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"Pandora's box" about "who really did what" in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990's will open once the archives open – in half a century, writes Politika.

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"Pandora's box" about "who really did what" in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990's will open once the archives open – in half a century, writes Politika. "During the Ten Day War [in Slovenia] in 1991, the JNA [Yugoslav People' Army] exercised restraint and sought to avoid armed conflict," Milan Terzic of the MoD's Institute for Strategic Studies was quoted as saying by the Belgrade daily. Archives "hide truth about Yugoslav wars" The Institute's message, in the wake of Marko Presern's study on the June 1991 war in Slovenia "that stirred spirits in that country", is that the truth – referred to as "Pandora's box" – on the former Yugoslavia wars will be known in fifty year's time, when the archives become available. Presern wrote his paper using CIA analyses and studying court cases that saw JNA members as defendants. His conclusion is that the war in Slovenia was started by the then Yugoslav republic's Territorial Defense (TO), rather than, as was commonly believed, by the JNA. Presern also writes that many JNA members were convicted "although completely innocent". All this is contrary to Slovenia's official version of the events that took place in the summer of 1991, which were followed by the country's further disintegration. Terzic, who heads the Institute's Military History Department, said that Presern's work is "nothing new for Serbia, since the army had a brochure on the events in Slovenia printed and translated to English as early as in 1991". This brochure and other documents from that time, according to him, "very precisely cite instances of Slovenian TO's breaches of humanitarian law".

Archives "hide truth about Yugoslav wars"

The Institute's message, in the wake of Marko Prešern's study on the June 1991 war in Slovenia "that stirred spirits in that country", is that the truth – referred to as "Pandora's box" – on the former Yugoslavia wars will be known in fifty year's time, when the archives become available.

Prešern wrote his paper using CIA analyses and studying court cases that saw JNA members as defendants. His conclusion is that the war in Slovenia was started by the then Yugoslav republic's Territorial Defense (TO), rather than, as was commonly believed, by the JNA.

Prešern also writes that many JNA members were convicted "although completely innocent".

All this is contrary to Slovenia's official version of the events that took place in the summer of 1991, which were followed by the country's further disintegration.

Terzić, who heads the Institute's Military History Department, said that Prešern's work is "nothing new for Serbia, since the army had a brochure on the events in Slovenia printed and translated to English as early as in 1991".

This brochure and other documents from that time, according to him, "very precisely cite instances of Slovenian TO's breaches of humanitarian law".

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