Slobo would have then been arrested in the Hague and sent back to Belgrade to face (true) charges.
Paul C. Jesup thinks like a rational person.
Paul, I would submit to you my thoughts as I stated them to a.pole.
The so called ICTY court was supposed to serve 2 purposes - one was a political one as a weapon against resistance in Yugoslavia. The other was to serve as a pilot court for the establishment of the UN's International criminal court.
They did not count on Slobo outfighting them and delaying their case and the UN Court came into being without the glory the trial of Slobo was supposed to shower such a court. In fact the way the Slobo trial was being badly conducted served as a rallying point for those against the UN Intl. Criminal Court. Slobo came close to sabotaging its coming into being.
The other reason - to use Slobo as a tool to make the Serbs compliant and remorseful and accepting of domination failed as well. Serbian resistance to the international community stiffened.
The verdict meant nothing in the context of the above failures.
The show trial was always supposed to end with Slobo being found guilty of genocide. If that happened now people would scoff at the verdict. If they found him innocent of genocide and guilty of the lesser counts that would have made a mockery of the court as well because the international community would be made to look foolish after we were told for years Slobo was Hitler.
He had to die in this manner. In fact I think the trial was delayed by the prosecution this long waiting for him to die before the verdict would be possible.
There is a very old, sometimes forgotten, rule in politics; you don't ever martyr your political enemies, because said martyr(s) can be used as a propaganda rallying point by your other enemies to destroy you.
By killing Milosevic, the World Court has destroyed itself, it just may take a few years for the effects to be felt by the World Court.