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...against international justice." Ironically, the Bobetko dispute comes as Croatia's President, Stipe Mesic, prepares to take the witness stand in the Hague. One of 177 witnesses whom prosecutors plan to call in the newest phase of Milosevic's war-crimes trial - dealing with "ethnic cleansing" in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina - he is due to testify on Oct. 1. The accusations against Bobetko stem from a nine-day Croatian military operation in rural Krajina's "Medak pocket." From Sept. 9 to 17, 1993, according to the indictment, Croatian forces attacked and plundered Serb villages, unlawfully killing at least 100 Serbs...
...grieving over his wife's death, gets the blessing of sunlight in his dark apartment - because the World Trade Center towers no longer block the light. Still, the dominant mood in 11'09"01 is finger pointing. Several of the pieces - set in Chile (Ken Loach), Israel (Amos Gitai), Bosnia (Danis Tanovic) - make a single hectoring, helpful point: our countries have suffered atrocities for years, decades, centuries; welcome to the club, America. Egypt's Youssef Chahine argues that Islamic militants have the right to kill civilians in the U.S. and Israel because these are democracies, where the people choose their...
...frame long. Some were poignant (Sean Penn's, on a man living in the shadow of the Towers), some funny (Idrissa Ouedraogo's parable of African boys who spot an Osama bin Laden look-alike and try to cop the $25 million ransom). Several (from England, Bosnia, Egypt and Israel) pointed fingers at the U.S., saying, in effect, other countries have suffered atrocities for decades, so welcome to the club, America. No surprise that the film has opened in Europe...
...finger-pointing. The contribution by India's Mira Nair documents the agony of a Muslim boy in Brooklyn accused of conspiring with terrorists when he had actually gone to ground zero in a rescue effort. Several of the pieces?set in Chile (Ken Loach), Israel (Amos Gitai), Bosnia (Danis Tanovic)?make a single hectoring, helpful point: our countries have suffered atrocities for years, decades, centuries; welcome to the club, America. Egypt's Youssef Chahine argues that Islamic militants have the right to kill civilians in the U.S. and Israel because these are democracies, where the people choose their leaders...
...spectacle of the former President in the dock would shock Serbs into recognizing the crimes done in their name are having to rethink. And worse may lie ahead. This week prosecutors begin the second part of their case against Milosevic - for his responsibility in the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia and Croatia. In this phase of the trial, he is expected to dwell heavily on how Serbs are victims, not perpetrators, of the Balkan wars, a popular refrain at home. "Milosevic was politically dead before he was transferred to the Hague," says Dragoljub Zarkovic, a leading Belgrade editor. "The tribunal...