The world is a better place today. The Serb Butcher (and War Criminal) Slobodan Milosevic took his own life in his prison cell in the Netherlands. May he burn in Hell.
Saddam Hussein should have been in the same cellblock, but Dub(ai) has an aversion to The World Court and anything else that his minions cannot control. The trial of the Butcher of Baghdad has disintegrated into a farce. It's another instance of Dub(ai)'s bungling. Dub(ai) had better grant himself a pardon and move somewhere that does not honor extradition to the Netherlands. Not only is he a candidate for impeachment, but he's a candidate for a war crimes trial. Torture. Rendition. Massive casualties among non-combatants in Iraq. Is this is (fair & balanced) anticipation, so be it.
[x The Guardian]
The making of a monster: Milosevic on trial
1941 Born in Pozarevac, near Belgrade.
1962 His father commits suicide.
1964 Graduates from University of Belgrade with law degree.
1965 Marries Mirjana Markovic, 'the Red Witch', his comrade in the Communist Youth. Two children.
1972 His mother commits suicide.
Early 1980s Works for gas company, then becomes director of the United Bank of Belgrade before moving into full-time politics.
1986 Becomes head of Serbian Communists, reinventing himself as a charismatic nationalist.
1989 Inspires Serb nationalist demonstrations, driving out elected leaders to become President of Serbia. Pledges to win back Kosovo, 'cradle' of Serb identity inhabited mainly by ethnic Albanians. Ends Kosovo's autonomy.
1991-1995 Bloody civil war leads to ethnic cleansing. Milosevic arms Serbs against other ethnic groups. Conflict starts in Croatia and Slovenia in 1991, spreads to Bosnia in 1992.
1995 The Croats drive Serbs from their self-declared 'Republic', Serbian Krajina. Milosevic abandons claims to a 'Greater Serbia' at the Dayton peace talks.
1996-1997 Survives mass protest to become President of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).
1998 Initiates new conflict in Kosovo. Thousands of ethnic Albanians killed, 800,000 displaced.
1999 Nato bombs Serbia till Serbs agree to withdraw from Kosovo.
2000 Uprising in Belgrade deposes Milosevic.
2001 The new Serbian government hands Milosevic to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. Charges against him include genocide.
2006 Slobodan Milosevic dies by his own hand in his prison cell.
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