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Latest book by a biographer of Yugoslav communists has found documents which show that Yugoslav communist bandits have tortured Serbia’s WWII General Mihailovich in order to force him to admit guilt.Contrary to the claims by communist “historians”, Serbia’s General Mihailovich was tortured by Yugoslav communist secret service. Mihailovich was tortured for days by Lazic and Bedakovic, two communist security chiefs from Belgrade and Zagreb centers.Lazic and Bedakovic got their training from Stalin’s security capo, Beria, who impressed Stalin by being able to make any man admit to anything.Only 2 people lived through Lazic’s and Bedakovic’s interrogation tactics, and Mihailovich, who was...

As someone who often denounced the repression of the late Slobodan Milosevic, I do not minimize his responsibility for the 1999 conflict in the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija. Nevertheless, William Walker's heaping of every foul claim human malice can concoct on Serbs collectively, even more than on Milosevic himself, is another matter ("A separate take from Serbia," Op-Ed, Feb. 24). I live in Kosovo and know firsthand what actually happened - and did not happen - during the NATO war against my country. Mr. Walker describes the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) as "a tiny band" fighting "systematic"...

Wednesday, September 1, 2004. Milosevic Opens Long-Delayed Defense, Alleges U.S.-Islam Plot By Anthony Deutsch The Associated Press THE HAGUE -- Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic opened his long-delayed defense at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Tuesday, describing the battles of his Serbian people as self-defense against internal rebellions and external attacks by Islamic warriors. Milosevic, charged with genocide and crimes against humanity in the Balkans, portrayed the Serbs as victims rather than aggressors: victims of a plan supported by the United States and Europe to break up Yugoslavia, of an attempt to wipe out Croatia's Serb minority, and of a...

"The Yugoslav parliament's ratification of the law concerning cooperation with the Hague tribunal has led to a wave of suicides among high officials surrounding former president Slobodan Milosevich. One of them tried to shoot himself. Another tried to hang himself. Thursday evening the former head of the Yugoslav Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vlaiko Stoil'kovich, decided to clear up his accounts with life. He shot himself in the head at the Yugoslav Parliament's main entrance." | Rest of article in Russian.