ORGANIZACIJI UJEDINJENIH NACIJA,
SAVEZNOJ SKUP[TINI SR JUGOSLAVIJE I NARODNOJ SKUP[TINI REPUBLIKE
SRBIJE,
SAVEZNOJ VLADI I PREDSEDNIKU SR JUGOSLAVIJE,
SVIM PATRIOTSKIM PARTIJAMA I POJEDINCIMA, DOMA]OJ I ME\UNARODNOJ
JAVNOSTI

R E Z O L U C I J A

za oslobo|enje Predsednika Slobodana
Milo{evi}a

Polaze}i od toga da je Predsednik Slobodan Milo{evi} u
Hagu u potpunosti osporio sve navode tzv. Kosovske
optu`nice i da ~ak i pravila tzv. tribunala u Hagu
propisuju da u takvom slu~aju optu`nica mora biti
odba~ena, Glavni odbor Socijalisti~ke partije Srbije
najodlu~nije zahteva

da Predsednik Slobodan Milo{evi} bude odmah oslobo|en.

U neophodnost ostvarivanja tog zahteva uvereni su svi
~lanovi Socijalisti~ke partije Srbije, svi gra|ani na{e
zemlje i me|unarodna javnost. Svi oni dele ube|enje da
je u interesu op{te stabilnosti na Balkanu, odnosno u
na{em delu Evrope, da se Predsedniku Milo{evi}u omogu}i
da na slobodi u svojoj zemlji nastavi svoju aktivnost u
interesu dr`ave i naroda.

Zdravstveno stanje predsednika Milo{evi}a, uz opasne
rizike koje bi izazvao nastavak procesa na na~in koji
predla`e tzv. tu`ila{tvo, samo po sebi je dovoljan
razlog da se on nadje na slobodi.

Sna`no je uverenje jugoslovenske javnosti da se u
zatvoru nalazi nedu`an ~ovek i da je dosada{nji tok
procesa to svakome pokazao.

Zahtev za oslobo|enje Predsednika Milo{evi}a je i zahtev
progresivne javnosti u svetu, koja se i ranije, a danas
posebno sna`no izja{njava u prilog predsednika
Milo{evi}a i njegove nevinosti, kao i protiv nelegalnog
karaktera "Ha{kog suda".

Reakcije stru~ne pravni~ke javnosti u Jugoslaviji i
svetu argumentovano isti~u da se u Hagu radi o
montiranom politi~kom procesu, vo|enom od strane
nelegalne institucije uz brojna kr{enja pravnih normi i
ljudskih prava.

Dugogodi{nji plebiscitarno izabrani predsednik dr`ave i
lider nacije, koji se odupro kolonizaciji svoje zemlje
od strane velikih sila, ne treba i ne sme da odgovara
pred sudom koji su za njega formirale te sile kao
odmazdu nad istinom.

Socijalisti~ka partija Srbije isti~e ovaj zahtev zajedno
sa brojnim me|unarodnim subjektima - politi~kim
partijama, sindikatima, mirovnim i antiglobalisti~kim
pokretima, nacionalnim i politi~kim liderima, istaknutim
javnim li~nostima - umetnicima, nau~nicima, borcima za
ljudska prava, koji su iskazali sna`nu solidarnost i
vodili i nastavljaju da vode akciju za oslobo|enje
predsednika Milo{evi}a. Njihove aktivnosti koncentri{u
se oko me|unarodnog i vi{e nacionalnih komiteta za
oslobo|enje Slobodana Milo{evi}a, koji organizuju brojne
javne skupove, proteste i konferencije sa kojih upu}uju
apele svetskoj javnosti, ha{kom "sudu", Organizaciji
Ujedinjenih nacija, vladama svojih zemalja.



O b r a z l o ` e n j e

Predsednik Slobodan Milo{evi} se pred
nelegalnim ha{kim "tribunalom" i pred licem ~itavog
sveta potvrdio kao nacionalni heroj, predvodnik borbe za
slobodu, istinu i nacionalno dostojanstvo.

Za sve slobodoumne ljude u svetu kojem prete
porobljavanje i kolonizacija, Predsednik Slobodan
Milo{evi} je postao uzor borca za univerzalne vrednosti
slobode i ravnopravnosti.

Tzv. kosovska optu`nica pala je pred istinom
koju je dostojanstveno iznosio Predsednik Slobodan
Milo{evi}. Svima u svetu je postalo jasno da je
"tribunal" nelegalna institucija i produ`ena ruka NATO
pakta, potpuno podre|ena ciljevima ameri~ke
administracije koja je vodila agresivni rat protiv
Jugoslavije i da se u njemu odvija proces politi~ke
odmazde.

Pro{lo je vi{e od godinu dana od kidnapovanja i predaje
predsednika Slobodana Milo{evi}a NATO tamni~arima u
Hagu. Time je od strane marionetskog re`ima u Beogradu
po~injeno najgrublje kr{enje Ustava i zakona SRJ i
Republike Srbije i normi me|unarodnog prava. To je bio i
poku{aj re`ima da se ugu{e sloboda i demokratija u na{oj
zemlji i tako otvori put njenom cepanju, okupaciji i
rasprodaji.

Preko devedeset procenata tzv. svedoka u Hagu poti~e iz
NATO zemalja ili su pripadnici i simpatizeri
teroristi~ke tzv. OVK. Ono malo tzv. insajdera suprotno
o~ekivanjima "tu`ila{tva" upravo je svojim svedo~enjima
optu`ilo NATO ~elnike i teroriste za agresiju na SRJ i
pomoglo razotkrivanju pravih ciljeva i pobuda ovog
montiranog politi~kog procesa.

Farsa u Hagu pokazala je da tzv. tu`ila{tvo i sudsko
ve}e bez ustezanja primenjuju dvostruke standarde. NATO
svedoci se neometano pu{taju, pa ~ak i podsti~u da
govore gomilu la`i i neistina, da unapred utvr|uju
nepostoje}e zlo~ine, da izri~u presude i ocenjuju li~ne
i ljudske kvalitete bez mere i ikakvog ograni~enja. S
druge strane, argumenti i pitanja koja postavlja
Predsednik Slobodan Milo{evi} nasilno se prekidaju,
odbacuju i ocenjuju irelevantnim samo zato {to se u
njima iznosi puna istina, a istina najvi{e boli.

Me|utim, i pored svih tih bednih i providnih poku{aja
istina se nije mogla sakriti.

Budu}i da su na velikim mukama {to im se proces ne
odvija onako kako bi `eleli, ha{ki inkvizitori ~ine sve
da predsednika Milo{evi}a slome i fizi~ki iscrpe. Gnusne
su i nemoralne izjave u kojima izra`avaju navodnu
zabrinutost za njegovo zdravlje. Uskratili su mu
elementarne ljudske uslove u zatvoru, tendenciozno ga
optere}uju nizom tzv. svedoka i zatrpavaju tonama
pismenih izjava, dokumenata i materijala. Kona~no,
ostavili su ga bez odgovaraju}eg medicinskog tretmana da
bi na kraju licemerno jadikovali zbog pogor{avanja
njegovog zdravstvenog stanja ~emu su oni isklju~ivo
doprineli. A sve to u cilju da mu se oduzme dragoceno
vreme i jedina mogu}nost da doma}oj i svetskoj javnosti
ka`e istinu o borbi za slobodu, protiv agresije i
porobljavanja.

Najnovija otkri}a svedoka da je nad njima vr{ena
tortura, kao i da su im nu|eni novac, bezbednost,
promena identiteta i li~nog opisa samo da bi svedo~ili
protiv predsednika Slobodana Milo{evi}a razobli~ila su
najprljavije metode kojima se slu`e vlasti u Srbiji, kao
i njihov poslu{ni~ki odnos prema inostranim gazdama.

Svima je postalo jasno da se proces u Hagu
ne vodi protiv Predsednika Slobodana Milo{evi}a i drugih
patriota Jugoslavije, ve} je usmeren protiv celog
srpskog naroda zato {to je branio otad`binu od terora i
agresije i zato {to je bio solidaran sa svojim
sunarodnicima u njihovoj borbi za slobodu i
ravnopravnost. Taj proces je trebalo da optu`i narod
koji je pru`io otpor ga`enju svojih suverenih prava i da
ga kazni za primer drugim narodima i dr`avama da tako
ne{to ubudu}e ne ~ine.

Istina koju brani Predsednik Slobodan Milo{evi}, uz kojeg stoje
sve patriote ove zemlje, nije se mogla sakriti ni pobediti.
Tu`ila{tvu, sudijama i pokroviteljima ha{kog tribunala nije po{lo
za rukom da `rtvu proglase za krivca. Umesto preokreta koji
je tu`ila{tvo `eljno o~ekivalo, ha{ki proces protiv
Predsednika Slobodana Milo{evi}a je po zavr{etku tzv.
izvo|enja dokaza tu`ila{tva po tzv. Kosovskoj optu`nici,
do`iveo potpuni fijasko. Postalo je jasno da nema
nikakvih dokaza u prilog optu`be, ve} da se u celini
radi o gnusnim podvalama i konstrukcijama, uz primenu
metoda srednjevekovne inkvizicije. U potpunosti je
propao poku{aj "tu`ila{tva" da doka`e odgovornost
srpskog naroda za navodne "zlo~ine na Kosovu" sa ciljem
da se amnestiraju terorizam i teroristi, NATO agresori i
zlo~inci, a da se obezvredi borba gra|ana i naroda
Jugoslavije za nacionalno dostojanstvo i slobodu.

Savezna vlada SR Jugoslavije je obavezna da preduzme konkretne
korake radi sprovo|enja odluka Saveznog ustavnog suda koje se
odnose na otmicu Predsednika Slobodana Milo{evi}a, da izvr{i
svoju ustavnu i me|unarodnu obavezu za{tite prava svojih gra|ana
u svetu i da preduzme odgovaraju}e pravne i diplomatske
aktivnosti, kako bi se obezbedilo pu{tanje Predsednika Slobodana
Milo{evi}a na slobodu i njegov povratak u zemlju.

Obaveza je tako|e da se odmah prekine sa izru~ivanjem na{ih
gra|ana ilegalnom tribunalu u Hagu.

Du`nost je Predsednika SR Jugoslavije da se obrati li~nim
porukama {efovima svih dr`ava sveta i da zatra`i njihovo
anga`ovanje radi pu{tanja Predsednika Slobodana
Milo{evi}a na slobodu.

Saveznoj skup{tini SRJ i Narodnoj skup{tini Republike Srbije
du`nost je da se obrate svim parlamentima sveta i zatra`e od njih
da javno reaguju i uti~u da se vlade njihovih zemalja zalo`e za
oslobo|enje Predsednika Milo{evi}a i ukidanje ha{kog "tribunala".

Dr`ave koje odbijaju nadle`nost legalno osnovanog Me|unarodnog
krivi~nog suda, a podr`avaju ili se ne suprotstavljaju
radu ilegalnog politi~kog ad hoc "tribunala", moraju
uskladiti svoju poziciju sa univerzalno{}u kao osnovnim
principom primene pravde.

Proces u Hagu protiv Predsednika Slobodana Milo{evi}a predstavlja
istorijsku i civilizacijsku sramotu. Po posledicama koje }e imati
vrati}e se kao bumerang svojim kreatorima i onima koji ga
podr`avaju i bi}e mnogo te`i od onog bumeranga koji im se ve}
vra}a zbog podr{ke teroristima tzv. OVK i organizatorima
me|unarodnog kriminala od ~ijih prihoda se finansiraju razni
lobisti u Va{ingtonu, Njujorku, Londonu i Berlinu.

Organizacija Ujedinjenih nacija mora se
osloboditi moralne i pravne hipoteke koju prestavljaju
ovaj proces i sam "tribunal", jer predstavljaju udarac u
temelje Povelje UN i ~itavog sistema me|unarodnih odnosa
i me|unarodnog prava.

Po{to je jasno da je ha{ki proces politi~ki
montiran, po{to je jasno da ima osvetni~ki karakter,
po{to treba da zastra{i sve lidere i zemlje koje se ne
mire sa terorom "novog svetskog poretka" i po{to je i
pored ogromnog bud`eta do`iveo potpuni fijasko,

Socijalisti~ka partija Srbije poziva gra|ane Srbije i
Jugoslavije, sve patriotske partije, organizacije i pojedince da
se ujedine u podr{ci ovom zahtevu.

Pozivamo sve slobodoljubive snage u svetu i ~itavu
me|unarodnu javnost da svojim apelima i konkretnim
akcijama doprinesu ostvarivanju na{eg zahteva.



U
Beogradu,
GLAVNI ODBOR

7.septembra 2002.g.
SOCIJALISTI^KE PARTIJE SRBIJE

1. Raccolta fondi per il Comitato per la Difesa di Milosevic / FUND
RAISING FOR FREEDOM
2. Blagovesta Donceva: A Balkans Woman for Mr. Slobodan Milosevic
3. Russian Parliamentarians Demand Milosevic Release
4. Slobodan Milosevic as a Symbol of Anti-Globalism

=== 1 ===

Subject: FUND RAISING FOR FREEDOM
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 05:53:06 +0200
From: "Vladimir Krsljanin" <vlada@...>

FREEDOM ASSOCIATION

YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

FUND RAISING APPEAL

TO ALL PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT
SOVEREIGNTY AND JUSTICE

Dear friends,
· The first phase of the heroic
struggle of President Milosevic
against the ruthless NATO machinery at
The Hague is about to finish. The
so-called "prosecution case on Kosovo"
is being finished without any
evidence. Our common demand is - stop
that dangerous farce and admit the
truth visible to everybody - even
according to the Rules of the
so-called "tribunal", there is no
ground to continue!
· Knowing the enemy - we can not
count on justice. If the clear and
well-founded demand to free Slobodan
Milosevic is not accepted, the big
question is how to proceed?
· All our achievements in preparing
the facts necessary to support
President Milosevic's struggle until
now has been based on voluntary work
and the submissions of Yugoslav
patriots. Our small funds have been
barely enough to cover the stay at The
Hague of one legal assistant to
President Milosevic. The financial
situation of the kidnapped President
Milosevic and his support team (The
Freedom Association - The Yugoslav
Committee) is much worse than the
situation of any other Hague
prisoners, because their lawyers
recognize the "tribunal" and receive
substantial financial backing from it.
Our resources will be completely
insufficient to continue!
· The next phase requires parallel
work on the "prosecution case on
Croatia and Bosnia", an analysis of
the whole completed part of the
"process", the preparation of Yugoslav
and foreign witnesses for the "defense
case" (planned to start at mid-May
2003) - which means interviews
sometimes linked with travel abroad,
collection of documents, and finally
covering of the expenses of witnesses
at The Hague. For all this to be
accomplished we would need at least
100.000 EUR every month.
· The Belgrade regime, in contrast
to the behavior of any normal
government and despite the
Constitutional obligation to help it's
citizens in legal need abroad, and in
contrast even to Croatia and both
entities of Bosnia, is not only
leaving us without any financial
support nor access to state archives,
but is producing obstacles to the
defense of President Milosevic at
every step.
· That's why we need organized fund
raising actions and serious donations
from abroad. Please contact us if any
further clarification is needed.

