novine.1dejanr,
[odgovor na 13.42, spantic]
>> > Sinoć je ukinut JUTEL ...
>>
>> Bila bi lepa vest da ta prokleta stanica ipak nije obavila lep deo
>> prljavog posla.
Davno nisam gledao JUTEL (otkad su ga ovde što zabranili (TVB) što ukinuli
zbog neplaćenih računa (NTV)) tako da stvarno ne znam kakav je i koliki
prljav posao obavio. Ali zato znam da bi, ako bi se po pravdi ukidale
stanice koje obavljaju "prljav posao", trebalo početi od HTV, TVSRB itd.
Kad bi se nastavilo po spisku, uskoro ne bismo gledali dnevnike (sorry
vesna :)
novine.2dnikolic,
>> Bila bi lepa vest da ta prokleta stanica ipak nije obavila lep deo
>> prljavog posla.
U vreme dok sam gledao ( tj. mogao da gledam ) YUTEL nisam primetio nista
prljavo. Voleo bih da znam o cemu se radi? Verujem da je u pitanju samo ona
stara izreka " Istina uvek boli ".
dn
P.S. Samo kao se sazna naglo... ( dopuna dn )
novine.3balinda,
>>>> Bila bi lepa vest da ta prokleta stanica ipak nije
>>>> obavila lep deo prljavog posla.
>>
>> U vreme dok sam gledao ( tj. mogao da gledam ) YUTEL nisam
>> primetio nista prljavo. Voleo bih da znam o cemu se radi?
>> Verujem da je u pitanju samo ona stara izreka " Istina uvek
>> boli ".
Saglasan! Smatram da je u ono doba kada se YUTEL i nas direktno
ticao, on bio možda i najobjektivniji. (?) Sada čujem (spantic) da to
nije tako, pa bih voleo da znam da li je YUTEL naglo izgubio svoju
objektivnost ili je, po njegovom sudu, uvek tako bilo?
Ovo mi je važno da znam da li da, zbog ukidanja, žalim ili ne? ;)
novine.4vesna,
>> Kad bi se nastavilo po spisku, uskoro ne bismo gledali dnevnike
>> (sorry vesna :)
Ostavite mi bar Dnevnikov dodatak! :(
novine.5vkrstonosic,
>>>> Kad bi se nastavilo po spisku, uskoro ne bismo gledali dnevnike
>>>> (sorry vesna :)
>>
>> Ostavite mi bar Dnevnikov dodatak! :(
Problem je od kad su ukinuli onu divnu emisiji "24 časa". Može li
duže ;))
novine.6zqusovac,
> Smatram da je u ono doba kada se YUTEL i nas direktno ticao, on bio mozda
> i najobjektivniji.
Nazalost, iako ga zahvaljujuci narodnoj vlasti, demokratskoj upravi
televizije i oslobodjenim predajnicima odavno ne vidimo, ukidanje nepodobnih
medija sve ce nas se vise ticati.
novine.7.bale.,
Clanak iz "Independent"-a
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The bloodshed will continue as long as Germany
dominates EC foreign policy, argues Sir Alfred Sherman.
THE WORST IS YET TO COME IN BOSNIA
Writing in The Independent in 1988, I traced how the
imminent collapse of Communism in Yugoslavia would follow
ethnic fault lines and threaten the integrity of the Yugoslav
multinational state. Like many observers, I feared that
whatever the shortcomings of the Versailles creation, it's
disintegration was likely to lead to ethno-religious wars
generating mass blood-letting, which would feed on itself and
claim hundreds of thousands of innocent victims. And the
worst is yet to come.
Nato and the Western European Union ignored the
prospect, preferring to wait on events. Worse still, the
European Community chose Yugoslavia as an anvil on which to
hammer out its "common foreign policy", based less on raison
d'etat than on corporate egotism, designed to permit
politicians from Luxembourg, Italy, The Netherlands, and
Ireland to parade before the television cameras.
The result was subordination to Germany, with its
interests in the Balkans and a foreign minister who enjoyed
wide license from his colleagues. This reproduced the
historical pattern of the Drang nach Osten. Germany's
anti-Serb orientation was reinforced by the side-effects of
its defeat in 1945, when part of its Protestant heartland was
annexed to the Soviet Union and Poland and the rest it
reduced to a status that has downgraded its role in German
politics and strengthened the Catholic influence in
policy-making, which supports Croatian Catholic Nationalism.
Whitehall's view was more balanced but also more
detached thanks to geography and pressures for concessions to
Germany in the name of Europeanness. So, the recognition
relay began. Slovenia's recognition was logical enough, the
more so since Serbian intransigence had antagonized the
Slovenes, their traditional allies in maintaining a Yugoslav
entity. Linking Croatia's recognition with Slovenia's helped
obviate objections based on differences between the two,
stemming from Croatia's attitude towards its Serb minority.
Were it not for the Serbian question, Croat independence
would meet the usual preconditions. This does not hold good
for Bosnia.
There never has been a Bosnian nation. The Muslims,
who overtook the Serbs as largest ethnos only after the
Second World War, hanker for a return to their status under
Ottoman rule. Their new leadership wishes to recreate Bosnia
as a Muslim fundamentalist state, with Pakistan as its
role-model and little room for Christians at all, and then
only as second-class citizens. President Alija Izetbegovic
put his cards on the table in his 1990 Islamic Declaration.
He envisages a pure Moslem state with the religious,
political and social dimensions wholly integrated. He
regards Islam as timeless, above consideration of reform.
His associates share his foreign clericalist
background, Haris Silajdzic, his Foreign Minister, who until
recently was Secretary to the Islamic Council of Bosnia, has
close links with Tripoli.
The very idea that a large indigenous Christian
community, whose history and psychology are shaped by their
fight for national and religious survival under the Ottoman
yoke and subsequently for independence, should be expected to
submit to being turned into a minority in a Muslim
fundamentalist state demonstrates how little the German
Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and his Dutch counterpart,
Hans Van den Broek, understand of the Balkans.
At present, the Muslims enjoy Croat support against
their Serb fellow Christians. This is no novelty. From the
Crusades onwards, there has been a tendency in the Catholic
Church to regard Muslim infidels as a lesser evil than the
Orthodox "Schismatic" Serbs. Croats and Muslims worked hand
in glove in the massacres of Bosnia Serbs in the Independent
State of Croatia during the Second World War. Croatian
opinion is far from monolithic on this matter. But atrocities
perpetrated by the Yugoslav federal army in Slavonia and
Dalmatia, egged on by President Slobodan Milosevic, for whom
the Serbs of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina are pawns,
hardened Croatian hearts. Bloodshed breeds bloods hed.
Demonising the Serbs only reinforces the hardliners' argument
that they have nothing to lose by blood-and-fire policies.
It is fashionable to blame Versailles for the
unviable states that generated inter-ethnic conflict and
invited revanchist intervention by Germany and Hungary. But
whatever their shortcomings, Poland, Yugoslavia and
Czechoslovakia were paragons of rationality and stability
compared with the European Community's proteges of Bosnia
and (if Greek objections are overcome) Macedonia.
A century ago, British politicians, media, and public
opinion were keenly aware of the "Eastern Question" and
actively sympathized with Turkey's subject Christian
populations. Nowadays, they may no longer care, but they can
not afford to ignore it, when religious and ethnic conflict
flares up on the shores of the Adriatic.
In foreign and in economic affairs, we cannot afford
to let Germany continue to make the running, least of all
when Mr.Genscher is retiring and Chancellor Helmut Kohl is
too busy fighting for his political life to worry about the
Balkans.
Whatever the intrinsic merits of the concept of a
common European foreign policy, it will be judged by its
fruits. Britain, whose government has just bought a new
lease of life, is in a position to argue that since
German-initiated policies have led to a bloody impasse, the
EC must help to work out bespoke constitutional arrangements
suitable to the Balkans peoples' character and
circumstances. Otherwise, the Serbs of the Dinaric Alps will
fight on regardless, and others will be drawn in, as has
happened in the past.
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Sir Alfred Sherman is a former advisor to Mrs. Thatcher.
novine.8.bale.,
LONDON (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State James Baker announced steps
Friday to sever links with the Serbian-dominated government in Belgrade,
calling the war in the breakaway Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina
a ``humanitarian nightmare.''
After a meeting with British Prime Minister John Major at 10 Downing
Street, Baker told reporters outside that it was time for the
``civilized world'' to stop the bloody war raging in the former Yugoslav
republics.
``We hope and believe that there can be some coordinated action by
others in the civilized world, and that others, like ourselves, will be
unwilling to sit back and watch what really is a humanitarian nightmare,
'' Baker said.
Baker announced the United States was withdrawing its ambassador from
Belgrade and cutting other diplomatic and military links. The ambassador
had been told earlier to return to Washington for consultations.
``We will also be breaking contacts that we have with the Yugoslav
military, '' Baker added. ``We will be closing two of the three Yugoslav
consulates in the United Sates, the consulates in San Francisco and New
York. We will be drawing down our embassy staff in Belgrade.''
In response to questions by reporters, Baker suggested outside
military intervention to put a halt to fighting in the Balkans would be
premature.
``I think the civilized world should really begin to think what they
might be able to do in concert politically, diplomatically and
economically,'' Baker said. ``If measures in those fields fail, then and
only then, it would be my view that you would take a look at questions
involving military matters.''
Baker said Britain was completely behind U.S. policy.
``The special relationship between Britain and the United States is
alive and well,'' Baker said. ``I constantly find that the government
here is totally and competely behind the actions of the U.S.''
Britain was expected to pressure European Community foreign ministers
gathering in Lisbon Saturday to cut trade with Belgrade and freeze
Yugoslav assets in Western Europe, diplomatic sources said.
Baker travels to Lisbon Saturday and is expected to attend the
meeting of EC foreign ministers. He then flies on to Tbilisi, Georgia.
The addition to his journey of Georgia, the last of the 15 former
Soviet states to be visited by Baker, will allow him ``to see first-hand
what progress is being made on political and economic reform,'' U.S.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Thursday.
The United States established diplomatic relations with Georgia last
month and opened an embassy in Tbilisi. The State Department said Baker
will meet with Georgian leaders -- including former Soviet Foreign
Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who is now chairman of the Georgian State
Council.
Baker is also expected to meet with Israeli and Egyptian foreign
ministers in Lisbon during a gathering of officials from 82 countries at
the international conference on assistance to the Commonwealth of
Independent States.
novine.9.bale.,
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) -- The General Assembly voted Friday to admit the
newly independent nations of Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Hercegovina to
the United Nations, dealing a fatal blow to the already crumbling
Yugoslavian federation.
Reflecting the declining status of the former Yugoslavia, the United
States said the Belgrade government, which now controls only the
republics of Serbia and Montenegro, would no longer be considered a
member of the world body.
``If Serbia and Montenegro desire to sit in the United Nations, they
should be required to apply for membership and be held to the same
standards as all other applicants,'' the new U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations, Edward Perkins, said in his first address.
``Specifically, they must prove to the members of the United Nations
that the so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is a peace-loving
state,'' Perkins said. He said the Belgrade government has
``overwhelming responsibility'' for months of warfare in Bosnia-
Hercegovina.
Perkins' statement amounted to a rejection of the claim by the Serb-
dominated government in Belgrade to the U.N. seat of the former
Yugoslavia. But Belgrade will keep its U.N. membership until the
Security Council decides otherwise.
Islamic, Arab and some Central European countries had discussed the
possibility of denying Belgrade its U.N. membership but could not reach
a concensus on a legal approach to such an action.
These nations want to unseat Belgrade mostly because it no longer
represents the federation and because of its war against Bosnia-
Hercegovina, which has a large population of Muslim Slavs, as well as
Roman Catholic Croats and ethnic Christian Orthodox Serbs.
The General Assembly accepted the three Balkan states by acclamation
on the recommendation of the Security Council. The disintegrating
Yugoslav federation has been wracked by a bloody civil war since Croatia
and Slovenia declared independence on June 25.
What remains of the federation, controlled by the Marxist government
in Belgrade, is only Serbia and Montenegro. The sixth Yugoslav republic,
Macedonia, also is seeking independence.
The admission of the three republics brought the total of U.N.
membership to 178. Their flags were immediately raised in fron of U.N.
headquarters.
The president of the General Assembly, Saudi Ambassador Samir
Shihabi, said aggression against any of the republics ``will now be an
aggression against a sovereign member state of the United Nations.''
Attending both the General Assembly session and flag ceremony were
Slovenian President Milan Kucan, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and
the foreign minister of Bosnia-Hercegovina, Haris Silajdzic.
Silajdzic, a young and outspoken Cabinet member, called on the
assembly and the Security Council to apply Chapter 7 of the U.N.
Charter, which would allow the council to impose sanctions against
Belgrade unless it stops the war against its neighbors.
``Bosnia now is one big, bleeding wound,'' Silajdzic said in
accepting the U.N. membership. ``If the war is not stopped now, it will
undermine peace and security in the region.''
In a related development, Secretary-General Boutros Ghali decided
Friday to chair a task force that will meet three times a week to
monitor the situation in the former Yugoslavia and to coordinate the
United Nations' role in the crisis.
novine.10.bale.,
BOSNIAN STRIFE CUTS OLD BRIDGES OF TRUST
by John F. Burns
New York Times, May 22
ZVORNIK, May 19 --- When Serbian gunmen go door to door, pulling Muslim
Slavs from their homes at gunpoint and herding them aboard cattle trucks,
they call it "ethnic purification".
But another name for what the Serbs are doing in this dederted, bu-
llet and shell-scarred town in the Alpine hills of eastern Bosnia, and in
communities elsewhere in this disintegrating republic, is the revision of
history.
An End to Coexistence
-----------------------
For more than 500 years, since Turkish conquerors swept up the Dri-
na River valley and overthrew the medieval Serbian potentate whose ruined
fortress looks down from Zvornik's wooded hights, this has been a place whe-
re Serbs, Muslim Slavs and Croats have lived side by side.
But not for much longer in Zvornik, if it is left to the slouch-po-
stured Serbian militiamen who now control the town. At lunchtime on Tuesday,
another truck appeared in the sinuous back streets.l In minutes, militiamen
in camouflaged fatigues press-ganged more Muslim men aboard, to join the
wave of at least 670,000 refugees already swamping the "heartbreak hotels,"
as the victims of Bosnia's savage civil war call the tent camps, school gy-
mnasiums and parks that serve as temporary quarters for many of the homeless.
At least 5,000 of the refugees, perhaps twice as many, are Muslims
from Zvornik, a town with a 60 percent Muslim majority that only had about
15000 residents when the deportations began six weeks ago.
How many Muslims have been driven from all of eastern Bosnia, a region
about 50 miles wide and about 125 miles deep, is unclear, but what is certain
is that the Serb terror tactics have abeen aimed at making a Serb stronghold
of a region where 78 percent of a population of about 450,000 people were Mus-
lims, and only 10 percent Serbs, at the time of the 1991 census.
Like the other refugees across Bosnia, most of those driven from Zvornik
left with only a few cherished belongings, scrambling aboard trucks and
vuses with vacuum cleaners, children''s tricycles, and plastic bags of clo-
thing. Many have had to walk for days across deeply forested mountains,
sleeping in the open with small children and pooling what little cash they had
to
buy food.
Major Refugee Crisis
--------------------
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has described it as
Europe's first refugee crisis since World War II, and one of the worst anywhere
in decades.
"I saw the ppeople crying," one old Muslim said, describing the latest
expulsions from Zvornik. Western reporters were kepr from witnessing the
roundup by Serbian soldiers at a roadblock on the eastern side of the Drina.
The soldiers said that they had been told to let no outsiders cross from
Serbia into Bosnia at Zvornik from 1p.m. to 2:30 p.m., the exact period, the
Zvornik Muslims said later, when the Muslims were being loaded onto the truck.
Afterward, in their home in Zvornik, a Muslim family told of the sudden
departure of Serbs from the twon in the days before the evening of April 8,
when Serbian militia units opened fire on the town's residential areas from
across the Drina with tank cannon, mortars and other weapons; of how Serbian
militiamen swept into the town at dawn, rounded up Muslims, and killed groups
of them, including at least 50 in one neighborhood near the town center;
of how thousands of Muslims had to choose between trying to protect their
homes without being killed or volunteering to join other Muslims being driven
from the town.
Reports of Mass Burials
-----------------------
Little of what they said could be independently verified, not even the
accounts of the bulldozed mounds in a gravel pit by the Drina where
hundreds of victims of the bombardment and executions were said by the
Muslims to have been buried in the days after April 9. When militiamen
spotted two Western reporters talking to local Serbs near the police
headquarters, the reporters were escorted back across the Drina into Serbia
and told not to come back.
Despite the lack of corroboration, there was much that suggested that the
Muslims were not exaggerating. For one thing, while the Muslims seemed deeply
frightened, their stories of actions against them by Serb militias were
told with a striking absence of animosity against Serbs in general. Indeed many
insisted on recounting the kindnesses shown toward them by individual Serb
neighbors.
Moreover, dozens of Western relief workers and reporters who have visited
refugee centers farther west in BBosnia, and who have spoken to Muslim refugees
from towns and villages along the Drina Valley, have been told similar tales
of summary executions, of homes looted and burned, of cattle trucks carrying
men,
women and children away.
While forced deportations have also been carried out by Muslim Slav and
Croatian militias, adding thousands of Serbs to the refugee tide, the process
appears to have been carried out more systematically, and on a wider scale, by
the Serbs.
International Condemnation
--------------------------
Their actions, and Serbia's support for them, have been condemned
aby the United States, the United Nations Security Council, the European
Community, and with increasing anger by Muslim nations around the world,
whose leaders, like President Turgut Ozal of Turkey, have argued for inter-
national military intervention of the kind that the United Nations authorized
after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
But so far, little has been done, apart from the decision last
week by the United States and the 12-nation European Community to withdraw
their ambassadors from Yugoslavia, now composed only of Serbia and Montenegro.
The status of the Bosnian Muslims, who account for 44 percent of Bosnia
and Herzegovina's 4.4 million people, took a turn for the worse on March 1,
when Alija Izetbegovic, the Bosnian President, followed the lead of Croatia,
Slovenia and Macedonia in declaring Bosnia's secession from Yugoslavia.
While Serbian leaders in the republic continued to go through the
morions of negotiating with other groups for the creation of an independent
Bosnia composed of ethnic "cantons," Serbia, the Yugoslav Army and Serbian
militias in Bosnia began putting a plan into effect to carve up Bosnia on
ethnic lines, with about two-thirds of the republic's territory to be seized
for the Serbs.
Offensive by Serbian Forces
---------------------------
The Serbs worked from an ethnic map. Woth arms and ammunition supplied
by the army, and in many cases with the army fighting alongside them, Serbian
militias seized a wide corridor of eastern Bosnia adjacent to Serbia, including
towns with large Muslim populations like Bijeljina, Zvornik, Bratunac,
Vlasenica,
Visegrad, Gorazde, and Foca.
To this, they planned to add a northern corridor of Bosnia that would
connect Serbia to Serb-held areas of Croatia, and to Serbian strongholds in
northwestern parts of the republic around Bihac. In the southern Herzegovina
region, they fought for Muslim towns like Mostar, apparently hoping to create
another corridor connecting to southern Serbia and Montenegro.
In late March, Zvornik seemed like a quiet, untroubled town. At a flea
market beside the rushing, blue-green waters of the Drina, Muslim vendors
in filigreed skullcaps set up rickety tables side by side with the town's
Serbian and Croatian entrepreneurs, selling the bric-a-brac of eastern Europe,
from Czechoslovak-made bicycle pumps to Polish combs. For travelers driving to
Sarajevo, Zvornik seemed like a symbol of what Bosnia could be if ethnic mili-
tants could be pushed to the sidelines and the fledgling nation's future built
around the goodwill that seemed evident on that sunny, late winter's day.
Old Ideas of Harmony
--------------------
The notion of harmony on the Drina has deep roots in the psyche
of Yugoslavia, whose most celebrated 20th-century writer, Ivo Andric, wrote
a novel, "Bridge on the Drina", that helped him win the Nobel Prize for
literature in 1961.
The book is centered on Visegrad, and the 16-th century stone
bridge across the river is a metaphor for the interwoven cultures, Serbian,
Croatian and Turkish, Orthodox Christian, Roman Catholic and Muslim, that have
made the town. In the Serbian offensive, Visegrad was one of the first towns
to be seized, and its Muslims, like Zvornik's, are now mostly in refugee
camps.
The Muslims in Zvornik built barricades, but their situation was
strategically hopeless. Since Roman times, when the narrow gorge between
what is now Serbia and Bosnia was forst spanned by a bridge, Zvornik
has been a prime target for invading armies.
The Romans, the Turks, the AustroHungarian forces in World War I,
and the Germans in World War II, all seized the town. The Serbs completed
the job in barely 12 hours. But their objective, more than occupation, was
expulsion of the town's Muslim majority.
First, there was terror. One man in his 60's described how he watched
the town's veterinarian, a Muslim, being machine-gunned along with other
Muslims in front of the veterinarian's wife and daughter.
The man said that he had counted at least 50 bodies of Muslims in
the gardens of homes back from Zvornik's main street, where four-story homes
with steep Alpine roofs crowd against the towering escarpment of Vratolomac,
the "neck-breaking hill" that overlooks the town.
The man said that one of the dead was a 17-year-old Serb girl whose
throat had been cut. "She was slaughtered just because she asked them not
to do anything to the Muslims," he said.
The man said he had been led to his home by a young militiaman of
about 25. But once inside, the militiaman spared him. "He said, 'O.K., I have
orders to shoot you, but I'm not going to do it, I'm giong to shoot out of the
window,'" the man said.
Sympathy From Serbs
-------------------
Other Muslims said that Serbian friends had been sympathetic, but were
forbidden to help them overtly. "If they talk to us, they take them to the p
police station and question them," one Muslim womean said. But to many Serbs,
what happened seems to be considered a triumph. As one militia jeep passed
doen the main street, a group of children held three fingers aloft, and Ortho-
dox symbol that has become the equivalent of a 'V' for victory salute among the
Bosnian Serbs.
Immediately after the town was seized, most Muslims were dismissed
from their fobs in the town's hospital, at a timber mill, and at the aluminum
fabricating plant that is the principal employer, the Muslims said. One man in
his 40's prroduced a neatly folded sheet of white paper, entitled "Decision
oon the Abrogation of Work Contract", informing him that he had been sacked
from
his job of 20 years for failing to turn up on April 9, when the killing was
continuing.
"Anybody who approached the industrial zone that day, they started to
shoot," the man said. "Those who couldn't go to work were fired."
The Muslims who remain say they are trapped. Most have had their
cars stolen, part of a rampage that saw militiamen going house to house, taking
television sets, video recorders, skis, anything protable.
One man showed a pink identity card, issued bu the militiamen and
bearing the stamp of the self-proclaimed Serbian Republic of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, which he said forbade him, and other Muslims, to travel more
that 10 miles from Zvornik. "They want a few of us here as hostages,
in case the Muslims attack," he said. A neighbor said she had returned from
Belgrade in the hope of persuading a "commission" established by the Serbs
to re-distribute homes to Serbs not to confiscate hers.
Eventually, the Serbs apparently intend to re-populate Zvornik with
Serbian refugees from elsewhere in Bosnia, but for now it is a ghost town.
Along the main street, once lively with cafes and grocery stores, all is now
silent, with storefront after storefront shattered by bullets and shelves
emptied by looters.
At a hairdresser's, one of the few businesses still operating, a Serb
named Zdravko Stefanovic traced what he said was a history of persecution
of Zvornik's Serbs, from the Turkish conquest in 1460 A.D. to the arrest,
deportation and execution of his father by Croatian fascists in World War II.
From these experiences, he said, Serbs had learned never again to expose
themselves to domination by another ethnic group.
Another Serb, Drago Djukanovic, agreed. "Let the Muslims go to their
own areas of Bosnia," he said. "They can live peacefully there. But we are
not going to live with them."
novine.11.bale.,
Chicago Tribune, Sunday 24, 1992
IT'S NOW OR NEWER FOR THE WEST TO INTERVENE IN BOSNIA
William Pfaff
BOSTON - American opinion is moving hesitantly toward military intervention
in the former Yugoslavia. Elite opinion: The matter is not on the popular
or political agendas - but neither was Kuwait two years ago this spring.
The parallel between the Persian Gulf and Bosnia-Herzegovina may yet catch
the attention of President Bush, in these pre-alection days.
The official American position remains that military intervention is not
under consideration. The press calls for more severe economic and political
reprisals against Serbia for its aggressions, but some in the press and the
policy community now are arguing that the treat, and if necessary the use
of military force has become a necessity not only to check the killing in
Bosnia-Herzegovina but to validate the principle the United States and the
international community attempted to establish during the gulf crisis and
its aftermath.
When Serbia, and to a lesser extent Croatia, now are doing in Bosnia-
Herzegovina confounds that principle, that military aggression and the
murderous repression of ethnic minorities inside a state are matters of
international concern and will be challenged by the international
community.
Serbia in particular, and Croatia as well, are by military aggression extending
the territory they directly or indirectrly control, subsequently "cleansing"
these conquered regions of their non-Serb or non-Croatian populations
through expulsions, terrorism or simple murder. If this course is not
reversed, they will succeed where Hitler ultimately failed, triumphantly
carrying off wars of racial and territorial aggression in the face of world
disapproval.
A State Department official, who chose to be unidentified, said last week
that this "dirty war ... in which people are murdered, tourtured, not
because of what they do but because they belong to one ethnic group or
another... is [mostly] being perpetuated against the Muslims, and the
perpetrators tend to be more often than not Serbs." Others are involved,
but "it's clear that the Serbs are most involved and the Muslims are most
victimized."
The Islamic dimension is important internationally. The Islamic states are
saying that world indignation over aggression seems to function only when
a Muslim state is the aggressor. At the United Nations they are pressing
for action to defend the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina but are opposed
by China, member of the Security Council, and by the other Third World
dictatorships that fear that the principle of international intervention
might one day be turned against them. They are, of course, correct to fear
the validation of a non-aggression principle. But Western countries have
every reason to want it confirmed - and if it is to be confirmed, there
must be AN EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION AGAINST SERBIA, the state whose ambitions
have provoked the Yugoslav catastrophe.
The prospect of international intervention would benefit on the one hand
from the fact that it need not - indeed, should not - take the form of
military action on the ground. Ground intervention in an ethnic and
essentially civil struggle would almost certainly worsen it. Recognition of
this
fact is why the international community has been so reluctant to consider
an itervention.
Hovever, AN AIR INTERVENTION FROM WEST EUROPEAN BASES AND THE U.S. AND FRENCH
CARRIER FORCES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN COULD DEPRIVE THE SERBIAN FORCES OF THE
DECISIVE ADVANTAGE THEY THUS FAR ENJOYED, THE HEAVY ARTILLERY AND ARMORED
FORCES OF THE EX-YUGOSLAV FEDERAL ARMY. That army's bombardment even now
is doing to Sarajevo what it earlier did to Vukovar and Dubrovnik. That
bombardment could be SILENCED IN HOURS, THE EX-FEDERAL AIR FORCE GROUNDED,
AND SERBIA'S CIVILIAN AS WELL AS MILITARY AIRFIELDS CRATERED AND PUT OUT OF
USE.
The effect of that on Serbian popular opinion - already divided on this
war - would be profound. THE INTERVENTION WOULD NEED TO BE ACCOMPANIED
BY GREATLY INCREASED WESTERN RADIO BROADCASTING TO TH SERBIAN POPULATION,
WHIC CURRENTLY IS IN THE GRIP OF A REPRESSIVE AND FANTASTICAL PROPAGANDA
REGIME ASSERTING THAT THE SERBIAN PEOPLE ARE BESIEGED BY AN ALLIANCE OF
RENASCENT NAZI GERMANY, FASCIST ITALY, IMPERIALIST AMERICA, A REACTIONARY
VATICAN - AND FUNDAMENTALIST ISLAM.
The United Nations is blocked from acting. The European Community is also
blocked Greece supports Serbia (out of an absurd fear that an independent
ax-Yugoslav Macedinia - with a population of 1.3 million people - would
threaten Greece, which has a population of 9.7 million, the largest
armed forces in Europe, proportionate to population, and which enjoys a
formal security guarantee from 15 NATO nationa).
It may thus be necessary that action be taken by an informal coalition of
democraties. So long as they act accordance with the expressed majority
opinion of the Security Council, the EC and the Conference on Security
and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), the formalities are unimportant. The
essential point is that the intervention express a consensus view of the
democratic community.
A LIMITED AIR INTERVENTION, ACCOMPANIED BY FURTHER MEASURES OF ECONOMIC AND
POLITICAL REPRISAL AGAINST SERBIA, AND AGAINST CROATIA IF ITS INTERVENTION
IN BOSNIA CONTINUES, WOULD NOT ITSELF HALT AGGRESSION BUT WOULD MAKE THE
COMBAT A MORE EQUAL ONE ON THE GROUND, AND WOULD, AS WELL, GREATLY CHANGE
THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF THE STRUGGLE.
As the international community has recognized the independence of Bosnia-
Herzegovina, and of the other new ex-Yugoslav republics, it is JUSTIFIED IN
ARMING AND OTHERWISE STRENGTHENING THOSE WHO RESIST AGGRESSION. It scarcely
can do less if the words spoken about Kuwait meant anything. It must do
at least this much for the sake of non-aggression in the future, and
ethink coexistance, elsewhere in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union.
This is a truth people in both the United States and Western Europe are
coming to recognize. If George Bush will not act, what about John Major,
responsible for last year's intervention to save the Kurds, or Francois
Mitterrand? BUT IF THERE IS GOING TO BE ACTION, IT WILL HAVE TO COME SOON.
(C) 1992, LOS ANGELES TIMES SYNDICATE
arming and other
novine.12.bale.,
Hehe, sad sam cuo na Vestima kako je predsednik Stranke Roma izjavio da Romi
zive vec 600 godina u Jugoslaviji... ;-)))
Regards from .bale. !
#:*)+-<
novine.13squsovac,
Verujem da prisustvujemo početku kraja jedne teške bolesti.
Problem je samo što sada kada je već ceo svet definitivno Sadamu okrenuo
leđa, ovdfašnji ređim nema ama baš nikakve potrebe da kao do sada dopušta
mogućnost postojanja i delovanja zaista nezavisnih medija koji su mu do
sada služili kao legitimacija navodne demokratičnosti i sloboda.
novine.14.bale.,
MOSCOW (UPI) -- President Boris Yeltsin said Russia would support a U.
N. Security Council vote to impose a comprehensive economic embargo
against the Belgrade government, the independent Interfax news agency
reported Saturday.
Interfax, quoting Yeltsin press secretary Vyacheslav Kostikov, said
the Russian leader Friday night ordered Russia's U.N. representative
Yuli Vorontsov to vote in favor of economic sanctions against the new
Yugoslav federation, which is made up of Serbia and its ally Montenegro.
The vote was expected to take place Saturday.
Yeltsin's decision removed a major obstacle to approving the embargo.
Previously Russia had been reluctant to support sanctions against
Belgrade, arguing that the Serbian government should be given a chance
to voluntarily curb its military activities. Russia, which could use its
veto to block the sanctions, also opposed a comprehensive trade embargo
because it would hit Russian oil exports to the Yugoslav government.
