This is being sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] as part of the mailing list that you joined. List: ICDSM URL: http://www.icdsm.org ------------------------------------------------------------ International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic www.icdsm.org The URL for this article is: http://www.icdsm.org/more/stopfarce.htm Subscribe to the ICDSM email list at http://www.icdsm.org/maillist.htm Receive no more than one article per day. ======================================= APPEAL TO PEOPLE THE WORLD OVER: DEMAND THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL STOP THE DANGEROUS FARCE AT THE HAGUE! [Posted 26 February 2002] ======================================= At the start of today's (Feb. 26) session of his so-called trial at The Hague, President Slobodan Milosevic said: "There is no kind of equality when one side has only a telephone and the other has organization, institutions, secret services, governments, and the mass media. And even my telephone was mysteriously not working yesterday afternoon. That is why I again repeat the demand for you to release me so that I may have some semblance of equality in this process and... " Before President Milosevic could finish, Judge May turned off his microphone. The 'tribunal' has made clear that its strategy for answering President Milosevic's unanswerable charges against NATO is to silence him, physically exhausting him with abusive conditions and an endless stream of obviously lying witnesses. We urge all who care about justice to protest these attacks. Show Slobodan Milosevic and NATO's 'tribunal' that he is not alone. Recently, a Radio Netherlands journalist wrote: "The performance Slobodan Milosevic is putting up at his trial for war crimes and genocide in The Hague - alone, without a lawyer to defend him - has earned him admiration and respect - not just among his supporters, but in the Belgrade newspapers and the Serb public as a whole. As one newspaper put it: 'Milosevic -1, The Hague - 0.'" (Radio Netherlands, February 22, 2002, http://www.rnw.nl/hotspots/html/icty020222.html ) It is not only the brilliance of Slobodan Milosevic's presentation and cross-examination that took the world by storm. It is the content. He has forced people previously fooled by NATO's cartoon-babble about 'humanitarian bombing' and 'collateral damage,' to face reality. NATO still sponsors the KLA and other terrorists. It destroyed multiethnic life in Kosovo. It deliberately murdered thousands in an effort to terrorize Yugoslavia into surrender. President Milosevic's style, intelligence and political message simply do not fit the fabricated media image of 'another new Hitler.' "To the outside world, used to Slobodan Milosevic being referred to as the 'Butcher of the Balkans', his courtroom performance has come as a surprise. Is this man they've seen depicted in political cartoons in their newspapers…?" (Radio Netherlands) Those of us who labor to counter media lies about Yugoslavia asked ourselves: has NATO made a disastrous error? Have they, inadvertently and at long last given truth a platform? How can NATO possibly answer Slobodan Milosevic? After two weeks, we know their strategy. They are trying to silence him. First, the foreign policy establishments of the NATO countries are using their stranglehold on the media to guarantee one-sided coverage of the 'trial.' Thus, a newspaper will report the claims of a 'witness' but not report the details of President Milosevic's devastating cross-examination. And second, the 'tribunal' is doing everything it can to physically exhaust Slobodan Milosevic and eventually, they hope, lower his morale. Example - the Dutch government, obviously on orders from the 'tribunal', has refused to give a visa to Mira Markovic, President Milosevic's wife. Example - He is awakened every day at 7am even though the 'trial' doesn't start until 9:30 and his cell is only a few minutes from the 'tribunal.' Example - Last Thursday, he was kept waiting 2 and a half hours after the proceedings ended because the 'tribunal' claimed it couldn't find a vehicle to take him back to the World War II Nazi prison where he is incarcerated. Example - He is not permitted to exercise or even to walk outside when the 'tribunal' is in session. And perhaps worst of all, the 'tribunal' is using every trick to drag out the nightmarish process. Most 'tribunal' proceedings last a few days or weeks. This one is projected to go two years, or longer, with President Milosevic forced to listen to an endless stream of ridiculous, obviously false witnesses. For example, on Monday, February 25, President Milosevic cross-examined Halil Morina. Morina claimed Yugoslav soldiers wantonly attacked his village of Landovice on March 26, 1999. President Milosevic challenged him: ''Wasn't what happened in Landovice in fact a firefight between Yugoslav forces and Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists?" Morina claimed there were no KLA members in his village. Milosevic asked: ''Wasn't a monument to Ramiz Sadiku and Boro Vukmirovic destroyed in Landovice?'' (These slain partisans, an ethnic Albanian and an ethnic Montenegrin, symbolized brotherhood in Yugoslavia.) "Yes," said Morina. "And what replaced it?" asked President Milosevic. "Why, a monument to our fallen KLA soldiers," said Morina. This prompted the following quite reasonable response: "I question that he does not know anything about these [KLA] activities," President Milosevic said. "I must say you [the "prosecutor"] are bringing in witnesses of this kind to ill-treat me. These are false witnesses." Earlier, Morina testified that Yugoslav soldiers arrived in Landovice in a particular army vehicle. Though this assertion had no bearing on anything or anyone, least of all