ICDSM Homepage, continued
Justice? Or its Antithesis?
by Stephen Gowans
[posted 28 November 2001]
"In three appearances before the tribunal, Milosevic refused to plead to the indictments against him, and refused to appoint lawyers, arguing the tribunal, and his detention, are illegal.
"And now Milosevic's Belgrade lawyer, Dragoslav Ognjanovic says that strong spotlights have been left on all night in Milosevic's cell, a subtle form of torture.
"Why is Milosevic being deprived of sleep?"
Milosevic Lawyer Condemns Newspaper's Threat
Second Act of the Crime
Against the Serbian People
Full Transcript of President Slobodan Milosevic's "J'accuse!' delivered at The Hague 'Tribunal' 30 October 2001.
Also, text of the second and third statements which he attempted to deliver 29 October. In both cases the microphone was turned off before he could finish.
'I Only Defended My People
From Terrorism Allied with Clinton'
Transcript of the first of three statements made by President Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague "court room" on the morning of 29 October 2001
An Open Letter To U.S.A. President George W. Bush
Free Milosevic NOW!
Jail All American Made Terrorists!
Disband The NATO Inquisition!
Messages to Putin and Jiang!
from ICDSM and Freedom Association
conference in Belgrade,
October 21-22, 2001
DECLARATION
of the International Conference
"Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic - Moral, Political and Legal Imperative"
held in Belgrade, October, 21-22, 2001
We, representatives of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic and nine National Committees have gathered in Belgrade 21 and 22 October 2001 under the auspices of the Yugoslav Committee (Freedom Association). We express our deepest bitterness over the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic, the current President of the largest opposition party in Serbia and Yugoslavia...
ACTION PLAN
Adopted by the International
Conference
"Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic - Moral, Political
and Legal Imperative.
Belgrade, October 21-22, 2001.
Considering the illegal arrest, abduction and attempted trial of President Slobodan Milosevic before the US-Nato "Tribunal" in The Hague a further attack on the sovereignty of Yugoslavia, on the freedom of all countries and peoples and on justice and law in international relations, and in order to obtain the immediate release of President Milosevic, we shall concentrate on the following actions and coordinate our efforts on the implementation of the same:
International Participants of the Conference
More pictures from the conference
(soon will be available)
Death
on a Very Small Planet
A photo montage of Belgrade
and New York. In memory of the innocent.
BELGRADE
LAW PROFESSORS' VERDICT
In their
aggression against the law and justice, NATO&Soros
clerks in the so-called "International Criminal
Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia" based in the Hague,
decided to ignore, as essentially unpleasant for their
dirty work, the initiative of leading law experts and law
professors of Belgrade University to appear in the court
room as real AMICI CURIAE (in its real meaning - as
FRIENDS OF JUSTICE) and expose monstrous character of
this institution, for long time successfully hidden from
public.
Instead, they have appointed three attorneys (from
Holland, England and Yugoslavia), proven as real FRIENDS
OF (WHITE) HOUSE, to serve as quasidefense for president
Milosevic. That way their attempted trial of president
Milosevic would become the greatest political FARCE ever
seen. Belgrade professors already condemned in press
conference such illegal and absurd decision of both
"Tribunal" and those three attorneys. Accepting
such a role they should lose their licenses, Belgrade
professors stated.
For the sake
of justice, the full text of the initiative of Belgrade
law professors, is hereby given.
To The
International Tribunal For The Prosecution Of Persons Responsible For
Serious Violations Of International Humanitarian Law Committed In The
Territory Of The Former Yugoslavia Since 1991
To
the Trial Chambers in all the cases before the Tribunal
Proposal For Appearance Before Trial
Chambers By Virtue Of Rule 74 On Procedure And Evidence (Amicus
Curiae)
The
Professors and Assistant Lecturers of the Faculty of Law
of the University of Belgrade have been following with
great attention the work of the International Tribunal
for the prosecution of persons responsible for serious
violations of international humanitarian law committed in
the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991, as the
institution that, by a number of elements, is new and
specific and all the more interesting therefore from the
purely theoretical standpoint and then also as an organ
whose work will strongly affect the current and future
situation in the space of our country and the situation
throughout the region.
