Da: ICDSM Italia
Data: Ven 14 Gen 2005 11:17:45 Europe/Rome
A: icdsm-italia @yahoogroups.com
Cc: aa-info @yahoogroups.com
Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] 26 February: International Conference at The
Hague
Di seguito il primo annuncio ufficiale della conferenza internazionale
che si terra' il prossimo 26 FEBBRAIO ALL'AIA, presso l'Hotel Bel Air,
a pochi passi dal "tribunale ad hoc".
Ad essa e' prevista la partecipazione di Ramsey Clark (ex procuratore
generale degli USA, noto pacifista, presidente dell'ICDSM), Thipaine
Dickson (avvocatessa canadese, consulente della difesa di Milosevic),
Velko Valkanov (professore bulgaro, co-presidente dell'ICDSM), Branko
Rakic (avvocato serbo di Milosevic), Alexandar Mezhyaev (esperto russo
di diritto internazionale) e dell'italiano Aldo Bernardini (docente
all'Univ. di Teramo).
Per l'organizzazione di questa conferenza lo sforzo economico e' ai
limiti delle possibilita' dell'ICDSM. Un biglietto d'ingresso di 10
euro e' stato previsto per garantire la copertura dei costi. Tutti i
nostri sostenitori sono comunque calorosamente invitati a contribuire
con urgenza.
**************************************************************
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO DEFEND SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
ICDSM Sofia-New York-Moscow www.icdsm.org
**************************************************************
13 January 2004 Final circulation tomorrow
**************************************************************
First Announcement
I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e
MILOSEVIC PROCESS
- the legal aspects -
The Hague, 26 February 2005
The Hague Proceedings against Slobodan Milosevic: Emerging Issues in
International Law
The idea of international law - in particular international criminal
law - is undeniably appealing to jurists and non-lawyers alike, as
generations have sought to establish a permanent criminal jurisdiction
to prosecute war crimes in the wake of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials.
Beyond the prosecution of the crimes that are committed in war,
however, the Nuremberg precedent clearly articulates that the supreme
international crime is the instigation of a war of aggression. Indeed,
the Nuremberg Tribunal held that:
"War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to
the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a
war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is
the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in
that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
The ICTY, a Security Council institution, does not have the
jurisdiction to prosecute the "supreme international crime". Some argue
that it in fact legitimizes aggression, which can be exemplified by the
serving of an indictment against President Slobodan Milosevic at the
height of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, contrary to
international law. As the defence phase of the proceedings continue to
delve into the destruction of
Yugoslavia by Western interests, legal questions emerge which will be
discussed in this conference:
-The right to self-representation in international and comparative law;
-Joint criminal enterprise, tailor-made to convict and a tool of
de-nazification
-What is "relevant" testimony in a political prosecution?
-War crimes prosecutions by the Security Council: justifying
aggression, eliminating national sovereignty
-Self-determination and self-defense of Yugoslavia under international
law
-"Equality of arms": what is left after The Hague?
-Armed conflict under international law and in the Milosevic case
-Effect of media coverage and lobbying on the right to a fair trial
-Misuse of genocide charges and trivialization of Nuremberg precedent
and Holocaust
-Denying the right to defend oneself - stepping on the fundamentals of
law
-The right to a fair trial in international and comparative law: has it
been respected in the Milosevic case?
-How can the Hague be judged, and who will judge it?
After the presentation of the invited contributions, the conference
will end with a panel discussion.
The list of invited contributors include:
- Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General (USA)
- Professor Velko Valkanov, Chairman of the Bulgarian Human Rights
Committee (Bulgaria)
- Professor Aldo Bernardini, international law, Teramo University
(Italy)
- Dr Branko Rakic, international law, Belgrade University, legal
associate to President Milosevic (Serbia)
- Tiphaine Dickson, international criminal lawyer, legal spokesperson
of the ICDSM (Quebec)
- Dr Alexandar Mezhyaev, international law, Kazan (Russia)
The Conference will take place in the Bel Air hotel, close to the ICTY.
Conference admission is 10 EUR.
