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 | | His critics have said that his remarks in Kosovo in 1987 "nobody must beat you" - which he was heard to make whilst amid pressing crowds saying they were suffering police brutality - were nationalistic, others that, as a political representative, he was reassuring them he didn't take lightly any violation of their human rights. |
 | | After he was elected president of the Belgrade City Committee of the League of Communists, Milošević publicly opposed nationalism, prevented the publishing of a book of the works of Slobodan Jovanović, an influential Serbian poet and politician from the beginning of the century. |
 | | In local media, Milošević is nicknamed Sloba, which is a common nickname for "Slobodan"; in Western media this nick is usually transferred as Slobo, perhaps in imitation of the vocative of "Sloba" which was chanted at various political demonstrations where he was present. |
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