Good riddance.
(CNN) -- Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was found dead on his prison cell bed in a U.N. detention center in The Hague, Netherlands, where he was being tried before a U.N. war crimes tribunal. He was 64.
An official in the chief prosecutor's office said Milosevic's body was found at about 10 a.m. Saturday and he probably had been dead for several hours.A Dutch medical team will conduct an autopsy Sunday, with a senior pathologist from the Serbian capital of Belgrade attending, a tribunal official told CNN.
Milosevic's death came just a few months shy of the expected completion of his marathon trial, which has lasted more than four years.
Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters sums it up:
In the end, he beat the Hague and the UN in the limited arena left to him. He stalled the trial long enough to die before its completion and made the Hague look like incompetents and fools. Like all sociopaths, he wanted to control as much as possible right to the very end -- and unfortunately, he succeeded.
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Now Clinton won't have to t... (Below threshold)1. Posted by bryanD | March 11, 2006 8:09 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Now Clinton won't have to testify. How conveeenient. http://www.balkanalysis.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=639
1. Posted by bryanD | March 11, 2006 8:09 PM |
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Posted on March 11, 2006 20:09
2. Posted by Maggie | March 11, 2006 9:10 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Now these "International" judicial types will be looking for new employment.....
Anyone out there want to give me odds that the rhetoric about moving Saddam's trial out of Iraq starts up in a feverish pitch...I give it about three weeks before we hear screaming from all kinds of dark corners about "justice" and "fair trials" and "world courts".
2. Posted by Maggie | March 11, 2006 9:10 PM |
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Posted on March 11, 2006 21:10
3. Posted by Jay | March 12, 2006 1:51 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
On the other hand, for Milosevic, it is a pyhrric victory ....
3. Posted by Jay | March 12, 2006 1:51 AM |
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Posted on March 12, 2006 01:51
4. Posted by Macker | March 12, 2006 10:22 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Slobodan Milosevic may have escaped justice here on Earth, but he can't escape whatever Justice GOD has in store for him!
4. Posted by Macker | March 12, 2006 10:22 AM |
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Posted on March 12, 2006 10:22
5. Posted by ed | March 12, 2006 12:02 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hmmm.
Someone predicted that Slobo would die before his trial was over. I think they weren't actually being serious but it did turn out that way.
5. Posted by ed | March 12, 2006 12:02 PM |
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Posted on March 12, 2006 12:02
6. Posted by Maggie | March 13, 2006 2:46 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I demand the Human Rights Watch International investigate The Hague immediately - let them try to explain how Milosevic got those mysterious drugs.
Clearly there has been unusual cruelty to a prisoner.
6. Posted by Maggie | March 13, 2006 2:46 PM |
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Posted on March 13, 2006 14:46
7. Posted by srbija | March 18, 2006 6:16 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7. Posted by srbija | March 18, 2006 6:16 AM |
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Posted on March 18, 2006 06:16