Informazione
TITOGRAD!
Si e' festeggiato oggi a Podgorica, con alcune iniziative pubbliche,
l'anniversario della liberazione della citta', che nel dopoguerra fu
rinominata Titograd in onore del piu' grande artefice della resistenza
antifascista e della liberazione della Jugoslavia intera dagli
invasori nazifascisti e dai loro alleati locali.
Nel corso della Seconda Guerra Mondiale la capitale montenegrina era
stata bombardata ben 84 volte, risultando tra le citta' europee piu'
devastate dalla guerra. Il martirio di Podgorica era iniziato nel 1941
con l'occupazione coloniale italiana, occupazione oggi rimossa dalla
nostra memoria storica e dalla nostra coscienza lurida di
neo-colonizzatori dei Balcani.
(I. Slavo)
Si e' festeggiato oggi a Podgorica, con alcune iniziative pubbliche,
l'anniversario della liberazione della citta', che nel dopoguerra fu
rinominata Titograd in onore del piu' grande artefice della resistenza
antifascista e della liberazione della Jugoslavia intera dagli
invasori nazifascisti e dai loro alleati locali.
Nel corso della Seconda Guerra Mondiale la capitale montenegrina era
stata bombardata ben 84 volte, risultando tra le citta' europee piu'
devastate dalla guerra. Il martirio di Podgorica era iniziato nel 1941
con l'occupazione coloniale italiana, occupazione oggi rimossa dalla
nostra memoria storica e dalla nostra coscienza lurida di
neo-colonizzatori dei Balcani.
(I. Slavo)
1. Exclusive: Legal Remarks of ICDSM Attorney, directly from the
Hague (SLOBODA 18/12)
2. NATO AND NATOITES ATTACK FREEDOM - actual briefs from The Hague
(SLOBODA 18/12)
3. German doctors' reply to Jorda (13/12)
4. SLOBODA Teaches ICTY President Ethics and Law (12/12)
=== 1 ===
PRELIMINARY LEGAL REMARKS OF ICDSM ATTORNEY Ms. TIPHAINE DICKSON,
PRESENT TODAY AT THE HAGUE
18 December 2002, The Hague
Earlier today, Trial Chamber III allocated a few minutes of its
timetable to summarize a decision with respect to Slobodan
Milosevic's health, trial conditions, and to rule on requests for
provisional release filed by parties.
The full ruling was unavailable to the public and the press.
On 5th and 12th of November, the ICDSM petitioned the Chamber for
urgent specialized medical attention and for the provisional release
of Slobodan Milosevic. On the basis of medical reports and
international law, we argued that the current trial conditions
constitute a threat to his life, that lack of adequate medical
attention is tantamount to torture, and requested that he be afforded
the right to urgent, specialized medical care by physicians familiar
with his history. This requires provisional release to Belgrade as
well as full convalescence.
The ICDSM further submitted that President Milosevic's fundamental
right represent himself, and to not have counsel imposed on him
creates an obligation on the Chamber to accommodate the exercise of
this right by providing conditions other than those of a grueling
trial schedule with restricted access to his legal assistants in a
prison . We provided the Chamber with a legal basis upon which to
order Slobodan Milosevic's release for the continuation of the trial
in a non-custodial setting, following full convalescence.
Chamber III has today denied provisional release, and appears, since
they affirm that they will proceed according to their "timetable", to
have denied requests for an adjournment so that President Milosevic
may obtain specialized medical evaluation and treatment. They did not
mention the ICDSM's motion or requests.
Trial Chamber III has disregarded the reasoning of their colleagues
in the Talic matter who stated:
"It would be inappropriate for this Trial Chamber to wait until
Talic is on the verge of death before considering favorably his
application for provisional release"
The ICDSM considers that it would also be "inappropriate" for the
Chamber to wait until these trial conditions cause severe cardiac
complications, stroke, or death before "considering favorably" an
application for provisional release. It is also "inappropriate" to
wait until Slobodan Milosevic is on the verge of death
before "favorably considering" a request for specialized medical
attention.
The Chamber stated that "as previously" they would deny provisional
release. Previously, that is March 6th 2002, Slobodan Milosevic's
health conditions had not deteriorated as they have in the past
months. Previously, the arguments of the court-appointed amici took
up only four transcript pages including the following remark:
"So I'm not insisting on provisional release and equality of arms, so
to speak".
The ICDSM did not consider that the matter had been previously argued
in an adequate manner. It appears from the fragment of the decision
to which the public was made privy that the Chamber has equated
previous requests with current ones. Such an interpretation would
constitute a gross misapprehension of the facts and the law.
The Chamber did however refuse to impose counsel on President
Milosevic. The ICDSM is relieved that Slobodan Milosevic's arguments
supporting his right to represent himself and not to have counsel
imposed on him have prevailed.
Another statement will follow the disclosure of the full decision.
Tiphaine Dickson
Attorney ICDSM
=== 2 ===
NATO AND NATOITES ATTACK FREEDOM
- actual briefs from The Hague -
December 18, 2002
1) Canadian lawyer Tiphaine Dickson, presently at The Hague, on
behalf of ICDSM, have not been allowed this morning to enter the
court room audience. Policeman at the entrance explained that she had
to make arrangements in advance. In principle the "trial" is open and
anyone, presenting ID, can enter the audience. They can eventually
deny entrance only if all seats are occupied. This morning there was
no queue at the entrance. After her telephone appeal and telephone
appeal from SLOBODA, ICTY stuff promised that she will be let in. We
expect new information.
2) Up to this moment, despite many appeals and request of President
Milosevic, ICDSM delegation have not yet got the "tribunal"'s
approval to meet the President.
3) While we write this, "tribunal" is still dealing with one of
their "witnesses" - former Mayor of Dubrovnik. Not yet
with "administrative" issues. They don't care about the human life,
or more precisely, they used to destroy human lives. They also don't
care about people of Serbia and Yugoslavia, about Yugoslav and
Russian Parliaments, about parties, organizations, medical doctors,
university professors, lawyers and many other from all over the world
appealing. They think they are above the law. But they are not.
4) One of the biggest insults to the law and to even common sense is
parallely taking place at The Hague these days. Brutal murderer
Madeleine Albright, holocaust-profiteer Eli Vizel and couple of other
criminal actors appeared in a necrophilic show around Biljana
Plavsic's "admission of guilt". With absolutely no trace of law, this
show exposed the essence of ICTY in a way that everyone who still has
any illusions about the NATO puppet "court" should not only abandon
illusions, but should join the struggle against this modern
inquisition and civilizational outrage.
5) In denying the permission for the visit, "tribunal" mentioned
ICDSM web site and doubts that delegation may address the press. So,
as we all know, fear from the truth is their principal fear.
6) One can illustrate their panic and attempt to shake the
determination and unity of the people and ICDSM with the outrageous
anonymous e-mail spaming campaign on the eve of the visit, containing
attack on two leading ICDSM personalities, Jared Israel and Nico
Varkevisser. Accusing them of being US/Israeli agents using as
argument a pamphlet from a Saudi Arabian newspaper clearly shows the
background of the attack and the kitchen. It is unnecessary to
present counter arguments to any progressive person on these two
brilliant leftist writers, analysts and activists. Who made more
exposure and wrote more based-on-facts articles on Nazi-type
antiserbian propaganda than Jared Israel? Who is for years focus of
defense of Cuba and Yugoslavia in The Netherlands but Nico
Varkevisser, decorated with a medal of honor by Fidel Castro in
person? Who never had doubts that struggle of President Milosevic is
crucial for the defense of all peoples? But it is also clear in whose
interest is to launch false attacks on these men. In the interest of
the New Nazis and their Gestapo at the Hague.
7) Remember the following: 'The sanctions against [people of]
Yugoslavia will go on "because the crisis (...) with respect to
Slobodan Miloševic, his close associates and supporters
(...)" /George W. Bush, Presidential Notice, May 27, 2002/'
8) ACT IN FULL POWER TO PROTECT THE LIFE OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, THE
MAN WHO DEFENDS OUR FREEDOM, OUR RIGHTS AND OUR HOPES!
Vladimir Krsljanin
International Secretary, SPS
International Coordinator, Sloboda
Yugoslav Coordinator, ICDSM
=== 3 ===
German physicians, some of them members of Nobel Peace Prize winning
organization IPPNW addressed the Hague Tribunal with a demand that
President Milosevic should be immediatelly set free to get medical
cure in Yugoslavia and than to defend himself as a free man. After
unbelievable long time for a human life at stake urgency, they
received an unblievable respond from ICTY President Claude Jorda.
Here is their reply:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
Initiative of Physicians and Therapists Practizing in Germany
Matthias Jochheim, Dr. med. Uta Mader, 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. Wolfgang Hühn
To Mr. Claude Jorda
and to the attention of
Mr. Richard May, Mr. Steven Kay, Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic
ICTY The Hague
December 13, 2002
Live and health of Slobodan Milosevic need consequent measures
immediately
Dear Mr. Jorda,
Thank you for your letter of November 27, 2002, received by
facsimile on November 29, 2002, by which you responded to our letter
of November 8, 2002.
Despite your claim that according to the Tribunal Rules you are not
responsible for the above mentioned subject, it is undisputable that
a serious damage to the health of Slobodan Milosevic or even his
death under the auspices of the Tribunal would be unavoidably seen as
responsibility of the institution, for which you in your function
carry the biggest and in the last instance decision making
responsibility.
In your November 27, 2002 letter of response, you try to diminish our
concern about life and health of Slobodan Milosevic with the remark,
that he receives good and highly qualified medical treatment by the
medical staff of the prison. This argument is not convincing from our
perspective for the following reasons:
The „medical staff“, which is responsible for all prisoners, co=
nsist
of only one doctor and one nurse.
The doctor is not a specialist for Mr. Milosevic's illness.
The good and highly qualified treatment consist of just one weekly
visit by the doctor. Neither an intensive, special examination nor
the necessary therapy are taking place.
Therefore, our conclusions from November 8, 2002 letter, that Mr.
Milosevic is getting no permanent medical control and observation and
no necessary treatment, remain.
Our expressed concerns were increased by a report of NRC Handelsblad
and the news agency Reuters of November 23, 2002 as well as press
reports by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Stuttgarter Zeitung of
November 25, 2002. They state that Slobodan Milosevic receives for a
longer period of time not just inefficient, but contraindicated
medication, namely blood pressure increasing medication.
How such situation could be in accordance with the alleged high
quality of medical treatment, we do not want to comment. But we
emphasize that this would be an unbelievable scandal which would pass
over any level of tolerance for all those who in their practice have
duty to feel obliged to the Hippocrates Oath.
Upon the order of the responsible Trial Chamber on November 15, 2002
a first examination by a Dutch specialist took place. He stated in
his report, that with appropriate medication the risk of death can be
reduced by 11%. We ask for your understanding that we strongly deny
calculations like that as basis of further procedure.
We strongly condemn the attempt of the Prosecution to use the
threatened health situation of Slobodan Milosevic as a pretext and
occasion to deny him his right to defend himself in person.
The attempt to force upon an „assigned counsel“ is not only vio=
lating
the law, it also contains the danger of producing counterproductive
effects on Mr. Milosevic's state of health: The enforcement of an
assigned counsel against the stated will of the defendant would not
lead to improvement and easement of the situation, but would increase
the stress and the mental burden and by that would also increase the
risk. That proposal of the Prosecution is counterproductive from the
medical point of view, and contraindicated.
The whole situation leads us to reinforce our demands, that Slobodan
Milosevic has to be released immediately from the heath- and life-
threatening situation and set free in order to get the long time
needed therapy by his own specialists in Belgrade. After that, he -
with appropriate guaranties - should be able to defend himself from
freedom against the charges raised.
We support explicitly the proposals filed in that sense by the Amici
Curiae.
Dear Mr. Jorda,
We ask you to take these urgently required measures and to secure by
that effectiveness of the United Nations regulations concerning the
treatment of prisoners.
On instruction of the Initiative,
Dr. med. Uta Mader
(Köln), physician
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) -
German Section;
Union of Democratic Physicians (Verein der demokratischen Ärztinnen
und Ärzte)
=== 4 ===
Mr. Claude Jorda,
President
ICTY
The Hague
The Netherlands
Esteemed Mr. Jorda,
We have received with great dissatisfaction and embitterment your
reply to
our October 13 letter. With regret we note your apparent
unwillingness to
see the seriousness of the problem we have drawn your attention to.
That way
you may become accomplice in the crime being committed against
President
Milosevic under the auspices of the tribunal you preside. We hope we
shouldn't remind you that as President, you are the most responsible
for the
legality of the ICTY works.
The basic principle of the criminal law endorses that an ill man can
not be
put on trial. President Milosevic is having a serious heart condition
and
his state of health is being ruined on a daily basis by the way the
process
is being conducted, with hundreds of thousands pages of documents and
more
than a thousand of tapes submitted by the prosecution, with no
condition to
prepare for facing hundreds of irrelevant or false witnesses sent by
the
prosecution. With the lack of basic living conditions, such as the
possibility to breathe fresh air, to have regular meals and regular
and
sufficient sleep, it becomes completely clear which factors cause the
deterioration of the President Milosevic's health.
Regarding your reference to the Trial Chamber III March 6 decision on
provisional release, implying perhaps that the issue can not be
discussed
again, we are obliged to underline again that President Milosevic's
state of
health seriously deteriorated exactly since that time. For the reason
of his
illness the proceedings had to be suspended several times. These are
the
facts that must be taken into consideration.
We are also obliged to point the untruthfulness of your claim that
President
Slobodan Milosevic receives "close medical attention of a high
quality". As
a matter of fact, the truth is quite the opposite - he receives
practically
no medical care, especially not of the high quality, unless you
consider
appropriate for a person with serious heart condition to be seen only
once
in a week, and not by a cardiologist, but by an ordinary doctor, who
only
checks his blood pressure. In that sense we recall once again the
First
Principle of Medical Ethics from the UN General Assembly Resolution
No.
37/194 of December 18, 1982, which says: "Health personnel,
particularly
physicians, charged with the medical care of prisoners and detainees,
have a
duty to provide them with protection of their physical and mental
health and
treatment of disease of the same quality and standard as is afforded
to
those who are not imprisoned or detained." The same is stipulated by
the
Article 6 of the Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials (UN
General
Assembly Resolution 34/169 of December 17, 1979) provisions of which
established the obligations for you as President of ICTY. Besides, the
provisions of the World Medical Association Declaration on the Rights
of the
Patient (Lisbon, 1981; Bali, 1995) guarantee the right of every person
without discrimination to "choose freely and change his/her physician
and
hospital or health service institution" (Principle 2). The will of
President
Slobodan Milosevic is to be treated by Yugoslav doctors and
institutions, so
you are obliged to enable with that by deciding that he has to be
cured in
Yugoslavia.
We request once again your immediate decision that President Slobodan
Milosevic has to be cured in Yugoslavia. Any other decision will bear
direct
responsibility for imperiling his life.
If there wouldn't be appropriate decision of your side in the
following
days, we will be, with regret, forced to make further moves, but this
time
towards the international and French bodies in charge of human rights
protection and lawyers' ethics. This will be followed by activating
all
legal means to stop the crime and protect rights of President
Milosevic.
Belgrade, December 12, 2002
On behalf of the Freedom Association
Bogoljub Bjelica, President
=== * ===
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
icdsm temporary address:
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/index.htm
for your donations:
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/donations.htm
Hague (SLOBODA 18/12)
2. NATO AND NATOITES ATTACK FREEDOM - actual briefs from The Hague
(SLOBODA 18/12)
3. German doctors' reply to Jorda (13/12)
4. SLOBODA Teaches ICTY President Ethics and Law (12/12)
=== 1 ===
PRELIMINARY LEGAL REMARKS OF ICDSM ATTORNEY Ms. TIPHAINE DICKSON,
PRESENT TODAY AT THE HAGUE
18 December 2002, The Hague
Earlier today, Trial Chamber III allocated a few minutes of its
timetable to summarize a decision with respect to Slobodan
Milosevic's health, trial conditions, and to rule on requests for
provisional release filed by parties.
The full ruling was unavailable to the public and the press.
On 5th and 12th of November, the ICDSM petitioned the Chamber for
urgent specialized medical attention and for the provisional release
of Slobodan Milosevic. On the basis of medical reports and
international law, we argued that the current trial conditions
constitute a threat to his life, that lack of adequate medical
attention is tantamount to torture, and requested that he be afforded
the right to urgent, specialized medical care by physicians familiar
with his history. This requires provisional release to Belgrade as
well as full convalescence.
The ICDSM further submitted that President Milosevic's fundamental
right represent himself, and to not have counsel imposed on him
creates an obligation on the Chamber to accommodate the exercise of
this right by providing conditions other than those of a grueling
trial schedule with restricted access to his legal assistants in a
prison . We provided the Chamber with a legal basis upon which to
order Slobodan Milosevic's release for the continuation of the trial
in a non-custodial setting, following full convalescence.
Chamber III has today denied provisional release, and appears, since
they affirm that they will proceed according to their "timetable", to
have denied requests for an adjournment so that President Milosevic
may obtain specialized medical evaluation and treatment. They did not
mention the ICDSM's motion or requests.
Trial Chamber III has disregarded the reasoning of their colleagues
in the Talic matter who stated:
"It would be inappropriate for this Trial Chamber to wait until
Talic is on the verge of death before considering favorably his
application for provisional release"
The ICDSM considers that it would also be "inappropriate" for the
Chamber to wait until these trial conditions cause severe cardiac
complications, stroke, or death before "considering favorably" an
application for provisional release. It is also "inappropriate" to
wait until Slobodan Milosevic is on the verge of death
before "favorably considering" a request for specialized medical
attention.
The Chamber stated that "as previously" they would deny provisional
release. Previously, that is March 6th 2002, Slobodan Milosevic's
health conditions had not deteriorated as they have in the past
months. Previously, the arguments of the court-appointed amici took
up only four transcript pages including the following remark:
"So I'm not insisting on provisional release and equality of arms, so
to speak".
The ICDSM did not consider that the matter had been previously argued
in an adequate manner. It appears from the fragment of the decision
to which the public was made privy that the Chamber has equated
previous requests with current ones. Such an interpretation would
constitute a gross misapprehension of the facts and the law.
The Chamber did however refuse to impose counsel on President
Milosevic. The ICDSM is relieved that Slobodan Milosevic's arguments
supporting his right to represent himself and not to have counsel
imposed on him have prevailed.
Another statement will follow the disclosure of the full decision.
Tiphaine Dickson
Attorney ICDSM
=== 2 ===
NATO AND NATOITES ATTACK FREEDOM
- actual briefs from The Hague -
December 18, 2002
1) Canadian lawyer Tiphaine Dickson, presently at The Hague, on
behalf of ICDSM, have not been allowed this morning to enter the
court room audience. Policeman at the entrance explained that she had
to make arrangements in advance. In principle the "trial" is open and
anyone, presenting ID, can enter the audience. They can eventually
deny entrance only if all seats are occupied. This morning there was
no queue at the entrance. After her telephone appeal and telephone
appeal from SLOBODA, ICTY stuff promised that she will be let in. We
expect new information.
2) Up to this moment, despite many appeals and request of President
Milosevic, ICDSM delegation have not yet got the "tribunal"'s
approval to meet the President.
3) While we write this, "tribunal" is still dealing with one of
their "witnesses" - former Mayor of Dubrovnik. Not yet
with "administrative" issues. They don't care about the human life,
or more precisely, they used to destroy human lives. They also don't
care about people of Serbia and Yugoslavia, about Yugoslav and
Russian Parliaments, about parties, organizations, medical doctors,
university professors, lawyers and many other from all over the world
appealing. They think they are above the law. But they are not.
4) One of the biggest insults to the law and to even common sense is
parallely taking place at The Hague these days. Brutal murderer
Madeleine Albright, holocaust-profiteer Eli Vizel and couple of other
criminal actors appeared in a necrophilic show around Biljana
Plavsic's "admission of guilt". With absolutely no trace of law, this
show exposed the essence of ICTY in a way that everyone who still has
any illusions about the NATO puppet "court" should not only abandon
illusions, but should join the struggle against this modern
inquisition and civilizational outrage.
5) In denying the permission for the visit, "tribunal" mentioned
ICDSM web site and doubts that delegation may address the press. So,
as we all know, fear from the truth is their principal fear.
6) One can illustrate their panic and attempt to shake the
determination and unity of the people and ICDSM with the outrageous
anonymous e-mail spaming campaign on the eve of the visit, containing
attack on two leading ICDSM personalities, Jared Israel and Nico
Varkevisser. Accusing them of being US/Israeli agents using as
argument a pamphlet from a Saudi Arabian newspaper clearly shows the
background of the attack and the kitchen. It is unnecessary to
present counter arguments to any progressive person on these two
brilliant leftist writers, analysts and activists. Who made more
exposure and wrote more based-on-facts articles on Nazi-type
antiserbian propaganda than Jared Israel? Who is for years focus of
defense of Cuba and Yugoslavia in The Netherlands but Nico
Varkevisser, decorated with a medal of honor by Fidel Castro in
person? Who never had doubts that struggle of President Milosevic is
crucial for the defense of all peoples? But it is also clear in whose
interest is to launch false attacks on these men. In the interest of
the New Nazis and their Gestapo at the Hague.
7) Remember the following: 'The sanctions against [people of]
Yugoslavia will go on "because the crisis (...) with respect to
Slobodan Miloševic, his close associates and supporters
(...)" /George W. Bush, Presidential Notice, May 27, 2002/'
8) ACT IN FULL POWER TO PROTECT THE LIFE OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, THE
MAN WHO DEFENDS OUR FREEDOM, OUR RIGHTS AND OUR HOPES!
Vladimir Krsljanin
International Secretary, SPS
International Coordinator, Sloboda
Yugoslav Coordinator, ICDSM
=== 3 ===
German physicians, some of them members of Nobel Peace Prize winning
organization IPPNW addressed the Hague Tribunal with a demand that
President Milosevic should be immediatelly set free to get medical
cure in Yugoslavia and than to defend himself as a free man. After
unbelievable long time for a human life at stake urgency, they
received an unblievable respond from ICTY President Claude Jorda.
Here is their reply:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
Initiative of Physicians and Therapists Practizing in Germany
Matthias Jochheim, Dr. med. Uta Mader, 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. Wolfgang Hühn
To Mr. Claude Jorda
and to the attention of
Mr. Richard May, Mr. Steven Kay, Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic
ICTY The Hague
December 13, 2002
Live and health of Slobodan Milosevic need consequent measures
immediately
Dear Mr. Jorda,
Thank you for your letter of November 27, 2002, received by
facsimile on November 29, 2002, by which you responded to our letter
of November 8, 2002.
Despite your claim that according to the Tribunal Rules you are not
responsible for the above mentioned subject, it is undisputable that
a serious damage to the health of Slobodan Milosevic or even his
death under the auspices of the Tribunal would be unavoidably seen as
responsibility of the institution, for which you in your function
carry the biggest and in the last instance decision making
responsibility.
In your November 27, 2002 letter of response, you try to diminish our
concern about life and health of Slobodan Milosevic with the remark,
that he receives good and highly qualified medical treatment by the
medical staff of the prison. This argument is not convincing from our
perspective for the following reasons:
The „medical staff“, which is responsible for all prisoners, co=
nsist
of only one doctor and one nurse.
The doctor is not a specialist for Mr. Milosevic's illness.
The good and highly qualified treatment consist of just one weekly
visit by the doctor. Neither an intensive, special examination nor
the necessary therapy are taking place.
Therefore, our conclusions from November 8, 2002 letter, that Mr.
Milosevic is getting no permanent medical control and observation and
no necessary treatment, remain.
Our expressed concerns were increased by a report of NRC Handelsblad
and the news agency Reuters of November 23, 2002 as well as press
reports by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Stuttgarter Zeitung of
November 25, 2002. They state that Slobodan Milosevic receives for a
longer period of time not just inefficient, but contraindicated
medication, namely blood pressure increasing medication.
How such situation could be in accordance with the alleged high
quality of medical treatment, we do not want to comment. But we
emphasize that this would be an unbelievable scandal which would pass
over any level of tolerance for all those who in their practice have
duty to feel obliged to the Hippocrates Oath.
Upon the order of the responsible Trial Chamber on November 15, 2002
a first examination by a Dutch specialist took place. He stated in
his report, that with appropriate medication the risk of death can be
reduced by 11%. We ask for your understanding that we strongly deny
calculations like that as basis of further procedure.
We strongly condemn the attempt of the Prosecution to use the
threatened health situation of Slobodan Milosevic as a pretext and
occasion to deny him his right to defend himself in person.
The attempt to force upon an „assigned counsel“ is not only vio=
lating
the law, it also contains the danger of producing counterproductive
effects on Mr. Milosevic's state of health: The enforcement of an
assigned counsel against the stated will of the defendant would not
lead to improvement and easement of the situation, but would increase
the stress and the mental burden and by that would also increase the
risk. That proposal of the Prosecution is counterproductive from the
medical point of view, and contraindicated.
The whole situation leads us to reinforce our demands, that Slobodan
Milosevic has to be released immediately from the heath- and life-
threatening situation and set free in order to get the long time
needed therapy by his own specialists in Belgrade. After that, he -
with appropriate guaranties - should be able to defend himself from
freedom against the charges raised.
We support explicitly the proposals filed in that sense by the Amici
Curiae.
Dear Mr. Jorda,
We ask you to take these urgently required measures and to secure by
that effectiveness of the United Nations regulations concerning the
treatment of prisoners.
