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(@humanity)
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I read Serbia's Info pages, BBC News pages and many posting sites like these. My comments I believe, like most peoples, are irrelevant. It's all just one persons interpretation, which when passed on to another person, becomes contorted by their lack of information, patriotism and sometimes blind ignorance. It is not that NATO have done wrong, it is not that Serbia have done wrong nor that Albanians have done wrong.

Humanity has f**ked up again. We should not proportion blame, nor point fingers, but try to do something for the thousands of suffering people. No matter who they are.

To end with...a few excerpts from the Serbian constitution. You can take whatever you want from this.



I BASIC PROVISIONS

Article 1

The Republic of Serbia is a democratic State of all citizens living within it, founded upon the freedoms and rights of man and citizen, the rule of law, and social justice.

Article 4

The territory of the Republic of Serbia is a single whole, no part of which may be alienated.

Any change in the boundaries of the Republic of Serbia shall be decided upon by the citizens in a referendum.


II FREEDOMS, RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF MEN AND CITIZEN

Article 13

Citizens are equal in their rights and duties and have equal protection before the State and other authorities, irrespective of their race, sex. birth, language, nationality, religion, political or other belief, level of education, social origin, property status, or any other personal attribute

Article 14

Human life is inviolable.

The capital punishment may be spelled out by law only exceptionally and pronounced only for the most serious criminal offences.

Article 17

Citizens are guaranteed freedom of movement and residence and the right to leave and return to the Republic of Serbia.


Regards

Humanity


   
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 nick
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That was a good idea, Humanity.

It will teach something to those who know that Yugoslavia is not a communist country, that Milosevic has nothing to do with the likes of Hitler or Clinton and perhaps even reinforce some growing beliefs that the previous three months were nothing less than a huge lie to the world in the name of profit.


   
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(@L'menexe)
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well look who stopped in to say hi.


musta been tough to break away from your job and supermodel wife, hock-ptooey nick. you seem to be in a good mood today.


apparently you were unable to grasp the phrase


"payback's a bitch...FOR ALL OF US". or perhaps you were thrown by the american slang. not thrown nearly far enough, though.


an impressive document, that serbian constitution,


but not to be confused with ANYTHING taking place in 1999 serbia.


you're able to put hitler and clinton in the same sentence ==OH, PUH-LEEZE== as you pit three entire peoples in competition for "most disgusting nation on earth". what does the serbian constitution have to say in regards to that?


or doesnt it matter?


and, semantics to the contrary, i wonder how much difference it makes to the MURDERED whether milosevic initiated the GENOCIDE, or merely allowed it take place in his back yard?


and his front yard?


and the whole of the land under his jurisdiction, supposedly goverened by the serbian constitution?


i'll betcha it doesnt make any difference at all.


   
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(@guido)
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I like that hock-ptooy L'menexe


   
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 gmor
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HOCK PTOOY NICK. HE HE HE!


   
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(@L'menexe)
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i'm still trying to figure out who exactly has "profited" from all this.


do they pay you by the word, nick?


   
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Some paper was signed and KLA will do some disarming. Actually, it means only heavy weapons, you know, mortars and above. AK-47s (though much better, than M16 s--t) and above cal will so far remain in hands of unruly armed gangs. Yes, the war is over, and they can afford downgrading to the level of armed smugglers and terrorists, the border with Albania is transparent. Now I come to think of it, when Russia invaded Afghanistan, I thought that the British experience over there hadn't been learned. Now NATO hasn't learned anything from the Russian experience in Chechnya. Another fruit of the NATO involvment: some terrorist org popped up in Macedonia, that claimed several German APCs blown up already. German chancellor-genius Bismark once said that in the end everything would fall just because of some stupid mistake in the Balkans. He knew better.

To: Jack London

Sorry, KLA as org is not a victim. Just a Bin Laden's outfit. And NATO now caters to the most unsavory elements on its side as predicted by the US Senate comittee.

To: Jack London

Sorry, missed Your post as of Saturday 19. So, Re:
it. Good foreign policy means no bombing. Bad foreign policy means human rights abuse. Logical, natural, universal.
P.S. If a diplomat says "No", he's finished as diplomat.


   
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U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)

KOSOVO CRISIS

Factsheet # 77 June 22, 1999

Regional: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Kosovo

Country Total Refugees Entries in last 24 hours Departures in last 24 hours
Albania 335,200 None 18,900 to Kosovo
Macedonia 172,500 None 18,000 to Kosovo
Montenegro 69,500 122 (mainly Kosovo Serbs) 250 to Kosovo
Source: UNHCR Geneva.

