From: Vladimir Krsljanin (30/7/2003)
SLOBODA today addressed the media in Belgrade with the following
statement:
Sloboda/Freedom Association – Yugoslav Committee for the Release of
Slobodan Milosevic warns the public at home and abroad that the state
of health of President Slobodan Milosevic is continuously getting
worse, due to the dangerous and malicious disrespect of the
international standards of the human right protection by the illegal
tribunal at The Hague.
President Milosevic is triumphant in his struggle for truth in the
process without a precedent in history, in spite he faces everyday
burden exceeding the human abilities as well as the inhuman prison
conditions. And it lasts more than two years already. Few specialist
medical examinations and analyses have undoubtedly proven that the
conditions he faces are a dangerous factor of cardiovascular risk. But
the tribunal refuses even to secure regular check-ups of the
President’s health condition.
Sloboda/Freedom Association demands that President Milosevic should be
at least provided with the necessary examinations and recuperation in
his own country and to be allowed to continue his participation in the
process from freedom. That would be the only way to protect his life
and health.
Belgrade, July 30, 2003
NOTE: Since last Friday, President Milosevic has kidney pains. On
Friday, the court session started with delay, since he was waiting to
get a pill against pain. This week, there was no trial. Tribunal’s
doctors have been examining him today. Results are still expected.
President Milosevic was examined by the specialists’ medical team from
Belgrade in February. On that occasion, Belgrade doctors agreed with
their Dutch colleagues appointed by the tribunal that President
Milosevic needs regular health monitoring, including specialists’
examination at least once in a month. Since then, there were no
specialists’ examinations. In June, Sloboda demanded in strongest terms
that Belgrade medical team goes to The Hague again, referring to the
February agreement. This demand was sent to the person in charge,
tribunal’s Registrar and to all “judges” of the “Trial Chamber III”.
Until now, Sloboda got no response from the tribunal. When we were
urging a response by phone, persons from the Registry replied that for
another visit of Belgrade doctors, according to the tribunal’s “Rules”,
‘a written request of the accused is needed’. Now we are facing another
dramatic turn in President Milosevic’s health due to another tribunal’s
deliberate disregard of the medical conclusions. And President
Milosevic is not willing to ask his inquisitors for anything.
Sloboda calls upon the national committees, jurists and medical doctors
to react. Address the tribunal and UN Security Council members (find
their contacts at
http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/unsc_members.html )
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When light of truth or light of public attention falls on the illegal
tribunal’s building made of immoral and criminal ‘right of might’, the
building starts to be ruined.
Look at the two excerpts from today’s tribunal’s weekly press briefing
(last before the three weeks summer recess). First, about the President
Milosevic’s health:
<<Asked for more information concerning Milosevic’s health, [spokesman
for Registry and Chambers Jim] Landale replied that he could not really
go much further than what Judge May had said in court this morning
during the administrative session, which was that the Trial Chamber
understood that Milosevic was suffering from problems with his blood
pressure and that was the reason he was not able to attend court this
week and why the trial would now adjourn until 25 August 2003. He could
not go further than that, he concluded.
A journalist stated that everyone had become used to interruptions of
the Milosevic trial due to reasons of blood pressure, flu or
exhaustion, but that Milosevic, during the public hearing on Friday,
had mentioned that he had asked for a pain killer and that it was the
first time he did so. Asked whether this indicated that there was a new
ailment, or new symptoms, Landale replied that he would not go any
further than what Judge May had said in court today. He added that it
was not for him to disclose confidential medical information and that
he would not do so.>>
And second, about Carla del Ponte:
<<Asked what the position of the Prosecutor was concerning
recommendations made by the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, not to
extend her mandate as Prosecutor of the ICTR, [spokeswoman for the
Office of the Prosecutor Florence] Hartmann replied that the next step,
following the recommendation of the Secretary-General, was for the
Security Council to issue a resolution. It was up to the Security
Council to decide on such matters. She concluded that the Prosecutor
would make no comment until a decision had been made.
According to a journalist, Carla Del Ponte had told a Swiss newspaper a
few days ago that if her mandate for the ICTR was not extended, she
would not stay at the ICTY. Hartmann replied that she had no further
comment to make on this issue except that she was waiting to see what
the Security Council decided. She would comment after that, but not at
the moment as it was too early.>>
WHY SHOULD SUCH A PERSON KEEP ANY POST IN UN SYSTEM?
(we remind you of one of our earlier posts, which is just a piece of
numerous dirty stories about the criminal NATO executor)
TRANSLATION OF INTERVIEW BY JURGEN ELSAESSER WITH FELIPE TUROVER ON
CARLA DEL PONTE
(source: Konkret, December 2002)
Translated by Colin Meade
[quotation]
Felipe Turover: "Carla del Ponte told the hit-men where to find me".
[Introduction]
"Justice is a woman", said UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan about Carla
del Ponte, currently Chief Prosecutor in the Hague trial of Slobodan
Milosevic. Felipe Turover's experience of the Swiss jurist is very
different. 37-year old Felipe comes from a Spanish Republican family
whose parents fled with him from Franco to the Soviet Union. After the
death of the dictator, Felipe returned to his native land before going
back at the end of the 1980s to Moscow as a financial expert. From 1992
to 1999 he worked for the Yeltsin government managing debts with
Western creditor banks.
[Interview]
Elsässer: You are the chief witness in the Mabetex case, also known as
Russiagate. What is it about and how does Carla del Ponte come into it?