On instruction of the Initiative,
Dr. med. Uta Mader
(Köln), physician
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) -
German Section;
Union of Democratic Physicians (Verein der demokratischen Ärztinnen
und Ärzte)
=== 4 ===
Mr. Claude Jorda,
President
ICTY
The Hague
The Netherlands
Esteemed Mr. Jorda,
We have received with great dissatisfaction and embitterment your
reply to
our October 13 letter. With regret we note your apparent
unwillingness to
see the seriousness of the problem we have drawn your attention to.
That way
you may become accomplice in the crime being committed against
President
Milosevic under the auspices of the tribunal you preside. We hope we
shouldn't remind you that as President, you are the most responsible
for the
legality of the ICTY works.
The basic principle of the criminal law endorses that an ill man can
not be
put on trial. President Milosevic is having a serious heart condition
and
his state of health is being ruined on a daily basis by the way the
process
is being conducted, with hundreds of thousands pages of documents and
more
than a thousand of tapes submitted by the prosecution, with no
condition to
prepare for facing hundreds of irrelevant or false witnesses sent by
the
prosecution. With the lack of basic living conditions, such as the
possibility to breathe fresh air, to have regular meals and regular
and
sufficient sleep, it becomes completely clear which factors cause the
deterioration of the President Milosevic's health.
Regarding your reference to the Trial Chamber III March 6 decision on
provisional release, implying perhaps that the issue can not be
discussed
again, we are obliged to underline again that President Milosevic's
state of
health seriously deteriorated exactly since that time. For the reason
of his
illness the proceedings had to be suspended several times. These are
the
facts that must be taken into consideration.
We are also obliged to point the untruthfulness of your claim that
President
Slobodan Milosevic receives "close medical attention of a high
quality". As
a matter of fact, the truth is quite the opposite - he receives
practically
no medical care, especially not of the high quality, unless you
consider
appropriate for a person with serious heart condition to be seen only
once
in a week, and not by a cardiologist, but by an ordinary doctor, who
only
checks his blood pressure. In that sense we recall once again the
First
Principle of Medical Ethics from the UN General Assembly Resolution
No.
37/194 of December 18, 1982, which says: "Health personnel,
particularly
physicians, charged with the medical care of prisoners and detainees,
have a
duty to provide them with protection of their physical and mental
health and
treatment of disease of the same quality and standard as is afforded
to
those who are not imprisoned or detained." The same is stipulated by
the
Article 6 of the Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials (UN
General
Assembly Resolution 34/169 of December 17, 1979) provisions of which
established the obligations for you as President of ICTY. Besides, the
provisions of the World Medical Association Declaration on the Rights
of the
Patient (Lisbon, 1981; Bali, 1995) guarantee the right of every person
without discrimination to "choose freely and change his/her physician
and
hospital or health service institution" (Principle 2). The will of
President
Slobodan Milosevic is to be treated by Yugoslav doctors and
institutions, so
you are obliged to enable with that by deciding that he has to be
cured in
Yugoslavia.
We request once again your immediate decision that President Slobodan
Milosevic has to be cured in Yugoslavia. Any other decision will bear
direct
responsibility for imperiling his life.
If there wouldn't be appropriate decision of your side in the
following
days, we will be, with regret, forced to make further moves, but this
time
towards the international and French bodies in charge of human rights
protection and lawyers' ethics. This will be followed by activating
all
legal means to stop the crime and protect rights of President
Milosevic.
Belgrade, December 12, 2002
On behalf of the Freedom Association
Bogoljub Bjelica, President
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OUN KRITIKUJE DELOVANJE KOSOVSKIH ALBANACA
Moskva, 17. decembra RIA “Novosti”
specijalno za Artel-Geopolitiku
Valentin KUNJIN, politicki komentator RIA “Novosti”
Politicki lideri kosovskih albanaca sa sve vecom upornoscu izjavljuju
da je neophodno dati nezavisnost Kosovu – pokrajini koja je sastavni
deo Jugoslavije i koja se od juna 1999. godine nalazi pod
protektoratom OUN.
Povod za nove takve izjave bio je dolazak na Kosovo delegacije Saveta
bezbednosti OUN. Putovanje je bilo organizovano na inicijativu
Rusije, sa ciljem da se na licu mesta sagleda situacija u pokrajini,
da se delegacija Saveta upozna sa rezultatima rada misije OUN i
pripremi odgovarajuci izvestaj. Vec prilikom prvog susreta sa
clanovima delegacije OUN albanski lideri su se zalozili za sto
skorije resenje pitanja o statusu Kosova i davanju nezavisnosti ovoj
pokrajini. Kosovski predsednik Ibrahim Rugova izjavio je na
pregovorima da je Kosovo vec nezavisno i da je neophodno samo
formalno potvrditi tu cinjenicu. “Svet treba da postuje demokratske
reforme u pokrajini, - podvukao je Rugova, - i zelju vecine albanaca
da zive u nezavisnoj drzavi”.
Rugovu je podrzao i predsednik kosovskog parlamenta Nedzat Daci, dok
je sef vlade pokrajine Bajram Redzepi pozvao da se posspesi proces
prenosenja veceg dela ovlascenja “prelaznim kosovskim vlastima”, pa i
u delu koji se odnosi na pitanja medjunarodne saradnje.
Ostre kritike na te izjave uputila je rukovodilac poslanicke grupe
srpske koalicije “Povratak” u paralemntu Kosova Rada Trajkovic, koja
je podvukla da sve izjave lidera kosvskih albanaca o neophodnosti
pospesivanja pregovora o definitivnom statusu pokrajine nisu
zasnovane na realnoj situaciji i da predstavljaju “pustu zelju
albanskih politicara”.
Sa time se prakticno u potpunosti slozio sef delegacije Saveta
bezbednosti OUN Ole Peter Kolbi, cija je izjava za politicke lidere
kosovara zaista predstavljala “hladni tuss”. Visokopostavljeni
cinovnik OUN otvoreno je kazao, da je Kosovo trenutno daleko od toga
da tamo “funkcionisu demokratski instituti i drustvo u cijem zivotu
bi mogle realno ucestvovati manjine”. On je naglasio da odluka o
konacnom statusu Kosova ne moze biti doneta nikakvim jednostranim
koracima. Takvu odluku moze da donese jedino Savet bezbednosti OUN,
posle konsultacija sa svim zainteresovanim stranama.
U ovom trenutku paznja Saveta bezbednosti OUN koncentrisana je na tri
osnovna pravca. Prvi, na postizanje na Kosovu citavog niza
opsteprihvacenih medjunarodnih standarda, drugi, na formiranju
multinacionalnog drustva i treci, na punovrednoj integraciji
necionalnih manjina.
Medjutim, realna situacija na Kosovu omogucava da se nedvosmisleno
govori o tome, da kosovski albanci ne nameravaju da resavaju te
probleme i da deluju, zapravo, u suprotnom smeru. Za tri poslednje
godine, spasavajuci se od terora bojovnika takozvane OVK, iz
pokrajine je izgnano preko dvesta hiljada predstavnika nacionalnih
manjina – Srba, cigana, Makedonaca. Poruseno je i spaljeno ne samo na
hiljade kuca koje su pripadale nealbancima, nego je dignuto u vazduh
na desetine pravoslavnih hramova i manastira.
Nekoliko desetina hiljada Srba, koji nisu zeleli da napuste rodna
ognjista, danas zivi u enklavama, okruzenim neprijateljski
raspolozenim albanskim stanovnistvom, pod zastitom vojnika iz sastava
medjunarodnih mirovnih snaga. Pa i pored toga, slucajevi napada
kosovara na Srbe ne prestaju. “Kosovo za albance” – takva je danas
najpolularnija parola, koju otvoreno promovisu svi albanski lideri u
pokrajini – od “umerenog nacionaliste” Ibrahima Rugove, do bivsih
komandira OVK, koji su postali respektabilni politicari cim su se iz
oklopnih vozila premestili u “mercedese”.
Razume se, sve je to bilo dobro poznato cinovnicima iz delegacije
Saveta bezbednosti OUN i pre njihovog dolaska na Kosovo. Jednostavno,
oni su sada sve to videli svojim ocima. Otuda i ostra izjava Ole
Pitera Kolbija.
Istovremeno, ne smemo zanemariti ni prilicno dvostruki prilaz
delegacije OUN oceni situacije na Kosovu. Na primer, poziv gospodina
Kolbija albancima, kao i vecini stanovnistva, “da preuzmu na sebe
odgovornost za bezbednost” nacionalnih manjina izgleda, najblaze
receno, naivno.
I jos nesto. Iz izjava sefa delegacije OUN moze se izvesti zakljucak,
da pod odredjenim uslovima – razvoj demokratskih instituta na Kosovu,
postovanje prava nacionalnih manjina itd., ne treba iskljuciti
mogucnost da se toj pokrajini da nezavisnost. Medjutim, u rezoluciji
1244 Saveta bezbednosti OUN apsolutno jasno se govori o ocuvanju
teritorijalne celovitosti Jugoslavije, i Kosovo se fiksira kao njen
neodvojivi deo. S tim u vezi namece se prirodno pitanje – ne dopusta
li Zapad, koji kontrolise situaciju na Balkanu, mogucnost
preispitivanja odrednica te rezolucije?
office@...
Datum: 17 decembar 2002
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OUN KRITIKUJE DELOVANJE KOSOVSKIH ALBANACA
Moskva, 17. decembra RIA “Novosti”
specijalno za Artel-Geopolitiku
Valentin KUNJIN, politicki komentator RIA “Novosti”
Politicki lideri kosovskih albanaca sa sve vecom upornoscu izjavljuju
da je neophodno dati nezavisnost Kosovu – pokrajini koja je sastavni
deo Jugoslavije i koja se od juna 1999. godine nalazi pod
protektoratom OUN.
Povod za nove takve izjave bio je dolazak na Kosovo delegacije Saveta
bezbednosti OUN. Putovanje je bilo organizovano na inicijativu
Rusije, sa ciljem da se na licu mesta sagleda situacija u pokrajini,
da se delegacija Saveta upozna sa rezultatima rada misije OUN i
pripremi odgovarajuci izvestaj. Vec prilikom prvog susreta sa
clanovima delegacije OUN albanski lideri su se zalozili za sto
skorije resenje pitanja o statusu Kosova i davanju nezavisnosti ovoj
pokrajini. Kosovski predsednik Ibrahim Rugova izjavio je na
pregovorima da je Kosovo vec nezavisno i da je neophodno samo
formalno potvrditi tu cinjenicu. “Svet treba da postuje demokratske
reforme u pokrajini, - podvukao je Rugova, - i zelju vecine albanaca
da zive u nezavisnoj drzavi”.
Rugovu je podrzao i predsednik kosovskog parlamenta Nedzat Daci, dok
je sef vlade pokrajine Bajram Redzepi pozvao da se posspesi proces
prenosenja veceg dela ovlascenja “prelaznim kosovskim vlastima”, pa i
u delu koji se odnosi na pitanja medjunarodne saradnje.
Ostre kritike na te izjave uputila je rukovodilac poslanicke grupe
srpske koalicije “Povratak” u paralemntu Kosova Rada Trajkovic, koja
je podvukla da sve izjave lidera kosvskih albanaca o neophodnosti
pospesivanja pregovora o definitivnom statusu pokrajine nisu
zasnovane na realnoj situaciji i da predstavljaju “pustu zelju
albanskih politicara”.
Sa time se prakticno u potpunosti slozio sef delegacije Saveta
bezbednosti OUN Ole Peter Kolbi, cija je izjava za politicke lidere
kosovara zaista predstavljala “hladni tuss”. Visokopostavljeni
cinovnik OUN otvoreno je kazao, da je Kosovo trenutno daleko od toga
da tamo “funkcionisu demokratski instituti i drustvo u cijem zivotu
bi mogle realno ucestvovati manjine”. On je naglasio da odluka o
konacnom statusu Kosova ne moze biti doneta nikakvim jednostranim
koracima. Takvu odluku moze da donese jedino Savet bezbednosti OUN,
posle konsultacija sa svim zainteresovanim stranama.
U ovom trenutku paznja Saveta bezbednosti OUN koncentrisana je na tri
osnovna pravca. Prvi, na postizanje na Kosovu citavog niza
opsteprihvacenih medjunarodnih standarda, drugi, na formiranju
multinacionalnog drustva i treci, na punovrednoj integraciji
necionalnih manjina.
Medjutim, realna situacija na Kosovu omogucava da se nedvosmisleno
govori o tome, da kosovski albanci ne nameravaju da resavaju te
probleme i da deluju, zapravo, u suprotnom smeru. Za tri poslednje
godine, spasavajuci se od terora bojovnika takozvane OVK, iz
pokrajine je izgnano preko dvesta hiljada predstavnika nacionalnih
manjina – Srba, cigana, Makedonaca. Poruseno je i spaljeno ne samo na
hiljade kuca koje su pripadale nealbancima, nego je dignuto u vazduh
na desetine pravoslavnih hramova i manastira.
Nekoliko desetina hiljada Srba, koji nisu zeleli da napuste rodna
ognjista, danas zivi u enklavama, okruzenim neprijateljski
raspolozenim albanskim stanovnistvom, pod zastitom vojnika iz sastava
medjunarodnih mirovnih snaga. Pa i pored toga, slucajevi napada
kosovara na Srbe ne prestaju. “Kosovo za albance” – takva je danas
najpolularnija parola, koju otvoreno promovisu svi albanski lideri u
pokrajini – od “umerenog nacionaliste” Ibrahima Rugove, do bivsih
komandira OVK, koji su postali respektabilni politicari cim su se iz
oklopnih vozila premestili u “mercedese”.
Razume se, sve je to bilo dobro poznato cinovnicima iz delegacije
Saveta bezbednosti OUN i pre njihovog dolaska na Kosovo. Jednostavno,
oni su sada sve to videli svojim ocima. Otuda i ostra izjava Ole
Pitera Kolbija.
Istovremeno, ne smemo zanemariti ni prilicno dvostruki prilaz
delegacije OUN oceni situacije na Kosovu. Na primer, poziv gospodina
Kolbija albancima, kao i vecini stanovnistva, “da preuzmu na sebe
odgovornost za bezbednost” nacionalnih manjina izgleda, najblaze
receno, naivno.
I jos nesto. Iz izjava sefa delegacije OUN moze se izvesti zakljucak,
da pod odredjenim uslovima – razvoj demokratskih instituta na Kosovu,
postovanje prava nacionalnih manjina itd., ne treba iskljuciti
mogucnost da se toj pokrajini da nezavisnost. Medjutim, u rezoluciji
1244 Saveta bezbednosti OUN apsolutno jasno se govori o ocuvanju
teritorijalne celovitosti Jugoslavije, i Kosovo se fiksira kao njen
neodvojivi deo. S tim u vezi namece se prirodno pitanje – ne dopusta
li Zapad, koji kontrolise situaciju na Balkanu, mogucnost
preispitivanja odrednica te rezolucije?
1. Pressemitteilung n.11/02 (Internationales Komitee für die
Verteidigung von Slobodan Milosevic - Deutsche Sektion - 18/12/02)
2. Initiative von in Deutschland praktizierenden Ärzten und
Therapeuten (13/12/02)
=== 1 ===
International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) - German
Section
Internationales Komitee für die Verteidigung von Slobodan Milosevic -
Deutsche Sektion
c/o Klaus Hartmann
Schillstraße 7
D-63067 Offenbach am Main
T/F: -69 - 83 58 50
e-mail: vorstand@...
URL: www.free-slobo.de
Pressemitteilung
11-2002
18.12.02
Gefahr des Justizmords weiterhin akut
Am 18.12.2002, dem letzen Tag des „Prozesses“ gegen Slobodan
Miloševic in diesem Jahr, war die „Behandlung administrativer Fr=
agen“
angekündigt. Im Klartext sollte es um die gesundheitliche Situation
von Slobodan Miloševic gehen und die Chance, dass er das Verfahren
lebend übersteht. Die Behandlung des Problems im „Gericht“ wurd=
e
völlig den Erwartungen gerecht, die bereits jene eiskalte
Bürokratensprache hervorrief, als sie eine Überlebensfrage
zur „administrativen“ Frage degradierte. In weniger als drei Mi=
nuten
war „Richter“ May mit dem Problem fertig.
Zunächst informierte er, dass die Kammer ärztliche
Gutachten und Anträge „der Parteien“ erhalten habe. Dass zu die=
sen
auch solche des Internationalen und von nationalen Komitees zur
Verteidigung von Slobodan Milosevic waren, Appelle von US-
Intellektuellen und von deutschen Ärzten sowie eine einstimmige
Resolution der russischen Duma, das unterschlug May, sicher nicht aus
Zeitgründen.
So ließ er auch keinerlei Diskussion zu diesem Thema zu,
sondern verkündete wie ein abschließendes Urteil die drei Punkte:
Fortsetzung des „Prozesses“ nach vorgesehenem Zeitplan „u=
nter
Berücksichtigung“ der Gesundheit des „Angeklagten“, keine=
Bestellung
eines (von Carla del Ponte geforderten) Zwangsanwalts, da unvereinbar
mit den Regeln des „Gerichts“, und drittens: keine zeitweilige =
Haftentlassung von Slobodan Miloševic, die diesem eine spezialisierte =
Therapie durch ihn langjährig behandelnde Ärzte ermöglicht hätte.
Damit wird trotz wiederholter Warnungen, besonders von
Fachärzten, sehenden Auges weiterhin eine schwere Schädigung der
Gesundheit und eine Gefährdung des Lebens von Slobodan Miloševic in
Kauf genommen. Damit sehen sich all jene bestätigt, die aufgrund des
bisherigen Desasters des Prozesses in juristischer Hinsicht
unterstellt haben, dass die Lösung „Erledigung des Falles durch
Ableben“ für die hinter dem „Tribunal“ stehenden Kräfte e=
ine
zumindest erwägenswerte Variante darstellt.
Der Gesundheitszustand von Slobodan Miloševic, der an
außerordentlich überhöhtem Blutdruck, Herzmuskelschwäche, einer
Erweiterung der linken Herzkammer und Angina pectoris mit dem Risiko
des plötzlichen Herztodes leidet, hat sich in den letzten Monaten
aufgrund unerträglicher Haft- und Verfahrensbedingungen rapide
verschlechtert. Die erstmalige Untersuchung durch einen
niederländischen Kardiologen am 15.11.2002 prognostizierte eine
Senkung des Todesrisikos um 11% bei entsprechender Medikation. Am
23.11.2002 wurde nach Zeitungs- und Agenturmeldungen bekannt, dass
Miloševic über einen längeren Zeitraum nicht nur keine wirksamen oder =
unwirksamen, sondern sogar kontraindizierte, nämlich
blutdrucksteigernde Medikamente verabreicht wurden.
Eine Initiative von in Deutschland praktizierenden Ärzten
und Therapeuten, darunter Mitgliedern der
Organisation "Internationale Ärzte zur Verhütung eines
Nuklearkrieges", hat in bisher zwei Eingaben an das „Tribunal“ =
u.a.
festgestellt:
„Dieser nur als unverantwortlich zu bezeichnende Umgang mit einem
Menschen, dessen Gesundheit und Leben Ihnen mit allen Konsequenzen
anvertraut ist, wirft ernsthafte Fragen nach den Gründen auf. Er
steht zumindest in diametralem Widerspruch zu verschiedenen
Dokumenten und Resolutionen der UN über die Behandlung von
Inhaftierten, für deren Gewährleistung doch zumindest
Verantwortliche, die sich für Vertreter einer UN-Institution halten,
in vollem Umfang verantwortlich sein sollten.
Nach der eingetretenen und vom ICTY voll zu verantwortenden Situation
bleibt als die ultimative Konsequenz, Slobodan Miloševic umgehend aus =
dieser gesundheits- und lebensbedrohenden Situation zu befreien und
ihn auf freien Fuß zu setzen, damit er sich in Belgrad der längst
überfälligen Therapie durch ihn langjährig behandelnde Ärzte
unterziehen kann.“
Mit seiner heutigen Entscheidung hat Richter May nicht
nur solche einschlägigen Hinweise ignoriert. Offenkundig verletzt das
Tribunal damit auch Resolutionen und Dokumente der UN-
Generalversammlung im Bezug auf die Gesundheit von Personen in Haft,
und zwar
die Bestimmungen der Resolution der UN-Generalversammlung Nr. 3794
vom Dezember 1982, welche Ärzte und anderes medizinisches Personal
verpflichtet, Personen im Gefängnis oder in Haft "eine Therapie
derselben Qualität und gemäß denselben Normen wie für Personen, die
sich nicht im Gefängnis oder in Haft befinden", zukommen zu lassen,
sowie
Artikel 6 des Kodex für das Verhalten von Personen der Rechtspflege,
der von der UN-Generalversammlung am 17. Dezember 1979 angenommen
wurde, und der alle Gerichte verpflichtet, für einen vollständigen
Schutz der Gesundheit von Personen Sorge zu tragen, die ihrer
Rechtsprechung unterliegen.
Darüber hinaus verletzt das „Tribunal“ sein eigenes Statut,
insbesondere Artikel 21, Punkt 4b, der dazu verpflichtet, jedem
Angeklagten angemessene Zeit und Voraussetzungen für die Vorbereitung
seiner Verteidigung zu gewähren.
Aus Sicht des Internationalen Komitees für die Verteidigung von
Slobodan Miloševic deutet dies darauf hin, dass das Verfahren nur ein =
organisierter Versuch ist, Slobodan Miloševic umzubringen.
Vertreter des Internationalen Komitees kündigte
unmittelbar nach dem „potenziellen Todesurteil“ die Prüfung von=
rechtlichen Schritten gegen „Richter“ May an. In den nächsten T=
agen
wollen sie den Hohen Kommissar für Menschenrechte der Vereinten
Nationen in Genf einschalten, damit im „Zirkus del Ponte“ endli=
ch die
Bestimmungen der UN Geltung erlangen.
Klaus Hartmann
Vizepräsident des ICDSM
Internationales Komitee für die Verteidigung von Slobodan Miloševic
=== 2 ===
Initiative von in Deutschland praktizierenden Ärzten und Therapeuten
Matthias Jochheim, Dr. med. Uta Mader, 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. Wolfgang Hühn
An Herrn Claude Jorda
zur Kenntnis an die Herren
Richard May, Steven Kay, Branislav Tapuskovic
ICTY Den Haag
13.12.2002
Leben und Gesundheit von Slobodan Milosevic erfordern konsequente
Sofortmassnahmen
Sehr geehrter Herr Jorda!
Wir bedanken uns für Ihr Schreiben vom 27. November 2002, zugegangen
per Fax am 29. 11. 2002, mit dem Sie auf unser Schreiben vom 08.
November 2002 antworten.
Obwohl Sie, wie Sie betonen , nach den Regeln des Tribunals für die
angesprochene Thematik nicht zuständig sind, dürfte unbestreitbar
sein, dass eine ernsthafte Schädigung der Gesundheit von Slobodan
Milosevic oder gar sein Ableben unter der Verantwortung des Tribunals
unvermeidlich der Institution insgesamt zugerechnet würde, für die
Sie Kraft Ihrer Funktion die hervorgehobene und letztentscheidende
Verantwortung tragen.
In Ihrem Antwortschreiben vom 27. November 2002 versuchen Sie, unsere
Sorge um Leben und Gesundheit von Slobodan Milosevic mit dem Hinweis
zu zerstreuen, dass er eine gute und hoch qualitative medizinische
Betreuung durch den Medizinischen Stab des Gefängnisses erhalte.
Dieses Argument vermag aus unserer Sicht nicht zu überzeugen, und
zwar aus den Gründen:
Der „Medizinische Stab“, der für alle Gefangenen zuständig ist,=
besteht lediglich aus einem Arzt und einer Schwester.
Der Arzt ist kein Spezialist für die hier vorliegende Erkrankung.
Die gute und hochqualitative Betreuung besteht aus lediglich einem
Arztbesuch pro Woche, eine eingehende, spezielle Untersuchung findet
ebenso wenig statt wie die erforderliche Therapie.
Damit bleibt es bei unserer am 08. November 2002 getroffenen
Feststellung, dass Herr Milosevic weder unter ständiger ärztlicher
Beobachtung und Kontrolle steht, geschweige denn die gebotene
adäquate Therapie erhält.
Unsere diesbezüglich geäußerten Befürchtungen wurden endgültig
erhärtet durch einen Bericht im NRC Handelsblad und der
Nachrichtenagentur Reuters vom 23. November 2002 sowie
Pressemeldungen wie die der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung und der
Stuttgarter Zeitung vom 25. November 2002. Danach wurden Slobodan
Milosevic über einen längeren Zeitraum nicht nur keine wirksamen oder
unwirksamen, sondern sogar kontraindizierte, nämlich
blutdrucksteigernde Medikamente verabreicht.
Wie dieser Sachverhalt mit der angeblich hohen Qualität der
medizinischen Betreuung korrespondiert, möchten wir nicht
kommentieren. Wir stellen aber fest, dass mit diesem unglaublichen
Skandal hinsichtlich der praktizierten Obhutspflicht die
Toleranzgrenze für all jene überschritten ist, die sich dem
hippokratischen Eid verpflichtet fühlen.
Nach Anordnung der zuständigen Kammer erfolgte am 15. November 2002
erstmals eine Untersuchung durch einen niederländischen Facharzt.
Dieser stellt in seinem Bericht fest, dass bei entsprechender
Medikation das Todesrisiko um 11% vermindert werden kann. Wir bitten
um Ihr Verständnis, dass wir derartige Kalkulationen als Grundlage
der weiteren Verfahrensweise strikt ablehnen müssen.
