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Un «fascista» all'Istituto per la Resistenza di Verona
Massimo Franchi
Tre mesi di carcere per istigazione all'odio razziale, leader degli skinhead, dirigente della Fiamma Tricolore, membro del gruppo musicale "Gesta bellica", che come pezzi culto ha canzoni dedicate a Erik Priebke ("Il capitano") e a Rudolph Hess ("Vittima della democrazia"). Quale curriculum migliore per far parte dell'Istituto per la resistenza di Verona? La splendida idea di nominare il 35enne Andrea Miglioranzi («Fascista? Per me è un termine molto caro») come rappresentate del Comune all'ente fondato nel 1998 che ha tra i compiti quello di «raccogliere testimonianze di partigiani» è venuta alla maggioranza del consiglio comunale. Ancora elettrizzati dalla fresca nomina dopo l'elezione a sindaco dell'astro nascente della Lega Flavio Tosi (quello che come prima cosa ha cacciato gli «zingari» dalla città), i consiglieri della destra si sono sentiti di osare. Dovevano nominare due persone.
La prima è stata Lucia Canetti di Alleanza Nazionale. E già ci sarebbe di che discutere. Ma per secondo hanno scelto lui, «il camerata Miglioranzi». Uno che era già conosciuto nel mondo del "white power rock", ma è diventato ancora più famoso per essere il primo in Italia a finire in carcere per la legge Mancino sull'istigazione all'odio razziale. Nel 1996: tre componenti del gruppo (oltre a Miglioranzi, c'è il leader Alessandro Castorina, ora segretario provinciale della Fiamma Tricolore) organizzano un'aggressione nei confronti di uno "sharp" (skinheads di sinistra), reo di essere l'ispiratore di alcune iniziative musicali multietniche. Le minacce sono chiare: «A Verona queste cose non le vogliamo, se ci provi ancora sei morto». I picchiatori sono di Napoli, i mandanti si limitano ad osservare il pestaggio. Con entusiasmo. La Digos li arresta e, grazie all'applicazione della legge Mancino, scontano in carcere quasi tre mesi.
Qualcuno a Verona, città medaglia d'oro per la Resistenza, si è opposto. Oltre allo scultore e sopravvissuto ai campi di concentramento Vittore Bocchetta («Qui è peggio del periodo di Hitler, a Verona manca totalmente la memoria storica»), è la senatrice di Rifondazione Tiziana Valpiana a organizzare la protesta. «Io sono anche componente del direttivo dell'Istituto e posso promettere che Miglioranzi non varcherà mai la soglia della nostra sede. Mi impegno in nome dei miei parenti morti a Mathausen. La sua nomina è in spregio alla resistenza e già lunedì chiederò a Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, come presidente degli enti di ricerca sulla resistenza, di chiedere l'annullamento della nomina». La senatrice Valpiana, poi, dietro Miglioranzi vede la mano di Tosi. «Sono sicura che l'idea è sua. Il nuovo sindaco vuole mostrarsi come uomo forte, come nuovo Gentilini (l'ex sindaco di Treviso, ndr) e per farlo arriva a provocazioni come quella di nominare un fascista pregiudicato a custode della memoria dei partigiani».
E difatti il neo sindaco di Verona (accomunato a Miglioranzi per una condanna, ancora non definitiva, per lo stesso reato) non si nasconde. «Le nomine sono del Consiglio comunale, ma li avrei votati anch'io se fossi stato presente. I due consiglieri nominati sono sicuramente persone preparate, con idee politiche magari diverse. Ma sono convinto che possano portare un confronto positivo all'interno dell'Istituto, non per riscrivere la storia o per fare del revisionismo, ma per approfondire alcuni aspetti sui quali fino ad ora c'è stata minore sensibilità». Oltre a Tosi, a Miglioranzi è stata espressa solidarietà dal presidente veronese di An Massimo Giorgetti. «In democrazia funziona così, non capisco lo sconcerto. E poi mi pare che il dopoguerra sia finito da un pezzo», ha commentato stupito al "Corriere di Verona".
Insomma, Miglioranzi (e Canetti di An) potranno dimostrare che i partigiani stavano dalla parte sbagliata e che i giusti stavano vicino Verona, nella Repubblica Sociale di Salò. Miglioranzi potrà farlo canticchiando le canzoni del suo gruppo. Come "Feccia Rossa": "feccia rossa/nemica della civiltà/ bestia senza umanità/ la celtica croce vincerà". Oppure "8 settembre '43": "una data senza perché/ è giunta l'ora della viltà/ un altro marchio di infamità/ Ma io sono camicia nera/ nel mio cuore una fede sincera".
Pubblicato il: 21.07.07
Allegato B
Seduta n. 872 del 7/3/2001
Pag. 36713
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Interpellanza urgente (ex articolo 138-bis del regolamento):
I sottoscritti chiedono di interpellare il Ministro dell'interno, per sapere - premesso che:
con lettera ufficiale (protocollo n. 59 del 15 febbraio 2001), il presidente della regione Veneto, Giancarlo Galan, ha comunicato al signor Miglioranzi Andrea, uno dei leader del famigerato Veneto Fronte Skinheads, il riconoscimento del patrocinio ufficiale della regione Veneto per la sua iniziativa finalizzata alla formazione di un Osservatorio sulla giustizia;
il signor Miglioranzi è attualmente imputato per violazione della cosiddetta legge Mancino (decreto-legge 26 aprile 1993, n. 122, convertito con modificazioni dalla legge 25 giugno 1993, n. 205) per istigazione all'odio razziale;
la suddetta iniziativa, volta alla eliminazione dalla legislazione italiana delle leggi Scelba e Mancino contro il razzismo e nazismo, ha visto il coinvolgimento di esponenti di Forza Nuova e di partiti della Casa delle Libertà e risulta essere improntata alla delegittimazione dell'azione preventiva e repressiva delle forze dell'ordine e della magistratura;
negli ultimi anni, le regioni del nord est italiano sono state teatro di episodi di cronaca e di manifestazioni di violenza a sfondo politico-razziale di cui si sono resi responsabili naziskin di lingua italiana, riconducibili a gruppi che hanno chiari collegamenti con il Fronte Veneto Skinheads e con Forza Nuova;
recentemente, il 24 febbraio 2001, Forza Nuova ha tenuto una manifestazione nella città di Trieste insieme ai neonazisti tedeschi dell'Npd contro la legge approvata dal Parlamento italiano per la tutela della minoranza slovena -:
quali le valutazioni del Governo con riferimento ai fatti sopra esposti e quali iniziative intenda assumere al fine di impedire che un'alta istituzione pubblica, quale una regione, possa offrire - quand'anche indirettamente - sostegno a gruppi eversivi che seminano l'odio razziale, in spregio della legislazione di civiltà che l'Italia si è data e ad iniziative tendenti a delegittimare l'azione delle istituzioni preposte al rispetto di tale legislazione.
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Tuesday 12 June 2007
The Milosevic trial: a travesty of justice
A new book shows how the international community undermined every legal principle in its desperate bid to convict the former Yugoslav leader.
Tara McCormack
Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice by John Laughland
The vast majority of what passes for analysis of the Yugoslav break-up and wars, and later events such as the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), is marked by a blatant disregard for either evidence or accuracy. In stark contrast, John Laughland’s excellent book on the ICTY and the trial of Slobodan Milosevic is a powerful critique based upon a detailed analysis of both the procedures and rules governing the ICTY in general, and Milosevic’s trial in particular.
It is difficult to do justice to the utter arbitrary lawlessness of the ICTY. In the first place, the ICTY is not a court as is generally understood nor can it be compared to apparently similar bodies like the International Court of Justice. The ICTY is an explicitly prosecutorial institution, in which the Office of the Prosecutor is part of the Tribunal and is set up, in its own words, for the ‘sole purpose of prosecuting persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia’.
Laughland shows us an institution staffed by judges who often have little experience of criminal law, let alone international criminal law. For example, American judge Gabrielle Kirk Macdonald was amazed to be asked to serve on the ICTY. When she protested that she did not know anything about international war crimes, she was told that that was immaterial and that she would learn. We can only speculate as to how much experience British judge Richard May (who presided over Milosevic’s trial) garnered in international criminal law and international relations from his experiences as a crown court judge on the Midland and Oxford Circuit. Other judges have been entirely without any kind of judicial experience but have been law professors, legal advisers or even, in the case of the Turkish judge, a diplomat.
Astonishing though this is, it is perhaps the least shocking aspect of the institution, when considering both the gravity of the charges laid against the defendants and the entirely novel nature of the Tribunal and its aims. The rules of procedure of the ICTY, for example, have been changed every three months since the ICTY was set up. Incredibly, the ICTY judges make the rules themselves, overturning the fundamental distinction between a judicial and a legislative role. ICTY judges are in essence making international law. Furthermore, the Tribunal is a pick and mix patchwork of the two main systems of law, the adversarial system and the inquisitorial system, overturning, as Laughland points out, the checks and balances inherent in each system.
The rules of procedure of the ICTY would have made Stalin blush. The processes of the ICTY are in effect a rejection of everything that differentiates law from arbitrary rule. Secret indictments are used, hearsay evidence is often permitted and the fundamental legal principle of ‘no crime without a law’ - ie, that an act should not be made a crime after the event - is overturned. Anonymous witnesses are commonplace, contravening the fundamental principle of criminal law that the accused has a right to know who the witness is and to cross-examine them. The ICTY also overturns the ‘double jeopardy’ principle, whereby one may not be tried for the same crime twice. The ICTY allows the prosecutor to appeal against the acquittal of a defendant who has been found innocent and to obtain their continued detention. These procedures contravene existing international conventions, such as the European Convention on Human Rights, and the ICTY’s own statute (1).
In order to prosecute Milosevic, the ICTY relied upon a legal principle which it had invented on the hoof, that of ‘joint criminal enterprise’. This concept does not appear in the ICTY statute nor anywhere else, nor even in the original ‘indictments’ of Milosevic. As I have argued previously on spiked, this novel principle essentially allows the ICTY to convict someone in the absence of any evidence whatsoever (2). Although the prosecution had originally issued three ‘indictments’ of Milosevic (regarding Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo), this was then changed into a sort of ‘super’ indictment. Here, the prosecution attempted to make the political case that Milosevic had orchestrated a vast ‘joint criminal enterprise’, beginning in Croatia and concluding in Kosovo, to create a ‘Greater Serbia’. In keeping with the general ad hoc procedures of the ICTY, this idea of ‘Greater Serbia’ had not featured in the original separate indictments.
The idea of a ‘joint criminal enterprise’ was based primarily on BBC documentaries and misquoting Milosevic’s speeches. The prosecution’s own star witnesses - including employees of the Office of the Prosecutor - failed to offer any proof of such a conspiracy. The trial spent a lot of time listening to anonymous witnesses who could shed no light on who might have committed the alleged crimes or who could only offer hearsay evidence. Finally, after three years of the trial and to the shock even of the ICTY judges, the prosecutor, Geoffrey Nice, was forced to admit that Milosevic had never even used the words ‘Greater Serbia’. The decision to continue the trial after the resignation (on grounds of ill-health) of Judge May, the imposition of defence counsel on Milosevic against his will and, when Milosevic was ill, trial in absentia, are all aspects of what Laughland calls the fundamental lawlessness of the Tribunal. Milosevic’s death brought an end to the farce, which was surely a relief to those running the ICTY.
Laughland’s book is excellent for his critique and analysis of the ICTY and Milosevic’s trial in itself, but he also engages with broader shifts in post-Cold War international relations. For example, Laughland examines the erosion of the fundamental distinction between war and crime. The idea that war, as the act of a state, should be viewed in political rather than moral terms has increasingly been called into question in much post-Cold War security theory and international security policy. Laughland also highlights the dangerous implications of ethics and morality as a basis for international relations.