In Memory of Corin Ismali
by Jared Israel [3 September 2001]
The Western
media gives the impression that all Kosovo Albanians hate
Serbs and want to live in an ethnically pure state. In
fact, many ethnic Albanians were and remain loyal to the
concept of Yugoslavia. One such man was Corin Ismali,
Secretary of the Kosovo Democratic Initiative.
After NATO
and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) seized control of
Kosovo in June of 1999, Mr. Ismali and other loyalist
leaders were subjected to attacks and death-threats. For
a time he left Kosovo. Then, despite the threats, he
returned.
This past
weekend in Kosovo he was murdered in cold blood. NATO and
the UN are guilty, just as sure as if they'd pulled the
trigger.
President Slobodan Milosevic
Full Transcript of Remarks
Second Appearance Before the So-called
ICTY on 30 August 2001.
'Judge' Richard May: Mr Milosevic, if there are any issues you wish to raise in connection with your case or about your physical and mental conditions, then this is your chance to do so.
President
Slobodan Milosevic: Well, I would like to know first of all, can I speak
or are you going to turn off my microphone like first time.
Following is
an excerpt from the statement that President Milosevic
was not allowed to read when he appeared, August 30,
before the 'tribunal' in The Hague. For full text, click here.
Statement of President Slobodan Milosevic
on The Illegitimacy of The Hague 'Tribunal'
[30 August 2001]
There are
three fatal legal flaws in the so-called International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Each has
disastrous consequences for the human quest for peace,
the rule of law, democracy, truth and justice.
1.
The Charter of the United Nations Does Not Empower the
Security Council to Create a Criminal Court
The U.N.
Security Council has seized power it does not possess,
corrupting the Charter of the United Nations, placing
itself above the law and threatening "We Peoples of
the United Nations" with a lawless future in which a
superpower employs the scourge of war to have its way.
Nothing in the history of the planning, drafting,
discussion, approval or ratifications of the U.N. Charter
implies, or is consistent with, an intention to empower
any body created by, or under, the Charter to establish
any criminal tribunal. The words of the Charter and their
textual inferences, the structure and allocation of power
and duties, including those in the incorporated Statute
for the International Court of Justice, all negate the
existence of any capacity under the Charter to ordain
criminal courts. The Criminal Tribunal for Former
Yugoslavia is illegitimate and its creation a corruption
of the United Nations.
There would
never have been a United Nations if its Charter stated,
or implied, that a criminal court could be created under
its authority. No one who believes in historical truth,
or that words have meaning can, after examining the
history of its creation and its text, contend that the
Charter of the United Nations empowers the Security
Council to create a criminal court.
NATO's Tribunal: Straight From the
Horse's Mouth
by Jared Israel [30 June 2001]
"I
believe that when Justice Arbour starts her
investigation, she will because we will allow her to....NATO
countries are those that have provided the finance to set
up the Tribunal, we are amongst the majority financiers."
NATO
spokesman Jamie Shea at a May 17, 1999 press conference,
commenting on the possibility that Louise Arbour, then
The Hague 'tribunal's' chief Prosecutor, might consider
'indicting' people not picked by NATO.
Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans
and Trying to Force Milosevic to Surrender?
By Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser
[The
following is an excerpt. For full text,
click here.]
...During
the past 14 years, Yugoslav loyalists and their leaders,
especially the Serbian people and President Milosevic and
his associates, have achieved the same thing the Serbs
achieved in 1941.
It was in
March of that year that the Serbs overthrew their pro-German
government. In a rage, Hitler ordered the conquest of
Yugoslavia. His troops got bogged down in the attempt.
This delayed Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the
Soviet Union. Because of the Serbs, the Nazi supermen
were trapped in the fierce Russian winter.
In 1987, the
forces around Milosevic defeated pro-NATO elements in the
Serbian government, thus declaring their independence
from Washington. From that time on, Milosevic and the
Serbian and other Yugoslav loyalists have provided a
roadblock obstructing NATO's Drive to the East and a
beacon to the former Soviets, to resist.
'Mr. Milosevic Is On The Line'
From 'Sky News,' August 25, 2001
"Former
Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic shocked staff at an
American television station by telephoning them from The
Hague and giving a live interview on air. It is the first
time the ex-leader has spoken publicly since his
detention on war crimes charges. He claimed he had been a
victim of Western propaganda and always acted in the
interests of peace.
