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Waar zijn toch die getuigen tegen Milosevic?
Verite - 13.06.2002 01:00
Balkan Reports kwam met de volgende onthulling. Er zijn plotseling (?) een aantal Amerikaanse getuigen vermisd, o.a. General Clark die een kruisverhoor van Milosevic zou ondergaan....
THE CASE OF THE MISSING WITNESSES
Why are key US officials involved in the international bid to solve the
Kosovo crisis absent from the witness list in the Milosevic trial?
By Mirko Klarin in The Hague
Ambassador William Walker, who headed the Kosovo Verification Mission,
KVM, this week becomes the first American official to give evidence in the
trial of Slobodan Milosevic - and possibly the last.
Walker´s is the only American name on the list of so-called "international
witnesses" whose testimonies have been announced by Geoffrey Nice, head of
the prosecution team.
At the time covered by Kosovo indictment, Walker was in charge of the KVM.
His testimony will be followed by that of Klaus Naumann of Germany, chair
of NATO´s military committee between 1998 and1999 - the period covering
the escalation of the Kosovo crisis. He will be followed Wolfgang Petritch
of Austria, European Union representative at the Rambouillet and Paris
talks in February and March 1999. Then comes Knut Vollebaek of Norway,
former head of the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK.
Of the international witnesses, three Britons have already been called -
Lord Ashdown, General Karol Drewienkiewicz and Colonel Richard
Ciaglinski - and one Canadian, General Michel Maisonneuve. They all
handled Milosevic´s crossfire successfully.
But the question is what happened to the American officials who were in
the front line of the western diplomatic, political and military drive to
solve the Kosovo crisis. At least three, who played crucial roles in this
period, are conspicuously absent from the witness list.
The first is Richard Holbrooke, former American ambassador to the UN and
the main international negotiator with the then Yugoslav president in the
crucial period from October 1998 to March 1999.
The prosecution and judges would undoubtedly like to hear of the talks he
had with Milosevic in his Belgrade presidential salon. And the defendant
would probably wish to present his own interpretation of the exchanges.
Holbrooke has said he would be willing to testify at the tribunal - if the
US authorities permitted it.
The second missing witness is Christopher Hill, the former US ambassador
to Macedonia who tried to mediate between Belgrade and the Kosovo
Albanians in late 1998, and US representative at the Rambouillet and Paris
talks in spring 1999.
Hill´s testimony might shed vital new light on whether Belgrade was as
interested in a political solution as Milosevic claims it was, or if it
was faking negotiations while planning a military offensive - even
"inviting a small NATO intervention" as the prosecution and some witnesses
claim.
Last but not the least is General Wesley Clark, former commander of allied
forces in Europe at the time of NATO´s intervention against Serbia.
Clark visited Belgrade several times to warn the Serb president of what
would happen if he rejected a peaceful solution in Kosovo. The former´s
testimony would be even more crucial given the fact that Milosevic´s
defence is built on claims that the Albanians were not deported as alleged
but had been driven from their homes by "NATO aggression". The former
leader also insists that the majority were killed not by Serbian bullets
but by NATO bombs.
The prosecution is staying quiet on the subject of the missing witnesses.
However, certain things can be deduced from Nice´s explanation to the
court on the problems with "rule 70 witnesses" - so-called because, in the
rules of procedure and evidence No. 70 concerns matters not subject to
disclosure.
Nice explained that the appearance of rule 70 witnesses is subject to two
agreements between the Office of the Prosecution, OTP, and the witness´s
government, or "providing body". The first is to provide the information
and the second permission to come to The Hague. Nice complained that in
reality these were not agreements at all, "because the provider can simply
set its terms".
Nice remarked that the witnesses´ governments had insisted on conditions
that the prosecution team could not accept.
He said the problem concerned protective measures for the witnesses, and
while he did not specify what such arrangements would entail, he said
simply that neither he nor the prosecution team was prepared to put their
names behind them. "Therefore, at the moment, these witnesses drop from
the picture," he said.
Nice did not name either the provider or the potential witnesses he was
referring to. But bearing in mind the names that are conspicuously missing
from the witness list, it is likely that these requested protective
measures may explain why Walker could be the first - and last - US
official to attend Milosevic´s trial.
Ambassador Walker is an exception because his provider is not the US
government but the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,
OSCE, which organised the KVM.
