4^th International Demonstrations in The Hague
NedaIst Report - 27 June 2005

The Serbian Diaspora organisation “NedaIst” held the 4^th International Demonstrations in The Hague on Saturday, 25^th June, just three days before Vidovdan, the Serbian National Day when four years ago Mr Milosevic, the Yugoslav President, was kidnapped and illegally delivered to the war crimes Tribunal in the Dutch capital. A slogan made the demonstrators’ position clear: Although the tribunal’s location was in the Netherlands it was 100% owned by Washington and was 0% Dutch.  

The keynote speaker at the demonstration was Dutch lawyer Nico Stejnen, the only legal professional whom Mr Milosevic has authorised to represent him in the Netherlands. Mr Stejnen described the process he has been pursuing in a Dutch court against the British Tribunal lawyer Mr Stephen Kay. The latter often incorrectly referred to as the “Milosevic lawyer” in the mainstream Western media had been scandalously imposed on Mr Milosevic against the latter’s will and with the evident purpose of hindering his defence. A text sent by Mr Aleksandar Vucic of the Serbian Radical Party, whose leader Mr Vojislav Seselj was in the Scheveningen prison, was read outside the prison’s walls. 

Andy Wilcoxson a young American who has been running a daily updated website on the Milosevic trial described the conclusions he had come to as a result of trying to put himself into the position and personality of the accused man for a full three years now. Both Mr Stejnen and Mr Wilcoxson are part of the Netherlands based Freedom Centre that supports Mr Milosevic’s Defence. 

The biggest applause came when a joint message from the French army doctor Patrick Barriot, a former UN blue helmet in Yugoslavia and Eve Crépin, also a UN blue helmet and a nurse, was read out. Both Mr Barriot and Ms Crépin had already been witnesses in the Milosevic trial. They expressed their preparedness to come and testify at any time in order to defend the honour of general Ratko Mladic. Mr Jörg Lorenz, a member of the German Coalition against NATO Aggression and also Solidarity with Yugoslavia, addressed the role of Germany in the break-up of Yugoslavia showing how the history of the region was being manipulated with and rewritten to suit present day Nato demands. 

A moving ceremony took place in The Hague Central Square, near the Dutch parliament when the names of all 16 personnel of Radio Television Serbia killed by NATO bombs were slowly readout. Demonstrators carrying crosses with the named individuals came forward and lined up in front of the square’s monument before a minute’s silence was observed. Their names don’t even now appear in any library books in Nato countries, stated Misha Gavrilovic, who moderated the event on behalf of NedaIst, but neither they nor those who ordered and approved their destruction will be forgotten. Many in the audience wept. 

Messages of support and solidarity were also received from the British, Irish, Italian and French sections of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic. Mr Komnen Becirovic author of the book “Kosovo in our soul” and Neil Clerk a British journalist and writer on Yugoslavia, sent a messages of solidarity to the gathering. 

NedaIst derives its name in Serbian from “Nedamo Istoriju” (“We shall not give away our History”) and the leading slogan of the demonstrations was “The Aggressor shall not write our History”. At the meeting it was stated from the platform that Serbs and others must study and acknowledge the CNN, BBC, ZDF and general history version of NATO counties’ war against Yugoslavia and the Serbian people. However it is vital that at all stages this be treated and properly referred to as the “Aggressors’ history version”.

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