The excerpt below is from the London 'Telegraph.' This newspaper has no connection with the Belgrade 'Telegraph' which published a transcript of an alleged phone conversation between Serbian Prime Minister Djindjic and Yugoslav President Kostunica before they illegally kidnapped President Milosevic.

The London 'Telegraph' article is educational for it demonstrates the extent to which the media spreads pro-Washington misinformation about the Serbian people in general and Slobodan Milosevic in particular.

The 'Telegraph' writers claim they have spoken to Milosevic lawyers and ferreted out details of Mr. Milosevic's legal strategy. This is remarkable since Milosevic's Legal Defence team has not yet been assembled. That is, there is no lawyer in the world from whom they could have ferreted. These details of strategy are purely fictional.

According to the 'Telegraph,' Mr. Milosevic will make the following argument: "Sure I did bad things, but British leaders helped me." According to the 'Telegraph,' in this way Milosevic will show that "NATO is guilty" and, adds the 'Telegraph,' NATO leaders are very nervous.

Sure they are.
I can tell you one thing with certainty. The "Yes-I-am-bad-but-you helped-me-do-it-so-you're-guilty-too" argument will NOT be part of Mr. Milosevic's legal strategy.
For years, outrageous actions by NATO were preceded by a kind of mock-criticism in the press. Media pundits would attack the Serbs for some atrocity, invariably fictitious. They would then castigate this or that NATO government (particularly the governments of the U.S. and England) for failing to take sufficiently strong action against the 'Serbian monsters.'

Since people tend to identify with anti-governmental critics, this approach has the beauty of producing public support for even harsher government actions in the guise of attacking uncaring officials.

When the NATO governments proceeded to take harsh, unfair and unjustified actions against the Serbs, the ground had been prepared. Instead of being furious at the blatant imperialism of NATO intervention, a section of the public thought, "Well it's about time they did something about those Serb fascists. Better late than never."

Now the 'Telegraph' is suggesting that Mr. Milosevic will use the same sort of argument, though in retroactive form, saying, "Who are they to preach about war crimes? While I was committing all those war crimes they sat on their hands or even helped me." If Mr. Milosevic were to adopt such an approach, he would accomplish two things for NATO. First he would agree that he (and of course the Serbian people) was guilty as charged. Second, he would justify NATO's most aggressive actions. And third, such a defence would be devastating to those who want to use this 'trial' to attack NATO and the Tribunal and clear the name of the Serbs.

For the record, I have contacted a representative of the Socialist Party of Serbia. Speaking for the Head Committee, he had the following comment about the 'Telegraph's' claims:
"This, and you may quote me, is *expletive meaning horse manure*." (SPS spokesman, interviewed by phone, 1 July 2001)
When Mr. Milosevic was being 'processed' at The Hague. He reportedly said:
"I am not afraid of the Hague tribunal...that is no
court but a political circus aimed at jeopardizing the Serb people....And let me tell you one thing - you are not arresting me, you are kidnapping me and you will answer for your crimes. Drop the buffoonery, let's hurry up." ('AP,' 30 June 2001)
I contacted Chris Black, Chairman of the Lawyers section of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic. (3) Mr. Black suggests that, based on common sense, and knowing Mr. Milosevic's political principles, one might expect the following legal defence:

1) The Hague is a tool illegally created by the UN Security Council under orders of Washington; it functions in violation of all legal standards to demonize and brutalize Serbian leaders and the Serbian people.
2) NATO and its proxy forces are the ones guilty of war crimes. Covering this up is a key function of the Tribunal.
3) The media has systematically lied, slandering the Serbian people, in coordination with NATO and its solely owned subsidiary, the Tribunal.
Such a defense would greatly increase the effectiveness of all those trying to challenge the U.S. Empire and its violence and slanders against the Serbian and other target peoples. Because of the central importance of this 'trial,' our ideas and information would have far more power to reach ordinary people.
OK, OK, now swallow your daily dose, courtesy of the 'Telegraph' from sunny London. And remember this, boys and girls: a dumb citizen is a good citizen. So please - stay misinformed.
-- Jared Israel

"Milosevic: I'll name British leaders who helped me
"By Julius Strauss and Philip Sherwell in Belgrade and Joe Murphy in London
"SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC is planning to embarrass Britain and other Western governments by revealing at his war crimes trial at The Hague the secret deals which he claims propped up his regime during a decade of bloodshed in the Balkans.

"Milosevic: Lawyers will claim Western Governments propped up his regime
"Lawyers for the deposed Serbian president will name three former Foreign Secretaries, Lord Hurd, Lord Carrington and Lord Owen, in a strategy designed to implicate British and American diplomatic figures in the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia. They will claim that he was given a "green light" for many of his most controversial actions, including the use of force, by Western governments. Branimir Gugl, one of Milosevic's lawyers, told The Telegraph yesterday: "Mr Milosevic feels that Nato are the real criminals and that will be part of his defence." Milosevic will argue that the British peers, along with Foreign Office diplomats, were involved in negotiating peace deals that were designed to maintain him in power despite his record. Lord Hurd's later role as a director of National Westminster Bank in striking a lucrative deal with Milosevic to refinance the Serbian economy is likely to be highlighted during the trial. Milosevic is expected in court on Tuesday."
(London 'Telegraph,' 1 July 2001)

CANA IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

William Spring has sent by fax a letter to Geoff Hoon MP, Secretary of State for Defence, a copy of which is pasted below.

He requests Geoff Hoon to provide him with names of those involved in the decision making process to transport Slobodan Milosevic to The Netherlands, & says those involved have engaged in an illegal act under UK law, the crime of kidnapping.

"I am framing an indictment. I hope for legal aid so the indictment can be settled by counsel, but because of the urgency will frame my own indictment if legal aid is not forthcoming soon.

"The Magistrate is required to sign the indictment, but will not hear the case. It should then be remitted to the Crown Court.

"The government will probably plead The Royal Prerogative as a defence, but at least I hope to get them into Court this time.

Last time, May 99, when I sought to summon Tony Blair, Lloyd Axworthy, Albright, Holbrooke & co to Highgate Magistrates Court alleging conspiracy to cause explosions & murder people in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in contravention of an 1861 Act the Magistrate refused to issue the summons, in violation of the law."

I have sent a copy of my letter to Geoff Hoon to the Hague War Crimes Tribunal by e mail & request that it be transmitted to Mr Milosevic immediately. A copy of my letter to The Hague Tribunal is also pasted below.


To the Chief Prosecutor, Carla del Ponte
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
From William Spring
29th June 2001

Dear Mme Ponte,

I am writing to you regarding Mr Milosevic, who was abducted illegally yesterday from the territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

I paste below a letter which I have already sent to Geoff Hoon, Secretary of State for Defence, asking that he provide information in connection with a private prosecution I intend to bring alleging complicity by him & others in the political/military chain of command in the heinous crime of
kidnapping.

If the Court were in UK & not in the Netherlands, where another system of law applies, with which I am unfamiliar you would be required by now to respond to a writ of habeas corpus.

It is totally disgraceful that you as a prosecutor are willing to receive someone into your detention facilities who you know has been unlawfully abducted from another sovereign country.

It lessens the respect we might otherwise have for your Tribunal, but actually I don't have any anyway, not since your staff wrote to me at the time I requested an investigation to commence into NATO atrocities, & said they weren't interested, & the conclusion I inevitably drew from such
comments was that you are a partisan Court, only set up to produce employment for lawyers, but not remotely interested in issues of public morality.

