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From: Vladimir Krsljanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <mailto:Undisclosed-Recipient:@smtp.sps.org.yu>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 12:10 AM
Subject: JOIN THE ICDSM LETTER OF APPEAL TO ALL HEADS OF STATES!
THE FOLLOWING LETTER FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR DEFENSE OF
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC HAS BEEN SENT THESE DAYS TO ALL HEADS OF STATES 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,
Professor Velko VALKANOV,
Former presidential candidate and Member of Parliament, President of the
Bulgarian
Antifascist Union, Founder and Co-Chairman ICDSM, Sofia, Bulgaria
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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