The Vukovar
Tragedy 1991: In the net of
Propaganda Lies and Armed Power of
YPA
Chronicles 31, Vol. II | Prepared and
edited by Sonja Biserko
The book reflects
the Helsinki Committee's continued
endeavor to document the real causes
of ex-Yugoslavia's disintegration.
The material and documentation
compiled in two volumes throw light
on the pre-war political and social
context. This edition is, therefore,
a valuable source of information for
the researchers dealing with
contemporary history of the Balkan
region.
"When it became
clear that Yugoslavia cannot survive
or, as historian Milorad Ekmecic put
it, when 'the civil war dispersed
the Yugoslav idea for which the
Serbs had fought the longest and
with the biggest tenacity,' Serb
intellectuals launched another goal
- the unity of the Serbian people.
Dignitaries of the Serbian Orthodox
Church sided it as well. According
to Metropolitan Amfilohije Radovic,
'Serbia, Montenegro... Eastern
Herzegovina, a considerable part of
Bosnia and Bosnian Krajina, and
Srpska Krajina would make the bone
marrow of those united lands, the
bone marrow that takes form anew
despite difficulties.'
"Croatia was the
only serious opponent of the Greater
Serbia project. Enabling Slovenia to
step out of the SFRY was nothing but
a prelude to the showdown with
Croatia. Milosevic defined
Slovenia's departure as 'narrowing
the front of the resistance.' The
short war in Slovenia was just a
simulation and served to compromise
Federal Prime Minister Ante
Markovic. The war in Croatia was
prepared simultaneously. The initial
plan was to keep the entire Croatia
in a future Yugoslavia. However, the
plan was soon abandoned and replaced
by the RAM plan that was disclosed
at the closed governmental session
of September 18, 1991 when Prime
Minister Markovic firstly referred
to it. The Vreme weekly confirmed
that the RAM was 'not a fiction but
a blueprint for Serbia's borders in
the West, a frame for some new
Yugoslavia in which all Serbs,
together with their territories,
would live in a single country,"
says, among other things, the
lengthy introduction to this
two-volume edition.
The book on the
Vukovar tragedy is the fifth edition
in the series publicized under the
project "Coming to Grips with
Serbia's Prevalent Ideological
Matrix" the realization of which was
supported by the Federal Ministry
for Foreign Affairs of the Federal
Republic of Germany.
The
edition is available in Serbian
only.
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