Kosovo
· On June 20, the Kosovo Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) traveled to Pristina and found a general shortage of bread in the city. Ethnic Albanians own many of the bakeries that are closed in Pristina and may return soon. The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has expressed an interest in providing yeast to bakeries once they reopen.
· The International Rescue Committee (IRC) reported a general bread shortage in Gnjilane (IRC's Area of Responsibility (AOR)), where only one bakery is currently functioning. However, IRC's initial impression is that the food security situation in the region is not as bad as feared. The Gnjilane area suffered much less damage than other parts of Kosovo, and wheat and barley are growing in the fields and people are picking fruit, according to IRC. Fresh vegetables, mostly imported from Macedonia, are available in the market. Because of these conditions, IRC believes emergency food assistance may only be needed for one to three months in this area.
· IRC is optimistic about its ability to distribute food in its AOR. The Yugoslav Red Cross will handle distribution to areas with a majority ethnic Serb population. On June 21, IRC began distributing 4,000 USAID/OFDA-funded ready-to-eat parcels provided by CRS.
· WFP reports that its "Kosovo Response Unit" (KRU) has established standard operating procedures for the use of WFP helicopters. Two 3 MT helicopters are being used to assess and access areas which are unreachable by road due to mines. Sunday the helicopters were used to assess and distribute emergency rations in the Drenica region. The helicopters are currently transporting approximately 1,000 high-protein rations per flight. A third WFP/KRU helicopter, capable of carrying 20 MTs is on stand-by. WFP has offered to make the helicopters available to NGOs who wish to conduct aerial assessments.
· Children's Aid Direct (CAD) had not begun distribution in its Pristina AOR as of June 20 due to land mine concerns. CAD will eventually be responsible for food and non-food distribution in Obilic, Kosovo Polje, and rural Pristina.
· The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) returned to Kosovo and began food and non-food distributions during the final weeks of conflict. During the past four weeks, ICRC provided approximately 500 MT of food and non-food supplies to IDPs in inaccessible areas as well as supplies, where needed, to at-risk populations in towns.
· ICRC told the DART that it plans to transfer humanitarian responsibility to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other organizations by mid next week. ICRC will maintain water/sanitation and health programs but will revert to its traditional mandate of tracing and prisoner checks. ICRC will maintain emergency supplies of food, non-food, water and hygiene packs for 100,000 people for one week.
· A Mercy Corps International (MCI) convoy of 13 trucks carrying mostly food commodities arrived in Pec on June 17. The population of Pec is unknown, according to MCI, because many ethnic Serbs have departed or are planning to depart. Mercy Corps reports that it will send its second food convoy to Pec June 22 or 23. 17 trucks will carry 8,000 3-day ready-to-eat rations, 250 MTs of wheat flour, 25 MTs each of sugar, salt, and beans, and 13 MTs of vegetable oil (approximately 25,000 30-day rations).
· On June 18-19, MCI distributed commodities to the towns of Qyesht and Zahac, to the west of Pec, and to the city of Decani.
· According to MCI's initial assessments, estimated damage to houses in Pec is 80 percent, and 40 percent in Klina.
· The DART has been investigating problems associated with Pristina's water system since service was disrupted on June 16. The city water system is currently facing three problems that prevent its normal operations: security concerns of the ethnic Serb staff; insufficient finances to cover basic staff and operating costs; and a diminishing supply of key chemicals, particularly aluminum sulfate. KFOR has estimated that these problems, if not addressed, could bring the system to a complete halt in five days.
· KFOR has already addressed the first problem by agreeing to provide security assistance at the facility to assuage the fears of ethnic Serb staff. The DART is working with IRC to provide aluminum sulfate. An initial purchase of 10 tons was made on June 22, and UNHCR and IRC are working to expedite its delivery to Pristina.
· According to MDM/F, many local ethnic Albanian health care providers in Suva, Reka, Orahovac, and Glocovac have returned to rural health points and have already started to form health coordination councils at the grass roots level.
· KFOR has estimated that while about a third of Kosovo's Serbs fled as Serb forces pulled out, some 2,000 Serbs have returned in the past two days.

