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Nouveaux articlesFrançais Milosevic vendu aux juges de l’Otan Négociations de paix en Macédoine: l'UCK s'empare de 4 villages et en chasse les habitants. Rencontre avec Milosevic en prison 80 députés grecs expriment leur opposition à l’extradition de l’ex-président yougoslave, Slobodan Milosevic Les conseillers militaires américains aident les rebelles albanais en Macédoine Invisibles et indésirables : les nouveaux réfugiés du Kosovo L’OTAN et l’UE dans le rôle d’incendiaires des Balkans Etat de la démocratie en Bosnie sous protectorat de l'ONU MILOSEVIC livré au TPI pour un milliard de dollars. Justice à La Haye ? L'illusion d'une «Justice internationale» PROCLAMATION OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA , June 23, 2001 DEMOCRACY IS VISITED UPON YUGOSLAVIA And Now, From London, Your Milosevic Misinfo for the Day Amnesty and UN staff accuse Kosovo War Crimes Tribunal of ethnic bias US ADVISERS HELPED ALBANIAN REBELS 'CIA's bastard army ran riot in Balkans' backed extremists' OPEN LETTER TO MR. HANS HAEKKERUP, UN CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR Statement by Socialist Party of Serbia Kostunica-discredited politician NATO Guilty of war crimes by own definition New Communist Party of Britain: "Free Milosevich! Statement from London Committee for Defence of Slobodan Milosevic Justice at the Hague Reichstag Fire Trial, the Sequel Canadian Communist Leader Denounces Illegal Extradition of Milosevic About the handover/extradition of Slobodan Milosevic Open letter to President Kostunica JUSTICIA DE LA OTAN ?: ...TAL VEZ LA HAYA Giustizia allAia? Questa lista e' provvisoriamente curata da componenti della Per cancellarti da questo gruppo, invia un messaggio vuoto a: jugoinfo-unsubscribe@...
BalkansSlobodan Milosevic refuse de se prêter à une parodie de justice
Roland Marounek
03-07-2001
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section=A1ABBBAA&object_id=3375
Pol De Vos
04-07-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A1ABBBAA&object_id=3367
Sous les lourdes pressions des Etats-Unis, le gouvernement serbe a livré Milosevic. A la veille du début d’une conférence internationale de donateurs au profit de la Yougoslavie, au cours de laquelle on devrait lui promettre 60 milliards de FB. Est-ce le début de la grande braderie du pays aux multinationales?
Roland Marounek
01-07-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A1ABBBAA&object_id=3347
28-06-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A1ABBBAA&object_id=3343
L’eurodéputé du Parti communiste de Grèce (PCG), Efstratios Korakas, a rencontré le 28 juin à Belgrade pendant près d’une demi-heure l’ex-président de la RF de Yougoslavie, Slobodan Milosevic, dans la prison où il est détenu, afin de l’informer des mobilisations du peuple grec et de la lettre-condamnation de 80 députés grecs appartenant à toutes les formations politiques présentes au Parlement grec contre son extradition au Tribunal pénal international (TPI) de La Haye.
28-06-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A1ABBBAA&object_id=3341
28-06-2001
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Le 28 Juin 2001, le journal allemand "Hamburger Abendblatt" a fait paraître un article qui relate l’ histoire rocambolesque des terroristes albanais, capturés par l’ armée macédonienne, et "sauvés" par les Américians qui les escotèrent hors de la ville de Aracinovo, avec leurs armes et munitions. Traduxction partielle
Georges Berghezan
01-07-2001
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Ils sont plusieurs milliers à avoir demandé l’asile en Belgique. Ils sont Roms, traités de « Tziganes » ou d’autres noms qu’ils perçoivent comme insultants. Ils sont venus du Kosovo, ayant fui cette province depuis qu’elle est gérée par l’ONU et l’OTAN. Malgré les terribles persécutions subies sur leur terre natale, aucun n'a, à ce jour, obtenu le statut de réfugié.
28-06-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A1ABBBACBA&object_id=3339
Intervention de l’euro-député du PCG, Efstratios Korakas, lors de la séance d’information de la Commission des affaires extérieures du Parlement européen par le Haut représentant des Affaires étrangères! et de Défense de l’UE, Javier Solana
John Laughland
05-05-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A1ABBBACBB&object_id=3388
Pierre Piérart
03-07-2001
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section=A1ABBBACBD&object_id=3357
Slobodan Milosevic a donc été livré précipitamment, un jour avant la réunion des "donateurs", par le Premier ministre serbe Zoran Djindjic au Tribunal Pénal International, pour un milliard de dollars, soit un pourcent du montant des destructions infligées par les bombardements de l'OTAN.
Michel Collon
01-07-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A1ABBBACBD&object_id=3354
Frederic Hourdin
05-07-2001
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07-07-2001
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Entretien avec le dirigeant syndical, Viktor Ditrovski, qui évoque l'ampleur de la misère sociale qui affecte son pays. Une enquête publiée l'année dernière par le Bureau international du travail révèle une situation de déclin qui s'est prolongée tout au long de la première décennie d'existence du pays. Les niveaux de vie ont enregistré une chute vertigineuse. La population est tombée de 52 millions à 49 millions d'habitants en très grande partie à cause de la hausse du taux de mortalité English
Balkans100,000-200,000 March to Kostunica's Office Demand, "TELL US: WHO RULES YUGOSLAVIA?"
Jared Israel
26-06-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBAA&object_id=3329
23-06-2001
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23-06-2001
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The extradition of Mr. Milosevic could set the stage for a trial such as hasn't been seen in Europe since the Reichstag fire. A Bechtel official who declined to be identified said his company is planning a prison complex exclusively for housing foreign heads of state who respond sluggishly to IMF austerity demands.
Jared Israel
02-07-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACAB&object_id=3355
According to the London 'Telegraph,' Mr. Milosevic will make the following argument: "Sure I did bad things, but British leaders helped me." According to the 'Telegraph,' in this way Milosevic will show that "NATO is guilty" and, adds the 'Telegraph,' NATO leaders are very nervous...
Dragan St.Rakic
21-06-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACAC&object_id=3334
«UN legal officials say [the trial of a Serb that was 'seen' killing a Racak's victim] was dogged by procedural irregularities and that trial testimony was contradicted by forensic evidence and initial witness statements. According to one UN legal officer with knowledge of the case, the panel of two international judges and one Albanian judge had considered abandoning the trial for lack of evidence, "but they didn't dare to do it. Politically speaking it was not possible." »(The Guardian)
28-06-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACAF&object_id=3338
On June 28, 2001 the German daily newspaper. 'Hamburger Abendblatt', ran a story on the situation in Macedonia. Part of the story dealt with the rescue, with weapons, of Albanian so-called rebels from the town of Aracinovo, which was followed by mass protests a few days ago in Skopje, the Macedonian capital. The following is a translation of the relevant part of the 'Hamburger Abendblatt,' article
11-03-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACAF&object_id=3323
The United States secretly supported the ethnic Albanian extremists now behind insurgencies in Macedonia and southern Serbia.
Petar Jeknic
21-06-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACBA&object_id=3335
"Mr. Haekkerup , why don't you fairly admit that you are incompetent to prevent the violence"
Socialist Party of Serbia
29-06-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACBB&object_id=3378
CANA (Christians Against Nato Aggression)
28-06-2001
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACBB&object_id=3369
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
05-07-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACBC&object_id=3385
According to definitions used by The Hague Tribunal and by the Geneva Convention on War Crimes, NATO is guilty. Pravda.Ru presents the evidence for a case against NATO in a court of law such as the one at The Hague.
New Communist Party of Britain
05-07-2001
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACBD&object_id=3382
CANA (Christians Against Nato Aggression)
03-07-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACBD&object_id=3379
"We entirely support the position adopted by Mr Milosevic this morning in drawing attention to the illegality & unconstitutional status of the so called International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia..."
Michel Collon
01-07-2001
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACBD&object_id=3371
Jared Israel
03-07-2001
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACBD&object_id=3370
"I just saw Milosevic. He told this criminal Western kangaroo court that he doesn't recognize them. So I wish there was a lot more of those guys, like Milosevic." -- Comment of a refugee from the U.S.-installed Taliban regime in Afghanistan, presently residing in California, after watching President Slobodan Milosevic tell off the NATO's "Tribunal" earlier today.
