That's the substance of Western commentary on events in Serbia. Other commentary examines the start of a new United Nations secretary general and the departure of his predecessor. Protests have become routine Julian Borger says today that the daily walks of anti-Milosevic demonstrators have turned into a kind of group therapy for Belgrade burghers. They bring their children, their in-laws, their dogs. They shout, blow whistles and honk tooters.
Families living along the route drum their support on saucepans on their balconies.
So if Mr. Milosevic is waiting for the protest movement to die a natural death, he may have a long wait. After war, sanctions and hyper-inflation, this is more fun that most Serbs have had in years. They are breathing freely once again. Angered by President Slobodan Milosevic's authoritarian rule, the lost war in Bosnia and the resulting plunge in living standards, tens of thousands of ordinary people have made the afternoon protests in Belgrade and other major cities a regular part of their daily routine. What started as a spontaneous outpouring to denounce the annulment of municipal election results has evolved into a full-fledged grassroots movement that poses a serious threat to Milosevic and to the last remaining Communist regime in Eastern Europe.