Informazione
(english / srpskohrvatski)
ON PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ADMIRAL MIODRAG JOKIC BEFORE SO-CALLED HAGUE
TRIBUNAL
O POSTUPKU PROTIV ADMIRALA JNA MIODRADA JOKICA PRED TZV. HAŠKIM
TRIBUNALOM
ARTEL GEOPOLITIKA by www.artel.co.yu
office@...
---
ON PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ADMIRAL MIODRAG JOKIC BEFORE SO-CALLED HAGUE
TRIBUNAL
http://www.artel.co.yu/en/reakcije_citalaca/2003-08-30.html
Dr Milan Tepavac
miltep@...
Belgrade, 30 August 2003
Almost all domestic – as well as foreign – media inform us these days
that former admiral of the Yugoslav People's Army (YPA) Miodrag Jokic
pleaded guilty to six accounts of the indictment of the prosecution of
the so-called Hague tribunal for "violation of the laws and custom of
war" on Dubrovnik area in Yugoslavia in October 1991 for (1) murder,
(2) cruel treatment, (3) attacs on civilians, (4) exessive use of force
and (5) destruction of historic buildings. It is about bombardement of
Dubrovnik on December 6, 1991, when 2 civilians were killed and 3
wounded. As a result of a deal with Jokic, the Prosecution abandonded
all other caunts contained in the initial idictment of Febrauary 22,
2001 against him and other three officers of the YPA – Pavle Strugar,
Vladimir Kovacevic and Milan Zec. On his first appearence before the
Tribunal on November 14, 2001, he pleaded not guilty to all 9 counts.
As a result of the deal the Prosecution wrote a new amanded indictment
bearing the date of March 31, 2003.
One of the reasons that the case provokes interst in domestic and
foreign media is that it is the first time that that a high officer of
the YPA pleads gulty before the Hague tribual for former Yugoslavia,
changing his mind.
What is in the initial idictment?
As we already mentioned, it is about the indictment of February 22,
2001, which idicts also three other officers of the YPA – Pavle
Strugar, Vladimir Kovacevic and Milan Zec. Reading that indictment one
cannot just believe his eyes.
Namely, all four officers of the YPA are indicted for serious
violations of Geneva Conventions and violations of the laws and customs
of war!!
Because the prosecution was aware taht these criminal offences could be
committed only in an international armed conflict, it was a conditio
sine qua non to caracterize that armed conflict on the Dubrovnik area
between Yugoslav legal and legitimate authorities with the Croatian
secessionist ustasha paramilitaries as an armed conflict of
international character!! No problem for the prosecutor: she simply
characterze it as a conflict of international character. The
prosecution simply wrote in the initial indictment:
"All the acts and omissions specified in this indictment took place
between October 1 and December 31, 1991 on the territory of the
Republic of Croatia. In all relevant periods there existed the state of
international armed conflict and partial occupation". And even more
explicitly in the amanded indictment (paragraph 10): "10. At all times
relevant to this amended indictment, a state of armed conflict existed
in Croatia. On 25 June 1991, Croatia declared its independence from the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ("SFRY") and became
independent on 8 October 1991. Up to and including 7 October 1991, this
armed conflict was internal in nature. >From 8 October 1991 an
international armed conflict and partial occupation existed in
Croatia."!!
No proofs for such categorical statement were offered. Naturally
enough, because they do not exist. Everybody who wishes to know knows
that in Croatia in the relevant period of time – that is between the
October 1st and December 31, 1991 – existed armed secessionist mutiny
in which all Army's barracks and institutions on the territory of
Croatia, including the Dubrovnik area, were attacked and that the YPA
had to defend itself . It was a typical internal armed conflict, and
such conflicts are regulated by the common Article 3 of the Geneva
Conventions 1949 and Additional Protocol II of 1977, and not by the
Geneva and Hague Conventions which regulate international armed
conflicts.
With regard to the above statement of the prosecutor Carla del Ponte
that Croatia seceded Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991, one must point to the
cynicism of such a statement. The act of Croatia, it is known, was
unconstitutional and legally of no validity whatsoever. She is not
stupid, and knows very well that if in her country, Switzerland, a
canton adopted such a decision that all normal Swiss would laugh and
that the authorities would act swiftly. She doubtlessly knows how
Lincoln reacted when Southern states used unconstitutional means to
secede. She surely knows how would every state react in the case of
unconstitutional armed secession and how in political realm they react.
What this immoral woman is telling us is: yes, every state and every
nation has right to use force against armed secession, EXCEPT those
damned Serbs! She knew all that and what such a behavior of the
pro-ustashas HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) especially meant for the
Serbs in Croatia who were during the Second World War subject of a
genocide unknown in human history for its cruelty. She only pretends to
be stupid in order to satisfy her masters. Also, taking the October 8,
1991, as a date when Croatia became an independent state is utmost
cynicism. In all probability, it is reference to a so-called Brioni
declaration of July 7, 1991, when, under pressure, deceit and lies of
European Community it was agreed that Slovenia would not press for its
independence within 3 months in order to solve the problems peacefully.
But, it has nothing to do with Croatia's independence.
Therefore, there is no basis to consider the conflict between YPA and
ustashas paramilitaries between October 1 and December 31, 1991 as a
conflict of an international character, but consider it as a typical
internal, secessionist conflict. The first, naturally illegal,
recognition of a new "Independent State of Croatia" came from its
sponsors and masters from the West only on the January 15, 1992, and
cowardly General Assembly, under the command of the USA, which,
precisely at that time took it under its patronage, enrolled that
secessionist entity in the UN. If there is any reason to speak about
legality of diplomatic recognition of Yugoslav secessionist entities as
independent states (there are numerous resolutions of the General
Assembly of the UN about prohibition and non-recognition of the violent
dismemberment of states!!) it could be done only after the admission of
an entity into the UN. Therefore, in the case of Croatia – only after
May 22, 1992.
Therefore, Miodrag Jokic agreed to accept non-existent guilt. Let us
repeat: "war crimes" technically could be committed only in a conflict
of an international character. In civil, internal conflict the criteria
for judging whether actions of state organs which are constitutionally
in charge of protecting state and citizens from internal separatists,
secessionists and terrorists are different, less demanding than those
when there are conflicts among states. Those situations are, as we
said, covered with the common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and
Additional Protocol II, and not with the remaining provisions of the
Geneva and Hague Conventions of 1907. That should be known to every law
student. This is not the place to speak about those laws. Surely all
that is known to Carla del Ponte, but that woman takes care only how to
satisfy her masters who reward her generously for her undertakings.
What is astonishing is the behavior of Miodrag Jokic, behavior which is
unworthy of a high YPA officer, although former. In all probability the
answer to the question how it all happened lies in the pressure to
which he was subject by those political factors in the current power
holders whose main aim is to submit to demands which come from abroad,
whose aim is to fully submit the state and the nation to foreign
interests and discredit not only its military but also the nation as a
whole.
---
O POSTUPKU PROTIV ADMIRALA JNA MIODRADA JOKICA PRED TZV. HAŠKIM
TRIBUNALOM
http://www.artel.co.yu/sr/reakcije_citalaca/2003-08-30_1.html
Dr Milan Tepavac
miltep@...
Beograd, 30. avgust 2003. godine
Gotovo sva domaca – pa i strana – sredstva javnog inforrmisanja
objavila su informaciju da je bivši admiral JNA Miodrag Jokic priznao
krivicu po šest tacaka optužbe za kršenje zakona i obicaja rata na
dubrovackom ratištu u oktobru 1991. godine, i to za (1) ubistva, (2)
okrutno postupanje, (3) protivpravne napade na civile, (4) prekomerna
upotreba vojne sile, (5) razaranje civilnih objekata i (6) uništavanje
sakralnih objekata i kulturne baštine. Rec je o bombardovanju
Dubrovnika na dan 6. decembra 1991. godine, kojom prilikom su dva
civila poginula, a tri su ranjena. Kao rezultat nagodbe sa Tužilaštvom,
ono je odustalo od svih ostalih tacaka optužnice protiv Jokica koje
sadržava prvobitna optužnica protiv njega i još trojice oficira JNA –
Pavla Strugara, Vladimira Kovacevica i Milana Zeca – od 22. februara
2001 (br. IT-01-42). Sve optužbe po toj optužnici je Jokic na svom
prvom pojavljivanju pred tim "tribunalom" 14. novembra 2001. godine
odbacio, rekavši da se ne oseca krivim. Kao rezultat nagodbe sa
Jokicem, i odustanka od optužbe protiv Zeca, tužilaštvo je napravilo
novu, amandiranu optužnicu koja nosi datum 31. mart 2003.
Slucaj izaziva interes u domacoj i stranoj javnosti pre svega po tome
što je to prvi slucaj da pred tzv. Haškim tribunalom za prethodnu
Jugoslaviju jedan visoki oficir Jugoslovenske narodne armije priznaje
krivicu, tim pre što je ranije poricao krivicu.
Šta sadrži optužnice iz 2001. godine
Kao što rekosmo, rec je o optužnici od 22.2. 2001. kojom su ubuhvaceni
još trojica oficira JNA – Pavle Strugar, Vladimir Kovacevic i Milan
Zec. Kada covek cita tu optužnicu, koju je licno potpisala glavni
tužiulac toga nazovi suda Karla del Ponte, naprosto ne može da veruje
svojim ocima.
Naime, sva cetvorica oficira JNA optuženi su za teška kršenja Ženevskih
konvencija i kršenje zakona i obicaja rata!
Buduci da je tužilac svestan toga da se ta krivicna dela mogu pociniti
samo u oružanom sukobu medunarodnog karaktera bilo je nužno taj oružani
sukob na dubrovackom prostoru izmedu legalne i legitimne oružane sile
države koju su oružano napale secesionisticke paravojne formacije
okarakterisati kao "oružani sukob medunarodnog karaktera". Za tužioca
tog "tribunala" ništa lakše od toga: jednostavno je taj sukob
okarakterisala kao medunarodni! Tužilac jednostavno veli u tackama 12 i
13 optužnice:
"Sva cinjenja i necinjenja navedena u ovoj optužnici dogodila su se
izmedu 1. oktobra i 31. decembra 1991. na teritoriji Republike
Hrvatske. U svim periodima relevantnim za ovu optužnicu Hrvatskoj je
vladalo stanje medunarodnog oružanog sukoba i djelimicne okupacije"!! A
u amandiranoj optužnici od 31.marta 2003. još eksplicitnije stoji
(tacka 10): "10. Za sve vreme relevantno za ovu optužnicu postojalo je
u Hrvatskoj stanje oružanog sukoba. Na dan 25. juna 1991. Hrvatsaka je
proglasila svoju nezavisnost od Socijalisticke Federativne Jugoslavije
("SFRJ") i postala nezavisna na dan 8. oktobra 1991. Sve do 7. oktobra
1991. ovaj oružani sukob bio je po svojoj prirodi interni. Od 8.
oktobra 1991. postojao je medunarodni oružani sukob, kao i delimicna
okupacija Hrvatske"!!
Nikakvi se dokazi ne navode. Naravno, jer ih nema. Sakome ko to hoce da
zna dobro je poznato da je u Hrvatskoj u naznacenom periodu – dakle
izmedu 1. oktobra i 31. decembra 1991 – bila ustaška secesionisticka
oružana pobuna u kojoj su izmedu ostalog bile napadnute sve kasarne i
postaje JNA na teritoriji te jugoslovenske republike i da se JNA
branila od tih i takvih napada na celoj teritoriji Hrvatske, pa i na
dubrovackom podrucju. Radilo se o tipicnom oružanom sukobu
nemedunarodnog karaktera, a ti i takvi sukobu su regulisani zajednickim
clanom 3 Ženevskih konvencija iz 1949. godine i Dopunskim protokolam II
iz 1977. godine, a ne ženevskim i haškim konvencijama koje se odnose na
medunarodne oružane sukobe.
U vezi sa gornjim stavom tužiteljice Karla del Ponte da se Hrvatska
otcepila od SFRJ 25. juna 1991. mora se ukazati na cinizam takve
tvrdnje. Taj akt Hrvatske, kao što se zna, bio je protivustavan i
pravno nevažeci. Ona nije glupa, i vrlo dobro zna da ako bi neki kanton
u njenoj zemlju, Švajcarskoj, usvojio slicnu odluku da bi to izazvalo
smeh svih normalnih ljudi, ali bogami i akciju vlasti od koje bi se sve
dimilo. Ona nesumnjivo zna kako je Linkoln reagovao kada je došlo do
protivustavne oružane secesije južnih država SAD. Zna ona kako bi svaka
država reagovala, i kako reaguje. Ono što nama ova nemoralna žena
porucuje jeste: svaka država i svaki narod imaju pravo da na oružanu
secesiju reaguju silom, OSIM kada se radi o tim prokletim Srbima! Ona
sve to zna, i to kakva se oluja spremala takvim ponašanjem proustaškog
HDZ u Hrvatskoj, a posebno u odnosu na Srbe u Hrvatskoj koji su za
vreme Drugog svetskog rata tamo doživeli genocid kakvom nema ravna u
istoriji zlocina po svojoj okrutnosti. A pravi se blesava, samo da bi
udovoljila svojim nalogodnacima. Isto tako, uzimanje 8. oktobra 1991.
kao datuma kada je Hrvatska postala država je krajnji cinizam. Rec je
verovatno o stavu izrecenom u Brionskoj deklaraciji od 7. jula 1991. –
koju je Jugoslaviji nametnula EZ – kojom se pre svega Slovenija
obavezala na strpljivost i mirno raspetljavanje jugoslovenske krize u
naredna tri meseca. Ta deklaracija nema nikakve vezee sa datumom kada
su jugoslovenski secesionisticki entiteti postali države.
Dakle, nema nikakvog osnova smatrati da je sukob izmedu JNA i ustaških
paravojski izmedu 1. oktobra i 31. decembra 1991. bio sukob
medunarodnog karaktera, vec se radilo o tipicnom unutrašnjem
secesionistickom sukobu. Prvo, naravno nelegalno, diplomatsko priznanje
nove "Nezavisne Države Hrvatske" dolazi od njenih zapadnih pokrovitelja
i nalogodavaca tek 15. januara 1992, a kukavna Generalna skupština UN,
pod komandom SAD koje su upravo u to vreme potpuno preuzele UN pod
svoje, prima taj secesionisticki entitet u UN. Ako ima ikakvog smisla
govoriti o bilo kakvoj legalnosti diplomatskog priznavanja
jugoslovenskih secessionistickih entiteta za nezavisne države (postoji
nekoliko rezolucija Generalne skupštine UN kojima se osuduju i ne
priznaje protivustavna nasilna komadanja država!!) onda se o tome može
govoriti samo nakon prijema takvih entiteta u UN. Dakle, kada je rec o
Hrvatskoj – samo nakon 22. maja 1992.
Prema tome, Miodrag Jokic je pristao da na sebe primi nepostojecu
krivicu. Ponovimo: "ratni zlocini" tehnicki se mogu pociniti samo u
oružanom sukobu (ratu) medunarodnog karaktera. U gradanskom,
unutrašnjem sukobu kriteriji za prosudivanje postupaka državnih organa
cija je dužnost da zaštite državu i narod od unutašnjih separatista,
secesionista i terorista su drukciji, manje zahtevni, od onih koji se
moraju poštivati kada je rec o oružanom sukobu (ratu) izmedu država. Te
situacije su, kao što rekosmo, "pokrivene" zajednickim clanom 3 sve
cetiri Ženevske konvencije i Dopunskim protokolom II, a ne ostalim
odredbama ženevskih konvencija i haškim konvencijama iz 1907. To bi
trebalo da zna svaki student prve godine prava. Ovde nije mesto da se
detaljnije govori o tim pravnim propisima. Sigurno je to poznato i
Karli del Ponte, ali ta žena ne vodi racuna ni o cemu vec da se dodvori
svojim gazdama koji je izdašno nagraduju za njen "rad". Ono što
zaprepašcuje jeste ponašanje Miodrga Jokica, ponašanje koje je
nedostojno visokog oficira JNA, makar bivšeg. Verovatno odgovor na
pitanje kako je došlo do toga da se upusti u necasnu rabotu sa
tužiulaštvom "tribunala" leži u pritiscima na njega od strane onih
politickih faktora u aktuelnoj vlasti kojima je glavni cilj pokoravanje
svim zahtevima koja dolaze od mocnika izvana, onima kojima je cilj
potpuno podredivanje zemlje stranim interesima i kompromitacija ne samo
njene oružane sile nego i naroda kao takvog.
ON PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ADMIRAL MIODRAG JOKIC BEFORE SO-CALLED HAGUE
TRIBUNAL
O POSTUPKU PROTIV ADMIRALA JNA MIODRADA JOKICA PRED TZV. HAŠKIM
TRIBUNALOM
ARTEL GEOPOLITIKA by www.artel.co.yu
office@...
---
ON PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ADMIRAL MIODRAG JOKIC BEFORE SO-CALLED HAGUE
TRIBUNAL
http://www.artel.co.yu/en/reakcije_citalaca/2003-08-30.html
Dr Milan Tepavac
miltep@...
Belgrade, 30 August 2003
Almost all domestic – as well as foreign – media inform us these days
that former admiral of the Yugoslav People's Army (YPA) Miodrag Jokic
pleaded guilty to six accounts of the indictment of the prosecution of
the so-called Hague tribunal for "violation of the laws and custom of
war" on Dubrovnik area in Yugoslavia in October 1991 for (1) murder,
(2) cruel treatment, (3) attacs on civilians, (4) exessive use of force
and (5) destruction of historic buildings. It is about bombardement of
Dubrovnik on December 6, 1991, when 2 civilians were killed and 3
wounded. As a result of a deal with Jokic, the Prosecution abandonded
all other caunts contained in the initial idictment of Febrauary 22,
2001 against him and other three officers of the YPA – Pavle Strugar,
Vladimir Kovacevic and Milan Zec. On his first appearence before the
Tribunal on November 14, 2001, he pleaded not guilty to all 9 counts.
As a result of the deal the Prosecution wrote a new amanded indictment
bearing the date of March 31, 2003.
One of the reasons that the case provokes interst in domestic and
foreign media is that it is the first time that that a high officer of
the YPA pleads gulty before the Hague tribual for former Yugoslavia,
changing his mind.
What is in the initial idictment?
As we already mentioned, it is about the indictment of February 22,
2001, which idicts also three other officers of the YPA – Pavle
Strugar, Vladimir Kovacevic and Milan Zec. Reading that indictment one
cannot just believe his eyes.
Namely, all four officers of the YPA are indicted for serious
violations of Geneva Conventions and violations of the laws and customs
of war!!
Because the prosecution was aware taht these criminal offences could be
committed only in an international armed conflict, it was a conditio
sine qua non to caracterize that armed conflict on the Dubrovnik area
between Yugoslav legal and legitimate authorities with the Croatian
secessionist ustasha paramilitaries as an armed conflict of
international character!! No problem for the prosecutor: she simply
characterze it as a conflict of international character. The
prosecution simply wrote in the initial indictment:
"All the acts and omissions specified in this indictment took place
between October 1 and December 31, 1991 on the territory of the
Republic of Croatia. In all relevant periods there existed the state of
international armed conflict and partial occupation". And even more
explicitly in the amanded indictment (paragraph 10): "10. At all times
relevant to this amended indictment, a state of armed conflict existed
in Croatia. On 25 June 1991, Croatia declared its independence from the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ("SFRY") and became
independent on 8 October 1991. Up to and including 7 October 1991, this
armed conflict was internal in nature. >From 8 October 1991 an
international armed conflict and partial occupation existed in
Croatia."!!
No proofs for such categorical statement were offered. Naturally
enough, because they do not exist. Everybody who wishes to know knows
that in Croatia in the relevant period of time – that is between the
October 1st and December 31, 1991 – existed armed secessionist mutiny
in which all Army's barracks and institutions on the territory of
Croatia, including the Dubrovnik area, were attacked and that the YPA
had to defend itself . It was a typical internal armed conflict, and
such conflicts are regulated by the common Article 3 of the Geneva
Conventions 1949 and Additional Protocol II of 1977, and not by the
Geneva and Hague Conventions which regulate international armed
conflicts.
With regard to the above statement of the prosecutor Carla del Ponte
that Croatia seceded Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991, one must point to the
cynicism of such a statement. The act of Croatia, it is known, was
unconstitutional and legally of no validity whatsoever. She is not
stupid, and knows very well that if in her country, Switzerland, a
canton adopted such a decision that all normal Swiss would laugh and
that the authorities would act swiftly. She doubtlessly knows how
Lincoln reacted when Southern states used unconstitutional means to
secede. She surely knows how would every state react in the case of
unconstitutional armed secession and how in political realm they react.
What this immoral woman is telling us is: yes, every state and every
nation has right to use force against armed secession, EXCEPT those
damned Serbs! She knew all that and what such a behavior of the
pro-ustashas HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) especially meant for the
Serbs in Croatia who were during the Second World War subject of a
genocide unknown in human history for its cruelty. She only pretends to
be stupid in order to satisfy her masters. Also, taking the October 8,
1991, as a date when Croatia became an independent state is utmost
cynicism. In all probability, it is reference to a so-called Brioni
declaration of July 7, 1991, when, under pressure, deceit and lies of
European Community it was agreed that Slovenia would not press for its
independence within 3 months in order to solve the problems peacefully.
