Posted on 02/14/2002 2:31:56 AM PST by Arkle
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC has told the international war crimes tribunal that Nato and the West had fabricated an "ocean of lies" to back the 1999 war on Yugoslavia.
He opened his defence this morning by showing a video discussing the 1999 massacre of ethnic Albanians in Racak, which triggered the Nato air war on Yugoslavia.
"This is just an atom of truth in the ocean of lies and the product of propaganda and the use of global media as a means of war against my country," he said after the showing.
The video, some of it taken from German television, showed a commentator casting doubt on whether the dozens of ethnic Albanians killed were civilians, and an interview with an observer who said there may have been separatist fighters of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
"This terrible fabrication," Milosevic said, was used to raise public opinion in favour of a war against Yugoslavia.
He also showed video of the Nato air strikes that began in March 1999, where Serbs were seen huddled in bunkers, and other commentators saying that there had been no "humanitarian catastrophe" in Yugoslavia before those air strikes.
Milosevic was presenting his defence at the UN tribunal in The Hague on the third day of his trial for genocide and war crimes in the Balkan wars.
In his first remarks at the trial yesterday, Milosevic denounced the trial as a "lynch process" and again challenged the court's authority to try him.
The former president is accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for the atrocities committed during the wars in Croatia in 1991-1995, Bosnia in 1992-1995 and Kosovo in 1998-1999.
If convicted, Milosevic is likely to face life in prison.
Careful, you could get sued for that.
For example, the prosecution accused Slobo of whipping up Serb nationalism in his 1989 speech at Kosovo Polje. It quoted one sentence from the speech, out of context. Today, Slobo read much of the rest of the speech. Throughout he spoke only of the need for harmony and tolerance among Yugoslavia's peoples. Hardly a call to arms.
One wonders why the prosecution feels the need to lie. Are they desperate because their case is so weak?
The world court has the potential to make war criminals out of everyone participating in the conduct of national policy, starting at the top and continuing right down to the foot soldier, pick a country, preferably small and without the public and media support, and with a tainted history, whether true or manufactured, and you have the perfect media victim, or should I say target.
Yes, you are right. This is a true OCEAN of lies. If Milosevic shows that Racak was a fabrication they will trow at him a photo of people in a supposed death camp, if he shows how this was faked, they will throw Srebrenica, if he disproves that, they will throw bread line market massacre, etc ,etc ... (Anything bad what was supposed to happened was ordered by the almighty all knowing Slobo, of course)
At some moment they will say that he is taking to much precious time from the respectable circus artists and his microphone will be turned off. Then he will be found guilty and Mr. Bluester will be vindicated.
He was set up by the Biased Left Wing Media.
Ducks fly, liberals lie, mama made good apple pie.
VRN
The guy is a bastard he's destroyed a whole country (remember before he came to power Yugoslavia was bigger and more peaceful, I think it was even called the "socialist success story" or some crap like that).
And today not even serbia's borders are secure.
If this ICTY farce continues, the 'West' is going to dig itself in deeper and deeper - the fact is that they did break numerous laws and they did massively manipulate the truth. They have left themselves open to having this revealed to the world and turning Milosevic a martyr - whatever anyone thinks of Milosevic, kidnapping him and dragging him off to this show trial is shameful.
It was interesting today to see how Blaair's Broadcasting Corps handled this story - they made it look as though Milosevic had just rattled on insanely when in fact he made some very good introductory arguments. This distortion may work for the domestic audience, but this is 'international'. Also interesting that the BBC live coverage from the ICTY mysteriously cut off visually when Milosevic was showing photographic evidence. Nobody can now say that the BBC is any less govt controlled than RTS in Belgrade which was never a 'legitimate target' (and shame on all of those media workers and organisations who supported the stance that it was).
Well, some of the charges by a pure chance could be true (as well as you Mr. Bluester might be guilty of some war crimes). But it is a wrong principle to reason that if a person is accused of a thousand crimes it is reasonable that at least a small part of the charges is true. But people with the IQ lower than 115 (about 80% of the population) will find this principle irresistible. That is how IQ test works - to separate top 10% or 3% (about 130 score) increasingly tricky questions are presented.
To make it easier for you. Imagine that you are framed and FALSELY acccused of one thousand cases of child molestation. By the virtue of being rich and having axcellent team of lawers and investigators you will be able PROVE your innocence in let us say 200 cases and in another 200 cases you will be able to demonstrate the intentional fraud by the prosecutors. Still 600 cases will remain "unresolved" and people with IQ not higher than 115 will naturally assume that out of hundreds at least some are true. This is how the flood of lies stratagem works on the mind of general public.
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