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 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2002 11:06 pm Post subject: Milosovic... and the NWO victimization??? |
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Letter to Head of States
The following letter from the International Committee For Defense of
Slobodan Milosevic has been sent these days to all Heads of State in
the World. Collect and add your signatures and send it again to your
own Head of State!
February 4, 2002
Your Excellency,
We address you as an honorable and distinguished leader on behalf of
our International Committee. We wish to draw your attention to a
political injustice with possible negative implications for
international law and order and the sovereignty of all nations. On 28
June 2001 the former head of the Yugoslav State, Mr. Slobodan
Milosevic was abducted from his own country. This act was carried out
by means of a conspiracy involving elements of the present regime in
the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade and foreign elements. He was
detained by the so-called International Criminal Tribunal for former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) situated in The Hague, Netherlands. This was done
despite the Yugoslav Constitution\'s prohibition against extradition
of citizens and furthermore in defiance of an injunction against the
extradition of Mr. Milosevic imposed by the Yugoslav Constitutional
Court. The event was called an \'abduction\' even by the present
president of Yugoslavia.
On February 12 President Milosevic will face the beginning of
his \'trial\' before this \'tribunal.\' It was founded in 1993 and
authorized by the UN Security Council although the Security Council
has no right, under the United Nations charter, to create a judicial
body. The \'tribunal\'s\' stated purpose is to \'prosecute persons
responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law
committed in the territory of former Yugoslavia since 1991.\'
President Milosevic is charged with \'crimes\' supposedly committed by
Yugoslav Army and security forces during operations against terrorist
units in the Kosovo Autonomous Province of the Yugoslav federal
republic of Serbia. These terrorist units were closely linked with
and trained by al-Qaeda, Islamic Jihad and the secret services of
some NATO and neighboring countries. The terrorists committed
numerous atrocities against the civilian population of all ethnic
groups.
President Milosevic is accused without evidence for events that
allegedly took place precisely during the 1999 NATO aggression
against Yugoslavia. In fact, during that conflict the Yugoslav Army
acted in disciplined compliance with the Geneva Conventions, despite
the fact that it was fighting terrorists who operated in full
coordination and alliance with NATO Air Forces. Let us note that
other armies have acted differently when fighting terrorists.
NATO dropped 25.000 tons of bombs and missiles, including more than
50.000 shells containing about 20 tons of depleted Uranium and 152
containers with more than 35.000 cluster bombs, deliberately killing
thousands of civilians, systematically destroying the country\'s
economy and infrastructure, including refineries and chemical plants,
producing war damage of more than 100 billion dollars. This was
terrorism from the air. Meanwhile, the terrorists on the ground
butchered another thousands of civilians during the aggression and
have continued to do so since NATO took over Kosovo. They have also
destroyed more than 100 Christian churches, some of them cultural
monuments from the medieval age, which were creations of delight to
all humanity.
The \"tribunal for former Yugoslavia\" was set up in 1993 by UN
Security Council Resolutions 808 and 827, under pressure from former
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Although its Statute
assumes UN funding, the \'tribunal\' is financed primarily from
American governmental and private sources and by a few governments of
Islamic countries. In his book \"Nouvel ordre mondiale et controle de
la legalite des actes du Conseil de Securite\" (Bruxelles, 1994),
professor Mohammed Bedjaoui, the president of the International Court
for Justice (ICJ), one of the main pillars of the UN system, listed
Resolutions 808 and 827 among the very few examples when the Security
Council violated the UN Charter. This may give some moral
satisfaction. But the reality is that neither the General Assembly
nor any other institution in the UN system has ever dared to request
an opinion from the ICJ on the legitimacy of the ICTY. And the UN
institutions are the only ones authorized to do this. Moreover, the
ICTY is unwilling to let ICJ rule on its legality.
The ICTY, being a NATO sponsored \'tribunal\', has never charged any
NATO leader or pilot with any crime although such indictments have
been demanded by interested parties. These parties include the group
of distinguished Canadian attorneys led by Professor Michael Mandel
and even Amnesty International. And not one Kosovo terrorist has been
charged. But President Slobodan Milosevic was illegally abducted and
detained. He is awaiting \'trial\' because he legally defended his
country from aggression and terrorism. This is neither justice nor
equality!
