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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 00:20:24 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: MADRE on Yugoslavia

I think this is a useful analysis - as we struggle to find our way through
this mess. I personally have a couple of problems with the statement. It is
one thing to brand Milosevic a war criminal - not sure he is really more of
one than Tony Blair or Bill Clinton - but how do you settle the conflict if
you try to make an arrest? Who is going to bell the cat, so to speak? If
peace is to be made, don't we have to make it by negotiations with precisely
the persons most unpleasant to us - in this case, Milosevic, Clinton, et al.

And I would have thought it imperative to spell out the need to bring the
Russians back into the negotiations as swiftly as possible. The conclusions
of this statement - to negotiate peace and indicting Milosevic as a war
criminal - seem to me to run "against each other". For example, the only way
we can hope to see the Kosvars returned to their homes (which MUST be our
objective) is to negotiate the matter and provide from non-NATO forces to
insure their protection. I am glad that Madre correctly judged the KLA for
what it is. They are not the protectors needed.

Again, no answers, but this statement make some good solid points.

Peace,
David McReynolds

I'd also think UN forces are less realistic than the OCSE (I may have put
those initials in the wrong order!)
<< ubj:     MADRE on Yugoslavia
 Date:    4/5/99 11:23:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:    [e-mail] (Andrew C. Pollack)
 To:    [e-mail]
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 Sorry if this is too long, but I found it very useful (despite their
 illusions about the UN), covering many different aspects of the
 situation.

 This is copied from the web site; they also handed it out at their event
 tonight, which featured progressive artists reading messages from people
 in Kosovo and Belgrade -- more on that later.
 Andy Pollack

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 Stop The Bombing, Stop The Genocide:
 MADRE's Notes On The Yugoslav Crisis

 MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, strongly
 condemns the US war against Yugoslavia and calls for a halt to the NATO
 bombing. We abhor the extreme ethno-nationalism promulgated by Yugoslav
 President Slobodan Milosevic and the gross human rights violations
 committed by his forces: more than 2,000 Albanian Kosovars were killed
 and over 400,000 made homeless before the NATO attack this year.

 But bombing has never achieved a reduction of violence and the current
 war is no exception. The air strikes will not end Milosevic's persecution
 of Albanian civilians in Kosovo. US officials stated from the start that
 bombing can only "degrade," and not stop, Yugoslav military capability.
 Furthermore, as US and NATO leaders themselves predicted, the bombing has
 spurred Milosevic to step up ethnic cleansing and a last-ditch effort to
 eradicate the Kosovo Liberation Army, fighting on behalf of the area's
 Albanian majority. The only guaranteed outcome of a bombing is mass
 killing and economic and social devastation for years to come.

 While the bombing is unacceptable, a halt to the airstrikes will not end
 the genocide being waged against Albanians in Kosovo. This is a crisis
 which must be addressed by the international community, through the
 United Nations and not through NATO, which is an exclusive Western
 military alliance being used to pursue US and Western European strategic
 interests.

 What is the root of the crisis?

 The Balkan war of the early 1990's left a fragmented Yugoslavia
 consisting two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, with the smal province
 of Kosovo (which is 90% ethnically Albanian) inside the borders of
 Serbia. The break-up of Yugoslavia as a peaceful, multi-ethnic republic
 fueled extreme ethno-nationalism in many communities engulfed by the war.
 In 1989, President Milosevic revoked the autonomous status that Kosovo
 had won in 1974. Since then his regime has brutally suppressed the
 cultural and political rights of the Albanian majority in Kosovo. In
 response, the Albanian Kosovars developed a mass, non-violent
 independence movement, which the West categorically ignored even as Serb
 repression escalated. As a consequence, more and more people were drawn
 towards the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ultra-nationalist armed
 group that effectively derailed the non-violent movement.

 Why did the situation deteriorate this year?

 Last fall, the US State Department drew up the Rambouillet peace plan
 that included the deployment of 28,000 NATO troops (4,000 of them US
 soldiers) in Yugoslavia. It is difficult to imagine any sovereign leader
 allowing a foreign army to replace his troops on their own >territory.
 This was the dominant Serb pereception of the US demand. Milosevic
 rejected the Rambouillet plan. The US then issued an ultimatum:
 capitulate or submit to NATO bombing. But an ultimatum is a double-edged
 sword. Like Milosevic, the US was left with only two choices: bomb or be
 perceived as making empty threats.

 Is the bombing legal?

 Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter states clearly that only the UN
 Security Council can mandate the use of force. Without UN authorization,
 the NATO bombing is flatly illegal.

 Why didn't the US seek a UN mandate for the bombing?

 Russia and China, which both oppose the NATO attack as a bid for Western
 hegemony, have veto power in the Security Council. Secretary of State
 Albright has acknowledged that the Security Council would not have
 endorsed the air strikes (ABC News, 3/23).

 The UN may authorize the use of force against threats to international
 peace. But Kosovo is inside Yugoslavia - a sovereign country. The crisis
 is therefore widely regarded as an internal Yugoslav conflict not subject
 to UN intervention.

 Why does it matter if the bombing is illegal?

 However flawed, the UN Charter represents the only agreed-upon global
 standard for governing states' conduct. Without it, people would have
 even fewer protections against the abuses of government and no basis upon
 which to claim their human rights.

 The UN Charter provides legal barriers to states' use of force, which
 promote diplomatic negotiations rather than violence. When the US scorns
 these provisions, it sets a dangerous precedent of lawlessness and
 undermines the principle of countries working together to resolve
 disputes (i.e., multi-lateralism).

