deutsche Fassung
Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq ...
Which Country is next? Stop USA!
Free Slobodan Miloševic!
On the occasion of the second anniversary of the kidnapping of the former president of Yugoslavia we call to an International Demonstration in The Hague/Netherlands, Saturday, June 28, 2003
beginning at 14:00 hrs by a maniffestation in front of the "Tribunal", Churchill Plein 1, where a petition will be handed over to the "Tribunal", followed by a protest march to the Detention Centre in in Scheveningen, Pompstatiosweg 46 A, where a solidarity message will be addressed to Slobodan Miloševic, followed by a final manifestation.
(There will be a live-link to a simultaneous solidarity demonstration for Cuba held in Rome)
Slandered from the outset, Slobodan Miloševic, the Socialist Party of Serbia and all patriotic forces resisted the shattering of Yugoslavia into weak, racially segregated territories, resisted domination by the IMF and World Bank, resisted penetration by the Macdonald´s culture and resisted NATO-dominated racist-terrorist forces cynically disguised as freedom fighters. It is because of these acts of principle that NATO has put him on ´trial´ in The Hague.
In that trial President Miloševic refuses to make a deal to save himself but continues to expose the crimes of violence and racism committed by NATO and its proxy forces against Yugoslavia.
Slobodan Miloševic was overthrown by a "regime change" made in USA. Yugoslavia is now being wrecked economically, socially and culturally, under USA/German domination. President Miloševic has become the first political prisoner of the so-called "globalisation" of capitalist exploitation. By kidnapping and putting on "trial" a popularly elected President of a sovereign state, NATO and their "tribunal" have established the gravest precedent for the destruction of the sovereignty of states.
After the military invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq the US government and their allies continue to blackmail and bully other sovereign nations into subjugation by economic sanctions, the threat of mass destruction and destabilization through "dissident" and "opposition" forces organized from outside.
We, the signatories of this appeal, consider, that for future struggles of the peace and social movements against the threat of war it is of utmost importance to remain persistent in our opposition to these colonialist forces. We continue to protest against previous acts of aggression and their continuation in the form of occupation and subjugation of countries and sell out of their wealth and resources to transnational corporations. We reject the legitimacy and right of these occupiers to conduct any "trial" of the leaders of these colonized territories.
Recalling the verdicts rendered by independent popular tribunals in Berlin and New York on NATO leaders for their aggression and war crimes committed against the former Yugoslavia we call on honest people of all political convictions and all walks of life to join in the demonstration in order to demand:
Ramsey Clark, attorney, co-president of the International Committee for the Defence of Slobodan Miloševic (ICDSM); Prof. Dr. Velko Valkanov, Co-president of the ICDSM, chairman of the Bulgarian Association of Antifascists, chairman of the Bulgarian Committee for Human Rights, Sofia/Bulgaria; Christopher Black, Toronto/Canada, Chair, legal committee, and vice-president of the ICDSM; John Catalinotto, International Action Center, New York/USA; Neil Clark, journalist, Oxford/UK; Mick Collins, writer/teacher, Paris/France; Michel Collon, journalist and author, Belgium; Heather Cottin (Widow of Sean Gervasi), Freeport, New York, International Action Center, New York/USA; Paul De Marco, Richmond Hill/Canada; Sara Flounders, International Action Center, New York/USA; Fulvio Grimaldi, journalist and film director, vice-president of the ICDSM, Rome/Italy; Klaus Hartmann, president of the German Free Thinkers Association and vice-president of the ICDSM Offenbach/Germany; Ralph Hartmann, former ambassador to Yugoslavia and author, Berlin/Germany; Arlene Johnson, Saint John/Canada; Vladimir Krsjlanin, secretary of the ICDSM and of SLOBODA/Freedom Association, Belgrade; Gordana Milanovic-Kovacevic, Berlin/Germany; Sima Mroavitch, PhD, Paris/France; Michael Parenti, Ph.D., author and lecturer, USA; Milosav Popadic, Helsingborg/Sweden; Rolf Priemer, chief editor of "Unsere Zeit", Bonn/Germany; Klaus von Raussendorff, journalist, Bonn/Germany; George Szamuely, journalist, USA; Nico Steijnen, attorney, The Hague/Netherlands; Wil van der Klift, chief editor of "Manifest", The Hague/Netherlands; Dr Ljiljana Verner, vicepresident, Serbian Diaspora, Hannover/Germany; Dr. Mimi Vitkova, former minister of health, Sofia/Bulgaria; Nikola Zivkovic, journalist, Berlin/Germany;
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