Turover: Mabetex is a construction company based in Lugano in Italian
Switzerland. It belongs to the Kosovo Albanian Beghijet Pacolli who now
has a Swiss passport. In the 1990s Pacolli and his business partner
Viktor Stolpovskich won some two billion euros-worth of orders from the
Kremlin, supposedly for building and restoration work in the government
and presidential complex. It has been proved that billions of dollars
vanished from Russia through this operation, with millions being spent
on bribes in Moscow in return. Pacolli acted as guarantor for credit
cards for Yeltsin and both his daughters, according to the Banca del
Gottardo which issued the cards. Carla del Ponte, at that time a Swiss
public prosecutor contacted me in 1997 and asked me to be ready to
testify in the case. Later she invited the Russian investigating
prosecutor Yuri Skuratov to Switzerland and put me in touch with
him. At that time she already had a reputation as a great fighter for
justice and I therefore did as she asked. That was an almost fatal
error.
Elsässer: Why?
Turover: I was dependent on her honesty and had made it clear to her
from the start that my testimony placed my life in danger. I was still
at the time working as an advisor to the Russian authorities, i.e. for
the very people I was incriminating with these documents. So what did
Ms del Ponte do? She gave my full name and job to the press. This was
as if I had given information to the US Drug Enforcement Agency about
the Escobar Clan out of Medellin and then, while still in the lions'
den, read in the New York Times that I was the chief witness against
Escobar. In my case, it was Moscow rather than Medellin and the
newspaper was the Corriere della Sera but the effect was the same. I
was in big trouble and saved my life by hurriedly getting out of
Moscow. Since then, for the past three years, I have been living
undercover. I have Carla del Ponte to thank for this. She told the
hit-men where to find me.
Elsässer: Isn't that an exaggeration? How is a Swiss Federal Prosecutor
responsible for an article in an Italian newspaper?
Turover: Both the Corriere journalists got all their information from
del Ponte, including my mobile phone number. They told me so
themselves, because they knew my life was in danger.
Elsässer: Del Ponte has denied that.
Turover: Then she's not telling the truth. And I've already said this
many times and she has never threatened to sue for slander. The reason
is simple: she has no proof, but I do.
Elsässer: Mabetex boss Pacolli is not only a construction magnate, but
is also said to have close ties to the Kosovo Albanian KLA terrorists.
Turover: That's right. He himself has stated that at least until 2000
his group owned the Kosovo Albanian daily "Bota Sot" which even the
OSCE condemned for racist articles. Its agitation was aimed mainly at
the Serbs, but it also made an anti-Semitic attack on me as the "Jew
Turover".
Elsässer: If it were the case that the Yeltsin clan had received Kosovo
Albanian bribes, this might explain his behaviour in spring 1999. As
NATO prepared for war against Yugoslavia, he didn't lift a finger to
help the Serbs, his supposed brother people. At the Rambouillet
Conference, when the NATO states took an extremely biased pro-Albanian
position, Moscow didn't protest, although its diplomats were at the
negotiating table. Did the Kosovo Albanians buy Yeltsin's passivity?
Turover: That's possible. We're looking here at a symbiosis of
politics, plunder and money laundering on a large scale.
Elsässer: And del Ponte?
Turover: All the preliminary inquiries in the Mabetex case in
Switzerland were politically abandoned at the highest level. Moreover,
the documents that del Ponte had received from her Russian colleague
Skuratov somehow ended up in Pacolli's possession. He reported back to
his Russian friends Yeltsin and Borodin and subsequently Skuratov, an
honest and competent lawyer, was shunted aside, in spite of three
almost unanimous resolutions in his support from the Russian
Senate. The end of Skuratov was also the end of the Moscow Mabetex case
- the proceedings were finally abandoned in December 2000.
Elsässer: Was del Ponte acting to protect the Albanian Mafia or the
Yeltsin clan?
Turover: Neither. She acts only in her own interest. She is indifferent
to political goals. Look at the point in time when she made public what
she knew about the Mabetex case, including my name - the end of August
1999. That was a blow not only to me, but to Yeltsin too.
It's true that she later failed to follow through on the case, but at
that moment her revelations did serious damage to Yeltsin. The
immediate background was the spectacular coup by Russian elite units in
Kosovo in summer 1999; after the ceasefire they occupied Pristina
airport, getting there before NATO. According to the British head of
KFOR, Michael Jackson, this could have led to world war three. Moscow
was playing for high stakes. It wanted its own occupation zone in
Kosovo to protect the Serbs. In this situation Yeltsin had to be
repudiated. The current US Foreign Minister, Madeleine Albright,
therefore met del Ponte at London Heathrow airport in July 1999 and
probably spelt all this out to her. So then del Ponte went public with
her revelations about Yeltsin in Corriere della Sera and in
mid-September Albright in a statement on CNN stoked up the heat about
Russian government corruption. Yeltsin had to fear an effort to impeach
him and then prosecution. He was let off the hook by two bombings in
Moscow, allegedly by Chechen terrorists. Russian troops went into
Chechnya and public attention was diverted from Russiagate.
Elsässer: Was del Ponte acting as an agent of Washington in this
situation?
Turover: She is no more pro-American than she is pro-Albanian. She acts
in Swiss interests, i.e. in the interests of the Mafia in Switzerland.
Elsässer: Explain.
Turover: Switzerland and the Swiss banks live mainly off money
laundering. All the world's dictators and major criminals deposit their
money here. Above all the canton of Tessin is exceptionally well placed
for this. People simply carry millions in suitcases and glove
compartments over the border from Italy. Every politician in Tessin
knows about it and benefits from it. And as the canton's public
prosecutor del Ponte protected this activity even before the Mabetex
case at the end of the 1990s. Take the case of a company in Chiasso
accused of money laundering for the Italian Mafia. She stopped the
proceedings. But basically del Ponte is pro-del Ponte. She would do
anything for her career, even bring a case against George W. Bush. She
is in any case a useless lawyer. To my knowledge she has never won a
case in her entire career. Her only talent is self-promotion,
self-marketing.
