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Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] Appeal of Sloboda and Milosevic family to UN
and human rights organizations
[L'Associazione SLOBODA-Liberta' (sezione belgradese dell'ICDSM) e la
famiglia di Slobodan Milosevic hanno inviato all'ONU ed alle principali
istituzioni internazionali un Memorandum intitolato: “Misure dirette
contro il solo Slobodan Milosevic prese nella prigione di Scheveningen
e dal Tribunale dell'Aia, in contravvenzione delle loro stesse regole,
garanzie e diritti"...]
SLOBODA | FREEDOM
udruzenje | association
Member of the World Peace Council
YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE FOR THE LIBERATION OF
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
Belgrade, Rajiceva 16,tel./fax +381 11 630 549
---
Belgrade, 09 February 2004
TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS – TO ALL ITS ORGANS, AGENCIES
AND BODIES;
TO THE GOVERNMENTS AND PARLIAMENTS
OF ALL UN MEMBER STATES;
TO ORGANIZATIONS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW AND PEACE;
TO POLITICAL PARTIES, MEDIA AND GENERAL PUBLIC
Freedom Association from Belgrade, acting as National Committee for the
Liberation of President Slobodan Milosevic has honour to submit to your
attention the document entitled “MEASURES TAKEN ONLY AGAINST SLOBODAN
MILOSEVIC IN THE SCHEVENINGEN PRISON AND AT THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL, IN
CONTRAVENTION OF THEIR OWN RULES, GUARANTEES AND RIGHTS” written by our
organization and by the family of President Milosevic.
For the sake of peace, human rights, legality and justice, in the name
of the International Law and democracy in the international relations,
respecting the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
and other international instruments protecting human rights and
principles of judiciary and for the pure humanitarian reasons, we
expect your immediate reaction to the facts described in the document.
We call upon the UN Security Council to act now against the severe
violations of human rights performed by its subsidiary organ, ICTY. We
will welcome all reactions aiming to accelerate such a move of the
Security Council.
Please inform us about your reactions. Our contacts: phone: +381 63 88
62 301; fax: +381 11 630 549 and e-mail: slobodavk@... are 24
hours available also for obtaining additional information.
With due respect, on behalf of the Freedom Association Managing Board
Bogoljub Bjelica, President
www.wpc-in.org
www.sloboda.org.yu
www.icdsm.org
---
MEASURES TAKEN ONLY AGAINST SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC IN THE SCHEVENINGEN
PRISON AND AT THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL, IN CONTRAVENTION OF THEIR OWN RULES,
GUARANTEES AND RIGHTS
Obstructing and avoiding visits of physicians.
Banning the physicians from publishing their findings on his health
condition and on the causes of its deterioration.
Preventing the family from visiting in the duration allowed to all
other detainees (between 7 and 15 days a month) and reducing it to 3
days a month.
Refusing almost all visits of the world public figures, acquaintances,
friends, politicians etc.
Censoring and restricting visits from Yugoslavia – of friends, Party
colleagues, SLOBODA National Committee members engaged in defending
Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia.
Preventing the members of ten different national committees for the
defence of Slobodan Milosevic that have been established in the world,
as well as the members and the leadership of the International
Committee for his defence from contacting and visiting
Preventing the family from being alone with him, which is not otherwise
a practice when other detainees are concerned.
Banning the family from visiting at the time of the Serbian elections.
Banning all telephone communications before, during and after the
Serbian elections, except with the family.
Obstructing contacts and the work with lawyers.
Listening in to conversations with the lawyer.
Deliberately keeping him for many hours within the court building with
the explanation that “the transportation was being late”.
Unannounced alterations in the sequence of witnesses.
Closing the proceedings for the public during the examination of
witnesses who might compromise NATO and the Tribunal.
For nearly two years the trial is being held day in and day out. Such a
practice has never been recorded in the history of the judiciary since
it came into existence. Only as of a month ago the trial was being held
for three days a week, after the physicians had emphasized that he
cannot withstand it, but he is hardly withstanding even that effort,
because his health has been severely damaged in prison.
