The Hague tries to conceal reasons of Slobodan Milosevic's death

Pravda.Ru ^ | March 11, 2006 | Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

[A. Pole]

Why did the International Penal Court at The Hague keep the story silent? Why were Milosevic’s human rights denied him?

The ex-President of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, was found dead in his cell at the IPC complex in Scheveningen, The Hague, early this morning, yet it was Belgrade which broke the news, on B92 Radio, not the IPC authorities. Why the silence?

Mr. Milosevic was found lying dead on his bed by a guard at the IPC detention centre, where he was taken after being illegally kidnapped by NATO forces in 2001 and where upon arrival, his prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, declared he was guilty even before the trial had begun. This act of kidnapping was outside any forum of international law and contravened the law of Serbia and the Federal State of Yugoslavia in force at the time of the kidnapping. The question of the kidnap and the illegal detention at the Hague has never been addressed by the international community.

Slobodan Milosevic, 64, had had his request for medical treatment in Russia turned down by the IPC, although the doctors in the Netherlands were incapable of helping him in his condition - high blood pressure and heart problems. Why were his human rights denied him?

In the midst of his defence, after Carla del Ponte’s inept attempt at prosecution (many of her key witnesses turned out to be liars) Slobodan Milosevic was about to call some resounding names in international circles to the stand. Now, they will not have to go. How very convenient the “death” of Slobodan Milosevic is.

With the “disappearance” of an important witness in Milosevic’s trial, Milan Babic, through suicide, less than a week ago, the Hague detention centre could rightly be called Death Row and is evidently unfil to detain and protect prisoners.

Slobodan Milosevic, 1941 - 2006

Slobodan Milosevic was born in Pozarevac, Serbia, in 1941 and graduated as a lawyer in Belgrade. He worked in the State Gas Enterprise, Technogas, rising to be its General Manager and then became President of Beogradska Banka, before entering politics, rising to be the Head of the Belgrade, Serbian and Yugoslav Communist Parties. He was later a founding member of the Socialist Party of Serbia.

Democratically elected at President of Serbia, the country’s first democratic elections since the war, in 1989, he was re-elected in 1992 and 1997.

Caught up in the chaos during the implosion of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, due to the interference and direct intrusion of foreign powers and forces, Slobodan Milosevic will be remembered for his attempt to free his country of international terrorists, the Al-Qaeda-backed KLA and also for making the Dayton Peace Accord viable in Bosnia.

Forced from power during an illegal popular uprising on 5th October 2000, he was arrested on 1st April the following year without any formal charges having been brought, before being kidnapped and held illegally in The Hague, since when he has been successfully defending himself against Carla del Ponte’s prosecution team, whose main mission is to keep the pressure on one side while exonerating the true culprits for the Balkans mess, NATO and the Western powers, from their responsibility to stand trial.

Accused of a number of counts of crimes, it no longer matters what because under any norms of law in any civilised society, a person is deemed innocent until he is proven guilty. Carla del Ponte failed rotundly in her attempt to violate the legal profession and put Slobodan Milosevic behind bars after a conviction. The last laugh, and triumph, is his.

[King Prout]

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[A. Pole]

True. For all I know, Milosevic was poisoned — or for that matter, wasn't. If you want to make a case, you might want to call a less laughable witness.

Are you so dense? The author of the article is not a witness, he just presented the news and facts generally known.

You cannot deals with the facts so you wage irrelevant personal attacks. Next you will be blaming your Internet provider for making inconvenient information visible on your screen.

[dogcaller]

Sophisticated European nations have banned the death penalty for criminals...sick, older people placing an undue burden on societal resources is, of course, something else entirely. Guess the Serb dictator didn't figure it from that angle.

[dighton]

Personal attacks?

Serve me right for landing on a Balkans thread.

Adios!

[A. Pole]

Adios!

Hit and run. Bye.

[Incorrigible]

This is the only way this "trial" was going to end.

We knew it when it started.

[Lion in Winter]

Idiocy,YOU should know.....

[Lion in Winter]

Yes, we did. As soon as he started calling for clinton and his pals, devil, inc. to testify.. we knew Milosevic was due for arkancide!!

clinton is an idiot, but he is the devil's IDIOT!!

You cross ol'billy boy and you will probably just end up dead of "natural causes". Unless, of course you are guarded by the secret service.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the ping. History will be the judge. It's hard to tell who are more useless or worse, IMHO.

[eleni121]

There you go again...utter and completely moronic cluelessness, and a stench of islamophilia to boot.

[eleni121]

Hit and run. Bye.

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That's about it. Dighton and others like him read the NY Slimes and listen to the BsBC and swallow the whole shebang!

[aculeus]

Down memory lane with Bancroft-Hinchey,

The man they have in court is not the real Saddam Hussein. Yet another lie by this Bush administration is exposed. How much lower can this clique of criminals sink?

How amazingly prescient. He's actually predicting Dick "The Shooter" Cheney's so-called "accident"!

[Cedar]

Guess they can add his name to the Bill Clinton/list of mysterious deaths.

[Towellboy]

First all of I must first note Slobodan was not Houdini so I do not understand how "The Hague Tribunal" will explain us the way he managed to poison himself in the best guarded prison of all times. I am really curious to see their explanation. Yes, I know they have always have shown a lot of imagination to produce "good answers" and never had to explain anything. We simply had to believe! I am really looking forward to hear their explanation!?!
But, somehow, I do not know why, I am afraid that they wanted to "silence" him because it was so embracing that they have not "produced" any evidence to support claims against him. So they decided to stop playing that game with him anymore.

[Towellboy]

First all of I must first note Slobodan was not Houdini so I do not understand how "The Hague Tribunal" will explain us the way he managed to poison himself in the best guarded prison of all times. I am really curious to see their explanation. Yes, I know they have always have shown a lot of imagination to produce "good answers" and never had to explain anything. We simply had to believe! I am really looking forward to hear their explanation!?!
But, somehow, I do not know why, I am afraid that they wanted to "silence" him because it was so embracing that they have not "produced" any evidence to support claims against him. So they decided to stop playing that game with him anymore.

[tomzz]

The very last thing I ever want my tax dollars being used for is to bomb some innocent Christian nation into the stone age for the benefit of slammite narco-terrorists, and white trash. Somewhere around the second to last thing would be perpetrating arkancides in places like the Hague, Holland.

[tomzz]

Did Slobodan Milosevic Have to Die?

He was bad for business (same reason Jesus had to die)....

Why did Kathleen Wiley's cat have to die? Picture how the nation might have reacted if they'd ever held real hearings after they impeached Slick and one of Kathleen Wiley's little kids stood three on prime time asking

"Why did Mister Slick have to kill Fluffy to try to scare my mommy?"

I mean, I've spoken to a person who was in that federal slammer with Jim McDougal and he tells me they heard the guy screaming all night before he died when they took his heart medicine away from him a week before he was supposed to testify. I assume Milosevic was the same deal.

[A. Pole]

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