SENTENCES ON NATO LEADERS FOR YUGO BOMBING A "LEGAL FARCE" -MINISTER

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>>Subject: Sentences on NATO Leaders for Yugo Bombing a "Legal Farce" - Minister
>>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:29:24 -0500
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>>      Well what do we expect from the glorious new "democratic" government?
>>Karen T.
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>>Agence France-Presse
>>January 29, 2001
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>>SENTENCES ON NATO LEADERS FOR YUGO BOMBING A "LEGAL FARCE" - MINISTER
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>>   BELGRADE, Jan 29 (AFP) - Twenty-year jail sentences imposed on
>>14 western leaders for war crimes during the 1999 NATO bombing
>>campaign against Yugoslavia were a "legal farce" and should be
>>revised, Serbia's new justice minister said Monday.
>>   Vladan Batic described the trial held in Belgrade last September
>>during the rule of president Slobodan Milosevic, as a "nonsense,
>>legal farce and a comedy unprecedented in a modern justice system."
>>   He told reporters that the sentences were "subject to revision,"
>>adding that the government would make a decision.  He did not
>>elaborate. 
>>   In September last year a Belgrade court sentenced in absentia 14
>>NATO leaders, among them former US President Bill Clinton, French
>>President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, to
>>20 years' jail each for war crimes committed during the bombing
>>campaign against Yugoslavia.
>>   Arrest warrants were also issued for the 14, who included Javier
>>Solana, NATO Secretary-General at the time.
>>   Solana, who is now the European Union's foreign policy chief, is
>>scheduled to visit Belgrade on February 8, along with the current,
>>past and future EU presidents, to reaffirm EU support for the
>>democrats now in control in Yugoslavia.
>>   French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine was also among the 14 who
>>were all supposed to be detained upon arrest.
>>   But he has already visited Belgrade without incident since the
>>popular uprising last October which ousted Milosevic and brought
>>President Vojislav Kostunica to power.
>>   The western leaders were charged with "inciting an aggressive
>>war, war crimes against the civilian population, use of banned
>>combat methods," the attempted murder of Milosevic and the violation
>>of the country's territorial integrity.
>>   Yugoslavia, backed by human rights organizations, has regularly
>>accused NATO of committing war crimes by targeting civilians during
>>the bombing campaign.
>>   But the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
>>Yugoslavia last June exonerated NATO, saying the organization had
>>not violated international law in the campaign.
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