As I have discovered more about the irregularities & sleaze which surround the day to day operations of your Court so I am increasingly disgusted that The Secretary General & the Security Council allows your Court to continue to function as a UN agency.

At this point I do not want to get into an argument about its character, other than to say I ask you & require you as an international public servant to communicate this letter, + my good wishes, to Mr Milosevic, as soon as possible, & can you please confirm to me that you have done so.

I would point out that the conditions you impose in limiting Mr Milosevic's telephone calls only to seven minutes per hour strike me as very restrictive, when one considers the enormous work that has to be done by his defence team, & their restricted facilities, compared with the profligate misuse of Mr Soros's money, in terms of the resources you have available as a prosecutor.

You represent a NATO Court set up to forward US foreign policy.

At the same time, as I know I cannot appeal to your conscience, as you don't appear to have one, (as otherwise you would have done your job & investigated the Nato atrocities, & additionally tried to stop the genocide which has gone in Kosovo since NATO entered the province, of the indigenous
Serbian & Roma people) it will not enhance the Tribunal in the eyes of the international public if you treat Mr Milosevic in a manner inconsistent with the European Convention of Human Rights, to which Convention I presume you are bound, as you are located in a European country.

I therefore request you to desist from torturing Mr Milosevic, nor to hold him for long periods in solitary confinement, allow him full freedom to receive visitors at any time of his choosing & further that The United Nations fund his legal team.

I, and most people in UK, are convinced that Mr Milosevic cannot under any circumstances receive a fair trial at your Court, & your press conference earlier tonight, in which your hatred & personal animosity towards the prisoner, & all Serbs was barely concealed, will not enhance either your
moral stature, or the integrity of your Court's proceedings.

Yours sincerely,
William Spring

To the Secretary of State for Defence Rt Hon Geoff Hoon MP Ministry of Defence London
From William Spring
http://canauk.human-rights.org/
Date: June 29th 2001 one page by fax: also by post

Dear Geoff Hoon, I am concerned about the illegality of the action by which Mr Milosevic was transported by RAF plane from the territory of the Former Yugoslavia, when you were well aware he didn't go willingly, and that the flight out of Belgrade was illegal, according to the country's President.

As the flight from Belgrade to the Hague must be regarded as a single operation, notwithstanding the fact that different aircraft were used,

& as you were also aware

that the Government of Yugoslavia had been unsuccessful in terms of obtaining Parliamentary approval for a change in the Constitution to allow the extradition of Yugoslav citizens,

& as you also knew

that the Constitutional Court had placed a stay on the consideration of the decree for two weeks,

THEN you must have also known

that the removal of Slobodan Milosevic from the sovereign territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was an illegal act, & as such cannot be justified by reference to the supposedly noble end you felt was being served.

As a British citizen I am disgusted by RAF involvement in such a squalid operation, by which you sought to undermine the authority of the Federal President, arraigning Mr Milosevic at an illegally funded George Soros Time Warner Mickey Mouse so called Court in The Hague, staffed by otherwise unemployable apartheid era judges from South Africa, & presided over by a Prosecutor who everyone knows is being blackmailed in Switzerland.

Taking into account too

the disgusting selective nature of the so called justice dispensed at the Hague, & the Prosecutor's refusal to consider the investigation of numerous complaints she has received as to the various unlawful & barbaric war crimes committed by you & your colleagues, against a virtually defenceless civilian population in March 99,

in a NATO-EU war long in gestation, and deliberately prepared & executed as an aggressive war, the supreme war crime,

I would like you to inform me forthwith of the names of all those involved in the command structure/decision making process, by which these unlawful travel arrangements were authorised, so that an indictment can be framed for signature to be heard at the Crown Court in respect to the offence of kidnapping, which is a heinous crime, of which I verily believe you to be guilty.

It is a pity that you and your Prime Minister in your zeal to always do what the Americans tell you, even if it means wiping their bottoms, have turned the RAF into the equivalent of a flotilla of Barbary Pirates, one night bombing tribesmen in the Iraqi desert, another night sending missiles against a soft civilian target, & now yanking Mr Milosevic out of his homeland, trampling over all considerations of legality in your irrational guilt stricken quest to legitimise through this show trial the original NATO aggression!!!

I want to inform you that large numbers of people in Britain, despite the torrent of abuse coming from the state controlled media here, admire Mr Milosevic.

At least he stood up for his people, a concept somewhat puzzling to New Labour.

I do not need now to know the names of air crew involved, as I do not believe they were necessarily aware of the unlawful character of the acts you were requiring them to perform.

But I do need the names of the RAF Minister & the chief RAF operational officer. Also of any Americans involved, so they can be enjoined into the action.

I will be asking for legal aid so counsel can settle the indictment.

Yours sincerely/ William Spring
http://canauk.human-rights.org/ 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF NEW YORK TIMES BY PROFFESOR RAYMOND K. KENT OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

In reference to "Milosevic and the Beginning of Honesty," I applaud the part of Peter Maass' Op-Ed essay where he recommends that Serb judges be included and that Serb journalists be helped to report on the Hague tribunal's proceedings in order to make the verdict convincing to the Serbs. I do so because Carla del Ponte has already condemned Milosevic in public for life in prison without a trial, with additional charges beyond Kosovo. Under such a circumstance she needs to recuse herself from prosecuting the man she has already sentenced and a new prosecutor is in order. It is not only that Milosevic is on trial but, also, the Tribunal itself. It has so far been unable to provide absolute public evidence of a single fair and impartial trial. An open trial, with full defense rights and with a new prosecutor would provide the needed environment for a verdict that all can accept. Otherwise the Rule of Law which the International Community has sought to promote in the Balkans, will have no future. This is already evident in the way that Milosevic was delivered to the Hague in an RAF plane in clear violation of the Rule of Law in Belgrade itself.

Where I disagree with Mr. Maass is on the subject of the need to "cure" the Serbs of their "victim mythology." His text allows for no Serb victims and that is the problem when the Victor imposes his version of History. Between August 1991 and February 1992, some 40,000 Serbs were ethnically cleansed out of Western Slavonia. Their Churches were systematically destroyed, their properties were looted and taken over and many of their elderly were simply executed. It was the ethnic cleansing that started it all. No Serb victims? Four years later, in August 1995, some 250,000 Serbs were ethnically cleansed from Krajina, with more properties looted and torched and more of the dead elderly who could not flee. No Serb victims? Between 28 March and 6 June 1999, after eleven weeks of relentless bombing by NATO (Mainly U.S. and Britain), some 3,000 Serbs were dead and about three times that number were wounded No Serb victims? The infrastructure of Serbia was "taken out." This did not victimize the Serbs? Since the NATO/UN advent in Kosovo, over 250,000 Serbs have been ethnically cleansed by the so-called "Kosovo Liberation Army." More than a thousand Serbs have been kidnapped and murdered piecemeal. It is still going on. Clearly , the "Beginning of Honesty" must start here at home. Otherwise, we only dishonor ourselves while lecturing others.

