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[FONT="]The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague failed to hold a press conference or announce that on March 24 it deemed that the late Yugoslav and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic was not responsible for the major war crimes he was charged of during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Instead, the tribunal conveniently buried it in the middle of its verdict against Radovan Karadzic. The former Bosnian-Serb president was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 40 years in prison at the same time as the tribunal found unanimously that it “is not satisfied that there was sufficient evidence presented in this case to find that Slobodan Milosevic agreed with the common plan” of the "ethnic cleansing" of Muslims and Croats from Serbian territory.[/FONT]
[FONT="]In fact, the tribunal found the exact opposite to be true.
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[FONT="]The ruling stated that in meetings between Serb and Bosnian Serb officials “Slobodan Milosevic stated that ‘(a)ll members of other nations and ethnicities must be protected’ and that ‘(t)he national interest of the Serbs is not discrimination’.” It also stated that “Milosevic further declared that crime needed to be fought decisively.”[/FONT]
[FONT="]The trial chamber noted that “Milosevic tried to reason with the Bosnian Serbs saying that he understood their concerns, but that it was most important to end the war.”
Read more @: Milosevic Exonerated By International Tribunal
This ruling came in some time ago but some media outlets are just now picking it up. This is a pretty big surprise. Milosevic was demonized in much of the western press, but now the the ICTY ruled that he was not part of a joint criminal enterprise to victimize Muslims and Croats during the Bosnian War. [/FONT]