Informazione
Wesley Clark fera-t-il demain
le contraire de ce qu’il a fait hier ?
Amérique latine, Yougoslavie, Chine
et quelques autres cibles…
MICHEL COLLON
Wesley Clark, un espoir face à ‘Bush bis’ ? Nous verrons plus loin
pourquoi certains milieux dirigeants aux USA envisagent de “changer de
cheval”. Mais, d’abord, pourquoi ne dit-on rien de son passé ? Oui, on
peut voter pour Wesley Clark, à condition d’oublier que...
AMERIQUE LATINE (96-97)
Installé à Panama pour commander l’ ”US Southern Command” c’est-à-dire
les opérations en Amérique latine, Clark fournit en grand nombre des
“conseillers” militaires et des mercenaires US à divers régimes
pratiquant la terreur. Durant cette période, les violations des droits
de l’homme connaissent une escalade impressionnante, par exemple en
Colombie : 2.400 assassinats politiques (sans compter les nombreuses
disparitions) commis par les groupes militaires et paramilitaires
armés, entraînés et aidés par Wesley Clark.
Objectif : dans la lignée des agressions contre le Chili, Cuba et
tant d’autres, il s’agit de combattre avec sauvagerie les mouvements de
libération en Colombie, Pérou, Guatemala, Mexique et Bolivie. Toujours
pour maintenir la mainmise économique des multinationales US sur
l’Amérique Latine. Que ces guerres se soient déroulées plutôt loin des
caméras, ne diminue pas la responsabilité de Clark.
[http://www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/clinic/ihr/
display_details.cfm?ID=120&document_type=commentary]
[http://www.nato.int/cv/saceur/clark.htm%5d
YOUGOSLAVIE (1999) :
La guerre contre la Yougoslavie ? Certains y voient une opération
humanitaire dont les buts réels correspondaient aux buts proclamés.
Pour d’autres, au contraire, ce fut une opération hypocrite visant à
faire main basse sur les routes balkaniques du pétrole et sur les
richesses du pays en éliminant l’autogestion et les acquis sociaux du
“socialisme à la yougoslave”. Il semble que Clark lui-même ait répondu
à cette question en tirant le bilan suivant, à la fin de son mandat :
“Les adversaires potentiels devraient reconnaître que les nations
occidentales sont pleinement capables militairement, diplomatiquement
et industriellement d’opérations de combat de haute intensité incluant
l’utilisation de forces terrestres, quand leurs intérêts vitaux sont
impliqués, et même quand des intérêts moins vitaux sont impliqués.”
Plus aucune mention des prétextes humanitaires abondamment invoqués
avant et pendant la guerre. (Interview IHT, 3 mai 2000)
Quoi qu’il en soit, les crimes commis durant cette guerre par
l’Otan, sous le commandement de Wesley Clark, sont indéniables. Même
s’ils ne seront jamais jugés parce que la Justice internationale
n’existe pas contre les puissants.
Quels crimes ? S’il a atteint un nombre ridicule de chars yougoslaves,
Clark a bombardé un bâtiment de la TV (16 journalistes et techniciens
tués), des usines, des complexes pétrochimlques (d’où explosion de
cancers et autres maladies) des infrastructures civiles (centrales
électriques), un convoi de réfugiés albanais qui retournait au Kosovo
(70 victimes), un train de voyageurs... Et, last but not least,
l’ambassade chinoise (3 victimes) à titre “d’avertissement” car Pékin
soutenait l’indépendance de la Yougoslavie. Et l’usage de “bombes à
fragmentation”, meurtrières à long terme pour les enfants. Et celui des
obus à uranium dit “appauvri”, polluant la région à très long terme. Le
capitaine espagnol Martin de la Hoz a protesté ouvertement contre le
bombardement délibéré d’objectifs civils (Articulo 20, Madrid, 14 juin
99).
Loin d’être un simple “soldat obéissant”, Clark est décrit par tous
comme le “super-faucon” qui voulait notamment bombarder tous les ponts
de Belgrade pour intimider la population. Cela se voit aussi à son
attitude juste après la guerre : lorsque des troupes russes font
mouvement vers Pristina pour essayer de protéger les minorités serbes,
Wesley Clark, dans une colère monstre, exige que le général britannique
Jackson bloque l’aéroport de Pristina pour empêcher les Russes
d’atterrir. Réponse de Jackson : “Sir, je ne vais pas déclencher la
IIIème Guerre mondiale pour vous!”. Par la suite, Clark aidera les
milices terroristes de l’UCK à échapper à la démilitarisation pourtant
prévue par la résolution de l’ONU. Aujourd’hui, encore ces milices
maffieuses font régner la terreur parmi toutes les communautés
nationales et aussi une grande partie de la population albanaise.
IRAK (2003) :
Aujourd’hui que Bush s’empêtre face à la résistance du peuple irakien,
Wesley Clark fanfaronne : “Je l’avais bien dit”. Et, par électoralisme,
il cherche même à se donner une image “anti-guerre”. Mais que
déclarait-il avant la guerre ? “Je suis catégoriquement certain que
Saddam possède des armes de destruction massive” (CNN, 18 janvier 01).
Et qu’écrivait-il exactement le 10 avril dernier ? Eh bien, il
saluait l’agression contre l’Irak, motivée selon lui par “de fortes
convictions, Bush et Blair peuvent être fiers de leur détermination.”
Jugeant que “rien ne pouvait être plus émouvant” que la “libération” de
Bagdad et qu’il fallait se dépêcher de “compléter cette grande
victoire”. Il applaudissait ausi le général Tommy Franks : un criminel
de guerre coupable d’avoir ordonné ou couvert des bombardement sur des
civils, des attaques contre des hôpitaux et des ambulances, contre des
journalistes...
Et l’ “homme de paix” Clark annonçait que “l’opération en Irak
servira aussi comme point de départ (...) même d’actions militaires
contre des pays qui ont soutenu le terrorisme et ont déployé des armes
de destruction massive”. Une tribune que Bush aurait pratiquement pu
signer (publiée dans le Times de Londres).
ET DEMAIN LA CHINE ET ... ?
Pourquoi Clark grimpe-t-il ? Parce que les échecs de la méthode Bush
commencent à inquiéter une partie des milieux dirigeants aux
Etats-Unis. Ils craignent qu’en se mettant tous les alliés à dos, il
devienne de plus en plus difficile et coûteux de mener les diverses
guerres d’agression en préparation. En fait, les divers courants de la
bourgeoisie US sont bien d’accord sur un plan de recolonisation totale
du monde pour sauver les multinationales US de la crise. Mais ces
fractions divergent parfois sur les méthodes : En partageant un peu le
butin avec les alliés européens ou pas ? En respectant ou non un
semblant de légalité internationale ?
Si Bush venait à être trop discrédité par les résistances, par ses
mensonges, par les scandales, et par la faillite de sa politique
économique, alors il faudrait un homme de rechange pour mener la même
politique mais plus habilement.
L’épisode Clark montre que la superpuissance US a aussi ses
faiblesses. C’est à cause de la résistance dans le monde que les
milieux dirigeants des Etats-Unis sont dans l’embarras. En même temps,
l’affaire montre aussi que les “solutions” de ce système consistent à
remplacer un criminel de guerre par un autre.
Tous ses précédents états de service le prouvent : Clark serait lui
aussi l’homme des multinationales US et de leurs dangereux projets. En
sachant que la Chine est de plus en plus indiquée comme la cible
majeure des USA vers l’horizon 2015, il est intéressant de rappeler une
récente interview passée inaperçue. Wesley Clark, interrogé sur Saddam,
répond que les USA feraient mieux de s’intéresser à la Chine : “Durant
la Révolution culturelle, il y avait le cannibalisme en Chine” (sic).
Et les gens qui ont écrasé les étudiants à Tienanmen, sont toujours au
pouvoir.” ( Magazine Fortune, cité dans
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/9/21/102656.shtml)
Le général Jackson n’avait semble-t-il pas tort en affirmant que Wesley
Clark, c’était la voie vers la IIIème Guerre mondiale... La voie
progressiste ne consiste pas à choisir, en désespoir de cause, un
requin paraissant moins dangereux que celui au pouvoir. La voie
progressiste ne saurait être chose que l’élimination du système des
requins.
23 septembre 03
le contraire de ce qu’il a fait hier ?
Amérique latine, Yougoslavie, Chine
et quelques autres cibles…
MICHEL COLLON
Wesley Clark, un espoir face à ‘Bush bis’ ? Nous verrons plus loin
pourquoi certains milieux dirigeants aux USA envisagent de “changer de
cheval”. Mais, d’abord, pourquoi ne dit-on rien de son passé ? Oui, on
peut voter pour Wesley Clark, à condition d’oublier que...
AMERIQUE LATINE (96-97)
Installé à Panama pour commander l’ ”US Southern Command” c’est-à-dire
les opérations en Amérique latine, Clark fournit en grand nombre des
“conseillers” militaires et des mercenaires US à divers régimes
pratiquant la terreur. Durant cette période, les violations des droits
de l’homme connaissent une escalade impressionnante, par exemple en
Colombie : 2.400 assassinats politiques (sans compter les nombreuses
disparitions) commis par les groupes militaires et paramilitaires
armés, entraînés et aidés par Wesley Clark.
Objectif : dans la lignée des agressions contre le Chili, Cuba et
tant d’autres, il s’agit de combattre avec sauvagerie les mouvements de
libération en Colombie, Pérou, Guatemala, Mexique et Bolivie. Toujours
pour maintenir la mainmise économique des multinationales US sur
l’Amérique Latine. Que ces guerres se soient déroulées plutôt loin des
caméras, ne diminue pas la responsabilité de Clark.
[http://www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/clinic/ihr/
display_details.cfm?ID=120&document_type=commentary]
[http://www.nato.int/cv/saceur/clark.htm%5d
YOUGOSLAVIE (1999) :
La guerre contre la Yougoslavie ? Certains y voient une opération
humanitaire dont les buts réels correspondaient aux buts proclamés.
Pour d’autres, au contraire, ce fut une opération hypocrite visant à
faire main basse sur les routes balkaniques du pétrole et sur les
richesses du pays en éliminant l’autogestion et les acquis sociaux du
“socialisme à la yougoslave”. Il semble que Clark lui-même ait répondu
à cette question en tirant le bilan suivant, à la fin de son mandat :
“Les adversaires potentiels devraient reconnaître que les nations
occidentales sont pleinement capables militairement, diplomatiquement
et industriellement d’opérations de combat de haute intensité incluant
l’utilisation de forces terrestres, quand leurs intérêts vitaux sont
impliqués, et même quand des intérêts moins vitaux sont impliqués.”
Plus aucune mention des prétextes humanitaires abondamment invoqués
avant et pendant la guerre. (Interview IHT, 3 mai 2000)
Quoi qu’il en soit, les crimes commis durant cette guerre par
l’Otan, sous le commandement de Wesley Clark, sont indéniables. Même
s’ils ne seront jamais jugés parce que la Justice internationale
n’existe pas contre les puissants.
Quels crimes ? S’il a atteint un nombre ridicule de chars yougoslaves,
Clark a bombardé un bâtiment de la TV (16 journalistes et techniciens
tués), des usines, des complexes pétrochimlques (d’où explosion de
cancers et autres maladies) des infrastructures civiles (centrales
électriques), un convoi de réfugiés albanais qui retournait au Kosovo
(70 victimes), un train de voyageurs... Et, last but not least,
l’ambassade chinoise (3 victimes) à titre “d’avertissement” car Pékin
soutenait l’indépendance de la Yougoslavie. Et l’usage de “bombes à
fragmentation”, meurtrières à long terme pour les enfants. Et celui des
obus à uranium dit “appauvri”, polluant la région à très long terme. Le
capitaine espagnol Martin de la Hoz a protesté ouvertement contre le
bombardement délibéré d’objectifs civils (Articulo 20, Madrid, 14 juin
99).
Loin d’être un simple “soldat obéissant”, Clark est décrit par tous
comme le “super-faucon” qui voulait notamment bombarder tous les ponts
de Belgrade pour intimider la population. Cela se voit aussi à son
attitude juste après la guerre : lorsque des troupes russes font
mouvement vers Pristina pour essayer de protéger les minorités serbes,
Wesley Clark, dans une colère monstre, exige que le général britannique
Jackson bloque l’aéroport de Pristina pour empêcher les Russes
d’atterrir. Réponse de Jackson : “Sir, je ne vais pas déclencher la
IIIème Guerre mondiale pour vous!”. Par la suite, Clark aidera les
milices terroristes de l’UCK à échapper à la démilitarisation pourtant
prévue par la résolution de l’ONU. Aujourd’hui, encore ces milices
maffieuses font régner la terreur parmi toutes les communautés
nationales et aussi une grande partie de la population albanaise.
IRAK (2003) :
Aujourd’hui que Bush s’empêtre face à la résistance du peuple irakien,
Wesley Clark fanfaronne : “Je l’avais bien dit”. Et, par électoralisme,
il cherche même à se donner une image “anti-guerre”. Mais que
déclarait-il avant la guerre ? “Je suis catégoriquement certain que
Saddam possède des armes de destruction massive” (CNN, 18 janvier 01).
Et qu’écrivait-il exactement le 10 avril dernier ? Eh bien, il
saluait l’agression contre l’Irak, motivée selon lui par “de fortes
convictions, Bush et Blair peuvent être fiers de leur détermination.”
Jugeant que “rien ne pouvait être plus émouvant” que la “libération” de
Bagdad et qu’il fallait se dépêcher de “compléter cette grande
victoire”. Il applaudissait ausi le général Tommy Franks : un criminel
de guerre coupable d’avoir ordonné ou couvert des bombardement sur des
civils, des attaques contre des hôpitaux et des ambulances, contre des
journalistes...
Et l’ “homme de paix” Clark annonçait que “l’opération en Irak
servira aussi comme point de départ (...) même d’actions militaires
contre des pays qui ont soutenu le terrorisme et ont déployé des armes
de destruction massive”. Une tribune que Bush aurait pratiquement pu
signer (publiée dans le Times de Londres).
ET DEMAIN LA CHINE ET ... ?
Pourquoi Clark grimpe-t-il ? Parce que les échecs de la méthode Bush
commencent à inquiéter une partie des milieux dirigeants aux
Etats-Unis. Ils craignent qu’en se mettant tous les alliés à dos, il
devienne de plus en plus difficile et coûteux de mener les diverses
guerres d’agression en préparation. En fait, les divers courants de la
bourgeoisie US sont bien d’accord sur un plan de recolonisation totale
du monde pour sauver les multinationales US de la crise. Mais ces
fractions divergent parfois sur les méthodes : En partageant un peu le
butin avec les alliés européens ou pas ? En respectant ou non un
semblant de légalité internationale ?
Si Bush venait à être trop discrédité par les résistances, par ses
mensonges, par les scandales, et par la faillite de sa politique
économique, alors il faudrait un homme de rechange pour mener la même
politique mais plus habilement.
L’épisode Clark montre que la superpuissance US a aussi ses
faiblesses. C’est à cause de la résistance dans le monde que les
milieux dirigeants des Etats-Unis sont dans l’embarras. En même temps,
l’affaire montre aussi que les “solutions” de ce système consistent à
remplacer un criminel de guerre par un autre.
Tous ses précédents états de service le prouvent : Clark serait lui
aussi l’homme des multinationales US et de leurs dangereux projets. En
sachant que la Chine est de plus en plus indiquée comme la cible
majeure des USA vers l’horizon 2015, il est intéressant de rappeler une
récente interview passée inaperçue. Wesley Clark, interrogé sur Saddam,
répond que les USA feraient mieux de s’intéresser à la Chine : “Durant
la Révolution culturelle, il y avait le cannibalisme en Chine” (sic).
Et les gens qui ont écrasé les étudiants à Tienanmen, sont toujours au
pouvoir.” ( Magazine Fortune, cité dans
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/9/21/102656.shtml)
Le général Jackson n’avait semble-t-il pas tort en affirmant que Wesley
Clark, c’était la voie vers la IIIème Guerre mondiale... La voie
progressiste ne consiste pas à choisir, en désespoir de cause, un
requin paraissant moins dangereux que celui au pouvoir. La voie
progressiste ne saurait être chose que l’élimination du système des
requins.
23 septembre 03
From: Vladimir Krsljanin <slobodavk@...>
Skupstina Slobode
SLOBODA ce odrzati sednicu svoje Skupstine u subotu, 27. septembra
2003, u svojim prostorijama u Beogradu,
ul. Rajiceva br. 16, sa pocetkom u 11 casova.
Sednica Skupstine je otvorena za medije.
Kao nacin njihovog direktnog ucesca u ovom dogadjaju od nacionalnog
znacaja, pozivamo sve prijatelje i pristalice u zemlji i inostranstvu
da posalju:
- protestna pisma telima UN, haskom tribunalu i svojim vladama,
zahtevajuci dve godine slobode za Predsednika Milosevica;
- pisma podrske Predsedniku Milosevicu;
- kopije svojih pisama nama; poruke solidarnosti su takodje
dobrodosle.
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RUSKI DRUSTVENI KOMITET ZA ODBRANU
SLOBODANA MILOSEVICA
Moskva, 18. septembra 2003.
S A O P S T E N J E
Medjunarodni tribunal za bivsu Jugoslaviju u Hagu je doneo odluku da
odobri bivsem predsedniku Savezne Republike Jugoslavije, politickom
zatvoreniku Slobodanu Milosevicu, samo tri meseca za pripremu
odbrane.To je sramna, skandalozna odluka. To je direktno krsenje
medjunarodnog prava, koje propisuje ravnopravnost strana u sudskom
procesu.
Kao sto je poznato, tuzioci tribunala su prikupljali materijale za
optuzbu vise od cetiri godine.U tom poslu ucestvovale su stotine
cinovnika tribunala. A od Milosevica ocekuju da se pripremi za odbranu
za samo tri meseca. Pritom on mora da radi na prikupljanju dokumenata i
da komunicira sa svedocima, nalazeci se u zatvorskoj celiji. To je
potpuni apsurd.
Posebni cinizam ponasanja tribunala je u tome sto je Slobodanu
Milosevicu i dalje uskracena kvalifikovana medicinska pomoc, iako
stanje njegovog zdravlja izaziva najozbiljniju zabrinutost.
Sve se to desava istovremeno sa prakticno potpunom izolacijom
predsednika Milosevica od njegovih politickih saveznika u Jugoslaviji i
od clanova njegove porodice. Kao sto je poznato, progon clanova
porodice Slobodana Milosevica pod laznim izgovorima, lisio je njegovu
zenu i sina mogucnosti da ga posecuju u zatvoru.
Odlucno osudjujemo nastavak politickog obracuna sa srpskim liderom i
progon clanova njegove porodice.
Zahtevamo prekid procesa na dve godine kako bi Slobodan Milosevic mogao
da se na adekvatan nacin pripremi za odbranu.
Insistiramo na njegovom oslobodjenju iz pritvora radi zdravstvenog
oporavka i efektivne pripreme za odbranu.
Predsednik Komiteta
Aleksandar Zinovjev
Clanovi Ruskog drustvenog komiteta za odbranu Slobodana Milosevica su:
1. Aleksandar Aleksandrovic ZINOVJEV, filozof, pisac, profesor
Moskovskog drzavnog univerziteta
2. Sergej Nikolajevic BABURIN, doktor pravnih nauka, predsednik
Ruskog opstenarodnog saveza
3. Nikolaj Maksimovic BEZBORODOV, deputat Drzavne Dume
4. Valentin Ivanovic VARENIKOV, general armije, Heroj Sovjetskog
Saveza
5. Valerij Nikolajevic GANICEV, predsednik Saveza pisaca Rusije
6. Sergej Aleksandrovic GLOTOV, doktor pravnih nauka, direktor
Instituta za ljudska prava
7. Vladimir Aleksandrovic DZANIBEKOV, pilot-kosmonaut, dvaput Heroj
Sovjetskog Saveza, akademik Ruske akademije prirodnih nauka
8. Nikolaj Ivanovic DOROSENKO, sekretar Uprave Saveza pisaca Rusije
9. Jelena Grigorjevna DRAPEKO, glumica, deputat Drzavne Dume
10.Ljudmila Vasiljevna ZAJCEVA, narodna umetnica Rusije
11.Olga Nikolajevna ZARUDNAJA, potpredsednik Saveza slovenskih novinara
12.Mihail Aleksandrovic ZEMSKOV, glavni urednik lista "Patriot"
13.Nikolaj Nikolajevic IZVEKOV, clan Naucnog saveta Ruske akademije
nauka za istoriju medjunarodnih odnosa i spoljnu politiku Rusije
14.Vjaceslav Mihajlovic KLIKOV, skluptor, predsednik Medjunarodnog
fonda slovenske pismenosti i kulture
15.Nikolaj Ignatovic KONDRATJENKO, clan Saveta Federacije
16.Mihail Petrovic LOBANOV, pisac
17.Jurij Mihajlovic LOSCIC, pisac
18.Mihail Ivanovic NOZKIN, pesnik, narodni umetnik Rusije
19.Genadij Vasiljevic OSIPOV, akademik Ruske akademije nauka, direktor
Instituta za socijalno-politicka istrazivanja Ruske akademije nauka
20.Aleksandar Andrejevic PROHANOV, glavni urednik lista "Zavtra" (Sutra)
21.Vasilij Stepanovic SAFRONCUK, zamenik Generalnog sekretara
Ujedinjenih nacija (1987 - 1992), ambasador
22.Vladimir Nikolajevic STRAHOV, akademik Ruske akademije nauka,
direktor Instituta za geofiziku "O. J. Smit"
23.Valentin Vasiljevic CIKIN, glavni urednik lista "Sovjetska Rusija"
24.Nina Dmitrijevna JAKOVLJEVA, predsednik Patriotskog saveza zena
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SLOBODA urgently needs your donation.
Please find the detailed instructions at:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/pomoc.htm
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM)
http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)
Skupstina Slobode
SLOBODA ce odrzati sednicu svoje Skupstine u subotu, 27. septembra
2003, u svojim prostorijama u Beogradu,
ul. Rajiceva br. 16, sa pocetkom u 11 casova.
Sednica Skupstine je otvorena za medije.
Kao nacin njihovog direktnog ucesca u ovom dogadjaju od nacionalnog
znacaja, pozivamo sve prijatelje i pristalice u zemlji i inostranstvu
da posalju:
- protestna pisma telima UN, haskom tribunalu i svojim vladama,
zahtevajuci dve godine slobode za Predsednika Milosevica;
- pisma podrske Predsedniku Milosevicu;
- kopije svojih pisama nama; poruke solidarnosti su takodje
dobrodosle.
---
RUSKI DRUSTVENI KOMITET ZA ODBRANU
SLOBODANA MILOSEVICA
Moskva, 18. septembra 2003.
S A O P S T E N J E
Medjunarodni tribunal za bivsu Jugoslaviju u Hagu je doneo odluku da
odobri bivsem predsedniku Savezne Republike Jugoslavije, politickom
zatvoreniku Slobodanu Milosevicu, samo tri meseca za pripremu
odbrane.To je sramna, skandalozna odluka. To je direktno krsenje
medjunarodnog prava, koje propisuje ravnopravnost strana u sudskom
procesu.
Kao sto je poznato, tuzioci tribunala su prikupljali materijale za
optuzbu vise od cetiri godine.U tom poslu ucestvovale su stotine
cinovnika tribunala. A od Milosevica ocekuju da se pripremi za odbranu
za samo tri meseca. Pritom on mora da radi na prikupljanju dokumenata i
da komunicira sa svedocima, nalazeci se u zatvorskoj celiji. To je
potpuni apsurd.
Posebni cinizam ponasanja tribunala je u tome sto je Slobodanu
Milosevicu i dalje uskracena kvalifikovana medicinska pomoc, iako
stanje njegovog zdravlja izaziva najozbiljniju zabrinutost.
Sve se to desava istovremeno sa prakticno potpunom izolacijom
predsednika Milosevica od njegovih politickih saveznika u Jugoslaviji i
od clanova njegove porodice. Kao sto je poznato, progon clanova
porodice Slobodana Milosevica pod laznim izgovorima, lisio je njegovu
zenu i sina mogucnosti da ga posecuju u zatvoru.
Odlucno osudjujemo nastavak politickog obracuna sa srpskim liderom i
progon clanova njegove porodice.
Zahtevamo prekid procesa na dve godine kako bi Slobodan Milosevic mogao
da se na adekvatan nacin pripremi za odbranu.
