Informazione
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.
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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
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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.
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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
Copyright 2003 Agence France Presse
Posted for Fair Use only
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/icty092203.htm
ICTY PRESS RELEASE
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.
Copyright 2003 ICTY Press Office
Posted for Fair Use only
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
Copyright 2003 Agence France Presse
Posted for Fair Use only
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/icty092203.htm
ICTY PRESS RELEASE
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.
Copyright 2003 ICTY Press Office
Posted for Fair Use only
(srpskohrvatski / deutsch)
http://www.artel.co.yu/
OPTUZUJEM - ILI PRICA O TRI SAMARA I EVROPSKOM GREHU
ICH KLAGE AN - ODER STORY VON DREI OHRFEIGEN UND DER EUROPÄISCHEN SÜNDE
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OPTUZUJEM - ILI PRICA O TRI SAMARA I EVROPSKOM GREHU
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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.
http://www.artel.co.yu/
OPTUZUJEM - ILI PRICA O TRI SAMARA I EVROPSKOM GREHU
ICH KLAGE AN - ODER STORY VON DREI OHRFEIGEN UND DER EUROPÄISCHEN SÜNDE
--- srpskohrvatski ---
OPTUZUJEM - ILI PRICA O TRI SAMARA I EVROPSKOM GREHU
http://www.artel.co.yu/sr/izbor/jugoslavija/2003-09-22.html
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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ICH KLAGE AN - ODER STORY VON DREI OHRFEIGEN UND DER EUROPÄISCHEN SÜNDE
http://www.artel.co.yu/de/izbor/jugoslavija/2003-09-23_1.html
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
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.
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)
---
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.
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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)
Am 8. November in Den Haag (deutsch)
1. INITIATIVE VON IN DEUTSCHLAND PRAKTIZIERENDEN ÄRZTEN UND THERAPEUTEN
(18.09.2003)
2. Resolution des Antiimperialistischen Lagers Assisi 2003 / Aufruf zur
Demo in Den Haag, 8.11.2002
Siehe auch:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/AIA/
aikor9.9.03.txt
(Aufruf zur internationalen Demonstration in Den Haag am Samstag, 8.
November 2003, u. Dokumente)
http://www.free-slobo.de/
(Deutsche Sektion des ICDSM)
=== 1 ===
Da: joesb
Data: Ven 19 Set 2003 10:39:21 Europe/Rome
INITIATIVE VON IN DEUTSCHLAND PRAKTIZIERENDEN ÄRZTEN UND THERAPEUTEN
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
Herren
Theodor Meron
Richard May
Steven Kai
Branislav Tapuskovic
ICTY Churchillplein 1
NL - 2517 JW The Hague
18.09.2003
Sehr geehrte Herren!
Seit unseren Eingaben vom November und Dezember 2002 mussten die
Verhandlungen gegen Slobodan Milosevic krankheitsbedingt mehrfach
unterbrochen werden, allein in der Zeit seit der Sommerpause war dies
wiederholt der Fall. Zu Beginn dieser Woche ist erstmals die Situation
ein-getreten, dass bereits laufende Verhandlungen wegen aufgetretener
akuter Herz- und Kreislaufbe-schwerden abgebrochen werden mussten.
Den einschlägigen Befund hatte bereits der Ihrerseits beauftragte
Kardiologen Dr. P. R. M. van Dijkman in seinem Bericht vom 18. November
2002 mitgeteilt, als er „essentiellen Bluthochdruck mit sekundärem
Organschaden“, „während des Verfahrens erneut steiler Anstieg des
Blutdrucks bis zu 220/130 mmHg“, „einen Zustand, der wie ein
Hochdrucknotfall aussieht“ festgestellt hat, und die „Möglichkeit von
Erkrankungen der Herzkranzgefäße, Hirnschlag, Herzinfarkt und Tod“
erwähnte.
Die jüngst eingetretene Situation gibt uns Anlass, in aller
Ernsthaftigkeit die Frage nach der Wahr-nehmung der Ihnen obliegenden
Obhuts- und Fürsorgepflicht zu stellen. Zwar sind in letzter Zeit
Meldungen über kontraindizierte oder Medikamente mit unvertretbaren
Nebenwirkungen aus-geblieben. Andererseits findet weiterhin keine
adäquate medizinischen Behandlung und Kontrolle, insbesondere keine
regelmäßige kardiologische Überwachung statt, was angesichts des
bekannten Disposition unverantwortlich erscheint.
Zwar wurden, wenn auch unvertretbarer Weise erst nach einem Jahr, die
Verhandlungstage pro Woche und die Verhandlungsdauer pro Tag etwas
reduziert. Andererseits soll die Masse des von der Anklage produzierten
Materials von vorliegenden 500.000 DIN A4-Seiten in diesem Jahr um
weitere 400.000 Seiten angewachsen sein, von Bild- und Tonträgern
abgesehen. Ein solcher Um-fang dürfte von keinem Menschen in der
vorgegebenen Zeit zu bewältigen sein, hier jedoch wirkt der Zeitmangel
erheblich stressfördernd und gesundheitsbedrohlich.
Wenn nun Frau Del Ponte in ihrem Interview mit der Neuen Zürcher
Zeitung vom 18.07.2003 zum Gesundheitszustand von Slobodan Milosevic
erklärt, „Es geht ihm gesundheitlich sehr, sehr gut. Viele Menschen
leiden mit 60 Jahren oder mehr an einem zu hohen Blutdruck. Wir schonen
ihn nicht. Ich hoffe nicht, dass Sie diesen Eindruck haben“, dann steht
dies im diametralen Gegensatz zu den ärztlichen Feststellungen und
Verfahrensvorschlägen, die in der 3. Kammer wiederholt be-raten worden
sind. Es steht in ebensolchem Gegensatz zu allen einschlägigen
Resolutionen der UN über die Behandlung von Inhaftierten. Wir hoffen
sehr, dass dieser von Frau Del Ponte zum Aus-druck gebrachte Zynismus
eine Ausnahmeerscheinung ist und nicht für die Haltung Ihrer
Instituti-on in Gänze steht.
Wir appellieren an Sie, im Hinblick auf die Hypertonie und das
festgestellte erhöhte Infarktrisiko von Slobodan Milosevic keine
Behandlung im Sinne einer „Nichtschonung“ zu praktizieren. Die
Bewältigung der von der Anklage vorgelegten Materialmenge ist in der
vorgegebenen Zeit rein technisch kaum möglich und stellt allein von
daher einen erheblichen, vermeidbaren Stressfaktor dar. Bereits für
einen jungen, gesunden Menschen bedeutete dies eine außerordentliche
Belastung. Im vorliegenden Fall ist eine längere Prozessunterbrechung
zur Vorbereitung der Verteidigung unabdingbar, nachdem die Anklage die
Vorlage ihrer Beweismittel abgeschlossen hat.
Herr Milosevic hat hierzu den Antrag auf eine Unterbrechung und
Haftentlassung für die Dauer von zwei Jahren gestellt. Es liegt im
Ermessen des Gerichts, dieses Verlangen unter dem Gesichts-punkt der
„Waffengleichheit“ zu prüfen, nachdem die Anklagebehörde mehr als zwei
Jahre Vorbe-reitungszeit hatte, die personelle Ausstattung nicht zu
erwähnen.
Zumindest ist unter gesundheitlichen Aspekten die nun gewährte
Vorbereitungszeit von nur drei Monaten völlig unzureichend, da sie die
Risiko- und Stressfaktoren unverantwortlich steigert. Herr Milosevic
sollte für einen angemessenen, längeren Zeitraum vorübergehend auf
freien Fuß gesetzt werden, damit er sich während der Vorbereitung
seiner Verteidigung der Behandlung und Kontrol-le durch die ihn
langjährig behandelnden Ärzte in Belgrad unterziehen kann.
Hochachtungsvoll
Im Auftrag
gez.
Dr. med. Uta Mader, Köln
Sprecherin der Initiative, Ärztin, International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW – Nobel Peace Prize 1985), Verein der
demokratischen Ärztinnen und Ärzte (VDÄÄ)
gez.
Matthias Jochheim, Frankfurt/Main, Arzt und Psychotherapeut, IPPNW
gez.
Prof. Dr. med. habil. Ilse Eisen-Hagemann, Berlin, Ärztin
gez.
Dr. phil. Hans-Peter Brenner, Bonn, Psychologischer Psychotherapeut,
Kassenärztliche Vereini-gung Koblenz,
gez.
Prof. Dr. med. habil. Ingeborg Rapoport, Berlin, Ärztin
gez.
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Dr. hc. mult. Samuel Mitja Rapoport, Berlin,
Arzt
gez.
Dr. med. Christa Anders, Berlin, Ärztin
gez.
Dr. med. Ernst Bellmer, Erzhausen, Internist
gez.
Dr. med. Iris Jonkanski, Brinckheim (Frankreich), Ärztin
gez.
Barbara Mühlfeld, Frankfurt/Main
Ärztin
(Organisationsangaben dienen ausschließlich zur Information)
=== 2 ===
Nieder mit dem Inquisitionstribunal in Den Haag!
Verteidigt Slobodan Milosevic!
Resolution des Antiimperialistischen Lagers Assisi 2003
################################################
Wir rufen alle antiimperialistischen Kräfte auf für den 8. November
2003 nach Den Haag zur serbisch-internationalen Demonstration zu
mobilisieren, daran teilzunehmen oder sie mit anderen Mitteln zu
unterstützen.
################################################
Über 10 Jahre leistete Jugoslawien gegen die US-geführte Weltordnung
Widerstand. Während die separatistischen Bewegungen und die neu
gegründeten Republiken dem Imperialismus um den Hals fielen, versuchte
Jugoslawien zumindest einen Teil der sozialen Errungenschaften der
Massen zu erhalten und weigerte sich dem neo-liberalen Diktat des IWF
zu gehorchen. Der Hauptgrund für die imperialistische Aggression gegen
Jugoslawien war jedoch der symbolische politische Wert des Widerstands
der serbischen Bevölkerung, die ihre nationale Unabhängigkeit gegen die
gesamte imperialistische Weltordnung verteidige. Während sich die
westliche „Zivilgesellschaft“ unter dem Deckmantel des „Humanitarismus“
mit dem Imperialismus verbündete, musste der jugoslawische Widerstand
gebrochen werden, weil er andere unterdrückte Völker ermutigen hätte
können ebenfalls zu revoltieren.
Erst nachdem sie Jugoslawien über zwei Monate bombardiert hatte, konnte
die NATO schließlich ihr Ziel, die Regierung Slobodan Milosevic zu
stürzen, durch einen Staatsstreich erreichen. Die westlichen,
gleichgeschalteten Medien nannten es eine „demokratische Revolution“,
wie schon zehn Jahr zuvor in Osteuropa und Russland. Doch allein durch
die Auslieferung Präsident Milosevic’ nach Den Haag verletzten die
neuen pro-imperialistischen Führer des Landes die Verfassung und traten
das gesamte jugoslawische Rechtssystem mit Füßen, wodurch sie eine
Bananenrepublik am Balkan entstehen hatten lassen, die von der „Güte“
und Willkür des Westens abhängig ist.
Auch das so genannte Tribunal in Den Haag verletzt das Völkerrecht, da
der UN-Sicherheitsrat unter US-Führung sich bei seiner Schaffung
anmaßte, rechtsprechende Institutionen zu bilden. Dies ist nach
UN-Charta alleiniges Prärogativ der Nationalstaaten. Den Haag wird von
der NATO bezahlt und dient einem einzigen Zweck: ihren
imperialistischen Angriff auf Jugoslawien zu rechtfertigen und ihre
Opfer dazu zu zwingen, sich selbst als Aggressoren zu bezichtigen. Eine
Anklage der NATO wegen ihres bewaffneten Überfalls auf Jugoslawien sei
hingegen außerhalb ihrer Zuständigkeit, erklärte jene Institution, die
den offiziellen Namen „Internationales Verbrechertribunal für
Ex-Jugoslawien“ führt. Mit ihrem Ziel einen legalen Boden für die
Abspaltung des Kosovo und die Auflösung der Republika Srpska zu
schaffen und mit der Einmischung in die internen Angelegenheiten
Serbiens, ist das Tribunal ebenfalls ein Werkzeug weiterer
imperialistischer Aggression und Kolonisierung des Balkans.
Slobodan Milosevic Verteidigung durchkreuzte ihre Pläne. Es gelang ihm
die Lügen aufzuzeigen und die wahren Gründe der Aggression offen zu
legen: Das amerikanische Design einer globalen Weltordnung. Der
gegenwärtig bedeutendste politische Häftling und der Kriegsgefangene
der NATO verdient die volle Solidarität aller progressiven Kräfte für
seine Standhaftigkeit und seinen Mut bei der Infragestellung der
Legitimität jener Kraft, die ihn weiter in Gefangenschaft hält und in
der Aufdeckung der imperialistischen Aggression gegen den Balkan.
Nachdem vier Jahre der Vorbereitung falscher Belastungen durch die
„Anklage“ keinerlei Resultate brachten, gestattet das „Tribunal“ der
„Verteidigung“ nicht einmal die Hälfte der Zeit. Das Tribunal spottet
in jeder Hinsicht selbstverständlichen rechtsstaatlichen Standards.
Während es hunderte Menschen gegen Milosevic beschäftigen, wird diesem
kaum gestattet von seinen Anwälten besucht zu werden. Obwohl es sich um
einen rein politischen Prozess handelt, wird Slobodan Milosevic von der
Öffentlich völlig abgeschirmt. Es wird ihm weder erlaubt mit der Presse
noch mit seinen Unterstützerinnen und Unterstützern zu sprechen. Die
NATO versucht mit allen Mitteln einen neuen „Reistagsbrandsprozess“ zu
verhindern, indem sie das Tribunal in eine moderne Form der Inquisition
verwandelt, wo der Schuldspruch schon Vorab feststeht, der Angeklagte
aller international garantierter Rechte beraubt wird (einschließlich
medizinischer Versorgung) und das Verfahren zur absoluten Willkür
verkommt.
Währenddessen, im Schatten der imperialistischen Aggression gegen den
Irak, wurde eine neuen Phase der Aggression gegen Jugoslawien erreicht.
