>From: "Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>The Committee for National Solidarity
>Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU
>
>
>INDICTMENT BY THE VIENNA TRIBUNAL
>
>(submitted to the international tribunal against NATO war crimes in New York
>on the fortcoming weekend)
>
>I Preamble
>
>1) NATO, the United States of America, the Federal Republic of Germany, the
>United Kingdom, Turkey, Spain, the Netherlands, Croatia, Hungary, Italy,
>France and others - after failing to force the Federal Republic of
>Yugoslavia at the so-called "peace negotiations" in Paris and Rambouillet to
>accept an extortionate ultimatum which in fact aimed at the occupation of
>the entire territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and had been
>declared a condition sine qua non - without a declaration of war and without
>a resolution by the United Nations Security Council launched warlike rocket
>and bombing attacks against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, deliberately
>murdering Serbs, Kosovo-Albanians, Roma, Muslims, Orthodox-Christians,
>Catholics and foreign nationals.
>
>By doing this they destroyed and damaged economic, social, cultural,
>medical, diplomatic and religious resources.
>
>In the course of their criminal war of aggression, NATO and the
>above-mentioned states cut off the population of Yugoslavia from food,
>water, electric energy, food production, medicines and medical services. By
>means of rocket and aerial bombing attacks they systematically destroyed and
>damaged waterworks and agricultural irrigation installations, factories,
>fertilisers and vegetation, pharmaceutical production works, hospitals and
>health service installations as well as other objects needed for human
>survival. The aggressors attack chemical factories, oil refineries, petrol
>and natural gas stores, fertiliser plants, installations and localities with
>the aim of releasing, on a wide scale, radioactive and other dangerous
>substances into the atmosphere, the soil, the ground-water and the
>foodchain, poison the environment and harm the population. They employed
>banned arms, attacked the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with rockets, bombs
>and missiles which contained Depleted Uranium (DU) and released radioactive
>substances into the atmosphere the soil, the ground-water, the foodchain as
>well as into solid objects, thus exposing the Yugoslav population to health
>hazards for generations to come.
>
>2) With these actions NATO and the above-mentioned states violated
>International Law, especially art. 2 chapter 7 of the UN-Charter; the
>Declaration on Non-intervention; the Resolution on the Definition of
>Aggression, 1997 UNGA 3314; articles 52 and 53 of the Convention on the Law
>of Treaties of 23 May, 1969; the Treaty on the Banning of War, the
>Briand-Kelog-Pact of Paris, 1928, articles 1 and 2; the Hague Conventions,
>especially the Fourth Hague Convention of 18 October, 1907; the Geneva
>Convention on the Protection of Civilians in Times of War, 1949; the
>Statutes of the Nuremberg Tribunal, principles VI a, b and c; the Geneva
>Additional Protocol 1977, articles 48 and 51; the Geneva Protocol on the Use
>of Asphyxiating, Poisonous and Similar Gases as well as of Bacteriological
>Substances in Wars, of 1925; the European Convention on the Peaceful
>Settlement of conflicts, of 29 April, 1957 and also violated national penal
>codes concerning murder, duresse, dangerous threat, wilful destruction,
>arson, damage to the environment, formation of gangs for the purpose of
>carrying out criminal plots and genocide.
>
>
>
>II THE VIENNA TRIBUNAL BRINGS A POLITICAL INDICTMENT AGAINST:
>
>
>The Federal Government of the Republic of Austria
>Chancellor Mag. Victor Klima
>Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Wolfgang Sch-śssel
>Minister of Defence Dr. Werner Fasslabend
>Former EU-Special Representative Dr. Wolfgang Petritsch, present High
>Representative for Bosnia
>Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Alois Mock
>
>
>a) in particular against former minister of foreign affairs Dr. Alois Mock
>on the basis of the well-founded suspicion of openly taking position
>(politically, economically and logistically) and intervening in a civil
>war - thereby violating neutrality - by abetting the destruction of the
>sovereign Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, through furthering - in
>contravention of international law - and politically supporting the
>secession by force of member republics of the SFR of Yugoslavia by way of
>the official recognition - in violation of international law and the status
>of neutrality - of member republics of the SFR of Yugoslavia which had
>seceded with the use of force.