Elsässer: Her agreement with Albright in any case proved profitable. A
little later she became the Chief Prosecutor at the Hague, at
Washington's behest. The Zurich Weltwoche expressed surprise: "why the
Americans wanted her to succeed the difficult and prematurely ousted
Louise Arbour remains a puzzle. After all they had made no secret of
the fact that they regarded the Court as a useless waste of time".
Turover: Del Ponte and the Swiss government helped Albright and the
Americans - they're honest people, they pay their bills - therefore
rewarded her with the Hague job. Here too she has sold herself
brilliantly. With her, the trial is a total disaster. She has nothing
on Milosevic, and legally he ought therefore to be released
immediately. And so Milosevic, who himself is nothing but a bandit and
con man, can present himself as an innocent victim of persecution and
Serb nationalism is on the rise as the recent elections showed [1]. Do
people in the Hague really not know that the Swiss Federal Government
has appointed a special investigator to look into the del Ponte
affair? How can a woman who is herself the subject of judicial
investigation at the highest level because of serious crimes stay on as
Chief Prosecutor at the UN war crimes tribunal?
Elsässer: In March 2001 you reported Carla del Ponte and persons
unknown to the police for, among other things, endangering your life
and attempted murder (tentato assassinio) in connection with
Russiagate. But the Swiss Federal Prosecutor, Valentin Roschacher,
dismissed the charges against his predecessor. So how can you say that
a special investigation of del Ponte is ongoing?
Turover: Roschacher protected del Ponte and I have therefore brought a
case against him for bias in her favour. This case has not only been
taken up, but in May 2002 the Swiss Federal Council appointed a special
investigator, Arthur Hublard, the former public prosecutor of Jura
canton. He is investigating my accusations against Roschacher - but the
del Ponte case is obviously also involved here. Furthermore, I have
laid charges against Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights
in Strasbourg.
Elsässer: Against Switzerland, not against del Ponte?
Turover: You can't bring cases against private persons in
Strasbourg. But in substance the charges relate primarily to del Ponte
because as the Swiss Federal Prosecutor she placed my life in
danger. It's preposterous for her to continue to hold office in the
Hague when two such cases are pending.
Elsässer: You are living in hiding, constantly moving house. How long
will you keep this up?
Turover: I have to, otherwise I'm dead because of del Ponte. I have of
course insured myself by making sure that in the event of my demise
even more explosive information than hitherto will be revealed. But
that does not provide me with real security. So far at least five
prosecution witnesses in the Mabetex case have been cleared out of the
way. The most recent victim was Pacolli's personal secretary, a 32-year
old woman, who was found dead in the bathroom, allegedly from a blood
clot. There was no autopsy and she was cremated the next day.
[1] Obviously, these disparaging remarks about Mr Milosevic do not
represent the views of the ICDSM. The reason why Carla del Ponte has
got nothing on Mr Milosevic is that the charges against him have no
basis in reality. However incompetent del Ponte may be, she has had a
multitude of "experts", investigators and compliant officials within
and outside Yugoslavia to help her in her quest for "evidence". They
have found nothing because there was never anything there to find.
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IS THE END NEAR?
Obviously. Anyhow. Remember: in spite of all blackmails from ICTY and
puppet regime in Belgrade, all the ‘crucial insiders’ were just more
and more ruining the ‘indictment’ – one of the biggest historical lies
ever. And here is how just days ago, Carla tried, without conviction,
to advertise her non-existing achievements and to propose herself to
the Security Council:
UN Prosecutor to Show Milosevic Evidence
ARTHUR MAX
Associated Press
Wed, Jul. 16, 2003
THE HAGUE, Netherlands-With time running out to conclude her case, the
chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor said Wednesday she will begin focusing
on the genocide charges against Slobodan Milosevic, and the next few
months will be critical.
The prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, said crucial evidence will soon be
presented to the tribunal regarding the former Yugoslav president's
involvement with the massacre in Srebrenica and the months-long
bombardment of Sarajevo. She said she was confident it would lead to
convictions for genocide - the most serious of the 66 charges Milosevic
faces.
The prosecution has until the end of the year to complete its case in
the trial. Milosevic, 61, who is representing himself, will then have
equal time - nearly two years - to present his defense.
Milosevic, who has been on trial since February 2002, has serious heart
trouble and illness that has repeatedly delayed hearings.
In verdicts in other cases, the Yugoslav tribunal has set stiff
standards for genocide convictions, demanding the prosecution
demonstrate that a prior intent to destroy a race or ethnic group was
the motive for the crime.
In the tribunal's 10-year existence, one person has been convicted of
genocide. Two other defendants were acquitted, but were convicted of
crimes against humanity and received long prison terms. Prosecutors
have dropped genocide charges in several other cases when they believed
the evidence was inadequate.
In an Associated Press interview, Del Ponte said the prosecution's case
against Milosevic is going well, but they haven't yet proved the
genocide charges.
"So far it's going OK, but let's see. It will be in September-October
that will be the most crucial moment for this count of genocide," she
said.
Del Ponte said she expected to hand down the last indictments against
war crimes suspects in the former Yugoslavia, and conclude all the
investigations on schedule by the end of next year.
The tribunal, created in 1993 by the U.N. Security Council to prosecute
crimes in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, will disband when the last
trials are completed - in 2010 at the latest.
Keeping an eye on a television monitor showing the Milosevic trial one
floor below her office, Del Ponte said she hoped senior political and
military figures during his 13 years in power, who are under indictment
themselves, will testify against their former leader.
She has been buoyed in the last month by the decision of two former
Yugoslav army officers to change their innocent pleas to guilty and to
issue lengthy statements implicating co-defendants - but not Milosevic
himself - in the killings at Srebrenica in July 1995.
