Friday, November 17, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
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Serbian adviser calls Milosevic a coward
By Cássio Furtado
Special to the Korea
Special to the Kansan
Former KU visiting professor Svetozar Stoianovic, who is an adviser to Serbian President Vojislav Kostunica, spoke to about 60 people in the Kansas Union about the fall of former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic's regime. Photo by Matt J. Daugherty/KANSAN
- Former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic is a coward, a close adviser to the newly elected president of Serbia said yesterday.
Svetozar Stojanovic, who taught at the University of Kansas during the early 1990s as a visiting professor, now advises Serbian President Vojislav Kostunica. He lectured to about 60 people on the causes that brought down the authoritarian regime of former President Milosevic at the Kansas Union.
Stojanovic said Milosevic was characterized by a dual personality.
"He has two faces." Stojanovic said, adding that Milosevic was brave and willing to fight, yet cowardly.
Stojanovic said that although Milosevic sometimes relied on alliances with opposition parties, he always tried to give Serbians the impression that he was somehow supported by the West.
"But that stopped to work when the West started to blackmail him." Stoianovic said.
He said that although Milosevic had implemented repressive measures since 1997, the West thought it would be too early to end the Milosevic regime without
something like the turmoil in Kosovo.
"The West was using him, but he was also using the West," Stoianovic said.
He said the Serbian people supported Milosevic during the NATO bombings in 1999. The alliance didn't know who was on
Milosevic's side, so Serbians backed their president for protection.
Support faded when the International Court of Justice at The Hague indicted Milosevic as a war criminal, Stojanovic said.
He recounted a conversation between Milosevic and Kostunica
that took place after Kostunica's victory before Milosevic conceded defeat.
"Kostunica was very humane for not telling him then that Serbian politics had no place for Milosevic," he said.
"We are planning to set up an institutional and legal system that will make investment possible," he said. "This should be done by the spring."
Stojanovic said Serbia was still negotiating with the International Monetary Fund to receive foreign credit and investments.
Jarek Piekalkiewicz, professor emeritus of political science and Eastern European studies, attended the lecture and said Stojanovic's arguments were logical and well-presented but nevertheless were Serbian arguments.
"He uses Serbian eyes," Piekalkiewicz said. "This is a man who contributed both to the end of communism and to the fall of Milosevic, but who may be a little too optimistic about the results of the recent changes in Serbia. Other countries that have gone through the same process that Serbia is going through have faced very serious difficulties, mainly with internal corruption and foreign investments."
— Edited by Kathryn Moore
Ex-Israeli commando warns of neo-Nazi danger
By Cássio Furtado
Special to the Kansan
Nazis can be bankers, lawyers, politicians, writers and even professors. That's what Yavon Svoray, an ex-Israeli commando who infiltrated the neo-Nazi movement in Germany, told an audience of about 80 students last night in the Kansas Union.
Svoray has told his story in his book In Hitler's Shadow and in an HBO original film, The Infiltrator. He has also spoken on campuses nationwide and has been featured on Larry King Live.
Last night, students at the Union heard the story.
Svoray used hidden cameras and recording devices to document the surprisingly high number of neo-Nazi groups in modern-day Germany. He said his family's heritage was one of the main reasons behind his interest in uncovering these groups. His Jewish father
and grandfather were born in Germany.
"My grandfather was a German-Jewish officer," he said. "He was burned in Auschwitz by the Nazis."
Svoray, meanwhile, was born in an Israeli Kibbutz.
"When I was 5, I asked my father to have a tattoo with numbers in my arm. Everyone in the Kibbutz had one." Svoray said.
Years later he realized that those weren't tattoos.
"They marked Jews like cattle." he said.
After serving as an Israeli commando and as detective sergeant in the Israeli Central Police Command, Svoray came to the United States and started lecturing about international terrorism. During one of those lectures, a man who had fought in World War II told Svoray that he had hidden 40 diamonds in the Franco-German border. Svoray believed him.
In 1995, Svoray was in Germany. He began to meet with several former members of the
Waffen SS and the Gestapo, both German police forces during the war.
Svoray used his knowledge of movies, especially those produced by the Nazi propaganda machine, to relate to the neo-Nazis.
"They suddenly became my friends." Svoray said.
Sovoray said he knew he had to do something when he saw a group of 32 neo-naescheing and screaming as they watched a film of two men raping and killing an 8-year-old girl.
he started going to pubs near train stations and talking to regular people, who eventually led him to the highest ranks of neo-Nazis. His efforts eventually led federal authorities in Germany to upgrade their efforts at monitoring extremist groups.
"He proved to be very brave by doing what he did," said Sarah Shik, president of the KU Hillel chapter and Overland Park senior. "And he's such a good speaker."
Edited by Shawn Hutchinson
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