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Subscribe to the ICDSM email list at http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/maillist.htm Receive articles from the ICDSM Note: The ICDSM Website is temporarily down. The backup Website is at www.emperor.vwh.net/icdsm Send the link to this text to a friend! Or, if you are receiving this article via e-mail, please forward the text to your friends. =================================== ICDSM Letter to The Hague Tribunal (ICTY) Specialists Must Examine Slobodan Milosevic Now! 16 November 2002 =================================== International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic Sloterkade 20 * 1058 HE Amsterdam * The Netherlands Ph. 31 20 615 1122 Fax: 31 20 615 1120 Mr. Claude Jorda, President MOST URGENT Mr. Richard May, President Trial Chamber III Mr. Hans Holtius, Registrar ICTY The Hague The Netherlands Gentlemen: Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic suffers from malignant hypertension which has already damaged his heart (agina pectoris). On July 25th a team of non-specialist physicians was finally permitted to examine President Milosevic. Judge Richard May summarized their findings as follows: "…We have received a report, a medical report, which in its conclusion describes the accused as a man with severe cardiovascular risk which demands careful future monitoring. The authors recommend that his workload be reduced…" However, subsequently, no cardiologist was called in to examine President Milosevic. This despite numerous requests from SLOBODA (Freedom Foundation) in Belgrade, and from medical experts, that President Milosevic be examined by physicians from the Military Medical Academy [VMA] in Belgrade who have followed his health for years. Moreover, President Milosevic's living and working conditions have not improved; they have worsened. He receives neither proper food, nor sufficient rest, nor exercise, nor fresh air, nor clean air, nor adequate time and facilities to prepare his defense. His workday has been lengthened. This has, predictably, exacerbated his malignant hypertension. He suffered a severe escalation of blood pressure on October 31st. The proceedings were cancelled on November 1st and Judge May made the following statement: "In the light of the state of the accused's health and the length and complexity of the case, the Trial Chamber is concerned about completion of the trial, and therefore, we wish to have submission from the parties on the future conduct of the case in order to ensure its expeditious conclusion." We note that the concern expressed here is for the ICTY's proceedings, not for the life and health of Slobodan Milosevic. This is consistent with the failure to give President Milosevic proper medical care throughout his imprisonment and especially since July 25th. This failure of a UN body to provide humane medical care, in flat violation of UN resolutions, combined with the pressure being exerted on President Milosevic to appoint counsel, may be construed as torture: life threatening abuse intended to produce compliance with a demand, in this case that the President cease conducting his own defense. President Milosevic is, first, a human being. He is, second, the former head of state of both Serbia and Yugoslavia. He led the resistance to NATO aggression; NATO spokesman Jamie Shea has publicly boasted [1] that NATO controls the ICTY. President Milosevic was brought to The Hague in a highly questionable manner; we say, illegally. It is not only a violation of international law, but it is a direct assault on the dignity of his office and therefore on the people of Yugoslavia that Slobodan Milosevic be denied the most basic human right: proper medical care. We urge you in the strongest terms to correct this abuse before your policies cause President Milosevic to suffer a heart attack or stroke. Based on consultation with medical experts, we offer you the names of three of the world's leading cardiologists. We urge you in the strongest terms to permit these physicians to examine Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague. The physicians are: [Editor's note: At the request of the three physicians we are not publishing their names at this time. However, the names have been sent to the ICTY.] Please, act now, while there is time. You can inform us of your decision either through our telephone in Amsterdam, 31 20 615 1122, or by fax, 31 20 615 1120, or by calling SLOBODA (Freedom Association) in Belgrade. International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic ********************************************* Footnotes & Further Reading Follow the Appeal ***************************************** Now is the Time! Help the ICDSM Get our Delegation to The Hague! ******************************************* ** Here is How to Make a Donation ** * Make a donation at our secure server. Go to https://emperor.securesites.com/transactions/icdsm.php You can use VISA, MasterCard or Discover Donate by credit card over the phone. Call us at: ICDSM, USA 1 617 916-1705 Freedom Association, Belgrade 381 11 3282491 or 381 638 862 301 Donate using PayPal. Go to https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=icdsm%40aol.com PayPal accepts VISA and MasterCard Send us a check at: ICDSM 831 Beacon St., #295 Newton Centre, MA 02459 (USA) Make a donation by wire. For instructions, go to http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm/more/wire.htm Thank you! ICDSM http://emperor.vwh.net/icdsm *** * The Hague Tribunal is in Crisis * Events are moving very fast. On Tuesday SLOBODA, the Freedom Foundation, filed suit in Belgrade against Prosecutor Carla del Ponte and seven of her deputies at The Hague Tribunal. The charge: the attempted murder of Slobodan Milosevic. The same day The Hague Tribunal ordered that Slobodan Milosevic, former President of both Yugoslavia and Serbia, undergo psychiatric examinations. This is a new insult to Mr. Milosevic and to the people of Yugoslavia. Given, on the one hand, the intelligence and sustained concentration and dignity with which Mr. Milosevic has solidly defeated an avalanche of liars, and, on the other hand, the bizarre behavior of this court, judges and prosecutors alike, this order for psychiatric evaluation is misdirected. Physicians: heal thyselves. Clearly the Tribunal wishes to find some basis, any basis, to forbid Slobodan Milosevic the basic human right to conduct his own defense. Apparently they hope that some psychiatrist will declare Mr. Milosevic unfit to represent himself. Hague official Florence Hartmann suggested yesterday that Mr. Milosevic could be moved to some outside facility while they continue these proceedings in his absence. The ICDSM needs to send a delegation including our attorney, Tiphaine Dickson, as soon as possible to The Hague. That delegation will reach the international media and be present to handle matters relating to the motion we have filed with the ICTY. In order to send that delegation *we need your help.* If you were thinking of making a donation, now is the time! Now, when The Tribunal is denying Mr. Milosevic proper health care in order to pressure him to appoint substitute counsel we need to get our delegation to The Hague. For we represent the other side. We actually believe Slobodan Milosevic is innocent. The charges against him and the Serbian people are based on a campaign of lies. We have the facts. Milosevic has all the facts and that is why they want so desperately to replace him. We believe Slobodan Milosevic is 100% right not to appoint a lawyer to represent him before the Tribunal. *Not even a lawyer who claims to support him.* Why? Because it is Mr. Milosevic who led Serbia and Yugoslavia during the period under discussion. Because no lawyer on earth can - or will dare - to stand up to this NATO-controlled Tribunal as Mr. Milosevic has done, to tell the truth without fear of consequence or career. There is no lawyer who can demonstrate by his very demeanor, that the Serbs are innocent and it is NATO, which attacked Yugoslavia with bombs and lies and by instigating racial hatred, which is guilty. Slobodan Milosevic is the national leader who stood up to NATO. It is a terrible blow for this Tribunal, NATO's Tribunal, that they have been defeated by him, day after day, since the trial began in February. That is why in the proceedings this past Monday, the three Judges presented every argument to convince Mr. Milosevic to let some lawyer - any lawyer - replace him, or partly replace him, or sit with him in court, or take some step, any step to lessen his direct impact. To lessen his impact today and to lessen the impact of the transcripts of these proceedings which stand as permanent proof that Milosevic told the truth and NATO lied about the Serbs. In order to get our delegation to The Hague we need your financial help. Slobodan Milosevic is making a great impact. We are making an impact too and with your help, with your help we can do a hundred times more to assist him, to defend the truth. To make a donation, see above. --- Jared Israel for the ICDSM Backup ICDSM Website at www.emperor.vwh.net/icdsm _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
