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Sgt. Schulz at The Hague -
11 March 2002
By Max Sinclair
[Posted 14 march 2002]
New York City via streaming video from The Hague http://hague.bard.edu/video.html
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Saqir Thac (48) testified today about what he called his 'calm and quiet' ethnic Turkish village of Mamusa near Prizern in Kosovo, which is now occupied by NATO.
During questioning by The Hague 'prosecutor,' Mr. Thac claimed that on March 27, a few days after the NATO bombing began, Yugoslav troops rolled in with tanks and ordered everyone to assemble in the center of his village. Mr. Thac claimed villagers were told to bring out their trucks and drive thousands of refugees to the border. According to Thac, that night some 30 houses at the end of the village went up in flames and seven men - three Turks and four ethnic Albanians - were killed.
However, under cross examination by President Milosevic, Mr. Thac underwent a striking transformation, coming to resemble Sergeant Schulz from the well known TV comedy, 'Hogan's Hero's.' When pressed by the American Prisoner of War, Colonel Hogan, Schulz, a German guard, would always exclaim, "I know nothing."
Cross-examined by President Milosevic, Mr. Thac said he knew nothing about the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
He knew nothing about KLA attacks on Yugoslav loyalists from his village.
He knew nothing about loyalists from his village fleeing the KLA for the safety of unoccupied Yugoslavia. (1)
He knew nothing about newspaper articles. He didn't read newspapers. He didn't own a TV or radio or watch or listen to broadcasts in Turkish or any other language.
Mr. Thac did realize he had children. He knew they attended the only school in his village, but as for the village schoolmaster, a fellow Turk - he never heard of that gentleman.
He was unfamilair with the activities of the village theater troupe. He was unaware of the existence of the village's Turkish mayor. He was unaware that a Yugoslav government relief program had provided food for him and other villagers during the bombing. (2)
While Mr. Thac easily 'remembered' being 'forced' to drive in his own vehicle to a pro-Yugoslavia rally of some 15,000 in Prizern during the NATO bombing, he did not know that the local Turkish bus company transported other villagers to the rally. Nor did he remember anything said by speakers at the rally, not even those who used the Turkish language, including his town's schoolmaster or mayor, concerning whom, as you may have forgotten, Mr. Thac remembered nothing.
In like fashion, while Mr. Thac was sure that some of his fellow villagers had been murdered, he couldn't remember their names.
REMARKABLE AMNESIA
One possible explanation for Mr. Thac's mental condition: he was coached by the 'prosecution' not to answer questions under cross-examination. During the past three weeks, President Milosevic has continually caught witnesses in lies, and the 'prosecution' may have decided it is better to have their shakier witnesses viewed as fools rather than exposed as liars.
The second possibility is that Mr. Thac was testifying under pressure.
The KLA terrorists now dominate Kosovo. Kosovo residents who disobey KLA orders, and surely that includes those who give unacceptable testimony at The Hague, can expect gangland-style reprisals.
This is not hyperbole. The NY Times once interviewed an ethnic Albanian businessman who put up some slight resistance to KLA orders.
"They told me that if I did not comply immediately they knew a cellar I might like to visit." -- NY Times, July 29, 1999, quoted at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/reporter.htm
Thus the Sgt. Schulz routine may have been Saqir Thac's way of telling as few lies as possible while avoiding KLA retribution when he returns to his 'calm and quiet' village of Mamusa near Prizern in Kosovo, which is now occupied by NATO (3) and because of that fact, dominated by the terrorists of the KLA. (4)
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Did Mr. Thac choose this....
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| Because he wished to avoid this? |
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A U.N. police forensic team works
on the ground where a bus carrying Serbs was bombed on
the road near Pristina, Kosovo, Feb. 16, 2001. (AP)
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A61702-2001Jul27
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FURTHER READING
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1) 'An
Albanian Tragedy,' an interview with an ethnic
Albanian (and Yugoslav loyalist) who fled Kosovo after
the KLA takeover, can be read at
http://www.tenc.net/interviews/albanian.htm
2) "Why Albanians Fled During NATO Bombing - 'The
truth about what happened...'" - interview with Cedomir Prlincevic, formerly
chief archivist in Pristina, Kosovo. Can be read at
http://www.tenc.net/interviews/keys.htm#a
3) 'WHAT NATO OCCUPATION WOULD MEAN FOR
MACEDONIANS,' an interview with
three women who describe in heart-rending detail what
happened after the much-hyped NATO justice-lovers took
over the town of Orahovac, in Kosovo. Can be read at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe-a.htm
4) 'How
NATO and the UN Sponsor Terrorists in Kosovo,'
by Jared Israel and Rick Rozoff. Can be read at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/nocrime.htm
'By Adding Three Lies, One Does Not Get the Truth – Only a Bigger Lie ' - President Slobodan Miloševic in The Hague, January 30th 2002 (transcript)
'Why
is NATO Decimating the Balkans and Trying to Force
Milosevic to Surrender?'
By Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser
'Illegal Tribunal - Illegal Indictment,' by Dr. Hans Koechler at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/prog2.htm
How
Madeline Albright Ordered The Hague 'Tribunal' To
'Indict' Milosevic at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/lovie.htm
Official Statements Prove Hague 'Tribunal'
Belongs to NATO
by Jared Israel at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/belongs.htm
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