Reuters - June 30th, 2004

DOHA (Reuters) - A court in Qatar sentenced two Russian spies on Wednesday to life imprisonment for killing a Chechen rebel leader in the Gulf state and said Moscow was behind the assassination.

Judge Ibrahim al-Nisf said the two men, Anatoly Belashkov and Vassily Bogachev, acted on orders from Moscow. ``The Russian leadership issued an order to assassinate the former Chechen leader (Zelimkhan) Yandarbiyev,'' he said.

``The plan was discussed at Russian intelligence headquarters in Moscow.''

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied the two men's involvement in the killing.

``Moscow's position is still that the two Russian citizens detained in Qatar had nothing to do with the attack on Yandarbiyev,'' he said in Indonesia. ``We will continue to work for the early return of the Russian nationals to their country.''

Russia has acknowledged the two men were spies.

Defense lawyer Dimitri Afanasiev told Reuters the bearded men, who appeared in court in tracksuits and were surrounded by guards, would appeal their sentence and seek a transfer to Russia. Both remained impassive during trial and sentencing.

``I'm not surprised by the verdict but I am happy that the judge rejected the prosecution request for the death penalty,'' he said. He added his clients had been tortured.

Yandarbiyev sought refuge in Qatar after Russia stormed into the rebel province of Chechnya in 1999.

A car bomb killed him and two others on their way home from a mosque. The attack shocked tiny, oil-rich Qatar, which prides itself on its security and low crime rate, and threatened a diplomatic breach between U.S. ally Qatar and Russia.

Nisf said Qatari law allowed judges to reduce sentences under certain circumstances. The Russians planned to kill Yandarbiyev outside the mosque but moved the site to reduce casualties, he said.

WIDOW PLEASED

``I'm happy with the verdict. It's what they deserve,'' Yandarbiyev's widow Malika, veiled and dressed in black, told reporters after the ruling.

Yandarbiyev, who was briefly president of Chechnya after rebels defeated the Russian army in 1996, was added at Russia's request last year to a U.N. list of people suspected of links to the al Qaeda militant network.

But Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev said the court had shown ``who is the terrorist and who is the victim of terror.''

``In the last ten years the Russians have tried to make Chechen nationalists look like the terrorists. (Russian President Vladimir) Putin should be considered a war criminal,'' he said in the courtroom after the verdict.

A third Russian, who had diplomatic status, was freed and expelled from Qatar before the trial. The diplomat, named in court as Alexander Fetisov, helped plot the attack, Nisf said.

Moscow had said it wanted a ``friendly'' verdict for the two Russians, who pleaded not guilty to Yandarbiyev's murder. One pleaded guilty to ``deception and forgery.''

Observers said before the verdict they expected the men to be found guilty but eventually freed under a deal between the two governments, pointing to a pardon granted last year to a Jordanian journalist after Jordan's King Abdullah intervened.

Afanasiev said he would ask for his clients to be moved from the conservative Muslim state to Russia. ``They are under difficult circumstances. They cannot practice their orthodox (Christian) religion in the cultural environment of Qatar,'' he said.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The West's peace envoy punished Bosnia's Serbs Wednesday for failing to arrest top war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic, sacking 60 senior officials in the most dramatic such move since the 1992-95 war.

Those removed by Paddy Ashdown included Parliament Speaker Dragan Kalinic, who heads the Serb Democratic Party founded by Karadzic, Interior Minister Zoran Djeric, as well as other ministers, police officials, mayors and parliament deputies.

The dismissals underlined intensifying international pressure on Bosnia's Serb Republic to bring one of the world's most wanted men to justice, nine years after a war that killed almost a quarter of a million people, most of them Muslims.

Neighboring Serbia is facing Western demands to find and hand over Ratko Mladic, Karadzic's wartime military chief.

Its newly elected president, pro-Western Boris Tadic, urged police Wednesday to try and locate Mladic.

Failure to bring Karadzic and Mladic, both accused of genocide, to justice is blocking the two Balkan states' efforts to build closer ties with the European Union and NATO.

