Probably, the most difficult situation that can happen to a country and its citizens is when an all-out war is waged without declaring war. This is exactly the situation that has prevailed in Yugoslavia since September 1991. Everyone can judge and judge everyone. The army, the police, the prosecution, the judiciary and the laws were placed at the service of Voždo's "patriots", who overnight became the owners of all the land and all the people.
In such a state in the country, the army is affected by all kinds of fractures. The time has come for those who could not express themselves in peace in profession, science and ethics. Their dexterity for weaving all kinds of networks together with services and criminal structures came to the fore, all under the pretext of "patriotic" defense of the "loved and dear" homeland from traitors and NATO mercenaries.
The downing of a UN helicopter in January 1992 over Croatia was a good reason to "cleanse" the Air Force and air defense of "enemy elements". Positions and power pass into the hands of Serbian nationalists, clericalists and neo-fascists. The units are often visited by some "new" commissioners, some "new" donors and some "new", who are at the source of the "most important" confidential information from the entire planet. These are precisely those who, a few years later, were called, by the names known to everyone today, "Zemunci" and "Surčinci". A typical military hierarchy and subordination of them over the army was established. At his discretion, Željko Ražnatović Arkan occasionally came to the Command of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces, so that the colonels would brief him on the state of combat readiness in the Air Force and Air Defense Forces. High-ranking officials of the Serbian Radical Party were also frequent guests of the RV and PVO Command. There is massive Chetnikism in RV and PVO.
Colonel-General Božidar Stevanović was at that time the commander of the Army and Air Force. In the army, he is better known by his nickname Mika Šprajc, and in civilian structures as Boža Chetnik. His right-hand man is the always problematic Nedjeljko Neđo Bošković, whose back and sides are guarded by the "zemunks", led by Milorad Ulemek Legija.
Neđo Bošković was a non-commissioned officer at the Rajlovac School Center. In that center, a real comedy was made as, like a typical Montenegrin man, Neđo was enrolled to take a higher vocational education. On this basis, he became a second lieutenant. According to the law in force at the time, an officer with a higher professional qualification could only advance to the rank of first class captain and did not have the conditions for education at higher levels of military education. By that same Montenegrin man, Bošković was illegally enrolled in the Army and Air Defense Command and Staff Academy and was illegally (given that he had not completed the basic academy) promoted to the rank of major. Without fulfilling any legal conditions for promotion, Bošković was promoted to the rank of general. He had unlimited and uncontrolled power. A member of his family was one of the famous "businessmen" outside the law, who was killed a few years later in Athens.
Even though I am without a formal appointment to duty, my position in such a state in the RV and PVO is much easier because I was "slipped" into the school system. General Ljubiša Veličković is in a very uncomfortable position. He is a true anti-fascist, despises Serbian nationalists and Chetniks, and is demanding in respect of subordination. The mafia found a solution - Veličković was removed from the RV and PVO. Even though he had never worked in the education system until then, he was "tended" to be there.
It is May 1993. In the evening hours, on my home phone, General Ljubomir Bajić, then the assistant chief of the General Staff for RV and Air Defense, calls me. He tells me that he is waiting for me tomorrow morning at 10.00:XNUMX a.m. in front of the office of General Života Panić, head of the GŠ. He also tells me not to tell anyone about this.
We are in General Panić's office at exactly 10.00:XNUMX AM. General Panić addresses me: "Colonel, I have received various information about you, so I would like to meet you personally." I interrupt him: "Mr. General, the rule of the service is very precise that an elder can talk to someone higher in rank only in the presence of his superior. Since General Uzelac is my first superior, please invite him to attend the conversation". "No, there is no need, this conversation should remain in this circle," replied General Panić. "Then there's no conversation, don't make me uncomfortable by walking away alone without permission," I'm categorical. General Panić orders to call General Uzelc.
It is obvious that General Panić was well aware of one of my "political outbursts". Namely, 31.3.1971. year in Zadar, where at the party conference I very openly stated my position that, if this kind of policy continues in the country, we will never go to war against anyone, but we will definitely go to war with each other.
He asked me another question: "Mr. Colonel, I hear that you have a special relationship with Slovenes, Croats and Muslims?" I have always been sensitive to such attitudes, so I replied: "Yes, Mr. General, but you also forgot the Macedonians. I have a very clear position, if one of them needs to be shot, I will shoot them, I am sure that it will hurt them less from my hand, but I will certainly not hand them over to the Serbian fascists". At that moment, I sharply warned General Bajić with the words: "Why are you pushing me under the table, Bajo, if you don't agree with something, say that we can all hear you."
I continue my tirade: "You didn't call me, Mr. General, for anything you asked me, but there is one other thing. The dragon has slithered and is swallowing everything in front of it, so it threatens to swallow you too. That dragon is Mika Sprejc. You know very well that there is only one man who can stand in the way of that dragon, and that is Colonel Grahovac. That's why you called me. That's right, I can get in his way, but I won't, and I repeat I won't, for three reasons: you're a man, defend yourself; you are a general, defend yourself; you are the head of the GŠ with all the force that the army has, defend yourself. If you are not able to deal with all that, then you should not be saved.
(Tomorrow: Milošević appoints the head of the GŠ - Momir Bulatović "removes" the secret tape of journalist Dada Vujasinović - The role of Pavle Bulatović...)
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