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======================================Tough Measures Justified in Belarus
by Jared Israel [3 September 2001]
======================================
"A spokesman for the US Embassy in Minsk
told The Times that the embassy
helped to fund 300 non-governmental
organisations (NGOs), including non-state
media, but did not fund political parties,
since that is banned by law. He
admitted that some of the NGOs were linked
to those who were 'seeking political change.'
"[Ambassador Kozak wrote to a British
newspaper that] America's 'objective
and to some degree methodology are the
same' in Belarus as in Nicaragua,
where the US backed the Contras against the
left-wing Sandinista Government
in a war that claimed at least 30,000
lives." [From article in "The Times"
(UK), 3 September 2001, posted below.]
Victor Olevich, a Philadelphia reader, sent
us the article from 'The
Times'(UK) which is posted below.
Mr. Olevich commented that it is "one of
the bluntest I've seen in recent
months;" and so it seems to me as well.
With this 'Times' article, the cards
are on the table: U.S. Ambassador to
Belarus, Michael Kozak, has now admitted
that the U.S. is pursuing a 'Nicaraguan'
policy in Belarus.
Victor Olevich writes:
" They [i.e., US operatives] have been
putting out anti-Lukashenko propaganda
pieces and interviews with 'opposition'
leaders in many US-controlled Russian
papers during the past week. They're trying
to do all they can to change the
popular outcome of Sept. 4 elections by any
means - including possible
organized US-funded 'protests' in Minsk
following announcement of election
results (just as after presidential
elections in Yugoslavia last year)."
Taken in this context, what is Mr. Kozak's
statement but a threat to
Belorussian citizens: vote the
U.S.-approved way or suffer the fate of
Nicaragua.
Earlier this year, the Belorussian
government seized computers being used by
an unregistered, 'opposition' newspaper. It
seemed the computers had been
donated to the newspaper by the U.S.
Department of State.
Rather than being embarrassed that his boss
had been caught outrageously
violating Belorussian sovereignty, State
Department spokesman Richard Boucher
demanded that Washington's computers be
returned!
Anyway, while the 'Times' article kindly
sent to us by Mr. Olevich openly
confirms that the Belorussian government
has been telling the truth about
Washington's gross attack on Belorussian
sovereignty, the article also
slanders the Belorussian government.
It calls Belorussian President Lukashenko a
"dictatorial communist." But at
the same time, the article admits:
"President Lukashenko is popular and most
Belorussians fear that a new,
pro-Western leader would bring the poverty
experienced by many Russians and
Ukrainians after the transition to a market
economy. "
So if he's supported on a perfectly
sensible basis by most citizens, wherein
lies his dictatorialness? The article cites
only one 'example.' Here it is:
"Washington said recently that allegations
of state-sanctioned death squads
operating in Belarus, Europe's last bastion
of communism, were "credible".
Two former state prosecutors, who have been
granted political asylum in
America, have said that victims were
murdered with a special pistol and
buried in a cemetery in Minsk."
It is reassuring that a story almost surely
invented by Washington is found
credible - by Washington. And that 'special
pistol' is a nicely chilling
little touch. Still, this particular piece
of disinformation could use more work.
First of all, the same article quotes U.S.
Ambassador to Belarus, Michael
Kozak, to the effect that:
"America's 'objective and to some degree
methodology are the same' in Belarus
as in Nicaragua, where the US backed the
Contras against the left-wing
Sandinista Government in a war that claimed
at least 30,000 lives."
Second of all, note that one of the marked
features of the attack on Nicaragua by the
U.S.-financed-trained-and-led Contras was
the massive dose
of lies and deception emanating from
Washington. This, you may recall,
culminated in "Iran-Contra," an operation
synonymous with disinformation.
During Iran-Contra, the Reagan
Administration lied to: a) Congress; b)
everyone else; c) set up phony humanitarian
groups all over Central America
and d) presented the Contra death squads as
freedom fighters. (If this sounds
eerily familair, it may be because
Washington is now doing all the same
things to Macedonia!)
Which reminds me: the death squads in
Nicaragua (like the current ones in
Macedonia) were U.S. financed, trained and
'advised.'
And since 'The Times' article tells us that
now-Ambassador-to-Belarus Kozak
was:
"Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Inter-American Affairs...working in
Panama, Nicaragua and El Salvador,
and...was serving in Nicaragua [when] Mr.
Reagan famously compared the Contras to the
French Resistance fighters." [One
of many of the amazing lies the U.S.
government spread about Nicaragua.]
- since Kozak was therefore of necessity
intimately involved with the
organization and direction of the death
squads in Nicaraguan and El Salvador
- isn't it 'credible' that a) the U.S.
invented the fable about Belorussian
government death squads, which it then
found credible and b) the U.S. is
planning to unleash the same sort of
violence which marked the "objective and
to some degree methodology" of Kozak's
previous work, where he and his
associates employed death squads and lies
against Nicaragua.
**********************
Fight Fire With Water
**********************
Mr. Lukashenko has been described as
'dictatorial' for taking mild measures
against the U.S.-funded Fifth Column.
According to 'The Times' there are now 300
U.S.-funded 'Non-governmental'
Organizations in Belarus.
300!
That's one U.S. Government Organization for
every 30,000 inhabitants of
Belarus, man, woman and child.
Can you imagine how Washington would react
were the Belorussian Ambassador,
coincidentally a former death squad
organizer, to set up 9,500 'independent'
NGOs and announce that their task was to
overthrow the U.S. government?
The accusation of 'dictatorial' behavior is
a ploy. It is intended to
intimidate the Belorussian authorities with
bad publicty, so they won't take
measures adequate to defend their country
from U.S. takeover.
Ambassador Kozak's remarks are a
declaration of covert war. It is entirely
appropriate that Belarus demand Mr. Kozak
be recalled and then immediately,
without awaiting Washington's response,
escort him and his entire staff to
the border. Throwing out the whole lot will
disrupt Washington's plans.
In addition, why shouldn't Belarus arrest
those receiving U.S. money?
Washington does not give people money out
of the kindness of its heart. It
pays for services rendered. In exchange for
money, some Belorussian
'democrats' have signed on to be
Washington's new Contras, employing 'a
methodology' similar to the methods
Washington used against Nicaragua. As
'The Times' notes, Washington's war against
Nicaragua killed 30,000 human
beings. Must the nightmare be repeated,
time and again?
- Jared Israel
-----------------------------------
The Times (UK) 3 September 2001 US adopts
'Contras policy' in communist
Belarus
FROM ALICE LAGNADO IN MOSCOW
THE US Embassy in Belarus has admitted that
it is pursuing a policy similar
to that in 1980s Nicaragua, in which
anti-government Contra rebels were
funded and supported.
President Lukashenko, a dictatorial
Communist, is heading for victory in
presidential elections on Sunday.
In an unusual admission, Michael Kozak, the
US Ambassador to Belarus, said in
a letter to a British newspaper that
America's "objective and to some degree
methodology are the same" in Belarus as in
Nicaragua, where the US backed the
Contras against the left-wing Sandinista
Government in a war that claimed at
least 30,000 lives. Mr Kozak was not
available for comment.
Washington said recently that allegations
of state-sanctioned death squads
operating in Belarus, Europe's last bastion
of communism, were "credible".
Two former state prosecutors, who have been
granted political asylum in
America, have said that victims were
murdered with a special pistol and
buried in a cemetery in Minsk.
The ambassador's disclosure has coincided
with moves by the Bush
Administration to gain increased political
influence in Eastern Europe and
the Balkans and with reports in several
European newspapers, which said that
former US servicemen believed to be working
for the CIA were escorted with
Albanian guerrillas from a village in the
Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia earlier this year.
Earlier in his career, Mr Kozak served as
Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Inter-American Affairs under
Presidents Reagan and Bush,
working in Panama, Nicaragua and El
Salvador, and was Ambassador to Cuba.
While Mr Kozak was serving in Nicaragua, Mr
Reagan famously compared the
Contras to the French Resistance fighters.
President Lukashenko is popular and most
Belorussians fear that a new,
pro-Western leader would bring the poverty
experienced by many Russians and
Ukrainians after the transition to a market
economy.
A spokesman for the US Embassy in Minsk
told The Times that the embassy
helped to fund 300 non-governmental
organisations (NGOs), including non-state
media, but did not fund political parties,
since that is banned by law. He
admitted that some of the NGOs were linked
to those who were "seeking political change".
(C) 'The Times' 2001, Posted for Fair Use
Only
********************
Further Reading:
********************
1) Why is Lukashenko NATO's Enemy #1 in the
former Soviet Union? Because he
is resisting Washington's Imperial strategy
as discussed in:
* 'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and
Trying to Force Milosevic to
Surrender?' by Jared Israel and Nico
Varkevisser at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisn.htm
2) A few months ago, FBI agents arrested a
Russian Pavel Borodin, a Russian
diplomat, who had been invited to George
W.'s inauguration. Many people felt
the real target was Lukashenko's attempt to
reunite Belarus, Russia and other
former Soviet Republics.
* 'Borodin Falsely Arrested - Washington's
Excuse a Lie' by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bor.htm
3) The U.S. directed a coup d'etat against
Yugoslavia using the same methods
now in operation in Belarus. See: 'U.S.
Arrogance and Yugoslav Elections' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/engl.htm (By
Jared Israel, Michel Chossudovsky,
Nico Varkovisser Peter Maher and Karen Talbot)
For a post mortem admission of the extent
of U.S. control of the Yugoslav
coup, see George Szamuely's report on the
National Endowment for Democracy
and its funding of the 'student group,'
Otpor, 'Eviscerating Democracy' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/szamuely/neda2.htm
4) Mark Almond has a very good letter in
the 'Guardian' about Belarus called
'For Nicaragua, Read Belarus.' It can be
read at http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/alm.htm
5) For the text of State Dep't spokesman
Richard Boucher's remarkable attack
on Belarus (for seizing Washington's Fifth
Column computers) see "Speechless
in Belarus" by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/ind.htm
***
======================================Speechless in Belarus
by Jared Israel [3 September 2001]
======================================
Frankly, the article posted below left me
speechless.
But why?
After all, as President Slobodan Milosevich
noted in the speech they didn't
let him make a few days ago, the U.S. has
employed missiles to punish uppity
nations so often that the repetition of
such attacks is 'expected before it occurs.'
If missiles are appropriate when one defies
the Great White (Mini)Father, why
should it surprise me that State Department
Spokesman Richard Boucher says
the U.S. is aiding the "prospect for free
and fair presidential elections" by
giving money and equipment to pro-U.S.
groups in Belarus?
Why should I consider it odd that Boucher
describes such groups, created and
funded by the U.S. (there are now 300
U.S.-funded NGOs in Belarus!) as "independent?"
Perhaps the problem is I am 57, hence was
(mis)educated in numerous
out-of-date definitions, such as:
in�de�pend�ent
in�de�pend�ent (�n�d�-p�n�dent) adjective
Abbr. ind.
1. Not governed by a foreign power;
self-governing.
2. Free from the influence, guidance, or
control of another or others;
self-reliant: an independent mind.
Whereas in Uncle Sam's Excellent New Order,
'independent' means "governed by
a foreign power" not to mention "getting
all the funds and computer equipment
from Sam you Can."
That being the case, when the State
Department gives computers to an
'opposition' group in Belarus, thus
heightening said group's independence,
and the Belorussian authorities seize such
equipment, thus abusing
Washington's God-given right to rule the
world - plus proving they are agents
of a communist dictatorship - why shouldn't
Mr. Boucher demand his computers
be returned?
Will I never learn?
- Jared Israel, still speechless after all
these years.
AP Online
August 3, 2001
U.S. Denounces [!] Belarus Authorities
WASHINGTON
The State Department on Friday denounced
Belarus authorities for seizing
U.S.-supplied equipment designed to assist
the country's democratic opposition ahead
of Sept. 9 presidential elections.
Spokesman Richard Boucher demanded the
immediate return of the equipment.
On July 12, Boucher said, militia officers
in the town of Krichev seized
equipment owned by the U.S. government and
leased to the independent newspaper Volny Grad.
Militia officers also seized computer
equipment leased by the U.S. Embassy
Democracy Commission to a pro-democracy
center, Boucher said.
He noted that the Belarusian government had
confirmed that the equipment was
seized under terms of Decree No. 8, imposed
by the regime to limit foreign
assistance to the democratic opposition.
''This decree has ben denounced by the
international community,'' Boucher
said, ''as have many other actions taken by
the regime that impede the
prospect for free and fair presidential
elections.''
He said all U.S. assistance falls under a
1996 bilateral assistance
agreement. He added that the seizures
contradict the Belarusian government's
assurances that U.S. assistance is exempt
from Decree 8.
Only by creating conditions for free and
fair elections can Belarus win the
respect of the international community,
improve relations with the United
States and end its self-imposed isolation,
Boucher said.
(c) AP 2001, Reprinted For Fair Use Only
Further Reading:
1) Why is Lukashenko NATO's Enemy #1 in the
former Soviet Union? Because he
is resisting Washington's Imperial strategy
as discussed in:
* 'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and
Trying to Force Milosevic to
Surrender?' by Jared Israel and Nico
Varkevisser at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisn.htm
2) A few months ago, FBI agents arrested a
Russian Pavel Borodin, a Russian
diplomat, who had been invited to George
W.'s inauguration. Many people felt
the real target was Lukashenko's attempt to
reunite Belarus, Russia and other
former Soviet Republics.
* 'Borodin Falsely Arrested - Washington's
Excuse a Lie' by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bor.htm
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======================================Tough Measures Justified in Belarus
by Jared Israel [3 September 2001]
======================================
"A spokesman for the US Embassy in Minsk
told The Times that the embassy
helped to fund 300 non-governmental
organisations (NGOs), including non-state
media, but did not fund political parties,
since that is banned by law. He
admitted that some of the NGOs were linked
to those who were 'seeking political change.'
"[Ambassador Kozak wrote to a British
newspaper that] America's 'objective
and to some degree methodology are the
same' in Belarus as in Nicaragua,
where the US backed the Contras against the
left-wing Sandinista Government
in a war that claimed at least 30,000
lives." [From article in "The Times"
(UK), 3 September 2001, posted below.]
Victor Olevich, a Philadelphia reader, sent
us the article from 'The
Times'(UK) which is posted below.
Mr. Olevich commented that it is "one of
the bluntest I've seen in recent
months;" and so it seems to me as well.
With this 'Times' article, the cards
are on the table: U.S. Ambassador to
Belarus, Michael Kozak, has now admitted
that the U.S. is pursuing a 'Nicaraguan'
policy in Belarus.
Victor Olevich writes:
" They [i.e., US operatives] have been
putting out anti-Lukashenko propaganda
pieces and interviews with 'opposition'
leaders in many US-controlled Russian
papers during the past week. They're trying
to do all they can to change the
popular outcome of Sept. 4 elections by any
means - including possible
organized US-funded 'protests' in Minsk
following announcement of election
results (just as after presidential
elections in Yugoslavia last year)."
Taken in this context, what is Mr. Kozak's
statement but a threat to
Belorussian citizens: vote the
U.S.-approved way or suffer the fate of
Nicaragua.
Earlier this year, the Belorussian
government seized computers being used by
an unregistered, 'opposition' newspaper. It
seemed the computers had been
donated to the newspaper by the U.S.
Department of State.
Rather than being embarrassed that his boss
had been caught outrageously
violating Belorussian sovereignty, State
Department spokesman Richard Boucher
demanded that Washington's computers be
returned!
Anyway, while the 'Times' article kindly
sent to us by Mr. Olevich openly
confirms that the Belorussian government
has been telling the truth about
Washington's gross attack on Belorussian
sovereignty, the article also
slanders the Belorussian government.
