My Times
My Times
| "NATO pilots have described the landscape in Kosovo as bleak and deserted. Another spoke to me of the deserted landscape in which virtually nothing moved. The roads were empty. No farmers, no activity in the fields. As if the population, like troglodytes, had gone into hiding in caves and deserted houses." |
| "The explanation carried by the media comes completely from U.S. and NATO military authorities, who claim the refugees are victims of a Serbian "rampage." No really independent reporting is allowed. The possibility that they may be fleeing because their villages are being destroyed by U.S. and NATO missiles and bombs is curtly dismissed." - International Action Center |
According to Paul Watson of the LA Times, one of the few journalists in Yugoslavia, in a story with the headline - Albanian Men are Everywhere - the Kosovo town of Svetlje, known as a KLA stronghold where NATO has accused the Serbs of genocide, there are 15,000 ethnic Albanian's who are not living in a concentration camp, nor being forced to labor for the police or army, nor serving as human shields for Serbs.
| "So many fighting-age men in a region where the Kosovo Liberation Army fought some of its fiercest battles against Serbian forces are a challenge to the black-and-white versions of what is happening here." |
Todays LA Times has a story written from the southern Kosovo village of Kacanik where ethnic Albanians are being armed by Serb forces...
| "Nobody was expelled," he insisted. "Some who were living in areas where the KLA fighters were hiding were told to move to another area where they would not get hurt during the operations against the KLA. There is bombing here day and night," he said. "They were even dropping cluster bombs. Of course, every normal person is afraid of that." |
The targets hit and the types of bombs used in the bombing of the sovereign state of Yugoslavia are illegal under every agreement signed by the NATO countries and the vast majority of states represented in the United Nations.
NATO has said that "no place in Yugoslavia would be immune from air strikes".
It is a punishable war crime under Nuremberg Law principles to engage in the "wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity."
Are NATO and it's leaders committing War Crimes?
| "Eighteen hospitals and clinics and at least 200 nurseries, schools, colleges and students' dormitories have been destroyed or damaged, together with housing estates, hotels, libraries, youth centres, theatres, museums, churches and 14th-century monasteries on the World Heritage list. Farms have been bombed, their crops set on fire. As Friday's bombing of the Kosovo town of Korisa shows, there is no discrimination between Serbs and those being 'saved'. Every day, three times more civilians are killed by NATO than the daily estimate of deaths of Kosovans in the months prior to the bombing." - John Pilger, May 18,1999 |
| "Glib use of the term genocide causes another problem. During World War II, when it was proposed that the United States air force bomb Auschwitz or the rail links leading to the death camp, Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy refused, saying that it "might provoke even more vindictive action by the Germans." This was morally abhorrent, given that the Nazis were already doing the worst; there was no more vindictive action possible. To argue in early March 1999 that Milosevic was committing genocide against the Kosovar Albanians encouraged the view that nothing could be worse and that therefore NATO bombardment couldn't hurt. But much in fact could be worse, and NATO bombing has led to just that." - Reflections on NATO and Kosovo |
The UN Charter is quite clear in prohibiting enforcement action by regional organizations without the authorization of the Security Council. NATO do not have the backing of the United Nations or the UN Security Council.
According to the War Powers Act of 1973, the President must "terminate any use of United States Armed Forces" within 60 days of the declaration of military action, unless he receives Congressional authorization to do otherwise. This period expired on May 25.
The United States is 6 days past the 60 days that the President is allowed to make war without the approval of Congress. For the first time in US history, according to some reports, the President is breaking the Constitutional safe guards designed to stop "unconstrained Kings from spending lives".
As early as April of this year the Yugoslavian Parliament agreed to all of the NATO demands except one. The one at the bottom of this page...
Who is telling the truth?
| " NATO personnel shall enjoy, together with their vehicles, vessels, aircraft, and equipment, free and unrestricted passage and unimpeded access throughout the FRY including associated airspace and territorial waters. This shall include, but not be limited to, the right of bivouac, maneuver, billet, and utilization of any areas or facilities as required for support, training, and operations. ." |