In light of the recent KFOR 'news' announcements that the Kosovo death
toll is climbing .... maybe some sanity can be found below.
NATO and the UN lied through their teeth to get the west into the war.
In WWI - it was Germans eating babies.
In WWII - it was Germans eating babies again.
In Desert Storm - it was Iraqis microwaving babies and mass raping some
girl
In Yugoslavia it was 'mass killings' and ethnic cleansing.
All ended up proven lies, lies used to get emotional/public support
behind the war effort.
Remember the next time, truth is the first casualty of war.
Duncan
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Aug. 31, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
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It was all a lie
NATO ADMITS YUGOSLAVS CARRIED OUT NO MASS KILLINGS IN KOSOVO
By John Catalinotto
On Aug. 17 NATO officials conceded that the figures they released in
1999, allegedly a count of the people killed by Yugoslav forces in
Kosovo, were much higher than the actual number of people killed there.
Findings by forensic teams from the International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia in the Hague forced NATO's admission. The ICTY
exhumed 3,000 bodies and examined them.
While they have not yet released a report, ICTY spokespeople said that at
most 3,000 people were killed. They said there was no evidence of
mutilations. And they said that not all the dead can be proved to be
victims of murder or execution.
Last year NATO had charged that Yugoslav forces massacred at least 10,000
people. NATO spokespeople implied that 500,000 supposedly "missing"
people also had been killed.
They used these claims to justify NATO bombings that had no basis in
United Nations treaties or NATO's own charter.
NATO has now been forced to admit in effect that it waged a lying
propaganda war to win support for its own illegal intervention that
killed over 3,000 Yugoslavs, about one-third of them children.
Washington and NATO have no hard evidence that Yugoslav forces carried
out even a small-scale massacre of civilians, let alone the "genocide"
they were charged with.
The ICTY�itself created and funded by the NATO powers�has exposed this
"Big Lie" of NATO's.
According to a report in the Aug. 18 British Guardian, Mark Laity, the
acting NATO spokesperson, said: "NATO never said the missing were all
dead. The figure we stood by was 10,000." Laity even tried to claim
that NATO's intervention stopped further killing.
The truth is that since NATO occupied Kosovo, right-wing Albanian forces
have killed some 1,000 people, mostly Serb and Romani, while pushing all
non-Albanian peoples out of the region.
NATO FORCES LIE AGAIN ABOUT TREPCA
While this exposure of NATO's lies came too late to stop last year's
bombing, it should be kept in mind by anyone evaluating NATO leaders'
current statements regarding Yugoslavia.
On Aug. 14, French and British forces occupying the Serbian province of
Kosovo and Metohija seized the smelter at the Trepca mines near Kosovo
Mitrovica. These are the richest nickel and lead mines in Europe.
Corporate forces in the United States, Britain and France want these
mines in their hands and not in the hands of the Yugoslav government.
This time the excuse for the action was that the smelter was "polluting"
the environment. Compared to the pollution caused by NATO's deliberate
bombing of Pancevo and other Yugoslav chemical complexes, not to mention
the use of radioactive depleted uranium weapons, this pollution is minor.
In any case, Yugoslav authorities reported that steps had already been
taken to reduce the smelter's pollution.
The United States, Britain and France�the major NATO powers�are again
using a lie to justify an unwarranted and illegal seizure of Yugoslav
property, just as they lied to justify the war in the first place.
The NATO powers and Washington in particular have been attempting to
intervene in the Yugoslav election scheduled for Sept. 24. They have set
up an office in Budapest, Hungary, to deliver funds to parties in
Yugoslavia that oppose the current elected president, Slobodan Milosevic.
Seizing the Trepca smelter must be seen as part of this election
strategy. By taking this step before the election, NATO hopes to put the
blame for the "loss of Trepca" on Milosevic rather than on his opposition.
This strategy was spelled out last fall in a study prepared by a think
tank funded by multi-billionaire George Soros. The report suggested that
NATO use the excuse of pollution to seize the Trepca mines, and to do it
before the election.
Besides trying to undermine the Yugoslav government by meddling in the
national election, NATO forces have been supporting a pro-Western
leadership in Montenegro, the republic that with Serbia makes up
present-day Yugoslavia. British officers have been training the
Montenegrin police to combat the Yugoslav Army.
This was underlined when Yugoslav forces caught two British officers who
were doing this training, along with two Canadians who had equipment that
could be used for setting explosives. Whatever the outcome of the
hearing over charges that these four were conducting terrorism, the case
has made it clear that British imperialism is trying to help pro-Western
political groups split Montenegro from Yugoslavia.
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