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...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...
...tiny fraction of that throng gathered last Thursday night outside the Belgrade prison where Milosevic had been held since April, chanting "Slobo, Slobo, we will never abandon you." Milosevic's wife Mira and his daughter-in-law Milica Gajic were there, too, waiting silently in a green...
...Serb opinion turned against Slobo...
...real measure of Slobo's humiliation, however, is the lack of response by his followers. When Milosevic's Socialist Party called on its members to take to the streets to demand his release, fewer than 200 responded. There were times, not so long ago, when hundreds of thousands chanted his name in ecstasy, and last September more than 2 million voted for him in a tight race with his successor, Vojislav Kostunica. What happened? Did they suddenly change their minds, or were they afraid to come...
TIME.com: After a melodramatic "last stand," Slobodan Milosevic was unceremoniously bundled off to jail early Sunday, while his enraged daughter fired shots at the departing police convoy. So what's happening now on Slobo's second day behind bars...