Die westliche Marionette in Serbien, Zoran Djindjic, wurde durch jene
Elemente der Mafia ermordet, von deren Hilfe er zur Machtergreifung
abhängig war. Seine Amtsnachfolger nutzen die Gelegenheit in Serbien
den Notstand auszurufen, um die demokratischen Rechte zu beschneiden
und den Staatsapparat von den darin verbleibenden progressiven Menschen
zu säubern. Heute hat ein Arm der Mafia Regierungsmacht errungen und
nutz diese um die anderen Teil zu zerschlagen. Auch nach der Aufhebung
des Ausnahmezustands bleiben viele Einschränkungen der Bürgerinnen- und
Bürgerrechte aufrecht. Ein weiterer Riss ging durch das Land – mit der
Aufgabe des Namens „Jugoslawien“ wurde die Bundesrepublik in einen
schwachen Staatenbund ohne demokratische Bestätigung verwandelt. Die
Medien sind streng an die Regierung gebunden. Politische Gegner können
über Monat
e ohne angemessenes Gerichtsverfahren eingesperrt werden. Serbien
durchlebt die schlimmste Diktatur seit der Zeit der deutschen
Militärbesatzung. Während die üblichen Rezepte des IWF durchgesetzt
werden, wird die nationale Ökonomie an ausländisches Kapital
ausverkauft und das Land deindustrialisiert. Die Mehrheit der
Bevölkerung wurde in tiefste Armut und Elend gestürzt. Trotz der
Pinochet- ähnlichen Verhältnisse im Menschenrechtsbereich werden die
Marionetten-Führer von den USA und der EU für ihre demokratischen
Errungenschaften gepriesen.
Das Antiimperialistische Lager ist über die Tendenz innerhalb der SPS,
sich den imperialistischen Regeln nach dem Modell der früheren
kommunistischen Parteien in Osteuropa anzupassen und die zehn Jahre des
Widerstands zu verraten, beunruhigt.
Das Antiimperialistische Lager unterstütz all jene Kräfte in Serbien
die weiterhin für die nationale Souveränität und soziale Gleichheit
kämpfen und wird seine aktive Solidarität den Versuchen, eine breitest
mögliche antiimperialistische Kraft zu bilden, angedeihen lassen. Der
Kampf gegen die imperialistische Plünderung muss mit jenem für
nationale Unabhängigkeit verbunden sein. Dafür muss die Besatzung der
Kosovo durch die NATO beendet und die Provinz an Serbien zurückgegeben
werden. Die nationalistischen Vertreibungen gegen die Serben des Kosovo
und anderer Minderheiten müssen rückgängig gemacht und eine Lösung
ausgearbeitet werden, die, basierend auf dem Konzept einer
antiimperialistischen Föderation am Balkan, gleiche Rechte für die
serbische und die albanische Bevölkerung garantiert.
Alleine die föderalistische Idee Jugoslawiens konnte die Menschen am
Balkan gegen den Imperialismus vereinigen und soziale Gerechtigkeit,
Fortschritt und Frieden sichern. Deswegen wurde Jugoslawien vom
Imperialismus angegriffen. Trotz der Verzerrungen durch die westliche
Propaganda ist klar, die Unabhängigkeitsbewegungen die dem
Imperialismus um den Hals fallen, und - gegen Jugoslawien - das Recht
auf nationale Selbstbestimmung forderten während sie den Serben das
selbe Recht vorenthielten, waren jene die Jugoslawien zerstörten, und
nicht die Serben, die für soziale Gerechtigkeit und ihre Unabhängigkeit
vom Imperialismus kämpften. Tatsächlich waren die Serben die einzigen
die das jugoslawische Prinzip des multinationalen Staates verteidigten.
Genauso wie der deutsche Imperialismus unter den Nazis Jugoslawien im
2. Weltkrieg zerstörte, so tat es heute der amerikanisch-deutsche
NATO-Imperialismus, durch Unterstützung des nationalistischen Hasses,
nationalistischen Extremismus und nationalistischer Gräueltaten gepaart
mit militärischer Aggression, Besetzung und der Einsetzung eines
Marionettenregimes. Um die Bevölkerung des Balkan vor nationalistischen
Konflikten und sozialem Elend zu schützen bleibt nur eine Lösung: die
demokratische Vereinigung des Balkan gegen den Imperialismus.
Nieder mit der pro-westlichen Diktatur in Serbien!
Freiheit für Slobodan Milosevic und für die Abschaffung des politischen
Tribunals in Den Haag!
NATO raus aus dem Balkan!
**************************************
Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung
Meiselstraße 46/4
A-1150 Wien
Tel&Fax: (+43 1) 924 31 61
joesb@...
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.org/joesb
**************************************
1. INITIATIVE VON IN DEUTSCHLAND PRAKTIZIERENDEN ÄRZTEN UND THERAPEUTEN
(18.09.2003)
2. Resolution des Antiimperialistischen Lagers Assisi 2003 / Aufruf zur
Demo in Den Haag, 8.11.2002
Siehe auch:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/AIA/
aikor9.9.03.txt
(Aufruf zur internationalen Demonstration in Den Haag am Samstag, 8.
November 2003, u. Dokumente)
http://www.free-slobo.de/
(Deutsche Sektion des ICDSM)
=== 1 ===
Da: joesb
Data: Ven 19 Set 2003 10:39:21 Europe/Rome
INITIATIVE VON IN DEUTSCHLAND PRAKTIZIERENDEN ÄRZTEN UND THERAPEUTEN
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
Herren
Theodor Meron
Richard May
Steven Kai
Branislav Tapuskovic
ICTY Churchillplein 1
NL - 2517 JW The Hague
18.09.2003
Sehr geehrte Herren!
Seit unseren Eingaben vom November und Dezember 2002 mussten die
Verhandlungen gegen Slobodan Milosevic krankheitsbedingt mehrfach
unterbrochen werden, allein in der Zeit seit der Sommerpause war dies
wiederholt der Fall. Zu Beginn dieser Woche ist erstmals die Situation
ein-getreten, dass bereits laufende Verhandlungen wegen aufgetretener
akuter Herz- und Kreislaufbe-schwerden abgebrochen werden mussten.
Den einschlägigen Befund hatte bereits der Ihrerseits beauftragte
Kardiologen Dr. P. R. M. van Dijkman in seinem Bericht vom 18. November
2002 mitgeteilt, als er „essentiellen Bluthochdruck mit sekundärem
Organschaden“, „während des Verfahrens erneut steiler Anstieg des
Blutdrucks bis zu 220/130 mmHg“, „einen Zustand, der wie ein
Hochdrucknotfall aussieht“ festgestellt hat, und die „Möglichkeit von
Erkrankungen der Herzkranzgefäße, Hirnschlag, Herzinfarkt und Tod“
erwähnte.
Die jüngst eingetretene Situation gibt uns Anlass, in aller
Ernsthaftigkeit die Frage nach der Wahr-nehmung der Ihnen obliegenden
Obhuts- und Fürsorgepflicht zu stellen. Zwar sind in letzter Zeit
Meldungen über kontraindizierte oder Medikamente mit unvertretbaren
Nebenwirkungen aus-geblieben. Andererseits findet weiterhin keine
adäquate medizinischen Behandlung und Kontrolle, insbesondere keine
regelmäßige kardiologische Überwachung statt, was angesichts des
bekannten Disposition unverantwortlich erscheint.
Zwar wurden, wenn auch unvertretbarer Weise erst nach einem Jahr, die
Verhandlungstage pro Woche und die Verhandlungsdauer pro Tag etwas
reduziert. Andererseits soll die Masse des von der Anklage produzierten
Materials von vorliegenden 500.000 DIN A4-Seiten in diesem Jahr um
weitere 400.000 Seiten angewachsen sein, von Bild- und Tonträgern
abgesehen. Ein solcher Um-fang dürfte von keinem Menschen in der
vorgegebenen Zeit zu bewältigen sein, hier jedoch wirkt der Zeitmangel
erheblich stressfördernd und gesundheitsbedrohlich.
Wenn nun Frau Del Ponte in ihrem Interview mit der Neuen Zürcher
Zeitung vom 18.07.2003 zum Gesundheitszustand von Slobodan Milosevic
erklärt, „Es geht ihm gesundheitlich sehr, sehr gut. Viele Menschen
leiden mit 60 Jahren oder mehr an einem zu hohen Blutdruck. Wir schonen
ihn nicht. Ich hoffe nicht, dass Sie diesen Eindruck haben“, dann steht
dies im diametralen Gegensatz zu den ärztlichen Feststellungen und
Verfahrensvorschlägen, die in der 3. Kammer wiederholt be-raten worden
sind. Es steht in ebensolchem Gegensatz zu allen einschlägigen
Resolutionen der UN über die Behandlung von Inhaftierten. Wir hoffen
sehr, dass dieser von Frau Del Ponte zum Aus-druck gebrachte Zynismus
eine Ausnahmeerscheinung ist und nicht für die Haltung Ihrer
Instituti-on in Gänze steht.
Wir appellieren an Sie, im Hinblick auf die Hypertonie und das
festgestellte erhöhte Infarktrisiko von Slobodan Milosevic keine
Behandlung im Sinne einer „Nichtschonung“ zu praktizieren. Die
Bewältigung der von der Anklage vorgelegten Materialmenge ist in der
vorgegebenen Zeit rein technisch kaum möglich und stellt allein von
daher einen erheblichen, vermeidbaren Stressfaktor dar. Bereits für
einen jungen, gesunden Menschen bedeutete dies eine außerordentliche
Belastung. Im vorliegenden Fall ist eine längere Prozessunterbrechung
zur Vorbereitung der Verteidigung unabdingbar, nachdem die Anklage die
Vorlage ihrer Beweismittel abgeschlossen hat.
Herr Milosevic hat hierzu den Antrag auf eine Unterbrechung und
Haftentlassung für die Dauer von zwei Jahren gestellt. Es liegt im
Ermessen des Gerichts, dieses Verlangen unter dem Gesichts-punkt der
„Waffengleichheit“ zu prüfen, nachdem die Anklagebehörde mehr als zwei
Jahre Vorbe-reitungszeit hatte, die personelle Ausstattung nicht zu
erwähnen.
Zumindest ist unter gesundheitlichen Aspekten die nun gewährte
Vorbereitungszeit von nur drei Monaten völlig unzureichend, da sie die
Risiko- und Stressfaktoren unverantwortlich steigert. Herr Milosevic
sollte für einen angemessenen, längeren Zeitraum vorübergehend auf
freien Fuß gesetzt werden, damit er sich während der Vorbereitung
seiner Verteidigung der Behandlung und Kontrol-le durch die ihn
langjährig behandelnden Ärzte in Belgrad unterziehen kann.
Hochachtungsvoll
Im Auftrag
gez.
Dr. med. Uta Mader, Köln
Sprecherin der Initiative, Ärztin, International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW – Nobel Peace Prize 1985), Verein der
demokratischen Ärztinnen und Ärzte (VDÄÄ)
gez.
Matthias Jochheim, Frankfurt/Main, Arzt und Psychotherapeut, IPPNW
gez.
Prof. Dr. med. habil. Ilse Eisen-Hagemann, Berlin, Ärztin
gez.
Dr. phil. Hans-Peter Brenner, Bonn, Psychologischer Psychotherapeut,
Kassenärztliche Vereini-gung Koblenz,
gez.
Prof. Dr. med. habil. Ingeborg Rapoport, Berlin, Ärztin
gez.
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Dr. hc. mult. Samuel Mitja Rapoport, Berlin,
Arzt
gez.
Dr. med. Christa Anders, Berlin, Ärztin
gez.
Dr. med. Ernst Bellmer, Erzhausen, Internist
gez.
Dr. med. Iris Jonkanski, Brinckheim (Frankreich), Ärztin
gez.
Barbara Mühlfeld, Frankfurt/Main
Ärztin
(Organisationsangaben dienen ausschließlich zur Information)
=== 2 ===
Nieder mit dem Inquisitionstribunal in Den Haag!
Verteidigt Slobodan Milosevic!
Resolution des Antiimperialistischen Lagers Assisi 2003
################################################
Wir rufen alle antiimperialistischen Kräfte auf für den 8. November
2003 nach Den Haag zur serbisch-internationalen Demonstration zu
mobilisieren, daran teilzunehmen oder sie mit anderen Mitteln zu
unterstützen.
################################################
Über 10 Jahre leistete Jugoslawien gegen die US-geführte Weltordnung
Widerstand. Während die separatistischen Bewegungen und die neu
gegründeten Republiken dem Imperialismus um den Hals fielen, versuchte
Jugoslawien zumindest einen Teil der sozialen Errungenschaften der
Massen zu erhalten und weigerte sich dem neo-liberalen Diktat des IWF
zu gehorchen. Der Hauptgrund für die imperialistische Aggression gegen
Jugoslawien war jedoch der symbolische politische Wert des Widerstands
der serbischen Bevölkerung, die ihre nationale Unabhängigkeit gegen die
gesamte imperialistische Weltordnung verteidige. Während sich die
westliche „Zivilgesellschaft“ unter dem Deckmantel des „Humanitarismus“
mit dem Imperialismus verbündete, musste der jugoslawische Widerstand
gebrochen werden, weil er andere unterdrückte Völker ermutigen hätte
können ebenfalls zu revoltieren.
Erst nachdem sie Jugoslawien über zwei Monate bombardiert hatte, konnte
die NATO schließlich ihr Ziel, die Regierung Slobodan Milosevic zu
stürzen, durch einen Staatsstreich erreichen. Die westlichen,
gleichgeschalteten Medien nannten es eine „demokratische Revolution“,
wie schon zehn Jahr zuvor in Osteuropa und Russland. Doch allein durch
die Auslieferung Präsident Milosevic’ nach Den Haag verletzten die
neuen pro-imperialistischen Führer des Landes die Verfassung und traten
das gesamte jugoslawische Rechtssystem mit Füßen, wodurch sie eine
Bananenrepublik am Balkan entstehen hatten lassen, die von der „Güte“
und Willkür des Westens abhängig ist.
Auch das so genannte Tribunal in Den Haag verletzt das Völkerrecht, da
der UN-Sicherheitsrat unter US-Führung sich bei seiner Schaffung
anmaßte, rechtsprechende Institutionen zu bilden. Dies ist nach
UN-Charta alleiniges Prärogativ der Nationalstaaten. Den Haag wird von
der NATO bezahlt und dient einem einzigen Zweck: ihren
imperialistischen Angriff auf Jugoslawien zu rechtfertigen und ihre
Opfer dazu zu zwingen, sich selbst als Aggressoren zu bezichtigen. Eine
Anklage der NATO wegen ihres bewaffneten Überfalls auf Jugoslawien sei
hingegen außerhalb ihrer Zuständigkeit, erklärte jene Institution, die
den offiziellen Namen „Internationales Verbrechertribunal für
Ex-Jugoslawien“ führt. Mit ihrem Ziel einen legalen Boden für die
Abspaltung des Kosovo und die Auflösung der Republika Srpska zu
schaffen und mit der Einmischung in die internen Angelegenheiten
Serbiens, ist das Tribunal ebenfalls ein Werkzeug weiterer
imperialistischer Aggression und Kolonisierung des Balkans.
