Here is yet another article published in the Ottawa Sun, by a very "sick man" called Eric Margolis. Please write to the editor of the Ottawa Sun at: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. His hate against the Serbs is unlimited, so much so that he deservs to be prosecuted for his hate crimes. I found out that his lawyer had to proofread this article before it appeared in the Ottawa Sun, and that a portion of a his hate propaganda had to be taken out. ======================================= CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Eric Margolis Ottawa Sun, July 9, 2001 The Hague, Netherlands - It seems absolutely surreal that Serbia's deposed despot, Slobodan Milosevic, is now lodged here at a convertible UN prison in The Hague, just miles from the heart of swinging, boisterous Amsterdam. My feelings about Milosevic's arrest are mixed. Way back in 1989, this column began warning of Milosevic's toxic combination of virulent Serb nationalism, Pan-Slavic, anti-Muslim racism and totalitarian methods. I was denounced in 1089 at special meeting at University of Belgrade. Over the ensuring years, as I kept writing that Milosevic intended to launch a Balkan bloodbath, I became the target of vitriolic hate mail from Serbs and a steady stream of death threats. Milosevic originated four Balkan Wars that killed 250.000 people and left 3,4 million homeless. It's time he is behind bars. I am waiting for Milosevic's trial to demonstrate the Serb despot's personal involvement in, or at least knowledge of, orders to commit atrocities and crimes against humanity against Croats, Muslim Bosnians and Catholic and Muslim Albanian Kosovars. I long to see punished the 68 other senior Serb war criminals, notably Bosnian Serb leaders Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, who organised and conducted the most abominable crimes in Europe since World War II and Stalin's era. Though UN chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte will keep up pressure to extradite Serb war criminals remaining at large. But I am also troubled by the spectacle of a man sold out by his country and put on trial by a massive, faceless international bureaucratic machine that represents today's great powers. I am unhappy that the western powers had to pay Serbia $1 billion US to get Milosevic delivered like Fed-Ex package. Money is homogenized form of power. Power is what got the Serb strong man to Holland. But I would have preferred to see Britain's SAS or US Delta Force commandos go grab Milosevic and bring him to justice. I believe Milosevic and his fellows deserve the maximum punishment - including his wife, Mila. The UN tribunal should also prosecute other as-yet-unindicted Serb war criminals, notably those academics and leaders of the Orthodox Church who concocted a farrago of racist-historical-religious lies that provided Serb extremists and political gangsters the intellectual and religious justifications to massacre or "purify the nation"of Bosnian and Kosovar "untermensch." But I still cannot help feeling some sympathy for this lonely prisoner in a Dutch jail. A I have a certain grudging respect for Milosevic, who is refusing to co-operate with the UN tribunal or rejects the legitimacy of the trial, showing the pride, stubbornness and courage for which Serbs are noted. Milosevic and his supporters are now hoping to turn his trial, which could take a year or more, into a political circus in which NATO finds itself the defendant. But the steady discovery of mass graves of murdered Albanians hidden in Serbia is fast undermining Milosevic's strategy. The former head of Serb secret police recently revealed that remains of thousands of Albanian civilians - mostly women and children murdered in Kosovo by Serb forces in 1999 prior to the NATO bombing campaign- were still secreted across Serbia. Many bodies had been dumped into the Danube, buried in forests or deep mine shafts, buried, or dissolved in acid. Thousands of Bosnian Muslims remain missing after six years. Serbs are now learning for the first time of the atrocities committed by their former regime. These gruesome revelations helped Serbia's, capable prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, deliver Milosevic to The Hague. But the scores of secret graves being uncovered seem to have done nothing to change the opinions of die-hard Milosevic backers, notably in North America, including some at the Toronto Sun. The most important lesson to be drown from Milosevic's arrest is that other demagogues around the world should think twice before inciting racism and religious hatred, or concocting distorted histories and fake nationalist mythologies, to inflame their followers and advance their political ambitions. This is also a warning to embattled Macedonia, which appears to follow Milosevic's murderous course by launching full-scale war against its mistreated and now rebellious Albanian minorities. ==== Eric Margolis is the Sun's foreign affairs analyst. 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 ==^================================================================
