Milosevic's supporters demand his release, fall of Serbian government

AP ^ | 6/28/02 10:13 PM | ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC

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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Chanting "Freedom for Slobodan," 4,000 supporters of Slobodan Milosevic demonstrated Friday at a Belgrade square to mark the anniversary of the former president's extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.

Milosevic was extradited June 28, 2001, to the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, where he is on trial for charges of war crimes and genocide committed during the 1990s Balkan wars.

[Neophyte]

Milosevic's supporters, right-wing and nationalist parties consider the extradition high treason.

If Milosevic's supporters means socialists, then the anti-government crowd represents almost all the society: the Left, the Right, the nationalists...

I wonder, who supports that government, if at all?

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Milosevic bump

[Banat]

Djindjich's government is just about the worst one I've seen so far. Can't exactly remember the Commies but I do remember that poverty level was MUCH lower; that there was no mafia; that your job was secure, etc. Miloshevich's was bad, but this one is a total failure on all levels.

There's a (sad) joke in Serbia going something like this - "The only viable industry in the country is the exporting of Serbian citizens to the Hague". And I can't agree more...

The new Minister of Energy and Mining is a real "expert". She announced a new electricity price hike (50%!) the other day. When someone asked her how the pensioners will be able to pay, she said something like "Well, let them sell their apartments and then they'll have the money for the electricity bill".