But, it has nothing to do with Croatia's independence.
Therefore, there is no basis to consider the conflict between YPA and
ustashas paramilitaries between October 1 and December 31, 1991 as a
conflict of an international character, but consider it as a typical
internal, secessionist conflict. The first, naturally illegal,
recognition of a new "Independent State of Croatia" came from its
sponsors and masters from the West only on the January 15, 1992, and
cowardly General Assembly, under the command of the USA, which,
precisely at that time took it under its patronage, enrolled that
secessionist entity in the UN. If there is any reason to speak about
legality of diplomatic recognition of Yugoslav secessionist entities as
independent states (there are numerous resolutions of the General
Assembly of the UN about prohibition and non-recognition of the violent
dismemberment of states!!) it could be done only after the admission of
an entity into the UN. Therefore, in the case of Croatia – only after
May 22, 1992.
Therefore, Miodrag Jokic agreed to accept non-existent guilt. Let us
repeat: "war crimes" technically could be committed only in a conflict
of an international character. In civil, internal conflict the criteria
for judging whether actions of state organs which are constitutionally
in charge of protecting state and citizens from internal separatists,
secessionists and terrorists are different, less demanding than those
when there are conflicts among states. Those situations are, as we
said, covered with the common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and
Additional Protocol II, and not with the remaining provisions of the
Geneva and Hague Conventions of 1907. That should be known to every law
student. This is not the place to speak about those laws. Surely all
that is known to Carla del Ponte, but that woman takes care only how to
satisfy her masters who reward her generously for her undertakings.
What is astonishing is the behavior of Miodrag Jokic, behavior which is
unworthy of a high YPA officer, although former. In all probability the
answer to the question how it all happened lies in the pressure to
which he was subject by those political factors in the current power
holders whose main aim is to submit to demands which come from abroad,
whose aim is to fully submit the state and the nation to foreign
interests and discredit not only its military but also the nation as a
whole.
---
O POSTUPKU PROTIV ADMIRALA JNA MIODRADA JOKICA PRED TZV. HAŠKIM
TRIBUNALOM
http://www.artel.co.yu/sr/reakcije_citalaca/2003-08-30_1.html
Dr Milan Tepavac
miltep@...
Beograd, 30. avgust 2003. godine
Gotovo sva domaca – pa i strana – sredstva javnog inforrmisanja
objavila su informaciju da je bivši admiral JNA Miodrag Jokic priznao
krivicu po šest tacaka optužbe za kršenje zakona i obicaja rata na
dubrovackom ratištu u oktobru 1991. godine, i to za (1) ubistva, (2)
okrutno postupanje, (3) protivpravne napade na civile, (4) prekomerna
upotreba vojne sile, (5) razaranje civilnih objekata i (6) uništavanje
sakralnih objekata i kulturne baštine. Rec je o bombardovanju
Dubrovnika na dan 6. decembra 1991. godine, kojom prilikom su dva
civila poginula, a tri su ranjena. Kao rezultat nagodbe sa Tužilaštvom,
ono je odustalo od svih ostalih tacaka optužnice protiv Jokica koje
sadržava prvobitna optužnica protiv njega i još trojice oficira JNA –
Pavla Strugara, Vladimira Kovacevica i Milana Zeca – od 22. februara
2001 (br. IT-01-42). Sve optužbe po toj optužnici je Jokic na svom
prvom pojavljivanju pred tim "tribunalom" 14. novembra 2001. godine
odbacio, rekavši da se ne oseca krivim. Kao rezultat nagodbe sa
Jokicem, i odustanka od optužbe protiv Zeca, tužilaštvo je napravilo
novu, amandiranu optužnicu koja nosi datum 31. mart 2003.
Slucaj izaziva interes u domacoj i stranoj javnosti pre svega po tome
što je to prvi slucaj da pred tzv. Haškim tribunalom za prethodnu
Jugoslaviju jedan visoki oficir Jugoslovenske narodne armije priznaje
krivicu, tim pre što je ranije poricao krivicu.
Šta sadrži optužnice iz 2001. godine
Kao što rekosmo, rec je o optužnici od 22.2. 2001. kojom su ubuhvaceni
još trojica oficira JNA – Pavle Strugar, Vladimir Kovacevic i Milan
Zec. Kada covek cita tu optužnicu, koju je licno potpisala glavni
tužiulac toga nazovi suda Karla del Ponte, naprosto ne može da veruje
svojim ocima.
Naime, sva cetvorica oficira JNA optuženi su za teška kršenja Ženevskih
konvencija i kršenje zakona i obicaja rata!
Buduci da je tužilac svestan toga da se ta krivicna dela mogu pociniti
samo u oružanom sukobu medunarodnog karaktera bilo je nužno taj oružani
sukob na dubrovackom prostoru izmedu legalne i legitimne oružane sile
države koju su oružano napale secesionisticke paravojne formacije
okarakterisati kao "oružani sukob medunarodnog karaktera". Za tužioca
tog "tribunala" ništa lakše od toga: jednostavno je taj sukob
okarakterisala kao medunarodni! Tužilac jednostavno veli u tackama 12 i
13 optužnice:
"Sva cinjenja i necinjenja navedena u ovoj optužnici dogodila su se
izmedu 1. oktobra i 31. decembra 1991. na teritoriji Republike
Hrvatske. U svim periodima relevantnim za ovu optužnicu Hrvatskoj je
vladalo stanje medunarodnog oružanog sukoba i djelimicne okupacije"!! A
u amandiranoj optužnici od 31.marta 2003. još eksplicitnije stoji
(tacka 10): "10. Za sve vreme relevantno za ovu optužnicu postojalo je
u Hrvatskoj stanje oružanog sukoba. Na dan 25. juna 1991. Hrvatsaka je
proglasila svoju nezavisnost od Socijalisticke Federativne Jugoslavije
("SFRJ") i postala nezavisna na dan 8. oktobra 1991. Sve do 7. oktobra
1991. ovaj oružani sukob bio je po svojoj prirodi interni. Od 8.
oktobra 1991. postojao je medunarodni oružani sukob, kao i delimicna
okupacija Hrvatske"!!
Nikakvi se dokazi ne navode. Naravno, jer ih nema. Sakome ko to hoce da
zna dobro je poznato da je u Hrvatskoj u naznacenom periodu – dakle
izmedu 1. oktobra i 31. decembra 1991 – bila ustaška secesionisticka
oružana pobuna u kojoj su izmedu ostalog bile napadnute sve kasarne i
postaje JNA na teritoriji te jugoslovenske republike i da se JNA
branila od tih i takvih napada na celoj teritoriji Hrvatske, pa i na
dubrovackom podrucju. Radilo se o tipicnom oružanom sukobu
nemedunarodnog karaktera, a ti i takvi sukobu su regulisani zajednickim
clanom 3 Ženevskih konvencija iz 1949. godine i Dopunskim protokolam II
iz 1977. godine, a ne ženevskim i haškim konvencijama koje se odnose na
medunarodne oružane sukobe.
U vezi sa gornjim stavom tužiteljice Karla del Ponte da se Hrvatska
otcepila od SFRJ 25. juna 1991. mora se ukazati na cinizam takve
tvrdnje. Taj akt Hrvatske, kao što se zna, bio je protivustavan i
pravno nevažeci. Ona nije glupa, i vrlo dobro zna da ako bi neki kanton
u njenoj zemlju, Švajcarskoj, usvojio slicnu odluku da bi to izazvalo
smeh svih normalnih ljudi, ali bogami i akciju vlasti od koje bi se sve
dimilo. Ona nesumnjivo zna kako je Linkoln reagovao kada je došlo do
protivustavne oružane secesije južnih država SAD. Zna ona kako bi svaka
država reagovala, i kako reaguje. Ono što nama ova nemoralna žena
porucuje jeste: svaka država i svaki narod imaju pravo da na oružanu
secesiju reaguju silom, OSIM kada se radi o tim prokletim Srbima! Ona
sve to zna, i to kakva se oluja spremala takvim ponašanjem proustaškog
HDZ u Hrvatskoj, a posebno u odnosu na Srbe u Hrvatskoj koji su za
vreme Drugog svetskog rata tamo doživeli genocid kakvom nema ravna u
istoriji zlocina po svojoj okrutnosti. A pravi se blesava, samo da bi
udovoljila svojim nalogodnacima. Isto tako, uzimanje 8. oktobra 1991.
kao datuma kada je Hrvatska postala država je krajnji cinizam. Rec je
verovatno o stavu izrecenom u Brionskoj deklaraciji od 7. jula 1991. –
koju je Jugoslaviji nametnula EZ – kojom se pre svega Slovenija
obavezala na strpljivost i mirno raspetljavanje jugoslovenske krize u
naredna tri meseca. Ta deklaracija nema nikakve vezee sa datumom kada
su jugoslovenski secesionisticki entiteti postali države.
Dakle, nema nikakvog osnova smatrati da je sukob izmedu JNA i ustaških
paravojski izmedu 1. oktobra i 31. decembra 1991. bio sukob
medunarodnog karaktera, vec se radilo o tipicnom unutrašnjem
secesionistickom sukobu. Prvo, naravno nelegalno, diplomatsko priznanje
nove "Nezavisne Države Hrvatske" dolazi od njenih zapadnih pokrovitelja
i nalogodavaca tek 15. januara 1992, a kukavna Generalna skupština UN,
pod komandom SAD koje su upravo u to vreme potpuno preuzele UN pod
svoje, prima taj secesionisticki entitet u UN. Ako ima ikakvog smisla
govoriti o bilo kakvoj legalnosti diplomatskog priznavanja
jugoslovenskih secessionistickih entiteta za nezavisne države (postoji
nekoliko rezolucija Generalne skupštine UN kojima se osuduju i ne
priznaje protivustavna nasilna komadanja država!!) onda se o tome može
govoriti samo nakon prijema takvih entiteta u UN. Dakle, kada je rec o
Hrvatskoj – samo nakon 22. maja 1992.
Prema tome, Miodrag Jokic je pristao da na sebe primi nepostojecu
krivicu. Ponovimo: "ratni zlocini" tehnicki se mogu pociniti samo u
oružanom sukobu (ratu) medunarodnog karaktera. U gradanskom,
unutrašnjem sukobu kriteriji za prosudivanje postupaka državnih organa
cija je dužnost da zaštite državu i narod od unutašnjih separatista,
secesionista i terorista su drukciji, manje zahtevni, od onih koji se
moraju poštivati kada je rec o oružanom sukobu (ratu) izmedu država. Te
situacije su, kao što rekosmo, "pokrivene" zajednickim clanom 3 sve
cetiri Ženevske konvencije i Dopunskim protokolom II, a ne ostalim
odredbama ženevskih konvencija i haškim konvencijama iz 1907. To bi
trebalo da zna svaki student prve godine prava. Ovde nije mesto da se
detaljnije govori o tim pravnim propisima. Sigurno je to poznato i
Karli del Ponte, ali ta žena ne vodi racuna ni o cemu vec da se dodvori
svojim gazdama koji je izdašno nagraduju za njen "rad". Ono što
zaprepašcuje jeste ponašanje Miodrga Jokica, ponašanje koje je
nedostojno visokog oficira JNA, makar bivšeg. Verovatno odgovor na
pitanje kako je došlo do toga da se upusti u necasnu rabotu sa
tužiulaštvom "tribunala" leži u pritiscima na njega od strane onih
politickih faktora u aktuelnoj vlasti kojima je glavni cilj pokoravanje
svim zahtevima koja dolaze od mocnika izvana, onima kojima je cilj
potpuno podredivanje zemlje stranim interesima i kompromitacija ne samo
njene oružane sile nego i naroda kao takvog.
Kosmet, ferragosto di sangue
4: LINKS
Questo messaggio conclude la serie in quattro parti dedicata a stragi e
violenze avvenute in Kosmet lo scorso agosto.
I numeri piu' precedenti del nostro "bollettino di guerra" sul Kosmet
(da maggio 2002 in poi) sono elencati alla URL:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2697
dove a sua volta sono riportati gli aggiornamenti da quella che abbiamo
definito "macelleria UCKFOR" nel giugno-luglio 2003.
Come al solito, queste nostre rassegne non hanno pretesa di
completezza, ma sono da considerare solo come esempi delle informazioni
negate alla pubblica opinione.
Un grande numero di articoli sui vari aspetti del regime di terrore
instaurato congiuntamente dalle "nostre" truppe occidentali (KFOR) e
dai neonazisti locali (UCK) si puo' trovare nel nostro archivio:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
Altri SITI IN LINGUA ITALIANA su cui trovare informazioni aggiornate
sulle violenze perpetrate giorno per giorno in Kosmet sono
http://www.ansa.it/balcani (dispacci ANSA) e
http://www.osservatoriobalcani.it
Si tratta di due servizi professionali di informazione, di orientamento
istituzionale, con tutto quanto cio' comporta dal punto di vista della
interpretazione e presentazione degli avvenimenti.
Per un inquadramento storico del terrore nazista in Kosovo-Metohija si
veda in particolare:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2521
ed i collegamenti ivi contenuti.
Molti dei materiali che abbiamo riportato nelle nostre rassegne vengono
diffusi regolarmente sulle mailinglists:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
antinato@...
anti-imperialiste@...
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
e dal bollettino della chiesa ortodossa in Kosmet
ERP KIM Newsletter:
---
ERP KIM Info-Service is the official Information Service of the
Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren and works with the
blessing of His Grace Bishop Artemije.
Our Information Service is distributing news on Kosovo related
issues. The main focus of the Info-Service is the life of the Serbian
Orthodox Church and the Serbian community in the Province of Kosovo and
Metohija. ERP KIM Info Service works in cooperation with
www.serbian-translation.com as well as the Kosovo Daily News (KDN) News
List
Our Newsletters are available on our ERP KIM Info-service Web-Page:
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo.html
Additional information on our Diocese and the life of the Kosovo Serb
Community may be found at:
http://www.kosovo.com
---
LINKS OF GENERAL INTEREST ON THE KOSMET ISSUE
LINK DI INTERESSE GENERALE SULLA QUESTIONE DEL KOSMET
Kosovo and Metohija: Propaganda and truth
Rade Drobac, Belgrade, April 22, 2003
http://www.artel.co.yu/en/reakcije_citalaca/2003-04-22_1.html
Articles on KLA-Kosovo-Drugs-Mafia and Fundraising
(by Benjamin C. Works)
http://members.tripod.com/Balkania/resources/terrorism/kla-drugs.html
---
LINKS ON THE MOST RECENT EVENTS
LINK SUGLI AVVENIMENTI PIU' RECENTI
Reality Macedonia August 15, 2003
The Massacred Children of Kosovo
PHOTOS FROM GORAZDEVAC, AUGUST 14, 2003
VICTIMS OF ALBANIAN TERRORISM IN KOSOVO
http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/web/news_page.asp?nid=2729
Why are you killing our children?
A Petition to the United Nations - Add your signature!
http://www.petitiononline.com/Serbs/petition.html
16/07/03: PHOTOGRAPHS: KOSOVO'S ROMA REFUGEES ON THE GREEK BORDER
http://www.documentography.com/anna/webgallery/roma_border/FrameSet.htm
Memorandum on Kosovo and Metohija of the Holy Synod of bishops of the
Serbian Orthodox Church
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76419
Declaration on Kosovo-Metohija adopted
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
08/12/330436.html
UN mission to launch new weapons amnesty in Kosovo
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=7973&Cr=kosovo&Cr1=
Terrorist attack against Serb children near Gorazdevac
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76475#1
Serbian government demands urgent investigation into attack on Serb
children
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
08/13/330462.html
Statement issued by the EU Presidency on the murder of two k/serb
children in Gorazdevac
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/
1d824c574201412fc1256d820054ed73?OpenDocument
ERP KiM: Crime in Gozdarevac an indicator of the real situation in
Kosovo and Metohija (by Fr. Sava Janjic)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76525
To America & Europe: Why did you allow them to kill our children?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76575
Indictments against KLA leaders must be filed
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
08/15/330494.html
UN Resolution 1244 as main goal
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
08/15/330492.html
Serbs Blocking Kosovo (by Sergey Yugov)
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=10724
Who is politically and morally responsible for ethnic violence in
Kosovo and Metohija?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76593
Gorazdevac Crisis Centre demands accountability of UNMIK, KFOR and
local government in massacre of Serb children
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76601
Speakers in Security Council condemn recent violence in Kosovo
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/sc7846.doc.htm
Head of the Coordinating Centre for Kosovo-Metohija: Ethnic-Albanian
terror a threat to Kosovo stabilisation
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
08/19/330514.html
Talk Endgame Now
http://balkanreport.tol.cz/look/BRR/
article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=6&NrArticle
=10456
Kosovo's Balkan nightmare goes on
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim21aug03.html
UN SC members endorse measures proposed by Belgrade authorities
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim20aug03.html
Devastating results of the Kosovo "Peace" mission
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim22aug03.html
Media commissioner warns Kosovo dailies over inaccurate reporting on
violence
http://www.osce.org/news/generate.pf.php3?news_id=3478
Metohija weeps as church bells toll
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76741#4
Evening Standard: Albanian criminals 'significant' threat here
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/
6326817?source=Evening%20Standard
The West continues to fail in Kosovo
http://www.balkanalysis.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=124
Why are you silent Serbia?
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim25aug03.html
Kosovo 'Indivisible' Part Of Country
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76831
Declaration on Kosovo-Metohija platform for further policy making
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
08/28/330626.html
Kosovo in Tirana
http://www.tol.cz/look/BRR/
article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=2&NrArticle
=10515
Amidst growing tensions life in Kosovo and Metohija goes on...
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim30aug03.html
Covic: Open season for hunting Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim01sep03c.html
(a cura di Andrea)
4: LINKS
Questo messaggio conclude la serie in quattro parti dedicata a stragi e
violenze avvenute in Kosmet lo scorso agosto.
I numeri piu' precedenti del nostro "bollettino di guerra" sul Kosmet
(da maggio 2002 in poi) sono elencati alla URL:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2697
dove a sua volta sono riportati gli aggiornamenti da quella che abbiamo
definito "macelleria UCKFOR" nel giugno-luglio 2003.
Come al solito, queste nostre rassegne non hanno pretesa di
completezza, ma sono da considerare solo come esempi delle informazioni
negate alla pubblica opinione.
Un grande numero di articoli sui vari aspetti del regime di terrore
instaurato congiuntamente dalle "nostre" truppe occidentali (KFOR) e
dai neonazisti locali (UCK) si puo' trovare nel nostro archivio:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
Altri SITI IN LINGUA ITALIANA su cui trovare informazioni aggiornate
sulle violenze perpetrate giorno per giorno in Kosmet sono
http://www.ansa.it/balcani (dispacci ANSA) e
http://www.osservatoriobalcani.it
Si tratta di due servizi professionali di informazione, di orientamento
istituzionale, con tutto quanto cio' comporta dal punto di vista della
interpretazione e presentazione degli avvenimenti.
Per un inquadramento storico del terrore nazista in Kosovo-Metohija si
veda in particolare:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2521
ed i collegamenti ivi contenuti.
Molti dei materiali che abbiamo riportato nelle nostre rassegne vengono
diffusi regolarmente sulle mailinglists:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
antinato@...
anti-imperialiste@...
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
e dal bollettino della chiesa ortodossa in Kosmet
ERP KIM Newsletter:
---
ERP KIM Info-Service is the official Information Service of the
Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren and works with the
blessing of His Grace Bishop Artemije.
Our Information Service is distributing news on Kosovo related
issues. The main focus of the Info-Service is the life of the Serbian
Orthodox Church and the Serbian community in the Province of Kosovo and
Metohija. ERP KIM Info Service works in cooperation with
www.serbian-translation.com as well as the Kosovo Daily News (KDN) News
List
Our Newsletters are available on our ERP KIM Info-service Web-Page:
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo.html
Additional information on our Diocese and the life of the Kosovo Serb
Community may be found at:
http://www.kosovo.com
---
LINKS OF GENERAL INTEREST ON THE KOSMET ISSUE
LINK DI INTERESSE GENERALE SULLA QUESTIONE DEL KOSMET
Kosovo and Metohija: Propaganda and truth
Rade Drobac, Belgrade, April 22, 2003
http://www.artel.co.yu/en/reakcije_citalaca/2003-04-22_1.html
Articles on KLA-Kosovo-Drugs-Mafia and Fundraising
(by Benjamin C. Works)
http://members.tripod.com/Balkania/resources/terrorism/kla-drugs.html
---
LINKS ON THE MOST RECENT EVENTS
LINK SUGLI AVVENIMENTI PIU' RECENTI
Reality Macedonia August 15, 2003
The Massacred Children of Kosovo
PHOTOS FROM GORAZDEVAC, AUGUST 14, 2003
VICTIMS OF ALBANIAN TERRORISM IN KOSOVO
http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/web/news_page.asp?nid=2729
Why are you killing our children?
