Cerovic slobodan milosevic biography

My Dictator: Slobodan Milosevic.
Slobodan Milosevic, the Communist leader whose embrace of Serbian nationalism set off almost a decade of Balkan warfare, was found dead early Saturday in his.
Writers on the War: Just who is Slobodan Milosevic?

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Comment: Serbia Seeks An Exit from History

Slobodan Milosevic's epoch came to a close after the NATO intervention and the loss of Kosovo. This can be more clearly discerned at a distance from Belgrade; from a closer vantage point, it looks as if he still lasts, but only in a technical sense, as a form of authority, as a police routine or a transparent television lie.

All remnants of sense have vanished from his regime's discourse, there is no hope in a miracle. All have seen through the magic tricks, but the circus star and continues to repeat the performance, simply because there is no one to stop him or remove him. The alternatives to Milosevic cannot think of anything different, or better, to offer.

This could go on for a long time yet, even if the dream of so many decent citizens of Serbia comes true and Milosevic departs. Let's just recall that the late Marshall Tito continued to rule the former Yugoslavia for years after he died. History has an inertial force of its own. Comparisons between Milosevic and Tito may be easily disputed, bar one: it is not possible to turn

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My Dictator: Slobodan Milosevic

When I was six, while watching a news report on the homecoming of three American soldiers who had been ambushed, beaten and imprisoned in the course of what I thought was some faraway war, I learned that I was a bad person.

Their captors had shoved old socks into the soldiers’ mouths to keep them quiet. I thought about what it would be like to taste the fibers of an old sock. I felt sorry for them. But when I said so aloud, my mother’s then-boyfriend snapped at me: “Those are our people.” And I realized he didn’t mean the soldiers.

We were here by grace of the green card lottery, recent arrivals from Slobodan Milošević’s Serbia watching the aftermath of the NATO strikes we had fled. In my narrow understanding of good and bad, it was devastating to think that I was somehow the enemy of the men on the TV receiving a hero’s welcome. Though I had only been stateside for a few months, I loved my new American childhood and I wanted to belong here, not with people who tortured others with socks.

I also noted the fear that flickered

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Serbia’s Milosevic--Nationalism With Rigid Rule

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — As this country balances precariously between war and peace, the man likely to tip the scales is an uncompromising Communist who has built his career on a strategy of rigid authoritarian rule wrapped in born-again nationalist rhetoric.

Slobodan Milosevic’s stature rose to almost mythical dimensions among Serbs who worshipped him for reinvigorating pride in Serbia by brutally subjugating other ethnic groups, particularly the Albanians of Kosovo province.

But the spell was shattered when Milosevic unleashed his hardened police force on his own people during recent anti-Communist unrest, setting in motion a fall in popularity and proving the time-honored maxim that he who lives by the sword also perishes by it.

Milosevic’s apparent resolve to risk everything to maintain his tight grip on power threatens to engulf Yugoslavia in a bloody conflagration between Serbs and Croats.

“Milosevic is not a real politician at all because he does not understand the art of compromise,” says Stojan Cerovic, a Serbi