 The US is being aptly described as a "rogue superpower," accountable only
 to its own narrowly defined interests and quick to destroy anyone that
 stands in its way. This year alone the US has bombed Iraq, Sudan,
 Afghanistan and now Yugoslavia.

 Why does the US care about Kosovo?

 Unlike other conflicts areas (Rwanda, Sierra Leone, East Timor), where
 the US has ignored communal violence, Kosovo is situated at the
 crossroads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East: It holds a strategic
 interest for the US.

 The humanitarian crisis in Kosovo provides a smokescreen for military
 intervention that will secure US influence over the Balkans. Clinton has
 spoken about the "moral imperative" of defending Kosovo's population and
 its trampled autonomy. Human rights abuses in Kosovo are real and very
 serious.

 But we must ask why comparable abuses committed by Russia in Chechnya,
 the Turks in the Kurdish areas and the British in Northern Ireland do not
 warrant the same lofty rhetoric.

 What is the purpose of NATO?

 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, made up of 19 European countries,
 the US and Canada, was formed by the US in 1949 to "deter and defend
 against" Soviet military might.

 Most of the world viewed NATO as an offensive military coalition from the
 start, created to threaten, and if necessary, attack, Socialist bloc
 countries.

 NATO also provided a much-needed vehicle for the reintegration and
 rearmamentof post-Nazi Germany, a critical US ally throughout the Cold
 War and in the current bombing.

 NATO has served as a cornerstone of the military industrial complex and
 the arms industry worldwide. The B-2 bombers used in the current attacks,
 for example, were built at a cost of over two billion each. NATO's recent
 inclusion of Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic is estimated to
 generate nearly $100 billion in weapons sales over the next 10 years.

 Why is NATO being used in this war?

 NATO lost its raison d'etre when the Cold War ended. But instead of
 dismantling NATO, the US broadened its mandate and membership. NATO is
 being transformed from an alliance that functioned inside the territories
 of its member states to a force that can secure the interests of those
 states outside their borders -- and interfere in the internal affairs of
 non-member states. Kosovo is the first real test of this new mission.

 On April 23, NATO's 50th anniversary summit will take place in
 Washington, D.C. The bombing is considered an ideal demonstration of
 NATO's new Post Cold War mission.

 The US has become increasingly dissatisfied with the UN as a vehicle for
 asserting its foreign policy. The structure of the Security Council makes
 US will subject to the veto power of other nations, most notably Russia
 and China. NATO, on the other hand, is an exclusive military club with
 the newly declared prerogative to disregard the UN, making it, as
 Madeleine Albright has said, the US "institution of choice" (New York
 Times, 10/18).

 What is the larger US strategy in the Balkans?

 Using NATO to assert a US-led military presence in the Balkans is seen as
 a way to secure the twin elements of US policy in Eastern and Central
 Europe:
 a) to prevent any move to reverse the "reforms" that dismantled the
 region's communist governments;
 b) to lock these countries into an economic role dictated by the US and
 Western Europe. In the post-Cold War order, former Soviet bloc countries
 are relegated to the same role as the Third World, namely, to provide
 cheap labor, raw materials and markets to benefit the elite in the US and
 Western Europe.

 Transferring the resources of the former Soviet Union to Western
 interests is a top priority of the US. Chevron has already signed a deal
 for rights to the vast oil deposits of Kazakhstan. Such multi-billion
 dollar endeavors require some assurance of regional stability: NATO is
 seen as the guarantee.

 "Stability"on US terms requires that leaders in the region be subservient
 to Western interests. Milosevic has repeatedly overstepped his bounds by
 refusing to allow a US army base in Yugoslav and resisting the
 incorporation of Yugoslavia into a global neoliberal economic order.

 Where should concerned people focus support?

 Neither Milosevic nor the KLA deserve support.

 Milosevic was a war criminal even before he instigated genocide in
 Kosovo.
 But opposition to Milosevic need not translate into support for the NATO
 bombing.

 The KLA espouses an ultra-nationalist ideology and a program of ethnic
 cleansing that differs from Milosevic mainly in that the KLA lacks the
 power to enforce its reactionary vision. But condemnation of the KLA does
 not mean accepting Milosevic's brutality in Kosovo.

 We must move beyond a yearning for "good guys" in the Yugoslav scenario
 and remember that behind the various political formations and armed
 groups are communities of people. In Kosovo, whole towns and villages are
 being burned out and butchered. In Serbia, people are being terrorized by
 a NATO bombing because of the intransigence of their government.

 But in both Kosovo and Serbia there are still some people who insist on a
 democratic, non-nationalist and multi-ethnic solution to the crisis.

 These are the people who MADRE is supporting.

 We call on the US to halt the NATO bombing immediately.

 We call on the international community to:

 Provide humanitarian support to the refugees through democratic,
 multi-ethnic opposition groups.
 Deploy UN forces in Kosovo to end the genocide and prevent renewed
 violence.
 Indict Milosevic as a war criminal under the UN Genocide Convention.

 MADRE has worked for 15 years with community-based women's organizations
 worldwide to provide emergency relief, health care & human rights
 advocacy to communities in crisis. MADRE has worked with multi-ethnic,
 democratic women's organizations in the Former Yugoslavia since 1993.

