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International Herald Tribune
TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2006
It's hard not to feel that by dying in his cell, Slobodan Milosevic
finally succeeded in his determined effort to cheat justice. Four years and
hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent in an effort to move the
Balkans away from the sterile politics of ethnic vendettas and grievances. The
goal has been to establish the personal legal accountability of the individual
politicians and commanders most responsible for the horrific crimes against
humanity committed in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
No individual was more responsible for those crimes than Milosevic. Carla
Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the UN tribunal, told an Italian interviewer
that "the death of Milosevic represents for me a total defeat." Without a
formal conviction of Milosevic, survivors of his atrocities are left with only
a dismal record of what they endured, while Serb nationalists have their
martyr.
Milosevic's death was bad news for the fledgling notion of international
justice, but not, we hope, a total defeat. The International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia was established by the UN Security Council almost 13
years ago as the first international court for the prosecution of war crimes
since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials after World War II. As such, it is
supposed to demonstrate that no national leader, no matter how exalted, can
ever again commit terrible crimes with impunity.
That remains to be proved. The Hague tribunal has been slow and costly:
Of the 161 men charged, 32 have been convicted. Worse, two of the most
notorious villains on its list remain at large, the Bosnian Serb leaders
Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. The two men are charged with genocide for
the massacre of thousands of Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in July 1995.
It is dubious that the tribunal has had any chastening effect on the
Serbs. Some critics have argued that The Hague is simply too far from the
Balkans for the Serbs to have any involvement in the trial. Still, a successful
prosecution of Milosevic would have gone a long way toward enhancing the
authority of international tribunals.
The underlying idea that those who commit crimes against humanity won't
escape punishment is too important to be permanently set back by one death.
There is justice in the fact that Milosevic died in a cell, not in power or in
comfortable exile.
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Milosevic's son says his father was murdered
Reuters, The Associated Press
TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2006
AMSTERDAM Slobodan Milosevic's son said Tuesday that the former Yugoslav
president had been murdered at the detention center of the UN war crimes
tribunal in The Hague.
"He got killed, he didn't die. He got killed. There is a murder," the
son, Marko Milosevic, said after arriving in Amsterdam on a flight from Moscow.
He was scheduled to continue to The Hague later Tuesday to claim his
father's body.
In Belgrade, an official with Milosevic's party said that an arrest
warrant for Milosevic's wife, Mirjana Markovic, had been suspended, raising the
possibility of a Belgrade funeral for the former Yugoslav president. A Belgrade
court confirmed the suspension.
The ranking official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was
not authorized to speak to the media, said that the court acted on a proposal
by the state prosecutor when it suspended the warrant for Markovic.
A team of Russian forensic experts was also heading to The Hague on
Tuesday to inspect the results of an autopsy on the former president, whose
body is being held at the Dutch National Forensic Institute.
The Russian government said it did not trust the conclusions of the
examination conducted by Dutch pathologists Sunday, the day after Milosevic was
found dead in his prison cell.
The UN war crimes tribunal said preliminary results showed Milosevic died
of a heart attack.
"It's a great regret that they did not heed our numerous appeals for an
examination," said Leo Bokeria, head of the Bakulev Clinic in Moscow, claiming
Milosevic's life could have been saved with proper treatment.
"The point is that a man who had suffered from a complex of illnesses of
the heart and vascular system was not examined adequately, and thus naturally
he could not be cured," Bokeria said.
Earlier Tuesday, Milosevic's son had said that the funeral would take
place in Moscow.
"The Belgrade authorities do not allow it, they want to avoid it. We do
not have any other choice," Marko Milosevic said at a Moscow airport before
flying to the Netherlands.
Milosevic said Monday that the family wanted the funeral in Belgrade, but
might ask for a temporary burial in Moscow if the Serbian authorities failed to
guarantee the safety of his mother, who fled Serbia in 2003 while under
indictment on corruption.
Russia was an ally of Milosevic while he was in power, and he had asked
for medical treatment in Moscow before he died.
Milosevic died in prison Saturday months before a verdict was expected in
his trial on war crimes dating back to the wars that accompanied the bloody
collapse of Yugoslavia. His trial was officially closed Tuesday. $@
Drug suggests illness faked
Marlise Simons of The New York Times reported from The Hague:
A top toxicologist in the Netherlands said that he suspected Milosevic
had manipulated medication to fake a medical condition, a plan that might have
played a role in the heart attack that caused his death.
That theory was advanced by Dr. Donald Uges, professor of clinical and
forensic toxicology at the University of Groningen, who posited that Milosevic
was seeking to demonstrate that Dutch doctors could not cure him and that he
should therefore be allowed to seek treatment, and freedom, in Moscow.
Uges based his theory on his detection in Milosevic's blood of a drug
that had not been prescribed for him and that was not only inappropriate, but,
under the circumstances, dangerous. The drug at issue is an antibiotic known as
rifampicin, used to treat serious bacterial infections, like tuberculosis. It
is known to interfere with the medications he was taking for high blood
pressure.
An international team of doctors, including Dutch, Belgian, and Serbian
forensic specialists, attended an autopsy Sunday and said in a preliminary
report that Milosevic had died of a heart attack.
Their toxicology tests will be due in the coming days.
But experts from Moscow want to examine the results and perform their own
autopsy in the belief that the previous one was inconclusive or erroneous, a
plan that could delay Milosevic family plans to take the body to Belgrade for
burial. Other investigations are still going on. The Dutch police and the UN
tribunal where Milosevic was on trial are each carrying on their own
investigations into his abrupt death.
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