KOSOVO/INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL: ULTIMATE APPEAL TO THE PROSECUTOR LOUISE ARBOUR

Statement by Olivier Dupuis, Secretary General of the Transnational Radical Party and Member of the European Parliament

Brussels-Rome, 25 May 1999. "As the rumours on the imminent resignation of Louise Arbour from the position of Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia grow every day more insistent - and not denied -, no day goes by that does not bring to light, through the mass media of the world, more gruesome testimonies of the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo by the serbian military and paramilitary forces.

A few days from her increasingly likely departure from the The Hague, I take the liberty, also on behalf of the more than 200.000 people that have signed our appeal for the indictment of Milosevic, to submit her a final appeal before she surrenders her high mandate with the Tribunal to issue an indictment and an international arrest warrant of the Yugoslav President for the crime against humanity of the deportation of more than one million civilians from their homes and for the thousands of war crimes and crimes against humanity that have accompanied it."

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