Everything concerning the Serb Republic is in my hands. I want a free society and a market economy. Our state is a democracy, and we did not commit a single crime.
This is a civil war. It is a continuation of the second world war, and there are many things that happened that were not the policy of my command. Our policy was not ethnic cleansing or imprisoning the civilian population. The Muslims did terrible things. We had prisoners of war, but we didn’t kill them.
If The Hague was a real juridical body, I would be ready to relate to them and go there to testify, or do so on television. But it is not a juridical body. It is a political body that was created to blame the Serbs. I issued the strongest order at the beginning of the war that my command was to stick to the Geneva Conventions. There are many others who ruined Yugoslavia. What about Alija Izetbegovic? [Bosnia’s Muslim president] is responsible for the beginning of the war, as was Hitler. Alija Izetbegovic has destroyed more than Hitler.
We have discovered more than 50 mass graves of Serbs killed by Muslims around Srebrenica in 1993. There are 10 to 50 people in each of those graves. Nobody under my command would dare kill those who were arrested or captured as prisoners of war. We would appreciate any evidence [the war-crimes tribunal can] submit to us. If they give us evidence, we will try suspected criminals here.
