[This repost from 2005 is meant to remind us History Wonks (HW) of the creul and mendacious manipulations our craven journalistic chiens gardiens, our window-washers on the world (like the NYTs, CNN or the BBC), have gotten up to in the recent past. And how tightly this mis- and dis-information hangs on to us, sticks to our skin like a flaming petroleum slime, like napalm, as if its corrosive corruption, in which our souls have been encrusted, is our only medal of good faith and purity of purpose. And how the number of those leaders who have been subjected to this kind of slow, agonizing death in life, including Bashar al Assad and our own President Obama, continues to mount. Even after Slobodan Milosevic's tragic martyrdom, there is still no Justice in International Justice.--mc]
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2005
Slobodan Milosevic's public response to charges fabricated by the Belgrade regime
[I recently complained in this space about, among a lot of other things, how the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic, a cause with which CM/P is inextricably involved, seems to have become so lost in its Islamophobic concerns over Muslim expansionism being at the heart of the destruction of Yugoslavia that they've failed even to take note of the judicial pogrom going down in Belgrade these days.
As usual, I was just a scoche off my mark--and I neglected to include the President's son Marko among those driven rudely and unjustly from their families, homes and country. O'erweening zeal to do the right thing is no excuse for my reckless disregard of facts and details.
Je m'excuse.
So as an amends, here's a vintage 2003 statement from President Milosevic on the very issues that are now being raised in his hometown, in complete disregard of legal niceties like statutes of limitations or double jeopardy, so that the comprador class now house-sitting Serbia for NATO can do some weapons-grade sucking up to their Imperialist masters.
The President's statement is forewarded by a neat synopsis of the recent events in Belgrade by British CDSM chairman--and my favorite pommey--, Ian Johnson.
{NB--It should not be forgotten that the head of RTS during the 1999 Nato terror bombings of Serbia over Kosovo, Mr Dragoljub Milanovic, is currently locked down doing a ten year bit for endangering his employees by not warning them that Nato was about to blow them away, just at the moment they were all awaiting a live feed of the Larry King Show from CNN--part of a trap set for a high Serbian government official King was supposed to interview, but who was saved by not being able to make this very early morning call--his make-up girl and 15 others were not so lucky. And Mr Milanovic was in the RTS building at the time, too.}
Remember, at CM/P we're still all about
FREE SLOBO (and All the Prisoners of the Globalization Wars @ Sheviningen & Xray Arusha)!!!
OFF THE TRIBS!!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLES OF THE TARGETED NATIONS!!!
HANG ON!
--mc]
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Dear Friends,
On18th July 2005 a Belgrade court convicted eight policeman for the murder of Ivan Stambolic and the attempted murder of the pro-Nato politician Vuk Draskovic. The court also imposed a 15 year sentence on former head of state security Radimir Markovic for 'assisting'. Mr Markovic was brought to The Hague tribunal in 2003 as a prosecution witness but in court he revealed that he was being coerced to lie against Mr Milosevic. The prosecution and Hague Judges were furious at being exposed so blatantly. The false charges now laid against Mr Markovic and his 15 year sentence are his punishment for standing up to The Hague court and to those who destroyed Yugoslavia.
Part of his statement we print below. IJ
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(Part of Statement)
The original link for this article is:
www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/indexeng1.html
- Slobodan Milosevic's public response to charges fabricated by the Belgrade
regime -
In March 2001, I was accused of imaginary crimes, so I could be arrested and delivered to The Hague.
These new accusations in 2003 have the same purpose: The Hague. Only this time, their goal is to try to prevent, or at least minimize, the obvious fiasco of the false Tribunal, which is serving as the weapon of war against our country and our people. This time, unlike 2001, they have also begun to terrorize my family, fiendishly persecuting my wife and my son. The criminal campaign against my wife and my son is being mounted solely because of my struggle here. Their only crime is being my family.
People of Serbia and freedom-loving people throughout the world send me messages of support and wish me victory. It seems that only the Belgrade regime cheers on the Hague Tribunal, so much so that it does not balk from terrorizing women and children.
