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US and NATO Needed to Ensure Permanent Military Presence in Europe After the Fall of Berlin Wall

Part 5 of late President Slobodan Milosevic's opening statement at the Hague, August 31, 2004 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

As far as the United States are concerned, they have, first and foremost, their own interests in South-Eastern Europe, including former Yugoslavia. The mutual antagonisms and conflicts, impoverishment and the total inability to function independently on political, economic and every other level of the statelets or quasi-statelets created on the territory of former Yugoslavia represents the perfect ground for enabling the American political, economic and especially military presence in Europe.

This last bit, the military presence, is important to United States because after the fall of the Warsaw Pact, the US military presence in the Western [European] states has lost the whole purpose and justification. So, it is no wonder that the United States has been active in producing this miserable state of affairs most Balkan statelets find themselves in.

After the break-up of the Eastern Bloc, some form of the Cold War has continued in this context of using all the means to prevent the survival of a society which could serve as an example of the successful alternative to the current crude pasting of the capitalist model, even though it too has its own problems.

In that sense, Yugoslavia could not have been allowed to survive the Warsaw Pact, because it would represent an inconvenient example to the other East European countries, an example of independent development and the alternative to the unquestioning acceptance of the Western values. This would have made it an obstacle to the new world order, as well as to the world shaped by the United States, as the sole remaining superpower in the world. In other words, this would have made it an obstacle to the transformation of the world into the corporate society, under the leadership of New York banks, where the plunder is the main motive.

In March 1990, the US Congress adopted the "Foreign Operation Appropriation Law", which ended every form of financial assistance to Yugoslavia, except for democratic parties, and in a way that the Nazis and Islamic fundamentalists were also regarded as the democratic parties which needed to be supported. Later on the Albanian terrorists too, while the Albanian separatists were there all along.

It is also known what was the role of a privatized segment of the American army called MPRI [Military Professional Resources Incorporated], which trained the Croat and Muslim army and played the key role in the offensive against Krajina [Serbian-populated region in present-day Croatia]. This too confirms that the American behavior regarding the Yugoslav crisis actually had the purpose of ensuring the American military presence in Europe, which has been accomplished in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Kosovo and Metohija, and in Macedonia, as well as the dominant influence of USA and NATO throughout Europe.

I believe that I don't even need to mention here the economic interest, as an interest that stands above all the others. Such aspirations for dominating this part of the world are the only explanation for some, at the first glance irrational actions by the US, like influencing Alija Izetbegovic to withdraw his signature on the Cutileiro Plan, or a bit less known to the public at large American thwarting of the later negotiations, such as Vance-Owen Plan, Owen-Stoltenberg Plan and the other peace agreements. Obviously, peace in the Balkans was not in the interest of United States, up until the moment when military and the other forms of US and NATO presence were secured, and until the conditions were ripe to reach a solution under the American patronage.

Criminal Clinton Administration Forms Dangerous Liaisons with World Wide Terrorists

The identical goal was also confirmed by the American insistence on the Rambouillet conference, where they demanded NATO military presence on the entire territory of Yugoslavia, as well as by the aggression, sole purpose of which, obviously, was occupation of Kosovo-Metohija, occupation of all of Yugoslavia, securing the permanent NATO presence in this part of the world.

Along the way, William Clinton administration formed dangerous liaisons and alliances with the Islamic fundamentalist organizations and individuals, such as Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, terrorist UCK [KLA] in Kosovo, and others. In a word, precisely with those organizations and individuals who are, especially after September 11, 2001, considered the greatest threat to the United States and the West in general.

The price of such criminal policy of Clinton administration is enormous and, unfortunately, it is being paid by the innocent citizens throughout the world, including the American citizens, but also those of other Western states, such as Spain and others.

Naumann's Dream Came True: European Union is Great Germany & Satellites

However, while the objectives of Germany, Vatican and United States in the Yugoslav crisis were more or less clear and obvious, the behavior of other European Community -- later, the European Union -- members is entirely shocking, especially the drastic changes of their position under the German pressure.

This in spite of the European Community's declaration about Yugoslavia which emphasized, quote, "that the united and democratic Yugoslavia has the best prospects of harmonious integration into the new Europe". Even after Slovenia and Croatia declared independence, and after the flaring of the armed conflicts, the European Parliament on July 9, 1991, adopted Resolution on Yugoslavia in Strasbourg, which did not support the unilateral acts of secession by the two Yugoslav republics. The Council of European Community Ministers, the European Council, as well as the European Community institutions have also supported the territorial integrity of Yugoslavia.

A wider European, or rather the Euro-American forum, the CSCE [Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe] Council of Ministers, at the meeting in Berlin on July 19, 1991, adopted a declaration which, among else, expressed its support to the unity and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia, in line with the Helsinki Accords. The preservation of the state's territorial integrity was especially stressed. That the similar attitude prevailed on the other side of the Atlantic at the time, was confirmed by the fact that the US State Secretary [James] Baker, at the end of his visit to Yugoslavia in June 21, 1991, stated that the US supports the united and democratic Yugoslavia, future of which has to be decided through the mutual agreement, and stressed that the United States will not recognize the unilateral acts of secession.

Still, the European Community, the organization created as a result of a progressive process in Europe and the world, finally chose at the end of 1991 to support an extremely retrograde process, secession of Slovenia and Croatia, as well as the other secessionist republics. On December 17, 1991, the European Community adopted a declaration on the criteria for recognition of the new states in the Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and a Declaration on Yugoslavia, which called upon all the Yugoslav republics to submit their requests for recognition by December 23, with the proof that they have met the recognition criteria.

With this document, the European Community had not only trampled its own position from the March 26, 1991 Declaration on Yugoslavia, it has also violated a document it adopted only a month and a half earlier, the European Community Declaration published in Rome on November 8, 1991, which set out that the possibilities for recognizing the republics who so wish can only be considered within the overall solution. So, even though the role of Germany in this change of course in the position of the twelve is clear, it is still not only surprising, but also incredibly humiliating that eleven states allowed themselves to be forced to do something they initially and basically disagreed with, and under the pressure of only one, twelfth state, regardless of how influential and powerful that state may be.

I already mentioned Friederich Naumann who, during the World War I, presented the concept of the German domination over the Central Europe through the fragmentation of that part of the world and the creation of the small obedient states he called the satellite states. Of course, Naumann never thought about creation of satellites in the West. But the diktat which tied secession of the Yugoslav republics and their recognition imposed by Germany to the European Community members, and their bowing to that diktat in contrast to their own views and principles, and even while being aware of the secessionist tendencies in some of those very states, contrary to their most immediate interests, points to a humiliating fact that the members of this organization have also stooped so low to become German satellites. Thanks to the opportunism and the weakness of their incompetent leaders, some of the former Great Powers have also found themselves in this humiliating position. As shown by their later involvement in the score of NATO operations, including the aggression against Yugoslavia, they have also been degraded to a level of United States' satellites.

Crime Against Peace Remains to be Processed in the Real International Court

So, the Yugoslavia's right to survival cannot be questioned, nor can the unlawful character of its destruction, as the basis for eruption of the conflicts, be questioned. In all this it is, to say the least, cynical for those who have brought the Yugoslav nations to the mutual wars, cycles of violence and hatred, for them to now pretend to be naive and to administer justice. Our nations must never forget who is the main guilty party for the tragedy that took place on the territory of former Yugoslavia, and that will be clearly shown.

In Nuremberg, the first and main crime was the crime against peace, which is not so in this illegal tribunal of yours only because, in that case, those who have established this unlawful court would have to be placed on trial first.

It is not hard to prove, looking at historical events which were all well documented and available to the side across ["prosecution"], that the nationalism on the territory of former Yugoslavia did not start in Serbia, from the Serbian nation or the Serbian leadership, but mainly from the extreme right-wing separatist movement in Croatia, in Kosovo and Metohija, in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- from the Ustashas and neo-Nazis, the Islamic fundamentalists and the Albanian terrorists.

It is not hard to prove, and you will see how that goes, that the fratricidal war on the territory of former Yugoslavia was instigated and militarily supported by the West, precisely by those who have established this farcical court: Germany, Vatican and United States. That they had carried out the destruction and dismemberment of a sovereign state in violation of both the internal and the international law.

It is also not hard to prove that they used extremely undemocratic methods for destruction of Yugoslavia, contrary to the constant assurances of their humanity.

Regarding this, it can be said that what they call the international community, on the territory of Yugoslavia -- Croatia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina alike -- has been supporting a totalitarian chauvinist elite: terrorists, Islamic fundamentalists and neo-Nazis, whose goal was ethnically clean state, i.e. the state without Serbs.

The methods of cleansing the Serbian nation conducted by the Croat ultra-nationalist movement at the beginning of the 1990s with its paramilitary units, are quite identical to what was done 50 years earlier to the same nation, in the same region. At the beginning of the 1990s, it was the Serbs who were being killed and expelled from Croatia, even before Tudjman came to power. Serbs were the ones who were being killed and expelled from Kosovo and Metohija. The so-called international community headed by the US, sided with and was actively aiding the Islamic fundamentalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo-Metohija, which carried out numerous crimes against the Serbs. On top of everything, the crimes against Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija are being carried out with the full cooperation of the occupation forces headed by NATO, through the complete violation of the Security Council Resolution 1244 which codified the terms of ending the war offered to Yugoslavia.

When Yugoslavia could not be occupied and when the war had to be ended, the terms guaranteeing Yugoslavia sovereignty and territorial integrity were offered, stipulating that the United Nations protection forces will come to Kosovo to protect -- with an obligation to protect the entire population [in the province] -- and that the army and the police of Yugoslav state and Serbia will also have to be present to some extent and will return to Kosovo. None of this was fulfilled, but everything else was done. NATO soldiers came over shoulder-to-shoulder with criminals and expelled hundreds of thousands of people, killed thousands, torched dozens of churches... but I will come back to this later.

Hague Prosecution Demonstrated it Knew Fully Well Milosevic Did Not Start Any Wars

What I wish to say now is that there is an enormous amount of detailed documentation about the crimes against the Serbian nation committed during the past ten years. This documentation has been offered to this institution from various institutions throughout the world, but the side sitting on the opposite side hasn't even glanced at it. The reason for this is that the international community, while instigating conflicts in our part of the world, decided in advance that Serbs were to be blamed for everything. That is why everybody else could and had to be presented as a victim.

As to how the war was instigated in the territory of former Yugoslavia, the authors of the so-called Kosovo indictment against me, in paragraphs 79 and 80 stated one of the rare true assertions within the overall entirely false and shameful act. I'm quoting their text: "On June 25, 1991, Slovenia declared independence from the SFRY, which led to the outbreak of war." This is written in their document. "Croatia declared its independence on June 25, 1991, which led to fighting between the Croat forces, on the one side and JNA and paramilitary formations and the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, on the other. Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence on March 6, 1992, which, after April 6, 1992, led to a widespread war."

