Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Montenegro

Tribute Paid To Milosevic In Serbian Parliament

Slobodan Milosevic (file photo) (CTK)

BELGRADE, March 27, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Radical parties in Serbia's parliament honored former Yugoslav President and war crimes suspect Slobodan Milosevic with a minute of silence today.

TEXT SIZE - +

March 27, 2006

Government deputies took part in the official parliamentary session but remained seated as Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia and the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party stood for the tribute.

Serbian deputy parliament speaker and Socialist Party member Zoran Andjelkovic, leading the tribute, said Milosevic had been "slain."

"I am asking you for a minute of silence [in tribute] to the slain former president of the Socialist Party of Serbia and Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic," he said. "Rest in peace.

Serbia's parliament was convening for the first time since Milosevic died of a heart attack in his cell at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague on March 11.

Milosevic's party claims the former president was poisoned.

(RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service, with AFP)

RFE/RL Balkan Report

For a regular review of politics, media, and RFE/RL broadcasts in the western Balkans, subscribe to "RFE/RL Balkan Report."

"The main impression...after being 15 minutes in her presence is that she is not frightened," a colleague says of Natasa Kandic (above).

The Truth-Teller: Natasa Kandic, Urging Serbs To Face The Past

More than a decade has passed since the end of the Balkan wars, where international observers say ethnic Serb fighters were responsible for the bulk of atrocities in the region, particularly Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. But despite the handover of major war-crimes suspects like Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, Belgrade remains reluctant to face the sins of the past. Lawyer Natasa Kandic has built an unpopular and often dangerous career out of pushing her country to face the truth about its history. More

Zoran Laketa lost his father and brother in the war

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, One Family, Three Armies, And A Lost Generation

Zoran Laketa knows what it's like to fire a gun and wonder if the soldier on the other side of the front line just might be his brother. Or his father. More

Angelina Jolie at the premiere of "In the Land of Blood and Honey" in Los Angeles in December

Jolie Earns Serbian Scorn For War Film

She’s known internationally as one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actresses; she’s won praise from governments and NGOs across the globe for her work as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations; and she’s often reckoned to be the world’s most beautiful woman. But Angelina Jolie has been going by a few other titles lately in the Balkans nation of Serbia, where prominent media outlets have taken to describing her as an American propagandist and all-around "jerk." More