Communist Party of Canada
02-07-2001
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACBD&object_id=3364
Portuguese Communnist Party
29-06-2001
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACBD&object_id=3359
Anti-Imperialist League
28-06-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBBACBD&object_id=3337
«On behalf of the Anti-imperialist League of Belgium, I wish to inform you that many people in Belgium who opposed the Belgian Government's participation in the NATO aggression against your country, are utterly disgusted at the recent measures of the present Serbian rulers aiming at handing over your predecessor Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague Tribunal.»
Yugoslavia¿Justicia en La Haya?
Michel Collon
01-07-2001
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section=A4ABBBACBD&object_id=3372
Toni Barbará
03-07-2001
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section=A4ABBBACBD&o!bject_id=3358
YugoslaviaGlobalisation of the Yugoslavia
Un ponte per Belgrado in terra di Bari
04-07-2001
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article_lai.phtml?section=A5ABBB&object_id=3374
Michel Collon
01-07-2001
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section=A5ABBB&object_id=3373
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Tpi: Boban e altri sportivi in difesa dei generali croati
Un gruppo di sportivi croati ha espresso oggi
in una lettera aperta la loro opposizione
alla collaborazione del governo con il Tribunale
internazionale dell'Aja (Tpi). La lettera,
come riferisce l'agenzia di stampa 'Hina' è firmata
dagli 11 sportivi famosi, tra cui il
tennista Goran Ivanisevic e il calciatore
Zvonimir Boban. "Siamo costernati per la
decisione del governo di estradare i due
generali al Tpi" scrivono Ivanisevic, Boban,
Aljosa Asanovic, Franjo Ararpovic, Slaven
Bilic, Veljko Mrsic, Alen Boksic, Igor Stimac,
Dino Radja, Davor Suker e Stojko Vrankovic.
"La nostra responsabilità morale nei confronti
dei nostri eroi non ci permette di
tacere"." Sono ridicole, secondo gli sportivi,
le spiegazioni dei dirigenti croati della
"individualizzazione della colpa per difendere,
in questo modo la dignità della guerra
patriottica".
"E' ovvio che si tratta degli sforzi di cambiare
la storia - dicono gli sportivi - e il fatto chi
era la vittima e chi l'agressore"."La Croazia
era la vittima e i generali e i soldati croati -
gli eroi. Questa è la verità".
La decisione del governo di soddisfare le
richieste del Tpi ed estradare i due indiziati,
accusati di crimini di guerra contro i civili
serbi, ha causato una crisi politica. Anche se i
due atti di accusa sono segreti, secondo i
giornali croati si tratterebbe del generale
Rahim Ademi e il generale in pensione Ante
Gotovina, considerati da molti croati eroi
della guerra serbo-croata (1991-95).
L'unico membro di un partito tra gli 11
firmatari è il calciatore del Milan, Zvonimir
Boban. Insieme a Miroslav Tudjman, l'ex
capo dei servizi segreti e figlio del defunto
presidente nazionalista Franjo Tudjman,
Boban fa parte del Partito della identità e
prosperità croata (Hip). (Red)
(da "Repubblica online", 12/7/2001)
"They showed me how to shoot, just for fun.
They let me shoot a machine gun. It was tough
to control, but, oh, it was a nice feeling -
all the bullets coming out. I was thinking it
would be nice to have some Serbs in front of
me."
"Mi hanno mostrato come si spara, tanto per
divertirsi. Mi hanno fatto sparare con una mitragliatrice.
Non era facile da controllare, ma, oh, era una bella
sensazione - tutti quei proiettili che uscivano. Io
pensavo che sarebbe stato bello avere qualche
serbo davanti a me."
GORAN IVANISEVIC, tennista croato, sul
"New York Times" del 22 febbraio 1993
(citato da Steve Tesich,
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/tesich/to-nyt.htm )
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by Nebojsa Malic
Antiwar.com
July 12, 2001
Kostunica’s Choice
"We cannot all be masters, Nor all masters cannot truly be follow’d."
~ Shakespeare, Othello, 1.1
It has been two weeks since Zoran Djindjic officially overthrew the
federal government
in Belgrade, and plunged the fragile union of Serbia and Montenegro into
near-anarchy. Separatist authorities in Montenegro have not recognized
the federal
government for months. Djukanovic's separatist regime in Montenegro has
been
boycotting the federal government, and only their poor showing in the
April elections
gave the federation a reprieve. Now, Montenegro's government has
restarted
its effort to organize a referendum on secession.
