Slobodan Milosevic seems as determined to stare down the jurists of the International War Crimes Tribunal as he was to shrug off NATO’s missiles two years ago.
This morning in The Hague, the former leader of Yugoslavia denounced the Court as illegal, and called Western nations the real criminals.
Back in Belgrade, people and politicians are arguing about the cost of the trial. Some say Milosevic was sold down the Danube, traded for the promise of over a billion dollars in reconstruction aid. Others say this extradition will help rebuild less tangible bridges, that it shows Serbs are ready to rejoin the community of nations and put 10 years of war and isolation behind them. Meanwhile Ratko, Radovan and others remain at large.
(Hosted by Dick Gordon)
Guests:
Jean-Jacques Joris, special political advisor to Prosecutor Carla del Ponte of the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague
Aleksa Djilas, sociologist and historian in Belgrade
and Laura Silber, Senior policy advisor at the Open Society Institute and co-author of “Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation.”