Bosnian Serbs slaughtered more than 7,000 Muslims in one week in the
enclave, which had been declared a U.N. protected zone. It was the
worst mass murder in Europe since World War II.
Del Ponte held out hope that Biljana Plavsic, the former Bosnian Serb
leader who pleaded guilty and the most senior political figure to be
convicted so far, would change her mind and testify against Milosevic.
Plavsic is serving an 11-year sentence in Sweden.
"If Biljana Plavsic would agree to testify in court, it would be much
easier," Del Ponte said. "But it's not only Plavsic. We have others."
In her plea bargain last year, Plavsic made it clear she had no
intention to be a witness in other trials.
"Until now, I am optimistic," Del Ponte said about persuading suspects
to testify against Milosevic. "But you know it can change from day to
day, because sometimes witnesses are hesitant for other reasons -
threats, a political situation."
Don’t miss to tell to the Security Council and to the public, before
September 15 what do you think about Carla del Ponte and her NATO
justice.
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And justice will work, sooner or later. On behalf of the people, of
course. There is at least one document waiting since last year in
Belgrade that democracy returns:
District State Attorney’s Office-Belgrade
B e l g r a d e
16A Slobodana Penezica St.
Pursuant to the Art. 224 of the Law on Criminal Proceedings and the
Art. 107 item 1 of the Penal Code of FRY, the above Attorney’ s Office
being of actual and regional jurisdiction has been filed the following
CRIMINAL CHARGES
against:
1. Carla del Ponte, the Attorney of the International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague;
2. Geoffrey Nice, the Deputy Attorney of the ICTY;
3. Dirk Ryneveld, the Deputy Attorney of the ICTY;
4. Cristina Romano, the Deputy Attorney of the ICTY;
5. Milbert Shin, the Deputy Attorney of the ICTY;
6. Daniel Saxon, the Deputy Attorney of the ICTY;
7. Julia Baly, the Deputy Attorney of the ICTY;
8. Daryl A. Mundis, the Deputy Attorney of the ICTY
Them having deliberately ever since June 26, 2001, initiated the
procedure of life deprivation of Slobodan Milosevic, him being at
request of the Attorney’s Office of the Hague Tribunal, kept in the
Detention Unit of the ICTY in Scheweningen in the Hague; him being
occasionally, ever since February 12, 2002, brought and kept under
surveillance in the court -room in the Hague and him being returned to
the Detention Unit although all of them knowing that the health
condition of Slobodan Milosevic requires urgent medical
treatment outside prison; them depriving Slobodan Milosevic necessary
cardiology specialist treatment and further care; them doing this
persistently and deliberately, ignoring opinions and recommendations of
the physicians conference from FRY and recommendations of the
physicians Dr. J.W. Crosse and Dr. H.A. Rodrigues from Holland dtd.
June 17, 2002, as well as opinions of the Head of the Cardiology Clinic
of the Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, FRY dtd. July 23, 2002, that
tried persistently to propose to the Trial Chamber Slobodan Milosevic
being assigned defense attorney instead of Slobodan Milosevic
temporarily being relieved due to further medical treatment and
seriously aggravated health condition that might cause his death.
Them, hereby, being co-executors for the criminal offense of attempted
murder pursuant to the Art 47 item 1 of the Penal Code of the Republic
of Serbia in connection with the Art. 19 of the Penal Code of FRY.
Them although chosen by the OUN and having the above assignments,
deliberately and roughly broke their professional code of conduct and
the acts of the OUN, representing the generally binding acts of the
international public law that covers bodies and institutions of the OUN
as well as the stuff of the OUN, i.e.:
“the principles of medical ethics applied to medical stuff, physicians
mostly, to protect detainees and persons detained from torture and
other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishments or deeds” (Adopted by the
General Assembly of the United Nations on Dec. 18 1982, the Resolution
37/94),
as well as
“The Code of Conduct of Persons Liable for Introduction of the Law”
adopted on the part of the General Assembly of the United Nations on
Dec. 17, 1979, the Resolution 34/169.
The Art. 6 of this Code determined that “persons liable for application
of this law should take care that health of persons entrusted to them
should be FULLY PROTECTED and they MUST, IMMEDIATELY TAKE ALL NECESSARY
STEPS to provide the affected persons with all medical care whenever
need arises”.
They violated severely the Art. 3 of the Universal Declaration on Human
Rights that guarantees that “EVERYBODY HAS RIGHT TO LIFE, FREADOM AND
SECURITY OF HIS PERSONALITY.”
The Attorney and her Deputies do not propose to the President of the
Court and the Trial Chamber neither the change of conditions for
Slobodan Milosevic pursuant to the Art. 64 of the Rules nor do they
initiate the Trial Chamber to release temporarily Slobodan Milosevic
due to medical treatment pursuant to the Art. 65 of the Rules although
they are well acquainted with the quoted medical reports and proposals.
In Annex to these Charges we provide copies of medical reports of Dr.
J.W. Crosse and Dr. H.A. Rodriques from Holland dtd. July 19, 2002,
done upon request of the court council of MKSJ and Dr. Sc. Med. Zdravko
Mijailovic, the Head of the Cardiology Clinic of the Military Medical
Academy, Belgrade.
Hereinafter we propose pursuant to the legal jurisdiction mentioned in
the Law on Public Attorney Office Work and the Criminal Proceedings
Regulations to take all necessary steps for suspects’ persecution in
conformity with the presentation of evidence and their punishment
before authorized courts.
In Belgrade on Nov. 12, 2002.
Charges filed by
Association of Citizens “FREEDOM’
National Committee for Release of Slobodan Milosevic
Belgrade, 16 Rajiceva St.