Slobodan Milosevic Verteidigung durchkreuzte ihre Pläne. Es gelang ihm
die Lügen aufzuzeigen und die wahren Gründe der Aggression offen zu
legen: Das amerikanische Design einer globalen Weltordnung. Der
gegenwärtig bedeutendste politische Häftling und der Kriegsgefangene
der NATO verdient die volle Solidarität aller progressiven Kräfte für
seine Standhaftigkeit und seinen Mut bei der Infragestellung der
Legitimität jener Kraft, die ihn weiter in Gefangenschaft hält und in
der Aufdeckung der imperialistischen Aggression gegen den Balkan.
Nachdem vier Jahre der Vorbereitung falscher Belastungen durch die
„Anklage“ keinerlei Resultate brachten, gestattet das „Tribunal“ der
„Verteidigung“ nicht einmal die Hälfte der Zeit. Das Tribunal spottet
in jeder Hinsicht selbstverständlichen rechtsstaatlichen Standards.
Während es hunderte Menschen gegen Milosevic beschäftigen, wird diesem
kaum gestattet von seinen Anwälten besucht zu werden. Obwohl es sich um
einen rein politischen Prozess handelt, wird Slobodan Milosevic von der
Öffentlich völlig abgeschirmt. Es wird ihm weder erlaubt mit der Presse
noch mit seinen Unterstützerinnen und Unterstützern zu sprechen. Die
NATO versucht mit allen Mitteln einen neuen „Reistagsbrandsprozess“ zu
verhindern, indem sie das Tribunal in eine moderne Form der Inquisition
verwandelt, wo der Schuldspruch schon Vorab feststeht, der Angeklagte
aller international garantierter Rechte beraubt wird (einschließlich
medizinischer Versorgung) und das Verfahren zur absoluten Willkür
verkommt.
Währenddessen, im Schatten der imperialistischen Aggression gegen den
Irak, wurde eine neuen Phase der Aggression gegen Jugoslawien erreicht.
Die westliche Marionette in Serbien, Zoran Djindjic, wurde durch jene
Elemente der Mafia ermordet, von deren Hilfe er zur Machtergreifung
abhängig war. Seine Amtsnachfolger nutzen die Gelegenheit in Serbien
den Notstand auszurufen, um die demokratischen Rechte zu beschneiden
und den Staatsapparat von den darin verbleibenden progressiven Menschen
zu säubern. Heute hat ein Arm der Mafia Regierungsmacht errungen und
nutz diese um die anderen Teil zu zerschlagen. Auch nach der Aufhebung
des Ausnahmezustands bleiben viele Einschränkungen der Bürgerinnen- und
Bürgerrechte aufrecht. Ein weiterer Riss ging durch das Land – mit der
Aufgabe des Namens „Jugoslawien“ wurde die Bundesrepublik in einen
schwachen Staatenbund ohne demokratische Bestätigung verwandelt. Die
Medien sind streng an die Regierung gebunden. Politische Gegner können
über Monat
e ohne angemessenes Gerichtsverfahren eingesperrt werden. Serbien
durchlebt die schlimmste Diktatur seit der Zeit der deutschen
Militärbesatzung. Während die üblichen Rezepte des IWF durchgesetzt
werden, wird die nationale Ökonomie an ausländisches Kapital
ausverkauft und das Land deindustrialisiert. Die Mehrheit der
Bevölkerung wurde in tiefste Armut und Elend gestürzt. Trotz der
Pinochet- ähnlichen Verhältnisse im Menschenrechtsbereich werden die
Marionetten-Führer von den USA und der EU für ihre demokratischen
Errungenschaften gepriesen.
Das Antiimperialistische Lager ist über die Tendenz innerhalb der SPS,
sich den imperialistischen Regeln nach dem Modell der früheren
kommunistischen Parteien in Osteuropa anzupassen und die zehn Jahre des
Widerstands zu verraten, beunruhigt.
Das Antiimperialistische Lager unterstütz all jene Kräfte in Serbien
die weiterhin für die nationale Souveränität und soziale Gleichheit
kämpfen und wird seine aktive Solidarität den Versuchen, eine breitest
mögliche antiimperialistische Kraft zu bilden, angedeihen lassen. Der
Kampf gegen die imperialistische Plünderung muss mit jenem für
nationale Unabhängigkeit verbunden sein. Dafür muss die Besatzung der
Kosovo durch die NATO beendet und die Provinz an Serbien zurückgegeben
werden. Die nationalistischen Vertreibungen gegen die Serben des Kosovo
und anderer Minderheiten müssen rückgängig gemacht und eine Lösung
ausgearbeitet werden, die, basierend auf dem Konzept einer
antiimperialistischen Föderation am Balkan, gleiche Rechte für die
serbische und die albanische Bevölkerung garantiert.
Alleine die föderalistische Idee Jugoslawiens konnte die Menschen am
Balkan gegen den Imperialismus vereinigen und soziale Gerechtigkeit,
Fortschritt und Frieden sichern. Deswegen wurde Jugoslawien vom
Imperialismus angegriffen. Trotz der Verzerrungen durch die westliche
Propaganda ist klar, die Unabhängigkeitsbewegungen die dem
Imperialismus um den Hals fallen, und - gegen Jugoslawien - das Recht
auf nationale Selbstbestimmung forderten während sie den Serben das
selbe Recht vorenthielten, waren jene die Jugoslawien zerstörten, und
nicht die Serben, die für soziale Gerechtigkeit und ihre Unabhängigkeit
vom Imperialismus kämpften. Tatsächlich waren die Serben die einzigen
die das jugoslawische Prinzip des multinationalen Staates verteidigten.
Genauso wie der deutsche Imperialismus unter den Nazis Jugoslawien im
2. Weltkrieg zerstörte, so tat es heute der amerikanisch-deutsche
NATO-Imperialismus, durch Unterstützung des nationalistischen Hasses,
nationalistischen Extremismus und nationalistischer Gräueltaten gepaart
mit militärischer Aggression, Besetzung und der Einsetzung eines
Marionettenregimes. Um die Bevölkerung des Balkan vor nationalistischen
Konflikten und sozialem Elend zu schützen bleibt nur eine Lösung: die
demokratische Vereinigung des Balkan gegen den Imperialismus.
Nieder mit der pro-westlichen Diktatur in Serbien!
Freiheit für Slobodan Milosevic und für die Abschaffung des politischen
Tribunals in Den Haag!
NATO raus aus dem Balkan!
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Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung
Meiselstraße 46/4
A-1150 Wien
Tel&Fax: (+43 1) 924 31 61
joesb@...
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.org/joesb
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UN GIORNALISTA ED UN INTELLETTUALE DI "FIRST CLASS"
Di chi si tratta? Scegli tra le seguenti opzioni possibili:
1. Di Giuliano Ferrara secondo Emilio Fede
2. Di Indro Montanelli secondo Maurizio Costanzo
3. Di Paolo Mieli secondo Vittorio Sgarbi
4. Di Alessandro Curzi secondo Paolo Mieli
5. Di Paolo Mieli secondo Rina Gagliardi
(la risposta su "Liberazione" di ieri, 21/9/2003, a pagina 8)
Di chi si tratta? Scegli tra le seguenti opzioni possibili:
1. Di Giuliano Ferrara secondo Emilio Fede
2. Di Indro Montanelli secondo Maurizio Costanzo
3. Di Paolo Mieli secondo Vittorio Sgarbi
4. Di Alessandro Curzi secondo Paolo Mieli
5. Di Paolo Mieli secondo Rina Gagliardi
(la risposta su "Liberazione" di ieri, 21/9/2003, a pagina 8)
O IZVINJENJIMA MAROVICA I MESICA
http://www.artel.co.yu/sr/reakcije_citalaca/2003-09-22_4.html
Dr Milan Tepavac
Beograd, 21. septembar 2003. godine
miltep@...
Izvinjenja koje su izrekli Svetozar Marovic i Stjepan Mesic u Beogradu
prilikom nedavne prve zvanicne posete Mesica Beogradu izazvala su,
razumljivo, interesovanje kako domace tako i svetske javnosti.sa
razlicitim ocenama. Ali ne preterano interesovanje.
U Srbiji se uglavnom ne daje neki narociti znacaj izjavama Marovica i
Mesica; pre bi se moglo reci da ih se ignoriše. U Hrvatskoj se
iskrivljeno komentariše i prihvaca samo Maroviceva, a osuduje Mesiceva.
Na primer, jedna od perjanica hrvatske politike, predsednik Hrvatskog
bloka (HB) Ivic Pašalic osudio je "ispriku" hrvatskog predsednika
Stjepana Mesica izrecenu u Beogradu, nazvavši je sramotnom i
ponižavajucom za sve hrvatske gradane, a drži i da je Mesic time
osramotio dužnost koju "obnaša". Na konferenciji za novinare Pašalic je
naglasio da ce prava "isprika" Beograda biti ona kada se "neki srpski
celnik isprica na Ovcari".
Evo kako su uglavnom strani mediji preveli na engleski i obojili ono
što su Marovic i Mesic izjavili:
“I want to apologize for all evils that any citizen of Serbia and
Montenegro inflicted upon or committed against anyone in Croatia,” said
a relaxed--too relaxed, charged the critics later--Marovic during a 10
September press conference with Croatia’s president.
Although he appeared genuinely surprised, Mesic, who is the first
Croatian president to visit Belgrade, quickly mastered a decent
response which reflected his well-known views on the issue. “I, for my
part, apologize to all those who have suffered pain or damage at any
time from citizens of Croatia who misused the law or abused their
positions,” he said.
Sve u svemu, politicari i sredstva javnog informisanja sa zapadnih
strana ove naše u svakom pogledu zagadene planete odobravaju i
pozdravljaju to što su dvojica drugara ucinila. Ove i ovakve izjave su
pravi melem za one na Zapadu koji imaju bar izvesnu grižu savesti zbog
svega onog što su ucinili: podsticanjem, ohrabrivanjem, organizovanjem,
finansiranjem, snabdevanjem oružjem i diplomatskim priznanjem
secesionistickikog komadanja najpre SFR Jugoslavije a zatim SR
Jugosslavije, a zatim "Srbije i Crne Gore" i na kraju Srbije koju
nameravaju da svedu na Beogradski pašaluk, ako ne i da potpuno zatru.
Naravno, ove izjave pozdravljaju i oni koji nemaju ni trunke griže
savesti, zlocinci koji sve što su cinili i što cine iz ciste
šicardžijske racunice smišljene negde u tamnim jazbinama novog svetskog
poretka, jer ih one prividno oslobadaju odgovornosti.
Iako, kao što rekosmo, ovde u Srbiji citav slucaj prode bez velike
uocljivosti, poslednji broj NIN-a mu je posvetio tri teksta. Mislim da
je novinar NIN-a Lj. Smajlovic (NIN od 18.9.2003) ispravno uocila
suštinu stvari: da se ni jedan od njih nije izvinio ("ispricao") u ime
državnih organa svojih država, odnosno svojih država, nego u ime
pojedinaca (Marovic "za sva zla koje je bilo koji gradanin Crne Gore i
Srbije ucinio bilo kome u Hrvatskoj", a Mesic svima kojima su "gradani
Hrvatske nanijeli neko zlo bilo kada protivno zakonu"). Iz teksta u
istom listu Ive Banjca, ministra u vladi Hrvatske, saznajemo da te
izjave nisu bile predvidene protokolom, da je Marovic iznenadio svoga
cudnog gosta, postavljajuci pitanje da li se sme improviozovati kada je
rec o tako krupnim stvarima. Zaista.
Mislim da zbog toga, a i zbog sadržaja datih izjava i okolnosti u
kojima je do njih došlo, ne treba im davati onaj znacaj koji one
nemaju. Cak i da su sadržajno promišljenije, Marovicevu izjavu treba
smatrati samo za njegovo privatno mišljenje iz nekoliko razloga. Pre
svega, njegova funkcija se ni u kom slucaju ne može smatrati kao
funkcija jednog šefa države cije izjave na medunarodnom planu obavezuju
države. "Srbija i Crna Gora" nije država. Ako ovo nekome zvuci
neuverljivo ili cak apsurdno neka samo okrene jedan list istog broja
NIN-a i procita intervju sa Dragoljubom Micunovicem, koga NIN ne
predstavlja kao "predsednika Skupštine SCG" vec kao funkcionera jedne
politicke partije. Micunovic u intervjuu doslovno veli: "Ko je
svojevremeno ovlastio ljude da zajedno sa Solanom naprave ovakvu
državnu zajednicu? Po kojem ustavu je to uradeno? Niko od njih nije bio
ovlašcen da napravi Beogradski sporazum koji propisuje ustavna nacela
kao svetinje. Ni predsednik države, ni predsednik vlade, niti
potpredsednik vlade što je još bizarnije nisu bili ovlašceni ni po kom
ustavnom ili bilo kom drugom zakonu da donesu Beogradski sporazum i
stvore ovakvu državu. Oni su to uradili... Skupile se oligarhije i
potpisale". Tako dakle govori prva i najodgovorrnija licnost te
nepostojece države, predsednik njene Skupštine. Ovome treba dodati ono
što je zapanjujuce, što je možda bez presedana u istoriji stvaranja
država: nijedan gradanin SR Jugoslavije, nijedan poslanik ni u jednom
od tri njena paralamnta – saveznom, srbijanskom i crnogorskom – nije
moga da promeni ni jedno slovo u Beogradskom sporazumu i nacrtu
"ustavne povelje" koju je sastavila samozvana grupa od 27 lica koja
nisu predstavljali nikoga. A jedna strankinja, sekretarica ratnog
zlocinca Havijara Solane, po imenu Kristina Galjak, imala je tacno 48
intervencija u tekst "Ustavne povelje"!! Dakle, to je osnovni razlog
zašto treba samatrati da je Svetozar Marovic "izvinjenjem" govorio samo
u svoje ime. Sledeci razlog koji diskvalifikuje Marovica da govori u
ime države, pa makar i nepostojece, jeste što je on u više navrata
isakazao svoje politicko opredeljenje da je u Beograd došao da i
formalno likvidira državu Srbiju i Crnu Goru. Gotovo bih se mogao
kladiti sa bilo kim da ce on, nakon isteka trogodišnjeg probnog perioda
zapisanog u "Ustavnoj povelji" izjaviti: "Ja sam svoj zadatak ispunio:
Srbija i Crna Gora ni formalno više ne postoji kao država", baš kao što
je njegov cudni beogradski gost izjavio 5. oktobra 1991. u svojstvu
predsednika Predsedništva SFRJ: "Ja sam svoj zadatak ispunio –
Jugoslavije više nema!".