 For more information, contact us at:
 MADRE
 121 West 27th Street, #301
 New York, NY 10001
 Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone];
 Email: [e-mail]
 website: www.MADRE.org
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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 21:50:32 -0700
From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Kosovo: good arguments for negotiation

Check out http://www.commondreams.org/kosovo/kosovo.htm
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 Negotiating to end war will hurt least=20

 By Michael Mandelbaum, Globe Staff, 04/05/99=20

      fter a week of NATO air attacks against military targets in Yugoslavia
and Serb violence
      against ethnic Albanians producing tens of thousands of refugees from
Kosovo, the Atlantic
 alliance and the United States have three unattractive options. A growing
chorus of hawks in
 Washington advocate escalation. The Clinton administration insists on a
continuation of the bombing
 campaign. But the third option, negotiation to end the war, is the least=
 bad
course and the one
 NATO ought now to adopt.

 Escalation would involve expanding the war against the Serbs to include=
 more
intensive bombing;
 military assistance to the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has been fighting=
 for
Kosovo's
 independence; dispatch of NATO ground troops to Yugoslavia; or some or all=
 of
these. Under this
 option, the goals of the war would expand to encompass winning independence
for Kosovo and
 removing Slobodan Milosevic as the Serb leader.

 Those goals, if achievable, could be presented as a victory for NATO. But=
 the
costs would be
 prohibitive.

 A more intensive air campaign would lead to the loss of NATO planes and
pilots. Arming the
 Kosovars would risk spreading the conflict to other parts of the Balkans,
notably neighboring
 Macedonia. Ground troops would have to fight the Serb army on its own soil,
leading to substantial
 Western casualties. Public support for the war in NATO countries, already
shaky, would likely
 vanish long before escalation achieved its objectives.

 Support is likely to erode even if NATO follows what now appears to be its
preferred option: a
 continuation of the bombing. Perhaps the punishment the bombing inflicts=
 will
persuade the Serb
 government to allow NATO troops into Kosovo to enforce the Americandesigned
political
 settlement it has thus far refused to accept. But the record of air power
alone in achieving such
 goals is not encouraging. And if Belgrade does not relent, NATO  at the end=
 of
its air campaign=20
 will have failed to achieve the objective for which it went to war in the
first place.

 Even worse, the world will have witnessed the spectacle of NATO governments
refusing to order
 their own NATO troops, now in Macedonia, to cross the border to help
beleaguered Kosovars
 only a few miles away on the grounds that the troops' mission was=
 peacekeeping
and not combat.
 This would be like a fire brigade that refuses to cross the street to save=
 a
family's burning home
 because its specialty is forests, not residences.

 If the Yugoslav government does not crack, continuing the bombing would=
 simply
provide a
 showcase for the virtuosity of NATO's air power, which was not in question=
 in
the first place and
 did not require a war in the Balkans to demonstrate.

 The third option, negotiation, would involve resuming talks with the Serb
government, perhaps
 through Russian or United Nations intermediaries, but without the previous
NATO demand that
 Belgrade unconditionally accept the text of an agreement for a political
settlement in Kosovo. The
 goal would be a ceasefire throughout Yugoslavia, Serb acceptance of=
 monitors
from some
 international organization other than NATO, and an effort to restore the
political autonomy that
 Kosovo enjoyed under the terms of the 1974 Yugoslav Constitution, which was
abrogated by
 Milosevic 15 years later.

 This option would go some way toward achieving NATO's initial goals:=
 stopping
the Kosovo
 killing, securing better political arrangements for the Kosovar Albanians,=
 and
maintaining political
 cohesion within NATO.

 The drawbacks of this option are both obvious and serious. It would require
negotiations with
 Milosevic, who bears responsibility for the outrages in Kosovo that the war
has triggered. Even if
 the NATO governments were willing, directly or indirectly, to negotiate=
 with
him, the failed effort by
 Russia's Prime Minister Yevgeny to start talks suggests that the prospect=
 of
halting the allied
 bombing may not be a sufficient incentive to persuade Milosevic to call off
the killing of ethnic
 Albanians in Kosovo, permit the return of refugees, and allow peacekeepers
into the province.

 Even if he were willing to do so, such an outcome, however disguised or=
 spun,
would count as a
 gain for him and a setback for the West, not to mention a personal=
 humiliation
for the officials
 responsible for western Balkans policy.

 But a setback is now, alas, all but certain. Once the Clinton=
 administration
committed the oldest of
 all strategic blunders by starting a war it did not know how to finish,=
 losses
were unavoidable. Now
 is the time, and negotiation is the way, to cut them.
 Michael Mandelbaum, a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of
Advanced
 International Studies, directs the EastWest P roject of the Council on=
 Foreign
Relations.

 This story ran on page A17 of the Boston Globe on 04/05/99.=20
 =A9 Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company.=20



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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 10:32:38 -0400
From: War Resisters League <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NATO citizen's summit: please sign on

Please add my name, Chris Ney, Disarmament Coordinator War Resisters
League, New York City