Insistiramo na njegovom oslobodjenju iz pritvora radi zdravstvenog
oporavka i efektivne pripreme za odbranu.
Predsednik Komiteta
Aleksandar Zinovjev
Clanovi Ruskog drustvenog komiteta za odbranu Slobodana Milosevica su:
1. Aleksandar Aleksandrovic ZINOVJEV, filozof, pisac, profesor
Moskovskog drzavnog univerziteta
2. Sergej Nikolajevic BABURIN, doktor pravnih nauka, predsednik
Ruskog opstenarodnog saveza
3. Nikolaj Maksimovic BEZBORODOV, deputat Drzavne Dume
4. Valentin Ivanovic VARENIKOV, general armije, Heroj Sovjetskog
Saveza
5. Valerij Nikolajevic GANICEV, predsednik Saveza pisaca Rusije
6. Sergej Aleksandrovic GLOTOV, doktor pravnih nauka, direktor
Instituta za ljudska prava
7. Vladimir Aleksandrovic DZANIBEKOV, pilot-kosmonaut, dvaput Heroj
Sovjetskog Saveza, akademik Ruske akademije prirodnih nauka
8. Nikolaj Ivanovic DOROSENKO, sekretar Uprave Saveza pisaca Rusije
9. Jelena Grigorjevna DRAPEKO, glumica, deputat Drzavne Dume
10.Ljudmila Vasiljevna ZAJCEVA, narodna umetnica Rusije
11.Olga Nikolajevna ZARUDNAJA, potpredsednik Saveza slovenskih novinara
12.Mihail Aleksandrovic ZEMSKOV, glavni urednik lista "Patriot"
13.Nikolaj Nikolajevic IZVEKOV, clan Naucnog saveta Ruske akademije
nauka za istoriju medjunarodnih odnosa i spoljnu politiku Rusije
14.Vjaceslav Mihajlovic KLIKOV, skluptor, predsednik Medjunarodnog
fonda slovenske pismenosti i kulture
15.Nikolaj Ignatovic KONDRATJENKO, clan Saveta Federacije
16.Mihail Petrovic LOBANOV, pisac
17.Jurij Mihajlovic LOSCIC, pisac
18.Mihail Ivanovic NOZKIN, pesnik, narodni umetnik Rusije
19.Genadij Vasiljevic OSIPOV, akademik Ruske akademije nauka, direktor
Instituta za socijalno-politicka istrazivanja Ruske akademije nauka
20.Aleksandar Andrejevic PROHANOV, glavni urednik lista "Zavtra" (Sutra)
21.Vasilij Stepanovic SAFRONCUK, zamenik Generalnog sekretara
Ujedinjenih nacija (1987 - 1992), ambasador
22.Vladimir Nikolajevic STRAHOV, akademik Ruske akademije nauka,
direktor Instituta za geofiziku "O. J. Smit"
23.Valentin Vasiljevic CIKIN, glavni urednik lista "Sovjetska Rusija"
24.Nina Dmitrijevna JAKOVLJEVA, predsednik Patriotskog saveza zena
---
SLOBODA urgently needs your donation.
Please find the detailed instructions at:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/pomoc.htm
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM)
http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)
Milosevic "trial"
1. U.S. committee to defend Milosevic
2. The latest news from the Hague (from "Sloboda")
3. Whom to address protests and complains (from "Sloboda")
- Sloboda Assembly -
SLOBODA will hold its Assembly Meeting on Saturday, September 27, 2003
in its premises in Belgrade, Rajiceva 16, commencing at 11:00 a.m. The
Assembly is open to media.
As a way to take their own part in this event of national importance,
we invite all friends and supporters at home and abroad to send:
- protest letters to UN bodies, the Hague tribunal and their
own governments, demanding two years in freedom for President Milosevic;
- letters of support to President Milosevic;
- copies of your letters to us; solidarity messages are also
welcome.
=== 1 ===
http://www.workers.org/ww/2003/milosevic0925.php
U.S. committee to defend Milosevic
By John Catalinotto
As the so-called trial of the former Yugoslav president in NATO's court
in The Hague, Netherlands, nears its midpoint, Slobodan Milosevic
received some new support. On Sept. 13 some two dozen writers, human
rights and anti-war activists, academics and attorneys joined to form
the U.S. section of the Inter national Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic (ICDSM).
Most of the members distinguished themselves during the time of NATO's
war on Yugoslavia by publicly opposing U.S. and NATO intervention
against the former socialist country in the Balkans. Dr. Michael
Parenti of the University of California-Berkeley has agreed to chair
the U.S. section of the ICDSM.
This group in its founding statement said that "the U.S. National
Committee [of the ICDSM] rejects the legitimacy of the trial of
Milosevic and we view this trial as an act of political warfare against
the people of Serbia and against the basic democratic rights of the
whole of humanity that cannot be allowed to succeed."
The committee demands an adjournment of the trial to allow Milosevic to
receive proper medical care and to have up to two years to prepare his
defense. Milosevic has been defending himself during the entire
prosecution case, which has now lasted over 18 months. It also demands
an end to the forced isolation of the former Yugoslav president from
his family.
The U.S. and NATO leaders originally planned to make Milosevic's case a
show trial. His capable political and legal defense, waged almost
single-handedly against the court's apparatus, has exposed NATO
aggression and the weakness of the prosecution case.
Many of the U.S. committee members believe that the current questioning
of U.S. foreign policy following the disastrous aggression in Iraq
gives a new opportunity to re-raise all the questions raised by the
earlier U.S. aggression in the Balkans.
For more information, contact the committee at (212) 726-1260 or mail:
icdsm_us@....
Reprinted from the Sept. 25, 2003, issue of Workers World newspaper
=== 2 ===
http://www.icdsm.org/drama.htm
DRAMA AT THE HAGUE
React immediately!
THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE HAGUE
----- Original Message -----
From: ICTY United Nations
To: latestnews@...
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 4:35 PM
Subject: PRESS ADVISORY - Milosevic Trial: Hearings Cancelled for the
Remainder of this Week
MILOSEVIC TRIAL:
HEARINGS CANCELLED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS WEEK
Please be advised that the hearings in the Milosevic trial have been
cancelled for the remainder of this week (Tuesday 23 to Friday 26
September 2003) due to the ill health of the accused.
EARLIER REACTIONS TO THE ONGOING DRAMA:
SLOBODA protest letter to the Foreign Ministry, US Embassy and ICTY
Office in Belgrade
20 September 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/clintondemo.htm
Appeal to the tribunal by 10 medical doctors from Germany
18 September 2003
http://www.icdsm.org/more/gemdoctors3.htm
Statement of the Russian Committee for the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic
18 September 2003
http://www.icdsm.org/more/ruscom180903.htm
SLOBODA Press Conference
17 September 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/press170903.htm
(read the full text of the outrageous decision at:
http://www.un.org/icty/milosevic/trialc/order-e/030917.htm )
Statement of the US National Section of the International Committee to
Defend Slobodan Milosevic
13 September 2003
http://www.icdsm.org/more/icdsmus1.htm
Statement of the Russian Parliamentarians representing absolute
majority in Duma
12 September 2003
http://www.icdsm.org/more/ruspar.htm
Resolution of the Anti-Imperialist Camp in Assisi, Italy
6 September 2003 (approved), 18 September 2003 (released)
http://www.antiimperialista.com/en/
view.shtml?category=37&id=1063919963&keyw
ord=+
SLOBODA letter to UN Secretary General and to the permanent members of
UN Security Council
3 September 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/SlobUNSC.html
Report from the "Pre-Defense Conference" at The Hague with quotes of
President Milosevic
2 September 2003
http://www.icdsm.org/more/defconf.htm
(read the whole transcript at:
http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/030902ME.htm )
SLOBODA's request to the president of ICTY to abolish the visit ban
2 September 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/request.html
First call for November 8 demonstrations at The Hague
1 September 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/HLN.doc
SLOBODA letter to UNHCHR, WHO and Red Cross
29 August 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/letter_UN.html
Letter of the General Confederation of Trade Unions of Brazil to the
tribunal
29 August 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/slobaE170803.htm
Letter to the tribunal by ICDSM co-chair Valkanov and attorneys Black,
Kuznecov and Verges of the ICDSM Legal Committee
26 August 2003
http://www.icdsm.org/more/isolat.htm
President Milosevic's public response to the charges fabricated by the
Belgrade regime
17 August 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/slobaE170803.htm
=== 3 ===
Dear friends,
President Milosevic is in a life-threatening situation.
He suffers from malignant hypertension and his heart is damaged. He is
in permanent risk of a heart attack or a brain-stroke.
His health and ability to stand the second half of the process without
a serious risk cannot be recuperated in prison conditions.
He is deprived of health-care and of conditions to prepare his case.
The outrageous decision of the tribunal to give him only three months
to prepare his case in prison and only six weeks to submit the complete
list of his witnesses, together with the summaries of their statements
and with the list of evidence he intends to introduce with them – only
to be reviewed and eventually approved by the tribunal, definitively
proves that the tribunal wants to silence the truth by depriving
President Milosevic of minimum conditions to prepare his case and by
increasing the threat to his life with an impossible task.
President Milosevic needs two years in freedom.
Please address your governments (the tribunal is formally a part of UN
system), members of UN Security Council (the tribunal is formally a
subsidiary organ of the Security Council), UN Secretary General, Office
of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health
Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the
tribunal itself.
Protest against the crime and the injustices. Demand two years of
freedom for President Milosevic.
Vladimir Krsljanin, Sloboda/ICDSM
---
It is best if your letters are sent by fax or mail, or personally
delivered (to your foreign ministries or to the offices of the
international organizations). Please inform us and the public about
your actions. Some of the addresses you can use are given below:
A) UN Secretary General
Office of the Secretary-General
United Nations, S-378
New York, NY 10017
Inquiries to be addressed to (+1212) 963-4475 or inquiries@...
B) UN Security Council(addresses and fax numbers of the member states
New York missions are given; you can also write to the governments and
foreign ministries in their capitals)
(except for calls within USA, at the begining of each fax/phone number
one should add +1)
Angola
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Angola to the United Nations
125 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021
Telephone: (212) 861-5656/5787/5788/5789, Telefax: (212) 861-9295
Bulgaria
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Bulgaria to the United
Nations
11 East 84th Street, New York, NY 10028
Telephone: (212) 737-4790/4791, 327-4180/4181, Telefax: (212) 472-9865
Correspondence: English/French
Cameroon
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cameroon to the United
Nations
22 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021
Telephone: (212) 794-2295/2296/2297/2298/2299, Telefax: (212) 249-0533
Correspondence: English/French
China
Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the
United Nations
350 East 35th Street, New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (212) 655-6100, Telefax: (212) 634-7626
E-mail: chinamission_un@...
Chile
Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations
3 Dag Hammarskjцld Plaza, 305 East 47th Street, 10th/11th Floors, New
York, NY 10017
Telephone: (212) 832-3323, Telefax: (212) 832-8714
Correspondence: Spanish
France
Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations
One Dag Hammarskjцld Plaza, 245 East 47th Street, 44th Floor, New York,
NY 10017
Telephone: (212) 308-5700, Telefax: (212) 421-6889
Correspondence: French
Germany
Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations
871 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
Telephone: (212) 940-0400, Telefax: (212) 940-0402
Guinea
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Guinea to the United Nations
140 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (212) 687-8115/8116/8117, Telefax: (212) 687-8248
Correspondence: French
Mexico
Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations
Two United Nations Plaza, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10017
Telephone: (212) 752-0220, Telefax: (212) 688-8862
Correspondence: Spanish
Pakistan
Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations
Pakistan House, 8 East 65th Street, New York, NY 10021
Telephone: (212) 879-8600, Telefax: (212) 744-7348
Russian Federation
Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations
136 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10021
Telephone: (212) 861-4900/4901, Telefax: (212) 628-0252, 517-7427
Spain
Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations
823 United Nations Plaza, 345 East 46th Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY
10017
Telephone: (212) 661-1050, Telefax: (212) 949-7247
Correspondence: Spanish
Syrian Arab Republic
Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United
Nations
820 Second Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10017
Telephone: (212) 661-1313, Telefax: (212) 983-4439
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations
One Dag Hammarskjцld Plaza, 885 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Telephone: (212) 745-9200, Telefax: (212) 745-9316
United States of America
Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations
799 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017-3505
Telephone: (212) 415-4000, Telefax: (212) 415-4443
C) OTHER UN MEMBERS(addresses and fax numbers of their missions can be
found at:
http://www.un.org/Overview/missions.htm )
D) UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Fax: + 41 22 917 9022
(particularly for urgent matters)
E-mail:tb-petitions@...
E)WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
WHO
Avenue Appia 20
1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
Telephone: (+ 41 22) 791 21 11
Facsimile (fax): (+ 41 22) 791 3111
F) INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS
ICRC
Postal address
International Committee of the Red Cross
19 avenue de la Paix
CH 1202 Geneva
Fax
ICRC general: ++ 41 (22) 733 20 57
Phone
++ 41 (22) 734 60 01
G) INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA (ICTY)
Churchillplein 1
2517JW The Hague
Netherlands
Fax: +31 70 512 8637
---
SLOBODA urgently needs your donation.
Please find the detailed instructions at:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/pomoc.htm
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM)
http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)
1. U.S. committee to defend Milosevic
2. The latest news from the Hague (from "Sloboda")
3. Whom to address protests and complains (from "Sloboda")
- Sloboda Assembly -
SLOBODA will hold its Assembly Meeting on Saturday, September 27, 2003
in its premises in Belgrade, Rajiceva 16, commencing at 11:00 a.m. The
Assembly is open to media.
As a way to take their own part in this event of national importance,
we invite all friends and supporters at home and abroad to send:
- protest letters to UN bodies, the Hague tribunal and their
own governments, demanding two years in freedom for President Milosevic;
- letters of support to President Milosevic;
- copies of your letters to us; solidarity messages are also
welcome.
=== 1 ===
http://www.workers.org/ww/2003/milosevic0925.php
U.S. committee to defend Milosevic
By John Catalinotto
As the so-called trial of the former Yugoslav president in NATO's court
in The Hague, Netherlands, nears its midpoint, Slobodan Milosevic
received some new support. On Sept. 13 some two dozen writers, human
rights and anti-war activists, academics and attorneys joined to form
the U.S. section of the Inter national Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic (ICDSM).
Most of the members distinguished themselves during the time of NATO's
war on Yugoslavia by publicly opposing U.S. and NATO intervention
against the former socialist country in the Balkans. Dr. Michael
Parenti of the University of California-Berkeley has agreed to chair
the U.S. section of the ICDSM.
This group in its founding statement said that "the U.S. National
Committee [of the ICDSM] rejects the legitimacy of the trial of
Milosevic and we view this trial as an act of political warfare against
the people of Serbia and against the basic democratic rights of the
whole of humanity that cannot be allowed to succeed."
The committee demands an adjournment of the trial to allow Milosevic to
receive proper medical care and to have up to two years to prepare his
defense. Milosevic has been defending himself during the entire
prosecution case, which has now lasted over 18 months. It also demands
an end to the forced isolation of the former Yugoslav president from
his family.
The U.S. and NATO leaders originally planned to make Milosevic's case a
show trial. His capable political and legal defense, waged almost
single-handedly against the court's apparatus, has exposed NATO
aggression and the weakness of the prosecution case.
Many of the U.S. committee members believe that the current questioning
of U.S. foreign policy following the disastrous aggression in Iraq
gives a new opportunity to re-raise all the questions raised by the
earlier U.S. aggression in the Balkans.
For more information, contact the committee at (212) 726-1260 or mail:
icdsm_us@....
Reprinted from the Sept. 25, 2003, issue of Workers World newspaper
=== 2 ===
http://www.icdsm.org/drama.htm
DRAMA AT THE HAGUE
React immediately!
THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE HAGUE
----- Original Message -----
From: ICTY United Nations
To: latestnews@...
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 4:35 PM
Subject: PRESS ADVISORY - Milosevic Trial: Hearings Cancelled for the
Remainder of this Week
MILOSEVIC TRIAL:
HEARINGS CANCELLED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS WEEK
Please be advised that the hearings in the Milosevic trial have been
cancelled for the remainder of this week (Tuesday 23 to Friday 26
September 2003) due to the ill health of the accused.
EARLIER REACTIONS TO THE ONGOING DRAMA:
SLOBODA protest letter to the Foreign Ministry, US Embassy and ICTY
Office in Belgrade
20 September 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/clintondemo.htm
Appeal to the tribunal by 10 medical doctors from Germany
18 September 2003
http://www.icdsm.org/more/gemdoctors3.htm
Statement of the Russian Committee for the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic
18 September 2003
http://www.icdsm.org/more/ruscom180903.htm
SLOBODA Press Conference
17 September 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/press170903.htm
(read the full text of the outrageous decision at:
http://www.un.org/icty/milosevic/trialc/order-e/030917.htm )
Statement of the US National Section of the International Committee to
Defend Slobodan Milosevic
13 September 2003
http://www.icdsm.org/more/icdsmus1.htm
Statement of the Russian Parliamentarians representing absolute
majority in Duma
12 September 2003
http://www.icdsm.org/more/ruspar.htm
Resolution of the Anti-Imperialist Camp in Assisi, Italy
6 September 2003 (approved), 18 September 2003 (released)
http://www.antiimperialista.com/en/
view.shtml?category=37&id=1063919963&keyw
ord=+
SLOBODA letter to UN Secretary General and to the permanent members of
UN Security Council
3 September 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/SlobUNSC.html
Report from the "Pre-Defense Conference" at The Hague with quotes of
President Milosevic
2 September 2003
http://www.icdsm.org/more/defconf.htm
(read the whole transcript at:
http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/030902ME.htm )
SLOBODA's request to the president of ICTY to abolish the visit ban
2 September 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/request.html
First call for November 8 demonstrations at The Hague
1 September 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/HLN.doc
SLOBODA letter to UNHCHR, WHO and Red Cross
29 August 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/letter_UN.html
Letter of the General Confederation of Trade Unions of Brazil to the
tribunal
29 August 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/slobaE170803.htm
Letter to the tribunal by ICDSM co-chair Valkanov and attorneys Black,
Kuznecov and Verges of the ICDSM Legal Committee
26 August 2003
http://www.icdsm.org/more/isolat.htm
President Milosevic's public response to the charges fabricated by the
Belgrade regime
17 August 2003
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/slobaE170803.htm
=== 3 ===
Dear friends,
President Milosevic is in a life-threatening situation.
He suffers from malignant hypertension and his heart is damaged. He is
in permanent risk of a heart attack or a brain-stroke.
His health and ability to stand the second half of the process without
a serious risk cannot be recuperated in prison conditions.
He is deprived of health-care and of conditions to prepare his case.
The outrageous decision of the tribunal to give him only three months
to prepare his case in prison and only six weeks to submit the complete
list of his witnesses, together with the summaries of their statements
and with the list of evidence he intends to introduce with them – only
to be reviewed and eventually approved by the tribunal, definitively
proves that the tribunal wants to silence the truth by depriving
President Milosevic of minimum conditions to prepare his case and by
increasing the threat to his life with an impossible task.
President Milosevic needs two years in freedom.
Please address your governments (the tribunal is formally a part of UN
system), members of UN Security Council (the tribunal is formally a
subsidiary organ of the Security Council), UN Secretary General, Office
of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health
Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the
tribunal itself.
Protest against the crime and the injustices. Demand two years of
freedom for President Milosevic.
Vladimir Krsljanin, Sloboda/ICDSM
---
It is best if your letters are sent by fax or mail, or personally
delivered (to your foreign ministries or to the offices of the
international organizations). Please inform us and the public about
your actions. Some of the addresses you can use are given below:
A) UN Secretary General
Office of the Secretary-General
United Nations, S-378
New York, NY 10017
Inquiries to be addressed to (+1212) 963-4475 or inquiries@...
B) UN Security Council(addresses and fax numbers of the member states
New York missions are given; you can also write to the governments and
foreign ministries in their capitals)
(except for calls within USA, at the begining of each fax/phone number
one should add +1)
Angola
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Angola to the United Nations
125 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021
Telephone: (212) 861-5656/5787/5788/5789, Telefax: (212) 861-9295
Bulgaria
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Bulgaria to the United
Nations
11 East 84th Street, New York, NY 10028
Telephone: (212) 737-4790/4791, 327-4180/4181, Telefax: (212) 472-9865
Correspondence: English/French
Cameroon
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cameroon to the United
Nations
22 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021
Telephone: (212) 794-2295/2296/2297/2298/2299, Telefax: (212) 249-0533
Correspondence: English/French
China
Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the
United Nations
350 East 35th Street, New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (212) 655-6100, Telefax: (212) 634-7626
E-mail: chinamission_un@...
Chile
Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations
3 Dag Hammarskjцld Plaza, 305 East 47th Street, 10th/11th Floors, New
York, NY 10017
Telephone: (212) 832-3323, Telefax: (212) 832-8714
Correspondence: Spanish
France
Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations
One Dag Hammarskjцld Plaza, 245 East 47th Street, 44th Floor, New York,
NY 10017
Telephone: (212) 308-5700, Telefax: (212) 421-6889
Correspondence: French
Germany
Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations
871 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
Telephone: (212) 940-0400, Telefax: (212) 940-0402
Guinea
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Guinea to the United Nations
140 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (212) 687-8115/8116/8117, Telefax: (212) 687-8248
Correspondence: French
Mexico
Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations
Two United Nations Plaza, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10017
Telephone: (212) 752-0220, Telefax: (212) 688-8862
Correspondence: Spanish
Pakistan
Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations
Pakistan House, 8 East 65th Street, New York, NY 10021
Telephone: (212) 879-8600, Telefax: (212) 744-7348
Russian Federation
Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations
136 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10021
Telephone: (212) 861-4900/4901, Telefax: (212) 628-0252, 517-7427
Spain
Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations
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MESSAGGIO DEL CAPO DEI TERRORISTI AL SIGNOR "DUE DI PICCHE" (1)
Messaggio di Bush al presidente Marovic
Contro il terrorismo: Una lotta per gli alti principi e per cittadini
liberi dalla paura
Secondo informazioni del Gabinetto del presidente jugoslavo -pardon,
serbo-montenegrino -, il presidente degli USA, G.W.Bush, a due anni
dagli attentati a New York e Washington, ha inviato un messaggio
personale al presidente dello Stato federale, Marovic.
"La nostra lotta per liberare il mondo dal terrorismo continua, ed in
essa ricordiamo i nostri concittadini, miei e Suoi, che sono morti l'11
settembre 2001", scrive nel messaggio Bush a Marovic. "I miei
concittadini ed io", aggiunge al messaggio, "ci uniamo nel ricordo dei
Vs cittadini che hanno perso la vita in questi attacchi" [sic!]
Nella lettera a Marovic, il presidente USA ha sottolineato che lo scopo
dei terroristi era di difondere la paura e il caos, uccidendo ovunque
nel mondo. "Hanno attaccato la civilizzazione perché hanno rifiutato i
pacifici e razionali metodi per risolvere i problemi. Essi
hanno respinto il diritto e gli interessi degli altri,
dimostrando l'odio profondo verso i valori del mondo civile - la
libertà, la reciproca tolleranza della quale abbiamo bisogno tutti per
vivere dignitosamente", scrive nel messaggio il presidente Bush.
(Fonte: Tanjug, 20 settembre)
NOTE:
(1) Il capo dei terroristi e' il Presidente del paese piu' potente del
mondo, che, dopo avere appoggiato i mujaheddin di Al Qaeda in Bosnia,
appoggia tuttora il terrorismo secessionista in Kosmet. Il signor due
di picche e' il Presidente di uno Stato virtuale, che ha sostituito la
Jugoslavia sovrana ed e' destinato a scomparire entro il 2006 con la
secessione del Kosmet e del Montenegro, secondo i piani USA.
Messaggio di Bush al presidente Marovic
Contro il terrorismo: Una lotta per gli alti principi e per cittadini
liberi dalla paura
Secondo informazioni del Gabinetto del presidente jugoslavo -pardon,
serbo-montenegrino -, il presidente degli USA, G.W.Bush, a due anni
dagli attentati a New York e Washington, ha inviato un messaggio
personale al presidente dello Stato federale, Marovic.