· Our contacts:

FREEDOM ASSOCIATION

Rajiceva 16, 11000 Belgrade,
Yugoslavia

telephone: +381 63 279 819

fax: +381 11 639 152

e-mail: vlada@...

Our Bank account:

INTERMEDIARY: UBS AG
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ACCOUNT WITH: / 756 - CHF
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HELP THE VICTORY OF TRUTH AND
JUSTICE OVER NATO!

FOR THE SAKE OF THE PEACE,
EQUALITY AND PROGRESS OF MANKIND,

DO NOT ALLOW A NATION TO BE KILLED!

SO HELP THE STRUGGLE OF SLOBODAN
MILOSEVIC!

On behalf of FREEDOM Association,

International Coordinator
Vladimir Krsljanin

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)
http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/ ('morning news' the only
Serbian newspaper advocating liberation)

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ARTEL GEOPOLITIKA by www.artel.co.yu
office@...
Date:21 August 2002

A Balkans Woman for Mr. Slobodan Milosevic

Letter to Slobodan Milosevic for his birthday
Blagovesta Doncheva
Sofia, 21 August 2002

In my eyes Mr. Milosevic is a HERO.
He has been the ONLY one of the Balkans countries'
leaders who has resisted the IMF, WB and US-NATO,
and has stood by the sovereignty of his country.
It would have been much more easier and PROFITABLE
for him to cave to the Globo Cop: now he would have
been in Belgrade still a leader, protected and
patted condescendingly on the back by the Globo
Monster instead of being shut in a cell far from
his country and family for having dared to love
better his country than the money of his Torturers.

He is the ONLY statesman who has resisted the
US-NATO in the world till that moment.
His behaviour till now is a proof for me that he is
a man of integrity, a very rare quality in a leader
of nowadays.
Besides he is a PATRIOT. He has proved to all and
sundry he loves his country and his people better
that his wellbeing.
He might have done mistakes - after all, he is only
a human being and "to err is human". But all his
mistakes - notwithstanding what they are - pale
away in comparison of what he has done for his
country, for the Balkans, for the world in general
by daring to resist the Empire of Evil.
(Besides, ONLY his people have the right to blame
him and demand explanations from him!)
Now, after he is in the hands of Globo Cop's
Personal Court and there they can do to him what
They like, he is no more responsible for his
actions.
Notwithstanding the developments from now on - his
behaviour from now on - I will continue to RESPECT
him, will continue to look up to him and be deeply
grateful to him.
For the HOPE he has given me and kept in me during
those terrible 78 or 79 days of the barbarous
bombing of a his country!
And also for the courage to resist the IMF and the
WB vultures sucking out the country he has been a
leader of!
I will NEVER forget that he has had the personal
misfortune to be a LEADER of a country in the most
difficult and tragic period of its history: when
outward forces have been DELIBERATELY killing it.
He has tried to keep it whole, to protect its
people by standing up against the DESTRUCTIVE
forces cutting his country into easily manipulated
protectorates on ethnic principle. Resisting their
plans and APPETITES he, of course, has committed a
crime against THEM, a crime that should be punished
and be a good lesson for everybody else that might
dare to do the same.
Mr. Milosevic has proved many times he is a leader
with a strong feeling of RESPONSIBILITY for his
people, his country, the Balkans, the world. And he
has had the COURAGE to demonstrate it in the most
tragic days of the contemporary world history.
I will NEVER stop ADMIRING him.

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http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=2612511&
startrow=11&date=2002-07-25&do_alert=0

RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS DEMAND RELEASE OF SLOBODAN
MILOSEVIC BECAUSE OF HIS IMPAIRED HEALTH

MOSCOW, July 25, 2002. /From RIA Novosti correspondent
Pavel Shevtsov/. The commission on Yugoslavia of the
State Duma (lower house of parliament) of Russia has
demanded "an end to the judicial brutality against
Slobodan Milosevic, his immediate release and urgent
provision of effective medical treatment." This is
said in a statement circulated in the State Duma on
Thursday by the commission and signed by its chairman
Nikolai Ryzhkov.

As is noted in the document, "Milosevic's condition
began to deteriorate right after his arrest on March
31, 2001". "Even then many supposed it was the result
of a purposeful effort against the health of the
former head of the Yugoslav state," the statement
says.

"The condition worsened after Milosevic was kidnapped
in June 2001 by orders of the unlawful Hague
Tribunal," the commission notes in its statement. In
the view of deputies, the decision to extend court
hearings "has inevitably led to a situation when
Milosevic is deprived of proper rest". "He is banned
from having fresh-air strolls while his attending
doctor has until recently been denied access to him,"
the document says.

In the parliamentary commission's opinion, "this is in
effect a form of torture aimed at breaking down the
will of the leader of Yugoslavia's patriotic forces".
As an inevitable result, he has been having over the
past week a steadily high life-threatening arterial
pressure.

"The Hague Tribunal is assuming responsibility by
continuing to mock at the former head of the Yugoslav
state," the statement stresses.

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International Conference

"Slobodan Milosevic as a Symbol of Anti-Globalism"
25 June 2002

Held at the International Association of Peace
Foundations
10, Prechistenka Str., Moscow, Russia

Statement

We, participants in the Conference marking the
first anniversary of the criminal kidnapping
of Slobodan Milosevic on orders of NATO's
tribunal in The Hague, declare the following:

Events of the past year, particularly
developments at the 'trial' of Slobodan
Milosevic, have confirmed that the forces of
Globalisation are trying to use the mechanisms
of international justice to intervene in the
internal affairs of any country in the world.

Yugoslavia has been turned into a testing
ground for all kinds of new military and
political technologies directed at subjugating
peoples of the world to the power of an
illegal, US-based "world government".

At first Western-created, Albanian terrorist
organizations were used in Kosovo against
Yugoslavia. When this attack was defeated,
NATO launched open military aggression in
gross violation of the UN Charter and other
norms of international law. At the same time,
they employed their "weapon of law," The Hague
'tribunal,' part of the repressive machinery
of the Western world.

President Milosevic is not being tried by a
tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, set up to
impartially investigate the true causes and
consequences of the tragedy that has befallen
the peoples of the former Yugoslavia. Rather,
this is a tribunal against Yugoslavia, set up
by the guilty to justify and continue their
policies of destruction while blaming and
punishing the innocent, Yugoslavia's leader
who resisted their illegal intervention.

Slobodan Milosevic is being prosecuted because
he defeated the attempts of the West to
suppress Yugoslavia's commitment to freedom
and independence. This creates a chilling
precedent. Dozens of countries have already
been proclaimed "supporters of terrorism".
They may also become victims of aggression,
and their leaders might be tomorrow's war
criminals. Slobodan Milosevic fought against
terrorism, but he is condemned today by those
who fostered ethnic conflict and launched
terrorist organizations with the purpose of
establishing a "New World Order ".

For the second time in the last 60 years the
world faces aggression aimed at global
domination. It is a new version of Nazism.
Just as the Nazis persecuted Dimitrov in 1933,
now NATO tries to condemn the leader of
resistance to neo-Nazi ideology and practice.

False "witnesses" are routinely called by this
court which psychologically and physically
tortures Slobodan Milosevic. Deprived of
proper facilities to prepare, he is compelled
to participate in endless sessions, day-in and
day-out, so that he is also deprived of proper
rest.

Shocked by Slobodan Milosevic's power and
persuasiveness, the Western countries have
launched a conspiracy of silence, taking the
'trial' off television. All this confirms the
utter failure of their 'tribunal' to justify
their accusations against Slobodan Milosevic.

The issue here is not merely the defense of an
individual. This false 'tribunal' destroys the
UN's authority and the very system of
international law. Therefore, by defending
Slobodan Milosevic we assert the rights of all
peoples to national dignity and national
sovereignty. We are convinced that our
struggle will the enjoy growing support of
honest people worldwide.

The Conference notes with satisfaction that
the campaign demanding the liquidation of the
shameful Hague 'tribunal' is intensifying. For
instance, the State Duma of the Russian
Federation has repeatedly adopted resolutions
condemning its activity.

The Conference calls on the international
public to apply pressure on the governments of
the UN Security Council member states that
illegally created The Hague 'tribunal' so that
this body, which discredits the very idea of
international justice, may be shut down. We
support proposals to start an international
petition campaign demanding the 'tribunal' be
abolished.

We call on a broad range of public
organizations to take part in the struggle in
defense of Slobodan Milosevic, as it is an
integral part of the struggle for peace,
freedom and independence of the peoples,
against evil globalisation.

We demand the immediate release of Slobodan
Milosevic! We are going to continue this
struggle until he walks free.

The truth is on our side! We are confident of
a victory!



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"Zastava" u drugoj godini priprema za privatizaciju

Ru?ica Milosavljevic
Beograd, 07. septembar 2002. godine
infograf@...

Program konsolidacije "Zastave" postao je simbol
promena i tranzicije vec u vreme kada je sama njegova
najava izazvala bucni revolt kragujevackih radnika
zbog statusnih i organizacionih "lomova" koji su
cekali njihove fabrike.
Uz velika natezanja, proteste, strajkove, pa i
fizicke nasrtaje na ministre, clanove Saveta za
stratesku konsolidaciju 27.07.2001. godine konacno je
potpisan "Sporazum o statusnoj i organizacionoj
transformaciji i strateskoj konsolidaciji grupe
Zastava".
Za pracenje i realizaciju ovog Sporazuma od strane
vlade republike Srbije, formiran je Savet za
stratesku konsolidaciju "Zastave".
Realizacija ovog Sporazuma je predvidjena u dve faze
: prva faza podrazumeva statusnu i organizacionu
konsolidaciju, a druga faza proces restruktuiranja i
konacnu privatizaciju.
U statusnu i organizacionu konsolidaciju grupa
"Zastava" je usla sa skoro 16 000 radnika viska,
velikim gubitcima i potpuno nespremna za tr?isnu
utakmicu. U okviru ovog procesa iz sistema grupe
"Zastava" izdvojeno je i osamostaljeno 24 fabrike u
kojima je zaposleno 8439 radnika, a ostatak je usao u
sastav novoformiranog holdinga "Zastava vozila" u
kome je ostalo zaposleno 8303 radnika. Najte?i
segment realizacije prve faze ovog Sporazuma je
resavanje statusa skoro 16 000 radnika koji ostaju
bez radnih mesta.
U cilju amortizacije ocekivanog velikog
nezadovoljstva radnika koji ostaju bez posla, u
okviru Zastave formirano je novo drustvo "Zastava
zaposljavanje i obrazovanje", skraceno ZZO u kome ce
se vrsiti prekvalifikacija i edukacija, kao i
pronala?enje novog zaposlenja. Preuzeti viskovi
radnika imace status zaposlenih u ZZO (a prakticno
nece raditi) u trajanju od najdu?e cetiri godine, a
primace nadoknadu u visini 45 % zarade koju bi imao
na svom random mestu. Druga mogucnost je uzimanje
otpremnine u iznosu od 200 DM za svaku godinu radnog
sta?a. Ovakva ponudjena resenja, a posebno brojka od
skoro 16 000 radnika koji ostaju bez radnih mesta,
izazvala je seriju protesta nezadovoljnih radnika, sa
velikim izgledima da preraste u nekontrolisani
socijalni bunt.
Na?alost, usitnjeni i razjedinjeni sindikati nisu
znali ili nisu hteli da opravdano nezadovoljstvo i
cvrstu resenost radnika da ostanu u svojim fabrikama,
iskoriste za svoju bolju pregovaracku poziciju u
smislu postizanja povoljnijih resenja po radnike od
ponudjenog.
Konacno je to izgledalo kao velika sindikalna izdaja,
i radnici su bez pravih saznanja o svojim pravima
bili prinudjeni da se opredele izmedju dva zla.
Tacno nakon godinu dana primene ovog Sporazuma
27.07.2002. godine republicki ministri i clanovi
Saveta za konsolidaciju kao i rukovodstvo Zastave
zadovoljno su novinarima predstavili rezultate prve
faze pripreme Zastave za privatizaciju i jedni i
drugi su zakljucili da se Sporazum sprovodi po planu
i programu, sto pokazuje kontinuitet i rast
proizvodnje i da su ispunjeni uslovi da se izborom
ekonomskog, finansijskog i pravnog savetnika za
privatizaciju krene u drugu fazu privatizacije
"Zastava vozila", a da se proces brze aukcijske
privatizacije otvori za devet osamostaljenih fabrika
iz sistema "Zastava". U prvu fazu konsolidacije
Zastave ulo?eno je 50.000.000 EUR, i to 42.000.000
EUR za otpremnine 8 000 radnika koji su napustili
"Zastavu" i nadoknade za 7 000 radnika koji su na
ZZO, a na ime obrtnih sredstava 6,2 miliona evra.
Nasuprot ovom zadovoljstvu oglasavaju se sindikati sa
tvrdnjom da se potpisani Sporazum ne postuje, da
ozbiljnije proizvodnje nema, kao ni otvaranja novih
radnih mesta, da se sem pukog pre?ivljavanja u
fabrici nista ne desava i da se nista nije promenilo
na bolje.
Zakljucak je da je preuranjena odluka za pokretanje
druge faze privatizacije, i da ukoliko do kraja
avgusta ne bude osetnijih pomaka, sindikat najavljuje
ostrije mere sindikalne borbe. Bez obzira na tako
suprotne stavove clanovi dr?avnog Saveta za
konsolidaciju "Zastave" doneli su odluku i od juna
meseca u "Zastavi" je otpoceo proces druge faze
restruktuiranja i priprema za konacnu privatizaciju.
Kroz ovaj proces kragujevacku kompaniju vodice
konzorcijum savetnika koji cine "Citadel Finansial
Advisory", "Odien restructuring", "Ernst and Jung" i
"Joksovic partneri". Sef savetnicke grupe je Bernard
Hanon dugogodisnji predsednik upravnog odbora Renoa.
Ocekuje se zavrsetak tenderske dokumentacije za
privatizaciju "Zastava vozila" do kraja godine.
Poruka resornog ministra za privatizaciju je da
tender nece biti raspisan sve dok njegov uspeh ne
bude siguran.
Na?alost radnici ne dele ministrov optimizam,
naprotiv strepe od konacnog kraja "Zastave", a o
privatizaciji i ne znaju mnogo, sem da ih ono sto se
do sada zbilo surovo pogadja.

