Officers Charged for Kosovo Killings/Rugova associate shot de ad

[Seth Ackerman]

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> From: 	Michael Pugliese[SMTP:debsian at pacbell.net]
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> Sent: 	Tuesday, April 24, 2001 5:12 PM
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> Subject: 	Officers Charged for Kosovo Killings/Rugova associate shot
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> Tuesday April 24 4:11 PM ET
> Officers Charged for Kosovo Killings
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> BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Nearly 200 Yugoslav army officers and soldiers
> have been charged with committing war crimes in Kosovo, and the trials of
> some have already started, military officials said Tuesday.
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Unfortunately, the Susan Sontags of the world aren't happy with these
domestic Serbian war crimes trials. As the army lawyer quoted in this piece
says, the point of the trials is to show that responsibility for war crimes
lies with the people who committed them - not with the Serbian people. 

By contrast, the point of trying Milosevic at the Hague is to imply
collective guilt - he was the head of state so he can symbolically sit in
for the Serbs as a group. Tudjman was never indicted when he was alive, and
neither was Izetbegovic - but they're just as guilty as Slobo. A few weeks
ago, Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor, insisted she would have indicted
Tudjman. Somehow, of course, it never happened.

Seth