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Associated Press. 18 June 2001. Serbian Police Open Security Files.


BELGRADE -- Serbian authorities on Monday threw open state security
files compiled during the rule of Slobodan Milosevic and the communists
before him.

During the 13-year presidency of Milosevic [much of occuring during
wartime], opponents were shadowed, wiretapped and routinely labeled as
"internal enemies," "extremists" and "terrorists."

But the [so-called] notorious State Security department was reorganized
since Milosevic's ouster last October, and all citizens may see their
own file if there is one, according to a police statement.

More than a dozen telephone numbers in cities cross Serbia, the main
Yugoslav republic, were set up for callers wanting to know if there is a
police file on them and the telephone numbers were constantly busy
Monday.

Beta news agency reported that in the central Serbian town of Kragujevac
thousands inquired if there were a file on them.

Making copies or taking the files home is not allowed. To read their
file, people must arrive at a previously agreed time and place.

But thousands of files were destroyed by Milosevic's agents in the days
after the former strongman's ouster, before the new leadership of
Vojislav Kostunica consolidated its authority.

The former chief of state security, Rade Markovic, is under arrest and
charged with destroying part of the archives.


B A C K G R O U D


'Montenegro's Socialist People's Party (SNP), junior partner in
Yugoslavia's ruling coalition and opposed to the extradition of Yugoslav
citizens to the court, said it would vote against the law' (Reuters,
minutes earlier).


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Barry Stoller

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/downwithcapitalism

Proletarian news & Leninist debate


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