The noose tightens
The Serbian authorities may be preparing to send their former leader to face the UN’s war-crimes tribunal at The Hague
EVEN by the unspeakable standards of recent Balkan history, it was grisly news. The Belgrade authorities said on June 3rd that investigators were examining scores of bodies from several mass graves at undisclosed places in Serbia. They were the corpses of civilians killed in Kosovo, stashed away to hide them from war-crimes probes.
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