October 13, 2011
The International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia formed in 1993 was only a means to justify Western intervention in the Balkans. It has no links to the International Court of Justice based in The Hague. The Tribunal is made up of US influenced appointees so will NATO crimes in Kosovo be investigated? Was it a surprise when the Tribunal branded President Milosevic a war criminal and; the US is against the establishment of any international court that can charge US military and; political personnel with war crimes?
What NATO is accused of is violating the UN Charter– it is a violation to attack a sovereign nation that was innocent of any aggression. NATO’s Charter Article 1 and; 7 has also been violated – NATO is supposed to function as a “DEFENSIVE organization, and; only committed to force if ONE or MORE of its members are attacked! NATO Treaty in fact recognizes the UN Security Council to maintain international peace and;; security. NATO’s violation of the Hague Convention Article 22 and;; 23, Geneva Convention Article 19, Nuremberg Principle VI a,b,c and; the US Constitution Article 1 Section 8, Clause II is for “killing and; injuring a defenseless population through Yugoslavia”.
The usual excuse is given as “humanitarian” intervention and; that was what the Clinton administration used, incidentally Mussolini used it to invade Ethiopia to save them from slavery and; Hitler used it to occupy Sudetenland to save Germans.
If the US used the Nuremberg principles to charge Germany for “starting an unprovoked war” shouldn’t the US be charged on similar grounds?
On 22 September, 2000 in the District Court of Belgrade, the President of the Court handed down guilty verdicts against government leaders of NATO countries for “war crimes”. These defendants were Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schroeder, Robin Cook, George Robertson, William Cohen, Hubert Vedrine, Alain Richard, Gerhard Schroeder, Joschka Fischer, Rudolf Scharping, Javier Solana and Wesley Clark. The sentence was for 20 years in a Yugoslav prison and; thus arrest warrants were issued upon all charging each for crimes against humanity and;; breaches of international law, inciting an aggressive war, war crimes against civilians, use of weapons banned under international law, violating Yugoslavia’s territorial sovereignty and; attempting to murder Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia between March 24 and;; June 10, 1999.
Former US President Bill Clinton was sent a verdict on April 18th, 2001 sentencing him in absentia to 20 years in prison for “crimes against civilians”.
The entire West is not as inhuman as we think. The Commission of Inquiry of the International Action Coalition charged in 1999 Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, William Cohen for violating the Geneva Convention, the UN Charter, the Nuremberg Principles, Helsinki Accords and;; the US Constitution. The 19 charges included starting a war, deliberate targeting of civilians infrastructure and; violating and; destroying peacemaking role of the UN. One of the main arguments was that despite the Yugoslav parliament agreeing to NATOs demand of autonomy and;; armed UN peacekeepers in Kosovo why it was bombed! Instead of the mass graves that was similar to the WMD in Iraq, there were perhaps just 200 dead persons – the 100,000 dead Albanians that NATO and;; US were promoting as grounds to attack was just a lie.
NATOs air strikes in Serbia killed over 2000 civilians and;; wounded more than 7500. NATO has owned up to only 460 civilian deaths. The dead included farmers, city dwellers, reporters, diplomats, people traveling in public transport, patients in hospitals, the elderly and; even children. That is the human factor – what about the enormous damages to the environment as a result of these NATO bombings – poisoning water supplies, loss of electricity that affects hospitals and;; other emergency requirements? There is evidence that some Spanish pilots refused to drop bombs on non-military targets.
Another accusation against NATO was the bombing of all bridges across the international waterway through Eastern Europe – the River Danube. Some of these bridges were bombed while civilians were on them. All that NATO leaders said were that the incidents were “accidents”. This clearly violates the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12th August 1949 and; the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol 1) – 8th June 1977.
NATO strategy was to destroy the whole infrastructure of Yugoslavia – that was why it targeted public services, rail and;; road networks, waterways. The objective was always to detach Kosovo.
