From: icdsm-italia @...
Subject: [icdsm-italia] More statements on Milosevic's assassination
Date: March 13, 2006 11:18:41 AM GMT+01:00
To: icdsm-italia @yahoogroups.com
More statements on Milosevic's assassination
1. ICDSM-Italia: A MAJOR LOSS FOR THE TRUE DEMOCRATS, FOR ALL
COMRADES, FOR PROGRESSIVE AND ANTIFASCIST PEOPLE
2. IAC STATEMENT and PRESS RELEASE
3. Letter to Milosevic's family, by Barry Lituchy
4. Reactions from Russia
=== 1 ===
(traduzione in lingua inglese del comunicato di M.P.Ferri -
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/icdsm-italia/message/227 )
A MAJOR LOSS FOR THE TRUE DEMOCRATS, FOR ALL COMRADES, FOR PROGRESSIVE
AND ANTIFASCIST PEOPLE
As coordinator of the Italian Section of ICDSM, having been a partisan
in the Resistence struggle against nazi-fascism, I express deep sorrow
for the loss of President Slobodan Milosevic, who was elected several
times by his people, to whom he dedicated wisdom, love, defense.
The unclear circumstances of his drammatic end induce us to stay
alerted of the cruel behavior of the so-called civilized West, which
does not know any limits nor hesitations to defend the unipolar
imperialism, at the highest expenses for so many peoples. In a prison,
one can die only by murder.
Miriam Pellegrini Ferri
=== 2 ===
IAC STATEMENT ON THE DEATH IN PRISON OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, PRESIDENT
OF YUGOSLAVIA
The International Action Center would like to send its sincere
condolences to the family, friends and comrades of President Slobodan
Milosevic of Yugoslavia and to the peoples of the Balkans who mourn
his death at the hands of the court and prison authorities in The
Hague. We join with others around the world to condemn the
International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for
this crime. The full responsibility for the death of President
Slobodan Milosevic lies directly with the fraudulent court created by
the U.S. and NATO governments at The Hague – the ICTY. We join the
also the demands for an independent investigation of the circumstances
of President Milosevic's death.
Since the illegal kidnapping of President Milosevic from Serbia in
June 2001 and his forcible detention at Scheveningen prison on
fraudulent war crimes charges, the court has consistently denied
adequate medical care. The ICTY has held a fraudulent trial for the
last four years in an attempt to blame Milosevic and Yugoslavia for
NATO's criminal war in the Balkans.
During this trial, now over four years old, the prosecution has failed
to present anything like a case against Milosevic. In addition, his
vigorous defense has exposed the crimes of the imperialist powers,
especially the U.S. and Germany, in conspiring to destroy the Yugoslav
Socialist Federation through subversion and direct military assault.
In the days before President Milosevic's death, the IAC joined the
efforts of the International Committee for the Defense of Slobodan
Milosevic (ICDSM), sending to the 15 ambassadors of the members of the
United Nations Security Council a request that President Milosevic be
transferred to Russia for medical care, given his critical medical
condition. This court has now—at the very least—allowed him to die
rather than exposing its own inability to build a case against this
Yugoslav and Serb political leader. The ICTY was responsible for his
care and is guilty in the very least of criminal neglect.
The NATO leaders--with Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and Gerhard Schroeder
topping the list—should have been the ones on trial for war crimes.
>From the day of his kidnapping, President Milosevic waged a heroic
defense of his own actions to defend Yugoslavia. He equally exposed
the crimes of these leaders of the great powers to the world. For this
the peoples of the Balkans and of the world will be indebted to him.
Sara Flounders,
Co-coordination, International Action Center
March 11, 2006
---
International Action Center
39 West 14th St, #206, New York, NY, 10011
www.iacenter.org - iacenter@...
Press Contact: John Catalinotto, Sara Flounders, Dustin Langley -
212-633-6646
March 11, 2006
U.S./NATO Charged with Criminal Negligence in Death of
President Slobodan Milosevic
Upon learning of the death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic in prison in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 12, the
International Action Center in the United States joined organizations
and individuals around the world in condemning the court, prison
authorities and the forces behind them with criminal negligence in
ignoring the prisoner's medical care.
