How ironic that, barely a couple of weeks after musings over the whereabouts of General Ratko Mladic, the man behind the misery of the 1990's in the Balkans is dead. Slobodan Milosevic led Serbia on a wave of nationalism into conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo which cost the lives of around 200,000 people.

We'll never know how the war crimes tribunal at the Hague would have judged him but the bloodshed, brutality and hatred that were the result of his desires for a Greater Serbia mean that few will mourn him.