Protests in Serbia Archive
Odraz B92 Daily News Service

---

    ------------------------------------------------------------------
    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

    Odraz B92 vesti (by 9 PM), March 12, 1997

    E-mail: odrazb92@b92.opennet.org, beograd@siicom.com
    WWW:    http://www.siicom.com/odrazb/, http://www.opennet.org/b92/
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
    All texts are Copyright 1997 Radio B92. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
    ------------------------------------------------------------------



    NEWS BY 9 PM
    ------------------------------------------------------------------


    OPPOSITION BOYCOTTS BILL DISCUSSION

    The opposition coalition Zajedno announced on Wednesday that its
    members would not participate in Thursday's parliamentary panel
    discussion on the draft Information Bill. Zajedno said that they
    still sought to discuss the bill in a round table whose
    resolutions would be binding on the government.

    The Democratic Party of Serbia also announced that it would not
    send representatives to the panel.


    STUDENTS STILL ON THE STREETS

    Several thousand students from the University of Belgrade
    continued their protest on Wednesday. They marched past various
    faculties of the University to demonstrate the number of students
    who had not yet returned to classes.


    DJINDJIC APPEALS TO THE WEST

    Belgrade Mayor Zoran Djindjic has called on the West to back the
    fragile beginnings of democracy in Serbia warning that, if the
    process fails, the result could be bloodshed or a dictatorship.

    In a lecture at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn, Dr
    Djindjic said that Zajedno was committed to democracy, but
    stressed that Serbia was in economic crisis and urgently needed
    western assistance to stave off the threats of extremists. He
    added that the majority of Serbs were politically moderate, adding
    that the Radical right and the leftist parties had the support of
    no more than ten or fifteen per cent of the Serbian electorate.

    Dr Djindjic said that if the economy could be set on the road to
    recovery, the danger of domination by the extremist parties would
    be averted.


    RADICALS ALARMED BY TERRITORIAL THREAT

    The Serbian Radical Party on Wednesday warned authorities about
    threats by Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova, concerning
    ``special elections for a parliament in the self-styled but non-
    existent Republic of Kosovo.''  The Radicals demanded that
    Yugoslav authorities resist any attempt to breach the sovereignty
    and territorial integrity of Serbia.


    JUL PLAN FOR FOREIGN CURRENCY ACCOUNTS

    The Chairman of the Yugoslav United Left's Belgrade branch,
    Slobodan Djerovic, on Wednesday told media that JUL would propose
    that the Yugoslav Government pass a law on funds with which to
    compensate bank depositors who had lost money in local and foreign
    currency savings accounts. The proposal would be made jointly with
    the Association of Account Holders.

    JUL believes that funds should be raised by selling surplus state
    assets, through government bonds and through charges for the use
    of public facilities.


    HAGUE TRIAL CONTINUES

    The trial of three Muslims and one Croat for war crimes against
    Bosnian Serb civilians in 1992 continued on Wednesday. Serb Mirko
    Babic, 64, a survivor of the Celebici detention camp where the
    offences allegedly occurred, gave evidence against two of the
    Muslim accused, Hazim Delic and Esad Landzo.


    MUSLIMS DECLINE RS PAPERS

    Head of the Public Security Centre in Zvornik, Dragomir Vaisc,
    told media on Wednesday that more than half of the repatriated
    Muslims in the Republika Srpska villages of Mahal, Jusici and Dugi
    Dio had not obtained Republika Srpska identification documents. He
    said that the issue of the documents would cease on Friday, and
    that any resident who had refused to accept the documents would
    have to leave RS.


    BOSNIAN SOLDIERS TRAINING IN TURKEY

    A three month training program for 200 members of the Federation
    of Bosnia Herzegovina Army has begun near Ankara in Turkey.
    Bosnian Military Envoy in Ankara, Hazim Cadic, welcomed the
    trainees, telling them that the Federation was building a strong
    army, in accordance with NATO principles.

    Prepared by: Marija Milosavljevic
    Edited by: Steve Agnew

    ------------------------------------------------------------------
    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service
    E-mail: odrazb92@b92.opennet.org, beograd@siicom.com
    WWW:    http://www.siicom.com/odrazb/, http://www.opennet.org/b92/
    ------------------------------------------------------------------