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...Belgrade Chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte met strong resistance to her attempts to persuade Yugoslav authorities to extradite former strongman Slobodan Milosevic from Yugoslavia to the Hague for trial. In a series of meetings in Belgrade last week, Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and Zoran Djindjic, Serbia?s first post-communist Prime Minister, told Del Ponte that Milosevic should face trial at home in Serbia for corruption and other crimes against the Serb people, and also possibly later for war crimes. The issue has become something of a juggling act for the new Yugoslav administration, which is under...
...General Augusto Pinochet these days. Not that the former Chilean dictator will ever know the terror of the thousands of his countrymen his regime tortured to death in prison cells, or tossed screaming from aircraft high over the ocean. The fear Pinochet knows is the anxiety of the former strongman discarded by history and forced to face justice; to account for himself stripped of his uniform and the power to inflict unimaginable pain on others...
...killing of Congo strongman Laurent Kabila was yet another chapter in a long history of chaos that began with the death 40 years ago of the newly independent country's first, and last, legitimately elected leader, PATRICE LUMUMBA...
...Kinshasa has finally admitted that President Laurent Kabila is dead, and they've installed his son, Joseph, as head of state. But nobody believes there's much traction in that outcome, since the 31-year-old military commander is viewed as simply another inept family appointee of the slain strongman, with no greater support base than his widely reviled father. Rebel movements backed by Rwanda and Uganda control half of the country, and they're urging Kabila the younger to return to a peace agreement consistently sabotaged by his father. The U.S. and other Western powers are scrambling to restrain...
...year 2000 was not the best of times for tyranny. True, Saddam Hussein began to shake off the shackles of world sanctions, all the while restocking his arsenal with the nastiest of weapons, unfettered and unwatched. Against all expectations, however, Yugoslavia's strongman, Slobodan Milosevic, vanished--poof!--from power after calling an election he felt sure he'd win, and then failing to steal the result from a populace that rose up to guard its rejection of his troublemaking. Another autarch actually took a turn toward benevolence all on his own: North Korea's quirky Kim Jong Il reached...