MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: OCTOBER 15, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - October 15, 2003

The witness Milan Milanovic finished his testimony today. President Milosevic used this occasion to expose the strategy of the prosecutor. President Milosevic showed the witness documents that were submitted by the prosecutor as evidence in conjunction with his testimony.

Among the documents were invoices from the Zastava Promot Company in Sombor. The Krajina T.O. had purchased items for their uniforms from that company, belts, t-shirts, berets, etc… They paid for the items, and they were shipped.

President Milosevic asked the witness what that was supposed to prove? He wondered was there anything illegal about a company selling merchandise to somebody? The witness had no explanation as to why these documents were exhibited as evidence in conjunction with his testimony. He couldn’t see anything illegal.

In addition to vast lists of bank accounts were submitted. Bank account information for bowling clubs, cinemas, butcher shops, and even the Red Cross was submitted as “evidence” with this witness by the prosecution. Again the witness didn’t know how to explain this.

Again today we can see that the prosecution is abusing Rule 89(F). The prosecution has no case and so they are abusing Rule 89(F) in order to overwhelm the defense with piles of irrelevant documents.

The prosecutor has even submitted obviously forged documents as evidence. One example came today with a document from a Dusko Babic that was stamped as received the day before it was ever sent.

This witness has proven nothing against Milosevic. On the contrary, his testimony only proves what President Milosevic has been saying.

The witness said that Milosevic contacted him and advised him to sign the Erdut peace agreement. The witness signed the agreement, and claimed that Milan Martic, Milan Babic and Goran Hadzic were all angry with him for signing it.

If the whole Krajina leadership was angry with the witness for signing an agreement that Milosevic supported, then this clearly proves that they were not under the control of Milosevic. All this proves is that President Milosevic used his influence to achieve peace, and it proves that all he had was influence and not any sort of control outside of Serbia.

After Milan Milanovic withdrew a secret witness codenamed “B-1115” took the witness stand. B-1115 was a 92-bis witness, and the gist of his “testimony” was that the Serbs attacked his unarmed Muslim village for no reason took him prisoner and then abused the prisoners.

B-1115 was allegedly from Doboj. B-1115 was a member of what he called a “reserve police unit” which consisted of 36 armed Muslims.

Milosevic however viewed this 36 man unit as a paramilitary formation, and the real police had seen it the same way. Milosevic produced the documents proving that B-1115 and his so-called “reserve police” were all arrested by the real police and charged with armed insurrection under article 124 of the penal code; so much for B-1115’s claim about being the innocent unarmed civilian.

B-1115 also claimed to have seen Montenegrin Red Berets training the VRS at a base near Doboj while he was allegedly being held prisoner. The problem with this is that there has never been any such thing as Montenegrin Red Berets. They are a figment of B-1115’s imagination.

So B-1115 was a member of a Muslim paramilitary group that was engaging in armed insurrection, yet he claimed to be an unarmed civilian living in a village where no armed conflicts were taking place. B-1115 claimed to be the Serb’s prisoner, but at the times he was allegedly being held he saw things that never existed. He is very typical for the sorts of witness’s that the prosecution likes to bring.

After B-1115 finished another secret witness testifying under the pseudonym of “B-1445” took the stand.

B-1445 was a member of the B-H parliament from Doboj and one of the founders of the SDA.

According to B-1445 the attack on Doboj took place on May 3, 1992. B-1445 said that he witnessed the attack and that members of Arkan’s Tigers and Seselj’s White Eagles took part in the attack. Of course B-1445 didn’t actually see Tigers and White Eagles taking part in the attack he only heard about that later on from some other people.

B-1445, who claimed to have witnessed the attack, said that he fled Doboj on the afternoon of May 3, 1992. This is interesting since the previous secret witness (B-1115) said that the attack didn’t begin until 5 PM, so how could B-1445 have witnessed the attack if he wasn’t even there when it happened?

Because B-1445 was an SDA MP and one of the founders of the party, President Milosevic asked him whether or not it was true that the SDA was the first party formed on an ethnic basis. B-1445 confirmed that the SDA had been founded before the SDS and the HDZ.

B-1445 also confirmed that in 1992 the Bosnian constitution explicitly stated that decisions had to be made on the basis of consensus of Bosnia’s 3 constituent peoples: the Serbs, the Croats, and the Muslims.

Because B-1445 had admitted that decisions had to be made on the basis of consensus of all 3 peoples, he put himself in a very uncomfortable position. President Milosevic asked him if he was aware that the Serbian people had been against succession, but that the decision was none the less made to separate from Yugoslavia against the will of the Serbian people?

Because he had admitted what the law was, B-1445 was stuck, and so he decided to lie and say that the Serbs were not against succession. I don’t know what sort of Serbs that B-1445 has been talking to, but I have certainly never met the Serb who favored the succession of Bosnia-Herzegovina from Yugoslavia.

President Milosevic asked B-1445 if Alija Izetbegovic favored the establishment of an Islamic state. B-1445 said that Izetbegovic didn’t want any such thing. However Alija Izetbegovic’s “Islamic Declaration” indicates something quite different.

President Milosevic began to ask B-1445 about the presence of Arab mujahedeens in Bosnia. It was at this point that the so-called “judge” May had to intervene and save the witness. May prohibited Milosevic from pursuing this line of questioning.

President Milosevic observed that the first killing that took place after the illegal referendum on succession was the killing of a Serb by four Muslims at a Serbian wedding celebration in Sarajevo. President Milosevic then asked if this killing caused tensions to increase.

The witness’s explanation was that murders happened all of the time in Sarajevo, this was nothing remarkable, and besides the Serb who got killed provoked his Muslim killers.

President Milosevic was clearly shocked that this witness had the gall to claim that killings are something that is routine and that the victim deserved to be murdered because he had allegedly provoked his killer, and it was on that note that the proceedings ended. President Milosevic will cross-examine the witness for 70 more minutes tomorrow.
 

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