Wir weisen entschieden den Versuch der Anlage zurück, den
bedrohlichen Gesundheitszustand von Slobodan Milosevic zum Vorwand
und Anlass zu nehmen, ihm sein originäres Recht auf
Selbstverteidigung absprechen zu wollen.
Der Versuch der Oktroyierung eines „Pflichtverteidigers“ ist ni=
cht
nur rechtssystemwidrig; er birgt auch die Gefahr, in gesundheitlicher
Hinsicht das Gegenteil des vorgeblichen Ziels zu erreichen: Die
Aufzwingung eines Pflichtverteidigers gegen den erklärten Willen des
Angeklagten wird nicht zu einer Verbesserung und Entspannung der
Situation führen, sondern sie erhöht den Stress, die mentale
Belastungssituation und verschärft damit die Gefährdungslage. Dieser
Vorschlag der Verteidigung ist also auch aus medizinischer Sicht
kontraproduktiv und kontraindiziert.
Wir haben allen Anlass, unsere Forderung zu wiederholen, Slobodan
Milosevic umgehend aus dieser gesundheits- und lebensbedrohenden
Situation zu befreien und ihn auf freien Fuß zu setzen, damit er sich
in Belgrad der längst überfälligen Therapie durch ihn langjährig
behandelnde Ärzte unterziehen kann. Danach soll er sich, mit
entsprechenden Garantien, in Freiheit gegen die erhobenen Anklagen
verteidigen können.
Wir unterstützen nachdrücklich diesbezügliche Vorschläge der Amici
Curiae.
Sehr geehrter Herr Jorda,
wir appellieren an Sie, diese dringend gebotenen Sofortmaßnahmen zu
ergreifen und damit die Wirksamkeit der Bestimmungen der Vereinten
Nationen über die Behandlung von Inhaftierten sicher zu stellen.
Im Auftrag
Dr. med. Uta Mader
(Köln), Ärztin
IPPNW - Deutsche Sektion, Verein der demokratischen Ärztinnen und
Ärzte
Verteidigung von Slobodan Milosevic - Deutsche Sektion - 18/12/02)
2. Initiative von in Deutschland praktizierenden Ärzten und
Therapeuten (13/12/02)
=== 1 ===
International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) - German
Section
Internationales Komitee für die Verteidigung von Slobodan Milosevic -
Deutsche Sektion
c/o Klaus Hartmann
Schillstraße 7
D-63067 Offenbach am Main
T/F: -69 - 83 58 50
e-mail: vorstand@...
URL: www.free-slobo.de
Pressemitteilung
11-2002
18.12.02
Gefahr des Justizmords weiterhin akut
Am 18.12.2002, dem letzen Tag des „Prozesses“ gegen Slobodan
Miloševic in diesem Jahr, war die „Behandlung administrativer Fr=
agen“
angekündigt. Im Klartext sollte es um die gesundheitliche Situation
von Slobodan Miloševic gehen und die Chance, dass er das Verfahren
lebend übersteht. Die Behandlung des Problems im „Gericht“ wurd=
e
völlig den Erwartungen gerecht, die bereits jene eiskalte
Bürokratensprache hervorrief, als sie eine Überlebensfrage
zur „administrativen“ Frage degradierte. In weniger als drei Mi=
nuten
war „Richter“ May mit dem Problem fertig.
Zunächst informierte er, dass die Kammer ärztliche
Gutachten und Anträge „der Parteien“ erhalten habe. Dass zu die=
sen
auch solche des Internationalen und von nationalen Komitees zur
Verteidigung von Slobodan Milosevic waren, Appelle von US-
Intellektuellen und von deutschen Ärzten sowie eine einstimmige
Resolution der russischen Duma, das unterschlug May, sicher nicht aus
Zeitgründen.
So ließ er auch keinerlei Diskussion zu diesem Thema zu,
sondern verkündete wie ein abschließendes Urteil die drei Punkte:
Fortsetzung des „Prozesses“ nach vorgesehenem Zeitplan „u=
nter
Berücksichtigung“ der Gesundheit des „Angeklagten“, keine=
Bestellung
eines (von Carla del Ponte geforderten) Zwangsanwalts, da unvereinbar
mit den Regeln des „Gerichts“, und drittens: keine zeitweilige =
Haftentlassung von Slobodan Miloševic, die diesem eine spezialisierte =
Therapie durch ihn langjährig behandelnde Ärzte ermöglicht hätte.
Damit wird trotz wiederholter Warnungen, besonders von
Fachärzten, sehenden Auges weiterhin eine schwere Schädigung der
Gesundheit und eine Gefährdung des Lebens von Slobodan Miloševic in
Kauf genommen. Damit sehen sich all jene bestätigt, die aufgrund des
bisherigen Desasters des Prozesses in juristischer Hinsicht
unterstellt haben, dass die Lösung „Erledigung des Falles durch
Ableben“ für die hinter dem „Tribunal“ stehenden Kräfte e=
ine
zumindest erwägenswerte Variante darstellt.
Der Gesundheitszustand von Slobodan Miloševic, der an
außerordentlich überhöhtem Blutdruck, Herzmuskelschwäche, einer
Erweiterung der linken Herzkammer und Angina pectoris mit dem Risiko
des plötzlichen Herztodes leidet, hat sich in den letzten Monaten
aufgrund unerträglicher Haft- und Verfahrensbedingungen rapide
verschlechtert. Die erstmalige Untersuchung durch einen
niederländischen Kardiologen am 15.11.2002 prognostizierte eine
Senkung des Todesrisikos um 11% bei entsprechender Medikation. Am
23.11.2002 wurde nach Zeitungs- und Agenturmeldungen bekannt, dass
Miloševic über einen längeren Zeitraum nicht nur keine wirksamen oder =
unwirksamen, sondern sogar kontraindizierte, nämlich
blutdrucksteigernde Medikamente verabreicht wurden.
Eine Initiative von in Deutschland praktizierenden Ärzten
und Therapeuten, darunter Mitgliedern der
Organisation "Internationale Ärzte zur Verhütung eines
Nuklearkrieges", hat in bisher zwei Eingaben an das „Tribunal“ =
u.a.
festgestellt:
„Dieser nur als unverantwortlich zu bezeichnende Umgang mit einem
Menschen, dessen Gesundheit und Leben Ihnen mit allen Konsequenzen
anvertraut ist, wirft ernsthafte Fragen nach den Gründen auf. Er
steht zumindest in diametralem Widerspruch zu verschiedenen
Dokumenten und Resolutionen der UN über die Behandlung von
Inhaftierten, für deren Gewährleistung doch zumindest
Verantwortliche, die sich für Vertreter einer UN-Institution halten,
in vollem Umfang verantwortlich sein sollten.
Nach der eingetretenen und vom ICTY voll zu verantwortenden Situation
bleibt als die ultimative Konsequenz, Slobodan Miloševic umgehend aus =
dieser gesundheits- und lebensbedrohenden Situation zu befreien und
ihn auf freien Fuß zu setzen, damit er sich in Belgrad der längst
überfälligen Therapie durch ihn langjährig behandelnde Ärzte
unterziehen kann.“
Mit seiner heutigen Entscheidung hat Richter May nicht
nur solche einschlägigen Hinweise ignoriert. Offenkundig verletzt das
Tribunal damit auch Resolutionen und Dokumente der UN-
Generalversammlung im Bezug auf die Gesundheit von Personen in Haft,
und zwar
die Bestimmungen der Resolution der UN-Generalversammlung Nr. 3794
vom Dezember 1982, welche Ärzte und anderes medizinisches Personal
verpflichtet, Personen im Gefängnis oder in Haft "eine Therapie
derselben Qualität und gemäß denselben Normen wie für Personen, die
sich nicht im Gefängnis oder in Haft befinden", zukommen zu lassen,
sowie
Artikel 6 des Kodex für das Verhalten von Personen der Rechtspflege,
der von der UN-Generalversammlung am 17. Dezember 1979 angenommen
wurde, und der alle Gerichte verpflichtet, für einen vollständigen
Schutz der Gesundheit von Personen Sorge zu tragen, die ihrer
Rechtsprechung unterliegen.
Darüber hinaus verletzt das „Tribunal“ sein eigenes Statut,
insbesondere Artikel 21, Punkt 4b, der dazu verpflichtet, jedem
Angeklagten angemessene Zeit und Voraussetzungen für die Vorbereitung
seiner Verteidigung zu gewähren.
Aus Sicht des Internationalen Komitees für die Verteidigung von
Slobodan Miloševic deutet dies darauf hin, dass das Verfahren nur ein =
organisierter Versuch ist, Slobodan Miloševic umzubringen.
Vertreter des Internationalen Komitees kündigte
unmittelbar nach dem „potenziellen Todesurteil“ die Prüfung von=
rechtlichen Schritten gegen „Richter“ May an. In den nächsten T=
agen
wollen sie den Hohen Kommissar für Menschenrechte der Vereinten
Nationen in Genf einschalten, damit im „Zirkus del Ponte“ endli=
ch die
Bestimmungen der UN Geltung erlangen.
Klaus Hartmann
Vizepräsident des ICDSM
Internationales Komitee für die Verteidigung von Slobodan Miloševic
=== 2 ===
Initiative von in Deutschland praktizierenden Ärzten und Therapeuten
Matthias Jochheim, Dr. med. Uta Mader, 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. Wolfgang Hühn
An Herrn Claude Jorda
zur Kenntnis an die Herren
Richard May, Steven Kay, Branislav Tapuskovic
ICTY Den Haag
13.12.2002
Leben und Gesundheit von Slobodan Milosevic erfordern konsequente
Sofortmassnahmen
Sehr geehrter Herr Jorda!
Wir bedanken uns für Ihr Schreiben vom 27. November 2002, zugegangen
per Fax am 29. 11. 2002, mit dem Sie auf unser Schreiben vom 08.
November 2002 antworten.
Obwohl Sie, wie Sie betonen , nach den Regeln des Tribunals für die
angesprochene Thematik nicht zuständig sind, dürfte unbestreitbar
sein, dass eine ernsthafte Schädigung der Gesundheit von Slobodan
Milosevic oder gar sein Ableben unter der Verantwortung des Tribunals
unvermeidlich der Institution insgesamt zugerechnet würde, für die
Sie Kraft Ihrer Funktion die hervorgehobene und letztentscheidende
Verantwortung tragen.
In Ihrem Antwortschreiben vom 27. November 2002 versuchen Sie, unsere
Sorge um Leben und Gesundheit von Slobodan Milosevic mit dem Hinweis
zu zerstreuen, dass er eine gute und hoch qualitative medizinische
Betreuung durch den Medizinischen Stab des Gefängnisses erhalte.
Dieses Argument vermag aus unserer Sicht nicht zu überzeugen, und
zwar aus den Gründen:
Der „Medizinische Stab“, der für alle Gefangenen zuständig ist,=
besteht lediglich aus einem Arzt und einer Schwester.
Der Arzt ist kein Spezialist für die hier vorliegende Erkrankung.
Die gute und hochqualitative Betreuung besteht aus lediglich einem
Arztbesuch pro Woche, eine eingehende, spezielle Untersuchung findet
ebenso wenig statt wie die erforderliche Therapie.
Damit bleibt es bei unserer am 08. November 2002 getroffenen
Feststellung, dass Herr Milosevic weder unter ständiger ärztlicher
Beobachtung und Kontrolle steht, geschweige denn die gebotene
adäquate Therapie erhält.
Unsere diesbezüglich geäußerten Befürchtungen wurden endgültig
erhärtet durch einen Bericht im NRC Handelsblad und der
Nachrichtenagentur Reuters vom 23. November 2002 sowie
Pressemeldungen wie die der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung und der
Stuttgarter Zeitung vom 25. November 2002. Danach wurden Slobodan
Milosevic über einen längeren Zeitraum nicht nur keine wirksamen oder
unwirksamen, sondern sogar kontraindizierte, nämlich
blutdrucksteigernde Medikamente verabreicht.
Wie dieser Sachverhalt mit der angeblich hohen Qualität der
medizinischen Betreuung korrespondiert, möchten wir nicht
kommentieren. Wir stellen aber fest, dass mit diesem unglaublichen
Skandal hinsichtlich der praktizierten Obhutspflicht die
Toleranzgrenze für all jene überschritten ist, die sich dem
hippokratischen Eid verpflichtet fühlen.
Nach Anordnung der zuständigen Kammer erfolgte am 15. November 2002
erstmals eine Untersuchung durch einen niederländischen Facharzt.
Dieser stellt in seinem Bericht fest, dass bei entsprechender
Medikation das Todesrisiko um 11% vermindert werden kann. Wir bitten
um Ihr Verständnis, dass wir derartige Kalkulationen als Grundlage
der weiteren Verfahrensweise strikt ablehnen müssen.
Wir weisen entschieden den Versuch der Anlage zurück, den
bedrohlichen Gesundheitszustand von Slobodan Milosevic zum Vorwand
und Anlass zu nehmen, ihm sein originäres Recht auf
Selbstverteidigung absprechen zu wollen.
Der Versuch der Oktroyierung eines „Pflichtverteidigers“ ist ni=
cht
nur rechtssystemwidrig; er birgt auch die Gefahr, in gesundheitlicher
Hinsicht das Gegenteil des vorgeblichen Ziels zu erreichen: Die
Aufzwingung eines Pflichtverteidigers gegen den erklärten Willen des
Angeklagten wird nicht zu einer Verbesserung und Entspannung der
Situation führen, sondern sie erhöht den Stress, die mentale
Belastungssituation und verschärft damit die Gefährdungslage. Dieser
Vorschlag der Verteidigung ist also auch aus medizinischer Sicht
kontraproduktiv und kontraindiziert.
Wir haben allen Anlass, unsere Forderung zu wiederholen, Slobodan
Milosevic umgehend aus dieser gesundheits- und lebensbedrohenden
Situation zu befreien und ihn auf freien Fuß zu setzen, damit er sich
in Belgrad der längst überfälligen Therapie durch ihn langjährig
behandelnde Ärzte unterziehen kann. Danach soll er sich, mit
entsprechenden Garantien, in Freiheit gegen die erhobenen Anklagen
verteidigen können.
Wir unterstützen nachdrücklich diesbezügliche Vorschläge der Amici
Curiae.
Sehr geehrter Herr Jorda,
wir appellieren an Sie, diese dringend gebotenen Sofortmaßnahmen zu
ergreifen und damit die Wirksamkeit der Bestimmungen der Vereinten
Nationen über die Behandlung von Inhaftierten sicher zu stellen.
Im Auftrag
Dr. med. Uta Mader
(Köln), Ärztin
IPPNW - Deutsche Sektion, Verein der demokratischen Ärztinnen und
Ärzte
EUROPARLAMENTARI
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From : Jugoistrijan
To : alessandro.curzi
Cc : jugocoord
Date : Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:21:23 +0100
Subject : Le Vs europarlamentari
Al direttore di Liberazione Alessandro Curzi
e p.c. al segretario del PRC Fausto Bertinotti
Il giorno 14/12 u.s. ho partecipato alla giornata su "Il diritto
internazionale e le nuove guerre", promossa dalla Fondazione Lelio Basso,
ascoltando con interesse gli interventi dei relatori nella Sala della
Protomoteca in Campidoglio.
In particolare, l'intervento di Gino Strada e' stato eccezionale, come ha
dimostrato anche il lungo applauso della sala. Mi sono avvicinato subito
dopo per complimentarmi con Strada, e, nel corso della breve pausa nel
dibattito, ho incontrato Luisa Morgantini, che conoscevo da altri dibattiti
ed alla quale in questa occasione ho voluto esprimere la mia soddisfazione
per l'intervento di Strada. Le ho detto testualmente: "Ecco, cosi' bisogna
parlare! Bisogna essere fermi sulle proprie posizioni." Tutto qua. La
risposta e' stata: "Ecco il solito estremista di merda", con l'aggiunta
immediata: "Non saro' mai a favore di Milosevic!". Sono rimasto di stucco.
Le ho detto: "Ma cosa c'entra Milosevic?!"
Credo che lo scambio di battute si commenti da solo. Aggiungo soltanto:
ecco cosa possiamo aspettarci dalle vostre europarlamentari, "comuniste
indipendenti"...
Ivan Pavicevac
Roma, 16/12/2002
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From : Jugoistrijan
To : alessandro.curzi
Cc : jugocoord
Date : Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:21:23 +0100
Subject : Le Vs europarlamentari
Al direttore di Liberazione Alessandro Curzi
e p.c. al segretario del PRC Fausto Bertinotti
Il giorno 14/12 u.s. ho partecipato alla giornata su "Il diritto
internazionale e le nuove guerre", promossa dalla Fondazione Lelio Basso,
ascoltando con interesse gli interventi dei relatori nella Sala della
Protomoteca in Campidoglio.
In particolare, l'intervento di Gino Strada e' stato eccezionale, come ha
dimostrato anche il lungo applauso della sala. Mi sono avvicinato subito
dopo per complimentarmi con Strada, e, nel corso della breve pausa nel
dibattito, ho incontrato Luisa Morgantini, che conoscevo da altri dibattiti
ed alla quale in questa occasione ho voluto esprimere la mia soddisfazione
per l'intervento di Strada. Le ho detto testualmente: "Ecco, cosi' bisogna
parlare! Bisogna essere fermi sulle proprie posizioni." Tutto qua. La
risposta e' stata: "Ecco il solito estremista di merda", con l'aggiunta
immediata: "Non saro' mai a favore di Milosevic!". Sono rimasto di stucco.
Le ho detto: "Ma cosa c'entra Milosevic?!"
Credo che lo scambio di battute si commenti da solo. Aggiungo soltanto:
ecco cosa possiamo aspettarci dalle vostre europarlamentari, "comuniste
indipendenti"...
Ivan Pavicevac
Roma, 16/12/2002
LA SERBIA COME CAVIA
<< Nascera' a Belgrado da una famiglia serba entro la fine di
gennaio, secondo il ginecologo italiano Severino Antinori, il primo
bebe' clonato della storia. Lo riferisce il settimanale serbo 'Nin',
che pubblica una lunga intervista con il medico, effettuata lo scorso
fine settimana nella capitale jugoslava dove ha partecipato a un
convegno sulla sterilita' e la fecondazione assistita.
Antinori, che ha chiesto al settimanale di pubblicare l'intervista
solo una settimana dopo la sua partenza, sostiene di avere impiantato
con successo tre cloni in donne di tre diversi paesi fra cui la
Serbia, e che i feti si sviluppano normalmente: le nascite sono
previste fra gennaio e marzo.
''Credo - ha detto al periodico - di avere rivoluzionato la genetica:
la Serbia sara' uno dei tre paesi che passeranno alla storia per
questo''.
Il bimbo clonato, ha aggiunto, nascera' nella clinica privata per la
fecondazione assistita 'Papic' di Belgrado, che considera uno dei
centri piu' all'avanguardia. Il ginecologo non vede nella clonazione
umana un potenziale distruttivo per la societa': ''Intendo usarla
solo nel caso di totale sterilita' maschile - ha detto - e dato che
solo io e la mia equipe sappiamo come fare, non c'e' rischio di un
uso indiscriminato di questa tecnica''.
Antinori ha accusato ''il Vaticano, ma anche gli Stati Uniti di
mettermi i bastoni fra le ruote per poi cambiare idea e avvalersi
delle mie scoperte: come nel caso della fecondazione post-menopausa,
che ho sperimentato per primo su una donna di 63 anni. Hanno fatto in
modo che calasse il silenzio stampa, e dopo alcuni anni hanno finto
di aver scoperto quella tecnica''.
Secondo il ginecologo, c'e' una relazione diretta fra la sterilita'
maschile e le guerre: a suo dire in Jugoslavia, dopo i bombardamenti
della Nato della primavera 1999, il fenomeno ''e' aumentato del 50-
73%, come era avvenuto in Iraq dopo la guerra del Golfo''. Un clone,
sostiene, ''e' come un fratello gemello. Non vedo perche' non dovrei
aiutare uomini sterili o mutilati a procreare''.
Alla domanda se abbia mai avuto l'idea di clonare se' stesso, ha
risposto di ''non averci pensato, dato che ho due figlie. Ma non lo
escludo in futuro''.
Il ginecologo, racconta Nin, e' molto preoccupato della sua sicurezza
e teme ci sia chi vuole ucciderlo: oltre a chiedere che la sua
intervista venisse pubblicata molto dopo la sua partenza e a
mantenere segreta la visita a Belgrado, ha usato nella capitale
jugoslava una macchina blindata e svariate guardie del corpo. >>
<< ''Smentisco tutto, non ho dato interviste''. Sono le parole del
ginecologo Severino Antinori interpellato al telefono in merito ad
una sua intervista che appare sul settimanale serbo 'Nin'
sull'annuncio del primo bambino clonato in Serbia per gennaio,
vicenda della quale non ha voluto dire alcunche'. ''Smentisco di aver
dato un'intervista a chicchessia in Europa negli ultimi 15 giorni''.
>>
---
Questi qui sopra sono i testi di due dispacci ANSA del 14/12/2002
(li trovate su: http://www.ansa.it/balcani). I poveracci come noi,
che disgraziatamente non capiscono i messaggi cifrati lanciati tra
diverse lobby medico/massoniche, devono chiedersi: la popolazione
della Serbia e' dunque tuttora designata come cavia per esperimenti
antiumani - dopo il grande "successo" dell'attacco chimico e nucleare
della primavera 1999 con la conseguente impennata di cancri e
mutazioni genetiche? Oppure si deve pensare, piu' semplicemente, che
la Serbia e' stata individuata come perfetto immondezzaio
dell'immaginario collettivo/giornalistico in tema di incubi ed
angosce postmoderne?
In entrambi i casi, purtroppo, si tratta comunque di infamita'
disumane e razziste.
(I. Slavo)
<< Nascera' a Belgrado da una famiglia serba entro la fine di
gennaio, secondo il ginecologo italiano Severino Antinori, il primo
bebe' clonato della storia. Lo riferisce il settimanale serbo 'Nin',
che pubblica una lunga intervista con il medico, effettuata lo scorso
fine settimana nella capitale jugoslava dove ha partecipato a un
convegno sulla sterilita' e la fecondazione assistita.
Antinori, che ha chiesto al settimanale di pubblicare l'intervista
solo una settimana dopo la sua partenza, sostiene di avere impiantato
con successo tre cloni in donne di tre diversi paesi fra cui la
Serbia, e che i feti si sviluppano normalmente: le nascite sono
previste fra gennaio e marzo.
''Credo - ha detto al periodico - di avere rivoluzionato la genetica:
la Serbia sara' uno dei tre paesi che passeranno alla storia per
questo''.
Il bimbo clonato, ha aggiunto, nascera' nella clinica privata per la
fecondazione assistita 'Papic' di Belgrado, che considera uno dei
centri piu' all'avanguardia. Il ginecologo non vede nella clonazione
umana un potenziale distruttivo per la societa': ''Intendo usarla
solo nel caso di totale sterilita' maschile - ha detto - e dato che
solo io e la mia equipe sappiamo come fare, non c'e' rischio di un
uso indiscriminato di questa tecnica''.
Antinori ha accusato ''il Vaticano, ma anche gli Stati Uniti di
mettermi i bastoni fra le ruote per poi cambiare idea e avvalersi
delle mie scoperte: come nel caso della fecondazione post-menopausa,
che ho sperimentato per primo su una donna di 63 anni. Hanno fatto in
modo che calasse il silenzio stampa, e dopo alcuni anni hanno finto
di aver scoperto quella tecnica''.
Secondo il ginecologo, c'e' una relazione diretta fra la sterilita'
maschile e le guerre: a suo dire in Jugoslavia, dopo i bombardamenti
della Nato della primavera 1999, il fenomeno ''e' aumentato del 50-
73%, come era avvenuto in Iraq dopo la guerra del Golfo''. Un clone,
sostiene, ''e' come un fratello gemello. Non vedo perche' non dovrei
aiutare uomini sterili o mutilati a procreare''.
Alla domanda se abbia mai avuto l'idea di clonare se' stesso, ha
risposto di ''non averci pensato, dato che ho due figlie. Ma non lo
escludo in futuro''.
Il ginecologo, racconta Nin, e' molto preoccupato della sua sicurezza
e teme ci sia chi vuole ucciderlo: oltre a chiedere che la sua
intervista venisse pubblicata molto dopo la sua partenza e a
mantenere segreta la visita a Belgrado, ha usato nella capitale
jugoslava una macchina blindata e svariate guardie del corpo. >>
<< ''Smentisco tutto, non ho dato interviste''. Sono le parole del
ginecologo Severino Antinori interpellato al telefono in merito ad
una sua intervista che appare sul settimanale serbo 'Nin'
sull'annuncio del primo bambino clonato in Serbia per gennaio,
vicenda della quale non ha voluto dire alcunche'. ''Smentisco di aver
dato un'intervista a chicchessia in Europa negli ultimi 15 giorni''.
>>
---
Questi qui sopra sono i testi di due dispacci ANSA del 14/12/2002
(li trovate su: http://www.ansa.it/balcani). I poveracci come noi,
che disgraziatamente non capiscono i messaggi cifrati lanciati tra
diverse lobby medico/massoniche, devono chiedersi: la popolazione
della Serbia e' dunque tuttora designata come cavia per esperimenti
antiumani - dopo il grande "successo" dell'attacco chimico e nucleare
della primavera 1999 con la conseguente impennata di cancri e
mutazioni genetiche? Oppure si deve pensare, piu' semplicemente, che
la Serbia e' stata individuata come perfetto immondezzaio
dell'immaginario collettivo/giornalistico in tema di incubi ed
angosce postmoderne?
