Will Milosevic Get His?

He refuses to accept it, but he is in the dock at last, accused of crimes far worse than bin Laden's

When case IT-02-54 is finally heard at the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague this week, it will mark a moment many despaired would never come. The Serb strongman and former President of Yugoslavia who presided over a decade of mass murder and mayhem across the Balkans seemed untouchable for so long, and then became almost forgotten as the world's attention fixed on a new global villain. Yet Slobodan Milosevic will now have to sit each day in a well-lit U.N. courtroom, flanked by two guards, to answer to charges of crimes against humanity--even if he does remain as defiant...

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