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Date: March 14, 2006 3:27:05 PM GMT+01:00
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Further statements and news on Milosevic's assassination
# Statement by World Federation of Trade Unions
# Statement by KKE - Communist Party of Greece
# NEWS
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From: World Federation of Trade Unions, Monday, March 13, 2006
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W.F.T.U.
World Federation of Trade Unions
Athens, March 13, 2006
CONDOLENCE MESSAGE
WFTU expresses its sincere condolences for the sudden death of former
Yugoslavia chairman, Slobodan Milosevic.
We also believe, like most of the people, that the so called
International Court of Hagen does not constitute an independent and
objective court. If it was even a little independent, it should had
judged and condemned Bush, Bler for the murders that they have
committed against humanity.
For these reasons we also believe, as most of the people, that this
court did not want Slobodan Milosevic alive, as long as he was not
submitting to Imperialists' requerements.
We denounce the antidemocratic practice of Court of Hagen and express
our sorrow for the death of Slobodan Milosevic who resisted until the
end against the Americans and their plans.
The WFTU Secretariat
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+302109236700, Fax+30210 9214517
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SOURCE: http://www.solidnet.org/
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CP of Greece, On the Death of Slobodan Milosevic
From: Communist Party of Greece, Monday, March 13, 2006
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On the Death of Slobodan Milosevic
The death of the former president of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic
constitutes a cold-blooded, calculated murder. It is one more
achievement of the US and the EU, which are responsible both for the
break-up of Yugoslavia and the war on it.
The instigators and executioners of the abduction, imprisonment and
trial of Milosevic at the Hague, instead of leading the parody trial
to an end they opted to lead Milosevic himself to death. They refused
to take measures to protect his life, despite the large wave of
protest against his detention, and despite the fact that his health
had been seriously impaired.
Regardless of one's opinion on Milosevic's policy, our people must
condemn the imperialist forces that led a president to prison and
physical elimination, only because he resisted their plans which were
at the expense of his country. This is important especially today when
on the final details of the imperialist plans aiming at change of
borders in the Balkans are on the agenda.
Nobody should forget that the real responsible for the crimes against
the people of Yugoslavia were Clinton, Blair, Shroeder and other
"centre-left" figures.
Both PASOK and ND governments bear huge responsibilities for the
Milosevic case, because they either served or tolerated the
imperialist plans.
The CC of KKE expresses its sincere condolences to his family and the
Socialist Party of Serbia.
Athens, March 11, 2006
The Press Bureau of KKE
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Source: http://www.solidnet.org
### NEWS:
Itar-Tass - March 13, 2006
Hague Tribunal biased against Serbs – Russian politicians
-"The Hague Tribunal has utterly discredited itself.
All judges, including Carla del Ponte, must step down.
"This is not exactly what one calls trial. In fact,
the court has acted on instructions from NATO which is
looking for excuses for the bombings of Yugoslavia."
-"[O]n the one hand, persons having a high profile for
Serbia are kept in custody as ordinary criminals, and
on the other, Kosovo's former prime minister, also
accused of war crimes, Ramus Hardinaj, is released and
allowed to participate in the political life."
-"The death of people under investigation arouses a
tremendous number of questions, just as the refusal to
accept Russia's proposal to extend medical
assistance."
"The suspicious circumstances of Milosevic's death
require strict and mandatory investigation."
-Milosevic is a fourth defendant to have died in the
Scheveningen prison of the U.N. Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia.
MOSCOW - The death of the former Yugoslav president,
Slobodan Milosevic, has proved a fresh argument for
many Russian politicians to accuse the International
Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia in the Hague
of being biased against the Serbs.
"The partiality of court hearings in the Hague is
crystal-clear," says the chairman of the international
affairs committee of the Federation Council Mikhail
Margelov. "Milosevic died unconvicted. The Hague
Tribunal has neither dismissed nor confirmed the
charges brought against him."
In his opinion, as new facts were unearthed, blaming
the tragedy of the Balkans on Milosevic and the Serbs
alone proved for the tribunal ever more difficult with
every day.
The chief of the State Duma's international affairs
committee, Konstantin Kosachev, believes that "the
Hague Tribunal's leadership and judges were determined
to avenge on Milosevic no matter what and a human
tragedy ensued."
"That tragedy could have been prevented. Russia had
offered to extend the required medical assistance to
Slobodan Milosevic," Kosachev said.
The death of Yugoslavia's former president has
undermined confidence in the Hague Tribunal, the
chairman of the Russian Federation Council's committee
for legal and judicial affairs, Stanislav Vavilov, has
said.
