GEN. DELIC PRESENTS A VIDEOTAPE PROVING THAT THE KLA AIMS TO CREATE GREATER ALBANIA
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - June 21, 2005

Written by: Andy Wilcoxson

The re-examination of Dragan Jasovic continued at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic on Tuesday. Jasovic is a policeman from the Urosevac SUP who investigated the KLA. According to statements that Jasovic took from Albanian witnesses during 1998 and 1999, 30 out of the 40 corpses found in Racak in January of 1999 were known KLA members.

During the cross-examination, Mr. Nice questioned how elderly men could possibly be members of the KLA. It was Mr. Nice's assertion that the age of some of the victims made their membership in the KLA an impossibility.

In response to Mr. Nice's suggestion, Milosevic read from the KLA's book "Fallen Heroes." It emerged from the book's list of killed KLA fighters that men all the way up into their mid-80s were KLA fighters.

Jasovic explained that the KLA, as an illegal terrorist organization, did not have any rules about the age of its soldiers. He said that the KLA even used women and children as fighters.

Jasovic's testimony is corroborated by an unlikely source, CNN. On April 17, 1999 CNN reported about a group of Albanian-Americans who volunteered for duty in the KLA. According to the CNN report:

A contingent of 97 KLA volunteers -- mostly from the ethnic Albanian communities of the American northeast -- landed in Tirana, Albania's capital, on Saturday.

Several said they were ex-U.S. Marines. They ranged in age from a 73-year-old man to Elinda Muriqi, a 16-year-old girl from the Bronx who said she came to Albania "to shoot some Serbs."

/// END CNN EXCERPT /// SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9904/17/kosovo.kla/

As you can see, the sex and the age of the corpse can not prove whether or not the "victim" was a member of the KLA or not. The KLA sent geriatric old men and underage teenage girls into combat. Practically nobody can be eliminated as a possible KLA member.

Milosevic completed Jasovic's re-examination by noting that none of the people who told Mr. Nice that he tortured them ever reported his alleged misdeeds to the international or domestic authorities. Milosevic pointed out that much of the alleged torture was said to have occurred while the EU-KDOM and OSCE-KVM were present in Kosovo. Even if the Albanians were afraid to report Jasovic to the Serbian police, they still could have reported him to the EU or the OSCE monitors, but they didn't.

The obvious conclusion is that the Albanians are making-up lies about Jasovic now, six years after the fact, because they want to discredit his testimony before the Hague Tribunal or because they are afraid of what will happen to them if they admit to collaborating with the Serbian police.

After Jasovic withdrew from the courtroom some administrative matters regarding exhibits were discussed, and then Milosevic called Gen. Bozidar Delic to take the witness stand.

Gen. Delic was the commander of the 549th Motorized Brigade of the Army of Yugoslavia. The 549th was based in Prizren during 1998 and 1999. Gen. Delic had 14,000 men under his command, and was responsible for a large part of Kosovo's territory.

Gen. Delic was called to give evidence about the activities of the Yugoslav Army (VJ) in Kosovo during the time covered by the indictment. He will testify about the conduct of the soldiers, the orders they were given, as well as the policies and regulations observed by the VJ.

Gen. Delic began his testimony by explaining the formation of the KLA. He said that the KLA was formed after the 1995 Dayton conference. The Albanians had a delegation at Dayton and expected to use the conference as a platform to discuss the situation in Kosovo. Western diplomats apparently brushed the Albanians off and told them that the Dayton conference was only for the Bosnian conflict.

It was Gen. Delic's testimony that the Albanians formed the KLA in order to provoke a war that would facilitate international intervention on their behalf. He said that the KLA was made-up of Stalinists loyal to Enver Hoxa, and neo-Fascists from the Balli Kombetar movement.

He explained that the objective of the KLA was to separate Kosovo from Serbia and link it up with Albania. To drive this point home a videotape was played showing a KLA oath taking ceremony. The newly recruited KLA members were lined-up, and they can be heard on the tape swearing a loyalty oath to the KLA. They swear that they will fight to the death to create Greater-Albania.

On the same tape, Richard Holbrooke can be seen speaking to the man who led the new KLA recruits in the oath taking ceremony.

Gen. Delic also came to court armed with a VJ report about intercepted KLA radio communications. The intercepted radio communications showed that the KLA was in direct contact with NATO officials. The KLA was aware of NATO's war plans as early as 1998. On October 3, 1998 a KLA radio transmission was sent saying that NATO had completed its preparations for the attack against Serbia.

On October 30, 1998 an intercepted KLA transmission referred to a plan to expel all of the Serbs from Kosovo, together with any Albanians who did not support the KLA.

There were also radio transmissions from September 1998 explaining how Albanian refugees should flee Kosovo in large groups, preferably in groups larger than 1,000.

This all goes to show that the Kosovo war was rigged from the start. Nothing in Kosovo happens by accident. The mass exodus of Kosovo refugees was planned by the KLA months ahead of time. NATO had finished its war preparations months ahead of Racak, which is the earliest "war crime" that the Serbs are accused of in Kosovo. The plans for the war came a long time before its pretext.

Also mentioned in the radio transmissions were details about the "Homeland Calling" fund. This was a fund set-up to finance the KLA, and Albanians were forced to pay a so-called "tax" to this fund. Albanians in Western countries were expected to pay $1,000 each, and Albanians in Kosovo had to pay between 3 and 5 % of their total income to this fund.

The hearing ended with a closed session related to confidential information about the radio intercepts. Gen. Delic will continue his examination-in-chief when the trial resumes on Wednesday.

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