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Milosevic in the Hague.

The leading Finnish newspaper published Helsingin Sanomat in February 2001 published a report by a research group according to which Slobodan Milosevic was responsible for the "Racak massacre". Yet according to previous investigations there was no real massacre and nobody has been found guilty. This was the way to bring one more imperialism´s enemy to the political court.

On the other hand, Berliner Zeitung was honest. According to their corresponding news text the now published papers do not give any essential new information about the Racak incidence.

The former president Slobodan Milosevic is now a victim of political trial. He is accused for faked war crimes or genocide. Actually he is guilty only for opposing the NATO.

Afterwards we can say that Milosevic failed in his bourgeois internal politics but he had good posture in foreign politics.

Arresting Milosevic was a political act. In the background there are foreign powers, USA and the EU. The Yugoslav goverment was blackmailed to carry out the operation on very weak legal basis.

On June 22nd, 2001 the NATO suffered a political defeat in their aims to get Milosevic to the Hague political "court". The Yugoslavian parliament did not accept the law planned for this purpose under foreign pressure. In this situation a new unscrupulous process took place. The next day the government of Yugoslavia drew up a governmental decree which allows to take Milosevic abroad. This act is against law and against parliamentary practice.

Milosevic's lawyers appealed a government decree making the extradition of Yugoslav citizens possible.The highest court, the Constitutional Court, handled the case but time ran out. Some people were really in a hurry.

According to many political observers subjugating of Yugoslavia by this unlegal decree means capitulation in the war which the NATO began on March 24th, 1999. Even several Milosevic´s political enemies have resisted implementation of the decision. It might mean disappearing of the state of Yugoslavia from the world map.

Milosevic's handover came true just hours after judges of the Constitutional Court indefinitely suspended a government decree that allows his extradition to The Hague tribunal, ruling that the Court needed more time to consider the government decree.

The parliament, the president and the Constitutional Court were ignored when giving Milosevic to the NATO´s hands in the Hague. The Yugoslavian president expressed his anger in a strong speech. The prime minister resigned to protest unlegalities.

Major parties in the Serbian Republic of Yugoslavia demanded strongly in the beginning of July that the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague immediately release former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.

It is easy to anticipate the further process. It follows the Lockerbie-style. The interior circles of USA, the EU and the NATO fabricate accusations and forge evidences. The court, which belongs to the same circles, gives the verdict.

In June 2001 Yugoslav Ambassador to U.S. denied Visa to Ramsay Clark, International Human Rights Attorney Seeking to Visit Belgrade, as U.S. Pressure to Deport Milosevic Intensifies International Action Center Calls for Emergency Campaign to Grant Visas.

In July 2001 legal proceedings have started in Yugoslavia against the government because of unlegalities in connection of the case Milosevic. A new cabinet was quickly appointed. Thus the dirty hands have been cleaned nice and easy.

According to the opinion of Gerard Strijards, professor of international criminal law at the University of Groningen, even law of procedure has been violated in the very beginning of the "trial". Exatcly like in the Lockerbie case.

Attorney Ramsey Clark consulted in August 2001 with imprisoned former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

The tribunal, called the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, failed to get a United Nations mandate to function as a propaganda arm of NATO. It has illegally restricted Milosevic's contact with lawyers and other friendly visitors.

Clark showed that the ICTY violated Slobodan Milosevic's rights from the moment it abducted him.

Decree of the Federal Government on extradition of Yugoslav citizens to the so-called Hague Tribunal (ICTY), has in November 2001 finally declared unconstitutional and illegal by the Federal Constitutional Court. The same Court originally suspended the Decree on St. Vitus Day (June 28) in the morning and prohibited any action by anyone which could be performed on the basis of the Decree. Same day, abduction of President Milosevic and his delivery to the Hague without any legal procedure was done by Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Djindjic and ICTY/NATO officials. Today's decision of the Federal Constitutional Court implies Djindjic/ ICTY/ NATO action criminal.

In the first hearing in August 30th, 2001 in the "court" Milosevic´s speech was unscrupulously interrupted by the judge. The media was not allowed to hear what Milosevic has to say. However, his statements have been published:

Indian FM has in his statement in August 2001 condemned the abduction of Milosevic as an unscrupulous violation of international laws.

In October 2001 a group of authoritative lawyers, politicians and scientists from various countries have begun an operation to free Milosevic.

In November 2001 the Hague "court" has accepted their "material" sufficient to accuse Milosevic for mass murder.

In December 2001 the "court" issued accusations against Milosevic according to the NATO and Washington manuscript. Milosevic himself is not interested in this absurd show.

Slobodan Milosevic called former U.S. President Bill Clinton to testify during his U.N. "war crimes trial" in The Hague, a senior official of his Socialist Party was quoted as saying on December 19th, 2001.

Milosevic has appealed to the Human Right Court for his arresting and other unlegalilies.

The Hague prosecutor has in December 2001 said that the "evidences" are valid. Of course. It belongs to the manuscript.

In January 2002 the Council of Europe has focused the unlegalities in the Milocevic process.

The process against Slobodan Milosevic was in difficulties in January 2002. Many "wittnesses" have denied to give statements.

The "trial" began in February 2002. The process is not too interesting because no doubt the verdict has been written in advance like in the Lockerbie-farce.

The contemporary president of Yugoslavia has in February 2002 in publicity condemned the hyporcitical "trial" on Milosevic.

In the process in Hague Milosevic has made excellent speeches. According to honest media the accusations at least in moral sense turns from Milosevic against NATO.

It must be an unpleasant surprise for the organizers of the the political hunt and the "trial" to get against them not a sacrificial lamb but an intellecual lawyer, who additionally has truth behind him.

In May 2002 Milosevic has successfully continued crossexamination of the so called wittnesses. Lies after lies have occurred.

NATO and the Hague "court" continue in spring 2002 the unscrupulous economic and political pressure against the Yugoslav government in order to turn the Hague process to go in accordance of their own political aims.

In June 2002 a Serb witness for prosecutors in the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic was held in contempt of court after he refused to answer their questions.

