Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:06:16 -0800
From: "sekula kasic" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Fwd: On Zoran Djindjic - From A. Reader (Belgrade)]
From: CDSM
Date: March 17, 2003 12:47:54 AM
Subject: On Zoran Djindjic - From A. Reader (Belgrade)
On Zoran Djindjic
From A. Reader (Belgrade)
15.03.2003.
Today a State funeral was held for Zoran Djindjic, the Serbian Prime Minister, who was assassinated on 12th March 2003. Questions are, ofcourse, being asked about the perpetrators, and only time will resolve this question. However, the facts for the last few days are as follows. The assassination was instigated on Wednesday afternoon in the parking lot of the Serbian Government Building, which chairs the Serbian Cabinet. The perpetrators were obviously highly skilled professionals, firing a number of shots from neighboring buildings.
The success of their deed is proof that they were exceptionally well informed about Djindjic's movements. So far, none of the assassins has been caught, and it is interesting to see how the Government will handle this matter. However, the first signs are not encouraging.
Barely was Djindjic's death announced, then the DOS controlled media began pointing fingers at one of the Belgrade criminal gangs, whose members were arrested the next day (why this and other gangs were permitted to operate by the DOS controlled Government is one of the questions which needs to be answered).Their arrest was followed by the arrest of Jovica Stanisic, the brilliantly successful security chief of President Milosevic.
By these symbolic gestures, the present Government is directing attention to home grounds, especially towards supporters of the Socialist party and President Milosevic, which is in line with statements made by a number of foreign representatives. The aim, obviously, is to direct attention from any possible foreign involvement.
How did the people react to the assassination ? Even though a state of emergency was proclaimed, and even though the Prime Minister was assassinated, you would have had difficulty in guessing that anything of the sort was either happening or had happened. People went about their usual business as if everything was perfectly normal. At the entrance to the Government building there were never more than 90 people at any one time lighting candles or laying flowers, nor were there more than 350 people at any one time standing in line to sign the condolence book. The DOS controlled media, ofcourse, presented this in a different light.
The "crowd" at the Government building was filmed from a balcony, the camera facing vertically into the "crowd", or else this same "crowd" was filmed directly from behind, so that their meagre numbers could not be seen. However, such video tricks could not be used on this Saturday, the day of the State funeral.
The DOS Political Alliance obviously made extensive arrangements in these last few days, bringing in their supporters from all parts of the country (an old trick, used extensively on the Serbian political scene). The aim was to have a massive public attendance, which partially succeeded. Since Saturday was not a working day, there were plenty of onlookers, as State funerals are not an everyday occurance. The combined funeral procession and onlooker attendance provided a crowd of some 150,000 - 250,000 people, which in the narrow streets made a formidable impression. However, for those not familiar with Belgrade, the city has a population of some 2,000,000 people.
Even if 250,000 people did attend, this represented only 12,5% of the entire city population. Since people were brought into the capital for the occassion, this would mean that less than 10% of the city bothered to attend.
We have to return to the question of the perpetrators of the assassination. Who did it ? When analysing this question, it is well worth remembering Djindjic's student days, the truth of which is well known in Belgrade's "corridors of power" and "high society". Namely, Djindjic graduated in Belgrade, while he obtained his PHD in Germany. Why Germany, of all places ?
Many people are unaware that Djindjic's father was an Army officer, apparently of good character and reputation. It was this reputation that was to have catastrophic consequences on the Serbian political scene. When Djindjic graduated in Belgrade, the Army Intelligence Service, the KOS, stepped in, and in one of its biggest blunders, offered to finance Djindjic's postgraduate studies in Germany. The aim, ofcourse, was to have Djindjic recruit promising German postgraduate students for the KOS. In effect, a miserable little mouse was given the task of a "James Bond".
Barely had he arrived in Germany, then the German BND, Intelligence Service, became curious about this son of an Army officer; who was financing him, and for what purpose ? Well, the mouse admitted everything, and overnight became a double agent, with certain "James Bond" appetites, money and German girls in particular. It can only be speculated if his subsequent PHD was a result of intellectual abilities or intercession of the BND. At any rate, once his PHD was obtained, the mouse was ready for another "James Bond" mission, this time on behalf of the German BND.
He returned to Belgrade, ending up in the clutches of the SDB, the Yugoslav Intelligence Service, who proved a little bit more wiser than their counterparts in the Army KOS. Namely, they discovered everything about his German friends in the BND and subsequent mission to Belgrade. The mouse found himself between two fires. Which "fire" did he chose in the end ? Obviously the German one, the dissipation of Tito's Yugoslavia making him more afraid of the German BND than the Yugoslav SDB.
The end result was that in 2000 the Serbian Government found its self with a German controlled Prime Minister. Back in 2000 the Americans did not object, since NATO was more or less homogeneous, and both the Germans and Americans had a tremendous interest in removing President Milosevic, acting covertly and in uniformity. This, however, is not the case today, when the question of Iraq has caused tremendous rifts in the NATO Alliance, which only a few years ago were barely imaginable. Therefore, who assassinated Djindjic ? Domestic or foreign interest groups ? I think that at this particular moment ones finger needs to be pointed outside the frontiers of Serbia.
Todays State funeral had one curious twist of fate. Djindjic was buried in Belgrade's New Cemetary, which in fact is an old cemetary, opened before the First World War. Many Royal public servants, officers, merchants and dignitaries are buried in it, including Nikola Pasic, the famous Serbian Prime Minister from the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
After the communists assumed power in 1945, a so-called "Avenue of Notables" was introduced in the cemetary, where communist dignitaries were buried. To my utter astonishment, Djindjic was not buried in the old, Royal part of the cemetary, but in the so-called "Avenue of Notables". This means that Djindjic, a so-called democrat, found himself a permanent resting place surrounded by communists !!! This is indeed an irony !!! As yet I dont know what to make of it, unless there is a hidden meaning to all of this. Since it is a well known fact that the communist movement of the 19th and 20th centuries was inspired by freemasons, did somebody want to signify that he was layed to rest amongst his own kind ? Time will tell.
No doubt many will ask what will happen after Djindjic's death. I will have to disappoint those who seek political instability in Serbia. Djindjic will be forgotten in a months time, two months at the most. The German influence, for the time being, has been curtailed. We shall see whose influence the DOS coalition will be courting during the course of this year, prior to the next elections. Should be interesting to watch.
Greetings,
A. Reader
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