The IAC also condemned the International Criminal Tribunal on the
Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for holding a "fraudulent trial for the last
four years in an attempt to blame President Milosevic and Yugoslavia
for NATO's criminal war in the Balkans."
IAC co-director Sara Flounders said, "The full responsibility for the
death of President Slobodan Milosevic lies directly with the
fraudulent court created by the U.S. and NATO governments at The Hague
– the ICTY. Ever since the illegal kidnapping of President Milosevic
from Serbia in June 2001 and his forcible detention at Scheveningen
prison on fraudulent war crimes charges, the court has consistently
denied adequate medical care."
Flounders cited the last action of the International Committee for the
Defense of Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) continuing efforts to save the
life of the seriously ill defendant. The Defense Committee appealed on
March 8 to the 15 ambassadors of the members of the United Nations
Security Council. Their letter signed by prominent supporters urged
that Milosevic be transferred to Russia under secure guarantees for
his return, for emergency medical care, given his critical medical
condition, after the ICTY had refused this treatment. The IAC
delivered the letters to the UN Security Council members.
"During this trial, now over four years old," said Flounders, "the
prosecution failed to present a coherent case against President
Milosevic. In addition, his vigorous defense exposed step by step the
crimes of the imperialist powers, especially the U.S. and Germany, in
conspiring to destroy the Yugoslav Socialist Federation through
subversion and direct military assault. As the case was drawing to a
close this presented a terrible dilemma for the court."
Flounders traveled with international human rights lawyer Ramsey Clark
to Yugoslavia during the U.S.-NATO bombing in the spring of 1999.
Based on that trip Flounders met with President Milosevic in
Scheveningen prison at The Hague and was on the schedule to be a
witness at the trial for the defense on the impact of the NATO bombing.
The UN Security Council established the ICTY in 1993, at the
insistence of Secretary of State Madeline Albright. Its role from the
beginning was restricted to prosecuting solely people from the
Yugoslav Federation. Almost all the cases were directed against Serbs
and all of the cases served to deflect responsibility from the U.S.
and NATO. The ICTY rejected attempts by a group of international
attorneys to bring war crimes charges against the United States for
the 78 days of bombing primarily civilian targets in Yugoslavia.
Ramsey Clark has often described the ICTY's establishment as "an
explicit violation of the UN Charter and a political court used as an
instrument of war against the Yugoslav peoples."
The Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter also described the court. "The
U.S./NATO court trying Slobodan Milosevic was always totally
illegitimate. It could never be taken seriously as a court of justice.
Milosevic defense is powerful, convincing, persuasive and impossible
to dismiss."
The ICTY received its financing from the U.S. and other NATO powers
and from international financial organizations such as those connected
with billionaire George Soros, an enemy of socialism in Eastern
Europe. Although there was an extremely unequal financing of the
ICTY's prosecution compared with Milosevic's defense effort, NATO
governments still interfered with all attempts to collect funds from
human rights organizations to support the Yugoslav president's effort
to make his case. The German and Austrian governments closed the
Defense Committee's bank accounts in both countries in the last few
months before Milosevic's death.
Despite having no permanent staff and relatively little legal
assistance to respond to 500,000 pages of prosecution documents,
Milosevic politically countered every charge against him while
discrediting the prosecution witnesses. During the defense part of the
trial, he was able to present a damning case against the U.S. and
NATO. Though the NATO powers first announced the Milosevic case as the
"trial of the century" and planned a show trial, when Milosevic turned
the table on the prosecution and counter-charged NATO with war crimes
almost all coverage of the trial ended.
In two major statements, answering the charges against him in 2001 at
the opening of the trial and in 2004 at the opening of his defense,
Milosevic makes the historical record. The 2001 statement is published
in the 2002 book, "Hidden Agenda – The U.S./NATO Takeover of
Yugoslavia," and his 2004 statement in the book, "The Defense Speaks –
For History and the Future." Both books are published by the IAC.
In a statement released by the International Committee to Defend
Slobodan Milosevic – www.icdsm.org the committee called the courts
action: "tantamount to the murder of a man who stood as a symbol of
resistance to the New World Order and a symbol of and fighter for the
independence and sovereignty of the peoples of Yugoslavia and for
social justice in the world. This was his only crime."
