After NYT, the AP also brings it out to Serbia: Life in this country combined with violence

Until last week American prestigious “The New York Times” published a super-long script linking Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq to the mafia hooligan, today the news agency “Associated Press” cost the neighbouring country a scripture that says, among other things, that “this is a place where public lives are based on violence”

Vucinqi's government is being talked about by various secular professors and analysts, who blame the recent mass killings in Serbia.

They also say that Serbian society never took to itself to find the culprits for Balkan wars, among them in Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia.

Lower, Kloncosova. tv brings full AP writing:

At one end of a long road leading through Belgrade's western neighbourhoods, there is a large, newly painted mural: Ratko Mladic Avenue.

He stays there for months or even years, renewed regularly, and maintained it with clean blue and white colors, never vandalized or over-torn, though thousands of people spend it every day.

However, the busy route has not been officially appointed after the Bosnian Serb general, who was convicted of genocide by an international war crimes tribunal committed by his troops during clashes in the Balkans in the 1990s. It bears the name of Serbia's first pro-Western prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, who was shot by a sniper bullet in front of his government's offices on 12 March 2003.

This is a place where public and private lives are combined with violence.

When two mass killings in two days last week left 17 people dead and 21 injured in Serbia, including eight students killed by a 13-year-old boy, people were shocked, but many were not surprised. Serbia is a country that has gone through numerous wars in the 1990s, where war criminals are often cloned, where violence spread openly in major state-controlled media and every second family has at least one weapon placed in a closet.

“In Serbia, there has never been a serious debate on the wars and crimes of the years, the prominent historian and university professor Dubravka Stojanovic told AP. About why those wars occurred, who are responsible, how we managed to wage four wars... There's no mention of how we got to total dehumanization... to be so indifferent to all these crimes, with no sympathy for the victims”.

Experts say the recent history of Balkan nations has left a deep impression on society.

Although Serbia is now seeking membership in the European Union, it has never fully acknowledged its role in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and the war crimes committed by Serb troops in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, analysts say, broadcast Klankosova.tv.

In the 1990s, Serbia's nationalist leader, Slobodan Milosevic, was widely blamed for causing the breakup of Yugoslavia by launching wars to introduce Serb-inhabited lands in Bosnia and Croatia to a state.

As the Serbian attack left Serb cities surrounded and destroyed and non-Serbs killed or expelled from their homes, Serbia's state propaganda portrayed Serbs as the biggest victims of the Yugoslav conflict and UN sanctions as an anti-Serb plot that still continues in present-day Serbia, which is led by the autocratic pro-Russian President Aleksandar Vuc, who was Milosevic's information minister during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo.

In the 1990 ' s, poverty grew, crime and corruption flourished, and Mafia - style killings flooded the streets. Inflation was the highest in the world, ordinary people lost their savings and jobs, while crime bosses and football hooligans rose to dominate.

Tens of people, including a former president, a former defence minister, senior police officers, journalists and politicians, all were killed during those years, and many of the murders remain unmet.

The war era peaked in 1999, when NATO launched air strikes to stop conflict in Kosovo and force Serbia to end its crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatist rebels. The United States and their allies said they were afraid Milosevic could repeat a 1995 massacre, when Bosnian Serb troops killed more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in Srebrenica in a military operation led by Mladic.

The 78-day bombing brought Milosevic down and left Serbia in ruins. A year later, a populist uprising led by the opposition ousted Milosevic from power to install Djindjic's government -- the first democratic government in Serbia since World War II. Pro-democracy supporters sigh at ease, but not for long.

In 2003, two years after orchestrating Milosevic's extradition to the UN war crimes tribunal, Djindjic was shot dead by a special paramilitary unit fighting in Bosnia and Croatia. The move paved the way for his government's collapse and the gradual dissolution of Serbia's fragile democracy.

A decade later, a coalition government of parties that led the wars in the 1990s was again in power. And a decade later, Vucinqi now heads the country almost alone. While portraying himself as a reformist who will send Serbia to the EU, he controls all means of power and maintains strict control over key media promoting hate speech against his critics.

Consumed with Vuciki's populist rule, tens of thousands on Monday marched through Belgrade and other Serbian cities in silence to commemorate the victims of mass killings. It was the biggest antigovernmental protest in years.

Protest organisers demanded the resignation of government ministers and the withdrawal of broadcasting licenses for two state-controlled television stations promoting violence, and often expect condemned war criminals and crime figures in their programmes, Klankosova broadcasts.tv.

After the official end of the protest, some of the protesters have cheered slogans against Vuciqi, demanding that he leave. Another rally of opposition supporters is scheduled for Friday.

Vuciqi reacted in anger, claiming the opposition wants to overthrow his government and called for the largest <x0ming in Serbia's history” on May 26th, creating a potential for confrontation between him and opposition supporters.

Their only goal is to take power by force and lead Serbia into chaos, instability and unrest”, Vuciqi said, referring to the opposition and its supporters.

But opponents say Vuciqi should take responsibility for creating an atmosphere of uncertainty and despair instead of saying it led to mass killings.

“The weapons used to kill children were filled with wickedness for a decade”, opposition leader Zdravko Ponos wrote on Twitter. “We will not recover even if all weapons are removed and all sociopaths placed behind bars, as long as our fate has been shaped by the one who unblocked it and started that evil”. /Klankosova. tv