It calls Belorussian President Lukashenko a
"dictatorial communist." But at
the same time, the article admits:
"President Lukashenko is popular and most
Belorussians fear that a new,
pro-Western leader would bring the poverty
experienced by many Russians and
Ukrainians after the transition to a market
economy. "
So if he's supported on a perfectly
sensible basis by most citizens, wherein
lies his dictatorialness? The article cites
only one 'example.' Here it is:
"Washington said recently that allegations
of state-sanctioned death squads
operating in Belarus, Europe's last bastion
of communism, were "credible".
Two former state prosecutors, who have been
granted political asylum in
America, have said that victims were
murdered with a special pistol and
buried in a cemetery in Minsk."
It is reassuring that a story almost surely
invented by Washington is found
credible - by Washington. And that 'special
pistol' is a nicely chilling
little touch. Still, this particular piece
of disinformation could use more work.
First of all, the same article quotes U.S.
Ambassador to Belarus, Michael
Kozak, to the effect that:
"America's 'objective and to some degree
methodology are the same' in Belarus
as in Nicaragua, where the US backed the
Contras against the left-wing
Sandinista Government in a war that claimed
at least 30,000 lives."
Second of all, note that one of the marked
features of the attack on Nicaragua by the
U.S.-financed-trained-and-led Contras was
the massive dose
of lies and deception emanating from
Washington. This, you may recall,
culminated in "Iran-Contra," an operation
synonymous with disinformation.
During Iran-Contra, the Reagan
Administration lied to: a) Congress; b)
everyone else; c) set up phony humanitarian
groups all over Central America
and d) presented the Contra death squads as
freedom fighters. (If this sounds
eerily familair, it may be because
Washington is now doing all the same
things to Macedonia!)
Which reminds me: the death squads in
Nicaragua (like the current ones in
Macedonia) were U.S. financed, trained and
'advised.'
And since 'The Times' article tells us that
now-Ambassador-to-Belarus Kozak
was:
"Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Inter-American Affairs...working in
Panama, Nicaragua and El Salvador,
and...was serving in Nicaragua [when] Mr.
Reagan famously compared the Contras to the
French Resistance fighters." [One
of many of the amazing lies the U.S.
government spread about Nicaragua.]
- since Kozak was therefore of necessity
intimately involved with the
organization and direction of the death
squads in Nicaraguan and El Salvador
- isn't it 'credible' that a) the U.S.
invented the fable about Belorussian
government death squads, which it then
found credible and b) the U.S. is
planning to unleash the same sort of
violence which marked the "objective and
to some degree methodology" of Kozak's
previous work, where he and his
associates employed death squads and lies
against Nicaragua.
**********************
Fight Fire With Water
**********************
Mr. Lukashenko has been described as
'dictatorial' for taking mild measures
against the U.S.-funded Fifth Column.
According to 'The Times' there are now 300
U.S.-funded 'Non-governmental'
Organizations in Belarus.
300!
That's one U.S. Government Organization for
every 30,000 inhabitants of
Belarus, man, woman and child.
Can you imagine how Washington would react
were the Belorussian Ambassador,
coincidentally a former death squad
organizer, to set up 9,500 'independent'
NGOs and announce that their task was to
overthrow the U.S. government?
The accusation of 'dictatorial' behavior is
a ploy. It is intended to
intimidate the Belorussian authorities with
bad publicty, so they won't take
measures adequate to defend their country
from U.S. takeover.
Ambassador Kozak's remarks are a
declaration of covert war. It is entirely
appropriate that Belarus demand Mr. Kozak
be recalled and then immediately,
without awaiting Washington's response,
escort him and his entire staff to
the border. Throwing out the whole lot will
disrupt Washington's plans.
In addition, why shouldn't Belarus arrest
those receiving U.S. money?
Washington does not give people money out
of the kindness of its heart. It
pays for services rendered. In exchange for
money, some Belorussian
'democrats' have signed on to be
Washington's new Contras, employing 'a
methodology' similar to the methods
Washington used against Nicaragua. As
'The Times' notes, Washington's war against
Nicaragua killed 30,000 human
beings. Must the nightmare be repeated,
time and again?
- Jared Israel
-----------------------------------
The Times (UK) 3 September 2001 US adopts
'Contras policy' in communist
Belarus
FROM ALICE LAGNADO IN MOSCOW
THE US Embassy in Belarus has admitted that
it is pursuing a policy similar
to that in 1980s Nicaragua, in which
anti-government Contra rebels were
funded and supported.
President Lukashenko, a dictatorial
Communist, is heading for victory in
presidential elections on Sunday.
In an unusual admission, Michael Kozak, the
US Ambassador to Belarus, said in
a letter to a British newspaper that
America's "objective and to some degree
methodology are the same" in Belarus as in
Nicaragua, where the US backed the
Contras against the left-wing Sandinista
Government in a war that claimed at
least 30,000 lives. Mr Kozak was not
available for comment.
Washington said recently that allegations
of state-sanctioned death squads
operating in Belarus, Europe's last bastion
of communism, were "credible".
Two former state prosecutors, who have been
granted political asylum in
America, have said that victims were
murdered with a special pistol and
buried in a cemetery in Minsk.
The ambassador's disclosure has coincided
with moves by the Bush
Administration to gain increased political
influence in Eastern Europe and
the Balkans and with reports in several
European newspapers, which said that
former US servicemen believed to be working
for the CIA were escorted with
Albanian guerrillas from a village in the
Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia earlier this year.
Earlier in his career, Mr Kozak served as
Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Inter-American Affairs under
Presidents Reagan and Bush,
working in Panama, Nicaragua and El
Salvador, and was Ambassador to Cuba.
While Mr Kozak was serving in Nicaragua, Mr
Reagan famously compared the
Contras to the French Resistance fighters.
President Lukashenko is popular and most
Belorussians fear that a new,
pro-Western leader would bring the poverty
experienced by many Russians and
Ukrainians after the transition to a market
economy.
A spokesman for the US Embassy in Minsk
told The Times that the embassy
helped to fund 300 non-governmental
organisations (NGOs), including non-state
media, but did not fund political parties,
since that is banned by law. He
admitted that some of the NGOs were linked
to those who were "seeking political change".
(C) 'The Times' 2001, Posted for Fair Use
Only
********************
Further Reading:
********************
1) Why is Lukashenko NATO's Enemy #1 in the
former Soviet Union? Because he
is resisting Washington's Imperial strategy
as discussed in:
* 'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and
Trying to Force Milosevic to
Surrender?' by Jared Israel and Nico
Varkevisser at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisn.htm
2) A few months ago, FBI agents arrested a
Russian Pavel Borodin, a Russian
diplomat, who had been invited to George
W.'s inauguration. Many people felt
the real target was Lukashenko's attempt to
reunite Belarus, Russia and other
former Soviet Republics.
* 'Borodin Falsely Arrested - Washington's
Excuse a Lie' by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bor.htm
3) The U.S. directed a coup d'etat against
Yugoslavia using the same methods
now in operation in Belarus. See: 'U.S.
Arrogance and Yugoslav Elections' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/engl.htm (By
Jared Israel, Michel Chossudovsky,
Nico Varkovisser Peter Maher and Karen Talbot)
For a post mortem admission of the extent
of U.S. control of the Yugoslav
coup, see George Szamuely's report on the
National Endowment for Democracy
and its funding of the 'student group,'
Otpor, 'Eviscerating Democracy' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/szamuely/neda2.htm
4) Mark Almond has a very good letter in
the 'Guardian' about Belarus called
'For Nicaragua, Read Belarus.' It can be
read at http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/alm.htm
5) For the text of State Dep't spokesman
Richard Boucher's remarkable attack
on Belarus (for seizing Washington's Fifth
Column computers) see "Speechless
in Belarus" by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/ind.htm
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======================================Speechless in Belarus
by Jared Israel [3 September 2001]
======================================
Frankly, the article posted below left me
speechless.
But why?
After all, as President Slobodan Milosevich
noted in the speech they didn't
let him make a few days ago, the U.S. has
employed missiles to punish uppity
nations so often that the repetition of
such attacks is 'expected before it occurs.'
If missiles are appropriate when one defies
the Great White (Mini)Father, why
should it surprise me that State Department
Spokesman Richard Boucher says
the U.S. is aiding the "prospect for free
and fair presidential elections" by
giving money and equipment to pro-U.S.
groups in Belarus?
Why should I consider it odd that Boucher
describes such groups, created and
funded by the U.S. (there are now 300
U.S.-funded NGOs in Belarus!) as "independent?"
Perhaps the problem is I am 57, hence was
(mis)educated in numerous
out-of-date definitions, such as:
in�de�pend�ent
in�de�pend�ent (�n�d�-p�n�dent) adjective
Abbr. ind.
1. Not governed by a foreign power;
self-governing.
2. Free from the influence, guidance, or
control of another or others;
self-reliant: an independent mind.
Whereas in Uncle Sam's Excellent New Order,
'independent' means "governed by
a foreign power" not to mention "getting
all the funds and computer equipment
from Sam you Can."
That being the case, when the State
Department gives computers to an
'opposition' group in Belarus, thus
heightening said group's independence,
and the Belorussian authorities seize such
equipment, thus abusing
Washington's God-given right to rule the
world - plus proving they are agents
of a communist dictatorship - why shouldn't
Mr. Boucher demand his computers
be returned?
Will I never learn?
- Jared Israel, still speechless after all
these years.
AP Online
August 3, 2001
U.S. Denounces [!] Belarus Authorities
WASHINGTON
The State Department on Friday denounced
Belarus authorities for seizing
U.S.-supplied equipment designed to assist
the country's democratic opposition ahead
of Sept. 9 presidential elections.
Spokesman Richard Boucher demanded the
immediate return of the equipment.
On July 12, Boucher said, militia officers
in the town of Krichev seized
equipment owned by the U.S. government and
leased to the independent newspaper Volny Grad.
Militia officers also seized computer
equipment leased by the U.S. Embassy
Democracy Commission to a pro-democracy
center, Boucher said.
He noted that the Belarusian government had
confirmed that the equipment was
seized under terms of Decree No. 8, imposed
by the regime to limit foreign
assistance to the democratic opposition.
''This decree has ben denounced by the
international community,'' Boucher
said, ''as have many other actions taken by
the regime that impede the
prospect for free and fair presidential
elections.''
He said all U.S. assistance falls under a
1996 bilateral assistance
agreement. He added that the seizures
contradict the Belarusian government's
assurances that U.S. assistance is exempt
from Decree 8.
Only by creating conditions for free and
fair elections can Belarus win the
respect of the international community,
improve relations with the United
States and end its self-imposed isolation,
Boucher said.
(c) AP 2001, Reprinted For Fair Use Only
Further Reading:
1) Why is Lukashenko NATO's Enemy #1 in the
former Soviet Union? Because he
is resisting Washington's Imperial strategy
as discussed in:
* 'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and
Trying to Force Milosevic to
Surrender?' by Jared Israel and Nico
Varkevisser at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisn.htm
2) A few months ago, FBI agents arrested a
Russian Pavel Borodin, a Russian
diplomat, who had been invited to George
W.'s inauguration. Many people felt
the real target was Lukashenko's attempt to
reunite Belarus, Russia and other
former Soviet Republics.
* 'Borodin Falsely Arrested - Washington's
Excuse a Lie' by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bor.htm
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DIFENDERE MILOSEVIC E' DIFENDERE
LA LIBERTA' E LA SOVRANITA' DEI POPOLI
di Fulvio Grimaldi
Il 24 marzo scorso, anniversario dell'aggressione Nato
alla Jugoslavia, si � svolto a Belgrado un
convegno internazionale, organizzato dalle sinistre
serbe, su cause e conseguenze dell'aggressione imperialista.
L'ex-presidente Slobodan Milosevic, che era stato
sconfitto nelle elezioni presidenziali
da una coalizione di forze finanziate e istruite
dagli USA e da altri paesi Nato, al termine di
una campagna segnata da minacce militari e ricatti
economici di ogni genere, rischiava l'arresto e
l'estradizione al tribunale dell'Aja, un
tribunale-farsa, voluto e finanziato dagli USA,
creato dall'ONU in violazione del suo stesso
statuto, specializzato in montature contro
dirigenti serbi. Si costitu� quindi il Comitato
Internazionale di Difesa di Slobodan
Milosevic (ICDSM), formato da 80 tra giuristi,
esponenti della cultura, politici, giornalisti
di 30 paesi. Ne sono presidenti l'ex-ministro
della giustizia statunitense e leader dei diritti
civili e del movimento antimperialista, Ramsey
Clark, e il parlamentare bulgaro prof. Velko
Valkanov, presidente dell'Unione Antifascista
Bulgara. Chi scrive ne � vicepresidente e
referente per l'Italia. Nel nostro paese l'ICDSM
opera in stretta collaborazione con
il Tribunale Ramsey Clark per i crimini di
guerra della Nato.
In poche settimane l'ICDSM ha raccolto milioni
di firme in tutto il mondo contro l'arresto di
Milosevic, nel frattempo attuato in forme totalmente
illegali e su ricatto finanziario USA e contro
la sua illegale detenzione. L'ICDSM ha fornito
al collegio di difesa di Milosevic, nel corso dei
tre mesi di detenzione a Belgrado, un costante
monitoraggio giuridico della legalit� internazionale
e si � adoperato per pubblicizzare tutte le
illegalit� che caratterizzavano il trattamento
di Milosevic da parte delle autorit� serbe, installate
dopo il pogrom filo-Nato dell'ottobre 2000.
In particolare, � stato denunciato come la
detenzione di Milosevic, prorogata illegalmente
per tre volte in totale assenza di prove a suo
carico fornite dalle centinaia di
testimoni ascoltati per l'imputazione di
abuso d'ufficio e abuso di poteri, violasse
i principi fondamentali degli ordinamenti
giuridici nazionale ed internazionale. L'ICDSM
ha poi seguito la vicenda di Milosevic, in
particolare con l'avvocato Christopher Black e
altri legali del prestigioso studio
canadese Mandel, dalla consegna dell'ex-presidente
agli USA e poi al Tribunale della Nato all'Aja,
avvenuta su ennesimo ricatto finanziario USA e
deciso in solitudine, contro le decisioni del
Parlamento e della Corte Suprema e in violazione
delle Costituzioni jugoslava e serba, dal
quisling serbo Zoran Djindjic, un losco personaggio,
gi� al soldo dei servizi segreti tedeschi,
fuggito in Germania all'inizio dell'aggressione
dove ha aiutato la Nato a
colpire obiettivi civili in Jugoslavia.
Va ricordato che negli ultimi giorni lo stesso
presidente Kostunica si � dissociato politicamente
da Djindjic, ritirando il suo partito dalla coalizione
DOS al governo, e ha accusato il gruppo del
primo ministro di essere espressione della
malavita organizzata, un fatto noto da tempo
a tutti gli osservatori internazionali.
Resta a Djindjic, nell'attuale crisi jugoslava,
oltre all'appoggio degli USA, il poco qualificante
sostegno dei terroristi di Otpor, la famosa
organizzazione detta degli studenti serbi e
che, a dispetto delle profferte di amicizia
fattegli da settori del Movimento anti-global
italiano (Tute Bianche e Ya Basta) e addirittura
da elementi della sinistra antagonista, si �
confessata creazione della CIA, dagli USA finanziata,
equipaggiata, istruita ed addestrata in corsi
di formazione insurrezionale a Sofia e a Budapest.
Anche le costanti violazioni di diritto e i
soprusi consentiti dai regolamenti del sedicente
Tribunale dell'Aja e inflitti a Milosevic (come
il prolungato rifiuto degli incontri con i
famigliari, l'isolamento, le perquisizioni
addirittura di nipoti di pochi anni, l'arrogante
e scorretta interruzione audio delle
dichiarazioni di Milosevic in aula) sono
documentate e denunciate dall'ICDSM che,
in aggiunta, continua a monitorare le condizioni di salute
dell'ex-presidente. Fu l'ICDSM a denunciare
come i diritti sanitari del detenuto fossero
sistematicamente ignorati e violati, anche nel
corso di un infarto che lo colp� a met� maggio.
Accanto alla stretta sorveglianza giuridica e
alla denuncia dei costanti abusi compiuti dai
suoi carcerieri, l'ICDSM si propone anche di
controbattere alla micidiale opera di
disinformazione e intossicazione attuata dai
media ai danni della Jugoslavia, della Serbia
e, soprattutto, di Slobodan Milosevic,
che costituisce in s� un crimine contro l'umanit�.
Riteniamo che Milosevic sia il personaggio
storico pi� diffamato dai tempi di Giuliano
l'Apostata, un imperatore illuminato che ebbe
il coraggio di opporsi al dilagante controllo
della Chiesa Cristiana sui beni pubblici
e sui cittadini dell'Impero. La sua
figura e opera sono state aggredite da una
macchina da guerra di menzogne e mistificazioni,
poi risultate tutte fondate sull'invenzione
di specializzate agenzie USA di disinformazione,
cui quasi tutti i media sono obbedienti fin dai
tempi dell'aggressione all'Iraq nella Guerra
del Golfo. Nel frattempo il tempo � stato
galantuomo e si sono dissolte le diffamazioni
circa la pulizia etnica ai danni degli albanesi
(inventata, contrariamente a quella effettuata
dagli albanesi, sotto l'egida Nato, ai danni di
centinaia di migliaia di serbi), le fosse comuni,
le stragi attribuite ai serbi a Racak, in Kosovo, o a
Sarajevo e Sebrenica in Bosnia, il presunto
nazionalismo di un presidente che ha dovuto
costantemente difendersi dalle strategie
divisorie dell'imperialismo e dei nazionalismi
etnici e che si � invece adoperato fino all'ultimo
per la pacifica convivenza di tutte le etnie,
culture, religioni, anche accogliendo un milione
di profughi tra i quali Rom, ebrei, goranci, bulgari,
ungheresi, cacciati dall'UCK e da Tudjman, fino
all'accusa da sinistra di una resa alla globalizzazione
liberista, allorch� fu invece proprio Milosevic
a porre un freno alle privatizzazioni imposte dai
ricatti FMI e a salvaguardare uno stato sociale che
vantava, ultimo in Europa, servizi sociali come
sanit� e scuola pubblici gratuiti (ora in corso
di privatizzazione), che escludeva la cessione di
settori strategici a maggioranze straniere, che
garantiva alle maestranze il 60% delle imprese
privatizzate, che aveva ricostruito la Zastava,
ora in vendita al migliore offerente.
Mi ha detto Slobo nell'ultimo colloquio che ha
avuto, nella sua residenza, con un giornalista
straniero:"Cercano il mio cosiddetto "tesoro".
Lo hanno cercato in Svizzera e le autorit�
svizzere hanno cercato e risposto che non c'era
nulla. Hanno additato Cipro, dove stavano le
bare refrigerate per i caduti segreti USA, e il
governo di Cipro ha negato con indignazione. Sa
dove si trova il "tesoro di Milosevic"? Sta nei
ponti jugoslavi ricostruiti, sta nel
cibo e nelle medicine con cui abbiamo potuto
salvaguardare l'esistenza del mio popolo sotto
embargo, sta nella Zastava ricostruita in un
anno al 70%.
Il resto, su questa figura coraggiosa ed integra,
profondamente antimperialista e patriottica, lo
pu� imparare chiunque si sia dato cura di ascoltarne
le dignitose e ferme parole al Tribunale dell'Aja,
prima che un presidente asservito agli USA gli
tagliasse il microfono. Lo stanno apprendendo anche
i serbi, gi� ingannati dalle bugie e false
promesse dell'imperialismo, che di giorno in
giorno vanno rafforzando, con manifestazioni di
decine di migliaia di persone, il Partito Socialista
Serbo, unica opposizione, repressa e perseguitata
dal regime "democratico" installatosi col colpo
di stato del 5 ottobre, che ha reso pi� disperata
che mai la situazione economica del paese, lo ha
affidato alla mafia e ne ha svenduto dignit�,
sovranit� e indipendenza.
L'ICDSM, in collaborazione con il Tribunale Clark
(tribunaleclark@...), prepara ora un
convegno nazionale sulla natura del Tribunale
dell'Aja e sulle violazioni del diritto
internazionale di cui � protagonista. Analoghi
convegni si svolgeranno in altri paesi, fino a
culminare, a ottobre, con una grande
assemblea-manifestazione all'Aja, contro il
tribunale-farsa, contro la Nato, per la Jugoslavia
e la liberazione di Milosevic.
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======================================Against NATO's Terrorist Occupation Of The Balkans
President Milosevic's Call-in to Fox
News, 24 August 2001 [posted 29 August 2001]
======================================
RITA COSBY: President Milosevic, thank
you so much for joining us from the
Hague. First of all, tell us if you
could, how are you feeling?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: I feel fine, you
know I'm here in the jail, the
so-called "prison" of that illegitimate
tribunal, which is not having any
legitimacy exactly as NATO aggression
against Yugoslavia had no
legitimacy. Those are the paths of the
same approach. This tribunal is to
NATO based tribunal to continue the war
by other means.
RITA COSBY: Now that tribunal has
called you an indicted war criminal, how
do you feel about that title?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: You know I can tell
you, I'm proud for everything I did
in defending my country and my people,
all my decisions are legitimate and
legal, based on the Constitution of
Yugoslavia, and based on the right of
self-defense which belongs to every
nation in the world . And their
decisions - NATO leaders' decisions
were all criminal. They were simply
killing our people and they have thrown
more than 22,000 tons of bombs to
hospitals, to apartments of civilians,
to electricity facilities, water
supply, bridges, railways, trains,
refugees, and that was all one massive
killing of innocent people and that
was the real crime, so right address
for war crimes in Yugoslavia is NATO.
That all was done in front of the
eyes of all the world, so I don't
believe in spite the huge media campaign
against my country, that it is possible
to hide those facts.
RITA COSBY: Do you think that you have
anything to apologize for, because
tens of thousands of Albanian lives
were lost?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: They were lost in
the NATO aggression. I want to
remind you that before the aggression
started there were only some rare
conflicts with small groups of
terrorists who were putting bombs in
cafes, in market places or somewhere else,
killing innocent people. That was all,
and that was calmed down in the Autumn
of 1998. They were bringing they're
arms by tractors getting it back to the
police, and that was completely
calmed down. And people were in their
homes, and there was verification
mission of OSCE, so in front of them,
that was completely clear, Kosovo
was completely calm. But when NATO
started bombing on 24th of March, lots
of civilians were killed, and of course
lot of them tried to escape what
was normal - everybody was running
away. I said to one of your colleagues
during the war when he was asking me
why the people were running away: "How
one wouldn't t run away under air alarm
of 24 hrs a day and under massive
bombings of NATO". Everybody was
running away, including dears, bears,
birds, everybody was running away.
RITA COSBY: What I wanted to ask you,
was you did direct Serb troops to
kill Albanians, of course Albanians
were killing Serbs as well, but you did
direct Serb troops to kill Albanians,
how do you feel about that?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: No, no, the
troops were avoiding to kill civilians
anyhow, they had only to eliminate
terrorist groups which were killing
people, both Serbs and others -
Albanians, Turks, Muslims, everybody.
Even when they were quite clearly visible
within the groups of civilians, there
was strict order that police or army
should not open fire - just to avoid
possibility to kill any civilian. So
there was nothing like killing
civilians done by armed forces of
Yugoslavia.
RITA COSBY: But many civilians were
raped, many were killed - there is
proof of that . They ended up in mass
graves, how do you explain that?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: There were
individual crimes, but there was clear
order that any crime has to be
punished immediately, and whoever did it
has to be arrested. And the proof that
that order was obeyed quite clearly
and exactly as it was supposed to be
obeyed, is the fact that more than
500 different individuals were
immediately arrested by the police or
the army. So, armed forces and police
forces had nothing in common with any
crime which was committed in Kosovo.
Those were consequences of chaotic
situation created by massive bombing of
NATO. In such chaotic situation, of
course there is always a possibility
for different criminal elements to do
some crime, but there was very very
efficient action against all of them to
be immediately arrested and sent to
jail. Army and police forces were
defending the country and were not used
against the population They were
our citizens and they were not object
of any military action.
RITA COSBY: Are you sorry - and I will
say that some of the Albanian
leaders, and Albanian officials have
said that they are sorry that some
Serb civilians were killed in the
process, as you have said, in the chaotic
situation. Are you prepared to say now
that you and others are sorry for,
maybe some of the civilian deaths,
some of the other deaths that happened
to have been killed?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: Many things
happened in that chaos, but you have to
be aware of the fact that that was just
the consequence of that criminal
aggression committed by NATO against
Yugoslavia.
RITA COSBY: Are you sorry I guess, a
lot of people...
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: Of course, all of
us are sorry for the death of any
person anywhere in the world, nobody
can't be happy for the death of any
person anywhere, that is so obvious so
that it is not the question at all.
RITA COSBY: What will you use as your
defense at the trial, and will you
represent yourself? What will you use
as your defense?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: You know, this
trial is really illegal, but I said to
you that all the decisions of mine
were completely legitimate and legal in
defense of my country, and their
decisions were completely criminal and
that is the big difference. That is the
big difference. Look now at what
they are doing in Macedonia, they
first supported Albanian terrorists whom
they call "Kosovo liberation army", in
fact that is a terrorist
organization, to start killing people
in Macedonia, and then that is now
the excuse for them to get in with the
troops and to occupy Macedonia.
That is the process of occupation of
the Balkan peninsula.
RITA COSBY: But in this case, Mr.
President, the NATO troops are coming in
and they are disarming the Albanians,
do you think that is a good thing?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: They will disarm
Albanians like they disarmed
Albanians in Kosovo. I remember what
commanding general of KFOR in July
1999, said - that "KLA" was disarmed,
and than those disarmed are killing
people every day under the auspices of
NATO, who are occupying Kosovo, so I
don't believe that they will disarm
them. They will only say that, but they
will not do that.
RITA COSBY: How do your people in
Yugoslavia feel about you now, do you
think you still have support within
your country?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: Yes, I have very
wide and very strong support within
my people. So, they understand how
they have brought that puppet regime
now in Belgrade with those stolen
elections and they understand that that
is the way to occupy Yugoslavia.
Everything is now worse than it was
before, despite the fact that there are
no sanctions anymore, that
everything is now open for growing the
economy without any limitation. But
economy is getting down, there is no
factory which is working normally,
people are living very hard and
everybody knows it.
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LA LIBERTA' E LA SOVRANITA' DEI POPOLI
di Fulvio Grimaldi
Il 24 marzo scorso, anniversario dell'aggressione Nato
alla Jugoslavia, si � svolto a Belgrado un
convegno internazionale, organizzato dalle sinistre
serbe, su cause e conseguenze dell'aggressione imperialista.
L'ex-presidente Slobodan Milosevic, che era stato
sconfitto nelle elezioni presidenziali
da una coalizione di forze finanziate e istruite
dagli USA e da altri paesi Nato, al termine di
una campagna segnata da minacce militari e ricatti
economici di ogni genere, rischiava l'arresto e
l'estradizione al tribunale dell'Aja, un
tribunale-farsa, voluto e finanziato dagli USA,
creato dall'ONU in violazione del suo stesso
statuto, specializzato in montature contro
dirigenti serbi. Si costitu� quindi il Comitato
Internazionale di Difesa di Slobodan
Milosevic (ICDSM), formato da 80 tra giuristi,
esponenti della cultura, politici, giornalisti
di 30 paesi. Ne sono presidenti l'ex-ministro
della giustizia statunitense e leader dei diritti
civili e del movimento antimperialista, Ramsey
Clark, e il parlamentare bulgaro prof. Velko
Valkanov, presidente dell'Unione Antifascista
Bulgara. Chi scrive ne � vicepresidente e
referente per l'Italia. Nel nostro paese l'ICDSM
opera in stretta collaborazione con
il Tribunale Ramsey Clark per i crimini di
guerra della Nato.
In poche settimane l'ICDSM ha raccolto milioni
di firme in tutto il mondo contro l'arresto di
Milosevic, nel frattempo attuato in forme totalmente
illegali e su ricatto finanziario USA e contro
la sua illegale detenzione. L'ICDSM ha fornito
al collegio di difesa di Milosevic, nel corso dei
tre mesi di detenzione a Belgrado, un costante
monitoraggio giuridico della legalit� internazionale
e si � adoperato per pubblicizzare tutte le
illegalit� che caratterizzavano il trattamento
di Milosevic da parte delle autorit� serbe, installate
dopo il pogrom filo-Nato dell'ottobre 2000.
In particolare, � stato denunciato come la
detenzione di Milosevic, prorogata illegalmente
per tre volte in totale assenza di prove a suo
carico fornite dalle centinaia di
testimoni ascoltati per l'imputazione di
abuso d'ufficio e abuso di poteri, violasse
i principi fondamentali degli ordinamenti
giuridici nazionale ed internazionale. L'ICDSM
ha poi seguito la vicenda di Milosevic, in
particolare con l'avvocato Christopher Black e
altri legali del prestigioso studio
canadese Mandel, dalla consegna dell'ex-presidente
agli USA e poi al Tribunale della Nato all'Aja,
avvenuta su ennesimo ricatto finanziario USA e
deciso in solitudine, contro le decisioni del
Parlamento e della Corte Suprema e in violazione
delle Costituzioni jugoslava e serba, dal
quisling serbo Zoran Djindjic, un losco personaggio,
gi� al soldo dei servizi segreti tedeschi,
fuggito in Germania all'inizio dell'aggressione
dove ha aiutato la Nato a
colpire obiettivi civili in Jugoslavia.
Va ricordato che negli ultimi giorni lo stesso
presidente Kostunica si � dissociato politicamente
da Djindjic, ritirando il suo partito dalla coalizione
DOS al governo, e ha accusato il gruppo del
primo ministro di essere espressione della
malavita organizzata, un fatto noto da tempo
a tutti gli osservatori internazionali.
Resta a Djindjic, nell'attuale crisi jugoslava,
oltre all'appoggio degli USA, il poco qualificante
sostegno dei terroristi di Otpor, la famosa
organizzazione detta degli studenti serbi e
che, a dispetto delle profferte di amicizia
fattegli da settori del Movimento anti-global
italiano (Tute Bianche e Ya Basta) e addirittura
da elementi della sinistra antagonista, si �
confessata creazione della CIA, dagli USA finanziata,
equipaggiata, istruita ed addestrata in corsi
di formazione insurrezionale a Sofia e a Budapest.
Anche le costanti violazioni di diritto e i
soprusi consentiti dai regolamenti del sedicente
Tribunale dell'Aja e inflitti a Milosevic (come
il prolungato rifiuto degli incontri con i
famigliari, l'isolamento, le perquisizioni
addirittura di nipoti di pochi anni, l'arrogante
e scorretta interruzione audio delle
dichiarazioni di Milosevic in aula) sono
documentate e denunciate dall'ICDSM che,
in aggiunta, continua a monitorare le condizioni di salute
dell'ex-presidente. Fu l'ICDSM a denunciare
come i diritti sanitari del detenuto fossero
sistematicamente ignorati e violati, anche nel
corso di un infarto che lo colp� a met� maggio.
Accanto alla stretta sorveglianza giuridica e
alla denuncia dei costanti abusi compiuti dai
suoi carcerieri, l'ICDSM si propone anche di
controbattere alla micidiale opera di
disinformazione e intossicazione attuata dai
media ai danni della Jugoslavia, della Serbia
e, soprattutto, di Slobodan Milosevic,
che costituisce in s� un crimine contro l'umanit�.
Riteniamo che Milosevic sia il personaggio
storico pi� diffamato dai tempi di Giuliano
l'Apostata, un imperatore illuminato che ebbe
il coraggio di opporsi al dilagante controllo
della Chiesa Cristiana sui beni pubblici
e sui cittadini dell'Impero. La sua
figura e opera sono state aggredite da una
macchina da guerra di menzogne e mistificazioni,
poi risultate tutte fondate sull'invenzione
di specializzate agenzie USA di disinformazione,
cui quasi tutti i media sono obbedienti fin dai
tempi dell'aggressione all'Iraq nella Guerra
del Golfo. Nel frattempo il tempo � stato
galantuomo e si sono dissolte le diffamazioni
circa la pulizia etnica ai danni degli albanesi
(inventata, contrariamente a quella effettuata
dagli albanesi, sotto l'egida Nato, ai danni di
centinaia di migliaia di serbi), le fosse comuni,
le stragi attribuite ai serbi a Racak, in Kosovo, o a
Sarajevo e Sebrenica in Bosnia, il presunto
nazionalismo di un presidente che ha dovuto
costantemente difendersi dalle strategie
divisorie dell'imperialismo e dei nazionalismi
etnici e che si � invece adoperato fino all'ultimo
per la pacifica convivenza di tutte le etnie,
culture, religioni, anche accogliendo un milione
di profughi tra i quali Rom, ebrei, goranci, bulgari,
ungheresi, cacciati dall'UCK e da Tudjman, fino
all'accusa da sinistra di una resa alla globalizzazione
liberista, allorch� fu invece proprio Milosevic
a porre un freno alle privatizzazioni imposte dai
ricatti FMI e a salvaguardare uno stato sociale che
vantava, ultimo in Europa, servizi sociali come
sanit� e scuola pubblici gratuiti (ora in corso
di privatizzazione), che escludeva la cessione di
settori strategici a maggioranze straniere, che
garantiva alle maestranze il 60% delle imprese
privatizzate, che aveva ricostruito la Zastava,
ora in vendita al migliore offerente.
Mi ha detto Slobo nell'ultimo colloquio che ha
avuto, nella sua residenza, con un giornalista
straniero:"Cercano il mio cosiddetto "tesoro".
Lo hanno cercato in Svizzera e le autorit�
svizzere hanno cercato e risposto che non c'era
nulla. Hanno additato Cipro, dove stavano le
bare refrigerate per i caduti segreti USA, e il
governo di Cipro ha negato con indignazione. Sa
dove si trova il "tesoro di Milosevic"? Sta nei
ponti jugoslavi ricostruiti, sta nel
cibo e nelle medicine con cui abbiamo potuto
salvaguardare l'esistenza del mio popolo sotto
embargo, sta nella Zastava ricostruita in un
anno al 70%.
Il resto, su questa figura coraggiosa ed integra,
profondamente antimperialista e patriottica, lo
pu� imparare chiunque si sia dato cura di ascoltarne
le dignitose e ferme parole al Tribunale dell'Aja,
prima che un presidente asservito agli USA gli
tagliasse il microfono. Lo stanno apprendendo anche
i serbi, gi� ingannati dalle bugie e false
promesse dell'imperialismo, che di giorno in
giorno vanno rafforzando, con manifestazioni di
decine di migliaia di persone, il Partito Socialista
Serbo, unica opposizione, repressa e perseguitata
dal regime "democratico" installatosi col colpo
di stato del 5 ottobre, che ha reso pi� disperata
che mai la situazione economica del paese, lo ha
affidato alla mafia e ne ha svenduto dignit�,
sovranit� e indipendenza.
L'ICDSM, in collaborazione con il Tribunale Clark
(tribunaleclark@...), prepara ora un
convegno nazionale sulla natura del Tribunale
dell'Aja e sulle violazioni del diritto
internazionale di cui � protagonista. Analoghi
convegni si svolgeranno in altri paesi, fino a
culminare, a ottobre, con una grande
assemblea-manifestazione all'Aja, contro il
tribunale-farsa, contro la Nato, per la Jugoslavia
e la liberazione di Milosevic.
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======================================Against NATO's Terrorist Occupation Of The Balkans
President Milosevic's Call-in to Fox
News, 24 August 2001 [posted 29 August 2001]
======================================
RITA COSBY: President Milosevic, thank
you so much for joining us from the
Hague. First of all, tell us if you
could, how are you feeling?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: I feel fine, you
know I'm here in the jail, the
so-called "prison" of that illegitimate
tribunal, which is not having any
legitimacy exactly as NATO aggression
against Yugoslavia had no
legitimacy. Those are the paths of the
same approach. This tribunal is to
NATO based tribunal to continue the war
by other means.
RITA COSBY: Now that tribunal has
called you an indicted war criminal, how
do you feel about that title?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: You know I can tell
you, I'm proud for everything I did
in defending my country and my people,
all my decisions are legitimate and
legal, based on the Constitution of
Yugoslavia, and based on the right of
self-defense which belongs to every
nation in the world . And their
decisions - NATO leaders' decisions
were all criminal. They were simply
killing our people and they have thrown
more than 22,000 tons of bombs to
hospitals, to apartments of civilians,
to electricity facilities, water
supply, bridges, railways, trains,
refugees, and that was all one massive
killing of innocent people and that
was the real crime, so right address
for war crimes in Yugoslavia is NATO.
That all was done in front of the
eyes of all the world, so I don't
believe in spite the huge media campaign
against my country, that it is possible
to hide those facts.
RITA COSBY: Do you think that you have
anything to apologize for, because
tens of thousands of Albanian lives
were lost?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: They were lost in
the NATO aggression. I want to
remind you that before the aggression
started there were only some rare
conflicts with small groups of
terrorists who were putting bombs in
cafes, in market places or somewhere else,
killing innocent people. That was all,
and that was calmed down in the Autumn
of 1998. They were bringing they're
arms by tractors getting it back to the
police, and that was completely
calmed down. And people were in their
homes, and there was verification
mission of OSCE, so in front of them,
that was completely clear, Kosovo
was completely calm. But when NATO
started bombing on 24th of March, lots
of civilians were killed, and of course
lot of them tried to escape what
was normal - everybody was running
away. I said to one of your colleagues
during the war when he was asking me
why the people were running away: "How
one wouldn't t run away under air alarm
of 24 hrs a day and under massive
bombings of NATO". Everybody was
running away, including dears, bears,
birds, everybody was running away.
RITA COSBY: What I wanted to ask you,
was you did direct Serb troops to
kill Albanians, of course Albanians
were killing Serbs as well, but you did
direct Serb troops to kill Albanians,
how do you feel about that?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: No, no, the
troops were avoiding to kill civilians
anyhow, they had only to eliminate
terrorist groups which were killing
people, both Serbs and others -
Albanians, Turks, Muslims, everybody.
Even when they were quite clearly visible
within the groups of civilians, there
was strict order that police or army
should not open fire - just to avoid
possibility to kill any civilian. So
there was nothing like killing
civilians done by armed forces of
Yugoslavia.
RITA COSBY: But many civilians were
raped, many were killed - there is
proof of that . They ended up in mass
graves, how do you explain that?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: There were
individual crimes, but there was clear
order that any crime has to be
punished immediately, and whoever did it
has to be arrested. And the proof that
that order was obeyed quite clearly
and exactly as it was supposed to be
obeyed, is the fact that more than
500 different individuals were
immediately arrested by the police or
the army. So, armed forces and police
forces had nothing in common with any
crime which was committed in Kosovo.
Those were consequences of chaotic
situation created by massive bombing of
NATO. In such chaotic situation, of
course there is always a possibility
for different criminal elements to do
some crime, but there was very very
efficient action against all of them to
be immediately arrested and sent to
jail. Army and police forces were
defending the country and were not used
against the population They were
our citizens and they were not object
of any military action.
RITA COSBY: Are you sorry - and I will
say that some of the Albanian
leaders, and Albanian officials have
said that they are sorry that some
Serb civilians were killed in the
process, as you have said, in the chaotic
situation. Are you prepared to say now
that you and others are sorry for,
maybe some of the civilian deaths,
some of the other deaths that happened
to have been killed?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: Many things
happened in that chaos, but you have to
be aware of the fact that that was just
the consequence of that criminal
aggression committed by NATO against
Yugoslavia.
RITA COSBY: Are you sorry I guess, a
lot of people...
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: Of course, all of
us are sorry for the death of any
person anywhere in the world, nobody
can't be happy for the death of any
person anywhere, that is so obvious so
that it is not the question at all.
RITA COSBY: What will you use as your
defense at the trial, and will you
represent yourself? What will you use
as your defense?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: You know, this
trial is really illegal, but I said to
you that all the decisions of mine
were completely legitimate and legal in
defense of my country, and their
decisions were completely criminal and
that is the big difference. That is the
big difference. Look now at what
they are doing in Macedonia, they
first supported Albanian terrorists whom
they call "Kosovo liberation army", in
fact that is a terrorist
organization, to start killing people
in Macedonia, and then that is now
the excuse for them to get in with the
troops and to occupy Macedonia.
That is the process of occupation of
the Balkan peninsula.
RITA COSBY: But in this case, Mr.
President, the NATO troops are coming in
and they are disarming the Albanians,
do you think that is a good thing?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: They will disarm
Albanians like they disarmed
Albanians in Kosovo. I remember what
commanding general of KFOR in July
1999, said - that "KLA" was disarmed,
and than those disarmed are killing
people every day under the auspices of
NATO, who are occupying Kosovo, so I
don't believe that they will disarm
them. They will only say that, but they
will not do that.
RITA COSBY: How do your people in
Yugoslavia feel about you now, do you
think you still have support within
your country?
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: Yes, I have very
wide and very strong support within
my people. So, they understand how
they have brought that puppet regime
now in Belgrade with those stolen
elections and they understand that that
is the way to occupy Yugoslavia.
Everything is now worse than it was
before, despite the fact that there are
no sanctions anymore, that
everything is now open for growing the
economy without any limitation. But
economy is getting down, there is no
factory which is working normally,
people are living very hard and
everybody knows it.
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Quelle che seguono sono le traduzioni in serbocroato di due
articoli apparsi su "Le Monde Diplomatique", risp. nelle
edizioni di agosto e settembre 2001. Le versioni originali,
in italiano, si potranno leggere sul sito:
> http://www.ilmanifesto.it/MondeDiplo/index1.html
tra qualche settimana.
Il primo articolo, "La vittoria del diritto", e' una critica
severa dello pseudo-Tribunale "ad hoc" dell'Aia. Il secondo,
"La parte del leone", contiene riflessioni sul Bollettino del
Fondo Monetario Internazionale del 6. agosto, che ci fa sapere
che la parte del leone nel nuovo ordine mondiale spetta sempre
ai ricchi e soprattutto agli Americani, che si sono presi
l'anno scorso la bellezza dei 64% del capitale mondiale.
E' interessante notare che tra il 1992 ed il 1997 la
loro percentuale era del "solo" 35%.
(Ringraziamo Olga per le segnalazioni, per le traduzioni, e per il suo
commento riportato in fondo)
---
"Le Monde diplomatique", avgust 2001.
POBEDA PRAVA
Nekoliko dana nakon sto je bivsi predsednik Slobodan
Milosevic avionom Nato pakta izrucen ili, da budemo precizniji,
trampljen za ekonomsku pomoc, predsednik Dj. Bus je za
direktora Biroa za demokratiju, prava coveka i medjunarodne
operacije (Office for democracy, human rights and international
operations) postavio Eliota Ebramsa (Elliot Abrams).
Nije bas apsolutno jasno da se ovaj dogadjaj koga su veliki mediji
odvec olako precutali, zapravo podudara sa novom erom
univerzalnog prava, morala i nezne osecajnosti o kojima nam trucaju
cirkusari Internacionalnog Krivicnog Tribunala (TPI).
Prava? Eliot Ebrams, zamenik sekretara stejtdepartmenta za
Reganovog predsednikovanja, priznao je 1991. da je pod
zakletvom obmanuo Kongres SAD lazirajuci informacije o
-bespravnoj- podrsci americke vlade kontrasima i njihovoj borbi
protiv vlade Nikaragve. Ta podrska veoma desnicarski nastrojenoj
gerili, finansirana je delom iz prodaje oruzja Iranu, zemlji pod
americkim embargom, i tako je izigran Kongres. Ilegalna prodaja i
laziranje, zataskani su osudom nekolicine saradnika. Medju njima
nasao se i E. Ebrams, koga ce 1992. pomilovati Dj. Bus, otac
sadasnjeg predsednika.
Morala? Direktor americkog Biroa za prava coveka osamdesetih
godina bio je mozak americke politike, ubilacke za Centralnu
Ameriku. Njegova specijalnost? Negiranje pokolja. (1) Recimo
onog iz 1982. kada je pobijeno 767 stanovnika
El Mosetea (El Mozete) u Salvadoru. Ubice su pripadnici poluvojne
skupine koju su amerikanci skolovali u okviru borbe protiv
komunizma. Za g.dina Abramsa ta je borba takva svetinja da njeni
protivnici nisu nista drugo do "zmije otrovnice".
Kada smo februara 1995. u Hadsonovom Institutu, jezgru
konzervativne struje, sreli ovog deklarisanog pristsu izraelske
desnice, smatrao je da Palestinci nemaju "pravo na drzavu". Plasio
se eventualne intervencije predsednika Klintona protiv Iraka "zbog
toga sto ne verujem da ce smoci dovoljno cvrstine da je
okonca". Zalagao se za ukidanje programa pomoci ugrozenim
etnickim zajednicama u SAD: "To je donekle zato sto sam Jevrejin.
Na jevrejsku zajednicu otpada 30% mesta na Harvardu,
iako predstavljasamo samo 2% stanovnistva. Zapravo, svi ti
programi zdrave diskriminacije samo zaostravaju odnose medju
zajednicama."
Prava coveka su zaista u sigurnim rukama sa Ebramsom. Nema sta!
autor: S. H.
(1) Citaoca upucujemo da procita clanak: "Elliot Abrams: It's back!",
The Nation, New York, 2 julliet 2001, kao i na autora: Marc Danner,
The Massacre at El Mozete, Vintage Books-Random House, New York, 1994.
---
"Le Monde diplomatique"
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr
-septembar 2001.-
"LAVOVSKI DEO"
Smenjuju se nalik jedna drugoj privredne vesti
potvrdjujuci da izvesne analize i predvidjanja nisu bas uvek bile
nehotice promasene. Primerice, na ime ocekivanih suficita i raznih
fiskalnih doprinosa, bogatasima je efektivno smanjen porez u SAD
(1). No, kako su se predvidjeni suficiti izjalovili usled
usporenog privrednog rasta, sada pripremaju kresanje socijalnih
izdvajanja. U nadi da time poravnaju budzet poljuljan velikodusnom
fiskalnom politikom, koja bi opravdano mogla biti ocenjena kao
nepromisljena, da nije tako vesto vodjena do cilja.
Politika ulaganja stranog kapitala je takodje vesto vodjena. Dok
slusa neke zapadne drzavnike, covek ponekad zamislja da
liberalizacija trzista kapitala nije imala drugog cilja osim da im
omoguci da kapitalom natope zemlje treceg sveta i podare
im blagostanje i srecu. Medjunarodni monetarni fond, medjutim,
upravo ovih dana otkriva identitet ugrozene zemlje u koju
se slivala svekolika finansiska pomoc sveta. U 2000 godini prema
izvestaju MMF-a, "64% neto stranog kapitala otislo je Sjedinjenim
Americkim Drzavama. Poredjenja radi, podatak za 1999. glasi 60% a
za period od 1992. do 1997. 35% (2)" Semanticki vrlo nadahnuto,
sto mu inace nije uobicajeno, Medjunarodni monetarni fond kaze da
je to "lavovski deo"
Naravoucenije : Svakom se moze dogoditi da pogresi, ali i u slucaju
greske, najbolje je biti bogat i Amerikanac.