The chairman of the State Duma's security committee,
former prosecutor Viktor Ilyukhin, is far harsher in
his comments.
"The Hague Tribunal has utterly discredited itself.
All judges, including Carla del Ponte, must step
down," he said.
"This is not exactly what one calls trial. In fact,
the court has acted on instructions from NATO which is
looking for excuses for the bombings of Yugoslavia,"
Ilyukhin has told Itar-Tass. He is certain the
tribunal is biased against the Serbs.
"The Croats were heavily responsible for ethnic
cleansing against the Serbs. All Serbs have been
driven out of Kosovo, but there have been no attempts
to bring those responsible to justice for genocide,"
Ilyukhin said.
The deputy general director of the Political
Technologies Center, Alexei Makarkin, has said
Milosevic's death dealt a heavy blow on the tribunal's
authority. He agrees that the Hague Tribunal's policy
is that of double standards.
"They are in the habit of portraying the Serbs as
aggressors, although absolutely everybody was guilty
of war crimes," he told Itar-Tass.
Makarkin recalled that "on the one hand, persons
having a high profile for Serbia are kept in custody
as ordinary criminals, and on the other, Kosovo's
former prime minister, also accused of war crimes,
Ramus Hardinaj, is released and allowed to participate
in the political life."
"Why are some seen as politicians, while others,
treated as ordinary criminals and not allowed to go to
Russia for medical treatment?" he asked.
Milosevic's death is "a tragic result of the policy of
double standards," the chairman of the State Duma
legislation committee, Pavel Krasheninnikov, has said.
"Matters that were quite obvious to the State Duma
members, when they voted for inviting Milosevic to
Russia for treatment, proved not so obvious for the
judges in the Hague," he said.
"That was a very strange death," the first deputy
chairman of the State Duma's Security Committee,
Mikhail Grishankov told Itar-Tass. He wants a thorough
investigation.
"The death of people under investigation arouses a
tremendous number of questions, just as the refusal to
accept Russia's proposal to extend medical
assistance," he said.
"The suspicious circumstances of Milosevic's death
require strict and mandatory investigation," agrees
upper house member Mikhail Margelov.
Yugoslavia's former 64-year-old leader, accused of war
crimes, spent five years in jail waiting for the
International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia to
pronounce its verdict. On March 11 he died of a heart
attack, as follows from preliminary findings by Dutch
forensic specialists. A final conclusion as to what
caused the former Yugoslav leader's death will be made
public later this week, when the results of
toxicological tests are available.
Milosevic had high arterial blood pressure and
cardiovascular diseases. Just recently he asked the
tribunal to let him go to Moscow for treatment, but
was refused permission, although Moscow guaranteed his
return.
Dutch television quoted a source close the tribunal as
saying traces of some unexpected substances have been
found in Milosevic's blood.
Dutch toxicologist Ronald Uges, who tested Milosevic's
blood two weeks ago, has said that the former Yugoslav
leader had been taking a medicine against leprosy and
tuberculosis of his own accord.
....
Milosevic's lawyer, Zdenko Tomanovic, has shown to
journalists a letter his client wrote one day before
his death to the Russian foreign minister.
Milosevic said that "a heavy-duty drug" used in
leprosy and tuberculosis treatment was found in his
blood.
"They want to poison me," Tomanovic quoted Milosevic
as saying.
Milosevic is a fourth defendant to have died in the
Scheveningen prison of the U.N. Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia.
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Russian Information Agency (Novosti) - March 13, 2006
Russia has right to question Milosevic autopsy results - FM
MOSCOW - Russia has the right to study and question
the results of the autopsy conducted on Slobodan
Milosevic, the country's foreign minister said Monday.
Sergei Lavrov said Moscow had been ready to offer the
former Yugoslav president treatment, which he
requested in December 2005, but the proposal was
rejected amid fears that Milosevic would flee his
trial.
"Given that we were not believed, we also have the
right not to trust [the autopsy results]," Lavrov
said. "We have already asked the tribunal to allow our
doctors to take part in the autopsy or, at the very
least, see its results."
Lavrov said that Russian experts were preparing to fly
to The Hague.
Milosevic, who was on trial for war crimes at the
International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, was
found dead in his cell in The Hague Tribunal's prison
March 11. Preliminary reports suggest he died of a
heart attack.
Lavrov confirmed that Milosevic had sent a letter to
the Russian Foreign Ministry complaining about
treatment in the prison.
