Humanitarian Law Center Publicly
Accuses Former FR Yugoslavia President, His Wife and Son
By Natasa Kandic
Executive Director, Humanitarian Law Center
Belgrade
October 7, 2000
Is there anyone who does not know
that Slobodan Milosevic, together with his wife and closest associates, did everything in
his power to steal votes and pervert the will of the people? Is there any doubt about the
culpability for the death and destruction in the series of wars waged by Milosevic? With
whose money were the mansions, Bambiland, the Kosava disco acquired? Where did the money
kept in foreign bank accounts come from? Who dealt in contraband cigarettes, gasoline and
our food? Who stole our money through inflation and bank manipulations? Will there be an
official investigation? Will the guilty parties be taken into custody to prevent them from
continuing their criminal activities or escaping? Unless the new government immediately
apprehends the suspects and opens an investigation, it will not be up to the task set to
it by the people who rebelled with just cause against such conduct.
The mechanisms of the previous
regime are still in place. It is imperative to exclude all compromised parts of the state
apparatus when taking the decision to lift their immunity and arrest the suspects for the
apparatus long ago proved that its only job was to protect the personal power of the man
who gave them their posts and paid them with crumbs of power and the right to enrich
themselves at the expense of the public. We must not let them trick us again by
reinventing their legitimacy and allow them to re-establish their power. This apparatus
must be replaced. What kind of Constitutional Court one day cancels election results only
to recognize them the next day? What kind of Parliament remains deaf for years to police
brutality, all-out plundering and abuse of power? Need anything be said about the federal
and republican governments? Can they really be expected to strip their own leaders of
immunity, accuse themselves and have themselves arrested? The key decisions to prevent
these bodies from continuing their abuse of power and obstruction of justice must be taken
without them, if necessary by decisions taken directly by the President of the country
with the support of the public, resolutely and immediately. It would appear that an
apology and a declaration of loyalty are sufficient to retain power and immunity.
The new authorities must prevent
designs to leave power in the hands of those who first usurped it and then abused it to an
incredible extent.
The Humanitarian Law Center publicly
accuses Slobodan Milosevic of abuse office, jeopardizing the lives of citizens and general
security, depredation, violence against the media and civil liberties, and attempting to
steal the election; his wife Mirjana Markovic of complicity in jeopardizing the lives of
citizens and the attempt to steal the election; his son Marko Milosevic of plunder,
illegal trade, violent behavior and organizing violence.
We do not expect law enforcement
agencies and judicial bodies to hurry to take action to this end. We therefore call on the
public to peacefully, without violence and respecting human rights, reiterate its demand
for justice, and on the new government to take appropriate measures in order to prevent
the guilty from continuing their depredations or escaping.
The Humanitarian Law Center remains
committed to its main goal: the public must be informed about crimes, criminals must be
brought to justice, victims have the right to justice, the law must be protected from
abuse.
From Balkan Human Rights List,
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