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Crisis in Yugoslavia: Interview with Ramsey Clark

    Crisis in Yugoslavia: Interview with Ramsey Clark
    Founder of the International Action Center
    Former United States Attorney General
    October 6, 2000

    New York City, U.S.A.

    [This following interview was to be translated and published in the
daily newspaper Dan in Podgorica, Montenegro. Dan published a Serbo-Croatian
edition of the IAC's book, NATO in the Balkans. ]

      a.. After the destruction of the bipolar structure of the
international community the USA has played the main role on the world
political scene. What is the essence of their political strategy towards
Europe, and what is the role of the U.S. in the events now unfolding in
Yugoslavia?
    The policies of the U.S., since the end of the Cold War are complicated
and vast. They involve an intent to dominate and the use of international
organizations to advance U.S. economic and geopolitical interests. They also
include the conversion of NATO into a surrogate military police force for
globalization and U.S. world economic domination.

      a.. Which factors were prevailing in the dissolution of Yugoslavia -
internal or external ones?
    The great tragedy of Yugoslavia in the last decade of the 20th Century
has not been one of individual leadership. It's been the deliberate
dismantling of Yugoslavia, which is one of the few countries in the world
formed on an idea. Most are formed on a purely power basis. But the idea of
Yugoslavia was that with all the diversity, with all the human problems and
poverty, only in unity--through federation--could you have sovereignty, and
independent economic development based on local interests rather than on
foreign exploitation.

    Yugoslavia showed it could work, even under extreme difficulty during
the Cold War and between World War 1 and World War 2. It's probably the only
thing that can work for the welfare of the people there.

    Yugoslavia was deliberately dismantled. It continues to be further
broken apart by U.S. and other foreign interests who want to divide and
conquer the country economically. They want to exploit its resources, its
people, its markets; and the consequences have been a human disaster from
Slovenia to Macedonia.

    What's needed is a larger Balkan federation that includes more than just
the six former republics. But what you have is the disintegration of even
those. Ninety percent of trade, commercial and economic activity of the six
republics was internal in 1990. No republic is sufficient by itself to
survive as a strong independent sovereign nation or people.

    The breaking up of Yugoslavia is a tragedy from many standpoints and the
tragedy isn't over.

      a.. What was the role of the Pentagon in the destabilization and final
dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia?
    The Pentagon is the military arm of U.S. policy. It doesn't dictate
policy but implements it. Both policymaking and the means for implementing
it are considerably bigger than the Pentagon.

    One the most direct roles of the Pentagon was the genocidal bombing of
Yugoslavia. Those were Pentagon planes up there. A few of them might have
been British or from some other NATO country, but the Pentagon was
overwhelmingly responsible for the planes and the targets chosen, as well as
for the destruction and many people killed.

    Washington wanted NATO in there as an umbrella to deflect anger at the
U.S. They wanted young people from the European NATO countries to be the
enforcers on the ground. The Clinton White House doesn't want U.S. soldiers
to come in harms way--it could cause protests in the streets. Because of
this the Pentagon was able to carry out the aggression against Yugoslavia
and cause great destruction with virtually no U.S. casualties.

    It's easy when your planes are flying so high that it become hard to get
hit. You don't ever set foot on the soil but you send missiles and planes
that bomb away overwhelmingly at civilian targets.

    It was a staggering disaster for Serbia and Montenegro and the Kosovo
area of Serbia. It was a disaster for all the peoples there--all of them
suffered.

    There's been a deliberate policy--and the Pentagon played a role in
this--to set Muslim against Orthodox Christian Serbs. The idea of having
Slavic peoples and Muslim peoples--even though the Muslims in Yugoslavia are
Slavs--fight each other is something that we've seen and its one of the
great dangers. When you think about Bosnia the Muslims and the Orthodox
Serbs suffered terribly, and they didn't benefit at all in Kosovo.

    This policy has gone a long way. There were 25 million people in
Yugoslavia in 1990 and now within Montenegro and Serbia you have just around
11 million. And now within Serbia itself you have attempts to divide the
nationalities into three or four different sections by external forces that
are pressing them to divide and spin off.

      a.. What do you think about the expansion of the NATO alliance to the
Eastern European countries and also to the former Soviet Republics?
    NATO itself is one of the most dangerous international organizations
that exists. Before any expansion into Eastern Europe NATO involved the
great colonial powers. It involved rich countries and almost totally white
Caucasian young men who are still a very small part of the world's
population.