"La nostra lotta per liberare il mondo dal terrorismo continua, ed in
essa ricordiamo i nostri concittadini, miei e Suoi, che sono morti l'11
settembre 2001", scrive nel messaggio Bush a Marovic. "I miei
concittadini ed io", aggiunge al messaggio, "ci uniamo nel ricordo dei
Vs cittadini che hanno perso la vita in questi attacchi" [sic!]
Nella lettera a Marovic, il presidente USA ha sottolineato che lo scopo
dei terroristi era di difondere la paura e il caos, uccidendo ovunque
nel mondo. "Hanno attaccato la civilizzazione perché hanno rifiutato i
pacifici e razionali metodi per risolvere i problemi. Essi
hanno respinto il diritto e gli interessi degli altri,
dimostrando l'odio profondo verso i valori del mondo civile - la
libertà, la reciproca tolleranza della quale abbiamo bisogno tutti per
vivere dignitosamente", scrive nel messaggio il presidente Bush.
(Fonte: Tanjug, 20 settembre)
NOTE:
(1) Il capo dei terroristi e' il Presidente del paese piu' potente del
mondo, che, dopo avere appoggiato i mujaheddin di Al Qaeda in Bosnia,
appoggia tuttora il terrorismo secessionista in Kosmet. Il signor due
di picche e' il Presidente di uno Stato virtuale, che ha sostituito la
Jugoslavia sovrana ed e' destinato a scomparire entro il 2006 con la
secessione del Kosmet e del Montenegro, secondo i piani USA.
Aus: Junge Welt, 22.9.03
Retter, Propheten, Sehide
Bill Clinton wurde in Srebrenica begeistert empfangen. US-amerikanische
Kritiker kritisieren die Bosnienpolitik des ex-Präsidenten als
pro-fundamentalistisch
Ein Verbrecher kehrt zwanghaft immer an den Tatort zurück, lautet eine
kriminalistische Faustregel. Doch kaum jemand würde diese Regel auf
Bill Clinton und seinen jüngsten Besuch im bosnischen Srebrenica
anwenden. Für die Massenexekutionen muslimischer Bewohner dieser Stadt
im Juli 1995 werden nämlich Radovan Karadzic und Ratko Mladic,
Präsident und Generalstabschef der bosnischen Serben während des
Bürgerkrieges, verantwortlich gemacht. „Sie wollten Macht durch
Völkermord“, sagte der frühere US-Präsident, als er am Samstag unter
dem Beifall der 30.000 Besucher eine Gedenkstätte für die damaligen
Opfer einweihte. (1)
Clinton ist unter den Muslimen sehr beliebt, weil er unmittelbar nach
der Eroberung Srebrenicas gegen Widerstände auch im NATO-Bündnis eine
Intervention in Bosnien durchgesetzt hat. Im August 1995 bombardierten
US-Kampfflugzeuge zwei Wochen lang serbische Stellungen, mit ihrer
Unterstützung konnten muslimisch-kroatische Bodentruppen fast ein
Fünftel des Landes erobern. Diese territoriale Verteilung wurde dann im
Waffenstillstandsabkommen von Dayton im November 1995 bestätigt. „Die
Familien der Überlebenden sind der Ansicht, daß Clinton unter allen
Führern der Welt das größte moralische Recht (zur Einweihung der
Gedenkstätte) hat“, sagte Amor Masovic, Leiter der muslimischen
Vermißtenkommission. (2)
Doch es gibt auch Zeugen, die Clinton dieses Recht streitig machen. Der
erste ist Hakija Meholjic, vor dem Fall der Stadt Vorsitzender der
Sozialdemokratischen Partei. Er nahm an einem Treffen der
bosnisch-muslimischen Staatsführung im September 1993 in Sarajevo teil,
auf dem der damalige Präsident Alija Izetbegovic gesagt habe: „Wißt
ihr, Clinton bot mir im April 1993 ... an, daß die Streitkräfte der
Tschetniks (Schimpfwort für Serben) Srebrenica erobern, ein Massaker
von 5000 Muslimen begehen, und dann könne eine militärische
Intervention geschehen.“ Demnach hat Clinton über zwei Jahre vorher
genau das vorgeschlagen, was dann im Sommer 1995 passiert ist. Ein
Hellseher? Ein Stratege? Oder sind die Zitate erfunden, etwa von
serbischen Nationalisten? Das kann eigentlich nicht sein, denn der
Zeuge ist selbst Muslim und sein Interview erschien am 22. Juni 1996 in
der muslimischen Zeitung "Dani" aus Sarajevo.
Eine ähnliche Aussage hat UN-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan zu Protokoll
gegeben. In einem Bericht vom 15. November 1999 erwähnte er „ein
internes Treffen der bosniakisch (-muslimischen) Führung vom 28. und
29. November 1993 ... , auf dem Präsident Izetbegovic erklärt habe, ...
daß eine Intervention der NATO in Bosnien-Herzegowina möglich sei, aber
nur stattfinden könne, wenn die Serben gewaltsam in Srebrenica
eindrängen und dort mindestens 5000 Personen massakrierten“. So steht
es im Bericht der Untersuchungskommission der französischen
Nationalversammlung, der im November 2001 vorgelegt wurde.
Der westlichen Darstellung, wonach die Serben für die Opfer in
Srebrenica allein verantwortlich seien, widerspricht auch eine
Presseerklärung der International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA)
anläßlich der Clinton-Visite in Bosnien (www.StrategicStudies.org). (3)
Der konservative Think Tank, der Reagans Verteidigungsministers
Alexander Haig gleich zwei Mal für seine Verdienstete auszeichnete,
hält die gängige Zahl von 7.000 bis 8.000 ermordeten Muslimen für „weit
übertrieben und durch Beweise nicht gestützt“. So seien „ungefähr 3.000
Namen, die auf der Liste der Opfer standen ..., 1996 wieder als Wähler
bei den Kommunalwahlen 1996 aufgetaucht“. Um so schlimmer, so die ISSA
weiter, daß Paddy Ashdown, internationaler Protektor für
Bosnien-Herzegowina, und sein Stellvertreter Donald Hays, im Hauptberuf
US-Botschafter in Sarajevo, die „gewählten Vertreter der bosnischen
Serben zwingen wollen, ein betrügerisches Dokument zu unterzeichnen,
mit dem sie die offizielle Version der Ereignisse in Srebrenica
akzeptieren“.
Die konservativen Sicherheitsexperten weisen darauf hin, daß die
Clinton-Regierung mehrere tausend Gotteskrieger aus Iran, Afghanistan
und Nahost in Bosnien eingeschleust hat. Daß durch deren ständige
Angriffe aus der angeblich demilitarisierten Schutzzone Srebrenica die
Serben im Sommer 1995 zum Zuschlagen provoziert worden seien, legt auch
der Untersuchungsbericht der niederländischen Armee vom April 2002 nahe
(www.srebrenica.nl). Die ISSA berichtet weiter, daß man beim Studium
von Clintons Bosnienpolitik auch auf den Namen von Osama bin Laden
stößt. Der Terrorist hat 1993 von der muslimischen Regierung in
Sarajevo einen bosnischen Paß bekommen.
Die ISSA befürchtet, daß die von Clinton eröffnete Gedenkstätte das
Bündnis mit dem Fundamentalismus fortsetzen und „ein Reliqienschrein
für radikale Islamisten in Europa“ werden könnte. Die Gestaltung des
Friedhofes läßt diese Befürchtung realistisch erscheinen. Die damit
beauftragte Steinmetzfirma will nach eigenen Angaben für die knapp
tausend Gräber „die typischen Grabsteine für Sehide“ anfertigen. (4)
Sehide sind Märtyrer, die im Heiligen Krieg gefallen sind.
Jürgen Elsässer
(1) CNN, 20.9.03
(2) AFP, 19.9.2003, 4:21 a.m.
(3) Alle folgenden Angaben nach: ISSA, Balkan & Eastern Mediterranean
Policy Council, Srebrenica Casualty Numbers Challenged by Experts as
Politicized and Ethnically Divisive”, Press Release erhalten am
19.09.03 (www.StrategicStudies.Org)
(4) Sterinmetz Edin Buric gegenüber „SZ“, 20.0.2003 (N.N., Feierstunde
in der Stadt des Schreckens)
Retter, Propheten, Sehide
Bill Clinton wurde in Srebrenica begeistert empfangen. US-amerikanische
Kritiker kritisieren die Bosnienpolitik des ex-Präsidenten als
pro-fundamentalistisch
Ein Verbrecher kehrt zwanghaft immer an den Tatort zurück, lautet eine
kriminalistische Faustregel. Doch kaum jemand würde diese Regel auf
Bill Clinton und seinen jüngsten Besuch im bosnischen Srebrenica
anwenden. Für die Massenexekutionen muslimischer Bewohner dieser Stadt
im Juli 1995 werden nämlich Radovan Karadzic und Ratko Mladic,
Präsident und Generalstabschef der bosnischen Serben während des
Bürgerkrieges, verantwortlich gemacht. „Sie wollten Macht durch
Völkermord“, sagte der frühere US-Präsident, als er am Samstag unter
dem Beifall der 30.000 Besucher eine Gedenkstätte für die damaligen
Opfer einweihte. (1)
Clinton ist unter den Muslimen sehr beliebt, weil er unmittelbar nach
der Eroberung Srebrenicas gegen Widerstände auch im NATO-Bündnis eine
Intervention in Bosnien durchgesetzt hat. Im August 1995 bombardierten
US-Kampfflugzeuge zwei Wochen lang serbische Stellungen, mit ihrer
Unterstützung konnten muslimisch-kroatische Bodentruppen fast ein
Fünftel des Landes erobern. Diese territoriale Verteilung wurde dann im
Waffenstillstandsabkommen von Dayton im November 1995 bestätigt. „Die
Familien der Überlebenden sind der Ansicht, daß Clinton unter allen
Führern der Welt das größte moralische Recht (zur Einweihung der
Gedenkstätte) hat“, sagte Amor Masovic, Leiter der muslimischen
Vermißtenkommission. (2)
Doch es gibt auch Zeugen, die Clinton dieses Recht streitig machen. Der
erste ist Hakija Meholjic, vor dem Fall der Stadt Vorsitzender der
Sozialdemokratischen Partei. Er nahm an einem Treffen der
bosnisch-muslimischen Staatsführung im September 1993 in Sarajevo teil,
auf dem der damalige Präsident Alija Izetbegovic gesagt habe: „Wißt
ihr, Clinton bot mir im April 1993 ... an, daß die Streitkräfte der
Tschetniks (Schimpfwort für Serben) Srebrenica erobern, ein Massaker
von 5000 Muslimen begehen, und dann könne eine militärische
Intervention geschehen.“ Demnach hat Clinton über zwei Jahre vorher
genau das vorgeschlagen, was dann im Sommer 1995 passiert ist. Ein
Hellseher? Ein Stratege? Oder sind die Zitate erfunden, etwa von
serbischen Nationalisten? Das kann eigentlich nicht sein, denn der
Zeuge ist selbst Muslim und sein Interview erschien am 22. Juni 1996 in
der muslimischen Zeitung "Dani" aus Sarajevo.
Eine ähnliche Aussage hat UN-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan zu Protokoll
gegeben. In einem Bericht vom 15. November 1999 erwähnte er „ein
internes Treffen der bosniakisch (-muslimischen) Führung vom 28. und
29. November 1993 ... , auf dem Präsident Izetbegovic erklärt habe, ...
daß eine Intervention der NATO in Bosnien-Herzegowina möglich sei, aber
nur stattfinden könne, wenn die Serben gewaltsam in Srebrenica
eindrängen und dort mindestens 5000 Personen massakrierten“. So steht
es im Bericht der Untersuchungskommission der französischen
Nationalversammlung, der im November 2001 vorgelegt wurde.
Der westlichen Darstellung, wonach die Serben für die Opfer in
Srebrenica allein verantwortlich seien, widerspricht auch eine
Presseerklärung der International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA)
anläßlich der Clinton-Visite in Bosnien (www.StrategicStudies.org). (3)
Der konservative Think Tank, der Reagans Verteidigungsministers
Alexander Haig gleich zwei Mal für seine Verdienstete auszeichnete,
hält die gängige Zahl von 7.000 bis 8.000 ermordeten Muslimen für „weit
übertrieben und durch Beweise nicht gestützt“. So seien „ungefähr 3.000
Namen, die auf der Liste der Opfer standen ..., 1996 wieder als Wähler
bei den Kommunalwahlen 1996 aufgetaucht“. Um so schlimmer, so die ISSA
weiter, daß Paddy Ashdown, internationaler Protektor für
Bosnien-Herzegowina, und sein Stellvertreter Donald Hays, im Hauptberuf
US-Botschafter in Sarajevo, die „gewählten Vertreter der bosnischen
Serben zwingen wollen, ein betrügerisches Dokument zu unterzeichnen,
mit dem sie die offizielle Version der Ereignisse in Srebrenica
akzeptieren“.
Die konservativen Sicherheitsexperten weisen darauf hin, daß die
Clinton-Regierung mehrere tausend Gotteskrieger aus Iran, Afghanistan
und Nahost in Bosnien eingeschleust hat. Daß durch deren ständige
Angriffe aus der angeblich demilitarisierten Schutzzone Srebrenica die
Serben im Sommer 1995 zum Zuschlagen provoziert worden seien, legt auch
der Untersuchungsbericht der niederländischen Armee vom April 2002 nahe
(www.srebrenica.nl). Die ISSA berichtet weiter, daß man beim Studium
von Clintons Bosnienpolitik auch auf den Namen von Osama bin Laden
stößt. Der Terrorist hat 1993 von der muslimischen Regierung in
Sarajevo einen bosnischen Paß bekommen.
Die ISSA befürchtet, daß die von Clinton eröffnete Gedenkstätte das
Bündnis mit dem Fundamentalismus fortsetzen und „ein Reliqienschrein
für radikale Islamisten in Europa“ werden könnte. Die Gestaltung des
Friedhofes läßt diese Befürchtung realistisch erscheinen. Die damit
beauftragte Steinmetzfirma will nach eigenen Angaben für die knapp
tausend Gräber „die typischen Grabsteine für Sehide“ anfertigen. (4)
Sehide sind Märtyrer, die im Heiligen Krieg gefallen sind.
Jürgen Elsässer
(1) CNN, 20.9.03
(2) AFP, 19.9.2003, 4:21 a.m.
(3) Alle folgenden Angaben nach: ISSA, Balkan & Eastern Mediterranean
Policy Council, Srebrenica Casualty Numbers Challenged by Experts as
Politicized and Ethnically Divisive”, Press Release erhalten am
19.09.03 (www.StrategicStudies.Org)
(4) Sterinmetz Edin Buric gegenüber „SZ“, 20.0.2003 (N.N., Feierstunde
in der Stadt des Schreckens)
ICDSM: Italian Section / Sezione Italiana
(Italiano / english)
1. COMUNICATO STAMPA / PRESS RELEASE 21/9/2003
2. Comunicato della Sezione Italiana dell´ICDSM / Statement by the
Italian section of the ICDSM
=== 1 ===
Da: <icdsm-italia@...>
Data: Mer 24 Set 2003 11:23:34 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: ICDSM - Sezione Italiana
ICDSM - Italian Section
Comitato Internazionale per la difesa di Slobodan Milosevic -
Sezione Italiana
COMUNICATO STAMPA 21/9/2003
Si e' costituita oggi a Roma, nel corso di una riunione indetta da
personalita' gia' aderenti come singoli al Comitato Internazionale per
la Difesa di Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM), la Sezione Italiana dell'ICDSM.
La Sezione Italiana entra cosi' a far parte di questa struttura che
vanta analoghe organizzazioni nazionali in molti paesi, tra i quali,
oltre alla Serbia, la Russia, la Germania, la Gran Bretagna e gli Stati
Uniti d'America.
La Sezione Italiana dell'ICDSM e' rappresentata a livello
internazionale da Aldo Bernardini, noto giurista, ordinario di diritto
internazionale all'Universita' di Teramo ed ex Rettore, e da Fulvio
Grimaldi, popolare giornalista, esperto di questioni ambientali ed
internazionali, in prima fila nelle battaglie di controinformazione
sulle nuove guerre.
Miriam Pellegrini Ferri e Spartaco Ferri, partigiani, da sempre
impegnati in difesa dei popoli oppressi ed oggi animatori del Gruppo
Atei Materialisti Dialettici (GAMADI), hanno annunciato che sara'
prossimamente dedicata alla costituzione della Sezione Italiana
dell'ICDSM una trasmissione televisiva su Teleambiente, curata dal
GAMADI.
Nel corso della riunione e' stato approvato il sostegno della Sezione
Italiana alla prossima Manifestazione Internazionale che si terra'
all'Aia l'8 Novembre, per la chiusura dell'illegale "Tribunale" e per
la liberazione di Slobodan Milosevic, detenuto politico del Nuovo
Ordine Mondiale. Sono in preparazione alcune iniziative per la
promozione di una campagna di finanziamento per le attivita' di difesa
di Slobodan Milosevic.
Nel corso della riunione sono stati attribuiti gli incarichi per il
coordinamento interno e le comunicazioni verso l'esterno della Sezione
Italiana, nonche' stabiliti i suoi recapiti:
ICDSM - Sezione Italiana
c/o GAMADI, Via L. Da Vinci 27
00043 Ciampino (Roma)
email: icdsm-italia@...
Per informazioni sulle attivita' del Comitato Internazionale:
http://www.icdsm.org/
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/
La documentazione e gli aggiornamenti sulle attivita' dell'ICDSM e sul
processo-farsa dell'Aia sono distribuiti, anche in lingua italiana, dal
notiziario JUGOINFO:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/messages
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Comitato Internazionale per la difesa di Slobodan Milosevic -
Sezione Italiana
ICDSM - Italian Section
PRESS RELEASE
21/9/2003
Today in Rome, during a meeting organized by personalities already
belonging as individuals to the International Committee for the Defense
of Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM), the Italian Section of the ICDSM has
been officially created.
In this way, the Italian Section becomes part of the international
organization which already counts similar national branches in several
countries, among which, apart from Serbia, Russia, Germany, Great
Britain and the USA.
The Italian Section of ICDSM is represented at the international level
by two prominent figures: Aldo Bernardini, a well known jurist,
professor of international law at the Teramo University and ex dean,
and Fulvio Grimaldi, very popular journalist, expert of environmental
and international issues, who stands at the very front of the struggle
about information and media on the contemporary wars.
Miriam Pellegrini Ferri and Spartaco Ferri, partisans which have been
always engaged in defense of the oppressed peoples and are nowadays the
animators of GAMADI (Society of Atheist and Dialectic Materialists)
announced that a TV program, organized as GAMADI, will deal with the
event of the creation of the Italian Section of ICDSM, to be
broadcasted by the local television Teleambiente.
In the course of this meeting, the support of the Italian Section has
been reaffirmed to the next International Demostration which will be
held in The Hague on November 8th, 2003, with the request of
dismantling the illegal "Tribunal" and for the release of Slobodan
Milosevic, political prisoner of the New World Order. Some activities
are being prepared to promote a fundraising campaign for the defence of
Slobodan Milosevic.
During the meeting, the internal responsabilities of the Section have
been decided, with regard to the coordination and the communications,
together with the Section's addresses:
ICDSM - Sezione Italiana
c/o GAMADI, Via L. Da Vinci 27
00043 Ciampino (Roma)
email: icdsm-italia@...
Information on the activities of the International Committee can be
found at:
http://www.icdsm.org/
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/
Documents and updates on the ICDSM activities as well as on the false
"trial" in The Hague are distributed also in Italian language through
the newsletter JUGOINFO:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/messages
=== 2 ===
Da: <icdsm-italia@...>
Data: Mer 24 Set 2003 11:19:53 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: Comunicato / Statement by the Italian section of the ICDSM
Comunicato della Sezione Italiana dell´ICDSM
La recente decisione di considerare il gruppo di "Emperor´s Clothes"
(EC) non più parte del Comitato Internazionale per la Difesa di
Slobodan Milosevic, condivisa dalle maggiori sezioni nazionali e dal
suo coordinamento a Belgrado, ci è apparsa inevitabile. Non possiamo
non condividerla, in quanto EC ha attaccato e diffamato esponenti e
dirigenti dell´ICDSM, in pubblico e pretendendo di parlare a nome del
Presidente Milosevic.
Il presidente Milosevic è stato messo al corrente della vicenda.
Crediamo opportuno che ogni servizio organizzativo dell´ICDSM, a
partire dal conto bancario, faccia base dove si trovano le realtà più
attive del comitato, riconosciute come tali da Belgrado, quelle che
possono farsi garanti di una gestione trasparente, dunque in Europa.
Questo anche alla luce di problemi sorti sulla gestione dei fondi
raccolti da EC.
Ci rammarichiamo delle recenti iniziative disgregatrici e sabotatrici
dell´unità e della correttezza dell´ICDSM messe in atto da EC, che,
dopo aver reso un importante servizio a tutti attraverso la diffusione
di documentazione utile, ha aggiunto alla recenti diffamazioni e
menzogne sul ruolo dell´ICDSM e su suoi esponenti di punta, come il
presidente Ramsey Clark, una campagna sulla problematica mediorientale
di netta ispirazione sionista estremista; posizioni che contraddicono
nettamente quella che dovrebbe essere la linea antirazzista ed
anticolonialista dell´ICDSM, come esplicitata in tutta la sua vita dal
Presidente Milosevic, ultimamente nelle aule dell'illegale tribunale
dell´Aja.
Questo estremismo sionista di EC si è evidenziato non solo con
grossolane falsificazioni storiche e con una propaganda
giustificazionista in appoggio all´attuale governo israeliano, ma anche
con l´attacco a elementi dell´ICDSM, evidentemente ritenuti "colpevoli"
di essere coerentemente impegnati al fianco della resistenza del popolo
arabo-palestinese e degli altri popoli vittime di politiche
imperialiste e razziste.
Questa scelta di EC appare tutt´uno con l´omissione dall´analisi e
dalla documentazione di EC delle responsabilità specifiche dei governi
israeliani nello squartamento della Jugoslavia (si noti in particolare
l´attuale collaborazione politica e militare avviate con il regime
quisling e poliziesco della DOS). Questa politica è stata attivamente
sostenuta da settori del mondo ebraico che in questi anni hanno tentato
di costruire l´immagine del "nazismo serbo", rafforzando il tragico
stereotipo presente nelle sinistre e in parte del movimento pacifista,
a insulto della grande resistenza antifascista condotta dal popolo
serbo e della comune sofferenza di serbi, ebrei e antifascisti sotto
quel nazifascismo che ha poi ispirato i Tudjman, gli Izetbegovic e i
Thaci.
Essendo riuscito a neutralizzare il pertinace lavoro di
strumentalizzazione e mistificazione condotto da EC nei confronti del
Presidente Milosevic, è ora necessario che l´ICDSM resti vigile per
impedire l´accostamento a personaggi estranei alla cultura democratica
e che esprimono posizioni scioviniste, di qualsiasi segno esse siano.
La battaglia per la libertà del Presidente Milsoevic è tutt´uno con
quella per la libertà della Serbia e dei Balcani e non può essere
strumentalizzata ad altri fini, che ne contraddicono l´ispirazione di
fondo e oggettivamente minacciano di rovesciare l´assunto per il quale
l´ICDSM lotta.
Roma, 21 settembre
Sezione Italiana dell´ICDSM
Una lettera nel senso sopra esposto è stata indirizzata al Presidente
Milosevic a nome dei vicepresidenti dell´ICDSM e di altri esponenti
dell´ICDSM.
---
Statement by the Italian section of the ICDSM
The recent decision to consider the "Emperor´s Clothes" group (EC) no
longer a member of the ICDSM, shared by the major national ICDSM
sections including its coordinating committee in Belgrade, is
inevitable. We cannot but support it, since EC attacked and diffamated
members and leading figures of the ICDSM, in public and alledging to
speak in the name of President Milosevic.
President Milosevic has been informed of the matter. We believe that
every organisational function of the ICDSM, starting with the bank
account, should be based in Europe, where the most active structures of
the ICDSM are, and recognized as such by Belgrade for being those that
can assure a transparent management. This is necessary also in view of
problems which arose about the management of the funds collected by EC.
We deplore the recent activites of EC, which resulted in the disruption
and sabotage of the unity and correctness within the ICDSM. After
having provided useful and important information at the beginning, EC
lately added to the diffamation and lies on the role of ICDSM and its
leading figures, such as its Chairman Ramsey Clark, a campaign on the
Middle East conflict based on the position of Zionist extremism. Such
position contradicts totally what should be the antiracist and
anticolonialist line of the ICDSM, as embodied during his entire life
by President Milosevic, even recently in the course of the trial at the
"Tribunal" in The Hague.
