Myth: Milosevic passed the constitutional amendments unilaterally, without the agreement of the rest of Yugoslavia.

FACT: The whole of Yugoslavia supported and agreed to the amendments to Serbia’s constitution. In October 1988 the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY), which included prominent leaders of all the republics and provinces, had declared its support for the amendments that had been formulated by Serbia’s Constitutional Commission, with even Slovenia, ruled by the secessionist-leaning Milan Kucan, agreeing to the amendments then. (Balkan Tragedy, p.94) Yugoslavia in its entirety supported the amendments and, as a conclusion adopted at a joint session of the Federal Assembly on March 1st 1989 said, “[considered] that the amendments on the constitution of Serbia adopted by the Serbian Assembly [secured] the necessary unity of all socialist self-management forces in the Republic of Serbia and [were] in line with the positions of the 13th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia”. (http://www.milosevic-trial.org/trial/2005-01-18.htm) The 13th Congress of the LCY, which took place in 1986, had come out firmly in favour of amending the 1974 constitution, including allowing Serbia to amend its constitution to sort out its problematic relationship with the autonomous provinces, (http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/yugoslavia/yugoslavia132.html) and the LCY, including its Croatian (and anti-Milosevic) President, Stipe Suvar, firmly supported the amendments. (http://www.milosevic-trial.org/trial/2004-12-01.htm)