[CTRL] Is the CIA Murdering Yugoslav Leaders?

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

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International Action Center
February 16, 2000

Is the CIA Murdering Yugoslav Leaders?
IAC Condemns Bulatovic Assassination

The International Action Center condemns the murder of Yugoslav
Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic. The minister was gunned down in a
Belgrade restaurant Feb. 7. The assassination was "part of a chain of
organized terrorism orchestrated from abroad," Yugoslav Information
Minister Goran Matic charged at a Feb. 9 press conference. It
coincided with a new wave of terror against Serbs who have refused
to leave their homes in the NATO-occupied province of Kosovo.

Over the past three years at least a dozen Yugoslav officials have
been assassinated. Most were members of the Yugoslav United Left
or the Serbian Socialist Party. Is this a CIA "executive action"
campaign to destabilize the government of Yugoslavia?

Last October, at a session of the information committee of the United
Yugoslav Left, Goran Matic had "warned that subversive and terrorist
actions are being planned abroad in order to destabilize the country's
political and economic system," the Yugoslav press agency Tanjug
reported. He charged that Washington's policy would "increasingly
rely on destructive and illegal activities ... relying on an existing
network of secret agents."

During the US-NATO bombing of Yugoslavia last spring, US missiles
destroyed the bedroom of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic,
and the Pentagon openly declared Yugoslav political leaders to be
military targets. This was in brazen violation of the Geneva
Convention, which prohibits political assassination. To set the stage
for the bombing, the CIA-backed "Kosovo Liberation Army"
murdered dozens of Kosovar Albanians, Serbs, Roma and others
who opposed secession from Yugoslavia.

As well as being Yugoslavia's defense minister, Bulatovic was a leader
of the Montenegro Socialist People's Party, which wants Montenegro
to stay part of Yugoslavia. The US and NATO have been
encouraging a separatist movement in Yugoslavia, as they did
previously in Slovenia, Croatia. Bosnia and, most recently, Kosovo.
The Pentagon has gone so far as to warn the Yugoslav government
not to "interfere" in Montenegro's affairs. Montenegro has been a part
of Yugoslavia since that country was founded.

>From the 1961 murder of Congo President Patrice Lumumba through
the repeated attempts on the life of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, from
Operation Phoenix in Vietnam to the murder of tens of thousands of
Latin Americans by CIA-supervised death squads, the CIA and
Pentagon have long used assassination as an instrument of war and
policy. The CIA overthrow of Salvador Allende's pro-socialist
government in Chile in 1973 was preceded by a wave of political
assassinations. Nor can we forget the FBI-CIA domestic
assassination programthe COINTELPRO murders of members of
the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement and other
activist organizations in the '60s and '70s. There is evidence that Dr.
Martin Luther King was among COINTELPRO's victims.

The corporate-owned major US news media have not even raised the
question of a US hand in the assassinations in Yugoslavia. Ignoring the
Yugoslav government's statements, they have implied the victims were
involved in criminal activitya classic "make 'em look dirty" means of
blunting outrage-or insinuated the Yugoslav government itself had
carried out the murders. The media made similar allegation about the
January murder of anti-NATO Serb nationalist leader Zeljko
Raznjatovic, popularly known as Arkan.

This is the same corporate news media that uncritically repeated wild
and now disproven Pentagon allegations of mass murder by the
Yugoslav army in Kosovo, claims used to justify last spring's
undeclared war. They have refused to report non-government efforts
to investigate NATO war crimes in Yugoslavia, such as the
Independent Commission of Inquiry founded by former US Attorney
General Ramsey Clark. They have completely censored any news of
the recent US-orchestrated presidential coup in Ukraine, which
threatens to bring US troops to Russia's border. This level of media
complicity with the State Department and Pentagon has not been seen
since the height of the Cold War in the 1950s.

The Bulatovic assassination and the new attacks on Serbs in Kosovo
coincide with other bellicose moves by the US toward East Europe
and the former USSR. The past few weeks have also seen a pro-
NATO coup against Ukraine's parliament, the US Navy seizure of a
Russian ship in the Persian Gulf and the State Department's
declaration of support for anti-government forces in the former Soviet
republic of Belarus. The Pentagon has also revived its "Star Wars"
program and is planning NATO military exercises in July in Ukraine,
Bulgaria and Estonia. For decades the Washington warmakers have
dreamed of the military conquest of East Europe and what was once
the Soviet Union. Now they appear to believe they can make this
dream a reality. They must be stopped.

International Action Center
39 West 14th Street, Room 206
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Secretary General
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic
Art  historian
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