ABSTRACT
Not to leave the reader at sea, and in fulfillment of the promise given in the introduction, in this section I attempt to provide an overview of the 1989 ethnic cleansing, as reflected in the international press. To this end, I mainly use reports and articles from the summer of 1989 on the subject from two British newspapers, namely, The Times and the Guardian, with some further contemporaneous reports drawn from other Anglophone newspapers, and from the German weekly Der Spiegel (Mirror). In order to deepen the archival base of this analysis, I also included relevant articles from Yugoslavia’s two state-wide official dailies Borba (Struggle) and Politika (Politics). In addition, I had a look at the Yugoslav republican press, namely the dailies Delo (Labor) and Večer (Evening), and the weekly Danas (Today), the last periodical published in Yugoslavia’s Socialist Republic of Croatia, while the former two in the country’s Socialist Republic of Slovenia. I complement the choice with some official Bulgarian propaganda on the events as published in the BCP’s press organ Rabotnichesko delo (Worker’s Cause), alongside a handful of articles from the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet (Republic) and from the first legal non-communist Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza (Elections Newspaper) that serendipitously for this book began publishing already in May 1989.