Albania
· UNHCR headquarters estimates that 335,200 refugees remain in Albania. UNHCR reports that approximately 18,900 people left Albania for Kosovo.
· The Government of Albania's Emergency Management Group (GOA/EMG) reports that 17,643 refugees arrived in Kukes from central and southern Albania on June 21. Since June 15, approximately 73,131 refugees have returned to Kukes from central and southern Albania.
· The GOA/EMG reports that 107,840 refugees have returned to Kosovo since June 15. On June 21, 13,400 refugees crossed into Kosovo at Morini border point and 2,600 entered at the Qaf-e-Prushit border point.
· According to GOA/EMG, 1,200 refugees remain in the Kukes area, with approximately 400 refugees still in tented camps.
· There is no mass movement of refugees to Kosovo from central and southern Albania. There is speculation that the approximately 200,000 refugees paying rent for apartments and host family space will begin to move in larger numbers toward Kukes within the next ten days to two weeks as July rent comes due.
· The DART reports that refugees are not waiting for UNHCR's organized return plan , which is scheduled to begin on July 1.
· UNHCR and the GOA/EMG have revised downward to 50,000 the number of refugees expected to remain in Albania throughout the winter. UNHCR and GOA/EMG prefer to accommodate refugees in host family homes and state-owned buildings during the winter months.

Macedonia
· The DART, in concert with ECHO and UNHCR, has developed a housing support program for vulnerable families hosting refugees and vulnerable social case families in Macedonia. The program provides shelter rehabilitation for the 20 percent most vulnerable host families, as determined by local emergency committees and implementing partner NGOs.
· UNHCR completed its registration of reguees in camps in Macedonia on June 20. UNHCR reports that the planned second phase of registration, during which refugees would receive a more permanent ID card, will now be abandoned due to the quick return of many refugees to Kosovo.
· UNHCR is beginning a program of organized return to Kosovo for refugees. UNHCR will identify refugees originating from municipalities declared "safe" by KFOR and provide transport for their return. UNHCR plans to target its return efforts to areas that are declared safe by KFOR and in which UNHCR has established a presence.
· On June 21, UNHCR distributed its third information leaflet in camps in Macedonia providing information on repatriation. UNHCR reported that it is also distributing a separate leaflet at the border for refugees spontaneously returning to Kosovo. The leaflet provides information on documents necessary for travel across the border into Kosovo and for future return to Macedonia.
· According to UNHCR, the GOM has accepted refugees' temporary ID cards as travel documents for refugees, and refugees travelling on this identification can return to Macedonia two or three times.
· The Department of Defense reported that 199 refugees departed Fort Dix for host families on June 21. The current population of Fort Dix is 1,728.

Refugee Camp and Collective Center Information: Macedonia
Date: June 22, 1999 8:00 am GMT

Camp Name Current Population Sustainable Capacity
Stankovac I 11,900 14,000
Stankovac II 16,200 20,000
Blace Reception Center -- --
Bojane 3,300 5,000
Neprosteno 7,500 5,000
Radusa 2,300 1,700
Radusa Collective Center 300 400
Senokos 7,400 8,500
Cegrane 38,500 43,000
TOTAL 87,400 109,600

Source: UNHCR Skopje.

Montenegro
· UNHCR headquarters estimates that 69,500 refugees remain in Montenegro. UNHCR reports that approximately 250 people left Montenegro for Kosovo. On June 21, approximately 122 refugees, mainly Kosovo Serbs, arrived in Montenegro.

Pescara, Italy -- Airdrops
· No airdrops were conducted on June 21 or 22. To date, 62,982 humanitarian daily rations (HDRs) and 10,000 high-protein biscuits have been delivered.

Commodities
· No new information.

Financial Support
· To date, the U.S. Government (USG) has provided over $215 million in response to the Kosovo crisis since March 1998.

USAID/BHR $101,936,372
DOS/PRM $69,779,500
DOD $45,281,000
TOTAL $216,996,872

UNHCR/IOM Humanitarian Evacuations
(from Macedonia, April 5 to date)

Receiving Country # of Refugees
Andorra --
Argentina --
Australia 3,534
Austria 5,079
Belgium 1,223
Brazil --
Canada 5,350
Chile --
Croatia 370
Czech Republic 824
Denmark 2,823
Estonia --
Finland 958
France 6,052
Germany 14,726
Iceland 70
Ireland 1,038
Israel 206
Italy 5,829
Lithuania --
Luxembourg 101
Malta 105
Maldova --
Netherlands 4,067
New Zealand --
Norway 6,070
Poland 1,049
Portugal 1,271
Romania 41
Slovakia 90
Slovenia 745
Spain 1,426
Sweden 3,675
Switzerland 1,687
Turkey 8,142
United Kingdom 4,191
United States 7,562
TOTAL** 88,305