So, the very authors of this fake indictment, probably without thinking that they will later be putting together also the Croat and Bosnian indictment against me, have said who caused the war in former Yugoslavia. The participants in this enterprise, which can most certainly be called criminal, and they include both the internal and the external protagonists, have acted in complete contravention of both the internal, Yugoslav, and the international law. By such violation of the law and through the realization of the forceful secession of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, they have committed the essential and the gravest of all crimes processed in Nuremberg and Tokyo -- the crime against peace, which falls under the jurisdiction of the legal and permanent International Criminal Court [ICC].

Defending Yugoslavia, Serbia was the Only One on the Side of Law

As opposed to the Croat and Slovenian authorities, and the Muslim-Croat authorities in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which have carried out the armed secession, and as opposed to their instigators and supporters from Germany, Austria, Vatican, the rest of European Community and later on the US and NATO pact, Serbian nation and Serbian leadership, including me, kept trying to preserve the Yugoslav state. By doing so, we were on the side of law, while the destroyers of Yugoslavia were flagrantly violating both the internal and the international law. Their invocation of the right to self-determination was nothing but a smokescreen, an effort to obscure the essence of their criminal act -- the unlawful and forceful secession. Because the Yugoslav nations, and especially its republics, did not have the right to unilaterally desert the Yugoslav state, neither by the Yugoslav Constitution, nor by the constitutions of the individual republics. They especially did not have the right to reach for their objective over the corpses of their co-citizens from the common state.

Article 5 of the Yugoslav Constitution which was in force at the time -- the Constitution adopted in 1974, states: "The territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is integral and comprised of the territories of the socialist republics. The borders of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia cannot be changed without the consent of all the socialist republics and autonomous regions". Based on this, it unambiguously follows that not a single republic or nation in SFRY, as explicitly stated in the Constitution, was independently endowed with the right to secede from SFRY, or to secede any part of its territory. This was possible only through the consent of all.

Bearing all this in mind, along with the desire expressed in Slovenia and Croatia, and later in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia, to leave the Yugoslav Federation, and precisely in the effort to avoid any conflict, as confirmed by the witness Borisav Jovic -- the President of the Yugoslav Presidency and later on member of the Presidency, Serbian side tried to persuade, since August 1990, the representatives of the other republics in the federal bodies to adopt a law which would appropriately regulate the realization of the right to self-determination. But, as Jovic said in his book you have quoted here, "they were determined to go to the very end, even at the cost of incidents and conflicts."

I will remind you of a grand Tudjman's speech cited here, when he said that "there would have been no war had Croatia not wanted it". Because without war, without that kind of war, no one could expell half a million Serbs from the territory they populated for centuries. At the time of Croat secession Serbs in Croatia did not request any kind of state, but only autonomy since, up to that moment and according to the Croat own constitution they were a constitutive nation in Croatia, because Croatia was defined as a state of Croat, Serbian and other nations, but they were simply deleted from the Croat constitution [when Tudjman came to power].

So, when the cited Constitution provisions are taken into account, the Yugoslav republics of Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia have declared their independence, or their secession through the violation of the Constitution. And being that the secession of these republics was carried out through the armed force, this was an illegal, armed, violent secession. An illegal, armed, violent secession, consequences of which are tens of thousands of deaths, is a crime according to both the internal, Yugoslav, and the international law, as much as the encouragement and aiding of such a horrific act by the side-protagonists is a crime. These are the same ones who are behind this illegal court, the purpose of which is to exonerate them, while shifting the blame from them onto the victims of their crimes. Those victims are among all the Yugoslav nations.

Hague's Former President: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia... Secessions were Illegal

From the point of the international law too, the secession of the former Yugoslav republics was not permitted in the way it was carried out. The confirmation of this regarding the former Yugoslav republics was explicitly offered by Antonio Cassese, the former president of this institution in his monograph dedicated in entirety to the right to self-determination ["Self Determination of People -- a Legal Appraisal", Cambridge University Press, 1995]. On the pages 269 and 270, he pointed out that Yugoslav republics did not have the right to external self-determination, neither by the international law, nor by the internal law. Cassese said in these pages: "As in the case of the 12 Soviet republics, according to the international law, the six Yugoslav republics did not have the right to external self-determination. Also, such right was not provided by the Yugoslav Constitution either. However, unlike the Soviet, Yugoslav Constitution does not contain the provisions which would allow the six republics comprising Yugoslavia to secede." And he also quotes the Yugoslavia Constitution.

Therefore, just like this illegal prosecution in the moment of, I'd say carelessness, pointed out in the quoted paragraphs 79-80 of the so-called Kosovo indictment who actually caused the war in Yugoslavia, the former president of this court, at the time he was still heading this institution, in the same book, on page 273, after assessing that the secessions were illegal, draws the conclusion identical to the one that the so-called prosecution inadvertently slipped into these paragraphs. The Cassese's conclusion is the following, quote: "It is well-known that both in Croatia and in Bosnia-Herzegovina, just like in few of the former Soviet republics, the secession brought back to life the old hatreds and led to horrific bloodshed."

This is true. It is well-known to anyone who wishes and has the minimum of honesty necessary to admit the obvious as a fact. Those who do not have that minimum of honesty, can allow themselves to pervert the obvious and well-known facts into their opposite, unless it happens that the truth sometimes slips out here and there, even to them. Still, one shouldn't forget that having the truth for an ally is a safe guarantee of winning sooner or later. Having the truth for an opponent is the certain path to a humiliating defeat. And everything I am saying is the truth about the bloody dismemberment of Yugoslavia, the internationally recognized state which had the right to survival, according to law, according to the ethics, according to the historical facts, and finally, most importantly, according to the real interest and the genuine wellbeing of all its citizens.

Time does not permit me to present even some of the indispensable facts and conclusions. I hope you will not oppose, when it comes to Kosovo, to consider as the integral part seven White Books of the Yugoslav Government which were also listed as the evidence and submitted, along with the entire documentation, to the regular and legal International Court of Justice in Hague, pertaining to the aggression against Yugoslavia. I will later introduce other documents too.

West's Dishonesty and a Habit to Dishonor Every Agreement Caused Another Catastrophe in Kosovo Province

Regarding Kosovo, I just wish to stress few things which, viewed from present-day perspective, show how correct and valid was the approach by Yugoslavia. What happened and what are the consequences? Only within the first year of the foreign presence in Kosovo and Metohija, actually, from the moment the Yugoslav Army and Serbian police withdrew from this Serbian province in June 1999, on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija in the first year, 5,000 terrorist acts were perpetrated, several thousand people were killed and kidnapped, 150 churches were razed... Gentlemen, if 150 mosques were destroyed in some place, 150 [Roman] Catholic churches, 150 synagogues, the whole world would have been buzzing. All of these crimes were committed under the auspices and protection of the United Nations -- in violation of the UN Resolution, by turning the UN security forces into the occupation forces, in collaboration with the Albanian terrorists.

More than 300,000 inhabitants were expelled under the UN auspices and in collaboration with them. On the other hand, more than 200,000 Albanians, foreign citizens, mostly from Albania and Macedonia, entered the province and moved in. The persecution and terror against everything non-Albanian, and especially against everything Serbian, continued with undiminished fervor to this day. If there is any reduction in the numerical volume of this criminal hysteria, that is only because in Kosovo-Metohija everything that is Serbian and non-Albanian has already been almost entirely cleansed. The little that is left in this southern province of the Serbian republic is too little to satiate this collective thirst for violence. And even this token of the non-Albanian and Serbian leftovers in Kosovo-Metohija has been too much for the chauvinist Albanian hordes. So the new culmination of the anti-Serbian violence, now in almost entirely cleansed of Serbs Kosovo and Metohija, took place on March 17 this year, after the latest authorship coup of your witness here, Halit Barani.

Of course, he is not the only war criminal who was called to testify here. Many war criminals have been testifying here, but this one was proven. This Halit Barani initiated a hysterical mass charge against everything Serbian with his new invented story about the alleged Serbian crime against three Albanian boys who drowned in the river after, supposedly, fleeing from their Serbian chasers. KFOR arrested Barani because of this, following the action of another one of your witnesses, also war criminal and a terrorist Shukri Buya who confirmed here he commanded the UCK unit in Racak. A unit. And that he was the first one to open fire from the heavy machine-gun on the policemen who were approaching the village. And, of course, together with his pogrom-sharing fellows and followers.

Joint Criminal Enterprise Indeed

Or, to use your terminology, this recent, as well as the earlier pogrom of the Serbian and other non-Albanian population in Kosovo and Metohija is, in fact, a result of the joint criminal enterprise of precisely this institution -- these are the witnesses it cooperates with and whose interests it defends here, as well as of those behind them, with the most morbid and most retrograde movement the Europe gave birth to in the recent history.

And, once the events in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina are taken into consideration, especially more than obvious continuity between the separatist and nationalist tendencies and movements with their pro-Nazi and extreme predecessors from the time of the WWII, and once the irrational fervor, almost a zeal with which this so-called prosecution tries to support and justify the acts by those who keep trying to revise the results of two world wars and achieve what they couldn't due to their defeat, then a very worrisome conclusion becomes unavoidable, that the joint criminal enterprise of which this institution is a part is much wider, both by a number of participants and by the criminal plan, and both in time span and the territory involved.

To be continued....

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"Stolen Kosovo" Documentary Censored in Czech Republic: Suffering of Kosovo Serbs Cannot be Shown on National TV

That there can be no freedom of expression under the dictatorial regimes was confirmed yet again by the state-owned Czech TV, supposedly a "public service" which took part in the financing of the Vaclav Dvorak's documentary "Stolen Kosovo" prior to Czech Government's recognition of the mafia state on Serbian territory, but now, after their FM announced recognition of the fake state, refused to air it.

According to the Czech daily Aktualne, the representatives of the state television justify their refusal to show the one-hour documentary about the suffering of the Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija province by claiming the documentary is "unbalanced" and marked with "pro-Serbian bias", so "the tone of the documentary could cause negative emotions". To which Dvorak responded that the same could be said for the "Holocaust documentaries, where the Nazi Germany 'side' and 'views' were also appropriately ignored".

NWO Junk Formulas Used to Cover Up Plain Old Censorship

The authors of the expertly filmed documentary, who did not hide their disappointment with the state TV's blatant censorship, said that, while the Serbian television archives were used in some segments of the film (like the scenes of NATO bombardment and the footage of the carnage and victims of NATO aggression), not a single penny was received from Serbia or from Serbs for making of the documentary. At the same time, they have challenged the censors hiding behind the New World Order claptrap about "bias" and "balance" -- convenient empty phrases thrown around whenever the truth needs to be smothered -- to point to a single statement, image or a segment that is incorrect or false. An invitation that has, thus far, remained unaddressed.

The film which was first scheduled to be shown on Czech TV on March 17, the anniversary of the latest pogrom against Kosovo-Metohija Serbs in 2004, and than delayed for April, has not been aired yet. After the Czech Government has issued an illegal recognition of the state carved out on the Serbian territory on May 21, it has become certain that the "Stolen Kosovo" documentary has been taken off the broadcast schedule entirely.

