Libya News and Views Sunday, 24 June, 2001: The wife of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president, urged his Socialist party executive last week to engineer a popular uprising aimed at saving him from the ignominy of being sent for trial at the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague, party officials in Belgrade have revealed. Zivadin Jovanovic, a former foreign minister, flew to Libya in an effort to persuade Colonel Qadhafi to intervene, possibly by offering Milosevic asylum. Jovanovic was sent packing from Tripoli where even a modest request for some party funds was turned down. As the Milosevic story nears its concluding chapter - his trial in the Hague for crimes against humanity - his condition has worsened in the Belgrade prison where he has languished since his arrest in April on charges of fraud and abuse of power. [The Sunday Times] _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
