From: Vladimir Krsljanin
1. President Milosevic ill, Hague silent
2. Zjuganov and Plotnikov protest
3. Medical mistreatment!
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ACT IMMEDIATELLY:
PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC ILL, HAGUE SILENT!
Last information from The Hague says that the health condition of
President Milosevic is so much worsened that he was forced to cancel
this weekend's family visit, unable to move from his cell to the room
for visits.
The trial has been interrupted for the seventh time due to his illness.
Three specialists from the most renown Yugoslav medical institution –
Military Medical Academy (VMA), Dr Vucinic, Dr Lepic and Dr Brdareski,
visited President in January. The Office of ICTY in Belgrade kept
their report for more than a month and never transmitted it to The
Hague. This Office is responsible that nothing has been done on the
basis of serious conclusions and recommendations from the Belgrade
doctors' report.
For ten days already, in spite of numerous fax (see bellow) and phone
interventions from SLOBODA in Belgrade, there is NO answer from The
Hague to the request that Belgrade doctors' team visits President
Milosevic again.
Your reaction is needed in terms of hours. Address ICTY and UNHCHR
(see addresses bellow), your governments, humanitarian organizations.
Appear with public statements.
STOP THE CRIME!
PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC NEEDS URGENT VISIT AND TREATMENT BY BELGRADE
DOCTORS AND RELEASE FROM DETENTION FOR RECOVERY AT HOME!
On behalf of SLOBODA/Freedom Association
Vladimir Krsljanin
Foreign Relations Assistant to President Milosevic
THE ADDRESSES:
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
ICTY
Fax: +3170 512 8637
Phone: +3170 512 8570
e-mail: taylor.icty@...
President: Theodor Meron
Trial Chamber III President: Richard May
Registrar: Hans Holthius
Amicus Curiae: Steven Kay, Branislav Tapuskovic
Churchillplein 1
2517JW The Hague
Netherlands
P.O. BOX 13888
2501 EW The Hague
Netherlands
Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
OHCHR-UNOG
8-14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Tel. +4122 917 9000
Fax +4122 917 9022
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/contact.htm
E-mail: tb-petitions@...
OUR LETTERS :
Mr. Hans Holthuis, Registrar
Cc: Mr Theodor Meron, President
Mr Richard May, Judge
ICTY
The Hague, The Netherlands
Belgrade, March 12th, 2003
U R G E N T
Re: Health of President Milosevic and urgent necessity for a new visit
of VMA Belgrade medical team.
Dear Mr. Holthuis,
Considering the prolonged urgent health situation of President
Milosevic which, according to all medical experts involved, in his
present life and work conditions threatens his life, we have learned
with extreme bitterness that the ICTY Office in Belgrade avoided for a
month to transmit to you the Report of the medical team of the
Military Medical Academy (VMA) in Belgrade, who visited President
Milosevic in January this year. Accordingly, the recommendations of
the team have not been fulfilled.
The health of President Milosevic is still and constantly
deteriorating. It is obvious that there are no results up to now in
stopping this process. This situation has to be changed. Therefore, we
request that a new visit of the same VMA experts' medical team takes
place as soon as possible.
Counting on your urgent consideration of our proposal, we repeat our
contacts: telephone +381 63 8862 301 or fax at +381 11 630 549.
On behalf of Freedom Association
Yours sincerely,
Bogoljub Bjelica, president
Mr. Hans Holthuis, Registrar
Cc: Mr Theodor Meron, President
Mr Richard May, Judge
ICTY
The Hague, The Netherlands
Belgrade, March 18th, 2003
M O S T U R G E N T
Re: Worsening of President Milosevic's health and urgent necessity for
a visit of VMA medical team (our fax of March 12, 2003)
Dear Mr. Holthuis,
The information that we have just received about new deterioration of
the health of President Milosevic makes extremelly urgent your reply
and approval of our March 12 request for a new visit of the medical
experts' team of the Military Medical Academy (VMA) in Belgrade.
Having in mind as well all the appeals from our country and abroad
expressing concern about the life and health of President Milosevic,
we request your reply without further delay.
Our contacts remain: telephone +381 63 8862 301 or fax at +381 11 630 549.
