The Shadows of Hague

March 12th, 2006 at 16:09 Björn Hallberg

Here is something to think about. BBC notes that it has been a “black week for the UN tribunal authorities in the Hague” and that the recent “death” and “suicide” will “tarnish the reputation of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) and undermine confidence in war crimes justice generally.”

Now, as for the usual suspect, which nation openly opposes international law, criminal courts and tribunals and has something very substantial to gain from showing how defunct the rule of law is? Especially given that the hyped trial did not justify the military intervention of terror bombing that was fudged and dominated by the same nation. I’m just asking.

Infowars: The Real Butchers Of Serbia: Clinton, Clark, NATO
GNN: Rest Easy, Bill Clinton: Milosevic Can’t Talk Anymore

“What the corporate media overwhelmingly ignores in Milosevic’s death is what they ignored in his life as well—his intimate knowledge of U.S. 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 U.S. role in the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. In fact, that is precisely what he was fighting to do at his war crimes trial when he died.”

“Milosevic’s death means that those who bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days beginning 7 years ago this month, killing thousands, will be, once and for all protected from any public scrutiny for their crimes. However opportunistic Milosevic may have been, he would have been one of the few people to appear at the Hague that could have and would have laid out these crimes in great detail.”

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