There are even certain comics connected with the "trial". In June 2002 the United States threatened to disrupt international peacekeeping operations unless its own peacekeepers are exempted from prosecution in the United Nations' new war crimes court. US soldiers may be really prosecuted because of murders in Bosnia. Under the US pressure the UN made a cowardly decision. US troops will not be prosecuted for one year.

In 2002 Slobodan Milosevic has been ill continuously. He has not been treated in any appropriate way. In case Milosevic dies, we can assume that we deal with a coldblooded murder in order to solve the embarrassing problems of the "trial".

In June 2002 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe found serious violations of law in the case of Mr. Slobodan Milosevic.

In July 2002 Milosevic was supported by Rado Marcovic, the former chief of the secret police of Serbia. According to Marcovic´s testimony Milosevic had given an order to protect ethinc Albans in Kosovo.

The meaning of the "historical trial" was to show the world that nobody can defy the NATO. In summer 2002 it was clear that this goal had not been reached and will not be reached. Just the opposite. In front of TV-cameras and press Milosevic has been able to reveal the dishonest political character of all the process. On the background of revealed new facts the NATO itself is in practice now accused for crimes against humanity. Only the US and - for some reason - Finnish media trie to hide the real contemporary situation.

In August 2002 SPS (The Serbian Socialist Party) has nominated Slobodan Milosevic as their candidate for Serbian president.

In August 2002 the farce in Hague got some new features. The prosecutors tried to use as wittness Miss Jacky Raqland, who had no connections at all with the accusations in question. The ICTY attempted to hide this stage from the media, but failed. Milosevic ridiculed the wittness right away.

September 30th, 2002. The Hague´s nightmare comes true. According to the Russian Pravda Milosevic stroke above the belt. A bunch of accusations engineered since 1990 collapsed at once.

In November 2002 Milosevic was again seriously ill with his angina pectoris. In case he does not get appropriate treatment, he will likely die. It were a murder.

In December 2002 the Russian parliament unanimously passed a resolution calling for former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to be examined by Russian doctors. No publicity in the West. Milosevic got more ill again in August 2003.

In August 2003 Milosevic was isolated. This act means quite obviously that time of political verdict is close. Neither Milosevic nor his defenders voices must not be heard in publicity.

September 2003. Around 30 MPs of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, from several parliamentary factions, signed a joint communiqué, reacting in strongest terms to the violation of the fundamental rights of President Milosevic at The Hague and fully endorsing his request for a two-years break of the process, combined with his release from detention.

November 2003. Absolute and utter hypocrisy and irrefutable proof that the Hague Tribunal is nothing but a NATO kangaroo court and the trial, a NATO show trial. Wesley Clark, the U.S. General and NATO commander who planned and led NATO's illegal war on Yugoslavia is responsible for NATO's deliberate targeting and bombing of civilians and civilian infrastructure. He is personally responsible for the deaths of upwards of 4000 Yugoslav civilians and the wounding and maiming of thousands more. In a just world, and at a real tribunal, mass murderer and war criminal Clark would be in the prisoners dock, not Slobodan Milosevic.

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Solobodan Milosevic, August 30th 2001

STATEMENT OF PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC ON THE ILLEGITIMACY OF THE HAGUE "TRIBUNAL"

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 ho 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 Dullas 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 CONDUCTIVE OF 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, the 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 creation of the Tribunal. The very charge of the Security Council - genocide, crimes against peace, war crimes, or crimes against humanity demonized any person thereafter accused.

The Selection Of A Nation For Prosecution in 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 humanities 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 their 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 hain 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 supper 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 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 attempted stripping of parts of Serbia like 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 south eastern 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 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 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 sound proof 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 thr 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 President Milosevic for 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 forbiden 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 that world 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 grunds.

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. Lead 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 U.S. stimulated and supported terrorist organization KLA aggression.

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. lead 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 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 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.

The Hague

August 30, 2001

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I ONLY DEFENDED MY PEOPLE FROM TERRORISM ALLIED WITH CLINTON

(transcript of the statement of president Slobodan Milosevic in the Hague "court room" on October 29, 2001 in the morning)

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:

First of all, I do not submit any motion to this court because I do not recognize this court. If you consider what I say at this microphone as a motion, that would be your business.

Secondly, regarding amici curiae, I understood your explanation when you appointed amici curiae, that their appointment should contribute towards fair trial, if at all in such an illegal procedure any mention can be made of fair trial. I think that by this, collection of new concepts is enriched, since now a situation where two teams work for the same purpose may now be named The Hague Fair Play. As far as this flood of new amendments and indictments is concerned, that flood may not submerge the truth since the truth is known to millions of people.

I have heard here, as on the previous occasion, expressions of concern because I do not read documents from this false indictment, since, allegedly, I should learn what for I am accused of. I would wish to state that I know very well what for I am accused of. I am accused because I defended my people, in a legal manner and by legitimate means, on the basis of the right of self-defense that belongs to every nation. It was my honour and privilege to defend my people against the criminal aggression committed against it and to defend my people against terrorism Clinton's Administration was closely co-operating with, something no one would be able to deny.

The truth may not be drowned by no flood of false indictments. I do not have any intention to get acquainted with contents of something that is completely fabricated and very distanced from the truth.

Regarding discourse I have heard here on the issue who was appropriate authority and whether some government should have done something before some other government, I am amazed that even the lawyer from Belgrade, member of amici curiae, speaks on issues of authority, forgetting that no government could not have authority to enter into any deal that would violate Constitution of Serbia and Constitution of Yugoslavia.

I am glad that gentlemen from the amici curiae are conscientious that they may not speak on my behalf and that I do not have anything to do with them.

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Milosevic Says U.N. Court Like a 'Retarded Child'

October 30, 2001 8:00 am EST

By Paul Gallagher and Abigail Levene

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Slobodan Milosevic told the U.N. war crimes court on Tuesday it was a farce that operated at the level of a "retarded seven-year-old child" and accused it of inciting "terrorism" against Serbs.

Milosevic, who has been indicted for crimes against humanity in Croatia and Kosovo and is expected to face charges of genocide in Bosnia, accused the court during his fourth pre-trial appearance of persecuting him and the Serb people.

