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]
