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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DENIAL OF MEDICAL TREATMENT THREATENS MILOSEVIC'S LIFE
by Jared Israel and George Szamuely [11 May 2001]

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?

APPEAL OF YUGOSLAV DOCTORS

The following as an Appeal from Physicians who are Deputies of the Federal and Republican Parliaments, to the authorities of the Republic of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and to the medical and general public, urging adequate therapy for treating Slobodan Miloševic and the provision of proper conditions in which treatment can take place.

PREVENT THE FATAL OUTCOME OF MILOSEVIC`S HEART DISEASE
DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN HIS TACIT MURDER

The severely ill Slobodan Miloševic can be effectively treated only by highly competent, highly specialized staff in conditions in which exacerbation such as sudden cardiac death, stroke or other complications, unavoidable in current conditions, can be avoided.
We, medical doctors, members of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, had access to the medical records of Slobodan Miloševic and having obtained the opinion of a competent team of experts, herein address the medical and general public by this appeal devoid of political bias, based exclusively on the principles of the medical profession and of science.
We describe his health conditions as follows:

1. Psychological aspects of heart disease
2. Symmetrical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
3. Hypertensive crisis (malignant hypertension)
4. Conclusion

1. Psychological aspects of heart disease:

Stress is defined as an experience in which the circumstances exceed the capacity of the person to cope, resulting in excessive excitement of the person.
For more than fifty years now it has been widely known that conditions such as hypertension and asthma may reflect unconscious conflicts manifested in somatic symptoms.
Emotions are experienced both psychologically and physiologically. Although the forms of these cognitive manifestations of emotions may vary a great deal (anger, fear, anxiety, joy), the somatic repertoire of autonomous responses is limited. Emotional excitement, via the centrally induced sympathetic discharge, is manifested in the cerebrovascular system similarly to physical stress or strain: by tachycardia, elevated blood pressure, increased oxygen consumption, accelerated muscular flow and fall of splenic and renal flows. Cardiovascular consequences of emotion, as opposed to physical strain, may be more harmful because of absence of accompanying muscular activity and metabolic vasodilatation. Thus, the emotional stress accelerates the heart rate increasing the heart load. Accumulation of small stresses resulting from long-term conflicts promotes development of essential hypertension and coronary atherosclerosis.
Increased neurohumoral activity (adrenocortical, sympathetic, rennin-angiotensin) resulting from stress contributes to dysfunction of endothelial cells. Increased activity of the sympathic system influences the lipid metabolism, as well. The cholesterol level correlates with depression and emotional instability in a positive manner, while it is negatively correlated with motivation and joy. Therefore, both atherosclerotic plaques and clots and vasospasm are related to stress reaction.
Stress may result in elevated blood pressure, but there is no evidence that it may maintain hypertension. In absence of other promoters, stress may act as a trigger. It is frequently accompanied with numerous arrhythmias that may result in sudden cardiac death. Norepinephrine and isoproterenol (endogenous catecholamines) may lead to development of "contraction bands", myocardial lesions similar to skeletal lesions that burst upon excessive contraction. Such lesions are associated with 80% victims of sudden death, including those in whom atherosclerosis has not been previously diagnosed. These changes were recorded in pilots who lost control over their planes, patients with pheochromocytoma, cocaine-induced death. The changes in the cell wall permeability permitting excessive Ca2+ influx may be the underlying mechanism of this phenomenon.
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2. Symmetrical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

From the hemodynamic point of view, these patients have hyperdynamic systolic function with high ejection fraction (estimated at 70% on coronarography and shown in the form of a banana-shaped cavity in the systole). This "supernormal" systolic function leads to increased O2 consumption that, together with abnormal blood flow through the myocardium may result in symptoms of ischemia. The basic difference between this and hypertensive heart disease is absence of history of hypertension in the former.
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3. Hypertensive crisis (malignant hypertension)

