THE Serbian people were the main victims of Slobodan Milosevic, the country's Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic said, responding to the death of the man known as the "Butcher of the Balkans".

Serbia-Montenegro’s foreign minister said in comments published today that he knows who is sheltering top war crime fugitive Ratko Mladic.

European Union foreign ministers in Brussels today threatened to freeze talks with Serbia on its EU membership bid, setting an end-of-March deadline for Belgrade to hand over top fugitive Ratko Mladic.

Serbia has until the end of the month to capture fugitive war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, or it could face European Union sanctions, the foreign minister said today.

EIGHT secret policemen loyal to former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic were convicted yesterday of the murder of communist-era Serbian President Ivan Stambolic.

Kosovo’s Serbs were urged today to take part in elected assembly after the province’s beleaguered minority boycotted key weekend elections.

The United Nations war crimes tribunal has indicted a rebel Serb leader for alleged human rights crimes and breaches of the customs of war in Croatia during the Balkan conflicts.

THE trial in Serbia of Slobodan Milosevic on charges of ordering the killing of two political rivals will probably begin within two months, a judge said yesterday.

A suspect rounded up after last month’s murder of Serbia’s prime minister has accused former President Slobodan Milosevic of being involved in a 2000 assassination attempt against an opposition leader, officials said today.

ZORAN DJINDJIC, the 50-year-old Prime Minister of Serbia was assassinated yesterday in a sniper attack.

SERBIAN voters went to the polls yesterday to choose a new president from among 11 candidates, all of whom have promised to end the political and economic limbo left behind by Slobodan Milosevic.

A close aide of Slobodan Milosevic is being questioned in Belgrade about an apparent attempt to assassinate former opposition leader Vuk Draskovic.