Not this **** again! A rotten bastard dies and first thing in everyones mind is who gets the blame. What a nice society we live in. Is there anyone here who belived that the trial would be over in his lifetime? I didn't expect it to be over in my life time! The guy is yet to cause lots of grief, you'll see.
Habeas corpus. For all anyone knows, he was Mother Theresa and Ghandi rolled into one. And if the Hague could not prove his guilt in...what, 5 years time, with no significant breakthrough in sight, playing in their own court by their own rules, it's questionable whether they would ever have secured a conviction. And if not, he shouldn't have been in there in the first place.
Worth noting this is the worst possible outcome for the Tribunal, though; they get blamed for his death and have no chance to prove they were right to detain him in the first place (i.e. through a succesful prosecution).
I disagree. I'm sure everyone at the ICTY breathed a big sigh of relief when Milosevic keeled over, because it's much easier to heap accusations on a corpse than on a living person who'se guilt has to be proven in a court of law. This way, he's guilty by default, whereas if he had lived to see the end of the trial it's likely that the extent of his guilt would have been several notches lower. And it's not like anyone's going to jump to his defense, other than a few Serb nationalists who's media presence is somewhat lower than none.