The Defense Committee demanded: "that there be an international,
independent enquiry into the circumstances and cause of his death and
that his family, his party and his supporters be party to that
enquiry. We also demand the right of his wife and family to attend his
funeral without fear of persecution, arrest or any other impediment to
their right to honor their beloved husband, comrade and father."
In a statement made Nov. 29, 2005, exposing the duplicity of the court
regarding the inadequate health care provided him; Milosevic made it
clear to British judge Ian Bonomy what he thought of the tribunal:
"This entire court was envisaged as an instrument of war against my
country. It was founded illegally on the basis of an illegal decision
and carried through by the forces that waged war against my country.
There is just one thing that is true here: It is true that there is a
joint criminal enterprise, but not in Belgrade, not with Yugoslavia as
its center, but those, who, in a war that was waged in Yugoslavia from
1991 onwards, destroyed Yugoslavia."
- 30 –
President Milosevic opening statement as the Trial opened is printed
in full in the IAC book Hidden Agenda: The U.S./NATO Takeover of
Yugoslavia ( http://www.iacenter.org/folder02/hidden_toc.htm ). His
statement to the court 2 years later as the defense finally began its
rebuttal is printed in full
in the IAC book The Defense Speaks – For History and the Future (
http://www.leftbooks.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/online-store/scstore/p-biac2006ds.html?E+scstore
).
=== 3 ===
Condolences to the family of Slobodan Milosevic from Barry Lituchy
To the Family of President Slobodan Milosevic:
When I heard the news that Slobodan Milosevic had died I did not want
to believe it. I did not want to believe that evil had triumphed over
good, or that the evil that had been done to this brave and beautiful
man could have finally killed him. When I heard it again on the news,
my heart sank and I was deeply sad. His spirit and brilliant mind were
indomitable, but his body was destroyed by the conditions of his
arrest and the willful decision by the Hague Tribunal to let him die
in prison rather than receive the medical treatment they knew he
needed. And why proceed with a trial in which he had already proven
his innocence? So in the end this is how the Hague Tribunal has made
its mark on history - with the negligent homicide of Slobodan Milosevic.
Slobodan Milosevic was not easy to destroy; Slobodan Milosevic was
killed three times. The first time was when they destroyed the country
he loved and lived for - Yugoslavia. The second time was with
character assassination, the preferred weapon of nameless cowards,
criminals and liars. The trial itself did not kill him. He vindicated
himself, his country and his people. He lived and died for us. What
more can you say about a man? But ultimately with no better option
before it, the ICTY decided to choke the life out of him by depriving
him of the essential medical care he needed to survive.
My father was also killed by negligence and so I know the bitterness
one feels after such an event. But you can take solace in the fact
that Slobo died a martyr's death. He fought to defend his country, his
nation, and a progressive socialist vision of humanity against the
onslaught of a militarist and imperialist alliance of puppets and
puppeteers. He was killed not because he was a nationalist, but
precisely because he believed in multinationalist unity and justice
and a just economic order inimical to the interests of multinational
corporations and their financial and political institutions. He is the
most famous and most courageous Serb of our time. And in light of the
evidence presented at his trial, history will have to acquit him of
all of the monstrous allegations made against him which the ICTY would
not do even though they knew he was not guilty as charged.
Finally, as you know, I had the privilege of meeting President
Milosevic several times. He had great intelligence, warmth, sense of
humor and wit, wisdom, kindness and charm that I will never forget as
long as I live. He was so strong and energetic despite his illness.
The prison nurses came frequently during my visits and reported the
news - 240 over 80 or worse. How did he survive it so long? He was
amazing in every way. And then there was his smile and his penetrating
stare which gave you detailed messages with a single look.
As I said before, he lived and died for us and for a better world. I
know you are proud of him. I feel the same way. And one day I hope the
whole world will feel this way too. If there is a better future, it will.
Barry Lituchy, New York City, 11 March 2006
=== 4 ===
Source: Rick Rozoff
INTERFAX
11 March 2006, 17:32.
Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation regrets that the Hague
Tribunal did not permit Milosevic to come to Moscow for Treatment.
