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Testimony of Captain Walter R. Mansfield, first American Liaison Officer with General Mihailovich, before the Commission of Inquiry Captain Walter R. Mansfield, U.S. General Draza Mihailovich 1943 MR. KIENDL TO CAPTAIN MANSFIELD: You never saw any evidence of collaboration all the time you were there? CAPTAIN MANSFIELD: I never saw any evidence of collaboration between Mihailovich personally and the Germans. Q: Did you ever hear any reports from any Americans to the effect that there was such collaboration between Mihailovich and the Germans? A: I have only heard reports to the contrary, that there was none. From the first day's...

Websites using the .yu domain extension will cease to be available online from 30 September. The extension - assigned to the former Republic of Yugoslavia - has been replaced by .rs (for Serbia) and .me (for Montenegro)

REVIEW BY CARL SAVICH EIGHT BAILED OUT By Major James M. Inks, U.S.A.F. Edited by Lawrence Klingman. Illustrations by S/Sgt. Morton D. Rosenfeld and M/Sgt. John H Schuffert. NY: W.W. Norton and Company, 1954. Reprint: NY: Popular Library, 1963. On July 28, 1944, eight members of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber bailed out over German-occupied Yugoslavia after the plane sustained damaged following a bombing mission on the Ploesti oil installations in Romania. The American crew landed by parachute behind enemy lines in German-occupied Montenegro where they were rescued by Serbian Chetnik guerrillas, who hid the downed airmen from German troops....

From Alex M. in Belgrade, Serbia:For all my friends abroad - those of you who wish to learn about Belgrade or are planning to come for a visit, and for my countrymen abroad who feel nostalgic for home, I have written my own guide to Belgrade. A lot of effort went into this. I appreciate you taking the time to read this. Read it slowly, and try to imagine the pictures as you are reading. Enjoy!NOTE from Ravnagora: I have included the photos in Alex's piece and they have been taken from various sources on the internet. ***** According to...

What a long, remarkable, wonderful, productive life he led. Professor Alex Dragnich is someone I began corresponding with in 1992, and throughout our correspondence he showed himself to be a man not only of intelligence, insight, foresight and education, but a genuinely nice human being who was always generous with advice and necessary critique and guidance. I had the pleasure of meeting him in person in Chicago in 1994 and was first struck by how tall he was! He could easily (and with justification) have presented himself as an intimidating persona who did not suffer fools or "aspiring authors" gladly....

OSHKOSH, Wis. -- Art Jibilian hoped his presence here at the largest private air show in the world would, in a small way, help right a terrible wrong that had been done so long ago. Mr. Jibilian, of Fremont Ohio, and surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the pioneering squadron of black fighter pilots, were honored here yesterday at AirVenture 2009 for their roles in Operation Halyard, the greatest rescue of downed American airmen in World War II.

Today, Friday July 17, 2009, marks 63 years since the life of General Draza Mihailovich was taken.To date, there is still no gravesite.*****The Hero Whom You Gave to History Has Not His Like in Our Time“Twenty years after the death of Draza Mihailovich he is undimmed in his glory as a defender of liberty against the Fascist terror, who defended it also against the Communist terror. He had no moment of weakness, nor of bitterness. I know no instance where he reproached those who were guilty of his betrayal. Twenty years ago I knew he was innocent of all charges...

Note: In commemoration of the anniversary week of General Draza Mihailovich's execution in 1946, I wanted to share articles from that time that most folks wouldn't have the opportunity to see. ______________________ The Whitehall News London July 19, 1946 POLITICAL MURDERGeneral Mihailovich is dead, shot by a firing squad in Belgrade. This political murder, carried out by Marshal Tito’s appointed judges, was committed on the national hero of Serbia and on the man, who, in 1941, brought Yugoslavia into the war on the Allied side. It is, therefore, one of the most revolting examples of abandonment by the Western Democracies...

"Undercover" (1943)"Underground Guerrillas" (U.S. 1944)On July 27, 1943, Ealing Studios in Great Britain released the movie Undercover on the guerrilla resistance movement in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia. Undercover was re-released by Columbia Pictures on September 14, 1944 in the United States under the title Underground Guerrillas. The movie was originally entitled Chetnik and was to document the Yugoslav Chetnik resistance movement headed by Draza Mihailovich. Because the movie was released when British support for Mihailovich was waning, however, the film was re-edited and references to Mihailovich and the Chetniks were deleted. The movie is invaluable, nevertheless, as a cinematic account of the...

