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APPEAL TO PEOPLE THE WORLD OVER:
DEMAND THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL STOP THE
DANGEROUS FARCE AT THE HAGUE!
[Posted 26 February 2002]
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At the start of today's (Feb. 26) session
of his so-called trial at The
Hague, President Slobodan Milosevic said:

"There is no kind of equality when one
side has only a telephone and the
other has organization, institutions,
secret services, governments, and the
mass media. And even my telephone was
mysteriously not working yesterday
afternoon. That is why I again repeat the
demand for you to release me so
that I may have some semblance of
equality in this process and... "

Before President Milosevic could finish,
Judge May turned off his microphone.

The 'tribunal' has made clear that its
strategy for answering President
Milosevic's unanswerable charges against
NATO is to silence him, physically
exhausting him with abusive conditions
and an endless stream of obviously
lying witnesses.

We urge all who care about justice to
protest these attacks. Show Slobodan
Milosevic and NATO's 'tribunal' that he
is not alone.

Recently, a Radio Netherlands journalist
wrote:

"The performance Slobodan Milosevic is
putting up at his trial for war crimes
and genocide in The Hague - alone,
without a lawyer to defend him - has
earned him admiration and respect - not
just among his supporters, but in the
Belgrade newspapers and the Serb public
as a whole. As one newspaper put it:
'Milosevic -1, The Hague - 0.'" (Radio
Netherlands, February 22, 2002,
http://www.rnw.nl/hotspots/html/icty020222.html
)

It is not only the brilliance of Slobodan
Milosevic's presentation and
cross-examination that took the world by
storm. It is the content. He has
forced people previously fooled by NATO's
cartoon-babble about 'humanitarian
bombing' and 'collateral damage,' to face
reality. NATO still sponsors the
KLA and other terrorists. It destroyed
multiethnic life in Kosovo. It
deliberately murdered thousands in an
effort to terrorize Yugoslavia into
surrender.

President Milosevic's style, intelligence
and political message simply do not
fit the fabricated media image of
'another new Hitler.'

"To the outside world, used to Slobodan
Milosevic being referred to as the
'Butcher of the Balkans', his courtroom
performance has come as a surprise.
Is this man they've seen depicted in
political cartoons in their
newspapersâ?¦?" (Radio Netherlands)

Those of us who labor to counter media
lies about Yugoslavia asked ourselves:
has NATO made a disastrous error? Have
they, inadvertently and at long last
given truth a platform? How can NATO
possibly answer Slobodan Milosevic?

After two weeks, we know their strategy.
They are trying to silence him.

First, the foreign policy establishments
of the NATO countries are using
their stranglehold on the media to
guarantee one-sided coverage of the
'trial.' Thus, a newspaper will report
the claims of a 'witness' but not
report the details of President
Milosevic's devastating
cross-examination.

And second, the 'tribunal' is doing
everything it can to physically exhaust
Slobodan Milosevic and eventually, they
hope, lower his morale.

Example - the Dutch government, obviously
on orders from the 'tribunal', has
refused to give a visa to Mira Markovic,
President Milosevic's wife.

Example - He is awakened every day at 7am
even though the 'trial' doesn't
start until 9:30 and his cell is only a
few minutes from the 'tribunal.'

Example - Last Thursday, he was kept
waiting 2 and a half hours after the
proceedings ended because the 'tribunal'
claimed it couldn't find a vehicle
to take him back to the World War II Nazi
prison where he is incarcerated.

Example - He is not permitted to exercise
or even to walk outside when the
'tribunal' is in session.

And perhaps worst of all, the 'tribunal'
is using every trick to drag out the
nightmarish process.

Most 'tribunal' proceedings last a few
days or weeks. This one is projected
to go two years, or longer, with
President Milosevic forced to listen to
an
endless stream of ridiculous, obviously
false witnesses.

For example, on Monday, February 25,
President Milosevic cross-examined Halil
Morina. Morina claimed Yugoslav soldiers
wantonly attacked his village of
Landovice on March 26, 1999.

