EDITORIAL:
Put war criminals in the dock
The U.S. and NATO leaders thought they would get away with
the war against Yugoslavia.
They scraped through a 78-day war they had expected to win
in three days. They planned and provoked the war. They bombed
civilian targets. They used outlawed weapons. They forced the
Yugoslav government to draw its army out of its own province,
Kosovo.
And they thought they were home free.
Clinton, Albright, Gen. Wesley Clark, and their
counterparts in Western Europe hoped they had heard the end
of protests against their dirty war against Yugoslavia.
But by last July, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey
Clark and the International Action Center were charging
U.S./NATO leaders with 19 counts of war crimes, crimes
against peace and crimes against humanity.
By October, tens of thousands of people protesting in
Athens made it clear that Clinton was a war criminal and
unwelcome.
Others in 14 countries from Russia to Australia held
popular tribunal hearings that called the NATO political and
military leaders war criminals. These hearings showed that
Washington had planned the war for 10 years. They showed that
the "massacre" charges against the Belgrade government were
lies.
They showed that U.S. and German intelligence agencies
built up the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army--a terrorist
gang. They showed that the so-called Racak massacre was a
provocation by U.S. agent William Walker and the KLA. They
showed that the Rambouillet "Accord" was an ultimatum to
Yugoslavia that no government could accept.
Now these hearings are reaching a climax. In Rome and
Berlin on June 2-3, and in New York on June 10, the
International Tribunals on U.S./NATO War Crimes in Yugoslavia
will take place. The tribunal will prove to the world and to
history that these political and military leaders are indeed
war criminals.
The progressive movement in the United States should give
its full support to this tribunal and make sure that the June
10 public hearing plays before a packed house.
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