Raymond K. Kent, Emeritus
History Department, U. of California,
Berkeley, CA. 94720 (Tel 510/642-1971)

WE DID IT. NOW ITS YOUR TURN

These are the pathetic words of Miroljub Labus, Yugoslavia's Deputy Prime Minister as he shamelessly begs for his 'thirty pieces of silver'

What 'they' did will for ever besmirch the reputation of the Serb people. Behind the back of Yugoslav President Kostunica, the one politician whose integrity has provided credibility for the 'gang' headed up by Djindjic, and in collaboration with foreign states (The R.A.F was involved), Yugoslavia's former president was whisked away surreptitiously for a show trial at the American financed 'kangaroo' court in the Hague. In so doing these clandestine plotters, the NATO acclaimed harbingers of 'reform' and 'democracy', ignored parliamentary rule, their own laws, and their own courts. America had to be appeased and America needed the 'show trial' to cover up America's clandestine involvement in sparking the civic upheaval in Kosovo and their geo-political goals to enable them to establish a military base in Kosovo to facilitate the building and future protection of the Trans-Balkan oil pipe line.

Let's all make sure these disgusting politicians are rewarded. Let's all send thirty pieces of silver (in Canada and the U.S.A. thin dimes will do) to Messrs Djindjic, Lubus, Jus and any others who come to mind. You might want to enclose a note saying. ' Here is your reward to fulfill the deal whose archetype is recorded in Matthew 26; 14-16'.

William J. Hutton

Milosevic's Arrest, Extradition Condemned

Several representatives of the political parties and NGOs met in New Delhi in an emergency meeting convened by the National Panthers Party President, Prof. Bhim Singh to review the situation created following the illegal detention and extradition of Mr. Slobodan Milosevic, former President of Yugoslavia. The representatives of National Panthers Party, International Jurists Council, Non-Aligned Congress of Youth, Global Women Lib, Indo-African Solidarity Committee, State Legal Aid Committee and several other groups of the Lawyers discussed the dangers caused to the security of the sovereign states due to the draconian command of the New World Order unleashed by the unipolar command of the USA.

1. 103 representatives of several political groups and NGOs in a resolution condemned the arrest of the Serbian Hero and the Former President of Yugoslavia and described his deportation to Hague on the dictates of the Anglo-American Order.

2. The resolution condemned deportation of President Milosevic who is also President of Socialist Party of Serbia as most illegal, unconstitutional, improper and in violation of the Constitution of Yugoslavia and fraud on the Charter of the United Nations. The resolution said that the decree under which President Milosevic was handed over to the hungry wolves running the so-called Criminal Tribunal in Hague was totally unconstitutional and discriminatory on several accounts;

a) The decree was illegal as it had no mandate of the Parliament of Yugoslavia. The decree was issued by the so-called cabinet committee, which was not headed by President of Yugoslavia. President Kostunica did not preside that cabinet meeting which issued the decree to hand over President Milosevic to the Criminal Tribunal in Hague,

b) The decree was also illegal because it convened Articles 23, 24, 25, 26,27 and 28 which assured freedoms to a citizen of Yugoslavia and equality before law. No person can be deprived of his freedoms without the application of due process of law. President Milosevic has been denied the right to make a representation even against his arrest and deportation to a foreign country,

c) Deportation of President Milosevic is also in violation of national and international law as the constitutional court of Yugoslavia had suspended the decree passed by the Cabinet Committee authorising the government to deport President Milosevic,

d) The decree passed to deport the foremost Serbian leader and former President of Yugoslavia is betrayal of the commitment and the promise made by President Kostunica to ensure and protect the freedom of the individuals and democratic norms and the values in Yugoslavia. This act of President Kostunica has established that the present Kostunica government is working under the dictates of the US masters and some other enemies of Serbian nation,

e) President Milosevic is being tortured and terrorised because he with the support and the help of the Serbian people resisted the inhuman and brutal aggression of NATO forces led by US against Yugoslavia,

f) The NATO allies led by US have committed another aggression against the popular leadership of the Balkans. Mr. Milosevic is being crucified by the USA for daring to remain in the NAM countries by defying the brutal command of NATO alliance,

g) Because President Milosevic openly, sincerely and courageously opposed the unipolar command of the USA and advocated for the cooperation of the third world countries in the interest of international justice and peace,

h) Because President Milosevic refused to barter the Yugoslavian sovereignty with the USA and refused to compromise on the national security.

3. The resolution has called on President Kostunica to withdraw the decree and accept the command of the rule of law. Resolution condemned the DOS rulers for selling the pride, glory and dignity of the Serbian nation just for one billion dollars.

4. The resolution urged on Mr. Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations to intervene immediately in the interest of the prestige and credibility of the United Nations itself by disbanding the so-called Criminal Tribunal in Hague which has no locus or jurisdiction to try President Milosevic for administrative or political action by legitimate government in Kosovo as Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia, a constituent of the Republic of Yugoslavia. Article 2(7) of the UN Charter does not allowed United Nations or any of its agency to interfere with the domestic affairs of any Member State. Kosovo is and shall be and internal and domestic affairs of Yugoslavia. The United Nations has no authority or jurisdiction whatsoever to try a Head of the State for his administrative acts. This act on the part of Kostunica government is the dangerous move to surrender the Yugoslavian sovereignty before the US (not UN) Criminal Tribunal in Hague.

5. The resolution warned Mr. Kostunica of serious consequences in case he failed to withdraw the decree and ensure safe return of President Milosevic.
6. Prof. Bhim Singh who preside over the emergency meeting said that the US hawks are demanding 15 more Serbian leaders including Mr. Milan Milutinovic, elected President of Serbia, Nikola Sainovic, the former Federal Vice President of Yugoslavia, General Milutin Oydaivic, who commanded the Yugoslavian army during the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia and former Home Minister of Serbia, Mr. Stojiljkovic who is a sitting Member of Parliament. Prof. Bhim Singh accused US for trying to demolish the Serbian leadership and their pride by bulldozing those who dared oppose and resist the NATO aggression. This is an attempt to destabilise the Balkans.

7. Prof. Bhim Singh while addressing the politicians, parliamentarians, intellectuals and jurists reminded Mr. Kostunica of his promise to restore democratic values in Yugoslavia. He (Kostunica) had declared on June 26, 2001 that under the terms of the decree, extradition "cannot be carried out in 48 hours". He had himself stressed "that kind of cooperation between our judiciary and The Hague would be better". Mr. Kostunica had repeatedly assured the nation that President Milosevic shall never be handed over to the so-called UN Criminal Tribunal. Prof. Bhim Singh said that this is the greatest tragedy of the century that Mr.Kostunica who appeared to be a gentleman has surrendered his authority and consensus to that, "The pressure of Washington at the international level and the majority stance of DOS leaders on the domestic level".

8. In a special communication to the NAM countries and its prominent Members, the National Panthers Party has demanded an urgent meeting of the NAM countries to discuss this situation and adopt such measures as are necessary within the meaning and scope of the UN Charter and the Constitution to save the life of President Slobodan Milosevic and democracy in Yugoslavia which has been mortgaged to the dictates of Washington.

9. Prof. Bhim Singh declared that his party shall move a petition before the International Court of Justice at Hague against the illegal and unconstitutional trial of President Milosevic by the so-called UN Criminal Tribunal. Prof. Bhim Singh who is a specialist on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has decided to challenge the very authority of the UN War Tribunal which has been constituted by the US and her allies in contravention of the UN Charter.
10 The resolution expressed full solidarity with and support to the Socialist Party of Serbia in their noble and just struggle to restore rule of law and democracy in Yugoslavia and ensure safe and immediate return of President Milosevic.

