Word: serbians
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...couldn't resist the voices." MIJAILO MIJAILOVIC, 25, a Swede born to Serbian parents, who confessed to killing Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh...
...couldn't resist the voices. " Mijailo Mijailovic, 25, a Swede born to Serbian parents, who allegedly confessed to the killing of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh
...Extreme SERBIA The ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party, led by former paramilitary and indicted war criminal Vojislav Seselj, won 82 seats in parliamentary elections - more than any other political party. The vote - the first since Slobodan Milosevic's party was thrown out of power three years ago - also saw the ex-strongman's own Socialist Party of Serbia just meet the threshold to return to parliament. Seselj's party advocates returning Serbian troops to Kosovo, downgrading ties with the U.S. and Europe, and suing NATO for reparations for the U.S.-led bombing of Belgrade in 1999. The Radicals failed...
...later this month - the first since Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party was thrown out of power in 2000 - no fewer than three of the political parties are headed by men who have been charged with war crimes. Even stranger: one of them may be leading the pack. The Serbian Radical Party, led by ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj - who has been awaiting trial on charges of murder, ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity in a Hague court since earlier this year - scored 22-25% in the latest polls. The party is calling for an end to Western-style reforms...
...tried and failed three times to elect a President (not enough people bothered to turn out) while the current coalition government's ceaseless infighting has "destroyed people's faith in the reform process," says one senior diplomat. All this is proving fertile ground for Tomislav Nikolic, the grim-faced Serbian Radical Party campaigner who is standing in for Vojislav Seselj while the boss prepares his defense. A former cemetery manager, Nikolic is traveling the country with a list of fiery complaints about Serbia's oppressors, from "soulless journalists" trying to destroy his party, to NATO, the Hague and, worst...