Not long ago I found another interview with Zoran Anjelkovich in my "Balkan Diary". Our meeting was held in May 2005, when Anjelkovich was Vice-speaker of the Serbian Skupština and at the same time the General Secretary of the Socialist Party of Serbia. Slobodan Milosevic was still alive and his trial was in full swing.
By that time, prominent Russian politicians and military men, who knew Slobodan Milosevic very well, had already visited The Hague. They attended the ICTY in order to let the world community get firsthand knowledge about what really happened in Yugoslavia during the rule of Slobodan Milosevic. In this conversation, Anjelkovich was very frank and spoke about issues that are of interest to our Serbian audience even to this very day.
In your opinion, how is the trial of Slobodan Milosevic going along? Do they follow it closely in Serbia?
Our role in this process is to help organizationally and provide financial support to those, who agree to speak at the trial as witnesses on Milosevic’s side. In close contact with the non-governmental organization “Freedom”, we found witnesses and helped them while in The Hague. This is our way of supporting the ex-President of Yugoslavia. As for the trial in The Hague, we believe that Milosevic has the right to choose a method of defense himself. He decided to do without attorneys. He wants the historical facts of the events of 1990-2000 to become known to the public through himself, but not through defence attorneys. Only Slobodan Milosevic, who led Yugoslavia during those years, can give a complete picture of the Balkan events of the period. I think that in The Hague they are not eager to hear many facts, which Milosevic knows. These data are clearly undesirable for the judges, who often take an anti-Serbian stand and want to condemn the all Serbian people in Milosevic’s face. Only Milosevic knows the truth about what happened in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, and with the nuances, that the West prefers not to talk about today.
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