The Milosevic Regime Versus Serbian Democracy and Balkan Stability
Thursday, December 10, 1998, 5:00 am
Witnesses
Daniel Serwer
Senior Fellow
U.S. Institute of Peace
Nebojsa Covic
Coordinator
Alliance for Change
Srdjan Darmanovic
Director
Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Podgorica, Montenegro
Ylber Hysa
Director
Kosova Action for Civic Initiative
Milan Panic
CEO and Chairman of the Board
ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Slavko Curuvija
Publisher
"Dnevni Telegraf" and "Europljanin News" Magazine
Boris Karajcic
Founder
“Otpor” (the Student Movement)
Paul B. McCarthy
Program Officer
National Endowment for Democracy
This hearing, presided over by the Hon. Chris Smith, then Co-Chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, was held on the fiftieth anniversary of Human Rights Day, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in Paris by 56 members of the United Nations. Regarding the atrocities of Slobodan Milosevic and his regime, then, this hearing's date was perfectly apropos.
The storied crimes by the Milosevic Regime are world renowned. The hearing was held in the wake of actions by the regime taken against Serbia's independent media. Earlier on, Milosevic refused to acknowledge the results of municipal elections in Serbia, and, of course, the violent conflicts that the regime was culpable for.
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