Informazione
ROMA 3 GIUGNO -> NEW YORK 10 GIUGNO
e poi:
BELGRADO, BERLINO, AMSTERDAM
ed infine:
un testo in francese sul lavoro del Tribunale indipendente
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ROMA 3 GIUGNO 2000
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ORE 15.00
SESSIONE FINALE DELLA SEZIONE ITALIANA DEL
TRIBUNALE INDIPENDENTE CONTRO I CRIMINI DELLA
NATO IN JUGOSLAVIA
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contattarci entro il 1 giugno ai nostri indirizzi,
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dibattito e di discussione per continuare e programmare le attivita'
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> P R O C E S S I A M O L I !!
>
> Il 31 luglio 1999 hanno avuto inizio a New York le attivita' del
> "TRIBUNALE INTERNAZIONALE INDIPENDENTE CONTRO I
> CRIMINI DELLA NATO IN JUGOSLAVIA", promosso da Ramsey
> Clark, con la stesura di 19 punti di accusa contro la NATO ed i
> governi occidentali.
>
> Le attivita' del "Tribunale" hanno trovato seguito in molti altri paesi
> del mondo. In Italia il primo novembre 1999 alla presenza di
> Ramsey Clark ha preso il via la sezione italiana del Tribunale. Nel
> corso di questi mesi, confortati dal crescente interesse suscitato e
> dalle numerose iniziative di presentazione del "Tribunale Italiano" in
> molte citta', abbiamo potuto verificare con dati oggettivi la
> veridicita' delle nostre accuse.
>
> A completamento del lavoro svolto in questi mesi, noi sottoscritti
> firmatari di questo appello accusiamo le massime autorità della
> Repubblica in carica nel marzo 1999 - in particolare il presidente
> del Consiglio dei Ministri Massimo D'Alema e i membri del Governo
> per la partecipazione alla guerra illegale e il Presidente della
> Repubblica Oscar Luigi Scalfaro per non aver difeso la Costituzione
> - nonchè i loro successori per quanto attiene ai crimini in continuità
> con l'aggressione armata, ciascuno secondo la personale
> responsabilità scaturente dalle diverse competenze, azioni e
> omissioni:
>
> - per avere collaborato attivamente all'aggressione contro la
> Repubblica Federale Jugoslava, paese sovrano da cui non era
> venuta nessuna minaccia nè all'Italia nè ai suoi alleati;
>
> - per aver liquidato e vanificato con l'aggressione militare le
> iniziative internazionali tendenti a favorire la soluzione con mezzi
> pacifici dei problemi esistenti nel Kosovo;
>
> - per avere violato tutti i principi del diritto internazionale e in
> particolare la Carta delle Nazioni Unite, i principi del Tribunale di
> Norimberga, le Convenzioni di Ginevra e i protocolli aggiuntivi sulla
> tutela delle popolazioni civili, nonchè lo stesso trattato istitutivo
> della NATO;
>
> - per aver consentito che dal proprio territorio partissero attacchi
> contro istallazioni e popolazioni civili, condotti su obiettivi e con
> armi appositamente studiate per infliggere il massimo danno,
> anche protratto nel tempo, alle persone e alle loro condizioni di vita
> (attacchi deliberati contro strutture civili, bombe a grappolo);
>
> - per aver consentito l'utilizzo massiccio di proiettili e missili
> all'uranio impoverito, causando danni incalcolabili e per un tempo
> indeterminato alle popolazioni della Federazione Jugoslava, con
> enormi rischi attuali anche per i volontari civili e per i militari italiani
> impegnati nel Kosovo.
>
> - per aver partecipato al bombardamento di impianti chimici e
> farmaceutici, causando deliberatamente danni ambientali di
> enorme rilevanza, tali da configurare una vera e propria guerra
> batteriologica, chimica e nucleare;
>
> - per aver danneggiato l'economia della Costa Adriatica con la
> chiusura degli aeroporti civili e per aver consentito e cercato di
> occultare lo smaltimento di ordigni bellici nelle acque territoriali
> italiane e in quelle immediatamente adiacenti, causando danni alle
> persone, all'ambiente, all'economia;
>
> - per aver violato la Costituzione italiana e ignorato le procedure che essa
> impone in caso di stato di guerra, guerra che non può mai essere intrapresa
> dall'Italia ma solo combattuta per difendere dall'aggressione altrui
> il nostro paese e i paesi di cui l'Italia sia impegnata a condividere la
> difesa;
>
> - per avere attivamente collaborato ad affamare e sacrificare la popolazione
> della Jugoslavia, sia nel corso della guerra sia con l'imposizione di misure
> di embargo internazionalmente illegittime;
>
> - per avere attivamente collaborato a esercitare pressioni e ingerenze
> contro un paese sovrano e le sue legittime istituzioni;
>
> - per avere inviato truppe e personale civile a governare territori ridotti
> di fatto a nuovi protettorati e colonie, senza peraltro impedire nel Kosovo
> la persecuzione sistematica e l'espulsione della popolazione di etnia
> serba e di altre etnie non albanesi, nonchè degli stessi abitanti di etnia
> albanese considerati non affidabili o dissidenti dal nuovo potere di fatto
> ivi insediato in violazione della risoluzione 1244 dell'ONU;
>
> - per aver usato la Missione Arcobaleno come operazione di promozione e
> legittimazione della guerra, e per avere allo stesso fine attivato o
> favorito una disinformazione e propaganda di guerra;
>
> - per avere rinunciato all'esercizio della sovranità del nostro paese e al
> diritto-dovere di controllo delle attività che vi svolgono comandi,
> strutture e mezzi militari stranieri;
>
> - per avere acconsentito a modificare, senza nessuna decisione del
> Parlamento, lo "status" politico e giuridico della NATO.
>
> Queste accuse, saranno esposte e ampiamente documentate il 3
> giugno a Roma nella sessione plenaria del Tribunale Indipendente
> contro i crimini NATO costituitosi in Italia che si terrà presso
> l'Università Valdese (via Pietro Cossa 40) e saranno quindi portate
> a New York, dove il 10 giugno si riunirà il Tribunale Internazionale
> Indipendente promosso dall'ex Ministro della Giustizia USA
> Ramsey Clark.
>
> Invitiamo tutti i cittadini, le associazioni, le personalità consapevoli
> della necessità di impedire che tali crimini siano perpetuati e
> diventino anzi la norma delle relazioni internazionali, a sostenere
> l'iniziativa della sezione italiana del Tribunale Clark e la raccolta di
> testimonianze e documenti e partecipare attivamente all'assemblea
> del 3 giugno a Roma.
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Serbs To Charge Western Leaders With War Crimes
BELGRADE, May 21, 2000 -- (Reuters) Serbia's public prosecutor said on
Saturday charges would shortly be filed against Western leaders accusing
them of committing war crimes against the civilian population during
last year's NATO air war.
"Charges will be filed in the coming days against leading figures of the
most responsible NATO countries for war crimes against the civilian
population committed in Yugoslavia during the March 24 to June 8
aggression last year," the state news agency Tanjug quoted prosecutor
Dragisa Krsmanovic as saying.
The list of the accused includes U.S. President Bill Clinton, former
NATO Secretary General Javier Solana and leaders of Britain, France and
Germany.
An investigation against Western leaders was opened last year. The
accusations included violation of the Geneva convention on the conduct
of war by using cluster bombs, attacks on civilians and residential
areas and attacks on non-military targets.
The president of Serbia's Supreme Court, Balsa Govedarica, said "trials
of the organizers of the aggression against Yugoslavia, given their
specific nature which will certainly provoke a lot of public attention,
would be conducted before a court made up of judges from the entire
republic."
NATO, which launched the air strikes over Yugoslavia's repression of
Kosovo's Albanians, insisted throughout the campaign it was aiming only
at military targets and said it took all possible precautions to avoid
civilian casualties.
When the Washington-based Human Rights Watch said in February 500
civilians had been killed by the air strikes, NATO said its report
constituted legitimate criticism but that NATO's its actions could not
be compared with Serb violence in Kosovo.
The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
indicted Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and four other top
Yugoslav Serb officials last year for alleged war crimes in Kosovo.
Krsmanovic said Yugoslavia did not recognize the UN court based in The
Hague.
He also said an investigation was being conducted against Bernard
Kouchner, head of the U.N.-led administration in Kosovo, and ethnic
Albanian leaders Hasim Thaqi and Agim Ceku for alleged genocide against
Serbs and other non-Albanians.
NATO-led forces and the United Nations took de facto control of Kosovo
last June after Yugoslav security forces pulled out of the province.
Over 200,000 Serbs and other minorities have fled Kosovo since then,
fearing revenge attacks by the ethnic Albanian majority which suffered
years of Serbian repression.
Yugoslavia has accused international forces of not fulfilling its task
to protect the entire Kosovo population.
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BERLINO
ATTO D'ACCUSA DEL TRIBUNALE EUROPEO (NON UFFICIALE) SULLA
GUERRA DELLA NATO CONTRO LA JUGOSLAVIA
Anklage beim Internationalen Europäischen (inoffiziellen) Tribunal über
den NATO-Krieg gegen Jugoslawien
(Sonderbeilage der Tageszeitung junge Welt von Mittwoch, 24. Mai 2000)
http://www.jungewelt.de/2000/05-25/004.shtml
http://www.jungewelt.de/2000/05-24/004.shtml
http://www.jungewelt.de/2000/05-24/001.shtml
http://www.nato-tribunal.de/
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AMSTERDAM
IL 9 GIUGNO IL GOVERNO OLANDESE SOTTO PROCESSO IN TRIBUNALE
>Herman de Tollenaere wrote:
>
>> On Friday 9 June, at the "Paleis van Justitie" [court house] in
Amsterdam,
>> Dutch Government Ministers will be on trial for the NATO bombing of
>> Yugoslavia in 1999.
>>
>> In 1999, 29 citizens of Yugoslavia, victims of the bombs, started this
>> court case against Ministers Kok [Prime Minister], Van Aartsen [Foreign
>> Affairs], and De Grave [Defense]. In May 1999, the judge did not grant
>> their request for summary proceedings. However, he also did not throw out
>> the case, as pro-war politicians might have liked.
>>
>> The case starts Friday 9 June, 11 o'clock at the "Paleis van Justitie",
>> Prinsengracht 434 in Amsterdam. The court case is public. So, the lawyers
>> of the bombing victims call on peace activists to come.
>>
>> Herman de Tollenaere
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CE "STALINISME" NE LES ENERVE PAS :
De : sinbad
À : controle_omc@...
Date : Vendredi 26 Mai 2000 05:18
Sujet : [controle_omc] Les crimes du Pentagone
exposés !
Un nouveau rapport établi par le journaliste américain Seymour Hersh
(1),
confirme que les troupes US ont massacré des soldats irakiens le 2 Mars
1991, aprés le cessez le feu qui mit fin à la guerre
du Golfe. Le rapport de Hersh a été publié dans le magazine New Yorker
du 22 Mai 2000.
