"everyday prattle"

[malignd at aol.com]

<<Great. Give the prize to a member of the INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO 
DEFEND  SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC.>>

Ramona Koval: While we?re talking about that region of the world, you 
have made interventions?speaking about the Milosevic trial, too?which 
have been misreported as ?Pinter defends Milosevic,? kind of thing. But 
that?s actually not your position.

Harold Pinter: No, no, no. My position is that I think Milosevic should 
be given a fair trial. If he?s to be tried, then it should be an 
impartial, objective trial. And clearly it cannot be the case here, 
because he?s being tried essentially and effectively by NATO. NATO is 
paying for the court. Therefore it?s a NATO court. It is, if you like, 
a victor?s court and it cannot possibly be impartial.

Ramona Koval: So if he?s found guilty as a war criminal by a court that 
you think is properly convened, you wouldn?t have any bad feelings 
about that.

Harold Pinter: If it was a properly impartial and objective trial. But 
I repeat, however, I think that NATO is itself a war criminal, if you 
understand, as much as Milosevic is. But there?s no way of NATO judging 
NATO. A NATO court is not going to put NATO up in the witness box. So I 
think there?s something extremely unbalanced here and I think it really 
stinks, actually.