>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: 9 June Amsterdam: Demonstration/Dutch ministers on trial for > NATO bombing >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > >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. > >Before the case starts, there is a demonstration, starting 10 o'clock at >the Leidseplein. > >After the court case, there will be a meeting, 3 o'clock p.m. at Center >Linx Internationaal, Sloterkade 20. > >What might Prime Minister Wim Kok say in his defence? > >Perhaps, he might refer to the front page article of daily De Volkskrant of >5 June 1999. It says that NATO promised him twice they would not start >bombing Yugoslavia without contacting Mr Kok first. Apparently, then, >Solana, then NATO General Secretary, phoned just one Dutchman: Minister Van >Aartsen [Foreign Affairs]; even though the whole country, especially the >Dutch air force, was plunged into war for the first time since decades. >According to De Volkskrant, Kok wrote angry letters on this to Van Aartsen. >It is not nice for a Dutch Prime Minister to discover that on the question: >war or not?, one has about the same influence as the Governor of the colony >of Puerto Rico. > >But, some will say: even if Kok apparently did not start the war: why >didn't he STOP it? >Best wishes, >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Herman de Tollenaere >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >My Internet site on Asian history and "new" religions: > >http://stad.dsl.nl/~hermantl/ > >See also SIMPOS, information on occult tendencies' impact on society: > >http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/simpoeng.htm >--------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