Laughland tackles some crucial theoretical questions. He argues, for example, that state sovereignty, as properly understood, clarifies and renders accountable the exercise of power (3). This is particularly problematic when the criminal justice system is detached from the state. As Laughland points out, the ICTY is in no way accountable to the people over whom it claims jurisdiction in the way that a normal legislative system, however bad, would be.
Laughland shows that the common argument that the ICTY is a continuation of Nuremberg and existing international law is false. In the first place, this ignores the central charge of Nuremberg, ‘aggressive war’ (as also codified in the UN Charter). Furthermore, Laughland points out a more important and crucial difference between Nuremberg and the ICTY: whilst the ICTY is established in the name of an unaccountable and non-existent ‘international community’ and international morality, the Nuremberg trials were grounded in the explicit assumption of sovereignty over Germany by the Allied powers. Nuremberg was a highly problematic entity. Nonetheless, the lines of both responsibility and accountability were clearly drawn at Nuremberg, something that cannot be said about the ICTY.
While there are some points on which I would disagree with him - for example, I don’t think there is an all-powerful, crusading and ideological supra-nationalism at work today - these are largely tangential to Laughland’s central argument. Travesty is a powerfully argued book based upon compelling analysis that should be widely read.
Tara McCormack is a doctoral student researching post-Cold War security theory at the University of Westminster.
Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice by John Laughland is published by Pluto Press. (Buy this book from Amazon(UK))
(1) See also: Sellars, Kirsten (2003) The Rise and Rise of Human Rights, (Stroud: Sutton) chapter 9, for an excellent discussion of the ICTY
(2) How did Srebrenica become a morality tale?, by Tara McCormack
(3) See also Bickerton, C, Cunliffe P, Gourevitch, A (2007), Politics Without Sovereignty, A Critique of Contemporary International Relations Theory (London: Routledge)
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Ahtisaari’s Collusion With Albanian Mafia Confirmed
1) Ahtisaari Bribed to Recommend Amputation of the Serbian Province
2) R.K. Kent - Kosovo: quello che può comprare il denaro a spese di un miglior interesse del paese
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http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/06/bnd-slaves-and-millions.html
BND: White Slaves and Millions of Heroin Dollars for Ahtisaari’s Plan
Fifty Million Dollars and Up for Dismembering a Medium-Size Sovereign State
Former Finnish president and one of the world’s most respected living Nazis Martti Ahtisaari (i.e. Adolfsen) is a very busy man these days. Turkey — correctly noting Ahtisaari’s strong pro-Muslim bias, undoubtedly a result of historically sound and productive fascist/Muslim alliances — wants Ahtisaari to help them break into the EU. In Northern Ireland, where Ahtisaari was meddling before, he was appointed an “international advisor” to a reconciliation group.
Let’s hope they can afford the 70-year-old whore with a steep price list.
According to the June 21 article by the Banja Luka daily Fokus, titled “Albanian Mafia Bought Ahtisaari,” German Federal Intelligence Service BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) has recently sent a report to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon revealing that Albanian separatists and terrorists in Serbian Kosovo-Metohija province have literally purchased Ahtisaari’s plan which suggests independence for the Serbian province and its severing from Serbia.
German Secret Service has found that 2 million Euros (2.68 million USD) have been transfered directly to Ahtisaari’s personal bank account, and that amounts of multi-million Euros were given to the UN envoy in cash on at least two occasions, totaling up to 40 million Euros (over 53 million U.S. dollars).
According to the Fokus’ source, the German BND Secret Service Brigadier Luke Neiman was directly appointed by the German government to designate part of the German Secret Service apparatus to the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, after the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon requested such service. It was, therefore, the UN Secretary-General who received the detailed report about the corruption of his special envoy Martti Ahtisaari.
Reportedly, the BND agents have immediately discovered clear connection and regular contacts between the leading figures of Kosovo Albanian mafia, their subordinates and Martti Ahtisaari. The agents have also established that Ahtisaari has had frequent telephone communications with the Albanian billionaire, mafia boss living in Switzerland Behgjet Pacolli.
Price of the “Supervised Independence:” Two Million Via Bank, Four Coffers of Heroin Cash and Couple of White Slaves
One of the recorded conversations was pertaining to a transaction in the amount of 2 million Euros from the Swiss bank in Basel, the account No. 239700-93457-00097, protected as an offshore account under the code XS52-KOLER. The account owner is Exhet Boria, the right hand of the Albanian mafia boss. Two million Euros were transfered from this to the account No. 3459346699004533, code VOLANND, in the Cyprus bank. In order to withdraw the money from these accounts, all that was needed was to give the codes to a bank teller.
German Intelligence Service agents have made a note that on February 12, 2007, at 6:23 a.m., jeep with the registration plates PR-443-22CD, which belongs to the Kosovo Albanian provisional “government”, arrived in front of the UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari’s building. Two men carrying two silver-color briefcases went in, handing the briefcases to Ahtisaari. A source in the building later confirmed that the briefcases were filled with cash and given to the UN envoy.
Twelve days later, at 5:44 p.m. the exact same thing took place, only this time it was Exhet Boria personally who exited the black Mercedes Benz with no plates, followed by the two bodyguards carrying two silver-color briefcases.
BND agents found that all four briefcases, later protected with the diplomatic labels, safely arrived to Finland without check-ups and were delivered to Martti Ahtisaari’s home address.
On the last day of February, at 11:47 p.m., German Secret Service agents made a note about the arrival of the KFOR (NATO troops stationed in Serbian Kosovo province, Kosovo FORce) jeep which brought two young women over, followed by Boria’s bodyguard. The girls were in Ahtisaari’s quarters until 5:17 a.m., when they were driven away by the same vehicle.
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July 10, 2007
Ahtisaari Bribed to Recommend Amputation of the Serbian Province
Global Information System: Ahtisaari Was Bribed
According to Tanjug, the German BND’s information that Kosovo Albanians representing an “interim government” in Pristina and Albanian mafia bribed the UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari to recommend independence for the southern Serbian province is correct, the Global Information System (GIS), a Washington-based intelligence data service meant exclusively for governments, has said.
The data collected by the GIS for South-Eastern Europe was published in the GIS Defense and Foreign Affairs section in the form of analysis which President of the American Council for Kosovo-Metohija Jim Jatras on Tuesday presented at a news conference in Belgrade, adding that a full and transparent investigation was expected to follow.
A special analysis of the head of GIS South-Eastern Europe cited article by the Banja Luka (Republic of Srpska, Bosnia) magazine Fokus, which was the first to publish excerpts of the BND report to the UN Secretary General on June 21.
German Intelligence Agency had found that two million euros had been transferred to Ahtisaari’s private bank account and that several tens of million euro cash payments, believed to go up to 40 million euros (over 50 million USD), had been made to Ahtisaari personally on at least two occasions.
BND Report Includes Information About Corrupt Activities of Other Officials Involved in Kosovo Scheme
According to the Defense & Foreign Affairs Analysis report by the GIS Station Chief for South-East Europe (as quoted by Alan Peters, an Iran SME), “the GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs station in south-eastern Europe has conducted research in the Balkans and from secure sources it was revealed that the BND report does indeed exist, and that the information contained is not ‘Serbian fiction’ but a reality.”
In addition, the GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs sources “confirmed that the BND report also contained extensive additional information on the involvement in corrupt activities of other international community personalities involved in Kosovo.”
“As a result, it was understood that, under the pressure of the emerging information/facts, the UN was now considering promoting the partition of Kosovo, rather than adopting the Ahtisaari plan for granting complete independence to Kosovo,” concludes GIS Defense & Foreign Affairs analysis by the South-Eastern Europe station Chief, Valentine Spyroglou.
Artwork “Greed,” by H. dio Mendoza (USA)
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July 15, 2007
Ahtisaari’s Collusion With Albanian Mafia Confirmed Beyond Doubt
U.S. State Department Unable to Deny Ahtisaari Corruption
Excerpt From July 13 Press Briefing
Mr. Lambros.
QUESTION: On Kosovo. Mr. Casey, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested today Martti Ahtisaari unfitness* to mediate further talks based on a bunch of reports that Albanian mafia bribed the UN Kosovo mediator, something which has been most* confirmed by Washington-based Global Information System, GIS, and Gregory Copely of Defense and Foreign Affairs Institute. Given the U.S. Government concern about corruption at the UN, should the U.S. Government be calling for an investigation into this matter? How do these allegations impact U.S. confidence in Ahtisaari’s fitness to mediate further talks in Kosovo?
MR. CASEY: Mr. Lambros, I think that the reports you’re referring to probably fall into the category of spurious [German Intelligence and GIS reports are “spurious”?!]. But look, Mr. Ahtisaari is a distinguished former head of government of Finland, a person with a tremendous amount of experience and a track record in working on these issues. He has the full confidence of the Secretary General who appointed him UN and certainly the plan that Mr. Ahtisaari put forward has the full endorsement of the United States as the basis for moving forward.
We’ve put forward a Security Council resolution with others that calls presently for a period of additional discussions among the parties prior to implementation of those recommendations. But again, I don’t see any reason why there should be any question about the work that he did. We very much appreciate and respect the efforts that he made. We believe that he came up with a good plan and one that’s in the best interests of the Kosovars, of the Serbian people and of the region as a whole.
QUESTION: One more on the same issue. According to reports, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon already started an investigation about these payments, confirmed the existence by a report prepared for him by the German intelligence agency BND unit assigned to the UN mission in Kosovo. Any comment on it?
MR. CASEY: Mr. Lambros, you’re free to go ask the UN what investigations it has or hasn’t started. [...] If you’d like to pursue shadows, feel free to talk to the UN about it.
Far More Than “Shadows” — Gregory Copley: Ahtisaari’s Corruption Confirmed Beyond Doubt
In July 14 exclusive interview with Belgrade daily Vecernje novosti, the President of the International Strategic Studies Association Gregory Copley confirmed that everything published about Martti Ahtisaari being bribed by the Albanian mafia to propose independence for southern Serbian Kosovo province is correct.
“We have been investigating a number of corruption cases in the Balkans during the past 15 years. We have received a lot of information and heard rumors about corruption in the Martti Ahtisaari’s office, but we waited until we heard for the article published by the Banja Luka daily Fokus. That’s when we started our own investigation. Talking with the number of our sources, we confirmed that German Intelligence Service BND has indeed put this report together. Our report is created for the governments which are the only ones using the Global Information System. As far as I understand, it was leaked to the media,” said Copley.
Ahtisaari’s Anti-Serbian Bias Evident from the Start
QUESTION: Is the information about Ahtisaari being bribed reliable?
MR. COPLEY: First of all, we have seen the BND report. We then inquired with our sources if we can get an independent confirmation about the Ahtisaari corruption. Few intelligence sources from different states involved in Kosovo process were either suspecting or had evidence about Ahtisaari’s involvement with Albanian organized crime.
QUESTION: How long were you on Ahtisaari’s trail?
MR. COPLEY: We have been observing him ever since he was appointed a UN special envoy for Kosovo status, because we knew he came to that post after working for the International Crisis Group, established by the financier George Soros. We also knew that Soros, as well as the ICG, is firmly backing the independence of Kosovo province. This meant that Ahtisaari obviously wasn’t an impartial person for this position.
GIS Balkan Findings Considerably Different from the Picture Media Painted
QUESTION: Has any particular government ordered the investigation of the Ahtisaari case?
MR. COPLEY: Our association conducts independent investigations. We do not work for any particular government and that is why many governments trust our neutrality. We have conducted a large number of investigations pertaining to the Balkan events, the results of which were considerably different from the picture created by the media. This has made some of the governments skeptical, but most of them have now arrived at the position that our reports have been confirmed over time.
QUESTION: In your experience, how much could a revelation such as this one influence the concrete politics?
MR. COPLEY: We’ve had many requests for confirmation and for further information by the large number of governments and international organizations overseeing the Kosovo process.
QUESTION: From the Serbian Government?
MR. COPLEY: Not from the Serbian Government.
QUESTION: From the American Administration?
