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March 14, 2006
Zeljka Grzinic; Rijeka, Croatia
[Zeljka blogs at green-mind.com.]
When the war started, I was 12. From the very beginning I was very aware of the things that were happening - but after some years you get numb - the pictures of rotting children corpses on the TV becomes something you get used to - unfortunately! I was lucky no-one in my family died in the war, so maybe I'm just a little more forgiving than the people who watched their houses burn and their family butchered. I can't speak for them. I can only say that as far as I'm concerned - I'm glad Milosevic is dead because there's an evil less in this world, I'm sorry he's dead because he won't be rotting in a jail the next 20, and (again) I'm glad he's dead because, if he had lived, he would have spent those years in a luxury cell, having more comforts than most of the people who he wronged. I hope he's buried in Belgrade, and I hope his wife will be too worried for her freedom to be present. Everything he touched turned to blood - and I hope karmic retribution is a true concept - if it is, he'll be back as the most downtrodden and wronged person on the planet. And this is me being forgiving! I think people here are mostly relieved that he's dead - with his sugary lies and false indignation he could still sway the naive ones.
After his arrest, and even before - when the war finished, we tried to rebuild our lives not thinking about him - not giving him the satisfaction to hurt us some more from his jail cell by poisoning our thoughts. What happens next? I don't know - but I hope we'll have collective amnesia and forget he even existed. He is a person who deserves to be forgot (because, obviously, the human race doesn't learn from past mistakes).
Posted by Henry Shepherd at March 14, 2006 01:00 PM
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