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Even those who are not Milosevic supporters resent seeing the former leader of their country, uniquely, put in the dock when so many other tyrants, from Fidel Castro to the late Franjo Tudjman of Croatia, have walked free. Vojislav Kostunica, the democratically elected President of Yugoslavia and hero of the...
Person of the Week FACING THE MUSIC Ex-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic could serve life in prison for ordering the murder or expulsion of ethnic Albanians in Serbia. The first former head of state to be tried by the U.N. tribunal, he may also be implicated in the ethnic crackdowns...
UKRAINE A Papal Call for Reconciliation Despite pleas from Russian Orthodox Patriarch Aleksy II to cancel, Pope John Paul II went ahead with a five-day visit to Ukraine. There he ignored Orthodox priests waving banners that read "Orthodoxy or death" and continued his mission to reconcile the Orthodox and...
But they came too late. Just before 6 p.m., the warden of Belgrade's Central Prison entered Milosevic's cell. He was surrounded by several policemen. "Get ready to go," the warden said. When Milosevic asked where, the warden told him, "To the Hague." Milosevic got up, changed out of...
For a man who led his people into four bloody battlefield defeats in less than a decade, presided over a nation's dismantling and masterminded the hate-inspired slaughter of thousands - all in the service of his own political survival - Milosevic's ultimate surrender stunned the world for its utter...