PRESS RELEASE
March
11, 2006
(Statement from the International Coordination “FREE SLOBO” - Brussels – Paris – Belgrade)
In Memoriam Slobodan Milosevic (1941-2006):
HOMAGE TO PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
ASSASSINATES IN THE CELLS OF THE SO-CALLED “ICTY”
The
Yugoslav president, 64 years, died, this March 11 in the cells of The Hague of
the so-called “International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)”,
a anti-Serb and anti-Yugoslavian
war machine, created, financed and controlled by Washington and its muppets
of NATO where it had been held for more than four years for so-called “war
crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide” after being kidnapped in
Belgrade, with the contempt of the Yugoslav and international laws.
The
so-called faked “trial” organized by NATO against
President Milosevic, had been several times suspended since its beginning on
February 12, 2002 for health reasons. Slobodan
Milosevic suffered in particular from serious cardiovascular disorders, which
did not prevent the NATO’s media to speak over “simulation”.
The
so-called ICTY had rejected at the end of February a request conditional release
deposited by lawyers of Slobodan Milosevic for going to cure in Russia, spite of
the guarantees deposited by Moscow.
Radio-television
of Serbia indicated that Milosevic was deceased after its health “had
suddenly worsened”. A foreseeable situation. A death which is connected
with a crime. And a death which
falls just at the good time for the so-called ICTY and its Masters whereas President Milosevic, of the general opinion of
independent observers, broke the charge and was
the moral winner of the unequal and difficult fight that he carried out
against the “court”. “The International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia was created in 1993 to try those responsible for atrocities
during the Balkan wars then raging. It was the first experiment in international
war crimes jurisprudence since World War II, and was the model for the creation
of more tribunals. But the success of the court was being weighed by the
happenings in Courtroom, where the defiant, combative Serb leader sparred with
witnesses and judges alike”, said THE GUARDIAN.
We
share the accusations of our Russian comrade Babourine who qualifies of “crime”
the refusal of The Hague Court to authorize Milosevic to follow a
treatment in Russia : “It’s to commit a crime to refuse a medical care
to a patient. It is a coarse violation of the humans right”. It is
indeed in these suitable terms that the president of the Rodina fraction in
Douma (Lower House of the Russian Parliament), Sergueï Babourine, commented on
Saturday for RIA Novosti the news of the death of the Yugoslav president.
With
Sergueï Babourine, we estimate that the iniquitous and unworthy “judges”
of the so-called “Court” of The Hague did not have any interest to carry out
until the end the judicial enquiry relating to Slobodan Milosevic. It is the
true reason for which the so-called ICTY had refused to authorize Milosevic to
be gone to Moscow to follow a treatment there.
It
should be recalled that Slobodan Milosevic is the third Serb accused to die
for lack of suitable care in the cells of the prison of The Hague.
“It is necessary to put a term at this ignominieuse thing (the
Court of The Hague) and to give all the accused to the legal authorities of
their respective countries to be judged there by national courts”, said
Sergueï Babourine in his conclusion that we approve.
The
brother of Milosevic, Borislav has on his side accuse in Moscow the so-called ICTY to be “entirely
responsible” for the death of the Yugoslav president.
The
death of the Yugoslav president is indeed full of shadows. In Belgrade even, in
the sector of professional information, one evokes even an assassination of
President Milosevic, camouflaged in heart failure. And justified by the collapse
of the charge, particularly following the suicide last week of Milan Babic,
former president of the Serbs of Croatia, and which was to testify against
Milosevic after being submited to the blackmail of the ICTY.
“In
the midst of his defence, after Carla del Ponte's inept attempt
at prosecution (many of her key witnesses turned out to be liars)
Slobodan Milosevic was about to call some resounding names in international
circles to the stand. Now, they will not have to go. How very convenient the
“death” of Slobodan Milosevic is. With the “disappearance” of an
important witness in Milosevic's trial, Milan Babic, through suicide, less than
a week ago, the Hague detention centre could rightly be called Death Row and is
evidently unfit to detain and protect prisoners”,
comment the PRAVDA.
Voices
also rise in Russia to denounce an assassination. Let us listen General
Leonid Ivashov – ex head of the Defense Ministry international
cooperation department and vice-president of the Russian Academy for
geopolitical problems – which affirms that the death of Milosevic is a
“political assassination” : “regard it as a contract political killing
because the court proved incapable of proving his guilt and acquitting Slobodan
Milosevic would amount to denouncing NATO for the aggression against Yugoslavia.
