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Subject: COURT FOR CRIMES IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

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THE INTERNATIONAL COURT FOR CRIMES

IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA NOW!

The rule of law and the entitlement of every citizen to a number of basic

rights are the foundations of all civilized societies. Even international

law, treaties and conventions formally binding for every nation, now

recognize that every human being has certain inviolable rights.

However, there is no international authority to guarantee the effective

respect of these rights, to prosecute violators or to protect victims. Yet,

the scale of violence, horrors and atrocities in former Yugoslavia has

compelled the international community to take an unprecedented step: the UN

security council decided last May to set up an ad hoc international Court

to prosecute war crimes in former Yugoslavia.

The implications of this development can be far reaching: it is the first

practical step towards an effective international legal system limiting, on

humanitarian grounds, the sovereignty of nations and the impunity of

political and military leaders.

But despite the Security Council resolution, it is unlikely that the

international Court will be set up and become operational soon without

strong pressure and action by public opinion.

Several problems are still unresolved, and unless the U.N. will choose to

act with unprecedented speed and determination, nothing will happen.

Diplomatic "realism" and international hypocrisy will once again prevail.

The instigators as well as the perpetrators of "ethnic cleansing" and mass

rape will remain unpunished. The resentment of millions of victims will

breed new violence, new horrors, and prevent us globally from enjoying a

just and better world.

All this can be stopped. You can help, with your signature and with your

actions.

SIGN TODAY!

Join the 25.000 people around the world who signed the international

Petition, among which 933 parliamentarians, 22 members of Government, 22

Nobel Laureates and many personalities and scholars belonging to cultural,

social, political, scientific and religious fields, such as:

Sidney Altman, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Julius Axelrod, Luciano Benetton,

Joseph Brodsky, Stanley Cohen, Furio Colombo, Diego Cordovez, Mairead

Corrigan, Ralf Dahrendorf, Umberto Eco, Carlos Franqui, Vittorio Gassman,

Allen Ginsberg, Alexandr Ginsburg, Peter Goldmark, Barbara Handman, Herbert

A.Hauptman, Euge'ne Ionesco, Hans Janitschek Alejandro Jodorowski, Ismail

Kadare', Bernard Kouchner, William Kunstler, Jean Marie Lehn, Henri

Laborit, Vassily Leontieff, Rita Levi Montalcini, Vincent MacGee, Nagib

Mahfouz, Cweslaw Milosz, Percy S.Mistry, Franco Modigliani, Nevill Mott,

Yuri Orlov, George E.Palade, Linus Pauling, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Sergio

Pininfarina, Leonid Pliusch, John Charles Polanyi, Ilya Prigogine, Fernando

Savater, Hamilton Smith, George Soros, Mario Vargas Llosa, Manuel Vasquez

Montalban, Gore Vidal, George Wald, Maurice Wilkins, Maurice Williams,

Simon Wiesenthal...

In the 1st week of november 1993 a delegation of signers will meet at the

U.N. with the Secretary-General, the President of the General Assembly and

the President of the Security Council, to present the Appeal and solemnly

deliver the signatures.

PETITION FOR THE IMMEDIATE SETTING UP

OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT TO

JUDGE WAR CRIMES IN THE EX-YUGOSLAVIA

We the undersigned, parliamentarians, members of political groups, men and

women from the academic, scientific, cultural and religious fields, and

citizens from all over the world:

A. Considering that the U.N. Security Council, in accordance with Clause

VII of the Charter, has decided, by passing Resolution no. 827 of 25 May

1993 and on the basis of the report prepared by the Secretary General, to

set up the International Court to judge and punish those responsible for

serious violations of International Humanitarian Law committed in the

territory of the Ex-Yugoslavia;

B. Considering that it is now necessary to respect the urgent deadline, set

by that same Security Council, for the actual constitution of the Court;

for the appointment of the Public Prosecutor and of the judges, and their

taking office in the Hague, where the Court will be set up; and for the

conducting of inquiries and investigations prior to the actual trying of

the cases;

C. Considering that the ad hoc Court's becoming operative as soon as

possible constitutes an extremely important step forward in upholding the

supremacy of human rights and of the law, and in creating international

jurisdiction with an aim to setting up a Permanent Court authorized to

judge and punish people who have committed international crimes;

Having stated this, and to achieve the following aims

WE THE UNDERSIGNED

1. Address a FORMAL APPEAL

To the Secretary General of the U.N.

To the President, and the members of the U.N. General Assembly

To the President, and the members of the U.N. Security Council

so that each may take action, within the sphere of their respective

authority and responsibilities:

a) in order to fulfil the necessary conditions and to complete the

required technicalities for the International Court to judge war crimes in

the Ex-Yugoslavia to be set up by December 1993;

b) in order to enable the U.N. General Assembly, during its next Session,

to come to the necessary decisions for setting in motion the required

procedures for the constitution of a Permanent International Court;

2. We engage ourselves to take the necessary steps, within our own

particular sphere, in order that our governments might take action both on

the domestic front and within the United Nations, to achieve the above

objectives.

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I wish to support the international Petition promoted by the Transnational

Radical Party for the immediate setting up of the international court to

judge war crimes committed in former Yugoslavia

Name, Surname, Address, City/Postal Code/State, Tel/fax, Occupation,

Signature...

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Please return this coupon to The Transnational Radical Party, c/o Global

information Network, 777, U.N. Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017. For any further

information: tel. 212-2860123 - fax 212-8189249 or send E-Mail to

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