A Petition to the United Nations - Add your signature!
http://www.petitiononline.com/Serbs/petition.html
16/07/03: PHOTOGRAPHS: KOSOVO'S ROMA REFUGEES ON THE GREEK BORDER
http://www.documentography.com/anna/webgallery/roma_border/FrameSet.htm
Memorandum on Kosovo and Metohija of the Holy Synod of bishops of the
Serbian Orthodox Church
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76419
Declaration on Kosovo-Metohija adopted
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
08/12/330436.html
UN mission to launch new weapons amnesty in Kosovo
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=7973&Cr=kosovo&Cr1=
Terrorist attack against Serb children near Gorazdevac
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76475#1
Serbian government demands urgent investigation into attack on Serb
children
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
08/13/330462.html
Statement issued by the EU Presidency on the murder of two k/serb
children in Gorazdevac
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/
1d824c574201412fc1256d820054ed73?OpenDocument
ERP KiM: Crime in Gozdarevac an indicator of the real situation in
Kosovo and Metohija (by Fr. Sava Janjic)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76525
To America & Europe: Why did you allow them to kill our children?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76575
Indictments against KLA leaders must be filed
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
08/15/330494.html
UN Resolution 1244 as main goal
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
08/15/330492.html
Serbs Blocking Kosovo (by Sergey Yugov)
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=10724
Who is politically and morally responsible for ethnic violence in
Kosovo and Metohija?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76593
Gorazdevac Crisis Centre demands accountability of UNMIK, KFOR and
local government in massacre of Serb children
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76601
Speakers in Security Council condemn recent violence in Kosovo
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/sc7846.doc.htm
Head of the Coordinating Centre for Kosovo-Metohija: Ethnic-Albanian
terror a threat to Kosovo stabilisation
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
08/19/330514.html
Talk Endgame Now
http://balkanreport.tol.cz/look/BRR/
article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=6&NrArticle
=10456
Kosovo's Balkan nightmare goes on
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim21aug03.html
UN SC members endorse measures proposed by Belgrade authorities
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim20aug03.html
Devastating results of the Kosovo "Peace" mission
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim22aug03.html
Media commissioner warns Kosovo dailies over inaccurate reporting on
violence
http://www.osce.org/news/generate.pf.php3?news_id=3478
Metohija weeps as church bells toll
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76741#4
Evening Standard: Albanian criminals 'significant' threat here
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/
6326817?source=Evening%20Standard
The West continues to fail in Kosovo
http://www.balkanalysis.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=124
Why are you silent Serbia?
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim25aug03.html
Kosovo 'Indivisible' Part Of Country
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/76831
Declaration on Kosovo-Metohija platform for further policy making
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
08/28/330626.html
Kosovo in Tirana
http://www.tol.cz/look/BRR/
article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=2&NrArticle
=10515
Amidst growing tensions life in Kosovo and Metohija goes on...
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim30aug03.html
Covic: Open season for hunting Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim01sep03c.html
(a cura di Andrea)
Milosevic "trial", August 2003
1. Sloba supporters banned from visiting The Hague (19/8)
2. SPS congratulates Milosevic his birthday (20/8)
3. "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: FIRST SREBRENICA WITNESS TESTIFIES AGAINST
MILOSEVIC (25/8)
Includes a Trascript of Milosevic speaking about Srebrenica dated
September 27, 2002
4. "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: AUG. 26 2003 - COLM DOYLE TESTIFIES AGAINST
MILOSEVIC
5. MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 27, 2003
6. SYNOPSIS OF THE DAY'S PROCEEDINGS: AUGUST 28, 2003
7. "TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 29, 2003
---
Useful Links to Transcripts and Videos of Milosevic 'Trial'
Transcripts:
Go to http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/transe54.htm
Video:
Live English Video Feed
http://www.domovina.net/Icty/eng/room1.ram
Live Serbo-Croatian Video Feed
http://www.domovina.net/Icty/bcs/room1.ram
Archives - English http://hague.bard.edu/video.html
Archives - Serbo-Croatian http://tribunal.freeserbia.com
=== 1 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/tanjug081903c.htm
Socialists embittered by ban to visit Milosevic
Tanjug - August 19, 2003
17:38 BELGRADE - The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) on Tuesday voiced
strong protest with a decision of the International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) administration to ban the visits of
its representatives and the Association Freedom for SPS president and
former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, announcing it would
employ all mechanisms aimed at suspending this decision.
The ICTY administration is "trying to explain" this decision by
statements SPS members made after their recent visit to Milosevic at
the Scheveningen detention unit, the party said in a statement and
added that this was really "an excuse aimed at placing president
Milosevic in complete isolation."
Copyright 2003 Tanjug News Agency
Posted For Fair Use Only
---
FoNet, August 20, 2003
Sloba supporters banned from visiting The Hague
BELGRADE -- Wednesday -- The Hague Tribunal is
reported to have banned members of the Socialist Party
of Serbia and the Sloboda (Freedom) Movement from
visiting Slobodan Milosevic, according to Sloboda
Association member Vladimir Krsljanin.
Speaking at a press conference on the occasion of the
former Yugoslav and Serbian President's birthday,
Krsljanin produced a letter from the international
tribunal's administration addressed to Milosevic,
which states that the ban, to be implemented until
further notice, is a result of a media statement given
in breach of court regulations.
The statement was made by Socialist Party delegation
members Milorad Vucelic and Zoran Andjelkovic during
their last visit to the Scheveningen detention centre,
where Milosevic is being held. They gave the statement
to press despite being forewarned that such a move was
against tribunal rules.
Krsljanin protested: "This is hideous manipulation and
an injustice because it is not in line with the rules
of the tribunal".
He stressed that a "legal battle" for the decision to
be overturned would ensue.
The press conference was followed by the holding of a
"Free Serbia" debate and the screening of a
documentary entitled "Defeated Hague", which were to
mark Milosevic's birthday.
=== 2 ===
SPS congratulates Milosevic his birthday
17:14 BELGRADE , Aug 20 (Tanjug) - The Socialist Party
of Serbia said on Wednesday that it sent a
congratulatory message to the preasident of that party
Slobodan Milosevic, who is standing trial in the war
crimes tribunal at The Hague, on the occasion of his
62nd birthday.
SPS said in the message it wished that "the fight he
is leading in The Hague, in the name of national and
state interets, will be victorious, because it is
important for the future of our state and of our people."
---
Send your solidarity messages to:
PRESIDENT
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
UN Detention Unit
Postbus 87810
2508 Den Haag
Pomp Stations Weg 32
The Neteherlands
=== 3 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082503.htm
"TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: FIRST SREBRENICA WITNESS TESTIFIES AGAINST MILOSEVIC
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - Originally posted August 25, 2003 -
UPDATED August 26, 2003
Written By: Andy Wilcoxson
The first Srebrenica witness has testified against President Milosevic
at The Hague tribunal. At this point it is important to be reminded of
the case President Milosevic is putting with regard to Srebrenica and
so I will now quote from his opening statement.
TRANSCRIPT - Page 10309 Line 12 - Friday September 27, 2002
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: I wish to avail myself of the remaining time to
say a few words about Srebrenica that was mentioned here. I have
already said that I first heard about this -- I said this six months
ago, when I first spoke here, that I first heard about this from Carl
Bildt and that Radovan Karadzic swore to me that he didn't know a
thing about this. All subsequent information corroborated that,
including the subsequently published main report of the Dutch
government published in April 2001. In item 10, it says quite
literally: "There are no indications that the action was taken out in
collaboration with Belgrade, neither in terms of political or military
coordination. In this way, gentlemen, as far as I'm concerned, an end
could be brought to this, but I don't want to place a full stop there.
I want the truth to be revealed with regard to this insane crime, in
the interest of justice. It has to be explained before the world
public. The information that I have compiled so far, and there will be
more to come, speaks of how Izetbegovic used Srebrenica for all kinds
of manipulations and held it in -- in his own reserve for various
political bargains. And you saw from the statement made by a member of
his delegation in the report that was accepted by the UN with regard
to the takeover of Srebrenica, the handover of Srebrenica. You saw all
of this.
Time will show that on the 1st of July, 1995, in the house of a Muslim,
the former president of the municipality in Zvornik, where two members
of the Muslim government from Sarajevo were present, the
representatives of a mercenary military formation within the army of
Republika Srpska but not under the command of the army of Republika
Srpska but within the French intelligence service, they agreed to have
this crime committed, that is to say, to abandon Srebrenica and to
carry out this slaughter.
All information shows that General Mladic knew nothing about this, nor
General Krstic, who was sentenced here. I am personally convinced that
the military honour of Mladic or Krstic would not allow them to
execute civilians, let alone Mladic, Krstic, generals who throughout
the war made a maximum effort to protect prisoners of war and
civilians at all times.
This mercenary unit was commanded by the same people who sent those
same persons only one year later to Zaire so that they would protect
Mobutu and crush a rebellion. This same organisation organised the
purchase of arms a year later. And since I asked you to adopt a writ
of disclosure, please do that. Those people who have a salary for that
and have hundreds of associates, make them as Jacques Chirac and the
French intelligence service and the American intelligence service and
all other intelligence services, let them disclose all the facts they
have on Srebrenica. The information I have available shows that the
point of the agreement reached was the following: The underlying
French idea was that the war in Bosnia should be ended through
effective actions taken by NATO and through military engagement. As a
pretext for military engagement, genocide that will be carried out by
the Serbs will be made up, and the Serb negotiating side will have to
deal with that. The presence of Ratko Mladic in Srebrenica will be
used as a confirmation of the responsibility of the military leadership
and of Mladic himself for having an indictment issued against him in
The Hague by making it appear that a genocide was carried out and
anathema will be placed on the leadership of the Bosnian Serbs and
then the international community will take measures. The protagonists
will not be prosecuted.
One insignificant one, a member of the Croat detachments of death who
happened to be there was accused, and then for the crimes in
Srebrenica, Ratko Mladic should be accused and also the leadership of
Republika Srpska headed by Radovan Karadzic. And this agreement was
attended by two representatives of the Muslim government, that out of
the French, General Janvier was there for sure, and this other person
was said to be Morillon but this was not confirmed. There is no
reliable information saying that it was Morillon.
The agreement was that Srebrenica should be surrendered to the Serbs
practically without any fighting, as forthwith withdraw and in that way
make it possible for them to purportedly take over Srebrenica. Naser
Oric is going to withdraw and award for the action will be 2 million
Deutschmark.
Mladic was not at that meeting. He was having lunch with those generals
later on at the Likovac locality, but according to intelligence data,
he did not know what the subject agreed upon was, and he didn't know
that he was commanding all the units that took part in that,
especially the one that was sent to Zaire later on by the same people
that ordered the job to be done. Oric lives in Lukavac near Tuzla
today. He has a restaurant on the lake and he destroyed more than 70
villages around Srebrenica and that he is one of the greatest criminals
in the war.
///END TRANSCRIPT EXCERPT///
Another important point to make before presenting the synopsis of the
day's events is that "the Srebrenica massacre" referred to in this
article is not the same Srebrenica massacre that the media has been
going on about for the last 8 years.
The media's claim that the Srebrenica massacre was an act of genocide
perpetrated by the Serbs is a lie. There was indeed a massacre at
Srebrenica, but as I am confident that Slobodan Milosevic will prove,
it is not the way that the media has put it. This was a massacre
perpetrated by a multi-ethnic mercenary unit that was under French
control, not under the control of VRS general staff.
Drazen Erdemovic is the first witness to testify at the so-called
"trial" of Slobodan Milosevic about the horrific events that took
place in Srebrenica. Erdemovic is an ethnic Croat from the Bosnian town
of Tuzla. His career throughout the Bosnian war is rather odd. He was
originally a member of the JNA (Yugoslav People's Army), then he
joined the ABiH (Bosnian Muslim "Army of Bosnia - Herzegovina"), after
that he joined the HVO (Croatian Army), finally he wound up a member
of the VRS (Army of Republika Srpska) serving in the 10th Sabotage
Division.
As a mercenary in the 10th Sabotage Division, Erdemovic participated a
cold blooded massacre of 1,200 Bosnian Muslims at the Pilca Farm near
Srebrenica. By his own admission, Erdemovic personally massacred over
100 Bosnian Muslim men ranging in age between 18 and 60.
In March of 1996 Erdemovic was arrested by the authorities of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia precisely because of his participation
in that massacre at Srebrenica. Because Erdemovic was not a citizen of
the FRY, the Yugoslav authorities honored an extradition request of
the Hague Tribunal and sent Erdemovic to The Hague.
When Erdemovic arrived at the Hague he coped a plea agreement, which
allowed him to get off with only a 5 year prison sentence, even though
he admitted to personally murdering 100 people and participating in the
slaughter of 1,200. In a further act of insult to the victims of his
killing spree, the Hague Tribunal granted Erdemovic early release so
that he didn't even have to serve the whole 5 years.
In addition to getting off with only a slap on the wrist for killing a
hundred people, Erdemovic doesn't even have to live with the shame of
being known as a mass murderer. He has been given a new identity, and
his testimony today was given with protective measures; the video of
his face was obscured so that nobody could recognize his face, and
voice distortion technology was used so that nobody would even
recognize his voice.
It is obvious just from seeing this that the Hague Tribunal exists to
protect the real war criminals and while simultaneously persecuting
the innocent.
Erdemovic's testimony was quite interesting to say the least. The 10th
Sabotage Division, which carried out the massacre, was a multi-ethnic
unit according to Erdemovic. The unit contained Muslims, Croats,
Slovenes, and some Bosnian Serbs.
Erdemovic stated categorically that he saw no Yugoslav or Serbian
personnel in or around Srebrenica at the time in question. There was
only his unit and some local groups, but nobody from the Government of
either Serbia or Yugoslavia. Erdemovic, echoing the conclusions of the
Dutch Government, saw nothing that would indicate any participation by
Belgrade in the planning or execution of the Srebrenica massacre.
It is completely out of the question that President Milosevic could
have had anything to do with the tragic events in Srebrenica. The only
attempt to "link" Milosevic to the events in Srebrenica came when
Erdemovic claimed to have spoken to an unnamed member of the Serbian
MUP at the Military Hospital in Belgrade.
Erdemovic claimed that this alleged MUP officer told him that he had
participated in the attack on Srebrenica. The only problem is that
Erdemovic didn't remember this tidbit until November 3, 2001, and
remember he had been in the custody of the Hague Tribunal since 1996,
but he never mentioned that until 2001.
The contentious point between President Milosevic and Mr. Erdemovic
was over who was responsible for ordering the massacre. Erdemovic
claimed that the orders "must have" come from the General Staff of the
VRS.
Erdemovic never saw any orders from the General Staff. Erdemovic says
that he was ordered to carry out the executions by a unit commander
named Gojikovic who had allegedly claimed to have gotten his orders
from some unknown Lt. Colonel from the Drina Corps of the VRS.
To counter the Erdemovic's claim that the order to carry out this
hideous crime "must have" come from the General Staff of the VRS;
President Milosevic produced the orders issued by the General Staff of
the VRS, pertaining to Srebrenica, which explicitly stated that
civilians must be protected and that the laws and customs of war had
to be abided by.
Erdemovic denied any knowledge of any foreign involvement in the
Srebrenica tragedy. However, he did admit to some odd goings on.
First of all, Erdemovic, claimed to have no idea how much he was
personally paid, which raises the red flag that he may have been
receiving money other than the normal VRS salary, which along with the
fact that he fought at one point or another for every side in the war,
would indicate that he was in fact a mercenary.
Erdemovic also claimed that he had heard from his wife that a
commander of the 10th Sabotage Division named Pelimic had received a
large quantity of gold from unknown persons, and that after the war
this Pelimic was living the high life and having jewel incrusted gold
chains made for himself at jewelry stores. Erdemovic admitted that
this information even made him suspect that somebody had bribed the
commanders of his unit so that they would perpetrate that horrific
crime at Srebrenica.
Erdemovic also testified that he had heard about some members of the
10th Sabotage Division, including Pelimic, subsequently going to
France in order to become mercenaries in Zaire, after the end of the
Bosnian war, which jives with what Milosevic said in his opening
statement.
I don't know when or if Erdemovic's testimony will continue. The
so-called "trial chamber" went into closed session at the end of the
hearing to decide, and so I guess we will see tomorrow, but they did
not intend to keep this witness more than 1 day.
SYNOPSIS OF THE PROCEEDINGS FOR AUGUST 25 2003
1. Prosecutor Geoffrey Nice Examines the witness Drazen Erdemovic.
2. President Slobodan Milosevic cross-examines the witness Drazen
Erdemovic
=== 4 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082603.htm
"TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: AUG. 26 2003 - COLM DOYLE TESTIFIES AGAINST MILOSEVIC
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 26, 2003
The Hague Tribunal heard testimony from Colm Doyle today. The former
Irish army major served as head of the European Community's monitoring
mission in Sarajevo, and later on as the special envoy of Lord
Carrington, he was also the chairman of the EC conference on Yugoslavia.
Even though Mr. Doyle was at the Hague to testify against Milosevic;
his testimony did not incriminate Milosevic in the least. The only
part of Doyle's testimony that had anything at all to do with
Milosevic was his testimony about a meeting he had with President
Milosevic in Belgrade on 16 June 1992. According to Doyle, Milosevic
expressed strong support for the peace process. Doyle claimed that
Milosevic reiterated his position that the violence and bloodshed
should be stopped and that the only solution for Bosnia was a solution
which was fair to all 3 sides, and which all 3 sides could agree on.
Doyal said that Milosevic expressed strong support for Radovan
Karadzic's proposal that UN observers should be attached to all units
of the Bosnian-Serb Army. He said that Milosevic condemned the
shelling of Sarajevo and pledged to do what he could to assist the
peace process.
So, the only evidence that the prosecution brought against President
Milosevic with this witness was that he wanted to stop the Bosnian war
and find a solution that was fair to all 3 sides. I guess working to
stop a war is what makes one a war criminal at the Hague Tribunal.
Even though the rest of Mr. Doyle's testimony had absolutely nothing
to do with President Milosevic, parts of it were quite interesting.
The most interesting tidbit was Doyle's testimony about how the
Bosnian parliament reached its decision to hold the referendum on
succession from Yugoslavia.
According to Doyle, on or about the 15th of October 1991 the speaker
of the Bosnian parliament adjourned the parliament for the night at
around 3:30 in the morning. After the Serb MPs had gone home for the
night, the Muslim and Croat MPs reconvened the parliament and passed
the decision that the referendum on succession should be held.
To put it bluntly, the Muslim and Croat MPs tricked the Serb MPs into
leaving the debate on the referendum question by fraudulently
adjourning the parliament and then fraudulently reconvening it again
after the Serbs had left for the night. After the Serbs had gone home,
falsely believing that the parliament was in fact adjourned, the Muslim
and Croat MPs, who remained fraudulently reconvened the parliament and
passed the decision to hold a referendum on succession, without the
consent of the Serb MPs.
President Milosevic asked Mr. Doyle if he considered that this
decision of the parliament was made lawfully or not. Doyle didn't
really know what to say at this point, because the answer is so
obvious. Doyle's answer was ultimately that he didn't know.
Another interesting piece of information came when Doyal spoke of a
peace conference that he was at with Radovan Karadzic in Lisbon.
During that peace conference a number of Muslim civilians were killed
while waiting in a breadline in Sarajevo. Karadzic immediately swore to
Cutileiro that the Bosnian Serbs didn't perpetrate that crime.
According to Doyle, Cutileiro's response to Karadzic was that the
Bosnian Serbs would be publicly blamed whether they perpetrated that
massacre or not. Cutilero then told Karadzic that his only option was
to "make a public gesture of good will" by handing over control of the
Sarajevo Airport.
Moreover, the Muslim representative used the breadline massacre as an
excuse to walk out of the negotiations and the negotiations failed.
As it turns out the Bosnian Serbs did not perpetrate that massacre.
Slobodan Milosevic quoted from an article in the London Independent
entitled "Muslims 'slaughter their own people'," dated 8/22/92.
According to the article "United Nations officials and senior Western
military officers believe some of the worst killings in Sarajevo,
including the massacre of at least 16 people in a bread queue, were
carried out by the city's mainly Muslim defenders -- not Serb
besiegers -- as a propaganda ploy to win world sympathy and military
intervention. . . . Classified reports to the UN force commander,
General Satish Nambiar, concluded . . . that Bosnian forces loyal to
President Alija Izetbegovic may have detonated a bomb. 'We believe it
was a command-detonated explosion, probably in a can,' a UN official
said then. 'The large impact which is there now is not necessarily
similar or anywhere near as large as we came to expect with a mortar
round landing on a paved surface.'"
Doyle claimed that he didn't know anything about that, but he didn't
attempt to refute it either. He simply said that he didn't personally
know who was responsible.
President Milosevic will continue his cross-examination of Mr. Doyle
tomorrow. The troika has granted him 1 hour and 5 minutes to complete
his cross-examination. After he concludes the Amicus Curiae will be
given 15 to 20 minutes for cross-examination.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS:
1. Witness Colm Doyle was examined by the prosecutor Geoffrey Nice.
2. Witness Colm Doyle was cross-examined by President Slobodan
Milosevic.