OSCE has been a generous provider of witnesses in the Milosevic trial. So
far it has heard from four of Walker´s KVM verifiers who described the
development of the Kosovo crisis from October 1998 until the beginning of
air strikes on March 24, 1999.
All four testified on what they saw when they came to verify what had
happened in the village of Racak the day before.
Milosevic maintains the discovery of more than 40 civilian corpses in
Racak was "a set up" devised by Walker. Far from being "a massacre of
civilians", as Walker described it, the former Yugoslav leader claimed the
dead were "terrorists" from the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA.
Milosevic insists Walker´s massacre allegations were a cover for American
military "aggression against Yugoslavia" and NATO air strikes. Walker,
therefore, can expect a fierce cross-examination from Milosevic.
Walker will be one of the last prosecution witnesses to testify on Racak.
Last week there were five - three eyewitness villagers, one of whom
survived the shooting, the former KLA commander Shukri Buja, and British
police detective Ian Hendrie.
On January 16, 1999, together with the verifiers, Hendrie examined the
crime scene and photographed the injuries inflicted on the bodies, which
included decapitation, removal of internal organs, unusual eye injuries
and burns behind ears caused by shooting from close range.
Buja told the court that 47 of his men were in Racak on the day of the
killings. He said nine were killed and eight wounded in the first minutes
of the dawn attack by the Serbian police and army, while the other KLA
members scattered and retreated to positions a few miles away.
Buja said that they returned at dusk to collect the bodies of their
comrades and buried them in another village. He said the civilian dead
were left where they fell - and that was where Walker and his verifiers
found them the following day.
Milosevic, however, insists Walker directed everything and this week he
will have the chance to put his theory to the former head of the KVM
himself.
It is not clear if Milosevic will ever have an opportunity to meet the
other participants in "the great American plot" against Serbia, as the
accused has described the events discussed in the courtroom. As Nice said,
for the time being they have "dropped from the picture".
Mirko Klarin is IWPR senior editor at the war crimes tribunal and
editor-in-chief of SENSE News Agency.
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| Lees meer over: wereldcrisis | | aanvullingen | | | NAVO | j. III - 13.06.2002 10:23
De bombardementen op Kosovo waren even rechtsgeldig als een US invasie in Den Haag dat zou zijn. De NATO heeft gefungeert als de luchtmacht van het UCK/KLA/CIA, en heeft een soevereine staat aangevallen, en daarbij de publieke opinie bedonderd, wat zich nu begint te wreken. Bij de Kosovo actie heeft de US inspiratie opgedaan voor een nieuwe manier van oorlog voeren, B52´s, F16´s in combinatie met blufpoker en propaganda. Het gerechtshof gaat waarschijnlijk nog wel meer horen van Milosevic, het voornemen van NATO om rond 7 juni 1999 een bommemtapijt op Belgrado te leggen mag toch niet onomstreden heten. Waarbij Milosevic de enige verstandige is geweest door zich over te geven. Ik wil niet beweren dat hij onschuldig is aan alles wat hem ten laste is gelegd, maar de zaak ligt veel minder eenvoudig dan men wil doen voorkomen. De rol van het westen zou onderzocht moeten worden het ICC, daarom is het ook niet zo vreemd dat de VS niet wil meewerken aan een strafhof in Den Haag.
| | | 13.06.2002 10:41
Milosevic attacks testimony of U.S. ambassador; says he backed Kosovo rebels
ANTHONY DEUTSCH
Associated Press Writer
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) _ Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic challenged the testimony of an American ambassador Wednesday, reaching back to the Iran-Contra scandal of the late 1980s in an attempt to discredit the U.S. envoy.
At his War Crimes Tribunal, Milosevic cross-examined William Walker, the former U.S. head of a Kosovo peacekeeping mission, about his testimony that he saw piles of bodies at Racak, a massacre that focused world attention on atrocities by Serb forces.
As head of the mission for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the late 1990s, Walker was charged with monitoring human rights abuses.
Before joining the OSCE, Walker dealt with Central American issues at the State Department from 1985-88 and later served as ambassador to El Salvador from 1988-92. During that period the U.S. government became embroiled in financing anti-communist Contra fighters in Central America with proceeds from secret arms sales to Iran.
``In Kosovo, you supported a different kind of Contras,´´ Milosevic said. ``The Contra Kosovo Liberation Army.´´ He also suggested Walker was involved in the murder of Jesuit priests and nuns in El Salvador.
