“We know how to handle these murderers, these rapists, these criminals. We've done this before … in Drenica in 1946. We killed them. We killed them all. Of course we did not do it all at once. It took some time.”

— Slobodan Milošević

Testimony of Gen. Wesley Clark at the Former Yugoslavia Tribunal
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