Having their work censored by the state TV, the authors took their documentary to the alternative broadcast -- YouTube, where they uploaded their film in six parts and where it has received a wide, predominantly Czech audience. The Czech television is now using that as an additional excuse for banning the documentary, saying that the authors have violated the Czech state TV's right to exclusivity. So, they refuse to air it, but retain the right to be the first to show it, even if they choose never to do so. A kind of logic that fits perfectly in the world where an executioner must get at least the same amount of PR time as it takes to air the unpleasant pictures of his victims.

Meanwhile, the valuable documentary was uploaded in entirety on Google Videos, and we sincerely hope it will soon be available with the English captioning, enabling the full access to a much wider audience.

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Ibran Mustafic: Srebrenica was a "Planned Chaos"

Immediately before the April 1, 2008 discussion before the Appellation Board of the Hague tribunal in the case of Srebrenica warlord, commander of the Bosnian Muslim army stationed in Srebrenica Naser Oric, a written testimony which reveals some of the previously unknown details about the "lord of life and death in war-torn Srebrenica" was published.

Ibran Mustafic, the author of the book "Planned Chaos", for which most Bosnian Muslim leaders wish it was never written, was an MP of the Party of the Democratic Action (SDA, headed by the Bosnian Muslim war leader, Alija Izetbegovic) in the Bosnia-Herzegovina Parliament constituted after the 1990 elections and just before the start of the civil war, and President of the Executive Board of Srebrenica Municipal Assembly.

At the start of the Bosnian civil war he clashed with, as he calls it, "Naser Oric Junta", which resulted in the series of attempts of his assassination. In the third assassination attempt on May 11, 1995, Mustafic was heavily wounded and it was deemed a miracle that he survived. Assaults by Bosnian Muslims against Mustafic became more frequent after his book was published. The latest took place on April 25 this year, when he was attacked and severely beaten by a group of thugs in Srebrenica downtown, in broad daylight.

"They call me a traitor," Mustafic says, "claiming I invented Naser Oric's crimes, but that kind of stupidity doesn't bother me in the least. The purpose of my book was not to defend the Serbs, but I will by no means defend the members of my nation who committed atrocities! Criminals are criminals, regardless of their name and ethnicity. I categorically claim that Naser Oric is a war criminal without a par!"

Atrocious War Crimes Against Srebrenica Serbs

"Planned Chaos" sheds a new light on Srebrenica events during the war and represents first admission and a testimony by a Bosnian Muslim from Srebrenica about Serbian suffering in Srebrenica region. Apart from describing the crimes committed by the Bosnian Muslim army under the command of Naser Oric against the Serbs, Mustafic also testifies about arming of the Bosnian Muslims prior and during the civil war, including the period when Srebrenica was declared a demilitarized zone under the UN protection. He also describes the mutual clashes between Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica municipality, lorded over by the Naser Oric mafia.

According to Mustafic, Srebrenica warlord Naser Oric idolized Ustasha movement from the early youth, choosing his heroes among the notorious Croat Nazi cutthroats Jure Francetic, Kadrija Softic, Nurif Oric and other members of the Ustasha "Black Legion" and Bosnian Muslim 13th SS Handzar Division, indoctrinated with the contempt and hatred against the Serbs.

Despite the overwhelming evidence of widespread atrocities and war crimes committed by Oric and his gang in the town of Srebrenica and surrounding villages populated by the Serbs, the Kangaroo Court in Hague acquitted him of direct involvement in the murder and cruel treatment of Serbs, and of responsibility for the wanton destruction of entire villages, churches, homes and property. While he was convicted of “failing to prevent men under his command to kill and abuse imprisoned Bosnian Serbs,” and sentenced to two years in jail, he was immediately released, since he has already spent three years in the Hague during the charade of a trial.

Naser Oric is a Monster, a War Criminal Without a Par

However, Mustafic's book offers additional evidence about Oric's direct involvement in some of the most macabre war crimes committed on the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina during the civil war.

Probably the most shocking chapter of the book is the one with Naser Oric's personal admission of the first Serb he killed by his own hands, murder of the Srebrenica Judge Slobodan Ilic.

"When we took that group captured in Zalazje from [Srebrenica] prison to take them back toward Zalazje, and when the slaying begun, Slobodan Ilic came into my hands. I climbed on his chest. He was bearded and hairy like an animal. He looked at me without saying a word. I took out the bayonet and jabbed it straight into one eye, and then turned it back and forth. He didn't let the single sound out. Then I hit him with the knife in the other eye... I couldn't believe he's not reacting. Frankly, that's when I got scared for the first time, so I cut his throat right after that", Oric described his 'feat' to Mustafic word-for-word during one evening Mustafic visited him.

Oric's admission is followed by the testimony of Mustafic's uncle Ibrahim, who witnessed the same slaughter.

"Naser came over and told me to get ready at once and go with the flag in front of Srebrenica prison. I dressed up and went over. When I came in front of the prison, they took out all those captured in Zalazje and ordered me to drive them towards Zalazje. When we reached the depot, they ordered me to stop and park the truck. I moved to a safe distance. But, when I saw their savagery and when the slaying begun, I felt all the blood drain from my head. When Zulfo (Tursunovic) ripped the knife down the chest of the nurse Rada, while asking her where is her radio-station, I couldn't watch any longer. I came back to Srebrenica on foot from the depot, and they drove the truck over afterwards, which I took from Srebrenica to go home to Potocare. The inside was all bloodied up", Mustafic cites the testimony of his uncle.

The above mentioned medical nurse Rada Milanovic stayed in Srebrenica even after her family moved away. Srebrenica territorial defense headquarters assigned her to medical field group and to a local hospital.

"The Whole Bridge was Floating in Serbian Blood"

Mustafic also recounted other crimes against the Serbs from the town of Srebrenica which were more or less well known. He mentioned that, after the assault against the village Jezestica "Kemo from Pale [near Sarajevo] was carrying a severed head around with him, scaring people".

The murder of the Stjepanovic family is also described. Stjepanovic family members were taken out of their apartment in the Srebrenica Battalion Street by Oric's butchers in July 1992, and taken to nearby Potocare.

"Andjelija Stjepanovic (74) and her son Mihajlo (50) were among those brutally slain then. One Bosnian Muslim from Potocari described afterwards how the whole bridge where these poor people were slaughtered was literally swimming in blood. The killer of Stjepanovic family is Kemo Mehmedovic from Pale, Naser's loyal follower in atrocities. The executioner today lives in Austria, and there are tons of similar examples from Srebrenica. It is a shame that not one of these monsters in the human form have faced responsibility for their crimes, and their main organizer and the one who ordered them to kill, Naser Oric, is today parading in freedom," commented one of a handful of Bosnian Serb civilians who survived the hell of Srebrenica imprisonment.

The previously little known details about the torture and murder of the severely ill Krsto Dimitrovski and his wife Velinka, from Srebrenica, were also revealed in Mustafic's book, charging Ejub Golic, former commander of the "Independent Hill Battalion" from the village Glogovo. Golic was freed of charges raised against him for this crime.

Hague Tribunal Rewards Bosnian Muslim War Criminals

Apart from recounting these and many other savage tortures and murders of the Serbs who had the misfortune to remain in the town of Srebrenica occupied by Oric's butchers, Mustafic also describes how his testimony against the Srebrenica Muslim monsters in the Hague tribunal was turned down, and why he had no opportunity to tell the court what really went on in "Srebrenica safehaven" before General Mladic took the town over.

"I was, indeed, called to testify before the Hague tribunal as a Prosecution witness [in the trial against Oric], and I believe I was supposed to be the last witness for the Prosecution. After three days spent in the preparatory procedure, there was a major clash between the Prosecution representative and myself. First of all, the indictment against Naser was entirely ridiculous. He was charged for the things he wasn't guilty of, but not for any of the things he was guilty for. Secondly, the Hague tribunal was more and more starting to look like Carla Del Ponte's parade, so a number of processes turned into circus. Finally, I was most offended when they tried to blackmail me, by threatening me with up to seven years' imprisonment or the 200,000 Euros fine. I couldn't stay silent when I saw that paper, and I told the prosecutor: 'That's right! the whole purpose of me coming here to testify was to actually get a more severe punishment than Erdemovic [another Bosnian Muslim war criminal], who was rewarded by the Hague tribunal for admitting he personally took part in over 140 murders!' After all that, when I came in front of the courtroom, I was waiting for two hours, but they finally informed me that the Judges decided not to let me testify and that I can go back home," Mustafic wrote.

Srebrenica as a Safehaven for War Criminals, Thugs and Mafia

Regarding the situation in the "Srebrenica safehaven", Mustafic wrote that, when the region was declared a demilitarized zone and placed under the UN protection, there were no "provocations" by the Bosnian Serb Army. Despite that, according to Mustafic, Oric's Muslim troops kept digging the trenches around the town of Srebrenica and, alongside the humanitarian aid, weapons were being delivered to the "demilitarized zone" -- all in the plain sight of the Dutch UNPROFOR battalion.

Mustafic writes that, even though the boards were placed around the town of Srebrenica declaring it a "Demilitarized zone, every military operation is strictly prohibited, Article 60, Protocol 1 of Geneva Convention", delivery of weapons, ammunition, uniforms and explosives was never interrupted. The military equipment, despite the UN Resolution prohibiting the flights over Bosnia and Herzegovina, was delivered by helicopters. Likewise, the agreement signed by General Ratko Mladic on the Bosnian Serb side and Sefer Halilovic on the side of Bosnian Muslims, stipulating that "not a single soldier who finds himself within, or wishes to enter the demilitarized zone, except for UNPROFOR members, is permitted to carry arms, explosives, or ammunition", was deemed completely worthless by the Bosnian Muslim Srebrenica troops.

Mustafic writes that there were 18 flights carrying weapons, with most of deliveries carried out at the time Srebrenica, as a supposedly demilitarized zone, was under UN Peace Corps protection [UNPROFOR].

Mustafic lays a great deal of blame upon the Dutch troops stationed in Srebrenica, claiming they were fully aware about all the violations daily committed by the Oric's gang, but chose to silently observe, hoping to pass their service unscathed.

"Obviously, the Dutch accepted to patrol the lines together with our troops only in order to take responsibility off themselves, and to show the world that Srebrenica was not a demilitarized zone. Indeed, at the time, the Dutch battalion which was supposed to have some 600 troops, had around 250 soldiers, while [Oric's] 28th division was comprised of 5,500 allegedly demilitarized men," Mustafic wrote.

"When the battles for Srebrenica begun, one of our thugs, probably on order, killed a soldier from the Dutch battalion. This helped dissolve the entire system of Dutch responsibility," Mustafic revealed.

Foundation of the Muslim State Sealed by the Sacrificial Blood of the Innocent

He also notes that Srebrenica Muslim troops kept staging ambushes from the UN "safehaven", killing the members of the Bosnian Serb Army, and that they used the Srebrenica protected status to launch assaults against the surrounding Serbian villages, such as the raid under the Oric's commanders Ekrem Salihovic and Ibrahim Mandzic of the Bosnian Serb village Visnjica, where they killed civilians and torched the village.