Serz Alimi
(1) Smanjenje po stopi od 38% za dobrobit samo 1% najbogatijih
poreskih obveznika.
(2) Bilten MMF, Vasington, 6. avgusta 2001.
---
Napomena: Beogradska "Politika" objavljuje Le Monde
diplomatique kao svoj mesecni dodatak na srpskom i moze
se dobiti u pretplati ili kupiti na kiosku. To, nazalost, ne
znaci da se beogradska "Politika" danas bori na strani protivnika
novog svetskog poretka. Naprotiv, listajuci njene stranice stice
se utisak da da je gotovo u potpunosti izgubila kompas. Ili
postala "skutonosa", kako slikovito kaze Serz Alimi u avgustovskom
dodatku u svojoj analizi pod naslovom "Sloboda, cenzura i novac".
Olga J.
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articoli apparsi su "Le Monde Diplomatique", risp. nelle
edizioni di agosto e settembre 2001. Le versioni originali,
in italiano, si potranno leggere sul sito:
> http://www.ilmanifesto.it/MondeDiplo/index1.html
tra qualche settimana.
Il primo articolo, "La vittoria del diritto", e' una critica
severa dello pseudo-Tribunale "ad hoc" dell'Aia. Il secondo,
"La parte del leone", contiene riflessioni sul Bollettino del
Fondo Monetario Internazionale del 6. agosto, che ci fa sapere
che la parte del leone nel nuovo ordine mondiale spetta sempre
ai ricchi e soprattutto agli Americani, che si sono presi
l'anno scorso la bellezza dei 64% del capitale mondiale.
E' interessante notare che tra il 1992 ed il 1997 la
loro percentuale era del "solo" 35%.
(Ringraziamo Olga per le segnalazioni, per le traduzioni, e per il suo
commento riportato in fondo)
---
"Le Monde diplomatique", avgust 2001.
POBEDA PRAVA
Nekoliko dana nakon sto je bivsi predsednik Slobodan
Milosevic avionom Nato pakta izrucen ili, da budemo precizniji,
trampljen za ekonomsku pomoc, predsednik Dj. Bus je za
direktora Biroa za demokratiju, prava coveka i medjunarodne
operacije (Office for democracy, human rights and international
operations) postavio Eliota Ebramsa (Elliot Abrams).
Nije bas apsolutno jasno da se ovaj dogadjaj koga su veliki mediji
odvec olako precutali, zapravo podudara sa novom erom
univerzalnog prava, morala i nezne osecajnosti o kojima nam trucaju
cirkusari Internacionalnog Krivicnog Tribunala (TPI).
Prava? Eliot Ebrams, zamenik sekretara stejtdepartmenta za
Reganovog predsednikovanja, priznao je 1991. da je pod
zakletvom obmanuo Kongres SAD lazirajuci informacije o
-bespravnoj- podrsci americke vlade kontrasima i njihovoj borbi
protiv vlade Nikaragve. Ta podrska veoma desnicarski nastrojenoj
gerili, finansirana je delom iz prodaje oruzja Iranu, zemlji pod
americkim embargom, i tako je izigran Kongres. Ilegalna prodaja i
laziranje, zataskani su osudom nekolicine saradnika. Medju njima
nasao se i E. Ebrams, koga ce 1992. pomilovati Dj. Bus, otac
sadasnjeg predsednika.
Morala? Direktor americkog Biroa za prava coveka osamdesetih
godina bio je mozak americke politike, ubilacke za Centralnu
Ameriku. Njegova specijalnost? Negiranje pokolja. (1) Recimo
onog iz 1982. kada je pobijeno 767 stanovnika
El Mosetea (El Mozete) u Salvadoru. Ubice su pripadnici poluvojne
skupine koju su amerikanci skolovali u okviru borbe protiv
komunizma. Za g.dina Abramsa ta je borba takva svetinja da njeni
protivnici nisu nista drugo do "zmije otrovnice".
Kada smo februara 1995. u Hadsonovom Institutu, jezgru
konzervativne struje, sreli ovog deklarisanog pristsu izraelske
desnice, smatrao je da Palestinci nemaju "pravo na drzavu". Plasio
se eventualne intervencije predsednika Klintona protiv Iraka "zbog
toga sto ne verujem da ce smoci dovoljno cvrstine da je
okonca". Zalagao se za ukidanje programa pomoci ugrozenim
etnickim zajednicama u SAD: "To je donekle zato sto sam Jevrejin.
Na jevrejsku zajednicu otpada 30% mesta na Harvardu,
iako predstavljasamo samo 2% stanovnistva. Zapravo, svi ti
programi zdrave diskriminacije samo zaostravaju odnose medju
zajednicama."
Prava coveka su zaista u sigurnim rukama sa Ebramsom. Nema sta!
autor: S. H.
(1) Citaoca upucujemo da procita clanak: "Elliot Abrams: It's back!",
The Nation, New York, 2 julliet 2001, kao i na autora: Marc Danner,
The Massacre at El Mozete, Vintage Books-Random House, New York, 1994.
---
"Le Monde diplomatique"
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr
-septembar 2001.-
"LAVOVSKI DEO"
Smenjuju se nalik jedna drugoj privredne vesti
potvrdjujuci da izvesne analize i predvidjanja nisu bas uvek bile
nehotice promasene. Primerice, na ime ocekivanih suficita i raznih
fiskalnih doprinosa, bogatasima je efektivno smanjen porez u SAD
(1). No, kako su se predvidjeni suficiti izjalovili usled
usporenog privrednog rasta, sada pripremaju kresanje socijalnih
izdvajanja. U nadi da time poravnaju budzet poljuljan velikodusnom
fiskalnom politikom, koja bi opravdano mogla biti ocenjena kao
nepromisljena, da nije tako vesto vodjena do cilja.
Politika ulaganja stranog kapitala je takodje vesto vodjena. Dok
slusa neke zapadne drzavnike, covek ponekad zamislja da
liberalizacija trzista kapitala nije imala drugog cilja osim da im
omoguci da kapitalom natope zemlje treceg sveta i podare
im blagostanje i srecu. Medjunarodni monetarni fond, medjutim,
upravo ovih dana otkriva identitet ugrozene zemlje u koju
se slivala svekolika finansiska pomoc sveta. U 2000 godini prema
izvestaju MMF-a, "64% neto stranog kapitala otislo je Sjedinjenim
Americkim Drzavama. Poredjenja radi, podatak za 1999. glasi 60% a
za period od 1992. do 1997. 35% (2)" Semanticki vrlo nadahnuto,
sto mu inace nije uobicajeno, Medjunarodni monetarni fond kaze da
je to "lavovski deo"
Naravoucenije : Svakom se moze dogoditi da pogresi, ali i u slucaju
greske, najbolje je biti bogat i Amerikanac.
Serz Alimi
(1) Smanjenje po stopi od 38% za dobrobit samo 1% najbogatijih
poreskih obveznika.
(2) Bilten MMF, Vasington, 6. avgusta 2001.
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znaci da se beogradska "Politika" danas bori na strani protivnika
novog svetskog poretka. Naprotiv, listajuci njene stranice stice
se utisak da da je gotovo u potpunosti izgubila kompas. Ili
postala "skutonosa", kako slikovito kaze Serz Alimi u avgustovskom
dodatku u svojoj analizi pod naslovom "Sloboda, cenzura i novac".
Olga J.
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Dichiarazione del presidente Milosevic sulla illegalita'
del Tribunale "ad hoc" dell'Aia, della quale e' stata impedita
la lettura pubblica durante l'udienza del 30 agosto:
la versione in inglese in fondo a questo messaggio.
English text at the bottom
---
STENOGRAM
sa pojavljivanja predsednika Slobodana Milosevica
pred "Haskim tribunalom", 30. avgusta 2001. godine
u Hagu
SUDIJA MEJ:
Gospodine Milosevicu, postoje li kakva pitanja koja biste vi zeleli
izneti u vezi sa vasim slucajem ili u vezi sa vasim psihickim i
fizickim stanjem? Vi ste upoznati sa pravilnikom koji ne dopusta
nikakve govore u ovom trenutku. Vi cete imati priliku za to,
odnosno priliku da se branite kada za to dodje vreme, no, ukoliko
postoje neka pitanja koja zelite izneti u vezi sa vasim slucajem,
prilika je da to ucinite.
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Kao prvo, zeleo bih da znam da li cu moci da govorim ili cete
iskljuciti mikrofon kao sto ste to ucinili poslednji put?
SUDIJA MEJ:
Gospodine Milosevicu, ukoliko budete postovali pravila imacete
mogucnosti da govorite, ako se budete drzali relevantnih pitanja
imacete mogucnosti da govorite.
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Da, to bi bilo moje sledece pitanje. Ja bih hteo da kazem da je to
ilegalan sud.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Vi ste vec izneli prigovor po tom pitanju. Da li vi sada trazite da
vam se odobri mogucnost da se Vecu obratite usmeno u vezi s tim
pitanjem?
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Za usmeno izlaganje trebace mi 40 minuta. Posto mi to ne
dozvoljavate, ja cu to izneti u pisanom obliku. Moji saradnici ce to
izneti u stampi ukoliko vi meni ne dozvolite da to javno sada
iznesem.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Ukoliko vi to ucinite u pisanom obliku to ce biti objavljeno kada za
to dodje vreme. Ako vec sada to imate napisano onda ce biti
daleko prikladnije da se to obradi na taj nacin.
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Da, u redu! Ali potrebno je da razgovaramo kao civilizovane
osobe. Ne na nacin da mi iskljucujete mikrofone, ili da se koristi
bilo kakva sila. Potrebno je da se razumemo kada je rec o tome sta
je moguce, a sto nije. Dakle, kad ne dopustate usmeno, ja cu to
predati vama u pisanom obliku.
SUDIJA MEJ:
U redu.
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Ako dozvolite, jos bih komentarisao ono sto sam sada upravo cuo.
Cuo sam, naime, nesto vrlo zanimljivo, sto dokazuje ono sto su
vec rekli pre 3. jula u ovoj istoj prostoriji. Naime, da se radi o
jednoj laznoj optuznici. Ja sam optuzen 26. maja, 60-tog dana
NATO-ve agresije protiv Jugoslavije, dok sam ja branio svoju
zemlju. Dakle, dve i po godine su protekle od tog datuma, i mi smo
upravo sada culi da oni koji tuze nemaju dokaze, da oni ne mogu
dovrsiti svoju optuznicu. Dve i po godine je vrlo dugo vreme cak i
za kompletiranje jedne lazne optuznice, a ono sto smo mi upravo
culi je dokaz za to. Naravno, uzimajuci u obzir cinjenicu da ja ne
priznajem ovaj tribunal i da imam vrlo jasno misljenje koje
dokazuju pravne cinjenice, misljenje, naime, da je ovaj tribunal
nelegalan, ja ne vidim zasto bih se ja sada branio pred laznim
sudom na temelju jedne lazne optuznice. Dakle, to je jos jedno
objasnjenje koje sam zeleo da iznesem.
Ako mi dozvolite ja bih sada vama postavio neka pitanja koja se
ticu mojeg polozaja u jednom protivpravnom pritvoru.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Ne mozete postavljati pitanja. No, ukoliko zelite izneti nesto u
vezi sa tim, vi to mozete uciniti.
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Po nalogu ove nelegalne institucije, ja sam u potpunoj izolaciji.
Moje pitanje s tim u vezi je zasto sam ja izolovan od svoje
porodice, zasto me moja porodica ne moze posetiti na isti nacin
kako to cine porodice drugih koji imaju tu mogucnost? Zasto se
prate posete moje porodice, zasto prisluskujete razgovore koje ja
vodim cak i sa mojim unukom koji je star samo dve i po godine?!
Zasto? Zasto cinite sve to? Zasto na tako grub nacin krsite moja
prava? Zasto sam izolovan od osoba koje bi zelele da me posete i
sa kojima imam potrebu da razgovaram, s kojima zelim da
razgovaram o raznoraznim pravnim aspektima mog polozaja u
ovom ilegalnom pritvoru.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Da zastanemo na trenutak. Pravila koja se ticu pritvora potpadaju
pod nadleznost sekretara Medjunarodnog suda. Ukoliko se
primenjuju na vas na nacin razlicit od drugih pritvorenika, mi cemo
se o tome raspitati. Samo trenutak.
Poteskoca koja se vezuje za advokate je sledeca. Vi, naime, jos
uvek niste odabrali odnosno imenovali advokata. A, pravila
dozvoljavaju samo posete od strane imenovanih advokata. Ja sada
zelim znati da li je vas stav da se vi zelite braniti sami, da ne
zelite da vam se imenuje advokat, ali zelite imati pristup pravnim
savetnicima. Da li bi to bio adekvatan rezime vaseg stava?
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Jasno je da ja imam pravo na kontakt sa razlicitim strucnjacima u
vezi sa razlicitim aspektima mog polozaja u protivpravnom
pritvoru. Osim toga, ja imam pravo kontakta sa advokatima koji se
bave mojim privatnim stvarima u Jugoslaviji. Isto tako imam pravo
na kontakt sa advokatima koji su angazovani u nekim
medjunarodnim organizacijama koje me podrzavaju. Ja imam pravo
na komuniciranje s tim ljudima, ne razumem kako to moze da se
primenjuje na diskriminatoran nacin. Koliko ja shvatam, pravni
sistem se zasniva na nepostojanju bilo kakve diskriminacije, a ja
sam diskriminisan od prvog dana od kada sam ovde.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Problem, gospodine Milosevicu, lezi u cinjenici da vi niste
imenovali advokata. Nase osoblje mora postovati pravila. Osoba
koja ima pravo na pravne posete je vas imenovani advokat. Ali vi
ste izneli dve stvari u vezi s kojima zelite primiti savet. Dakle, vi
zelite savet u vezi sa vasim polozajem ovde u ovom postupku, isto
tako, kada je rec o vasim stvarima, o vasim poslovima u
Jugoslaviji. Je li tako?
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Naravno, to je tako. I ja imam jos na umu citav niz drugih stvari u
vezi s kojima zelim da razgovaram sa osobama koje zele da me
posete i koje zele da sa mnom kontaktiraju.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Na prvom Vecu cu se o tome raspitati I obavestiti vas. I to cemo
uzeti u obzir.
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Trece pitanje je zasto sam ja izolovan od stampe?! Zasto mi se ne
dozvoljava nikakav kontakt? Vi me drzite u izolaciji, ja nemam
pravo na bilo kakav kontakt sa medijima. Cak ni telefonom koji mi
je za sada jedini na raspolaganju. Ovde su neki predstavnici
stampe i medija koji bi zeleli da znaju istinu. Ja mislim da niko ne
treba da se boji istine. S jedne strane, postoji citava ta masinerija
koju vi predstavljate, sve te tajne sluzbe, vojne organizacije, na
mojoj strani je jedino - istina. Ukoliko vi mene izolujete, ukoliko
mi onemogucavate kontakt sa stampom, onda je jasno da se ovde
radi o diskriminaciji. Vi cak ne mozete, na bilo koji nacin, da
nekoga uverite, da pravilno postupate u vezi sa postupkom koji
imate na umu.
I jos da vas podsetim, ja ne priznajem ovaj Medjunarodni tribunal,
smatram ga potpuno protivpravnim i nelegalnim. Sva ta pitanja
koja se ticu advokata i pravnog zastupanja su sasvim izlisna. Ja
sam video u stampi.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Gospodine Milosevicu, moramo ovde uneti reda. Samo trenutak.