MR. COPLEY: All I’m going to say is — not from the Serbian Government, but from the large number of governments and the international organizations.
U.S. State Department Acts Like the Albanian Terrorists’ Agent
QUESTION: What do you expect now?
MR. COPLEY: We expect the United Nations to evaluate Ahtisaari’s position. Unfortunately, it seems that the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon lacks the guts to acknowledge the situation created by the [Albanian terrorist] KLA threats of renewed violence. I am disappointed with the fact that the new UN Secretary General has no courage to clean his own backyard. This shows that there is a lot of corruption within the UN that also existed during the Ban Ki-moon’s predecessor.
QUESTION: According to the Fokus article, it was the UN Secretary General that requested the investigation of Ahtisaari’s corruption?
MR. COPLEY: Soon after he requested the investigation, he demanded quick resolution of Kosovo issue and he failed to undertake clear steps to suspend Ahtisaari, or to examine his work. He was obviously shocked by the initial accusations, which German intelligence confirmed beyond any doubts. But it should also be taken into consideration that Ki-moon is right now under enormous pressure — not just from the KLA which threatens the entire region with violence, but from the U.S. State Department which acts like the KLA agent in promoting Kosovo independence.
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Kosovo: quello che può comprare il denaro a spese di un miglior interesse del paese
del Prof. R. K. Kent
(Elaborazione e traduzione di Curzio Bettio di Soccorso Popolare di Padova.
La stampa estera sottolinea come il Segretario Generale dell’ONU abbia ricevuto un rapporto dettagliato dal Servizio Informazioni Tedesco (BND). Ban Ki-moon stesso aveva richiesto che una sezione del BND venisse assegnata alla Missione ONU in Kosovo per sbrogliare la matassa di complessità che avviluppa questa Provincia della Serbia. Come è ampiamente noto, l’Inviato Speciale dell’ONU Martti Ahtisaari ha proposto di separare il Kosovo dalla Serbia, atto che avrebbe dato luogo ad un nuovo stato indipendente sulla base della preponderanza demografica Albanese.
Se accolto, questo atto non solo avrebbe violato la stessa Risoluzione dell’ONU che dichiarava l’opposto. Avrebbe dato anche il via libera a simili pretese in Spagna ed in Francia, in Gran Bretagna (Scozia indipendente), così come avrebbe indotto un movimento Messico-Americano, (assecondato dal Messico e con l’appoggio dell’Unione degli Stati Latino-Americani) ad esigere che la California venga separata dagli Stati Uniti e a questa assegnato lo status di nazione indipendente e riconosciuta internazionalmente. Perché non riconoscere l’indipendenza del Texas, per non parlare di tanti altri candidati sul pianeta Terra? Ma queste proiezioni non sono di immediato interesse, specialmente quando contrastanti con una rivelazione sensazionale e dettagliata. La squadra del BND assegnata, comandata dal Generale di Brigata Luke Neiman, ha scoperto, senza molti sforzi, che il Signor Ahtisaari aveva frequenti contatti con il leaders separatisti Albanesi e aveva ricevuto ingenti somme di denaro per un valore equivalente a circa 53 milioni di dollari. I particolari sono elencati con teutonica precisione.
Oltre a questo, sono state registrate conversazioni sui trasferimenti di denaro, su specifici conti e codici bancari in Svizzera e a Cipro, su sostanziose forniture di eroina, sul lenocinio di due donne bianche ridotte allo stato di schiavitù e su una visita alla residenza del Signor Ahtisaari ( alle ore 6.23 antimeridiane il 12 febbraio 2007) di una Jeep con targa PR-443-22CD, un veicolo appartenente al governo “provvisorio” Albanese a Pristina, capitale del Kosovo. Per giunta, sembra che il Signor Ahtisaari abbia qualche vecchio scheletro pro-Nazi nell’armadio e abbia coltivato un’inclinazione filo-Musulmana, derivata probabilmente dalle alleanze Nazi/Fasciste/Musulmane durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale.
Senza conoscere le rivelazioni del BND, il presente autore aveva consigliato il precedente Segretario dell’ONU di congedare il Signor Ahtisaari senza indugio e di dare l’incarico a qualcuno che non fosse in ogni modo ammanicato con gli Albanesi o con i Serbi. Non ci sono dubbi che essendo il Signor Ahtisaari un ex capo di stato e “universalmente rispettato” internazionalmente, l’ex Segretario non aveva potuto farlo. Con la presente informativa dettagliata del BND, dovrebbe essere impossibile consentirgli di mantenere il suo posto o di accettare a priori il suo piano.
Non è un segreto che fonti Albanesi abbiano fatto donazioni a membri del nostro Congresso e che i beneficiari abbiano deciso in favore della separazione del Kosovo dalla Serbia e di consegnarlo alla maggioranza Albanese. Anche un ex Segretario di Stato, un ardente fautore di un Kosovo Albanese indipendente, possiede ora una compagnia di telecomunicazioni proprio in Kosovo. Non sembra risultare nulla di illegale nelle donazioni di fondi ai nostri Soloni a scopo campagna elettorale: gli effetti non si fanno sentire all’interno e quello che avviene all’estero, come risultato dell’azione dei nostri Legislatori filo-Albanesi, non ha alcun interesse, dal momento che nessuno nello specifico è responsabile. La politica della precedente Amministrazione nazionale potrebbe così essere riassunta: “Dare i Serbi in pasto ai desiderata Musulmani”, così questo avrebbe procurato favorevoli consensi in Medio Oriente. Il risultato è la nascita di Al-Q'uaida per via della Bosnia, e la Wahabyya in espansione fra i Musulmani Albanesi del Kosovo. Se noi, forse, possiamo essere scusati data la nostra veramente scarsa conoscenza della storia dei Balcani e sul contesto in cui questa storia si dipana, questo non vale per gli Europei Occidentali, che comunque si muovono ripetitivamente sempre sulla stessa direzione della politica estera degli USA. Gli Europei Occidentali sanno bene che i Serbi sono stati “i custodi delle porte” attraverso cui gli Ottomani tentavano di passare per conseguire la conquista dell’intera Europa Occidentale. La passata generazione di Europei ricorda anche che i Serbi hanno dato considerevoli contributi alle vittorie degli alleati nella Prima e nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale, ma il nostro popolo non conosce nemmeno che una delle più piccole minoranze negli Stati Uniti, gli Americani di origine Serba, ha generato sette uomini che si sono meritati in entrambe le guerre la Medaglia d’Onore, il più alto riconoscimento del Congresso. La nostra opinione pubblica non conosce che i Serbi hanno salvato più di 300 piloti Americani abbattuti nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale, che quindi sono ritornati in servizio. Invece, siamo stati ben informati dal nostro Governo e dai mezzi di informazione di massa che “i Serbi” sono stati gli unici “aggressori” nella ex Jugoslavia e tutte le altre “tribù Jugoslave” sono state loro vittime, malgrado un evidente fratricidio tripartito, con la fondamentale assistenza dall’estero. La realtà virtuale rimpiazza la realtà stessa. Tutto in nome di una certa ideologia geopolitica che ha incapsulato nella sua rete i più alti gradi politici e di pensiero nella mirifica convinzione che a noi è concesso mutare la natura umana e cambiare il mondo in permanenza.
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1) KOMMENTAR und FLUGBLATT der Deutschen Sektion vom ICDSM
2) jungeWelt, 16.7.07: Milosevic-Komitee macht Druck
3) »Das Tribunal hat den Tod Milosevics zu verantworten«. Interview
mit Tiphaine Dickson
(an English version of the interview can be read here:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/icdsm-italia/message/276 )
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From: peter betscher
Subject: Gerechtigkeit für Slobodan Milosevic
Date: July 15, 2007 3:46:41 PM GMT+02:00
Liebe Freunde,
die juristische Sprecherin des ICDSM, Tiphaine Dickson, wollte am 14.
März 2006 in Den Haag auf einer Pressekonferenz dem Gesuch des
gesundheitlich angeschlagenen Slobodan Milosevic nach einem
Aufenthalt in einer Moskauer Spezialkinik Nachdruck verleihen,
nachdem sein Gesuch vom Haager „Tribunal“ abgelehnt worden war.
Die Petition wurde von ehemaligen Justizminister der USA, Ramsey
Clark und weiteren namhaften Politikern des russischen, tchechischen
und europäischen Parlament unterstützt.
Slobodan Milosevic wurde am 11. März 2006 tot in seiner Zelle im
Scheveninger Gefängnis gefunden. Die Untersuchung der Todesumstände
mit dem Ergebnis natürliche Todesursache wurde in Rekordzeit
abgeschlossen. Der Tod von Milosevic wirft aber viele Fragen auf, die
durch die Untersuchungskommision in eigener Sache nicht geklärt
wurden und die russischen Pathologen beanstandeten, dass sie keinen
Zugang zu den elementarsten Untersuchungsergebnissen der
holländischen Ärzte erhalten hätten. Auf der letzten
Pressekonferenz des ICDSM in Den Haag schloß Tiphaine Dickson mit
folgenden Worten ihre Ausführungen:
„Unsere Hoffnung ist, dass die Vertraulichkeit über alle
medizinischen Aufzeichnungen, Ärzteberichte, Medikationen , sowie
der ärztlichen Untersuchungsergebnisse aufgehoben wird und für eine
Untersuchung ausnahmslos zur Verfügung gestellt werden.
Wir werden in Kürze den Generalsekratär der UN, Kofi Annan,
ersuchen, die strafrechtliche Immunität von einigen Einzelpersonen,
die durch systematische Vernachlässigung, durch falsche oder
schlechte Behandlung, den Tod eines Mannes herbeigeführt haben, dem
selbst jetzt noch vorgeworfen wird für seinen Tod selbst
verantwortlich zu sein.
Wir hoffen und sind der festen Überzeugung, dass die Wahrheit ans
Licht kommen wird.“
Das Vorhaben gestaltete sich leider alles andere als einfach und
bedurfte längerer Vorbereitung. Weitere Informationen findet Ihr in
dem Flugblatt im Attachement. Für die nun notwendigen juristischen
und politischen Schritte zur Aufklärung der Todesumstände bitten wir
um Spenden auf das
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Bankverbindung: Swiss Post Postfinance, CH-3030 Bern
BIC (SWIFT): POFICHBE, IBAN: CH35 0900 0000 9198 2587 8
und Unterstützung. Um der Kampagne von Anfang an die notwendige
Breite zu geben, bitten wir Euch diese mail weiterzuverbreiten und
das Flugblatt im Attachement zu vervielfältigen und bei
Veranstaltungen und poltischen Treffen zu verteilen.
Voraussichtlich morgen wird in der Tageszeitung „junge Welt“ eine
Themenseite u.a. mit einem Interview mit Tiphaine Dickson erscheinen.
Vielen Dank! und solidarischen Grüße
Peter Betscher
Vereinigung für Internationale
Solidarität (VIS) e.V.
--- FLUGBLATT: https://www.cnj.it/MILOS/ICDSM/ICDSM-0706.doc ---
Keine Aufklärung des Todes von Slobodan Milošević:
22. Juni 2007
xy-ungelöst
Natürliche Todesursache?
Unterlassene Hilfeleistung?
Heimtückischer Mord?
Was wollen wir?
Wir finden uns nicht mit der Totschweigetaktik ab. Das
Internationale Komitee für die Verteidigung von Slobodan Milošević
verlangt eine rückhaltlose Aufklärung der Todesumstände durch
unabhängige Gutachter und die Offenlage aller medizinischen Dokumente.
Der 11. März 2006
Die Nachricht vom Tod des prominentesten Angeklagten des Anti-
Jugoslawien-Tribunals (ICTY) in Den Haag lautete in den Medien:
Slobodan Milošević wurde in seiner Zelle im Haager Gefängnis „tot
aufgefunden“. Vor einer Obduktion wussten sie bereits, dass jeder
Zweifel an einer „natürlichen Todesursache“ als verwerfliche
„Verschwörungstheorie“ zu gelten hat. Noch einer Tag zuvor ging
bei der Botschaft Russlands in den Niederlanden eine dringendes
schriftliches Ersuchen um Schutz ein, indem Milošević die
Befürchtung äußerte, im Gefängnis vergiftet zu werden.