** Some refugees were moved to third countries by the GOM w/o UNHCR involvement: 10,000 to Albania, 5,500 to Greece, 1,980 to Turkey, and 88 to Croatia. (Source: UNHCR/Geneva)

Background
· In late February 1998, following an unprecedented series of clashes in Kosovo between Serbian police forces and members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), Serbian police raided villages in Kosovo's Drenica region, a KLA stronghold. The police reportedly burned homes and killed dozens of ethnic Albanians in these raids. Thousands of ethnic Albanians in Pristina protested Serb police actions, and were subsequently attacked by the police with tear gas, water cannons, and clubs.
· As a result of the fighting, thousands of Kosovar Albanians were displaced from their homes, many taking refuge with host families, while a smaller proportion (several thousand) took to the hills and forests.

Public Donation Information
· In the interest of effective coordination of such public response, we encourage concerned citizens to provide monetary donations to appropriate organizations. USAID encourages the public to contact directly those private voluntary organizations (PVOs) currently working in the region to provide monetary donations. A list of those PVOs may be obtained from the USAID website at www.info.usaid.gov. The list is composed of PVOs that are registered with USAID and/or listed by InterAction, a coalition of voluntary humanitarian and development organizations that work overseas; InterAction can be contacted at 1-202-667-8227 x106, or via the Internet at www.interaction.org. Those interested in providing specific technical relief services or commodities should contact Volunteers in Technical Assistance's (VITA) Disaster Information Center for information and guidelines (703) 276-1914.
· For more information, please contact the public donations hotline at 1-800-USAID-RELIEF, which is staffed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). On June 21, 26 calls were made to the public donation hotline. Since April 6, a total of 49,877 calls have been received by the hotline.
· The online version of this document contains a map with details about camps and displaced persons.
· Past Factsheets can be obtained from the USAID web site at:
http://www.info.usaid.gov/hum_response/ofda/situation.html


   
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(@danixon)
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Fly-Trap Bill Clinton and Brown-Nose Tony Blair pre-empted NATO's sanction of the attack on Yugoslavia. This puts both these bully boys in the frame of being the aggressors.

Any deaths caused by US+UK trigger-happy top-guns should be used as evidence to indict these two power hungry politicos and the gung-ho killers themselves.

The real reason behind this interference by the US+UK operation will become clearer when the US oil barons begin to control the pipelines in this region, and MacDonalds, Coca-Cola and Disney bring "civilization" to the region financed by soft loans and grants. Hey, let's us call them by their real name, Subsidies!

The eventual bill will be paid by the taxpayers!


   
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This was written by a Serbian person i mail with.In answer to the freedom of press issue in Serbia.This person lives there, so he knows what he's on about.

In countries with freedom of press this would be a bit harder to accomplish
than in lands with huge censors (Yugoslavia not meant here, I think
yugoslavia has more freedom of press than many are intend to believe)
This is an illusion. Yes, you can go to any newsstand in Belgrade and buy three or four independent newspapers - but these newspapers are already frightened enough by the pre-war effects of media law. They can be punished by fines in the order of magnitude of tens of thousands of dollars (which would usually cover their monthly costs of production) for printing the truth - just if this truth can be seen as an insult to someone important enough. Such fines have been issued already, and the "investigation" of the death of the publisher of two such newspapers, Slavko Curuvija, has led to nowhere, as was expected. The situation with electronic media is worse. They were held in legal vacuum for years; there were many cases when police took away their transmitters or simply found some feeble legal excuse to take over the station (like it happened with B92), or just shut it off by a command (radio 021, TV Soko). Even while they worked, they were always registered as strictly local media, and being forbidden to broadcast to any significant area. B92 couldn't be heard in all parts of Belgrade, and when it finally bought the new transmitter, it was banned soon. Studio B, while it was an independent station (it is, practically, under rule of SPO now), bought some equipment which vanished as soon as it crossed the border, and it was never returned (AFAIK).
BTW, very few people buy newspapers nowadays. The independent press sells more, but look: it's something like 250,000 for state press against 350,000 a day for the independent, in a country of ten million. I'm not buying papers for years, and I remember I was buying them regularly ten years ago.