Walker denied involvement in the affair, saying he had only supplied humanitarian aid to rebels forces in El Salvador from the same air base used by U.S. authorities to provide illicit arms to the Contras.
Milosevic alleged that OSCE verifiers had been recruited by the CIA. Walker said his main goal was ``to get people to calm down and not provoke further violence´´ in Kosovo.
In his testimony, Walker told the U.N. Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia that a day after the Racak massacre of around 25 ethnic Albanians on Jan. 15, 1999, he saw the bodies of mostly elderly men lying in pools of blood from bullet wounds.
Milosevic claimed the men were killed in clashes with Kosovo rebels and displayed photographs of the scene that he said proved it was fabricated.
``You are talking about pools of blood and on the soil there is no blood at all,´´ Milosevic said to Walker. ``Do you see blood on this picture?´´
``No, not on this picture,´´ Walker replied. ``I saw blood on the ground. I saw blood on the wounds. These were horrific sights and there was a lot of blood.´´
``I am absolutely convinced those people died where I saw them. None of these bodies were brought from elsewhere,´´ he said.
In another development, prosecutors declined to comment on a report Wednesday in the Financial Times of London that the State Department was trying to keep former special envoy to Yugoslavia Richard Holbrooke from appearing in open testimony at the Milosevic trial.
The paper cited unidentified officials at the United Nations in New York as saying chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte was considering not calling Holbrooke as a prosecution witness if he could only speak behind closed doors.
U.N. officials said transparency was a key issue, and Del Ponte wanted to avoid the appearance of a show trial. Milosevic may call Holbrooke later to discuss the former Yugoslav leader´s role in negotiating the 1995 Dayton peace agreement that ended the Bosnian war.
| | ´Zwarte doos over Srebrenica´ | David Jan Godfroid - 13.06.2002 10:44
´Zwarte doos over Srebrenica bleef ook voor Niod dicht´
Vertegenwoordigers van het Niod bezochten deze week Belgrado om hun rapport over Srebrenica toe te lichten. De Joegoslavische waarheidscommissie is onder de indruk van het Nederlandse rapport, maar vindt het wel eenzijdig.
BELGRADO, 12 juni 2002 - ,,We hebben de indruk dat de Nederlanders ook niet precies weten wat er zit in de zwarte doos met gegevens over wat er in die paar dagen in juli 1995 precies is gebeurd´´, zegt Mirgana Vasovic. Toch is de sociaal-psycholoog van de Joegoslavische commissie voor Waarheid en Verzoening onder de indruk van het Srebrenica-rapport van het Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie.
Drie Niod-vertegenwoordigers bezochten gisteren en eergisteren het hol van de leeuw. Ze gaven op uitnodiging van de commissie in Belgrado uitleg over hun rapport, hoewel een Engelse of Servische vertaling nog niet beschikbaar is.
Mirjana Vasovic zit tussen twee vuren: Serviërs die maar niet willen geloven dat andere Serviërs in Srebrenica talloze moslims hebben vermoord en het Westen dat de neiging heeft alle schuld voor het drama in de schoenen van de Serviërs te schuiven. Met haar werk in de Commissie voor Waarheid en Verzoening probeert ze de juiste balans te vinden. Srebrenica kan en mag niet geïsoleerd en al zeker niet eenzijdig worden bekeken, is Vasovic´ belangrijkste boodschap.
In navolging van een soortgelijke commissie in Zuid-Afrika nam de Joegoslavische president Kostunica vorig jaar het initiatief tot de oprichting van de Commissie voor Waarheid en Verzoening. Al vanaf de eerste dag was er kritiek. De president zou de commissie vooral willen gebruiken om de scherpste kantjes van de Servische verantwoordelijkheid voor de conflicten van de afgelopen tien jaar af te slijpen.