"Please go and read out the judgements you are instructed to read and don't bother me and make me listen for hours on end to texts that are at the intellectual level of a seven-year-old child," he said after listening to the indictments on Monday.

"Or rather let me correct myself -- a retarded seven-year- old child," the 60-year-old ousted Yugoslav president said in a highly charged display of contempt for a court he has branded an illegal tool of his NATO enemies.

On Monday, Milosevic refused to plead to charges of spearheading "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo in 1999 and in Croatia in 1991-92. In 1999, NATO launched a bombing campaign against Yugoslavia after a Serb crackdown against Kosovo Albanians.

"This trial has direct implications on inciting terrorism in southern Serbia. In the past few days and months, Albanian terrorists in southern Serbia have been slaughtering, killing, plundering, burning and doing everything as they did it before," he said. "They have been given wings."

Serbia has blamed ethnic Albanians for what it calls terrorist acts along the border with Kosovo, which has a majority Albanian population.

Two Serb policemen were killed and two wounded in a village near the Kosovo border in August. Last month, two Serb policemen were slightly wounded when their jeep exploded. Serb police blamed former guerrillas, but they denied responsibility.

Milosevic referred to the U.S.-led war on terrorism launched in retaliation for the September 11 suicide plane attacks on New York and Washington. The Bush administration blames Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden.

"Unlike the previous administration, this one has proclaimed war on terrorism. The previous administration knew bin Laden was in Albania two years after their embassies were attacked, and they discussed that fact with me," he said, referring to attacks on U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in August 1998.

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SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: THE SECOND ACT OF THE CRIME AGAINST SERBIAN PEOPLE

PRAVDA.Ru publishes Slobodan Milosevic's statement made in the Hague Tribunal on October 20, 2001. However, before reading this text, please pay attention to the fact that all the arguments set out by Milosevic were earlier used by Russian diplomacy as well. However, neither Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov or President Putin says this. This is why we invite our readers to read the statement from Slobodan Milosevic.

THE SECOND ACT OF THE CRIME AGAINST SERBIAN PEOPLE

(full transcript of Milosevic's "J'accuse," delivered in the Hague)

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:

I demand that you disqualify the prosecutor for obvious reasons, and I will mention only two. First, we heard her yesterday, loud and clear, reading the indictment concerning Kosovo, which only deals with events from the 24th of March until the end of first week of June, when, second, the whole planet knows that it is exactly from the 24th March until the first week of June, inclusive, that NATO committed its criminal aggression against Yugoslavia.

The indictment and what we have heard implies that NATO did not commit aggression against Yugoslavia, but rather that Yugoslavia committed aggression against itself and therefore the consequences of seventy-eight days and seventy-eight nights of bombing Yugoslavia, in which 22,000 tons of bombs were delivered causing huge number of victims - these are not effects of any NATO aggression, but instead are the effects of the aggression Yugoslavia committed against itself.

This is not simple partiality. Partiality is too mild a word. What we have heard surpasses even what we used to hear from the enemy side, i.e., from the NATO spokesman. Thus, it is obviously a case of what you would call total partiality. IF the court is able to remain blind to the fact that from the 24th of March to the first week of June aggression was committed, that the number of victims was huge, that 22,000 tons of bombs was delivered and that an attempt is being made to blame all this on Yugoslavia as if it committed these crimes against itself and to absolve NATO - and I think that even such an illegal court must take into account these facts - if the court does not want to take into account these facts, then it is obvious this is not a court, but only a part of the machinery for the execution of crimes against my country and my people.

If the latter is the case, if the court s would not take into account even such flagrant bias and would disregard such a crucial matter as the aggression, so as not to disqualify the prosecutor for impudent presentation of untruth and for siding with the aggressor if that is the case, and therefore, the court is part of the machinery, then, please, read the verdicts you have been instructed to reach and stop bothering me &endash; making me listen for hours to texts written at the level of a seven-years old child; to put it more precisely - a retarded seven-year old child. Do not bother me, read your verdicts. I think all of this up to now has been a farce. If what we heard yesterday is accepted, that Yugoslavia committed aggression against itself and that there are no consequences of the NATO aggression as far as the prosecution is concerned, all that follows would be a circus. That's why I am suggesting that you reach the verdicts immediately so as to avoid all the procedural problems you are facing.

Second I wish to tell you something and to warn you. I wish to warn you that these trials have a direct influence on inducing terrorism in the south of Serbia. I wish to warn you that these days, these weeks and months Albanian terrorists at the south of Serbia are cutting throats, setting the fires, raping, beating up, plundering and doing everything else they used to do in Kosovo and Metohia. They were given wings because in distinction to the current American administration that has declared an antagonistic position regarding terrorism, the previous administration was in alliance with terrorism. They knew that Osama bin Laden was in Albania two years after he demolished their embassies. They even commented on that fact when meeting with me and my associates. So, please do not induce terrorism in the south of Serbia because people there are suffering too much. You should also bear in mind that because of such terror and under the Untied Nations auspices 330,000 persons were driven from Kosovo and Metohia. 330,000 mainly Serbs under the auspices of the United Nations.

JUDGE MAY:

We have heard that and we would be very glad to hear what you have to say, whether there is something you wish to say regarding your physical and mental state.

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:

So, now I have to limit my comments only to that, is that it? OK.

Then I wish to request of the court, since I have heard that the opposite side insists that I have no 'privileges' in regard to an expeditious trial, so that I understood your plan is to have the trial last some three years, let me at least not be discriminated against in respect of treatment. Therefore I request that cameras be removed from my prison cell, and that you cease to have your officials present when my family visits. The Explanations for cameras in the cell are senseless. It is explained that cameras are needed to prevent me from committing suicide. I wish to declare here in front of this court that I would never commit suicide because first of all I do not want to do that to my children and my family, to make them children of one who committed suicide.

Secondly. I would never commit suicide because I have to fight here, to destroy this court and this mockery of a trial and it's employers who are using this court against persons fighting for freedom in the world.

Thus, kindly remove the cameras and the officials, because the rule, that cameras could be installed for one month is being abused for 4 months now without any reason, misusing the one month rule because you have the power to do it.