If one were to read the book (The White Book) published by the Yugoslav Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NATO crimes in Yugoslavia, the book will reveal the damage caused by NATO bombings and;; lists 400 civilian deaths and; over 40 incidents involving civilian fatalities.
If NATOs actions were illegal under its own treaty, in particular since aggressive military action was taken without UN mandate the killings that ensued were war crimes.
What is clear is that the US and;; UK Governments deliberately waged war against Yugoslavia by building a propaganda campaign that would be internationally welcomed and;; accepted by their countrymen.
On 5th January 2000, Yugoslav Government stepped up pressure to indict NATO country leaders – US President Bill Clinton and; UK Prime Minister Tony Blair for crimes against humanity in Yugoslavia in 1999. This followed a submission for instigating proceeds before the International Court of Justice in April 29, 1999 and; ICC setting a deadline for legal action on 30th June 1999 and; Yugoslavia meeting that deadline on 5th January 2000. “Yugoslavia demands that the Court declare these countries responsible for the violation of major international obligations, which ban the implementation of force against countries, interference into their internal affairs or the violation of their sovereignty, as well as other international obligations. The indictment also included the demand for confirming the responsibility of these countries for their failure to prevent the genocide against the Serb people and other non-Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija, in which way they violated the obligations stemming from U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide Crimes . . . Yugoslavia is also demanding that the Court instruct all countries, which are being sued to pay compensation for all the damages inflicted”.
The Geneva Conventions are clear “Civilians shall not be the object of attack.” According to the UN Security Council resolution, military forces were tasked with expelling Iraqi forces that invaded Kuwait. That task involved 88,000 tons of bombs that killed civilians and;; killed more civilians through the destruction of power grids, food, water treatment, sewage systems. US soldiers used napalm to incinerate entrenched Iraqi soldiers. US soldiers dropped fuel-air explosives, cluster bombs that use razor-sharp fragments to shred people. Depleted uranium were used to penetrate tanks causing long term health hazards, the economic embargoes have killed as many as 1million Iraqis.
They were bombed to create – waterborne diseases which have killed thousands of Iraqi civilians and; the bombs and;; weapons used have caused radiation poisoning as a result of depleted uranium shells.
Why were these acts not treated as war crimes under the Geneva Convention and;; does this not constitute genocide by US and;; allies?
If NATO has committed war crimes in Iraq and;; Yugoslavia, should we be surprised to read of NATO war crimes in Afghanistan? Indiscriminate bombings killing unarmed civilians have only been answered with an “apology” by NATO. The presence of US and; NATO troops in Afghanistan was similar to that which took place in Yugoslavia – without any proof a country has been taken over. Indiscriminate bombings mean rebuilding projects being handed over to profit-driven private corporations. The irony is that the Afghan government are compromising the welfare of its own citizens for its own financial benefits. This has caused a rise in Pashtun nationalism and; indirect support for the Taliban. Thus it has been easy to pass blame for NATO killings on the Taliban while civilian deaths keep piling, infrastructure continues to be bombed and;; anarchy prevails throughout Afghanistan.
NATO’s Libya operation followed the UNSC Resolution which NATO has violated seen through its presence on ground, bombing of civilian structures. Greatest violation is by NATO taking sides which is illegal, illegal too is the murder or attempt to murder government officials with no formal declaration of war. NATO is also using cluster bombs and; depleted uranium which is also illegal. NATOs violations in Libya are many and;; what we would like to know is why is the ICC silent?
The sinister campaign to take over Libya was by first projecting to Gaddafi that the US “deeply valued the relationship between the United States and; Libya” (2009) This was because British Petroleum, Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, Chevron, Conoco, Marathon Oil and; industrial giants like Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Dow Chemical and; Fluor signed investments and; sales deals with Libya. The US State Dept awarded a $1.5m grant to train Libyan civilian and; government security forces in 2009. Many of these “trainees” are now leading the NATO-backed “rebel forces”.