Prof. Bhim Singh
President JKNPP
New Delhi,
25th June, 2001

CANA STATEMENT: Immediate Release
RAF AIR CREW MINISTERS & COMMANDERS TO BE INDICTED IN UK COURTS FOR KIDNAPPING

I have just heard on BBC television that the former head of state of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, has been transported to Holland by an RAF plane.

If this proves to be true, later today I will be visiting the British Ministry of Defence to ask for the names of the pilots & air crew of the aircraft involved, so that their names can be included in an indictment I plan to lodge at the Crown Court on the charge of kidnapping.

If the MOD refuse to give me these names, I will instead proceed against the appropriate Minister, senior civil servants & RAF commanders, whose names are known, & who gave the orders & acted as accomplices in the illegal abduction of a foreign national.

I hope others might consider other moves, such as applying for a writ of Habeas Corpus, but such a writ would have to be directed I presume against the Dutch authorities.

What Britain has done & Mr Tony Blair has endorsed is a loathsome act of international brigandage.

It makes the RAF no better than the Barbary pirates.

I denounce the George Soros/ Warner Bros/ Mickey Mouse illegally financed institution @ the Hague masquerading as a UN Court, whose operations are entirely selective, & which refused to investigate my earlier allegations of war crimes perpetrated by the NATO leaders, including the British PM, in the March 1999 illegal war by the NATO powers on the FRY.

It is the duty of the Federal President of Yugoslavia & the security forces of Yugoslavia to arrest those members of the Serbian so called Government for breaching the law & Constitution of the state, consorting with enemy powers, & illegally depriving Slobodan Milosevic of his liberty.

I believe the peoples of Europe, who have had ample experience of fighting fascism in the past, have now to rise up against the neo- fascist globalist rulers of the new corporate Europe, & take all necessary steps to restore the rule of law & democracy to this Continent, a rule of law which has been subverted by EU-NATO's operations, both in the Former Yugoslavia, & against the present FRY, & now the state of Macedonia, which NATO is also seeking to dismember, using Albanian surrogates.


What is most disturbing is the wholesale media censorship & the use of propaganda to form public opinion in Yugoslavia & the rest of Europe, as wielded by irresponsible untruthful & corrupt organisations, such as the BBC & CNN.


I would very much wish to be in Belgrade for the rally planned later today but hope this press release can be read out by one of my Yugoslav friends & comrades, & the Yugoslav people should be assured that the English people, & Londoners are with Serbia 100% in the battle against the worthless & immoral Djindjic criminal clique, & the NATO occupation forces in Kosovo & Bosnia, which forces must be removed, and the US base at Camp Bondsteel permanently dismantled.


Yesterday Yugoslavia was raped by evil forces, every bit as evil as those of Adolph Hitler

Yet Serbia has fallen before, on the field of Kosovo, on the 28th June, in a former era, & then its worthy soldiers sought a heavenly kingdom, preferring death to dishonour & shame, & so the peoples of Europe, from the left & right, must form together a new popular front against fascism, globalism, EU & NATO German militarism + American imperialism, which evil forces are strangling democracy/socialism & the free life of national states on this continent.

cana.london@ic24.net

LETTER OF CHRISTOPHER BLACK TO EDITOR OF TORONTO SUN

The Editor,
Toronto Star

Your piece on Milosevic entitled "No place To Hide" constitutes nothing less than criminal journalism. A series of lies from beginning to end, it attempts to control public opinion about the truth of events in Yugoslavia in order to justify the criminal aggression by Canada and the other NATO countries on the last progressive country in eastern Europe and cover the war crimes of Chretien and Arbour and the rest of gangsters who pretend to control the New World Order.

Mr. Milosevic was never "undisputed master" of Yugoslavia. He was duly elected in popular elections unlike President Bush in the United States who was installed against the popular will. He was never a notorious nationalist as you claim and never seduced his people with dreams of a greater Serbia. In every speech and in his actions he did what he could to preserve a multiethnic state against the Machiavellian scheming of the United States and Germany which promoted the Albanian's bloody thirst for a Greater Albania, a blood soaked ambition fuelled and directed by the United States and its axis and which is today destroying Macedonia and threatens Greece.

It was not Milosevic who delivered ethnic hatred. It was NATO and its tightly controlled media that sowed that hatred with every press release and every article.

It was not Milosevic who brought war and disintegration, sanctions and ruin. It was the United States and Germany, Britain and Canada and the rest of the NATO gangsters who decided to destroy the last progressive government in the east for the benefit of their economic elites. It was not Milosevic who dropped bombs. It was the cowards in the armed forces of all the Nato countries who failed in their duty to defy illegal and immoral orders and instead dropped cluster bombs on innocent women and children. It was not Milosevic who destroyed international law. It was Chretien and the rest of Nato. It was not Milosevic who has contempt for the rule of law and democracy. It is every leader of every government in Nato who never consulted their own people before attacking a small innocent country, and who broke their own domestic laws in that attack.

Where were you when Chretien broke the law in the National Defence Act which forbids the use of the Canadian Armed Forces to attack another country unless attacked first or under UN mandate. Where were you Chretien lied to the Canadian people about the reality in the Balkans. Where were you when Chretien and the rest broke the UN Charter and threw it in the mud. Where were you when they destroyed every principle established at Nuremberg, the Geneva Conventions and dozens of other international protocols.

You talk about the "reformist" government" in Belgrade when in truth it is a fascist regime which has shut down the opposition press, arrested hundreds of people on political charges and fired over 40,000 people in a population of only 11 million from jobs in factories, government, schools, hospitals, unions who had any progressive or patriotic beliefs.

You praise Louise Arbour whose crass political indictment of Milosevic on May 27, 1999 occurred under US instruction at a point at which the Nato alliance was fracturing and domestic support for the bombing was waning. Her action justified the continued violation of international law and criminal aggression against a sovereign state whose only crime was to resist the diktats of Madeleine Albright. You praise a woman who refused to investigate Chretien and other Nato leaders for war crimes as lawyers and jurists around the world insisted, including the group of Canadian lawyers of whom I was one lead by Professor Michael Mandel. Far from shattering Milosevic's credibility, the indictment against him by Arbour shattered completely the credibility of the Hague Tribunal viewed around the world by esteemed jurists as a kangaroo court partly funded by people like George Soros, who also just happened to fund the KLA at the same time.

Milosevic is not a broken man. I visited with President Milosevic in the Belgrade Central Prison on June 15 as a representative of the International Committee To Defend Slobodan Milosevic. The Committee is composed of jurists, writers, scientists, politicians, professors and other esteemed citizens from over 20 countries who are convinced that the charges against Milosevic are false and a slander against the people of Yugoslavia and an insult to the intelligence of the people in the Nato countries. It includes members such as the great British playwright Harold Pinter, and the former Attorney general of the Untied States, Ramsey Clark.

Mr. Milosevic is in good spirits. He is not suicidal. That is a lie put out to explain in advance his possible murder at the hands of the Nato Quislings presently in power in Belgrade because they know very well that any trial before the Hague tribunal will be an embarrassment for Nato because there is no evidence of crimes that never took place except in the pages of the western press ever anxious to please the economic powers that own them and who are linked with the governments that want to eliminate those, like Milosevic who have the courage to defy them.

