Milosevic Death May Affect War Tribunals

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Milosevic Death May Affect War Tribunals
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC, Associated Press Writer

BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro - The stock of Slobodan Milosevic already had been rising among Serbs who watched his feisty performances at his war crimes trial at The Hague.

His death makes him a martyr to his supporters and brings into serious question Belgrade's future cooperation with the U.N. tribunal — just weeks before a European Union deadline for Belgrade to hand over fugitive Bosnian Serb wartime commander Gen. Ratko Mladic.

"Milosevic's death will tear to shreds the tribunal's credibility which has seriously been tarnished already," Toma Fila, Milosevic's family lawyer said, pointing to the deaths of other suspects in custody at the detention center near The Hague, Netherlands.

Convicted former Croatian Serb leader Milan Babic, a star witness in the Milosevic trial, killed himself in prison last week, the second time a detainee committed suicide. The first was Slavko Dokmanovic, another Croatian Serb leader, in 1998.

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1. Why does this not suprise me...

The whole place has been unstable for 90 years, and will probably be that way another 90.