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...Western money sealed Slobodan Milosevic's fate. In limbo between a Yugoslav Federal government leery of handing its former president over to a war crimes tribunal and a Serb national government wanting to receive aid contingent on a handover, the Serbs short-circuited the federal government's legal process and unceremoniously packed the former strongman off to stand trial in The Hague...
TIME.com: The Yugoslav government has launched legal proceedings to facilitate sending Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague to stand trial for war crimes. Is his extradition now a sure thing...
...reasons being that Yugoslavia desperately needs foreign aid and investment, and most importantly, rescheduling of its debt. And the U.S. government had made clear that it would vote against aid to Belgrade in the IMF and World Bank, and would block rescheduling of the debt, if the Yugoslav government refused to cooperate...
...China dustup are increasingly common during times of international tension. In 1999, hackers in China and Taiwan exchanged cyberfire over then President Lee Teng-hui's claim of statehood, as did Indonesian nationalists and supporters of independence for East Timor. During the Kosovo campaign that year, Chinese, Yugoslav and Russian hackers joined forces against NATO. Independent American hackers brought down the Yugoslav state site, though that unwittingly undermined NATO's strategy of trying to fight Serbian propaganda by bombing conventional state-run media while leaving the local Internet infrastructure intact...
...SERBIA Border Clashes Fighting flared in the troubled Presevo Valley as Yugoslav security forces clashed with ethnic Albanian rebels near the border with Kosovo. Government soldiers killed 14 insurgents while storming a rebel stronghold in the village of Oraovica, and a Serbian police officer was killed in a separate incident near Presevo. Near Kosovo's eastern border, the Macedonian government extended the deadline for ethnic Albanian separatists to surrender or face a major offensive. Thousands of civilians were reported to be leaving the area to avoid being caught in the crossfire...