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...ruling coalition supported sending Milosevic to the Hague, and Kostunica backed away from a threat to break up the government. Milosevic will face charges in an international court for crimes committed while in office--only nine months after he stepped down. "In the annals of international justice," said David Scheffer, former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war-crimes issues, "this is warp speed...
...deportation of Slobodan Milosevic to the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague last week was hailed as a triumph for the rule of law. "A momentous event for international justice," said David Scheffer, former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war-crimes issues. "An affirmation of the importance of international justice," opined the New York Times...
...soldiers and paramilitaries. The tribunal's original indictment against Milosevic, issued in 1999, deals with the atrocities committed by Serb and Yugoslav army forces in Kosovo and holds Milosevic responsible for the deportation of 740,000 people and the deaths of at least 340 identified ethnic Albanians. David Scheffer, the former U.S. ambassador for war crimes, says Milosevic will be confronted by "an enormous amount of information" - eyewitness testimony, statements from refugees, and American intelligence reports. Serb authorities kept tribunal investigators out of Kosovo from early 1998 until June 1999, when prosecutors entered Kosovo with nato troops after the alliance...
...ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by Bosnian Serbs, the West has been reluctant to grant access to the intelligence it gathered at the time, partly out of fear of exposing the extent to which Western governments did business with Milosevic to secure his participation in a peace deal. And, Scheffer says, "it might be harder to make the case because of the screen of Bosnian Serb leadership." In Kosovo, "it's a pretty clear case of superior criminal responsibility...
...Scheffer's presentation drew to a close he brought up the subject of humanitarian intervention and the necessity of preventing war-related atrocities...