At 06:50 PM 4/5/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>>Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 15:41:20 -0500
>>Subject: NATO citizen's summit: please sign on
>>Priority: non-urgent
>>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>>To: [e-mail]
>>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>>
>>To  :  Abolitionists Everywhere
>>From:  Bruce Hall at Peace Action
>>Date:  April 5, 1999
>>Re  :  NATO citizen's sign-on
>>
>>Dear folks in NATO Countries -
>>   Please have your organizations sign on to the statement below which we
>>will deliver to heads of state during the 50th anniversary commemorations
>>of
>>NATO in Washington, DC on April 23rd.
>>        Please be sure to include your organization's name AND THE COUNTRY
>from
>>which you reside. The statement was drafted by the Fourth Freedom Forum=
 and
>>Peace Action.
>>
>>        See below,
>>
>>        Bruce
>>
>>
>>Citizen's Summit
>>Washington, DC
>>Citizen's Communiqu=E9
>>23 April 1999
>>
>>
>>We, citizens of the member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty
>>Organization, have come together in Washington, D.C. on the fiftieth
>>anniversary of the Alliance to call on NATO to end its reliance nuclear
>>weapons and work toward a nuclear weapons free world as we enter the 21st
>>century. The greatest danger the world faces today is the continued
>>reliance
>>on and physical existence of nuclear weapons. By clinging to these=
 weapons,
>>the United States and its allies are violating solemn treaty obligations
>>under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and are encouraging other nations to
>>follow their example. The continued existence and spread of nuclear=
 weapons
>>increase the likelihood that a nuclear catastrophe will occur somewhere on
>>the planet through anger, miscalculation, or accident. Such a catastrophe
>>would have unimaginable consequences and threaten the very fabric of
>>civilization.
>>
>>The only answer to the present nuclear dilemma is for the United States=
 and
>>its NATO allies to disavow the use or threatened use of nuclear weapons.
>>The
>>World Court has ruled that any such use violates international=
 humanitarian
>>law. Nuclear weapons must be stigmatized, de-legitimized, and eliminated.
>>For almost 50 years, Europe has been
>>the potential flashpoint for a catastrophic nuclear crisis. The Iron
>>Curtain, the Warsaw Pact, Checkpoint Charlie, the Berlin Wall itself--once
>>symbols of Europe's position on the front line of a dangerous nuclear
>>standoff--are now history. It is time to relegate NATO's nuclear weapons,
>>and all nuclear weapons, to the history books as well.
>>
>>NATO's nuclear weapons were introduced decades ago to counter a perceived
>>threat that no longer exists. Today nuclear weapons have no conceivable
>>role
>>in guaranteeing the peace and security of Europe and North America. The
>>safety of the region and of the entire would be enhanced if these weapons
>>were eliminated.
>>
>>We urge NATO to acknowledge the negative consequences of maintaining
>>nuclear
>>weapons as it updates its Strategic Concept and redefines its mission for
>>the 21st Century. We call upon NATO to commit itself to a
>>world without nuclear weapons and to work with other governments to=
 achieve
>>a verifiable ban on the possession or use of nuclear weapons. We pledge as
>>citizens to work tirelessly to increase public awareness and support for
>>the
>>goal of a nuclear weapons free future.
>>
>>
>>______________________________________________
>>Bruce Hall
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 17:38:24 +0200
From: "T.Damjanov" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Infos re NATO's war

Being on the Project Staff of the "International Network of Scientists
and Engineers for Global Responsibility" (INES), I have started,
straight after NATO began its aggression, to mail to interested people a
(daily updated) compilation of
- --- Internet references
- --- Articles
- --- Statements + Appeals

Being aware of the email flood many people are angry about, I am
distributing this only to those who send me a request to receive this
compilation. Further, I do not send the items in full, but first a
listing only. Then, you can make your choice which item you would like
to reveice in full (either from me or from the source indicated)

DO YOU WANT TO SEND ME A REQUEST?
Simply send me an email with
>> NATO War List <<
in the Subject line

First, you will get the list in full. Following your request, I will
send you daily updates.

NOTE: Since I am based in Germany being involved in the German peace
movement, this compilation also contains always information in German
language, as well. IF YOU DO WANT TO ADDITIONALLY RECEIVE GERMAN
LANGUAGE INFORMATION, PLEASE WRITE IN THE SUBJECT LINE:
>> NATO War List+German <<

Separately, take note of the following:

INES is publishing an electronic newsletter named "What's New In INES?"
(WNII), of which I am the editor. WNII appears weekly. Its edition of
last week (No. 13/1999) was a "SPECIAL ISSUE ON NATO AND YUGOSLAVIA":
Contents:
[+] Sources + references
- --- NATO war against Yugoslavia: press coverage overview
- --- Kosovo crisis resources
- --- Selected media
- --- Websites of state and military authorities
- --- References in other languages
- --- Reuters articles re Airstrikes, March 25, 1999 5 a.m.

[+] Statements + Appeals
- --- NGOs' Appeal from Russia
- --- Statement of War Resisters=92 International on Kosovo
- --- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Regarding the NATO-Yugoslavia conflict, the current edition (No.
14/1999, issued on 5 April 99) contains the following:
- --- Letter from INES member Branka Jovanovic (Belgrade)
- --- Letter from JoAnn M. Valenti, USA
- --- Russia: Statement of the Socio-Ecological Union International
- --- Letters to the German government coalition by INES member Dr. F.
Greulich
- --- Statement by the German Scientists' Initiative Responsibility for
Peace and Sustainability
- --- New mailinglist for discussion of Kosovo-related issues (Listserver
yugoslavia-discuss)

IF YOU WANT TO RECEIVE ONE OF THE WNII ISSUES;
SEND ME A MAIL WITH THE FOLLOWING SUBJECT LINE:

>> WNII 13/99 <<
and/or
>> Extracts WNII 14/99 <<

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o any
other people/adresses interested!

Peacefully yours,
Tobias Damjanov
Project Staff
International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global
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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:58:59 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) NATO WAR LIST

Please send, also include how to get off list.