Selon le rapport, le Général McCaffrey a ordonné le massacre de soldats
irakiens Ce massacre avait été cité lors des auditions sur les crimes de
guerre
tenues par les groupes antiguerre, peu de temps après la guerre du
Golfe. D'
aprés les transcriptions de ces exposés du 11 Mai 1991, La Commission d'
Enquêtes du Tribunal International des Crimes de Guerre:
"Une division des Gardes Républicains qui se retirait, sans protection,
le long de l' autoroute 8 qui surplombe des
marécages, fut attaquée sans raison. . . Les films pris pendant l'
attaque parlent d' eux mêmes:
Les troupes sous les ordres de McCaffrey, lancèrent une attaque
simultanément avec hélicoptères Apaches, tanks,
artillerie, et missiles guidés au laser. Sur le film on peut entendre la
description du commandant de l' opération: "Nous
nous mirent en position comme pour un tir au pigeon. Nous les avons
littéralement rétamés"
Ceci est sur le film ! Des milliers de soldats irakiens tués et pas une
perte américaine.
Le massacre fut ordonné par le général McCaffrey, aujourd' hui, "Tsar"
de la
lutte anti-drogue sous l' administration Clinton, poste équivalent à une
position de ministre. Cela signifie que le le
général 4 étoiles "à la retraite" fait partie du cercle des privilégiés
de la Maison Blanche.
Parlons donc du pouvoir civil sur les militaires américains, il
semblerait que les généraux tracent les lignes de la
politique à suivre !
McCaffrey est aussi l' architecte des préparatifs militaires US en
Colombie.
Le plan du général comprend 1 milliards 700 millions de dollars destinés
à lancer une nouvelle guerre américaine de style
Vietnam, cette fois-çi, contre le peuple colombien.
Le reportage de Hersh ajoute de nouveaux détails a ceux qui avait été
cités
durant les auditions sur les crimes de guerre, particulièrement sur le
rôle joué par le général McCaffrey. Selon Hersh, L'
officier responsable des opérations, Patrick Lamar, rapporte que le soit
disant tir irakien sur les troupes US, prétexte
invoqué pour justifier , n' était qu' "une gigantesque escroquerie. Les
Irakiens ne faisaient absolument rien. J' avais dit à
McCaffrey que j' avais des difficultés à confirmer le tir irakien sur
nos troupes."
Le Lieutenant-Général John J. Yeosock ajoute: "Ce que Barry (McCaffrey)
finissait par faire était de livrer bataille aux dunes de sable et de se
déplacer rapidement. McCaffrey cherchait à avoir 'sa'
bataille".
Le Major Général Ronald Griffith dit que McCaffrey "fit une bataille de
ce qui n' en était pas."
Ceci est une partie des accusations présentée par Sara Flounders,
maintenant
co-directrice de L' International Action Center.
Depuis le début , le Pentagone a eu en sa possession des évidences
documentées, y compris des heures de bandes video sur l'
assaut mortel d'
unités sans défense. Le 8 Mai 1991, le New York Newsday fit un reportage
sur
ce massacre, basé sur des films pris par l' armée US.
L' armée avait ouvert une enquête en Août 1991 sur les accusations de
crimes
de guerre y compris le massacre de soldats en pleine retraite ainsi qu'
un massacre de prisonniers irakiens désarmés. Selon
le reportage de Hersh, les unités de McCaffrey ouvrir le feu, avec des
mitrailleuse de gros calibre, exterminant
un groupe de prés de 400 prisonniers de guerre désarmés.
L' enquête avait révélé que McCaffrey avait ordonné de tue les troupes
irakiens durant leur retraite, aprés le cessez le feu,
mais que cela était justifié et n' était pas un crime de guerre. C' est
le genre de décision que l' on peut comparer avec les 4
policiers qui tirèrent 41 balles sur l' immigrant guinéen Amadou
Diallou, pas du tout armé, à New York en 1999.
Le massacre des soldats irakiens en retraite a fait l' objet d' un livre
"The Fire This Time", par Ramsey Clark, ancien
Ministre de la Justice des États Unis et fondateur du "International
Action Center". Ce livre raconte l' histoire de soldats
irakiens qui accouraient, les bras levés, pour se rendre aux soldats
américains, essayant de se rendre, occasion qui leur fut
refusé par des troupes trop contentes de pouvoir tuer impunément. Clark
décrit aussi comment les jeunes conscrits
irakiens terrifiés et enfermés dans leur bunker de sable, furent
enterrés vivants par les lames de bulldozer montées à l'
avant des tanks. Il est intéressant de remarquer que Timothy McVeigh,
condamné pour l' attentat à la bombe contre l'
immeuble fédéral, à Oklahoma City et ancien combattant de la Guerre du
Golfe, avait mentionné l' enterrement de soldats
irakiens terrés dans leurs bunkers de
peur de se rendre, suite aux fusillades sur ceux qui avaient tenté de le
faire. Merci l' humanisme du monde capitaliste, et que ceux qui pensent
que
le Système est amendable y pensent à deux fois.
McVeigh avait mentionné ce fait pour mettre en évidence, durant sa
défense,
que la violence est de toute façon institutionalisée par le gouvernement
US.
Si cela excuse son geste ou pas, est une tout autre affaire.
Le livre de Clark, expose également d' autres crimes de guerre qui sont
devenus le pilier central de la stratégie de l'
impérialisme US: la destruction systématique des infrastructures civiles
d' un pays. Le livre "The Fire This Time" cite un
article du Whashington Post du 23 juin 1991, basé sur des interviews
accordés par quelques uns des planificateurs de haut
niveau de la Guerre du Golfe.
Le reporter du WP, Barton Gellman, écrivait "De nombreuses cibles n' ont
pas
été choisies en premier lieu pour leur contribution à une défaite
militaire de l' Irak. . .Les militaires pensaient que les
bombardements amplifieraient l' impact économqiue et psychologique de l'
embargo international sur la société irakienne.
Étant donné les objectifs poursuivis, les dommages faits aux structures
civiles, sont invariablement décrits par les porte
paroles officiels de l' armée, comme des dommages collatéraux ou
involontaires, alors qu' ils ne le sont pas.
Le but poursuivi était de faire le plus grand dommage aux capacités de
l' Irak à se maintenir et se développer en tant que
société industrielle."
La même stratégie a été utilisée huit ans plus tard, en Yougoslavie,
lors des bombardement de l' USA/OTAN sur la Serbie
et le Kosovo. Une nouvelle audition sur les nouveaux crimes de guerre
américains a été mise sur pied, sur l' initiative du
"International Action Center".
La Commission d' Enquête sur les Crimes de Guerre US-OTAN en Yougoslavie
a
commencé à fonctionner le 31 Juillet 1999. Ramsey Clark a établi une
liste de 19 chef d' accusation pour crimes de guerres,
crime contre l' humanité et crime contre la paix à l' encontre des
leaders américians et des pays de l' OTAN.
Le "International Action Center " va ouvrir les séances du Tribunal
Mondial sur les Crimes de Guerre commis contre Le
Peuple de Yougoslavie, à New York,
le 10 Juin 2000. Sara Flounder, la coordinatrice de la commission d'
enquête
a précisé: "Bien que nous ne pouvons procéder aux arrestations des
criminels
identifiés, nous voyons en cette procédure juridique un défi au pouvoir
arrogant et arbitraire. Nous sommes confiant qu' il
s' agit là d' un premier pas d' un processus qui continuera de résonner
à travers les pays de l' OTAN et parmi les peuples
ciblés par le Nouvel Ordre Mondial."
"la IAC a commencé un mouvement qui a encouragé des milliers de
personnes à
exposer les crimes de l' OTAN et à montrer leur solidarité avec la
Yougoslavie. Des audiences sur les crimes se sont tenus
à Oslo à Berlin à Belgrade à Kiev à Athènes, à Sydney, dans 24 villes et
14 pays à travers le monde."
Les lecteurs qui veulent obtenir des précisions sur les audience contre
les crimes de guerre :
International Action Center au (212) 633-6646
email iacenter@...
www.iacenter.org
sinbad
(1) S. Hersh a obtenu le prix Pulitzer pour avoir exposé le massacre de
civils vietnamiens dans le village de Milay, durant
la guerre au Vietnam..
Ce massacre je le rappelle n' était pas une "bavure" mais faisait partie
du "Program Phoenix" programme d' extermination
des civils soupçonnés d' aider
l' OPA Vietcong.
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ROMA 3 GIUGNO 2000
VIA PIETRO COSSA 40 – SALA UNIVERSITA’ VALDESE
DALLE ORE 9.00
PROIEZIONE VIDEO, MOSTRE FOTOGRAFICHE
TRIBUNA APERTA TRA I COMITATI E LE ASSOCIAZIONI
ORE 15.00
SESSIONE FINALE DELLA SEZIONE ITALIANA DEL
TRIBUNALE INDIPENDENTE CONTRO I CRIMINI DELLA
NATO IN JUGOSLAVIA
in preparazione della giornata del 3 giugno ricordiamo a tutte le
strutture che intendessero esporre mostre o altro materiale di
contattarci entro il 1 giugno ai nostri indirizzi,
ricordiamo inoiltre che la mattinata potra' essere un giusto momento di
dibattito e di discussione per continuare e programmare le attivita'
inerenti la lotta alla NATO e la solidarieta' con la Jugoslavia
TRIBUNALE ITALIANO CONTRO I CRIMINI DELLA NATO IN YUGOSLAVIA
065181048- FAX 068174010
E-MAIL: s.deangelis@... ponac@...
CONTINUANO AD ARRIVARE NUMEROSE LE ADESIONI PER LA GIORNATA DEL 3
GIUGNO.
CI TENIAMO A DIRE CHE NONOSTANTE I NOSTRI CONTINUI TENTATIVI NE' IL
QUOTIDIANO IL MANIFESTO NE' IL QUOTIDIANO LIBERAZIONE HANNO PUBBLICATO
L'APPELLO CON L'ATTO DI ACCUSA AI NOSTRI GOVERNANTI ED ALLA NATO.
> P R O C E S S I A M O L I !!
>
> Il 31 luglio 1999 hanno avuto inizio a New York le attivita' del
> "TRIBUNALE INTERNAZIONALE INDIPENDENTE CONTRO I
> CRIMINI DELLA NATO IN JUGOSLAVIA", promosso da Ramsey
> Clark, con la stesura di 19 punti di accusa contro la NATO ed i
> governi occidentali.
>
> Le attivita' del "Tribunale" hanno trovato seguito in molti altri paesi
> del mondo. In Italia il primo novembre 1999 alla presenza di
> Ramsey Clark ha preso il via la sezione italiana del Tribunale. Nel
> corso di questi mesi, confortati dal crescente interesse suscitato e
> dalle numerose iniziative di presentazione del "Tribunale Italiano" in
> molte citta', abbiamo potuto verificare con dati oggettivi la
> veridicita' delle nostre accuse.
