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Ads by Google      Encyclopedia4U - NATO bombing campaign in Yugoslavia - Encyclopedia Article NATO's supporters also point out that the bombing campaign was largely responsible for the removal of Slobodan Milosevic 's regime, and his subsequent war crimes trial. NATO and the international community have a legitimate interest in developments in Kosovo, inter alia because of their impact on the stability of the whole region which is of concern to the Alliance. Critics of this theory argue that the purpose of Article 5 is to require all NATO members to respond when any NATO member is attacked, not to restrict the circumstances under which NATO will choose to use force. http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/n/nato-bombing-campaign-in-yugoslavia.html      Legitimacy of NATO bombing of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia NATO's supporters also point out that the bombing campaign was largely responsible for the removal of Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević's regime, and his subsequent war crimes trial. NATO and the international community have a legitimate interest in developments in Kosovo, inter alia because of their impact on the stability of the whole region which is of concern to the Alliance. It has been argued that NATO's actions were in violation the charter of NATO itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_campaign_in_Yugoslavia   (1735 words)      Timeline: NATO in Yugoslavia NATO claims the victims were being used by Serb troops as human shields. More than 80 ethnic Albanians are killed and at least 100 are injured, by Yugoslav count, when NATO bombs a village believed to have been a Serb military post. Yugoslavia and Western nations sign a formal agreement calling for the withdrawal of Serb troops from Kosovo and a subsequent halting of NATO's air campaign. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/kosovo-timeline1.html   (1735 words)      The Jackson Progressive: Yugoslovia As the report emerge out of Yugoslavia, it is appearing more and more that NATO's war against the Serbian people has caused a humanitarian and ecological disaster of truly "catastrophic" dimensions, which will cause untold suffering and misery for both Serbs and Kosovars for many years to come. You will also know that Yugoslavia made reasonable counterproposals, which were not only ignored by NATO, but were suppressed by our own media, including the Washington Post and the New York Times. On the other hand, The Guardian managed to put in a little disinformation to justify the bombing: "NATO's intervention against Yugoslavia was prompted by massive Serb offensives against Albanian villages in Kosovo, which caused hundreds of thousands of civilians to hide in forests or flee across the border. http://www.jacksonprogressive.com/issues/kosovo/kosovomain.html   (1735 words)      [No title] But NATO's bombing intensified the hatred, and the violence on the ground. Even those previously strongly opposed to Milosevic's government now say they have no choice but to support him against NATO. By bombing, NATO is fanning the flames of violence, inhumanity and hatred. http://members.lycos.co.uk/STOPNATO/outline.htm   (1735 words)      British parliamentary committee admits NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was illegal The report further acknowledges that NATO's bombing campaign dramatically worsened the situation facing Kosovar Albanians, turning what had been until then an "anti-insurgency campaign" by the Milosevic regime against the KLA into a "mass, organised campaign to kill Kosovo Albanians or drive them from the country”. When asked whether the FSC report could lead to a prosecution of NATO by Yugoslavia in international courts, a government spokesperson said The Hague ruling prevented this. NATO's humanitarian pretensions, already discredited by its bombardment of Yugoslav cities and targeting of civilian infrastructure, have been further undermined by events in Kosovo since NATO's military occupation of the Yugoslav province began one year ago. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jun2000/kos1-j14.shtml   (1735 words)      Bombing AIMA bombing The AIMA bombing (AMIA in spanish) was a terrorist attack on the AIMA 1994 and destroyed the 7 story buildi... AMIA bombing The AMIA bombing was a terrorist attack on the AMIA 1994 and destroyed the 7 story building killing 85 peop... Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot The Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot was a plan to blow up a terrorist group. http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/bombing.html   (846 words)      Balkans: No to NATO Expansion NATO in the Balkans; Voices of Opposition -- Sponsor this revealing book that exposes the media myths about the Balkan NEITHER ORDER NOR PEACE/ What NATO brought to the Balkans --Tens of thousands protest NATO in Belgrade NATO's 'trial' of President Slobodan Milosevic to begin Feb.12, 2002, in The Hague. http://www.iacenter.org/bosnia/balkans.htm   (846 words)      Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia NATO believed that Yugoslav broadcast facilities were "used entirely to incite hatred and propaganda" and alleged that the Yugoslav government had put all private TV and radio stations in Serbia under military control (NATO press conferences of 28 and 30 April1999). On 14 May 99 the then Prosecutor established a committee to assess the allegations and material accompanying them, and advise the Prosecutor and Deputy Prosecutor whether or not there is a sufficient basis to proceed with an investigation into some or all the allegations or into other incidents related to the NATO bombing. Allegations concerning the "zero casualty" war involve suggestions that, for example, NATO aircraft operated at heights which enabled them to avoid attack by Yugoslav defences and, consequently, made it impossible for them to properly distinguish between military or civilian objects on the ground. http://www.un.org/icty/pressreal/nato061300.htm   (846 words)      Legitimacy of NATO bombing of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia NATO's supporters also point out that the bombing campaign was largely responsible for the removal of Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević's regime, and his subsequent war crimes trial. NATO and the international community have a legitimate interest in developments in Kosovo, inter alia because of their impact on the stability of the whole region which is of concern to the Alliance. It has been argued that NATO's actions were in violation the charter of NATO itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_campaign_in_Yugoslavia   (1726 words)      A Personal Look at the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia concentrated and focused this resolve, with the Internet being particularly useful in bringing together people and truthful information. To sift through all the reported instances to determine the desired results of the NATO criminal assault, the reader can gain assistance by considering the motives of the parties and individuals involved. NATO's aggression coincided with a major development in our world; the advance of the Internet. http://www.balkanpeace.org/rs/archive/april00/rs19.shtml   (1726 words)      UN prosecutor to review Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia The chief prosecutor at the UN war crimes tribunal, Carla del Ponte, will visit Nato next week when she is expected to discuss allegations that the alliance violated international law during its bombing of Yugoslavia, her spokesman said yesterday. Her staff are studying a dossier of claims made by an international group of lawyers, though she recently insisted that no formal investigation of Nato’s actions was under way. UN prosecutor to review Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia http://www.agitprop.org.au/stopnato/20000114pontguuk.htm   (1726 words)      CNN - NATO: Bombing of Yugoslavia could end by Sunday - June 4, 1999 BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- If Yugoslavia follows through on a promise to pull its police and army troops out of Kosovo, NATO's bombing campaign could come to an end as early as Sunday, officials said Friday. A top Yugoslav government official said generals were already talking with NATO and that the troop withdrawal could begin by Sunday. NATO: Bombing of Yugoslavia could end by Sunday http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9906/04/kosovo.peace.03   (1726 words)      Rights Group Says NATO Bombing in Yugoslavia Violated Law Of the 500 or so Yugoslav civilians killed in Serbia and Kosovo by NATO bombs, half died because of NATO violations of laws and practices on protecting civilians, said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, in a telephone interview from New York. Amnesty also condemned a NATO attack on a bridge at Varvarin on May 30, 1999, in which at least nine people died. "NATO forces failed to suspend their attack after it was evident that they had struck civilians," the report said, and it criticized NATO for ordering its pilots to fly so high that they could not take proper precautions against bombing civilians. http://www.balkanpeace.com/lan/lan04.shtml   (1726 words)      U.N. prosecutor investigating NATO's conduct in Yugoslavia bombing campaign The NATO alliance launched the bombing campaign in March to force Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to halt his crackdown against ethnic Albanians in the rebellious southern province of Kosovo. NATO spokesman Jamie Shea refused to comment on the investigation, saying the organization hasn’t been formally notified of it. Pursuing NATO’s conduct would go far in dispelling the belief — prevalent in the Balkans — that the tribunal is a tool used cynically by Western leaders to escape accountability. http://www.agitprop.org.au/stopnato/19991229crimapus.htm   (524 words)      Hillary_Clinton_Forum_80 NATO will attack any European