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KOMPROMITACIJA JEDNE PROFESIJE

Milos Markovic
suspendovani novinar RTS-a Televizije BGD
E-mail: infograf@...

Neizbezna posledica jedne,skoro univerzalne
krize,krize koja u Srbiji,odnosno Jugoslaviji,vlada
preko dvadeset godina je i slom prirodnog objektivnog
sistema vrednosti.Rad,znanje i stvaralastvo sve vise
su gubili smisao.Neke profesije koje,po svojoj
prirodi,imaju neposredni uticaj na javnost,a pogotovo
se ticu vlasti,odnosno politike,uglavnom su svedene
na ulogu servisa vladajuceg rezima.
Najvisu degradaciju i kompromitaciju dozivelo je
novinarstvo.U vreme prethodnog rezima,sacinjenog od
levicarskih i patriotskih snaga koje su formirale
takozvanu Vladu narodnog jedinstva,skoro svi mediji
su bili podeljeni u dva bloka.Drzavni mediji su bili
pod apsolutnom kontrolom rezima na vlasti,ali su u
njima,ipak,kultura,nauka,umetnost i druge oblasti
stvaralastva imali puno prisustvo i to po objektivnim
vrednosnim merilima.Bilo je u izvesnoj meri i
prostora za kriticko analiticko opserviranje raznih
procesa i pojava,ukoliko se time ne dovodi u sumnju
vladajuca politika.
S` druge strane postojao je veliki broj
medija,takozvanog opozicionog karaktera.U Srbiji je
bilo vise desetina radio i tv stanica,desetak dnevnih
listova i casopisa koji su,skoro iskljucivo,negirali
prethodni rezim,kritikovali sve,pa i ono sto
je,objektivno,imalo visoki vrednosni smisao.Sva ta
glasila su, prema ubedljivim dokazima, primala veliku
materijalnu pomoc sa zapada,pre svega iz Amerike,
odnosno Soroseve fondacije.
Posle promene rezima ( 5.oktobar 2000.god ) doslo je,
na osnovu obecanja nove vlasti, do masovnog
optimizma.Verovalo se u istinsku
demokratiju,vladavinu prava,efikasnost
ekonomije,motivaciju za rad i stvaralastvo,svestranu
slobodu,nove objektivne vrednosne kriterijume kao i u
nezavisnost stampe,odnosno objektivno informisanje i
kriticko-analiticki odnos prema politici,dogadjajima
i pojavama.
Nazalost,ta ocekivanja su drasticno izneverena, a
masovni optimizam sve vise prerasta u
sumnju,nevericu,razocarenje pa i najveci moguci
pesimizam,koji se ogleda u sve vecem odlasku iz
zemlje mladih strucnjaka a nagli i neprestani porast
broja samoubistava,objasnjava se masovnim gubitkom
bilo kakve smislene perspektive.Navodna pomoc iz
inostranstva ( prema saopstenju aktuelne vlasti,meri
se sa vise milijardi dolara )nije se ni najmanje
odrazila na drustveni i licni standard.Preko pola
miliona ljudi vec je ostalo bez posla,a ostace ih jos
toliko.Rad,stvaralastvo i proizvodnju niko i ne
pominje.Jedino je aktuelna rasprodaja prirodnih
bogastava i profitabilnih firmi.
Nazalost,nista od svega ovoga nema ni pomena u
medijima.Stanje u novinarstvu,dakle u informisanju,
je tragicnije,nego ikada u njegovoj istoriji.Nema
skoro ni jednog jedinog glasila koje sme bilo sta
kriticki i objektivno da objavi, jer su sva pod
drasticnom kontrolom aktuelnog rezima.Opoziciona
stampa u Srbiji,zaista ne postoji,cak ni u vidu
jednog jedinog lista.
Najmocniji medij ( RTS ) je pod apsolutnom kontrolom
premijera Zorana Djindjica i njemu odanih stranaka.U
poslednje dve godine nije se smela pomenuti ni jedna
tragicna posledica NATO bombardovanja,a takvih je
ogroman broj.Na RTS-u je doslo do surove osvete prema
velikom broju novinara,reditelja,snimatelja,pa cak i
tehnickog osoblja koje je bilo i na najmanjem
rukovodecem polozaju.Mnogi novinari,medju njima
najiskusniji i najobrazovaniji,izgubili su pravo na
rad.Autor ovog teksta,posle 27 god novinarskog rada u
RTS-u,uglavnom u kulturnoj rubrici,vise ne moze ni
uci u zgradu,cije je bombardovanje preziveo kao
glavni dezurni urednik.Sa stidom pominjem svoja
mesecna primanja koja se, u poslednjih sest
meseci,krecu,verovali ili ne,izmedju jedne sestine
evra( 0,6 ? ) do najvise devet evra ( 9 ? ).Mnostvo
je stvari zaista za Riplijevu antologiju apsurda.U
novinarstvo u Srbiji uvedena je ideoloska cenzura,a
onaj ko joj se ne pokorava,biva lisen
egzistencije.Vise desetina novinara,visokih
profesionalnih mogucnosti,nikad partijsko-politicki
angazovanih,doziveli su tuznu sudbinu,pogotovo sto su
njihova mesta zauzeli novinari
homo-politikusi,najcesce bez srednje skole,a kamoli
fakulteta.Znanje i pismenost nisu vazni ! Presudan
kriterijum je odanost novoj vlasti.

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1. CONSTRUCTION OF CORRIDOR 10 TO BE JOINTLY FINANCED BY GOVERNMENT AND
COMPANIES (Beta)
2. PROTOKOL JUGOSLAVIJE, RUMUNIJE I HRVATSKE O TRANZITU NAFTE (Tanjug)
3. "Corridor 10 to create 100,000 new jobs" (www.serbia.sr.gov.yu)
4. Macedonia inaugurates construction of pipeline to Kosovo (AP 7/9/02)

=== 1 ===

CONSTRUCTION OF CORRIDOR 10 TO BE JOINTLY FINANCED BY GOVERNMENT AND
COMPANIES
BELGRADE, September 5 (Beta) - Yugoslav VicePremier Miroljub
Labus said on Sept. 5 that the construction of the section of the
international traffic corridor 10 running through Serbia will be
jointly financed by the government and by Yugoslav companies.
The Serbian government is soon to set up a company for corridor
10. Private investors will be able to participate in the company's
capital boost, but the state will keep 51 percent of the shares, Labus
said at the opening of the international conference on corridor 10, at
the Intercontinental Hotel.
Labus explained that the state will invest land and the
existing infrastructure in the company, and said the company will "also
be open to Yugoslav investors."
He said he believes that as early as the beginning of next
year all agreements regarding the construction of the corridor will
have been concluded, and he said loans will make up the smallest part
of the funds.
Labus pointed out that the Serbian government has already
allocated funds for the construction of the BelgradeNovi Sad section of
the highway, adding that the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development and the European Investment Bank have approved loans for the
construction of 870 kilometers of the highway.

=== 2 ===

--- In Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli., 9/9/02, "Miroslav Antic" wrote:

PROTOKOL JUGOSLAVIJE, RUMUNIJE I HRVATSKE O TRANZITU NAFTE

Naftovod od Konstance preko SRJ do Krka

Savezni ministar privrede i unutra¹nje trgovine Petar Trojanoviæ
potpisaæe sutra u Bukure¹tu, sa rumunskim i hrvatskim kolegom,
Protokol za uspostavljanje meðudr¾avnog sistema za transport
nafte od Konstance u Rumuniji, preko Jugoslavije, do Omi¹lja na
Krku, u Hrvatskoj.

Ovim Protokolom biæe, prema saop¹tenju Sekretarijata za informisanje,
stvoren meðunarodno-pravni okvir za razvoj i realizaciju Projekta
Jugoistoèno-evropskog naftovoda.

SR Jugoslavija æe dogradnjom naftovoda dobiti moguænost za aktiviranje
jo¹ jednog pravca za snabdevanje naftom iz Rumunije, kao i moguænost
da se kroz na¹u zemlju obavlja tranzit petroleja za druge dr¾ave.

Ovaj Projekat, koji je podr¾ala i Evropska unija, pored regionalne
va¾nosti za tri zemlje-uèesnice, mogao bi da bude od velikog znaèaja i
kao koridor za snabdevanje evropskog tr¾i¹ta kaspijskom naftom, jer
obezbeðuje povezivanje sa postojeæim evropskim naftovodom.

(Tanjug)

=== 3 ===

http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/
news/2002-09/07/325810.html

Corridor 10 to create 100,000 new jobs

September 07, 2002

Belgrade, Sept. 6, 2002 - Construction of Corridor 10,
linking Western and Southern Europe, will begin next year,
with an 800-km section, or one third of the road to run via
Yugoslavia. Attending a conference dedicated to the
construction of Corridor 10, Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister
Miroljub Labus said that the project will create over 100,000
new jobs over the next several years, radio B92 reported.

"Our estimates say that around 15,000 workers will be
mobilised for construction works, and a further 7,000 for
construction of accompanying facilities. We also predict that
another 100,000 people will be indirectly engaged for
expanding business along the Corridor over the next several
years," said Labus.

Serbian Minister of Transport and Telecommunications Marija
Raseta-Vukosavljevic said that the financing of the Corridor
10 section in Yugoslavia calls for EUR2 billion. "The state will
secure part of the funds from the budget and land and
infrastructure value assessment, while the remaining sum will
come from foreign and domestic investors," said
Raseta-Vukosavljevic.

The Serbian government will set up a company for construction
of Corridor 10 and will be the majority owner while private
sector partners will be allowed to acquire up to a 49 percent
stake in the company. Yugoslav Central Bank Governor
Mladjan Dinkic said that the company establishment and
financing will not push Serbia into further debts.

"The plan to complete the Corridor 10 section in Serbia by the
2004 Olympic Games in Athens is ambitious, but feasible," said
Dusko Vujovic, an advisory at the World Bank.

"Corridor 10 - road of development and integrations"
conference was organised by the G17 Institute, the Alma
Kvatro advertising company and public relation agency
Olaf&McAteer. Similar conferences will be held quarterly.

Europe does not have a single road directly connecting Austria
and Greece. This is why eight European countries will launch
construction of Corridor 10 early next year. The Corridor will
link Western and Southern Europe, with an 800-km section, or
one third of the road to run via Yugoslavia.

=== 4 ===

Macedonia inaugurates construction of pipeline to Kosovo

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/
20020907/ap_wo_en_po/macedonia_kosovo_2

AP World Politics

Macedonia inaugurates construction of pipeline to Kosovo
Sat Sep 7,10:46 AM ET

SKOPJE, Macedonia - Macedonia on Saturday marked the start of the
building of a key pipeline for oil products between the capital of this
Balkan country and Kosovo, neighboring Yugoslavia's troubled NATO (
news - web sites)-run province.



In a ceremony inaugurating the construction, Macedonian Prime Minister
Ljubco Georgievski said the pipeline will take about two years to build
and cost dlrs 35-40 million.

The pipeline, funded entirely by Greece - Macedonia's southern
neighbor - will stretch 100 kilometers (60 miles) and ferry oil
products from the Okta oil refinery in Skopje, the Macedonian capital,
to Pristina, the capital of Kosovo.

The pipeline, owned by Greece's Hellenic Petroleum S.A. giant, is
expected to enable a yearly flow of 300,000 tons of oil products such a
gasoline and heating oil, alleviating the burden of transporting crude
oil derivatives by road.

The new oil artery for Kosovo became possible after a pipeline linking
Macedonia's main oil refinery to the northern Greek port of
Thessaloniki opened in June.

Greece owns a 69.5 percent stake in the Okta refinery and is
Macedonia's largest foreign investor, with more than dlrs 300 million
invested in various ventures over the past few years.

Relations between the two Balkan neighbors have improved in the past
few years despite a continued disagreement over Macedonia's name.
Greece contends that the usage of the name Macedonia for this country
masks territorial pretensions over a northern Greek province of the
same name.

Kosovo officially remains part of Yugoslavia, which borders Macedonia
to the north, but has been run by the United Nations ( news - web
sites) and NATO since 1999, when the military alliance bombed Serb
troops to stop former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ( news -
web sites)'s crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists.

IN ANSIA PER L'ANSA

Il sito internet dell'ANSA sul Kosovo-Metohija
(http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/kosovo.shtml) e' in coma!... Dallo
scorso 29 agosto, data della battaglia tra truppe di occupazione
italiane e terroristi di ispirazione grandealbanese di cui abbiamo
gia' riferito (vedasi: http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-
mailinglist/message/1931), il sito tace, e dopo dieci giorni non
riporta ancora la notizia, ne' e' stato piu' aggiornato.

