DEAR DR. WIESENTHAL... A LETTER ASKING WHY?
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IL FIERO BANDITO DELL'UCK, CON IL PESANTE BAZOOKA SOTTO
AL BRACCIO, AVENDO PRESO POSTO SUL COMODO PULLMAN
MESSO A DISPOSIZIONE DALLA NATO, FU REDISLOCATO PER
NUOVE UMANITARIE MISSIONI TERRORISTICHE E DI DESTABILIZZAZIONE
DELL'AREA...


MACEDONIA: UCK LASCIA ARACINOVO, ORA SI COMBATTE A TETOVO/AN
(ANSA) - SKOPJE, 25 GIU - La guerriglia albanese annuncia l'avvio di
incontri ufficiali ''con rappresentanti della Nato e dell'Unione
Europea'', e promette che ''i negoziati proseguiranno''. Smentendo
quella parte della comunita' internazionale che aveva escluso qualsiasi
dialogo con gli estremisti armati, oggi il leader politico
dell'Esercito di liberazione nazionale (Uck), Ali Ahmeti, ha
pubblicamente attribuito a una trattativa con i rappresentanti
internazionali l'accordo ''raggiunto il 24 giugno nella zona di
Tetovo'' sul ritiro della guerriglia dalla cittadina di Aracinovo,
ormai ex roccaforte della guerriglia alle porte di Skopje. Accompagnati
con pulmann della Kfor -la forza di pace a guida Nato- e garantiti da
ooservatori internazionali, i guerriglieri hanno iniziato nel
pomeriggio il ritiro verso il comune settentrionale di Lipkovo
ottenendo di poterlo fare portandosi dietro anche le armi pesanti. La
polizia macedone e' stata costretta a liberare i posti di blocco lungo
la strada che avrebbe dovuto percorrere il convoglio. Il comandante
locale dell'Uck, conosciuto col nome di battaglia di 'Hoxha', ha
riferito che l'accordo prevede che le forze di sicurezza di Skopje non
potranno rientrare ad Aracinovo, per evitare rappresaglie nei confronti
dei civili albanesi rimasti: ''Se lo faranno - ha avvertito - noi
torneremo ad occupare il villaggio''. Il ritiro onorevole concesso ai
guerriglieri con l'avallo del capo dello Stato Boris Trajkovski rischia
ora di infiammare l'opinione pubblica macedone che vede in quell'intesa
una vergognosa capitolazione. Questa sera una manifestazione di
protesta e' iniziata davanti alla sede del parlamento, dove erano da
poco ripresi i colloqui tra partiti macedoni e albanesi per tentare di
porre fine alla crisi armata. Alle proteste stanno partecipando anche
un centinaio di uomini delle forze di sicurezza impegnati fino a ieri
nell'offensiva su Aracinovo. I manifestanti, che urlano 'Macedonia,
Macedonia'', pretendono spiegazioni dal capo dello Stato sul perche'
abbia accettato un accordo ''con i terroristi albanesi''. Trajkovski ha
temporaneamente interrotto i colloqui con i partiti per incontrare una
rappresentanza dei dimostranti. Nelle fasi del ritiro dei ribelli due
osservatori dell'Unione europera sono rimasti feriti: secondo notizie
non ancora confermate sarebbero stati raggiunti da colpi di arma da
fuoco partiti da un vicino villaggio abitato da macedoni. La tregua
strappata ad Aracinovo e' stata seguita dalla ripresa di violenti
combattimenti sulle alture intorno a Tetovo, circa 80 chilometri piu' a
ovest. Questa sera un agente delle forze speciali macedoni e' rimasto
ucciso e almeno altri quattro sono stati feriti nel corso di un attacco
compiuto dalla guerriglia. Fonti locali hanno detto che dal villaggio
di Gajre e dal quartiere di Drenovec (a est di Tetovo) si vedono levare
colonne di fumo. I combattimenti sono ancora in corso. (ANSA) BLL
25/06/2001 20:54

