Next year, she organized a petition of solidarity with Serbian intellectuals that were trialed in Belgrade for opposing the government policies.

"The Serbian intellectuals were working a long time on this project, to have ethnic cleansing in Kosovo," he said.

Pressure upon representatives of the Serbian intellectuals was put.

Among the older Serbian intellectuals this policy awakened but little response.

In the same issue four most prominent Serbian intellectuals assessed very highly his accomplishments as a historian, jurist, sociologist and writer.

On the fourth day, he boarded a bus for Budapest, a city then full of "Serbian intellectuals with laptops trying to get visas."

It was the honest opinion of the majority of Serbian intellectuals, who today remain an essential part of Milosevic's political base.

Even Serbian intellectuals who share at least some of the party chief's nationalist goal often dislike his means.

The party was founded in 1989 by a group of Serbian intellectuals as a revival of the old Democratic Party.

Those denied visas included philosopher Richard Rorty and several Nobel laureates, who were to participate in a conference with independent Serbian intellectuals.