ABSTRACT: As we were about to leave in the car, we heard the devastating news that our comrade Momcilo Vukasinovic, a Serbian Radical in Croatia, had been killed. He died at the Croatian front in December. After the death of "Momo", some of his friends, who are also members of the Radical Party, published a collection of his short stories, together with a letter which is reprinted below.

(THE PARTY new - n. 6 - march 1992)

Bjelovar, 13 October 1991

"Dear Drazen, I want to try and explain to you why I'm taking part in this slaughter. To tell the truth, I'll never forgive 'them' for having forced me to kill them. I'm not a hero; I'm frightened to death, but I can't not fight. I can't believe it, but that's the way it is. I remember Budapest, and our transnational Radical Party, fighting for the rights of the underprivileged, to make prostitution legal, to legalize drugs...and then 'Leptir' ('The Butterfly', editor's note) and all the other things. Another world.

I'm leaving you my short stories. No one could possibly understand what they mean to me, or why I wrote them.

I want you to know that I always wanted a Europe without frontiers in which, above all, the rights of the individual were respected. I'm not Croatian. But Croatia is my country. I am Serbian by birth. I'm not ashamed of this. I will never deny my name, or my origins. I'm sorry it has to be the Serbs we're fighting, but I can't do anything about it. In my opinion, we're fighting the most primitive form of Stalinism. I hope 'Leptir' is still flying, and I'll send you some more of my stories, if I come through this alive. Please don't think badly of me. Bye...".

Momcilo Vukasinovic was 26 when he died. He was born in Bjelovar. Momcilo worked as an electrician, and wrote in his spare time. He had been familiar with the Radical Party for many years, and became a member for the first time in 1990, participating in the organizational meeting in the Radical Party office in Budapest. He joined the Croatian National Guard as a volunteer in October 1991.

He was machine-gunned in the neck on 4 December 1991, at Komletinci, near Vinkovci, together with six other young men from Bjelovar, while they were on a reconnaissance patrol. They were ambushed by the Serbs, the so-called "White Eagles".