11 March. INTERFAX – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia on
Saturday expressed regret in connection with the fact that the
international tribunal on former Yugoslavia (ITFY) denied ex-President
Slobodan Milosevic the possibility to receive medical treatment in
Moscow. "As is known, in connection with a deterioration of his health
status, S. Milosevic filed a request for medical treatment in Russia.
Russian doctors were ready to render appropriate assistance to him
while Russian authorities guaranteed fulfillment of all the necessary
requirements of the ITFY in that connection. Unfortunately, in spite
of our guarantees, the tribunal did not agree to grant S. Milosevic
the possibility of treatment in Russia", said a statement by the
Russian Foreign Ministry, posted on the website of the Russian foreign
policy department on Saturday.
http://www.interfax.ru/r/B/politics/2.html?id_issue=11477154
---
http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/13/stories/2006031303441500.htm
The Hindu - March 13, 2006
Russia blames West for Milosevic's death
Vladimir Radyuhin
MOSCOW - Russia has held the West and the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) responsible for the death of
former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic.
Milosevic was found dead in his cell at a U.N. prison near The Hague
on Saturday.
Russia's Foreign Ministry implicitly criticised the ICTY tribunal for
refusing Milosevic's request to go to Moscow for medical treatment of
his chronic heart ailments and high blood pressure.
"Unfortunately, despite our guarantees, the tribunal did not agree to
provide Milosevic the possibility of treatment in Russia," the
Ministry said.
Russia had issued official guarantees that Mr. Milosevic would return
after treatment, but the court on Friday turned down the request.
"By refusing Mr. Milosevic permission to come for treatment to Russia
the Hague court refused him the right to life," Deputy Speaker of the
Russian Parliament Lyubov Sliska said.
"I think this is a political contract killing," said General Leonid
Ivashov, former head of the Defence Ministry's International
Cooperation Department.
==========================
IN DIFESA DELLA JUGOSLAVIA
Il j'accuse di Slobodan Milosevic
di fronte al "Tribunale ad hoc" dell'Aia"
(Ed. Zambon 2005, 10 euro)
Tutte le informazioni sul libro, appena uscito, alle pagine:
http://www.pasti.org/autodif.html
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/icdsm-italia/message/204
==========================
ICDSM - Sezione Italiana
c/o GAMADI, Via L. Da Vinci 27 -- 00043 Ciampino (Roma)
tel/fax +39-06-7915200 -- email: icdsm-italia @ libero.it
http://www.pasti.org/linkmilo.html
*** Conto Corrente Postale numero 86557006, intestato ad
Adolfo Amoroso, ROMA, causale: DIFESA MILOSEVIC ***
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)
Subject: [icdsm-italia] More statements on Milosevic's assassination
Date: March 13, 2006 11:18:41 AM GMT+01:00
To: icdsm-italia @yahoogroups.com
More statements on Milosevic's assassination
1. ICDSM-Italia: A MAJOR LOSS FOR THE TRUE DEMOCRATS, FOR ALL
COMRADES, FOR PROGRESSIVE AND ANTIFASCIST PEOPLE
2. IAC STATEMENT and PRESS RELEASE
3. Letter to Milosevic's family, by Barry Lituchy
4. Reactions from Russia
=== 1 ===
(traduzione in lingua inglese del comunicato di M.P.Ferri -
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/icdsm-italia/message/227 )
A MAJOR LOSS FOR THE TRUE DEMOCRATS, FOR ALL COMRADES, FOR PROGRESSIVE
AND ANTIFASCIST PEOPLE
As coordinator of the Italian Section of ICDSM, having been a partisan
in the Resistence struggle against nazi-fascism, I express deep sorrow
for the loss of President Slobodan Milosevic, who was elected several
times by his people, to whom he dedicated wisdom, love, defense.
The unclear circumstances of his drammatic end induce us to stay
alerted of the cruel behavior of the so-called civilized West, which
does not know any limits nor hesitations to defend the unipolar
imperialism, at the highest expenses for so many peoples. In a prison,
one can die only by murder.
