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Speculation is mounting in Serbia that the former Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic may be called to testify against Slobodan Milosevic. Recently the Yugoslav press published information that Lilic was "taking intensive English classes" and is "the protected witness [known as] K-3" who will be the first to testify against Milosevic in the Kosovo case. Out of all the media allegations, Lilic admits to only one: that he is once again being pursued by high officials of The Hague tribunal...
...Slobodan Milosevic walked into court confident and prepared. He carried a briefcase full of evidence that he began presenting - not before judges, who preside over a court he refuses to recognize; and not to prosecutors, whose charges he called "non-sensical and malicious" lies. "My response is to the public," said Slobodan Milosevic. the whole story...
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...
When the Balkan wars started in 1991, Mitrovica, or Kosovska Mitrovica as it is known in Serbia, was just another ethnically mixed city in Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia. But, as the Serb strongman stepped up his campaign against ethnic Albanians and the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army, old neighborly ties began to fray. One night the body of Lindita's father was found in a back street on another side of town. A restaurant owner, he had been accused of giving food to the rebels. The Rexhepi family believe he was murdered by Serbs...
...Northern Alliance supporters, who allowed U.S. troops to move in with helicopters and whisk them to Pakistan. Georg Taubmann, one of the German aid workers, said their release was "like a miracle." THE NETHERLANDS More Evidence Prosecutors at the U.N. war crimes tribunal charged former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic with genocide in Bosnia, in the third case filed against him so far. Evidence from recent exhumations of mass graves may be included in the indictment charging Milosevic with the deaths of possibly thousands of people between 1992 and 1995. A former Yugoslav navy admiral, Miodrag Jokic, surrendered to the tribunal...