Eto, u tom kontekstu treba gledati na Marovicevo "izvinjenje". A što se
Mesicevog tice, možda bi najadekvatnije bilo da ponovimo ono što je
rekla Lisjen Meceler povodom izvinjenja Nemacke za masakr u belgijskom
gradicu Dinantu 1914. godine: "Ne opraštam im i ne treba nam njihovo
izvinjenje. Ja ionako ne verujem u njihovu iskrenost". I uopšte kada je
rec o izvinjenjima, nešto mi nije poznato da su se Nemcima izvinjavali
Rusi, Poljaci, Francuzi, Britanci, Amerikanci, Jevreji... ni nakon što
je Vili Brant kleknuo na jednom od stratišta Drugog svetskog rata.
Ipak, zna se ko je prvi poceo i zašto.
Mi, dakle, nemamo državu niti se možemo nadati da ce postojeci
vlastodršci da je naprave. Jedino njihovom smenom na predstojecim
izborima mogu se stvoriti uslovi za neki novi pocetak, za narodni
preporod i budenje, za stvaranje prave funkcionalne države. Svaki
student prve godine prava zna za izreku iz rimskog prava: quod initio
vitiosum est, non potest tractu temporis convalescere. Taj genijani
princip naš je narod formulisao u clanu 1006 Opšteg imovinskog zakonika
za Knjaževinu Crnu Goru: "Što se grbo rodi, vrijeme ne ispravi; što je
s pocetka nezakonito, to samim vremenom zakonito ne postaje."
Sve napred receno je više formalna strana citavog cudnog dogadaja
beogradskog "izvinjenja". Suštinski, pak, treba reci da se pitanju
prošlih, sadašnjih i buducih odnosa izmedu Srba i Hrvata mora prilaziti
sa daleko više studioznosti i poznavanja svih relevantnih okolnosti
koje su dovele do sloma a ostalo neka prekrije šutnja, kako se to veli
u najslavnijoj Šekspirovoj tragediji. Tu nema mesta improvizacijama
kojima su pribegli Marovic i Mesic.
G. Desimir Tošic je u pravu kada ukazuje (u istom broju NIN-a) da je
nacionalno-politicka dimenzija ovog problema cinjenja zla i priznavanja
ucinjenog zla daleko složenija nego što mnogi misle. Ali nije u pravu
kada nastavlja: "Covek ne zna gde da pocne, jer naša takozvana
istoriografija puna je mitova i legendi. Ko je prvi poceo da cini zlo?
U ime cega?...Kakvi brojevi žrtava? Daju se u tom pogledu paušalne
cifre. Naši ljudi ne znaju, i Srbi i Hrvati, da našim brojevima niko ne
veruje". Tacno je da kada je rec o periodu Drugog svetskog rata – koji
period je i najrelevenatniji za temu o kojoj govorimo – da je istina
prikrivana, zarad – sada to znamo – navodnog bratstva i jedinstva
izmedu Srba i Hrvata. Znalo se i zna se, gospodine Tošicu, ko je prvi
poceo da cini zlo i u ime cega. Reci ce vam tekstovi Ante Starcevica,
Josipa Franka, Ante Pavelica i mnogo, mnogo drugih Hrvata. I
Izetbegoviceva Islamska deklaracija. Ali, ostavimo ih ovom prilikom po
strani i pocnimo samo od 10. travnja 1941. i šta je odmah nakon toga
usledilo: pokolj mirnog potpuno nedužnog srpskog stanovništva na
celokupnoj teritoriji Nezavisne Države Hrvatske, osnovane tog datuma,
koja je obuhvatala, kao što se zna, i Bosnu i Hercegovinu. Tu je živelo
od najranijih vremena preko dva miliona Srba. Pokolj po motivima i
okrutnosti bez presedana u citavoj ljudskoj istoriji. Jedini motiv je
bio pripadnost srpskom narodu odnosno pravoslavnoj veri. Iako su Broz i
njegovi srpski poslušnici cinili sve što su mogli da sprece da se sazna
prava i puna istina o razmerama i karakteru pocinjenih zlocina, ipak je
bilo i ima prilican broj relevantnih izvora i svedoka koji omogucuju da
se sazna istina svakome koga istina uopšte interesuje, mada, što se
broja žrtava tice, zbog napred navedenih okolnosti nekada necemo, ni
buduce generacije, saznati za tacan broj. Za valjane zakljucke
matematicki tacan broj je poželjan ali nije neophodan da se saglda
razmera zla. U Dvoru na Uni je pred izbijanje secesionistickih ratova u
Sloveniji, Hrvatskoj i Bosni i Hercegovini izdata knjiga koja daje
precizne podatke za tu Opštinu, imenom i prezimenom, nacin i okolnosti
likvidiranja Srba – njih 2.196 muškaraca, žena i dece. Petar Zinaic
napisao je knjigu koju bismo mogli nazvati najpotresnijom knjigom koja
je ikada napisana – da nije "Jame" Ivana Gorana Kovacica (Hrvat) i
Kulenoviceve (musliman) "Stojanke majke Knežpoljke" koje se takode
odnose na pokolje Srba u NDH- koja nosi naziv "Genocid na Kordunu i
okolici 1941-1945". Ta knjiga sadrži hiljade i hiljade žrtava, punim
imenom i prezimenom, i okolnostima stradanja srpskog življa na Kordunu
tokom Drugog svetskog rata. Da je gospodin Tošic procitao samo jednu
sigurno njemu poznatu knjigu ne bi imao sumnji u pogledu pitanja ko je
prvi poceo i u ime cega: rec je o knjizi dr Srde Trifkovica "Ustaše –
balkansko srce tame na evropskoj politickoj sceni". Izmedu ostalog,
knjiga sadrži i podatke o tome koliko su se Nemci i Italijani, mada
okrutni okupatori, zgravažali i užasavali zbog zlocina Hrvata i
muslimana nad nedužnim srpskim narodnom u NDH.
Tako da je i ono što je poznato više nego dovoljno govori da možemo
doci do pravih zakljucaka o tome "ko je prvi poceo da cini zlo i u ime
cega". U ime cega? Jednostavno: u ime totalnog genocida nad
prekodrinskim srpskim narodom. Tu ideologiju totalnog genocida možda
najbolje objašnjava jedan od najbližih saradnika Ante Pavelica
Eugen-Dido Kvaternik. On 1942. godine poverava Branku Pešelju, jednom
od visokih funkcionera HSS-a, da ma kako se završio rat, Srba u NDH
više nece biti; i ma ko pobedio morace da se suoci sa tom cinjenicom.
Kao što je poznato, Kvaternik se prevario samo utoliko što to njemu i
Pavelicu nije pošlo za rukom. Tudmanu i tudmanovcima jeste pola veka
kasnije.
http://www.artel.co.yu/sr/reakcije_citalaca/2003-09-22_4.html
Dr Milan Tepavac
Beograd, 21. septembar 2003. godine
miltep@...
Izvinjenja koje su izrekli Svetozar Marovic i Stjepan Mesic u Beogradu
prilikom nedavne prve zvanicne posete Mesica Beogradu izazvala su,
razumljivo, interesovanje kako domace tako i svetske javnosti.sa
razlicitim ocenama. Ali ne preterano interesovanje.
U Srbiji se uglavnom ne daje neki narociti znacaj izjavama Marovica i
Mesica; pre bi se moglo reci da ih se ignoriše. U Hrvatskoj se
iskrivljeno komentariše i prihvaca samo Maroviceva, a osuduje Mesiceva.
Na primer, jedna od perjanica hrvatske politike, predsednik Hrvatskog
bloka (HB) Ivic Pašalic osudio je "ispriku" hrvatskog predsednika
Stjepana Mesica izrecenu u Beogradu, nazvavši je sramotnom i
ponižavajucom za sve hrvatske gradane, a drži i da je Mesic time
osramotio dužnost koju "obnaša". Na konferenciji za novinare Pašalic je
naglasio da ce prava "isprika" Beograda biti ona kada se "neki srpski
celnik isprica na Ovcari".
Evo kako su uglavnom strani mediji preveli na engleski i obojili ono
što su Marovic i Mesic izjavili:
“I want to apologize for all evils that any citizen of Serbia and
Montenegro inflicted upon or committed against anyone in Croatia,” said
a relaxed--too relaxed, charged the critics later--Marovic during a 10
September press conference with Croatia’s president.
Although he appeared genuinely surprised, Mesic, who is the first
Croatian president to visit Belgrade, quickly mastered a decent
response which reflected his well-known views on the issue. “I, for my
part, apologize to all those who have suffered pain or damage at any
time from citizens of Croatia who misused the law or abused their
positions,” he said.
Sve u svemu, politicari i sredstva javnog informisanja sa zapadnih
strana ove naše u svakom pogledu zagadene planete odobravaju i
pozdravljaju to što su dvojica drugara ucinila. Ove i ovakve izjave su
pravi melem za one na Zapadu koji imaju bar izvesnu grižu savesti zbog
svega onog što su ucinili: podsticanjem, ohrabrivanjem, organizovanjem,
finansiranjem, snabdevanjem oružjem i diplomatskim priznanjem
secesionistickikog komadanja najpre SFR Jugoslavije a zatim SR
Jugosslavije, a zatim "Srbije i Crne Gore" i na kraju Srbije koju
nameravaju da svedu na Beogradski pašaluk, ako ne i da potpuno zatru.
Naravno, ove izjave pozdravljaju i oni koji nemaju ni trunke griže
savesti, zlocinci koji sve što su cinili i što cine iz ciste
šicardžijske racunice smišljene negde u tamnim jazbinama novog svetskog
poretka, jer ih one prividno oslobadaju odgovornosti.
Iako, kao što rekosmo, ovde u Srbiji citav slucaj prode bez velike
uocljivosti, poslednji broj NIN-a mu je posvetio tri teksta. Mislim da
je novinar NIN-a Lj. Smajlovic (NIN od 18.9.2003) ispravno uocila
suštinu stvari: da se ni jedan od njih nije izvinio ("ispricao") u ime
državnih organa svojih država, odnosno svojih država, nego u ime
pojedinaca (Marovic "za sva zla koje je bilo koji gradanin Crne Gore i
Srbije ucinio bilo kome u Hrvatskoj", a Mesic svima kojima su "gradani
Hrvatske nanijeli neko zlo bilo kada protivno zakonu"). Iz teksta u
istom listu Ive Banjca, ministra u vladi Hrvatske, saznajemo da te
izjave nisu bile predvidene protokolom, da je Marovic iznenadio svoga
cudnog gosta, postavljajuci pitanje da li se sme improviozovati kada je
rec o tako krupnim stvarima. Zaista.
Mislim da zbog toga, a i zbog sadržaja datih izjava i okolnosti u
kojima je do njih došlo, ne treba im davati onaj znacaj koji one
nemaju. Cak i da su sadržajno promišljenije, Marovicevu izjavu treba
smatrati samo za njegovo privatno mišljenje iz nekoliko razloga. Pre
svega, njegova funkcija se ni u kom slucaju ne može smatrati kao
funkcija jednog šefa države cije izjave na medunarodnom planu obavezuju
države. "Srbija i Crna Gora" nije država. Ako ovo nekome zvuci
neuverljivo ili cak apsurdno neka samo okrene jedan list istog broja
NIN-a i procita intervju sa Dragoljubom Micunovicem, koga NIN ne
predstavlja kao "predsednika Skupštine SCG" vec kao funkcionera jedne
politicke partije. Micunovic u intervjuu doslovno veli: "Ko je
svojevremeno ovlastio ljude da zajedno sa Solanom naprave ovakvu
državnu zajednicu? Po kojem ustavu je to uradeno? Niko od njih nije bio
ovlašcen da napravi Beogradski sporazum koji propisuje ustavna nacela
kao svetinje. Ni predsednik države, ni predsednik vlade, niti
potpredsednik vlade što je još bizarnije nisu bili ovlašceni ni po kom
ustavnom ili bilo kom drugom zakonu da donesu Beogradski sporazum i
stvore ovakvu državu. Oni su to uradili... Skupile se oligarhije i
potpisale". Tako dakle govori prva i najodgovorrnija licnost te
nepostojece države, predsednik njene Skupštine. Ovome treba dodati ono
što je zapanjujuce, što je možda bez presedana u istoriji stvaranja
država: nijedan gradanin SR Jugoslavije, nijedan poslanik ni u jednom
od tri njena paralamnta – saveznom, srbijanskom i crnogorskom – nije
moga da promeni ni jedno slovo u Beogradskom sporazumu i nacrtu
"ustavne povelje" koju je sastavila samozvana grupa od 27 lica koja
nisu predstavljali nikoga. A jedna strankinja, sekretarica ratnog
zlocinca Havijara Solane, po imenu Kristina Galjak, imala je tacno 48
intervencija u tekst "Ustavne povelje"!! Dakle, to je osnovni razlog
zašto treba samatrati da je Svetozar Marovic "izvinjenjem" govorio samo
u svoje ime. Sledeci razlog koji diskvalifikuje Marovica da govori u
ime države, pa makar i nepostojece, jeste što je on u više navrata
isakazao svoje politicko opredeljenje da je u Beograd došao da i
formalno likvidira državu Srbiju i Crnu Goru. Gotovo bih se mogao
kladiti sa bilo kim da ce on, nakon isteka trogodišnjeg probnog perioda
zapisanog u "Ustavnoj povelji" izjaviti: "Ja sam svoj zadatak ispunio:
Srbija i Crna Gora ni formalno više ne postoji kao država", baš kao što
je njegov cudni beogradski gost izjavio 5. oktobra 1991. u svojstvu
predsednika Predsedništva SFRJ: "Ja sam svoj zadatak ispunio –
Jugoslavije više nema!".
Eto, u tom kontekstu treba gledati na Marovicevo "izvinjenje". A što se
Mesicevog tice, možda bi najadekvatnije bilo da ponovimo ono što je
rekla Lisjen Meceler povodom izvinjenja Nemacke za masakr u belgijskom
gradicu Dinantu 1914. godine: "Ne opraštam im i ne treba nam njihovo
izvinjenje. Ja ionako ne verujem u njihovu iskrenost". I uopšte kada je
rec o izvinjenjima, nešto mi nije poznato da su se Nemcima izvinjavali
Rusi, Poljaci, Francuzi, Britanci, Amerikanci, Jevreji... ni nakon što
je Vili Brant kleknuo na jednom od stratišta Drugog svetskog rata.
Ipak, zna se ko je prvi poceo i zašto.
