>From Janet M Eaton, PhD:
Dear All:
Further to my post of Wednesday May 24th entitled "Adrienne
Clarkson Honoring Gen Wesley Clark?? + [WILPF letter]" - I forward
three more letters of concern to the Governor General of Canada
appealing to her to reconsider her decision to award the Canadian
Meritorious Service Cross to U.S. Army NATO General Wesley Clark!!!
The following E-mail contains
1] My May 24th E-Mail with TASC protest communique + letter from
Bruna Nota, International President, Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom's to the Governor General.
2] Communique from GG's office re official announcement + copy of
a letter to the Governor General - from Daniel Harran, Nova Scotia
peace activist and member of the NS Network for Creative Change.
3] Letter with comprehensive rationale against the decision to
the Governor General of Canada from Snezana Vitorovich, President
of The Association of Serbian Women associated with the Serbian
Heritage Society (SHS) Ottawa
4] Letter of concern to the Governor General from
Jan Slakov, Nova Scotian activist and Secretary for the
Voice of Women in Canada.
If you wish to add your voice of concern
Write to the Governor General,
No postage is necessary. Address the letter to:
Her Excellency the Right Honourable AdrienneClarkson
Governor General of Canada
Rideau Hall
1 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A1
Begin the letter Your Excellency.
Phone her office: The number is toll-free anywhere in Canada:
1-800-465-6890 In Ottawa: (613) 993-9530
Send a fax: (613) 998-1664
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For Your Information,
janet
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Adrienne Clarkson Honoring Gen Wesley Clark?? +
[WILPF letter]
Copies to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], @PEACE.PML
Date sent: Wed, 24 May 2000
02:20:53
The need to write the Governor General of Canada to disuede her from
awarding General Wesley Clark with Canada's Meritorious Service Cross
seems all the more evident given the May 22nd article in the Globe
and Mail [A13]entitled "Lessons of Kosovo -No More bunker Mentality "
written by the Director of the Centre of Strategic Research in
Moscow-Andrei Piontkovsky who concludes:
"NATO's new strategy, adopted at its 50th anniversary session in
Washington, and providing for "humanitarian intervention" beyond the
scope of its charter, proved stillborn. Kosovo was the first and last
test of its viability. This is the main lesson of the Kosovo conflict.
NATO's military experts know this, but prefer not to talk about it
aloud."
And as Canadian Bruna Nota the International President of
WILPF-Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
writes so wisely in her letter , included herein, to Her Excellency,
the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada
" The likely illegality -both in respect to national and
international law, of Canada's participation in the war, the large use
in the war of depleted uranium coated munitions, the loss of large
number of civilian lives, the almost indiscriminate destruction of
civilian infrastructures, the ecological depredation caused. are but
a few of the consequences of this assault against a sovereign country.
The whole premise and the justifications that were given about the
'impelling reasons' to suppress all safeguards our civilisation has
put in place before going to war, are being more and more credibly
debunked as lies."
I too will be adding my voice of concern to what is
hopefully only a rumour.
All the best,
janet
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Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 20:18:38 +0530
From: TASC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adrienne Clarkson and the War Criminal
Why is Adrienne Clarkson Honouring a War Criminal?
Canada's Governor-General announced on May 19 that she will be
awarding war criminal General Wesley Clark, who commanded the NATO
slaughter during the war over Kosovo in 1999, with Canada's
Meritorious Service Cross.
Clark is responsible for ordering the thousands of air strikes which
destroyed hospitals, daycares, apartment buildings, bridges,
hydroelectric facilities, water purification systems, and all manner
of civilian infrastructure over the former Yugoslvia.
The bombing resulted in thousands of civilian deaths, despoiling of
the environment with depleted-uranium coated munitions (in essence,
fighting a nuclear war), and violated a wide range of international
laws. Far from bringing peace to the region, the bombing only made the
problems there worse.
By awarding Clark with a medal, Clarkson is applauding terror from the
skies, the fighting of nuclear wars against civilians, and the idea
that war is worthy of applause.
To protest this decision:
Write to the Governor General, No postage is necessary. Address the
letter to: Adrienne Clarkson Governor General of Canada Rideau Hall 1
Sussex Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A1
Phone her office: The number is toll-free anywhere in Canada:
1-800-465-6890
In Ottawa: (613) 993-9530
Send a fax: (613) 998-1664
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 11:45:17 -0400
From: Bruna Nota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Awarding merit when so many questions are open????
2000-05-23
Her Excellency
the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson
Governor General of Canada
Rideau Hall, 1 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario - K1A 0A1
It is with great consternation that I learned the announcement that
Your Excellency is planning to award Canada's Meritorious Service
Cross to General Wesley Clark, who commanded the NATO forces during
the war over Kosovo in 1999.