"In a letter, Milosevic expressed concerns about some
methods used in his treatment, which he said had
harmed his health," Lavrov said.
Lavrov also said the ministry had only received the
letter, dated March 8, on Sunday, March 12, adding
that he did not know what had caused the delay. The
letter, in which Milosevic asked the Russian
government again to voice its willingness to receive
him for treatment, was not addressed to him
personally, but to the ministry, Lavrov said.
....
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Aide Recounts Milosevic's Last Words
The Associated Press - Saturday, March 11, 2006; 7:49 PM
By KATARINA KRATOVAC
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro -- A Socialist Party aide of Slobodan
Milosevic said Saturday that the ex-president was defiant just before
his death.
"He told me, 'Don't you worry: They will not destroy me or break me; I
shall defeat them all,'" said Milorad Vucelic of the Socialist Party,
recounting a phone conversation with Milosevic late Friday. "But it
was obvious he was very ill."
Milosevic, who was found dead Saturday in his cell at the
Netherlands-based war crimes court near The Hague, was daily in
contact with Socialist party officials in Belgrade as he carried out
his own defense before the U.N. tribunal.
Vucelic said Milosevic was in "a good mood" on Friday but would not
discuss his illness.
"We were supposed to talk more today but when he didn't call, I was a
little worried," Vucelic added. "Then I found out what had happened."
Vucelic spoke at the Socialist Party headquarters in Belgrade, where
flags hung at half-staff and a huge photo of Milosevic was on display,
adorned with a black cloth.
During their phone conversation, Vucelic said Milosevic had been
upbeat and satisfied with how his defense case was coming along.
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Leprosy drug in Milosevic's blood
The Press Association - 12-Mar-06 21:13 GMT
Traces of a drug used to treat leprosy and tuberculosis were found in
a blood sample taken in recent months from former Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic, a news report has said.
The report came hours after Milosevic's legal adviser revealed a
letter the late Serb leader wrote on Friday, one day before his body
was discovered in prison, alleging that he was being poisoned.
In the report by state broadcaster NOS, a lawyer and commentator for
the channel, Heikelina Verrijn Stuart, said she had confirmation that
doctors first noticed the medicine in his blood in January.
Stuart said the drugs interfered with other medicine Milosevic was
taking for high blood pressure and vascular disease.
"They were counterproductive," said Stuart, a lawyer who has closely
followed the proceedings. "What we do know is that this is the cause
of death and you can't say that it was really a case of natural death."
Stuart said the tribunal only learned of the presence of the drug in
his blood last week, on March 7.
"It's naturally a riddle," she said.
Dutch doctors conducted a post mortem examination on Milosevic's
remains on Sunday, but the results were not expected to be released
until Monday.
A tribunal spokeswoman said she could not comment on the news report.
"We don't have any information. We simply have to wait for the
results" of the autopsy report, said Alexandra Milenov.
Doctors found traces of the drug when they were searching for an
answer to why Milosevic's medication for high blood pressure was not
working, the report said.
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The Scotsman - March 13, 2006
Moscow 'doesn't trust' post mortem
-"Essentially they didn't believe Russia. This can't
fail to disturb us. It can't fail to alarm us that
Milosevic died shortly afterward."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said his
country did not fully trust Milosevic's post-mortem
and wanted to send doctors to examine the body.
Lavrov said Russia had been disturbed by the UN war
crimes tribunal's refusal to let Milosevic undergo
treatment in Russia, saying at a briefing: "Now they
are conducting the autopsy. In the situation when we
weren't believed, we also have the right not to
believe and not to trust those who are conducting the
autopsy."
The former Yugoslav president died in his cell in The
Hague on Saturday. Milosevic's lawyer Zdenko Tomanovic
said the body would be claimed by Milosevic's son
Marko either later on Monday or on Tuesday, even
though authorities in Belgrade have issued an
international arrest warrant for Marko.
Lavrov confirmed receiving a letter from Milosevic
dated March 8, in which he complained about inadequate
treatment in jail and asked Moscow to push the
tribunal to let him undergo treatment in Russia.
He said the letter arrived in Moscow on Sunday and
said that "in his (Milosevic) opinion certain methods
of treatment ... had had a negative impact on his
health."
Lavrov said that Moscow had been offended and alarmed
by the tribunal's rejection of its earlier plea to
allow Milosevic make a trip to Russia for medical
treatment, adding: "Essentially they didn't believe
Russia. This can't fail to disturb us. It can't fail
to alarm us that Milosevic died shortly afterward."
He said that Russia had sought the tribunal's