Taking Aim

Milosevic dead

March 11th, 2006 by andy

Former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in his jail cell this morning:

BBC News24 are reporting that he died was of natural causes, although they also mentioned that he had recently been trying to avoid taking medication for his heart condition.

His death is probably the best news for Serbia’s political development in many a year, certainly since his overthrow. Instead of a real live political martyr rotting away in the Hague, Serbian nationalists will have to focus on the far less attractive figure of a dead political martyr, rotting in his grave.

And good news, to be honest, for the West, whose overly earnest attempts to bring Milosevic to justice in the Hague but, at the same time, to be ridiculously fair to the defendant, have been made a mockery of by Milosevic’s (successful) attempts to drag out his trial for years on end.

Anyway, the man’s dead now. Let’s all move on.

Update: Neil Clark isn’t happy.  He titles his post ‘Death of a Political Prisoner‘  and strongly hints that the Hague is responsible by ommission for his death - apparently, they’ve been ignoring medical warnings that he was about to have a heart attack.

Milosevic’s only crime- as I have said no many occasions, was getting in the way of The Empire. For doing that, he has paid a very heavy price. May he Rest in Peace.

Well, it’s an opinion, I suppose.