Word: slobodan
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...then, as if the week's international events had been to emphasize the importance of the U.N., Serbia on Thursday delivered its former strongman Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague, where he will stand trial for war crimes in a court constituted under U.N. auspices...
...Western money sealed Slobodan Milosevic's fate. In limbo between a Yugoslav Federal government leery of handing its former president over to a war crimes tribunal and a Serb national government wanting to receive aid contingent on a handover, the Serbs short-circuited the federal government's legal process and unceremoniously packed the former strongman off to stand trial in The Hague...
There is more than a little irony in the fact that Macedonia came apart at the seams in the same week that Yugoslavia moved to send Slobodan Milosevic for trial in the Hague. Milosevic may be history, but Macedonia now appears irrevocably bound to repeat the horrors of the Balkan wars of the last decade. Milosevic, of course, has had no hand in the Macedonian tragedy. The same, unfortunately, cannot be said for NATO...
TIME.com: The Yugoslav government has launched legal proceedings to facilitate sending Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague to stand trial for war crimes. Is his extradition now a sure thing...
...anything, the impotence has only increased the frustration of some government officials. A spokesman for the Prime Minister this week denounced the NLA as the "Talibans of Europe," and compared their leaders with Hitler and Slobodan Milosevic. "Their philosophy - territories, ethnic entities, religion, heroin and weapons - must be cut down at the root. Europe is too narrow to be their home as well." Ordinary Macedonian Slavs in the streets of Skopje appear equally unwilling to face the possibility that the rebels, whatever their motives and however murderous their tactics, cannot be "crushed and destroyed," at least not by them. (NATO...