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Poetic Justice

There is plenty of divine poetic justice in the fact that the late President Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia, after the latest parliamentary elections, has been suddenly and unexpectedly promoted both by the EU officials and Serbia's Yellow bloc as the most desirable, entirely ideal government "partner" precisely for those who have been openly destroying Milosevic's party during the past eight years, by mercilessly tearing Slobodan Milosevic down as the devil incarnate, guilty of everything since the Great Flood until this very day.

For those who enjoy a healthy dose of prickly political satire, punctuated with a number of eggs-on-the-faces of the most despised quislings and state thieves, the fact that the men who took part in handing their state's former president over to the Kangaroo court, those who have thunderously announced "Hell for Milosevic!" after his murder in the Hague, who declined to even consider a state funeral for the man elected to lead their state three times in a row, with an overwhelming majority of more than 80 percent of votes, those who organized a party in Belgrade when late President Milosevic's family and party officials were burying him in the backyard of his parents' home in Pozarevac, those who were outraged by the slightest expression of sorrow over the great man's premature and untimely death, rushing to foreign reporters to feverishly profess they are "ashamed" of Serbian citizens who went to pay last respects to their murdered president -- those very same people are now praying and begging to form a partnership with the political party Slobodan Milosevic brought to power and made the most popular political party in former Yugoslavia.

They are now willing to become greater Socialists than the Socialists themselves, they are proposing to enter the "Socialist International" (!), according to Tadic's own words, shoulder-to-shoulder with Milosevic's Socialists, and are offering tens of thousands Euros to their former mortal enemies they couldn't hide detest for until recently, just to shake hands with Milosevic's associates in the tiny local parliaments scattered throughout the municipalities in the Serbian interior.

According to the President of the Serbian National Council of Kosovo and Metohija Milan Ivanovic, Tadic's sleazeballs would now gladly go to Pozarevac to dig up the remains of the late president personally, with their own hands, and move them to the Alley of the Greats, thus far—during their poisonous reign—reserved only for themselves and their personal friends and heroes. Just another proof how far they took the "privatization" issues in robbed, war-torn and ravaged Serbia.

"Even though [Tadic's] DS until recently blamed Slobodan Milosevic and his political party for all the miseries that befell Serbia, they are now willing to form the Government precisely with this party. They have now switched to blaming the Radicals for everything, but not the SPS any longer. Obviously, due to the countless affairs they got themselves enmeshed in, they are afraid to be left outside, with no power," said Ivanovic, adding that "Tadic's 'democrats' are not only willing to move the remains of Slobodan Milosevic over to the Alley of the Greats in Belgrade, but also to rename the boulevard they named after Zoran Djindjic to a Slobodan Milosevic Boulevard."

Javier Solana Wants to Keep Getting Provisions from Dinkic's Shady "Privatization" Deals

And, to complete the shameful burlesque, another archenemy of Milosevic's Socialists, the EU troll Javier Solana who has been claiming for a decade that he bombed Serbia only because of Milosevic (and, at the helm of the NATO pact at the time, he actually tried to assassinate Yugoslav president), while all the while he loved the Serbs with all his little heart, now says he would be perfectly happy with Milosevic's party getting to power once again and forming Serbian Government, as long as they enter alongside his kickback buddies, Tadic, Dinkic, Djelic, Sutanovac and the rest of the thieving, lying, conniving slime. So much for Solana's principles.

"Solana is their partner in getting the commission kickbacks for some foreign investments that are coming to Serbia. He only wants that government [Yellows with Socialists] because of his cut in the deals", leader of the New Serbia Velimir Ilic revealed to Vecernje Novosti.

Personal Sacrifice is What Makes One Great

On the bright side, this sudden turnaround of the Socialist-hating, thieving "reformers" and their foreign employers offers a perfect opportunity to remember how Slobodan Milosevic made Serbian Socialist Party great: through his own brilliance of a great statesman, through his righteousness and truthfulness, and through his personal sacrifice during the last chapter of his life spent in the Hague prison cell, while defending his nation and state against NATO.