"When I told Madzic that such attacks would justify the Bosnian Serb Army attack on Srebrenica, he said: 'This was not an action initiated by us. We received the orders from Sarajevo'," Mustafic testifies, adding that he later learned that "the order for the attacks on Serbian villages around Srebrenica was signed by General Enver Hadzihasanovic [of the Bosnian Muslim army, from their Sarajevo HQ].... Clearly, they wanted to provoke the response, to solve the Srebrenica problem".

However, it turned out that the "problem" Bosnian Muslim leaders and their foreign sponsors wanted solved was far more profound than the issue of one town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and that is how to take over the rule over the entire Bosnian republic after the destruction of Yugoslavia, even though Bosnian Muslims are just one of three large nations living in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and even today not a majority. The only way they thought this could be done, was if Bosnian Serbs were entirely exterminated or, failing that, if the entire Serbian nation is pinned with charges of "genocide", which would enable the complete assimilation of all the Serb-owned land and property in state.

Ibran Mustafic confirmed this claim back in July 1996:

"According to our [Bosnian Muslim] custom, when someone finishes the foundation for a house, an animal must be slaughtered on top of it. It seems that Srebrenica was a sacrificial lamb for the foundation of this [Muslim] state."

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Jiri Dienstibier: Kosovo "Independence" is Another Munich

The wave of Czech indignation over their government's sudden decision to recognize mafia state carved up on Serbian territory has not subsided days after the Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg announced the decision.

After Czech President Vaclav Klaus went public to state he was ashamed over the treacherous move by the government, Jiri Dienstibier, a renowned intellectual and Czech Republic's former Minister of Foreign Affairs, wrote a scathing condemnation of the government's announcement, denying Schwarzenberg's claims that they "had no other recourse" but to issue an illegal recognition of a fake state.

"There was no pressure on the Czech Government to recognize independence. The European Union allowed each member to decide about this issue, according to their circumstances and the international law", Dienstibier wrote for Czech daily on May 26.

He reminded the government that the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, according to which the borders in Europe cannot be changed unless there is a mutual agreement between the parties in question, is still in force, just like the UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which clearly states that Kosovo province is an integral part of Serbia.

"This Resolution cannot be annulled, among others, also due to the entirely practical reasons. The UN civil administration, as well as the KFOR units were sent to Kosovo province precisely on the basis of this Resolution, and that includes Czech troops who would have no legal basis for their engagement without the Resolution 1244," Dienstibier wrote.

Dienstibier, who until recently served as a UN Human Rights Special Envoy in Serbian province, noted it was "a bitter irony" that the Czech Government decided to issue illegal recognition in the town of Teplice, in the Czech Sudetenland region which, prior to the post-war deportations, was populated mainly by Germans. In 1938, in Munich, Sudetenland was handed over to Nazi Germany by the Western powers, in hopes this chunk of prey would satisfy Adolf Hitler's appetites and help avert the WWII.

In his latest commentary, Dienstibier dubbed the recognition of Kosovo independence a "copy of Munich", accusing the government it has violated not only the will of Czech citizens and Parliament Members, but also the Czech foreign policy priorities.

"Contributing to the Kosovo province transformation does not necessitate independence recognition. We do not recognize Taiwan as an independent state either, but our relations with them are nevertheless positive."

Czech Intellectuals Seek FM's Replacement Over Kosovo Province Recognition

According to Tanjug, prominent Czech professors, scientists and publicists submitted a petition to the Foreign Affairs Board of the Czech Republic Parliament, accusing the government of issuing "Illegal recognition of Serbian Kosovo province", and seeking replacement of Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg.

Petition Board, headed by Professor Rajko Dolacek, assessed that the Czech Government "acted dishonorably and dishonestly" in regards to Pristina separatists' unilaterally declared independence, stressing that the government wanted to avoid discussion about the violation of the basic principles of the international law and the international ethics, so without prior announcement, it simply stated its decision, which is now deemed unalterable.

"The main culprit here is Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel Schwarzenberg, who already back in January suggested the recognition of the quasi-state of Kosovo", the petition states. In January, Schwarzenberg visited Pristina, where he held private talks with war criminal Hashim Thaci.

Day of Recognition, a Day of Shame

Czech intellectuals consider the day when Prague Government recognized unilateral independence by Pristina separatists "a day of shame" for the Czech diplomacy, and therefore, "a day of shame for Minister Schwarzenberg, and partly for those members of the Government who supported the recognition."

Assessing that the Czech Republic behaved as a "vassal state", petition reminds that in the earlier appeal, signed by more than 2,600 Czechs, Schwarzenberg was criticized for falsely interpreting the situation in the southern Serbian province and for using a highly suspicious argumentation in support of theory that Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija is a "unique case".

"The UN Security Council did not annul the Resolution 1244. Therefore, Kosovo is an integral part of Serbia. By recognizing its independence, our Government and a score of other governments are insulting the United Nations and violating their Resolution", the Czech intellectuals wrote.

They pointed out that government has decided to disregard the resolution earlier adopted by the Foreign Affairs Board, which stressed that solution of Kosovo province issue which would contribute to the European and the world safety, must be in accordance with the international law and the Resolution 1244.

They also asked if Minister Schwarzenberg is aware how tragic is the life for non-Albanians in Kosovo province, being that they live in ghettos, without possibility for education, employment and medical treatment.

"His [Schwarzenberg's] contempt for the principles of the international ethics and law, and for the Resolution 1244, and his lack of knowledge about the Balkan issues are disqualifying him as the minister of foreign affairs and as a politician. This is why we are proposing that he should be recalled from that position", the petition by the prominent Czech intellectuals concludes.

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Organ Extraction Atrocities: The Blood Trail Leads to Sarkozy's Foreign Minister

The spokesman of the Serbian War Crimes Tribunal Bruno Vekaric told Vecernje Novosti the War Crimes Prosecution is in possession of the informations according to which numerous criminal charges have been brought up against one UNMIK [United Nations Mission in Kosovo] official for trafficking internal organs of Serbs kidnapped in Kosovo-Metohija province, and also earlier, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Vekaric explained that the official charged for the most macabre crimes of extracting organs from the healthy young Serbs for sale was a forensic expert within the UNMIK, who has since fled to South America.

Vekaric said that the Prosecution has evidence that UNMIK had opened an investigation about the human organ trafficking in the Serbian province at some point, but that they are not given access to the documentation which would allow them to learn the results of UNMIK's investigation.

"We have requested the investigation results from UNMIK, as well as the information from Albania, of which our Prosecution requested to launch an investigation about trafficking with human organs in Albanian north, and whose prosecutor was on the terrain," Vekaric said.

He added that the Prosecution thus far has not discovered evidence against the first UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner, currently France's Foreign Affairs Minister, suspected of involvement in the atrocious crime chain.

Bernard Kouchner is being pointed to as the key person responsible for the gruesome crimes against the kidnapped Serbs and other non-Albanians, revealed by the former Hague tribunal chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte in her recently published book "The Hunt, Me and War Criminals".

Sarkozy's Foreign Minister is also charged by the members of the Serbian investigative teams formed earlier, within the state's Kosovo-Metohija Coordinating Center, as well as by the families of the Serbs kidnapped and missing from the province since the 1998-1999 war.

"All the roads from the very start, from the very idea [of extracting the organs from Serbs kidnapped by the terrorist KLA], down to the transport of the organs and the sale to the rich clientèle in Europe and United States, lead to Bernard Kouchner. At the time of the wars [in former Yugoslavia] he was one of the founders of the allegedly humanitarian organization 'Doctors Without Borders', which was later operating in Kosovo too", the Novosti source from the Kosovo province police said.

"The right conditions for realizing the whole idea were created when Kouchner became the head of the UN Mission in Kosovo and Metohija [right after the NATO aggression against Serbia ended, in the summer of 1999]. This has enabled him, with the UNMIK police aid, to thwart all the investigations that were undertaken at the time by the representatives of the Serbian state. Serbian officials were an inch away from the kidnapped Serbs and non-Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija on a number of occasions, but were always prevented from reaching them", the members of the former investigative teams of the state's Coordinating Center for the province said.

UNMIK Prevented Search of the KLA Secret Concentration Camps when Kidnapped Serbs were Still Alive

"This is why not a single search had produced any results, even though many of the kidnapped were still alive at the time, and were imprisoned in Kosovo and Metohija", Serbs who were leading the investigations after the war said, adding that the whole "business" took place in the years 2000 and 2001, when Kosovo Albanian butchers held Serbs in the numerous concentration camps and prisons throughout Kosovo province, and when the Western officials, including Kouchner, have already been firmly established in the southern Serbian province, through their various institutions under the NATO and UN umbrella.

Milorad Pejcinovic, leader of the Serbian investigative team assigned with the task of finding the secret makeshift prisons and concentration camps in Kosovo and Metohija, said that there can be no doubt UNMIK has been purposely thwarting every single investigation.

"There is no question that every serious search of our team has been thwarted by the UNMIK police, claiming that the locations for which we had solid evidence that they contain our kidnapped people, are not safe. Whenever we would come within an inch of uncovering them, UNMIK police would forbid us to move further, claiming that the Albanians have learned about our intentions and that our lives are at stake," Pejcinovic said.

He revealed that the UNMIK police was also preventing every individual attempt by the families to find their kidnapped loved ones, telling them that they must have a court order to enter certain locations, which "served to provide sufficient time for the Albanians who held kidnapped Serbs imprisoned to move them to other locations".

"The biggest problem was the fact that Albanians had their men in UNMIK, who would inform them about each of our intentions to search the terrain. The same thing happened during one of the most complex searches which lasted three days. When we came to the entryway of one of the secret locations, UNMIK ordered us to turn back, because 'they can't guarantee our safety'," Serbian investigators said.

According to Novosti, the Protocol on the joint investigative teams searching for the KLA secret prisons and concentration camps in Kosovo and Metohija was signed between the Serbian state institution officials and UNMIK only on October 5, 2001. This document was signed upon the insistence of the families of the missing and kidnapped Serbs, and also members of other non-Albanian ethnic groups, based on the series of findings about the existence of such locations in the southern Serbian province, which cropped all over the province during and after the war instigated by the terrorist KLA. However, according to the representatives of the Serbian state Coordinating Team for Kosovo-Metohija, this Protocol has not been honored by the UNMIK, which "first and foremost, failed to respect the confidentiality of the informations".

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Archduke Assassination Used as a Pretext to Try to Wipe Serbia Off the Map

Part 4 of late President Slobodan Milosevic's opening statement at the Hague, August 31, 2004 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

[Continuing the expose on Germanic bloc's efforts to destroy Serbia since before the WWI] Here's one more quotation from the German archives, which reveals what the German ambassador conveyed to his government, regarding the content of his conversation with Count Berthold, Austrian Foreign Affairs Minister. Minister said, according to the ministerial archives, that he considers it his duty not to leave the German Government unaware of the seriousness of the position of the monarchy. "The Southern Slavic issue, in the sense of the unhindered possession of the provinces populated by Southern Slavs, is the vital issue for the monarchy, as well as for the Three-Sided Pact [Trojni Pakt]. The Southern Slavic provinces of the monarchy cannot be held against the country such as Serbia, which is superior in the Balkans. Accordingly, the monarchy could be forced to undertake an intervention, in case Serbia defeats Bulgaria and conquers the territories beyond the territory of the old Serbia. To my question what does he think would be the right time for that intervention, the minister noted that the opportune psychological moment could be found."

