Hague Tribunal clears Milosevic of Bosnia, Croatia crimes

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The charges against Milosevic, who died in 2006, concerning Bosnia and Croatia, claimed that he carried out his crimes through Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, the latter having run something called "the Red Berets" which allegedly commanded paramilitaries such as Zeljko "Arkan" Raznjatovic's infamous Tigers as well as Captain Dragan's Knindzhas. The two men who were acquitted were those who were alleged to have executed Milosevic's alleged criminal plans. Each of them were cleared. Stanisic, who headed the intelligence agency, was revealed during the trial to be a CIA agent, which is presumably why he was sacked in late 1998 before the Kosovo war.

"Prosecutors failed to convince the judges that there was any Serbian state responsibility in the mass killings of non-Serbs by the notorious Serb paramilitary brigades, our correspondent says." No Serbian state responsibility, no Milosevic responsibility.


UN court acquits Serbia intelligence chiefs of war crimes

The trial against Milosevic was purely political for not going along with the EU's mandates. They used the USA to illegally get him out of office (election tampering) and when his government opted (legally) to try him in their courts for the crimes he was accused of, we used US military forces to illegally extradite him for the World Court.

He defended himself pro se against a team of lawyers and they couldn't get anything to happen. Finally, when he was trying to get President Clinton subpoenaed as a witness (everything he did was approved through Clinton's White House), he suddenly dies in the night.

I thought his early court appearances were highly amusing.

Apart from that, I have nothing. Sorry.

The Seselj testimony was as expected the high point of the Milosevic trial. "I joined myself and then you and the others joined me, it's all very simple", Seselj told Milosevic, referring to the Joint Criminal Enterprise that Milosevic supposedly led. At one point the Prosecution had to admit that Milosevic was not interested in Greater Serbia at all, and Seselj claimed ownership of the movement for that and even said that as far as he and his movement was concerned, what makes someone a Serb is not a matter of religious background (Orthodox, with Croats being Catholic and Bosnjaks Muslims) as is most widely accepted, but a matter of one's dialect of Serbo-Croatian.

There was also the revelations that Simatovic and Stanisic and the people in the intelligence agencies in general did not at all like Milosevic and Captain Dragan was on the stand declaring that Milosevic should have been executed!