Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Foreign leaders are discovering that she's difficult to bully. Before meeting Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade, her aides warned that the Serbian President would try to throw her off stride early in the session. As she began reciting a laundry list of Serbian violations of the peace accord, Milosevic did just that, interrupting with a patronizing smile: "Madame Secretary, you're not well informed." Albright, who had spent three years in Belgrade as a child, retorted, "Don't tell me I'm uninformed. I lived here." Milosevic's smile disappeared...
There just aren't many flesh-and-blood bad guys left. Radovan Karadzic and most of his Serbian followers certainly qualify, but there was surprisingly good news here last week when Dusan Tadic became the first Serb to be tried and convicted of crimes against humanity...
Serb fairy tales often revolve around the story of an evil wizard who can be defeated only by finding his hidden source of power and destroying it. Modern Serbia has no shortage of wicked sorcerers who fit that archetype, and first among them is Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. In the late 1980s Milosevic loosed chaos upon the former Yugoslavia by conjuring up the ghosts of Balkan nationalism. The four years of war that followed dismembered the country, killed some 100,000 civilians and turned the President into an international pariah. Within Serbia, however, his iron rule remained unchallenged--until last...
...next 4 1/2 years, Stanisic played a central role in the Serb minority uprisings that tore through Croatia and Bosnia. His position enabled him to act as a virtual consigliere to Milosevic, implementing the President's vision of a greater Serbia by funneling arms, ammunition and support to Serbian enclaves throughout the Balkans. Western diplomats suspect that Stanisic had an important role in organizing Serbia's paramilitary infiltrations in the Croatian city of Knin in 1990 and the paramilitary operations in 1991 that preceded Serbian army incursions into the Croatian city of Vukovar. Those Serbian moves resulted in appalling atrocities...
...opposition leader Vuk Draskovic, whose forces have themselves endured beatings over the past four days, feared even worse. "Time is running out, and we can't wait forever. . . The fear is great that confrontations might turn into major clashes." Milosevic remains obstinate. But at least in Pirot, a southern Serbian town, there was cause for joy. Opposition members used a temporary majority in the town council to allow the election on Tuesday of Tomislav Panajotovic, the town's first non-Communist mayor since 1920. After a month of blocking marches, Pirot riot police let 5,000 celebrate their victory...