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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.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)
SLOBODA today addressed the media in Belgrade with the following
statement:
Sloboda/Freedom Association – Yugoslav Committee for the Release of
Slobodan Milosevic warns the public at home and abroad that the state
of health of President Slobodan Milosevic is continuously getting
worse, due to the dangerous and malicious disrespect of the
international standards of the human right protection by the illegal
tribunal at The Hague.
President Milosevic is triumphant in his struggle for truth in the
process without a precedent in history, in spite he faces everyday
burden exceeding the human abilities as well as the inhuman prison
conditions. And it lasts more than two years already. Few specialist
medical examinations and analyses have undoubtedly proven that the
conditions he faces are a dangerous factor of cardiovascular risk. But
the tribunal refuses even to secure regular check-ups of the
President’s health condition.
Sloboda/Freedom Association demands that President Milosevic should be
at least provided with the necessary examinations and recuperation in
his own country and to be allowed to continue his participation in the
process from freedom. That would be the only way to protect his life
and health.
Belgrade, July 30, 2003
NOTE: Since last Friday, President Milosevic has kidney pains. On
Friday, the court session started with delay, since he was waiting to
get a pill against pain. This week, there was no trial. Tribunal’s
doctors have been examining him today. Results are still expected.
President Milosevic was examined by the specialists’ medical team from
Belgrade in February. On that occasion, Belgrade doctors agreed with
their Dutch colleagues appointed by the tribunal that President
Milosevic needs regular health monitoring, including specialists’
examination at least once in a month. Since then, there were no
specialists’ examinations. In June, Sloboda demanded in strongest terms
that Belgrade medical team goes to The Hague again, referring to the
February agreement. This demand was sent to the person in charge,
tribunal’s Registrar and to all “judges” of the “Trial Chamber III”.
Until now, Sloboda got no response from the tribunal. When we were
urging a response by phone, persons from the Registry replied that for
another visit of Belgrade doctors, according to the tribunal’s “Rules”,
‘a written request of the accused is needed’. Now we are facing another
dramatic turn in President Milosevic’s health due to another tribunal’s
deliberate disregard of the medical conclusions. And President
Milosevic is not willing to ask his inquisitors for anything.
Sloboda calls upon the national committees, jurists and medical doctors
to react. Address the tribunal and UN Security Council members (find
their contacts at
http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/unsc_members.html )
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When light of truth or light of public attention falls on the illegal
tribunal’s building made of immoral and criminal ‘right of might’, the
building starts to be ruined.
Look at the two excerpts from today’s tribunal’s weekly press briefing
(last before the three weeks summer recess). First, about the President
Milosevic’s health:
<<Asked for more information concerning Milosevic’s health, [spokesman
for Registry and Chambers Jim] Landale replied that he could not really
go much further than what Judge May had said in court this morning
during the administrative session, which was that the Trial Chamber
understood that Milosevic was suffering from problems with his blood
pressure and that was the reason he was not able to attend court this
week and why the trial would now adjourn until 25 August 2003. He could
not go further than that, he concluded.
A journalist stated that everyone had become used to interruptions of
the Milosevic trial due to reasons of blood pressure, flu or
exhaustion, but that Milosevic, during the public hearing on Friday,
had mentioned that he had asked for a pain killer and that it was the
first time he did so. Asked whether this indicated that there was a new
ailment, or new symptoms, Landale replied that he would not go any
further than what Judge May had said in court today. He added that it
was not for him to disclose confidential medical information and that
he would not do so.>>
And second, about Carla del Ponte:
<<Asked what the position of the Prosecutor was concerning
recommendations made by the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, not to
extend her mandate as Prosecutor of the ICTR, [spokeswoman for the
Office of the Prosecutor Florence] Hartmann replied that the next step,
following the recommendation of the Secretary-General, was for the
Security Council to issue a resolution. It was up to the Security
Council to decide on such matters. She concluded that the Prosecutor
would make no comment until a decision had been made.
According to a journalist, Carla Del Ponte had told a Swiss newspaper a
few days ago that if her mandate for the ICTR was not extended, she
would not stay at the ICTY. Hartmann replied that she had no further
comment to make on this issue except that she was waiting to see what
the Security Council decided. She would comment after that, but not at
the moment as it was too early.>>
WHY SHOULD SUCH A PERSON KEEP ANY POST IN UN SYSTEM?
(we remind you of one of our earlier posts, which is just a piece of
numerous dirty stories about the criminal NATO executor)
TRANSLATION OF INTERVIEW BY JURGEN ELSAESSER WITH FELIPE TUROVER ON
CARLA DEL PONTE
(source: Konkret, December 2002)
Translated by Colin Meade
[quotation]
Felipe Turover: "Carla del Ponte told the hit-men where to find me".
[Introduction]
"Justice is a woman", said UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan about Carla
del Ponte, currently Chief Prosecutor in the Hague trial of Slobodan
Milosevic. Felipe Turover's experience of the Swiss jurist is very
different. 37-year old Felipe comes from a Spanish Republican family
whose parents fled with him from Franco to the Soviet Union. After the
death of the dictator, Felipe returned to his native land before going
back at the end of the 1980s to Moscow as a financial expert. From 1992
to 1999 he worked for the Yeltsin government managing debts with
Western creditor banks.
[Interview]
Elsässer: You are the chief witness in the Mabetex case, also known as
Russiagate. What is it about and how does Carla del Ponte come into it?