MACEDONIA: NATO, NON ABBIAMO AIUTATO ALBANESI A FUGGIRE
(ANSA) - BRUXELLES, 26 GIU - La Nato ha smentito oggi a Bruxelles di
avere imposto alle autorita' macedoni l'accordo intervenuto ieri per
l'evacuazione senza consegna delle armi dei guerriglieri albanesi dal
villaggio di Aracinovo. ''Non e' vero che abbiamo aiutato gli albanesi
a fuggire: la Nato ha agito su richiesta delle autorita' macedoni e con
l'appoggio di tutto il governo di unita' nazionale'' ha precisato il
portavoce della Nato Yves Brodeur. Le condizioni dell'evacuazione dei
600 guerriglieri albanesi asserragliati ad Aracinovo (localita'
prossima alla capitale) trasportati in autobus forniti dalla Nato senza
avere dovuto prima deporre le armi in altri villaggi piu' a nord sono
state all'origine dei disordini della notte scorsa a Skopje. Il
ministro degli interni macedone Ljube Boskovski ieri ha affermato
che ''la Nato ha costretto il governo ad autorizzare i terroristi a
lasciare Aracinovo''. Il portavoce Nato ha detto invece che l'alleanza
e' intervenuta solo ''per facilitare una soluzione''. Secondo Brodeur
gli incidenti della notte scorsa a Skopje ''sembrano dovuti ad una
minoranza manipolata da agitatori che hanno interesse ad esacerbare le
tensioni fra le due comunita'''. (ANSA). CEF
26/06/2001 15:57

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Illegal Tribunal - Illegal Indictment

Statement of the International Progress Organization on the Hague War
Crimes Tribunal's indictment of Serbian Leaders

Dr. Hans Koechler, President [posted 23 April 2001]

[The following statement was written just after the 'War Crimes
Tribunal' brought 'indictments' against Slobodan Miloshevich (Milosevic)
and other Serbian government leaders in 1999. The text was sent to us
recently by a contributor from Germany. It was published by the
International Progress Organization, an
NGO (non-governmental organization) which has worked in various
associations with the United Nations
for almost 30 years. It makes excellent points, especially about the
sheer illegality of the "War Crimes
Tribunal". We post it for your information - Jared Israel.]

The International Progress Organization hereby presents the following
legal observations on today's "indictment" by the "International
Criminal Tribunal":

1. The "indictment" issued by the "Chief Prosecutor" of the so-called
"International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia" is legally invalid because this "Tribunal" has no
jurisdiction whatsoever in the present or any other case.

2. The "Tribunal" derives its raison d'�tre exclusively from Security
Council resolution 827, adopted at the Council's
3217th meeting on 25 May 1993. In this resolution, establishing the
so-called "International Criminal Tribunal," the
Security Council states that it acts "under Chapter VII of the Charter
of the United Nations."

3. When adopting the above resolution, the Security Council acted ultra
vires. According to the provisions of the U.N.
Charter, the Council has no competence whatsoever in judicial matters.
The provisions of Chapter VII determine the
Council's competence in matters of international security but not in
matters of criminal justice or other judicial matters.
The sole authority in international judicial matters rests with the
International Court of Justice.

4. The "determination," in the preamble of Security Council resolution
827, paragraph four, that the "widespread and
flagrant violations of international humanitarian law" on the territory
of the former Yugoslavia "constitute a threat to
international peace and security" does not provide a sound legal basis
for the Security Council acting as a surrogate
judicial authority or establishing an international court with
jurisdiction in this or any other case.

5. It is regrettable that the institution of the Security Council, while
being unable to stop the undeclared war waged by
NATO countries against Yugoslavia in violation of international law, and
while being prevented, because of the veto power
of countries conducting the present war, from restoring international
peace and security in Yugoslavia, is now being used
to take a so-called "judicial" action against the legitimate Head of
State and other high officials of the country under
attack.