That is what I am requesting, not to be privileged, but not to be further discriminated against, at least in that respect. As far as monitoring of other meetings, taping of telephone conversations, etc., that you ordered,t hat's your problem, you may continue to do that. After all, when my family is here your officials don't have to be present - you may eavesdrop, even without their presence, so I would ask you to free me of this unpleasantness as much as possible.

I ONLY DEFENDED MY PEOPLE FROM TERRORISM ALLIED WITH CLINTON

(transcript of the statement of president Slobodan Milosevic in the Hague "court room" on October 29, 2001 in the morning)

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:

First of all, I do not submit any motion to this court because I do not recognize this court. If you consider what I say at this microphone as a motion, that would be your business.

I am glad that gentlemen from the amici curiae are conscientious that they may not speak on my behalf and that I do not have anything to do with them.

Reuters photo: Former president of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic appears for the court of the International Crime Tribunal in The Hague, October 30, 2001

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/11/05/20168.html

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RIA Novoti

November 6, 2001

2001-11-06 22:31 * NETHERLANDS * PM * MILOSEVIC * DEMAND *

MILOSEVIC HARANGUES DUTCH GOVT

THE HAGUE, November 6. /From RIA Novosti's Andrei Poskakukhin/. Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic has demanded the Dutch government within 10 days find a solution to challenge his arrest and detention in a UN prison in The Hague.

The ultimatum, which was made public on Tuesday, was set out in a letter sent on Milosevic's behalf by his Dutch lawyer to Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok. The lawyer threatened unspecified legal action in case the Dutch government failed to respond positively.

The lawyer complained that the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague had limited the time of his conferences with Milosevic and disallowed document exchanges. He argues the regulations constitute a violation of human rights, which is technically being perpetrated in the Netherlands, thus making the Dutch government responsible.

Milosevic has earlier sued the Dutch government for his release from jail. A city court in The Hague rejected the suit, but the former Yugoslav president appealed against the ruling. A likely timetable for the appeal hearing is within the next few months.

Milosevic has also sued Dutch lawyer Michail Wladimirow, whom the tribunal has appointed as amicus curiae in the trial, for alleged curtailment of his right to conduct his own defense. No hearings have been held on the suit.

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"I DESERVE CREDIT FOR PEACE

NOT WAR!" - MILOSEVIC

- Those who have been breaking up Yugoslavia are guilty for war.

- This "trial" is a punishment for our resistance to the worst tyranny that has ever threatened mankind.

-Using false accusations they try to hide the fact that they have allied with terrorists.

-We have been defending the freedom and equality of all individuals and all peoples.

PATRIOTS WILL SOON, ONCE AGAIN,

RULE SERBIA!

President Slobodan Milosevic in the Hague, December 11, 2001

(full transcript):

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

[After the reading of the "indictment" for Bosnia and Herzegovina]

I want to tell you that what we have heard here, this miserable text, is the ultimate absurdity. I deserve credit for the peace in Bosnia, not the war. The responsibility for the war lies with the powers that have been breaking up Yugoslavia and with their agents in Yugoslavia, not with Serbia, not with the Serbian people and not with Serbian policy. This is an attempt� [Here the mike was turned off]

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

[In the debate on unifying the 'indictments']

All that we have heard today from the so-called prosecution only confirms that the focus here entirely misses the point, but so as to not have the mike turned off again, I will stick to arguments that respond to your question.

It is entirely clear to me why this false prosecution insists on "unifying." It is because of September 11th. They want to divert attention from the accusations against me concerning Kosovo since those accusations inevitably open the question of the Clinton administration's collaboration with terrorists in Kosovo, including bin Laden's organization.

Second, regarding what we have heard today, they are conscious that, if they focus on Kosovo, they cannot, regardless of the illegality of this court, avoid having the main perpetrators of the crimes committed against my country and my people, starting from Clinton, Albright and Clark and then also the others, appear before this body, nor could they avoid the appearance here of many peace brokers whose activities and cooperation in searching for peace deny the accusations - I would say, monstrous accusations - that have been made here.

So, their reasons for attempting to "unify" are totally pragmatic and aimed at the protection of those who have committed crimes against my country, and are not, as they claim, intended to ensure an efficient trial since they certainly do not care if I get tired out or not. I have told you before what I think about that.

As for their crowning argument, the accusation that we were motivated by the aim of creating a "Greater Serbia," that argument can be very easily disproved and I think that no reasonable person should dare to use that argument, which they have put forward as the mythical basis for all crimes. Nobody should try any longer to impute, to impose, or to abuse that argument in any way.

Here are irrefutable facts: On April 28, 1992 the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed. On April 28, 1992, that is, before the conflicts began, before the civil war broke out, that Constitutional Assembly declared, in its official document, our position: that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has no territorial pretensions regarding any of the former Yugoslav republics. This is absolutely enough evidence to totally reject the nonsense that they are trying to impute.

I would remind you as well, that at the very beginning, in May 1993, with our maximum efforts, the Vance-Owen Plan was accepted and was then signed in Athens, including by Serbian representatives. The acceptance of that plan clearly shows that we regarded peace as the greatest goal and highest value for all Yugoslav peoples and refutes this mythical idea.

Finally, during those ten years in Yugoslavia, life itself has entirely disproved these accusations of national or religious discrimination, since the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia remained the only part of the old Yugoslavia to preserve its multinational character and in which there was no discrimination on national or religious grounds. Those ten years confirm that. The same goes for Kosovo. Maybe you do not know, but the government of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohia in 1998 and 1999 - that is, during the war, until those who committed aggression installed their mercenaries in power - was formed of Serbs, Albanians, Moslems, Turks, Goranies, Roma and Egyptians. Serbs were a minority in that government. How can the notion that there was national discrimination be reconciled with that fact?!

Our delegation in Rambouillet was comprised of representatives of all these nationalities as well. How does that jibe with this monstrous imputing of national discrimination?! Do you know that in 1998, after ten years of total peace in Kosovo - ten years when no one got killed, ten years when no one got arrested, when tens of daily papers printed in Albanian could be purchased on every corner, when education in primary and secondary schools was in Albanian - when, after ten years, terrorism broke out, organized by foreign secret services out of the outcasts of the Albanian Mafia all over Europe, we formed local Police forces in Albanian villages, where citizens chose their policemen. They carried weapons. All of them were ethnic Albanians. These Albanian policemen, and also Albanian mailmen, Albanian foremen, and other Albanians within the State apparatus, were all targets of threats, attempted murders, assassinations and outright butchery, all committed by Albanian terrorists.

