REQUEST TO THE GENERAL PROSECUTOR OF THE AD HOC INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL
FOR CRIMES COMMITTED IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Mrs. Louse ARBOUR
Fax: 00 31 70 416 53 45
The undersigned Boris Vidovic
born in Zagreb, Croatia
on 15 January 1961
resident in Helsinki
address Kuusikkotie 4 K 146
zip code 00630
country Finland
profession film theorist
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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.
Place Helsinki
Date 3 May, 1999
Signature