Former Yugoslav president Mr Slobodan Milosevic returned to the offensive at his war crimes tribunal at The Hague today.
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Mr Slobodan Milosevic sits in the dock in the Hague; Photo: Reuters
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He resumed his defence by accusing his enemies of deliberately causing the 1999 exodus of Albanians from Kosovo and then lying about it to the world.
He said NATO pilots had been guilty of bestiality by attacking civilians in the 1999 air war against his Yugoslavia, and claimed former US president, Mr Bill Clinton, had wanted to go down in history by bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
On the second day of reply to his prosecutors'opening addresses, Mr Milosevic used the same line of attack as he had yesterday - blaming ethnic cleansing and other atrocities on his Balkan enemies or on NATO.
He said the ethnic Albanians who fled Kosovo in 1999 during the NATO air war against Mr Milosevic's Yugoslavia had been driven out not by Serbs, as internationally reported, but by their fellow Albanians.
There were hundreds of cameras waiting at the borders to show the alleged Serb misdeeds to justify NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia, he said.
Mr Milosevic showed the court horrifying pictures of carbonised bodies he said were those of civilians killed by NATO bombs in Kosovo and the rest of Serbia in 1999.
He referred to the NATO bombs that destroyed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing Chinese diplomats and journalists and provoking fury in Beijing.
"It is quite clear that Mr Clinton wanted to go down in history as the first man to bomb Chinese territory by bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade," Mr Milosevic said. "This was no accident".