposed as
punishment for Milosevic's instigation of the wars in Croatia and Bosnia
and by years of Communist mismanagement. More than half the industrial
workers here are idle, and Milosevic has shown no interest in
privatizing the economy.
The sanctions encouraged smuggling and small-scale trade. It seems that
everyone has something to sell -- and many sell at the market.
Opposition leader Vuk Draskovic has urged the poor to join the movement
to dump Milosevic. All they have to lose, he said Monday, is their
miserable incomes.
Union organizers are trying to get workers to join the protests, too.
But the very fact that laborers are idle -- and not gathered at
workplaces -- makes them hard to locate and organize.
In addition, many workers are suspicious of the political opposition,
because of its roots in the intelligentsia and because of its history of
infighting and of changing platforms just to contradict Milosevic.
Another influence is the state-controlled media, which has vilified the
opposition for years.
One independent trade union leader, Milan Nikolic, said people are
reluctant to join the protests because they are overwhelmed by recent
turmoil, from the breakup of Yugoslavia to the loss of their jobs.
"People are trying to clarify for themselves what's going on," Nikolic
said.
Petar, a 65-year-old retiree who sells tools in the market, says he
distrusts the opposition because he thinks it is controlled by
Milosevic's Socialists. Like many elderly, he has more faith in the
students who also protest in Belgrade.
Petar, who would not give his last name, said he makes about $170 a
month in the market, about the same amount as his pension. The money
goes to support him and his wife, and their daughters, who have low
salaries.
He says it will take years to change Serbia: "But I won't live to see
it."
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The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition -- December 10, 1996
Editorial
The World Is Watching
Slobodan Milosevic has tried everything short of force to convince the
throngs of pro-democratic Serbs to give up and go home. But while he can
order his broadcasters to tune out the demonstrators, there's not much
he can do about the steady flow of pictures and reports being
transmitted across the globe by satellites, reporters and the Internet.
The days are disappearing when dictators could chop down people in a
forest without anyone hearing.
For nearly three weeks now, Serbs have braved bitter weather in
unprecedented numbers to protest the mess Mr. Milosevic has made of
their country and the annulment of democratic elections Nov. 17, in
which the opposition won victories in many of the country's largest
cities. Mr. Milosevic now seems to be betting that with worsening
weather conditions and a few strategic concessions, the demonstrators
will leave the streets, and Serbia's lately united opposition leaders
will go back to bickering. He may have overplayed his hand.
It was so much easier for him to blur the line between aggressor and
victim amid the ethnic complexities and historic baggage mixed up in the
bloodshed in Bosnia. This time, though, Mr. Milosevic isn't
outmaneuvering poorly armed Muslim defenses fighting his proxy forces.
Nor do the millions of viewers around the world who've seen broadcasts
of the demonstrations--and recall now-historic images of similar
protests across Eastern Europe in 1989 and 1990--buy the official line
from Belgrade's Soviet-style state television that these protesters are
hooligans and fascists. No, for anyone who believes in democratic
freedoms, this one is an easy call.
Of course there's always a big open question: the nature of support from
Western nations who've gotten used to their democratic freedoms. The
attention these Serbian protesters received from the world's media has
prompted startled Western governments to belatedly demand the
restoration of the opposition victory.
Mr. Milosevic has played this game before. As he has done in the past,
he set about last week testing the waters to determine how serious the
West is this time about democracy in Serbia. Mr. Milosevic allowed the
banned Radio B-92 back on the air Thursday evening. He also promised
that the country's unfree Constitutional Court would review the election
outcome and that arrears in student grants and pensions would be paid.
But with little more than strongly worded demarches from Washington and
London, the Court has so far upheld the government's annulment of the
elections. The opposition has correctly gauged that unless pressure from
the outside increases, Mr. Milosevic won't feel sufficiently threatened
to allow democratic forces a foot in the door. They will lose.
