Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark delivered explosive testimony in The Hague, recounting direct conversations he had with Slobodan Milošević during the height of Serbia’s campaign in Kosovo. Speaking before the court in the trial of former KLA leaders, Clark described three tense visits he made to Belgrade alongside Javier Solana in an effort to force Milošević to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo and halt atrocities against Albanian civilians.
According to Clark, Milošević repeatedly promised to pull back his forces but never followed through. Clark said he warned the Serbian leader that NATO airstrikes would continue if he refused to comply.
“I told President Milošević: you must withdraw your forces, otherwise NATO will ask me to implement the plan on paper and continue bombing,” Clark testified. “He replied: NATO will do what it will do. I said: we don’t want to do what we are capable of doing. He told me: you’re right — but talk to the generals.”
Clark said that when he met Serbian generals, they dismissed Kosovo Albanians as terrorists everywhere, insisting that mass repression was the only solution. Clark said he told them bluntly that the conflict could not be resolved by “calling everyone a terrorist and driving people out of their homes.”
Despite repeated meetings, nothing changed.
In his most shocking revelation, Clark recounted Milošević’s own admission of Serbia’s longstanding policy toward Albanians:
“Milošević came at 10 a.m. the next morning to sign the agreement. He behaved as if it were extremely important. Then he said: ‘We know how to treat these Albanians, these killers. We’ve done this before — it’s not the first time.’
I asked him: ‘How have you treated them? What have you done?’
He replied: ‘We’ve killed them all.’”
Clark said he then pushed forward the draft agreement, insisting Milošević sign it despite his attempts to avoid doing so. The Serbian leader eventually put his signature on the document — though Serbian forces continued their campaign of ethnic cleansing until NATO military action forced them out.
Clark’s testimony provides one of the clearest, most direct statements yet — straight from Milošević himself — acknowledging Serbia’s systematic killing of Albanian civilians. It underscores, with chilling clarity, what Kosovo Albanians endured: a deliberate, state-directed policy of murder, displacement, and terror.
