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...defendant--who was also doing the questioning. In a show of disrespect, Elshani refused to face the man he holds responsible for the seven dead bodies he found in his yard and for the man in police camouflage who put a knife to Elshani's throat and swore, in Serbian, he would cut it like a sheep's. Pointing his finger but still not looking at the accused, Elshani was not intimidated. "How can you say nothing happened?" he asked the man who had been his President. "It is unimaginable the things that you have done...
...trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity lends hope that justice may finally be served in one of the greatest tragedies of the last decade. Milosevic is accused of directing ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia on a scale not seen in Europe since the Holocaust. His trial is an important and unprecedented step towards holding heads of state accountable for atrocities committed under their leadership...
...world opinion. Yet never has the Hague tried a defendant so uncooperative. Milosevic seems determined to make the proceedings a spectacle of courtroom subversion, refusing to recognize the tribunal, refusing to enter a plea, refusing to select defense lawyers, refusing even to wear headphones to hear the proceedings in Serbian...
...will get equal time to make an opening statement. If past appearances offer any clue, he will claim he was just defending his country, just fighting terrorists like the U.S. is now, just suffering from NATO aggression. He will force the court to broadcast, as it has before, Serbian translation of the testimony from a loudspeaker. He will look bored, yawn, stare impatiently at his watch when prosecutors speak...
...change of power and a modification of domestic and foreign policy." Authors of the text argue that the 1990s are still too fresh in people's minds. "It's more politics than history," says Radoslav Petkovic, head of the state-owned company that published the book. Serbian textbooks are not the only ones to present a distorted version of their nation's past. Education consultants funded by the European Union have been working with teachers throughout the Balkans to provide a more balanced picture of the region for students. Last month they took up the job in Serbia...