Mi, dakle, nemamo državu niti se možemo nadati da ce postojeci
vlastodršci da je naprave. Jedino njihovom smenom na predstojecim
izborima mogu se stvoriti uslovi za neki novi pocetak, za narodni
preporod i budenje, za stvaranje prave funkcionalne države. Svaki
student prve godine prava zna za izreku iz rimskog prava: quod initio
vitiosum est, non potest tractu temporis convalescere. Taj genijani
princip naš je narod formulisao u clanu 1006 Opšteg imovinskog zakonika
za Knjaževinu Crnu Goru: "Što se grbo rodi, vrijeme ne ispravi; što je
s pocetka nezakonito, to samim vremenom zakonito ne postaje."
Sve napred receno je više formalna strana citavog cudnog dogadaja
beogradskog "izvinjenja". Suštinski, pak, treba reci da se pitanju
prošlih, sadašnjih i buducih odnosa izmedu Srba i Hrvata mora prilaziti
sa daleko više studioznosti i poznavanja svih relevantnih okolnosti
koje su dovele do sloma a ostalo neka prekrije šutnja, kako se to veli
u najslavnijoj Šekspirovoj tragediji. Tu nema mesta improvizacijama
kojima su pribegli Marovic i Mesic.
G. Desimir Tošic je u pravu kada ukazuje (u istom broju NIN-a) da je
nacionalno-politicka dimenzija ovog problema cinjenja zla i priznavanja
ucinjenog zla daleko složenija nego što mnogi misle. Ali nije u pravu
kada nastavlja: "Covek ne zna gde da pocne, jer naša takozvana
istoriografija puna je mitova i legendi. Ko je prvi poceo da cini zlo?
U ime cega?...Kakvi brojevi žrtava? Daju se u tom pogledu paušalne
cifre. Naši ljudi ne znaju, i Srbi i Hrvati, da našim brojevima niko ne
veruje". Tacno je da kada je rec o periodu Drugog svetskog rata – koji
period je i najrelevenatniji za temu o kojoj govorimo – da je istina
prikrivana, zarad – sada to znamo – navodnog bratstva i jedinstva
izmedu Srba i Hrvata. Znalo se i zna se, gospodine Tošicu, ko je prvi
poceo da cini zlo i u ime cega. Reci ce vam tekstovi Ante Starcevica,
Josipa Franka, Ante Pavelica i mnogo, mnogo drugih Hrvata. I
Izetbegoviceva Islamska deklaracija. Ali, ostavimo ih ovom prilikom po
strani i pocnimo samo od 10. travnja 1941. i šta je odmah nakon toga
usledilo: pokolj mirnog potpuno nedužnog srpskog stanovništva na
celokupnoj teritoriji Nezavisne Države Hrvatske, osnovane tog datuma,
koja je obuhvatala, kao što se zna, i Bosnu i Hercegovinu. Tu je živelo
od najranijih vremena preko dva miliona Srba. Pokolj po motivima i
okrutnosti bez presedana u citavoj ljudskoj istoriji. Jedini motiv je
bio pripadnost srpskom narodu odnosno pravoslavnoj veri. Iako su Broz i
njegovi srpski poslušnici cinili sve što su mogli da sprece da se sazna
prava i puna istina o razmerama i karakteru pocinjenih zlocina, ipak je
bilo i ima prilican broj relevantnih izvora i svedoka koji omogucuju da
se sazna istina svakome koga istina uopšte interesuje, mada, što se
broja žrtava tice, zbog napred navedenih okolnosti nekada necemo, ni
buduce generacije, saznati za tacan broj. Za valjane zakljucke
matematicki tacan broj je poželjan ali nije neophodan da se saglda
razmera zla. U Dvoru na Uni je pred izbijanje secesionistickih ratova u
Sloveniji, Hrvatskoj i Bosni i Hercegovini izdata knjiga koja daje
precizne podatke za tu Opštinu, imenom i prezimenom, nacin i okolnosti
likvidiranja Srba – njih 2.196 muškaraca, žena i dece. Petar Zinaic
napisao je knjigu koju bismo mogli nazvati najpotresnijom knjigom koja
je ikada napisana – da nije "Jame" Ivana Gorana Kovacica (Hrvat) i
Kulenoviceve (musliman) "Stojanke majke Knežpoljke" koje se takode
odnose na pokolje Srba u NDH- koja nosi naziv "Genocid na Kordunu i
okolici 1941-1945". Ta knjiga sadrži hiljade i hiljade žrtava, punim
imenom i prezimenom, i okolnostima stradanja srpskog življa na Kordunu
tokom Drugog svetskog rata. Da je gospodin Tošic procitao samo jednu
sigurno njemu poznatu knjigu ne bi imao sumnji u pogledu pitanja ko je
prvi poceo i u ime cega: rec je o knjizi dr Srde Trifkovica "Ustaše –
balkansko srce tame na evropskoj politickoj sceni". Izmedu ostalog,
knjiga sadrži i podatke o tome koliko su se Nemci i Italijani, mada
okrutni okupatori, zgravažali i užasavali zbog zlocina Hrvata i
muslimana nad nedužnim srpskim narodnom u NDH.
Tako da je i ono što je poznato više nego dovoljno govori da možemo
doci do pravih zakljucaka o tome "ko je prvi poceo da cini zlo i u ime
cega". U ime cega? Jednostavno: u ime totalnog genocida nad
prekodrinskim srpskim narodom. Tu ideologiju totalnog genocida možda
najbolje objašnjava jedan od najbližih saradnika Ante Pavelica
Eugen-Dido Kvaternik. On 1942. godine poverava Branku Pešelju, jednom
od visokih funkcionera HSS-a, da ma kako se završio rat, Srba u NDH
više nece biti; i ma ko pobedio morace da se suoci sa tom cinjenicom.
Kao što je poznato, Kvaternik se prevario samo utoliko što to njemu i
Pavelicu nije pošlo za rukom. Tudmanu i tudmanovcima jeste pola veka
kasnije.
War Criminal Wesley Clark for President?
1. Links
2. A commentary by Rick Rozoff
3. A commentary by Mitchel Cohen
4. A commentary by Wayne Madsen at counterpunch.org
5. Extracts from http://www.zpub.com/un/clark.html (with many
interesting links!)
=== 1 ===
LINKS:
Wesley Clark - A War Criminal?
http://www.zpub.com/un/clark.html
(read some extracts below in this posting)
Citizen Clark?
Or, Why Electing a Mass Murderer Is a Really Bad Idea
(by Nebojsa Malic)
http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m091803.html
A Clinton by Another Name? (by Lowell Ponte)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=9889
The New Anti-War Candidate?
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/clark-antiwar.html
Wesley Clark's Ties To Muslim Terrorists (by Cliff Kincaid)
http://www.aim.org/publications/weekly_column/2003/09/17.html
THE EARLY DEPARTURE - articles about Clark
http://wesleyclark.h1.ru/departure.htm
General in Balkan War Says Pentagon Hampered NATO
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/dao/Curriculum%20Ops/
Leadership%20Lecture%20Series/LLS_00-01/articles/
General%20in%20Balkan%20War%20Says%20Pentagon%20Hampered%20NATO.htm
WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FINDS U.S. AND NATO GUILTY
http://www.iacenter.org/warcrime/wct2000.htm
Legitimate Targets? How U.S. Media Supported War Crimes in Yugoslavia
By Jim Naureckas
http://www.fair.org/extra/9907/kosovo-crimes.html
From Waco to Belgrade: Wesley Clark and America's "Army of the Future"
http://www.brasscheck.com/yugoslavia/clarkatwaco.html
Genocide or Veracicide Will NATO's Lying Ever Stop? by Stephen Gowans
http://www.swans.com/library/art7/gowans02.html
=== 2 ===
Da: Rick Rozoff
Data: Mar 16 Set 2003 19:42:16 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: Clark For President
The die is cast. An apt expression, as it was coined -
in a political context - by Julius Caesar when, as
Roman commander in Gaul, he decided to cross the
Rubicon River and defy the Senate, signaling the end
of the Republic.
This abhorrent would-be Imperator, a classical Man on
Horseback, is running to the rescue of a very troubled
system, one stretched to the breaking point overseas
and rapidly rotting from within.
So whoever it is who has designated Clark the New
Order's savior (and it's not the clueless Michael
Moore) presents Americans and the world with a
*humanitarian, multilateralist and internationalist*
alternative to a sinking Bush-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz
regime that could be knocked over with a feather at
the moment if anything serious - a genuine peace and
disarmament campaign and candidate - dared challenge
it.
The point of the Clark initiative, however, is not to
challenge the system and its decades' long disastrous,
inhuman policies, but precisely to bail it out with a
'fresh voice in a lackluster campaign season' and all
the other pre-prepared cliches currently abounding in
the establishment press outlets.
Make no mistake. Clark is a life-long militarist,
imperialist and war criminal; baptized in blood in
Indochina; implicated, as US Southern Command head, in
some of the worst death squad brutalities in Colombia
in 1996-97; and, as his culminating enormity,
ruthlessly and with gratuitous recklessness and
savagery commanding the Hitlerian war against the
people of Yugoslavia for 79 days in 1999.
The first unprovoked war, the first relentless
campaign of lethal air power against a European nation
and people since the defeat of the Third Reich some 58
years ago.
To have, as the US now does, a career general and
fellow Vietnam (and Operation Desert Storm) militarist
as foreign minister/Secretary of State is ominous
enough.
To escalate this disturbing trend to the level of
having Wesley Clark making a viable bid for the White
House, whether as chief executive or as shadow
president for a Dean administration - essentially
playing Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld to Dean's
George W. Bush - would broadcast to the world the fact
that the US has dropped all pretense of being a
civilian power and has nakedly announced its intention
to make a final play for world political and military
dominance.
Clark as president - or, more likely, vice-president -
would be no more a 'multilateralist' than he was as US
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe/NATO Commander.
Who outside the increasingly sodden, coopted, suborned
commercial Fourth Estate can believe or expect others
to that Clark 'consulted' with his alleged NATO
partners - Luxemburg, say, or Iceland - before,
increasingly thwarted by both Yugoslavia's military
defense and the spirited opposition of its people, he
abandoned all pretense of targeting military forces
and installations and unleashed a two month long
'targets of opportunity' rampage against power
plants, oil depots, civilian broadcasting facilities,
passenger trains and buses, refugee columns and
religious processions, apartment complexes and
maternity wards, every bridge across the Danube River,
culminating in the devastation of the the Chinese
Embassy in Belgrade with the deaths of three Chinese
citizens and warnings by then Russian president Boris
Yeltsin that if such aggression didn't cease 'there
will be war in Europe and possibly a world war'?
A world war, with the world's two major nuclear
powers, the US and Russia, was exactly what was
narrowly averted when British commander Sir Michael
Jackson refused Clark's order to militarily - with
first paratroopers, then with tanks - assault the
Russian troops who had deployed from Bosnia to the
airport in Kosovo's capital, Pristina, in June of
1999.
This trademark event epitomizes what could be expected
of a Wesley Clark in the White House.
He already has a record: One of unprecedented
aggressive adventurism and cynical disregard for
international law and even the norms of warfare.
One of contempt for human life and a sociopathic
thrillseeker's obsession with provoking the
unthinkable. He's proven it beyond any doubt.
One of many tragedies unfolding at the moment is that
many otherwise well-motivated Americans, spooked into
moral panic by the Bush administration - which
presents an unquestioned world danger that cannot be
overestimated - have been swept up by the tide of
'anyone but Bush,' which is to say any Democrat but
Bush, and as such are easy prey for the other wing of
the imperial hawk, that which mirrors and echoes in
every genuine particular the arrogant and brute
designs of the Project for the New American Century
cabal that dominates the Bush-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz
regime.
Clark, as alarming and as appalling as he is as an
individual, presents a yet greater danger for the US
and the world: Diabolical cynicism disguised as
altruism and idealism, a doctrine of international
military conquest cloaked in the sheepskin of a peace
candidate, an irreversible capitulation by the
erstwhile peace movement to the most callous form of
Realpolitik.
=== 3 ===
Da: mitchelcohen
Data: Mar 16 Set 2003 18:51:28 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: [yugoslaviainfo] Gen. Wesley Clark --
War Criminal, Don't Be Fooled
Gen. Wesley Clark is a major war criminal.
Please don't be fooled by the
current well-orchestrated push to nominate
Clark as Democratic Party
nominee for president, at trap which
Michael Moore has apparently fallen
into as well as a number of other well-
meaning peace people.
Gen. Wesley Clark was in charge of
refugee camps in the 1980s and 1990s
where Haitian refugees who were fleeing
first Baby Doc Duvalier (and later
the new regime installed by the US following
the overthrowal of the elected
Aristide government in the early 1990s),
were packed, under appalling
conditions condemned by the Center for
Constitutional Rights, among many
others. In the 1980s, many Haitian male
refugees incarcerated at Krome (in
Miami), and Fort Allen (in Puerto Rico)
reported a strange condition called
gyneacomastia, a situation in which they
developed full female breasts. Ira
Kurzban, attorney for the Haitian Refugee
Center, managed to pry free
government documents via a lawsuit on
behalf of the refugees. These
contained the startling information that
prison officials had ordered the
refugees sprayed repeatedly with
highly toxic chemicals never designed for
such generic use. The officer in charge
of the refugee camp? None other
than Gen. Wesley Clark, chief of operations
at the US Navy internment camp
at Guantanamo, and later head of NATO
forces bombing Yugoslavia. The
documents go on to say that lengthy
exposure to the particular chemicals
can cause hormonal changes that
induce development of female breasts.
Medical studies of female Haitian
refugees in New York revealed that they
had a much higher rate of cervical
cancer than the rest of the female population.
Half a decade later, Gen Welsey Clark
was supreme NATO commander in
Yugoslavia. He presided over the massive
use of depeleted uranium weapons
there which poisoned Yugoslavia's water
supply and agriculture, leading to
an extremely high rate of miscarriages
and childhood cancers.
Clark was in charge of NATO's "spin" in
the Yugoslavia bombardment. Clark
called the destruction of a Yugoslav train
filled with civilians by a NATO
missile "an uncanny accident." He said
the same each time that NATO bombed
civilian targets, which happened frequently.
Paul Watson reported in the San Francisco
Chronicle that "NATO bombers
scored several direct hits here in Kosovo's
capital yesterday — including a
graveyard, a bus station, and a children's
basketball court." (April 14) A
Spanish pilot flying missions for NATO,
Capt. Martin de la Hoz, stated that
on a number of occasions his supervising
colonel protested to NATO about
their bombing of non-military, civilian
targets. "Once there was a coded
order from the North American military
that we should drop anti-personnel
bombs over Pristina and Nis. All of the
missions that we flew, all and each
one, were planned in detail, including
attacking planes, targets and type
of ammunition, by US high-ranking
military authorities. ... They are
destroying the country," the Spanish
F-18 pilot continued, "bombing it with
novel weapons, toxic nerve gasses,
surface mines dropped by parachute,
bombs containing uranium, black
napalm, sterilization chemicals, sprayings
to poison crops, and weapons of which
even we still know nothing about."
