Coming to Terms with the Past: Former Yugoslavia
Dejan Djokic pinpoints the baleful influences of historical distortion and myth in a troubled area.
An extraordinary exchange occurred in early October 2002 at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, indicted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, at the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague. Milosevic, the ex-president of the latest former Yugoslavia (replaced in 2003 by the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro), conducting his own defence, was cross-examining Stjepan Mesic, the president of Croatia and the last president of socialist Yugoslavia. Mesic had been called by the prosecution to testify about Milosevic’s role in the break-up of Yugoslavia and specifically in the war in Croatia of 1991-92.
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