This is an emergency conditions necessitating prompt therapy. It is characterized with one or more of the following signs:
· Acute or prolonged elevation of diastolic blood pressure to >120 mm Hg.
· Papillary edema (not necessarily),
· Signs of progressive renal failure,
· Signs of CNS dysfunction,
· (two of these signs are required to establish the diagnosis).
The absolute level of blood pressure is of lesser importance than the rate of elevation and absolute difference between the usual values and those measured in crisis.
Emergency therapy is necessitated since hypertensive encephalopathy, acute dissection of aorta, pulmonary edema, pheochromocytoma-related crisis, intracranial hemorrhage may develop.
Therapy: In the acute phases the patient should be strictly immobilized with headrest at 30o. These are acutely ill people, usually extremely anxious. It is of utmost importance to provide peaceful, supportive environment. Admission to intensive care unit is crucial, 12-lead EEG, intravenous therapy (with measurements of central venous pressure, if possible), arterial line of nitropruside is administered, all laboratory analysis, (accompanied with fundus oculi examination as well as neurological and nephrological consultation) are required.
Interestingly:
· The first echoardiographic examination was made on the day of admission to the coronary unit when the patient manifested ischemia of the apico-lateral part of the heart accompanied with ECG changes. Thus, the patients had objective confirmation of his condition during the reported pain. Since coronarography findings were normal, the pressure of the muscular bridge on the anterior descending coronary artery (more so because it was seen before the actual branching) or microvascular angina (small vessels were diagnosed as very poor) were suspected. This means that the patient should be treated as a cardiac patient in spite of the fact that his major vessels are patent.
· Since ventriculography shows marked wall hypertrophy (echography contradicts these findings, since echo images showed only mild hypertrophy) with typical banana-like image in the systole, he probably has a history of HCM, particularly in the light of the fact that his blood pressure used to be controlled well. Therefore, one cannot draw a conclusion that he has had history of severe hypertension for 20 years resulting in the ventricular thickness. In order to rule out this condition, heart biopsy should be performed.
STRESS - risk for sudden heart death.
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4. Conclusion

On April 11th, at the initial examination, the prison physicians suspected the development of acute coronary syndrome and asked for cardiological consultation.
A multidisciplinary team (headed by Dr. Neškovic) suspected acute cardiac ischemia because of typical echographic findings (akinesia, i.e. completely static cardiac apex, together with apical part of the anterior, lateral wall and the septum) and ECG findings (2 mm ST segment depression, negative T waves) and asked for emergency coronarography!
If any other patient had had such findings and if the multidisciplinary team had met in Bujanovac where no conditions for invasive diagnostic procedures were available, the patient would have been placed in a coronary unit, where strict rest would have been prescribed with nitroglycerin and heparin infusion, as in the case of Miloševic!
His family would have been advised that he had had an infarct and all protective measures would have been introduced. Even if no typical ECG evolution of acute infarction (Q tooth formation) developed, it would have been defined as a case of non-Q infarction (subendocardial) where reperfusion of the surrounding tissues ensued.
Had this happened to Miloševic in Niš or any other major town, he would have received streptokinase in the first six hours after the occurrence of pain (because of the accompanying echographic and ECG findings)!
Dr. Neškovic and late Dr. Popovic wrote to Miloševic, while he was in office, describing him the nature of coronary disease, elevated blood pressure … substantiating longer history of these symptoms.
After coronarography, the patient has recovered, although his discharge summary says that 24 after the procedure no ECG or echographic abnormalities are present (the same as on admission). They even contemplated discharging him a few hours after coronarography.
He will be the first patient cured by this procedure!
Incompatibility of his echographic findings and ventriculography is another problem. Ventriculography shows typical image of HMC, while the echography is suggestive of simple hypertensive hypertrophy.
Also, the presence of the muscular bridge before the branching of the anterior descending artery and denuded microcirculation provide the basis for the diagnosis of microvascular angina.
The blood pressure variations occurring abruptly and acutely, substantially aberrant from the normally recorded ones, make us ask: Is there any other place in the world where hypertensive crisis is managed with a tablet of presolol and prilazide?
Complete investigation was ordered as early as April 23rd, but what has been done so far?
How can such a serious condition be diagnosed in prison conditions that require a multidisciplinary approach?
The warning and our appeal suggest the only possible conclusion: the severely ill Slobodan Miloševic can be effectively treated only by highly competent, highly specialized staff in conditions in which exacerbation such as sudden cardiac death, stroke or other complications unavoidable in current conditions can be avoided.
We also warn the public that even well regulated blood pressure, according to the referential data, may cause stroke in 38% of cases so that in this particular case we wonder what one can expect knowing the conditions in which Miloševic is treated.
In Belgrade, May 9th 2001.