This Zionist extremism expressed itself not only by means of gross
historical falsifications and a campaign of justification of the
present Israeli government, but as well through attacks on members of
the ICDSM that were evidently considered "guilty" of being coherently
committed to the resistance of the Palestinians, along with all other
peoples subject to imperialist and racist policies.
This choice by EC may be seen in connection with the omission, from
EC´s analysis and documentation, of Israel´s governments specific
responsibilities in the fragmentation of Yugoslavia (one only needs to
consider the present political and military cooperation with the
quisling and police government of DOS). This policy was actively
supported by sectors of the Jewish communities, which in the course of
the past years helped to build up the image of a "Serb nazism", so
strengthening the tragic stereotype accepted by part of the Left and
the peace movement. This also constitutes an insult to the Serbian
people´s great resistance against nazifascism, as well as to the
suffering inflicted on Serbs, Jews and all antifascists by that very
nazifascism which later inspired Tudjman, Izetbegovic and Thaci.
Having been able to neutralise the diffamatory and disruptive work
carried out by EC to the detriment of President Milosevic´s defence, it
is now necessary that the ICDSM remains vigilant in order to prevent
any link with people who are strangers to a democratic culture and
express chauvinistic positions, of whatever nature they may be. The
battle for President Milosevic´s freedom is one and the same battle for
the freedom of Serbia and the Balkans, and cannot be manipulated for
other purposes, which would contradict our basic inspiration as ICDSM
and could overturn the very objectives for which we struggle.
Rome, September 21, 2003
Italian Section of the ICDSM
A letter in this sense has been already addressed directly to President
Milosevic by ICDSM co-chairmen and other members.
(Italiano / english)
1. COMUNICATO STAMPA / PRESS RELEASE 21/9/2003
2. Comunicato della Sezione Italiana dell´ICDSM / Statement by the
Italian section of the ICDSM
=== 1 ===
Da: <icdsm-italia@...>
Data: Mer 24 Set 2003 11:23:34 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: ICDSM - Sezione Italiana
ICDSM - Italian Section
Comitato Internazionale per la difesa di Slobodan Milosevic -
Sezione Italiana
COMUNICATO STAMPA 21/9/2003
Si e' costituita oggi a Roma, nel corso di una riunione indetta da
personalita' gia' aderenti come singoli al Comitato Internazionale per
la Difesa di Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM), la Sezione Italiana dell'ICDSM.
La Sezione Italiana entra cosi' a far parte di questa struttura che
vanta analoghe organizzazioni nazionali in molti paesi, tra i quali,
oltre alla Serbia, la Russia, la Germania, la Gran Bretagna e gli Stati
Uniti d'America.
La Sezione Italiana dell'ICDSM e' rappresentata a livello
internazionale da Aldo Bernardini, noto giurista, ordinario di diritto
internazionale all'Universita' di Teramo ed ex Rettore, e da Fulvio
Grimaldi, popolare giornalista, esperto di questioni ambientali ed
internazionali, in prima fila nelle battaglie di controinformazione
sulle nuove guerre.
Miriam Pellegrini Ferri e Spartaco Ferri, partigiani, da sempre
impegnati in difesa dei popoli oppressi ed oggi animatori del Gruppo
Atei Materialisti Dialettici (GAMADI), hanno annunciato che sara'
prossimamente dedicata alla costituzione della Sezione Italiana
dell'ICDSM una trasmissione televisiva su Teleambiente, curata dal
GAMADI.
Nel corso della riunione e' stato approvato il sostegno della Sezione
Italiana alla prossima Manifestazione Internazionale che si terra'
all'Aia l'8 Novembre, per la chiusura dell'illegale "Tribunale" e per
la liberazione di Slobodan Milosevic, detenuto politico del Nuovo
Ordine Mondiale. Sono in preparazione alcune iniziative per la
promozione di una campagna di finanziamento per le attivita' di difesa
di Slobodan Milosevic.
Nel corso della riunione sono stati attribuiti gli incarichi per il
coordinamento interno e le comunicazioni verso l'esterno della Sezione
Italiana, nonche' stabiliti i suoi recapiti:
ICDSM - Sezione Italiana
c/o GAMADI, Via L. Da Vinci 27
00043 Ciampino (Roma)
email: icdsm-italia@...
Per informazioni sulle attivita' del Comitato Internazionale:
http://www.icdsm.org/
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/
La documentazione e gli aggiornamenti sulle attivita' dell'ICDSM e sul
processo-farsa dell'Aia sono distribuiti, anche in lingua italiana, dal
notiziario JUGOINFO:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/messages
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Comitato Internazionale per la difesa di Slobodan Milosevic -
Sezione Italiana
ICDSM - Italian Section
PRESS RELEASE
21/9/2003
Today in Rome, during a meeting organized by personalities already
belonging as individuals to the International Committee for the Defense
of Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM), the Italian Section of the ICDSM has
been officially created.
In this way, the Italian Section becomes part of the international
organization which already counts similar national branches in several
countries, among which, apart from Serbia, Russia, Germany, Great
Britain and the USA.
The Italian Section of ICDSM is represented at the international level
by two prominent figures: Aldo Bernardini, a well known jurist,
professor of international law at the Teramo University and ex dean,
and Fulvio Grimaldi, very popular journalist, expert of environmental
and international issues, who stands at the very front of the struggle
about information and media on the contemporary wars.
Miriam Pellegrini Ferri and Spartaco Ferri, partisans which have been
always engaged in defense of the oppressed peoples and are nowadays the
animators of GAMADI (Society of Atheist and Dialectic Materialists)
announced that a TV program, organized as GAMADI, will deal with the
event of the creation of the Italian Section of ICDSM, to be
broadcasted by the local television Teleambiente.
In the course of this meeting, the support of the Italian Section has
been reaffirmed to the next International Demostration which will be
held in The Hague on November 8th, 2003, with the request of
dismantling the illegal "Tribunal" and for the release of Slobodan
Milosevic, political prisoner of the New World Order. Some activities
are being prepared to promote a fundraising campaign for the defence of
Slobodan Milosevic.
During the meeting, the internal responsabilities of the Section have
been decided, with regard to the coordination and the communications,
together with the Section's addresses:
ICDSM - Sezione Italiana
c/o GAMADI, Via L. Da Vinci 27
00043 Ciampino (Roma)
email: icdsm-italia@...
Information on the activities of the International Committee can be
found at:
http://www.icdsm.org/
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/
Documents and updates on the ICDSM activities as well as on the false
"trial" in The Hague are distributed also in Italian language through
the newsletter JUGOINFO:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/messages
=== 2 ===
Da: <icdsm-italia@...>
Data: Mer 24 Set 2003 11:19:53 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: Comunicato / Statement by the Italian section of the ICDSM
Comunicato della Sezione Italiana dell´ICDSM
La recente decisione di considerare il gruppo di "Emperor´s Clothes"
(EC) non più parte del Comitato Internazionale per la Difesa di
Slobodan Milosevic, condivisa dalle maggiori sezioni nazionali e dal
suo coordinamento a Belgrado, ci è apparsa inevitabile. Non possiamo
non condividerla, in quanto EC ha attaccato e diffamato esponenti e
dirigenti dell´ICDSM, in pubblico e pretendendo di parlare a nome del
Presidente Milosevic.
Il presidente Milosevic è stato messo al corrente della vicenda.
Crediamo opportuno che ogni servizio organizzativo dell´ICDSM, a
partire dal conto bancario, faccia base dove si trovano le realtà più
attive del comitato, riconosciute come tali da Belgrado, quelle che
possono farsi garanti di una gestione trasparente, dunque in Europa.
Questo anche alla luce di problemi sorti sulla gestione dei fondi
raccolti da EC.
Ci rammarichiamo delle recenti iniziative disgregatrici e sabotatrici
dell´unità e della correttezza dell´ICDSM messe in atto da EC, che,
dopo aver reso un importante servizio a tutti attraverso la diffusione
di documentazione utile, ha aggiunto alla recenti diffamazioni e
menzogne sul ruolo dell´ICDSM e su suoi esponenti di punta, come il
presidente Ramsey Clark, una campagna sulla problematica mediorientale
di netta ispirazione sionista estremista; posizioni che contraddicono
nettamente quella che dovrebbe essere la linea antirazzista ed
anticolonialista dell´ICDSM, come esplicitata in tutta la sua vita dal
Presidente Milosevic, ultimamente nelle aule dell'illegale tribunale
dell´Aja.
Questo estremismo sionista di EC si è evidenziato non solo con
grossolane falsificazioni storiche e con una propaganda
giustificazionista in appoggio all´attuale governo israeliano, ma anche
con l´attacco a elementi dell´ICDSM, evidentemente ritenuti "colpevoli"
di essere coerentemente impegnati al fianco della resistenza del popolo
arabo-palestinese e degli altri popoli vittime di politiche
imperialiste e razziste.
Questa scelta di EC appare tutt´uno con l´omissione dall´analisi e
dalla documentazione di EC delle responsabilità specifiche dei governi
israeliani nello squartamento della Jugoslavia (si noti in particolare
l´attuale collaborazione politica e militare avviate con il regime
quisling e poliziesco della DOS). Questa politica è stata attivamente
sostenuta da settori del mondo ebraico che in questi anni hanno tentato
di costruire l´immagine del "nazismo serbo", rafforzando il tragico
stereotipo presente nelle sinistre e in parte del movimento pacifista,
a insulto della grande resistenza antifascista condotta dal popolo
serbo e della comune sofferenza di serbi, ebrei e antifascisti sotto
quel nazifascismo che ha poi ispirato i Tudjman, gli Izetbegovic e i
Thaci.
Essendo riuscito a neutralizzare il pertinace lavoro di
strumentalizzazione e mistificazione condotto da EC nei confronti del
Presidente Milosevic, è ora necessario che l´ICDSM resti vigile per
impedire l´accostamento a personaggi estranei alla cultura democratica
e che esprimono posizioni scioviniste, di qualsiasi segno esse siano.
La battaglia per la libertà del Presidente Milsoevic è tutt´uno con
quella per la libertà della Serbia e dei Balcani e non può essere
strumentalizzata ad altri fini, che ne contraddicono l´ispirazione di
fondo e oggettivamente minacciano di rovesciare l´assunto per il quale
l´ICDSM lotta.
Roma, 21 settembre
Sezione Italiana dell´ICDSM
Una lettera nel senso sopra esposto è stata indirizzata al Presidente
Milosevic a nome dei vicepresidenti dell´ICDSM e di altri esponenti
dell´ICDSM.
---
Statement by the Italian section of the ICDSM
The recent decision to consider the "Emperor´s Clothes" group (EC) no
longer a member of the ICDSM, shared by the major national ICDSM
sections including its coordinating committee in Belgrade, is
inevitable. We cannot but support it, since EC attacked and diffamated
members and leading figures of the ICDSM, in public and alledging to
speak in the name of President Milosevic.
President Milosevic has been informed of the matter. We believe that
every organisational function of the ICDSM, starting with the bank
account, should be based in Europe, where the most active structures of
the ICDSM are, and recognized as such by Belgrade for being those that
can assure a transparent management. This is necessary also in view of
problems which arose about the management of the funds collected by EC.
We deplore the recent activites of EC, which resulted in the disruption
and sabotage of the unity and correctness within the ICDSM. After
having provided useful and important information at the beginning, EC
lately added to the diffamation and lies on the role of ICDSM and its
leading figures, such as its Chairman Ramsey Clark, a campaign on the
Middle East conflict based on the position of Zionist extremism. Such
position contradicts totally what should be the antiracist and
anticolonialist line of the ICDSM, as embodied during his entire life
by President Milosevic, even recently in the course of the trial at the
"Tribunal" in The Hague.
This Zionist extremism expressed itself not only by means of gross
historical falsifications and a campaign of justification of the
present Israeli government, but as well through attacks on members of
the ICDSM that were evidently considered "guilty" of being coherently
committed to the resistance of the Palestinians, along with all other
peoples subject to imperialist and racist policies.
This choice by EC may be seen in connection with the omission, from
EC´s analysis and documentation, of Israel´s governments specific
responsibilities in the fragmentation of Yugoslavia (one only needs to
consider the present political and military cooperation with the
quisling and police government of DOS). This policy was actively
supported by sectors of the Jewish communities, which in the course of
the past years helped to build up the image of a "Serb nazism", so
strengthening the tragic stereotype accepted by part of the Left and
the peace movement. This also constitutes an insult to the Serbian
people´s great resistance against nazifascism, as well as to the
suffering inflicted on Serbs, Jews and all antifascists by that very
nazifascism which later inspired Tudjman, Izetbegovic and Thaci.
Having been able to neutralise the diffamatory and disruptive work
carried out by EC to the detriment of President Milosevic´s defence, it
is now necessary that the ICDSM remains vigilant in order to prevent
any link with people who are strangers to a democratic culture and
express chauvinistic positions, of whatever nature they may be. The
battle for President Milosevic´s freedom is one and the same battle for
the freedom of Serbia and the Balkans, and cannot be manipulated for
other purposes, which would contradict our basic inspiration as ICDSM
and could overturn the very objectives for which we struggle.
Rome, September 21, 2003
Italian Section of the ICDSM
A letter in this sense has been already addressed directly to President
Milosevic by ICDSM co-chairmen and other members.
Milosevic "trial", synopsis Sept. 11-20, 2003
1. "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: 12 SEPTEMBER 2003
2. "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: SEPTEMBER 15, 2003
3. “TRIAL” SYNOPSIS SEPTEMBER 16, 2003
4. MILOSEVIC TRIAL SUSPENDED AGAIN ON HEALTH GROUNDS
=== 1 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg091203.htm
"TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: 12 SEPTEMBER 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - September 12, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
Robert J. Donia testified as an "expert witness" against President
Milosevic today. Dr. Donia has served as a consultant for the U.S.
Miliatry, and during the Bosnian war (which is what he was testifying
about) he worked as a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch. Maybe next
week the tribunal can get somebody from Bank of America to testify
about events in Croatia. In 1981 Dr. Donia wrote a book entitled
"Islam under the Double Eagle: The Muslims of Bosnia and Hercegovina,
1878-1914."
Dr. Donia has a history of testifying at the Hague Tribunal. He has
testified there 8 times, and always against Serbs and Croats -- never
against Muslims, in spite of the fact that the book he wrote was about
Muslims. However, as Mr. May pointed out, the Tribunal has yet to
prosecute a Muslim.
At any rate has spent so much time either testifying at the Hague
Tribunal, or consulting the Hague Tribunal that he has decided to
teach a class about the Hague Tribunal at the University of Michigan
entitled "Inside the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal."
The Croatian media claims that Dr. Donia set-up a foundation through
with he solicited money from Islamic countries, and then had the money
deposited into Bosnian (Muslim) government bank accounts. Dr. Donia
denied the accusations. He admitted that he had set-up a foundation,
but claimed that he was the only one who gave it any money and that he
only gave the money out to universities.
Call me crazy, but I don' t believe that somebody go to the trouble of
setting-up a foundation just to have themselves be the only donor. If
he wanted to give money to universities then why didn't he just write
them a check?
Dr. Donia compiled a report for the prosecution. He took the minutes
and the transcripts of the Republika Srpska parliament sessions, and
compiled a report from that material. The formula he employed to write
the report was to write a summary, a headline for the summary, and
then cite quotations from the transcripts and the minutes of the
parliament sessions in order to confirm his summary and headline.
In his report Dr. Donia took quotes out of their proper context, and
wrote headlines designed to mislead the reader. President Milosevic
spent a large portion of the day reading out full quotations, and then
demonstrating how the full quotation refuted the thesis that Dr. Donia
was trying to construct with his summaries and headlines.
The most important part of Dr. Donia's testimony dealt with the 30th
session of the RS Assembly. Dr. Donia claimed that President Milosevic
had advocated a "greater Serbia" policy when he traveled to Pale to
try and convince the RS Assembly to accept the Vance-Owen Plan.
Dr. Donia read part of President Milosevic's 2nd speech to the
parliament when the President spoke of the Vance-Owen plan being the
way for the Serbian people to reach their "ultimate goal."
Dr. Donia said that the goal was left undefined in the speech. Based
on this Dr. Donia concluded that President Milosevic must be speaking
of "greater Serbia," when he spoke of reaching the undefined goal.
Impeccable logic indeed.
Dr. Donia attempted to claim that this speech of Milosevic's was held
in a secret closed session of the RS Assembly. However, President
Milosevic pointed-out that the session was public, and he proved it by
producing a newspaper that at the time the speech was given, printed
the full text of the allegedly secret speech.
Moreover, it is untrue when Donia claims that the "goal" Milosevic
spoke of was undefined. President Milosevic gave two speeches that
day, and in the first speech he was very explicit. He quite clearly
defined the goal of the Serbian people as being: peace, freedom, and
equality. And looking at President Milosevic's other public statements
form the time it is clear that his number one priority was to help
bring an end to the bloodshed. It is clear from his statements that
peace, freedom and equality were always defined by him as the goal of
the Serbian people.
In case you doubt what I am saying about Milosevic's position at the
time of the Vance-Owen Plan, please read the interviews at the
following two web addresses:
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/milosevic050293.htm
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/milosevic051493.htm
President Milosevic has demonstrated with both his words and his
actions a rejection of the whole "greater Serbia" idea. (See:
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/milosevic080791.htm ) Dr.
Donia's testimony is pure and utter nonsense.
President Milosevic usually has a good "poker face." He usually shows
no emotion when listening to prosecution witnesses testifying, but
when Donia started saying that by speaking of an "undefined goal" that
Milosevic must be speaking of "greater Serbia;" President Milosevic
could be seen having a good chuckle at this.
President Milosevic has 45 more minutes to complete his
cross-examination of this so-called "expert." The witness will return
at an as-yet undetermined date to complete his testimony.
=== 2 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg091503.htm
"TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: SEPTEMBER 15, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - September 15, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
A secret witness testifying under the pseudonym of "B-179" testified
against President Milosevic today. B-179 allegedly held a certain
position in the Association of Emigrant Serbs also known as "Matica"
(Matica is the Serbian word for association). The Matica is one of the
oldest and most respected Serbian charities, it is financed by the
Serbian Government and by private donations. It is well known that the
Matica delivered humanitarian aid to war ravaged areas in Bosnia and
Croatia.
B-179's alleged position in the Matica was kept secret from the
public, but President Milosevic had contacted the Matica, and asked if
the position that the witness claimed to hold even exsisted. The Matica
responded and said that the position in question had ever existed.
Another secret that was kept from the public was the nature some court
proceedings that were taken against the witness. Apparently this
witness must be some kind of criminal, maybe he is a drug dealer, or a
rapist, or possibly a robber, who knows? All that is known is that
there were some kind of proceedings.
What is known about this witness is that he joined the SPO in 1998.
The witness claimed that his motivation for joining the SPO was his
desire to overthrow Milosevic. So right off the top we can see that
here is a witness who has a political motivation for telling lies
against President Milosevic.
B-179 claimed that the Matica transported arms from Serbia to the
battle front in Bosnia and Croatia. He claimed that arms and munitions
would be taken from a military warehouse in Bubanj Potok and shipped to
various locations in both the RS and the RSK.
B-179 arrived at the tribunal with a number of documents. Of course
none of them proved any of what he was saying.
As far as weapons were concerned, B-179 had receipts issued by the
Serbian Ministry of Defense proving that the Matica was issued
approximately 15 light weapons (rifles, pistols, etc...). The document
was very explicit in saying that these weapons were issued so that the
Matica could defend itself while shipping humanitarian supplies
throughout the war zone.
The only other document that he had regarding weapons didn't prove
anything. The document dealt with an alleged shipment of some 82mm
shells. The only signature on the document was the witness's signature.
Nobody from either the government of Serbia, or the Government of
Yugoslavia signed any part of the document.
The only other documents that the witness had were normal things that
anybody delivering humanitarian supplies would have: fuel receipts,
vehicle registration papers, Red Cross documents, etc...
The witness explained that he used to have more proof, and that he
used to have some other documents, but that some people came to his
house and took those things away. He said that the VJ would also have
such documents, but that they burned the documents, which is why they
don't have any such documents now.
The witness claims to have his knowledge about the scope of the
alleged arms shipments and the alleged burning of documents on the
basis of what he heard while eavesdropping on other people's
conversations.
Not only did this guy claim that Milosevic was arming the Serbs, but
he claimed that Milosevic was arming the Croats too!
B-179 professed to know all about Milosevic. In his statement, B-179
said that Milosevic would start his day, everyday, by going to the
headquarters of the Serbian state security and planning out where to
ship weapons to. However, in his testimony he said that Jovica
Stanisic and Milan Prodinic would always talk about "informing 'dad'
(meaning Milosevic)" about their arms trafficking activities.
Therefore the natural question is, why should they inform "dad" if
"dad" was supposed to be taking part in the planning of these same
activities on a daily basis? Wouldn't he already know?
B-179 completely failed to prove that he received any weapons from the
JNA, the VJ, or the Serbian MUP (except for those 15 light weapons
specified for the defense of Matica humanitarian aid shipments). B-179
could not produce a single document to prove that he had received even
one weapon. B-179 also could not produce even a single document to
prove that he had delivered any weapons. Not only could he not produce
any documents, but he couldn't name even one recipient of any of the
alleged weapons.
The only useful thing about B-179's testimony was his admission that
the Matica gave humanitarian assistance to all of the wars' victims
regardless of their ethnicity. That the government of Serbia was
actually financing shipments of humanitarian aid to Croats and Muslims
as well as Serbs.
After B-179 withdrew, Baron Arnot Van Linden took the witness stand.
Van Linden was a reporter for the British Sky news service. The
prosecutor readout Van Linden's 92-bis summary, and then the session
ended for the day.
Van Linden is apparently going to testify about the so-called "siege
of Sarajevo." One interesting admission that was made was the
admission that members of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina would not
always wear uniforms. The admission was made in an effort to
demonstrate how poor the Muslims must have been since they didn't even
always wear uniforms.
For the Muslims to be conducting war operations without uniforms is a
violation of the Geneva Conventions. Simply put, by engaging in war
operations without uniforms they made it nearly impossible for the army
they were fighting against to distinguish between them and the
civilians. Therefore, they endangered precisely their own civilians,
because they made it hard for the opposing army to tell the difference
between a civilian and an enemy soldier.
It may be interesting to read the following in view of Van Linden's
testimony. It is Slobodan Milosevic's interview with Van Linden that
was taken back in 1991:
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/milosevic080791.htm
=== 3 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg091603.htm
“TRIAL” SYNOPSIS SEPTEMBER 16, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - September 16, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
Baron Arnot Van Linden, a correspondent for the British “Sky”
television network testified against President Milosevic today
regarding the so-called “siege of Sarajevo.”
The one thing that should be remembered about the shelling of Sarajevo
is the same thing that should be remembered about the war in Bosnia as
a whole. The Muslims instigated the fighting – they were the
aggressors, not the victims.
On May 27, 1992 the Muslim army (so-called ABiH) attacked JNA soldiers
attempting to withdraw from Sarajevo. The Muslims fired on unarmed
columns of JNA soldiers as they were withdrawing from the Jusuf
Dzonlic barracks and the Marshal Tito barracks in Sarajevo.
It was only after the Muslims launched their barbaric attack on the
JNA that retribution was visited upon them. It should also be
mentioned in connection with the retaliation that Radovan Karadzic and
the VRS repeatedly offered safe passage for any civilians who wished
to flee the Sarajevo war zone, but that Izetbegovic decided that he
would rather keep the population of Sarajevo as hostages than allow
them to leave the war zone.
Van Linden reluctantly confirmed that not a single shell fell on
Sarajevo until after the Muslim's barbaric attack on the barracks of
the JNA. Now that the sequence of events is clear we can speak about
the rest of Van Linden’s testimony.
The “evidence” that he bought with him to court was nothing but his
own edited news stories that he had filed with Sky News. He did not
bring any raw footage, only the edited pieces that he produced.
Van Linden testified about an interview that he conducted with General
Ratko Mladic. A tape was played of this so-called “interview.” The
so-called “interview” consisted of a couple of brief sound-bytes from
Gen. Mladic. The rest of the so-called “interview” was Van Linden
himself paraphrasing what Gen. Mladic had allegedly told him.
