Item DEATH OF YUGOSLAVIA 3/50 - Transcript of interview, [1994-1995] with Mirjana Markovic, leader of Yugoslav United Left and wife of Slobodan Milosevic

Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Dr Mirjana Markovic, Belgrade university professor, Founder of Yugoslav United Left (JUL) and wife of Slobodan Milosevic, describing discussions amongst university colleagues concerning economic and political reform in Yugoslavia; the plight of Serbs in Kosovo; the Eighth Session of the Serb Communist Party Central Committee and the ousting of Dragisa Pavlovic's as party leader (23 Sep 1987); the response in Belgrade to the rally at Cankerjev Dom, Ljubljana in support of the Trepca miners strike (Feb 1989); her assessment of events at the Fourteenth Extraordinary Congress of the Yugoslav Communist Party and the implications of the Slovene walk out over its rejection of their constitutional amendments (Jan 1990). Also comments on Gen Veljko Kadjevic's leadership of the Yugoslav Peoples' Army (JNA) (1988-1992); the formation of the Movement for Yugoslavia (Nov 1990); the Vance-Owen Plan for the divison of Bosnia (1993); Radovan Karadzic's leadership of the Bosnian Serbs; the Contact Group plan for territorial division of Bosnia (Jul 1994); and her own political views. 34pp