Prvo, ono sto ste pokrenuli. Pitanje koje ste pokrenuli. Prema
pravilima pritvorske jedinice, ne postiji nikakav kontakt sa
medijima. Ta pravila se ne ticu samo vas. Ne radi se ni o kakvoj
diskriminaciji. Ta se pravila primenjuju na sve optuzenike koji su u
pritvoru. Sto se tice cinjenice da vi ne priznajete Medjunarodni
tribunal, mi smo to culi, i nema nikakve potrebe da se to ponavlja.
Postoji li jos nesto sto zelite izneti?
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Koliko sam ja shvatio, oni se bave tim pitanjem protivzakonitosti
suda, nelegalnosti, dakle, to je pitanje nadleznosti. Svakom
advokatu na ovom svetu je jasno da se pitanje nadleznosti moze
pokrenuti pred svakom pravnom institucijom. Medjutim, vi niste
pravna institucija, vi ste politicko sredstvo.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Gospodine Milosevicu, mi necemo sada slusati ove politicke
argumente. Vi mozete da podnesete podnesak o nadleznosti, mi
cemo taj podnesak i razmotriti. Mi cemo podnesak razmotriti.
U redu, rasprava je zavrsena. A nastavicemo u ponedeljak 29.
oktobra.
Molimo ustanite.
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
---
What follows is the statement that president Milosevic was
not allowed to read when he appeared, August 30, before the
"tribunal" in the Hague.
STATEMENT
OF PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
ON THE ILLEGITIMACY OF THE HAGUE
"TRIBUNAL"
There are three fatal legal flaws in the so called International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Each has disastrous
consequences for the human quest for peace, the rule of law,
democracy, truth and justice.
1. THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED
NATIONS DOES NOT EMPOWER THE
SECURITY COUNCIL TO CREATE A
CRIMINAL COURT
The U.N. Security Council has seized power it does not possess,
corrupting the Charter of the United Nations, placing itself above
the law and threatening "We Peoples of the United Nations" with
a lawless future in which a superpower employs the scourge of
war to have its way. Nothing in the history of the planning,
drafting, discussion, approval or ratifications of the U.N. Charter
implies, or is consistent with an intention to empower any body
created by, or under, the Charter to establish any criminal tribunal.
The words of the Charter and their textual inferences, the
structure and allocation of power and duties, including those in the
incorporated Statute for the International Court of Justice, all
negate the existence of any capacity under the Charter to ordain
criminal courts. The Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia is
illegitimate and its creation a corruption of the United Nations.
There would never have been a United Nations if its Charter
stated, or implied, that a criminal court could be created under its
authority. No one who believes in historical truth, or that words
have meaning can, after examining the history of its creation and
its text, contend that the Charter of the United Nations empowers
the Security Council to create a criminal court.
An International Criminal Court Can Be Created
Only By A Multinational Treaty, Or
Amendment To The Charter Of The United Nations
The national representatives ho have served on the Security
Council and in the General Assembly and the scholars, lawyers
and experts who have labored for more than thirty years to bring
into being an international criminal court have recognized that the
only lawful and binding way such a court can be created is by an
agreement among nations through a treaty agreed upon for that
purpose, or by amending the Charter of the United Nations under
its strict provisions regulating amendments to authorize, or
establish a court.
When an International Criminal Court was finally agreed upon in
July 1998 by 120 nations meeting in Rome, it was by treaty which
had been studied, drafted and debated for years. The United
States, the most powerful participant in that long process,
consistently sought to weaken the treaty to exempt U.S. leaders
and military personnel from prosecution before it. Having failed
the U.S. was then the most prominent and powerful of the handful
of nations that refused to sign. As of August 1, 2001 37 nations,
the Netherlands the most recent, had ratified the treaty.
The United States is vigorously trying to persuade, coerce, or
bribe nations not to ratify.
Creation Of The International Criminal Tribunal
For The Former Yugoslavia Was A Lawless Act Of
Political Expediency By The United States Designed
To Demonize And Destroy An Enemy And Frustrate
Creation Of A Legitimate International Criminal Tribunal
At the insistence of the U.S. the Security Council nearly fifty
years after it came into being forged a new and powerful weapon
capable of demonizing a nation and its people and depriving
individuals of their liberty for the rest of their lives and placed it
largely in the hands of the United States. The principal precedents
for such pseudo judicial actions over several millennia preceding
the creation of the U.N. are trials of leaders and soldiers of
vanquished populations by the victors in war, and courts used by
colonial powers to control and punish subjugated peoples. The
precedents are many and the violence and cruelty and hatred they
usually exposed and caused was extreme.
Unless It is Limited By The U.N. Charter And
International Law, The Security Council Can Do
Whatever It Chooses To Do
If it is not restrained by the United Nations Charter, the Security
Council can commit any act it desires disregarding all law. Early
proponents of United States world power claimed such unbridled
discretion for the Security Council publicly. Thus in 1950 John
Foster Dullas wrote:
"The Security Council is not a body that
merely enforces agreed law. It is a law unto
itself... No principles of law are laid down
to guide it, it can decide in accordance with
what it thinks is expedient."
If unchallenged, this concept of Security Council power means
that the most powerful international organ created by the Charter
of the United Nations "to end the scourge of war" is above all law,
domestic and international.
But absolute discretion is the very definition of lawlessness and
has been called "more destructive of freedom than any other of
man's inventions," by U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglas. All rights of all nations, races, religions, cultures,
political parties and individuals are thereby subordinated to the
will of the Security Council, and the single superpower that too
often will dominate it. All but fifteen nations are excluded from
Security Council counsels. Each of the five permanent members
can veto its actions.
The Security Council is subject to domination by a single nation.
The representative of each member votes as instructed by the
national government that appoints him and to serve the interests
of that government, not as an international statesman serving all
peoples and the purposes for which the U.N. was created. The
Security Council is inaccessible, anonymous and less responsive
to democratic processes than any other international political
institution.
2. A ONE TIME, ONE EPISODE COURT
TARGETING ONE COUNTRY, CREATED
BY INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL POWER
TO SERVE ITS GEO-POLITICAL
INTERESTS IS INCAPABLE OF EQUALITY
AND CONDUCTIVE OF DIVISION AND
VIOLENCE
The illegitimate Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia corrupts
justice and law because it is incapable of acting equally among
nations, or within the politically targeted nation. It will increase
violence, division and the risk of war with neighboring nations and
peoples and within Yugoslavia among the segments of the society
the U.S. policy of balkanization of Former Yugoslavia has set
against each other and against the new government the U.S. has
installed for its own purposes. If the United Nations Charter had
authorized the Security Council to create criminal courts, it could
not create a court for one nation, or episode for political purposes,
to persecute selected groups, or persons and such a court is
incapable of equal justice under law. An ad hoc court violates the
most basic principles of all law. Equality is the mother of justice.
An international court established to prosecute acts in a single
nation and primarily, if not entirely, one limited group is pre
programmed to persecute incapable of equality.
If the Security Council can create a criminal court to prosecute
conduct in a single country like Yugoslavia, it can appoint a court
for any country, selecting enemies or political and economic
opportunities for targeting one at a time, while never exposing
itself, or those who comply with its wishes to such selective
prosecution. If the U.S., or any ally or client state it chose to
protect was the subject of a serious effort by the Security Council
to be honored with a criminal tribunal in its own name, the U.S.
would veto the threatened action.
A Court created only for crimes in one country is by definition
discriminatory, incapable of equal justice, a weapon against
chosen enemies, or antagonistic interests and war by other
means. If there is to be any international criminal court, it must
act equally as to all nations with none above the law. The ad hoc
tribunal for a single nation corrupts international law.
By its very nature, the ad hoc Tribunal can be created only after
the conduct the Security Council decides justifies creation of the
Court since there is no other excuse for its creation. It is in every
case ex post facto. This violates an ancient principle of law. It
also requires the Security Council, if there is to be a rational basis
for its action, to make some preliminary claim to finding of facts, a
task such a political body is not designed for, that inherently
incriminates a country, or faction by placing the imprimatur of the
Security Council of the United Nations on a political decision of
fact necessary to justify creation of the Tribunal. The very charge
of the Security Council - genocide, crimes against peace, war
crimes, or crimes against humanity demonized any person
thereafter accused.
The Selection Of A Nation For Prosecution
On Political Findings Of Genocide, War Crimes
And Crimes Against Humanity Creates
A Compulsion to Convict.
Investigators, prosecutors and administrative personnel who join
a temporary Tribunal to pursue allegations of humanities greatest
crimes against a people and leaders already demonized will feel
they have failed if there are not convictions. The very psychology
of the enterprise is persecutorial. Few judges appointed to serve
on a Tribunal created under such circumstances will feel free to
acquit any but the most marginal, or clearly mistaken, accused, or
to create an appearance of objectivity.
Powers That Create Ad Hoc International Criminal
Tribunals Divert Attention From Their Own
Offenses, Or Failures, Or Those Of Allies And
Their Political Surrogates While Continuing
To Inflect And Threaten Mass Destruction With Impunity.
The ad hoc Tribunal which targets a country is incapable of
prosecuting what may be greater crimes committed in the same
conflict, by a power, coalition ally or political agents that was and
remains a much greater source of violence and threat to peace.
Most often the power which forced the creation of the target
tribunal to further damage and demonize their enemy is shielded
from criticism by the avalanche of propaganda against the
accused supported by the appearance of United Nations neutrality
and peace making efforts.
What court will consider the criminality of aerial bombardment by
U.S. aircraft of defenseless civilians, their housing, water
systems, power plants, factories, office buildings, schools,
hospitals, which take thousands of lives directly and causes
billions of dollars of property damages in Belgrade, Nis, Novi Sad
and scores of other cities, towns and villages? What threat to
peace continues from the U.S. bombing of the Chinese Embassy?
Who will be held accountable for the devastation of Pristina by
NATO planes, or the attacks on refugee columns in Kosovo and
Metohia? Is the U.S. use of cluster bombs exploding razor sharp
metal fragments over an area as large as a soccer field in the
courtyard at the hospital in Nis no crime? Will the Security
Council act to prevent and punish the use of depleted uranium by
the U.S. which is as indiscriminate in its radiation as the air, the
water, the soil and food hain it touches and contaminates for
millions of years?
International law accepts bombing of defenseless civilian
populations by a militarily advanced technology that can destroy a
country without even setting foot on its soil because supper
power controls international prosecutions and determines
violations. The dominant element in modern military power is
mass destruction. Victors are nations with the greatest capacity
for mass destruction. This places civilian populations at maximum
peril infrastructure supporting civilian life, buildings, water, power,
transportation, communication, food production, storage and
distribution, health care, schools, churches, mosques,
synagogues, foreign embassies were the direct object of U.S.
aerial and missile attacks. Several thousands of civilians were
killed directly and many more indirectly. The U.S. claims it had
159 casualties, a third from friendly fire, none from combat.
In 1998, the U.S. directed 21 Tomahawk Cruise missiles from
international waters to destroy the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant
in Khartoum, Sudan which provided more than half the medicines
available for a people who are very poor and have been unable to
replace that supply. The U.S. continues to support insurrection in
the South of Sudan and threaten Sudan with prosecution in an ad
hoc international criminal tribunal.
NATO does not claim it prevented violence within Kosovo and
Metohia among the Serbian, ethnic Albanian and other peoples. In
fact, NATO accelerated that violence. It bombed Serbia for 79
days targeting civilians and citizens destroying billions of dollars
worth of civilian facilities, using illegal weapons including cluster
bombs, destroying the civilian Serbian TV and radio buildings. It
bombed Kosovo and Metohia heaviest of all, destroying most of
Pristina, killing thousands of Albanians, Muslims, Serbs, Romany,
Turks and others, and causing hundreds of thousands of people to
flee from Kosovo and Metohia. Damage to the Yugoslavia military
was negligible. In the summer of 2001 the U.S. continues to use
cluster bombs in northern and southern Iraq which it attacks on
most days.
And in 1999 when the U.S. and NATO countries came into
Kosovo and Metohia, as a "security force", they refused to
intervene on the ground to protect people who were endangered in
the province.
There will be no remedy or relief for Serbian victims of atrocities,
some 500.000 purged by Croatia with the approval, if not on
instructions of the U.S., forever from their homes in Krajina, the
more than 330.000 permanently purged from Kosovo and Metohia
since the cease fire in 1999, or for the thousands of Serbs,
Romany and others killed by the U.S. and NATO bombing
assaults, or by the U.S.-supported terrorist organization, the so
called KLA, before, during and after the assaults. The
Macedonians killed, injured and driven from their homes by U.S.
condoned if not instigated KLA aggressions which threaten civil
war in Macedonia and general war in the Balkans will not lead the
Security Council to create a Court to prosecute the perpetrators.
Major Powers Are Not Accountable For Their
Actions Which Cause War, Insurrection
And Violence Within Targeted Countries.
There will be no accountability by the U.S., Germany and other
nations whose acts and pressures forced the break-up of
Yugoslavia, stripping Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia and
attempted stripping of parts of Serbia like Kosovo and Metohia.
The U.S. and several European nations have balkanized the region
in the most artificial and forced apartheid the Balkans, or any
other part of the world has ever known. Their acts have made
peace, stability and prosperity impossible. Economic viability of
small fragmented parts depends on foreign economic interests
intended to dominate and exploit the region. The new apartheid
leads to U.S. planned conflicts between the western Catholic
Croatians and the eastern Orthodox Serbs, creating conflict and a
wall between western and eastern Europe. More dangerous, it
sets the stage for violence, encouraging international conflicts
between Slavic peoples and Muslims to decimate and debilitate
the obstacles to the U.S. world order. Kosovo and Metohia, as a
part of Serbia, and Macedonia are current examples in a long list
of tragic and avoidable violence between Muslims and Slavs,
which has occurred to different extents in Afghanistan, Dagestan,
Chechnya, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan and Bosnia.
A Federal Republic Of Balkan States Long
Set Against Each Other By Foreign Powers
Was Formed To Established Peace, Cooperation
And Prosperity.
The idea of Yugoslavia, a Balkan federation to heal divisions and
provide a better chance for living together in peace and prosperity,
was seen as important in the years after World War I as a means
to peace. While the idea floundered between the two worst wars
in history, it worked with remarkable success after World War II
in which it was ravaged, but unconquered. An independent and
unified Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a long term
successful solution for south Slavic peoples. It was a bulwark of
the Non Aligned Movement. With the collapse of the Soviet and
Eastern bloc economy it was the remaining socialist government
threatening capitalist control of Europe. With its mixed market
economy it offered an example to former Eastern bloc countries
for revival of their economic and political independence. With a
successful, functioning Federal Republic of Yugoslavia there was
living proof history had not ended, that more than one economic
system was possible.
After the collapse of the Eastern bloc economy a greater Balkan
federation a south eastern European Union was seen by many in
the region as the means to prevent economic exploitation, avoid
violence and develop a strong and independent political, social and
economic region.
Foreign capital and the geopolitical interests of the U.S.
considered this a dangerous obstacle to their plans for the new
world order, globalization, new colonialism.
The United States Having Demonized
Yugoslavia Attacks It With Impunity
And Persecutes Its Leadership.
The U.S. mercilessly bombed Yugoslavia for 79 day. It tried to
assassinate me by bombing my home, offices and other places,
where it believed I might be. It attempted to kill Libya's head of
State Muammar Qaddafi in its 1986 raid on Tripoli and Iraqi
president Saddam Hussein on numerous occasions beginning in
1991, including its 1993 cruise missile attack on the Al Rashid in
Baghdad at a time it believed he would be there meeting
international Islamic leaders.