All of this of course presents an opportunity for the Clinton
Administration's new foreign policy team. The Administration's past
policy has consisted of "safeguarding" peace in Bosnia, for which it
considers the Serbian strongman's cooperation the key, while not
appearing to endorse the authoritarian regime in Belgrade. Diplomacy has
never been an altogether tidy business; sometimes, to be sure, one deals
with scoundrels. But the forced grins on the faces of those
Administration officials unlucky enough to be photographed with Mr.
Milosevic clearly betray the insidiousness of a policy that awarded the
aggressor not just the spoils of victory, but also the legitimization of
the world's democracies.
The pressure of press conference demarches won't be enough. Mirko
Klarin, foreign correspondent for Belgrade's independent paper Nasa
Borba put it to us bluntly Sunday: "I consider that the opening of
intelligence files on Milosevic would be the single, most important
contribution the West could make to the peace process in Bosnia and
democratization in Serbia." The war crimes tribunal in The Hague is
convinced that Western intelligence gathering during the war in Bosnia
has yielded up a wealth of information linking Slobodan Milosevic
directly to the Bosnian Serbs who carried out the bulk of the war's
atrocities, as well as to paramilitary leaders in Serbia, such as Zeljko
Raznatovic, better known as the brutal Arkan.
Mr. Clinton and his new foreign policy team have the opportunity here to
recognize the currents of history. The opportunity is the unequivocal
demonstration from the Serb people that they no longer support a leader
who suppresses the freedom of information and steals democratic
elections while the whole world is watching.
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Serbian opposition loses challenge to nullified elections
December 10, 1996
Web posted at: 8:45 p.m. EST
From Correspondent Brent Sadler
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- Despite protests in the center of Belgrade
that have now lasted for 23 days, the Yugoslav Federal Supreme Court
rejected an appeal Tuesday to reinstate opposition victories in last
month's municipal elections.
Enraged at the court's decision, student demonstrators brandished copies
of the Serbian constitution, hoping to attract the attention of judges.
"They behave like people who've never seen the constitution, let alone
read it," said one student.
The protesters were left unanswered. Nobody inside the court came out.
The series of anti-government protests have broken new ground in their
strength and duration. On Friday, the crowd peaked as 100,000 people
participated in the mostly peaceful protests; nearly that many protested
on Tuesday.
An opposition coalition claimed results from the November 17 elections
show it won control of 15 of Serbia's 18 biggest towns, including
Belgrade.
But opposition leaders are acutely aware that their best chance of
success lies more in increased international pressure on President
Slobodan Milosevic than in their own actions.
"We have unmasked him as a leader who cannot face up to any political loss."
-- Zoran Djinjic, opposition leader
U.S., NATO warn against Serbian dictatorship
Milosevic is weathering the storm of protest by shrugging off the
opposition as little more than an irritant. But the United States has
warned him that if he intends to govern Serbia through unreformed
dictatorship, there will be a price to pay.
Already, the United States canceled a visit to Belgrade by U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State John Kornblum.
Moves to follow could include tougher economic measures against Serbia,
a nation hit hard by a trade embargo for its role in the long-running
Balkans conflict.
In Brussels, NATO countries joined in condemning Serbia for overturning
the November municipal election results.
In a statement, the 16 NATO members said, "We are dismayed that the
Serbian authorities have ignored the calls of the international
community to respect internationally recognized democratic principles."
Following the statement U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher spoke
against the Serbian government's actions. "We made it very clear today
that the nations of the former Yugoslavia can rejoin Europe only as
open, democratic societies."
But the Belgrade Electoral Commission, confirming the Supreme Court's
ruling, said the case was closed.
Opposition boycotts parliament session
Meanwhile, the Serbian parliament, the Chamber of Citizens, opened its
doors for a new session. Opposition members, who hold 22 seats,
boycotted the session. The parliament is dominated by parties loyal to
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic; the opposition intended its
absence to undermine the passage of parliamentary business.
In reality, their presence makes little difference.
Since the opposition has been shut out as well from the state-influenced
mass media, it is trying a new tactic. Members of the coalition mounted
a huge television screen outside opposition headquarters.