I maligni dicono che sia stato posto sotto "embargo" dai dirigenti
ANSA e/o del governo, affinche' nessuno sappia cosa e' successo: due
ore di furiosa sparatoria tra "i nostri bravi ragazzi che portano la
pace nella martoriata provincia" (un po' come facevano nel 1941-1943,
su commissione di Mussolini ed Hitler) ed alcuni "poveri kossovari
sopravvissuti ai massacri di Milosevic" (questi ultimi nell'atto di
massacrare quattro contadini serbi disarmati al lavoro nei campi).
Davvero, sarebbe una notizia incredibile, meglio dunque che non si
sappia in giro. La grande stampa di centro-destra-ultrasinistra
garantisce che la consegna del silenzio sia rispettata. Aumma aumma.
(I.S.)

BASKET: JUGOSLAVIA CAMPIONE, NOTTE DI FOLLIE NEI BALCANI

(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 9 SET - Un momento di assoluto silenzio mentre
l'orologio scandiva gli ultimi secondi della partita, poi
l'impressionante urlo liberatorio della folla: la vittoria della
nazionale jugoslava di basket ai campionati del mondo di Indianapolis
e' stata festeggiata a Belgrado da almeno 150.000 tifosi, con
caroselli di auto fino alle prime ore del mattino. ''(Vlade) Divac
presidente, (Svetislav) Pesic premier, i giocatori ministri'', era lo
slogan piu' scandito in Serbia, dove a giorni si votera' per eleggere
il capo di stato della repubblica. Molto gettonato anche il gioco di
parole ''Tutti hanno Dio (Boga in serbo), noi abbiamo (Dejan)
Bodiroga''. Come Belgrado, tutte le citta' serbe hanno passato una
notte insonne. Petardi e fuochi d'artificio spesso intervallati da
raffiche di armi da fuoco sparate in aria hanno provveduto a tenere
svegli anche i non interessati. In Montenegro, la piccola repubblica
jugoslava di tendenza secessionista, le divisioni tra fautori e
nemici della federazione sono state accantonate, almeno per qualche
ora. I media serbi e montenegrini parlano di vittoria storica, di una
sorta di rinascita nazionale per un paese in profonda crisi economica
e politica. Il contagio si e' esteso anche alle zone del Kosovo dove
restano comunita' serbe, in primo luogo Kosovska Mitrovica, e ad
altre nazioni dei Balcani, la Repubblica Sprpska (Rs, l'entita' serba
della Bosnia) e la Macedonia. Ma ancor piu' della vittoria nella
finale con l'Argentina, questo campionato mondiale di Indianapolis
restera' nel cuore degli jugoslavi e degli ex jugoslavi di etnia
serbo-montenegrina per la difficile ed entusiasmante vittoria dei
quarti di finale sul 'dream team' americano. (ANSA).
09/09/2002 18:58

Subject: D'Alema ed il 14 settembre
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:28:08 +0200
From: Italo Slavetti
To: info@...
CC: ...


Cari amici e care amiche,

il problema che molti pongono sulla mancata partecipazione di D'Alema
alla nostra manifestazione e', io credo, assolutamente inconsistente. A
parte il fatto che Massimo ha dichiarato esplicitamente che "e' lecito"
scendere in piazza, cioe' che non ci arresteranno ne' ci inseriranno in
qualche lista di organizzazioni terroristiche, egli ha ragione a dire
che "ognuno e' libero di caratterizzare il suo impegno come vuole".
Di questo bisogna innanzitutto dare atto a D'Alema: egli ci riconosce
la liberta' di manifestare.
Ma c'e' dell'altro, che giustifica abbondantemente la posizione di
D'Alema. Egli usufruisce di fatto di un regime giuridico iper-
garantista in merito ai fatti della primavera del 1999. La magistratura
a tutti i livelli, per ultima la Corte di Cassazione (vedasi sentenza
Sezioni unite, ordinanza 8157/02; depositata il 5 giugno scorso),
ha provveduto a dichiarare il non luogo a procedere per le
denunce intentate contro di lui ed altri suoi colleghi da migliaia
di cittadini per strage, violazione della Costituzione,
crimini di guerra, eccetera, relativamente alla partecipazione
dell'Italia ai bombardamenti umanitari sui petrolchimici, i
convogli di profughi, i treni, le stazioni radiotelevisive, e cosi'
via. D'Alema gode dunque di uno status "super legibus" che gli
impedisce di calarsi nel contenzioso politico-giudiziario in corso,
sui temi garantismo-giustizialismo, e che viceversa gli impone
per correttezza di restare fuori da questa vicenda il piu' possibile.
A Massimo va dunque tutta la mia comprensione e gratitudine
giroondina.

Italo (Roma)

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Date: 06/09/2002

ZASTAVA im zweiten Jahr der Vorbereitungen fuer
die Privatisierung

Ruzica Milosavljevic
Belgrad, 05 September 2002

infograf@...

Programm der Konsolidierung der Firma ZASTAVA ist
das Symbol der Aenderungen und Transition
geworden, schon in der Zeit, als alleinige seine
Ankuendigung geraeuschvolle Revolte der
kragujevaker Arbeiter hervorgerufen hat, wegen
der Status - und Organisations "Brueche", die auf
ihre Fabriken warteten. Neben den grossen
Anspannen, Protesten, Streicken und sogar
physischen Angriffen an die Minister Mitglieder
des Rates fuer die strategische Konsolidierung am
27.07.2001 ist letzlich das "Abkommen ueber die
Status-und Organisationsumwandlung und der
strategiaschen Konsolidierung der Gruppe
ZASTAVA", unterzeichnet worden.
Fuer die Begleitung und Realisierung dieses
Abkommens von der Seite der Regierung Serbiens
wurde der Rat fuer die strategische
Konsolidierung ZASTAVA.
Realisierung dieses Abkommens ist in zwei Phasen
vorgesehen : erste Phase versteht die Status -
und Organisationskonsolidierung und zweite Phase
versteht das Prozess der Restrukturierung und
schliesslich die Privatisierung.
In die Status - und Organisationskonsolidierung
ist ZASTAVA mit fast 16000 ueberschuessige
Arbeiter, mit grossen Verlusten und vollkommen
unvorbereitet fuer den Marktkampf.
Im Rahmen dieses Prozesses sind aus dem System
der ZASTAVA - Gruppe 24 Fabriken in denen 8439
Arbeiter taetig ist, selbststaendig gemacht
worden und der Rest ist in die Gestaltung des
neugebildeten Holding - ZASTAVA VOZILA( Zastava -
Fahrzeuge) eingegangen, wo 8303 Arbeiter
geblieben ist.
Das schwerste Segment der Realisierung der ersten
Phase dieses Abkommens ist die Loesung des Satus
von fast 16000 Arbeiter, die ohne Arbeitsplaetze
geblieben sind.
Zum Zwecke der Milderung der erwartenden grossen
Unzufriedenheit der Arbeiter, die ohne
Arbeitsplatz geblieben sind, ist im Rahmen von
ZASTAVA die neue Gesellschaft "Zastava
Beschaeftigung und Ausbildung", abgekurzt ZZO,
gebildet, wo die Ueberqualifizirung und
Ausbildung als auch Erfindung der neuen
Beschaeftigung durchgefuehrt werden.
Die uebernommene Ueberschusse an Arbeiter werden
das Status der Beschaeftigten in ZZO haben
(praktisch werden sie nicht arbeiten), und das im
Dauer von laengstens vier Jahre und sie werden
einen Ersatz in der Hoehe von 45 % vom Verdienst,
das er an seinem Arbeitsplatz bekommen wuerde,
erhalten. Die zweite Moeglichkeit ist die
einmalige Abfindung in der Hohe von 200 DM fuer
jeses Jahr der Dienstzeit zu erhalten. Solche
angebotene Loesungen und besonders die Zahl von
fast 16.000 Arbeiter, die ohne Arbeitsplaetze
geblieben sind, hat die Serie der Protesste der
unzufriedenen Arbeiter hervorgeruft, mit der
grossen Shance, dass das in den unkontrolirten
sozialen Aufstand uebergehet.
Zerstueckelte und getrennte Gewekschaften wollten
nicht, die Unzufriedenheit der Arbeiter und ihre
feste Entschlossenheit, in den Fabriken zu
bleiben, ausnuetzen fuer die beste Verhandlungs -
Position, im Sinne des erzielens der besseren
Loesungen fuer die Arbeiter, im Bezug darauf ,
was angeboten ist.
Schliesslich sah das als grosser,
gewerkschaftlicher Verrat aus, und die Arbeiter
sind ohne echten Kentnisse ueber ihre Rechte,
gezwungen gewesen, zwischen diesen zwei Uebel zu
waehlen.
Genau ein Jahr nach der Anwendung dieses
Abkommens, am 27.07.2002, haben republische
Minister und Mitglieder des Rates fuer die
Konsolidierung als auch die Geschaeftsfuehrung
aus ZASTAVA zufrieden an die Journalisten die
Ergebnisse der ersten Phase der Vorbereitung der
ZASTAVA fuer die Privatisierung, mitgeteilt.
Beide sind zum Schluss gekommen, dass das
Abkommen gemaess dem Plan und dem Programm
durchgefuehrt wird, worauf die Kontinuitaet und
die Steigerung der Produktion hinweisen, dann
dass die Bedingungen erfuellt sind, dass man mit
dem Auswahl des oekonomischen, finanziellen und
juristischen Beraters fuer die Privatisierung in
die zweite Phase der Privatisierung von "ZASTAVA
VOZILA" eingeht, und dass fuer neun selbsstaendig
gemachten Fabriken aus dem ZASTAVA -System, das
Prozess des schnellen Auktions - Verkaufs
geoeffnet wird. In die erste Phase der ZASTAVA -
Konsolidierungwurde 50.000.000 Euro investiert,
und zwar 42.000.000 Euro fuer die Abfindungen von
8000 Arbeiter, die Zastava verlassen haben und
Entschaedigungen fuer 7000 Arbeiter, die sich an
ZZO befinden, und im Namen der Umsatzmittel 6,2
Millionen Euro.
Im Gegenteil zur dieser Zufriedenheit ankuendigen
sich die Gewerkschaften mit der Bahauptung, dass
das unterzeichnete Abkommen nicht eingehalten
wird, dass es die ernsthaftere Produktion, als
auch die Eroeffnung der neuen Arbeitsplaetze kaum
gibt, und dass sich neben dem reinen Ueberleben
der Fabrik, gar nichts auf besseres geaendert
hat.
Der Schluss ist, dass die Entscheidung auf die
Bewegung der neuen Phase der Privatisierung
verfrueht ist, und dass inwieweit man bis Ende
August keine wahrnehmbare Vorschritte machen
wuerde, immer straengere Massnahmen der
Gewerschaft des gewerkschaftlichen Kampfes
angemeldet werden. Ungeachtet so widersprechenden
Stellungnahmen haben die Mitglieder des
staatlichen Rates fuer die Konsolidierung der
ZASTAVA haben den Beschluss gefasst und seit
Monat Juni ist in ZASTAVA der Prozess der zweiten
Phase der Restrukturierung und die Vorbereitung
fuer die endgueltige Privatisierung angefangen.
Durch diesen Prozess wird die kragujevaker
Kompanie von der Seite des Konsortiums der
Berater, "Citadel Finansial Adrisory", "Odien
Restructuring", "Ernst and Jung" und "Joksovic
partneri" gefuehrt werden. Der Chef der
Beratergruppe ist Bernard Hanon, langjaeriger
Vorsitzender des Verwaltungausschusses in
"RENAULT".
Man erwartet die Beendigung der Tender -
Unterlagen fuer die Privatisierung der ZASTAVA
VOZILA bis Ende des Jahres. Die Botschaft des
Ressort-Ministers fuer die Privatisierung ist
dass Tender nicht ausgeschrieben wird, bis sein
Erfolg nicht gebuergt wird.
Arbeiter teilen aber den Optimismus des Ministers
nicht. Im Gegenteil, sie haben Angst vor
endgueltigerem Schluss von ZASTAVA und sie wissen
ueber die Privatisierung nicht viel ausser
dessen, dass das, was bis jetzt passiert hat, sie
grob trifft.

... The United States of America adopted so-called American
Servicemembers Protection Act - ASPA. President George Bush
signed it into law on August 2, 2002. In such a way the United
States definitely defined its stand on the International Criminal
Court, which was created at the diplomatic conference under the
auspices of the United Nations in Rome in July 1998. Its Statute
came into force on July 1, 2002 after receiving 6o ratifications.
Yugoslavia also ratified it ("Official Gazette of the FRY", No.5/2001).
(...)
Legally speaking, KFOR and UNMIK which are in Kosovo and Metohija,
are on the Yugoslav territory. Yugoslavia is a state party
to the ICC from the very first day of its existence, July 1, 2002.
Legally speaking, therefore, the members of KFOR and UNMIK
would be under the jurisdiction of the ICC if they commit some
of crimes in the competence of the ICC whether they are
Americans or not.
However, it seems that the position of KFOR is different from
the position of UNMIK. Namely, in the Military-technical
Agreement, which Yugoslavia had to sign, there is the following
more than the colonial provision: "The international security
force ("KFOR") nor any of its personnel or staff shall be liable
for any damages to public or private property that they may
cause in the course of duties related to the implementation
of this Agreement. The parties will agree a Status of Forces
Agreement (SOFA) as soon as possible". If the SOFA was not
concluded as was intended - and as far as I know this is the case -
the members of KFOR would be under the jurisdiction of the ICC
(for UNMIK it is undeniable). Probably, the U.S. will request
the conclusion of an agreement exempting the Americans from the
ICC's jurisdiction whether members of KFOR or UNMIK.
SFOR is in Bosnia-Herzegovina on the basis of the Dayton
Accords. Annex 1A contains also so-called SOFA (Status of Forces
Agreement) containing classic standards of the status of foreign
troops on the territory of a foreign country. That status in
effect means that the troops remain under the jurisdiction of
a sending state, which means exemption from criminal
jurisdiction of the receiving state. If the article 98 of the
Statute of the ICC means that bilateral treaties prevail over
the Statute - it seems that that is the meaning of that article,
although it is not clear - then members of SFOR in
Bosnia-Herzegovina are not under the jurisdiction of the ICC
but are under the provisions of the SOFA.