In the isolated village of Velika Hoca in southwestern Kosovo—a new nation or a rebellious province of Serbia, depending on whom you ask—people still talk about a brawl that broke out several years ago. It was after the Kosovo war, which had begun between separatist Albanian guerrillas and Serbian forces and had ended when NATO air strikes pounded Serbia and its strongman president, Slobodan Milosevic, into submission in June 1999. The West had stepped in to stop atrocities against Kosovo Albanians and avert a refugee crisis, assuming peace would reign once the dictator and his fighters were vanquished. But the...

Washington D.C. — On May 5, 2009, Washington, D.C.’s City Council passed a resolution recognizing April 22 as the Nation’s Capital Jasenovac Day. The Resolution, prepared by RAS, the International Serbian Organization, and sponsored by the Chairman of the City Council, is to educate the residents of Washington, D.C. about the holocaust that happened at Jasenovac death camp during WWII. “This resolution signifies that the Capital City of the United States, home of the US Holocaust Museum, honors the innocent victims of the Ustasha Nazi regime, that their suffering and deaths will not be forgotten, diminished or revised, and that...

PRIŠTINA -- Croatian President Stjepan Mesic; said Croatia and Kosovo have well-developed bilateral cooperation at all levels and this cooperation should be strengthened. In an interview with Radio Television Kosovo (RTK), he said that Kosovo was well organized, that all state institutions had been formed and were functioning, and that it was becoming a more functional state. “The proof is in the fact that more than 50 countries in the world have recognized Kosovo,” Mesic said. He said that the development of industry was of special importance, to encourage foreign investors to come to Kosovo and to take advantage of...

Jakup Krasniqi, the Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo, met today with the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe,Tomas Hammarberg Speaker Krasniqi and Commissioner Hammarberg assessed the developments in Kosovo and the work of the Kosovo's legislative body, particularly regarding the guarantees and achievements on the human rights. Speaker Krasniqi spoke extensively on the work of the Parliament regarding the adoption of laws which have been done carefully in accordance with legislation of European Union countries. Meanwhile, speaking of the legal protection for human rights and freedoms, Krasniqi emphasized that they are guaranteed by...

A delegation of French businessmen accompanied with the French Ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo,Delphine Borione, met yesterday with the Kosovo Chamber of Commerce representatives. They agreed to continue to further the support on the economic level and establish better flexibible economic policies to enhance the investment activity in Kosovo. The Kosovo Chamber of Commerce Secretary General, Berat Rukiqi, invited the French businessmen to find their place in the Kosovar market as well as begin concrete investments in the newborn country. "Kosovo Chamber of Commerce will offer support for all the business activities and economic cooperation among businesses of France...

The Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recognizes the Republic of Kosovo passports and the Saudi Arabia consular diplomatic office is authorized to provide visas for the Republic of Kosovo citizens, informs the Kosovar-Arab Chamber of Friendship and Economic Cooperation. Saudi Arabia is among the countries that are in the process of recognizing Kosovo. The Kosovar-Arab Chamber for Friendship and Economic Cooperation informs that all citizens of the Republic of Kosovo, who want to travel to Saudi Arabia, can use the passports of the Republic of Kosovo, reports Kohavision. "Recognition of the Passports is a great achievement for Kosovo...

The Euro-Atlantic Club of Kosovo was formed today in Prishtina. The Club aims to help Kosovo in the process of NATO integration. The Club Board includes representatives of the Euro-Atlantic institutions, political parties, civil society and minorities. Former Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Çeku was elected chairman of the Euro Atlantic Club. "As a first step, the Euro-Atlantic Club will assess the vision and the steps that the state of Kosovo should follow towards NATO integration," said its Chairman, Agim Çeku. On March 26, 27, at the invitation of the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria, Information Center of NATO in Sofia and...

