STOP
THE POLITICAL ARRESTS IN BELGRADE!
Yesterday and today, several members of
SLOBODA, SPS and YUL have been arrested. For some of them, home apartments and
offices have been searched by the police. At least three of them have been kept
in detention. After SLOBODA reacted today with the statement bellow and with a
press conference, and some electronic media started quoting our position, the
regime ordered all such reports to be stopped. Than, this evening, the police
appeared with its statements, announcing that “Mira Markovic is in Russia” and
informing that some comrades have been kept in detention. They gave no real
explanation. In the case of Bogoljub Bjelica, chairman of SLOBODA they said
“Continuing the investigation of the hardest crimes and collecting the evidence
in order to arrest orderers, inspirers and assistants, the police arrested for
questioning and kept in detention Bogoljub Bjelica, one of the closest
associates of the former President of FRY Slobodan Milosevic”. In the case of
Uros Suvakovic and Goran Matic, the police stated that they’ve been kept “as
closest political associates of Mira Markovic” due to suspicion that they are
“in possession of information that can help the investigation” of the case of
Ivan Stambolic, since, according to the statement of the police, Mira Markovic
“is suspected to be involved in this murder”.
So, we know that Belgrade US/NATO/Hague
executioners keep illegally and with no ground nor
charges:
1.
Bogoljub Bjelica, President of
SLOBODA/Freedom Association – Yugoslav Committee for the Defense of Slobodan
Milosevic, Chairman of the Organizational-Political Committee of the President
of SPS, former Deputy Federal Minister of Defense;
2.
Uros Suvakovic, Member of the Board of
SLOBODA/Freedom Association – Yugoslav Committee for the Defense of Slobodan
Milosevic, Main Editor of the Theoretical Journal of SPS “SMISAO”, former
Assistant of the General Secretary of SPS;
3.
Goran Matic, Vice-President of YUL, until
recently Federal MP, former Federal Minister of
Information.
STATEMENT
OF SLOBODA/Freedom Association
The
fiasco of the co-called trial in The Hague caused panic inside the ”tribunal”,
in the regime here, as its Belgrade office, and among their common masters.
Except the desperate attempt to threaten the life and health of President
Milosevic, forces of aggression against our freedom and our people have not
found any mean to confront his magnificent struggle for the truth, which
inspires and mobilizes the forces of peace and freedom at home and
abroad.
The attempt to
use the state of emergency in Serbia, imposed in an illegal way by the
illegitimate regime, for an attack to President Milosevic, his family and
associates, speaks itself for their stupidity and
weakness.
It is against the
common reason and cynical, and even from a moral and logical point of view
unacceptable, to try to link individuals and groups, proclaimed earlier by the
regime as “heroes of the 5th of October revolution”, who took part in
downing and arrest of President Milosevic, with him and with members of his
family.
The official
statements sent to the media prove that we are dealing with a totally illegal
behavior, lynch and lack of the rule of law. One of the examples is that it is
declared that the wife of President Milosevic is in escape, although it is
absolutely clear that there is nothing she should run away from and that as a
free citizen she has the right to move and travel freely.
The regime that
has lost every hope that it can survive free elections tries to prolong its
days, which are already counted, by the misuse of the media and by the
suppression of the citizen’s rights and freedoms.
This is also an
attack on political opponents, free expression of political opinions and
fundamental, internationally guaranteed human rights and freedoms.
We demand from
the police the immediate release of the President of SLOBODA/FREEDOM
Association, Mr. Bogoljub Bjelica, and to stop the persecution and misuse of the
media against the members of the family of President Milosevic, arbitrary
arrests of the members of our association and other individuals who did not
violate any law.
We call upon all
democratic political subjects, all domestic and international organizations for
the protection of human rights, and all progressive forces and honest
individuals to react in the strongest possible way against such a practice of
the Belgrade regime.
Send your appeals
to the embassies, diplomatic missions and consulates of Serbia and Montenegro in
your respected countries. Act publicly!
SLOBODA/FREEDOM
Association, Belgrade, March 29, 2003
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