B92 looks at roots of Kosovo conflict

B92 investigates a state strategy for settling the Kosovo crisis dating back to between the late 1980s and early 1990s. In a program to be broadcast on B92 tonight, Kosovo Serbs and actors in historical events of not so long ago, discuss whether they manipulated Slobodan Milosevic or vice versa. In 1989, Miroslav Solevic was expelled from Kosovo. B92 looks at roots of Kosovo conflict “I was a problem because I was, and not just me, but our whole movement was exceptionally powerful and influential. Let’s then split up a powerful machine like this, and leave those who we can handle. They were the ones who sold us out later,“ says Solevic. Momcilo Trajkovic recalls those events. “Before he left, he came to see me and said he had to go, that he was sorry, that he had received threats, and that he had to leave Kosovo. When Milosevic came riding in to Kosovo on his white horse, he no longer needed those people that had helped harness the horse,“ he says. At the time, the groundwork was being laid for constitutional changes and the overthrow of the communist regime in Kosovo, including Kacusa Jasari. “Kacusa says at one point, ’Hey, Slobo, what are you doing? We’re on your side, we’ll do it, we’ll come to an agreement, just don’t criticize us over the TV, always that Mitevic of yours, always Gracanin, let us come to an agreement. What to do. Tell us what you want us to do.’ He never did tell them what to do. Furious, he simply slammed his cup of coffee, spilling the contents over his wife,“ says Dusan Janjic. He was also harsh with those that had the support of the Serb locals in Kosovo. That could be seen in his conversation with Tomislav Sekulic, a Kosovo socialist, who did not agree with all of Milosevic’s policies. “We hadn’t even sat down. The late Sekulic asks him, ’Mr. President, where’ve we got to, how’s it going?’ Milosevic replies, ’Everything’s going our way.’ Sitting down Sekulic says to him, ’Mow, but watch that the rain doesn’t catch you unawares. If you mow the meadow in the rain, what’s the point?’ Milosevic was an intelligent man. He responded immediately, quoting Count Milos’s words from the monument in Pozarevac: ’Delibasa, young gypsy, you can go this way or that, but I go only forwards, into life or death.’ That was in April 1988,“ recalls Trajkovic. The program, B92 Investigates, produced by Jasmina Seferovic, will be broadcast at 9 p.m. tonight.

B92 looks at roots of Kosovo conflict

“I was a problem because I was, and not just me, but our whole movement was exceptionally powerful and influential. Let’s then split up a powerful machine like this, and leave those who we can handle. They were the ones who sold us out later,“ says Šolević.

Momčilo Trajković recalls those events. “Before he left, he came to see me and said he had to go, that he was sorry, that he had received threats, and that he had to leave Kosovo. When Milošević came riding in to Kosovo on his white horse, he no longer needed those people that had helped harness the horse,“ he says.

At the time, the groundwork was being laid for constitutional changes and the overthrow of the communist regime in Kosovo, including Kacusa Jasari.

“Kacusa says at one point, ’Hey, Slobo, what are you doing? We’re on your side, we’ll do it, we’ll come to an agreement, just don’t criticize us over the TV, always that Mitević of yours, always Gračanin, let us come to an agreement. What to do. Tell us what you want us to do.’ He never did tell them what to do. Furious, he simply slammed his cup of coffee, spilling the contents over his wife,“ says Dušan Janjić.

He was also harsh with those that had the support of the Serb locals in Kosovo. That could be seen in his conversation with Tomislav Sekulić, a Kosovo socialist, who did not agree with all of Milošević’s policies.

“We hadn’t even sat down. The late Sekulić asks him, ’Mr. President, where’ve we got to, how’s it going?’ Milošević replies, ’Everything’s going our way.’ Sitting down Sekulić says to him, ’Mow, but watch that the rain doesn’t catch you unawares. If you mow the meadow in the rain, what’s the point?’ Milošević was an intelligent man. He responded immediately, quoting Count Miloš’s words from the monument in Požarevac: ’Delibaša, young gypsy, you can go this way or that, but I go only forwards, into life or death.’ That was in April 1988,“ recalls Trajković.

The program, B92 Investigates, produced by Jasmina Seferović, will be broadcast at 9 p.m. tonight.