Word: momcilo
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...campaign to wrest full control from Karadzic still has a long, dangerous way to go. Plavsic "is doomed to failure," warns Karadzic ally Momcilo Krajisnik, the Serb member of Bosnia's collective presidency. But momentum has begun shifting her way since British commandos killed a suspected war criminal and captured another in a gun battle in July. Last month NATO peacekeepers helped Plavsic evict pro-Karadzic cops from police stations in Banja Luka and nearby towns. And the number of Plavsic supporters grows day by day with senior Serb Democratic Party members, mayors, army officers and police chiefs pledging their...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: Student protesters in Yugoslavia may have won a powerful ally: the army. A group of students emerged from a meeting with General Momcilo Perisic, head of the Yugoslav army, with guarantees that he would not interfere with their pro-democracy demonstrations. "We got firm assurances it will be so, and we are very pleased," said Dusan Vasiljevic, one of the students. If the army holds to its pledge, it represents a shift in the role that the military will play in Belgrade. In March of 1991, Serb President Slobodan Milosevic brought army tanks onto the streets of Belgrade...
SARAJEVO: The three members of Bosnia's divided presidency found some surprising common ground at their first meeting Monday. The fact that the meeting was held at all is perhaps the most significant news, notes TIME's Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. Momcilo Krajisnik, the presidency's Serbian member who has long been a fierce advocate of independence for the Serb Republic, had as recently as Sunday said that the meeting might not come off. "He could easily have refused to meet at all, just claim he had important prior commitments," says Calabresi. Krajisnik, Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic...
...tripartite presidency, with one position per ethnic group, is unlikely to lead to a truly unified Bosnia. Just the opposite, says the front-running Serb candidate for the joint presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik. "If the Muslims try to press for a stronger [central government for] Bosnia and Herzegovina, that could lead to collapse," he threatens. Dismissing any talk of reintegration, he adds, "Bosnia is only a thin roof under which it has two, completely sovereign entities." Krajisnik even carries his vision for division to the bicameral parliament's architecture. He has suggested constructing a building on the former confrontation line with...
...scene in Pale last week could not have taken place even two months ago. The Serbs at the meeting were of the diehard variety, and as Karadzic and Momcilo Krajisnik, speaker of the Serb assembly, sat a few feet away, critic after critic stepped to the podium inside the looming Hotel Bistrica to denounce their leadership. Under the Dayton agreement, four Serb-held districts and suburbs of Sarajevo, which are Karadzic's main power base, must be turned over to the Muslim and Croat government of Bosnia by March 19. The Serbs remember the Vance-Owen peace plan that...