"'Of
course they have no evidence. They cannot have evidence
for things that never happened,' he said. 'But this so-called
tribunal has one specific characteristic. They are able
to fabricate the evidence.'"
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[Note from ICDSM - As you will see when you read the rest
of the excerpts from 'Sky News' and Reuters,' continued
below, the unTribunal has warned Mr. Milosevic that he
violated Official Procedures by speaking to the press and
if he transgresses again he will lose his privileges.
Aside from the question, of some philosophical import -
"What would constitute the privileges of a kidnap
victim?" - we have another: Why does the unTribunal
forbid its kidnap victims from talking to the press?
Could it be they are afraid of what said victims might
say? Also, as you may recall, Tribunal prosecutor Carla
del Ponte talks to the press every chance she gets,
proclaiming the guilt of people who have been convicted
of: nothing at all.]
********************************
"I am
fully convinced of Milosevic's innocence. I realize that
the United States, with NATO, the IMF and the World Bank,
contrived the whole war beginning in the 1980s. I want Mr.
Milosevic freed immediately." - Jim Klosterman
Green Party Activist, Ohio, USA
On August 22,
Milosevic's Chief Attorney, Chris Black, was told by a
Hague Tribunal (sic!) official, whom we will
protect with anonymity, that on his birthday President
Milosevic received a stack of letters and telegrams two
thirds of a meter (two feet) high. Needless to say, this
dangerous material was still being censored and had not
yet been turned over to the President two days after his
birthday
Slobodan
Milosevic and the other kidnap victims at The Hague have
asked us to communicate their warmest thanks for this
outpouring of support. Let us say "you're welcome"
by sending more letters and telegrams so that the stack
grows to a full meter by the time President Milosevic
appears before NATO's faux court August 30th!
Send
More Messages to
The Hague Humanitarians
Srpski
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Français
The people
who bombed Yugoslavia are punishing President Slobodan
Milosevic for defying them. Let's do some defying
ourselves. President Milosevic's birthday is Monday,
August 20th. On August 30th he is to appear again before
The Hague kangaroo 'Tribunal.'
Let's flood
The Hague with telegrams supporting this man's
resistance, especially from August 20th to August 30th.
Please send
letters and especially telegrams to:
President Slobodan Milosevic
Huis van Bewaring Pompstationsweg 46a
2597GX Den Haag
The Netherlands
THE FULL
TREATMENT
When former
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic appeared before The
Hague Tribunal on July 2, Judge Richard May told him (and
the world):
'You
will be accorded the full rights of the accused,
according to international law, '
One analyst
asked:
What
are the rights of a kidnap victim under international
law?
Now, after
six weeks, The Hague 'Tribunal' has provided the
following answers:
1) The right
to isolation. President Milosevic has been held in
solitary confinement for six weeks despite his protest
and the official UN position, that: "Efforts
addressed to the abolition of solitary confinement as a
punishment, or to the restriction of its use, should be
undertaken and encouraged." (http://www.hri.ca/uninfo/treaties/35.shtml)
2) The right
not to sleep. During the first several days, the lights
were never turned off in Milosevic's cell. As a
corollary, video cameras are trained on Milosevic at all
times, thus providing the right to no privacy
3) The right
to be denied counsel of your choice. After weeks of
haggling, one of Mr. Milosevic's Yugoslav attorneys has
finally been allowed to see him. However, the Dutch
government, acting, it says, under instructions from the
'Tribunal,' has denied the other Yugoslav attorney a visa.
4) The right
to witness the mistreatment of your loved ones. Mr.
Milosevic's wife is treated like a criminal when she
comes to Holland, confined to a hotel room when not
visiting her husband from whom she is separated by a
plane of glass. (Thus the Tribunal, a United Nations
organization, expresses the UN's declared goal that:
"All prisoners shall be treated with the respect due
to their inherent dignity and value as human beings.")
Lawyers Barred from Seeing Pres.
