L'Aia, 26 gennaio: WE GOT THEM!
E' stata convocata all'Aia, per il prossimo 26 gennaio, una
manifestazione per chiedere la condanna di tre politici olandesi
corresponsabili della aggressione NATO contro la RF di Jugoslavia nel
1999, e segnatamente del bombardamento contro la sede della TV serba a
Belgrado.
Ci scrive Sergio in proposito:
"Carissimi del Coordinamento,
Sembra che sia venuta anche per i CRIMINALI DI GUERRA della NATO l'ora
della RESA DEI CONTI.
La corte D'Appello dell'AJA ha convocato i 3 criminali Olandesi
responsabili dei massacri per i bombardamenti sulla Yugoslavia del 1999
a rendere conto delle loro azioni davanti al Tribunale il 26 GENNAIO
2004.
Vedi: http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/"
I tre dovranno dunque comparire per testimoniare in un'aula di un
tribunale vero - non quello di Carla Del Ponte !
La manifestazione e' stata indetta da un comitato olandese, ed e'
appoggiata da "Sloboda", sez. belgradese dell'ICDSM, dunque dal
Comitato Internazionale per la Difesa di Slobodan Milosevic.
(a cura di Andrea)
---
Da: ICDSM Italia
Data: Mer 7 Gen 2004 16:15:43 Europe/Rome
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Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] Dutch Politicians to Face War Crimes Charges on
Yugoslavia
SLOBODA invites all to support actively this call of the Permanent
Commission
The original message follows:
---
Dutch Politicians to Face War Crimes Charges on Yugoslavia
WE GOT THEM - RTS PROCEEDINGS
Dear Friends,
For the first time in history, after the Nuremberg trials, western war
criminals will be forced to appear in court.
In order to account for their behaviour.
This is truely a good strat of the new year !
We would like to ask you, your political party, your organisation or
committee to pass on the attached message as much as possible, to join
our manifestation on january 26th in the Hague and to send us massages
of solidarity.
The PC
Permanent Commission with respect to western war crimes (PC)
Marskant 71
7551 BT Hengelo
The Netherlands
tel/fax 0031.74.243.887
hans.hupkes@...
www.natosued.org (in preparation)
• WE GOT THEM!
DUTCH WAR CRIMINALS CONCERNING THE WAR AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA ABOUT TO MAKE
THEIR FORCED ENTRY INTO COURTROOM!
IMMUNITY AND IMPUNITY FOR LEADERS OF NATO'S WAR OF AGGRESSION AGAINST
YUGOSLAVIA ARE COMING TO AN END!
FORMER DUTCH POLITICAL LEADERS WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
PARTICIPATION OF THE NETHERLANDS IN NATO'S WAR OF AGGRESSION AGAINST
YUGOSLAVIA BOUND TO ACCOUNT IN COURT FOR THEIR ACTIONS!
FORMER DUTCH TOP POLITICIANS PRIME MINISTER KOK, MINISTER OF DEFENCE DE
GRAVE, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS VAN AARTSEN AND CHAIR OF PARLIAMENT
VAN NIEUWENHOVEN SENTENCED TO APPEAR IN COURT IN PERSON, IN ORDER TO
GIVE TESTIMONY TO THE LEGALITY OF THE DUTCH PARTICIPATION IN WAR ACTS
AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA!
On the eve of NATO's war of aggression against Yugoslavia at the
beginning of 1999 the newly established Dutch organisation the
Permanent Commission with respect to western war crimes (PC) sent out a
solemn statement to all leading politicians in the Dutch administration
and in Dutch parliament in person, holding that, if they would dare to
realize their criminal aspirations and would wage a war of aggression
against Yugoslavia, efforts to bring them, in person, into courtroom
would continue till the very end, no matter how long it would take.
Since if they would make themselves war criminals, they would never be
able again to remove this mark for the rest of their lifes.