>
> A completamento del lavoro svolto in questi mesi, noi sottoscritti
> firmatari di questo appello accusiamo le massime autorità della
> Repubblica in carica nel marzo 1999 - in particolare il presidente
> del Consiglio dei Ministri Massimo D'Alema e i membri del Governo
> per la partecipazione alla guerra illegale e il Presidente della
> Repubblica Oscar Luigi Scalfaro per non aver difeso la Costituzione
> - nonchè i loro successori per quanto attiene ai crimini in continuità
> con l'aggressione armata, ciascuno secondo la personale
> responsabilità scaturente dalle diverse competenze, azioni e
> omissioni:
>
> - per avere collaborato attivamente all'aggressione contro la
> Repubblica Federale Jugoslava, paese sovrano da cui non era
> venuta nessuna minaccia nè all'Italia nè ai suoi alleati;
>
> - per aver liquidato e vanificato con l'aggressione militare le
> iniziative internazionali tendenti a favorire la soluzione con mezzi
> pacifici dei problemi esistenti nel Kosovo;
>
> - per avere violato tutti i principi del diritto internazionale e in
> particolare la Carta delle Nazioni Unite, i principi del Tribunale di
> Norimberga, le Convenzioni di Ginevra e i protocolli aggiuntivi sulla
> tutela delle popolazioni civili, nonchè lo stesso trattato istitutivo
> della NATO;
>
> - per aver consentito che dal proprio territorio partissero attacchi
> contro istallazioni e popolazioni civili, condotti su obiettivi e con
> armi appositamente studiate per infliggere il massimo danno,
> anche protratto nel tempo, alle persone e alle loro condizioni di vita
> (attacchi deliberati contro strutture civili, bombe a grappolo);
>
> - per aver consentito l'utilizzo massiccio di proiettili e missili
> all'uranio impoverito, causando danni incalcolabili e per un tempo
> indeterminato alle popolazioni della Federazione Jugoslava, con
> enormi rischi attuali anche per i volontari civili e per i militari italiani
> impegnati nel Kosovo.
>
> - per aver partecipato al bombardamento di impianti chimici e
> farmaceutici, causando deliberatamente danni ambientali di
> enorme rilevanza, tali da configurare una vera e propria guerra
> batteriologica, chimica e nucleare;
>
> - per aver danneggiato l'economia della Costa Adriatica con la
> chiusura degli aeroporti civili e per aver consentito e cercato di
> occultare lo smaltimento di ordigni bellici nelle acque territoriali
> italiane e in quelle immediatamente adiacenti, causando danni alle
> persone, all'ambiente, all'economia;
>
> - per aver violato la Costituzione italiana e ignorato le procedure che essa
> impone in caso di stato di guerra, guerra che non può mai essere intrapresa
> dall'Italia ma solo combattuta per difendere dall'aggressione altrui
> il nostro paese e i paesi di cui l'Italia sia impegnata a condividere la
> difesa;
>
> - per avere attivamente collaborato ad affamare e sacrificare la popolazione
> della Jugoslavia, sia nel corso della guerra sia con l'imposizione di misure
> di embargo internazionalmente illegittime;
>
> - per avere attivamente collaborato a esercitare pressioni e ingerenze
> contro un paese sovrano e le sue legittime istituzioni;
>
> - per avere inviato truppe e personale civile a governare territori ridotti
> di fatto a nuovi protettorati e colonie, senza peraltro impedire nel Kosovo
> la persecuzione sistematica e l'espulsione della popolazione di etnia
> serba e di altre etnie non albanesi, nonchè degli stessi abitanti di etnia
> albanese considerati non affidabili o dissidenti dal nuovo potere di fatto
> ivi insediato in violazione della risoluzione 1244 dell'ONU;
>
> - per aver usato la Missione Arcobaleno come operazione di promozione e
> legittimazione della guerra, e per avere allo stesso fine attivato o
> favorito una disinformazione e propaganda di guerra;
>
> - per avere rinunciato all'esercizio della sovranità del nostro paese e al
> diritto-dovere di controllo delle attività che vi svolgono comandi,
> strutture e mezzi militari stranieri;
>
> - per avere acconsentito a modificare, senza nessuna decisione del
> Parlamento, lo "status" politico e giuridico della NATO.
>
> Queste accuse, saranno esposte e ampiamente documentate il 3
> giugno a Roma nella sessione plenaria del Tribunale Indipendente
> contro i crimini NATO costituitosi in Italia che si terrà presso
> l'Università Valdese (via Pietro Cossa 40) e saranno quindi portate
> a New York, dove il 10 giugno si riunirà il Tribunale Internazionale
> Indipendente promosso dall'ex Ministro della Giustizia USA
> Ramsey Clark.
>
> Invitiamo tutti i cittadini, le associazioni, le personalità consapevoli
> della necessità di impedire che tali crimini siano perpetuati e
> diventino anzi la norma delle relazioni internazionali, a sostenere
> l'iniziativa della sezione italiana del Tribunale Clark e la raccolta di
> testimonianze e documenti e partecipare attivamente all'assemblea
> del 3 giugno a Roma.
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Serbs To Charge Western Leaders With War Crimes
BELGRADE, May 21, 2000 -- (Reuters) Serbia's public prosecutor said on
Saturday charges would shortly be filed against Western leaders accusing
them of committing war crimes against the civilian population during
last year's NATO air war.
"Charges will be filed in the coming days against leading figures of the
most responsible NATO countries for war crimes against the civilian
population committed in Yugoslavia during the March 24 to June 8
aggression last year," the state news agency Tanjug quoted prosecutor
Dragisa Krsmanovic as saying.
The list of the accused includes U.S. President Bill Clinton, former
NATO Secretary General Javier Solana and leaders of Britain, France and
Germany.
An investigation against Western leaders was opened last year. The
accusations included violation of the Geneva convention on the conduct
of war by using cluster bombs, attacks on civilians and residential
areas and attacks on non-military targets.
The president of Serbia's Supreme Court, Balsa Govedarica, said "trials
of the organizers of the aggression against Yugoslavia, given their
specific nature which will certainly provoke a lot of public attention,
would be conducted before a court made up of judges from the entire
republic."
NATO, which launched the air strikes over Yugoslavia's repression of
Kosovo's Albanians, insisted throughout the campaign it was aiming only
at military targets and said it took all possible precautions to avoid
civilian casualties.
When the Washington-based Human Rights Watch said in February 500
civilians had been killed by the air strikes, NATO said its report
constituted legitimate criticism but that NATO's its actions could not
be compared with Serb violence in Kosovo.
The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
indicted Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and four other top
Yugoslav Serb officials last year for alleged war crimes in Kosovo.
Krsmanovic said Yugoslavia did not recognize the UN court based in The
Hague.
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Kouchner, head of the U.N.-led administration in Kosovo, and ethnic
Albanian leaders Hasim Thaqi and Agim Ceku for alleged genocide against
Serbs and other non-Albanians.
NATO-led forces and the United Nations took de facto control of Kosovo
last June after Yugoslav security forces pulled out of the province.
Over 200,000 Serbs and other minorities have fled Kosovo since then,
fearing revenge attacks by the ethnic Albanian majority which suffered
years of Serbian repression.
Yugoslavia has accused international forces of not fulfilling its task
to protect the entire Kosovo population.
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BERLINO
ATTO D'ACCUSA DEL TRIBUNALE EUROPEO (NON UFFICIALE) SULLA
GUERRA DELLA NATO CONTRO LA JUGOSLAVIA
Anklage beim Internationalen Europäischen (inoffiziellen) Tribunal über
den NATO-Krieg gegen Jugoslawien
(Sonderbeilage der Tageszeitung junge Welt von Mittwoch, 24. Mai 2000)
http://www.jungewelt.de/2000/05-25/004.shtml
http://www.jungewelt.de/2000/05-24/004.shtml
http://www.jungewelt.de/2000/05-24/001.shtml
http://www.nato-tribunal.de/
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AMSTERDAM
IL 9 GIUGNO IL GOVERNO OLANDESE SOTTO PROCESSO IN TRIBUNALE
>Herman de Tollenaere wrote:
>
>> On Friday 9 June, at the "Paleis van Justitie" [court house] in
Amsterdam,
>> Dutch Government Ministers will be on trial for the NATO bombing of
>> Yugoslavia in 1999.
>>
>> In 1999, 29 citizens of Yugoslavia, victims of the bombs, started this
>> court case against Ministers Kok [Prime Minister], Van Aartsen [Foreign
>> Affairs], and De Grave [Defense]. In May 1999, the judge did not grant
>> their request for summary proceedings. However, he also did not throw out
>> the case, as pro-war politicians might have liked.
>>
>> The case starts Friday 9 June, 11 o'clock at the "Paleis van Justitie",
>> Prinsengracht 434 in Amsterdam. The court case is public. So, the lawyers
>> of the bombing victims call on peace activists to come.
>>
>> Herman de Tollenaere
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CE "STALINISME" NE LES ENERVE PAS :
De : sinbad
À : controle_omc@...
Date : Vendredi 26 Mai 2000 05:18
Sujet : [controle_omc] Les crimes du Pentagone
exposés !
Un nouveau rapport établi par le journaliste américain Seymour Hersh
(1),
confirme que les troupes US ont massacré des soldats irakiens le 2 Mars
1991, aprés le cessez le feu qui mit fin à la guerre
du Golfe. Le rapport de Hersh a été publié dans le magazine New Yorker
du 22 Mai 2000.
Selon le rapport, le Général McCaffrey a ordonné le massacre de soldats
irakiens Ce massacre avait été cité lors des auditions sur les crimes de
guerre
tenues par les groupes antiguerre, peu de temps après la guerre du
Golfe. D'
aprés les transcriptions de ces exposés du 11 Mai 1991, La Commission d'
Enquêtes du Tribunal International des Crimes de Guerre:
"Une division des Gardes Républicains qui se retirait, sans protection,
le long de l' autoroute 8 qui surplombe des
marécages, fut attaquée sans raison. . . Les films pris pendant l'
attaque parlent d' eux mêmes:
Les troupes sous les ordres de McCaffrey, lancèrent une attaque
simultanément avec hélicoptères Apaches, tanks,
artillerie, et missiles guidés au laser. Sur le film on peut entendre la
description du commandant de l' opération: "Nous
nous mirent en position comme pour un tir au pigeon. Nous les avons
littéralement rétamés"
Ceci est sur le film ! Des milliers de soldats irakiens tués et pas une
perte américaine.
Le massacre fut ordonné par le général McCaffrey, aujourd' hui, "Tsar"
de la
lutte anti-drogue sous l' administration Clinton, poste équivalent à une
position de ministre. Cela signifie que le le
général 4 étoiles "à la retraite" fait partie du cercle des privilégiés
de la Maison Blanche.
Parlons donc du pouvoir civil sur les militaires américains, il
semblerait que les généraux tracent les lignes de la
politique à suivre !
McCaffrey est aussi l' architecte des préparatifs militaires US en
Colombie.
