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...consequences of his policies were all too visible, in Sarajevo, in Srebrenica and in Vukovar. Almost 11 years ago, I walked the town's muddy streets, stepping over corpses, as Serb militia members led away helpless civilians to what would be their mass grave. A year later, as part of a similar land grab in eastern Bosnia, the same men were happily torching Muslim homes and murdering their owners. The fighters were drunk with bloodlust and slivovitz, but they were also led by the invisible hand of Milosevic's secret police, who organized, armed and supplied them...
...into the courtroom, my memory becomes somewhat scattered. I was surprised that Milosevic looked so much smaller than I remembered him, like a grumpy old man--and evil. Earlier that day he ridiculed a witness whose legs were amputated due to vascular disease by reminding him of the Serb proverb "Lies have short legs." Despite my nervousness, I felt strangely desensitized when the questioning actually began. I just tried to keep my composure and use all my remaining wits to answer his questions...
...This was not always easy, because some of Milosevic's queries were too ludicrous to be taken seriously. He implied, for example, that I was part of a vast anti-Serb conspiracy that also included Harvard University, a number of human-rights groups and various media outlets. He spent a lot of time trying to prove that my story was nothing but irrelevant hearsay. I tried to describe what I had seen in Vukovar as simply and clearly as possible. It may have been the most important thing I will ever do. After my testimony was over I felt...
...Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime president who is also indicted for war crimes, has almost completely slipped away from the public eye. Karadzic is widely believed to be hiding in the mountains of Bosnia, despite a large Western military presence in the country, and so far all efforts to locate him have proved futile...
...after succesfully evading justice for more than ten years. Unfortunately for Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Mladic's arrest happened only in news flashes and newspaper headlines around the world. In real life, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army indicted for reckless bombardment of Sarajevo and the slaughter of at least 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, remains as elusive as ever - despite mounting pressure on the Serbian government to deliver him to the Hague, or face international isolation and even sanctions. The rampant speculation raised...