Through economic sanctions, the most extreme and overt form of
forced impoverishment and economic assault, the U.S. has
coerced the Security Council into complicity in the longest
deadliest and cruelest genocide of the last decade, the sanctions
against its enemy Iraq which have killed at least 2 million people,
the majority children. The United States has forced economic
sanctions against Yugoslavia, severely damaging its civilian
economy and eroding its will to independence.
Can a criminal tribunal for Yugoslavia which ignores pervasive
violence by the U.S. and diverts public awareness from United
States conduct and legitimatizes by silent acceptance aerial and
missile assaults on civilians and illegal weapons use against one
country after another, making its repetition expected before it
occurs, contribute to the hope for the rule of law, justice or peace?
The United States, itself, immune from control, or prosecution and
above the law, uses its power to cause the persecution of
enemies it selects to terrorize and further demonize. It
manufactures and sells arms to chosen nations, to groups seeking
to overthrow governments it opposes, uses illegal weapons
against defenseless people with impunity, continues to
consolidate and expand its near monopoly of nuclear weapons and
sophisticated rocketry, spends trillion on unilateral protection
from Star Wars assuring a continued arms race while poverty
overwhelms billions, hunger cripples millions, starvation takes
hundreds of thousands of lives and AIDS spreads among poor
nations.
It cripples international environmental protection, undermines
control of nuclear weapons by threatening to withdraw from long
standing protections of the ABM and Non Proliferation treaties. It
refuses to ratify treaties to protect life from land mines which it
continues to manufacture, sell and deploy. It threatens to
undermine a treaty controlling biological and chemical warfare.
And the United States regularly engages in covert operations and
violent military interventions in other nations in violation of their
sovereignty and law.
The so called ICTY is not just another arrow in the arsenal of the
United States with which it persecutes and demonizes enemies
and corrupts international law. The ICTY celebrates inequality in
the rule of law using criminal sanctions to destroy selected
leaders and governments.
It is poisonous arrow destructive of the foundations of peace
among independent nations of equal rights and dignity.
3. THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL
TRIBUNAL FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA IS
INCAPABLE OF PROTECTING
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, OR PROVIDING
DUE PROCESS OF LAW.
Such an ad hoc Tribunal has a temporary and limited purpose
without helpful precedent, common tradition or relevant
experience. It lacks power to enforce orders, or compel the
disclosure of evidence and presence of witnesses, particularly for
the defense.
It is not capable of finding facts fairly, or defining and applying
legal principles equally. It cannot do justice.
The statutory mandate for the ICTY makes it hostile to concern
for the rights of those accused before it, because it is told the
crimes charged have occurred and the accused have been
demonized.
The right to assistance of counsel, so firmly established in
international law, has been denied and frustrated by the Tribunal
even in its most prominent cases. The Registry denied to me the
right to consult with lawyers of my choice on legal matters for
several weeks after my arraignment.
The Registrar wrote that for the one attorney who visited me
during that time and for only two hours, it would have been
''inappropriate'' to discuss the case because the conversation
was monitored and confidences would be violated. Lawyers from
Yugoslavia I ask to consult, with one exception, a monitored two
hours visit, were still denied approval and visas to enter the
Netherlands seven weeks after my arraignment.
Instead I was held in solitary confinement. I was able to visit my
wife only after more than two weeks imprisonment and then only
through sound proof glass using monitored telephones. She was
prohibited from speaking with the press and kept isolated from all
public contacts while in the Netherlands, a virtual prisoner in her
hotel room, except as she traveled between the airport, the prison
and the hotel.
The Ad Hoc Tribunal Is Intended To Demonize
And Destroy, Not To Fairly Determine Facts,
Protect Rights Of The Accessed, And Apply
Legal Principles Equally.
Unfair phenomena is inherent in the purpose and the nature of
temporary ad hoc tribunal, struggling without personnel who are
part of a legal tradition, far removed from the place the accused
came from and the events occurred where the court is charged by
its creator not to presume innocence, but that terrible crimes have
occurred and the accused are from the group that committed them.
They do this to protect thr real criminals, the NATO leaders who
killed thousands of innocent people in NATO's criminal
aggression.
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STENOGRAM
sa pojavljivanja predsednika Slobodana Milosevica
pred "Haskim tribunalom", 30. avgusta 2001. godine
u Hagu
SUDIJA MEJ:
Gospodine Milosevicu, postoje li kakva pitanja koja biste vi zeleli
izneti u vezi sa vasim slucajem ili u vezi sa vasim psihickim i
fizickim stanjem? Vi ste upoznati sa pravilnikom koji ne dopusta
nikakve govore u ovom trenutku. Vi cete imati priliku za to,
odnosno priliku da se branite kada za to dodje vreme, no, ukoliko
postoje neka pitanja koja zelite izneti u vezi sa vasim slucajem,
prilika je da to ucinite.
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Kao prvo, zeleo bih da znam da li cu moci da govorim ili cete
iskljuciti mikrofon kao sto ste to ucinili poslednji put?
SUDIJA MEJ:
Gospodine Milosevicu, ukoliko budete postovali pravila imacete
mogucnosti da govorite, ako se budete drzali relevantnih pitanja
imacete mogucnosti da govorite.
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Da, to bi bilo moje sledece pitanje. Ja bih hteo da kazem da je to
ilegalan sud.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Vi ste vec izneli prigovor po tom pitanju. Da li vi sada trazite da
vam se odobri mogucnost da se Vecu obratite usmeno u vezi s tim
pitanjem?
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Za usmeno izlaganje trebace mi 40 minuta. Posto mi to ne
dozvoljavate, ja cu to izneti u pisanom obliku. Moji saradnici ce to
izneti u stampi ukoliko vi meni ne dozvolite da to javno sada
iznesem.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Ukoliko vi to ucinite u pisanom obliku to ce biti objavljeno kada za
to dodje vreme. Ako vec sada to imate napisano onda ce biti
daleko prikladnije da se to obradi na taj nacin.
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Da, u redu! Ali potrebno je da razgovaramo kao civilizovane
osobe. Ne na nacin da mi iskljucujete mikrofone, ili da se koristi
bilo kakva sila. Potrebno je da se razumemo kada je rec o tome sta
je moguce, a sto nije. Dakle, kad ne dopustate usmeno, ja cu to
predati vama u pisanom obliku.
SUDIJA MEJ:
U redu.
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Ako dozvolite, jos bih komentarisao ono sto sam sada upravo cuo.
Cuo sam, naime, nesto vrlo zanimljivo, sto dokazuje ono sto su
vec rekli pre 3. jula u ovoj istoj prostoriji. Naime, da se radi o
jednoj laznoj optuznici. Ja sam optuzen 26. maja, 60-tog dana
NATO-ve agresije protiv Jugoslavije, dok sam ja branio svoju
zemlju. Dakle, dve i po godine su protekle od tog datuma, i mi smo
upravo sada culi da oni koji tuze nemaju dokaze, da oni ne mogu
dovrsiti svoju optuznicu. Dve i po godine je vrlo dugo vreme cak i
za kompletiranje jedne lazne optuznice, a ono sto smo mi upravo
culi je dokaz za to. Naravno, uzimajuci u obzir cinjenicu da ja ne
priznajem ovaj tribunal i da imam vrlo jasno misljenje koje
dokazuju pravne cinjenice, misljenje, naime, da je ovaj tribunal
nelegalan, ja ne vidim zasto bih se ja sada branio pred laznim
sudom na temelju jedne lazne optuznice. Dakle, to je jos jedno
objasnjenje koje sam zeleo da iznesem.
Ako mi dozvolite ja bih sada vama postavio neka pitanja koja se
ticu mojeg polozaja u jednom protivpravnom pritvoru.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Ne mozete postavljati pitanja. No, ukoliko zelite izneti nesto u
vezi sa tim, vi to mozete uciniti.
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Po nalogu ove nelegalne institucije, ja sam u potpunoj izolaciji.
Moje pitanje s tim u vezi je zasto sam ja izolovan od svoje
porodice, zasto me moja porodica ne moze posetiti na isti nacin
kako to cine porodice drugih koji imaju tu mogucnost? Zasto se
prate posete moje porodice, zasto prisluskujete razgovore koje ja
vodim cak i sa mojim unukom koji je star samo dve i po godine?!
Zasto? Zasto cinite sve to? Zasto na tako grub nacin krsite moja
prava? Zasto sam izolovan od osoba koje bi zelele da me posete i
sa kojima imam potrebu da razgovaram, s kojima zelim da
razgovaram o raznoraznim pravnim aspektima mog polozaja u
ovom ilegalnom pritvoru.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Da zastanemo na trenutak. Pravila koja se ticu pritvora potpadaju
pod nadleznost sekretara Medjunarodnog suda. Ukoliko se
primenjuju na vas na nacin razlicit od drugih pritvorenika, mi cemo
se o tome raspitati. Samo trenutak.
Poteskoca koja se vezuje za advokate je sledeca. Vi, naime, jos
uvek niste odabrali odnosno imenovali advokata. A, pravila
dozvoljavaju samo posete od strane imenovanih advokata. Ja sada
zelim znati da li je vas stav da se vi zelite braniti sami, da ne
zelite da vam se imenuje advokat, ali zelite imati pristup pravnim
savetnicima. Da li bi to bio adekvatan rezime vaseg stava?
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Jasno je da ja imam pravo na kontakt sa razlicitim strucnjacima u
vezi sa razlicitim aspektima mog polozaja u protivpravnom
pritvoru. Osim toga, ja imam pravo kontakta sa advokatima koji se
bave mojim privatnim stvarima u Jugoslaviji. Isto tako imam pravo
na kontakt sa advokatima koji su angazovani u nekim
medjunarodnim organizacijama koje me podrzavaju. Ja imam pravo
na komuniciranje s tim ljudima, ne razumem kako to moze da se
primenjuje na diskriminatoran nacin. Koliko ja shvatam, pravni
sistem se zasniva na nepostojanju bilo kakve diskriminacije, a ja
sam diskriminisan od prvog dana od kada sam ovde.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Problem, gospodine Milosevicu, lezi u cinjenici da vi niste
imenovali advokata. Nase osoblje mora postovati pravila. Osoba
koja ima pravo na pravne posete je vas imenovani advokat. Ali vi
ste izneli dve stvari u vezi s kojima zelite primiti savet. Dakle, vi
zelite savet u vezi sa vasim polozajem ovde u ovom postupku, isto
tako, kada je rec o vasim stvarima, o vasim poslovima u
Jugoslaviji. Je li tako?
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Naravno, to je tako. I ja imam jos na umu citav niz drugih stvari u
vezi s kojima zelim da razgovaram sa osobama koje zele da me
posete i koje zele da sa mnom kontaktiraju.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Na prvom Vecu cu se o tome raspitati I obavestiti vas. I to cemo
uzeti u obzir.
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Trece pitanje je zasto sam ja izolovan od stampe?! Zasto mi se ne
dozvoljava nikakav kontakt? Vi me drzite u izolaciji, ja nemam
pravo na bilo kakav kontakt sa medijima. Cak ni telefonom koji mi
je za sada jedini na raspolaganju. Ovde su neki predstavnici
stampe i medija koji bi zeleli da znaju istinu. Ja mislim da niko ne
treba da se boji istine. S jedne strane, postoji citava ta masinerija
koju vi predstavljate, sve te tajne sluzbe, vojne organizacije, na
mojoj strani je jedino - istina. Ukoliko vi mene izolujete, ukoliko
mi onemogucavate kontakt sa stampom, onda je jasno da se ovde
radi o diskriminaciji. Vi cak ne mozete, na bilo koji nacin, da
nekoga uverite, da pravilno postupate u vezi sa postupkom koji
imate na umu.
I jos da vas podsetim, ja ne priznajem ovaj Medjunarodni tribunal,
smatram ga potpuno protivpravnim i nelegalnim. Sva ta pitanja
koja se ticu advokata i pravnog zastupanja su sasvim izlisna. Ja
sam video u stampi.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Gospodine Milosevicu, moramo ovde uneti reda. Samo trenutak.
Prvo, ono sto ste pokrenuli. Pitanje koje ste pokrenuli. Prema
pravilima pritvorske jedinice, ne postiji nikakav kontakt sa
medijima. Ta pravila se ne ticu samo vas. Ne radi se ni o kakvoj
diskriminaciji. Ta se pravila primenjuju na sve optuzenike koji su u
pritvoru. Sto se tice cinjenice da vi ne priznajete Medjunarodni
tribunal, mi smo to culi, i nema nikakve potrebe da se to ponavlja.
Postoji li jos nesto sto zelite izneti?
PREDSEDNIK SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
Koliko sam ja shvatio, oni se bave tim pitanjem protivzakonitosti
suda, nelegalnosti, dakle, to je pitanje nadleznosti. Svakom
advokatu na ovom svetu je jasno da se pitanje nadleznosti moze
pokrenuti pred svakom pravnom institucijom. Medjutim, vi niste
pravna institucija, vi ste politicko sredstvo.
SUDIJA MEJ:
Gospodine Milosevicu, mi necemo sada slusati ove politicke
argumente. Vi mozete da podnesete podnesak o nadleznosti, mi
cemo taj podnesak i razmotriti. Mi cemo podnesak razmotriti.
U redu, rasprava je zavrsena. A nastavicemo u ponedeljak 29.
oktobra.
Molimo ustanite.
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
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What follows is the statement that president Milosevic was
not allowed to read when he appeared, August 30, before the
"tribunal" in the Hague.
STATEMENT
OF PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
ON THE ILLEGITIMACY OF THE HAGUE
"TRIBUNAL"
There are three fatal legal flaws in the so called International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Each has disastrous
consequences for the human quest for peace, the rule of law,
democracy, truth and justice.
1. THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED
NATIONS DOES NOT EMPOWER THE
SECURITY COUNCIL TO CREATE A
CRIMINAL COURT
The U.N. Security Council has seized power it does not possess,
corrupting the Charter of the United Nations, placing itself above
the law and threatening "We Peoples of the United Nations" with
a lawless future in which a superpower employs the scourge of
war to have its way. Nothing in the history of the planning,
drafting, discussion, approval or ratifications of the U.N. Charter
implies, or is consistent with an intention to empower any body
created by, or under, the Charter to establish any criminal tribunal.
The words of the Charter and their textual inferences, the
structure and allocation of power and duties, including those in the
incorporated Statute for the International Court of Justice, all
negate the existence of any capacity under the Charter to ordain
criminal courts. The Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia is
illegitimate and its creation a corruption of the United Nations.
There would never have been a United Nations if its Charter
stated, or implied, that a criminal court could be created under its
authority. No one who believes in historical truth, or that words
have meaning can, after examining the history of its creation and
its text, contend that the Charter of the United Nations empowers
the Security Council to create a criminal court.
An International Criminal Court Can Be Created
Only By A Multinational Treaty, Or
Amendment To The Charter Of The United Nations
The national representatives ho have served on the Security
Council and in the General Assembly and the scholars, lawyers
and experts who have labored for more than thirty years to bring
into being an international criminal court have recognized that the
only lawful and binding way such a court can be created is by an
agreement among nations through a treaty agreed upon for that
purpose, or by amending the Charter of the United Nations under
its strict provisions regulating amendments to authorize, or
establish a court.
When an International Criminal Court was finally agreed upon in
July 1998 by 120 nations meeting in Rome, it was by treaty which
had been studied, drafted and debated for years. The United
States, the most powerful participant in that long process,
consistently sought to weaken the treaty to exempt U.S. leaders
and military personnel from prosecution before it. Having failed
the U.S. was then the most prominent and powerful of the handful
of nations that refused to sign. As of August 1, 2001 37 nations,
the Netherlands the most recent, had ratified the treaty.
The United States is vigorously trying to persuade, coerce, or
bribe nations not to ratify.