(Excerpted from:
"UNITED STATES ADOPTED LAW AGAINST INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT"
by Dr. Milan Tepavac, Belgrade, 04 August 2002 - Published on
http://www.artel.co.yu
A serbocroation version is attached at the end.)

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Kostunica: U.S. DEMANDS UNDERMINE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ORDER

BELGRADE, Aug 13 (Beta) - Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica said on
Aug. 12 that acceptance of the U.S. agreeement exempting U.S. citizens
from extradition to the new International Criminal Court would
seriously undermine the international legal order.
Kostunica said that signing such an agreement would undermine legal
systems of the countries which ratified the Rome treaty on establishing
the court.
He added that the issue would decide the future of the new international
legal institution.
Kostunica said that the establishment of a permanent court would prevent
selectivity so often ascribed to the Hague tribunal and that the new
court has to be able to put everyone on trial.

Kostunica speaks out against US immunity request

BELGRADE, Aug13(Reuters) Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica
yesterday spoke out against a US request for a bilateral agreement
to prevent American citizens from being handed over to the new
International Criminal Court (ICC).
"Those who would enjoy immunity from prosecution would not only sleep
soundly, but would also be encouraged to keep committing crimes," was
quoted as saying yesterday evening. The US, which has some 5,000
peacekeepers in Kosovo, opposes the new court and has approached
countries to negotiate bilateral agreements to avoid prosecution of
American personnel. Kostunica, a lawyer by trade, claimed such an
agreement would undermine international law.
Sense news agency reported yesterday that Yugoslavia?s aspirations to
join NATO?s Partnership for Peace could hinge on its response to the
US request.
"The real question is whether this court will try everyone and really be
a court or try only some and, in that case, will not be a court," the
Yugoslav president argued.

Svilanovic: Yugoslavia supports work of International Criminal Court

BELGRADE, Aug 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia has received from the United
States a proposal to sign a bilateral agreement which would prevent the
extradition of US citizens to the new International Criminal Court, but
no definite decision has been made about this at this time, Yugoslav
Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic has said.
Speaking for prime-time news on national television RTS late Wednesday,
Svilanovic said the country's position was clear. "We support the work
of the International Criminal Court. I personally signed a document
stating that our parliament has ratified the agreement making us a
founder-country of that court," he said.
"We will discuss the US proposal, naturally, primarily with
member-states of the International Criminal Court, also in particular
with member-states of the European Union. That decision has not been
made at this time," Svilanovic said.
"We will carefully follow the dialogue under way at this time between
the European Union, actually the member-signatories and founders of the
International Criminal Court, and we are among them, and the United
States, and we shall see whether it is possible to arrive at a
compromise or not.
In any case, we will not hurry with this decision, bearing in mind our
obligations to the International Criminal Court and our expectations
about future cooperation both with the European Union and the United
States," Svilanovic said.

SVILANOVIC: Belgrade waiting on EU-US dialogue

BELGRADE/LJUBLJANA, Avg 15 (B92) Yugoslavia will wait for talks between
the EU and US before deciding whether to accept an American proposal for
indemnity for US citizens from prosecution by the International Criminal
Court, Yugoslavia's foreign minister told B92 yesterday.
"It is well-known that Yugoslavia welcomes the founding and work of the
International Criminal Court, and as far as the US proposal is concerned
we will consult with other members of the court, particularly with EU
members," said Goran Svilanovic.
The US is seeking a series of bilateral agreements guaranteeing American
civilians and military personnel serving abroad will not find themselves
before the new international court.
Svilanovic said Belgrade was "in no hurry" to make its decision. "This
is a serious and delicate question which concerns our country's
international obligations."
The foreign minister claimed the issue need not threaten relations
between Belgrade and Washington: "The delicacy of this issue relates
not only to bilateral relations between the US and Yugoslavia, but to a
broader global plan of defining relations between the leading political
actors," he said.
Belgrade will use the announced visit of US Ambassador-at-Large for War
Crimes Issues Pierre Richard Prosper to discuss the issue further, added
Svilanovic.
Slovenia has already rejected the proposal and Croatia is reported to be
considering also turning it down. Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica
spoke out against the deal last week, claiming it flew in the face of
international law.

US plays down Kostunica opposition to immunity deal

WASHINGTON, Avg 15 (Sense) Washington sees the Yugoslav president's
rejection of its request for a bilateral agreement on US indemnity from
prosecution before the International Criminal Court as his personal
stance, and not Belgrade's official response, Sense news agency reports
today.
Sense quoted a White House official as saying talks with America's
"allies and partners are in their initial stages" and that it was too
early to draw any concrete conclusions.
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica this week dismissed the deal as a
potential violation of international law. "Those who would enjoy
immunity from prosecution would not only sleep soundly, but would also
be encouraged to keep committing crimes," he was quoted as saying.
The US is said to be particularly keen on securing Yugoslavia's
agreement since almost half America's peacekeeping force is serving in
the Yugoslav province of Kosovo.
The US official said there was no link between the request for immunity
and Yugoslavia's bid to join the Partnership for Peace.

PRIME MINISTER: YUGOSLAVIA MUST NOT RUSH WITH SIGNING AGREEMENT WITH U.S

belgrade, aug 18 (Beta) -yugoslav prime minister Dragisa Pesic has said
that Yugoslavia must not rush with deciding on whether to sign a
bilateral agreement with the u.s. "for a simple reason -- a negative
answer could worsen our relations with America."
Pesic confirmed that Yugoslavia received an official proposal from the
u.s. for signing an inter-state agreement granting u.s. citizens
immunity
before the international criminal court.
He said he expected official Brussels to very quickly define "a final
stand on America's proposal on signing bilateral agreements, on the
basis
of which the most influential country of the world could avoid the
jurisdiction of the newly founded International Criminal Court."
"The federation of Serbia and Montenegro is striving towards EU
membership and, accordingly, we must be on the political course of the
organization we would like to join," Pesic said.

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SJEDINJENE DR?AVE USVOJILE ZAKON PROTIV ME?UNARODNOG
KRIVICNOG SUDA

Dr Milan Tepavac
miltep@...
Beograd, 05. avgust 2002. god.

Sjedinjene Americke Dr?ave usvojile su tzv. Zakon o
zastiti americkih pripadnika oru?anih snaga (American
Servicemembers Protection Act - ASPA). Predsednik Bus
potpisao ga je 2. avgusta 2002. Time su SAD
definitivno odredile svoj stav prema stalnom
Medjunarodnom krivicnom sudu ciji je Statut usvojen na
diplomatskoj konferenciji pod okriljem Ujedninjenih
nacija u julu mesecu 1998. godine, a koji je stupio na
snagu 1. jula 2002. godine nakon sto ga je
ratifikovalo 6o dr?ava, medu njima i Jugoslavija
("Slu?beni list SRJ" br. 5/2001). Dakle, s jedne
strane potpuno negiraju medunarodno krivicno sudovanje
u principu, a s druge strane vrse stalan pritisak na
Jugoslaviju i Republiku Srpsku radi "pune saradnje" sa
nelegalnim i nelegitimnim tzv. Haskim tribunalom!

I. AMERIKA U PRINCIPU NE PRIZNAJE ME?UNARODNO KRIVICNO
SUDOVANJE PA NI STALNI ME?UNARODNI KRIVICNI SUD

Sjedinjene Americke Dr?ave su odmah nakon diplomatske
konferencije u Rimu 1998. stavile do znanja da nece da
ratifikuju Statut Medunarodnog krivicnog suda (MKS)
usvojen na toj konferenciji, te, na taj nacin, nece
priznavati ovaj sud. Ni finansiranje tog suda niti
bilo kakav vid saradnje sa njim ne dolazi u obzir.
Americki vlastodrsci su ovu odluku saopstili
generalnom sekretaru Ujedinjenih nacija upravo nedavno
kada su ujedno pojacali svoj pritisak na Jugoslaviju
da mora da udovolji svim zahtevima njihovog ilegalnog
"suda", takozvanog Medunarodnog tribunala za prethodnu
Jugoslaviju, na prvom mestu isporucivanje svih koje
"tribunal" zahteva i predaju svih dokumenata koje
dr?ava Jugoslavija ima a relevantni su za "tribunal"!
Isti njihov ambasador koji vrslja po Jugoslaviji,
preti i ucenjuje tim haskim "sudom" , Pierre-Richard
Prosper, po svetu objasnjava zasto su SAD kategoricno
protiv MKS!!

Osnovne karakteristike ovog suda
Statut MKS usvojen je na diplomatskoj konferenciji UN
u Rimu 1998. godine. Posto je ovih dana polo?en
sezdeseti ratifikacioni instrument, Statut je stupio
na snagu 1. jula ove godine. Jugoslavija je Statut
ratifikovala 22.juna 2001, a objavljen je u "Slu?benom
listu SRJ", br. 5 od 27. juna 2001. Sediste suda bice
u Hagu.
Prema clanu 5 Statuta, ovaj sud ima nadle?nost u
pogledu sledecih krivicnih dela: genocida, zlocina
protiv covecnosti, ratnih zlocina i agresije kako su
ova medunarodna krivicna dela definisana u Statutu.
Ustvari, sud nema nadle?nosti u pogledu agresije, jer
je to pitanje odgodeno za sedam godina naokon stupanja
na snagu Statuta, posto se na diplomatskoj
konferenciji nije mogla postici saglasnost niti oko
definicije agresije, niti oko nadle?nosti suda u
pogledu ovog najte?eg medunarpodnog krivicnog dela iz
koga ustvari proisticu sva ostala navedena dela.
Ponovilo se, ustvari ono, sto su autori takozvanog
Medunarodnog krivicnog suda za prethodnu Jugoslaviju
(ICTY) zlonamerno - anticipirajuci agresiju na
Jugoslaviju - smislili: iskljuciti nadle?nost suda u
pogledu agresije! tako da velike sile, pre svih SAD,
mogu da rade sta hoce. Svidalo se to nekome ili ne,
Karla del Ponte je formalno u pravu kada veli da ICTY
nije nadle?an za agresiju NATO pakta na
Jugosaviju.Tako su hteli kreatori ICTY i tako su
zapisali u njegovom statutu!
Kada se govori o MKS treba imati na umu da je on,
prema clanu 11 Statuta, nadle?an samo u pogledu onih
navedenih medunarodnih krivicnih dela koja su ucinjena
nakon stupanja na snagu Statuta, to jest nakon 1. jula
2002. Ono sto se dogodilo pre toga nije u nadle?nosti
ovog suda. Pojela maca. Nema veze Hirosima, nema veze
Hagasaki, nema veze Drezden, nema veze Vijetnam, nema
veze Kambod?a, nema veze Indonezija, nema veze Istocni
Timor, nema veze Grenada, nema veze Panama, nema veze
agresija na Jugoslaviju, nema veze secesionisticki
ratovi u Jugoslaviji (unutrasnja agresija), nema veze
Avganistan, nema veze D?enin. Ima veze samo Srbi i
Ruanda! - Dakle, nije usvojen princip da je uslov za
krivicnu odgovornost pred ovim sudom opsti princip
krivicnog prava da je u vreme izvrsenja krivicnog dela
odredeno ponasanje bilo inkriminisano kao krivicno
delo, nego stupanje na snagu Statuta. Prema tome, oni
koji su do 1.jula 2002. pocinili bilo koje od
navedenih krivicnih dela ne treba da strahuju od ovog
suda!
Ponovimo da je sud nadle?an u pogledu genocida,
zlocina protiv covecnosti i ratnih zlocina onako kako
su ova krivicna dela formulisana u Statutu (clanovi 6,
7 i 8). Ali, clan 21 ovlascuje sud da primenjuje i
druge izvore medunarodnog prava kada sud nade da
formulacije iz Statuta nisu adekvatne. Ovo je, cini mi
se, dosta interesantna odredba koja omogucuje da sud,
ustvari, mo?e da primenjuje opste medunarodno kricno
pravo pri donosenju svojih odluka.

Razila?enje saveznika
Po pitanju ovog suda doslo je do otvorenog neslaganja,
pa i sukoba, izmedu Sjedinjenih Dr?ava s jedne, i
Kanade i dr?ava clanica Evropske unije s druge strane.
Kanada ne samo da je ratifikovala Statut nego je bila
jedan od inicijatora citavog nastojanja da se osnuje
jedan stalni medunarodni krivicni sud. Sve clanice EU
su takode medu prvima ratifikovale Statut, ukljucujuci
cak i Veliku Britaniju i Nemacku. Amerikanci su se
citavo vreme dr?ali rezervisano prema samoj ideji
osnivanja ovakvog suda. Oni su ucestvovali i na
osnivackoj konferenciji u Rimu, ali ne da bi doprineli
ostvarivanju ideje koja je stara par vekova medu
medunarodnim pravnicima, nego da bi minirali tu ideju.
Ali, to im je samo delimicno poslo za rukom (na primer
fakticno iskljucivanje agresije iz nadle?nosti suda).
Pod velikim pritiskom saveznika predsednik Klinton je
cak i potpisao Statut, ali je i tom prilikom dao na
znanje da ga nece slati na ratifikaciju u Senat ne
samo zato sto mu je bilo dobro poznato da Senat nece
ni da cuje za ratifikaciju, nego i zato sto ni njegova
administracija nije bila za ratifikaciju.
Predsednik Bus i njgova administracija ne samo da su
obavestile generalnog sekretara UN da ne nameravaju da
priznaju MKS, nego su ucinili i potez bez presedana u
medunarodnom pravu i medunarodnim odnosima: obavestili
su UN da "povlace potpis" Klintona sa Statuta! Ovo je
izazvalo pravi revolt saveznika, a narocito hiljada i
hiljada raznih medunarodnih organizacija "za zastitu
ljudskih prava" koje su bile glavni proponenti
osnivanja MKS, praveci pritisak na svoje dr?ave.
Amerikanci svoj odbojan stav objasnjavaju tako sto
vele da sud mo?e da ugrozi nacionalne interese SAD,
mo?e biti politicki motivisan, da mogu biti ugro?eni
americki funkcioneri i gradani, a narocito njihovi
vojnici. Zato su SAD ne samo protiv MKS, vec u
Kongresu je predlog zakona kojim se predvida mogucnost
da predsednik mo?e narediti i upotrebu sile protiv
svake one dr?ave koja bi za racun tog suda uhapsila
Amerikanca kao i mogucnost drugih mera protiv takve
dr?ave, kao sto je uskracivanje ekonomske i vojne
pomoci svakoj zamlji koja ratfikuje pristupanje ovom
sudu! Od svake dr?ave, na cijoj se teritoriji nalaze
trupe SAD po bilo kom osnovu tra?ice se da se obave?u
da nece saradivati sa MKS kada se radi o Amerikancima.

