Milosevic's death abruptly ends tribunal

David F Mayer — 3/12/2006 5:20:59 AM (archived)

Milosevic's death abruptly ends tribunal

Posted 3/11/2006 7:32 AM Updated 3/11/2006 9:39 PM

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) â€” Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in his prison cell Saturday, abruptly ending his four-year U.N. war crimes trial for orchestrating a decade of conflict that killed 250,000 people and tore the Yugoslav federation asunder. He was 64.

A leader of beguiling charm and cunning ruthlessness, the man reviled by the United States as "the butcher of the Balkans" was a hero to many Serbs despite losing four wars and impoverishing his people in the 1990s while trying to create a "Greater Serbia" linking Serbia with Serb-dominated areas of Croatia and Bosnia.

losing four wars and impoverishing his people

Let's all have a good cry.

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Milosevic's death abruptly ends tribunal - David F Mayer - 3/12/2006 5:20:59 AM
- "Nothing so became his life, as his leaving of it"............ (n/t) - Publius - 3/13/2006 5:55:01 PM
- Could not have happened to a better guy - R.L. - 3/12/2006 8:26:53 PM
- Yeah, so long Slobo. It's been real.... (n/t) - et - 3/12/2006 7:22:22 PM
- Milosevic snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. - Lee - 3/12/2006 6:06:38 AM
  - Genocide doesn't count if it's against Muslims? (n/t) - Tony - 3/12/2006 4:30:33 PM
    - It wouldn't have mattered to the international community. - Lee - 3/12/2006 6:46:00 PM
      - Just goes to show... - R.L. - 3/12/2006 8:18:21 PM
        
        The Croats seemed to have made off pretty well. - Lee - 3/12/2006 9:03:27 PM
        
        Think it would look the same if we had looked the other way? (n/t) - alcarzay - 3/13/2006 5:21:02 PM
        
        Croatia would probably be bigger. - Lee - 3/13/2006 8:11:50 PM
        
        You mean after the attempted genocide? (n/t) - R.L. - 3/12/2006 9:31:02 PM

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