Topic: Slobodan Milosevic

Serbs go from pill poppers to couch therapy

After decades of widespread use of tranquillisers and antidepressants, readily prescribed by doctors, Serbians have discovered the wonders of couch therapy."A Benjo a day takes your troubles away," said a tongue-in-cheek Belgrade graffiti featuring the slang name of a popular antidepressant ...

Special Report: Solidarity in the Arab Spring

WARSAW (Reuters) - Lech Walesa chuckles as he recounts a conversation he had in April with reformers in Tunisia, cradle of the Arab Spring."They told me they want to purge everybody linked to the old regime," says the former shipyard electrician who ...

Kadhafi first to face ICC 'disappearance' charge

International judges must soon announce whether they agree to crimes against humanity charges for Moamer Kadhafi, and the Libyan leader could find himself making unwanted legal history.Kadhafi, under growing isolation as his regime struggles to counter a rebel insurgency and faces ...

Kadhafi the first to face 'disappearance' charge

International judges must soon announce whether they agree to crimes against humanity charges against Moamer Kadhafi, and the Libyan leader could find himself making unwanted legal history.Kadhafi is the first person to be accused by the International Criminal Court chief prosecutor ...

US envoy recalls Mladic's 'sense of brutality'

Accused war criminal Ratko Mladic was a tough interlocutor with a 'sense of brutality' who showed no remorse for his alleged role in the slaughter of thousands of Muslim civilians, a former top US envoy said Wednesday.Retired ambassador Christopher Hill, in ...

Dutch seaside cell awaits Mladic

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - When Ratko Mladic, nicknamed "the butcher of Bosnia," arrives at the international war crimes detention center in the Hague, he will join a who's who of accused genocidal dictators, warlords and mass murderers.Set in a leafy suburb ...
Serbia's state television network RTS, notorious for its biased reporting of the 1990s Balkans conflicts, apologised Monday to viewers for being used as the wartime regime's propaganda tool."With its reporting of the tragic events of the 1990s, RTS on ...

Factbox: Precedents for Egypt protests

LONDON (Reuters) - Iran's anti-Western, Islamic revolution of 1979 against the repressive, U.S.-funded Shah has been cited as a possible precedent for Egypt, where massive street protests have rocked the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak.Here is a rundown ...
Vladan Batic, who helped lead Serbia's anti-Milosevic revolt, dies at 61Vladan Batic, an opposition leader of the popular revolt in Serbia that ousted President Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, died Wednesday. He was 61.Batic, who also served as the justice minister ...

Slobodan Milosevic

Brought up on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court , Milosevic died before the conclusion of his trial. After a successful career running one of Belgrade's largest banks , Milosevic began ascending in Yugoslavian politics in the 1980s by espousing a ...