2/ could bring a satellite uplink as all were in #Belgrade, controlled by #Serb regime. @SkyNews could not send one as insurance would not cover it, so I found private #SNG operator in #London, explained #Montenegro would give dish armed protection & he would make lots of $$$ /3 
2/ as profession, but also, more importantly, #publicInterest that it stands for. #Talkshow hosts, #Television "personalities", #SocialMedia #Influencers & the like have neither qualifications nor, much more importantly, knowledge & experience to handle tough interviewees who /3 
2/ Flag Day (#DitaEFlamurit). 3 masked armed people appeared & read statement claiming that #UCK would fight for freedom & independence of #Kosovo. Less than 18 months later, UCK, helped by #NATO, won the war & no #Serbian soldier or policeman remained. Full #independence was /3 
2/ They were good & reliable but #Dutch #military #police who were convoy command & security already then failed to impress me: pompous and incompetent. Unprepared, could only communicate with @UN HQ in Kiseljak and #UnitedNations in New York was by #SkyNews & #CNN satphones! /3
THREAD to clarify, question in a PM: we were a normal & pretty ordinary non-Communist family. Not (openly) anti-Communist but not collaborating with the regime in any political capacitiy. Both my grandfathers were opposed to the idea of #Yugoslavia - they realized it may have /2 
2/ #UnitedNations general Srboljub Mackenzie dozvolio je Mladiću da preko aerodromske piste prebaci u borbu 4 tenka. TLN okrene na šegu i ispjeva pjesmicu:
2/ can’t exist, you should find a way to reconcile with #Croatia, it is your country'. They kept telling us we’ll never lose, that Serbia is behind us, but as time went on I oft thought about your words. I sensed you were right & we were headed for our own destruction”. Then & /3 
2/ u progonu najgore vrste, protiv ljudi, samo zato što su oni bili Hrvati, a ne Srbi. Nevini ljudi su bili proganjani, nevini ljudi su nasilno istjerani iz svojih kuća i nevini ljudi su ubijani. Čak i nakon što sam saznao što se dogodilo šutio sam o tome. Još gore, nastavio /3
2/ vs. #Ecumenical Patriarch of #Constantinople. Most of numerous traditional cleavages within SPC (Young Lions vs. Old Guards); Serbians vs. TransDrinians; ecumenicals vs. hardline Orthodox etc. will be irrelevant with only the split between Russian vs. Greek students, roughly/3
2/ An archetypical #Balkans business: well-intended, ill prepared, poorly executed. All sides try to cheat & gain advantage over their partners, with biggest & strongest imposing their will at force whenever they can, at same time paying lip service to equality and brotherhood /3 
2/ 26/11 UN convoy reaches Bratunac, is met by "spontaneous resistance" by local Serbs (some bussed in from Serbia across Drina river). Bosnian Serb military commanders declare themself helpless as "people are democratically expressing their anger at UN feeding enemy 'Turks'"/3 
Na @hrtvijesti :
Appreciate if someone knows of a way to connect this thread together, in right order 1-9. Thanks
2/ She hated #Communism. But had only praise & admiration for #RedArmy. They never expected to see such horrors at #Auschwitz but within 48 hrs RedArmy had organized excellent medical care for inmates. Later relocated them to recovery facilities. Very dedicated & non-political /3