From: malenovi@plains.NoDak.edu (Malenovic Nikola V.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Subject: There's a Reason ( VREME NDA 28 Aug 1992 )
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:45:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.19949
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network


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     "Vreme" News Digest Agency                     No. 47, August 17, 1992
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    There's a Reason
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    The  Federal Government  states that   there is  no reason  for military
    intervention  in  Bosnia-Herzegovina.  From  the  point  of  view of the
    international community and  the Charter of the UN,  there is. There are
    few  here  who  will  forget  that  it  was  Karadzic's  and  Koljevic's
    bodyguards that first shot at the  unarmed citizens of Sarajevo from the
    Holiday Inn,  and that the Serbian  Democratic Party (SDS) with  its 300
    tanks is the conqueror of 65 percent of Bosnian territory and one of the
    most dangerous  armed parties in the  world. The lives of  the people of
    Sarajevo are  also threatened by  Izetbegovic's forces, especially  when
    they  fire at  their own  people in  order to  provoke criminal  charges
    against  Karadzic's  party.  The  city  is  falling  and  aid is slow in
    arriving.

    International  aid  to  Sarajevo  depends  on  the  mood  of the Serbian
    artillery surrounding  the airport. Before food  reaches the inhabitants
    of Bas-Carsija(the old part in the center of Sarajevo), it is filched by
    hawkers  and  acquires  astronomical  prices.  Afterwards Belgraders and
    UNPROFOR  ask themselves  where Karadzic  gets the  thousands of  German
    marks  he  regularly  loses  in  Belgrade  casinos.  Belgrade denies any
    connection with  the war of the  SDS and Serbian officers  of the former
    Yugoslav Peoples'  Army (JNA) in Bosnia,  but it has left  them arms and
    provisions  enough for  the size  of a  developed country,  for instance
    Finland.  It  also  allows  the  primitive  propaganda  from  Pale to be
    transmitted  by Belgrade  TV. Then  it transports  Seselj's fascists  by
    military  helicopter from  Sarajevo to   Belgrade and  back -  they were
    brought directly  from Sarajevo in civilian  clothes with hidden machine
    guns to guard Milosevic's presidency during the Vidovdan meeting.

    Panic's government  does not recognize  Bosnia and Herzegovina.  This is
    bad. This  is how Milosevic excuses  himself. Cosic stubbornly announces
    that Serbs  outside Serbia have  the right to  self-determination. Today
    Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina are being broken, and tomorrow it will be
    Macedonia and an  attempt will be made to clear  Kosovo of Albanians and
    eliminate the indigenous and national minorities in Vojvodina.

    Washington is not threatening intervention against the Serbian forces in
    Bosnia-Herzegovina because  it considers the  other armed parties  under
    the  direction  of  HDZ  (Croatian  Democratic  Alliance)  and SDA to be
    innocent, but because Belgrade is the only place in Europe at the moment
    with expansionist tendencies and which  could ignite not only the Balkan
    region. Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and Hungary could be pulled into a war
    around  Macedonia,  Kosovo  and  Vojvodina  if  Milosevic  and Cosic are
    allowed  to politically  realize the  military superiority  of Serbia in
    Croatia  and Bosnia-Herzegovina.  After this  realization, nothing could
    stop them going further.

    The Americans  don't want Cosic  and Milosevic to  come to the  possible
    London Conference  on Yugoslavia like  little Napoleons, demanding  that
    the  Conference  proclaim  the  existence  of  Serbian ethnic cantons or
    republics  in  Bosnia-Herzegovina  and  Croatia.  This  would be a total
    failure  of  the  UN  policy,  because  ethnic  cantons  are  founded on
    genocide, and it would be a recognition of the politics of force and the
    victory of  one small country  over world orientation.  Apart from this,
    who  will take  in the  refugees already  leaving Yugoslav  territory in
    large numbers?

    There is  no difference in the  understanding of Milosevic and  Cosic of
    the  Serbian question.  They are  both preachers  of war  and a  greater
    Serbia.  Cosic is  just a  little softer  than Milosevic  because he  is
    prepared to sacrifice the state television  for the idea of a free press
    and to  sacrifice the power  of the Socialist  Party for the  idea of an
    all-Serb union. The  Law on Amnesty and free  elections for the "Federal
    Assembly"  are for  him useful   concessions to  the opposition  and the
    outside world.  They must be made  in order to preserve  the strategical
    plan. Cosic allows "democracy" to the point it protects the general aim:
    the  centralization  of  the  administration  in  Serbia, elimination of
    autonomy, tacit allowing of the ethnic cleansing of Serbia.

    This Serbia has already been  created by cannons. Economically speaking,
    external "Serbian" territories don't have  to worry about their survival
    any more than Serbia itself, because its regime is ready to lead it into
    the final stages of a  centralized economy, natural distribution and the
    pathos of  an international anti-Serb  conspiracy. It has  moved into an
    clear formalization of the "Krajina". This  should give the regime a few
    months' respite and strengthen totalitarianism. Serbia wants recognition
    of its war exploits, and Washington won't  do this. It looks as though a
    beating will decide.
                                                            Dragan Veselinov


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     "Vreme" News Digest Agency                     No. 47, August 17, 1992
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