MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: OCTOBER 30, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - October 30, 2003

Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
 

There was an abbreviated hearing today at The Hague. The prosecution didn’t have any witnesses that it could call, so it resorted to calling itself to testify. The Deputy Prosecutor, Graham Blewitt testified as a witness for (big surprise) the prosecution.

Mr. Nice presented some of the OTP’s documents to Mr. Belwitt and Mr. Blewitt confirmed that these documents had been sent by the prosecution to Belgrade.

Mr. Nice made a special point to ask about the objectivity of the prosecution, and Mr. Blewitt confirmed that the OTP was indeed objective and impartial.

Then it came time for cross-examination, and Mr. May announced that this would be another so-called “limited cross-examination.” Mr. May prohibited President Milosevic from asking any important questions.

Mr. May the so-called “judge” told President Milosevic, “You will ask the questions that we order you to ask or else you won’t be able to ask any questions at all.”

President Milosevic denounced the proceedings as a farce, which they clearly are, but it was even worse than usual today.

The scope of the cross-examination was limited exclusively to the documents that Mr. Nice exhibited. Therefore we have the prosecution essentially placing the limits on the scope of cross-examination by the defense.

President Milosevic had other documents from the prosecution that refuted what was in the documents exhibited by Mr. Nice, but he was prohibited from asking any questions about those other documents.

President Milosevic was prohibited from asking any questions that could call into question the objectivity of the prosecution, even though that was a major topic that was discussed by Mr. Nice during the examination-in-chief.

NATO openly bombed maternity wards, passenger trains, private homes, civilian office buildings, bridges, television stations, market places, and all other manner of civilian infrastructure. NATO’s criminal aggression killed thousands of innocent people throughout Yugoslavia.

NATO bombed more civilian hospitals than it did Yugoslav Army tanks. NATO carried out it’s aggression in contravention of all international law. NATO had no resolution from the UN Security Council to launch its criminal attack, and NATO was not threatened by Yugoslavia at all. NATO’s war was pure aggression – every bomb it dropped and every act of war that it perpetrated against Yugoslavia is a war crime.

Every head of state, and every defense minister, from every NATO country that participated in that terrorist aggression is a war criminal. With that aggression NATO transformed itself from a defensive alliance into a terrorist organization.

What happened today was a total scandal. That false tribunal revealed its ugly face to the world today. The ICTY is a NATO propaganda tribunal. Its sole aim is to demonize the Serbian people, and to protect the criminals who destroyed Yugoslavia.

The fact that the ICTY attacks President Milosevic for executing his duty as the legally elected head of state, to protect his citizens from terrorists, while simultaneously refusing to prosecute any of the crimes committed by NATO proves that this so-called “tribunal” is nothing more than a propaganda apparatus that exists only to serve it’s masters in Washington and Brussels.

Of course “limited cross examination” means that no questions can be asked that call into question the omnipotent wisdom of the so-called “trial chamber” or the unquestionable objectivity and integrity of the so-called “prosecution.”

President Milosevic joked with the so-called “judge” May (who is from England) that he could understand why he was so sensitive to questions about NATO’s war crimes and the double standard that is applied by the so-called prosecutor on that score.

The documents brought forward by Mr. Nice concerned requests made by the OTP that were sent to the authorities in Belgrade, requesting that they be allowed to come to Kosovo and carry out investigations. These requests were denied by the FRY authorities because the Hague Tribunal is illegal, and because Yugoslavia had a functioning judicial system that was perfectly willing and capable of investigating crimes and prosecuting criminals on its own.

Because the cross-examination was so severely limited no questions could be asked about the legality of the tribunal, even though the legality of the tribunal was mentioned in the documents that Mr. Nice introduced. As “judge” May explained; the tribunal has already ruled itself to be legal therefore there is no point in challenging its legality.

So what we have here is a court that was illegally established by an organ that has no legal right to establish it, and when it’s legality is challenged it simply rules it self to be legal, and therefore you should consider it to be legal too. That is how the Hague Tribunal works.

Mr. Nice can introduce documents that deal with the legality of the tribunal, and Mr. Nice can assert that the prosecution is objective. Mr. Nice can deal with those all of those topics, but President Milosevic, the man who is supposed to be on “trial,” is prohibited from asking any questions about the very topics that the prosecutor himself brings up.

After Blewitt was done with his so-called “testimony” some administrative matters were dealt with.  Mr. Nice proudly announced that at only 2 years into the prosecution case that the witness list was finalized, although there were still some changes that they had to make. So in other words it really isn’t finalized and President Milosevic still doesn’t know who is going to be testifying against him, and with that they adjourned.
 

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