MY PROTEST AGAINST TREASON
After the new attack on Constitution
and national sovereignty and dignity made by
representatives of Belgrade colonial regime by
adoption of unconstitutional "Law on
cooperation with the Hague tribunal", Mr.
Vlajko Stojiljkovic, Member of the Federal
Parliament from the Socialist Party of Serbia
and former Serbian Interior Minister, indicted
for "war crimes" in Kosovo together with
President Milosevic, committed a suicide on the
steps of Yugoslav Federal Parliament. What
follows is his farewell letter handed to
colleagues parliamentarians:
By this act, as a Member of the House
of Republics of the Federal Parliament, I
declare protest against the actual puppet
regime of DOS and Montenegrin "Coalition for
Yugoslavia", due to:
- breaking-up of Yugoslavia with
participation of the biggest enemy of our
people H. Solana;
- ruthless violation of the
Constitution and laws of this country;
- conducting the policy of treason
and capitulation;
- losing the national dignity;
- destruction of the economy and
bringing millions of citizens to social
poverty.
For my death I consider responsible
and directly accuse: Zoran Djindjic, Vojislav
Kostunica, Dusan Mihajlovic, Vladan Batic,
Miroljub Labus, Dragoljub Micunovic, Predrag
Bulatovic, Srdja Bozovic and Dragisa Pesic.
Citizens - patriots of this country
will know how to retaliate.
(more extensive message is following)
signed:
Vlajko Stojiljkovic
Member of Parliament
In the letter, Mr. Stojiljkovic
accuses DOS leaders: (Serbian Prime Minister)
Zoran Djindjic, (Federal President) Vojislav
Kostunica, (Serbian Interior Minister) Dusan
Mihajlovic, (Serbian Justice Minister) Vladan
Batic, (Federal Vice Prime Minister) Miroljub
Labus, (Speaker of the House of Citizens of
Federal Parliament) Dragoljub Micunovic, and
leaders of their federal coalition partners
from Montenegro: (Leader of the Socialist
Peoples' Party and Head of Foreign Policy
Committee of the Federal Parliament) Predrag
Bulatovic, (Speaker of the House of Republics
of the Federal Parliament) Srdja Bozovic and
(Federal Prime Minister) Dragisa Pesic.
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Statement
by President of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia Vojislav Kostunica
April 11, 2002
It is not enough to say that this
evening's act by a federal MP, Vlajko
Stojiljkovic, former interior minister
indicted by the Hague Tribunal, was
a tragic event. This is also a warning
to all of us engaged in politics in
this unfortunate country, trying to
find a way out of difficulties that
befell us against our will. This,
however, is also a warning to the
international community, particularly
a part of it, constantly setting
conditions, exerting pressures and
proscribing our behaviour. The Tribunal
is reality. Prejudices about Serbs are
also reality. And accusing the Serbs
for almost every evil that took place
on this soil in the past years is
also reality, however unjust it may
be. Unfortunately, this evening's act,
both painful and accusing, is also
reality.
None of us can escape from
responsibility, even if we wanted to.
I am the first not to escape. Many parties
that are in power today cannot evade
responsibility for what, overwhelmed
by power, they did, and shouldn't'
have, or didn't, but should have.
Those that were in power until yesterday
cannot escape from responsibility for
a haughty and arrogant policy that
has largely brought us into the
situation we are in now. All of us
together cannot escape responsibility for
having failed to regulate cooperation
with the Tribunal by a law far earlier,
instead of allowing ourselves to pass
it in such hafte. This is exactly how we
failed to pass a law that would have
protected the interests of the
individual and the state in a better
way and contributed to finding out the truth
on the wars that went by and crimes
that happened while they lasted. All
of us are responsible for having
failed to initiate criminal
proceedings before our own courts a
long time ago.
The only thing we can do now is to
stop indulging in mutual recriminations
and try, regardless of party
affiliation, to determine the minimum
of national interests we cannot go below
and thus united appear in the world.
We have to find a third way between
total defiance to everything coming
from the world and an absolute and
indiscriminative fulfillment of demands
delivered to us. We have to struggle
to survive, not to disappear. And we
have to realise that it is in the
interest of all of us, and in the
interest of the state in particular,
that those indicted by the Tribunal,
as long as the court lasts, should
have a maximum of legal protection and
all legal assistance we can give to them.
I repeat, for the sake of survival, we
have to try to interpret what
happened this evening, however tragic
the act may be in itself, as closing
a circle of endless mutual
recriminations. Lest a new wave of
misfortunes should reach us.
