Milosevic (58 page)

Marko Milosevic sits in his racing car before the start of the Belgrade summer race, August 1994.

The Milosevic family,
left to right
, Slobodan, Marija, Mira and Marko.

Mira greets Slobodan on his triumphant return from Dayton in winter 1995. The man previously condemned as a warmaker was now acclaimed by the Unites States and the West as a bastion of Balkan stability.

Belgrade, March 1999. A newspaper seller in downtown Belgrade hawks copies of the Yugoslav newspaper
Telegraf
a few hours before NATO airstrikes are expected to begin. The headline reads ‘Stop the war'.

Kosovo Albanians survey the centre of Djakovica, days after Yugoslav army and interior ministry police troops destroyed the city in early summer 1999.

Serb paramilitary leader ‘Arkan', Zeljko Raznatovic, fires a machine pistol in the eastern Serbian village of Zitoradje, birthplace of his bride, Serbian folk singer Ceca Velickovic.

Serbs dance on the wing of a United States Sir Force F-117A stealth fighter jet, March 1999. The plane was downed the previous night in Budjanovci, twenty-five miles west of the capital Belgrade.

The endgame begins. The opposition rally against election fraud outside the Yugoslav parliament in Belgrade on 5 October 2000.

The thin lines of riot police are eventually swept aside as the crowd storms in and takes over the parliament building.

1. Tito's Yugoslavia (1945–91)

2. Serb-occupied Croatia and Serb-occupied Bosnia (1992)

3. Map of Bosnia after Dayton (1995)

4. Milosevic's Legacy, showing the two republics of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), with the former republics as independent nation-states (1999)

TITO'S YUGOSLAVIA (1945–91)

SERB-OCCUPIED CROATIA AND BOSNIA (1992)

BOSNIA AFTER DAYTON (1995)

MILOSEVIC'S LEGACY (1999)