And the pretext showed up soon after — the assassination, the well-known Sarajevo assassination, when Gavrilo Princip, member of the organization Young Bosnia [Mlada Bosna], assassinated the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand. The fact that 20 young men took part in the conspiracy and the assassination, members of both Serbian, Croat and Muslim nationality, is never even mentioned. This was that Young Bosnia. Although no involvement of the Kingdom of Serbia in this assassination was ever established, it was Serbia and Serbian nation that were immediately accused, while in Austro-Hungary and Germany a tsunami of total anti-Serbian hysteria was launched.

In the already quoted book, Ambassador Harman says: "A fierce anti-Serbian campaign was launched in Austro-Hungary and Germany, which overshadowed everything seen by then, and it motivated the German ambassador to London, Duke Karl Max von Lichnovsky to remind the German State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gottlieb von Jagow, that the entire Serbian nation, as the nation of evil and murderers, must be branded." He is obviously jeopardizing your copyright on this indictment here and its approach. And for few decades already.

So, in fact, the essence and the meaning of that evil above all evils, the Greater Serbia, is something no one wished to examine or go into. It has been adopted so arrogantly and with such ease, that it is being used here as well. No-one has investigated its meaning, background, the origins, because had they done so, this whole propaganda exercise would burst like a soap bubble.

It is well-known that on July 23, 1914, an Austro-Hungarian ultimatum was delivered to the Serbian Government, after the false accusations about the involvement of Serbian state in the assassination. Serbia was conditioned with the series of demands no sovereign state in the world could have accepted. Shocked with the text of this ultimatum, non-fulfillment of which was expected and the only purpose of which was to actually cause a war, the same way as in Rambouillet, but entirely shocked back then, British Minister of Foreign Affairs Sir Edward Grey characterized that text as, I'm quoting Grey, "the most shocking document diplomacy has ever produced".

Series of the Most Shocking Ultimatums to Serbia Follow the 1914 One

The most shocking document diplomacy has ever produced. Grey probably never could have imagined that in the same century, Serbian nation and Serbian state will be exposed to a whole series of similar, and perhaps even more brazen and more shocking ultimatums and that his country, Great Britain, will share the authorship of those new ultimatums with Germany, Austria and some other Western states, including some of the Serbian allies from his time, like France and, somewhat later, United States. Just as it would share the authorship and participation in the realization of the murderous conquests against Serbian nation towards the end of 20th century, conducted through the unscrupulous lies which will be dismantled here publicly and clearly, through the merciless economic sanctions and finally bestial military assaults against their former Serbian allies, whose greatest sin consisted of attempts to protect their state and their people, and preserve what was acquired through great hardships, with the help of the allies in two world wars. It is hard to imagine the kind of shame Sir Edward Grey would have felt if he knew about the great role his country played in sealing the decade-long crime committed through all those events toward the Serbian nation at the end of 20th century — the role which is being acted out precisely here, in front of this institution, formed through the flagrant violation of the international law and the basic human ethics.

Because it might be the very resolution by which this illegal tribunal was established that Sir Edward Grey would define as "the most shocking document diplomacy has ever produced."

Instead of "Greater Serbia" it was Offered, Serbia Chose to Drown its Statehood in a Common State with Croats and Slovenes

It is well known how the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was established, the Kingdom which was later given the name Yugoslavia, as a common state of Southern Slavic nations, creation of which the Germanic bloc fiercely wanted to prevent. And, as the part of failure from the First World War, and afterwards the Second, it was designated to be wiped off the face of the earth. The old myth of Greater Serbia remained, as one of propaganda tools for obscuring reality and covering up one's own crimes by someone else's invented sin.

It is precisely here, in this institution, where that very lie of Greater Serbia has found its natural roots and grew up into a monstrous creation of unprecedented magnitude. To make the irony and the absurdity even greater, and so that the lies and the injustice against Serbian nation are made even more horrific and malicious in contrast to their Balkan neighbors, it was in fact only the Serbian nation in that part of the world which, even though it had ample opportunities, and much better opportunities than the others, has not been trying to extend its state. It is well known that, in 1915, Serbia's allies have offered Serbia through the London Agreement, to expand its territories after the victory in the war onto Bosnia and Herzegovina, part of Dalmatia and Slavonia [present-day Croatia], and so on. All this is well documented. Serbia chose not to do so. Instead, Serbia accepted and embraced Serbs and Croats and Slovenians alike from the former Austro-Hungarian territory, and that is how the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes came to life, which would later be called Yugoslavia.

Now, this choice of Serbian Kingdom to create a common Yugoslav state, instead of Serbian state, has in this way offered a protection to Slovenian and Croat brothers from territorial fragmentation and turned them, from the parts of the defeated state, into the members of the victorious camp. But, despite this, since the last throes of the rotting Hapsburg monarchy until today, Serbs have remained branded as the Greater Serbia nationalists. This historical falsification is being kept alive all the while.

German Verdict: Serbia Must Die!

In order to understand the whole issue, it is useful to take a look at the other side of the World War I front. Namely, in 1915, German theoretician Friedrich Naumann published his book "Middle Europe" ("Mitell Europa"), where he laid out a project of reorganization of Europe. This was, of course, at the time it was expected that Germans will win the war. The reorganization of Europe meant creation of Greater Germany which would encompass the entire Central Europe, and which would be surrounded by the small weak states Naumann calls 'the satellite states'. These satellites of Greater Germany would be completely dependent on the great and powerful German state. Naumann doesn't mention Serbia even as a satellite state, because according to him, quote: "Serbia, as the fortress which is an obstacle in this part of the world, must be wiped off the map."

Let me stress that this creator of the Greater Germany project, which presupposes wiping Serbia off the map, in accordance with the anti-Serbian propaganda waged at the time under the notorious slogan "Serbia must die" -- "Serbien mus terbien", with an 'i' added to the word "treben", so that it rhymes with "Serbie" -- this theoretician is regarded as an the ideologue of the German Liberal Party [FDP, Die Liberalen], a political party which has long served to balance the German political scene and which, for more than two decades, has held in its hands the German foreign policy at the time of Genscher and Kinkel. The same Kinkel who in 1993 felt compelled to reveal the concept of German revision of historical processes, and who said: "Towards the outside world, something Germany has failed to do twice, must be accomplished."

German Present-Day Liberals Uphold Naumann's Death Sentence to Serbia

The importance German Liberals, especially the two mentioned leaders of German diplomacy, attach to the ideas and work of Friederich Naumann is best exemplified in the fact that the Liberal Party's Foundation is called the Friederich Naumann Foundation -- "Friederich Naumann Stiftung". The same name was also given to the party's headquarters, while the loyal and pedantic following in the vital issues is best reflected in the mindlessly destructive Genscher's and Kinkel's diplomatic efforts in regards to Yugoslavia and Serbia, and in the drive to confirm and ensure German domination in Europe through the fragmentation of the Central Europe and East Europe, which is precisely what took place. You have an example of Czechoslovakia, not to mention the example of destruction of USSR, the leading winning power in the World War II.

When Serbia, sentenced to death in this perverted approach by the exponents of the Greater Germany hegemonic tendencies, drowned its statehood in the newly formed state of Southern Slavs, denying by this act in a most eloquent way the propaganda about the Greater Serbia aspirations, it was only natural for this death sentence to be carried onto the newly formed state, Yugoslavia.

Two War Criminals, Hitler and Clinton, Share the Same Views on Serbs

It is well known that in Serbia, in protest of its government's decision to form a pact with Hitler's alliance, the massive demonstrations erupted which have overturned the government. At that time, Winston Churchill said: "Yugoslavia found its soul again." This was said on the one side, the side of the Allies; on the other side, on the very day the attack against Yugoslavia was launched, Hitler said that his military assault on Serbia was, quote, "directed against the very same criminal clique, the very same creatures who, through the assassination in Sarajevo, pushed the world into the unspeakable misery."

The claim incredibly reminiscent of the one a new fuhrer uttered 58 years later, ahead of the new round of bombardment of Serbia and Yugoslavia. Namely, Bill Clinton, then-President of the United States, while explaining to the American TV audience the decision to start, as he called it "the air campaign" against Yugoslavia, on the night of March 24 [1999], stressed: "No, the Serbs did not only cause the World War I, no -- without them, there would have been no holocaust either." So much for the knowledge and acknowledgment of history by these two criminals.

Germany Recycles Goebbels Propaganda for Present-Day Wars

It remains written in the German archives, from the Hitler's meeting: "The Fuhrer is determined to destroy Yugoslavia militarily and as a state." This part on "destroying Yugoslavia as a state" can be easily linked with the report notorious by the evilness and cynicism, by then-President of the SFRJ [Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia] Presidency Stjepan Mesic, given to the Croat parliament on December 5, 1991. Quote: "Thank you for honoring me with your trust to fight for the interests of Croatia in the part assigned to me. I believe I have performed my task: Yugoslavia is no more."

As far as these efforts and the crime which was committed against Yugoslavia, just like against the other countries that were the subject of the assault, prior to the attack against Yugoslavia, directives were given for propaganda issues in Germany. Ambassador Ralf Hartman speaks about the familiar, traditional outlines of the German propaganda for the Balkans. These outlines are as follows: "a) German opponent is exclusively the Serbian Government which fanned the flames of struggle against Germany; b) Since the Serbs implemented a ruthless dictatorship primarily against the Croats and Macedonians" -- all of which is entirely absurd, "they are to be clearly made aware that the German Vehrmacht is not coming to their country as an enemy of the Croats, Bosnians and Macedonians. Furthermore, in this way, they [Croats, Bosnians and Macedonians] will be protected from the slaughter by the Serbian chauvinists."

German Willing Satellite, Croatia, Also Preserves the Old Course

And protection "from the slaughter by the Serbian chauvinists" in the German puppet creation of Independent State of Croatia [NDH] has resulted in the genocide against the Serbs, Jews and Gypsies which, on the territory of that monstrous state, exterminated a million of Serbs, more than half of whom were driven to death through the most horrific sufferings. This gruesome undertaking was certainly aided by the Joseph Goebbels directive, which later remained alive and still active in the German political practice, "the Croats should be flattered so that they fan the hatred against the Serbs".

It is more than obvious to what extent this same approach was employed in the German relation towards the Balkans at the end of 20th century. But the continuity of the invariable German policy is perhaps best illustrated by the following statement by the Croat fuhrer Ante Pavelic from 1941: "I am fully aware that we owe gratitude for the freedom of Croatia exclusively to the power of Fuhrer, Reich and Europe". This continuity is particularly visible once this statement is compared with the musical one, "Danke Deutchland", from the end of 1991 and the beginning of 1992 [a Croat hit-song], or with the Stjepam Mesic's assurances of the especially significant role Genscher and Pope John Paul II played in dismembering Yugoslavia.

