I hope that you're right! Certainly the sympathy of the US public (which appears to be the only country that matters now) is hardly going to be with anyone who happens to be Muslim at the moment.
Milosevic begins war crimes defense
The (Brockton MA) Enterprise, Feb 14, 2002
THE HAGUE, Netherlands-Launching his defense against war crimes charges, Slobodan Milosevic justified his actions in Kosovo as a "struggle against terrorism," and said he was a victim of twisted facts and "terrible fabrication."
Milosevic, the first head of state to face an international tribunal, began with a sharp attack against the NATO bombing of Kosovo, a relentless 78-day operation in 1999 that forced Yugoslav forces to abandon the drive against ethnic Albanians rebelling against his regime.
On the third day of his trial, the former Yugoslav leader finally had a chance to respond to the prosecution's two-day recital of horrors in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. He was accused of masterminding a ruthless campaign of murder and expulsion in the Balkans in his quest to create a "Greater Serbia."
Milosevic spoke with animation, pointing his finger and thumping his desk, in an address that appeared directed as much toward the television audience in Serbia as toward the three international judges trying him.
Despite the prosecution denials, he said the case was not against him alone but against the whole Serbian people. "Our citizens stand accused, citizens who lent their massive support to me," he said. "My conduct was an expression of the will of the people," he said.
Milosevic began with the war in Kosovo, the first of three indictments against him. He rejected as "a terrible fabrication" accusations that Serb military forces expelled hundreds of thousands of Kosovar Albanians, and said they actually had fled the Kosovo Liberation Army and the NATO bombing.
"When people were fleeing from these places of confict, this is called deportation," he said. "They want to make me accountable for the crimes they perpetrated themselves," he said.
"The struggle against terrorism in the heart of one's own country, in one's own home, is considered to be a crime," he said. "Our defense was a heroic defense against the aggression of the NATO pact."
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