Subject: MAYDAY, MAYDAY AMERICA!
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RADICAL PARTY, THE TRANSNATIONAL TRANSPARTY
ABSTRACT: Insert published on payment on the "New York Times" of 28th
Septembre. The text contains a solicitation to join the radical party.
Lastly, it suggests the creation of an interactive link with the Radical
Party via Internet.
(THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28 september 1993)
FOR INSTITUTING AN INTERNATIONAL PENAL COURT TO JUDGE CRIMES AGAINST
HUMANITY NOW!
At this Session, the U.N.'s appointment with history.
Emma Bonino designated italian spokeperson at the meetings of the U.N.
General Assembly
It cost us a fair sum ($47,152) the page we took in the New York Times of
Tuesday, October 26, 1993, so that readers could get to know us.
Five hundred and ninety people from all over the United States immediately
joined the Radical Party campaign to set up an ad hoc Tribunal for crimes
committed in the territory of the Ex-Yugoslavia, which was later instituted
by the U.N. Security Council with Resolution No. 808 of February 22, 1993.
It was also thanks to these people, to their response, that we were able to
win a further success in the following weeks: the inauguration of the
Tribunal in The Hague on November 17, 1993. The U.N. Secretary General
himself made the announcement to the Radical Party delegation, led by the
Secretary Emma Bonino, when it met with him in New York at the beginning of
last November.
"I would like to thank you for the incisive and effective action that you
have been undertaking for some time in favor of the ad hoc Tribunal for the
Ex-Yugoslavia (...)."
Antonio Cassese, President of the Tribunal, to Emma Bonino (July 6, 1994).
Now, the Radical Party is asking the U.N. General Assembly to summon,
before the end of December, a U.N. Conference in 1995 for the adoption of
the Treaty on the institution and operation of the International Penal
Court.
We must start preparing ourselves, organizing ourselves, in the next few
days. We must hold demonstrations, and send letters, faxes, and petitions
from all over the world, from all parliaments, to support the delegations
and U.N. bodies who have committed themselves to seeing that this
historical decision is taken; and we must beg the others not to oppose it,
convince them to push it through. The Radical Party has already been
working on this for some time, even though there are not nearly enough of
us, we don't have nearly enough money. An American mobilization is vital.
Give us the means to help you organize yourselves; to arm you with the
knowledge of what is going on each day; to inform you in real time, so that
you will know what to do. We are particularly asking those who administer
justice, or who teach or study law, to enrol in the Radical Party, to
support us and also persuade others, including organizations operating in
this field, to take action. For a right to life and a life of rights. Now.
