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EDITORIAL: “WE SHALL
TAKE VENGEANCE AGAINST THE TURKS”
By Sonja Biserko
For Serbia and her political elite 2006 is a crucial year – as it
seems, the international community has finally decided to pull the plug on the Yugoslav
crises, i.e. on dissolution of the former SFRY. Pending statuses of Kosovo and Montenegro
have kept alive the illusion that the Greater Serbia project, i.e. Serbia’s
territorial aspirations were sustainable... |
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MLADIC GAMES: CRIME OF ALL
CRIMES
By Bojan Al Pinto Brkic
In case someone's forgotten, Ratko Mladic was an anonymous officer of
the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), artillery commander in Skopje, likely to be revealed to
a decent man only as a name in Politika’s obituaries. Born in Kalinovik, a cadet of
military-industry school who subsequently specialized in logistics and served in a system
wherein the army was the guardian of the constitutional order... |
KOSOVO AND SERBIA: WINKING TO THE BLIND
By Miroslav Filipovic
The question of all questions is not whether Kosovo will be granted
independence but its sovereignty. What is crucial is the issue of when Kosovo will be
granted sovereignty and recognized as such by other sovereign states and the UN... |
FATE OF THE STATE UNION: (UN)ACHIEVABLE 55 PERCENT
By Igor Peric
Well done boys, you acted responsibly like Europeans, the Brussels
envoy, Slovak diplomat Miroslav Lajcak commended the domestic officials and opposition
leaders in late February when they decided to accept the conditions for the referendum
following... |
THE RADICALS’ PRANKS AND SKYLARKING WITH USTASHI: ORGANIZED WASTE
OF TIME
By Teofil Pancic
Though Ante Pavelic has been pickling in Hell many a long day, the
supporters of his criminal soldiership are still mushrooming. The matter is by itself
strange enough, actually weird and demonic. But what’s even more incredible than a
genocidal Phalange’s posthumous “offspring” is the fact these new Ustashi
are mostly recruited - in Serbia. Out of all places in the world! The spooky Pavelic
certainly perceives this fact as a part of his eternal punishment, a cynical spice to his
hellish doom and gloom... |
SERBIA AND TRANSITION: STORIES FROM THE UNDERWORLD
By Slobodanka Ast
In freezing cold, a regular police patrol found some wretched girls
actually living in a manhole, in our midst, in the Center of Belgrade. The media were
“surprised and shocked”, the cameras arrived, the children were taken care of
and, as it usually happens here, only three days after the horrible story from the
underworld was all forgotten. In this town and in this country, child poverty is obvious
at every step, and the moving media story is also a specific illustration of our overall
hypocrisy... |