Vasovic ziet dat anders. De commissie bestaat volgens haar uit ,,onafhankelijke intellectuelen die de waarheid willen achterhalen om tot verzoening te komen. Wij moeten ons een mening vormen over de misdaden die in naam van de Joegoslavische staat begaan zouden zijn.´´
De commissie stuit daarbij op grote beperkingen. De betrokken internationale organisaties zijn niet erg scheutig met informatie. Maar die beperkingen gelden niet alleen voor Belgrado. ,,De Nederlanders hebben echt niet alle documenten van deze kant kunnen bestuderen´´, zegt ze, en wijst erop dat de meeste bronnen tijdens het regime van Milosevic niet toegankelijk waren. ,,We hebben daardoor sterk de indruk dat het Niod meer bronnen van de andere kant heeft gebruikt dan van Servische kant.´´
En wat is het Niod nog meer niet te weten gekomen? Bijvoorbeeld dat Servische getuigen tegenover Vasovic´ commissie hebben verklaard dat veel van de moorden bij Srebrenica een verlate wraak zijn op gebeurtenissen in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Hele families herinnerden zich in de oplopende spanning van de Bosnië-oorlog onderlinge moordpartijen uit die periode. Waarvoor nog niet was afgerekend.
Verder vergeet men in het Westen maar al te graag de moorden op Servische burgers in de dorpen rondom Srebrenica in de maanden voorafgaand aan de val van de enclave, stelt Vasovic. ,,Srebrenica is er een in een hele keten van gebeurtenissen´´, zegt zij. ,,Een gevolg van heden en verleden. Er werden rekeningen vereffend en er waren ook Serviërs vermoord. Als je die context niet meeweegt, dan moet je wel concluderen dat Serviërs geboren slechteriken zijn. Doe je dat wel, dan kunnen de stereotypen en vooroordelen die tot conflicten leiden, worden vermeden.´´
 Website: http://www.trouw.nl/artikelactueel/1023774212114.html
| | Vragenlijst parlementair onderzoek Srebrenica | j. III - 13.06.2002 11:24
Dat Wim Kok op bezoek is in Srebrenica bewijst dat hij fatsoenlijk man is, die z´n verantwoordelijkheid niet uit de weg gaat. Ik had ook niet anders verwacht, hoeveel shit er ook over hem uitgestort is door de Lijst Pim Fortuyn en hun aanhangers, fuck them.
De associatie van de familie van de slachtoffer´s heeft een practische lijst opgesteld van vragen die zij behandeld wil hebben in een parlementaire enquete in Den Haag.
 http://www.domovina.net/hasan.html
| | Getuigen | Dave Nicholson - 13.06.2002 13:22
Getuigen tegen Mr Milosovic...?
George Walker Bush bepaalt of er getuigen zijn...!
| | Kok fatsoenlijk? | Verite - 13.06.2002 15:05
Kok fatsoen?
Door Joegoslavie te bombarderen, ziekenhuizen, scholen, burgerdoelen... over fatsoen gesproken....
oorlogsmisdadiger, net als de verantwoordelijke ministers de Grave en Van Aartsen moeten zij voor een tribunaal. Net als Schroeder, Fischer, Chirac, Blair, Clinton, Allbright en nog vele andere NAVO-regeringsleiders!
| | recht & gerechtigheid voor iedereen | j. III - 13.06.2002 21:09
Verite, ik ben het wel met je eens dat de rol van Nederland in het geheel onderzocht moet worden, (maar dat gebeurd ook)evenals de rol van de britse SAS die in juli ook in Srebrenica aanwezig waren, die een directe verbinding met generaal Smith hadden om luchtsteun te vragen, -die de nederlanders in principe ook beloofd was, een dag voordat Mladic de enclave is binnengevallen- dezelfde generaal Smith die op 17 juli en 19 juli een geheime ontmoeting heeft gehad met Mladic, het document heeft getekend dat voorzag in de aftocht van Dutchbat, met medeneming van hun wapens. Dutchbat commandant Franken die het document heeft getekend dat alle bosnische moslims conform de regels veilig geevacueerd waren, en Karremans niet te vergeten voor zijn aandeel in de overdracht van de moslims aan Mladic. Maar de belangrijkste vraag, wie is verantwoordelijk voor het niet verlenen van luchtsteun, het is in dit opzicht haast onvoorstelbaar om richting Den Haag, dus Wim Kok te wijzen. Was het generaal Smith, generaal Janvier, Unprofor Commander-in-Chief, of Secretaris-Generaal Boutrous Ghali?
Waarom is Mladic nog steeds niet gearresteerd terwijl hij twee kilometer van een UN basis woont in Bosnie?
Omdat een aantal mensen in het westen voor hun eigen aandeel vrezen als de volledige waarheid over de massaslachting in Srebrenica aan het licht komt, er uiteindelijk bewezen kan worden dat door luchtsteun te verlenen het gehele drama te voorkomen was geweest.
