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...Western money sealed Slobodan Milosevic's fate. In limbo between a Yugoslav Federal government leery of handing its former president over to a war crimes tribunal and a Serb national government wanting to receive aid contingent on a handover, the Serbs short-circuited the federal government's legal process and unceremoniously packed the former strongman off to stand trial in The Hague...
...Serb opinion turned against Slobo...
...fisted response that would drive Macedonia's Albanians - who have plenty of political, economic and social grievances - into the movement's arms. They also hoped to repeat the success of their de facto parent organization, the Kosovo Liberation Army, which managed to provoke such extreme brutality from the Serb authorities that NATO eventually intervened on the Albanian side...
...KOSOVO Roadblock Clashes NATO peacekeepers broke through road blocks and clashed with Serb protesters in northern Kosovo, hurling stun grenades and tear-gas canisters and leaving one woman dead and 10 other people injured. The clashes followed an attempt by U.N. administrators to set up a tax collection point on a road leading into northern Kosovo, legally part of Serbia...
...Once one of Milosevic's closest confidants, Kertes swore in 1991 that he "was ready to fight for the President until the last drop of my Hungarian blood." Later, he reportedly helped organize several groups of Serb paramilitaries, including the notorious Red Berets, that spearheaded ethnic cleansing campaigns in Croatia and Bosnia...