It took five years. Five years of fierce legal combat on behalf of
various groups of Yugoslav victims of NATO's aggression and in close
co-operation with these victims to pave the way for this first goal: to
force this former political top to appear in court in person. In order
to account for their war crimes.
Now the Yugoslav victims of two of the most serious war crimes
committed during this war of aggression against Yugoslavia, the
cowardly nocturnal bombardment of the RTS-studio in Belgrade and the
dreadful clusterbomb attacks on Nis, view the outcome of these legal
undertakings: those leading Dutch politicians, who openly praised these
horrible war crimes, committed in concerted NATO actions, eventually
are bound to appear in court and to give account for these actions.
6 March 2003 the Hague Court of Appeal delivered a verdict stating that
former Prime Minister Kok, former Minister of Defence de Grave, former
Minister of Foreign Affairs Van Aartsen and the former Chair of
Parliament Van Nieuwenhoven should give evidence with respect to the
following question:
"Are violated, with respect to the bombardment of the RTS-studio in
Belgrade and the clusterbomb attacks on Nis, principles and norms of
international humanitarian law for which the State of the Netherlands
might be hold responsible ?"
Two years earlier the Amsterdam Court of Appeal had already wiped the
floor with the pretexts hold by the Dutch administration and the
majority of the Dutch parliament in a concerted and deliberate travesty
of justice that NATO's aggression against Yugoslavia should be
considered legitimate, since "Security Council Resolution 474 was
sufficiently justifying recourse to military force against Yugoslavia".
The Amsterdam Court of Appeal rejected this pseudo-juridical reasoning
unambiguously and pointed out that the State of the Netherlands seems
to have violated the prohibition of force under international law and
that Kok, Van Aartsen and de Grave seem to be responsible for this.
That exposure took place in legal undertakings by other groups of
Yugoslav victims of NATO's aggression, ending up in the verdict by the
Amsterdam Court of Appeal in the case Dedovic c.s. v. Kok, Van Aartsen
and de Grave.
Nearly a year long the Hague District Court, that always rabidly has
resisted the possibility that former members of the Netherlands
government and MP's migth be forced to appear in court for their role
in the war against Yugoslavia, succeeded to delay the performance of
these hearings, ordered by the Court of Appeal.
But eventually, after the District Court itself had been threatened
with summary proceedings against its clear acts of sabotage, the court
decided to back down and fixed a date for this hearings: January 26th
2004.
The testimonies will take the whole day.
Kok, Van Aartsen and de Grave meanwhile announced that they will comply
with the order of the Hague Court of Appeal and that they will appear.
Van Nieuwenhoven, however, strongly refuses to subdue herself to
interrogations in court.
And immediately we see the Hague District Court manoeuvring to support
her in this refusal.
So at the moment a new legal battle is rising in order to force also
Van Nieuwenhoven to comply with the unambiguous order by the Court of
Appeal and with her legal duty to appear in court.
A battle she certainly will loose!
Important questions, among countless others, to be answered by Kok, Van
Aartsen, de Grave and Van Nieuwenhoven during the hearings are the
question whether there has been a warning by NATO before the
bombardment of the RTS-studio and the question why Dutch war planes
employed clusterbombs on a huge scale and why they didn't stop with
that earlier than after the catastrophic clusterbomb bombardment on Nis.
The forced appearance in court of Kok, Van Aartsen, de Grave and Van
Nieuwenhoven in person reflects the prominent principle with respect to
war crimes: the principle of personal responsibility and liability.
A principle firmly established since the Nuremberg trials, recorded as:
"Crimes against international law are committed by man, not by abstract
entities, and only by punishing indiviuals who commit such crimes the
provisions of international law [can] be enforced."
(Annual Digest, 13 (1946), p. 221)
The forced appearance of the four leading western politicians and war
crimes suspects in court is a step of extraordinary and historic
importance.
Never before in history, since the Nuremberg Trials against leading
Nazi's, any Western political leader ever has been called to account in
person standing before a court.