Glen Wreggitt, Winnipeg, Canada
I am signing this petition because I feel I must do something, make some gesture, even one of little significance (although the significance of this petition grows with each new signature). I want to help fight against the slander, destruction and manipulation that has been and is still being directed against Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic by "the West". I want my voice added to the many that defy the bloody Orwellian hand of imperialism to say: We are not fooled by your lies. We see your true nature. We know that human rights and human lives are nothing more to you than a lever with which to extend your exploitation, wealth and power!

Luchezar Georgiev, Varna, Bulgaria
Thank you for the opportunity to express my protest against the arrest of the great Yugoslavian statesman Slobodan Milosevic. Best regards from Varna, Bulgaria!

Carla Berg, Austria
I am signing the "Free Milosevic!" petition because of the violations of international law by which the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (the ICTY or 'War Crimes Tribunal') was established.
The U.N. Charter provides the Security Council (SC) with authority to take measures in the event of acts of aggression, threats to the peace or breaches of the peace. A primary problem is that given the SC's structure, its members enjoy de facto immunity. With that in mind, Article 41 provides the SC with authority to negotiate, use arbitration, diplomatic methods, and similar such measures to address the aforementioned acts.
However, the SC does not have a legal basis to establish judicial bodies.
According to international law, the practical method of establishing any international judicial body must begin with a treaty. Once such a treaty has been ratified, the judicial body can be created by the U.N. General Assembly - not by the Security Council. The reasons for this are two cornerstones principles of international law: state sovereignty and state equality.
The ICTY has determined, in the case of Prosecutor v. Blaskic, that it, as an organ of the SC, is superior to states. This contradicts the language of its statute, which requires states to "co-operate." By taking the position that it, and incidentally its prosecutor, as an "organ" of the ICTY, is superior to any state, the ICTY is behaving in a manner consistent with the "rule of law" as defined by the Ottoman Sultan.
It is worth mentioning that Selim III declared a "new world order" in 1793, in an effort to subdue rebellious Suzerain States. The Suzerain states had their governments, but ultimately, authority was placed in the Sultan. Bad behavior got punishment, compliance got rewards. Sound familiar?
Another significant point is the fact that, normally, parties to a legal dispute have equal status before a neutral court. The structure of the ICTY defies this principle, since it places the Prosecutor above the accused by virtue of the Prosecutor's status as an organ of the court. Then there is the question of an absence of separation of powers, since the ICTY and Prosecutor have legislative abilities under the statute.
Another factor lies in the fact that unlike under the treaty establishing the International Court of Justice (ICJ) or the International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty, the ICTY has been left to establish its own rules of court. As noted in Prosecutor v. Tadic, they make up the rules as they go along.
The ICTY, in its rules, also has denied the accused basic rights as provided under the declaration of human rights and the Covenant on Civil and political rights. Example: the presumption of innocence. The Milosevic indictment demonstrates that in fact the Tribunal indicts first, therefore presuming guilt, and investigates later. See Diana Johnstone's 'Humanitarian War: Making the Crime fit the punishment' for further elaboration on this point. (1)
In short I will not sit back and watch as the law is turned into something ala Orwell's 'Animal Farm' in which the truth is 'propaganda' and racism is acceptable. 'Two legs bad, four legs good' is not all that different from saying 'Serbs bad, NATO good.'
If one examines, even casually, the ICTY committee's final report to the Prosecutor concerning NATO's 78 day act of aggression, and if at the same time we at least bother to look at the U.N. Charter, the customs of war, and other applicable laws, we find something that if it were not so tragic, it truly would be hilarious.
1. Grdilica Bridge-Train Bombing.
No need to investigate. After all the NATO pilot really was trying to bomb the bridge. But after hitting the civilian passenger train, all that nasty smoke got in the way, so they couldn't see what they were doing and bombed it again.
2. Djakovica.
No need to investigate. NATO has consistently maintained that it did not hit the Djakovica civilian convoy with intent to attack civilians. NATO's consistency involved three versions of this incident. 1. The Serbs did it. 2. We did it, but we thought from at 15,000 feet in the air, those tractors were military vehicles. 3. We did it, but Military was mixed in with those civilians . No need to investigate because it is real hard to see what you are attacking from 15,000 feet in the air.
3. RTS (Serbian TV station)
It is a military target because it served 'dual purpose,' says the ICTY. Besides NATO believed it was exclusively used to incite hatred and propaganda.
But when NATO leaders compared Milosevic with Hitler, that wasn't inciting hatred, it was a compliment, right? Conditioning people around the world to look upon Serbs as vicious animals is not inciting hatred, right?
By the ICTY's reasoning, any media outlet, during a war, will be justifiably attacked, in direct contradiction to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, because the media outlet is failing to convey the message that NATO is giving us some educational bombing.
The 'dual purpose' argument flies in the face of the fact that the U.S. Department of Defense's review of the bombing campaign solely and exclusively identifies propaganda as the justification for selecting it as a target. According to Amnesty International, NATO officials told them the same thing. In short NATO lied to its own Kangaroo court!
The question is who is going to be the next target state, and which leader is going to be introduced to justice, NATO style? Which national group is going to be the next to be subjected to an ongoing incitement of hatred by way of NATO, who after all is only bombing people back to the stone age for humanitarian reasons.