``The Republika Srpska has been in a grip of a small band of corrupt politicians and criminals for far too long,'' Ashdown, a former British politician, told a news conference.

SWEEPING POWERS

Ashdown has sweeping powers to remove officials seen as obstructing the peace process under the 1995 Dayton accord that ended Europe's worst conflict since World War II.

The two Balkan states are the only European countries which are not members of NATO's Partnership for Peace cooperation forum and hoped in vain to be admitted at the alliance's Istanbul summit this week.

NATO's decision not to invite Bosnia showed how failure to cooperate with the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague obstructed the country's future security and prosperity, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said.

Ashdown said 48 of those removed may return to public life once Karadzic was in detention at The Hague tribunal.

Other measures against officials in the Serb Republic, one of Bosnia's two autonomous entities, included EU travel bans as well as withholding $625,000 in funds from Kalinic's party. Ashdown also announced major police reforms.

Bosnian Serb officials say they do not know the whereabouts of Karadzic, twice indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for genocide together with Mladic.

Bosnian Serb President Dragan Cavic, a member of Kalinic's party, called Ashdown's measures ``draconian'' and urged the nation and political parties to unite to overcome the crisis.

``So many removals have directly endangered institutions of Republika Srpska and cause the most difficult institutional crisis,'' said Cavic.

Karadzic is said to be hiding in remote eastern Bosnia, protected by hard-line loyalists. Mladic is reported to be in Serbia, but this is often rejected by officials in Belgrade.

The two men are accused of the siege of Sarajevo, in which more than 10,000 people were killed, and the 1995 massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys after the fall of the town of Srebrenica.

They are still seen as heroes by hard-line nationalists.

In Belgrade, Tadic said Serbia should take action to find Mladic to show the world it is trying to catch him.

``The world wants a clear and strong political action which would be sufficient proof that we have tried everything to find out where he is,'' Tadic told the daily Blic newspaper.

In the main Bosnian Serb city of Banja Luka, Kalinic allies left parliament in protest at the dismissals.

``Many are impotent before the fact that Radovan Karardzic is probably being guarded by God and the angels and that looks to be the only truth,'' said Kalinic, a wartime ally of Karadzic.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- A U.N. war crimes tribunal onTuesday sentenced Milan Babic, the wartime leader of Croatia's rebellious Serbs, to 13 years imprisonment for his role in ethnic cleansing of ``ruthlessness and savagery.''

Babic, 48, once one of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's closest allies, was convicted in January of one count of persecution for the seven-month campaign against non-Serbs in the self-proclaimed Croatian Republic of Krajina, when hundreds of civilians were executed or murdered about 80,000 non-Serbs, mostly Croats and a few Muslims, were expelled.

Babic pleaded guilty to the single count in a deal in which prosecutors dropped four other charges of murder, cruelty and the wanton destruction of villages during the war in Croatia, which began when the Serbs revolted after Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia in 1991.

``Babic does not deny the seriousness of the crimes,'' said Judge Alphons Orie in pronouncing sentence. ``The crimes were characterized by ruthlessness and savagery and had a severe impact on victims and their relatives. Their suffering is still significant.''

The sentence was harsher than the 11-year recommendation by the prosecution, which Orie said ``does not achieve the purpose of punishment, nor does it do justice.''

The court gave credit to Babic, a former dentist and head of a prewar health clinic, for voluntarily surrendering to the tribunal and testifying against Milosevic, considered the most important war crimes trial since World War II. The Milosevic case moves into its second half next week with the opening of the defense.

Babic remained quiet after sentencing, but during his plea hearing in January, he begged forgiveness of the Croatian people, saying that he felt ``a deep sense of shame and remorse.''

``The persecutions caused the murder or extermination of hundreds of Croat or other non-Serb civilians ... They also caused the routine and prolonged imprisonment of hundreds of Croat and other non-Serb civilians,'' said the judgment read by Orie.

By giving ``ethnically inflammatory'' speeches and funding the armed Serb rebellion, Babic laid the foundation for the Croatian conflict, which Orie said is still suffering the consequences.

