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What follows is a resolution adopted by by the Head Committee of the Socialist Party of Serbia on Saturday September 7, 2002 demanding the immediate release of Slobodan Milosevic from NATO's puppet court at the Hague.
The International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) fully endorses the text of this Resolution. The ICDSM condemns in the strongest terms the continued detainment of Slobodan Milosevic by an institution that is itself a violation of international law.
TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS,
TO THE FEDERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA AND THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE REPUBLIC OF
SERBIA,
TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA,
TO ALL PATRIOTIC PARTIES AND INDIVIDUALS,
TO DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC
R E S O L U T I O N
For Release of President Slobodan Milosevic
In view of the fact that President Slobodan Milosevic has fully refuted in The Hague all allegations contained in the so-called Kosovo indictment and that even the rules of the so-called Hague Tribunal stipulate that the indictment has to be rejected in such a case, the Head Committee of the Socialist Party of Serbia is most resolutely demanding that: President Slobodan Milosevic be immediately released.
All members of the Socialist Party of Serbia, all citizens of our country and the entire international public are absolutely convinced that this demand has to be satisfied. They all share the view that it would be in the interest and to the benefit of the stability in the Balkans, or our part of Europe, if President Milosevic would be allowed to continue, upon release, his activity in the interest of the state and the people.
President Milosevic's health condition, with the dangerous risks that could be provoked by the continuation of the process in the manner as proposed by the so-called Prosecution, represents a sufficient reason for his release.
It is a firm belief of the Yugoslav public that an innocent man is in prison and that the course of the process conducted thus far has shown his innocence to everybody.
The demand for setting President Milosevic free is also the demand of the progressive public in the world that supported in the past, and which is particularly strongly expressing its view today in favor of President Milosevic and his innocence, as well as against the illegal character of "The Hague Tribunal".
In its reactions based upon arguments, legal experts in Yugoslavia and in the rest of the world point out that one can speak of a political show trial taking place at The Hague that is conducted by an illegal institution with numerous violations of legal norms and human rights.
A longstanding state president elected through a plebiscite and a leader of the nation who opposed colonization of his country by the great powers, needs not and must not be put on trial in the Tribunal set up by these powers in retaliation for the truth.
The Socialist Party of Serbia is making this demand together with numerous international entities – political parties, Trade Unions, peace and anti-globalization movements, national and political leaders, distinguished public personalities – artists, scientists, fighters for human rights who have expressed a strong solidarity and who continue their activity aimed at President Slobodan Milosevic's release. Their activities are concentrated in the international, and several national committees for the release of Slobodan Milosevic. They have been organizing a great many public gatherings, protests and conferences from which they send the appeals to the world public, The Hague "Tribunal", the Organization of the United Nations, the governments of their respective countries.
R e a s o n e d O p i n i o n
President Slobodan Milosevic has proved himself before the illegal Hague "Tribunal" and the whole world as a national hero, a forerunner of the struggle for freedom, truth and national dignity.
To all freethinking people in the world threatened by enslavement and colonization, President Slobodan Milosevic has become a paragon of a fighter for the universal values of freedom and equality.
The so-called Kosovo indictment failed before the truth revealed in a dignified manner by President Slobodan Milosevic. It has become clear to everybody in the world that the "Tribunal" is an illegal institution and an extended arm of the NATO Alliance, fully subordinated to the objectives of the US administration that waged an aggressive war against Yugoslavia, and that the Tribunal is the stage for the process of political retaliation.
More than a year has passed since the kidnapping and extradition of President Slobodan Milosevic to NATO jailers at The Hague. The puppet regime in Belgrade thus breached most flagrantly the Constitution and the laws of the FR of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia, and international law norms. It was also an attempt of the same regime to suppress freedom and democracy in our country and thus to open the way for its break-up, occupation and sale.
More than ninety percent of the so-called witness in The Hague come from the NATO countries or are members or sympathizers of the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK). The few so-called "insiders" accused in their testimonies, contrary to expectations of the "prosecution", the NATO leaders and terrorists of the aggression against the FR of Yugoslavia and helped revelation of the true objectives and motives of this fabricated political process.
The farce taking place at The Hague has shown that the so-called Prosecution and the Trial Chamber are applying double standards without any reluctance. NATO witnesses are allowed and even encouraged to speak without disturbance a large amount of lies and to determine in advance the non-existent crimes, to pronounce judgements and to assess personal and human qualities without any measure and limitation. On the other hand, the arguments and questions raised by President Slobodan Milosevic are interrupted forcedly, rejected, assessed as irrelevant only because such arguments and questions reveal the truth and the truth hurts most.
However in spite of all such miserable and obvious attempts the truth could not be hidden.
Being in great troubles because the process is not evolving in the manner that would satisfy them, The Hague inquisitors are doing all they can in order to break and physically exhaust President Slobodan Milosevic. Loathsome and immoral are the statements in which they express their alleged concern with regard to his health. He has been deprived of elementary human conditions in the prison; they are tendentiously burdening him with a great many so-called witnesses and with tons of written statements, documents and papers. Finally, they have deprived him of adequate medical treatment to lament later hypocritically over his deteriorated health condition to which they have exclusively contributed. The purpose of all this is to limit to him the precious time and his only possibility to tell the domestic and world public the truth about the struggle for freedom, against the aggression and enslavement.