Miriam Pellegrini Ferri
=== 2 ===
IAC STATEMENT ON THE DEATH IN PRISON OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, PRESIDENT
OF YUGOSLAVIA
The International Action Center would like to send its sincere
condolences to the family, friends and comrades of President Slobodan
Milosevic of Yugoslavia and to the peoples of the Balkans who mourn
his death at the hands of the court and prison authorities in The
Hague. We join with others around the world to condemn the
International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for
this crime. The full responsibility for the death of President
Slobodan Milosevic lies directly with the fraudulent court created by
the U.S. and NATO governments at The Hague – the ICTY. We join the
also the demands for an independent investigation of the circumstances
of President Milosevic's death.
Since the illegal kidnapping of President Milosevic from Serbia in
June 2001 and his forcible detention at Scheveningen prison on
fraudulent war crimes charges, the court has consistently denied
adequate medical care. The ICTY has held a fraudulent trial for the
last four years in an attempt to blame Milosevic and Yugoslavia for
NATO's criminal war in the Balkans.
During this trial, now over four years old, the prosecution has failed
to present anything like a case against Milosevic. In addition, his
vigorous defense has exposed the crimes of the imperialist powers,
especially the U.S. and Germany, in conspiring to destroy the Yugoslav
Socialist Federation through subversion and direct military assault.
In the days before President Milosevic's death, the IAC joined the
efforts of the International Committee for the Defense of Slobodan
Milosevic (ICDSM), sending to the 15 ambassadors of the members of the
United Nations Security Council a request that President Milosevic be
transferred to Russia for medical care, given his critical medical
condition. This court has now—at the very least—allowed him to die
rather than exposing its own inability to build a case against this
Yugoslav and Serb political leader. The ICTY was responsible for his
care and is guilty in the very least of criminal neglect.
The NATO leaders--with Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and Gerhard Schroeder
topping the list—should have been the ones on trial for war crimes.
>From the day of his kidnapping, President Milosevic waged a heroic
defense of his own actions to defend Yugoslavia. He equally exposed
the crimes of these leaders of the great powers to the world. For this
the peoples of the Balkans and of the world will be indebted to him.
Sara Flounders,
Co-coordination, International Action Center
March 11, 2006
---
International Action Center
39 West 14th St, #206, New York, NY, 10011
www.iacenter.org - iacenter@...
Press Contact: John Catalinotto, Sara Flounders, Dustin Langley -
212-633-6646
March 11, 2006
U.S./NATO Charged with Criminal Negligence in Death of
President Slobodan Milosevic
Upon learning of the death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic in prison in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 12, the
International Action Center in the United States joined organizations
and individuals around the world in condemning the court, prison
authorities and the forces behind them with criminal negligence in
ignoring the prisoner's medical care.
The IAC also condemned the International Criminal Tribunal on the
Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for holding a "fraudulent trial for the last
four years in an attempt to blame President Milosevic and Yugoslavia
for NATO's criminal war in the Balkans."
IAC co-director Sara Flounders said, "The full responsibility for the
death of President Slobodan Milosevic lies directly with the
fraudulent court created by the U.S. and NATO governments at The Hague
– the ICTY. Ever since the illegal kidnapping of President Milosevic
from Serbia in June 2001 and his forcible detention at Scheveningen
prison on fraudulent war crimes charges, the court has consistently
denied adequate medical care."
Flounders cited the last action of the International Committee for the
Defense of Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) continuing efforts to save the
life of the seriously ill defendant. The Defense Committee appealed on
March 8 to the 15 ambassadors of the members of the United Nations
Security Council. Their letter signed by prominent supporters urged
that Milosevic be transferred to Russia under secure guarantees for
his return, for emergency medical care, given his critical medical
condition, after the ICTY had refused this treatment. The IAC
delivered the letters to the UN Security Council members.
"During this trial, now over four years old," said Flounders, "the
prosecution failed to present a coherent case against President
Milosevic. In addition, his vigorous defense exposed step by step the
crimes of the imperialist powers, especially the U.S. and Germany, in
conspiring to destroy the Yugoslav Socialist Federation through
subversion and direct military assault. As the case was drawing to a
close this presented a terrible dilemma for the court."
Flounders traveled with international human rights lawyer Ramsey Clark
to Yugoslavia during the U.S.-NATO bombing in the spring of 1999.
Based on that trip Flounders met with President Milosevic in
Scheveningen prison at The Hague and was on the schedule to be a
witness at the trial for the defense on the impact of the NATO bombing.