Turover: Mabetex is a construction company based in Lugano in Italian
Switzerland. It belongs to the Kosovo Albanian Beghijet Pacolli who now
has a Swiss passport. In the 1990s Pacolli and his business partner
Viktor Stolpovskich won some two billion euros-worth of orders from the
Kremlin, supposedly for building and restoration work in the government
and presidential complex. It has been proved that billions of dollars
vanished from Russia through this operation, with millions being spent
on bribes in Moscow in return. Pacolli acted as guarantor for credit
cards for Yeltsin and both his daughters, according to the Banca del
Gottardo which issued the cards. Carla del Ponte, at that time a Swiss
public prosecutor contacted me in 1997 and asked me to be ready to
testify in the case. Later she invited the Russian investigating
prosecutor Yuri Skuratov to Switzerland and put me in touch with
him. At that time she already had a reputation as a great fighter for
justice and I therefore did as she asked. That was an almost fatal
error.
Elsässer: Why?
Turover: I was dependent on her honesty and had made it clear to her
from the start that my testimony placed my life in danger. I was still
at the time working as an advisor to the Russian authorities, i.e. for
the very people I was incriminating with these documents. So what did
Ms del Ponte do? She gave my full name and job to the press. This was
as if I had given information to the US Drug Enforcement Agency about
the Escobar Clan out of Medellin and then, while still in the lions'
den, read in the New York Times that I was the chief witness against
Escobar. In my case, it was Moscow rather than Medellin and the
newspaper was the Corriere della Sera but the effect was the same. I
was in big trouble and saved my life by hurriedly getting out of
Moscow. Since then, for the past three years, I have been living
undercover. I have Carla del Ponte to thank for this. She told the
hit-men where to find me.
Elsässer: Isn't that an exaggeration? How is a Swiss Federal Prosecutor
responsible for an article in an Italian newspaper?
Turover: Both the Corriere journalists got all their information from
del Ponte, including my mobile phone number. They told me so
themselves, because they knew my life was in danger.
Elsässer: Del Ponte has denied that.
Turover: Then she's not telling the truth. And I've already said this
many times and she has never threatened to sue for slander. The reason
is simple: she has no proof, but I do.
Elsässer: Mabetex boss Pacolli is not only a construction magnate, but
is also said to have close ties to the Kosovo Albanian KLA terrorists.
Turover: That's right. He himself has stated that at least until 2000
his group owned the Kosovo Albanian daily "Bota Sot" which even the
OSCE condemned for racist articles. Its agitation was aimed mainly at
the Serbs, but it also made an anti-Semitic attack on me as the "Jew
Turover".
Elsässer: If it were the case that the Yeltsin clan had received Kosovo
Albanian bribes, this might explain his behaviour in spring 1999. As
NATO prepared for war against Yugoslavia, he didn't lift a finger to
help the Serbs, his supposed brother people. At the Rambouillet
Conference, when the NATO states took an extremely biased pro-Albanian
position, Moscow didn't protest, although its diplomats were at the
negotiating table. Did the Kosovo Albanians buy Yeltsin's passivity?
Turover: That's possible. We're looking here at a symbiosis of
politics, plunder and money laundering on a large scale.
Elsässer: And del Ponte?
Turover: All the preliminary inquiries in the Mabetex case in
Switzerland were politically abandoned at the highest level. Moreover,
the documents that del Ponte had received from her Russian colleague
Skuratov somehow ended up in Pacolli's possession. He reported back to
his Russian friends Yeltsin and Borodin and subsequently Skuratov, an
honest and competent lawyer, was shunted aside, in spite of three
almost unanimous resolutions in his support from the Russian
Senate. The end of Skuratov was also the end of the Moscow Mabetex case
- the proceedings were finally abandoned in December 2000.
Elsässer: Was del Ponte acting to protect the Albanian Mafia or the
Yeltsin clan?
Turover: Neither. She acts only in her own interest. She is indifferent
to political goals. Look at the point in time when she made public what
she knew about the Mabetex case, including my name - the end of August
1999. That was a blow not only to me, but to Yeltsin too.
It's true that she later failed to follow through on the case, but at
that moment her revelations did serious damage to Yeltsin. The
immediate background was the spectacular coup by Russian elite units in
Kosovo in summer 1999; after the ceasefire they occupied Pristina
airport, getting there before NATO. According to the British head of
KFOR, Michael Jackson, this could have led to world war three. Moscow
was playing for high stakes. It wanted its own occupation zone in
Kosovo to protect the Serbs. In this situation Yeltsin had to be
repudiated. The current US Foreign Minister, Madeleine Albright,
therefore met del Ponte at London Heathrow airport in July 1999 and
probably spelt all this out to her. So then del Ponte went public with
her revelations about Yeltsin in Corriere della Sera and in
mid-September Albright in a statement on CNN stoked up the heat about
Russian government corruption. Yeltsin had to fear an effort to impeach
him and then prosecution. He was let off the hook by two bombings in
Moscow, allegedly by Chechen terrorists. Russian troops went into
Chechnya and public attention was diverted from Russiagate.
Elsässer: Was del Ponte acting as an agent of Washington in this
situation?
Turover: She is no more pro-American than she is pro-Albanian. She acts
in Swiss interests, i.e. in the interests of the Mafia in Switzerland.
Elsässer: Explain.
Turover: Switzerland and the Swiss banks live mainly off money
laundering. All the world's dictators and major criminals deposit their
money here. Above all the canton of Tessin is exceptionally well placed
for this. People simply carry millions in suitcases and glove
compartments over the border from Italy. Every politician in Tessin
knows about it and benefits from it. And as the canton's public
prosecutor del Ponte protected this activity even before the Mabetex
case at the end of the 1990s. Take the case of a company in Chiasso
accused of money laundering for the Italian Mafia. She stopped the
proceedings. But basically del Ponte is pro-del Ponte. She would do
anything for her career, even bring a case against George W. Bush. She
is in any case a useless lawyer. To my knowledge she has never won a
case in her entire career. Her only talent is self-promotion,
self-marketing.
