STOP THE
POLITICAL ARRESTS IN BELGRADE!
Yesterday and today, several members of SLOBODA, SPS and YUL have
been arrested. For some of them, home apartments and offices have been searched
by the police. At least three of them have been kept in detention. After SLOBODA
reacted today with the statement bellow and with a press conference, and some
electronic media started quoting our position, the regime ordered all such
reports to be stopped. Then, this evening, the police appeared with its
statements, announcing that “Mira Markovic is in Russia” and informing that some
comrades have been kept in detention. They gave no real explanation. In the case
of Bogoljub Bjelica, chairman of SLOBODA they said “Continuing the investigation
of the hardest crimes and collecting the evidence in order to arrest orderers,
inspirers and assistants, the police arrested for questioning and kept in
detention Bogoljub Bjelica, one of the closest associates of the former
President of FRY Slobodan Milosevic”. In the case of Uros Suvakovic and Goran
Matic, the police stated that they’ve been kept “as closest political associates
of Mira Markovic” due to suspicion that they are “in possession of information
that can help the investigation” of the case of Ivan Stambolic, since, according
to the statement of the police, Mira Markovic “is suspected to be involved in
this murder”.
So, we know
that Belgrade US/NATO/Hague executioners keep illegally and with no ground nor
charges:
1. Bogoljub
Bjelica, President of SLOBODA/Freedom Association – Yugoslav Committee for the
Defense of Slobodan Milosevic, Chairman of the Organizational-Political
Committee of the President of SPS, former Deputy Federal Minister of Defense;
2. Uros
Suvakovic, Member of the Board of SLOBODA/Freedom Association – Yugoslav
Committee for the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic, Main Editor of the Theoretical
Journal of SPS “SMISAO”, former Assistant of the General Secretary of SPS;
3. Goran Matic, Vice-President of YUL, until recently Federal MP, former Federal Minister of Information.
STATEMENT OF SLOBODA/Freedom
Association
The fiasco of the
co-called trial in The Hague caused panic inside the ”tribunal”, in the regime
here, as its Belgrade office, and among their common masters. Except the
desperate attempt to threaten the life and health of President Milosevic, forces
of aggression against our freedom and our people have not found any mean to
confront his magnificent struggle for the truth, which inspires and mobilizes
the forces of peace and freedom at home and abroad.
The
attempt to use the state of emergency in Serbia, imposed in an illegal way by
the illegitimate regime, for an attack to President Milosevic, his family and
associates, speaks itself for their stupidity and weakness.
It
is against the common reason and cynical, and even from a moral and logical
point of view unacceptable, to try to link individuals and groups, proclaimed
earlier by the regime as “heroes of the 5th of October revolution”,
who took part in downing and arrest of President Milosevic, with him and with
members of his family.
The
official statements sent to the media prove that we are dealing with a totally
illegal behavior, lynch and lack of the rule of law. One of the examples is that
it is declared that the wife of President Milosevic is in escape, although it is
absolutely clear that there is nothing she should run away from and that as a
free citizen she has the right to move and travel freely.
The
regime that has lost every hope that it can survive free elections tries to
prolong its days, which are already counted, by the misuse of the media and by
the suppression of the citizen’s rights and freedoms.
This is also an attack on political opponents, free expression of political
opinions and fundamental, internationally guaranteed human rights and freedoms.
We
demand from the police the immediate release of the President of SLOBODA/FREEDOM
Association, Mr. Bogoljub Bjelica, and to stop the persecution and misuse of the
media against the members of the family of President Milosevic, arbitrary
arrests of the members of our association and other individuals who did not
violate any law.
We
call upon all democratic political subjects, all domestic and international
organizations for the protection of human rights, and all progressive forces and
honest individuals to react in the strongest possible way against such a
practice of the Belgrade regime.
Send your appeals to the embassies, diplomatic missions and consulates of Serbia and Montenegro in your respected countries. Act publicly!
NOTE THAT ADDRESSES, FAXES AND E-MAILS OF SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIONS, ONE CAN FIND ON THE WEB SITE OF THE FOREIGN MINISTRY, USING THE FOLLOWING LINK: http://www.mfa.gov.yu/Worldframe.htm
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