In 1998 Albanian terrorists killed more Albanians than Serbs. It is truly remarkable that in all of our state structures, and in our Socialist Party as well, membership corresponded to the ethnic composition of our citizens - there were Serbs, Albanians, Turks, Hungarians, Ruthenians, Romanians, Bulgarians and all the others. Which one of these groups would ever go along with a program of national, religious, or racial discrimination, such as has here been imputed?

These two "indictments," for Croatia and Bosnia, were expressly launched for one purpose only: to drown the "indictment" concerning Kosovo because talking about Kosovo opens up the whole issue of terrorism - this apart from the fact that it is clear that in Croatia and Bosnia we worked for peace, not war. We have assisted our people in order to help them survive rather than becoming, as they did in World War II, a victim of genocide. Many times we have said publicly, and I have said this myself, that we want our people to be free and equal in the territories where it has lived for centuries. But at the same time, this should not be at the expense of any other people.

The example of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its very good interethnic relations during the whole period of conflicts demonstrates this best. During the conflict in Bosnia no Moslem was expelled from Serbia. During the conflict in Croatia no Croat was expelled from Serbia. More than that, during the conflict in Bosnia - look at the records at UNHCR - over 70.000 Moslem refugees found shelter in Serbia. What nation, what tens of thousands of people, would seek shelter among those who had committed aggression against them?

Do you know that more Moslems live in Serbia than in Bosnia and Herzegovina? The Moslems in Bosnia and Herzegovina were pushed into that disaster, into that war, so that those outside forces, appearing as supporters of Muslims, could hide their responsibility for the deaths of many times more - millions of Moslems - in accordance with their interests of enslaving the World and a new colonialism.

Especially, I cannot understand that someone could dare to speak here about Kosovo implicitly as if it were something outside Serbia. Kosovo is Serbia and Kosovo will remain Serbia but the terrible situation in Kosovo and Metohia will continue as long as it is subject to illegal occupation. Illegal because it was made possible based on an abuse of the UN and of Security Council Resolution 1244. This Resolution does envisage the presence of UN security forces; however, the forces in Kosovo have violated their UN authorization, including by allowing further savageries by the Albanian terrorists.

Thousands of Serbs and other non-Albanian residents of Kosovo have been killed and kidnapped, tens of thousands of Serb homes have been burned down, more than a hundred churches have been destroyed and burned down, all under the auspices of the international forces that came there to guarantee safety for all.

And today, after these cartoon-like elections, those fine Serbian MPs come by plane from Belgrade to do their job as deputies and under military escort get into that so-called parliament. This situation will last as long as the occupation. A similar situation under Turkish occupation lasted for all of 500 years. This one won't last that long, and in the very moment it ends, Kosovo will again be completely under Serbian control, and here we are talking not only about Kosovo, but of Serbia as well, since Serbia too will be ruled again and soon by patriots. Patriots will rule in other countries as well, instead of this scheme of new colonialism and the establishing of various puppet governments.

I think that all we heard here today, which is in total contradiction to the truth, has shown how failed these "indictments" are. I can only understand them as a statement of anger and revenge for the fiasco that NATO has suffered in the attempt to militarily occupy Yugoslavia. I can tell you that I am proud that I commanded the armed forces of Yugoslavia that have stopped NATO, since this has shown that a country, even a small one, having a strong will to defend its freedom and defend the idea of freedom and equality of nations and peoples, can succeed. I am here as a punishment for our standing up against the danger of the biggest tyranny that has threatened mankind.

What of substance can be scraped from these accusations is nothing more than the mud and dregs of a decade-long media war aimed at demonizing both Serbia and the Serbian people, as well as the Serb leadership, and myself, and even my family. Because the media war preceded the real one and had as its goal convincing public opinion in the West that we are villains, regardless of the fact that we never provided any grounds for that.

You have read here today how on April 6, 1992, the European Union recognized Bosnia and Herzegovina. This was done under the influence of the then foreign affairs minister of Germany, Hans Dietrich Genscher, because April 6, 1941 was the day when Hitler started the attack on Yugoslavia and bombed Belgrade. There was a wish, in this way, to communicate that the outcome of World War II had been changed. I would never blame such a desire on the German people, but some politicians have held onto the evil, which we fought against together. In this way, these politicians realized a revenge in greater measure, for they have succeeded in killing us using the hands of our Allies, the Americans, English and French, with whom we fought together in two world wars, against that very same evil.

(��..)

I have already told you about my relation to this court; no matter that Judge Robinson says my relation to it is of no consequences for you. Therefore, what you are going to do is your business, and I can only tell you that every argument used here to support "unifying" is not true, does not stand, is not correct, and cannot be justified in any way. So, the arguments are false, as the indictment is false; and you will do what you please, and that is your problem.

We have heard many arguments against the idea raised by the prosecution. Everything they bring up, and this will become more apparent as they go on, shows that their entire case stands on glass legs and is taken from the dregs of the media war, not from real facts, especially not from facts that could have some legal weight. The vocabulary and structure of all their arguments entirely matches what we have heard in political pamphlets or the media, which only shows that it was all cooked in the same kitchen, nothing else.

If I were you, I would, personally, regardless of your status, to which I object, a fact which is not unknown to you, reject such ideas. They want to put aside Kosovo only because it opens the matter of collaboration with the terrorists, which does not correspond with current policies. At this moment they are falsifying historical facts for the sake of daily policies, and that is something that even this illegal tribunal should not allow.

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I have been informed, in the meantime, that without my knowledge you have nominated some legal advisers whom I have not requested, interpreting my agreement to receive the visits of some people as a request to nominate legal advisors. I have answered the Registry, stating that I do not consider that whoever visits me, and has a Law Faculty degree, must first be nominated by me as legal advisor. And I consider that it would be inadmissible to have limitations to visits by people who wish to visit me, according to the rules you have set, and on the basis of no discrimination, since others who are in this prison have the possibility of receiving such visits. Second�..

