Posted on 03/11/2006 12:30:24 PM PST by Proctor
Milosevic feared he was being poisoned: lawyer
March, 11 2005
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic feared he was being poisoned in his detention cell in The Hague, his lawyer Zdenko Tomanovic said on Saturday hours after the tribunal announced Milosevic's death.
"Today, I have filed an official request to the tribunal to have the autopsy carried out in Moscow, having in mind his claims yesterday that he was being poisoned in the jail," Tomanovic told reporters in The Hague.
Acting on a request from Milosevic, Tomanovic said he had made a request for protection for his client to the Russian embassy in The Netherlands and to the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow.
"I demanded protection for Slobodan Milosevic over his claims that he was being poisoned. I still haven't received any reply and that's all I have to say at this time," the lawyer said.
Milosevic conducted his own defense at the war crimes trial. Tomanovic acted as his legal representative in other matters as well as helping him prepare his defense.
The Serbs were no angels either. No one it seems was an angel in that conflict.
Or Doctor Kevorkian.
Euthanasia is legal in The Hague.
They should call it Youthinerup there.
I am seeing that more and more. Did you read the comments posted that they don't want to know if he was poisoned - sort of giving the UN a pat on the back - because Slobo was evil - you know Slobo was our enemy because he was sending terrorists against us - oh, wait - what exactly did Slobo do to make him America's or NATO's enemy?
Indeed, we'll have many more years of the Clintonistas rising from their kneepads to proclaim in unison with the Islamofascists that betraying the Christian Serbs was something other than a complete disaster for the West.
Anyone who isn't a Dhimmi won't buy it, of course, but it will still be out there.
Serbia's in the clear now.
There is little doubt, however, as to whether Milosevik's actions were: a) accidental; b) criminal negligence; or c) deliberate murder.
I'm not an apologist for Milosevitch. He was a thug. But he was one thug among many. The Socialist network, with Blair, clinton, and Schroeder leading, demonized the Serbians as if only they were at fault. Sorry, but there was plenty of guilt to go around.
The pretence is that he was doing an ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, yet while the Serbs controlled that province, the Albanian population somehow increased from 50% to 90%. Some genocide!
It just burns me up that the hypocrites who ran that war deliberately bombed civilian populations, dams, bridges, powerplants, and railroads, and left the population of Belgrade freezing in the dark, and then call Milosevitch a war criminal.
Perhaps he was. But so was clinton. So was Clark. And so were the Albanians and Bosnian Muslims who burned churches and murdered civilians with the best of them. So, why this show trial? It was to excuse their own guilt.
How would you like to have this whore overseeing your medical care. Milosevic made monkeys out of the prosecution (del Ponte and company) with their phoney charges. He was demanding Bill Clinton and Wesley Clark appear and testify in which case he would've tied them in knots. Bottom Line: He was an embarrassment to this house of fools and incompetants. They had to get rid of him.
Yes, revisionist history is your forte
I think it would be pretty hard to find a jury sympathetic to the ''Well, he did it too!'' defense when one is on trial for genocide. I'm sorry but I can't muster much sympathy for a mass murderer regardless of what crimes his peers may have committed.
The question is, What authority does the "International Criminal Court" have?
Bush had very good reasons for refusing to recognize its authority. Why pick on the Serbs? It was a three way fight. Who elected these guys as judges? How come a Serb is being tried by "judges" from other countries?
This violates all the principles of Democratic representation.
UN and EU operating the prison violating huamn rights?
"The only question is whether it was a) accidental; b) criminal negligence; or c) deliberate murder."
"The question is, What authority does the "International Criminal Court" have?"
Although I am no fan of the ICC, I like them more than genocidal dictators. Milosevik is dead, and that doesn't make me unhappy. I would have preferred that he swing from a rope, a fate much kinder than that imposed upon his many victims, but I didn't really expect to see that. I hope we are luckier with Hussein.
Who is we? The Iraqi people have Hussein on trail.
That is the way it should be.
A demonized person like Milosevic made the acceptance of an international criminal court more easy.
I mean who will dare oppose an international court of dubious jurisprudence that has before it a man who is 'The Butcher of the Balkans' and the 'next Hitler'.
We is humanity. We is the civilized people of the world who see never again as more than just a catchy phrase.
The Iraqi people have Hussein on trail.
No, he's not on the trail now, he's in the dock.
That is the way it should be.
I would agree with you if you thought he should be dancing at the end of a rope, but I don't think he belongs on any trails.
A demonized person like Milosevic made the acceptance of an international criminal court more easy.
A demon like Milosevik makes hanging people more easy.
I mean who will dare oppose an international court of dubious jurisprudence that has before it a man who is 'The Butcher of the Balkans' and the 'next Hitler'.
Whatever else you say about old Slobodan, I think 'next' would not describe him properly..
Take your 'internationale' crap and shove it.
The world allowed 'never again' to happen to the Serbs - be it the final policy of Islamic jihad against them in Bosnia and Kosovo or the Nazi final solution in Krajina.
Oh, I see. It happened before and we should therefore allow it to happen again. Two wrongs don't make a right but maybe three or four will. And since we can't stop all of the evil in this world at once, we should ignore all of it. Good point.
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