A most-favored dictator. (Serbian Pres. Slobodan Milosevic)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: December 16, 1996| Author: Maass, Peter | Copyright information

The US has helped keep Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in power despite his alleged war crimes and role in destroying Bosnia. Now, a coalition of nationalists and democrats have begun protesting Milosevic's influence. They rightfully scorn the US's role in keeping the dictator in power.

The dictator. We know him well; his visage is a familiar one. He scowls, he threatens, he mocks, he bullies, he intimidates and he frightens. We know the names he goes by, too. He is the Great Lead...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

A most-favored dictator. (Serbian Pres. Slobodan Milosevic)
U.S. News & World Report ; The dictator. We know him well; his visage is a familiar one. He scowls, he threatens, he mocks, he bullies, he intimidates and he frightens. We know the names he goes by, too. He is the Great Leader, the Chairman, the President, the Marshal, the Fuhrer. We know the dictator so well because the
THE END OF MILOSEVIC: NOWHERE TO RUN TO; Dictator's scheme to steal pounds 15M foiled Russia refuses to offer him safe-haven War crimes chief: Send him to The Hague.(News)
The Mirror (London, England) ; TOPPLED tyrant Slobodan Milosevic looked in vain for a hiding place last night as Yugoslavia celebrated his downfall. The Butcher of the Balkans remained holed up in his villa in Belgrade. And doors slammed across the world. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal
Hurd facing trial threat by Milosevic.
The Daily Mail (London, England) ; Byline: DAVID HUGHES;BOB GRAHAM DOUGLAS Hurd faces being dragged into the trial of Slobodan Milosevic because he helped negotiate a multi-million pound business deal with the Yugoslav dictator. Lord Hurd, Conservative Foreign Secretary between 1989 and 1995, met Milosevic in Belgrade five years
Milosevic in the dock
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ; ... what they know about the Serb leader, his subordinates and his record in the Balkans war. Their testimony would attract a lot of news coverage, with the helpful result that the nature and extent of Milosevic's crimes would be more widely understood. The 78-day ...
Milosevic accused of faking heart scare after doctors find no illness
The Independent - London ; SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, who was rushed to hospital from his prison cell on Wednesday night after complaining of chest pains, does not have a heart condition, the Serbian Justice Minister said yesterday. The former Yugoslav dictator, an inmate of Belgrade's central prison, was examined by two teams of
In Milosevic's Wake: He brutalized people for 11 years. Then police came knocking at his own door. Now that Slobo's in custody, can there be justice at last?(International)(the difficult arrest of Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia)
Newsweek ; His legacy is vast, and appalling. A quarter of a million dead in Bosnia alone. More than 3 million refugees. Later in the '90s, Slobodan Milosevic planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted in a campaign of terror and violence directed at Kosovo Albanian civilians,
Free at Last: Power to the People: A wave of popular discontent finally forces Europe's last dictator to step aside. Serbia prepares to re-enter the democratic world-and Milosevic weighs his next move.(International)
Newsweek ; In the end, it was the ordinary workers who turned the tide. As dawn broke over Serbia last Thursday, a cavalcade of buses, trucks and battered Yugos choked the roads leading into Belgrade. They carried men from towns like Cacak, Kragujevac and Kraljevo: grimy industrial backwaters that had once
DEFEATED MILOSEVIC IN BLOODBATH PLOT; Serb refuses to give up power.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) ; YUGOSLAV dictator Slobodan Milosevic clung on to power last night, unwilling to accept he had been thrashed at the polls. The West called on him to go as the country teetered on the brink of civil war, amid fears he was planning to order the brutal crushing of democracy. Supporters of his
Can opposition alliance hold against `dictator' Milosevic.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) ; While Slobodan Milosevic stalls for time, questions arise about whether Yugoslavia's opposition alliance can hold and what, if any, options the United States and others will have if Milosevic loses and refuses to leave office. Thomas Emmert, a professor of East European history and expert on
Painful start to landmark trial; 'Butcher of the Balkans' Slobodan Milosevic blames the West for crimes against humanity, but his future depends on his ex-cronies risking all by testifying against him. Louise Branson reports
The Sunday Herald ; Fatima Begovic, 53, a Bosnian Muslim, cries while watching Milosevic on trial. All the male members of her family disappeared after the Srebrenica massacre - a war crime Milosevic is accused of Photograph: Amel Emric/AP As the much-awaited trial of ex-Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic, the