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It was some 20 years ago [1987] that I visited Kosova (sic), and, as a huge crowd was gathering around the hotel where my wife and I met with Kosova (sic) leaders, at the edge of this vast group of people, policemen were beating up men, women and children for no reason whatsoever.

Mr. Lantos... Some people look, but do not see, they do not understand! Slobodan Milosevic also saw a vast group of people. It was Albanian Policemen [that] were beating up Serb men, women and children for no reason whatsoever.

"In April 1987, Slobodan Milosevic, who had been elected Chairman of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia in 1986, traveled to Kosovo...

The Kosovo Police [etnic albanians] had begun beating people in the crowd with clubs, and the crowd defended itself by throwing rocks at the police. Milosevic and Balevic went outside to see what the commotion was about, as they were coming out the door, some people came up to Milosevic and told him that the police were beating them. Milosevic responded to those people by saying, “nobody should beat you.”

Milosevic did not address this remark to the entire crowd; he did not have a loudspeaker to address the crowd. He was only speaking to the people who were talking to him.

When he saw what the situation was, he had a loudspeaker set up and he addressed the crowd. He asked the crowd to calm down, and the situation calmed down. There was no battle cry, all Milosevic did was appeal for calm.

A joint investigation conducted by provincial, republican, and federal authorities determined that the police had provoked the incident, by beating-up people [Serbs] in the crowd who hadn’t done anything wrong."

So, Mr. Lantos... what you saw were Serbs being beaten by Albanian Policemen. But what those policemen did to the Serbs that night pales compared to what you inflicted upon them. May you rot in Hell!