Milosevic Milosevic Attorney Chris Black Details
History of Offenses and Broken Agreements in Letter to
'War Crimes Tribunal'
[posted 7August 2001]
In his
August 4th letter to The Hague 'Tribunal,' Attorney Black
writes:
"When I
met with [ICTY official] Mr. Rohde on the morning of July
9th in order to obtain permission to see President
Milosevic who had requested to see me I was met initially
with a refusal on the grounds that President Milosevic
had decided not to have counsel. However I was assured
that if President Milosevic advised the Registrar that he
wished to consult with counsel that would be permitted
and that such visits would be confidential. At that
meeting I was accompanied by Professor André Tremblay,
professor of law at the University of Montréal and
former senior adviser to Robert Bourassa, Premier of Québec.
"As
there was some confusion at that point as to what
President Milosevic had actually told the Registry I
agreed to accept Mr. Rohde's offer of permission to see
President Milosevic on a monitored basis. However, it was
clear to myself and Professor Tremblay that it was
established that visits by counsel on a confidential
basis would be permitted if President Milosevic so
requested.
"In my
meeting with President Milosevic he was advised of his
need to request to see counsel in order to meet with them
on a confidential basis and that this was the position
taken by Mr. Rohde. Acting on this information and
advice, he subsequently requested to see several counsel."
To read Chris
Black's Letter in its Entirety click here
Ramsey Clark Slams Hague 'Tribunal'
Introduction by Nico Varkevisser [2 August 2001]
[Nico
Varkevisser is Coordinator of the International Committee
to Defend Slobodan Milosevic in Netherlands.]
Yesterday
the ICDSM held another press conference in Amsterdam. The
press was addressed by Ramsey Clark, former Attorney
General of the USA and Co-Chairman of the ICDSM. Mr.
Clark had spent the better part of three days meeting
with President Slobodan Milosevic, imprisoned in The
Hague.
Posted below
is a surprisingly accurate 'Reuters' dispatch covering
the press conference. I say 'surprisingly accurate'
because three days ago 'Reuters' declared, as if
repeating an accepted fact, that Milosevic:
"...remains
in solitary confinement at his own request." ('Reuters,'
31 July 2001)
Contradicting
this lie, Attorney Clark most strongly protested the fact
that...
(continued)
Statement of the Socialist Party of
Serbia [ 1 August
2001]
Defend Macedonia
Against Terror and Separatism
The
Socialist Party of Serbia condemns the escalation of
violent separatism against our neighbor, Macedonia,
caused by the organized spread of the terrorism of the so-called
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to Macedonia and southern
Serbian municipalities. This is due to the systematic
violation of Security Council Resolution 1244, especially
the failure [by NATO] to fulfil its obligation to disarm
terrorists, and due to support for the KLA by NATO
structures. The aim is to create Greater Albania, to
change internationally recognized borders to the
detriment of Serbia and Yugoslavia, of Macedonia and of
Greece. This is leading towards deepening instability in
the Balkans and threatens the stability of the entire
Mediterranean area.
INTERNATIONAL
APPEAL FROM GREECE
Nineteen
Greek public figures, including former government
ministers, vice-presidents of parliament, scientists and
intellectuals call on public figures all over the world
to protest the seizure of Slobodan Milosevic.
continued
Belgrade
Demonstration 13 July - More Pictures
"Unite For Justice!"
"The Serbian Government Must Resign!
"All Those Involved in Kidnapping Slobodan Milosevic
Must be Held Responsible!
"There Must be Elections on All Levels!"
Reichstag
Fire Trial, the Sequel
(Slobodan Milosevic Defies NATO's 'Tribunal')
by Jared Israel
Srpski - Bombaski
Proces, Drugi Deo
Auf Deutsch -
Reichstagsbrand-Prozess,
die Fortsetzung
"I
just saw Milosevic [on TV]. He told this criminal Western
kangaroo court that he doesn't recognize them. So I wish
there was a lot more of those guys, like Milosevic."
-- Comment of a refugee from the U.S.-installed
Taliban regime in Afghanistan, presently residing in
California, after watching President Slobodan Milosevic
tell off NATO's 'Tribunal earlier today.
How is one
to describe it?
