Da: ICDSM Italia
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Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] Artists' Appeal for Milosevic


[ Da piu' di due anni Milosevic, prigioniero in un ex carcere nazista,
subisce un processo-farsa, che viene gestito da una istituzione
illegittima e nel quale tutti i diritti e le procedure giuridiche
standard sono quotidianamente calpestati. Sono state finora accumulate
33mila pagine di verbali del dibattimento, che testimoniano quanto
sopra ma soprattutto testimoniano del fallimento totale della "Pubblica
Accusa", che non riesce a dimostrare alcuno dei capi di imputazione,
nonostante siano stati convocati sinora circa 300 "testimoni" nell'aula
dell'Aia.
D'altra parte, i responsabili di crimini di guerra ben documentati,
come quelli commessi dalla NATO nella primavera del 1999, godono
evidentemente di una garanzia di impunita' da parte dello stesso
"tribunale", visto che
quest'ultimo si e' ostinatamente rifiutato di aprire alcun procedimento
a loro carico, in spregio alle richieste formali ed alla documentazione
pervenuta.
Ciononostante, e nonostante le dimissioni dello stesso giudice May, che
ha addotto "motivi di salute" per gettare la spugna, le cancellerie
occidentali impongono che il "processo" continui, e che esso abbia
l'esito che e' stato scritto gia' prima dell'inizio della farsa:
Milosevic dovra' svolgere la funzione di capro espiatorio - non piu'
solo mediaticamente, ma anche formalmente - dell'efferato squartamento
della Jugoslavia, che dura oramai da 13 anni e non si puo' dire,
purtroppo, sia ancora terminato.
Intellettuali ed artisti di molti paesi diversi -- tra i quali il
maggiore drammaturgo inglese vivente, Harold Pinter, ed il piu' grande
scrittore di lingua tedesca contemporaneo, Peter Handke -- hanno
percio' diffuso un appello, che riportiamo di seguito, rivolto a tutte
le persone oneste, perche' si uniscano
alla nostra battaglia per la liberazione di Milosevic, lo scioglimento
dell'illegittimo "tribunale" dell'Aia, e per una vera indagine e
condanna dei crimini di guerra commessi in tutti questi anni contro la
Jugoslavia ed i suoi abitanti. (A cura di ICDSM-ITALIA) ]


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Artists' Appeal for Milosevic
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For over two years now, Slobodan Milosevic has been on trial before the
International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia - a Security
Council institution of dubious legality - charged with 66 counts of war
crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Over 500,000 pages of
documents and 5000 videocassettes have been filed as evidence by the
Prosecution. There have been some 300 trial days. More than 300
witnesses have testified. The trial transcript is near 33,000 pages.
Yet after all this time and effort, the Prosecution has failed to
present significant or compelling evidence of any criminal act or
intention of President Milosevic.

In fact, it has been revealed that some prosecution witnesses have been
coerced to lie under oath, others have committed perjury. Former NATO
commander Wesley Clark, was allowed, in violation of the principle of
an open trial, to give testimony in private, with Washington able to
apply for removal of any parts of his evidence from the public record
they deemed to be against US interests.

President Milosevic was indicted during the 78 day continuous
bombardment of Yugoslavia by US-led NATO forces, which used cluster
bombs and depleted uranium, attempted to assassinate Milosevic by
bombing his residence, killed thousands of civilians and caused
billions of dollars of damage to the country's infrastructure. This
illegal act of undeclared war is in clear violation of the NATO
Charter, the UN Charter, and International Law. Yet neither Wesley
Clark, nor the leaders of NATO countries have been indicted for the
crimes of which Slobodan Milosevic is accused.

The proceedings of the ICTY against Slobodan Milosevic, as a large and
growing number of international jurists has publicly stated, respect
neither the principles nor even the appearance of justice. According to
Ramsey Clark, the former Attorney-General of the United States, "the
spectacle of this huge onslaught by an enormous prosecution support
team with vast
resources pitted against a single man, defending himself, cut off from
all effective assistance, his supporters under attack everywhere and
his health slipping away from the constant strain, portrays the essence
of unfairness, of persecution". And now that presiding judge Richard
May has resigned his position for unspecified health reasons, it
appears inevitable, the issue prejudged, that the trial will
nevertheless continue, in spite of the virtual impossibility that a new
judge will be able to come to grips with the mountain of evidence
presented so far.

If justice is not just, if prosecution is persecution, if international
law is flaunted in order to "enforce international law", we are indeed
now living in the dystopian world of George Orwell's 1984. The
neighborhood bully has decided the world is his back yard. The
implications of this egregious use of "power politics" go beyond the
unjust trial of Slobodan Milosevic: the "new world order" now being
implemented is simply inhuman and intolerable. What can be done to
change this cruel and criminal state of affairs?

Let us remember that it was not long ago that 15 million people marched
on the same day in a gesture of international solidarity to say no to
the Bush junta's illegal war on Iraq. Now is the time for another such
gesture. For if this trial continues, the only triumphs will be those
of travesty over justice, power over principle, disinformation over
truth. And many feel that the sum total of these acts constitutes state
terrorism perpetrated on a virtually defenseless country and its
legally elected president.

As artists, our work is to broaden our horizons, to become more human
and to share that humanity. And to create. Destruction is intolerable
to us. It is intolerable that courts be used to justify the killing of
civilians, the destruction of a sovereign nation, and the demonization
and imprisonment of that nation's leader. Let us now create a massive
demonstration of our humanity. Now is the time to make ourselves heard
loud and clear, once again, by publicly denouncing this injustice. We
urge you to join your efforts to those of the International Committee
for the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic.

Robert Dickson, poet (winner of the Governor General's award for French
poetry 2002), Canada
Harold Pinter, playwright, UK
Peter Handke, writer, Austria/France
Alexander Zinoviev, writer, philosopher, Russian Federation
Valeri Ganichev, writer (President of the Writers' Union of Russia),
Russian Federation
Vyacheslav Klykov, sculptor (President of the International Fund for
Slavonic Literacy and Culture), Russian Federation
Dimitri Analis, poet, Greece/France
Valentin Rasputin, novelist, Russian Federation
Fulvio Grimaldi, filmmaker, journalist, Italy
Vladimir Kostrov, poet (winner of Tyutchev and Bunin awards), Russian
Federation
Nadja Tesich, novelist, Yugoslavia/US
Milos Raickovich, composer, Yugoslavia/US
Mick Collins, screenwriter, US/France
John Steppling, screenwriter, playwright, US/Poland
John Goodrich, playwright, US

March-April 2004
Montreal-New York-Moscow-Paris

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If you are an artist and you want to add your name to this Public
Appeal, please send and e-mail to slobodavk@... or to
info@... .

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TRUTH
OR SLAVERY, HUMILIATION AND DESTRUCTION OF SERBIAN NATION

http://www.icdsm.org/battle.htm

THE DECISIVE BATTLE FOR TRUTH NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW!

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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)



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