Belgrade, June 27 - The information obtained by CeSID after the closing of polling stations indicate that the candidate of the Democratic Party (DS) Boris Tadic won the presidential elections in Serbia winning the votes of 53.5 percent of voters who turned out in the second round of presidential elections in Serbia, Zoran Lucic, President of CeSID Board of Directors, told reporters this evening at the Media Centre in Belgrade.

BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) -- The triumph of opposition candidates in Serbia's first-round presidential elections spells trouble for the republic's coalition government and could lead to early parliamentary elections, officials said Monday.

Sunday's race for Serbia's top job produced no outright winner, but left the two top contenders -- nationalist Tomislav Nikolic and reformist Boris Tadic -- to face each other in a second round of voting in two weeks.

But in a major blow to Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, whose Cabinet came to power following December elections, the government candidate finished fourth, behind even a political newcomer.

``We must meet immediately and see what should be done,'' Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus said. ``We either need a government reshuffle or early elections.''

``The collapse of the government and new elections in the fall are a realistic possibility,'' said Veselin Simonovic, an official from Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia.

Nikolic, of the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party, won 30.44 percent of Sunday's votes, ahead of Tadic, of the pro-Western Democratic Party, who won 27.60 percent, according to near-complete preliminary results released Monday by the State Election Commission.

Because neither won an outright majority, they will compete in a runoff set for June 27.

Dragan Marsicanin, a key Kostunica ally, finished fourth with less than 13.29 percent, behind colorful millionaire Bogoljub Karic, who won 18.18 percent.

Election turnout was estimated at just over 47 percent, the State Election Commission said.

In a sign of a deepening rift within the ruling coalition, the three parties allied with Kostunica said Monday they would support Tadic's bid for the presidency in the second round -- something Kostunica so far has rejected.

Kostunica's conservative, rightist government came to power following December's parliamentary elections and replaced the previous pro-Western government led by Tadic's Democratic Party since 2000 -- the year former President Slobodan Milosevic was toppled from power.

Kostunica had been allied with the Democrats in 2000, but later split with the rest of the bloc, becoming a fierce critic. The rivalry between the two groups prevented Kostunica and Tadic from forming a coalition government in December, leaving the Democrats in opposition.

Shortly after the election results were released, Tadic urged other pro-democracy parties to support him in the runoff so that Nikolic, a Milosevic supporter, would stand no chance of winning.

``Undoubtedly, the great majority of people voted for a democratic and European way for Serbia,'' Tadic said.

Tadic said he would not call for the government' resignation despite Marsicanin's defeat, citing the need for stability. However, Nikolic urged Kostunica and his Cabinet to resign immediately in light of election results.

Serbia – Elections: Nikolic And Tadic In The Second Electoral Round

Belgrade, June 13 - According to the first unofficial and preliminary results obtained from the polling stations by the Centre for Free Elections and Democracy – CeSID, Tomislav Nikolic and Boris Tadic will run in the second round of presidential elections, the President of CeSID Board of Directors Zoran Lucic told reporters at the Media Centre in Belgrade. According to Lucic, out of 47.6 percent of voters (3.1 million) who turned out at the polling stations today, 30.5 percent (945,000) voted for Nikolic, 27.1 percent (840,000) for Tadic, 19.1 percent (590,000) for Karic and 13.3 percent (412,000) for Marsicanin. Among the other presidential candidates, more than one percent of votes was won by Ivica Dacic (3.7 percent) and Jelisaveta Karadjordjevic (2 percent). According to Director of Strategic Marketing Srdjan Bogosavljevic, any significant changes in number of vote won can hardly be expected.

PALERMO, Sicily (AP) -- A court convicted and sentenced 30 top Sicilian mobsters to life imprisonment after a 10-year trial covering a total of 77 murders.

Some of those convicted Friday were already imprisoned, including the former ``boss of bosses'' Salvatore ``Toto'' Riina. Also sentenced was longtime fugitive Bernardo Provenzano, believed to now hold the top post in the Sicilian Mafia.

``Fortunately, the state, when it's well organized and when it pays attention to the Mafia, can do justice,'' prosecutor Gioacchino Natoli told the TG3 television news.

