----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Yarker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:21 PM Subject: Milosevic on the counterattack
http://www.workers.org/ww/2004/edit20909.php Workers World, Sept.9, 2004 EDITORIAL Milosevic on the counterattack The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, seems incapable of presenting a convincing case against its most famous defendant, even when it stacks all the rules against him. Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic opened his defense case Aug. 31 with a blistering political attack, not only on the illegitimate court but also on the NATO forces that created it. Even as Milosevic was blasting the NATO aggressors for working over 10 years to destroy the multi-ethnic and multi-religious state of Yugoslavia, the factual testimony against him presented in two years of the prosecution case was evaporating. The latest pre-defense revelation came out in an article in the Ottawa Citizen, which interviewed a Canadian detective sergeant, Brian Honeybourn. The detective had joined the hunt for mass graves in the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo. Honeybourn said, "It seems as though The Hague is beginning to panic" because no one could find mass graves in Kosovo. Honeybourn was on one of the United Nations teams searching for the "mass graves." But the biggest burial site contained 20 bodies--not an astonishing number after a year-long civil war and 79 days of NATO bombs. Milosevic had four hours to present his defense opening. The prosecutors had taken three days to present their opening arguments in February 2002. This is typical of the ICTY: The judges believe if they outweigh the defendant by at least six to one, they will beat him. The prosecution has a team of 1,300 employees at $100,000 each per year; Milosevic has a few assistants and almost no funds. Now, to make sure he will lose, the court plans to strip him of his right to defend himself. They plan to use his illness--high blood pressure and heart problems--as an excuse to impose unwanted counsel on him. Ninety internationally famous lawyers, including former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, have already protested this last unjust tactic. Milosevic's only advantage is that he is not guilty of the 66 charges against him. And that he can present a powerful political argument against the U.S.-NATO aggressors who tried to bomb Yugoslavia flat to intimidate those they didn't murder. =============================================== (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support independent news http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php ================================================= [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/VL0olB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Peruuta ryhm�n tilaus l�hett�m�ll� s�hk�postia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kominform2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