The UN Security Council established the ICTY in 1993, at the
insistence of Secretary of State Madeline Albright. Its role from the
beginning was restricted to prosecuting solely people from the
Yugoslav Federation. Almost all the cases were directed against Serbs
and all of the cases served to deflect responsibility from the U.S.
and NATO. The ICTY rejected attempts by a group of international
attorneys to bring war crimes charges against the United States for
the 78 days of bombing primarily civilian targets in Yugoslavia.
Ramsey Clark has often described the ICTY's establishment as "an
explicit violation of the UN Charter and a political court used as an
instrument of war against the Yugoslav peoples."
The Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter also described the court. "The
U.S./NATO court trying Slobodan Milosevic was always totally
illegitimate. It could never be taken seriously as a court of justice.
Milosevic defense is powerful, convincing, persuasive and impossible
to dismiss."
The ICTY received its financing from the U.S. and other NATO powers
and from international financial organizations such as those connected
with billionaire George Soros, an enemy of socialism in Eastern
Europe. Although there was an extremely unequal financing of the
ICTY's prosecution compared with Milosevic's defense effort, NATO
governments still interfered with all attempts to collect funds from
human rights organizations to support the Yugoslav president's effort
to make his case. The German and Austrian governments closed the
Defense Committee's bank accounts in both countries in the last few
months before Milosevic's death.
Despite having no permanent staff and relatively little legal
assistance to respond to 500,000 pages of prosecution documents,
Milosevic politically countered every charge against him while
discrediting the prosecution witnesses. During the defense part of the
trial, he was able to present a damning case against the U.S. and
NATO. Though the NATO powers first announced the Milosevic case as the
"trial of the century" and planned a show trial, when Milosevic turned
the table on the prosecution and counter-charged NATO with war crimes
almost all coverage of the trial ended.
In two major statements, answering the charges against him in 2001 at
the opening of the trial and in 2004 at the opening of his defense,
Milosevic makes the historical record. The 2001 statement is published
in the 2002 book, "Hidden Agenda – The U.S./NATO Takeover of
Yugoslavia," and his 2004 statement in the book, "The Defense Speaks –
For History and the Future." Both books are published by the IAC.
In a statement released by the International Committee to Defend
Slobodan Milosevic – www.icdsm.org the committee called the courts
action: "tantamount to the murder of a man who stood as a symbol of
resistance to the New World Order and a symbol of and fighter for the
independence and sovereignty of the peoples of Yugoslavia and for
social justice in the world. This was his only crime."
The Defense Committee demanded: "that there be an international,
independent enquiry into the circumstances and cause of his death and
that his family, his party and his supporters be party to that
enquiry. We also demand the right of his wife and family to attend his
funeral without fear of persecution, arrest or any other impediment to
their right to honor their beloved husband, comrade and father."
In a statement made Nov. 29, 2005, exposing the duplicity of the court
regarding the inadequate health care provided him; Milosevic made it
clear to British judge Ian Bonomy what he thought of the tribunal:
"This entire court was envisaged as an instrument of war against my
country. It was founded illegally on the basis of an illegal decision
and carried through by the forces that waged war against my country.
There is just one thing that is true here: It is true that there is a
joint criminal enterprise, but not in Belgrade, not with Yugoslavia as
its center, but those, who, in a war that was waged in Yugoslavia from
1991 onwards, destroyed Yugoslavia."
- 30 –
President Milosevic opening statement as the Trial opened is printed
in full in the IAC book Hidden Agenda: The U.S./NATO Takeover of
Yugoslavia ( http://www.iacenter.org/folder02/hidden_toc.htm ). His
statement to the court 2 years later as the defense finally began its
rebuttal is printed in full
in the IAC book The Defense Speaks – For History and the Future (
http://www.leftbooks.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/online-store/scstore/p-biac2006ds.html?E+scstore
).