On account of the whole-day sojourn at the court, he has no time at all
to rest during the trial days, nor to go out and have some fresh air
and walk (exercise), nor to have regular meals.
He has no conditions for work and trial preparations either. His cell
has been swamped with trial materials, often received in the evening,
on the eve of a trial day. This excludes the possibility of a timely
and proper preparation for the trial. At the same time, such practice
is in contravention of the Tribunal’s rules.
He has been often given materials in English, although according to
their own rules each detainee has to be given materials required for
his defence in his mother tongue.
The trial materials are of such volume that he would need another 50
years to make a full use of it.
Preventing the Defence from preparing, as compared to the preparation
of the Prosecution. The preparation of the Prosecution lasted at least
4 years, he was allotted 3 months to prepare! In addition to this, the
Prosecution was being prepared by several hundreds of people, and him
alone is to prepare the Defence.
Moreover, he has been brought to The Hague by force, illegally and in
contravention of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia. The materials had been handed over to him, requiring by its
volume a multi-year labour of a large expert team, as was the case with
the Prosecution, prepared for at least 4 years with the logistic,
financial, organizational and personnel support of the governments of
NATO member states. The Prosecution’s case has been prolonged several
times, and he was allotted three months to prepare his defence alone,
in prison, without personal and telephone contacts and with no time nor
conditions for medical treatment. A large number of witnesses were
employees of the Prosecution, which is in contravention of their own
rules. Even larger number of witnesses was bribed or blackmailed
people. Without adjudication, the Tribunal reached a decision to
prevent his Party from contacting him at the time of the elections,
which is a direct interference of an institution otherwise illegitimate
with the politics and the internal affairs of a sovereign state and in
this case with its citizens’ will. Visits and contacts assessed as
unsuitable by the Tribunal are banned with no explanation, again in
contravention of their own rules. Slobodan Milosevic has been brought
to The Hague with poor health condition, and in the Scheveningen prison
it has been ignored, inadequately treated and drastically deteriorated
under the inhuman treatment (for several months, cameras and spotlights
had been constantly on in his cell) and by the lack of medical
treatment during his stay there. Nothing has been done to improve his
health condition, quite the contrary. The Tribunal banned all the
physicians, the Yugoslav as well as the Dutch ones, from publishing
their reports on his condition. Only after the physicians’ warning that
his life has been directly threatened the workload at the Tribunal
itself was reduced. For what reason such savage and inhuman measures
were taken consciously and deliberately under the auspices and in the
name of the United Nations?
For what reason his defence has been prevented so obviously and
brutally? Why ONLY he has the right to visits for just three days a
month when all other detainees at The Hague have 15 days each
month? Why the Tribunal officials have to be present ONLY at his
visits? Has the United Nations given the mandate to the Tribunal and
entitled it to interfere also with the internal Yugoslav politics and
even with the election? If The Hague Tribunal is a UN institution, is
this organization aware of the treatment given in its name to a human
being, a sick man, a former head of state? As a founder of The Hague
Tribunal, the Organization of the United Nations is directly
responsible for the operations, operating procedures and methods
applied by its institution. Therefore, it bears responsibility also for
any wrong done and harm caused by its institution to any one man and
people in general. The Organization of the United Nation is obliged to
provide public answers to these questions.
The UN Commission for Human Rights in Geneva has not done much for the
protection of human rights over the past years, but while “protecting”
this heritage it has caused a lot of misfortune throughout the world.
