MOSCOW, August 16 /TASS/. The posthumous acquittal of Slobodan Milosevic, the ex-president of Serbia and the former Yugoslavia, proves that the accusations of Serbia’s involvement in alleged war crimes during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war were a frame-up and the ensuing bombardments of Belgrade and the numerous human casualties were senseless, Giulietto Chiesa, the former European Parliament deputy, told Vesti FM radio on Tuesday.

"I remember everything that was happening at that time very well. All the charges against Serbia and Milosevic had been trumped up. Many people died for nothing in the bombardments that followed," Chiesa asserted. On March 24, the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) made the final decision to clear Milosevic of war crimes charges. "Now it is August. But the media have been silent," the former MP indicated.

Chiesa also said that the tribunal had issued no formal statements on Milosevic and the decision to acquit him was contained in the ICTY decision on the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic who was sentenced to 40 years in prison.