Le plan du général comprend 1 milliards 700 millions de dollars destinés
à lancer une nouvelle guerre américaine de style
Vietnam, cette fois-çi, contre le peuple colombien.
Le reportage de Hersh ajoute de nouveaux détails a ceux qui avait été
cités
durant les auditions sur les crimes de guerre, particulièrement sur le
rôle joué par le général McCaffrey. Selon Hersh, L'
officier responsable des opérations, Patrick Lamar, rapporte que le soit
disant tir irakien sur les troupes US, prétexte
invoqué pour justifier , n' était qu' "une gigantesque escroquerie. Les
Irakiens ne faisaient absolument rien. J' avais dit à
McCaffrey que j' avais des difficultés à confirmer le tir irakien sur
nos troupes."
Le Lieutenant-Général John J. Yeosock ajoute: "Ce que Barry (McCaffrey)
finissait par faire était de livrer bataille aux dunes de sable et de se
déplacer rapidement. McCaffrey cherchait à avoir 'sa'
bataille".
Le Major Général Ronald Griffith dit que McCaffrey "fit une bataille de
ce qui n' en était pas."
Ceci est une partie des accusations présentée par Sara Flounders,
maintenant
co-directrice de L' International Action Center.
Depuis le début , le Pentagone a eu en sa possession des évidences
documentées, y compris des heures de bandes video sur l'
assaut mortel d'
unités sans défense. Le 8 Mai 1991, le New York Newsday fit un reportage
sur
ce massacre, basé sur des films pris par l' armée US.
L' armée avait ouvert une enquête en Août 1991 sur les accusations de
crimes
de guerre y compris le massacre de soldats en pleine retraite ainsi qu'
un massacre de prisonniers irakiens désarmés. Selon
le reportage de Hersh, les unités de McCaffrey ouvrir le feu, avec des
mitrailleuse de gros calibre, exterminant
un groupe de prés de 400 prisonniers de guerre désarmés.
L' enquête avait révélé que McCaffrey avait ordonné de tue les troupes
irakiens durant leur retraite, aprés le cessez le feu,
mais que cela était justifié et n' était pas un crime de guerre. C' est
le genre de décision que l' on peut comparer avec les 4
policiers qui tirèrent 41 balles sur l' immigrant guinéen Amadou
Diallou, pas du tout armé, à New York en 1999.
Le massacre des soldats irakiens en retraite a fait l' objet d' un livre
"The Fire This Time", par Ramsey Clark, ancien
Ministre de la Justice des États Unis et fondateur du "International
Action Center". Ce livre raconte l' histoire de soldats
irakiens qui accouraient, les bras levés, pour se rendre aux soldats
américains, essayant de se rendre, occasion qui leur fut
refusé par des troupes trop contentes de pouvoir tuer impunément. Clark
décrit aussi comment les jeunes conscrits
irakiens terrifiés et enfermés dans leur bunker de sable, furent
enterrés vivants par les lames de bulldozer montées à l'
avant des tanks. Il est intéressant de remarquer que Timothy McVeigh,
condamné pour l' attentat à la bombe contre l'
immeuble fédéral, à Oklahoma City et ancien combattant de la Guerre du
Golfe, avait mentionné l' enterrement de soldats
irakiens terrés dans leurs bunkers de
peur de se rendre, suite aux fusillades sur ceux qui avaient tenté de le
faire. Merci l' humanisme du monde capitaliste, et que ceux qui pensent
que
le Système est amendable y pensent à deux fois.
McVeigh avait mentionné ce fait pour mettre en évidence, durant sa
défense,
que la violence est de toute façon institutionalisée par le gouvernement
US.
Si cela excuse son geste ou pas, est une tout autre affaire.
Le livre de Clark, expose également d' autres crimes de guerre qui sont
devenus le pilier central de la stratégie de l'
impérialisme US: la destruction systématique des infrastructures civiles
d' un pays. Le livre "The Fire This Time" cite un
article du Whashington Post du 23 juin 1991, basé sur des interviews
accordés par quelques uns des planificateurs de haut
niveau de la Guerre du Golfe.
Le reporter du WP, Barton Gellman, écrivait "De nombreuses cibles n' ont
pas
été choisies en premier lieu pour leur contribution à une défaite
militaire de l' Irak. . .Les militaires pensaient que les
bombardements amplifieraient l' impact économqiue et psychologique de l'
embargo international sur la société irakienne.
Étant donné les objectifs poursuivis, les dommages faits aux structures
civiles, sont invariablement décrits par les porte
paroles officiels de l' armée, comme des dommages collatéraux ou
involontaires, alors qu' ils ne le sont pas.
Le but poursuivi était de faire le plus grand dommage aux capacités de
l' Irak à se maintenir et se développer en tant que
société industrielle."
La même stratégie a été utilisée huit ans plus tard, en Yougoslavie,
lors des bombardement de l' USA/OTAN sur la Serbie
et le Kosovo. Une nouvelle audition sur les nouveaux crimes de guerre
américains a été mise sur pied, sur l' initiative du
"International Action Center".
La Commission d' Enquête sur les Crimes de Guerre US-OTAN en Yougoslavie
a
commencé à fonctionner le 31 Juillet 1999. Ramsey Clark a établi une
liste de 19 chef d' accusation pour crimes de guerres,
crime contre l' humanité et crime contre la paix à l' encontre des
leaders américians et des pays de l' OTAN.
Le "International Action Center " va ouvrir les séances du Tribunal
Mondial sur les Crimes de Guerre commis contre Le
Peuple de Yougoslavie, à New York,
le 10 Juin 2000. Sara Flounder, la coordinatrice de la commission d'
enquête
a précisé: "Bien que nous ne pouvons procéder aux arrestations des
criminels
identifiés, nous voyons en cette procédure juridique un défi au pouvoir
arrogant et arbitraire. Nous sommes confiant qu' il
s' agit là d' un premier pas d' un processus qui continuera de résonner
à travers les pays de l' OTAN et parmi les peuples
ciblés par le Nouvel Ordre Mondial."
"la IAC a commencé un mouvement qui a encouragé des milliers de
personnes à
exposer les crimes de l' OTAN et à montrer leur solidarité avec la
Yougoslavie. Des audiences sur les crimes se sont tenus
à Oslo à Berlin à Belgrade à Kiev à Athènes, à Sydney, dans 24 villes et
14 pays à travers le monde."
Les lecteurs qui veulent obtenir des précisions sur les audience contre
les crimes de guerre :
International Action Center au (212) 633-6646
email iacenter@...
www.iacenter.org
sinbad
(1) S. Hersh a obtenu le prix Pulitzer pour avoir exposé le massacre de
civils vietnamiens dans le village de Milay, durant
la guerre au Vietnam..
Ce massacre je le rappelle n' était pas une "bavure" mais faisait partie
du "Program Phoenix" programme d' extermination
des civils soupçonnés d' aider
l' OPA Vietcong.
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Sullo stesso argomento si veda l'articolo, in italiano sul sito
irredentista pan-albanese "I Balcani",
LA PRIVATIZZAZIONE DELLA GUERRA
Gli USA appaltano i loro affari di stato ad aziende al di fuori di ogni
controllo pubblico, come nel caso della "pulizia etnica" in Croazia.
di Ken Silverstein ("The Nation", 28 luglio 1997)
http://www.ecn.org/est/balcani/jugo/jugo12.htm
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>
> GENERALS FOR HIRE: CONFRONTED WITH ITS TRICKIEST
> TASK IN BOSNIA, THE USA
> HAS MADE PLANS TO PAY SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT.
> Source: TIME magazine - By Mark Thompson,
> Washington, with reporting by
> Massimo Calabresi, Sarajevo and Alexandra
> Stiglmayer, Tuzla, with other
> bureaus - 15 Jan 1996; page 34
>
> THIS IS THE AGE OF PRIVATIZATION. All across
> America, communities are
> hiring for-profit firms to perform the tasks that
> have traditionally
> fallen to government -- educating children, running
> prisons, even building
> and maintaining highways. There is one job, though,
> that seems to be an
> unlikely candidate for outsourcing: executing the
> foreign policy of the
> U.S. If that is not the business of the Federal
> Government, what is? In
> Bosnia, however, the U.S. has a problem: there is
> one particular aspect of
> its mission that is crucial but that it is loath to
> carry out. So the very
> 1990s solution is likely to be hiring a private
> company to do the job
> instead.
>
> For anyone who wants to rent a general, the place to
> go is Military
> Professional Resources Inc., headquartered in a
> squat, red brick office
> building in Alexandria, Virginia. Eight years old
> and with annual revenues
> of about $12 million, MPRI is, according to its
> brochure, "the greatest
> corporate assemblage of military expertise in the
> world." With 160
> full-time employees and some 2,000 retired generals,
> admirals and other
> officers on call, it is making a fair claim. Among
> its most prominent
> executives are retired four-star General Carl Vuono,
> who ran the Army
> during Desert Storm and now heads the company's
> growing overseas business,
> and Crosbie ("Butch") Saint, who was once the chief
> of the Army's
> operations in Europe and who oversees MPRI's work
> there. This is the
> outfit that the U.S. will probably turn to for help
> in Bosnia.
>
> Why would the U.S. need MPRI? The Dayton accord
> calls for disarmament
> negotiations to reduce the Bosnian Serbs' military
> edge over the weaker
> Muslim-Croat Federation. While its European allies
> vigorously disagree,
> the U.S.believes that even if arms control shrinks
> the Bosnian Serb
> arsenal, the federation will require new weaponry to
> ensure a military
> balance in the region. The accord allows arms to
> start flowing into the
> region beginning in mid-March. "We will not be able
> to leave unless the
> Bosnian government is armed and prepared to defend
> itself," says
> Democratic Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware. "That's
> the ticket home for
> Americans."
>
> The problem is the Bosnian Serbs. They object to the
> notion that the U.S.,
> by agreement a neutral party, would make any move to
> strengthen the
> Bosnian army. The U.S. fears Serb attacks on its
> troops if it uses them to
> arm and train the Bosnians. In fact, the Clinton
> Administration has
> pledged that U.S. troops will not play an active
> role in rearming the
> Bosnians. So how is Washington to achieve what it
> considers the necessary
> balance of power in the region? After months of
> fretting, the U.S. has
> come up with a plan. Senior officials told TIME that
> some private company,
> most likely MPRI, which has done work for the
> Croats,will train the
> Bosnians, who will be freshly outfitted with
> hundreds of tons of new
> weapons provided by the U.S. and its allies. "MPRI
> has got the know-how
> and the track record in the Balkans," says a senior
> Pentagon official.
>
> Last week James Pardew, the Pentagon's point man in
> negotiating the Dayton
> accord, flew to Sarajevo to urge the Bosnian
> government to hire MPRI or a
> competitor like BDM Inc. or SAIC (Science
> Applications International).
