MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" BLOWS UP IN HAGUE PROSECUTOR'S FACE!

[Andrej Tisma]

[Published by American journalists, some facts that you will hardly find in
main Western media]
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As Ex-Security Chief Testifies he was Tortured to Lie -
MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" BLOWS UP IN HAGUE PROSECUTOR'S FACE!

By Jared Israel & Nico Varkevisser (at The Hague)
[Posted 27 July 2002]


Today, as we prepared to post an article about the utter hypocrisy of The
Hague "tribunal's" concern for Slobodan Milosevic's health, this "trial of
the century" exploded and died.

Now the question is, will it linger in death?

The "tribunal" passed away during the testimony of Rade Markovic, former
head of the Department of State Security of the Serbian Ministry of the
Interior (the Serbian Secret Service). Markovic (pronounced MARK-oh-vich)
was cross-examined today, 26 July, by Slobodan Milosevic.

Mind you, the prosecution called Mr. Markovic to testify. He was "their"
witness. That is, for some reason they expected him to testify in their
favor. And yet, he testified against them...

1) Mr. Markovic testified that the Milosevic government did *not* try to
drive ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo during the NATO bombing. Quite the
contrary:

"'I told (local officials) that presidential orders are that the flow of
refugees must be stopped,' Markovic said during cross-examination by
Milosevic..." (AP, 26 July 2002)

2) Mr. Markovic testified that Milosevic came down hard on anti-Albanian
hate crime:

"'More than 200 criminal charges were filed against members of the police,
and I think a similar figure stands for the army,' said Markovic..." (AP,
Ibid)

Some news wire services reported the above points while trying to downplay
their significance.

Earlier, Mr. Markovic had testified that starting in 1997 Mr. Milosevic did
not exercise direct, daily control of security police. This testimony was
misreported in the press. We shall clarify that when we publish the
transcripts of Mr. Markovic's testimony, which will be soon.

But no wire service reported the most shocking revelation.

Prior to being brought to The Hague, Rade Markovic was held in a Belgrade
jail for the past 17 months.

Today at The Hague, Mr. Markovic testified that he was tortured in that jail
to force him to agree to give false testimony against Slobodan Milosevic.

He also testified that the current Belgrade security police, who work in
closest cooperation with "tribunal" prosecutors, offered him and his family
a change of identity and a comfortable new life in a foreign land if he
would lie against Slobodan Milosevic.

Mr. Markovic said that, at one point, pro-NATO Serbian Interior Minister
Mihailovic and his Secret Police chief, Goran Petrovic, showed up at the
jail with a squad of secret police. Mr. Markovic said they removed him from
the facility - itself a violation of Serbian law - and took him to a private
dinner where they made him the offer of a new identity with a luxury life -
and no more torture - in exchange for false testimony.

The torture and the bribes would explain why the Prosecution had reason to
believe Mr. Markovic was "their" witness.

Stunned to see Markovic defy him, Prosecutor Jeffrey Nice (sic!) asked
so-called judge Richard May to do something to stop it. And May did try,
interrupting the cross-examination to argue that since "We are talking about
Kosovo," the issue of Markovic being tortured to give false testimony (about
Milosevic's role in Kosovo) was irrelevant.

As of this writing, not one English-language wire service has reported
Markovic's shattering accusations or the amazing response of "judge" May.

Why not?

Could it be because there is no way for them to spin these charges in favor
of the "tribunal" ...And thus the charges can't be mentioned.

Doesn't this support our own charge, that the Western media has been the
agent of a massive anti-Yugoslav disinformation campaign? Is there any other
way to explain their not mentioning that the head of Milosevic's secret
service was called to testify against Milosevic and instead testified that
he had been tortured to lie?

WHO IS CREDIBLE AND WHO IS NOT

What we find in the wire services is negative spin about Markovic, a
blackout regarding his torture, and lies.

Dick Dicker from Human Rights Watch - which, from our direct observation at
The Hague, virtually runs the "tribunal" - told Agence France Presse that
Markovic's testimony "lacked credibility."

Ahh, is that so, Mr. Dicker?

If Rade Markovic so lacks credibility, why did your "tribunal" call him as a
prosecution witness? Indeed, why did they call him as the last prosecution
witness before the summer break?

Didn't your side call him because they thought he was theirs? Now, why would
they think such a thing, Mr. Dicker?

Rade Markovic was never Slobodan Milosevic's political opponent.

So why was your "tribunal" so confident? Why was Mr. Nice so surprised?

