SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC'S LAST WALTZ
By Ruth Wedgwood
New York Times, March 12, 2007
EVEN from the grave, Slobodan Milosevic roils the
international system. When he was alive, his violence in the Balkans
required NATO to intervene twice. He swaggered
on the stage of the
Dayton peace negotiations. And even after he was bundled off to a
United Nations court to stand trial on charges of genocide, war
crimes and crimes
against humanity, Mr. Milosevic tried to convert
his criminal defense into a political rant to be shown nightly on
Serbian television. The trial meandered for four years, and both the
presiding judge and Mr. Milosevic died before a final verdict could
be returned. Now the skeleton's waltz has turned one more time
around the dance floor. This round brings us the ruling of the
International Court of Justice, in a civil suit that should never
have been brought if its result was to be so meager. In 1993, Bosnia
sued Serbia in the International Court of Justice, sometimes known
as the World Court, for planning, abetting and committing genocide
in the Bosnian conflict. Bosnia argued that the Serbian...
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