But the failure of negotiations to put an end to the bloody conflict
in Bosnia-Hercegovina apparently changed Yeltsin's mind on sanctions.
China, which also has a veto on Security Council resolutions and was
opposed to an oil embargo, was expected to abstain on the vote.
The sanctions resolution, which is sponsored by the United States,
France, Britain and Belgium, includes a ban on air links and trade --
including oil sales -- with Serbia and Montenegro.
The resolution also obliges governments to reduce the number of
Belgrade's diplomats in their countries and suspend agreements on sports
events, cultural and technical cooperation.
(complete writethru -- dubrovnik shelled again; updating fighting in
sarajevo)
By NIKOLA GUROVIC
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- Fighting convulsed Sarajevo
Saturday, with security forces attacking the main Yugoslav army base and
Serbian guerrillas blasting a beseiged apartment complex with mortar and
anti-aircraft fire as thousands of residents huddled in terror in
basements, witnesses and news reports said.
``There are apartments on fire. I can see the smoke. We need help
pretty badly. Can't anybody help us?'' Mario Susko, a Sarajevo
University professor, said in an impassioned plea by telephone from the
embattled Dobrinja residential area on the western fringe of the Bosnia-
Hercegovina capital.
Fighting was reported in other areas of Bosnia-Hercegovina, including
Prijedor, where the Serbia-based Tanjug news agency said Muslim Slav
militiamen sought to take control of a bridge over the Sana River.
Sarajevo radio said Serbian artillery attacks damaged a children's
hospital in Tuzla.
There were no reliable reports of casualties.
In a related development, the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army launched a
flurry of shellfire into Croatia's Adriatic port of Dubrovnik a day
after an intense bombardment damaged buildings in the famed 14th-century
walled city, witnesses and state-run Zagreb radio reported.
``I only know Dubrovnik is being pounded since 5 p.m., and still
don't know from what direction because my men are in the shelter too,''
Joao da Silva, the Portugese chief of the Euiropean Community Monitoring
Mission, told reporters in Zagreb.
Witnesses said the shells landed in an already badly hit area of the
old city around a Jesuit seminary and came from Yugoslav army positions
around the nearby town of Cavtat and mountain ridges overlooking the
city. They said Croatian fighters replied with multiple rocket fire.
The reason for the attack was not immediately known, nor was there
any comment available from the Yugoslav army.
There were no casualties in the shelling, which violated a Jan. 3
ceasefire implemented as part of the U.N. peacekeeping operation in
Croatia, 35 percent of which Serbian forces siezed in the war that
erupted after Zagreb declared indepedence from former Yugoslavia last
June.
The developments came in advance of expected U.N. Security Council
approval of sweeping economic sanctions against the communist-ruled rump
Yugoslavia of Montenegro and Serbia, which is widely regarded as the
main engineer of the brutal Yugoslav army-backed Serbian drive to seize
a self-declared state in 70 percent of newly independent Bosnia-
Hercegovina.
In a clear 11th-hour bid to stave off the sanctions, the regime of
President Slobodan of Serbia issued an open letter to the Serbian
Democratic Party that condemned weeks of ruthless bombardments of
Sarajevo and implicitly blamed them on the party's Yugoslav army-armed
militia.
``We believe that those who are responsible for these tragic events
should not only be restrained, but also brought to account,'' said the
letter.
Milosevic also sent a letter to President Bush and Russian President
Boris Yeltsin asking them to assume the leading role in bringing peace
to Bosnia-Hercegovina by establishing what he called joint control of
the warring factions.
Residents confirmed Sarajevo radio reports that Serbian Democratic
Party guerrillas launched a blistering attack on the Dobrinja Three area
of the massive five-section apartment block complex at 1:30 p.m., a day
after warning they would level the area unless its outnumbered defenders
surrendered their weapons.
``I think they are trying to get Dobrinja Three. They are shelling
now. They are using mortars and anti-aircraft weapons,'' said Susko.
``This is absolute madness. Everyone is in their basements. People are
terrified.''
Residents said the shooting subsided in the late afternoon.
An estimated 30,000 Muslim Slavs, Serbs and Croats have been beseiged
in Dobrinja for a month by guerrillas of the Serbian Democratic Party,
which claimed the complex in demanding that Sarajevo be partitioned into
ethnic districts.
The guerrillas have barricaded the complex's entrance and refused to
allow in food or medicines. They have also banned ambulances, forcing
people to bury corpses in grassy lots fronting their apartment blocks,
residents said.
Street clashes between the warring factions were also reported in the
northern Kosevo neighborhood, with officials saying that Serbian
guerrillas launched attacks from the nearby town of Vogosca.
Tanjug said Muslim Slav and Croatian militiamen attacked the Yugoslav
army's Marshal Tito Barracks just outside the city center at about 6:30
a.m. with small arms and mortars.
Troops returned fire with infantry and anti-aircraft weapons,
officials said.
Tanjug said the attack coincided with a shutdown of water and
electricity supplies to the sprawling complex of regimented barracks
buildings that stretch along Vojvode Radomira Putnika Street, the main
thoroughfare leading into the downtown from western areas of the city of
560,000.
The attack was apparently prompted by growing frustration within the
city's defense forces over the Yugoslav army's failure to abandon the
barracks as part of a May 22 agreement for its withdrawal from four
bases in Sarajevo.
Officials said before the fighting began, soldiers in the barracks
destroyed trucks that they were to have turned over to defense forces.
One of the Yugoslav army facilities was vacated last Sunday after
troops handed over only 20 percent of the arms they were obliged to
return to security forces. The operation was inexplicity suspended until
Wednesday night, when another barracks was abandoned.
The Yugoslav army announced late Saturday afternoon that an
undisclosed number of cadets, soldiers and civilians ``safely''
evacuated the suburban Pazaric military academy, leaving Marshal Tito
Barracks as the only facility still to be abandoned.
Thousands of people have been killed, more than 18,000 injured and
some 1.3 million driven from their homes since the conflict erupted in
the runup to international recognition of Bosnia-Hercegovina's
independence from the Serb-dominated wreckage of former Yugoslavia.
The republic's 1.9 million Muslim Slavs, most of the 750,000 Roman
Catholic Croats and some of the 1.4 million Christian Orthodox Serbs
backed recognition.
The Yugoslav army-armed Serbian Democratic Party opposed independence
and is seeking to merge its self-proclaimed state with the rump Yugoslav
federation forged by Serbia and its tiny protege, Montenegro.
In Serbia capital, Belgrade, Serbian Democratic Party President
Radovan Karadzic again shrugged off the U.N. sanctions as ``absurd'' and
also warned against the dispatch of any foreign troops to Bosnia-
Hercegovina.
``Not one foreign soldier can come to Bosnia-Hercegovina without the
agreement of all three peoples and that means not without acceptance by
the Serbs,'' he said in an interview with Tanjug. ``The Serbian side
would forbid one foreign soldier on the territory of Serbian Bosnia-
Hercegovina and if one comes, he will be treated as an aggressor and
occupier.''
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) -- The United States called on the Security
Council and General Assembly Saturday to deny the claim by the remnants
of Yugoslavia to the U.N. seat that was held by the nation before civil
war tore it apart.
U.S. Ambassador Edward Perkins said many countries have already
expressed reservation to the Belgrade government's claim after Slovenia,
Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina were admitted to the United Nations.
Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina were part of Yugoslavia, but
all seceded after a wave of separatism spawned by multi-ethnic
differences swept the nation and civil war broke out last year. All that
is now left of Yugoslavia are the republics of communist-ruled Serbia
and tiny Montenegro. Its capital remains Belgrade.
Perkins, addressing the Security Council, said the United States has
informed the United Nations that the authorities in Belgrade do not
``represent the continuation of the former Socialist Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia.''
``It is further my government's strong view that the Security Council
and the General Assembly should act in the near future to confirm this
position,'' Perkins said.
Diplomats said the Security Council may take up the former
Yugoslavia's U.N. membership at another meeting, or the General
Assembly's credentials committee may act to block Belgrade from taking
over the U.N. seat.
The Security Council earlier Saturday voted to impose an embargo
against what is left of Yugoslavia in protest of the savage fighting in
Bosnia-Hercegovina, which was internationally recognized as a nation
last month.
The United States, Britain, France and Belgium designed the embargo
against Belgrade. In their earlier draft of the embargo, they had
included a provision urging the General Assembly to reject Belgrade's
claim to the U.N. seat. But the provision was later dropped because
other countries considered it unrelated to the sanctions making up the
embargo.
novine.15.bale.,
Subject: Greece says it will abide by sanctions against Serbia
Date: 1 Jun 92 17:40:43 GMT
ATHENS, Greece (UPI) -- Greece said Monday it would abide by the U.N.
Security Council sanctions imposed on Serbia and Montenegro, but
expected to suffer losses estimated at $1 billion.
Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis also said any international
recognition of Kosovo's right to self-determination and independence
from Serbia ``would be a mistake'' and could have disastrous
consequences.
Mitsotakis's government issued a statement saying it would act with
its other European Community partners in abiding by the U.N. sanctions
imposed on Serbia and Montenegro because of attacks on Croats and Slavic
Muslims in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
But the statement said Greece hoped peace in Bosnia-Hercegovina
``will come soon, so that the sanctions will be lifted soon.''
Mitsotakis told reporters he had asked ministers in his cabinet to
draw up estimates of the damage Greece was expected to suffer because of
the sanctions.
A statement issued by his government said Greece was the only E.C.
member-state whose interests would be harmed by the sanctions, and
Athens may seek compensation from the community for the expected losses.
Officials said the sanctions would mean Greek trucks would be unable
to use a busy overland route through Serbia to the rest of Europe, and
tourists trying to get to Greece overland would also be unable to use
the road.
``The hardest hit would be the textiles and ready-made clothing''
industry, one official said, ``while there would also be a big problem
with fresh fruit and vegetables, particularly the export of peaches,
which were to begin in a few days.''
Mitsotakis said if the international community decided to recognize
Kosovo's right to self-determination, there was danger the conflict in
the Balkans would spread southward closer to Greece's borders.
The premier was speaking to reporters after holding discussions with
former Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreau on the worsening
crisis among the former Yugoslav republics.
Greece is the only E.C. member-state that has taken a pro-Serbian
stance since the crisis began, and has expressed fears recently that it
may face a huge refugee problem if fighting erupts in Kosovo, where
balloting was held last week to elect a president.
Athens has used its membership in the community to block E.C.
recognition of Macedonia, saying it was opposed to recognition so long
as the republic used the name ``Macedonia,'' but its moves have caused
some irritation among its Western allies.
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Subject: Serbs renew shelling of Sarajevo 2 hours after cease-fire deadline
Date: Mon Jun 1 14:58:07 PDT 1992
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- Serbian forces renewed shelling
Sarajevo Monday night after the collapse of talks on completing a
withdrawal of Yugoslav forces from the capital, shattering a U.N.-
brokered cease-fire for the city less than two hours after it began,
witnesses said.
The attack confirmed widespread doubts that the truce would hold with
the reinforcement of stiff economic sanctions imposed by the U.N.
Security Council against the truncated Yugoslav federation of Serbia and
Montenegro.
Communist President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia is regarded by the
U.N. Security Council as the main architect of the bloody, 2-month-old
Yugoslav army-backed Serbian Democratic Party offensive to seize a self-
declared state in newly independent Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Witnesses said intermittent but steady Serbian artillery fire hit
downtown areas of the besieged city of 560,000 shortly before 8 p.m.
local time, with at least three shells slamming into a post office.
Heavy smoke was seen rising from the scene.
``It is not heavy, it is not intense, but there is shelling,'' said
one witness. ``It is a violation of the cease-fire.''
Street clashes also reportedly broke out in the Grbavica area between
predominantly Muslim Slav defense forces and Serbian Democratic Party
gunmen.
The bombardment of Sarajevo erupted less than two hours into the U.N.
-brokered 6 p.m. truce for the city, and followed a refusal by the
Muslim Slav president, Alija Izetbegovic, to see Col. Gen. Zivota Panic,
the Yugoslav army chief of staff, for face-to-face talks on the
completion of a Yugoslav troop withdrawal from Sarajevo.
An official close to Izetbegovic told United Press International that
the president declined to meet Panic at the U.N. mission headquarters
because the army chief insisted in a telephone call that troops take
with them all heavy weapons when they vacate the Marshal Tito Barracks.
The base, the largest in Sarajevo, is the only one of four the
Yugoslav army has failed to abandon under an accord guaranteeing safe
passage for its soldiers in exchange for the return of weapons
confiscated two years ago from the republic's outgunned defense forces.
In a letter to Panic later released by the presidency, Izetbegovic
said: ``The heavy weapons must stay in the barracks. We're willing to
talk about everything accept the heavy armaments.''
A reportedly angry Panic, who was appointed last month as part of a
massive purge of the Yugoslav army hierarchy, stormed out of the U.N.
headquarters after waiting for Izetbegovic for more than an hour.
The cease-fire was brokered Sunday by U.N. officials, who said they
obtained guarantees it would be observed by Serbian forces from Serbian
Democratic Party chief Radovan Karadzic and Milosevic.
The announcement of the accord came a day after the U.N. Security
Council imposed economic sanctions against Serbia and allied Montenegro,
including bans on trade and oil sales and a freeze on their foreign
assets.
Sarajevo also was shelled from hilltop Serbian guerrillas seven hours
before the deadline for an end to hostilities. At least two people died
when rounds slammed into the Austro-Hungarian era city hall, officials
said.
Witnesses said shells also crashed around the presidency building and
blew out windows in residential areas to the west of the city center.
``The fire is coming from Zuc Mountain ... where the Serbs are
concentrated,'' said Drago Bulic, a resident of the Malta apartment
complex.
Fighting was also reported in other areas of Bosnia-Hercegovina.
One person died and seven were injured in bombing raids by Yugoslav
air force jets of the predominantly Muslim Slav northern towns of
Lukavac and Siminhan, Western diplomatic sources in Belgrade said.
The air attacks came amid repeated assertions by Serbian leaders,
protesting the U.N. economic sanctions, that the Yugoslav military was
not involved in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
In an earlier political development underscoring the revulsion felt
by many Serbs for the Serbian offensive in Bosnia-Hercegovina, two Serbs
joined the republic's collective presidency headed by Izetbegovic and
comprising two other Muslim Slavs and two Croats.
Nenad Kecmanovic and Mirko Pejanovic, university professors who were
runners-up in elections last year, said they took the oath of office on
condition their colleagues ``freeze'' their memberships in their
nationalist-based parties and reconstitute the government.
The pair, replacing two Serbs who resigned two months ago to join the
``government'' of the self-proclaimed Serbian state, also called in a
joint statement for a resumption of European Community-brokered peace
talks.
They said they agreed to serve in the presidency for eight months, at
the end of which they demanded new elections.
Analysts saw the development as an astute move that further bolsters
Izetbegovic's claim that his government, in which other Serbian
moderates serve in senior positions, represents all of the republic's
ethnic groups.
Witnesses, meanwhile, said Croatia's Adriatic city of Dubrovnik was
briefly shelled for a fourth day by Yugoslav army troops dug in to the
south and Serbian guerrillas entrenched near Trebinje, just across the
border in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
At least one round crashed into the city's already badly damaged 14th
century walled town, they said. There was no word on casualties, but
officials said two people were killed in shelling on Sunday.
U.N. officials said the cease-fire in Sarajevo was intended to
promote the reopening of the Serb-controlled Sarajevo airport to allow
for the delivery of humanitarian supplies desperately needed by hundreds
of thousands of people running critically short of food supplies.
Hajrudin Somun, a special adviser to Izetbegovic, said France has
expressed its willingness to contribute more troops to the U.N. mission
in former Yugoslavia for the purpose of providing security at the
airport for humanitarian aid flights.
He said the message was conveyed last week to Izetbegovic during a
visit by Jacques Blot, a special envoy of French President Francois
Mitterrand, who has already provided the U.N. Protection Force
peacekeeing operation in neighboring Croatia with its largest contingent
of soldiers.
But the warring factions have yet to agree on the airport question,
he said, explaining that the government rejected the Serbian Democratic
Party's demand that control of the Ilidza area around the facility
remain under the control of Serbian police and civilian administration.
The Serbian Democratic Party eventually wants to merge the areas it
claims in Bosnia-Hercegovina to the Serbia-Montenegro union, which has
not been recognized by any Western power or many other states.
Thousands of people have been killed, more than 18,000 injured and in
excess of an estimated 1.3 million others forced from their homes since
fighting erupted in Bosnia-Hercegovina in advance of international
recognition of its independence in early April.
Most of the republic's 1.4 million Christian Orthodox Serbs opposed
independence and demand the right to join rump Yugoslavia.
Some Serbs, however, support the republic's territorial integrity
along with the 1.9 million Muslim Slavs and 750,000 Roman Catholic
Croats.
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Subject: Parliamentary elections held in Yugoslavia; absenteeism extensive
Date: 1 Jun 92 04:35:40 GMT
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) -- President Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist
Party of Serbia and its Montenegrin protege, the Democratic Party of
Socialists, appeared headed Monday for almost certain victory in
parliamentary elections.
A very low turnout in Sunday's balloting represented extensive
observance of an election boycott called by Serbia's opposition
coalition, as well as a loss of voter confidence in the political system
and insecurity over the future.
At the same time, the boycott guaranteed Milosevic's party, a
successor to the old communist regime, an election victory.
Some 50,000 demonstrators chanting ``red bandits'' marched through
Belgrade protesting the election in what may be the start of a growing
movement to press for the resignation of the authoritarian Milosevic.
``We are heading for the abyss,'' said Zoran Petrovic, a prominent
journalist. ``This is very important for international public opinion
that thinks only about savage Serbs who want war.''
The balloting came a day after the U.N. Security Council approved
sweeping economic sanctions, including bans on trade and oil sales,
against Serbia and Montenegro for backing Serbian forces in their two-
month-old offensive to rip a self-declared state out of neighboring
newly independent Bosnia-Hercegovina.
More than 7.3 million people were eligible to vote for 138 seats in
the federal legislature's Chamber of Citizens -- 108 from Serbia and 30
from Montenegro. A simple majority was required to win a seat.
Under the constitution drafted by the ruling regimes, the 40-member
Chamber of Republics is selected by the Serbian and Montenegrin
assemblies, guaranteeing total communist domination of the house.
More than 500 candidates from 11 parties in Serbia and 10 in
Montenegro contested the elections.
Other participating parties included ultra-nationalist Serbian
organizations that maintain close links to Milosevic's regime and whose
paramilitary wings have been accused by international human rights
groups of committing widescale atrocities in the wars in Croatia and
Bosnia-Hercegovina.
The communist regime has exploited the power of television to
maintain support for its policies among undereducated rural majorities.
Milosevic's hardline Marxist wife, Mirjana Markovic, ran as a
candidate.
``This election is a farce,'' a Western diplomat commented on the 12
hours of voting that began at 7 a.m.
Zoran Djumic, a spokesman for the Election Commission of Serbia, said
that as of late afternoon turnouts in the republic averaged only 38
percent. The Serbia-based Tanjug news agency said attendance in
Montenegro ranged between 6 percent and 60 percent.
``It sounds like the boycott has been observed by much of the
politically active population,'' said a Western diplomat. ``It also
indicates that the majority of the Serbian population has given up in
despair on politics and is passively waiting to see what what will
happen in Serbia.''
Asked for his reaction to the sanctions after casting his ballot,
Milosevic replied: ``This is the price we pay for supporting Serbs
outside of Serbia.''
The Belgrade protest was called by Vuk Draskovic, the head of the
Serbian Renewal Movement, the largest opposition party, to protest the
elections and mourn the hundreds killed in Serbian bombardments of the
Bosnia-Hercegovina capital of Sarajevo.
Demonstrators shouting ``red bandits'' and demanding Milosevic's
resignation marched up Belgrade's main street as others constructed a 1,
500-yard-long black mourning ribbon by linking rectangles of black
paper.
The procession stopped briefly in front of Milosevic's office and the
headquarters of Belgrade television, the primary tool in the regime's
propaganda arsenal. It dispersed peacefully.
Draskovic's party and other leading opposition groups refused to
participate in the eletions and urged voters not to cast ballots, citing
communist control of the media, implementation of the constitution in
Yugoslavia without public approval, and the lack of adequate time for
campaigning.
An organization formed by former bureaucrats and military officers of
defunct Yugoslavia's erstwhile communist party also participated.
The parliamentary elections were scheduled after Serbia and
Montenegro forged their ``new'' Serb-dominated Yugoslavia on April 27 in
a bid to inherit the international status and assets of the defunct six-
republic Balkan federation.
The rump Yugoslavia has not been recognized by any Western power or
many other countries as the legitimate successor of its dissolved
namesake. The United States called Saturday for the U.N. Security
Council and General Assembly to deny Belgrade's claim to the seat of
former Yugoslavia.
The Serbian Orthodox Church, breaking almost 50 years of silent
submission to communist authority, on Thursday issued a memorandum in
which it condemned the Serbian and Montenegrin regimes and called for
their replacement by a government of ``national unity and national
salvation.''
novine.16.bale.,
Subject: Yugoslav crisis spills into French Open
Date: 1 Jun 92 06:31:18 GMT
PARIS (UPI) -- When Monica Seles, 18, goes on the court, her single-
minded concentration on tennis has helped propel her to her current
status as the world's No. 1 woman's player.
Yet the fighting in the the Balkans is nonetheless starting to catch
up with the Yugoslav-born star.
The London-based International Tennis Federation Committee of
Management, following the lead of United Nations sanctions imposed on
Yugoslavia Saturday, voted to ban that nation also from the men's Davis
Cup, the women's Federation Cup and all world junior and veteran's
competition.
Yet that does not stop Seles from playing as an individual in the
French Open, tournament officials said Sunday.
Tournament director Patrice Clerc said tennis, unlike soccer or other
team sports, is, with some exceptions, played by individuals, not
nations.
``They in no way represent their country or nation,'' he said at a
news conference. ``Until now, no request was made for us to stop a
player from playing here, and I can't see how this kind of thing could
happen.''
Seles was born in the Hungarian enclave of Novi Sad, in what is now
Croatia, a former Yugoslav republic.
She has lived in Florida since childhood, but her nationality is
listed as Yugoslavia with tennis authorities.
Seles, defending champion, advanced to the quarter finals Sunday by
defeating Akiko Kijimuta 6-1, 3-6, 6-4.
After her match, representatives from the Women's Tennis Association
tried to prevent questions about the bloody fighting in what used to be
Yugoslavia, but to no avail.
``I'm here to play a tournament; I don't want to talk about that (the
war),'' Seles said. ``It's a very personal question. I follow what's
happening in Yugoslavia like everybody.''
Seles said tennis provides a kind of therapeutic relief.
``When I go on the court, I can only concentrate on tennis,'' she
said. ``I have lots of problems myself that you have no idea of. But
when I play, I only think about the game.''
That's okay, international tennis officials say, as long as she
doesn't represent Yugoslavia.
No international tennis events are to be staged in Yugoslavia while
the sanctions -- which, among things, ban sporting contacts -- remain in
effect.
Croatia's Goran Ivanisevic, the men's No. 8 seed, had been an
outspoken supporter of his new republic's political course since it
broke from Yugoslavia in 1991.
He called the U.N. sanctions a ``great thing,'' adding, ``It is also
good that they are not playing in the Euroepan soccer championships
(next month in Sweden).
``You have to do this thing to them, because they are never going to
stop,'' he said. ``I know that the sportsmen didn't do anything wrong.
But Serbia is fighting, and they have to suffer for that.''
Added Ivanisevic: ``I'm representing Croatia; I don't know who she
represents.''
The Seles question could prove problematic, since she refuses to take
a Croatian passport, according to Ivanisevic.
``She is Hungarian, and she speaks that with her parents, because she
lived on the border,'' he said. ``But I think that she is waiting to
become USA, but there is no country that she can play for. Maybe she can
play without a flag, but that's her problem.''
The U.N. Security Council voted Saturday to impose tough economic
sanctions on the Yugoslav government in an attempt to promote peace in
Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Besides calling for a ban on cultural, scientific and technical ties
with Yugoslavia, the resolution bars Serbia and Montenegro from taking
part in international sports events.
Clerc said the tournament received no pressure from the French
Foreign Ministry about Seles.
``But because of the turmoil caused by this (U.N.) decision, we
wanted to make our opinions known,'' he said. ``We have had no official
request form anyone.''
The French Open is administered by the International Tennis
Federation through the French Tennis Federation.
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Subject: Sanctions against Serbia, Montenegro put into place
Date: 1 Jun 92 17:19:11 GMT
LONDON (UPI) -- Leading industrialized nations Monday put into force
U.N. economic and diplomatic sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro to
stop the fighting in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
In line with U.N. Resoultion 757 which was approved Saturday, Britian
expelled the Yugoslav ambassador. Svetozar Rikanovic was summoned to the
Foreign Office in London and ``asked to return to Belgrade until his
government complied with the terms of the U.N. resolution,'' a Foreign
Office spokesman said.
Rikanovic, who took up his post in September 1989, was given 14 days
to leave, the spokesman said.
The expulsion order came as the Treasury announced Serbian and
Montenegrin assets were being frozen. In addition, flights to Belgrade
were canceled, export licenses revoked, and letters sent to businesses
advising them of the economic boycott.
In 1991, British exports to Yugoslavia amounted to $338 million and
imports $275 million.
The Security Council approved the sanctions in order to stop Serb
military aggression in Bosnia-Hercegovina. They prohibit all trade with
Serbia and its ally Montenegro, a halt to investment, and the suspension
of sports and cultural exchanges as well as the withdrawal of diplomats.
In Tokyo, the Foreign Ministry Monday summoned Yugoslav Ambassador
Ranko Radulovic and informed him that Japan would impose the sanctions.
Japanese exports to Yugoslavia in 1991 consisted mainly of
automobiles and household electric goods. Yugoslavia provided chemical
materials and minerals to Japan. Total trade between the two countries
amounted to about $148 million, ministry officials said, and represented
about 0.9 percent of Yugoslavia's total foreign trading.
In a Foreign Ministry statement, Japan called on ``especially Serbia
to concentrate their utmost efforts on settling the present situation.''
In response the resolution, Germany froze banks accounts held by
Serbians and Montenegrins. But bank accounts held by Serb and
Montenegrin ``guest workers'' and pensioners in Germany, were not
blocked and money transfers from such accounts to Yugoslavia were still
allowed, the Economics Ministry said.
Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, said deposits from citizens
of former Yugoslavia totaled $731 million, but could not provide a
breakdown of the number of accounts held by ``guest workers'' and
citizens of Serbia or Montenegro.
Nearly 600,000 former Yugoslav citizens live in Germany, most of whom
are ``guest workers.''
Australia Monday welcomed the U.N. resolution and said it was
``moving expeditiously to implement the decision.''
Prime Minister Paul Keating said the government would immediately
suspend the twice-weekly service of the Yugsolav national airline JAT
and ministers were working on the implementation of other sanctions.
Keating said Australia had already reduced its diplomatic
representation in Belgrade and cuts to the Yugoslav diplomatic and
consular presence in Australia would be introduced.
Political analysts said Australian trade sanctions against Belgrade
would place more than $66.6 million worth of trade at risk.
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Subject: Milosevic claims support in Serbia voting
Date: 1 Jun 92 17:35:18 GMT
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) -- Communist President Slobodan Milosevic
of Serbia claimed Monday the republic's voters cast their ballots in
favor of a new Yugoslavia but results will not be available until
Wednesday.
``The elections were a response to foreign interference, to political
forces which were against the united Serbia and Yugoslavia, but which
suffered a political defeat,'' Milosevic said in an interview with
Belgrade Radio.
The voting Sunday was for the Parliament of the rump Yugoslavia he
engineered between Serbia and its tiny ally, Montenegro, on April 27.
Milosevic called for the ``unity of all patriotic forces'' and
praised ``all those who went to the polls to give their ballots for
Serbia and Yugoslavia, regardless of which party or individual they
voted for.''
The U.N. Security Council on Saturday imposed the sweeping sanctions,
including trade and oil embargoes on Serbia and Montenegro, in
condemning the Milosevic regime for involvement in the war in Bosnia-
Hercegovina.
Bosnia-Hercegovina, along with another two former Yugoslav republics,
Slovenia and Croatia, was admitted to the United Nations on May 22.``
``We have not carried out aggression in Bosnia-Hercegovina,''
Milosevic reiterated in rejecting anew international charges that he was
the chief architect of the Serbian offensive to rip a self-declared
state out of the neighboring republic and merge it with rump Yugoslavia.
``There is a civil war in Bosnia-Hercegovina,'' he said.
The so-called ``Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina'' has been
declared on about 70 percent of the republic's territory, even though
Bosnia-Hecegovina's 1.4 million Christian Orthodox Serbs constitute only
31 percent of the population.
Officials of the Montenegro Election Commission said the turnout in
the republic amounted to 56.74 percent of 433,363 eligible voters.
Zoran Djumic of the Serbian Election Commission reiterated his
``assessment'' that more than 60 percent of Serbia's 6.9 million
eligible voters went to the polls.
The elections were boycotted by Belgrade's major opposition parties
and condemned by the Serbian Orthodox Church, in its first such move in
49 years of cooperation with the communist regime.
At least 50,000 people marched through Belgrade's main streets Sunday
to protest the elections and commemorate the victims of the war in
Bosnia-Hercegovina.
novine.18.bale.,
Subject: EC Council president denounces Yugoslav 'genocide'
Date: 2 Jun 92 13:50:47 GMT
By LEON MANGASARIAN
BERLIN (UPI) -- The president of the European Community Council,
Portugese Prime Minister Anibal Cavaco Silva, said Tuesday he would not
rule out European support for military intervention in war-torn former
Yugoslavia ``if the genocide continues.''
Speaking at a news conference after addresing the Federal Association
of German Industry in Berlin, Silva said the 12-member European
Community did not possess the necessary instruments to sanction military
intervention and that such an initiative would have to come from the
United Nations Security Council.
Asked by reporters if he would support military intervention in
former Yugoslavia if trade sanctions failed to work, Silva said: ``If
the genocide continues, we cannot exclude that solution.''
On problems over the diplomatic recognition of the former Yugoslav
republic of Macedonia, Silva said the only issue remaining was the name
of the new state.
Greece objects to the name ``Macedonia'' because Athens has a
northern territory with the same name and fears an independent Macedonia
might make territorial claims against Greece.
``It's a matter of the name, no more than the name, but so far we
have not managed to get Greece and Macedonia to agree,'' Silva said
adding, ``We have tried everything from Upper Macedonia to Lower
Macedonia but there are limits to the imagination.''
Silva said in regard to European Community integration the creation
of a community-wide market remained the absolute priority of his EC
presidency, which lasts through the end of June before being rotated to
Britain.
He said any hesitation in ratifying the EC's Maastricht Treaty for
economic, political and monetary union would ``have a very negative
impact on Europe.''
Silva said Maastrict was the result of the acceleration of history in
eastern Europe and the unification of Germany and that all European
countries must be given equal chances to join the EC.
