Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- Reflections On The Hague, NATO And Human Rights Watch by Pedja Zoric August 31, 2001 Yesterday I watched the whole Slobodan Milosevic hearing in the Hague. It was not bad at all. Clown del Ponte was a real clown. Judge May was better than the first time. I would love all the hearings and the whole trial to be televised. Not enough time though, because, for example, earlier yesterday I made some notes about the Human Rights Watch (HRW) statement concerning Milosevic. [To view it, go to: http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/08/milo-q&a-0829.htm] A revealing excerpt follows: "From its field investigations of the conduct of all sides to the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Human Rights Watch has found that the majority of crimes were committed by Serb forces. Not insignificantly, Serb forces were the only ones to participate in each of the conflicts - in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo. " In fact, ex-nazi and nazi collaborationist forces and their political descendents were the only ones to participate in all the conflicts (including the current one in Macedonia). As well as former and current colonial powers which have committed paramount crimes and complete genocides like the Greater United States, Greater Britain, Greater Spain, Greater Germany, Greater Denmark, Greater Holland, Greater Portugal, Greater France, Greater Italy and Greater Canada. In 1999 I had worked on a Y2K project in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. Nice people, some very rich, many very poor. When I asked, are there some native people left?, they answered, "Ah, we killed them ALL". Also, half of the island the Dominican Republic occupies includes Haiti, with its all black population descended from fomer French slaves. A lot of black people used to live in Santo Domingo, but one night (I've forgotten which which year it was, something like 1956) the current dictator got ornery and ordered the killings of citizens of African descent, and some 30,000 (?) black people were slaughtered in one night. In reference to former NATO Secretary General Javier Solana and his homeland, NATO member Spain - they have the Spanish Inquisition in their historical closet. Regarding the claim that Slobodan Milosevic had recognized the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) by signing the Dayton peace accord: A lot has happened after Dayton. We've learned about depleted uranium (DU) crimes perpetrated by NATO in Bosnia; NATO's war crimes against the people and nation of Yugoslavia; the transformed financial structure of the ICTY (instituted contrary to the ICTY rules). Watching the Hague proceedings, it looks like a person is on trial for having killed a mafia don, with the mafia itself financing the court. More people have been killed and gone missing after NATO forces entered Kosovo than before their barbaric bombing, not to mention the fact that almost all those killed and missing after June of 1999 were civilians, which was not the case before the bombing. I would hardly use the word "peacekeepers" in this context. The Human Rights Watch report goes on: "While certainly there are citizens from NATO countries serving at all levels of the Tribunal, if there is a specific conflict of interest, that individual should recuse him or herself from the proceedings." Alright, let's examine conflicts of interest. Judge Richard May is British Prime Minister Tony Blair's fellow Labour Party member and former party colleague in the parliament. "While the tribunal is not perfect (no court is), the ICTY functions according to the highest standards of international justice. " What about the button to cut off the defendant? (We all know about this). I agree with Human Rights Watch that this is not victor's justice, since NATO and the Serbs both lost the war over Kosovo. NATO is still trying to prove to the world that NATO won; that's the real reason for this trial; that and to wash their hands of their war crimes. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
