Serbia to pay Milosevic, fellow suspects at Hague

Haaretz ^ | 3/30/2004 | Reuters

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BELGRADE - Slobodan Milosevic and other war crimes indictees will be paid by the Serbian taxpayer for as long as they are on trial at the Hague tribunal, under controversial legislation adopted by parliament on Tuesday.

The bill, proposed by ultranationalists and backed by Milosevic's Socialist Party, was adopted with ease on the eve of an annual U.S. ruling on whether Serbia is cooperating with the court and can continue receiving aid.

Opponents said it was a poorly-disguised gesture of defiance to the West and a payoff to Socialists for their backing of the minority government of Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, a longtime critic of the United Nations tribunal.

Diplomats expect U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will not be able to certify Belgrade's compliance, triggering suspension of aid worth some e50 million this year.

"If he decides that certification is not possible tomorrow it does not close the possibility that certification might be possible some time in the future," visiting U.S. Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman said after talks with Kostunica.

In 2002, the aid was frozen for almost two months.

New attitude to The Hague The new law provides all Serbian war crimes indictees at the UN tribunal with compensation for lost salaries, plus help to spouses, siblings, parents and children for flight and hotel costs, telephone and mail bills, visa fees and legal charges.

Embraced by Kostunica's conservatives, the bill marks a first step in "two-way" cooperation with The Hague, his policy for redressing what he views as abject obedience in the past. "This is a sign that Serbia is changing its attitude to the Hague Tribunal," said acting Radical leader Tomislav Nikolic.

The past government of pro-Western reformists had treated all those who were not part of the anti-Milosevic movement as "war criminals...and...their families as enemies," he said.

A fellow Radical told parliament that compensation was meant to help "people who are guilty only of being Serbs".

Opposition Democrats had urged parliament to see the bill for what it was - a pro-Milosevic snub to the West.

"This is payback for (Socialist) support for the minority government," said outgoing foreign minister Goran Svilanovic. "What Radicals want is for the state to pay Slobodan Milosevic."

He reminded deputies that most Serbs in the Hague process, though not Milosevic, already got financial help from the state.

Ex-president Milosevic is mid-way through his genocide trial and ex-president Milan Milutinovic is waiting his turn along with Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, whose deputy Nikolic is front-runner in presidential elections expected this summer.

The West would regard his victory as disastrous for Serbia.

So while the United States continues to press Belgrade to hand over 16 indictees to The Hague - fugitive former Bosnian Serb Army commander General Ratko Mladic tops the list - it is also anxious to give Kostunica's month-old government a chance.

Whether Washington views the new law as a provocation or a necessary move to placate nationalist voters remains to be seen.

[FormerLib]

All I've ever said is that I have seen people who died that way. And the SERBS were their murderers.

Yeah sure fine whatever.

And now you want the Serb Republic (and all who live within it) to be "squashed like a bug."

As for the terrorists driving innocent people from their homes in Kosovo, you call that "moving to a nicer neighborhood."

And you want to reward their terror with the gift of a Serbian province, declaring in that intellectual manner of yours that Kosovo is Serbian "not no mo."

Yeah, that you dream of putting Serbs against the wall is plain for all to see. You and the rest of your murderous Muhammedan buddies.

So, how's the phone bank at CAIR doing these days? Still channeling the big bucks to bin Laden?

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Yeah sure fine whatever.>>>

A wonderful (and thoroughly Freeper-Serbocrazy) reaction to genocide.

I saw it. You sit here and type and haven't been within a thousand miles of the place.

I leave it to the readers to figure out who is the gibbering Nazi and who is the peacekeeper.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

And now you want the Serb Republic (and all who live within it) to be "squashed like a bug.">>>

Don't put filthy words in my mouth. Never said anythnig about squashing the people living there. But the "Republika Srpska" (which isn't even a republic but an 'entity') deserves to be squashed. It's a RICO operation from the get go set up and built to benefit genocidal monsters and the fools who play paddy-cake with them.

Wake up.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

So, how's the phone bank at CAIR doing these days? Still channeling the big bucks to bin Laden?>>>

My, it must suck to know that not only Serbia lost, but lost big, and deserved to. Of course, it's easier to blame me for speaking the truth.

Your calling me a Bin Ladenite is stupid, foolish and false. All of which are the prime ingreedients of being a Serbonazi. God give you justice, jack.

[FormerLib]

I leave it to the readers to figure out who is the gibbering Nazi and who is the peacekeeper.

LOL! Yeah, and you're not going to like the results of that poll! LOL!

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

As for the terrorists driving innocent people from their homes in Kosovo, you call that "moving to a nicer neighborhood.">>

How can you shave? With a nose like that you can't stand within ten feet of the mirror. You know damned well I was referring to those who left from 1949-1999, before the violence, who you OBSCENELY said were "victims of genocide" simply because they were moving from point A to point B.

On second thought, I recently moved to a new state. Can I claim 'genocide victim' status too?

And you want to reward their terror with the gift of a Serbian province, declaring in that intellectual manner of yours that Kosovo is Serbian "not no mo."

But it ain't no mo. Deal with it, Slobo. Losing wars in which your country commits mass genocide tends to have a negative effect on the map thereof.

[FormerLib]

My, it must suck to know that not only Serbia lost, but lost big, and deserved to.

Freedom lost and lost big, bin-Laden boy! The US assisted the Muhammedans in their ethnic cleansing of Christians, one of the blackest marks in our history. But this wrong will be righted, one way or another.

Of course, it's easier to blame me for speaking the truth.

LOL! You wouldn't recognize truth if it bit you.

Your calling me a Bin Ladenite is stupid, foolish and false.