Ivan Stambolic
I have been a friend of Ivan Stambolic for many years. We parted ways at the 8th Session of the Serbian League of Communists' Central Committee, in 1987. We never quarreled personally.
After he was relieved, he came to me and asked for one of the best jobs (in both our opinions) in the SFRY: President of the Yugoslav bank for international economic relations. And he received it, staying in that position for over 10 years despite the practice of rotating the management, until his retirement - for which he was eligible long before, on grounds of both work experience and age.
He had been completely forgotten as a politician for many years. Thus the story of how he represented a potential challenge in the elections is a blatant lie, since he was never in the running. He was not even a candidate. Besides, in those ten years, has any harm befallen any other candidates?
It is absurd to claim that I rushed to kill him as a threat, after I'd enabled him to hold a position of his choice for 10 years and he retired!
Especially puzzling for me is that his family has readily accepted this shallow lie. It seems they care more to blame me than find out the truth about the fate of their father and husband.
Ivan Stambolic was a forgotten politician, and at the time of his disappearance, a forgotten banker as well. No one in the state or the political apparatus had mentioned him for years. He belonged to the era of the former-SFRY, and things have unfortunately changed since 1990.
No offense, but no one cared about Ivan Stambolic any more. There was no persecution of those who supported his position at the 8th Session. Desimir Jeftic, the chairman of the Serbian government who was also relieved, was for many years the Ambassador to Romania. Ivan's best friend and neighbor Dragan Tomic, the CEO of "Simpo" furniture company, remained a member of the Party and state leadership. I am certain he would confirm that I had told him, after Ivan was relieved, that I would think of him the worst if he'd renounced his friend and turned his back on him. So, the truth is quite the opposite from the story fabricated by several pathetic creatures.
I was informed of Ivan's disappearance over the telephone, by interior minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic. I told him to use all the available resources to find him. He told me that Ivan's wife and son reported his disappearance in the afternoon, though he went jogging that morning, which would make the investigation more difficult.
All border posts were notified, and Vlajko Stojiljkovic told me later that evening that several hundred police were engaged in the investigation. I insisted that all resources be used to find him [Stambolic] as soon as possible. Certainly most of these officers are still employed by the interior ministry, and can testify to that.
Draskovic.
Since the investigator, during the introductions, mentioned my alleged connection to the "attempted murder of Vuk Draskovic", I wish to say a few words about that as well.
I never believed that what happened in Budva was a real murder attempt, because it seems improbable that someone could shoot up all those bullets in a small room like that and miss with every one of them. Even Vuk Draskovic, with his flare for the dramatic, could not have turned into a fly or a mosquito. I believed that either someone tried to scare him, or that he made the entire incident up to gain attention and promote his role as the "victim of the regime." It is not hard to see who could have benefited from such an incident, but it is abundantly clear that it did not serve the government.
Are you not ashamed?
I demanded of both the investigator and the prosecutor that my interrogation be public, and that they even set up an open telephone line, so anyone could ask me whatever they wanted. They explained that this was not allowed by law, as long as the investigation was ongoing. I accepted that, but requested that the recordings be made public at the end of the investigation - since there would be no danger of potential interference at that time. They rejected that as well, even though they had the full legal authority to approve it. Neither I, nor they, nor my legal representatives disputed that.
Nothing new!
Montestquieu wrote as early as 1742 that "There is no crueler tyranny than one perpetrated under the shield of law, and in the name of justice."
In this entire dirty operation of trying to save this illegitimate Hague court from a fiasco, the most shameful element is surely the persecution of my wife and son. I told the investigating judge that his investigation should include the phantom gold bars, foreign currency reserves, villas in Switzerland and whatnot, because they were all mentioned in various statements and extensive newspaper stories, only to be "forgotten" later.
To my wife and son, Mira and Marko, who have been separated from me in this heinous way, I wish to say: "Life is too short to thank you for your goodness."
Slobodan Milosevic
The Hague, 17 August 2003.
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