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Article: Justice on trial in Yugoslavia: March 31 deadline looms for Belgrade to begin cooperating with Hague war- crimes tribunal.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- February 22, 2001
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When a popular uprising toppled former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic last October, nobody was happier than the chief prosecutor at the international war-crimes tribunal, Carla del Ponte.
The new reformist rulers in Belgrade - anxious, she hoped for good relations with Washington and Europe - would surely hand their old enemy over to the United Nations court in The Hague, where he has been indicted for alleged atrocities in Kosovo.
Four months later, Ms. del Ponte is still waiting. And as the Yugoslav government plays for time, the signs are that she will have to wait quite a bit longer to bring the West's bete noire to the dock.
Mr. ...