The question here is why did Van Linden have to paraphrase what Mladic
told him? A camera crew was filming the interview, so why didn’t Van
Linden simply play the unedited videotape of the interview? The answer
is simple, what Mladic said was not convenient for the agenda that Van
Linden was trying to advance, therefore Van Linden rephrased what
Mladic said, in order to advance his anti-Serb propaganda campaign.
Van Linden also did an interview with President Milosevic in 1991. Van
Linden didn’t have any tape of this interview either, nor did he have
a transcript of it, but he did paraphrase it for the “court.” He said
that on the basis of the interview, he concluded that Milosevic wanted
to export the war in Croatia out to Bosnia and Kosovo.
Well, even if Van Linden didn’t have it, we have a transcript of the
interview, and you can read it at:
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/milosevic080791.htm
Read the interview and judge for yourself whether or not any sane
person could conclude from it that President Milosevic wanted to
export war anywhere.
Why didn’t Van Linden play a tape of the Milosevic interview? Simple,
if he played the tape then it would speak for itself, and he wouldn’t
have had any opportunity to tell lies about the contents of it.
Van Linden claimed to have interviewed Radovan Karadzic too. Again,
even though video tapes were allegedly made, none were played. And
again we have Baron Van Linden putting words into Dr. Karadzic’s
mouth. Van Linden made Karadzic out to be some sort of genocidal
bigot. Saying that Karadzic called the Muslims by racial slurs, and
that he wanted ethnic purity, and that he even wanted to build a sort
of Berlin Wall through Sarajevo.
Van Linden claimed that the embargo that Serbia placed on the
Republika Srpska after the rejection of the Vance-Owen Plan was
regularly violated. He claimed that he saw trucks crossing the border
and violating the embargo a number of times. Again, since he was there
with a camera crew, why didn’t he make a video tape of this? And for
that matter, how come the international observers that were monitoring
the border didn’t see any of this?
Van Linden also claimed to interview Captain Dragan, and again this TV
newsman had no tape, but he did paraphrase what he says that Captain
Dragan told him. According to Van Linden Captain Dragan said that
Milosevic was controlling the Serbs in Croatia. Milosevic asserted
that Captain Dragan had never said that and Van Linden stammered that
Captain Dragan was not referring to operational control or anything
like that, but that he was saying it in a metaphorical sense or
something.
An example of Van Linden’s “stellar reporting” came in one of the
tapes that he did play. The tape showed a number of graves that were
decorated with Orthodox crosses, but Van Linden in his voice-over,
called them “Bosnian graves.” The graves were obviously Serb graves,
President Milosevic confronted Van Linden with this, and Van Linden
admitted that they were Serbs, but since they were Serbs from Bosnia
he called them “Bosnians.”
It is common knowledge that the Serbs in Bosnia never call themselves
“Bosnians.” Only the Muslims call themselves “Bosnians,” which is
nothing more than a cynical effort by them to create the illusion that
they have some sort of claim to Bosnia, over that of the Serbs and
Croats. Even Van Linden during his testimony was referring to Muslims
as “Bosnians” and Serbs as “Serbs.”
Van Linden was clearly trying to mislead his viewers into thinking
that they were looking at Muslim graves, and not Serb graves. After
all, Serb graves would confuse everything that the Baron was saying.
Van Linden says that he never saw the Muslims doing any shooting,
obviously these Serb graves would seem to conflict with that.
Therefore it was necessary for the lying Baron to conceal the fact
that these were Serb graves.
Van Linden’s tapes also showed footage of the unarmed JNA soldiers who
were massacred by the Muslims while attempting to withdraw from
Sarajevo, but of course Van Linden neglected to mention that the
Muslims killed them, or that those JNA soldiers were shot while they
were unarmed and withdrawing from the city.
Van Linden’s testimony exposed the nature of television news coverage.
In one instance a video was shown. Van Linden was talking about Bosnia
in his voice-over commentary, but the video on the tape was from
Kosovo and had nothing to do with what Van Linden was saying.
Van Linden, upon seeing that the Albanian writing on the posters on
the footage, came up with the excuse that he didn’t edit the video
that somebody else did. When he was asked about other video sequences
he explained that he was using other people’s footage, and so he
wasn’t always sure what exactly was being shown on his video tapes.
TV news is ideal for propaganda. As Van Linden’s testimony
demonstrated the video you are looking at doesn’t necessarily have
anything to do with what the reporter is saying. At the beginning of
the proceedings there were technical problems at the tribunal and the
video could not be seen clearly, and as “Judge” May complained, not
being able to see the video caused “the evidence lose all of its
impact.”
After Van Linden was concluded President Milosevic took sick, and the
proceedings were adjourned early.
President Milosevic complained of fatigue, and high blood pressure
which he says is brought on by the excessive pace of the so-called
“trial.”
Again the so-called “judges” attempted to foist some sort of legal
assistance onto President Milosevic and again he rejected it.
It is not yet known whether the so-called “trial” will be conducted
tomorrow or not.
=== 4 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/afp091803.htm
Milosevic trial suspended again on health grounds
Agence France Presse - September 18, 2003
THE HAGUE - The UN war crimes court in The Hague has cancelled hearings
scheduled for Friday and Monday in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic due
to the former Yugoslav president's ill health, the court said on
Thursday.
The former head of state, 62, suffers from high blood pressure and is
thought to have a high risk of heart problems.
His trial for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes has
often been halted on health grounds since it began on February 12 last
year.
Milosevic is on trial for his role in the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and
Kosovo that broke up the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
The prosecution is due to finish presenting its case against Milosevic
by the end of the year.
Milosevic has been given three months to prepare his defence case,
which he will begin presenting to the court in the spring of next
year. The trial is expected to last at least until 2005.
September 18, 2003 Thursday 3:23 PM Eastern Time
SECTION: International News
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MILOSEVIC TRIAL:
HEARINGS CANCELLED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS WEEK
Please be advised that the hearings in the Milosevic trial have been
cancelled for the remainder of this week (Tuesday 23 to Friday 26
September 2003) due to the ill health of the accused.
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1. "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: 12 SEPTEMBER 2003
2. "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: SEPTEMBER 15, 2003
3. “TRIAL” SYNOPSIS SEPTEMBER 16, 2003
4. MILOSEVIC TRIAL SUSPENDED AGAIN ON HEALTH GROUNDS
=== 1 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg091203.htm
"TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: 12 SEPTEMBER 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - September 12, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
Robert J. Donia testified as an "expert witness" against President
Milosevic today. Dr. Donia has served as a consultant for the U.S.
Miliatry, and during the Bosnian war (which is what he was testifying
about) he worked as a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch. Maybe next
week the tribunal can get somebody from Bank of America to testify
about events in Croatia. In 1981 Dr. Donia wrote a book entitled
"Islam under the Double Eagle: The Muslims of Bosnia and Hercegovina,
1878-1914."
Dr. Donia has a history of testifying at the Hague Tribunal. He has
testified there 8 times, and always against Serbs and Croats -- never
against Muslims, in spite of the fact that the book he wrote was about
Muslims. However, as Mr. May pointed out, the Tribunal has yet to
prosecute a Muslim.
At any rate has spent so much time either testifying at the Hague
Tribunal, or consulting the Hague Tribunal that he has decided to
teach a class about the Hague Tribunal at the University of Michigan
entitled "Inside the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal."
The Croatian media claims that Dr. Donia set-up a foundation through
with he solicited money from Islamic countries, and then had the money
deposited into Bosnian (Muslim) government bank accounts. Dr. Donia
denied the accusations. He admitted that he had set-up a foundation,
but claimed that he was the only one who gave it any money and that he
only gave the money out to universities.
Call me crazy, but I don' t believe that somebody go to the trouble of
setting-up a foundation just to have themselves be the only donor. If
he wanted to give money to universities then why didn't he just write
them a check?
Dr. Donia compiled a report for the prosecution. He took the minutes
and the transcripts of the Republika Srpska parliament sessions, and
compiled a report from that material. The formula he employed to write
the report was to write a summary, a headline for the summary, and
then cite quotations from the transcripts and the minutes of the
parliament sessions in order to confirm his summary and headline.
In his report Dr. Donia took quotes out of their proper context, and
wrote headlines designed to mislead the reader. President Milosevic
spent a large portion of the day reading out full quotations, and then
demonstrating how the full quotation refuted the thesis that Dr. Donia
was trying to construct with his summaries and headlines.
The most important part of Dr. Donia's testimony dealt with the 30th
session of the RS Assembly. Dr. Donia claimed that President Milosevic
had advocated a "greater Serbia" policy when he traveled to Pale to
try and convince the RS Assembly to accept the Vance-Owen Plan.
Dr. Donia read part of President Milosevic's 2nd speech to the
parliament when the President spoke of the Vance-Owen plan being the
way for the Serbian people to reach their "ultimate goal."
Dr. Donia said that the goal was left undefined in the speech. Based
on this Dr. Donia concluded that President Milosevic must be speaking
of "greater Serbia," when he spoke of reaching the undefined goal.
Impeccable logic indeed.
Dr. Donia attempted to claim that this speech of Milosevic's was held
in a secret closed session of the RS Assembly. However, President
Milosevic pointed-out that the session was public, and he proved it by
producing a newspaper that at the time the speech was given, printed
the full text of the allegedly secret speech.
Moreover, it is untrue when Donia claims that the "goal" Milosevic
spoke of was undefined. President Milosevic gave two speeches that
day, and in the first speech he was very explicit. He quite clearly
defined the goal of the Serbian people as being: peace, freedom, and
equality. And looking at President Milosevic's other public statements
form the time it is clear that his number one priority was to help
bring an end to the bloodshed. It is clear from his statements that
peace, freedom and equality were always defined by him as the goal of
the Serbian people.
In case you doubt what I am saying about Milosevic's position at the
time of the Vance-Owen Plan, please read the interviews at the
following two web addresses:
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/milosevic050293.htm
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/milosevic051493.htm
President Milosevic has demonstrated with both his words and his
actions a rejection of the whole "greater Serbia" idea. (See:
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/milosevic080791.htm ) Dr.
Donia's testimony is pure and utter nonsense.
President Milosevic usually has a good "poker face." He usually shows
no emotion when listening to prosecution witnesses testifying, but
when Donia started saying that by speaking of an "undefined goal" that
Milosevic must be speaking of "greater Serbia;" President Milosevic
could be seen having a good chuckle at this.
President Milosevic has 45 more minutes to complete his
cross-examination of this so-called "expert." The witness will return
at an as-yet undetermined date to complete his testimony.
=== 2 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg091503.htm
"TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: SEPTEMBER 15, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - September 15, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
A secret witness testifying under the pseudonym of "B-179" testified
against President Milosevic today. B-179 allegedly held a certain
position in the Association of Emigrant Serbs also known as "Matica"
(Matica is the Serbian word for association). The Matica is one of the
oldest and most respected Serbian charities, it is financed by the
Serbian Government and by private donations. It is well known that the
Matica delivered humanitarian aid to war ravaged areas in Bosnia and
Croatia.
B-179's alleged position in the Matica was kept secret from the
public, but President Milosevic had contacted the Matica, and asked if
the position that the witness claimed to hold even exsisted. The Matica
responded and said that the position in question had ever existed.
Another secret that was kept from the public was the nature some court
proceedings that were taken against the witness. Apparently this
witness must be some kind of criminal, maybe he is a drug dealer, or a
rapist, or possibly a robber, who knows? All that is known is that
there were some kind of proceedings.
What is known about this witness is that he joined the SPO in 1998.
The witness claimed that his motivation for joining the SPO was his
desire to overthrow Milosevic. So right off the top we can see that
here is a witness who has a political motivation for telling lies
against President Milosevic.
B-179 claimed that the Matica transported arms from Serbia to the
battle front in Bosnia and Croatia. He claimed that arms and munitions
would be taken from a military warehouse in Bubanj Potok and shipped to
various locations in both the RS and the RSK.
B-179 arrived at the tribunal with a number of documents. Of course
none of them proved any of what he was saying.
As far as weapons were concerned, B-179 had receipts issued by the
Serbian Ministry of Defense proving that the Matica was issued
approximately 15 light weapons (rifles, pistols, etc...). The document
was very explicit in saying that these weapons were issued so that the
Matica could defend itself while shipping humanitarian supplies
throughout the war zone.
The only other document that he had regarding weapons didn't prove
anything. The document dealt with an alleged shipment of some 82mm
shells. The only signature on the document was the witness's signature.
Nobody from either the government of Serbia, or the Government of
Yugoslavia signed any part of the document.
The only other documents that the witness had were normal things that
anybody delivering humanitarian supplies would have: fuel receipts,
vehicle registration papers, Red Cross documents, etc...
The witness explained that he used to have more proof, and that he
used to have some other documents, but that some people came to his
house and took those things away. He said that the VJ would also have
such documents, but that they burned the documents, which is why they
don't have any such documents now.
The witness claims to have his knowledge about the scope of the
alleged arms shipments and the alleged burning of documents on the
basis of what he heard while eavesdropping on other people's
conversations.
Not only did this guy claim that Milosevic was arming the Serbs, but
he claimed that Milosevic was arming the Croats too!
B-179 professed to know all about Milosevic. In his statement, B-179
said that Milosevic would start his day, everyday, by going to the
headquarters of the Serbian state security and planning out where to
ship weapons to. However, in his testimony he said that Jovica
Stanisic and Milan Prodinic would always talk about "informing 'dad'
(meaning Milosevic)" about their arms trafficking activities.
Therefore the natural question is, why should they inform "dad" if
"dad" was supposed to be taking part in the planning of these same
activities on a daily basis? Wouldn't he already know?
B-179 completely failed to prove that he received any weapons from the
JNA, the VJ, or the Serbian MUP (except for those 15 light weapons
specified for the defense of Matica humanitarian aid shipments). B-179
could not produce a single document to prove that he had received even
one weapon. B-179 also could not produce even a single document to
prove that he had delivered any weapons. Not only could he not produce
any documents, but he couldn't name even one recipient of any of the
alleged weapons.
The only useful thing about B-179's testimony was his admission that
the Matica gave humanitarian assistance to all of the wars' victims
regardless of their ethnicity. That the government of Serbia was
actually financing shipments of humanitarian aid to Croats and Muslims
as well as Serbs.
After B-179 withdrew, Baron Arnot Van Linden took the witness stand.
Van Linden was a reporter for the British Sky news service. The
prosecutor readout Van Linden's 92-bis summary, and then the session
ended for the day.
Van Linden is apparently going to testify about the so-called "siege
of Sarajevo." One interesting admission that was made was the
admission that members of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina would not
always wear uniforms. The admission was made in an effort to
demonstrate how poor the Muslims must have been since they didn't even
always wear uniforms.
For the Muslims to be conducting war operations without uniforms is a
violation of the Geneva Conventions. Simply put, by engaging in war
operations without uniforms they made it nearly impossible for the army
they were fighting against to distinguish between them and the
civilians. Therefore, they endangered precisely their own civilians,
because they made it hard for the opposing army to tell the difference
between a civilian and an enemy soldier.
It may be interesting to read the following in view of Van Linden's
testimony. It is Slobodan Milosevic's interview with Van Linden that
was taken back in 1991:
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/milosevic080791.htm
=== 3 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg091603.htm
“TRIAL” SYNOPSIS SEPTEMBER 16, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - September 16, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
Baron Arnot Van Linden, a correspondent for the British “Sky”
television network testified against President Milosevic today
regarding the so-called “siege of Sarajevo.”
The one thing that should be remembered about the shelling of Sarajevo
is the same thing that should be remembered about the war in Bosnia as
a whole. The Muslims instigated the fighting – they were the
aggressors, not the victims.
On May 27, 1992 the Muslim army (so-called ABiH) attacked JNA soldiers
attempting to withdraw from Sarajevo. The Muslims fired on unarmed
columns of JNA soldiers as they were withdrawing from the Jusuf
Dzonlic barracks and the Marshal Tito barracks in Sarajevo.
It was only after the Muslims launched their barbaric attack on the
JNA that retribution was visited upon them. It should also be
mentioned in connection with the retaliation that Radovan Karadzic and
the VRS repeatedly offered safe passage for any civilians who wished
to flee the Sarajevo war zone, but that Izetbegovic decided that he
would rather keep the population of Sarajevo as hostages than allow
them to leave the war zone.
Van Linden reluctantly confirmed that not a single shell fell on
Sarajevo until after the Muslim's barbaric attack on the barracks of
the JNA. Now that the sequence of events is clear we can speak about
the rest of Van Linden’s testimony.
The “evidence” that he bought with him to court was nothing but his
own edited news stories that he had filed with Sky News. He did not
bring any raw footage, only the edited pieces that he produced.
Van Linden testified about an interview that he conducted with General
Ratko Mladic. A tape was played of this so-called “interview.” The
so-called “interview” consisted of a couple of brief sound-bytes from
Gen. Mladic. The rest of the so-called “interview” was Van Linden
himself paraphrasing what Gen. Mladic had allegedly told him.
The question here is why did Van Linden have to paraphrase what Mladic
told him? A camera crew was filming the interview, so why didn’t Van
Linden simply play the unedited videotape of the interview? The answer
is simple, what Mladic said was not convenient for the agenda that Van
Linden was trying to advance, therefore Van Linden rephrased what
Mladic said, in order to advance his anti-Serb propaganda campaign.
Van Linden also did an interview with President Milosevic in 1991. Van
Linden didn’t have any tape of this interview either, nor did he have
a transcript of it, but he did paraphrase it for the “court.” He said
that on the basis of the interview, he concluded that Milosevic wanted
to export the war in Croatia out to Bosnia and Kosovo.
Well, even if Van Linden didn’t have it, we have a transcript of the
interview, and you can read it at:
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/milosevic080791.htm
Read the interview and judge for yourself whether or not any sane
person could conclude from it that President Milosevic wanted to
export war anywhere.
Why didn’t Van Linden play a tape of the Milosevic interview? Simple,
if he played the tape then it would speak for itself, and he wouldn’t
have had any opportunity to tell lies about the contents of it.
Van Linden claimed to have interviewed Radovan Karadzic too. Again,
even though video tapes were allegedly made, none were played. And
again we have Baron Van Linden putting words into Dr. Karadzic’s
mouth. Van Linden made Karadzic out to be some sort of genocidal
bigot. Saying that Karadzic called the Muslims by racial slurs, and
that he wanted ethnic purity, and that he even wanted to build a sort
of Berlin Wall through Sarajevo.
Van Linden claimed that the embargo that Serbia placed on the
Republika Srpska after the rejection of the Vance-Owen Plan was
regularly violated. He claimed that he saw trucks crossing the border
and violating the embargo a number of times. Again, since he was there
with a camera crew, why didn’t he make a video tape of this? And for
that matter, how come the international observers that were monitoring
the border didn’t see any of this?
Van Linden also claimed to interview Captain Dragan, and again this TV
newsman had no tape, but he did paraphrase what he says that Captain
Dragan told him. According to Van Linden Captain Dragan said that
Milosevic was controlling the Serbs in Croatia. Milosevic asserted
that Captain Dragan had never said that and Van Linden stammered that
Captain Dragan was not referring to operational control or anything
like that, but that he was saying it in a metaphorical sense or
something.
An example of Van Linden’s “stellar reporting” came in one of the
tapes that he did play. The tape showed a number of graves that were
decorated with Orthodox crosses, but Van Linden in his voice-over,
called them “Bosnian graves.” The graves were obviously Serb graves,
President Milosevic confronted Van Linden with this, and Van Linden
admitted that they were Serbs, but since they were Serbs from Bosnia
he called them “Bosnians.”
It is common knowledge that the Serbs in Bosnia never call themselves
“Bosnians.” Only the Muslims call themselves “Bosnians,” which is
nothing more than a cynical effort by them to create the illusion that
they have some sort of claim to Bosnia, over that of the Serbs and
Croats. Even Van Linden during his testimony was referring to Muslims
as “Bosnians” and Serbs as “Serbs.”
Van Linden was clearly trying to mislead his viewers into thinking
that they were looking at Muslim graves, and not Serb graves. After
all, Serb graves would confuse everything that the Baron was saying.
Van Linden says that he never saw the Muslims doing any shooting,
obviously these Serb graves would seem to conflict with that.
Therefore it was necessary for the lying Baron to conceal the fact
that these were Serb graves.
Van Linden’s tapes also showed footage of the unarmed JNA soldiers who
were massacred by the Muslims while attempting to withdraw from
Sarajevo, but of course Van Linden neglected to mention that the
Muslims killed them, or that those JNA soldiers were shot while they
were unarmed and withdrawing from the city.
Van Linden’s testimony exposed the nature of television news coverage.
In one instance a video was shown. Van Linden was talking about Bosnia
in his voice-over commentary, but the video on the tape was from
Kosovo and had nothing to do with what Van Linden was saying.
Van Linden, upon seeing that the Albanian writing on the posters on
the footage, came up with the excuse that he didn’t edit the video
that somebody else did. When he was asked about other video sequences
he explained that he was using other people’s footage, and so he
wasn’t always sure what exactly was being shown on his video tapes.
TV news is ideal for propaganda. As Van Linden’s testimony
demonstrated the video you are looking at doesn’t necessarily have
anything to do with what the reporter is saying. At the beginning of
the proceedings there were technical problems at the tribunal and the
video could not be seen clearly, and as “Judge” May complained, not
being able to see the video caused “the evidence lose all of its
impact.”
After Van Linden was concluded President Milosevic took sick, and the
proceedings were adjourned early.
President Milosevic complained of fatigue, and high blood pressure
which he says is brought on by the excessive pace of the so-called
“trial.”
Again the so-called “judges” attempted to foist some sort of legal
assistance onto President Milosevic and again he rejected it.
It is not yet known whether the so-called “trial” will be conducted
tomorrow or not.
=== 4 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/afp091803.htm
Milosevic trial suspended again on health grounds
Agence France Presse - September 18, 2003
THE HAGUE - The UN war crimes court in The Hague has cancelled hearings
scheduled for Friday and Monday in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic due
to the former Yugoslav president's ill health, the court said on
Thursday.
The former head of state, 62, suffers from high blood pressure and is
thought to have a high risk of heart problems.
His trial for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes has
often been halted on health grounds since it began on February 12 last
year.
Milosevic is on trial for his role in the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and
Kosovo that broke up the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
The prosecution is due to finish presenting its case against Milosevic
by the end of the year.
Milosevic has been given three months to prepare his defence case,
which he will begin presenting to the court in the spring of next
year. The trial is expected to last at least until 2005.
September 18, 2003 Thursday 3:23 PM Eastern Time
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The Hague, 22 September 2003 P.I.S./PA129
MILOSEVIC TRIAL:
HEARINGS CANCELLED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS WEEK
Please be advised that the hearings in the Milosevic trial have been
cancelled for the remainder of this week (Tuesday 23 to Friday 26
September 2003) due to the ill health of the accused.
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(srpskohrvatski / deutsch)
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Spomenka Deretic, novinar
Beograd 17. septembar 2003. godine
Pet dana uoci mog dvadeset osmog rodjendana vracala sam se sa posla u
radio Beogradu. Gotovo pred samim stanom, na uglu Zmaj Jovine i
Gospodar Javanove ulice, u mirnom kraju, ali u centru Beograda,
ugledala sam muskarca kako tuce cigancicu. Srbi vole da pomazu
nemocnima, pa sam i ja pocela da guram mladica dalje od crnpuraste
devojcice. Mladic se okrenuo i osamario me. Nikada necu zaboraviti prvi
samar koji sam dobila, ni milicionera koji je odveo siledziju ni
uplakanu devojcicu.
Drugi samar sam dobila pod DOS-ovom vlascu kada sam se vracala sa
protesta zbog dolaska Havijera Solane u Beograd. Osamario me je clan
"pokreta otpora", organizacije koju je osmislila i u Madjarskoj obucila
Americka obavestajna sluzba kako da pomognu u rusenju vlade Slobodana
Milosevica i jugoslovenske drzave. Oduvek su mi bile odvratne
organizacije koje neko iz inostranstva finansira da bi rusile vlast u
sopstvenim drzavama. Organizacija Otpor mi je posebno odvratna zato sto
je finansira CIA, zato sto su njeni clanovi podmukli i kukavice, i zato
sto im je simbol stisnuta pesnica sto me neodoljivo potseca na
fasisticki znak. Mladica koji me je osamario zato sto sam demonstrirala
protiv Havijera Solane, priznajem, vrhom cipele udarila sam u prepone.