Organized by the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic
(ICDSM) and
Vereinigung für Internationale Solidarität e.V. (Association for the
International Solidarity)
*************************************************************
*************************************************************
URGENT FUNDRAISING APPEAL
******************************
After the Hague Tribunal declared war against human rights and
International Law by banning President Milosevic's right to
self-defense, our activities for his liberation and for the restoration
of his freedom and for the national sovereignty of the Serbian people
need to be reorganized and intensified.
We need professional, legal work now more than ever. Thus, the creation
of conditions for that work is the imperative at this moment.
*******************************************
The petition of 100 lawyers and law professors from 18 countries, and
other related activities of the ICDSM Legal Committee, produced a
public effect incomparable to any other previous action by the ICDSM.
President Milosevic has the truth and law on his side. In order to use
that advantage to achieve his freedom, we must fight this totally
discredited tribunal and its patrons through professionally conducted
actions which would involve the Bar Associations, the European Court,
the UN organs in charge and the media.
Our practice has shown that ad hoc voluntary work is not enough to deal
properly with these tasks. The funds secured in Serbia are still enough
only to cover the expenses of the stay and work of President
Milosevic's legal associates at The Hague (one at the time). The funds
secured by the German
section of the ICDSM (still the only one with regular contributions)
are enough only to cover minimal additional work at The Hague connected
with contacts and preparations of foreign witnesses. Everything else is
lacking.
***********************************************************
3000-5000 EUR per month is our imminent need.
Our history and our people oblige us to go on with this necessary
action.
But without these funds it will not be possible.
Please organize urgently the fundraising activity
and send the donations to the following ICDSM accounts:
Peter Betscher
Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Darmstadt, Germany
IBAN: DE 21 5085 0150 0102 1441 63
SWIFT-BIC: HELADEF1DAS
or
Vereinigung für Internationale Solidarität (VIS)
4000 Basel, Switzerland
PC 40-493646-5
************************************************************
All of your donations will be used for legal and other necessary
accompanying activities, on instruction or with the consent of
President Milosevic. To obtain additional information on the use of
your donations or to obtain additional advice on the most efficient way
to submit your donations or to make bank transfers, please do not
hesitate to contact us:
Peter Betscher (ICDSM Treasurer) E-mail: peter_betscher @ freenet.de
Phone: +49 172 7566 014
Vladimir Krsljanin (ICDSM Secretary) E-mail: slobodavk @ yubc.net
Phone: +381 63 8862 301
The ICDSM and Sloboda need to address governments, international human
rights and legal organizations, and to launch legal proceedings. The
ICDSM plans a legal conference at The Hague. Sloboda has just sent to
the
patriotic factions in the Serbian Parliament an initiative to adopt a
parliamentary Resolution against the human rights violations by the
Hague Tribunal and to form an international team of experts to make an
extensive report on these violations which would be submitted to the UN.
***************************************************************
For truth and human rights against aggression!
Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic!
Freedom and equality for people!
On behalf of Sloboda and ICDSM,
Vladimir Krsljanin,
Foreign Relations Assistant to President Milosevic
*************************************************************
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.pasti.org/milodif.htm (ICDSM Italy)
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)
tel/fax +39-06-4828957
email: icdsm-italia @ libero.it
*** CONTRIBUISCI E FAI CONTRIBUIRE:
Conto Corrente Postale numero 86557006
intestato ad Adolfo Amoroso, ROMA
causale: DIFESA MILOSEVIC ***
IL NOSTRO SITO INTERNET:
http://www.pasti.org/linkmilo.htm
IL TESTO IN LINGUA ITALIANA DELLA AUTODIFESA DI MILOSEVIC, IN CORSO
DI REVISIONE E CORREZIONE, E' TEMPORANEAMENTE OSPITATO ALLA PAGINA:
https://www.cnj.it/documentazione/autodifesa04.htm
LE TRASCRIZIONI "UFFICIALI" DEL "PROCESSO" SI TROVANO AI SITI:
http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/transe54.htm (IN ENGLISH)
http://www.un.org/icty/transf54/transf54.htm (EN FRANCAIS)
==========================
Data: Ven 14 Gen 2005 11:17:45 Europe/Rome
A: icdsm-italia @yahoogroups.com
Cc: aa-info @yahoogroups.com
Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] 26 February: International Conference at The
Hague
Di seguito il primo annuncio ufficiale della conferenza internazionale
che si terra' il prossimo 26 FEBBRAIO ALL'AIA, presso l'Hotel Bel Air,
a pochi passi dal "tribunale ad hoc".