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Subject: Islamic nations to discuss fighting in Bosnia-Hercegovina
Date: 2 Jun 92 15:10:39 GMT
CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) -- Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa said
Tuesday the foreign ministers of Islamic countries would meet June 17-18
in Ankara, Turkey to discuss Serbian attacks in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
The meeting of the foreign ministers of the member countries of the
Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Countries, Moussa said, would
``discuss the Serbian aggression on the republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina,
halting the bloodshed there and seeking to protect the people of that
republic.''
The Egyptian minister said the meeting is scheduled for June 17-18
and that he received `` an urgent message '' from Mr. Hamed Ghabed the
Secretary-General of OIC and another one from his Turkish counterpart
about the arrangements for the parley.
Moussa has criticized Serbian attacks on the predominantly Moslem
republic that earlier this year broke away from the former Yugoslav
federation.
Egypt was one of the first countries to recall its ambassador to
Belgrade almost immediately after the United Nations approved wide-
ranging sanctions against Serbia for aggression in the war-ravaged
republic.
Meanwhile, a small group of Egyptian professionals gathered Tuesday
afternoon in front of the Yugoslav embassy here to protest the killings
and destruction in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Riot-control police did not interfere or try to disperse the crowd of
doctors, engineers and scientists. Security authorities here usually
invoke emergency laws, in force since late President Anwar Sadat was
assassinated 11 years ago, to prevent crowds from staging rallies or
demonstrations.
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Subject: Serb guerrillas attack U.N.-escorted aid convoy
Date: 2 Jun 92 17:48:02 GMT
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- Serbian guerrillas Tuesday
attacked a U.N.-escorted convoy carrying food and medical supplies to
tens of thousands of residents of a Sarajevo apartment block complex
besieged for more than a month, a U.N. spokesman and witnesses said.
A local aid worker was killed and a second was wounded, said Adnan
Abdul Razak, the spokesman for the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR)
headquarters in the embattled Bosnia-Hercegovina capital.
He and Dusko Tomic, an official of the Children's Embassy, the
private relief group that organized the convoy, said Australian Army
Col. John Wilson, the chief of the U.N. mission in the city, tried to
retrieve the pair, but his armored vehicle was fired on and forced to
retreat.
The pair was eventually picked up by Serbian militamen, Razak said.
``The Serbs used automatic weapons and snipers. It was crazy,'' said
Tomic, who survived the attack and whose report was confirmed by other
witnesses quoted by Sarajevo radio.
The incident came as Serbian Democratic Party gunners hit the city
and at least three other towns with shellfire, and warjets of the Serb-
dominated Yugoslav military staged a second day of bombing raids.
The Serbian attacks underscored Serbian Democratic Party defiance of
U.N. economic sanctions approved last weekend in a bid to force it to
end its more than 2-month-old Yugoslav army-backed drive to seize a
self-declared state and merge it to the neighboring rump Yugoslavia of
Serbia and Montenegro.
In a related development, Yugoslav army representatives announced an
agreement with republic officials to complete a Yugoslav troop
withdrawal from the city with the abandonment beginning Wednesday
morning of the Marshal Tito Barracks, the last of four facilities to be
vacated.
Under the pact brokered by Wilson, 800 cadets, soldiers, officers and
civilian dependents would be given safe passage out of the city in
exchange for the surrender of artillery that the Yugoslav army
confiscated two years ago from the republic's defense forces.
Yugoslav army Gen. Dragoljub Simonovic acknowledged to reporters that
some cannons had been deliberately damaged.
Tomic and other witnesses said four U.N. armored vehicles were
escorting a small van and large bus carrying food and medicines to
western Sarajevo's sprawling Dobrinja apartment block complex, where an
estimated 30,000 people have been cut off by a Serbian Democratic Party
siege for just over a month.
Serbian leaders lay claim to the complex in demanding the partition
of Sarajevo into ethnic districts as part of their territorial
offensive.
Serbian machine gunners and snipers fired at the convoy as it
approached a local health clinic in the Vojnicko Polje section of
Dobrinja, witnesses said, adding that at least two of the U.N. armored
cars were hit and the supply-bearing bus disabled.
``We made a mistake. We stopped,'' Tomic told United Press
International, adding that he and other Children's Embassy staff then
realized their error and fled in the van. ``We had to leave the bus
there,'' he added.
The two local workers who were hit were in the bus, Tonic said. ``It
is horrible. Dobrinja is a concentration camp.''
The attack underscored the savagery of the conflict, and was the
latest example of the Serbian Democratic Party's apparent attempt to
strangle Sarajevo into submission through a denial of food and
medicines.
In previous incidents, Serbian guerrillas have hijacked trucks
belonging to the U.N. High Commission for Refugees and private agencies,
and stolen tons of humanitarian aid supplies despite repeated assurances
from their leaders of safe passage for relief convoys.
All international aid organizations have been forced to withdraw from
Sarajevo.
The problem has outraged Western governments, fueling consideration
within the U.N. Security Council of authorizing armed U.N. military
escorts for humanitarian aid shipments and international calls for
Serbian gunmen and the Yugoslav army to relinquish control of Sarajevo
airport for relief flights.
The United Nations launched a new attempt Tuesday to obtain a Serbian
agreement to open the facility to humanitarian relief deliveries.
Shannon Boyd, a spokeswoman for UNPROFOR's Belgrade office, said the
mission's chief public liason officer, Cedric Thornberry, was instructed
to return to Sarajevo by U.N. Secretary General Boutros Ghali to help
handle the negotiations.
``The secretary general has asked that a senior official from
UNPROFOR go to join military officers in Sarajevo on opening the airport
for humanitarian assistance,'' Boyd said.
Thornberry left Sarajevo two weeks ago when the bulk of the UNPROFOR
staff was ordered out for security reasons.
The Bosnia-Hercegovina government, meanwhile, said that at least 23
people were killed and 121 others injured around the republic since
Monday morning.
The new U.N. effort to open the airport followed the collapse of a
Monday evening cease-fire that U.N. officials brokered in an effort to
promote negotiations on the facility, which the Sarajevo government
wants placed under UNPROFOR control.
Serbian leaders have insisted on maintaining their grip on the area
around the airport, a demand the government rejected.
The truce was shattered less than two hours after it began Monday by
renewed Serbian shellfire of the city and street clashes in several
neighborhoods between Serbian guerrillas and the predominantly Muslim
Slav security forces, which also include Croats and Serbs.
Artillery fire continued with short intervals into Tuesday afternoon,
killing at least two people and injuring five others, officials said.
Elsewhere, officials and news reports said, Serbian forces blasted
the towns of Tuzla, Mostar and Capljina with shellfire. Yugoslav air
force jets attacked Muslim Slav positions around Tuzla for a second
straight day, officials said.
Officials said Serbian fighters forced Muslim Slavs and Croats from
their homes in Prijedor, in western Bosnia-Hercegovina, and Trnovo, just
outside Sarajevo.
More than 1.3 million refugees have been uprooted since the end of
March, most of them Muslim Slavs and Croats terrorized into leaving
areas claimed by the Serbs, who burn their homes to ensure they do not
return, according to U.N. officials, Western diplomats and international
aid workers.
Western diplomats and international aid workers say there is evidence
that Muslim Slavs and Croats have also pursued ``ethnic cleansing,'' but
not on the same huge scale as the Serbs.
Serbian Democratic Party leader Radovan Karadzic, who says there will
be no peace until Bosnia-Hercegovina is partitioned into autonomous
ethnic regions, has declared an ``independent'' state on 70 percent of
the republic. The 1.4 million Christian Orthodox Serbs comprise only 31
percent of the population.
Karadzic's forces have persisted in their drive for land despite the
imposition Saturday by the U.N. Security Council of stiff economic
sanctions against the trunk Yugoslav federation engineered by communist
President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, internationally condemned as the
chief architect of the offensive.
The republic's 1.9 million Muslim Slavs and most of 750,000 Roman
Catholic Croats advocate an independent Bosnia-Hercegovina.
The bulk of the Serbs, convinced by propaganda and the region's
bloody history that they are endangered by the Muslim Slavs and Croats,
demand union with the Serb-dominated union of Serbia and Montenegro.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and injured since the
Serbian drive began in advance of international recognition of Bosnia-
Hercegovina in early April.
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Subject: About 200 kidney dialysis patients facing threat of death
Date: 2 Jun 92 18:25:34 GMT
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- About 200 kidney dialysis
patients face the threat of imminent death because Serbian guerrillas
have refused to allow doctors to retrieve critical medicines from an
encircled apartment complex in besieted Sarajevo, a hospital official
said.
``In a day or two, dozens of our patients will begin to die if they
do not get infusion liquid and other necessary medicines,'' said
Dobrinka Gojic, the chief nurse in the kidney dialysis department at
Sarajevo's Kosevo Hospital.
She said that the lives of about 200 patients were at stake.
Gojic said Serbian guerrillas have refused to allow doctors through
their siege of the Dobrinja apartment complex to retrieve dialysis
medicines from a warehouse in the western Sarajevo neighborhood.
Serbian Democratic Party gunmen have been encircling Dobrinja for
more than a month, refusing to allow the estimated 30,000 residents to
leave or food and medicines to go in.
The party has laid claim to the complex, parts of which were built to
house athletes and journalists during the 1984 Olympic Games, as part of
its demand for a partition of Sarajevo into ethnic districts as part of
their Yugoslav army-backed drive to carve a self-declared state out of
Bosnia-Hercegovina.
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Subject: Rump Yugoslavia calls for peace in Bosnia as sanctions bite
Date: 2 Jun 92 20:03:26 GMT
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) -- The new Yugoslav federation of Serbia
and Montenegro, beset by international condemnation and U.N. economic
sanctions, Tuesday directed Serbian forces in Bosnia-Hercegovina to
immediately observe a cease-fire and halt the bombardments of Sarajevo
and other towns.
A statement issued after the four-member Yugoslav presidency met with
communist President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Montenegrin
President Momir Bulatovic, also demanded that Serbian Democratic Party
forces relinquish control of Sarajevo airport for humanitarian relief
flights.
``The presidency will do everything in its power so that the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia contributes to peace in Bosnia-Hercegovina,'' the
statement said.
It said the new, smaller Yugoslavia forged by Serbia and Montenegro
on April 27 ``expects'' the international community to pressure
predominantly Muslim Slav and Croatian security forces in Bosnia-
Hercegovina to comply as well.
The statement by the presidency, regarded by Western diplomats as an
appendage of Milosevic's government, came as economic sanctions slapped
on Serbia and Montenegro began to bite only two days after they were
approved by the U.N. Security Council.
The measures included total embargoes on oil sales and trade, the
freezing of overseas Yugoslav assets and bans on sports and cultural
ties.
Federal authorities ordered an increase of almost 100 percent in the
price of gasoline in an apparent effort to preserve supplies for the
Yugoslav army and the agriculture sector, which must have fuel to
harvest fields and transport food to marketplaces.
Western diplomats said the rationing of fuel and basic foodstuffs
also was being planned, as well as strict economic controls to curb
galloping inflation, possibly including wage and price freezes.
The sanctions were imposed in a bid to force Milosevic to rein in
what Western governments have condemned as his proxy forces fighting to
carve a self-declared Serbian state out of newly independent Bosnia-
Hercegovina and merge it with the Serb-dominated rump Yugoslavia.
Western diplomats have expressed extreme wariness over any peace-
seeking promises by Milosevic or other Serbian leaders because they have
a record of failing to undertake many of those they have made. They say
Serbian authorities must demonstrate in concrete terms the seriousness
of any pledges.
The U.N. sanctions are certain to deepen already serious economic
chaos that has enraged many residents of Serbia and Montenegro, and some
analysts believe Milosevic faces a threat of serious political turmoil
among the many Serbs who distain his policies and the carnage in Bosnia-
Hercegovina.
The U.N. Security Council said the sanctions would remain in place
until Serbia and Montenegro take active measures to halt the conflict
that has left thousands of dead and injured and driven more than 1.3
million people from their homes in just over two months.
The presidency called on Serbian Democratic Party leaders to order
their forces to immediately turn Sarajevo airport over to U.N. control
so that flights can deliver humanitarian relief that is desperately
needed because of a Serbian blockade that has left the capital with
little food or medicine.
It also demanded that they guarantee safe passage into the republic
of humanitarian relief convoys, which U.N. and private relief agencies
halted after Serbian guerrilla hijackings of supply trucks.
The presidency's other demands included observance by the Serbian
Democratic Party of an immediate cease-fire to be monitored by U.N.
officials and the cessation of Serbian guerrilla and Yugoslav army
barrages of Sarajevo and other towns ``on the territory which they
control.''
It also called on all sides to halt ``ethnic cleansing'' operations
aimed at altering the republic's ethnic makeup by driving people from
their homes.
While saying that Muslim Slav and Croatian fighters are guilty of
such practices, Western diplomats, U.N. officials and aid agency workers
charge that they do not compare to the massive terror campaign that
Serbian forces have employed to create ``pure'' Serbian areas.
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Subject: U.N. issues conflicting reports on talks to reopen Sarajevo airport
Date: 2 Jun 92 18:47:38 GMT
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) -- Efforts by a U.N. official to hold talks with
Serbian leaders about possibly reopening the Sarajevo airport in Bosnia-
Hercegovina to humanitarian aid flights collapsed Tuesday when a U.N.
convoy was attacked, a spokesman said.
Francois Giuliani said the convoy was fired upon at a village near
the Sarajevo airport and one truck driver was critically wounded.
But a U.N. official in Sarajevo said the talks were only postponed
and would resume Wednesday with the participation of Cedric Thornberry,
the public liaison officer of the U.N. Protection Force in Yugoslavia.
The official in Sarajevo said the session was postponed because
Thornberry, who was scheduled to meet with Bosnia-Hercegovina's
leadership Tuesday afternoon, was delayed for two hours in arriving at
the airport and was not in the convoy that was attacked.
Thornberry was asked by Secretary-General Boutros Ghali to try to
negotiate for the use of the airport for U.N. humanitarian relief
flights.
But in New York, Guiliani said, ``Attempts to start the talks broke
down.'' He said his information came by telephone from U.N. officials in
Sarajevo.
He said another reason the talks could not take place was that the
cease-fire agreed to by the parties in the conflict in Bosnia-
Hercegovina was violated less than two hours after it went into effect
on Monday.
Giuliani said the truck convoy that came under attack was carrying
food to Muslims in the village. The assault forced the convoy to
withdraw.
The Sarajevo airport, under the military control of the Serb-
dominated Yugoslav army and Serbian Democratic Party, was closed to
international flights, preventing the flow of much needed food and
medicine for the civilians caught in the fighting.
novine.19.bale.,
Subject: Yugoslav army to complete withdrawl from Sarejevo
Date: 3 Jun 92 05:13:13 GMT
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- The Yugoslav army was to
complete its withdrawal Wednesday from the capital, with 800 cadets,
officers and civilian dependents set to move out of a barracks ringed by
Bosnian defense forces.
The evacuation from the Marshal Tito Barracks, organized in an
agreement brokered by Australian Army Col. John Wilson -- the chief of
the U.N. mission in the city -- will represent the last of four
facilities to be vacated.
Yet all agreements and negotiations, between the government on one
side and Serbian guerrillas and the Yugoslav army on the other, came
under new strain Tuesday when Serbian guerrillas attacked a U.N.-
escorted convoy carrying food and medical supplies to tens of thousands
of residents of a Sarajevo apartment block complex besieged for more
than a month, a U.N. spokesman and witnesses said. One person was killed
in that clash.
The ambush disrupted United Nations sponsored negotiations, which
have been aimed at arranging a viable truce that will enable relief
supplies to flow into Bosnia-Hercegovina, especially the capital, which
is ringed by Serb guerrillas.
Though the Yugoslav army is considered an ally of the Serb forces, it
is leaving its exposed barracks in the capital.
Under the withdrawal pact, the troops are to be given safe passage
out of the city in exchange for the surrender of artillery that the
Yugoslav army confiscated two years ago from the republic's defense
forces.
Yet not all the artillery is in working order.
Yugoslav army Gen. Dragoljub Simonovic acknowledged to reporters that
some cannons had been deliberately damaged.
In Tuesday's ambush, a local aid worker was killed and a second was
wounded, said Adnan Abdul Razak, the spokesman for the U.N. Protection
Force headquarters in Sarajevo.
He and said he and his men tried to retrieve the two persons hit by
gunfire, but their armored vehicle was fired on and forced to retreat.
The two casualties were was eventually picked up by Serbian
militamen, Razak said.
``The Serbs used automatic weapons and snipers,'' said Dusko Tomic,
an official of the Children's Embassy, the private relief group that
organized the convoy. ``It was crazy.''
In other fighting Tuesday, Serbian Democratic Party gunners hit the
capital and at least three other towns with shellfire, and warjets of
the Serb-dominated Yugoslav military staged a second day of bombing
raids.
The attacks defied U.N. economic sanctions, approved last Saturday,
that were aimed at forcing the Serbian guerrillas to end their more than
two-month-old drive to seize a self-declared state and merge it with
neighboring Yugoslavia, which is now reduced to two states, Serbia and
the much smaller Montenegro.
Giving details of the attack on the relief convoy, Tomic and other
witnesses said the column consisted of four U.N. escort vehicles and a
small van and a large bus carrying food and medicine to western
Sarajevo's sprawling Dobrinja apartment block complex, where an
estimated 30,000 people have been cut off by Serbian gunmen for over a
month.
Serbian leaders lay claim to the complex in demanding the partition
of Sarajevo into ethnic districts as part of their territorial
offensive.
Serbian machine gunners and snipers fired at the convoy as it
approached a local health clinic in the Vojnicko Polje section of
Dobrinja, hitting one of the U.N. armored cars and disabling the supply
bus.
``We made a mistake. We stopped,'' Tomic told United Press
International.
He said he and other Children's Embassy staff retreated in the van,
leaving behind the bus and the two relief workers inside who had been
hit.
``It is horrible,'' Tomic said. ``Dobrinja is a concentration camp.''
The attack underscored the savagery of the conflict, and it was the
latest example of the Serbian Democratic Party's apparent attempt to
strangle Sarajevo into submission through a denial of food and
medicines.
In previous incidents, Serbian guerrillas have hijacked trucks
belonging to the U.N. High Commission for Refugees and private agencies,
and they stolen tons of humanitarian aid supplies despite repeated
assurances from their leaders of safe passage for relief convoys.
All international aid organizations have been forced to withdraw from
Sarajevo.
The problem has outraged Western governments, fueling consideration
within the U.N. Security Council of authorizing armed U.N. military
escorts for humanitarian aid shipments and international calls for
Serbian gunmen and the Yugoslav army to relinquish control of Sarajevo
airport for relief flights.
The United Nations launched a new attempt Tuesday to obtain a Serbian
agreement to open the facility to humanitarian relief deliveries.
Shannon Boyd, a spokeswoman for U.N. Protection Force's Belgrade
office, said the mission's chief public liason officer, Cedric
Thornberry, was instructed to return to Sarajevo by U.N. Secretary
General Boutros Ghali to help handle the negotiations on opening the
airport.
Thornberry left Sarajevo two weeks ago when the bulk of the U.N.
Protection Force staff was ordered out for security reasons.
The latest of a series of unsuccessful U.N.-brokered cease-fires
collapsed Monday with a Serbian bombardment of the capital that killed
23 persons and wounded 121 others, according to the Bosnia-Hercegovina
government.
The United Nations is concentrating negotiations on opening the
airport to ship in relief supplies. Serbian leaders have insisted on
maintaining their grip on the area around the airport, a demand the
government rejects.
Elsewhere, officials and news reports said, Serbian forces blasted
the towns of Tuzla, Mostar and Capljina with shellfire. Yugoslav air
force jets attacked Muslim Slav positions around Tuzla for a second
straight day, officials said.
Officials said Serbian fighters forced Muslim Slavs and Croats from
their homes in Prijedor, in western Bosnia-Hercegovina, and Trnovo, just
outside Sarajevo.
More than 1.3 million refugees have been uprooted since the end of
March, most of them Muslim Slavs and Croats terrorized into leaving
areas claimed by the Serbs, who burn their homes to ensure they do not
return, according to U.N. officials, Western diplomats and international
aid workers.
Western diplomats and international aid workers say there is evidence
that Muslim Slavs and Croats have also pursued ``ethnic cleansing,'' but
not on the same huge scale as the Serbs.
Serbian Democratic Party leader Radovan Karadzic, who says there will
be no peace until Bosnia-Hercegovina is partitioned into autonomous
ethnic regions, has declared an ``independent'' state on 70 percent of
the republic. The 1.4 million Christian Orthodox Serbs comprise only 31
percent of the population.
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Subject: Attacks claim new civilian lives in Sarajevo
Date: 3 Jun 92 14:03:54 GMT
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- Serb guerrilla attacks Wednesday
killed at least four people, including a 3-year-old girl and an X-ray
technician riding in one of three buses hit by machine-gun fire as they
carried hospital staffers to work in Sarajevo, officials and news
reports said.
The new civilian casualties of the Serbian siege of the Bosnia-
Hercegovina capital came amid ongoing talks on completing a withdrawal
of the Yugoslav army from the city and the reopening its airport to
international humanitarian aid flights.
``We are going to take all possible steps to find an agreement for
the opening of the airport for humanitarian supplies,'' said Cedric
Thornberry, chief public liason officer for the U.N. Protection Force
(UNPROFOR), after talks with the republic's Muslim Slav vice president,
Ejup Ganic.
``But it is much to early to say whether that is a real imminent
possibility,'' said Thornberry, who was sent to Sarajevo by U.N.
Secretary General Boutros Ghali to help broker an accord on the airport.
Thornberry was to meet later in the day with Maj. Gen. Ratko Mladic,
the Yugoslav army general who was appointed to direct the brutal two-
month-old Serbian Democratic Party offensive to seize a self-declared
state and merge it with the new, truncated Yugoslavia formed by
communist-ruled Serbia and Montenegro.
Ghali and Western governments have called for the reopening of the
airport to allow for the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid
for hundreds of thousands of Sarajevo residents facing starvation
because of the refusal by Mladic and other Serbian leaders to lift a
blockade of the city.
``The humanitarian aid needs are very great indeed,'' said
Thornberry.
The official Bosnia-Hercegovina Press agency said that Ganic called
for the creation of a 6-square-mile demilitarized zone around the
airport and 15-mile-long humanitarian aid delivery corridors to Kisiljak
and Trnovo that would be protected by 1,000 French troops under U.N.
auspices.
Officials said that special French envoy Jacques Blot offered during
talks last week to expand the French contribution to UNPROFOR, which is
primarily involved with the U.N. peacekeeping operation in neighboring
Croatia, to provide security for U.N. humanitarian aid operations.
The republic's Muslim Slav president, Alija Izetbegovic, has called
for the airport and its environs to be turned over to the control of
UNPROFOR, and he has rejected Serbian Democratic Party insistence that
it be allowed to retain its grip on the area surrounding the facility.
There was no word, meanwhile, on progress in implementing an accord
for a Yugoslav army pullout from Marshal Tito Barracks, the only one of
four bases the Serb-dominated military has failed to vacate because of
Serbian guerrilla opposition to its agreement to return weapons
confiscated from the republic's defense forces in exchange for safe
passage.
The facility was to have been vacated Wednesday, but was delayed for
further talks at the UNPROFOR headquarters between Yugoslav army and
Bosnia-Hercegovina defense officials.
Serbian hilltop gunners, meanwhile, fired intermittent mortar and
artillery rounds into the city throughout the day amid sporadic clashes
with security forces, which are dominanted by Muslim Slavs, but also
include Croats and Serbs.
Sarajevo police officials said a shell smashed into an apartment in
suburban Kosevsko Brdo, killing three people, including a 3-year-old
girl, and wounding three others.
Serb guerrillas also loosed machine-gun fire at five buses carrying
hospital staffers to work in the central Marijin Dvor area. Bullets
sliced into three of the vehicles, killing an X-ray technician and
wounding three other workers, police said.
The incident came a day after a Serbian attack on a U.N.-escorted
convoy bearing food and medicines to the Dobrinja apartment complex,
where tens of thousands of people have been encircled for more than a
month. One person was killed in the incident.
The Kosevo Medical Center, meanwhile, appealed to Sarajevo residents
to donate spare pyjamas and underwear for some 150 patients who had been
forced by Serbian guerrillas out of a mental institution in the suburban
Jagomir area. The patients were forced to walk nearly a mile to the
Kosevo Hospital, doctors said.
Bosnia-Hercegovina government officials said their defense units were
engaged in fighting Serbian guerrillas in a number of towns across the
republic, including Gorazde, Prijedor, Maglaj and Tuzla.
At least 5,700 people have been killed, 21,000 injured and more than
1.3 million forced to leave their homes in the past two months.
Bosnia-Hercegovina, which comprises 1.9 million Muslim Slavs, 1.4
million Christian Orthodox Serbs and 750,000 Roman Catholic Croats,
seceded from the now defunct six-republic Yugoslav federation, and was
admitted to the United Nations on May 22.
Most Serbs opposed the republic's independence, demanding the right
to join the Serb-dominated rump Yugoslavia. Serbian leaders have claimed
70 percent of Bosnia-Hercegovina for their self-declared state.
The Serbian land-grab has continued despite the imposition by the U.
N. Security Council last weekend of sweeping economic sanctions against
Serbia and Montenegro.
Western government regard communist President Slobodan Milosevic of
Serbia as the main architect of the offensive in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
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Subject: Premier says Greece violated U.N. sanctions 'by accident'
Date: 3 Jun 92 16:39:26 GMT
ATHENS, Greece (UPI) -- Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis
admitted Wednesday that his customs officials violated U.N. sanctions
against Serbia, but said they did so by accident, and the embargo would
henceforth be strictly enforced.
The premier was commenting on reports that 55 trucks, including 40
Serbian vehicles, were permitted to pass through a Greek customs
checkpoint en route to Serbia. The trucks reportedly were carrying fuel
loaded earlier in Thessaloniki, a northern Greek port.
Macedonian customs officials stopped the oil tanker-trucks in the no
man's land between Greece and the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.
Greece does not have a common border with Serbia.
Mistotakis admitted that Greek customs officials had allowed the
trucks through, thus a violating the U.N. sanctions.
``It was an accident, which we corrected immediately,'' the premier
said. The sanctions were imposed on Serbia and Montenegro in a bid to
stop Serbian attacks on Croats and Muslims in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Mitsotakis said he personally looked into the matter and found an
``inexcusable delay'' in communications between the Foreign Ministry and
the Finance Ministry had occurred. As a result, customs authorities were
not officially informed of the embargo, he said.
Because of this, a number of trucks heading for Serbia did manage to
get through a Greek border checkpoint and were stopped by the
Macedonians, he said.
Greece has refused to recognize Macedonia as an independent state,
and Greek officials refers to the state as the ``republic of Skopje,''
after its capital city. First reports of the violation came from the
Macedonians.
Mitsotakis told reporters it was immaterial whether or not Athens
agreed with the U.N. sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro because
Greece was going along with the rest of the European Community to
enforce the embargo.
``Our decision is to proceed with Europe, and we will proceed until
the end,'' he said.
Greek officials said instructions have since been delivered in
writing to the border authorities, and inspections of trucks were
stepped up. Trucks carrying oil and other goods to Serbia were now being
stopped, the officials said.
However, food and medicines intended for Serbia would be allowed
through the border, they said.
In Thessaloniki, port officials said they had halted the loading and
unloading of cargo meant for or coming from Serbia and Montenegro. Until
the sanctions were imposed, oil for Serbia was imported through
Thessaloniki.
Officials said Greece was expecting to suffer losses totaling $1.1
billion because of the sanctions against Serbia, and Athens would seek
compensation from the European Community.
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Subject: U.S. says Yugoslav relief effort thwarted by Milosevic
Date: 3 Jun 92 20:51:56 GMT
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- As troops controlled by Belgrade shoot up
humanitarian convoys bound for starving and sick Yugoslavians, the
administration said Monday it won't to consider airlifts until
authorities open the Sarajevo airport.
The United Nations, the United States and the European Community in
discussions with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and in
international declarations have demanded that the intransigent leader
open the airport for humanitarian flights.
But the Serbian president says he is not always able to control his
troops at the Sarajevo airport and throughout Bosnia-Hercegovina, a
statement the administration vociferously challenges.
``The reality on the ground in Bosnia is that this is an independent
state that is being ravaged by Serbian armed forces, both army units and
irregulars, which were unleashed by Belgrade, which are inspired,
equipped, and continue to be supported by Belgrade.'' Boucher said.
``The airport has been opened to selected flights when they wanted to
make it possible.''
Boucher said Belgrade opened the airport for recent visits by U.N.
Special Envoy Cyrus Vance and for Russian Foreign Minister Andrey
Kozyrev
``Actions speak louder than words,'' Boucher said.
Many administration officials speaking under conditions of anonymity
said the United States will not airdrop the relief supplies, as the
Defense Department did for Kurds trapped on Iraq's border with Turkey
following Operation Desert Storm, for fear it would ``fall into the
wrong hands'' and never reach the starving populace.
Nevertheless, one of the last Americans at the U.S. Embassy in
Belgrade is an Air Force colonel who will make preparations for the
arrival of humanitarian flights or airdrops of relief supplies should
Milosevic give the green light, State Department spokeswoman Margaret
Tutwiler said Monday. She said that was his sole reason for remaining in
Belgrade.
``The airport can be opened if the right decisions are made by the
Serbian leadership,'' Boucher said.
Senseless attacks carried out by Belgrade's troops on relief convoys
attempting to pierce the war zone compound the international community's
frustration as Serbian soldiers herd ethnic minorities into compounds
reminiscent of concentration camps in Nazi Germany, shell maternity
hospitals and shoot children.
Examples abound of Serbian brutality in stopping humanitarian
convoys.
Serbian-controlled troops descended on a convoy headed for a suburb
of Sarajevo that has been cut off for 40 days and stole 5 tons of food
then unleashed anti-tank rockets at ambulances attempting to reach the
site.
In a separate incident, Boucher said, an ambulance driver and a 3-
year-old girl died Wednesday when Milosevic's soldiers unleashed machine
gun fire on their vehicle.
Bosnia-Hercegovina, a former republic of Yugoslavia, has been under
siege for several months from Yugoslav army troops and paramilitary
forces attempting to annex the nascent country as a province of Serbia.
More than 1,500 people have been killed, 8,000 wounded and 1 million
left homeless.
The United Nations over the weekend voted to impose stiff economic
sanctions on the renegade Belgrade regime, including an embargo on trade
and a freeze on all overseas Yugoslav cash.
It is premature to measure the effect economic penalties will have on
Milosevic and his nationalistic aspirations, Boucher said, but panic
buying and food rationing are the only visible impact so far.
``We think it's far too early still to make a useful judgment on
their effects so far,'' Boucher said. ``We hope, of course, that the U.
N. sanctions will achieve their intention, and that is to bring home to
the Serbian regime the costs of its aggression.''
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Subject: Yugoslav athletes plea to drop sports sanctions
Date: 3 Jun 92 17:55:41 GMT
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) -- Yugoslav athletes and sports officials
Wednesday condemned the U.N.-imposed ban on their participation in
international competition and called on world sports authorities to
lobby for the lifting of the measure.
``We believe that sports is independent and autonomous, and that it
is wrong, immoral and unjust to use it as a means of political pressure,
'' said an appeal issued by Yugoslav athletes and sports federations.
The appeal was sent to the International Olympic Committee,
international sports federations and the ``athletes of the world.''
