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...state to be prosecuted for genocide; apparently of natural causes. Milosevic, who had heart trouble, had been on trial since 2002 for his alleged role as architect of the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica and other crimes. His decade-long rule over Yugoslavia and Serbia produced four wars, which led to 250,000 deaths and introduced the term ethnic cleansing. Son of a defrocked Orthodox priest and a teacher, Milosevic lost power in a 2000 election. Serbia's new leaders extradited him in 2001. He defended himself at the International Criminal Tribunal, defiant...
...There is, however, a brighter side. The countries of the former Yugoslavia now all have normal, though tense, relations. They are also all taking steps, big and small, towards becoming members of the European Union. And while ethnic animosities are still high, national courts in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia have begun put their own war criminals on trial; these courts will continue to work long after the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) shuts down its proceedings in The Hague, where Milosevic died under detention and undergoing trial. His death will not affect this slow, difficult journey towards...
...Hague and sat across from him at the International Criminal Tribunal for war crimes in the Former Yugoslavia. I was testifying about events I had witnessed in Vukovar, Croatia in November 1991, where I reported on Milosevic's campaign to conquer parts of Croatia and merge them with Serbia. My news articles from that period form part of the prosecution's case against Milosevic for crimes against humanity, including genocide...
...During Milosevic's 12-year rule in Serbia, I had often seen pictures of him in newspapers and on television. I even saw him two or three times in person, from afar, during his rare public appearances. But it was still something of a shock to meet him face to face-this man who shaped so much of my life as a journalist as well as the lives of thousands of others in my homeland. He was always a reclusive guy who seldom gave interviews...
...once a living thing, and that getting it to their table is a complicated exercise," he says. Laffitte hopes that migratory birds will stay away from his hens, and that consumers' fears will soon quiet down. With stories of new outbreaks of h5n1 cropping up from Niger to Serbia, he may have a long wait...