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Prosecution Struggles in Milosevic War Crimes Trial
NPR ^ | Jun 28 2002 | NPR News

Posted on 06/29/2002 11:22:53 PM PDT by Destro

Audio File. Click picture of Slobo to hear the NPR audio report.

- NPR - Jun 28 2002

Several thousand supporters of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, demonstrate during a protest against the Serbian government, in downtown Belgrade, Friday, June 28, 2002. Chanting ``Freedom for Slobodan,'' about 4,000 supporters of Milosevic demonstrated Friday at a central Belgrade square to mark the first anniversary of the former president's extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

A young Kosovo Serb, wearing a T-shirt adorned with a drawing of indicted war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic and cyrillic script reading "a Serb Hero", passes a Swedish army peacekeeping forces post as he arrives at the religious ceremony marking St. Vitus day in Gracanica, near the Kosovan provincial capital of Pristina June 28, 2002. St. Vitus day is a date of momentous events for Serbs, stretching from the 1389 battle in Kosovo when a Serb army was defeated by Turkish Ottoman Empire to last year's transfer of Slobodan Milosevic to the U.N. war crimes court in The Hague. REUTERS/Marko Djurica


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: balkans; milosevic

1 posted on 06/29/2002 11:22:53 PM PDT by Destro
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2 posted on 06/29/2002 11:26:23 PM PDT by Destro
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To: Destro
Impressive link to the recording of the broadcast.

I think the hague should have klintoon right there on trial as well...73 Serbian children were killed by nato/hato...beelzebubba-klintoon should be put on trial for their murders and for the Priest killed at Vivarin, as well.

3 posted on 06/29/2002 11:45:30 PM PDT by crazykatz
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To: Destro
Am I the only one who suspects that, however an unsavory character Milosevic may be, we might have been on the wrong side in Kosovo?
4 posted on 06/30/2002 12:11:16 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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To: Jeff Chandler
No your not the only one! Somehow I felt that from the beginning.
MCD
5 posted on 06/30/2002 12:47:10 AM PDT by MSCASEY
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To: niki
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6 posted on 06/30/2002 12:48:09 AM PDT by MSCASEY
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To: Jeff Chandler
No, you are not alone....many Americans feel that way. I am not a Serb and I feel that way. FOR SURE!!

Americans who can't stand klintoon and those other liberal losers, such as that brain-warped tumor, old joe biden....who recently said, in so many words, that Serbia should just give up KosovO and let the albanians have it all....

Hey, the Serbian Orthodox Church actually owes 35% of KosovO.... ARE THE CREEPY COMMIES THE ONLY MONSTERS WHO THINK IT IS OK to steal land from a Church????? The Church is still waiting to get BACK ALL ITS PRPOERTY FROM THOSE WHO STOLE IT AFTER WWII...tito's commies and albanians.

7 posted on 06/30/2002 12:51:00 AM PDT by crazykatz
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To: Destro
Prosecution Struggles in Milosevic War Crimes Trial - simply because the tirbunal has cobbled together laws from NATO countries, without regard for using a "declared" and "agreed" upon set of Laws under which these proceedings should be held.

How can any organization which demands they are the highest morale and legal order, refuse to publish a list of laws under which they operate? Again, I might add that merely stating that the "Member States Laws" should suffice for trail standards - there are the original members of NATO and now the additional members with the WARSAW Pack being absorbed so that essentially there are so many laws to consider, and counter consider that many a law would not stand given the weight other Nations laws....

There very reason the US wants out of this Court is the failure to agree upon "Standards" and "Laws". This is like an open ended book in which you can add too as the Prosecution requires in order to detain/try/convict any person which it desires!

Of course, the Prosecurtion has failed to impress anyone of their Morale High Ground, given the parade of lying people who have been exposed under cross-examination. Maybe, at different times, there really is a power above who can use anyone for the good of humanity, and in this unlikely case, Mr. Milosevic being of good intelligence and sound legal grounding has, in effect made a Case for "Responsibility and Legimaticy" as a basis for this World Court; unless this Court can clean up its act and develop a basic standard of law under which it operates - for better or worse - Mr. Milosevic has won the case for the rest of humanity; if not for himself by default.

8 posted on 06/30/2002 12:55:32 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: MSCASEY
If klintoon lies about anything...he lied about the SUPPOSED genocide in KosovO. Oh, sure you have a mess in any civil war/TERRORIST war....but to hear the West tell it...ONLY THE SERBS did anything wrong...in fact, the West will not ever admit that they themselves did wrong

The KLA( Albanian terrorists against a lawful govt.) was armed and trained by the al querda and the West....something really nasty is wrong with that picture. Right?

