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Serbia must reform its government and society because the entire Balkan region lacks institutions and infrastructure of stable democracy, said Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in an address Friday at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum...
...Djindjic, one of the founders of the Democratic Party in Serbia and the first democratically elected mayor of Belgrade, offered an optimistic assessment of his country’s prospects...
...Djindjic said although Serbia needs international assistance, fundamental changes need to take place, not simply negotiations over money...
Serb Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is often quoted as saying that Slobodan Milosevic "belongs to the past." The authors of the new history textbook used in Serbia's elementary schools don't seem to agree: Milosevic is not even mentioned in the book, while the decade of war and ethnic cleansing that resulted in the breakup of the country is handled in just two paragraphs. How could such a crucial period in Yugoslav history be dispatched so summarily? And how could Milosevic, the era's main protagonist, be excised from the account...
...bribed the government into delivering Milosevic, but few cared. "He's a war criminal, so he belongs in the Hague," says Jelena Ivancevic, 23, a technology student in Belgrade. "And if we get some money on top for sending him there, that's even better." Part of Djindjic's strategy was to prime the public for Milosevic's transfer by releasing reports of police discoveries of mass graves within Serbia containing bodies of Kosovar civilians executed by Serb soldiers during the nato air war. Most shocking was the revelation that security forces in April 1999 destroyed a refrigerated truck dredged...