Poor old Milosevic couldn't take it any more. <Bear-baiting has been popular for centuries. This is just the latest version. Milosevic has been caged and tormented by fleets of lawyers for years now. Saddam will keep the media and the viewers entertained for ages too. The last thing wanted by many is a quick trial and a quick execution.>
I note that the woman prosecutor was disappointed that her tormentee has escaped further suffering.
He was found not guilty, by virtue of abandonment of the trial, but she is frustrated: <The death of Slobodan Milosevic, a few weeks before the completion of his trial, will prevent justice to be done in his case. However, the crimes for which he was accused, including genocide, cannot be left unpunished. >
She had 4 years of collecting a salary, enjoying power, publicity and the fun of seeing him suffering the lawyerly torments. And possibly poisoning too!
<Milosevic was found dead in his cell early Saturday. A few hours afterwards Zdenko Tomanovic, a Belgrade-based lawyer for Milosevic, told reporters that Milosevic had told him that he feared he was being poisoned [Reuters report] in detention, and had asked Tomanovic to apply for protection on his behalf to the Russian embassy in The Netherlands and to the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow. A spokesperson for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia meanwhile denied suggestions [AFP report] that the Tribunal was in any way responsible for Milosevic's demise. Spokesman Christian Chartier told AFP, "The tribunal has nothing to be blamed for...The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia take[s] the utmost care of its indictees and of [Milosevic] in particular...We cannot be blamed for negligence." >
Well, that was 4 years of fun the prosecutors had, all the while paid by taxpayers. And they got a dead man at the end. Bear-baiting by lawyers ... brrr... what a way to go.
He perhaps should have just pleaded guilty and got rid of the lawyers, except he is one so was perhaps not so aware of his cruel and unusual punishment - eternal legal purgatory.
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