Milosevic told me one thing he wanted the world to know. He has a clear conscience. He stated to me, "The only reasons I am in this prison are because I am a socialist and because I stood up to Nato. I am a political prisoner." The corruption charges against him are false. The Investigative Judge told me that there is no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing by Mr. Milosevic at all and that he is detained because of strong political pressure until he can be handed over to Carla Del Ponte. A Ministry of Justice official told me that there is no evidence against him but that I must understand that "there are many members of the new regime who would like to see all the socialists hanged from lampposts."

The Toronto Star which prides itself on its liberalism and support of democracy is so blinded by its subservience to its masters that it openly supports the decree by Kostunica stating that Milosevic can be extradited despite the fact that the Yugoslavian parliament opposed the extradition law that Kostunica tried to pass. Apparently, the Star's support of democracy only goes so far. When the Yugoslav parliament opposes the extradition, an unconstitutional decree which openly violates the will of the people and the Yugoslav constitution is praised as courageous. When Nato and Chretien violated and threw under the Nato jackboot every international law you said nothing. Now you want Canadians to believe that Milosevic's extradition is a shining example of the benefits of international law. Hypocrisy we know your name.

Christopher Black, Barrister
Head, Legal Committee
International Committee To Defend Slobodan Milosevic
Toronto, Ontario

FROM CAMPEACE
10 Dalegarth Hurst Park Avenue Cambridge CB4 2AG campeace@altavista.co.uk
24 June 2001

TO: President Kostunica Federal President of Yugoslavia Belgrade

Dear President Kostunica,

CamPeace,(Cambridge Campaign for Peace) is an organisation which evolved from Cambridge Against NATO's War in the Balkans, which was established more than two years ago to oppose the criminal bombing of your country.

Thousands of people in the United Kingdom protested against this illegal action, and campaigned for the lifting of sanctions against Yugoslavia.

Now we see you presiding over a coup in your country, acting completely unconstitutionally (you who pride yourself on being a "legalist") as you allow your DOS colleagues to force through this illegal compliance with the Hague War Crimes Tribunal. You and the DOS Government are capitulating to those forces that destroyed Yugoslavia, and for what? For 30 silver coins which Yugoslavia will have to pay back many times over.

We urge you not to be intimidated by the bullies, we urge you not to yield to these illegal pressures. You must stop the blackmail. Call their bluff. Otherwise you are delivering your country into the hands of international gangsters.

If Milosevic goes to The Hague, then his trial will turn into the trial of a nation, ie Serbia, to the delight of Madeleine Albright and other "friends" of Serbia. It will justify the bombing of Yugoslavia and "prove" that the NATO gangsters were moved by humanitarian concerns.

We are not supporters of Milosevic, but we are supporters of a better world in which the law will be adhered to, instead of a world dominated by international gangsters.

You must be strong, resist blackmail, speak the truth about Rambouillet, speak the truth about this blackmail and the proud Serbian people will support you, and the peoples of the world will show their solidarity with the Serbian people.

With best wishes,

Yours sincerely,
Sara Payne
Polydoros Polydorou
David Grove
Chairmen, Cambridge Campaign for Peace

DEMOCRACY IS VISITED UPON YUGOSLAVIA
Belgrade, Yugoslavia , June 24
* SPECIAL *

"'Bypassing the Yugoslav parliament is a positive step toward full democracy. That's why the State Department, CIA, NED, USAID, Heritage House and Mr. Cheney are all closely monitoring this though of course we have no material stake, just a passion for humanitarianism,' said a senior American official who spoke on condition of anonymity."

The Yugoslav cabinet adopted a decree today committing itself to kiss NATO's ring, sending the former president, Slobodan Milosevic, to the United Nations tribunal in The Hague to face trial on charges of insufficient devotion to the Indispensable Nation.

The extradition of Mr. Milosevic could set the stage for a trial such as hasn't been seen in Europe since the Reichstag fire. "This really puts us on the map, " commented a Washington official on condition of anonymity. Bechtel Engineering announced plans for a high security prison complex at The Hague for foreign heads of state who respond sluggishly to U.S. advice.

Mr. Milosevic, who was indicted, along with four of his top officials, by the entirely independent War Crimes Tribunal at the request of Madeleine Albright in May 1999 for refusing to hand Yugoslavia over to the League of Genocidal Capitalists, is first on the list for "surrender" to The Hague, DOS leaders state.

The decree takes effect Sunday, and some officials suggested that the former president, already in detention in Belgrade central jail, could be extradited "very soon," before the people of Yugoslavia can respond to the decree, which has charitably been described as an act of loathsome self-prostration.

Other officials suggested, however, that it could take until the end of the month, because lawyers and supporters of Mr. Milosevic have noted that the decree violates the Yugoslav and Serbian constitutions, and would mean surrendering an elected head of state to a gang of bomb-happy murdering imperialists, who are responsible for the deaths of their brothers and sisters. Supporters of the decree, however, point out that there are no such constitutional provisions except the ones which unambiguously forbid the extradition of Yugoslav and Serbian citizens.

Deputy Prime Minister and G-17 leader Miroljub Labus made clear at a news conference today after the cabinet meeting that the pro-extradition faction intends to carry out the measure "whether it is legal, and whether the people, or even other members of the coalition government, like it or not."

"Washington has demanded we give them Milosevic plus lots of Yugoslav Army men and they're gonna get Milosevic plus lots of Yugoslav Army men," commented Labus. "That's democracy."

Beta news agency quoted the Serbian Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic, as saying before the 'vote' that Mr. Milosevic's transfer to The Hague "will pass without problems, in regular, public procedures." When a reporter noted that the Yugoslav Parliament had a majority against surrendering the former head of state, Djindjic snorted, replying, "So? What's your point?"

When pressed to explain why he would circumvent the wishes of Parliament and various election pledges, Mr. Djindjic pulled a pair of woman's stockings over his head and commented, "Because we was installed in power by means of the generosity of certain Indispensable gents, which gents would view as most undemocratic any individuals which accepted their lettuce but subsequently failed to produce a salad."

The United States has threatened to boycott the upcoming International Monetary Fund-organized "Donors" Conference unless Yugoslavia extradites someone the U.S. has demonized within 27 minutes thus giving the mass media a focus for re-broadcasting the lies used to justify murdering two thousand innocent Yugoslavs and crippling their economy. Washington warns that without its Indispensable presence the "Donors" Conference would flop thus rendering the IMF unable to destroy those industries the U.S. somehow neglected to bomb.

"Bypassing the Yugoslav parliament is a positive step toward full democracy. That's why the State Department, CIA, NED, USAID, Heritage House, and Mr. Cheney are gleefully monitoring the action though of course we have no material stake, just a passion for humanitarianism," commented a senior American official on condition of anonymity.

"Is that true," asked this reporter?

"No," said the Source, "but it sure beats saying we need to eliminate the Serbs because they are an extremely annoying obstacle to bringing the entire Balkans area under the rule of our pet Kosovo Liberation Sadists thus consolidating the southern flank for our planned attack on Russia and other former Soviet countries which might of course lead to nuclear war meaning the end of civilization as we know it but, hey, no pain no gain."

Say NO to Traitors
Proclamation of Socialist Party of Serbia

Esteemed citizens,

An attempt to commit treason and to force shameful capitulation on our country is underway! The statutory instrument which the top leadership of the DOS has used to authorize the extradition of our citizens to the Hague Tribunal is unprecedented, anti-constitutional and anti-democratic. It brings into question the survival of the Federal State, our freedom and our sovereignty.

