Da: ICDSM Italia
Data: Mar 10 Ago 2004 15:46:59 Europe/Rome
A: icdsm-italia @yahoogroups.com
Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] "Processo" Milosevic - novita' e commenti


(english / italiano)

"Processo" Milosevic - novita' e commenti


Nello scorso mese abbiamo registrato moltissime prese di posizione ed
articoli sul caso del processo-farsa intentato dalla NATO contro
Slobodan Milosevic. Il "Tribunale ad hoc" dell'Aia si trova al centro
di un vero e proprio ciclone, che solamente i nostri asserviti
giornalisti non riescono a vedere.

Di seguito riportiamo:

1) Una serie di LINK ad importanti articoli e commenti recenti in
lingua inglese;

2) Le ultime comunicazioni (in lingua inglese) pervenute dalla sezione
belgradese del nostro Comitato Internazionale - un nuovo appello alle
istituzioni internazionali, ed il rifiuto di due "amici curiae" ad
essere designati come "avvocati d'ufficio" per Milosevic:

- Sloboda urges UN, ICTY and Serbian authorities to stop the Hague
crime (SLOBODA, 7.8.2004)

- Tapuskovic refuses to join the Hague criminal cuisine: Hague Tribunal
in panic search of lawyer for Milosevic (Blic, 7.8.2004)


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*** NUOVI ARTICOLI E COMMENTI:

The world's greatest travesty of justice: How Washington makes and
breaks the law
(by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda.Ru)

http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=13377

Judges call for "radical review" of Milosevic trial
(by Paul Mitchell - WSWS)

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jul2004/milo-j10_prn.shtml

Why Hague Court Wants To Silence Milosevic
(by John Catalinotto - WW)

http://www.anti-imperialism.net/lai/
texte.php?language_id=3§ion=BBBL&object_id=22856

Workers World: Let Milosevic have a fair fight
(by John Catalinotto - WW)

http://lists.topica.com/lists/ANTINATO/read/
message.html?mid=910458176&sort=d&start=33315

Letters: Milosevic trial
(by Barry M. Lituchy)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/Lituchy2107.htm

Abu Ghraib & the Milosevic standard
(by Siddharth Varadarajan)

http://www.hindu.com/2004/08/09/stories/2004080901771000.htm

Regarding the possible imposition of legal council on Slobodan
Milosevic (by Andy Wilcoxson)

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg-ed070604.htm


*** ALTRI ARTICOLI RECENTI, DA NOI GIA' SEGNALATI:

PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE & WESTERN PROPAGANDA.
By Ian Johnson (11 July 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/Johnson1107.htm

LET SLOBO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF
By John Laughland (The Spectator, 10 July 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/Laughland1007.htm
http://www.spectator.co.uk/
article.php?table=old§ion=current&issue=2004-07-10&id=4796

COURT THREATENS MILOSEVIC'S HEALTH
By Elizabeth Farrell (New Worker, 8 July 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/Farell0807.htm

'RADICAL RETHINK' AT THE HAGUE - DEATH BY TRIAL
By Paul Davidson (7 July 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/Davidson0707.htm

HAGUE COURT TRIES TO SILENCE MILOSEVIC
By Sara Flounders (IAC, 6 July 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/Flounders0607.htm
http://www.iacenter.org/milos_ctsilence.htm

IN SOLIDARITY AGAINST THE GLOBAL DICTATORSHIP
By Klaus Hartmann (Speech at the rally in Belgrade, 28 June 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/Hartmann2806.htm

CLINTON'S "GOOD WAR"
By Diana Johnstone (Znet, 26 June 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/Johnstone2606.htm

SHOW TRIAL AT THE HAGUE - A NEW PHASE
By Dr Alexander Mezyaev (Soviet Russia, 26 June 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/Mezyaev2606.htm

MASSIVE VIOLATION OF LAW AND DANGEROUS MISTREATMENT OF PRESIDENT
MILOSEVIC
(Declaration of the European Peace Forum, done in Berlin, 20 June 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/EPF2006.htm

BELGRADE FORUM ON THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL AND MILOSEVIC PROCESS
(Conclusions of the Experts' Seminar at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade
held on 19 June 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/BF1906.htm