We demand for this institution to speak out now in relation to the
illegal, inhuman treatment of Slobodan Milosevic in their own
institution. How is justice being defended by the United Nations with
publishing every word presented by the Prosecution and its
collaborators and at the same time hiding and censoring everything
coming from the Defence? Complete testimonies of the witnesses for the
Prosecution have been published, blackmailed and corrupt as a rule and
mainly untruthful individuals, and the public has been denied the
expounding of Slobodan Milosevic, a brilliant defence admired by anyone
who heard it. On this occasion we are not raising a question of the
rationale and legitimacy of The Hague Tribunal, because it has no
legitimacy, its rationale is nowadays already clear to everybody and it
will go into history as black as it is, together with all its
protagonists. We demand for the UN and the UN Commission for Human
Rights, as well as all international organizations for the protection
of human rights to react to a crime that was being perpetrated against
Slobodan Milosevic in its most brutal form, unknown to modern
civilization.
In Belgrade, 09 February 2004
SLOBODA/Freedom Association
–
National Committee for the Liberation
of President Slobodan Milosevic
and
the family of President Milosevic
---
STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND TRUTH ABOUT THE SERBIAN PEOPLE AND YUGOSLAVIA
IS IN THE CRUCIAL PHASE. NATO AND ITS SERVICES IN BELGRADE AND THE
HAGUE HAVE NO INTEREST TO SUPPORT IT.
SO IT TOTALLY DEPENDS ON YOU!
A SMALL TEAM OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S ASSISTANTS, WHICH IS BECOMING
INTERNATIONAL, HAS TO HAVE CONDITIONS TO WORK AT THE HAGUE IN THE TIME
OF INTENSIVE PREPARATIONS FOR THE FINAL PRESENTATION OF TRUTH AND
DURING THAT PRESENTATION.
TO DONATE, PLEASE CONTACT SLOBODA OR THE NEAREST ICDSM BRANCH, OR
find the 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)
==========================
ICDSM - Sezione Italiana
c/o GAMADI, Via L. Da Vinci 27
00043 Ciampino (Roma)
email: icdsm-italia@...
Conto Corrente Postale numero 86557006
intestato ad Adolfo Amoroso, ROMA
causale: DIFESA MILOSEVIC
Data: Mar 10 Feb 2004 10:51:21 Europe/Rome
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Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] Appeal of Sloboda and Milosevic family to UN
and human rights organizations
[L'Associazione SLOBODA-Liberta' (sezione belgradese dell'ICDSM) e la
famiglia di Slobodan Milosevic hanno inviato all'ONU ed alle principali
istituzioni internazionali un Memorandum intitolato: “Misure dirette
contro il solo Slobodan Milosevic prese nella prigione di Scheveningen
e dal Tribunale dell'Aia, in contravvenzione delle loro stesse regole,
garanzie e diritti"...]
SLOBODA | FREEDOM
udruzenje | association
Member of the World Peace Council
YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE FOR THE LIBERATION OF
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
Belgrade, Rajiceva 16,tel./fax +381 11 630 549
---
Belgrade, 09 February 2004
TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS – TO ALL ITS ORGANS, AGENCIES
AND BODIES;
TO THE GOVERNMENTS AND PARLIAMENTS
OF ALL UN MEMBER STATES;
TO ORGANIZATIONS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW AND PEACE;
TO POLITICAL PARTIES, MEDIA AND GENERAL PUBLIC
Freedom Association from Belgrade, acting as National Committee for the
Liberation of President Slobodan Milosevic has honour to submit to your
attention the document entitled “MEASURES TAKEN ONLY AGAINST SLOBODAN
MILOSEVIC IN THE SCHEVENINGEN PRISON AND AT THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL, IN
CONTRAVENTION OF THEIR OWN RULES, GUARANTEES AND RIGHTS” written by our
organization and by the family of President Milosevic.
For the sake of peace, human rights, legality and justice, in the name
of the International Law and democracy in the international relations,
respecting the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
and other international instruments protecting human rights and
principles of judiciary and for the pure humanitarian reasons, we
expect your immediate reaction to the facts described in the document.
We call upon the UN Security Council to act now against the severe
violations of human rights performed by its subsidiary organ, ICTY. We
will welcome all reactions aiming to accelerate such a move of the
Security Council.
