On the 5th of July the Hague Inquisition could not resume as planned due to Milosevic's health problems:

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3868215.stm

Milosevic accused the court of deliberately ruining his health by calling him to the trial, even though the doctors said had reported his poor health condition. There is a lot of evidence suggesting that the Hague Inquisition has been deliberately screwing with Milosevic's health. See, for example:

 http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/press4-3.htm (points 11 onwards)
and
 http://emperors-clothes.com/petition/appealof.htm

(that site also has some other info on the health issue, but you have to search it)

For example, he was denied proper medical attention by the appropriate staff (rather than just a standard nurse and a doctor, who were absent on weekends), he was at one time given the wrong medicine which continually made him dizzy (when they gave him the right medicine, after his continuing complaints, these side-effects ceased), and at one point, when doctors advised that his workload be reduced, it was substantially increased.

Now the Hague Inquisition has decided that while he may not be fit to defend himself, he is fit to stand trial:

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3868721.stm

They ruled that “There is no evidence that the accused is not fit to stand trial at all, but there is evidence that the accused may not be fit to continue to represent himself.”

They are raising the prospect of the tribunal simply forcing a defense counsel on him. Milosevic does not accept the legitimacy of this illegitimate Inquisition, and this would result in the appearance of him considering this a legitimate and fair trial and he merely defending himself like in a normal court, so already this is an attack on Milosevic and an attempt to force him to change his strategy.

This "defense counsel" will most likely completely disregard Milosevic's correct strategy of pointing out the bias and illegitmacy of this "court", the war of aggression carried out against Yugoslavia, and Milosevic's innocence. Instead they will act like ordinary lawyers, and try to get out on technicalities and so on. So when the judge declares Milosevic guilty, it will appear that he has lost a free and fair trial.

The media has already twisted things against Milosevic by using people allegedly "representing him". For example, Ramsey Clark, former US attorney, claimed to represent Milosevic and be his lawyer, and the media all said he was, while he attacked Milosevic. Instead of saying that actually these crimes are unproven and he is innocent, as Milosevic would have, he said that he would defend anyone, even a Nazi or a monster. I.e. the media gives the message that even people defending Milosevic don't deny it. The Daily Telegraph even reported before the trial that Milosevic's lawyers had told them that his defense would be to expose the British establishment's support of him, and claim that they gave him a green light. At the time of the article, Milosevic had no lawyers, and it was quite clear that his defense would be that he was innocent and his country was the victim of aggression, not propaganda about fictional support from the British establishment - i.e. the article was utter propaganda.

We see the media twisting things now also. For example, Stephen Kay, who was appointed by the tribunal to ensure a fair trial, appeared on Tuesday 6th July on Newsnight, and was identified as a "Milosevic Trial Lawyer". The whole interview with him gave the distinct impression that Milosevic's guilt wasn't in doubt but he might get out on a health technicality. Rather than get someone to defend Milosevic, they get someone who claims to be fair, or claims to defend Milosevic, who then refuses to defend Milosevic, never points out that the "crimes" are unproven, that Milosevic was a peace-maker who believed on multi-ethnic tolerance and unity, and so on, but instead says "Well everyone deserves a chance to defend himself, even Nazis did." or "Well he might not be fit to stand trial and so could get out on this technicality".

There is also a lot of media disinformation going on right now concerning other Milosevic trial issues. For example, the media harps on about how 1,600 is such a high number of witness requests, and says that its four, or six, or something, times the prosecution number. In fact the prosecution called something like a 1,000 or so (according to one newspaper at least, I believe), and presumably they only got to call a certain number of those, and the media are confusing the two numbers in order to make out that Milosevic is calling an outrageous amount.

The tribunal will decide which of the 1,600 witnesses are "relevant". I am not knowledgeable on legal or judicial matters, and I expect all courts do this. But this is no ordinary court - according to this tribunal, it is "irrelevant" when witnesses testify that they were tortured to lie, were kidnapped, offered bribes, threatened, and so on (for an example, look up Rade Markovic). According to this tribunal, it is also "irrelevant" when witnesses say that they had not even read the statements they signed. Oh, and if someone is proven conclusively to be a total liar, it's not relevant, and the prosecution can simply trot out some other "witness". We can therefore assume that they are not going to exercise a fair judgement when deciding which witnesses are "relevant".

The "trial" is set to resume on July 14th, according to the BBC. We can look forward to not seeing it on TV (it was originally broadcast on the news channels, but then it had to be cancelled, because it was "costing too much money", i.e. it was becoming a bit too obvious that Milosevic was winning and the prosecution had no case). We can, however, look forward to an awful lot of propaganda, and a lot of repetition of the fantastic, fictional version of events that NATO and the new world order have invented to justify their expansion and aggression. The Hague Inquisition can't prove Milosevic guilty, so they've found a great solution - attack his health, then appoint him "defense" lawyers to destroy his defense, then, voila, its suddenly become a whole lot easier to find him guilty.



[poor writing style/organisation due to the fact that this is a personal analysis, and I don't have all the sources in front of me.]