CAN THE TRUTH BE KILLED?
By Professor Velko Valkanov (Public Statement of the founder and
cochairman of ICDSM made on 18 June 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/Valkanov1806.htm

ON THE RUINS OF YUGOSLAVIA
By Cathrin Schütz, (Counterpunch, 5 June 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/Schuetz0506.htm

"GENOCIDE", MILOSEVIC AND NATO
By Ed Herman (Foreign Policy in Focus, 28 May 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/Herman2805.htm

THE YUGOSLAVIAN FAIRY TALE
By George Szamuely (Foreign Policy in Focus, 28 May 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/Szamuely2805.htm

THE GENOCIDE GAMBITS
By Ed Herman (Znet, 17 May 2004)

http://www.icdsm.org/more/Herman1705.htm

THE ILLEGAL HAGUE PROCESS MUST END
Statement by the President of the World Peace Council Orlando Fundora
(Cuba)

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

THE FINAL SERVICE OF THE TRIBUNAL AS A POLITICAL AND PROPAGANDA ARM OF
NATO
By Ed Herman

http://www.zmag.org/balkanwatch/herman_milosovec-trial.htm

NYT ON ICTY: A STUDY IN TOTAL PROPAGANDA SERVICE.
By Ed Herman and David Peterson

http://www.zmag.org/simonsyugo.htm


*** CRONACHE E COMUNICAZIONI DAL "TRIBUNALE" E DAL COMITATO
INTERNAZIONALE (ICDSM):

Telegraph: Milosevic prepares to launch attack on Blair and Clinton in
his opening speech at trial (by P. Sherwell & N. Barnett )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1165057/posts

CDSM: 5th July 2004 - First Day of the Defence Case of President
Slobodan Milosevic - Open Statement by the Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic (Irish Section) - 4th July 2004
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/message/52998

SLOBODA PROTEST LETTER TO THE TRIBUNAL AND UN
(Done in Belgrade, 5 July 2004)
http://www.icdsm.org/more/Sloboda0507.htm
http://www.icdsm-us.org/libraries/viewdocument.asp?DocumentID=255

Another snag in the Milosevic show trial (by Nebojsa Malic)
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/more.php?id=1117_0_1_0_M

Order of the ICTY Judges in the case against President Milosevic
threatening to assign counsel
http://www.icdsm-us.org/libraries/viewdocument.asp?DocumentID=257

The Trial Chamber's "Scheduling Order and Order to Registrar Concerning
Medical Report"
http://www.un.org/icty/milosevic/trialc/order-e/040712.htm

Hague Tribunal considers separating the indictments against Milosevic
into separate indictments
http://www.un.org/icty/milosevic/trialc/order-e/040721.htm

The Hague Tribunal orders the prosecution to make submissions regarding
the role of an assigned lawyer on Milosevic
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/icty061904.htm


*** ULTIMISSIME:

Tapuskovic refuses to join the Hague criminal cousine
http://lists.topica.com/lists/ANTINATO/read/
message.html?mid=910551958&sort=d&start=33539

Blic: Hague Tribunal in panic search of lawyer for Milosevic
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/blic080704.htm

Sloboda urges UN, ICTY and Serbian authorities to stop the Hague crime
(7.8.2004)
http://lists.topica.com/lists/ANTINATO/read/
message.html?mid=910546162&sort=d&start=33530


*** ANALISI DI FONTE ANTIJUGOSLAVA E FILO-NATO:

Analysis: Unfit for Trial?
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/tri/tri_366_2_eng.txt
Judges Weigh Risks of Forcing Lawyer on Milosevic
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/tri/tri_366_1_eng.txt
Milosevic Planning “Political Show”
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/tri/tri_367_1_eng.txt
Was Milosevic Charge Sheet Too Ambitious?
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/tri/tri_367_6_eng.txt
Milosevic Trial May be Split
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/tri/tri_368_1_eng.txt
Milosevic Trial – Stage Set for Radical Changes
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/tri/tri_369_3_eng.txt


*** IMMAGINI:

POSTER DEL PRESIDENTE MILOSEVIC /
NEW POSTER OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC
used at the Vidovdan People's Rally in Belgrade - free to download (and
print)
http://www.icdsm.org/more/POSTER23.jpg