President Milosevic, the prosecution produced pictures of different army vehicles and everyone had to wait while the 'witness' studied them, finally picking the one that looked like the vehicle in which the troops had traveled. This combination of physical abuse, isolation from family, friends and advisors - even President Milosevic's lawyers in the Dutch courts are not permitted to see him - and a stream of ridiculous 'witnesses' is the real content of the prosecution case against President Milosevic. We urge all individuals, groups, mass media and members of parliament who care about justice to protest this abuse in any way possible including with letters and petitions to the United Nations Security Council. Demand: 1) End this farce of a trial. It is already obvious the 'prosecution' has no case. 2) Until The Hague farce is ended, Slobodan Milosevic must be freed from the abusive Hague jail. He must be allowed to live in a house in The Netherlands with his family, thus preserving his physical well being and allowing him to conduct his defense and counter attack in full contact with advisers and research facilities This kind of action and public pressure must go on continuously in different forms until we FREE SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC. Milosevic must not be silenced. -- International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic Security Council Members * Mexico [President of Council in February] Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations Two United Nations Plaza, 28th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10017 Telephone: (212) 752-0220, Telefax: (212) 688-8862 * Norway [President of Council in March] Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations 825 Third Avenue, 39th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10022 Telephone: (212) 421-0280/ 0281/ 0282/ 0283/0284, Telefax: (212) 688-0554 * Russian Federation [President of Council in April] Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations 136 East 67th Street, New York, N.Y. 10021 Telephone: (212) 861-4900/4901/4902, Telefax: (212) 628-0252 Bulgaria Permanent Representative of the Republic of Bulgaria to the United Nations 11 East 84th Street, New York, N.Y. 10028 Telephone: (212) 737-4790/4791 or 327-4180/4181, Telefax: (212) 472-9865 Cameroon Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cameroon to the United Nations 22 East 73rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10021 Telephone: (212) 794-2295/2296/2297/2298/2299, Telefax: (212) 249-0533 China Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations 350 East 35th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016 Telephone: (212) 655-6100, Telefax: (212) 634-7626 Colombia Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations 140 East 57th Street, 5th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10022 Telephone: (212) 355-7776, Telefax: (212) 371-2813 France Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 245 East 47th Street, 44th Floor New York, N.Y. 10017, Telephone: (212) 308-5700 Telefax: (212) 421-6889 Guinea Permanent Representative of the Republic of Guinea to the United Nations 140 East 39th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016 Telephone: (212) 687-8115/8116/8117, Telefax: (212) 687-8248 Ireland Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 885 Second Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10017 Telephone: (212) 421-6934, Telefax: (212) 752-4726 Mauritius Permanent Representative of the Republic of Mauritius to the United Nations 211 East 43rd St., 15th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10017 Telephone: (212) 949-0190/0191, Telefax: (212) 697-3829 Singapore Permanent Representative of the Republic of Singapore to the United Nations 231 East 51st Street, New York, N.Y. 10022 Telephone: (212) 826-0840/0841/0842/0843/0844, Telefax: (212) 826-2964 Syrian Arab Republic Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations 820 Second Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10017 Telephone: (212) 661-1313, Telefax: (212) 983-4439 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 885 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017 Telephone: (212) 745-9200, Telefax: (212) 745-9316 United States of America Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations 799 United Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017-3505 Telephone: (212) 415-4000, Telefax: (212) 415-4443 ========================== FURTHER READING ========================== 1) 'By Adding Three Lies, One Does Not Get the Truth – Only a Bigger Lie ' - President Slobodan Miloševic in The Hague, January 30th 2002 (transcript) 2) 'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and Trying to Force Milosevic to Surrender?' By Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser 3) 'Illegal Tribunal - Illegal Indictment,' by Dr. Hans Koechler at http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/prog2.htm 4) How Madeline Albright Ordered The Hague 'Tribunal' To 'Indict' Milosevic at http://www.icdsm.org/more/lovie.htm 5) Official Statements Prove Hague 'Tribunal' Belongs to NATO by Jared Israel at http://www.icdsm.org/more/belongs.htm Subscribe to the ICDSM email list at http://www.icdsm.org/maillist.htm Receive a few articles a week. Click here to send the link to this article to a friend. THE DEFENSE OF MILOSEVIC - AND THE TRUTH - NEEDS YOUR HELP! NATO has billions of dollars and the media to spread lies. We have the truth, supported by hundreds of millions of people. To develop legal, educational, parliamentary and other work, our Committee needs donations, large or small, from those who want to get the truth to the people. 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