Deze verantwoordelijke(n) zal/zullen namelijk vervolgt gaan worden voor oorlogsmisdaden.
| | . | Ca$h - 13.06.2002 21:49
De verliezer zit toch altijd in de beklaagdenbank. Buiten dat om..
Iemand die het voor Milosevic opneemt mag zich toch achter zijn oren krabben. Sebrenica is een feit, daarom zit hij in die cel. Wat mij betreft blijft hij daar ook nog wel even.
| | The testimony by German Gen. Klaus Naumann | AAP - 14.06.2002 00:24
Former NATO military commander says Milosevic planned Kosovo killings in advance
ANTHONY DEUTSCH
Associated Press Writer
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) _ Slobodan Milosevic battled in court Thursday with NATO´s former military commander, a four-star general who accused him of planning to wipe out ethnic Albanians in Kosovo months before Serb forces began their bloody crackdown.
The former Yugoslav president dismissed the allegations as ``absurd,´´ and clashed with presiding judge Richard May, who warned Milosevic to stop arguing with the witness or lose the right to cross-examine.
The testimony by German Gen. Klaus Naumann, who led the Western alliance in bombing Milosevic´s Serb forces, was potentially the most damning yet in the 4-month-old trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.
Naumann is the highest-ranking military officer to assert a direct link between Milosevic and the Kosovo crackdown in the spring of 1999.
Milosevic has been charged with five counts of war crimes in connection with the campaign in which thousands of Kosovo Albanians were killed and about 800,000 fled their homes to neighboring countries. He faces another 61 counts, including genocide, for alleged atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia.
Naumann said that in 1998-99, he met three times with Milosevic to negotiate a withdrawal from Kosovo of Yugoslav forces blamed for atrocities.
Milosevic agreed to reduce the military and police presence in the rebellious province, but when he failed to keep his promise NATO had no choice but to intervene, he said.
In March 1999, NATO began an 11-week air campaign under Naumann´s command, ultimately forcing Milosevic to withdraw his forces from Kosovo.
Naumann described a conversation with Milosevic in the presidential White Palace in Belgrade in October 1998. Also present was NATO´s European military commander, Wesley Clark, and Milosevic´s deputy prime minister, Nikola Sainovic, who is also awaiting trial before the tribunal.
The men were having drinks over plum brandy, a Serb specialty, when Milosevic told the NATO officials the Serbs had a ``solution´´ to the ethnic unrest in Kosovo.
Asked what that solution was, Milosevic referred to the killing of Albanians in Kosovo after World War II, when ``we got them together and we shot them.´´
Milosevic shocked the NATO officials by saying the Serbs wanted to ``achieve a balance between the two ethnic groups´´ and had a plan for spring the next year, Naumann said.
Milosevic and Sainovic said they were worried that ``the reproduction rate of the Kosovo Albanians was much higher than of the Serbs.´´
Kosovo was the one province in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia where ethnic Albanians outnumbered Serbs.
Given his chance to cross-examine the general, Milosevic denied making the statement and said the Albanians killed after World War II had been Nazi collaborators.
``How come this astonishing statement was not used by NATO´´ to justify the bombing of Yugoslavia. ``Because you have just thought of this, three years later,´´ said Milosevic, who is leading his own defense.
As has been his defense all along, Milosevic blamed NATO for civilian deaths in Kosovo and for the large number of refugees that he said were fleeing NATO bombs. He said the German general had acted out of a long-standing German hatred for Yugoslavia dating back to World War I.
Naumann said Milosevic was ``confusing matters.´´
When Milosevic persisted, Judge May grew angry and turned off his microphone, warning him against abusing the court with political speeches.
Naumann, like other witnesses, described Milosevic as the undisputed leader of the Yugoslav forces.
``He was the man who was really in control of the situation. He gave the directions,´´ Naumann said. ``It was him who took the decisions.´´
Under sharp questioning, Naumann conceded that NATO had considered the Kosovo Liberation Army a terrorist group and that the rebels took advantage of NATO´s bombing to strengthen their position against Yugoslav forces.
He admitted that the rebels also committed crimes, but Naumann said the Serbs always retaliated with disproportional violence, targeting civilian populations with heavy weapons.
The cross-examination continues Friday.
| | Nederlands | Kees - 14.06.2002 07:40
Probeer het eens in het Nederlands.