(quoted in "Articulo 20," a Spanish weekly
newspaper, June 14, 1999)
Clark defended all of these bombings, and
was an integral part of the
Clinton team's "spin" operation in Yugoslavia.
- Mitchel Cohen
=== 4 ===
http://counterpunch.org/madsen09182003.html
CounterPunch
September 18, 2003
Wesley Clark for President?
Another Con Job from the Neo-Cons
By WAYNE MADSEN
Let it never be said the neo-conservatives are not
persistent. That's why they must be rounded up by the
FBI and charged with violating the Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statutes.
But let's save that issue for another time.
The latest trick of the neo-cons is running retired
General Wesley Clark for President as a Democrat. But
not just any Democrat -- a "New Democrat." The same
bunch that are pushing Joe Lieberman's candidacy are
obviously hedging on their bets and want to have Clark
in the race as a potential vice presidential candidate
(to ensure their continued influence in a future
Democratic administration of Howard Dean, John Kerry,
or Dick Gephardt) or as a "go-to" candidate in the
event that Lieberman stumbles badly in the first few
Democratic primaries next year.
The "New Democrats" (neo-cons) are as much masters at
the perception management (lying) game as their GOP
counterparts (Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald
Rumsfeld). Clark's presidential candidacy announcement
in Little Rock is one warning sign. This city is a
sort of "Mecca" for the neo-con Democratic Leadership
Council (DLC) and its main nurturers, Al From and
Bruce Reed. It was from Little Rock where the DLC
propelled a little known governor named Bill Clinton
into the White House. And although Clinton did not
turn out exactly as conservative as the DLC hoped for,
his support for globalization and selected use of U.S.
military power abroad were neo-con keystone successes.
Now enter "Arkansan" Wesley Clark. Like Hillary
Clinton, Clark is a Chicago transplant to Little Rock.
And he is about as power driven as the former First
Lady. According to Pentagon insiders, when Clark was
Commander of the US Southern Command in Panama from
June 1996 to July 1997, he was fond of "ordering"
Latin American military commanders and defense
ministers to appear before him. Some of the Latin
American officials, particularly those from Brazil,
Argentina, and Chile, refused to be bullied by Clark,
whose personality is said to be acerbic. From his
pro-consul position in Panama, Clark supported with US
military advisers and American mercenaries, continued
warfare against anti-oligarchic movements in Colombia,
Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, and Bolivia.
Fast forward to the Kosovo wars when Clark was NATO
commander. Not only did Clark lord over the first
unprovoked aerial bombardment of a major European city
(Belgrade) since Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe pounded
virtually defenseless European cities, but he almost
got into a shooting war with Russian peacekeeping
troops in Kosovo. It was only the intervention of the
British government, Defense Secretary William Cohen,
and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Hugh Shelton that
prevented Clark from starting World War III. When
Clark ordered British Lt. Gen. Michael Jackson to
forcibly block Kosovo's Pristina Airport to prevent
Russian planes from landing, the Briton replied, "Sir,
Ia*TMm not starting World War III for you.a** Jackson
was backed up all the way to Number 10 Downing Street.
Clark was forced to back down. Eventually, Cohen fired
Clark as NATO commander three months before his term
was to expire.
Before becoming NATO Commander, Clark was the Director
for Strategic Plans and Policy within the Joint Chiefs
of Staff. From this vantage point, Clark was well
aware of and likely supported the arming of the
Bosnian government by accepting contributions from
various deep-pocketed Muslim countries, including
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Malaysia, Brunei, Jordan, and
Egypt. Via something called the Bosnia Defense Fund,
these countries deposited millions of dollars into
U.S. coffers to buy weapons for the Bosnians and train
them in their use through the use of private military
contractors like Military Professional Resources, Inc.
(MPRI). And when some of the weapons and cash for the
Bosnians became "unaccounted for," where did some of
the guns and cash wind up? In the hands of Al Qaeda
and Iranian Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guard) units in
Bosnia.
More interestingly is how General Clark's Bosnia
strategy ultimately goes full circle. According to
Washington K Street sources, the law firm that
established the Bosnia Defense Fund was none other
than Feith and Zell, the firm of current Pentagon
official and leading neo-con Douglas Feith. Feith's
operation at Feith and Zell was assisted by his
one-time boss and current member of Rumsfeld's Defense
Policy Board, Richard Perle. Both Feith and Perle
advised the Bosnian delegation during the 1995 Dayton
Peace talks. The chief U.S. military negotiator in
Dayton was Wesley Clark.
A long time ago, the French, tired of war, turned to a
short general named Napoleon to lead them to peace and
prosperity. Instead, Napoleon seized imperial power
and ensured the French would have more war. After four
years of Bush, the neo-con Fifth Column in the
Democratic Party is trying to convince us that Clark
is the "anti-war" candidate. Tell that to the people
of Serbia, Kosovo, and Montenegro. Tell that to the
coca farmer in Bolivia or Colombia who is trying to
feed his family. Let's not fall for the deception and
tricks of the neo-cons again. If you are tired of
Bush, Cheney, and the neo-cons and their phony wars,
Clark is certainly not the answer. He has been, and
remains part of, the great deception of the American
people.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative
journalist and columnist. He wrote the introduction to
Forbidden Truth. He is the co-author, with John
Stanton, of the forthcoming book, "America's
Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II."
=== 5 ===
http://www.zpub.com/un/clark.html (EXTRACTS)
Wesley Clark - A War Criminal?
For those in the audience who did not have a flier, I began to explain
the picture [http://www.decani.yunet.com/kla2.html%5d which showed
General Clark in a congratulatory handshake with Hashim Thaci, leader
of the KLA, which under the noses of KFOR had murdered or ethnically
cleansed thousands of Kosovo Serbs and had destroyed more Orthodox
Christian churches and monasteries than were destroyed in 500 years
under the Ottoman Empire. Next to Thaci was Bernard Kouchner, Chief
U.N. administrator in Kosovo, British General Sir Michael Jackson, and
Agim Ceku, who commanded the Croatian Army in "Operation Storm" that
ethnically cleansed 250,000 Serbs from Krajina and murdered thousands
and who now commands the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), the thinly
disguised successor to the KLA. It should be noted that the KLA, with
whom we allied ourselves, at one time was designated by the U.S. State
Department as a terrorist organization. Of course, this is the same KLA
about whom Senator Joe Lieberman said: "The United States of America
and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the same values and principles
. . . Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American
values." (Washington Post, Apr.28, 1999). Clark at Borders bookstore
[http://www.mbruce.addr.com/clarkatborders.htm%5d, Pentagon Center Mall,
17 Jul 2001 by Colonel George Jatras, USAF (Ret.) *
At the beginning of the Kosovo conflict,CounterPunch delved into the
military career of General Wesley Clark
[http://www.counterpunch.org/clark.html%5d and discovered that his
meteoric rise through the ranks derived from the successful
manipulation of appearances: faking the results of combat exercises,
greasing to superiors and other practices common to the general officer
corps. We correctly predicted that the unspinnable realities of a real
war would cause him to become unhinged. Given that Clark attempted to
bomb the CNN bureau in Belgrade and ordered the British General Michael
Jackson to engage Russian troops in combat at the end of the war, we
feel events amply vindicated our forecast. With the end of hostilities
it has become clear even to Clark that most people, apart from some
fanatical members of the war party in the White House and State
Department, consider the general, as one Pentagon official puts it, "a
horse's ass". Defense Secretary William Cohen is known to loathe him,
and has seen to it that the Hammer of the Serbs will be relieved of the
Nato command two months early. Gen. Wesley Clark Fights On and On
[http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38331cb52099.htm%5d
The guy who almost started World War III?
From The Guardian, Tuesday August 3, 1999:
No sooner are we told by Britain's top generals that the Russians
played a crucial role in ending the west's war against Yugoslavia than
we learn that if Nato's supreme commander, the American General Wesley
Clark, had had his way, British paratroopers would have stormed
Pristina airport threatening to unleash the most frightening crisis
with Moscow since the end of the cold war.
"I'm not going to start the third world war for you," General Sir Mike
Jackson, commander of the international K-For peacekeeping force, is
reported to have told Gen Clark when he refused to accept an order to
send assault troops to prevent Russian troops from taking over the
airfield of Kosovo's provincial capital.
Robertson's plum job in a warring Nato
[http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,70632,00.html%5d
Mary Robinson, the UN human rights commissioner, said Nato's bombing
campaign had lost its "moral purpose". Referring to the cluster bomb
attack on residential areas and market in the Serbian town of Nis, she
described Nato's range of targets as "very broad" and "almost
unfocused". There were too many mistakes; the bombing of the Serbian
television station in Belgrade - which killed a make-up woman, among
others - was "not acceptable". No blood money
[http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,69090,00.html%5d by
Richard Norton-Taylor on the moral confusion of Nato, which refuses
compensation to the innocent people it bombed.
NATO justified the bombing of the Belgrade TV station, saying it was a
legitimate military target. "We've struck at his TV stations and
transmitters because they're as much a part of his military machine
prolonging and promoting this conflict as his army and security
forces," U.S. General Wesley Clark explained--"his," of course,
referring to Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic. It wasn't
Milosevic, however, who was killed when the Belgrade studios were
bombed on April 23, but rather 20 journalists, technicians and other
civilians.
Clark's logic is exactly the same as that of the death squad commander
who orders the assassination of a journalist or a publisher whose
opposition newspaper supports the goals of a guerrilla movement. The
targeting of the studio was a war crime, perhaps the most indisputable
of several war crimes committed by NATO in its war against Yugoslavia.
Legitimate Targets? How U.S. Media Supported War Crimes in Yugoslavia
[http://www.fair.org/extra/9907/kosovo-crimes.html%5d
A panel of 16 judges from 11 countries at a people’s tribunal meeting
in New York June 10 before 500 people found U.S. and NATO political and
military leaders guilty of war crimes against Yugoslavia in the March
24-June 10, 1999 assault on that country. WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FINDS
U.S. AND NATO GUILTY [http://www.iacenter.org/warcrime/wct2000.htm%5d
(...)
ROBERT NOVAK: Members of Congress who, during their spring recess, met
in Brussels with Gen. Wesley Clark, the NATO supreme commander, were
startled by his bellicosity. According to the lawmakers, Clark
suggested the best way to handle Russia's supply of oil to Yugoslavia
would be aerial bombardment of the pipeline that runs through Hungary.
He also proposed bombing Russian warships that enter the battle zone.
The American general was described by the members of the congressional
delegation as waging a personal vendetta against Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic. "I think the general might need a little sleep,"
commented one House member.- Balkan News from The Progressive Review
[http://prorev.com/balkan.htm%5d
"I am a kind of hard-nosed, dusty boots armor man who knows what it
takes to maneuver men," Clark said.
Clark is a longtime friend of Clinton and his current position has more
to do with his political flexibility than his war making prowess. He is
reportedly referred to as the " Supreme Being " by the more earnest
soldiers under his command.
From ... did anyone else notice that Clark was commanding Fort Hood,
Texas during the Waco incident? Most (if not all) of the illegal
military hardware and personnel used against the women and children at
Waco came from Fort Hood, Texas
"Known by those who've served with him as the "Ultimate Perfumed
Prince," he's far more comfortable in a drawing room discussing
political theories than hunkering down in the trenches where bullets
fly and soldiers die." - CLARK AND VIETNAM - DEFENDING AMERICA by David
H. Hackworth, April 20, 1999 [http://www.hackworth.com/20Apr99.html%5d
"He says the basic problem with US armed forces is that selfless grunts
willing to die for their country are being sold out by selfish
"perfumed princes" like Colin Powell and Norman Schwartzkopf with the
blessing of "morally corrupt" political leaders from the president on
down. He says we can have a far more efficient fighting force and still
cut the military budget from US$300 billion to $150 to $200 billion, if
we consolidate our four military services into one, pull out of Korea
and Europe (which can defend themselves), and stop procuring expensive
high-tech weapons systems we don't need. Noise
[http://www.hotwired.com/netizen/netizenaudio/96/46/index3a.html%5d -
Hackworth talks about his new book Hazardous Duty, which he describes
as an attempt to "wake up America" about our urgent need to reform the
military.
Total length: 15 minutes, 17 seconds ... David Hackworth's home page
[http://www.hackworth.com/%5d
"The poster child for everything that is wrong with the GO (general
officer) corps"
What role did Nato's top commander have in the FBI's ill-fated raid on
the Branch Davidians compound outside Waco, Texas? Was Clark at Waco?
[http://www.counterpunch.org/waco.html%5d
Clark was born on 23 December 1944 and grew up in Little Rock,
Arkansas. He is married to the former Gertrude Kingston of Brooklyn,
New York. He and his wife have one son, Wesley, who lives in
California. *
Military Bio for GEN Wesley K. Clark USA
[http://www.eucom.mil/people/clark/bio.htm%5d "... General Wesley K.
Clark, U.S. Army, became the Commander in Chief of the United States
European Command on 10 July 1997....a 1966 graduate of the United
States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he graduated
first in his class. He holds a master's degree in Philosophy, Politics
and Economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes
Scholar (August 1966-August 1968). He is a graduate of the National War
College, Command and General Staff College, Armor Officer Advanced and
Basic Courses, and Ranger and Airborne schools. General Clark was a
White House Fellow in 1975-1976 and served as a Special Assistant to
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. He has also served
as an instructor and later Assistant Professor of Social Science at the
United States Military Academy. Clark grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas"
Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) [http://wesleyclark.h1.ru/%5d ... JUN 26 -
NOV 5, 2000 [http://wesleyclark.h1.ru/after2.htm%5d Gen. Clark: According
to The Times, former SACEUR Gen. Clark "has fired a bitter parting
shot" at his Pentagon bosses, suggesting that the United States is
being weakened by fear of battlefield casualties. At a ceremony marking
his retirement from the U.S. Army last Friday, Gen. Clark reportedly
unleashed a thinly veiled attack on Washington leaders for shying away
from bold action that could lead to loss of life. "What better to fight
for than what you believe in and value?", he asked at the military
ceremony at Fort Meyer, Washington. The time had come for the army
leadership to develop "a new mentality," he said, adding: "Give us a
mission and send us in." The newspaper notes Gen. Clark is now writing
his memoirs and suggests these are sure to bring him into dispute again
with the Pentagon and his former superiors. The July 3
[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000703/3whisplead.htm%5d edition of
U.S. News & World Report notes Gen. Clark has obtained a job analyzing
technology firms for an investment bank in Arkansas and has several
corporate-board offers. But the weekly adds, "the worry in Washington
is whether Clark, said to have railed on Pentagon brass for
micromanaging the (Kosovo conflict), will publicly unload on them."
