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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the June 22, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
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June 10 War Crimes Tribunal:

WITNESSES IN PART I

Crimes against peace

• LENORA FOERSTEL of Women for Mutual Security and editor of the recently published book "War, Lies & Videotape: How media monopoly stifles truth."
• JARED ISRAEL, producer of the film "Judgment" showing how the corporate media distorted a photograph taken in Bosnia.
• JEAN HATTON Britain--anti-war activist, on how massacre stories were used to justify the war.
• CHRISTOPHER BLACK Canada--one of a group of Canadian attorneys who filed a suit charging NATO with war crimes at what is called the International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague, on how that court was part of the preparation for war.
• MONICA MOOREHEAD, of Millions for Mumia and contributing editor to Workers World newspaper, on the prison-industrial complex in the United States.
• MICHEL COLLON Belgium--author of two books on the Balkans, "Liar's Poker" and "Monopoly," and contributor to the weekly newspaper Solidaire, on the geopolitical aims of the war--to dominate the Caspian oil pipelines.
• KADOURI AL KAYSI Iraqi-American--on the impact of sanctions on Iraq.
• STRATIS KOUNIAS Greece--vice-president of the Greek Committee for Peace and Professor at the University of Athens, on NATO's role in Greece and the Greek anti-war movement.
• JOHN CATALINOTTO, journalist and researcher who represented the IAC at tribunals in Vienna and Belgrade, on Washington's premeditated plan regarding NATO and the attack on Yugoslavia.
• ROLAND KEITH Canada--monitor for the Observer Mission that was supposed to maintain the peace in Kosovo in 1998 before the war, on the real role of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
• PRESTON WOOD, who participated in hearings in Novi Sad and who organized opposition to the war in Los Angeles, especially in the lesbian/gay/bi/trans community, on the supposed massacre in Racak, Kosovo, used to justify the attack on Yugoslavia.
• RICHARD BECKER, West Coast co-coordinator for the IAC, on the role of talks held in Rambouillet, France, in February and March 1999.
• GREGOR KNEUSSEL Austria--on Austria's role in delivering the NATO ultimatum to Yugoslavia.

WITNESSES IN PART II

War crimes & crimes against humanity

• Prosecutor GLORIA LA RIVA on how U.S./NATO bombs hit civilian targets, from hospitals to bridges to factories, using the video she produced, "NATO Targets."
• SARAH SLOAN, IAC Commission of Inquiry researcher, on NATO's claim that it tried to minimize damage to civilian facilities in Yugoslavia.
• ELLEN CATALINOTTO, a midwife who has delivered over 1,200 babies to mostly poor women in New York City, on the NATO bombing of 33 hospitals including damage to the maternity ward at Dragisa Micovic hospital in Belgrade.
• PROF. IVAN YATSENKO Russia--former Soviet officer and foreign representative who now teaches law in Moscow, on damage to Yugoslav industrial infrastructure and how it cost half a million jobs.
• ELMAR SCHMAEHLING Germany--former West German admiral and leading spokesperson for the German tribunal movement, on the aggressive posture of NATO since the collapse of the USSR and its illegal attack on Yugoslavia.
• JUDI CHENG, IAC researcher, on the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.
• DR. JANET EATON Canada--biologist and environment expert, on destruction of the environment in Yugo slavia, especially the damage from attacks on the petrochemical plant at Pancevo and other industrial targets.
• DR. CARLO PONA Italy--physicist who participated in a conference in Belgrade about depleted uranium, on why DU is dangerous to humans and how it was used in Yugoslavia.
• FULVIO GRIMALDI Italy--videographer and journalist who recently completed editing a film on Iraq and Yugoslavia, on the combined impact of bombing and sanctions on the population of Yugoslavia.
• DEIRDRE GRISWOLD, editor of Workers World newspaper who recently visited sites of U.S. war crimes in south Korea, on the pattern of criminal conduct of the U.S. military in Korea and Vietnam.
• SHANI RIFATI, originally from the Romani community in Kosovo and publisher of an English-language newsletter about Romani affairs, on the horrors faced by the Roma people in Kosovo under K-FOR and KLA occupation.
• MILOS RAICKOVICH Serb-American--composer and anti-war activist, on the destruction of churches and cultural sites in occupied Kosovo and Metohija.
• PROF. MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY Canada--historian and economist, on the role of the KLA and its ties to U.S. and German intelligence services, NATO and UN Rep. Bernard Kouchner.
• SCOTT TAYLOR Canada--former Canadian soldier and publisher of magazine Esprit de Corps, on the expulsion of the Serb population from the Krajina in Croatia by an army led by KLA General Ceku.
• PROF. BARRY LITUCHY, recently returned from Yugoslavia, on how K-FOR participated in expelling people from Kosovo.
• PROF. GREGORY ELICH, recently returned from the Balkans, on the anti-humanitarian nature of NATO's occupation of Kosovo.
• GILLES TROUDE France--member of the editorial board of Balkans-Info, on France's role in the war and in suppressing dissent at home.
• PROFESSOR JORGE CADIMA Portugal--a regular contributor to Avante, the weekly newspaper of the Portu guese Communist Party, on the role of NATO in Portu gal since 1949 and on popular resistance to the war.

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