[L-I] SLOBODA Protest Warning to ICTY, UN, US and UK

 


      SLOBODA|FREEDOM
     SLOBODA  |  FREEDOM

         udruzenje  |  association

      Member of the World Peace Council

      YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE FOR THE LIBERATION OF

      SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

      Belgrade, Rajiceva 16, tel./fax +381 11 630 549
     

Belgrade, 22 January 2004                               

                                                                        To: Mr. Theodor Meron, President,

                                                                                    ICTY, The Hague, The Netherlands

 

                                                                        Cc: H.E. Kofi Annan,

                                                                                    Secretary General,

                                                                                    UN, New York, USA

                                                                               H.E. George W. Bush,

                                                                                    President of the USA

                                                                                    Washington, USA

                                                                                Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,

                                                                                    Queen of the United Kingdom

                                                                                    London, UK

            Mr. Meron,

 

            The ICTY Trial Chamber presided by Mr. Richard May adopted on 5 February 2004 the Order Scheduling Hearings to the Close of the Prosecution Case in the process of President Slobodan Milosevic. By the Order, it was decided that the daily length of all the hearings in the next two weeks shall be prolonged, so that hearings will be held also in afternoon hours.

            It is apparent that by ordering the prolongation of the hearings, the Chamber violates its own, earlier decisions and orders determining that the hearings shall be held in morning hours only, adjourning not later than 01:45 p.m. We remind that these earlier orders were adopted after several specialist medical examinations of President Milosevic as a consequence of the clear physicians' warnings about the serious character of his health condition and about the risks for his health and life produced by the process itself. Moreover, the physicians explicitly recommended that the length of the hearings shall be shortened.

            You are certainly aware that during the whole this week President Milosevic was ill from flu and that at the time when the Order was adopted, he has not been recovered yet.

            The situation in which, in spite the several medical reports and warnings and in spite the current deterioration of Mr. Milosevic's health (when it is uncertain whether and when he will be able to participate in the hearings), without consulting the medical specialists and severely violating its own decisions, the Chamber arbitrarily prolongs the length of the hearings, one can characterize no other way but as direct threat to President Milosevic's life.

            Therefore we warn you that as the ICTY President you have a duty to instruct the Chamber to review and abolish this inhumane Order or to reverse it yourself.

 

            On behalf of the Freedom Association Managing Board

 

 

                                                                        Bogoljub Bjelica, President

 


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STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND TRUTH ABOUT THE SERBIAN PEOPLE AND YUGOSLAVIA IS IN THE CRUCIAL PHASE. NATO AND ITS SERVICES IN BELGRADE AND THE HAGUE HAVE NO INTEREST TO SUPPORT IT.

SO IT TOTALLY DEPENDS ON YOU!

A SMALL TEAM OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S ASSISTANTS, WHICH IS BECOMING INTERNATIONAL, HAS TO HAVE CONDITIONS TO WORK AT THE HAGUE IN THE TIME OF INTENSIVE PREPARATIONS FOR THE FINAL PRESENTATION OF TRUTH AND DURING THAT PRESENTATION. 

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find the 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.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)

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