country whose leader violates the "human rights" of his people. The problem is that NATO's new "human rights" policy ignores the Kurdish ethnic cleansing allegations leveled against Turkey, a NATO member. Since March 24, the 13-member NATO, led by the U.S., has mobilized 1,000 planes, carried out over 6,000 sorties, delivered several thousand missiles and bombs, including cruise missiles, and even employed cluster- and slow-activating bombs that are banned under international law. http://www.hillary.org/hc/Hillary_Clinton_Forum_80_chat1.cgi   (524 words)      Stop the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia We are disappointed that the German Greens have not come out with an official and forthright statement calling for an end to NATO's military intervention in Yugoslavia, although we know many German Green Party members oppose the bombing. But in 1990, as the Warsaw Pact countries disintegrated, Yugoslavia was one of the last European holdouts against the neoliberal global order that the US and NATO sought to impose. NATO’s intervention is the way US-led NATO imperialism intends to complete the dismemberment of the former multinational confederation that was Yugoslavia and transform it into a collection of easily dominated ethnic mini-states that are nothing more than NATO protectorates. http://www.zmag.org/zmag/greens.htm   (524 words)       NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, critique NATO’s determination to make the Rambouillet negotiations fail Control and exploitation of Kosovo- NATO, globalisation’s army - Yugoslavia for sale APPENDIX 5 - The UN is dead - The New NATO Treaty http://www.justiceyugoslavia.org/nato_on_trial.htm   (524 words)      CNN.com - Serbs remember NATO bombing - March 24, 2002 NATO launched the 78-day bombing campaign to end Serb repression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. The demonstrators denounced NATO and waved placards condemning the United Nations war crimes tribunal trying Milosevic in The Hague on genocide charges. The air war forced Milosevic to pull Serb forces out of the province, which is now a protectorate of NATO and the UN. http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/03/24/yugo.rally   (335 words)      Nato admits air campaign failed Nato believes that the bombing in the latter weeks of Operation Allied Force against bridges, factories and other civilian targets was more effective but it could have been much more so had it been done earlier. The main finding of the Nato inquiry is that despite the thousands of bombing sorties, they failed to damage the Yugoslav field army tactically in Kosovo while the strategic bombing of targets such as bridges and factories was poorly planned and executed. This is the gloomy assessment of a private, preliminary review by Nato experts of the alliance's 78-day Operation Allied Force bombing campaign against Yugoslavia over Kosovo. http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/07/22/wkos22.html   (1112 words)      From "peacekeeper" to war hawk--Canada and NATO's war on Serbia In supporting the NATO action against Yugoslavia both the governing Liberals and the social democrats of the New Democratic Party are taking a position radically at odds with their stand on the 1991 Gulf War This myth has been integral to the government and press propaganda in support of Canadian participation in the NATO war on Serbia. Yet the NDP endorsed the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia from day one, and Svend Robinson, the NDP foreign affairs critic and the standard bearer of the party's left wing, was soon urging that the military campaign be extended to ground troops. http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/apr1999/can-a30.shtml   (1496 words)      Embassy Bombing May Complicate U.N. Support for Peacekeepers Another senior official said he believed that whether or not NATO proved to be responsible for the attack, the Chinese were not likely to veto an international peacekeeping force. China, which has a veto in the United Nations Security Council, has steadfastly opposed the NATO bombing campaign in Yugoslavia and has made clear its suspicion about the motives of the Western alliance. Administration officials insisted tonight that they had no confirmation that NATO was responsible for the bombing of the Chinese Embassy. http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/050899kosovo-china-us.html   (943 words)      The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. In 1949, neutrality was abandoned and Norway became a member of NATO. The country was a founding member of NATO and the EC, and participated in the introduction of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999. http://www.brainyatlas.com/fields/2028.html   (15472 words)      Did NATO Bombing Set Stage for New Balkan Troubles? Commentators and analysts say NATO should now be trying to arrest the violence by cracking down harder politically and militarily on ethnic Albanian hardliners in Kosovo. But questions about the