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Milosevic's Militia Commander Convicted

Slobodan Milosevic's paramilitary commander, his secret police chief and five others were convicted Friday of killing four people in an attack against a prominent opposition leader who survived.

Milosevic's Son Says Father Was 'Killed'

Slobodan Milosevic's son alleged on Tuesday that his father had been "killed," while a U.N. war crimes tribunal official said the court had been told the late Serb leader had regular access to unprescribed medication and alcohol smuggled into his prison cell.

Milosevic Funeral Has Potential for Mayhem

Within hours of Slobodan Milosevic's death, his ultranationalist loyalists began laying the groundwork for an elaborate funeral in Belgrade.

Theories, Rumors Surround Milosevic's Death

A swirl of suspicion surrounded Slobodan Milosevic's death, with evidence emerging Monday that the former Yugoslav leader took medication he wasn't supposed to.

Key Events in Former Yugoslavia's History

Key events in the turbulent history of former Yugoslavia:

Milosevic's Death Abruptly Ends Tribunal

Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in his prison cell Saturday, abruptly ending his four-year U.N. war crimes trial for orchestrating a decade of conflict that killed 250,000 people and tore the Yugoslav federation asunder. He was 64.

Slobodan Milosevic Found Dead in His Cell

Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian president who orchestrated the Balkan wars of the 1990s and was on trial for war crimes, was found dead in his prison cell near The Hague, the U.N. tribunal said Saturday.

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Kosovo remembers Dubrava Prison Massacre

The prisoners were told to line up on the sports field ... police started firing from the guard tower and the jail walls, using hand grenades, bazookas and automatic weapons ... about 20 officers opened fire ... total chaos with prisoners falling down all over the place.

BBC News - Karadzic: Sarajevo and Srebrenica crimes are myths
Source: BBC News

Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has dismissed as myths the alleged two worst atrocities of the 1992-95 Bosnian war and denied his involvement.

Musharraf like Pinochet and Idi Amin, says Sindhi leader

A former president of the largest Sindhi organzation in the United States and Canada has thrown his weight behind a protest organized by the pro-independence American Friends of Baluchistan in Houston, Texas, on Saturday morning against a Pakistani coup plotter.

Serbian national, two others indicted in beating case
Source: pressconnects.com - Local News

A Serbian national on the run from a criminal charge in a near fatal Binghamton beating has been indicted by a Broome County grand jury on more serious felony charges.

Beating defendant's U.S. exit confirmed
Source: pressconnects.com - Local News

A federal immigration official Tuesday confirmed that a former Binghamton University basketball player has left the United States, but declined to say how the Serbian national facing a felony assault charge got out of this country.

Serbian consulate aided Kovacevic
Source: pressconnects.com - Local News

Serbia's Consulate General in New York City posted $100,000 cash bail for a former Binghamton University basketball player charged in a near-fatal beating of another BU student.

Serb ex-security chiefs enabled murder, court hears
Source: Reuters

"The perpetrators of these crimes were not paramilitaries, not a band of common criminals. No, the perpetrators of these crimes ... were a well-organised and equipped group, part of the units of the State Security Service of the Republic of Serbia," Groome said.

Kosovo revives Serbian split between 'patriots' and 'traitors'
Source:

Serbia divided in official rhetoric between "patriots" and "traitors," as was the case during the 1990s rule of late president Slobodan Milosevic. Bans, threats and attacks against democratic organizations, independent journalists, human rights activists, minority communities.

With Kosovo Independent, Yugoslavia is Finally Dead
Source: Slate

Someone with a good memory of the conversation once told me how Lord Carrington, then one of the "mediators" of the incipient post-Yugoslavia war, came to the conclusion that Slobodan Milosevic was a highly dangerous man.

Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice
Source: LewRockwell.com

John Laughland: This book argues that the trial was inherently political, and that the political nature of the indictment made a fair trial impossible.

Trying Milosevic: what went wrong
Source: Telegraph

11 years ago today, the UN peacekeepers fled "safe haven," allowed genocide to return to Europe
Source: BBC News

1995: Serbs overrun UN 'safe haven' The Bosnian Serb army has seized control of the United Nations "safe area" of Srebrenica after Dutch peacekeepers were forced to withdraw.

UN Closes Book on Milosevic Cover-up
Source: lookingglassnews.org

Paul Joseph Watson: The Hague Tribunal's final verdict on Slobodan Milosevic's death has concluded that he was not poisoned and there was no foul play involved. Imagine my shock.

Report by the Srebrenica Research Group
Source: -

From the conclusion: Both the scale of the casualties at Srebrenica and the context of events have been misrepresented in official reports from governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as news organizations.

Serbian nationalism stirs again | csmonitor.com
Source: Christian Science Monitor

CSM notices "the prospect of three crises in the coming months that could inflame Serb nationalist sentiment": Montenegro's sucession, Mladic's surrender, and Kosovar independence.

Milosevic's Daughter Calls Father's Funeral 'Scandalous'
Source: local6.com

Slobodan Milosevic's daughter calls the fact that her estranged father was buried Saturday in eastern Serbia "scandalous."

Anniversary of Djindjic Assassination Overshadowed

Slobodan Milosevic dies 11 March 2006, Zoran Djindjic assassinated 12 March 2003...

Less Serbs mourning Milosevic than adorned him
Source: The Houston Chronicle

Are they simply mourning in private or has the Serbian population perhaps really changed their mentality post-Milosevic rule?

Die Verbrechen Der Milosevic-familie
Source: frankenpost.de

Serbiens First Lady war die wichtigste Helferin beim Zigaretten-Schmuggel

UN tribunal considering release of Milosevic documents
Source: UN News Centre

The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today announced that it is looking into publicly releasing confidential materials and documents from the case against the late Slobodan Milosevic, the court's most notorious genocide suspect.

"Slobodan Milosevic was killed" emails contain Trojan horse
Source: sophos.com

Email messages containing the Dropper-FB Trojan horse have been spammed out claiming to have photographic evidence about how Milosevic, who was found dead in his cell in the Netherlands on Saturday, died.

«The Hague tribunal after Milosevic» by Anthony Dworkin
Source: openDemocracy

«The death in custody of the first head of state on trial for war crimes does not diminish the importance of institutions of global justice», says Anthony Dworkin.

U.S. supported al-Qaeda cells during Balkan Wars
Source: Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com

In March 2002, Milosevic presented the Hague tribunal with FBI documents proving that the United States government and NATO provided financial and military support for Al-Qaeda to aid the Kosovo Liberation Army in its war against Serbia.

Media lies and hypocrisy in wake of Milosevic's death
Source: World Socialist Web Site

The death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in his jail cell at the Hague on Saturday has unleashed a torrent of historical distortions and outright lies that echo the propaganda campaign waged more than seven years ago to justify the US-NATO war against the country.

Milosevic blood showed he took wrong drugs
Source: Telegraph

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