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To: mark502inf
we have an indisputably guilty war criminal on trial

You got it wrong. Milosevic cannot be a war criminal as he was not waging any war. He did not commit crimes, unless you count normal anti-guerilla operations within territory of one's own country as criminal.

63 posted on 12/20/2003 7:01:09 PM PST by A. Pole (pay no attention to the man behind the curtain , the hand of free market must be invisible)
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To: A. Pole
we have an indisputably guilty war criminal on trial... You got it wrong. Milosevic cannot be a war criminal as he was not waging any war. He did not commit crimes, unless you count normal anti-guerilla operations within territory of one's own country as criminal.

A. Pole, because most wars are not declared, international customary law makes war contingent upon a state of armed conflict, not a declaration of war. As you yourself stated in your post, the Serbs were conducting "anti-guerilla operations".

Of course, conducting anti-guerilla operations is not illegal and Milosevic is not on trial for "anti-guerilla operations". As the 60+ counts against Milosevic detail, deliberately causing the deaths of thousands of non-combatants is the problem, not fighting guerillas.

I must admit I was trolling a little with the post you responded to. Its one thing to be against the ICTY or Clark. It is entirely another to be for Milosevic. I just wanted to see who would scuttle out of their cyber spider hole to win the "Have a Slivo for Slobo " award.

80 posted on 12/21/2003 1:19:52 PM PST by mark502inf
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