1. Letter of Diaspora Serbs to President Milosevic
2. THE HAGUE DEMONSTRATION 28th JUNE 2003 (by Ian Johnson)
Excellent pictures of the Hague demos can be seen at:
http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/reportage-2003/2003-06-28-
den-haag-milosevic-1.html
http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/reportage-2003/2003-06-28-
den-haag-milosevic-2.html
http://homepage.mac.com/jbeentjes/Demonstraties/PhotoAlbum30.html
http://mona-lisa.org/milosevic/
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/ (an independent web site)
=== 1 ===
Letter of Diaspora Serbs to President Milosevic
(handed after the Vidovdan - June 28 demonstrations at The Hague)
To the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Mr Slobodan
Milosevic
Dear Mr President,
As citizens and nationals of leading Nato member countries in Europe,
that have participated in the Aggression on the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, we are deeply aware of the fact that your name has been
used in the Western Media far more frequently than the names of all
other leaders in the Balkans taken together. At critical times during
the past decade, your name has been used globally more often than even
the name of the American president, a very rare situation to occur for
any statesman in Europe.
We have noticed, however, that the name "Milosevic" most frequently did
not refer to your own person.
We became particularly aware that, during the military Aggression on
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, all leading media outlets in Nato
states claimed that Nato was bombing neither Yugoslavia, nor Serbia,
nor the people inside them but exclusively you personally. And yet some
23,000 tons of Nato bombs were dropped not on you personally, but on
the territory and the people of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
We noticed that on millions of occasions it was claimed that sanctions,
from which tens of thousands of children and old people in our country
of origin lost their lives, were allegedly directed solely against a
person with the name "Milosevic".
It is because of this that we are fully aware that all the victims of
Nato Aggression are linked to your name.
And we are especially aware that by accusing you personally as a "war
criminal", the Nato Aggressor, who is simultaneously also the owner of
the so-called Tribunal that keeps you imprisoned, aims to prove that he
only acted against a "criminal".
It is a fact that the continuous and massive use, more correctly
misuse, of your name has had its results with the citizens of Nato
states as well as with our own Diaspora where many accepted the
disinformation of Nato-media propaganda machines, such as those of the
American CNN, the British BBC, the German ZDF, the French TF1 and
others. Our aim is therefore to continue to act in our own environments
to highlight the stark truth that it is via your name that accusations
are being levelled against the state, the republic, the nation and
inevitably and most cynically, against all the victims of the
economic, financial, cultural and finally military aggression.
The so-called Tribunal fraudulently presents itself as the source for
truth and justice for the territory of a European country against which
its master in Washington has conducted the first aggressive war in
Europe since 1945.
It is because of this that every appearance by yourself, despite taking
place in front of an illegitimate body, despite this being before your
kidnappers, is of great historical importance for the interpretation of
events of the past decade's events in The Balkans.
Many amongst us including our German, French, British, Dutch, Italian
as well as other European and American colleagues judge your
appearances to be exceptionally penetrating and of the highest quality.
According to many of us you have already won your case against the
so-called Tribunal via a K.O. on your very first appearance on 14th
February 2002. The Nato-British judge Mr May allowed the process
against you to continue, and to the surprise of many in the world, you
repeated your performance of the first day. Something that you have
continually done since. So far you have on almost every occasion
managed to get your accusers and their witnesses into a losing position
for the prosecution. All this despite the fact that the prosecuting
team had time to prepare itself for three years and had over 70 paid
staff at its disposal. By contrast even the most elementary conditions
for presenting your case have been denied to you and even your
microphone has frequently been cut-off by the so-called judge, usually
in order to save the prosecution from further embarrassment.
We want to sincerely congratulate you on your outstanding courage and
the dignity with which you have presented your case. Of this we have
numerous confirmations from internationally known experts and
personalities, some of
whom have specially travelled to The Hague to be with us today, both as
speakers and participants.
Thanks to your appearances, we in the Diaspora can more clearly
evaluate the historical events connected to our erstwhile homeland, and
our position is clear. You, as well as others accused on the Serbian
and Yugoslav side, are guilty because you remained loyal to the state
to which you gave your oath and allegiance. Your guilt is known to us
from the near and distant history of the Balkan peoples:
Guilty because you stood up to the foreign aggressor in the defence of
country and people!
We would like to ask you to extend our greetings to all other
prisoners, and especially to the President of the Republika Srpska
Krajina, Mr Milan Martic as well as to the President of the Republika
Srpska, Mr Momcilo Krajisnik.
