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...courtrooms, two dictators accused of genocide and war crimes, and both offering the same defense - it's a riveting moment in the history of global justice. But despite the obvious similarities, the trials of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein represent two fundamentally different approaches to international prosecutions. And one of them is deeply flawed. In the Hague this week, former Yugoslav President Milosevic is scheduled to take the floor in his own defense. He faces charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes, as well as conducting a campaign of genocide against Bosnian Muslims - yet an uninformed visitor...
INDICTED. BENAZIR BHUTTO, 51, former Prime Minister of Pakistan; for money laundering; in Switzerland. Although Bhutto and her husband successfully appealed a similar conviction last year, she was back in a Geneva courtroom last week to face more serious allegations involving some $13.8 million. Bhutto, who heads the opposition Pakistan People's Party from her self-imposed exile in London and Dubai, claims the charges are part of a Pakistani-government smear campaign against...
...DIED. SIR RICHARD MAY, 65, British judge who presided over former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February due to grave health, and after two years of courtroom wrangling with the defiant Serbian leader over everything from cell-phone use to the former dictator's efforts to blame the Balkan wars on Western political leaders...
...bring "closure," he promised. So far, it hasn't. In the past six months, one witness has been gunned down and another received a threat from a court usher. In a brazen act of intimidation, six former Red Berets, sporting their unit's snarling wolf insignia, sat in the courtroom while a colleague tried to testify. Last week, some 50 men wearing T shirts featuring a red rose, Lukovic's trademark tattoo, came to the courtroom to watch their ex-leader make his statement. When he appears again in court next month, he could derail the trial altogether. Prosecutors were...
...dialogue can be thuddingly expository, and with so many new faces each week, the characterizations are sketchy. But there are also regular courtroom characters, the best of whom is sarcastic judge Horatio Hawthorne, played by Levinson. His delivery is a bit awkward and unactorly, yet it gives the proceedings a note of documentary reality, unlike the pretty and generically well-spoken lawyers...