STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Milosevic's Arrest: Cigarette Request Granted, But Wasn't Permitted to Call His Wife Waiting In 10-By-17-Foot Box In The U.N. Wing of Holland Prison View from Cell Window Was Blank Wall NEW YORK, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- When former Yugoslavia president Slobodan Milosevic was taken from the Belgrade Central Prison to face war crimes charges in an international tribunal in The Hague, he said to the warden, "Come on, am I really going to The Hague?" When he asked to smoke a cigarette, he could. He asked to call his wife, and was denied. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010701/HSSU004 ) According to a report on Milosevic's arrest, which appears in the current issue of Newsweek, after a search of his small suitcase, the guards took hidden pill bottles, which Milosevic said were only nitroglycerine for his hypertension. He referred sarcastically to public speculation that he might commit suicide, as both his mother and father had done. "Don't worry, none of these medicines are poison." Aboard the helicopter he was handcuffed and flown to Eagle Base near the Muslim city of Tuzla in Bosnia. There, U.S. peacekeepers bundled him on a plane to The Hague. He spent the flight, said a source, staring "wistfully' out a window and his request for another cigarette was turned down because the British Royal Navy plane was nonsmoking. By 1 a.m. Friday, Milosevic was in a 10-by-17-foot box in the U.N. wing of Holland's Scheveningen prison. >From the bars of his cell window, he could see only a blank wall, reports Newsweek Diplomatic Correspondent Roy Gutman and Correspondent-at-Large Rod Nordland in the July 9 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, July 2). Milosevic is now accused of orchestrating "a campaign of terror and violence" against thousands of Kosovar Albanians during the 1999 war. But the tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, is expected to file charges soon over his earlier wars in Bosnia and Croatia; altogether, more than 200,000 people have died in Balkan conflicts since 1991. He could be sentenced to life imprisonment, the maximum penalty. But it will take more than the trial of Milosevic to purge the Balkans of those horrors. While the West demanded Milosevic be brought to The Hague, it ignored the tribunal's second and third most wanted men: Radovan Karadzic, former president of the Bosnian Serbs, and Ratko Mladic, the Serb general, both of whom were indicted for the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia, Newsweek reports. "It is equally important they be brought to account," says Richard Holbrooke, the former U.N. ambassador and Balkans negotiator. (Read Newsweek's news releases at http://www.Newsweek.MSNBC.com. Click "Pressroom.") MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT - Click Here http://tbutton.prnewswire.com/prn/11690X43673249 SOURCE Newsweek CO: Newsweek ST: New York IN: PUB SU: 07/01/2001 11:34 EDT http://www.prnewswire.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