In entrambi i casi, purtroppo, si tratta comunque di infamita'
disumane e razziste.
(I. Slavo)
1. Deklaracija ruske drzavne Dume
2. Evropski Mirovni Forum predsedniku Savezne Republike Jugoslavi?e
=== 1 ===
DEKLARACIJA
DRZAVNE DUME
O nehumanom odnosu Medjunarodnog krivicnog tribunala za bivsu
Jugoslaviju prema politickom zatvoreniku Slobodanu Milosevicu
Drzavna Duma Federalne Skupstine Ruske Federacije sa dubokom
zabrinutoscu prima informacije o drasticnom pogorsanju zdravlja bivseg
Predsednika Savezne Republike Jugoslavije Slobodana Milosevica, koji se
nalazi u zatvoru Medjunarodnog krivicnog tribunala za bivsu Jugoslaviju
u Hagu. Prema haskim zvanicnim izvorima, tokom devet meseci trajanja
procesa po predmetu Slobodana Milosevica (od februara 2002. godine)
zasedanja Tribunala su odlagana ukupno cetiri puta, sto cini 31 radni
dan (ne racunajuci dane vikenda), iskljucivo iz razloga loseg
zdravstvenog stanja Slobodana Milosevica. Advokati (amici curiae),
imenovani od strane Tribunala obratili su se sudijama Tribunala sa
predlogom da se proces u predmetu Slobodana Milosevica prekine na godinu
dana iz tog istog razloga - loseg zdravstvenog stanja zatvorenika.
Visoki krvni pritisak u kombinaciji sa anginom pektoris, od cega je
Slobodan Milosevic patio i pre pritvaranja, predstavljaju direktnu
pretnju njegovom zivotu. Iscrpljujuca mnogocasovna zasedanja Tribunala,
odsustvo specijalisticke medicinske pomoci i nemogucnost da redovno bude
na svezem vazduhu pogorsavaju zdravstveno stanje Slobodana Milosevica .
Bivseg Predsednika Savezne Republike Jugoslavije podvrgavaju
ponizavajucem tretmanu, stavljajuci mu lisice na ruke, svaki put kada ga
prevoze iz zatvora u sud i nazad.
Drzavna Duma je vise puta osudjivala delatnost Tribunala, o cemu svedoce
rezolucije Drzavne Dume od 28. juna 2001. godine "O obracanju Drzavne
Dume Federalne Skupstine Ruske Federacije rukovodstvu Savezne Republike
Jugoslavije o nedopustivosti predaje Slobodana Milosevica Medjunarodnom
krivicnom tribunalu za bivsu Jugoslaviju" i od 15. februara 2002. godine
"O neophodnosti utvrdjivanja vremena za okoncanje delatnosti
Medjunarodnog krivicnog tribunala za bivsu Jugoslaviju".
U tim rezolucijama davana je kriticka ocena delatnosti Tribunala,
konstatovano je narusavanje normi medjunarodnog humanitarnog prava i
politicki karakter delatnosti Tribunala.
U vezi sa gore navedenim, Drzavna Duma smatra da prva neophodna mera u
odnosu prema politickom zatvoreniku Slobodanu Milosevicu mora biti
obezbedjenje neophodnog medicinskog pregleda uz ucesce lekara iz
Jugoslavije i drugih specijalista.
Drzavna Duma, u skladu sa Rezolucijom Generalne skupstine OUN 37/194 od
18. decembra 1982. godine, O Principima medicinske etike, koji se odnose
i na ulogu zdravstvenih radnika, a posebno lekara, u zastiti
zatvorenika, obraca se Vladi Ruske Federacije sa molbom da uputi u Hag
najstrucnije ruske lekare radi ucesca u pregledu Slobodana Milosevica.
(Usvojeno jednoglasno 11. decembra 2002. godine)
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
icdsm temporary address:
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/index.htm
for your donations:
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/donations.htm
=== 2 ===
<http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/donations.htm>
<http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/donations.htm>
Evropski mirovni forum
Drusstvo za zasstitu gradjanskih prava i ljudskog dosto?anstva
/Europaesches Friedensforum (epf)
Gesellschaft zum Schutz von Buergerrecht und Menschenwuerde e.V. GBM/
www.gbmev.de gbmev@...
Predsedniku
Savezne Republike Jugoslavi?e
Gospodinu Vo?islavu Kosstunici
Beograd
Berlin, decembra
2002.g.
Posstovani gospodine Predsednicce,
Evropski mirovni forum ?e visse puta iznosio svo? stav u vezi procesa protiv
Predsednika Soci?alisticcke parti?e Srbi?e i dugogodissnjeg Predsednika
Srbi?e i Savezne Republike ?ugoslavi?e, Slobodana Milossevicca, ko?i se vodi
pred takozvanim Medjunarodnim kriviccnim tribunalom za bivssu ?ugoslavi?u.
Isticali smo da se u Hagu ne odvija sudjenje pojedincu, prema kojem bi se
svako mogao odrediti po svom nahodjenju, vecc u dogadja?u bez presedana u
istori?i medjunarodnih odnosa i medjunarodnog prava: o sramnom procesu na
kome bivssi ssef drzzave na koju je izvrssena agresija, odgovara pred
tribunalom ko?i ?e, krssenjem Povelje OUN, formiran i snabdeven finansi?skim
sredstvima i osobljem od strane drzzava-agresora.
Polazecci od tih ccinjenica, Evropski Forum mira ?e visse puta zahtevao da
se smesta prekine sudjenje Slobodanu Milosseviccu, kao i drugim
?ugoslovenskim gradjanima, i da se nezakoniti kriviccni tribunal raspusti.
Dosadassnji tok procesa ?e neosporno dokazao opravdanost tog zahteva. Razvo?
dogadja?a u poslednje vreme ?e joss jednom potvrdio njegov neodlozzni
karakter.
Obracca?ucci se, posstovani gospodine Predsednicce, danas Vama, imamo u vidu
upravo takav razvo?, puni zabrinutosti za zdravlje Vasseg prethodnika ko?i
pred tribunalom ne brani samo sebe, vecc i pravo i nacionalno dosto?anstvo
svog naroda i vecc odavno ?e od optuzzenog postao tuzzilac NATO-u i ratnim
zloccinima ko?e ?e ta? blok poccinio protiv ?ugoslavi?e. Possto ?e propao
pokussa? da se u rezzi?i tribunala Slobodan Milossevicc baci na kolena,
ccinjeni su i ccine se svi mogucci pokussa?i da se on fiziccki oslabi i
njegova volja slomi nepodnossljivim uslovima u zatvoru i u samom procesu,
beskra?nim sudskim sednicama, bu?icom neprevedenih materi?ala u predmetu,
putem proizvoljnog messanja u unakrsno ispitivanje «svedoka optuzzbe» ko?e
on suvereno vodi, i uskraccu?ucci mu moguccnost odmora.
Ta taktika ko?u ?e nemogucce drugacci?e okarakterisati nego kao podmuklu,
ni?e ostala bez posledica. Prema medjusobno podudarnim, verovatno i Vama
poznatim, di?agnozama neutralnih lekara, zdravstveno stanje Slobodana
Milossevicca, ko?i pati od povissenog krvnog pritiska, slabosti srccanog
missicca, prossirenja leve srccane komore i angine pektoris, naglo se i
pretecci pogorssalo. Prema oceni lekara, njegov zzivot ?e direktno ugrozzen.
Zato su se mnogobro?ne organizaci?e i liccnosti u Evropi i van njenih
granica, medju njima nacionalni i medjunarodni komiteti za odbranu Slobodana
Milossevicca, eminentni nemaccki lekari, cclanovi organizaci?e «Lekari
protiv nuklearnog rata», svetski poznati americcki pisci i profesori,
Drzzavna Duma Ruske Federaci?e, kao i Vecce Republika Vasseg, ?ugoslovenskog
parlamenta, istra?no zalozzili za obustavu sudskog procesa ili barem za
stvaranje odgovara?uccih uslova ko?i bi omoguccili zdravstveni oporavak
optuzzenog ko?i ?e nasilno odveden u Hag. Sem izvesnih privremenih
kozmeticckih korektiva u toku procesa, natovski tribunal se o ova? zahtev
oglussio.
U vezi s tim, obraccamo se Vama, kao na?vissem predstavniku Savezne
Republike ?ugoslavi?e sa najsnazznijim apelom da preduzmete sve ssto ?e u
Vasso? mocci da bi se zasstitili makar zdravlje i zzivot Vasseg prethodnika,
da se on oslobodi iz zatvora, da mu se u otadzzbini obezbedi lekarska nega,
da bi posle zdravstvenog oporavka mogao da kao slobodan ccovek odbrani sebe
i srpski narod od izmissljenih optuzzbi.
Apelu?emo na Vas da reagujete neodlozzno, kako ne biste postali ?edan od
krivaca za novi pretecci zloccin protiv ljudskih prava i ccoveccnosti,
protiv nacionalnog i medjunarodnog prava.
Delu?te odmah, gospodine Predsednicce, dok ?oss ni?e prekasno.
Elmar Ssmeling
Sekretar Evropskog mirovnog foruma
/Elmar Schmaehling, Sekretaer des epf/
Prof. dr Volfgang Rihter
Predsednik Drusstva za zasstitu ljudskih prava i ljudskog dosto?anstva
/Wolfgang Richter, Vorsitzender der GBM/
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
icdsm temporary address:
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/index.htm
for your donations:
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/donations.htm
<http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/donations.htm>
<http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/donations.htm>
2. Evropski Mirovni Forum predsedniku Savezne Republike Jugoslavi?e
=== 1 ===
DEKLARACIJA
DRZAVNE DUME
O nehumanom odnosu Medjunarodnog krivicnog tribunala za bivsu
Jugoslaviju prema politickom zatvoreniku Slobodanu Milosevicu
Drzavna Duma Federalne Skupstine Ruske Federacije sa dubokom
zabrinutoscu prima informacije o drasticnom pogorsanju zdravlja bivseg
Predsednika Savezne Republike Jugoslavije Slobodana Milosevica, koji se
nalazi u zatvoru Medjunarodnog krivicnog tribunala za bivsu Jugoslaviju
u Hagu. Prema haskim zvanicnim izvorima, tokom devet meseci trajanja
procesa po predmetu Slobodana Milosevica (od februara 2002. godine)
zasedanja Tribunala su odlagana ukupno cetiri puta, sto cini 31 radni
dan (ne racunajuci dane vikenda), iskljucivo iz razloga loseg
zdravstvenog stanja Slobodana Milosevica. Advokati (amici curiae),
imenovani od strane Tribunala obratili su se sudijama Tribunala sa
predlogom da se proces u predmetu Slobodana Milosevica prekine na godinu
dana iz tog istog razloga - loseg zdravstvenog stanja zatvorenika.
Visoki krvni pritisak u kombinaciji sa anginom pektoris, od cega je
Slobodan Milosevic patio i pre pritvaranja, predstavljaju direktnu
pretnju njegovom zivotu. Iscrpljujuca mnogocasovna zasedanja Tribunala,
odsustvo specijalisticke medicinske pomoci i nemogucnost da redovno bude
na svezem vazduhu pogorsavaju zdravstveno stanje Slobodana Milosevica .
Bivseg Predsednika Savezne Republike Jugoslavije podvrgavaju
ponizavajucem tretmanu, stavljajuci mu lisice na ruke, svaki put kada ga
prevoze iz zatvora u sud i nazad.
Drzavna Duma je vise puta osudjivala delatnost Tribunala, o cemu svedoce
rezolucije Drzavne Dume od 28. juna 2001. godine "O obracanju Drzavne
Dume Federalne Skupstine Ruske Federacije rukovodstvu Savezne Republike
Jugoslavije o nedopustivosti predaje Slobodana Milosevica Medjunarodnom
krivicnom tribunalu za bivsu Jugoslaviju" i od 15. februara 2002. godine
"O neophodnosti utvrdjivanja vremena za okoncanje delatnosti
Medjunarodnog krivicnog tribunala za bivsu Jugoslaviju".
U tim rezolucijama davana je kriticka ocena delatnosti Tribunala,
konstatovano je narusavanje normi medjunarodnog humanitarnog prava i
politicki karakter delatnosti Tribunala.
U vezi sa gore navedenim, Drzavna Duma smatra da prva neophodna mera u
odnosu prema politickom zatvoreniku Slobodanu Milosevicu mora biti
obezbedjenje neophodnog medicinskog pregleda uz ucesce lekara iz
Jugoslavije i drugih specijalista.
Drzavna Duma, u skladu sa Rezolucijom Generalne skupstine OUN 37/194 od
18. decembra 1982. godine, O Principima medicinske etike, koji se odnose
i na ulogu zdravstvenih radnika, a posebno lekara, u zastiti
zatvorenika, obraca se Vladi Ruske Federacije sa molbom da uputi u Hag
najstrucnije ruske lekare radi ucesca u pregledu Slobodana Milosevica.
(Usvojeno jednoglasno 11. decembra 2002. godine)
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
icdsm temporary address:
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/index.htm
for your donations:
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/donations.htm
=== 2 ===
<http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/donations.htm>
<http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/donations.htm>
Evropski mirovni forum
Drusstvo za zasstitu gradjanskih prava i ljudskog dosto?anstva
/Europaesches Friedensforum (epf)
Gesellschaft zum Schutz von Buergerrecht und Menschenwuerde e.V. GBM/
www.gbmev.de gbmev@...
Predsedniku
Savezne Republike Jugoslavi?e
Gospodinu Vo?islavu Kosstunici
Beograd
Berlin, decembra
2002.g.
Posstovani gospodine Predsednicce,
Evropski mirovni forum ?e visse puta iznosio svo? stav u vezi procesa protiv
Predsednika Soci?alisticcke parti?e Srbi?e i dugogodissnjeg Predsednika
Srbi?e i Savezne Republike ?ugoslavi?e, Slobodana Milossevicca, ko?i se vodi
pred takozvanim Medjunarodnim kriviccnim tribunalom za bivssu ?ugoslavi?u.
Isticali smo da se u Hagu ne odvija sudjenje pojedincu, prema kojem bi se
svako mogao odrediti po svom nahodjenju, vecc u dogadja?u bez presedana u
istori?i medjunarodnih odnosa i medjunarodnog prava: o sramnom procesu na
kome bivssi ssef drzzave na koju je izvrssena agresija, odgovara pred
tribunalom ko?i ?e, krssenjem Povelje OUN, formiran i snabdeven finansi?skim
sredstvima i osobljem od strane drzzava-agresora.
Polazecci od tih ccinjenica, Evropski Forum mira ?e visse puta zahtevao da
se smesta prekine sudjenje Slobodanu Milosseviccu, kao i drugim
?ugoslovenskim gradjanima, i da se nezakoniti kriviccni tribunal raspusti.
Dosadassnji tok procesa ?e neosporno dokazao opravdanost tog zahteva. Razvo?
dogadja?a u poslednje vreme ?e joss jednom potvrdio njegov neodlozzni
karakter.
Obracca?ucci se, posstovani gospodine Predsednicce, danas Vama, imamo u vidu
upravo takav razvo?, puni zabrinutosti za zdravlje Vasseg prethodnika ko?i
pred tribunalom ne brani samo sebe, vecc i pravo i nacionalno dosto?anstvo
svog naroda i vecc odavno ?e od optuzzenog postao tuzzilac NATO-u i ratnim
zloccinima ko?e ?e ta? blok poccinio protiv ?ugoslavi?e. Possto ?e propao
pokussa? da se u rezzi?i tribunala Slobodan Milossevicc baci na kolena,
ccinjeni su i ccine se svi mogucci pokussa?i da se on fiziccki oslabi i
njegova volja slomi nepodnossljivim uslovima u zatvoru i u samom procesu,
beskra?nim sudskim sednicama, bu?icom neprevedenih materi?ala u predmetu,
putem proizvoljnog messanja u unakrsno ispitivanje «svedoka optuzzbe» ko?e
on suvereno vodi, i uskraccu?ucci mu moguccnost odmora.
Ta taktika ko?u ?e nemogucce drugacci?e okarakterisati nego kao podmuklu,
ni?e ostala bez posledica. Prema medjusobno podudarnim, verovatno i Vama
poznatim, di?agnozama neutralnih lekara, zdravstveno stanje Slobodana
Milossevicca, ko?i pati od povissenog krvnog pritiska, slabosti srccanog
missicca, prossirenja leve srccane komore i angine pektoris, naglo se i
pretecci pogorssalo. Prema oceni lekara, njegov zzivot ?e direktno ugrozzen.
Zato su se mnogobro?ne organizaci?e i liccnosti u Evropi i van njenih
granica, medju njima nacionalni i medjunarodni komiteti za odbranu Slobodana
Milossevicca, eminentni nemaccki lekari, cclanovi organizaci?e «Lekari
protiv nuklearnog rata», svetski poznati americcki pisci i profesori,
Drzzavna Duma Ruske Federaci?e, kao i Vecce Republika Vasseg, ?ugoslovenskog
parlamenta, istra?no zalozzili za obustavu sudskog procesa ili barem za
stvaranje odgovara?uccih uslova ko?i bi omoguccili zdravstveni oporavak
optuzzenog ko?i ?e nasilno odveden u Hag. Sem izvesnih privremenih
kozmeticckih korektiva u toku procesa, natovski tribunal se o ova? zahtev
oglussio.
U vezi s tim, obraccamo se Vama, kao na?vissem predstavniku Savezne
Republike ?ugoslavi?e sa najsnazznijim apelom da preduzmete sve ssto ?e u
Vasso? mocci da bi se zasstitili makar zdravlje i zzivot Vasseg prethodnika,
da se on oslobodi iz zatvora, da mu se u otadzzbini obezbedi lekarska nega,
da bi posle zdravstvenog oporavka mogao da kao slobodan ccovek odbrani sebe
i srpski narod od izmissljenih optuzzbi.
Apelu?emo na Vas da reagujete neodlozzno, kako ne biste postali ?edan od
krivaca za novi pretecci zloccin protiv ljudskih prava i ccoveccnosti,
protiv nacionalnog i medjunarodnog prava.
Delu?te odmah, gospodine Predsednicce, dok ?oss ni?e prekasno.
Elmar Ssmeling
Sekretar Evropskog mirovnog foruma
/Elmar Schmaehling, Sekretaer des epf/
Prof. dr Volfgang Rihter
Predsednik Drusstva za zasstitu ljudskih prava i ljudskog dosto?anstva
/Wolfgang Richter, Vorsitzender der GBM/
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
icdsm temporary address:
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/index.htm
for your donations:
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/donations.htm
<http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/donations.htm>
<http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/donations.htm>
Ciao,
desideriamo farti sapere che, nella sezione File del gruppo
crj-mailinglist, troverai un nuovo file appena caricato.
File : /primorski.pdf
Caricato da : jugocoord <jugocoord@...>
Descrizione : ...UGRIZNIL "PARTIZANSKI" ("Primorski Dnevnik" 22/11/2002 - http://www.primorski.it/pes/NOV04.pdf)
Puoi accedere al file dal seguente indirizzo:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/primorski.pdf
Per ulteriori informazioni su come condividere i file con gli altri
iscritti al tuo gruppo, vai invece alla sezione di Aiuto al seguente
indirizzo:
http://help.yahoo.com/help/it/groups/files
Cordiali saluti,
jugocoord <jugocoord@...>
desideriamo farti sapere che, nella sezione File del gruppo
crj-mailinglist, troverai un nuovo file appena caricato.
File : /primorski.pdf
Caricato da : jugocoord <jugocoord@...>
Descrizione : ...UGRIZNIL "PARTIZANSKI" ("Primorski Dnevnik" 22/11/2002 - http://www.primorski.it/pes/NOV04.pdf)
Puoi accedere al file dal seguente indirizzo:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/primorski.pdf
Per ulteriori informazioni su come condividere i file con gli altri
iscritti al tuo gruppo, vai invece alla sezione di Aiuto al seguente
indirizzo:
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Cordiali saluti,
jugocoord <jugocoord@...>
1. Russian Duma on Milosevic
2. Secret Witness C-025 vs. Milosevic
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Russian Duma is Unanimous: 'Political Prisoner Milosevic' must be Given Proper
Medical Care!
[Posted 13 December 2002]
==================================================
* Declaration of the State Duma *
Concerning the inhuman treatment of the political prisoner, Slobodan Milosevic,
by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia:
The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation views with deep
concern information concerning the sharp deterioration of the health of the
former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic who
is being held in the prison of the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague.
According to official sources from The Hague, during the nine months of the
process in the case of Slobodan Milosevic (since February 2002) the ICTY
sessions have been disrupted four times, which makes 31 working day (without
weekends), specifically due to Slobodan Milosevic's poor health. The lawyers
(amici curiae) appointed by ICTY have addressed to the ICTY judges a proposal to
make a one year recess in the process in the case of Slobodan Milosevic for the
same reason - the prisoner's poor health.
The arterial hypertension associated with the cardiovascular illness from which
Slobodan Milosevic has suffered since before his imprisonment, is an imminent
threat to his life. The exhausting ICTY sessions, which are many hours long, the
lack of specialized medical aid and the lack of opportunity to get fresh air
worsen the health condition of Slobodan Milosevic.
The former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia undergoes a
humiliating procedure, which includes being handcuffed every time he is
transported from the prison to the court and back.
The State Duma has condemned the actions of the ICTY more than once in the
resolutions of:
- June 28, 2001, No.1719-III GD, "On the address of the State Duma of the
Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to the leadership of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia concerning the outlawing of the handing over Slobodan
Milosevic to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia"
- And of February 15, 2002 No.2480-III GD "On the necessity to impose time
limits to the works of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia".
These Resolutions made critical estimates of the ICTY's work, emphasizing
violations of the norms of international humanitarian law and the political
character of the ICTY [Hague Tribunal].
In relation to the above-mentioned, the State Duma considers it a priority that
political prisoner Slobodan Milosevic undergo appropriate medical examination
administered by Yugoslav doctors and other specialists.
The State Duma, in accordance with the provisions of UN General Assembly
Resolution 37/194 of December 18, 1982 on the Principles of Medical Ethics,
determining the role of health care workers, in the first place physicians, in
the medical protection of prisoners, requests the Government of the Russian
Federation to send to The Hague highly qualified Russian doctors to take part in
the medical examination of Slobodan Milosevic.
(Adopted unanimously, December 11, 2002)
Note from ICDSM: For the UN Resolution mentioned above go to
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/37/a37r194.htm
==============================
We're Taking on The Hague Dec. 16th! Please Help Get us There!
==============================
Slobodan Milosevic has requested to meet with a delegation from his support
committee, the ICDSM. That delegation is going to The Hague the week of 16
December. It includes Quebec Attorney Tiphaine Dickson, whom the ICDSM has
retained as counsel, as well as ICDSM Vice-Chairmen, Nico Varkevisser and
myself, Jared Israel, who are also editors of the Emperor's Clothes Website.
It is very possible that on Wednesday, 18 December, the Tribunal will rule on
two vital issues. One is whether and how to adjust the trial proceedings to
remove the mortal threat to Mr. Milosevic's life. The second is whether to force
unwanted counsel on Mr. Milosevic.
It is very important that we be there to help fight for Mr. Milosevic - and the
truth - through publicity and legal measures. The Tribunal is trying to justify
forcing substitute counsel on Mr. Milosevic based on the false excuse that that
is the only way to protect his health. This is discussed in our motion which can
be read at
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/motion.htm
We are desperately short on cash to cover the expenses of this trip. If you can
help please do so. The ways you may contribute are listed below.
If possible, please help, and ask others who support this work to help as well!
-- Jared Israel
You can contribute any amount - $30 $60 $100 $250 $500 or more. (More would be
wonderful!)
** Here is How to Make a Donation **
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Send us a check. Make it payable to:
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Donate by credit card over the phone. Call us at:
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=== 2 ===
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:10:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "Wolfgang Mueller"
Subject: Secret Witness C-025 vs. Milosevic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/804561/posts
DEc 10th report from Un Tribunal - Secret Witness C-025 vs. Milosevic
jurist.com ^ | Tuesday December 10, 2002 at 8:53 pm | Vera Markovic
Posted on 12/11/2002 4:01 AM PST by vooch
There was another witness, who testified yesterday and today: C-025.
This was another protected Serb from CRO, a former policeman, but
from a region first time introduced - Baranja.
For those unfamiliar, it's a rich flat triangle between rivers Drava
and Danube, almost at the far east of CRO, not far from Vukovar. What
is interesting about this particular piece of Serb-inhabited
territory, it didn't exactly have too many clashes, actually hardly
any.
Thus, any potential witness living there has very little to testify,
and C-025 couldn't and didn't meet the Prosecution's needs. Why they
called him to the stand anyway, it really beats me. Is he one of
those 14 lesser-quality witnesses given up in exchange for the
prolongation of Babic? Or do they consider him a higher-quality
witness? They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
The man only testified that the Serbian Security Service had been
active on the territory of Baranja (imagine that!), that there were
some weapons distributed to people by somebody, to which he never
witnessed, and that some Croats had been arrested and exchanged later
on. He finished his examination-in-chief in couple of hours, although
Nice dragged each question endlessly. Would you believe that he even
dwelled upon the alleged misappropriation of stolen cars within the
local police force (war crime, no doubt!).
However, Milosevic had a field trip with this one: in a dozen short
descriptions he managed to sum up the happenings in Baranja in 1991-
92, that really showed what the 'war' in CRO was all about. Listen.