Ad essa e' prevista la partecipazione di Ramsey Clark (ex procuratore
generale degli USA, noto pacifista, presidente dell'ICDSM), Thipaine
Dickson (avvocatessa canadese, consulente della difesa di Milosevic),
Velko Valkanov (professore bulgaro, co-presidente dell'ICDSM), Branko
Rakic (avvocato serbo di Milosevic), Alexandar Mezhyaev (esperto russo
di diritto internazionale) e dell'italiano Aldo Bernardini (docente
all'Univ. di Teramo).
Per l'organizzazione di questa conferenza lo sforzo economico e' ai
limiti delle possibilita' dell'ICDSM. Un biglietto d'ingresso di 10
euro e' stato previsto per garantire la copertura dei costi. Tutti i
nostri sostenitori sono comunque calorosamente invitati a contribuire
con urgenza.
**************************************************************
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO DEFEND SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
ICDSM Sofia-New York-Moscow www.icdsm.org
**************************************************************
13 January 2004 Final circulation tomorrow
**************************************************************
First Announcement
I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e
MILOSEVIC PROCESS
- the legal aspects -
The Hague, 26 February 2005
The Hague Proceedings against Slobodan Milosevic: Emerging Issues in
International Law
The idea of international law - in particular international criminal
law - is undeniably appealing to jurists and non-lawyers alike, as
generations have sought to establish a permanent criminal jurisdiction
to prosecute war crimes in the wake of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials.
Beyond the prosecution of the crimes that are committed in war,
however, the Nuremberg precedent clearly articulates that the supreme
international crime is the instigation of a war of aggression. Indeed,
the Nuremberg Tribunal held that:
"War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to
the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a
war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is
the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in
that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
The ICTY, a Security Council institution, does not have the
jurisdiction to prosecute the "supreme international crime". Some argue
that it in fact legitimizes aggression, which can be exemplified by the
serving of an indictment against President Slobodan Milosevic at the
height of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, contrary to
international law. As the defence phase of the proceedings continue to
delve into the destruction of
Yugoslavia by Western interests, legal questions emerge which will be
discussed in this conference:
-The right to self-representation in international and comparative law;
-Joint criminal enterprise, tailor-made to convict and a tool of
de-nazification
-What is "relevant" testimony in a political prosecution?
-War crimes prosecutions by the Security Council: justifying
aggression, eliminating national sovereignty
-Self-determination and self-defense of Yugoslavia under international
law
-"Equality of arms": what is left after The Hague?
-Armed conflict under international law and in the Milosevic case
-Effect of media coverage and lobbying on the right to a fair trial
-Misuse of genocide charges and trivialization of Nuremberg precedent
and Holocaust
-Denying the right to defend oneself - stepping on the fundamentals of
law
-The right to a fair trial in international and comparative law: has it
been respected in the Milosevic case?
-How can the Hague be judged, and who will judge it?
After the presentation of the invited contributions, the conference
will end with a panel discussion.
The list of invited contributors include:
- Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General (USA)
- Professor Velko Valkanov, Chairman of the Bulgarian Human Rights
Committee (Bulgaria)
- Professor Aldo Bernardini, international law, Teramo University
(Italy)
- Dr Branko Rakic, international law, Belgrade University, legal
associate to President Milosevic (Serbia)
- Tiphaine Dickson, international criminal lawyer, legal spokesperson
of the ICDSM (Quebec)
- Dr Alexandar Mezhyaev, international law, Kazan (Russia)
The Conference will take place in the Bel Air hotel, close to the ICTY.
Conference admission is 10 EUR.