Rusija, Kina...
Rusija i Kina nisu tako kategoricno protiv MKS, ali
nisu ni za njega. Igraju nekakvu cudnu igru tako sto
ne nastupaju otvoreno protiv suda, ali ne predla?u
njegovu ratifikaciju. Putin se plasi da bi zbog
Cecenije mogao da do?ivi sudbinu Slobodana Milosevica,
a bogami i Kinezi imaju razloga za strahovanje zbog
pitanja ljudskih prava tamo kod njih...Dakle, sa
ovakvim odnosom SAD, Rusije i Kine prema ovom sudu
ostaje otvoreno pitanje kako ce uopste ta institucija
da proradi i kako ce u praksi funkcionisati. Ostaje,
dakle, da vreme poka?e da li su kreatori ove
institucije idealisti ili su ipak u kakvoj-takvoj
saglasnosti sa politickom realnoscu savremenog sveta.

II. USVAJANJE ZAKONA PROTIV ME?UNARODNOG KRIVICNOG
SUDA

Dakle, kao sledeci korak prema potpunom negiranju
prava medunarodne zajednice da organizuje svima
prihvatljivo organizovanje medunarodog krivicnog
sudovanja za najte?a medunarodna krivicna dela na
nacin kako je to predvideno za osnovani Medunarodni
krivicni sud SAD su pribegle zaista drakonskoj meri
koja je iznenadila cak i njihove najprivr?enije
prijatelje - kao sto su dr?ave clanice EU - usvajanjem
Zakona o zastiti pripadnika americkih oru?anih snaga.
U najkracem, ovim se zakonom:

- za branjuje SAD bilo kakva sradnja sa MKS,
- ogranicava ucesce SAD u mirovnim operacijama UN,
- zabranjuje vojna pomoc vecini zemalja koje su
ratifikovale Statut MKS,
- ovlascuje predsednik SAD da upotrebi "sva pogodna i
potrebna sredstva" da oslobodi svakog pripadnika
personala SAD i saveznika koji bi se nasli u vlasti
MKS ili u njegovo ime.

Zakonom se zabranjuje slanje americkih trupa u zemlje
koje saraduju sa Medunarodnim krivicnim sudom. Zabrana
se ne odnosi na zemlje NATO, Japan, Ju?nu Koreju i
druge glavne americke saveznike, kao ni na Tajvan (sto
je odmah izazvalo reakciju Pekinga).
Protivnici ovog zakona vec su ga nazvali "Zakon o
invaziji Haga". I to naravno sa razlogom. Jer, sta
drugo mo?e da znaci ovlascenje predsedniku da mo?e da
upotrebi "sva pogodna i potrebna sredstva" da oslobodi
Amerikance ili njihove saveznike koji bi se nasli u
rukama MKS organa ili organa koji rade za njihov racun
nego da je ovlasten da upotrebi i oru?anu silu.
Evropska unija je nasla za shodno da posebno uka?e na
ovu odredbu zakona, upozoravajuci na sve negativne
posledice koje ce ona imati po odnose EU-SAD.
Da bi se ubla?io u svetu negativan odjek ove mere SAD,
autori zakona su pribegli jednom upravo neshvatljivom
i nemoralnom triku time sto su u sam tekst zakona
uneli sledecu odredbu politicke prirode u najru?nijem
smislu ove reci: "Nothing in this title shall prohibit
the United States from rendering assistance to
international efforts to bring to justice Saddam
Hussein, Slobodan Milosovic, Osama bin Laden, other
members of Al Queda, leaders of Islamic Jihad, and
other foreign nationals accused of genocide, war
crimes or crimes against humanity", izjednacavajuci
tako Slobodana Milosevica sa Sadamom Huseinom, Osamom
bin Ladenom, pripadnicima Al Kaide i liderima
Islamskog D?ihada! U ovih poslednjih dvanaestak godina
navikli smo na mnoge zlocine, la?i i obmane od
americkih zakonodavaca, ali ovakvu i ovoliku podlost
nismo sigurno ocekivali.

Pritisci na Savet bezbednosti UN
Dvanaestog jula 2002. Amerikancima je poslo za rukom
da primoraju Savet bezbednosti UN da prihvati
rezoluciju po osnovu koje se za 12 meseci odla?e
nadle?nopst MKS, cime se znatno, na samom startu
njegovog postojanja, umanjuje njegov autoritet. Do
usvajanja ove rezolucije je doslo nakod visenedeljnih
pritisaka na clanove Saveta bezbednosti da se ovakva
rezolucija prihvati, medu njima dr?ave EU, Kanada i
Meksiko. Amerikanci su pretili da ce, ako se ovakva
rezolucija ne usvoji, SAD odmah povuci sve svoje snage
iz svih mirovnih misija u svetu. I ne samo to. U samoj
rezoluciji se navodi da ce ona, po potrebi, biti
produ?avana godisnje, sto znaci trajno umanjivanje
bilo kakvog prakticnog znacaja MKS. Rezolucija se
odnosi na sve mirovne misije za koje je Savet
bezbednosti dao svoj pristanak, ukljucujuci NATO
misiju u Avganistanu, a posebno na personal u ovim
misijama koji je iz zemalja koje nisu clanice MKS
(koje nisu ratifikovale njegov Statut).

Pritisci na dr?ave koje su ratifikovale Statut MKS
Sjedinjene Americke Dr?ave nisu se zaustavile na
pritiscima na Savet bezbednosti, nego su nastavile da
to cine pojedinacno prema onim dr?avama koje su
postale clanice MKS. U tu svrhu koriste clan 98
Statuta MKS predvida mogucnost zakljucivanja
bilateralnih ugovora o neizrucivanju. Za zakljucivanje
ovakvih ugovora, koji dalje umanjuju znacaj MKS, pod
posebnim pritiskom SAD su dr?ave clanice Evropska
unije. Evropska unija je formirala posebno telo koje
ima zadatak da predlo?i jednu zajednicku platformu
politike Unije na ovakve zahteve SAD.
Posebno je na udaru Holandija u kojoj se nalazi
sediste MKS. Holandija za sada pru?a otpor
nastojanjima SAD da s njom zakljuce bilaterlani ugovor
po osnovu clana 98 Statuta. "Nasa pozicija je u tom
pogledu ista kao pozicija EU i ona je potpuno jasna",
izjavljuje ministar inostranih poslova Holandije.
"Pristajanje na nekakav izuzetak znacilo bi
umanjivanje znacaja suda". Rumunija je, pak,
preduhitrila sve, i prva je zakljucila takav soprazum
sa SAD.
Upravo sada kada zavrsavam pisanje ovog teksta
(6.avgust 2002. ujutro) imam informaciju na Internetu
da su SAD i Izrael zakljuciliisti sporazum. Prema
izdatom saopstenju, "According to the pact, both
countries agreed not to extradite, transfer or
surrender the citizens of one another's country to the
ICC or to a third country, which might transfer them
to The Hague, where the court is located."

Polozaj KFOR i UNMIK u Jugoslaviji i SFOR u BiH
Pravno gledano, KFOR i UNMIK koji deluju na Kosovu i
Metohiji deluje na teritoriji Jugoslavije. Jugoslavija
je, rekli smo, ratifikovala Statut MKS i on je u
odnosu na nju stupio na snagu. 1. jula 2002.
Pripadnici KFOR i UNMIK, pravno gledano, podlo?ni su
nadle?nosti MKS ako bi pocinili neko od krivicnih dela
iz nadle?nosti MKS. To se odnosi na svakog pripadnika
KFOR-a i UNMIK-a, na Amerikance i sve ostale.
Medjutim, po svemu sudeci, polo?aj pripadnika KFOR
razlikuje se od polo?aja UNMIK-a. Naime, u
Vojno-tehnickom sporazumu, koji je Jugoslavija morala
da potpise, koji regulise polo?aj KFOR, ali ne i
UNMIK, ima jedna neverovatna kolonijalna odredba koja
glasi: "The international security force ("KFOR") nor
any of its personnel or staff shall be liable for any
damages to public or private property that they may
cause in the course of duties related to the
implementation of this Agreement. The parties will
agree a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) as soon as
possible". Buduci da sporazum o statusu KFOR-a (SOFA),
koliko je meni poznato, nije zakljucen izmedju
Jugoslavije i KFOR-a kao sto je to bilo planirano,
pripadnici KFOR-a bi mogli biti odgovorni pred MKS (za
UNMIK to je nesporno). Verovatno ce SAD ovo pitanje
pokrenuti, pa ce od Jugoslavije tra?iti potpisivanje
sporazuma o neizrucenju Amerikanaca, bili oni
pripadnici KFOR-a ili UNMIK-a.
Pripadnici SFOR-a u Bosni i Hercegovini su tamo na
osnovu Dejtonskog sporazuma. Aneks 1A tog sporazuma
sadrzi SOFA-u kojim je na klasican nacin regulisan
status pripadnika stranih oru?anih snaga na teritoriji
dr?ave koja ih je primila. Taj status se svodi na to
da vojnici ostaju u vlasti dr?ave koja ih je poslala,
to jest izuzeti su od krivicne jurisdikcije
teritorijalne drzave. Ako clan 98 Statuta MKS ustvari
znaci da bilateralni sporazumi imaju prevagu u odnosu
na Statut - izgleda da je to njegov smisao mada nije
jasno - onda pripadnici SFOR-a u BiH ne spadaju pod
jurisdikciju MKS vec pod odredbe SOFA koji cini
sastavni deo Dejtonskog sporazuma.

http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m090502.html

ANTIWAR, Thursday, September 5, 2002

Balkan Express
by Nebojsa Malic
Antiwar.com

Illusions of Truth and Justice

The Hague Inquisition's Factory of Lies

After a month-long hiatus, Slobodan Milosevic's show trial before the
Hague
Inquisition reopened last week. As expected, no one looked back on the
prosecution's fiasco just before the recess, when their star witness
turned
around and exonerated Milosevic. Rade Markovic, former head of Serbian
State
Security, also accused the new Belgrade authorities of abuse and
suborning
perjury.

But there was no talk of forced testimonies when the "trial" resumed.
Markovic was disappeared down the memory hole, and no one in officialdom
seems concerned about his fate. Yet that would be a legitimate concern,
given the propensity of Inquisition's prisoners to end up dead or worse.

Having failed to bully Markovic into fingering his former president, the
Inquisition finds itself running both out of time and out of lies. With
only
a week or so remaining for the Kosovo stage of the process, they have
opted
to recycle old, debunked accusations in a last-ditch effort to sling
enough
mud so some of it would stick.

The Impossible Prison Massacre

Much of last week's proceedings revolved around the allegation, brought
forward by two KLA members, that Serbian police massacred the inmates of
Dubrava prison near Istok, just after NATO bombed the penitentiary. The
media had a field day with this. Not only did they describe Musa
Krasniqi,
the first KLA witness, as a "physics teacher" and buried the references
to
his KLA membership elsewhere in their dispatches, they also presented
his
allegations as factual. Similar treatment was given the other witness,
Gani
Beqaj, though his peacetime profession was never mentioned. Perhaps it
lacked that "instant credibility" of teaching physics?

According to Krasniqi and Beqaj, the prisoners were rounded up in the
courtyard, then machine-gunned. Those who escaped (how?) were hunted
down
with hand grenades for two days. Yet both of them, and many other
prisoners,
stayed alive and unharmed. They were later transferred to other prisons
and
"told to say all prisoners were killed by NATO."

One can be forgiven for thinking this story somewhat less than
plausible,
and it's obvious as to why. Even the dumbest criminal out there would
never
tell his intended victims they were about to be killed as part of a
frame-up, then leave many of them alive and unharmed. And Milosevic is
accused of being a criminal mastermind who "covered up his crimes" so
well
that the Inquisition can't find any evidence of it!

Wisdom of the BBC

The triumphant Inquisitors next referred to a Human Rights Watch report
about the incident. The report was, naturally, based on interviews with
"NATO and former Dubrava inmates," and not those evil, deceptive Serbs,
so
it must be true, right?

The highlight of the show was Jackie Rowland of the BBC, who volunteered
to
testify even as many of her colleagues were protesting the decision to
subpoena (Western) journalists against their will. In a passionate
recounting of her testimony for the Guardian, Rowland reveals her
arrogance
and ignorance. She mistook sarcasm for praise, proudly spouted
inaccurate
"history," and provided the entire sordid affair with a delightfully
quotable but utterly meaningless "expert opinion":

"If I look at you now, Mr Milosevic, I can see that you have both your
arms.
I can see the features on your face. I can see that your body is intact.
If
however, you were hit by a bomb - heaven forbid - I think I would be
able to
tell by looking at your body whether that was the manner of your death."

But neither Milosevic, nor anyone in the Serbian government, ever
claimed
that each and every prisoner at Dubrava was killed by a direct hit of a
NATO
bomb. Fewer people are killed by direct bomb hits than by lightning.
When a
building is bombed, people are killed by debris, shockwave, shrapnel,
even
airburst. Rowland was making a dumb statement and being snooty about it.