From that television, passersby can watch international news coverage of
the government challenge -- a challenge that much of the world supports,
but which Milosevic still seems to ignore.
(c) 1996 Cable News Network, Inc.
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Thursday December 12, 1996 Edition
Deference, Apathy Keep Many in Serbia Away From Protests
Paul Wood, Special to The Christian Science Monitor
BELGRADE -- Steaming bowls of traditional Serbian bean stew are ladled
out at a Red Cross kitchen in Serbia's capital, Belgrade. An elderly
woman named Katarina waits patiently in line. Her meager state pension
can't buy even basic necessities - and anyway it hasn't been paid for
months.
Katarina's dire financial situation reflects that of many of the 100,000
Belgrade residents who've taken to the streets to criticize socialist
President Slobodan Milosevic. But unlike them, she refuses to protest.
And in this city of 2 million, she is in the majority.
Milosevic's waiting game
It is the unwillingness to protest that frustrates the opposition and
bolsters Mr. Milosevic as he tries to quietly wait out the storm that
has raged for the past three weeks.
"I don't blame our president," Katarina says. "There were sanctions.
Things have been difficult for a long time." Like others dependent on
charities like this Red Cross kitchen, she voted for Milosevic's
socialist party in local elections, which the opposition says it won.
The results were annulled by authorities, sparking the protests.
About 30,000 people in Serbia and the southern province of Montenegro
get their only warm meals from soup kitchens, says a study for
International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and
the Yugoslav Red Cross.
"At least 75,000 people would be using soup kitchens if they could admit
their own poverty," the Dnevni Telegraf newspaper reported recently,
quoting the study.
The report estimates that some 3 million people - a third of the
population - live in poverty in Serbia. Annual earnings were $3,000 in
1990, but are now estimated at $1,500. Unemployment is at least 50
percent, annual inflation is 100 percent.
But ordinary Serbs do not blame the governing socialists. It is the
international community, the opposition - anyone but Milosevic.
The socialists' support holds up nationwide, while opposition successes
in the local elections have been confined to the cities, where young,
educated, and middle class people vote for them.
The opposition has tried, and failed, to get organized labor to join the
mass demonstrations.
They organized a recent photo opportunity for the international media at
a tractor factory in Belgrade where the independent trade unions were
organizing a strike.
But it was an embarrassing flop. Only about 50 workers, out of more than
1,000 at the factory, arrived. They were outnumbered by journalists.
Union official Radisa Ristic was in despair, especially because wages in
the factory had gone unpaid for five months.
"I really don't know why they don't come out," he said. "I don't
understand it. Even after one month without wages they should be on
strike. They are expecting the union to fix things with the government
without doing anything themselves."
People's fear of losing jobs - or worse, of violent repression - as well
as a deferential communist-era mentality that shies away from public
dissent, have frustrated the opposition. Also, Milosevic's sudden
repayment of overdue pensions and back wages has mollified some
citizens.
The socialists' grip on the state media - which has a virtual monopoly
in Serbia - has also held the opposition back.
Night after night, state television - which ignored the protests at
first - describes the demonstrators as thugs and hooligans.
Highly selective shots play down the numbers of protesters and play up
the small rowdy element. Asked their impression of protesters, ordinary
Serbs often simply parrot the vitriolic TV commentary of the previous
night.
Without other options, the opposition continues with the massive daily
street demonstrations, though the size of its crowds isn't increasing.
World pressure growing But while there is little growing support for the
opposition at home, Milosevic is drawing increasing international
criticism, especially from the United States.
At American urging, economic sanctions against Serbia are back on the
agenda, though they are not very likely to be imposed because of French,
British, and Russian opposition.
President Clinton said Tuesday that in Serbia "the voice of the people
should be heard." And American Secretary of State Warren Christopher
warned Milosevic that Serbia could not be ruled as an "unreformed
dictatorship."
Copyright 1996 The Christian Science Publishing Society.
