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read when he appeared, August 30, before the 'tribunal' in The Hague.


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Statement of President Slobodan Milosevic
on The Illegitimacy of The Hague 'Tribunal'
[30 August 2001]
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"Can a criminal tribunal for Yugoslavia which ignores pervasive
violence by the U.S. and diverts public awareness from United States
conduct and legitimatizes by silent acceptance aerial and missile
assaults on civilians and illegal weapons use against one country
after another, making its repetition expected before it occurs,
contribute to the hope for the rule of law, justice or peace?"


There are three fatal legal flaws in the so-called International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Each has disastrous
consequences for the human quest for peace, the rule of law,
democracy, truth and justice.

1. THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT EMPOWER THE SECURITY
COUNCIL TO CREATE A CRIMINAL COURT

The U.N. Security Council has seized power it does not possess,
corrupting the Charter of the United Nations, placing itself above
the
law and threatening "We Peoples of the United Nations" with a lawless
future in which a superpower employs the scourge of war to have its
way. Nothing in the history of the planning, drafting, discussion,
approval or ratifications of the U.N. Charter implies, or is
consistent with, an intention to empower any body created by, or
under, the Charter to establish any criminal tribunal. The words of
the Charter and their textual inferences, the structure and
allocation
of power and duties, including those in the incorporated Statute for
the International Court of Justice, all negate the existence of any
capacity under the Charter to ordain criminal courts. The Criminal
Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia is illegitimate and its creation a
corruption of the United Nations.

There would never have been a United Nations if its Charter stated,
or
implied, that a criminal court could be created under its authority.
No one who believes in historical truth, or that words have meaning
can, after examining the history of its creation and its text,
contend
that the Charter of the United Nations empowers the Security Council
to create a criminal court.

An International Criminal Court Can Be Created
Only By A Multinational Treaty, Or
Amendment to the Charter of the United Nations

The national representatives who have served on the Security Council
and in the General Assembly and the scholars, lawyers and experts who
have labored for more than thirty years to bring into being an
international criminal court have recognized that the only lawful and
binding way such a court can be created is by an agreement among
nations through a treaty agreed upon for that purpose, or by amending
the Charter of the United Nations under its strict provisions
regulating amendments to authorize, or establish a court.

When an International Criminal Court was finally agreed upon in July
1998 by 120 nations meeting in Rome, it was by treaty which had been
studied, drafted and debated for years. The United States, the most
powerful participant in that long process, consistently sought to
weaken the treaty to exempt U.S. leaders and military personnel from
prosecution before it. Having failed, the U.S. was then the most
prominent and powerful of the handful of nations that refused to
sign.
As of August 1, 2001 37 nations, the Netherlands the most recent, had
ratified the treaty.

The United States is vigorously trying to persuade, coerce, or bribe
nations not to ratify.



Creation of the International Criminal Tribunal
For The Former Yugoslavia Was A Lawless Act Of
Political Expediency by the United States Designed
To Demonize and Destroy an Enemy And Frustrate
Creation of a Legitimate International Criminal Tribunal

At the insistence of the U.S., the Security Council nearly fifty
years
after it came into being forged a new and powerful weapon capable of
demonizing a nation and its people and depriving individuals of their
liberty for the rest of their lives, and placed it largely in the
hands of the United States. The principal precedents for such
pseudo-judicial actions over several millennia preceding the creation
of the U.N. are trials of leaders and soldiers of vanquished
populations by the victors in war, and courts used by colonial powers
to control and punish subjugated peoples. The precedents are many and
the violence and cruelty and hatred they usually exposed and caused
was extreme.

Unless It is Limited By The U.N. Charter And
International Law, The Security Council Can Do
Whatever It Chooses To Do

If it is not restrained by the United Nations Charter, the Security
Council can commit any act it desires disregarding all law. Early
proponents of United States world power claimed such unbridled
discretion for the Security Council publicly. Thus in 1950 John
Foster
Dulles wrote:

"The Security Council is not a body that merely enforces agreed law.
It is a law unto itself... No principles of law are laid down to
guide
it, it can decide in accordance with what it thinks is expedient."

If unchallenged, this concept of Security Council power means that
the
most powerful international organ created by the Charter of the
United
Nations "to end the scourge of war" is above all law, domestic and
international.

