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...night sky on Sunday as the crowd celebrated the victory of the incumbent Serbian President Boris Tadic over his ultranationalist rival Tomislav Nikolic. Tadic, a pro-Western former psychology teacher, won by less than a 3% margin in the tightest presidential race in Serbian history since the defeat of Slobodan Milosevic almost eight years...
...receive the support of the Socialist Party, whose candidate got 6% of the vote. Nikolic is a deputy of the Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, who is currently under trial for crimes against humanity for his wartime activity. Both Seselj and Nikolic were close associates of late President Slobodan Milosevic, who died during his own war crimes trial in the Hague...
...equate the atrocities that strongman Slobodan Milosevic and his Serbian forces are committing with the horrors of World War II is bizarre [LETTERS, April 26]. The Holocaust was far more atrocious in that a whole population was not only murdered but also degraded through propaganda and concentration camps. What is happening to the Albanians is certainly a catastrophe, but the genocide is on a small scale compared to the Holocaust. DAVID W. PETTY Oregon...
More than eight years after U.S. planes bombed Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic out of Kosovo, the small Balkan territory is still legally a part of Serbia. But the province--which has been under U.N. administration since clashes between Serbian forces and secessionist rebels sparked an international crisis in 1999--took another step toward independence this month when the U.N. failed to negotiate a settlement between the two sides before a Dec. 10 deadline. Differences between Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian majority and Belgrade, which opposes full independence for the province, proved too great to bridge. So too did the gulf between...
...effective would these measures be in real life? An embargo was already tried, in 1999, after NATO forced Slobodan Milosevic to pull his security forces from the province. It was never enforced: bypassing controls and ethnic barriers, truckloads of smuggled Serbian goods still flowed into Kosovo, their passage greased by bribery. If Serbia does attempt to close the border with Kosovo, the trade would not stop: it would simply go underground, through the old and well-developed smuggling networks. The prices would rise slightly, but that would...