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Disputing my view that the transfer of Slobodan Milosevic to the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague was a momentous event for international justice, Charles Krauthammer argues that Western political and economic leverage is the real champion of an "illegal" transfer that "threatens to destabilize Serbia" [VIEWPOINT, July 9]. While it is fortunate that no global police force exists, the enforcement tools for international justice indeed are political and economic pressure. These have been applied for years to assist a legitimate war-crimes tribunal whose indictments merit enforcement. Fear of turmoil usually precedes justice. Over time, Milosevic's joust...
Person of the Week FACING THE MUSIC Ex-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic could serve life in prison for ordering the murder or expulsion of ethnic Albanians in Serbia. The first former head of state to be tried by the U.N. tribunal, he may also be implicated in the ethnic crackdowns in Croatia and Bosnia...
...last ace to play. After the court handed down its ruling, Djindjic summoned his cabinet and informed them he was about to lance Milosevic with one of the strongman's own knives: a measure, devised by Milosevic during the early days of the former Yugoslavia's dissolution, that allows Serbia's cabinet to ignore any federal law it doesn't like. Without telling anyone, including Kostunica, the cabinet effectively refused to comply with the high court's ruling. Within three hours Milosevic was on his way to the Hague. The transfer blindsided Kostunica, the modest constitutional lawyer who ousted Milosevic...
...says Jelena Ivancevic, 23, a technology student in Belgrade. "And if we get some money on top for sending him there, that's even better." Part of Djindjic's strategy was to prime the public for Milosevic's transfer by releasing reports of police discoveries of mass graves within Serbia containing bodies of Kosovar civilians executed by Serb soldiers during the nato air war. Most shocking was the revelation that security forces in April 1999 destroyed a refrigerated truck dredged from the River Danube that held dozens of Albanian corpses. Milosevic allegedly ordered the troops to bury corpses in secret...
...removal of Milosevic won't spell the end of Yugoslavia's problems. The governing coalition is in the throes of collapse: last week Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia walked out of the Serbian and federal parliaments to protest the cabinet's override of the Constitutional Court's decision. The Yugoslav Prime Minister Zoran Zizic and his Montenegrin Socialist People's Party also bolted, stripping the coalition of both its federal governing partner and its majority in the federal parliament. The likely political gridlock could hasten Montenegro's split from Yugoslavia and will hamper efforts to rebuild a devastated economy...