    The NATO countries have by far the largest and richest armies and the
most advanced weaponry and technology, primarily from the U.S. NATO is a
threat to the vast majority of the population of the world--the beautiful
darker-skinned people, and others. They seem to be natural born killers when
you look at the insensitivity with which they unleash their technology.

    I remember a New York Times columnist talking about the bombing last
year. I think he reflected exactly what the Pentagon or what NATO was
saying: "Surrender or we'll destroy you. If you want to be bombed back to
1990, 1750 or 1372 we can do that, pick your date. You'd better surrender or
we'll level you."

      a.. Is there any justification for the aggression of the world's most
powerful countries against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia?
    Of course not--not against Yugoslavia or any other country. If we can't
find countries that will stand up against such aggression our situation and
our future is going to be a human disaster. Look at how long it's taken
other countries to begin to stand up for Iraq.

    Yugoslavians know better than others what it's like to have a high tech
all-out aerial bombardment of your country. Iraq was devastated by 110,000
aerial sorties--88,500 tons of bombs, which was the equivalent of 7-1/2
Hiroshimas, but most countries didn't really stand up for Iraq. Only now
within the last few weeks have foreign countries started to break the
blockade, which has killed a million and a half people.

    The blockade against Iraq--though more severe--was the same type of
sanctions that were imposed on Yugoslavia. U.S. Secretary of State Madeline
Albright has already said that the sanctions on Yugoslavia will not end,
even with a change in the government there, until every demand of the U.S.
is fulfilled

    It's been ten death-giving years in Iraq and finally we now see France,
the Russian Federation, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates flying food and
doctors and supplies to help relieve the suffering of the Iraqi people.

    We have to reach out to nations everywhere, particularly the poorer
nations of the world, to unify against this type of aggression.

      a.. What is your opinion about the proceedings of the International
Tribunal for the War Crimes Committed on the territory of former Yugoslavia
in the Hague?
    The indictments of Milosevic and other Yugsolav officials were before
the same International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia--a body that is
unlawful. If you want a world based on principle and law it has to be
abolished.

    The U.N. Charter doesn't provide for an international criminal tribunal
focused on a single country or a number of countries. The Security Council
has no power to create such a court, which is used primarily by the U.S. to
pursue its enemies. That's war by other means, pure and simple.

    The countries that convened the U.N.--particularly the victorious
nations from WWII--would never have formed it if they dreamed the U.N. would
have an international criminal tribunal in which they could be held
accountable. They don't mind prosecuting others, but they don't intend to be
prosecuted themselves.

    That's why the U.S. refuses to join in the treaty currently in process.
A treaty is a current agreement--any nation can agree to one. But if there's
to be an international criminal tribunal the U.N. can't create it. It has to
be done by the agreement of nations--by a treaty which nations have the
power to make. The U.S., however, won't sign such a treaty. It has refused
to even consider it.

      a.. Mass public hearings of NATO war crimes against Yugoslavia have
taken place in cities all over the world. Can you tell us something more
about the aims of those actions?

    The IAC in New York was the sponsor of a wide-ranging series of
evidentiary-gathering hearings all over the world about war crimes against
Yugoslavia. The U.S. was charged, along with the United Kingdom, Germany,
and other NATO countries that participated in voting for NATO's involvement
or in providing arms or airbases or other logistical support for the assault
on Yugoslavia.

    The evidence was gathered from all over the world, including Yugoslavia.
It was considered by judges from many nations--non-governmental lay people.
All of the defendants were found guilty of all charges. They included
Nuremberg Principle violations of crimes against peace, war crimes and
crimes against humanity. They also comprised Geneva Convention prohibitions
against assaults on civilians-- making civilians the direct objects of
attack--assaults on facilities that are essential to civilian lives, and
assaults on inherently dangerous facilities. They were found guilty of
virtually every war crime on the books.

      a.. Is there any way to stop the process of international lawlessness
that we are witnessing today?
    There's obviously no easy way, but that doesn't mean the struggle is
hopeless. There's rarely been in history such a concentration of power in
the hands of such a comparatively small part of the world's population,
particularly the U.S. There's never been such a concentration of power and
monopoly of military technology and sophisticated weaponry. This includes
nuclear arms and the capacity to destroy whole populations.