Wem nützt ein toter Slobodan Milošević?
Der Tod befreite das „Tribunal“ aus einem ausweglosen Dilemma:
Milošević aufgrund der Beweislage nicht verurteilen zu können, aber
wegen des politischen Auftrags nicht freisprechen zu dürfen.
Hauptnutznießer ist die NATO, zu deren Aggressions-Legitimierung das
Sondertribunal unter Bruch der UN-Charta geschaffen wurde, Nutznießer
sind auch die Medien als „vierte Waffengattung“, die mit der
Propagandalüge von der „Alleinschuld der Serben“ zum Krieg
hetzten. Und die Milošević von Anfang an schuldig gesprochen hatten,
und an dieser Lüge auch nach seinem Tod ohne Schuldspruch festhalten.
Die „Untersuchung“
Die mit der Untersuchung beauftragte Kommission kam alsbald zum
Schluss und dem Ergebnis, dass eine natürliche Todesursache, nämlich
Herzinfarkt vorlag (Parker-Report, Mai 2006). Zumindest wurde darin
die „Selbstmord“-Spekulation zurückgewiesen, mit der die
Oberverschwörungstheoretikerin del Ponte hausieren ging. Aber: Keine
Erklärung gab es zu den im Blut gefundenen Spuren eines Medikaments
gegen Lepra und Tuberkulose, das die Wirkung blutdrucksenkender
Medikamente aufhebt, ebenso keine Aufklärung, warum eine defekte
Arterie nicht repariert wurde, und ob die zuvor abgelehnte Behandlung
im Bakuljew-Zentrum in Moskau hätte lebensrettend sein können.
Gutachter in eigener Sache
Diese Untersuchung, die mehr Fragen offenließ als beantwortete, wurde
von holländischen und anderen Ärzten des „Tribunals“
durchgeführt, die zum Teil bereits zuvor für die inadäquate
Behandlung und die Verweigerung von Verhandlungsunterbrechungen und
medizinischer Hilfe Verantwortung trugen, und sich nun einen
Freispruch in eigener Sache zusammenschrieben.
Widerspruch aus Moskau
Die russischen Pathologen stellten zwar den Herzinfarkt als
letztliche Todesursache nicht in Frage, bezweifelten aber dessen
natürliche Ursache. Sie beanstandeten, keinen Zugang zu den
elementaren Untersuchungsergebnissen der holländischen Ärzte
erhalten zu haben, ebenso keine Aufklärung über die Herkunft
gesundheitsgefährdender Medikamente, und sie stellten fest, dass
Milošević durch den Einsatz zweier Gefäßprothesen noch lange
hätte leben können. Für das „Tribunal“ und auch die UN schien
der Fall damit aber erledigt.
Protest der Familie
Wegen dieser Unklarheiten und Widersprüche schrieb am 17. Juli 2006
Marko Milošević an den „Tribunals“-Vizepräsidenten Parker sowie
die UN-Vollversammlung und den UN-Genralsekretär.
Darin wird der Vorwurf des Mordes erhoben, zumindest durch die
Verweigerung (am 24.02.2006) einer vorübergehenden Haftentlassung
zwecks Behandlung in einer Moskauer Herzspezialklinik.
Im Namen der Angehörigen wird die Übernahme der Verantwortung für
den Tod des Ehemanns und Vaters verlangt, der nach internationaler
Konvention der inhaftierenden Institution oblag, der ‚Parker-
Report’ wird als untauglicher Versuch bezeichnet, die
Verantwortlichen reinzuwaschen und freizusprechen. Der Brief endet
mit der Forderung nach umgehender Auflösung des Jugoslawien-
Sondertribunals in Den Haag.
Bis heute steht eine Reaktion aus, die Adressaten fanden nicht einmal
die Angehörigen einer Antwort würdig.
Wie soll es weiter gehen?
Das ICDSM und Juristen haben mit der Familie gründlich über die
Situation beraten. Ziel ist es, die volle Wahrheit über den Tod von
Slobodan Milošević zu Tage zu fördern und die Verantwortlichen zur
Rechenschaft ziehen zu können.
Hierzu sind juristische Anstrengungen auf internationaler und
nationaler Ebene notwendig, insbesondere müssen die absehbaren
Bemühungen der Gegenseite wirksam gekontert werden, die Aufklärung
durch ein Gestrüpp von Instanzen und Unzuständigkeiten zu verhindern.
Die Witwe Prof. Dr. Mira Marković hat auf Vorschlag des ICDSM die
kanadische Anwältin Tiphaine Dickson mit dieser Aufgabe betraut. Sie
war bereits früher als juristische Sprecherin des ICDSM tätig, und
hat umfangreiche Erfahrungen als Verteidigerin beim (ebenfalls
völkerrechtswidrigen) Ruanda-Sondertribunal gesammelt.
Die nötigen juristischen Schritte werden einen erheblichen
finanziellen Aufwand erfordern, da die diversen Instanzen ihre
Zuständigkeit ebenso wie eine Prozesskostenerstattung verweigern
werden.
Daher bitten wir Sie um Ihre Unterstützung in Form einer Spende!
Mit der – bis heute anhaltenden – Zerstörung Jugoslawiens begann
die Serie der „neuen Weltordnungskriege“, die immer weiter
eskaliert.
Wer nicht will, dass die NATO triumphiert, wer nicht will, dass die
Aggressoren die Geschichte schreiben, der sollte ein Interesse an der
Aufklärung der mysteriösen Todesumstände des früheren serbischen
und jugoslawischen Präsidenten haben.
Klaus Hartmann - Sprecher der deutschen Sektion des ICDSM
Cathrin Schütz - ehem. wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im
Verteidigungsteam von Slobodan Milošević
Peter Betscher - Finanzbeauftragter der VIS
Spendenkonto: Vereinigung für Internationale Solidarität (VIS) e.V.
Bankverbindung: Swiss Post Postfinance, CH-3030 Bern
BIC (SWIFT): POFICHBE, IBAN: CH35 0900 0000 9198 2587 8
International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milošević (ICDSM)
Internationales Komitee für die Verteidigung von Slobodan Milošević
Co-Präsidenten: Ramsey Clark (New York) – Prof. Dr. Velko Valkanov
(Sofia) – Sergej Barburin (Moskau)
Vorsitzender des Vorstandes: Klaus Hartmann (Offenbach am Main) –
Sekretär: Vladimir Kršljanin (Belgrad)
c/o Klaus Hartmann, Schillstraße 7, D-63067 Offenbach am Main, e-
mail: vorstand@..., URL: www.free-slobo.de
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www.jungewelt.de - jungeWelt, 16.7.07
Milosevic-Komitee macht Druck
Die Stimmung in Serbien gegenüber dem Westen hat sich nicht
verbessert. Die offensichtlich einseitig pro-albanische Position von
USA und EU bei den Verhandlungen um die Zukunft des Kosovo und das
Haager Jugoslawien-Tribunal (ICTY) wirken wie Katalysatoren der
Abneigung gegen den Westen in breiten Teilen der Bevölkerung: der
unproportional hohe Anteil serbischer Gefangener und der Tod von
einem halben Dutzend Angeklagter. Der prominenteste von ihnen ist der
ehemalige jugoslawische Präsident Slobodan Milosevic, der am 11.
März 2006 tot in seiner Zelle aufgefunden wurde. Nun fordert das
Internationale Komitee für die Verteidigung von Slobodan Milo?evic
(ICDSM) eine unparteiische Untersuchung des Todesfalls.
Das ICDSM wurde am zweiten Jahrestag der NATO-Aggression gegen
Jugoslawien am 24. März 2001 in Berlin und Belgrad gegründet. Co-
Präsidenten sind Ramsey Clark (New York), Prof. Dr. Velko Valkanov
(Sofia) und Sergej Barburin (Moskau), Vorsitzender des Vorstandes ist
Klaus Hartmann (Offenbach am Main) und Sekretär Vladimir Krsljanin
(Belgrad). In Deutschland sind u. a. der ehemalige DDR-Botschafter in
Jugoslawien Ralph Hartmann, der Antifaschist Lorenz Knorr und der
Schauspieler Rolf Becker Unterstützer des Komitees.
Für die nun notwendigen juristischen und politischen Schritte zur
Aufklärung der Todesumstände bittet das Komitee um Unterstützung in
Form einer Spende: »Wer nicht will, daß die NATO triumphiert, wer
nicht will, daß die Aggressoren die Geschichte schreiben, der sollte
ein Interesse an der Aufklärung der mysteriösen Todesumstände des
früheren serbischen und jugoslawischen Präsidenten haben.«
Spendenkonto: Vereinigung für Internationale Solidarität (VIS) e.V.,
Bankverbindung: Swiss Post Postfinance, CH-3030 Bern,
BIC (SWIFT): POFICHBE, IBAN: CH35 0900 0000 9198 2587 8
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www.jungewelt.de - jungeWelt, 16.7.07
»Das Tribunal hat den Tod Milosevics zu verantworten«
War es Mord? Die Hinterbliebenen und das internationale
Solidaritätskomitee ICDSM fordern eine unparteiische Untersuchung der
Umstände, die zum Tod des jugoslawischen Ex-Präsidenten geführt
hatten. Interview mit Tiphaine Dickson
Interview: Cathrin Schütz
Die kanadische Rechtsanwältin Tiphaine Dickson ist juristische
Sprecherin des Internationalen Komitees zur Verteidigung von Slobodan
Milosevic (ICDSM). Vor einigen Tagen wurde sie von dessen Witwe Mira
Markovic mit der Aufklärung der Umstände, die zum Tod ihres Mannes
geführt hatten, beauftragt.
Sie vertreten Mira Markovic bei der Aufklärung der Todesumstände
ihres Mannes, der im März 2006 tot in seiner Gefängniszelle
aufgefunden wurde, während ihm vor dem Jugoslawien-Tribunal (ICTY) in
Den Haag der Prozeß gemacht wurde. Offiziell heißt es, Milosevic sei
an einer natürlichen Todesursache, einem Herzinfarkt, verstorben.
Bisher liegen zur Klärung der Todesumstände lediglich die Ergebnisse
eines »internen Untersuchungsausschusses« des ICTY vor, der von
Kevin Parker, selbst Richter am Tribunal, geleitet wurde. Der
sogenannte »Parker-Report«, um es auf den Punkt zu bringen,
entlastet das ICTY und schreibt Präsident Milosevic die Schuld für
seinen Tod zu. Der Bericht zeichnet sich durch erstaunlich schludrige
Beweisführung und einen Mangel an Logik aus. Ohne eine unabhängige
Untersuchung und die Hilfe außenstehender Experten war vielleicht
kein anderes Ergebnis zu erwarten.
Die Familie Milosevics mißtraut folglich der Untersuchung des
Tribunals?
Nun, Slobodan Milosevic wurde nicht nur die adäquate medizinische
Versorgung verwehrt, die er wiederholt beantragt hat, sondern auch
die Ursache seines Todes wurde nicht transparent und unparteiisch
untersucht. Die Angehörigen haben das Recht auf eine vollständige
Prüfung der Umstände, die mit seinem Tod in Verbindung stehen
können, und welche ihnen mit dem Parker-Report verwehrt wurde. Marko
Milosevic bezeichnete vor gut einem Jahr in einem offenen Brief an
Parker den Inhalt und die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung als
»inakzeptabel«. Zurecht kritisierte er, daß die Autopsie ohne die
Anwesenheit von unabhängigen Experten stattgefunden hat. Die Familie
äußert überzeugende Einwände bezüglich der Frage der
Legitimität, Objektivität und Korrektheit der ICTY-Untersuchung.