> Pardew plans to tell the Bosnians that weapons will
> not begin to flow into
> Bosnia for months, but training (assuming the
> Bosnians act swiftly to
> organize the effort) is expected to begin within a
> few weeks, perhaps in
> Croatia, U.S. officials say. Assistant Secretary of
> State Richard
> Holbrooke, who brokered the Dayton pact, recently
> spoke favorably of MPRI
> in testimony to Congress and says training "can
> begin as soon as the
> contracts are worked out."
>
> MPRI is ready. "The Bosnians need training at the
> company level, putting
> battalion staff together, that sort of thing," says
> retired Army Lieut.
> General Harry Soyster. "It can be done pretty
> quickly." Formerly the head
> of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Soyster, MPRI's
> operations chief, is
> the only official who speaks publicly for the
> company. For the past year,
> MPRI has had 15 men in Croatia, a group headed by
> retired two-star General
> Richard Griffitts. They have been teaching the
> Croats to run a military
> force in a democracy, and recently signed a second
> contract to reorganize
> Croatia's Defense Ministry. Also during the past
> year, MPRI, under a State
> Department contract, has been monitoring cargo
> flowing from Serbia to the
> Bosnian Serbs as part of an internationaleffort.
>
> Croatia gave a dramatic demonstration of military
> power last August, when
> it drove rebel Serbs from the Krajina region. That
> offensive took place
> seven months after MPRI began its work in the
> country. Serb and European
> military analysts suggested that the Croats had
> outside help, and MPRI
> quickly found itself on the defensive. But Soyster
> insists MPRI's role in
> Croatia is limited to classroom instruction on
> military-civil relations
> and doesn't involve training in tactics or weapons.
> Other U.S. military
> men say whatever MPRI did for the Croats--and many
> suspect more than
> classroom instruction was involved -- it was worth
> every penny. "Carl
> Vuono and Butch Saint are hired guns and in it for
> the money," says
> Charles Boyd, a recently retired four-star Air Force
> general who was the
> Pentagon's No. 2 man in Europe until July. "They did
> a very good job for
> the Croats, and I have no doubt they'll do a good
> job in Bosnia. "
>
> In a secret, just finished report that cost $400,000
> to prepare, the
> Pentagon has determined the Bosnians' military
> needs. The study concludes
> that the Bosnian Serbs' advantage could be erased by
> giving the
> Muslim-Croat Federation about 50 tanks plus similar
> numbers of artillery
> and armored vehicles, say Pentagon officials
> familiar with the findings.
> The Muslims also need antitank and antimortar
> weapons, light arms and
> basics like boots and bullets. In an indication of
> how important MPRI's
> role would be, the report contends that the forces
> need more training than
> arming, especially in tactics for midsize units
> involving hundreds of
> troops.
>
> Biden, who backs the Bosnians, has quietly won $100
> million in Pentagon
> weaponry and supplies for Sarajevo in a 1996
> spending bill. Some U.S.
> officials say it will take several times that amount
> to right the military
> balance. Nations likely to be asked for weapons and
> cash include Turkey,
> Egypt and Pakistan. Those countries, expecting
> nearly $3 billion in U.S.
> aid this year, may have a hard time saying no.
>
> As for the Bosnians, this aid effort will come with
> strings attached. A
> key condition, senior U.S. officials told TIME,
> requires Bosnia to sever
> all its military and intelligence links with Iran.
> Ejup Ganic, the
> federation Vice President, gave TIME official
> confirmation that Bosnia had
> received arms from Iran, bringing them through gaps
> in the NATO no-fly
> zone. "What we received from Iran," he says, "it's
> kind of a
> science-fiction solution. You cannot load a ship
> with ammunition and bring
> it in a normal way." But Ganic won't quibble about
> cutting Iranian ties
> now. "You bring us stuff," he says, and "we won't
> look anywhere else."
>
> The Serbs remain disturbed by the entire business.
> Last month several U.S.
> lawmakers got a similar reaction from Serbian
> President Slobodan Milosevic
> in Belgrade. Over espresso and pastries, Milosevic
> told them that
> Americans "are looking for trouble," says Republican
> Representative Jim
> Ramstad of Minnesota. Milosevic, widely blamed for
> igniting the Balkan
> wars, has some unexpected allies. Retired top U.S.
> military officers who
> until recently were responsible for the Balkans say
> the plan may embolden
> the Bosnians to seize land now held bythe Bosnian
> Serbs. Boyd suggests it
> would be better to leave well enough alone, saying
> both sides are war
> weary and that a rough military stability already
> exists. Retired General
> David Maddox, the chief U.S. Army officer in Europe
> until last year, also
> criticizes the policy. "The more we do to make sure
> they can fight well,"
> he says, "the less motivation there is for peace."
>
> Given the risks posed by training the Bosnians and
> the importance the U.S.
> has given the mission, it seems especially proper to
> ask if a private
> company ought to be undertaking it. The desire to
> protect American troops
> is understandable, but will the Serbs really
> distinguish between them and
> MPRI trainers? By hiring consultant mercenaries to
> do a messy job, it is
> easier for Washington to ignore the consequences and
> fudge the
> responsibility. Once again, for better or worse,
> that seems to be an
> overshadowing aim of America's policy in Bosnia.
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> PRIVATE MILITARY TO MONITOR PULLOUT OF SERBS FROM
> KOSOVO
> Source: The Sydney Morning Herald - By Jonathan
> Steele, 02 Nov 1998
>
> The United States has asked a private mercenary firm
> to provide the US
> military contingent to verify the withdrawal of Serb
> forces from Kosovo.
> The move will allow President Bill Clinton to avoid
> the political risk of
> having Americans die in active service in the
> Balkans.
>
> European governments, including Britain, have
> seconded military officers
> to the high-risk mission. However, because
> Yugoslavia's President Slobodan
> Milosevic has refused to allow the monitors to be
> armed, US officials
> believe it is safer to give the task to private
> contractors.
>
> The winner of the State Department contract for
> about 150 men to join the
> international monitoring group of 2,000 is DynCorp,
> a Virginia-based
> company. On its Web site, it says of itself:
> "Imagine technology with a
> touch of humanity. Meet a team of experts who treat
> hi-tech like an art
> form."
>
> Mr Spence Wickham, a retired US Air Force officer
> and director of
> international operations in the DynCorp division
> that is handling the
> Kosovo mission, said his team were arriving in the
> region over the
> weekend. "We have extensive experience of doing
> business for the
> military," he said. The team included weapons
> inspectors, verification
> experts and drivers and technicians to operate the
> standard US infantry
> vehicle, the Humvee.
>
> Mr Clinton's decision to dump the Kosovo mission on
> the private sector has
> raised eyebrows in Europe. A British defence expert,
> Ms Mary Kaldor, said:
> "It is extraordinary that a country with a highly
> paid volunteer army
> should turn to a private company of mercenaries.
> This is not the sort of
> task which should be done for profit. It indicates
> the Clinton
> Administration's determination to keep at arm's
> length [from the Kosovo
> conflict]."
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> v) U.S. SEEKS OFFICERS FOR KOSOVO.
> Source: Washington Post - 10 June 1999
>
> Washington - Job alert! Great pay and benefits,
> foreign travel,
> interesting work. DynCorp Technical Services says
> the State Department "is
> seeking active and recently retired police officers
> of any rank who are
> eager to accept a challenging and rigorous
> assignment." And where might
> this be? In beautiful downtown Prizren, Pristina,
> and other hot spots in
> Kosovo. The State Department is looking for up to
> 750 folks - the numbers
> haven't been worked out - to serve with the
> International Police Task
> Force in Kosovo as police monitors.
>
> The pay for a one-year gig is $101,000, which
> includes per diem, a
> completion bonus and hazard pay, the notice says.
> They're looking for
> officers with a minimum of eight years' experience,
> including some patrol
> and training expertise, to help build up a Kosovar
> police force. But the
> State Department is not going to take just anyone.
> You must be a citizen,
> have a "valid U.S. driver's license and ability to
> drive a 4x4 vehicle
> with a manual transmission," have an "unblemished
> background" and a U.S.
> passport, and be in "excellent health without
> temporary or permanent
> disabilities."
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE PRIVATIZATION OF WAR:
> Citizens' Alliance of Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara
> Alliance for Democracy
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>
>
>
>
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irredentista pan-albanese "I Balcani",
LA PRIVATIZZAZIONE DELLA GUERRA
Gli USA appaltano i loro affari di stato ad aziende al di fuori di ogni
controllo pubblico, come nel caso della "pulizia etnica" in Croazia.
di Ken Silverstein ("The Nation", 28 luglio 1997)
http://www.ecn.org/est/balcani/jugo/jugo12.htm
---
>
> GENERALS FOR HIRE: CONFRONTED WITH ITS TRICKIEST
> TASK IN BOSNIA, THE USA
> HAS MADE PLANS TO PAY SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT.
> Source: TIME magazine - By Mark Thompson,
> Washington, with reporting by
> Massimo Calabresi, Sarajevo and Alexandra
> Stiglmayer, Tuzla, with other
> bureaus - 15 Jan 1996; page 34
>
> THIS IS THE AGE OF PRIVATIZATION. All across
> America, communities are
> hiring for-profit firms to perform the tasks that
> have traditionally
> fallen to government -- educating children, running
> prisons, even building
> and maintaining highways. There is one job, though,
> that seems to be an
> unlikely candidate for outsourcing: executing the
> foreign policy of the
> U.S. If that is not the business of the Federal
> Government, what is? In
> Bosnia, however, the U.S. has a problem: there is
> one particular aspect of
> its mission that is crucial but that it is loath to
> carry out. So the very
> 1990s solution is likely to be hiring a private
> company to do the job
> instead.
>
> For anyone who wants to rent a general, the place to
> go is Military
> Professional Resources Inc., headquartered in a
> squat, red brick office
> building in Alexandria, Virginia. Eight years old
> and with annual revenues
> of about $12 million, MPRI is, according to its
> brochure, "the greatest
> corporate assemblage of military expertise in the
> world." With 160
> full-time employees and some 2,000 retired generals,
> admirals and other
> officers on call, it is making a fair claim. Among
> its most prominent
> executives are retired four-star General Carl Vuono,
> who ran the Army
> during Desert Storm and now heads the company's
> growing overseas business,
> and Crosbie ("Butch") Saint, who was once the chief
> of the Army's
> operations in Europe and who oversees MPRI's work
> there. This is the
> outfit that the U.S. will probably turn to for help
> in Bosnia.
>
> Why would the U.S. need MPRI? The Dayton accord
> calls for disarmament
> negotiations to reduce the Bosnian Serbs' military
> edge over the weaker
> Muslim-Croat Federation. While its European allies
> vigorously disagree,
> the U.S.believes that even if arms control shrinks
> the Bosnian Serb
> arsenal, the federation will require new weaponry to
> ensure a military
> balance in the region. The accord allows arms to
> start flowing into the
> region beginning in mid-March. "We will not be able
> to leave unless the
> Bosnian government is armed and prepared to defend
> itself," says
> Democratic Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware. "That's
> the ticket home for
> Americans."