Among the victims in the killings, committed from 1981-91, was Palermo entrepreneur Libero Grassi, who was slain for refusing to pay extortion money. Grassi's bravery in challenging the Mafia won his case wide attention.

In addition to the 30 life sentences, four mobsters received sentences from 10 to 13 years. Twelve people were found not guilty.

The Corleone gang, which Riina ran until his arrest in 1993, was Italy's most notorious and violent, carrying out numerous bloody acts in the 1980s and early '90s.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Bosnian Serb officials have admitted for the first time that their security forces carried out Europe's worst massacre since World War II, according to an investigative report.

At the height of the 3 1/2-year Bosnian war, Serb troops overran a U.N.-declared safe zone in Srebrenica and slaughtered up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in what the U.N. war crimes tribunal has declared an act of genocide.

The Srebrenica Commission, made up of Bosnian Serb judges and lawyers, was formed last year to investigate who was involved.

A spokesman, quoting Friday from the commission's report, said they ``established participation of (Bosnian Serb) military and police units'' in the deaths.

The Bosnian Serbs have long been blamed for the massacre. But until now, no Serb official has clearly acknowledged that Bosnian Serbs were the perpetrators.

``In July 1995, several thousand Muslims were liquidated in a way that represents grave violations of international humanitarian law,'' Vedran Persic told The Associated Press. Persic is a spokesman for Paddy Ashdown, Bosnia's international administrator.

U.N. and Muslim experts have found the remains of about 5,000 of the victims from mass graves across eastern Bosnia and find new remains every month. The fate of the others is still unknown. Nearly 1,200 Srebrenica victims have been identified through DNA analysis.

The report said that the perpetrators ``undertook measures to cover up the crime by moving the bodies'' to other locations, Persic said.

The 1992-1995 war -- pitting Serbs opposed to Bosnia's independence from Yugoslavia against Muslims and Croats backing it -- claimed about 250,000 lives and left around 20,000 missing and presumed dead.

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Drazen Erdemovicin who confessed to playing a role in the Srebrenica massacre testified at former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war crimes trial last year how his battalion alone killed up to 1,200 people.

The victims had sought protection in the U.N. compound, but the vastly outnumbered and lightly armed Dutch U.N. peacekeepers were no match for the Serb forces.

After Srebrenica fell, Serb forces rounded up an estimated 30,000 refugees who had sought safety at a U.N. base. As Dutch peacekeepers looked on, the women were deported to Muslim-held territory and the boys and men were taken on buses to execution sites and shot.

``I was personally ordered to do it,'' said Erdemovic -- who pleaded guilty to murder as part of a deal in 1996 and served a five-year sentence. ``This could not have happened if it had not been allowed by the main staff'' of the Bosnian Serb military command, he said.

Prosecutors say the massacre was the result of Milosevic's alleged political aim of creating an ethnically pure Serbian state. Milosevic denies all wrongdoing.

Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime leader, has been indicted by the war crimes tribunal for genocide in connection with the Srebrenica massacre, along with his wartime top general, Ratko Mladic. Both remain at large.

For its part, the Dutch government, acknowledging its peacekeepers failed to protect the Muslim refugees, resigned in April 2002.

The work of the Srebrenica Commission initially was obstructed by some of its members and authorities who refused to provide information. Only after Ashdown fired several Bosnian Serb officials and threatened others with dismissal was information made available.

Under the 1995 peace accord that ended the war, Ashdown has the power to impose laws and to fire officials who fail to comply with the peace process. The same agreement also divided postwar Bosnia into two mini-states, a Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat federation.

Persic said Ashdown welcomed the report, saying that ``a dynamic of obstructionism on war crimes issues is being replaced by a dynamic of greater cooperation'' on the part of Bosnia's Serbs.

An Italian court has given a life sentence to a woman linked to resurgent left-wing guerrillas the Red Brigades.

Nadia Desdemona Lioce, 44, was arrested after a bloody gunfight on the Rome-Florence train in March 2003.

Her travelling companion, Mario Galesi, was killed after he shot dead a police officer checking their identity papers.

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MOSCOW (AP) -- He stunned the Soviet Union with his tough rhetoric, calling it an ``evil empire'' whose leaders gave themselves the ``right to commit any crime.''