Absent Men and Albanian Songs

The process continued this week with a witness who claimed only Albanian
houses in his town were burned. Behar Haxhiavdija told a sordid tale of
arson in his home town, but no one seemed to correct his geography:
"Gjakova," the town mentioned in agency reports, is the Albanian name
for
occupied Djakovica. Language aside, one glaring inconsistency found its
way
to an AP report of Haxhiavdija's tale:

"Most of the victims were dragged from the basement and shot, but his
5-year-old son was put in a cupboard and burned alive, said a witness
who
was hiding in a house nearby." [emphasis added]

Was this Haxhiavdija speaking, or another witness? The indefinite
article
suggests him quoting someone else, i.e. hearsay evidence. If he was
present,
how did he survive? Such questions are not expected to come up, given
the
shocking image of a 5-year-old burning in a cupboard.

Another testimony featured a bereaved Lirij Imeraj, who claimed Serb
soldiers "singing in Serb-Croat language and Albanian," came to her
house in
March 1999, and shot her husband and six children. Imeraj and her three
children survived and ran off to Montenegro (part of Yugoslavia).

Why would soldiers on a murder spree spare a woman and three children,
but
kill her husband and the other six? More to it, why would they be
singing in
Albanian? Milosevic asked the same question, but Imeraj said it was
"impossible, not at all possible" that the killers were KLA. She claims
the
murderers were Serbs, and that she knew them - yet she named no names,
at
least none that appeared in the AP story covering the testimony.

The Incredibly Elusive Fridge Trucks

Finally, this Tuesday, the prosecutors resurrected the accusation used
to
abduct Milosevic and send him to The Hague: refrigerator trucks filled
with
Albanians' bodies.

One Caslav Golubovic, whose position in the Serbian police hierarchy
agency
reports never properly clarified, said a truck with 30 bodies was pulled
out
of the Danube river in April 1999 (during the bombing). Golubovic
claimed
the truck was blown up and the bodies removed under orders from Vlajko
Stojiljkovic, Serbia's Interior Minister. He also said the orders came
to
him through General Vlastimir Djordjevic.

There are several problems with Golubovic's story. It conveniently
blames
people who can't be questioned: Djordjevic has disappeared, and
Stojiljkovic
publicly committed suicide in April. Then there is an exhaustive study
by an
American scholar, showing that the "refrigerator truck" story was never
more
than a malicious, unsubstantiated rumor: there has been no evidence to
it
whatsoever.

But the Inquisition certainly doesn't care. Lack of evidence is by
itself
evidence of Milosevic's criminal mastermind, right? As long as they can
find
some patsy to say the lines, they don't need no stinkin' evidence!

Perhaps one shouldn't be so harsh on Golubovic. It's hard to tell what
he
actually said, given the agencies' habit of printing out-of-context
snippets
in a sea of drivel. But that doesn't change the fact that the
refrigerator
truck story is bogus.

Burden of Proof

In a recent interview with a pro-NATO journalist and a leader of the
International Committee to Defend Milosevic (ICDSM), a BBC journalist
claimed the war crimes have been "proven." But where is the evidence?
All
the world has heard so far have been the testimonies of dozens of
coached
Albanian villagers, KLA leaders and sympathizers, NATO officials,
pro-NATO
diplomats and journalists, and the Inquisition's own "experts". The
"evidence" they produced would have been thrown out of any American
court
any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.

Systematic Crimes

Now no one even remotely sane would dispute that the Yugoslav Succession
Wars (1991-95) and the conflict in Kosovo were rife with atrocities. The
real question is, were those atrocities systematic?

It is obvious from the Inquisition's indictments that the "international
community" (the Empire and its allies) believes that Serb atrocities
were
systematic, while others were random. Only Serb government leaders, in
Bosnia as well as Serbia, stand accused of war crimes. Only Serbs are
charged with genocide - by definition, a systematic crime. Only Serbs
are
accused of a "joint criminal enterprise."

Methods employed, or allegedly employed, by Milosevic's government or
the
Bosnian Serbs are routinely deemed genocidal and criminal, but when
employed
by NATO, there is "no need for investigation." Same with the U.S.,
Croatians, Bosnian Muslims or the KLA.

This makes sense only if seen through the logic of total war, where the
"righteous" can employ any means necessary to defeat the "evil."
Naturally,
the definition of "righteous" and "evil" depends on who has more bombs
and
better press coverage.

Monsters' Ball

Of course, the state itself is a criminal institution, using coercion to
deprive its residents of their liberty, property and life (when it
fights
wars, as most states do). So essentially, every head of state is a
criminal.
>From that standpoint, Slobodan Milosevic is clearly guilty of being
head of
state, and doing what any head of state would do in his place. And those
persecuting him are no less guilty, of the same infractions and then
some.
Yet they claim absolute innocence and the right to judge others, as some
sort of über-government.

Milosevic's regime at least prosecuted several hundred soldiers and
militia
who were accused of looting, murder, arson and other atrocities. The
world
is yet to see any Imperial troops answer for their deeds: not because
there
weren't any - for there were, and plenty - but because the Empire
considers
itself above the law. The Hague may be a monster's ball, but the monster
is
not Milosevic.

A Factory of Lies

Power needs no justification to act as it wishes, just as its "courts"
need
no evidence to proclaim guilt. It does need, however, to manufacture
consent
for its continued survival by creating perceptions of righteousness and
legitimacy.

An amazing number of people still misguidedly believe that the Hague
Inquisition is a legitimate court, staffed by impartial prosecutors and
judges, which seeks to punish perpetrators of war crimes for the sake of
peace, justice and individualized guilt.

But as real, not manufactured, evidence shows each day the charade
continues, the so-called "court" in the Netherlands is nothing more than
Empire's vicious factory of lies.

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Jared Israel Interviewed On BBC About Milosevic 'Trial'
Page set up by John Flaherty
[Posted 29 August 2002]
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The BBC's Bill Hayton interviewed Jared Israel on August 23rd. Excerpts
from
the interview were used in a BBC feature story which can be read at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/2220997.stm

The feature story is balanced for the most part. But it leaves out much
of
the interview. To hear the whole original interview on RealPlayer audio,
go
to http://emperor.vwh.net/Audio/bbc823.rm



Below Is Full Tanscript of BBC Interview

BBC - 23 August 2002

BILL HAYTON: Can I credit you as from the International Committee?

JARED ISRAEL: I'm the vice-chairman of the international committee. One
of
the vice-chairmen.

BILL HAYTON: Right

JARED ISRAEL: And I edit the website - www.icdsm.org

BILL HAYTON: Who do you think's winning in the courtroom?

JARED ISRAEL: Well, I think everybody thinks Milosevic is winning. The
question is whether it's a rigged battle. That is, if the fix is in, in
a
prizefight, it doesn't really, then, mean that because one person is
winning
that he will necessarily win, right? Because the judges have already
decided.

And the judge in this case is manifestly on the prosecution side. That
was
very clear on the 26th, on the last day's testimony when Mr. Markovic
was
asked by Mr. Milosevic, "Is it true that you were tortured?" And he
said,
"Yes." And judge May said this doesn't have any relevance to the
evidence,
which this witness has given here, none at all. Whether he was tortured.

Now that's a trial-stopping issue. In other words, it's our position
that,
since their main prosecution witness - because he's not in the KLA and
he's
not Paddy Ashdown, that is an operative of the British special forces
and the
special representative of the British government 10 times going to
Yugoslavia, and he's not one of the leaders of the Kosovo verification
mission, and he's not in the CIA and he's not therefore William Walker,
but
he was actually the leader of the Serbian security police - was brought
in to
testify and said he was tortured to give false evidence...that's what he
said....

BILL HAYTON: ....right

JARED ISRAEL: Now, how can you continue the trial then? And they
continued.
So the trial is now a dead thing walking. That is our position.

BILL HAYTON: I mean...you accept that war crimes were committed in
Kosovo...

JARED ISRAEL: Yeah, by NATO and the KLA on a grand scale

BILL HAYTON: But you're confident there were no war crimes committed at
all
by any Yugoslav security forces in Kosovo?

JARED ISRAEL: I'm not, nobody in the world could ever make a statement
like
that about any security force in any war.
And as a matter of fact one of the points that Milosevic and Rade
Markovic,
who was the leader of that force and who is the prosecution witness,
made is
that several hundred people in the army and I assume in the security
forces
were prosecuted by the Yugoslav government for committing atrocities.
Now. Does the fact that they prosecuted members of the security forces
and
the army for committing atrocities mean that there were no atrocities?
No, it
means there were. But, since that happens in every war, the crucial
question
is whether an army prosecutes those people who do such things. And I
would
hold that against the record of Britain in the Falklands [Islands]; I
would
hold it against the record of Britain and the US in Afghanistan. Who's
being
prosecuted for atrocities in Afghanistan? What pilots in the US, Britain
or
Germany were prosecuted for bombing civilians during the attack on
Yugoslavia? Why haven't Blair and Clinton been prosecuted for launching
an
aggressive war? But Yugoslav soldiers and members of the security
forces,
according to Rade Markovic, were prosecuted.
So, yes, of course, atrocities occur, but that is the opposite of an
official
policy of having them, isn't it? When you prosecute the people who do
it, you
discourage it.

BILL HAYTON: The prosecution is now trying to prove that the orders to
commit
those atrocities, such as they were, came from the top

JARED ISRAEL: But that would be remarkable, wouldn't it? To order people
to
commit atrocities and then prosecute several hundred people who did? As
far
as I know, one person was prosecuted in the Vietnam War for committing
atrocities. Two and a half million people were killed, atrociously.

BILL HAYTON: Ok, but...

JARED ISRAEL: Now in the case of Kosovo, when the US attacked the
country,
the only people who have been prosecuted for committing atrocities, were
prosecuted by Yugoslavia. Where has the US prosecuted anyone?

BILL HAYTON: Ok. So, do you think the prosecution has or has so far -
looking
at the trial - proved a link between Milosevic and the action of the
troops
on the ground ...

JARED ISRAEL: First of all, the actions of the troops on the ground,
from
everything that has come out in the testimony, have been remarkable and
a
model of how you combat terrorism without flattening the country as the
US
has been doing in Afghanistan - and mark you *not* it's own country -
whereas
this Kosovo *is* part of Serbia - that's point one. So, secondly, of
course
he's connected with the [action of the troops on the ground] - he was
the
head of the country - that doesn't mean that he oversaw every action.
But
[in] setting general policy, the president of the country is the
commander
and chief; in Yugoslavia, [he] is the commander and chief of the armed
forces.
Milosevic has not denied in fact he's affirmed that he had a large role
in
setting policy, he and the people who are also in the government with
him.
And one of the policies he set was to prosecute people who committed
atrocities.
Now, we have a book on the website I edit which is emperor's clothes at
www.tenc.net; we have a book written by two Yugoslav army generals,
including
Yugoslav army orders which are very strict in calling for the immediate
arrest of any soldier who violates the strict - the "treasuring" - and
they
use the word, "sacred" - of prisoners and the treasuring of civilians.
That's
the opposite of an official policy of persecuting and atrocities. So, in
answer to your question, yes there is a connection between Milosevic and
the
policies of his government, which includes the army.

---NOTE: The book, "The Other Side of the Story," can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/book/book1.htm

As for the specific command structure, no, he was not involved in
day-to- day
specific decisions about specific people; that's absurd.
So, I'm saying, number 1, what they're saying happened, didn't happen.
There
was not an official policy of atrocities. There was an official policy
of
opposing them. He was responsible, in part, for that policy. Therefore
he's a
hero. That's what they've shown so far. Their witness, their prosecution
witness, whom they tortured to get him to say Milosevic was guilty, came
in
and said this. And said he was tortured.
And Judge May said that's irrelevant.
You know what Gandhi said about Western Civilization? He said it would
be a
good idea.

BILL HAYTON: Ok. Thank you very much.

JARED ISRAEL: Thank you.

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> http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GOW208A.html

Centre for Research on Globalisation - www.globalresearch.ca

Prosecution's witness refutes charges against Milosevic,
says he was tortured

by Stephen Gowans
Media Monitors , 30 July 2002.
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), globalresearch.ca ,
10 August 2002

Picture this. A man is on trial, accused of horrible crimes.
The prosecution calls a former subordinate of the accused to give
testimony.
The witness is hailed as a key prosecution asset, a member of the
accused's inner circle, who will help nail the lid shut on the
prosecution's case.
The witness takes the stand and the prosecutor begins his
examination.
Reporters prepare to take down the damning testimony, secure in
the knowledge the accused -- who they've already convicted --
will soon be brought to justice.
Then a bombshell. Rather than corroborating the prosecution's
case, the witness refutes it. No, the accused did not commit the crimes
he's charged with, the key witness testifies.
And then another bombshell: The witness says he was tortured to
provide false testimony.
Astonishingly, the judge rules the witness's revelations about
torture irrelevant.
The next day, reporters write nothing about the witness's torture
claim. And the reporter from the newspaper of record says nothing of
the witness exploding the prosecution's case, writing instead that
"the prosecutors and observers (were) anxious to see (the
accused) brought to justice."
A 1930's era show trial, complete with suborned witnesses,
torture, contrived charges, and press propaganda?
No. But it is a show trial. And it does feature suborned
witnesses, contrived charges, and press propaganda. And torture.
But it's taking place right now, at The Hague. And the accused is
former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.
This is explosive, court room drama. And you've probably heard
nothing of it.
Last week, Rade Markovic, former head of the Department of State
Security of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior, was called to
testify as "a key prosecution witness." [1]
Milosevic has been accused of:
ordering the Serb police and Yugoslav army to commit war crimes;
ordering the expulsion of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo;
hiding evidence of mass executions of ethnic Albanians.
In short, Milosevic is accused of ethnic cleansing, and Markovic
was to confirm the charges.
Instead "Markovic...told the trial of former Yugoslav president
Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague that no policy of ethnic cleansing
existed during the 1999 conflict." [2]
On the contrary, testified Markovic, "I told (local officials )
that presidential orders are that the flow of refugees must be stopped"
[3] adding that "the Yugoslav army and Serbian police had strict
orders to protect Albanian civilians during NATO bombing" [4] - hardly
what you'd expect from an ethnic cleanser.
"I never got any order, nor did I hear about any order or plan to
expel Albanians," Markovic told the tribunal. [5]
If this were Milosevic's witness, you might expect him to say
something like this. But this was the prosecution's witness!
"Markovic said he had no knowledge of bodies transferred from
Kosovo, a reference to mass graves near Belgrade discovered by Serb
police in 2001, after Milosevic's ouster." [6]
"He also denied...that his former boss (Mr. Milosevic) had ordered
Serb forces to hide evidence of mass executions of Albanians." [7]
While crimes were committed by Serb police and the army, a charge
Milosevic has never denied, Markovic testified that "Milosevic
himself said several times that 'every crime must be immediately
punished.?" [8]
"More than 200 criminal charges were filed against members of the
police, and I think a similar figure stands for the army," [9]
Markovic told the tribunal.
Under cross-examination, the prosecution's key witness "confirmed
the suggestion that (ethnic Albanian refugees) had fled NATO
bombing and the risk of being drafted by Kosovo Albanian rebels."
[10]
That's detrimental enough to the case, but what followed is even
more damming:
"Markovic testified that he was tortured in (a Belgrade) jail to
force him to agree to give false testimony against Slobodan Milsoevic."
[11]
Judge Richard May interrupted the cross-examination of Markovic,
to argue that Markovic's allegations of torture were "irrelevant." [12]
The torture bombshell was ignored by the media. [13]
Why?
One of the big problems of the tribunal is that it's controlled by
NATO, [14] the very same organization that bombed Yugoslavia, and
engineered Milosevic's ouster. The very same organization that,
according to Markovic's testimony, is responsible for the
displacement of 800,00 ethnic Albanians.
The United States, which effectively controls the tribunal,
recently rejected the International Criminal Court on grounds it could
be subverted for political ends.
Who would know better than Washington?