(��...)

I have only said that I wish that people who want to visit me should be allowed to do it and that is all.

Second, I have heard that you have an infrared camera in my cell. The prison authorities informed me that the reason they finally turned off the regular light in my cell was that they had turned off their camera, but I have not been informed that this one, which your representative referred to publicly, has also been turned off. I ask that this one be turned off as well.

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February 2002. Article distributed by the International Action Center

'Your bosses broke up Yugoslavia'

MILOSEVIC PUTS U.S., NATO ON TRIAL

By Cecil Williams

The Hague, Netherlands

NATO, the Pentagon, the CIA and corporate globalization are on trial here this week. The prosecutor is Slobodan Milosevic.

It was supposed to have been the other way around.

The International Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia was set up by the very NATO powers that bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days in 1999. Those governments and private corporations finance it. Its sole purpose is to prosecute and imprison former president Milosevic and other Yugoslavs who opposed the breakup of their country.

President Milosevic was the target of a 10-year hate campaign by the Western media. The CIA and Germanintelligence spent billions of dollars to foment civil war in Yugoslavia and overturn the Milosevic government. Last June, in violation of the Yugoslav Constitution, the corrupt, U.S.-backed regime of Zoran Djindjic handed him over to NATO. Djindjic had hoped for a few billions in aid and loans, but wound up with only $21 million.

Milosevic, imprisoned far from home in this Dutch city,has been denied the right to consult privately with lawyers or speak to the press.

The long-awaited show trial opened Feb. 12 with a half-hour tirade by chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte. Then the British Queen's Counsel Geoffrey Nice gave a melodramatic two-day presentation of NATO's "evidence."Between pregnant pauses, studied sighs and anguished facial contortions, Nice repeated the litany of lies that bombarded the Western public in 1999 while NATO ships and warplanes bombarded Yugoslavia.

Nice charged that Milosevic, motivated by a "ruthless quest for power," had carried out "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" against Bosnian Muslims, Croatian Catholics and Albanian Kosovars.

The prosecutor gave not a hint that British troops and Protestant paramilitaries have been "ethnic cleansing" in northern Ireland for decades, murdering hundreds of Irish Catholics and driving thousands from their homes. Thirty years after British troops gunned down Irish civil rights marchers on Bloody Sunday in Derry, not a single British soldier has been penalized.

Nice betrayed no knowledge that U.S. planes and missiles have murdered more than 5,000 Afghan civilians in the pastfew months or that U.S. and British bombs and sanctions have slain 500,000 Iraqi children over the past decade.

Much of the "evidence" Nice presented has long been exposed as sheer fabrication. He trotted out the old myth that Milosevic's speech on June 28, 1989, at Kosovo Field was a call for ethnic hatred. Even a casual reading of the text shows it to be an appeal for ethnic harmony.

The court was shown discredited ITN footage of Bosnian Muslims allegedly held in a Serb "concentration camp." The British television reporters who set up the shot were actually standing inside a wire enclosure, and the people they were filming were outside looking in.

Nice also brought up an alleged massacre of Kosovar civilians by Serbian police at Racak on Jan. 15, 1999. There is considerable evidence the dead were fighters of the U.S.-funded "Kosovo Liberation Army" who had died in a battle.

The prosecution at times seemed desperate. Nice spent some time making the point that Milosevic, after being elected president of Yugoslavia, had appointed members of his party, the Socialist Party of Serbia, to key posts. Nice also read a Yugoslav People's Army officer's report that his troops had carried out no pillaging, looting or property destruction. "One wonders why he found it necessary to report that," Nice asked.

After two days of this utterly weak presentation, presiding judge Robert May should have thrown the case out of his court. Instead he imperiously rejected Milosevic's right to a hearing to decide if the court had legitimate jurisdiction.

Subhead: 'Western colonialism is genocide'

On Feb. 14, Milosevic was given his first and only chance to testify. In two and a half days the former Yugoslav president not only destroyed NATO's case, he put the Western leaders in the dock. He threw the charge of "genocide" back in the prosecutor's face.

"Genocide is a method your colonial powers use. North and South, in Africa and Asia, all the colonial powers used genocide. And today our part of Europe is also a target of colonial powers who want to take back what they have lost," he said.

With eloquent words and video footage, Milosevic portrayed NATO's destruction of Yugoslav towns and villages. "They bombed by night, when people were fast asleep. Most of the targets were homes and housing blocks." He described the targets: Aleksinacs, a village of miners who worked in the pits, was hit by 14 missiles; 36 people died. People were killed in Vranya, a small farming village, and in Rukovica, a blue-collar neighborhood on the outskirts of Belgrade. In Starigrad Przen, 50 Roma people died. Both Serbs and Muslims died while tending their cows in Novi Pasar, an undeveloped area.

"They especially targeted areas like Novi Sad," said Milosevic, "a part of Serbia where 27 nationalities lived peacefully. That was precisely wh hat they wanted to destroy, that kind of life in Yugoslavia. NATO's object was to break up and terrorize the whole of Yugoslavia." He pointed out that in 78 days of bombing NATO destroyed only seven Yugoslav army tanks but destroyed dozens of schools, hospitals and medical clinics."

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March 2002.

Two actual reports from the Hague.

1) AFP. 8 March 2002. Milosevic argues Kosovo conflict a struggle against al-Qaeda.

THE HAGUE -- Slobodan Milosevic waved an FBI document at his war crimes trial Friday to support his claim the bloodshed in Kosovo was a struggle against terrorists backed by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.

As his trial wound up its fourth week, the Serbian leader turned to one of his chief defenses: that he was struggling against separatists and terrorists to hold a crumbling Yugoslav republic together.

"Neither the army nor the police have been implicated in war crimes," he told the UN tribunal.

Cross-examining a Kosovo human rights activist, Milosevic suggested al-Qaeda and other Islamic mujahedin fighters were actively supporting the guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the 1998-99 conflict.

He entered into evidence what he called a statement by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation to the US Congress which said, "al-Qaeda supports Muslim fighters in Bosnia, Chechnya and Kosovo."

