Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fulcrum of uncertainty was Milosevic, 49, who rose to power in 1986 on a populist wave of Serbian nationalism and was overwhelmingly confirmed as president -- under the banner of the renamed Socialist Party of Serbia -- in . elections last December. In his efforts to fuel nationalist passions and to silence dissent, Milosevic exercised ironclad control over Serbia's state- owned media, which in turn waged a war of words against secessionist-minded Croatians and Slovenes and the equally nationalistic but more democratic Serbian opposition. On March 9 some 100,000 people crowded into Belgrade's Republic Square to register their opposition...
...pitched battle broke out when Serbian riot police, firing rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons, charged the ralliers. Many of the protesters fought back with trash cans, paving blocks ripped from the sidewalks and even furniture from open-air cafes. As the crowd swarmed toward the Serbian parliament building, a 17-year-old boy, Branivoje Milinovic, was killed by police gunfire; more than 100 other people were injured, and a policeman later died of head wounds. The federal army, commanded by a largely Serbian officer corps, deployed tanks and armored personnel carriers at Serbia's request, in what Croatian...
Early last week thousands of students gathered in protest on Terazije square, one of Belgrade's main thoroughfares. They demanded the resignation of state-controlled media managers and the Serbian minister of police, as well as the release of the more than 600 demonstrators who had been detained...
...protests persisted, Milosevic began parceling out concessions. His appointees at the head of RadioTelevision Belgrade resigned. Vuk Draskovic, leader of the opposition Serbian Renewal Movement, was released after spending three days in prison. Serbian minister of police Radmilo Bogdanovic, held responsible by the opposition for police violence, offered his resignation...
...Milosevic and his regime are clearly not not going to bow out with a whimper. In three tense marathon sessions of the collective federal presidency (made up of representatives of all six republics and the two Serbian provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo), Jovic, backed by the army chief of staff, had pressed for a military crackdown. "Milosevic is a fighting man," said Milovan Djilas, a dissident communist who was jailed repeatedly by Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the 1950s and '60s. "He won't go for a fundamental change of policy...