OPEN LETTER   (No. 5)                                           

RE: PERSECUTION OF PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

The International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (Irish Branch) joins with the United States National Section of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic, and many other National and International Committees, Organisations and individuals in raising protest against the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia's violations of human rights and international law in the treatment of President Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague, Netherlands.

 In this politically motivated trial staged to direct attention away from NATO and the West's responsibility for the debacle in the Balkans victimisation of the former leader of Yugoslavia is becoming increasingly obvious well beyond the parameters of The Hague in the Netherlands.

 The denial to Mr Milosevic of adequate medical attention given the parlous state of his health is in violation of the Geneva Convention and the European Declaration of Human Rights.

 From simply the standpoint of common decency this denial is an outrage.

 No medical attention in a life threatening situation. Visiting rights denied both to Mr Milosevic's closest advisers and, disgracefully, to members of his own family.

 We demand release of President Milosevic for at least two years, for health recuperation and adequate preparation for the presentation of true facts on Balkan tragedy. Denial by the tribunal to take care of his health and to let him prepare his presentation is a clear sign of a desperate fear from the truth.

 Clearly the purpose of these actions is to undermine Mr Milosevic's capacity to defend himself in the face of trumped up charges in this contemporary version of the Inquisition.

June Kelly

Coordinator

International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (Irish Branch)

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FROM:THE COMMITTEE TO DEFEND SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC (ICDSM Ireland)

TO:
Mr. Theodor Meron, President
The Trial Chamber III: Mr. Richard May, Presiding, Mr. Patrick Robinson, Mr. O-Gon Kwon
Office of the Prosecutor: Mr Geoffrey Nice, Ms Hildergaard Uertz-Retzlaff, Dermot Groome
Amici Curiae: Mr Steven Kay, Mr Branislav Tapuskovic, Mr Timothy McCormack

Mr. Hans Holthuis, Registrar

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia,Churchillplein 1, 2517JW, The Hague, Netherlands. PO Box 13888, 2501EW The Hague, Netherlands.

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - Geneva
World Health Organisation - Geneva
International Committee of the Red Cross - Geneva

Copies to: Office of The UN Secretary General, First Avenue, 46th Street, NY 10017, USA
The Permanent Missions of the Members of the UN Security Council - New York

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