In the early twenty-first century she attended the trial of Slobodan Milosevic
at the International Criminal Court
in The Hague (which opened in February 2002 and ended, unfinished, with the death of Milosevic in 2006)...
Textual Production
Pat Barker
She says this novel really started with her attendance at the trial for war crimes of Slobodan Milosevic
in February 2002.
Monteith, Sharon. “Pat Barker”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction through Interviews, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Hodder Headline, 2004, pp. 19-35.
29-30
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Kate Clanchy
Antigona comes from the province of Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia (from the hamlet of Drenica near Mitrovica), but calls herself a Malësi from the impenetrable mountains that span four countries: Albania, Serbia,...
Timeline
February 1986: Slobodan Milosevic became leader of the Communist...
National or international item
February 1986
Slobodan Milosevic
became leader of the Communist Party
in Yugoslavia.
Murphy, Dervla. Through the Embers of Chaos. J. Murray, 2002.
xvi-xvii
15 January 1992: The European Union's Council of Ministers...
National or international item
15 January 1992
The European Union
's Council of Ministers took the decision to recognise the independence from Yugoslavia of Slovenia and Croatia, which those countries had declared on 25 June.
Murphy, Dervla. Through the Embers of Chaos. J. Murray, 2002.
xvii-xviii
14 December 1995: The Dayton Peace Accords, formally known...
National or international item
14 December 1995
The Dayton Peace Accords, formally known as the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, were signed in Paris after their conception in November at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton.
“The Dayton Peace Accords on Bosnia”. University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, 25 Feb. 2002.
“Summary of The Dayton Peace Agreement”. United States of America State Department, 11 Dec. 1995.
“Hopes Betrayed: Trafficking of Women and Girls to Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina for Forced Prostitution”. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vol.
14
, No. 9, Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2002.
February 2002: At the International Criminal Court in The...
National or international item
February 2002
At the International Criminal Court
in The Hague, the trial opened of Slobodan Milosevic
, former President of Yugoslavia, who had been indicted for war crimes in May 1999.
Partos, Gabriel. “The complex trial of Milosevic”. BBC News, 20 May 2003.