This announcement is made in the face of the increasing number of
ethical and legal questions that are being asked about the NATO war
against Yugoslavia.
The likely illegality -both in respect to national and international
law, of Canada's participation in the war, the large use in the war of
depleted uranium coated munitions, the loss of large number of
civilian lives, the almost indiscriminate destruction of civilian
infrastructures, the ecological depredation caused. are but a few of
the consequences of this assault against a sovereign country. The
whole premise and the justifications that were given about the
'impelling reasons' to suppress all safeguards our civilisation has
put in place before going to war, are being more and more credibly
debunked as lies.
Please revise this decision! Do not add insult to the very injurious
decisions our Government and the military have made in entering this
disastrous war!
I would like to invite you to consider instead awarding, maybe
instituting awards for people who are working to create conditions in
which war becomes as unacceptable to future generations as slavery is
to ours.
I look forward to the announcement from Rideau Hall that this was
nothing but a rumor and that infact you are disapproving of the
illegal use of Canadian military forces in this war.
Thank you for your attention and action,
Yours sincerely,
Bruna Nota
International President
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Celebrating WILPF's 85th anniversary!
If you want peace, live peace and prepare for peace"
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Date sent: Thu, 25 May 2000 16:46:37 -0300 (ADT)
From: Daniel Haran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Janet M.Eaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Clark's meritorious service...
Here's what the governor generals' office (Chancellery, to be exact)
faxed me:
General Wesley Clark, M.S.C., Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
United States Army
Meritorious Service Cross (Military Division)
Commander-in-chief of the United States European Command, Gen Clark
was Supreme Allied Commander Europe from July, 1997 to May, 2000. In
command of Canadian Forces personnel in the Balkan Theatre, Gen Clark
exhibited the higest standard of professional dedication in Operations
Allied Force, Joint Guardian, Joint Force and Allied Harbour. Gen
Clark's leadership covered not only the command of forces at sea, in
the field and in the air, but over Canadians in NATO Headquarters
staffs and discussions with National Authority in Ottawa. His
indefatiguable efforts contributed greatly to bringing a successful
end to the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo and to the ongoing peace
process in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Here's the letter I sent in response. Peace, d.
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May 25, 2000
ORIGINAL TO FOLLOW FAX
Mary Percy
Director of Honors
The Chancellery
Government House
1 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A1
Dear Mary Percy,
It is with great sadness that I learned of Wesley Clark's upcoming
decoration with the Meritorious Service Cross, military division. I
ask that you kindly forward this letter to the governor-general and
other appropriate parties, including those that have nominated Mr.
Clark. I am also forwarding a copy to my Member of Parliament.
Let me comment on a description of Mr. Clark's service, which I
received from your office. To say that he "exhibited the highest
standard of professional dedication" is simply untrue. As I understand
them, Nuremberg principles required Clark to disobey orders that
violated international law, such as bombing hospitals and water
purification systems.
The same document concludes by claiming Clark's "efforts contributed
greatly to a successful end to the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo."
This is a re-writing of the historical record: until OSCE monitors
were called out of the region casualties were low, around 2,000 people
in the preceding year. NATO in fact precipitated a humanitarian crisis
where there previously was only civil war; and by any measure the
crisis has not yet completely ended, with many non-Albanian Kosovars
forced out of their homes.
Perhaps you now understand my sadness. Truth has been compromised for
martial values. A country that once was cheered as a peacekeeper is
earning a reputation for subservience to American militarism.
Since no date was announced for General Clark's decoration, I suggest
that it be postponed indefinitely.
Sincerely,
Daniel Haran
cc:
Alexa McDonough, MP
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The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson
Toronto, May 23, 2000
Governor General of Canada
Rideau Hall
1 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A1
Your Excellency,
The decision to award the Canadian Meritorious Service Cross to U.S.
Army General Wesley Clark warrants an outcry from all Canadians. The
man to whom you will be awarding one of Canada's highest honours is
considered to be a war criminal by tens of thousands of Canadian
citizens, not to mention the millions of citizens in Yugoslavia that
U.S. General Clark terrorized with 78 days of merciless and relentless
bombing that surpassed any dropped by Hitler during World War II.
General Clark directed NATO's illegal and immoral military air
campaign against a sovereign nation which killed over 2,000 innocent
civilians. Among these were Bojana Tosovic, 11months, along with her
father, killed on 11 April 1999 at their home in Podujevo (Kosovo).
Six days later, they killed Milica Rakic, 3 , while this girl was
having a bath at her home in Batajnica.
