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Here is an excerpt from a link I found on the internet, from Milosevic's trial at The Hague:
When it was Mr Milosevic's turn to speak, he continued the argument he's been making since he first stepped into court more than a year ago: that he was the peacemaker trying to save Yugoslavia from the imperialist Western powers who wanted to break it up. He said, of course, he helped the Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia to survive, just like the Americans, Iranians and others supported the Muslims and Croats. Here is the prosecutor's statement:
"But we will submit to the conclusion of the evidence that the accused intended to destroy the Bosnian Muslim community in part in order to fulfil the aims of the objective of the criminal enterprise where persecutions would be insufficient to achieve the desired result or, alternatively, that genocide was the natural and foreseeable consequence of the joint criminal enterprise forcibly and permanently to remove non-Serbs from territory."
Now, while attacks on any and all non-Serbs, for whatever reason, is reprehensible, in light of September 11th and everything else we've all seen thus far, I now begin to more than wonder if the rest of the world really knew what perhaps necessitated such a paranoid view and splatter-shot attack on Muslim groups, and other peripheral groups. After all, in our own nation now, we now know that we are under constant threat from not only Muslims, but that it is mind-frayingly hard to know who, beyond them, also supports these terrorists and perhaps wishes the demise of America.
All I'm saying is that it's been far too easy to point the finger at Milosevic before we found ourselves in his comparable position. We are now finding ourselves approaching a disturbingly comparable dilemma to what may have been his.
And here is the link that I got these citations from: http://www.rnw.nl/hotspots/html/icty020927.html
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