World & Nation
Bosnian Serbs unveiled a bronze statue Friday in Sarajevo of Gavrilo Princip, the nationalist who assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand a century ago and set in motion the First World War, which took 10 million lives and shattered empires.
June 27, 2014
Yugoslavia: Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic’s removal by the president sparks fear over the military’s role in an ongoing power struggle.
June 25, 2002
Nebojsa Vujovic lived in Washington for years. He denies Kosovo atrocities, points to civilian casualties.
May 28, 1999
Prosecutors preparing for the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic said they were investigating the chief of staff of the Yugoslav army and Serbia’s police chief over alleged atrocities in Kosovo in 1999.
Nov. 30, 2001
A former Yugoslav army chief wanted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal agreed to surrender to the Netherlands-based court, the Serbian government said.
April 23, 2005
Serbian President Milan Milutinovic’s term expired at midnight, officials said, lifting his immunity against prosecution and opening the way for his extradition to a war crimes court.
Dec. 30, 2002
Human Rights Watch claims that it has collected detailed evidence to prove that former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and his associates engineered a campaign of terror in Kosovo.
Oct. 27, 2001
Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic’s army chief, who led troops in the 1999 Kosovo conflict, became the 11th candidate in Serbia’s presidential election after a state commission complied with a court ruling allowing the candidacy.
Sept. 19, 2002
The government has drafted a law to enable the extradition of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and other war crimes suspects to a U.N. court, a top official said Wednesday.
May 24, 2001
Six Serbian men kidnapped by ethnic Albanian rebels in the buffer zone along the Kosovo boundary were freed after intensive diplomatic efforts by Yugoslav and NATO authorities, a senior official said.
Jan. 2, 2001