Milosevic "trial"

1. U.S. committee to defend Milosevic
2. The latest news from the Hague (from "Sloboda")
3. Whom to address protests and complains (from "Sloboda")

- Sloboda Assembly -

SLOBODA will hold its Assembly Meeting on Saturday, September 27, 2003
in its premises in Belgrade, Rajiceva 16, commencing at 11:00 a.m. The
Assembly is open to media.

As a way to take their own part in this event of national importance,
we invite all friends and supporters at home and abroad to send:
- protest letters to UN bodies, the Hague tribunal and their
own governments, demanding two years in freedom for President Milosevic;
- letters of support to President Milosevic;
- copies of your letters to us; solidarity messages are also
welcome.


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http://www.workers.org/ww/2003/milosevic0925.php

U.S. committee to defend Milosevic

By John Catalinotto

As the so-called trial of the former Yugoslav president in NATO's court
in The Hague, Netherlands, nears its midpoint, Slobodan Milosevic
received some new support. On Sept. 13 some two dozen writers, human
rights and anti-war activists, academics and attorneys joined to form
the U.S. section of the Inter national Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic (ICDSM).

Most of the members distinguished themselves during the time of NATO's
war on Yugoslavia by publicly opposing U.S. and NATO intervention
against the former socialist country in the Balkans. Dr. Michael
Parenti of the University of California-Berkeley has agreed to chair
the U.S. section of the ICDSM.

This group in its founding statement said that "the U.S. National
Committee [of the ICDSM] rejects the legitimacy of the trial of
Milosevic and we view this trial as an act of political warfare against
the people of Serbia and against the basic democratic rights of the
whole of humanity that cannot be allowed to succeed."

The committee demands an adjournment of the trial to allow Milosevic to
receive proper medical care and to have up to two years to prepare his
defense. Milosevic has been defending himself during the entire
prosecution case, which has now lasted over 18 months. It also demands
an end to the forced isolation of the former Yugoslav president from
his family.

The U.S. and NATO leaders originally planned to make Milosevic's case a
show trial. His capable political and legal defense, waged almost
single-handedly against the court's apparatus, has exposed NATO
aggression and the weakness of the prosecution case.

Many of the U.S. committee members believe that the current questioning
of U.S. foreign policy following the disastrous aggression in Iraq
gives a new opportunity to re-raise all the questions raised by the
earlier U.S. aggression in the Balkans.

For more information, contact the committee at (212) 726-1260 or mail:
icdsm_us@....


Reprinted from the Sept. 25, 2003, issue of Workers World newspaper


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http://www.icdsm.org/drama.htm


DRAMA AT THE HAGUE

React immediately!

THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE HAGUE

----- Original Message -----
From: ICTY United Nations
To: latestnews@...
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 4:35 PM
Subject: PRESS ADVISORY - Milosevic Trial: Hearings Cancelled for the
Remainder of this Week

MILOSEVIC TRIAL:
HEARINGS CANCELLED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS WEEK
Please be advised that the hearings in the Milosevic trial have been
cancelled for the remainder of this week (Tuesday 23 to Friday 26
September 2003) due to the ill health of the accused.


EARLIER REACTIONS TO THE ONGOING DRAMA:


SLOBODA protest letter to the Foreign Ministry, US Embassy and ICTY
Office in Belgrade
20 September 2003

http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/clintondemo.htm

Appeal to the tribunal by 10 medical doctors from Germany
18 September 2003

http://www.icdsm.org/more/gemdoctors3.htm

Statement of the Russian Committee for the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic
18 September 2003

http://www.icdsm.org/more/ruscom180903.htm

SLOBODA Press Conference
17 September 2003

http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/press170903.htm

(read the full text of the outrageous decision at:
http://www.un.org/icty/milosevic/trialc/order-e/030917.htm )

Statement of the US National Section of the International Committee to
Defend Slobodan Milosevic
13 September 2003

http://www.icdsm.org/more/icdsmus1.htm

Statement of the Russian Parliamentarians representing absolute
majority in Duma
12 September 2003

http://www.icdsm.org/more/ruspar.htm

Resolution of the Anti-Imperialist Camp in Assisi, Italy
6 September 2003 (approved), 18 September 2003 (released)

http://www.antiimperialista.com/en/
view.shtml?category=37&id=1063919963&keyw
ord=+

SLOBODA letter to UN Secretary General and to the permanent members of
UN Security Council
3 September 2003

http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/SlobUNSC.html

Report from the "Pre-Defense Conference" at The Hague with quotes of
President Milosevic
2 September 2003

http://www.icdsm.org/more/defconf.htm

(read the whole transcript at:
http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/030902ME.htm )

SLOBODA's request to the president of ICTY to abolish the visit ban
2 September 2003

http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/request.html

First call for November 8 demonstrations at The Hague
1 September 2003

http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/HLN.doc

SLOBODA letter to UNHCHR, WHO and Red Cross
29 August 2003

http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/letter_UN.html

Letter of the General Confederation of Trade Unions of Brazil to the
tribunal
29 August 2003

http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/slobaE170803.htm

Letter to the tribunal by ICDSM co-chair Valkanov and attorneys Black,
Kuznecov and Verges of the ICDSM Legal Committee
26 August 2003

http://www.icdsm.org/more/isolat.htm

President Milosevic's public response to the charges fabricated by the
Belgrade regime
17 August 2003

http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/slobaE170803.htm


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Dear friends,

President Milosevic is in a life-threatening situation.

