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Reuters. 15 January 2002. Foreign Ministers: Yugoslav Rulers Must Stamp Out Hatred. BELGRADE -- Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic warned Tuesday widespread ethnic hatred still smoldered behind Yugoslavia's new reformist image and urged his fellow leaders to do more to stamp it out. "It is unacceptable that the language of hate is kept alive after having killed tens of thousands of this country's people in the last 10 years alone," Svilanovic told a news conference. Svilanovic said there were daily expressions of hate in the media and at large toward Jews, Muslims, Croats and Albanians. As an example he said a television station financed by the federal state broadcast late last year what he called a tirade against Jews, which prompted a protest from Israel. Svilanovic urged Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic to return to the principles upon which they overturned former President Slobodan Milosevic, who rose to power on a Serb nationalist ticket that brought on the wars. "Their silence when these things are said is louder than all the incidents that have happened in the past year, such as expressions of hate toward Jews, Muslims, Albanians, Croats. This silence is something that must stop," he said. The reformist coalition that ousted Milosevic in 2000 has since won praise for its structural and economic reforms. But critics say soul-searching over Serb nationalism is still conspicuously absent from Yugoslavia. Serbia and tiny Montenegro are the only remaining republics in federal Yugoslavia, after Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Macedonia seceded in the Balkan wars of the 1990s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