SERBIANS marked the 10th anniversary of the start of a NATO blitz on the former federal republic of Yugoslavia on Tuesday with commemorations honouring over 3,000 victims. Air-raid sirens sounded at noon throughout the country, while schools opened classes with a minute's silence for the 89 children who were killed in the 78-day bombing campaign, which was initiated without UN security council backing. NATO claimed that it had launched Operation Allied Force in order to force then president Slobodan Milosevic to stop a military crackdown against Western-backed separatist insurgents in Kosovo province and pull out his troops. But the US...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A Chicago-based Serb group said Monday it is offering a $100,000 reward for anyone who can locate the grave of a World War II guerrilla leader executed as a traitor by the Communists. The burial site of Dragoljub Draza Mihailovic has been unknown since his execution in 1946 by the postwar Communist authorities. Mihailovic was convicted of collaboration with the Nazi occupiers in a hasty trial orchestrated by the new government. The Serbian National Defense Council of America posted the reward offer on its Web site. The group said that the reward would be paid only...

The forces of NATO opened an assault on Serbia with cruise missiles and bombs today as President Clinton denounced the Yugoslav President, Slobodan Milosevic, for feeding the ''flames of ethnic and religious division'' in Kosovo and endangering neighboring countries. The missiles began striking Serbian targets within minutes of Mr. Clinton's midday announcement that the long-threatened attack was under way. It was expected to be a broad, sustained barrage intended to stun the Yugoslav leader and punish the military for its yearlong onslaught against the ethnic Albanian separatists of Kosovo. ''Ending this tragedy is a moral imperative,'' Mr. Clinton declared in...

Note: 10 years ago today... ___________________________ NATO today authorized air strikes against Serbia as President Clinton declared that force was necessary to halt the aggression by Serbs against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. The air campaign, using primarily American aircraft and cruise missiles, is poised to begin over southern Serbia and targets in Kosovo under cover of night Wednesday, NATO officials said. In his first full explanation of why the Administration had decided NATO should strike, Mr. Clinton said in a speech to a union group here today, ''If President Milosevic is not willing to make peace, we are willing to...

I’m about to tell you a story that, after you’ve read it, if your blood isn’t boiling . . . well, you maybe ought to book an appointment with your favorite mortician. Armchair Generals in the Pentagon during WWII and their civilian counterparts and bosses in the US State Department should have been taken out and given, at a minimum, a sound caning or horse-whipping . . . and at the worst, faced a firing squad. Their absolute ineptitude and politicking almost cost the lives of 513 Allied airmen and, ultimately, ruined the reputation and resulted in the firing squad...

Thursday, March 12, 2009 Dear Mr. Massie, My husband and I met Lowell Thomas in 1980 when my husband was the Senior Air Attaché in Moscow. Lowell Thomas had been invited by our then U.S. Ambassador Thomas Watson, Jr. (IBM). At the time, Lowell Thomas was 88 years old and got up from his sick bed to speak to us at the Ambassador's residence. He was wearing a brocade Chinese jacket that he had acquired during his early years in China. I don't have to tell you that Lowell Thomas had interviewed Lawrence of Arabia, in Arabia - having coined...

One of the very few remaining independent magazines in Serbia, Pecat Magazine carried the photo of Serbian generals convicted by NATO, and asked if defense of one’s country is a crime.Through the verdict issued to Serbia’s state leadership, the Hague Tribunal handed to the North-Atlantic Alliance and its leading powers what they were lacking thus far: for the common folk, convincing justification of the aggression it carried out and of the grave crimes it has committed, starting with the greatest war crime of all — the crime against peace. In contrast to our idiotic and most often also rotten American...

<p>Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been found dead in the detention centre at The Hague tribunal.</p> <p>The tribunal said an autopsy would be conducted to establish cause of death, but there was no indication of suicide.</p> <p>Zdenko Tomanovic, a lawyer for Mr Milosevic, says the autopsy should take place elsewhere as his client said he was being poisoned in the jail.</p>

As Milosevic's intelligence chief, Jovica Stanisic is accused of setting up genocidal death squads. But as a valuable source for the CIA, an agency veteran says, he also 'did a whole lot of good.' Reporting from Belgrade, Serbia -- At night, when the lawns are empty and the lamps along the walking paths are the only source of light, Topcider Park on the outskirts of Belgrade is a perfect meeting place for spies. It was here in 1992, as the former Yugoslavia was erupting in ethnic violence, that a wary CIA agent made his way toward the park's gazebo and...