Neben all der inhaltlichen Unzulänglichkeiten der Expertise leide die
Kommission doch an einem Mangel an Objektivität. Nemo iudex in sua
causa. Niemand darf in seiner eigenen Sache richten.
Die gesundheitlichen Probleme Milosevics waren allseits bekannt.
Ohne Frage. Spezialisten hatten seinen Zustand schon Ende 2005 als
lebensbedrohlich bezeichnet. Seine Gesundheitsprobleme wurden breit
diskutiert, oft wurden dabei die Fakten verdreht, um in den
Blickwinkel der Medien zu passen, selbst wenn das zu eklatanten
Widersprüchen führte. Zum Beispiel wurde oft behauptet, Präsident
Milosevic würde Unwohlsein simulieren, wenn er mit »einschlägigen
Beweisen« der Ankläger konfrontiert würde. Doch es war genau zu
Beginn der Beweisaufnahme seiner Verteidigung, als es hieß, er sei
»zu krank«, um sich selbst zu verteidigen. Es ist anzunehmen, daß
in diesem Fall Krankheit kein Ausdruck der Angst vor Beweisen war,
zumindest nicht seitens Präsident Milosevic. Während die Presse
immer wieder die angebliche Verzögerungstaktik Milosevics durch
Krankheitssimulation beklagte, hat dieser sich auch schwer
angeschlagen selten beschwert. Er pochte auf sein Recht auf adäquate
Behandlung, doch konzentrierte sich voll auf seine Verteidigung.
Seitens der Angehörigen wurde wiederholt gar vom Mord an Slobodan
Milosevic gesprochen.
Marko Milosevic sagte, es sei unerheblich, ob sein Vater vergiftet
oder anders ermordet wurde. Sein Zustand war bekannt und die von ihm
beantragte notwendige medizinische Hilfe in Moskau wurde ihm versagt,
obwohl die kurz zuvor vom Tribunal geforderten Garantien der
Russischen Föderation, einem Mitglied des Sicherheitsrats, vorlagen.
All das wurde, so der Sohn, ganz offensichtlich bewußt ignoriert, mit
der Folge, daß Milosevic starb. In seinen Augen bedeutet das, daß
das Tribunal und jeder, der dafür verantwortlich war, den Tod seines
Vaters zu verantworten hat.
Würde er noch leben, wenn das Tribunal ihm die Behandlung ermöglicht
hätte?
Ich bezweifele stark, daß Präsident Milosevic im März 2006
gestorben wäre, wenn er sich der Therapie in der Bakulew-Klinik in
Moskau hätte unterziehen können.
Mercoledì scorso, il Gruppo di Contatto per i negoziati, in una riunione che vedeva la presenza dei principali responsabili politici incaricati della definizione dello status del Kosovo, ha annunciato l’apertura di un concorso internazionale per la creazione di una bandiera e degli emblemi del futuro Stato indipendente del Kosovo.
In una dichiarazione concessa dal Gruppo di Contatto, viene specificato con chiarezza che « nessuna proposta dovrà ripresentare o assomigliare alla bandiera o all’emblema di un qualche altro Stato, di un partito politico, di un movimento o di una istituzione del Kosovo, ne’ implicare una stretta aderenza ad una comunità etnica particolare del Kosovo ».
Allo stesso tempo, questa dichiarazione precisa che « non dovrà assolutamente essere utilizzato il simbolo dell’aquila, in quanto richiamerebbe il simbolo di altri Stati, così come le combinazioni dei colori rosso e nero o dei colori rosso, bianco e blu ». L’obbiettivo: distinguere la futura bandiera del Kosovo da quelle dei suoi due confinanti, l’Albania e la Serbia.
La bandiera dell’Albania rappresenta un’aquila bicefala nera su fondo rosso. La bandiera della Serbia è composta da tre campiture orizzontali rossa, bianca e blu, e il suo stemma araldico rappresenta un’aquila bicefala bianca.
Formalmente, il Kosovo resta una Provincia della Serbia, anche se il 90% della sua popolazione risulta di origine etnica Albanese. L’ONU amministra il Kosovo dal 1999, data in cui la NATO ha cessato gli attacchi lanciati con lo scopo di bloccare la presunta pulizia etnica degli Albanesi del Kosovo da parte della Serbia. Il piano dell’ONU per l’indipendenza del Kosovo, abbozzato dall’inviato speciale Martti Ahtisaari, è bloccato dalla Russia, membro permanente del Consiglio di Sicurezza, e respinto dalla Serbia. Secondo il piano Ahtisaari, la futura bandiera del Kosovo, così come il suo sigillo e il suo inno, dovranno riflettere il carattere multietnico del territorio.
Qualsiasi persona che desidera partecipare a questa competizione è eleggibile. La persona, la cui proposta verrà ritenuta vincente, riceverà un premio di 10.000 euro, al secondo e al terzo premiati andranno rispettivamente 7.000 e 5.000 euro.
http://www.birn.eu.com/en/1/20/3646/
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Fonte: Quel drapeau pour le Kosovo ?
Albanian Nazi troops in WW2 Launched a Wide Spread Terror Against Kosovo Serbs
by Carl Kosta Savich
Japan Times
2 luglio 2007
Alla Serbia è dovuta giustizia in Kosovo
(Elaborazione e traduzione di Curzio Bettio di Soccorso Popolare di Padova.
Gregory Clark è un ex funzionario del governo Australiano e attualmente è vice presidente della Akita International University.
Nessun commentatore ama apparire come un patito dei complotti. Ma se questa è la sorte di chi cerca di contestare le deformazioni implicate nel dipingere la Serbia come criminalmente colpevole riguardo al Kosovo e alla disgregazione della ex Jugoslavia, allora sia così.
Andiamo indietro nel tempo, cominciamo dall’inizio. Quando la Germania Nazista ha tentato di occupare la Jugoslavia durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, le minoranze Croate e Musulmane hanno spalleggiato i Nazisti nella loro campagna contro la fondamentale resistenza Serba.
Perfino i Nazisti avevano dichiarato di essere stati impressionati dalla brutalità con cui le forze Croate — i temibili Ustashia — si impegnavano a massacrare e a fare piazza pulita delle popolazioni Serbe di interi villaggi e addirittura di città. Il risultato è stato quello di quasi 1 milione di Serbi eliminati, molti di questi nel campo della morte Croato di Jasenovac, vale a dire che erano state eguagliate molte delle operazioni Naziste dell’Olocausto, per gradazione e atrocità.
Con la fine della guerra, sembrava inevitabile la vendetta Serba. Ma il comandante in capo della Resistenza Jugoslava, Tito, si adoperava per frenare le passioni, sostenendo per i Serbi il potere del governo centrale, mentre la nazione veniva divisa in regioni semi-autonome con popolazioni etnicamente mescolate.
Ma questo era stato un compromesso non facile, come io ho potuto rendermene conto sul campo nella ex Jugoslavia degli anni Sessanta, e anche nella lontana Australia ho potuto assistere ai frequenti attacchi da parte di recalcitranti elementi Ustashia contro missioni diplomatiche Jugoslave e contro la considerevole comunità di immigrati Serbi.
Noi avevamo dato per scontato che, comunque avvenisse la disgregazione della Jugoslavia post-comunista, sarebbe risultato da stolti chiede che le consistenti minoranze Serbe in Croazia e in Bosnia avrebbero sottostato alle regole dei loro ex oppressori Croati e Musulmani filo Nazisti. Invece è prevalsa la stoltezza, grazie soprattutto alle pressioni esercitate dalla Germania, dalla Gran Bretagna e dagli Stati Uniti, tutti alla ricerca di espandere ancor più la loro influenza in un’altra nazione ex comunista dell’Est Europeo.
In breve, è stato inevitabile il conseguente conflitto, con atrocità da tutte le parti. Ma i Serbi almeno potevano pretendere di stare soprattutto cercando di riguadagnare città e villaggi che avevano perso sotto il Nazismo.
Molto è stato detto e fatto sugli ammazzamenti per vendetta da parte dei Serbi nel distretto Bosniaco di Srebrenica nel 1995. Ma non abbiamo mai visto alcuna menzione di omicidi di Serbi in tempo di guerra e dopo la guerra in quell’area, che aveva visto la popolazione Serba ridursi da un livello pre-bellico di più della metà a meno di un terzo di tutta la popolazione della zona. Nemmeno abbiamo trovato alcuna menzione delle atrocità di cui sono stati fatti oggetto centinaia di migliaia di Serbi che venivano espulsi dalla Croazia.
Entriamo nel problema del Kosovo.
Per appoggiare la parte Musulmana durante il conflitto in Bosnia del 1992-1995, gli organi di intelligence Britannici e Statunitensi facevano ricorso allo straordinario reclutamento e all’addestramento di estremisti Islamici provenienti dalle guerre anti-Sovietiche degli anni Ottanta in Afghanistan.
Inoltre venivano forniti aiuti ed addestramento agli estremisti Musulmani Albanesi, che avevano costituito l’Esercito di Liberazione del Kosovo (KLA o UCK), per scatenare la guerriglia contro le comunità Serbe isolate. ( Questi fatti sospettati da vecchia data hanno avuto conferma dall’ex Ministro per l’Ambiente della Gran Bretagna, Michael Meacher, che li ha descritti di recente sul giornale The Guardian).
Ancora più straordinario è stato il modo con cui i tentativi da parte dei Serbi per impedire o contrastare le aggressioni di questo KLA sono stati denunciati come “pulizia etnica” degli Albanesi del Kosovo (per ironia era stato il KLA ad inventare il termine, per diescrivere il suo piano di espulsione della minoranza Serba).
Gli USA e la NATO, la North Atlantic Treaty Organization hanno dato luogo ai bombardamenti sulla Serbia, fino alla conseguente sua sottomissione non molto tempo dopo, anche se era stato il KLA, e non Belgrado, che aveva violato il cessate il fuoco del 1998 imposto dagli Stati Uniti.
La guerra propagandistica usata per giustificare la politica Occidentale relativa al Kosovo è stata inesorabile.
Ci è stato riferito che erano state ammazzate dai Serbi 500.000 persone di etnia Albanese (ora, quasi un miracolo, ci è stata fornita la cifra di circa 10.000).
Molto veniva detto e fatto sul discorso tenuto nel 1989 dall’ex leader Jugoslavo Slobodan Milosevic, che avrebbe invocato “una pulizia etnica” per il Kosovo. Ma se si va a leggere veramente il discorso, si riscontra l’esatto opposto — che vi è un invito alla moderazione nel trattare con l’ostilità etnica Albanese nei confronti di una presenza politica Serba in modo legittimo. più rigida; l’idea che il 10% della popolazione Kosovara costituito dalla minoranza Serba avesse deliberatamente posto in atto l’espulsione della larga maggioranza di etnia Albanese era palesemente assurda fino dall’inizio.
Ora questa assurdità è stata fatta passare in modo pesante dai commentatori Occidentali, cosiddetti obiettivi, portando come prova inconfutabile la fuga nel 1999 delle popolazioni di etnia Albanese verso il confine della Macedonia. Ma questa fuga è stata momentanea, ed era avvenuta dopo gli attacchi con bombardamenti della coalizione USA/NATO, non prima. Inoltre, molto di questo era solo una messa in scena.
Quasi da nessuna parte abbiamo visto qualche menzione delle centinaia di migliaia di Serbi, Ebrei, Zingari Rom e Albanesi moderati che sono stati espulsi in via permanente dal Kosovo dagli estremisti ora al potere. Pertanto non si può pensare di essere infastiditi dalla resistenza di Belgrado e di Mosca all’indipendenza del Kosovo, dato che quasi certamente dovremo prendere atto che le residue minoranze etniche verrebbero ancor di più angariate.
Le implicazioni per il futuro fanno spavento. La vittoria della propaganda sulla questione del Kosovo appare avere persuaso i nostri artefici della politica Occidentale di non potere dire nulla di ciò che vogliono su alcun argomento e di fare assegnamento solo su una informazione distorta, e su un sistema dei media pigro o complice, per farla franca!
