REQUEST TO THE GENERAL PROSECUTOR OF THE AD HOC INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR CRIMES COMMITTED IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

Mrs. Louse ARBOUR

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in her/his capacity of member of the transnational human community and European citizen,

Formally requests the General Prosecutor's Office,

a. to solicit urgently the Governments of States member of NATO to hand over immediately to the Office of the General Prosecutor all the documents in their possession (written documents, testimonies, snapshots, television and satellite records, telephone conversations, etc.) able to prove the crimes committed under the order of the Yugoslav Government and/or of Serbian and Yugoslav Presidencies by Serbian and Yugoslav army and forces, as well as by the paramilitary forces, against civilian populations of Kosovo, documents that have contributed to determine, after the failure of the diplomatic action, and according to what has been declared by Governments in parliamentary sessions, the recourse to military intervention;

b. to acquire and evaluate the analogue documentation of crimes committed and being committed under the order of the highest Yugoslav authorities against their own citizens of Albanian origin, inhabitants of Kosovo, after the beginning of the NATO military intervention, also considering the Geneva Convention on humanitarian law in the time of war;

c. to acquire the testimonies of the OSCE observers, of officers of UNHCR, of European Commission, of International Red Cross, of NGOs that have been operating in Kosovo, etc.

d. to immediately acquire the testimonies that are being collected by the General Prosecutor of Albania and to solicit analogue initiative by General Prosecutor Offices of every country, including the Yugoslav Federation, where refugees from Kosovo have arrived, or are going to arrive;

e. to emphasize to the Yugoslav Government that any limitation to freedom of information is and will be taken as a willful expression of hiding of evidence;

f. to notify the Yugoslav authorities of the arrest warrant for Mr Arkan, already wanted for crimes committed in Bosnia, whose active presence, together with his groups, is currently acknowledged in Kosovo.

The undersigned requests the Prosecutor's Office, as soon as minimal and sufficient elements proving the responsibility of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in the chain of command for committing crimes will be acquired, to proceed immediately with his indictment for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and immediately issue the warrant for his arrest.

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