Starting today, we shall publish the entire opening statement late President Milosevic gave in the Hague on August 31 and September 1, 2004. The hope to simply copy and paste transcripts for the said dates from the Kangaroo court's web site was crushed after a superficial comparison of the English translation of the transcripts to the Serbian original: the English translation is not only missing the entire passages and sentences, it is also decidedly incorrect in a number of instances. Believing it a shame to have nothing but a badly mutilated English translation as a historical record of one of the best, most comprehensive overviews by an important state leader, summing up the entire history of the civil wars in former Yugoslavia and the events surrounding them, we decided to translate anew the well recorded Serbian original, i.e. President Milosevic's own words, making sure to stay loyal to the original, even at the cost of overly-long, clumsy English sentences.

One should also keep in mind that President Milosevic spoke based on his personal notes, and did not have a written "speech" to simply read it out. Which, again, might offer another glimpse into the man's brilliance, power of concentration and knowledge and understanding of the history, world politics and described events.

Slobodan Milosevic: The Truth is Entirely Different
A European State, One of the UN Founders, was Brutally Destroyed

Late President Milosevic's opening statement in the Hague, August 31, 2004

In the international public, for a long time and with clear political intentions, an untruthful, distorted picture was being created about the events which took place in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

These accusations represent entirely unscrupulous manipulations with lies, mutilation of the law, defeat of morals and completely irresponsible rewriting of history. Everything has been presented in a lopsided manner, in order to protect those who are truly responsible for the tragic events and in order to draw the wrong conclusions through the interpretations of the events, as well as conclusion about the true nature and the background of war against Yugoslavia.

There is a fundamental historical fact from which one must proceed in order to understand these events. This fact has been the source of everything that went on in the territory of Yugoslavia since 1991 until the present day, and it is the fact that what took place is the violent destruction of a European state, Yugoslavia, which was derived from the statehood of Serbia, the only ally of the democratic world in that whole region over the past two centuries.

There can be no doubt that this fundamental historic fact is going to leave an imprint on the European history in the times to come.

A multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-confessional state that had its historic and international legal legitimacy was destroyed in order to create in its territory, according to the diktat of Germany and Vatican, assisted by the United States and the European Community, pure national mini-states. The state which was a founding member of all the universal international organizations, starting with the first Universal Postal Union in 1874, through the League of Nations, the International Labor Organization, the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and all the other specialized agencies of the United Nations, all the way up to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe [OSCE] — thanks to which the catastrophe took place, the destruction of a sovereign state which, according to the Nuremberg Principles represents the worst international crime, the crime against peace; [OSCE] thanks to which the war took place in which tens of thousands of civilians were killed, hundreds of thousands were maimed, more than million people were expelled and turned into refugees — mostly Serbs — while the material damage is practically unappraisable and reaches hundreds of billions of dollars, not to even mention the ecological catastrophe.

The international community will have to face up to the truth. The problem of responsibility is even greater since it was not only one state that was destroyed. The legal system of the United Nations was destroyed, the corpus of moral principles upon which the world civilization was based has been destroyed. In addition, never in the history has a state disappeared by sheer coincidence.

The official rhetoric surrounding the events in the Yugoslav territory from the beginning till today, also adopted by this so-called "prosecution" here, crumbles in the light of the bear facts. The problem is that Yugoslavia did not "fall apart", nor has it miraculously vanished, as Mr. Robert Badinter tried to explain, resorting to a form of legal metaphysics. This country was destroyed according to a plan, violently, and through the war which continues to be waged, in which a series of war crimes were committed.

Yugoslavia Headed by All-Non-Serbian Political and Military Leadership at the Start of the Civil Wars

A reputable American theoretician Stephen John Steedman appropriately noted in 1993 in the periodical Foreign Affairs, that at the beginning of the war, and I am quoting: "There was no Slovenia or some other state. There was only the state of Yugoslavia." So it is logical to take this as a point of departure in any kind of legal analysis.

Yugoslavia was headed at this most critical period of time by a representative from Croatia, Stjepan Mesic, its Prime Minister at the time was also from Croatia, Ante Markovic, as well as its Foreign Minister, also from Croatia, Budimir Loncar. In the entire top echelons of the military, of which we could also be informed here, among the 16 top generals only 2 were Serbs; most were Croats, Slovenians and of other ethnic backgrounds.

This state had a strong and well organized armed forces at its disposal, the one which could control the conflict and prevent the catastrophe altogether. However, this government allowed the paramilitary formations, arms smugglers, criminals, even the narco-mafia—when we look at the end of this process in Kosovo—to take over the terrain. But the said government acted in concert with the European Community, most notably with Germany and the Vatican.