The passage of this extradition decree was accompanied by lies and manipulation. There were claims that the Dayton Accords imposed obligations on us; there were claims that the 'international community' was of one mind and resolved on the issue of extradition; there were claims that we would receive favourable treatment at the so-called donor conference.

Rumors are being floated suggesting that if we only kneel at NATO's Hague court, we will be granted a write-off on the interest due on our debts. But to whom do we owe this money? To the bankers of the "international community". And when did this debt accrue? Why, during the time that this same 'international community' waged war and inflicted draconian sanctions on Yugoslavia.

Conspicuously, the DOS leaders do not mention that if we agree to cooperate with the Hague--thereby falsely confessing to guilt--we will become much poorer. For we will, in effect, have abandoned our claims for war damages. In addition, we will lay ourselves open to war reparations claims from Bosnia and Croatia. The DOS leaders also fail to mention that the much-touted cooperation with the international bankers will require the fire-sale of our industries at rock-bottom prices.

The real aim of this historically unprecedented decision is to grant amnesty to NATO leaders and to impose collective quilt on the Serbian people. It will mean our accepting responsibility for all the suffering in this area. It will leave our people without any hope of improving their lives. And it will open the gates to the mass extradition of our people to a foreign political court financed by US Government agencies and billionaire financiers like George Soros.

By taking this action, DOS has destroyed the Federal Administration. Because its actions are being resisted in Montenegro, it wants to destroy the Federal State as well. For weeks, DOS leaders have used the media to slander the Yugoslav Army. Now they threaten to deport heroes of the Yugoslav Army to the Hague. The Presidents of Yugoslavia and Serbia are not doing their job, which is to protect the constitutional order; indeed, they have become a cover for the destruction of that order. DOS is blackmailing and attempting to abuse the judiciary. The economic system is ruined and poverty is increasing rapidly. Education, health care and culture are humiliated. The country is sinking towards hopelessness.

Esteemed citizens,

Say a decisive NO to these traitors to the people and the state!

Say NO to those who would sell the soul of the Serbian nation and its honor for a fistful of dollars!

A people whose heroism was admired all over the world will not accept this utter humiliation! The Serbian people will never accept this DOS capitulation! Let us unite to protect democracy, sovereignty and the constitutional order! Let us protect Slobodan Milosevic and every citizen of this country!

Belgrade, 23rd June 2001

THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA
Head Committee
Belgrade, June 23, 2001
THE STATEMENT

The Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Serbia warns that the
decision of the DOS Politburo to adopt a federal decree authorizing
extradition of Yugoslav citizens to the Hague Tribunal represents a
most severe violation of the Constitution and paves the way for
the imposition of martial law in the country.

Since the DOS regime has failed in its attempt to pass the
anticonstitutional [extradition] law in Parliament, they decided to simply adopt a decree which in its essence abolishes the multiparty parliamentary system.

In so doing DOS has taken control over the state by decrees;
there is nothing left of the rule of law. The Federal Government
is not working. The Presidents of Yugoslavia and Serbia who are obliged
to protect the Constitution as well as the interests and dignity of the
people and the country are not reacting to this major violation of the
Constitution and even more, they are serving to cover for this policy
that produces serious harm to the country and the people. The
interests of the people can not be subordinated to anyone's personal,
leadership or political ambitions. No one has right to violate the
Constitution which forbids extradition of our citizens, nor can anyone agree to commitments [such as this one to deport Yugoslav citizens] in contradiction to the interests of the people.

No one has the right to diminish and insult the thousands of victims of the
NATO aggression, nor to forgive the mass destruction and grant amnesty to the people responsible for crimes against peace and humanity. The aim
of the DOS decree is, by the surrender of our citizens, to impose
collective guilt on the Serbian people for everything that happened in
the past. The actions of DOS and of the Soros representatives in the
Federal Government are unprecedented in world history. All those
who are taking part in it or are agreeing with it must be clear that
they bear the responsibility for unforeseeable consequences.
Since they act contrary to the Constitution and to their powers - both
they and the so-called International Community must know that Serbian
people and our citizens will never recognize the legitimacy of these actions.

The leadership of the Socialist Party of Serbia, on behalf of its
highest Party organs and on behalf of its Parliamentary Groups in the
Federal and Serbian Assemblies, has sent a letter to the president of
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica, demanding that
this violation of the Constitution be stopped, as well as the system of
capitulation derived from the anticonstitutional decree on extradition.

THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA
Belgrade, June 23, 2001
THE STATEMENT

The Socialist Party of Serbia underlines that by today's DOS decree
an unprecedented coup has been carried out against the constitutional
order of the country. The constitutional protection of all citizens of
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and in the first place of the
defenders of the fatherland, the Army and police, has been abolished.

The Socialist Party of Serbia, as the largest opposition party, considers
this to be a disgraceful fraud against the people, who will never accept the legitimacy of such an act.

The Socialist Party of Serbia decided to send immediately an appeal to
the Federal Constitutional Court to judge the legality of the decree of
the DOS part of the Federal Government.

The Socialist Party of Serbia expects that the Federal Constitutional
Court will:

1. Declare the decree issued by the DOS members of the Federal Government unconstitutional, since the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia explicitly forbid the extradition of their citizens;

2. Issue an injunction against the implementation of any individual act or
action that might be based on this unconstitutional decree, since it
can lead to irreversible harmful consequences for the interests of the
people and state, until a final decision will be made.

COMMITTEE BACKING MILOSEVIC WARNS AGAINST EXTRADITION TO ICTY.
Agence France Presse. 21 June 2001.

BELGRADE -- An official of an international committee set up to defend Slobodan Milosevic Thursday warned of catastrophic consequences for Yugoslavia if the former president is handed over to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

"Be sure that misery, poverty, famine and total destruction would prevail in the country" if Milosevic is sent to The Hague, said Mikhail Kuznecov, deputy chairman of the International Committee for the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic.

"Do not have any illusions that the United States or NATO will give you money and help you rebuild your economy?" he told reporters.

The committee was set up on March 24, just a week before Milosevic's arrest by Belgrade reformers on charges of abuse of power and corruption, to clear the ex-president's name over the war crimes indictment by the International Criminal

Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). NATO "is aiming to destroy Yugoslavia and its citizens," Kuznecov said, adding that Milosevic "is in prison since he was the only one to confront the Alliance, and even managed to stop it."

He said that no "law can legalise" Milosevic's extradition to ICTY, as the move "is clearly banned by the Constitutions of Yugoslavia and Serbia."

The committee, chaired by Bulgarian MP Velko Valkanov, and grouping figures like former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark and writer Harold Pinter, said it has members from 20 countries throughout the world.

Its activities are supported by more than 600 prominent figures from 30 countries, said a statement on its website, www.predsednikmilosevic.com

Kuznecov said the committee has set up an international working group to monitor legal procedures against Milosevic, led by Canadian lawyer Christopher Black, who had visited the former president in prison last week.

Black was among the lawyers who in 1999 brought war crimes charges against NATO leaders for the bombing campaign on Yugoslavia.

(c) 2001 Agence France Presse Reprinted for Fair Use Only.

STATEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO DEFEND SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

The International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic held a Working Committee meeting in Belgrade on June 17th.

In documents which were acknowledged on that occasion, the International Committee repeated its demand for the immediate release of President Milosevic from custody and accented the danger to the sovereignty and economic future of Yugoslavia as well as to International Law if the threats being made by political extremists to extradite Mr. Milosevic to the Hague Tribunal are carried out.