=== 5 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082703.htm
MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 27, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 27, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
The proceedings today began with the conclusion of Slobodan
Milosevic's cross-examination of Colm Doyle. President Milosevic and
the Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic both asked Doyle a number of questions
regarding reports of events that the Canadian Major-General Lewis
MacKenzie (UN Commander in Bosnia) had sent to Lt Gen Satish Nambiar at
the UN Headquarters in New York.
Amazingly, Doyle who headed the European Community's observation
mission in Bosnia had no idea about any of the numerous events that
Milosevic and Tapuskovic asked him about on the basis of MacKenzie's
reports, all of which had to do with Muslim attacks and provocations
against Serbs.
A humorous event came when Milosevic asked Doyle whether he was aware
of the position that the US State Department and the European
Parliament (which is an organ of the EC) took in 1991. That position
was that the SFRY should remain one single unified state and that the
secessionist republics should not be recognized. Doyle confirmed that
he was aware that that was the position which was taken.
Milosevic then asked Doyle how come the US and the EC recognized the
secessionists anyway, in spite of their publicly stated position.
Doyle said that he didn't know, and that he didn't ask. Milosevic
asked Doyle if he considered it to be hypocritical for the US and the
EC to say one thing and then do exactly the opposite. Before Doyle
could answer the question, the so-called "jugde" May jumped in and
instructed Doyle that he didn't have to answer the question.
It was obvious from Doyle's testimony that the Muslims had weapons
from the outset of the war. The Muslims were not unarmed, like they
are fond of claiming.
The beginning of the war came when the Muslims, after announcing the
results of their illegal referendum on succession, famously attacked a
Serb wedding party in Sarajevo, killing the groom on the steps of the
Orthodox Church. Doyle said that after that attack, tensions
increased, and the Serbs erected barricades in Sarajevo, which the
Muslims then fired upon (with the weapons that they claim never to
have had).
After Doyle was concluded the witness Stepjan Kraljevic was called.
Kraljevic was a municipal official from the town of Ilok, Croatia.
Kraljevic painted a picture where the JNA, for no reason, expelled the
population of Ilok. But, when Milosevic cross-examined Kraljevic it
became obvious that this witness was given to exaggeration.
Milosevic showed an agreement that Kraljevic and others from Ilok had
signed with the JNA. The agreement stated that the JNA would do its
best to protect all people who wished to remain in Ilok, but that the
JNA would also help the people who wished to leave Ilok to leave
safely. Ilok is near to Vukovar and there was heavy fighting in the
area, so there were people who wanted to leave, in fact the JNA
reached the agreement because the citizens requested it.
The witness, on the other hand, tried to present this agreement by the
JNA to protect people if they wished to leave the town as a sort of
expulsion by the JNA.
The witness viewed the JNA's demand that the T.O. should turn over its
weapons in accordance with the decision of the SFRY presidency as a
sort of provocation by the JNA, even though the witness admitted that
this demand only came after the Ilok police (who issued the T.O. their
weapons in the first place) fired on and destroyed a JNA tank with a
rocket launcher. But then again the witness did not consider the JNA
to be the legal armed force of the SFRY in 1991.
Mr. Kraljevic also produced a document called "Civilian Victims of the
Homeland War" which he presented as some sort of evidence against
Milosevic. In this document of his numerous "victims" had their cause
of death listed as things such as traffic accidents and suicide. So now
I guess, according to this witness, if somebody gets into a car wreck
or decides to kill themselves that is Milosevic's fault.
The next witness was a secret witness code named "C-1175." "C-1175"
claimed to have been a member of the Serbian T.O. in Dalj, Croatia.
His claim was that he saw the T.O. there commit some crimes.
"C-1175" claimed that all of the members of the Serbian T.O. in Dalj
were local Serbs and Hungarians. Since they were all locals, living in
Croatia, it is clear that Slobodan Milosevic, who was the president of
Serbia, could not have had anything to do with whether or not the T.O.
there committed any crimes there or not. So, even if the crimes that
the witness enumerated really happened they still wouldn't have
anything to do with Milosevic.
"C-1175's" testimony wasn't completely useless. "C-1175" did establish
that it was the Croats and not the Serbs who initiated the clashes and
ultimately started the war in Croatia.
"C-1175" testified that already in March and April of 1991 the Croats
had formed squads to terrorize Serbs and carryout so-called "silent
liquidations." "C-1175" also testified that the Croats perpetrated
numerous crimes on Serb property.
"C-1175" testified that before the war the Croatian police were
arresting Serbs without cause and taking them away and beating them
up."C-1175" should be concluded tomorrow. The troika has given
President Milosevic 45 more minutes to complete his cross-examination.
Sequence of Events - AUGUST 27, 2003
1. President Milosevic concluded his cross-examination of Colm Doyle.
2. Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic cross-examined Colm Doyle.
3. Prosecutor Nice re-examined Colm Doyle.
5. Prosecutor Saxon called Stepjan Kraljevic and examined him.
6. President Milosevic cross-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.
7. Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic cross-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.
8. Prosecutor Saxon re-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.
9. Prosecutor Uertz-Retzlaff called the secret witness "C-1175" and
examined him.
10. President Milosevic began his cross-examination of the secret
witness "C-1175."
=== 6 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082803.htm
SYNOPSIS OF THE DAY'S PROCEEDINGS: AUGUST 28, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 28, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
Today was a marathon day at The Hague Tribunal. 5 different witnesses
testified. The day began with the conclusion of the secret witness
"C-1175." As you may remember from yesterday "C-1175" was a member of
the Serbian T.O. in Dalj. He was a member of the T.O. for only one
month before he quit. He left because of his regular job, and because
he was angry at the T.O. commander because he wouldn't give him a fuel
voucher.
"C-1175" established that the prison in Dalj was set up and ran by the
T.O., and not by the JNA. As you may remember from yesterday the Dalj
T.O. was made up exclusively of locals. The JNA had nothing whatsoever
to do with the Dalj prison.
"C-1175" testified the day before about a group of men that had been
taken to a farm and killed. These men were brought to the farm from
Borovo Celo and killed by a group of civilians, not by the T.O., not by
the police, and not by the JNA.
"C-1175" spoke of a chaotic situation were people would appoint
themselves as the police, he referred to these people as "space
police." All in all the war just sounded like a mess, but one thing
was certain about C-1175's testimony, Slobodan Milosevic didn't have
anything to do with anything that this witness testified about.
After "C-1175" finished another secret witness, a woman from Vukovar,
testified under the pseudonym of "C-1071."
"C-1071" lost her husband during the war. The JNA evacuated the
witness and her family from Vukovar along with some of their
neighbors, she went directly to Serbia, but her husband had to stay
behind to be checked by the JNA.
The witness confirmed that the JNA had in fact evacuated the people
for their own protection, and not because of any other reason, and she
testified that she never saw the JNA doing anything that was illegal.
According to an unnamed person that the witness knew, who was being
checked by the JNA at the same time as her husband, the JNA took the
men to a facility in Dalj to be checked. Her husband checked-out OK and
was released by the JNA.
Her husband was supposed to come and find her with their relatives in
Serbia after the JNA released him. Unfortunately, he never made it.
"C-1071" went to Dalj to investigate and try to find out what had
happened to her husband. She found out in the course of speaking with
people in Dalj that her husband had been attacked by a group of
civilians after he was released by the JNA. His body was later found
in a wooded area outside of town.
This is certainly a sad story that this woman lost her husband, but I
fail to see what a group of civilian criminals who exploit a chaotic
situation in a war, has to do with Milosevic. After all, he certainly
didn't start the fighting in Vukovar. This witness testified that
fighting only began in Vukovar after the Croats had blockaded the JNA
barracks there.
Had there been no fighting in Vukovar there would never have been a
need for any of this.
The next witness was a senile old Croat woman from Saboska named Anna
Bitunic. She lost her husband too. She testified that her husband and
some other men were shot by her house.
One minor problem with her testimony was that she had no idea who had
shot her husband and the other men. She said it was men in uniforms,
and so Milosevic asked her who's uniforms were they wearing? T.O.
uniforms, JNA uniforms, or some other uniforms? Mrs. Bitunic did not
know what sort of uniform that the people who shot her husband were
wearing, she was at a loss. She had no idea who did it.
It is too bad that this woman lost her husband, but it could be seen
from her testimony that she was half-crazy. She said that the Serbs
were happy after the referendum in Croatia because they wanted to
create "greater-Serbia" and that they were "happy because they could
kill whoever they wanted to," and other such nonsense.
Obviously, with no idea who even committed the crime that she was
testifying about; her testimony can be viewed as nothing other than a
completely irrelevant waste of time that has nothing to do with
Milosevic, or anybody else.
Actually, all of the testimony that has to do with Bosnia and Croatia
is an irrelevant waste of time, as far as Milosevic is concerned,
because Slobodan Milosevic was the president of Serbia and didn't have
any command over any of the combatants in either Bosnia or Croatia.
After Mrs. Bitunic finished a man named Luka Shutalo was called. Mr.
Shutalo was from Erdut, Croatia. He escaped from the war zone in 1991
by going to Serbia, where it just so happened that Slobodan Milosevic
was the president, and guess what happened to him in Serbia? Nothing.
Nobody did anything to him. He was free to do as he wished in Serbia.
In spite of the fact that going to Milosevic's Serbia "saved his
neck," this witness nonetheless blamed Milosevic and what he called
the "Yugo Army" (meaning the JNA) for everything.
This guy actually thought that it was Milosevic who was in command of
the JNA. Milosevic asked the witness what on Earth would make him
think that he was the commander of the JNA, but before the witness
could answer, the so-called "judge" May jumped in and told the witness
not to answer, and Milosevic not to ask those sorts of questions.
Mr. Shuralo claimed that he had been taken prisoner and that he was
mistreated at the prison in Dalj, which he said was not even ran by
what he considered to be "Milosevic's Yugo Army." This was nothing but
more irrelevant testimony that again had nothing to do with Milosevic.
It is amazing to me to watch so much time being wasted on irrelevant
witnesses that don't even attempt to prove anything against Milosevic.
This makes it all the more absurd that the so-called "trial" chamber
gave the prosecution all of that extra time to "present evidence,"
which is something that they might want to consider doing some time.
So far there has been no real evidence presented against Milosevic.
Nothing that that so-called "prosecution" has done so far even comes
close to proving that Milosevic is guilty of anything.
The last witness to testify was another Croatia witness named Josip
Jocipovic. He was another 92-bis witness. The prosecutor read out a
summary of his statement about some alleged events in Hrvatska Dubica,
but he has not been cross-examined yet.
However from just what the prosecutor said I can see that this is
another witness who does not have anything at all to do with Milosevic.
This whole day, like many days before it, was a total waste of time
for the prosecution. Slobodan Milosevic has successfully defeated the
prosecution with every witness.
=== 7 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082903.htm
"TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 29, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 29, 2003
Another secret witness testified today at the Hague Tribunal. B-1054 a
Muslim woman from a village near Visegrad testified that she was taken
to a house in Visegrad along with 70 other Muslims. According to this
woman, Serb civilians from Visegrad attempted to burn them all alive in
that house.
For the sake of argument, we will start by assuming that she was
telling the truth. Even if this happened, and even if it happened
exactly in the way that she said it did; it proves nothing. This woman
did not allege that anybody from Serbia, or anybody from the JNA even
took part in this alleged crime. It is therefore clear that Slobodan
Milosevic could not have had anything at all to do with this.
Her two written statements, her previous testimony from another trial,
and the testimony that she gave today did not all fit together very
well. There were a number of discrepancies.
For example, she claimed to have been laid-up in the hospital for 22
days, but her medical report revealed that she was only in the
Hospital for 10 days. She had exaggerated her time in the hospital by
more than double.
She was inconsistent again as to how the alleged fire started in the
House. One time she said it was a bomb that ignited the fire, and
another time she said that somebody had just lit a match.
In her second statement she spoke of an alleged massacre that "a band
of Chetniks" was committing on the river. According to this witness
"the slaughter was so horrible that it made the river run red with
blood." However, in her first statement she neglects to mention that
minor detail. When asked how come she didn't mention it in her first
statement her excuse was that it "was just too horrible to speak of."
She has no problem speaking in her first statement about other
horrible things. She spoke all about how she lay wounded in a sewage
ditch near to the allegedly burning house listening to the screams of
people who were allegedly being burned alive, and that wasn't "too
horrible to speak of," but apparently seeing some corpses in a river
was.
Her statements were also inconsistent with respect to the names of
people that she claimed to have seen at certain places.
Another problem with her testimony was that she claimed that everybody
had died in that house, by either being burned in the fire, or shot
while trying to flee. She even said that she thought that her own son
had died. However, she later said that she found her son alive and
well 5 years later on. So how could she know that everybody else died?
She thought that her own son was dead for 5 years, but he wasn't.
An entertaining moment came when the Amicus Curiae, Mr. Tapuskovic and
the so-called "judge" May got into a fight. "Judge" May became quite
indignant when Mr. Tapuskovic dared to peruse a line of questioning
that called the truthfulness of this witness's testimony into question.
Tapuskovic was asking questions about inconsistencies in the witness's
evidence. The witness responded by getting indignant. For example,
when Tapusokvic asked her how she could know that everybody was killed
when her own son was even able to flee without her knowledge. She
responded indignantly by saying, "So you say that my son should have
been killed too! Is that it?"
After this little exchange Tapuskovic and Milosevic both gave the
so-called "judge" a lesson in law. During his fight with Mr.
Tapuskovic, the so-called "judge" claimed that "the accused hasn't
even challenged this evidence" (even though he had), and so President
Milosevic had to explain to this so-called "judge" that he had no way
of knowing if the event in questioned had happened or not, but it
wasn't him, as the accused, who had the burden of proving that it
didn't happen -- rather it was the prosecution who had the burden of
proving that it did happen.
After President Milosevic had explained, to this pathetic excuse of a
"judge," the concept of "innocent until proven guilty," which appears
to be completely foreign to "Dick" May. Mr. Tapuskovic had to explain
to this idiot what his job was in the first place. Mr. Tapuskovic
explained to that crimson robe-wearing fool that as a judge his job is
to sit and listen to the evidence and then decide, after hearing all
of the evidence, if the witness is telling the truth or not.
Mr. Tapuskovic was clearly astonished that "judge" May considered it
inappropriate to ask questions that challenged a witness's
credibility. What is the point of cross-examination if not to challenge
the witness? Tapuskovic explained that he had been a lawyer for 40
years, and had never seen a judge that would prevent these sorts of
questions.
After Mr. Tapuskovic finished his cross-examination, the so-called
"judge," who clearly had no other motive than just a desire to be a
smart-ass, said to the witness, "It has been suggested that you may not
be telling the truth. Have you been lying to us?" and the witness
surprised everybody by saying, "Of course I have been telling the
truth." At that point "judge" May let the witness go.
The next witness was Josip Jocipovic. Mr. Jocipovic had been examined
by prosecutor Bauer the day before, and so President Milosevic went
directly into cross-examination.
Like so many other witnesses this witness's testimony had nothing to
do with President Milosevic. The closest he came was when he said that
two men, who he couldn't identify, allegedly told him that they had
been fighting in Vukovar and that they were from Serbia.
Other than that he testified about a couple of men from the Krajina
police who committed some crimes. However, after they had committed
the crimes they were removed by Milan Martic.
He did however give some useful testimony. He was a member of the ZNG,
and to the dismay of Ms. Bauer, he testified that the local ZNG
commander in Hrvatska Dubica was a criminal and a thief.
He testified that the ZNG was formed in 1990 right after the elections
and that it was precisely then that the tensions increased. He
admitted that the JNA and T.O. forces were the only legal armed forces
in the SFRY (of which Croatia was a part in 1990). However he denied
that the ZNG was a paramilitary organization, in spite of the fact
that being an illegal armed force operating in the SFRY made it the
very definition of a paramilitary. He also testified that the JNA
brought order and that it fought against both Serb and Croatian
paramilitaries in order to stop killings and looting from taking place.
After Mr. Jocipovic finished, another secret witness called "B-1505"
was called. I'm not sure who exactly this guy was. He is either
somebody who is pretending to be somebody else, which is possible with
all secret witnesses, or he is somebody who was either a member of the
JNA, or was in some other way privy to internal JNA matters.
At any rate he claimed to be a Muslim from Visegrad who saw the JNA
planning to "cleanse Visegrad" of its Muslim population.
The prosecution is expected to finish with him on Monday, and after
that President Milosevic will cross-examine him.
1. Sloba supporters banned from visiting The Hague (19/8)
2. SPS congratulates Milosevic his birthday (20/8)
3. "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: FIRST SREBRENICA WITNESS TESTIFIES AGAINST
MILOSEVIC (25/8)
Includes a Trascript of Milosevic speaking about Srebrenica dated
September 27, 2002
4. "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: AUG. 26 2003 - COLM DOYLE TESTIFIES AGAINST
MILOSEVIC
5. MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 27, 2003
6. SYNOPSIS OF THE DAY'S PROCEEDINGS: AUGUST 28, 2003
7. "TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 29, 2003
---
Useful Links to Transcripts and Videos of Milosevic 'Trial'
Transcripts:
Go to http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/transe54.htm
Video:
Live English Video Feed
http://www.domovina.net/Icty/eng/room1.ram
Live Serbo-Croatian Video Feed
http://www.domovina.net/Icty/bcs/room1.ram
Archives - English http://hague.bard.edu/video.html
Archives - Serbo-Croatian http://tribunal.freeserbia.com
=== 1 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/tanjug081903c.htm
Socialists embittered by ban to visit Milosevic
Tanjug - August 19, 2003
17:38 BELGRADE - The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) on Tuesday voiced
strong protest with a decision of the International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) administration to ban the visits of
its representatives and the Association Freedom for SPS president and
former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, announcing it would
employ all mechanisms aimed at suspending this decision.
The ICTY administration is "trying to explain" this decision by
statements SPS members made after their recent visit to Milosevic at
the Scheveningen detention unit, the party said in a statement and
added that this was really "an excuse aimed at placing president
Milosevic in complete isolation."
Copyright 2003 Tanjug News Agency
Posted For Fair Use Only
---
FoNet, August 20, 2003
Sloba supporters banned from visiting The Hague
BELGRADE -- Wednesday -- The Hague Tribunal is
reported to have banned members of the Socialist Party
of Serbia and the Sloboda (Freedom) Movement from
visiting Slobodan Milosevic, according to Sloboda
Association member Vladimir Krsljanin.
Speaking at a press conference on the occasion of the
former Yugoslav and Serbian President's birthday,
Krsljanin produced a letter from the international
tribunal's administration addressed to Milosevic,
which states that the ban, to be implemented until
further notice, is a result of a media statement given
in breach of court regulations.
The statement was made by Socialist Party delegation
members Milorad Vucelic and Zoran Andjelkovic during
their last visit to the Scheveningen detention centre,
where Milosevic is being held. They gave the statement
to press despite being forewarned that such a move was
against tribunal rules.
Krsljanin protested: "This is hideous manipulation and
an injustice because it is not in line with the rules
of the tribunal".
He stressed that a "legal battle" for the decision to
be overturned would ensue.
The press conference was followed by the holding of a
"Free Serbia" debate and the screening of a
documentary entitled "Defeated Hague", which were to
mark Milosevic's birthday.
=== 2 ===
SPS congratulates Milosevic his birthday
17:14 BELGRADE , Aug 20 (Tanjug) - The Socialist Party
of Serbia said on Wednesday that it sent a
congratulatory message to the preasident of that party
Slobodan Milosevic, who is standing trial in the war
crimes tribunal at The Hague, on the occasion of his
62nd birthday.
SPS said in the message it wished that "the fight he
is leading in The Hague, in the name of national and
state interets, will be victorious, because it is
important for the future of our state and of our people."
---
Send your solidarity messages to:
PRESIDENT
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
UN Detention Unit
Postbus 87810
2508 Den Haag
Pomp Stations Weg 32
The Neteherlands
=== 3 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082503.htm
"TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: FIRST SREBRENICA WITNESS TESTIFIES AGAINST MILOSEVIC
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - Originally posted August 25, 2003 -
UPDATED August 26, 2003
Written By: Andy Wilcoxson
The first Srebrenica witness has testified against President Milosevic
at The Hague tribunal. At this point it is important to be reminded of
the case President Milosevic is putting with regard to Srebrenica and
so I will now quote from his opening statement.
TRANSCRIPT - Page 10309 Line 12 - Friday September 27, 2002
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: I wish to avail myself of the remaining time to
say a few words about Srebrenica that was mentioned here. I have
already said that I first heard about this -- I said this six months
ago, when I first spoke here, that I first heard about this from Carl
Bildt and that Radovan Karadzic swore to me that he didn't know a
thing about this. All subsequent information corroborated that,
including the subsequently published main report of the Dutch
government published in April 2001. In item 10, it says quite
literally: "There are no indications that the action was taken out in
collaboration with Belgrade, neither in terms of political or military
coordination. In this way, gentlemen, as far as I'm concerned, an end
could be brought to this, but I don't want to place a full stop there.