Going south, it gets worse. The retail network mostly belongs to the state press, and independent press has to build its own, because the state press network mostly refused to sell theirs.

So, formally, we can say we have some freedom of press. Facts, then, spoil that picture. The only media that 90% of the people can see (and it goes to more than 90% now) is the state television and radio. The 10% are those who got satellite aerials, Internet, buy independent papers, or are in the range of the few remaining stations. Recently, the government commanded that all the stations that they must retransmit the news from the state TV. These news last 30-90 minutes, at least three times a day. I can watch nothing but three local stations, and when it's news time, guess what do I see on all three.

Written by Dragan


   
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Another piece written by someone who knows very clearly what he talks about.In answer to a statement this person gives a messages

In countries with freedom of press this would be a bit harder to accomplish
> than in lands with huge censors (Yugoslavia not meant here, I think
> yugoslavia has more freedom of press than many are intend to believe)

Yugoslavia has no freedom. Point.

Yugoslavia has some (not many, and less by the hour) freethinking press writing personnel, not enough to overpopulate middle size restaurant. In Belgrade magazine VREME is one of the few who have courage and brains (some of them who has courage have unfortunately no brains) to speak freely and couragely and with some sense.


   
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 zoja
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Something interesting to add to the freedom of press, i.e. opinion debate here.




THE NEW YORK TIMES

June 23, 1999

BELGRADE

Milosevic Takes Measures to Restrict
Demonstrations

By STEVEN ERLANGER

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- The Yugoslav Parliament is
expected to meet on Thursday to lift the state of wartime
emergency, but it will also retain certain restrictions, passing
them into law, to deal with expected demonstrations by opposition
parties, Yugoslav officials said Tuesday.

Under emergency decrees issued on March 24, the first day of the
NATO bombings, government censorship was imposed on all
media, men of military age were forbidden to leave the country,
demonstrations were banned without prior permission and the
police were given sweeping powers of search and arrest to deal
with potential spies and war profiteers.

Citing the need to "reconstruct the country," the officials said certain
restrictions would be retained. The officials would not specify them,
but there has already been a government demand, for example, that
all radio and television stations continue to broadcast authorized
state news programs.

The new laws, the official Tanjug news agency said Tuesday, would
"create conditions" for reconstructing the country. Already, state
television is running upbeat advertisements urging people to unite to
rebuild Yugoslavia's bridges and factories.

An umbrella group of democratic opposition parties, the Alliance for
Change, has called for demonstrations this Saturday in central
Serbian towns like Kraljevo and Cacak, which is run by the
opposition. But the alliance is already having trouble maintaining its
unity.

A key member of the alliance, Democratic Party leader Zoran
Djindjic, said Tuesday in London that the Yugoslav president,
Slobodan Milosevic, would survive for a time, but be ousted within a
year.

The post-war problems of Yugoslavia "will be very risky for him,"
especially in a difficult winter, Djindjic said. "But as an opposition we
must do something. It will not be automatic."

Djindjic urged peaceful protest, saying: "Dictators like violence. If
you use violence against dictators they are happy. You must
undermine them by supporting positive democratic forces. Not by
creating conflict. Milosevic is good in conflicts."

And he urged Western governments to aid Serbia's cities directly in
reconstruction, bypassing the central government of Milosevic, who
has been indicted as a war criminal.

Djindjic has been denounced in the official newspaper Politika, along
with other opposition figures, for having "applauded the successes
of NATO missiles in their blind wish to get power."

Milosevic outlasted huge street demonstrations in the winter of
1996-97 that were led by Djindjic, Vesna Pesic, and Vuk Draskovic,
the leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement. While they won local
elections in about 30 cities, including Belgrade, their coalition split
because of their personal squabbling.

Draskovic later joined Milosevic in the federal government, but was
dismissed when he criticized the political parties of the president
and his wife, Mirjana Markovic.

The Alliance for Change is trying to bring the relatively popular
Draskovic back in to a more unified opposition, officials say, but
Draskovic is considered unpredictable and untrustworthy by many
other democrats.

The opposition is a fractious grouping. Just on Tuesday, Nebojsa
Covic, who split with Milosevic to form the small Democratic
Alternative party, said he could not remain within the Alliance
because of "serious political differences in opinion."

