Clark tesitifies at Milosevic trial
It's closure with a man who caused the deaths ... or is alleged to have caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the homelessness and refugee burden throughout Europe. There were murders and rapes and thousands expelled and people imprisoned and bludgeoned and murdered, including the slaughter at Srebrenica. This is the sense of judicial closure, that the world community cares, that it took action, that it brought to justice the alleged perpetrator.
- Gen. Wesley Clark
The long slow march towards justice for Slobodan Milosevic continues. At this rate, he'll walk to the gallows about the time I'm fitted for a drool bucket in the Home For Old, Burned-Out Writers. Now Wesley Clark is getting in on the act. In the end, his testimony will probably be largely decorative, but it is a feather in the cap of the International War Crimes Tribunal to have the man who directed the air war in Kosovo on it's docket.
Milosevic has been on trial since February 2002 charged with ethnic cleansing in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s. He is defending himself against charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. He does not recognize the court....
Clark spoke to Milosevic for more than 100 hours over a period of almost four years in the 1990s when he was a U.S. negotiator at Dayton and later NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.
I realize that international justice is an excruciatingly slow and painfully deliberative process, but can we please hang Milosevic before he (and I) are too senile to be aware of what is taking place? No, I'm not advocating street justice, but when you review the crimes of Milosevic, it is not a stretch to compare him with Adolf Hitler. At the very least, he is guilty of Europe's worst genocide since WWII. Yet he leaves in comfort while the international community makes certain that their i's are dotted and their t's are crossed. This is justice?
