Sunday, March 12, 2006

From the NYTimes and Roger Cohen:

To the last, a solitary death yesterday in a United Nations cell near an international court he derided, Slobodan Milosevic clung to the notion that all the Balkan destruction he ignited and presided over was no more than a response to aggression against his long-suffering Serbian people..."Nobody should dare to beat you," Mr. Milosevic declared in Kosovo on April 24, 1987, to thunderous cries of "Slobo" from the Serbian crowd. "Your ancestors would be defiled," he said, if Kosovo Albanians had their way. I really wish that people would research the accurate context for this speech before hauling it again to help support their--wrong--assertions.
The words had a ring to them and set a bloody tide in motion. But it is precisely the past noble deeds of Serbs — not least those during World War I that led to the very creation of Yugoslavia — that have been most defiled by Mr. Milosevic's crushing defeat and failure in the name of a terrible but persistent Serbian illusion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/international/europe/12assess.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

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