So this certainly is a milestone in history!
The so-called Yugoslavia Tribunal has always carefully avoided to
prosecute the western perpetrators of NATO's war of aggression and the
countless war crimes committed during this war against Yugoslavia.
And already by this position alone this pseudo-court exposes itself
clearly as no more than an extension of the U.S. foreign policy, only
serving as an instrument to establish the CNN-thruth about the
dissolution of Yugoslavia and to distract the attention of NATO's
aggression and massive war crimes committed against Yugoslavia.
Like the former president of Yugoslavia Milosevic is evidencing, day
after day.
The PC
will frame this historic event with a manifestation in front of the
Hall of Justice in the Hague.
The PC
calls upon organisations, political parties, human rights bodies and
committee's all over the world which resisted NATO's war of aggression
to support this manifestation and to send messages of solidarity.
The PC
also appeals to all people anywhere who have the opportunity to be
present at January 26th, 2004, to take part in this manifestation.
The PC
especially calls up also Dutch political parties, organisations and
individuals, opposed to the war of aggression against Yugoslavia and
outraged about the seeming immunity and impudity of western war
criminals to mobilize their supporters and invites them to take part in
the organisation of this manifestation.
In order to make this manifestation an event!
JOIN THIS MANIFESTATION ! IN ORDER TO GIVE THOSE LEADING DUTCH
POLITICIANS AND WAR CRIMES SUSPECTS A WARM WELCOME AT THE MOMENT THEY
SHALL HAVE TO MARCH INTO THE PLACE WHERE THEY BELONG: THE COURT
BUILDING.
Place:
Hall of Justice, Prins Clausweg 60, the Hague (directly behind the
Central Station). Date: 26 January 2004. Time: the whole day starting
from 9.30 h.
1 January 2004 the PC
---
SLOBODA urgently needs your donation.
Please find the detailed instructions at:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/pomoc.htm
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM)
http://www.icdsm-us.org/ (US section of ICDSM)
http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)
E' stata convocata all'Aia, per il prossimo 26 gennaio, una
manifestazione per chiedere la condanna di tre politici olandesi
corresponsabili della aggressione NATO contro la RF di Jugoslavia nel
1999, e segnatamente del bombardamento contro la sede della TV serba a
Belgrado.
Ci scrive Sergio in proposito:
"Carissimi del Coordinamento,
Sembra che sia venuta anche per i CRIMINALI DI GUERRA della NATO l'ora
della RESA DEI CONTI.
La corte D'Appello dell'AJA ha convocato i 3 criminali Olandesi
responsabili dei massacri per i bombardamenti sulla Yugoslavia del 1999
a rendere conto delle loro azioni davanti al Tribunale il 26 GENNAIO
2004.
Vedi: http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/"
I tre dovranno dunque comparire per testimoniare in un'aula di un
tribunale vero - non quello di Carla Del Ponte !
La manifestazione e' stata indetta da un comitato olandese, ed e'
appoggiata da "Sloboda", sez. belgradese dell'ICDSM, dunque dal
Comitato Internazionale per la Difesa di Slobodan Milosevic.
(a cura di Andrea)
---
Da: ICDSM Italia
Data: Mer 7 Gen 2004 16:15:43 Europe/Rome
A: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] Dutch Politicians to Face War Crimes Charges on
Yugoslavia
SLOBODA invites all to support actively this call of the Permanent
Commission
The original message follows:
---
Dutch Politicians to Face War Crimes Charges on Yugoslavia
WE GOT THEM - RTS PROCEEDINGS
Dear Friends,
For the first time in history, after the Nuremberg trials, western war
criminals will be forced to appear in court.
In order to account for their behaviour.
This is truely a good strat of the new year !
We would like to ask you, your political party, your organisation or
committee to pass on the attached message as much as possible, to join
our manifestation on january 26th in the Hague and to send us massages
of solidarity.
