WE WILL PREVENT NEW HOSTILE CONFLICTS!

The regime of Slobodan Milosevic, with its accomplices in the federal government and the puppet party in Montenegro (Popular Socialist Party)—the so-called "patriotic alliances" —and the permanent and dangerous instigation within the VJ (Yugoslav army), is provoking a conflict in Montenegro, with the goal of putting into effect a state of emergency and a police dictatorship.

The regime persecutes those that think differently, those among the independent media and opposition parties, fearing that they will end their days before the Hague tribunal. At the same time, it misleads citizens with demented stories about the return of Serbian military and police forces to Kosovo, provoking a new military intervention, whose consequences could be more than catastrophic. The objective is to destroy the networks of civic organization, and to convert citizens into informants, accomplices, and victims at the same time.

• WE WILL NOT ALLOW OUR CHILDREN TO DIE AGAIN for sinister objectives!
  
  
• WE WILL NOT ALLOW them to go to war, for anyone to go to war!
  
  
• WE CONDEMN the foundations of all paramilitary formations, independently of whether they are of the regime or the opposition!
  
  
• WE DEMAND the cessation of the dangerous usage of the Yugoslav army and security services that destabilize Montenegro!
  
  
• WE SUPPORT all the democratic forces whose objective is democratic change through peaceful methods.

WOMEN IN BLACK
LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
GROUP 484

Belgrade, 12.1.2000