I want the truth to be revealed with regard to this insane crime, in
the interest of justice. It has to be explained before the world
public. The information that I have compiled so far, and there will be
more to come, speaks of how Izetbegovic used Srebrenica for all kinds
of manipulations and held it in -- in his own reserve for various
political bargains. And you saw from the statement made by a member of
his delegation in the report that was accepted by the UN with regard
to the takeover of Srebrenica, the handover of Srebrenica. You saw all
of this.
Time will show that on the 1st of July, 1995, in the house of a Muslim,
the former president of the municipality in Zvornik, where two members
of the Muslim government from Sarajevo were present, the
representatives of a mercenary military formation within the army of
Republika Srpska but not under the command of the army of Republika
Srpska but within the French intelligence service, they agreed to have
this crime committed, that is to say, to abandon Srebrenica and to
carry out this slaughter.
All information shows that General Mladic knew nothing about this, nor
General Krstic, who was sentenced here. I am personally convinced that
the military honour of Mladic or Krstic would not allow them to
execute civilians, let alone Mladic, Krstic, generals who throughout
the war made a maximum effort to protect prisoners of war and
civilians at all times.
This mercenary unit was commanded by the same people who sent those
same persons only one year later to Zaire so that they would protect
Mobutu and crush a rebellion. This same organisation organised the
purchase of arms a year later. And since I asked you to adopt a writ
of disclosure, please do that. Those people who have a salary for that
and have hundreds of associates, make them as Jacques Chirac and the
French intelligence service and the American intelligence service and
all other intelligence services, let them disclose all the facts they
have on Srebrenica. The information I have available shows that the
point of the agreement reached was the following: The underlying
French idea was that the war in Bosnia should be ended through
effective actions taken by NATO and through military engagement. As a
pretext for military engagement, genocide that will be carried out by
the Serbs will be made up, and the Serb negotiating side will have to
deal with that. The presence of Ratko Mladic in Srebrenica will be
used as a confirmation of the responsibility of the military leadership
and of Mladic himself for having an indictment issued against him in
The Hague by making it appear that a genocide was carried out and
anathema will be placed on the leadership of the Bosnian Serbs and
then the international community will take measures. The protagonists
will not be prosecuted.
One insignificant one, a member of the Croat detachments of death who
happened to be there was accused, and then for the crimes in
Srebrenica, Ratko Mladic should be accused and also the leadership of
Republika Srpska headed by Radovan Karadzic. And this agreement was
attended by two representatives of the Muslim government, that out of
the French, General Janvier was there for sure, and this other person
was said to be Morillon but this was not confirmed. There is no
reliable information saying that it was Morillon.
The agreement was that Srebrenica should be surrendered to the Serbs
practically without any fighting, as forthwith withdraw and in that way
make it possible for them to purportedly take over Srebrenica. Naser
Oric is going to withdraw and award for the action will be 2 million
Deutschmark.
Mladic was not at that meeting. He was having lunch with those generals
later on at the Likovac locality, but according to intelligence data,
he did not know what the subject agreed upon was, and he didn't know
that he was commanding all the units that took part in that,
especially the one that was sent to Zaire later on by the same people
that ordered the job to be done. Oric lives in Lukavac near Tuzla
today. He has a restaurant on the lake and he destroyed more than 70
villages around Srebrenica and that he is one of the greatest criminals
in the war.
///END TRANSCRIPT EXCERPT///
Another important point to make before presenting the synopsis of the
day's events is that "the Srebrenica massacre" referred to in this
article is not the same Srebrenica massacre that the media has been
going on about for the last 8 years.
The media's claim that the Srebrenica massacre was an act of genocide
perpetrated by the Serbs is a lie. There was indeed a massacre at
Srebrenica, but as I am confident that Slobodan Milosevic will prove,
it is not the way that the media has put it. This was a massacre
perpetrated by a multi-ethnic mercenary unit that was under French
control, not under the control of VRS general staff.
Drazen Erdemovic is the first witness to testify at the so-called
"trial" of Slobodan Milosevic about the horrific events that took
place in Srebrenica. Erdemovic is an ethnic Croat from the Bosnian town
of Tuzla. His career throughout the Bosnian war is rather odd. He was
originally a member of the JNA (Yugoslav People's Army), then he
joined the ABiH (Bosnian Muslim "Army of Bosnia - Herzegovina"), after
that he joined the HVO (Croatian Army), finally he wound up a member
of the VRS (Army of Republika Srpska) serving in the 10th Sabotage
Division.
As a mercenary in the 10th Sabotage Division, Erdemovic participated a
cold blooded massacre of 1,200 Bosnian Muslims at the Pilca Farm near
Srebrenica. By his own admission, Erdemovic personally massacred over
100 Bosnian Muslim men ranging in age between 18 and 60.
In March of 1996 Erdemovic was arrested by the authorities of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia precisely because of his participation
in that massacre at Srebrenica. Because Erdemovic was not a citizen of
the FRY, the Yugoslav authorities honored an extradition request of
the Hague Tribunal and sent Erdemovic to The Hague.
When Erdemovic arrived at the Hague he coped a plea agreement, which
allowed him to get off with only a 5 year prison sentence, even though
he admitted to personally murdering 100 people and participating in the
slaughter of 1,200. In a further act of insult to the victims of his
killing spree, the Hague Tribunal granted Erdemovic early release so
that he didn't even have to serve the whole 5 years.
In addition to getting off with only a slap on the wrist for killing a
hundred people, Erdemovic doesn't even have to live with the shame of
being known as a mass murderer. He has been given a new identity, and
his testimony today was given with protective measures; the video of
his face was obscured so that nobody could recognize his face, and
voice distortion technology was used so that nobody would even
recognize his voice.
It is obvious just from seeing this that the Hague Tribunal exists to
protect the real war criminals and while simultaneously persecuting
the innocent.
Erdemovic's testimony was quite interesting to say the least. The 10th
Sabotage Division, which carried out the massacre, was a multi-ethnic
unit according to Erdemovic. The unit contained Muslims, Croats,
Slovenes, and some Bosnian Serbs.
Erdemovic stated categorically that he saw no Yugoslav or Serbian
personnel in or around Srebrenica at the time in question. There was
only his unit and some local groups, but nobody from the Government of
either Serbia or Yugoslavia. Erdemovic, echoing the conclusions of the
Dutch Government, saw nothing that would indicate any participation by
Belgrade in the planning or execution of the Srebrenica massacre.
It is completely out of the question that President Milosevic could
have had anything to do with the tragic events in Srebrenica. The only
attempt to "link" Milosevic to the events in Srebrenica came when
Erdemovic claimed to have spoken to an unnamed member of the Serbian
MUP at the Military Hospital in Belgrade.
Erdemovic claimed that this alleged MUP officer told him that he had
participated in the attack on Srebrenica. The only problem is that
Erdemovic didn't remember this tidbit until November 3, 2001, and
remember he had been in the custody of the Hague Tribunal since 1996,
but he never mentioned that until 2001.
The contentious point between President Milosevic and Mr. Erdemovic
was over who was responsible for ordering the massacre. Erdemovic
claimed that the orders "must have" come from the General Staff of the
VRS.
Erdemovic never saw any orders from the General Staff. Erdemovic says
that he was ordered to carry out the executions by a unit commander
named Gojikovic who had allegedly claimed to have gotten his orders
from some unknown Lt. Colonel from the Drina Corps of the VRS.
To counter the Erdemovic's claim that the order to carry out this
hideous crime "must have" come from the General Staff of the VRS;
President Milosevic produced the orders issued by the General Staff of
the VRS, pertaining to Srebrenica, which explicitly stated that
civilians must be protected and that the laws and customs of war had
to be abided by.
Erdemovic denied any knowledge of any foreign involvement in the
Srebrenica tragedy. However, he did admit to some odd goings on.
First of all, Erdemovic, claimed to have no idea how much he was
personally paid, which raises the red flag that he may have been
receiving money other than the normal VRS salary, which along with the
fact that he fought at one point or another for every side in the war,
would indicate that he was in fact a mercenary.
Erdemovic also claimed that he had heard from his wife that a
commander of the 10th Sabotage Division named Pelimic had received a
large quantity of gold from unknown persons, and that after the war
this Pelimic was living the high life and having jewel incrusted gold
chains made for himself at jewelry stores. Erdemovic admitted that
this information even made him suspect that somebody had bribed the
commanders of his unit so that they would perpetrate that horrific
crime at Srebrenica.
Erdemovic also testified that he had heard about some members of the
10th Sabotage Division, including Pelimic, subsequently going to
France in order to become mercenaries in Zaire, after the end of the
Bosnian war, which jives with what Milosevic said in his opening
statement.
I don't know when or if Erdemovic's testimony will continue. The
so-called "trial chamber" went into closed session at the end of the
hearing to decide, and so I guess we will see tomorrow, but they did
not intend to keep this witness more than 1 day.
SYNOPSIS OF THE PROCEEDINGS FOR AUGUST 25 2003
1. Prosecutor Geoffrey Nice Examines the witness Drazen Erdemovic.
2. President Slobodan Milosevic cross-examines the witness Drazen
Erdemovic
=== 4 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082603.htm
"TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: AUG. 26 2003 - COLM DOYLE TESTIFIES AGAINST MILOSEVIC
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 26, 2003
The Hague Tribunal heard testimony from Colm Doyle today. The former
Irish army major served as head of the European Community's monitoring
mission in Sarajevo, and later on as the special envoy of Lord
Carrington, he was also the chairman of the EC conference on Yugoslavia.
Even though Mr. Doyle was at the Hague to testify against Milosevic;
his testimony did not incriminate Milosevic in the least. The only
part of Doyle's testimony that had anything at all to do with
Milosevic was his testimony about a meeting he had with President
Milosevic in Belgrade on 16 June 1992. According to Doyle, Milosevic
expressed strong support for the peace process. Doyle claimed that
Milosevic reiterated his position that the violence and bloodshed
should be stopped and that the only solution for Bosnia was a solution
which was fair to all 3 sides, and which all 3 sides could agree on.
Doyal said that Milosevic expressed strong support for Radovan
Karadzic's proposal that UN observers should be attached to all units
of the Bosnian-Serb Army. He said that Milosevic condemned the
shelling of Sarajevo and pledged to do what he could to assist the
peace process.
So, the only evidence that the prosecution brought against President
Milosevic with this witness was that he wanted to stop the Bosnian war
and find a solution that was fair to all 3 sides. I guess working to
stop a war is what makes one a war criminal at the Hague Tribunal.
Even though the rest of Mr. Doyle's testimony had absolutely nothing
to do with President Milosevic, parts of it were quite interesting.
The most interesting tidbit was Doyle's testimony about how the
Bosnian parliament reached its decision to hold the referendum on
succession from Yugoslavia.
According to Doyle, on or about the 15th of October 1991 the speaker
of the Bosnian parliament adjourned the parliament for the night at
around 3:30 in the morning. After the Serb MPs had gone home for the
night, the Muslim and Croat MPs reconvened the parliament and passed
the decision that the referendum on succession should be held.
To put it bluntly, the Muslim and Croat MPs tricked the Serb MPs into
leaving the debate on the referendum question by fraudulently
adjourning the parliament and then fraudulently reconvening it again
after the Serbs had left for the night. After the Serbs had gone home,
falsely believing that the parliament was in fact adjourned, the Muslim
and Croat MPs, who remained fraudulently reconvened the parliament and
passed the decision to hold a referendum on succession, without the
consent of the Serb MPs.
President Milosevic asked Mr. Doyle if he considered that this
decision of the parliament was made lawfully or not. Doyle didn't
really know what to say at this point, because the answer is so
obvious. Doyle's answer was ultimately that he didn't know.
Another interesting piece of information came when Doyal spoke of a
peace conference that he was at with Radovan Karadzic in Lisbon.
During that peace conference a number of Muslim civilians were killed
while waiting in a breadline in Sarajevo. Karadzic immediately swore to
Cutileiro that the Bosnian Serbs didn't perpetrate that crime.
According to Doyle, Cutileiro's response to Karadzic was that the
Bosnian Serbs would be publicly blamed whether they perpetrated that
massacre or not. Cutilero then told Karadzic that his only option was
to "make a public gesture of good will" by handing over control of the
Sarajevo Airport.
Moreover, the Muslim representative used the breadline massacre as an
excuse to walk out of the negotiations and the negotiations failed.
As it turns out the Bosnian Serbs did not perpetrate that massacre.
Slobodan Milosevic quoted from an article in the London Independent
entitled "Muslims 'slaughter their own people'," dated 8/22/92.
According to the article "United Nations officials and senior Western
military officers believe some of the worst killings in Sarajevo,
including the massacre of at least 16 people in a bread queue, were
carried out by the city's mainly Muslim defenders -- not Serb
besiegers -- as a propaganda ploy to win world sympathy and military
intervention. . . . Classified reports to the UN force commander,
General Satish Nambiar, concluded . . . that Bosnian forces loyal to
President Alija Izetbegovic may have detonated a bomb. 'We believe it
was a command-detonated explosion, probably in a can,' a UN official
said then. 'The large impact which is there now is not necessarily
similar or anywhere near as large as we came to expect with a mortar
round landing on a paved surface.'"
Doyle claimed that he didn't know anything about that, but he didn't
attempt to refute it either. He simply said that he didn't personally
know who was responsible.
President Milosevic will continue his cross-examination of Mr. Doyle
tomorrow. The troika has granted him 1 hour and 5 minutes to complete
his cross-examination. After he concludes the Amicus Curiae will be
given 15 to 20 minutes for cross-examination.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS:
1. Witness Colm Doyle was examined by the prosecutor Geoffrey Nice.
2. Witness Colm Doyle was cross-examined by President Slobodan
Milosevic.
=== 5 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082703.htm
MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 27, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 27, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
The proceedings today began with the conclusion of Slobodan
Milosevic's cross-examination of Colm Doyle. President Milosevic and
the Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic both asked Doyle a number of questions
regarding reports of events that the Canadian Major-General Lewis
MacKenzie (UN Commander in Bosnia) had sent to Lt Gen Satish Nambiar at
the UN Headquarters in New York.
Amazingly, Doyle who headed the European Community's observation
mission in Bosnia had no idea about any of the numerous events that
Milosevic and Tapuskovic asked him about on the basis of MacKenzie's
reports, all of which had to do with Muslim attacks and provocations
against Serbs.
A humorous event came when Milosevic asked Doyle whether he was aware
of the position that the US State Department and the European
Parliament (which is an organ of the EC) took in 1991. That position
was that the SFRY should remain one single unified state and that the
secessionist republics should not be recognized. Doyle confirmed that
he was aware that that was the position which was taken.
Milosevic then asked Doyle how come the US and the EC recognized the
secessionists anyway, in spite of their publicly stated position.
Doyle said that he didn't know, and that he didn't ask. Milosevic
asked Doyle if he considered it to be hypocritical for the US and the
EC to say one thing and then do exactly the opposite. Before Doyle
could answer the question, the so-called "jugde" May jumped in and
instructed Doyle that he didn't have to answer the question.
It was obvious from Doyle's testimony that the Muslims had weapons
from the outset of the war. The Muslims were not unarmed, like they
are fond of claiming.
The beginning of the war came when the Muslims, after announcing the
results of their illegal referendum on succession, famously attacked a
Serb wedding party in Sarajevo, killing the groom on the steps of the
Orthodox Church. Doyle said that after that attack, tensions
increased, and the Serbs erected barricades in Sarajevo, which the
Muslims then fired upon (with the weapons that they claim never to
have had).
After Doyle was concluded the witness Stepjan Kraljevic was called.
Kraljevic was a municipal official from the town of Ilok, Croatia.
Kraljevic painted a picture where the JNA, for no reason, expelled the
population of Ilok. But, when Milosevic cross-examined Kraljevic it
became obvious that this witness was given to exaggeration.
Milosevic showed an agreement that Kraljevic and others from Ilok had
signed with the JNA. The agreement stated that the JNA would do its
best to protect all people who wished to remain in Ilok, but that the
JNA would also help the people who wished to leave Ilok to leave
safely. Ilok is near to Vukovar and there was heavy fighting in the
area, so there were people who wanted to leave, in fact the JNA
reached the agreement because the citizens requested it.
The witness, on the other hand, tried to present this agreement by the
JNA to protect people if they wished to leave the town as a sort of
expulsion by the JNA.
The witness viewed the JNA's demand that the T.O. should turn over its
weapons in accordance with the decision of the SFRY presidency as a
sort of provocation by the JNA, even though the witness admitted that
this demand only came after the Ilok police (who issued the T.O. their
weapons in the first place) fired on and destroyed a JNA tank with a
rocket launcher. But then again the witness did not consider the JNA
to be the legal armed force of the SFRY in 1991.
Mr. Kraljevic also produced a document called "Civilian Victims of the
Homeland War" which he presented as some sort of evidence against
Milosevic. In this document of his numerous "victims" had their cause
of death listed as things such as traffic accidents and suicide. So now
I guess, according to this witness, if somebody gets into a car wreck
or decides to kill themselves that is Milosevic's fault.
The next witness was a secret witness code named "C-1175." "C-1175"
claimed to have been a member of the Serbian T.O. in Dalj, Croatia.
His claim was that he saw the T.O. there commit some crimes.
"C-1175" claimed that all of the members of the Serbian T.O. in Dalj
were local Serbs and Hungarians. Since they were all locals, living in
Croatia, it is clear that Slobodan Milosevic, who was the president of
Serbia, could not have had anything to do with whether or not the T.O.
there committed any crimes there or not. So, even if the crimes that
the witness enumerated really happened they still wouldn't have
anything to do with Milosevic.
"C-1175's" testimony wasn't completely useless. "C-1175" did establish
that it was the Croats and not the Serbs who initiated the clashes and
ultimately started the war in Croatia.
"C-1175" testified that already in March and April of 1991 the Croats
had formed squads to terrorize Serbs and carryout so-called "silent
liquidations." "C-1175" also testified that the Croats perpetrated
numerous crimes on Serb property.
"C-1175" testified that before the war the Croatian police were
arresting Serbs without cause and taking them away and beating them
up."C-1175" should be concluded tomorrow. The troika has given
President Milosevic 45 more minutes to complete his cross-examination.
Sequence of Events - AUGUST 27, 2003
1. President Milosevic concluded his cross-examination of Colm Doyle.
2. Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic cross-examined Colm Doyle.
3. Prosecutor Nice re-examined Colm Doyle.
5. Prosecutor Saxon called Stepjan Kraljevic and examined him.
6. President Milosevic cross-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.
7. Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic cross-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.
8. Prosecutor Saxon re-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.
9. Prosecutor Uertz-Retzlaff called the secret witness "C-1175" and
examined him.
10. President Milosevic began his cross-examination of the secret
witness "C-1175."
=== 6 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082803.htm
SYNOPSIS OF THE DAY'S PROCEEDINGS: AUGUST 28, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 28, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
Today was a marathon day at The Hague Tribunal. 5 different witnesses
testified. The day began with the conclusion of the secret witness
"C-1175." As you may remember from yesterday "C-1175" was a member of
the Serbian T.O. in Dalj. He was a member of the T.O. for only one
month before he quit. He left because of his regular job, and because
he was angry at the T.O. commander because he wouldn't give him a fuel
voucher.
"C-1175" established that the prison in Dalj was set up and ran by the
T.O., and not by the JNA. As you may remember from yesterday the Dalj
T.O. was made up exclusively of locals. The JNA had nothing whatsoever
to do with the Dalj prison.
"C-1175" testified the day before about a group of men that had been
taken to a farm and killed. These men were brought to the farm from
Borovo Celo and killed by a group of civilians, not by the T.O., not by
the police, and not by the JNA.
"C-1175" spoke of a chaotic situation were people would appoint
themselves as the police, he referred to these people as "space
police." All in all the war just sounded like a mess, but one thing
was certain about C-1175's testimony, Slobodan Milosevic didn't have
anything to do with anything that this witness testified about.
After "C-1175" finished another secret witness, a woman from Vukovar,
testified under the pseudonym of "C-1071."
"C-1071" lost her husband during the war. The JNA evacuated the
witness and her family from Vukovar along with some of their
neighbors, she went directly to Serbia, but her husband had to stay
behind to be checked by the JNA.
The witness confirmed that the JNA had in fact evacuated the people
for their own protection, and not because of any other reason, and she
testified that she never saw the JNA doing anything that was illegal.
According to an unnamed person that the witness knew, who was being
checked by the JNA at the same time as her husband, the JNA took the
men to a facility in Dalj to be checked. Her husband checked-out OK and
was released by the JNA.
Her husband was supposed to come and find her with their relatives in
Serbia after the JNA released him. Unfortunately, he never made it.
"C-1071" went to Dalj to investigate and try to find out what had
happened to her husband. She found out in the course of speaking with
people in Dalj that her husband had been attacked by a group of
civilians after he was released by the JNA. His body was later found
in a wooded area outside of town.
This is certainly a sad story that this woman lost her husband, but I
fail to see what a group of civilian criminals who exploit a chaotic
situation in a war, has to do with Milosevic. After all, he certainly
didn't start the fighting in Vukovar. This witness testified that
fighting only began in Vukovar after the Croats had blockaded the JNA
barracks there.
Had there been no fighting in Vukovar there would never have been a
need for any of this.