6. Under the present circumstances, the move by the "Chief Prosecutor"
of the so-called "Tribunal," Ms. Louise Arbour,
can only be considered of political nature. This interpretation is
confirmed by today's statement of the President of the
United States who declared that the "indictment" by the "Tribunal" can
be seen as an endorsement of NATO's campaign.

7. The purely political nature of the "indictment" and the lack of any
legal validity of this decision can further be seen from
the fact that the "President" of the so-called "Tribunal," Ms. Gabrielle
Kirk McDonald (United States of America), the
"Chief Prosecutor," Ms. Louise Arbour (Canada), and the investigating
"judge" in the present case, Mr. David Anthony
Hunt (Australia), are citizens either of NATO member countries directly
responsible for the undeclared war against
Yugoslavia or of a country fully endorsing the NATO war. If the
"Tribunal" would have taken general legal standards of
impartiality seriously, it would have been obliged to determine that
there is a conflict of interest for "judges" from countries
waging an undeclared war against Yugoslavia to sit on such a panel
initiating "judicial" action against the Head of State of
the country under attack.

8. The political nature of the "indictment" was further made obvious by
the "Chief Prosecutor's" press statement earlier
today in which she expressed her view that the "indicted" Head of State
cannot be considered a partner of any
negotiations about a peaceful settlement of the conflict. Such a
statement makes a mockery of whatever legal standards
the so-called "Tribunal" claims to adhere to. By her statement, the
"Chief Prosecutor" has tried to act as a surrogate
politician and to influence political events in the interest of those
NATO countries presently waging war against Yugoslavia.

9. When, in violation of the United Nations Charter, a self-appointed
group of states claiming to act on behalf of
international peace and human rights, wages an all-out war against a
sovereign member state of the United Nations and
deliberately destroys the civilian infrastructure of that country with
impunity, the present move by functionaries of the
so-called "Tribunal" to declare the legitimate leaders of the country
under attack as criminals, can only be seen as an act
to hamper the international community's efforts to settle the conflict
in Yugoslavia by peaceful means. This move
undermines all efforts to settle the conflict within the framework of
the United Nations and only prolongs the suffering of
the people of Yugoslavia including the Kosovar Albanians.

10. It would be fitting that the so-called "Tribunal"- if it wants, at
least, to prove its credibility in terms of basic moral
standards, in spite of its legal incompetence as explained above -
should also turn its attention to the practices applied by
the NATO coalition in its undeclared war against the people of
Yugoslavia (including the province of Kosovo).

The provisions of Article 3 of the so-called "Tribunal" identify, among
others, the following practices as "violations of the laws or customs of
war":

(a) "employment of poisonous weapons or other weapons calculated to
cause unnecessary suffering;" (c) "attack, or bombardment, by whatever
means, of undefended towns, villages, dwellings, or buildings;" etc.

NATO's use of depleted uranium missiles and of cluster bombs, NATO's
attacks on villages, civilian buses etc. fall clearly within the
definition of "violations of the laws or customs of war" as given in the
Statute of that very "Tribunal" not to speak of the numerous grave
breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 committed by the NATO
alliance, for which the "Tribunal" also claims to be competent according
to Article 2 of its Statute. As long as the "Tribunal" does not take
action against those NATO politicians and military officers responsible
for these grave breaches of international
humanitarian law, the "Tribunal" can only be considered as one more
futile exercise in the political use of judicial
procedures within the framework of a "policy of double standards" which
seems to be the essence of power politics in NATO's "New World Order."

11. A dangerous precedent is being created by this new use of judicial
procedures for the purposes of power politics. The
separation of powers, one of the basic requirements of the rule of law,
is being completely neglected when a purely
political organ of the United Nations, the Security Council, arrogates
to itself judicial powers by establishing an
"International Criminal Tribunal," and when the functionaries of this
"Tribunal" act as surrogate politicians effectively
hindering a political settlement of an international armed conflict. The
sole responsibility for whichever judicial matters in
international affairs rests with the International Court of Justice. It
is this institution alone that decides on the legal
questions related to aggression by one state or a coalition of states
against another state, and that decides on issues of
international humanitarian law.

