U to vrijeme, Jugoslavija je klizila na višegodišnjim krvavim sukobima, koji su za Srbiju okončani u oktobru 2000. rušenjem režima Slobodana Miloševića.
At the time, Yugoslavia was slipping towards several years of bloody conflicts that, for Serbia, ended in October 2000 with the toppling of Slobodan Milosevic's regime.