>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 11:20:55 -0500 >X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >RAMSEY CLARK CALLS FOR INQUIRY INTO >U.S. INTERVENTION IN YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS > >Responding to open and extensive intervention in Yugoslavia�s election >last week, former Attorney General Ramsey called Sept. 30 for a >Commission of Inquiry to investigate U.S. manipulation of elections and >other interference in the internal affairs of sovereign countries. > >U.S. and European Union involvement in Yugoslavia�s democratic elections >has taken the form of military pressure--with NATO naval maneuvers in >the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas and threats of resumed >bombings--economic pressure that a 9-year-long embargo would be >relieved only if the vote went against President Slobodan Milosevic, >and direct financing of organizations and parties that oppose the >Milosevic-lead coalition. > >Clark, the founder of the International Action Center, was a leader of >the antiwar struggle against the 78-day U.S.-NATO bombing of Yugoslavia >last year and has played a major role to end sanctions against Iraq and >Cuba, as well as Yugoslavia. > >The U.S. government has boasted that it injected $77 million into >Yugoslavia >to build up the opposition to President Slobodan Milosevic and his >governing coalition. The U.S. House of Representatives authorized >another $105 million Sept. 26, two days after round one of the Yugoslav >elections. The runoff election is scheduled next week > >�To put this amount in perspective,� said Sara Flounders, co-director of >the International Action Center, �the U.S. has voted more money to >subvert an election in little Yugoslavia than the total funds both major >U.S. Presidential candidates have raised. This year Al Gore has >reported $47 million in contributions and George W. Bush $87 million. >And this is only hard money. What about the millions of dollars in soft >money from the Soros Foundation and the NGOs that is seeping into >Yugoslavia? This money goes a long way in a poor country with only 11 >million people.� > >In calling for the creation of the Commission of Inquiry, Clark drew >attention to past U.S. manipulations of elections, giving the example of >Nicaragua, where the popular Sandinista government was voted out in 1990 >and where Washington injected $54 million into that poor country. He >also >spoke of countries where the U.S. overrode the electoral process and >organized violent coups to put in its own person, as with Mobutu in >Zaire (now Congo), or in Chile, Haiti and Iran. �In all cases where the U.S. >put �its man� in office,� said Clark, �the people wound up worse off >than before.� >(end) > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leninist-International mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To change your options or unsubscribe go to: >http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
