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When case IT-02-54 is finally heard at the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague this week, it will mark a 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...
...acquittal rate so far is very low. Years of investigation have turned up hundreds of witnesses and loads of exhibits that go far beyond circumstantial constructs. Investigators were able to fish for more after Milosevic's regime fell in October 2000 and the new government let them inside Yugoslavia for the first time. Though the investigators complain they got more obstruction than cooperation, especially from the military, no one could cover up one incriminating new find: the bodies of Kosovo Albanian victims listed in one indictment were unearthed in mass graves near Belgrade last year...
...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 his rule is described this way: "Federal elections...led to a change of power and a modification of domestic and foreign policy." Authors of the text argue that the 1990s are still too fresh...
...centerpiece of the book, an interview with Joe Sacco, should not be missed. Traveling to Palestine and the former Yugoslavia Sacco has pioneered a new kind of journalism that uses comix to visualize dramatic, personal stories that otherwise had no documentation. Focusing on his trips to Bosnia, the basis for his remarkable "Safe Area Gorazde," the interview works simultaneously as thumbnail history of the Balkans crises and how an artist, particularly a comix artist, works. "To me the challenge of it, the art it," Sacco says," is getting people to care by making those characters human. And that's done...
...secessionists elsewhere, notably in Macedonia where ethnic Albanians launched an insurgency as part of an effort to obtain greater rights. And, he says, Europe would be saddled with "a tiny state that is economically hardly sustainable." E.U. and U.S. officials are pressing for "a democratic Montenegro in a democratic Yugoslavia," warning Djukanovic not to take any "unilateral actions." But if there is to be a referendum, they insist that the rules - including the form of the ballot question and the proportion of votes needed to win - must be agreed upon in advance with the local opposition...