>
> The problem is the Bosnian Serbs. They object to the
> notion that the U.S.,
> by agreement a neutral party, would make any move to
> strengthen the
> Bosnian army. The U.S. fears Serb attacks on its
> troops if it uses them to
> arm and train the Bosnians. In fact, the Clinton
> Administration has
> pledged that U.S. troops will not play an active
> role in rearming the
> Bosnians. So how is Washington to achieve what it
> considers the necessary
> balance of power in the region? After months of
> fretting, the U.S. has
> come up with a plan. Senior officials told TIME that
> some private company,
> most likely MPRI, which has done work for the
> Croats,will train the
> Bosnians, who will be freshly outfitted with
> hundreds of tons of new
> weapons provided by the U.S. and its allies. "MPRI
> has got the know-how
> and the track record in the Balkans," says a senior
> Pentagon official.
>
> Last week James Pardew, the Pentagon's point man in
> negotiating the Dayton
> accord, flew to Sarajevo to urge the Bosnian
> government to hire MPRI or a
> competitor like BDM Inc. or SAIC (Science
> Applications International).
> Pardew plans to tell the Bosnians that weapons will
> not begin to flow into
> Bosnia for months, but training (assuming the
> Bosnians act swiftly to
> organize the effort) is expected to begin within a
> few weeks, perhaps in
> Croatia, U.S. officials say. Assistant Secretary of
> State Richard
> Holbrooke, who brokered the Dayton pact, recently
> spoke favorably of MPRI
> in testimony to Congress and says training "can
> begin as soon as the
> contracts are worked out."
>
> MPRI is ready. "The Bosnians need training at the
> company level, putting
> battalion staff together, that sort of thing," says
> retired Army Lieut.
> General Harry Soyster. "It can be done pretty
> quickly." Formerly the head
> of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Soyster, MPRI's
> operations chief, is
> the only official who speaks publicly for the
> company. For the past year,
> MPRI has had 15 men in Croatia, a group headed by
> retired two-star General
> Richard Griffitts. They have been teaching the
> Croats to run a military
> force in a democracy, and recently signed a second
> contract to reorganize
> Croatia's Defense Ministry. Also during the past
> year, MPRI, under a State
> Department contract, has been monitoring cargo
> flowing from Serbia to the
> Bosnian Serbs as part of an internationaleffort.
>
> Croatia gave a dramatic demonstration of military
> power last August, when
> it drove rebel Serbs from the Krajina region. That
> offensive took place
> seven months after MPRI began its work in the
> country. Serb and European
> military analysts suggested that the Croats had
> outside help, and MPRI
> quickly found itself on the defensive. But Soyster
> insists MPRI's role in
> Croatia is limited to classroom instruction on
> military-civil relations
> and doesn't involve training in tactics or weapons.
> Other U.S. military
> men say whatever MPRI did for the Croats--and many
> suspect more than
> classroom instruction was involved -- it was worth
> every penny. "Carl
> Vuono and Butch Saint are hired guns and in it for
> the money," says
> Charles Boyd, a recently retired four-star Air Force
> general who was the
> Pentagon's No. 2 man in Europe until July. "They did
> a very good job for
> the Croats, and I have no doubt they'll do a good
> job in Bosnia. "
>
> In a secret, just finished report that cost $400,000
> to prepare, the
> Pentagon has determined the Bosnians' military
> needs. The study concludes
> that the Bosnian Serbs' advantage could be erased by
> giving the
> Muslim-Croat Federation about 50 tanks plus similar
> numbers of artillery
> and armored vehicles, say Pentagon officials
> familiar with the findings.
> The Muslims also need antitank and antimortar
> weapons, light arms and
> basics like boots and bullets. In an indication of
> how important MPRI's
> role would be, the report contends that the forces
> need more training than
> arming, especially in tactics for midsize units
> involving hundreds of
> troops.
>
> Biden, who backs the Bosnians, has quietly won $100
> million in Pentagon
> weaponry and supplies for Sarajevo in a 1996
> spending bill. Some U.S.
> officials say it will take several times that amount
> to right the military
> balance. Nations likely to be asked for weapons and
> cash include Turkey,
> Egypt and Pakistan. Those countries, expecting
> nearly $3 billion in U.S.
> aid this year, may have a hard time saying no.
>
> As for the Bosnians, this aid effort will come with
> strings attached. A
> key condition, senior U.S. officials told TIME,
> requires Bosnia to sever
> all its military and intelligence links with Iran.
> Ejup Ganic, the
> federation Vice President, gave TIME official
> confirmation that Bosnia had
> received arms from Iran, bringing them through gaps
> in the NATO no-fly
> zone. "What we received from Iran," he says, "it's
> kind of a
> science-fiction solution. You cannot load a ship
> with ammunition and bring
> it in a normal way." But Ganic won't quibble about
> cutting Iranian ties
> now. "You bring us stuff," he says, and "we won't
> look anywhere else."
>
> The Serbs remain disturbed by the entire business.
> Last month several U.S.
> lawmakers got a similar reaction from Serbian
> President Slobodan Milosevic
> in Belgrade. Over espresso and pastries, Milosevic
> told them that
> Americans "are looking for trouble," says Republican
> Representative Jim
> Ramstad of Minnesota. Milosevic, widely blamed for
> igniting the Balkan
> wars, has some unexpected allies. Retired top U.S.
> military officers who
> until recently were responsible for the Balkans say
> the plan may embolden
> the Bosnians to seize land now held bythe Bosnian
> Serbs. Boyd suggests it
> would be better to leave well enough alone, saying
> both sides are war
> weary and that a rough military stability already
> exists. Retired General
> David Maddox, the chief U.S. Army officer in Europe
> until last year, also
> criticizes the policy. "The more we do to make sure
> they can fight well,"
> he says, "the less motivation there is for peace."
>
> Given the risks posed by training the Bosnians and
> the importance the U.S.
> has given the mission, it seems especially proper to
> ask if a private
> company ought to be undertaking it. The desire to
> protect American troops
> is understandable, but will the Serbs really
> distinguish between them and
> MPRI trainers? By hiring consultant mercenaries to
> do a messy job, it is
> easier for Washington to ignore the consequences and
> fudge the
> responsibility. Once again, for better or worse,
> that seems to be an
> overshadowing aim of America's policy in Bosnia.
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> PRIVATE MILITARY TO MONITOR PULLOUT OF SERBS FROM
> KOSOVO
> Source: The Sydney Morning Herald - By Jonathan
> Steele, 02 Nov 1998
>
> The United States has asked a private mercenary firm
> to provide the US
> military contingent to verify the withdrawal of Serb
> forces from Kosovo.
> The move will allow President Bill Clinton to avoid
> the political risk of
> having Americans die in active service in the
> Balkans.
>
> European governments, including Britain, have
> seconded military officers
> to the high-risk mission. However, because
> Yugoslavia's President Slobodan
> Milosevic has refused to allow the monitors to be
> armed, US officials
> believe it is safer to give the task to private
> contractors.
>
> The winner of the State Department contract for
> about 150 men to join the
> international monitoring group of 2,000 is DynCorp,
> a Virginia-based
> company. On its Web site, it says of itself:
> "Imagine technology with a
> touch of humanity. Meet a team of experts who treat
> hi-tech like an art
> form."
>
> Mr Spence Wickham, a retired US Air Force officer
> and director of
> international operations in the DynCorp division
> that is handling the
> Kosovo mission, said his team were arriving in the
> region over the
> weekend. "We have extensive experience of doing
> business for the
> military," he said. The team included weapons
> inspectors, verification
> experts and drivers and technicians to operate the
> standard US infantry
> vehicle, the Humvee.
>
> Mr Clinton's decision to dump the Kosovo mission on
> the private sector has
> raised eyebrows in Europe. A British defence expert,
> Ms Mary Kaldor, said:
> "It is extraordinary that a country with a highly
> paid volunteer army
> should turn to a private company of mercenaries.
> This is not the sort of
> task which should be done for profit. It indicates
> the Clinton
> Administration's determination to keep at arm's
> length [from the Kosovo
> conflict]."
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> v) U.S. SEEKS OFFICERS FOR KOSOVO.
> Source: Washington Post - 10 June 1999
>
> Washington - Job alert! Great pay and benefits,
> foreign travel,
> interesting work. DynCorp Technical Services says
> the State Department "is
> seeking active and recently retired police officers
> of any rank who are
> eager to accept a challenging and rigorous
> assignment." And where might
> this be? In beautiful downtown Prizren, Pristina,
> and other hot spots in
> Kosovo. The State Department is looking for up to
> 750 folks - the numbers
> haven't been worked out - to serve with the
> International Police Task
> Force in Kosovo as police monitors.
>
> The pay for a one-year gig is $101,000, which
> includes per diem, a
> completion bonus and hazard pay, the notice says.
> They're looking for
> officers with a minimum of eight years' experience,
> including some patrol
> and training expertise, to help build up a Kosovar
> police force. But the
> State Department is not going to take just anyone.
> You must be a citizen,
> have a "valid U.S. driver's license and ability to
> drive a 4x4 vehicle
> with a manual transmission," have an "unblemished
> background" and a U.S.
> passport, and be in "excellent health without
> temporary or permanent
> disabilities."
>
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>
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>
>
>
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* Una vacanza all'Aia? (W. Dorich)
* Karadzic e Mladic "farebbero meglio ad arrendersi, senno' faranno la
fine di Arkan": parola del portavoce del Tribunale dell'Aia!
* Link ad altri articoli in lingua inglese sul mancato intervento del
Tribunale "ad hoc" dell'Aia per i crimini della NATO sul territorio
jugoslavo
---
Source: http://www.serbianna.com/dorich/stories/00_05_10.html
May 2000
The Tribunal...A Holiday at The Hague?
by William Dorich
The article in the Washington Times entitled, ''War-crimes Defendants
Get a Gentle Touch'' by Betsy Pisik (May 7,
2000), gave the impression that Serbian defendants, who have a view of
the North Sea from their prison windows is
luxurious compensation for denying these defendants due process. For
decades prisoners at Alcatraz, renowned as one of
the severest penal institutions in this country, had magnificent views
of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, so
what is Ms. Pasik's point?
I was particularly struck that her article centered on the interior
appointments of this prison rather than the abhorrent
violations of the rights of these individuals. I am certain they don't
care about the ''weight-lifting facilities, jogging
track and well-appointed kitchen,'' they are too worried about being
tried by judges from Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia
and China where human rights violations resemble the Middle Ages, or
worse, the Inquisition.
Shockingly absent from this article is any mention that this tribunal
has omitted any judge whose homeland contains a
sizable Orthodox Christian population (The Serbs are Orthodox
Christians), while Roman Catholic and Islamic presence
on the tribunal is abundant. Can anyone imagine the outcry if the O.J.
Simpson jury had not a single black? Over 700
Roman Catholic priests participated in the fascist Ustashi units in WWII
and personally liquidated tens of thousands of
Serbs, Jews and Roma in Yugoslavia then fled to Argentina to escape
justice. For this reason alone Roman Catholic
jurists should be excluded from any of these proceedings as being
prejudicial.
