The 13 year regime of Slobodan Milosevic ended after...

The 13 year regime of Slobodan Milosevic ended after elections were followed by an uprising by more than half a million people who took to the streets of Belgrade, seized the parliament, and burned down the state television station. Vojislav Kostunica replaced Milosevice as the new democratically elected president of Yugoslavia. Kostunica said he had no intention of handing Milosevic over to the UN war crimes tribunal. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - unlike its constituent republic, Serbia - has abolished the death penalty. Serbia maintains the death penalty for murder and terrorism. Kosovo society is so torn that establishing neutral judicial bodies has been very difficult. In December 1999, the head of the UN civilian mission in Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, issued a decree proclaiming that the laws in force in Kosovo before 1989, the year the province was stripped off its autonomy, will be in force there in conjunction with all the previous UNMIK decrees, which also provide for the abolition of the death penalty. In 1999, 102 people were executed in Yugoslavia.