As we enter March and with it the promise of Spring, this month marks the 10 year anniversary of the 78 day bombing campaign against Serbia waged by the Clinton Administration in 1999 over the issue of "Kosovo". The following are comments made in August of 2008 that are every bit as appropriate today. ________________ In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger digs beneath the received wisdom for the break-up of Yugoslavia and points to a largely ignored memoir by the former chief prosecutor in The Hague - and an echo from current events in the Caucasus....

A border row dating back to the collapse of Yugoslavia is threatening Croatia's chances of completing EU membership talks this year and becoming the bloc's 28th member by 2011. Slovenia, the first former Yugoslav nation to join the EU in 2004, has been blocking talks with Croatia because of the 18-year-old dispute, which mainly concerns a small bay in the Adriatic Sea. Seen from a boat, Piran is a glorious sight - a Venetian-style city built of limestone and marble, lapped by the blue waters of the Adriatic. It's easily missed on a map, but this small bay of just...

From Iceland to Latvia, the growing financial crisis is triggering popular revolts. Several European governments are on the verge of being toppled. Yet, it is in the Balkans where the rising tide of discontent may have the most significant impact. The bloody breakup of Yugoslavia left in its wake successor states - all of whom, with the exception of Slovenia, are mired in economic stagnation. The region's biggest disappointment, however, has been Croatia. It is now badly lagging behind its northern Slovene neighbor due to massive political corruption. Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader vows to lead his country into the...

Atrocity stories are a classic and effective way to motivate hatred against an enemy you are out to destroy. Poland attacked Germany on 1 September 1939, right? The British press in 1914 had "Huns" raping every maiden in Belgium. The "Ulster Massacre of 1641" was a hoax by London to foment hatred of the Irish; it was intended to "justify" all-out war for centuries on the Irish, citing numbers of victims that were astronomically in excess of the number of Protestants in Ireland. And then there's that big hit 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" which "proved" that Jews...

The following is a book review and testimony from American professor and veteran of the U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC), John Peter Maher, who visited the former Yugoslavia several times during the 1990s, both before the wars there began and during them. His observations remain essential for any truthful historical review on what really went on over there, as opposed to the "facts" that were fed to the public via the media. Ravnagora. _________________________ Here’s a novelty. An honest book on the Yugoslav war has managed to get into print. An Irish Army officer Brendan O’Shea has published “The Modern...

The secrets of the crushing of Yugoslavia are emerging, telling us more about how the modern world is policed. The former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, this year published her memoir, The Hunt: Me and War Criminals. Largely ignored in Britain, the book reveals unpalatable truths about the West's intervention in Kosovo, which has echoes in the Caucasus. The tribunal was set up and bankrolled principally by the United States. Del Ponte's role was to investigate the crimes committed as Yugoslavia was dismembered in the 1990s. She insisted that this...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist William Montgomery, US Ambassador to Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro) from 2001-2004, says that as the euphoria over the arrest of Radovan Karadzic fades and reality sets in, it's clear that his case poses continuing challenges for the Serbian government, the European Union, and of course the prosecutors and judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia who wish to avoid the damage done to the local credibility of that court by the trials of Slobodan Milosevic and Vojslav Seselj... _________________________ In 1996 and early 1997, as Special Advisor to the President and Secretary...

The United States, Britain, the European Union, the Vatican and a grossly perverse mass media machine will have a lot to answer for when the full extent of their anti-Serb bias is revealed. That’s not going to happen soon. The minds of a gullible public are being shaped to demonize one individual and the ethnic group he represents and, through him, to heap upon them the collective sins of opposing political forces still seeking their own selfish gain from the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Believe it or not, it was the revival of the old German dream of European...

Karadžić practiced alternative medicine22 July 2008 | 11:12 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug BELGRADE -- Radovan Karadžić lived in Belgrade with an assumed identity, and practiced alternative medicine, said Rasim Ljajić. At a joint conference led by the president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal and War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vuk�ević, it was stated that Karadžić worked at a private Belgrade surgery under the alias of Dragan Dabić. It was added that he had been arrested last night in Belgrade while moving from one location to another. Vuk�ević and Ljajić said that the operation had begun...

