Dragan Djilas (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)
In a Sept. 24 statement, Freedom and Justice Party leader Dragan Djilas drew parallels between President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic on the eve of his removal, stating that today, just like on the same date 25 years ago, Serbia is ruled by a policy that can only be described as “hatred” and that the only way to defeat this “evil” is for everyone wanting change to act unitedly.
“Today, just like then, the majority of the people are against [the regime]. And that is evident everywhere. To prove that, to effect change, we need free elections where the people of Serbia will – as they did 25 years ago – say ‘No’ to the policy of hatred, conflict and violence, which is the only constant in the policy once led by Milosevic and [Vojislav] Seselj, and now led by Vucic and [Ivica] Dacic,” Djilas wrote in his press release.
“Now, just like then, we must act in the fight unitedly, within a joint front of all those wanting change. History teaches us that this is the only way to defeat the evil that has once again gripped Serbia,” Djilas said regarding the 25th anniversary of Milosevic’s loss in the presidential and parliamentary elections of what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and comprised Serbia and Montenegro.
“Twenty-five years ago today, the villainous regime of the Socialists, Yugoslav Leftists and Radicals was defeated. On that day, Vojislav Kostunica, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia candidate, defeated Slobodan Milosevic in the elections. September 24 is the day when the Serbian people and all the citizens of Serbia said ‘Enough.’ Since Milosevic refused to accept defeat, the great rally of October 5 occurred, when the will of the people was defended in the streets,” Djilas concluded.
The politician went on to say that “today, 25 years later, Serbia is ruled by the same people who sent other people’s children to war, who destroyed Serbia’s economy, stole [the people’s] foreign currency savings, withdrew Serbia from the territory of Kosovo and Metohija and led to [the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] being cast out of the United Nations [in 1992].”
“Then, just as now, their policy can be summed up in one word: hatred. Back then, their hatred was directed at other nations, Europe and those in Serbia who opposed their insane politics. Today they’re doing the same, only in the reverse order,” Djilas concluded.
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