Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption (ISBN 0745326358)

An important analysis:
In this important book the tragedy of international justice is brought to light. With a forward by Ramsey Clark this book points out just how much 'justice' was hijacked. The book shows how the media and the international community was able to tar and feather Serbia as the 'bad guys' in a war in which all were to blame. 500,000 Serbs were ethnically cleansed from Bosnia and Croatia but in the end only Serbs were charged with war crimes. After Milosevic, who was a tyrant, was driven from power he was handed over the the international criminal court. This was a travesty in itself. A court derived its power from the people, from the consent of the governed but in this case a court which is accountable to no one was established to put on trial only one side at the behest of Nato and Europe. The book examines how the court was biased and how it exceeded its jurisdiction and even violated international law. Eventually it was unable to get a conviction and kept Milosevic in prison until he died. Unlike nuremburg it did not actually prove anything but simply waited for the accused to die so that it could say 'we convicted him.' A very fascinating book that dares to show the other side to the Balkan wars. Seth J. Frantzman

Finally, The Long Suppressed Reality is Out:
During the Yugoslav wars, only highly Serbophobic, one-sided accounts and analyses were allowed. It was strictly the "Evil Serbs Versus the Good Everybody Else" that found publication outlets and became highly profitable bestsellers. Attempts by distinguished academic scholars, journalists and observers to contradict these dishonest and exaggerated views were all denied. John Laughland's book is among the best of the new wave of suppressed voices in journalism and academia that have now rewritten the tragic events of the disintegration of Yugoslavia. See also my edited book "Yugoslavia Unraveled: Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Intervention" (Lexington Books, 2004) with contributions by distinguished scholars which shed a different light on the Yugoslav tragedy. Raju G. C. Thomas Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

America's coverups:
Through his critical and analytical overview of "the trial of the century" John Laughland emmaculetaly displays the coverups, lies and propaganda of America and its NATO allies with regards to the only president brave enough to challenge them. From the systematic violations of international law to the lawlessness and arrogance with which the NATO controlled and administered court conducted itself, Laughland exposes the court and trial for what it really is: a puppet facade court created in order for NATO to justify its illegal war and horrendous war crimes committed against the innocent and defenseless people of Serbia.

Laughable account of well deserved trial:
It's amazing how far some people will go to try and convience the world of how Slobodan Milosevic (BALKAN BUTCHER) is innocent. Instead of looking at the cause of Milosevic's trial, the book focuses on SM's faked illness. Milosevic robbed the victims of his numerous crimes of a well deserved justice, by dying a natural death. This book deserves less than 1 point.

