The Balkans
Long-term environmental damage due to NATO bombing in Yugoslavia
By Tony Robson, December 10, 2002
The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 breached international humanitarian law and caused long-term environmental damage, a report by the American based research group, Institute for Energy and Enviro...
Milosevic trial: Croatia’s President Mesic gives evidence
By Keith Lee, November 1, 2002
At the beginning of this month Croatian President Stjepan (Stipe) Mesic gave evidence against Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague war crimes tribunal. Mesic is the first head of state to testify at the tr...
Mass abstentions nullify Serbian election result
By Paul Bond and Tony Robson, October 21, 2002
Described by one observer as “an election that never was”, the failure of the Serbian presidential elections to produce a result offers a damning commentary on the record of the Western-su...
Incoming Macedonian government pledges subservience to Western powers
By Tania Kent and Paul Stuart, October 19, 2002
On September 16, the President of Macedonia, Ljubco Georgijevski of Vmro-Dpmne, was voted out of office in a shock election result.
The Milosevic Trial: journalists warned to stop criticisms
By Paul Mitchell, October 14, 2002
Prosecution lawyers in the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic have warned journalists to stop criticising their performance and evidence. Milosevic is appearing before the Internati...
Serbia holds presidential elections two years after Milosevic’s fall
By Tony Robson and Paul Bond, September 23, 2002
Presidential elections are currently taking place in Serbia. Voters will go to the polls on Sunday, September 29—almost two years to the day since the downfall of the regime of Slobodan Milosevi...
The Milosevic Trial: Key prosecution witness backs deposed Yugoslav president
Officials used threats to extract testimony, ex-spy chief says
By Keith Lee and Paul Mitchell, September 11, 2002
Late July Radomir Markovic, a former Serbian spy chief, claimed he had been forced to appear as a prosecution witness in the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. And, in a dramatic r...
Kosovo: UN forces arrest former KLA commanders
By Paul Mitchell, September 4, 2002
The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has arrested a number of former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commanders, sparking violent protests in the former Yugoslav province.
European Union seeks to dampen separatist pressures in Montenegro
By Paul Bond and Chris Marsden, August 22, 2002
Barely three months after the Yugoslav parliament voted to abolish the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and replace it with a looser union between its remaining members, the extent of Western pres...
Bosnia: The United Nations, human trafficking and prostitution
By Tony Robson, August 21, 2002
There is mounting evidence that the United Nations has carried out a cover-up of the role played by its personnel in human trafficking and prostitution in Bosnia—a trade that has grown astronomi...
A reply to a supporter of the Kosovo Liberation Army
July 27, 2002
The following letter was sent in response to the article The Milosevic trial: More questions raised over Racak , published May 8, 2002. by Paul Mitchell. It is followed by a reply from the author.
The Milosevic Trial: William Walker’s role as provocateur
By Keith Lee, July 20, 2002
William Walker, the former head of the Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) insisted in his testimony to The Hague that Slobodan Milosev...
