Djindjic's Sale of Milosevic Makes Clinton's National Asset Sales Look AmateurishSerbian Prime Minister Sold Milosevic for 1.8 Billion US DollarsBY: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Banner of Liberty (http://www.bannerofliberty.com) July 2, 2001 Many of us were amazed at the ability of President Bill Clinton to get away with selling national assets to improve his personal fortunes and campaign coffers. His tawdry list of national assets sold or sold out is impressive: the Lincoln bedroom, pardons to drug dealers and other crooks, the seizure of huge stores of environmentally friendly coal in Utah, which was supposed to help fund education in the state, the sale of Elk Hills Naval Petroleum reserves to Al Gores friends and financial supporters at Occidental Petroleum, trying to wreck Microsoft to benefit his supporters in the Silicon Valley who are Microsoft competitors.. However, on Friday Serbian Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic in Belgrade made Clinton look like an amateur by selling the former president of Yugoslavia to the same folks who bombed Yugoslavia for 79 days for something like $1.8 billion. The London Independent over the week-end said of the event:
"Serbia's gold rush began this weekend. With the ink barely dry on a £1.28bn aid package for Serbia's reconstruction from the wars of the 1990s, the sharp-suited businessmen who stand to make fortunes out of the bombed-out country have already rolled into town. This is a bit like a governor of a state, say Florida, selling Bill Clinton to a future International Criminal Court for his actions in ordering the 1998 bombing of a pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan that manufactured 60% of the nation's medicines or the 79 days of bombing everything in sight inYugoslavia in 1999 contrary to International Law The new Yugoslavian president, who took Milosevic's place, Vojislav Kostunica, a former law professor opposed the action. In fact, in October of last year Kostunica called the ITCY court a "monstrosity." What has occurred in Belgrade is a Constitutional crisis. Kostunica is president of the country of Yugoslavia. The Prime Minister of Yugoslavia was Zoran Zizic. Djindjic ignored the Yugoslav Constitution and its sovereignty as a state and orchestrated what really was a kidnapping of Milosevic to sell him to the nation's enemies for money. Zizic promptly resigned, which now requires the government to be reorganized, and thousands of citizens in Belgrade were out in the streets accusing Djindjic of treason. This turn of events can be traced back to the FY01 Foreign Operation Appropriations Act last year passed by the United States Congress. According to Rep. Gary Condit, D-CA, it made "U.S. assistance to Serbia contingent on certification the Yugoslav government is cooperating with the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia including access for investigators, the provision of documents and the surrender and transfer of indictees or assistance in their apprehension." Since it was signed by President Clinton, the new Bush administration is bound by it. In other words, if the Serbs want the power plants, factories, bridges, homes and railroads rebuilt that we destroyed when we were told that a genocide was going on, they have to ignore their Constitution and hand over Slobadon Milosevic, even though it is now known there WAS no genocide. When Milosevic was indicted, Jamie Shea, NATO spokesman in Brussels, was telling the world that "up to 100,000 Albanians have been killed." After almost two years of digging in Kosovo, only a few hundred unidentified bodies have been found, and many of them appear to be Serbs that disappeared in the fighting, not Albanians. In a genocide, the victim population decreases. In the case of the Albanians
and the Serbs, it has been the Albanians who INCREASED dramatically in Kosovo
between 1981 and 1991, while the Serbs DECREASED. Even the The United Nations and NATO consistently used the 90% figure with 1,800,00 as
the number of Albanians in a population of 2 million in Kosovo during the
bombing. That would leave the number of Serbs in 1991 at 100,000 to 200,000. In
other words, in 10 years the Albanian population increased by at least 215,000
people while the Serb population decreasedsomewhere between 15,000 and
115,000 people.
After the occupation of Kosovo, according to official reports of the
These are the figures of the ICTY, the OSCE and the United Nations. How do
you get a genocide of the Albanians out of them, when it's the Serbs who are
disappearing? And, where did all those new Albanians in Kosovo come from? They
came, of course, from Albania. When the Communist Albanian government
collapsed in 1992, there was 70% unemployment in Albania. Albanians were
fleeing to nearby countries, Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece. In spite of the
highest birthrate in Europe, the population of Albania between 1991 and 1998
DROPPED, according to world almanacs, from 3,335,000 in 1991 to 3,330,754 in
1998.
A huge number of those fleeing Albanians simply crossed a mountain path
into Kosovo - without papers. Later, during their exodus in 1999 after NATO
started dropping bombs on Kosovo, they went back home, and announced that the
Serbs forced them out of their homes and had "taken" their papers.
In the midst of all that, the International Criminal Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), indicted Milosevic in 1999 while Yugoslavia was
being bombed daily by mostly American planes. The ICTY was given the authority
to: The "serious violations" are listed as:
That sort of makes me wonder. If there was no genocide against Albanians,
and the Statute lists
As for us Americans, we need to remember that what goes around, comes
around. If the United Nations can so summarily ignore the Constitution of
Yugoslavia, it can ignore the Constitution of the United States. We cannot
expect to have one rule for everyone else in the world, and another for
Americans.
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