18 Sept., 2003
Persecution
of President Slobodan Milosevic
--
June
Kelly
Coordinator ICDSM c (Irish Branch)
From The Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM Ireland)
To,:
Hans Holthuis, Registrar
His Honour Judge Mellon, President
The Honourable Judges: Richard May, Presiding, Patrick Robinson, Judge
O-Gon Kwon
Office of the Prosecutor: Mr Geoffrey Nice, Ms Hildergaard Uertz-Retzlaff,
Dermot Groome
Amici Curiae: Mr Steven Kay, Mr Branislav Tapuskovic, Mr Timothy McCormack
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia,Churchillplein
1, 2517JW,
The Hague, Netherlands. PO Box 13888, 2501 EW The Hague, Netherlands.
Office of the UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights - Geneva
World Health Organisation - Geneva
International Committee of the Red Cross - Geneva
Copies to: Office
of The UN Secretary General, First Avenue, 46th Street, NY 10017, USA
The Permanent Missions of the Members of the UN Security Council - New
York
Re: Persecution of President Slobodan Milosevic
The International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (Irish Branch) joins with the United States National Section of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic, and many other National and International Committees, Organisations and individuals in raising protest against the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia's violations of human rights and international law in the treatment of President Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague, Netherlands.
In this politically motivated trial staged to direct attention away from NATO and the West's responsibility for the debacle in the Balkans victimisation of the former leader of Yugoslavia is becoming increasingly obvious well beyond the parameters of The Hague in the Netherlands.
The denial to Mr Milosevic of adequate medical attention given the parlous state of his health is in violation of the Geneva Convention and the European Declaration of Human Rights.
From simply the standpoint of common decency this denial is an outrage.
No Medical attention
in a life threatening situation.
Visiting rights denied both to Mr Milosevic's closest advisers and, disgracefully,
to members of his own family.
Clearly the purpose
of these actions is to undermine Mr Milosevic's capacity to defend himself
In the face of trumped up charges in this contemporary version of the
Inquisition.
June Kelly
Coordinator
International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (Irish Branch)
23 Prospect Court
Dublin Road
Mullingar
County Westmeath
Ireland
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