The first militant military unit in Bosnia, the ''Mosque Doves,''
contained imams, the prayer leaders of mosques. These
religious clerics are believed to be divinely appointed, sinless,
infallible successors of Muhammad. According to the
Sarajevo newspaper Ljiljan on November 29, 1993, the young mufti of
Tuzla, Hussein Kavazovic bragged that he had ''15
imams under his command.''
There are numerous countries without Orthodox Christian, Roman Catholic
or Muslim citizens like Norway, Sweden,
Finland and Switzerland yet they are not represented on this court.
Consumed by the thought that these defendants
actually have ''cable television,'' Ms. Pisik ignored the court's
guidelines that permit appeals by prosecutors and
provisions that defendants are liable to 'double jeopardy' which makes
this nothing more than a Kangaroo court that
violates the most basic aspects of the American judicial system.
Senior American prosecutor Minna Schrag, briefly on loan to The Hague
from a New York law firm, told international
law scholars in a speech in March of 1995 at the University of Virginia
Law School, ''It was a novel experience to be
deciding precedent on rules of evidence and procedure during impromptu
conversations in hallways at the Yugoslav
tribunal.'' What arrogant contempt for the legal process.
In an article in the Nation entitled ''Time to Watch the Watchers'' on
September 26, 1994, C. Douglas Lummis,
copresident of the Paficic-Asia Resource Center and instructor of
political philosophy at Tsuda College in Tokyo wrote,
''The tribunal itself is making the law and... the document will not
have to be submitted to any other UN organ for
approval. They write it, and it's law. Just like that.'' Perhaps Ms.
Pisik supports this kind of Orwellian justice, too brave
for a world of sovereign states?
The scant 10 rules of procedure and evidence at Nuremberg have been
replace with 130 in this
'make-up-the-rules-as-you-go-along' tribunal, including denying the
defendants the right to face their accusers who
testify from behind screens to protect their identity... an insulting
form of justice that reeks of Klu Klux Klan tactics.
The use of ''secret'' indictments is another hideous abuse of
respectable legal jurisprudence that will no doubt to be used
against the entire Serb population for decades to come, especially when
the West wants to maneuver someone from
political office. ''Justice'' kept from the prying eyes of the world's
legal scholars and perceived not to be fair will breed
more revenge and hatred in the Balkans, just opposite of Albright's
intentions.
Professor Lummis and Dutch scholar Peter Baehr insists that Chapter 7
authorizes the United Nations to deploy the
armed forces of member state in peacekeeping operations, period!
''Stretch the words as you will,'' wrote Lummis, ''you
cannot make them say that the UN has the power to put people in jail
under criminal charges.''
In one instance, the tribunal's 'most wanted list' contained the Serb
name ''Grba'' allegedly given to Newsday journalist
and Pulitzer recipient, Roy Gutman in a Sarajevo bar. As the alleged
story goes Gutman in turn gave the information to
tribunal investigators. Grba turned out to be a fictitious character
from the Serbian novel, Man on a Donkey. Apparently
some Serb in Bosnia got a good laugh at Gutman's expense. But this also
exposes the hideous lack of legal investigation by
this tribunal and the eagerness to arrest any Serb under any pretext.
During the Tadic trial, the main prosecution witness recanted his
testimony and admitted that he was trained by Muslim
officials to lie on the witness stand. In every democratic country in
the world this case would have been thrown out of
court. But not at this tribunal where the judges assured one another
they could disregard a week of testimony from this
liar and continued the trial. This is Orwellian justice the Washington
Times now praises as some sort of 'country club'
for defendants. But the Bosnian court system created by the United
States is no better. In one infamous case in 1993 a Serb
was sentenced to death for killing two Muslim brothers. When they showed
up alive and well a year later the Serb was
denied a new trial on the remaining charges and his sentence was reduced
to life in prison. This absurd case should be called
''One-strike you're out.''
Two Serb suspects were held at The Hague for four months and were
released of all charges due to false identity. No
compensation was given for their legal expenses, for destroying their
reputations or for being falsely arrested. If
Madeleine Albright gets her way an international court will be given the
power to arrest and prosecute American citizens
in this sleazy fashion. If the use of secret indictments, secret
witnesses and lawyers making new laws during impromptu
conversations in hallways is good enough for Serb defendants then it
better be good enough for American defendants as
this international court will supersede the American Constitution. What
Americans have fought and died defending
won't be worth the paper this Constitution was written on.
This outrageous abuse of the legal system began when Hungarian
billionaire George Soros gave De Paul University in
Chicago a million dollars to ''gather evidence of Serbian war crimes,''
as he arrogantly called his prejudicial donation.
This same billionaire gave nothing to the Serbs to collect evidence of
war crimes committed against them. I have nothing
but contempt for his ''open society'' ideas that appear no different
than the Communist system where defendants are also
denied the necessary funds to defend themselves.
A war crimes database was gathered at De Paul University under the
supervision of Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni, an
Egyptian-born Muslim specialist in international law who became the head
of the Commission of Experts at the UN. A
prodigious author of books and essays on Islam and the Palestine
Liberation Organization, Bassiouni's office walls at De
Paul displayed quotes from the Koran. Twice the Serbs tried to present
evidence of crimes committed against the Serbs in
Croatia in 1991 and twice this evidence was ''misplaced'' according to
Bassiouni who accepted one package of evidence
directly from Dr. Milan Bulajic an eminent Serb authority and author of
the book, The Principles of International Law
and Development. Dr. Bulajic is a Serbian attorney considered an expert
on genocide by the United Nations.
Bassiouni amassed 65,000 documents that when finally submitted to the
United Nations did not contain any Serbian
evidence. According to AP on April 24, 1994, Bassiouni claimed, ''our
lawyers and analysts put together this report and
quite obviously, we did not have the resources in order to obtain
first-hand information.'' In other words, Serbs were
being condemned with collective guilt with the use of hearsay and
secondhand witness accounts. As of May 1, 2000
defense attorneys at the tribunal are being limited to less than 200
hours on behalf of any one defendant. Meanwhile the
prosecution has a lavish budget and all the time and experts they need.
I wonder how the 'Dream Team' would have
reacted if they were given only 200 hours to defend O.J. Simpson?
Ms. Pisik mentions in her article that Milan Kovacevic, an
Anesthesiologist died in his cell after suffering an aneurysm.
As a medical doctor Kovacevic surely knew the danger he was in but his
guards denied his request for medical assistance
for several hours. Ms. Pisik's claim that ''he died after emergency
medical treatment'' is a shocking manipulation of the
truth.
A unique aspect of this tribunal is the introduction of rape for the
first time as a war crime. However, Patricia Sellers,
the tribunal's legal adviser for sexual assault cases, continues to
pretend not to notice the mound of evidence presented to
the tribunal three years ago by Dr. Ljubica Toholj, director of the
Yugoslav Commission on War Crimes and Professor of
Gynecology at the University of Belgrade. She examined several thousand
Serbian POWs who were sexually mutilated by
forced circumcision as a form of torture which included dozens of
castrations rendering these Serbian men sexually
dysfunctional for life. Broom handles were forced into the anuses of
many Serb POWs which did severe damage to
internal organs that will shorten the life span of many of these
victims. The tribunal has not indicted a single perpetrator
of these ''sex crimes'' in spite of evidence naming numerous
perpetrators.
Betsy Pisik's article mocks the dignity of these Serbian POWs and
defendants and denies them 'Equal Justice Under the
Law' as inscribed over the doorway of the United States Supreme Court.
No amount of cable television and scenic views
can replace the violation of their human and legal rights. Future
generations will look back at this tribunal as just another
western lynch mob.
---
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From: Servisch Informatie- en Cultuurcentrum <Grbic@...>
To: news@... <news@...>
Date: Monday, April 03, 2000 10:05 PM
Subject: Radovan K.aradzic, Ratko Mladic "hunted down, like Arkan"
TILBURG / HAG, 3 april 2000 /SSICC/ - Today, the spokesman of the Hague
Tribunal for War Crimes in the former SFRYu P. Wesley said that Radovan
Karadzic and Ratko Mladic would be better off personally if they
surrendered. Otherwise, they will be "hunted down, like Arkan", which
means
that anybody might kill them without being prosecuted for that. This is
the
first public revelation that Zeljko Raznatovic has been "sentenced to
death".
Jovan Grbic,
Serbian Information and Cultural Centre, Tilburg, Netherlands
---
ALTRI ARTICOLI
-
JUGOSLAVIA UN ANNO DOPO:
CHIUDERE UN OCCHIO SUI CRIMINI DELLA NATO
http://www.counterpunch.org
CounterPunch
Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair
May 22, 2000
Yugoslavia A Year Later
Turning a Blind Eye to NATO War Crimes
-
IL "PONZIO PILATO" DELLA NATO
http://www.iethical.org/iea/writing13.htm
NATO'S PONTIUS PILATE
By Jerry Zeifman
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* Karadzic e Mladic "farebbero meglio ad arrendersi, senno' faranno la
fine di Arkan": parola del portavoce del Tribunale dell'Aia!
* Link ad altri articoli in lingua inglese sul mancato intervento del
Tribunale "ad hoc" dell'Aia per i crimini della NATO sul territorio
jugoslavo
---
Source: http://www.serbianna.com/dorich/stories/00_05_10.html
May 2000
The Tribunal...A Holiday at The Hague?
by William Dorich
The article in the Washington Times entitled, ''War-crimes Defendants
Get a Gentle Touch'' by Betsy Pisik (May 7,
2000), gave the impression that Serbian defendants, who have a view of
the North Sea from their prison windows is
luxurious compensation for denying these defendants due process. For
decades prisoners at Alcatraz, renowned as one of
the severest penal institutions in this country, had magnificent views
of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, so
what is Ms. Pasik's point?
I was particularly struck that her article centered on the interior
appointments of this prison rather than the abhorrent
violations of the rights of these individuals. I am certain they don't
care about the ''weight-lifting facilities, jogging
track and well-appointed kitchen,'' they are too worried about being
tried by judges from Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia
and China where human rights violations resemble the Middle Ages, or
worse, the Inquisition.
Shockingly absent from this article is any mention that this tribunal
has omitted any judge whose homeland contains a
sizable Orthodox Christian population (The Serbs are Orthodox
Christians), while Roman Catholic and Islamic presence
on the tribunal is abundant. Can anyone imagine the outcry if the O.J.
Simpson jury had not a single black? Over 700
Roman Catholic priests participated in the fascist Ustashi units in WWII
and personally liquidated tens of thousands of
Serbs, Jews and Roma in Yugoslavia then fled to Argentina to escape
justice. For this reason alone Roman Catholic
jurists should be excluded from any of these proceedings as being
prejudicial.
