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Oggetto: URGENT: JOIN THE APPEAL TO STOP THE WITCH HUNT AGAINST SLOBODAN
MILOSEVIC AND FORMER YUGOSLAV LEADERS!
Data: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:17:12 -0500
Da: "Jim Yarker" <jyarker@...>
Dear friends in the anti-war movement,
We hope that the appeal below can serve as a gathering place for the
names of all those who oppose the ICTY’s campaign to impose its phony
kangaroo “justice” on Mr. Milosevic and on other former Yugoslav/Serbian
leaders and officials, and to register their protest at the collusion of
elements in the DOS régime with NATO and the Hague Tribunal. Supporters
of the appeal can have their names added to it by replying to this email
address: action@... and providing their name as well as
town, state and country of residence.
The appeal can be found on the web, with regularly updated lists of
signatories, at: http://www.srpska-mreza.com/action/appeal.htm
We are asking you to add your names and any affiliations you’d care to
list. Please feel free to circulate the appeal or its web link on any
lists you think appropriate, and to link to it from your own website if
you operate one.
In solidarity,
Barry Lituchy, New York City, USA
Jim Yarker, Toronto, Canada
URGENT ACTION: PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME TO THIS INTERNATIONAL APPEAL TO STOP
THE WITCH HUNT AGAINST SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
MARCH 10, 2001
We, the undersigned, wish to register our disgust with and opposition to
the planned trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic by the
current Serbian authorities at the request of the United States and its
NATO partners.
While NATO's criminal aggression against the people of Yugoslavia goes
unpunished, and reparations go unpaid, we are witnessing the repulsive
spectacle of DOS ministers and officials (the new regime in Belgrade)
serving as judicial handmaidens to NATO's criminal leaders and their
illegal puppet court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague.
We charge the ICTY and the American government with falsifying war
crimes charges against President Milosevic solely for the purpose of
manipulating public opinion against "the Serbs," justifying NATO's
barbaric 78-day campaign of terror against Yugoslavia in 1999, and to
deflect attention from the bombing's horrific consequences. Meanwhile,
the ICTY has exonerated its NATO sponsors of responsibility for a host
of well-documented war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the
deliberate bombardment of vital civilian infrastructure, conspiracy to
initiate a war of aggression, the lethal targeting of journalists, the
use of anti-personnel weapons such as cluster bombs in areas of high
civilian concentration, and bombing with the intent and effect of
unleashing environmental catastrophe.
Having cleared her NATO paymasters of criminal responsibility for their
deliberate bombing of Radio Television Serbia (RTS) in Belgrade, which
killed 16 journalists and support staff, ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla Del
Ponte now asserts that Mr. Milosevic and the RTS director, Dragoljub
Milanovic, were culpable in these victims' deaths because they had been
"notified in advance" that the facility would be bombed! Despite Del
Ponte's promises, no evidence to support these charges has been made
public. Mr. Milanovic has been ordered detained by a Belgrade judge, a
clear effort by the DOS forces to dignify Del Ponte's outrageous claim.
While some DOS spokesmen refer openly to the need to cooperate fully
with the ICTY, others affect a different-sounding stance, calling for
prosecuting Mr. Milosevic in a "Serbian trial," on charges of
"corruption," and "war crimes." But their call for a domestic trial of
Milosevic is nothing but "patriotic" fakery: a pathetic trick aimed at
concealing their own craven duplicity in carrying out the orders of
their foreign masters. As the experience in Russia and the rest of
Eastern Europe has shown, bowing to Western pressure will never improve
living standards; and imposing political repression will only leave deep
and long lasting scars on the national psyche.
Let it be known that we categorically reject the case against President
Milosevic:
* Milosevic the so-called "ethnic cleanser" preached multinational
unity, not nationalist intolerance. His famous 1989 speech that
supposedly called for Serbs to shed Albanian blood actually said:
"Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under
conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it." The effort
to prosecute Milosevic is an attack on all who support multinational
unity.
* Milosevic conducted no persecution of Albanian civilians: he did not
drive Albanians from Kosovo, except to clear civilians out of a zone of
combat and bombing. Albanians who fled Kosovo fled NATO bombs and ground
combat between KLA rebels and Yugoslav federal troops. Some 100,000
Yugoslav Albanians lived peacefully in the Serbian capital of Belgrade
throughout the war, suffering no ethnic persecution.
