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Jasmina Tesanovic, sobre la muerte de Milosevic

Belgrade, March 11, 2006 1. p.m

Slobodan Milosevic Died

B92* is unofficially reporting this news from Hague prison. His family has been contacted.

A few days ago, Milan Babic, a Serbian leader convicted of war crimes committed suicide in the Hague, before he could testify against others indicted for war crimes, including Milosevic.

Two years ago, Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic who arrested Milosevic and sent him to Hague in 2001 was killed almost on the same day.

A few days ago Milosevic was denied permission to travel to Russia for medical care.

This is a bad moment for justice and the war tribunal.

The head judge in the trial against Milosevic died too some time ago. But the trial went on. Milosevic was accused of genocide in Bosnia, among other crimes elsewhere. Those people are unable to plead justice, someone else will have to do it for them all.

A backlash is expected in this much criticized process, as well as on the grim local political scene. Serbia is divided, each of the two sides in the historical postwar trial is consolidating, the streets may get hot as when Milosevic seized power, waged wars and was toppled by a million Serbian people. This so called transition towards truth and reconciliation may become a dangerous transition to nowhere.

2.30 p.m.
Milosevic's lawyer is raving live on B92 TV that he was killed by medical neglect. The journalist is arguing that the trial was interrupted often because of his health condition and that he always refused help from lawyers to share the burden but insisted on defending himself. The highest ranked officer in the first war crime tribunal in the world accused of 66 different crimes will not be there to face his verdict.

My father has a sentimental tone while he is telling me the breaking news. My daughter is phoning me too, she says, nobody gives a damn really among my friends, he was a dead man anyway.

His party members here are officially declaring: Milosevic was killed in the Hague by the Hague.

Vuk Draskovic, current minister of foreign affairs, says; he killed a lot of people, politicians and tried to kill me too several times. I don’t feel sorry. A mother from Srebrenica whose family was killed by the Serbian military says: God's justice has got him.

A Serbian journalist is commenting on CNN, we Serbs are sentimental when it comes to death. We always feel sorry whoever it may be. Why is she using this word

WE...I am among her WE.

A writer who wrote four books about Slobodan Milosevic criticizing him severely is speaking live, he says he feels awkward because notwithstanding his political opinions he thinks that he was not the only one to blame and to bear the burden of all the crimes. He claims that the Hague tribunal is proving to be a failure and that Serbia is being victimized objectively by international pressures. It's a pity that the Serbs could not afford and organize their own war tribunals.

I have the deja vu feeling as all media in different languages are repeating the same news that we are the center of the world... a country which hardly exists except for the amount of bad news it can produce.

Milosevic was my biggest marketing tool, really. His myth has nothing to do with his death, today or yesterday or tomorrow. What he did cannot be undone. Serbian doctors will take part in the autopsy in the Hague and speculations are already going on as to where is he going to be buried. Hopefully not next to the politicians and journalists he killed in the fancy graveyard of heroes in downtown Belgrade.

* B92, televisión de Belgrado.

Publicado por magda Marzo 12, 2006 09:18 PM