On je pobegao jaucuci. Njegov me samar nije zaboleo.
Do kraja zivota bridece mi obraz od treceg samara, iako ga nisam
primila ja nego jedan stari nesrecni Srbin koga su Albanci proterali sa
Kosova i Metohije.
Predsednica Fonda za humanitarno pravo, nevladine organizacije, Natasa
Kandic osamarila je pre dve nedelje starca koji je demonstrirao u
Beogradu jer su mu Albanci kidnapovali sina. Srbi sa Kosmeta kojima su
Albanci - teroristi oteli najmilije nosili su fotografije otetih i
molili pomoc. KFOR nece da im pomogne, KFOR je - sto da krijem,
okupirao Kosovo i Metohiju kolevku srpske drzavnosti i deo moje
otadzbine. Suzamo Srba sa Kosova niko na Zapadu ne veruje, ali se nadam
da im veruje Bog. Favoritkinja americke demokratije, a mozda
najomrznutija licnost u Srbiji, pre dve nedelje osamarila je samog Boga.
OPTUZUJEM !
Nemacku optuzujem zato sto je prekrsila Ustav i vojno napala moju
otadzbinu. Njene vojnike u sastavu KFOR-a optuzujem zato sto ne stite
sve stanovnike Kosova, nego se ponasaju kao okupatori u ime Albanaca.
Britaniju optuzujem zato sto me je protivno medjunarodnom pravu
bombardovala i zato sto je sad okupirala deo Kosova. Pod sadasnjom
vlascu u Srbiji britanski narednici uce srpske oficire kako je zlocin
braniti Srbiju. Sjedinjene Americke Drzave optuzujem da sprovode
nacisticku globalizaciju Planete. Vasington hoce da unisti slabije
zemlje, bogate resursima i da satre njihove narode. Italiju optuzujem
zato sto je dozvolila da sa njenbog tla polecu NATO azdaje koje su
sejale bombe po mojoj otadzbini i po mome narodu. Trazim pomilovanje za
Spaniju, da je nesto ziv Garsija Federiko Lorka branio bi moju zemlju.
Spanski vojnici u okupiranoj Republici Srpskoj najmilosrdniji su prema
mome narodu od svih okupatora. Trazim pomilovanje za Spaniju i zbog
jednog starca Andaluzanina koji mi je pre tri nedelje u Alambriji
rekao: "Albanci su pobili srpsku decu na Kosovu a vi ste Srbi usamljeni
u nesreci". Na tom mestu mozda su pre 67 godina duhovni preci Havijera
Solane poveli na streljanje najveceg pesnika Spanije, Lorku koji bi me
branio. Trazim pomilovanje za Portugaliju jer su njeni poslanici u
Parlamentu nosili target protestvujuci zbog NATO bombardovanja Srbije.
I zato sto je portugalska komunisicka omladina u Koimbri na zidovima
pisala "Zivela sloboda Srbije i zivela sloboda Iraka". Trazim
pomilovanje i za sve dobre na Zapadu koji se ne mire sa nepravdama i
zlocinima svojih vlada.
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Spomenka Deretic, Journalistin
Belgrad, 17. September 2003
Fünf Tage vor meinem 28. Geburtstag begab ich mich nach Dienstschluss
in Radio Belgrad auf den Weg nach Hause. Kurz vor meiner Wohnung, an
der Straßenecke Zmaj Jovina und Gospodar Jovanova, in einer ruhigen
Gegend, aber im Zentrum Belgrads, sah ich, wie ein Mann eine Zigeunerin
schlägt. Die Serben stehen gerne Hilflosen bei, und so begann auch ich
den jungen Mann von dem dunkelhäutigen Mädchen zu verdrängen. Der
drehte sich um und gab mir eine Ohrfeige. Ich werde niemals meine erste
Ohrfeige vergessen und auch nicht den Polizisten, der den Rowdy
abführte, oder das verweinte Mädchen.
Die zweite Ohrfeige handelte ich mir unter der DOS-Staatsmacht ein, als
ich von einer Protestkundgebung anlässlich des Besuchs Javier Solanas
in Belgrad heimkehrte. Mich ohrfeigte ein Mitglied der
"Widerstandsbewegung", einer Organisation, die der Amerikanische
Geheimdienst erfunden und in Ungarn ausgebildet hat, um beim Sturz der
Regierung Slobodan Miloševics und des jugoslawischen Staates
mitzuhelfen. Schon immer waren mir Organisationen zuwider, die jemand
aus dem Ausland finanziert, um die Staatsmacht im eigenen Land zu
stürzen. Die Organisation "Widerstand" ist mir besonders zuwider, weil
sie von der CIA finanziert wird, weil ihre Mitglieder hinterhältig und
feige sind und weil ihr Symbol eine geballte Faust ist, was mich
unweigerlich an ein faschistisches Zeichen erinnert. Den jungen Mann,
der mich geohrfeigt hatte, weil ich gegen Javier Solana demonstrierte,
habe ich - zugegeben - mit der Schuhspitze einen Stoß in die
Schamgegend versetzt. Er zog jammernd davon. Seine Ohrfeige tat mir
nicht weh.
Wegen der dritten Ohrfeige wird meine Wange bis an mein Lebensende
brennen, obwohl sie nicht mir versetzt wurde, sondern einem alten
unglücklichen Serben, den die Albaner aus Kosovo und Metohija
vertrieben haben. Die Vorsitzende des Fonds für humanitäres Recht,
einer Nichtregierungsorganisation, Nataša Kandic, ohrfeigte vor zwei
Wochen einen alten Mann, der in Belgrad demonstrierte, weil die Albaner
seinen Sohn entführt haben. Die Serben aus Kosovo und Metohija, denen
die albanischen Terroristen ihre liebsten Familienangehörigen
gekidnappt haben, trugen die Fotos der Entführten und flehten um Hilfe.
Die KFOR will ihnen nicht helfen, die KFOR - weshalb sollte ich das
verheimlichen - hat Kosovo und Metohija, die Wiege der serbischen
Staatlichkeit und einen Teil meines Vaterlandes, okkupiert. Den Tränen
der Serben aus Kosovo glaubt niemand im Westen, aber ich hoffe, Gott
glaubt ihnen. Die Favoritin der amerikanischen Demokratie, und
vielleicht auch die verhassteste Persönlichkeit in Serbien, hat vor
zwei Wochen Gott selbst geohrfeigt.
ICH KLAGE AN!
Deutschland klage ich an, weil es die Verfassung verletzt und mein
Vaterland militärisch angegriffen hat. Seine Soldaten im KFOR-Bestand
klage ich an, weil sie nicht alle Einwohner des Kosovo schützen,
sondern sich wie Okkupanten im Namen der Albaner verhalten.
Großbritannien klage ich an, weil es mich entgegen dem Völkerrecht
bombardiert und weil es einen Teil des Kosovo okkupiert hat. Unter der
gegenwärtigen Staatsmacht in Serbien bringen britische Sergeanten
serbischen Offizieren bei, dass es ein Verbrechen ist, Serbien zu
verteidigen. Die USA klage ich an, die nazistische Globalisierung
unseres Planeten durchzuführen. Washington will die schwächeren Länder,
reich an Ressourcen, vernichten und deren Völker ausrotten. Italien
klage ich an, weil es erlaubt hat, dass von seinem Territorium aus
NATO-Drachen starten, die auf mein Land und mein Volk Bomben
abfeuerten. Ich ersuche um Begnadigung für Spanien, wäre Garcia
Federico Lorca am Leben, hätte er mein Land verteidigt. Die spanischen
Soldaten in der okkupierten Republika Srpska lassen von allen
Okkupanten die größte Barmherzigkeit gegenüber meinem Volk walten. Ich
ersuche um Begnadigung für Spanien auch wegen eines alten Andalusiers,
der vor drei Wochen in Alhambra zu mir sagte: "Die Albaner haben
serbische Kinder im Kosovo getötet, und ihr Serben steht im Unglück
einsam und verlassen da". An dieser Stelle haben vielleicht vor 67
Jahren die geistigen Vorfahren Javier Solanas den größten Dichter
Spaniens, Lorca, der mich verteidigt hätte, hingerichtet. Ich ersuche
um Begnadigung für Portugal, denn seine Abgeordneten trugen im
Parlament die Zielscheibe und protestierten gegen die
Nato-Bombardierung Serbiens. Und weil die portugiesische kommunistische
Jugend in Coimbra auf Mauern den Spruch schrieb: "Es lebe die Freiheit
Serbiens und es lebe die Freiheit Iraks". Ich ersuche um Begnadigung
auch für alle guten Menschen im Westen, die sich mit den
Ungerechtigkeiten und Verbrechen ihrer Regierungen nicht abfinden.
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Spomenka Deretic, novinar
Beograd 17. septembar 2003. godine
Pet dana uoci mog dvadeset osmog rodjendana vracala sam se sa posla u
radio Beogradu. Gotovo pred samim stanom, na uglu Zmaj Jovine i
Gospodar Javanove ulice, u mirnom kraju, ali u centru Beograda,
ugledala sam muskarca kako tuce cigancicu. Srbi vole da pomazu
nemocnima, pa sam i ja pocela da guram mladica dalje od crnpuraste
devojcice. Mladic se okrenuo i osamario me. Nikada necu zaboraviti prvi
samar koji sam dobila, ni milicionera koji je odveo siledziju ni
uplakanu devojcicu.
Drugi samar sam dobila pod DOS-ovom vlascu kada sam se vracala sa
protesta zbog dolaska Havijera Solane u Beograd. Osamario me je clan
"pokreta otpora", organizacije koju je osmislila i u Madjarskoj obucila
Americka obavestajna sluzba kako da pomognu u rusenju vlade Slobodana
Milosevica i jugoslovenske drzave. Oduvek su mi bile odvratne
organizacije koje neko iz inostranstva finansira da bi rusile vlast u
sopstvenim drzavama. Organizacija Otpor mi je posebno odvratna zato sto
je finansira CIA, zato sto su njeni clanovi podmukli i kukavice, i zato
sto im je simbol stisnuta pesnica sto me neodoljivo potseca na
fasisticki znak. Mladica koji me je osamario zato sto sam demonstrirala
protiv Havijera Solane, priznajem, vrhom cipele udarila sam u prepone.
On je pobegao jaucuci. Njegov me samar nije zaboleo.
Do kraja zivota bridece mi obraz od treceg samara, iako ga nisam
primila ja nego jedan stari nesrecni Srbin koga su Albanci proterali sa
Kosova i Metohije.
Predsednica Fonda za humanitarno pravo, nevladine organizacije, Natasa
Kandic osamarila je pre dve nedelje starca koji je demonstrirao u
Beogradu jer su mu Albanci kidnapovali sina. Srbi sa Kosmeta kojima su
Albanci - teroristi oteli najmilije nosili su fotografije otetih i
molili pomoc. KFOR nece da im pomogne, KFOR je - sto da krijem,
okupirao Kosovo i Metohiju kolevku srpske drzavnosti i deo moje
otadzbine. Suzamo Srba sa Kosova niko na Zapadu ne veruje, ali se nadam
da im veruje Bog. Favoritkinja americke demokratije, a mozda
najomrznutija licnost u Srbiji, pre dve nedelje osamarila je samog Boga.
OPTUZUJEM !
Nemacku optuzujem zato sto je prekrsila Ustav i vojno napala moju
otadzbinu. Njene vojnike u sastavu KFOR-a optuzujem zato sto ne stite
sve stanovnike Kosova, nego se ponasaju kao okupatori u ime Albanaca.
Britaniju optuzujem zato sto me je protivno medjunarodnom pravu
bombardovala i zato sto je sad okupirala deo Kosova. Pod sadasnjom
vlascu u Srbiji britanski narednici uce srpske oficire kako je zlocin
braniti Srbiju. Sjedinjene Americke Drzave optuzujem da sprovode
nacisticku globalizaciju Planete. Vasington hoce da unisti slabije
zemlje, bogate resursima i da satre njihove narode. Italiju optuzujem
zato sto je dozvolila da sa njenbog tla polecu NATO azdaje koje su
sejale bombe po mojoj otadzbini i po mome narodu. Trazim pomilovanje za
Spaniju, da je nesto ziv Garsija Federiko Lorka branio bi moju zemlju.
Spanski vojnici u okupiranoj Republici Srpskoj najmilosrdniji su prema
mome narodu od svih okupatora. Trazim pomilovanje za Spaniju i zbog
jednog starca Andaluzanina koji mi je pre tri nedelje u Alambriji
rekao: "Albanci su pobili srpsku decu na Kosovu a vi ste Srbi usamljeni
u nesreci". Na tom mestu mozda su pre 67 godina duhovni preci Havijera
Solane poveli na streljanje najveceg pesnika Spanije, Lorku koji bi me
branio. Trazim pomilovanje za Portugaliju jer su njeni poslanici u
Parlamentu nosili target protestvujuci zbog NATO bombardovanja Srbije.
I zato sto je portugalska komunisicka omladina u Koimbri na zidovima
pisala "Zivela sloboda Srbije i zivela sloboda Iraka". Trazim
pomilovanje i za sve dobre na Zapadu koji se ne mire sa nepravdama i
zlocinima svojih vlada.
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Spomenka Deretic, Journalistin
Belgrad, 17. September 2003
Fünf Tage vor meinem 28. Geburtstag begab ich mich nach Dienstschluss
in Radio Belgrad auf den Weg nach Hause. Kurz vor meiner Wohnung, an
der Straßenecke Zmaj Jovina und Gospodar Jovanova, in einer ruhigen
Gegend, aber im Zentrum Belgrads, sah ich, wie ein Mann eine Zigeunerin
schlägt. Die Serben stehen gerne Hilflosen bei, und so begann auch ich
den jungen Mann von dem dunkelhäutigen Mädchen zu verdrängen. Der
drehte sich um und gab mir eine Ohrfeige. Ich werde niemals meine erste
Ohrfeige vergessen und auch nicht den Polizisten, der den Rowdy
abführte, oder das verweinte Mädchen.
Die zweite Ohrfeige handelte ich mir unter der DOS-Staatsmacht ein, als
ich von einer Protestkundgebung anlässlich des Besuchs Javier Solanas
in Belgrad heimkehrte. Mich ohrfeigte ein Mitglied der
"Widerstandsbewegung", einer Organisation, die der Amerikanische
Geheimdienst erfunden und in Ungarn ausgebildet hat, um beim Sturz der
Regierung Slobodan Miloševics und des jugoslawischen Staates
mitzuhelfen. Schon immer waren mir Organisationen zuwider, die jemand
aus dem Ausland finanziert, um die Staatsmacht im eigenen Land zu
stürzen. Die Organisation "Widerstand" ist mir besonders zuwider, weil
sie von der CIA finanziert wird, weil ihre Mitglieder hinterhältig und
feige sind und weil ihr Symbol eine geballte Faust ist, was mich
unweigerlich an ein faschistisches Zeichen erinnert. Den jungen Mann,
der mich geohrfeigt hatte, weil ich gegen Javier Solana demonstrierte,
habe ich - zugegeben - mit der Schuhspitze einen Stoß in die
Schamgegend versetzt. Er zog jammernd davon. Seine Ohrfeige tat mir
nicht weh.
Wegen der dritten Ohrfeige wird meine Wange bis an mein Lebensende
brennen, obwohl sie nicht mir versetzt wurde, sondern einem alten
unglücklichen Serben, den die Albaner aus Kosovo und Metohija
vertrieben haben. Die Vorsitzende des Fonds für humanitäres Recht,
einer Nichtregierungsorganisation, Nataša Kandic, ohrfeigte vor zwei
Wochen einen alten Mann, der in Belgrad demonstrierte, weil die Albaner
seinen Sohn entführt haben. Die Serben aus Kosovo und Metohija, denen
die albanischen Terroristen ihre liebsten Familienangehörigen
gekidnappt haben, trugen die Fotos der Entführten und flehten um Hilfe.
Die KFOR will ihnen nicht helfen, die KFOR - weshalb sollte ich das
verheimlichen - hat Kosovo und Metohija, die Wiege der serbischen
Staatlichkeit und einen Teil meines Vaterlandes, okkupiert. Den Tränen
der Serben aus Kosovo glaubt niemand im Westen, aber ich hoffe, Gott
glaubt ihnen. Die Favoritin der amerikanischen Demokratie, und
vielleicht auch die verhassteste Persönlichkeit in Serbien, hat vor
zwei Wochen Gott selbst geohrfeigt.
ICH KLAGE AN!
Deutschland klage ich an, weil es die Verfassung verletzt und mein
Vaterland militärisch angegriffen hat. Seine Soldaten im KFOR-Bestand
klage ich an, weil sie nicht alle Einwohner des Kosovo schützen,
sondern sich wie Okkupanten im Namen der Albaner verhalten.
Großbritannien klage ich an, weil es mich entgegen dem Völkerrecht
bombardiert und weil es einen Teil des Kosovo okkupiert hat. Unter der
gegenwärtigen Staatsmacht in Serbien bringen britische Sergeanten
serbischen Offizieren bei, dass es ein Verbrechen ist, Serbien zu
verteidigen. Die USA klage ich an, die nazistische Globalisierung
unseres Planeten durchzuführen. Washington will die schwächeren Länder,
reich an Ressourcen, vernichten und deren Völker ausrotten. Italien
klage ich an, weil es erlaubt hat, dass von seinem Territorium aus
NATO-Drachen starten, die auf mein Land und mein Volk Bomben
abfeuerten. Ich ersuche um Begnadigung für Spanien, wäre Garcia
Federico Lorca am Leben, hätte er mein Land verteidigt. Die spanischen
Soldaten in der okkupierten Republika Srpska lassen von allen
Okkupanten die größte Barmherzigkeit gegenüber meinem Volk walten. Ich
ersuche um Begnadigung für Spanien auch wegen eines alten Andalusiers,
der vor drei Wochen in Alhambra zu mir sagte: "Die Albaner haben
serbische Kinder im Kosovo getötet, und ihr Serben steht im Unglück
einsam und verlassen da". An dieser Stelle haben vielleicht vor 67
Jahren die geistigen Vorfahren Javier Solanas den größten Dichter
Spaniens, Lorca, der mich verteidigt hätte, hingerichtet. Ich ersuche
um Begnadigung für Portugal, denn seine Abgeordneten trugen im
Parlament die Zielscheibe und protestierten gegen die
Nato-Bombardierung Serbiens. Und weil die portugiesische kommunistische
Jugend in Coimbra auf Mauern den Spruch schrieb: "Es lebe die Freiheit
Serbiens und es lebe die Freiheit Iraks". Ich ersuche um Begnadigung
auch für alle guten Menschen im Westen, die sich mit den
Ungerechtigkeiten und Verbrechen ihrer Regierungen nicht abfinden.
ANCORA IN GIRO LE BOMBE RADIOATTIVE DI D'ALEMA
Tanjug, 22/9/2003 - Un totale di 200 missili con testate all'Uranio
Impoverito sono stati scoperti a Bratoselce, nella Serbia meridionale,
e 1200 kg di suolo contaminato sono stati depositati all'Istituto Vinca
di Scienze Nucleari, secondo un comunicato del Ministero per la
Protezione dell'Ambiente e delle Risorse Naturali della Serbia diffuso
lunedi.
Ogni dieci giorni saranno trasmesse informazioni al pubblico sui
risultati della bonifica dell'area di Bratoselce, compiuta
dall'Esercito di Serbia e Montenegro insieme agli esperti dell'Istituto
Vinca.
Da: Rick Rozoff
Data: Mar 23 Set 2003 11:30:17
Oggetto: 200 Depleted Uranium Missiles, Contaminated Soil Found In
Southern Serbia
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Tanjug (Serbia And Montenegro)
September 23, 2003
[For background information see:
http://www.vj.yu/publikacije/Vojska/ob558.htm%5d
SERBIA-ENVIRONMENT-URANIUM-CLEANSING
Two hundred depleted uranium missiles found in
southern Serbia
18:12 BELGRADE , Sept 22 (Tanjug) - A total of 200
missiles with depleted uranium warheads have been
found in Bratoselce, southern Serbia, and 1,200 kg of
contaminated soil has been deposited in the Vinca
Institute of Nuclear Science, the Serbian Ministry of
the Environment and Protection of Natural Resources
said in a statement on Monday.
Every ten days, the public will receive information
about the results of cleansing of the area of
Bratoselce, carried out by Serbia-Montenegro Army and
Vinca institute experts.
Tanjug, 22/9/2003 - Un totale di 200 missili con testate all'Uranio
Impoverito sono stati scoperti a Bratoselce, nella Serbia meridionale,
e 1200 kg di suolo contaminato sono stati depositati all'Istituto Vinca
di Scienze Nucleari, secondo un comunicato del Ministero per la
Protezione dell'Ambiente e delle Risorse Naturali della Serbia diffuso
lunedi.
Ogni dieci giorni saranno trasmesse informazioni al pubblico sui
risultati della bonifica dell'area di Bratoselce, compiuta
dall'Esercito di Serbia e Montenegro insieme agli esperti dell'Istituto
Vinca.
Da: Rick Rozoff
Data: Mar 23 Set 2003 11:30:17
Oggetto: 200 Depleted Uranium Missiles, Contaminated Soil Found In
Southern Serbia
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug (Serbia And Montenegro)
September 23, 2003
[For background information see:
http://www.vj.yu/publikacije/Vojska/ob558.htm%5d
SERBIA-ENVIRONMENT-URANIUM-CLEANSING
Two hundred depleted uranium missiles found in
southern Serbia
18:12 BELGRADE , Sept 22 (Tanjug) - A total of 200
missiles with depleted uranium warheads have been
found in Bratoselce, southern Serbia, and 1,200 kg of
contaminated soil has been deposited in the Vinca
Institute of Nuclear Science, the Serbian Ministry of
the Environment and Protection of Natural Resources
said in a statement on Monday.
Every ten days, the public will receive information
about the results of cleansing of the area of
Bratoselce, carried out by Serbia-Montenegro Army and
Vinca institute experts.
La nostra guerra con la Francia (english / italiano)
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New York Times September 18, 2003
OUR WAR WITH FRANCE
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
It's time we Americans came to terms with something: France is not just
our annoying ally. It is not just our jealous rival. France is becoming
our enemy.
If you add up how France behaved in the run-up to the Iraq war
(making it impossible for the Security Council to put a real
ultimatum to Saddam Hussein that might have avoided a war), and if you
look at how France behaved during the war (when its foreign minister,
Dominique de Villepin, refused to answer the question of whether he
wanted Saddam or America to win in Iraq), and if you watch how France
is behaving today (demanding some kind of loopy symbolic transfer of
Iraqi sovereignty to some kind of hastily thrown together Iraqi
provisional government, with the rest of Iraq's transition to
democracy to be overseen more by a divided U.N. than by America), then
there is only one conclusion one can draw: France wants America to fail
in Iraq.
France wants America to sink in a quagmire there in the crazy hope that
a weakened U.S. will pave the way for France to assume its "rightful"
place as America's equal, if not superior, in shaping world affairs.
Yes, the Bush team's arrogance has sharpened French hostility. Had
President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld not been so
full of themselves right after America's military victory in Iraq --
and instead used that moment, when the French were feeling that maybe
they should have taken part, to magnanimously reach out to Paris to
join in reconstruction -- it might have softened French attitudes.
But even that I have doubts about.
What I have no doubts about, though, is that there is no coherent,
legitimate Iraqi authority able to assume power in the near term, and
trying to force one now would lead to a dangerous internal struggle and
delay the building of the democratic institutions Iraq so badly needs.
Iraqis know this. France knows this, which is why its original proposal
(which it now seems to be backtracking on a bit) could only be
malicious.
What is so amazing to me about the French campaign -- "Operation
America Must Fail" -- is that France seems to have given no thought as
to how this would affect France. Let me spell it out in simple English:
if America is defeated in Iraq by a coalition of Saddamists and
Islamists, radical Muslim groups -- from Baghdad to the Muslim slums of
Paris -- will all be energized, and the forces of modernism and
tolerance within these Muslim communities will be on the run. To think
that France, with its large Muslim minority, where radicals are
already gaining strength, would not see its own social fabric
affected by this is fanciful.
If France were serious, it would be using its influence within the
European Union to assemble an army of 25,000 Eurotroops, and a $5
billion reconstruction package, and then saying to the Bush team: Here,
we're sincere about helping to rebuild Iraq, but now we want a real
seat at the management table. Instead, the French have put out an
ill-conceived proposal, just to show that they can be different,
without any promise that even if America said yes Paris would make a
meaningful contribution.
