"I think right now, it is difficult to say that we have prevented one act
of brutality at this stage."
-- Pentagon spokesperson Kenneth Bacon
Stop NATO Bombing
National Call-In Week
April 19-23, 1999
Call President Clinton (202) 456-1111
Call Congress (202) 224-3121
Tell them to:
1. Call an immediate cease-fire.
2. Get NATO out of Yugoslavia.
3. Let the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe negotiate a settlement to the conflict.
4. Provide substantial support for humanitarian relief efforts for war
victims.
>From April 23-25, 1999, 40 world leaders will meet in Washington DC to
celebrate NATO's 50th anniversary. Call President Clinton now to send the
message that American people want an immediate end to NATO intervention in
Yugoslavia.
NATO bombing has intensified the crisis in Kosovo in several ways: The
bombing has made President Milosevic a national hero and has strengthened
support for his extremist stance. His ethnically targeted
campaign of violence has intensified since the bombing began and resulted
in thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of refugees. The
surrounding nations are further destabilized by the influx of refugees
forced to flee the bombing.
To end this violence as well as the civilians deaths caused by the NATO
action, we demand that this bombing campaign be stopped.
www.peace-action.org
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NATO Out of Yugoslavia, UN In
"I think right now, it is difficult to say that we have prevented one act
of brutality at this stage," Pentagon spokesperson Kenneth Bacon admitted
on March 30. It is clearly time to stop the bombing campaign against
Yugoslavia when those in charge admit that it is not accomplishing its goal.
It is widely agreed that not only has bombing the Serbs not stopped human
rights abuses in Kosovo, but it has also hardened the Serbs' resolve and
accelerated the forced eviction of the ethnic Albanians from Kosovo. These
evictions have caused the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War
II. Further, the bombing of the Serbs' civilian infrastructure has
embittered the general population and enabled Milosevic to quash democratic
opposition within Serbia.
The Serbs should be taken up on their offer to cease their operations in
Kosovo. NATO should stop bombing immediately. And all parties need to
return to the negotiating table. The aim of these negotiations should be
the relief and repatriation of the ethnic Albanians under the protection of
multi-national UN peacekeepers (as opposed to NATO, which is perceived as
an occupation force by the Serbs and as a threat to the Russians).
The tragedy of Kosovo, again, proves that the use of violence in the name
of diplomacy and stability accomplishes neither.
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Sheila Dormody
Peace Action Acting Organizing Director
1819 H Street NW #420 Washington DC 20006
ph: 202.862.9740 ext.3006 fax: 202.862.9762
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