>
>(Violation of the neutrality law; of the UN-Charter; of the principle
>regarding the obligation of non-intervention in matters which, according to
>the Charter, pertain to the national competence of a state; Declaration of
>the United Nations)
>
>b) in particular against the former EU-Special Representative Dr. Wolfgang
>Petritsch on the basis of his collaboration in the "peace accords"
>elaborated in the course of the so-called "peace negotiations" in Paris and
>Rambouillet, including Annex B which contains an extortionate occupation
>diktat postulating, as conditio sine qua non, the occupation of the entire
>national territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with the threat, in
>case of non-compliance, of immediate war actions through bombing attacks
>against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
>
>(Jeopardizing of neutrality according to Austrian penal code, paragraph 320;
>violation of chapter 1 art. 2 and chapter 7 of the UN-Charter; the
>Declaration on Non-intervention of 24 October, 1970; the Briand-Kelog-Pact
>of 27 August, 1928; of art. 52 and 53 of the Convention on the Law of
>Treaties; violation of paragraphs 105, 106 of the Austrian penal code
>/severe duresse/)
>
>c) against the Austrian Federal Government and the above-mentioned statesmen
>on the grounds of the well-founded suspicion of having abetted the
>aggressive actions of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (see above I/1)
>which, having mandated itself, without decision or mandate by the Security
>Council, by violating the obligation under international law to renounce on
>the use of force in international relations and in relations among states,
>waged a war of aggression against the territory of a sovereign state, and
>thus, on the well-founded suspicion of having violated Austria's Everlasting
>Neutrality, enshrined in international law, by not adhering to the
>obligations of an everlastingly neutral state to always comport itself in
>times of war and of peace in a manner that excludes favouring one side of a
>conflict and also on the grounds of the well-founded suspicion of openly
>taking sides - politically, economically and logistically - in a civil war.
>
>c2) and in particular against Federal Chancellor Mag. Victor Klima and
>foreign Minister Dr. Wolfgang Sch-śssel on the basis of their open support
>for and abetting of the NATO war of aggression - violating international
>law - at the EU-summit in Berlin and the 50th anniversary NATO-summit in
>Washington.
>
>(accessory to the violation of the UN-Charter; the Briand-Kelog-Pact; the
>Declaration on Non-intervention; the Declaration on Non-interference; the
>Resolution on the Definition of Aggression; art. 22 and 23 of the fourth
>Hague Concention as well as of the other norms of international law set out
>under I/2, and of the violation of the law on neutrality)
>
>d) on the basis of the well-founded suspicion of abetting the violation of
>the ban on waging "ecological war" carried out by NATO - see I/1 on the
>perpetration of criminal actions (i.e. bombing of oil refineries, chemical
>factories and others, damaging and destroying installations, thereby causing
>negative effects on the environment, locally and regionally) as well as the
>use of banned weapons (cluster bombs and munition made of depleted uranium,
>DU)
>
>(Violation of the UN-Charter and the other norms of international law listed
>under I/2, in particular the 1925 Geneva Agreement on the Banning of
>Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases; the Convention on the Banning of the
>Use of Means Affecting the Environment, 1977; the Geneva Convention of 12
>August, 1949 on the Protection of Civilians in Times of War)
>
>e) on the basis of the well-founded suspicion that at the time of war the
>Austrian Federal Government did not verify violations of the Austrian air
>space by NATO-airforces with regard to their armaments not did it protest
>against such violations, although it would have been obliged to do so
>according to international law as well as according to Austrian neutrality
>law - violations which, although not authorised in this case by Austria,
>increased massively during that period, according to information provided by
>Austrian air traffic control (which fact does not elucidate how many of
>these overflights possibly took place in support of the NATO air war); based
>also on the fact repeated transits through Austria by NATO vehicles to bases
>in Hungary for a long time previously, which can be assumed to have been not
>solely "humanitarian" transports.