(Milosevic finished each one of these descriptions with a
question 'Would you agree with that?', and C-025 agreed each time.)
There were hardly any clashes in Baranja. JNA intervened just once to
divide local Serbs and Croat forces, and prevented any battle to
happen by its mere presence, by placing few armoured cars between the
two sides. The same happened in the nearby Vukovar region, in Borovo
Selo, the difference being that there were about one hundred dead
before JNA stepped in [this was the famous case that triggered it
all, which happened 3 May 1991: the Croatian police first provoked by
putting new Fascist flag in the middle of this Serb village, the flag
was taken down, the police came back tomorrow in few buses with
hundreds of paramilitaries, shooting wantonly around, but the
peasants were ready with their hunting guns - Croats were ambushed,
about a hundred of them got killed and the others were saved by JNA].
C-025 further confirmed that there were several militant extremist
Croat groups organized, openly calling themselves 'Ustasa'. That
there were Serb houses and business premises mined, as well as
POLITIKA representative office in Osijek (major town of the region).
That he personally knew 7-8 prominent Serbs from Osijek, mostly
doctors, holding no extremist views whatsoever, who got killed.
That 57 Serbs got killed in the municipality of Beli Manastir (the
second major town) in the period 1991-93. That after one of such
killings, few villages organized their village patrols. That the
local Serbs from Baranja organized their own military unit, complete
with mortars, uncertain of the possible JNA help they would receive.
That the local Serbs made no attacks upon the Croatian villages or
individuals. That JNA, before it was withdrawn from Baranja as well
as from the whole of CRO, had fought several battles with the newly
established Croatian forces which would always try to penetrate this
area through the Hungarian territory (and Hungary let them!); this is
a marshy region, with an important border army watchtower Torjanci.
The first time the Croats tried to seize it, they came into the mine-
field and got all captured.
The second time, they managed to come by a small village of Torjanci,
where they killed all its Gypsy population, but the JNA fought them
back to Hungary. The third time was interesting: they came via
Hungary with heavy weaponry (mortars, artillery); either they were
invisible or the Hungarians mistook them for their own forces (?);
again they had to retreat with heavy casualties. C-025 confirmed all
that and recognized names of the Serbs killed, quoted by Milosevic.
In short, he turned out to be another witness for the Defence, making
its case to perfection.
Nice must've been mortified, so when he got another chance to
redirect, I expected he would find something strong to pull out this
sinking ship. But look what he came up with. He reiterated about the
illegal arming of the Serbs; C-025 said that "part of it was legal,
which was the arming of the TO (Territorial Defence)"; Nice suggested
so subtly that maybe this 'illegal part of the arming was causing the
disturbance among the non-Serbs, contributing to their moving out of
the region', to which C-025 responded: "Well, I think that part of
the arming had been made in secrecy."
So, the non-Serbs could not have been disturbed by it, could they?!
Poor Nice, he just abruptly ended: "Er… Thank you. That concludes my
redirect."
But, what was really amazing is the more and more obvious expert help
(and I mean intelligence data) available to Milosevic. He not only
quoted all the events, dates, places, even names of villagers, he
also started to quote some seriously fresh info re Croatian current
Security Service.
In the part of his cross-examination aimed at undermining the
credibility of the witness, he quoted some names of local as well as
top Zagreb Counter-Intelligence Service officials, with whom C-025 is
allegedly connected and accused him of being their witness,
instructed by them. He described dates of their phone calls last
month, places of their meeting, organization of the trip to The Hague
from Osijek via Zagreb, even the make of the car used, a Zagreb
tavern of venue, who said what at the goodbye-meeting with the top
brass.
Really scary. Of course, C-025 denied it all, but had to admit he
does "go fishing with Pekic quite often" [Pekic being a local top
official of the Service in Osijek]. You know what makes me believe
there is some truth in it? You remember the witness Mustafa Candic, a
Major/Muslim/ex-JNA Security Service officer? Remember how he spoke
of the 'secret operations for arming of the Serbs, called
Breakthrough 1 and 2' (of which nobody else but him knew the
existence!) and how it was subsequently established that, after
leaving JNA, he went over to the Croatian Secret Service and sold
them his stories, before crossing over to Alija Izetbegovic?
Well, in his testimony concerning weapons, C-025 mentioned 'Operation
Breakthrough'. Now, how could a simple local policeman know about
such a thing, even if it did exists, and particularly if it didn't?!
Obviously, the Croatian Service briefed him and the Prosecution
wanted to use him as another source who would independently confirm
this bogus story.
But, C-025 simply wasn't up to the task; he did mention that, but
somewhat shyly (I hardly managed to notice it) and instead dwelled
endlessly upon the re-registration of stolen cars, as any simple cop
would do. The truth is always so much more interesting and easier to
spin to simple people. You should've heard him while eagerly
confirming every bit of the situation-depicting description that
Milosevic gave.
Keep these witnesses coming, Prosecutor Nice. Another one of even
lower calibre already came - Jeri Laber.
Vera Martinovic
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
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Russian Duma is Unanimous: 'Political Prisoner Milosevic' must be Given Proper
Medical Care!
[Posted 13 December 2002]
==================================================
* Declaration of the State Duma *
Concerning the inhuman treatment of the political prisoner, Slobodan Milosevic,
by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia:
The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation views with deep
concern information concerning the sharp deterioration of the health of the
former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic who
is being held in the prison of the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague.
According to official sources from The Hague, during the nine months of the
process in the case of Slobodan Milosevic (since February 2002) the ICTY
sessions have been disrupted four times, which makes 31 working day (without
weekends), specifically due to Slobodan Milosevic's poor health. The lawyers
(amici curiae) appointed by ICTY have addressed to the ICTY judges a proposal to
make a one year recess in the process in the case of Slobodan Milosevic for the
same reason - the prisoner's poor health.
The arterial hypertension associated with the cardiovascular illness from which
Slobodan Milosevic has suffered since before his imprisonment, is an imminent
threat to his life. The exhausting ICTY sessions, which are many hours long, the
lack of specialized medical aid and the lack of opportunity to get fresh air
worsen the health condition of Slobodan Milosevic.
The former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia undergoes a
humiliating procedure, which includes being handcuffed every time he is
transported from the prison to the court and back.
The State Duma has condemned the actions of the ICTY more than once in the
resolutions of:
- June 28, 2001, No.1719-III GD, "On the address of the State Duma of the
Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to the leadership of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia concerning the outlawing of the handing over Slobodan
Milosevic to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia"
- And of February 15, 2002 No.2480-III GD "On the necessity to impose time
limits to the works of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia".
These Resolutions made critical estimates of the ICTY's work, emphasizing
violations of the norms of international humanitarian law and the political
character of the ICTY [Hague Tribunal].
In relation to the above-mentioned, the State Duma considers it a priority that
political prisoner Slobodan Milosevic undergo appropriate medical examination
administered by Yugoslav doctors and other specialists.
The State Duma, in accordance with the provisions of UN General Assembly
Resolution 37/194 of December 18, 1982 on the Principles of Medical Ethics,
determining the role of health care workers, in the first place physicians, in
the medical protection of prisoners, requests the Government of the Russian
Federation to send to The Hague highly qualified Russian doctors to take part in
the medical examination of Slobodan Milosevic.
(Adopted unanimously, December 11, 2002)
Note from ICDSM: For the UN Resolution mentioned above go to
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/37/a37r194.htm
==============================
We're Taking on The Hague Dec. 16th! Please Help Get us There!
==============================
Slobodan Milosevic has requested to meet with a delegation from his support
committee, the ICDSM. That delegation is going to The Hague the week of 16
December. It includes Quebec Attorney Tiphaine Dickson, whom the ICDSM has
retained as counsel, as well as ICDSM Vice-Chairmen, Nico Varkevisser and
myself, Jared Israel, who are also editors of the Emperor's Clothes Website.
It is very possible that on Wednesday, 18 December, the Tribunal will rule on
two vital issues. One is whether and how to adjust the trial proceedings to
remove the mortal threat to Mr. Milosevic's life. The second is whether to force
unwanted counsel on Mr. Milosevic.
It is very important that we be there to help fight for Mr. Milosevic - and the
truth - through publicity and legal measures. The Tribunal is trying to justify
forcing substitute counsel on Mr. Milosevic based on the false excuse that that
is the only way to protect his health. This is discussed in our motion which can
be read at
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/motion.htm
We are desperately short on cash to cover the expenses of this trip. If you can
help please do so. The ways you may contribute are listed below.
If possible, please help, and ask others who support this work to help as well!
-- Jared Israel
You can contribute any amount - $30 $60 $100 $250 $500 or more. (More would be
wonderful!)
** Here is How to Make a Donation **
Donate using PayPal. Go to
https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=icdsm%40aol.com
PayPal accepts VISA and MasterCard
Send us a check. Make it payable to:
ICDSM
831 Beacon St., #295
Newton Centre, MA 02459 (USA)
* Make a donation at our secure server. Go to
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You can use VISA, MasterCard or Discover
Donate by credit card over the phone. Call us at:
ICDSM, USA 1 617 916-1705
or
Freedom Association, Belgrade 381 11 3282491 or 381 638 862 301
Thank you!
ICDSM
www.icdsm.org
Backup ICDSM Website at
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm
=== 2 ===
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:10:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "Wolfgang Mueller"
Subject: Secret Witness C-025 vs. Milosevic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/804561/posts
DEc 10th report from Un Tribunal - Secret Witness C-025 vs. Milosevic
jurist.com ^ | Tuesday December 10, 2002 at 8:53 pm | Vera Markovic
Posted on 12/11/2002 4:01 AM PST by vooch
There was another witness, who testified yesterday and today: C-025.
This was another protected Serb from CRO, a former policeman, but
from a region first time introduced - Baranja.
For those unfamiliar, it's a rich flat triangle between rivers Drava
and Danube, almost at the far east of CRO, not far from Vukovar. What
is interesting about this particular piece of Serb-inhabited
territory, it didn't exactly have too many clashes, actually hardly
any.
Thus, any potential witness living there has very little to testify,
and C-025 couldn't and didn't meet the Prosecution's needs. Why they
called him to the stand anyway, it really beats me. Is he one of
those 14 lesser-quality witnesses given up in exchange for the
prolongation of Babic? Or do they consider him a higher-quality
witness? They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
The man only testified that the Serbian Security Service had been
active on the territory of Baranja (imagine that!), that there were
some weapons distributed to people by somebody, to which he never
witnessed, and that some Croats had been arrested and exchanged later
on. He finished his examination-in-chief in couple of hours, although
Nice dragged each question endlessly. Would you believe that he even
dwelled upon the alleged misappropriation of stolen cars within the
local police force (war crime, no doubt!).
However, Milosevic had a field trip with this one: in a dozen short
descriptions he managed to sum up the happenings in Baranja in 1991-
92, that really showed what the 'war' in CRO was all about. Listen.
(Milosevic finished each one of these descriptions with a
question 'Would you agree with that?', and C-025 agreed each time.)
There were hardly any clashes in Baranja. JNA intervened just once to
divide local Serbs and Croat forces, and prevented any battle to
happen by its mere presence, by placing few armoured cars between the
two sides. The same happened in the nearby Vukovar region, in Borovo
Selo, the difference being that there were about one hundred dead
before JNA stepped in [this was the famous case that triggered it
all, which happened 3 May 1991: the Croatian police first provoked by
putting new Fascist flag in the middle of this Serb village, the flag
was taken down, the police came back tomorrow in few buses with
hundreds of paramilitaries, shooting wantonly around, but the
peasants were ready with their hunting guns - Croats were ambushed,
about a hundred of them got killed and the others were saved by JNA].
C-025 further confirmed that there were several militant extremist
Croat groups organized, openly calling themselves 'Ustasa'. That
there were Serb houses and business premises mined, as well as
POLITIKA representative office in Osijek (major town of the region).
That he personally knew 7-8 prominent Serbs from Osijek, mostly
doctors, holding no extremist views whatsoever, who got killed.
That 57 Serbs got killed in the municipality of Beli Manastir (the
second major town) in the period 1991-93. That after one of such
killings, few villages organized their village patrols. That the
local Serbs from Baranja organized their own military unit, complete
with mortars, uncertain of the possible JNA help they would receive.
That the local Serbs made no attacks upon the Croatian villages or
individuals. That JNA, before it was withdrawn from Baranja as well
as from the whole of CRO, had fought several battles with the newly
established Croatian forces which would always try to penetrate this
area through the Hungarian territory (and Hungary let them!); this is
a marshy region, with an important border army watchtower Torjanci.
The first time the Croats tried to seize it, they came into the mine-
field and got all captured.
The second time, they managed to come by a small village of Torjanci,
where they killed all its Gypsy population, but the JNA fought them
back to Hungary. The third time was interesting: they came via
Hungary with heavy weaponry (mortars, artillery); either they were
invisible or the Hungarians mistook them for their own forces (?);
again they had to retreat with heavy casualties. C-025 confirmed all
that and recognized names of the Serbs killed, quoted by Milosevic.
In short, he turned out to be another witness for the Defence, making
its case to perfection.
Nice must've been mortified, so when he got another chance to
redirect, I expected he would find something strong to pull out this
sinking ship. But look what he came up with. He reiterated about the
illegal arming of the Serbs; C-025 said that "part of it was legal,
which was the arming of the TO (Territorial Defence)"; Nice suggested
so subtly that maybe this 'illegal part of the arming was causing the
disturbance among the non-Serbs, contributing to their moving out of
the region', to which C-025 responded: "Well, I think that part of
the arming had been made in secrecy."
So, the non-Serbs could not have been disturbed by it, could they?!
Poor Nice, he just abruptly ended: "Er… Thank you. That concludes my
redirect."
But, what was really amazing is the more and more obvious expert help
(and I mean intelligence data) available to Milosevic. He not only
quoted all the events, dates, places, even names of villagers, he
also started to quote some seriously fresh info re Croatian current
Security Service.
In the part of his cross-examination aimed at undermining the
credibility of the witness, he quoted some names of local as well as
top Zagreb Counter-Intelligence Service officials, with whom C-025 is
allegedly connected and accused him of being their witness,
instructed by them. He described dates of their phone calls last
month, places of their meeting, organization of the trip to The Hague
from Osijek via Zagreb, even the make of the car used, a Zagreb
tavern of venue, who said what at the goodbye-meeting with the top
brass.
Really scary. Of course, C-025 denied it all, but had to admit he
does "go fishing with Pekic quite often" [Pekic being a local top
official of the Service in Osijek]. You know what makes me believe
there is some truth in it? You remember the witness Mustafa Candic, a
Major/Muslim/ex-JNA Security Service officer? Remember how he spoke
of the 'secret operations for arming of the Serbs, called
Breakthrough 1 and 2' (of which nobody else but him knew the
existence!) and how it was subsequently established that, after
leaving JNA, he went over to the Croatian Secret Service and sold
them his stories, before crossing over to Alija Izetbegovic?
Well, in his testimony concerning weapons, C-025 mentioned 'Operation
Breakthrough'. Now, how could a simple local policeman know about
such a thing, even if it did exists, and particularly if it didn't?!
Obviously, the Croatian Service briefed him and the Prosecution
wanted to use him as another source who would independently confirm
this bogus story.
But, C-025 simply wasn't up to the task; he did mention that, but
somewhat shyly (I hardly managed to notice it) and instead dwelled
endlessly upon the re-registration of stolen cars, as any simple cop
would do. The truth is always so much more interesting and easier to
spin to simple people. You should've heard him while eagerly
confirming every bit of the situation-depicting description that
Milosevic gave.
Keep these witnesses coming, Prosecutor Nice. Another one of even
lower calibre already came - Jeri Laber.
Vera Martinovic
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:17:50 +0100
From: "Vladimir Krsljanin" <vlada>
Subject: Appeal again! Read the ICTY President's reply to SLOBODA.
APPEAL AGAIN WITH FULL STRENGTH!
NATO criminals are trying to drown all your appeals!
NATO + Hague Tribunal = Farewell to human
rights!
Attempted murder continues! One has to be happy because their therapy "reduces
the possibility of death by 11 percent"!
The so-called Trial Chamber III of the Hague Tribunal made up to now no formal
decision on the life of President Milosevic. Instead, they will discuss
"administrative issues" on December 18, 2002. For accountants of death, life is
nothing else but an administrative issue.
Demonstrate your disagreement with murder before that date!
Obviously somebody already signed a silent death verdict. Here is the proof - a
letter from the President of the Tribunal:
United Nations
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
H. E. Judge Claude Jorda
President
The Hague, 27 November 2002
Dear Mr Raicevic,
I received your correspondence dated 13 October 2002 in which you
share your concerns about Mr Milosevic's medical condition and request his
provisional release so that he may receive appropriate medical treatment in the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
I wish firstly to inform you that your request does not fall within
the province of the President of the International Tribunal. Pursuant to Rules
65 and 74 bis of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, it is for the Trial Chamber seized
of the case to order the medical examination of an accused and to rule on
requests for provisional release. I am taking the liberty of pointing out to you
that Trial Chamber III ruled on the matter on 6 March 2002.
Moreover, the question of organising the hearings is the
responsibility of the Trial Chamber which ensures the proper conduct of the
proceedings with respect for the rights and health of the accused. In this
respect, Trial Chamber III is taking due consideration of Mr Milosevic's medical
condition when scheduling the hearings. Furthermore, like all the detainees, Mr
Milosevic is receiving close medical attention of a high quality from the
medical staff of the United Nations Detention Centre. As Registrar of the
Tribunal, Mr Holthuis is following the situation closely and will, if necessary,
keep you informed of changes in Mr Milosevic's medical condition.
Yours sincerely,
/signed/
___________________
Claude Jorda
Monsieur Igor Raicevic
President
Assembly of the Freedom Association
What is the March 6 decision? Their refusal of the first request for provisional
release, which was NOT connected with the health situation, seriously
deteriorated in the mean time.
What is high quality close medical attention? It is STILL one visit of the
prison doctor in a week. AND daily visit of the nurse who brings a pill. AND
there is no even nurse during the weekends.
What is the medical staff of the United Nations Detention Centre? It is one
doctor and one nurse.
Yes, they did something more. The Trial Chamber III appointed Dr P.R.M. van
Dijkman, cardiologist from Bronovo Hospital at The Hague to write a report. So,
on November 15 President Milosevic has been examined by a cardiologist for FIRST
and ONLY time. And a report has been written.
Here are several lines from THAT report:
"Cardiac case history: Essential hypertension with secondary organ damage:
hypertrophy of the left ventricle. (...)
In recent weeks during trial again steep increase in blood pressure up to around
220/130 mmHg. (...)
During the tiring process of the trial, Mr Milosevic experiences a condition
that looks like hypertensive urgency. (...)
The treatment of increased blood pressure with medication generally reduces the
possibility of death by 11 percent, of coronary heart disease by 14 percent, of
cerebovascular accident by 33 percent and of vascular diseases (coronary heart
disease or CVA) by 22 percent. (Source: Revised Guidelines for Increased Blood
Pressure, CBO Quality Institute for Health Care). (...)
It can be concluded that with a combination of sufficient rest and medication,
the level of Mr Milosevic's blood pressure will be an acceptable one. (...)
However, it has become apparent time and again during the trial that there are
moments which cause Mr. Milosevic's blood pressure to "get out of hand".
My advice on the matter as formulated in the letter of 19 August 2002 remains
unchanged: sufficient rest periods in combination with antihypertensive
medication to keep the blood pressure at an acceptable level. (...)
I leave it to the Tribunal to decide in what way sufficient rest periods can be
incorporated into the trial. "
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:46:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Rozoff <r_rozoff>
Subject: Russian MPs Urge UN To Allow Russian Doctors To Examine Milosevic
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/cn/Qwarcrimes-yugo-russia.Rr0h_CDB.html
Russian MPs urge UN to allow Russian medics to examine
ailing Milosevic
-"The Duma considers it a priority that political
prisoner Slobodan Milosevic undergo medical tests
administered by Yugoslav doctors and other
specialists," read the resolution adopted unanimously
by parliament's lower house.
MOSCOW, Dec 11 (AFP) - Russia's parliament on
Wednesday urged the UN war crimes tribunal in the
Hague to allow a team of Russian and Yugoslav doctors
to examine former Yugoslav president Slobodan
Milosevic, who has complained of worsening health
since his trial opened in February.
"The Duma considers it a priority that political
prisoner Slobodan Milosevic undergo medical tests
administered by Yugoslav doctors and other
specialists," read the resolution adopted unanimously
by parliament's lower house.
It also urged the Kremlin to send "to the Hague
qualified Russian doctors to take part in Slobodan
Milosevic's medical examination."
Milosevic, 61, has fallen ill five times since
February, disrupting his trial on dozens of war crimes
charges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.
The former strongman has refused to undergo
psychiatric tests for "mental strain", but medical
checks showed that he suffers from high blood pressure
and is at risk of a heart attack.
Russian deputies urged further medical exams because
"the arterial hypertension associated with Slobodan
Milosevic's cardiovascular illness threatens his
life."
While the court's prosecution has some 60 people
helping its side, Milosevic has undertaken his own
defense against some 66 charges of war crimes and
crimes against humanity for his involvement in the
wars in Kosovo (1998-99), Croatia (1991-95) and
Bosnia-Hercegovina (1992-95).
If convicted, the former president could spend the
rest of his life behind bars.
Russia backed Milosevic -- with reservations --
throughout the Balkan wars of the 1990s before finally
rallying behind current President Vojislav Kostunica,
who defeated Milosevic in the 2000 elections.
Russian Communists and nationalists, and leading
Russian politicians such as former prime minister
Yevgeny Primakov, have repeatedly voiced support for
Milosevic and Moscow has expressed deep reservations
about his trial.
===
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:37:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Rozoff <r_rozoff>
Subject: Russian Duma Unanimously Calls For Independent Milosesic Exam
http://www.rnw.nl/news/news.html#3428629
Radio Netherlands
December 11, 2002
Russians want own doctors to examine Milosevic
The Russian parliament has unanimously passed a
resolution calling for former Yugoslav president
Slobodan Milosevic to be examined by Russian doctors.
The health of the 61-year-old Mr Milosevic has
deteriorated since his trial at the Yugoslav Tribunal
in The Hague began in February.
The trial has been suspended five times because of the
former president's poor health. Mr Milosevic has been
diagnosed as suffering from high blood pressure and at
risk of having a heart attack.
Russia has long been a staunch supporter of the former
Yugoslav leader.
From: "Vladimir Krsljanin" <vlada>
Subject: Appeal again! Read the ICTY President's reply to SLOBODA.
APPEAL AGAIN WITH FULL STRENGTH!
NATO criminals are trying to drown all your appeals!
NATO + Hague Tribunal = Farewell to human
rights!
Attempted murder continues! One has to be happy because their therapy "reduces
the possibility of death by 11 percent"!
The so-called Trial Chamber III of the Hague Tribunal made up to now no formal
decision on the life of President Milosevic. Instead, they will discuss
"administrative issues" on December 18, 2002. For accountants of death, life is
nothing else but an administrative issue.
Demonstrate your disagreement with murder before that date!
Obviously somebody already signed a silent death verdict. Here is the proof - a
letter from the President of the Tribunal:
United Nations
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
H. E. Judge Claude Jorda
President
The Hague, 27 November 2002
Dear Mr Raicevic,
I received your correspondence dated 13 October 2002 in which you
share your concerns about Mr Milosevic's medical condition and request his
provisional release so that he may receive appropriate medical treatment in the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
I wish firstly to inform you that your request does not fall within
the province of the President of the International Tribunal. Pursuant to Rules
65 and 74 bis of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, it is for the Trial Chamber seized
of the case to order the medical examination of an accused and to rule on
requests for provisional release. I am taking the liberty of pointing out to you
that Trial Chamber III ruled on the matter on 6 March 2002.
Moreover, the question of organising the hearings is the
responsibility of the Trial Chamber which ensures the proper conduct of the
proceedings with respect for the rights and health of the accused. In this
respect, Trial Chamber III is taking due consideration of Mr Milosevic's medical
condition when scheduling the hearings. Furthermore, like all the detainees, Mr
Milosevic is receiving close medical attention of a high quality from the
medical staff of the United Nations Detention Centre. As Registrar of the
Tribunal, Mr Holthuis is following the situation closely and will, if necessary,
keep you informed of changes in Mr Milosevic's medical condition.
Yours sincerely,
/signed/
___________________
Claude Jorda
Monsieur Igor Raicevic
President
Assembly of the Freedom Association
What is the March 6 decision? Their refusal of the first request for provisional
release, which was NOT connected with the health situation, seriously
deteriorated in the mean time.
What is high quality close medical attention? It is STILL one visit of the
prison doctor in a week. AND daily visit of the nurse who brings a pill. AND
there is no even nurse during the weekends.
What is the medical staff of the United Nations Detention Centre? It is one
doctor and one nurse.
Yes, they did something more. The Trial Chamber III appointed Dr P.R.M. van
Dijkman, cardiologist from Bronovo Hospital at The Hague to write a report. So,
on November 15 President Milosevic has been examined by a cardiologist for FIRST
and ONLY time. And a report has been written.
Here are several lines from THAT report:
"Cardiac case history: Essential hypertension with secondary organ damage:
hypertrophy of the left ventricle. (...)
In recent weeks during trial again steep increase in blood pressure up to around
220/130 mmHg. (...)
During the tiring process of the trial, Mr Milosevic experiences a condition
that looks like hypertensive urgency. (...)