    There's also never been such a monopoly of the means of communication.
The U.S. government's control of the international media is in fact
unprecedented. This can be devastating because people don't know what to
think--they're not encouraged to think, they're not given the facts. The
U.S. can reach into a country and brainwash people everywhere.

    Someone can be demonized without being heard in their own defense, and
the truth can never be found by looking at a television screen. So we live
under this terrible monopoly of power and communications, and economic power
too with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

    It's going to take enormous courage and sacrifice, as well as great
imagination and discipline in forms of organizing and unifying. We have to
struggle with all our might to unite worldwide resistance to domination and
exploitation. Power is in the people. The question is one of will,
understanding, courage, commitment and sacrifice. If the people can unify we
will overcome.

      a.. What was the role of the media in the Yugoslav crisis?
    The U.S./NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was devastating, but the function of
the Western media has probably been more harmful. The power of the
big-business media to shape opinion internationally--in the U.S., in Western
Europe and other parts of the world--is just astounding in how effectively
it was used to demonize Slavic peoples, especially the Serbs of Yugoslavia.

    It takes a long time to unlearn prejudices. Once they are implanted they
become hard to root out. We implanted huge racial prejudices in the U.S. to
justify slavery, and we still find it's a lot harder than weeding the garden
to get the racists out.

    People of African descent in our country have been demonized like the
Serbs, and the racists are still everywhere. The media create prejudices and
"demons" by simply repeating stories night after night on television and
radio, in the newspapers and magazines, and every place else.

    Within Serbia and Montenegro you can see how divisive the media was and
how demoralizing it can be to see what others are saying about you. Before
the bombing I was there. I could see the effects of the sanctions, coupled
with the effect on the people of seeing on foreign television the prejudices
being stirred up against them.

    It makes you feel like you're alone in the world and nobody loves you.
But many many people love Yugoslavia. We love the people there; we remember
how courageous you've been. We know and are inspired by your fierce courage
and strength, how you resisted the Nazis and what a price you paid for it.
The media can make you doubt even your own soul and inner strength, but that
doesn't mean their divisive tactics will always continue to work.

      a.. How do you evaluate the role of the United Nations in the
framework of the so-called new world order?
    We hope that the U.N. will become independent and act more objectively,
since we need it. Right now it's pretty much the captive of the U.S., but it
doesn't always have to be that way.

    It's harmful to every human being on earth for the U.N. to be that way,
including the people of the U.S. This is true because when you realize what
your country has done, and continues to do around the world, it destroys
your own spirit if you don't resist. It also puts you in jeopardy since it's
getting harder for U.S. citizens to travel abroad. We're not received with
open arms in many parts of the world.

    We have to work to make the U.N. more effective even though, as we saw
with Yugoslavia, it was more independent than NATO. The U.S., in fact,
didn't go to the U.N. because it could not, as it did with Iraq, unite that
body to support the aggression on your country.

    It did that easily with NATO, but in doing so it caused NATO to violate
not only the North Atlantic Treaty but also the U.N. Charter. Nevertheless,
the U.N. should not have permitted that. We need an independent reformed
U.N. that abolishes the Security Council and that empowers self-financing.
As long as the U.N. is dependent on contributions from countries like the
U.S. it will be hard to function since it will never know whether its going
to get its money or not.

      a.. How would you define the policy of sanctions and complete
international isolation of those countries that want to find their own way
to the future, and what are its consequences?
    Comprehensive general sanctions that impact on the economy of a nation
need to be seen as a weapon of mass destruction. They hit poor people
hardest and first, and they're genocidal.

    If that can't be seen from the history of Iraq then we can't see
anything. Sanctions have killed more than a million and a half people
there--mostly children. The second largest age group was the elderly. The
people who are most vulnerable to sickness and weakness and who need
nutrition are the ones who die first.

    Control through the threat of sanctions exceeds any control achieved by
the actual application since you can terrorize a country just by threatening
sanctions. This is because people don't want to suffer as they've seen
others suffer.

    It's therefore imperative that we abolish the use of economic sanctions.
When you think about it, you can't sanction a rich country because they'll
laugh all the way to the bank. They'll have plenty of food, oil, soap
powder--whatever is needed. You can't sanction a country that has the
physical power to transport the goods and services that it needs from other
places. Only "weak" countries--those that can't resist militarily or compete
economically--will be victimized by sanctions.

      a.. Does FR Yugoslavia, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro, fit into
the new political concept of the so-called international community regarding
relations in Southeastern Europe?
    Yugoslavia, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro fits into the
geopolitical plans of the U.S., and to a lesser degree NATO countries,
because it's there, strategically located, and this has to be addressed.

