yugoslavias implosion

178
ChApter 2
Bubanj Potok outside Belgrade. The volunteers were issued with weapons
in those barracks. In March 1992, we also sent a large group of volunteers
to the Belgrade “4 Juli” barracks, where they were trained and
given weapons and uniforms. In those six months, from January to July
1992, those barracks quartered and trained over 6,000 of our volunteers
who were then deployed near Drniš, in Divoselo, and in Počitelj. 281
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE YPA
The establishment of the rsk marks the de facto disappearance
of an all-Yugoslav army. The ypa leaders who had waged war in Slovenia
and Croatia and who were pro-Yugoslavia were pensioned off
at the end of their missions. In May 1992, thirty-eight generals and
admirals were sent into retirement by Branko Kostić, president of
the sfry from 1991 to 1992. Aleksandar Vasiljević, chief of kos, said
that he was in favor of preserving Yugoslavia, and he was among
the generals sacked after the end of the war in Croatia (although
he returned to the Army to become deputy chief of Intelligence
and security head between March 1999 and 2001 during the Kosovo
war). 282 Kadijević was replaced by Života Panić.
In May 1992, the ypa itself –or at least its official name—was sent
into retirement, a consequence of the formation of a new state, the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (fry) by the republics of Serbia and
Montenegro. Where once there had been a single force, the ypa, there
were now three Serbian armies: the armies of the Republika Srpska
Krajina (rsk), the Republika Srpska (rs), and the vj. (Vojska
Jugoslavije, Army of Yugoslavia—fry) All three, however, operated
281 Telegraf, September 28, 1994 .
282 He was later indicted by the ICTY: “In his capacity as a YPA general and chief of the YPA
Security Administration until May 8, 1992, in particular the military counter-intelligence
service KOS, General Aleksandar Vasiljević, participated in activities designed to stir up hate,
fear, and violence, which significantly helped attain the overall objectives of the joint criminal
enterprise . Agents of the KOS directed and supported the local Croatian Serb political leaders
and the local Serb police and military forces, including the TO staff and volunteers from Serbia .”
http://www.un.org/icty/indictment/english/mil-2ai020728e.html.