NATO Show Trial:
The so-called war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic was a political and staged show trial set up by the US and by NATO. The kangaroo court was an example of victor's justice, putting an enemy combatant on trial to cover-up and to whitewash the war crimes and atrocities committed by the US and by NATO. The trial had much more in common with the Stalinist Moscow show trials of 1938 and the Senator Joseph McCarthy Communist witch-hunt trials and prosecutions of the 1950's Red Scare hysteria than they did with the Nuremberg Trials. In fact, a former Nuremberg Prosecutor attacked the illegal and criminal NATO bombing and occupation of Kosovo maintaining that the US and NATO were corrupting and perverting international justice. Slobodan Milosevic, as the leader of a sovereign and independent nation, had the moral and legal right and authority to defend the territorial integrity and the UN recognized borders of his country from Albanian Muslim secessionists and separatists who sought to revive a Greater Albania, an ethnically pure Albanian Muslim statelet. The US State Department had even categorized the Albanian Muslim separatists as "terrorists" in 1998. John Laughland effectively and thoroughly analyzes how this NATO and US show trial was a political trial that violated international law and the UN Charter. The goal was NATO and US expansion into Southeastern Europe. The way to achieve it was by creating a sham and bogus "genocide" propaganda paradigm that was repeated and replicated from the Bosnian civil war. There was no genocide and there were no atrocities. Kosovo was about Albanian Muslim separatism and the illegal and criminal creation of a ethnically pure Greater Albania. Laughland showed how the US and NATO funded and created the Hague tribunal as a way to justify the illegal and criminal NATO and U.S. bombardment and occupation of Kosovo. John Laughland demonstrated that such a perversion, distortion, and corruption of international law endangers everyone, everywhere, because once the rule of law and the principles of international justice are overturned, law becomes arbitrary and capricious. No one is safe when justice and laws are subverted. This is the greatest danger of the Slobodan Milosevic show trial which establishes a precedent of arbitrary and capricious justice, victor's justice, a reversion to the law of the jungle and the doctrine that right makes right. Finally, Laughland demonstrated conclusively that the Hague tribunal had not been able to establish any of its charges against Milosevic. None of the charges stuck. The charges were all spurious and political in nature. The Milosevic trial was a political show trial that represented a corruption and perversion of international justice. John Laughland is able to effectively show how such a perversion of justice is a threat to us all because it subverts the rule of law and puts everyone at risk. An essential element of all war propaganda is to designate the "enemy" as a criminal, outlaw, terrorist, or rogue. The enemy violates all international laws, mores, or conduct of civilized mankind. On November 5, 1998, the US judge on the ICTY, Gabrielle McDonald, stated that Yugoslavia was "a rogue state, one that holds the international rule of law in contempt." On June 30, 1999, the US Senate adopted a bill that branded Yugoslavia "a terrorist State." This process necessarily results because of the nature of enmity, of war, and of propaganda. Enmity is created when we project what Carl Jung termed the shadow, our denied, repressed, subconscious guilt, sadism, hatred, onto a convenient "enemy" or other scapegoat. It results from a self-delusional and paranoid psychological orientation, one rooted in arrested psychological development. It is an infantile disorder. We have a psychological need to focus out shadow, our hatred, and our denied or repressed guilt, onto an individual or person. There is a need to focus our rage and irrational emotion onto a figurehead: "the butcher" Valeriano Weyler, Adolf Hitler, Tojo, Joseph Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Tse-tung, Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, the "butcher of Baghdad, Slobodan Milosevic, the "butcher of the Balkans". A corollary of the requisite for finding the enemy guilty of crimes is that we create an illusory and self-delusional dichotomy between the enemy people and the enemy leaders or government. The people are innocent, but the leaders are guilty. When the dichotomy fails to weaken the "enemy", then "collective guilt" is imposed on an entire nation, state, people, religious group, or social group. On May 27, 1999, the ICTY indicted Milosevic for "crimes against humanity", a vague term, during the illegal 19-nation NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. He was indicted by the ICTY during the NATO bombing campaign, an indictment by a NATO court. The Kosovo war was not sanctioned by the UN, but in fact, violated the UN Charter and all international laws and agreements. A glaring fact emerges. Such an indictment is self-serving and tautological. The arrest of Milosevic as a wanted war criminal stems from the Kosovo conflict of 1999. The War Crimes Tribunal is modeled on the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal of 1946-49, which tried the major German war criminals. A war crimes tribunal is logically necessary for the US propaganda paradigm or model. If there are war crimes and genocide, then there must be responsible or guilty leaders who must be tried. The Nuremberg propaganda model is used by the US infotech and psyop specialist, but what about the real Nuremberg Trials? What do those who actually participated at the Nuremberg Trials think of the ICTY and the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia? Walter J. Rockler, a real former Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, wrote a letter to the Chicago Tribune, in which he explained the Kosovo conflict this way: "The attack on Yugoslavia constitutes the most brazen international aggression since the Nazis attacked Poland to prevent Polish atrocities against Germans." Vindictive triumph is an obsession with total defeat and annihilation of the enemy, the humiliation of the enemy. The enemy must be guilty for the conflict, solely responsible for the war. The symbolic leader of the enemy must be found guilty and executed. Vindictive triumph is necessary to perpetuate enmity, to perpetuate war by other means even after the shooting has stopped. The maintenance of the enemy and of a bipolarity, an us versus them dichotomy, is needed. An adversarial symbiosis, or love/hate bond is created. US policy needs Milosevic as a focal point to maintain enmity, to preclude a return to normalcy or reconciliation. Sadomasochism is an essential element of war and propaganda. A top to bottom hierarchical system of command/obedience is created with a top or dominant actor, the sadist, who controls and directs the actions of the bottom or subservient actor, the masochist, who is passive and responsive. This is the classic sadomasochistic relationship. The sadist controls the behavior of the servant to show his power or dominance. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was created in May, 1993 primarily by then US Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright. Madeleine Albright created the Hague War Crimes Tribunal. Albright is known as the "mother of the Tribunal" because she was instrumental in its creation. The ICTY was created during the Bosnian Civil War for one purpose: To condemn the Bosnian Serb insurgency and the efforts by Yugoslavia to safeguard the rights and interests of the Serbian Orthodox populations. The Hague Tribunal from the start was anti-Orthodox, anti-Serbian. The Court was another weapon in Albright's arsenal against the Serbian Orthodox populations of the former Yugoslavia. The Court was part of the information or propaganda war, the infowar, being waged against Serbia and the Serbian populations. The court was a lever, a weapon, an additional instrument of coercion and pressure against the Serbian Orthodox. Justice had nothing to do with it. The glaring flaw of the Hague Court is that there is a conflict of interest. Any first year law student will perceive this fatal flaw. Indeed, common sense will tell us that you cannot have a fair trial or justice when there is a conflict of interest. Fairness and justice demand a neutral, unbiased, independent legal process. But the Hague Tribunal is biased, anti-Serbian, and created, established, controlled, staffed, funded, and organized by the United States, the actor at war with Serbia, waging a ruthless, vicious, sadistic war against the Serbian Orthodox population and against the Serbian government and leaders. Is the ICTY an independent, unbiased, and neutral tribunal? Let us examine the facts. The ICTY was established primarily through the untiring efforts of Madeleine Albright, the "mother of the Tribunal". The initiative for the Tribunal comes solely from the US, Albright in particular, who created an ambassador at large for war crimes once she became Secretary of State. The US government has provided 23 officials for the tribunal. The FBI provided investigators for war crimes in Kosovo. The ICTY is financed and funded primarily by the US government, US corporations, globalist organizations, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Open Society Foundation of George Soros. The US government has donated $500,000 to the tribunal while a major US corporation donated $3 million worth of computer equipment. During the Kosovo conflict, President Clinton was able to obtain an additional $27 million for the ICTY. The ICTY trail of Slobodan Milosevic represented the perversion and corruption of justice.