Marek Glogoczowski, Zakopane, Poland
I, the undersigned demand that the Serbian authorities immediately release Slobodan Milosevic and all other Serbian patriots from jail.

J J van Kempen, Netherlands
I sign the petition (demand), because Mr. Milosevic did just that what a head of state is supposed to do.

Richard Piper, Canada
My name is Richard Piper. I'm an engineer (retired) and I wish to sign the Petition to free Slobodan Milosevic. My wife Gemma Gauthier, teacher (retired) also wants to sign. Slobo is no more guilty than Tujman, Izetbegovic, Thaci, Clinton, Blair. Congratulations for this initiative.

George V. Fatsi, USA
The U.S. and NATO were planning the destruction of Yugoslavia for many years. They are the real criminals. Slobo is a true patriot.

Jerome Schretter, France
I have read the petition calling for liberation of former Yugoslav President Milosevic and all other Serbian (Yugoslav) patriots who defended their country against NATO. I fully support this call and ask you to add my name to the list of signatories. Thank you.

Tony Delapa, U.S.A.
I live in the USA but I'm originally from Italy. I thank you for adding my name to petition. Keep up the great work.

Branka Perry, London, England
I would like to see a list of Milosevic's alleged misdeeds in black and white. I do not want to see him sentenced on the basis of gossip and propaganda. The charge of atrocities has been discredited, e.g. the suppressed Racak forensic report stated that the dead were combatants and civilians caught in crossfire. The indictment of Milosevic was issued during the bombing which prevented independent verification of the charges.
The Hague ICTY [Hague 'War Crimes Tribunal'] is not a just court because it was established by the UN under pressure from the US with an unjust remit limited in time and scope to those the US wishes to vilify. It is totally biased because it does not bring to justice those in NATO also involved in the conflict and responsible for turning a blind eye to atrocities committed by the Albanians on the Serbs and others and by NATO on everyone. In the rest of the world someone is considered innocent until proved guilty. In the case of Mr. Milosevic and Serbia it is exactly the opposite: the indictments were used to demonise Milosevic and by easy extension the Serb people so that NATO could justify its truly illegal bombing campaign and the consequent occupation of a segment of a sovereign state.
I call upon all intelligent people of this world to question what is going on and raise their voices in protest.

Ilia Baskakov, Toronto, Canada
I understand that NATO is a criminal organization and it`s leaders are war criminals. Mr. Milosevic only tried to save integrity of his country. I do not understand, how could Mr. Kostunica shake Javier Solana`s hand, as he did this February? Who is Mr. Kostunica after that? Mr. Milosevic must be free, NATO leaders must be, instead of him, in Serbian jail!
Mr. Milosevic supporters in Jugoslavia should know: that they are not alone. And shame to Kostunica!

