Posted on 03/14/2009 5:16:08 AM PDT by Ravnagora
“But Walker, who has been bestowed with honorary citizenship by Albania....”
I understand he also receives honorary subhuman status along with his Albanian citizenship.
“Like Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Eliot Engel, George W. Bush, and Wesley Clark, for his dutifulness Walker has a street named in his honor in Kosovo....”
Such appropriate names for the running sewers that pass for streets in the KLA’s Dogvomitstan.
In before the arrival of the mind-numbed Dhimmwits!
Walker - a war criminal extraordinaire...his bloody deeds have been commited all over the world
He and Slimy Clark and all the other monstrous players in this tragic region of the world will not be judged in this world. No Nuremburg for brutal killers like these POS.
Spent his entire career setting up and covering up political murders in South America before he got to Kosovo -- the perfect point (hit) man for the job!
Boka,
I honestly don’t think there is ANYTHING that you do not know. You are a wealth of knowledge on all things Balkan. Thank you.
R.
Thanks, Ravna, but there is LOTS I don't know about the Balkans. But if I ever did find out what I don't know, they'd probably have to kill me -- so what the heck? I'd rather live!
1. John McCain has been chair of the International Republican Institute since 1992. The IRI is an NGO set up by the National Endowment for Democracy and paid for primarily by our tax dollars. It's stated mission is international "democracy building" and it's primary expertise since its inception had been in South America.
2. There is another identical organization for Democrats called the International Democratic Institute, and it's current chair is Madeline Albright.
3. John McCain received substantial financial support ($millions) from the Albanian American Civic League for his various political campaigns since the late 1990's, an organization that seeks to create a Greater ethnic Albania and Kosovo, as a part of that.
4. John McCain championed the 1999 NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia over Kosovo, and was one of the only Republicans to do so. McCain even introduced a bill into the Senate that would have put US boots on the ground in Kosovo, had it passed.
5. William Walker spent his entire "diplomatic career" in South America, when he is linked to everything from setting up military coups to the outright murder of several Jesuit priests, but the OSCE decides that Walker is "the best guy" to go to Kosovo where he had never set foot until he arrived for "the mission".
6. After Milosevic is removed, the prime contenders for the Serbian presidency are Kostunica and Djindjic. Kostunica, a non-communist who translated the Federal Papers into Serbian during the communist years at great risk to himself, is is labeled "a (evil) nationalist" by the press, in favor of Djindjic. Djindjic gets assasinated and the son of a communist, Boris Tadic (an IRI grad) emerges as a darling of the West. Even the IRI website brags that:
IRI provided assistance to the Tadic campaign at virtually every stage of the process, from training for DS headquarters and regional coordinators in campaign planning and direct voter contact, to polling and message development, and regular consultations with the campaign team and Tadic himself. Tadic’s campaign strategy and message were directly in line with IRI’s recommendations, and campaign plans formulated by DS regional coordinators at IRI’s campaign seminars formed the basis of the DS campaign’s regional campaign plans. The results of the election were widely thought to hinge on voter turnout, with lower turnout benefiting the Radical party. IRI, with NDI and Freedom House, co-sponsored the Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) to carry out a targeted Get-Out-the-Vote program aimed at motivating democratically-oriented voters."
Please tell me how much of anything was left to chance here? Not much that I can see!
Wow. Great article.
The Serbs were our friends. Then Bill Clinton bombed them and installed a muslim terrorist organization.
God I hate him.
If anyone thinks that they aren't sitting in DC figuring out how to manipulate those "issues of importance" like poking amoebas in a petri dish, then they don't understand politics. Ratchet up "unemployment" on them and "concern for Kosovo" goes down. Push here, and they react there. It's textbook manipulation.
And now they have gotten so good at doing this to other people in the world, they are doing it to us here in the America.
And this is just one NGO, there is also the Democrat counterpart NDI, plus Soros' NGO and many others.
