How a US Color Revolution Broke Up Yugoslavia

Blind Injustice

RT (2024)

Film Review

This documentary traces the genocidal war the Clinton administration launched against Bosnian Serbs in the former Yugoslavia and the role of the International Criminal Court in imprisoning Serbian leaders who spoke out against US aggression.

Clinton’s 1995 “humanitarian intervention” in the former Yugoslavia turned out to be a dress rehearsal for their 2014 intervention in Ukraine. There was even a Maidan-style color revolution in Bosnia in 1992, instigated by pro-NATO snipers firing on a crowd of peaceful protesters, bringing the pro-Western Islamist Alija Izetbegović to power. This was followed by two false flag explosions in the Sarajevo market in 1993 and 1994, which NATO falsely blamed on the Serbs.

Clinton’s main goal in 1995 was to use ethnic division to sever Yugoslavia’s ethnic ties with Russia, to carve it up into smaller more malleable political entities and to install pro-Western demagogues to rule them. Patriots who fought to preserve Yugoslavian unity were labeled as “war criminals,” particularly if they were Serbian.

Mass killings committed by non-Serbs were rarely prosecuted. Serbians convicted of war crimes were convicted of “criminal conspiracy” or “collective guilt” because there was scant concrete evidence linking them to specific massacres. Evidence presented at the International Criminal Court often consisted of forged documents, hearsay evidence or coerced false testimony.

No NATO leaders were prosecuted for their war crimes (eg the bombing of Belgrade).

In total one hundred Serbs were convicted of war crimes, with eight receiving life sentences. Most Croats and Muslims implicated in genocide were released after the first or second stage of trial. Those who were convicted usually received symbolic sentences, such as fines.  In her book, former ICC prosecutor Carla del Ponte writes about political pressure not to prosecute non-Serbs for war crimes and describes a scheme to kill Serbs to sell their organs.

The West’s “humanitarian intervention” culminated in the October 2000 Bulldozer Revolution in Belgrade, at a time when the US and the UK still controlled every aspect of Serbia’s government. The Bulldozer Revolution, which began as a student movement, was financed by CIA-funded foundations. In 2001 Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was secretly transported the the Hague.

His four-year trial was frequently interrupted owing to his poor health. In 2006 he was found dead of a heart attack in his cell. The International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ultimately absolved him of any war crimes in 2016 – see ICTY Exonerates Slobodan Milosevic for War Crimes

Among war crimes committed by NATO, Bosnian Muslims and Croats and Kosovo Albanians in the former Yugoslavia:

April 23, 1999 – NATO  bombing of Belgrade TV station during live broadcast killing 16 journalists. The manager of the TV station Dragoljub Milanovi was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for failing to move his employees to safety prior to the bombing.In the name of “humanitarian intervention,” NATO bombing of two other TV stations, schools, power plants, churches and orchards.The arrest and torture of a Bosnian villager who spoke out against Serbian genocide by Bosnian Muslim and Croats.The expulsion of 223,000 Serbs living in the former Republic of Serbian Krajina from Croatia (supposedly under UN mandate).
21 Croat massacres of Serbs under NATO supervision.Forced expulsion by Croats of newly elected president of the Republika Srbska from Sarajevo in 1992.