President Milosevic challenged him:
''Wasn't what happened in Landovice in
fact a firefight between Yugoslav forces
and Kosovo Liberation Army
terrorists?"

Morina claimed there were no KLA members
in his village.

Milosevic asked: ''Wasn't a monument to
Ramiz Sadiku and Boro Vukmirovic
destroyed in Landovice?'' (These slain
partisans, an ethnic Albanian and an
ethnic Montenegrin, symbolized
brotherhood in Yugoslavia.)

"Yes," said Morina.

"And what replaced it?" asked President
Milosevic.

"Why, a monument to our fallen KLA
soldiers," said Morina.

This prompted the following quite
reasonable response:

"I question that he does not know
anything about these [KLA] activities,"
President Milosevic said. "I must say you
[the "prosecutor"] are bringing in
witnesses of this kind to ill-treat me.
These are false witnesses."

Earlier, Morina testified that Yugoslav
soldiers arrived in Landovice in a
particular army vehicle. Though this
assertion had no bearing on anything or
anyone, least of all President Milosevic,
the prosecution produced pictures
of different army vehicles and everyone
had to wait while the 'witness'
studied them, finally picking the one
that looked like the vehicle in which
the troops had traveled.

This combination of physical abuse,
isolation from family, friends and
advisors - even President Milosevic's
lawyers in the Dutch courts are not
permitted to see him - and a stream of
ridiculous 'witnesses' is the real
content of the prosecution case against
President Milosevic.

We urge all individuals, groups, mass
media and members of parliament who
care about justice to protest this abuse
in any way possible including with
letters and petitions to the United
Nations Security Council. Demand:

1) End this farce of a trial. It is
already obvious the 'prosecution' has no
case.

2) Until The Hague farce is ended,
Slobodan Milosevic must be freed from the
abusive Hague jail. He must be allowed to
live in a house in The Netherlands
with his family, thus preserving his
physical well being and allowing him to
conduct his defense and counter attack in
full contact with advisers and
research facilities

This kind of action and public pressure
must go on continuously in different
forms until we FREE SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC.

Milosevic must not be silenced.

-- International Committee to Defend
Slobodan Milosevic

Security Council Members

* Mexico [President of Council in
February]

Permanent Representative of Mexico to the
United Nations
Two United Nations Plaza, 28th Floor, New
York, N.Y. 10017
Telephone: (212) 752-0220, Telefax: (212)
688-8862

* Norway [President of Council in March]
Permanent Representative of Norway to the
United Nations
825 Third Avenue, 39th Floor, New York,
N.Y. 10022
Telephone: (212) 421-0280/ 0281/ 0282/
0283/0284, Telefax: (212) 688-0554
* Russian Federation [President of
Council in April]
Permanent Representative of the Russian
Federation to the United Nations
136 East 67th Street, New York, N.Y.
10021
Telephone: (212) 861-4900/4901/4902,
Telefax: (212) 628-0252
Bulgaria
Permanent Representative of the Republic
of Bulgaria to the United Nations
11 East 84th Street, New York, N.Y. 10028
Telephone: (212) 737-4790/4791 or
327-4180/4181, Telefax: (212) 472-9865
Cameroon
Permanent Representative of the Republic
of Cameroon to the United Nations
22 East 73rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10021
Telephone: (212)
794-2295/2296/2297/2298/2299, Telefax:
(212) 249-0533

China
Permanent Representative of the People's
Republic of China to the United
Nations
350 East 35th Street, New York, N.Y.
10016
Telephone: (212) 655-6100, Telefax: (212)
634-7626
Colombia
Permanent Representative of Colombia to
the United Nations
140 East 57th Street, 5th Floor, New
York, N.Y. 10022
Telephone: (212) 355-7776, Telefax: (212)
371-2813

France
Permanent Representative of France to the
United Nations
One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 245 East
47th Street, 44th Floor
New York, N.Y. 10017, Telephone: (212)
308-5700
Telefax: (212) 421-6889

Guinea
Permanent Representative of the Republic
of Guinea to the United Nations
140 East 39th Street, New York, N.Y.
10016
Telephone: (212) 687-8115/8116/8117,
Telefax: (212) 687-8248