Dan wordt je verhaal wel gelezen.
| | Do it for Yugoslavia! | U.Woudenberg - 14.06.2002 12:03
Na al het bovenstaande gelezen te hebben, waar overigens heel veel waardevol materiaal in zit, is het goed om nog eens te wijzen op de waardevolle getuigenis van een groep jongeren welke zomer 2000 door Joegoslavië reisde. Het is een ooggetuigenis geschreven door een aankomend journaliste samen met overigen in de groep jongeren getuige van de verwoestingen die de NAVO heeft aangericht. Bruggen, ziekenhuizen, meer dan 200 schoolgebouwen, burgerdoelen, dorpen alles wat maar niet militair was werd aangevallen. Kosovo werd zwaar getroffen omat er voor de westerse oorlogspropaganda een vluchtelingenstroom op gang gebracht moest worden. Het zou goed zijn als de lezers van Indymedia dit interessante reisverslag zouden lezen. het blijft actueel, temeer daar het een beeld geeft van de achtergronden: de belangen die op het spel stonden voor olie- en wapenhandelaren. Wanneer de beurskoersen dalen dienen zich nieuwe oorlogen aan en moet er weer een nieuwe aanval gepland worden na een enscenering van een terroristische aanslag (Afghanistan, Irak? wie volgen?)
Reisverslag van het Internationale Kamp van de Vriendschap (INKAV) Sirogojno 2000 is te bestellen bij dit e-mail adres
| | reisverslag | 14.06.2002 13:45
Het emailadres is niet meegekomen met je bericht, U Woudenberg, als het reisverslag niet al te lang is kan je het misschien hier plaatsen? j. III
| | MILOSEVIC: Trial Reportedly Threatened By U.S | peacenik - 17.06.2002 16:58
MILOSEVIC: Trial Reportedly Threatened By U.S. Demands
12 juni 2002
The war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is being threatened by U.S. demands that former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Balkans envoy Richard Holbrooke testify behind closed doors, according to diplomats cited by the Financial Times.
According to diplomats and U.S. officials, the United States fears setting a precedent by having top U.S. officials such as Holbrooke -- the architect of the Dayton peace accords, which ended the Bosnian war -- testify at international tribunals ahead of the creation of the International Criminal Court, which the U.S. opposes. The United States is also concerned about "sensitive" information senior U.S. officials may be called on to reveal in the trial, the Financial Times adds. The newspaper reports U.S. demands could test the transparency of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and undermine the prosecution of Milosevic for alleged crimes against humanity.
"In general, for the office of the prosecutor and people in the region, the importance of the Milosevic trial is transparency," said one U.N. official. According to the Financial Times, with witnesses testifying in secret, Milosevic´s trial might take on the air of a "show trial."
The Financial Times reports negotiations between the U.S. State Department and chief U.N. prosecutor Carla Del Ponte have become so difficult that Del Ponte is considering not calling Holbrooke as a witness at all, raising the possibility that Milosevic will call him as a defense witness or that ICTY judges will rule Milosevic was not given adequate opportunity to defend himself. If Milosevic, who has in the past threatened to call international leaders to testify, were to call Holbrooke, he could use the testimony to his advantage or embarrass the U.S. diplomat. "The last thing he (Mr. Holbrooke) wants is to have repeated his time drinking whisky with Milosevic after the agreement on Dayton," said a former U.S. official.
Endowed with little power of their own and faced with the possibility of disturbing relations with a key donor, ICTY judges could do little to get the United States to cooperate, the Financial Times adds. "It would be a disaster," said a senior European diplomat. "You cannot say you are in favor of justice handed down by the court and then not participate simply because you are a U.S. citizen. ... How can we work together on the ground (rounding up indicted war criminals in the Balkans) if they don´t cooperate in the court?" (Carola Hoyos, Financial Times, June 12).
Website: http://www.unfoundation.org/unwire/util/display_stories.asp?objid=26987
| | Massaslachting? | Verite - 05.07.2002 00:02
Massaslachtingen J.III?
Het zal hooguit gaan om 250 moslim-extremisten die al schietend en de Serven provocerend zich een weg baanden door de oorlog. in oorlog vallen nou eenmaal slachtoffers aan beide zijden. Lees het boek van Karremans maar eens of probeer bovenstaand boek Do it for Yugoslavia!
Laat je niet manipuleren door de media!
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