Milosevic won't apologize for resisting NATO's schemes
By John Catalinotto
While the U.S. wages war in Central Asia, it is trying to
complete its aggression against Yugoslavia by putting former
president Slobodan Milosevic on trial before NATO's court in
The Hague.
On Oct. 29, the Yugoslav leader reiterated his strong stand
of refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the court or even to
read the charges against him.
"I have heard here," he said, "as on the previous occasion,
expressions of concern because I do not read documents from
this false indictment, since, allegedly, I should learn what I
am accused of.
"I would wish to state that I know very well what I am
accused of. I am accused because I defended my people, in a
legal manner and by legitimate means, on the basis of the right
of self-defense that belongs to every nation.
"It was my honor and privilege to defend my people against
the criminal aggression committed against them and to defend my
people against terrorism that Clinton's administration was
closely cooperating with, something no one would be able to
deny.
"No flood of false indictments can drown the truth. I have
no intention to get acquainted with the contents of something
that is completely fabricated and very distant from the truth,"
the former president said before the court.
His appearance followed by a week an Oct. 21-22 conference
in Belgrade of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic, held under the auspices of the Yugoslav committee.
The meeting attracted 500 people, including representatives
from committees in 20 countries.
The meeting noted that "for a whole decade [Milosevic] was
subjected to the most brutal attacks in the U.S.-dominated mass
media in an effort to reverse the roles of victim and culprit
and thus to hide NATO's vicious policy of releasing the worst
terrorist forces to tear apart Yugoslavia. Then President
Milosevic was subjected to legal and political violence by
authorities in his own country, who were acting for foreign
powers.
"He was illegally jailed in Belgrade. When the new regime
could no longer hold him, they kidnapped him from jail and
turned him over to NATO, which transported him to the Hague
so-called tribunal. Thus he is the first democratically elected
head of state to be jailed in the dungeon of the New World
Order. ...
"There is now much consciousness and discussion of the
impact of terrorism. The truth is the attack on Yugoslavia has
been and continues to be waged through the use of terrorist
forces and similar fascist groupings, directed in the most
cynical fashion by NATO, under U.S. government leadership. Free
Slobodan Milosevic now!"
The conference adopted an action plan that includes
mobilizing to spread the truth about the threat to sovereignty
of nations posed by the Hague court, to organize local
conferences, to send petitions to the current Yugoslav and
Serbian regimes, and to work with peace and anti-globalization
movements to make Milosevic's fate a central issue of these
movements.
Reprinted from the Nov. 8, 2001, issue of
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