* The most notorious "atrocities" for which Milosevic is accused never
happened: the 40 Albanians found dead in Racak were never "executed" but
in fact were KLA troops killed in action in a variety of encounters,
then laid out together in a ditch for the cameras. The 1500 bodies
supposedly buried in the Trepca mines were never found. NATO specialists
sent in to find proof of mass extermination of 100,000 Albanians in fact
found only 2,800 bodies. And most of those were neither Albanian
civilians nor even Albanians, but rather Serbs, Romas, Egyptians,
Goranis and other victims of KLA atrocities.
* There is no evidence whatsoever for the most preposterous and recent
charges: that Milosevic knew in advance of the bombing of the RTS
television station in Belgrade but let 16 people die to create outrage
against NATO, or that thousands of Albanians were stuffed into meat
grinders and disposed of in mineral mine-shafts in Mitrovica, etc.
A trial of Milosevic on these false and outrageous charges would be
nothing but a travesty of justice, a contemporary "show-trial." Those
Western leaders who pursue it put the lie to the claims that the United
Nations is a defender of the sovereignty of nations, or that NATO is a
defender of freedom. This witch hunt also exposes the leaders of the
present government in Yugoslavia as traitors to their own people who
dishonor the Serbian nation and its great history of resisting foreign
invaders, including most notably the Nazis in World War II when the
Serbs stood alone against the Nazi onslaught.
Crimes were committed in Yugoslavia - but not by Milosevic. They were
committed by American and NATO leaders who authorized a low-grade
nuclear war that specifically targeted civilians and left huge portions
of the country contaminated for the next 4.5 billion years with
radioactivity from depleted uranium armaments.
Crimes were committed by the American leaders who casually ignored their
own constitution's requirement that wars be formally declared by
Congress and then violated the UN Charter and numerous international
conventions.
A crime will be committed if the twice-elected President of Serbia is
kidnapped from his own country and made to stand "trial" in an
artificially created, American-made "court" that goes under the
fancy-sounding name of an international tribunal.
And a crime will be committed if the obedient, made in the USA
government in Yugoslavia endangers the safety of President Milosevic in
any way that might allow gangsters or bounty-hunters to cash in on the
$5 million bounty posted by the US for delivering him into captivity.
Slobodan Milosevic's real offense was that he tried to keep the 26
nationalities that comprise Yugoslavia free from US and NATO
colonization and occupation; his nation's resources, industries, and
media from being stolen by multinational corporations; his nation's
institutions from being controlled by US consultants and advisers. His
real offense was to defend his nation's freedom and sovereignty from a
political "opposition" bought and paid for by the United States and
installed into power by US specialists in psychological operations. He
and all those now under attack resisted Western colonization to the very
end, even as American naval ships waited off the coast of Yugoslavia to
ensure the "correct" results in Yugoslavia's contested elections.
Shame on those DOS leaders who consort and conspire with NATO
politicians while seeking to assign the blame for NATO's crimes on the
very patriotic and progressive figures who did the most to fight NATO's
neo-colonial aggression! In doing so, the DOS dishonors itself and
desecrates the memory of those who lost their lives to NATO war crimes.
DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST DRAGOLJUB MILANOVIC!
STOP THE POLITICAL WITCH-HUNT AGAINST PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC
AND ALL FORMER YUGOSLAV LEADERS NOW!
BRING THE NATO-KFOR WAR CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE!
Barry Lituchy, New York City, USA
Jim Yarker, Toronto, Canada
Ritta L Ronkko, NYC, USA
Dusan D Chukurov, NJ, USA
TIKA JANKOVIC, San Jose, California, USA
Milo Yelesiyevich, New York, NY, USA
Edward W. Miller, MD, San Rafael, CA , USA
Bob Mc Cafferty, Andover, NJ, USA
Margaret Watson, Toronto, Canada
Rade Savija, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Barbara Gruber, Brighton, MA, USA
Mary Paich, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
MIROSLAV ANTIC, PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO, CANADA
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Oggetto: URGENT: JOIN THE APPEAL TO STOP THE WITCH HUNT AGAINST SLOBODAN
MILOSEVIC AND FORMER YUGOSLAV LEADERS!
