----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 11:39 PM Subject: THOUSANDS PROTEST JAVIER SOLANA'S BELGRADE VISIT! > The URL for his article is http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/dem.htm > www.tenc.net > [Emperor's Clothes] > > Don't entertain him - arrest him! > Javier Solana's Belgrade Visit is an Outrage! [2-7-2001] > > Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, Jared Israel (editor, Emperor's Clothes) and Nico > Varkevisser (President, Global Reflexion) > > Today several thousand Yugoslavs of varying political beliefs passionately > protested against Javier Solana's visit to Belgrade. This protest, loud and > spirited, was held in the center of Belgrade, on Knez Milosh Street, outside > the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It represents a most important act of > defiance, held in the face of widespread violence and intimidation following > the U.S-backed coup in Belgrade, Oct. 5th. > > Javier Solana was head of NATO during and after NATO’s 78 day bombing > campaign. He was convicted of mass murder by a Yugoslav court and sentenced, > in absentia, to 20 years hard labor. The court that made that decision still > has jurisdiction under Kostunica, who insists that he stands for the rule of > law. > > Yet today Solana is in Belgrade. And the Kostunica/Djindjic regime is not > arresting him. > > Now, all the media lies that were used as a pretext to bomb Yugoslavia – from > the lies about mass graves to the lies about the phony Racak massacre - have > been refuted by NATO’s own data as well as by official organizations such as > the FBI, Europol, the OSCE, the UNHCR and Finish Forensic experts. And yet it > is now, mocking Yugoslav justice, that the new Belgrade regime, backed by > NATO and the International Monetary Fund, invites Solana to Belgrade. Not to > arrest him, but to meet with him and to celebrate, while at the same time > they are hunting down those who resisted NATO and indicting them for NATO ‘s > crimes. > > Solana is a criminal. He is guilty of: > > Crimes against humanity – Javier Solana was head of NATO when, in violation > of its charter and all international law, it launched the bombing war against > Yugoslavia, including the use of nuclear-sheathed weapons. It was Solana who > was responsible for the destruction of the homes and lives of Kosovo > residents of all nationalities. It was Solana’s NATO that has put 25 million > people in the Balkans at risk by bombing the area with low level nuclear > weapons. Solana’s NATO oversaw the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of > Yugoslavs from Kosovo after the bombing. > > Crimes against the truth - Solana was not only an organizer he was a direct > apologist for the war and the subsequent violent expulsions from Kosovo. For > example, after NATO bombed a group of returning Albanian refugees in the town > of Korisa, Solana went on TV declaring that the Serbs were at fault for the > deaths although in fact the killing was done by NATO bombs. > > > This truly insane argument was invoked recently by Carla Del Ponte of the > kangaroo-court War Crimes Tribunal, who accused Milosevich of being > responsible for the deaths of 16 people when NATO bombed Serbian television. > Following Del Ponte’s lead, the Belgrade government has threatened to indict > Dragoljub Milanovic, director of Serbian TV at that time, for the NATO > bombing. Thus the Kostunica/Djindjic government invites Javier Solana, a > convicted war criminal, to be wined and dined in Belgrade while trying to > jail Yugoslav leaders for the bombs that NATO dropped. > > Many Yugoslavs voted for Vojislav Kostunica because they saw in him a hope of > peace with justice. But where is the justice when murderers are entertained > and the innocent are accused of their crimes? Now, when the horrors of NATO’s > use of depleted uranium are coming out, it is incumbent on those who > supported this regime to join with all others in Yugoslavia and around the > world to condemn the real criminals: Solana, Clinton, Blair, Schroeder, > Chretien and all other NATO heads of state and heads of government and their > Yugoslav political puppets. > > - February 7, 2001 > > Further Reading > > 1) On NATO's carefully orchestrated campaign to turn neighbor against > neighbor before and during the bombing of Kosovo in 1999, see 'Why Albanians > Fled Kosovo During NATO Bombing' at > http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/keys.htm > > 2) On NATO's involvement in expelling hundreds of thousands from Kosovo after > the bombing, see 'Driven from Kosovo: Jewish Leader Blames NATO - > Interview With Cedda Prlincevic' at > http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/ceda.htm > > 3) On NATO's conscious effort to punish Yugoslavia by creating environmental > disasters, see 'NATO Willfully Triggered Environmental Catastrophe In > Yugoslavia' by Michel Chossudovsky at > http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/willful.htm and 'Chemical/Nuclear > Warfare in Bosnia: Eyewitness To Hell' at > http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/tika/hell.htm > > 4) On NATO's attempt to replace international law with the rule of NATO, see > 'Humanitarian War: Making the Crime Fit the Punishment' by Diana Johnstone at > http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/Johnstone/crime.htm and 'Mocking > Tradition and Practice - NATO's War & World Security' by Raju Thomas at > http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/security.htm > > 5) On the effort by distinguished Western lawyers to bring NATO to justice, > see 'Report: Meeting with Carla del Ponte on NATO Crimes of War' by Michael > Mandel at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/mandel.htm > > 6) On efforts to intimidate anti-NATO dissent in Yugoslavia, see "These > Djindjic People are Brownshirts," at > http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/djindjic.htm > > and "Report on the Dec. 23 Elections" by the British Helsinki Human Rights > Group at http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/srbele.htm > > *** > > Yugoslav Journalists' Fund > > Emperor's Clothes is trying to assist a few families of Yugoslav journalists. > These journalists are among the many journalists who have literally been > thrown out of work when thugs took over all TV and radio stations and > newspapers during and after the Oct. 5th coup. These attacks are part of the > terror in 'democratic' Serbia. We are providing some financial help; we need > to provide more. > > It's really a privilege to be able to help these brave men and women who are > trying to report 'the other side' within Yugoslavia and, through Emperor's > Clothes and other media, to the outside world. > > Meanwhile, our own operating costs have increased. (For instance, monthly > fees for the superb news media search engine Lexis have more than doubled.) > > If you can make a contribution either to our general expenses or specifically > to help the Journalists' Fund, please do. Any amount will help. To use our > secure server, please go to > http://www.emperors-clothes.com/howyour.htm#donate. (If you use the secure > server and wish your contribution to go to the Journalists' Fund, please send > us a note at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or you can mail a check to Emperor's Clothes, P.O. 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