The next witness was a senile old Croat woman from Saboska named Anna
Bitunic. She lost her husband too. She testified that her husband and
some other men were shot by her house.
One minor problem with her testimony was that she had no idea who had
shot her husband and the other men. She said it was men in uniforms,
and so Milosevic asked her who's uniforms were they wearing? T.O.
uniforms, JNA uniforms, or some other uniforms? Mrs. Bitunic did not
know what sort of uniform that the people who shot her husband were
wearing, she was at a loss. She had no idea who did it.
It is too bad that this woman lost her husband, but it could be seen
from her testimony that she was half-crazy. She said that the Serbs
were happy after the referendum in Croatia because they wanted to
create "greater-Serbia" and that they were "happy because they could
kill whoever they wanted to," and other such nonsense.
Obviously, with no idea who even committed the crime that she was
testifying about; her testimony can be viewed as nothing other than a
completely irrelevant waste of time that has nothing to do with
Milosevic, or anybody else.
Actually, all of the testimony that has to do with Bosnia and Croatia
is an irrelevant waste of time, as far as Milosevic is concerned,
because Slobodan Milosevic was the president of Serbia and didn't have
any command over any of the combatants in either Bosnia or Croatia.
After Mrs. Bitunic finished a man named Luka Shutalo was called. Mr.
Shutalo was from Erdut, Croatia. He escaped from the war zone in 1991
by going to Serbia, where it just so happened that Slobodan Milosevic
was the president, and guess what happened to him in Serbia? Nothing.
Nobody did anything to him. He was free to do as he wished in Serbia.
In spite of the fact that going to Milosevic's Serbia "saved his
neck," this witness nonetheless blamed Milosevic and what he called
the "Yugo Army" (meaning the JNA) for everything.
This guy actually thought that it was Milosevic who was in command of
the JNA. Milosevic asked the witness what on Earth would make him
think that he was the commander of the JNA, but before the witness
could answer, the so-called "judge" May jumped in and told the witness
not to answer, and Milosevic not to ask those sorts of questions.
Mr. Shuralo claimed that he had been taken prisoner and that he was
mistreated at the prison in Dalj, which he said was not even ran by
what he considered to be "Milosevic's Yugo Army." This was nothing but
more irrelevant testimony that again had nothing to do with Milosevic.
It is amazing to me to watch so much time being wasted on irrelevant
witnesses that don't even attempt to prove anything against Milosevic.
This makes it all the more absurd that the so-called "trial" chamber
gave the prosecution all of that extra time to "present evidence,"
which is something that they might want to consider doing some time.
So far there has been no real evidence presented against Milosevic.
Nothing that that so-called "prosecution" has done so far even comes
close to proving that Milosevic is guilty of anything.
The last witness to testify was another Croatia witness named Josip
Jocipovic. He was another 92-bis witness. The prosecutor read out a
summary of his statement about some alleged events in Hrvatska Dubica,
but he has not been cross-examined yet.
However from just what the prosecutor said I can see that this is
another witness who does not have anything at all to do with Milosevic.
This whole day, like many days before it, was a total waste of time
for the prosecution. Slobodan Milosevic has successfully defeated the
prosecution with every witness.
=== 7 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082903.htm
"TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 29, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 29, 2003
Another secret witness testified today at the Hague Tribunal. B-1054 a
Muslim woman from a village near Visegrad testified that she was taken
to a house in Visegrad along with 70 other Muslims. According to this
woman, Serb civilians from Visegrad attempted to burn them all alive in
that house.
For the sake of argument, we will start by assuming that she was
telling the truth. Even if this happened, and even if it happened
exactly in the way that she said it did; it proves nothing. This woman
did not allege that anybody from Serbia, or anybody from the JNA even
took part in this alleged crime. It is therefore clear that Slobodan
Milosevic could not have had anything at all to do with this.
Her two written statements, her previous testimony from another trial,
and the testimony that she gave today did not all fit together very
well. There were a number of discrepancies.
For example, she claimed to have been laid-up in the hospital for 22
days, but her medical report revealed that she was only in the
Hospital for 10 days. She had exaggerated her time in the hospital by
more than double.
She was inconsistent again as to how the alleged fire started in the
House. One time she said it was a bomb that ignited the fire, and
another time she said that somebody had just lit a match.
In her second statement she spoke of an alleged massacre that "a band
of Chetniks" was committing on the river. According to this witness
"the slaughter was so horrible that it made the river run red with
blood." However, in her first statement she neglects to mention that
minor detail. When asked how come she didn't mention it in her first
statement her excuse was that it "was just too horrible to speak of."
She has no problem speaking in her first statement about other
horrible things. She spoke all about how she lay wounded in a sewage
ditch near to the allegedly burning house listening to the screams of
people who were allegedly being burned alive, and that wasn't "too
horrible to speak of," but apparently seeing some corpses in a river
was.
Her statements were also inconsistent with respect to the names of
people that she claimed to have seen at certain places.
Another problem with her testimony was that she claimed that everybody
had died in that house, by either being burned in the fire, or shot
while trying to flee. She even said that she thought that her own son
had died. However, she later said that she found her son alive and
well 5 years later on. So how could she know that everybody else died?
She thought that her own son was dead for 5 years, but he wasn't.
An entertaining moment came when the Amicus Curiae, Mr. Tapuskovic and
the so-called "judge" May got into a fight. "Judge" May became quite
indignant when Mr. Tapuskovic dared to peruse a line of questioning
that called the truthfulness of this witness's testimony into question.
Tapuskovic was asking questions about inconsistencies in the witness's
evidence. The witness responded by getting indignant. For example,
when Tapusokvic asked her how she could know that everybody was killed
when her own son was even able to flee without her knowledge. She
responded indignantly by saying, "So you say that my son should have
been killed too! Is that it?"
After this little exchange Tapuskovic and Milosevic both gave the
so-called "judge" a lesson in law. During his fight with Mr.
Tapuskovic, the so-called "judge" claimed that "the accused hasn't
even challenged this evidence" (even though he had), and so President
Milosevic had to explain to this so-called "judge" that he had no way
of knowing if the event in questioned had happened or not, but it
wasn't him, as the accused, who had the burden of proving that it
didn't happen -- rather it was the prosecution who had the burden of
proving that it did happen.
After President Milosevic had explained, to this pathetic excuse of a
"judge," the concept of "innocent until proven guilty," which appears
to be completely foreign to "Dick" May. Mr. Tapuskovic had to explain
to this idiot what his job was in the first place. Mr. Tapuskovic
explained to that crimson robe-wearing fool that as a judge his job is
to sit and listen to the evidence and then decide, after hearing all
of the evidence, if the witness is telling the truth or not.
Mr. Tapuskovic was clearly astonished that "judge" May considered it
inappropriate to ask questions that challenged a witness's
credibility. What is the point of cross-examination if not to challenge
the witness? Tapuskovic explained that he had been a lawyer for 40
years, and had never seen a judge that would prevent these sorts of
questions.
After Mr. Tapuskovic finished his cross-examination, the so-called
"judge," who clearly had no other motive than just a desire to be a
smart-ass, said to the witness, "It has been suggested that you may not
be telling the truth. Have you been lying to us?" and the witness
surprised everybody by saying, "Of course I have been telling the
truth." At that point "judge" May let the witness go.
The next witness was Josip Jocipovic. Mr. Jocipovic had been examined
by prosecutor Bauer the day before, and so President Milosevic went
directly into cross-examination.
Like so many other witnesses this witness's testimony had nothing to
do with President Milosevic. The closest he came was when he said that
two men, who he couldn't identify, allegedly told him that they had
been fighting in Vukovar and that they were from Serbia.
Other than that he testified about a couple of men from the Krajina
police who committed some crimes. However, after they had committed
the crimes they were removed by Milan Martic.
He did however give some useful testimony. He was a member of the ZNG,
and to the dismay of Ms. Bauer, he testified that the local ZNG
commander in Hrvatska Dubica was a criminal and a thief.
He testified that the ZNG was formed in 1990 right after the elections
and that it was precisely then that the tensions increased. He
admitted that the JNA and T.O. forces were the only legal armed forces
in the SFRY (of which Croatia was a part in 1990). However he denied
that the ZNG was a paramilitary organization, in spite of the fact
that being an illegal armed force operating in the SFRY made it the
very definition of a paramilitary. He also testified that the JNA
brought order and that it fought against both Serb and Croatian
paramilitaries in order to stop killings and looting from taking place.
After Mr. Jocipovic finished, another secret witness called "B-1505"
was called. I'm not sure who exactly this guy was. He is either
somebody who is pretending to be somebody else, which is possible with
all secret witnesses, or he is somebody who was either a member of the
JNA, or was in some other way privy to internal JNA matters.
At any rate he claimed to be a Muslim from Visegrad who saw the JNA
planning to "cleanse Visegrad" of its Muslim population.
The prosecution is expected to finish with him on Monday, and after
that President Milosevic will cross-examine him.
"Processo" Milosevic
1. MILOSEVIC SI RIVOLGE ALL'OPINIONE PUBBLICA (17/8/2003). Con la
TRADUZIONE INTEGRALE della lettera di Milosevic.
2. TPI; SLOBO NEGA RESPONSABILITA' PER SREBRENICA (25/8/2003); ONU:
CARLA DEL PONTE ESTROMESSA DA TRIBUNALE PER RUANDA (28/08/2003)
3. La manifestazione del 28 giugno 2003 a L'Aja
(Aldo Bernardini su "Aginform")
NOTA: Una nuova manifestazione a L'Aia e' in preparazione per il
prossimo 8 novembre. Invieremo via via su questa lista tutte le
informazioni a riguardo.
=== 1 ===
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/serbiamontenegro/serbiamontenegro.shtml
SERBIA: MILOSEVIC NEGA COINVOLGIMENTO IN OMICIDIO STAMBOLIC
(ANSA-AFP) - BELGRADO, 23 AGO - L'ex presidente jugoslavo Slobodan
Milosevic ha negato qualsiasi coinvolgimento nell'omicidio di Ivan
Stambolic, un ex presidente serbo considerato un suo rivale politico.
Milosevic, sotto processo per crimini di guerra davanti al
Tribunale internazionale dell'Aja (Tpi), ha inviato una che la
pubblichera' nella sua edizione di domani e di cui stasera sono state
fornite alcune anticipazioni. Nella lettera Milosevic nega di
essere implicato nell'omicidio di Stambolic che, dopo essere
scomparso tre anni fa dalla sua casa di Belgrado, e' stato ritrovato
cadavere nel nord della Serbia lo scorso aprile. Della sua
uccisione sono sospettati alcuni elementi del 'Berretti Rossi' (Jso),
una unita' speciale della polizia. Secondo la magistratura di
Belgrado, ad ordinare la sua eliminazione sarebbe stato proprio
Milosevic, ansioso di sbarazzarsi di un rivale politico. L'ex
presidente jugoslavo, nella lettera, definisce ''assurde'' queste
accuse. ''Stambolic non interessava piu' a nessuno, era un uomo
politico dimenticato'', scrive nella lettera al giornale.
All'inizio di questo mese alcuni investigatori serbi volevano
interrogarlo nel carcere dell'Aja dove e' rinchiuso ma Milosevic si
e' rifiutato. Nella lettera spiega di averlo fatto perche' aveva
chiesto che la sua testimonianza fosse rese pubblica, condizione che
a suo dire non era stata accettata. (ANSA-AFP). ZU
23/08/2003 23:22
---
TRADUZIONE INTEGRALE
della lettera di Milosevic alla opinione pubblica, pubblicata il 24
agosto dal quotidiano Vecernje Novosti. Per le versioni in inglese e
serbocroato, da noi gia' diffuse su JUGOINFO, si veda al sito
dell'Associazione "Sloboda":
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/slobaE170803.htm
[Si noti che in seguito alla diffusione di questa lettera, consegnata a
mano da Milosevic ad esponenti del suo partito in visita all'Aia, le
autorita' del "Tribunale" hanno deciso di vietare per il futuro
qualsiasi visita in cercere: Milosevic e' quindi attualmente
impossibilitato a ricevere visite.]
Nel marzo 2001 sono stato accusato di crimini immaginari, cosicche'
hanno potuto arrestarmi e consegnarmi all'Aia.
Queste nuove accuse del 2003 hanno lo stesso scopo: L'Aia. Solo che
stavolta il loro obiettivo e' di cercare di impedire, o almeno di
minimizzare, l'evidente fiasco di questo fittizio Tribunale, che serve
come arma di guerra contro il nostro paese e contro la nostra gente.
Stavolta, diversamente dal 2001, hanno anche incominciato a
terrorizzare la mia famiglia, perseguitando vigliaccamente mia moglie e
mio figlio. La campagna criminale contro mia moglie e mio figlio viene
montata solamente a causa della mia lotta qui.
E' assurdo e vergognoso che si accaniscano contro una donna, moglie chi
e' stato capo dello Stato a lungo, professoressa universitaria, autrice
di dieci libri, tradotti in 30 lingue e stampati in tutto il mondo, per
cui nessuno potra' distruggere o nascondere le sue settimanali
testimonianze sulla crisi jugoslava [1]. Il loro valore e' stato
dimostrato con il tempo, ad onore di Mira e con nostro orgoglio. Nessun
altro intellettuale ha alzato la propria voce piu' di lei contro la
guerra, la violenza, il primitivismo, lo sfruttamento, e la schiavitu'
ed in favore della pace, della liberta' e della parita' dei diritti.
Si stanno accanendo contro un giovane che a cuore aperto e limpido ha
deciso di fare il suo cammino nella vita in maniera indipendente,
attraverso l'operosita', l'intelligenza e le abilita' sue proprie, ed
ha fatto di tutto per aiutare gli altri e rendere la sua citta' piu'
bella e piu' umana.
Stanno commettendo un crimine contro due persone che verso gli altri
non hanno mai usato altro che la bonta' e l'umanita'.
Il loro unico crimine e' quello di essere la mia famiglia.
La gente della Serbia e le persone amanti della liberta' in tutto il
mondo mi inviano messaggi di solidarieta' e mi augurano la vittoria.
Apparentemente, solo il regime di Belgrado e' ben disposto verso il
Tribunale dell'Aia, tanto da non disdegnare neppure di terrorizzare le
donne ed i ragazzi.
Alle due persone che sono venute per interrogarmi - cinque mesi dopo
che lo avevo pubblicamente richiesto - ho detto che solo i codardi
attaccano le donne ed i ragazzi, e che non esiste vergogna piu' grande.
La campagna politica, mediatica e poliziesca contro di me e la mia
famiglia e' la piu' grande infamia per quasiasi paese; una infamia che,
con il tempo, surclassera' non solo i suoi responsabili, ma anche
quelli che hanno assistito in silenzio.
Legija ed i Berretti Rossi
Per quanto riguarda le "ragioni" per cui il giudice ed il pubblico
ministero sono venuti all'Aia, desidero chiarire che:
Ne' io ne' il mio entourage abbiamo mai avuto alcun rapporto con alcun
gruppo criminale.
Non esisteva nessun "clan di Zemun" mentre io ero presidente. Esso e'
piuttosto la conseguenza diretta dei comportamenti dell'attuale
governo, del ruolo avuto da alcuni gruppi ed individui nel golpe del 5
Ottobre 2000, e dei loro reciproci accordi.
Ne' io ne' alcuno nel mio entourage abbiamo avuto contatti personali e
frequentazioni con membri della Unita' per le Operazioni Speciali,
popolarmente nota come Berretti Rossi. Io credevo fosse una unita'
antiterroristica d'elite, tipica di ogni servizio di sicurezza. Credo
tuttora che la maggiorparte dei componenti della unita' fossero
conformi a questa descrizione. Quelli con un passato o inclinazioni
criminali sono certamente meglio noti al presente regime, visto che
esso li ha utilizzati il 5 Ottobre.
La mia visita alla caserma di Kula nel 1997 era parte del cerimoniale,
un gesto di apprezzamento per il capo del servizio Jovica Stanisic, che
rispettavo come professionista e come uomo che compieva il suo lavoro
in pieno accordo con i suoi incarichi. Che quella visita fosse di
cerimoniale, e che tutto quanto nella caserma per me fosse nuovo,
dovrebbe essere ovvio a chiunque guardi l'intera registrazione in
maniera attenta.
L'ufficiale che mi riferiva sull'andamento della parata non mi era
conosciuto. Adesso so che il suo nome era Lukovic "Legija" [2]. Quando
costui arrivo' per arrestarmi nel marzo 2001, lo scambiai per
l'ufficiale che durante la mia visita aveva condotto Stanisic e me dal
quartier generale alle palestre all'aperto, che pure volevano
mostrarmi. Peraltro, ancora oggi non riesco a ricordare nessuno dei
nomi degli ufficiali che mi riferivano in varie occasioni dinanzi ad
una guardia d'onore. Questa vale persino per i comandanti delle unita'
della Guardia dell'Esercito Jugoslavo.
La prima volta che ho parlato con Lukovic "Legija" e' stato quando
venne ad arrestarmi il 31 marzo 2001. Visto che non avevo mai avuto
alcun contatto con lui prima, ne' tantomeno una conversazione, l'unica
cosa che avrei potuto "ordinargli" sarebbe stato il mio arresto.
Chiaramente, quelli che per il mio arresto hanno utilizzato membri dei
Berretti Rossi (ed altri, che saltarono incappucciati all'interno della
recinzione della mia residenza) li hanno usati anche prima e dopo. Io
chiaramente non potevo.
Le voci secondo cui questa unita' lavorava anche per la mia sicurezza
personale non sono vere. Pure menzogne. La mia sicurezza personale per
tutto il tempo e' stata l'unita' di sicurezza pubblica (non la
Sicurezza di Stato), comandata da Senta Milenkovic.
Ivan Stambolic
Sono stato amico di Ivan Stambolic per molti anni. Le nostre strade si
sono divise all'Ottava Sessione del Comitato Centrale della Lega dei
Comunisti della Serbia, nel 1987. Non abbiamo mai litigato
personalmente.
Dopo che fu sostituito, egli venne da me per chiedere quello che (a
parere di entrambi) era uno dei posti migliori nella RFS di Jugoslavia:
Presidente della Banca Jugoslava per le Relazioni Economiche
Internazionali. E lo ebbe, rimanendo in quella posizione per 10 anni
nonostante la consuetudine della rotazione delle cariche, fino al suo
pensionamento - che avrebbe potuto ottenere ben prima, sia in forza
dell'esperienza lavorativa che dell'eta'.
Era stato completamente dimenticato come politico da molti anni.
Percio' la storia secondo cui avrebbe potuto rappresentare un
potenziale avversario nelle elezioni e' una bugia palese, visto che non
vi partecipo' mai. Non fu mai nemmeno candidato. Peraltro, in quei
dieci anni, forse che qualcun altro candidato ha subito qualche attacco?
E' assurdo sostenere che mi sarei affrettato ad ucciderlo poiche'
rappresentava una minaccia, dopo che che gli avevo consentito di tenere
un posto di suo gradimento per dieci anni, e dopo che era andato in
pensione!
Per me e' particolarmente misterioso come la sua famiglia possa avere
dato prontamente credito a questa palese bugia. Sembra che loro abbiano
piu' interesse ad accusare me che non a scoprire la verita' sulle sorti
del loro padre e marito.
Ivan Stambolic era un politico dimenticato, e, al momento della sua
scomparsa, era anche un banchiere dimenticato. Nessuno nello Stato o
nell'apparato politico lo aveva piu' menzionato da anni. Egli
apparteneva all'epoca della ex RFS di Jugoslavia, e le cose dal 1990
purtroppo erano cambiate.
Senza offesa, ma nessuno piu' si interessava di Ivan Stambolic. Non ci
furono persecuzioni nei confronti di quelli che, all'Ottava Sessione,
avevano sostenuto la sua linea. Desimir Jeftic, presidente del
consiglio dei Ministri della Serbia, che pure era stato sostituito, fu
per molti anni Ambasciatore in Romania. Il migliore amico e vicino di
Ivan, Dragan Tomic, CEO [amministratore delegato?] della ditta di
mobili Simpo, rimase membro del partito e della leadership dello Stato.
Io sono certo che egli confermerebbe che gli dissi, dopo la
sostituzione di Ivan, che io lo avrei considerato molto male se egli
avesse rinunciato alla sua amicizia, voltandogli le spalle. Dunque, la
verita' e' proprio all'opposto rispetto alla storia che e' stata
fabbricata da qualche personaggio patetico.
Io fui informato della sparizione di Ivan al telefono, dal ministro
degli Interni Vlajko Stojiljkovic. Gli dissi di usare tutti i mezzi
possibili per trovarlo. Mi disse che la moglie di Ivan ed il figlio
avevano denunciato la scomparsa nel pomeriggio, benche' egli fosse
andato a correre la mattina, il che avrebbe reso le indagini piu'
complicate.
Tutti i posti di frontiera furono allertati, e piu' tardi quella sera
Vlajko Stojiljkovic mi disse che molte centinaia di poliziotti erano
impegnati nella indagine. Io insistetti che tutte le risorse fossero
utilizzate per trovarlo prima possibile. Certamente, la maggiorparte di
questi ufficiali sono tuttora impiegati al Ministero dell'Interno, e
possono testimoniare in proposito.