But absolute discretion is the very definition of lawlessness and has
been called "more destructive of freedom than any other of man's
inventions," by U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. All
rights of all nations, races, religions, cultures, political parties
and individuals are thereby subordinated to the will of the Security
Council, and the single superpower that too often will dominate it.
All but fifteen nations are excluded from Security Council counsels.
Each of the five permanent members can veto its actions.

The Security Council is subject to domination by a single nation. The
representative of each member votes as instructed by the national
government that appoints him and to serve the interests of that
government, not as an international statesman serving all peoples and
the purposes for which the U.N. was created. The Security Council is
inaccessible, anonymous and less responsive to democratic processes
than any other international political institution.

2. A ONE-TIME, ONE-EPISODE COURT TARGETING ONE COUNTRY, CREATED BY
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL POWER TO SERVE ITS GEO-POLITICAL INTERESTS IS
INCAPABLE OF EQUALITY AND CONDUCIVE TO DIVISION AND VIOLENCE

The illegitimate Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia corrupts
justice and law because it is incapable of acting equally among
nations, or within the politically targeted nation. It will increase
violence, division and the risk of war with neighboring nations and
peoples and within Yugoslavia among the segments of the society the
U.S. policy of Balkanization of Former Yugoslavia has set against
each
other and against the new government the U.S. has installed for its
own purposes.

If the United Nations Charter had authorized the Security Council to
create criminal courts, it could not create a court for one nation or
episode for political purposes, to persecute selected groups or
persons, and such a court is incapable of equal justice under law. An
ad hoc court violates the most basic principles of all law. Equality
is the mother of justice. An international court established to
prosecute acts in a single nation and primarily, if not entirely, one
limited group is pre- programmed to persecute, incapable of equality.

If the Security Council can create a criminal court to prosecute
conduct in a single country like Yugoslavia, it can appoint a court
for any country, selecting enemies or political and economic
opportunities for targeting one at a time, while never exposing
itself, or those who comply with its wishes, to such selective
prosecution. If the U.S. or any ally or client state it chose to
protect was the subject of a serious effort by the Security Council
to
be honored with a criminal tribunal in its own name, the U.S. would
veto the threatened action.

A Court created only for crimes in one country is by definition
discriminatory, incapable of equal justice, a weapon against chosen
enemies, or antagonistic interests and war by other means. If there
is
to be any international criminal court, it must act equally as to all
nations with none above the law. The ad hoc tribunal for a single
nation corrupts international law.

By its very nature, an ad hoc Tribunal can be created only after the
conduct the Security Council decides justifies creation of the Court,
since there is no other excuse for its creation. It is in every case
ex post facto. This violates an ancient principle of law. It also
requires the Security Council, if there is to be a rational basis for
its action, to make some preliminary claim to finding of facts, a
task
such a political body is not designed for, that inherently
incriminates a country or faction by placing the imprimatur of the
Security Council of the United Nations on a political decision of
fact
necessary to justify the creation of the Tribunal. The very charge of
the Security Council - genocide, crimes against peace, war crimes, or
crimes against humanity - demonizes any person thereafter accused.

The Selection Of A Nation For Prosecution
On Political Findings Of Genocide, War Crimes
And Crimes Against Humanity Creates
A Compulsion to Convict.

Investigators, prosecutors and administrative personnel who join a
temporary Tribunal to pursue allegations of humanity's greatest
crimes
against a people and leaders already demonized will feel they have
failed if there are not convictions. The very psychology of the
enterprise is persecutorial. Few judges appointed to serve on a
Tribunal created under such circumstances will feel free to acquit
any
but the most marginal, or clearly mistaken, accused, or to create an
appearance of objectivity.

Powers That Create Ad Hoc International Criminal
Tribunals Divert Attention From Their Own
Offenses, Or Failures, Or Those Of Allies And
Their Political Surrogates While Continuing
To Inflect And Threaten Mass Destruction With Impunity.

The ad hoc Tribunal which targets a country is incapable of
prosecuting what may be greater crimes committed in the same
conflict,
by a power, coalition, ally or political agents that was and remains
a
much greater source of violence and threat to peace. Most often the
power which forced the creation of the target tribunal to further
damage and demonize its enemy is shielded from criticism by the
avalanche of propaganda against the accused supported by the
appearance of United Nations neutrality and peace-making efforts.

