-Caveat Lector- =========================== The Committee for National Solidarity Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU =========================== The Committee for National Solidarity Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU This is enough to make your blood boil. There's a useful update on the current status of S.1234. On July 16th my column, entitled "S1234: Yugoslavia: Give us you assets or we kill your Children"(http://originalsources.com/OS7-99MQC/7-16-1999.1.shtml) was a protest against a bill, passed 97-2, in the U.S. Senate, with no debate or media attention, that would have declared Serbia a "Terrorist State." The result of that designation would ensure that the Serbs would be unable to restore electricity and heat to its people before the harsh Yugoslavia winter sets in, which would cause the death of thousand of children , sick and elderly people of all nationalities in Serbia Then, on July 23rd, the House passed a companion bill which did not have the Terrorist designation in it. On August 4, just before the Congress adjourned for the summer vacation, the Senate portion was added, including the designation of Serbia as a "terrorist state." The two bills were then sent to committee, with the Senate insisting on it amendment, to determine what would remain in the final $12,624,278,000 bill for Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs. Now that Congress is back in session, the Congress will be voting to adopt the Conference report prepared by the conference committee with includes Senators McConnell; Specter; Gregg; Shelby; Bennett; Campbell; Bond; Stevens; Leahy; Inouye; Lautenberg; Harkin; Mikulski; Murray; Byrd. While the House version did not contain the "terrorist" designation, the House Committee Report Read: Committee Report: SERBIA The Committee intends that none of the funds provided under this heading, or in this Act, may be made available for reconstruction or development activities for the Republic of Serbia, outside of Kosova. The Committee would support a substantial increase in democratization activities in Serbia and Montenegro, excluding Kosovo, including increased assistance as authorized under the Support for East European Democracy Act of 1989. The Committee is recommending a new general provision, section 537, that would prohibit funds from being made available for assistance for the Republic of Serbia. Such assistance is not appropriate at the present time. This is an improvement over the Senate bill which would not only have not provided any funds to restore the electrical and heating plants which American bombs destroyed, but would have required the blocking of any other nation that wished to help Yugoslavia have heat and electricity this winter. Of course, the conference isn't over yet. So NOW is the time to write your senators and representative to insist they understand that the children, elderly and ill of Yugoslavia - and there are many in all those categories in the over one million refugees trying to survive in Serbia - are not the ones who die in the War of Annihilation against Yugoslavia. If the central heating facilities and electricity are not restored, thousands of children, elderly and hospitalized people of all nationalities will die this winter in Serbia. An estimated 300,000 Serbs, Albanians, Gypsies, Turks, Jews, Gorans, Egyptians and Montenegrins have fled Kosovo since NATO and the KLA took control of the province and the refugee population in Serbia has swollen to well over a million people. Under these circumstances, perhaps the House report, which was issued August 4th, eliminated the "terrorist" designation because it would be rather embarrassing to talk about Serbia being a "terrorist state" while America supports Indonesian and KLA terrorism In a month's time, the situation looks very different. Not only has the true nature of the KLA, which the United States assisted with its Air Force, become apparent to others in the media besides me, but we now have the situation in East Timor where hundreds of thousands have died at the hands of the invading Indonesian Army since 1975 and the world is watching what Clinton does THIS time. Yesterday, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, was asked about the situation in East Timor, where an estimated 150,000-200,000 people have been killed or driven from their homes by militias and the Indonesian Army.. In March Clinton unilaterally, WITHOUT a vote of the United Nations General Assembly OR the U.S. Congress began an 79 day, multi-billion dollar bombing spree over Yugoslavia because 2000 Ethnic Albanians and Serbs had been killed during 1998 in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. Now, according to reports today in the London Telegraph, in a few days following a vote encouraged by the United States, the people of East Timor are being annihilated. Indonesian soldiers "were looting everything in sight, carrying furniture out of abandoned houses and loading it on to trucks." A five-vehicle United Nations convoy was attacked by 50 anti-independence militiamen armed with guns, clubs and machetes, as it sought to load supplies of water and food at a warehouse in Dili. East Timor, although invaded by Indonesia, is not an international recognized province of Indonesia. Yet, Clinton and the United nations still wait for "permission" by Indonesia before taking any kind of action to halt the slaughter in East Timor. Berger's response to the question which was on everyone's mind about the obvious double standard involved in Kosovo and East Timor responded with: "Uh..it's, it's unclear what the - uh - what the, what the, what the real chain of authority is in Indonesia at this point. Indonesia itself is going through political transition. Uh - there are obviously some forces within - within the Indonesian military that are - uh - at least sympathetic to - uh - the anti-Independence forces so I think it's a combination of many things." Question: "So, Habibie doesn't have control of the military?" Berger: "Well, I don't want to speculate on who has control ...what's important to us at this point is what actually happens. Uh-h - and, uh - uh - uh - and, and the Indonesian military, uh, either the Indonesian military taking control or the government of Indonesia calling on the