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UN war crimes tribunal denies request for Milosevic autopsy in Moscow
xinhuanet.com ^ | 2006-03-12 05:50:15 | Xinhuanet

Posted on 03/11/2006 2:56:45 PM PST by Proctor

UN war crimes tribunal denies request for Milosevic autopsy in Moscow

www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-12 05:50:15

BRUSSELS, March 11 (Xinhuanet) -- The U.N. war crimes tribunal said on Saturday it had denied a request by Slobodan Milosevic's lawyer to have the autopsy of the former Yugoslavia president conducted in Moscow instead of The Hague.

A tribunal official also declined to comment on a claim by Milosevic's lawyer that he had been poisoned while in jail.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague on Saturday announced that Milosevic had been found dead on his bed in his cell at the UN detention unit in Scheveningen.

Milosevic, 64, has suffered from high blood pressure and heart problems.

On Feb. 24, the tribunal refused Milosevic's request to be temporarily released to Moscow in order to undergo medical treatment.

In a trial that started on Feb. 12, 2002, Milosevic faced 66 charges of war crimes, including genocide for his role in the Balkan wars following the breakup of the Yugoslav federation in the 1990s. Enditem


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To: WestVirginiaRebel

This case had nothing to do with war crimes. This was a show trial designed to let the UN and its court flex their muscles. Milosevic frustrated their aims and almost turned their charade against them. Unless the UN and fellow travelers like Clinton wanted to be exposed as a bunch of gangsters and buffoons, he had to die, and soon. So he did.


61 posted on 03/11/2006 5:07:51 PM PST by hinckley buzzard (Morgan is mad today...madder than yesterday...)
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To: jess35

Anyone they pick will be tainted, including anyone in Moscow.


62 posted on 03/11/2006 5:11:10 PM PST by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Elements of the KLA are also responsible for post-conflict attacks on Serbs, Roma, and other non-Albanians, as well as ethnic Albanian political rivals. Immediately following NATO's arrival in Kosovo, there was widespread and systematic burning and looting of homes belonging to Serbs, Roma, and other minorities and the destruction of Orthodox churches and monasteries. This destruction was combined with harassment and intimidation designed to force people from their homes and communities. By late-2000 more than 210,000 Serbs had fled the province; most of them left in the first six weeks of the NATO deployment. Those who remained were increasingly concentrated in mono-ethnic enclaves, such as northern Mitrovica, Kosovo Polje, or Gracanica.

From YOUR link.


63 posted on 03/11/2006 5:11:18 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Read the bio THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free! Click Fred Nerks for link to my Page.)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
Thanks. As most of the material appears to be drawn up by the Human Rights Watch group I'll have to find some opinions on the quality of their reporting - how far can I trust this organization? We know that many groups, such as Amnesty International, and others who say that the Guantanamo Bay is akin to the Gulags, are not notorious for the quality or truthfulness of their reporting.

I'm not saying I doubt this source or your point in all of this, just "trust but verify".

There seems to be a significant amount of distortion on this issue, which makes the veracity of the report sources all the more important.

64 posted on 03/11/2006 5:11:51 PM PST by the anti-liberal (Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Amen and thank you!


65 posted on 03/11/2006 5:14:51 PM PST by Proctor (http://www.historyofjihad.org)
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To: the anti-liberal

Well said! See previous comment, info from the same link. You just gotta know where to look!

Recall the films we all saw of people in their thousands with their pitiful belongings, fleeing? With tractors and horse-drawn carts? Didn't that tug at your heartstrings?

Turns out they were Serbs fleeing from the Nato bombing, not poor poor muslims. Hey, we weren't so savvy then, it was before 9/11...


66 posted on 03/11/2006 5:16:35 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Read the bio THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free! Click Fred Nerks for link to my Page.)
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To: hinckley buzzard
You definately got that right.

The trial was going no where and they couldnt pin anything on him. He had issued a summon for Clinton and probably they figured it was better to get rid of him.

Slobo made buffons of that court though and I was proud of him for it. He did not give in and went down fighting.

67 posted on 03/11/2006 5:23:53 PM PST by oilfieldtrash
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To: Fred Nerks
"Hey, we weren't so savvy then, it was before 9/11..."

Makes one wonder what other things we were/are told/shown that were/are distortions or outright untruths... What a pain!