>
>(Violation of the 1965 Declaration on Non-intervention; of the Agreement on
>the Peaceful Settlement of International conflicts - First Hague Convention
>on the Outbreak of Hostilities; of the Third Hague Convention of 18 October,
>1907; of the Austrian Neutrality Law; of the Austrian Federal Law of 18
>October, 1977 on the import, export and transit of war material)
>
>f) based on a well-founded suspicion of transmitting perceptions, regardless
>of their content of truth, pertaining to the intelligence department,
>regarding activities on the territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
>by Austrian authorities to NATO services, which fact must lead to the
>assumption of violation of neutrality obligations by Austria.
>
>(Violation of the Declaration of Non-interference; of the Briand-Kelog-Pact
>of 1928; of the UN-Charter; of the Austrian law on neutrality)
>
>g) based on the well-founded suspicion of restraining the effectuation of
>non-military and non-violent possibilities of conflict resolution; such as
>the prevention by neutral Austria of tasks ascribed to the OSCE, possibly by
>means of a "withdrawal order" addressed to NATO; of handing over, for the
>first time ever, of a mandate to a US-representative, in this case US
>Ambassador William Walker (during whose period as US Ambassador in El
>Salvador the dirty war in El Salvador, carried out with the complicity of
>the USA, reached its climax); failure on the part of the Federal Government
>to oppose the - improper - use of the OSCE in the strategic preparation of
>the War against Yugoslavia and the logistic support of NATO as well as
>failure to eliminate the suspension of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as
>member of the organisation with a view to favour attempts at bringing about
>negotiated settlements.
>
>(Violation of the stipulations of the CSCE and OSCE; of the Austrian law on
>neutrality; violation of the agreement on protection and compromise
>procedures within the OSCE, Stockholm, 15 December, 1992)
>
>h) on the basis of the well-founded suspicion of at least tacitly consenting
>to inflammatory reporting, especially regarding the Serbian sector of the
>population of the Yugoslav Republic; on the well-founded suspicion of
>inciting population groups on the territory of the Federal Republic of
>Yugoslavia against each other, especially in media subjected to public law
>and of omitting - on the part of the Federal Government of Austria - to
>intervene in order to insist on publishing denials, thus raising doubts
>regarding Austria's everlasting neutrality.
>
>(Violation of the braodcasting law and the Austrian neutrality law)
>
>
>
>III
>
>
>On the basis of the suspicion outlined above, the representatives of the
>preparatory committee of the Vienna Tribunal demand that the Vienna Tribunal
>of 4 December, 1999 indict the Federal Government of Austria and the
>statesmen listed above on the grounds of favouring and supporting the NATO
>aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and of being accessory
>to a conspicuous violation of international law; as well as on the
>well-founded suspicion of approval (which has to be rejected out of
>political, moral and humanist convictions) of a "New World Order" which was
>a consequence of this war and which contains a continuously proclaimed right
>of "humanitarian intervention" on the part of the North Atlantic Treaty
>Organisation (NATO) that is to be carried out with the force of arms and the
>backing - on a global scale - of the strongest military power.
>
>The verdict will be placed at the disposal of the International Tribunal,
>represented by Mr. Ramsey Clark, for the general indictment before the
>International Court of Justice in The Hague.
>
>*****
>The Vienna tribual on December 4th, 1999 has judged the persons and
>institutions named above to be guilty for the crimes stated.
>
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>Jugoslawisch--¸sterreichische Solidarit-Ńtsbewegung (J-¸SB)
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>Secretary General
>Mrs. Jela Jovanovic
>Art historian
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