----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 8:09 PM Subject: Milosevic: "Brother Serbs, farewell" [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] > STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > > --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- > Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can > buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From > consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you > waiting for? Try eBay today. > http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Brother Serbs, farewell - Milosevic's parting shot > > By Sean Maguire > > > BELGRADE, June 30 (Reuters) - Slobodan Milosevic stepped aboard a Serb police > helicopter, took what was likely to be his last look at Yugoslav soil and > said: "Brother Serbs, farewell." > > The man whose years in power brought Yugoslavia to ruin was "dignified and > arrogant" as he began his journey to face international justice, according to > a special edition of Weekly Telegraf published on Saturday that has close-up > pictures of Milosevic's departure. > > The tabloid news magazine, which has good sources within the security forces > that handled Milosevic's transfer, rushed out a 16-page special sprinkled > with images of the ex-Yugoslav leader starting his journey to the U.N. war > crimes tribunal on Thursday. > > Milosevic's pudgy features and snowy hair stared straight at the photographer > in the first clear pictures of the man indicted for crimes against humanity > that have been seen since the Serb government jailed him in April on local > corruption charges. > > "You've got the wrong man," the magazine reported him telling a Hague > representative after he was read the indictment against him. "NATO is the > right address, they are the villains." > > "The Hague tribunal is no court, its a political circus set up to destroy the > Serbian nation completely," reportedly added Milosevic, who ran Serbia and > then Serb-dominated Yugoslavia from 1987 to 2000. > > Dressed in a dark suit and a white shirt without a tie Milosevic looked > resigned. He was not handcuffed. > > A tough-looking man in jeans, t-shirt and dark glasses led the way to the > helicopter at the Institute for Security in the Banjica suburb of Belgrade. > > Five uniformed Serbian police followed Milosevic, with one carrying a small > green suitcase and an overcoat. Milosevic then turned to his escort, and with > apparent irony, reportedly said: "Congratulations on a job well done." > > JOURNEY'S END > > >From Belgrade Milosevic was flown to a U.S.-run airbase in Tuzla, northern > Bosnia, where he was transferred to a British military plane that took him to > Holland. A second helicopter ride took him to Scheveningen jail in The Hague > in the early hours of Friday morning. > > Milosevic's defiant words, rejecting the court's authority, suggested the > 59-year-old ex-President of Yugoslavia has not resigned himself to the > prospect of spending the rest of his life behind bars far from his native > land. > > If convicted on the four charges he currently faces, including three of > crimes against humanity for atrocities committed by forces he controlled in > the Serbian province of Kosovo in 1999, he faces a maximum of life in jail. > > Milosevic's lawyers say he wants them to defend him as a "political > prisoner," confirming the banker turned warlord regards the court as an agent > of the NATO forces that bombed Yugoslavia in 1999 to end Serb repression in > Kosovo. > > The legal team have also indicated Milosevic is not the easiest of clients. > > "It's difficult to defend someone who doesn't want to hear the real truth, > and that's the type of client Milosevic is," said one advocate late on > Friday. > > Prosecutors have already widened the scope of the Kosovo-related indictments, > adding a detailed list of ethnic Albanian victims of Serb terror campaigns. > > They are also planning charges relating to wars in Croatia and Bosnia, which > Milosevic is in part blamed for instigating through his nationalist policies, > and the fallen strongman may also be charged with the ultimate tribunal crime > - genocide. > > 07:30 06-30-01 > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > STOP NOVOM SVETSKOM PORETKU ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrBE8.bVKZIq Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