Serbs of the European Diaspora with the Organising Committee of the
Demonstrations in The Hague
Vidovdan, 28 June 2003
=== 2 ===
THE HAGUE DEMONSTRATION 28th JUNE 2003.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the Netherlands
outside The Hague War Crimes Tribunal (ICTY) on Saturday 28th June to
demand the release of former Yugoslav president
Slobodan Milosevic and the other political prisoners who resisted the
78 day Nato bombing campaign conducted against the sovereign state of
Yugoslavia in 1999.
The Yugoslav organisers of the demonstration handed the ‘Tribunal’ a
list of demands which included the release of the
Yugoslav political prisoners, the abolition of the illegal Hague
‘Tribunal’, an end to interference in the internal affairs of
Yugoslavia and reparation payments to be made by the Nato governments
responsible for all damages caused by their war of aggression against
Yugoslavia.
The demonstration coincided with the 2nd anniversary of the kidnapping
of Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague and represented the growing
resistance to the occupation of Yugoslavia by forces beholden to the
United States.
Before commencing the march to The Hague Detention Unit where the
prisoners are held, the rally was addressed by speakers in four
languages, reflecting the international nature of the demonstration.
Once outside the Detention Unit itself further speakers explained to
the crowd the relevance of what happened to
Yugoslavia in 1999 to what is happening today, drawing attention to the
U.S. aim of creating a New World Order which would be at the expense of
working people internationally.
The Socialist Labour Party contingent expressed the SLP policy that the
so-called Hague War Crimes Tribunal should be
abolished and that all political prisoners who resisted Nato
should be released.
Sections of the colourful demonstration, waving Yugoslav flags and
anti-Nato banners and placards, chanted ‘Slobo…Slobodan…Yugoslavia’
(Slobo in Serbian meaning freedom) and at 5p.m. a letter of support
addressed to Mr Milosevic was handed in, bringing an end to what had
been an excellent and well organised event.
The wife of one of the prisoners, who was visiting her husband during
the rally, later told the demonstrators that some of the
prisoners could hear them and it had greatly lifted their
morale.
A short meeting after the demonstration, held on the pier at
Scheveningen, determined that defence committees, in addition to those
already established, for Slobodan Milosevic and the other Yugoslav
prisoners, would be set up in countries throughout Europe.
The resistance is growing.
(Ian Johnson July 2003)
2. THE HAGUE DEMONSTRATION 28th JUNE 2003 (by Ian Johnson)
Excellent pictures of the Hague demos can be seen at:
http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/reportage-2003/2003-06-28-
den-haag-milosevic-1.html
http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/reportage-2003/2003-06-28-
den-haag-milosevic-2.html
http://homepage.mac.com/jbeentjes/Demonstraties/PhotoAlbum30.html
http://mona-lisa.org/milosevic/
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/ (an independent web site)
=== 1 ===
Letter of Diaspora Serbs to President Milosevic
(handed after the Vidovdan - June 28 demonstrations at The Hague)
To the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Mr Slobodan
Milosevic
Dear Mr President,
As citizens and nationals of leading Nato member countries in Europe,
that have participated in the Aggression on the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, we are deeply aware of the fact that your name has been
used in the Western Media far more frequently than the names of all
other leaders in the Balkans taken together. At critical times during
the past decade, your name has been used globally more often than even
the name of the American president, a very rare situation to occur for
any statesman in Europe.
We have noticed, however, that the name "Milosevic" most frequently did
not refer to your own person.
We became particularly aware that, during the military Aggression on
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, all leading media outlets in Nato
states claimed that Nato was bombing neither Yugoslavia, nor Serbia,
nor the people inside them but exclusively you personally. And yet some
23,000 tons of Nato bombs were dropped not on you personally, but on
the territory and the people of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
We noticed that on millions of occasions it was claimed that sanctions,
from which tens of thousands of children and old people in our country
of origin lost their lives, were allegedly directed solely against a
person with the name "Milosevic".
It is because of this that we are fully aware that all the victims of
Nato Aggression are linked to your name.
And we are especially aware that by accusing you personally as a "war
criminal", the Nato Aggressor, who is simultaneously also the owner of
the so-called Tribunal that keeps you imprisoned, aims to prove that he
only acted against a "criminal".
It is a fact that the continuous and massive use, more correctly
misuse, of your name has had its results with the citizens of Nato
states as well as with our own Diaspora where many accepted the
disinformation of Nato-media propaganda machines, such as those of the
American CNN, the British BBC, the German ZDF, the French TF1 and
others. Our aim is therefore to continue to act in our own environments
to highlight the stark truth that it is via your name that accusations
are being levelled against the state, the republic, the nation and
inevitably and most cynically, against all the victims of the
economic, financial, cultural and finally military aggression.
