Mar 15, 2006
What Milosevic Knew
"What the corporate media overwhelmingly ignores in Milosevic's death is what they ignored in his life as well--his intimate knowledge of US war crimes in Yugoslavia. While Milosevic was undoubtedly a war criminal who deserved to be tried for his crimes, he was also the only man in the unique position of being able to expose and detail the full extent of the US role in the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s."
"It is a sad testimony to the state of international jurisprudence that after many attempts to find justice, the only hope for US victims in the Yugoslavia wars was the trial defense of a man many of those same victims despised. If there was an independent international court that was recognized and respected by the US, those responsible for bombing Yugoslavia would have been alongside Slobodan Milosevic in the docks these past years instead of having their responsibility being buried with him."
So writes Jeremy Scahill in his essay"Rest Easy, Bill Clinton: Slobo Can't Talk Any More." Jeremy Scahill is an independent journalist who spent extensive time reporting from Yugoslavia, including covering the 1999 US-led NATO bombing from the ground. The night Milosevic was arrested in Belgrade, Scahill was beaten by the former president's supporters outside Milosevic's residence.
See also Amy Goodman’s interview with Andrej Grubacic, Chris Hedges, and Jeremy Scahill.
UPDATE: I also recommend Alexander Cockburn’s"Pages from the Liberals' War—Did Milosevic or His Accusers 'Cheat Justice'? The Show Trial That Went Wrong" published today (Tuesday).
"It is a sad testimony to the state of international jurisprudence that after many attempts to find justice, the only hope for US victims in the Yugoslavia wars was the trial defense of a man many of those same victims despised. If there was an independent international court that was recognized and respected by the US, those responsible for bombing Yugoslavia would have been alongside Slobodan Milosevic in the docks these past years instead of having their responsibility being buried with him."
So writes Jeremy Scahill in his essay"Rest Easy, Bill Clinton: Slobo Can't Talk Any More." Jeremy Scahill is an independent journalist who spent extensive time reporting from Yugoslavia, including covering the 1999 US-led NATO bombing from the ground. The night Milosevic was arrested in Belgrade, Scahill was beaten by the former president's supporters outside Milosevic's residence.
See also Amy Goodman’s interview with Andrej Grubacic, Chris Hedges, and Jeremy Scahill.
UPDATE: I also recommend Alexander Cockburn’s"Pages from the Liberals' War—Did Milosevic or His Accusers 'Cheat Justice'? The Show Trial That Went Wrong" published today (Tuesday).