68 posted on 03/11/2006 5:27:40 PM PST by the anti-liberal (Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
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To: the anti-liberal

Methinks you need to read this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/523109/posts

Why Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate
Conservatism IS Compassion ^ | Sept 14, 2001 |




69 posted on 03/11/2006 5:32:49 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Read the bio THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free! Click Fred Nerks for link to my Page.)
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To: oilfieldtrash

My sentiments exactly. The UN and it's wagging tail the Hague court are nothing but the dog that licks the butt of the 55 islamic nation voting block and their marxist friends.
Milosovic never had a chance, he was always destined to be either guilty or dead.


70 posted on 03/11/2006 5:39:25 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Read the bio THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free! Click Fred Nerks for link to my Page.)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

THE HAGUE, Netherlands-Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in his prison cell Saturday, abruptly ending his four-year U.N. war crimes trial for orchestrating a decade of conflict that killed 250,000 people and tore the Yugoslav federation asunder. He was 64.

A leader of beguiling charm and cunning ruthlesness, the man reviled by the United States as "the butcher of the Balkans" was a hero to many Serbs despite losing four wars and impoverishing his people in the 1990s while trying to create a "Greater Serbia" linking Serbia with Serb-dominated areas of Croatia and Bosnia.
Here's hoping this slug is now Stalin's bitch in Hell.

http://www.wvrblog.blogspot.com./

There's not much hope of WestVirginiaRebel ever being a little more open-minded - judging from your blog. Like I said before, Judge, Jury, Hangman.


71 posted on 03/11/2006 5:48:53 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Read the bio THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free! Click Fred Nerks for link to my Page.)
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To: Fred Nerks

I stand by what I said. Slobbo was Stalin with a smile. The world is better off without him. Even his fellow Serbs know that.


72 posted on 03/11/2006 6:09:12 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (The U.N. is an enabler of all things evil.)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
Stalin killed his own. Milosevic didn't. Milosevic killed only those who'd been killing his.

Not to mention the fact that his "victims" calling any part of the Balkan peninsula "home" was more than reason enough for him to kill em'!

But I guess you'd have already known that if your origins were from that part of the world (namely, Greece) as mine are.

73 posted on 03/11/2006 6:31:33 PM PST by TeddyCon
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

"I stand by what I said."

Of course you do. You have to. You made a statement in your blog and can hardly go back on it.

"Slobbo was Stalin with a smile."

Stalin was directly responsible for the deaths of tens, possibly hundreds of MILLIONS of people. The court at The Hague, after 4 years, had proven nothing against Milosovic.

"The world is better off without him."

That's an assumption.

"Even his fellow Serbs know that."

I don't doubt he has his detractors at home, but be so kind as to provide a link.



74 posted on 03/11/2006 6:48:23 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Read the bio THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free! Click Fred Nerks for link to my Page.)
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To: Fred Nerks

I guess you don't remember that his own people overthrew him.


75 posted on 03/11/2006 6:56:33 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (The U.N. is an enabler of all things evil.)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Good Lord, what else could they do? He had caused the 'righteous' indignation of the most powerful nation in the world - they had been bombed, thousands were killed! Of course they overthrew him!

sarc.


76 posted on 03/11/2006 7:10:31 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Read the bio THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free! Click Fred Nerks for link to my Page.)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
Just look at what happened to Zoran Djinjic who was responsible for selling Slobo to the hague. He has been pushing up daisies for 3-4 years now.

I was never so ashamed of my country then during the time of Madelines war. She and Clinton were war criminals and nothing less.

77 posted on 03/11/2006 8:08:14 PM PST by oilfieldtrash
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To: Fred Nerks

I like your style Fred. Once again you are right on target.

Cheers :>)


78 posted on 03/11/2006 8:49:58 PM PST by eazdzit (Stop the bleeding All incumbrent politicians MUST BE VOTED OUT!!! DO NOT re-elect anyone!!!)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
A detailed look at the conflict. The Serbs were hardly "Soldiers for Christ." I swear to God, some of the Serbian defenders sound like apologists for Saddam Hussein ("Where are the bodies?" etc).

Pesky little bastards, eh? Asking all those darn questions...

Jeez, what did you expect? If I were accused of genocide, I'd be asking the very same question - WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE?

79 posted on 03/11/2006 9:08:13 PM PST by Banat (DEO • REGI • PATRIÆ)
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To: Fred Nerks

Fred You stated: "mushrooms...feed them shiite and keep them in the dark"

My comment: If and when they come to maturity cut their heads off and process them.


80 posted on 03/11/2006 9:09:26 PM PST by eazdzit (Stop the bleeding All incumbrent politicians MUST BE VOTED OUT!!! DO NOT re-elect anyone!!!)
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