12. Because of the regrettable paralysis of the Security Council, the
member states of the United Nations as represented
in the General Assembly should take immediate action on the basis of the
"Uniting for Peace Resolution" (res. 377 A [V]
of the General Assembly) in order to prevent a further dangerous
deterioration of the situation in Yugoslavia. When
otherwise invalid legal procedures are being used to prevent a just
political settlement and when the ongoing large-scale
bombing of Yugoslavia causes an ecological disaster rendering large
areas uninhabitable, urgent action is required by the
international community. If this new form of self-righteous power
politics is not being checked, similar action may be
taken in the time to come against other sovereign countries and their
leadership. In this case, the "rule of force" will
replace whatever remains of the "rule of law" in international
relations. International anarchy will be the inevitable result.
All political leaders and people of good will should unite against this
most serious threat to the international order since the
end of the Cold War.

Dr. Hans Koechler, President

[Reprinted from the IPO Website at http://i-p-o.org/yu-tribunal.htm%5d

For more on the War Crimes Tribunal, see:

'Back to the Dark Ages?' by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/bac.htm

'The War Crimes Tribunal: Illegal Origins' By Dr. Kosta Cavoski at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-3.htm

'The War Crimes Tribunal: Learning from the Inquisition'
By Dr. Kosta Cavoski at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-4.htm

Secret witnesses; some defendants are more equal than others.

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Friday June 22, 5:08 AM

Committee backing Milosevic warns against
extradition to ICTY

BELGRADE, June 21 (AFP) - An official of an
international committee set up to defend
Slobodan Milosevic Thursday warned of
catastrophic consequences for Yugoslavia if the
former president is handed over to the UN war
crimes tribunal in The Hague. "Be sure that
misery, poverty, famine and total destruction
would prevail in the country" if Milosevic is
sent to The Hague, said Mikhail Kuznecov, deputy
chairman of the International Committee for the
Defense of Slobodan Milosevic.
"Do not have any illusions that the United
States or NATO will give you money and help you
rebuild your economy," he told reporters.
The committee was set up on March 24, just a
week before Milosevic's arrest by Belgrade
reformers on charges of abuse of power and
corruption, to clear the ex-president's name
over the war crimes indictment by the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY).
NATO "is aiming to destroy Yugoslavia and its
citizens," Kuznecov said, adding that Milosevic
"is in prison since he was the only one to
confront the Alliance, and even managed to stop
it."
He said that no "law can legalise" Milosevic's
extradition to ICTY, as the move "is clearly
banned by the Constitutions of Yugoslavia and
Serbia."
Belgrade authorities have been trying to push
forward a draft on cooperation with the ICTY,
but its federal partners from Montenegro have
rejected the law since it could lead to the
extradition of Yugoslav nationals to the UN
court.

Yugoslavia is under intense international
pressure, particularly from the United States,
to adopt the law before an international donors'
conference scheduled for June 29.
The committee, chaired by Bulgarian MP Velko
Valkanov, and grouping figures like former US
Attorney General Ramsey Clark and writer Harold
Pinter, said it has members from 20 countries
throughout the world.
Its activities are supported by more than 600
prominent figures from 30 countries, said a
statement on its website
(www.predsednikmilosevic.com).

Kuznecov said the committee has set up an
international working group to monitor legal
procedures against Milosevic, led by Canadian
lawyer Christopher Black, who had visited the
former president in prison last week.
Black was among the lawyers who in 1999 brought
war crimes charges against NATO leaders for the
bombing campaign on Yugoslavia.
Milosevic, currently in jail on charges of
corruption and abuse of power, and four of his
former associates have been indicted by the ICTY
for war crimes and crimes against humanity
allegedly committed against the ethnic Albanian
majority of Serbia's Kosovo province in
1998-1999.

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