It was released at a news conference held by the Council for Physical
Culture of Yugoslavia, the umbrella organization for official sports
organizations, following sweeping sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security
Council last weekend against the new federation of Serbia and
Montenegro.
The Serb-dominated, communist-ruled union was condemned as the chief
architect of the two-month Serbian guerrilla offensive to rip a self-
declared state out of newly independent Bosnia-Hercegovina.
The U.N. sanctions included a ban on Yugoslav participation in
international sports events.
``We thought that sanctions on sports were out of the question,''
said Bogdan Sunderic, the president of the Council for Physical Culture.
In their appeal, Yugoslav sports officials and athletes said the U.N.
sports ban ``brought into question the purity, independence and autonomy
of sports, which is losing its universality and ethical values.''
``It has become an instrument and means in waging international
policy and achieving certain political goals,'' the appeal said.
``In the name of sports, its autonomy and freedom, in the name of
preserving its basic values, we appeal to you to do everything in your
power to exclude the sanctions on sports as soon as possible,'' the
statement continued.
Wednesday's appeal coincided with an announcement from the IOC saying
it had set a June 15 deadline for deciding whether to withdraw
Yugoslavia's invitation to compete at next month's Barcelona Olympics.
``We will probably convene a meeting of the IOC executive board next
week. We will make a decision by June 15,'' said IOC director of
information Michele Verdier.
Since the U.N. decision, Yugoslavia has been suspended until further
notice by FIFA, soccer's world governing body, and expelled by UEFA from
the European soccer championship finals starting in Sweden next week.
The International Tennis Federation has also banned Yugoslavia from
all team competitions.
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Subject: U.N. official: Sarajevo residents face starvation
Date: 4 Jun 92 11:31:11 GMT
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- A U.N. official warned Thursday
that ``starvation is coming closer'' for hundreds of thousands in the
shell-shattered Bosnia-Hercegovina capital of Sarajevo trapped by a
Serbian guerrilla stranglehold.
Serb forces renewed attacks on a Sarajevo apartment complex with
fierce artillery and tank fire before dawn and fought overnight street
clashes in the city and the northeastern town of Tuzla with
predominantly Muslim Slav security forces, Sarajevo Radio and residents
said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties in the latest carnage
of the more than two-month-long conflict triggered by a Yugoslav army-
backed Serbian Democratic Party offensive to seize a self-declared state
in Europe's newest country.
``Starvation is coming closer here, and I hope the parties fully
realize how serious the situation is,'' said Cedric Thornberry, head of
civil affairs for the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR). ``There are
increasing numbers of people who are desperate.''
Thornberry, who was sent to Sarajevo by U.N. Secretary General
Boutros Ghali, confirmed in an interview with United Press International
reports by residents that large sections of the population are on the
verge of exhausting their meager food supplies.
Serb guerillas leaders have refused to allow food and medicines
through their encirclement of the city, where an estimated 400,000 of
the 560,000 residents have been trapped under near daily bombardments
for more than a month.
Thornberry said he was to hold a second round of negotiations later
in the day with Serbian Democratic Party President Radovan Karadzic and
Yugoslav army Col. Gen. Ratko Mladic, who was appointed last month as
commander of the ``army'' of the self-declared Serbian state.
Thornberry met with representatives of the seven-member republic
presidency -- comprising Muslim Slavs, Croats and moderate Serbs -- on the
second day of an attempt to broker an agreement on reopening of the
Serb-held Sarajevo airport to humanitarian aid flights.
Serb leaders want to merge their unrecognized state to the Serb-
dominated rump Yugoslavia of Serbia and Montenegro, which have taken no
apparent concrete steps to rein in what Western governments regard as
their proxy forces despite the imposition last weekend of sweeping U.N.
economic sanctions on the two communist-ruled republics last weekend.
President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, regarded by Western nations
as the main mastermind behind the attempt to create what critics call
``Great Serbia,'' offered in a British television interview to resign if
that would end the sanctions.
He qualified his offer by saying that the matter was not that simple,
acknowledging in Wednesday's ITV interview that the U.N. Security
Council was not demanding his resignation as the price of lifting
sanctions.
But Western diplomatic sources said the Serbian leaders had shown no
willingness to abandon their insistence that their forces retain control
of the area around the facility.
The government has called on Serbian forces to immediately relinquish
their grip on the airport and a 6-mile-wide area around the facility,
which it wants declared a demilitarized zone and placed under the
protection of UNPROFOR troops.
U.N.-brokered efforts were also underway to arrange the completion of
a withdrawal from Sarajevo by the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army with a
pullout by some 800 cadets, soldiers and civilian dependents from
Marshal Tito Barracks, which is beseiged by an estimated 5,000 members
of the security forces.
Parents of cadets met separately with U.N. officials and Yugoslav
army commanders, officials said.
The Yugoslav army has failed to fulfill a May 22 accord to abandon
the base, the last of four it is still occupying, because of fierce
objections by its Serbian Democratic Party allies to the return to the
outgunned security forces of heavy artillery confiscated two years ago.
News reports and residents reported fierce overnight fighting between
Serbian guerrillas and security forces in the northern Sarajevo suburb
of Kosovo and near Sarajevo airport. The clashes ended just before dawn.
Residents of the western Dobrinja apartment block complex said parts
of the sprawling settlement were blasted by Serbian tank and artillery
fire until about 3 a.m..
``It was really heavy,'' said one resident contacted by telephone.
``We were all in the basement and our building was shaking.''
An estimated 30,000 people -- Muslim Slavs, Croats and Serbs -- have
been encircled for just over a month inside the complex by Serbian
guerrillas.
A Serb attack on U.N.-escorted humanitarian relief convoy Tuesday
left at least one person dead and prevented the delivery of aid,
including baby food.
Mario Susko, a Sarajevo University professor, said in a telephone
interview that he and several other men swept through vacant apartments
in their block in an effort to supplement their depleting food supplies.
``We have gone through the building because five apartments are
empty. Then we put our resources together. There are 12 of us and we
have food until Sunday and then it is finished,'' Susko said.
``We are not sure what we will do then,'' he said.
Dobrinja is just one of about a half dozen residential complexes that
have been blockaded by Serbian forces, whose leaders have claimed the
areas in demanding the partition of Sarajevo into ethnic districts.
Karadzic, widely regarded as a pawn of Milosevic, has claimed 70
percent of Bosnia-Hercegovina, even though Serbs comprise only 31
percent of the 4.3 million population. Serbian forces control more than
half of the republic.
They launched their land-grab in the runup to international
recognition in early April of the independence of Bosnia-Hercegovina,
which is comprised of 1.9 million Slavic Muslims, 1.4 million Christian
Orthodox Serbs and 750,000 Roman Catholic Croats.
Muslim Slavs, most Croats and some Serbs supported independence,
vehemently opposed to their inclusion in a Yugoslavia ruled by
Milosevic, whose human rights record is regarded by Western nations and
international human rights groups as the worst in Europe.
Most Serbs, however, demand the right to join the Serbia-Montenegro
union.
Incomplete estimates have placed casualties at almost 6,000 dead and
more than 22,000 injured. More than 1.2 million people have been forced
to flee their homes.
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Subject: Communists sweep Yugoslav polls; ultra-nationalists second
Date: 4 Jun 92 17:10:29 GMT
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) -- The communist rulers of Serbia and
Montenegro won a two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections for the
new, truncated Yugoslavia, with second place taken by ultra-nationalists
backing the conquest of Serb areas of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia,
results showed Thursday.
Serbia's most prominent opposition leader charged the elections were
rigged, saying the republic's main democratic opposition coalition hoped
to call peaceful protests in Belgrade before the end of the month in a
bid to drive the communists from power.
``The elections were staged, non-democratic, one-party and falsified,
'' Vuk Draskovic, the head of the Serbian Renewal Movement, told a news
conference.
Western observers and Serbian Orthodox Church officials also
denounced the elections.
The results consolidate the grip on the Serbia-Montenegro union by
its architect, President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, as he confronts
growing outrage among many Serbs over economic chaos deepened by U.N.
sanctions, and the bloody Serbian territorial offensive in Bosnia-
Hercegovina.
The elections were held only hours after the U.N. Security Council
slapped sweeping sanctions on Serbia and Montenegro for the Yugolav
army-backed offensive that has claimed an estimated 5,600 lives and left
more than 22,000 people injured since the end of March.
Political analysts expressed fears of a hardening in Milosevic's
policies in response to the international measures, the looming
opposition challenge and the influence of the ultra-nationalist Serbian
Radical Party, which won the second largest share of seats.
``It is very scary,'' said a Western diplomat. ``If anyone is going
to have any influence on the regime, it's going to be the radical right.
''
Analysts noted that the results were expected as last Sunday's
elections were boycotted by the mainstream opposition, rejected by the
Serbian Orthodox Church and condemned as undemocratic by the Conference
on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
In releasing the results of the races for the federal Parliament's
138-seat Chamber of Citizens, Yugoslav Election Commission Chairman said
56.6 percent of Serbia's 6.5 million voters cast ballots.
Draskovic charged the turnout was only 25 percent.
Montenegrin officials previously announced a turnout in their
republic of 57.4 percent of the 430,000 voters.
Nisavic, who offered no explanation for the five-day delay in the
release of election results, said Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia
and its Montenegrin appendage, the Democratic Party of Socialists,
combined to win 96 seats: 73 to the former and 23 to the latter.
They were followed by 33 seats for the Serbian Radical Party, two for
a party of ethnic Hungarians in Serbia's nominally autonomous province
of Vojvodina, two for the League of Communists-Movement for Yugoslavia --
formed by former hardline Marxist bureaucrats and army officers -- and
three to independents.
Re-polling was called in two contests.
The Parliament also consists of a 40-member Chamber of Republics,
whose members are selected by the Serbian and Montenegrin assemblies,
guaranteeing total communist control of the Parliament and government of
rump Yugoslavia that it is expected to chose later this month.
The truncated Yugoslavia was declared on April 27 by Serbia and
Montenegro in an attempt to inherit the international status and assets
of the defunct six-republic Balkan federation founded after World War
II.
Western powers and many other countries have withheld recognition of
the union, which is threatened with the loss of its U.N. seat.
Although the polls made the Serbian Radical Party the largest
opposition group, many political analysts and Western diplomats regard
it as a creation and ally of Milosevic's regime.
Its leader is Vojislav Seselj, a self-declared Serbian ``duke,'' who
calls for the conquest of a ``Great Serbia'' comprising large swaths of
Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia already captured by minority Serbian
guerrillas with military support of the Yugoslav army and political and
financial backing from Milosevic's regime.
Seselj once urged Serbs to conserve ammunition by ``slitting the
throats and gouging the eyes of Croats with rusty shoehorns.''
He has also called for the forced deportation of ethnic Albanians and
Croats from Serbia.
Milosevic, in a recent magazine interview, called Seselj his favorite
opposition politician, saying: ``He is an honorable man.''
Seselj's paramilitary wing, the Serbian Chetnik Movement, named after
pro-monarchy Serbian guerrillas of World War II, has participated in
fighting in both Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
It was accused earlier this year by the New York-based Helsinki Watch
human rights organization of widespread abuses and atrocities against
civilians in Croatia.
During the runup to the elections, Milosevic held out the possibility
of forming a coalition with Seselj's party.
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Subject: NATO accepts peacekeeping role in principle
Date: 4 Jun 92 22:06:10 GMT
OSLO, Norway (UPI) -- NATO broke a decades-long tradition Thursday,
agreeing in principle to allow alliance troops to be used as
peacekeepers outside the territory of member countries.
But officials said there were no immediate plans for the use of North
Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in ongoing conflicts in former
Yugoslavia or the embattled Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.
``We have accepted the principle of giving peace-keeping support to
the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe if it asks for it,''
Secretary-General Manfred Woerner told reporters after the meeting of
NATO foreign ministers.
The 52-member CSCE includes the 16 NATO members, but has no force of
its own which can be used in peace-keeping efforts in member states.
``We hope that this is an incentive for the CSCE summit next month, to
show them that we support them and to bolster the (CSCE) process,''
Woerner said.
But in the same breath he added that NATO involvement in peacekeeping
would require ``a unanimous request from the 52 members of the CSCE, and
unanimous agreement from the 16 members of the Atlantic alliance.''
Asked if NATO was prepared to send troops on a peacekeeping mission
to former Yugoslavia or other European conflicts, Woerner said: ``There
has been no request. We have taken a political decision of principle
here in Oslo.''
In Washington, Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger urged
NATO foreign ministers to authorize the use of troops to implement a U.
N. resolution that calls for the safe passage of relief convoys through
Bosnia-Hercegovina and the opening of the airport at Sarajevo.
``In the case of the former Yugoslavia, NATO should stand ready to
support implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 757 as
appropriate, and in coordination with other international organizations,
'' Eagleburger said.
Despite U.S. pressure for the alliance to lend military assistance to
a United Nations embargo on the new, smaller Yugoslav federation of
Serbia and Montenegro, NATO shied away from raising the issue of naval
or other military deployment.
But a strongly worded statement said: ``We strongly condemn the
continuing resort to force and mounting loss of life in the territory of
the former Yugoslavia,'' and went on to lend ``full support'' to U.N.
sanctions imposed last week.
``All parties to the conflict (in Bosnia-Hercegovina) have
contributed in their own way to the present state of affairs, but the
main responsibility falls on the authorities of Serbia and Montenegro,''
the statement said.
``The pattern of clear, gross and uncorrected violations of CSCE
commitments by the authorities in Belgrade and by the Yugoslav National
Army is now firmly established,'' it said.
NATO officials said that under Thursday's decision, peacekeeping
troops would not be made available to the CSCE automatically.
``We will look at it on a case-by-case basis and decide then,''
Woerner added, saying that NATO was not, nor would become, the extended
arm of the CSCE.
NATO ministers also discussed several other difficult issues facing
the alliance as it travels the road of defining a new European role.
Woerner said Germany and France had given NATO a commitment that a
recently formed Franco-German force of 30,000 men, designed to be the
core of a new Euro-army was not independent of NATO, but could be called
upon by the alliance if necessary.
``There are still proceedures and other issues that have to be
cleared up before this problem is solved,'' Woerner said, but he added
that ministers had been reassured by French and German leaders.
Similarly, relations with the nine-nation Western European Union were
the topic of debate. The nine EC members gathered in the WEU have been
pressing for a more prominent role for their organization. ``There is
coordination with NATO,'' Woerner said.
The ministers also issued a statement on the continuing bloodshed in
Nagorno-Karabakh, and ethnic Armenian enclave administered by
Azerbaijan. ``A lasting solution to the conflict can only be achieved
through negotiations in good faith based on respect for international
law,'' the ministers said.
They went on to appeal to all parties to ``seize the opportunity to
end the fighting,'' and to create conditions in which displaced persons
can return to their homes.
As the NATO ministers met, representatives of the Commonwealth of
Independent States countries and countries of the former Warsaw Pact
began arriving in Oslo to prepare for a meeting Friday of the North
Atlantic Cooperation Council.
That meeting was to end with a signing ceremony of the Conventional
Forces in Europe Treaty which sets new and reduced levels of tanks,
troops and artillery in Europe. Although signed by the Warsaw Pact and
NATO in 1990, the treaty has not yet been implemented to due confusion
surrounding the demise of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.
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Subject: Clashes continue as Yugoslav army withdraws some forces from Sarajevo
Date: 5 Jun 92 15:13:26 GMT
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- The Yugoslav army Friday
withdrew about 800 cadets, troops and civilians from Sarajevo, but left
behind some 80,000 troops with heavy weaponry expected to join a new
Serb militia fighting the government of Bosnia-Hercegovina.
The withdrawal means that the Yugoslav army decision of April 27 to
pull its troops out of Sarejvo has been formally implemented, but has
not changed the situation in the newly independent republic, which has
been under siege by Serb guerillas backed by Belgrade. The move also led
to a resumption of talks on reopening Sarajevo's airport to bring in
relief supplies and food.
Clashes continued, meanwhile, in Sarajevo and across the former
central republic of the now defunct Yugoslav federation.
According to incomplete information, at least three people were
killed and five wounded since Thursday in Sarajevo, police said.
Serb guerrillas are fighting to divide Sarajevo as part of their
drive to seize the self-declared state they want to annex to the new
Yugoslav federation forged by communist-ruled Serbia and tiny Montenegro
on April 27.
Jusuf Pusina, a Muslim Slav assistant interior minister confirmed the
Yugoslav army pullout was completed after more than two weeks of
negotiations with militant Serb leaders.
Shortly after midday Friday, a convoy of trucks, buses and passenger
cars with troops carrying only side arms began pulling out from the
barracks in downtown Sarajevo as Bosnia-Hercegovina's mostly Muslim Slav
and Croat defense forces watched the movement, officials said.
Officials of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) for
neighboring Croatia accompanied the convoy of Yugoslav army vehicles.
No incidents were reported as more than 15 buses, 40 trucks and 60
passenger cars left the barracks in the city center for the Serb-held
Lukavica military base three miles out of Sarajevo, witnesses said.
Serb guerrillas, armed by the Yugoslav army and positioned on
hilltops surrounding Sarajevo, have kept the predominantly Muslim Slav
city of 560,000 under siege for about two months. They have kept daily
shelling and firing on civilian targets in the city.
Bosnia-Hercegovina defense forces had besieged the Marshal Tito
Barracks of the Yugoslav army, the last of its facilities in Bosnia,
preventing the army from taking heavy weaponry.
Militant Serb political and military leaders, who want to carve out
the self-declared ``Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina'' out of the
republic and merge it with neighboring Serbia, had opposed an accord
that included the pullout of the troops only with light arms while heavy
weapons remain in the barracks.
The Serb-led Yugoslav army and Bosnia-Hercegovina government
officials reached the accord on the withdrawal with assistance from
officials of UNPROFOR on May 22 but the Serb leaders in Sarajevo only
Friday agreed to the pull out without the heavy artillery and other
weapons.
Negotiations were under way on the reopening of Sarajevo's Butmir
Airport, taken over by Serbian guerrillas two months ago, to allow free
passage to flights with international humanitarian aid to the shattered
and starving city.
The Yugoslav army on April 27 ordered all soldiers from Serbia and
Montenegro to return home, leaving an estimated 80,000 Serbs native to
Bosnia-Hercegovina to join Serbian Democratic Party gunmen and other
guerrilla units in the ``army'' of the self-declared Serbian state.
More than 15,000 Yugoslav army soldiers, natives to Serbia and
Montenegro, have been pulled out from Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Militant Serb leaders are demanding the republic be partitioned into
autonomous ethnic regions, and have claimed 70 percent of its territory,
even though Serbs comprise only 31 percent of the population of 4.4
million.
About 6,000 people have been killed and more than 21,000 injured
since guerrillas of the Serbian Democratic Party, widely regarded as a
puppet of Serbia's uncompromising communist rulers, and Yugoslav army
units launched their offensive in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
About 1.3 million people, mostly Muslim Slavs and Croats, have been
forced from their homes in what Western officials and the U.N. Secretary
General Boutros Ghali have condemned as a deliberate terror campaign by
Serbian forces to create ethnically ``pure'' Serbian areas in the
republic.
Bosnia-Hercegovina, which is made up of 1.9 million Muslim Slavs, 1.4
million Christian Orthodox Serbs and 750,000 Roman Catholic Croats, won
international recognition as an independent state on April 6 and was
admitted to the United Nations on May 22.
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Subject: Pell calls for military action
Date: 4 Jun 92 19:10:35 GMT
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Chairman Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee Thursday urged the United States, through
the United Nations, to initiate military action against Serbia to stop
the deadly attacks on Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Pell suggested the use of the naval power of the United States, NATO,
Russia and Ukraine to enforce the U.N.-sanctioned embargo against
Serbia; closing the airspace over Bosnia-Hercegovina to the planes of
the rump Yugoslavian federation; and taking military action against the
artillery now pounding Sarajevo.
``In the seven months of Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, some 5,000
Kuwaitis perished,'' Pell said in a statement. ``This toll has been
exceeded in just three months in Bosnia-Hercegovina.''
Pell said the U.N. sanctions should be given time to work but, unlike
the crisis in Iraq, he said there is no time for diplomacy in the
Balkans.
``As we speak, war is being waged against innocent people,'' he said.
``Each passing day brings hundreds of new casualties. The historic and
beautiful cities of Sarajevo and Mostar are being reduced to rubble. As
lives are lost, so too is the cultural heritage of Europe and the world.
''
Pell said, ``It is time consider further steps to save lives. First,
the blockade against Serbia and Montenegro must be tightly enforced.
``The United States, our NATO partners and our Russian and Ukrainian
friends heve enormous naval resources in the vicinity of Yugoslavia,''
he said. ``We should promptly seek a U.N. Security Council resolution
authorizing the use of these naval assets to block the coast of
Montenegro.''
``The airspace over Bosnia-Hercegovina should be closed to the rump
Yugoslav federation,'' Pell said. ``We should seek a U.N. resolution
authorizing the use of air power against Serbia. A U.N. declared
intention to help defend the airspace over Bosnia could be sufficient to
keep Serbia out.''
And, Pell added, again acting through the United Nations, the United
States ``and our friends and allies should consider military action
against the artillery now pounding Sarajevo.
``Militias shelling innocent civilians in a major city are not a
military force, but a bunch of cowards,'' Pell said. ``I suspect that
such 'bravery' will quickly disapper with the arrival of just a few
well-directed smart bombs.''
Pell said, ``The United States cannot become the policeman of the
world. Yet this new world order will be another empty promise if we
stand aside and allow Serbia to continue the slaughter in Bosnia-
Hercegovina.''
novine.23.bale.,
AP 06/02 11:51 EDT V0683
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Croatian troops as well as the Serbian-led
Yugoslav army are fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, U.N.
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali told the Security Council
Tuesday.
A report by the U.N. chief last month laid most of the blame for
violence in Bosnia on the Yugoslav army and Serbian guerrillas trying
to carve out "ethnically pure" regions.
That report noted Croatian troops were also alleged to be active in
Bosnia, but added that the Croatian government had denied playing any
role in the fighting.
Tuesday's report confirms the presence of Croatian troops and says
they are under Croatia's control, whether formally or de facto.
In April, the Security Council passed a resolution demanding the
withdrawal of both the Yugoslav army and Croatian troops from
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The increased belligerence of the Yugoslav army and its Serb
paramilitary allies led the council to clamp an oil and trade embargo
on Serbia and Montenegro on Saturday.
Serbia and Montenegro are the only two original republics of
Yugoslavia still in the reconstituted country.
Boutros-Ghali's report Tuesday points a finger at Croatia: "As
regards the withdrawal of elements of the Croatian army now in Bosnia
and Herzegovina, information currently available in New York suggests
that no such withdrawal has occurred."
U.N. peacekeepers in Yugoslavia have "received reliable reports of
Croatian army personnel, in uniform, operating within, and as part of,
military formations in Bosnia and Herzegovina," he said.
"The Croatian authorities have consistently taken the position that
the Croatian soldiers in Bosnia and Herzegovina have left the Croatian
army and are not subject to its authority.
"International observers do not, however, doubt that portions of
Bosnia and Herzegovina are under the control of Croatian military
units, whether belonging to the local territorial defense, to
paramilitary groups or to the Croatian army," Boutros-Ghali said.
With the various fighting forces splintering in Yugoslavia and
political authorities disavowing any control over the combatants,
Boutros-Ghali said it would be hard to imagine how the United Nations
or other international observers could effectively monitor a
cease-fire or demobilization.
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16:53 EDT V0278
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- An hour after the Security Council clamped
sanctions on Serbia over the weekend, it received a report maintaining
that Belgrade doesn't control the main Serb militia fighting in
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The report by U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and his
chief peacekeeper, Marrack Goulding, also said Croatian soldiers are
involved in the fighting in Bosnia.
Security Council ambassadors are wondering now whether they were
too tough on Serbia.
On Saturday, the council voted 13-0, with China and Zimbabwe
abstaining, to clamp an oil embargo, trade sanctions and sports
sanctions on Serbia and Montenegro, the republics remaining in
Yugoslavia.
A Western diplomat said Wednesday that if council members had seen
Boutros-Ghali's report before the vote, the resolution would have
barely squeaked through, with perhaps 10 votes. Nine are needed for
adoption.
More countries would have abstained, and it is possible that India
or Zimbabwe might have voted against it, he said, speaking on
condition of anonymity.
The report, made public Wednesday, says the key Serb-led militia in
Sarajevo, Bosnia's capital, is apparently no longer controlled by
Belgrade or the Yugoslav army. The militia is under the command of
Lt.-Gen. Ratko Mladic.
"We have now got a serious problem," said Zimbabwe's ambassador,
S.S. Mumbengegwi. "The secretary-general has come out with a very
clear report that Belgrade is no longer able to control the Serbs in
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
"So what are the sanctions going to achieve? The whole purpose of
the sanctions was to get Belgrade to issue instructions to the Serbs
in Bosnia-Herzegovina to stop fighting," he said.
Most ambassadors still blame Serbia and the Bosnian Serb militias
for most of the fighting in Bosnia. But they are having second
thoughts over the one-sidedness of the sanctions.
"We certainly would have preferred to have had that information
before discussing the draft resolution," said French Ambassador
Jean-Bernard Merimee. "But the resolution has been voted on. In
response we have to stick to it." Alluding to Croatia's role in
Bosnia, Merimee said, "If it is proven fact, in the future, that
Croatia refuses to abide by what has been requested from all the
parties ... at that time the council will perhaps meet again ... to
contemplate sanctions against the offender."
The council's president, Belgian Ambassador Paul Noterdaeme, would
not comment on whether Croatia might face sanctions. But he rejected
the contention that Serbia was not responsible for bloodletting in
Bosnia.
"They can not let loose all these elements and all these soldiers
and then say they are washing their hands -- that is not correct,"
Noterdaeme said.
Council ambassadors questioned the timing of the release of the
report, Noterdaeme said. But he said the late distribution was the
result of a technical delay.
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Subject: Bush orders stringent sanctions against Yugoslavia
Date: 5 Jun 92 17:43:57 GMT
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- President Bush Friday banned exports and imports
of goods from Yugoslavia, barred landing rights and took other stringent
measures to conform to the U.N. Security Council resolution that imposed
an economic embargo on Serbia and Montenegro.
The United Nations acted May 30 in response to the Serbian siege on
Bosnia-Hercegovina along with efforts to isolate Serbian President
Slobodan Milosevic, head of the two-republic Yugoslavia.
The directive prohibits:
--Exports and imports of goods and services between the United States
and Yugoslavia.
--Any dealings by a U.S. person in connection with property
originating in Yugoslavia.
--Transactions related to transportation to or from Serbia and
Montenegro.
--Granting of permission to any aircraft take off from, land in or
overfly the United States if that aircraft is destined to land in or
take off from the territory of Yugoslavia.
--The performance by an American or any person in certain categories
of projects in Yugoslvia.
--Continues to block all property of the government of Yugoslavia as
well as assets of the former government.
--Clarifies the definition of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to
mean Serbia and Montenegro.
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Subject: U.N. reaches agreement in principle to reopen Sarajevo airport
Date: 5 Jun 92 22:27:05 GMT
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) -- A U.N. official announced Friday that the
leadership of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Serbian military officials have
agreed in principle to re-open the Sarajevo airport to U.N. humanitarian
aid flights.
Francois Giuliani said Bosnia-Hercegovina's leaders signed the
agreement reached after three days of U.N.-led talks in Sarajevo while
Serbian officials, for technical reasons, could not sign immediately.
``The secretary-general has informed the Security Council that the
negotiations have culminated in an agreement in principle to reopen the
airport for the delivery of humanitarian reliefs,'' said Giuliani, who
is the spokesman for Secretary-General Boutros Ghali.
The information was given to the 15-nation council, which convened an
urgent meeting late Friday afternoon to discuss the new development.
Giuliani warned that the agreement in principle to reopen the airport
may not go through or be respected by all sides in the conflict, which
have broken cease-fire accords they signed since the civil war began two
months ago in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
``We are not beating the drums, it is not over yet,'' he said.
However, Guiliani said, ``The agreement has been reached and endorsed
by the presidency of Bosnia-Hercegovina. He said the leadership of the
Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina ''accepted the agreement, but has
not yet signed it for technical reasons.``
``The viability of the agreement depends of the good faith of the
parties,'' he said.
Signing for the United Nations were Cedric Thorberry, the top U.N.
civilian in Sarajevo, and U.N. peacekeeping leaders. Thornberry
conducted the talks, which started on Wednesday, Giuliani said.
The negotiations to reopening of the Sarajevo airport was the first
and urgent step requested by the Security Council so international
organizations could bring in much needed food and medical supplies for
the tens of thousands of residents of Sarajevo caught by the savage
daily artillery poundings by Serbian forces which have encircled the
capital.
Giuliani said the Bosnian leadership and the Serbs have also agreed
on a security zone around the airport, which would put heavy artillery
and anti-aircraft weapons outside of the range of the airport and under
the control of the U.N. Protection Force in Yugoslavia.
It was not known immediately when the airport would be open to air
traffic. Giuliani said the agreement in principle required that the
airport be inspected before U.N. humanitarian flights could begin. To do
so, the United Nations would have to send more peacekeeping troops to
the area to provide security, he said.
Giuliani said Ghali will ask the Security Council to enlarge the
mandate of UNPROFOR, which was set up for the peace operation in
Croatia, so it can take over duties at the Sarajevo airport.
He said Ghali won't be able to provide to the council details of U.N.
military deployment to Sarajevo until early next week.
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AP 06/04 07:35 EDT V0492
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Serbia called Thursday for the lifting
of international sanctions against it following the release of a U.N.
report that apparently clears its government of exclusive blame for
the war in Bosnia.
Sporadic fighting continued overnight in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
including the capital Sarajevo. Violence across the newly independent
republic claimed at least 45 lives Wednesday, and Bosnian leaders
pleaded for foreign intervention.
On the sixth day of U.N. sanctions against Serbia and its ally
Montenegro, there was little sign of hardship in the Serbian capital
except for long lines of cars at service stations. Belgrade's stores
remained well-stocked.
The U.N. report, made public Wednesday, said Serb fighters in
Bosnia are no longer under direct control from Belgrade and have
launched some of the worst violence in violation of orders to show
restraint.
It also said Croatian soldiers were on the offensive in Bosnia,
where an estimated 5,700 people have been killed since Feb. 29 when
the republic's majority Slavic Muslims and Croats voted for
independence from Yugoslavia.
Since the secession vote, Serbs have seized about two-thirds of the
republic with the aid of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army.
The report by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was not
available to the Security Council on Saturday when it imposed harsh
sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro, the remnants of the Yugoslav
federation after Slavonia, Croatia, Macedonia and Bosnia seceded.
It differs from previous assessments that lay much of the blame for
the fighting on the Yugoslav army, and it casts doubt on the
effectiveness of the effort to halt the fighting by imposing sanctions
on Yugoslavia.
"The report returns and strengthens our trust in the United
Nations," said Branko Kostic, the head of Yugoslavia's collective
presidency. He urged the lifting of sanctions.
"The sanctions were intended to intimidate Yugoslavs, and someone
did not want it published before the unprecedented (U.N.) resolution
was passed," Kostic said in an interview.
Branko Brankovic, an adviser in Yugoslavia's Foreign Ministry, said
the result of the new report should be "the lifting of the sanctions
against Yugoslavia and the punishment of the real culprits."