The treatment of increased blood pressure with medication generally reduces the
possibility of death by 11 percent, of coronary heart disease by 14 percent, of
cerebovascular accident by 33 percent and of vascular diseases (coronary heart
disease or CVA) by 22 percent. (Source: Revised Guidelines for Increased Blood
Pressure, CBO Quality Institute for Health Care). (...)
It can be concluded that with a combination of sufficient rest and medication,
the level of Mr Milosevic's blood pressure will be an acceptable one. (...)
However, it has become apparent time and again during the trial that there are
moments which cause Mr. Milosevic's blood pressure to "get out of hand".
My advice on the matter as formulated in the letter of 19 August 2002 remains
unchanged: sufficient rest periods in combination with antihypertensive
medication to keep the blood pressure at an acceptable level. (...)
I leave it to the Tribunal to decide in what way sufficient rest periods can be
incorporated into the trial. "
NO COMMENT!
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan Milosevic)
icdsm temporary address:
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/index.htm
for your donations:
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/donations.htm
===
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:46:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Rozoff <r_rozoff>
Subject: Russian MPs Urge UN To Allow Russian Doctors To Examine Milosevic
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/cn/Qwarcrimes-yugo-russia.Rr0h_CDB.html
Russian MPs urge UN to allow Russian medics to examine
ailing Milosevic
-"The Duma considers it a priority that political
prisoner Slobodan Milosevic undergo medical tests
administered by Yugoslav doctors and other
specialists," read the resolution adopted unanimously
by parliament's lower house.
MOSCOW, Dec 11 (AFP) - Russia's parliament on
Wednesday urged the UN war crimes tribunal in the
Hague to allow a team of Russian and Yugoslav doctors
to examine former Yugoslav president Slobodan
Milosevic, who has complained of worsening health
since his trial opened in February.
"The Duma considers it a priority that political
prisoner Slobodan Milosevic undergo medical tests
administered by Yugoslav doctors and other
specialists," read the resolution adopted unanimously
by parliament's lower house.
It also urged the Kremlin to send "to the Hague
qualified Russian doctors to take part in Slobodan
Milosevic's medical examination."
Milosevic, 61, has fallen ill five times since
February, disrupting his trial on dozens of war crimes
charges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.
The former strongman has refused to undergo
psychiatric tests for "mental strain", but medical
checks showed that he suffers from high blood pressure
and is at risk of a heart attack.
Russian deputies urged further medical exams because
"the arterial hypertension associated with Slobodan
Milosevic's cardiovascular illness threatens his
life."
While the court's prosecution has some 60 people
helping its side, Milosevic has undertaken his own
defense against some 66 charges of war crimes and
crimes against humanity for his involvement in the
wars in Kosovo (1998-99), Croatia (1991-95) and
Bosnia-Hercegovina (1992-95).
If convicted, the former president could spend the
rest of his life behind bars.
Russia backed Milosevic -- with reservations --
throughout the Balkan wars of the 1990s before finally
rallying behind current President Vojislav Kostunica,
who defeated Milosevic in the 2000 elections.
Russian Communists and nationalists, and leading
Russian politicians such as former prime minister
Yevgeny Primakov, have repeatedly voiced support for
Milosevic and Moscow has expressed deep reservations
about his trial.
===
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:37:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Rozoff <r_rozoff>
Subject: Russian Duma Unanimously Calls For Independent Milosesic Exam
http://www.rnw.nl/news/news.html#3428629
Radio Netherlands
December 11, 2002
Russians want own doctors to examine Milosevic
The Russian parliament has unanimously passed a
resolution calling for former Yugoslav president
Slobodan Milosevic to be examined by Russian doctors.
The health of the 61-year-old Mr Milosevic has
deteriorated since his trial at the Yugoslav Tribunal
in The Hague began in February.
The trial has been suspended five times because of the
former president's poor health. Mr Milosevic has been
diagnosed as suffering from high blood pressure and at
risk of having a heart attack.
Russia has long been a staunch supporter of the former
Yugoslav leader.
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Two Unbelievable Documents from The Hague
by Jared Israel
[Posted 12 December 2002]
Note: Some have asked for a reading list on Slobodan Milosevic. We'll prepare
one. Meanwhile, a good start is Prof. Gil-White's article, "Media
Misrepresentation of Slobodan Milosevic" at
www.icdsm.org/more/gw.htm
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Next week (16 December) Attorney Tiphaine Dickson, Nico Varkevisser and I are
going to The Hague Tribunal at the invitation of the prisoner, Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic. Our goal: to discuss strategy and to defend
Milosevic and the truth about Yugoslavia. We urgently need help to cover the
costs of this effort. At the end of the text is an appeal for funds.
I have just read two documents from The Hague Tribunal. Both include statements
that are simultaneously so outrageous and at the same time so matter-of-fact
that I thought, "This man cannot possibly be saying what it appears he is
saying." But in both cases, "This man was saying exactly what it appeared he was
saying."
The documents are a) a note from Hague Tribunal President Claude Jorda and b)
cardiologist P.R.M. van Dijkman's November 18th report on Slobodan Milosevic.
Both are posted below.
Two thoughts about these documents.
First, The Hague's treatment of Slobodan Milosevic, such as the deliberate
withholding of proper medical care and the worsening of his already
life-threatening conditions, amounts to torture. That was the ruling of the UN
Commission on Human Rights in a situation involving a much less serious medical
condition. For more on that UN ruling, see
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/motion.htm#FNote4
Second, the torture of Milosevic is an analogue for NATO's torture of
Yugoslavia: systematic, brutal and politically motivated.
Let us read and analyze the documents.
Judge Claude Jorda is President of The Hague Tribunal (ICTY). The November 27th
letter was his response to an October 13th letter from Freedom Foundation
(Sloboda) in Belgrade. Sloboda requested urgent action to prevent the death of
Slobodan Milosevic. So: Freedom Foundation writes Jorda on October 13; Jorda
responds to Freedom Foundation November 27. That's 44 days. How long does he
take when it is *not* an emergency?
More comments after the letter:
[Start Letter]
United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
H. E. Judge Claude Jorda President
The Hague, 27 November 2002
Dear Mr Raicevic,
I received your correspondence dated 13 October 2002 in which you share your
concerns about Mr Milosevic's medical condition and request his provisional
release so that he may receive appropriate medical treatment in the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
I wish firstly to inform you that your request does not fall within the province
of the President of the International Tribunal. Pursuant to Rules 65 and 74 bis
of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia, it is for the Trial Chamber seized of the case to
order the medical examination of an accused and to rule on requests for
provisional release. I am taking the liberty of pointing out to you that Trial
Chamber III ruled on the matter on 6 March 2002.
Moreover, the question of organising the hearings is the responsibility of the
Trial Chamber which ensures the proper conduct of the proceedings with respect
for the rights and health of the accused. In this respect, Trial Chamber III is
taking due consideration of Mr Milosevic's medical condition when scheduling the
hearings. Furthermore, like all the detainees, Mr Milosevic is receiving close
medical attention of a high quality from the medical staff of the United Nations
Detention Centre. As Registrar of the Tribunal, Mr Holthuis is following the
situation closely and will, if necessary, keep you informed of changes in Mr
Milosevic's medical condition. Yours sincerely,
/signed/ ___________________ Claude Jorda
Monsieur Igor Raicevic
President Assembly of the Freedom Association [Sloboda]
[End Letter]
Ok, some comments on Judge Jorda's letter:
On March 6, the trial chamber did indeed rule on Freedom Association's first
request for the provisional release of Slobodan Milosevic. However, contrary to
Mr. Jorda's assertion, that request *did not even mention* Mr. Milosevic's
health. Moreover, the court made its ruling without considering arguments by the
amici (court-appointed attorneys who comment on the proceedings) or for that
matter by Mr. Milosevich, who has some interest in the outcome of the decision.
President Milosevic's health has deteriorated sharply since then. The
deterioration was publicly admitted by Judge Richard May, President of Trial
Chamber III. Judge May stated on July 26 that:
"We have received a doctors' report which in its conclusion states that the
accused is a man exposed to a serious cardiovascular risk which requires careful
health monitoring in the future. The authors of the report advise a reduction in
the workload of this trial and advise further treatment by a cardiologist." -
ICTY transcript, 26 July 2002.
Following the resumption of proceedings after the summer recess the trial
chamber did *not* decrease Mr. Milosevic's trial schedule. Instead they
increased his hours in court to a full day, that is, to a greater workload than
was the case when Judge May addressed the issue on July 26!
The focus of Freedom Foundation's October 13th letter was precisely to criticize
the Trial Chamber's blatant disregard of the medical report:
[Start Excerpt from October 13th Letter]
October 13, 2002
Dear Mr. Jorda,
After our several letters to ICTY and many appeals of organizations and
individuals from Yugoslavia and other countries, aiming to secure the proper
life and health conditions for President Slobodan Milosevic, we came to the
conclusion that the whole construction of the process against President
Milosevic has as one of its intentions to break the health and threaten the life
of President Milosevic. In spite of the oral promises of Mr. Richard May and the
Trial Chamber that they would follow the recommendations of the ICTY-appointed
physicians, that President Milosevic should get a cardiologic check-up,
appropriate health monitoring and therapy, as well as that intensity of the
process should be slowed down - in spite of those promises, the only thing that
happened is that the Trial Chamber has returned to whole-day-long proceedings.
That is why we demand release of President Milosevic and his return to
Yugoslavia for recovery and appropriate specialists' medical treatment.
Yours sincerely,
Igor Raicevic
President Assembly of the Freedom Association [Sloboda]
-- Full text at www.icdsm.org/more/letterff.htm
[End Excerpt from October 13th Letter]
Obviously this is not your typical request for provisional release or a typical
statement of concern about medical issues.
It is a complaint about *abuses* inflicted by the Trial Chamber. It was directed
to Judge Jorda because Judge Jorda presides over the whole operation. So Judge
Jorda receives a complaint about Trial Chamber III, to which the learned Judge
replies: 'That should properly be addressed to the Trial Chamber III.'
Disregarding the content of the Freedom Foundation's complaint, Judge Jorda
states that:
"I wish firstly to inform you that your request does not fall within the
province of the President of the International Tribunal."
But in the same document, he also states:
"...the Trial Chamber III is taking due consideration of Mr Milosevic's medical
condition when scheduling the hearings."
If the request by Freedom Association is not within Jorda's province, then why
does he respond to it? Out of one side of his mouth he says, 'This is none of my
business.' But out of the other side of his mouth he says, 'We're handling this
correctly.' Thus he concedes a) that Mr. Milosevic's life is potentially in
danger and b) that he has authority to deal with the issue.
Judge Jorda gives The Hague high marks for the medical care it is providing to
Mr. Milosevic:
"Furthermore, like all the detainees, Mr Milosevic is receiving close medical
attention of a high quality from the medical staff of the United Nations
Detention Centre."
First, Mr. Milosevic is not like all the detainees. He has a life-threatening
heart condition.
Second, the medical staff referred to consists of: one doctor (a general
practitioner) and one nurse. Mr. Milosevic is visited daily by the one nurse,
not by the doctor. She gives the President a pill. The doctor is not a heart
specialist. The nurse is gone on weekends.
To describe this as constituting "close medical attention of a high quality
...medical staff" for a man with a life-threatening heart condition leaves me
speechless.
Third, on what basis does Judge Jorda makes this evaluation? Is it a matter of
faith? That is, having *faith* that The Hague Tribunal always gives good medical
care, is it therefore revealed to him that of course Mr. Milosevic must be
receiving good medical care? Is Mr. Jorda a judge or is Mr. Jorda a priest?
Because if this Tribunal is ruled by Priests, why don't they just name it
Inquisition and get it over with?
Or perhaps Jorda 'knows' Mr. Milosevic is getting good care because after
receiving the Foundation's letter he investigated the matter. But wouldn't such
investigation itself constitute admission that Jorda has jurisdiction concerning
the issues raised? And if he did investigate why did he not consult the
Foundation which had brought the complaint?
And given the life-threatening issues and most serious charges in the Freedom
Foundation letter, why did it take Judge Jorda 44 days to reply that he is not
the right person to consider the issue?
Why didn't he a) immediately send the letter to the right person and b)
immediately contact Freedom Foundation to tell them he had done so? What took
him 44 days?
Moreover, on 2 November Freedom Foundation sent Judge Jorda *and* Judge May
(i.e., the President of Trial Chamber III) a *second* letter raising the same
issues, indeed more sharply, and citing UN rules that *require* the Chamber to
deal adequately with President Milosevic's heart condition. This letter can be
read at http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/2nd.htm
Judge Jorda and Judge May received this second letter 25 days before Jorda's
reply - but Judge Jorda entirely ignores the second letter.
Judge Jorda's response is even more shocking in light of the report by the Dr.
P.R.M. van Dijkman, the cardiologist who was - finally and only once - told to
examine Slobodan Milosevic on Nov. 17th.
*How a UN Doctor Deals with UN Medical Abuse *
[Start Report]
"Cardiac case history: Essential hypertension with secondary organ damage:
hypertrophy of the left ventricle. (...) In recent weeks during trial again
steep increase in blood pressure up to around 220/130 mmHg. (...) During the
tiring process of the trial, Mr Milosevic experiences a condition that looks
like hypertensive urgency.
(...) The treatment of increased blood pressure with medication generally
reduces the possibility of death by 11 percent, of coronary heart disease by 14
percent, of cerebovascular accident by 33 percent and of vascular diseases
(coronary heart disease or CVA) by 22 percent. (Source: Revised Guidelines for
Increased Blood Pressure, CBO Quality Institute for Health Care).
(...) It can be concluded that with a combination of sufficient rest and
medication, the level of Mr Milosevic's blood pressure will be an acceptable one.
(...) However, it has become apparent time and again during the trial that there
are moments which cause Mr. Milosevic's blood pressure to "get out of hand". My
advice on the matter as formulated in the letter of 19 August 2002 remains
unchanged: sufficient rest periods in combination with antihypertensive
medication to keep the blood pressure at an acceptable level.
(...) I leave it to the Tribunal to decide in what way sufficient rest periods
can be incorporated into the trial. "
-- The doctor's full report may be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/dijkman.htm
[End Report]
This report is truly remarkable.
1) The doctor admits that the chances of Mr. Milosevic suffering a sudden stroke
or heart attack and possible death are directly related to his work load and
amount of rest;
2) The doctor all but states that his recommendations have not been followed:
[Start quote]
"However, it has become apparent time and again during the trial that there are
moments which cause Mr. Milosevic's blood pressure to 'get out of hand'.
"My advice on the matter as formulated in the letter of 19 August 2002 remains
unchanged..."
[End quote]
3) Prior to Nov. 17th, no heart specialist examined Mr. Milosevic.
Yet this cardiologist states that he made recommendations for care two months
earlier - on 19 August. That is, he made medical recommendations regarding a
patient who suffered a manifestly life-threatening condition *without examining
the patient.* And why did he prescribe without examining the patient? Because
The Tribunal did not *want* him to examine the patient.
This behavior of a specialist *working for the United Nations* in a case in
which we charge the United Nations is acting as a weapon of NATO - this behavior
illustrates the urgency of our demand that Mr. Milosevic be transferred to
Belgrade's superb military hospital. There he will be examined by the best
doctors, who are familiar with his medical history, and who do not follow Hague
Tribunal orders to violate their Oath by prescribing treatment without properly
examining the patient.
That said, van Dijkman did at least state that the court urgently needs to
change Mr. Milosevic's conditions. But then look how he concludes the report:
"I leave it to the Tribunal to decide in what way sufficient rest periods can be
incorporated into the trial."
He leaves it to the Tribunal! First Dr. Dijkman agrees to prescribe without
examination, and then, when at last he does examine, he surrenders his
professional duty to prescribe treatment to Dr. Richard May et al at Trial
Chamber III.
Slobodan Milosevic has requested to meet with a delegation from his support
committee, the ICDSM. That delegation is going to The Hague next week. It
includes Quebec Attorney Tiphaine Dickson, whom the ICDSM has retained as
counsel, as well as ICDSM Vice-Chairmen, Nico Varkevisser and myself, Jared Israel.
It is very possible that on Wed., 18 December, the Tribunal will rule on two
vital issues. One is whether and how to adjust the trial proceedings to remove
the mortal threat to Mr. Milosevic's life. The second is whether to force
unwanted counsel on Mr. Milosevic. It is very important that we be there to help
fight for Mr. Milosevic - and the truth - through publicity and legal measures.
We are desperately short on cash to cover the expenses of this trip. If you can
help please do so. You may make contributions by going to www.icdsm.org/help.htm
Thank you!
==============================
We're Taking on The Hague Dec. 16th! Please Help Get us There!
==============================
Slobodan Milosevic has refused to bow. We are going to The Hague to support this
brave and principled leader.
Please help get us there. We need funds for airfare, an eight-day stay and a
press conference. We have received some contributions - for which thank you! -
but we are several thousand dollars short.
It is crucial that we go!
If possible, please help!
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by Jared Israel
[Posted 12 December 2002]
Note: Some have asked for a reading list on Slobodan Milosevic. We'll prepare
one. Meanwhile, a good start is Prof. Gil-White's article, "Media
Misrepresentation of Slobodan Milosevic" at
www.icdsm.org/more/gw.htm
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Next week (16 December) Attorney Tiphaine Dickson, Nico Varkevisser and I are
going to The Hague Tribunal at the invitation of the prisoner, Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic. Our goal: to discuss strategy and to defend
Milosevic and the truth about Yugoslavia. We urgently need help to cover the
costs of this effort. At the end of the text is an appeal for funds.
I have just read two documents from The Hague Tribunal. Both include statements
that are simultaneously so outrageous and at the same time so matter-of-fact
that I thought, "This man cannot possibly be saying what it appears he is
saying." But in both cases, "This man was saying exactly what it appeared he was
saying."
The documents are a) a note from Hague Tribunal President Claude Jorda and b)
cardiologist P.R.M. van Dijkman's November 18th report on Slobodan Milosevic.
Both are posted below.
Two thoughts about these documents.
First, The Hague's treatment of Slobodan Milosevic, such as the deliberate
withholding of proper medical care and the worsening of his already
life-threatening conditions, amounts to torture. That was the ruling of the UN
Commission on Human Rights in a situation involving a much less serious medical
condition. For more on that UN ruling, see
http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/motion.htm#FNote4
Second, the torture of Milosevic is an analogue for NATO's torture of
Yugoslavia: systematic, brutal and politically motivated.
Let us read and analyze the documents.
Judge Claude Jorda is President of The Hague Tribunal (ICTY). The November 27th
letter was his response to an October 13th letter from Freedom Foundation
(Sloboda) in Belgrade. Sloboda requested urgent action to prevent the death of
Slobodan Milosevic. So: Freedom Foundation writes Jorda on October 13; Jorda
responds to Freedom Foundation November 27. That's 44 days. How long does he
take when it is *not* an emergency?
More comments after the letter:
[Start Letter]
United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
H. E. Judge Claude Jorda President
The Hague, 27 November 2002
Dear Mr Raicevic,
I received your correspondence dated 13 October 2002 in which you share your
concerns about Mr Milosevic's medical condition and request his provisional
release so that he may receive appropriate medical treatment in the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
I wish firstly to inform you that your request does not fall within the province
of the President of the International Tribunal. Pursuant to Rules 65 and 74 bis
of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia, it is for the Trial Chamber seized of the case to
order the medical examination of an accused and to rule on requests for
provisional release. I am taking the liberty of pointing out to you that Trial
Chamber III ruled on the matter on 6 March 2002.
Moreover, the question of organising the hearings is the responsibility of the
Trial Chamber which ensures the proper conduct of the proceedings with respect
for the rights and health of the accused. In this respect, Trial Chamber III is
taking due consideration of Mr Milosevic's medical condition when scheduling the
hearings. Furthermore, like all the detainees, Mr Milosevic is receiving close
medical attention of a high quality from the medical staff of the United Nations
Detention Centre. As Registrar of the Tribunal, Mr Holthuis is following the
situation closely and will, if necessary, keep you informed of changes in Mr
Milosevic's medical condition. Yours sincerely,
/signed/ ___________________ Claude Jorda
Monsieur Igor Raicevic
President Assembly of the Freedom Association [Sloboda]
[End Letter]
Ok, some comments on Judge Jorda's letter:
On March 6, the trial chamber did indeed rule on Freedom Association's first
request for the provisional release of Slobodan Milosevic. However, contrary to
Mr. Jorda's assertion, that request *did not even mention* Mr. Milosevic's
health. Moreover, the court made its ruling without considering arguments by the
amici (court-appointed attorneys who comment on the proceedings) or for that
matter by Mr. Milosevich, who has some interest in the outcome of the decision.
President Milosevic's health has deteriorated sharply since then. The
deterioration was publicly admitted by Judge Richard May, President of Trial
Chamber III. Judge May stated on July 26 that:
"We have received a doctors' report which in its conclusion states that the
accused is a man exposed to a serious cardiovascular risk which requires careful
health monitoring in the future. The authors of the report advise a reduction in
the workload of this trial and advise further treatment by a cardiologist." -
ICTY transcript, 26 July 2002.
Following the resumption of proceedings after the summer recess the trial
chamber did *not* decrease Mr. Milosevic's trial schedule. Instead they
increased his hours in court to a full day, that is, to a greater workload than
was the case when Judge May addressed the issue on July 26!
The focus of Freedom Foundation's October 13th letter was precisely to criticize
the Trial Chamber's blatant disregard of the medical report:
[Start Excerpt from October 13th Letter]
October 13, 2002
Dear Mr. Jorda,
After our several letters to ICTY and many appeals of organizations and
individuals from Yugoslavia and other countries, aiming to secure the proper
life and health conditions for President Slobodan Milosevic, we came to the
conclusion that the whole construction of the process against President
Milosevic has as one of its intentions to break the health and threaten the life
of President Milosevic. In spite of the oral promises of Mr. Richard May and the
Trial Chamber that they would follow the recommendations of the ICTY-appointed
physicians, that President Milosevic should get a cardiologic check-up,
appropriate health monitoring and therapy, as well as that intensity of the
process should be slowed down - in spite of those promises, the only thing that
happened is that the Trial Chamber has returned to whole-day-long proceedings.
That is why we demand release of President Milosevic and his return to
Yugoslavia for recovery and appropriate specialists' medical treatment.
Yours sincerely,
Igor Raicevic
President Assembly of the Freedom Association [Sloboda]
-- Full text at www.icdsm.org/more/letterff.htm
[End Excerpt from October 13th Letter]
Obviously this is not your typical request for provisional release or a typical
statement of concern about medical issues.
It is a complaint about *abuses* inflicted by the Trial Chamber. It was directed
to Judge Jorda because Judge Jorda presides over the whole operation. So Judge
Jorda receives a complaint about Trial Chamber III, to which the learned Judge
replies: 'That should properly be addressed to the Trial Chamber III.'
Disregarding the content of the Freedom Foundation's complaint, Judge Jorda
states that:
"I wish firstly to inform you that your request does not fall within the
province of the President of the International Tribunal."
But in the same document, he also states:
"...the Trial Chamber III is taking due consideration of Mr Milosevic's medical
condition when scheduling the hearings."
If the request by Freedom Association is not within Jorda's province, then why
does he respond to it? Out of one side of his mouth he says, 'This is none of my
business.' But out of the other side of his mouth he says, 'We're handling this
correctly.' Thus he concedes a) that Mr. Milosevic's life is potentially in
danger and b) that he has authority to deal with the issue.
Judge Jorda gives The Hague high marks for the medical care it is providing to
Mr. Milosevic:
"Furthermore, like all the detainees, Mr Milosevic is receiving close medical
attention of a high quality from the medical staff of the United Nations
Detention Centre."
First, Mr. Milosevic is not like all the detainees. He has a life-threatening
heart condition.
Second, the medical staff referred to consists of: one doctor (a general
practitioner) and one nurse. Mr. Milosevic is visited daily by the one nurse,
not by the doctor. She gives the President a pill. The doctor is not a heart
specialist. The nurse is gone on weekends.
To describe this as constituting "close medical attention of a high quality
...medical staff" for a man with a life-threatening heart condition leaves me
speechless.
Third, on what basis does Judge Jorda makes this evaluation? Is it a matter of
faith? That is, having *faith* that The Hague Tribunal always gives good medical
care, is it therefore revealed to him that of course Mr. Milosevic must be
receiving good medical care? Is Mr. Jorda a judge or is Mr. Jorda a priest?
Because if this Tribunal is ruled by Priests, why don't they just name it
Inquisition and get it over with?
Or perhaps Jorda 'knows' Mr. Milosevic is getting good care because after
receiving the Foundation's letter he investigated the matter. But wouldn't such
investigation itself constitute admission that Jorda has jurisdiction concerning
the issues raised? And if he did investigate why did he not consult the
Foundation which had brought the complaint?
And given the life-threatening issues and most serious charges in the Freedom
Foundation letter, why did it take Judge Jorda 44 days to reply that he is not
the right person to consider the issue?
Why didn't he a) immediately send the letter to the right person and b)
immediately contact Freedom Foundation to tell them he had done so? What took
him 44 days?
Moreover, on 2 November Freedom Foundation sent Judge Jorda *and* Judge May
(i.e., the President of Trial Chamber III) a *second* letter raising the same
issues, indeed more sharply, and citing UN rules that *require* the Chamber to
deal adequately with President Milosevic's heart condition. This letter can be
read at http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/2nd.htm
Judge Jorda and Judge May received this second letter 25 days before Jorda's
reply - but Judge Jorda entirely ignores the second letter.
