How to make a non-nationalist a Serb

17 April 2006 12:36

How to make a non-nationalist a Serb


I returned from Belgrade on 23 March, where I attended a conference on Kosovo (16-18 March) at the Serbian Academy of Arts & Scoences.
After Sloba's death on 11 March, Austrian TV faked pictures showing him with eczema. When I saw him on 8, 9, and 10 February his color was excellent.
His mood was proud and confident, ready to give a thrashing to the post-Orwellian Mr Nice & Co. I was there to prepare testimony especially on the non-destruction of Dubrovnik.
While I was at Scheveningen, judge Patrick Robinson, instantaneously closed down testimony by Eve Ann Prentice that she and a correspondent for Der Spiegel, sitting in the waiting room for an interview with the Islamist Bosnian President, had seen Osama bin Laden enter and be escorted directly into the office of "our SOB" , Alija Izetbegovic.
-- Either the tame colonial boy is a quick thinker or Prentice and Sloba were bugged by the court while preparing her testimony. He had his instructions to throw the switch.
Unless we hold a tribunal on the Tribunal and publish our testimonies, the truth will be buried with him.
In Belgrade Sloba's body arrived from the Netherlands. I was at a rally in front of the Parliament, where 80,000 people assembled. The crowd was civil, disciplined, un-cowed. Peter Handke, Russian dignitaries and Ramsey Clark delivered eulogies. Handke spoke mostly Serbian.
Anti-Milosevic "protesters" at the Square of the Republic numbered 600, which was magnified with a zero or two by the BBC and CNN. They show-biz American eventwas like the "spontaneous" demonstrations in the Ukraine, Georgia etc. The props were green and blue balloons. They must have run out of orange T-shirts.
The citizens people filing past the coffin, in a minor museum, to pay their respects numbered 102,000.
The quislings blocked a proper funeral. The funeral at Pozarevac was huge.
Proof that Milosevic was no nationalist is that the priest (Father Filaret) who waited to perform the Orthodox burial ceremony at the grave was prevented from doing so, and the interment took place, against Orthodox rubrics, after sunset.
More proof: that Milosevic was no nationalist: the casket was draped with the communist Yugoslav flag, with red star. There was no Serb Orthodox cross for a grave marker, but the communist pentagonal wooden slab, the "pyramid".
Milosevic was an internationalist to the end. The only reason that Milosevic is dead is the malfeasance of the ICTY kangaroo court, with its Dutch cops and jail, British transvestites ambulance-chasers prancing about in effete silken robes and, as in a cheap TV docu-drama.
After the dirge, the band played the 1960s' pop song "Moscow Nights". This, I presume, was on Mrs Milosevic's orders. A nice piece of pop music, it was not the thing for the national moment.
Milosevic's daughter castigated her family for the whole affair. Burial in the family garden was something for the family canary, she said.
Milosevic was betrayed by quislings and kidnapped on the Serbs' most sacred day, the anniversary of the 1389 Battle on Kosovo Polje and the 1914 assassination of the universally unloved Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which Austria used as a casus belli to destroy and annex Serbia. -- Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf how relieved he was to hear it was "Slav fanatics" and not German students who had carried out the assassination.
The only reason Milosevic was in the Hague at all is that he was a Serb. They made him one.

j p maher