Slobodan Milosevic was laid to rest Saturday beneath a tree at the family estate in his hometown, a quiet end for a man blamed for ethnic wars that killed 250,000 people in one of the turbulent Balkans' bloodiest chapters.
Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, who presided over the Balkan wars of the 1990s, was found dead March 11 in his cell at a United Nations prison near The Hague.
Disparate commemorations underscored the deep conflicts of Serbian politics and the public's divided emotions over a man still hailed as hero by some and condemned as the "Butcher of the Balkans" by others.
Washington Post Photojournalists Lucian Perkins and Carol Guzy, in Macedonia and Albania respectively, document the uncertain future of the Kosovar refugees. Includes journal entries from Perkins.
While some observers described the ousting of president Slobodan Milosevic as a "revolution," many people in Yugoslavia speak less exuberantly about "the changes" or "what happened on October 5."
All but forgotten in Kosovo's war with itself is a mental hospital, near the capital city of Pristina, that is home to 350 of the province's most vulnerable, most neglected citizens.
Under a new accord, NATO ceased its 11-week-old air war over Yugoslavia. This photo gallery depicts efforts to bring peace to the war-torn region of Kosovo.
Washington Post photojournalist Carol Guzy's photographs tell the story of the U.N.'s efforts to help traumatized children, a nun's single-handed mission and the ordeal of military-age Kosovars who were held by Serb authorities in the Smrekovnica prison.