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:: CNN
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Workers join Belgrade demonstrations
December 11, 1996
Web posted at: 2:00 p.m. EST (1900 GMT)
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (Reuter) -- Independent trade union leaders said
Wednesday that thousands of workers had joined street protests against
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Many other workers were frightened
of losing their jobs if they joined the protests, they said.
Leaders of the association of independent trade unions said 10,000
workers were taking part in the daily demonstrations that have carried
on for more than three weeks. Protesters are demonstrating against a
court decision to invalidate opposition victories in local elections.
Copyright 1996 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
(c) 1996 Cable News Network, Inc.
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:: Washington Post
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Milosevic Foes Charge Police Beat Actor; 100,000 March Again
By Dusan Stojanovic
Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, December 11, 1996; 7:18 p.m. EST
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Opponents of Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic accused police Wednesday of accosting a prominent actor on a
street corner, beating him unconscious and detaining him in an effort to
intimidate protesters.
The reports on the beating of Gojko Baletic surfaced as the opposition
struggled to maintain the momentum of more than three weeks of protests.
More than 100,000 people marched Wednesday to demand the ouster of
Milosevic, but the opposition seemed to be making no headway.
The opposition coalition Zajedno, or Together, quoted witnesses as
saying Baletic, a member of the National Theater, was beaten by four
policemen, lost consciousness, and was handcuffed and bundled into a
police car.
The coalition said Baletic had taken part in protests, and was scheduled
to address a rally in Serbia's second-largest city, Nis, on Thursday.
After 21-year-old protester Dejan Bulatovic was arrested and beaten over
the weekend, it was clear that police wanted "to scare the citizens by
beating up the demonstrators," the opposition said in a statement.
The coalition said its lawyers were seeking his release. Police would
not comment on the beating report.
Even before the news of the latest alleged beating, some of the
protesters, who have been marching peacefully for 22 days against
Milosevic, were getting frustrated.
"We can march like this for years, but it doesn't seem to work," said
Slavoljub Visnjic, a bus driver. "I'm starting to think this is
worthless. He can be ousted only by violence."
An opposition leader acknowledged the difficulty of the task.
"We are like a swimmer in the middle of a river," said Zoran Djindjic.
"We cannot go back, as there awaits us the last Communist regime in
Europe. We can only swim across, despite the risk of drowning."
Milosevic has remained quiet throughout the protests -- the largest
against him since he came to power in 1987 -- hoping they will fizzle as
they have in the past.
Diplomats and the independent Nedeljni Telegraf weekly said that U.S.
and British diplomats in Belgrade have secretly intervened, but have
failed to reach a compromise.
They said Milosevic offered to hold new local elections. Opposition
victories Nov. 17 were annulled by courts Milosevic controls, triggering
the daily protests and an opposition boycott.
Milosevic's Socialists won in repeat voting. The opposition rejected the
idea of repeating the elections a second time because it would mean
relinquishing its victory in the first election.
A diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a somber Milosevic
showed no sign he was willing to return the election victory.
Milosevic has begun using state media to play on nationalist sentiment.
It's not the massive propaganda Milosevic used to consolidate power in
the late 1980s and instigate wars in Croatia in 1991 and Bosnia in 1992,
but it pushes some of the same buttons.
Playing on deep distrust of Albanians, pro-Milosevic newspapers claim
the opposition is funded by ethnic Albanian drug traffickers, and serves
U.S. interests to keep Serbia weak. The message has been reinforced on
state TV, the source of news for most Serbs.
There haven't been many nationalists among the protesters, and Milosevic
apparently wants to keep them at home.
Nationalism is still strong in Serbia: The ultranationalist Radical
Party of Vojislav Seselj won almost as many votes as the anti-Communist
opposition coalition in separate national elections earlier in November.
On Tuesday, the banner headline in a new weekly government tabloid was:
"The CIA is carrying out its plan: Albanian mafia is financing the
demonstrations."
Wednesday, Politika Ekspres claimed the United States wanted to make
Serbia weak so it would be easier to deal with Serbs in Bosnia and
Croatia and force a solution to the Serb conflict with the ethnic
Albanian majority in Kosovo province.
