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...against humanity for his role in the massacre of 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica, the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II, and for overseeing the three-year siege of Sarajevo, among other crimes. General Mladic, 63, a former colonel and loyal communist in the Yugoslav People's Army, was Karadzic's military commander, though that does not come close to capturing his role. He was "Milosevic's more-than-willing executioner," says Natasa Kandic, a leading Serbian human-rights investigator. "He understood perfectly what Milosevic wanted and bent over backwards to fulfill his wishes." European...
...NATO air strikes effectively ended the rule of Yugoslav President SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC and led to his jailing for alleged war crimes. His trial was nearing its end when he died of a heart attack. He was buried last week in Serbia...
DIED. SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, 64, wily, charismatic power-addicted former Yugoslav President and icon of Serbian nationalism known as the Butcher of the Balkans; in his cell at the U.N. detention center near the Hague, where he was the 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...
Upon hearing of Slobodan Milosevic's death, Serbian President Boris Tadic could not find any family members in Milosevic's native Serbia to accept his condolences, so Tadic delivered his message to the former Yugoslav President's old party headquarters instead. Milosevic, who was on trial in the Hague for genocide, is still a potent symbol of Serbia's bloody past, but he no longer inspires much personal devotion beyond a small group of loyalists. (They were the ones spreading rumors of suicide and accusing the International Criminal Tribunal of murder for denying Milosevic's recent request to seek medical...
...protect others - by deploying its massive military power - even when its own security is not directly threatened by turmoil overseas. This is not a common attribute among nations. The countries of Western Europe are as rich as the U.S., and were more directly affected by the wars of the Yugoslav succession from 1991 to 1999. But the memories of Europe's dark 20th century meant that there was little support, in any European country, for the use of force to impose a solution there. It was U.S. political will and air strikes from U.S. warplanes that ended the wars...