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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.