Thank you,

Colby Lowe

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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:23:38 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) WWIII? Articles (http://38.201.154.103/articles/?a=1999/3/30/63301)

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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:45:14 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: THE ECLIPSE OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY

- -----Original Message-----
From: Evan Soule <[e-mail]>
To: David Crockett Williams <[e-mail]>
Date: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 11:50 AM
Subject: THE ECLIPSE OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY


From:
Dr. Milos Aleksic
Professor at the University of Belgrade


THE ECLIPSE OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY
(HAS THE WORLD LOST DEMOCRATIC HOPE AND THE IDEAL OF HUMAN LIBERTY?)

   Yugosavia has suffered aggression from the most powerful military force
in the world - the NATO. This military organization carries out the USA
policy and creates New Totalitarian World Order. The technological Fascism,
contrary to the Nazi-Fascism, differs in the lack of ideology and abuse of
the polysemic term "globalization". Technology and money, together with the
organized mafia, represent the base of the new way of ruling the world,
whereas new weapons for mass destruction of people and material goods are
the means of its realization.Yugoslavia has been experiencing great horrors
these days. We are being punished just because we do not want to accept the
two great forces which want to solve our problems in their own way. It was
never the case in the Original Fascism.

   The peoples of Yugoslavia have always aspired to freedom in this
country. They were not able to gain any experience in liberal-democratic
governing during the fight for national freedom in the past, as well as in
the first half of this century. That is why the majority of citizens
hopefully accepted the national-democratic as well as the self-managing
political order after World War II. We really believed that it included the
rule of the majority, not the minority, as it is the case in liberal
societies. The social crisis which spread in the real-socialist countries
in the beginning, and then in Yugoslavia, and the necessity for the
transition of the social order were also provoked by the lack of political
freedoms of a single-party system. That is why a new hope aroused in the
policy of liberal democracy. We had had no experience with such a type of
political organization in the past. It was believed that pattern of
democracy brought rights and freedom to each man.

   In mean time, a new concept of the New World Order appeared, without any
theoretical or ideological foundations, with the policy which indicated
that new military totalitarianism would appear in all spheres of human
life: economy, politics, culture, information. Individuals are totally
depersonalized and passive in such systems. It is a new and most difficult
eclipse of mankind and their freedoms.

   The peoples of Yugoslavia have been experiencing this horrible and
traumatic eclipse these days: they hide their children, wives and old
people in basements and shelters , they are witnessing the dead and the
wounded all around, they watch the destroyed houses, streets, and ruined
factories.

   The citizens of this country keep asking themselves: which are the
long-term goals of the transition on the crossroads of our development,
after tragical experiences in our socitey and the world-wide process of the
NATO globalization as a new form of totalitarianism. After having searched
for freedom and democracy in this century, after having lost hope in the
western democracy pattern, we keep asking ourselves how people could
realize their freedoms in a free society, and which type of democracy which
would provide the rule of majority with paying due respect to the
minorities was realistically achievable.

   During my recent visit to Moscow, I attended rallies against the
American Globalization Pattern. What I could hear there was: rise Stalin
the Great, while you lived, there was enough bread, enough hope and enough
freedom. Today, we have no bread, no hope and no freedom at all!

   Shocked by all this, I managed to contact the organizers of a rally and
I asked them what this unexpected message meant. They said that those
people did not want Stalin back, but what the new world order offered was
much more horrible and depersonalizing than in it was then. The way of
thinking which is being created by the policy and practice of the NATO
threatens and warns. Are the policy makers aware of the horrifying fact?

   The decisions of the world masters to "discipline" Yugoslavia by killing
and occupation as well as by putting us in chains, all in the name of
"human rights, freedom and democracy" will not make their conquering
interests come true. It is also proved by the general protest of people all
over the world. Only during the last four days of unjustified terrors
against an innocent nation has the wave of protesting against an "open
society" and the so called "western democracy" spread all over the world.
The protest rallies, as the conscience of mankind, forced the majority, or
a significant minority, in the parliaments of the great powers to ask
themselves with shame: what are we doing, for whom are we doing that, where
does it all lead at the dawn of the new millenium?

   The American Government must understand that the temporary submission
under which the NATO holds or wants to hold some countries is not
permanent. The submitted individual or a group of people are much more
decisive in claiming their right to be free as soon as an opportunity
appears, and their wish and urge to revenge because they lost their dignity
and became slaves is much more expressive. This kind of regularity can be
seen in the fall of all empires and tyranies throughout history, as well as
the fight for liberty of the people from all over the world.

   The way the USA and NATO behave has denounced the Charter of the United
Nations, who have been helpless for a long time and forced to carry out
only the interests of the USA as the "the interests of mankind". The
members of the NATO inspired other countries which are not the members of
this organisation to think about forming an alternative community of people
which will establish a new democratic order, since the USA and NATO
destroyed and antagonized the world.

   The great bourgeous revolution of 1789 proclaimed: "liberty, fraternity,
equality". Two hundred years after that epochal event, people all over the
world tried to carry out this message. However, the New World Order has
eclipsed and suspended the liberty, the freedom and the equality. Are we
moving back two hundred years ago searching for the postulates of the free
society?