NGO's should be seen for what they are -- lobbying organizations of groups of individuals, not "objective" apolitical organizations.
http://www.emportal.co.yu/en/news/serbia/80470.html Source: EMportal
Five former high-ranking Yugoslav and Serbian political, military and police officials were today convicted by Trial Chamber III of the Tribunal for crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo in 1999.
Five former high-ranking Yugoslav and Serbian political, military and police officials were today convicted by Trial Chamber III of the Tribunal for crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo in 1999.
Former Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister, Nikola Šainović, Yugoslav Army (VJ) General, Nebojša Pavković and Serbian police General Sreten Lukić were each sentenced to 22 years’ imprisonment for crimes against humanity and violation of the laws or customs of war. Yugoslav Army General, Vladimir Lazarević and Chief of the General Staff, Dragoljub Ojdanić were found guilty of aiding and abetting the commission of a number of charges of deportation and forcible transfer of the ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo and each sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment.
Milan Milutinović, the former President of Serbia, was acquitted of all charges.
Today’s Judgement is the first handed down by the Tribunal for crimes perpetrated by Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and Serbian forces against Kosovo Albanians during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo.
The Prosecution charged the six with crimes committed during a campaign of terror and violence directed against the ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo in early 1999. Each of the Accused was alleged to have participated in a joint criminal enterprise, the purpose of which was to modify the ethnic balance in Kosovo to ensure continued control by the Serbian authorities. The plan was to be executed by criminal means, including deportations, murders, forcible transfers and persecutions of Kosovo Albanians.
Analysing evidence from the trial proceedings in relation to crime sites across 13 of Kosovo’s municipalities, the Trial Chamber found that there was a broad campaign of violence directed against the Kosovo Albanian civilian population during the course of NATO air-strikes in FRY that began on 24 March 1999. This campaign was conducted by army and Interior Ministry police forces (MUP) under the control of FRY and Serbian authorities, who were responsible for mass expulsions of Kosovo Albanian civilians from their homes, as well as incidents of killing, sexual assault, and the intentional destruction of mosques. “It was the deliberate actions of these forces during this campaign that caused the departure of at least 700,000 Kosovo Albanians from Kosovo in the short period of time between the end of March and beginning of June 1999,” Judge Iain Bonomy, Presiding, stated in the courtroom.
Such crimes are found to have happened in 13 municipalities of Kosovo: Orahovac/Rahovec, Prizren, Srbica/Skenderaj, Suva Reka/Suharekё, Peć/Pejё, Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovicё, Priština/Prishtinё, Ðakovica/Gjakovё, Gnjilane/Gjilan, Uroševac/Ferizaj, Kačanik/Kaçanik, Dečanin/Deçan and Vučitrn/Vushtrri.
The Trial Chamber found that these crimes were committed in the execution of a joint criminal enterprise, the purpose of which was to “use violence and terror to force a significant number of Kosovo Albanians from their homes and across the borders, in order for the state authorities to maintain control over Kosovo”.
This “widespread campaign of violence that was directed against the Kosovo Albanian population between March and June 1999” was “conducted in an organised manner, utilising significant state resources,” the Trial Chamber found.
The Trial Chamber enumerated other elements supporting the existence of a joint criminal enterprise. They included, “the events leading up to the conflict; the arming of non-Albanian civilians in Kosovo and simultaneous disarming of Kosovo Albanians; the breakdown of negotiations to end the Kosovo crisis at the same time as the October [1998] Agreements were being breached by the FRY and Serbian authorities; and the concealment of bodies of Kosovo Albanians killed by VJ and MUP forces”.
The Trial Chamber found that Nikola Šainović, Nebojša Pavković, and Sreten Lukić all participated in the joint criminal enterprise, and made a significant contribution to its execution.
The Chamber found that Nikola Šainović was “one of the closest and most trusted associates of [Slobodan] Milošević,” the former FRY President and “one of the most crucial members of that common [joint criminal] enterprise”.
“He was a powerful official in the FRY Government, who not only relayed information to Milošević and conveyed Milošević’s instructions to those in Kosovo, but also had a great deal of influence over events in the province and was empowered to make decisions,” Judge Bonomy read.