On May 27, they killed Dejana Pavlovic, 4, and her brother, Stefan,
at
their home in Ralja. Overall, General Clark's "heroes" murdered 78
children and infants, one for each day of NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia
. How many are maimed and how many more will be killed and maimed by
the cluster bombs left behind?
On April 12, 1999, two Canadian pilots under Gen. Clark's command
attacked a passenger train on the Grdelica bridge, killing at least
14 innocent civilians, and injuring scores of others. Furthermore
NATO bombs destroyed civilian infrastructure, and bombed churches,
monasteries, schools, hospitals and a radio/tv station. Even
orphanages and mental institutions were not spared. Furthermore,
effects from depleted uranium has poisoned and rendered the soil
unfit to produce food for people to eat for generations. If the
intention of General Clark was to starve the Serbian people into
submission, he could not have used a more lethal and effective
weapon.
The entire NATO campaign against ALL the people of Kosovo & Metohija,
and the rest of Yugoslavia was based on the preposterous guise of
"humanitarianism" [bombing for peace?!] and now all the people of the
region are far worse off for this senseless aggression on a sovereign
state.
All this destruction of a sovereign nation was under the direct orders
of U.S. General Clark and was justified on the pretext that there were
mass graves and charges of genocide. Both charges have been proven to
be false. But more importantly, the decision to justify the bombing
was solely based upon an alleged secret Serb plan called "Operation
Horseshoe," a plan to ethnically cleanse all of Kosovo Albanians well
before the NATO bombing campaign. The German daily Frankfurter
Rundshau proved that this plan was a forgery concocted by Bulgarian
and German secret services.
The question then remains, why DID Canada go along with the United
States to bomb Yugoslavia if none of the above is true? And what has
Canada been an accomplice to?
The war in Kosovo is a total disaster. Chaos reigns. The Kosovo
Liberation Army with whom Canada has allied itself were armed and
trained in Osama bin Laden's terrorists camps . They are engaged in
prostitution , murder, kidnaping, sex slavery and drugs. Over 100
Serbian churches have been destroyed since KFOR entered Kosovo,
350.000 non Albanians were ethnically cleansed, the majority of them
Serbs .The remaining Serbs live in ghettos and in constant fear for
their lives.
On May 7, 1999, a group of international jurists laid a formal
complaint with the International Criminal Tribune against all of the
individual leaders of the NATO countries and officials of NATO itself
and charged them with war crimes. The complaint recognizes the
"planning, preparation, initiation or waging a war of aggression by
the use of armed forces against a sovereign, territorial integrity or
political independence of another state" as Acts Constituting Crimes
Against the Peace and Security of mankind" (UN GA Resolution 94(I),
1946). The name of U.S. General Wesley Clark is on the list of the
people who has been charged.
This proposed award appears to be the most banal kind of currying
favors of the powerful neighbour to the South. It would not do you
credit! Please, do not follow the example of Louise Arbour. She has
lost respect of many by acting as a NATO obedient servant. We expect
more from you. It would be nothing short of a shame to give away your
power now.
We expect that you will stand against NATO injustice and will refuse
to be their pawn and the ceremonial presenter of this most
respected award to a war criminal.
Your Excellency, honouring General Clark would be an insult to
Canada's Meritorious Service Cross and a betrayal of the brave men and
women who have been honored by receiving this prestigious award. We
ask you that you not do this.
Sincerely yours,
Snezana Vitorovich,
President, Association of Serbian Women
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from: Jan Slakov
Box 35, Weymouth, NS B0W 3T0
(902) 837-4980
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
to:
Her Excellency
the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson
Governor General of Canada
Your Excellency,
I recently learned that you are scheduled to award General Wesley
Clark, who commanded the disgusting bombing of Yugoslavia, with
Canada's Meritorious Service Cross.
Perhaps you know that there are many people, not just in Canada, but
in many other countries as well, who consider those responsible for
that bombardment to be war criminals. We feel if you give this award
to General Clark, you will be applauding criminal activity.
You must be aware of the fact that the Yugoslavia bombing killed many
civilians and destroyed much civilian infrastructure such as bridges,
daycares, water purification systems, hospitals, churches, etc. You
must also know that cluster bombs (which behave similarly to land
mines) and depleted uranium munitions (which cause widespread
contamination of land and people and future generations) were used.
You may not know that the bombing violated the UN Charter and NATO's
charter as well. Our government seems bent on undermining
international law (as the NGO Veterans Against Nuclear Arms has ably
documented).
It will take courageous actions from people of all walks of life to
build a true culture of peace in Canada and the world.
I hope you will be among the courageous people who refuse to go along
with crimes such as those committed by our government with the Kosovo
war.
I would very much appreciate a reply informing me of whether or not
you will actually present an award to General Clark.
Sincerely,
Jan Slakov
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