Wednesday, February 15, 2012

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Belgrade Issues Warrant For Milosevic's Daughter

The funeral of Slobodan Milosevic in March (epa)

June 1, 2006 -- The Serbian Interior Ministry today issued an arrest warrant for the daughter of late Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic.

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June 01, 2006

The step is a response to Marija Milosevic's failure to appear in court to face charges of breaching the peace and unauthorized possession of a firearm.

The charges date back to 2001, when she fired several shots while her father was being arrested in Belgrade.

Her trial has been postponed more than 10 times, each time because she failed to turn up at the courthouse.

(AFP, dpa)

'Outsider' Jolie Puts Bosnia's War Story On World Stage

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

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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