The latest revelations of the witnesses that they had been exposed to tortures, as well as that they had been offered money, security, change of identity and personal description only to testify, i.e. to lie against President Slobodan Milosevic brought to light the filthiest methods used by the authorities in Serbia and their yes-man attitude toward their foreign bosses.
It has become generally clear that the process in The Hague is not being conducted against President Slobodan Milosevic and other patriots of Yugoslavia but that it is aimed against the whole Serbian nation because it had defended its homeland against the terror and aggression and because it had shared solidarity with its compatriots in their struggle for freedom and equality. The purpose of the process was to accuse the nation that resisted suppression of its sovereign rights and to punish it in order to set an example to other nations and states not to do something similar in the future.
The truth being defended by President Slobodan Milosevic, who is supported by all patriots of this country, could neither be hidden nor conquered. The prosecution, the judges and the sponsors of The Hague Tribunal did not manage to find the victim guilty. Instead of a reversal so eagerly waited for by the prosecution, The Hague process against President Slobodan Milosevic resulted in a complete fiasco after finalization of the so-called presentation of evidence by the prosecution in the case of the so-called Kosovo indictment. It has become clear that there is no evidence in favor of the accusations and that the whole process was based on loathsome deceits and fabrications, and application of the medieval Inquisition methods. The attempt of the "prosecution" has fully failed to prove the accountability of the Serbian nation for the alleged "crimes in Kosovo" in order to pardon terrorism and terrorists, NATO aggressors and criminals, and to degrade the struggle of Yugoslav citizens and peoples for their national dignity and freedom.
The Federal Government of the FR of Yugoslavia is bound to undertake concrete steps for enforcement of the decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court concerning the abduction of President Slobodan Milosevic, to meet its constitutional and international obligation of protecting the rights of its citizens abroad, and to undertake appropriate legal and diplomatic activities so as to ensure the release of President Slobodan Milosevic and his return to the country.
The Federal Government is also bound to immediately bring to end the surrender of our citizens to the illegal Tribunal at The Hague.
It is the duty of the President of the FR of Yugoslavia to send personal messages to the heads of states of the world and ask their engagement concerning the release of President Slobodan Milosevic.
It is the duty of the Federal Assembly of the FR of Yugoslavia and of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia to address all parliaments in the world and ask them to react publicly and to exert their influence on their respective governments to advocate for the release of President Slobodan Milosevic and abolishment of The Hague "Tribunal".
The countries refusing jurisdiction of the legally established International Criminal Court, and supporting or not opposing the work of the illegal political ad hoc Tribunal will have to harmonize their standpoint with universality as the basic principle of application of justice.
The process conducted at The Hague against President Slobodan Milosevic is a historical and civilizational shame. According to the consequences it will have, it will return as a boomerang to its creators and to those supporting it. It will be the boomerang much heavier than the one already being returned because of the support to the terrorists of the so-called KLA and organizers of the international crime whose proceeds are used to finance different lobbyists in Washington, New York, London and Berlin.
The Organization of the United Nations must get rid of the moral and legal mortgage represented by this process and the "Tribunal" as they are a blow to the very foundations of the UN Charter and the whole system of international relations and international law.
As it is clear that The Hague process is politically fabricated, as it is clear that it has a vindictive nature, as it needs to frighten all leaders and countries not accepting the terror of the "new world order" and as it has lived to see the complete fiasco despite the enormous budget,
The Socialist Party of Serbia is calling upon all citizens of Serbia and Yugoslavia, all patriotic parties, organizations and individuals to get united in the support to this demand.
We are inviting all freedom-loving forces of the world and the entire international public to contribute by their appeals and concrete actions to satisfaction of our demand.
In Belgrade,
7 September 2002 THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA
HEAD COMMITTEE
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***** Urgent Message from Sloboda (Freedom) Association and the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic!
The Freedom Association in Belgrade and the ICDSM, based outside Yugoslavia, are the two organizations formed at the request of Slobodan Milosevic to aid in his defense.
Up until now our main work has been threefold. We have publicized the truth about The Hague's phony trial. We have organized research to help President Milosevic expose NATO's lies. And we have initiated legal action in the Dutch and European Courts.
Now our job has increased. The defense phase of the "trial" starts in May 2003. No longer will Mr. Milosevic be limited to cross-examining Hague witnesses. The prosecution will be forced further onto the defensive as victims of NATO's aggression and experts from Yugoslavia and the NATO countries tell what really happened and expose media lies. Moreover, Mr. Milosevic will call leaders, from East and West, some friendly and some hostile to the truth.
The controlled mass media will undoubtedly try to suppress this testimony as they have tried to suppress Mr. Milosevic's cross-examinations. Nevertheless this phase of the "trial" will be the biggest international forum ever to expose NATO's use of racism, violence and lies to attack Yugoslavia.
We urgently need the help of all people who care about what is happening in The Hague. Right now, Nico Steijnen , the Dutch lawyer in the ICDSM, is waging legal battles in the Dutch courts and before the European Court, about which more news soon. These efforts urgently require financial support. We now maintain a small staff of Yugoslav lawyers in Holland, assisting and advising Mr. Milosevic full-time. We need to expand our Dutch facilities, perhaps bringing in a non-Yugoslav attorney full-time. Definitely we must guarantee that we have an office and office manager available at all times, to compile and process evidence and for meetings with witnesses and lawyers and as a base for organizing press conferences.
All this costs money. And for this, we rely on those who want Mr. Milosevic to have the best possible support for attacking NATO's lies.
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