Vatican: Serbia Must be Destroyed as the Orthodoxy Stronghold

When it comes to the second key international participant, according to Mesic, in destruction of Yugoslavia -- the Holy See, it is also characterized by both the historical continuity in the anti-Yugoslav orientation and activities, on the one hand, and by the stability of the alliance with those who fought against the creation of Yugoslavia, before and after the WWI and who fought throughout its existence, especially in WWII against it, on the other.

The deep roots of this policy of Vatican and its anti-Serbian warmongering activities are attested by the following quotation from the report Austro-Hungarian envoy to the Holy See wrote in Vienna, back in July 27, 1914 -- before the war was declared against Serbia. Describing his conversation with the Cardinal's State Secretary Marie Del Vallo, he said, quote: "During the past year, His Holiness expressed several times its regret that Austro-Hungary has failed to punish its dangerous Danube neighbors. The Pope and the Curate regard Serbia as a putrid disease, which is slowly eating away the marrow of the monarchy, causing it to become extinguished. For the church, the destruction of this bastion would represent the loss of the firmest stronghold in its struggle against the Orthodoxy, and the loss of their strongest veterans. The Cardinal's State Secretary expressed hope that the monarchy will go all the way, to the end."

So, according to the official Vatican position, Serbia was to be destroyed in order to strengthen the Austro-Hungarian Empire as the geopolitical support of the Roman Catholic church in that part of the world, and especially as its base for spreading to the East. It is more than evident to what extent all of this is entirely removed from the Christ's teachings, but it is also more than evident how much all of this is connected with the "teachings" Hitler was spreading two decades later, obsessed with the insane and blood-soaked idea about his own divine mission to achieve the German "Drang nach Osten".

Genocide Against the Serbs in Hitler's Satellite Croatia Unprecedented

This is why it was not surprising that the alliance of the Holy See, headed by the Pope Pius XII, with the Axis powers, headed by Hitler, was very easily established. In Croatia, this alliance was implemented through the close ties of the Roman Catholic church with Pavelic's Independent State of Croatia. Pavelic's Minister of Education Mile Budak stated in Gospic: "We shall destroy part of the Serbs, expell the other part and convert the others to the [Roman] catholicism, turning them into Croats. In this way, we shall eradicate their traces and the only thing that shall remain, will be a bad memory of them."

Professor Edmund Paris in his book "Genocide in Satellite Croatia 1941-1945", [published in] Chicago 1961, said that the "greatest genocide during World War II, in proportion to nation's population, took place not in Nazi Germany but in Nazi-created puppet state of Croatia."

Professor Helen Fein in her book "Accounting for Genocide", New York, The Free Press, 1979, said that Croatia, quote, "The Croat state planned and executed massacres against the Serbian Orthodox minority and Catholic clergy approved these massacres". According to the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, pages 323-328, quote: "In the Independent State of Croatia more than half a million Serbs were killed, a quarter million were expelled and another 200,000 were forced to convert to Roman Catholicism".

Vatican and USA Rescue of Croat Ustashas the Best Kept Secret of 20th Century

The genocide against the Serbian population in NDH is one of the best kept secret of 20th century, as concealed as the rescue of the Ustasha criminals to avoid facing justice, conducted through the cooperation of Vatican, United States and the other Western states. In fact, after the defeat of the Axis powers in the WWII, and the Ustasha NDH along its side, the Roman Catholic church played the extremely important and extremely sinister role together with the American and British secret services, in organizing and conducting the rescue and fleeing abroad -- primarily to the South, but also North America -- of the large number of Ustashas, especially the highest ranking ones, including Fuhrer Ante Pavelic himself.

The reasons for the rescue of Ustashas and the other Nazis, and their organized transfer through the Vatican "Ratlines", was the interest shared by the USA and Vatican to fight against the USSR and the communist threat in which no methods were spared. Apart from that, Vatican also wanted to rescue the criminals, the loyal Roman Catholics it gave its blessing to during the war. This rescue of the criminals and concealment of the crimes was also a consequence of the fear that, in case the role of Vatican and Pope Pius XII in the WWII crimes was publicly revealed, the communists could win the elections in some of the main Roman Catholic countries in Europe, where the communists had strong support after the war, especially in France and Italy. These criminals were later used to weaken the communist countries in Europe and to carry out terrorist actions.

Vatican Finally Succeeds to Establish a Secret Alliance with the US Leadership

Vatican's constant efforts to establish the closest possible ties with the main Western power among the WWII winners, the United States, was finally rewarded at the beginning of the 1980s, when after the meeting between Reagan and Pope, the only thing that was leaked to the public was that they talked about the solutions adopted in Yalta in 1945. What followed was the series of meetings in the presence of the associates, in the course of which the strong ties were established, the kind of ties Richard Allen, White House Security Adviser, characterized as one of the most secret alliances of all times. There is a book by Carl Bernstein... [statement interrupted by the judge]

About the nature of this alliance, Professor Smilja Avramov said the following in her book "Opus Dei": "Even though the three fervent Roman Catholics [Zbigniew] Brzezinski, [William] Casey and [Vernon] Walters prepared the ground for alliance forming while having in mind the Roman Catholic imperative, even though President Reagan placed the Roman Catholic activists to the most prominent post in the administration -- for example, Alexander Haig, whose own brother was a bishop -- it would be wrong to claim that the Roman Catholic faith was the decisive factor in the United States policy of that period. The US Administration did not see the expression of the religion in the alliance, but the power of the church as an institution placed within the realpolitik context.

"Washington instrumentilized the Holy See, i.e. the Roman Catholic church, in the same way it will, a while later, try to do with the Islam. Through this alliance, the geopolitical map of the world was reshaped, the style in conducting policies was changed, and a clero-political bloc was created as a decisive factor in the US foreign policy, which will have the most fatal consequences for Yugoslavia."

The cited words of the intellectuals regarding the key role the Holy See plays in the global changes are also confirmed by Mikhail Gorbachev, who told the Italian La Stampa on March 3, 1992: "Everything that happened in the East Europe during the past years could not have been possible without the involvement of the Pope John Paul II".

In those few years, in East Europe, Yugoslavia was being dismembered in the pool of blood, the very state Vatican wanted to prevent from being created during the WWI and destruction of which and the great bloodshed which followed that destruction it already took part in once before, by supporting Hitler and the Ustasha state and Ustasha crimes during the WWII.

Pope John Paul II Justifies Ethnic Cleansing of Serbs from Croatia, Calling it a "Humanitarian Intervention"

The policy of Vatican towards Serbia has been shaped, as shown by the cited letter from 1914, from before the time Yugoslavia was formed. After the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was created in 1918, this multi-confessional state was labeled as the main obstacle to spreading the Roman Catholicism to the east. Apart from that, Vatican viewed Balkans as its key region for proselytizing. Due to all this, the policy of Pope John Paul II and of the Roman Catholic church in general during this pope's reign towards Yugoslavia represented only the final phase of the activities of the Roman Catholic church in destroying Yugoslavia. I will skip the series of examples of the meetings held in 1991 and 1992 which confirmed this, but I will include this in the submitted text, because the time doesn't permit me to quote all this.

After recognizing Slovenia and Croatia, and then also Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vatican suddenly switched to a peace-making policy, expressing, in 1994, a desire for pope to visit Zagreb, Belgrade and Sarajevo. The expulsion of Serbs from the territories in Croatia they populated for centuries, in the "Storm" and "Flash" operations, the Vatican diplomacy dubbed the "recapturing of the territories", and I will remind you that Lord Owen has stated that Operation Storm was the biggest ethnic cleansing on the territory of former Yugoslavia.

On October 19, 1995, in regards to that, pope said that in certain situations the use of force is not ruled out if this is necessary for defense of the justified right of one nation. In such situations, at issue is a "humanitarian intervention" for protection of human lives. No human lives were threatened at the time, nor were there any attacks from the territories of UN protected zones of Krajina [Serbian region in Croatia] to the surrounding areas. Unlike, for example, another UN protected zone of Srebrenica, from which during all those years the attacks were continuously conducted resulting in hundreds of Serbian villages being razed to the ground, Serbian population slaughtered and their villages burned.

US Army Chaplain: Vatican Responsible for the Bloodshed in Former Yugoslavia

A retired chaplain in the US Army, Colonel Biegler, said in Pittsburgh on January 1999 that the Vatican is guilty for all the misery that took place in the territory of Yugoslavia and that he had personally seen the Vatican bank accounts, confirming that the Roman Catholic church, together with the German Government, has destabilized Yugoslavia and instigated a decade of bloodshed. Biegler said that Vatican had 'pumped in' millions of dollars to separatists in Yugoslavia, and that the Roman Catholic church was very active in the events which took place in Croatia and Slovenia.

It is well known that Vatican and the press supported Albanian demonstrations in Kosovo and Metohija in 1989, and the same was done by the Ljubljana and Zagreb archbishops. During the visit to Albania in 1994, Pope supported demands of Albanian separatists in Kosovo and Metohija. Pope was the first to request the energetic action against Serbia in 1998, and then turned into a peace-maker once again, first on March 30, when he called the meeting of the ambassadors of the NATO member states and the Security Council, to start the initiative for ending the war against Yugoslavia. In April 1, he wrote the first letter to Clinton, asking to stop the bombing during the Easter holiday.

Once all these Vatican activities aimed at destruction of Yugoslavia are taken into account, pope's message on March 12, 2000, sounds frightfully insincere: "We cannot fail to admit the betrayal of the Gospel committed by our brothers, especially in the second millennium. The admissions of the mistakes in the past leads to awakening of our consciousness and to the compromise in the presence". Recalling this pope's plea for forgiveness of the sins of the Roman Catholic church, Professor Smilja Avramov in the earlier cited book Opus Dei, on pages 170-171, reminds to critical reactions to it, especially emphasizing the following words of the Dutch catholic thinker Leo Lyndaker, quote: "Pope expressed regret for what was done in the past, but there are no indications that he might be considering to change his behavior in the presence."

To be continued...

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Tadic's Yellows Kidnapped Milosevic and Handed him Over to the Hague Executioners

May 25, 2008 interview with Uros Suvakovic, a prominent member of the Socialist Party of Serbia - SPS (Glas Javnosti)

"SPS is a patriotic party, while DS, G17 Plus and the other little parties gathered around them go by the old Latin saying, that the homeland is wherever's better."

No Honorable Way to Jump in the Same Sack with Tadic

Q: Which government do you favor more, the one with [coalition gathered around Tadic's] DS, or the one with the SRS [Serbian Radical Party] and DSS-NS [Kostunica's Democrats and Ilic's New Serbia coalition]? And why?

US: This is not about "favoring". This is the moral issue. There is no honorable way for the Socialists to form new government with the coalition Canak-Dinkic-Tadic. If anyone had dared to suggest such a prospect to our voters, out of 100 of them at least 80 would not have voted for us and, believe me, neither would I, nor anyone else from the Freedom Party would have accepted to take part, or offer to support such [candidate] list.

