Belgrade, 22 January
2004
To: Mr. Theodor Meron, President,
ICTY, The Hague, The Netherlands
Cc:
H.E. Kofi Annan,
Secretary General,
UN, New
York, USA
H.E. George W. Bush,
President of the USA
Washington, USA
Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,
Queen of the United Kingdom
London, UK
Mr. Meron,
The ICTY Trial Chamber presided by Mr. Richard May adopted on 5 February
2004 the Order Scheduling Hearings to the Close of the Prosecution Case in the
process of President Slobodan Milosevic. By the Order, it was decided that the
daily length of all the hearings in the next two weeks shall be prolonged, so
that hearings will be held also in afternoon hours.
It is apparent that by ordering the prolongation of the hearings, the
Chamber violates its own, earlier decisions and orders determining that the
hearings shall be held in morning hours only, adjourning not later than 01:45
p.m. We remind that these earlier orders were adopted after several specialist
medical examinations of President Milosevic as a consequence of the clear
physicians’ warnings about the serious character of his health condition and
about the risks for his health and life produced by the process itself.
Moreover, the physicians explicitly recommended that the length of the hearings
shall be shortened.
You are certainly aware that during the whole this week President
Milosevic was ill from flu and that at the time when the Order was adopted, he
has not been recovered yet.
The situation in which, in spite the several medical reports and warnings
and in spite the current deterioration of Mr. Milosevic’s health (when it is
uncertain whether and when he will be able to participate in the hearings),
without consulting the medical specialists and severely violating its own
decisions, the Chamber arbitrarily prolongs the length of the hearings, one can
characterize no other way but as direct threat to President Milosevic’s
life.
Therefore we warn you that as the ICTY President you have a duty to
instruct the Chamber to review and abolish this inhumane Order or to reverse it
yourself.
On behalf of the Freedom Association Managing Board
Bogoljub Bjelica, President
STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND TRUTH ABOUT THE SERBIAN PEOPLE AND YUGOSLAVIA IS IN THE CRUCIAL PHASE. NATO AND ITS SERVICES IN BELGRADE AND THE HAGUE HAVE NO INTEREST TO SUPPORT IT. SO IT TOTALLY DEPENDS ON YOU! A SMALL TEAM OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S ASSISTANTS, WHICH IS BECOMING INTERNATIONAL, HAS TO HAVE CONDITIONS TO WORK AT THE HAGUE IN THE TIME OF INTENSIVE PREPARATIONS FOR THE FINAL PRESENTATION OF TRUTH AND DURING THAT PRESENTATION. TO DONATE, PLEASE CONTACT SLOBODA OR THE NEAREST ICDSM BRANCH, OR find the instructions
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