Elsässer: Her agreement with Albright in any case proved profitable. A
little later she became the Chief Prosecutor at the Hague, at
Washington's behest. The Zurich Weltwoche expressed surprise: "why the
Americans wanted her to succeed the difficult and prematurely ousted
Louise Arbour remains a puzzle. After all they had made no secret of
the fact that they regarded the Court as a useless waste of time".
Turover: Del Ponte and the Swiss government helped Albright and the
Americans - they're honest people, they pay their bills - therefore
rewarded her with the Hague job. Here too she has sold herself
brilliantly. With her, the trial is a total disaster. She has nothing
on Milosevic, and legally he ought therefore to be released
immediately. And so Milosevic, who himself is nothing but a bandit and
con man, can present himself as an innocent victim of persecution and
Serb nationalism is on the rise as the recent elections showed [1]. Do
people in the Hague really not know that the Swiss Federal Government
has appointed a special investigator to look into the del Ponte
affair? How can a woman who is herself the subject of judicial
investigation at the highest level because of serious crimes stay on as
Chief Prosecutor at the UN war crimes tribunal?
Elsässer: In March 2001 you reported Carla del Ponte and persons
unknown to the police for, among other things, endangering your life
and attempted murder (tentato assassinio) in connection with
Russiagate. But the Swiss Federal Prosecutor, Valentin Roschacher,
dismissed the charges against his predecessor. So how can you say that
a special investigation of del Ponte is ongoing?
Turover: Roschacher protected del Ponte and I have therefore brought a
case against him for bias in her favour. This case has not only been
taken up, but in May 2002 the Swiss Federal Council appointed a special
investigator, Arthur Hublard, the former public prosecutor of Jura
canton. He is investigating my accusations against Roschacher - but the
del Ponte case is obviously also involved here. Furthermore, I have
laid charges against Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights
in Strasbourg.
Elsässer: Against Switzerland, not against del Ponte?
Turover: You can't bring cases against private persons in
Strasbourg. But in substance the charges relate primarily to del Ponte
because as the Swiss Federal Prosecutor she placed my life in
danger. It's preposterous for her to continue to hold office in the
Hague when two such cases are pending.
Elsässer: You are living in hiding, constantly moving house. How long
will you keep this up?
Turover: I have to, otherwise I'm dead because of del Ponte. I have of
course insured myself by making sure that in the event of my demise
even more explosive information than hitherto will be revealed. But
that does not provide me with real security. So far at least five
prosecution witnesses in the Mabetex case have been cleared out of the
way. The most recent victim was Pacolli's personal secretary, a 32-year
old woman, who was found dead in the bathroom, allegedly from a blood
clot. There was no autopsy and she was cremated the next day.
[1] Obviously, these disparaging remarks about Mr Milosevic do not
represent the views of the ICDSM. The reason why Carla del Ponte has
got nothing on Mr Milosevic is that the charges against him have no
basis in reality. However incompetent del Ponte may be, she has had a
multitude of "experts", investigators and compliant officials within
and outside Yugoslavia to help her in her quest for "evidence". They
have found nothing because there was never anything there to find.
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IS THE END NEAR?
Obviously. Anyhow. Remember: in spite of all blackmails from ICTY and
puppet regime in Belgrade, all the ‘crucial insiders’ were just more
and more ruining the ‘indictment’ – one of the biggest historical lies
ever. And here is how just days ago, Carla tried, without conviction,
to advertise her non-existing achievements and to propose herself to
the Security Council:
UN Prosecutor to Show Milosevic Evidence
ARTHUR MAX
Associated Press
Wed, Jul. 16, 2003
THE HAGUE, Netherlands-With time running out to conclude her case, the
chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor said Wednesday she will begin focusing
on the genocide charges against Slobodan Milosevic, and the next few
months will be critical.
The prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, said crucial evidence will soon be
presented to the tribunal regarding the former Yugoslav president's
involvement with the massacre in Srebrenica and the months-long
bombardment of Sarajevo. She said she was confident it would lead to
convictions for genocide - the most serious of the 66 charges Milosevic
faces.
The prosecution has until the end of the year to complete its case in
the trial. Milosevic, 61, who is representing himself, will then have
equal time - nearly two years - to present his defense.
Milosevic, who has been on trial since February 2002, has serious heart
trouble and illness that has repeatedly delayed hearings.
In verdicts in other cases, the Yugoslav tribunal has set stiff
standards for genocide convictions, demanding the prosecution
demonstrate that a prior intent to destroy a race or ethnic group was
the motive for the crime.
In the tribunal's 10-year existence, one person has been convicted of
genocide. Two other defendants were acquitted, but were convicted of
crimes against humanity and received long prison terms. Prosecutors
have dropped genocide charges in several other cases when they believed
the evidence was inadequate.
In an Associated Press interview, Del Ponte said the prosecution's case
against Milosevic is going well, but they haven't yet proved the
genocide charges.
"So far it's going OK, but let's see. It will be in September-October
that will be the most crucial moment for this count of genocide," she
said.
Del Ponte said she expected to hand down the last indictments against
war crimes suspects in the former Yugoslavia, and conclude all the
investigations on schedule by the end of next year.
The tribunal, created in 1993 by the U.N. Security Council to prosecute
crimes in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, will disband when the last
trials are completed - in 2010 at the latest.
Keeping an eye on a television monitor showing the Milosevic trial one
floor below her office, Del Ponte said she hoped senior political and
military figures during his 13 years in power, who are under indictment
themselves, will testify against their former leader.
She has been buoyed in the last month by the decision of two former
Yugoslav army officers to change their innocent pleas to guilty and to
issue lengthy statements implicating co-defendants - but not Milosevic
himself - in the killings at Srebrenica in July 1995.
