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...When Slobodan Milosevic was dispatched to the Hague almost five years ago to be tried for war crimes, I believed, like most Serbs, that he would never be back. I did see him once again sometime later, face to face, as I gave evidence for the prosecution at his trial; it was a brief and not exactly enjoyable encounter. As time went by, and the process in the Hague dragged on year after year, its meaning was somehow lost to me amidst Slobo's endless rants and the prosecution's legal maneuvers; watching the trial felt like watching an overstretched...
Nothing in his last days - or in the ones that followed his death - went well for Slobodan Milosevic. His drawn-out trial for war crimes was nearing an end, despite his best efforts to prolong it indefinitely. The cause of his death is still under investigation. His immediate family, including his adored wife and son living in exile in Russia, did not attend his funeral. And the remnants of his once all-powerful party put him in the ground in the dark, not in some grand presidential tomb but in a plain grave beneath a 100-year-old linden tree...
...wants to die for Slobodan Milosevic? He is one of the great losers of history. He failed to hold together the former Yugoslavia, and he failed to build in its place a Greater Serbia. In the past 10 years, he has launched four wars and lost three ... As Europe's most disruptive dictator since the fall of the Berlin Wall, he bears responsibility for the extermination of 250,000 in Bosnia and Croatia, for the European revival of concentration camps and massacres, for the displacement of millions in Bosnia and Croatia and Kosovo, for the impoverishment and ostracism...
...NATO air strikes effectively ended the rule of Yugoslav President SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC and led to his jailing for alleged war crimes. His trial was nearing its end when he died of a heart attack. He was buried last week in Serbia...
Upon hearing of Slobodan Milosevic's death, Serbian President Boris Tadic could not find any family members in Milosevic's native Serbia to accept his condolences, so Tadic delivered his message to the former Yugoslav President's old party headquarters instead. Milosevic, who was on trial in the Hague for genocide, is still a potent symbol of Serbia's bloody past, but he no longer inspires much personal devotion beyond a small group of loyalists. (They were the ones spreading rumors of suicide and accusing the International Criminal Tribunal of murder for denying Milosevic's recent request to seek medical...