He clasps the crag with crooked hands . . . he watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls. These words, written of an eagle, today are a far better fit for one of the most amazing commanders of World War II. He is Yugoslavia's Draja Mihailovich. Ever since Adolf Hitler vaingloriously announced a year ago that he had conquered Yugoslavia, Draja Mihailovich and his 150,000 guerrillas in the mountains south-west of Belgrade have flung the lie in Hitler's teeth. It has been probably the greatest guerrilla operation in history...

The travel section of the paper featured a story on Kosovo the other day with a recommendation that readers visit this latest "must see" spot on the globe. It made me laugh. Almost forty years ago--1971 to be exact -- I traveled in what was then called Yugoslavia and is now called Kosovo. The memories of that trip remain so vivid and so utterly at odds with this report.

NOTE: Today, April 6th, 2008 marks the anniversary of the German bombing campaign against Serbia, which commenced on this day in 1941, drawing Yugoslavia into the war. He had previously assured everyone that he had no intentions of "harming" Yugoslavia or Serbia. On March 27, 1941, the Serbs rejected adherence to the Tri-Partite Pact, which would have allied them with the Axis forces led by Nazi Germany. Hitler responded accordingly. The following is an excerpt from the 56th day of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial that took place in 1946. The topic that day was the German invasion of Yugoslavia....

A St. Louis truck driving school owner who sent his students to Sikeston, Mo., for testing was convicted in federal court in Cape Girardeau in a bribery and fraud scheme to make the tests easy to pass. Mustafa Redzic, a Bosnian-born owner of Bosna Truck Driving School, was prosecuted personally by federal prosecutor Catherine Hanaway in federal court in Cape Girardeau. Investigators began looking at the operation in 2004, Hanaway said, as rumors spread through the growing Bosnian community in St. Louis that Redzic could obtain commercial driver's licenses easily and after the Missouri State Highway Patrol began investigating some...

You'll recall Hillary Clinton's recent speech in which she attempted to play up her foreign policy experience by recounting her "harrowing" 1996 trip to Bosnia. "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." Well, mainstream media has discounted that account, and such luminaries as comedian Sinbad have chimed in as well. It appears, however, that Clinton caved in too soon when she admitted overstating the dangers, as Barely Political...

On January 11, 1943, during the height of World War II, Twentieth Century Fox released the movie Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas on the guerrilla movement headed by Draza Mihailovich in German-occupied Yugoslavia. The movie starred Philip Dorn as Draza Mihailovich and Anna Sten as his wife. The movie was the Hollywood chronicle of the Chetnik resistance movement. Draza Mihailovich launched a resistance movement against the Nazi occupation forces of Yugoslavia in 1941. This was unprecedented and created a sensation in Europe and in America. In America, Draza Mihailovich became one of the most popular figures in the news. In the...

For five weeks Anthony Orsini's family thought he was dead. Killed in action fighting the Nazis. The Woodbridge man was one of more than 500 U.S. airmen shot down behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia in 1944 while bombing oil fields in Romania. Watched over by Serbian Chetnik guerrillas who hid them in local villager's attics, cellars and barns, the group was rescued by Allied forces in a daring top-secret airlift mission. "Operation Halyard," considered by some military historians as the single largest evacuation from Axis-occupied Europe, normally would have made bold front-page headlines and been featured in movie house newsreels....

fighting wordsThe Serbs' Self-Inflicted Wounds With Kosovo independent, Yugoslavia is finally dead.By Christopher HitchensPosted Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, at 12:51 PM ET Someone with a good memory of the conversation once told me how Lord Carrington, then one of the "mediators" of the incipient post-Yugoslavia war, came to the conclusion that Slobodan Milosevic was a highly dangerous man. Well-disposed toward Serbia (as the British establishment has always been), Carrington told the late dictator that he understood Serb concerns about significant Serbian minorities in Bosnia and Croatia. But why did Milosevic also insist on exclusive control over Kosovo, where the Albanian...