The Committee has approved and published the report of its legal representative, well-known Canadian attorney Christopher Black, who indicated that there is not the least evidence that Milosevic is guilty. He stated that his further imprisonment deeply undermines legality and human rights and characterized this entire process as political. These conclusions were reached following his visit to Belgrade and discussions with Yugoslav state and justice representatives.

It was pointed out that the illegitimate Hague Tribunal has been used as an instrument of NATO aggression.

Respected legal experts from several countries have evaluated the claims made by some leaders of the Belgrade regime. According to the DOS claims, the extradition of President Milosevic must proceed despite the fact that the Constitutions of Serbia and Yugoslavia explicitly forbid such extraditions, must proceed even in the absence of an appropriate law. The legal experts find such claims to be entirely contrary to the most elementary understanding of law, dangerous for democracy and sovereignty and very immoral. If such a legal precedent were established, Yugoslavia would be considered responsible for all the catastrophical consequences of NATO policy in the Balkans. Yugoslavia would, in that case, lose its right to compensation for war damage and be forced to pay war compensation to Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, possibly involving several billion dollars.

Germany extradited Bosnian Serb Dusko Tadic after the adoption of an appropriate law, but that law forbids the extradition of German citizens, because the German Constitution forbids such action; so does the Constitution of Yugoslavia.

The Committee demands that the current Belgrade regime respect the principles of right reign and therefore release Slobodan Milosevic immediately as well as all political prisoners.

The special document accents the example of Macedonia whose survival is endangered by terrorist forces created and controlled by NATO intelligence and military structures. This example is striking, because Macedonia signed a partnership agreement with NATO and put all its resources at NATO's disposal.

At the meeting, the Committee, whose membership consists of nearly 80 respected persons from more than 20 countries, elected former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark as its Co-Chairman as well as adding three more Vice-Chairmen, from Italy, Greece and Ukraine.

SLOBODAN - A SYMBOL OF RESISTANCE TO NATO AGGRESSION
Press conference by Christopher Black, lawyer from Toronto, member of the International Committee for the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic.

"It is absolutely clear that no evidence can be provided in proceedings against Slobodan Milosevic and that keeping him in custody is exclusively politically motivated," said Christopher Black, adding that, according to information he gathered, 250 political prisoners, mostly members of the Left, were in Serbian jails.

In Black's view, demands for Milosevic's extradition to The Hague derive from a simple fact that the West is eager to get rid of the guilt for unprecedented bombing of Yugoslavia. By sentencing Milosevic before a court that can hardly be called a court of law, the United States and other Western countries, as Black put it, want to wash their hands of the war they wagged contrary to all international norms.

Black said he had just returned from Africa, where the people he had spoken to were astonished by the fact that the symbol of resistance to NATO aggression was in jail. Referring to the work of the International Crime Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Black said that unlike other courts, this "quasi-court" presumed people guilty, rather than innocent. It would not be logical, said Black, to expect it to be "fair" when one bears in mind the way it was financed. All trials held before the court were typical political cases and one should not look forward to a fair trial to Milosevic, or Karadzic and Mladic should they be extradited to The Hague, concluded Black.

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We Accuse: Washington's Aid Promises Are A Traitorous Lie!
Socialist Party of Serbia Statement, 31 May

For the leaders of a country to tell the people in that country that they should extradite patriots in exchange for money from the forces which have bombed that country - is an outrage.

But for leaders of a country to pretend that they are getting money from the bombers when they know perfectly well they are not - to tell the people that they should support the jailing of their patriots in exchange for money which these leaders know does not exist - this is the worst treason.

The present authorities in Belgrade are guilty of treason.

No Donors' Conference has ever given any money to any country. The term "Donors'' is itself a deception. The proper title is ''Creditors' Conference.'' If a "Donors' Conference" takes place in June it will be a meeting of the banks that claim Yugoslavia owes them money. The purpose of that meeting, like the purpose of all Donors' Conferences, will be to plan how to sell Yugoslav property so they can get back the money they claim they are owed as quickly as possible.

To whom will they sell Yugoslav industries to get their money? To themselves basically.

How much will they sell it for? Pennies on the dollar.

How much of the so-called Yugoslav debt will get paid in this way? Very little.

What will happen to the industry that the 'Donors' scoop up in this fashion? Wherever such industries might compete with some industry from the 'Donor' countries, the factories will be closed down.

Let us take an example that occurred in Hungary, a country whose leaders have more than cooperated with the U.S. The U.S. firm, General Electric, bought the big light bulb factory in Hungary and closed it down. Now Hungarians have to buy light bulbs imported by GE.

This has happened in dozens of countries.

Donors' Conferences helped plan the devastation of the economies of:

* Ukraine - went from the bread basket of Europe to being dependant on Western surplus "food")

* Bulgaria - industry stripped and shut down)

* Russia - wages fell almost 90% overnight)

* Vietnam - after the "Donors' Conference" its industry was stripped to raise the money to pay off 'debts'. This was particularly vicious because those 'debts' had been accumulated by the puppet regime of South Vietnam. South Vietnam incurred the 'debts' when it bought weapons from the U.S. to fight Vietnamese patriots!

That's what a Donors' Conference does.

Sometimes the real work takes place after the official Conference is over, in meetings of the so-called Paris and London Clubs, which are made up, respectively, of big commercial and national banks from the US and Europe.

But one thing no Donors' Conference has ever, anywhere in the world done is give 1 billion dollars - or in fact any money - to a country which supposedly owes these banks money. If they do lend any money on paper they immediately take it away.

That is, a little money may be lent with one hand, but it will be immediately taken away with the other hand, to "repay the debt."

This has already happened with millions of dollars supposedly "given" to Yugoslavia by the international community. As is reported in a text by Dr. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky: "

"The [IMF] Board approved a loan [of] US $151 million under the IMF's policy on emergency post-conflict assistance in support of a program to stabilize the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's economy and help rebuild administrative capacities. Of this amount, the [Belgrade] authorities will draw... US $130 million to repay the bridge loans they received [from Switzerland and Norway] to eliminate arrears with the IMF."" (Quoted in "Economic Terrorism," by Dr. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky)

In other words, the authorities in Belgrade borrowed money from Switzerland and Norway to pay money owed to the IMF. Then they borrowed money from the IMF - and that was used to pay Switzerland and Norway!

This is a con game.

Sometimes the truth about the phony "Donors' Conferences" leaks out. Consider this excerpt from a 'Reuters' news dispatch. 'Reuters' lists all the terrible things that will happen if Yugoslavia does not cooperate. The first thing is:

1. "The US will oppose Yugoslav loans and assistance from international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. At stake will be a planned $260 million loan from the IMF to back up reform of an economy on the verge of collapse after years of sanctions and warfare."

NOTE that they speak of loan not gift. No donation here!

Based on the evidence from past experience, this money may never be loaned. And even if it were loaned, it would immediately be used to pay back part of the supposed debt. No money would go to the economy or reach ordinary people. And then the $260 million that we never received would have to be paid back by selling our industries, by agreeing to purchase shoddy goods from the NATO countries and by agreeing to laws that eliminated social services in our country.

That is why every country that has relied on these phony loans has suffered. For 8 years we had no loans. Plus we had sanctions. But Rumania and Bulgaria which had no sanctions and which had loans lost all their industry and now their unemployed come to Yugoslavia looking for work.

We will always be better off helping ourselves than being saddled with parasites from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank who are in business to strip countries like ours of everything we have sweated to build.