As early as the end of June 1991, the European Community demanded that the legitimate armed forces must stay closed within the army barracks, and that they must refrain from any action — therefore, a voluntary transformation of the army into a detainee in their own country, which has, naturally, opened the doors for the activities of the paramilitary formations of the secessionists.

Slovenian Paramilitary Formations' War Crimes Faithfully Recorded by Austrians

The armed confrontations were started by the secession of Slovenia in 1991, which was accompanied by the armed actions. In June 1991, Slovenian paramilitary formations, without any cause, killed in cold blood the JNA [Yugoslav People's Army] soldiers who were securing the border towards Hungary and Italy, and took over the border posts. From the point of the Yugoslav Constitution, the United Nations Charter, and the general legal principles recognized by the civilized nations, this was a textbook example of the armed insurrection against the state, which obligates the state to undertake all the necessary measures in order to restore the law and order.

And we know that, acting upon the order of the Federal Premier Ante Markovic, the Commander of the Fifth Army, Slovenian General Konrad Kolshek informed the government of Slovenia that the Yugoslav People's Army will regain control over the borders and that this task will be carried out.

Instead of allowing the peaceful implementation of the decisions by the Federal Government, Slovenian leadership said that it accepts the challenge and that it will resort to force in order to oppose it. And that's what they did. Using the paramilitary formations which at the time had 36,000 illegally armed fighters, Slovenia launched an offensive. They all knew perfectly well that the Yugoslav People's Army, brought up in the spirit of brotherhood and unity, will not shoot at Slovenians whom they considered their own citizens.

So, the killing of the JNA soldiers represented a mere premeditated crime, and not a war in any sense of the word. The grave war crimes have been committed, and not even the military medical institutions were spared. The European Community Troika toured the terrain and described a dramatic situation. The list of crimes is long, and there is also a documentary footage about the crimes committed by the Slovenian paramilitary troops, filmed by an Austrian TV company.

Due to the time constraints you have imposed, I don't have the possibility of playing these tapes now, but I shall use the testimonies of certain witnesses to show them.

On July 10, 1991, the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning not the rebels, not the secessionists, but the legal armed forces, the Yugoslav People's Army. An inversion of the executioner and the victim was performed, wholeheartedly supported by the American and world media, which have employed themselves in the service of war and became its fuel. I stress this because the substitution of the thesis when it comes to the events on the territory of Yugoslavia has, since then, become a formula which was profusely used in the further process of destruction of Yugoslavia.

Croatia Resurrects Ustasha Phraseology, Insignia and Methods

In Croatia, the crimes against Serbs started even earlier, before the announcement of secession, using the same methods, in the same regions where the genocide against the Serbian nation started in 1941, by the Ustasha units in the so-called Independent State of Croatia [NDH, Hitler's ally during the WWII].

The world experts who have been researching the genocides that took place in different times and in different parts of the world, like Leo Cooper, Peter Drost, Ted Gertz, Louis Horowitz, George Cram and the others, arrived to a conclusion that the genocide against one nation can be committed only once. Every second attempt inevitably turns into a civil war. This thesis has been confirmed in Croatia.

The genocide committed against the Serbs in Croatia in 1941 started by putting together the lists and inviting the groups to submit personal data, but instead of submitting informations, the Serbs were being killed or taken to the concentration camps. This time around, to the similar invitations and similar actions, the Serbs responded by resistance, feeling seriously manipulated by the politicians who, up until the day before, spoke about protecting the ideals of brotherhood and unity, and who were now calling to a war in the name of national ideals.

Within somewhat refurbished packaging, the old Ustasha formulas were resurrected, along with the Ustasha symbols, and through the hurriedly rewritten laws, Serbs have lost the status of the constitutive nation. Without any prompting from the outside, without the Belgrade support, without the protection of the army isolated in the barracks, Serbs in Krajina were prepared to risk death through the struggle, but not a new genocide.

Long before the 1991 secession, the armed groups operated through Croatia, the so-called "Voluntary units of the people's protection", which acted within the HDZ [right-wing political party headed by Franjo Tudjman] frameworks, and under the different names: "Zebra", "Black Legion", "Vukovar Wolves" and so on.

