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For bone-weary Serbs, though, it was enough that he was gone now. The euphoria of freedom swept across the country. The Serbs had surprised themselves with their own empowerment, earning an exhilaration so strong that no fears about the future could quench it. They filled up the capital again...
Such signs of moderation will hearten diplomats in the U.S. and Europe, who have downplayed Kostunica's frequent attacks on Western policies in the Balkans and his refusal to cooperate with the U.N.'s war-crimes tribunal. "He wants the Serbian people to be proud," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright...
In 1995, however, after the death of two prominent leaders of the Ogoni, Saro-Wiwa was tried by "special tribunal"--by all accounts a sham of justice where most of the witnesses were paid to testify falsely--and hanged for murder. The trial drew heavy international criticism and was widely...
But what made Kostunica the perfect candidate now was what he was not. He was a humble, bookish scholar, not a brash firebrand pol. He was a vigorous nationalist, not an ethnic killer. He subscribed to multiparty democracy and market economics but never kowtowed to the West. He wanted to...
The "trial," of course, was primarily a propaganda stunt designed to distract Serb voters ahead of Sunday's election, in which polls indicate they plan to deliver Milosevic a humiliating defeat at the ballot box. Still, nobody's under any illusions that the outcome of the actual vote will prevent...