The Vecernje Novosti newspaper, close to Serbia's president,
Slobodan Milosevic, said that all three sides in the Bosnia war are to
blame, including the Serb forces there.
The U.N. report says the loss of Serbian control over the
irregulars began month ago when the Yugoslav army began discharging
soldiers, most of whom have taken their weapons -- including artillery
-- and joined Serb militias.
There also are increasing signs of a rift between Bosnian Serb
leaders and Milosevic, by far the strongest politician in the new
Yugoslavia.
Milosevic hinted he could resign to ease international sanctions on
his republic.
Milosevic told Britain's Channel 4 TV he was prepared to quit "if
it is a price for lifting of sanctions, a just solution."
About 50,000 people demonstrated against his policies in Belgrade
on Sunday.
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AP 06/05 08:23 EDT V0885
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- About 800 Yugoslav federal
army soldiers on Friday were permitted to leave a downtown Sarajevo
barracks where they had been trapped by Muslim forces for almost a
month.
The move could hasten a cease-fire between Serbian irregulars and
Bosnian government forces, made up of pro-independence Muslims and
Croatians. Their battles, which began in March, have been among the
worst of the year of fighting in the former Yugoslavia.
"It went without a hitch," said Col. John Wilson, head of the U.N.
observer team, after the convoys headed for Serbian-controlled area on
the southwestern edge of town.
Also evacuated were about 100 women and children trapped with the
Yugoslav forces.
Hours earlier, a fierce artillery attack from Serbian positions
pounded the Bosnian capital, killing two people and turning the
predawn skies orange.
Four convoys of trucks, buses and cars, each flanked by U.N.
armored personnel carriers and Bosnian police cars, sped from the
Marshal Tito barracks as the Yugoslav soldiers were evacuated.
Bosnian government militiamen, blue-and-white Bosnian coats of arms
stitched to their shirts, looked out from doorways or from behind
sandbagged positions. Some waved their AK-47 assault rifles in the
air to celebrate.
Bosnian officers said the evacuation had been held up because Serb
irregulars opened fire on Muslims clearing a bridge on the Miljacka
River over which the Yugoslav army convoys had to pass.
The evacuation began after days of stalled negotiations over who
would get the barracks' heavy weapons after the troops left. They fell
to the Bosnian forces who claimed the barracks.
The Marshal Tito barracks, which effectively cut the city in half,
had been shelled repeatedly. The soldiers inside had responded with
fire of their own.
novine.24dpaun,
"POLITIKA", subota 6. jun 1992, str. 2
REAGOVANJA U SVETU NA NAJNOVIJI IZVEŠTAJ BUTROSA GALIJA
...
"Milijet" navodi da se "mladi oficiri pripremaju da svrgnu
sadašnju vladu i Slobodana Miloševića". List prenosi mišljenje
neidentifikovanih zapadnih posmatrača, jedinstvenih u oceni da
se, kako se navodi, "u samoj armiji nalazi kadar koji će moći
da izvrši udar protiv Miloševića", dodajući da su neki "genera-
li koji su dali ostavku u sprezi sa tim kadrom".
...
dPaun(!?)
novine.25.bale.,
Subject: Serbs keep shelling Sarajevo; 11 dead
Date: 6 Jun 92 12:43:48 GMT
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- Serb guerrillas pounded Sarajevo
civilian zones Saturday with heavy artillery, leaving at least 11 dead
and 20 wounded in the battered and starving Bosnia-Hercegovina capital,
officials and witnesses said.
``It was one of those infernal nights,'' said a police official in
the besieged city of 560,000.
Sarajevo Radio appealed Saturday afternoon to residents to donate
blood for the injured.
A U.N. official, meanwhile, confirmed an agreement had been reached
by the Serbian and Bosnia-Hercegovina officials on reopening Sarajevo's
Butmir Airport to allow flights of food and other humanitarian aid,
desperately needed in the city besieged by Serb guerrillas for more than
two months.
The predominantly Muslim Slav city came under fierce shelling from
the guerrillas Friday night, hours after Serb-led Yugoslav army troops
vacated the Marshal Tito Barracks in downtown Sarajevo, withdrawing 3
miles outside the capital. But witnesses said the troops did not appear
to be altering their strategy of dividing the capital along ethnic
lines.
Militant leaders of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDP) want to
partition Sarajevo on an imaginary line running from Vogosca suburb in
the northwest to Lukavica and Pale southeast of the capital.
``The Serbs, after retreating from the Marshal Tito Barracks, now are
trying to take control of Pero Kosoric Square and Hrasno area some 500
yards from the military base,'' a Sarajevo resident said.
Serb militia forces have been fighting Bosnia-Hercegovina's mostly
Muslim Slav and Croat defense forces in the past two months as part of
their offensive to carve out a self-declared ``Serbian republic'' in the
new state and merge it with neighboring Serbia.
Serb guerrillas, positioned on hilltops surrounding Sarajevo, began
shelling the city center and its suburbs at about 8 p.m. Friday. The
heavy bombardment from 155-mm howitzers and multiple rocket launchers
stopped at 3 a.m. Saturday.
After a pre-dawn lull, the Serbs began increasing the intensity of
barrages and at midday larger sections of the city were again under
strong fire, witnesses said.
A shell hit a taxi in downtown Sarajevo Saturday morning, killing
three occupants, including a young girl, police said.
About 100 houses in the city's historic heart of Bascarsija including
an old Serbian Orthodox Church were damaged in the shelling, police
said.
A number of houses on Pero Kosoric square nearby were heavily
damaged.
A tobacco factory and a city dairy were also damaged, police said.
Serb guerrillas were installing snipers on high-rise buildings in
Sarajevo's shopping center in Grbavica apartment complex.
Witnesses said the shelling was also coming from the Yugoslav army
Lukavica base.
The Yugoslav army Friday afternoon withdrew a total of 1,200 troops,
cadets and civilian dependents -- Serbs native to Serbia and Montenegro --
from its last barracks in downtown Sarajevo to the Lukavica Barracks
three miles outside the city.
The army, under terms of an accord, left heavy weaponry in the
Marshal Tito barracks but officials of the mostly Muslim Slav and Croat
Territorial Defense could not say how many pieces were in operable
condition. The officials feared that the army might have damaged the
weapons before leaving the barracks.
Officials said Serb guerrillas overnight shelled sections of the Tito
Barracks in an apparent effort to damage equipment left there by the
Yugoslav army.
Despite the army's withdrawal, about 80,000 of its troops -- Serbs
born in Bosnia-Hercegovina -- have been left behind across the newly
independent state under the command of the SDP leader Radovan Karadzic
and Lt. Gen. Ratko Mladic.
Karadzic and Mladic are in charge of ``Serbian Republic of Bosnia-
Hercegovina'' declared on 70 percent of the republic's territory for 1.4
million Serbs who comprise only 31 percent of the 4.4 million
population.
About 1.9 million Muslim Slavs and 750,000 Croats advocate an
independent state of Bosnia-Hercegovina, the central republic in former
Yugoslavia.
About 6,000 people have been killed and more than 21,000 injured
since Serb guerrillas, supported by the communist regime of President
Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, began their drive in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
About 1.3 million people, mostly Muslim Slavs and Croats, have been
forced from their homes in the past eight weeks. International human
rights organizations have condemned Serbian forces for a deliberate
terror campaign aimed at creating ethnically ``pure'' Serbian areas in
the republic.
Bosnia-Hercegovina won international recognition as an independent
state on April 6, and was admitted to the United Nations on May 22.
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Subject: 7 killed in Serbian bombardment; bread, milk plants hit
Date: 7 Jun 92 17:37:08 GMT
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- Serbian gunmen loosed sniper
fire and sporadic shelling into Sarajevo Sunday after ferocious
overnight barrages that killed at least seven people, injured 53 and
left many areas without water, officials said.
The attacks also destroyed the main Yugoslav army base two days after
it was vacated, officials said.
At least 28 people have been killed and 123 injured in fighting
across Bosnia-Hercegovina since Saturday, a crisis committee statement
said. Out of these, in Sarajevo alone at least 19 people perished and 76
suffered injuries,the statement said.
The steady barrage damaged the main milk and bread factories, on
which tens of thousands of residents in the beseiged city depend.
Neither commodity was distributed.
Dragan Marjanovic, a spokesman for the republic's defense ministry,
said about 5,000 shells have hit the city of Sarajevo in the past 30
hours of Serbian guerrilla attacks.
More than 100 homes and buildings, including a 16th century Serbian
Orthodox Church, a Roman Catholic Church, the Europa Hotel, and a
hospital, were damaged by multiple rocket, tank, howitzer and anti-
aircraft rounds that laced all areas of the city, Sarajevo Radio said.
Firefighters were hampered by the shelling and low water pressure in
trying to extinguish blazes that raged across the city, including one
that turned the top 16 floors of a 22-story building into a smoking,
blackened skeleton of warped steel.
Residents said it was one of the heaviest attacks on the city of 560,
000 of the more than two-month-old Serbian drive to rip a self-declared
state out of newly independent Bosnia-Hercegovina and merge it with the
new Yugoslav federation formed by communist-ruled Serbia and Montenegro.
``Last night was hell in the city,'' said one resident, who asked to
remain anonymous.
Yugoslav army-armed Serbian Democratic Party guerrillas also made
forays toward the center of the city in attempts to divide the capital
in half, Sarajevo Radio said, but were pushed back by security forces,
which are predominantly Muslim Slav, and also include Croats and
loyalist Serbs.
Serb guerrillas broke into apartments in the Grbavica neighborhood,
maltreated residents and looted property, officials said.
The barrages erupted at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and raged for almost 12
hours, when they subsided to intermittent Serbian shelling.
The dead included an 8-year-old girl, whose two sisters and mother
were among those wounded in the attacks, said the municipal crisis
committee.
Serbian snipers kept up constant fire on strategic intersections near
the shell-ravaged city center and on densely populated apartment block
settlements on its western fringes, witnesses and news reports said.
``The sniper fire is tremendous,'' said Mario Susko, a Sarajevo
University professor living in Dobrinja, where an estimated 30,000
people reportedly face imminent starvation because of a blockade of more
than a month of the sprawling settlement by Serbian Democratic Party
gunmen and tanks.
``Today is our last day of food. Maybe we can muster a loaf of bread.
Then, God knows what,'' he said, as a burst of nearby sniper fire echoed
over the telephone. ``We can't risk going out there, but I don't know
when your hunger instincts begin to work.''
A spokesman for the Sarajevo office of the U.N. Protection Force said
efforts were underway to convene talks on allowing a humanitarian aid
convoy into Dobrinja.
Witnesses said that much of the shelling was targeted against the
Marshal Tito Barracks, the city's main Yugoslav army base, which was set
ablaze two days after it was vacated in the completion of a long-delayed
withdrawal from the city.
``The barracks is totally burned down. All the roofs and floors are
gone,'' said one resident.
The base was apparently targeted in a deliberate attempt by the
Serbian Democratic Party to destroy weaponry -- one aged tank, two
armored personnel carriers, seven howitzers, 10 mortars and a small
stock of ammunition -- the Yugoslav army left behind for defense forces
in return for a guarantee of safe conduct out of Sarajevo.
City officials said the shelling damaged a main high-tension
electricity cable, knocking out power to municipal water pumps.
The lack of water prevented the main bakery from producing bread, and
Sarajevo radio broadcast appeals to residents to conserve whatever
supplies they may have stocked, saying it could be some time before the
system was restored.
Doctors said they have used up some basic medical necessities, but
many stocks were holding out.
``In the past 63 days of the war, we have spent a lot of reserves.
But, thanks to charitable groups, we still endure and I hope we are
going to see better times,'' said Dr. Mihailo Milasevic, a surgeon at
the city's orthopedic clinic.
The city has been beseiged for weeks by Serbian Democratic Party
guerrillas and Yugoslav army troops who have remained in the republic
following a purported withdrawal of soldiers native to Serbia and
Montenegro by the regime of Serb-dominated rump Yugoslavia.
U.N. officials reported brokering an agreement Friday between the
warring sides to place the Serb-held airport under international control
for flights of humanitarian assistance.
The U.N. Security Council was expected to meet in New York Monday to
approve a mandate and budget for the operation, which was to require
several thousand troops. The government has said France has offered to
provide at least 1,000 soldiers for the operation.
The Serbian Democratic Party has demanded the partition of Sarajevo
into ethnic districts as part of their drive to capture the 70 percent
of the republic they have claimed for their self-declared state.
The offensive, which began in the runup to international recognition
of Bosnia-Hercegovina's independence in early April, has continued
despite the imposition of sweeping economic sanctions against Belgrade,
whose communist rulers are regarded as the main architects of the
offensive.
An estimated 6,000 people have been killed, more than 22,000 wounded
and in excess of 1.3 million driven from their homes.
The republic comprises 1.9 million Muslim Slavs, 1.4 million
Christian Orthodox Serbs and 750,000 Roman Catholic Croats.
Independence was favored by Muslim Slavs, most Croats and some Serbs.
The bulk of the Serbs demand the right to join Serbia-controlled rump
Yugoslavia.
novine.26.bale.,
Article: 9591 of soc.culture.yugoslavia
From: pnmideast@igc.org
Date: 05 Jun 92 09:09 PDT
Subject: How do Croats think about Tudjman
/* Written 12:31 pm Jun 5, 1992 by gn:ark in cdp:yugo.antiwar */
/* ---------- "How do Croats think about Tudjman" ---------- */
Results of a public poll made by Plus (research insitute)
for Slobodna Dalmacija
4 June 1992
1. What do you like to propose to Tudjman?
He should:
45,3% - Going to pension
30,7% - be candidate again for President of the Republic
12 % - Resign (immediately, becuase of all his political mistakes)
6,4 % - become President for life
5,6 % - I don't know
2. How much power should a President have in the future ?
65,6% - Less than now
19,1% - Same as now
10,9% - More than now
4,4 % - I don't know
3. The Second Program of HTV should below to the
opositional Parties
47,4% - I'm strongly in fever
24,3% - I'm in fever
11,7% - yes and no
7,5 % - I'm strongly against
4,8 % - I'm against
4,1 % - I don't know
4. Church has now too much influence on the state politics
26,5 % - I'm Strongly agree
21,5 % - I'm Agree
16,8 % - Yes and No
14,7 % - I'm strongly disagree
16,2 % - I'm disgree
4,3 % - I don't know
5. Abortion has to be forbidden
62,7% - I'm strongly disagree
6,1 % - I'm disgree
3,7 % - Yes and no
13,9% - I'm strongly agree
4,9 % - I'm agree
3,5 % - I don't know
Slobodna Dalmacija is one of the only not state own daily
newspaper (the shares are hold by the workers)
novine.27.bale.,
Subject: U.N. considers sending 1,000 infantrymen to Sarajevo airport
Date: 8 Jun 92 17:11:59 GMT
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) -- As fighting increased in Bosnia-Hercegovina,
the U.N. Security Council Monday considered sending a 1,000-strong
infantry battalion to take over the Sarajevo airport and open it to
humanitarian aid flights.
The 15-nation council met to discuss a proposal by Secretary-General
Boutros Ghali to put the airport under troops of the U.N. Protection
Force (UNPROFOR), an operation that could be completed in 10 days.
The airport should be placed ``under exclusive authority of the
United Nations,'' Ghali said.
Under the plan, which would be carried out in four phases if the
council approves it, UNPROFOR would ge given the task of securing the
immediate vicinity of the airport and its installations, supervising its
operations, including unloading of humanitarian cargo and ensuring the
safe movement of the aid and relief personnel.
UNPROFOR was established earlier this year to protect Serb-minority
areas in Croatia following the eruption of the civil war in that
republic which, along with Slovenia, first declared independence from
Belgrade in July 1991. The war has spread to Bosnia-Hercegovina as
Belgrade has been trying to carve out part of the republic for Serbia.
In addition to the 1,000 infantrymen, Ghali said 60 military
observers and 40 civilian police would join the Sarajevo operation. The
military observers would be sent in the first phase to supervise the
withdrawal of anti-aircraft and other heavy weapons from the airport and
their concentration at agreed locations.
The infantrymen would be sent in the second phase to provide security
for the airport and its installations. In phase three, the civilian
personnel and humanitarian aid officials will be deployed to operate the
airport before its opening in the final phase.
Ghali said in the report outlining his plan to the Security Council
that ``the viability of the agreement (to re-open the airport) will
depend on the good faith of the parties, and especially the Bosnian Serb
party, in scrupulously honoring their commitments.''
UNPROFOR would secure a land corridor between the airport and the
capital for distribution of the badly needed food supplies and medicines
to the 300,000 residents in Sarajevo.
The airport was closed to traffic by Serbian forces which also
encircled the capital and cut off the flow of food supplies.
Ghali said the U.N. operation at Sarajevo will involve ``significant
risks,'' but he said the humanitarian emergency in the capital and
elsewhere in Bosnia-Hercegovina ``grows daily more severe and there is
an ever more urgent need to bring the fighting under control.''
The U.N. leader estimated that the cost of maintaining the airport
would be $20.1 million from June to October and $3 million for each
month thereafter.
The warring parties in Bosnia-Hercegovina signed an agreement last
Friday to re-open the airport after three days of U.N.-led negotiations.
The agreement said that all artillery, mortar and ground-to-ground
missiles and tanks within range of the airport must be concentrated in
areas under the U.N. control.
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Subject: U.S. supports proposal to expand peacekeeping forces in Yugoslavia
Date: 8 Jun 92 17:17:22 GMT
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The United States strongly supports a proposal
before the U.N. Security Council to expand the peacekeeping forces in
Croatia to secure the besieged Sarajevo airport, in order to allow
humanitarian aid into the country, a spokesman said Monday.
White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said that the change in
the U.N. mandate, which now authorizes tight sanctions, was proposed by
U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Ghali, and would apply to forces now
operating in Croatia.
``The United States strongly endorses this change to extend the
activities there to in and around the Sarajevo airport,'' Fitzwater
said.
``We are discussing with the United Nations the possibility of a
peacekeeping force controlling the airport to allow unimpeded shipment
of humanitarian supplies,'' he explained. ``We have supplies which we
can't get through.''
The supplies, which would include food, medicine and water, cannot
get through because the airport is under control of the Serbian
dominated Yugoslav forces.
Fitzwater could not say how the convoys carrying supplies could get
to the people. Nor could he say whether U.S. troops would be involved
and what would be the rules of engagement.
Those matters, he said, would be up to the United Nations.
He said the devastation in Sarajevo in terms of lives and property
was ``as bad as in World War II.''
The proposal would ``be an extension'' of the U.N. peacekeeping
forces already in the area, Fitzwater said.
``The president is very deeply concerned about the situation in
Yugoslavia,'' he said. ``It's a vey complicated situation there with
various ethnic groups and problems in Sarajevo. ''We have been working
with the United Nations for some time. We certainly are supportive. We
want to work with them.``
Despite published reports in Yugoslavia, the U.S. 6th Fleet is not
involved in any new effort to capture the airport at Sarajevo, Fitzwater
said.
Yugoslav army-armed-and-backed Serbian Democratic Party guerrillas
are seeking to partition Sarajevo as part of their more than 2-month-old
offensive to capture a self-declared state in Bosnia-Hercegovina and
merge it with the Serb-dominated Yugoslavia forged on April 27 by
communist-ruled Serbia and Montenegro.
More than 6,000 people are estimated to have died and in excess of
22,000 injured since the Serbian Democratic Party and the Yugoslav army
launched their territorial conquests in reaction to international
recognition of Bosnia-Hercegovina's independence in early April.
An American diplomat in Belgrade said the U.S. Embassy received a
plea for help by telephone from Stjepan Kljuic, a Croatian member of the
Bosnia-Hercergovina presidency.
``I want to send a last SOS to the American government. If you try to
help us later, it will be too late. Please do something for us so that
our people do not lose faith in America,'' the diplomat quoted Kljuic as
saying.
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Subject: Bosnian forces shell Serbs in effort to break siege of Sarajevo
Date: 8 Jun 92 17:54:54 GMT
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- Bosnia-Hercegovina's defense
forces turned artillery surrendered by the Yugoslav army against Serbian
positions outside Sarajevo for the first time Monday in an effort to
break the siege of the capial. It was the heaviest fighting of the war
in this new republic.
Defense officials claimed significant successes in the multi-pronged
assaults, but their assertions could not be verified independently.
``The defenders are in a counteroffensive,'' said Mirsad Tokaca, a
high-ranking official from the territorial defense forces, but he added,
``There is no place for celebration.''
Spokesmen for three major hospitals in Sarajevo said 20 people were
killed and 344 injuried in the fiercest fighting since clashes began
between Serbian irregulars and Bosnia-Hercegovina territorial defense
units two months ago.
Police said in the previous 24 hours, 31 people had been killed and
215 injured in fighting throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina, and residents of
Sarajevo reported no food, water or electricity in large sections of the
capital.
Serbian Democratic Party gunners fired blistering barrages from tank,
artillery, rocket and mortar units dug in at Sarajevo airport and the
Yugoslav army's base in suburban Lukavica, officials said.
The indiscriminate rain of high explosive dealt new damage to the
presidency building, the municipal hall, the railway station and a
primary school, officials said. Residents said rounds blasted into many
houses and apartments.
``We are being hit, hard, with 155mm howitzers,'' said a resident of
the Dobrinja complex, built for the 1984 Olympic Games and entirely cut
off by Serbian irregulars from the rest of the city. ``It's mayhem.''
``I've had two dog biscuits to eat today -- how wonderful,'' the
Dobrinja resident said. ``Tell the world it's a matter of minutes, not
hours.''
Dr. Alija Mulaomerovic, a surgeon at the main trauma center, said
three bodies and 41 wounded were brought to the facility on what he
described as ``one of the most difficult days we have had.''
Ambulances were unable to operate, forcing police and private
citizens to drive casualties to hospitals.
Residents and officials described the fighting as the worst to
convulse Sarajevo since the Yugoslav army-armed Serbian Democratic Party
launched an offensive more than two months ago to capture a self-
declared state and merge it with the Serb-dominated rump Yugoslavia
formed by communist-ruled Serbia and Montenegro on April 27.
``It is unbelievable,'' said one resident, Ivana Benic. ``We are
being attacked from all four sides. So far, I can only tell you that we
are still alive.''
An American diplomat in Belgrade said the U.S. Embassy received a
plea for help by telephone from Stjepan Kljuic, a Croatian member of the
Bosnia-Hercergovina presidency.
``I want to send a last SOS to the American government. If you try to
help us later, it will be too late. Please do something for us so that
our people do not lose faith in America,'' the diplomat quoted Kljuic as
saying.
The latest fighting followed a weekend of infantry clashes and almost
constant Serbian bombardments of the city of 560,000 that left at least
19 people dead and 76 others injured, according to the municipal crisis
committee.
Sarajevo television said the dead included a Jordanian student,
identified as Muhammad Kafai.
Yugoslav army-armed-and-backed Serbian Democratic Party guerrillas
are seeking to partition Sarajevo as part of their more than two-month-
old offensive to capture a self-declared state in Bosnia-Hercegovina and
merge it with the Serb-dominated Yugoslavia forged on April 27 by
communist-ruled Serbia and Montenegro.
Security forces, which are dominated by Muslim Slavs, but also
include Croats and loyalist Serbs, launched their counter-attacks at
about 5 a.m. in a bid to break a more than month-long Serbian blockade
that has prevented food from reaching hundreds of thousands of residents
now facing imminent starvation
The assaults targeted Serbian artillery and infantry positions on
Vraca hill, which overlooks the city center to the south; Zuc hill,
located behind the television and radio headquarters and the nearby
beseiged Mojmilo apartment block colony, officials said.
``At this moment, a battle for Vraca is taking place. The first
successes, in spite of heavy artilery fire, are beyond expectation,''
said Defense Ministry spokesman Dragan Marijanovic.
Col. Jovan Divjak, a Serb who serves as second-in-command of the
defense forces, said his fighters employed for the first time four 155mm
howitzers that the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army confiscated two years
ago from the republic.
The Yugoslav army returned the weapons in exchange for a guarantee of
safe passage for a troop withdrawal from the city that was completed on
Friday.
``This plan is one-month-old, but we didn't have the appropriate
armaments before,'' Divjak told United Press International. ``We got
four 155mm cannons, but we used all of them against Zuc.''
He claimed that security units had succeeded in making significant
advances on the hill.
``It is not secured, but it is only a question of an hour or so,''
Divjak said.
He added that the thrust into Mojmilo was aimed at clearing the area
of Serbian guerrillas and reassuring an estimated 30,000 people -- Muslim
Slavs, Serbs and Croats -- in the nearby beseiged Dobrinja apartment
complex that the republic's government was aware of their plight.
``The attack on Mojmilo is to show the people in Dobrinja that they
are not alone,'' he said.
More than 6,000 people are estimated to have died and in excess of
22,000 injured since the Serbian Democratic Party and the Yugoslav army
launched their territorial conquests in reaction to international
recognition of Bosnia-Hercegovina's independence in early April.
Another 1.3 million people have been driven from their homes, most of
them Muslim Slavs and Croats uprooted by ``ethnic cleansing'' operations
in areas claimed by the Serbs.
Serbian forces control more than 50 percent of the republic and have
announced they will seize 70 percent.
The U.N. Security Council slapped sweeping economic sanctions May 30
against Yugoslavia, now reduced to two republics compared to the
original six, in a bid to halt the Serbian offensive. Communist
President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, the architect of the Serbia-
Montenegro union, has been condemned internationally as the principle
mastermind behind the land grab in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
The Yugoslav army says it has withdrawn from Bosnia-Hercegovina. But
it left behind for the Serbian Democratic Party forces vast stocks of
ammunition and weapons. Up to 80,000 Yugoslav troops are Serbs native to
the republic, and many are expected to join the guerrillas.
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Subject: Samaranch delays decision on Yugoslavia
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 92 13:24:21 EDT
LONDON (UPI) -- Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International
Olympic Committee, does not rule out Yugoslavia's chances of
participating in next month's Barcelona Olympic Games.
Samaranch, in London for the launch of his biography, said a decision
on Yugoslavia would be made just before the start of the games on July
25, and any decision made at next Sunday's executive board meeting in
Switzerland would be ``provisional.''
``You know, in politics things change. We will take the decision at
the last minute,'' he said.
novine.28wizard,
Da li bi mogao da ove agencijske vesti ubuduće šalješ kao arhivu uz
poruku? Nama manji padovi, tebi kraći upload...
<<nenad<<
novine.29dejanr,
IZUZETNO zanimljivi rezultati, naravno ako im se može verovati.
Naročito ono prvo pitanje (45% smatra da Tuđman treba da ide odmah
u penziju, 12 posto da treba da da ostavku prema 30.7 koji podržavaju
njegovu novu kandidaturu za Predsednika) i ono o ustupanju II programa
opoziciji. Zapravo, pokazuje da običan narod svuda misli slične stvari
i da mu je sve ovo već više puta preko glave.
Možda ipak ima nade.
novine.30dragisak,
║ da izvrši udar protiv Miloševića", dodajući da su neki "genera-
║ li koji su dali ostavku u sprezi sa tim kadrom".
Blagoje Adžić ? :-<
novine.32squsovac,
> Slobodna Dalmacija is one of the only not state own daily
> newspaper (the shares are hold by the workers)
Prekjuče je iz Bgd-a otputovao Predrag Lucić, jedan od trojice
autora Feral Tribjuna. Vest o podizanju optužnice protiv njega Borisa
Dežulovića, Viktora Ivančića i Tanje Torbarine je saznao ovde.
Nije mogao da veruje. Kaže mi, sada ćemo sigurno pokrenuti novu Slobodnu,
jer će nam oni ovu uzeti. HDZ Splita je ove njegove reči prekjuče i potvrdio.
BTW, doneo mi je poslednjih dvadesetak brojeva Ferala, i danima se
kidam od smeha. Ne da zezaju Tuđmana nego ga rasturaju. Utipkaću delove
u Viceve (a delove ću kvarno poslati kao svoje viceve ;>> ). Ako ima
interesenata za utipkavanje dužih tekstova nek se jave na mail.
novine.33kale,
>> Da li bi mogao da ove agencijske vesti ubuduće šalješ kao arhivu uz
>> poruku? Nama manji padovi, tebi kraći upload...
Meni više odgovara kao do sada. U skladu sa tvojim predlogom bih
morao 2 puta da zovem ili da poruke skupljam ručno.
Pozdrav!
novine.34.bale.,
YUGOSLAVIA: MORE DECISIVELY OR NOT AT ALL
By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON --- As the slaughter in Yugoslavia continues, the
calls are growing louder for the United States to intervene.
The calls come not just from where you would expect --- from
suffering Croats and Muslim Slavs, helpless before Serbian
advances.
Some calls are coming from anxious Europeans unnerved by the
European Community's failure to manage the crisis, others
from American foreign-policy thinkers alarmed by the first
European shooting war in more that 40 years.
It is clear, they say, that no one else can do anything about
the bloods hed. America can. It must not stand idly by.
The first proposition is undoubtedly true. The second is
problematic. And the third, that America should now do
something decisive, is premature and therefore recksless.
When Yugoslavia first dissolved into civil war, the United
States recused itself from the conflict and let Europe take
the lead. Observer missions and endless mediations proved
Europe's impotence. Moreover, in a chilling echo of pre-World
War I Balkan alliances, Germany lined up with Croatia and
Slovenia, while France was decidedly more pro-Serbian. Europe
was paralyzed. It did nothing to stop Serbia from grabbing
one-third of Croatia and then 70 percent of Bosnia in a
vicious "cleansing" campaign to create a Greater Serbia.
It was not until May 30 that the United Nations was
galvanized to any real action --- sanctions --- against
Serbia. And that was only because the United States
finally took the lead, reinforcing the cardinal rule of the
New World Order that nothing of importance gets done unless
America does it.
What should America do? The interventionists want more than
sanctions. They want action.
They are morivated first by genuine humanitarian concern. The
people of Bosnia and Croatia are quite defenseless. Though
one reason for that, as former National Security Council
official Peter Rodman points out, is the folly of the earlier
blanket UN embargo on arms to all sides of the conflict. That
did nothing to hamper the Serbs, who have all the assets of
the Yugoslav Army at their disposal. It simply left Bosnia
and Croatia disarmed and helpless.
The humanitarian impulse is commendable. But foreign policy
is not philanthropy. American soldiers are not to be sent to
die for reasons of compassion. There have to be vital U.S.
interests at stake. Does America have any in Yugoslavia?
Some say what is at stake is the U.S. reputation and
credibility as the guarantor of international stability. What
kind of guarantor is America if it allows Serbian aggression
to go unchecked? WIll that not encourage some future
dictator, say a Russian dictator, to gobble up neighbors the
way Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic is gobbling his?
Perhaps. But America's role as major guarantor of stability
in the post- Soviet world cannot possibly mean that it must
extinguish every conflict. If America did that, it would
bleed itself dry in every discontented corner of the globe.
U.S. credibility was well enough established in the Gulf.
America showed that when its national interests as well as
its sense of justice are engaged, it can muster the will and
the might to intervene and prevail. The only real qauestion
for the United States in Yugoslavia is whether its vital
interests are at stake.