Q: Aren't you too harsh, being that [Tadic's] DS is a member of the Socialist International?

US: It is a lie that [Tadic's] Democratic Party is a left-wing political party. The fact they have added to their new programme few sentences which fit with the social-democratic orientation is in no way giving it a status of a left-wing party. While in power, this party has been implementing a liberal model of economy, ideologically charted as an entirely right-wing concept. The result of such ideologically fervent, and not economically based privatization is that Serbia's economy has been plundered, that the tycoons have bought everything that could have been bought, that there is no real production in our country, that the national banking system has been anihilated, while the foreign banks were enabled to rob our citizens...

Q: Apparently, you exclude the possibility for the DS, even in coalition with SPS and PUPS [Party of the Serbian Pensioners], to correct such a course?

US: The consequences of everything they have done is also a record unemployment rate in Serbia, which puts us at the first place in Europe, the complete stripping of the rights of the workers who were fortunate enough to keep their jobs, and the unprecedented level of corruption. Therefore, the DS was not concerned with workers, their rights and their employment, it was instead concerned with the interests of the mid-size and big capital.

Allegedly "Left-Wing Party", Tadic's DS Launched Persecution Against Socialists

Q: In your view, whose formula of tying Kosovo-Metohija to the EU is closer to the SPS position — Kostunica's or Tadic's?

US: Together with the Radicals and Kostunica's party, the Socialists were defending the country from NATO aggression in 1999, while then-President of DS [Zoran Djindjic, succeeded by Tadic] was "touring" the western Europe, calling for the continuation of bombardment of Serbia. Our resistance to NATO resulted in the adoption of the Resolution 1244, which guarantees Serbia's sovereignty over Kosovo-Metohija. And now, the DS is signing various agreements with the states which first bombed us, and then recognized Kosovo independence nine years later.

Q: President Tadic claims that the SPS-DS government would represent a form of reconciling the 1990s [Socialist Party rule] and October 5 [CIA-funded coup which brought Yellows to the power]. Is that acceptable for you?

US: As a "left-wing party", the DS distinguished itself by persecuting the Socialists after October 5. Its former president and the members who comprised Serbian Government back then, reached a decision to kidnap Slobodan Milosevic and deliver him over to the Hague, enabling the Hague executioners to murder him by failing to provide him with the appropriate medical help. The latest SPS Congress adopted a resolution, binding for the SPS leadership, which demands establishing criminal responsibility of all those who took part in delivering Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague. At the time, Djelic [outgoing vice premier, DS member] and Dinkic [outgoing Economy minister, leader of G17 Plus] were also among the top state leaders. So, how could we raise criminal charges against our "coalition partners"?

Yellows' Appalling Behavior at the Time of Milosevic's Death Unforgivable

Q: Tadic is inviting the coalition gathered around SPS into the government in the name of "national reconciliation", while leaving the past to the historians...

US: Current DS leader, in the role of president of Serbia and as a member of the Head Council of SCG Defense [SCG: Serbia and Montenegro Federation] requested and succeeded to have the SCG Army barred from any form of participation in the funeral of the late president of this state and the SPS founder, Slobodan Milosevic. This order of his was carried through with such diligence, that it was even prohibited for Milosevic's remains to be placed in a VMA [Military Medical Academy] chapel, and all the military tributes he had the legal right to were also prohibited. Tadic's political party deputy, Nenad Bogdanovic, issued a ban on the funeral in the Avenue of the Greats in the New Belgrade.

Q: What is your position regarding the ratification of the Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU?

US: I believe that agreement was signed as part of the DS' advertisement during the electoral campaign and that it is a move by the irresponsible people who care for the state interests as much as for the last year's snow. But now that the agreement is here, its hurried annulment wouldn't be good either. So, I think that the correct stand would be to have the SAA thoroughly analyzed, both on the expert and on the political level, and only after that sent to the National Assembly for reaching the final decision. And, let me stress — the way this pact relates to Kosovo-Metohija as an integral part of Serbia is the main, but not its only deficiency. This pact, for example, enables the import of genetically modified food to Serbia and selling of our agricultural land to the foreigners, all of which is contrary to our laws and the Constitution. I believe it is important for our farmers to know this as well. Just as our citizens also need to know that several more Serbian heads have to be delivered to the Hague in order for this pact to become operative.

Q: What is the way out?

US: I see a solution in adopting few explicit reservations regarding the text of the agreement, which our country would put forth. But none of it ought to be done heatedly, but in a well-thought out way and studiously. Because, Serbia should join the European Union. After all, everybody agrees on that. The point of disagreement is the defense of Kosovo and Metohija. SRS, DSS-NS and SPS have always regarded Kosovo-Metohija as the priority number one of our national policy, and that the state must protect its territory and its people living there by all means, while the DS, G17 Plus and the other little parties gathered around them follow the old Latin adage, that "the homeland is wherever's better".

Q: You are known as the man Mirjana Markovic [Slobodan Milosevic's widow] trusts. Are you her link to the rest of the SPS in these politically heated days?

US: She has direct contacts with the SPS leadership, first of all with the leader of the party Dacic and his deputy Milutin Mrkonjic, so there is no need for me to act as an intermediary.

Q: What is Markovic saying to the SPS leadership? Which option does she prefer? And is there a request for the amnesty for Marko Milosevic [son] and Mirjana Markovic?

US: You will have to ask the SPS leadership that. What I deeply believe is that she, alongside 80 percent of our voters, completely agrees with the political views I expressed in this interview. Regarding the amnesty for Mira and Marko, every state leadership which respects the principles of the rule of law would have to do that first.

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Czech President: How Ashamed I was!

That Czech nation has managed not to lose its sense of honor and common decency in the era when everything contrary to those virtues is promoted as the right thing to do onto others, was once again confirmed today, by the Czech President Vaclav Klaus in person.

Describing his meeting with Serbia's Ambassador Vladimir Veresh ahead of his return to Belgrade, a move prompted by the Czech government's decision to recognize the Albanian mafia state on Serbian territory, President Klaus wrote an article for Prague daily Mlada Fronta Dnes, titled "How Ashamed I Was".

"I was very upset by the words of Ambassador Veresh, who said that Serbs did not take personally Kosovo recognitions by countries such as Finland, Holland or Germany, but that the Czech government's move hurt them," the Czech president said.

Klaus reminded that he personally cannot be at peace with his state officials' recognition of unilateral independence by the Pristina separatists, and that for this reason he decided to receive Veresh in the personal audience, which the diplomats describe as a highly unusual move, according to the state protocol.

"I believed that with my quick invitation of the Serbian ambassador before his unwanted departure, I will send out at a least a small signal to people in this country as well as in Serbia that nothing is changing in Czechs' relations to Serbs," Klaus wrote.

He added that Veresh reminded him of several key moments in the common history of the two nations.

One is the fact that the first Czechoslovakian president, Tomash Garrigue Masaryk, could only travel through Europe during the First World War because Serbia issued him with a passport, and that the German Gestapo persecuted Masaryk's followers in occupied Serbia during the Second World War, including Ambassador Veresh's own grandfather, who was arrested by the Gestapo on Belgrade.

"The ambassador's father studied in Prague after the war, to be sent home by our authorities after 1948, because he would not renounce his president Tito in favor of Stalin," Klaus continued.

The third fact, he reminded the readers of the Czech Republic's most influential newspaper, is that as the Warsaw Pact troops occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968, Yugoslavia was the only country to declare its own mobilization.

"I was glad to hear him telling me that they cherished the fact that I am the only president to have done something like this. However, I did not think that I will have to be ashamed", the Czech president ended.

Pravo: "We Can be Fully Ashamed"

Czech daily Pravo assessed that Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (ODS), when deciding on the fate of Serbian Kosovo-Metohija province, "included among the guys to whom he does not talk" not only a majority of the public and the opposition, but also the government coalition partners from the Christian Democratic Union (KDU-CSL), as well as the state President Vaclav Klaus, who is also an ODS honorary chairman.

Pravo points out that Slovakia, for instance, has not issued a recognition of an illegal state on Serbian territory.

"We can be fully ashamed of that a state that is the closest to us (Slovakia) and also a smaller state did not join the violation of international law, but our government did," Alexandr Mitrofanov stressed.

He pointed out that Czechs realize that the Serbs, a Slavic nation who always stood by the Czechs, have found themselves in the position of second-rate citizens in their own province of Kosovo and Metohija.

"The perception of the state as one's own private business in that part of the ODS that is represented by Mirek Topolanek is just culminating," Mitrofanov notes for Pravo.

Hamacek: Scandalous Behavior of the Government

According to CTK news, Head of the Chamber of Deputies Foreign Committee (CSSD) Jan Hamacek said he expected the government to explain this step because its decision certainly contradicted the Chamber of Deputies' resolution on Serbian Kosovo province that was approved almost unanimously.

Hamacek said it was "scandalous that the Chamber of Deputies foreign committee was not informed about the government's decision beforehand".

The Chamber of Deputies approved a resolution at the beginning of February, which recommended that the government must act in accordance with the international law and the United Nations Security Council's resolution 1244, according to which Kosovo and Metohija remain an integral part of Serbia.

Curve: Recognizing Criminal States was Not Part of the Ruling Coalition Programme

The MF Dnes also reminds that Czech government's unexpected decision to recognize Pristina separatists' unilateral independence, despite the overwhelming opposition to such a move, including the Czech Republic president, has caused a storm in the local political scene, which continues unabated for the third day.

Not only the Czech opposition, such as the most popular Social Democratic Party and Czech and Moravian Communist Party are against the illegal recognition, but there are also talks about the split within the ruling coalition over the act.

"Everyone has the right to publicly express their disagreement within the [ruling] coalition which recognizes criminal states -- this is not what our party was meant to do", head of the Czech Green Party Pavel Curve said, adding that "this position of [Czech FM] Karel Schwarzenberg is not my cup of tea. I will continue to request the foreign minister's departure."

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Germany's Big, Empty Words

Part 3 of late President Slobodan Milosevic's opening statement at the Hague, August 31, 2004 (Part 1, Part 2)

On September 12, 1990, in Moscow, at the time foreign minister of what was then a Democratic Republic of Germany, along with French, Great Britain, Soviet and United States' foreign ministers signed an agreement about the final state order of Germany, Genscher, among else, said: "We don't want anything else, except to live in freedom, democracy and peace with all the other nations. The state unity is for us the greatest responsibility, but it does not represent the aspirations for greater power".

Chancellor Kohl, on October 3 [1990], the day of German reunification, sent a message to all the governments in the world, among them also to a Yugoslav Government, which states: "From the German soil, only the peace will emanate in future. We are aware that the inviolability of borders, the respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty of all European states are the key preconditions for peace. We are also bound by the moral and legal obligations, which stem from the German history."

Big words and big promises given to the rest of humanity, particularly to Europe, at the moment German nation was finally permitted to take off the heavy burden of the division, imposed precisely as a result of the darkest era of German history. Big words and big promises, but at the same time, empty words and empty promises.

