Collection FALL OF MILOSEVIC - FALL OF MILOSEVIC: television documentary archive

The Fall of Milosevic archive, 1994-2002, consists of interview transcripts, videotapes, research files, press cuttings and published material concerning Slobodan Milosevic, former president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and his fall from the height of his power in 1995 to his trial in the Hague for war crimes and genocide. It includes VHS videos of interviews as well as transcripts of the interviews with, in most cases, detailed listings of the questions asked. The interviews incorporate eye-witness accounts: from government officials in Europe, America and Russia who describe their conflict over the NATO bombing campaign against Milosevic; from Milosevic’s wife, deputy and Army Chief of Staff who detail how he refused to take threats to his position seriously; from his successors who tell how they plotted to replace him; and from Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commanders leading the guerrilla campaign against Serbia, as well as from ordinary people caught up in the ethnic cleansing.

Interviewees include government and military personnel from the highest levels of the Serbian and Kosovar governments, and officials of the European Community and the United Nations, notably:

William Jefferson (‘Bill’) Clinton, US President, 1993-2001

Anthony (‘Tony’) Blair, British Prime Minister, 1997-2007

Jacques Chirac, President of France, 1995-2007

Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, 1991-1997

Mirjana (‘Mira’) Markovic, leader of the JUL party and wife and political partner of Milosevic

Milan Milutinovic, President of Serbia, 1998-2002; Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1995-1997

Robin Cook, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1997-2001

Lamberto Dini, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1996-2001

Hubert Védrine, French Foreign Minister, 1997-2002

Yevgeny Primakov, Prime Minister of the Russia Federation, 1988-1999; Foreign Minister, 1996-1998

Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State, 1997-2001

Gen Klaus Naumann Chairman of NATO’s North Atlantic Military Committee, 1996-1999

Richard Holbrooke, US Ambassador to the United Nations, 1999-2001

Dusan Mitevic, advisor to Milosevic and Director of TV Belgrade

Zoran Lilic, President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1993-1997

Dusan Mihajlovic, President of the New Democracy Party; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior 2001-2004; Serbian Interior Minister, 1993-1997

Branislav Ivkovic, former Serbian Minister for Science and Technology, President of the Belgrade branch of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)

Nebojsa Covic, Deputy Prime Minister, Serbian Government 2000-2004; Leader, Democratic Alternative, [1997]; Mayor of Belgrade, 1992-1997

Zoran Djindjic, Prime Minister of Serbia, Government of Serbia 2001-2003; President of the Democratic Party, 1993-[2003]

Vesna Pesic, leader of Zajedno (‘Together’) Coalition, 1993-1997, President of the Civic Alliance of Serbia, 1992-1998; Ambassador of Serbia and Montenegro in Mexico, 2001-2005

Hashim Thaci, leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)

Commander Goran ‘Guri’ Radosavljevic, Serbian police chief

Dukagjin Gorani, Kosovar journalist

Adem Demaci, Chief of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) political spokesman from 1998

Christopher Hill, US Special Envoy to Kosovo 1998-1999

Jamie Shea, Spokesman of NATO and Deputy Director of Information and Press 1993-2000

Javier Solana, NATO Secretary General, 1995-1999

George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, Secretary-General of NATO Oct 1999-Jan 2004, British Defence Secretary 1997-1999

Milo Djukanovic, Prime Minister of Montenegro 1991-1998, 2003-2006, 2008-2010, 2012-present; President of Montenegro, 1998–2002; Leader of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro until 1997, then re-elected 1997 to present

Rustem Mustafa (‘Remi’), Commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA); Commander of the Llap Operative Zone 1997 to 1999; General in the TMK (Kosovo Protection Corps) 1999 onwards

James Rubin, Senior Advisor to US Ambassador to the UN, 1993-1996; Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State; US State Department spokesman and Assistant Secretary of State, 1997-2000

Veton Surroi, founder Parliamentary Party, 1990; founder and leader Reformist party, (ORA); member of Kosovo parliament, 2004-2008; publisher and editor of Koha Ditore, Kosovo Albanian newspaper

James O’Brien, Special Advisor to the US President and the Secretary of State for Balkan Democracy, Mar-Oct 2000; State Department’s Deputy Director of Policy Planning at the State Department 1996-2000

Bali Thaci, victim of Serb military action in Kosovo

Gen Wesley Clark, Supreme Allied Commander: Europe, 1997-2000

Samuel (‘Sandy’) Berger, National Security Adviser 1996-2000; Deputy National Security Adviser 1993-1996

Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian peace envoy

Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland 1994-2000