Word: yugoslavias
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...finished." No matter what street of Belgrade you walk down these days, you will run into this graffiti. Activists of the student pro-democracy movement "Otpor" (Resistance) have put it up on virtually every wall in the city. "He" refers to Slobodan Milosevic, the president of Yugoslavia and the last dictator in Europe. Milosevic has been the dominant political figure in the Balkans for the past 13 years, leading Serbs into four wars, including last year's confrontation with NATO over Kosovo...
...Milosevic finished? Elections in Yugoslavia are scheduled for Sept. 24, and the "Otpor" slogan is at the center of a "get out and vote" campaign devised to persuade the people of Yugoslavia that the time is right to say goodbye to Milosevic. But the road to freedom and democracy is bound to be full of dangerous bumps and curves...
Milosevic, the leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (formerly the Communist Party), used a surge of Serbian nationalism in late 1980s to come to power. Since then he has been the president of Serbia and then of the new Yugoslavia, which consists of Serbia and the much smaller republic of Montenegro. His popularity has been declining throughout the 1990s, hitting all-time lows last year after the defeat in the Kosovo conflict. He now has the support of only 20 to 25 percent of the population...
Srdjan L. Tanjga '01 is an applied math concentrator in Lowell House. He is a native of Belgrade, Yugoslavia and has been an active member of "Otpor," the pro-democracy movement in Belgrade, for the past five years...
...Serbia react? Will they flock to the streets to defend their votes or will they allow Milosevic to cheat them once more? This remains the biggest variable in the Yugoslav political equation. After the opposition failed in several attempts to mount massive protests in the past year, many in Yugoslavia are pessimistic. Some analysts, on the other hand, point out that the Milosevic power structure is much less homogeneous than usually assumed. They assert that the people will not sit calmly in the face of clear electoral fraud and notice that the Serbian pro-democracy movement has found new resilience...