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Article: DEFENDANT MILOSEVIC CHALLENGES TRIBUNAL
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2001
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THE HAGUE - Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of
Yugoslavia, put on a bravura performance at his arraignment on war
crimes charges yesterday, displaying the breathtaking combination of
arrogance, obstinacy, and defiance that confounded the international
community for a decade.
Having dismissed his lawyers the day before, Milosevic, a law
school graduate who never practiced, stood alone in the dock, telling
the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia that he
did not recognize it and considered the proceedings nothing more than
a show trial meant to absolve NATO for its "war crimes" in bombing
Yugoslavia for 78 days in 1999.
When the presiding judge, Richard May of ...