    U.S./NATO plans involve the division and subjugation of countries in the
region. Dividing them makes them more easily controlled and exploited, and
the future will be greater poverty.

    The per capita income of the six former republics of the SFRY is today
less than half of what it was ten years ago. They're half as well off
collectively. Serbia and Montenegro are even worse than that.

    The same is generally true though with most of Eastern Europe, so we
shouldn't be mislead. Bulgaria today is worse off economically. Poland seems
to be doing better to many people, but per capita income there is 40% of
what it was, maybe less. The Russian Federation has around 30% less per
capita income than in 1990. This has been a real human disaster.

    It's clear that the new concept for the Balkans is to divide, exploit
and further impoverish. The idea that there will be more real aid once a
country conforms to the demands of the U.S. and its International Monetary
Fund is contrary to everything that's ever happened after they intervened.
This is true whether it's little Grenada, Panama, Viet Nam, Nicaragua, or
any other country. They have been continuously harassed, or kept under
direct and/or indirect sanctions and further impoverished.

      a.. How do you see the demands of the leadership of Montenegro for a
"redefinition of relations" in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia?
    Basically, only the people directly involved can decide the details of
their relationship. What I passionately believe is that without a strong
federation not only of Montenegro and Serbia but of the six former republics
and beyond that, the region will remain poor. It will remain foreign
dominated and become more so economically.

    It will be afflicted with violence particularly between Muslims and
Slavs. There are more than a 300 million Slavs in the world, and we've seen
the deliberate fomenting of violence between Slavs and Muslims who number
one billion. We've seen it in Afghanistan, Dagistan and Chechnya and in some
of the larger predominantly Muslim republics on the southern tier of the
former Soviet Union, and of course in Bosnia, Kosovo and throughout the
Balkans.

    Without unity, as we said in our revolutionary war, "we'll either hang
together or we'll hang separately," even though, since then, we have gotten
"too big for our britches." [Transcriber's note: this could be translated as
being too big and arrogant. Britches mean, literally, "pants."--PC]

      a.. The problem of Kosovo as a factor of destabilization of
Yugoslavia - has it had, in the last two years, an internal character or was
it created by the USA and Germany?
    The entire disintegration of Yugoslavia has been caused overwhelmingly
by external forces. They are numerous, but the two principal violators are
Germany and the United States, and the consequences for the region have been
a human disaster.

    Kosovo itself, which is now under NATO occupation, had every opportunity
to expect to live in peace, grow in prosperity and develop its peoples and
resources for its own good. This was true until foreign influences set the
people against themselves, and today you can't find anyone who has
benefited.

    You may think at the moment if you're KLA that you might be on top, but
on top of what and at what cost? How many members of your families did you
loose? How many homes did your friends loose? How long will it take you to
get back to where you were if you ever do, and is this a humanely acceptable
way to do it even if you could?

    Tens of thousands of Serbs, Roma and others have been ethnically
cleansed from Kosovo, under the watchful eyes of the mighty occupation
armies. This shows that NATO didn't intervene there for humanitarian reasons
and that this claim is hypocritical.

      a.. Was the Rambouillet agreement an acceptable solution for the
Kosovo problem? Do you think that by accepting it, FR Yugoslavia could have
prevented the aggression against it? What is the main effect of the Dayton
agreement?  Has it solved the problems in the Balkans or has it meant the
establishment of U.S. domination on the territories of the former
Yugoslavia?
    It's sad to see countries or peoples bullied into agreements that are on
their face moral outrages.

    When I think of the Oslo Accords and the Palestinian people who are
suffering from violence today even more than the Yugoslavs, it breaks my
heart. Since the Oslo Accords there's been nothing but deterioration
politically, socially, and economically for the Palestinians. Yet a
coalition of powerful interests forced them into it just as they forced
Yugoslavia into the Dayton Accords. These accords, including the Rambouillet
scheme, were unnatural "agreements" that would foment violence. They also
violated the idea of peoples' independence and the sovereignty of their
nations.