Although he was aware of the crimes committed by VJ and MUP forces, Šainović failed to use his “extensive authority in Kosovo” or his own initiative to ensure they stop.
Sainović was found guilty of deportation, forcible transfer, murder and persecution as a crime against humanity and violations of laws or customs of war. He was sentenced to 22 years’ imprisonment.
Nebojša Pavković was the commander of VJ’s 3rd Army, which encompassed both the Priština Corps and the Niš Corps, and therefore “had substantial de jure and de facto command authority over VJ forces in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999”.
“There is no doubt that his contribution to the joint criminal enterprise was significant, as he utilised the VJ forces at his disposal to terrorise and violently expel Kosovo Albanian civilians from their homes,” the Chamber found.
The commission of murder, sexual assault and the deliberate destruction of or damage to mosques, by the VJ and MUP forces, were reasonably foreseeable to Pavković yet “he sometimes under-reported and minimised the serious criminal wrongdoing in his reports sent up to the Supreme Command Staff”.
Pavković was found guilty of deportation, forcible transfer, murder and persecution as a crime against humanity and violations of laws or customs of war. He was sentenced to 22 years’ imprisonment.
The Trial Chamber found that Sreten Lukić was “a de facto commander of MUP forces in Kosovo from mid-1998 to mid-1999, as well as being the bridge between the actions of the MUP on the ground in Kosovo and the overarching policies and plans decided in Belgrade”. It concluded that he was thus an important participant in the joint criminal enterprise.
The evidence established that Lukić had detailed knowledge of events in Kosovo as they developed, as well as being informed of allegations of criminal conduct by MUP personnel there. However, the Chamber was not convinced by the evidence that Lukić was involved in the concealment of these crimes through the clandestine transportation of civilian bodies from Kosovo to other parts of Serbia.
Sreten Lukić was found guilty of deportation, forcible transfer, murder and persecution as a crime against humanity and violation of laws or customs of war. He was sentenced to 22 years’ imprisonment.
As for Dragoljub Ojdanić, the Chamber found that, as Chief of the General Staff, he “exercised command and control over all units and organs of the VJ”.
While it did not find him to have had the intent to expel Kosovo Albanians from their homes, the Chamber found that, “Ojdanić provided practical assistance, encouragement, or moral support to members of the VJ who he knew intended to commit deportation and forcible transfer. His conduct had a substantial effect on the actual commission of these crimes by VJ forces in some of the locations charged in the Indictment”.
On this basis he was found to have aided and abetted the commission of a number of the charges of deportation and forcible transfer in the Indictment. He was not, however, found responsible for murder or persecution. Ojdanić was found guilty of deportation and forcible transfer as a crime against humanity. He was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment.
General Vladimir Lazarević, the Commander of Pristina Corps, was not “necessarily aware of all the political decision-making that generally took place in Belgrade, and did not participate in high-level meetings there,” the Chamber found. However, Lazarević was supportive of the commission of crimes throughout Kosovo by Yugoslav Army and Police forces in a widespread and systematic attack targeting Kosovo Albanians and was therefore found to have aided and abetted the commission of a number of the charges of deportation and forcible transfer in the Indictment. Lazarević was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment.
The Chamber found that the Prosecution had not proved that the former Serbian President, Milan Milutinović, made a significant contribution to the joint criminal enterprise, nor that he had actual control over the actions of the VJ and MUP forces in Kosovo.
Milutinović did not have direct individual control over the VJ, a federal institution, the Chamber found. “In practice, it was [Slobodan] Milošević, sometimes termed the ‘Supreme Commander’, who exercised actual command authority over the VJ during the NATO campaign”.
Milutinović was therefore acquitted on all counts of the Indictment.
Credit will be given for the time each of the accused has already spent in detention.
In addition to today's rulings, the Trial Chamber invited parties to file submissions with regards to three alleged crime sites which the Prosecution was instructed, in accordance with rule 73 bis(D), not to present evidence on during the trial.
