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http://news.serbianunity.net/bydate/2002/March_14/8.html The Hague: Same Old, Same Old Glas Javnosti, March 13 BELGRADE - When Slobodan Milosevic tried to complain about the "unseen manipulations" contained in the testimony given by the prosecution witness Hazbi Ljoku, the village teacher from the village of Kotlina near Kacanik, Judge May prevented him from doing so and "instructed" him that he must stick to cross-examination. "All right, I can prove it by asking questions" - said Mr. Milosevic and started the cross-examination of the witness, who had earlier testified about the killings of 24 Albanians from Kacanik and the surrounding villages, and had accused the VJ and police of killing them. The witness also talked of "mass deportations". Ljoku admitted that he had heard of KLA's presence in the village of Yezertse. But to all the other questions Mr. Milosevic had asked, he answered, "I don't know", "I have never heard of.", "The names of these people do not sound familiar", even when Mr. Milosevic mentioned the names of his relatives and neighbours. The witness claimed the KLA did not use the Kacanik villages and villagers for frontline defence, even though Mr. Milosevic cited that this was one of the findings of the OSCE verification mission. Ljoku then claimed he knew nothing about the killings of soldiers and police in the Kacanik area. He also said he knew nothing about any clashes between the KLA and the government forces, the attacks on the police stations, etc. He said, however, that the Albanians were not afraid of the KLA because "we considered the KLA to be our army". The day before yesterday, Ljoku had "testified" about many events which took place during NATO's aggression, but he later said that he actually left Kosovo on March 24, 1999 - the day the aggression on Yugoslavia commenced. He also added that he did not know what was going on, or that Kacanik was bombed or that large numbers of Albanians died from NATO's cluster bombs. He knew only that children were among the wounded - though "he did not know" how they were injured or who injured them - and that they were sent to hospitals in Italy. Ljoku, apparently, did not know that the Kacanik gorge was the KLA's HQ and that the KLA's weaponry used to be smuggled from Macedonia to Kosovo via Kacanik. He "never heard" that his compatriots worked at the Municipal Government, local factories, and the local police; that 12 of them had been killed by the KLA and that many more had been kidnapped. He also "did not know" that the legal residents of Serbia (of Albanian descent) were given free land by the government to build and re-build their houses that the KLA had destroyed, and that these Albanians called upon Belgrade to "eliminate the KLA terror". Amici curiae and Mr. Milosevic's aide Branislav Tapuskovic pointed out the many contradictions in Ljoku's testimony. Next came another prosecution witness, Bajram Bucaliu, who worked at the train station in Urosevac. LJ. STALETOVIC, Glas Javnosti __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