What court will consider the criminality of aerial bombardment by
U.S.
aircraft of defenseless civilians, their housing, water systems,
power
plants, factories, office buildings, schools, hospitals, which take
thousands of lives directly and causes billions of dollars of
property
damages in Belgrade, Nis, Novi Sad and scores of other cities, towns
and villages? What threat to peace continues from the U.S. bombing of
the Chinese Embassy?

Who will be held accountable for the devastation of Pristina by NATO
planes, or the attacks on refugee columns in Kosovo and Metohia? Is
the U.S. use of cluster bombs exploding razor sharp metal fragments
over an area as large as a soccer field in the courtyard at the
hospital in Nis no crime? Will the Security Council act to prevent
and
punish the use of depleted uranium by the U.S. which is as
indiscriminate in its radiation as the air, the water, the soil and
food chain it touches and contaminates for millions of years?

International law accepts bombing of defenseless civilian populations
by a militarily advanced technology that can destroy a country
without
even setting foot on its soil because super power controls
international prosecutions and determines violations. The dominant
element in modern military power is mass destruction. Victors are
nations with the greatest capacity for mass destruction. This places
civilian populations at maximum peril; infrastructure supporting
civilian life, buildings, water, power, transportation,
communication,
food production, storage and distribution, health care, schools,
churches, mosques, synagogues, foreign embassies were the direct
object of U.S. aerial and missile attacks. Several thousands of
civilians were killed directly and many more indirectly. The U.S.
claims it had 159 casualties, a third from friendly fire, none from
combat.

In 1998, the U.S. directed 21 Tomahawk Cruise missiles from
international waters to destroy the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in
Khartoum, Sudan which provided more than half the medicines available
for a people who are very poor and have been unable to replace that
supply. The U.S. continues to support insurrection in the South of
Sudan and threaten Sudan with prosecution in an ad hoc international
criminal tribunal.

NATO does not claim it prevented violence within Kosovo and Metohia
among the Serbian, ethnic Albanian and other peoples. In fact, NATO
accelerated that violence. It bombed Serbia for 79 days, targeting
civilians and citizens, destroying billions of dollars worth of
civilian facilities, using illegal weapons including cluster bombs,
destroying the civilian Serbian TV and radio buildings. It bombed
Kosovo and Metohia heaviest of all, destroying most of Pristina,
killing thousands of Albanians, Muslims, Serbs, Romany, Turks and
others, and causing hundreds of thousands of people to flee from
Kosovo and Metohia. Damage to the Yugoslavia military was negligible.
In the summer of 2001 the U.S. continues to use cluster bombs in
northern and southern Iraq which it attacks on most days.

And in 1999 when the U.S. and NATO countries came into Kosovo and
Metohia as a "security force", they refused to intervene on the
ground
to protect people who were endangered in the province.

There will be no remedy or relief for Serbian victims of atrocities,
some 500.000 purged by Croatia with the approval, if not on the
instructions of the U.S., forever from their homes in Krajina, the
more than 330.000 permanently purged from Kosovo and Metohia since
the
cease fire in 1999, or for the thousands of Serbs, Romany and others
killed by the U.S. and NATO bombing assaults, or by the U.S.-
supported
terrorist organization, the so-called KLA, before, during and after
the assaults. The Macedonians killed, injured and driven from their
homes by U.S.-condoned if not instigated KLA aggressions which
threaten civil war in Macedonia and general war in the Balkans will
not lead the Security Council to create a Court to prosecute the
perpetrators.

Major Powers Are Not Accountable For Their
Actions Which Cause War, Insurrection
And Violence Within Targeted Countries.

There will be no accountability by the U.S., Germany and other
nations
whose acts and pressures forced the break-up of Yugoslavia, stripping
Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia and attempting to strip parts of
Serbia such as Kosovo and Metohia.

