Re: Did any major power NOT fund the Kostunica campaign?

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Valuable report to contrast with the allegations that the Yugoslav media
were biased against the opposition.

Judging from the article published in the Independent on 6th October by
Timothy Garton-Ash, Kostunica himself may believed he was fiercely
independent.


> In late 1998, we talked in the office of his tiny party, the
> Democratic Party of Serbia. His spartan offices seemed
> virtually empty, as if a removals van was about to arrive.


> A year later, after the war and the Nato bombing, which he
> criticised fiercely, the office seemed even more spartan and
> bare. Other opposition politicians clearly had plenty of money
> from somewhere ? and Belgrade gossip would soon tell you
> from where ? but not Serbia's Dr K. This time, he was furious
> with the United States, and with Britain.


Western powers could still have achieved their goal without funding
Kostunica directly.

Indeed they may have calculated it was better for their goal not to fund
him *directly*.

Chris Burford

London