It is a murder. The doctors whom Slobodan Milosevic trusted were not allowed to
see him. Besides, he was
not
allowed to travel to Russia for treatment even though he asked. He was
deliberately placed in a situation that caused his death”.
Sharing
these relevant charges, the leader of the KPRF, the Communist
Party of Russia, second party of the country, Guenadi Zouganov affirms
that “Over the nearly four years of the proceedings in the Milosevic
case carried out by the so-called International Tribunal, the judges have
actually found themselves in a deadlock. And Milosevic's death is a way out of
this deadlock for those who organized this shameful framed-up trial, Zyuganov
told Interfax Saturday. The death of this man is on the conscience of the judges
who recently declined his request that he temporarily travel to Russia for
medical treatment, despite the fact
that doctors confirmed that his health was extremely poor”.
The
head of the Duma's international affairs committee, Konstantin Kosachev has
also serious interrogations. He said “the competence of doctors who kept
refusing to recognize the seriousness of the former Yugoslavia president's
condition should come under close scrutiny”. He added
that the “circumstances of Milosevic's death should be thoroughly
investigated”.
Defender
of the Serb people, but more especially of the Yugoslav transnational Ideal, president Milosevic had refuse
the collapse of the first socialist Yugoslavia – that of marshal Tito
–, wanted and planned by Washington and Bonn,
an essential stage of the expansion of NATO in the East, the new “Drang
nach Osten”, consecutive to the collapse of the SSSR.
The
heroic resistance that he had directed during the last decade of
XXth Century against the aggressions of NATO (allied in particular
with the Albanian Maffias, the Croatian fascists and the Bosnian islamists, in
the name of “democracy” – sic – and “humans right” – resic), and
whose top had been the embargo and the criminal bombings of 1999,
was a capital element which
prevented Eastern Europe from falling entirely in the hands of the Atlantist new
colonialism. It particularly gave time to the re-establishment of the Russian
power, or to the victorious counter-offensive of Socialism in Belarus of
President Lukashenko. And was one of the fronts where was contained the New
World Order “made in the USA”.
Remembering
the role of Tito in the No-aligned Movement, second socialist Yugoslavia,
founded by Slobodan Milosevic in 1991, was also active in the anti-imperialist
struggle and had particularly developed assistance and relations of friendship
with Belarus, Ba' athist Iraq and Syria
and socialist Libya.
In
Serbia, well far from being forgotten, Slobodan Milosevic was the symbol of
Resistance to the Western offensive. His
partisans remain numerous and the parties of the National-patriotic Opposition
– SPS, SRS, SSJ – which continue his fight, are in full rise.
Although prisoner of the cells of the so-called ICTY, Milosevic himself
had been triumphantly elected Deputy in the last elections of 2004.
Far
from “closing an old era”, as the servants of Washington – like Solana –
hope it, the strange death of Slobodan Milosevic on contrary will accelerate
the rise to power of the National-patriotic Opposition and singularly of the
SRS. Because the Serb people is not yet enclosed in the yoke of Western
conformism and preserve values of honor and heroism.
President Milosevic never had abdicated, never given up. In front of his
dishonnest “judges”, he carried out an effective and pugnacious struggle, in
defense of his Yugoslavia and of the honor of the Serb people, to which he had
sacrificed his life. He died by carrying out this last fight, by which he joined
the Serb heroes fallen in front of the enemy.
IVICA DACIC, from the SPS / Socialist Party of Serbia, said that “He
was systematically killed by all the years he spent in The Hague and this is a
great loss for Serbia, the Serbian people and the Socialist Party of Serbia. It
is of major importance for the future of our country that through his defence
and the fact he died without being convicted, Milosevic had managed to defend
national and state interest”.
Tomorrow,
when a true Europe, One, Great and free,
from Vladivostok to Reykjavik, will be released from the chains of
Yankee new colonialism and imperialism, the sons and daughters of Europe
will remember with emotion the fight of the
last Yugoslav president and will
greet his memory.
We
will not forget, we will not forgive, the struggle follows !
Slobodan Milosevic present !
INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION " FREE SLOBO "
(Brussels – Paris – Belgrade):
- Comité International pour la Défense de Slobodan Milosevic
- International Committee to Defend Serb Political prisoners
- French-speaking Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic
- Pan-African Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic
- Newsletter “Free Slobo”
- PCN-NCP
- Transnational Association “The Peoples’ Cause”