Word: yugoslavias
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...heart of every great criminal enterprise, prosecutors will tell you, is an insider willing to sing. In Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia, potential informers were terrorized into silence by some of the most expert hit men in Europe. But with the ex-President behind bars, one man has emerged as stool pigeon No. 1. Mihalj Kertes, an unctuous 53-year-old of Hungarian descent, was head of the federal customs bureau in Belgrade - an unremarkable post in a normal country, but one that in Serbia placed him at the heart of an illegal network that extended to Milosevic, his inner circle...
...corrupt regime. By shedding light on the Byzantine sources of support for a government whose workings have long remained mysterious to the outside world, it may help the country unravel responsibility for the crimes of the past decade, not only in Serbia but everywhere the wars of the former Yugoslavia were fought...
...quite, however. Milosevic may be gone from our lives, but his legacy will remain for years, possibly decades, until the evil he unleashed is exposed and understood throughout the former Yugoslavia. Containing and confining the other Milosevic-like autocrats in the region is the real challenge. The U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague can help, but the real work will have to be done by the Serbs and their neighbors. If that fails, watch out for the sequel...
Once Slobodan Milosevic surrendered April 1 after a shootout with Serbian police, there was little doubt that he would eventually be held responsible for his actions during the long years of war in the former Yugoslavia. The only question was where he should stand trial. The Serbian government under President Vojislav Kostunica has resisted extraditing the former dictator to the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague, insisting that he be tried in Serbia for alleged crimes including corruption and abuse of power. Yet the Milosevic government’s atrocities against Muslims in Bosnia and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo...
...heart of every great criminal enterprise, prosecutors will tell you, is an insider willing to sing. In Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia, potential informers were terrorized into silence by some of the most expert hit men in Europe. But with the ex-president behind bars, one man has emerged as stool pigeon No. 1. Mihalj Kertes, an unctuous 53-year-old of Hungarian descent, was head of the federal customs bureau in Belgrade - an unremarkable post in a normal country, but one that in Serbia placed him at the heart of an illegal network that extended to Milosevic, his inner circle...