Thus, the pretence of being a “friend” to Gaddafi by the US since 2009 was to get Gaddafi to agree to allow foreign presence in Libya.
International media also controlled by western imperialists were relaying images that portrayed rebels waving rifles and; shouting against Gaddafi. These rebels entered towns that had been devastated by NATO air attacks! What these rebels did was to rob homes, banks and;; destroy public institutions on the instructions of NATO. Going against Gaddafi does not equate to ruining infrastructure and; destroying property that is used by one’s own people!
NATO wanted Libya to be destroyed. Like NATO destroyed Yugoslavia and;; Iraq. NATO wanted to ensure Libya had to be “reconstructed” because all these contracts would eventually go to profit-making western companies!
Incidentally, Libya is a country that had boasted the highest per capita income and; standard of living in Africa.
What took place in Libya is a message from the imperialists for other nations in North Africa, Asia and; Latin America. US-NATO are already engaged in colonial wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and;; Somalia. What about the fall of Mubarak of Egypt and;; Ben Ali in Tunisia while uprisings in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Morocco, Algeria were all associated with movements demanding end to EU-US and;; Israeli domination of the region and;; would have caught their intelligence by surprise.
NATO provided the money to silence the “people’s march to democracy” and;; the situation in Egypt is far worse than during Mubaraks reign! In Bahrain the West called for “reform” while continuing to arm the Bahraini royal family as seen in the NATO backed Saudi invasion of Bahrain to support the royal dictatorship. In Yemen, the West continued to support the Ali Saleh regime. Nevertheless, NATO is apparently providing support to Islamic fundamentalists in a move to overthrow Bashar Al-Assad.
What did Libya do to anger the West? Did the West not like its pursuance of pro-African agenda which had funded an independent regional bank and;; communications system designed to bypass IMF and; World Bank control?
July 22, 2011 is the date when NATO hit the Libyan water supply pipeline. Days later NATO hit the pipeline factory producing pipes to repair it. Both incidents could not have been accidents. NATO went on to target civilian water supply network that supplied water to 70% of Libyan population. Nevertheless, the truth will emerge just like Libya is now revealing how it funded French President Sarkozy’s election campaign and;; the numerous secret meetings Tony Blair held with Gaddafi and; there must surely be more in the Pandora’s box which is why the West is in a haste to bump of Gaddafi as they did to Osama and; Saddam – all previous friends of the West.
It is certainly time that UN member states stood up against aggression by Western neo-imperialism. Member states must demand a probe into all the atrocities by NATO and;; demand that these nations steering NATO be charged with war crimes. Russia and;; China need to champion this cause.
With only 28 nations making up the NATO alliance, the UN has 53 African member nations and; 48 Middle-East and;; Asian nations and; 12 nations in South America. It is opportune for these non-NATO members to make a voice within the UN and;; demand that NATO be investigated for all of its war crimes and;; be charged for every war crime committed.
Source
- (Afghanistan ) A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words
- (Libya 1) A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words
- A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States’ Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan
- Abu Ghraib Prisoners
- Afghanistan and Iraq Military Casualties
- Devastation in Iraq
- Gaza : A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
- Images if Iraq Democracy
- Images of Iraq Falluja massacres Made by USA
- Images of Iraq War Crimes
- Iraq Freedom!!!
- Iraq USA did it in Najaf, Baghdad, Kufa 08/2004
- Iraq War Images
- Iraq: USA Terror On Al Falluja ( 7 days = 850 killed more than 1500 wounded )
- Massacre of Gaza and Lebanon
- US Air strike on Iraqi civilians Tall Afar, Falluja, Samarra, Baghdad
Now they want to go to war with Iran based on fabricated evidence.
It is time for the world to say no to more War.
Don’t believe the spoon fed garbage being fed to you by the US media. It is all a lie just lie all the other lies they have told you.
The US government and NATO Leaders will lie. They have been lieing to you all a long.
So how gullible are you?
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