Because, how did the top German leadership view the moral and legal obligations arising from the German history which they cited, in reality, and what is their relation to the inviolability of borders, respect of territorial integrity and sovereignty of all European states, as they said themselves is the main precondition for peace, one could observe at the time very clearly on the territory of Yugoslavia — that is, on the territory of that very state onto which the German history, only in the 20th century, inflicted a cost of three million lives: 1,247,000 Serbian victims in the First World War and 1,700,000 victims in the Second World War.

Because, precisely in that October of 1990, in the month of German reunification, the Yugoslav Army Security Services have found and even managed to secretly film the activities of the illegal import of weapons to Croatia, aimed at facilitating the armed secession of Croatia. Therefore, at issue was an outright destruction of the territorial integrity of Yugoslavia.

This arms-import went through Hungary, but the bulk of the weapons came from now reunified Germany, which turned the cited promise of Chancellor Kohl that "only peace will emanate from the German soil in future", to the pure irony. The arming of secessionists was neither the only, nor the first form of German meddling in Yugoslav internal affairs, contributing to the deepening, if not the very instigation of the crisis in Yugoslavia.

Germany Promises to Croat and Slovenian Secessionists that More Bloodshed will Grant their Wishes

The entire activities of Slovenia and Croatia on violently gaining independence were not only supported and aided by Germany, they were also largely encouraged by the highest [German] state functionaries. Namely, within the efforts to stop the conflict in Croatia, and to end the attacks against the JNA (Yugoslav Army), Yugoslav Presidency and the leaders of the Yugoslav republics have gathered in Belgrade at the meeting on August 20 and 21, 1991. At that time, they have adopted a number of decisions aimed at stabilizing the situation. A programme on the minimal political and economic cooperation was adopted; a commission for drafting an agreement about the future shape of the multi-national state was formed, and also an agreement was reached regarding the meeting between the leaders of the JNA and Croat republic.

On August 20, the extraordinary ministerial session of the European Political Cooperation was held, where the foreign ministers of the European Community member states concluded they are welcoming the readiness of all parties to embark on negotiations about the future of Yugoslavia, and requested that all the sides conduct these negotiations between themselves in goodwill. On the same day, Genscher held the consultations with Slovenian and Croat foreign ministers. And on August 24, 1991, he invited Boris Frlec, a Yugoslav Ambassador to Bonn, a Slovenian by the way, which ensured that the message sent to Yugoslav authorities will also be carried to Ljubljana and Zagreb, and told him: "In case the bloodshed continues, and in the case the policy of violence does not end immediately, the [German] Federal Government will have to seriously consider recognizing Slovenia and Croatia in the existing borders. It will also conduct the appropriate review on these matters within the European Community."

The question is whether those who have already declared secession and who have already used weapons in order to carry it out, needed a better and greater endorsement and encouragement, whether the greater push could have been given in order to violate the cease-fire, than this message, that precisely the continuation of the bloodshed will produce the recognition of those states. Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened. The message has produced the desired effect, because the Croat paramilitary formations refused to honor the already agreed cease-fire and escalated the conflict.

Finally, Lord [David] Owen also spoke about the German readiness to support Slovenia and Croatia in their unlawful secession also through the recognition of those republics, even at the cost of serious clashes with their [German own] European Community partners, USA and the United Nations. You have admitted into evidence his book here and I'm reminding you, he said: "Genscher's letter to Perez de Cuellar, written in German, invoked the public statements which have been raising tensions in Yugoslavia and the Paris Charter. But, as Perez de Cuellar reminded him in his reply, Genscher has forgotten to mention a European Community declaration published in Rome on November 8, 1991, which said that the prospects for the recognition of independence of those republics who wished so can only be reviewed within the frameworks of the overall solutions."

Diplomats: Germany Bears the Greatest Responsibility for the Bloodshed in Former Yugoslavia

Still, the German position was finally prevailing. Once the Pandora's box was opened, once the unlawful secession was recognized at the cost of human lives, the blood-soaked process was difficult to stop, because the things were not ended with Croatia and Slovenia, again without any consideration for the consequences. A further step was made.

At the end of the first passage, on the page 384 of his book, Lord Owen says: "The European Community's mistake regarding the recognition of Croatia could have been overcome had the situation not been further complicated by the recognition of Bosnia and Herzegovina, irrespective of the consequences. United States which, in December 1991, were against the recognition of Croatia, in the spring of 1992 became a very active advocate of recognizing Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, there was no need to regard it as unavoidable, nor was it logical to move on decisively and recognize Bosnia and Herzegovina, an inner Yugoslav republic which consisted of three large constitutive nations, with very different views on independence."

So, one mistake followed the other. One brazenness followed the other, and human lives were the price. And when human lives are the price, than those mistakes and those brazennesses turn into the crime. In this case, that is the crime against peace. Precisely the type of crime that this illegal institution, probably not by chance, does not have the jurisdiction over.

That Germany is the main guilty party for the escalation of the Yugoslav crisis was also stressed by the US Secretary of State Warren Christopher, in the interview to US Today, also carried by Die Welt, from June 18, 1993. Christopher said: "During the overall process of recognition and, first of all, on the occasion of the premature recognitions, grave mistakes were made, and particular responsibility for that belongs to the Germans. Many experts share the view that the problems we are facing today stem from the recognition of Croatia, and later Bosnia."

Christopher's French colleague Roland Dumas, in the statement carried by Süddeutsche Zeitung on June 21, 1993, criticized the European Community because of recognizing Slovenia and Croatia in, quote, a "hasty and precipitous manner", which paved the way to breaking up Yugoslavia. He emphasized, quote: "The responsibility of Germany and the Vatican for the escalation is clearly enormous".

Another participant in these events, the then-Dutch Premier Ruud Lubbers, spoke in 1997 about the fact that German Chancellor Kohl pressured the European Community and thus changed its position that Croatia's independence ought not be recognized in order to avoid further fanning of the civil war, and said, I quote: "Foreign Affairs Minister [Hans] Van den Broek and I might as well have turned on our heads. The other Europeans could do nothing but look around in astonishment. Germans have moved into this business on their own and that was a catastrophe." This is [Amsterdam] Volkstrant, quoted according to the DPA, on December 21, 1997.

When all the above described German support to Croat and Slovenian, but also to the other secessionists aiming to realize their plan, is taken into account, then those statements by Sjepan Mesic from the TV appearance regarding the role of Genscher and Pope John Paul II are not surprising.

A Constant in German Foreign Policy in Three Wars: Anti-Serbian Drive

However, as the Germany's bully-like support for destruction of Yugoslavia and for recognition of the secession of its republics is something evident and widely known, the question remains in the minds of many what were the motives of such behavior and such stubborn persistence of the top leaders of just-reunited German nation.

This question is answered by one of the world's leading geopolitical experts, General Pierre-Marie Gallois who was a close De Gaulle's associate, who stated the following for Die Zeit on July 23, 1993: "Dismemberment of this state and closely tying Croats and Slovenians to the German industry has brought about the emancipation of the nations which were once associated with the empire in the heart of Europe, and afterwards with the Third Reich. On the other hand, this meant punishment of the Serbs who have persistently, in both world wars, stood by the Allies. Thirdly, this has led to the wiping of the last remnants of the treaties with which Germany was twice punished for its defeats."

And although many would regard these claims by the old French general and the prominent anti-fascist with suspicion and displeasure, trusting that Germany's historical ambitions are nothing but a distant past and that the new historical circumstances and the catharsis German nation went through are a sufficient guarantee for the peace-loving insurances given by the German politicians at the time these events took place, on the occasion of German reunification, one only needs to recall an article by Klaus Kinkel, titled "German Foreign Policy in the Light of the New World Order", published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on March 19, 1993. In this article, the task of German foreign policy is expressed in the following way: "Towards the outside world, something in which we have failed twice before, has to be realized".

Everyone understands -- there's probably no one in the world who doesn't know what was it that Germany failed in twice before, vis-a-vis the outside world. So, according to the German Foreign Minister himself, the task for this country's foreign policy is to use its potentials to realize what it failed to achieve in two world wars, and the only question that remains is whether that will be achieved by the old or by the new means.

Kohl himself said in a TV programme, on the day of the recognition of Croatia secession: "There is a particularly intense affiliation between the Germans and the Croats, which is largely related to history." This historical vertical line pointed out by Kohl, like the historical vertical line in the German foreign policy and the actions pointed out by Kinkel, and finally also a similar vertical line in the actions and policies of their Croat satellite, is sometimes startlingly reflected in almost identical actions and words of the key figures from the time of two world wars, and the time of war against Yugoslavia in the 1990's. Therefore, from the three wars in which the constant staple of the German policy in the Balkans were the anti-Yugoslav pressures.

Myth of 'Greater Serbia' Used as Propaganda Tool for 150 Years

First, there were the blood-soaked efforts to prevent the creation of the Yugoslav state and then even bloodier to destroy that state and wipe it off the face of the earth. The red thread tying the overall rhetoric and the rhetoric of the Germanic bloc of Austria, i.e. the Austro-Hungary, and Germany in the Balkans is the thesis about the danger of creation some kind of Greater Serbia. This danger, this key thesis, has taken the central position also in this false indictment against me -- Greater Serbia. This thesis, this myth, is a creation of Austro-Hungarian propaganda since the second half of the 19th century. It is an integral part of the efforts by the rotting monarchy to keep its occupied Southern Slavic territories.

About this fear that the Southern Slavic nations, shackled under the Austro-Hungarian occupation, carried by the wave of a broad European process of national emancipation and the liberation from the occupier's binds of a score of European nations, as well as reunifications of the divided territories into one state, just as was the case with Germany itself, this fear from realizing such aspirations, although they were natural and historically legitimate in the case of unification of the Southern Slavs, one more German, Ambassador Ralf Hartman, describes in the following way in his book "The Honorable Mediators", on the page 31.

This illustrates the depths of this fear and how far back it goes into the past. I'm quoting him: "Already in 1876, when the Serbian Prince Milos backed the rebellion of the Christian population in Herzegovina and Bosnia against the Turkish rule and when he declared the war to Constantinople, the Russian State Chancellor Prince [Alexander Mikhailovich] Gorchakov, German Chancellor [Otto Von] Bismarck and the Austro-Hungarian Prime Minister [Gyula] Andrassy, upon the Hapsburg pressure, in the so-called Berlin Memorandum, agreed that in the case the Serbs win" -- he quotes: "The Powers will not tolerate creation of the large Slavic state".

The Natural Aspirations Allowed to Everyone, Forever Denied to Serbs

The thing that in 19th century represented for every one — Germans and Russians, Englishmen and Frenchmen, Spaniards and Italians — the most natural and understandable right to a life in a unified state, was to remain forever denied to the Southern Slavs, or rather, to Serbs. Their aspiration towards the state unification was declared heretical and turned into a threatening apparition. The name of this apparition was "Greater Serbia" and that is how it has remained in Vienna, Berlin and elsewhere ever since, without calming down till today,