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Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice

Virtually a kangaroo court

John Laughland
Pluto Press, 214pp, £14.99,
Anthony Daniels
Thursday, 1st February 2007

When Slobodan Milosevic died, more than four years into his trial for war crimes, newspapers around the world said that he had cheated justice. It would have been more accurate to say that he had cheated injustice. Had he lived, the judges would have been faced with an unpleasant dilemma: either to find him not guilty, thus casting a lurid light upon the past activities of their employers, the powers that had brought the tribunal into being in the first place, or to find him guilty and to sentence him to a long prison term on evidence that would not have justified a fine for illegal parking.

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