The protesters in Belgrade on Wednesday cheered news -- relayed by the
opposition, but ignored by state media -- that President Clinton on
Tuesday condemned Milosevic over the elections.
(c) Copyright 1996 The Associated Press
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:: Miami Herald
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Published Wednesday, December 11, 1996, in the Miami Herald
Legal challenge to Yugoslav elections fails
By JOVANA GEC
Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Yugoslavia's highest court Tuesday rejected an
appeal by the opposition, leaving anti-government opponents fuming that
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic had stolen their election victory.
Even before the verdict by the federal Supreme Court was made public,
more than 100,000 demonstrators packed Belgrade in continuing protests
over Milosevic's annulment of Nov. 17 local election gains by the
opposition.
Students and opposition party organizers booed and chanted ``Red
Bandits!'' and ``Thieves!'' as they marched past the federal parliament
building.
The federal court ruling, made public by electoral commission officials,
had been expected, following similar decisions by Milosevic supporters
in the lower courts.
Still, it further inflames the struggle against Serbia's strongman by
eliminating the opposition's last legal recourse and giving them few
options but demonstrations or confrontation with police.
While the protests were going on Tuesday, opposition legislators
boycotted a new session of the Yugoslav parliament.
The federal parliament, elected in November before the local balloting,
is dominated by Milosevic's Socialists and the United Left party of his
politically powerful wife, Mirjana Markovic. The Zajedno opposition
coalition holds 22 of the 138 seats.
In a sign of support for Zajedno's deputies, 16 opposition deputies from
Montenegro -- the smaller partner of Serbia in what remains of the
Yugoslav federation -- also left the parliament session along with
several deputies of small ethnic parties.
``All those who think democratically left the session,'' Montenegro's
opposition leader, Novak Kilibarda, said. The only ones who stayed were
the parties led by Milosevic and his wife, and ultra-nationalist
sympathizers.
Opposition leaders spoke of a continuing struggle Monday night, in
apparent anticipation of the Supreme Court ruling.
``For us, these elections are not finished yet,'' Zoran Djindjic, leader
of the opposition Democratic Party, told a rally. ``Their results are
not legal.''
His coalition partner, Vuk Draskovic of the Serbian Renewal Movement,
demanded that Milosevic ``recognize the election will of the people.''
Federal Police Minister Vukasin Jokanovic, attending the parliament
session, warned of force if the demonstrations turn violent.
``If the demonstrators use force, it would be natural for the police to
intervene to protect our property,'' Jokanovic said.
Copyright (c) 1996 The Miami Herald
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Serbian Opposition Turns to Unions for Backing
December 11, 1996, 5:25 PM EST
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (Reuter) - An organized group of workers joined
street protests against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic Wednesday
for the first time since marches began 24 days ago, independent trade
union leaders said.
Leaders of the association of independent trade unions said some 10,000
workers had been taking part in daily student and opposition rallies
after Milosevic's ruling Socialists annulled local elections won by the
opposition.
``We were also here before (as individuals) but for the first time
today we are here in an organized way,'' association president Rade
Radovanovic told Reuters.
Thousands of workers marched behind a trade union banner in a show of
unity that Radovanovic said would shake Milosevic and his deputies.
The West has supported demonstrations by up to 150,000 people a day in
Belgrade but the mainly middle class protesters have failed to attract
significant support from workers.
Independent unions claimed some of their 40,000 members in Belgrade had
begun strike action citing the alleged election fraud among their
grievances along with demands for pay.
``It is an old Communist belief that when the workers come out against
you, you are finished,'' Radovanovic said.
The union support arrived as the marches appeared to be losing
momentum.
The Zajedno (Together) coalition of opposition parties has been able to
draw crowds of up to 150,000, but over the past few days the numbers
have appeared to decline as the marches settled into a predictable
routine with few new developments.
Observers estimated that about 80,000 people attended Wednesday's
demonstration.