Judge Jorda's response is even more shocking in light of the report by the Dr.
P.R.M. van Dijkman, the cardiologist who was - finally and only once - told to
examine Slobodan Milosevic on Nov. 17th.
*How a UN Doctor Deals with UN Medical Abuse *
[Start Report]
"Cardiac case history: Essential hypertension with secondary organ damage:
hypertrophy of the left ventricle. (...) In recent weeks during trial again
steep increase in blood pressure up to around 220/130 mmHg. (...) During the
tiring process of the trial, Mr Milosevic experiences a condition that looks
like hypertensive urgency.
(...) The treatment of increased blood pressure with medication generally
reduces the possibility of death by 11 percent, of coronary heart disease by 14
percent, of cerebovascular accident by 33 percent and of vascular diseases
(coronary heart disease or CVA) by 22 percent. (Source: Revised Guidelines for
Increased Blood Pressure, CBO Quality Institute for Health Care).
(...) It can be concluded that with a combination of sufficient rest and
medication, the level of Mr Milosevic's blood pressure will be an acceptable one.
(...) However, it has become apparent time and again during the trial that there
are moments which cause Mr. Milosevic's blood pressure to "get out of hand". My
advice on the matter as formulated in the letter of 19 August 2002 remains
unchanged: sufficient rest periods in combination with antihypertensive
medication to keep the blood pressure at an acceptable level.
(...) I leave it to the Tribunal to decide in what way sufficient rest periods
can be incorporated into the trial. "
-- The doctor's full report may be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/dijkman.htm
[End Report]
This report is truly remarkable.
1) The doctor admits that the chances of Mr. Milosevic suffering a sudden stroke
or heart attack and possible death are directly related to his work load and
amount of rest;
2) The doctor all but states that his recommendations have not been followed:
[Start quote]
"However, it has become apparent time and again during the trial that there are
moments which cause Mr. Milosevic's blood pressure to 'get out of hand'.
"My advice on the matter as formulated in the letter of 19 August 2002 remains
unchanged..."
[End quote]
3) Prior to Nov. 17th, no heart specialist examined Mr. Milosevic.
Yet this cardiologist states that he made recommendations for care two months
earlier - on 19 August. That is, he made medical recommendations regarding a
patient who suffered a manifestly life-threatening condition *without examining
the patient.* And why did he prescribe without examining the patient? Because
The Tribunal did not *want* him to examine the patient.
This behavior of a specialist *working for the United Nations* in a case in
which we charge the United Nations is acting as a weapon of NATO - this behavior
illustrates the urgency of our demand that Mr. Milosevic be transferred to
Belgrade's superb military hospital. There he will be examined by the best
doctors, who are familiar with his medical history, and who do not follow Hague
Tribunal orders to violate their Oath by prescribing treatment without properly
examining the patient.
That said, van Dijkman did at least state that the court urgently needs to
change Mr. Milosevic's conditions. But then look how he concludes the report:
"I leave it to the Tribunal to decide in what way sufficient rest periods can be
incorporated into the trial."
He leaves it to the Tribunal! First Dr. Dijkman agrees to prescribe without
examination, and then, when at last he does examine, he surrenders his
professional duty to prescribe treatment to Dr. Richard May et al at Trial
Chamber III.
Slobodan Milosevic has requested to meet with a delegation from his support
committee, the ICDSM. That delegation is going to The Hague next week. It
includes Quebec Attorney Tiphaine Dickson, whom the ICDSM has retained as
counsel, as well as ICDSM Vice-Chairmen, Nico Varkevisser and myself, Jared Israel.
It is very possible that on Wed., 18 December, the Tribunal will rule on two
vital issues. One is whether and how to adjust the trial proceedings to remove
the mortal threat to Mr. Milosevic's life. The second is whether to force
unwanted counsel on Mr. Milosevic. It is very important that we be there to help
fight for Mr. Milosevic - and the truth - through publicity and legal measures.
We are desperately short on cash to cover the expenses of this trip. If you can
help please do so. You may make contributions by going to www.icdsm.org/help.htm
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www.resistenze.org - popoli resistenti - jugoslavia - 01-12-02
Il paese di cui non si parla più …
di Michel Collon (traduzione integrale - parte 1/2)
L’impennata dei prezzi, dei licenziamenti, dei tumori, dei suicidi. E il
rifiuto del governo del FMI.
Perché non si parla più della Jugoslavia?
Con il nuovo regime, il prezzo del pane, della verdura e
dell’elettricità sono esplosi. I suicidi anche. Esattamente come gli
scioperi. Ma i minatori di Kolubura, che avevano aiutato a rovesciare
Milosevic, adesso, dal ministro Djindjic sono definiti “ricattatori”. Ed
il suo indice di popolarità è sceso all’8%.
Di questi tempi, il Kosovo, quel ne che rimane dopo i bombardamenti,vive
sotto il terrore dellla mafia e della pulizia etnica di tutte le etnie,a
dispetto(o a causa?) della presenza di 40.000 soldati della Nato.
Benvenuto nella Jugoslavia, la neocolonia nella vetrina della
mondializzazione. Un grosso monito per tutti i paesi che gli USA si
apprestano “a conquistare”, oltre che un’esperienza interessante per
tutti coloro avevanosostenuto la guerra della Nato nel 99’.
Perché, adesso, questa gente non si chiede come mai la maggioranza dei
serbi si rifiuta di andare a votare?
Il prezzo del pane è passata da 4 a 30 dinari in un anno. Il maiale al
Kg. da 180 a 260 dinari (era a 60 sotto Milosevic). Le patate da 7 a 12,
lo zucchero da 25 a 50, un litro d’olio da 36 a 70 dinari.
Le differenze con il periodo Milosevic sono ancora più grandi. Il gas al
m³ è passato da 3 a 11,20 dinari. 170.000 famiglie di Belgrado non
possono più pagare l’elettricità, che su richiesta del FMI è raddoppiata
in quattro mesi, ed altri rincari sono già annunciati. Quest’inverno
saranno privati anche del riscaldamento.
« I francesi non potrebbero vivere con così poco » ,mi confida
Dominique, di ritorno da Belgrado ;
« I miei amici, un gruppo di intellettuali di Belgrado, mangiano una
banana o un yogurt, non possono spendere di più. Il caffè non si vende a
pacchetti da un Kg., ma solo da cento grammi.
Ma loro non lo bevono più, è diventato un lusso. - Si, ci si arrangia
-, mi dicono loro, ma intanto hanno perso dei chili. Un pasto, è una
scatola di sardine per tre, un po’ di paprika, pane …. E non si contano
più i suicidi dei vecchi, che non resistono a vedersi ridotti come dei
mendicanti ».
La stessa cosa per Senka, manager di Jagodina, ci dice con angoscia : «
Come faccio, la mattina quando mio figlio chiede : - Mamma : del Pane !
del Latte ! - e io non ho niente da dargli ? »
« Non c’è più nessuno che ha la possibilità di comprare », spiega il suo
amico francese : « Non c’è più nessuno che abbia lavoro o collocazione
sociale. Si sopravvive grazie a degli espedienti del tipo « Io ti
aggiusto la macchina, tu mi dai tre Kg. di patate oppure dell’olio ».
Quasi tutti hanno dei parenti in campagna che li aiutano a mangiare,
senò non potrebbero campare.
Dei militanti del neonato Partito del Lavoro, hanno condotto una piccola
inchiesta per noi :
« In tre città operaie di media importanza l’85% della gente dichiara
che il loro livello di vita si è abbassato del 150% ».
A Belgrado ci sono 4.900 donne malate di cancro e senza cure. Avevano
già sofferto molto per le privazioni imposte dal 91’ per via
dell’embargo occidentale, e subito i gravi inquinamenti provocati dalla
Nato quando, violando le leggi di guerra, ha bombardato il complesso
chimico di Pancevo.
Non c’è poi stato alcun miglioramento con la caduta drammatica del
livello di vita e dell’alimentazione. E per finire, la privatizzazione
ha fatto i suoi disastri : fine dell’accesso alle medicine a buon
mercato vendute delle farmacie dello Stato, ormai introvabili. Di fatto,
ci vuole un buon portafoglio per pagarsi i farmaci. 30 pastiglie anti -
cancro costano 60 € : quasi l’equivalente di una pensione operaia
mensile. Secondo il giornale Novosti, 4.900 donne di Belgrado sono
malate di cancro, ma sono private dell’accesso alle medicine. Si osserva
altrove una forte recrudescenza del tasso di malattie cancerose,
soprattutto polmonari. Il ministero della Sanità ha riconosciuto il
fenomeno, ma non ha attivato alcuna ricerca in merito. Sarà l’URANIO ?
Il problema della sanità rischia di diventare enorme: una recente
statistica constata l’aumento dei decessi del 30% in tre anni, che
colpisce tutte le fasce d’età, giovani compresi.
Un amico di Belgrado ci confida con amarezza che quando suo padre è
deceduto, la famiglia ha dovuto attendere settimane per l’inumazione,
perché non si trovano posti nei cimiteri, sono diventati troppo piccoli …
Che fine hanno fatto le promesse del 2000?
Che contrasto con le promesse ellettorali sciorinate nell’ottobre del
2000 dai partiti filo-occidentali.
A crederli, la prosperità aspettava ogni serbo, bastava rivolgersi
all’Occidente …
Al momento, sotto il titolo « Kostunica, Djindjic e Washington
manterranno le loro promesse? » noi scriviamo : una grande illusione
domina attualmente la gioventù jugoslava, quella che nutre le illusioni
verso le promesse dell’Occidente. La grande illusione è quella di
credere che accettando la volontà delle multinazionali e dei dirigenti
occidentali, la popolazione jugoslava sarà ricompensata con la
prosperità. Resta la questione decisiva : « Cosa valgono le promesse
degli Stati Uniti e dei loro alleati ? » Allettati da promesse di
prosperità come quelle fatte nell’89’, paesi come la Russia, la Bulgaria
o l’Albania si sono messi in ginocchio davanti al capitalismo occidentale.
Oggi i loro popoli vivono come prima? Rispondono i fatti.
Anche a Belgrado, dopo due anni, i fatti hanno risposto. La
mondializzazione made in USA e Bruxelles è finalmente apparsa ai popoli.
Eccoli, sono i famosi « investitori occidentali », come dice chi ha
voluto ed ottenuto la fine del controllo dei prezzi.
Il FMI ha fatto licenziare almeno 800.000 lavoratori
Il livello di vita e la sanità si potranno raddrizzare nei prossimi anni
? Non si può aspettare, la disoccupazione sta diventando catastrofe : «
Bisogna licenziare almeno 800.000 lavoratori serbi dei servizi pubblici
e delle imprese di Stato », scrive Arvo Cuddo, responsabile della Banca
Mondiale. Tutto preso nel consigliare ai governanti di procedere
progressivamente e di prevedere compensazioni onde evitare una
situazione sociale esplosiva.
In fondo, da parte della Banca Mondiale non c’è niente di nuovo. Già
nell’ 89’, chi voleva il fallimento di 2.435 imprese jugoslave e il
licenziamento in massa dei lavoratori (due su tre in Serbia) ? Queste
esigenze occidentali avevano spinto i dirigenti di diverse repubbliche
alla fuga in avanti dei rilanci nazionalisti.
I primi colpi della guerra sono stati sparati dalla Banca Mondiale e dal
FMI.
Dieci anni più tardi, grazie alle bombe della Nato, la privatizzazione
ha debuttato sul serio. Le cinque maggiori imprese pubbliche sono il
bersaglio del governo Djindjic, ma le resistenze sono forti. Per
esempio, tra i 36.000 lavoratori dell’impresa agro - alimentare Karnex.
In giugno hanno scoperto che la loro cassa sociale è vuota, sicchè un
lavoratore che si ammala non ha più diritto a nessuna retribuzione. Dove
sono i soldi ? « Non si sa », risponde il governo, tentando di fargli
accettare la privatizzazione. « Non importa» rispondono allora i
lavoratori, e si decidono a vendere i loro prodotti direttamente ai
supermercati e non più al governo che accaparra il 50% dei profitti :
« Quando noi consegniamo, ci pagate solo in parte, e con ritardo. Ma noi
non abbiamo bisogno di capitali stranieri per salvarci.Ce la faremo
senza di voi. »
La resistenza alle privatizzazioni
I lavoratori cercano di salvare il loro sistema di autogestione. Questo
lo si vede anche nel successo dell’iniziativa del nuovo sindacato
(d’opposizione) « Verso il futuro » , che ha proposto agli operai di
fondare una cassa sociale, da creare lavorando quattro sabati al mese.
Negli altri quattro grandi stabilimenti i problemi sono identici :
Zastava (auto), Smederevo (metallurgia), GOSA (edilizia), e Stardit 13.
In questa fabbrica sono state consegnate al governo 150.000 tonnellate
d’acciaio prodotte in tre mesi, ma dal governo non sono ancora state
pagate. Il salario degli operai è stato invece ridotto della metà,
perciò la cassa è senza fondi. In giugno il primo ministro Djindjic ha
visitato l’acciaieria proponendo di recuperare quel denaro ..
privatizzandola, ma la manovra è stata rifiutata con uno scipero di 48 ore.
Di fatto, i cinque più grandi stabilimenti industriali del paese
restano fedeli all’autogestione e non accettano di essere privatizzati e
svenduti alle mutinazionali straniere. GOSA è bramata da interessi
tedeschi mentre Peugeot addocchia la Zastava. Poco prima delle elezioni,
il governo, dopo aver licenziato la metà di trentamila lavoratori, ha
fatto luccicare di nuovo delle belle promesse. Alla vigilia delle
elezioni, giocando d’azzardo, ha annunciato che l’acciaieria sarà
ripresa da un miracoloso investimento USA, che prometteva di rilanciare
la produzione fino a 220.000 vetture all’anno ! Poco probabile, visto
che al momento l’industria automobilistica del capitalismo mondiale
produce circa 70 milioni di auto all’anno di cui riesce a venderne solo
50 milioni, e si trova alle prese con una crisi di sovrapproduzione.
Inoltre si licenziano ed impoveriscono i potenziali clienti, e a chi
vendere allora ?
Di fronte a tutte queste promesse, la sfiducia ha sostituito le
illusioni precedenti :
« Il governo non si preoccupa della gente, solo delle sue tasche ».
E’ soprattutto la privatizzazione a riempire quelle tasche ? Alcuni
esempi lo confermano. La metà della Telecom era già stata venduta, la
rete Mobil 063 è caduta nelle mani dei fratelli Karic. Tutti si chiedono
da dove è arrivato il denaro necessario ad installare una rete in tutta
la Serbia, e anche i fondi per finanziare la televisione BK, che ha i
migliori programmi del paese. I fratelli Karic sono molto vicini a
Djindjic… Quanto alla rete 064, si tratta di capitali tedeschi.
Chi si arricchisce in Jugoslavia ?
Se la maggior parte degli jugoslavi si sono molto impoveriti, dove vanno
questi soldi ? « Sono quelli che mangiano, è la mafia intorno a Djindjic
», denuncia Zarko, riassumendo un sentimento generale. Mafia ? Accusa
esagerata ? Per niente ; ci scrive un francese al ritorno da Belgrado :
« Un imprenditore vicino al partito del signor Djindjic è stato
recentemente assassinato. Aveva ottenuto la concessione di sfruttamento
dell’autostrada Belgrado - Horgos ed in principio doveva finirne la
costruzione .. Se ci andate in automobile, vedrete che è ancora
esattamente come l’aveva lasciata Milosevic. Si pensa che questo
imprenditore sia stato eliminato per nascondere il dirottamento dei
fondi verso la DOS ». Questa è l’accusa indicata anche dall’entourage
del presidente Kostunica. A fine agosto, i ministri del suo partito, il
DSS, hanno lasciato il governo in segno di protesta contro la morte di
Momir Gavrilovic. Alto responsabile dei servizi di sicurezza, tornava da
una visita a Kostunica per informarlo dei legami tra il primo ministro
Djindjic e il boss mafioso Stanko Subotic. Da allora, dell’assassinio
non è stato né incolpato né arrestato nessuno. Si noterà anche che la
privatizzazione delle principali imprese pubbliche è stata condotta a
profitto di membri del partito di governo DOS ...
Il potere non è a Belgrado
Ma non si arricchiscono solo gli amici del signor Djindjic. Quando hanno
chiuso le quattro maggiori banche serbe, licenziando migliaia
d’impiegati, chi le ha rilevate? La Società Generale francese e la banca
tedesca Raiffeisen. Nel settore della birra, è l’imprenditore belga
Interbrew che si è piazzato.
Qual è il paese che si prende la fetta più grande della torta? La
Germania, senza dubbio. Alcuni parlano già della “nuova invasione
tedesca”. A scuola il corso di tedesco sta soppiantando l’inglese.
Quest’invasione riguarda vari settori. E’ una ditta tedesca che vuole
gli impianti idrici del Montengro, e sono società tedesche che hanno
raccattato la maggior parte dei media serbi: Westdeutsche Allgmeine
Zeiutng ha acquistato il controllo del celebre quotidiano Politika,
mentre Grunner & Jahr si è impossessato del rotocalco Blic.
Un inciso; all’epoca di Milosevic l’opposizione filoccidentale,
generosamente finanziata da miliardari USA come George Soros,
controllava la maggior parte dei giornali, ora, tutte le testate sono
filoccidentali. E’ questo il pluralismo ?
Non è una sorpresa. Ciò che sta accadendo non è che l’applicazione di
uno scenario scritto da anni a Washington, Berlino e Bruxelles. Sono gli
Stati Uniti e l’Unione Europea che hanno preso direttamente in mano la
vita economica e sociale della Jugoslavia. Esercitano il controllo
assoluto con il “G17 ”, un ordine economico finanziato dall’occidente
composto di vecchi responsabili del FMI e della Banca Mondiale. E’ il
G17 che ha fornito gli uomini chiave del nuovo regime : il vice primo
ministro Mirojslav Labus, il governatore della Banca Nazionale Mladan
Dinkic e il ministro delle finanze Bozidar Djelic. Sono quellli che
hanno preparato tutte le leggi di liquidazione delle protezioni sociali
e dello smantellamento dei diritti dei lavoratori.
Sono loro, gli uomini del FMI, che hanno scatenato la privatizzazione
delle imprese autogestite dai lavoratori, l’ultima eredità di Tito.
Ventidue società sono state vendute agli offerenti, 5 privatizzate e 26
sono in via di ristrutturazione. Il divieto di licenziamento è stato
cancellato per ingraziarsi gli investitori stranieri. E’ Djelic che
recentemente ha abbassato l’imposta delle imprese dal 20% al 14%. Ora,
quando la gente semplice non ha più di che vivere, si fanno regali ai
nuovi padroni, alle multinazionali e ai paesi ricchi. Djelic ha
annunciato che il suo governo « rimborserà » immediatamente la Banca
Mondiale, la Banca Europea d’Investimento e il « Club di Parigi » di 60
milioni di euro.
L’Occidente ha distrutto la Jugoslavia, ma si fa « rimborsare » !
Disilusioni, ma anche resistenza
Oggi, due serbi su tre vivono sotto la soglia della povertà, questa
situazione provoca disillusione, ma anche resistenza.
Come sono i serbi oggi ? La risposta è un’anime : « Delusi,
disincantati, disgustati » dice Dominique, « Si rendono conto che sono
stati raggirati. Si accusa Milosevic, ma quando lui era al potere si
mangiava tre volte al giorno. Ora invece … ». La debolissima
partecipazione alle ultime elezioni conferma la tabula rasa nei
confronti dei partiti : « Tutti uguali ! ». Djindjic, il nuovo primo
ministro vede la sua popolarità cadere all’8%. Ma ce n’è anche per
Kostunica : « Promette molto, ma non fa niente », s’indigna Branko, che
aveva votato per lui speranzoso. Lo stesso vale per i giovani, ostili a
Milosevic, e che speravano di gustare il tenore di vita occidentale,
adesso anche loro sono delusi. Il tasso di suicidi è esploso: l’anno
scorso a Belgrado ne sono stati dichiarati 900. A Nis, città di 350.000
abitanti, la polizia segnala un suicidio ogni 5 giorni. Nel 2001 i serbi
hanno consumato 41 milioni di compresse anti - stress Bensedin, 63
milioni di Bromazepam e 40 milioni di Diazepam. La stessa agenzia
occidentale Associated Press segnala la catastrofe sociale : « Migliaia
di tassisti hanno paralizzato il traffico di Belgrado, protestano contro
una nuova tassa (un mese di salario medio) che colpisce gli autisti di
taxi, e reclamano dal governo di poter aumentare le tariffe ». Lo slogan
dei protestanti « DOS - ta ! » (Basta !) eprime bene la disillusione
totale nella DOS messa al potere dall’Occidente nell’ottobre 2000.
Quest’estate, molte manifestazion sono state represse con brutalità
dalla polizia (rimpiazzata quasi al completo dal nuovo regime). In
giugno, davanti al Parlamento di Belgrado, 10 persone sono state ferite
durante una manifestazione di « poveri ».
Ma tutto questo non passsa il filtro dei media occidentali. L’opinione
pubblica occidentale è tenuta allo scuro. Ci si guarda bene dallo
spiegare il disincanto profondo della popolazione jugoslava verso coloro
che promettevano. Questo disincanto è la reale causa della crisi
politica in Serbia, dal confronto Kostunica - Djindjic al recente flop
elettorale. Ma, prima di tutto, bisogna esaminare le vere ragioni che
hanno portato gli USA e la Germania ad intervenire nei Balcani, e notare
gli strani rapporti con la mafia e i terroristi locali.
La “battaglia per i corridoi” esce dall’ombra
In effetti, il crimine maggiore della Jugoslavia fu di pretendere di
conservare un sistema d’ispirazione sociale e indipendente dalle
multinazionali. Ma cè anche stato il crimine “geografico”: la Jugoslavia
si trova nel cuore dei “corridoi 8 e 10”.
Cos’è un “corridoio”? Si tratta di un insieme di comunicazioni moderne:
autostrade, ferrovie, porti marittimi e fluviali, oleodotti e gasdotti.
L’obiettivo: portare verso l’Europa occidentale i prodotti delocalizzati
più vicino, e soprattutto il petrolio ed il gas provenienti dal Caucaso
e dall’Asia centrale.
Questo gigantesco progetto dell’Unione Europea (90 miliardi di euro
d’investimento previsti fino al 2015), è uno degli assi strategici del
commercio mondiale del futuro.
Dove passerà il corridoio? Tracciati diversi si oppongono da una decina
d’anni, posta in gioco di una segreta rivalità tra Washington e Berlino.
Questa rivalità è stata il cuore del conflitto in Jugoslavia, giacchè
ogni grande potenza voleva controllarlo, come abbiamo già scritto in
“Poker falso e Monopolio”.
La politica internazionale sembra complicata e a volte
incomprensibile ? Ecco un una regola facile per renderla più chiara : in
ogni regione del mondo dove si trova una via del petrolio o del gas, gli
USA cercano di installare delle loro basi militari, provocando o
inasprendo dei conflitti locali, per immischiarsi e presentarsi subito
come osservatori o come pompieri. Questa regola essenziale spiega la
maggior parte delle guerre « incomprensibili » : Jugoslavia, Macedonia,
Cecenia, Caucaso, Afghanistan, ex - repubbliche sovietiche dell’Asia
centrale …
Nei balcani, la via tedesca è questa : Constanza (porto rumeno) -
Belgrado - Amburgo. E poi da costruire oleodotti, ferrovie, porti
marittimi e fluviali lungo il Danubio, autostrade da raddoppiare.
La via rivale è quella degli USA : Bulgaria - Macedonia - Albania
(Mediterraneo). Tre stati che Washington fa di tutto per farli
controllare dall’unione Europea.
Le nostre teorie dei corridoi intesi come motori della guerra contro la
Jugoslavia avevano lasciato scettici alcuni .. Ecco la discreta
confessione del generale Jackson, comandante in capo della Nato in
Macedonia, e poi in Kosovo nel 99’ : « Certamente qui resteremo a lungo,
per garantire la sicurezza dei corridoi energetici che attraversano il
paese ». Ma più recentemente, il 10 settembre scorso, ecco che i
corridoi escono definitivamente dall’ombra; i ministri dell’economia di
Romania, Jugoslavia e Croazia hanno dato il via al « Corridoio 10 ». Un
oleodotto di 1.200 Km. che trasporterà tonnellate di greggio all’anno,
con possibilità d’estensione verso l’Italia ed il Mediterraneo.
E le strade ? Anche lì si affrontano tracciati rivali. Belgrado ha
appena scelto d’investire nel completamento del Corridoio 10 : il
raccordo Nord - Sud con la Grecia. Quest’investimenti si fanno a
detrimento del raccordo Ovest - Est con la Bulgaria. L’Agenzia Europea
per la ricostruzione ha investito 47 milioni di euro in strade e
autostrade del Kosovo, complementari al Corridoio 10. Di contro, è nel
tracciato rivale del Corridoio 10: Bulgaria - Macedonia - Albania, che
l’United States Agency for International Development ha investito 30
milioni di dollari.
Gli jugoslavi hanno pagato per queste rotte commerciali, tanto sospirate
dalle multinazionali europee.Certo, ufficialmente l’Occidente « aiuta
». Anzi, la Banca Europea per la Ricostruzione e lo Sviluppo (BERD) e la
Banca Eurpea d’Investimento hanno fornito dei capitali per la
costruzione del « Corriodo 10 ». Ma quest’ « aiuto » consiste nel fare
prestiti. Quelli che permettono di incassare dall’ « assistito », che
pagherà caro per il rimborso ; lo stato Jugoslavo dovrà colpire le spese
sociali e l’impiego pubblico.
