SLOBO'S SPIRIT IS UNBROKEN!
says RAMSEY CLARK

by CHRISTOPHER JAMES (CDSM UK), reporting from The Hague
(posted: March 1, 2005)

from: http://www.free-slobo-uk.org/documents_clark

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC remains “absolutely undaunted," and his "fighting spirit is higher than ever,” despite years of illegal imprisonment and separation from friends and family, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark declared at the weekend.

Mr Clark, who led a delegation to meet President Milosevic at his Hague prison on Friday (February 25, 2005), reported that "his fighting spirit is higher than ever," despite poor health and the fact that Milosevic has been denied visits from his wife and children for more than a year.

Delivering a keynote address to approximately 80 delegates from across Europe at a "Free Milosevic" seminar in The Hague, Mr Clark conveyed the President’s best wishes to supporters everywhere who are fighting to expose the truth over the West’s role in the destruction of Yugoslavia throughout the 1990s.

The veteran American legal expert and peace campaigner said of Milosevic: Ramsey Clark: 'Milosevic is undaunted'

"His spirit is absolutely undaunted. For almost four years of confinement he has been cut off from family, cut off from friends, cut off from all forms of support and demonised constantly.

"I’ve watched the law for a long time and I don’t know of a more heroic resistance of an individual, under every form of adversity, who has stood up tall and resisted [like Milosevic has].

"And, more than those that hurt him can understand, he is one who has demonstrated that the real criminal acts were by those who were breaking up the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and not those who were trying to preserve the union."

Milosevic’s real crime was standing up to the US-led New World Order, Clark suggested.

"Those who heroically resist - as President Milosevic did - the aggression and domination of their countries, pay the price."

Mr Clark told the conference, organised by the ICDSM to examine the legal aspects of the Milosevic case, that the peoples of the former Yugoslavia were destined to be “servants in the basement of Europe” unless they can unite in a new Balkans federation.

Following the collapse of East European socialism, Yugoslavia maintained an alternative economic model in the region, was independent-minded and “hard to kick around.” As such, it had to go, said Mr Clark.

“If, by US standards, this was to be ‘the end of history’ there could only thereafter be one form of Government – and that is capitalist plutocracy.”

Mr Clark explained how the US Congress encouraged the destruction of Yugoslavia by demanding that each of its six republics held immediate independence referendums or be subject to sanctions and a freeze on aid.

He compared the situation in Yugoslavia to that of the American Civil War albeit with the secessionists and their powerful international backers winning out in the Balkans in contrast to the victory of the Union in the United States.

“He [Milosevic] was blamed for doing what Abraham Lincoln did in the American civil war – and that was trying to preserve the Union. Lincoln said many times that his sole purpose was to preserve the union yet here the United States sole purpose was to destroy Yugoslavia, so that the ‘end of history’ would appear real,” said Clark.

“To do that you had to demonise and destroy the leadership that aimed to preserve the Yugoslav union,” he added.

“And to have its way the United States had to corrupt the United Nations and international, justice.”

This was achieved by railroading the UN Security Council into setting up its International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague – a sham victor’s court, ultra vires the UN Charter which undermined the principles established at the Nuremberg trials after World War II and further obstructed the establishment of an International Criminal Court.

“You can read the UN Charter all you want and you will never find any provision that authorises the creation of the ICTY. There would never have been a United Nations if there had been any suggestion that the Charter had contained the power to create an international criminal court.

“Because the people who wrote the charter would never have permitted themselves to be subjected to the power of that court. Because they don’t intend to be accountable to anyone, which is why we see the United States so feverishly opposing the ICC.

“The supreme international crime is the war of aggression [as established at Nuremberg] and the war of aggression that was waged against Yugoslavia was not only political and economic it was military from beginning to end and it’s still going on there.

“Equality is the mother of justice – if equal justice under law is the founding principle of the rule of law then the ICTY fails to meet most of the standards because it persecutes only the enemies of the United States to ensure further domination of the region. In a sense it’s more deadly than the bombs.”

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