His famed ``Star Wars'' program drew the Soviets into a costly arms race it couldn't afford. His 1987 declaration to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the Berlin Wall -- ``Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall'' -- was the ultimate challenge of the Cold War.

Ronald Reagan's determination to destroy communism and the Soviet Union was a hallmark of his eight-year presidency, carried out through a harsh nuclear policy toward Moscow that softened only slightly when Gorbachev came to office.

He is vividly remembered in Russia today as the force that precipitated the Soviet collapse.

``Reagan bolstered the U.S. military might to ruin the Soviet economy, and he achieved his goal,'' said Gennady Gerasimov, who served as top spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry during the 1980s.

Reagan's agenda toward Moscow started shortly after the start of his first term -- and marked a major departure from the mild detente of the Jimmy Carter administration.

In 1981, Reagan backed his rhetoric with a trillion dollar defense buildup. U.S.-Soviet arms control talks collapsed, and the two nations targeted intermediate-range nuclear missiles at each other across the Iron Curtain in Europe.

The deployment of the U.S. missiles in Europe rattled the Kremlin's nerves, because of the shorter time they needed to reach targets in the Soviet Union compared to intercontinental missiles deployed in the United States.

In an even bigger shock to the Kremlin, Reagan in 1983 launched an effort to build a shield against intercontinental ballistic missiles involving space-based weapons.

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), dubbed ``Star Wars,'' dumped the previous doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction that assumed that neither side would start a nuclear war because it would not be able to avoid imminent destruction.

Even though Reagan's ``Star Wars'' never led to the deployment of an actual missile shield, it drew the Soviets into a costly effort to mount a response. Many analysts agree that the race drained Soviet coffers and triggered the economic difficulties that sped up the Soviet collapse in 1991.

``Reagan's SDI was a very successful blackmail,'' Gerasimov told The Associated Press. ``The Soviet Union tried to keep up pace with the U.S. military buildup, but the Soviet economy couldn't endure such competition.''

Yelena Bonner, the widow of Soviet dissident Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, praised Reagan for his tough course toward the Soviet Union.

``I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights,'' Bonner said in a telephone interview from her home in Boston. ``Reagan's policy was consistent and precise, and he had a great talent of choosing the right people for his administration.''

Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, 61, remembered Reagan fondly for his humor and his toughness.

``His phrase, 'evil empire,' became a household word in Russia,'' said Bukovsky, who now lives in Cambridge, England. ``Russians like a staightforward person, be he enemy or friend. They despise a wishy-washy person.''

Retired Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin said that trying to field a response to Reagan's Star Wars had ``certainly contributed'' to Soviet economic demise but argued it didn't play the decisive role.

``The Soviet economy was extremely inefficient and nothing could save it,'' said Dvorkin, a senior Soviet arms control negotiator during the 1980s.

But Bonner said her husband -- who had played a key role in designing Soviet nuclear weapons -- believed that deploying U.S. missiles in Europe was necessary to bring the Soviet rulers back to the arms control talks.

In December 1987, Reagan and Gorbachev signed a treaty that for the first time eliminated the entire class of intermediate-range missiles.

``Reagan and Gorbachev helped end the Cold War,'' Gerasimov said.

MOSCOW (AP) -- A leading Russian television news program has been shut down and its anchor fired after the program tried to broadcast an interview with the widow of a slain Chechen separatist leader, news agencies reported.

The reports said the announcement of Leonid Parfyonov's dismissal and the closure of his show ``Namedni (Recently)'' was made in a statement by the NTV television channel. NTV officials could not be reached for comment late Tuesday.

NTV in recent years has been the focus of concern over media freedom in Russia. The station was taken over by an arm of the state-connected natural gas monopoly Gazprom in 2001 after its owner Valdimir Gusinsky was charged with financial misdeeds in a probe widely seen as punishment for NTV's critical coverage of President Vladimir Putin and the war in Chechnya.

Since then, NTV's coverage had become less assertive, but Parfyonov's program retained an edge.

