Author: Nebojsa Malic

Reuters’ presstitute Paul Gallagher writes yesterday about the trial of Yugoslav general Pavle Strugar for the alleged destruction of the medieval port of Dubrovnik.
Quite honestly, I didn’t think even the Hague Inquisition would dare to propagate positions that are so easily verifiable as lies.
Namely, the Inquisitors claim Strugar’s forces “mercilessly pounded” Dubrovnik’s Old Town, with “unprecedented ferocity,” and inflicted “heavy damage.” But that is simply not true. Continue reading ““Destruction” of Dubrovnik”

In today’s article on Wesley Clark’s appearance at the Hague Inquisition, Elaine Sciolino of the New York Times reveals some important information.
Apparently, I’m not the only one wondering why Clark’s testimony came at this stage of the show trial, when the Kosovo phase was supposed to have ended earlier this year. In fact, the Inquisitors’ choice of witnesses towards the end of their allotted time reveals desperation and frustration; having failed to prove anything, they are now hauling in whoever they can drag into the courtroom, in vain hopes they might get lucky.
Continue reading “Clark at ICTY”

The Hague Inquisition convicted Bosnian Serb General Stanislav Galic Friday, of “command responsibility” in the siege of Sarajevo. According to BBC, Galic was found guilty of “murder” (?) and “infliction of terror,” and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
I lived in Sarajevo during the war, in the Muslim-held part of the city, and experienced first-hand many of the attacks for which Galic is accused. I agree that their objective was to terrorize civilians, and thus put pressure on their government (Izetbegovic) to negotiate a peace. But how is this different from “bombs for peace” pursued by NATO?
Remember, these are people who decided NATO didn’t commit any war crimes in 1999 simply because NATO told them so. The only difference between terrorizing civilians and targeting infrastructure in Sarajevo (1992-95) and Serbia (1999) is that the former was done by the Bosnian Serbs (declared a priori evil) and the latter by NATO (forces of goodness, by own definition). There’s the old double standard again. Continue reading “ICTY’s new hypocrisy”

LewRockwell.com, always a useful site when it comes to libertarian views on politics, economics and philosophy, has a very interesting link today. It doesn’t mention the Balkans at all – in fact, it’s about French fast food. But it contains an interesting examination of corporate/government propaganda. Something to think about…

Continue reading “Power and propaganda”

I received a note from a reader yesterday about an article on the Financial Times website . Without presuming to speak about the actual contents of the article – read it and make up your own mind – the author caught my correspondent’s attention with these passages:

“It is not as if victimhood is never true. Jews are slandered and persecuted, though not very often in the US. Muslims have had a rough deal in history. But our politics too often degenerate into expressions of self-pity, which is particularly odious in the German case. The result is suspicion, hatred, and in the end vengefulness. One might call it the Kosovo Syndrome.
On St Vitus Day, 1389, much of the Serbian nobility perished in a battle with Turkish armies on the Field of Blackbirds in Kosovo. More than 600 years later, Bosnian Muslims were driven from their homes, murdered and raped in large numbers, and tortured in concentration camps. And all this because Serbs could not stop thinking of themselves as the greatest victims in history.”

Sounds like a slam-dunk ending – were it true.

Continue reading “Serbs and victimhood”

Interesting piece in the Washington Post today partially reveals how the recent “revolution” in the Caucasus nation of Georgia (Gruziya) was modeled after the Serbian coup of 2000. This confirms the rumors and news of Serbians “training” Georgian opposition groups over the past year. Now, Gruziya has been an obedient US vassal and bitterly hostile to Moscow, plus it sits on top of the projected Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline. Why would the Empire help topple its leader? For it is the Empire that did it; Serbians were just the cat’s paw… Continue reading “The Imported Georgian “Revolution””