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208 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
Amid the worsening ethnic tensions, Borovo Selo was barricaded on 1 April, one day after the Plitvice Lakes clash. [...] In early spring, an agreement was made that Croatian police would not enter Borovo Selo without explicit consent from local Serb authorities to do so. The situation became more volatile by the end of the month, following a political rally in Borovo Selo on 14 April. Speakers at the rally—Vojislav Šešelj, leader of the Serbian Radical Party, Serbian National Assembly member Milan Paroški and Stank Cvijan, Serbian Minister of Diaspora—spoke in favour of the creation of Greater Serbia. [...] In addition, White Eagle paramilitaries arrived to Borovo Selo in mid-April, at the request of Borovo Selo militia commander Vukašin Šoškoćanin. The paramilitaries were armed by the Serbian police directly, or the SAO Krajina-aligned local militia under approval of the Serbian officials. By the end of the month, the White Eagles in Borovo Selo were joined by Dušan Silni paramilitaries, linked to the Serbian National Renewal party.
Aiming to inflame the situation, three Armrbrust rockets were fired from Croatian positions outside Borovo Selo into the village in mid-April. One of the missiles hit a house and another landed in a field, failing to explode. [...] The rockets were fired by a group of men including Gojko Šušak, a high-ranking official of Croatia's ruling Croatian Democratic Union at the time. They were led to the site by Osijek police chief Josip Reihl-Kir, even though Reihl-Kir initially objected to the idea. Šušak later denied he had anything to do with the incident, but admitted he was in the area at the time
Quando Josip Kir conclude un accordo di non belligeranza con le teste calde di Borovo Selo, villaggio di immigrati operai a maggioranza serba a due passi da Vukovar, Šušak in persona si fa portare sul posto e con un gruppo di attivisti spara tre razzi sull'abitato. Kir resta di sasso: “Sono impazziti,” confida più tardi a un collega
una nomenklatura fisicamente ed esteticamente identificabile, al primo sguardo, come primitiva: colli taurini, cravatte a nodo largo, calzini bianchi corti, stomaco debordante, maschilismo deteriore, mogli vistose e volgari