The other
day, Slobodan Milosevic, who has a genius for brevity,
called it a 'genocidal circus.' Should the powers-that-be
have allowed this confrontation to be televised? On the
one hand, a modest man, genuine, smart, accusing his
accusers; on the other hand, a sugary nightmare of Empire.
Now that
Americans run the world, they like to wheel out a Brit
sometimes for effect ("they got class, you know")
but it wasn't enough. At least two times 'Judge' Richard
May, 'Chairman' of the 'Tribunal,' (in the New World
Unreality, one is driven to quotation marks...) was
witnessed by 300 million viewers cutting Slobodan
Milosevic's microphone.
THE
TREASON OF VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA
By Chris Black, Richard Hugus and Jared Israel [2 July
2001]
Auf Deutsch - DER
VERRAT DES VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA
Srpski -
IZDAJA
VOJISLAVA KOSTUNICE
A chorus of
voices of remarkable diversity is proclaiming Vojislav
Kostunica innocent of kidnapping President Slobodan
Milosevic. This chorus includes not only the mainstream
media, which uniformly supports the kidnapping, but also
various groups and individuals who oppose the kidnapping.
Their common view is that Kostunica was out of the loop;
that the kidnapping was a big surprise or even an attack
on him by Serbian Prime Minister Djindjic.
The evidence
does not support this view.
Ontmoeting
met Milosevic:
Wat is mijn misdaad?
Door Nico Varkevisser en Jared Israel
Een week
voor zijn arrestatie hadden de internationale deelnemers
aan het 'Belgrado Forum' in Belgrado de gelegenheid om in
klein groepsverband met de voormalige president van
Joegoslavië, Slobodan Milosevic, te praten. Wij maakten
deel uit van twee verschillende gesprekken, die elk ruim
twee uur duurden, en hieronder geven we een verslag van
wat daar besproken is.
Gevraagd
naar de achtergronden van de opstelling van de westerse
leiders zei Milosevic:
SZAMUELY'S
LIST, PART 1
22 Reasons Why I Don't Want to be Imprisoned by the
Hague
'Tribunal'
"What
follows is taken from the Hague 'Tribunal's' rules
covering detention, visits and communications. Another
piece, covering procedures and evidence will follow. Note
that these rules are for people who have not been
convicted of anything and who can have no expectation of
a speedy trial. Quite the contrary.
As you may
recall, when the be-robed Chairman of the 'Tribunal,' Mr.
May, confronted Mr. Milosevic last week, he assured the
world that Milosevic would be afforded all rights under
International Law. Then, when Mr. Milosevic responded,
his microphone was cut off several times, producing
periods of silence.
It is a
feature of the New World Order that the most extreme
attacks on individuals and nations are presented as a
defense of those individual and nations. Thus when NATO
marched into Kosovo, it broadcast advance propaganda
assuring Serbs, 'Gypsies' and Jews
that NATO would guarantee democratic, multiethnic life.
Then
their homes were seized or burned and looted and they
were expelled.
YUGOSLAVIA RESISTS!
Mass Action In Serbia * Pictures From June 29th Rally *
And A Few Comments
[2 July 2001]
Pictures from Friday, June 29th Demonstration in Belgrade. This included people from the Radical Party, the Socialist Party, Serbian Renewal, Serbian Unity as well as other parties plus tens of thousands of people who might have voted for the DOS authorities but are now furious that these leaders have kidnapped the former Yugoslav head of state, Slobodan Milosevic, and shipped him to the discredited Tribunal at The Hague.
[Traducción ligeramente modificada de Néstor Gorojovsky]
ACUSAMOS: LAS PROMESAS DE AYUDA SON MENTIRAS DE TRAIDORES!
Declaración del Partido Socialista de Serbia, 31 de Mayo de 2001
Cuando los dirigentes de un país explican a su pueblo que deben extraditar patriotas a cambio de dinero provisto por las fuerzas que han bombardeado a ese país estamos ante un hecho ultrajante.
Pero cuando los dirigentes de un país pretenden hacer creer que van a recibir dinero de los que han bombardeado _cuando tienen perfecta conciencia de que no lo recibirán_ y proponen al pueblo que apoyen el encarcelamiento de sus patriotas a cambio de dinero que esos dirigentes _saben_ que no llegará, entonces estamos ante alta traición.
