The Balkans
How the West organised Milosevic's downfall
By Chris Marsden, October 13, 2000
The Western media uniformly portrayed the overthrow of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic as the result of a spontaneous popular democratic revolution. Overwhelming evidence to the contrary shows t...
What does Milosevic's downfall portend?
By Chris Marsden, October 7, 2000
The Western political and media establishment have proclaimed the crumbling of the Milosevic regime in Yugoslavia as the “October 5th Revolution”. But only in a corrupt and reactionary pol...
Milosevic opponents gain control of Yugoslav parliament and state TV
By Chris Marsden, October 6, 2000
Hundreds of thousands of people massed in the Serbian capital Belgrade on Thursday demanding the immediate resignation of President Slobodan Milosevic. Opposition demonstrators were attacked with tear...
US, Britain demand Milosevic resign after Yugoslav elections
By Chris Marsden and Tony Robson, September 28, 2000
Yugoslavia's opposition parties have rejected the result of Sunday's presidential elections announced by the ruling regime of President Slobodan Milosevic Tuesday night, that necessitate a run-off on ...
West steps up threats against Yugoslavia
By Tony Robson, September 23, 2000
The NATO powers have tightened their military encirclement of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) in the run-up to the presidential and federal elections on Sunday.
War crimes tribunal report shows Western powers exaggerated Kosovo victims of ethnic cleansing
By Mike Ingram, August 22, 2000
“The final number of bodies uncovered will be less than 10,000 and probably more accurately determined as between two and three thousand.” This was the conclusion reached by The Hague trib...
UN raids Serb-run factory in Kosovo to reassert its authority
By Chris Marsden, August 16, 2000
Over 900 troops of the United Nations force in Kosovo (Kfor) launched a dawn raid Monday to shut down the Zvecan lead smelter at the Trepca metals complex just north of the town of Mitrovica.
West demands release of four accused of spying on Serbia
By Julie Hyland, August 10, 2000
The British and Canadian governments have reiterated their demands for access to four men being held in Yugoslavia, accused of espionage and planning terrorist activities.
Western powers exploit growing tensions between Serbia and Montenegro
By Tony Hyland, July 29, 2000
The Western powers have been actively fomenting the dissolution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) over the past nine years by extending diplomatic, financial and military support to secessio...
Letters on Amnesty International and the Kosovo War
June 30, 2000
Below we post a selection of letters about the June 19 WSWS article “Amnesty International charges NATO with war crimes”
Montenegro: Elections herald further instability in the Balkans
By Tony Hyland, June 23, 2000
The results of the recent local elections in Montenegro underscore the continuing political instability within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). The June 11 poll produced mixed political resul...
Amnesty International charges NATO with war crimes
By Julie Hyland, June 19, 2000
The human rights organisation Amnesty International (AI) has accused the NATO alliance of committing war crimes during its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia last year. Its report, “ Collateral...