The first militant military unit in Bosnia, the ''Mosque Doves,''
contained imams, the prayer leaders of mosques. These
religious clerics are believed to be divinely appointed, sinless,
infallible successors of Muhammad. According to the
Sarajevo newspaper Ljiljan on November 29, 1993, the young mufti of
Tuzla, Hussein Kavazovic bragged that he had ''15
imams under his command.''
There are numerous countries without Orthodox Christian, Roman Catholic
or Muslim citizens like Norway, Sweden,
Finland and Switzerland yet they are not represented on this court.
Consumed by the thought that these defendants
actually have ''cable television,'' Ms. Pisik ignored the court's
guidelines that permit appeals by prosecutors and
provisions that defendants are liable to 'double jeopardy' which makes
this nothing more than a Kangaroo court that
violates the most basic aspects of the American judicial system.
Senior American prosecutor Minna Schrag, briefly on loan to The Hague
from a New York law firm, told international
law scholars in a speech in March of 1995 at the University of Virginia
Law School, ''It was a novel experience to be
deciding precedent on rules of evidence and procedure during impromptu
conversations in hallways at the Yugoslav
tribunal.'' What arrogant contempt for the legal process.
In an article in the Nation entitled ''Time to Watch the Watchers'' on
September 26, 1994, C. Douglas Lummis,
copresident of the Paficic-Asia Resource Center and instructor of
political philosophy at Tsuda College in Tokyo wrote,
''The tribunal itself is making the law and... the document will not
have to be submitted to any other UN organ for
approval. They write it, and it's law. Just like that.'' Perhaps Ms.
Pisik supports this kind of Orwellian justice, too brave
for a world of sovereign states?
The scant 10 rules of procedure and evidence at Nuremberg have been
replace with 130 in this
'make-up-the-rules-as-you-go-along' tribunal, including denying the
defendants the right to face their accusers who
testify from behind screens to protect their identity... an insulting
form of justice that reeks of Klu Klux Klan tactics.
The use of ''secret'' indictments is another hideous abuse of
respectable legal jurisprudence that will no doubt to be used
against the entire Serb population for decades to come, especially when
the West wants to maneuver someone from
political office. ''Justice'' kept from the prying eyes of the world's
legal scholars and perceived not to be fair will breed
more revenge and hatred in the Balkans, just opposite of Albright's
intentions.
Professor Lummis and Dutch scholar Peter Baehr insists that Chapter 7
authorizes the United Nations to deploy the
armed forces of member state in peacekeeping operations, period!
''Stretch the words as you will,'' wrote Lummis, ''you
cannot make them say that the UN has the power to put people in jail
under criminal charges.''
In one instance, the tribunal's 'most wanted list' contained the Serb
name ''Grba'' allegedly given to Newsday journalist
and Pulitzer recipient, Roy Gutman in a Sarajevo bar. As the alleged
story goes Gutman in turn gave the information to
tribunal investigators. Grba turned out to be a fictitious character
from the Serbian novel, Man on a Donkey. Apparently
some Serb in Bosnia got a good laugh at Gutman's expense. But this also
exposes the hideous lack of legal investigation by
this tribunal and the eagerness to arrest any Serb under any pretext.
During the Tadic trial, the main prosecution witness recanted his
testimony and admitted that he was trained by Muslim
officials to lie on the witness stand. In every democratic country in
the world this case would have been thrown out of
court. But not at this tribunal where the judges assured one another
they could disregard a week of testimony from this
liar and continued the trial. This is Orwellian justice the Washington
Times now praises as some sort of 'country club'
for defendants. But the Bosnian court system created by the United
States is no better. In one infamous case in 1993 a Serb
was sentenced to death for killing two Muslim brothers. When they showed
up alive and well a year later the Serb was
denied a new trial on the remaining charges and his sentence was reduced
to life in prison. This absurd case should be called
''One-strike you're out.''
Two Serb suspects were held at The Hague for four months and were
released of all charges due to false identity. No
compensation was given for their legal expenses, for destroying their
reputations or for being falsely arrested. If
Madeleine Albright gets her way an international court will be given the
power to arrest and prosecute American citizens
in this sleazy fashion. If the use of secret indictments, secret
witnesses and lawyers making new laws during impromptu
conversations in hallways is good enough for Serb defendants then it
better be good enough for American defendants as
this international court will supersede the American Constitution. What
Americans have fought and died defending
won't be worth the paper this Constitution was written on.
This outrageous abuse of the legal system began when Hungarian
billionaire George Soros gave De Paul University in
Chicago a million dollars to ''gather evidence of Serbian war crimes,''
as he arrogantly called his prejudicial donation.
This same billionaire gave nothing to the Serbs to collect evidence of
war crimes committed against them. I have nothing
but contempt for his ''open society'' ideas that appear no different
than the Communist system where defendants are also
denied the necessary funds to defend themselves.
A war crimes database was gathered at De Paul University under the
supervision of Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni, an
Egyptian-born Muslim specialist in international law who became the head
of the Commission of Experts at the UN. A
prodigious author of books and essays on Islam and the Palestine
Liberation Organization, Bassiouni's office walls at De
Paul displayed quotes from the Koran. Twice the Serbs tried to present
evidence of crimes committed against the Serbs in
Croatia in 1991 and twice this evidence was ''misplaced'' according to
Bassiouni who accepted one package of evidence
directly from Dr. Milan Bulajic an eminent Serb authority and author of
the book, The Principles of International Law
and Development. Dr. Bulajic is a Serbian attorney considered an expert
on genocide by the United Nations.
Bassiouni amassed 65,000 documents that when finally submitted to the
United Nations did not contain any Serbian
evidence. According to AP on April 24, 1994, Bassiouni claimed, ''our
lawyers and analysts put together this report and
quite obviously, we did not have the resources in order to obtain
first-hand information.'' In other words, Serbs were
being condemned with collective guilt with the use of hearsay and
secondhand witness accounts. As of May 1, 2000
defense attorneys at the tribunal are being limited to less than 200
hours on behalf of any one defendant. Meanwhile the
prosecution has a lavish budget and all the time and experts they need.
I wonder how the 'Dream Team' would have
reacted if they were given only 200 hours to defend O.J. Simpson?
Ms. Pisik mentions in her article that Milan Kovacevic, an
Anesthesiologist died in his cell after suffering an aneurysm.
As a medical doctor Kovacevic surely knew the danger he was in but his
guards denied his request for medical assistance
for several hours. Ms. Pisik's claim that ''he died after emergency
medical treatment'' is a shocking manipulation of the
truth.
A unique aspect of this tribunal is the introduction of rape for the
first time as a war crime. However, Patricia Sellers,
the tribunal's legal adviser for sexual assault cases, continues to
pretend not to notice the mound of evidence presented to
the tribunal three years ago by Dr. Ljubica Toholj, director of the
Yugoslav Commission on War Crimes and Professor of
Gynecology at the University of Belgrade. She examined several thousand
Serbian POWs who were sexually mutilated by
forced circumcision as a form of torture which included dozens of
castrations rendering these Serbian men sexually
dysfunctional for life. Broom handles were forced into the anuses of
many Serb POWs which did severe damage to
internal organs that will shorten the life span of many of these
victims. The tribunal has not indicted a single perpetrator
of these ''sex crimes'' in spite of evidence naming numerous
perpetrators.
Betsy Pisik's article mocks the dignity of these Serbian POWs and
defendants and denies them 'Equal Justice Under the
Law' as inscribed over the doorway of the United States Supreme Court.
No amount of cable television and scenic views
can replace the violation of their human and legal rights. Future
generations will look back at this tribunal as just another
western lynch mob.
---
-----Original Message-----
From: Servisch Informatie- en Cultuurcentrum <Grbic@...>
To: news@... <news@...>
Date: Monday, April 03, 2000 10:05 PM
Subject: Radovan K.aradzic, Ratko Mladic "hunted down, like Arkan"
TILBURG / HAG, 3 april 2000 /SSICC/ - Today, the spokesman of the Hague
Tribunal for War Crimes in the former SFRYu P. Wesley said that Radovan
Karadzic and Ratko Mladic would be better off personally if they
surrendered. Otherwise, they will be "hunted down, like Arkan", which
means
that anybody might kill them without being prosecuted for that. This is
the
first public revelation that Zeljko Raznatovic has been "sentenced to
death".
Jovan Grbic,
Serbian Information and Cultural Centre, Tilburg, Netherlands
---
ALTRI ARTICOLI
-
JUGOSLAVIA UN ANNO DOPO:
CHIUDERE UN OCCHIO SUI CRIMINI DELLA NATO
http://www.counterpunch.org
CounterPunch
Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair
May 22, 2000
Yugoslavia A Year Later
Turning a Blind Eye to NATO War Crimes
-
IL "PONZIO PILATO" DELLA NATO
http://www.iethical.org/iea/writing13.htm
NATO'S PONTIUS PILATE
By Jerry Zeifman
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UNA PREPARAZIONE ADEGUATA AD ENTRARE NEL MONDO DEL LAVORO
"La ratio dei più qualificati modelli educativi europei insegna che non
bisognerebbe approfittare dei luoghi pubblici dell'insegnamento per dare
sfogo ai dibattiti ritardati. Ai giovani non serve sentirsi imporre il
racconto che c'erano i buoni e cattivi. Ai giovani serve una
preparazione adeguata alle esigenze del mondo del lavoro"
Dal comunicato stampa diffuso il 19 aprile da parte del "Settore
Università - Forza Italia" di Napoli contro l'apposizione di una lapide
in memoria di alcuni intellettuali ebrei.
Probabilmente sempre nell'ambito di una adeguata preparazione ad entrare
nel mondo del lavoro, venerdì 28 aprile Mario Gaudieri responsabile
cittadino di Forza Italia - Giovani, dalla colonne del "Corriere del
Mezzogiorno" dichiarava di partecipare alla messa in suffragio di
Mussolini alla chiesa di San Ferdinando a Napoli.
(fonte: Collettivo Studenti di Giurisprudenza in Lotta -
http://www.dadacasa.com/collettivo )
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"La ratio dei più qualificati modelli educativi europei insegna che non
bisognerebbe approfittare dei luoghi pubblici dell'insegnamento per dare
sfogo ai dibattiti ritardati. Ai giovani non serve sentirsi imporre il
racconto che c'erano i buoni e cattivi. Ai giovani serve una
preparazione adeguata alle esigenze del mondo del lavoro"
Dal comunicato stampa diffuso il 19 aprile da parte del "Settore
Università - Forza Italia" di Napoli contro l'apposizione di una lapide
in memoria di alcuni intellettuali ebrei.
Probabilmente sempre nell'ambito di una adeguata preparazione ad entrare
nel mondo del lavoro, venerdì 28 aprile Mario Gaudieri responsabile
cittadino di Forza Italia - Giovani, dalla colonne del "Corriere del
Mezzogiorno" dichiarava di partecipare alla messa in suffragio di
Mussolini alla chiesa di San Ferdinando a Napoli.
(fonte: Collettivo Studenti di Giurisprudenza in Lotta -
http://www.dadacasa.com/collettivo )
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
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