Zajedno accused Milosevic's police of trying to scare demonstrators
with a campaign of detentions and beatings after a well-known actor was
arrested following the protest.
It quoted witnesses who said 40-year-old Gojko Baletic from Belgrade's
National Theater was knocked unconscious in a beating by four policemen.
The opposition and Baletic's family said they had no idea where he was
being detained.
``The authorities don't know what they're playing with,'' Baletic's
father-in-law Dragan Nikitovic told Reuters. ``All demonstrations start
for harmless reasons, but actions like this can set off a chain
reaction.''
``Desperate people are brave people. There is no special force, nothing
that can stop the eruption.''
Zajedno Tuesday lost its last legal appeal against the outcome of the
Nov. 17 elections, when the Yugoslav federal supreme court refused to
intervene.
Political sources said Zajedno urgently needed to find new ways of
keeping the momentum of its campaign to drive Milosevic from power, and
said Western pressure may be the key.
The United States and Europe have become increasingly vocal in their
condemnation of Milosevic's tactics, threatening unspecified measures if
he uses force to put down the marches.
In an interview with CBS Television, Secretary of State Warren
Christopher warned Milosevic that continuing his ``repressive,
undemocratic stance'' would doom his dreams of ties to the West.
``He really is turning his back on opportunities to join the West,
which I know is important to him,'' Christopher said.
He said the United States was considering reintroducing economic
sanctions. The United Nations imposed sanctions on Yugoslavia for 3 1/2
years for its role in the war in Bosnia.
The European Parliament also added its voice to cries of alarm, issuing
a strongly worded statement expressing deep concern about developments
in Yugoslavia.
(c) Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Slede vesti agencije Beta, datirane:
12.12.1996.
------------------------------->
vesti.809guta,
Poziv Beogradjanima na proslavu praznika
Sveti Nikola, Nova godina i Bozic na
ulici?
BEOGRAD - Lideri koalicije "Zajedno" pozvali su
gradjane Beograda i drugih gradova u Srbiji da 19.
decembra na ulicama proslave pravoslavnu slavu
Sveti Nikola, Novu godinu, Bozic "i sve praznike
do konacne demokratizacije zemlje". Vuk Draskovic,
Zoran Djindjic i Vesna Pesic pozvali su oko 80.000
Beogradjana na danasnjem, 22. protestu koalicije
zbog ponistavanja rezultata lokalnih izbora, da
izdrze jer imaju zadatak da u Srbiju uvedu
demokratiju.
[Beta]
vesti.810guta,
Studenti ponovo na ulicama
BEOGRAD - Osamnaestog dana mirnih protesta zbog
nepostovanja izborne volje gradjana oko 40.000
studenata beogradskog univerziteta prosetalo se do
sedista Saveza studenata Beograda i tamo ostavilo
poziv predstavnicima te organizacije da sutra
dodju na plato ispred Filozofskog fakulteta,
odbivsi da udju u zgradu SB, jer, "ono sto
predstavnici SB imaju da kazu delegaciji
studenata, isto mogu da izjave i desetinama
hiljada nasih kolega".
[Beta]
vesti.811guta,
Otvoreno pismo beogradskih studenata Miri Markovic
BEOGRAD - Studenti beogradskog Univerziteta
umetnosti uputili su otvoreno pismo predsednici
Direkcije JUL Miri Markovic povodom njene izjave o
"zloupotrebi dece u korist pojedinih stranaka" u
mirnim protestima studenata i gradjana u Beograd u
kojoj podsecaju na "manipulaciju dece i omladine
koje su partije levice svojevremeno upraznjavale".
Oni su uputili otvoreno pismo RTS i "Nezavisnoj
studentskoj organizaciji" u kojem im porucuju da
ce istrajati.
[Beta]
vesti.812guta,
Nastavljeni protesti u Nisu
NIS - Setnjom oko 15.000 ljudi najuzim centrom
grada, u Nisu je zavrsen 24. protest zbog
ponistavanja rezultata opstinskih izbora. Protest
je poceo u 15.30 sati kada je na glavnom gradskom
trgu prisutne pozdravio Risto Bukvic, kandidat
"Zajedno" koji je na izborima dobio vise glasova
od gradonacelnika Stojana Randjelovica.
