> > A NATO SPY EMPLOYED BY THE PROSECUTION
> TESTIFIES AGAINST MILOSEVIC
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> MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS - JANUARY 27, 2004: A
> NATO SPY EMPLOYED BY THE PROSECUTION
> TESTIFIES AGAINST MILOSEVIC
> www.slobodan-milosevic.org - January 30, 2004
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> TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2004 ? Reynaud Theunens completed his
> examination-in-chief and was
> cross-examined by Slobodan Milosevic on Tuesday.
>
> The first thing you should know about this witness is who he is. Mr.
> Theunens holds the rank of
> commandant in the Belgian army, where he serves as an active duty
> intelligence officer. In other words
> he?s a NATO spy whose area of operation is the Balkans, and he is
> currently employed by the Office of
> the Prosecutor at the Hague Tribunal.
>
> Mr. Theunens ?expert report? was entitled ?Armed Forces in the SFRY and
> the war in Croatia.? Even the
> title of his report was misleading because he didn?t talk about all of
> the armed forces on the territory of
> the SFRY who took part in the war in Croatia. He didn?t mention the
> Croatian forces at all. Practically no
> mention was made of the HVO, HOS, or ZNG forces, and when President
> Milosevic would ask the
> witness about these forces he would say that it was outside the scope of
> his report.
>
> Mr. Theunens only dealt with armed forces that the Serbs were part of.
> He didn?t look at all of the
> warring factions. He tried to say that volunteer units were the same
> thing as paramilitary formations. He
> didn?t seem to, or want to, understand that a volunteer unit is
> subordinated to the command of either the
> army, or the territorial defense forces, whereas a paramilitary unit is
> an armed group that isn?t
> subordinated to any legal command structure.
>
> Mr. Theunens had the opportunity to look over many documents from the
> JNA, VJ, VRS, and SVK
> forces. With this in mind President Milosevic asked the witness if he
> had seen any document where either
> he or the VJ main staff issued orders to the VRS or the SVK forces. Mr.
> Theunens reply was ?just
> because we don?t have these documents it doesn?t mean that they don?t
> exist.?
>
> The closest thing to an order that Mr. Theunens could come up with was a
> request that Milosevic sent to
> Martic asking him to let UNPROFOR pass through SVK territory, and the
> reason why Milosevic sent the
> request in the first place was because Akashi had asked him to.
>
> The Yugoslav Army?s 30th and 40th personnel centers came up again and
> President Milosevic again had
> to explain that these centers existed to pay salaries, pension, and
> health benefits to the former officers
> Yugoslav People?s Army and their families. Nobody who didn?t first serve
> in the JNA got a dime from
> these personnel centers, and this is material that has already been
> confirmed and explained by the former
> Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic when he came to testify.
>
> There is no proof that these personnel centers issued any orders. They
> were just personnel centers, and
> no army anywhere in the world is commanded by the personnel department.
>
> This was a wasted day for the prosecution. Not even this NATO spy who
> works for the Office of the
> Prosecutor at the Hague Tribunal could say that Milosevic or the VJ main
> staff issued any orders to the
> SVK or the VRS or to any other soldier serving outside of the borders of
> the Federal Republic of
> Yugoslavia.
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