Interview with General Wesley K. Clark (Ret.) on Security Issues -
August 8, 2000
[http://www.speakout.com/activism/interviews/clark_080900.asp%5d -- Gen.
Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army Ret., was the Supreme Allied Commander in
Europe from July 1997 to May 2000. Clark was in overall command of
NATO's military forces in Europe and commanded the alliance's military
response to the Kosovo crisis -- Operation Allied Force. He is now with
the Stephens Group Inc. in venture capital and a senior advisor with
the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
What is Clark doing now?
... joined Little Rock-based Stephens Group Inc. [111 Center Street,
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 (800) 643-9691, www.stephens.com] as a
corporate consultant to help develop emerging-technology companies. For
Immediate Release [http://www.stephens.com/about/clark_release.asp%5d
June 29, 2000 ... "U.S. Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark recently retired
after 34 years of dedicated military service to his country. A native
of Little Rock, Ark., Clark and his wife now reside in Arlington, Va.
Their son, Wesley Jr., is a screenwriter in Los Angeles."
Also a senior adviser at CSIS [http://www.csis.org/%5d - (Center for
Strategic and International Studies, 1800 K Street, N.W. Washington,
D.C. 20006 Fax 202-775-3153 ]
(...)
Among his military decorations are the Defense Distinguished Service
Medal (five awards), Distinguished Service Medal (two awards), Silver
Star, Legion of Merit (four awards), Bronze Star Medal (two awards),
Purple Heart, Meritorious Service Medal (two awards) and the Army
Commendation Medal (two awards), NATO Medal for Service with NATO on
Operations in Relation to Kosovo, NATO Medal for Service with NATO on
Operations in Relation to the Former Republic of Yugoslavia.
His Foreign awards include the Honorary Knight Commander of the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire (United Kingdom); Commander of
the Legion of Honor (France); Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the
Federal Republic of Germany; Knight Grand Cross in the Order of
Orange-Nassau, with Swords (Netherlands); Grand Officer of the Order of
Merit of the Republic of Italy; Grand Cross of the Medal of Military
Merit (Portugal); The Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Merit
of Republic of Poland; Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg; Grand Medal of Military Merit (White Band)
(Spain); The Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (Belgium); Cross of
Merit of the Minister of Defense First Class (Czech Republic); Order of
Merit of the Hungarian Republic; Commander's Cross, The Silver Order of
Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia; Madarski Konnik Medal (Bulgaria);
Commemorative Medal of the Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic
First Class (Slovakia); First Class Order of Lithuanian Grand Duke
Gediminas (Lithuania); Order of the Cross of the Eagle (Estonia); The
Skandeberg Medal (Albania); Order of Merit of Morocco; Order of Merit
of Argentina; The Grade of Prince Butmir w/Ribbon and Star (Croatia)
and the Military Service Cross of Canada.
1. Links
2. A commentary by Rick Rozoff
3. A commentary by Mitchel Cohen
4. A commentary by Wayne Madsen at counterpunch.org
5. Extracts from http://www.zpub.com/un/clark.html (with many
interesting links!)
=== 1 ===
LINKS:
Wesley Clark - A War Criminal?
http://www.zpub.com/un/clark.html
(read some extracts below in this posting)
Citizen Clark?
Or, Why Electing a Mass Murderer Is a Really Bad Idea
(by Nebojsa Malic)
http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m091803.html
A Clinton by Another Name? (by Lowell Ponte)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=9889
The New Anti-War Candidate?
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/clark-antiwar.html
Wesley Clark's Ties To Muslim Terrorists (by Cliff Kincaid)
http://www.aim.org/publications/weekly_column/2003/09/17.html
THE EARLY DEPARTURE - articles about Clark
http://wesleyclark.h1.ru/departure.htm
General in Balkan War Says Pentagon Hampered NATO
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/dao/Curriculum%20Ops/
Leadership%20Lecture%20Series/LLS_00-01/articles/
General%20in%20Balkan%20War%20Says%20Pentagon%20Hampered%20NATO.htm
WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FINDS U.S. AND NATO GUILTY
http://www.iacenter.org/warcrime/wct2000.htm
Legitimate Targets? How U.S. Media Supported War Crimes in Yugoslavia
By Jim Naureckas
http://www.fair.org/extra/9907/kosovo-crimes.html
From Waco to Belgrade: Wesley Clark and America's "Army of the Future"
http://www.brasscheck.com/yugoslavia/clarkatwaco.html
Genocide or Veracicide Will NATO's Lying Ever Stop? by Stephen Gowans
http://www.swans.com/library/art7/gowans02.html
=== 2 ===
Da: Rick Rozoff
Data: Mar 16 Set 2003 19:42:16 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: Clark For President
The die is cast. An apt expression, as it was coined -
in a political context - by Julius Caesar when, as
Roman commander in Gaul, he decided to cross the
Rubicon River and defy the Senate, signaling the end
of the Republic.
This abhorrent would-be Imperator, a classical Man on
Horseback, is running to the rescue of a very troubled
system, one stretched to the breaking point overseas
and rapidly rotting from within.
So whoever it is who has designated Clark the New
Order's savior (and it's not the clueless Michael
Moore) presents Americans and the world with a
*humanitarian, multilateralist and internationalist*
alternative to a sinking Bush-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz
regime that could be knocked over with a feather at
the moment if anything serious - a genuine peace and
disarmament campaign and candidate - dared challenge
it.
The point of the Clark initiative, however, is not to
challenge the system and its decades' long disastrous,
inhuman policies, but precisely to bail it out with a
'fresh voice in a lackluster campaign season' and all
the other pre-prepared cliches currently abounding in
the establishment press outlets.
Make no mistake. Clark is a life-long militarist,
imperialist and war criminal; baptized in blood in
Indochina; implicated, as US Southern Command head, in
some of the worst death squad brutalities in Colombia
in 1996-97; and, as his culminating enormity,
ruthlessly and with gratuitous recklessness and
savagery commanding the Hitlerian war against the
people of Yugoslavia for 79 days in 1999.
The first unprovoked war, the first relentless
campaign of lethal air power against a European nation
and people since the defeat of the Third Reich some 58
years ago.
To have, as the US now does, a career general and
fellow Vietnam (and Operation Desert Storm) militarist
as foreign minister/Secretary of State is ominous
enough.
To escalate this disturbing trend to the level of
having Wesley Clark making a viable bid for the White
House, whether as chief executive or as shadow
president for a Dean administration - essentially
playing Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld to Dean's
George W. Bush - would broadcast to the world the fact
that the US has dropped all pretense of being a
civilian power and has nakedly announced its intention
to make a final play for world political and military
dominance.
Clark as president - or, more likely, vice-president -
would be no more a 'multilateralist' than he was as US
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe/NATO Commander.
Who outside the increasingly sodden, coopted, suborned
commercial Fourth Estate can believe or expect others
to that Clark 'consulted' with his alleged NATO
partners - Luxemburg, say, or Iceland - before,
increasingly thwarted by both Yugoslavia's military
defense and the spirited opposition of its people, he
abandoned all pretense of targeting military forces
and installations and unleashed a two month long
'targets of opportunity' rampage against power
plants, oil depots, civilian broadcasting facilities,
passenger trains and buses, refugee columns and
religious processions, apartment complexes and
maternity wards, every bridge across the Danube River,
culminating in the devastation of the the Chinese
Embassy in Belgrade with the deaths of three Chinese
citizens and warnings by then Russian president Boris
Yeltsin that if such aggression didn't cease 'there
will be war in Europe and possibly a world war'?
A world war, with the world's two major nuclear
powers, the US and Russia, was exactly what was
narrowly averted when British commander Sir Michael
Jackson refused Clark's order to militarily - with
first paratroopers, then with tanks - assault the
Russian troops who had deployed from Bosnia to the
airport in Kosovo's capital, Pristina, in June of
1999.
This trademark event epitomizes what could be expected
of a Wesley Clark in the White House.
He already has a record: One of unprecedented
aggressive adventurism and cynical disregard for
international law and even the norms of warfare.
One of contempt for human life and a sociopathic
thrillseeker's obsession with provoking the
unthinkable. He's proven it beyond any doubt.
One of many tragedies unfolding at the moment is that
many otherwise well-motivated Americans, spooked into
moral panic by the Bush administration - which
presents an unquestioned world danger that cannot be
overestimated - have been swept up by the tide of
'anyone but Bush,' which is to say any Democrat but
Bush, and as such are easy prey for the other wing of
the imperial hawk, that which mirrors and echoes in
every genuine particular the arrogant and brute
designs of the Project for the New American Century
cabal that dominates the Bush-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz
regime.
Clark, as alarming and as appalling as he is as an
individual, presents a yet greater danger for the US
and the world: Diabolical cynicism disguised as
altruism and idealism, a doctrine of international
military conquest cloaked in the sheepskin of a peace
candidate, an irreversible capitulation by the
erstwhile peace movement to the most callous form of
Realpolitik.
=== 3 ===
Da: mitchelcohen
Data: Mar 16 Set 2003 18:51:28 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: [yugoslaviainfo] Gen. Wesley Clark --
War Criminal, Don't Be Fooled
Gen. Wesley Clark is a major war criminal.
Please don't be fooled by the
current well-orchestrated push to nominate
Clark as Democratic Party
nominee for president, at trap which
Michael Moore has apparently fallen
into as well as a number of other well-
meaning peace people.
Gen. Wesley Clark was in charge of
refugee camps in the 1980s and 1990s
where Haitian refugees who were fleeing
first Baby Doc Duvalier (and later
the new regime installed by the US following
the overthrowal of the elected
Aristide government in the early 1990s),
were packed, under appalling
conditions condemned by the Center for
Constitutional Rights, among many
others. In the 1980s, many Haitian male
refugees incarcerated at Krome (in
Miami), and Fort Allen (in Puerto Rico)
reported a strange condition called
gyneacomastia, a situation in which they
developed full female breasts. Ira
Kurzban, attorney for the Haitian Refugee
Center, managed to pry free
government documents via a lawsuit on
behalf of the refugees. These
contained the startling information that
prison officials had ordered the
refugees sprayed repeatedly with
highly toxic chemicals never designed for
such generic use. The officer in charge
of the refugee camp? None other
than Gen. Wesley Clark, chief of operations
at the US Navy internment camp
at Guantanamo, and later head of NATO
forces bombing Yugoslavia. The
documents go on to say that lengthy
exposure to the particular chemicals
can cause hormonal changes that
induce development of female breasts.
Medical studies of female Haitian
refugees in New York revealed that they
had a much higher rate of cervical
cancer than the rest of the female population.
Half a decade later, Gen Welsey Clark
was supreme NATO commander in
Yugoslavia. He presided over the massive
use of depeleted uranium weapons
there which poisoned Yugoslavia's water
supply and agriculture, leading to
an extremely high rate of miscarriages
and childhood cancers.
Clark was in charge of NATO's "spin" in
the Yugoslavia bombardment. Clark
called the destruction of a Yugoslav train
filled with civilians by a NATO
missile "an uncanny accident." He said
the same each time that NATO bombed
civilian targets, which happened frequently.
Paul Watson reported in the San Francisco
Chronicle that "NATO bombers
scored several direct hits here in Kosovo's
capital yesterday — including a
graveyard, a bus station, and a children's
basketball court." (April 14) A
Spanish pilot flying missions for NATO,
Capt. Martin de la Hoz, stated that
on a number of occasions his supervising
colonel protested to NATO about
their bombing of non-military, civilian
targets. "Once there was a coded
order from the North American military
that we should drop anti-personnel
bombs over Pristina and Nis. All of the
missions that we flew, all and each
one, were planned in detail, including
attacking planes, targets and type
of ammunition, by US high-ranking
military authorities. ... They are
destroying the country," the Spanish
F-18 pilot continued, "bombing it with
novel weapons, toxic nerve gasses,
surface mines dropped by parachute,
bombs containing uranium, black
napalm, sterilization chemicals, sprayings
to poison crops, and weapons of which
even we still know nothing about."
(quoted in "Articulo 20," a Spanish weekly
newspaper, June 14, 1999)
Clark defended all of these bombings, and
was an integral part of the
Clinton team's "spin" operation in Yugoslavia.
- Mitchel Cohen
=== 4 ===
http://counterpunch.org/madsen09182003.html
CounterPunch
September 18, 2003
Wesley Clark for President?
Another Con Job from the Neo-Cons
By WAYNE MADSEN
Let it never be said the neo-conservatives are not
persistent. That's why they must be rounded up by the
FBI and charged with violating the Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statutes.
But let's save that issue for another time.
The latest trick of the neo-cons is running retired
General Wesley Clark for President as a Democrat. But
not just any Democrat -- a "New Democrat." The same
bunch that are pushing Joe Lieberman's candidacy are
obviously hedging on their bets and want to have Clark
in the race as a potential vice presidential candidate
(to ensure their continued influence in a future
Democratic administration of Howard Dean, John Kerry,
or Dick Gephardt) or as a "go-to" candidate in the
event that Lieberman stumbles badly in the first few
Democratic primaries next year.
The "New Democrats" (neo-cons) are as much masters at
the perception management (lying) game as their GOP
counterparts (Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald
Rumsfeld). Clark's presidential candidacy announcement
in Little Rock is one warning sign. This city is a
sort of "Mecca" for the neo-con Democratic Leadership
Council (DLC) and its main nurturers, Al From and
Bruce Reed. It was from Little Rock where the DLC
propelled a little known governor named Bill Clinton
into the White House. And although Clinton did not
turn out exactly as conservative as the DLC hoped for,
his support for globalization and selected use of U.S.
military power abroad were neo-con keystone successes.
Now enter "Arkansan" Wesley Clark. Like Hillary
Clinton, Clark is a Chicago transplant to Little Rock.
And he is about as power driven as the former First
Lady. According to Pentagon insiders, when Clark was
Commander of the US Southern Command in Panama from
June 1996 to July 1997, he was fond of "ordering"
Latin American military commanders and defense
ministers to appear before him. Some of the Latin
American officials, particularly those from Brazil,
Argentina, and Chile, refused to be bullied by Clark,
whose personality is said to be acerbic. From his
pro-consul position in Panama, Clark supported with US
military advisers and American mercenaries, continued
warfare against anti-oligarchic movements in Colombia,
Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, and Bolivia.
Fast forward to the Kosovo wars when Clark was NATO
commander. Not only did Clark lord over the first
unprovoked aerial bombardment of a major European city
(Belgrade) since Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe pounded
virtually defenseless European cities, but he almost
got into a shooting war with Russian peacekeeping
troops in Kosovo. It was only the intervention of the
British government, Defense Secretary William Cohen,
and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Hugh Shelton that
prevented Clark from starting World War III. When
Clark ordered British Lt. Gen. Michael Jackson to
forcibly block Kosovo's Pristina Airport to prevent
Russian planes from landing, the Briton replied, "Sir,
Ia*TMm not starting World War III for you.a** Jackson
was backed up all the way to Number 10 Downing Street.
