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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 people-power revolution that overthrew Milosevic, bitterly opposed sending him to a tribunal he regards as biased against Serbia. He called the deportation illegal and unconstitutional. It was. When the Serbian legislature, preferring that Milosevic be tried at home, declined to extradite him, the Serbian government ordered him extradited...
...Prime Number $1.28 billion in aid money is promised to Yugoslavia after Slobodan Milosevic is extradited for war crimes to the Hague...
...Dublin hope a new reform package will sway the I.R.A. to lay down its arms. THE NETHERLANDS Judgment Day Former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic was delivered to the U.N. tribunal in the Hague for prosecution as a war criminal. His extradition coincided with the release of $1.28 billion to Yugoslavia. International donors said that the loans and grants were intended to help the Yugoslav Federation rebuild its economy. Milosevic, the first former head of state to face a war-crimes tribunal, will appear before the court this week to hear the charges against him. MACEDONIA Back from the Brink Mediators...
...Djindjic had one last ace to play. After the court handed down its ruling, Djindjic summoned his cabinet and informed them he was about to lance Milosevic with one of the strongman's own knives: a measure, devised by Milosevic during the early days of the former Yugoslavia's dissolution, that allows Serbia's cabinet to ignore any federal law it doesn't like. Without telling anyone, including Kostunica, the cabinet effectively refused to comply with the high court's ruling. Within three hours Milosevic was on his way to the Hague. The transfer blindsided Kostunica, the modest constitutional lawyer...
...removal of Milosevic won't spell the end of Yugoslavia's problems. The governing coalition is in the throes of collapse: last week Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia walked out of the Serbian and federal parliaments to protest the cabinet's override of the Constitutional Court's decision. The Yugoslav Prime Minister Zoran Zizic and his Montenegrin Socialist People's Party also bolted, stripping the coalition of both its federal governing partner and its majority in the federal parliament. The likely political gridlock could hasten Montenegro's split from Yugoslavia and will hamper efforts to rebuild a devastated economy...