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http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/milosevic0627.php Workers World June 27, 2002 Turning the tables on U.S. Milosevic cross-examines war criminal By Heather Cottin The prosecution has brought in its heavy hitters for the show trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague. They trotted out William Walker, the head of a U.S. "peacekeeping" mission in Kosovo, on June 12, followed by the head of the German army, Gen. Klaus Neumann, the next day. Even with Judge Richard Mays' open displays of hostility, Milosevic was not intimidated. The major NATO powers, notably the United States and Germany, created the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 1993 to criminalize Serb and Yugoslav leaders and personnel as part of their plan to dismember and re-colonize Yugoslavia. Milosevic confronted William Walker first. Walker worked for the U.S. State Department from 1985-1988 on Central America policy. He was U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador during the Sumpul River massacre. So he knows about massacres. He knows how to cover them up. Walker was an integral part of the Reagan-Bush war against the people of El Salvador that took nearly 100,000 lives. Walker was directly involved in another campaign of terror while in Central America. He supported the anti-Sandinista Contra fighters in Nicaragua with proceeds from secret arms sales to Iran. The CIA-organized counter-revolutionaries killed over 20,000 people in Nicaragua. 'Massacre' allegation by U.S. war criminal It was Walker who first reported the story that the U.S. and NATO used to justify the 78-day bombing war against Yugoslavia in 1999. As the Associated Press noted in its coverage of the testimony, "William Walker, the former U.S. head of an OSCE Kosovo peacekeeping mission, claimed he saw 'piles of bodies at Racak,' a massacre that focused world attention on atrocities by Serb forces." An analysis by Armen Georgian and Arthur Neslen in the April 5, 2001, edition of the New Statesman showed that the January 1999 "Rakac Massacre" came at a convenient time, when the Clinton administration was looking for an excuse to begin the war against socialist Yugoslavia. It was, according to the New Statesman article, reminiscent of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, "the CIA-manipulated story ... that escalated the Vietnam War." The report is notable, since the New Statesman is not friendly to Milosevic or the Yugoslav socialists. Georgian and Neslen pointed out that on Aug. 12, 1998, the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee had commented: "Planning for a U.S.-led NATO intervention in Kosovo is now largely in place. The only missing element seems to be an event--with suitably vivid media coverage--that could make the intervention politically saleable." The Sunday Times of London reported in 2001 that Walker was "inextricably linked with the CIA." In the Times story, diplomatic and intelligence sources alleged that the team led by Walker which discovered the "Rakac Massacre" was a CIA front that also gave logistical and technical support to the Kosovo Liberation Army. Milosevic knew all this. Cross-examining Walker, he charged that the CIA had recruited the OSCE team. "In Kosovo, you supported a different kind of Contras," Milosevic charged, "the Contra Kosovo Liberation Army." He also suggested Walker was involved in the murder of Jesuit priests and nuns in El Salvador. Clearly flustered on the witness stand, Walker said he had only supplied humanitarian aid to El Salvador from the air base used by U.S. authorities to provide illicit arms to the Contras. His credibility was clearly damaged. German general's incredible story The next day, General Neumann gave his testimony to the ICTY. His story was even more incredible. Neumann claimed, on the stand, that Milosevic told him in 1999 "that Yugoslavia's problems would be solved if ethnic Albanians were murdered." Neumann was the commanding officer of KSK, the elite commando unit of the Bundeswehr, or German army. His unit trained the KLA in Albania and at NATO bases in Turkey in 1998. Milosevic's defense of himself and of Yugoslavia during the trial has proven that he knew intimately what NATO forces were doing to destabilize and destroy Yugoslavia. Milosevic knew Germany's role in dismembering the socialist federation. He knew that Klaus Neumann, the most powerful military leader in Germany, was the archenemy of the Serbian people and a united Yugoslavia. Neumann was part of the effort to supply and train the Kosovo Liberation Army, NATO's cat's paw in Yugoslavia. Milosevic could never confide in Neumann. He knew Neumann was an implacable enemy of peace in Yugoslavia. The ongoing trial in The Hague is a clear case of "victor's justice." As political activist and author Greg Elich wrote: "Open perjury appears not to be a problem for Judge May. The prosecution hasn't even come close to presenting a case, and not a shred of evidence that Milosevic was responsible for crimes." (www.stopnato.org) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