On behalf of Freedom Association
Yours sincerely,
Bogoljub Bjelica, president
Mr Theodor Meron, President
Mr Richard May, Judge
Mr. Hans Holthuis, Registrar
ICTY
The Hague, The Netherlands
Belgrade, March 20th, 2003
M O S T U R G E N T
Re: DRAMATIC WORSENING OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S HEALTH (our faxes of
March 12 and 18, 2003)
Dear sirs,
Our information about the present health condition of President
Milosevic lead us to a conclusion that urgent specialist medical
check-up can not be delayed.
We can not understand your silence about our twice repeated request
for urgent visit of the medical experts' team of the Military Medical
Academy (VMA) in Belgrade.
Where are the commitments and obligations to protect the human rights
and where is the simple human moral?
Our contacts remain: telephone +381 63 8862 301 or fax at +381 11 630 549.
On behalf of Freedom Association
Bogoljub Bjelica, president
---
Translation from Russian
To the International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia
March, 21, 2003
Moscow
Dear Sirs!
We are deeply disturbed by a new sharp deterioration of the state of
health of Mr.Slobodan Milosevic - former President of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia detained by the International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. The sharp increase of
blood pressure (140/220) is fraught with grave consequences
The Russian State Duma repeatedly marked, that the severe conditions
of detention of Mr. Milosevic lead to destruction of his health,
creating danger to his life. However Mr. Milosevic is still deprived
of access to specialized medical aid and of sufficient rest. We are
deeply disturbed that despite persistent appeals of medical experts to
reduce the intensity of the process, the wearisome multihour sessions
proceed.
The ICTY actions violate the UN General Assembly resolution 37\94 of
December 18, 1982 that demands the authorities to render to the
detainees medical aid of the same quality, as to other population
groups. We have an impression that the ICTY quite consciously provokes
deterioration of a condition of health of the political prisoner.
The Russian Communist Party fraction of the State Duma of the Russian
Federation and the Agro-Industrial deputy group representing a third
of members of the Russian parliament, call on the ICTY to undertake
emergency steps, which could prevent the dangerous consequences of
these developments
We believe, that as the first urgent measure a group of the Belgrade
Military-Medical Academy experts who are ready immediately to travel
to The Hague, should have an opportunity to render emergency help to
Mr.Milosevic.
As similar situations repeat with dangerous periodicity, we call on
the ICTY to release Mr.Milosevic so that he can get full-scale
specialized medical treatment in Serbia.
We intend to raise the issue of mistreatement of Mr.Milosevic at the
forthcoming session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
Europe.
Gennady Zyuganov
Head of the CPRF fraction
of the Russian Parliament
Vladimir Plotnikov
Deputy Head of the
Agro-Industrial deputy group
---
URGENT ALLERT FROM SLOBODA
MEDICAL MISTREATMENT OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC
Belgrade, March 24, 2003
On the basis of information that has been reached us today, we state:
Slobodan Milosevic is being given a medication against the high blood
pressure called Labetalol (belonging to the class of beta-blockers)
which is producing in his case dazedness and insomnia.
Until yesterday President Milosevic has not been informed about these
possible side effects of the medication.
Dazedness as a side effect forces him to invest additional efforts and
strength to be able to fulfill his hard schedule. And insomnia as
another side effect caused by the medication is making for him
necessary minimum of rest impossible.
It is becoming obvious that at The Hague we don't even deal any more
with a faked trial, but with the simple torture.
If one takes into account the everyday fiasco of the fake indictment
and of the fake witnesses – the motives for such a mistreatment become
clear.
These are the facts we know, but we can only guess what other means
they use to disable President Milosevic.
At the same time, the Trial Chamber persistently denies to President
Milosevic both opportunity to recover and time to get properly
prepared for the process. And everyone knows that he has no intention
to escape, but a strongest determination to defeat and expose the
crime against Yugoslavia and Serbian people.
SLOBODA/Freedom Association feels obliged to inform the Yugoslav and
international public about this criminal mistreatment.
TO DIRECT YOUR APPEALS IN INCREASED NUMBER, PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING
ADDRESSES:
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
ICTY
Fax: +3170 512 8637
Phone: +3170 512 8570
e-mail: taylor.icty@...
President: Theodor Meron
Trial Chamber III President: Richard May
Registrar: Hans Holthius
Amicus Curiae: Steven Kay, Branislav Tapuskovic
Churchillplein 1
2517JW The Hague
Netherlands
P.O. BOX 13888
2501 EW The Hague
Netherlands
Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
OHCHR-UNOG
8-14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Tel. +4122 917 9000
Fax +4122 917 9022
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/contact.htm
E-mail: tb-petitions@...
