Posted on 01/04/2003 9:38:15 PM PST by a_Turk
War crimes tribunal will hear secrets of support for Milosevic's ethnic cleansing.
It is what Hellenes have long feared: the shattering of a conspiracy of silence that has surrounded the role of Greek volunteers who proudly flew their flag at Srebrenica, after participating in Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War, when 7,000 men, women and children died.
Next week, as Greece settles into the presidency of the European Union, Milan Milutinovic, Serbia's recently retired president, will be brought before the war crimes tribunal at The Hague. Greek involvement in the atrocity, as well as other secrets Athens would prefer buried, could be revealed when the 60-year-old testifies.
No one, it is said, played such a pivotal role in the alliance between Athens and Belgrade during the Nineties Balkan conflicts. As Yugoslavia's ambassador to Greece, Milutinovic was Slobodan Milosevic's most trusted lieutenant. His links with Greece's political, religious and business elites were allegedly crucial to Serbia's secret economic infrastructure. They allowed the country to evade United Nations sanctions and, according to the International Criminal Tribunal, contributed considerably towards Milosevic's war machine.
When the diplomat was promoted to Foreign Minister in 1994, he retained his Athens post for several months when, EU diplomats say, he stashed away funds to buy villas and other prime properties in Athens and Crete at the behest of his boss.
With Greece's admiring public, pro-Serbian church, tolerant media and governments that supported Milosevic, Athens was seen as a bolt-hole by the now disgraced president. As Bosnian Serb ethnic cleansers torched villages, it was here Milosevic would escape to enjoy the hospitality of Greek politicians. Marko Milosevic, his lascivious smuggler son, declared Greece 'my first home'.
'This is our best-kept secret, the subject no politician of any persuasion has ever wanted to broach,' said Takis Michas, author of Unholy Alliance: Greece and Milosevic's Serbia. 'In an era where everyone is saying sorry, in Greece at least no one has shown remorse for the crimes in Bosnia when undoubtedly a significant proportion of the political establishment bear some responsibility.'
The US-published book, yet to be printed in Greek, records in shocking detail the relationship between the two Orthodox nations, including the leaking of Nato military intelligence under socialist leader Andreas Papandreou.
The Greeks know their past may be catching up with them. After last month's long statement of contrition before the Hague tribunal by the former Bosnian Serb leader, Biljana Plavsic, many believe it is only a matter of time before others open up too.
A Dutch documentary investigating Greek complicity in the Serb wars was aired on local television in which a director of the semi-official Athens News Agency, Nikolas Voulelis, admitted to widespread censorship. During the wars the Greek media was fanatically pro-Serb, portraying Yugoslav Muslims as 'infidel Turks' bent on destroying their Orthodox brethren. 'Editorial interference was a given,' he said.
But it was not only hospitality or money that the Greeks offered. Spiritual succour was provided by the Greek Orthodox church which sent priests to the front line (several clerics received bravery medals from Plavsic).
In a step repeated in no other country, Archbishop Serafeim invited the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to visit Athens in 1993. At a mass rally attended by prominent politicians, the indicted war criminal proclaimed: 'We have only God and the Greeks on our side.'
Last year, in a 7,000-page report that the Dutch authorities commissioned into the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Greece was revealed to have sent shipments of light arms and ammunition to the Bosnian Serb army between 1994 and 1995. The report describes how Greek volunteers were implored, in intercepted army telephone conversations, to raise the Greek flag after the town fell. In one, General Ratko Mladic asked that they record the scene on video for propaganda purposes.
Around 100 soldiers are believed to have joined the Greek Volunteer Guard, formed at Mladic's request. The unit, which fought alongside Russians and Ukrainians, was led by Serb officers and had its own insignia - the double-headed eagle of Byzantium. At least four of its members were awarded the White Eagle medal of honour by Karadzic.
Although their 'heroic' exploits were widely reported in the Greek press, the volunteers have gone to ground since the creation of the war crimes tribunal. No government or party has ever sought an inquiry into their activities.
