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...wants to die for Slobodan Milosevic? He is one of the great losers of history. He failed to hold together the former Yugoslavia, and he failed to build in its place a Greater Serbia. In the past 10 years, he has launched four wars and lost three ... As Europe's most disruptive dictator since the fall of the Berlin Wall, he bears responsibility for the extermination of 250,000 in Bosnia and Croatia, for the European revival of concentration camps and massacres, for the displacement of millions in Bosnia and Croatia and Kosovo, for the impoverishment and ostracism...
...first head of state to be prosecuted for genocide; apparently of natural causes. Milosevic, who had heart trouble, had been on trial since 2002 for his alleged role as architect of the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica and other crimes. His decade-long rule over Yugoslavia and Serbia produced four wars, which led to 250,000 deaths and introduced the term ethnic cleansing. Son of a defrocked Orthodox priest and a teacher, Milosevic lost power in a 2000 election. Serbia's new leaders extradited him in 2001. He defended himself at the International Criminal Tribunal, defiant...
...Bosnians and Kosovars when it comes to their own war crimes. It is always really someone else?s fault; it is some other ethnic group that has not properly and sufficiently faced up to its guilt. The distorted, extremely one-sided view on recent past prevails throughout the former Yugoslavia. Detoxification will be long and painful because no one wants to face...
...There is, however, a brighter side. The countries of the former Yugoslavia now all have normal, though tense, relations. They are also all taking steps, big and small, towards becoming members of the European Union. And while ethnic animosities are still high, national courts in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia have begun put their own war criminals on trial; these courts will continue to work long after the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) shuts down its proceedings in The Hague, where Milosevic died under detention and undergoing trial. His death will not affect this slow, difficult journey towards...
...never met Slobodan Milosevic face to face until last week, when I went to the Hague and sat across from him at the International Criminal Tribunal for war crimes in the Former Yugoslavia. I was testifying about events I had witnessed in Vukovar, Croatia in November 1991, where I reported on Milosevic's campaign to conquer parts of Croatia and merge them with Serbia. My news articles from that period form part of the prosecution's case against Milosevic for crimes against humanity, including genocide...