UNA VIGNETTA DAL "GUARDIAN" /
Cartoon from The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,1255059,00.html


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Da: "Vladimir Krsljanin"
Data: Sab 7 Ago 2004 13:15:35 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: Sloboda urges UN, ICTY and Serbian authorities to stop the
Hague crime

UN: H.E. Mr. Kofi ANNAN, Secretary General of the United Nations; H.E.
Mr. Andrei DENISOV, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation
to the UN, Presiding the UN Security Council; H.E. Mr. Julian Robert
HUNTE, President of the 58th Session of the UN General Assembly; Ms.
Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

ICTY: Mr. Theodor MERON, President; Mr. Patrick ROBINSON, Mr. O-Gon
KWON, Mr. Iain BONOMY, Judges of the Trial Chamber III; Mr. Steven KAY,
Prof. Timothy L.H. McCORMACK, Amici Curiae

Serbia and Montenegro: H.E. Mr. Svetozar MAROVIC, President of the
State Community Serbia and Montenegro; Mr. Zoran SAMI, Chairman of the
Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro; H.E. Mr. Boris TADIC, President of
the Republic of
Serbia; H.E. Dr. Vojislav Kostunica, Prime Minister of the Republic of
Serbia; Mr. Predrag MARKOVIC, Chairman of the National Assembly of the
Republic of Serbia; Heads of the Parliamentary Caucuses in the National
Assembly of the Republic of Serbia

URGENT CALL TO PROTECT INTERNATIONAL LAW, NATIONS' RIGHT FOR TRUTH AND
LIFE OF PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

During the whole lasting of the Hague process against President
Slobodan Milosevic the most responsible persons of the ICTY at The
Hague have been aware, on the basis of numerous doctors' reports and of
numerous communications from our organization, from other organizations
and individuals, of the health situation of President Milosevic and of
the fact that the process itself puts his life at stake. In spite of
this awareness, the tribunal never treated President Milosevic's health
situation properly, nor ever properly considered the legitimate demands
for his release for medical treatment, recovery and preparation for his
case. By that and by the way the process has been conducted, the
tribunal only contributed to the deterioration of the health of
President Milosevic.

Together with other international and national organizations and
individuals from different countries, we were several times informing
the highest UN organs and highest organs of the Republic of Serbia and
FR Yugoslavia (now SC Serbia and Montenegro) about this situation,
requesting their action and warning them of their share in
responsibility.

In the recent weeks, the tribunal has shown the sudden interest in the
health situation of President Milosevic, trying to misuse it as an
excuse to impose him a counsel against his will and to change other
rules of the proceedings on his detriment.

These attempts of the tribunal are contrary to the International
Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, as the principal source of law
for the tribunal, to the ICTY's own Statute and to the basic principles
of the adversarial system of law and of the democratic judiciary in
general, as explained in detail in the petition of 75 distinguished
lawyers and law professors, sent these days to the UN and to the ICTY.
The proposed measures would only decisively act against the fair
character and efficiency of the process and the life and health of
President Milosevic, as declared motives for their imposition. Above
all, these measures would act against justice and make establishing the
truth impossible.

By their essence, these attempts cannot be understood otherwise, but as
an intention to silence the truth, and by that to secure impunity for
the real criminals responsible for the break-up of Yugoslavia, tragedy
of its peoples and numerous victims and huge war damages produced by
the 1999 NATO aggression against Yugoslavia. The amount of illegality
contained in the tribunal's intended decisions testifies about
someone's panic.

Its legal dimensions cannot characterize the current behavior of the
ICTY otherwise, but as a crime in progress.

We call upon the highest representatives of the UN, ICTY and Serbia and
Montenegro to act immediately to stop the crime. Refusal or avoidance
to act in this way would be a complicity in the crime. Reflecting the
opinion of the people of Serbia, the Freedom Association is determined
to use all legal means to establish the criminal responsibility of all
who are or would be involved in this crime.

The World Nations require respect of the International Law. They also
have right for truth about the tragedy in the Balkans. President
Milosevic has right to live and to represent the truth and himself.

Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic!

