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Milosevic dead

Uh. That is big news, at least for me.
I think all of my former colleagues are banging their heads against the wall. After several years of his trial.............
 
Tanja said:
Uh. That is big news, at least for me.
I think all of my former colleagues are banging their heads against the wall. After several years of his trial.............
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Hey, there's always the trials of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic to look forward to. I assume those two are going to get caught some day.

It's a travesty that they haven't.
 
I bet either Mladic or Karadzic are going to be found within weeks. The Tribunal needs a big fish again.
 
Well, John Donne wrote that "any man's death dimishes me", but I imagine that this will diminish me less than most.

I wonder, since the trial was not completed, will this allow his supporters to gain ground in Serbia by saying (1) He was never convicted of any crimes and (2) That he was hounded to death by his enemies.

Don't know how highly Milosevic is still thought of back in Serbia.
 
Hutch said:
I wonder, since the trial was not completed, will this allow his supporters to gain ground in Serbia by saying (1) He was never convicted of any crimes and (2) That he was hounded to death by his enemies.
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Hey, there are still some people who think the British murdered Rudolf Hess.
 
Whilst I won't lose any sleep over his death, it does leave me wondering why the trial has taken 5 years.

How long will Saddam's trial take? I seem to remember the Nuremburg trials only took a few months.
 
Hutch said:
I wonder, since the trial was not completed, will this allow his supporters to gain ground in Serbia by saying (1) He was never convicted of any crimes and (2) That he was hounded to death by his enemies.
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It didn't take long; the BBC is reporting that Nico Varkevisser, of the Slobodan Milosevic Freedom Center, says:
It is clear that they have killed him.
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Did you just hear that?

That was the sound of the earth breathing a sigh of relief.
 
Hutch said:
Well, John Donne wrote that "any man's death dimishes me", but I imagine that this will diminish me less than most.

I wonder, since the trial was not completed, will this allow his supporters to gain ground in Serbia by saying (1) He was never convicted of any crimes and (2) That he was hounded to death by his enemies.

Don't know how highly Milosevic is still thought of back in Serbia.
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She propably not very representative of Serbs, but one of my friends who's a Bosnian Serb refugee seemed to grieve almost as much as you, when I called to let her know the news.
 
Ryokan said:
Well, he was a great leader, just not a very nice one :p
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He was crap. At least Hitler conquered Poland and France. Kerberos's friend does have a representative opinion, in my experience, of Serbian expatriates. Serbian expatriates of Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia itself. He started all those wars and won none of them, and all for the sake of Serbs, he - and his ilk - would have us believe. In truth, all he served was Serbian gangsterism. In the main, those Serbs that could get out of Serbia because they have education and/or skills have done. The remaining population is dross-heavy.

I loved the bombing of Serbia. Given my 'druthers, I'd have bombed it a lot more and a lot earlier. Only when the war came home to Serbia in a way that didn't involve container-loads of looted white-goods would he fall, and sho'nuff when it did he fell.

On a slightly different track, I wish somebody had dropped a grenade into the hole Saddam was cowering in. It would have been for perfectly good operational reasons.
 
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