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...moment many despaired would never come. The Serb strongman and former President of Yugoslavia who presided 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 Slobodan Milosevic will now have to sit each day in a well-lit U.N. courtroom, flanked by two guards, to answer to charges of crimes against humanity--even if he does remain as defiant as ever...
...Slobodan Milosevic is about to be thrust once again onto the world stage, when his trial for war crimes in the Hague gets under way this week. But for Serb schoolchildren, the man who dominated Yugoslav politics for 13 years has mysteriously disappeared. A new history text for students ages 13 and 14--the first published since Milosevic was removed from power in 2000--fails to mention him or carry a single photograph. The final chapter, titled "Contemporary Problems of Yugoslavia," covers the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo but omits the man responsible for them. The uprising that ended...
...Without such a fair accounting of its past, however, how will Cambodia ever face its future? Half a world away former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's U.N. war crimes trial has just begun. Compared to butchers like Kang Khek Leu, who ran the Khmer Rouge's notorious S21 torture center, Milosevic is a petty thug. It should have been the war crimes tribunal of the latter half of the 20th century?but the Khmer Rouge may be the genocidists who got away...
...HAGUE Slobo Mounts His Defense The trial of Yugoslavia's former president at the international war-crimes tribunal in the Hague opened with the prosecution furnishing gruesome details of the way Slobodan Milosevic is alleged to have purged former Yugoslavia of non-Serbs. Milosevic then spent two days justifying his actions - and will go into extra time for an hour-and-a-half this week - after which the prosecution will produce its first witness. Milosevic, who doesn't recognize the tribunal's legitimacy, is conducting his own defense and seems to consider attack the best form. With aggressive gestures...
...Issue ? Topics include breast cancer, Arnold Schwarzenegger's new movie "Collateral Damage," defense spending and the trial of Slobodan Milosevic...