   While I am writing these lines, I' m reading the official order of the
NATO headquarters on SKY NEWS to start the second phase of the NATO
aggression against Yugoslavia, which includes killing "personnel" on the
roads, in bases and vehicles from the vicinity. The commanders of death
claim that there are three phases more in the process of establishing the
submissive democracy in this country and her "democratization" in accepting
the NATO occupation. The citizens of Yugoslavia and the democratic people
all over the world desperately ask this question: is the new world order
establishing the Orwell conception of the world in which no one is free, in
which the society itself is not free? As enthusiasts, we still hope that
this will be stopped by the liberal and democratic world, and that people
will be given some hope of a more just world.

   Still, the conscience of each and every individual forces them to ask
themselves - are the tyrants who are violating freedom walking the world
today, at the end of the twentieth century?


Dr. Milos Aleksic
March 31, 1999
Belgrade, Yugoslavia


University of Belgrade
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[+] Anonymizer.com Surfing:
http://www.egroups.com/list/kosovo-reports
http://community.cnn.com/cgi-bin/WebX?14@@.ee721ec
http://www.kosovo.com
http://www.anonymizer.com/kosovo

[+] Websites des serbischen Informationsministeriums und Informationszent=
rums:
http://www.gov.yu/kosovo
http://www.serbia-info.com

[+] Jugoslawische Nachrichtenagentur Tanjug:
http://www.tanjug.co.yu

[+] OSZE und Kosovo:
http://www.osce.org/e/kosovo.htm

[+] Britische Luftwaffe:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/kosovonews.html

[+] "Action against NATO Bombing in Yugoslavia"
http://members.tripod.co.uk/~STOPNATO/
(NB case-sensitive: STOPNATO must be in CAPITAL LETTERS)
[under construction; 31 March 1999]

[+] Case against the bombing, prepared by the Coordinating Committee of T=
he
Greens/Green Party USA:
http://www.lbbs.org/ZMag/greens.htm

[+] BBC regularly-updated site, with links to sites representing all side=
s of
the conflict, on
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/kosovo/

[+] NATO Headquarters Military Briefings:
http://www.usia.gov/regional/eur/balkans/kosovo/

[+] The leader of the moderate Kosovo-Albanians, Ibrahim Rugova, called a=
t the
NATO to stop the air-raids against Yugoslavia:
http://www.dwelle.de/today/nrdeu.htm

[+] eGroups Spotlight:
"Kosovo-Reports" - Direct reports from Kosovo/Serbia/Yugoslavia
http://offers.egroups.com/click/252/0

[+] U.N. Security Council Resolution 1199
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/un_980923_res_kosovo.html

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[+] Die besten Seiten (mit zahlreichen weiteren Verweisen):
http://www.transnational.org/links/yu_alb.html
http://www.basicint.org
http://www.cdi.org/issues/Europe/kosovo.html

[+] search "Yugoslavia" on Infoseek: (more than 44.000 sites)
http://www.infoseek.com/Titles?qt=3Dyugoslavia


[+] Kosovo crisis and Ex-Yugoslavia resources

[+] Albania resources

[+] Websites of state and military authorities

[+] Selected media websites


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ARTICLES
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2 #: Anonymizer.com launches Kosovo Privacy Project

30 #: Making the World Safer for Business. Instability and aggression are
regarded as a threat to the global stability upon which U.S. markets depe=
nd
(Los Angeles Times, 2.4.99)
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/COMMENT/t000029304.html


[+] Rambouillet Talks:
- --- Background on Rambouillet Accords (U.S. State Department):
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/fs_990301_rambouillet.html

0 /1: Statement NATO SecGen on the outcome (Press Release (99)21/23 Febru=
ary
1999)
0 /2: Prof. Jan Oberg: Rambouillet - Imperialism in Disguise (TFF-Pressin=
fo
#55, 16.2.99)
0 /6: Von Dayton nach Rambouillet (Junge Welt, 01.03.1999)
0 /7: Rambouillet without Russia (Izvestia, 23.2.99)
0 /8: Ausz=FCge  [Artikel 6, 8 und 10 des milit=E4rischen Annex B] aus de=
m Abkommen
von Rambouillet (nach: "die tageszeitung", 6.4.99)
0 /9: Weitreichende Bestimmungen im Annex des Kosovo-Abkommens ("taz",  6=
.4.99)

[+] "The Progressive Response", 2 April 1999, Vol. 3, No. 12: Kosovo
(Publication of "Foreign Policy In Focus", a joint project of the
Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies in =
the
USA)
Contents:
- -- False Assumptions (By Julianne Smith, BASIC)
- -- Bombing Can't Stop Serb Violence (By Rear Admiral Eugene J. Carroll Jr=
., USN
(Ret.))
- -- Hell Bent on Destroying National Sovereignty