Las actuales autoridades de Belgrado son culpables de traición.
And Now, From London, Your Milosevic Misinfo For The Day
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.
Continued
De Times
verspreidt dodelijke leugen
Door Jared Israël
In English - The
'New York Times' Spreads a Deadly Lie
Sinds Slobodan Milosevic besloot om zich vrijwillig te onderwerpen aan wat in zijn ogen en die van veel andere mensen een door de Amerikanen opgelegde arrestatie was, is een nieuw thema opgedoken in de pers. Simpel gezegd: 'Milosevic is suïcidaal'. Dit is nogal onheilspellend. Milosevic vertegenwoordigt de krachten in Servië die zich verzetten tegen de Verenigde Staten. Dit is een vaststaand feit, dat losstaat van het feit of je Milosevic 'mag' of 'niet mag'.
Ik maakte deel uit van een groep van drie mensen die twee en een half uur met president Milosevic hebben gesproken, nadat we een congres in Servië hadden bijgewoond. Hij is vastberaden, hij is 'cynisch' over de bedoelingen van de Amerikaanse regering. (Ik heb cynisch tussen aanhalingstekens gezet, omdat ik denk dat zijn inzichten juist zijn). Hij is heel rustig. Bovenal, hij is ervan overtuigd dat het tij in Servië ten gunste van de socialisten en hun nationale bondgenoten begint te keren. Eerlijk gezegd kreeg ik in mijn gesprekken met gewone mensen ter plaatse ook die indruk. Maar of hij nou gelijk heeft of niet, waar het om gaat, is: hij is optimistisch en hoopvol. Gestimuleerd door discussie. Vastberaden om te leiden. Enthousiast over de toekomst. Niet suïcidaal.
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.
Continued
Letter To The Editor Of New York Times By Professor 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.
Continued
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.
Continued
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.
Continued
THE
RALLY
Big rally organized by Socialist party of Serbia and
Serbian Radical party on Friday 29th of June on Republic
square at 18:00
We are calling all people to come to a Rally at Republic Square at 18:00. This rally is being organized by all major opposition parties against the unconstitutional and criminal extradition of Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague.
This action by the traitorous and now criminal Serbian government outrages all the decent people of Yugoslavia.
International Call from the PCN-NCP (June 28, 2001):
We Must Help The President Milosevic And All Serbian Imprisoned By The So-Called "International Criminal Tribunal"!
Since creation, the alleged " International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia "(ICTY) is a war machine leaded against the Serbian People and its defenders, in Yugoslavia and in Republika Srpska (Bosnia).
Directly
financed by NATO, the ICTY and his slavish magistrates
abiding by the orders of Washington, is a shame to all
the magistracy and the international judicial world.
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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.
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100.000
PARTICIPANTS OF THE POPULAR RALLY
on June 26, 2001 in Belgrade
Today, at 6
p.m. another popular rally organized by the Socialist
Party of Serbia is expected in Belgrade. Failure of the
authorities to fulfill demands of the protesters and the
threatening statements and moves of Djindjic's NATO/Mafia
junta will certainly cause today's rally to be even more
massive. Wave of protests will cover whole Serbia.
Protests will continue until all demands will be
fulfilled.
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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.
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NON-SUPPORTERS
OF MILOSEVIC
CONDEMN EXTRADITION DECREE!
WONDERFUL LETTER FROM 'CAMPEACE'
Dear friends,
I received tonight the email posted below. It is from Cambridge Campaign for Peace (CAMPEACE). It takes a strong stand against the EXTRADITION DECREE that was just illegally 'passed' by some of the Ministers of the Yugoslav government, in defiance of a Parliamentary majority and under orders from Washington.
The authors say they are not supporters of Mr. Milosevic and I say: then good for them that they realize the issue with this decree is Yugoslavia's existence.
The issue is the Serbian people's very survival. LET US ALL UNITE- however we feel about Mr. Milosevic - to defend Yugoslav sovereignty, to defend the Serbian people, which means to defend all of us, and especially all small and medium sized nations everywhere, from NATO destruction of sovereignty, and war.
