Posted on 16/03/06
The sad drive to paint Milosevic as a martyr
Even in death, Slobodan Milosevic is the victim. As Serbia's leader, he exploited the Serbs' historical feelings of resentment to climb into power and then spread violence through the Balkans. As the defendant in his war-crimes trial, he posed as a victim of a Western conspiracy to blacken his name and defame his people. Now his supporters claim he was murdered in his cell -- victim, yet again, of a plot against the Serbs. "He got killed, he didn't die," says Mr. Milosevic's son Marko, blaming the United Nations war-crimes tribunal in The Hague.
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