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Aleksa Djilas

The son of Yugoslavia’s great dissident Milovan Djilas, and a former fellow of Harvard University. The author of The Contested Country has lived as an independent intellectual in Belgrade since 1993.


Commentaries by Aleksa Djilas

  • An Assassination in Belgrade

    Not since Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination has a murder shaken Belgrade as much as the killing of Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic. Th…

  • In the Shadow of Miloševic

    Two years ago the world cheered as Slobodan Miloševic's opponents united to overthrow his dictatorship. Opposition to Milosevic, however, ap…

  • Milosevic's Long Shadow

    Six weeks into his war crimes trial in the Hague - a process expected to last two years - Slobodan Milosevic still casts a long shadow over …

  • The Hague Tribunal: Belgrade's View

    BELGRADE: Opinion polls in Serbia show that large majorities believe the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to be a p…

  • Milosevic's Divide and Mis-rule

    BELGRADE: Slobodan Milosevic may be the most despised man in Serbia, but leaders of the country's opposition can barely hide their hatred fo…

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