How Serbian Democrats Stole the 2000 Election

Prof. Michael McFaul (associate professor of political science at Stanford University and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) explains how the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), dissatisfied with the fact that the joint opposition presidential candidate, Vojislav Kostunica, failed to win by a substantial majority, simply decided to refuse the run-off elections by claiming the victory and alleged 53 percent of votes which the top private monitoring agency the Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) never actually confirmed.

But, the truth is that the CeSID (financed by the dozen of western governments and NGOs) never officially refuted this, either.

Following the elections, the DOS launched a propaganda campaign for an all-out strike and civic disobedience.

A week later, in the beginning of October 2000, the DOS organized the strike in "Kolubara" coal mine, the vital center in local and state economy. The authorities thereafter allegedly issued warrants for the arrest of Boris Tadic (currently the president of Serbia) and Nebojsa Covic forcing them to go underground.

On 5 October 2000, the DOS staged the Bulldozer Revolution and took the power.

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[Lillymill]

@andreandsomehay

Thx... I had no idea he was an ambassador.

Heh, I can already see it coming...

"...but they created the perception - the parties did, not Golos - they're too good an organization to have done this" :))

[andreandsomehay]

@dZeNi087 hes now the ambassador to russia. so i think he knows

[Lillymill]

@dZeNi087

What do you mean?

[dZeNi087]

what the hell do u know