THE HAGUE, Feb 18 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic closed his opening statement at the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague on Monday by saying he felt the "moral victor" as he had told the public "the truth" about
the war on the territory of the former Yugoslav federation. Milosevic used the last hour of his speech to show a documentary in English by unknown authors which gives an interpretation of the outbreak of conflicts in the ex-Yugoslavia compatible to what he said over the past three days. In depicting the circumstances surrounding the outbreak of the "civil war" in the former Yugoslavia, Milosevic paid a lot of attention to material on crimes committed by the Ustasha during World War Two. Armed by data on the suffering of hundreds of thousands of Serbs in Croatia during WWII, Milosevic placed the arrival of the new authorities in Croatia in the early 1990s in the context of an
THE HAGUE, Feb 18 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic closed his opening statement at the UN war crimes
tribunal at The Hague on Monday by saying he felt the "moral victor"
as he had told the public "the truth" about the war on the territory
of the former Yugoslav federation.
Milosevic used the last hour of his speech to show a documentary in
English by unknown authors which gives an interpretation of the
outbreak of conflicts in the ex-Yugoslavia compatible to what he
said over the past three days.
In depicting the circumstances surrounding the outbreak of the
"civil war" in the former Yugoslavia, Milosevic paid a lot of
attention to material on crimes committed by the Ustasha during
World War Two.
Armed by data on the suffering of hundreds of thousands of Serbs in
Croatia during WWII, Milosevic placed the arrival of the new
authorities in Croatia in the early 1990s in the context of an
Ustasha revival, with strong support from the German intelligence
which, the documentary claims, had been preparing the ground for
Croatian separatists for decades.
Milosevic again singled out Germany as the chief promoter of
Croatian and Slovene separatism in the ex-Yugoslavia, which he said
manifested itself not only through political support but the
armament of Croatian forces as well.
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