But then France has never been interested in promoting democracy in the
modern Arab world, which is why its pose as the new protector of Iraqi
representative government -- after being so content with Saddam's
one-man rule -- is so patently cynical.
Clearly, not all E.U. countries are comfortable with this French
mischief, yet many are going along for the ride. It's stunning to me
that the E.U., misled by France, could let itself be written out of the
most important political development project in modern Middle East
history. The whole tone and direction of the Arab-Muslim world, which
is right on Europe's doorstep, will be affected by the outcome in Iraq.
It would be as if America said it did not care what happened in Mexico
because it was mad at Spain.
Says John Chipman, director of the London-based International Institute
for Strategic Studies: "What the Europeans are saying about Iraq is
that this is our backyard, we're not going to let you meddle in it, but
we're not going to tend it ourselves."
But what's most sad is that France is right -- America will not be as
effective or legitimate in its efforts to rebuild Iraq without French
help. Having France working with us in Iraq, rather than against us in
the world, would be so beneficial for both nations and for the Arabs'
future. Too bad this French government has other priorities.
---
LA NOSTRA GUERRA CON LA FRANCIA
di Thomas L. Friedman
dal New York Times del 18/9/2003
E' ora che noi americani ci rendiamo conto di un fatto: la Francia non
è solo un nostro fastidioso alleato. Non è solo un nostro geloso
rivale. La Francia sta diventando un nostro nemico.
Se si mette insieme come la Francia si è comportata mentre si preparava
la guerra all'Iraq (rendendo impossibile al Consiglio di Sicurezza
porre un reale ultimatum a Saddam Hussein, che avrebbe potuto evitare
la guerra), e se si osserva come si è comportata la Francia durante la
guerra (quando il suo
ministro degli esteri, Dominique de Villepin, si è rifiutato di
rispondere alla domanda se preferiva che in Iraq vincesse l'America o
Saddam), e si osserva come si sta comportando oggi la Francia
(richiedendo una sorta di simbolico e capzioso trasferimento della
sovranità irachena a una sorta di governo
provvisorio iracheno messo insieme frettolosamente, con la restante
transizione irachena alla democrazia affidata alle Nazioni Unite
divise, piuttosto che all'America), allora c'è una sola conclusione da
trarre: la Francia vuole che l'America fallisca in Iraq.
La Francia vuole che l'America affondi lì in un pantano nella folle
speranza che degli Usa indeboliti permetteranno alla Francia di
arrogarsi una sua "legittima" posizione come eguale dell'America, se
non superiore, nel rimodellamento degli affari mondiali.
Sì, l'arroganza della squadra di Bush ha inasprito l'ostilità francese.
Se il Presidente Bush e il Ministro della Difesa Donald Rumsfeld non
fossero stati così arroganti appena dopo la vittoria americana in Iraq,
ed avessero usato invece questo momento, quando i francesi sentivano
che avrebbero dovuto partecipare, per tendere generosamente una mano a
Parigi per unirsi nella ricostruzione - ciò avrebbe ammorbidito
l'atteggiamento francese. Ma anche al riguardo ho dei dubbi.
Ciò su cui non nutro dubbi, tuttavia, è il fatto che non essendoci una
coerente, legittima autorità irachena capace di assumere il potere nel
breve termine, provare a crearne una con la forza adesso porterebbe ad
una pericolosa lotta interna e al ritardo nella costruzione delle
istituzioni democratiche di cui l'Iraq ha così fortemente bisogno.
Ciò che mi sorprende riguardo alla campagna francese - "L'Operazione
America Deve Fallire" - è che la Francia sembra non darsi pensiero di
come questo potrebbe influire sulla Francia. Lasciatemelo scrivere in
modo semplice: se l'America viene sconfitta in Iraq da una coalizione
di saddamisti e islamisti, i gruppi musulmani radicali - da Baghdad ai
sobborghi musulmani di Parigi - saranno galvanizzati, mentre le forze
del modernismo e della tolleranza all'interno delle comunità musulmane
saranno in ritirata. E' assurdo pensare che la Francia, con la sua
larga minoranza musulmana, in cui i radicali stanno già riacquistando
forza, non vedrebbe
influenzata da ciò la propria struttura sociale.
Se la Francia fosse seria, userebbe la propria influenza nell'UE per
mettere insieme un esercito di 25.000 eurotruppe ed un pacchetto di 5
miliardi di dollari per la ricostruzione, e poi direbbe a Bush: ecco,
noi vogliamo sinceramente aiutare la ricostruzione dell'Iraq, ma adesso
vogliamo un posto vero al tavolo delle trattative. Invece, la Francia
ha tirato fuori una proposta mal concepita, tanto per sottolineare la
sua diversita', senza alcuna promessa che Parigi darebbe un contributo
significativo se l'America lo accettasse.
D'altra parte la Francia non si è mai interessata a promuovere la
democrazia nel mondo arabo moderno: ecco perché il suo atteggiamento a
nuova protettrice di un governo iracheno rappresentativo - dopo essere
stata così contenta del dominio personale di Saddam - è tanto cinico.
Chiaramente, non tutte le nazioni europee sono a proprio agio con la
impudenza francese, ma ci sono ancora molti che le vanno appresso. E'
stupefacente che l'UE, fuorviata dalla Francia, si lasci escludere dal
più importante progetto di sviluppo politico nella storia del moderno
Medio Oriente. L'intero carattere e la direzione del mondo
arabo-musulmano, che è proprio alle porte dell'Europa, sarà influenzato
da ciò che succederà in Iraq. Sarebbe come se l'America dicesse che non
le importa ciò che accade in Messico perché è in cattivi rapporti con
la Spagna.
Dice John Chipman, direttore del londinese International Institute for
Strategic Studies: "Ciò che gli europei stanno dicendo riguardo
all'Iraq è che questo è il nostro cortile di casa, non vogliamo che
altri si immischino, benche' noi non ce ne prenderemo cura".
Ma la cosa più triste è che la Francia ha ragione: l'America non sarà
tanto efficace ne' legittimata nel suo sforzo di ricostruire l'Iraq
senza l'aiuto francese. Avere la Francia al nostro fianco in Iraq,
piuttosto che contro di noi nel mondo, sarebbe vantaggioso per entrambe
le nazioni e per il futuro degli arabi. Malauguratamente il governo
francese ha altre priorità.
(si ringraziano Gennaro e Luca per la traduzione)
---
New York Times September 18, 2003
OUR WAR WITH FRANCE
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
It's time we Americans came to terms with something: France is not just
our annoying ally. It is not just our jealous rival. France is becoming
our enemy.
If you add up how France behaved in the run-up to the Iraq war
(making it impossible for the Security Council to put a real
ultimatum to Saddam Hussein that might have avoided a war), and if you
look at how France behaved during the war (when its foreign minister,
Dominique de Villepin, refused to answer the question of whether he
wanted Saddam or America to win in Iraq), and if you watch how France
is behaving today (demanding some kind of loopy symbolic transfer of
Iraqi sovereignty to some kind of hastily thrown together Iraqi
provisional government, with the rest of Iraq's transition to
democracy to be overseen more by a divided U.N. than by America), then
there is only one conclusion one can draw: France wants America to fail
in Iraq.
France wants America to sink in a quagmire there in the crazy hope that
a weakened U.S. will pave the way for France to assume its "rightful"
place as America's equal, if not superior, in shaping world affairs.
Yes, the Bush team's arrogance has sharpened French hostility. Had
President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld not been so
full of themselves right after America's military victory in Iraq --
and instead used that moment, when the French were feeling that maybe
they should have taken part, to magnanimously reach out to Paris to
join in reconstruction -- it might have softened French attitudes.
But even that I have doubts about.
What I have no doubts about, though, is that there is no coherent,
legitimate Iraqi authority able to assume power in the near term, and
trying to force one now would lead to a dangerous internal struggle and
delay the building of the democratic institutions Iraq so badly needs.
Iraqis know this. France knows this, which is why its original proposal
(which it now seems to be backtracking on a bit) could only be
malicious.
What is so amazing to me about the French campaign -- "Operation
America Must Fail" -- is that France seems to have given no thought as
to how this would affect France. Let me spell it out in simple English:
if America is defeated in Iraq by a coalition of Saddamists and
Islamists, radical Muslim groups -- from Baghdad to the Muslim slums of
Paris -- will all be energized, and the forces of modernism and
tolerance within these Muslim communities will be on the run. To think
that France, with its large Muslim minority, where radicals are
already gaining strength, would not see its own social fabric
affected by this is fanciful.
If France were serious, it would be using its influence within the
European Union to assemble an army of 25,000 Eurotroops, and a $5
billion reconstruction package, and then saying to the Bush team: Here,
we're sincere about helping to rebuild Iraq, but now we want a real
seat at the management table. Instead, the French have put out an
ill-conceived proposal, just to show that they can be different,
without any promise that even if America said yes Paris would make a
meaningful contribution.
But then France has never been interested in promoting democracy in the
modern Arab world, which is why its pose as the new protector of Iraqi
representative government -- after being so content with Saddam's
one-man rule -- is so patently cynical.
Clearly, not all E.U. countries are comfortable with this French
mischief, yet many are going along for the ride. It's stunning to me
that the E.U., misled by France, could let itself be written out of the
most important political development project in modern Middle East
history. The whole tone and direction of the Arab-Muslim world, which
is right on Europe's doorstep, will be affected by the outcome in Iraq.
It would be as if America said it did not care what happened in Mexico
because it was mad at Spain.
Says John Chipman, director of the London-based International Institute
for Strategic Studies: "What the Europeans are saying about Iraq is
that this is our backyard, we're not going to let you meddle in it, but
we're not going to tend it ourselves."
But what's most sad is that France is right -- America will not be as
effective or legitimate in its efforts to rebuild Iraq without French
help. Having France working with us in Iraq, rather than against us in
the world, would be so beneficial for both nations and for the Arabs'
future. Too bad this French government has other priorities.
---
LA NOSTRA GUERRA CON LA FRANCIA
di Thomas L. Friedman
dal New York Times del 18/9/2003
E' ora che noi americani ci rendiamo conto di un fatto: la Francia non
è solo un nostro fastidioso alleato. Non è solo un nostro geloso
rivale. La Francia sta diventando un nostro nemico.
Se si mette insieme come la Francia si è comportata mentre si preparava
la guerra all'Iraq (rendendo impossibile al Consiglio di Sicurezza
porre un reale ultimatum a Saddam Hussein, che avrebbe potuto evitare
la guerra), e se si osserva come si è comportata la Francia durante la
guerra (quando il suo
ministro degli esteri, Dominique de Villepin, si è rifiutato di
rispondere alla domanda se preferiva che in Iraq vincesse l'America o
Saddam), e si osserva come si sta comportando oggi la Francia
(richiedendo una sorta di simbolico e capzioso trasferimento della
sovranità irachena a una sorta di governo
provvisorio iracheno messo insieme frettolosamente, con la restante
transizione irachena alla democrazia affidata alle Nazioni Unite
divise, piuttosto che all'America), allora c'è una sola conclusione da
trarre: la Francia vuole che l'America fallisca in Iraq.
La Francia vuole che l'America affondi lì in un pantano nella folle
speranza che degli Usa indeboliti permetteranno alla Francia di
arrogarsi una sua "legittima" posizione come eguale dell'America, se
non superiore, nel rimodellamento degli affari mondiali.
Sì, l'arroganza della squadra di Bush ha inasprito l'ostilità francese.
Se il Presidente Bush e il Ministro della Difesa Donald Rumsfeld non
fossero stati così arroganti appena dopo la vittoria americana in Iraq,
ed avessero usato invece questo momento, quando i francesi sentivano
che avrebbero dovuto partecipare, per tendere generosamente una mano a
Parigi per unirsi nella ricostruzione - ciò avrebbe ammorbidito
l'atteggiamento francese. Ma anche al riguardo ho dei dubbi.
Ciò su cui non nutro dubbi, tuttavia, è il fatto che non essendoci una
coerente, legittima autorità irachena capace di assumere il potere nel
breve termine, provare a crearne una con la forza adesso porterebbe ad
una pericolosa lotta interna e al ritardo nella costruzione delle
istituzioni democratiche di cui l'Iraq ha così fortemente bisogno.
Ciò che mi sorprende riguardo alla campagna francese - "L'Operazione
America Deve Fallire" - è che la Francia sembra non darsi pensiero di
come questo potrebbe influire sulla Francia. Lasciatemelo scrivere in
modo semplice: se l'America viene sconfitta in Iraq da una coalizione
di saddamisti e islamisti, i gruppi musulmani radicali - da Baghdad ai
sobborghi musulmani di Parigi - saranno galvanizzati, mentre le forze
del modernismo e della tolleranza all'interno delle comunità musulmane
saranno in ritirata. E' assurdo pensare che la Francia, con la sua
larga minoranza musulmana, in cui i radicali stanno già riacquistando
forza, non vedrebbe
influenzata da ciò la propria struttura sociale.
Se la Francia fosse seria, userebbe la propria influenza nell'UE per
mettere insieme un esercito di 25.000 eurotruppe ed un pacchetto di 5
miliardi di dollari per la ricostruzione, e poi direbbe a Bush: ecco,
noi vogliamo sinceramente aiutare la ricostruzione dell'Iraq, ma adesso
vogliamo un posto vero al tavolo delle trattative. Invece, la Francia
ha tirato fuori una proposta mal concepita, tanto per sottolineare la
sua diversita', senza alcuna promessa che Parigi darebbe un contributo
significativo se l'America lo accettasse.
D'altra parte la Francia non si è mai interessata a promuovere la
democrazia nel mondo arabo moderno: ecco perché il suo atteggiamento a
nuova protettrice di un governo iracheno rappresentativo - dopo essere
stata così contenta del dominio personale di Saddam - è tanto cinico.
Chiaramente, non tutte le nazioni europee sono a proprio agio con la
impudenza francese, ma ci sono ancora molti che le vanno appresso. E'
stupefacente che l'UE, fuorviata dalla Francia, si lasci escludere dal
più importante progetto di sviluppo politico nella storia del moderno
Medio Oriente. L'intero carattere e la direzione del mondo
arabo-musulmano, che è proprio alle porte dell'Europa, sarà influenzato
da ciò che succederà in Iraq. Sarebbe come se l'America dicesse che non
le importa ciò che accade in Messico perché è in cattivi rapporti con
la Spagna.
Dice John Chipman, direttore del londinese International Institute for
Strategic Studies: "Ciò che gli europei stanno dicendo riguardo
all'Iraq è che questo è il nostro cortile di casa, non vogliamo che
altri si immischino, benche' noi non ce ne prenderemo cura".
Ma la cosa più triste è che la Francia ha ragione: l'America non sarà
tanto efficace ne' legittimata nel suo sforzo di ricostruire l'Iraq
senza l'aiuto francese. Avere la Francia al nostro fianco in Iraq,
piuttosto che contro di noi nel mondo, sarebbe vantaggioso per entrambe
le nazioni e per il futuro degli arabi. Malauguratamente il governo
francese ha altre priorità.
(si ringraziano Gennaro e Luca per la traduzione)
Nakon "dugog toplog ljeta", vraca se:
Svakog utorka, od 13,30 do 14,00 sati, na Radio Città Aperta, i valu FM
88.9 za regiju "Lazio", "JUGOSLAVENSKI GLAS".
Emisija je u direktnom prijenosu a moze se pratiti i preko Interneta:
http://www.radiocittaperta.it
Kratke intervencije na telefon 06 4393512. Emisija je dvojezicna, po
potrebi i vremenu na raspolaganju.
Podrzite taj slobodni i nezavisni glas,kupujuci knjige, video kazete,
brosure... na nasem raspolaganju. Pisite nam na Jugocoord@...,
ili fax 06 4828957.
Dopo la "lunga calda estate" torna:
Ogni martedì dalle ore 13,30 alle 14,00, "VOCE JUGOSLAVA" su Radio
Città Aperta, FM 88.9 per il Lazio. Si può seguire, come del resto
anche le altre trasmissioni della Radio, via Internet:
http://www.radiocittaperta.it
La trasmissione è bilingue (a seconda del tempo disponibile e della
necessità). La trasmissione è in diretta. Brevi interventi al 06
4393512. Sostenete questa voce libera ed indipendente acquistando le
video cassette, i libri, gli opuscoli a nostra disposizione. Possibili
adozioni a distanza (borse di studio). Scriveteci all'email:
Jugocoord@..., tel/fax 06 4828957.
Program - programma 23. 09. 2003
1. Jucer, danas sutra, datumi "Da se ne zaboravi"
2. Kratke vijesti "Od Triglava do Vardara...."
3. Glas iz Rusije
4. Osnovan je, u okviru Medjunarodnog, Talijanski komitet za obranu S.
Milosevica.
5. Apeli i aktivnosti.
1. Ieri, oggi, domani, date "Da non dimenticare"
2. Brevi notizie "Dal monte Triglav al fiume Vardar..."
3. Voce dalla Russia
4. E' stata costituita la Sezione Italiana del Comitato internazionale
per la Difesa di S. Milosevic
5. Appelli e attività
Svakog utorka, od 13,30 do 14,00 sati, na Radio Città Aperta, i valu FM
88.9 za regiju "Lazio", "JUGOSLAVENSKI GLAS".
Emisija je u direktnom prijenosu a moze se pratiti i preko Interneta:
http://www.radiocittaperta.it
Kratke intervencije na telefon 06 4393512. Emisija je dvojezicna, po
potrebi i vremenu na raspolaganju.
Podrzite taj slobodni i nezavisni glas,kupujuci knjige, video kazete,
brosure... na nasem raspolaganju. Pisite nam na Jugocoord@...,
ili fax 06 4828957.
Dopo la "lunga calda estate" torna:
Ogni martedì dalle ore 13,30 alle 14,00, "VOCE JUGOSLAVA" su Radio
Città Aperta, FM 88.9 per il Lazio. Si può seguire, come del resto
anche le altre trasmissioni della Radio, via Internet:
http://www.radiocittaperta.it
La trasmissione è bilingue (a seconda del tempo disponibile e della
necessità). La trasmissione è in diretta. Brevi interventi al 06
4393512. Sostenete questa voce libera ed indipendente acquistando le
video cassette, i libri, gli opuscoli a nostra disposizione. Possibili
adozioni a distanza (borse di studio). Scriveteci all'email:
Jugocoord@..., tel/fax 06 4828957.
Program - programma 23. 09. 2003
1. Jucer, danas sutra, datumi "Da se ne zaboravi"
2. Kratke vijesti "Od Triglava do Vardara...."
3. Glas iz Rusije
4. Osnovan je, u okviru Medjunarodnog, Talijanski komitet za obranu S.
Milosevica.
5. Apeli i aktivnosti.
1. Ieri, oggi, domani, date "Da non dimenticare"
2. Brevi notizie "Dal monte Triglav al fiume Vardar..."
3. Voce dalla Russia
4. E' stata costituita la Sezione Italiana del Comitato internazionale
per la Difesa di S. Milosevic
5. Appelli e attività
Milosevic "trial"
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/
http://www.icdsm.org/
1. SLOBODA: Three Months - an Outrage! (17/9/2003)
2. The Health Condition of President Milosevic Requires his Release!
(Appeal by 10 German Doctors, 18/9/2003)
3. Statement of the Russian Committee for the Defense of Slobodan
Milosevic (Moscow, 18 September 2003)
4. Protest in Belgrade: No Hague, No Clinton - Yes Freedom, Yes Slobo!
(Belgrade, September 20)
See also:
Down with the inquisition tribunal in The Hague!
www.antiimperialista.com/en/
view.shtml?category=37&id=1063919963&keyword=+
=== 1 ===
THREE MONTHS – AN OUTRAGE!
PRESIDENT’S HEALTH IN DRAMATIC CONDITION!
PROTESTS IN RUSSIA AND USA.
Belgrade, September 17
This morning’s decision of the Hague tribunal to grant only three
months to President Milosevic for preparation of his case (in the
prison!) is an outrage and violence against law and justice – Vladimir
Krsljanin stated at the press conference of “Sloboda”. In the fear of
the total debacle, the tribunal at the same time has a goal to break
President Milosevic’s health and to threaten his life, he added.
The other Krsljanin’s points at the “Sloboda” press conference were the
following:
· Yesterday, for the first time, the session of the tribunal
ended earlier, since President Milosevic was very sick. His blood
pressure jumped to 220/120mmHg, so he was unable to continue. In spite
of this, he appeared in the court room this morning. Now tribunal
expects from a person whose health is seriously damaged by the two
years of detention and enormous efforts in the unprecedented process
with the absence of adequate medical care, to stand three months of
intensive preparations and another two years of his case. This is
something that a young and healthy person could hardly stand.
· The protests in the World against this violence and political
warfare increase and will go on. Yesterday several more important MP’s
have joined the petition of Russian Parliamentarians, among them
Gennady Raikov, head of “People’s Deputy” – a pro-presidential,
centrist faction. Two dozen important MPs who signed the petition
represent five important factions in Duma and absolute majority of MPs.
Duma petition quotes: “Without fulfilling these demands [two-years
break with the provisional release, end of the visit ban] the process
against Slobodan Milosevic will remain an open political harassment,
having nothing in common with judiciary”. At its beginning, the
petition reminds: “after they have submitted mountains of the
suspicious documents, brought hundreds false witnesses and spent
hundreds of millions of dollars from the UN budget, the prosecutors of
the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
haven’t succeeded to show any evidence of guilt of the Serbian leader
for the alleged crimes. The Prosecution undergoes total fiasco.” [1]
· At the same time, the important American scholars, activists
and lawyers, chaired by Dr Michael Parenti, who have just formed the
American Committee for the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic, announce
series of continued activities. They condemn in strongest terms the
terrible human rights violations by the tribunal and see it as a tool
of “political warfare against the people of Serbia and against the
basic democratic rights of the whole of humanity that cannot be allowed
to succeed.” [2]
· Tomorrow, president of the tribunal Theodor Meron pays an
“official visit” to Belgrade regime. “Sloboda” invites him publicly to
visit our Belgrade offices, where he would be presented the legal
arguments only. Perhaps it can help him to preserve at least a bit of
his lawyer’s integrity and to fulfill more successfully his proclaimed
duty to take care of the “legality” of the work of the tribunal, which
now violates even its own Statute, by denying the rights to defense and
health. We would also ask him when he thinks to reply to our request
(with 15 pages of legal arguments) [3] to annul the Registrar’s
decision on visit ban and to suspend the rules preventing President
Milosevic from the contacts with the press. It would be also
interesting to hear whether judge Meron sees the role of the tribunal
in the protection of the real war criminals and terrorists, so that one
of them can run for US presidential nomination and another one (his
ex-boss and supreme commander) can come to occupied Pristina to get a
“honorary doctorate” of Pristina University from his favorite Al-Qaida
proxies.
· For all that reasons Serbs and other progressive citizens of
Europe and the World will hold a major demonstration on 8 November 2003
at The Hague. “Sloboda” will fight back legally, politically and with
all forms of engagement for freedom and true democracy.
Notes:
[1]The statement of Russian Parliamentarians
http://www.icdsm.org/more/ruspar.htm
[2]The press release of US National Section of ICDSM
http://www.icdsm.org/more/icdsmus1.htm
[3]“Sloboda” motion to the president of the tribunal
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/request.html
=== 2 ===
Initiative of medical doctors and therapists practising in Germany
Dr. med. Uta Mader, Matthias Jochheim, Prof. Dr. med. habil. Ilse
Eisen-Hagemann, Dr. phil. Hans-Peter Brenner, Prof. Dr. med. habil.
Ingeborg Rapoport, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Dr. hc. mult. Samuel Mitja
Rapoport, Dr. med.Christa Anders, Dr. med.Ernst Bellmer, Dr. med. Iris
Jonkanski, Dr. med. Michel Hühn, Barbara Mühlfeld
To:
Mr. Theodor Meron
Mr. Richard May
Mr. Steven Kay
Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic
ICTY Churchillplein 1
NL - 2517 JW The Hague
18.09.2003
Dear Sirs!
Since the submissions we made to you last November and December the
proceedings against Mr. Slobodan Milosevic had to be repeatedly
interrupted for health reasons; since the summer recess alone this has
happened numerous times. Early this week for the first time a
proceeding already in session had to be interrupted due to an acute
attack of heart and vascular disease.
