THE HAGUE, Feb 14 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ended the second day of his opening statement before the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal by attacking Germany and America for "sponsoring Albanian
terrorism" in Kosovo, with the aim of providing support for the project of a "Greater Albania". What happened in Kosovo in the past several years is new momentum in Germany's support to the "Greater Albania" plan, Milosevic said, adding defeat in World War Two had only temporarily prevented Germany from supporting this idea. America resumed Germany's policy of supporting the Kosovo Liberation Army, or "Albanian terrorism", in 1998, Milosevic said, adding that the task of rescuing Albanian rebels had been assumed by Richard Holbrooke and Bob Gelbard, after Serbia had managed to "neutralise terrorism" on its territory. Milosevic said that Americans had taken over fr
THE HAGUE, Feb 14 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic ended the second day of his opening statement before the
Hague-based international war crimes tribunal by attacking Germany
and America for "sponsoring Albanian terrorism" in Kosovo, with the
aim of providing support for the project of a "Greater Albania".
What happened in Kosovo in the past several years is new momentum in
Germany's support to the "Greater Albania" plan, Milosevic said,
adding defeat in World War Two had only temporarily prevented
Germany from supporting this idea.
America resumed Germany's policy of supporting the Kosovo
Liberation Army, or "Albanian terrorism", in 1998, Milosevic said,
adding that the task of rescuing Albanian rebels had been assumed by
Richard Holbrooke and Bob Gelbard, after Serbia had managed to
"neutralise terrorism" on its territory. Milosevic said that
Americans had taken over from Germany the organisation and leading
of the "Storm" military operation in Croatia as well.
He also accused Germany of pressuring other European countries to
prematurely recognise Croatia, which is something former French
president, Francois Mitterand, allegedly spoke about.
Placing Osama Bin Laden in Albania in 1998, Milosevic concluded
that the terrorists who had not been apprehended by the Serb police
and made it to Afghanistan were today taken to the US base in
Guantanamo Bay in chains, while the Americans at the same time were
demanding that Belgrade release previously arrested terrorists
because they were political prisoners.
America's double standards towards terrorism and the
perniciousness of sponsored terrorism were shown with the
September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, Milosevic said.
Commenting on the prosecution's claim that he was responsible for
crimes committed in the name of the greater-Serbian idea in
Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, Milosevic stressed the idea had never
existed.
The "Greater Serbia" idea was a product of Austro-Hungarian
propaganda which saw Serbs and Serbia as an obstacle to the
realisation of its ambitions on the Balkans, Milosevic explained,
adding that "what is happening here too" was part of a policy aimed
at bringing Serbia to its knees.
In the afternoon part of the trial, Milosevic said the killings in
the village of Racak in Kosovo, as well as the massacre at
Sarajevo's Markale market-place, had been orchestrated to accuse
the Serb side.
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