STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem with this PR is that on one hand HRW is calling on "NATO member states to recommit to accountability for war crimes committed during all of the Balkan wars." HOWEVER, Human Rights Watch called on the international community to postpone a June 29 aid conference for Yugoslavia until the new Belgrade government turns over more war criminals to the Hague Tribunal. Sandeep -----Original Message----- From: Miroslav Antic [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] Sent: 18 June 2001 00:42 To: News; NATO; SNN; BALKAN; YAHOO Cc: Sorabia@Yahoogroups. Com Subject: NATO: Unfinished Business in the Balkans [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK _____ ListBot Sponsor _____ NATO: Unfinished Business in the Balkans (New York, June 13, 2001) As NATO leaders convened in Brussels today, Human Rights Watch pressed for steps to curb the mounting violence in Macedonia. Peacekeeping efforts in the Balkans, NATO expansion, and missile defense are expected to feature prominently at the NATO meeting, which marks the second stop on U.S. President George Bush's European tour. _____ Related Material Milosevic <http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/serbia/index.htm> Arrest: Justice Imperative HRW focus page Macedonia: <http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/06/Bitola0608.htm> Rioters Burn Albanian Homes in Bitola HRW Press Release, June 8, 2001 Macedonia: <http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/06/albabuses0607.htm> Albanian Rebel Abuses of Serb Civilians HRW Press Release, June 7, 2001 _____ _____ "NATO and its member states have invested heavily in the Balkans, but they have failed to insist on accountability and respect for human rights, bringing us to the brink of yet another Balkan conflict. This time it's Macedonia." Holly Cartner Executive Director Europe and Central Asia division _____ "NATO and its member states have invested heavily in the Balkans," said Holly Cartner, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia division. "But they have failed to insist on accountability and respect for human rights, bringing us to the brink of yet another Balkan conflict. This time it's Macedonia." Human Rights Watch researchers recently returned from Macedonia where they documented serious human rights abuses by both sides. They reported that the rebel Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) had physically abused eight ethnic Serb civilians whom it arbitrarily detained in the Macedonian village of Matejce. Human Rights Watch also reported that Macedonian forces have begun separating out Albanian men fleeing the fighting, and have subjected some of them to severe abuse in detention. "Each of these incidents risks escalating the conflict," Cartner said. "NATO should send a clear and unequivocal message that such abuse must stop." Human Rights Watch also urged NATO member states to recommit to accountability for war crimes committed during all of the Balkan wars. "Justice is the key to peace in the Balkans. That's why the United Nations set up a war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,"said Cartner. "But there can be no justice until NATO arrests the war criminals who have run circles around its Bosnia mission for years, and the international community insists that all of the countries of the former Yugoslavia cooperate fully with the tribunal." Human Rights Watch called on the international community to postpone a June 29 aid conference for Yugoslavia until the new Belgrade government turns over more war criminals to the Hague Tribunal. http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/06/nato0613.htm <http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/06/nato0613.htm> Miroslav Antic, http://www.antic.org/ <http://www.antic.org/> _____ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
