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Lies of the vigilantes: the Srebrenica ruling punctures the false claims that underpin the doctrine of intervention
by John Laughland - The Guardian

"Slobodan Milosevic was posthumously exonerated on Monday when the international court of justice ruled that Serbia was not responsible for the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica ... "

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Criminal proceedings: The case against Slobodan Milosevic would never have held up in a proper court of law
by John Laughland - The Guardian

"I was one of the last western journalists to meet Slobodan Milosevic. Having been called to The Hague as a potential witness, I spent an hour in his cell in January last year. Like most who met him, I found him polite and intelligent. "We will win," he told me. "Freedom is a universal value. They have no evidence against me." Such statements will shock those who have been assured that Milosevic was a nationalist dictator bent on establishing a racially pure Greater Serbia. But civilised societies ought to be reluctant to condone criminal convictions based on hate campaigns ... "

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