Belgrade, Serbia
The Socialist Party of Serbia has finally dumped Slobodan Milosevic as party leader, a year after he was arrested on war-crimes charges. Moderates in the party replaced him with Branislav Ivkovic, who was a close ally of Milosevic until the former Yugoslav president was ousted in late 2000. Now the party may split, as most Milosevic supporters refused to follow the new leader. Milosevic, who founded the party in 1990 out of the ruins of the old Communist Party, had been running party affairs by telephone from his cell in The Hague, where he is on trial for atrocities committed in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo during the last decade.
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