The U.S. and several European nations have Balkanized the region in
the most artificial and forced apartheid the Balkans, or any other
part of the world has ever known. Their acts have made peace,
stability and prosperity impossible. Economic viability of small
fragmented parts depends on foreign economic interests intended to
dominate and exploit the region. The new apartheid leads to U.S.
planned conflicts between the western Catholic Croatians and the
eastern Orthodox Serbs, creating conflict and a wall between Western
and Eastern Europe. More dangerous, it sets the stage for violence,
encouraging international conflicts between Slavic peoples and
Muslims
to decimate and debilitate the obstacles to the U.S. world order.
Kosovo and Metohia, as a part of Serbia, and Macedonia are current
examples in a long list of tragic and avoidable violence between
Muslims and Slavs, which has occurred to different extents in
Afghanistan, Dagestan, Chechnya, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Bosnia.

A Federal Republic Of Balkan States Long
Set Against Each Other By Foreign Powers
Was Formed To Established Peace, Cooperation
And Prosperity.

The idea of Yugoslavia, a Balkan federation to heal divisions and
provide a better chance for living together in peace and prosperity,
was seen as important in the years after World War I as a means to
peace. While the idea floundered between the two worst wars in
history, it worked with remarkable success after World War II in
which
it was ravaged, but unconquered. An independent and unified Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia was a long-term successful solution for south
Slavic peoples. It was a bulwark of the Non-Aligned Movement. With
the
collapse of the Soviet and Eastern bloc economy it was the remaining
socialist government threatening capitalist control of Europe. With
its mixed market economy it offered an example to former Eastern bloc
countries for revival of their economic and political independence.
With a successful, functioning Federal Republic of Yugoslavia there
was living proof history had not ended, that more than one economic
system was possible.

After the collapse of the Eastern bloc economy, a greater Balkan
federation, a southeastern European Union, was seen by many in the
region as the means to prevent economic exploitation, avoid violence
and develop a strong and independent political, social and economic
region.

Foreign capital and the geopolitical interests of the U.S. considered
this a dangerous obstacle to their plans for the New World Order,
globalization, new colonialism.

The United States Having Demonized
Yugoslavia Attacks It With Impunity
And Persecutes Its Leadership.

The U.S. mercilessly bombed Yugoslavia for 79 day. It tried to
assassinate me by bombing my home, offices and other places, where it
believed I might be. It attempted to kill Libya's head of State
Muammar Qaddafi in its 1986 raid on Tripoli and Iraqi president
Saddam
Hussein on numerous occasions beginning in 1991, including its 1993
cruise missile attack on the Al Rashid in Baghdad at a time it
believed he would be there meeting international Islamic leaders.

Through economic sanctions, the most extreme and overt form of forced
impoverishment and economic assault, the U.S. has coerced the
Security
Council into complicity in the longest, deadliest and cruelest
genocide of the last decade, the sanctions against its enemy Iraq
which have killed at least 2 million people, the majority children.
The United States has forced economic sanctions against Yugoslavia,
severely damaging its civilian economy and eroding its will to
independence.

Can a criminal tribunal for Yugoslavia which ignores pervasive
violence by the U.S. and diverts public awareness from United States
conduct and legitimatizes by silent acceptance aerial and missile
assaults on civilians and illegal weapons use against one country
after another, making its repetition expected before it occurs,
contribute to the hope for the rule of law, justice or peace?

The United States, itself immune from control or prosecution and
above
the law, uses its power to cause the persecution of enemies it
selects
to terrorize and further demonize. It manufactures and sells arms to
chosen nations, to groups seeking to overthrow governments it
opposes,
uses illegal weapons against defenseless people with impunity,
continues to consolidate and expand its near monopoly of nuclear
weapons and sophisticated rocketry, spends trillion on unilateral
protection from Star Wars assuring a continued arms race while
poverty
overwhelms billions, hunger cripples millions, starvation takes
hundreds of thousands of lives and AIDS spreads among poor nations.

It cripples international environmental protection, undermines
control
of nuclear weapons by threatening to withdraw from long standing
protections of the ABM and Non Proliferation treaties. It refuses to
ratify treaties to protect life from land mines which it continues to
manufacture, sell and deploy. It threatens to undermine a treaty
controlling biological and chemical warfare. And the United States
regularly engages in covert operations and violent military
interventions in other nations in violation of their sovereignty and
law.

The so-called ICTY is not just another arrow in the arsenal of the
United States with which it persecutes and demonizes enemies and
corrupts international law. The ICTY celebrates inequality in the
rule
of law using criminal sanctions to destroy selected leaders and
governments.