Pointing out your support for the Muhammedan terrorists is honest, accurate, true, and going to be repeated for all to see.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

LOL! Yeah, and you're not going to like the results of that poll! LOL!>>>


A small sampler from the RBJ mailbag:

"I wonder if LG ever takes time to seek out and oppose the Balkan genocide contingent here. I have, which I think stands for itself. He should join with our brave Ronly Bonly Jones to see what sort of interferrence he can run -- since they are the true haters. They even go so far as to advocate the limiting of American power because it threatens Serb dominance of Central Europe. Pursuit of our Balkan ethnic cleansers is a fulltime job"

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"But when you stand up to Destro & friends, you are most certainly right."

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"thanks much for your posts on this topic, I am so sick of the apologists for Milosevic around here.

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If Clinton or Muslims are involved, many freepers entirely disregard facts, logic, and manners in their zeal to argue the other side. "

etc.

Why do I fight with you creeps? To speak the truth.

"Who will know? Your family. Your students. God. Not a bad public, that." -- A Man for All Seasons.


Plus I have the pleasure of knowing that I am right and you are wrong, and unlike you have been there and can say I saw it with my own eyes. I sleep very well at night knowing that Christ would have me do no other.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Freedom lost and lost big, bin-Laden boy!>>

YEp. The freedom to force a man at gunpoint to rape his own daughter for the entertainment of the ethnic cleansers. The freedom to keep women at a rape hotel and throw their bodies into the Drina. The freedom to exterminate captured prisoners of war. The freedom to tell Muslims that you are their God and that they need to pray to you now.

From the Serb paramilitaries' ideas of freedom may Jesus Christ the King preserve us.

[FormerLib]

Well we both know that the 9-11 boys still have your undying support! And the Serb army will correct the problem in Kosovo minutes after the foreign troops leave. And they will, you know. They always do.

LOL! And you think you are making us angry! LOL!

Go make up some more phony letters to stuff up your...er, mail-bag, OK?

Are those Clintonista kneepads still nice and comfy? Don't talk with your mouth full! ;)

[FormerLib]

As you blather, blather, and blather on, I'm reminded that a picture is worth a thousand words.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Primitive people often fall back on pictograms when they haven't evolved to writing systems yet.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

If I wasn't ticking you off, why do you keep posting?

I know why I keep posting: to tell the truth as I saw it.

What are YOU defending?

[FormerLib]

What are YOU defending?

I'm defending innocent Serb civilians being driven from their homes, having their churches burned, and their cemetaries dug up and desecrated simply because they are Serbs.

You have a problem with that?

[FormerLib]

If I wasn't ticking you off, why do you keep posting?

To counter the lies you tell about the Serbs. Letting your anti-Serb propaganda go unchallenged would be like us not having Free Republic to counter the mass media's fabrications.

I know why I keep posting: to tell the truth as I saw it.

Because you hold such an anti-Serb bias that you are no longer capable of telling an objective truth, which is why you all you do is portray Serbs as sub-human animals who have no rights to life or property. You've supported them being driven from their homes. You've supported those that kill and rape them. When they flee this treatment, you heartlessly joke that they are merely "moving to a nicer neighborhood." You want the Serb Republic in Bosnia to be "crushed like a bug" knowing that would lead to a replay of what is occurring now in Kosovo over all of Bosnia. You celebrate the destruction of their churches and the desecration of their cemeteries as Kovovo being Serbian "no mo'!" Clearly, your statements support the eradication of the entire Serbian ethnic group in as violent a method as is possible.

In short, you postings portray nothing more than a hateful bigot who's mere presence here defames all of Free Republic.

[FormerLib]

Primitive people often fall back on pictograms when they haven't evolved to writing systems yet.

And intellectuals chose them sometimes when a simple picture just says it best, not that I'd expect you to know that.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

I'm defending innocent Serb civilians being driven from their homes, having their churches burned, and their cemetaries dug up and desecrated simply because they are Serbs.

You have a problem with that?
>>>

As long as that's ALL your doing, I have no problem with it whatsoever. But when you guys say that that was what Arkan the accursed was up to, or Mladic, or the guys on the top of the hills surrounding Sarajevo who shelled and sniped civilians, THAT's when I stand up and say the truth.

Genocide is genocide. And to be a victim of genocide is to be a victim of killing, not having to move to Novi Sad in 1988.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

And intellectuals chose them sometimes when a simple picture just says it best, not that I'd expect you to know that.>>>

You? An intellectual? Not by half a county, cowboy.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

In short, you postings portray nothing more than a hateful bigot who's mere presence here defames all of Free Republic.
>>>

Projection again. It's the Serbonazi contingent, and their amen corner among the Serbocrazies, who are the hateful bigots. Tell us please about how an eight year old girl of my acquaintance who watched her aunt have her throat slit by Serb paramilitaries in Zvornik in 1992 was actually an al-Qaida agent, please. Tell us how an 80 year old man or a 12 year old boy having his brains splattered on a barn wall in Bratunac was working for Bin Laden. Tell us how the Albanians are animals, the Croats all Ustashe SS members, how Bosniac schoolchildren were really all SS officers in WW2, how the whole world is on one endless conspiracy to keep Serbia from ruling the world.

Tell me that the dead victims of genocide I saw were actually Serbs dug up from church graveyards by Muslim propagandists.

Please. THEN tell me that I'm a Serb-hater.

I don't hate Serbs in the least. I do, however, have a strong dislike for Nazis, whether they be of the Illinois variety or, as is more common on Free Republic, whether they are humming the Serb national anthem as they denegrate Muslims.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Tell us please about how an eight year old girl of my acquaintance who watched her aunt have her throat slit by Serb paramilitaries in Zvornik in 1992 was actually an al-Qaida agent, please>>

She was, of course, seventeen when I spoke to her in 2001.