Milosevic Dead
 

Just heard that Milosevic has died in his cell at the Hague.

www.cnn.com


The world is a slightly better place.


Talk Wrench

Did he have his hands tied behind his back before being shot?

Good riddance to bad rubbish. I'm pleased to see the back of someone responsible for so much pain for so many people.

Navaleye,
I agree, hopefully Blair will be next!:ok:

Bugger. I was hoping he'd get his comeuppance first. Ah well, that'd have probably been a plush residential cell somewhere all too comfortable, so no great loss. :yuk:

Hoo - bloody - ray.

It's Brown not Blair you should worry about!:ok:

personally I'm hoping for Mugabe next.

Of course this is not a good thing. Justice was not done and it leaves the way open for Serbian Nationalist conspiracy theorists to have a field day. Regrettably I think we have just seen the birth of a new Serbian nationalist martyr.

On the plus side our taxes will not be paying for his upkeep anymore . . .

MarkD

Unfortunately for Zim'bob'we there are way too many people willing to step straight into Mugabe's shoes when he does snuff it. These folk have a very real interest in perpetuating the 'system' started by this tin-pot dictator because they are all feeding from the trough.

Africa is a basket case and now it always will be. Quite why the rest of the world feels they can rescue the continent form poverty, AIDS etc is beyond me.

Hoo-bloody-ray!

That will save someone a lot of money in keeping the monster in jail, not to mention removal of a focus for his supporters...

Tragic....very sad news. My heart goes out to all the peole of Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo.

Pureteenlard

Oh you unbeliever. The fires will be burning hot for Slobo down there.

SS

Innocent until proven guilty.... I thought his defence team were doing quite a good job - Perhaps too good........:uhoh:

Perhaps I should have said "Justice was not seen to be done"? :hmm:

I wonder if it was the same bloke who did the recent civil servant? Neat job..

Without wishing to defend the man or any alleged wrongdoings by him or his like, that was the job of Stephen Kay QC, but the term 'Serbian Nationalists' is a quite bizarre turn of phrase, and I think has been used far too often as a detrimental term. Surely every member, and especially the leaders, of any state is a nationalist, and I think rightly so! If TB wasn't a UK nationalist, would there not be an uproar? Are we not nationalist when the rugby is on? (well, some times!), or when we are at war, or arguing with johnny F.

Another point...

Has anyone in the last 10 years ever heard about the Serb mass graves? All we seem to hear about is the wrong doings of 1 side, not the other 2.
I am not defending anyone in particular here, but there were many atrocities by more than just 1 nation. As mentioned before...Innocent until proven guilty, it seems he had already been judged and sentenced.

D

OK it's shorthand. I think the term nationalist has become short for "believes in the superiority of his/her nation"

Don't think that arguing semantics helps though and I heard more than one russian voice on Radio4 claiming that Milosovic was either poisoned or refused medical treatment to hasten his end.

Don't know how to post Google Placemarks but apparently this is where it ended.
Google Earth 52° 6'39.17"N 4°18'2.41"E
Sorry bored.

Pureteenland and Dantura,

The right word for that you want to express (nationalism in sense of believing in supremacy of one's nation or race tha others) is "chauvinist" or "chauvinism".

If you have knowledge about Balkans as you demonstrated the knowledge of words of foreign origin in English...and you obviously have, so bad for Balkans.



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