Doesn't it make sense that the "court" expected Rade Markovic to cooperate
because, "It is understood that he has had certain experiences in jail and
he knows what is in store for him - for the rest of his life - if he defies
us." Perhaps the flunkies in Belgrade exaggerated the extent of their
success persuading Markovic to cooperate. Flunkies will do that to impress
the home office.

Is that why your associates trusted him to cooperate? And is that why you
and they were stunned when he didn't, so now you must sputter about Markovic
not being credible - and him your own witness!

Speaking of credibility, why wasn't Rade Markovic's stunning charge
broadcast on TV in the West?

Why doesn't the media report that Rade Markovic named the two US/West
European agents - Mihailovic and Petrovic - who oversaw his torture?

Why doesn't the media broadcast the news - the scoop! - that instead of
ordering an immediate investigation and putting Mr. Markovic under
protection, instead of taking these minimal steps in accord with most basic
justice, instead "judge" May told Markovic to stop wasting time with
irrelevancies?

Doesn't "judge" May's reaction testify eloquently to the credibility of what
Rade Markovic said?

And as for your own credibility, Mr. Dicker, why don't you demand an
investigation of this charge of torture in this "trial of the century"?
Aren't you Human *Rights* Watch? And if you don't demand an investigation
because you *know* he's lying, why don't you share with the rest of us how
it is that you know?

In the same dispatch as Dicker's "non-credible" remark, Agence France Presse
reported that:

"Markovic has been temporarily released from prison in Serbia in order to
testify at the trial." (AFP, 16 July 2002)

This is called lying by half-truth. AFP left out the fact that Mr. Markovic
is now being held in Scheveningen, where the Nazis tortured leading members
of the Dutch Resistance during World War Two.

So tonight Rade Markovic is at the mercy of those whom he defied.

As we shall document in a forthcoming article about the unbelievable
"suicide" of Slavko Dokmanovic, Serbian leaders have died under suspicious
circumstances while incarcerated at The Hague. In giving this testimony,
Rade Markovic has risked torture and death.

And what did he gain? A nice job with Milosevic? Good treatment for his
family in a Belgrade now controlled by NATO and the Western secret services?
Rade Markovic had nothing whatsoever to gain in making these charges and he
had everything to lose.

His action today went beyond mere credibility. It was magnificent.

GANGSTERISM

But what of the New World Order?

On 28 June 2001, Slobodan Milosevic was kidnapped from Belgrade.

The Yugoslav Constitutional Court had forbidden his extradition: it would
violate the Yugoslav constitution. Nevertheless the "tribunal" and its
Belgrade stooges kidnapped him. National constitutions don't count under the
New Order. (1)

Mr. Milosevic has been abused in the former Nazi jail at Scheveningen. At
times he has been tortured with lights on him, 24 hours a day. He has been
denied the basic right to meet advisers of his choice.

One of the authors of this article, Nico Varkevisser, was denied permission
to see President Milosevic just this month, despite being the Dutch
coordinator for Mr. Milosevic's defense.

Chris Black, head of Milosevic's legal defense group, was banned from
visiting Mr. Milosevic by the "tribunal", one of whose officials suggested
at a press conference last year that the criterion for deciding whether a
lawyer could see Mr. Milosevic was whether the "tribunal" believed he or she
would have a "good effect" on the prisoner.

President Milosevic is forbidden access to the Internet or a library. His
research tool is a pay telephone near his cell.

For five months we have seen an endless parade of blatantly disreputable
"witnesses." Some are officials of NATO governments or organizations
associated with NATO. It was NATO that bombed Yugoslavia including Kosovo.
And NATO spokesperson, Jamie Shea, once boasted that NATO runs the
"tribunal." (2)

Other "witnesses" have been Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists, or members of
their front groups. That's whom the Milosevic government was fighting on the
ground while NATO bombed from the air...

And now we have this case, the abuse of Rade Markovic.

Really, is there a greater disgrace, morally or professionally, than to be
part of this "tribunal" or to defend it in the media or through some phony
human rights group that fawns and scurries to serve the gangster bullies?

Slobodan Milosevic and Rade Markovic are imprisoned in Scheveningen. On a
stone in that former Nazi prison a member of the Dutch Resistance engraved
the following words:

"In deze bajes zit geen gajes, maar Hollands glorie, potjandorie."

which means:

"In this prison there are no criminals, but only the glory of Holland."

Let the NATO masters be careful how they treat Slobodan Milosevic and Rade
Markovic.