[Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Miroslav Antic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sorabia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; BALKAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; SNN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 'YAHOO' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: 'Sin' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; NATO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 12:46 AM Subject: Milosevic advised by former US attorney general [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- Milosevic advised by former US attorney general Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, awaiting trial at a UN tribunal in Hague on "war crimes" charges, received legal advice Tuesday from former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, a major critic of the tribunal. Clark, attorney-general in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s, has called for The International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to be scrapped. "Ramsey Clark visited Mr. Milosevic yesterday and today," tribunal spokesman Jim Landale said. "He will visit him again tomorrow. He gave him legal advice." He did not elaborate. Clark, 73, who also sharply criticised the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, has said he was considering representing Milosevic at his trial. He has argued that the ICTY lacks legitimacy and is a tool of US foreign policy. At his first court appearance on July 3, Milosevic refused to enter a plea and challenged the court's legitimacy to try him on charges of "crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the 1998-1999 Serbian crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo". Clark earlier this month went to Belgrade to give the Milosevic defence team a few pointers for the trial. A wildcard leftwing lawyer and critic of US foreign policy after leaving the Johnson administration, Clark told the lawyers to play up the US role in NATO's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia. The defence should "talk about the responsibility of the United States in the NATO bombings of Yugoslavia, for 78 days ... for the forceful departure of hundreds of thousands of Serbs from Kosovo ... and for the current crisis in Macedonia," he told journalists. Meanwhile, a lawyer representing Milosevic denied his client had asked to be separated from other prisoners at the tribunal. "This is a lie," Dragoslav Ognjanovic, one of the lawyers defending Milosevic in Belgrade on domestic charges of abuse of power and financial misdealings, told a news conference in Belgrade. Milosevic has so far been separated from all Bosnian Serb remand prisoners since his dramatic June 28 transfer from Belgrade to the tribunal. The court's chief prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, has now proposed that Milosevic remain separated from only four co-detainees, with effect from Saturday, and be allowed to associate with the others, a court spokesman said, something he said Milosevic had said he is against. "Despite the prosecutor's new proposal, Milosevic let it be known to the clerk of the court's office that he wished no contact with any detainee," the court spokesman said. "This wish has been granted." Milosevic's lawyer Ognjanovic refuted the claim. He said the decision to isolate Milosevic was "contrary to the regulations on the detainees treatment, which mandates an isolation of two weeks maximum." http://english.sohu.com/20010801/file/1635,244,100020.html ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://TOPICA.COM/u/?a84x2u.a9spWC Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