The so-called Tribunal fraudulently presents itself as the source for
truth and justice for the territory of a European country against which
its master in Washington has conducted the first aggressive war in
Europe since 1945.
It is because of this that every appearance by yourself, despite taking
place in front of an illegitimate body, despite this being before your
kidnappers, is of great historical importance for the interpretation of
events of the past decade's events in The Balkans.
Many amongst us including our German, French, British, Dutch, Italian
as well as other European and American colleagues judge your
appearances to be exceptionally penetrating and of the highest quality.
According to many of us you have already won your case against the
so-called Tribunal via a K.O. on your very first appearance on 14th
February 2002. The Nato-British judge Mr May allowed the process
against you to continue, and to the surprise of many in the world, you
repeated your performance of the first day. Something that you have
continually done since. So far you have on almost every occasion
managed to get your accusers and their witnesses into a losing position
for the prosecution. All this despite the fact that the prosecuting
team had time to prepare itself for three years and had over 70 paid
staff at its disposal. By contrast even the most elementary conditions
for presenting your case have been denied to you and even your
microphone has frequently been cut-off by the so-called judge, usually
in order to save the prosecution from further embarrassment.
We want to sincerely congratulate you on your outstanding courage and
the dignity with which you have presented your case. Of this we have
numerous confirmations from internationally known experts and
personalities, some of
whom have specially travelled to The Hague to be with us today, both as
speakers and participants.
Thanks to your appearances, we in the Diaspora can more clearly
evaluate the historical events connected to our erstwhile homeland, and
our position is clear. You, as well as others accused on the Serbian
and Yugoslav side, are guilty because you remained loyal to the state
to which you gave your oath and allegiance. Your guilt is known to us
from the near and distant history of the Balkan peoples:
Guilty because you stood up to the foreign aggressor in the defence of
country and people!
We would like to ask you to extend our greetings to all other
prisoners, and especially to the President of the Republika Srpska
Krajina, Mr Milan Martic as well as to the President of the Republika
Srpska, Mr Momcilo Krajisnik.
Serbs of the European Diaspora with the Organising Committee of the
Demonstrations in The Hague
Vidovdan, 28 June 2003
=== 2 ===
THE HAGUE DEMONSTRATION 28th JUNE 2003.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the Netherlands
outside The Hague War Crimes Tribunal (ICTY) on Saturday 28th June to
demand the release of former Yugoslav president
Slobodan Milosevic and the other political prisoners who resisted the
78 day Nato bombing campaign conducted against the sovereign state of
Yugoslavia in 1999.
The Yugoslav organisers of the demonstration handed the ‘Tribunal’ a
list of demands which included the release of the
Yugoslav political prisoners, the abolition of the illegal Hague
‘Tribunal’, an end to interference in the internal affairs of
Yugoslavia and reparation payments to be made by the Nato governments
responsible for all damages caused by their war of aggression against
Yugoslavia.
The demonstration coincided with the 2nd anniversary of the kidnapping
of Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague and represented the growing
resistance to the occupation of Yugoslavia by forces beholden to the
United States.
Before commencing the march to The Hague Detention Unit where the
prisoners are held, the rally was addressed by speakers in four
languages, reflecting the international nature of the demonstration.
Once outside the Detention Unit itself further speakers explained to
the crowd the relevance of what happened to
Yugoslavia in 1999 to what is happening today, drawing attention to the
U.S. aim of creating a New World Order which would be at the expense of
working people internationally.
The Socialist Labour Party contingent expressed the SLP policy that the
so-called Hague War Crimes Tribunal should be
abolished and that all political prisoners who resisted Nato
should be released.
Sections of the colourful demonstration, waving Yugoslav flags and
anti-Nato banners and placards, chanted ‘Slobo…Slobodan…Yugoslavia’
(Slobo in Serbian meaning freedom) and at 5p.m. a letter of support
addressed to Mr Milosevic was handed in, bringing an end to what had
been an excellent and well organised event.
The wife of one of the prisoners, who was visiting her husband during
the rally, later told the demonstrators that some of the
prisoners could hear them and it had greatly lifted their
morale.
A short meeting after the demonstration, held on the pier at
Scheveningen, determined that defence committees, in addition to those
already established, for Slobodan Milosevic and the other Yugoslav
prisoners, would be set up in countries throughout Europe.
The resistance is growing.
(Ian Johnson July 2003)