New Conflicts(Serbia):

 

After the Dayton Peace Accords were signed in 1995, Kosovo felt cheated by Serbia and demanded its freedom lost in 1989. In 1998, Milošević began to eliminate those he deemed as “political enemies”, beginning another conflict. NATO eventually became involved, directing Milošević to leave Kosovo, and performing air raids over Serbia. Damage to Serbia’s infrastructure and lost lives forced Milošević to accept NATO’s demands and U.N. Peacekeepers entered Kosovo. It was then the fighting stopped and a peace was restored in Serbia.

  

Slobodan Milosevic

                                                                                                             Source: Hearts grown brutal

“In response to the brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in Kosovo carried out by the military, police, and paramilitary forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), the NATO allies have agreed to buttress NATO's military actions by tightening economic sanctions against the Milosevic regime.”

- Bill Clinton

Siege_of_Belgrade

  Financial crisis, smuggling …Closing the eyes on criminals and their misdeeds. That was the picture of Serbia in 1999. Also ignoring the fact that Milosevic didn’t bring any good to this country.
 - Jelica Francuz		  

 

" For the bombing of Serbia I blame the NATO and the US."
- Ana Lebovic

 

Source: bginfobox.co.yu                                                Source: kosovo.net

 

 "Milosevic can no longer fight against the people's will -- today in Serbia history happened."
Opposition leader and Yugoslav "president-elect" Vojislav Kostunica

 "He is finished, he is finished."
Crowds in Belgrade cheer the end of President Slobodan Milosevic

"   "If the whole community will just stand for freedom, stand for democracy, I think freedom will prevail."
U.S. President Bill Clinton

 "Your time is up. Go now. Don't wait until there has been more death and destruction."
British Prime Minister Tony Blair

     "Milosevic is hidden in his bunker where he is preparing a counter attack."
Zoran Djindjic of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia

 "The people of Serbia want to have a say in the decisions affecting them. And I hope that this choice and their voice will be heard."
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan

- Source: AP, Reuters

  

Milosevic_poster

 

   Photo sources:news.bbc.co.uk

 

 

 

 

Content:


Sleeping  conflicts

 New conflicts

 Kosovo issue
 
Timeline
Source: Yugoslavia a Concise History, Benson


April-May 1996

- Mass demonstrations against the government in Serbia

3 November 1996

- Opposition coalition ‘Zajedno’ contest elections. Milosevic refuses to concede losses, triggering mass protest which last for months

Spring 1997

- Increasing activity by the Kosovo Liberation Army

March 1998

- Seselj joins government. Serbian reprisals in Kosovo escalate the conflict

February 1999

- West brings Serbs and Kosovars to Rambouillet to engineer a peace agreement. Negotiations break down

24 March

- NATO launches airstrike against targets in Kosovo and Serbia, in a campaign of 78 days of continuous bombing

10 June 1999

- Serbia withdraws its forces from Kosovo

Belgrade 2000

- Slobodan Milosevic is ousted following the 5th October Overthrow  and 1 million-strong demonstrations in central Belgrade. Vojislav Kostunica assumes power as a first democratic president of Yugoslavia

Serbia and Montenegro 2003

- Third Yugoslavia is abolished and replaced with a state union of Serbia and Montenegro. Serbian Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic, is assassinated.

3 June 2006

- Serbia becomes independent following the Montenegrin Independence referendum. Serbia and Montenegro is abolished, ending an 88-year long union between the two states.