The PC
Permanent Commission with respect to western war crimes (PC)
Marskant 71
7551 BT Hengelo
The Netherlands
tel/fax 0031.74.243.887
hans.hupkes@...
www.natosued.org (in preparation)
• WE GOT THEM!
DUTCH WAR CRIMINALS CONCERNING THE WAR AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA ABOUT TO MAKE
THEIR FORCED ENTRY INTO COURTROOM!
IMMUNITY AND IMPUNITY FOR LEADERS OF NATO'S WAR OF AGGRESSION AGAINST
YUGOSLAVIA ARE COMING TO AN END!
FORMER DUTCH POLITICAL LEADERS WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
PARTICIPATION OF THE NETHERLANDS IN NATO'S WAR OF AGGRESSION AGAINST
YUGOSLAVIA BOUND TO ACCOUNT IN COURT FOR THEIR ACTIONS!
FORMER DUTCH TOP POLITICIANS PRIME MINISTER KOK, MINISTER OF DEFENCE DE
GRAVE, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS VAN AARTSEN AND CHAIR OF PARLIAMENT
VAN NIEUWENHOVEN SENTENCED TO APPEAR IN COURT IN PERSON, IN ORDER TO
GIVE TESTIMONY TO THE LEGALITY OF THE DUTCH PARTICIPATION IN WAR ACTS
AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA!
On the eve of NATO's war of aggression against Yugoslavia at the
beginning of 1999 the newly established Dutch organisation the
Permanent Commission with respect to western war crimes (PC) sent out a
solemn statement to all leading politicians in the Dutch administration
and in Dutch parliament in person, holding that, if they would dare to
realize their criminal aspirations and would wage a war of aggression
against Yugoslavia, efforts to bring them, in person, into courtroom
would continue till the very end, no matter how long it would take.
Since if they would make themselves war criminals, they would never be
able again to remove this mark for the rest of their lifes.
It took five years. Five years of fierce legal combat on behalf of
various groups of Yugoslav victims of NATO's aggression and in close
co-operation with these victims to pave the way for this first goal: to
force this former political top to appear in court in person. In order
to account for their war crimes.
Now the Yugoslav victims of two of the most serious war crimes
committed during this war of aggression against Yugoslavia, the
cowardly nocturnal bombardment of the RTS-studio in Belgrade and the
dreadful clusterbomb attacks on Nis, view the outcome of these legal
undertakings: those leading Dutch politicians, who openly praised these
horrible war crimes, committed in concerted NATO actions, eventually
are bound to appear in court and to give account for these actions.
6 March 2003 the Hague Court of Appeal delivered a verdict stating that
former Prime Minister Kok, former Minister of Defence de Grave, former
Minister of Foreign Affairs Van Aartsen and the former Chair of
Parliament Van Nieuwenhoven should give evidence with respect to the
following question:
"Are violated, with respect to the bombardment of the RTS-studio in
Belgrade and the clusterbomb attacks on Nis, principles and norms of
international humanitarian law for which the State of the Netherlands
might be hold responsible ?"
Two years earlier the Amsterdam Court of Appeal had already wiped the
floor with the pretexts hold by the Dutch administration and the
majority of the Dutch parliament in a concerted and deliberate travesty
of justice that NATO's aggression against Yugoslavia should be
considered legitimate, since "Security Council Resolution 474 was
sufficiently justifying recourse to military force against Yugoslavia".
The Amsterdam Court of Appeal rejected this pseudo-juridical reasoning
unambiguously and pointed out that the State of the Netherlands seems
to have violated the prohibition of force under international law and
that Kok, Van Aartsen and de Grave seem to be responsible for this.
That exposure took place in legal undertakings by other groups of
Yugoslav victims of NATO's aggression, ending up in the verdict by the
Amsterdam Court of Appeal in the case Dedovic c.s. v. Kok, Van Aartsen
and de Grave.