It is a poisonous arrow destructive of the foundations of peace among
independent nations of equal rights and dignity.

3. THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA IS
INCAPABLE OF PROTECTING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, OR PROVIDING DUE PROCESS
OF LAW.

Such an ad hoc Tribunal has a temporary and limited purpose without
helpful precedent, common tradition or relevant experience. It lacks
power to enforce orders, or compel the disclosure of evidence and the
presence of witnesses, particularly for the defense.

It is not capable of finding facts fairly, or defining and applying
legal principles equally. It cannot do justice.

The statutory mandate for the ICTY makes it hostile to concern for
the
rights of those accused before it, because it is told the crimes
charged have occurred and the accused have been demonized.

The right to assistance of counsel, so firmly established in
international law, has been denied and frustrated by the Tribunal
even
in its most prominent cases. The Registry denied to me the right to
consult with lawyers of my choice on legal matters for several weeks
after my arraignment.

The Registrar wrote that for the one attorney who visited me during
that time and for only two hours, it would have been
''inappropriate''
to discuss the case because the conversation was monitored and
confidences would be violated. Lawyers from Yugoslavia I ask to
consult, with one exception, a monitored two hours visit, were still
denied approval and visas to enter the Netherlands seven weeks after
my arraignment.

Instead I was held in solitary confinement. I was able to visit my
wife only after more than two weeks imprisonment and then only
through
soundproof glass using monitored telephones. She was prohibited from
speaking with the press and kept isolated from all public contacts
while in the Netherlands, a virtual prisoner in her hotel room,
except
as she traveled between the airport, the prison and the hotel.

The Ad Hoc Tribunal Is Intended To Demonize
And Destroy, Not To Fairly Determine Facts,
Protect Rights Of The Accessed, And Apply
Legal Principles Equally.

Unfair phenomena is inherent in the purpose and the nature of
temporary ad hoc tribunal, struggling without personnel who are part
of a legal tradition, far removed from the place the accused came
from
and the events occurred where the court is charged by its creator not
to presume innocence, but that terrible crimes have occurred and the
accused are from the group that committed them. They do this to
protect the real criminals, the NATO leaders who killed thousands of
innocent people in NATO's criminal aggression.

Truth Is Beyond The Reach And The Purpose Of
The Ad Hoc Tribunal Which Is Intended To
Punish, Destroy And Divide.

It has been impossible in all cases before powerless ad hoc Tribunals
for the accused to obtain needed evidence and witnesses for their
defense. The ICTY has been unable to obtain custody of many accused
in
the former Yugoslavia and has resorted to, or condoned, improper and
illegal means to pressure their surrender.

Ad Hoc Tribunal Terrorize And Punish Those In Yugoslavia Who Dared To
Oppose NATO Aggression And To React To Criminal Acts Of Terrorists
Who
Were Killing Serbs, Albanians, Muslims, Turks etc.

In Yugoslavia, the U.S., in violation of international and domestic
laws of both Yugoslavia and the U.S., has installed a government of
its choice in the Republic of Serbia and ousted me from the
presidency
of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by bombing, economic coercion
including sanctions, physical threats, covert operations and
corruption of the electoral process.



The U.S. Creates Client Governments By
Forcing Elections, Using Millions Of Dollars to Purchase Unity For
Its
Candidate, Then Finance A Campaign That Buys Votes And Corrupts
Democracy.

The U.S. injected more than $ 100.000.000 (US) to defeat the
Government of Peoples Unity that was in power until October, 2000.

The U.S. has intervened in many foreign elections and often installed
governments subservient to its interests by that means.

The creation of an ad hoc international criminal tribunal with
threats
and indictments of the leadership of the government it seeks to
remove
is an additional devastating assault on the democratic process and
the
government targeted for destruction.

My Abduction and Surrender To The
ICTY By A U.S.-Installed Serbian Government
Was Done In Violation Of The Constitutions Of The
Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia, The Republic
Of Serbia, The Statute Creating The ICTY
While The Federal Constitutional Court Of
Yugoslavia Reviewed The Request For Surrender
For A Bribe Of, Supposedly, 1.3 Billion Dollars.

