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When case IT-02-54 is finally heard at the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague this week, it will mark a moment many despaired would ever come. The Serb strongman and former President of Yugoslavia who pre-sided over a decade of mass murder and mayhem across the Balkans seemed untouchable for so long, and then became almost forgotten as the world's attention fixed on a new global villain. Yet Milosevic will now have to sit each day in an austere courtroom, flanked by two U.N. guards, to answer to charges of crimes against humanity - even...
...CHARGES It's worth remembering that for all his destructive desires, Osama bin Laden hasn't wreaked anything like the mayhem Milosevic is accused of. The ex-President is charged with responsibility for the deaths of 300,000 non-Serbs and the expulsion of millions from their homelands, starting in Sept. 21, 1991, when Serb forces shot 11 Croats in the town of Dalj, and ending in May 25, 1999, when eight ethnic Albanians were killed during the forced evacuation of the village of Dubrava/Lisnaje...
...Serb leader presents no legal defense, prosecutors believe they can make a swift case for conviction that is able to withstand appeal. But that would present its own problem. "It will be difficult to explain the lack of adversarial picture that people expect in court," says Dicker. "For that reason, it poses a real challenge to the judges: that the trial be fair to Mr. Milosevic and be seen as being fair." For the credibility of the tribunal, that is key. More than anything, the trial and its verdict need to convince the world's victims and villains alike that...
...Land between their lines, a Bosnian (Branko Djuric) and a Serb (Rene Bitorajac) are trapped in a trench, exchanging anger and the occasional gunshot. They are aware that the Serbs have booby-trapped one of the dead bodies in their refuge with a spring-loaded bomb. If he is moved, it will explode. But the inert soldier (Filip Sovagovic) is not dead. Now we have a situation--and the makings of a very good movie...
After the 1999 Kosovo conflict, nato analyzed exhaustively its failures in information handling. Serb women were pictured dancing on the wing of a downed F-117 Stealth bomber before the U.S. Air Force even admitted its loss. It took military commanders four days to unravel why an Albanian refugee convoy at Djakovica was mistakenly bombed. nato learned painfully that speed and candor are crucial. But the Afghan campaign shows how lessons learned can be lessons ignored. Governments, too, abandon humility and lose their memories...