Please inform us about your reactions. Our contacts: phone: +381 63 88
62 301; fax: +381 11 630 549 and e-mail: slobodavk@... are 24
hours available also for obtaining additional information.
With due respect, on behalf of the Freedom Association Managing Board
Bogoljub Bjelica, President
www.wpc-in.org
www.sloboda.org.yu
www.icdsm.org
---
MEASURES TAKEN ONLY AGAINST SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC IN THE SCHEVENINGEN
PRISON AND AT THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL, IN CONTRAVENTION OF THEIR OWN RULES,
GUARANTEES AND RIGHTS
Obstructing and avoiding visits of physicians.
Banning the physicians from publishing their findings on his health
condition and on the causes of its deterioration.
Preventing the family from visiting in the duration allowed to all
other detainees (between 7 and 15 days a month) and reducing it to 3
days a month.
Refusing almost all visits of the world public figures, acquaintances,
friends, politicians etc.
Censoring and restricting visits from Yugoslavia – of friends, Party
colleagues, SLOBODA National Committee members engaged in defending
Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia.
Preventing the members of ten different national committees for the
defence of Slobodan Milosevic that have been established in the world,
as well as the members and the leadership of the International
Committee for his defence from contacting and visiting
Preventing the family from being alone with him, which is not otherwise
a practice when other detainees are concerned.
Banning the family from visiting at the time of the Serbian elections.
Banning all telephone communications before, during and after the
Serbian elections, except with the family.
Obstructing contacts and the work with lawyers.
Listening in to conversations with the lawyer.
Deliberately keeping him for many hours within the court building with
the explanation that “the transportation was being late”.
Unannounced alterations in the sequence of witnesses.
Closing the proceedings for the public during the examination of
witnesses who might compromise NATO and the Tribunal.
For nearly two years the trial is being held day in and day out. Such a
practice has never been recorded in the history of the judiciary since
it came into existence. Only as of a month ago the trial was being held
for three days a week, after the physicians had emphasized that he
cannot withstand it, but he is hardly withstanding even that effort,
because his health has been severely damaged in prison.
On account of the whole-day sojourn at the court, he has no time at all
to rest during the trial days, nor to go out and have some fresh air
and walk (exercise), nor to have regular meals.
He has no conditions for work and trial preparations either. His cell
has been swamped with trial materials, often received in the evening,
on the eve of a trial day. This excludes the possibility of a timely
and proper preparation for the trial. At the same time, such practice
is in contravention of the Tribunal’s rules.
He has been often given materials in English, although according to
their own rules each detainee has to be given materials required for
his defence in his mother tongue.
The trial materials are of such volume that he would need another 50
years to make a full use of it.
Preventing the Defence from preparing, as compared to the preparation
of the Prosecution. The preparation of the Prosecution lasted at least
4 years, he was allotted 3 months to prepare! In addition to this, the
Prosecution was being prepared by several hundreds of people, and him
alone is to prepare the Defence.
Moreover, he has been brought to The Hague by force, illegally and in
contravention of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia. The materials had been handed over to him, requiring by its
volume a multi-year labour of a large expert team, as was the case with
the Prosecution, prepared for at least 4 years with the logistic,
financial, organizational and personnel support of the governments of
NATO member states. The Prosecution’s case has been prolonged several
times, and he was allotted three months to prepare his defence alone,
in prison, without personal and telephone contacts and with no time nor
conditions for medical treatment. A large number of witnesses were
employees of the Prosecution, which is in contravention of their own
rules. Even larger number of witnesses was bribed or blackmailed
people. Without adjudication, the Tribunal reached a decision to
prevent his Party from contacting him at the time of the elections,
which is a direct interference of an institution otherwise illegitimate
with the politics and the internal affairs of a sovereign state and in
this case with its citizens’ will. Visits and contacts assessed as
unsuitable by the Tribunal are banned with no explanation, again in
contravention of their own rules. Slobodan Milosevic has been brought
to The Hague with poor health condition, and in the Scheveningen prison
it has been ignored, inadequately treated and drastically deteriorated
under the inhuman treatment (for several months, cameras and spotlights
had been constantly on in his cell) and by the lack of medical
treatment during his stay there. Nothing has been done to improve his
health condition, quite the contrary. The Tribunal banned all the
physicians, the Yugoslav as well as the Dutch ones, from publishing
their reports on his condition. Only after the physicians’ warning that
his life has been directly threatened the workload at the Tribunal
itself was reduced. For what reason such savage and inhuman measures
were taken consciously and deliberately under the auspices and in the
name of the United Nations?