    Any country that has a large foreign military population on its soil is
not free--that is a truism. And both of those accords contemplated foreign
troops on Yugoslav soil. But they ought to be out of there, just as U.S.
money ought to be out of politics there. If the future of Yugoslavia is to
be determined by the financing of political parties by the United States,
then you might as well give up and deed the country over to General Motors,
Coca Cola and Burger King.

      a.. What was the role of the USA in the military strenghtening of
Croatia, in  Operation Storm, which had as a consequence a massive exodus of
Serbian people from Krajina?
    In time we'll know a lot more, but we know from Richard Holbrook's
autobiographical account of that period that while Washington was saying to
Croatia "don't do it," Holbrook and others in Zagreb were saying "drive the
Serbs out." How much protest did you hear internationally in what was the
biggest single ethnic cleansing in the last 50 years in the Balkans? None!
The cleansing from Krajina of the Serb population was in fact ignored or
applauded internationally. So it's another interplay between media
presentation and the use of force for the West to have its way.

      a.. The Twentieth Century has been marked by many different ideas, but
a majority of them have not been confirmed by history. Why do you think?
    Populations everywhere are manipulated by ideas that often have no
validity. There's a French saying that I've always liked, "Nothing is so
cruel on Earth as the murder of a beautiful idea by a brutal gang of facts."
If we look at the facts you'll see that many of the fictions that have been
imposed on people are false and harmful.

    Let's talk about democracy, which is a difficult concept. People think
the U.S. is the greatest example of democracy. But the U.S. is not a
democracy at all; it's a pure plutocracy--a government of wealth. Elections
here have nothing to do with the will of the people. They are in fact a
minor contest between representatives of the plutocracy vying for power; the
poor of the country are left out.

    I'm not talking about just the billions of dollars that have been spent
on political campaigns. The U.S. has spent almost as much on the election
campaign in Yugoslavia as it has on its own presidential campaign this year.
That's an economic fact that ought to be investigated. You're not free if a
foreign power is buying your elections. The same is true of us in the U.S.;
we can't be free as long as rich capitalists continue to buy our elections,
and of course that's exactly what they do.

    You might not have heard of the presidential candidate Ralph Nader. He
has worked in the interests of consumers, poor people, and the ecology for
years. But he doesn't get to participate in the debates, and he won't get a
significant vote. If by democracy you mean government should follow the
needs and interests of the people then the U.S. is not a democracy even with
elections held here periodically.

    Washington has, moreover, used elections to take over other countries.
They basically stole Nicaragua from the Sandinista government by pumping in
money to the opposition, unifying it, and sending in death squad
terrorists--not unlike the KLA. They were trained and financed to destroy
villages and kill Nicaraguans. The U.S. then told them that if they wanted
peace and "prosperity" they had to elect the opposition. In the meantime,
the media was given over to the opposition and they were given money and
other communications resources. It worked, the opposition won, and now the
Nicaraguans are living in abject poverty.

    We also tried to steal Angola through the ballot box--through an abuse
of democracy. We told the Dos Santos government that they had to have an
election. Then we told them they couldn't hold the voting until they
dismantled two-thirds of the army. They did it and the government won at the
polls. But the U.S.-backed opposition led by Jonas Savimbi immediately
attacked with an enormous military force and overran two-thirds of the
country, which the government is still fighting to win back.

    We're told that there's only one idea in economic life that works and
that's capitalism. Every country has to convert to capitalism and do what
the World Bank and the IMF says. You've got to privatize--open up to "free
trade." But the countries that have done that have been absolutely
devastated.

    In the former Soviet Union, for example, the people there had jobs,
homes, medical care, education, a decent economy, but now they've lost all
of that. They have no health care system, and their schools are falling
apart. They have few jobs, lost their homes. They have had to sell their
private possessions just to make out. The country is an economic basket
case.

    The Ukraine is worse, and the same is true of countries in the Western
Hemisphere. We take a country like Peru and we tell it to borrow money from
the IMF and privatize--to do what the World Bank says. But the poor have
gotten poorer there, and President Fujimori sits on the necks of the people
with his economic policies, and police and military power backed by
Washington.

    We have to examine these ideas for ourselves and decide what's best for
the children. But we have to do it in the face of a media that tries to tell
us there's only one way--and with nuclear intimidation and the threat of
starvation from sanctions hanging over our heads.

    When the U.S. government can't manipulate elections--and they are
masters at it--they'll instigate a military coup like they did in Guatemala
in the 1950s, in Chile in the 1970s and in Haiti in 1991, to name a few
places.

      a.. What did the 20th Century bring in terms of the development of
human civilization, especially for the peoples of the Balkans?
    The 20th Century has brought the most uncivilized and violent acts of
human history. There has never been before such disasters caused by human
conduct. There were the two world wars, and the Cold War arms race, which
impoverished people. There were also the bloody fights that came from the
neo-colonial drive to divide and conquer Africa, Asia and the Balkans.