L’ultimatum del 1999 dato a Belgrado sul Kosovo era un puro ricatto: o voi vi adeguate alle nostre richieste, non importa quanto irragionevoli, ( compresa la domanda di porre non solo il Kosovo, ma anche tutta la Serbia sotto occupazione militare della NATO), o noi usiamo la nostra forza aerea predominante per mandare in pezzi le vostre infrastrutture economiche e sociali. La successiva distruzione delle industrie della Serbia, compresa l’unica fabbrica di automobili, è stata vandalismo puro.
Perfino la disponibilità di Belgrado di accettare un Kosovo sotto il controllo di moderati di etnia Albanese è stata respinta, in favore degli estremisti Musulmani del KLA che gli USA hanno da tanto tempo appoggiato. Per ironia della sorte, molti di questi estremisti si sono attualmente uniti nella guerra santa, la jihad anti-USA di al-Qaida.
Nel cinquantesimo Anniversario dell’inizio della loro unificazione, le potenze Europee si sono complimentate per il modo in cui hanno mantenuta l’Europa lontana dalla guerra, a partire dal 1945.
Però si sono dimenticate di sottolineare come avevano scatenato una guerra contro una nazione Europea, chiamata Serbia.
La Serbia era stata la sola nazione Europea a resistere alla dominazione Nazista della Germania (le altre, o si erano arrese, o avevano collaborato). Per questo, la sua capitale, Belgrado, era stata ferocemente bombardata. La volta dopo che era stata bombardata avveniva per opera della NATO, che vedeva la partecipazione della Germania e di molte delle altre nazioni ex collaboratrici, questa volta per costringerla a sottomettersi a causa del Kosovo. Non desta meraviglia se i Serbi si dimostrano infuriati.
Questo articolo a www.gregoryclark.net
(Fonte: R. Rozoff via http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato e http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yugoslaviainfo )
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http://slobodan-milosevic.org/news/ballkan070207.htm
"Reunification" of all Albanian lands "necessity" - Albanian paper
BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - July 3, 2007 Tuesday
Text of report by Albanian newspaper Ballkan on 2 July
[Commentary by Mona Agrigoro: "Slav and Greek Deceptions Are Being Refuted"]
In an interview with Swiss daily Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Macedonia's Slav Foreign Minister Antonio Milosovski said Macedonia had "resolved the Albanian question," whereas with the Oher [Ohrid] Accord it had found a model of integration "from which other multinational states could learn."
This cynical statement by a minister who sits at the head of a system that represses the colonized Albanian population clearly shows what an anti-Albanian strategy means.
Milosovski invented a false status for the Albanian population, which is considered a "minority" in this artificial colonialist state, shifting the stress from its true nature to a deceptive conception of it that justifies the rule of the Slav Macedonians over the Albanian population under the guise of its multinational nature.
History has shown that this sinister conception spells only death, repression, and state terrorism, which the Albanian population will never be made to accept, with the exception of some collaborationists who are awarded political positions in order the serve the Slav Macedonians, just as has happened in the past. The Front for the National Unification of Albanians [FBKSh] considers the Oher Accord a disaccord destined to failure. Life is showing with every passing day the failure of this accord, as is borne out by the following facts:
"The Oher Accord stipulated that one of the highest functions of the FYROM - the president, the Assembly speaker, or the prime minister - should go to the Albanians. This was not done. The Oher Accord also spoke about an amnesty for the fighters of the Kosova [Kosovo] Liberation Army [UCK in Albanian, KLA in English]. This was not done either. On the contrary, Macedonia's prisons today are full of former UCK fighters who were not persuaded to profess their loyalty to the colonial regime of the Macedonian Slavs.
Hence, the attempt to consider the Oher Accord "a model for other multinational states" is another attempt to deceive the international community. Ever since it came into force, this accord has been implemented only to the extent it suits the interests of the political parties of Macedonia's Slavs, as it is an accord geared to the establishment of a coalition between the Slav occupiers and the Albanian-speaking collaborationists, an accord from which the latter have received only political positions and financial benefits, not state power. Just as in the past, state power in Macedonia is in the hands of the colonizers of over 16,000 square kilometres of Albanian land. The Albanian question is a question of colonial occupation, which is still unresolved due to the occupation and colonization of Albanian territories by the Serbs, Macedonian Slavs, Greeks, and Montenegrins ever since Kosova, the Vardar Valley (now under Macedonia), the Presheve [Presevo] Valley (now under Serbia), the Northern Highlands (now under Montenegro), and Cameria (now under Greece) were invaded by Serbia and Greece in 1912.
It must also be stressed that the Macedonian state, in its essence, is an artificial colonial state that did not exist before 1947 and that was formed only to repartition (for the second time, following the partitioning in 1913) the territories of natural Albania.
Milosovski is just as ludicrous when he tries to separate the question of the Albanians of Kosova from that of the Albanians of Macedonia. There is no question of the Albanians of Macedonia, or the Albanians of Serbia, or the Albanians of Northern Highlands, or the Albanians of Greece, or the Albanians of Montenegro! There is only the question of the Albanians, as an indivisible nation whose liberation and reunification into a national Albanian state in the Balkans has become a necessity of the time if ever we want the Balkans to lose once for all time its powder keg appellation and if ever we want to have peace, security, and stability in Europe, which can be achieved only with the establishment of ethnic states, such as ethnic Albania, ethnic Bulgaria, ethnic Greece, and - why not? - ethnic Serbia.
Source: Ballkan, Tirana, in Albanian 2 Jul 07
Copyright 2007 British Broadcasting Corporation
Posted for Fair Use only.
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presidente Milosevic, avvenuta in circostanze oscure l'11 marzo 2006.
Il fatto che la signora Markovic abbia accordato la sua fiducia ad uno dei
membri più attivi dell'ICDSM impegna l'intero ICDSM in una rinnovata
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INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO DEFEND SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
ICDSM Sofia-New York-Moscow www.icdsm.org
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Velko Valkanov, Ramsey Clark, Sergei Baburin (Co-Chairmen),
Klaus Hartmann (Chairman of the Board), Vladimir Krsljanin (Secretary),
Christopher Black (Chair, Legal Committee), Tiphaine Dickson (Legal
Spokesperson), Cathrin Schuetz (Alternate Secretary)
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17 July 2007 Special Circular
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DEATH OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC IN THE ICTY CUSTODY WAS
THE PEAK OF CRIMINAL MISBEHAVIOUR OF THE ICTY.
THE SERBIAN AUTHORITIES DIDN'T TAKE ANY ACTION ON
THIS GROUND, BUT THE ICDSM WILL GO ON!
The current situation and the planned legal action are described in the
interview with Maitre Tiphaine Dickson below. This action will also
depend on your support!
V. Krsljanin
Tiphaine Dickson is a member of the Québec Bar, practicing primarily in
international criminal law. She was lead counsel in one of the first UN
genocide trials before the ICTR in Arusha, Tanzania. Maitre Dickson was
also Legal Spokesperson of the International Committee to Defend
Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) and she currently represents Mira Markovic.
Question:
Maitre Dickson, you are representing the wife of former Yugoslav president
Slobodan Milosevic, Mira Markovic, in a legal investigation regarding the
circumstances of his death in custody while he was standing trial before
the ICTY. The official version is that he died of a natural cause, namely by
a heart attack. What gives reason to doubt this information?
Maitre Dickson:
President Milosevic's death in custody was a disgrace. At minimum, that
shocking outcome deserved a thorough, serious, scientifically sound, and
above all, independent and impartial investigation. Instead, the ICTY,
which does not even explicitly guarantee the right to a trial by an
independent court, assigned one of its own judges, Kevin Parker, to head
an "internal inquiry". Slobodan Milosevic died only two weeks after the
ICTY Trial Chamber denied his request for provisional release, with guarantees
from the Russian Federation - a permanent member of the Security Council,
need it be added - for medical care at the Bakoulev Scientific Centre for
Cardiovascular Surgery in Moscow.
Question:
And this ICTY report is the basis for the official cause of death?
Maitre Dickson:
Yes. This so-called "Parker Report", in broad strokes, exonerates the
ICTY, and blames President Milosevic for his death. It does so with
surprising lapses in logic and shaky reasoning, but in fairness, without
a truly independent investigation, and without the benefit of outside
experts, perhaps not much more could have been expected.
However, President Milosevic's family does expect, and is entitled to, a
full accounting of circumstances surrounding his death, which was denied
to it by the Parker Report. Marko Milosevic made plain to Mr. Parker, in an
open letter drafted a year ago, that the content and conclusions of the
report were "unacceptable", and pointedly remarked that "the autopsy was
conducted without the presence of the independent expert team sent by
our family, even though we insisted on it", "that the Russian doctors were
denied the access to the body and the tissue samples", and that the family
was denied access to the blood samples. The family's letter also raised
persuasive objections to the legitimacy, objectivity, and propriety of the
ICTY investigating itself.
Question:
So in other words the ICTY, the same institution that denied Slobodan
Milosevic the needed treatment, judged the circumstances of which he
died.
Maitre Dickson:
It is difficult to comprehend that not only was Slobodan Milosevic not
granted the adequate medical care he had repeatedly requested, but
that the cause of his death was not investigated objectively or transparently.
Not even the questions put to the ICTY by the Russian Federation were
adequately addressed, according to Ambassador Churkin, speaking at the
5453rd meeting of the Security Council. It is therefore impossible to accept
the findings of the ICTY's internal inquiry, since beyond defects that can
be discerned in a superficial reading of the report, the panel suffers from
the fatal flaw of-at the very least-the appearance of partiality. Nemo judex
in sua causa. One cannot be the judge of one's own case.
Justice and minimal decency demand full disclosure of information
obtained by the "internal enquiry" to President Milosevic's family. The
findings, as they now stand, are unpersuasive, and a bereaved family is
entitled to know-without institutional interests being brought to bear-the truth
about their loved one's death in custody.
Question:
In your capacity as legal spokesperson of the International Committee to
Defend Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) you have met Milosevic on several
occasions in detention. You addressed the media in The Hague on the
day the case was terminated due to Milosevic's death.
Maitre Dickson:
I was, in fact, that very day scheduled to hold a press conference
supporting President Milosevic's appeal against the decision to deny
him provisional release to Moscow for a number of tests and likely
interventions that had been requested by specialists who had found his
condition to be life-threatening in late 2005. We were very concerned
about the deterioration of President Milosevic's health, and hoped that he
would rapidly receive the treatment he required to pursue his defense in
The Hague, and perhaps, to save his life. Unfortunately, my attendance
at The Hague on March 14th, 2006, followed his death by a few days.
I could only emphasize to the press that all medical data should be made
public, and expressed the hope that the Secretary-General of the United
Nations would accept to waive the civil and criminal immunity of any and
all UN employees and subcontractors responsible for President Milosevic's
death. It was a gruesome, shameful trip, one that was meant to support his
medical provisional release, and certainly not to take stock of his death.
Question:
So if he would have been granted the therapy he may still live?
Maitre Dickson:
Permit me to put it this way: I strongly doubt that had President
Milosevic been allowed to receive treatment at the Bakoulev Center
in Moscow, he would have died in March 2006, as he did.
Question:
Milosevic's family openly calls it murder.
Maitre Dickson:
Last year, Marko Milosevic expressed his outrage with the findings of
the Parker Report, and made the following comment:
"The question isn't whether or not my father was murdered or
poisoned. The point is that a former head of state, being held in UN
custody, was gravely ill and constantly complaining of his medical
condition. His health condition was assessed many times by medical
experts as dire. He was denied adequate (if any) medical treatment, and
then he died. At the same time those who denied him treatment were
undeniably aware of what the consequences would be. He asked for
provisional release to receive medical treatment. Dr. Shumilina warned
on November 6th (2005) that his condition was so critical that he could
die at any moment."
He went on to state:
"The guaranties had been granted, and the ICTY ignored all of it.
Obviously deliberately for they were aware of all the facts, both general
and subtle. So he died.