=== 3 ===
Condolences to the family of Slobodan Milosevic from Barry Lituchy
To the Family of President Slobodan Milosevic:
When I heard the news that Slobodan Milosevic had died I did not want
to believe it. I did not want to believe that evil had triumphed over
good, or that the evil that had been done to this brave and beautiful
man could have finally killed him. When I heard it again on the news,
my heart sank and I was deeply sad. His spirit and brilliant mind were
indomitable, but his body was destroyed by the conditions of his
arrest and the willful decision by the Hague Tribunal to let him die
in prison rather than receive the medical treatment they knew he
needed. And why proceed with a trial in which he had already proven
his innocence? So in the end this is how the Hague Tribunal has made
its mark on history - with the negligent homicide of Slobodan Milosevic.
Slobodan Milosevic was not easy to destroy; Slobodan Milosevic was
killed three times. The first time was when they destroyed the country
he loved and lived for - Yugoslavia. The second time was with
character assassination, the preferred weapon of nameless cowards,
criminals and liars. The trial itself did not kill him. He vindicated
himself, his country and his people. He lived and died for us. What
more can you say about a man? But ultimately with no better option
before it, the ICTY decided to choke the life out of him by depriving
him of the essential medical care he needed to survive.
My father was also killed by negligence and so I know the bitterness
one feels after such an event. But you can take solace in the fact
that Slobo died a martyr's death. He fought to defend his country, his
nation, and a progressive socialist vision of humanity against the
onslaught of a militarist and imperialist alliance of puppets and
puppeteers. He was killed not because he was a nationalist, but
precisely because he believed in multinationalist unity and justice
and a just economic order inimical to the interests of multinational
corporations and their financial and political institutions. He is the
most famous and most courageous Serb of our time. And in light of the
evidence presented at his trial, history will have to acquit him of
all of the monstrous allegations made against him which the ICTY would
not do even though they knew he was not guilty as charged.
Finally, as you know, I had the privilege of meeting President
Milosevic several times. He had great intelligence, warmth, sense of
humor and wit, wisdom, kindness and charm that I will never forget as
long as I live. He was so strong and energetic despite his illness.
The prison nurses came frequently during my visits and reported the
news - 240 over 80 or worse. How did he survive it so long? He was
amazing in every way. And then there was his smile and his penetrating
stare which gave you detailed messages with a single look.
As I said before, he lived and died for us and for a better world. I
know you are proud of him. I feel the same way. And one day I hope the
whole world will feel this way too. If there is a better future, it will.
Barry Lituchy, New York City, 11 March 2006
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Source: Rick Rozoff
INTERFAX
11 March 2006, 17:32.
Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation regrets that the Hague
Tribunal did not permit Milosevic to come to Moscow for Treatment.
11 March. INTERFAX – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia on
Saturday expressed regret in connection with the fact that the
international tribunal on former Yugoslavia (ITFY) denied ex-President
Slobodan Milosevic the possibility to receive medical treatment in
Moscow. "As is known, in connection with a deterioration of his health
status, S. Milosevic filed a request for medical treatment in Russia.
Russian doctors were ready to render appropriate assistance to him
while Russian authorities guaranteed fulfillment of all the necessary
requirements of the ITFY in that connection. Unfortunately, in spite
of our guarantees, the tribunal did not agree to grant S. Milosevic
the possibility of treatment in Russia", said a statement by the
Russian Foreign Ministry, posted on the website of the Russian foreign
policy department on Saturday.
http://www.interfax.ru/r/B/politics/2.html?id_issue=11477154
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http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/13/stories/2006031303441500.htm
The Hindu - March 13, 2006
Russia blames West for Milosevic's death
Vladimir Radyuhin
MOSCOW - Russia has held the West and the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) responsible for the death of
former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic.
Milosevic was found dead in his cell at a U.N. prison near The Hague
on Saturday.
Russia's Foreign Ministry implicitly criticised the ICTY tribunal for
refusing Milosevic's request to go to Moscow for medical treatment of
his chronic heart ailments and high blood pressure.
"Unfortunately, despite our guarantees, the tribunal did not agree to
provide Milosevic the possibility of treatment in Russia," the
Ministry said.
Russia had issued official guarantees that Mr. Milosevic would return
after treatment, but the court on Friday turned down the request.
"By refusing Mr. Milosevic permission to come for treatment to Russia
the Hague court refused him the right to life," Deputy Speaker of the
Russian Parliament Lyubov Sliska said.
"I think this is a political contract killing," said General Leonid
Ivashov, former head of the Defence Ministry's International
Cooperation Department.
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