CAPTAIN WALTER MANSFIELD, of the FIRST AMERICAN MISSION TO MIHAILOVICH DURING WORLD WAR TWO Speech given in Canada in 1953 “There is no nation which would, more than you Serbs, appreciate human freedoms and rights. Not only appreciate, but give everything for them. It happened on Kosovo, the Salonika Front and Ravna Gora. The first thing that I learned from your brothers in your mountains was “Freedom or Death.” The great law and ideal for great men and times. …I have not many opportunities to meet many great men. One of them is my good and never forgotten Chicha [General...

Note: I wish that so many of our veterans who have passed away were alive today to provide our policy makers and talking heads with the proper perspective. ********** YUGOSLAV MILITARY ATTACHE QUESTIONS CAPTAIN OF THE U.S. AIR CORPS ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES IN WORLD WAR II YUGOSLAVIA AND LT. COL. JAMES M. INKS RESPONDS. July 13, 1946 Dear Lt. Inks: I have learned that you parachuted from your plane on the 28th of July, 1944, near Podgorica, Yugoslavia and that you were liberated by the Partisans April 26, 1945, and returned to your base. As the military attaché to the...

SERBIA’S HISTORY MUST BE REWRITTEN. Sixty one years ago, dark forces took the life of a warrior who fought valiantly for the human rights of his people, a visionary, a hero whose moral standards and ethical principles included the virtues known to humanity since the birth of Jesus Christ. He was General Dragoljub-Draza Mihailovich – a man from the country that was once Yugoslavia. Since his time, the history of Yugoslavia has been written and rewritten many times over, but never as history should be written. It was always written in collusion with the existing political dogmas that had subverted...

JULY 17. "They said to one another Behold, here cometh the dreamer... Let us slay him... And we shall see what will become of his dreams." Genesis 37 19-20 Today, July 17th, marks the day that General Mihailovich lost the battle for his life. On March 13, 1946, Yugoslav agents of “The Department for the Protection of People” (OZNA) captured Mihailovich and proceeded to try him for “war crimes” and “high treason”. The trial, though it stretched between June 10th and July 15th of 1946, was not necessary. The manufactured “Guilty” verdict that gave the green light for his execution...

Rasim Delic, one of the few Bosnian Muslims to be indicted by the UN court for the former Yugoslavia, went on trial here on Monday accused of war crimes committed by Islamic volunteers under his command. Delic, former commander of the main staff of the Muslim-dominated Bosnian army, stands accused of failing to rein in fighters who shot, tortured and beheaded Bosnian Serb and Croat prisoners during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia. "As supreme commander of the army he failed in his duty to prevent these crimes," prosecutor Daryl Mundis said in his opening statement. "These failures, this inaction is...

A MONUMENT TO A GIANT FROM SERBIAN HISTORY Voyvoda Momchilo R. Djujich is immortalized on the grounds of St. Sava Monastery in Libertyville, Illinois Voyvoda Momchilo R. Djujich is now there permanently, beside his commander General Draza Mihailovich, along with Voyvoda Pavle Djurisic, all facing east toward the far away Serbian lands where their legacies were forged over 60 years ago in the battles that proved their measure as men. All three were leaders of a cause that remains alive in the hearts of those who came to pay tribute on May 20, 2007 at the St. Sava Monastery in...

Resurrecting Yugoslavia By Julia GorinFrontPageMagazine.com | June 6, 2007Western powers led by the United States went to great lengths to abolish a pluralistic society called Yugoslavia, encouraging its component ethnicities to assert their identities and vie for their own little slice of land based on those separate identities. Yet as soon as one of those separate identities that we’ve buttressed misbehaves, suddenly we bring Yugoslavia back from the dead. Witness the strategic and ubiquitous use of the word “Yugoslav” in virtually every media report describing the four Albanian suspects in the recently foiled Fort Dix plot. When that aggressively...

Belgrade, 30 May (AKI) - Serbia’s special prosecutor for war crimes on Wednesday ordered the detention of twelve people on suspicion of having committed war crimes against Croatian civilians in October 1991, during the war following Croatia's secession from former Yugoslavia. The prosecution said in a statement that during two and a half years of investigations more than 50 people have been questioned "and extensive material evidence has been collected". It said that four members of the former Yugoslav Army, civilians and members of a paramilitary group “Dusan Silni” were suspected of “torturing, inhumane treatment and killing 70 civilians” in...