When rights activist Sabit Kadriu reiterated his testimony that the Serbs went on a spree of "mutilating and killing civilians," Milosevic shot back: "We know whose specialty this is. It is the al-Qaeda branch in Kosovo."

Milosevic's brother Borislav said last month that the KLA had direct ties to al-Qaeda. He said bin Laden traveled to Albania in 1998.

The former Balkans leader spent the day sparring with Kadriu, an Albanian Kosovar, in a cross-examination laced with political polemics that drew exasperated rebukes for both sides from impatient judges.

Clearly frustrated by the tribunal's efforts to rein in his questioning, Milosevic snapped back at Presiding Judge Richard May: "I'd like to ask you not to give me instructions, please."

Kadriu, a teacher and branch leader of the Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms, testified about Serb savagery in Kosovo, including massacres of Albanians, mutilations and public rapes in 1999.

Milosevic dismissed the accounts as "sheer, unadulterated lies" and came back Friday with his own litany of atrocities he said were perpetrated on Serbian Kosovars.

He grilled Kadriu on alleged killings, burnings and rapes of Serbs as well as the destruction of their forests, orchards and cemeteries in the predominently Albanian province of Serbia.

"Do you know how many inhabitants of Kosovo, under pressure from Albanian violence, had to leave the province?" the Serbian leader thundered. "Do you know, or do you not know?"

The two men clashed over the deaths of more than 60 members of one Kosovar family. Kadriu said they were massacred in their house by Serb forces; Milosevic said they were KLA members killed in action.

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April 2002

Milosevic Says Kosovo Massacre Staged by Rebels

Apr 15, 2002

By Eric Onstad

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Slobodan Milosevic (news - web sites) at his trial on Monday accused separatist Kosovo Albanian guerrillas of fabricating an alleged atrocity by Serb forces in 1999 in a bid to spur a shocked West into attacking Yugoslavia.

The killing of about 45 ethnic Albanians in Racak in January 1999 shocked the outside world and was widely credited with stiffening NATO (news - web sites)'s resolve to launch its 11-week campaign of air strikes against Yugoslavia two months later.

The former Serb strongman, accused of genocide and crimes against humanity in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s, could face life behind bars if convicted at the end of Europe's biggest international war crimes trial since World War Two.

The Hague (news - web sites) tribunal heard last week from a Western observer that dozens of unarmed men dressed in slippers and rubber boots were found shot in the head at Racak in 1999 after Serb forces entered the village. Milosevic disputed the testimony.

Milosevic told the war crimes court that ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) guerrillas shifted corpses around Racak to an open mass grave as part of a ruse to convince Western observers that Serb forces had butchered villagers. He said Serb forces had only killed KLA guerrillas in gun battles.

"It may be, as Serb authorities claim, and many Europeans tended to believe, that the victims were in fact killed in the shoot-out reported by police and then aligned to give the appearance of a massacre," Milosevic said quoting from an Italian press report.

IN COLD BLOOD

The 60-year-old accused, who is conducting his own defense at the United Nations (news - web sites) court against charges he has rejected as "false," vigorously challenged testimony that Racak's villagers had been gunned down.

Retired British general Karel Drewienkiewicz, who served in Kosovo with a mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (news - web sites) in Europe (OSCE (news - web sites)), said he was convinced a massacre had taken place and had not been staged by the KLA.

"I know what I saw on the hillside and it was not manipulation...it was men who had been gunned down in cold blood," said Drewienkiewicz.

Drewienkiewicz acknowledged, however, that a fierce battle had taken place between KLA guerrillas and Serb forces at Racak and that there had been a "lapse" of some 15 hours overnight before Western observers viewed the scene.

Last week Drewienkiewicz told the court he saw men shot in the head at Racak. They had been dressed in carpet slippers and rubber boots.

Since his trial opened in February Milosevic has accuses the West and Islamic militant group al-Qaeda of supporting a "terrorist" campaign by the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army to destabilize the Balkans.

He declined to enter pleas to the charges against him. Not guilty pleas were entered on his behalf. The trial is expected to last at least two years.

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April 2002.

FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY: HAGUE TRIBUNAL "UNLAWFUL"

Former U.S. Attorney-General Ramsay Clark, who served under U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and who is one of the founders of the International tribunal on US-NATO war crimes in Yugoslavia, has made a high-profile statement at a news conference in Belgrade. Mr. Clark has called the Hague Tribunal "unlawful" adding that it �is not entitled to judge anybody and even to bring any charges against anybody.

A decision to set up the tribunal was taken at the UN Security Council under the pressure from the former US Secretary Madeleine Albright. The tribunal was created by the USA solely to judge the particular country, Yugoslavia, although their crimes against the Federal Republic exceed by far any crime which Yugoslavia may be charged with.

Mr. Clark is reported to have slammed the leadership of Serbia and Montenegro for Mr. Milosevic�s extradition. Mr. Clark asserts that Mr. Milosevic tried to protect his people as he could. At that, Mr. Clark is determined to defend Mr. Milosevic in court, if necessary. As for Mr. Milosevic, he may appear in court today for the first time. He seems prepared to defend himself vigorously and is not going to lose heart.

"It will be hard to prove Slobodan Milosevic�s guilt, says American human rights activist Nancy Peterson. She went on to say that �weighty proofs will have to be presented that army and police actions were directed and controlled immediately by Milosevic, that he knew of the crimes perpetrated by the military command and did nothing to stop it."

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May 2002

S T A T E T E L E G R A M

TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

UN Detention Unit, The Hague

Dear comrade Milosevic,

I cordially congratulate you, and through you - all the members of the Socialist Party of Serbia, on the occasion of the Day of Victory of the peoples of USSR and Yugoslavia over the common enemy - German fascism.

We remember well that Yugoslavia, by receiving the attack of the Hitler's armies in the spring of 1941, postponed the beginning of their attack on USSR. We remember well that heroic Yugoslav partisans gave invaluable assistance to the Red Army, that destroyed the fascist hordes. We remember well that in the spring of 1999 Yugoslavia received the attack of the Hitler's successors, showing once again to the whole world an example of the steadiness and courage.

