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From: Vladimir Krsljanin
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 7:34 PM
Subject: WHAT DO THEY DO TO HIM ICTY Responsible
for life and health of President Milosevic The
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague is
directly endangering the life and basic human rights of President Slobodan
Milosevic.
The long-term president of
Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, founder and chairman of the
Socialist Party of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic is held in the ICTY’s detention
unit under conditions that could rightly be considered torture. President
Milosevic’ cell is small, without access to natural air, and has a low level of
overall sanitation. He can only use the public telephone, and pays for all his
calls. He has been forced to attend the trial every weekday for the past nine
months (though with a recess in August). His workday begins around 7 AM. He
endures humiliating procedures during transport from the detention unit to ICTY
chambers and back. The trial takes place between 9 AM and 4:30 PM. During the
lunch break, he is confined to the ICTY basement, and can only eat a sandwich.
He is back at the detention unit by 6 PM, and then he must choose between dinner
and a short walk in fresh air. Thereafter, till late at night, he prepares for
the next day of the trial. For the remainder of prosecution’s case,
which is scheduled to end in May 2003, he has to review over 100.000 pages of
text and over 600 videotapes submitted by the
prosecution. The length of the
trial and the amount of materials he has received are irrelevant to the
indictment, and their primary purpose is to wear out President Milosevic. His
legal assistant cannot visit him on weekends. Unlike other prisoners, who are
allowed to see their families every day, and even unsupervised, Mr. Milosevic
can see his family only once a month, for 2-3 days, and always in under
supervision. All other visits to President
Milosevic are subject to exceptional restrictions as
well.
President Milosevic suffers from
malignant hypertension and ischemical myocardiopathy (angina pectoris). Psychological and
physical exertions to which he is subjected, combined with poor living
conditions, can easily lead to a heart attack, stroke, even sudden death. Even
so, the President not only lack specialised medical care, he lacks any medical
care at all. After numerous appeals and requests from Belgrade, and after his
full medical files have been sent to the ICTY, the trial chamber approved a
medical check-up. This happened only once, on July 11, 2002,
and was performed by Dutch general practitioners approved by the ICTY. The
physicians nonetheless confirmed that the President’s living and working
conditions represent a risk to his life and health, and that it would be necessary to
reduce the exertions to which he was subjected, and provide a check-up and care by a cardiologist. The trial chamber
considered their report and recommendations on July 25 and August 26, 2002, and concluded
that they should not be implemented to the letter, but “in spirit”.
However, to the
present day, no cardiologist has been allowed to examine President Milosevic,
while the trial – previously adjourned by 2PM - has again been extended to 4:30
PM every day.
All of this indicates that the
trial is but an organized attempt to murder President Milosevic. Only his
release, followed by medical care and recuperation in Belgrade
under supervision of
specialists who have treated and monitored his health for years, as well as his
ability to defend himself as a free man in the later on continued
process, could remove further
risks to President Milosevic’s life and secure the elementary equality of the
trial.
Beograd, 31
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