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...then redistributed to Milosevic and his top aides for use in whatever project the regime had going - from electoral campaigns to, allegedly, ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. Significantly, he kept receipts. "Kertes was the second-most important man in the country," recalls Dragan Vasiljkovic, a former paramilitary trainer from the Balkan wars who led the armed squad that detained the customs chief on the day after Serbia's October revolution as he frantically shredded documents in his office. "I knew that if you arrested him then Milosevic was gone...
...then redistributed to Milosevic and his top aides for use in whatever project the regime had going - from electoral campaigns to, allegedly, ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. Significantly, he kept receipts. "Kertes was the second most important man in the country," recalls Dragan Vasiljkovic, a former paramilitary trainer from the Balkan wars who led the armed squad that detained the customs chief on the day after Serbia's October revolution as he frantically shredded documents in his office. "I knew that if you arrested him then Milosevic was gone." Full Story...
...guilt that eventually bound him into a web from which he could not escape, it is necessary to recount his crimes. He was a man who levered his way from small-time communist hack to political power by tapping into the most potent vein of historical juice in the Balkans: nationalism. Elected President of Serbia in 1990, he set out to unify the odd and unstable jumble of nationalities that crowd the Balkan peninsula--not by propagating a compelling vision for the future but by broadcasting a kind of radiant hate that warmed some Serbian hearts and, by reflection, brought...
...Rewind your mental tape to December. Replay the howls of Balkan imprecation that rose from the land. Recall the rage-red faces of blue America - "I will drink your blood!" Remember the purity of that indignation, untainted by the slightest doubt that George W. Bush had stolen the election...
Djindjic has publicly declared that he will not send anyone to be tried for war crimes in the Hague simply because they commanded units that did the dirty work in the Balkan wars, an apparent reference to Simatovic. That reflects a deeper ambivalence among ordinary Serbs about wartime officials. While the vast majority of Serbs (80% in a recent poll) agree that Milosevic should be jailed, most still want him tried at home for crimes against the Serbian people. Less prominent figures, meanwhile, especially those whose alleged crimes were committed elsewhere, are attracting little attention...