1. President Milosevic ill, Hague silent
2. Zjuganov and Plotnikov protest
3. Medical mistreatment!
---
ACT IMMEDIATELLY:
PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC ILL, HAGUE SILENT!
Last information from The Hague says that the health condition of
President Milosevic is so much worsened that he was forced to cancel
this weekend's family visit, unable to move from his cell to the room
for visits.
The trial has been interrupted for the seventh time due to his illness.
Three specialists from the most renown Yugoslav medical institution –
Military Medical Academy (VMA), Dr Vucinic, Dr Lepic and Dr Brdareski,
visited President in January. The Office of ICTY in Belgrade kept
their report for more than a month and never transmitted it to The
Hague. This Office is responsible that nothing has been done on the
basis of serious conclusions and recommendations from the Belgrade
doctors' report.
For ten days already, in spite of numerous fax (see bellow) and phone
interventions from SLOBODA in Belgrade, there is NO answer from The
Hague to the request that Belgrade doctors' team visits President
Milosevic again.
Your reaction is needed in terms of hours. Address ICTY and UNHCHR
(see addresses bellow), your governments, humanitarian organizations.
Appear with public statements.
STOP THE CRIME!
PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC NEEDS URGENT VISIT AND TREATMENT BY BELGRADE
DOCTORS AND RELEASE FROM DETENTION FOR RECOVERY AT HOME!
On behalf of SLOBODA/Freedom Association
Vladimir Krsljanin
Foreign Relations Assistant to President Milosevic
THE ADDRESSES:
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
ICTY
Fax: +3170 512 8637
Phone: +3170 512 8570
e-mail: taylor.icty@...
President: Theodor Meron
Trial Chamber III President: Richard May
Registrar: Hans Holthius
Amicus Curiae: Steven Kay, Branislav Tapuskovic
Churchillplein 1
2517JW The Hague
Netherlands
P.O. BOX 13888
2501 EW The Hague
Netherlands
Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
OHCHR-UNOG
8-14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Tel. +4122 917 9000
Fax +4122 917 9022
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/contact.htm
E-mail: tb-petitions@...
OUR LETTERS :
Mr. Hans Holthuis, Registrar
Cc: Mr Theodor Meron, President
Mr Richard May, Judge
ICTY
The Hague, The Netherlands
Belgrade, March 12th, 2003
U R G E N T
Re: Health of President Milosevic and urgent necessity for a new visit
of VMA Belgrade medical team.
Dear Mr. Holthuis,
Considering the prolonged urgent health situation of President
Milosevic which, according to all medical experts involved, in his
present life and work conditions threatens his life, we have learned
with extreme bitterness that the ICTY Office in Belgrade avoided for a
month to transmit to you the Report of the medical team of the
Military Medical Academy (VMA) in Belgrade, who visited President
Milosevic in January this year. Accordingly, the recommendations of
the team have not been fulfilled.
The health of President Milosevic is still and constantly
deteriorating. It is obvious that there are no results up to now in
stopping this process. This situation has to be changed. Therefore, we
request that a new visit of the same VMA experts' medical team takes
place as soon as possible.
Counting on your urgent consideration of our proposal, we repeat our
contacts: telephone +381 63 8862 301 or fax at +381 11 630 549.
On behalf of Freedom Association
Yours sincerely,
Bogoljub Bjelica, president
Mr. Hans Holthuis, Registrar
Cc: Mr Theodor Meron, President
Mr Richard May, Judge
ICTY
The Hague, The Netherlands
Belgrade, March 18th, 2003
M O S T U R G E N T
Re: Worsening of President Milosevic's health and urgent necessity for
a visit of VMA medical team (our fax of March 12, 2003)
Dear Mr. Holthuis,
The information that we have just received about new deterioration of
the health of President Milosevic makes extremelly urgent your reply
and approval of our March 12 request for a new visit of the medical
experts' team of the Military Medical Academy (VMA) in Belgrade.
Having in mind as well all the appeals from our country and abroad
expressing concern about the life and health of President Milosevic,
we request your reply without further delay.
Our contacts remain: telephone +381 63 8862 301 or fax at +381 11 630 549.
