4 minutes agoDW: Milosevic dead, but his ideas still flourish
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Two decades ago, the process began against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who died in an uncondemned cell. But his ideas that led to the Yugoslav war, in the murder of destruction still live, writes Deutche Welle. Just days ago, Momcilo Babic was appointed Serbian ambassador to Russia. This man in the 1990s made [...]
Just days ago, Momcilo Babic was appointed Serbian ambassador to Russia. This man in the 1990s was part of Slobodan Milosevic's immediate family circle. Today (12.02) ago 20 years ago started the process against Milosevic at the International Court for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. The Serbian president, who had nearly been declared to an unlimited ruler, was accused of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. The accused, whose policy contributed to the wars that disbanded the multinational state, Yugoslavia, rejected the court's legitimacy. It was just <x0legal”. Four years later, Milosevic passed away from heart attack to heart before he pronounced sentence.
The signing of the Dayton Agreement in Paris, Milosevic, at the centre of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, right-hand Bosnian Alija Izetbegovic behind them French President Jacques Chirac, Chancellor Helm Kohl, President Bill Clinton, etc. 14.12. 1995
Unchanged Revolution
With its departure from power in 2000 through the so-called October revolution, Serbia began to have hope after years in the autism and wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. The first democraticly elected Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic, who was studied in Germany and was linked to the West, was seen as guaranteeing reforms and abolishing the old elite. But his programme was unexpectedly interrupted, killed by Milosevic's paramilitary special police leaders, “Red Beret”. Now the killers sentenced to 40 years in prison are again the media headlines. Actually, there's a petition that requires early release of convicts.
The effort to rehabilitate Djindjic's killers fits the current political landscape. Milosevic's former idea, that all Serbs should live in a common state, led to more than two decades ago in war and destruction. In bloody wars the goal of creating “Greater Serbia” was attempted. From last year this nationalist programme under the motto “Serbian World” has re-entered the policy salons. Belgrade must look to its people in neighbouring countries in order for them not to be discriminated against, that is the creed. But this is only “justification”, for Belgrade to be resmanded in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Croatia and Montenegro, wherever large Serb minorities live.
Old and Young
And the logical result is that Milosev's ideas are restored. Because old policy leaders give back ours today, at the helm is the almighty President, Aleksandar Vucinq. In the days of Milosevic, he worked for a propaganda programme of Bosnian Serbs, and by 1998-2000 he was the minister of information. His name since then is a symbol of pressure on local and foreign media. Old recipes are being practiced again today. The media are at Milosevic's service when he wishes. This is guaranteed by the swollen media items from the ruling circle like Zeljko Mitrovic, (“Milosevic is hero”), whose TV Pink is like the president's house.