Sulla base di quanto Stojiljkovic mi aveva riferito, tutto cio' che si
sarebbe potuto fare fu fatto.
Draskovic, Pavkovic e l'incidente di Budva
Visto che gli inquirenti, durante le presentazioni, hanno menzionato un
mio presunto collegamento con il "tentativo di assassinio di
Draskovic", desidero dire qualche parola anche a riguardo.
Non ho mai creduto che quanto avvenne a Budva fosse un vero tentativo
di omicidio, poiche' appare improbabile che qualcuno possa sparare
tutti i colpi, in uno spazio ristretto come quello, mancando tutti i
bersagli. Neanche Vuk Draskovic, con la sua inclinazione a
drammatizzare, sarebbe stato in grado di trasformarsi in una mosca o in
una zanzara. Credetti che o qualcuno aveva avuto intenzione di
spaventarlo, oppure che egli aveva inscenato l'intero incidente per
conquistarsi l'attenzione e promuovere il suo ruolo di "vittima del
regime". Non e' difficile vedere chi abbia beneficiato di un simile
incidente, mentre e' abbondantemente chiaro che esso non servi' al
governo. Al contrario, in effetti.
Io non so se il Servizio di Sicurezza Serbo abbia avuto alcuna
attivita' in Montenegro, a parte quella di raccogliere informazioni sul
contrabbando di sigarette verso la Serbia. Rade Markovic mi fece
persino vedere fotografie di ricognizione aerea di un'area nota come
Mehov Krs, dalla parte serba del confine con il Montenegro, e spiego'
che in base alle sue informazioni si trattava di un importante
magazzino di stoccaggio delle sigarette di contrabbando. Egli si
preparava ad un raid per prendere i contrabbandieri ed interrompere il
traffico, al momento opportuno. Non so se le fotografie furono scattate
da un aereoplano o da un elicottero, della polizia o dell'esercito, in
quanto questi dettagli non mi interessavano.
Non ho mai parlato con Pavkovic di alcun trasferimento di "assassini" o
"agenti" dal Montenegro. Non e' plausibile che il Comandante in Capo
potesse essere coinvolto nel trasporto di presunti agenti segreti,
tantomeno attraverso l'intera catena di comando che incominciava con il
Capo del Comando Generale.
La verita' e' che io insistetti sempre affinche' i servizi
cooperassero, ed abbandonassero le loro rivalita', visto che non
servivano me bensi' lo Stato, e si presumeva che lavorassero per lo
Stato, in accordo con la legge. Il generale Aleksandar Vasiljevic ha
testimoniato su questo in questo tribunale illegale, nientemeno che
come testimone per l'accusa. E Rade Markovic ha testimoniato, sia qui
sia di fronte a due commissioni parlamentari, di esser stato sottoposto
a pressioni perche' cercasse di incriminarmi.
L'unico incidente di elicottero che ricordo riguarda un volo a bassa
quota di un elicottero sopra alla Casa Bianca (che era illegale),
quando un ufficiale dell'Esercito Jugoslavo incaricato della sicurezza
della Casa Bianca mantenne la calma evitando che esso fosse
tragicamente abbattuto. Piu' tardi quel giorno si venne a sapere che
l'elicottero stava trasferendo una persona gravemente malata dalla
Repubblica Serba [di Bosnia] alla Accademia Militare di Medicina [VMA].
Non vi vergognate?
Ho chiesto ad entrambi, l'inquirente e la pubblica accusa, che il mio
interrogatorio fosse pubblico, e che avrebbero potuto anche collegare
una linea telefonica aperta, cosicche' chiunque avrebbe potuto
chiedermi quello che voleva. Mi hanno spiegato che questo non era
consentito dalla legge, fintantoche' era in corso l'inchiesta. Ne ho
preso atto, ma ho chiesto che le registrazioni fossero rese pubbliche
alla fine dell'inchiesta - visto che non ci sarebbe piu' stato alcun
pericolo di potenziali interferenze, a quel punto. Hanno rifiutato
anche questo, benche' avessero la piena autorita' legale per
acconsentire. Ne' io, ne' loro, ne' i miei rappresentanti legali hanno
sporto obiezioni.
Il governo attuale usa la legge come pretesto per l'arbitrio e la
tirannia. Niente di nuovo!
Gia' nel 1742 Montesquieu scrisse: "Non c'e' tirannia piu' crudele di
quella perpetrata sotto lo scudo della legge ed in nome della
giustizia."
In tutta questa sporca operazione, con cui cercano di salvare questa
illegittima corte dell'Aia dal fallimento, l'elemento piu' vergognoso
e' sicuramente la persecuzione di mia moglie e mio figlio. Ho detto al
giudice inquirente che la sua indagine dovrebbe includere anche il
fantasma dei lingotti d'oro, delle riserve di valuta straniera, delle
ville in Svizzera e chi piu' ne ha piu' ne metta, visto che che tutto
questo e' stato menzionato in varie dichiarazioni ed ampi reportage sui
giornali, solo per essere poi "dimenticato".
Gli ho chiesto: "Non si vergogna?" Non mi ha risposto.
A mia moglie Mira ed a mio figlio Marko, che sono stati separati da me
in questa maniera vigliacca, desidero dire: "La vita e' troppo corta
per ringraziarvi della vostra bonta'."
L'Aia, 17 agosto 2003
Slobodan Milosevic
NOTE:
[1] Si riferisce alla rubrica fissa che Mira Markovic teneva sul
settimanale Duga. I testi di Mira Markovic sono stati pubblicati anche
in lingua italiana, vedi ad esempio:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2380.
[2] I media hanno riportato che il soprannome gli deriva dall'aver
fatto parte della Legione Straniera francese.
=== 2 ===
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/serbiamontenegro/serbiamontenegro.shtml
MILOSEVIC: TPI; SLOBO NEGA RESPONSABILITA' PER SREBRENICA
(ANSA) - BRUXELLES, 25 AGO - Nessuna responsabilta' personale ne'
della Serbia nel massacro di Srebrenica nel 1995. Lo ha ribadito oggi
Slobodan Milosevic al Tribunale penale internazionale per l'ex
Jugoslavia dell'Aja, alla riapertura delle udienze dopo tre settimane
di pausa estiva. ''E' evidente per tutti che ne' io ne' la Serbia
abbiamo avuto nulla a che fare con i fatti di Srebrenica'', ha detto
l'ex presidente jugoslavo rivolgendosi a Richard May, presidente della
corte dell'Aja. L'udienza di oggi e' stata dedicata alla
testimonianza di un soldato croato-bosniaco ''pentito'' per la propria
partecipazione all'uccisione di circa 8.000 musulmani bosniaci a
Srebrenica (Bosnia orientale) nel luglio 1995. Condannato nel 1998
a cinque anni di reclusione dal Tpi, Drazen Erdemovic e' un ex soldato
croato arruolato nella divisione dell'esercito serbo che prese parte
al massacro di Srebrenica. Erdemovic aveva espresso il suo pentimento
e la sua amarezza per i fatti di Srebrenica, accettando cosi' di
collaborare con il Tribunale dell'Aja. La testimonianza resa da
Erdemovic depone a sfavore dell'ex presidente jugoslavo. Nella sua
deposizione il soldato ha infatti riferito di essere stato addestrato
- insieme alla sua unita', composta da una quarantina di militari -
nel 1994 a Pancevo, in Serbia, e di aver inoltre ricevuto uniformi ed
armamenti direttamente da Belgrado. Rispondendo alla Corte un
Milosevic rilassato ha rigettato l'accusa di essere coinvolto nella
strage. L'ex uomo forte di Belgrado e' accusato dal Tpi di crimini di
guerra, genocidio e crimini contro l'umanita' per i delitti commessi
nelle tre guerre balcaniche nella prima meta' degli anni '90.(ANSA)
RED*RIG 25/08/2003 18:28
ONU: CARLA DEL PONTE ESTROMESSA DA TRIBUNALE PER RUANDA
(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 28 AGO - Il Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'Onu ha
deciso oggi di rimuovere Carla Del Ponte dall'incarico di procuratore
per il Tribunale internazionale sui genocidi in Ruanda (Ictr), ma ha
confermato l'incarico del magistrato svizzero come procuratore capo
del Tribunale internazionale contro i crimini di guerra nella ex
Jugoslavia (Tpi). Del Ponte, che ha portato sul banco degli
imputati l'ex presidente jugoslavo Slobodan Milosevic, detiene ancora
i due mandati quadriennali che pero' scadono il 14 settembre. Il
Consiglio di Sicurezza ha adesso deciso di scindere le due funzioni.
La risoluzione approvata oggi era stata redatta dagli Usa: in essa
si chiede al segretario generale Kofi Annan di nominare un nuovo
procuratore per il tribunale incaricato di occuparsi dei genocidi del
1994 in Ruanda in cui venne trucidate circa 800 mila persone.
Secondo le aspettative al Palazzo di Vetro, il nuovo incarico dovrebbe
essere affidato a un magistrato africano. Allo stesso tempo la
risoluzione da' il benevenuto all'intenzione del segretario generale
Annan, espressa in una lettera del 28 giugno, di rinnovare l'incarico
di Del Ponte alla testa del tribunale per la ex Jugoslavia. Carla
Del Ponte accettera' l'incarico dimezzato, ha indicato una sua
portavoce all'Aja. La stessa Del Ponte aveva confermato nei giorni
scorsi al Consiglio di Sicurezza l'intenzione di restare al Tribunale
per la ex Jugoslavia perche' ''e' molto attaccata a quello che e'
stato fatto''. La raccomandazione di sdoppiare i mandati dei due
tribunali era stata fatta nelle scorse settimane da Annan anche in
seguito a pressioni del governo del Ruanda, che aveva criticato
l'inefficienza della corte nonostante i suoi 16 giudici, oltre 800
membri dello staff e un bilancio di circa cento milioni di dollari
all'anno. (ANSA). BN 28/08/2003 17:47
=== 3 ===
http://www.pasti.org/agenhome.htm
da AGINFORM
Numero 35, luglio 2003
Sostegno a Milosevic
La manifestazione del 28 giugno 2003 a L'Aja
Il 28 giugno 2003, secondo anniversario del sequestro e rapimento del
presidente Slobodan Milosevic da Belgrado per consegnarlo all'illegale
Tribunale dell'Aja per la ex Jugoslavia e, per i serbi, giorno di San
Vito (ricorrenza della storica battaglia di Kosovo Polie del 1389
contro gli ottomani), si è svolta all'Aja una manifestazione pubblica
di protesta contro il Tribunale e di sostegno alla battaglia per la
liberazione di Milosevic e degli altri jugoslavi arbitrariamente
detenuti.
La manifestazione è stata organizzata dalle sezioni europee del
Comitato internazionale per la difesa di Milosevic.
Hanno partecipato circa 250 persone da Germania (la rappresentanza più
consistente), Paesi Bassi, Gran Bretagna, Austria, Francia, USA,
Italia, Irlanda, Canada, Belgio, Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, Grecia. Bandiere
jugoslave soprattutto con la stella rossa e altre (anche una della ex
Repubblica democratica tedesca!) hanno espresso il carattere
internazionale dell'iniziativa, che deve molto del successo ai
sostenitori olandesi, guidati da Wil Van der Klift.
Davanti alla sede del Tribunale, di cui è stata da tutti sottolineata
l'illegalità e il concreto comportamento contrario anche ai diritti
dell'uomo, hanno parlato Van der Klift, Gavrilovic (Gran Bretagna),
Valkanoff (Bulgaria), Mraovic (Francia), Bernardini (Italia), Collon
(Belgio), Varkevisser (Paesi Bassi). Sono state lette le richieste
ufficiali al Tribunale e all'ONU. Ha fatto seguito una marcia di alcuni
chilometri sino al penitenziario di Scheveningen e qui hanno preso la
parola, oltre ad alcuni dei precedenti, Hartmann (Germania), Krsljanin
(Jugoslavia), Kelly (Irlanda), Cottin (USA), Verner (Germania). Si è
data lettura della lettera a Milosevic, immediatamente consegnata alle
autorità del carcere.
E' stato giustamente notato che si tratta di un primo passo, in
apparenza modesto ma sostanzialmente rilevantissimo, in un clima
generale che ha visto la demonizzazione massmediatica della Serbia e di
Milosevic in particolare, che rende difficile persino solo parlarne,
anche con grandi masse di ispirazione "democratica" e di "sinistra".
Gravissimo è stato il cedimento, sino alla collusione, di quelle forze
(anche "comuniste") che hanno proclamano "né con la NATO né con
Milosevic" e hanno esultato - "Belgrado ride" - di fronte al colpo di
stato, ormai dimostrato, che ha avuto luogo in Jugoslavia e alla
barbarica traduzione al carcere dell'Aja del presidente Milosevic,
avvenuta dietro promessa di danaro. E quindi tacciono e non danno il
reale significato né alla fascistizzazione e al disastro sociale della
(residua) Jugoslavia, come degli altri paesi della ex (grande)
Jugoslavia, né al valore storico di nemesi che ha avuto in sorte, da
chiunque attivata, il Giuda Djindjic, colui che ha consegnato
Milosevic; ma neppure, dall'altro lato, al comportamento eroico, nel
pieno e oggi dimenticato senso del termine, dello stesso Milosevic
avanti a quella Corte da Santa Alleanza che siede all'Aja per
selezionare accortamente, e "costruire", i "crimini" da perseguire e i
"criminali" da trattare secondo copioni in tutta logica pre-scritti:
primo fra tutti Slobodan Milosevic, antesignano della lotta alla
globalizzazione, da lui per tempo riconosciuta come la veste attuale
dell'imperialismo. Il presidente jugoslavo, al di là dell'indegno
silenzio dei media, continua a controbattere con efficacia l'azione del
Tribunale e dei "testimoni" a suo carico.
A lui, agli altri jugoslavi ingiustamente carcerati, alle lotte in
Jugoslavia va tutta la nostra solidarietà, come quella espressa all'Aja
(e nello stesso giorno a Mosca, Parigi, Belgrado...) e la più decisa
ripulsa contro quei pilateschi "comunisti" che, invece di confrontarsi
con le lotte reali di chi affronta in concreto il mostro imperialistico
e di far vedere e vivere il legame che unisce queste lotte, inseguono
modelli astratti di "democrazia" mutuati dall'ideologia borghese e che
nulla hanno a che fare con i bisogni effettivi dei popoli nelle loro
espressioni proletarie (non borghesi), primo fra i quali è quello
dell'indipendenza.
Proprio per questo dobbiamo fare appello per la concreta solidarietà:
Milosevic e i suoi avvocati jugoslavi (che fungono da consulenti
esterni e da coadiutori per lui) devono sopportare gli enormi costi
della macchina giudiziaria.
Aldo Bernardini
[Aldo Bernardini, insigne docente di Diritto Internazionale, ex rettore
della Universita' di Teramo, e' esponente della sezione italiana del
Comitato Internazionale per la Difesa di Slobodan Milosevic]
1. MILOSEVIC SI RIVOLGE ALL'OPINIONE PUBBLICA (17/8/2003). Con la
TRADUZIONE INTEGRALE della lettera di Milosevic.
2. TPI; SLOBO NEGA RESPONSABILITA' PER SREBRENICA (25/8/2003); ONU:
CARLA DEL PONTE ESTROMESSA DA TRIBUNALE PER RUANDA (28/08/2003)
3. La manifestazione del 28 giugno 2003 a L'Aja
(Aldo Bernardini su "Aginform")
NOTA: Una nuova manifestazione a L'Aia e' in preparazione per il
prossimo 8 novembre. Invieremo via via su questa lista tutte le
informazioni a riguardo.
=== 1 ===
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/serbiamontenegro/serbiamontenegro.shtml
SERBIA: MILOSEVIC NEGA COINVOLGIMENTO IN OMICIDIO STAMBOLIC
(ANSA-AFP) - BELGRADO, 23 AGO - L'ex presidente jugoslavo Slobodan
Milosevic ha negato qualsiasi coinvolgimento nell'omicidio di Ivan
Stambolic, un ex presidente serbo considerato un suo rivale politico.
Milosevic, sotto processo per crimini di guerra davanti al
Tribunale internazionale dell'Aja (Tpi), ha inviato una che la
pubblichera' nella sua edizione di domani e di cui stasera sono state
fornite alcune anticipazioni. Nella lettera Milosevic nega di
essere implicato nell'omicidio di Stambolic che, dopo essere
scomparso tre anni fa dalla sua casa di Belgrado, e' stato ritrovato
cadavere nel nord della Serbia lo scorso aprile. Della sua
uccisione sono sospettati alcuni elementi del 'Berretti Rossi' (Jso),
una unita' speciale della polizia. Secondo la magistratura di
Belgrado, ad ordinare la sua eliminazione sarebbe stato proprio
Milosevic, ansioso di sbarazzarsi di un rivale politico. L'ex
presidente jugoslavo, nella lettera, definisce ''assurde'' queste
accuse. ''Stambolic non interessava piu' a nessuno, era un uomo
politico dimenticato'', scrive nella lettera al giornale.
All'inizio di questo mese alcuni investigatori serbi volevano
interrogarlo nel carcere dell'Aja dove e' rinchiuso ma Milosevic si
e' rifiutato. Nella lettera spiega di averlo fatto perche' aveva
chiesto che la sua testimonianza fosse rese pubblica, condizione che
a suo dire non era stata accettata. (ANSA-AFP). ZU
23/08/2003 23:22
---
TRADUZIONE INTEGRALE
della lettera di Milosevic alla opinione pubblica, pubblicata il 24
agosto dal quotidiano Vecernje Novosti. Per le versioni in inglese e
serbocroato, da noi gia' diffuse su JUGOINFO, si veda al sito
dell'Associazione "Sloboda":
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/slobaE170803.htm
[Si noti che in seguito alla diffusione di questa lettera, consegnata a
mano da Milosevic ad esponenti del suo partito in visita all'Aia, le
autorita' del "Tribunale" hanno deciso di vietare per il futuro
qualsiasi visita in cercere: Milosevic e' quindi attualmente
impossibilitato a ricevere visite.]
Nel marzo 2001 sono stato accusato di crimini immaginari, cosicche'
hanno potuto arrestarmi e consegnarmi all'Aia.
Queste nuove accuse del 2003 hanno lo stesso scopo: L'Aia. Solo che
stavolta il loro obiettivo e' di cercare di impedire, o almeno di
minimizzare, l'evidente fiasco di questo fittizio Tribunale, che serve
come arma di guerra contro il nostro paese e contro la nostra gente.
Stavolta, diversamente dal 2001, hanno anche incominciato a
terrorizzare la mia famiglia, perseguitando vigliaccamente mia moglie e
mio figlio. La campagna criminale contro mia moglie e mio figlio viene
montata solamente a causa della mia lotta qui.
E' assurdo e vergognoso che si accaniscano contro una donna, moglie chi
e' stato capo dello Stato a lungo, professoressa universitaria, autrice
di dieci libri, tradotti in 30 lingue e stampati in tutto il mondo, per
cui nessuno potra' distruggere o nascondere le sue settimanali
testimonianze sulla crisi jugoslava [1]. Il loro valore e' stato
dimostrato con il tempo, ad onore di Mira e con nostro orgoglio. Nessun
altro intellettuale ha alzato la propria voce piu' di lei contro la
guerra, la violenza, il primitivismo, lo sfruttamento, e la schiavitu'
ed in favore della pace, della liberta' e della parita' dei diritti.
Si stanno accanendo contro un giovane che a cuore aperto e limpido ha
deciso di fare il suo cammino nella vita in maniera indipendente,
attraverso l'operosita', l'intelligenza e le abilita' sue proprie, ed
ha fatto di tutto per aiutare gli altri e rendere la sua citta' piu'
bella e piu' umana.
Stanno commettendo un crimine contro due persone che verso gli altri
non hanno mai usato altro che la bonta' e l'umanita'.
Il loro unico crimine e' quello di essere la mia famiglia.
La gente della Serbia e le persone amanti della liberta' in tutto il
mondo mi inviano messaggi di solidarieta' e mi augurano la vittoria.
Apparentemente, solo il regime di Belgrado e' ben disposto verso il
Tribunale dell'Aia, tanto da non disdegnare neppure di terrorizzare le
donne ed i ragazzi.
Alle due persone che sono venute per interrogarmi - cinque mesi dopo
che lo avevo pubblicamente richiesto - ho detto che solo i codardi
attaccano le donne ed i ragazzi, e che non esiste vergogna piu' grande.
La campagna politica, mediatica e poliziesca contro di me e la mia
famiglia e' la piu' grande infamia per quasiasi paese; una infamia che,
con il tempo, surclassera' non solo i suoi responsabili, ma anche
quelli che hanno assistito in silenzio.
Legija ed i Berretti Rossi
Per quanto riguarda le "ragioni" per cui il giudice ed il pubblico
ministero sono venuti all'Aia, desidero chiarire che:
Ne' io ne' il mio entourage abbiamo mai avuto alcun rapporto con alcun
gruppo criminale.
