Slobodan Milosevic dead

Slobodan Milosevic, a brutal dictator whom history will record alongside the likes of Idi Amin, Mobutu Sese Seko and Yasser Arafat, has finally died.

Various news outlets are reporting that Mr. Milosevic was found dead this morning at his cell in The Hague, where he has been standing trial before the United Nations. As CNN notes:

The former Serbian president had been on trial on 66 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

Mr. Milosevic had been on trial since 2002 – for nearly four years – in what had become an absolute mockery of justice. It was his case that had become proof of just how incompetent the UN is and why the international body either needs a firm restructuring or dissolution.

Now he is dead – innocent until proved guilty and unlikely to ever be convicted in a posthumous state. The Grimm Reaper apparently acts faster than the UN's brand of justice.

But at least the man is now dead and the world rid of one of its most brutal, disgusting tyrants. Perhaps the people he once oppressed so monstrously – the survivors – may finally begin to move on.