---------- From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Guardian (Australia) August 29, 2001 "OK. I didn't choose to be here, but I am here. It is my destiny to use this prison as a platform to help our people." Yet another dirty NATO war in Balkans Over 120,000 refugees have fled Macedonia in recent weeks as the fascist Albanian terrorists, the so-called National Liberation Army, has terrorised Macedonians, destroyed their homes and uprooted whole communities. The war in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) pits a US-sponsored government against the US-sponsored KLA. It is part of a project by the US and NATO to destablise another Balkan republic so that the Western imperialist powers can control the whole of the Balkans. Washington's aim is to establish its hegemony and continue developing an oil pipeline that will make US oil companies dominant in the Balkans, in the Caucasus and Central Asia. "We are witnessing a monster actually created by NATO", said the FYROM Prime Minister Ljubko Georgievski. He accused the NATO "negotiators" of "forcing Macedonia to cave in to the demands from Albanian guerillas". The next target of the Albanian fascists is the destablisation and annexation of the northern part of Greece. The KLA calls this area Chameria and claims that the one million ethnic Albanians who live in the region "must enjoy their rights" and threatens that "an armed struggle will get under way." NATO lies about Milosevic trial Meanwhile in The Hague, Slobodan Milosevic is expected to be brought before the NATO war tribunal towards any day now. Milosevic and the Socialist Party of Serbia fought against NATO's dismemberment plans, opposed International Monetary Fund privatisation schemes and the reactionary elements in the pay of the US, German and other NATO countries. This is the real reason for Milosevic being kidnapped and brought before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). NATO and the ICTY lied when they brought Milosevic to The Hague and claimed a legal right to do so. Ramsey Clark, a former US Attorney General who is helping Milosevic prepare his defence says, "He has been seized, confined and illegally transported from his own country." They lied again when they informed the media that their prisoner was suicidal. "Milosevic remains strong, has an excellent spirit", says Ramsey Clark after visiting Milosevic. News reports claimed that Milosevic was being held in solitary confinement "at his own request". "This is a lie", said Yugoslav defence lawyer Dragoslav Ognjanovic who denied that his client had asked to be separated from other prisoners at the tribunal. Clark said that Milosevic's solitary confinement violates even "the tribunal's own rules and procedures". "I've seen this in many countries. The authorities try to disorient and weaken a political prisoner, especially in the first stages" by withholding visits or imposing onerous conditions. The Tribunal judge said that Milosevic would have limited rights if he decided to defend himself, yet when he was arraigned on July 3, the judge said, "You will have full opportunity in due course to defend yourself and to make your defence before the tribunal." Milosevic, with the support of a strong team of lawyers, plans to take on his own defence and to put NATO and the ICTY on trial. Milosevic told Clark: "OK. I didn't choose to be here, but I am here. It is my destiny to use this prison as a platform to help our people." _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