Non esisteva nessun "clan di Zemun" mentre io ero presidente. Esso e'
piuttosto la conseguenza diretta dei comportamenti dell'attuale
governo, del ruolo avuto da alcuni gruppi ed individui nel golpe del 5
Ottobre 2000, e dei loro reciproci accordi.
Ne' io ne' alcuno nel mio entourage abbiamo avuto contatti personali e
frequentazioni con membri della Unita' per le Operazioni Speciali,
popolarmente nota come Berretti Rossi. Io credevo fosse una unita'
antiterroristica d'elite, tipica di ogni servizio di sicurezza. Credo
tuttora che la maggiorparte dei componenti della unita' fossero
conformi a questa descrizione. Quelli con un passato o inclinazioni
criminali sono certamente meglio noti al presente regime, visto che
esso li ha utilizzati il 5 Ottobre.
La mia visita alla caserma di Kula nel 1997 era parte del cerimoniale,
un gesto di apprezzamento per il capo del servizio Jovica Stanisic, che
rispettavo come professionista e come uomo che compieva il suo lavoro
in pieno accordo con i suoi incarichi. Che quella visita fosse di
cerimoniale, e che tutto quanto nella caserma per me fosse nuovo,
dovrebbe essere ovvio a chiunque guardi l'intera registrazione in
maniera attenta.
L'ufficiale che mi riferiva sull'andamento della parata non mi era
conosciuto. Adesso so che il suo nome era Lukovic "Legija" [2]. Quando
costui arrivo' per arrestarmi nel marzo 2001, lo scambiai per
l'ufficiale che durante la mia visita aveva condotto Stanisic e me dal
quartier generale alle palestre all'aperto, che pure volevano
mostrarmi. Peraltro, ancora oggi non riesco a ricordare nessuno dei
nomi degli ufficiali che mi riferivano in varie occasioni dinanzi ad
una guardia d'onore. Questa vale persino per i comandanti delle unita'
della Guardia dell'Esercito Jugoslavo.
La prima volta che ho parlato con Lukovic "Legija" e' stato quando
venne ad arrestarmi il 31 marzo 2001. Visto che non avevo mai avuto
alcun contatto con lui prima, ne' tantomeno una conversazione, l'unica
cosa che avrei potuto "ordinargli" sarebbe stato il mio arresto.
Chiaramente, quelli che per il mio arresto hanno utilizzato membri dei
Berretti Rossi (ed altri, che saltarono incappucciati all'interno della
recinzione della mia residenza) li hanno usati anche prima e dopo. Io
chiaramente non potevo.
Le voci secondo cui questa unita' lavorava anche per la mia sicurezza
personale non sono vere. Pure menzogne. La mia sicurezza personale per
tutto il tempo e' stata l'unita' di sicurezza pubblica (non la
Sicurezza di Stato), comandata da Senta Milenkovic.
Ivan Stambolic
Sono stato amico di Ivan Stambolic per molti anni. Le nostre strade si
sono divise all'Ottava Sessione del Comitato Centrale della Lega dei
Comunisti della Serbia, nel 1987. Non abbiamo mai litigato
personalmente.
Dopo che fu sostituito, egli venne da me per chiedere quello che (a
parere di entrambi) era uno dei posti migliori nella RFS di Jugoslavia:
Presidente della Banca Jugoslava per le Relazioni Economiche
Internazionali. E lo ebbe, rimanendo in quella posizione per 10 anni
nonostante la consuetudine della rotazione delle cariche, fino al suo
pensionamento - che avrebbe potuto ottenere ben prima, sia in forza
dell'esperienza lavorativa che dell'eta'.
Era stato completamente dimenticato come politico da molti anni.
Percio' la storia secondo cui avrebbe potuto rappresentare un
potenziale avversario nelle elezioni e' una bugia palese, visto che non
vi partecipo' mai. Non fu mai nemmeno candidato. Peraltro, in quei
dieci anni, forse che qualcun altro candidato ha subito qualche attacco?
E' assurdo sostenere che mi sarei affrettato ad ucciderlo poiche'
rappresentava una minaccia, dopo che che gli avevo consentito di tenere
un posto di suo gradimento per dieci anni, e dopo che era andato in
pensione!
Per me e' particolarmente misterioso come la sua famiglia possa avere
dato prontamente credito a questa palese bugia. Sembra che loro abbiano
piu' interesse ad accusare me che non a scoprire la verita' sulle sorti
del loro padre e marito.
Ivan Stambolic era un politico dimenticato, e, al momento della sua
scomparsa, era anche un banchiere dimenticato. Nessuno nello Stato o
nell'apparato politico lo aveva piu' menzionato da anni. Egli
apparteneva all'epoca della ex RFS di Jugoslavia, e le cose dal 1990
purtroppo erano cambiate.
Senza offesa, ma nessuno piu' si interessava di Ivan Stambolic. Non ci
furono persecuzioni nei confronti di quelli che, all'Ottava Sessione,
avevano sostenuto la sua linea. Desimir Jeftic, presidente del
consiglio dei Ministri della Serbia, che pure era stato sostituito, fu
per molti anni Ambasciatore in Romania. Il migliore amico e vicino di
Ivan, Dragan Tomic, CEO [amministratore delegato?] della ditta di
mobili Simpo, rimase membro del partito e della leadership dello Stato.
Io sono certo che egli confermerebbe che gli dissi, dopo la
sostituzione di Ivan, che io lo avrei considerato molto male se egli
avesse rinunciato alla sua amicizia, voltandogli le spalle. Dunque, la
verita' e' proprio all'opposto rispetto alla storia che e' stata
fabbricata da qualche personaggio patetico.
Io fui informato della sparizione di Ivan al telefono, dal ministro
degli Interni Vlajko Stojiljkovic. Gli dissi di usare tutti i mezzi
possibili per trovarlo. Mi disse che la moglie di Ivan ed il figlio
avevano denunciato la scomparsa nel pomeriggio, benche' egli fosse
andato a correre la mattina, il che avrebbe reso le indagini piu'
complicate.
Tutti i posti di frontiera furono allertati, e piu' tardi quella sera
Vlajko Stojiljkovic mi disse che molte centinaia di poliziotti erano
impegnati nella indagine. Io insistetti che tutte le risorse fossero
utilizzate per trovarlo prima possibile. Certamente, la maggiorparte di
questi ufficiali sono tuttora impiegati al Ministero dell'Interno, e
possono testimoniare in proposito.
Sulla base di quanto Stojiljkovic mi aveva riferito, tutto cio' che si
sarebbe potuto fare fu fatto.
Draskovic, Pavkovic e l'incidente di Budva
Visto che gli inquirenti, durante le presentazioni, hanno menzionato un
mio presunto collegamento con il "tentativo di assassinio di
Draskovic", desidero dire qualche parola anche a riguardo.
Non ho mai creduto che quanto avvenne a Budva fosse un vero tentativo
di omicidio, poiche' appare improbabile che qualcuno possa sparare
tutti i colpi, in uno spazio ristretto come quello, mancando tutti i
bersagli. Neanche Vuk Draskovic, con la sua inclinazione a
drammatizzare, sarebbe stato in grado di trasformarsi in una mosca o in
una zanzara. Credetti che o qualcuno aveva avuto intenzione di
spaventarlo, oppure che egli aveva inscenato l'intero incidente per
conquistarsi l'attenzione e promuovere il suo ruolo di "vittima del
regime". Non e' difficile vedere chi abbia beneficiato di un simile
incidente, mentre e' abbondantemente chiaro che esso non servi' al
governo. Al contrario, in effetti.
Io non so se il Servizio di Sicurezza Serbo abbia avuto alcuna
attivita' in Montenegro, a parte quella di raccogliere informazioni sul
contrabbando di sigarette verso la Serbia. Rade Markovic mi fece
persino vedere fotografie di ricognizione aerea di un'area nota come
Mehov Krs, dalla parte serba del confine con il Montenegro, e spiego'
che in base alle sue informazioni si trattava di un importante
magazzino di stoccaggio delle sigarette di contrabbando. Egli si
preparava ad un raid per prendere i contrabbandieri ed interrompere il
traffico, al momento opportuno. Non so se le fotografie furono scattate
da un aereoplano o da un elicottero, della polizia o dell'esercito, in
quanto questi dettagli non mi interessavano.
Non ho mai parlato con Pavkovic di alcun trasferimento di "assassini" o
"agenti" dal Montenegro. Non e' plausibile che il Comandante in Capo
potesse essere coinvolto nel trasporto di presunti agenti segreti,
tantomeno attraverso l'intera catena di comando che incominciava con il
Capo del Comando Generale.
La verita' e' che io insistetti sempre affinche' i servizi
cooperassero, ed abbandonassero le loro rivalita', visto che non
servivano me bensi' lo Stato, e si presumeva che lavorassero per lo
Stato, in accordo con la legge. Il generale Aleksandar Vasiljevic ha
testimoniato su questo in questo tribunale illegale, nientemeno che
come testimone per l'accusa. E Rade Markovic ha testimoniato, sia qui
sia di fronte a due commissioni parlamentari, di esser stato sottoposto
a pressioni perche' cercasse di incriminarmi.
L'unico incidente di elicottero che ricordo riguarda un volo a bassa
quota di un elicottero sopra alla Casa Bianca (che era illegale),
quando un ufficiale dell'Esercito Jugoslavo incaricato della sicurezza
della Casa Bianca mantenne la calma evitando che esso fosse
tragicamente abbattuto. Piu' tardi quel giorno si venne a sapere che
l'elicottero stava trasferendo una persona gravemente malata dalla
Repubblica Serba [di Bosnia] alla Accademia Militare di Medicina [VMA].
Non vi vergognate?
Ho chiesto ad entrambi, l'inquirente e la pubblica accusa, che il mio
interrogatorio fosse pubblico, e che avrebbero potuto anche collegare
una linea telefonica aperta, cosicche' chiunque avrebbe potuto
chiedermi quello che voleva. Mi hanno spiegato che questo non era
consentito dalla legge, fintantoche' era in corso l'inchiesta. Ne ho
preso atto, ma ho chiesto che le registrazioni fossero rese pubbliche
alla fine dell'inchiesta - visto che non ci sarebbe piu' stato alcun
pericolo di potenziali interferenze, a quel punto. Hanno rifiutato
anche questo, benche' avessero la piena autorita' legale per
acconsentire. Ne' io, ne' loro, ne' i miei rappresentanti legali hanno
sporto obiezioni.
Il governo attuale usa la legge come pretesto per l'arbitrio e la
tirannia. Niente di nuovo!
Gia' nel 1742 Montesquieu scrisse: "Non c'e' tirannia piu' crudele di
quella perpetrata sotto lo scudo della legge ed in nome della
giustizia."
In tutta questa sporca operazione, con cui cercano di salvare questa
illegittima corte dell'Aia dal fallimento, l'elemento piu' vergognoso
e' sicuramente la persecuzione di mia moglie e mio figlio. Ho detto al
giudice inquirente che la sua indagine dovrebbe includere anche il
fantasma dei lingotti d'oro, delle riserve di valuta straniera, delle
ville in Svizzera e chi piu' ne ha piu' ne metta, visto che che tutto
questo e' stato menzionato in varie dichiarazioni ed ampi reportage sui
giornali, solo per essere poi "dimenticato".
Gli ho chiesto: "Non si vergogna?" Non mi ha risposto.
A mia moglie Mira ed a mio figlio Marko, che sono stati separati da me
in questa maniera vigliacca, desidero dire: "La vita e' troppo corta
per ringraziarvi della vostra bonta'."
L'Aia, 17 agosto 2003
Slobodan Milosevic
NOTE:
[1] Si riferisce alla rubrica fissa che Mira Markovic teneva sul
settimanale Duga. I testi di Mira Markovic sono stati pubblicati anche
in lingua italiana, vedi ad esempio:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2380.
[2] I media hanno riportato che il soprannome gli deriva dall'aver
fatto parte della Legione Straniera francese.
=== 2 ===
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/serbiamontenegro/serbiamontenegro.shtml
MILOSEVIC: TPI; SLOBO NEGA RESPONSABILITA' PER SREBRENICA
(ANSA) - BRUXELLES, 25 AGO - Nessuna responsabilta' personale ne'
della Serbia nel massacro di Srebrenica nel 1995. Lo ha ribadito oggi
Slobodan Milosevic al Tribunale penale internazionale per l'ex
Jugoslavia dell'Aja, alla riapertura delle udienze dopo tre settimane
di pausa estiva. ''E' evidente per tutti che ne' io ne' la Serbia
abbiamo avuto nulla a che fare con i fatti di Srebrenica'', ha detto
l'ex presidente jugoslavo rivolgendosi a Richard May, presidente della
corte dell'Aja. L'udienza di oggi e' stata dedicata alla
testimonianza di un soldato croato-bosniaco ''pentito'' per la propria
partecipazione all'uccisione di circa 8.000 musulmani bosniaci a
Srebrenica (Bosnia orientale) nel luglio 1995. Condannato nel 1998
a cinque anni di reclusione dal Tpi, Drazen Erdemovic e' un ex soldato
croato arruolato nella divisione dell'esercito serbo che prese parte
al massacro di Srebrenica. Erdemovic aveva espresso il suo pentimento
e la sua amarezza per i fatti di Srebrenica, accettando cosi' di
collaborare con il Tribunale dell'Aja. La testimonianza resa da
Erdemovic depone a sfavore dell'ex presidente jugoslavo. Nella sua
deposizione il soldato ha infatti riferito di essere stato addestrato
- insieme alla sua unita', composta da una quarantina di militari -
nel 1994 a Pancevo, in Serbia, e di aver inoltre ricevuto uniformi ed
armamenti direttamente da Belgrado. Rispondendo alla Corte un
Milosevic rilassato ha rigettato l'accusa di essere coinvolto nella
strage. L'ex uomo forte di Belgrado e' accusato dal Tpi di crimini di
guerra, genocidio e crimini contro l'umanita' per i delitti commessi
nelle tre guerre balcaniche nella prima meta' degli anni '90.(ANSA)
RED*RIG 25/08/2003 18:28
ONU: CARLA DEL PONTE ESTROMESSA DA TRIBUNALE PER RUANDA
(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 28 AGO - Il Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'Onu ha
deciso oggi di rimuovere Carla Del Ponte dall'incarico di procuratore
per il Tribunale internazionale sui genocidi in Ruanda (Ictr), ma ha
confermato l'incarico del magistrato svizzero come procuratore capo
del Tribunale internazionale contro i crimini di guerra nella ex
Jugoslavia (Tpi). Del Ponte, che ha portato sul banco degli
imputati l'ex presidente jugoslavo Slobodan Milosevic, detiene ancora
i due mandati quadriennali che pero' scadono il 14 settembre. Il
Consiglio di Sicurezza ha adesso deciso di scindere le due funzioni.
La risoluzione approvata oggi era stata redatta dagli Usa: in essa
si chiede al segretario generale Kofi Annan di nominare un nuovo
procuratore per il tribunale incaricato di occuparsi dei genocidi del
1994 in Ruanda in cui venne trucidate circa 800 mila persone.
Secondo le aspettative al Palazzo di Vetro, il nuovo incarico dovrebbe
essere affidato a un magistrato africano. Allo stesso tempo la
risoluzione da' il benevenuto all'intenzione del segretario generale
Annan, espressa in una lettera del 28 giugno, di rinnovare l'incarico
di Del Ponte alla testa del tribunale per la ex Jugoslavia. Carla
Del Ponte accettera' l'incarico dimezzato, ha indicato una sua
portavoce all'Aja. La stessa Del Ponte aveva confermato nei giorni
scorsi al Consiglio di Sicurezza l'intenzione di restare al Tribunale
per la ex Jugoslavia perche' ''e' molto attaccata a quello che e'
stato fatto''. La raccomandazione di sdoppiare i mandati dei due
tribunali era stata fatta nelle scorse settimane da Annan anche in
seguito a pressioni del governo del Ruanda, che aveva criticato
l'inefficienza della corte nonostante i suoi 16 giudici, oltre 800
membri dello staff e un bilancio di circa cento milioni di dollari
all'anno. (ANSA). BN 28/08/2003 17:47
=== 3 ===
http://www.pasti.org/agenhome.htm
da AGINFORM
Numero 35, luglio 2003
Sostegno a Milosevic
La manifestazione del 28 giugno 2003 a L'Aja
Il 28 giugno 2003, secondo anniversario del sequestro e rapimento del
presidente Slobodan Milosevic da Belgrado per consegnarlo all'illegale
Tribunale dell'Aja per la ex Jugoslavia e, per i serbi, giorno di San
Vito (ricorrenza della storica battaglia di Kosovo Polie del 1389
contro gli ottomani), si è svolta all'Aja una manifestazione pubblica
di protesta contro il Tribunale e di sostegno alla battaglia per la
liberazione di Milosevic e degli altri jugoslavi arbitrariamente
detenuti.
La manifestazione è stata organizzata dalle sezioni europee del
Comitato internazionale per la difesa di Milosevic.
Hanno partecipato circa 250 persone da Germania (la rappresentanza più
consistente), Paesi Bassi, Gran Bretagna, Austria, Francia, USA,
Italia, Irlanda, Canada, Belgio, Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, Grecia. Bandiere
jugoslave soprattutto con la stella rossa e altre (anche una della ex
Repubblica democratica tedesca!) hanno espresso il carattere
internazionale dell'iniziativa, che deve molto del successo ai
sostenitori olandesi, guidati da Wil Van der Klift.
Davanti alla sede del Tribunale, di cui è stata da tutti sottolineata
l'illegalità e il concreto comportamento contrario anche ai diritti
dell'uomo, hanno parlato Van der Klift, Gavrilovic (Gran Bretagna),
Valkanoff (Bulgaria), Mraovic (Francia), Bernardini (Italia), Collon
(Belgio), Varkevisser (Paesi Bassi). Sono state lette le richieste
ufficiali al Tribunale e all'ONU. Ha fatto seguito una marcia di alcuni
chilometri sino al penitenziario di Scheveningen e qui hanno preso la
parola, oltre ad alcuni dei precedenti, Hartmann (Germania), Krsljanin
(Jugoslavia), Kelly (Irlanda), Cottin (USA), Verner (Germania). Si è
data lettura della lettera a Milosevic, immediatamente consegnata alle
autorità del carcere.
E' stato giustamente notato che si tratta di un primo passo, in
apparenza modesto ma sostanzialmente rilevantissimo, in un clima
generale che ha visto la demonizzazione massmediatica della Serbia e di
Milosevic in particolare, che rende difficile persino solo parlarne,
anche con grandi masse di ispirazione "democratica" e di "sinistra".
Gravissimo è stato il cedimento, sino alla collusione, di quelle forze
(anche "comuniste") che hanno proclamano "né con la NATO né con
Milosevic" e hanno esultato - "Belgrado ride" - di fronte al colpo di
stato, ormai dimostrato, che ha avuto luogo in Jugoslavia e alla
barbarica traduzione al carcere dell'Aja del presidente Milosevic,
avvenuta dietro promessa di danaro. E quindi tacciono e non danno il
reale significato né alla fascistizzazione e al disastro sociale della
(residua) Jugoslavia, come degli altri paesi della ex (grande)
Jugoslavia, né al valore storico di nemesi che ha avuto in sorte, da
chiunque attivata, il Giuda Djindjic, colui che ha consegnato
Milosevic; ma neppure, dall'altro lato, al comportamento eroico, nel
pieno e oggi dimenticato senso del termine, dello stesso Milosevic
avanti a quella Corte da Santa Alleanza che siede all'Aja per
selezionare accortamente, e "costruire", i "crimini" da perseguire e i
"criminali" da trattare secondo copioni in tutta logica pre-scritti:
primo fra tutti Slobodan Milosevic, antesignano della lotta alla
globalizzazione, da lui per tempo riconosciuta come la veste attuale
dell'imperialismo. Il presidente jugoslavo, al di là dell'indegno
silenzio dei media, continua a controbattere con efficacia l'azione del
Tribunale e dei "testimoni" a suo carico.
A lui, agli altri jugoslavi ingiustamente carcerati, alle lotte in
Jugoslavia va tutta la nostra solidarietà, come quella espressa all'Aja
(e nello stesso giorno a Mosca, Parigi, Belgrado...) e la più decisa
ripulsa contro quei pilateschi "comunisti" che, invece di confrontarsi
con le lotte reali di chi affronta in concreto il mostro imperialistico
e di far vedere e vivere il legame che unisce queste lotte, inseguono
modelli astratti di "democrazia" mutuati dall'ideologia borghese e che
nulla hanno a che fare con i bisogni effettivi dei popoli nelle loro
espressioni proletarie (non borghesi), primo fra i quali è quello
dell'indipendenza.
Proprio per questo dobbiamo fare appello per la concreta solidarietà:
Milosevic e i suoi avvocati jugoslavi (che fungono da consulenti
esterni e da coadiutori per lui) devono sopportare gli enormi costi
della macchina giudiziaria.
Aldo Bernardini
[Aldo Bernardini, insigne docente di Diritto Internazionale, ex rettore
della Universita' di Teramo, e' esponente della sezione italiana del
Comitato Internazionale per la Difesa di Slobodan Milosevic]
