The Balkans
The Milosevic Trial: Key prosecution witness discredited
By Paul Mitchell, July 3, 2002
The testimony of a key prosecution witness claiming intimate knowledge of Slobodan Milosevic’s inner circle was thoroughly discredited last month. Milosevic is on trial at the International Crim...
Kosovo threatens to ignite fresh Balkan conflict
By Tony Robson, July 1, 2002
The Kosovo Provisional Assembly has passed a declaration challenging the Border Delineation Agreement signed in February 2001 and establishing an internationally recognised border between Yugoslavia a...
The Trepca mining complex: How Kosovo’s spoils were distributed
By Paul Stuart, June 28, 2002
In northern Kosovo, near the town of Mitrovica, sits a huge dilapidated industrial site known as the Trepca mining complex. During the 1980s, it employed 20,000 workers and accounted for 70 percent of...
The Milosevic trial:
Revealing testimony by Rugova on the breakup of Yugoslavia
By Paul Mitchell, May 28, 2002
The sitting Kosovan president, Ibrahim Rugova, appeared as a prosecution witness at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, where former premier Slobodan Milosevic is i...
The Milosevic trial: More questions raised over Racak
By Paul Mitchell, May 8, 2002
Two weapons inspectors in Kosovo have recently given evidence about events in the Yugoslav province in the six months leading up to the NATO bombardment in March 1999. British Army officers General Ka...
Camp Bondsteel and America’s plans to control Caspian oil
By Paul Stuart, April 29, 2002
Camp Bondsteel, the biggest “from scratch” foreign US military base since the Vietnam War is near completion in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. It is located close to vital oil pipelines ...
Yugoslavia: Opposition grows to government collaboration with war crimes tribunal
By Tony Robson, April 23, 2002
The Belgrade government has rushed through domestic legislation allowing for closer cooperation with The Hague war crimes tribunal. This was passed only under duress, as the country, devastated by NAT...
Correspondence on the trial of Slobodan Milosevic
March 27, 2002
The following correspondence was sent in response to the three part series, “The Hague Tribunal: Milosevic charges NATO with war crimes”, the first part of which was published on February ...
The Milosevic trial: Damning admissions by former British Liberal Party leader Lord Ashdown
By Paul Mitchell, March 27, 2002
Lord Paddy Ashdown was the first Western leader to appear as a prosecution witness in the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. He will in all probability be the only one to do so.
Yugoslavia: Serbian Assembly restores partial autonomy to Vojvodina
By Paul Mitchell, March 22, 2002
In February, the Serbian Assembly narrowly voted for an “omnibus law” restoring partial autonomy to the province of Vojvodina. Vojvodina and Kosovo are provinces in the Republic of Serbia ...
Milosevic trial characterised by ineptitude and evasions
By Tony Robson, March 21, 2002
After receiving the full glare of the media spotlight, the trial of former Yugoslavian president, Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague virtually drifted off the radar screen for several days. The Chief Pro...
Correspondence on Serbian nationalism and Vojvodina
March 6, 2002
The following email was sent in response to an earlier exchange on nationalism in Serbia, published on January 19, 2002. This in turn was prompted by the article: “Montenegro: European Union opp...