L’espressione « aiuto » non sarà anche sinonimo di «ricatto » ?
Ecco un esempio che riguarda la vicina Macedonia. Nel giugno scorso,
siccome quella non si sottomette tanto in fretta a tali esigenze, il FMI
rompe i negoziati e sospende tutti gli accordi. Blocca anche « i
progetti che non potevano essere legalmente fermati », afferma il
ministro macedone delle Finanze, Nikola Gruevski. I soli progetti che
sono buoni agli occhi del FMI sono quelli che favoriscono i ribelli
albanesi dell’UCK. « Aiuto » = ricatto.
Ancora una volta, niente di tutto questo avviene per caso. Lo scenario
non è improvvisato, come ci spiega questo commento del settore «
Business » dell’agenzia stampa USA UPI : « La costruzione delle
infrastrutture nei Balcani è stata caratterizzata dal carattere politico
degli aiuti internazionali accordati. La guerra della Nato nel 99’ ha
distrutto infrastrutture come la raffineria di petrolio di Novi Sad, la
radio - televisione serba, strade, ponti, ecc. E subito le politiche
occidentali sono state imposte nei piani di ricostruzione, non era una
sorpresa, né un fenomeno a breve scadenza ». Dunque, tre anni più tardi,
è chiaro che volutamente sono stati bombardati obiettivi economici, non
militari, e ciò tradotto in un linguaggio meno ipocrita significa : le
bombe della Nato sono state la prima tappa della privatizzazione -
globalizzazione. Quindi, gli jugoslavi hanno patito più volte per lo
stesso obiettivo : 1. Prima l’Occidente ha distrutto le loro ricchezze
2. Fatto questo, li ha privati del loro lavoro e mezzi di sussistenza 3.
Adesso, farà anche pagare loro una « ricostruzione » il cui profitto
sarà delle multinazionali occidentali.
(1/2 segue)
www.resistenze.org - popoli resistenti - jugoslavia - 01-12-02
Il paese di cui non si parla più …
di Michel Collon (traduzione integrale - parte 1/2)
L’impennata dei prezzi, dei licenziamenti, dei tumori, dei suicidi. E il
rifiuto del governo del FMI.
Perché non si parla più della Jugoslavia?
Con il nuovo regime, il prezzo del pane, della verdura e
dell’elettricità sono esplosi. I suicidi anche. Esattamente come gli
scioperi. Ma i minatori di Kolubura, che avevano aiutato a rovesciare
Milosevic, adesso, dal ministro Djindjic sono definiti “ricattatori”. Ed
il suo indice di popolarità è sceso all’8%.
Di questi tempi, il Kosovo, quel ne che rimane dopo i bombardamenti,vive
sotto il terrore dellla mafia e della pulizia etnica di tutte le etnie,a
dispetto(o a causa?) della presenza di 40.000 soldati della Nato.
Benvenuto nella Jugoslavia, la neocolonia nella vetrina della
mondializzazione. Un grosso monito per tutti i paesi che gli USA si
apprestano “a conquistare”, oltre che un’esperienza interessante per
tutti coloro avevanosostenuto la guerra della Nato nel 99’.
Perché, adesso, questa gente non si chiede come mai la maggioranza dei
serbi si rifiuta di andare a votare?
Il prezzo del pane è passata da 4 a 30 dinari in un anno. Il maiale al
Kg. da 180 a 260 dinari (era a 60 sotto Milosevic). Le patate da 7 a 12,
lo zucchero da 25 a 50, un litro d’olio da 36 a 70 dinari.
Le differenze con il periodo Milosevic sono ancora più grandi. Il gas al
m³ è passato da 3 a 11,20 dinari. 170.000 famiglie di Belgrado non
possono più pagare l’elettricità, che su richiesta del FMI è raddoppiata
in quattro mesi, ed altri rincari sono già annunciati. Quest’inverno
saranno privati anche del riscaldamento.
« I francesi non potrebbero vivere con così poco » ,mi confida
Dominique, di ritorno da Belgrado ;
« I miei amici, un gruppo di intellettuali di Belgrado, mangiano una
banana o un yogurt, non possono spendere di più. Il caffè non si vende a
pacchetti da un Kg., ma solo da cento grammi.
Ma loro non lo bevono più, è diventato un lusso. - Si, ci si arrangia
-, mi dicono loro, ma intanto hanno perso dei chili. Un pasto, è una
scatola di sardine per tre, un po’ di paprika, pane …. E non si contano
più i suicidi dei vecchi, che non resistono a vedersi ridotti come dei
mendicanti ».
La stessa cosa per Senka, manager di Jagodina, ci dice con angoscia : «
Come faccio, la mattina quando mio figlio chiede : - Mamma : del Pane !
del Latte ! - e io non ho niente da dargli ? »
« Non c’è più nessuno che ha la possibilità di comprare », spiega il suo
amico francese : « Non c’è più nessuno che abbia lavoro o collocazione
sociale. Si sopravvive grazie a degli espedienti del tipo « Io ti
aggiusto la macchina, tu mi dai tre Kg. di patate oppure dell’olio ».
Quasi tutti hanno dei parenti in campagna che li aiutano a mangiare,
senò non potrebbero campare.
Dei militanti del neonato Partito del Lavoro, hanno condotto una piccola
inchiesta per noi :
« In tre città operaie di media importanza l’85% della gente dichiara
che il loro livello di vita si è abbassato del 150% ».
A Belgrado ci sono 4.900 donne malate di cancro e senza cure. Avevano
già sofferto molto per le privazioni imposte dal 91’ per via
dell’embargo occidentale, e subito i gravi inquinamenti provocati dalla
Nato quando, violando le leggi di guerra, ha bombardato il complesso
chimico di Pancevo.
Non c’è poi stato alcun miglioramento con la caduta drammatica del
livello di vita e dell’alimentazione. E per finire, la privatizzazione
ha fatto i suoi disastri : fine dell’accesso alle medicine a buon
mercato vendute delle farmacie dello Stato, ormai introvabili. Di fatto,
ci vuole un buon portafoglio per pagarsi i farmaci. 30 pastiglie anti -
cancro costano 60 € : quasi l’equivalente di una pensione operaia
mensile. Secondo il giornale Novosti, 4.900 donne di Belgrado sono
malate di cancro, ma sono private dell’accesso alle medicine. Si osserva
altrove una forte recrudescenza del tasso di malattie cancerose,
soprattutto polmonari. Il ministero della Sanità ha riconosciuto il
fenomeno, ma non ha attivato alcuna ricerca in merito. Sarà l’URANIO ?
Il problema della sanità rischia di diventare enorme: una recente
statistica constata l’aumento dei decessi del 30% in tre anni, che
colpisce tutte le fasce d’età, giovani compresi.
Un amico di Belgrado ci confida con amarezza che quando suo padre è
deceduto, la famiglia ha dovuto attendere settimane per l’inumazione,
perché non si trovano posti nei cimiteri, sono diventati troppo piccoli …
Che fine hanno fatto le promesse del 2000?
Che contrasto con le promesse ellettorali sciorinate nell’ottobre del
2000 dai partiti filo-occidentali.
A crederli, la prosperità aspettava ogni serbo, bastava rivolgersi
all’Occidente …
Al momento, sotto il titolo « Kostunica, Djindjic e Washington
manterranno le loro promesse? » noi scriviamo : una grande illusione
domina attualmente la gioventù jugoslava, quella che nutre le illusioni
verso le promesse dell’Occidente. La grande illusione è quella di
credere che accettando la volontà delle multinazionali e dei dirigenti
occidentali, la popolazione jugoslava sarà ricompensata con la
prosperità. Resta la questione decisiva : « Cosa valgono le promesse
degli Stati Uniti e dei loro alleati ? » Allettati da promesse di
prosperità come quelle fatte nell’89’, paesi come la Russia, la Bulgaria
o l’Albania si sono messi in ginocchio davanti al capitalismo occidentale.
Oggi i loro popoli vivono come prima? Rispondono i fatti.
Anche a Belgrado, dopo due anni, i fatti hanno risposto. La
mondializzazione made in USA e Bruxelles è finalmente apparsa ai popoli.
Eccoli, sono i famosi « investitori occidentali », come dice chi ha
voluto ed ottenuto la fine del controllo dei prezzi.
Il FMI ha fatto licenziare almeno 800.000 lavoratori
Il livello di vita e la sanità si potranno raddrizzare nei prossimi anni
? Non si può aspettare, la disoccupazione sta diventando catastrofe : «
Bisogna licenziare almeno 800.000 lavoratori serbi dei servizi pubblici
e delle imprese di Stato », scrive Arvo Cuddo, responsabile della Banca
Mondiale. Tutto preso nel consigliare ai governanti di procedere
progressivamente e di prevedere compensazioni onde evitare una
situazione sociale esplosiva.
In fondo, da parte della Banca Mondiale non c’è niente di nuovo. Già
nell’ 89’, chi voleva il fallimento di 2.435 imprese jugoslave e il
licenziamento in massa dei lavoratori (due su tre in Serbia) ? Queste
esigenze occidentali avevano spinto i dirigenti di diverse repubbliche
alla fuga in avanti dei rilanci nazionalisti.
I primi colpi della guerra sono stati sparati dalla Banca Mondiale e dal
FMI.
Dieci anni più tardi, grazie alle bombe della Nato, la privatizzazione
ha debuttato sul serio. Le cinque maggiori imprese pubbliche sono il
bersaglio del governo Djindjic, ma le resistenze sono forti. Per
esempio, tra i 36.000 lavoratori dell’impresa agro - alimentare Karnex.
In giugno hanno scoperto che la loro cassa sociale è vuota, sicchè un
lavoratore che si ammala non ha più diritto a nessuna retribuzione. Dove
sono i soldi ? « Non si sa », risponde il governo, tentando di fargli
accettare la privatizzazione. « Non importa» rispondono allora i
lavoratori, e si decidono a vendere i loro prodotti direttamente ai
supermercati e non più al governo che accaparra il 50% dei profitti :
« Quando noi consegniamo, ci pagate solo in parte, e con ritardo. Ma noi
non abbiamo bisogno di capitali stranieri per salvarci.Ce la faremo
senza di voi. »
La resistenza alle privatizzazioni
I lavoratori cercano di salvare il loro sistema di autogestione. Questo
lo si vede anche nel successo dell’iniziativa del nuovo sindacato
(d’opposizione) « Verso il futuro » , che ha proposto agli operai di
fondare una cassa sociale, da creare lavorando quattro sabati al mese.
Negli altri quattro grandi stabilimenti i problemi sono identici :
Zastava (auto), Smederevo (metallurgia), GOSA (edilizia), e Stardit 13.
In questa fabbrica sono state consegnate al governo 150.000 tonnellate
d’acciaio prodotte in tre mesi, ma dal governo non sono ancora state
pagate. Il salario degli operai è stato invece ridotto della metà,
perciò la cassa è senza fondi. In giugno il primo ministro Djindjic ha
visitato l’acciaieria proponendo di recuperare quel denaro ..
privatizzandola, ma la manovra è stata rifiutata con uno scipero di 48 ore.
Di fatto, i cinque più grandi stabilimenti industriali del paese
restano fedeli all’autogestione e non accettano di essere privatizzati e
svenduti alle mutinazionali straniere. GOSA è bramata da interessi
tedeschi mentre Peugeot addocchia la Zastava. Poco prima delle elezioni,
il governo, dopo aver licenziato la metà di trentamila lavoratori, ha
fatto luccicare di nuovo delle belle promesse. Alla vigilia delle
elezioni, giocando d’azzardo, ha annunciato che l’acciaieria sarà
ripresa da un miracoloso investimento USA, che prometteva di rilanciare
la produzione fino a 220.000 vetture all’anno ! Poco probabile, visto
che al momento l’industria automobilistica del capitalismo mondiale
produce circa 70 milioni di auto all’anno di cui riesce a venderne solo
50 milioni, e si trova alle prese con una crisi di sovrapproduzione.
Inoltre si licenziano ed impoveriscono i potenziali clienti, e a chi
vendere allora ?
Di fronte a tutte queste promesse, la sfiducia ha sostituito le
illusioni precedenti :
« Il governo non si preoccupa della gente, solo delle sue tasche ».
E’ soprattutto la privatizzazione a riempire quelle tasche ? Alcuni
esempi lo confermano. La metà della Telecom era già stata venduta, la
rete Mobil 063 è caduta nelle mani dei fratelli Karic. Tutti si chiedono
da dove è arrivato il denaro necessario ad installare una rete in tutta
la Serbia, e anche i fondi per finanziare la televisione BK, che ha i
migliori programmi del paese. I fratelli Karic sono molto vicini a
Djindjic… Quanto alla rete 064, si tratta di capitali tedeschi.
Chi si arricchisce in Jugoslavia ?
Se la maggior parte degli jugoslavi si sono molto impoveriti, dove vanno
questi soldi ? « Sono quelli che mangiano, è la mafia intorno a Djindjic
», denuncia Zarko, riassumendo un sentimento generale. Mafia ? Accusa
esagerata ? Per niente ; ci scrive un francese al ritorno da Belgrado :
« Un imprenditore vicino al partito del signor Djindjic è stato
recentemente assassinato. Aveva ottenuto la concessione di sfruttamento
dell’autostrada Belgrado - Horgos ed in principio doveva finirne la
costruzione .. Se ci andate in automobile, vedrete che è ancora
esattamente come l’aveva lasciata Milosevic. Si pensa che questo
imprenditore sia stato eliminato per nascondere il dirottamento dei
fondi verso la DOS ». Questa è l’accusa indicata anche dall’entourage
del presidente Kostunica. A fine agosto, i ministri del suo partito, il
DSS, hanno lasciato il governo in segno di protesta contro la morte di
Momir Gavrilovic. Alto responsabile dei servizi di sicurezza, tornava da
una visita a Kostunica per informarlo dei legami tra il primo ministro
Djindjic e il boss mafioso Stanko Subotic. Da allora, dell’assassinio
non è stato né incolpato né arrestato nessuno. Si noterà anche che la
privatizzazione delle principali imprese pubbliche è stata condotta a
profitto di membri del partito di governo DOS ...
Il potere non è a Belgrado
Ma non si arricchiscono solo gli amici del signor Djindjic. Quando hanno
chiuso le quattro maggiori banche serbe, licenziando migliaia
d’impiegati, chi le ha rilevate? La Società Generale francese e la banca
tedesca Raiffeisen. Nel settore della birra, è l’imprenditore belga
Interbrew che si è piazzato.
Qual è il paese che si prende la fetta più grande della torta? La
Germania, senza dubbio. Alcuni parlano già della “nuova invasione
tedesca”. A scuola il corso di tedesco sta soppiantando l’inglese.
Quest’invasione riguarda vari settori. E’ una ditta tedesca che vuole
gli impianti idrici del Montengro, e sono società tedesche che hanno
raccattato la maggior parte dei media serbi: Westdeutsche Allgmeine
Zeiutng ha acquistato il controllo del celebre quotidiano Politika,
mentre Grunner & Jahr si è impossessato del rotocalco Blic.
Un inciso; all’epoca di Milosevic l’opposizione filoccidentale,
generosamente finanziata da miliardari USA come George Soros,
controllava la maggior parte dei giornali, ora, tutte le testate sono
filoccidentali. E’ questo il pluralismo ?
Non è una sorpresa. Ciò che sta accadendo non è che l’applicazione di
uno scenario scritto da anni a Washington, Berlino e Bruxelles. Sono gli
Stati Uniti e l’Unione Europea che hanno preso direttamente in mano la
vita economica e sociale della Jugoslavia. Esercitano il controllo
assoluto con il “G17 ”, un ordine economico finanziato dall’occidente
composto di vecchi responsabili del FMI e della Banca Mondiale. E’ il
G17 che ha fornito gli uomini chiave del nuovo regime : il vice primo
ministro Mirojslav Labus, il governatore della Banca Nazionale Mladan
Dinkic e il ministro delle finanze Bozidar Djelic. Sono quellli che
hanno preparato tutte le leggi di liquidazione delle protezioni sociali
e dello smantellamento dei diritti dei lavoratori.
Sono loro, gli uomini del FMI, che hanno scatenato la privatizzazione
delle imprese autogestite dai lavoratori, l’ultima eredità di Tito.
Ventidue società sono state vendute agli offerenti, 5 privatizzate e 26
sono in via di ristrutturazione. Il divieto di licenziamento è stato
cancellato per ingraziarsi gli investitori stranieri. E’ Djelic che
recentemente ha abbassato l’imposta delle imprese dal 20% al 14%. Ora,
quando la gente semplice non ha più di che vivere, si fanno regali ai
nuovi padroni, alle multinazionali e ai paesi ricchi. Djelic ha
annunciato che il suo governo « rimborserà » immediatamente la Banca
Mondiale, la Banca Europea d’Investimento e il « Club di Parigi » di 60
milioni di euro.
L’Occidente ha distrutto la Jugoslavia, ma si fa « rimborsare » !
Disilusioni, ma anche resistenza
Oggi, due serbi su tre vivono sotto la soglia della povertà, questa
situazione provoca disillusione, ma anche resistenza.
Come sono i serbi oggi ? La risposta è un’anime : « Delusi,
disincantati, disgustati » dice Dominique, « Si rendono conto che sono
stati raggirati. Si accusa Milosevic, ma quando lui era al potere si
mangiava tre volte al giorno. Ora invece … ». La debolissima
partecipazione alle ultime elezioni conferma la tabula rasa nei
confronti dei partiti : « Tutti uguali ! ». Djindjic, il nuovo primo
ministro vede la sua popolarità cadere all’8%. Ma ce n’è anche per
Kostunica : « Promette molto, ma non fa niente », s’indigna Branko, che
aveva votato per lui speranzoso. Lo stesso vale per i giovani, ostili a
Milosevic, e che speravano di gustare il tenore di vita occidentale,
adesso anche loro sono delusi. Il tasso di suicidi è esploso: l’anno
scorso a Belgrado ne sono stati dichiarati 900. A Nis, città di 350.000
abitanti, la polizia segnala un suicidio ogni 5 giorni. Nel 2001 i serbi
hanno consumato 41 milioni di compresse anti - stress Bensedin, 63
milioni di Bromazepam e 40 milioni di Diazepam. La stessa agenzia
occidentale Associated Press segnala la catastrofe sociale : « Migliaia
di tassisti hanno paralizzato il traffico di Belgrado, protestano contro
una nuova tassa (un mese di salario medio) che colpisce gli autisti di
taxi, e reclamano dal governo di poter aumentare le tariffe ». Lo slogan
dei protestanti « DOS - ta ! » (Basta !) eprime bene la disillusione
totale nella DOS messa al potere dall’Occidente nell’ottobre 2000.
Quest’estate, molte manifestazion sono state represse con brutalità
dalla polizia (rimpiazzata quasi al completo dal nuovo regime). In
giugno, davanti al Parlamento di Belgrado, 10 persone sono state ferite
durante una manifestazione di « poveri ».
Ma tutto questo non passsa il filtro dei media occidentali. L’opinione
pubblica occidentale è tenuta allo scuro. Ci si guarda bene dallo
spiegare il disincanto profondo della popolazione jugoslava verso coloro
che promettevano. Questo disincanto è la reale causa della crisi
politica in Serbia, dal confronto Kostunica - Djindjic al recente flop
elettorale. Ma, prima di tutto, bisogna esaminare le vere ragioni che
hanno portato gli USA e la Germania ad intervenire nei Balcani, e notare
gli strani rapporti con la mafia e i terroristi locali.
La “battaglia per i corridoi” esce dall’ombra
In effetti, il crimine maggiore della Jugoslavia fu di pretendere di
conservare un sistema d’ispirazione sociale e indipendente dalle
multinazionali. Ma cè anche stato il crimine “geografico”: la Jugoslavia
si trova nel cuore dei “corridoi 8 e 10”.
Cos’è un “corridoio”? Si tratta di un insieme di comunicazioni moderne:
autostrade, ferrovie, porti marittimi e fluviali, oleodotti e gasdotti.
L’obiettivo: portare verso l’Europa occidentale i prodotti delocalizzati
più vicino, e soprattutto il petrolio ed il gas provenienti dal Caucaso
e dall’Asia centrale.
Questo gigantesco progetto dell’Unione Europea (90 miliardi di euro
d’investimento previsti fino al 2015), è uno degli assi strategici del
commercio mondiale del futuro.
Dove passerà il corridoio? Tracciati diversi si oppongono da una decina
d’anni, posta in gioco di una segreta rivalità tra Washington e Berlino.
Questa rivalità è stata il cuore del conflitto in Jugoslavia, giacchè
ogni grande potenza voleva controllarlo, come abbiamo già scritto in
“Poker falso e Monopolio”.
La politica internazionale sembra complicata e a volte
incomprensibile ? Ecco un una regola facile per renderla più chiara : in
ogni regione del mondo dove si trova una via del petrolio o del gas, gli
USA cercano di installare delle loro basi militari, provocando o
inasprendo dei conflitti locali, per immischiarsi e presentarsi subito
come osservatori o come pompieri. Questa regola essenziale spiega la
maggior parte delle guerre « incomprensibili » : Jugoslavia, Macedonia,
Cecenia, Caucaso, Afghanistan, ex - repubbliche sovietiche dell’Asia
centrale …
Nei balcani, la via tedesca è questa : Constanza (porto rumeno) -
Belgrado - Amburgo. E poi da costruire oleodotti, ferrovie, porti
marittimi e fluviali lungo il Danubio, autostrade da raddoppiare.
La via rivale è quella degli USA : Bulgaria - Macedonia - Albania
(Mediterraneo). Tre stati che Washington fa di tutto per farli
controllare dall’unione Europea.
Le nostre teorie dei corridoi intesi come motori della guerra contro la
Jugoslavia avevano lasciato scettici alcuni .. Ecco la discreta
confessione del generale Jackson, comandante in capo della Nato in
Macedonia, e poi in Kosovo nel 99’ : « Certamente qui resteremo a lungo,
per garantire la sicurezza dei corridoi energetici che attraversano il
paese ». Ma più recentemente, il 10 settembre scorso, ecco che i
corridoi escono definitivamente dall’ombra; i ministri dell’economia di
Romania, Jugoslavia e Croazia hanno dato il via al « Corridoio 10 ». Un
oleodotto di 1.200 Km. che trasporterà tonnellate di greggio all’anno,
con possibilità d’estensione verso l’Italia ed il Mediterraneo.
E le strade ? Anche lì si affrontano tracciati rivali. Belgrado ha
appena scelto d’investire nel completamento del Corridoio 10 : il
raccordo Nord - Sud con la Grecia. Quest’investimenti si fanno a
detrimento del raccordo Ovest - Est con la Bulgaria. L’Agenzia Europea
per la ricostruzione ha investito 47 milioni di euro in strade e
autostrade del Kosovo, complementari al Corridoio 10. Di contro, è nel
tracciato rivale del Corridoio 10: Bulgaria - Macedonia - Albania, che
l’United States Agency for International Development ha investito 30
milioni di dollari.
Gli jugoslavi hanno pagato per queste rotte commerciali, tanto sospirate
dalle multinazionali europee.Certo, ufficialmente l’Occidente « aiuta
». Anzi, la Banca Europea per la Ricostruzione e lo Sviluppo (BERD) e la
Banca Eurpea d’Investimento hanno fornito dei capitali per la
costruzione del « Corriodo 10 ». Ma quest’ « aiuto » consiste nel fare
prestiti. Quelli che permettono di incassare dall’ « assistito », che
pagherà caro per il rimborso ; lo stato Jugoslavo dovrà colpire le spese
sociali e l’impiego pubblico.
L’espressione « aiuto » non sarà anche sinonimo di «ricatto » ?
Ecco un esempio che riguarda la vicina Macedonia. Nel giugno scorso,
siccome quella non si sottomette tanto in fretta a tali esigenze, il FMI
rompe i negoziati e sospende tutti gli accordi. Blocca anche « i
progetti che non potevano essere legalmente fermati », afferma il
ministro macedone delle Finanze, Nikola Gruevski. I soli progetti che
sono buoni agli occhi del FMI sono quelli che favoriscono i ribelli
albanesi dell’UCK. « Aiuto » = ricatto.
Ancora una volta, niente di tutto questo avviene per caso. Lo scenario
non è improvvisato, come ci spiega questo commento del settore «
Business » dell’agenzia stampa USA UPI : « La costruzione delle
infrastrutture nei Balcani è stata caratterizzata dal carattere politico
degli aiuti internazionali accordati. La guerra della Nato nel 99’ ha
distrutto infrastrutture come la raffineria di petrolio di Novi Sad, la
radio - televisione serba, strade, ponti, ecc. E subito le politiche
occidentali sono state imposte nei piani di ricostruzione, non era una
sorpresa, né un fenomeno a breve scadenza ». Dunque, tre anni più tardi,
è chiaro che volutamente sono stati bombardati obiettivi economici, non
militari, e ciò tradotto in un linguaggio meno ipocrita significa : le
bombe della Nato sono state la prima tappa della privatizzazione -
globalizzazione. Quindi, gli jugoslavi hanno patito più volte per lo
stesso obiettivo : 1. Prima l’Occidente ha distrutto le loro ricchezze
2. Fatto questo, li ha privati del loro lavoro e mezzi di sussistenza 3.
Adesso, farà anche pagare loro una « ricostruzione » il cui profitto
sarà delle multinazionali occidentali.
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