Nearly a year long the Hague District Court, that always rabidly has
resisted the possibility that former members of the Netherlands
government and MP's migth be forced to appear in court for their role
in the war against Yugoslavia, succeeded to delay the performance of
these hearings, ordered by the Court of Appeal.
But eventually, after the District Court itself had been threatened
with summary proceedings against its clear acts of sabotage, the court
decided to back down and fixed a date for this hearings: January 26th
2004.
The testimonies will take the whole day.
Kok, Van Aartsen and de Grave meanwhile announced that they will comply
with the order of the Hague Court of Appeal and that they will appear.
Van Nieuwenhoven, however, strongly refuses to subdue herself to
interrogations in court.
And immediately we see the Hague District Court manoeuvring to support
her in this refusal.
So at the moment a new legal battle is rising in order to force also
Van Nieuwenhoven to comply with the unambiguous order by the Court of
Appeal and with her legal duty to appear in court.
A battle she certainly will loose!
Important questions, among countless others, to be answered by Kok, Van
Aartsen, de Grave and Van Nieuwenhoven during the hearings are the
question whether there has been a warning by NATO before the
bombardment of the RTS-studio and the question why Dutch war planes
employed clusterbombs on a huge scale and why they didn't stop with
that earlier than after the catastrophic clusterbomb bombardment on Nis.
The forced appearance in court of Kok, Van Aartsen, de Grave and Van
Nieuwenhoven in person reflects the prominent principle with respect to
war crimes: the principle of personal responsibility and liability.
A principle firmly established since the Nuremberg trials, recorded as:
"Crimes against international law are committed by man, not by abstract
entities, and only by punishing indiviuals who commit such crimes the
provisions of international law [can] be enforced."
(Annual Digest, 13 (1946), p. 221)
The forced appearance of the four leading western politicians and war
crimes suspects in court is a step of extraordinary and historic
importance.
Never before in history, since the Nuremberg Trials against leading
Nazi's, any Western political leader ever has been called to account in
person standing before a court.
So this certainly is a milestone in history!
The so-called Yugoslavia Tribunal has always carefully avoided to
prosecute the western perpetrators of NATO's war of aggression and the
countless war crimes committed during this war against Yugoslavia.
And already by this position alone this pseudo-court exposes itself
clearly as no more than an extension of the U.S. foreign policy, only
serving as an instrument to establish the CNN-thruth about the
dissolution of Yugoslavia and to distract the attention of NATO's
aggression and massive war crimes committed against Yugoslavia.
Like the former president of Yugoslavia Milosevic is evidencing, day
after day.
The PC
will frame this historic event with a manifestation in front of the
Hall of Justice in the Hague.
The PC
calls upon organisations, political parties, human rights bodies and
committee's all over the world which resisted NATO's war of aggression
to support this manifestation and to send messages of solidarity.
The PC
also appeals to all people anywhere who have the opportunity to be
present at January 26th, 2004, to take part in this manifestation.
The PC
especially calls up also Dutch political parties, organisations and
individuals, opposed to the war of aggression against Yugoslavia and
outraged about the seeming immunity and impudity of western war
criminals to mobilize their supporters and invites them to take part in
the organisation of this manifestation.
In order to make this manifestation an event!
JOIN THIS MANIFESTATION ! IN ORDER TO GIVE THOSE LEADING DUTCH
POLITICIANS AND WAR CRIMES SUSPECTS A WARM WELCOME AT THE MOMENT THEY
SHALL HAVE TO MARCH INTO THE PLACE WHERE THEY BELONG: THE COURT
BUILDING.
Place:
Hall of Justice, Prins Clausweg 60, the Hague (directly behind the
Central Station). Date: 26 January 2004. Time: the whole day starting
from 9.30 h.
1 January 2004 the PC
---
SLOBODA urgently needs your donation.
Please find the detailed instructions at:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/pomoc.htm
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM)
http://www.icdsm-us.org/ (US section of ICDSM)
http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)