MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: ANTE'S ANTICS: ANTE MARKOVIC ACT II
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - January 15, 2004
 

June 15, 2004 – Ante Markovic made his return to The Hague “Tribunal” today. He "excelled" as a witness for the prosecution. You could have asked him what the cause of global warming was, and he would have told you that it was Slobodan Milosevic’s fault.

The war in Slovenia was discussed at great length. Slobodan Milosevic produced stenographic notes taken from Federal Executive Council sessions, SFRY Presidency sessions, and Ante Markovic’s personal calendar. From these documents it emerged that Ante Markovic himself made the decision to engage the JNA in Slovenia.

Under the constitution of the SFRY, the JNA was under the command of the federal presidency, but Ante Markovic violated the constitution and ordered the JNA to take action in Slovenia.

Ante Markovic tried to say that Slobodan Milosevic is the one who ordered the JNA to “invade” Slovenia, while at the same time claiming that Milosevic was trying to kick Slovenia out of Yugoslavia.

Apparently Mr. Markovic thinks it is perfectly logical for Milosevic to use the JNA to keep Slovenia in Yugoslavia by force, while he is at the same time trying to get Slovenia to leave Yugoslavia. Which is it Mr. Markovic does he want to force them to stay, or does he want them to leave?

From the documents it emerges that even Kucan, accuses the Federal Executive Council (i.e. Markovic) for the war in Slovenia. Of course it is Kucan himself who is most responsible. 44 JNA soldiers lost their lives and 184 were wounded when Slovenia attacked the JNA. Slovenia did not keep its promise to the EC not to take unilateral actions, and it ignored the ruling of the Constitutional Court of Yugoslavia which struck down their succession as being illegal.

After accusing Milosevic of “invading” Slovenia with the JNA, Markovic changed his story. He began to claim that it was some sort of big mystery who could have issued these orders, and then he said that the JNA didn't have orders at all that it decided all on its own what it would do.

Of course it can be expected that Markovic would change his story, because he was lying. Bora Jovic, who was at the time a member of the Federal Presidency, has already testified that it was Markovic who illegally issued orders to the JNA.

Slobodan Milosevic’s position in all of this business regarding Slovenia was essentially neutral. He opposed their succession on the grounds that it was illegal, but he was also against deploying the JNA to force Slovenia to stay in Yugoslavia. Of course it’s just his opinion, since contrary to Markovic’s stories he had no command over the JNA.

In addition to explaining how Markovic violated the constitution and issued orders to the JNA illegally, Jovic explained how Markovic introduced a program whereby the Yugoslav dinar was convertible at a ratio of 7 dinars for 1 deutschemark. Jovic explained that on the basis of Markovic’s program citizens went out and converted their savings into deutschemarks.

What happened according to Jovic was that Markovic raided the foreign exchange reserves of the SFRY, and the citizens who had converted their money into deutschemarks were unable to get their money back out of the banks, and had to be issued what amounted to IOU’s by the state.

Jovic explained that Markovic used the money from the SFRY’s foreign exchange reserves to pay Croatia’s debt. Markovic’s so-called “economic reforms” were a scam that increased the SFRY’s debt many fold.

Even though Markovic almost single handedly destroyed the economy of the SFRY, and caused countless citizens to lose their life savings, he had the nerve to accuse Milosevic of “stealing” state funds. Something that Milosevic did not do, and was not in a position to do in the first place, since it was Markovic and the Federal Government who controlled the money.

Ante’s antics were rather amusing. He had a flare for being dramatic. He spoke of the explosion at Tudjman’s Banski Dvori palace in Zagreb. Of course evidence has come to light since then which indicates that the explosions were rigged for the benefit of Tudjman’s own political purposes. None the less, Markovic insisted that a MiG-29 aircraft (that he didn’t see) had bombed him, and that Milosevic must have been behind it. To be honest I’m a little bit surprised he didn’t claim Milosevic was flying the plane.

Ante Markovic humiliated himself. This is a man who remained silent for 12 years, and if he had been a smart man he would have continued to remain silent, and maintained at least some measure of his dignity.

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