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13.03.2003



Fischer's man in Belgrade



Zoran Djindjic is to have been more popular in Germany than in Serbia. That has its reasons (part of 1)



In Belgrade a "coup d'etat" took place gradually. The term originates from a protest explanation of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), the party of the former Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica. The Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic introduced a "dictatorship" and avails themselves of "Mafia methods like at that time Slobodan Milosevic", continued to be called it. The hard words are appropriate, if one realises the scandal history of the Djindjic government, since her at the beginning of the yearly 2001, after which fall of Slobodan Milosevic in the October 2000, which took over business:

- the delivery of Milosevic on 28 June 2001 to the UN war crimes tribunal into the Hague took place against written promises Djindjics and, which is legally crucial, against the veto of the highest constitutional court. Critics spoke of "Kidnapping".

- on 3 August 2001 the former secret service officer Momir Gavrilovic on open road was shot, after he had handed Kostunicas over advisors material over "connections between cabinet members and the organized crime". From protest the DSS Ministers from the Djindjic cabinet withdrew.

- on 14 March 2002 Momcilo Perisic, Djindjic's deputy was arrested as a Serbian Prime Minister, in the case of flagrantly supplying of secret documents to the Balkans boss of the CIA. Djindjic protested first against the action of the military shielding service KOS, had to drop its vice however, after KOS presented video tape recordings over its CIA contacts.

- on 29 July 2002 the Djindjic supporting majority in the government alliance DOS locked out the Kostunica Party DSS from the DOS coalition, taking all of its 21 seats in the Serbian parliament and occupied the freed mandates with own people. Also in this case a vote of the Yugoslav constitutional court was ignored.

- with the Serbian presidency elections Kostunica the candidate of the DOS alliance Miroljub Labus in the ballot deklassierte on 13 October 2002 in the ratio 2:1 and could not not begin the office nevertheless, because the necessary election turnout was not reached. A further ballot at the beginning of of Decembers failed because of the same regulation. Thereupon the Kostunica party exerted a constitutional challenge: The Djindjic government blew up the voters list also over 800,000 ghost voters; if one became these out-counted, the quorum had not been missed. The complaint was rejected. Since year end parliament president Natasa Micic led provisionally also the office of the Serbian president - purely coincidental a trusted friend of Djindjic.

Djindjic's power play against Kostunica was in such a way pressed, because he would have never come without its support to the shift levers of power. "only because Djindjic did without its own candidacy and as King maker the little polarizing Kostunica favored, could the opposition (...) the necessary impact force mobilize", commentated Der Spiegel after the change of power in October 2000. "I was for the broad mass with us not selectable", grant Djindjic themselves.

The Frankfurt Rundschau called Djindjic the "first Serbian Prime Minister, who is more popular in Germany than in Serbia", on the roads of Belgrade he as "nemacki covek" (as "German person"), sometimes also than "Hitler's grandchild" titled. Are already for a long time very intensive actually the Germany contacts 1952 born Djindjic: When the oppositional student was put 1974 by the Tito police into the prison, it was to have become released on personal intervention of the Federal Chancellor at that time Willy Brandt. Subsequently, he continued his study in Frankfurt/Main with professor Habermas and attached first contacts with the bookseller at that time (now German Foreign Minister) Joseph Fischer. To its graduation in Konstanz Djindjic returned 1979 to Yugoslavia. 1989 the SPD-associated "Friedrich Ebert Foundation" (FES) makes for Djindjic possible a three-month stay in the Federal Republic, with which these "inspiring humans, intellectual one and politician" (Djindjic in the review) met. The in such a way inspired young politician creates briefly on it in Serbia the Democratic Party (DS), in which he dresses from 1990 at leading positions. Also 1996 and 1998 report to Djindjic with the FES.

* Tomorrow: Djindjics fight for power

Zoran Djindjic was the United States government's point person for destroying Yugoslavia and driving the Serbian people into economic collapse, the same way the US did to Russia during the '90s. Fortunately, some Serbs took Djindjic out, but it remains to be seen whether any real opposition to Western imperialism can come back to power.

Slobodan Milosevic's greatest crime was to refuse to buckle under to the US and Britain. To this day not one credible shred of evidence has been shown that Milosevic or Yugoslavia were responsible for "crimes against humanity," but it is a well-documented fact that the US and Britain both used depleted uranium when attacking Kosovo and Yugoslavia, and that the US/British allies, the Croatians, drove virtually every last Serb and Muslim out of Croatia, where they had been 1/3 of the population before the war.

But CNN and the BBC won't tell you that, because they represent the ruling interests of the US and Britain.

Slobodan Milosevic's greatest crimes will be laid out before the World Court. Guess where he will be spending his retirement!

Yugo, you are a Serbian Muppet if you really believe what you just wrote.

yugo's comment is consistent with what i have heard. what is your story?

i heard this Djindjic guy was almost universally hated in Yugoslavia for being a sellout. there is a hell of a lot of anger directed at US pawns around the world, and at the US of course. and there are some people who say they don't care at all.... for example: "Bush Admirer" and "Simple Simon" and Bush.... oh, and Djindjic.

Prime Minister Djindjic had the courage to stand up to a powerful political machine and managed to get one international criminal to the dock before he was murdered.

But of course the wonderful 'peace' activists of Indymedia would like to celebrate Radko Mladic and Milosovic and the butchers of Srebrenica.

You guys change sides so quickly, I wonder if you don't get confused.

Simple Simon, you got it right Prime Minister Djindjic showed great courage in going against Slobodan Milosevic and his Thugs. The peace activists are against anyone who stands up and does the morally right thing particular if they are supported by the USA.

in reality it isn't the worldwide peace movement that is celebrating Djindjic's assassination but most of the Serbian populace. almost nobody in the states even knew this guy took charge in Serbia a month ago.

Djindjic and people like him will not be missed.

I'm guilty of not knowing much about Prime Minister Djindjic, but anyone who helped Serbia get rid of Slobodan Milosevic was getting something right. I do know that Serbia had a hell of a time getting enough voters out for elections, so if you don't partake in the elections you get what you deserve.

a turn out rate below 30 percent speaks of a very low motivation to go out and vote among the serbian voting poplulace. they obviously thought they had no real alternatives. the polls to this affect are well documented. you can't blame the people for the lack of viable candidates.

oh yeah, djindjic was given more than a little incentive to turn Milosevic in to the international authorities. there was billions in aid offered to the serbian govt. in exchange. he wasn't a hero, just a politician like any other.