[list_indonesia] [ppiindia] Experts in int'l law back Milosevic defense
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Experts in int'l law back Milosevic defense
By John Catalinotto=20
Published Mar 9, 2005 4:10 PM=20
Might doesn't make right. NATO forces were able to break up Yugo slavia but=
that doesn't make its kidnapped former leader a criminal.=20
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Ramsey Clark at
meeting in The Hague.=20
WW photo: John Catalinotto=20=20
Fifty people interested in the defense of the former Yugoslav president att=
ended an international conference here Feb. 26 to discuss "The Hague Procee=
dings against Slobodan Milosevic: Emerging Issues in International Law."
The group was concerned that the International Criminal Tribunal for the fo=
rmer Yugoslavia (ICTY) is attempting to cut short his legal defense.
And even as Milosevic fights for time to rebut the charges against him, the=
U.S. and the puppet Iraqi regime have plans to put another former leader o=
f an invaded country on trial: Saddam Hussein.=20
The meeting brought together top jurists in international law, mainly from =
Europe and the United States but including a representative from India. The=
speakers made persuasive presentations exposing the illegitimacy of the IC=
TY and the case against President Milosevic.
The case has gone through a number of phases since NATO forces kidnapped th=
e Serb leader from prison in Belgrade in June 2001. When the proceedings op=
ened in February 2002, the media dubbed them the "trial of the century." Mi=
losevic and Serbia were to be blamed for 10 years of civil war in the Balka=
ns in the 1990s.=20
However, Milosevic was able, even with the minimal assistance available to =
him and despite serious medical problems, to turn the tables on the ICTY du=
ring cross-examination and indict the leaders of NATO for 10 years of aggre=
ssion aimed at destroying Yugoslavia.=20
The result was that the corporate media stopped reporting on the trial, thu=
s turning it into a de facto secret kangaroo court. Now the prosecution is =
attempting to limit Milosevic's active defense case and bring the trial to =
a close as rapidly as possible.
International jurists
Present at the Feb. 26 conference were former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey =
Clark, former Bulgarian presidential candidate Professor Velko Valkanov, Pr=
o fes sor Dr. Hans K=F6chler of Austria, Professor Aldo Bernardini of Italy=
, Canadian international attorney Chris topher Black, Dr. John Laughland of=
Britain and Pro fessor Bhim Singh, chair of the Jammu Kashmir National Pan=
ther Party. Maitre Tiphaine Dickson of Quebec had to cancel her appearance =
but submitted a paper read by one of the participants.
Clark, a founding member of the Inter national Action Center, said his visi=
t to Milosevic the day before had showed the "triumph of the human spirit" =
and called the president "undaunted." Clark said "the violence and deaths o=
f the wars on Yugo slavia were caused by others" and "the real crime was th=
at of organizing the war."
Clark compared the situation in Yugo slavia to that of the U.S. Civil War, =
although in the Balkans the reactionary side won. "He [Milosevic] was blame=
d for doing what Abraham Lincoln did in the American Civil War--and that wa=
s trying to preserve the Union. Lincoln said many times that his sole purpo=
se was to preserve the Union, yet here the United States' sole purpose was =
to destroy Yugoslavia, so that the 'end of history' would appear real," sai=
d Clark.
"To do that you had to demonize and destroy the leadership that aimed to pr=
eserve the Yugoslav union," he added. "And to have its way the United State=
s had to corrupt the United Nations and international justice."
Professor Valkonov pointed out that with regard to both Serbia and Iraq, "t=
he United States violated all laws" to carry out military attacks on these =
countries.
Vladimir Krsljanin of the International Committee for the Defense of Slobod=
an Milosevic announced plans to staff an office in The Hague. Two young act=
ivists will help Milosevic prepare his defense case in the remaining time a=
nd publicize the results. Krsljanin asked for the necessary financial and o=
rganizational support from those who understand the importance of refusing =
to allow NATO powers to be the sole ones to write the recent history of the=
Balkans.
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