Creation Of The International Criminal Tribunal
For The Former Yugoslavia Was A Lawless Act Of
Political Expediency By The United States Designed
To Demonize And Destroy An Enemy And Frustrate
Creation Of A Legitimate International Criminal Tribunal
At the insistence of the U.S. the Security Council nearly fifty
years after it came into being forged a new and powerful weapon
capable of demonizing a nation and its people and depriving
individuals of their liberty for the rest of their lives and placed it
largely in the hands of the United States. The principal precedents
for such pseudo judicial actions over several millennia preceding
the creation of the U.N. are trials of leaders and soldiers of
vanquished populations by the victors in war, and courts used by
colonial powers to control and punish subjugated peoples. The
precedents are many and the violence and cruelty and hatred they
usually exposed and caused was extreme.
Unless It is Limited By The U.N. Charter And
International Law, The Security Council Can Do
Whatever It Chooses To Do
If it is not restrained by the United Nations Charter, the Security
Council can commit any act it desires disregarding all law. Early
proponents of United States world power claimed such unbridled
discretion for the Security Council publicly. Thus in 1950 John
Foster Dullas wrote:
"The Security Council is not a body that
merely enforces agreed law. It is a law unto
itself... No principles of law are laid down
to guide it, it can decide in accordance with
what it thinks is expedient."
If unchallenged, this concept of Security Council power means
that the most powerful international organ created by the Charter
of the United Nations "to end the scourge of war" is above all law,
domestic and international.
But absolute discretion is the very definition of lawlessness and
has been called "more destructive of freedom than any other of
man's inventions," by U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglas. All rights of all nations, races, religions, cultures,
political parties and individuals are thereby subordinated to the
will of the Security Council, and the single superpower that too
often will dominate it. All but fifteen nations are excluded from
Security Council counsels. Each of the five permanent members
can veto its actions.
The Security Council is subject to domination by a single nation.
The representative of each member votes as instructed by the
national government that appoints him and to serve the interests
of that government, not as an international statesman serving all
peoples and the purposes for which the U.N. was created. The
Security Council is inaccessible, anonymous and less responsive
to democratic processes than any other international political
institution.
2. A ONE TIME, ONE EPISODE COURT
TARGETING ONE COUNTRY, CREATED
BY INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL POWER
TO SERVE ITS GEO-POLITICAL
INTERESTS IS INCAPABLE OF EQUALITY
AND CONDUCTIVE OF DIVISION AND
VIOLENCE
The illegitimate Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia corrupts
justice and law because it is incapable of acting equally among
nations, or within the politically targeted nation. It will increase
violence, division and the risk of war with neighboring nations and
peoples and within Yugoslavia among the segments of the society
the U.S. policy of balkanization of Former Yugoslavia has set
against each other and against the new government the U.S. has
installed for its own purposes. If the United Nations Charter had
authorized the Security Council to create criminal courts, it could
not create a court for one nation, or episode for political purposes,
to persecute selected groups, or persons and such a court is
incapable of equal justice under law. An ad hoc court violates the
most basic principles of all law. Equality is the mother of justice.
An international court established to prosecute acts in a single
nation and primarily, if not entirely, one limited group is pre
programmed to persecute incapable of equality.
If the Security Council can create a criminal court to prosecute
conduct in a single country like Yugoslavia, it can appoint a court
for any country, selecting enemies or political and economic
opportunities for targeting one at a time, while never exposing
itself, or those who comply with its wishes to such selective
prosecution. If the U.S., or any ally or client state it chose to
protect was the subject of a serious effort by the Security Council
to be honored with a criminal tribunal in its own name, the U.S.
would veto the threatened action.
A Court created only for crimes in one country is by definition
discriminatory, incapable of equal justice, a weapon against
chosen enemies, or antagonistic interests and war by other
means. If there is to be any international criminal court, it must
act equally as to all nations with none above the law. The ad hoc
tribunal for a single nation corrupts international law.
By its very nature, the ad hoc Tribunal can be created only after
the conduct the Security Council decides justifies creation of the
Court since there is no other excuse for its creation. It is in every
case ex post facto. This violates an ancient principle of law. It
also requires the Security Council, if there is to be a rational basis
for its action, to make some preliminary claim to finding of facts, a
task such a political body is not designed for, that inherently
incriminates a country, or faction by placing the imprimatur of the
Security Council of the United Nations on a political decision of
fact necessary to justify creation of the Tribunal. The very charge
of the Security Council - genocide, crimes against peace, war
crimes, or crimes against humanity demonized any person
thereafter accused.
The Selection Of A Nation For Prosecution
On Political Findings Of Genocide, War Crimes
And Crimes Against Humanity Creates
A Compulsion to Convict.
Investigators, prosecutors and administrative personnel who join
a temporary Tribunal to pursue allegations of humanities greatest
crimes against a people and leaders already demonized will feel
they have failed if there are not convictions. The very psychology
of the enterprise is persecutorial. Few judges appointed to serve
on a Tribunal created under such circumstances will feel free to
acquit any but the most marginal, or clearly mistaken, accused, or
to create an appearance of objectivity.
Powers That Create Ad Hoc International Criminal
Tribunals Divert Attention From Their Own
Offenses, Or Failures, Or Those Of Allies And
Their Political Surrogates While Continuing
To Inflect And Threaten Mass Destruction With Impunity.
The ad hoc Tribunal which targets a country is incapable of
prosecuting what may be greater crimes committed in the same
conflict, by a power, coalition ally or political agents that was and
remains a much greater source of violence and threat to peace.
Most often the power which forced the creation of the target
tribunal to further damage and demonize their enemy is shielded
from criticism by the avalanche of propaganda against the
accused supported by the appearance of United Nations neutrality
and peace making efforts.
What court will consider the criminality of aerial bombardment by
U.S. aircraft of defenseless civilians, their housing, water
systems, power plants, factories, office buildings, schools,
hospitals, which take thousands of lives directly and causes
billions of dollars of property damages in Belgrade, Nis, Novi Sad
and scores of other cities, towns and villages? What threat to
peace continues from the U.S. bombing of the Chinese Embassy?
Who will be held accountable for the devastation of Pristina by
NATO planes, or the attacks on refugee columns in Kosovo and
Metohia? Is the U.S. use of cluster bombs exploding razor sharp
metal fragments over an area as large as a soccer field in the
courtyard at the hospital in Nis no crime? Will the Security
Council act to prevent and punish the use of depleted uranium by
the U.S. which is as indiscriminate in its radiation as the air, the
water, the soil and food hain it touches and contaminates for
millions of years?
International law accepts bombing of defenseless civilian
populations by a militarily advanced technology that can destroy a
country without even setting foot on its soil because supper
power controls international prosecutions and determines
violations. The dominant element in modern military power is
mass destruction. Victors are nations with the greatest capacity
for mass destruction. This places civilian populations at maximum
peril infrastructure supporting civilian life, buildings, water, power,
transportation, communication, food production, storage and
distribution, health care, schools, churches, mosques,
synagogues, foreign embassies were the direct object of U.S.
aerial and missile attacks. Several thousands of civilians were
killed directly and many more indirectly. The U.S. claims it had
159 casualties, a third from friendly fire, none from combat.
In 1998, the U.S. directed 21 Tomahawk Cruise missiles from
international waters to destroy the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant
in Khartoum, Sudan which provided more than half the medicines
available for a people who are very poor and have been unable to
replace that supply. The U.S. continues to support insurrection in
the South of Sudan and threaten Sudan with prosecution in an ad
hoc international criminal tribunal.
NATO does not claim it prevented violence within Kosovo and
Metohia among the Serbian, ethnic Albanian and other peoples. In
fact, NATO accelerated that violence. It bombed Serbia for 79
days targeting civilians and citizens destroying billions of dollars
worth of civilian facilities, using illegal weapons including cluster
bombs, destroying the civilian Serbian TV and radio buildings. It
bombed Kosovo and Metohia heaviest of all, destroying most of
Pristina, killing thousands of Albanians, Muslims, Serbs, Romany,
Turks and others, and causing hundreds of thousands of people to
flee from Kosovo and Metohia. Damage to the Yugoslavia military
was negligible. In the summer of 2001 the U.S. continues to use
cluster bombs in northern and southern Iraq which it attacks on
most days.
And in 1999 when the U.S. and NATO countries came into
Kosovo and Metohia, as a "security force", they refused to
intervene on the ground to protect people who were endangered in
the province.
There will be no remedy or relief for Serbian victims of atrocities,
some 500.000 purged by Croatia with the approval, if not on
instructions of the U.S., forever from their homes in Krajina, the
more than 330.000 permanently purged from Kosovo and Metohia
since the cease fire in 1999, or for the thousands of Serbs,
Romany and others killed by the U.S. and NATO bombing
assaults, or by the U.S.-supported terrorist organization, the so
called KLA, before, during and after the assaults. The
Macedonians killed, injured and driven from their homes by U.S.
condoned if not instigated KLA aggressions which threaten civil
war in Macedonia and general war in the Balkans will not lead the
Security Council to create a Court to prosecute the perpetrators.
Major Powers Are Not Accountable For Their
Actions Which Cause War, Insurrection
And Violence Within Targeted Countries.
There will be no accountability by the U.S., Germany and other
nations whose acts and pressures forced the break-up of
Yugoslavia, stripping Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia and
attempted stripping of parts of Serbia like Kosovo and Metohia.
The U.S. and several European nations have balkanized the region
in the most artificial and forced apartheid the Balkans, or any
other part of the world has ever known. Their acts have made
peace, stability and prosperity impossible. Economic viability of
small fragmented parts depends on foreign economic interests
intended to dominate and exploit the region. The new apartheid
leads to U.S. planned conflicts between the western Catholic
Croatians and the eastern Orthodox Serbs, creating conflict and a
wall between western and eastern Europe. More dangerous, it
sets the stage for violence, encouraging international conflicts
between Slavic peoples and Muslims to decimate and debilitate
the obstacles to the U.S. world order. Kosovo and Metohia, as a
part of Serbia, and Macedonia are current examples in a long list
of tragic and avoidable violence between Muslims and Slavs,
which has occurred to different extents in Afghanistan, Dagestan,
Chechnya, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan and Bosnia.
A Federal Republic Of Balkan States Long
Set Against Each Other By Foreign Powers
Was Formed To Established Peace, Cooperation
And Prosperity.
The idea of Yugoslavia, a Balkan federation to heal divisions and
provide a better chance for living together in peace and prosperity,
was seen as important in the years after World War I as a means
to peace. While the idea floundered between the two worst wars
in history, it worked with remarkable success after World War II
in which it was ravaged, but unconquered. An independent and
unified Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a long term
successful solution for south Slavic peoples. It was a bulwark of
the Non Aligned Movement. With the collapse of the Soviet and
Eastern bloc economy it was the remaining socialist government
threatening capitalist control of Europe. With its mixed market
economy it offered an example to former Eastern bloc countries
for revival of their economic and political independence. With a
successful, functioning Federal Republic of Yugoslavia there was
living proof history had not ended, that more than one economic
system was possible.
After the collapse of the Eastern bloc economy a greater Balkan
federation a south eastern European Union was seen by many in
the region as the means to prevent economic exploitation, avoid
violence and develop a strong and independent political, social and
economic region.
Foreign capital and the geopolitical interests of the U.S.
considered this a dangerous obstacle to their plans for the new
world order, globalization, new colonialism.
The United States Having Demonized
Yugoslavia Attacks It With Impunity
And Persecutes Its Leadership.
The U.S. mercilessly bombed Yugoslavia for 79 day. It tried to
assassinate me by bombing my home, offices and other places,
where it believed I might be. It attempted to kill Libya's head of
State Muammar Qaddafi in its 1986 raid on Tripoli and Iraqi
president Saddam Hussein on numerous occasions beginning in
1991, including its 1993 cruise missile attack on the Al Rashid in
Baghdad at a time it believed he would be there meeting
international Islamic leaders.
Through economic sanctions, the most extreme and overt form of
forced impoverishment and economic assault, the U.S. has
coerced the Security Council into complicity in the longest
deadliest and cruelest genocide of the last decade, the sanctions
against its enemy Iraq which have killed at least 2 million people,
the majority children. The United States has forced economic
sanctions against Yugoslavia, severely damaging its civilian
economy and eroding its will to independence.
Can a criminal tribunal for Yugoslavia which ignores pervasive
violence by the U.S. and diverts public awareness from United
States conduct and legitimatizes by silent acceptance aerial and
missile assaults on civilians and illegal weapons use against one
country after another, making its repetition expected before it
occurs, contribute to the hope for the rule of law, justice or peace?
The United States, itself, immune from control, or prosecution and
above the law, uses its power to cause the persecution of
enemies it selects to terrorize and further demonize. It
manufactures and sells arms to chosen nations, to groups seeking
to overthrow governments it opposes, uses illegal weapons
against defenseless people with impunity, continues to
consolidate and expand its near monopoly of nuclear weapons and
sophisticated rocketry, spends trillion on unilateral protection
from Star Wars assuring a continued arms race while poverty
overwhelms billions, hunger cripples millions, starvation takes
hundreds of thousands of lives and AIDS spreads among poor
nations.
It cripples international environmental protection, undermines
control of nuclear weapons by threatening to withdraw from long
standing protections of the ABM and Non Proliferation treaties. It
refuses to ratify treaties to protect life from land mines which it
continues to manufacture, sell and deploy. It threatens to
undermine a treaty controlling biological and chemical warfare.
And the United States regularly engages in covert operations and
violent military interventions in other nations in violation of their
sovereignty and law.
The so called ICTY is not just another arrow in the arsenal of the
United States with which it persecutes and demonizes enemies
and corrupts international law. The ICTY celebrates inequality in
the rule of law using criminal sanctions to destroy selected
leaders and governments.
It is poisonous arrow destructive of the foundations of peace
among independent nations of equal rights and dignity.
3. THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL
TRIBUNAL FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA IS
INCAPABLE OF PROTECTING
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, OR PROVIDING
DUE PROCESS OF LAW.
Such an ad hoc Tribunal has a temporary and limited purpose
without helpful precedent, common tradition or relevant
experience. It lacks power to enforce orders, or compel the
disclosure of evidence and presence of witnesses, particularly for
the defense.
It is not capable of finding facts fairly, or defining and applying
legal principles equally. It cannot do justice.
The statutory mandate for the ICTY makes it hostile to concern
for the rights of those accused before it, because it is told the
crimes charged have occurred and the accused have been
demonized.
The right to assistance of counsel, so firmly established in
international law, has been denied and frustrated by the Tribunal
even in its most prominent cases. The Registry denied to me the
right to consult with lawyers of my choice on legal matters for
several weeks after my arraignment.
The Registrar wrote that for the one attorney who visited me
during that time and for only two hours, it would have been
''inappropriate'' to discuss the case because the conversation
was monitored and confidences would be violated. Lawyers from
Yugoslavia I ask to consult, with one exception, a monitored two
hours visit, were still denied approval and visas to enter the
Netherlands seven weeks after my arraignment.
Instead I was held in solitary confinement. I was able to visit my
wife only after more than two weeks imprisonment and then only
through sound proof glass using monitored telephones. She was
prohibited from speaking with the press and kept isolated from all
public contacts while in the Netherlands, a virtual prisoner in her
hotel room, except as she traveled between the airport, the prison
and the hotel.
The Ad Hoc Tribunal Is Intended To Demonize
And Destroy, Not To Fairly Determine Facts,
Protect Rights Of The Accessed, And Apply
Legal Principles Equally.
Unfair phenomena is inherent in the purpose and the nature of
temporary ad hoc tribunal, struggling without personnel who are
part of a legal tradition, far removed from the place the accused
came from and the events occurred where the court is charged by
its creator not to presume innocence, but that terrible crimes have
occurred and the accused are from the group that committed them.
They do this to protect thr real criminals, the NATO leaders who
killed thousands of innocent people in NATO's criminal
aggression.
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