Milosevic carried his defiance to the end
By Douglas Hamilton Sat Mar 11, 9:10 AM ET
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Intelligent, ruthless and compulsively defiant,
Slobodan Milosevic carried his momentous gambles to the brink of disaster and beyond during a decade of useless wars, vainly resisting the breakup of Yugoslavia.
When they landed him in The Hague, accused of masterminding ethnic cleansing in the Balkans in the 1990s, Milosevic snarled like a beast at bay. "That's your problem," he rasped at the judges vainly trying to persuade him to enter a plea.
The former Serbian and Yugoslav president dismissed the UN war crimes tribunal as a venue for "victor's justice." But that did not stop him jousting with witnesses and prosecutors.
It was rather like his first love, politics. Stubbornly conducting his own case he grew more and more ill. After frequent bouts of high blood pressure and heart problems, his doctors tried to have him moved to Moscow for treatment, but the Hague tribunal last month turned down the request.
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