    The Balkans had many problems in the 1900s. But the culture was still
intact in most places despite the history of oppression by the Ottoman
Empire, the Austrio-Hungary Empire and all the rest. These were rich
cultures; people knew what and who they were. They loved their traditions,
had their own art, music, literature, meaning to life, religious faiths.
They had their own philosophy, and could sit around in the evenings or on a
bridge across the Drina to talk about life and love and things.

    Today there's chaos, the disintegration of institutions, random
violence, impoverishment and insecurity. But you have your strength, your
people and your history of resistance. If you unite you have a part of the
earth that's beautiful, that provides abundant food, natural resources and
other essentials of life. If you organize it can be used for your own well
being. Your future is largely in your hands, but without unity you will be
turned against each other.

      a.. What can we expect in the 21st Century?
    What we're seeing is the spread of fomented violence by those who want
to divide and weaken. Just look at India, with all its history and more than
a billion people, with the Tamils in the south and the terrible violence
that's going on there. This 70-million strong population of Tamils is
struggling for survival from Sri Lanka up into southern India.

    If you go north you find the Casmiris and Pakistanis and the Indian
government fighting in some of the most spectacularly beautiful countries in
the world. It's hard to find a region there where you don't have conflicts
between Muslims and Hindus, Tamils and Buddhists. You can see conflicts all
over the world.

    In South Africa we hope there will be unity. The government there still
faces terrible risks, but under the current leadership--with its many heroic
figures--they've been able to hold their country together.

    In West Africa you see bloodletting everywhere much of which is promoted
from abroad. We all know about Rwanda and the Hutus and the struggle for the
Congo.

    It must be recognized that if you let foreign governments choose your
leaders you will be in for bad times. That's exactly what has been happening
in the last half of the 20th Century.

    The U.S. chose the Shah for Iran; he was literally imposed. The CIA said
it was their greatest accomplishment. The Shah reigned for 25 years, but the
people finally rose up and threw him out when they couldn't stand it any
more. Over 35,000 people were killed by the Shah's U.S.-trained soldiers and
secret police. That's what letting the U.S. choose their leader did for the
Iranis after a democratically-elected government was overthrown.

    In the Congo, a huge country with enormous natural resources, Patrice
Lumumba was elected after independence from a colonial power. But he was
soon murdered. His body was found in the trunk of a CIA car. Mobutu was then
put in power, and from 1962 until 1997 the people of the Congo were ravaged.
Today, you have armed soldiers from 12 different countries fighting in the
Congo, some of them in the interests of U.S. big business.

    In our hemisphere Salvadore Allende was elected president of Chile. He
was a medical doctor who wanted to heal the sick in a country that never had
a rural health care program. He started to install them and to make other
progressive changes when the U.S. overthrew him in a coup that led to his
death. Allende was replaced by General Augusto Pinochet,, one of the major
petty tyrants of recent history. More than 5,000 Chileans were killed under
the U.S.-backed dictator.

    Then there was the elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemanala,
who was overthrown by the U.S. government. Tens of thousands died as a
result, many of them indigenous people of Mayan descent.

    It's imperative that people overcome the differences in their
communities and regions and unite to protect themselves from foreign
domination, which will only mean more violence, suffering and poverty.

      a.. What would you like to say to the people of Yugoslavia at this
moment?

    This time is critical to the future of the heroic peoples of the former
Yugoslavia and the entire region. You are peoples with deep and rich
cultures who are being eaten up by foreign powers that are skilled at
fomenting internal and external violence.

    The imperative need for your children and the survival of all that your
predecessors and ancestors brought to you depends on the ability to unite
and resist foreign intrusion and domination.

    It's an extremely difficult time, but you have to resist with all your
strength the efforts by rich countries to control your destiny, such as the
U.S., Germany, and some of your richer neighbors in Europe.

    Stronger ties are needed with your immediate neighbors and the poorer
countries in eastern Europe as well as the Slavic people who resisted the
U.S. in the Cold War and who today remain the enemy of the U.S. and other
NATO powers.

    With such unity you can triumph and inspire us all.



    posted 9 Oct 2000

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    YUGOSLAVIA IN CRISIS

    NO to NATO








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