Data: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:17:12 -0500
Da: "Jim Yarker" <jyarker@...>
Dear friends in the anti-war movement,
We hope that the appeal below can serve as a gathering place for the
names of all those who oppose the ICTY’s campaign to impose its phony
kangaroo “justice” on Mr. Milosevic and on other former Yugoslav/Serbian
leaders and officials, and to register their protest at the collusion of
elements in the DOS régime with NATO and the Hague Tribunal. Supporters
of the appeal can have their names added to it by replying to this email
address: action@... and providing their name as well as
town, state and country of residence.
The appeal can be found on the web, with regularly updated lists of
signatories, at: http://www.srpska-mreza.com/action/appeal.htm
We are asking you to add your names and any affiliations you’d care to
list. Please feel free to circulate the appeal or its web link on any
lists you think appropriate, and to link to it from your own website if
you operate one.
In solidarity,
Barry Lituchy, New York City, USA
Jim Yarker, Toronto, Canada
URGENT ACTION: PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME TO THIS INTERNATIONAL APPEAL TO STOP
THE WITCH HUNT AGAINST SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
MARCH 10, 2001
We, the undersigned, wish to register our disgust with and opposition to
the planned trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic by the
current Serbian authorities at the request of the United States and its
NATO partners.
While NATO's criminal aggression against the people of Yugoslavia goes
unpunished, and reparations go unpaid, we are witnessing the repulsive
spectacle of DOS ministers and officials (the new regime in Belgrade)
serving as judicial handmaidens to NATO's criminal leaders and their
illegal puppet court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague.
We charge the ICTY and the American government with falsifying war
crimes charges against President Milosevic solely for the purpose of
manipulating public opinion against "the Serbs," justifying NATO's
barbaric 78-day campaign of terror against Yugoslavia in 1999, and to
deflect attention from the bombing's horrific consequences. Meanwhile,
the ICTY has exonerated its NATO sponsors of responsibility for a host
of well-documented war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the
deliberate bombardment of vital civilian infrastructure, conspiracy to
initiate a war of aggression, the lethal targeting of journalists, the
use of anti-personnel weapons such as cluster bombs in areas of high
civilian concentration, and bombing with the intent and effect of
unleashing environmental catastrophe.
Having cleared her NATO paymasters of criminal responsibility for their
deliberate bombing of Radio Television Serbia (RTS) in Belgrade, which
killed 16 journalists and support staff, ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla Del
Ponte now asserts that Mr. Milosevic and the RTS director, Dragoljub
Milanovic, were culpable in these victims' deaths because they had been
"notified in advance" that the facility would be bombed! Despite Del
Ponte's promises, no evidence to support these charges has been made
public. Mr. Milanovic has been ordered detained by a Belgrade judge, a
clear effort by the DOS forces to dignify Del Ponte's outrageous claim.
While some DOS spokesmen refer openly to the need to cooperate fully
with the ICTY, others affect a different-sounding stance, calling for
prosecuting Mr. Milosevic in a "Serbian trial," on charges of
"corruption," and "war crimes." But their call for a domestic trial of
Milosevic is nothing but "patriotic" fakery: a pathetic trick aimed at
concealing their own craven duplicity in carrying out the orders of
their foreign masters. As the experience in Russia and the rest of
Eastern Europe has shown, bowing to Western pressure will never improve
living standards; and imposing political repression will only leave deep
and long lasting scars on the national psyche.
Let it be known that we categorically reject the case against President
Milosevic:
* Milosevic the so-called "ethnic cleanser" preached multinational
unity, not nationalist intolerance. His famous 1989 speech that
supposedly called for Serbs to shed Albanian blood actually said:
"Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under
conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it." The effort
to prosecute Milosevic is an attack on all who support multinational
unity.
* Milosevic conducted no persecution of Albanian civilians: he did not
drive Albanians from Kosovo, except to clear civilians out of a zone of
combat and bombing. Albanians who fled Kosovo fled NATO bombs and ground
combat between KLA rebels and Yugoslav federal troops. Some 100,000
Yugoslav Albanians lived peacefully in the Serbian capital of Belgrade
throughout the war, suffering no ethnic persecution.
* The most notorious "atrocities" for which Milosevic is accused never
happened: the 40 Albanians found dead in Racak were never "executed" but
in fact were KLA troops killed in action in a variety of encounters,
then laid out together in a ditch for the cameras. The 1500 bodies
supposedly buried in the Trepca mines were never found. NATO specialists
sent in to find proof of mass extermination of 100,000 Albanians in fact
found only 2,800 bodies. And most of those were neither Albanian
civilians nor even Albanians, but rather Serbs, Romas, Egyptians,
Goranis and other victims of KLA atrocities.
