MR. NICE'S STRATEGY: ACCUSE, ACCUSE, ACCUSE...
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - July 19, 2005

Written by: Andy Wilcoxson

Mr. Nice continued his cross-examination of Gen. Bozidar Delic at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic on Tuesday. It was obvious from his questions that the prosecutor had lost all grip of reality and common sense.

Mr. Nice asserted that the Yugoslav Army rounded-up Albanian Catholics and forced them to protest against the NATO bombing.

Gen. Delic asked the prosecutor to tell him when the army was supposed to have done this. Of course Mr. Nice didn't know when the army allegedly did this or where the protest rallys were even held, but lack of evidence has never stopped Mr. Nice.

Gen. Delic easily dealt with Mr. Nice's claims. He explained that the army was fighting a war against 19 NATO countries and the KLA, and therefore had more important things to do than organize protest rallies.

Mr. Nice continued to make wild and very dangerous allegations. He accused Sokolj Cuse, the president of the Democratic Reform Party of Albanians, of forcing his fellow Albanians to give pro-Serbian statements to Serbian TV reporters.

Kosovo is no stranger to politically motivated killings and these sorts of statements from a Hague prosecutor could easily endanger the life of Mr. Cuse. Mr. Nice must take care to ensure that he has a firm basis for making those types of wild allegations.

Mr. Nice's basis for the accusations about Mr. Cuse and the Albanian-Catholics was the statements that Kosovo-Albanians gave to his investigators last week. He did not have contemporaneous material to support his allegations, all he had was the stories that Albanians, who could be killed if they admitted willfully opposing the KLA or the NATO bombing, gave him last week.

Mr. Nice spent most of the day questioning Gen. Delic about his war diary. Mr. Nice wanted to know how come some of the events that prosecution witnesses had testified about were not recorded in the diary, or were recorded differently. Gen. Delic's basic answer was that things happened the way they were recorded in the diary, therefore the Mr. Nice's witnesses must not have been telling the truth.

Mr. Nice wrapped the day up by asking Delic questions about the burial of Kosovo-Albanian corpses at Batajnica.

The prosecution's allegation is that Serbian Police dug Kosovo-Albanians up from their graves in Kosovo and transported them in freezer trucks to central Serbia in order to hide evidence of killings.

Several Kosovo-Albanian corpses from Gen. Delic's area of responsibility have been located at an SAJ (police) facility near Batajnica in central Serbia. Mr. Nice asked Gen. Delic how the corpses got there. Delic did not know, but he theorized that the corpses had been moved there after the war ended.

Mr. Nice claims that the exhumation, transport, and re-burial of the corpses was such a large job that the Army would have had to have known about it. According to Mr. Nice the Army must have known, because if it didn't it would have ran the risk of "catching the police by surprise."

Mr. Nice has a point (but not the one he's trying to make), the exhumation, transport and re-burial of the corpses would have been a very big job and a very difficult thing to hide. During the war the KLA controlled large parts of Kosovo, and routinely ambushed the Serbian police. If the Serbian police had been exhuming, transporting, and re-burying the bodies of dead Kosovo-Albanians, then the KLA would have had to have known about it too. Somebody would have caught the police doing this, and somebody would have said something about it at the time.

Nobody said a word about corpses being dug-up from Kosovo and re-buried in central Serbia until 2001, a full two years after the war ended.

The story about the re-burial of corpses came at precisely the same time as the Serbian government handed Milosevic over to the Hague Tribunal. It is possible that NATO dug a few hundred corpses-up from Kosovo under the guise of conducting a forensic investigation and then had its puppet regime in Belgrade burry them at a couple of locations in central Serbia in order to frame their common enemy, Slobodan Milosevic.

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