At the present time, the answer must be that they are
not --- so long as the Yugoslav war remains local. A regional
war would be a different proposition. Serbia's recent
expansion of the war into Bosnia indicates that Serbia might
well be prepared to attack next in Macedonia or Kosovo. That
could well ignite a general Balkan war involving Greece,
Albania, Bulgaria and, possibly and most disastrously,
Turkey, America's foremost Islamic ally and the Western
linchpin in Central Asia. A general Balkan war would deeply
threaten Europe, Turkey, the Western alliance---in sum,
American interests.
That is why the administration was justified in pushing the
United Natio ns to send Serbia a message with sanctions. The
message is this: We are not prepared to roll back your
current conquests in Croatia or in Bosnia. But we aim to
contain you. Do not push us. And do not push neighboring
states. A general war in the Balkans is one that we will
not tolerate.
Intervention may yet become necessary. It is not so yet.
Moreover, what would the United States do now? There is talk
about the United Nations securing Sarajevo airport to allow
the passage of humanitarian aid to beleaguered civilians. A
commendable humanitarian aim---as commendable as America's
humanitarian aims in Beirut, 1982.
There, too, American troops secured an airport. There, too,
they sat in the middle of a savage, centuries-old ethnic
conflict. There, too, Americans thought that the title
"peacekeeper" would immunize them from the ferocious hatreds
surrounding them.
To sit in Sarajevo would be a monumental folly. If the
Yugoslav war spre ads and America is forced to intervene, the
intervention must not be passive (Beirut-style) or
incremental (Vietnam-style). It must be decisive, Gulf
War-style. That means using air power rather than slugging it
out on the ground against guerrilla forces. And it means
going to the source---Belgrade, like Baghdad---hitting the
vital military and political centers of the Serbian regime.
This course, should we come to it, will not be painless. But
it has the virtue of not being mad. Madness lies with
passive, incremental or ground-based intervention. And most
of all, with premature intervention.
Washington Post Writers Group
(Reprinted without permission from International Herald
Tribune, June 10, 1992.)
novine.35.bale.,
Subject: Students call strike unless Serbian leadership resigns
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) -- Shouting ``Slobo go away,'' some
2,000 student protesters at the University of Belgrade called
Wednesday for the resignation of the communist regime of Serbian
President Slobodan Milosevic and new multi-party elections.
The demonstrators urged a student strike to press their
demands.
``The present government has failed in every aspect: political,
economic and military,'' said a statement signed by representatives of
33 departments and read at the rally in front of the Law School.
``On top of its failures, we have the (U.N.) sanctions and the
condemnation of Serbia by the whole world.''
..
The students seek the resignation of Milosevic and his
government, the dissolution of the republic legislature, the formation
of a national salvation government of experts, and multi-party
elections for an assembly to draft a new constitution.
``We demand the University of Belgrade start immediately a
strike which is to last until our demands are fulfilled,'' the
statement said. Leaders said the strike will begin at noon on Monday.
The students hooted down a professor who suggested that
instead, they support a declaration calling for a power-sharing
arrangement between the communist leadership and representatives of
other political interests.
Although a separate statement by teaching assistants said they
supported the demands and many teachers attended the rally, the extent
of overall support for the strike call was not clear.
Milan Jovanovic, student dean of the School of Drama and Art
who led the rally, also noted the strike was called during
examinations.
``It's a bad time, but what are we waiting for -- to get
bombed?'' he said. Rumors have swept Belgrade since the imposition of
the U.N. sanctions of a possible U.N. or U.S. attack on the capital.
Memories are still fresh of the U.S. raids on Baghdad that
followed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's refusal to bend to U.N.
sanctions and withdraw his invasion forces from Kuwait. ...
Serbia's main opposition coalition has called for a massive
anti- government protest June 21 unless Milosevic agrees to resign.
Students pointed out their own economic situation has worsened
in the past few years.
Although tuition is free, books are expensive and they cannot
find jobs to support themselves, while the exchange of academic
journals with the outside world has practically ceased.
Dragoljub Kavran, head of the political science department
within the Law Faculty, said the students feel compelled to act
following two years of manipulation by the Serbian leadership,
including undemocratic elections in 1990 and 1992 and the adoption of
constitutions for both Serbia and rump Yugoslavia without input from
representatives of all political forces.
``We have never been so ashamed as we are now,'' he said.
novine.36.bale.,
FOREIGN PRESS BUREAU, Zagreb, Wdnesday, June 10, 1992.
SARAJEVO, B-H -YU Air Force jets used cluster bombs and chemical
weapons to attack Sarajevo this morning. At 10:15 am the air raid
alert was sounded sending residents to their shelters. Last night
and this morning Serb irregulars have been shelling the town,
particularly the sector of Stari Grad and Center. The suburbs of
Velesic and Pofalici were the worst hit. A UN convoy of
humanitarian aid consisting of 25 trucks left Belgrade for Sarajevo
today. It is carrying the food and medicine. A convoy organized by
Doctors and Pharmacists Without Borders arrived in Sarajevo today.
They were stooped at Visoko where there was intense fighting and
again at the Serb occupied Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza where the
convoy was searched before being allowed to proceed to UNPROFOR
headquarters in Sarajevo. In the Madrid daily "El Mundo", B-H
President Alija Izetbegovic said that B-H "will not give up" to the
forces attacking Sarajevo, namely the YU Army "whose guns are
shooting at the city."
novine.37.bale.,
Subject: Photojournalist killed, American wounded in Sarajevo
Date: 17 Jun 92 13:23:33 GMT
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- A photojournalist died and a
second was wounded by a Serbian tank shell fired into an apartment
complex on the fringes of Sarajevo, a U.N. official and reports said.
The dead photographer was identified by the Serbian Democratic
Party's news agency, Srna, as Evo Stendeker of Mladina, a weekly
newspaper based in Ljubljana, the capital of the former Yugoslav
republic of Slovenia.
He was the second foreign journalist killed in Sarajevo since the
Yugoslav army-armed Serbian Democratic Party launched an offensive in
late March to carve a self-declared state out of newly independent
Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Stendeker's wounded companion was Jana Schneider, an American
photographer for the Paris-based Sipa agency, said Adnan Abdul Razak, a
spokesman for the U.N. Protection Force mission in Sarajevo.
He said the pair was hit by shrapnel from a Serbian tank shell on
Wednesday after they slipped through the Serbian encirclement of
Dobrinja, a massive apartment complex on the western fringe of the
Bosnian capital.
Serb guerrillas manning a roadblock ``kidnapped'' the pair as they
were being rushed out of Dobrinja to a downtown hospital, Razak said.
After U.N. intervention, the Serbs agreed to take them for treatment
in Pale, the main Serbian Democratic Party stronghold east of Sarajevo,
he said.
Stendeker died later of massive internal bleeding, Razak said.
He said he talked to Schneider by telephone, and quoted her as saying
that her injuries were not severe.
novine.38.bale.,
Subject: Milosevic rejects students' demand for resignation
Date: 17 Jun 92 15:58:32 GMT
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) -- Communist President Slobodan Milosevic
of Serbia Wednesday rejected demands for his resignation by Belgrade
University striking students, who said they would continue their protest
until he steps down.
Milosevic refused an invitation to visit the university for talks
with students and professors at a meeting open to news media in the
rectorate building in downtown Belgrade, Dragan Djilas, a student leader
said.
Djilas said Milosevic brushed aside the students demands for his
resignation as he did not give any ``concrete response to any of our
points.''
Milosevic, who met a delegation of professors and students in his
office, said it was not up to the university to decide on state affairs,
Djilas said.
The student demands included the resignation of Milosevic,
dissolution of the Serbian legislature, resignation of the government,
and elections for a constituent assembly.
``Our protest must spread to all faculties of the University and we
shall continue with the strike until our demands are met,'' Djilas said
after the meeting with Milosevic.
``I am extremely disappointed...when I got out from the talks I was
scared for the first time. Without changes, things are not looking good
for Serbia.''
He quoted Milosevic as saying that he would ``safeguard Serbia from
getting into civil war with all means, that blood will not flow on the
streets of our towns.''
Djilas said Milosevic boasted he had succeeded in preventing war,
which began in the now defunct six-republic Yugoslav federation in June
last last year, from spreading to Serbia.
Milosevic also claimed minority Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia-
Hercegovina, the two republics which have seceded from the federation,
were protected by his policies.
Militant Serb leaders in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina have refused
to live in the independent states and want their self-declared ``Serbian
republics'' there to join Serbia.
Djilas said Milosevic insisted that ``power can be gained only in
elections.''
About 5,000 students have occupied three faculty buildings since
Monday staging the sit-in protest, which was gaining support from a
number of other faculties.
The student protest was the largest in a series of anti-communist
rallies that began last week demanding Milosevic's resignation.
The weekend protests condemned Milosevic for Serbia's involvement in
war in neighboring Bosnia-Hercegovina and for a disastrous economic
situation which was worsened by U.N. sanctions imposed against the
Serbian regime.
novine.39.bale.,
Subject: Fierce fighting in Sarajevo threatens airport opening
Date: 17 Jun 92 17:35:27 GMT
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- A three-day-old truce in Bosnia-
Hercegovina was shattered Wednesday as Serb forces blasted Sarajevo with
artillery and anti-aircraft fire and fought street clashes with the
republic's defense forces.
Witnesses said at least four people were killed and 10 injured by
intense shellfire loosed by Serbian Democratic Party gunners into
Airport Colony, an already badly damaged townhouse settlement in the
capital.
The renewed fighting threatned U.N. efforts to reopen Butmir Airport
to international humanitarian aid, officials said.
Canadian Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, deputy commander of the United Nations
Protection Force (UNPROFOR) for neighboring Croatia, said, ``The truce
has been seriously violated, which endangers the implementation of the
airport agreement.
``It would be easiest to give up and say the agreement has been
broken, but it would be irresponsible.''
However, MacKenzie admitted that ``there is nothing that we can do to
impose the cease-fire. If the two sides want to continue fighting than
better tell me when they want to stop because I don't have the ability
to stop them...this is the first major hurdle in setting up the process.
``My mission here is very clear and without the cooperation of both
sides it won't work,'' MacKenzie said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties in other areas of the
capital, convulsed by Serbian shelling and anti-aircraft fire aimed at
ground positions, and street clashes between the warring factions that
erupted at about 4:30 a.m.
Serbian rocket, mortar, tank and artillery shells slammed into the
residential Hrasno area as well as parts of the centuries-old Muslim
Slav heart of the city and several massive apartment block complexes,
including Dobrinja and Mojmilo, which are located near the airport.
Municipal officials said Serbian fighters attempted an assault on
Airport Colony.
``This is not a war anymore. Those people are animals,'' an Airport
Colony resident said by telephone on the basis of anonymity. ``The whole
area is in flames and smoke. They are firing on us from tank canons,
from mortars and artillery.''
The fighting came on the third day of the latest truce between the
republic and Yugoslav army-armed Serbian Democratic Party militias
fighting to rip a self-declared Serbian state out of the newly
independent republic.
Adnan Abdul Razak, a spokesman for the U.N. Protection Force mission,
said that U.N. officials contacted both sides and were able to reinstall
relative calm across much of the embattled capital after almost four
hours of serious violence.
``We brokered a cease-fire again. The fighting has slowed, but from
time to time there are intermittent shots,'' he said.
In Belgrade, Cedric Thornberry, the Protection Force civil affairs
chief, said that once the accord on relocating Serbian heavy weapons
from the airport was signed, U.N. officials hoped to begin deploying the
first members of a military observer contingent that will monitor a
cease-fire around the facility.
``We may be moving people into the airport today,'' he said. ``We are
bashing on regardless.''
Razak said a convoy carrying 60 members of the U.N. military observer
contingent that departed from Belgrade on Tuesday stopped overnight for
safety reasons at the former Yugoslav army base in the Sarajevo suburb
of Lukavica.
The warring factions earlier this month agreed to a plan under which
the Serb-held facility would be transferred to U.N. control for flights
of humanitarian aid needed to stave off mass starvation among the
estimated 300,000 Muslim Slavs, Serbs and Croats trapped in Sarajevo by
a two-month-old Serbian blockade.
The U.N. Security Council has authorized the deployment of a 1,000-
member force of soldiers and military observers in the area around the
facility once a firm truce takes hold.
In addition to monitoring the truce and the removal of Serbian heavy
weaponry, the military observers are to oversee the transfer of the
facility to U.N. force and the distribution of humanitarian aid supplies
across the city along specially designated corridors.
Serbian guerrillas on the border between Bosnia-Hercegovina and
Serbia on Tuesday refused entry to several dozen foreign correspondents
accompanying the U.N. convoy carrying the military observers.
Seventeen trucks that the private French aid group, Equilibre, tried
to send to Sarajevo with food and medicines were also halted.
In a related development, Razak said that a foreign photojournalist
was killed and another injured by Serbian tank fire Tuesday after the
pair managed to slip into the beseiged Dobrinja apartment complex on the
western fringe of Sarajevo.
The dead photographer was a Slovene, identified by the Serbian
Democratic Party's news agency, Srna, as Evo Stendeker of the Ljubljana-
based weekly newspaper, Mladina.
He was the second foreign newsperson killed in Sarajevo since the
Serbian Democratic Party unleashed its territorial conquests in late
March in advance of international recognition of Bosnia-Hercegovina's
independence from the wreckage of Yugoslavia.
The wounded photojournalist was Jana Schneider, an American actress-
turned-photographer who has appeared in Broadway productions and who
also has sung professionally for Elektra and Atlantic records.
Both journalists were ``kidnapped'' at a barricade by Serbian
guerrillas as they were being rushed out of Dobrinja to a downtown
hospital, and they were taken to Pale, the main Serbian Democratic Party
stronghold east of Sarajevo, Razak said.
He said Stendeker died of massive internal bleeding on Tuesday night.
Razak said he talked by telephone with Schneider, who told him her
injuries were not severe.
Serbian Democratic Party forces are seeking to capture a self-
declared Serbian state that their leaders proclaimed on 70 percent of
the republic, even though Serbs account for only 31 percent of the 4.3
million residents.
The 1.9 million Muslim Slavs, 750,000 Roman Catholic Croats and some
of the 1.4 million Christian Orthodox Serbs favored independence for the
republic.
Most Serbs support their leaders' goal of merging the self-declared
Serbian state to the Serb-dominated rump Yugoslav federation forged by
communist-ruled Serbia and its tiny protege, Montenegro, on April 27.
An estimated 6,000 people have been killed and over 22,000 injured in
the war, which has driven more than 1.3 million residents from their
homes.
novine.40fric,
Iz najnovijeg broja Vremena :
NEKAD I SAD
"Vreme" objavljuje faksimil pisma Dobrice Ćosića iz novembra 1990. u kome,
jednome od onih koji su ga savetovali da se kandiduje na tada aktuelnim
izborima za predsednika Srbije, obrazlaže zašto se toga ne može prihvatiti:
(sledi faksimil)
Svesrdno Vam se zahvaljujem na uvažavanju moje ličnosti
i mog rada. Vaš, i ne samo Vaš, predlog da se kandidujem za pred-
sednika Republike Srbije ne mogu da prihvatim iz dubokog uverenja
da ja svome narodu najuspešnije i najkorisnije mogu da služim kao
pisac.
Nisam ubeđen da imam sposobnosti da vršim funkciju za
koju su u ovim vremenima nepohodna svojstva koja ja nemam. Moramo
birati mlađe i ljude spremne da sav svoj život ulože u traženje
izlaza iz ćor-sokaka u kome smo se našli. Najgori izbor će biti
ako to bude čovek koji se bori za vlast i koji zastupa neku regre-
sivnu ideologiju koja obnavlja građanski rat i vuče Srbiju sve
dalje od savremenih evropskih tokova.
Ja, naravno, jesam dužnik Srbiji; ali ona od mene može da očekuje
samo ono što ja imam i mogu da joj dajem. I to ću činiti dok sam živ.
Srdačno vas pozdravlja
12. XI 1990. Dobrica Ćosić
novine.41mensi,
>From daemon Sun Jun 21 00:51:57 1992
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 92 16:04:29 -0400
From: pirot@buengc.bu.edu (Dimitrije Stamenovic)
Message-Id: <9206202004.AA03843@buengc.bu.edu>
To: jugo@buengc.bu.edu, sii@hickory.engr.utk.edu
Subject: Akcija podrske stdentima 2
Postovani citaoci,
Ovo je drugi dan akcije prikupljanja potpisa podrske
studentima demonstrantima u Beogradu. Akcija tece paralelno na
mrezama SIEM, SII i JUGO (pirot@buengc). Pismo podrske napisali su
gg. Stanislav Markovic i Predrag Neskovic dato je na kraju ove poruke
zajedno sa listom dosadasnjih potpisnika.
Prikupljanje potpisa trajace do ponedeljka u ponoc, 22. juna
1992. Citaoci mreza SII i JUGO mogu poslati svoje potpise na adresu
dimitrije@buenga.bu.edu
Citaoci mreze SIEM dobice obavestenja od g. Stanislava Markovica.
Delujte odmah! Obavestite svoje prijatelje i rodjake sirom
sveta i zamolite ih za podrsku. Podrsku mogu dati i oni koji nisu
gradjani Srbije niti su srpskog porekla. Podrska je znacajna jer
parira "brojnim telegramima podrske koje g. Milosevicu svakodnevno
salju radnici, seljaci i postena inteligencija".
Nemojte da oklevate sa davanjem podrske zbog straha od mogucih
represalija koje bi rezim mogao da preduzme protiv vas ili vasih
bliznjih. Strah samo hrabri nitkove, a demokratija se ne radja u
Nemojte da oklevate zbog bojazni da se ovim protest narusava
jedinstvo Srba. To jedinstvo niti moze niti sme da se svede na
svrstavanje svih Srba iza politike vladajuceg rezima. Stavise,
politicka uskogrudost i iskljucivost tog rezima postale su okosnica
razdora medju Srbima.
Srdacan pozdrav,
Dimitrije Stamenovic
PS.: Pismo i potpisi podrske slede.
*************************************************************************
STUDENTIMA UNIVERZITETA U BEOGRADU
Dragi prijatelji,
Tesko da je Srbija ikada do sada bila tako usamljena i prezrena. Nas
narod je osramocen i ponizen, bez ijednog prijatelja i reci podrske.
Odgovornost za takav polozaj Srbije i njen ugled u svetu snosi srpsko
rukovodstvo na celu sa Slobodanom Milosevicem. Odgovornost za
postojanje i opstanak tog rukovodstva snosi srpski narod.
Protiv tog polozaja Srbije i srpskog naroda, protiv takvog
rukovodstva, vi, studenti Beogradskog Univerziteta digli ste svoj
glas. Vas gradjanski i patriotski cin je vesnik budjenja i
osvescivanja Srbije, vesnik promena koje su neminovne.
Vremena je ostalo malo. Verujemo u vas i nadamo se da ce srpski narod,
bez pomoci sa strane, uspeti da se izbori za svoju slobodu i
dostojanstvo. Izdrzite! Svim srcem smo uz vas i dajemo vam nasu
najiskreniju i bezrezervnu podrsku.
Dragan Vukotic, University of Michigan
Stanislav Markovic, Department of Computer Science, Brown University
Predrag Neskovic, Department of Physics, Brown University
Djordje Tomasevic, University of Michigan
Zagorka Gaeta, University of Rochester
Dimitrije Stamenovic, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Eva Stamenovic, School of Public Health, Harvard University
Marko Stamenovic, Devotion School
Ljubomir Citkusev, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Ljubomir Buturovic, BioMolecular Engineering Research Center, Boston University
Rusko Matulic, CADDY Bulletin, New Jersey
Dragan Curcija, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts
Ljiljana Curcija, Department of Nutrition, University of Massachusetts
Aleksandar Totic, University of Illinois
Ljiljana Ivezic, Carnegie Mellon University
Mirko Paskota, Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia
Miroslav Martinovic, New York University
Ana Marjanovic-Shane, Philadelphia
Vukica Srajer, University of Chicago
Dragan Cvetkovic, University of Saarbruecken
Mirjana Starcevic, Department of Computer Science, Vrije University-Amsterdam
Marko Ledvij, Iowa State University
Drago Stankovic, Allied Geophysical Laboratories, University of Houston
Radisav Vidic, University of Cincinnati
Sinisa Maravic, Boston
Jasna Fejzo, Department of Biochemistry, Harvard University
Vladan Lucic, Department of Physics, Northeastern University
Paul M. Foster, Columbia University
novine.42mensi,
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>From daemon Tue Jun 23 11:03:31 1992
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 03:17:03 -0400
From: pirot@buengc.bu.edu (Dimitrije Stamenovic)
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To: jugo@buengc.bu.edu, sii@hickory.engr.utk.edu
Subject: Zavrsna lista podrske studentima (citaoci SII i JUGO)
Postovani citaoci,
Ovo je zavrsna lista potpisnika podrske studentima
demonstrantima u Beogradu sa mreza SII i JUGO (pirot@buengc). Pismo
podrske napisali su gg. Stanislav Markovic i Predrag Neskovic dato je
na kraju ove poruke zajedno sa listom dosadasnjih potpisnika.
Prikupljanje potpisa obavljeno je paralelno na mrezama SIEM, SII i
JUGO.
Srdacan pozdrav,
Dimitrije Stamenovic
PS.: Pismo i potpisi podrske slede.
*************************************************************************
STUDENTIMA UNIVERZITETA U BEOGRADU
Dragi prijatelji,
Tesko da je Srbija ikada do sada bila tako usamljena i prezrena. Nas
narod je osramocen i ponizen, bez ijednog prijatelja i reci podrske.
Odgovornost za takav polozaj SrbÚjw i njen ugled u svetu snosi srpsko
rukovodstvo na celu sa Slobodanom Milosevicem. Odgovornost za
postojanje i opstanak tog rukovodstva snosi srpski narod.
Protiv tog polozaja Srbije i srpskog naroda, protiv takvog
rukovodstva, vi, studenti Beogradskog Univerziteta digliÉ;te svoj
glas. Vas gradjanski i patriotski cin je vesnik budjenja i
osvescivanja Srbije, vesnik promena koje su neminovne.
Vremena je ostalo malo. Verujemo u vas i nadamo se da ce srpski narod,
sopstvenim snagama, uspeti da se izbori za svoju slobodu i
dostojanstvo. Izdrzite! Svim srcem smo uz vas i dajemo vam nasu
najiskreniju i bezrezervnu podrsku.
Dragan Vukotic, University of Michigan
Stanislav Markovic, Department of Computer Science, Brown University
Predrag Neskovic, Department of Physics, Brown University
Djordje Tomasevic, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan
Zagorka Gaeta, University of Rochester
Dimitrije Stamenovic, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Eva Stamenovic, School of Public Health, Harvard University
Marko Stamenovic, Devotion School─ÎôLjubomir Citkusev, Department of Biomedical
Engineering, Boston University
Branislav Kecman, California Institute of Technology
Ljubomir Buturovic, BioMolecular Engineering Research Center, Boston University
Rusko Matulic, CADDY Bulletin, New Jersey
Dragan Curcija, Mechanical Engineering Department,
Univeo#Ňty`Ć│0MaŃsaŠÚ╗!Y]ŁžLjiljana Curcija, Department of Nutrition,
University of Massachusetts
Aleksandar Totic, University of Illinois
Mirko Paskota, Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia
Miroslav Martinovic, New York University
Ana Marjanovic-Shane, Philadelphia
Vukica Srajer, University of Chicago
Dragan Cvetkovic, University of Saarbruecken
Mirjana Starcevic, Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit-Amsterdam
Marko Ledvij, Iowa State University
Drago Stankovic, Allied Geophysical Laboratories, University of Houston
Sinisa Maravic, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
Jasna Fejzo, Department of Biochemistry, Harvard University
Vladan Lucic, Department of Physics, Northeastern University
Paul M. Foster, Columbia University
Ljiljana Ivezic, Pittsburgh
Nenad Ivezic, Carnegie Mellon University
Vladimir Likic, Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota
Raka Levi, Doble Engineering Company, Watertown, Massachusetts
Tatjana Levi, Department of Genetics, Harvard University
Mia Levi, Devotion School
Dragoljub Kosanovic, Mechanical Engineering Dept., University of Massachusetts
Vladimir Matijasevic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Milena Rozenblat, Melbourne
Boris Rozenblat, Melbourne
Savica Dragic, Melbourne
Velimir Dragic, Melbourne
Dragomir Davidovic, Johns Hopkins University
Igor Kaljevic, Carnegie Mellon University
Marija Cubric, Concordia University, Montreal
Milan Vatovec, Oregon State University
Nikola Malenovic, Department of Computer Science, University of Norh Dakota
Stenli Mint, Physics Department, Boston University
Jasna Mrkic, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Aleksandar Orlovic, Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Dejan Skala, Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M UniversHń_├Nenad
Kuraica, Los Angeles
Sinisa Mesarovic,"h┬rvard`UniţersËt^├Bozidar Stojadinovic, University of
California, Berkeley
Vesna Dimitrijevic-Kelleher, Cambridge, Massachusetts
William Kelleher, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Zorica Budic, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Goran Matijasevic, University of California at Irvine
Zoran Novakovic, USA
Tatajana Novakovic-Agopian, California School of Professional Psychology
Aram Agopian, California, USA
Milorad Popovic, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia
Bogdan Kosanovic, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
Rade Hajdin, Cirih
Vladan Curcic, Cirih
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Danko Stipic, CEFRIEL, Politecnico di Milano
Ozren Pezo, CEFRIEL, Politecnico di Milano
Antonio Iera, CEFRIEL, Politecnico di Milano
Elisabetta Di Nitto, CEFRIEL, Politecnico di Milano
Enzo Tombolini, CEFRIEL, Politecnico di Milano
Andrea Veca, CEFRIEL, Politecnico di Milano
Attila Jurecska, CEFRIEL, Politecnico di Milano
Csaba So'lyom, CEFRIEL, Politecnico di Milano
Vesna Skerl, ICGEB, Trieste
Miroslav Konstantinovic, Beograd, trenutno u USA
Ljiljana Caldovic, University of Minnesota
Ivan Brukner, European Molecular Biology Organization, Heidelberg
Maja Krajinovic, European Molecular Biology Organization, Heidelberg
Mirjana Borisavljevic, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Zoran Petric, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Vladimir Glisin, Trieste
Miroslava Glisin, Trieste
Bojana Glisin, Trieste
Zoran Despot, Cirih
Milorad Sucur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doris Skopac, Trieste
Miroslav Filipovic, Department of Astrophysics, UWS-Australia
Ivana Magovcevic, Harvard Medical School
Mariola Magovcevic, Beograd, trenutno u USA
Tanja Pesic, Rice University
Sanja Pesic, Beograd, trenutno u USA
Slavoljub Susic, ICGEB, Trieste
Aleksandar Nikolic, Pittsburgh
Radovan Mirkovic, Pittsburgh
Teun Koetsier, Vrije Universiteit-Amsterdam
Borislav Agapiev, Intel Corporation
Tamara Ast, School of Pharmacy, University of London
Drago Indjic, Imperial College, London
Marlena Schoenberg, Harvard Medical School
Zoran Fejzo, Northeastern University
Dragica Mijailovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Srboljub Mijailovic, Harvard School of Public Health
Djordje Boskov, University of Arizona
Ivan Tesic, Hartwick College
Stevan Stevanovic, Hartwick College
Marina Mihailova, Hartwick College
Chris Miller, Hartwick College
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Maja Krzic, Department of Agronomy, University of Nebraska
Ljiljana Vesic-Petrovik, Texas A&M University
Sava Krstic, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
Nenad Nedeljkovic, Department of Computer Science, Oregon State University
Miroslava Jankovic, Washington University St. Louis
Mrdjan Jankovic, Washington University St. Louis
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Mathematics Department, York University Toronto
Renata Dmowska, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Tomislav Longinovic, University of Wisconsin-Medison
Marko Zivkovic, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago
Ljubomir Perkovic, Carnegie Mellon University
Joel M. Halpern, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Zoran Duric, University of Maryland
Bora Zivkovic, Triton Stables, Releigh, North Carolina
Nada Petrovic-Djordjevic, The University of Chicago
Milos Djordjevic, Regenstein Library, The University of Chicago
Amy E. Tyler, University of Arizona
Andjelko Basic, Washington University St. Louis
Aleksandar Stankovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sonja Glavaski, California Institute of Technology
Vladan Djakovic, Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
Djordje Brujic, University of Surrey
Vladimir Dimitrijevic, Youngstown State University
Ivan Mirkovic, University of Massachusetts
Jelena Milic-Foster, Andersen Consulting, New York City
Djordje Cubric, McGill University, Montreal
Tanja Todorovic, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Dushan Drakulich, Philadelphia
Zoran Maricevic, Syracuse University
Dragan Arsic, University of Wisconsin-Riverside
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novine.43.bale.,
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) -- The U.N. Security Council authorized the
deployment of U.N. troops and technicians Monday to take over the
besieged Sarajevo airport and to open it to humanitarian aid flights.
The council voted 15-0 to deploy the 1,100 infantrymen and air
traffic technicians after Secretary-General Boutros Ghali reported that
``considerable progress has been made towards the assumption by the U.N.
Protection Force of responsibility of the airport.''
Ghali said Serbian forces have withdrawn from the vicinity of the
airport and the opposing forces have begun the process of concentrating
their heavy weaponry in locations under the U.N. supfPvision.
Last Friday, Ghali gave Serbian forces 48 hours to withdraw their
weapons from the airport and put them under U.N. control. He warned that
the Security Council would take ``other means'' if the Serbs failed to
meet the deadline.
Ghali's assessment of the fast-developing situation in and around the
Sarajevo airport was made orally to the 15-nation Security Council by
the undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations, Marrack
Goulding. The secretary-general currently is visiting West Africa where
he will attend this week's summit meeting of the Organization of African
Unity.
``I request the council to grant the authorization...to deploy the
additional elements of UNPROFOR necessary to secure the airport and make
it operational,'' Ghali said.
After receiving the authorization, Ghali said he will instruct
UNPROFOR commander, Indian Gen. Sadish Nambiar, to redeploy the Canadian
battalion located at present in the western sector of Croatia and will
ask France to provide technicians for manning the air traffic control
tower at the airport.
The Canadian battalion would return to its former position in Croatia
after three smaller battalions, to be provided by other countries, would
be sent to Sarajevo airport.
UNPROFOR was set up earlier this year to protect Serb minorities in
Croatia following the civil war in that former Yugoslav republic. The
war spreaded to Bosnia-Hercegovina as the Yugoslav federation collapsed
into separate and independent states.
Ghali also called on the Security Council to urge the warring parties
in Bosnia-Hercegovina to make the cease-fire ``absolute.''
``In view of the pattern of fighting that has been evident in recent
days in Srajevo, I would request the council to join me in appealing to
the presidency of the government of Bosnia-Hercegovina to exercise the
utmost restraint in this situation, and in particular not to seek any
military advantage from the Serb withdrawal from the airport today,'' he
said.
``It is important that the humanitarian objectives of this UNPROFOR
action be kept firmly in mind by all parties,'' he said.
Ghali asked governments that have planned to send humanitarian
flights to Sarajevo to wait until the airport is fully under the control
of the United Nations and heavy weapons have been placed under U.N.
supervision.