Clark was forced to back down. Eventually, Cohen fired
Clark as NATO commander three months before his term
was to expire.
Before becoming NATO Commander, Clark was the Director
for Strategic Plans and Policy within the Joint Chiefs
of Staff. From this vantage point, Clark was well
aware of and likely supported the arming of the
Bosnian government by accepting contributions from
various deep-pocketed Muslim countries, including
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Malaysia, Brunei, Jordan, and
Egypt. Via something called the Bosnia Defense Fund,
these countries deposited millions of dollars into
U.S. coffers to buy weapons for the Bosnians and train
them in their use through the use of private military
contractors like Military Professional Resources, Inc.
(MPRI). And when some of the weapons and cash for the
Bosnians became "unaccounted for," where did some of
the guns and cash wind up? In the hands of Al Qaeda
and Iranian Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guard) units in
Bosnia.
More interestingly is how General Clark's Bosnia
strategy ultimately goes full circle. According to
Washington K Street sources, the law firm that
established the Bosnia Defense Fund was none other
than Feith and Zell, the firm of current Pentagon
official and leading neo-con Douglas Feith. Feith's
operation at Feith and Zell was assisted by his
one-time boss and current member of Rumsfeld's Defense
Policy Board, Richard Perle. Both Feith and Perle
advised the Bosnian delegation during the 1995 Dayton
Peace talks. The chief U.S. military negotiator in
Dayton was Wesley Clark.
A long time ago, the French, tired of war, turned to a
short general named Napoleon to lead them to peace and
prosperity. Instead, Napoleon seized imperial power
and ensured the French would have more war. After four
years of Bush, the neo-con Fifth Column in the
Democratic Party is trying to convince us that Clark
is the "anti-war" candidate. Tell that to the people
of Serbia, Kosovo, and Montenegro. Tell that to the
coca farmer in Bolivia or Colombia who is trying to
feed his family. Let's not fall for the deception and
tricks of the neo-cons again. If you are tired of
Bush, Cheney, and the neo-cons and their phony wars,
Clark is certainly not the answer. He has been, and
remains part of, the great deception of the American
people.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative
journalist and columnist. He wrote the introduction to
Forbidden Truth. He is the co-author, with John
Stanton, of the forthcoming book, "America's
Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II."
=== 5 ===
http://www.zpub.com/un/clark.html (EXTRACTS)
Wesley Clark - A War Criminal?
For those in the audience who did not have a flier, I began to explain
the picture [http://www.decani.yunet.com/kla2.html%5d which showed
General Clark in a congratulatory handshake with Hashim Thaci, leader
of the KLA, which under the noses of KFOR had murdered or ethnically
cleansed thousands of Kosovo Serbs and had destroyed more Orthodox
Christian churches and monasteries than were destroyed in 500 years
under the Ottoman Empire. Next to Thaci was Bernard Kouchner, Chief
U.N. administrator in Kosovo, British General Sir Michael Jackson, and
Agim Ceku, who commanded the Croatian Army in "Operation Storm" that
ethnically cleansed 250,000 Serbs from Krajina and murdered thousands
and who now commands the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), the thinly
disguised successor to the KLA. It should be noted that the KLA, with
whom we allied ourselves, at one time was designated by the U.S. State
Department as a terrorist organization. Of course, this is the same KLA
about whom Senator Joe Lieberman said: "The United States of America
and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the same values and principles
. . . Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American
values." (Washington Post, Apr.28, 1999). Clark at Borders bookstore
[http://www.mbruce.addr.com/clarkatborders.htm%5d, Pentagon Center Mall,
17 Jul 2001 by Colonel George Jatras, USAF (Ret.) *
At the beginning of the Kosovo conflict,CounterPunch delved into the
military career of General Wesley Clark
[http://www.counterpunch.org/clark.html%5d and discovered that his
meteoric rise through the ranks derived from the successful
manipulation of appearances: faking the results of combat exercises,
greasing to superiors and other practices common to the general officer
corps. We correctly predicted that the unspinnable realities of a real
war would cause him to become unhinged. Given that Clark attempted to
bomb the CNN bureau in Belgrade and ordered the British General Michael
Jackson to engage Russian troops in combat at the end of the war, we
feel events amply vindicated our forecast. With the end of hostilities
it has become clear even to Clark that most people, apart from some
fanatical members of the war party in the White House and State
Department, consider the general, as one Pentagon official puts it, "a
horse's ass". Defense Secretary William Cohen is known to loathe him,
and has seen to it that the Hammer of the Serbs will be relieved of the
Nato command two months early. Gen. Wesley Clark Fights On and On
[http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38331cb52099.htm%5d
The guy who almost started World War III?
From The Guardian, Tuesday August 3, 1999:
No sooner are we told by Britain's top generals that the Russians
played a crucial role in ending the west's war against Yugoslavia than
we learn that if Nato's supreme commander, the American General Wesley
Clark, had had his way, British paratroopers would have stormed
Pristina airport threatening to unleash the most frightening crisis
with Moscow since the end of the cold war.
"I'm not going to start the third world war for you," General Sir Mike
Jackson, commander of the international K-For peacekeeping force, is
reported to have told Gen Clark when he refused to accept an order to
send assault troops to prevent Russian troops from taking over the
airfield of Kosovo's provincial capital.
Robertson's plum job in a warring Nato
[http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,70632,00.html%5d
Mary Robinson, the UN human rights commissioner, said Nato's bombing
campaign had lost its "moral purpose". Referring to the cluster bomb
attack on residential areas and market in the Serbian town of Nis, she
described Nato's range of targets as "very broad" and "almost
unfocused". There were too many mistakes; the bombing of the Serbian
television station in Belgrade - which killed a make-up woman, among
others - was "not acceptable". No blood money
[http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,69090,00.html%5d by
Richard Norton-Taylor on the moral confusion of Nato, which refuses
compensation to the innocent people it bombed.
NATO justified the bombing of the Belgrade TV station, saying it was a
legitimate military target. "We've struck at his TV stations and
transmitters because they're as much a part of his military machine
prolonging and promoting this conflict as his army and security
forces," U.S. General Wesley Clark explained--"his," of course,
referring to Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic. It wasn't
Milosevic, however, who was killed when the Belgrade studios were
bombed on April 23, but rather 20 journalists, technicians and other
civilians.
Clark's logic is exactly the same as that of the death squad commander
who orders the assassination of a journalist or a publisher whose
opposition newspaper supports the goals of a guerrilla movement. The
targeting of the studio was a war crime, perhaps the most indisputable
of several war crimes committed by NATO in its war against Yugoslavia.
Legitimate Targets? How U.S. Media Supported War Crimes in Yugoslavia
[http://www.fair.org/extra/9907/kosovo-crimes.html%5d
A panel of 16 judges from 11 countries at a people’s tribunal meeting
in New York June 10 before 500 people found U.S. and NATO political and
military leaders guilty of war crimes against Yugoslavia in the March
24-June 10, 1999 assault on that country. WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FINDS
U.S. AND NATO GUILTY [http://www.iacenter.org/warcrime/wct2000.htm%5d
(...)
ROBERT NOVAK: Members of Congress who, during their spring recess, met
in Brussels with Gen. Wesley Clark, the NATO supreme commander, were
startled by his bellicosity. According to the lawmakers, Clark
suggested the best way to handle Russia's supply of oil to Yugoslavia
would be aerial bombardment of the pipeline that runs through Hungary.
He also proposed bombing Russian warships that enter the battle zone.
The American general was described by the members of the congressional
delegation as waging a personal vendetta against Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic. "I think the general might need a little sleep,"
commented one House member.- Balkan News from The Progressive Review
[http://prorev.com/balkan.htm%5d
"I am a kind of hard-nosed, dusty boots armor man who knows what it
takes to maneuver men," Clark said.
Clark is a longtime friend of Clinton and his current position has more
to do with his political flexibility than his war making prowess. He is
reportedly referred to as the " Supreme Being " by the more earnest
soldiers under his command.
From ... did anyone else notice that Clark was commanding Fort Hood,
Texas during the Waco incident? Most (if not all) of the illegal
military hardware and personnel used against the women and children at
Waco came from Fort Hood, Texas
"Known by those who've served with him as the "Ultimate Perfumed
Prince," he's far more comfortable in a drawing room discussing
political theories than hunkering down in the trenches where bullets
fly and soldiers die." - CLARK AND VIETNAM - DEFENDING AMERICA by David
H. Hackworth, April 20, 1999 [http://www.hackworth.com/20Apr99.html%5d
"He says the basic problem with US armed forces is that selfless grunts
willing to die for their country are being sold out by selfish
"perfumed princes" like Colin Powell and Norman Schwartzkopf with the
blessing of "morally corrupt" political leaders from the president on
down. He says we can have a far more efficient fighting force and still
cut the military budget from US$300 billion to $150 to $200 billion, if
we consolidate our four military services into one, pull out of Korea
and Europe (which can defend themselves), and stop procuring expensive
high-tech weapons systems we don't need. Noise
[http://www.hotwired.com/netizen/netizenaudio/96/46/index3a.html%5d -
Hackworth talks about his new book Hazardous Duty, which he describes
as an attempt to "wake up America" about our urgent need to reform the
military.
Total length: 15 minutes, 17 seconds ... David Hackworth's home page
[http://www.hackworth.com/%5d
"The poster child for everything that is wrong with the GO (general
officer) corps"
What role did Nato's top commander have in the FBI's ill-fated raid on
the Branch Davidians compound outside Waco, Texas? Was Clark at Waco?
[http://www.counterpunch.org/waco.html%5d
Clark was born on 23 December 1944 and grew up in Little Rock,
Arkansas. He is married to the former Gertrude Kingston of Brooklyn,
New York. He and his wife have one son, Wesley, who lives in
California. *
Military Bio for GEN Wesley K. Clark USA
[http://www.eucom.mil/people/clark/bio.htm%5d "... General Wesley K.
Clark, U.S. Army, became the Commander in Chief of the United States
European Command on 10 July 1997....a 1966 graduate of the United
States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he graduated
first in his class. He holds a master's degree in Philosophy, Politics
and Economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes
Scholar (August 1966-August 1968). He is a graduate of the National War
College, Command and General Staff College, Armor Officer Advanced and
Basic Courses, and Ranger and Airborne schools. General Clark was a
White House Fellow in 1975-1976 and served as a Special Assistant to
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. He has also served
as an instructor and later Assistant Professor of Social Science at the
United States Military Academy. Clark grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas"
Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) [http://wesleyclark.h1.ru/%5d ... JUN 26 -
NOV 5, 2000 [http://wesleyclark.h1.ru/after2.htm%5d Gen. Clark: According
to The Times, former SACEUR Gen. Clark "has fired a bitter parting
shot" at his Pentagon bosses, suggesting that the United States is
being weakened by fear of battlefield casualties. At a ceremony marking
his retirement from the U.S. Army last Friday, Gen. Clark reportedly
unleashed a thinly veiled attack on Washington leaders for shying away
from bold action that could lead to loss of life. "What better to fight
for than what you believe in and value?", he asked at the military
ceremony at Fort Meyer, Washington. The time had come for the army
leadership to develop "a new mentality," he said, adding: "Give us a
mission and send us in." The newspaper notes Gen. Clark is now writing
his memoirs and suggests these are sure to bring him into dispute again
with the Pentagon and his former superiors. The July 3
[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000703/3whisplead.htm%5d edition of
U.S. News & World Report notes Gen. Clark has obtained a job analyzing
technology firms for an investment bank in Arkansas and has several
corporate-board offers. But the weekly adds, "the worry in Washington
is whether Clark, said to have railed on Pentagon brass for
micromanaging the (Kosovo conflict), will publicly unload on them."
Interview with General Wesley K. Clark (Ret.) on Security Issues -
August 8, 2000
[http://www.speakout.com/activism/interviews/clark_080900.asp%5d -- Gen.
Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army Ret., was the Supreme Allied Commander in
Europe from July 1997 to May 2000. Clark was in overall command of
NATO's military forces in Europe and commanded the alliance's military
response to the Kosovo crisis -- Operation Allied Force. He is now with
the Stephens Group Inc. in venture capital and a senior advisor with
the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
What is Clark doing now?
... joined Little Rock-based Stephens Group Inc. [111 Center Street,
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 (800) 643-9691, www.stephens.com] as a
corporate consultant to help develop emerging-technology companies. For
Immediate Release [http://www.stephens.com/about/clark_release.asp%5d
June 29, 2000 ... "U.S. Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark recently retired
after 34 years of dedicated military service to his country. A native
of Little Rock, Ark., Clark and his wife now reside in Arlington, Va.
Their son, Wesley Jr., is a screenwriter in Los Angeles."
Also a senior adviser at CSIS [http://www.csis.org/%5d - (Center for
Strategic and International Studies, 1800 K Street, N.W. Washington,
D.C. 20006 Fax 202-775-3153 ]
(...)
Among his military decorations are the Defense Distinguished Service
Medal (five awards), Distinguished Service Medal (two awards), Silver
Star, Legion of Merit (four awards), Bronze Star Medal (two awards),
Purple Heart, Meritorious Service Medal (two awards) and the Army
Commendation Medal (two awards), NATO Medal for Service with NATO on
Operations in Relation to Kosovo, NATO Medal for Service with NATO on
Operations in Relation to the Former Republic of Yugoslavia.
His Foreign awards include the Honorary Knight Commander of the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire (United Kingdom); Commander of
the Legion of Honor (France); Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the
Federal Republic of Germany; Knight Grand Cross in the Order of
Orange-Nassau, with Swords (Netherlands); Grand Officer of the Order of
Merit of the Republic of Italy; Grand Cross of the Medal of Military
Merit (Portugal); The Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Merit
of Republic of Poland; Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg; Grand Medal of Military Merit (White Band)
(Spain); The Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (Belgium); Cross of
Merit of the Minister of Defense First Class (Czech Republic); Order of
Merit of the Hungarian Republic; Commander's Cross, The Silver Order of
Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia; Madarski Konnik Medal (Bulgaria);
Commemorative Medal of the Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic
First Class (Slovakia); First Class Order of Lithuanian Grand Duke
Gediminas (Lithuania); Order of the Cross of the Eagle (Estonia); The
Skandeberg Medal (Albania); Order of Merit of Morocco; Order of Merit
of Argentina; The Grade of Prince Butmir w/Ribbon and Star (Croatia)
and the Military Service Cross of Canada.
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