Statement from the CDSM in the United Kingdom

Statement from the CDSM in the United Kingdom.

SUPPORT THE STRUGGLE FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE – SAY NO TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER.

Crisis at The Hague: President Milosevic demands a two-year suspension of case.

"At the ICTY there is only prosecution and no defence." Slobodan Milosevic 2^nd September 2003.

The CDSM in the United Kingdom strongly support the demand for a two-year suspension both of the ICTY proceedings and of the incarceration of Mr Milosevic in The Hague as essential conditions so that 1) the defendant can prepare a proper and effective response to the allegations against him and against Serbia and 2) he can recuperate his health.

Imprisoned for over two years by the ICTY at The Hague, the former Yugoslav head of state has endured 19 months of the prosecution’s allegations at this so-called ‘trial of the century’.

Suffering acute hyper tension and life threatening heart and blood conditions and being denied proper medical care, the ex-President has been presented with over one million pages of alleged ‘evidence’ to respond to.

Since Mr Milosevic has insisted on his right to represent himself, he has been refused access to the media, refused visitations from his family and now, indefinitely refused visitations from his advisors and associates in Serbia. Meanwhile the prosecution has been given every liberty and convenience and enjoys a privileged position within this ‘tribunal’.

It is a basic principle of justice that prosecution and defence should enjoy an ‘equality of arms’. It is axiomatic that the defendant should be given adequate opportunity to prepare his response. But how can Mr Milosevic interview witnesses and prepare his presentations from the extreme and totally arbitrary isolation he endures in the prison cell?

Therefore:

We demand a two-year break in the proceedings.

We demand suspension of the incarceration.

We demand that Mr Milosevic be afforded these essential conditions in order to protect his life and to prepare his case.

For Freedom, Truth & Justice.

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To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan Milosevic)
http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM)
http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)