The Tribunal, and everyone in charge, has committed a deliberate
murder. They condemned him to death on February 24th when they
rejected his request for provisional release, ignoring everything: his
health condition, his rights, and the warnings of his doctors, which unlike
the jail physician hired by the ICTY, had both - unquestionable
competence and expertise, as well as his confidence. Ignoring even the
guarantees of The Russian Federation (by the explanation that those
guarantees lacked credibility, it seems that the Tribunal has given itself
the mandate to evaluate the credibility of even the Security Council's
permanent member states). The ruling handed down on February 24th
came into effect on March 11th. That is the fact and the truth. Any other
speculation is just evasive political manoeuvring. "
This is to say that all the facts about Slobodan Milosevic's medical
condition were known, and yet, with deliberation, no steps were taken to
ensure that he not die. In fact, the ICTY Trial Chamber denied-- in spite
of unambiguous recommendations from highly reputable specialists and
security guarantees from the Russian Federation-- a motion to permit him
to obtain the treatment he urgently required in Moscow.
What is now needed is complete and transparent disclosure of all medical
evidence-- including blood and tissue samples-- to examine the facts
without concern for institutional reputation or appearances. I am not surprised
by the family's characterization of Slobodan Milosevic's utterly shameful death
in custody as "murder". They are well placed to know how serious his
condition was, and how his attempts to obtain appropriate treatment were
thwarted, leading to the most irreparable consequence: he was found dead.
And as it stands there remain, despite the findings of the Parker Report,
too many unanswered questions for any family in similar circumstances not
to affirm that their loved one was murdered.
Question:
While the health problems of Milosevic were well known and led to several
adjournments of his trial, the media often complained about Milosevic's
alleged "tactics" to "disrupt" the process when talking about his illness.
Maitre Dickson:
President Milosevic's health problems were widely discussed, and
interestingly, the facts were often twisted to suit angles adopted by the
press, even when contradictions were glaring. For example, it was often
alleged that President Milosevic was feigning illness when confronting
"damning evidence" by the Prosecutor, and yet it was precisely when he
was set to begin his own presentation of evidence that it was suggested
that he was "too ill" to represent himself. Presumably, in the latter case,
illness would not be a result of fear of evidence, or at least not from the
standpoint of President Milosevic.
I think it important to point out how-despite undeniably serious medical
issues-President Milosevic, though firmly and consistently demanding the
respect of his right to adequate medical treatment, complained little, and
how industriously and efficiently he worked during the entire period of his
detention in The Hague. He was focused and was determined to
demonstrate - as he had stated on many occasions - that there had been
one war: a war against Yugoslavia. That he maintained composure and
dignity throughout the proceedings only heightens the dismay that he was
left to die without adequate medical treatment, and that his death was blamed
on him. His family understandably refuses to accept such a shocking state
of affairs, and frankly, anything called justice deserves infinitely more than
what they were offered. We are determined to bring to light all the facts about
this disgraceful and pointless death, for the sake of truth, and for justice, two
ideas that have been perverted enough.
A shorter version of the interview was published in the German daily Junge
Welt on Monday, July 16, 2007
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Fidel Castro on Kosovo and US tyranny
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/5528
Elaborazione e traduzioni di Curzio Bettio di Soccorso Popolare di Padova.
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12 giugno 2007
Kosovo: Castro discute su Bush “tiranno”
Havana - Il leader di Cuba Fidel Castro ha rivolto un severo rimprovero al Presidente degli Stati Uniti George W. Bush per le sue osservazioni, riguardanti l’indipendenza del Kosovo secessionista, rilasciate domenica scorsa durante la sua visita nella capitale Albanese, Tirana.
In un documento dal titolo “Il Tiranno visita Tirana” diffuso dall’agenzia stampa di Cuba, Castro ha criticato aspramente Bush per l’appoggio espresso all’indipendenza del Kosovo, “senza il minimo rispetto per gli interessi di Serbia, Russia e dei vari paesi Europei che si sono dimostrati sensibili al destino della Provincia, che è stata lo scenario dell’ultima guerra della NATO.”
Il documento dell’ottuagenario Castro continuava così: “Bush ha ammonito la Serbia che avrebbe ricevuto aiuti economici solo appoggiando l’indipendenza del Kosovo, la culla della cultura di quel Paese. Prendere o lasciare! Bush è bramoso di affetto. Ha goduto del tutto per le accoglienze senza proteste a lui riservate in Bulgaria. Ha parlato con quei militari del Paese che hanno preso parte alle guerre in Iraq e in Afghanistan. Ha cercato di impegnarli ulteriormente per versare sangue generoso in queste guerre per la pace.”
Il lunedì, Bush aveva fatto visita alla Bulgaria – un fedele alleato degli USA – come tappa finale di un giro Europeo di otto giorni, che aveva visto la sua partecipazione al summit dei G8 in Germania, e le visite alla Repubblica Ceca, alla Polonia, all’Italia e all’Albania.
Commentando l’arrivo in settembre di più di 3.000 militari USA in una nuova base in Bulgaria, come parte della politica USA di spostare molte delle sue forze Europee più vicino al Medio Oriente, Castro ha affermato: “Da duemila a cinquemila soldati di Bush saranno movimentati a rotazione costante attraverso le tre basi militari impiantate dall’impero... Come se noi stessimo vivendo nel più felice dei mondi possibili!”
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BC9C6116D-
Prensa Latina
14 giugno 2007
Nuove riflessioni di Fidel Castro
Havana – Il Presidente Cubano Fidel Castro si è espresso sull’appoggio dato all’Albania da parte del Presidente USA George W. Bush per il suo ingresso immediato nella NATO e sulla decisione di Bush di domandare l’indipendenza per la provincia Serba del Kosovo.
Data l’importanza, Prensa Latina riproduce integralmente le riflessioni del Presidente Cubano:
“In cerca di affetto”
Effettivamente è stata l’Albania l’unico posto dove Bush ha ricevuto un qualche affetto; per voler essere larghi, questo vale per l’accoglienza in Bulgaria dove diverse migliaia di persone lo hanno atteso sventolando bandierine Americane, comunque sembrando fredde nei suoi confronti.
L’appoggio di Bush dato all’Albania per il suo ingresso immediato nella NATO e la sua decisione di esigere l’indipendenza per la provincia del Kosovo hanno fatto diventare non pochi Albanesi un po’ pazzi.
Giornali ed altri mezzi di comunicazione riportano che molti di costoro, interrogati singolarmente, hanno risposto: “Bush è un simbolo di democrazia. Gli Stati Uniti sono i protettori della libertà dei popoli.” Migliaia di soldati e poliziotti Albanesi disarmati, condizione richiesta dalle autorità Yankee, facevano ala su due colonne, che andavano dall’aeroporto alla capitale, per più di 20 chilometri. In Europa, lo spinoso problema dell’indipendenza di una parte della Serbia è veramente controverso, e creerebbe un precedente che potrebbe essere seguito in diversi Paesi da altre regioni che reclamano la sovranità all’interno degli attuali confini.
E così l’Albania passerebbe da una situazione sociale di sinistra ad una di destra estrema.
Vivere per vedere! Vedere per credere!
La Serbia riceve un duro colpo non solo politico ma anche economico. Il Kosovo possiede il 70% delle risorse energetiche della Serbia.
Tra il 1998 e il 1999, l’anno della guerra della NATO contro la Serbia, la Provincia ha contribuito per il 70% dello zinco e dell’argento.
È stato valutato che il Kosovo possiede l’82% delle possibili riserve di questi metalli, ed inoltre le più grandi riserve di bauxite, nickel e cobalto. La Serbia perde industrie, territori e proprietà ed è lasciata sola con l’imposizione di pagare il debito estero incorso per gli investimenti in Kosovo, prima del 1998. Ho ricevuto proprio adesso un dispaccio dall’AFP che mi obbliga alla lettura di poche righe. Il comunicato letteralmente recita:
“ Mosca, 13 giugno 2007. La Russia accusa l’Occidente di tenere incontri segreti relativi all’indipendenza del Kosovo. Secondo un comunicato rilasciato dal Ministro Russo per gli Affari Esteri, la Russia ha censurato le nazioni Occidentali che mercoledì si sono adoperate in segreto e unilateralmente per preparare l’indipendenza del Kosovo. Il portavoce del Ministero, Mikhail Kamynin, con riferimento all’incontro delle potenze Occidentali tenutosi a Parigi martedì, in assenza del governo di Mosca, ha puntato l’indice contro i colloqui segreti che hanno indotto a sospettare che sia stato preparato unilateralmente uno scenario per la sovranità del Kosovo. Kamynin ha continuato: ‘Questo comportamento è intollerabile. La Russia non è stata invitata all’incontro e questo risulta incompatibile con le dichiarazioni che andavano nel senso di una soluzione, in apparenza, di accomodato.' ”
Von Klaus von Raussendorff
Das Verfahren zum Lockerbie-Anschlag von 1988, das demnächst vor dem
Obersten Schottischen Gericht überprüft werden soll, ist ein frühes
Beispiel für den Einsatz internationaler Strafgerichtsbarkeit gegen
Länder, die sich gegen die USA und ihre Verbündeten unbotmäßig
verhalten. Sondertribunale z.B. gegen Jugoslawien, Ruanda, Irak und
jüngst Libanon (Syrien) etc. bedrohen nicht nur das friedliche
Zusammenleben der Völker. Auch ein eisernes Prinzip der liberalen
Demokratie bleibt dabei auf der Strecke: Die Gewaltentrennung
zwischen vollziehender Gewalt und Recht sprechender Gewalt.
Die "Grenzlinie zwischen einem unparteiischen Verfahren und
Siegerjustiz ist schnell überschritten, wenn das Erfordernis der
Unparteilichkeit keinen Rückhalt in einer institutionellen
Unabhängigkeit hat," meint Professor Hans Köchler. Eine solche
Unabhängigkeit sei bei keinem dieser Sondergerichte gegeben gewesen.
In einem Forschungspapier der International Progress Organisation 1)
kritisiert der österreichische Philosophieprofessor, Autor eines
Standardwerkes zum Thema 2) Status und Struktur dieser
Sondergerichte. Er zeigt, dass universelle Gerichtsbarkeit nicht
regionalisiert werden kann (ausgenommen wie beim Europäischen
Menschenrechtsgerichtshof des Europarats in einem permanenten
regionalen Organisationsrahmen).
Die Sondertribunale des UN-Sicherheitsrats für das ehemalige
Jugoslawien und Ruanda seien "von Anfang an nicht in der Lage
gewesen, ihre Glaubwürdigkeit als echte Gerichte zu begründen." Das
Internationale Straftribunal für das ehemalige Jugoslawien (ICTY) in
Den Haag, vor dem der Prozess gegen Präsident Slobodan Milosevic bis
zu dessen ungeklärtem Tod in der Haft stattfand, habe "als ein
politisches Forum agiert und das Recht im wesentlichen für die Zwecke
einer Staatenkoalition benutzt, die politisch und militärisch im
ehemaligen Jugoslawien intervenierte." Die einzige Bestimmung der
Charta der UN, auf die sich der Sicherheitsrat bei seinem -
"rechtlich unhaltbaren" - Anspruch auf ein Mandat zur Schaffung
irgendwelcher Tribunale stützt, ist Art. 39. Dieser regelt
Zwangsmaßnahmen zur Wahrung von Frieden und Sicherheit. Er definiert
keine gerichtliche sondern eine politische Kompetenz. Die
Verwechslung und Vermischung der Ausübung exekutiver Gewalt durch den
Sicherheitsrate mit der Ausübung internationaler Strafgerichtsbarkeit
ist nach Auffassung von Köchler eine verhängnisvolle Fehlentwicklung.
