the pro-Milosevic Socialist People's Party. As Just over a year after NATO's bombing campaign inflicted Montenegro made clear, and Placed there is still considerable Kosova under NATO support for Milosevic trol, He can, therefore, expect This supporters to mobilise for A number of developmenis Tic cabons Nacionol Montenegrin have more or less guaranteed that Milosevic with its presidentia, and local elec tions due in Yugoslavia in Although a meeting has September, and probably the parliamentary Montenegrin prime minister, the autumn as well. Filip Vujanovic and Predrag Firstly the Milosevic-domichanged Constitution, ment about the September 24 allowing him to stand for a elections, relations between further two termis Yugoslav President. strained.
As this is a directly elected Arrests post, Milosevic would use In fact Milosevic has also any clectoral victory to made use of the arrests of forstrengthen his position. eigners in the border regions Parliament down- of Montenegro to whip up graded PUSISUB Montenegro within the fed- Serbia and, at the same time cration, leading to threats by continue to apply pressure on the Montenegrin governPresident Djukanovic to Two Canadians and two pols British police officers But any boycott would only play into Milosevie's hands, in Kosova have been arrested making. PTO1 and face charges of spying Milosevic parties to take conAn Asian police officer and SCaL his Albanian Montenegro. holds in the have also been arrested in the Yugoslav parliament. Last few days.
Kosova votes Four Dutchmen have Milosevie also expects to recentiv been sentenced to 50.
days detention, pending further investigations into alleof electoral districts in Serbia to allow Serbs in Kosova the sanoas nat ning to murder Milosevic or right to vote in two districts Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Polling in Montenegro will Karadzic. take place in army camps or ordered by a New York court recentis in municipalities controlled to pay $745 million to a group of Croat and Muslim women raped and tortured The readiness of a US court acas charges Karadzic is in stark contrast to the refusal of the US gorinternational tribunal ever having any jurisdiction over politicians accused of war While the western media have made much of the arrests of British, Canadian and Dutch citizens, it has been virtually silent over the vere arrested in August by the Yugoslav picion of trespassing and photographing in a restricted Milos Glisovic received a suspended prison sentence though his wife, Natasa Zorz, was found since been released.
Whether not any of those arrested were actually plotting to kill Milosevic or 18580250 do not know Given that Milesevic and Karadzic are extremely well efforts seem highly unlikely.
On the other hand it is not cotally impossioic that some of them were involved in some form of spying or sabotage. It is, at the very least, , that cight people from tries, as well as an Asian soliceman working with K. neously entered Yugoslar territory:
The United States, for one. would certainly take kindly to people illegally entering its territory 'by misWhatever those arrested may or may not have been up that Milosevic's probably paranoid antasies have found an echo parts of the Serbian people.
Given the massive destruc tion caused by NATO - and the potential future damage Likely as a result of the large number unexploded bombs that NATO has косату воланса ко -ав зн hardly surprising.
Exaggerations
Further admissions by NATO that exaggerated the number of Albanians killed by Serb Milosevic's advantagc The arrests also show the level of activity of the federal army along the Montenegrin borders, activity which may well increase if, as expected, Milosevic Presidential election.
Whether this will lead to war with Montenegro is not from the west is contradictory. While NATO has made a few threatening noises, in Did I hear someone criticising me? Miloseric has intensified the clampdoton response to appeals from President Djuk the also made it plain that it does moves to 801 3499048 Montenegrin independence.
usual the various forces of the Serbian ave also helped Milosevil 9U38534 The coalition headed by the Diindjic is running Vojislav Kostunica for resident, Vak Draskovic's Serbian Renewal Movement backing Vojislav Mihailovic, mayor Belgrade. This split will be carrica over into the local clections.
Kostunica is a hard line Serbian who, before the NATO bombing pictured in Kalashnikor rifle.
He denounced NAIUs role in Aosova ano refused to meet officiais from NATO countries Nevertheless this has not prevented him being of course is hardly surprisgiven that the main imperialist powers não ne Biljana Plavsic, racist genetic theories Serbian supremacy, for It costs €16,000 a year to President of the Serb entity in Bosnia.
Media
Milosevic has also continGOWI the media in Serbia. In July Airoslav Filipovic, a journal by Serbian forces in Kosova, was convicted by a military court of espionage and spreading false information and sentenced to seven years imprisonment.
This month another jourused to work for Dneoni Rlegraf before it was closed by the government, was sent co Padinska Skela prison, about miles Cass Belgrade.
Lukovic was sentenced last March following a suit by Health Minister Miloran Bojic over an article about Belgrade in front of Bojic's home. Bojic sued Lukovic saying implied he was behind the killing.
Lukovic was a close associand editor of Dnetwi Telegraf. who was killed in Belgrade in spring 1999- after he criticizco Milosevic and his wild Mirjana Markovic. Poland and Hungary.