The U.S.-installed government of Serbia abducted and surrendered me
in
violation of the Constitutions of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
and the Republic of Serbia and its Laws while the request for
surrender was under review by the Constitutional Court of Yugoslavia,
which had forbidden any act related to surrender until the Court's
final decision. That was also a violation of the U.N. Security
Council
Resolution creating the Tribunal which provides that surrender shall
be accomplished in accordance with the domestic laws of the nation
requested to make the surrender. The United States threatened to
block
$1.3 billion (U.S.) in international loans and aid for Yugoslavia
unless the surrender was accomplished by a date it set. Such conduct
and the participation and acceptance of it reveals contempt for the
rule of law by the Tribunal, the new government of Serbia, or the
United Nations.

The illegal seizure of an individual and his delivery to isolation in
the prison of an illegal international criminal tribunal in a distant
nation threatens the freedom of everyone. For the United Nations to
engage in, or accept, international kidnapping of political leaders
tells the world that the old ways of violence, deceit and coercion
are
its ways. Those ways will be met in the only way they can be met, by
the same means.

The New U.S.-Installed Government of Serbia
Is Using Its Police Power to Crush Political Opposition in Serbia.

The current government of Serbia is engaged in crushing and
demonizing
its domestic political opposition. The regime will surrender accused
persons to the ICTY in violation of its own laws as it surrendered me
in order to destroy political opposition at home and receive payments
of money and support from abroad for the ruling politicians. It acts
to frustrate any support or investigation for my defense, even
attempting to ban entry and deport Ramsey Clark when he flew to
Belgrade in June to discuss my political persecution. In the hope of
eliminating rival domestic political power, it put hundreds of people
in detention on purely political grounds.

That government may fabricate evidence, destroy evidence and control
and coerce witnesses to assist in convictions by the ICTY, and it
will
seek to frustrate defense efforts to obtain documents, other
evidence,
and witnesses in Yugoslavia needed for the defense in the Hague.

The People of Serbia and Yugoslavia Risk a
Tragic Future from the External Manipulation
And Control of Their Governments.

The new government of Serbia is a puppet for the United States. If
there is any expectation a U.S.-supported government might be better
for the people of Serbia, or Yugoslavia, ask Iranians if they believe
they fared better under the Shah of Iran, enthroned in 1953 by the
U.S. for 25 years, than they would have under democratically elected
President Mossadegh and elected successors. Was a long line of
military governments which brutally repressed the people of Guatemala
for decades better for the people than democratically elected
President Arbenz who was removed by United States forces in 1954? Was
Mobutu, who for four decades brutalized, bankrupted and corrupted the
country, better for the people than democratically elected Patrice
Lumumba assassinated with U.S. complicity in 1960? Did General
Pinochet better serve democracy, human rights and the welfare of the
people for decades than the democratically elected Salvador Allende
murdered in a U.S.-supported golpe in Chile in 1973? It would be
difficult to find four greater national tragedies in the last fifty
years, all brought about by the United States determination to
control
those regions.

Ask the people of the several score other countries who have lived
under U.S.-supported tyrannies, "our SOB's" as FDR called Somoza in
Nicaragua, how they benefited. An ad hoc criminal tribunal created to
crush the leadership of the opposition to a U.S.-installed government
cannot bring peace, reconciliation, protect human rights, or enable a
people to live and prosper together. It will create fear, hatred,
division and violence.

Consider the peoples of the poorest countries of the world during
these last decades obediently struggling to repay loans for projects
and purposes they did not choose and that never benefited them while
their own citizens die from hunger and preventable illnesses.
Consider
the economies of eastern Europe, or of the former Yugoslav republics
and ask why per capita income is often less than half, sometimes less
than 25% what it was just twelve years ago. Ad hoc criminal tribunals
will prolong the suffering in poor countries by supporting
governments
that will maintain foreign domination that seeks benefits that will
worsen that condition.

The Violence And Division Within Yugoslavia
Since The Collapse Of The Soviet Economy Was
Caused By U.S.-Led Acts Designed To Balkanize
The Federal Republic And Its Member
Republics With The ICTY As Principal Weapon.