On May 28, a month before the secession, a military parade was organized in Zagreb. It showcased the weapons received primarily from Germany. These were the psychological preparations for what was to follow. The groups of Croat paramilitary troops were, in those days, transfered to Bosnia, since President Tudjman had announced the renewal of "Croatia down to [river] Drina".

After a decision to withdraw the JNA troops from Croatia was reached on July 18, 1991, the armed actions of the paramilitary formations in Croatia turned into a frontal war. From July 20 to August 4, 75 attacks against the JNA units were recorded, 23 attacks against the military barracks, 13 attacks against the planes, using the most up-to-date weapons from the NATO arsenals.

Serbian houses were being torched and the individual crimes against the Serbs were replaced with the mass executions. In the cornfield near the village Jankovci 65 Serbs were slaughtered. They have all been identified. In the village Svinjarevo, 25 Serbs were slaughtered, and so on. The entire villages were destroyed in the regions of Papuk and Slunj. The most widespread form of terror against the Serbian population were the forced expulsions, which represents the strongest link between the years 1941 and 1991.

These activities begun in Western Slavonija right after the HDZ victory in the elections. A psychosis of fear was created in order to prompt people to move out. Various methods were being employed, like orchestrated mocking of the Serbian children in schools, arresting people and taking them to the police stations, turning off the phones, mass dismissing of Serbs from their jobs, dynamiting of their homes.

On October 29, 1991, the Crisis Office in Slavonska Pozega issued an order on eviction of the Serbian population from 24 villages: Oblakovac, Orjaca, Slatina and so on, and within the next 48 hours. The order was made public through the radio and press. Those who refused to comply were taken to concentration camps.

The first major exodus of Serbs from the regions of Podravska Slatina and Daruvar took place. From July 1991 to August 1992, 193 villages populated by the Serbs were ethnically cleansed. Reliable documents regarding all of this have been submitted to the European Community.

Bosnia-Herzegovina Muslim Leader Starts Implementing his "Islamic Declaration"

The war operations have been carried over to the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The ideological foundations were laid way back in 1970, with the publishing of the "Islamic Declaration" by Alija Izetbegovic, and later, in 1984, the book by the same author was published under the title "Islam, between the East and West", while the "Islamic Declaration" was republished in 1990. It is well known that it states that "there can be no peace and coexistence between the Islamic and non-Islamic faith". This is repeated in both of the books mentioned many times.

During the session of Bosnia and Herzegovina parliament on December 21, 1991, Izetbegovic said: "I am prepared to sacrifice peace for the sovereign Bosnia and Herzegovina". Based on the principles of the "Islamic Declaration", the mobilization of the masses took place and the civil war started, generously financed by the moneys sent from Saudi Arabia, Iran and the other Muslim states. The arrival of the large number of mujahedins followed.

At the 6th Summit of the Islamic Conference which took place between December 9-12 in 1991, therefore, prior to the war breaking out and before Bosnia and Herzegovina was recognized, the full support was declared to the "brothers in faith" and to their "struggle for the integrity of the first Islamic state in Europe". Even today Bosnia and Herzegovina does not have a majority of the Muslim population. Alija Izetbegovic was officially honored in addition to receiving the overwhelming financial aid. Bosnia and Herzegovina was one of the main subjects at another meeting too, an extraordinary Ministerial meeting of the Islamic Conference held in Djeda, on December 1 and 2 in 1992. This time around, they also extended their attention to two regions in Serbia itself, to Kosovo and the Raska region, or Sandzak, as they call it.

The first "holy warriors", mujahedins, arrived from Afghanistan, Lebanon, Morocco and Pakistan. They were armed with the weapons CIA provided for the Afghani rebels. A group of 400 Hezbollah members also arrived to Sarajevo, in the role of military instructors. Following the Second World War tradition of the joint participation in the military units within the Nazi Germany forces against the democratic coalition Yugoslavia belonged at the time, the two leaders of the paramilitary formations, Tudjman and Izetbegovic, signed an agreement in Zagreb stating, among others, that the armed forces of the Croat Defense Council would be part of the unified armed forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The expulsions of the Serbian population from the regions controlled by the Muslim troops followed. Tens of thousands were expelled from the town of Mostar, 2,500 from Gorazde and so forth. Just like in Croatia, to Bosnia and Herzegovina were also sent allegedly retired American army officers, as instructors for the Croat-Muslim army.