He suffers from malignant hypertension and his heart is damaged. He is
in permanent risk of a heart attack or a brain-stroke.

His health and ability to stand the second half of the process without
a serious risk cannot be recuperated in prison conditions.

He is deprived of health-care and of conditions to prepare his case.

The outrageous decision of the tribunal to give him only three months
to prepare his case in prison and only six weeks to submit the complete
list of his witnesses, together with the summaries of their statements
and with the list of evidence he intends to introduce with them – only
to be reviewed and eventually approved by the tribunal, definitively
proves that the tribunal wants to silence the truth by depriving
President Milosevic of minimum conditions to prepare his case and by
increasing the threat to his life with an impossible task.

President Milosevic needs two years in freedom.

Please address your governments (the tribunal is formally a part of UN
system), members of UN Security Council (the tribunal is formally a
subsidiary organ of the Security Council), UN Secretary General, Office
of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health
Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the
tribunal itself.

Protest against the crime and the injustices. Demand two years of
freedom for President Milosevic.

Vladimir Krsljanin, Sloboda/ICDSM

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It is best if your letters are sent by fax or mail, or personally
delivered (to your foreign ministries or to the offices of the
international organizations). Please inform us and the public about
your actions. Some of the addresses you can use are given below:

 
A) UN Secretary General

Office of the Secretary-General
United Nations, S-378
New York, NY 10017

Inquiries to be addressed to (+1212) 963-4475 or inquiries@...

B) UN Security Council(addresses and fax numbers of the member states
New York missions are given; you can also write to the governments and
foreign ministries in their capitals)

(except for calls within USA, at the begining of each fax/phone number
one should add +1)

Angola

Permanent Representative of the Republic of Angola to the United Nations

125 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021

Telephone: (212) 861-5656/5787/5788/5789, Telefax: (212) 861-9295

Bulgaria

Permanent Representative of the Republic of Bulgaria to the United
Nations

11 East 84th Street, New York, NY 10028

Telephone: (212) 737-4790/4791, 327-4180/4181, Telefax: (212) 472-9865
Correspondence: English/French

Cameroon

Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cameroon to the United
Nations

22 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021

Telephone: (212) 794-2295/2296/2297/2298/2299, Telefax: (212) 249-0533

Correspondence: English/French

China

Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the
United Nations

350 East 35th Street, New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (212) 655-6100, Telefax: (212) 634-7626
E-mail: chinamission_un@...

Chile

Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations

3 Dag Hammarskjцld Plaza, 305 East 47th Street, 10th/11th Floors, New
York, NY 10017

Telephone: (212) 832-3323, Telefax: (212) 832-8714

Correspondence: Spanish

France

Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations

One Dag Hammarskjцld Plaza, 245 East 47th Street, 44th Floor, New York,
NY 10017

Telephone: (212) 308-5700, Telefax: (212) 421-6889

Correspondence: French

Germany

Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations

871 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017

Telephone: (212) 940-0400, Telefax: (212) 940-0402

Guinea

Permanent Representative of the Republic of Guinea to the United Nations

140 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (212) 687-8115/8116/8117, Telefax: (212) 687-8248

Correspondence: French

Mexico

Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations

Two United Nations Plaza, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10017

Telephone: (212) 752-0220, Telefax: (212) 688-8862

Correspondence: Spanish

Pakistan

Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations

Pakistan House, 8 East 65th Street, New York, NY 10021

Telephone: (212) 879-8600, Telefax: (212) 744-7348

Russian Federation

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations

136 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10021

Telephone: (212) 861-4900/4901, Telefax: (212) 628-0252, 517-7427

Spain

Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations

823 United Nations Plaza, 345 East 46th Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY
10017

Telephone: (212) 661-1050, Telefax: (212) 949-7247

Correspondence: Spanish

Syrian Arab Republic

Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United
Nations

820 Second Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, NY 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 Hammarskjцld Plaza, 885 Second Avenue, New York, NY 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, NY 10017-3505

Telephone: (212) 415-4000, Telefax: (212) 415-4443

 

C) OTHER UN MEMBERS(addresses and fax numbers of their missions can be
found at:

http://www.un.org/Overview/missions.htm )

 

D) UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Fax: + 41 22 917 9022
(particularly for urgent matters)
E-mail:tb-petitions@...

E)WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

WHO

Avenue Appia 20
1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland

Telephone: (+ 41 22) 791 21 11
Facsimile (fax): (+ 41 22) 791 3111

 

F) INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS

ICRC

Postal address
International Committee of the Red Cross
19 avenue de la Paix
CH 1202 Geneva

Fax
ICRC general: ++ 41 (22) 733 20 57
Phone
++ 41 (22) 734 60 01

G) INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA (ICTY)

Churchillplein 1
2517JW The Hague
Netherlands

Fax: +31 70 512 8637

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SLOBODA urgently needs your donation.
Please find the detailed instructions at:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/pomoc.htm
 
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.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM)
http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)