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Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] Statements from the UK and Ireland Sections of
ICDSM


SUPPORTING THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
IN DEN HAAG, FEBRUARY 26TH:

Statements from the UK and Ireland Sections of ICDSM

[ Comunicati stampa delle Sezioni britannica ed irlandese dell'ICDSM -
Comitato Internazionale per la Difesa di Slobodan Milosevic - in
sostegno alla Conferenza con Ramsey Clark e noti esperti di diritto
internazionale, sabato prossimo all'Aia ]

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T h e H a g u e, 26 F e b r u a r y 2005
THE MILOSEVIC PROCESS: EMERGING ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e

---> http://www.icdsm.org/Conference.doc

http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/icdsm-italia/message/162

C o n f e r e n z a I n t e r n a z i o n a l e
IL PROCEDIMENTO DELL'AIA CONTRO SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
QUESTIONI DI DIRITTO INTERNAZIONALE
L' A i a, 2 6 f e b b r a i o 2 0 0 5

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STATEMENT FROM COMMITTEE TO DEFEND SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC - UK

As we write this piece Slobodan Milosevic and other Yugoslav political
prisoners are on trial at the US sponsored Hague 'tribunal' for no
other reason than they had the courage to defy Nato and the New World
Order and attempted to protect the independence of their country and
the interests of its citizens.
Slobodan Milosevic is currently conducting his own defence, a
fundamental right for any accused, but a right that he and his
supporters have had to fight tooth and nail to protect, as anyone
following the 'trial' process will be aware.
Although suffering from life threatening health problems his defence
presentation is being hampered by artificial time restrictions imposed
by the 'tribunal', restrictions that were not imposed on the
prosecution, resulting in both insufficient rest periods and
preparation time.
Followers of the 'trial' will also know that Mr Milosevic is not using
his defence to defend himself but is using it to defend his country and
its people and to accuse the Western powers of deliberately financing,
aiding and abetting the destruction of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia. It is in that sense that this 'trial' is of immense
importance.
The bogus charges against him have not stood up to close examination
but on the contrary, they have revealed the political nature of these
proceedings.
To understand events in the world today, the occupation of Iraq, the
interference in elections in Georgia, Belarus and the Ukraine, the
fictitious 'war on terror' and the butchering of international law, it
is essential to understand what was done to the sovereign state of
Yugoslavia.
What this means in other words is that to support the defence of
Slobodan Milosevic is not only supporting the President, is not only
supporting the slandered citizens of Yugoslavia, but is supporting all
those who cherish true freedom and democracy, who cherish truth and
justice, and it is supporting those who oppose the idea that the world
should be organised and run for the benefit of a tiny financial elite
at the expense of the vast majority of the world's population.
It is for these reasons that we ask you to support this struggle, to
support the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic
(ICDSM) and its national sections.
Please make every effort to support the forthcoming public meetings in
Britain, details of which will be announced shortly.
And please permit us to leave you with the following quote:

"First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was
not a Jew.

Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out - because I
was not a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out -
because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me."

Pastor Niemoeller (victim of the Nazis).

For further information please visit the web sites:

www.free-slobo-uk.org and www.icdsm.org

18th February 2005.
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From : cdsmireland @ eircom.net
Date : Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:56:37 +0000
Subject : Statement from ICDSM (Irish Section) Supporting the
International Conference

STATEMENT FROM COMMITTEE TO DEFEND
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC - (IRISH SECTION) - 18.2.2005


Supporting the International Conference
"The Hague Proceedings against Slobodan Milosevic: Emerging Issues in
International Law"


We live in strange times. When fun is equated with destruction and
murder. Consider if you will this comment summarising a personal
military ethos and directed to us by former latrine orderly US Marine
officer Lieutenant General James Mattis...
"It's fun to shoot some people. You go into Afghanistan, you've got
guys who slap women around for five years because they don't wear a
veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood anyway, so it's a
hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."
It was this same Lieutenant General Mattis who dismissed photographic
evidence of the slaughter by US-led forces of dozens of people at an
Iraqi wedding party last year.
Among the dead were 27 members of the extended Rakat family their
wedding guests and even the band of musicians hired to play at the
ceremony.
11 of the dead were women. 14 were children.
In November last year Operation Phantom obliterated the historic and
beautiful city of Falluja in Iraq the home of over 300,000 people
before the merciless onslaught by US forces.
Hundreds of thousands of children and an equal number of the sick and
the elderly have died in Iraq as a direct result of sanctions imposed
on Iraq by the United Nations.
There were no weapons of mass destruction so Iraq constituted no threat
to countries in the West. Clearly the specific purpose to invading Iraq
was to reduce the country to third world status and lessen its
influence in the Middle East on behalf of Israel and corporate
interests across the globe.
World populations conditioned through the media principally to
accepting the basic concept of the "enemy" and the "alien" respond in
Pavlovian fashion to such words as "evil" and "dictator" and are
correspondingly evoked into a war like mode and disposition and as
often as not this leads to a manufactured desire for revenge.