A Simple Strategy by the Foreign Colonizer: Use the Local Thugs and Terrorists Prior to the Final Frontal Assault, NATO Aggression

Combat operations had their line of development and were moving from the north towards south, to be finally transferred to the territory of Serbia, that is to Kosovo. The very pattern along which the destruction and the war against Yugoslavia was planned, Kosovo being the last phase, is quite simple. It was based on the paramilitary secessionist formations, the criminal groups and terrorists, and in Kosovo also a narco-mafia, all the while blaming the legitimate armed forces — at the time of Slovenia and Croatia secessions JNA, and later, at the time of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Army [VJ, Vojska Jugoslavije].

In the open aggression against the remainder of Yugoslavia, i.e. Serbia and Montenegro, tens of thousands of tons of bombs were dropped, with depleted uranium, tens of thousands of projectiles with depleted uranium were fired and with, up until now, unknown poisons. According to the findings of the world experts, in the 1999 NATO aggression against Yugoslavia, five to six times more poison was dropped than on Hiroshima.

Western involvement, first and foremost that of Germany and Vatican, was obvious from the very start of the war. Renowned American commentator Donald Horowitz provided solid evidence in his study "Ethnic and National Conflicts", that the national and ethnic conflicts turn into the cruelest form of war when one or both sides get the international support. And this is precisely what happened in former Yugoslavia.

The war in this territory was a synchronized action by the secessionist forces and the external forces which, during the preparations for the full-blown bloodshed, have been massively infiltrated into Yugoslavia. We are talking about the Ustasha extremists and Nazis, Islamic fundamentalists and Albanian terrorists, whose role was to be the detonators for the outbreak of the conflicts in the existing tensed climate.

And the external forces on their behalf have, in the initial stage, acted behind the scenes, supplying the secessionists with weapons and money, and infiltrating the mercenaries into the country. The final destruction of Yugoslavia was implemented through the institutional deceptions.

Europe and USA Openly Support Destruction of State of Yugoslavia

By signing the Helsinki Final Act, the European countries and the USA have obligated themselves to respect the territorial integrity of all the signatory states. Accordingly, they have an obligation to refrain from any act aimed against the territorial integrity, political independence and unity of any of the signatory states. This is the Article 4.

These principles were ceremoniously verified in Paris in 1990, with the signing of the Paris Declaration. Only a year later, the European Community openly stepped onto the political stage as the key force behind the destruction of Yugoslavia.

On July 7, 1990, the "Declaration on Peaceful Resolution of the Conflict Between the SFRY Federal Units" was signed. By initiating these documents I just mentioned, the European Community has obligated itself to respect the territorial integrity of Yugoslavia—from which, as the only legally protected subject, it was given a mandate to mediate, searching for the peaceful and lasting solution to the crisis between Yugoslavia's federal units.

In the history of the civilized world, the process of mediation would start from determining the causes of the conflict, and would run through offering several options for the possible solution, down to listing the concessions that could be taken into the account.

Lord Carrington Issues an Ultimatum in Place of Mediation

Instead of all that, at the extraordinary meeting of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia on October 18, 1991, Lord Carrington issued an ultimatum to do away with Yugoslavia as a state and the subject of the international law, without alternatives, and to redraw the territory of former Yugoslavia according to the Adolf Hitler's model from 1941. The Nazi values have won the day. The right to destroy the state, the right to separatism, was given priority over preserving the state and over the right to preserve the state which is the original UN member.

The paradox is in the fact that the right to separatist rebellion is being denied by those very same states in their own countries — the Englishmen to the Irish, the Spaniards to the Basks, the Frenchmen to the Corsicans and so forth. It is also interesting to remember that, at the time when the Serbian soldiers fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the Allied Forces during the Second World War, at that time the units of the so-called Independent State of Croatia, as well as some from Bosnia, though also within the NDH formations, have been fighting alongside the Nazi troops. The notorious Handzar Division was sent from Bosnia, alongside the Nazi punishing squads, to France, where they committed the unprecedented crimes. But, let's get back to the Carrington paper which dealt the first blow to the sovereignty of Yugoslavia.

At issue here is an evident deception committed through the Carrington document. Further negotiations have been transformed into a farce. What followed were the recognitions of the secessionist republics, under the strong pressures by Germany and Vatican, contrary to the basic principles of the international law, the United Nations practice, but also contrary to the practice of the leading power, the United States of America.

To be continued...