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Raise your hand if it surprises you that Slobodan Milosevic is a strutting ass. I'm not talking about whether he's a war criminal or a murderer or an ethnic-cleansing madman. I'm talking about the fact that he also appears to be a preening, self-deluded boob. Surprised by that? Neither...
...pretty much figured that Slobodan up close would be a boorish thing, the media was evidently not so prepared. Dispatches from The Hague during the early stages of the former Yugoslavian dictator's war crimes trial deal almost cursorily with the substantive charges against him, focusing instead on his manner: how he refuses to read court minutes, refuses to meet with attorneys; how he smirks as charges are being read and badgers and dismisses witnesses as if they were the defendants and he the prosecutor. Imagine that, the press says with wondering nods. A dictator, a killer...
...could attempt to excuse themselves by claiming they were only following orders [WORLD, Feb. 18]. And if the person at the top of the chain of command was killed or missing, the accused might get away with their crimes. But we now have an opportunity to prosecute the remorseless Slobodan Milosevic. His acts were worse than those of Osama bin Laden. The genocide and rapes will harm people for generations to come. GURKAN HASIRCIOGLU Centurion, South Africa...
...goes in Courtroom 1 of the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, as former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, facing war-crimes charges, personally interrogates ordinary citizens of the country he once led, the country he is accused of violently tearing apart. Three victims of Milosevic's alleged crimes appeared in the first week of testimony--all men, all farmers, all Kosovo Albanian Muslims from small villages. One of them, Agim Zeqiri, 49, described losing his entire family--his wife, a son and four daughters--when Serb forces attacked his village. Milosevic questioned him, sometimes belligerently, for about 30 minutes...
...trial alone. He is taking a road that has been traveled before in Serb history: he is the victim, the little guy against the world, who will be victorious even--or especially--in defeat. He may be in prison, but he says he is free. "My name is Slobodan with a capital S," he said; slobodan means free in his native language. He declares he was a peacemaker whose only crime was to oppose "the might" of the West...