Slobodan Milosevic dead?

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Anyone know any more about this?

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Saturday, 11 March 2006 12:20 (twenty years ago)

BBC now saying his lawyer is confirming he was found dead in his cell

(on front page - no story yet)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 11 March 2006 12:25 (twenty years ago)

cnn's confirming it, too.

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Saturday, 11 March 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

BBC story updated with confirmation details.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 11 March 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

I don't seem to be very upset about this.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Saturday, 11 March 2006 12:40 (twenty years ago)

Strangely enough, neither do I.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 11 March 2006 12:41 (twenty years ago)

It means he escapes justice.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 11 March 2006 12:44 (twenty years ago)

That's nice for him. I'm sure, being dead, he'll be taking some comfort from that.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 11 March 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

How many years had he been in prison for already, though?

The one important symbolic thing is that he had not yet been convicted. That will end up being a vital factor in Serbian politics in 5, 10 or 15 years' time.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 11 March 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

glad he's gone but seems wrong of course.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 11 March 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

what a loss

― ty, Saturday, 11 March 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Good riddance.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 11 March 2006 13:04 (twenty years ago)

forest pines otm... this is not good.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 11 March 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

i was just chatting with a friend of mine in moscow. clipped from the conversation:

"he asked to go to a hospital [in moscow] and the europeans wouldn't let him."
"they killed him and that wasn't fair"

...and so on. amazing how quikcly the spin starts.

― Mitya (mitya), Saturday, 11 March 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Some of the comments on the BBC site are amazing:

Added: Saturday, 11 March, 2006, 14:50 GMT 14:50 UK

Bravest man in the world was silenced, reason for his demise was that he stood up to Bill Clinton and his New World Order. His end was preciptated by calling Clinton to the Hague tribunal, to be cross examined and to tell the world the real truth behind the quagmire his administartion created in the Southern Europe. All foreseeable, as Bill could not allow that ruin the chances of Hillry's candidature for presidency. Perhaps we may see the final, end of him from real "natural causes"!

Veljko Radovic, Sydney

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― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 11 March 2006 18:58 (twenty years ago)

i have to admit i had thought his "health problems" were just more b.s. to delay the trial. i guess not.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 11 March 2006 19:04 (twenty years ago)

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!!!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 11 March 2006 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Rest in peace.
Vladimir, Belgrade

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Moronic

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 11 March 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)

It's pronounced "Milosovic".
(that said, good riddance)

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 11 March 2006 19:21 (twenty years ago)

unbelievable the hate spouting on the bbc's site

― Mitya (mitya), Saturday, 11 March 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Meanwhile Radovan Karadzic and his army commander Ratko Mladic, the main men bedind the Srebrenica massacre, continue to evade arrest, and have become folk heroes for some Serbs.

― paulhw (paulhw), Saturday, 11 March 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, what's crossed my mind is the obvious implication some there will draw that to surrender to the court will be a death sentence regardless. Ergo, even less incentive to surrender.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 March 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

he's laywer claims he was poisened.
He says thats what he told him the night before he died.

― catarzi, Saturday, 11 March 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Meanwhile Radovan Karadzic and his army commander Ratko Mladic, the main men bedind the Srebrenica massacre, continue to evade arrest, and have become folk heroes for some Serbs.

My theory is that this will up the pressure on Mladic and Karadzic, as the international community will want someone senior to stand trial for all this.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 12 March 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Probably. It seems like they've been getting closer to Mladic recently. Of course, the other possibility is that all this "The West just wants to kill them" sentiment we're seeing will lead those people who have been helpng Karadzic and Mladic for the last ten years to be even more committed to hiding them.

One of the talking heads (or voices, I guess, since it was radio) commenting today spoke to this today, saying that while of course they wanted these people, they had really only been following Milosevic's orders... Something about the way she said it conveyed the chilling feeling that their trials would be much more difficult with Milosevic dead.

― Mitya (mitya), Sunday, 12 March 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

wot ESTEBAN sai'd

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 12 March 2006 15:48 (twenty years ago)

It was a heart attack.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 12 March 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

But you know people aren't going to believe that.

― Mitya (mitya), Sunday, 12 March 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

whoa:

'Mixed drugs' in Milosevic's blood

― amateurist0, Monday, 13 March 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

unbelievable the hate spouting on the bbc's site
-- Mitya (mitya_il...), March 11th, 2006.

eh?

this is clearly in the interests of europe's leaders; the bad man is dead and his soapbox kicked away. the complexity of the yugoslav war can be boiled down to srebrenica and everyone can forget about western europe's complicity in the break-up.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

this is clearly in the interests of europe's leaders

Cynicism taken to the point of completely disotorting reality. The media and the broader world took very little he said during the trial seriously, portraying them as the rantings of a mad man. Had he been convicted -- which, if all the Slobo-loving conspiracy theorists should admit, was guaranteed -- then everything he said would have been discredited. All convicts say they didn't do it.

By dying without a verdict, his "innocence" can still be claimed, plus "the West" can be blamed for his death. This outcome is the worst possible for Europe.

― Mitya (mitya), Monday, 13 March 2006 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I was at an interesting talk today, where this guy held up the front covers of Serbia's most read daily papers from Sunday. "MURDERED" was a typical headline.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

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