Bosnian Serbs slaughtered more than 7,000 Muslims in one week in the
enclave, which had been declared a U.N. protected zone. It was the
worst mass murder in Europe since World War II.
Del Ponte held out hope that Biljana Plavsic, the former Bosnian Serb
leader who pleaded guilty and the most senior political figure to be
convicted so far, would change her mind and testify against Milosevic.
Plavsic is serving an 11-year sentence in Sweden.
"If Biljana Plavsic would agree to testify in court, it would be much
easier," Del Ponte said. "But it's not only Plavsic. We have others."
In her plea bargain last year, Plavsic made it clear she had no
intention to be a witness in other trials.
"Until now, I am optimistic," Del Ponte said about persuading suspects
to testify against Milosevic. "But you know it can change from day to
day, because sometimes witnesses are hesitant for other reasons -
threats, a political situation."
Don’t miss to tell to the Security Council and to the public, before
September 15 what do you think about Carla del Ponte and her NATO
justice.
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And justice will work, sooner or later. On behalf of the people, of
course. There is at least one document waiting since last year in
Belgrade that democracy returns:
District State Attorney’s Office-Belgrade
B e l g r a d e
16A Slobodana Penezica St.
Pursuant to the Art. 224 of the Law on Criminal Proceedings and the
Art. 107 item 1 of the Penal Code of FRY, the above Attorney’ s Office
being of actual and regional jurisdiction has been filed the following
CRIMINAL CHARGES
against:
1. Carla del Ponte, the Attorney of the International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague;
2. Geoffrey Nice, the Deputy Attorney of the ICTY;
3. Dirk Ryneveld, the Deputy Attorney of the ICTY;
4. Cristina Romano, the Deputy Attorney of the ICTY;
5. Milbert Shin, the Deputy Attorney of the ICTY;
6. Daniel Saxon, the Deputy Attorney of the ICTY;
7. Julia Baly, the Deputy Attorney of the ICTY;
8. Daryl A. Mundis, the Deputy Attorney of the ICTY
Them having deliberately ever since June 26, 2001, initiated the
procedure of life deprivation of Slobodan Milosevic, him being at
request of the Attorney’s Office of the Hague Tribunal, kept in the
Detention Unit of the ICTY in Scheweningen in the Hague; him being
occasionally, ever since February 12, 2002, brought and kept under
surveillance in the court -room in the Hague and him being returned to
the Detention Unit although all of them knowing that the health
condition of Slobodan Milosevic requires urgent medical
treatment outside prison; them depriving Slobodan Milosevic necessary
cardiology specialist treatment and further care; them doing this
persistently and deliberately, ignoring opinions and recommendations of
the physicians conference from FRY and recommendations of the
physicians Dr. J.W. Crosse and Dr. H.A. Rodrigues from Holland dtd.
June 17, 2002, as well as opinions of the Head of the Cardiology Clinic
of the Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, FRY dtd. July 23, 2002, that
tried persistently to propose to the Trial Chamber Slobodan Milosevic
being assigned defense attorney instead of Slobodan Milosevic
temporarily being relieved due to further medical treatment and
seriously aggravated health condition that might cause his death.
Them, hereby, being co-executors for the criminal offense of attempted
murder pursuant to the Art 47 item 1 of the Penal Code of the Republic
of Serbia in connection with the Art. 19 of the Penal Code of FRY.
Them although chosen by the OUN and having the above assignments,
deliberately and roughly broke their professional code of conduct and
the acts of the OUN, representing the generally binding acts of the
international public law that covers bodies and institutions of the OUN
as well as the stuff of the OUN, i.e.:
“the principles of medical ethics applied to medical stuff, physicians
mostly, to protect detainees and persons detained from torture and
other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishments or deeds” (Adopted by the
General Assembly of the United Nations on Dec. 18 1982, the Resolution
37/94),
as well as
“The Code of Conduct of Persons Liable for Introduction of the Law”
adopted on the part of the General Assembly of the United Nations on
Dec. 17, 1979, the Resolution 34/169.
The Art. 6 of this Code determined that “persons liable for application
of this law should take care that health of persons entrusted to them
should be FULLY PROTECTED and they MUST, IMMEDIATELY TAKE ALL NECESSARY
STEPS to provide the affected persons with all medical care whenever
need arises”.
They violated severely the Art. 3 of the Universal Declaration on Human
Rights that guarantees that “EVERYBODY HAS RIGHT TO LIFE, FREADOM AND
SECURITY OF HIS PERSONALITY.”
The Attorney and her Deputies do not propose to the President of the
Court and the Trial Chamber neither the change of conditions for
Slobodan Milosevic pursuant to the Art. 64 of the Rules nor do they
initiate the Trial Chamber to release temporarily Slobodan Milosevic
due to medical treatment pursuant to the Art. 65 of the Rules although
they are well acquainted with the quoted medical reports and proposals.
In Annex to these Charges we provide copies of medical reports of Dr.
J.W. Crosse and Dr. H.A. Rodriques from Holland dtd. July 19, 2002,
done upon request of the court council of MKSJ and Dr. Sc. Med. Zdravko
Mijailovic, the Head of the Cardiology Clinic of the Military Medical
Academy, Belgrade.
Hereinafter we propose pursuant to the legal jurisdiction mentioned in
the Law on Public Attorney Office Work and the Criminal Proceedings
Regulations to take all necessary steps for suspects’ persecution in
conformity with the presentation of evidence and their punishment
before authorized courts.
In Belgrade on Nov. 12, 2002.
Charges filed by
Association of Citizens “FREEDOM’
National Committee for Release of Slobodan Milosevic
Belgrade, 16 Rajiceva St.
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