The Security Council held a private session Monday morning to
consider a draft resolution submitted by France following President
Francois Mitterrand's daring six-hour visit to Sarajevo on Sunday. It
then proceeded to a formal meeting to adopt the resolution.
The resolution authorized the deployment of the additional troops to
``ensure the security and functioning of Sarajevo airport and the
delivery of humanitarian assistance'' to the capital's 300,000
residents.
But it warned that if the warring parties failed to cooperate with
the U.N. force, ``other measures'' to deliver humanitarian aid would be
considered.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) -- Communist President Slobodan Milosevic
of Serbia Monday offered to hold talks with leaders of an opposition
movement for his ouster, but thousands of protesters blocking a major
Belgrade street for a second day angrily rejected the idea with chants
of ``Resignation, resignation.''
Leaders of the Democratic Movement of Serbia coalition, which favors
the restoration of the monarchy under Prince Alexander Karadjodjevic,
and other opposition parties, met separately with Milosevic, his prime
minister, Radovan Bozovic, and other regime officials to present their
demands.
The demands include the resignation of Milosevic and his regime, the
formation of a multi-party ``government of national salvation,'' and the
holding of elections for an assembly that would draft a new constitution
for what was the largest of the six republics of the defunct Yugoslav
federation.
Ljubomir Simovic, a dissident member of the regime-controlled Serbian
Academy of Sciences and Arts, reported on the session with Milosevic to
some 8,000 protesters massed for a second day before the federal
Parliament on Revolution Boulevard in a demonstration called by the
Democratic Movement of Serbia.
Simovic said that Milosevic ``accepts talks on forming a roundtable''
with opposition leaders for discussions on the crisis in Serbia brought
by his support for the Serbian revolts in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina
and the resulting economic catastrophe deepened by punitive U.N.
sanctions imposed on May 30.
Simovic also said that Milosevic only accepted ``a test of his
presidential mandate through elections. The replies to our demands he
will give when he studies them.''
But, the protesters jeered at Milosevic's proposals, and began
chanting ``resignation, resignation.''
Nikola Tasic, another member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts,
told the crowd that he was not ``fully satisfied'' with the meeting,
adding that he believed Milosevic was playing a waiting game.
``Again it is a question of delay. But, Serbia does not have time,''
he said.
There were serious questions, however, over what steps the opposition
might chose next in their campaign as they have failed to mobilize the
massive numbers of protesters they previously acknowledged they would
need to force him to resign.
Meanwhile, thousands of Belgrade University students remained in
occupation of three downtown campus buildings on the 15th day of a
strike called to press the demands for Milosevic's ouster.
The demands have been gain ground among Serbs weary of war and
economic chaos, including skyrocketing inflation and gasoline rationing
forced by a ban on petroleum sales to Serbia under the U.N. sanctions
imposed on it and its tiny dependent, Montenegro, for their roles in the
carnage in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Anti-Milosevic forces received a boost from the return to Serbia this
weekend of Karadjordjevic, who sees himself as a rallying point for the
disparate opposition parties and wants to oversee the creation of a
parliamentary monarchy.
novine.44.bale.,
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Ex-Yugoslavia
NOW FOR GREATER CROATIA
The Economist, June 27 - July 3, 1992, pp. 61-62
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THERE used to be a television series called "The man from
UNCLE", about men who fought for justice and triumphed over the
baddies. As besieged Sarajevo starves, theggle valiantly to reopen
its airport - an objective that looked more hopeful after an agreement
of June 25th. But is Uncle waiting in the wings? As desperate rumor
has been sweeping Bosnia's capital: a famous general from Croatia
known only by his *nom de guerre*, Uncle, is ready to free the city.
If he exists, Uncle is unlikely to be benevolent. One year
after war began to rip Yugoslavia apart, Croatia is no longer the poor
underdog. It is aserting its power. Serb and Croat leaders have
discussed partitioning Bosnia at several meetings over the past
year. Serbs, 31% of Bosnia's population, claim 65% of its territory.
Croats, 17% of the population, plausibly say they now control 30% of
the country. If so, the poorly armed Muslims, 44% of the population,
are to be left in charge of just 5% of the land. Despite a desparate
"defence pact" between Bosnian Muslims and Croatia, the supposed allies
have already clashed over efforts by Bosnian Croats to impose their
authority in mainly Muslim areas.
Bosnian Croats, aided by men and arms from Croatia, have begun
to turn defeats into victories. Local Serbs, now abandoned by the
Yugoslav army, have proved less able to hold territory. Croat forces
recently broke the Serb siege of Mostar in Bosnia and are smashing the
Serb lines of communications to the Serb enclaves in Croatia itself.
Croat artilery is rumoured to have been moved within range of the Serb
forces that have been pounding Sarajevo. But Mate Boban, a senior Bosnian
Croat leader, says that his men will not be hurrying to free Sarajevo.
They have other things to do: consolidate the Croat fief in Bosnia and
firmly link the north of the country to the south, cutting the Serbs'
east-west link.
One UN official says: "The Croats sense their enemy is down and
bleeding ... they are euphoric." As the meagre UN peackeeping force begins
to take control of Krajina, the main Serbian enclave in Croatia, the
Croats have shelled its capital, Knin. Even more worrying for UNPROFOR
are Croat advances into a swathe of territory around the part of Krajina
from which Serb forces are supposed to retreat. The areas, which appear to
have been an awful oversight in the original peace plan, now threaten to
scuper the whole mission. The Serbs fear massacers unless the UN takes the
control of these areas. The Croats say they will take the areas by force
unless Serbs give them up.
The war in Bosnia is inextricably intertwined with the struggle in
Croatia. The Croats have always said they would fight for the territory
lost to the Serbs if the UN did not retrieve for them. With international
opprobium focused on Serbia, the Croats are grabbing as much as they can in
Bosnia. If Bosnia goes under, Greater Croatia will rub shoulders with
Greater Serbia.
novine.46dvidovic,
>>> Po mojim licnim iskustvima 486-33 + Weitek 4167 radi u
>>> TOPASu i 3DStudio 2.0 nekih 60% posto brze nego kada
>>> koristim "obican" koprocesor integrisan u 80486
> procesor.
>
> To je moguce jedino ako ti sa Weitek-om rade u 32-bit
> protected modu, a sa "487" u real modu.
Auu Bojte, al' ti se zdud'o sor. Vladina poruka iz Pc.Harda
kod tebe odgovor Dejanu u Forumu. Mashala! :)
Pozdrav
Dule
novine.47bojt,
>> Auu Bojte, al' ti se zdud'o sor. Vladina poruka iz Pc.Harda
>> kod tebe odgovor Dejanu u Forumu. Mashala! :)
Nije sor, već ja (ne koristim sor). Šta ću kad sam počeo
automatski da kucam co o fo, co rep... ;)
novine.48squsovac,
Sutra bi na sednici Vlade trebalo da se raspravlja o podržavljenju novinske
kuće politika. Ovu info je B92 saznao danas a ovi iz poolitike nisu imali
pojma. Uglavnom, Radoman pokušava da obuzda politikinu kuću. žuo sam da je
javno rekao da mu "najveći problem predstavlja novina koju je uzela opozicija i
tv kanal sa nekakvom hrvatskom emisijom koju tri puta reprizira i zbog kohje
niko živ ne gkleda dnevnik".
novine.49iboris,
Ł pojma. Uglavnom, Radoman pokusava da obuzda politikinu kucu. Cuo sam
Ł da je javno rekao da mu "najveci problem predstavlja novina koju je
Ł uzela opozicija i tv kanal sa nekakvom hrvatskom emisijom koju tri
Ł puta reprizira i zbog kohje niko ziv ne gkleda dnevnik".
:))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Da nije zalosno bilo bi smesno. Ali ja sam se ionako pokidao od
smeha. Zar je covek ubedjen da mu mnogo ljudi i ovako gleda
dnevnik ?
Pozdrav, Boris
novine.50drami,
Onda je pretvaranje NIP Politika u deonicarsko drustvo vervatno prvi korak u
njenom obuzdavanju jer je jasno ko u ova vremena moze otkupiti dovoljan broj
deonica koje ce mu omoguciti upravljanje.
novine.51squsovac,
> Onda je pretvaranje NIP Politika u deonicarsko drustvo vervatno prvi korak
> u njenom obuzdavanju jer je jasno ko u ova vremena moze otkupiti dovoljan
> broj deonica koje ce mu omoguciti upravljanje.
Darko Ribnikar (koji je trenutno u Parizu) dobio je 35% akcija koje
pripadaju porodici osnivača, tj naslednicima.
novine.52squsovac,
"Novi Danas", br.2 6.srpnja 1992.
(...)
Mi ćemo pozvati građane Hrvatske, srpske nacionalnosti, da izađu na
izbore kako bi pridonijeli daljnjoj demokratizaciji i stabilizaciji
hrvatskog društva. S tim što sami nećemo imati svoje kandidate, već
ćemo preporučiti građanima srpske nacionalnosti da glasaju za one
političke stranke i one predsjedničke kandidate za koje vjeruju da
imaju najviše snage i odgovornosti, političke zrelosti i najbolji
politički program da bi se moglo što prije i uz što manje stresova
nastaviti demokratizaciju političkog života u Hrvatskoj. Nas ne
zanimaju toliko srpski predstavnici u Saboru jer znamo da u ovoj
situaciji oni ne mogu gotovo ništa uraditi ako ne postoji adekvatna
većina koja će imati sluha za manjinska pitanja i koja će uvažavati
manjinske stavove."
Pored ovoga, novi danas se uglavnom bavi situacijom u Bosanskoj
posavini, iznošeći zanimljivo obrazložene konstatacije da je reč o
sporazumu Srba i Hrvata po sistemu mi vama posavinu - vi nama do
Neretve.
********************
"Cover story" broja su hrvatski izbori. "Što će odlučiti
pobjednika?", naslov je zanimljivog članka Jelene Lovrić. Najvažnije:
Birači još nisu bitnije izmijenili svoj politički stav, pa zato i ne
može biti nekih značajnijih velikih promjena.
Takođe je zanimljiv slučaj "izdavanja domovnica". Do sada je, tvrdi
"Novi Danas", izdano tek oko 60% domovnica, a to može biti
indikativno".
"žini mi se da oporbenjake (opoziciju) više zanima tko će biti novi
Tuđman, nego kako da ode stari". (Danko Plevnik, kolumnista Novog
Danasa, kolumna: Mjera za mjeru.
********************
Kome izborni blagoslov? (naslov članka Luke Vincetića)
Crkva u Hrvata treba biti na oprezu: "privilegirani" se hoće umiliti,
otvoreno ili tepanjem, ali svakako u njena kola.
Crkvi se u prošlim izborima dogodio "gaf" da je stala, uglavnom, uz
HDZ, pa mnogi npr. liberal još danas mora dokazivati da i on može
biti "i dobar Hrvat i dobar katolik".
********************
Intervju - Zdravko Tomac, ex. potpr. Vlade, sada ambasador u
Sloveniji. Govori se o sve izvesnijim sankcijama protiv Hrvatske.
"Bio sam pogodjen jednom rečenicom predsjednika koja se mogla
protumačiti tako da su sada najveći problem za Hrvatsku neke izjave
i da meltene zbog onoga što se radi, Hrvatskoj prijete sankcije.
********************
Kadrovi i napredovanja - o hrvatskim novim doplomatama. Danas saznaje
da se Hrvatska polako odriče nekadašnjih jugo diplomata, tj da
vladajući HDZ sve više uvlači svoje ljude u diplomatiju.
********************
Intervju Milan Kučan: NISAM ZA VOJNU INTERVENCIJU
U intervjuu je pokazano da je oficijelna Slovenija ipak ostala daleko
umerenija od službene Hrvatske.
Nisam za vojnu intervenciju. Ona bi ipak stvorila alibi beogradskoj
politici, jer bi faktičku kapitulaciju pred svojom javnošću
obrazložila nemogućnosšću da se bori s ratnom snagom čitavog svijeta.
To ne bi morala kapitulacija pred vlastitim narodom.
********************
AMNESTIJA: Smije li Hrvatska na zahtjev UN baciti spisak s imenima
desetak tisuća optuženih za pobunu i ratne zločine protiv civilnog
stanovništva?
********************
Na Prevlaku iz zaleđa - Prevlaka će postati dostupan zalogaj kada se
u dubini dosegne crnogorska granica, kada i crnogorska mjesta budu
u radijusu hrvatskog naoružanja te kada sankcije počnu davati
rezultate.
Ovaj članak inače, daleko je realniji i normalniji od ratno huškačkih
iz Globusa, na primer. Naime, Teodor Geršak sasvim jasno obrazlaže
taktiku HV da se na prevlaku ne može stići "s mora" ni "pored mora",
jer su tu jake snage VJ. Za razl. od toga tzv "vojska Hercegovine"
(ili tako nekako) daleko je slabija i HV (to je činjenica, čak i
ovde, u Bgd-u) napreduje sve više i više. žlanak izvrstan. Na žalost
Crnogoraca ;>>
********************
Kolumna Mirko Kovač
Uporedjuje Ćosića i Havela. Naime kaže oficijelan Srbija
talnonajavljuje eto našeg havela, a Havela nigde. Najpre je "havel
bio" Vuk, pa Matija, pa Brnja Crnja, a sad Dobrica.
"Ćosić kao neka ženturača nariče samo nad srpskom patnjom, dok Havel
ne deli patnju po nacijama. Sa susednim državama Havel razmenjuje
iskustva i akpital, a Ćosić stanovništvo."
********************
Nedavno je u Vjesniku obavljen razgovor s dr Milicom Mihaljević,
doktorom računalnog nazivlja iz Zavoda za hrvatski jezik u Zagrebu,
naravno o hrvatskim nazivima za predmete iz kompjutorskoga svijeta.
Izdvajamo nekoliko jezikolomljivih naziva za naše kompjutoraše ili
računalce:
adapter - prilagođivač - pretvornik
assembler - sakupljač - zbirnik
chip - integralni sklop - sklopnjak
display - pokazivač - predočnik
hard disk - kruti disk - čvrsnik
hardware - očvrsje - sklopovlje
joystick - palica za igru - svesmjer
pointer - pokazivač - kazaljka
printer - štampač - ispisivalo
software - programska podrška - napudbina
utility program - servisni program - uslužnik
Prije dvije godine počelo je s hrvatskom ukrudbom (erekcija), ali,
čini se da svakoga dana u svakom pogledu sve više napredujemo".
********************
Dalje se malo kolju sa Slovencima oko trgovinskog deficita
(Hrvatske), pa se ponovo bave diplomatijom (zšto čistke), itd
Zanimljiv je intervju sa Gillesom Martinetom, "novinarom i
ambasadorom, bliskim prijateljem Francoisa Mitterranda, o donedavnoj
prosrpskoj politici u Francuskoj, manjinskim pravima i pokušaju
gušenja slobode medija u Hrvatskoj.
Najznačajniji je deo gde Martinet objašnjava okretanje Francuske od
"prosrpske" do neutralne politike. Kaže, bili smo prijatelji i pre,
dugo je vladalo mišljenje "Šta je za Nemačku dobro - za Francusku je
loše, zato su Francuzi želeli jasno da podrže Srbiju, spram Slo & CRO
koje je gurala Nemačka...
"Moram priznati da sam i sam bio iznenadjen u kojoj je mjeri u
Francuskoj prevladavlo prosrpsko raspoloženje."... Kada su birali
dobrovoljce za plave šlemove pitali su ih zašto idu, odgovorili su
da se "bore za Srbe". Zašto? "Srbi su naši prijatelji, bili su naši
saveztnici, aHrvati su naši neprijatelji."
Martinet dalje objašnjava kako je došlo do promene stava čak i kod
samog Miterana. Kada su stigle slike iz Sarajeva....
To je sve za sada, biće ovih dana i iz ostalih listova ako 'oćete.
Tek da vidite Globus ili ST....
Ipak, Novi Danas je nešto kao Vreme, samo što je u Hrvatskoj to
J E D I N I nezavisni medij.
novine.53drami,
Da ali ostaje i dalje 65% deonica a i sada nije sigurno da ce D.Ribnikar dobiti
cak 35% ali sve zavisi od toga kako bi sama Politika rasporedila Úprocentualno
koliko ce ko dobiti deonica a koliko ce izbaciti na trziste.Sve u svemu vlada
moze i preko ljudi iz Politike koji je podrzavaju doci do dovoljnog broja
deonica da bi mogla da je kontrolise.
novine.54max.headroom,
> moze i preko ljudi iz Politike koji je podrzavaju doci do
> dovoljnog broja deonica da bi mogla da je kontrolise.
Sama Vlada je izjavila da je 51% deonica automatski njeno ("kupila" ;)
novine.55drami,
Nisi pratio diskusiju od pocetka jer sam rekao da bi vlada do zeljenog broja
deonica mogla da dodje cak iako se Politika pretvori u deonicarsko drustvo.
To bi svakako bilo malo otezano jer Politika ne zeli da daje eksterne deonice
vec samo interne koje bi mogli da kupe samo njihovi radnici i to u odredjenom
procentu ali bi uz lovu koju za razliku od radnika vlada ima u dovoljnim
kolicinama mogla doci do zeljenog procenta ostvarujuci svoj uticaj preko
radnika koji su deonice kupili.
novine.56jtitov,
> To bi svakako bilo malo otezano jer Politika ne zeli da
> daje eksterne deonice vec samo interne koje bi mogli da
> kupe samo njihovi radnici i to u odredjenom
novine.57drami,
Lose citiras ako se neć varam objasnjenje je u daljem delu teksta a ti se bas
trudis da izvlacis iz konteksta ;(
novine.58jtitov,
> Lose citiras ako se nec varam objasnjenje je u daljem delu
> teksta a ti se bas trudis da izvlacis iz konteksta ;(
Ne, moja greska. Hteo sam da pitam nesto u vezi deonica, ali sam kasnije
video objasnjenje u naastavku teksta. Sve je OK.
Inace, poznat sam kao izvlakac iz konteksta :))
novine.59.bale.,
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) -- The communist-controlled assembly of
Serbia Wednesday approved legislation imposing severe restrictions on
public demonstrations.
Critics denounced the legislation as a crackdown on civil rights
aimed at impeding opposition to authoritarian President Slobodan
Milosevic.
Under the new law, demonstration organizers must obtain permission
from local authorities five days in advance of their gatherings.
Police have the power to disperse demonstrations any time they
determine that protesters are ``advocating the violent overthrow of
legal order, or promoting ethnic and religious hatred,'' the law said.
The legislation also requires organizers to pay the costs of traffic
diversions forced by protests and any property damaged when
demonstrators turn violent or refuse police orders to disperse.
Opposition lawmakers decried the law, arguing that it represents a
further reduction of civil rights in what was the largest republic of
former Yugoslavia.
They also contended it was designed to obstruct an opposition
movement seeking the resignation of Milosevic and his regime, who are
blamed by their opponents for leading Serbia into an unprecedented
economic disaster by underwriting the Serbian territorial offensives in
neighboring Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
``The law doesn't straightforwardly ban demonstrations. But, it
presents the organizers with conditions which are virtually impossible
to fulfill,'' said Zoran Horvan, a member of the opposition Serbian
Renewal Movement.
Last month, opposition parties and Belgrade University students and
professors held massive peaceful protests in the center of Belgrade to
the press demands for Milosevic's resignation.
The students plan to resume their demonstrations at the end of the
summer vacation in August.
Opposition lawmakers were easily outvoted in opposing the law by
those of Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia, which control more then
80 percent of the 250 assembly seats.
novine.60squsovac,
sloba jutros vratio zakon o politici.
novine.61squsovac,
Ako je verovati Njusviku, Milošević se neće kandidovati na
preds. izborima:
Najnoviji broj Njusvika (03.08.1992.) na uobičajenom za to
predviđenom mestu (na poslednjim stranama) donosi intervju sa Milanom
Panićem.
Panića je intervjuisao Majkl Mejer za vreme kratkog Panićevog
boravka u L.A.
kraći izvod:
(...)
Q: Zar Milošević ne kontroliše zemlju. On bi trebalo da prekine
rat zajedno sa Tuđmanom i drugima?
A: (...) Nacionalizam je gotov. On će otići u istoriju. (...) Ja
imam Armiju i medj. poslove...
Q: Šta ako Vas on izazove?
A: God helps him... BUT HE TOLD ME THAT HE WON'T RUN IN
NOVEMBER!!! (podvukao sq)
Q: Tada će biti otklonjena najveća prepreka miru?
A: To ste Vi rekli!
(...)
novine.62veca,
To je večeras rečeno i na NTV-u.
novine.63kale,
Malopre sam čuo na Studiju B:
Savet Bezbednosti UN usvojio rezolucije 770 i 771, prvom se dozvoljava
upotreba sile u cilju obezbeđivanja dopremanja humanitarne pomoći u BIH,
a drugom se dozvoljava upotreba sile u cilju sprečavanja ratnih zločina.
Pisano po sećanju, ali suština je - dozvoljena upotreba sile.
novine.64dejanr,
>> Savet Bezbednosti UN usvojio rezolucije 770 i 771, prvom se dozvoljava
>> upotreba sile u cilju obezbeđivanja dopremanja humanitarne pomoći u BIH,
>> a drugom se dozvoljava upotreba sile u cilju sprečavanja ratnih zločina.
Nazdravlje! :(
novine.65boco,
A šta ste očekivali kog vraga?
Još Kuba i Kina i bye, bye comunism!
Oću reći, boooooli njih i za genocid i za zločine i za humanitarnu pomoć...
Rade oni posao koji veze nema sa tim, to je valjda jasno.
Dakle, kada Savet bezbednosti zasedne da donese odluku o bacanju atomske
bombe na Beograd, budite UBEĐENI da je pre toka sredstvima javnom informisanja
tj, novimana, radiom i pre svega televizijom svima toliko ispran mozak, da ako
se tako nešto ne uradi, narod USA i W-Europe će linčovati svoje vlade...
Da ne dužim. Prepričaću pametnije od sebe (po sećanju, pa original čitao na
engleskom, pa prošlo vreme, ali otprilike)...
Nikada do vremena Hitlera nije upotrebljena takva propagandna snaga
kojom je moguće kontrolisati velike mase, a da se izaslanici nekog
vođe ne moraju fizički pojavljivati pred narodom i prenositi mišljenje...
... savremena sredstva informisanja će od mase stvoriti NEKRITIžKE
izvršioce naređenja...
Tolko za sad... ;-(
ŢŢŢIGGYŮŮŮ
novine.66zormi,
DIREKTNO IZ BAZE PODATAKA "WASHINGTON POST"-a & "L.A. TIMES"-a
(Ako ima zainteresovanih mogu da skinem još)
================================================================
(wap) (ATTN: Foreign editors)
As Sanctions Bite, Serbs Look Warily Toward Winter (Belgrade)
By Peter Maass
Special to The Washington Post
BELGRADE _ After two months, the U.N. trade embargo
against Serbia and the new Yugoslav state it controls is
beginning to bite.
Gasoline rationing limits motorists to about five
gallons a month, and people here in the Yugoslav capital must
wait in gas lines for hours. The state is virtually bankrupt, and
inflation is running at a ruinous 100 percent per month. The
average monthly wage is now worth less than $38, and labor union
officials here say they expect that up to 80 percent of all
workers will be jobless by fall.
As always in times of economic crisis, it is the
defenseless who suffer most. Belgrade's main hospital is so
strapped for cash that it can only perform emergency surgeries.
"Everything that can be delayed is delayed," said Zoaran
Zivanovic, a general surgeon. "Benign tumors will wait until the
end of our political problems."
The city's chief psychiatric center can no longer
afford costly antipsychotic medication, so patients are
immobilized with straitjackets or warehoused through massive
sedation. But now there is only a week's supply of sedatives
left, and doctors have launched a television appeal for citizens
to donate whatever tranquilizers they might have. "We are
returning to the Middle Ages, unfortunately," said hospital
spokesman Milica Butigec.
There has been some talk of using more
electro-convulsive therapy as a substitute for antipsychotic
drugs, but the procedure is controversial and many doctors are
reluctant to employ it. Besides, they say, pretty soon there may
be a shortage of electricity and heating fuel in Belgrade, and
that is what has people here worried most.
The U.N. sanctions _ imposed on the two-republic
Yugoslav state as punishment for its instigation of Serb
aggression in neighboring Bosnia _ are far from watertight, but
they have given rise to a question that seems to be on everyone's
lips: Will there be enough oil when cold weather strikes?
"I'm terrified about the winter," said Branka Lutic, a
72-year-old pensioner who even now can barely afford to feed
herself as inflation steadily eats away at her tiny state
allowance.
Milorad Kalenic, who lives outside Belgrade, is trying
to prepare for a harsh winter. He believes the factory he works
in will be shut down by October and that no home heating fuel
will be available, so he has been stockpiling wood for his
fireplace, along with 130 pounds of sugar, 110 pounds of meat and
5 gallons of cooking oil. "About 80 percent of the people in my
village have stocks like that," he said.
The U.N. sanctions bar all imports of oil, but local
production accounts for about 22 percent of all fuel needs for
Serbia and its seaboard satellite, Montenegro; a good deal more
is smuggled in on a massive scale. One Western diplomat here
acknowledged that foreign oil is slipping through the sanctions,
and he said that some Western nations are seeking to have
international observers monitor all Yugoslav borders and Danube
River traffic destined for Serbia.
The "leakage" occurs in a a number of ways. The Danube
flows through four countries west of Serbia and through two east
of it, and sanctions-busting barges laden with oil or other
products need only acquire false "end-user" certificates that say
their cargo is destined somewhere beyond Serbia. Once in Serbian
waters, the cargo can be unloaded.
Diplomats say also that Serbian tanker trucks need
only change their license plates to Bosnian ones and then go to a
neighboring country-Hungary or Romania, for example _ to pick up
a load of fuel. In addition, Belgrade-controlled firms have
purportedly set up bogus subsidiaries in Bosnia and Macedonia _
neither of which is subject to the U.N. embargo _ to order and
acquire petroleum products and other sanctioned commodities.
Even before the U.N. sanctions were voted in June, the
economies of Serbia and Montenegro were in desperate shape. The
treasury had been beggared by the massive financial support
needed for the Serb militia faction in the Bosnian war and,
before that, for Serb insurgent forces during last year's
six-month war in neighboring Croatia. Moreover, Western analysts
say, Belgrade's finances had been hopelessly tangled by widspread
official corruption and ineptitude under the leadership of
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, the last Marxist leader in
Europe.
Serbia's per capita production plummeted by $2,000
last year to $1,300, and analysts say this year should be worse.
Rampant inflation means that paychecks and pensions have lost
most of their purchasing value. Belgrade residents say they are
cutting down on meat and other staples; cars are being stored
away; government subsidies to industries, schools, hospitals and
other public institutions no longer cover costs.
Serbs are angry about their pauperization, but for now
their target is not Milosevic, who is assiduously trying to turn
economic adversity to political advantage. Day after day,
state-controlled television broadcasts speeches and news programs
that portray the outside world as unjustly ganging up on Serbia
and hammers home the message that the suffering here is no fault
of the current regime.
Zoran Popov, a prominent economist here, says the
strategy has even worked to the extent of allowing Milosevic to
use the U.N. sanctions as an excuse for all the present economic
problems. Pensioner Lutic is among those who believe the
government line. She strongly supports Milosevic even though she
is frightened of freezing in the winter and can no longer afford
to eat decent meals on her monthly pension. Most nights, she eats
potatoes, pasta or beans. "I'm a true Serb," she said. "And I'm
mad that everyone is against us. They want to kill Serbia."
A Western diplomat agreed that the sanctions "have
tended to reinforce Milosevic" in the short term _ that and a
bumper summer harvest. He added, though, that if the weather
turns cold and holes in the embargo can be plugged, things could
change quickly.
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U.N. Human Rights Panel Opens Session on Bosnian Conflict
(Geneva) By Rone Tempest
(c) 1992, Los Angeles Times
GENEVA _ The U.N. Human Rights Commission on Thursday
opened a two-day emergency session to investigate reports of
atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina, with U.S. and Serbian envoys
trading accusations of "fascist" behavior by their respective
countries.
Assistant Secretary of State John R. Bolton, terming
the Serbian regime in Belgrade "the last fascist state in
Europe," predicted that a Bush administration proposal for a
probe into human rights abuses in Bosnia would be approved by the
commission Friday. Infuriated Serbian Ambassador Branko Brankovic
reacted by calling for the human rights commission to "label the
United States as a fascist country for what it did in Vietnam."
"In this resolution we will be discussing," said
Brankovic, "you have something that is contrary to basic Roman
law _ that someone is innocent until proven guilty."
The meeting in the U.N. Palais des Nations here opened
with several hours of procedural debate among the delegates, some
of whom wanted to specifically name Serbia and Montenegro as the
aggressors in the fighting that has claimed thousands of lives
and left an estimated 2 million people homeless. The U.S.-written
draft proposal does not designate any nationality as being at
fault in the conflict.
Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic, speaking at the
emergency session, presented a gruesome picture of conditions in
his country.
"People are decapitated and men are castrated," Ganic
announced solemnly. "Women are raped and mutilated. Serbian
symbols are carved on their bodies. Mass executions are routine.
There are hundreds of mass graves. The Drina River is full of
blood."
Such rhetoric is common on all sides of the war raging
in the former Yugoslavia. However, some of Ganic's strident
claims were backed up Thursday by an unusually critical report
from the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross,
the organization charged in the Geneva Conventions with
inspecting refugee and prisoner-of-war camps.
Normally apolitical and extremely careful to avoid
making partisan judgments, the Red Cross, without naming Serbia,
described what it termed "a policy of forced population transfers
carried out on a massive scale and marked by the systematic use
of brutality."
After touring several Serbian-run detention centers in
Bosnia, the Red Cross representatives said that they had "access
to only a very limited number of prisoners of war, while the
places of detention are crowded with innocent and terrified
civilians."
Bolton said that he had been assured of the support of
at least 27 members of the 53-member Human Rights Commission for
a U.S.-sponsored proposal to name a special U.N. human rights
investigator to Bosnia, one of the former Yugoslav republics.
Bolton, who is assistant secretary of state for
international organizations, enraged the Serbian delegation at
the meeting with a tough speech warning that Serbia and
Montenegro were in danger of becoming "an international pariah,
an outlaw state."
"We ask the people of Serbia-Montenegro this simple
question: Do they wish to go down in history as citizens of the
last fascist state in Europe?" Bolton said.
Serbs and Montenegrins are fiercely proud of their
anti-fascist guerrilla combat on the side of the Americans during
World War II. "There is nothing that more emotional to a Serb
than to be called a fascist," said Serbian delegate Olga Spasik.
"It's like waving a red flag in front of our face."
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Serb Refugee Tells of Repression (Slunj, Croatia)
By A.D. Horne
(c) 1992, The Washington Post
SLUNJ, Croatia _ Marta Papic and her husband, Djoko,
went to the United States in 1970 to make enough money to build a
house. When they returned to Croatia in 1979, they had a son and
enough savings from their factory jobs in New Jersey to build it.
They used their savings to build a house in a village
near Karlovac, in central Croatia. But as soon as Croatia became
independent in June 1991, their dream went sour. Because they are
Serbs, Marta Papic said, her husband lost his job in a Karlovac
shoe factory. When fighting began between Croatian forces and
Serb insurgents backed by the Serb-led Yugoslav army, life in
their village became harder still.
