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Serbia Today 96-03-27
27 March 1996
In This Edition
ILLUSIONS CRUSHED ON MULTI-ETHNIC BOSNIA
SEVEN YEARS OF MODERN SERBIA
RACISM IN THE MIDST OF EUROPE
CONTENTS
[01] SEVEN YEARS OF MODERN SERBIA
[02] BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR RENEWAL OF COOPERATION
[03] CRUSHED ILLUSIONS OF MULTI-ETHNIC BOSNIA
[03] CIVIL RECONSTRUCTION BARELY STARTED
[04] NO SANCTIONS FOR MUSLIMS AND CROATS
[05] SARAJEVO IS ONLY MUSLIM
[06] RACISM IN THE MIDST OF EUROPE
[07] ONE HALF OF THE GYPSIES LEAVE CROATIA
[08] PROMOTION OF THE BOOK 'PETROL BLOOD - BOSNIA'
[01] SEVEN YEARS OF MODERN SERBIA
Tomorrow, on March 28, 1996, it will be seven years since the
constitutional changes which have founded the constitutional
sovereignty and statehood in the entire territory of Serbia.
Constitutional changes in the year 1989 have corrected the great
injustice done by the Constitution from the year 1974 when
Serbia was divided into three separate parts, into "three states
in one state". This had at the beginning latently and later on
openly and aggressively instigated their mutual confrontations.
By the Decree on proclaiming 41 constitutional amendment, Serbia
has become again a wholesome republic with two autonomous
provinces and with full constitutional and legal powers over its
entire territory. In the face of growing separatist,
secessionist and autonomist demands, the message by the
President Slobodan Milosevic remains remembered: "There is no
price and there is no force which can move the leadership of
Serbia and citizens of Serbia in the fight for just causes".
Proclamation of the Constitution of Serbia, which in the true
sense was a historical act, was spontaneously proclaimed the Day
of Statehood of Serbia. (Borba, March 27, 1996)
[02] BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR RENEWAL OF COOPERATION
Business Council of the United States for South-Eastern Europe
has proposed yesterday to the Chamber of Economy of Yugoslavia
to renew cooperation. The Council is the successor of the
business council for (former) Yugoslavia founded in the year
1974, which is gathering 140 American companies. Representatives
of the U.S. financial institutions, who have come to Yugoslavia
under the auspices of the Council, have proposed to their hosts
convening of the first annual meeting in June this year and have
suggested undertaking of certain steps which would attract
foreign capital. (Politika, March 17, 1996)
[03] CRUSHED ILLUSIONS OF MULTI-ETHNIC BOSNIA
There are all the indications that France has given up on the
illusion that in Bosnia a multi-ethnic community is possible.
According to the daily "Le Mond", "the dream of multi-ethnic
Bosnia has disappeared in Grbavica and Ilidza, in the Serbian
suburbs devastated in the exodus of its population", while in
Mostar "the logic of separation between Croats and Muslims has
won". The official France is very much dissatisfied with such
developments in Bosnia. Chief of French diplomacy Herve de
Charrette, according to the writings of the Paris dailies, "has
struck the table with his fist", at the meeting of the Contact
Group on Bosnia, warning that Bosnian events are entering
dangerous detours, and that "the logic of peace is becoming the
logic of final ethnic division". (Politika, March 27, 1996)
[03] CIVIL RECONSTRUCTION BARELY STARTED
For the ending of war in Bosnia a lot was done, but for the
stabilization of the peace there too little was done, writes
yesterday's "The New York Times" and warns that after the
withdrawal of the peace troops from the Balkans by the end of
this year, there could be tension there. It may easily happen,
warns "The Washington Post", that the Dayton Bosnia falls apart
when the NATO peacekeeping troops leave the Balkans. "What we
now need the most is the money", said the high UN envoy Carl
Bildt, adding that the work in the civilian sector of the
implementation of the peace agreement has barely started.
