-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 5:55 PM Subject: The Hague: De Profundis
> Rambling accusations? Unlike a solid decade of lurid, > unfounded and unfortunately largely uncontested > personal, cultural and racial slanders and > dehumanization in Western Balkans coverage? > Where the only fine shade of difference permitted to > those who would avoid being ostracized and purged from > state, party and journalistic positions for speaking > the truth about Yugoslavia (Tony Benn in Britain, > Oscar LaFontaine in Germany, the former Canadian > ambassador to Yugoslavia James Bissett, the novelist > Peter Handke in Austria, perhaps the greatest living > English-speaking playwright Harold Pinter in Britain, > etc.) was how inhuman and irredeemable the government > and people of Yugoslavia were and how soon NATO should > have bombed and even invaded them. > Time running out? Even Hitler's court system allowed > Giorgi Dimitrov greater latitude and length of > testimony than NATO's inquisition does Slobodan > Milosevic. > Indeed the British 'Judge" Richard May "look[ing] down > from his lofty perch in the Hague" sounds dismissive > when in his "plummy British accent he asked just how > long the former Serb president planned to continue > speaking." > The regal I am not amused. A death sentence. > As long as it takes to establish the guilt of American > and European leaders past and current for twelve years > of unremitting economic, political, propaganda and > military warfare against the long-suffering people of > Yugoslavia, the Serbian people in the first place, is > the truthful answer. > Judge May doesn't sound only dismissive, but suborned; > like the appointed inquisitor of not only citizen > Slobodan Milosevic but all of the people of Yugoslavia > and all friends of peace and justice worldwide. > Bully pulpit. The former elected president of an > unoffending nation of some ten million people, who > neither sanctioned nor attacked any other nation or > people, but instead was assaulted for twelve years, > culminating in a 79-day terror bombing of its total > civilian sector, economy and environment, is accused > of bullying the world on a rare occasion when he's > permitted outside his spare prison cell. > But the NATO alliance, with nineteen nations and > ninety times the population of Yugolavia, accounting > as it does for an overwhelming military superiority in > the world, never has the word bully applied to it by > its shamelessly supine press corps. > Journalists, those with integrity, and there have > always been some, have sacrificed their lives in the > pursuit of truth. Many have languished in prison > cells, have been tortured, have been executed for > their dedication to their profession and their > personal human integrity. > Perhaps what is best in humankind in all respects - > not just political probity, a novelist's vow to pursue > the truth at any price, a dramatist's artistic > mission, the heroic vocation of the honest reporter - > but what is best about all of us that is in the dock > in Carla Del Ponte's and Lord Robertson's > inquisitorial torture chamber] > > > --------------------------- > AFP. 15 February 2002. Time running out for Milosevic > to make his case. > THE HAGUE -- Time was running out for Slobodan > Milosevic on centre stage of his epic war crimes trial > Friday, when the court ruled it had heard enough of > his rambling accusations against NATO and the West. > It gave Milosevic just 90 extra minutes to speak on > Monday before the first witnesses begin filing in to > testify against the former Yugoslav president, who > faces life in prison for genocide and other atrocities > during the Balkans wars. > International TV networks on Friday were already > turning away from non-stop coverage of Milosevic's > combative opening statement, in which he said Western > leaders were the true war criminals who belong on > trial instead. > Once Monday comes, Milosevic will lose perhaps his > last chance to appeal directly to world opinion that > he is being persecuted by a powerful and wealthy court > he says is illegal, dishonest and unfair. > Judge Richard May sounded the tiniest bit dismissive > when he looked down from his lofty perch at The Hague > court and asked in his plummy British accent just how > long the former Serb president planned to continue > speaking. > Milosevic, who has relentlessly heaped scorn on the UN > tribunal, immediately replied: "As you know I have no > conditions to prepare in, nor do I have any > assistance. So I really don't have any idea how long > this could take." > "We shall expect you to finish this evening," May shot > back. > In the end the judge relented and gave Milosevic an > extra hour-and-a-half on Monday, or until the > mid-morning recess, to wind up his remarks. > "I don't think you should limit this statement of > mine," Milosevic said, getting in response from May: > "We will determine what is a reasonable amount of time > for you." > Milosevic has devoted much of his opening statement > which began Thursday to a stinging attack on NATO, > which bombarded Milosevic into submission with 78 days > of air strikes in 1999. > He has shown gruesome photos of civilian casualties of > the bombing, including heads without bodies, dead > babies covered in dust and blood, and mangled remains > poking from the rubble of bombed-out buildings. > He compared the West to Nazis, said they were war > criminals who crafted an "ocean of lies" to justify > their air campaign, and incessantly mocked the team of > prosecutors trying to put him behind bars for the rest > of his life. > But Milosevic will lose his bully pulpit after > mid-morning Monday, when his only chances to speak > before the court for months will be when > cross-examining the prosecution's witnesses. > Most importantly, prosecutors say they do not have > enough evidence to investigate possible war crimes by > NATO, reducing the legal relevance of many of his > accusations close to zero. > With time running out on Friday in an opening > statement that will have lasted 10 hours when it > finishes Monday, however, the silver-haired Serb > leader showed no signs of switching tack -- or backing > down. > While describing a pile of bodies of ethnic Albanians > he said were targeted by a NATO bomb, Milosevic > suddenly interjected: "The prosecutor is probably > bored. 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