Otpor members die in car crash

I'm shocked, disappointed and angry about this. How many times do people have to die before something is done about the diabolical situation on the roads in Serbia? Laws must be brought through and enforced vigourously.

I met Mile Veljkovic in 2002 in a hotel in Pozarevac. Didn't know what he looked like or much about him and was surprised when the man from OTPOR turned out not be a student but an older guy with a beard.
Mile talked a lot and was very friendly. He spoke openly on any subject you cared to mention. One got the feeling that Mile's sympathies lied closer to anarchism than the neo-liberal wing of OTPOR which held sway. Indeed Mile had broken with OTPOR Belgrade some months before I met him. It was amusing to visit OTPOR's plush offices previously, which they rented from Dusan Mihajlovic's New Democracy Party, and to be told that they did not have his telephone number. He laughed when I told him this.
Mile had a habit of turning up at all events in the small town of Pozarevac - everybody knew him and most people, even his political 'enemies' liked him. It is going to be hard for all of them now, expecting Mile to turn up all the time...

So rest in peace Mile, you will not be forgotten.

Let me just add that this is the second friend I have lost to a car accident in Serbia in the last 5 years.

Why oh why is this subject not considered important?

Same for other countries in the Balkans...
In my opinion the only country that in the last 5-7 years has made progress in the region is Hungary(Slovenia has always be good) but has made a lot of investments and enforced new tough laws ...
The problems are in all countries the same :
poor state of the roads- bad driving by people that musn't have license-old cars-alcool-animals-
but i think that you people from overthere know much better than me the problems..

"In the accident involving three cars and two trucks, journalist Mile Veljković, Požarevac Otpor member .... "

So B92 in this scenario back 10 years you would have been stating ... "Milosevic regime attempts murder of opposition"

- How coincidental that a truck again involved in a fatal accident and no mention of DB involvment !?

- Could the Draskovic accident have been just that an accident ?!

RIP, my friends. so sad, such a waste...

roberto
frisco

I'm shocked, disappointed and angry about this. How many times do people have to die before something is done about the diabolical situation on the roads in Serbia? Laws must be brought through and enforced vigourously.

I met Mile Veljkovic in 2002 in a hotel in Pozarevac. Didn't know what he looked like or much about him and was surprised when the man from OTPOR turned out not be a student but an older guy with a beard.
Mile talked a lot and was very friendly. He spoke openly on any subject you cared to mention. One got the feeling that Mile's sympathies lied closer to anarchism than the neo-liberal wing of OTPOR which held sway. Indeed Mile had broken with OTPOR Belgrade some months before I met him. It was amusing to visit OTPOR's plush offices previously, which they rented from Dusan Mihajlovic's New Democracy Party, and to be told that they did not have his telephone number. He laughed when I told him this.
Mile had a habit of turning up at all events in the small town of Pozarevac - everybody knew him and most people, even his political 'enemies' liked him. It is going to be hard for all of them now, expecting Mile to turn up all the time...

So rest in peace Mile, you will not be forgotten.

Let me just add that this is the second friend I have lost to a car accident in Serbia in the last 5 years.

Why oh why is this subject not considered important?

Same for other countries in the Balkans...
In my opinion the only country that in the last 5-7 years has made progress in the region is Hungary(Slovenia has always be good) but has made a lot of investments and enforced new tough laws ...
The problems are in all countries the same :
poor state of the roads- bad driving by people that musn't have license-old cars-alcool-animals-
but i think that you people from overthere know much better than me the problems..

"In the accident involving three cars and two trucks, journalist Mile Veljković, Požarevac Otpor member .... "

So B92 in this scenario back 10 years you would have been stating ... "Milosevic regime attempts murder of opposition"

- How coincidental that a truck again involved in a fatal accident and no mention of DB involvment !?

- Could the Draskovic accident have been just that an accident ?!

RIP, my friends. so sad, such a waste...

roberto
frisco