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Bringing down a dictator

Ivan Marovic ; Srdja Popovic ; Otpor ; Steve York

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Popovic, Srdja (Darst.) DNB
Marovic, Ivan (Darst.) DNB
Otpor (Darst.) DNB
York, Steve (Prod.) DNB

York Zimmerman

Washington

2001

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in engl., franz. u. span. Sprache

yugoslavia
serbia
Milosevic, Slobodan
politics and government
resistance to

In the year 2000, in a war barely outside Yugoslavia, the indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic fought to hold the power. He controlled a battle-hardened army, a tough police force, and most of the new media. But he underestimated his opponents, led by a student movement called Otbor! (Serbian for "resistance"), who attacked the regime with ridicule, rock music, and a willingness to be arrested. Their courage and audacity inspired others to overcome their fear and join the fight. Otbor! students were the shock troops in what became an army of human rights and pro-democracy activitists who systematically undermined police and army loyality to Milosevicand forced him to early elections. When Milosevic refused to accept his defeat at the polls, the people responded with a general strike. As normal life ground to a halt, Serbs by the hundreds of thousands descended on the capital on october 5 to seize the parliament in a dramatic triumph for democracy. Milosevic was arrested and extradited to the Hague to stand trial for crimes against humanity in June 2001.

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