Organized by the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic
(ICDSM) and
Vereinigung für Internationale Solidarität e.V. (Association for the
International Solidarity)
*************************************************************
*************************************************************
URGENT FUNDRAISING APPEAL
******************************
After the Hague Tribunal declared war against human rights and
International Law by banning President Milosevic's right to
self-defense, our activities for his liberation and for the restoration
of his freedom and for the national sovereignty of the Serbian people
need to be reorganized and intensified.
We need professional, legal work now more than ever. Thus, the creation
of conditions for that work is the imperative at this moment.
*******************************************
The petition of 100 lawyers and law professors from 18 countries, and
other related activities of the ICDSM Legal Committee, produced a
public effect incomparable to any other previous action by the ICDSM.
President Milosevic has the truth and law on his side. In order to use
that advantage to achieve his freedom, we must fight this totally
discredited tribunal and its patrons through professionally conducted
actions which would involve the Bar Associations, the European Court,
the UN organs in charge and the media.
Our practice has shown that ad hoc voluntary work is not enough to deal
properly with these tasks. The funds secured in Serbia are still enough
only to cover the expenses of the stay and work of President
Milosevic's legal associates at The Hague (one at the time). The funds
secured by the German
section of the ICDSM (still the only one with regular contributions)
are enough only to cover minimal additional work at The Hague connected
with contacts and preparations of foreign witnesses. Everything else is
lacking.
***********************************************************
3000-5000 EUR per month is our imminent need.
Our history and our people oblige us to go on with this necessary
action.
But without these funds it will not be possible.
Please organize urgently the fundraising activity
and send the donations to the following ICDSM accounts:
Peter Betscher
Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Darmstadt, Germany
IBAN: DE 21 5085 0150 0102 1441 63
SWIFT-BIC: HELADEF1DAS
or
Vereinigung für Internationale Solidarität (VIS)
4000 Basel, Switzerland
PC 40-493646-5
************************************************************
All of your donations will be used for legal and other necessary
accompanying activities, on instruction or with the consent of
President Milosevic. To obtain additional information on the use of
your donations or to obtain additional advice on the most efficient way
to submit your donations or to make bank transfers, please do not
hesitate to contact us:
Peter Betscher (ICDSM Treasurer) E-mail: peter_betscher @ freenet.de
Phone: +49 172 7566 014
Vladimir Krsljanin (ICDSM Secretary) E-mail: slobodavk @ yubc.net
Phone: +381 63 8862 301
The ICDSM and Sloboda need to address governments, international human
rights and legal organizations, and to launch legal proceedings. The
ICDSM plans a legal conference at The Hague. Sloboda has just sent to
the
patriotic factions in the Serbian Parliament an initiative to adopt a
parliamentary Resolution against the human rights violations by the
Hague Tribunal and to form an international team of experts to make an
extensive report on these violations which would be submitted to the UN.
***************************************************************
For truth and human rights against aggression!
Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic!
Freedom and equality for people!
On behalf of Sloboda and ICDSM,
Vladimir Krsljanin,
Foreign Relations Assistant to President Milosevic
*************************************************************
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.pasti.org/milodif.htm (ICDSM Italy)
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)
tel/fax +39-06-4828957
email: icdsm-italia @ libero.it
*** CONTRIBUISCI E FAI CONTRIBUIRE:
Conto Corrente Postale numero 86557006
intestato ad Adolfo Amoroso, ROMA
causale: DIFESA MILOSEVIC ***
IL NOSTRO SITO INTERNET:
http://www.pasti.org/linkmilo.htm
IL TESTO IN LINGUA ITALIANA DELLA AUTODIFESA DI MILOSEVIC, IN CORSO
DI REVISIONE E CORREZIONE, E' TEMPORANEAMENTE OSPITATO ALLA PAGINA:
https://www.cnj.it/documentazione/autodifesa04.htm
LE TRASCRIZIONI "UFFICIALI" DEL "PROCESSO" SI TROVANO AI SITI:
http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/transe54.htm (IN ENGLISH)
http://www.un.org/icty/transf54/transf54.htm (EN FRANCAIS)
==========================