Theophilos Grammenos, Athens, Greece and London, England
Please, do me the honour of adding my name to the list of undersigned individuals. My name is Theophilos Grammenos and i am also signing on behalf of my father Costas and mother Anna. We are Greek citizens, living in both Athens and London and nothing would be more gratifying to us than the release and rehabilitation of President Milosevic ,the symbol of his noble Serbian nation's struggle against the hideous moral monster which is American and NATO criminal expansionism ,a simple regional manifestation of which is the institutionalisation of criminal and terrible Albanian extremism, a monstrous birth which will, unless stopped, now engulf and destroy the whole of the Balkans, including my country, Greece.

Kemalgazi, Turkey
Yugoslavia is an experimental area for Nato. Nato tries to change geographic, demographic and political situation of the region according to it's interests. I refuse the Nato intervention to my region!

Doug Kennedy, New Zealand
I wish you all the best in your endeavours to have Slobodan released. I would have hoped for a bit more of a commitment from Russian polies to have that so called Court of Justice [the Hague 'War Crimes Tribunal'] dismantled, because sure as eggs they may be the next ones facing the Supreme U.S Justice.

Evgenij Vladislavovich Chikunov
I fully support the cause of S. Miloshevich and so I realise that nobody in power really cares about my or even your opinions in any case (and that is one of the lessons we have gotten here during the course of "democratic" reforms), I sign the petition. Mostly to show my support to your efforts and my esteem to Mr. Miloshevich.

Luis Cayetano, Sydney, Australia
I am signing this petition not because I have any particular admiration for Mr. Milosevic, but because I am aware that the rape of Yugoslavia has been the result of a giant conspiracy perpetrated by the West. One only has to look at the blatant lies and omissions from Western leaders to see this. Let all members of American Congress and British and German parliament know about this petition, as well as these nations' respective leaders and cabinets. Even if they ignore you, the fact that they ignore will expose them, their arrogance.

Dr. Edward W. Miller, California, USA
Milosevic is being retained illegally to await an illegal trial in an illegal court...A tribunal hastily pasted together in the UN Security Council in defiance of the UN Charter, which clearly requires the UN Assembly of nations to construct such a court . This US-constructed so-called Tribunal is but a paper-tiger meant to be employed by the NATO politicians and their media to distract public attention form the catastrophic war which NATO waged against the Yugoslavian people. Kostunica has become a whore of the West and will turn Milosevic over to Del Ponte's judiciary mob just to save his own skin. We must keep up pressure on our representatives to prevent this tragedy from playing out on the world stage.

Guy Roy, Lévis, QC
Je suis d'accord pour que mon nom figure sur une liste de revendication pour libérer Milosévich qui n'a fait que résister à la mondialisation impérialiste en voulant préserver l'économie Yougoslave des griffes des investisseurs.
Merci de me permettre de protester contre le harcèlement d'un leader qui restera dans la mémoire des peuples comme un résistant.

William Spring, Chairman, Christians Against NATO Aggression (CANA), London, UK
The continued incarceration of Mr. Milosevic is the most extraordinary example of American-EU-Blairite arrogance and inhumanity yet witnessed, at least since the end of hostilities between EU-NATO and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
EU-NATO now resembles a debauched version of the later Roman Empire. Washington collects heads of state, (like Noriega, like Milosevic) and would if they could parade their victims through the streets in a triumphal gala. This is a symptom of the decadence and arrogance of American power. Will it be Putin next?
Patriotic forces in Yugoslavia should insist on the release of Mr. Milosevic.
Washington, and its accomplice in Europe, Belgrade bomber and butcher Blair, have no understanding of diplomacy: all NATO-EU understands is threats/force/deceit/misinformation and the US-Blairite alliance is now heading us directly into world war three. Lord Robertson brags on British radio how NATO killed Arkan and how NATO keeps Milosevic locked up. We are the Lords of the Universe. Yugoslavia is enslaved.

Helmuth Fellner, Wien (Vienna), Austria
At the same time that the European Social Democrats have elected the British war criminal Cook as their chairman, while the war criminal Fischer from the [German] Green Party and the SPD-war criminal Scharping are saying nothing regarding their unmasked propaganda lies, while the bandits from the KLA are plotting [provoking?] the next war-zone, Slobodan Milosevic is unlawfully jailed. The breakup of Yugoslavia with all the harm which resulted from it, is primarily a result of the foreign policy of the European Union under the influence of Germany and Austria, referring to the Austrian-monarchist German-nationalist thinking of revanchism. For their plans against Yugoslavia and particularly against the Serbian people these political forces have found with Mr. Djindjic a compliant Trojan horse.
Freedom for Slobo!