Nato officials claimed that 100,000 people were massacred in "ethnic cleansing" by the wicked Serbs. A Spanish commission of enquiry gave figures of possibly 700 poor souls in unmarked graves. Other figures go as high as 1,800 in these graves.
Australian newsmedia had air photographs taken after Nato had used aerial photographs of "mass graves". It was proved that the Nato photographs were a fake.
It is a long way from Lord Byron and his death trying to aid the Greeks. It was Rupert Brooke who is buried "in a foreign field" that went on his odyssey to fight for the Greeks. The history of the bitter struggle between these two states is well known. Still, one should have an open mind- hard though it is.
And the Pope preached and blessed the bombings of Christians on both Orthodox and Catholic Pascha to protect the Islamics...after he kissed the koran a couple of times.
IMHO, it is the truth and Pro-Greek. Perhaps the Greeks and the Serbs are the only ones who truly understand the problem with Muslims in Europe. A few more years of the Albanian Diaspora throughout Europe, and perhaps more of the Euro-wimps will come to this point of view themselves. How many more stolen Mercedes, Heroin addicts, White Slave Rings, Kidnappings, and Extortion cases this will take is anyone's guess.
Speaking of pro's and anti's, it is an indisputable fact that the Bosnians and Albanians are pro-al-qaeda. Again I say that the Serbs are not saints. But the Muslims in the case of Yugoslavia are the very devil.
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Terrorist Training for an Islamic Bosnia: Documents detail what went on inside the terrorist camps
Before the Greeks and Serbs liberated it Srebrenica is was a Muslim Head-Hunter's Safe Haven
By: John Pomfret, Washington Post Foreign Service,The
Washington Post, February 16, 1994
SREBRENICA, Bosnia: Nasir Oric's war trophies don't line the wall of his comfortable apartment-- one of the few with electricity in this besieged Muslim enclave stuck in theforbidding mountains of eastern Bosnia. They're on a videocassette tape: burned Serb houses and headless Serb men, their bodies crumpled in a pathetic heap.
"We had to use cold weapons that night," Oric explains as scenes of dead men sliced by knives roll over his 21-inch Sony. "This is the house of a Serb named Ratso," he offers as the camera cuts to a burned-out ruin. "He killed two of my men, so we torched it. Tough luck."
Reclining on an overstuffed couch, clothed head to toe in camouflage fatigues, a U.S. Army patch proudly displayed over his heart, Oric gives the impression of a lion in his den. For sure, the Muslim commander is the toughest guy in this town, which the U.N. Security Council has declared a protected "safe area."
CNN wont show Qaida promotional video from Bosnia showing a severed human head rolling through grass
From: 'It's OK to kill non-Muslims': Bosnian-British radical cleric message exposed on Web
In addition to being used in the Ujaama trial in Seattle, the videos we obtained have been entered into evidence at the "Bosnian-Serb war crimes" trial at the Hague -- in support of the Serbian defense! These videos clearly show that attacks against the Serbs were being funded, supported by Muslim groups in the West -- U.S. and U.K. -- as well as Saudi Arabia. The Serbs were defending themselves from outside aggression.
21 posted on 11/18/2002 4:46 PM EST by JohnathanRGalt
From: johnathangaltfilms.com
From the Encyclopaedia Britannica: Mustafa Kemal repudiated the treaty. Having received military aid from the Soviet Union, he set out to drive the Greeks from Anatolia and Thrace and to subdue the new Armenian state.
Uncle Joe and Father Kemal made great partners. The Communist-Muslim butchery of the Orthodox is the untold story of the 20th century.
Are you on drugs?
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Video Clip pgcc4.WMV Description: British armed muslims on film admit to killing hundreds of serbs on film. We never knew the UN gave them permission to kill in other country's the full tape is to bloody to air as it shows mass graves! And Terrorists Attack on serbs and mass graves being dig and bodies of serbs being put in it on film by muslims.
Video Clip 13.WMV Description: Bosnian Training Camp and short speech on killing by human homicide bombers.