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- <text id=91TT1820>
- <title>
- Aug. 19, 1991: World Notes:Yugoslavia
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- YUGOSLAVIA
- War Between The Serbs
- </hdr><body>
- <p> In downtown Belgrade, far from the western battles between
- Serbs and Croatians, two masked assassins leaned out of a car
- and fired more than 40 bullets. Branislav Matic, second-in-
- command of the Serbian Guard, a newly formed anticommunist
- militia, fell dead.
- </p>
- <p> Matic's comrades-in-arms accused the Serbian government of
- organizing the murder. At the funeral last week, Vuk Draskovic,
- leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, the main opposition
- party, blamed the republic's ruling Socialist--formerly
- Communist--Party, headed by President Slobodan Milosevic. The
- Ministry of Internal Affairs issued a denial and added that
- uttering such accusations was illegal.
- </p>
- <p> The struggle between communist and anticommunist forces in
- Serbia has been intensifying for several months. In March,
- Draskovic's party led mass demonstrations against the
- Socialists, and two people were killed in clashes with police.
- In July, the Serbian parliament banned militias formed outside
- the republican or national armed forces.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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