Yugoslav military

Throughout the opening day on Monday, Albanians wearing the traditional plis cap or T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Liria ka emer" ("Freedom has a name") made their voices heard in the Dutch city as opening statements were delivered in the trial of Thaci and his wartime comrades turned politicians, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi.

"There's no reason to worry. We were there [before], we saw how it is, now we will also have a [military] escort and we are safe."

This is what Snezana Amidzic's husband Zoran told her when they spoke on the phone not long before he died in October 1991.

Olive groves near Ulcinj, Montenegro. Photo: BIRN/Samir Kajosevic

Nimanbegu said that the government has an obligation to give back the groves in the former Valdanos military resort.

Ramus Haradinaj - Photo: RTS

BELGRADE - French police on Wednesday arrested former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, a KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army / UCK) commander during the 1998-99 Kosovo war, on a Serbian warrant, French police sources and Kosovo's Foreign Ministry said.

BELGRADE - The myth of the "undownable, invisible" F-117A was busted after one was shot down by the Yugoslav military in a northern Serbia village during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia on this day 16 years ago.