President Kostunica reacted to the June 28 abduction of Slobodan
Milosevic with harsh
words, but little action. The ensuing political vacuum has been rapidly
filled
by pro-Djindjic politicians, academics and media. To hear the Belgrade
press tell it,
Kostunica’s inaction is proof that Djindjic’s action was fully
justified; that
principles and law ought to take the back seat to money and the good
graces of the
International Community. In the Western media, this is a foregone
conclusion.
No one even mentions Kostunica any more, as Djindjic and his allies fill
the press with
chest-thumping defiance to the man on whose coattails they rode to
power.
With Djukanovic’s Montenegro on American life-support for years, and
Djindjic kept in
power by Kostunica’s inaction and American blood money, it is but a
matter of time before the now empty shell of Yugoslavia will pass away.
Djindjic and
Djukanovic will then become rulers of the ruins – always beholden to
powers
that made them, of course.
A malaise of servitude thus takes hold over the last portion of the
Balkans yet
unconquered. Only tiny Macedonia still holds out, though given the
amount of Imperial
pressure on its indecisive leadership, that resistance may soon become a
memory as well.
The people, driven to the brink of insanity by wars, sanctions and mass
migrations, are too busy scraping up the bare necessities to raise their
voices. They
cry out for leaders who will deliver them from their misery. As always,
they
should be careful what they wish for.
"RICHARD III" REIGNS
There is little doubt that the once widely despised Zoran Djindjic is
now firmly in
charge of Serbia. The entire ruling coalition in Serbia sided with his
decision to
suspend the federal Constitution and turn Milosevic over to the Hague
Inquisition. Only
two parties have refused to play along – Kostunica’s DSS and Velimir
Ilic’s
Nova Srbija. Ilic, the mayor of central Serbian city of Cacak, is
staunchly
pro-Kostunica and played a major part in last October’s revolt. Yet
neither party has
officially left the coalition. They have merely formed separate voting
blocs in the
Parliament.
Collapse of the federal government also gave impetus to Djindjic’s
associates in G17, a
group of neo-liberal economists determined to drag Serbia into the orbit
of
statist capitalism (not to be confused with free-market capitalism). One
of their
leaders, former federal Treasury head Miroljub Labus, is now busily
mocking federal
institutions in the media.
Djindjic’s appetite for power is growing. Last weekend, he met with
Prince Aleksandar
Karadjordjevic, vowing to restore the royal family’s property
expropriated
by the Communists in 1945. The meeting, of course, was much less about
property rights
and much more of an opportunity for the Prince to endorse Djindjic,
saying he did "good things for the people of Serbia." Though he is an
unprincipled
Marxist, Djindjic understands well the propaganda value of royalty.
Another proposal by Djindjic, which sounds very reasonable on the
surface, is that the
question of Serb-Montenegrin relations should be resolved by the end of
2001, and "not a day later." Yet Montenegro president Djukanovic – a
friend of
Djindjics, coincidentally – is planning a referendum in early 2002. If
Djindjic is true
to his word, by then a referendum will not be necessary.
Yet the six-month deadline could mean more than meets the eye.
Interviewed by Serbia’s
top news magazine, Djindjic said last Thursday that he "needed"
Kostunica, for without him, Serbia would be divided into two opposing,
irreconcilable
factions – "like it is in Montenegro." This amounts to surprising
candor, since
the general agreement is that Montenegro has not seceded only because
its government is
deadlocked, lacking a clear mandate. Djindjic can do whatever he desires
and use Kostunica’s popularity as a shield, counting on the fact that
Kostunica either
does not wish to, or is not capable of, stopping him.
SILENT RUNNING
President Kostunica, meanwhile, seems perfectly aware that Djindjic’s
actions in
L’Affair Milosevic have shaken the very foundation of the country. Apart
from
several strongly worded statements, however, he has done nothing to
prevent the
country’s slide into anarchy. Even his own party is worried about
Djindjic’s
apparent triumph.
This lack of action on Kostunica’s part is alternately deplorable and
frustrating. Even
his enemies know that Kostunica stands for things they vehemently oppose
–
freedom, patriotism, integrity and principle. (For example, Serbia’s
premier quisling,
Sonja Biserko, called Kostunica a "fascist" in September of last year,
only a
few short months after her organization praised Djindjic as Serbia’s
only possible
savior.) But how can Kostunica build a state based on his ideas, when he
allows
Djindjic to run rampant doing the exact opposite of what Kostunica
advocates?