International Community for their support." This stumbling defense of Indonesian sovereignty over an island it invaded in 1975, leading to no less than 10 UN resolutions condemning it was made by the same person who said on March 25, 1999 about invading a province of Yugoslavia: Q "Has this established a precedent for intervening in civil wars where you fear some sort of humanitarian disaster? " BERGER: "I think this is quite a unique situation, and in this sense, on the issue specifically of civil war. As the President, I think, said yesterday -- I guess it was in one of the drafts -- this is a man, President Milosevic, who invaded Croatia, who invaded the independent, sovereign nation of Bosnia, who started a small war against Slovenia and who stripped Kosovo of its constitutional autonomy and is now engaged in a massive offensive or a massive attack on Kosovo. So I think for Slobodan Milosevic to invoke sovereignty as a defense for the international community saying "enough" I think is a rather weak argument." Q "You're saying that you can engage in preventive wars to avoid ethnic cleansing, to avoid any sort of genocide?" BERGER: "I think every situation has to be taken on its own merits. And I think the President has said many times that it depends upon whether America's national interests are involved, as well as our values. I think in this case, both our values and our interests are involved. Our values are involved in preventing what I believe would be a humanitarian catastrophe. Our interests are involved in avoiding a wider conflict in Southeastern Europe, which I think would most likely involve us at some later point with far greater cost and with far greater risk. Thank you". Of course, both Croatia and Bosnia were provinces of Yugoslavia which were in the process of seceding. East Timor, on the other hand has NEVER been a province of Indonesia, having been a colony of Portugal for over 400 years. After 2000 people were killed in all of 1998, 300 of whom were Serb police, postmen, farmers, etc., Clinton decided to spend billions of your hard-earned tax dollars to bomb them back to the stone age, with no concern for either Yugoslav sovereignty or its civilian population. Now we have a situation where the U.S. government not only encouraged the vote, but appropriated money to make sure it took place, but after the voting resulted in an overwhelming vote for independence we are going to just pull out the UN observers and let the Indonesian army and militia ethnically cleanse East Timor? Is our foreign policy reduced to the support of anarchy, drug dealers and murderers? "They are clearing out Dili and destroying it," said an independence activist who reached the UN compound. "They are trying to kill all the educated people so we cannot develop our country. This is a goodbye operation." The UN has received unconfirmed reports that as many as 100 East Timorese were killed while seeking sanctuary at a Catholic church in the town of Suai. Eight people were killed when the armed gangs attacked and burned the home of Bishop Carlos Belo, the Nobel peace laureate, setting fire to the Catholic diocese office in Dili and burning houses, according to eyewitnesses. Senator Tom Harkin, a liberal Democrat from Iowa, sharply criticized Clinton's do-nothing policy yesterday, declaring that he and other members of Congress, who were in East Timor a mere 2 weeks ago, urged that UN troops be sent into the island BEFORE the vote. He talked about two "gentle Catholic priests" he and other members of Congress talked to two weeks ago who were slaughtered in the last 2 days by Indonesian soldiers and militia. Today's London Telegraph reports that Maria Bernardino, an aid worker evacuated to Darwin on Monday, said she had been told that militia members used guns and machetes to kill some of the 3,000 refugees seeking shelter. Jose Ramos Horta, the East Timorese resistance leader and Nobel laureate, said in a television interview that Australia was to blame for the bloodshed because it had helped to train Indonesia's elite Kopassus troops. He said: "Australia is directly responsible because of the many years of close military co-operation, intelligence co-operation with the Kopassus." The reluctance of Clinton to take part in a peacekeeping force, providing only logistical help, is believed to have angered Australia as it presses for widespread international support. John Howard, the Australian Prime Minister, again urged that a force comprising troops from Australia, Britain, New Zealand, Canada, Thailand and Malaysia be set up, with logistical support from America. But Australian officials said they were not prepared to enter without Jakarta's consent. "That would be a very, very difficult military conflict to get involved in; in a word, war," said Alexander Downer, the Foreign Minister. It would be sort of like Kosovo, eh what? So far the Indonesian government has no intention of allowing foreign troops to land in East Timor, Clinton is too busy releasing Puerto Rican terrorists to be bothered with anarchy in East Timor and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is criticizing Western governments for denying help to repair Yugolslavia's damaged power industry. Serbia faces a humanitarian crisis this winter because of expected shortages of electricity and heating, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. UN office said the electric supply is likely to fall 30% to 50% below minimum needs and much of the system could collapse completely. "The report will add urgency to a debate within the European Union and the United States over how much aid to give to Serbia as long as Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic remains in office," the Financial Times reports. "The UN agency asks what the point is of giving food and medicine if the young, old and sick are freezing to death." I couldn't have said it better myself. Secretary General Mrs. Jela Jovanovic Art historian =========================== Secretary General Mrs. Jela Jovanovic Art historian =========================== DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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[CTRL] M. Mostert - Clinton's Policy of Anarchy in East Timor and Kosovo
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:01:13 -0700
