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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 3:27 PM
Subject: Balkan Fallout From NATO Bombing
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2 P.M. Eastern Time — Tuesday, April 13, 1999
BALKAN FALLOUT FROM NATO BOMBING
VIVIAN STROMBERG, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.madre.org
Executive director of MADRE (a group which has been working with
multi-ethnic, democratic women's organizations in the Balkans since 1993),
Stromberg said: "We must move beyond a yearning for ‘good guys' in the
Yugoslav conflict and remember that behind the various political formations
and armed groups are communities of people. In Kosovo, whole towns and
villages are being burned out and butchered. In Serbia, people are being
terrorized by NATO bombing... Both must stop; instead, the United Nations
must do its job."
MICHAEL SIMMONS, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.afsc.org
Director of European Programs for the American Friends Service Committee,
which has been involved in relief efforts in the Balkans for six years,
Simmons said: "NATO has been very insensitive to how disastrous the
accelerated ‘ethnic cleansing' has been for already-weak Albania and
Macedonia. Albania is extremely poor and has been unstable with a fragile
democracy that barely has control over the entire country. Macedonia already
has internal ethnic conflict between the Slavic Macedonian majority and the
Albanian minority. This has the potential to do in the Balkans what the
Vietnam War did to Southeast Asia. It could spill over into Albania and
Macedonia. The KLA is going to be recruiting in the refugee camps. The camps
will become more politicized and will be seen as legitimate targets by the
Yugoslavian military... The per capita effect of the hundreds of thousands
of Kosovar refugees flooding across their borders is the equivalent of
something like 15 million refugees suddenly entering the United States. AFSC
will continue to give aid to citizens of all of Serbia, not just the ethnic
Albanians."
ZOLTAN GROSSMAN, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grossman, a geographer at the University of Wisconsin, said: "NATO claims
the bombing of Yugoslavia is a ‘humanitarian intervention' to prevent the
ethnic cleansing, but the bombing and the ethnic cleansing actually feed off
of each other. NATO claims that it favors a multi-ethnic future for Kosovo
and the rest of the Balkans -- yet a 1995 offensive by the Croatian army
ethnically cleansed at least 100,000 Serbs from the Krajina region.
Washington not only failed to object to that violent ethnic cleansing but
actually helped facilitate it. Some of those expelled Serbs resettled in
Kosovo, exacerbating the ethnic tensions that have now erupted into war. In
the Dayton Accords, the U.S. continued to undermine the prospects for
multi-ethnic cooperation in Bosnia. Now we are told that the NATO bombers
are attacking Milosevic and ‘the Serbs.' Yet bombs have fallen on neutral
Montenegro, the ethnically Hungarian northern region of Vojvodina in
Yugoslavia and Serbian democratic opposition cities such as Nis. The war may
yet result in the ethnic partition of what remains of Yugoslavia into two or
three countries."
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