While he was not more specific, Covic, like another alliance
member, former army general Vuk Obradovic, sharply criticized
Djindjic for fleeing to Montenegro during the war instead of
remaining in Belgrade. Djindjic said he feared for his life; he has not
returned to Serbia. And Covic has also criticized Obradovic for
pomposity, for "thinking he was born to be a hero."

Draskovic himself ruled out cooperation with the alliance Tuesday,
saying that all together, the coalition could not win much of the vote.

Draskovic, who has called for new interim governments in Serbia
and Yugoslavia, early elections and a free press, said: "We are
demanding very brave, very democratic changes in the country. We
are demanding democratic elections." He said he was prepared "to
light the flame of change" in Serbia. But it was not clear that he was
willing to cooperate with anyone else to do so.

Draskovic also criticized the alliance's call for demonstrations on
Saturday, saying that his party "doesn't want to call people in the
streets in these difficult times." He asserted that "a political
agreement among the leading parties will lead to elections."

It was a shift from his earlier statements that he would not allow
Yugoslav and Serbian authorities to lead the country into "even
deeper tragedy," suggesting he might resort to popular protests to
prevent this. His shift Tuesday is bound to create further doubts
about the depth of his opposition to Milosevic, whose power could
be at risk from mass demonstrations now.

Senior officials close to Milosevic say early elections, as called for
by Draskovic and the alliance, are highly unlikely.

On Sunday, the state media featured an attack on Draskovic by the
ultranationalist Radical Party leader, Vojislav Seselj, for running a
corrupt city administration in Belgrade. That is one form of threat,
especially given the business interests of the family of Draskovic's
wife, Danica.

But Draskovic's party also depends on the support of Milosevic's
party to remain in power in Belgrade, one more way that Draskovic
can be held in line by the regime. Running Belgrade is the prime
source of money for the party, and gives Draskovic control over the
city's television station, Studio B. Draskovic does not allow other
democratic parties ready access to the station, using it to promote
himself and his party.

In another sign that the Milosevic government will not loosen all
restrictions on the press, the formerly independent radio station,
B-92, Tuesday fired 17 of its original journalists.

The station was taken over by the regime in April, during the war,
and ran only authorized news. The Association of Independent
Electronic Media said the official explanation for the dismissals was
that the employees had not turned up for work.

Veran Matic, B-92's original director who runs the association, said
the former employees would press the government to restore the
station to its pre-war status. "We shall not give up and allow the
usurpers to falsify the history of B-92," Matic said.

The government, having broken up small demonstrations in
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 zoja
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Last bit fell off, sorry


The government, having broken up small demonstrations in
Belgrade by Serbs fleeing Kosovo on Sunday and Monday, also
sentenced two of their leaders to 30 days in jail. The Serbs were
protesting what they called their abandonment by the government,
which has urged them to return immediately to Kosovo and
suggested that they are cowards.

Svetozar Fisic and Slobodan Karaleic, both members of the
Democratic Party in Prizren, Kosovo, were sentenced to 30 days in
prison for leading the demonstrations, which had not been approved
in advance.

Democratic Party vice president Slobodan Vuksanovic called
Tuesday for their immediate release. "Milosevic's regime, which is
responsible for hundreds of thousands of Serb refugees from
Croatia, Bosnia and now from Kosovo, is now arresting its latest
and biggest victims," Vuksanovic said.

Tellingly, Vuksanovic said: "Milosevic is more afraid of Kosovo
Serbs on the roads across Serbia than he is of the whole Serbian
opposition."


   
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Zoya and Emina,
are you ready to come to the Caribbean ?
Next week house-warming party at my new house.
The war is over, the criminals will pay.
I don't care about the BLA BLA BLA
of the Serb collaborators here.
Let's go on enjoying life,
and laugh at these idiots.

Send me something ICQ.
Take care.

ps. Blessings Guido & L'menexe.


   
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Jack,
I hope you all do get together and have a good time, just try not to think too much about some people on this board or it will spoil your vacation. Damn! Did you know if you sneeze and hit Ctrl at the same time it wipes out what you are typing? Anyway, I don't think this mess is over yet. Milosevic has some hidden agenda that I haven't discerned yet. I think he will wait until winter to put it into action though, if something spurious doesn't happen before then. Enough of that crap! I am going to go deep sea fishing with my son in July and catch a blue marlin that will sink the boat! Get my E-Mail from "Emina,Zoja,Zpka" or whatever her name is and write me once in a while. I'm not much of a talker but I like to listen.
God bless you too.
Charlie


   
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