Notes:
[1] Milosevic witness: No Serb threats, CNN.com, 26 July, 2002
[2] Ibid.
[3] AP, 26 July, 2002
[4] Milosevic witness: No Serb threats, CNN.com, 26 July, 2002
[5] Ibid.
[6] Milosevic Master Spy Says No Expulsion from Kosovo, Yahoo!
News, 28 July, 2002
[7] Milosevic witness: No Serb threats, CNN.com, 26 July, 2002
[8] Ibid., Milosevic Master Spy Says No Expulsion from Kosovo,
Yahoo! News, 28 July, 2002
[9] AP, 26 July, 2002
[10] Milosevic witness: No Serb threats, CNN.com, 26 July, 2002
[11] Jared Israel & Nico Varkevisser, Milosevic trial blows up in
Hague prosecutor's face, 27 July, 2002
http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/rade.htm
[12] Ibid.
[13] Ibid.
[14] "Official Statements Prove Hague 'Tribunal' Belongs to NATO"
at http://www.icdsm.org/more/belongs.htm , cited in Jared Israel
& Nico Varkevisser, Milosevic trial blows up in Hague prosecutor's
face, 27 July, 2002 http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/rade.htm



Steve Gowans is a writer and political activist who lives in
Ottawa, Canada. Copyright © Stephan Gowans, Media Monitors 2002. For
fair use only



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If This Man is a War Criminal Where is All the Evidence?

As the prosecution's star witness gives testimony, how Milosevic is
making fools of Blair and the West

by John Laughland
The Mail on Sunday
8/27/02

In the great film with Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton, the
"Witness for the Prosecution" appears in court and gives exactly the
opposite testimony from what was expected. You would not know it from
our media - which passed over the event in silence - but the same
thing happened at The Hague recently, in the most important war crimes
trial since Nuremberg, that of the former Yugoslav president, Slobodan
Milosevic. One of the prosecution's star witnesses said precisely the
opposite of what he was supposed to say, dealing what seemed like a
fatal blow to a prosecution case which was already reeling from
several previous blunders.

The star witness in question was Rade Markovic, the former head of the
Yugoslav secret services. Before he appeared in the witness box, the
media universally hailed him as the insider who would finally give the
clinching testimony that Milosevic had personally ordered the
persecution of the ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo. This is the
single issue which NATO uses to justify its otherwise illegal attacks
on Yugoslavia: without it, the moral justification for NATO's war in
1999 completely disappears.

The urge to hear Markovic's testimony was all the greater because the
prosecution's last "star witness" had been a severe embarrassment.
Ratomir Tanic had presented himself as another "insider", and had
claimed that he had actually been present when Milosevic gave the
genocidal order. Under cross-examination, however, Tanic was shown to
be an agent of the secret services of various Western countries, and
to be so unfamiliar with the corridors of power that he could not even
say what floor in the presidential palace Milosevic's office had been
on.

The embarrassment over Tanic was equalled only by that caused when an
Albanian witness produced a list of names, which he alleged was of
Albanians whom the Serb police were to execute. On closer examination,
the list turned out to be a fake: the spelling mistakes were so
numerous that only an Albanian could have written them.

Enter, therefore, Radomir Markovic, the secret police chief who knew
more about what was going on in Yugoslavia than anyone else. But, in
painstakingly detailed testimony lasting nearly three hours, he told
the court that Milosevic had never ordered the expulsion of the
Albanian population of Kosovo; that the former president had
repeatedly issued instructions to the police and the army to respect
the laws of war, and to protect the civilian population, even if it
meant compromising the battle against Albanian terrorists; and that
the mass exodus of Albanians during the Nato bombing was caused not by
Serb forces but instead by the Kosovo Liberation Army itself, which
needed a constant flow of refugees to maintain the support of Western
public opinion for the Nato campaign.

"Did you ever get any kind of report," Milosevic asked him,"or have
you ever heard of an order, to expel Albanians from Kosovo?" "No, I
never heard of such an order. Nobody ever ordered for Albanians from
Kosovo to be expelled," Markovic replied. "Did you receive any
information about any plan, suggestion or de facto influence that
Albanians were to be expelled?" asked Milosevic. Reply: "No, I never
heard of such a suggestion to expel Albanians from Kosovo." "At the
meetings you attended, is it true that completely the opposite is
said, namely that we always insisted that civilians be protected, and
that they not be hurt in the process of anti-terrorist operations?"
"Certainly," said the witness. "The task was not only to protect Serbs
but also Albanian civilians." "Is it not true that we tried to
persuade the flow of refugees to stay at home, and that the army and
police would protect them?" the former president asked. "Yes, that was
the instruction and those were the assignments." "Do you know that the
Kosovo Liberation Army told people to leave, and to stage an exodus?"
"Yes," said Markovic. "I am aware of that."

The media greeted this stunning evidence with complete silence.
Indeed, it even failed to report the most extraordinary assertion of
all made by Markovic, namely that he had effectively been tortured by
the new pro-Western authorities in Belgrade, in order to make him
testify against Milosevic. Markovic claimed that the new Minister of
the Interior in the Western-backed government in Belgrade had taken
him out to dinner and offered him release from prison - where he has
been incarcerated for over a year now - and a new identity in a
country of his choice, if only he would agree to testify against his
former boss at The Hague. As Slobodan Milosevic tried to point out in
his cross-examination - until he was interrupted by the judge, that is
- it clearly falls under the terms of the United Nations' definition
of "torture" to imprison someone in order to force them to co-operate.
Markovic also alleged that the Tribunal's own prosecutors had
falsified and embellished the written statement he had given them.

These were amazing allegations. With them, the whole prosecution case
seemed to crumble. But even more stunning was the reaction of the
British presiding judge, Sir Richard May. A judge is supposed to be a
neutral arbiter between the prosecution and the defence: May, by
contrast, has distinguished himself throughout the trial by his
belligerence towards Milosevic, who is conducting his own defence, and
in particular for his habit of interrupting Milosevic, even sometimes
switching off his microphone, whenever the former Yugoslav leader's
cross-examination shows up inconsistencies in a witness' evidence.

As May listened to Markovic, he tried desperately to stop him making
these allegations against the Prosecutors and their allies in
Belgrade. When Markovic began to describe his ordeal at the hands of
the new Yugoslav government, May silenced him, saying to Milosevic,
"This does not appear to have relevance to the evidence which the
witness has given here. We are not going to litigate here with what
happened to him (i.e. Markovic) in Yugoslavia when he was arrested."
And when Milosevic insisted that the Tribunal's own investigators had
falsified Markovic's written evidence, May interrupted him tartly by
saying, "That is not a comment which it is proper for you to make." In
Judge May's book, therefore, it is irrelevant if the prosecution is
lying, or if it is an accomplice to torture.

Judge Richard May is no stranger to political activity, like the
prosecutor, Geoffrey Nice, he is a committed Socialist: he stood as a
Labour Party candidate for Finchley in the general election in 1979,
where his Conservative opponent was none other than Margaret Thatcher.
As a judge on the Midlands Circuit in the 1980s, he would dine out on
this story, for which he enjoyed the admiration of his left-wing
colleagues. But even this happy admission of political bias could not
have prepared anyone for the way he would react to Markovic's shocking
claims.

It gets worse. The Tribunal's priorities now seem so distorted that
they see Milosevic's "political crime" of resisting NATO as worse than
the crimes of physically torturing people to death. On 31st July, the
Tribunal ordered the release from custody of a man called Milojica
Kos. Kos had served four years of a six-year sentence for murder,
torture and persecution as a guard at the notorious Omarska camp in
Bosnia, which was compared at the time to a Nazi concentration camp.
But the president of the Tribunal, Claude Jorda, said that Kos would
be released early because of "his wish to reintegrate himself into
society, his determination not to re-offend, his irreproachable
conduct in detention, his attachment to his family, and the
possibility of exercising a profession again." No such tolerance will
be shown to Milosevic.

These events have provided spectacular proof of what critics have
always said - that the International Criminal Tribunal is a political
kangaroo court in the hands of the West. But political manipulation
can work both ways. Tony Blair has been a vigorous supporter of a
clone of the Yugoslav tribunal, the new International Criminal Court.
But why shouldn't the new court be as politicised as the present one?
Plenty of anti-Western countries, like Iran, Sudan and Zimbabwe, have
signed the new ICC treaty. If they decided to prosecute Tony Blair for
attacking Iraq, say, there is little to stop them - especially since
the ICC defines "aggression" as a war crime. On his next trip abroad,
therefore, Mr. Blair might be wise to pack his toothbrush.

http://www.antiwar.com/rep/laughland14.html


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ARTEL GEOPOLITIKA by www.artel.co.yu
office@...
Date:07 Aout 2002

ZORAN LILIC SHOULD NOT GIVE EVIDENCE AS A WITNESS

Dr. Milan Tepavac
miltep@...
Belgrade, 02 August 2002

Since he appeared a few days ego in the witness box of
the so-called International Criminal Tribunal for
former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague and did not claim
immunity, it seems that it never crossed the mind
neither of Mr. Zoran Lilic nor his attorney, neither
Yugoslav federal government nor anybody else that he,
under international law, is not obliged to give
evidence, to testify, in court, because he, as a former
head of state of Yugoslavia, enjoys absolute immunity
with respect to all acts performed in the exercise of
his functions as a head of state. Under the subpoena of
the ICTY he was, as a matter of fact, forcefully taken
on the territory of Yugoslavia to The Hague by ICTY's
officials to give evidence in the "trial" of Slobodan
Milosevic there, and, thus, his inviolability was also
violated by both the Yugoslav authorities (for not
protecting him) and ICTY's officials. Also, ICTY's
judge, the Korean O-Gon Kvon, who signed the subpoena,
had no right to do it; the learned judge thus committed
crime against international law.

Without precedence
It is a "sacred" rule (ius cogens) of international
law, as old as international law itself, that former
heads of state enjoy absolute immunity and
inviolability with regard to their functions in the
capacity of being heads of state. Slobodan Milosevic is
also a former head of state (Yugoslavia) and, thus,
under immunity and inviolability with regard to his
acts in that capacity. But, as it is known, that there
is a provision in the Statute of the illegal ICTY (thus
the Statute also being illegal) (Article 7) which says:
"The official position of any accused person, whether
as Head of State or Government or as responsible
Government official, shall not relieve such person of
criminal responsibility nor mitigate punishment". Now,
even if we take this provision as a true reflection of
the rule of contemporary international law (which in my
opinion it is not), still there is nowhere similar rule
concerning testimony of former heads of state. So, the
appearance of a former head of state of Yugoslavia
before a criminal court, although illegal, is, as far
as I am aware, without precedence in international law
and international relations.

Vienna accords
When I categorically maintain that former heads of
state enjoy absolute immunity and inviolability with
regard to their acts in official capacity I have in
mind customary rules of international law and, as far
as I know, hitherto unchallenged if we do not regard
the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials as serious precedents.
Thre are also two recent decisions - one French and one
Belgian - which affirm this anciant rule. Now, we see,
illegal so-called ICTY, under the authority of the
Security Council of the UN, "creates" "new law". But,
having in mind that Vienna Convention on Diplomatic
Relations and Vienna Convention on Consular Relations -
which are universally accepted and ratified by almost
all states in the world! - recognize immunity, during
the function and after, not only to diplomats but also
to members of administrative and technical staff - then
the decision of the Security Council to strip the
former heads of state of their immunity, which is older
then international law itself (it was recognized in
ancient Greece and Rome; even in primitive tribal
societies!) - is silly and utterly irresponsible. It
introduced the chaos in international relations! The
great humanitarians already started to chase Henry
Kissinger...
If the fifteen bureaucrats sitting in the so-called
Security Council fancy that they can do whatever they
wish, including to make international law upside down,
then the "accused" before the ICTY Mr. Slobodan
Milosevic has every right to call as witnesses all the
heads of state, former and present, with whom he was
dealing during the bloody dismemberment of the Yugoslav
federation which was planned, instigated, ordered,
financed and committed by them in close cooperation
with the domestic secessionists and criminals. The ICTY
must, on the request of Mr. Milosevic, issue subpoenas
to all those criminals to be not only witnesses but the
accused too in front of their creation - the ICTY.