(Borba, March 27, 1996)
[04] NO SANCTIONS FOR MUSLIMS AND CROATS
In his letter to the UN Security Council, the NATO Secretary
General Xavier Solana expresses his satisfaction with the
implementation of the peace agreement on Bosnia-Herzegovina and
the cooperation of the sides in conflict. Two details from the
accompanying report on the IFOR forces operations are, however,
spoiling the general impression. Thanks to the delays caused by
the government in Sarajevo, all the members of the foreign
forces have not as yet been withdrawn from Bosnia-Herzegovina
and all the prisoners of war have not been released, which was
an imperative in the peace agreement. The peace agreement,
however, is foreseeing only sanctions against Serbs who are, for
example, threatened in case of any failure to comply or
postponement, by the suspension of sanctions. For the Muslims
and Croats, i.e. for their failure to comply, no sanctions
whatsoever are foreseen. (Vecernje novosti, March 27, 1996)
[05] SARAJEVO IS ONLY MUSLIM
Between the two remaining ethnic groups in Sarajevo, federal
partners Croats and Muslims, tensions are still growing.
Establishment of a uni-national canton of Sarajevo is seriously
jeopardizing the right of Croats who are living in this city,
claim the representatives of the Croat Democratic Community.
Therefore, the City Board of this party in Sarajevo has passed a
decision to withdraw all the Croat representatives from the
joint commissions for integration of Sarajevo into the
Muslim-Croat Federation. If the decision of establishment of a
uni-national canton is not deleted, reports the Croat Democratic
Community party, Croat people in Sarajevo will establish
parallel authority. According to the reports by the Muslim and
Croat media, relationships between federal partners are
deteriorating also in the other cities, as for example in
Bugojno, where this year three times in a row they failed to
form joint administrative bodies. (Politika ekspres, March 27,
1996)
[06] RACISM IN THE MIDST OF EUROPE
Croat Ambassador at the UN Marko Nobilo, while answering
increasingly strong criticism of the international public
opinion about the status of Serbs, said that Serbs are safer in
Croatia than are diplomates in New York city! Since covering up
of the crime is also a crime, it is to be expected that because
of such a statement aimed at covering up the truth about the
Croat crimes, criminal charges will be brought before the
International Tribunal in the Hague against Mario Nobilo. Nobilo
is shamelessly claiming that in Krajina over nine and a half
thousand Serbs are living, but he is 'forgetting' to say that
from this number some five thousand have already been killed
under the attacks of the army, police and organized state gangs.
In his disgraceful calculation Nobilo is placing also the fact
that in Washington D.C. on every ten thousand inhabitants there
are 92 crimes committed, and on ten thousand Serbs in Krajina -
only 32. The truth is, unfortunately, completely different: on
ten thousand Serbs in Krajina there are five thousand murders
and five thousand plunders and harassments, there is a
state-aided policy of destruction and arson of Serbian houses.
The truth is that a handful of Serbs remaining in Krajina and
Western Slavonia has no right to electricity, to a telephone,
health care or potable water. It is racism in the midst of
Europe. (Vecernje novosti, March 27, 1996)
[07] ONE HALF OF THE GYPSIES LEAVE CROATIA
According to the data of the Community of Gypsies, in Croatia
there are some 65,000 members of this ethnic community, while in
the year 1990 there were 150,000 of them. Gypsies were forced to
abandon Croatia by increasingly difficult living conditions and
the lack of understanding by the new state and the environment.
Among the greatest hardships of Gypsies, according to the
president of the Community of Gypsies of Rijeka, Ismet Mutisi,
is the non-recognition of the Croat citizenship, although they
are born in Croatia. Members of this ethnic community, although
exceeding by far in number members of some other communities,
have a very hard time in making their voice heard and can not
exercise their right to a deputy in the Croat Parliament.
(Politika, March 27, 1996)
[08] PROMOTION OF THE BOOK 'PETROL BLOOD - BOSNIA'
In the Yugoslav Cultural Center in Paris, in the presence of a
large number of French and our citizens, the book was promoted
entitled "Petrol Blood - Bosnia", by the French General Pierre
Marie Gallois. In an extensive geo-political study of
contemporary developments, the first book is devoted to Bosnia.
The analysis of events in former Yugoslavia is bearing witness
on the responsibility of the powerful forces in causing human
tragedies at the end of the 20th century. General Gallois
pointed out that it is necessary now to have a decisive action
so that the truth can win, the truth about secessionist
dismembering of former Yugoslavia and human tragedy, the
consequences of which are mostly suffered by the Serbian people.
(Politika, March 27, 1996).
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