[+] The NATO attack
1 /5: Press Conference of NATO SecGen and SACEUR 25 March 1999
1 /6: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore David
Wilby, SHAPE (26.3.99)
1 /7: Proposals Floated to Arm Kosovars, Target Milosevic (AP, 25.3.99)
1 /7a: Embassy Row: Arming the KLA? (Washington Times, 26.3.99)
1 /8: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore David
Wilby, SHAPE (27.3.99)
1 /9: China Mounts All-Out Verbal Assault on Air Raids (NYT, 26.3.99)
1 /9a: China President Criticizes NATO (AP, 27.3.99)
1 /10: The Current Bombings (by Noam Chomsky)
1 /12: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore Davi=
d
Wilby, SHAPE (29.3.99)
1 /13: What if the bombing was 'legal?' (brief article by J. Vernon, UK)
1 /14: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore Davi=
d
Wilby, SHAPE (31.3.99)
1 /15: NATO sets precedent in deciding to violate a border (Christian Sci=
ence
Monitor, 25.3.99)
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/03/25/f-p8s1.shtml
1 /17: Clinton's Fraud: There is no "Kosovo Agreement" for the Serbs to S=
ign
(The Rockford Institute): http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/hotspots.html
2 /52: Polona Sepe (Slovenia) to Jean Hudon, Initiator of the Call for a =
Global
Peace Vigil
2 /11a: Notes on Kosovo by Karel Koster (Netherlands) + comments by Comma=
nder
Rob Green, Royal Navy (ret.)
7 /1: Georg Schoefbanker: NATO planes violating Austrian air space (31 Ma=
rch
1999)
1 /26: Disagreement of the PCF and the Green Party in the French Governme=
nt
over the issue of the NATO Bombings (Le Monde, 29 March 1999)
1 /29: Lies, Deceit and Betrayal (by Robert Fisk, Correspondent, The
Independent)
1 /20: (US) Military Fears Image May Be Damaged (AP, 1.4.99)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-US-Kosovo-Air-Power.html
1 /21: The air war takes toll on pared-down U.S. military (The Washington
Times, 31.3.99)
http://www.washtimes.com/news/news2.html#link
1 /30: NATO's Balkan Blunders Dossier (by Commander R. Green, Chair, Worl=
d
Court Project UK)
1 /22: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore Davi=
d
Wilby, SHAPE (2.4.99)
2 /27b: Radio B92 Closed Down and Sealed Off
1 /31: Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Canada): Only NATO had a Choice
1 /32: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore Davi=
d
Wilby, SHAPE (3.4.99)
1 /37: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore Davi=
d
Wilby, SHAPE (4.4.99)
1 /33: "CounterPunch" Magazine (USA): How the US State Dept. Recruited Hu=
man
Rights Groups to Cheer On the Bombing Raids:Those Incubator Babies, Once =
More?
http://www.counterpunch.org/
1 /34: Facts at Briefings Scarce, But Polemics Are Abundant (New York Tim=
es,
3.4.99)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/040399kosovo-nato.html
1 /35: "Bombs Away!" (by Immanuel Wallerstein)
http://www.zmag.org/waller.htm
1 /36: Alan Mayne (Union of International Associations, Brussels): And wh=
en the
bombing stops?
1 /39: Crimes against truth. The relentless propaganda war is trivialisin=
g epic
suffering (The Independent)
1 /40: There IS an Alternative to Bombing (by J. Power, Transnational
Foundation for Peace and Future Research)
1 /41: Protecting the Kosovars ("Dawn" (Pakistan's leading English newspa=
per),
3.4.99)
http://www.dawn.com
1 /43: Military Analysis: NATO Force Sent to Albania Could Serve as Vangu=
ard
for a Kosovo Invasion (New York Times, , April 5, 1999)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/040599kosovo-military.html
1 /44: Press Conference by NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea + Air Commodore Davi=
d
Wilby, SHAPE (5.4.99)
1 /45: NATO action unwisely undercuts U.N. (Peter Erlinder, "Star Tribune=
"
[USA], 4.4.99)
http://www.startribune.com (search for the author=92s name)
1 /46: Negotiating to end war will hurt least (Boston Globe [USA], 5.4.99=
)
1 /48: South African comment on Nato's campaign ("Business Day", South Af=
rica,
6.4.99)
http://www.bday.co.za

[+] Two articles on possible ground attack from "Liberazione" (April 1-2,=
 1999)

[+] 2 /62: Wartime ZNetUpdate: information on NATO war on Yugoslavia:
As of Monday morning (5 April 1999), the Kosovo/NATO section of ZNet,
accessible from the top page of ZNet (www.zmag.org) or directly at
http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/kosovo.htm, includes:
- --- The Current Bombings: Behind the Rhetoric - Noam Chomsky
- --- Protecting The Kosovars -- Edward Said
- --- Thoughts About Bombings - Michael Albert
- --- Atrocities Management - Edward Herman
- --- NATO's Humanitarian Trigger - Diana Johnstone
- --- Message from A Serbian Green in Belgrade
- --- Stop the Bombing, Stop the Genocide (MADRE's Excellent Statement on t=
he
events)
- --- Statement of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights
- --- Statement of the Greens/Green Party USA
- --- Statement of the War Resisters League
- --- Comment from TFF (Transnational Foundation) on NATO/KOSOVO
- --- The Clinton Doctrine - Michael Klare
- --- War is Peace? - Andre Gunder Frank
- --- Contextualizing the history and particularly the role of NATO
- --- Bombs Away - Immanuel Wallerstein
- --- Dismantling Yugoslavia...- by Michel Chossudovsky
- --- Another Diana Johnstone Link
- --- Refugee Chic - Mark Steel (An article from the English Guardian...not=
 your
usual fare)
- --- CounterPunch Comments
- --- David McReynolds on NATO/Kosovo
- --- Bombing Serbia... - Stephen Zunes
- --- A Call for a New Peace Front - Jan Myrdal

David Cortright/Alistair Millar (Fourth Freedom Forum, USA): Commentary o=
n the
Kosovo Crisis ("The Progressive Response", 30 March 1999, Vol. 3, No. 11)

