Replace Mrs. Carla Del Ponte
Open letter to
the U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Esq.
July 27, 2003
Dear Sir,
Re.: The ICTY "trial" against former FRY President, Slobodan
Milosevic
You may wish to replace Mrs. Carla Del Ponte at the Rwanda Tribunal, -
yet keep the Suisse woman as Chief Prosecutor for the ICTY?
Somehow that move was hailed in Kigali as "very good news for Rwanda!"
If your goal however is to make both courts work "more efficiently",
relieving Carla from the strains of shuttling between Rwanda and the Netherlands
may hardly be enough, though.
It certainly is too late anyway for the ICTY to rescue the Prosecutions
case against the former FRY President, Slobodan Milosevic.
This being so, you might consider using your good office to enforce the
long deserved release of Mr. Milosevic. With respect to the efficiency
of the ICTY trial proceedings it might even prove to be a promising move
to entrust Mr. Milosevic, whose aquired skills in cross-examination was
enviously acknowledged even by mr. Nice the other day, with all rôles
at the court, - including those of prosecutors, judges and amici curiae
- excluding but that of "the accused".
You might wish to leave that to NATO, mr. Secretary General (and to Hashim
Thaqi and his gang, I'd say).
Godfred Louis-Jensen
Copenhagen
D E N M AR K
Posted to the JURIST Milosevic Trial Discussion on Saturday July 26, 2003
at 10:19 pm
c.c. the Danish Prime Minister, mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen (by e-mail)