[ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH «ALBEUROPA»} PRESS: KOSTUNICA DENIES HE ADMITTED SERB ATROCITIES IN KOSOVO TO CBS (Chicago Tribune, October 27, 2000)

[Wolfgang Plarre]

http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,2669,SAV-0010270208,FF.html

KOSTUNICA DENIES HE ADMITTED SERB ATROCITIES IN KOSOVO TO CBS 

>From Tribune News Services 
October 27, 2000 

BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA -- Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's office
on Thursday disputed a CBS News broadcast that quoted him as
acknowledging atrocities committed in Kosovo under the government of his
predecessor, Slobodan Milosevic.
     The statement released by Kostunica's office, addressed to the
president of CBS News, said the segment aired Tuesday on "60 Minutes II"
was "unprofessional and unethical."
     Kostunica was quoted in the broadcast as saying: "I am ready to ...
accept the guilt for all those people who have been killed. ... For what
Milosevic had done, and as a Serb, I will take responsibility for many
of these, these crimes."
     Milosevic, who was forced from office this month, never admitted
wrongdoing in Kosovo or former Yugoslav republics where he helped
instigate armed conflicts.
     Kostunica's office said the journalists conducting the interview
taped about 100 minutes of conversation with him, but broadcast "only a
few minutes" of his answer to a single question, "and even that was
taken completely out of context."
     Scott Pelley, who conducted the interview, said he believed the
interview, as aired, was "absolutely fair."

Chicago Tribune


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