At the very beginning of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vešović was accused by the media linked to Karadžić's SDS to be a traitor to the Serbian people.
[1] After the war he remained in Sarajevo, teaching as a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Comparative Literature.
[2] Among the most significant is the war prose Smrt je majstor iz Srbije (Death is a master from Serbia, 1994).
In it, Vešović also describes his pre-war experiences with the war criminal Radovan Karadžić, once a fellow poet.
[1] After the 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, Vešović wrote for the newspaper Pobjeda, in which he published scathing criticism of the opposition to Milo Đukanović.