``The cause of the dismissal was the closure of the Namedni program connected with the violation of the labor agreement, assumed by Parfyonov, obliging him to support the policies of the television company's leadership,'' the reports cited NTV's statement as saying.

The reports also cited NTV director Nikolai Senkevich as saying that Parfyonov is ``one of the most talented journalists in modern television. However, this incident was not the first.'' There was no elaboration on what incident he referred to.

But the weekly program's most recent broadcast included an interview with Malika Yandarbiyeva, the widow of Chechen separatist figure Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, who was killed when his car was bombed in Qatar in February. Two Russian security officers are on trial for the killing.

The interview was shown in the program's broadcast in far Eastern regions, but was pulled from broadcasts in more populous western regions several hours later, Parfyonov told The Associated Press on Monday.

He said the segment was removed on orders from station deputy general director Alexander Gerasimov.

Putin has come under wide criticism for allegedly stifling media freedom. Western elections observers sharply criticized Russian broadcasters for slanted coverage during this year's presidential election campaign and last year's parliamentary election.

NTV is one of three television channels with wide reach across the sprawling country. The other two are state-controlled.

China is tightening controls on online video games.

It has set up a censorship committee to monitor games following the banning of a Swedish game called Hearts of Iron, which portrayed Manchuria, Tibet and Xinjiang as independent nations.

A previous Norwegian game, Project IGI2: Covert Strike, incensed officials for its portrayal of the Chinese army.

The committee is charged with banning content that "could threaten national unity", said the state press.

"Online games with content threatening state security, damaging the nation's glory, disturbing social order and infringing on other's legitimate rights will also be prohibited," said a Chinese Ministry of Culture statement carried by the official Xinhua news agency.

In future only the disks of online games that are authorised by the Ministry of Culture can be imported.

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Editor's commentary: This is the best example of 1984 Ministry of Truth practice. Chinese censors are upset by facts that in the past Manchuria (Manchuko) and Tibet existed as independent states. We are not talking about someone making it up and inventing things but historic facts. Due to similar complaints Electronic Arts, maker of computer and console games, removed Taiwan national soccer team from one of their soccer games FIFA 2002 although Taiwan has national soccer team and does participate in international soccer events. EA released a patch for all language versions later and removed Taiwan from the game. This is a serious issue which UN must address immediately. No one must attempt to erase historic facts no matter what because if once starts it can't be stopped. Being silent on this issue means endorsing 1984 nightmare and pushing world into chaos.

Belgrade, , Jun. 1 (UPI) -- A former senior military official and pro-democracy activist went on trial in Serbia Tuesday accused of spying for the United States.

Gen. Momcilo Perisic is accused of handing over classified material between 2001 and 2002 to John Neighbor, the former first secretary of the U.S. embassy in Belgrade.

Perisic, who broke ranks with former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and led an opposition party against him, says the charges are false and are politically motivated.

The maximum sentence for the spying charges is 15 years in jail.

Nationalists in Serbia have long been accused of using underhanded tactics to undermine reformists. They also have strong support among the Serbian population which is resentful of the series of defeats suffered by Serbia during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

Serbia holds presidential elections later this month with hard-line nationalist Tomislav Nikolic one of the favorites to win.

Editor's commentary: What this news doesn't tell us is that this trial is before military court that has been abolished in August of 2003 by nothing less than new constitution of Serbia and Montenegro. Nazi PM Kostunica always insists on legality and the rule of law but this time, similar to Milosevic practice, he seems dead silent pretending like everything is normal. Insisting on the rule of law only when it is suitable to you is not something to be proud about. There are several other cases in this Milosevic style ghost court not mentioned here. Author of the book "Military Secret", Vladan Vlajkovic faces similar charges although he didn't broke any law. He used public information on military but someone in high place in military didn't like it what was written in the book and he ended up in military jail although he is civilian. Milosevic's men and his mafia still control Serbia through ghost courts, assassination squads, military and police generals, crooked judges and shady businessmen. For those who do not know what to do if they are brought to military court the answer is that all you have to say is: "I do not recognize this court. This court is illegal. This court has been abolished by Serbia and Montenegro constitution in 2003. I have nothing else to say."