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...rules of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention during the decade of wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. The charges are a litany of persecution, extermination, murder, torture, inhumane acts, wanton destruction, deportation and forcible transfer. They accuse Milosevic, as the "dominant political figure" in Serbia, of orchestrating a "joint criminal enterprise" to cleanse non-Serbs from vast swaths of territory to leave an ethnically pure nation...
...boss. Nice also interviewed Mihalj Kertes, former chief of the powerful customs service, and the notorious Franko "Frenki" Simatovic, the commander of the feared Red Berets, a police unit accused of spearheading ethnic cleansing from Croatia to Kosovo. Three men indicted with Milosevic - ex-Defense Minister Dragoljub Ojdanic, Serbia's former Interior Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic and top adviser Nikola Sainovic - were also asked last week to give themselves up to the Hague. They too would have stories to tell...
Serb Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is often quoted as saying that Slobodan Milosevic "belongs to the past." The authors of the new history textbook used in Serbia's elementary schools don't seem to agree: Milosevic is not even mentioned in the book, while the decade of war and ethnic cleansing that resulted in the breakup of the country is handled in just two paragraphs. How could such a crucial period in Yugoslav history be dispatched so summarily? And how could Milosevic, the era's main protagonist, be excised from the account...
...FRANCE Motion Denied The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg declined to hear the case of six Yugoslavs who wish to sue NATO. The plaintiffs, five of whom lost relatives in the NATO bombing of Radio Television Serbia's studios in April 1999, charged that the alliance violated the right to life and freedom of expression guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. But the judges said in a unanimous decision that because Yugoslavia is not a member of the Council of Europe, the case is outside the court's jurisdiction...
...support ethnic nationalism in places like East Timor, but in Serbia that same emotion turned murderous. Religious fundamentalism is fine for, say, Mormons, but when it metastasizes into terrorism, it is noxious. Certainty is fine when the right people are certain, but things get dicey when, as Yeats wrote, "the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity...