Milosevic "trial" synopsis, October 16-30, 2003:
ANTE MARKOVIC APPEARS AT THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: OCTOBER 16, 2003
The 245th day of the so-called “trial” of Slobodan Milosevic began
today in the Hague with the continuation of the secret witness known
simply as “B-1445.” If you remember from yesterday B-1445 was one of
the founders of Alija Izetbegovic’s SDA, and was an MP from Doboj in
northern Bosnia Herzegovina.
B-1445, even though he is a Muslim, claimed to have no idea how the
Muslims managed to arm themselves. This however didn’t stop him from
claiming to know all about how the Serbs were armed. According to
B-1445 Slobodan Milosevic was the one arming the Bosnian Serbs. Of
course B-1445 didn’t produce any evidence that President Milosevic was
doing this, he just made the claim without providing any basis for
doing so.
B-1445 didn’t know anything about the Muslim paramilitary formation
known as Patriotic League either. B-1445 claimed that when the war
broke out the Patriotic League didn’t exist. This was a mistake for
B-1445 because President Milosevic had a document issued by the
Command of the 2nd Corps of the Patriotic League inviting people to
attend the 1st Anniversary celebration of the Patriotic League at a
hotel in Tuzla on November 28, 1992. This of course means that the
Patriotic League was formed on November 28, 1991 – one year before
it’s 1 year anniversary – in other words the Patriotic League was
formed in 1991, well before the outbreak of war.
President Milosevic didn’t stop there either; he had another document
proving that the Patriotic League existed before the war. The document
was dated February 25, 1992 and was issued by the Patriotic League
commander Sefer Halilovic and it stated that the Patriotic League was
already formed into platoons and detachments and had a fighting force
of more than 150,000 men already in February 1992 – again before the
war.
Of course B-1445 tried to claim that the Muslims were unarmed and that
the Serbs attacked Doboj for no reason. President Milosevic, again
with documents, demonstrated that the Muslims in Doboj were armed and
were using their weapons to attack the Serbs with.
President Milosevic even had one document from the B-H Army stating
that 7 Serb tanks, and 3 APC’s were destroyed and that heavy losses
were inflicted on the Serbs precisely in Doboj. But according to
B-1445 the only weapons that the Muslims had were hunting rifles. So
how is it that the Muslims managed to destroy tanks and APC’s with
hunting rifles?
Seeing that President Milosevic was getting the better of him,
“B-1445” resorted to the old “Greater Serbia” rhetoric. Of course
B-1445 couldn’t point to any concrete example where he heard Serbs
discussing the formation of “Greater Serbia,” but he did talk about
how Serbs would express a desire to live in one state. Of course
President Milosevic pointed out that Yugoslavia was one state and that
the Serbs had been living in one state for 70 years, and for that
matter so had the Muslims and the Croats. Therefore, the Serbs were
talking about preserving and remaining in Yugoslavia, and not about
forming any “Greater Serbia.”
To prove his point President Milosevic pulled out a document that was
submitted by the prosecution as an exhibit. It was a statement from
the SDS expressing the sense that Yugoslavia was a state of free and
equal people, and pledging the loyalty of the SDS membership to the
Yugoslav state. Not to any “greater Serbia,” but to Yugoslavia as a
state of free and equal people.
President Milosevic wondered what crime that the prosecution is trying
to prove with such a document; he wondered if it was considered a
crime to express loyalty to one’s country? With that the testimony of
B-1445 ended.
The “tribunal” then asked the parties how much time they all needed to
examine Lord Owen, who will testify as a court witness, but not as a
prosecution witness. The Prosecution asked for two hours, the Amicus
asked for one hour, and President Milosevic asked for one day.
The next witness was Sejo Omeragic a former war reporter for the
Sarajevo daily Slobodna Bosna. Mr. Omeragic traveled from Sarajevo
to Bijelina with Fikret Abdic and Biljana Plavsic on April 4, 1992.
According to Omeragic, when they arrived in Bijelina it was under the
control of Arkan’s Tigers, and the women and children were scared and
seeking shelter at the JNA barracks.
Omeragic’s claim was that both Ms. Plavsic, and the JNA Generals that
were in the area, acted as if they were suborned to Arkan. What he saw
was Ms. Plavsic kissing Arkan, and thanking him for saving the Serbs
in Bijelina and 2 JNA generals greeting Arkan, and this is what was
supposed to prove their subordination to Arkan.
The purpose of the trip was to attend a meeting in Bijelina.
Apparently the meeting was held because the JNA wanted Arkan to leave
Bijelina. The JNA had representatives at the meeting, Arkan was at the
meeting, Ms. Plavsic was at the meeting, and Fikret Abdic attended the
meeting. The witness however, was not allowed to enter the meeting.
The only thing that the witness saw was the parties greeting each
other before the meeting and saying goodbye to each other after the
meeting. He didn’t know how everybody interacted during the meeting
because he wasn’t there.
The main point of Mr. Omeragic’s testimony was not to talk about the
meeting that he didn’t attend it was to smear Fikret Abdic. For those
of you who don’t know Fikret Abdic got the most votes in the 1990
presidential elections in Bosnia, and by all rights he should have
been president instead of Alija Izetbegovic.
Fikret Abdic, was a moderate Muslim and got along well with the Serbs.
He was not a fundamentalist like Izetbegovic, and he didn’t attack the
Serbs like Izetbegovic did. In fact in the 1990 elections many Serbs
voted for him.
Fikret Abdic went on to govern Cazinska Krajina a predominantly
Muslim region around Velika Kladusa in the northwest corner of Bosnia.
Because of Izetbegovic’s warmongering policies Abdic proclaimed
declared the Cazinska Krajina enclave an autonomous republic, and
successfully co-existed there along with the Serbs.
Fikret Abdic is the best proof that the Serbs were not committing any
sort of genocide against Muslims in Bosnia. If the Serbs were
committing genocide then they would have attacked Abdic and the
Cazinska Krajina enclave, but they didn’t, because Abdic wasn’t
attacking them.
It was in fact Izetbegovic who on June 10, 1994 attacked the Cazinska
Krajina enclave and drove Abdic and his Muslim followers out of
Bosnia, because they refused to wage his fascist Jihad against the
Serbs.
Abdic and his followers were driven, by Izetbegovic’s forces, into the
Serbian Krajina in Croatia, and were given refuge there by the Serbs,
until the Croats launched their operation Storm and cleansed Croatia
of practically every last Serb.
Today Fikret Abdic is locked-up in a Croat jail accused of war crimes,
simply because he got along well with the Serbs.
Slobodan Milosevic calls Fikret Abdic “a man of peace.” Mr. Omeragic,
on the other hand, tried to make it sound like Fikret Abdic was a
coward and a quisling who betrayed the Muslims. It was a really
obscene display, but that is what I have come to expect from the Hague
Tribunal.
The final witness was another secret witness. This witness was called
“B-1453.” He was a Muslim traffic cop working for the Serbian police
in Bijelina. The prosecution heavily relied on Rule 89(F) and so I
don’t know what they were trying to prove with this witness.
Slobodan Milosevic, on the other hand, did make some useful points
with this witness. First of all according to B-1453 Arkan was only in
Bijelina because the local population hired him and paid him to come
there. In other words he wasn’t sent there by anybody from Serbia, he
was invited to come there by the locals.
The next useful point was that as a Muslim working for the Serbian
police in Bijelnia, B-1453 didn’t suffer any discrimination. According
to B-1453 there were 12 Muslim traffic police and 25 Muslim regular
police working in the Serbian police department in Bijelina and none
of them was discriminated against.
B-1453 also confirmed that there were Muslims who responded to the VRS
call-up, and joined the Bosnian Serb Army.
The witness concluded and the “court” adjourned for the day. The next
hearing will take place next Tuesday.
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: OCTOBER 21, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
The Hague "Tribunal" heard from 2 witnesses today. A secret witness
codenamed "B-1122," and Ms. Dobrila Gajic-Glisic.
B-1122 was a prominent member of the SDA in Gacko, which the witness
described as a small town in eastern Herzegovina. B-1122 alleged that
there was cooperation between the JNA and units of the White Eagles in
Gacko.
Under cross-examination B-1122 claimed that the SDS had organized the
White Eagle unit that was allegedly in Gacko, and that its ranks were
made-up of local Serbs, with the exception of one man who was called
"Ljubo," who according to a song that the witness heard had been born
in Serbia, the question of whether or not Ljubo had been living in
Bosnia before the war remains unanswered, apparently the song didn't
say.
Of course, like all SDA members, B-1122 complained that the JNA was
dominated by the Serbs. The hypocrisy of the SDA's position here is
amazing. This same witness who complained that the JNA was "a Serb
army," admitted under cross-examination that when the JNA mobilized it
sent call-ups to all citizens of Yugoslavia, but that the SDA
instructed the Muslims not to respond to the call-ups.
Unlike the Muslims, the Serbs carried out their obligation to their
country and joined the JNA when it mobilized. So of course the JNA had
more Serbs in it than Muslims, and for a Muslim SDA member (like
B-1122) to complain that the JNA had too many Serbs in it is really
stupid and hypocritical.
B-1122 had lots of stupid things to say. For example, B-1122 claimed
that more crimes were committed by the Serb (Allied) side than the
Muslim (Nazi) side during the 2nd World War. B-1122 also claimed that
reading Vuk Karadzic's books, singing folk songs, and playing the gusle
(a Serbian musical instrument) incited hatred and nationalism among
the Serbs.
B-1122 claims to have knowledge about a meeting that Gen. Momcilo
Perisic (on behalf of the JNA) attended in Gacko. According to B-1122
Perisic pledged to protect the civilians, pledged to eliminate
paramilitaries, and wanted to form joint patrols in Gacko each made-up
of 1 Serb, 1 Muslim, and 1 JNA soldier.
According to B-1122, after the meeting with Gen. Perisic this alleged
White Eagle unit left Gacko, but allegedly returned a week later.
All in all B-1122 is just another witness whose so-called "evidence"
has nothing to do with Milosevic, nothing to do with Serbia, and is
just a pointless waste of time.
After B-1122 finished, Ms. Dobrila Gajic-Glisic was called. Her
examination-in-chief was incomplete. Mr. Nice would not allow her to
fully answer the questions that he put to her. When she tried to
elaborate and explain how things were he would cut her off and wouldn't
let her give her evidence. Can you imagine what "Judge" May's reaction
would be if President Milosevic ever cut-off a witness and refused to
let them answer the questions? I can hear him now, "Let the witness
answer!" he would say, but today he just sat there like some retarded
bump on a log.
From what I could gather Ms. Gajic-Glisic wrote newspaper articles for
the Serbian daily NIN, and in 1992 she published a book in Serbia
called "Srpska Vojska; Iz Kabineta Ministra Vojnoga" [The Serbian
Army; From the Minister of Defense's Office]. She was the cabinet
chief for the then Serbian defense minister, Mr. Tomislav Simovic. She
was tasked with keeping official notes for the Serbian Ministry of
Defense, she advised the Serbian information minister and was a liaison
to the media.
She was played a tape-recording of an intercepted telephone
conversation between herself, Radovan Karadzic, and Tomislav Simovic.
The interesting thing is that she didn't remember the conversation, nor
did she have any record of it in her notes. Therefore, the possibility
is raised that this intercept is a forgery, and that of course calls
into question all of the intercepts that the prosecutor has produced.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic's appears to be the next insider witness who will
damage the prosecutor's case. Mr. Nice probably knew that he was in
trouble when he heard his witness say, "Comrade Slobodan Milosevic
saved my life, and I wish to take this opportunity to express my
gratitude to him."
Ms. Gajic-Glisic's examination-in-chief will be concluded tomorrow,
and President Milosevic will then have the opportunity to
cross-examine her and clarify all of the points that Mr. Nice has been
endeavoring to obscure and manipulate.
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: OCTOBER 22, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
Ms. Dobrila Gajic-Glisic was cross-examined by President Milosevic
today, and a number of useful points were established, although there
were also some contentious points.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic worked in the Serbian Ministry of Defense from 25
September 1991 until 1 June 1992 and during that time she served as
Gen. Tomislav Simovic's Cabinet Chief for the 2 1/2 months that he
served as Serbia's Minister of Defense, and that is the time period
that she was testifying about.
She wrote a book called "Srpska Vojska; Iz Kabineta Ministra Vojnoga"
[The Serbian Army; From the Minister of Defense's Office], and she
published her notes in the Serbian newspaper "NIN". Most of her
testimony is already public domain and was published in Serbia in back
in 1992.
The first thing that was established was the difference between
paramilitaries and volunteers. Volunteers were suborned to the JNA and
the T.O. in the areas that they were serving in. Paramilitaries were
outside of the system and were not suborned to any legal authority.
According to Ms. Gajic-Glisic the Serbian government only had sketchy
information about paramilitaries. They had information that
paramilitaries were committing crimes in the combat areas, but the
information was incomplete, and so it was difficult to prosecute these
crimes. However, when complete information was available the Serbian
government would undertake legal proceedings against the members of
those illegal paramilitary formations whenever it could.
According to Ms. Gajic-Glisic the Serbian Ministry of Defense only
provided training and logistical support to legal volunteers and not
to any paramilitary formations. In fact the Republic of Serbia took
steps to force the party armies that were raised by the Serbian
Radical Party (SRS) and the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) to suborn
themselves to the command of the JNA, and the local T.O. units in the
areas that they were deployed. It is useful to observe that the SRS
and the SPO were Slobodan Milosevic's political opposition, and that
they had a view to overthrowing him. It should also be noted here that
President Milosevic's party, the SPS, never formed any sort of party
army.
The actions of the Serbian Ministry of Defense were always in
conformity with the laws of the Republic of Serbia, and with the laws
of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). President
Milosevic exhibited the laws on admitting volunteers to the T.O. and
the laws on admitting volunteers to the JNA. These laws included such
things as background checks and security screenings for potential
volunteers. Ms. Gajic-Glisic confirmed that these were in fact the
laws and that the Serbian Ministry of Defense did in fact follow these
laws to the letter.
The JNA and the T.O. were the legally recognized armed forces on the
territory of the SFRY, and the volunteers that were trained and
supported by the Serbian Ministry of Defense were suborned precisely to
those legally recognized institutions. Nothing illegal was afoot
there. Ms. Gajic-Glisic testified that volunteers who came from Serbia
were integrated into the ranks of the JNA and the T.O. and were
treated by their commanders in the same way as the locals who were
serving in their own municipalities.
A lot of time was spent by Ms. Gajic-Glisic talking about some alleged
plan of Simovic's to form a so-called "Serbian Army." Long story short
- no such army was ever established, and so the whole issue is a mute
point.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic had interviewed Gen. Simovic in 1984 and he told her
at that point that if there was ever a war in Yugoslavia it would not
be the result of an attack from a foreign aggressor but that it would
be a conflict between the JNA and the largely mono-ethnic units of the
T.O.. In Slovenia and Croatia Simovic was proven to be correct,
because national armies were in fact formed out of the T.O. units
there, and they did attack the JNA.
In Serbia the T.O. was never transformed into any sort of "Serbian
army," and no "Serbian army" ever was established. The JNA became
predominantly Serb, because the Croats, the Muslims, the Slovenes,
etc... abandoned it and encouraged others to follow suit, nobody
chased them out. They wanted to destroy Yugoslavia, and so they left
its army.
It was established by Ms. Gajic-Glisic that Slobodan Milosevic did not
command the JNA, nor did Defense Minister Simovic. The JNA was
suborned to the SFRY presidency, and not to the president or to the
organs of the Republic of Serbia.
Even though it has nothing to do with President Milosevic, it should
still be noted that the JNA performed admirably. The JNA sought to
separate the warring parties so that conditions could be created for a
political settlement. It was also established by Ms. Gajic-Glisic that
the Republican Staff of the T.O. was appointed by the SFRY presidency.
So it is established that Slobodan Milosevic didn't command the JNA,
he didn't command the T.O. outside of Serbia, he didn't even appoint
the Republican Staff of the T.O. inside of Serbia. The volunteers that
were trained and supported by the Serbian Ministry of Defense were sent
to JNA and to T.O. units outside of Serbia where they were suborned to
the command of those JNA and T.O. units - not to any sort of special
command coming from the Republic of Serbia.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic confirmed that Serbia was in favor of finding a
peaceful solution to all of the Yugoslav conflicts. She confirmed that
it was President Milosevic's position from the outset that the Vance
Plan should be adopted so that UN peacekeepers could come into Croatia
and separate the warring parties there. She even claimed that
President Milosevic exerted pressure on Milan Babic to get him to
accept the Vance Plan.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic went on to state that there were never any plans to
create any sort of "greater Serbia" that it was in fact Serbia and
President Milosevic's position that Yugoslavia should be preserved.
She stated categorically that no plans were ever made in the Serbian
Ministry of Defense, nor did she know of any plans by the Government
of Serbia to persecute non-Serbs. In fact she claimed that there were
non-Serbs employed in the Serbian Ministry of Defense.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic claimed that it was in fact Croatia who was attacking
the Serbs and not the other way around. She claimed that after Tudjman
came to power that Serbs were, killed, mutilated, and expelled from
Croatia. She explained that those Serbian refugees came to Serbia and
sought shelter even though Serbia had inadequate means to take care of
them.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic explained that Croatia brought itself into conflict
with the JNA by attacking and blockading the JNA barracks in Croatia.
She even said that Croatia shelled the town of Sid, which is inside of
the borders of the Republic of Serbia.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic is a writer, and in 1983 she wrote a book that was
banned by the SFRY authorities. Ms. Gajic-Glisic had previously met
with some businessmen who were close to the American President Ronald
Reagan and they told her that a plan existed whereby Yugoslavia would
be knee deep in blood, greater-Albania would be formed and that the
Serbian people would be attacked and dispersed. She didn't believe
these men at the time, but thought that their story would make a good
book, a work of fiction, and so she wrote the book.
She submitted the book to a Yugoslav publisher in 1983 and when the
publisher called her to come in to the publishing house she found the
the state security service there. They confiscated the manuscript and
she was told never to speak of the book or its contents again.
If this intrigues you, I have to say that it intrigues me too, but the
so-called "Judge" May wouldn't let this topic be discussed, and so I
am sorry that I don't have any more specific information.
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS - OCTOBER 23, 2003: ANTE MARKOVIC APPEARS
AT THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
Ante Markovic, the former Prime Minister of the SFRY, testified at
against Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague "Tribunal" on Thursday.
While he was being examined by Mr. Nice, Markovic was perfectly
content to hurl lies and accusations at Slobodan Milosevic; while
making himself sound like the most courageous man who ever lived. He
told a story about how he refused to have bodyguards and only
protected himself by sleeping with a pistol under his pillow.
But when cross-examination started the tables were quickly turned on
Markovic. President Milosevic had the transcripts from the August 21,
1991 SFRY presidency session, and in those transcripts it was shown
that it was Markovic who exercised control of the JNA.
The transcript showed Markovic himself talking about how * he * sent
JNA into Slovenia to take back the border posts that had been taken
over by the Slovenian T.O. The transcript also showed Slobodan
Milosevic and the Slovene President Milan Kucan taking about how Prime
Minister Markovic had engaged the JNA in Slovenia.
It was clear from the transcripts that it was Markovic who was issuing
orders to the JNA, and it is precisely Markovic who was in charge when
the Yugoslav Federation began to collapse and the events took place in
Dubrovnik and Vukovar.
Markovic couldn't even last 5 minutes under cross-examination before
he was begging "judge" May for protection. He said "I'm not the one on
trial here, I'm the witness!" and "The accused is trying to turn the
indictment against him into an indictment against me, and I ask you to
protect me." Mr. Markovic's courage quickly evaporated and he came off
looking like a little girl hiding behind mommy's skirts.
Markovic was instantly on the defensive - he was trying to say that he
didn't have any power that he was impotent that the JNA wasn't under
his command. So here we have the federal prime minister, the president
of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia saying that he didn't
have any control over the Yugoslav People's Army that it was really
the president of one of the republics who controlled the army through
some friendship that he had with the Federal Defense Minister.
Markovic was quickly exposed as a liar. He testified about a meeting
that he had with Slobodan Milosevic in December of 1991, but what he
didn't know was that President Milosevic had acquired his daily agenda
book that was kept by his cabinet. This agenda book had all of
Markovic's meetings listed in it, who he spoke with on the phone, who
he had lunch with, etc...
The agenda book proved that the meeting that he had testified about
never happened - he was making it up. Even though Markovic was clearly
caught in a lie, he tried to say that it was some sort of a secret
meeting - that he as the Federal Prime Minister sneaked away from his
cabinet and met with the President of Serbia without telling anybody.
His daily agenda also proves that he was not as unimportant as he
professed to be. He frequently met with high level officials both from
inside and outside of Yugoslavia.
Ante Markovic could dish it out, but he couldn't take it. Actually -
he couldn't even dish it out very well. He accused Slobodan Milosevic
of being a dictator. He said that Milosevic had complete and total
control over everything. After he made his speech "judge" May asked
Markovic to give a specific example demonstrating that Milosevic had
this sort of control. Markovic couldn't think of even one example, so
Mr. Nice arranged it so that they could come back to the question
after Markovic had a chance to think for a while.
Mr. Nice did in deed ask the question again, and even after a 20
minute recess had taken place and he had had lots of time to think
about it, Markovic still couldn't think of even one example he could
use to prove his baseless charge that Milosevic was a dictator. That
fool couldn't even think of a good lie.
Mr. Markovic will be back to finish his cross-examination at a later
date at which time Slobo can humiliate him some more.
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: OCTOBER 28, 2003
Michelle Renée, a correspondent of the French TV channel "Arte,"
testified against Slobodan Milosevic today. Mr. René was on assignment
in Hungary when he met up with some refugees who were from Kozluk.
They told him some stories, and so he decided to go to Kozluk to see if
what they were saying was true.
Mr. Renée went to Belgrade to get press credentials so that he could
film in Bosnia. Of course they couldn't give him the proper
credentials in Belgrade, so the people at the Tanjug agency told him
to go to Pale and get his accreditation there from the SRNA agency.
On July 20, 1992 Mr. Renée crossed the Drina River near Zvornik, where
the VRS provided him a military escort and sent him on to Pale. When
he got to Pale he received his accreditation, and was then free to
film anything he wished with no restrictions and no escort.
After receiving his accreditation papers he went to a bar in Pale that
was owned by a Muslim in order to eat some dinner. At this bar he and
his cameraman met two members of the paramilitary formation called the
"White Eagles." He talked to them for 2 hours but didn't get their
names. So in "court" he called one "the man with the pistol" and the
other one "the man with the knife." Both men had been drinking and
they were drunk - "the man with the knife" was apparently more drunk
than "the man with the pistol."
According to Mr. Renée the drunk "man with the knife" said that they
had killed all the Muslims in Kosluk. Of course none of what the drunk
man allegedly said in the bar was on the video tape and so all we have
is Renée's word on this. But none the less it should be obvious how
desperate the Hague Tribunal must be for "evidence" since it is
admitting hearsay about what some unidentified drunk men told some
Frenchman in a bar.
Then according to Renée, after he finished eating, he went to the
White Eagle's base in Pale. He did film this and on the video tape you
could see a bunch of young men fooling around in front of the camera,
and not much else. Then they went on a bus ride, and he filmed this
too. They came back to the base, and then went on another bus ride.
Nobody fired a shot and nobody shot at them. Nothing happened, and Mr.
Renée got that on tape.
The next day Mr. Renée went to Sarajevo and attempted to film the city
from the top of a hill that overlooked the city. While standing on the
top of the hill (which was in Serb territory) Muslim snipers from
inside of Sarajevo fired shots at him, and this is the only footage he
had of actual shots being fired.
On his trip to Bosnia Mr. Renée saw one dead body, a Serb who had been
killed somewhere near Zvornik. He didn't see any dead Muslims. While
he was in Pale he filmed the ruins of some buildings on Serb territory
that the Muslims had destroyed over the course of the fighting.
Mr. Renée never did go to Kozluk, and so he never did verify if what
he was being told by the refugees was true, but what this witness says
doesn't matter anyway since other witnesses have testified about that.
While on his Bosnian adventure, this witness saw a dead Serb, saw some
Serb buildings that had been destroyed, went for a couple of bus rides
with the White Eagles, ate had dinner at bar in Pale that was owned by
a Muslim, and ultimately got shot at by Muslim snipers in Sarajevo. How
any of this is evidence against President Milosevic I'll never know.
The next witness was a secret witness who testified under the
pseudonym of "B-1345." B-1345 was a sad case, he was from Sarajevo, he
lived near the frontlines and he lost his wife and his father in the
war there. He didn't actually see them getting killed and so he is
really a witness to nothing, but he has a sad story to tell and so
that is probably why he was called to testify. Undoubtedly, forcing
this man to relive such tragic events as the loss of his closest
family members can produce some good propaganda for the prosecution,
even if their is no evidentiary value to his testimony.
B-1345 lost his wife in the explosion at the Markale market, but he
wasn't there, and never saw the shell. He also lost his father but
didn't arrive on the scene until an hour after he was already dead.
His situation is certainly a sad one, but since he wasn't there he
isn't actually any sort of witness.
President Milosevic attempted to make some use out of B-1345. He asked
him if he knew about the investigations that had been conducted
regarding Markale, but "judge" May said he couldn't ask about that.
President Milosevic then produced a map of the showing the ethnic
make-up of Sarajevo that was based on the 1981 census of the SFRY. The
map was color coded and showed the areas where Serbs were the
majority, where Muslims were the majority, and where Croats were the
majority.
The witness, who had served in the ABiH, was unable to read the map,
and so President Milosevic couldn't ask him about the map. But the
point that was being made with the map was that the Serbs weren't
laying any sort of siege on Sarajevo. Serbs had always lived in
Sarajevo they weren't occupiers - they lived there, and the fighting
was primarily along the lines where the various ethnic communities
were divided.
The witness did confirm that the ABiH was in Sarajevo and that there
were innocent casualties on both sides, but he couldn't identify where
the opposing parties had their positions at.
The "trial" ended 15 minutes early today.
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: OCTOBER 29, 2003
Today at The Hague “Tribunal” a young lady from the town of Bruska,
Croatia came to testify against Slobodan Milosevic. She was the victim
of a shooting that claimed the lives of nine Croats and one Serb.
She was wounded and was given treatment by Serbian doctors at a
hospital that was on Serbian territory.
She had no idea who shot her. She never saw the perpetrator(s). She is
another witness who is certainly the victim of a crime and has a sad
story to tell, but her testimony had no evidentiary value.
President Milosevic observed that the Serbian authorities in Krajina
condemned this crime, and carried out an investigation, but since the
witness didn’t know anything about the results of the investigation
she was unable to answer any questions about it.
President Milosevic informed her that the investigation had revealed
that it was a lone gunman who had opened fire on these people. But
that the identity of the perpetrator was never known.
The next witness was a secret witness testifying under the pseudonym
of “B-1780.” Allegedly, B-1780 was kidnapped by local Serbs in
Zvornik, taken to the Ekonomija factory farm, and beaten senseless
there by every Serbian paramilitary formation in Bosnia.
He told tall tales about his 4 day stay at the Ekonomija farm. He
claimed that “the Serbs” were cutting Muslim heads off and kicking
them about the room, how they were cutting off hands, how they were
carrying out mass-executions of 7 men at a time, how they would use
knives to cut the skin between people’s fingers and then lick the blood
off of their knives with their tongues. He even said that 15 to 20 men
jumped on him all at once. He was laying it on pretty thick. Of course
he couldn’t identify any of the perpetrators. And neither of the 2
victims that he enumerated has been examined to see if they died in
the manner he described.
B-1780 claimed that he was told by a guard that he had been sentenced
to death by torture. Obviously they didn’t torture him to death,
because he is still alive today.
Eventually B-1780 went to a Serbian hospital and was given medical
treatment, but he said that it was a trick. He said that he was being
given medical treatment by the Serbs because they were trying to kill
him. I know that doesn’t make any sense but that’s what he said.
He was in the Hospital for 4 days, and apparently the trick didn’t
work because B-1780 lived. On the 4th day he told his doctor that he
was feeling OK and the doctor told him that he could go home, so he
went home.
After he got home he said that he could see, from his house, the Serbs
digging a mass grave and putting dead Muslims into it. Of course no
mass grave has been exhumed there, and so we are just expected to take
his word that this happened.
Finally B-1780 left Zvornik and went to a refugee camp at Subotica in
northern Serbia. At the Subotica refugee camp he was given food and
accommodation by the government of Serbia.
The refugees at the camp were issued Yugoslav passports and were free
to go anywhere they wished. This witness and a number of other
refugees went to Vienna.
Apparently B-1780 was engaged in politics somehow, but that couldn’t
be discussed in open session.
President Milosevic used his cross-examination to essentially give the
witness the rope and then he just let the witness him hang himself
with it. After President Milosevic was finished letting the witness
humiliate himself; Mr. Tapuskovic made some useful observations. Mr.
Tapuskovic pointed out that the prosecutor hadn’t provided a stitch of
proof to back-up what the witness was saying. There was no forensic
evidence, and undoubtedly some could have been found had it existed at
all.
Mr. Tapuskovic produced a statement that the witness had given to the
B-H authorities in 1992 about what had happened to him, and in that
statement there were differences between what he told them and what he
said at the tribunal.
For example, at the tribunal he said that the JNA was present at the
Ekonomija farm, but in his 27 December 1992 statement to the B-H
authorities he never mentioned the JNA. Some of the dates were
different. At the tribunal he said that 9 men on a truck had all been
killed, but in his statement to the B-H authorities he said that he
didn’t know what had happened to those 9 men.
B-1780 is a liar. Something probably happened to him, but it was
abundantly clear from watching him that he wasn’t telling the truth.
He was making up stories.
The next witness was another secret witness, a so-called “B-1448.”
B-1448 was a member of some sort of Muslim paramilitary formation in
Brcko. B-1448’s unit killed a Bosnian-Serbian soldier on May 16, 1992,
and B-1448 claimed to have taken some documents off of this soldier’s
corpse.
The documents he took were an identification card, which has since
disappeared, and some receipts. One of the receipts showed that the
soldier had rented a Yugo and driven it to Belgrade a couple of times,
and another one of the receipts was allegedly for some weapons that
were acquired from the armory in Belgrade on June 20, 1992.
President Milosevic spotted the problem right off the bat. The soldier
was killed on May 16, 1992, but the receipt for the weapons was from
June 20, 1992. So how did this dead soldier manage to acquire a
receipt from the future? As far as I know Yugos aren’t time machines.
They can’t transport you to the future and back again.
So much for B-1448’s “evidence,” however a new practice was employed
by the so-called “trial chamber” with this witness. They had what they
called a “limited cross-examination” which meant that President
Milosevic could only ask questions about the dead soldier and the
documents, not about this paramilitary group that the witness belonged
to, and not about the situation in Brcko.
When President Milosevic objected to this new invention, this
so-called “limited cross-examination,” Mr. Kwon tried to console him
by saying that “limited cross-examination is better than no
cross-examination at all.”
Apparently President Milosevic is supposed to just be happy that the
let him cross-examine any of the witnesses at all. After all as Mr.
Kwon has illustrated limited rights are better than none at all.
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: OCTOBER 30, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
There was an abbreviated hearing today at The Hague. The prosecution
didn’t have any witnesses that it could call, so it resorted to
calling itself to testify. The Deputy Prosecutor, Graham Blewitt
testified as a witness for (big surprise) the prosecution.
Mr. Nice presented some of the OTP’s documents to Mr. Belwitt and Mr.
Blewitt confirmed that these documents had been sent by the
prosecution to Belgrade.
Mr. Nice made a special point to ask about the objectivity of the
prosecution, and Mr. Blewitt confirmed that the OTP was indeed
objective and impartial.
Then it came time for cross-examination, and Mr. May announced that
this would be another so-called “limited cross-examination.” Mr. May
prohibited President Milosevic from asking any important questions.
Mr. May the so-called “judge” told President Milosevic, “You will ask
the questions that we order you to ask or else you won’t be able to
ask any questions at all.”
President Milosevic denounced the proceedings as a farce, which they
clearly are, but it was even worse than usual today.
The scope of the cross-examination was limited exclusively to the
documents that Mr. Nice exhibited. Therefore we have the prosecution
essentially placing the limits on the scope of cross-examination by
the defense.
President Milosevic had other documents from the prosecution that
refuted what was in the documents exhibited by Mr. Nice, but he was
prohibited from asking any questions about those other documents.
President Milosevic was prohibited from asking any questions that
could call into question the objectivity of the prosecution, even
though that was a major topic that was discussed by Mr. Nice during
the examination-in-chief.
NATO openly bombed maternity wards, passenger trains, private homes,
civilian office buildings, bridges, television stations, market
places, and all other manner of civilian infrastructure. NATO’s
criminal aggression killed thousands of innocent people throughout
Yugoslavia.
NATO bombed more civilian hospitals than it did Yugoslav Army tanks.
NATO carried out it’s aggression in contravention of all international
law. NATO had no resolution from the UN Security Council to launch its
criminal attack, and NATO was not threatened by Yugoslavia at all.
NATO’s war was pure aggression – every bomb it dropped and every act
of war that it perpetrated against Yugoslavia is a war crime.
Every head of state, and every defense minister, from every NATO
country that participated in that terrorist aggression is a war
criminal. With that aggression NATO transformed itself from a
defensive alliance into a terrorist organization.
What happened today was a total scandal. That false tribunal revealed
its ugly face to the world today. The ICTY is a NATO propaganda
tribunal. Its sole aim is to demonize the Serbian people, and to
protect the criminals who destroyed Yugoslavia.
The fact that the ICTY attacks President Milosevic for executing his
duty as the legally elected head of state, to protect his citizens
from terrorists, while simultaneously refusing to prosecute any of the
crimes committed by NATO proves that this so-called “tribunal” is
nothing more than a propaganda apparatus that exists only to serve
it’s masters in Washington and Brussels.
Of course “limited cross examination” means that no questions can be
asked that call into question the omnipotent wisdom of the so-called
“trial chamber” or the unquestionable objectivity and integrity of the
so-called “prosecution.”
President Milosevic joked with the so-called “judge” May (who is from
England) that he could understand why he was so sensitive to questions
about NATO’s war crimes and the double standard that is applied by the
so-called prosecutor on that score.
The documents brought forward by Mr. Nice concerned requests made by
the OTP that were sent to the authorities in Belgrade, requesting that
they be allowed to come to Kosovo and carry out investigations. These
requests were denied by the FRY authorities because the Hague Tribunal
is illegal, and because Yugoslavia had a functioning judicial system
that was perfectly willing and capable of investigating crimes and
prosecuting criminals on its own.
Because the cross-examination was so severely limited no questions
could be asked about the legality of the tribunal, even though the
legality of the tribunal was mentioned in the documents that Mr. Nice
introduced. As “judge” May explained; the tribunal has already ruled
itself to be legal therefore there is no point in challenging its
legality.
So what we have here is a court that was illegally established by an
organ that has no legal right to establish it, and when it’s legality
is challenged it simply rules it self to be legal, and therefore you
should consider it to be legal too. That is how the Hague Tribunal
works.
Mr. Nice can introduce documents that deal with the legality of the
tribunal, and Mr. Nice can assert that the prosecution is objective.
Mr. Nice can deal with those all of those topics, but President
Milosevic, the man who is supposed to be on “trial,” is prohibited
from asking any questions about the very topics that the prosecutor
himself brings up.
After Blewitt was done with his so-called “testimony” some
administrative matters were dealt with. Mr. Nice proudly announced
that at only 2 years into the prosecution case that the witness list
was finalized, although there were still some changes that they had to
make. So in other words it really isn’t finalized and President
Milosevic still doesn’t know who is going to be testifying against
him, and with that they adjourned.
ANTE MARKOVIC APPEARS AT THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: OCTOBER 16, 2003
The 245th day of the so-called “trial” of Slobodan Milosevic began
today in the Hague with the continuation of the secret witness known
simply as “B-1445.” If you remember from yesterday B-1445 was one of
the founders of Alija Izetbegovic’s SDA, and was an MP from Doboj in
northern Bosnia Herzegovina.
B-1445, even though he is a Muslim, claimed to have no idea how the
Muslims managed to arm themselves. This however didn’t stop him from
claiming to know all about how the Serbs were armed. According to
B-1445 Slobodan Milosevic was the one arming the Bosnian Serbs. Of
course B-1445 didn’t produce any evidence that President Milosevic was
doing this, he just made the claim without providing any basis for
doing so.
B-1445 didn’t know anything about the Muslim paramilitary formation
known as Patriotic League either. B-1445 claimed that when the war
broke out the Patriotic League didn’t exist. This was a mistake for
B-1445 because President Milosevic had a document issued by the
Command of the 2nd Corps of the Patriotic League inviting people to
attend the 1st Anniversary celebration of the Patriotic League at a
hotel in Tuzla on November 28, 1992. This of course means that the
Patriotic League was formed on November 28, 1991 – one year before
it’s 1 year anniversary – in other words the Patriotic League was
formed in 1991, well before the outbreak of war.
President Milosevic didn’t stop there either; he had another document
proving that the Patriotic League existed before the war. The document
was dated February 25, 1992 and was issued by the Patriotic League
commander Sefer Halilovic and it stated that the Patriotic League was
already formed into platoons and detachments and had a fighting force
of more than 150,000 men already in February 1992 – again before the
war.
Of course B-1445 tried to claim that the Muslims were unarmed and that
the Serbs attacked Doboj for no reason. President Milosevic, again
with documents, demonstrated that the Muslims in Doboj were armed and
were using their weapons to attack the Serbs with.
President Milosevic even had one document from the B-H Army stating
that 7 Serb tanks, and 3 APC’s were destroyed and that heavy losses
were inflicted on the Serbs precisely in Doboj. But according to
B-1445 the only weapons that the Muslims had were hunting rifles. So
how is it that the Muslims managed to destroy tanks and APC’s with
hunting rifles?
Seeing that President Milosevic was getting the better of him,
“B-1445” resorted to the old “Greater Serbia” rhetoric. Of course
B-1445 couldn’t point to any concrete example where he heard Serbs
discussing the formation of “Greater Serbia,” but he did talk about
how Serbs would express a desire to live in one state. Of course
President Milosevic pointed out that Yugoslavia was one state and that
the Serbs had been living in one state for 70 years, and for that
matter so had the Muslims and the Croats. Therefore, the Serbs were
talking about preserving and remaining in Yugoslavia, and not about
forming any “Greater Serbia.”
To prove his point President Milosevic pulled out a document that was
submitted by the prosecution as an exhibit. It was a statement from
the SDS expressing the sense that Yugoslavia was a state of free and
equal people, and pledging the loyalty of the SDS membership to the
Yugoslav state. Not to any “greater Serbia,” but to Yugoslavia as a
state of free and equal people.
President Milosevic wondered what crime that the prosecution is trying
to prove with such a document; he wondered if it was considered a
crime to express loyalty to one’s country? With that the testimony of
B-1445 ended.
The “tribunal” then asked the parties how much time they all needed to
examine Lord Owen, who will testify as a court witness, but not as a
prosecution witness. The Prosecution asked for two hours, the Amicus
asked for one hour, and President Milosevic asked for one day.
The next witness was Sejo Omeragic a former war reporter for the
Sarajevo daily Slobodna Bosna. Mr. Omeragic traveled from Sarajevo
to Bijelina with Fikret Abdic and Biljana Plavsic on April 4, 1992.
According to Omeragic, when they arrived in Bijelina it was under the
control of Arkan’s Tigers, and the women and children were scared and
seeking shelter at the JNA barracks.
Omeragic’s claim was that both Ms. Plavsic, and the JNA Generals that
were in the area, acted as if they were suborned to Arkan. What he saw
was Ms. Plavsic kissing Arkan, and thanking him for saving the Serbs
in Bijelina and 2 JNA generals greeting Arkan, and this is what was
supposed to prove their subordination to Arkan.
The purpose of the trip was to attend a meeting in Bijelina.
Apparently the meeting was held because the JNA wanted Arkan to leave
Bijelina. The JNA had representatives at the meeting, Arkan was at the
meeting, Ms. Plavsic was at the meeting, and Fikret Abdic attended the
meeting. The witness however, was not allowed to enter the meeting.
The only thing that the witness saw was the parties greeting each
other before the meeting and saying goodbye to each other after the
meeting. He didn’t know how everybody interacted during the meeting
because he wasn’t there.
The main point of Mr. Omeragic’s testimony was not to talk about the
meeting that he didn’t attend it was to smear Fikret Abdic. For those
of you who don’t know Fikret Abdic got the most votes in the 1990
presidential elections in Bosnia, and by all rights he should have
been president instead of Alija Izetbegovic.
Fikret Abdic, was a moderate Muslim and got along well with the Serbs.
He was not a fundamentalist like Izetbegovic, and he didn’t attack the
Serbs like Izetbegovic did. In fact in the 1990 elections many Serbs
voted for him.
Fikret Abdic went on to govern Cazinska Krajina a predominantly
Muslim region around Velika Kladusa in the northwest corner of Bosnia.
Because of Izetbegovic’s warmongering policies Abdic proclaimed
declared the Cazinska Krajina enclave an autonomous republic, and
successfully co-existed there along with the Serbs.
Fikret Abdic is the best proof that the Serbs were not committing any
sort of genocide against Muslims in Bosnia. If the Serbs were
committing genocide then they would have attacked Abdic and the
Cazinska Krajina enclave, but they didn’t, because Abdic wasn’t
attacking them.
It was in fact Izetbegovic who on June 10, 1994 attacked the Cazinska
Krajina enclave and drove Abdic and his Muslim followers out of
Bosnia, because they refused to wage his fascist Jihad against the
Serbs.
Abdic and his followers were driven, by Izetbegovic’s forces, into the
Serbian Krajina in Croatia, and were given refuge there by the Serbs,
until the Croats launched their operation Storm and cleansed Croatia
of practically every last Serb.
Today Fikret Abdic is locked-up in a Croat jail accused of war crimes,
simply because he got along well with the Serbs.
Slobodan Milosevic calls Fikret Abdic “a man of peace.” Mr. Omeragic,
on the other hand, tried to make it sound like Fikret Abdic was a
coward and a quisling who betrayed the Muslims. It was a really
obscene display, but that is what I have come to expect from the Hague
Tribunal.
The final witness was another secret witness. This witness was called
“B-1453.” He was a Muslim traffic cop working for the Serbian police
in Bijelina. The prosecution heavily relied on Rule 89(F) and so I
don’t know what they were trying to prove with this witness.
Slobodan Milosevic, on the other hand, did make some useful points
with this witness. First of all according to B-1453 Arkan was only in
Bijelina because the local population hired him and paid him to come
there. In other words he wasn’t sent there by anybody from Serbia, he
was invited to come there by the locals.
The next useful point was that as a Muslim working for the Serbian
police in Bijelnia, B-1453 didn’t suffer any discrimination. According
to B-1453 there were 12 Muslim traffic police and 25 Muslim regular
police working in the Serbian police department in Bijelina and none
of them was discriminated against.
B-1453 also confirmed that there were Muslims who responded to the VRS
call-up, and joined the Bosnian Serb Army.
The witness concluded and the “court” adjourned for the day. The next
hearing will take place next Tuesday.
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: OCTOBER 21, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
The Hague "Tribunal" heard from 2 witnesses today. A secret witness
codenamed "B-1122," and Ms. Dobrila Gajic-Glisic.
B-1122 was a prominent member of the SDA in Gacko, which the witness
described as a small town in eastern Herzegovina. B-1122 alleged that
there was cooperation between the JNA and units of the White Eagles in
Gacko.
Under cross-examination B-1122 claimed that the SDS had organized the
White Eagle unit that was allegedly in Gacko, and that its ranks were
made-up of local Serbs, with the exception of one man who was called
"Ljubo," who according to a song that the witness heard had been born
in Serbia, the question of whether or not Ljubo had been living in
Bosnia before the war remains unanswered, apparently the song didn't
say.
Of course, like all SDA members, B-1122 complained that the JNA was
dominated by the Serbs. The hypocrisy of the SDA's position here is
amazing. This same witness who complained that the JNA was "a Serb
army," admitted under cross-examination that when the JNA mobilized it
sent call-ups to all citizens of Yugoslavia, but that the SDA
instructed the Muslims not to respond to the call-ups.
Unlike the Muslims, the Serbs carried out their obligation to their
country and joined the JNA when it mobilized. So of course the JNA had
more Serbs in it than Muslims, and for a Muslim SDA member (like
B-1122) to complain that the JNA had too many Serbs in it is really
stupid and hypocritical.
B-1122 had lots of stupid things to say. For example, B-1122 claimed
that more crimes were committed by the Serb (Allied) side than the
Muslim (Nazi) side during the 2nd World War. B-1122 also claimed that
reading Vuk Karadzic's books, singing folk songs, and playing the gusle
(a Serbian musical instrument) incited hatred and nationalism among
the Serbs.
B-1122 claims to have knowledge about a meeting that Gen. Momcilo
Perisic (on behalf of the JNA) attended in Gacko. According to B-1122
Perisic pledged to protect the civilians, pledged to eliminate
paramilitaries, and wanted to form joint patrols in Gacko each made-up
of 1 Serb, 1 Muslim, and 1 JNA soldier.
According to B-1122, after the meeting with Gen. Perisic this alleged
White Eagle unit left Gacko, but allegedly returned a week later.
All in all B-1122 is just another witness whose so-called "evidence"
has nothing to do with Milosevic, nothing to do with Serbia, and is
just a pointless waste of time.
After B-1122 finished, Ms. Dobrila Gajic-Glisic was called. Her
examination-in-chief was incomplete. Mr. Nice would not allow her to
fully answer the questions that he put to her. When she tried to
elaborate and explain how things were he would cut her off and wouldn't
let her give her evidence. Can you imagine what "Judge" May's reaction
would be if President Milosevic ever cut-off a witness and refused to
let them answer the questions? I can hear him now, "Let the witness
answer!" he would say, but today he just sat there like some retarded
bump on a log.
From what I could gather Ms. Gajic-Glisic wrote newspaper articles for
the Serbian daily NIN, and in 1992 she published a book in Serbia
called "Srpska Vojska; Iz Kabineta Ministra Vojnoga" [The Serbian
Army; From the Minister of Defense's Office]. She was the cabinet
chief for the then Serbian defense minister, Mr. Tomislav Simovic. She
was tasked with keeping official notes for the Serbian Ministry of
Defense, she advised the Serbian information minister and was a liaison
to the media.
She was played a tape-recording of an intercepted telephone
conversation between herself, Radovan Karadzic, and Tomislav Simovic.
The interesting thing is that she didn't remember the conversation, nor
did she have any record of it in her notes. Therefore, the possibility
is raised that this intercept is a forgery, and that of course calls
into question all of the intercepts that the prosecutor has produced.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic's appears to be the next insider witness who will
damage the prosecutor's case. Mr. Nice probably knew that he was in
trouble when he heard his witness say, "Comrade Slobodan Milosevic
saved my life, and I wish to take this opportunity to express my
gratitude to him."
Ms. Gajic-Glisic's examination-in-chief will be concluded tomorrow,
and President Milosevic will then have the opportunity to
cross-examine her and clarify all of the points that Mr. Nice has been
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: OCTOBER 22, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
Ms. Dobrila Gajic-Glisic was cross-examined by President Milosevic
today, and a number of useful points were established, although there
were also some contentious points.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic worked in the Serbian Ministry of Defense from 25
September 1991 until 1 June 1992 and during that time she served as
Gen. Tomislav Simovic's Cabinet Chief for the 2 1/2 months that he
served as Serbia's Minister of Defense, and that is the time period
that she was testifying about.
She wrote a book called "Srpska Vojska; Iz Kabineta Ministra Vojnoga"
[The Serbian Army; From the Minister of Defense's Office], and she
published her notes in the Serbian newspaper "NIN". Most of her
testimony is already public domain and was published in Serbia in back
in 1992.
The first thing that was established was the difference between
paramilitaries and volunteers. Volunteers were suborned to the JNA and
the T.O. in the areas that they were serving in. Paramilitaries were
outside of the system and were not suborned to any legal authority.
According to Ms. Gajic-Glisic the Serbian government only had sketchy
information about paramilitaries. They had information that
paramilitaries were committing crimes in the combat areas, but the
information was incomplete, and so it was difficult to prosecute these
crimes. However, when complete information was available the Serbian
government would undertake legal proceedings against the members of
those illegal paramilitary formations whenever it could.
According to Ms. Gajic-Glisic the Serbian Ministry of Defense only
provided training and logistical support to legal volunteers and not
to any paramilitary formations. In fact the Republic of Serbia took
steps to force the party armies that were raised by the Serbian
Radical Party (SRS) and the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) to suborn
themselves to the command of the JNA, and the local T.O. units in the
areas that they were deployed. It is useful to observe that the SRS
and the SPO were Slobodan Milosevic's political opposition, and that
they had a view to overthrowing him. It should also be noted here that
President Milosevic's party, the SPS, never formed any sort of party
army.
The actions of the Serbian Ministry of Defense were always in
conformity with the laws of the Republic of Serbia, and with the laws
of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). President
Milosevic exhibited the laws on admitting volunteers to the T.O. and
the laws on admitting volunteers to the JNA. These laws included such
things as background checks and security screenings for potential
volunteers. Ms. Gajic-Glisic confirmed that these were in fact the
laws and that the Serbian Ministry of Defense did in fact follow these
laws to the letter.
The JNA and the T.O. were the legally recognized armed forces on the
territory of the SFRY, and the volunteers that were trained and
supported by the Serbian Ministry of Defense were suborned precisely to
those legally recognized institutions. Nothing illegal was afoot
there. Ms. Gajic-Glisic testified that volunteers who came from Serbia
were integrated into the ranks of the JNA and the T.O. and were
treated by their commanders in the same way as the locals who were
serving in their own municipalities.
A lot of time was spent by Ms. Gajic-Glisic talking about some alleged
plan of Simovic's to form a so-called "Serbian Army." Long story short
- no such army was ever established, and so the whole issue is a mute
point.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic had interviewed Gen. Simovic in 1984 and he told her
at that point that if there was ever a war in Yugoslavia it would not
be the result of an attack from a foreign aggressor but that it would
be a conflict between the JNA and the largely mono-ethnic units of the
T.O.. In Slovenia and Croatia Simovic was proven to be correct,
because national armies were in fact formed out of the T.O. units
there, and they did attack the JNA.
In Serbia the T.O. was never transformed into any sort of "Serbian
army," and no "Serbian army" ever was established. The JNA became
predominantly Serb, because the Croats, the Muslims, the Slovenes,
etc... abandoned it and encouraged others to follow suit, nobody
chased them out. They wanted to destroy Yugoslavia, and so they left
its army.
It was established by Ms. Gajic-Glisic that Slobodan Milosevic did not
command the JNA, nor did Defense Minister Simovic. The JNA was
suborned to the SFRY presidency, and not to the president or to the
organs of the Republic of Serbia.
Even though it has nothing to do with President Milosevic, it should
still be noted that the JNA performed admirably. The JNA sought to
separate the warring parties so that conditions could be created for a
political settlement. It was also established by Ms. Gajic-Glisic that
the Republican Staff of the T.O. was appointed by the SFRY presidency.
So it is established that Slobodan Milosevic didn't command the JNA,
he didn't command the T.O. outside of Serbia, he didn't even appoint
the Republican Staff of the T.O. inside of Serbia. The volunteers that
were trained and supported by the Serbian Ministry of Defense were sent
to JNA and to T.O. units outside of Serbia where they were suborned to
the command of those JNA and T.O. units - not to any sort of special
command coming from the Republic of Serbia.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic confirmed that Serbia was in favor of finding a
peaceful solution to all of the Yugoslav conflicts. She confirmed that
it was President Milosevic's position from the outset that the Vance
Plan should be adopted so that UN peacekeepers could come into Croatia
and separate the warring parties there. She even claimed that
President Milosevic exerted pressure on Milan Babic to get him to
accept the Vance Plan.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic went on to state that there were never any plans to
create any sort of "greater Serbia" that it was in fact Serbia and
President Milosevic's position that Yugoslavia should be preserved.
She stated categorically that no plans were ever made in the Serbian
Ministry of Defense, nor did she know of any plans by the Government
of Serbia to persecute non-Serbs. In fact she claimed that there were
non-Serbs employed in the Serbian Ministry of Defense.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic claimed that it was in fact Croatia who was attacking
the Serbs and not the other way around. She claimed that after Tudjman
came to power that Serbs were, killed, mutilated, and expelled from
Croatia. She explained that those Serbian refugees came to Serbia and
sought shelter even though Serbia had inadequate means to take care of
them.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic explained that Croatia brought itself into conflict
with the JNA by attacking and blockading the JNA barracks in Croatia.
She even said that Croatia shelled the town of Sid, which is inside of
the borders of the Republic of Serbia.
Ms. Gajic-Glisic is a writer, and in 1983 she wrote a book that was
banned by the SFRY authorities. Ms. Gajic-Glisic had previously met
with some businessmen who were close to the American President Ronald
Reagan and they told her that a plan existed whereby Yugoslavia would
be knee deep in blood, greater-Albania would be formed and that the
Serbian people would be attacked and dispersed. She didn't believe
these men at the time, but thought that their story would make a good
book, a work of fiction, and so she wrote the book.
She submitted the book to a Yugoslav publisher in 1983 and when the
publisher called her to come in to the publishing house she found the
the state security service there. They confiscated the manuscript and
she was told never to speak of the book or its contents again.
If this intrigues you, I have to say that it intrigues me too, but the
so-called "Judge" May wouldn't let this topic be discussed, and so I
am sorry that I don't have any more specific information.
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS - OCTOBER 23, 2003: ANTE MARKOVIC APPEARS
AT THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
Ante Markovic, the former Prime Minister of the SFRY, testified at
against Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague "Tribunal" on Thursday.
While he was being examined by Mr. Nice, Markovic was perfectly
content to hurl lies and accusations at Slobodan Milosevic; while
making himself sound like the most courageous man who ever lived. He
told a story about how he refused to have bodyguards and only
protected himself by sleeping with a pistol under his pillow.
But when cross-examination started the tables were quickly turned on
Markovic. President Milosevic had the transcripts from the August 21,
1991 SFRY presidency session, and in those transcripts it was shown
that it was Markovic who exercised control of the JNA.
The transcript showed Markovic himself talking about how * he * sent
JNA into Slovenia to take back the border posts that had been taken
over by the Slovenian T.O. The transcript also showed Slobodan
Milosevic and the Slovene President Milan Kucan taking about how Prime
Minister Markovic had engaged the JNA in Slovenia.
It was clear from the transcripts that it was Markovic who was issuing
orders to the JNA, and it is precisely Markovic who was in charge when
the Yugoslav Federation began to collapse and the events took place in
Dubrovnik and Vukovar.
Markovic couldn't even last 5 minutes under cross-examination before
he was begging "judge" May for protection. He said "I'm not the one on
trial here, I'm the witness!" and "The accused is trying to turn the
indictment against him into an indictment against me, and I ask you to
protect me." Mr. Markovic's courage quickly evaporated and he came off
looking like a little girl hiding behind mommy's skirts.
Markovic was instantly on the defensive - he was trying to say that he
didn't have any power that he was impotent that the JNA wasn't under
his command. So here we have the federal prime minister, the president
of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia saying that he didn't
have any control over the Yugoslav People's Army that it was really
the president of one of the republics who controlled the army through
some friendship that he had with the Federal Defense Minister.
Markovic was quickly exposed as a liar. He testified about a meeting
that he had with Slobodan Milosevic in December of 1991, but what he
didn't know was that President Milosevic had acquired his daily agenda
book that was kept by his cabinet. This agenda book had all of
Markovic's meetings listed in it, who he spoke with on the phone, who
he had lunch with, etc...
The agenda book proved that the meeting that he had testified about
never happened - he was making it up. Even though Markovic was clearly
caught in a lie, he tried to say that it was some sort of a secret
meeting - that he as the Federal Prime Minister sneaked away from his
cabinet and met with the President of Serbia without telling anybody.
His daily agenda also proves that he was not as unimportant as he
professed to be. He frequently met with high level officials both from
inside and outside of Yugoslavia.
Ante Markovic could dish it out, but he couldn't take it. Actually -
he couldn't even dish it out very well. He accused Slobodan Milosevic
of being a dictator. He said that Milosevic had complete and total
control over everything. After he made his speech "judge" May asked
Markovic to give a specific example demonstrating that Milosevic had
this sort of control. Markovic couldn't think of even one example, so
Mr. Nice arranged it so that they could come back to the question
after Markovic had a chance to think for a while.
Mr. Nice did in deed ask the question again, and even after a 20
minute recess had taken place and he had had lots of time to think
about it, Markovic still couldn't think of even one example he could
use to prove his baseless charge that Milosevic was a dictator. That
fool couldn't even think of a good lie.
Mr. Markovic will be back to finish his cross-examination at a later
date at which time Slobo can humiliate him some more.
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: OCTOBER 28, 2003
Michelle Renée, a correspondent of the French TV channel "Arte,"
testified against Slobodan Milosevic today. Mr. René was on assignment
in Hungary when he met up with some refugees who were from Kozluk.
They told him some stories, and so he decided to go to Kozluk to see if
what they were saying was true.
Mr. Renée went to Belgrade to get press credentials so that he could
film in Bosnia. Of course they couldn't give him the proper
credentials in Belgrade, so the people at the Tanjug agency told him
to go to Pale and get his accreditation there from the SRNA agency.
On July 20, 1992 Mr. Renée crossed the Drina River near Zvornik, where
the VRS provided him a military escort and sent him on to Pale. When
he got to Pale he received his accreditation, and was then free to
film anything he wished with no restrictions and no escort.
After receiving his accreditation papers he went to a bar in Pale that
was owned by a Muslim in order to eat some dinner. At this bar he and
his cameraman met two members of the paramilitary formation called the
"White Eagles." He talked to them for 2 hours but didn't get their
names. So in "court" he called one "the man with the pistol" and the
other one "the man with the knife." Both men had been drinking and
they were drunk - "the man with the knife" was apparently more drunk
than "the man with the pistol."
According to Mr. Renée the drunk "man with the knife" said that they
had killed all the Muslims in Kosluk. Of course none of what the drunk
man allegedly said in the bar was on the video tape and so all we have
is Renée's word on this. But none the less it should be obvious how
desperate the Hague Tribunal must be for "evidence" since it is
admitting hearsay about what some unidentified drunk men told some
Frenchman in a bar.
Then according to Renée, after he finished eating, he went to the
White Eagle's base in Pale. He did film this and on the video tape you
could see a bunch of young men fooling around in front of the camera,
and not much else. Then they went on a bus ride, and he filmed this
too. They came back to the base, and then went on another bus ride.
Nobody fired a shot and nobody shot at them. Nothing happened, and Mr.
Renée got that on tape.
The next day Mr. Renée went to Sarajevo and attempted to film the city
from the top of a hill that overlooked the city. While standing on the
top of the hill (which was in Serb territory) Muslim snipers from
inside of Sarajevo fired shots at him, and this is the only footage he
had of actual shots being fired.
On his trip to Bosnia Mr. Renée saw one dead body, a Serb who had been
killed somewhere near Zvornik. He didn't see any dead Muslims. While
he was in Pale he filmed the ruins of some buildings on Serb territory
that the Muslims had destroyed over the course of the fighting.
Mr. Renée never did go to Kozluk, and so he never did verify if what
he was being told by the refugees was true, but what this witness says
doesn't matter anyway since other witnesses have testified about that.
While on his Bosnian adventure, this witness saw a dead Serb, saw some
Serb buildings that had been destroyed, went for a couple of bus rides
with the White Eagles, ate had dinner at bar in Pale that was owned by
a Muslim, and ultimately got shot at by Muslim snipers in Sarajevo. How
any of this is evidence against President Milosevic I'll never know.
The next witness was a secret witness who testified under the
pseudonym of "B-1345." B-1345 was a sad case, he was from Sarajevo, he
lived near the frontlines and he lost his wife and his father in the
war there. He didn't actually see them getting killed and so he is
really a witness to nothing, but he has a sad story to tell and so
that is probably why he was called to testify. Undoubtedly, forcing
this man to relive such tragic events as the loss of his closest
family members can produce some good propaganda for the prosecution,
even if their is no evidentiary value to his testimony.
B-1345 lost his wife in the explosion at the Markale market, but he
wasn't there, and never saw the shell. He also lost his father but
didn't arrive on the scene until an hour after he was already dead.
His situation is certainly a sad one, but since he wasn't there he
isn't actually any sort of witness.
President Milosevic attempted to make some use out of B-1345. He asked
him if he knew about the investigations that had been conducted
regarding Markale, but "judge" May said he couldn't ask about that.
President Milosevic then produced a map of the showing the ethnic
make-up of Sarajevo that was based on the 1981 census of the SFRY. The
map was color coded and showed the areas where Serbs were the
majority, where Muslims were the majority, and where Croats were the
majority.
The witness, who had served in the ABiH, was unable to read the map,
and so President Milosevic couldn't ask him about the map. But the
point that was being made with the map was that the Serbs weren't
laying any sort of siege on Sarajevo. Serbs had always lived in
Sarajevo they weren't occupiers - they lived there, and the fighting
was primarily along the lines where the various ethnic communities
were divided.
The witness did confirm that the ABiH was in Sarajevo and that there
were innocent casualties on both sides, but he couldn't identify where
the opposing parties had their positions at.
The "trial" ended 15 minutes early today.
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: OCTOBER 29, 2003
Today at The Hague “Tribunal” a young lady from the town of Bruska,
Croatia came to testify against Slobodan Milosevic. She was the victim
of a shooting that claimed the lives of nine Croats and one Serb.
She was wounded and was given treatment by Serbian doctors at a
hospital that was on Serbian territory.
She had no idea who shot her. She never saw the perpetrator(s). She is
another witness who is certainly the victim of a crime and has a sad
story to tell, but her testimony had no evidentiary value.
President Milosevic observed that the Serbian authorities in Krajina
condemned this crime, and carried out an investigation, but since the
witness didn’t know anything about the results of the investigation
she was unable to answer any questions about it.
President Milosevic informed her that the investigation had revealed
that it was a lone gunman who had opened fire on these people. But
that the identity of the perpetrator was never known.
The next witness was a secret witness testifying under the pseudonym
of “B-1780.” Allegedly, B-1780 was kidnapped by local Serbs in
Zvornik, taken to the Ekonomija factory farm, and beaten senseless
there by every Serbian paramilitary formation in Bosnia.
He told tall tales about his 4 day stay at the Ekonomija farm. He
claimed that “the Serbs” were cutting Muslim heads off and kicking
them about the room, how they were cutting off hands, how they were
carrying out mass-executions of 7 men at a time, how they would use
knives to cut the skin between people’s fingers and then lick the blood
off of their knives with their tongues. He even said that 15 to 20 men
jumped on him all at once. He was laying it on pretty thick. Of course
he couldn’t identify any of the perpetrators. And neither of the 2
victims that he enumerated has been examined to see if they died in
the manner he described.
B-1780 claimed that he was told by a guard that he had been sentenced
to death by torture. Obviously they didn’t torture him to death,
because he is still alive today.
Eventually B-1780 went to a Serbian hospital and was given medical
treatment, but he said that it was a trick. He said that he was being
given medical treatment by the Serbs because they were trying to kill
him. I know that doesn’t make any sense but that’s what he said.
He was in the Hospital for 4 days, and apparently the trick didn’t
work because B-1780 lived. On the 4th day he told his doctor that he
was feeling OK and the doctor told him that he could go home, so he
went home.
After he got home he said that he could see, from his house, the Serbs
digging a mass grave and putting dead Muslims into it. Of course no
mass grave has been exhumed there, and so we are just expected to take
his word that this happened.
Finally B-1780 left Zvornik and went to a refugee camp at Subotica in
northern Serbia. At the Subotica refugee camp he was given food and
accommodation by the government of Serbia.
The refugees at the camp were issued Yugoslav passports and were free
to go anywhere they wished. This witness and a number of other
refugees went to Vienna.
Apparently B-1780 was engaged in politics somehow, but that couldn’t
be discussed in open session.
President Milosevic used his cross-examination to essentially give the
witness the rope and then he just let the witness him hang himself
with it. After President Milosevic was finished letting the witness
humiliate himself; Mr. Tapuskovic made some useful observations. Mr.
Tapuskovic pointed out that the prosecutor hadn’t provided a stitch of
proof to back-up what the witness was saying. There was no forensic
evidence, and undoubtedly some could have been found had it existed at
all.
Mr. Tapuskovic produced a statement that the witness had given to the
B-H authorities in 1992 about what had happened to him, and in that
statement there were differences between what he told them and what he
said at the tribunal.
For example, at the tribunal he said that the JNA was present at the
Ekonomija farm, but in his 27 December 1992 statement to the B-H
authorities he never mentioned the JNA. Some of the dates were
different. At the tribunal he said that 9 men on a truck had all been
killed, but in his statement to the B-H authorities he said that he
didn’t know what had happened to those 9 men.
B-1780 is a liar. Something probably happened to him, but it was
abundantly clear from watching him that he wasn’t telling the truth.
He was making up stories.
The next witness was another secret witness, a so-called “B-1448.”
B-1448 was a member of some sort of Muslim paramilitary formation in
Brcko. B-1448’s unit killed a Bosnian-Serbian soldier on May 16, 1992,
and B-1448 claimed to have taken some documents off of this soldier’s
corpse.
The documents he took were an identification card, which has since
disappeared, and some receipts. One of the receipts showed that the
soldier had rented a Yugo and driven it to Belgrade a couple of times,
and another one of the receipts was allegedly for some weapons that
were acquired from the armory in Belgrade on June 20, 1992.
President Milosevic spotted the problem right off the bat. The soldier
was killed on May 16, 1992, but the receipt for the weapons was from
June 20, 1992. So how did this dead soldier manage to acquire a
receipt from the future? As far as I know Yugos aren’t time machines.
They can’t transport you to the future and back again.
So much for B-1448’s “evidence,” however a new practice was employed
by the so-called “trial chamber” with this witness. They had what they
called a “limited cross-examination” which meant that President
Milosevic could only ask questions about the dead soldier and the
documents, not about this paramilitary group that the witness belonged
to, and not about the situation in Brcko.
When President Milosevic objected to this new invention, this
so-called “limited cross-examination,” Mr. Kwon tried to console him
by saying that “limited cross-examination is better than no
cross-examination at all.”
Apparently President Milosevic is supposed to just be happy that the
let him cross-examine any of the witnesses at all. After all as Mr.
Kwon has illustrated limited rights are better than none at all.
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: OCTOBER 30, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
There was an abbreviated hearing today at The Hague. The prosecution
didn’t have any witnesses that it could call, so it resorted to
calling itself to testify. The Deputy Prosecutor, Graham Blewitt
testified as a witness for (big surprise) the prosecution.
Mr. Nice presented some of the OTP’s documents to Mr. Belwitt and Mr.
Blewitt confirmed that these documents had been sent by the
prosecution to Belgrade.
Mr. Nice made a special point to ask about the objectivity of the
prosecution, and Mr. Blewitt confirmed that the OTP was indeed
objective and impartial.
Then it came time for cross-examination, and Mr. May announced that
this would be another so-called “limited cross-examination.” Mr. May
prohibited President Milosevic from asking any important questions.
Mr. May the so-called “judge” told President Milosevic, “You will ask
the questions that we order you to ask or else you won’t be able to
ask any questions at all.”
President Milosevic denounced the proceedings as a farce, which they
clearly are, but it was even worse than usual today.
The scope of the cross-examination was limited exclusively to the
documents that Mr. Nice exhibited. Therefore we have the prosecution
essentially placing the limits on the scope of cross-examination by
the defense.
President Milosevic had other documents from the prosecution that
refuted what was in the documents exhibited by Mr. Nice, but he was
prohibited from asking any questions about those other documents.
President Milosevic was prohibited from asking any questions that
could call into question the objectivity of the prosecution, even
though that was a major topic that was discussed by Mr. Nice during
the examination-in-chief.
NATO openly bombed maternity wards, passenger trains, private homes,
civilian office buildings, bridges, television stations, market
places, and all other manner of civilian infrastructure. NATO’s
criminal aggression killed thousands of innocent people throughout
Yugoslavia.
NATO bombed more civilian hospitals than it did Yugoslav Army tanks.
NATO carried out it’s aggression in contravention of all international
law. NATO had no resolution from the UN Security Council to launch its
criminal attack, and NATO was not threatened by Yugoslavia at all.
NATO’s war was pure aggression – every bomb it dropped and every act
of war that it perpetrated against Yugoslavia is a war crime.
Every head of state, and every defense minister, from every NATO
country that participated in that terrorist aggression is a war
criminal. With that aggression NATO transformed itself from a
defensive alliance into a terrorist organization.
What happened today was a total scandal. That false tribunal revealed
its ugly face to the world today. The ICTY is a NATO propaganda
tribunal. Its sole aim is to demonize the Serbian people, and to
protect the criminals who destroyed Yugoslavia.
The fact that the ICTY attacks President Milosevic for executing his
duty as the legally elected head of state, to protect his citizens
from terrorists, while simultaneously refusing to prosecute any of the
crimes committed by NATO proves that this so-called “tribunal” is
nothing more than a propaganda apparatus that exists only to serve
it’s masters in Washington and Brussels.
Of course “limited cross examination” means that no questions can be
asked that call into question the omnipotent wisdom of the so-called
“trial chamber” or the unquestionable objectivity and integrity of the
so-called “prosecution.”
President Milosevic joked with the so-called “judge” May (who is from
England) that he could understand why he was so sensitive to questions
about NATO’s war crimes and the double standard that is applied by the
so-called prosecutor on that score.
The documents brought forward by Mr. Nice concerned requests made by
the OTP that were sent to the authorities in Belgrade, requesting that
they be allowed to come to Kosovo and carry out investigations. These
requests were denied by the FRY authorities because the Hague Tribunal
is illegal, and because Yugoslavia had a functioning judicial system
that was perfectly willing and capable of investigating crimes and
prosecuting criminals on its own.
Because the cross-examination was so severely limited no questions
could be asked about the legality of the tribunal, even though the
legality of the tribunal was mentioned in the documents that Mr. Nice
introduced. As “judge” May explained; the tribunal has already ruled
itself to be legal therefore there is no point in challenging its
legality.
So what we have here is a court that was illegally established by an
organ that has no legal right to establish it, and when it’s legality
is challenged it simply rules it self to be legal, and therefore you
should consider it to be legal too. That is how the Hague Tribunal
works.
Mr. Nice can introduce documents that deal with the legality of the
tribunal, and Mr. Nice can assert that the prosecution is objective.
Mr. Nice can deal with those all of those topics, but President
Milosevic, the man who is supposed to be on “trial,” is prohibited
from asking any questions about the very topics that the prosecutor
himself brings up.
After Blewitt was done with his so-called “testimony” some
administrative matters were dealt with. Mr. Nice proudly announced
that at only 2 years into the prosecution case that the witness list
was finalized, although there were still some changes that they had to
make. So in other words it really isn’t finalized and President
Milosevic still doesn’t know who is going to be testifying against
him, and with that they adjourned.