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...refugee center for widows of men lost in the massacre at Srebrenica, Bosnian Muslim Fatima Begovic, whose husband and sons died there, sobs as she watches Slobodan Milosevic defend himself at his trial for crimes against humanity--the first ever for a head of state. The former Yugoslav President, accused of directing the genocide of 300,000 non-Serbs and driving millions from their homelands, scornfully blamed NATO and claimed he was the real victim. "It is all lies," he fumed. "The real crime was the killing of Yugoslavia and crucifying...
Slobodan Milosevic is about to be thrust once again onto the world stage, when his trial for war crimes in the Hague gets under way this week. But for Serb schoolchildren, the man who dominated Yugoslav politics for 13 years has mysteriously disappeared. A new history text for students ages 13 and 14--the first published since Milosevic was removed from power in 2000--fails to mention him or carry a single photograph. The final chapter, titled "Contemporary Problems of Yugoslavia," covers the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo but omits the man responsible for them. The uprising that ended...
...Without such a fair accounting of its past, however, how will Cambodia ever face its future? Half a world away former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's U.N. war crimes trial has just begun. Compared to butchers like Kang Khek Leu, who ran the Khmer Rouge's notorious S21 torture center, Milosevic is a petty thug. It should have been the war crimes tribunal of the latter half of the 20th century?but the Khmer Rouge may be the genocidists who got away...
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...
...Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, too, is worried about the instability secession could engender, perhaps by encouraging secessionists elsewhere, notably in Macedonia where ethnic Albanians launched an insurgency as part of an effort to obtain greater rights. And, he says, Europe would be saddled with "a tiny state that is economically hardly sustainable." E.U. and U.S. officials are pressing for "a democratic Montenegro in a democratic Yugoslavia," warning Djukanovic not to take any "unilateral actions." But if there is to be a referendum, they insist that the rules - including the form of the ballot question and the proportion of votes needed...