Slobodan Milosevic:
The Defense Speaks
for History and the
Future (180 pages)
Slobodan Milosevic:
The Defense Speaks
(Original, 120 pages,
both books from 2006)
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June 25, 1991 — Slovenia and Croatia unilaterally secede from the Yugoslav Federation. Germany immediately recognizes secession and with the U.S. encourages political leaders of Bosnia-Hercegovina to secede, leading to brutal civil war.
March 19, 1992 — U.S. sabotages accord, which Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs reach in Lisbon for a unified state. Civil war continues 3 more years.
February 22, 1993 — At U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's insistence the International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is established in The Hague to try Balkans politicians, especially Serbs.
August 4, 1995 — Croatian military, led by future head of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Brig. Gen. Agim Ceko, launches "Operation Storm" with U.S. military backing, driving 300,000 ethnic Serbs from the Krajina region.
November 21, 1995 — President Milosevic and the presidents of Bosnia and Croatial initial the Dayton Peace Accords in Paris. US/NATO occupation begins, troops are still there in 2005.
January 15, 1999 — With help from U.S. diplomat William Walker, KLA disguises military battle in the town of Racak, Kosovo, as massacre of civilians. U.S. uses staged event to justify NATO military intervention.
March 1999 — In Rambouillet, France a U.S. proposal was used to demand, that Yugoslavia give NATO total power as an occupation force in Kosovo and all of Yugoslavia. This forces Yugoslav refusal and serves as pretext for war.
March 24, 1999 — US/NATO planes begin 78 days of systematic bombing of Serbia, including the province of Kosovo. Bombs destroy only 14 tanks, but hit 480 schools and 33 hospitals, chemical plants along with vital civilian infrastructure.
May 27, 1999 — In the midst of bombing NATO succeeds in getting the ICTY to announce indictment of President Milosevic on trumped-up war crimes charges regarding Kosovo.
June 10, 1999 — After the June 3 ceasefire NATO troops begin occupation of Kosovo. Under KLA rule, expulsion of some 300,000 Serbs, Roma and other peoples of mixed nationalities also begins.
November 10, 1999 — Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor for UN War Crimes announces, that UN war crimes investigators found no mass graves in Kosovo.
september 24, 2000 — Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) comes in second in election to Vojislav Kostunica, head of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), a coalition cobbled together with U.S. money and advisors.
October 5, 2000 — To avoid a run-off election, DOS and other anti-SPS forces make a coup with U.S. support and depose President Milosevic.
March 31, 2001 — President Milosevic is arrested to comply with U.S. deadline.
June 28, 2001 — Milosevic is illegally turned over to NATO authorities on St. Vitus Day and taken to Scheveningen Prison in the Netherlands to stand trial before ICTY on charges of war crimes. Charges are later broadened to include alleged crimes regarding Croatia and Bosnia, in an attempt to create the "trial of the century".
February 12, 2002 — Trial begins. President Milosevic defends himself, opens trial with powerful statement accusing U.S. and NATO forces of war crimes.
February 24, 2004 — Prosecution ends its case after 2 years.