Here's the second 'disastrous' consequence of not cooperating with Washington:

2. "[This will mean putting off] Belgrade's plans to start negotiating a debt settlement with the Paris Club of sovereign creditors and commercial banks of the London Club... Of its total $12.2 billion external debt, Yugoslavia owes some $5 billion to the Paris Club and around $3 billion to the London Club." ('Reuters', April 2, 2001)

So the "international community" claims Yugoslavia owes it at least $12 billion (US). And if Yugoslavia does not hand over Milosevic it will not have the pleasure of stripping all its industry to repay this debt. Wouldn’t that be terrible?

And how does the "international community" figure that Yugoslavia owes it $12.2 billion dollars? This is almost entirely interest on debts supposedly owed by the now nonexistent Yugoslav Socialist Republic. Here is a news report from Dec. 31, 1992, which explains it all:

"From: 'Facts on File World News Digest,' December 31, 1992

"Headline: IMF Revokes Yugoslavia's Membership

"Text: The International Monetary Fund December 15 revoked Yugoslavia's membership and apportioned the country's foreign debt among what the financial institution designated as Yugoslavia's five successor republics. The IMF took the action on the grounds that Yugoslavia had ceased to exist as a legal entity.

"Yugoslavia's foreign debt was about $15 billion, including $217 million owed to the IMF and $2 billion owed to the World Bank.

"A total of 36.5% of the debt was apportioned to Serbia-Montenegro, the new Yugoslav federation, which the IMF treated as a single republic. Croatia was deemed to owe 28.5% of the debt; Bosnia-Herzegovina, 13.2%; Slovenia, 16.4%; and Macedonia, 5.4%."

[End of 'Facts on File' news dispatch]

So in 1992, the IMF simply decided to say that the Federal Republic owed 5.475 billion US dollars. Since it now says we owe over $12 billion, that means that almost $7 billion of the supposed debt is interest! And when did that interest get charged?

That interest got charged during the years of sanctions imposed by the same international community that now claims we owe all this interest!

Those sanctions hurt the Yugoslav economy to the tune of billions of dollars U.S.

By what right do these men, who starved Yugoslavia with sanctions, costing us billions, and then bombed Yugoslavia, causing us at least $60 billion in damage not to mention the incalculable cost in human death and suffering, the pain of relatives who lost loved ones, the psychological damage to children, forced to hide in shelters from bombs, the long term damage of depleted uranium - how dare these starvers and bombers now claim that Yugoslavia owes them money?

Who are these men?

A Donors' Conference would give no money to Yugoslavia.

The only result would be: devastation of the Yugoslav economy. The Donors would order a forced sale of Yugoslavia's precious industries for pennies on the dollar to the same bankers who make up the Donors' Conference.

And when it was all over, the debt would still be there.

Because the money raised would be too little - as it is always too little, in every country where these bankers have imposed this scam - to pay the debt. Because you see that is the whole idea. They use the inflated debt to get hold of the industry, and when it is all over, they leave the country stripped of all it sweated for years to build, of everything except - billions of dollars in debt.

We would gain nothing from this Donors' Conference.

But some things would be gone.

Our industry would be gone.

Our pride would be gone.

Our honor would be gone.

And our patriots, they would be gone as well, starting with Mr. Milosevic, but not ending with him. Not ending with him.

Let us not follow this fool's gold chase proposed by the present authorities in Belgrade. Let us rely on ourselves, on our integrity and our own hard work. Let us trade with friends, not with thieves who try to break us with the fake lure of suckers' gold.

When they speak of the urgency of this Donors' Conference, the present authorities in Belgrade speak with passion.

Their passion is real.

But it is not because they fear that if we do not go along with their proposals, Yugoslavia will lose money that it needs. On the contrary, they fear that if they do not produce for their masters in Washington, they will be punished.

For Washington has no friends, only future victims.

Washington has laid down the law to these Belgrade authorities.

It has told them: you are taking too much time. Give us Milosevic. Give us the patriots of the Yugoslav Army. Give us those who fought us in Bosnia and Croatia. Give them to us NOW. And give us everything of value in Yugoslavia.

Because if you do not we will take you - the DOS leaders - in their place.

- SPS, 31 May 2001

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BACKS U.S. ATTACK ON MILOSHEVICH; A MEMBER PROTESTS
by Phillip Greenspan [23 May 2001]

To Amnesty International:
For several years I have been a member of Amnesty International [AI] and was very proud of its human and civil rights positions.

However, I was deeply disappointed when I opened the current edition of 'Amnesty Now' to see a circled request for members to urge the transfer of Slobodan Milosevic to the International Criminal Tribunal.

An organization that fights so hard on behalf of those unjustly punished should not be an instigator of just such an injustice. The exaggerated claims of atrocities have subsequently been shown to be completely false. Additionally, the International Criminal Tribunal as a court of justice is as shocking as those false atrocity charges.

So many articles have been published by reliable sources, on both the court and the atrocities (if you are unaware of them, I will provide you with some) that it should have, at least, caused hesitancy.

I may be mistaken to assume you are much too knowledgeable and intelligent to be duped by the lies of governments and their subservient media. It is extremely disheartening to find a worldwide human rights organization of your stature taking such a reprehensible action.

Sincerely,
Philip Greenspan
[Mr. Greenspan is a retired lawyer living in New York.]

We are members of the International Committee (ICDSM) that is circulating the petition to Free President Milosevic from jail. In our view, Slobodan Milosevic's arrest is a clear escalation of Washington's attempt to destroy Yugoslav sovereignty. Washington is demanding that Milosevic be transferred to The Hague where a show trial would be staged. This trial would blame the Serbian people for NATO's crimes of aggression. Meanwhile, Mr. Milosevic is being denied critical medical treatment.

A group of doctors who are deputies in the Serbian and Yugoslav Parliaments have examined Slobodan Milosevic's medical file. The doctors belong to different parties. Some are members of the governing coalition. The doctors have written a Medical Appeal. It expresses in the sharpest possible medical language their concerns about Milosevic's health. Below is our summary of the doctors' statement, written in layman's language, followed by the doctors' Appeal itself.

SUMMARY OF PHYSICIANS' APPEAL

While in jail, President Milosevic has been suffering from crisis hypertension. He has also suffered a cardiac infarction. He was taken to a hospital and underwent a brief treatment. Following this, he should have been kept in intensive care under the supervision of specialists. Instead he was almost immediately returned to his jail cell, where the only follow-up treatment consists of receiving two medications. The doctors state it bluntly: Never in medical history have these medications cured a condition such as that of Mr. Milosevic. By keeping him in jail, rather than in intensive care under specialist supervision, the government is subjecting President Milosevic to suffering heart failure or stroke, unavoidable under his present conditions.

We urge all readers of this summary, and the medical statement below, to sign the petition "FREE MILOSEVIC NOW". President Milosevic's medical condition is itself sufficient reason for freeing him. In addition, though Belgrade officials have kept the former President in jail for six weeks, supposedly so that they could present evidence of alleged crimes, they have yet to bring forth a single witness against him. What further evidence is needed that his arrest was simply an attempt to satisfy a US Administration that is determined to punish the leader of a small country who had the temerity to assert his nation's sovereignty? One must also ask: Given this clear denial of necessary medical treatment, is this part of an effort, orchestrated by Washington, to ensure that President Milosevic dies in prison before his scheduled show trial collapses through its own absurdity?