Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
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This editorial is pretty hysterical even for you. Nothing here about the role played by the US, Germany,or even Tudjman, Izetbegovic and any other Yugoslav leaders. It's all purely Milosevic and the Serbs who ruined Yugoslavia in this State Department Balkan fairy tale. But even Jelacic virtually admits in her own way that the tribunal was coming up with nothing:"But Milosevic's trials showed that truth was slippery, justice slow and the reckoning evasive. Ever the showman, even in the dock, he refused to play the game by the rules. He was good at it. As he settled in for the second year of his life in the Hague's comfortable detention unit, I returned to Bosnia to find a country struggling to patch itself up after the force he unleashed on it."
A lot of evidence came out at that trial about crimes committed by the other sides (Croat,Bosniak,KLA and NATO) and the ICTY's paymasters didn't like that. They weren't happy about having their claims challenged either. In the media or a blog or their various reports the official line folks can say what they want but when it gets to court, even a miserable kangaroo court like the ICTY, things aren't quite that simple. Witnesses are challenged, their inconsistencies are revealed, people have to face the accused not just tell lies to the nearest reporter. Most importantly the other side gets to speak. Even if the trial is kept in virtual media blackout or distorted beyone belief by the likes of IWPR, SENSE and the CIJ. Even if the judges grossly restrict the defense's examination and cross-examination time. Even if the verdict is preordained and the trial is a travesty of justice.
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This editorial is pretty hy
This editorial is pretty hysterical even for you. Nothing here about the role played by the US, Germany,or even Tudjman, Izetbegovic and any other Yugoslav leaders. It's all purely Milosevic and the Serbs who ruined Yugoslavia in this State Department Balkan fairy tale. But even Jelacic virtually admits in her own way that the tribunal was coming up with nothing:"But Milosevic's trials showed that truth was slippery, justice slow and the reckoning evasive. Ever the showman, even in the dock, he refused to play the game by the rules. He was good at it. As he settled in for the second year of his life in the Hague's comfortable detention unit, I returned to Bosnia to find a country struggling to patch itself up after the force he unleashed on it."
A lot of evidence came out at that trial about crimes committed by the other sides (Croat,Bosniak,KLA and NATO) and the ICTY's paymasters didn't like that. They weren't happy about having their claims challenged either. In the media or a blog or their various reports the official line folks can say what they want but when it gets to court, even a miserable kangaroo court like the ICTY, things aren't quite that simple. Witnesses are challenged, their inconsistencies are revealed, people have to face the accused not just tell lies to the nearest reporter. Most importantly the other side gets to speak. Even if the trial is kept in virtual media blackout or distorted beyone belief by the likes of IWPR, SENSE and the CIJ. Even if the judges grossly restrict the defense's examination and cross-examination time. Even if the verdict is preordained and the trial is a travesty of justice.