On 11 July 2006, the Chamber decided - pending any further Order - that evidence related to incidents in Racak/Reçek, Padalište/Padalishte, and Dubrava/Dubravë Prison should not be presented so as to “improve the expeditiousness of the proceedings while ensuring that they remain fair”. In the same Decision the Chamber noted that “in no way… [are] the three locations of less significance or are not representative of the Prosecution's case against the accused”.
The Trial Chamber today invited all parties to file any submissions they may have on the matter within 14 days.
The Milutinović and others trial was one of the Tribunal’s largest and most complex. The trial proceedings began on 10 July 2006, and concluded on 27 August 2008. During their course the Chamber heard oral testimony from a total of 235 witnesses, and admitted over 4,300 exhibits.
In total, the Tribunal has indicted nine of the most senior Serb and Yugoslav officials for the crimes carried out in Kosovo by Serb forces in 1999.
Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milošević was the first sitting head of state to be charged for war crimes when the Tribunal indicted him in 1999 for alleged crimes in Kosovo. He stood trial between 2002 and 2006 for the alleged offences in Kosovo, as well as for alleged crimes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but died from natural causes on the eve of the trial’s end and prior to a judgement being rendered.
Vlajko Stojiljković, a senior police official close to Milošević, was indicted but committed suicide in Belgrade in 2002. Vlastimir Đorđević, former Assistant Minister of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and Chief of its Public Security Department and a fugitive from justice until his arrest in June 2007, had his trial commence at the Tribunal on 27 January 2009.
Since its establishment the Tribunal has indicted 161 persons for serious violations of humanitarian law committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001. Proceedings against 116 have been concluded.
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Odd statement coming from an Irishman, no? 
“Odd statement coming from an Irishman, no?”
No, the Yankee proddies were wrong. I’m not. :)
Worst of all, we were making progress bringing Russia into the fold, Kosovo gave the Russian hardliners all the support they needed to put an end to all that.
You're not what, Irish? I thought your father was Irish.
“You’re not what, Irish?”
Wrong, Nicky! :)
“Nameless”, clearly you consider the Hague War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia a valid and infallible “court of law”, and an entity that serves “Justice” well.
Why do you hate the Serbs so much?
“Nameless-fool” is on a low-fact, boilerplate-rich diet. Nameless needs (another) nom de guerre: “Factless-fool” would serve. Factless forgets the hottest headline hoax of April 1994 — Gorazde. Thousands being massacred. (General Morillon: “a couple brooms could clean up the damage.”) Factless still finds “Srebrenica” hot button stuff. Factless, explain how it was that NO report of a massacre at this town in eastern Bosnia appeared anywhere until weeks after the purported event of July 10-11 1995. That’s because it took time to fabricate the hoax. Madame Albright went to the UN in August 1995 to lay down a smoke screen to cover the US-run Croatian “Storm” in which 250,000+ Serbs were chased out of Krajina. There she didn’t mention killed, but “missing”. 6000 of these missing made it fully armed to Tuzla. Which WAS reported - by Chris Hedges (NY Times), John Pomfret, George Pumphrey and others. In July 1995 summary execution did take place of hundreds of mujahedin who had fragged, shot, impaled, burnt and crucified over 3000 Serb civilians around eastern Bosnia 1992 to 1993. Want the pictures? Bosnian Serbs were able to conceal the corpses of 8000 “men and boys” by presumably 1000 Serb shooters from satellite eyes, U-2s and the scores of reporters walking around and photographing busloads of Muslims leaving for Tuzla. The pictures are in the daily papers of those days. Get thee to a liberry. Fuel for the Muslim exodus was supplied by the UN. One Dutch soldier was killed when a Muslim dropped a hand-grenade into his UN vehicle. Dutch soldiers are now volunteering to testify in the Hague in Karadzic’s defense. They are denying that No-Fact’s favorite mnassacre took place. But a Hoax was. Factless will deny that.
PS. Mike Wallace went to eastern Bosnia to make a CBS 60Minutes documentary. Ask him why he hasn’t screened that. Would be a sensation.
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