The unrelenting remorseless media demonisation of the Serbian people
and President Slobodan Milosevic serves as exemplar without parallel of
this Orwellian consciousness controlling process.

War is an immensely profitable enterprise for a relatively small number
of people for whom it is an absolute necessity to control the
consciousness or to put it another way annihilate the consciousness of
millions of people across the globe.
The most effective way to do this is through sensationalism which is
basically a disguised form of sadomasochism. In short you create a
desire for and addiction to all that is sensational...
Public crucifixions were certainly sensational as were public
beheadings and hangings and gladiatorial contests . Unquestionably all
this blood letting paved the way for an acceptance of slaughter
unlimited in mass warfare.
Desensitisation is the purpose of this exercise. In this blood soaked
age the capacity to desensitise the great mass of people everywhere is
truly phenomenal. Drugs and excessive use of alcohol and an addiction
to loveless and mechanistic style pornography obliterating any concept
of affection or consideration for others is projected as "normal" and
all that is debased and meretricious and gratuitously violent is daily
fare on television screens across the world . No longer are we afforded
time to reflect as we are ceaselessly besought by the deceivers and
would be manipulators of the collective consciousness to "move forward"
as we are bade quite sternly to "come to terms with" grief and loss and
the leave taking of loved ones and matters over which we may have
little or no control but nevertheless require reflection.
Perhaps we should resist this cold blooded imperative to live precisely
in the moment as we might perhaps challenge the martial call to "move
forward" perceiving it to be in no way concerned with our personal or
collective welfare but rather to be a directive to conform to an ethos
of a militaristic even imperialistic ethos.

In the struggle for truth, justice and peace over imperialism and
warfare join the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic
in its support of President Slobodan Milosevic and other Yugoslav
political prisoners who are currently on trial at the US/NATO sponsored
"tribunal" in The Hague.

John Kelly
International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (Irish Section)
For further information please do not hesitate to contact us at:
cdsmireland @ eircom.net
Tel: +044 45787 or +086 1963134
http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland)

LETTER TO LEGAL ORGANISATIONS, NGO's AND POLITICAL PARTIES ......

The letter hereunder was sent to the President or Chairperson of the
following organisations:
The Law Society (Dublin and Belfast), The Bar Council (Dublin and
Belfast), Irish Government Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, The
Labour Party of Ireland Foreign Affairs Department, the Green Party of
Ireland Foreign Affairs Department, The Communist Party of Ireland
Foreign Affairs Department, National Forum on Europe, Irish Peace
Society, Helenic Society University College Dublin, Amnesty
International of Ireland, Pax Christi, General Delegation of Palestine,
Ambassador to Cuba, Cuba Support Group, Professor Hill, Department of
History Trinity College Dublin.

Letter and attached material sent per emails to dozens of non
Governmental and anti war and environmental groups and individuals and
the media.

25.1.2005
THE HAGUE' Proceedings against Slobodan Milosevic: Emerging Issues in
International Law

International Conference 26th February 2005 - The Hague

Dear President/Chairman

I wish to draw your attention to the forthcoming Conference which is
scheduled to take place in The Hague in The Netherlands on 26th
February 2005. The Conference is open to the Public and is to be held
in the Golden Tulip Bel Air Hotel, Johan de Wittlaan 30 (close to the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia) from 1.30pm
to 7.00 pm. Conference admission is 10 Euro.

As more and more peace organisations and Human Rights Lawyers and
Barristers world-wide campaign for the abolishment of the illegal NATO
sponsored and controlled so called Tribunal on former Yugoslavia in The
Hague, it is worth noting the forthcoming Legal Conference which is
scheduled to take place in The Hague on 26th February 2005.

With the passing of time it has become clear to most people, that so
much of what passed as "news" about Iraq as disseminated by the global
mainstream media was simply not true. It was pro war propaganda used by
the USA and its puppet states to rally world public support for Western
military and Western corporate take over of Iraq.
Precisely the same situation applied regards the war in The Balkans -
the 1999 NATO aggression against the peoples of Yugoslavia was based on
a LIE.

Please find enclosed further details about the Conference to include a
list of guest speakers.

I have also enclosed for your convenience a list of quality Hotels
which are quite conveniently located to the ICTY area.

Would it be possible for the information package enclosed herein to be
placed in the official library please.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require any further
information or if you wish to meet one of our members to discuss the
issues of The Hague Tribunal and the war in The Balkans generally.

Sincerely,
June Kelly
Co ordinator
International Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic (Irish Section)

(Full postal address was included to all on above list)
Tel/Fax: +044 45787 - Mobile: 086 1963134
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Email: cdsmireland @ eircom.net

For additional information or statements, media representatives are
free to
contact speakers by Phone:
Tiphaine Dickson (Montreal) + 1 450 263 7974
Christopher Black (Toronto) + 1 416 928 6611
Ramsey Clark (New York) + 1 212 475 3232
Vladimir Krsljanin (Belgrade) + 381 63 886 2301


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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.free-slobo-uk.org (ICDSM UK)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)



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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)

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