Ireland
Permanent Representative of Ireland to
the United Nations
One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 885 Second
Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, N.Y.
10017
Telephone: (212) 421-6934, Telefax: (212)
752-4726
Mauritius
Permanent Representative of the Republic
of Mauritius to the United Nations
211 East 43rd St., 15th Floor, New York,
N.Y. 10017
Telephone: (212) 949-0190/0191, Telefax:
(212) 697-3829
Singapore
Permanent Representative of the Republic
of Singapore to the United Nations
231 East 51st Street, New York, N.Y.
10022
Telephone: (212)
826-0840/0841/0842/0843/0844, Telefax:
(212) 826-2964
Syrian Arab Republic
Permanent Representative of the Syrian
Arab Republic to the United Nations
820 Second Avenue, 15th Floor, New York,
N.Y. 10017
Telephone: (212) 661-1313, Telefax: (212)
983-4439
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland
Permanent Representative of the United
Kingdom to the United Nations
One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 885 Second
Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017
Telephone: (212) 745-9200, Telefax: (212)
745-9316
United States of America
Permanent Representative of the United
States to the United Nations
799 United Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y.
10017-3505
Telephone: (212) 415-4000, Telefax: (212)
415-4443
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FURTHER READING
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1) 'By Adding Three Lies, One Does Not
Get the Truth â?? Only a Bigger Lie ' -
President Slobodan Miloševic in The
Hague, January 30th 2002 (transcript)

2) 'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans
and Trying to Force Milosevic to
Surrender?'
By Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser

3) 'Illegal Tribunal - Illegal
Indictment,' by Dr. Hans Koechler at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/prog2.htm

4) How Madeline Albright Ordered The
Hague 'Tribunal' To 'Indict' Milosevic
at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/lovie.htm

5) Official Statements Prove Hague
'Tribunal' Belongs to NATO
by Jared Israel at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/belongs.htm


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Dear friends,
Please support concretely the following ICDSM appeal. The situation is
dramatic. Behind the UN insignia NATO criminals are attempting another
crime: to silence the voice of freedom, dignity and consciousness. Let
us not allow them to avoid their final defeat from president Milosevic.
At the moment, 77% of Yugoslav citizens support president Milosevic.
That amount of support is far above any other individual, party or
institution.
The puppets in Belgrade are in panic!

Vladimir Krsljanin
International Secretary of the
Socialist Party of Serbia

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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FREE PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC NOW!
HANDS OFF YUGOSLAVIA!

URL for petition is
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To add your name(s) to this petition, please click
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500,000 Sign Petition In Ukraine!!


FREE PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC NOW!
HANDS OFF YUGOSLAVIA!

Since this petition was written President Milosevic has been
kidnapped in violation of the
Yugoslav constitution and international law by authorities in
Belgrade. He was delivered by the
RAF to NATO'S Tribunal in The Hague. The signers of this petition
most strongly demand that
President Milosevic be immediately released from illegal detention
and be returned a free man to his country and his family.

We the undersigned demand that the Serbian authorities immediately
release Slobodan Milosevic and all other Serbian patriots from jail.

The arrest of Mr. Milosevic is an attempt by NATO leaders to blame the
Serbian people for crimes against Yugoslavia committed by NATO.

We demand that Mr. Milosevic immediately be given proper medical
treatment, in the hospital of his choice, with
doctors of his choice, for a heart condition that appeared only after he
was jailed.

We demand that neither Slobodan Milosevic, nor any other Yugoslav, be
sent to the Hague Tribunal.

We demand an end to the arbitrary kidnapping, arrest, harassment and
persecution of Yugoslav leaders and soldiers
and ordinary people whose crime was to set an example to the world by
resisting NATO aggression.

Free Slobodan Milosevic at once!

End persecution of Mr. Milosevic and all Yugoslav patriots and soldiers
at once!

Jail the real war criminals: the NATO leaders who committed crimes
against humanity and against Yugoslav
sovereignty and who continue to commit those crimes today.

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Defend Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) at icdsm@... To sign
petition, please click here or go to
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