Milosevic on trial

[old-reb]

Who's on trial?

Milosevic says:

This is the first opportunity that I have been given after seven months here to address the public.

Over the past two days all the prosecutors that we have heard here have uttered one particular sentence - that is to say that they are just trying an individual...


In this false indictment they have gone even further than anybody's imagination could have forecast

So they're trying an individual and not a nation. All three prosecutors said that.

But in all the indictments, they are accusing the whole nation, beginning with the Serb intelligentsia... We even heard quotations from the memorandum issued by the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences which were allegedly the ideological groundwork and foundation for the crimes committed against the Albanians...

Everybody who lent support - the government, the parliament, the various political organisations, the media - they all stand accused here...

We just agree on one point here that my conduct was the expression of the will of the people, but the prosecution's accusing the population of supporting me...

They are accusing the army and the police, the volunteers and the territorial defence... He [the prosecutor] probably thinks that I am superhuman... and ascribed to me some magical god-like powers.

Struggle against terrorism

The Americans go right the other side of the globe to fight against terrorism - in Afghanistan, a case in point, right the other side of the world, and that is considered to be logical and normal.

Whereas here the struggle against terrorism in the heart of one's own country, in one's own home, is considered to be a crime.


Our defence was a heroic defence, a heroic defence from the aggression launched by Nato

In this false indictment they have gone even further than anybody's imagination could have forecast or conjured up. They even claim - and we have heard this over the past two days - that I intentionally caused the later aggression and war against Yugoslavia and the sufferings of millions of its citizens for the sole purpose of using this occasion to kill the Albanians.

Now I have to ask myself - could they have thought up anything more intelligent? They even go further...

They say I was not interested in any borders but just one single border - the border between what was Serbian and not Serbian... Serbia and I personally, therefore, are alleged to be waging a policy of genocide outside Serbia. But this policy of genocide somehow does not seem to exist in Serbia for which we are solely responsible...

'Heroic' defence

They want to ascribe to me responsibility and accountability for everything that they themselves did and all the crimes that they perpetrated themselves...

Our defence was a heroic defence, a heroic defence from the aggression launched by Nato... Now this is an outrage against a whole people - against a whole nation...

That fact is the day and night bombing of Kosovo - day and night bombing. Twenty-four hours round the clock every day for 78 days at which the alarm was sounded every day.

People were on the alert for 24 hours - now they wish to negate that fact by bringing witnesses here who are going to say that they in fact fled from Serb forces - as you call the army and police...
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You tell them, Milosevic,

I agreed with you from the beginning!!
This is one time the USA was wrong.

old reb


[Edited by old-reb on 14th February 2002 at 19:55]

[victorweed]

Damm, well said slobo, the US made a huge mistake they bombed the wrong guys. Those albanians, Kosovars and those other roaches over there are the crooks and war criminals. He did the world a favor in fighting them. That tribunal is a joke. free slobo! Those Muslims commited many war crimes against Serbs and continue in Kosovo. He did the world a favor in reducing their population.

[old-reb]

Hello Victorweed,

Hey, I love your candid opinions, it is great to know that there other people that believe we were fighting on the wrong side.

old reb

[Edited by old-reb on 15th February 2002 at 05:24]

[victorhadin]

Milosevic tore his country apart and initiated civil war for power. The man deserves whatever is coming. As for his involvement in genocide and so forth, well that is for others to ascertain, but he initiated a bloody conflict and that alone is worth serious punishment.

[old-reb]

Victor wats hs nam,

One victor wore blue and the other wore grey.

It was my understanding that the whole mess was started when the Wests favorite, Roman Catholic Croatia, tried to drive out Milosevic.

old reb

[victorhadin]

It was my perception that Milosevic tore the country apart for power in what became Serbia. He encouraged civil war leading to the complete breakdown of Yugoslavia. Whether it would have happened anyhow is up for debate, but Milosevic made far more than a contribution to it.

[old-reb]

Here are a few words of truth

Today, to most readers of the mainstream press, the idea that Serbs were not guilty of 'ethnic cleansing' would come as a surprise. The fact that the much-reported mass graves of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo were never found, or that the Serbs were themselves the victims of ethnic cleansing in 1995 in Croatia, (2) and in 1999 in Kosovo, (3) is either not presented or is overwhelmed by the sheer weight and number of assertions of Serbian guilt.

These facts are documented by Parenti, who goes on to describe even more insidious feats of propaganda -- hiding the deeds of the criminals by shifting them onto the shoulders of their victims. For example, in the excerpt above, it isn't the fascist KLA who have been trying to create a "Greater Albania"; it was Milosevic who "attempted to carve a 'Greater Serbia.'" This is complete nonsense.