[+] Russia
3 /1: Russia Quits NATO Partnership
3 /2: Tactical n/missiles could be moved back into Belarus
3 /3: Azerbaijan Detains Russian Mig Shipment (NYT, 24.3.99)
3 /4: Report says Russia asked to deploy nukes in wake of NATO attacks
3 /6: U.S. Urges Russia Not To Arm Serbs (AP, 26.3.99)
3 /7: Peter Coombes: Kosovo, Russia and Nuclear Weapons?
3 /8: Russia Helping Iraq Upgrade Air Defenses [suspected collaboration b=
etween
Serbia, Iraq and Russia] (STRATFOR's Global Intelligence Update, March 31=
,
1999)
3 /9: Valentin Yemelin: The Balkan Crisis [incisive summary of the Russia=
n
reaction]
3 /18: Oleg Odnokolenko: General Staff and Duma ponder pre-emptive nuclea=
r
strikes (Segodnya, 1.4. 1999)
7 #: Kosovo Crisis Deepens Political Divisions in Ukraine (26.3.99)
3 /19: UN Security Council rejection of Russian resolution re Kosovo on 2=
6.3.99
(extracts)
3 /20: Attacks Stir Cold War Feelings in Russia (Washington Post, 4.4.99)
http://www.commondreams.org/kosovo/kosovo.htm
or:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-04/04/166l-040499-idx.ht=
ml

[+] Albania
6 /1: Albania Would Allow Arms to Kosovo (NYT, 30.3.99)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-UN-Albania.html

[+] Macedonia
4 /1 To NATO via Kosovo (AIM Skopje, 11 March 1999)
4 /2 Macedonia - A Country on the Edge (Yves Debay)
4 /3 Anti-NATO Protest Rocks Macedonia (AP, 26.3.99)

[+] Greece
5 /1: Greco Turkish Dispute Threatens to Deepen Fissures in NATO (30 Marc=
h
1999)

[+] Protests Reports
4 /1: White House Targeted by Protesters (NYT, 30.3.99)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-US-Kosovo-Protests.html
4 /2 Russians protest air strikes (Philadelphia Inquirer, 28.3.99)
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Mar/28/national/RUSS28.htm
4 /3: Paris Kosovo demonstration 1 April 1999 (D. Durand, Mouvement de la=
 Paix)

4 /4: Arrests at NATO HQ, Brussels, over the war (Forum voor Vredesactie,
Belgium)
4 /6: Peace movements from Europe met in Strasbourg on 4 April 1999 / Apr=
il
9-10: days of action against the war in Yugoslavia and ethnic cleasing

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STATEMENTS + APPEALS
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2 /10: McReynolds (War Resisters League, USA), quick analysis of Kosovo
2 /16: Quakers: Kosovo: Information & Analysis
2 /17: Mouvement de la Paix on Don=92t Add War To War! (25.3.99)
2 /17a: Mouvement de la Paix: Call for Strasbourg Demonstration 4 April
2 /19: Statement US Coalition for Peace and Justice
2 /22: Green Party of Canada condemns NATO strikes (26.3.99)
2 /23: War Resisters' International Statement on Kosovo
2 /24: WILPF Kosovo statement
2 /25: Appeal by the Federation of Peace and Conciliation, the Russian Pe=
ace
Committee, the Russian Fund for Peace, the UN Association of Russia and t=
he
Centre "Eco-Accord"
2 /26: Karel Koster (Netherlands): Comments on Developments on the Balkan
(26.3.99)
2 /27: Support the B92 Campaign
[Unterst=FCtzung f=FCr den freien jugoslavischen Radiosender B92:
http://helpB92.xs4all.nl ]
2 /28: British Quaker opposition to UK/NATO bombing of Kosovo/a
2 /30: Australian Peace Committee (SA Branch): Open Letter to the Autrali=
an
Government
2 /31: Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Canada
2 /32: Jan Myrdal calls for a new Peace Front
2 /39: Letter from INES member Branka Jovanovic (Belgrade)
2 /42: Appeal from Kosova trade unions, 25 March 1999
2 /43: US Fellowship of Reconciliation calls for End of US Bombing and fo=
r
Creative Resistance to Genocide
2 /50: Information Forum "Block-free Europe" (Czech Republic): Open lette=
r to
NATO member states
2 /55: Russia: Statement of the Socio-Ecological Union International on t=
he
Balkan Conflict
2 /56: Belgrade Law Professors Appeal for Help in Ending Attacks, Resumin=
g
Kosovo Talks
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/appeal.htm
2 /56a: Commentary by Carl S. Kaplan, New York Times, 3.4.1999
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/cyber/cyberlaw/02law.html
2 /57: Statement from Amnesty International re: the war on Yugoslavia
2 /59: US Psychologists for Social Responsibility: Letter to President Cl=
inton
(5.4.99)
2 /60: MADRE: Stop The Bombing, Stop The Genocide
[MADRE is a US-based international women's human rights organization]
2 /61: Philipp B. Smith (INES): Kosovo and Machiavelli (3.4.99) plus comm=
ent by
Haldun M. Ozaktas (Turkey)
2 /63: "Les Bombardements de l'OTAN ne sont pas la bonne reponse aux exac=
tions
des Forces Armees Serbes" (Statement Syndicat National des Chercheurs
Scientifiques (France), 27.3.1999)

1 /38: Statement of the North Atlantic Council (following the meeting bet=
ween
representatives of the NATO Member States, the EU Member States, the OSCE=
 CiO,
the UNHCR, the Council of Europe and the Western European Union), Brussel=
s, 4
April 1999 [also available in French]


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