Kostunica’s track record in handling Djindjic is about as successful as
Othello’s
handling of Iago. As early as last November, before Djindjic became
Prime
Minister by using Kostunica’s name to get elected, Kostunica’s advisor
Aleksandar
Tijanic claimed Djindjic was nothing but trouble. Since then, Djindjic
has
traveled around the world making "business deals," encroaching on the
power of the
federal government through tax codes and strangling the prospects of a
free
market through government monopolies. In March, he flouted the law by
"arresting"
Milosevic, again without suffering any consequences. And all that was
just the
prelude to June 28, 2001.
What is an observer forced to conclude, based on these facts? Either
that Kostunica is a
lousy judge of character when it comes to Djindjic, or that he is afraid
that
actions against Djindjic would precipitate civil war and foreign
intervention, or that
he knows something the rest of us do not.
SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE
Indeed, the power struggle in Belgrade is taking place in an extremely
charged
atmosphere. NATO still occupies Kosovo. Macedonia is under tremendous
pressure
to surrender to Albanian demands and allow partial NATO occupation
itself. The newest
imperial weapon against Macedonia is a campaign of vicious attacks on
the country's leaders – a weapon once used exclusively against Slobodan
Milosevic.
Kostunica knows how much the Empire’s verbal support – whether of
Macedonia’s integrity
or his presidency – is really worth. He could not have missed the fact
that Sonja Biserko is now a Senior Fellow for the government-sponsored
"U.S. Institute
of Peace" in Washington DC.
If all that were not enough, the Hague Inquisition’s process against
Milosevic, who has
been assigned the role of avatar for the entire Serbian nation, is the
darkest
shadow over Belgrade yet.
THE PRISONER OF SCHEVENINGEN
A well-organized campaign for Slobodamnation of Serbs is already taking
place.
Spearheaded by blatantly false reports, the Western media are eager to
exploit the
"Milosevic myth." Such fictitious renditions of recent Balkans history,
casting
Milosevic "as a supposedly brutal Serbian nationalist-conqueror," says a
commentary
in Belgrade daily Glas Javnosti this Wednesday, "is the ideal
justification for the new
militant interventionism, motivated by the need of Western capital to
move
freely across national borders. The Milosevic Myth, thus embellished and
richly
illustrated, is also important because it embodies all the racist
stereotypes of Balkans
denizens as retarded untermenschen, incapable of living in peace without
foreign
intervention and permanent outside tutelage." (Misha Djurkovic, Slobo
Myth A
Creation of Western Media, July 11, 2001.)
Milosevic is thus tasked with defending not only himself but his entire
people, in a
"court" whose reason for existence guarantees he will never get a fair
trial. The
only "rule" the court recognizes is "we win, you lose." Just this week,
they toppled a
loyal vassal government in Croatia, seizing two Croat generals simply to
undermine Milosevic’s criticism. No wonder he is refusing to play. And
he is right.
A TIME TO LEAD
It may seem absurd, ironic and almost surreal that Milosevic is now
exhibiting more
leadership than Kostunica. Faced with impossible odds, completely at the
mercy of his tormentors, Milosevic is standing tall and scoffing right
in their faces.
Kostunica hesitates, even though he has both the power and the
obligation to stop
Djindjic’s tyrannical rampage.
It all comes down to a simple equation. Serbia is too small to have two
masters, too
weak right now to be run by two opposing ideologies. Which one will
prevail
will be decided by a contest of deeds, not words. People will follow
those who are
willing and able to lead. They rally behind the most assertive, most
vocal idea,
not necessarily the best. If the current trend continues, the battle for
Serbs’ hearts
and minds will be won by Djindjic’s neo-liberal statism, not Kostunica’s
libertarian market nationalism.
Those who do not stand on principles, stand not at all. Rather, they
kneel like slaves
in the mud of self-abasement, cowering before arbitrary power.
Kostunica is running out of one thing he never had in abundance: time.
Every day,
Djindjic and his cohorts seize more power. If something is not done
immediately
to establish and maintain a constitutional order in Serbia and
Yugoslavia, a month from
now it might be too late to try. Kostunica’s choice will determine his
people’s future. By voting for him last year, and taking to the streets
afterwards, the
people of Serbia entrusted Kostunica with that heavy burden of
responsibility.
It is time he justified that trust.
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