| Judgment Day | ||
| Milosevic is at The Hague, accused of war crimes. But his malevolent spirit lives on in places like Macedonia | ||
| By Rod
Nordland and Roy Gutman NEWSWEEK | ||
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July 9 issue — Slobodan
Milosevic’s humilation was by turns historic and pathetic. On Thursday
afternoon the warden of Belgrade’s Central Prison came to his cell and
said, “Get ready, you’re going.” Where? “To The Hague, Mr. Milosevic.” He
was incredulous. “Come on, am I really going to The Hague?” He asked to
smoke a cigarette: granted. He asked to call his wife: denied. Prison
guards drove him to the helipad behind Belgrade’s old secret-police
headquarters. There they turned him over to three representatives of the
U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, who read
him his rights and part of the indictment against him. Milosevic
interrupted angrily: “This is a farce. The Hague tribunal has come to the
wrong address. The right address is NATO. There is a Hague for you,
too.”
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Miroslav Antic,
http://www.antic.org/