Your heroic resistance to the ruthless "new world order", which you continue in the dungeon cell and before the unjust court is followed by the warm support and sympathies of the tens of millions of Russians.

We wish you unshakable strength of spirit and health, so much needed for your honorable struggle against the successors of Hitlerism.

With sincere respect,

Head of the CPRF faction in the State Duma,

Chairman of the Peoples' Patriotic Union of Russia,

President of the Communist Party of Russian Federation

Gennady Zyuganov

Moscow, May 7, 2002

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May 2002.

Reuters. 13 May 2002. Milosevic Says Racak Was a Battle, Not a Massacre.

THE HAGUE -- Slobodan Milosevic sought to show judges at his war crimes trial Monday that a 1999 Serb attack in Kosovo was not a civilian massacre but a legitimate battle with armed rebels.

The former Yugoslav leader, who is conducting his own defense, used news clips and documents in a bid to show that journalists and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitors were in and around the village of Racak as Yugoslav police entered in January 1999.

"Is it possible the police called in the journalists and the OSCE as they were carrying out a massacre?" Milosevic asked Karel Drewienkiewicz in two hours of tetchy cross-examination about the alleged Racak massacre.

Milosevic, on trial since February, insisted the sound be turned up on footage of Racak, saying artillery pounding and ripples of gunfire in the background were evidence of fighting.

Milosevic, who leaned back in his chair for much of the session and gestured with his spectacles, frequently made reference to the NATO bombings and cited journalists who had speculated that the Racak Albanians had been killed in battle.

Each time he was reeled in by presiding Judge Richard May, reminded of time constraints and urged to focus on the witness.

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June 2002

June 8th.

Hundreds protest peace prize for Del Ponte

By John Catalinotto

Hundreds of people marched from the central station through downtown Muenster, Germany, on June 8 to protest the awarding of the Westphalien Peace Prize to Carla del Ponte, chief prosecutor of the pro-NATO tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.

The court in The Hague, known as the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, is currently in the midst of putting former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on trial. Del Ponte doubles as chief prosecutor, as well as chief propagandist for the anti-Milosevic forces in Europe.

Progressive activists in Germany see the trial as an attempt by German, U.S. and NATO imperialism to blame its wars in the Balkans on the Yugoslav leader, and through him on all Serbs, or at least on all Serbs who refuse to submit to their colonial rule.

Klaus Hartmann, president of the World Union of Free Thinkers and spokesperson for the German section of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic, pointed out the close relations between the tribunal and NATO representatives like former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and NATO spokesperson Jamie Shea.

The role of the tribunal, said Hartmann, was to legitimize a war of aggression against Yugoslavia and achieve a final propaganda victory against the Yugoslav people.

At a meeting and discussion the night before the demonstration, peace activist and editor of the magazine Konkret, Juergen Elsaesser, made the point that the tribunal was failing in this role and that this had created a problem for Del Ponte.

Milosevic has made such a careful and fact-filled defense that he has turned the tables on the prosecution. Nowhere could anyone find that Milosevic had ordered actions against civilians in Kosovo. Even in secret documents, Yugoslav leaders ordered that civilian casualties were to be avoided on pain of punishment to the troops and officers involved.

This and other problems in the trial made the situation so bad for Del Ponte that she had to worry that the prosecution would fail to convince anyone of Milosevic's guilt. Thus a peace prize in Muenster was supposed to help her reestablish some credibility.

But Muenster residents paid more attention to the protest than they did to the prize ceremony for Del Ponte.

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November 2002:

On the basis of Article 77 Para 1 and Article 78 points 4 and 5 of the Constitution of the FR Yugoslavia, the Federal Parliament, in the session of the Chamber of Republics on November 13, 2002, adopts the following:

D E C L A R A T I O N ON RELEASE OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC TO BE CURED IN YUGOSLAVIA

1. The Chamber demands from the Federal Government to perform all necessary measures in order enable Slobodan Milosevic to return to the country for medical treatment;

2. The Chamber demands from the Federal Government to submit urgently appropriate guarantees to the Hague Tribunal in order to make possible defense of Slobodan Milosevic from freedom after successfully finished medical treatment;

3. The Chamber demands from the Federal Government, in order to secure the human rights of Slobodan Milosevic, to make all measures on its disposal for the protection of Slobodan Milosevic as one suspected by the Hague Tribunal;

4. This Declaration shall be published in the "Official Gazette of FRY".

The "trial" is continued in 2003 - 2004.

In the Hague show a new star wittness is U.S. general Wesley Clark. He is responsible for killing thousands of Yugoslav people during the war in 1999. By his command 113 Alban refugees were massacred on May 24th, 1999 in Korisa. He should be prosecuted and jailed, not Slobodan Milosevic.

The tragic-comic ICTY kangaroo court allows Wesley Clark´s material to be SECRET. What would real law experts say...?

April 13th, 2004. Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic called on British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former US President Bill Clinton to appear as witnesses at his trial for war crimes.

In July 2004 powerful defense case was about to open - Hague court tried to stop Milosevic from representing himself at trial.

In the turn of July-August 2004 more than 50 jucidial experts issued a declaration condemning the ongoing kangaroo "trial". Ramsay Clark joined that opinion.

In the turn of August-September 2004 the "trial" was activated once more with prosecutors´ unscrupulous political lies which would not belong to any court.

September - Otober 2004. Milosevic´s right to defend himself was made impossible in an unscrupulous way by the "court". That is why almost all of his defence witnesses denied to participate the farce.

February 2005. Former Montenegrin President Momo Bulatovic claims to have prepared 10,000 pages of documentary evidence supporting former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic. These are official state documents which unambiguously destroy almost every point of the Hague Tribunal´s indictment of Milosevic. Some of these documents have come from the tribunal prosecution, a significant number from my own archive and not a single one has been obtained from the present state bodies,? said Bulatovic. The former Montenegrin president also said that he was often referred to as the last of the Mohicans because he was prepared to go to The Hague to defend a friend and the truth at the same time.

March 2006. Milosevic died in his cell because of lack of treatment. His death was no doubt a MURDER. He knew too much about NATO and US activities when fomenting unrests in order to destroy Yugoslavia in the nineties.

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