by Adam LeBor
Websites
http://www.bosnia.org.uk (Bosnia Institute)
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/serbia (Federation of American Scientists – Serbia Intelligence and Security Agencies)
http://www.oorlogsdoc.knaw.nl (Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, publishers of the Srebrenica report)
http://www.un.org (United Nations)
http://www.un.org/icty (ICTY at The Hague)
http://www.un.org/icty/latest/index.htm (Milosevic case update)
http://www.srebrenica.nl (NIOD Srebrenica report)
http://www.tol.cz (Transitions online)
http://www.xs4all.nl/freeserb/feuilleton (Free Serbia: Other voices from Serbia)
http://www.iwpr.net (Institute for War and Peace Reporting)
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl/tribunal–index.html (ICTY Tribunal Update)
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl/balkans–index.html (Balkan Crisis Report)
http://jir.janes.com (Janes Intelligence Review)
http://europe.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/09/25/ milosevic.chronology.reut/ (CNN chronology)
http://www.newyorktimes.com (New York Times)
http://www.washingtonpost.com (Washington Post)
http://www.guardian.co.uk (Guardian)
http://www.independent.co.uk (Independent)
http://news.scotsman.com (Scotsman)
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1995 Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina. A Hearing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Washington DC. April 4 1995.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml (BBC World Service)
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003–03/23/328326.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2733575.stm
Other
Transcript of Peter Maass’ interview with Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade, April 1993.
Transcript of Tim Sebastian interview with Mira Markovic on BBC Hard Talk, 3 September 2001.
ICTY Case No. IT-02-54-T, Slobodan Milosevic. Prosecution’s Second Pre-Trial Brief (Croatia and Bosnia Indictments). Filed on 31 May, 2002.
A Note on the Author
Born in London, Adam LeBor extensively covered the Yugoslav wars for the Independent and The Times. He worked for several national British newspapers before becoming a foreign correspondent in 1991. He is the author of Hitler’s Secret Bankers: How Switzerland Profited from Nazi Genocide (shortlisted for the 1997 George Orwell Prize); Surviving Hitler: Choice, Corruption and Compromise in the Third Reich (with Roger Boyes); and A Heart Turned East: Among the Muslims of Europe and America. Currently Central Europe Correspondent for The Times, he also contributes to Literary Review, the Jerusalem Report, Condé Nast Traveller and the Budapest Sun. His books have been published in ten languages.
By the Same Author
A Heart Turned East:
Among the Muslims of Europe and America
Hitler’s Secret Bankers:
How Switzerland Profited from Nazi Genocide
Surviving Hitler:
Choice, Corruption and Compromise in the Third Reich
(with Roger Boyes)
List of Illustrations
Milosevic at school, 1950s
Milosevic and Ivan Stambolic, 1986
Milosevic addresses a crowd at Gazimestan in Kosovo, 1989
Milosevic and Franjo Tudjman, 1991
A Bosnian man mourns his wife and daughter, 1993
Two boys amongst the remains of the Bosnian state library, 1993
Marko Milosevic, 1994
The Milosevic family, 1994
Slobodan Milosevic and Mira Markovic, 1995
A newspaper seller in Belgrade, 1999
The destroyed centre of Djakovica, 1999
Serb paramilitary leader, ‘Arkan’
Serbs dance on the wing of a downed US stealth fighter jet, 1999
Opposition rally outside the Yugoslav parliament in Belgrade, October 2000
Crowd storms the Yugoslav parliament building, October 2000
First published in Great Britain 2002
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