Daher konnte auch das internationale Verbrechen des Lockerbie-
Anschlag vor einem regionalen - oder quasi-regionalen - Sondergericht
"nicht in einer glaubwürdigen und konsistenten Weise strafrechtlich
verfolgt werden." Formal handelte es sich um ein Vorhaben der
schottischen Justiz unter extraterritorialen Gegebenheiten auf
holländischem Boden vor einem Gericht, das als ein Sondergericht
gemäß einer Sicherheitsratsresolution nach Kapitel VII der UN-Charta
eingerichtet worden war. Die Regierungen der USA, Großbritanniens und
Libyens hatten sich nicht über die Auslegung der Montreal-Konvention
von 1971 zur Sicherheit der Zivilluftfahrt einigen können. "Wegen der
- fast unvermeidlichen - Politisierung des Verfahrens, die sich aus
dieser Konstellation ergab, produzierte das Verfahren wie auch das
Berufungsgericht höchst inkonsistente Urteile." Der Fall muss nun vor
dem Obersten Schottischen Gericht neu aufgerollt werden.
Der "Irakische Oberste Strafgerichtshof" ist ein weiteres
abschreckendes Beispiel. "Dieses Tribunal ist kein Gericht, weil es
auf Anordnung der Besatzungsmacht in Verletzung der Dritten Genfer
Konvention eingerichtet wurde." Als ein von den USA initiiertes
Sondergericht "soll es sich mit internationalen Verbrechen der Führer
eines besiegten Landes - oder Mitgliedern einer abgesetzten Regierung
- befassen". Dadurch gerate "die ganze Operation des Gerichtshofs
unter (direkte) Kontrolle der führenden Besatzungsmacht." Deren
"strategische Interessen" bestimmen die Erhebung von Beweisen, die
Auswahl der Verdächtigen, die Abfassung der Anklagen etc." (nicht zu
reden von der Ausbildung des Gerichtspersonals im Ausland durch
Experten der USA und Großbritanniens). Der "gemischt innenpolitisch-
regionale Rahmen" des Tribunals garantiere eine "fast totale
Kontrolle" der USA auf Grund der Invasion des Landes, für welche die
Führer der USA jedoch nicht vor einem unparteiischen internationalen
Gericht zur Verantwortung gezogen werden können. Denn der
Internationale Strafgerichtshof besitze keine autonome
Gerichtsbarkeit. Die USA könnten mit ihrem Veto im Sicherheitsrat
seine Befassung verhindern.
Ähnlich verhält es sich laut Professor Köchler mit der "ziemlich
erratischen Praxis universeller Gerichtsbarkeit durch die belgische
Justiz auf der Basis eines Gesetzes über Kriegsverbrechen von 1993."
Dass dieses von der außenpolitisch in Schwierigkeiten gebrachten
belgischen Regierung im Wege von Novellierungen ziemlich schnell
wieder erledigt worden sei, habe "dem naivsten Beobachter
internationaler Vorgänge gezeigt, dass die Anforderungen an eine
globale Justiz nicht mit den außenpolitischen Interessen eines
Nationalstaates vereinbar sind."
Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag könnte nach Meinung
von Professor Köchler vielleicht einmal "einen angemessenen
Verfahrensrahmen für die Ausübung einer universellen Gerichtsbarkeit
abgeben, wenn eines Tages die mächtigen Staaten, einschließlich aller
permanenten Mitglieder des Sicherheitsrates, dem Statut von Rom
beigetreten sein werden." Doch das Statut des IStGH räumt dem
Sicherheitsrat eine privilegierte Rolle ein. Dieser entscheidet, ob
Ermittlungen oder Anklagen dem IStGH zugewiesen oder entzogen werden.
Damit hat das höchste Exekutivorgan der UN die Kontrolle über die
Ausübung der Rechtsprechung des Gerichts. "Das bedeutet, das das
unerlässliche Erfordernis einer Gewaltentrennung nicht einmal im
Statut des IStGH erfüllt ist." Soweit Professor Köchler.
Das jüngste Internationale Tribunal, das der Sicherheitsrat am 30.
Mai zur Verfolgung der Verantwortlichen für die Ermordung des
ehemaligen libanesischen Ministerpräsidenten Rafik Hariri beschloss,
ähnelt auffällig dem Vorgehen gegen Libyen im Lockerbie-Fall. Auch im
Libanon geht es um einen spektakulären Terroranschlag. Auch hier sind
die politischen Nutznießer des Terrors die USA, Israel und ihre
libanesischen und andere Verbündeten. Auch hier soll ein arabisches
Land, Syrien, unter Druck gesetzt werden. Und auch hier arbeitete der
erste Ermittler, der Berliner Staatsanwalt Detlev Mehlis, mit
fragwürdigen Methoden und Behauptungen. Durch öffentliche spekulative
Behauptungen lenkte Mehlis den Verdacht auf Syrien. Auf sein Geheiß
wurden vier libanesische Generäle verhaftet, die bis heute ohne
konkrete Tatvorwürfe, geschweige denn eine Anklage ihrer Freiheit
beraubt werden. "Mehlis stand unter dem Einfluss einer bekannten
libanesischen Gruppe. Er war Opfer von Manipulationen bestimmter
Mitglieder dieser Gruppe und von Pressionen der USA." So ein intimer
Kenner der libanesischen Politik, der damalige französische
Kommandant der Friedenstruppe UNIFIL, General Alain Pellegrini, im
Interview mit der Hezbollah nahe stehenden Wochenzeitung Al Intiqad
v. 13. Juli. Mehlis Nachfolger, der Belgier Serge Brammertz sei
dagegen "ein erfahrener Mann, der fern von allen Pressionen und von
Politisierung arbeitet."
Wenn der Verwilderung der internationalen Strafjustiz auch
hauptsächlich dadurch Grenzen gesetzt werden, dass die betroffenen
Länder und Völker gegen die eigentliche Ursache dieser pseudo-
juristischen Barbarei, nämlich gegen die Kriege und Interventionen
der Großmächte, Widerstand leisten, so können und müssen doch auch
die Möglichkeiten genutzt werden, die in westlichen Ländern gegeben
sind. In der Tradition des "Russel Tribunal" von 1967 gegen den
Vietnam-Krieg entstanden Tribunale der zivilen Öffentlichkeit zum
Jugoslawien-Krieg und zum Irak Krieg. Sie haben Verantwortliche
namhaft gemacht und Kriegsverbrechen dokumentiert. So war es schon
heute möglich, Beweismaterial zu sammeln, damit bisher unbehelligte
Hauptkriegsverbrecher vielleicht eines Tages vor ordentlichen
Gerichten zur Verantwortung gezogen werden können. In Deutschland
wurde Strafanzeige gegen den ehemaligen US-Verteidigungsminister
Rumsfeld gestellt, sie scheiterte jedoch bisher an der NATO-
Bündnistreue der deutschen Justiz. Als während des Verfahrens gegen
Präsident Slobodan Milosevic Spendengelder für seine Verteidigung von
einer deutschen Oberfinanzdirektion und höheren politischen Instanzen
in missbräuchlicher Ausnutzung einer EU-Richtlinie beschlagnahmt
wurden, konnte der Eingriff gerichtlich abgewehrt werden. Immerhin
handelte es sich um einen schwerwiegenden Eingriff in das Grundrecht
auf Verteidigung vor Gericht. Wichtig ist auch die politische und
juristische Aufarbeitung der Rolle der Internationalen
Straftribunale. Zum ICTY gibt es auf der Webseite www.free-slobo.de
eine umfangreiche Dokumentation. Auch liegen inzwischen Bücher über
den Milosevic-Prozess von Cathrin Schütz, John Laughland und Germinal
Civikov vor. 3) Und der juristisch-politische Kampf gegen das
Tribunal muss auch deshalb weitergehen, weil dieses für den Tod von
Milosevic verantwortlich zu machen ist. Die Familie Milosevic fordert
mit Unterstützung des Internationalen Komitees für die Verteidigung
von Slobodan Milosevic Aufklärung der Todesumstände und Bestrafung
der Verantwortlichen (siehe: http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/07-16/047.php)
Schließlich ist zu betonen, dass die Korruption der internationalen
Strafjustiz auch als eine parallele Entwicklung zum innerstaatlichen
"Antiterrorkampf" zu sehen ist, der sich seit den Terroranschlägen in
den USA am 11. September 2001 immer mehr als ein enormes
Umorientierungs-, Umerziehungs- und Umgestaltungsprogramm erweist.
Eine zusammenfassende Übersicht über die "Sicherheitsmaßnahmen" der
letzten Zeit bietet der Rechtsanwalt und Publizist Rolf Gössner,
Präsident der Internationalen Liga für Menschenrechte, in seinem
jüngsten Buch 4). Anscheinend geht es um ein regelrechtes Programm
der Demontage hergebrachter Grundsätze des Völkerrechts, der
Menschen- und Bürgerrechte und des liberal-demokratischen
Rechtsstaates geht.
Anmerkungen:
1) Webseite der International Progress Organisation (I.P.O.) www.i-p-
o.org .
2) Hans Köchler, Global Justice or Global Revenge? International
Criminal Justice at the Crossroads, (Springer-Verlag) Wien, 2003.
3) Cathrin Schütz, Die NATO-Intervention in Jugoslawien -
Hintergründe, Nebenwirkungen und Folgen, (Braumüller Verlag, Ethnos
Bd.62 XII), Wien 2003; John Laughland, Travesty, The Trial of
Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice,
(Pluto) London, 2007; Germinal Civikov, Der Milosevic-Prozess -
Bericht eines Beobachters (Promedia) Wien 2006.
4) Rolf Gössner, Menschenrechte in Zeiten des Terrors -
Kollateralschäden an der ,Heimatfront', (konkret Literaturverlag),
Hamburg 2007
Quelle: Anti-Imperialistische Korrespondenz (AIKor) -
Informationsdienst der Vereinigung für Internationale Solidarität
(VIS) e.V.,
Redaktion: Klaus von Raussendorff
Postfach 210172, 53156 Bonn; Tel. & Fax: 0228 - 34.68.50;
AIKor-Infos können auf der Seite der AIKor http://www.aikor.de
unter "Info-Dienst der AIKor" runter geladen werden
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(Intellettuali di lingua albanese riunitisi a Tetovo - nell'odierna FYROM - hanno fatto appello per la unificazione in un unico Stato dei territori popolati da genti di lingua albanese. Nelle intenzioni dei nazionalisti pan-albanesi, infatti, la secessione kosovara non è altro che il preambolo per la disgregazione anche degli altri Stati limitrofi...)
http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=61069
Javno.com (Croatia)
July 10, 2007
Fighting For Kosovo Independence With Guns
Albanian intellectuals called for the unification of
all Albanians. They see Kosovo's independence as the
precursor of a national union.
Albanian intellectuals from Macedonia, Albania and
Kosovo gathered over the weekend in Tetovo and are
advocating the unification of all Albanians.
The representative of the Macedonian assembly Fazli
Veliu announced that he and the members of the former
so-called National Liberation Army would help the
Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) to fight for Kosovo
independence with weapons if necessary, reports the
Macedonian press on Tuesday.
Reporting on writings in the media in the Albanian
language in Macedonia about the gathering of the
Albanian intellectuals that took place last weekend,
the Skopje daily newspaper Vreme writes that they
called for the unification of Albanians from all
regions and assessed that Kosovo’s independence was
only the precursor of national unification.
On Tuesday, the Skopje daily newspaper Dnevnik
reported the statement made by Fazli Veliu,
representative of the opposition party Democratic
Union for Integration in Macedonia’s parliament and
president of the [National Liberation Army] veterans’
association ONA, which had started an armed conflict
with Macedonian defense forces in 2001, saying that,
along with the Kosovo UCK, he would fight for Kosovo’s
independence.
“If the resolution of the Kosovo issue keeps being
postponed,” Veliu threatened, “very soon, we will join
UCK soldiers, first at big protests in order to
internationalize the issue and then, if necessary, we
will win Kosovo’s independence with weapons.”
He thinks that he would have to gather all 10,000 ONA
members who fought in Macedonia in 2001, writes
Dnevnik.
Source: R. Rozoff through http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato
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