Comment: Next Comes The Arrest
The indictment of Milosevic will only bring a solution to the crisis if Western leaders find the will to follow it through. That means troops in Serbia.
The indictment of Milosevic will only bring a solution to the crisis if Western leaders find the will to follow it through. That means troops in Serbia.
The end of the war should mark the beginning of a decisive new policy for building democracy, development and real peace throughout the region.
Kosovo's rival Albanian leaders are scurrying back to Pristina, each hoping to be viewed as the people's undisputed chief.
The West's new-found commitment to war crimes investigations risks being perceived as "victors' justice".
As leaders from across the Balkans, the EU, Russia and the United States ready for this weekend's meeting on an economic and political stability pact for the region, old ties still bind former enemies in at least one area.
Heads of states who met Friday in Sarajevo to discuss a stability pact for the Balkans, will be ill-advised to use the West's experience in Bosnia as a model for Kosovo without a full and frank appraisal of their failures there.
Belgrade journalist Milovan Brkic alleges that Milosevic's secret police handpicked a team of defence lawyers to defend Serbs appearing before the Hague Tribunal but ordered them to bury evidence linking the regime to the crimes - even if that meant drivi
Now the epoch of Milosevic is over – and it surely is – Serbs must learn to free themselves from the burden of history and the destructive desire to make and remake it, over and over again.
Croatia's reluctance to deal firmly with the remnants of its World War II fascist history got another airing when a Croatian publisher brought out a reprint of Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler's pre-war book Mein Kampf.
Economic sanctions against Yugoslavia have hit disproportionately against ordinary Serbs. Travel bans, by contrast, are successfully targeting Milosevic's elite.