I hope a petition can be produced as soon as possible that takes the sort of position stated by the Cambridge Peace people and which says "However we feel about Mr. Milosevic - for him, against him, or none of the above - we are united to defend Yugoslavia from this total assault on its sovereignty." Something like that.
The other thing we need - and we need it now - is public action!
As Vice Chairman of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) I can say this: the ICDSM will aid any effort to oppose this illegal decree.
We need demonstrations!
It is very important now for people with international reputations to go to Belgrade and speak out.
The ICDSM can help with arrangements. (We don't have money, alas, but we do have energy and excellent contacts)
Jared Israel
Vice Chairman ICDSM
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DEMOCRACY
IS VISITED UPON YUGOSLAVIA
24 June 2001
* SPECIAL *
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 Great Satan.
The extradition of Mr. Milosevic could set the stage for
a trial such as
hasn't been seen in Europe since the Reichstag fire. A
Bechtel official who
declined to be identified said his company is planning a
prison complex exclusively for housing foreign heads of
state who respond sluggishly to IMF austerity demands.
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CITIZENS
PROTEST IN FRONT OF CENTRAL JAIL IN BELGRADE
Belgrade, June 23-24, 2001
Several thousands angry citizens protested in front of central jail where Slobodan Milosevic is held without any charge on criminal activity. The citizens shouted: "We want Sloba", "We want our freedom". The reason for this rally was decision of DOS politicians to extradite Slobodan Milosevic to Hague Tribunal which is in contrary with Yugoslav constitution and with will of Yugoslav people.
PROCLAMATION
OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA
Belgrade, June 23, 2001
Respected citizens!
An attempt
at treason and shameful capitulation of the country is
going on! The decree by which members of the DOS
politburo in the Federal Government have accepted
extradition of our citizens to the Hague Tribunal is an
unprecedented anticonstitutional and antipopular act that
puts under the question survival of the federal state,
our freedom and sovereignty.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Statement Of International Committee To Defend Slobodan Milosevic
The
International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic held
its session in Belgrade.
In documents which were acknowledged in that occasion,
The International Committee repeated its demand for
immediate release of President Milosevic from custody and
accented danger for sovereignty and economical future of
Yugoslavia as well as International Laws if the threat
presented by political extremists of Milosevic's
extradition to Hague Tribunal come true.
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THE
DEMANDS OF PARTICIPANTS OF THE PUBLIC RALLY
Socialist Party of Serbia, June 17, 2001. Belgrade
Over 50.000 citizens from whole Serbia, participants of
public rally which took place in Belgrade on June 16,
2001 under the slogan "Against the Hague Tribunal,
for liberty of Serbia, for Kosmet in Serbia, for freedom
of Slobodan Milosevic".
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ICDSM
FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
Belgrade, June 17, 2001
The ICDSM Working Committee has considered and accepted the preliminary report presented by Christopher Black, after his week long mission in Belgrade.
Mr. Black is a Canadian lawyer
with a great deal of experience with
and knowledge of the so-called International War Crimes
Tribunals. He has
written several papers on their structure, financing and
role in the New
World Order.
Mr. Black is
one of the group of lawyers, led by Professor Michael
Mandel, who
in May, 1999 brought war crimes charges against NATO
leaders and officials
for their responsibility for the criminal aggression
against Yugoslavia.
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Declaration
of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic (ICDSM)
Defend Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia from Lies and
Terror
Belgrade, June 17, 2001
THE ICDSM
condemns the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) attack on the
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and applauds the
brave efforts of the people to defend that embattled
nation.
The KLA attack could not have taken place if it were not
sponsored by NATO, led by Washington. We urge people
everywhere: defend FYROM from the international smear
campaign which has been launched by the Western mass
media and so-called human rights groups.
NATO always claimed that ethnic conflict in the Balkans
was the work of Mr. Milosevic and the Yugoslav
government. But Mr. Milosevic has been illegally jailed
for 10 weeks. And the Yugoslav government is now pro-NATO.
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SOCIALISTS
PROTESTED
Saturday June, 16th
Fifty thousand people gathered
in the center of Belgrade on Saturday to attend a rally
organized by the Socialist Party of Serbia.
Socialist party top brass spoke at the rally, titled
"Against the Hague - For Kosovo in Serbia - For a
Free Serbia - For a free Slobodan".