On behalf of Freedom Association
Yours sincerely,
Bogoljub Bjelica, president
Mr Theodor Meron, President
Mr Richard May, Judge
Mr. Hans Holthuis, Registrar
ICTY
The Hague, The Netherlands
Belgrade, March 20th, 2003
M O S T U R G E N T
Re: DRAMATIC WORSENING OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S HEALTH (our faxes of
March 12 and 18, 2003)
Dear sirs,
Our information about the present health condition of President
Milosevic lead us to a conclusion that urgent specialist medical
check-up can not be delayed.
We can not understand your silence about our twice repeated request
for urgent visit of the medical experts' team of the Military Medical
Academy (VMA) in Belgrade.
Where are the commitments and obligations to protect the human rights
and where is the simple human moral?
Our contacts remain: telephone +381 63 8862 301 or fax at +381 11 630 549.
On behalf of Freedom Association
Bogoljub Bjelica, president
---
Translation from Russian
To the International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia
March, 21, 2003
Moscow
Dear Sirs!
We are deeply disturbed by a new sharp deterioration of the state of
health of Mr.Slobodan Milosevic - former President of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia detained by the International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. The sharp increase of
blood pressure (140/220) is fraught with grave consequences
The Russian State Duma repeatedly marked, that the severe conditions
of detention of Mr. Milosevic lead to destruction of his health,
creating danger to his life. However Mr. Milosevic is still deprived
of access to specialized medical aid and of sufficient rest. We are
deeply disturbed that despite persistent appeals of medical experts to
reduce the intensity of the process, the wearisome multihour sessions
proceed.
The ICTY actions violate the UN General Assembly resolution 37\94 of
December 18, 1982 that demands the authorities to render to the
detainees medical aid of the same quality, as to other population
groups. We have an impression that the ICTY quite consciously provokes
deterioration of a condition of health of the political prisoner.
The Russian Communist Party fraction of the State Duma of the Russian
Federation and the Agro-Industrial deputy group representing a third
of members of the Russian parliament, call on the ICTY to undertake
emergency steps, which could prevent the dangerous consequences of
these developments
We believe, that as the first urgent measure a group of the Belgrade
Military-Medical Academy experts who are ready immediately to travel
to The Hague, should have an opportunity to render emergency help to
Mr.Milosevic.
As similar situations repeat with dangerous periodicity, we call on
the ICTY to release Mr.Milosevic so that he can get full-scale
specialized medical treatment in Serbia.
We intend to raise the issue of mistreatement of Mr.Milosevic at the
forthcoming session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
Europe.
Gennady Zyuganov
Head of the CPRF fraction
of the Russian Parliament
Vladimir Plotnikov
Deputy Head of the
Agro-Industrial deputy group
---
URGENT ALLERT FROM SLOBODA
MEDICAL MISTREATMENT OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC
Belgrade, March 24, 2003
On the basis of information that has been reached us today, we state:
Slobodan Milosevic is being given a medication against the high blood
pressure called Labetalol (belonging to the class of beta-blockers)
which is producing in his case dazedness and insomnia.
Until yesterday President Milosevic has not been informed about these
possible side effects of the medication.
Dazedness as a side effect forces him to invest additional efforts and
strength to be able to fulfill his hard schedule. And insomnia as
another side effect caused by the medication is making for him
necessary minimum of rest impossible.
It is becoming obvious that at The Hague we don't even deal any more
with a faked trial, but with the simple torture.
If one takes into account the everyday fiasco of the fake indictment
and of the fake witnesses – the motives for such a mistreatment become
clear.
These are the facts we know, but we can only guess what other means
they use to disable President Milosevic.
At the same time, the Trial Chamber persistently denies to President
Milosevic both opportunity to recover and time to get properly
prepared for the process. And everyone knows that he has no intention
to escape, but a strongest determination to defeat and expose the
crime against Yugoslavia and Serbian people.
SLOBODA/Freedom Association feels obliged to inform the Yugoslav and
international public about this criminal mistreatment.
TO DIRECT YOUR APPEALS IN INCREASED NUMBER, PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING
ADDRESSES:
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
ICTY
Fax: +3170 512 8637
Phone: +3170 512 8570
e-mail: taylor.icty@...
President: Theodor Meron
Trial Chamber III President: Richard May
Registrar: Hans Holthius
Amicus Curiae: Steven Kay, Branislav Tapuskovic
Churchillplein 1
2517JW The Hague
Netherlands
P.O. BOX 13888
2501 EW The Hague
Netherlands
Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
OHCHR-UNOG
8-14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Tel. +4122 917 9000
Fax +4122 917 9022
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/contact.htm
E-mail: tb-petitions@...