************ Sebastian Lütgert ************ ================================================================================ Sincere Regrets by Craig Goodrich As I write this, in the wee hours of May 8, our US ambassador to the UN, Peter Burleigh, is addressing an emergency session of the Security Council, responding to Chinese outrage that we blew up their embassy in Belgrade, killing four and injuring a dozen others. Burleigh said earlier that there was "no confirmation" that the missiles which flattened the Chinese embassy were fired by NATO; he obviously believed that they might have come from some _other_ country firing missiles in Yugoslavia -- perhaps India or Uruguay. [...] http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199905/msg00172.html ================================================================================ APPEAL BY THE BELGRADE NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS Deeply disturbed by NATO destruction of our country and the ordeal of Kosovo Albanians, we, the representatives of non-governmental organizations and Trade Union Confederation "Nezavisnost" (Independence), strongly demand from all those responsible for this tragedy to immediately create ground for the renewal of the peace process. [...] http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199905/msg00192.html ================================================================================ WAR CRIMES CHARGES AGAINST NATO: LEGAL DOCUMENT Find the full text at these URLs: http://www.styx.org/serbia/war_crimes/charges.txt ftp://ftp.styx.org/pub/serbia/war_crimes/charges.txt Linking to these URLs and forwarding this message is encouraged. Regards, Dmytri. http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199905/msg00197.html ================================================================================ AIDE MEMOIRE ON THE USE OF INHUMANE WEAPONS IN THE AGGRESSION OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION AGAINST THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA In its aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been using banned military means and weapons such as the use of cluster bombs and depleted uranium. These weapons are damaging and threatening to the life and health of the people and the consequences of their use are incomparably more inhumane and dangerous than those of the use of conventional arms. In the period between 25 March and 15 May 1999, over 60 containers, each with 240 cluster bombs (i.e. over 15 000 bombs), as well as more than 400 cluster bombs, have been dropped over the territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. About 40 containers and over 250 cluster bombs have been dropped over Kosovo and Metohija, killing about 200 and wounding over 450 people. Material damage has been enormous: entire housing estates have been destroyed, as well as schools and hospitals, industrial plants and communication infrastructure. Dozens of people, primarily children, have been killed and wounded as a consequence of the delayed effect of the cluster bombs and new human casualties and destruction can be expected from the remaining unexploded bombs. The Institute of Nuclear Studies at Vinca, Belgrade, has surveyed the remnants of exploded bombs and positively established the presence of uranium in the ammunition. The inhumane and banned ammunition is most often used in Kosovo and Metohija which has been confirmed also by NATO representatives themselves. They said in their statements that A-10 planes are used in the aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, whose payloads contained also the so-called depleted uranium ammunition. In its aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, NATO has also been using missiles with graphite-electromagnetic material. So far they were used on 2, 8, 13 and 14 May 1999 against the distribution stations of the power plants at Obrenovac and Kostolac, at Novi Sad, Nis and Bajina Basta and against power installations at Lajkovac, Resnik, Lestane and the Belgrade city section of Bezanijska kosa. According to the information available to the competent Yugoslav authorities, the cluster bombs have been used in the following instances: [...] http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199905/msg00221.html ================================================================================ Star Tribune, Monday, May 17, 1999 News with a View: When will the media call it war? Norman Solomon Nearly two months have passed since the beginning of NATO's air war against Yugoslavia. After a shaky start, Washington's spin machinery has done much to promote a war agenda -- with crucial assistance from major U.S. news media. Early on, top officials of the Clinton administration seemed to be playing catch-up. "The problem is they didn't start the communications until the bombs started falling," said Marlin Fitzwater, who spoke for President George Bush during the Gulf War. "That's not enough time to convince the nation of a course of action." But overall, the White House has good reason to be pleased with the national media. By late April, special U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke, one of the key U.S. diplomats behind recent policies in the Balkans, was handing out compliments. "The kind of coverage we're seeing from the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and the newsmagazines lately on Kosovo has been extraordinary and exemplary." 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