The Death Of Yugoslavia

Description: How Milosevic tried to steal an election in Serbia and intensified ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. A commander in the Serb paramilitary police, Major Goran Radosavljevic describes for the first time operations he led that have become known as the Drenica and the Racak massacres. Kosovo Liberation Army leader Hashim Thaci and his generals tell how they set out to provoke Serb violence against civilian Kosovo Albanians, to force the West to intervene. US envoy Richard Holbrooke confirms that at secret meeting with a KLA leader in a Swiss ski resort, he promised US support for Kosovo’s independence. A KLA commander, Mustafa Remi, speaks for the first time about how American and British forces assisted the guerrillas long before NATO intervention. Madeleine Albright describes how she managed, during an interval at the Bolshoi Opera in Moscow, to obtain a green light from Serbia’s firmest ally, Russia, to threaten Milosevic with force. A KLA commander tells how he threatened to blow up his own delegation to the Ramboulliet peace conference if they signed an agreement which didn’t secure Kosovo independence. A blow-by-blow reconstruction of how Milosevic’s stooges falsified the 1996 election results. And how in the Serb city of Nis one man and one woman risked their lives to obtain proofs of this fraud. - sitruc