U.S./NATO guilty in Los Angeles
Some 250 people filled a room in Los Angeles Nov. 14 to
participate in a hearing of the Independent Commission of
Inquiry to Investigate U.S./NATO War Crimes Against the People
of Yugoslavia. Prominent speakers from the United States and
Canada came to speak of the horror of the bombings and the
genocidal nature of the sanctions against Yugoslavia.
Ruba Fakhoury, International Action Center-San Diego, talked
of the many and various violations of international law that
took place as the United States bombarded Yugoslavia. Spomenka
Zeljkovic, American-Serbian Association for Peace, showed
videotaped footage of the bombings' destruction of power
plants, bridges, schools, and residential areas, killing
thousands of innocent people.
Sonali Kolhatkar, anti-war activist and local IAC member,
showed irrefutable and scientifically based evidence of the
dangers of depleted uranium and how the long-term effects of
these weapons will seriously undermine the health of tens of
thousands of people, including U.S. soldiers.
Dr. Michel Chossudovsky, professor at the University of
Ottawa and co-author of "NATO in the Balkans," traced the
legacy of the main conspirators from both the U.S. camp and
that of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army.
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general, described the
various U.S. bombardments and invasions of sovereign countries
since World War II.
Hearings on the same topic were held Nov. 13 in San
Francisco, and in Detroit and Ann Arbor, Mich., also on Nov.
13.
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