STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [As NATO Gauleiter and all-purpose Proconsul Lord Robertson is busily reconstructing Europe to resemble 1941's version, he pontificates that inhabitants of Bosnia should quit "living in the past." And that this demon dare lecture anyone else concerning "ethnic division and lasting animosity" when he emanates from the nation that has recently given the world Bradford, Belfast, Burnley and Oldham demonstrates the depth of imperial hypocrisy that characterizes the NATO empire. But note that NATO's puppet collaborationists in Belgrade are already being primed for NATO membership: They will be granted the honor of participating in the next attack on a 'belligerent' country.] NATO Tells Bosnia to Stop Living in the Past July 13, 2001 3:10 pm EST By Philippa Fletcher SARAJEVO (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General George Robertson said on Friday that Bosnia risked international isolation and a "return to chaos" if it did not work harder to overcome ethnic divisions. "The future of this country is in the hands of the people but there are too many people living in the past and they hinder the development of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a state and they perpetuate ethnic division and lasting animosity," Robertson told a news conference at the end of a two-day visit. Torn apart by war after it declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1992, Bosnia was divided into two autonomous entities -- a Muslim-Croat federation and a Serb republic -- by the U.S. brokered peace accord that ended the conflict in 1995. International peace officials have sought to strengthen central institutions to create a viable state and allow NATO-led peacekeepers to withdraw, but nationalists continue to cling to the idea of three separate armies, governments and police.Robertson said leaders of all three groups should take on the responsibility for their country's future. "The consequence of doing nothing will be isolation and a return to chaos and Bosnia and Herzegovina will end up being an ethnically splintered backwater in a Europe of prosperity and stability," he said. YUGOSLAVIA COULD TAKE LEAD If Bosnia was not careful, neighbors such as Yugoslavia, an international pariah until Slobodan Milosevic was ousted last year, could take the lead in the race to join NATO and other international organizations. "In Yugoslavia they have one army, they have political control of the military, they have a ministry of defense, these are crucial preconditions for Partnership for Peace," he said. Bosnia's joint Muslim-Serb-Croat presidency had told him and the NATO ambassadors accompanying him that they wanted to join the Alliance's Partnership for Peace program, while Yugoslavia had not formally applied yet, Robertson said. "It would be an amazing irony if Yugoslavia made an application for Partnership for Peace and was able to qualify before Bosnia and Herzegovina," he said. Robertson said war crimes suspects like wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic would be better off giving themselves up to the U.N. tribunal in the Hague, which indicted the two men for genocide in 1995. Milosevic's handover to the tribunal last month has increased pressure on leaders of Bosnia's Serb republic, where tribunal prosecutors believe more than half of some 40 indictees are hiding, including Karadzic and Mladic. "There is no safe haven any more and there is no statute of limitations either. The net is closing in on all of them and they would be much safer with the justice of the Hague than with the rough justice of the Balkans," Robertson said. Asked why Karadzic had not been arrested yet, he said the NATO-led Stabilization Force in Bosnia did not know where he was. "If we knew where he was, he would be arrested. SFOR's responsibility lies in Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Dayton peace agreement. If we have reliable knowledge that Radovan Karadzic is in Bosnia and Herzegovina then he will be arrested, make no mistake about that." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
