***************************************************************** An Open Letter ============
The International Criminal Tribunal For Yugoslavia, an association of criminals which is neither international nor a judicial body, was created in violation of international law, and in violation of and against the founding principles of the United Nations Charter. It makes false charges, arrests and detains without legal authority, and conducts what it calls "trials" in violation of international law and all national laws and standards of justice. It serves as a weapon with which the United States and its allies attempt to destroy the fundamental principle of sovereignty of nations which is the essential basis of the self-determination of peoples and democracy for which the Allies of World War II ostensibly fought the fascists of Germany, Italy and Japan. Now, the fascists have risen anew and, having seized power in the United States and among its allies in the other Nato countries, pretend to create a New World Order in which they alone will decide who lives and who dies, who is free and who is imprisoned and the economic and social conditions under which we will all live. In the name of freedom they create slavery. In the name of justice and human rights they maim and kill. In the name of international law they established the rule of ruthless power. In the name of democracy they destroy democracy. In the name of the people they make a world dictatorship. An essentiel part of the dictatorship is the system of unlaw and uncourts they have created known as the ad hoc criminal tribunals whose sole purpose is to support the New World Order and destroy any nation or national leadeship which opposes it. The uncourts known as the ICTY, its sister, The ICTR for Rwanda, and its half-sisters for Sierre Leone, Cambodia, and East Timor were established and are maintained and controlled principally by the United States in order to demonize those who resist its diktats, to destroy the sovereignty of those countries and by implication and effect the sovereignty of all nations except the United States and to act as propaganda machines that present false histories of the events that took place in those countries, without exception turning the victims of US aggression into scapegoats and "criminals" and, to cover up the true role of the United States and its allies in thoe events. The ICTY was established with these aims in order to destroy Yugoslavia and all progressive forces in Yugoslavia and to control the Balkans and threaten Russia. The ICTR was established to destroy Rwanda as a progressive African state and to control the immense resources of central Africa. The hybrid UN-national tribunals for Sierre Leone, Cambodia and East Timor were similarly created to crush opposition to US and its allies interest in those regions. In each case the United States, using its influence in the Security Council, has created criminal bodies which claim to be courts, which have officials parading before the public in fancy dress, who have high sounding titles and a proportionately low moral sense and which have drafted "Statutes", empty pieces of paper signifying nothing but purporting to give themselves a legal gloss immediately denied by their rules of procedure and evidence which are designed to prevent fair trials and the truth from ever being known. The supporters of these bodies claim they are acting in accord with justice, law and humanity. The imposition of counsel on President Milosevic, an action which could only take place because of the complete abscence of ethics in the family of lawyers named Kay selected by the tribunal to silence him and cripple his defence, is the most heinous action of all of the triumvirate of Nato stooges wearing the red robes of the Inquisition and who are a self-parody of judges. The fascist nature of these tribunals is openly revealed. The justice of the cause of President Milosevic is plain. The people of the world must recognize that President Milosevic and all the other prisoners of the New World Order are hostages of that order, held as an example to us all. The people of the world must act to stop these injustices from continuing before we all become its victims. The prisoners of all these ad hoc tribunals must be released. The tribunals must be shut down. Those who created them must face justice before their national courts for the war crimes they have committed. The sovereignty of nations and international law must be restored. International law will be restored. Together, the power is in our hands to restore it. Christopher Black Vice Chair and Chair, Legal Committee ICDSM Arusha, Tanzania E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************* http://www.workers.org/ww/2004/edit20909.php Workers World, Sept.9, 2004 EDITORIAL Milosevic on the counterattack The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, seems incapable of presenting a convincing case against its most famous defendant, even when it stacks all the rules against him. Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic opened his defense case Aug. 31 with a blistering political attack, not only on the illegitimate court but also on the NATO forces that created it. Even as Milosevic was blasting the NATO aggressors for working over 10 years to destroy the multi-ethnic and multi-religious state of Yugoslavia, the factual testimony against him presented in two years of the prosecution case was evaporating. The latest pre-defense revelation came out in an article in the Ottawa Citizen, which interviewed a Canadian detective sergeant, Brian Honeybourn. The detective had joined the hunt for mass graves in the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo. Honeybourn said, "It seems as though The Hague is beginning to panic" because no one could find mass graves in Kosovo. Honeybourn was on one of the United Nations teams searching for the "mass graves." But the biggest burial site contained 20 bodies--not an astonishing number after a year-long civil war and 79 days of NATO bombs. Milosevic had four hours to present his defense opening. The prosecutors had taken three days to present their opening arguments in February 2002. This is typical of the ICTY: The judges believe if they outweigh the defendant by at least six to one, they will beat him. The prosecution has a team of 1,300 employees at $100,000 each per year; Milosevic has a few assistants and almost no funds. Now, to make sure he will lose, the court plans to strip him of his right to defend himself. They plan to use his illness--high blood pressure and heart problems--as an excuse to impose unwanted counsel on him. Ninety internationally famous lawyers, including former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, have already protested this last unjust tactic. Milosevic's only advantage is that he is not guilty of the 66 charges against him. And that he can present a powerful political argument against the U.S.-NATO aggressors who tried to bomb Yugoslavia flat to intimidate those they didn't murder. =============================================== (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================ ****************************************************** ************ www.icdsm.org www.icdsm.org www.icdsm.org www.icdsm.org www.icdsm.org ************ *********************************************************** THE LIFE OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC AND THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ARE IN PERIL. JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS' PETITION: http://www.icdsm.org/Lawappeal.htm JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS' APPEAL FOR MILOSEVIC: http://www.icdsm.org/more/artists.htm SUPPORT THE ICDSM: http://www.icdsm.org/ ********************************************************* You can find detailed instructions at: http://www.icdsm.org/battle.htm (please also follow the links therein) or ************************************************************* You can make transfers to ICDSM accounts in Europe: Peter Betscher Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Darmstadt, Germany IBAN: DE 21 5085 0150 0102 1441 63 SWIFT-BIC: HELADEF1DAS or Vereinigung für Internationale Solidarität (VIS) 4000 Basel, Switzerland PC 40-493646-5 ************************************************************* ************************************************************* THE ILLEGAL HAGUE PROCESS MUST END. Statement by the President of the World Peace Council Orlando Fundora (Cuba) http://www.icdsm.org/more/fundora.htm ************************************************************* ************************************************************* VIDOVDAN PEOPLE'S RALLY IN BELGRADE ORGANIZED BY SLOBODA to mark the third anniversary of kidnapping of President Milosevic http://www.icdsm.org/more/galery2806.htm ************************************************************** SLOBODA urgently needs your donation. Please find the detailed instructions at: http://www.sloboda.org.yu/pomoc.htm To join or help this struggle, visit: http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association) http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan Milosevic) http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM) http://www.icdsm-us.org/ (US section of ICDSM) http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland) http://www.pasti.org/milodif.htm (ICDSM Italy) http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council) http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center) Serbian News Network - SNN [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antic.org/