President Milosevic\'s government was overthrown in a coup d\'état
in
October 2000. Control over the main state and private enterprises was
violently seized by forces financed and controlled by the Clinton
administration. (This has been admitted. For example, a public USAID
report indicates that 231 million dollars was invested in
the \'development of democracy\' in Yugoslavia during 2000).
President Milosevic was arrested in Belgrade on 31 March 2001, only a
few days after tens of thousands of people in Belgrade rallied in his
support, marking the second anniversary of NATO aggression. The
arrest was performed in a two-days-and-nights-long spectacular
action, of tens of thousands, this time policemen. They were sent
although there was no resistance, in order to manifest power and to
prevent the masses from protecting the popular leader. Criminal
charges and an arrest warrant were written only after the police
action started, and were never handed to the president.
After the three months of investigation of possible \"misuse of power\"
and \"corruption\" produced no evidence, exactly two days before
authorities were required by law to release president Milosevic, the
prime minister of the Serbian state, known for his connections with
Mafia circles and foreign intelligence, violated the Constitution,
kidnapping president Milosevic from jail and delivering him without
legal procedure or right of appeal to NATO forces in Bosnia. NATO
then brought him to their \"tribunal\" in The Hague. The Federal
authorities, including the President, did nothing to stop this nor to
punish the perpetrators, despite statements of condemnation.
The aim of this crime was to eliminate the opposition. The nation was
shamed by the promise that Yugoslavia would be given some aid in
exchange for kidnapping President Milosevic; on top of this, there is
evidence that the perpetrators personally received a $ 5 million
reward offered earlier by the US government. The abduction was
executed on June 28, St. Vitus day, the holiest day for all Serbs.
Since that time and until the present, hundreds of thousands of
people have continuously marched in the streets of Belgrade and other
Yugoslav cities, demanding the release of Slobo, protesting against
the undemocratic regime of mercenaries and former clerks of Western
companies that is quickly pushing the countries\' economy into a
condensed version of the Argentinean-type fall. They are also
protesting against the NATO protectorate in Kosovo, where, misusing
UN SC Res. 1244, NATO has imposed the rule of terrorists and narco-
dealers who have brutally harassed and murdered more people than they
did before NATO arrived.
Most NATO governments and the media under their influence, who
demonized president Milosevic in preparation for the 1999 war and the
2000 coup d\'état, applauded after he was kidnapped. Now, after
September 11 and Afghanistan, they have fallen silent. They feel
uncomfortable, since many in the world and everybody in Yugoslavia
see that terrorists in Kosovo were fought in far more legal,
organized and humane way by the Yugoslav Army, than terrorists in
Afghanistan are fought by the US Army. And the same terrorists who
are used to justify carpet-bombing Afghanistan are still treated as
esteemed political partners in Kosovo, NATO\'s protectorate. Our
International Committee for the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM)
was founded on March 24, 2001 in Berlin. This was done during the
European Peace Forum held on the occasion of the second anniversary
of NATO aggression against Yugoslavia. The ICDSM now comprises about
100 active members and nearly 2000 supporters from more than 30
countries of all continents - professors, lawyers, artists,
activists, and politicians. In addition, National Committees with the
same goal exist in 10 European countries. Harold Pinter, the
playwright from United Kingdom, Mikis Theodorakis, the composer from
Greece, Alexander Zinov\'ev, the writer and philosopher from Russia,
Peter Handke, the novelist from Austria, Boris Oliynik, the poet from
Ukraine and dozens of influential political parties and organizations
support our demand for freedom for Slobodan Milosevic. 100 Russian
senators, more than 100 deputies of the State Duma, 50 members of the
Greek parliament, 500.000 citizens of Ukraine and many others have
signed appeals with the same demand: Release Milosevic! And the
detained President has received tens of thousands of letters of
support from all over the world.
By a vast majority of the popular vote in free elections, Slobodan
Milosevic was elected President of the Republic of Serbia in 1990. He
was elected again in 1992, after, under foreign pressure on his
country and with civil wars in the neighborhood, he decided to
shorten his mandate and check popular confidence in his policy. In
1997 he was elected President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
During his time in office, citizens voted six times in general
elections. The national policy was always based on popular vote. Mr.
