SERBIAN DIASPORA HOLDS PRO-YUGOSLAV RALLY IN THE HAGUE
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - June 25, 2005

On Saturday, June 25, 2005 the Serbian Diaspora organization “NedaIst” held its fourth annual demonstrations in The Hague.

The demonstrations gathered under the slogan “the aggressor shall not re-write our history.” The rally commenced at 2:30 pm on the “Plien” in front of the Dutch parliament, where a memorial cerimony was held for the sixteen victims of the 1999 NATO attack on Radio-Television Serbia. 

The rally condemned the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, and the illegal tribunal established in the Hague. The demonstrators called for real accountability for all war crimes, including the ones committed by NATO.

The demonstrators marched through the streets of The Hague to the Scheveningen prison, where the Hague Tribunal holds its prisoners. 

The rally was addressed by: 

Misha Gavriolovic, co-chairman of the Committee for Peace in the Balkans, and a leading member of the Serbian Diaspora in the United Kingdom. 

Nico Steijnen, Slobodan Milosevic’s attorney before the Dutch and European Courts, and a board member of the Slobodan Milosevic Freedom Center.  

Joerg Lorenz, member of the Coalition against Nato Aggression in Germany, and a member of the Solidarity with Yugoslavia committee. 

Andy Wilcoxson, a board member of the Slobodan Milosevic Freedom Center, and webmaster of the www.slobodan-milosevic.org website. 

Stan Gasparovski, coordinator of the Committee for Peace in the Balkans, together with Olga Daric of Slobodan Milosevic’s French defense committee read letters of support from:  

Aleksandar Vucic, General Secretary of the Serbian Radical Party. 

Neil Clerk, a British journalist who writes in the Guardian, Observer and New Statesman. 

Ian Johnson, president of the Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic in the UK. 

Andrea Marchota, president of the Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic in Italy 

June Kelly, president of the Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic in Ireland. 

Komnen Becirovic, the author of the famous book “Kosovo in our soul”. 

Louis Dalmas, a leading French intellectual on Yugoslavia, and publisher of the monthly magazine Balkan Infos, now renamed as BI. Dalmas. 

Patrick Barriot and Eve Crépin, defense witnesses for Slobodan Milosevic who worked extensively throughout the former Yugoslavia as humanitarian medical workers attached to French UN troops.

The rally successfully in attracted the attention of the Dutch public in The Hague, Nedist distributed hundreds of Dutch-language leaflets outlining their platform to interested on-lookers.

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