Sladjana Rascanin, Calgary, Canada
I would like to join people who are signing petition to free Mr. Milosevic.
I am signing this petition since I believe that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. So far, Slobodan Milosevic is accused, and already pronounced guilty, of several crimes. None of his "crimes" is proved; he even has not been to the court yet. But his biggest crime is that he is a Srb who did not sell his, and his people's soul, to the mighty US and NATO.
As a Srb, and a Canadian, I am sick of obsequious Zoran Djindjic and his fellow politicians. I am even sicker of Kostunica, that "honest" Srb who is, together with Djindjic, selling what is left of Yugoslavia to biggest criminals in the world. I am sure that all Srbs, who died fighting for their freedom in all the wars of Serbs' history, are turning in their graves now, and cursing the worst Serbian scum, who unfortunately, with US money, got the power to put Serbs on their knees! Something in which none of our worst enemies succeeded....
My heart bleeds, I cry for my people who have gone through all this for so long, but I still believe that Serbs are going to survive as always. And Kostunica and Djindjic are going to share place in Serbs history reserved for Vuk Brankovic.

Roberto Mantovani, Bonn, Germany
I agree with this petition for the reason that those powers who want Milosevic at The Hague have no right to judge him.
These powers have done so much to let Yugoslavia go up in flames and terror, from the US Foreign Operations Appropriations Law of 1990 and German (and British etc.) logistic, political and military support for the secessions of Slovenia and Croatia, over years of sanctions, unilateral support for civil war parties (Croats, Muslims) in Bosnia and their ethnic cleansing of each other and especially of Serbs, US support for every destructive Izetbegovic move ("if you don't like it, why sign it"), the support and even creation of Albanian terrorism and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo (Germany's BND, Britain's SAS forces etc.) before, during and, what's even more shameful, after the war under direct Western responsibility and supervision, the fake peace talks at Rambouillet (now Bulgaria has granted NATO peacefully what Yugoslavia did not want to give up at Rambouillet, the sovereignty over their territory (see. www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aa0fc2a19d8.htm), the importation of war to Macedonia, with a German Foreign Minister stating that the Albanian national question is open (instead of dutifully decrying the dangers of "Greater Albanian nationalism" like those of "Greater Serbian nationalism").
About the fanatical bias of the ITCY judges and prosecutors everything has already been said and repeated.
Why have old fascist allies in hardly changed uniforms and without changes in mentality gotten such radical and near to unconditional support from Germany? What is there in store for European borders drawn in 1919 and 1945 that may be "just" or not, but that could be changed only at the price of an overall war, with "national questions" looming everywhere? What will become of Europe and of the world, if the War Party (whether neo-fascist or simply globalist gone mad) will enjoy a victory like a Milosevic trial at The Hague undisputed?

Gliso Bjelos, Sydney, Australia.
Please, if anyone out there honestly believes in the 'Hague' as a judicial court system with any sort of ethics, then you must surely believe in the Easter Bunny and Goblins. I gladly add my name to this petition, as, one day, when the people of the world who are being suppressed by NATO come to realize that NATO is nothing more then a Terrorist Organization based on world domination, hiding behind its 'Hague' and so called Humanitarian Rights organizations, I will be able to say: "I was a part of the petition that made this glorious day possible, the day that NATO fell to her knees."
The Serbian people are not and never have been puppets. Can someone please explain that to Mr. Kostunica, Mr. Bush and the rest of them, who obviously have not the least idea.
Let it be known to any Serbian/Yugoslav Patriots who defended Serbian/Yugoslav Land and Law against NATO: You are heroes in my heart. "

Roland Dion, U.S.A.
The actions of NATO War Criminals must not be validated by acknowledging the ICTY as a legitimate entity.

Dieter Homann, Germany
Ich unterstütze die Aufforderung an die jugoslawischen Behörden, S. Miloservic endlich freizulassen.