precedent set by the bombing and the way Kosovo has been run by NATO and the UN since the end of the air war in June 1999 are increasingly common in the West. But many also believe NATO, particularly with a new U.S. administration unhappy about long-term military commitment to the Balkans, lacks the stomach for a fight which could be much messier than the relative safety of the bombing campaign. http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/mar01/hed2889.shtml   (850 words)      Washington march protests NATO bombing of Yugoslavia The demonstration was called by a number of peace, anti-war and Serbian-American groups several weeks ago, but took place one day after the announcement of the agreement by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to bow to NATO's terms for calling off the bombing. Mila Lazarevich-Nolan, representing United Serbs of America, branded the US-NATO military action a “war of deception, like Vietnam.” She said that the Clinton administration was seeking to “dismember a sovereign country in order to establish an American hegemony in the Balkans.” Its goal was not peace, but capitulation. Clark was particularly critical of the 1995 Dayton Accords in Bosnia, which he said imposed an ethnic segregation worse than Jim Crow or apartheid, dividing the country into Serb, Croat and Muslim enclaves that were completely separated. http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jun1999/wash-j09.shtml   (850 words)      NO U.S./NATO BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA! The same governments that constitute NATO imperialism are the ones that have funneled arms and funds to the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army and before them, ultra-right wing forces who initiated the civil war in Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia. on Wednesday, March 24 to protest the illegal bombing of Yugoslavia by U.S./NATO forces and the proposed occupation. "What makes the U.S. government propaganda more absurd is that it claims that it must bomb Yugoslavia to defend the rights of a national minority people_the Albanians in Kosovo. http://www.iacenter.org/yugo324.htm   (850 words)      British parliamentary committee admits NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was illegal The report further acknowledges that NATO's bombing campaign dramatically worsened the situation facing Kosovar Albanians, turning what had been until then an "anti-insurgency campaign" by the Milosevic regime against the KLA into a "mass, organised campaign to kill Kosovo Albanians or drive them from the country”. The FSC document further admits that many of the pretexts which NATO used to justify its military action were false. By apparently responding to, and in some cases even accepting, the validity of criticisms made of NATO's actions, the FSC report hopes to rescue the credibility of the Blair government and its allies. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jun2000/kos1-j14.shtml   (1014 words)      Disgust in Canada By Alexander Chancellor The NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia was declared "a disaster" Wednesday in Toronto's Globe and Mail, which could not have condemned it more severely. Even if NATO has reasons for attacking Yugoslavia, the fact that one of them is to end the slaughter of Kosovar Muslims is a good enough reason for Arabs to support it. Gilgorov called for NATO humanitarian aid for the Kosovar refugees pouring into his country and said the Russians were the only people in a position to influence Milosevic. http://www.slate.com/id/22871   (924 words)      The Condescension of the Christian West This omission reinforced a sense that NATO views the Orthodox Christian East as a politically and economically backward redoubt—the source of European instability—rather than a new democratic partner to be enlisted in the shaping of a post–Communist order in which ethnic hatreds have no place. Although NATO has within its ranks one state with a predominantly Orthodox populace (Greece) and one that is predominantly Islamic (Turkey), it is dominated by countries with mostly Protestant and Catholic populations. This near–unanimous condemnation of the NATO bombing goes well beyond the traditional calls for peace and reconciliation that we expect of religious leaders. http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9908/opinion/karatnycky.html   (1816 words)      New world order, by Ignacio Ramonet According to the American political commentator William Pfaff, there is no doubt that Nato was maintained because it gives the US political influence in Europe and blocks the development of a European strategic system to rival that of the US (7). The balance of forces between Nato and Yugoslavia is so unequal that it is improper to speak of war at all. Nato’s strategy was such that Yugoslavia could not fight back because the enemy was always beyond its reach. http://mondediplo.com/1999/06/01ramonet   (2866 words)

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