What is relevant regarding this had been communicated already by the
cardiologist Dr. P. R. M. van Dijkman, appointed by your side, when in
his report dated November 18, 2002, he confirmed “essential
hypertension with secondary organ damage”, “during trial there recurred
a steep increase in blood pressure up to around 220/130 mmHg”, “a
condition that looks like a hypertension emergency” and when he
mentioned “the possibility of coronary disease, cerebrovascular
accident, heart attack and death”.
Recent events compel us to seriously raise the issue of your duty to
exercise proper care and supervision. It’s true that for some time
there were no reports about any drugs being contraindicated or having
unacceptable side effects. On the other hand there is still no regular
cardiologic supervision taking place, which to us seems irresponsible
in view of the known health condition.
Although with an irresponsibly delay, finally after one year there was
a reduction of the number of trial sessions per week and session hours
per day. On the other hand, the volume of material produced by the
prosecution is said to have been increased this year on top of the
already existing 500,000 pages DIN A4 by another 400,000 pages, not to
mention the video and audio tapes. Such a volume would be impossible
for any person to deal with during the allotted time; in this case the
lack of time amounts to a serious stress factor directly threatening
his health.
When Mrs. Del Ponte in her interview with Neue Zürcher Zeitung dated
July 18, 2003, stated with regard to the health condition of Mr.
Milosevic: “He is in very, very good health. Many people at the age of
60 or more are suffering from high blood pressure. We won’t comfort
him. I hope that you don’t get the impression we would”, this
diametrically contradicts the medical findings and procedural proposals
repeatedly dealt with by the Third Chamber. It also contradicts the
relevant UN-Resolutions concerning the treatment of prisoners. We very
much hope that the cynicism expressed by Mrs. Del Ponte is an
exceptional phenomenon and is not in any way representative of the
attitude taken by your institution as a whole.
We appeal to you, considering Mr. Milosevic’s hypertension and
increased infarct risk, not to practice any kind of such
“non-comforting” treatment. It is technically impossible during the
allotted time to deal with the amount of material presented by the
prosecution, which causes serious but avoidable stress. Even for a
young healthy person this would be an extraordinary task. In the
present case for the preparation of the defence after the prosecution
has finished their case it is indispensable to interrupt the
proceedings for a longer period. Mr. Milosevic has demanded an
interruption and his release for a period of two years. It is a
question for the discretion of the trial chamber, to examine this
demand from the point of view of “equality of arms”, since the
prosecution has had more than two years to prepare its case, not to
mention the staff at its disposal.
At least with respect to the health condition the time granted now for
the preparation of the defence of only three months is totally
insufficient, as it will irresponsibly increase the risk and stress
factors. Mr. Milosevic should be provisionally released for an
adequate, longer period of time, so that during the preparation of his
defence he can have medical treatment and control by his long time
doctors in Belgrade.
Respectfully
in order signed
Dr. med. Uta Mader, Köln
Spokesperson for the Initiative, Medical Doctor, International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW – Nobel Peace Prize
1985), Association of Democratic Doctors (VDÄÄ in the German initials)
signed
Matthias Jochheim, Frankfurt/Main, Medical Doctor and Psychotherapist,
IPPNW
signed.
Prof. Dr. med. habil.Ilse Eisen-Hagemann, Berlin, Medical Doctor
signed
Dr. phil.Hans-Peter Brenner, Bonn, Psychological Psychotherapist,
Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Koblenz,
signed
Prof. Dr. med. habil. Ingeborg Rapoport, Berlin, Medical Doctor
signed
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Dr. hc. mult. Samuel Mitja Rapoport, Berlin,
Medical Doctor
signed
Dr. med. Christa Anders, Berlin, Medical Doctor
signed
Dr. med.Ernst Bellmer, Erzhausen, Internist
signed
Dr. med. Iris Jonkanski, Brinckheim (Frankreich), Medical Doctor
signed
Barbara Mühlfeld, Frankfurt/Main, Medical Doctor
(reference to organisations for information only)
---
The above text is an unoficial English translation of the German
original.
SLOBODA INVITES MEDICAL DOCTORS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES TO ENDORSE THE
APPEAL OF THEIR GERMAN COLLEAGUES OR TO ADDRESS THE TRIBUNAL WITH THEIR
OWN APPEALS
=== 3 ===
RUSSIAN PUBLIC COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
Moscow, 18 September 2003
S T A T E M E N T
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) at The Hague has made a decision to provide the former President
of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the political prisoner Slobodan
Milosevic, with only three months to prepare his defense. It is an
outrageous, scandalous decision. It is a direct violation of the
international law, which presumes the equality of sides in a court
process.
As widely known, the ICTY prosecutors have been collecting the
evidence for more than four years. In that work hundreds of the ICTY
employees took part. And now it is decided that President Milosevic has
to prepare his defense in only three months. He has to collect evidence
and to communicate with his witnesses while being in a prison cell.
That is complete absurdity.
The particular cynicism of the ICTY behavior is seen in the
fact that Slobodan Milosevic still doesn’t receive a qualified medical
aid, despite the fact that his health condition raises the most serious
concern.
All of this is taking place parallel to practically complete isolation
of President Milosevic from his political allies in Yugoslavia and from
his family. As known, the persecution of the members of Mr.
Milosevic`s family under false excuses has deprived his wife and son of
the possibility to visit him at the Hague prison.
We strongly condemn the ongoing attempt of political slaughter of the
Serbian leader and the persecution of his family members.
We demand the adjournment of the trial for two years, so that President
Milosevic can prepare his defense in an appropriate way.
We insist on his release from detention for the recuperation of his
health and for more effective preparation of defense.
Chairman of the Committee
Alexander Zinoviev
The members of the Russian Public Committee for the Defense of Slobodan
Milosevic are:
1. A. A. Zinovyev, philosopher, writer, professor of the Moscow
State University
2. S. N. Baburin, doctor of law, President of the Russian
All-peoples’ Union
3. N. M. Bezborodov, general, Deputy of the State Duma
4. V. I. Varenikov, general, Hero of the Soviet Union
5. V. N. Ganichev, writer, President of the Writers’ Union of Russia
6. S. A. Glotov, doctor of law, Director of the Institute for Human
Rights
7. V. A. Dzhanibekov, cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union,
Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
8. N. I. Doroshchenko, writer, Secretary of the Board of the
Writers’ Union of Russia
9. E. G. Drapeko, actress, Deputy of the State Duma
10. L. V. Zaitseva, People’s Artist of Russia
11. O. N. Zarudnaya, Vice-President of the Union of Slavonic Journalists
12. M. A. Zemskov, Editor-in-chief of the “Patriot” magazine
13. N. N. Izvekov, Member of the Scientific Council of the Russian
Academy of Sciences (for the history of international relations and
foreign policy of Russia)
14. V. M. Klikov, sculptor, President of the International Fund for
Slavonic Literacy and Culture
15. N. I. Kondratenko, Memer of the Council of Federation
16. M. P. Lobanov, writer
17. J. M. Loshchits, writer
18. M. I. Nozhkin, poet, People’s Artist of Russia
19. G. V. Osipov, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director
of the Institute for Socio-political Research of the Russian Academy of
Sciences
20. A. A. Prokhanov, Editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Zavtra”
(Tomorrow)
21. V. S. Safronchuk, ambassador, Deputy Secretary General of the
United Nations 1987-1992
22. V. N. Strakhov, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director
of the Geophysical Institute „O. J. Shmit”
23. V. V. Chikin, Editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Sovietskaya
Rossiya” (Soviet Russia)
24. N. D. Yakovleva, President of the Patriotic Alliance of Women
=== 4 ===
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/clintondemo.htm
Belgrade, September 20
The delegation of the Board of Sloboda/Freedom Association - Yugoslav
Committee for the Release of Slobodan Milosevic composed of Vladimir
Krsljanin, Dragoljub Kocovic and attorney Momo Raicevic has delivered
today protest letters to the Foreign Ministry of Serbia&Montenegro, to
the US Embassy and to the Hague Tribunal Office in Belgrade.
Around 200 people followed the delegation in its four kilometers walk
from the central area of Belgrade, bombed in 1999, to the exclusive
quarters of Dedinje (where the Hague Office is located), demonstrating
against the criminal bias of the Hague tribunal and against the Clinton
visit to Kosovo.
The full text of the protest letter follows:
To the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro
To the Embassy of the United States of America
To the Office of ICTY
B e l g r a d e
The citizens assembled around Sloboda/Freedom Association express their
strongest
PROTEST
because of:
- The attempt of the Hague tribunal to make defense of President
Milosevic impossible, to threaten his life and to isolate him from the
family and associates;
- The prevention of the meeting of the US citizen Theodor Meron, the
President of the Hague Tribunal with the citizens of Serbia struggling
for freedom and justice;
- The visit of the US citizen William J. Clinton, the former President
of USA, responsible for the crime against peace, war crimes and crimes
against humanity.
Considering that the most responsible for all this are the Hague
tribunal and DOS regime, but in the first place the US Government,
without support of which these two illegal, discredited and hated by
the people entities couldn't exist and convinced that by the following
we express the opinion of the
vast majority of the Serbian people,
WE DEMAND:
- Freedom for President Slobodan Milosevic, so that his life would be
protected and so that he could continue, with the full power, to
struggle for truth, freedom and prosperity of the Serbian people;
- The end of the aggression and foreign interference and the most
strict respect, by the all domestic and outside factors, of the
Constitution, Law and the democratically expressed will of the Serbian
people.
---
The pictures from today's Belgrade protest, you can see at:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/clintondemo.htm
---
SLOBODA urgently needs your donation.
Please find the detailed instructions at:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/pomoc.htm
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM)
http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/
http://www.icdsm.org/
1. SLOBODA: Three Months - an Outrage! (17/9/2003)
2. The Health Condition of President Milosevic Requires his Release!
(Appeal by 10 German Doctors, 18/9/2003)
3. Statement of the Russian Committee for the Defense of Slobodan
Milosevic (Moscow, 18 September 2003)
4. Protest in Belgrade: No Hague, No Clinton - Yes Freedom, Yes Slobo!
(Belgrade, September 20)
See also:
Down with the inquisition tribunal in The Hague!
www.antiimperialista.com/en/
view.shtml?category=37&id=1063919963&keyword=+
=== 1 ===
THREE MONTHS – AN OUTRAGE!
PRESIDENT’S HEALTH IN DRAMATIC CONDITION!
PROTESTS IN RUSSIA AND USA.
Belgrade, September 17
This morning’s decision of the Hague tribunal to grant only three
months to President Milosevic for preparation of his case (in the
prison!) is an outrage and violence against law and justice – Vladimir
Krsljanin stated at the press conference of “Sloboda”. In the fear of
the total debacle, the tribunal at the same time has a goal to break
President Milosevic’s health and to threaten his life, he added.
The other Krsljanin’s points at the “Sloboda” press conference were the
following:
· Yesterday, for the first time, the session of the tribunal
ended earlier, since President Milosevic was very sick. His blood
pressure jumped to 220/120mmHg, so he was unable to continue. In spite
of this, he appeared in the court room this morning. Now tribunal
expects from a person whose health is seriously damaged by the two
years of detention and enormous efforts in the unprecedented process
with the absence of adequate medical care, to stand three months of
intensive preparations and another two years of his case. This is
something that a young and healthy person could hardly stand.
· The protests in the World against this violence and political
warfare increase and will go on. Yesterday several more important MP’s
have joined the petition of Russian Parliamentarians, among them
Gennady Raikov, head of “People’s Deputy” – a pro-presidential,
centrist faction. Two dozen important MPs who signed the petition
represent five important factions in Duma and absolute majority of MPs.
Duma petition quotes: “Without fulfilling these demands [two-years
break with the provisional release, end of the visit ban] the process
against Slobodan Milosevic will remain an open political harassment,
having nothing in common with judiciary”. At its beginning, the
petition reminds: “after they have submitted mountains of the
suspicious documents, brought hundreds false witnesses and spent
hundreds of millions of dollars from the UN budget, the prosecutors of
the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
haven’t succeeded to show any evidence of guilt of the Serbian leader
for the alleged crimes. The Prosecution undergoes total fiasco.” [1]
· At the same time, the important American scholars, activists
and lawyers, chaired by Dr Michael Parenti, who have just formed the
American Committee for the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic, announce
series of continued activities. They condemn in strongest terms the
terrible human rights violations by the tribunal and see it as a tool
of “political warfare against the people of Serbia and against the
basic democratic rights of the whole of humanity that cannot be allowed
to succeed.” [2]
· Tomorrow, president of the tribunal Theodor Meron pays an
“official visit” to Belgrade regime. “Sloboda” invites him publicly to
visit our Belgrade offices, where he would be presented the legal
arguments only. Perhaps it can help him to preserve at least a bit of
his lawyer’s integrity and to fulfill more successfully his proclaimed
duty to take care of the “legality” of the work of the tribunal, which
now violates even its own Statute, by denying the rights to defense and
health. We would also ask him when he thinks to reply to our request
(with 15 pages of legal arguments) [3] to annul the Registrar’s
decision on visit ban and to suspend the rules preventing President
Milosevic from the contacts with the press. It would be also
interesting to hear whether judge Meron sees the role of the tribunal
in the protection of the real war criminals and terrorists, so that one
of them can run for US presidential nomination and another one (his
ex-boss and supreme commander) can come to occupied Pristina to get a
“honorary doctorate” of Pristina University from his favorite Al-Qaida
proxies.
· For all that reasons Serbs and other progressive citizens of
Europe and the World will hold a major demonstration on 8 November 2003
at The Hague. “Sloboda” will fight back legally, politically and with
all forms of engagement for freedom and true democracy.
Notes:
[1]The statement of Russian Parliamentarians
http://www.icdsm.org/more/ruspar.htm
[2]The press release of US National Section of ICDSM
http://www.icdsm.org/more/icdsmus1.htm
[3]“Sloboda” motion to the president of the tribunal
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/request.html
=== 2 ===
Initiative of medical doctors and therapists practising in Germany
Dr. med. Uta Mader, Matthias Jochheim, Prof. Dr. med. habil. Ilse
Eisen-Hagemann, Dr. phil. Hans-Peter Brenner, Prof. Dr. med. habil.
Ingeborg Rapoport, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Dr. hc. mult. Samuel Mitja
Rapoport, Dr. med.Christa Anders, Dr. med.Ernst Bellmer, Dr. med. Iris
Jonkanski, Dr. med. Michel Hühn, Barbara Mühlfeld
To:
Mr. Theodor Meron
Mr. Richard May
Mr. Steven Kay
Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic
ICTY Churchillplein 1
NL - 2517 JW The Hague
18.09.2003
Dear Sirs!
Since the submissions we made to you last November and December the
proceedings against Mr. Slobodan Milosevic had to be repeatedly
interrupted for health reasons; since the summer recess alone this has
happened numerous times. Early this week for the first time a
proceeding already in session had to be interrupted due to an acute
attack of heart and vascular disease.
What is relevant regarding this had been communicated already by the
cardiologist Dr. P. R. M. van Dijkman, appointed by your side, when in
his report dated November 18, 2002, he confirmed “essential
hypertension with secondary organ damage”, “during trial there recurred
a steep increase in blood pressure up to around 220/130 mmHg”, “a
condition that looks like a hypertension emergency” and when he
mentioned “the possibility of coronary disease, cerebrovascular
accident, heart attack and death”.
Recent events compel us to seriously raise the issue of your duty to
exercise proper care and supervision. It’s true that for some time
there were no reports about any drugs being contraindicated or having
unacceptable side effects. On the other hand there is still no regular
cardiologic supervision taking place, which to us seems irresponsible
in view of the known health condition.
Although with an irresponsibly delay, finally after one year there was
a reduction of the number of trial sessions per week and session hours
per day. On the other hand, the volume of material produced by the
prosecution is said to have been increased this year on top of the
already existing 500,000 pages DIN A4 by another 400,000 pages, not to
mention the video and audio tapes. Such a volume would be impossible
for any person to deal with during the allotted time; in this case the
lack of time amounts to a serious stress factor directly threatening
his health.
When Mrs. Del Ponte in her interview with Neue Zürcher Zeitung dated
July 18, 2003, stated with regard to the health condition of Mr.
Milosevic: “He is in very, very good health. Many people at the age of
60 or more are suffering from high blood pressure. We won’t comfort
him. I hope that you don’t get the impression we would”, this
diametrically contradicts the medical findings and procedural proposals
repeatedly dealt with by the Third Chamber. It also contradicts the
relevant UN-Resolutions concerning the treatment of prisoners. We very
much hope that the cynicism expressed by Mrs. Del Ponte is an
exceptional phenomenon and is not in any way representative of the
attitude taken by your institution as a whole.
We appeal to you, considering Mr. Milosevic’s hypertension and
increased infarct risk, not to practice any kind of such
“non-comforting” treatment. It is technically impossible during the
allotted time to deal with the amount of material presented by the
prosecution, which causes serious but avoidable stress. Even for a
young healthy person this would be an extraordinary task. In the
present case for the preparation of the defence after the prosecution
has finished their case it is indispensable to interrupt the
proceedings for a longer period. Mr. Milosevic has demanded an
interruption and his release for a period of two years. It is a
question for the discretion of the trial chamber, to examine this
demand from the point of view of “equality of arms”, since the
prosecution has had more than two years to prepare its case, not to
mention the staff at its disposal.
At least with respect to the health condition the time granted now for
the preparation of the defence of only three months is totally
insufficient, as it will irresponsibly increase the risk and stress
factors. Mr. Milosevic should be provisionally released for an
adequate, longer period of time, so that during the preparation of his
defence he can have medical treatment and control by his long time
doctors in Belgrade.
Respectfully
in order signed
Dr. med. Uta Mader, Köln
Spokesperson for the Initiative, Medical Doctor, International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW – Nobel Peace Prize
1985), Association of Democratic Doctors (VDÄÄ in the German initials)
signed
Matthias Jochheim, Frankfurt/Main, Medical Doctor and Psychotherapist,
IPPNW
signed.
Prof. Dr. med. habil.Ilse Eisen-Hagemann, Berlin, Medical Doctor
signed
Dr. phil.Hans-Peter Brenner, Bonn, Psychological Psychotherapist,
Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Koblenz,
signed
Prof. Dr. med. habil. Ingeborg Rapoport, Berlin, Medical Doctor
signed
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Dr. hc. mult. Samuel Mitja Rapoport, Berlin,
Medical Doctor
signed
Dr. med. Christa Anders, Berlin, Medical Doctor
signed
Dr. med.Ernst Bellmer, Erzhausen, Internist
signed
Dr. med. Iris Jonkanski, Brinckheim (Frankreich), Medical Doctor
signed
Barbara Mühlfeld, Frankfurt/Main, Medical Doctor
(reference to organisations for information only)
---
The above text is an unoficial English translation of the German
original.
SLOBODA INVITES MEDICAL DOCTORS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES TO ENDORSE THE
APPEAL OF THEIR GERMAN COLLEAGUES OR TO ADDRESS THE TRIBUNAL WITH THEIR
OWN APPEALS
=== 3 ===
RUSSIAN PUBLIC COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
Moscow, 18 September 2003
S T A T E M E N T
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) at The Hague has made a decision to provide the former President
of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the political prisoner Slobodan
Milosevic, with only three months to prepare his defense. It is an
outrageous, scandalous decision. It is a direct violation of the
international law, which presumes the equality of sides in a court
process.
As widely known, the ICTY prosecutors have been collecting the
evidence for more than four years. In that work hundreds of the ICTY
employees took part. And now it is decided that President Milosevic has
to prepare his defense in only three months. He has to collect evidence
and to communicate with his witnesses while being in a prison cell.
That is complete absurdity.
The particular cynicism of the ICTY behavior is seen in the
fact that Slobodan Milosevic still doesn’t receive a qualified medical
aid, despite the fact that his health condition raises the most serious
concern.
All of this is taking place parallel to practically complete isolation
of President Milosevic from his political allies in Yugoslavia and from
his family. As known, the persecution of the members of Mr.
Milosevic`s family under false excuses has deprived his wife and son of
the possibility to visit him at the Hague prison.
We strongly condemn the ongoing attempt of political slaughter of the
Serbian leader and the persecution of his family members.
We demand the adjournment of the trial for two years, so that President
Milosevic can prepare his defense in an appropriate way.
We insist on his release from detention for the recuperation of his
health and for more effective preparation of defense.
Chairman of the Committee
Alexander Zinoviev
The members of the Russian Public Committee for the Defense of Slobodan
Milosevic are:
1. A. A. Zinovyev, philosopher, writer, professor of the Moscow
State University
2. S. N. Baburin, doctor of law, President of the Russian
All-peoples’ Union
3. N. M. Bezborodov, general, Deputy of the State Duma
4. V. I. Varenikov, general, Hero of the Soviet Union
5. V. N. Ganichev, writer, President of the Writers’ Union of Russia
6. S. A. Glotov, doctor of law, Director of the Institute for Human
Rights
7. V. A. Dzhanibekov, cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union,
Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
8. N. I. Doroshchenko, writer, Secretary of the Board of the
Writers’ Union of Russia
9. E. G. Drapeko, actress, Deputy of the State Duma
10. L. V. Zaitseva, People’s Artist of Russia
11. O. N. Zarudnaya, Vice-President of the Union of Slavonic Journalists
12. M. A. Zemskov, Editor-in-chief of the “Patriot” magazine
13. N. N. Izvekov, Member of the Scientific Council of the Russian
Academy of Sciences (for the history of international relations and
foreign policy of Russia)
14. V. M. Klikov, sculptor, President of the International Fund for
Slavonic Literacy and Culture
15. N. I. Kondratenko, Memer of the Council of Federation
16. M. P. Lobanov, writer
17. J. M. Loshchits, writer
18. M. I. Nozhkin, poet, People’s Artist of Russia
19. G. V. Osipov, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director
of the Institute for Socio-political Research of the Russian Academy of
Sciences
20. A. A. Prokhanov, Editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Zavtra”
(Tomorrow)
21. V. S. Safronchuk, ambassador, Deputy Secretary General of the
United Nations 1987-1992
22. V. N. Strakhov, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director
of the Geophysical Institute „O. J. Shmit”
23. V. V. Chikin, Editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Sovietskaya
Rossiya” (Soviet Russia)
24. N. D. Yakovleva, President of the Patriotic Alliance of Women
=== 4 ===
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/clintondemo.htm
Belgrade, September 20
The delegation of the Board of Sloboda/Freedom Association - Yugoslav
Committee for the Release of Slobodan Milosevic composed of Vladimir
Krsljanin, Dragoljub Kocovic and attorney Momo Raicevic has delivered
today protest letters to the Foreign Ministry of Serbia&Montenegro, to
the US Embassy and to the Hague Tribunal Office in Belgrade.
Around 200 people followed the delegation in its four kilometers walk
from the central area of Belgrade, bombed in 1999, to the exclusive
quarters of Dedinje (where the Hague Office is located), demonstrating
against the criminal bias of the Hague tribunal and against the Clinton
visit to Kosovo.
The full text of the protest letter follows:
To the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro
To the Embassy of the United States of America
To the Office of ICTY
B e l g r a d e
The citizens assembled around Sloboda/Freedom Association express their
strongest
PROTEST
because of:
- The attempt of the Hague tribunal to make defense of President
Milosevic impossible, to threaten his life and to isolate him from the
family and associates;
- The prevention of the meeting of the US citizen Theodor Meron, the
President of the Hague Tribunal with the citizens of Serbia struggling
for freedom and justice;
- The visit of the US citizen William J. Clinton, the former President
of USA, responsible for the crime against peace, war crimes and crimes
against humanity.
Considering that the most responsible for all this are the Hague
tribunal and DOS regime, but in the first place the US Government,
without support of which these two illegal, discredited and hated by
the people entities couldn't exist and convinced that by the following
we express the opinion of the
vast majority of the Serbian people,
WE DEMAND:
- Freedom for President Slobodan Milosevic, so that his life would be
protected and so that he could continue, with the full power, to
struggle for truth, freedom and prosperity of the Serbian people;
- The end of the aggression and foreign interference and the most
strict respect, by the all domestic and outside factors, of the
Constitution, Law and the democratically expressed will of the Serbian
people.
---
The pictures from today's Belgrade protest, you can see at:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/clintondemo.htm
---
SLOBODA urgently needs your donation.
Please find the detailed instructions at:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/pomoc.htm
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM)
http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)
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