Belgrade, 6 August 2004

On behalf of the Freedom Association,
Bogoljub Bjelica, president /signed/

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Da: "Vladimir Krsljanin"
Data: Lun 9 Ago 2004 00:17:10 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: Tapuskovic refuses to join the Hague criminal cuisine

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A NOTE FROM SLOBODA/ICDSM:
The Hague tribunal has not yet given-up from its criminal intentions
towards President Milosevic. And our voice of protest and any public
voice of protest is becoming more and more unpleasant to them. They are
being caught in a criminal act.

On Friday, 6 August, two most important Belgrade dailies, "Politika"
and "Novosti" gave lot of space ("Politika" on its front page) to
interviews with Belgrade lawyer Branislav Tapuskovic (one of the Amici
Curiae during the Prosecution case), who sent a letter to the tribunal,
declaring his refusal to accept to be on the among the candidates for
an imposed counsel to President Milosevic, something which was offered
to him a day earlier in a phone call from the tribunal's Registry. In
his letter, Mr. Tapuskovic used the arguments similar to the ones
contained in the International Lawyers' Petition sent several days
earlier to the UN and to the tribunal.
Almost all other Belgrade media also reported on his decision.
But, up to now, NONE of the Western media reported a word on that!

We again call upon all lawyers, law professors and professional jurists
to join the Lawyers Petition. The days in front of us are decisive for
the protection of International Law and for the struggle for truth
about Serbian people.
The Lawyers Petition can be read at:
http://www.icdsm.org/Lawappeal.htm

Instead of excellent articles from "Politika" and "Novosti", which we
have only in Serbian, we offer you bellow the one on the same issue
which appeared in the English Internet edition of the Belgrade
newspaper "Blic".

================================================Hague Tribunal in panic
search of lawyer for Milosevic
================================================Blic Online, 7 August
2004

Belgrade lawyers Zdenko Tomanovic and Branislav Tapuskovic refused
proposal by the Hague Tribunal to defend Slobodan Milosevic as per
official service duty.
Due to further deterioration of Milosevic's health and impossibility of
appointing his defender, beginning of Milosevic's defense scheduled for
August 31 could be postponed again.
Lawyer Zdenko Tomanovic did not want to comment for 'Blic' information
that he had refused offer by that Hague Tribunal to him to defend
Milosevic.
Lawyer Branislav Tapuskovic who was engaged by the Hague tribunal as
'friend of the court' says that Milosevic has granted right to defend
himself personally regardless of his health condition.
'My acceptance of the tribunal's offer would violence Milosevic's
right. If Milosevic is unable to be in the courtroom, my opinion is
that the court trial cannot be continued', Tapuskovic says.
Cardiologists say that Milosevic needs to rest because of high blood
pressure and heart problems. Milosevic was of the opinion that
continuation of the court trial should have been postponed for one
month at least.
Aleksandra Milenov of Belgrade office of the Hague tribunal says for
'Blic' that judges are considering possibility of giving so-called
'stand-by' defender who would follow the court process and undertake
the matter when Milosevic is unable to carry out his own defense.
'When his health improves, Milosevic would again question the witnesses
by himself. The second possibility is division of the indictment into
two or three parts in which case the court process would develop in
series. I do not know when the judges will decide on that since at the
moment Tribunal's officials are on holiday', Aleksandra Milenov said.

*End of the "Blic" article*

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THE INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS' PETITION:
"IMPOSITION OF COUNSEL ON SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC THREATENS THE FUTURE OF
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE LIFE OF THE DEFENDANT"
http://www.icdsm.org/Lawappeal.htm
GETS NEW SIGNATURES: Mark Littman, QC (UK), Jean-Marie Dermagne
(Belgium), Giuseppe Pelazza (Italy), Miljenko Reljic (Australia)...
LAWYERS, JURISTS, PROFESSORS OF LAW ARE INVITED TO JOIN BEFORE IT IS
TOO LATE (THE ICTY CAN ADOPT ITS DECISIONS ALREADY IN MID-AUGUST. DATA
OF NEW
SIGNERS SHOULD BE SENT TO: slobodavk@...
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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.icdsm-us.org/ (US section of ICDSM)
http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland)
http://www.pasti.org/milodif.htm (ICDSM Italy)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)




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