BBC (Feb 25): Prosecutors fail to deliver 'smoking gun' against Milosevic

[Jack Rabbit]

From the BBC Online
Dated Wednesday February 25

Prosecutors fail to deliver "smoking gun"
By Jon Silverman
Legal affairs analyst

By charging Slobodan Milosevic with genocide, the prosecutors at his trial set the bar as high as they could in international law.
Under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, there are two constituent elements to establish.
One, the physical killing of members of a racial, national or ethnic group.
The second, an intention to destroy, in whole or in part, such a group.
Now that the prosecution has completed its case after 295 court days, the judges in The Hague will have to determine firstly whether Yugoslav and Bosnian Serb forces set out to destroy Muslims and Croats "as such" - or whether the deaths were an unpremeditated result of their aim to establish Serb control over territory they coveted.

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The Milosevic case can be used for a discussion on the effectiveness of international humanitarian law.

[el_gato]

1. or perhaps that was just another dirty war

and the case against milosevic was exaggerated to justify it

[ex_jew]

2. Ship him to Gitmo !

I'm sure our tribunal could find him guilty of "conspiracy to commit a war crime" or some such tripe.