The Bosnians did wrong in Bosnia, the Croatians did wrong in Bosnia and Croatia...HEY, they all did wrong.... IT WAS A CIVIL WAR...THEY ARE ALWAYS BRUTAL TO THE MAX!

Serbians fought back and they gave in return just what they received....all sides did that.

The whole break-up of Yugoslavia was a WAR CRIME by all participants....including the West.

9 posted on 06/30/2002 1:04:00 AM PDT by crazykatz
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To: Jumper
Excellent points....unfortunately, Milosevic will be convicted because the west has to have it scapegoat....I say unfortunately, because he will be convicted unfairly.

The conviction will NOT be based on his proven guilt or the need for justice.... it will be a conviction based solely on the political needs of the west/nato/un.

If it were a just tribunal...I would be morely likey to agree that he should be tried there at all.

10 posted on 06/30/2002 1:11:55 AM PDT by crazykatz
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To: Jeff Chandler
Am I the only one who suspects that, however an unsavory character Milosevic may be, we might have been on the wrong side in Kosovo?

When NATO/Clinton are in agreement, you bet something fishy is going on, couple that with pure fabrications of genocide and intentional omission of details of the other side's case, and you get war crimes resulting in around 1,500 Serbian civilians and military personnel murdered.

11 posted on 06/30/2002 1:34:14 AM PDT by Outraged
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To: Jeff Chandler
You're just now "suspecting?" Where have you been since 1994? Madeline Albright, Wesley Clark, Tony Blair, and Bill Clinton should be on trial for their lives right now.
12 posted on 06/30/2002 9:06:03 AM PDT by SteamshipTime
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To: Jeff Chandler
No you are not the only one. The Balkans are so screwed up politcally and ethnically, the United States should never have presumed to know who is right and who is wrong. Clinturd was hardly in any position to send US troops in harm's way or make any moral judgements on Slobbo.

Unsavory is putting it mildly. But personally, I hope he is aquitted. By the same token, I think wusses like Tom Ridge have no business managing homeland security. Real "security" often requires an unsavory iron hand.

13 posted on 06/30/2002 9:21:36 AM PDT by rageaholic
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To: crazykatz
I agree with you completely. In the west most people do not have a clue as the news has lied, and continues to hide the true facts about the situation.

The whole thing was that Kosovo was not willing to become a part of the Euro group and was not willing to bow to the U.N. and the NWO.
MCD

14 posted on 06/30/2002 10:15:20 AM PDT by MSCASEY
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To: Jumper
Prosecution Struggles in Milosevic War Crimes Trial - simply because the tirbunal has cobbled together laws from NATO countries, without regard for using a "declared" and "agreed" upon set of Laws under which these proceedings should be held.

islamic sharia law also has a STRONG influence on the "court" because of the muslim "judges" who sit on it (incuding one in the three-"judge" panel "trying" Slobo), and the "court's" design (at least in part) by the "American" muslim fifth columnist and sharia devotee Cherif Bassiouni.

The other strong influence is the overwhelming desire of the "court's" "prosecutors"/persecuters and "judges" to set "precidents", no matter how much they have to stretch both the facts and the "law". Examples include rape as a war crime, and "convicting"people of "genocide" on "evidence" that comes nowhere close to the internationally-accepted legal definition of that term.

The ad hoc nature of how the "court" cobbles together laws and rules of evidence, the strong influence of islamic law, and the straining of the "court" to establish "precidents" by any means necessary, are only three aspects of the "court's" illegimtimacy. The kangaroo "court" in the Hague is illegitimate FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, starting with its illegitimate autorization and moving on to every aspect of its operations!!!!

15 posted on 06/30/2002 11:10:20 AM PDT by Honorary Serb
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To: Honorary Serb
Not to mention the home of the Hague is a hotbed of pro-chechen idiots, a breeding ground of slavophobia.
16 posted on 06/30/2002 11:16:01 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: Jeff Chandler
Am I the only one who suspects that, however an unsavory character Milosevic may be, we might have been on the wrong side in Kosovo?

LOL, No most of us know we were on the wrong side, glad to see more and more people realizing it.

17 posted on 06/30/2002 7:19:29 PM PDT by Great Dane
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To: Jeff Chandler
Am I the only one who suspects that, however an unsavory character Milosevic may be, we might have been on the wrong side in Kosovo?

Why would you think that?

18 posted on 07/01/2002 3:27:07 PM PDT by Balto_Boy
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To: MarMema
Please note that Kfor essentially agrees with Milosevic's position on the subject of Kosovo. (ie that the KLA was resposible for the vast majority of killing)

So far Kfor has arrested or cashiered virtually the entire KLA leadership cadre for crimes against their fellow Albanians.

19 posted on 07/02/2002 9:03:22 AM PDT by vooch
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