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Milosevic charges West
with 'ocean of lies'
14/02/2002 12:17 - (SA)
The Hague - Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic on Thursday told his war crimes trial that Nato and the West had fabricated an
"ocean of lies" to back the 1999 war on Yugoslavia.
"This is just an atom of truth in the ocean of lies and the
product of propaganda and the use of global media as a means of war against my country," Milosevic said after presenting a nearly
hour-long video on the Kosovo war.
The video cast doubt on the January 1999 massacre of ethnic
Albanian civilians in Racak and charged that the West fabricated
allegations of a Serbian plan to ethnically cleanse the province of
its Albanian population.
"This terrible fabrication," Milosevic argued, was used to whip
up public opinion in favour of a war against Yugoslavia.
Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians fled Kosovo to avoid
Nato air bombs in 1999, Milosevic contended.
"Now they wish to negate that fact by saying that they in fact
fled from Serb forces," he said.
Milosevic opened his defence by showing the UN war crimes court a video discussing the 1999 massacre of ethnic Albanians in Racak, which triggered the Nato air war that effectively drove federal Yugoslav troops from Kosovo. - Sapa-AFP
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