Branislav Ivkovic accused the Democratic Opposition of
Serbia of bargaining with the international community
about the price of extraditing the former Yugoslav
president.
The majority of those who were attending the protest meeting were young people and students who are disappointed with the current Serbian government and degradation of Serbian traditional values such as pride, heroism, and freedom.
After the rally, the crowd went to the Belgrade Central Prison and was joined there by several thousand encouraging citizens. Together they chanted "We want Sloba".
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.
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Big Rally
"Against Hague, for Kosmet and Serbia,
freedom for Serbia, Freedom for Slobodan"
Socialist
party of Serbia is inviting all citizens to big rally
which will be held on Republic square at 16:00 on
Saturday, 16th of June 2001. in Belgrade. Rally is called:
"Against Hague, for Kosmet and Serbia, freedom for
Serbia, freedom for Slobodan".
Federal Assembly Commission Supported Appeal For Slobodan Milosevic Medical Treatment Out Of Prison
Commission
for applications and suggestions of the Federal Assembly
supported the appeal of 20 medical doctors, members of
Assembly who are demanding medical treatment out of
prison for Slobodan Milosevic. This treatment is supposed
to be held in highly specialized medical institution.
According to Fonet, this appeal that was sent to
authorities of Serbia and FRY, medical experts and public
was supported by 4 members of commission, one was against
it, and one was detached. Commission didn't support
suggestion for previous opinion from prison and Military
Medical Academy experts. Commission evaluated this appeal
as "human and sustainable".
WE
ACCUSE:
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.
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Amnesty International Backs U.S. Attack On
Milosevic;
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.
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500,000
UKRAINIANS DEMAND: FREE SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC!
And they're still signing....
by Jared Israel [19 May 2001]
In Ukraine,
the powerful Peasant Party has collected 500,000
signatures on a very strong statement demanding that
former Yugoslav President Milosevic be freed from jail
immediately. They have sent the petition and a cover
letter to Yugoslav President Kostunica and others.
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RUSSIANS
DEMAND ACTION
In the most significant
reaction to Mr. Milosevic's arrest to date, ninety-two
out of the one hundred and thirty members of the Russian
Parliament's Upper House have signed a statement
condemning the arrest in the strongest terms and
demanding the Russian government take action to secure Mr.
Milosevic's release.
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FREE
PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC NOW! HANDS OFF YUGOSLAVIA!
Since
this petition was written President Milosevic has been
kidnapped in violation of the Yugoslav constitution and
international law by authorities in Belgrade. He has been
delivered by the RAF and Dutch authorities to NATO's
Tribunal in The Hague. The signers of this petition most
strongly demand that President Milosevic be immediately
released from illegal detention and that he be returned a
free man to his country and his family.
We the
undersigned demand that the Serbian authorities
immediately release Slobodan Milosevic and all other
Serbian patriots from jail.
The arrest
of Mr. Milosevic is an attempt by NATO leaders to blame
the Serbian people for crimes against Yugoslavia
committed by NATO.
We demand
that Mr. Milosevic immediately be given proper medical
treatment, in the hospital of his choice, with doctors of
his choice, for a heart condition that appeared only
after he was jailed.
We demand
that neither Slobodan Milosevic, nor any other Yugoslav,
be sent to the Hague Tribunal.
We demand an
end to the arbitrary kidnapping, arrest, harassment and
persecution of Yugoslav leaders and soldiers and ordinary
people whose crime was to set an example to the world by
resisting NATO aggression.
Free
Slobodan Milosevic at once!
End
persecution of Mr. Milosevic and all Yugoslav patriots
and soldiers at once!
Jail the
real war criminals: the NATO leaders who committed crimes
against humanity and against Yugoslav sovereignty and who
continue to commit those crimes today.
This
petition was written and is being circulated by the
International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM)
at icdsm@aol.com
. Signing indicates agreement with the content of the
petition. One need not be an ICDSM member to sign, nor
does signing make one a member of the Committee. We urge
any and every person and group to sign the petition,
circulate it, print it, place it on Websites, etc. Please
send names of new signers to icdsm@aol.com.
You may write your own support literature, or use
available material, which will be posted and updated at www.icdsm.org
