Milosevic Targeted for Arrest
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Friday, Dec. 29, 2000
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) - Serbian Deputy Prime
Minister-designate Nebojsa Covic said Thursday that ousted Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic would be arrested in January and put on trial.
Covic, in an interview with the Belgrade newspaper Glas Javnosti, said
Milosevic and Mirjana Markovic were the most to blame for the national
catastrophe and must answer to their nation. Milosevic's wife is a member of
the federal parliament and therefore enjoys immunity, however.
Covic is president of Democratic Alternative and one of the prominent
leaders of the 18-party Democratic Opposition of Serbia that defeated
Milosevic's Socialists in recent elections.
Serbia is the dominant partner in the Yugoslav federation.
Covic was mayor of Belgrade in the late 1990s, but resigned in protest
against what he termed the Socialist Party's undemocratic methods.
Zoran Djindjic, who will form the next Serbian government shortly, said
Monday there was sufficient evidence to prosecute Milosevic for various
crimes. Djindjic and Covic, like new Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica,
however dismiss the possibility that Milosevic would be extradited to the
The Hague to face war crimes charges stemming from the Kosovo conflict
before an international tribunal.
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