For what reason his defence has been prevented so obviously and
brutally? Why ONLY he has the right to visits for just three days a
month when all other detainees at The Hague have 15 days each
month? Why the Tribunal officials have to be present ONLY at his
visits? Has the United Nations given the mandate to the Tribunal and
entitled it to interfere also with the internal Yugoslav politics and
even with the election? If The Hague Tribunal is a UN institution, is
this organization aware of the treatment given in its name to a human
being, a sick man, a former head of state? As a founder of The Hague
Tribunal, the Organization of the United Nations is directly
responsible for the operations, operating procedures and methods
applied by its institution. Therefore, it bears responsibility also for
any wrong done and harm caused by its institution to any one man and
people in general. The Organization of the United Nation is obliged to
provide public answers to these questions.
The UN Commission for Human Rights in Geneva has not done much for the
protection of human rights over the past years, but while “protecting”
this heritage it has caused a lot of misfortune throughout the world.
We demand for this institution to speak out now in relation to the
illegal, inhuman treatment of Slobodan Milosevic in their own
institution. How is justice being defended by the United Nations with
publishing every word presented by the Prosecution and its
collaborators and at the same time hiding and censoring everything
coming from the Defence? Complete testimonies of the witnesses for the
Prosecution have been published, blackmailed and corrupt as a rule and
mainly untruthful individuals, and the public has been denied the
expounding of Slobodan Milosevic, a brilliant defence admired by anyone
who heard it. On this occasion we are not raising a question of the
rationale and legitimacy of The Hague Tribunal, because it has no
legitimacy, its rationale is nowadays already clear to everybody and it
will go into history as black as it is, together with all its
protagonists. We demand for the UN and the UN Commission for Human
Rights, as well as all international organizations for the protection
of human rights to react to a crime that was being perpetrated against
Slobodan Milosevic in its most brutal form, unknown to modern
civilization.
In Belgrade, 09 February 2004
SLOBODA/Freedom Association
–
National Committee for the Liberation
of President Slobodan Milosevic
and
the family of President Milosevic
---
STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND TRUTH ABOUT THE SERBIAN PEOPLE AND YUGOSLAVIA
IS IN THE CRUCIAL PHASE. NATO AND ITS SERVICES IN BELGRADE AND THE
HAGUE HAVE NO INTEREST TO SUPPORT IT.
SO IT TOTALLY DEPENDS ON YOU!
A SMALL TEAM OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S ASSISTANTS, WHICH IS BECOMING
INTERNATIONAL, HAS TO HAVE CONDITIONS TO WORK AT THE HAGUE IN THE TIME
OF INTENSIVE PREPARATIONS FOR THE FINAL PRESENTATION OF TRUTH AND
DURING THAT PRESENTATION.
TO DONATE, PLEASE CONTACT SLOBODA OR THE NEAREST ICDSM BRANCH, OR
find the 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)
==========================
ICDSM - Sezione Italiana
c/o GAMADI, Via L. Da Vinci 27
00043 Ciampino (Roma)
email: icdsm-italia@...
Conto Corrente Postale numero 86557006
intestato ad Adolfo Amoroso, ROMA
causale: DIFESA MILOSEVIC