Slobodan Milosevic

In Serbia, Cooperation with Kosovo Scientists Can Bring Threats of Violence

Next to Loncar's face was the emblem of the Kosovo Liberation Army, an ethnic Albanian guerrilla army that fought Serbian security forces in the late 1990s to end a decade of repression in Kosovo under then strongman Slobodan Milosevic.

Serbian tabloids had already accused the faculty of effectively recognising Kosovo, but Loncar, 37, said the posters left her "honestly shocked."

Bread for Drenica: When Kosovo Women Marched to Break a Serbian Siege

Naxhije Bucinca remembers the morning of March 16, 1998 as cold and overcast; she wore warm clothes and flat shoes suitable for a long walk.

"Milosevic's regime had intensified the murders, the displacement, and the burning of houses and granaries," said Bucinca, who is now 88 years old. "People in Drenica were left without shelter or bread."

Death of a Premier: How Serbia’s Rotten System Enabled Zoran Djindjic’s Killers

The second was Zoran Vukojevic, a former policeman who was working as a security guard at gang leader Spasojevic's house.

The third was Branislav Bezarevic, who worked for the Security Information Agency, BIA, Serbia's national intelligence agency, and was Vukojevic's friend from police school.

Serbian Security Unit Commander Refuses Court Questions About Curuvija Murder

Former Serbian State Security Unit for Special Operations, commander Milorad "Legija" Ulemek, refused to answer questions about the murder of Serbian journalist Slavko Curuvija at the Belgrade Court of Appeal.

Legija told the court that he stands by his 2014 statement from the investigation and his 2016 statement from the first trial.

Belgrade Appeals Court Starts Trial in Murdered Journalist Case

Former head of Serbian State Security Radomir Markovic repeated to the appeal court that he is not guilty for the 1999 murder of the Serbian journalist and editor Slavko Curuvija.

Markovic claimed that Curuvija was only put under state surveillance "due to his contacts with foreign intelligence agencies …The task of every state security is to establish the nature of these contacts".

Vucic: I will always go to talks but I have seen a lot of Kurti's tricks

ABU DHABI - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi he would go to Brussels next week for a new round of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and would always go to talks, but noted that there could be no dialogue whatsoever with Pristina's PM Albin Kurti.

Kosovo Miners’ Underground Strike of 1989 Inspires Exhibition

An exhibition opening on Wednesday evening at the National Museum of Kosovo presents pictures and interviews with mineworkers from the Trepca mining complex in northern Kosovo who staged a historic underground strike in 1989 against the revocation of Kosovo's autonomy by the Serbian authorities.

Forensic Challenge: How Investigators Found the Yugoslav Wars’ Disappeared

In May 1999, in the midst of the Kosovo war, Serbia's assistant interior minister Obrad Stevanovic made a grim note in his diary while he was having a meeting with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

Under the capital-letter heading "PRESIDENT", Stevanovic wrote: "No body, no crime."

Convict Serbian Officials of Wartime Criminal Enterprise, UN Court Urged

The prosecution urged the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday to convict Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic of participating in a joint criminal enterprise, along with other Serb political, military and police officials, aimed at forcibly removing non-Serbs from large areas of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina during wartime.

Serbian Security Officials Contest Hague Court Convictions

Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic urged the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday to reverse the verdict sentencing them to 12 years in prison each and acquit them of aiding and abetting Serb fighting units that committed crimes in the Bosanski Samac area during the Bosnian war in 1992.

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