![]() ![]() “When the bombing of Sarajevo began in 1992 and we watched the gruesome scenes from Bosnia in 19, I told my wife we needed to return this,” he told Euronews. If he had sold the painting to Marković’s friend, the portraits of leaders from fighting for the liberation of oppressed Balkan nations in one war would end up in the hands of those causing the second major war the region had seen within the 20th century. Milošević is known regionally and internationally as the man whose politics triggered the bloody war that followed the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Mira Marković was the spouse of Slobodan Milošević, Serbia’s nationalist leader at the time.
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