I doubt he would listen. But on closer inspection it appears that both Raimondo and the British Helskinki Human Rights Monitoring Group were using "October 5th – a 24 hour coup" by Dragan Bujošovic and Ivan Radovanovic, Media Centre, Belgrade, 2000.
The British Helsinki Human Rights Group has surprisingly produced nothing on Serbia since the election of December. Its report is highly critical of Djindjic, DOS, and funding from the US and EU, but does not contest the overall result of the election. It seems to want to present Djindjic as more of an old style Communist than Milosevic:
>It should not be forgotten that people who have experienced totalitarian
>regimes have a nose for power and what it means for their own lives. It is
>the memory of the oppression associated with Tito’s Yugoslavia rather than
>the more easygoing Milosevic era that has been re-ignited and recently put
>to use so effectively in Serbia. Unfortunately, the West has added its own
>contribution to this tried and tested totalitarian brew by making
>unrealistic promises of economic assistance and future prosperity to the
>unwitting Serbian public. It is difficult to be optimistic about the
>future on their behalf.
Even if they are not impartial it would be important to see their subsequent criticisms of the new Serbia.
One of their active contributors is John Laughland whose biography is given on the website of the European Foundation which calls itself Eurorealist, but is in fact Eurosceptic in all but trade.
>As well as serving as the European Director of the European Foundation,
>the leading London-based Eurorealist think tank, Dr Laughland also writes
>regularly for a wide range of British, European and American publications.
>He is also the author of The Death of Politics: France under Mitterrand
>and The Tainted Source: the Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea, in
>which he argues convincingly that an ideology is sweeping Europe that
>threatens democracy and the rule of law. He shows that the 'post-national
>ideology' (that nation-states are no longer capable of running their own
>affairs in a modern, interdependent world economy) confuses the
>constitution of a state with the power of its government, and neglects the
>sense of community essential to the democratic arrangement. A third
>edition of The Tainted Source will soon be published in several European
>countries. John Laughland is also a trustee and an active member of the
>British Helsinki Human Rights Group. He is a former lecturer at the
>Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris and has taught at many
>other universities in Europe and America.
The advisors of the European Foundation include the right wing economist Kenneth Minogue
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