Milosevic is founder and president of the Socialist Party of Serbia,
which was the main force in different governmental coalitions during
the same period. President Milosevic and his party advocate equality
of all peoples, individuals and ethnic groups in a socially just,
democratic society. Because of the success in defending these values
and in protecting the political and economic sovereignty of the
country, he became the main enemy for those who produced the violent
break-up of the former Yugoslav federation using extreme nationalism
and terrorism. To cover their dirty work, they had to demonize the
leader of the biggest nation of the former Yugoslavia, accusing him
of all the terrible consequences that they have brought to the Balkan
Peninsula, the bridge between Europe and The Middle East and the
southern road to the Caucasian and Central Asian regions former
Soviet Union. With his persistent anti-war policy, president
Milosevic was the most important participant in all peace initiatives
in the last decade in the Balkans and the main promoter of policies
of economic integration and cooperation in the region. He was
celebrated for his contribution to the Vance Plan and the Dayton
Accord that ended the civil wars in Croatia and Bosnia. Now that
President Milosevic has been detained, charges have been fabricated
against him for supposed crimes in Croatia and Bosnia. And all this
under the foggy concept of \"command responsibility\".
Your Excellency,
President Milosevic is a political prisoner threatened by a purely
political show trial in a purely political institution disguised as a
court, with no democratic control, indeed controlled by the
governments of the very countries that waged aggressive war against
Yugoslavia. This institution, created in violation of the UN Charter
also violates seriously in its everyday practice the International
Covenant on Civil and Human Rights and all other universal and
European basic documents on the protection of human rights.
Presumption of guilt, unlimited detention, retroactive trial, secret
indictments and secret witnesses, and even the use of Western
security services to collect evidence - these are only the most
obvious reasons nobody should be extradited to this \'tribunal\'. Such
a legal monster should not exist, and certainly not under insignia of
United Nations. And particularly with the prospect that the
International Criminal Court, founded properly on the basis of valid
multilateral agreement ratified by the parliaments of founding
countries, will soon be established.
Your Excellency,
President Milosevic does not recognize the legitimacy of
this \'tribunal\' and refuses to participate in procedural steps for
his defense. From the \'courtroom\' he sends the world strong messages
of law and justice and lessons of patriotism and dignity. If the
president Milosevic were to be sentenced by such an illegal court
whose practice proves its political character and partiality, that
would mean the end of the principle of sovereign equality of nations
which is the basis of the UN, an organization created to secure
lasting peace, cooperation and development in the world. That would
kill the hope that relations between countries can be based on
international law and democracy. That would mean also that the
sovereignty of any nation could become a victim of imperial
geopolitical plans.
Your Excellency,
We appeal to your wisdom and virtue to support publicly our struggle
for freedom for president Milosevic. That would mean justice for
Yugoslavia. We also appeal to you to initiate appropriate action by
your government in the United Nations with the aim of abolishing
the \"tribunal for former Yugoslavia\" which attempts to put on trial
one nation in order to crush its freedom and imprison its spirit.
Respectfully,
Ramsey CLARK,
former US Attorney General, Co-Chairman ICDSM, New York, USA
Professor Mikhail N. KUZNETSOV,
Vice-Chairman ICDSM, Moscow, Russian Federation
Jared ISRAEL,
Writer and Publicist, Editor of \"Emperor\'s Clothes\", Vice-Chairman
ICDSM, Boston, USA
Liana KANELI,
Journalist and Lawyer, Member of Parliament, Vice-Chairperson ICDSM,
Athens, Greece
Serghey DOVGAN\',
President of the Peasants\' Party, Member of Parliament, Vice-Chairman
ICDSM, Kiev, Ukraine
Christopher BLACK,
Attorney, Vice-Chairman ICDSM, Toronto, Canada
Fulvio GRIMALDI,
Journalist and Film-Maker, Vice-Chairman ICDSM, Rome, Italy
Klaus HARTMANN,
Chairman of the World Union of Freethinkers, Vice-Chairman ICDSM,
Bonn, Germany
Nico VARKEVISSER,
Editor of \"Targets\" newspaper, Chairman of NGO \"Global Reflection\",
Vice-Chairman ICDSM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/ (\'morning news\' the only Serbian newspaper
advocating liberation)
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