Sunday, March 12, 2006

Nothing's Simple

So - Slobodan Milosevic is dead.
The official autopsy, attended by a Serbian doctor, gives the cause of death as a heart attack.
The international community considers it has been robbed of a show trial where they could prove that he was a genocidal maniac.
They feel cheated.
Many Serbians consider he was the saviour of the Serbian people.
They feel cheated.
Who is right? I don't know. Certainly thousands of people were killed, possibly for not supporting the Serbian cause, possibly because they came from the wrong side of the Serbian tracks. Possibly, even, because of their religious beliefs and way of life. We will now never know. But even if the trial had come to a conclusion would we ever have known the real truth? I doubt it.
Many diehard Serbs think he was poisoned. There are stories that even Milosevic himself said he thought he was being slowly poisoned. I would like to hear from the Serb representative at the autopsy, if he was truly allowed to have his own opinions.
Whatever happens, no one will be truly satisfied with the present outcome. People will still believe what they want to believe.
Nothing's simple is it?

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