* There is no evidence whatsoever for the most preposterous and recent
charges: that Milosevic knew in advance of the bombing of the RTS
television station in Belgrade but let 16 people die to create outrage
against NATO, or that thousands of Albanians were stuffed into meat
grinders and disposed of in mineral mine-shafts in Mitrovica, etc.
A trial of Milosevic on these false and outrageous charges would be
nothing but a travesty of justice, a contemporary "show-trial." Those
Western leaders who pursue it put the lie to the claims that the United
Nations is a defender of the sovereignty of nations, or that NATO is a
defender of freedom. This witch hunt also exposes the leaders of the
present government in Yugoslavia as traitors to their own people who
dishonor the Serbian nation and its great history of resisting foreign
invaders, including most notably the Nazis in World War II when the
Serbs stood alone against the Nazi onslaught.
Crimes were committed in Yugoslavia - but not by Milosevic. They were
committed by American and NATO leaders who authorized a low-grade
nuclear war that specifically targeted civilians and left huge portions
of the country contaminated for the next 4.5 billion years with
radioactivity from depleted uranium armaments.
Crimes were committed by the American leaders who casually ignored their
own constitution's requirement that wars be formally declared by
Congress and then violated the UN Charter and numerous international
conventions.
A crime will be committed if the twice-elected President of Serbia is
kidnapped from his own country and made to stand "trial" in an
artificially created, American-made "court" that goes under the
fancy-sounding name of an international tribunal.
And a crime will be committed if the obedient, made in the USA
government in Yugoslavia endangers the safety of President Milosevic in
any way that might allow gangsters or bounty-hunters to cash in on the
$5 million bounty posted by the US for delivering him into captivity.
Slobodan Milosevic's real offense was that he tried to keep the 26
nationalities that comprise Yugoslavia free from US and NATO
colonization and occupation; his nation's resources, industries, and
media from being stolen by multinational corporations; his nation's
institutions from being controlled by US consultants and advisers. His
real offense was to defend his nation's freedom and sovereignty from a
political "opposition" bought and paid for by the United States and
installed into power by US specialists in psychological operations. He
and all those now under attack resisted Western colonization to the very
end, even as American naval ships waited off the coast of Yugoslavia to
ensure the "correct" results in Yugoslavia's contested elections.
Shame on those DOS leaders who consort and conspire with NATO
politicians while seeking to assign the blame for NATO's crimes on the
very patriotic and progressive figures who did the most to fight NATO's
neo-colonial aggression! In doing so, the DOS dishonors itself and
desecrates the memory of those who lost their lives to NATO war crimes.
DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST DRAGOLJUB MILANOVIC!
STOP THE POLITICAL WITCH-HUNT AGAINST PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC
AND ALL FORMER YUGOSLAV LEADERS NOW!
BRING THE NATO-KFOR WAR CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE!
Barry Lituchy, New York City, USA
Jim Yarker, Toronto, Canada
Ritta L Ronkko, NYC, USA
Dusan D Chukurov, NJ, USA
TIKA JANKOVIC, San Jose, California, USA
Milo Yelesiyevich, New York, NY, USA
Edward W. Miller, MD, San Rafael, CA , USA
Bob Mc Cafferty, Andover, NJ, USA
Margaret Watson, Toronto, Canada
Rade Savija, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Barbara Gruber, Brighton, MA, USA
Mary Paich, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
MIROSLAV ANTIC, PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO, CANADA
---
Questa lista e' provvisoriamente curata da componenti
dell'ex Coordinamento Nazionale "La Jugoslavia Vivra'",
oggi "Comitato Promotore dell'Assemblea Antimperialista".
I documenti distribuiti non rispecchiano necessariamente le
opinioni delle realta' che compongono questa struttura, ma
vengono fatti circolare per il loro contenuto informativo al
solo scopo di segnalazione e commento ("for fair use only").
Archivio:
> http://www.domeus.it/circles/jugoinfo
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/messages
Sito WEB:
> http://digilander.iol.it/lajugoslaviavivra
Per iscriversi al bollettino: <jugoinfo-subscribe@...>
Per cancellarsi: <jugoinfo-unsubscribe@...>
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