After the new attack on Constitution
and national sovereignty and dignity made by
representatives of Belgrade colonial regime by
adoption of unconstitutional "Law on
cooperation with the Hague tribunal", Mr.
Vlajko Stojiljkovic, Member of the Federal
Parliament from the Socialist Party of Serbia
and former Serbian Interior Minister, indicted
for "war crimes" in Kosovo together with
President Milosevic, committed a suicide on the
steps of Yugoslav Federal Parliament. What
follows is his farewell letter handed to
colleagues parliamentarians:
By this act, as a Member of the House
of Republics of the Federal Parliament, I
declare protest against the actual puppet
regime of DOS and Montenegrin "Coalition for
Yugoslavia", due to:
- breaking-up of Yugoslavia with
participation of the biggest enemy of our
people H. Solana;
- ruthless violation of the
Constitution and laws of this country;
- conducting the policy of treason
and capitulation;
- losing the national dignity;
- destruction of the economy and
bringing millions of citizens to social
poverty.
For my death I consider responsible
and directly accuse: Zoran Djindjic, Vojislav
Kostunica, Dusan Mihajlovic, Vladan Batic,
Miroljub Labus, Dragoljub Micunovic, Predrag
Bulatovic, Srdja Bozovic and Dragisa Pesic.
Citizens - patriots of this country
will know how to retaliate.
(more extensive message is following)
signed:
Vlajko Stojiljkovic
Member of Parliament
In the letter, Mr. Stojiljkovic
accuses DOS leaders: (Serbian Prime Minister)
Zoran Djindjic, (Federal President) Vojislav
Kostunica, (Serbian Interior Minister) Dusan
Mihajlovic, (Serbian Justice Minister) Vladan
Batic, (Federal Vice Prime Minister) Miroljub
Labus, (Speaker of the House of Citizens of
Federal Parliament) Dragoljub Micunovic, and
leaders of their federal coalition partners
from Montenegro: (Leader of the Socialist
Peoples' Party and Head of Foreign Policy
Committee of the Federal Parliament) Predrag
Bulatovic, (Speaker of the House of Republics
of the Federal Parliament) Srdja Bozovic and
(Federal Prime Minister) Dragisa Pesic.
===*===
Statement
by President of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia Vojislav Kostunica
April 11, 2002
It is not enough to say that this
evening's act by a federal MP, Vlajko
Stojiljkovic, former interior minister
indicted by the Hague Tribunal, was
a tragic event. This is also a warning
to all of us engaged in politics in
this unfortunate country, trying to
find a way out of difficulties that
befell us against our will. This,
however, is also a warning to the
international community, particularly
a part of it, constantly setting
conditions, exerting pressures and
proscribing our behaviour. The Tribunal
is reality. Prejudices about Serbs are
also reality. And accusing the Serbs
for almost every evil that took place
on this soil in the past years is
also reality, however unjust it may
be. Unfortunately, this evening's act,
both painful and accusing, is also
reality.
None of us can escape from
responsibility, even if we wanted to.
I am the first not to escape. Many parties
that are in power today cannot evade
responsibility for what, overwhelmed
by power, they did, and shouldn't'
have, or didn't, but should have.
Those that were in power until yesterday
cannot escape from responsibility for
a haughty and arrogant policy that
has largely brought us into the
situation we are in now. All of us
together cannot escape responsibility for
having failed to regulate cooperation
with the Tribunal by a law far earlier,
instead of allowing ourselves to pass
it in such hafte. This is exactly how we
failed to pass a law that would have
protected the interests of the
individual and the state in a better
way and contributed to finding out the truth
on the wars that went by and crimes
that happened while they lasted. All
of us are responsible for having
failed to initiate criminal
proceedings before our own courts a
long time ago.
The only thing we can do now is to
stop indulging in mutual recriminations
and try, regardless of party
affiliation, to determine the minimum
of national interests we cannot go below
and thus united appear in the world.
We have to find a third way between
total defiance to everything coming
from the world and an absolute and
indiscriminative fulfillment of demands
delivered to us. We have to struggle
to survive, not to disappear. And we
have to realise that it is in the
interest of all of us, and in the
interest of the state in particular,
that those indicted by the Tribunal,
as long as the court lasts, should
have a maximum of legal protection and
all legal assistance we can give to them.
I repeat, for the sake of survival, we
have to try to interpret what
happened this evening, however tragic
the act may be in itself, as closing
a circle of endless mutual
recriminations. Lest a new wave of
misfortunes should reach us.