[Beta]
vesti.813guta,
Pretucen glumac Gojko Baletic
BEOGRAD - Koalicija "Zajedno" je saopstila da je u
centru Beograda, posle prolaska studentske kolone,
"milicija pred gradjanima pretukla glumca Gojka
Baletica, a zatim ga odvela u nepoznatom pravcu".
[Beta]
Vest je kasnije potvrdio i Radio B92.
vesti.814guta,
Studenti demantuju navode "Njujork tajmsa"
BEOGRAD - Predsedavajuci Glavnog odbora
Studentskog protesta '96. Aleksandar Djukic
izjavio je agenciji Beta da je protest beogradskih
studenata gradjanski, a ne nacionalisticki, kako
je to napisao americki dnevnik "Njujork tajms".
[Beta]
vesti.815guta,
Zajedno" nema kontakte sa Vojskom Jugoslavije
BPODGORICA - Jedan od celnika koalicije "Zajedno"
Vesna Pesic izjavila je podgorickom nedeljniku
"Monitor" da ta koalicija nema kontakata sa
Vojskom Jugoslavije, jer je "vojni vrh potpuno
ideologiziran, korumpiran i u sluzbi rezima".
[Beta]
vesti.816guta,
Koalicija "Zajedno" branice narod "svim
sredstvima"
NIS - Potpredsednik Demokratske stranke Zoran
Zivkovic izjavio je da ce, ako se rezim odluci da
silom ugusi proteste, koalicija "Zajedno" stati u
odbranu naroda "svim sredstvima" i da je "pitanje
dana kada ce srpske vlasti pokusati da opravdane i
mirne proteste uguse oruzjem".
[Beta]
vesti.817guta,
Tijanic nije vise direktor BK televizije
"Danas sam se konacno dogovorio sa vlasnikom BK
kompanije, gospodinom Bogoljubom Karicem, oko
odlaska sa televizije BK Telekom. Nisam dozvolio
raspravu oko moje ostavke i ovo je moja odluka.
Vlasnik je ostavio da odluku donesem sam", izjavio
je Sasa Tijanic juce.
"Naime smatram da ce BK Telekom imati veci
manevarski prostor ako ja ne budem na ovoj
televiziji, iz prostog razloga sto mislim da bih
neko vreme mogao da sluzim kao gromobran i da
privlacim gromove.
Posle cinjenice da sam za 4 godine napravio,
mislim, dve najbolje srpske televizije po ocenama
i anketama i istrazivanjima javnog mnjenja, mislim
da je vreme da se posvetim svom privatnom poslu i
da malo radim za sebe."
vesti.818guta,
Ostale vesti
BEOGRAD - Pomocnik americkog drzavnog sekretara za
demokratiju, ljudska prava i rad, Dzon Satak
Izjavio je da uloga predsednika Srbije Slobodana
Milosevica u sprovodjenju Dejtonskog sporazuma
opada i da rukovodstvo srpskog entiteta u Bosni
sve vise deluje autonomno.
vesti.819guta,
NOVI SAD - Na protetsnom skupu oko 10.000
studenata receno je da se dosad prijavilo vise od
180 dobrovoljaca za "mars na Beograd".
vesti.820guta,
VALJEVO - Blizu 15.000 gradjana Valjeva
izaslo je na ulice grada da izrazi solidarnost sa
gradjanima Beograda i drugih gradova Srbije u
kojima su ponisteni rezultati drugog kruga
lokalnih izbora.
vesti.821guta,
BEOGRAD - Portparol Jugoslovenske levice
Aleksandar Vulin izjavio je za "Demokratiju" da i
opozicija i vlast "moraju nesto da daju da bi se
izaslo iz pat pozicije", naglasivsi da iznosi
"svoje privatno misljenje".