At night, Marta Papic said, men drove through the
village shooting at Serb houses. Their American-born son was
taunted by schoolmates as a "chetnik" _ the name of a World War
II Serb guerrilla group whose name is now used by Croats as a
label for Serb terrorists.
One day last fall, she said, a friend _ a Serb married
to a Croat _ was taken to a nearby police station and shot. "When
we heard that," Papic said, "we knew there was no hope for us."
On Nov. 22, the Papices, with son Dejan, now 16, and
daughter Daniela, 12, walked into the woods with several other
Serb or mixed Serb-Croat families from their village. They rowed
down the Breznica River into Serb-held territory, and, after 2
weeks in the forests, reached this town on Dec. 9.
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World Muslims Rally to Aid Bosnian Brothers (Cairo)
By Kim Murphy
(c) 1992, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO, Egypt _ The newspaper photograph shows a
dark-haired child with a bloody bandage around his head, his
mouth open in a silent scream. "Pay a pound, save a Muslim," says
the caption.
"A pound from every citizen monthly will keep a nation
from extermination," it adds. "God's prophet said, He who has no
interest in Muslim matters is not one of them."
The appeal worked. In poverty-plagued Egypt, $1.9
million in donations has poured in since the Doctors' Syndicate
began its appeal last month for Muslim victims of the war in
Bosnia-Herzegovina. Poor men have walked into the syndicate's
offices and donated watches and wedding rings; one man left his
wheelchair.
In Saudi Arabia, King Fahd launched an aid drive with
an $8 million personal contribution. Pakistan pledged $10
million. Iranians have called for dispatching Islamic troops and
heavy artillery to end the bloodshed. Tens of thousands of
Sudanese marched through Khartoum streets this week in support of
Bosnia's Muslims.
Throughout the Arab world, the reports of slaughter,
captivity and torture of Muslims by Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
where 43 percent of the population is Muslim, have played like
the opening chapters of a new Holy War. It is an issue that has
galvanized the Islamic community in a way that the Arab-Israeli
conflict, the sanctions against Iraq and Libya, even the gulf war
have not.
Muslims, fanned with appeals on street banners and in
the press from Islamic fundamentalist groups, want to know why
the United Nations was quick to defend Kuwait but slow to try to
halt the bloodshed in the former Yugoslav republic. Newspaper
headlines are full of Islamic outrage. Sermons at the mosques
boom out new orations against the Western response to the crisis
_ or lack of it.
"If those who lived in Bosnia, if the majority were of
the Jewish faith, would the slaughtering be going on until now
like this?" asked Adnan Omran, assistant secretary general of the
Arab League. "To me, following events, reading history, knowing
the mentality of leadership in the world, my answer would be no.
I believe the reaction would have been different, and it would
have been quicker."
Similar sentiments have been raised about the United
Nations' stumbles in the African nation of Somalia.
"People have been saying that it's because the people
of Bosnia are Muslims ... and the people in Somalia are black,"
said Nagui Ghatrifi, spokesman for Egypt's Foreign Ministry.
"It's clear that it's not that easy to intervene by force in
Yugoslavia. The situation is different from the one in the Gulf.
But still there is a feeling that something is wrong with the new
world order. And it's hard to believe that the world is incapable
of putting an end to the killings and atrocities and the savagery
which is being displayed in Yugoslavia."
But many Arabs complain that the Islamic world has
waited ineffectually for the United Nations and the West to act
while failing to move on its own.
An emergency meeting of Islamic foreign ministers in
Istanbul in June condemned the Serbian aggression and called for
international help to stop it; few Islamic governments have
recalled their ambassadors to Belgrade or imposed independent
economic sanctions. Egypt's troops in the region are limited to a
humanitarian peacekeeping role.
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Serbs Were Held Off, but Hunger Is Unsolved Problem (Tuzla)
By Roy Gutman
(c) 1992, Newsday
TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina _ The woman was 45 and
well-dressed, but she had gone so long without food when she
appeared outside the modest office of the Red Crescent charity
earlier this month that she could not even sit up. She asked only
for a glass of water with sugar.
The staff noted signs of shock and called an
ambulance, but the doctor was unable to assist her because the
hospital had run out of intravenous fluid. "I gave her my own
breakfast, a slice of bread and a tomato," said Nejira Nalic, a
Red Crescent employee. "Then we let her go. We could do nothing
for her."
The woman, whose fate is unknown, is just one of
thousands of victims of a severe shortage of food and medical
supplies in northeast Bosnia, where 750,000 people now live,
including 150,000 mostly Muslim refugees from "ethnically
cleansed" towns and villages. And the Red Crescent's inability to
help her shows, in microcosm, how ineffectual international aid
has been in reducing the suffering here.
"Every day, people are going hungry. They come asking
for a liter of cooking oil or a kilo of flour. People are
desperate," said Sead Avdic, president of the local governing
council.
But Tuzla, Bosnia's leading industrial center, is not
just another city under siege. It is, in fact, the last fully
functioning free region of any size in the internationally
recognized country of Bosnia. It was here that local leaders,
through wit, organization and a modest supply of small arms,
managed in May to hold off the Serb military juggernaut that
captured two thirds of Bosnia's territory. By conquering Bosnian
territory the Serbs hope to expand the territory of Serbia to
include ethnic Serbs wherever they live.
Now, with the Serbs at bay, the enemy is hunger. But
Tuzla's pleas for international help have fallen on deaf ears.
The shelves in the city's supermarkets are bare. There has been
no gasoline since April. According to Mayor Selim Beslagic, Tuzla
normally consumes 7,300 tons of food a month, but is receiving
only 400 tons a month by humanitarian convoys it has organized
with its own resources and foreign donations.
As of late last week, Tuzla's Gradina Hospital had run
out of antibiotics except for penicillin, of intravenous fluid
and X-ray film, and was down to a three-day supply of medicine
needed for kidney dialysis and only a week's worth of basic
vaccines.
"Every day is dramatic. We're used to it," said
Hilmija Hadzefendic, who is in charge of the city's health crisis
staff. "The most dramatic moment was when we ran out of
bandages."
Tuzla and the surrounding region, historically a
concentration of Bosnia-Herzegovina's mainly Muslim population,
are evidence that some of the republic is still alive and
functioning despite the Serb onslaught, and that Bosnians can
defend themselves. But Tuzla also provides evidence of a pattern
of neglect by the international community, which has ignored the
Bosnian hinterlands and, driven by the presence of the world news
media, focused almost exclusively on Sarajevo.
Although more than half of Bosnia's endangered Muslim
population is living here, no international organization has a
representative in Tuzla. City officials said this reporter was
the first Westerner to visit since May.
"All the world's activity is focused on Sarajevo, as
if it was the whole of Bosnia-Herzegovina," said Beslajic
(pronounced Beh-SHLAG-itch). "We accept that Sarajevo is
unquestionably Bosnia-Herzegovina. But Bosnia-Herzegovina is also
Visegrad, Gorazde, Mostar, Trebinje, and Tuzla, and we cannot
accept that our destiny will be solved only through Sarajevo."
Tuzla also illustrates the enormous challenge facing
every Bosnian town as fall and winter approach, compounded by its
size, the influx of refugees, and its near-total isolation.
The city's normal population of 80,000 has been
swollen by 55,000 registered refugees. The region's usual
population of 600,000 has increased by 150,000 refugees. New
refugees arrive at the rate of 500 to 1,000 a day, city officials
said, most with only the shirts on their backs and a grocery bag
of belongings.
The Serbs have the region surrounded. They have
blocked all roads, cut communications and daily bombard Tuzla and
other towns with long-range artillery and tank cannon from their
mountain fastness about 12 miles east. There is a very real
danger that a shell will crash into the Sodaso chemical plant,
where 200 tons of chloride are stored.
"If they hit the production facilities, it would be an
ecological catastrophe, like a Bhopal, and it would endanger not
only Bosnia and Herzegovina but also Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia,
and some countries in Europe like Austria, Hungary and Romania,"
Beslagic said.
The United Nations has sent in only two supply convoys
since April, leaving the city to organize resupply on its own.
The only route is a primitive dirt road hacked out of the
mountainside that will become impassable after the first rains of
autumn.
Now even that precarious link is at risk because of
political maneuvering by Bosnian Croat extremists, through whose
patches of territory a convoy must pass to reach the free Bosnian
region. A New York Newsday reporter and free-lance photographer
accompanied one convoy on a trip from Split on the Adriatic coast
that should have taken 15 hours, but because of unexplained
delays by Bosnian Croat forces, it took three days.
In the last month, Beslagic sent a series of SOS
messages to President Bush, Secretary of State James A. Baker
III, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the
International Red Cross and the U.N. High Commissioner for
Refugees. "Please, do everything you could do" to open an air
bridge to ease the growing crisis, he pleaded in the memo, a copy
of which was made available to New York Newsday. He told them
Tuzla's airport is bigger than Sarajevo's, is ready for
operations, is out of the line of Serb cannon, and can easily be
protected with a force of 100 U.N. troops. But no one replied.
"We get lots of requests," said Ron Redmond, spokesman
for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Zagreb, Croatia,
noting that the his agency is trying to set up a warehouse in
Bosnia where towns could obtain supplies and, using their own
trucks, deliver the material to their citizens. But such a plan
would not help Tuzla, given the political conflict that threatens
to block relief convoys and the imminent closing of the road
link.
U.N. officials in New York also appeared to be unaware
of the appeal from Tuzla. Bosnian Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey
said he had asked the Security Council "several times" to
"evaluate" the creation of an opening to Tuzla. "No one has ever
come back officially and said anything," he said. "It is
absolutely preposterous."
U.N. officials could not recall the references to
Tuzla but later found in their files copies of several letters
from Bosnian officials about the city's plight.
State Department officials said they had received
appeals from Tuzla but noted that similar messages also had come
from many other areas in Bosnia. "We are concerned about all the
Bosnians who urgently need help," an official said, adding that
the United States was working with its allies and the United
Nations to deliver aid to Bosnian towns "as quickly as possible."
Despite the mounting hardship, there is no sign of
civil unrest in Tuzla; instead there is a grim determination to
pull through. Its leaders say they are confident that with
outside help, they could not only hold onto the territory they
now control but enlarge it and eventually rescue even Sarajevo.
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WORLD REPORT: Fascism Stirs Amid Ruins of War in Serbia (Belgrade)
By Carol J. Williams
(c) 1992, Los Angeles Times
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia _ Critics of the Yugoslav war
that has torn Serbia and the other former republics warn that
jobless city dwellers could be forced to burn furniture and books
to heat their homes this winter.
If the war is pronounced a victory for Serbia, they say, or
even if it just burrows into relative slumber during the
cold-weather months, armed criminal gangs freed from the front
lines will control the markets for precious commodities such as
gasoline, sugar and medicines, as a reward for loyal service in
the deadly construction of Greater Serbia.
Those fearful of what lies ahead _ Western diplomats here as
well as opposition forces and a minority of Serbian intellectuals
_ worry that borders could be closed to those with Yugoslav or
Serbian passports, with the intent of fencing them in to suffer
the role of international pariahs. The Western world has already
partially isolated the Belgrade leadership it accuses of
aggression, by cutting air connections, banning trade and
imposing new visa restrictions on visiting Yugoslavs.
Public gatherings and night life are likely to be banned to
deter social unrest, say these analysts, who see the stirrings of
a fascist society amid the ruins of war. They fear critics of the
regime are sure to be arrested, perhaps even shot.
Crippled industries already function only symbolically and are
being run by those deemed politically reliable by virtue of their
support for the party in power.
Among the horrifying vistas opening up before Yugoslavia's
ostracized Serbs, Western diplomats and Serbia's decimated
intelligentsia say that an environment of poverty and repression
is the best they can expect.
Most residents of what is left of Yugoslavia _ Serbia and
Montenegro _ cling to faint hopes that they will somehow be
rescued and restored to the relative affluence they enjoyed
before the war started.
"This will all be over soon, and conditions will be
back to normal by autumn," insists Natasha Markovic, a young
clerk at a Belgrade video-rental store, parroting the official
line beamed out nightly on state-run TV. She sees the fall in her
monthly income from nearly $2,000 two years ago to less than $50
this month as a temporary consequence of misguided sanctions
against her country.
"I'm not interested in politics," is the evasive reply
of many Serbs when they are asked what conditions they expect to
emerge from the current crisis.
But those who have broken out of the mesmerizing propaganda
spell that grips this capital city envision a much more
terrifying future. They warn of a society of rival armed forces
waging widespread urban warfare with sophisticated weapons and
medieval hate.
Belgrade-based diplomats and the thin ranks of the anti-war
movement agree that Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic is on
the verge of achieving his dream of a Greater Serbia.
Milosevic and his Serbian Socialist Party, however, have
steadfastly denied that the Serbian republic is even at war. They
have distanced themselves from the Balkan bloodshed and cast the
fighting as a valiant defense by Serbs in other republics against
perceived threats of genocide and Muslim fundamentalism.
European and other industrialized nations, currently outraged
by the carnage in Bosnia-Herzegovina that they blame mostly on
Serbs, have been weighing intervention options against the
expected costs in money, time and casualties.
But none of the possible scenarios, which range from
full-scale military invasion to a pullout, will alter the
likelihood that the Balkan Peninsula's 10 million Serbs face
decades of privation.
"We already have here a semicriminal, semimob kind of
political life," says Predrag Simic, a Serbian intellectual who
heads Belgrade's Institute of International Politics and
Economics. "The way you now become a 'good Serb' is to 'liberate'
Croatian and Muslim belongings."
Milos Vasic, a respected Serbian military analyst who has
steered clear of the nationalist fever, denounces Milosevic for
"encouraging fascists" and warns that the near-term future can
only bring worse conditions.
"If Milosevic wins any acceptance of the current state
of Yugoslavia, we will have an aggressive, totalitarian regime in
Serbia for the next 50 years," says Vasic.
What Serbs have won with their war, observes Vasic, "is
a lot of poor and devastated territory with borders too long to
defend ... a Greater Serbia in which Serbs have successfully
killed off their own sources of income." Soon, he adds, "we won't
be able to feed our own people, never mind Serbs in Croatia and
in Bosnia-Herzegovina."
Serbian forces have seized one-third of Croatia and nearly
three-quarters of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but most of those spoils
are the poorest and least productive regions of the occupied
republics.
Moreover, artillery and mortar attacks unleashed to drive
non-Serbs from the coveted cities destroyed much of the housing
and industry in the conquered areas Serbs now control.
Since Milosevic rose to power in 1987 on a wave of nationalist
emotion he helped provoke, Serbs have squandered most of their
wealth and energy on preparing for and waging war.
"Ultimately, Serbia is going to be the new Albania,"
predicts a Western diplomat living in Belgrade, referring to
Europe's poorest country. "They don't seem to see that yet, or
maybe they don't care."
The current leadership's thus-far-successful struggle to stay
in office against a growing but badly divided opposition has
reportedly been aided by private armies and criminal gangs paid
off through a shadowy network of monopoly franchises for
essential goods.
Each of the Belgrade-based paramilitary forces taking
territory in the other former republics is aligned with a
political party currently loyal to the Milosevic regime. But as
economic collapse makes the pot grow smaller and competition for
the wealth heats up among the heavily armed bands, opposition
figures warn that the armies could easily begin fighting among
themselves. In the case of a public uprising, the forces could be
pitted against the people.
Noting that nearly every household in Serbia is armed,
Veselinov and Vasic both fear the kind of anarchic urban combat
depicted in the futuristic film "Road Warrior."
"The party in power in this country is not ready to
withdraw its primitive elite forces," says Veselinov. "The rulers
will stay in power through criminal ways, by enriching those
closest to the leadership. No more than 100 people will suck the
blood of the other 8 million."
Serbs number more than 10 million in the six former Yugoslav
republics, with about 80 percent of them in the republic of
Serbia.
To break a cycle of violence and economic chaos, the people
brainwashed by propaganda and whipped into a frenzy of killing
will have to undergo a kind of "de-Nazification" process, says
Simic, the international affairs institute director.
But with most of Serbia and the Serb-held areas of Croatia and
Bosnia-Herzegovina still spellbound by potent nationalism, there
is not yet any indication that the majority is ready to begin
extricating itself from disaster.
So-called ethnic cleansing of territory conquered by Serbs has
driven more than 2 million people from their homes, creating
Europe's worst refugee crisis in almost 50 years. Many ordinary
Serbs privately denounce the forced expulsions of non-Serbs as
disturbingly reminiscent of the Nazi Holocaust, but they remain
silent for fear of being accused of disloyalty to the
all-powerful regime.
"This country might become a fascist one in the near
future," warns Veselinov. "The international community must
prevent this, because if Serbia transforms itself into a fascist
state, the whole Balkan area and Europe as well will be
threatened with general war."
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Sjajan primer propagande druge strane. Valja pročitati da bi se
videlo da ovi na RTS nisu sami na dnu.
novine.71ndragan,
/ Sjajan primer propagande druge strane. Valja pročitati da bi se
Fino. A ajde neka ovi ovde lepo objasne šta se događa sa, naprimer,
cigaretama. Lova od poreza na duvan je najslađi zalogaj svake države, a
u ovoj državi, koja je napokon (ponovo) izmislila finansijsku policiju,
duvansku mafiju niko ni ne pomišlja da potera. Dok su Rusi, Rumuni i
Poljaci carevali buvljacima, panduri su ih razjurivali bar jednom u
deset dana. Ovi trguju na ulicama, zelenim pijacama, bilo gde, i to ne
više švercovane makedonske cigare, nego niške, koje pokupuju u kiosku
čim stignu.
Ja sam prvo šiznuo kad sam video da privatne trafike prodaju po
maksimum dve ili tri kutije (koji su to privatni trgovci kad imaju
socrealistički 'sve na bonove' pogled na posao), a onda sam ukapirao da
pokušavaju da zaštite normalne mušterije.
W. Post tvrdi da su crnoberzijanske mafije sastavljene mahom od
'zaslužnih kriminalaca - veterana iz rata' i da ih zato Zloba mazi
(inače bi se okrenuli protiv njega :> ). Ima li neko bolje objašnjenje?
Bue_ Ndragan
P.S. Ja sam se, inače snašao. Posle petnaest godina odašiljanja
pozitivnih vibracija prema severnom kraju grada, uspeo sam of lajn da
ubedim duvansku industriju zrenjanin da počne da prodaje duvan za
zavijanje. Nije loš. Ima neko neku dobru vezu? Jedina (koliko znam)
fabrika cigaret papira nam je ostala u Rijeci ;(.
novine.72predrag,
>> Fino. A ajde neka ovi ovde lepo objasne sta se dogada sa,
>> naprimer, cigaretama. Lova od poreza na duvan je najsladi
>> zalogaj svake drzave, a
Kao sto smo svojevremeno pricali da Slovenci kupuju jeftino
sirovinu u Srbiji pa to posle prerade pa prodaju za velike
pare, sada je izaslo na videlo da je Srpska duvanska industrija
to isto radila kupovinom jeftinog duvana iz Makedonije.
novine.73korvin,
>>>> W. Post tvrdi da su crnoberzijanske mafije sastavljene mahom od
>>>> 'zaslužnih kriminalaca - veterana iz rata' i da ih zato Zloba mazi
>>>> (inače bi se okrenuli protiv njega :> ). Ima li neko bolje objašnjenje?
Ima. Probaj sa starom forom zvanom korumpiranost policije. Međutim,
kada ih je Panić poterao, nigde u Bgd nisi mogao da kupiš cigare od
švercera. U ratno vreme kakvo je ovo, teško je kontrolisati crnu
berzu pogotovo kod nas (čak ni Nemci 41-45 nisu to uspeli).
novine.74dejanr,
>> duvan za zavijanje. Nije loš. Ima neko neku dobru vezu? Jedina
>> (koliko znam) fabrika cigaret papira nam je ostala u Rijeci ;(.
U "Novostima" izlazi feljton nekog novinara koji se "zatekao" u
Sarajevu i tamo pregurao dobar deo ovoga rata. Kaže da je isprobao
sve vrste materijala za zavijanje cigareta, i da je ubedljivo
najbolji onaj papir koji se nalazi u kutiji indiga, između listova.
E sad, ako ti za pisanje koristiš kompjuter pa ti indigo ne treba...
novine.75andrejl,
>│ zavijanje. Nije loš. Ima neko neku dobru vezu? Jedina
>│ (koliko znam) fabrika cigaret papira nam je ostala u
>│ Rijeci ;(.
Papir možeš kupiti na pijaci ;)
bye, andrejl
novine.76andrejl,
>│ švercera. U ratno vreme kakvo je ovo, teško je
>│ kontrolisati crnu berzu pogotovo kod nas (čak ni Nemci
>│ 41-45 nisu to uspeli).
Teško je kontrolisati, da. Ali onako kako izgleda
Bečkerečka pijaca ni ne primećuje se da neko i pokušava da
je kontroliše osim par rutinskih "racija" (murija nije imala
šta da puši). E, samo kad nebi DIN-ovo preprodavali sa
maržo, od 100% (mada je i ostali duvan iz Rumunije sa takvom
maržom)
bye, andrejl
P.S. Embargo smoker
novine.77zormi,
Još malo najnovijih tekstova iz WASHINGTON POST-a
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Killing, Lying Normal Behavior in Bosnia These Days (Vlasenica)
By Nina Bernstein
(c) 1992, Newsday
VLASENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina _ Most of the houses on Sinis
Paic's street have been ransacked and looted. "Muslims lived
there," the 15-year-old Serb said matter-of-factly as he led a
visitor home last week to show off his submachine gun, ammunition
belt, daggers and grenade.
Only a handful of Muslims are left in this town of 15,000,
where four months ago they outnumbered Serbs 2-1. The only
straggler Paic knows is a barber, "so-called loyal, until they
kill him," the clean-cut blond teen-ager said with a small smile.
Paic, the son of an officer who died in battle in July, said
that he might kill the barber himself.
"I've been told by the authorities I can kill any Muslim
because my father was killed," he explained. "It's normal."
This is the kind of normalcy that "ethnic cleansing" has left
behind in the villages and towns of Bosnia-Herzegovina. It's what
awaits thousands of inmates of detention camps if they're sent
home under the agreement reached last week at the London
conference, international officials fear.
"When we talk about release of prisoners, normally we're
talking about a situation where hostilities have ceased," Thierry
Meyrat, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross
delegation, said in an interview. "In this situation, the
conflict is on-going.
"Everyone's saying that once there's a political solution they
can go home," Meyrat added, speaking of the camp inmates and 2
million refugees driven from their homes in the former Yugoslavia
by ethnic terrorism. "I defy anyone to give an answer to how many
would go back. Would they even find their houses?"
The house Hassib Verhatbegovic built is still there, empty. A
small white square with a red roof, it's perched on a leafy slope
above the road that runs through Vlasenica to Pale, where
officials of the self-declared Serbian Republic of Bosnia wage
war from hotel rooms papered with color-coded ethnic maps.
Verhatbegovic, a 52-year-old father of four, lives in a
warehouse now, behind barbed wire. He is one of 1,300 men in a
detention camp called Batkovic, 40 miles from his house in the
village of Papraca, and unknown miles from his wife, children and
83-year-old mother.
In an interview two weeks ago, the frail and frightened man
said that his family was among hundreds of Muslims from the
Vlasenica area summoned to the center of town May 31 after being
trapped in their villages by armed blockades. Serbian
paramilitary troops loaded the women and children onto buses
bound for an unknown destination, and took the men to a camp,
Verhatbegovic said in an account typical of those given by other
detainees.
"Yes," agreed one of the armed men slouched against the
village water tap in Paprace late last week when asked about the
May 31 deportation of local Muslims. "They surrendered and they
were taken to the area where they're going to live." He gestured
vaguely westward, and named Kladanj, a town in the
Muslim-controlled zone near Tuzla.
Before other questions could be asked, a local warlord in
camouflage and sunglasses strode up with his pistol to cut off
the conversation and send the visitors away.
Such men re the rulers of the 100-mile road from the Serbian
border to Pale. They control the checkpoints that bar the
entrance and exit to every village along the way. They saunter
the streets of little towns nestled in a landscape that would
look like Switzerland, were it not for the tank tracks gouged
into the roadway and machine-gun emplacements beside the grazing
cows.
Deporting, killing or terrorizing families such as the
Verhatbegovices was a key element in carving out this corridor
and others that link predominantly Serbian settlements in Bosnia
to the mother country, western observers agree.
"It was planned from the very beginning," said Milos Vasic, a
respected military analyst who writes for Vreme, Belgrade's only
independent weekly. "There was a common, coordinated push of the
regular army, the paramilitary and local irregulars. It started
in April at Zvornik and Bijeljina simultaneously. And ethnic
cleansing began the same month."
On the local level, official cover stories to disguise the
campaign of violence against Muslim neighbors are told only
half-heartedly, and then casually contradicted with harsher
realities.
"This was not ethnic cleansing on the basis of terror,"
argued Ilja Nedic, a big, mustachioed police inspector in
camouflage who volunteered with a hearty chuckle that he'd
obtained his Kalishnikov by strangling its Muslim owner. "They
exchanged houses because they didn't want to feel like a
minority."
Nedic, a parliamentary deputy and former schoolmaster in
Sekovici, a traditionally Serbian town of 12,000 between Papraca
and Vlasenica, showed no embarrassment when chief police
inspector Miodrag Milosevic gave a different version of Muslim
flight, during a tour the two men led of vacated Muslim houses in
Papraca.
"They were afraid," Milosevic said. "Many people died.
People get crazy when their sons die; they find the first Muslim
and kill him."
And what do the police do about it?
"The police in such a case must not do anything because the
people would lynch them," the chief inspector replied smoothly.
"The police can't intervene, and then the other Muslims are very
much afraid and run away."
To Vasic and other critics of the Bosnian war, this account
illustrates the success of a strategy prepared in Belgrade,
carried out by Serbia's security police apparatus, and built on a
five-year campaign of nationalist propaganda that exploited
historic ethnic tensions.
"The first thing you do is split the police station between
Serbs and Muslims," the military analyst said. "You do it by
infiltration; you put your own people in. You paralyze the
police. Then everything is possible, and everything happens."
Serbia's government continues to deny launching the war or
supporting it. But one doesn't have to look far down the road to
Pale to find symptoms of Vasic's scenario.
In a sandbagged checkpoint between Papraca and Sekovici, a
24-year-old Serb militiaman named Mile Ristic said that he had
run away May 1 from Zivinice, a predominantly Muslim town near
Tuzla, where he was a policeman, "because it became known that
each Serb policeman had two Muslims assigned to kill him."
An older man at the checkpoint, Milovar Kostic, read out the
latest Zivinice atrocity tales carried in his copy of "Novosti,"
a propaganda sheet for the Bosnian-Serb cause: A Muslim doctor
was bleeding Serbs to death in the soccer stadium to transfuse
wounded Muslims, it said; and all Serbian women had been raped
and impregnated by Muslims there.
"They do it because under the Turks, it was policy to make
half-breeds, since they make the best soldiers," Kostic
explained, unfazed by the centuries that have passed since
Turkish rule, or the fact that Bosnia's Muslims are European
Slavs, just like the Serbs.
"Somewhere deep in their peasant souls they know they're
doing the wrong thing," Vasic said. "So they will believe
everything, fantastic accusations against Muslims, to justify
what they've done."
Sometimes the accusations seem like backward projections of
their own misdeeds. Sinis Paic, the teen-ager in Vlasenica,
described "the liberation" of the town, in which every Muslim
house was looted, as a pre-emptive strike.
"The Muslims wanted to kill us," he contended. "They had a
plan to put us in four soccer stadiums, separating the men, the
women, the children and the elderly. When they were caught, they
confessed."
Pressed to talk about the Muslim families who had lived in
his neighborhood, he finally mentioned a 16-year-old boy named
Huso. "Three times I was hiding him in my house," he admitted.
"His mother was giving me her keys."
Eventually the authorities took Huso away. "He's working in
the fields now, in some village," Paic said vaguely.
He seemed more comfortable talking about killing. After
their father died, his older brother wanted to shoot at U.N.
Peace Forces soldiers, Paic volunteered. Instead, "my brother cut
some throats, and my father is already a little revenged."
Distributed by the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service
novine.78ndragan,
/ Teško je kontrolisati, da. Ali onako kako izgleda
/ Bečkerečka pijaca ni ne primećuje se da neko i pokušava da
Šta pijaca? Vidi ono Ciganče pred bolnicom, zauzeo celu tezgu, a ima
cigara na njoj za onako jedno frtalj prosečne plate (subota popodne,
mrtvo doba dana pred bolnicom).
novine.79iboris,
Ł P.S. Ja sam se, inače snašao. Posle petnaest godina odašiljanja
Ł pozitivnih vibracija prema severnom kraju grada, uspeo sam of lajn da
Ł ubedim duvansku industriju zrenjanin da počne da prodaje duvan za
Ł zavijanje. Nije loš. Ima neko neku dobru vezu? Jedina (koliko znam)
Ł fabrika cigaret papira nam je ostala u Rijeci ;(.
Pa što se nisi javio da ti trebaju cigare ? Evo svima da obznanim
da prodajem PalMal superlong (onaj crveni), po ceni od 450 din/kutija.
Bond prodajem za 350 din. Ko voli nek izvoli. Ima duvana u
velikim količinama, ali iskreno da vam kažem ne može da se
donese koliko može da se proda.
novine.80iboris,
Ł Teško je kontrolisati, da. Ali onako kako izgleda
Ł Bečkerečka pijaca ni ne primećuje se da neko i pokušava da
Ł je kontroliše osim par rutinskih "racija" (murija nije imala
Ł šta da puši). E, samo kad nebi DIN-ovo preprodavali sa
Ł maržo, od 100% (mada je i ostali duvan iz Rumunije sa takvom
Ł maržom)
A molim te, zašto da se ne preprodaje ? Prvo duvan iz DIN-a
se kupuje u inostranstvu, tj. u Makedoniji. Kako se za to troše
devize, mora da se plati carina, da se obračunaju gubici na
razlici u kursevima itd, to izadje prilično realna cena na pijaci.
Naravno mora nešto i da se zaradi.
Apropo murije i racija, u Kruševcu npr. murija oduzima ciganima
cigare i onda nosi kući, da bi te iste cigare preprodavali
njihovi sinovi. Medjutim, ako ste čitali u novinama, pre neki
dan cigani organizovali miting u opštini Kruševac i tražili
legalizaciju posla, sa urednim plaćanjem poreza. Opština je to
naravno odbila, jer bi tako izgubila vekliki prihod. Otimanjem cigara
(jer reč je bukvalno o otimačini), zaradjuju se veće pare, nego
da se plaća porez na tu delatnost.
Na putevima koji vode ka Novom Pazaru, nema dana da se ne
zapleni ogromna količina duvana. To je prava otimačina, jer
policija sačeka da ljudi kupe duvan i onda im otme taj duvan.
Pre neki dan je u vozu koji ide iz Novog Pazara zaplenjeno
9.000. boksova cigara. Koja je to količina !!!!!!
Slične racije postoje i kod negotina, Zaječara, Vršca itd. Dakle,
država OTIMA cigarete, jer nema pare ni mogućnost da ih sama
uveze. Gde ide novac od prodaje tih cigara, ne znam.