The United States engaged in a decade long effort, aided by several
European countries, to break-up and destroy the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, causing the secession, (remember the American Civil War)
of German-oriented Slovenia and Croatia with 500 000 Serbs purged
from
its borders. Then Bosnia was pried away from the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia and segregated into an unnatural three-region religious
apartheid, Muslim, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian. Now
Macedonia is in turmoil, nearing civil war from the aggression of the
U.S.- stimulated and supported terrorist organization, the KLA. Thus
Yugoslavia became former, losing half of its population and wealth
and
leaving only Serbia and Montenegro. Kosovo and Metohia, an
historically precious part of Serbia, remains occupied by NATO Forces
after 79 days of aerial bombardment in 1999.

U.S.-led aerial assaults inflicted billions in damages on civilian
facilities, killed thousands of civilians throughout Serbia in the
name of NATO. Thereafter the United States and NATO watched as 330
000
Serbs were forced out of Kosovo and Metohia and many hundreds
murdered, emboldened by the United States. Violent efforts to remove
all Serbs from Kosovo and Metohia continue. And the KLA has been
empowered to attack Macedonia.

The ICTY was created at the insistence of the United States which had
stimulated violence and secession in the republics of Slovenia,
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and attempted division and
conflict in the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohia and in three
municipalities in the south of Serbia and throughout the former six
Republics. The U.S. intends to persecute and demonize leaders who,
together with the people, by defending freedom and by resisting
aggression of the NATO war machinery, had defied its will, and at the
same time make the people seem savage. Madeleine Albright, while U.S.
Ambassador to the U.N., was the driving force for creation of the
ICTY. The U.S. Ambassador to the Tribunal, David Scheffer, concedes
the ICTY is ''supported, financed, staffed and provided information''
primarily by the United States.

Now as the idea and existence of ad hoc tribunals are threatened by
the treaty creating the International Criminal Court the United
States
is exerting pressure to prevent nations from ratifying it. It is also
pressing for new ad hoc Tribunals for the Democratic Republic of
Congo, Sierra Leone, Sudan and elsewhere, to dominate those regions
and defuse the drive for the International Criminal Court. The
treaty,
signed in Rome in 1998 by 120 nations was ratified by the 37th
nation,
the Netherlands, in late July 2001.

The United States prefers to select nations for persecution while
protecting itself, its allies and favored client states. Ad hoc
tribunals which are illegitimate, incapable of equal justice under
law, by their nature unable to conduct fair trials, or provide due
process and whose victims have long since been convicted in the
United
States-controlled media are a U.S. weapon for establishing long term
control and exploitation of targeted nations and regions. That is
their globalization; that is new colonialism.

For these reasons, the so-called ICTY should be declared illegal and
its prisoners, legally and illegally surrendered, should be released.


***

Further Reading:

1) On the 'tribunal,' see NATO's Tribunal: Straight From the Horse's
Mouth, at http://www.icdsm.org/more/horse.htm

2) On the huge U.S. effort to install a quisling regime in Belgrade,
see:

'We Accuse!' Memorandum On Foreign Interference in the Yugoslav
Elections - Statement of the Yugoslav government just prior to the
Oct. 5th coup d'etat. At http://emperors-clothes.com/memor.htm

Milosevic's TV Speech to Yugoslavia. Delivered Oct. 2, 2000. At
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/milosevi.htm

The International Monetary Fund And The Yugoslav Elections' by Michel
Chossudovsky and Jared Israel. Summarizes devastating effects of
World
Bank/IMF intervention in several countries. Discusses link between
Western financial takeover and social-political destruction.
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/1.htm

''Kostunica Says: Some Backers 'Unconsciously Serve Amercan Imperial
Goals.'" Excerpts from 'NY Times' article and comments by Jared
Israel
and Max Sinclair. This is the article in which the 'Times' writer
notes that "suitcases full of [US] cash" go the opposition.
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/erlang.htm

'Emperor's Clothes Interviews Radio B292'
Revealing interviews with two staff members at a U.S.-paid
"independent" radio station in Belgrade.
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/emperor.htm

'Will the US Get Their Money's Worth in Yugoslav Elections?' by
George
Szamuely at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/szamuely/willthe.htm


'U.S. Law Passed by House of Representatives on Funding Yugo
Opposition and Harsh Terms for Lifting Sanctions'
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/1064.htm

3) President Milosevic uses golpe, Spanish for 'blow,' as the French
use coup d'état.

www.icdsm.org



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